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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
rnrRRnAT, November ar.
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OI'll 1’I.ATPORM: THE GEORGIAN
AND NEWS staoda for Attnntn'a own-
lag Its own gns and electric light
plants, ns It nntv owns Its wnter
works, other cities tlo this nod got
K s as low na CO renin, with a prullt
the cl tv. This should he done nt
oner. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS
lwSever ilint If street railways cun lie
operated successfully liy European
cities, ns they are. there Is no good
reown tvhy they eon uot be so ourr-
Mi
an antlcstaklnp. Still Allnhtn shot.I
aet Its face In that direction NOW.
"Taft missed a wreck," says an ex-
change. Railroad or political?
Of courae you have done most of
your Christmas shopping alresdy.
Buffalo Is going to clean things up
properly. Jt has a soap scandal on
hand.
Some wicked persona are trying to
Jerk the throne from under King
Carlo*.
Grover Cleveland has recovered
from another fatal Illness of one day's
duration.
A year on the planet Mars Is only
M> days long. Those Martians are the
rapid boys, evidently.
A race of voiceless people has been
discovered In Alaska. There aro no
old maids among them.
Tasmania grows the largest apples
—though a denial may be confldently
: expected out of Texes.
The statement that the chestnut
crop is short has no reference to a
curtailment of the minstrel s’upply.
If the Panama canal Is as success
ful In floating ships as It Is In floating
loans, there will be no complaint.
It doesn’t look right not lo have
Colonel Bill Bterrett butting Into the
argument somewhere along tha line.
A 90-year-old New Yorker says he
loves work. As he Is too old to do
My, he Is safe In making the state
ment.
The Southern railway did not prove
“A Lightning Conductor," a fact Os
car Flyman ran give ample testimony
concerning.
Will some person with the habit of
keeping up with nilnutta kindly In
form us as to the whereabouts of the
Fairbanks boom?
This will be the last long session of
congress Teddy will have to handle,
unless—oh, well, he says' he won’t
tako a third term. .
It Is with breathless Interest that
the country awaits the appearance of
that light and airy publication—The
Congressional Record.
Anyway, the family In the big
White House won’t go hungry today.
A kind-hearted party In Rhode Island
sent down a 28-pound turkey.
The country will scarcely be
through reading the nauseous details
of the Bradley trial, before It will
have the Thaw affair to go over again.
Carrie Nation says that she wouldn’t
kiss a man who chews tobacco. No
perceptible falling off in the habit has
been observed since the statement. ■
The Baltimore American la authori
ty for the statement that a man
"shot himself In LaFayette Square.”
Evidently a vulnerable spot, aa the
shot proved fatal.
Jack McCartney has hit his stride
up In Borne and la doing paragraphic
stunts that are calculated to make the
Roman populace forget Jlip Nevln, or
at least feel solace In ao worthy a suc
cessor.
The Houston Post wants to know It
"bus hibernate?" So Illustrious an
. authority on the bass and Its habits aa
■ Bailey claims to be ought to feel
ashamed for asking so simple a ques-
, tion.
FOOLS AND WISE MEN—AND THANKSGIVING DAY.
A banker said a few days ago; "The farmer Is a fool to hold his cot
ton like he Is doing.” A little later a big merchant said the farmer was
to blame for the panic in money because he had not sold his cotton, and
Judging from what else they said, tbs cotton grower Is to blame for
everything that has happened from Wall street down.
Now we are willing to admit that more money would have been In
circulation and more‘notes paid at the bank If the entire hundred million
dollars worth of Georgis cotton alone bad been turned loose and the
money going fta rounds of duty, but let’s see whether the fanner Is a fool
and to blame for everything because he wants to get as much as he can
for hls cotton.
We find the labor unlori man working for a set figure: there Is no
question raised as to paying It; he can not cut the price and stay In the
union. You want hls services. So you pay what he asks. You, the con-
sumer, did not fix the price; be, the producer, did. That man It not a fool
for so doing, Is be?
Go to that banker’s bank and ask to borrow $5,000. He asks 7 per
cent, good security and good Indorsement. "Can’t pay you but 4, Mr.
Banker,” you say. Do you get It for 4? Is the banker a fool—well
hardly.
Now let’s go Into that merchant’s store a minute. We pick out $200
worth of goods, and say: "Mr. Morchant, times have been pretty hard
for the past sixty days; I can only pay you $176 for the goods.” "Wo
have but one price, sir; and It la marked plainly on everything we sell.
