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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. rnrRRnAT, November ar. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) Publlthsd Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANV At 56 Writ Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Subacrlptfon Rateei One Tear V M “ six Month Thrrr Months >■» Onr Month Ry Carrier. Per Work w Trlrphoara ronnerttnp alt depart* mmt». l.ont dlit.nr. terminate. Smith A Thompaon, atlrertlilne rep- rramtatlrea for all territory outalde of flimti, t'hlcago Olflrr .... Tribune Bnllrt ng. New York Olflrr .... Brtiniwlck Bltlf. If you bare any trouble netting TIIE GEOHOIAN ANB NEWS, telephone the rlrrnlatlon tlennrtment anti have It promptly remedied. Telepbonee: Bell 4927 main; Atlanta 4401. Snliarrihert dralrlne THE GEOR GIAN ANI> NEWS uTacontlttued muat notify thla olflre on the date of expira tion; othenrlre. II trill hr rontlnnrd at thr regular anlitrrlptlon ratea until notlre to atop li rrrrlved. In ordering a rhanee of atldrraa. pirate five the old at trrll at tha tire addrrae. It la dralrablr that all rommunlra- tlona Intended for pnldlrotlon In TIIK GEORGIAN ANII NEWS lir llntllrd to too word# In l-astli. It la liiinrrntlre that thry he ■Irtuel. at an evidence of good faith. Rejected matmaerlpta will not he returned unless atauipa are sent for tha purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints no uuclenn nr objectionable advertis ing. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor ado. 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.