I am surprised you should ask me to cut It,” replies the merchant.
That, merchant may be perfectly sane, may he not?
But here ere men In New York who have contracts that pay them 13
cents for cotton for December delivery. These men never see a bale of
cotton from one week to another. These men object because they can
not get from the farmer for 8 or 8 cents the staple they have contracted
to deliver at 13 cents, la the farmer the fool? Now let’s see.
We happened to be at a fashionable country place not so very long
ago. Not far down the street was a mansion with beautiful grounds.
Suddenly the owner vacated It and Mr. Blanl/, a New York cotton specu
lator, moved In, paying $700 n month rent. The stable was not big
enough, so another waa rented near by and $2,000 spent In altering It to
suit hls wishes for the little time he wanted it. Thirteen horses and a
dozen or so carriages came out. Something like ten servants came, and
finally hls automobile that was of Italian make and coat every penny of
‘ $12,000. The gentleman went Into New York every morning to gather
up what he could from the sweat of tho brow and the already poverty of
the man who grew the cotton.
We were down In South Georgia recently. A little shack marks the
home place where a family has struggled for years to extract enough cot
ton from the aoll to keep body and aotil together. The family grew and,
with practically no educational advantages at hand. Was compelled to
grow In Ignorance. The oldest boy became a man, a crude farmer.
The spark of pride and manhood that had lain dormant through the
years sought to glow and burn In hls breast. Finally he medo a trip to a
city and saw what there waa In knowledge and enlightenment and his
ambition gave him unrest. He left the farm long enough In the winters
to prepare hlmaoif for a college course; borrowed the money with which
he paid his tuition and gave hls note for It. He struggled through college
and.graduated; then he tried to get a place In a law office, hoping to eam
enough to pay back the money promptly, but no one seemed to give him
a chance. He taught school; won bis way; Anally married and has hls
own little ones around him.
How many Georgia boys have been compelled to plod along in Ig
norance and poverty through the yrara to contribute the money that the
speculator used for the purchase of the $12,000 automobile, the horses,
the servants and the luxuries he enjoyed?
And now, Mr. Banker, Mr. Merchant, Mr. Farmer, Mr. Speculator and
nil—are not men fools as a rule when they fall to do the thing that will
contribute to our bank account? Are ,we not Inclined to count the man
out it ho reaches a point where he can hold against the storms of life?
Ufo Is short to the best of us. We are selfish and want to win all
we can to our bank account, but let us bear In mind, Mr. Banker and Mr.
Merchant, as we ride to our work In automobiles that cost more than a
half dozen of some of the little farms that give bread to the families of
our people, and as we sit around a Thanksgiving dinner today—that there
are thousands of homes In our fair state where there will be little to
make for happiness because of poverty, and where the roses and wine
alone that will be found on your table would have carpeted the bare floor
that has never seen a carpet, or given comfort to the sick and dying baby
whose little spirit will fly away In the night because pneumonia has
stolen In through the broken windows and aought out the poorly clad lit
tle ones.
"U>t not ambition mock their useful toll,
Their homely joys and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, t
Tho short but simple annals of the poor."
CREATING A REAL THANKSGIVING.
The charity which gives freely and willingly, gives to the needy ones,
end yet parades not Its giving before the world—that is the method of the
Associated Charities on th|s day when to give la to create a real Thanks
giving for those to whom the day might otherwise be a mockery.
For there are many In Atlanta who would rather go hungry than ac
cept a Thanksgiving dinner from a "slumming party,” would rather dine
on busks than to feaat on turkey before the prying eyes of patronising
givers. It Is not always the very poor who feel their poverty moat—tho
sting Is deepest to those who have known hotter days—to whom a holiday
now brings a bitter memory of a happy home, a table groaning with good
things. And many of these will be aided, quietly, unostentatiously, by the
Associated Charities.
The plan which Secretary Logan and hls co-workera have adopted la
one which will give a Thanksgiving dinner to many who would refuse ft
from a private source, but who gladly accept It from the organization,
knowing their secret will not be disclosed. The Associated Charities has
found the way.
Many requests have come to tho Charities from well-to-do persons
who wished to make some family happier by a real Thanksgiving dinner.
They asked for the name and address of some needy one to whom they
■night send a basket, but Mr. Logan Invariably refused.
"Send us the basket," waa the reply. "We will see that It goes to a
home where It will be appreciated, and the recipients will know who sent
It, but no one else will know.’’
And so the baskets were sent, each bearing the card of the donor.
Perhaps the givers will receive the thanks of the family receiving It, and
even If they do not they will have the happiness of having given. And
the Thanksgiving dinner will be enjoyed by the poor, without having Its
taste spoiled by the bitterness of publicity. The Associated Charities has
found a plan which will feed many who would otherwise go hungry on
Thanksgiving day.
By abolishing two regiments and three regimental headquarters, not
less than $25,000 will be saved annually.
This will equip and maintain tho remaining organization up to the
highest efficiency. It will take the burden of support off of the officers.
It must result In Georgia’s national guard standing at the very top.
No mistake was made In placing Andrew J. Scott at the head of tho
military. He Is young, ambitious and has the whole-hearted purpose of
making It second to none In the union. He has wide experience In mili
tary life, rising from private to general. To this, he adds the Implicit
confidence of the entire organization, and a perfect truat In hls high pur
poses.
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian hers records each day
some economic fset In reference to
the onward progress of the South.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
inour Packing Company, of CbicugdJ and Jo bn Ole:
The consideration is said to In? about IIOMOO. It Is stated that the new owners
will develop tho property to its fullest extent. Mr. Oleson will be the local man
ager. f
It Is announced at Lexington, Kjr., that a prominent Lexington firm, who re
cently acquired the property of the Carter County Mining Couipnuy at public
sale, have sold half their Interest to 8. M. Blllotes. of Wllllamstown, Ky., and J. A.
Rednower. of Lexington. The consideration was $25,000.
The new purchasers expect to develop the property bought by them. Several
large beds of fire clay have recently been opened up on the land and It la the
purpose of the fiew owners to develop these deposits extensively. There was 11,000
acres In the original tract and the purchns-ws get nearly 6,000 acres.
Dr. L. H. Gilliam and C. W. and John Taylor, Jr., of Kelso, Tenn.. have pur-
fourteen acre*. This property contains valuable deposits of high-grade phosphate.
Henry T. Bonner, of Fayetteville, Tenn., and John Loyd, of Kelso, have token
options on the Thompson and Stevens farms, which are said to be rich In phos
phate. It Is expected that these new fields will l>« develooed. and that Kelso will
soon become a mining town of considerable Importance.
s been granted the Marble City Zinc and Marble Company, of New*
innsas, with headquarters at Harrison sud Marble City. The corn
ed at $24.00), all of which Is subscribed. It will do a general rain-
Newton and adjoining counties.
on mill enterprise for the Piedmont section of South Carolina Is
In progress of organisation, u. Lang Anderson, who has been for several years
secretary of the R00.000 mills at Wllltor ** ~ ‘
a $250,000 mill at
A charter has
ton county, Arkansas,
pany Is capitalized at 1_ __ ... . ..
!ng business In Newton and adjoining counties.
Another cotton mill enterprise for the Piedmont section of Houth Carolina Is
* 1 Anderson, who bus been for several years
-jmston, 8. C.. Is promoting a company to erect
„ Blacksburg. B. C. It la understood that matters are ao far ad
vanced that the company wilt he incorporated In a few day*.
MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO.,
CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STS.
ESTABLISHED 1880.
Capital $200,000.00
Surplus and Profits $600,000.00
Banking in all its Branches
PEOPLE AND THINGS
GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS
AND THE STREET CORNERS
Handsome, genial, popular John T. Bol-
feu diet pulls down a nice plum, and a
good many thousand friends all over Geor
gia will rejoice that It Is ao. Colonel VjI-
feuillet has been appointed private aecre-
tary to 8cuator A. O. Bacon, aucceedlng
C. M. Hitch, one of Governor Smith** execu
tive secretaries.
For many years Colonel Botfeulllet has
been clerk of the house of representatives,
and he Is known and knows practically
every public man lu the state Intimately.
From every standpoint. Henafor Bacon has
made a wise choice. This appointment will
hardly Interfere with Colonel Bolfeulllet s
duties as clerk of ths Georgia house next
summer.
George O. Glenn, representative from
Whitfield, wns a visitor to the capltol Wed
nesday. • • ^
"From my home this morning,” he said,
I saw a wonderful and beautiful sight.
In. the distance the Cohuttn mountains
uplifted lu the morning sun, stiow-eapp*/, a
glittering scene of atilt white beauty. 1 nnj
going back nud take a hunting trip over
$$moug those snow-clad mountains. There
one can find deer, wild turkey and quail
lu profusion. I suspect If one hunted cure-
fully he could rout out a Iwar.”
Senator W. C. Martin, of Dalton, who
represents very ably the Forty-third dis
trict, held an extended conference with
Governor Smith Wednesday.
Senator Martin la being
of bis frleuda to become _
the senate presidency, but he has uot sig
nified hls Intentions yet. He Is esteemed
as cue of the strongest men In tho upper
house.
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
AND
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
A R08E OF THE OLD REGIME.
REORGANIZATION OP NATIONAL GUARD.
Under the reorganisation of the National Guard of Gaorgla a com
pact, effective military organixatlon will remit. No pleasant task It waa
for Governor Smith and Adjutant General Scott to take an action which
meant, practically, the abolition of two regiments of Infantry and one of
cavalry.
Only a stern sense of necessary duty moved and actuated them In
taking this step. It meant practically the preservation of the military or*
sanitation of the state. In January the Dick law becomes effective.
National guards that do not measure up to Its requirements will meet
with short shrift—the loss of the Federal appropriation and afflltation
with the whole system.
Georgia gets annually from the Federal government $51,000. With
out that sum the whole organization would have failed. For years this
state has attempted to take care of too large a military formation. It
has crippled the whole service, and made the task of those who have
had the real Interest of the organisation at heart an onerpua one. The per
capita appropriation for the military in Georgia Is smaller than that of
any other state, yet we stand seventh In the list In sits and importance.
This result has been accomplished by great sacrifice on the part of
the officers. Heretofore to accept the captaincy or lieutenancy of a com
pany has meant the expenditure of much money out.of the Individual
purse. Pride of company has made many worthy men go beyond their
means to keep It up to a high standard. But this will be changed now.
saw her last night In a portrait, a roes
of the old regime.
Who grow In ths quiet gardons that
sloped to the Severn stream.
She had danced with the early Govern
ors, and danced on the hearts that
sleep
Where the shadows of St. Ann's wan
der and the leaves of the myrtle
creep— ' ‘
A dome of the dear old revels, when
out qf the golden morn
The hunters came at the echo and the
hounds at the call of the horn!
saw her last night In an album, with
cheeks of the cherries ripe,
As she smiled from the eerie shadows
of an old daguerreotype;
fancy her bright eyes twinkled, Fm
sure that her shoulders fair
Shrugged once or twice and a ripple of
sunshine wavered her hair;
And once I thought as I watched her,
she stepped from her frame in a
dream , . .. -
To dance In the gentle dances of ths
days of the old regime.
•aw her last night In her marvel of
beauty and girlish bloom,
This rose who is dust where the roses
swing sweet o'er her little tomb,
thought that her lips were signing,
ana somehow a nameless bliss
Thrilled mine as I lifted her lips In a
frame to my own to kiss,
And somehow I felt her dancing In ths
dance of a deathless dream,
As she danced on the hearts of her
lover*—a rose of the old regime!
I saw her lost night In an album, a rose
of the old regime,
Wlv) grew in the quiet gardens that
slope to the Severn stream.
Wherever I go In my dreaming, wher
ever I follow tho throng,
She floats like a gleam In the shadow**,
she sings like an echo of song!
Oh, would l had been of the lovers who
sleep in the shadows apart.
And had known the sweet Joy of her
dancing, though she danced on the
brim of my heart!
—Baltimore Sun.
NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE.
Noble men of heroic soul.
Caet within a godlike mold:
Whose dally meed of earthly life
Is one of toll and sacrifice.
They seek not things of time and sense,
Theirs a heavenly recompense;
They count not life unto them dear.
That celestial voice# they may hear.
All things count to them but dross,
%V!l!!ng thus to suffer loss;
If when they lay their armor down
They may wear a royal crown.
Soldiers of the living God,
With sandals of the Gospel shod;
Men of prayer, faith and love.
Their inheritance Is above.
Heralds of life to dying men.
They preach deliverance from sin.
And bid mankind look up and see
The sacrifice on Calvary.
In their squIs they bear the Joy
Of heaven sweet, without alloy.
“Anti tell to all the world around
What a dear Savior they have found."
Men of God, we bid you speed
In sowing wide the Gospel seed,
In Joy and grief, in hope. In tears.
Scatter seed through all the years.
And God. who watches day and night.
Shall sower keep within hls right.
Angel reapers at last shall come
Singing with you, ‘‘Harvest Home."
W. A. HARRIS.
Army Order*.
Washington, Nor. 25.—Lieutenant Colonel
E. F. Ladd, adjutant general, from the
adjutant general's office to Philippines on
April 5. Lieu tenant Colonel William
Evans, Eleventh Infantry, detailed member
general staff corps to Philippine* division.
Lieutenant William M. Darla, const artil
lery corps, resignation accepted to take
effect January 1. Major William Lassiter,
adjutant general, from Han Francisco to
San Antonio, ns adjutant general, depart
ment of Texas, vice Lieutenant Colonel
Charles McClure, adjutant general, to of
fice of the adjutant general, Washington
Captain David .M. King, ordnance depart
tueut, to Hock Island arsenal, examination
for promotion.
Navy Orders.
Rear Admiral M. Ludlow, detached, naval
home. Philadelphia, December 2, home;
Hear Admiral J. H. Miller, to be governor
naval home, Philadelphia; Lieutenant Com
mander J. L. Latimer, detached Vesuvius,
when out of commission, to fitting out
Montgomery. Lieutenant E. F. Eckeruardt,
detached recruiting station, Chicago. De
comber 7. wait orders to sea. Lieutenant
J. O. Fisher to Arethuaa; Lieutenant J. S.
Doddridge, to charge navy recruiting atn-
tlou, Chicago, December 7.
Movements of Vessels.
ARRIVED—November 24, Tennessee and
Washington at PUnta Arenas; November 5,
Iloiinlbul at Boston, Caesar nt Newport
News, Qulroa at Hhanghal.
SAILED—November 24, Virginia from Nor
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY
Special to Tho Georgian.
Tlfton, On., Nov. 28.—Much local Interest
centers In Tlfton's municipal election, Which
will Iks held Wednesday next, to select a
mayor and three coundlmen, to aerve two
years from January 1, 1101.
The retiring officers are Mayor 8. M.
Clyatt and Councilman If. II. Tift, E. J.
Bowen and 8. O. Black.
Mayor Clystt Is a candidate for re-
election, and la opposed by Colonel C. C,
Hall and J. E. Johns.
NEW ORLEANS EDITOR
. HEARS FINAL CALL
New Orleans, La., Nor. 2*.-William L.
Arm*, night editor of The New Orleans
Time*-Democrat, died here Wednesday aft
erooon. He was operated on two days ago
for a complication of diseases. Mr. Arms
was n native of Alubnma.
PERRY 8T0RE8 CL08E
FOR THANKSGIVING
Special to The Georgian. •
Perry, Oa„ Nor. 2S.—The merchants all
dosed their stores today to observe Thsnks
TWO ARE ARRE8TED
WORKING FLIM-FLAM GAME
Special to The Georgian.
Tlfton, Ga., Nov. 28.—Two well-dreaaed
young men were caught working a flim-flam
racket In Tlfton, and were lodged In Tift
county Jail yesterday. They obtained amall
asms of money from several stores.
One of them lias confessed thtt hls
name Is J. T. Hcnrborougb, and that hls
home Is In Americas. He said be had only
known hls companion a few weeks: that
he had told him hls name was Upchurch,
and hls home In Chicago.
CALIFORNIA PARTY
TO VI8IT ATLANTA
Special to The Georgian.
Charleston, 8. C., Nor. 28.—United States
Senator Perkins. ex-Oovernor Pardee, Con
greasutan Knowland, B. P. K. Miller, R. A.
Perry, E. C. Sessions, J. Msylsnce, Dr. D.
A. Proctor, Captain O. A. Girard. G. H.
Maxwell, A. Boctacbi? and C. II. Brennnn.
of California, are expected In Charleston
Saturday ou their way to the national
Galveston, Sew Orleans and Atlanta.
(From The Washington Herald.)
Jnst after hls recent dinner at the white
house, “Uncle Itcmus*’ was quoted by a
newspaper correspondent ns follow*:
“If I were president. I’d have a brass
band In front of the white house and a
brass band In the rear, playing nil the
time, and I would have a regiment of sol
diers out In the yard on dress parade. It’s
u big Job being president.’*
Now. we have ns much appreciation of
the Inventful and erudite Washington cor
respondent ns anybody else in this land, but
we con not stand for that “Uncle Re
mus" never said any such thing! We know
he didn’t. If “Uncle Itemus” were presi
dent. he would abolish brass bands by
executive proclamation nt once; tho.t la. If
good banjo picker; or he might entertain
n tew frlends occasionally with an old-
time “fiddlers’ convention.’ That Is aa far
ns he would go, however. Brass bands give
“Uncle Remus” the fidgets. He would as
soon be lionised at n pink ten ns stand
tip before a crowd of people and smirk at
them while a brass band waa tooting.
As for that "regiment of soldiers out lit
the yard ou dress parade”—If the corre
spondent In this case knew “Uncle Re-
inns,’’ he would hare noted the twinkle In
hls eye ns he said whatever It waa he
did any that sounded like that. He wonld
mmse mwn uu ui me umc, no uount—Dot
they would be soldiers ranging in age from
two to seven or eight years, and a number
of them would be the cutest little girls
you ever saw, too. That's ths only sort of
army “Uncle Remus" believes In, and loves,
especially.
The truth la. If “Uncle Remus” were pres-
ldent, the white house would remind you
more of the old home down on tho farm
thnn anything else. He would have a gar
den lu the hack yard—a big one, at that
He wonld raise snnp beans, okra, collards,
Irish potatoes, roasting ears, turnip green*,
beets, parsnips, radishes, lettuce, and the
like, and off to one side he would have an
asparagus bed. He wonld have a big cow
lot down toward the corner of the back
yard somewhere. Nothing could Induce him
to do without that cow lot. If he could '
not have It, he would not have the prtef- •
dency. Doubtless ho might manage to get
along with ns few ns six bovinee—but not
less. Then, he wonld have chickens, plenty
of them, but they wonld bare to keep out
of the garden, on pain of dishonorable dis
charge. Dally shipments of water ground
meal would come In from Georgia, to keep
the cornbrcnd and dumplings up to tho fa
mous “Uncle Remus” standard.
Those are a few of the benign condi
tions that would prevail were “Uncle Re-
ratis” president. But “a brass band" and
real “coidlers!" The owner and antoerst
* "Snnp Bean Farm" would not be both-
COMMENDATION OF M'LENDON
MEETS SEVERE CRITICISM
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Your editorial commending tho wonder
ful virtues and remarkably developed la
tent abilities of Commissioner McLendon Is
a revelation to the public. Perhaps It was
merely a humorlsm of Commissioner Mc
Lendon to threaten to make tho Georgia
railroad an outlaw—possibly just a Joke he
was attempting upon that company. May
be Major dimming took Commissioner Mc
Lendon too seriously, and failed to see
that the grave commissioner was capable of
» little Joke.
However, Major Cummlng literally cou
strtied the remark of Commissioner McLen
don, anil reminded him the constitution of
the United States, as well as that of the
■tate, give* every man or corporatlqn the
right of appealing to the constituted courts
of tho state or United States for protection
until the lost court of resort had finally
adjudicated the question whether the In
dividual or corporation was an outlaw.
Is not your defense of Commissioner Mc
Lendon’s silence ns to the penalty as well
na hls refusal to Inform the public of the
nature of that punishment much In the line
of what la now known ns the “baby act?”
The public, those who hare recently In
stalled this new and powerful rnilroud com
mission, have the right to expect from thnt
body the acts of tho commission, and cer
tainly can not expect the railroads or Its
servants to be the mouthpiece of the com
mission In Inflicting punishment. Is there
not a display of the “baby act" In that, 1
or Is there a covert effort on tho part of tho
commission to surround Itself with n cloak
of mystery that shall direct public atten
tion more acutely to Its operations?
O. N. RAU88Y.
HEAT ON OTHERS WORLD8,
To the Editor of The Georgian:
The article by Mr. M. A. Russell, dealing
with the amount of beat received by the
planet Msrcury on ncocunt of Its compara
tive nearness to the central luminary,* as
well ns some of the outer planets, or those
outside of the earth's orbit, being In the
form of a question, 1 venture to hope that
I am not presumptuous In answering In part
some of the theories announced by Mr.
Russell, because the writer has given much
thought to this phase of the subject, as af
fecting the general question of the habita
bility of other worlds than ours. In which
I am more or less n believer. Whether the
planeta are aa yet the abode of living crea
tures, It I* certain that the habitues of
some eeemlngly more favorably distributed
than the rest offer abundant evidence of
their being In a measure fit to sustain life,
even such as we know on the earth. As-
suming from terrestlal analogies that such
a labor as we see gotug on out yonder (a
not spent In vain, also that tho extremes
of heat and cold from the torrid to the
frigid zones of the earth are not sufficient
to banish life entirely front It. But the
real question hinted at liy Mr. Russell,
which can by no means l>o asserted In a
‘ven space, la ths position of the planet
erenry lu the solar system, and the proba-
e amount of light and heat given It. We
snow that, according to the laws of optics,
the snn must fairly blaxe In the mercurial
shape; for, lielng only 36,00<xooq miles dis
tant, this would make the disk of the sun
CARD FROM MRS. 801 PLE.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Boeing a long account of the divorce*
proceedings of George Bdpls against me,
I wish to say that n veil should be thrown
over these family matters, and I should be j
silent, because 1 bear his name, X lire on
hie money, and he la my children's father,.
but I will deny emphatically that I ever
provocation. We Jested about It afterward.
Contrary to hia statement, 1 can nrove
that I had the contract of separation drawn
up of my own free will entirely, and ask
ed him to algn it, and alto, contrary to
bis statement in the allegations, I can prove
that tho distinct request for a divorce
came from me. ae I have hls letter to me
saying, according to my written request
in a letter from Lucerne for him to do ao,
he had applied to the Judge for a divorce.
I did not ask him to take me to the theater
the night I had him arrested; nor did I
ever know that he took a man to the thea
ter that night nntll I saw it in the allega
tions lu the newspapers, and I only caused
hls arrest to save my life.
• MRS. GEORGE SCIPLE.
New York, November 2L
Danish Steamer Ashore.
London, Nov. 28.—The Danish steamer
Xorden, Captain Vflaandt, bound from Port
Tampa, Fla., via Norfolk, to Nlcnfohwas-
•er.la reported ashore at Adelgrnnd, south
of ^BeroboUi Island. The vessel Is probably
Standard Stops Operations.
Tulsa, Okie., Nor, a.—Teh Standard Oil
Company has announced that It will con
>re tanks In Oklahoma and hat
struct so more i
laid off ill of Ui
one. It w*ill sto]
Mill Presidents Meet
Special to The Georgian.
Greenville, 8. C., Nor. 21—A meeting of
a dosen or more cotton mill presidents of
the piedment section was byid in Grenevllle
yesterday to discuss the m-rlon of several
Northern firms In cancelling contracts for
goods. Only print cloth plants were rep
resented.
Texas Out of Commission.
Washington. Nor, 3.—The battleship Tex
as. which was the first armor clad vessel
of the modem nary, waa yesterday ordered
placed out of commission at the Norfolk
navy yard.
The Intensity of such light can be
appreciated by a casual observer. While
It Is true that on the equatorial sndes the
altitude Is so great that the mountains are
cupped with snow, which Is unknown In
the valley below. Still the theory of the
* *‘e and heat being
_ r won't hold good.
For In winter we are actually 8,000,000 miles
nearer the snn thsn in summer, and, be
sides. the sun’s rays come to ns through
the lateral or slanting layers of the at
mosphere, and Instead of h'oat being the re
sult of this friction; the sunbeams are rob
bed of their heat lu the summer .season
the Huuhentn* paaa vertically through the
earth’s atmosphere and we get the full
force nt It. The adjacency of the piquet
Mercury to the snn caused the Ilerschels
to conjecture (1802> that It was possible for
the sun’s surface to be actually cool. This
Is whither Mr: Russell Is tending. This the
ory was no sooner entertained by them
than It wns abandoned as untenable on ac
count of discoveries made possible by the
Improvement In the telescope. Neptune lie-
Ing the outermost planet and nearly a bil
lion miles from the sun. the great center of
the solar system would appear as a faint
‘ - >f such
HOPING.
Jes' a-hopln* fsr a res,'
Jen’ a-hopln* ter the boa’,
Hope some day Is boun’ to win—
When you’re doin' the lie*’ you kin:
Still n-slngln' a hopeful song,
While knockin’ about aa' rockin'
along.
Jes' n-hopln' Bun an* Moon
Will beat the same old tone;
An’ the stars will never fall;
Jes' a-hopln'. that Is til.
Hope kind o' drives the clouds sway
An r I Jes’ hope they will stay.
Him a-hopln’ when hone Is gone,
But I hope an* hope right on:
Hope Is great—an' filth Is strong.
When knockin' about an' rockin'
along.
Jes' knockin' about from day to day,
Rockin’ along on life's highway;
An’ a-doln’ the bes* I kin
In this world ‘ “ ‘ ‘
An' the bes’
While rockin'
along.
atar to the inhabitants
world.
•ay more, bnt space compels os to leave off.
J. A. LAltlBEY.
Atlanta, Ga.
ROMANCE TODAY.
To our forefathers each new manifesta
tion waa a matter of ocular excitement.
The fingers of the cotton gfn took the place
of human fingers. At the coming of ether
an amputation was transformed from a
scene of torture to n placid process In me
chanics. Crowds gathered to see Fulton’s
devil-boat churn Its way slowly up the
Hudson, or to watch the first locomotive
“ r end clanking through the meadows,
with the development of elctrlclty
stretched taut against the sky; the
Strand of cable might lie seen as It began
Its plunge beneath the Atlantic. Yet It
has remained for the matter-of-fact utiliza
tion of wireless telegraphy to bring us. In
•Hence, tbo> height of rumnnee. Today a
merchant wishes to telegraph to bis buyer
In London; forthwith hls tulf-dosen words
> shot to the tip of a pole Inside the
_ shore, flicked Into the sky, and fucked
out of space trf a lonely spar ou the coast
of Ireland. There Is here as much magic
of romance as the world baa ever seru.—
From Collier’s for November U,
JAILS OR SANITARIUMS.
To the Editor of Tha Georgian:
An editorial In one of our city papers
raises tho question, “Jails or ffknltarlums?''
asking were It not better to establish sani
taria for the care and treatment of alco
holic and dtug cases thnn to fill tho Jails
with them further along In their career.
In reply to this, let me aay this: Last
September, after the paasage of tho anti-
narcotic law, I made a systematic can
vas* of the city officials, the charitable
associations and the pastors of our leading
churches. As this line of coses has been
study of mine In connection with chronic
diseases for many years, I offered to equip
and conduct a city ward, where such
cases might receive treatment, the city to
nay only for tho actual cost of medicines.
1 opened an Institution, and have con
ducted It for two months, ou a charity
Imsts, n goodly number of patleuts having
been treated and cured at actual cost
of board and medicines, no worthy person
being turned away. This Institution has
ln»en advertised in the city papers; the ad
vertisements paid for at regular rates, hut
not one paper baa given the venture a
friendly boost by kindly mention or favor
able editorial. Neither has a alngle city
official, charitable association or church
seen fit to help In any way, though the
Institution has been one of charity, and
conducted at n sacrifice aside from regular
business.
Now the question, jails or sanitariums?
We have the former, whose service and
efficiency have been proven by the tests*
mony of many patients who have come ts
me from them. We have ihe latter, if
only Atlonta, her officials and her cltlxen-
ry will but provide the means to care for
the unfortunates who throng our city. Me
feel, from personal experience, that the
cltlsenry of Atlanta does not appreciate
the need and ahaolnte necessity of snch pro
vision.
And Jf Atlanta, by her apathy and indif
ference. fails to give the sanitariums her
help and support, there Is bnt one place
left to the Inebriate—the Jail. Very truly
yours, HERBERT E. TRUAX, M.D.
Atlanta, Ga.
CAMP NO. 159.
In the rrcsbyterlan church on Washington
street.
To the strains of music, low and sweet.
With their commander at the head of tns
line.
Came the survivors of Camp one-fifty-nine.
'Twos beautiful to aee gathered there
These old veterans with snowy hair.
And sad to note when counting them o er
There were twenty Jess than the year ho-
fore.
The music was hymns oar mothers used te
sing.
Voices sweet and atroog made the old tunes
How Firm, a Foundation Ye Saints of tbs
I Lord'V
Reached many a heart and touched the
right chord.
Then, when of the long years of war they
spoke.
Praised tho brave and true, there awoke
Deep down lu our bearta a desire to be
True, loyal soldiers Uke Jackson snd I**
Xot In th« "l’.»h of W.r," wh.re tb»7
But Just to battle for right and for go<i.
Majr they all have many happy returns •>*
the nlrht.
And let u. be prenent when z*«ln It'S
U " 1 "' UERLG BAMSEt LEBTER.