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liquor ,4a.
The open eeaeon on the peek-e-boo
la here.
The Barcelona "Red." aeem to be
out (or the pennent thte rear.
Thla country needa a de-platoled
Inter worse than anything else.
It la a natural preaumptlon that a
Black Hand la engaged In dirty work
Wu Ting-fang haa already Inter
viewed most of the Washington cor
respondents. . -
Reuterdahl now Bays that hla art!
de was based on opinions held by
President Roosevelt.
An English poet haa written an
epic with Chicago at hi* Inspiration.
Naturally the epic la pretty bum.
A- banker vouchtafee the advice,
"Don't depend on your aalary." Com
ing from a banker, that la odd advice.
That submarine acandkl la making
such a big aplaab that the opinion It
growing that there la something in It
after all.
-When will Fred Haskins get It all
nut of bit system ?" aaka an exchange.
Not until Fred ceases to get fat
cheeks.'
A Michigan legislator ttys he Is
sorry he belongs to that body. The
American conscience la surely awak
ening.
At least there le an excuse for mar
ried men talking In thpir aleep. That
t* the oo!y chance eome of them get
to talk.
Now comes that vernal season when
the. tailor's bill for last wlnter'i suit
and the order for epripg attire meet
In conflict.
A New York gem dealer eaye be
was hypnotized out of $180,000 worth
of diamonds. Sort of got him on the
hip, io to apeak.
“A Western bishop haa advised
spinsters to pray for husbanda,” says
a dispatch. Hart among the unmar
ried, men they fleetb when no woman
pursuuth.
"Anyhow, Governor Crothert Isn't
afraid to speak hla mind," observe!
The Baltimore News. In peasing. It
might be said that Governor Crothert
la a tingle man.
Two thousand men are at work on
the streets of Philadelphia "to make
It the cleanest city In the country.”
T&ey will have to dig deeper than
that to accomplish the cleansing of
the Quaker City-
Billy Smith la a true Southerner.
He does not believe In violating the
laws of hospitality, to allows the
puny tribe of ball toesera from Mar
vellous Manhattan to take a few
games Just at an encouragement.
Atlanta trill be green with envy
now that Memphis claims the
man who It to marry Evelyn
Thaw after the divorce.—Naah-
vllle Tennessean.
Not for a minute.
The Iowa lady editor who adver
tised for a buaband la III of nervous
prostration from the deluge of an
swers. Thla la conclusive evidence
that there are plenty of men In this
country willing to be supported by
able-bodied women.
The midnight colored brother la
looking forward to the Invention
of a noiseless hen.—Minneapolis
Journal.
Only the novice, and there are few
of that kind, la looking for any tueh
thing. Long since Cuffy found a wa/
to make biddy entirely noiseless.
ti
The Missouri legislature la hoist by
Its own petard. With the possibility
of an extra session, the state treas
urer aaya there la no money to pay
for It, the regular teuton having been
■o liberal In appropriations as to have
absorbed ell available revenues. It Is
safe to bet that that extra session will
be sbon and pointed.
HOME MADE—HOME BOUGHT
•* A wave of "home label" fever has heoii'passing over us. We are a
"wavy” people today, we Americans. We get fevers of all kinds; they
come on over night—our temperature goe* up and up and up. and we talk
about our latest fad. and we dream about it until the whole world seems
to hang on our new Idea. Then we suddenly get up some morning with
out It. and forget we ever had It. Of course. It la better that we have It
that way than not at all, but would It not be better to take hold of an Idea
with more or leas conservatism and work It out slowly and surely and
keep It alive than to run It In tbe ground all of a sudden?
We are a llttlo too clannish in Atlanta—our neighbors mistake It for
absolute aelflsbness. Maybe you won’t agree with us. but let's see If
we are;
The home libel movement really started by a few of our loyal cltl-
xens thinking It good to.encourage the patronising of . our own stores for
all our wants. You know there are some of our good people and their
wivea and daughters who buy the little necessities from day to day and
week to week In our local atorea. and then make a trip to New York or
elaewhere and spend from five hundred to a thousand dollars for finery.
Nothing wrong In that,, of course, only It la not altogether loyal to Atlanta
when the money la made out of our own people to take It elsewhere
when It comes to big purchases.
For Instance, Atlanta's department atorea employ some two thousand
people. They and tbe owners and executives are among our best buyeri
of Insurance, coal, furniture, homes, real estate and the thousand other
things that make commerce. These stores carry stocks equal to anything
In the country, and will get anything Ibe earth produces If It la wanted.
Then, we say. they In turn should have our support and always our flrat
choice. nr,
It was perfectly legitimate then that a movement be feet going that
would encourage buying all we could In our borne town. This waB
passed along and tbe cry was taken up. and thdn the thing was overdone,
of course, by preaalng it so far that it became, as we have said, clannish.
This aroused the Jobber*, and since they make their living by handling
gooda that mostly eome from out of town, It looked selflsh to them—and
really there was considerable Juaflce In their view of the matter—for the
Jobber who handles out of town goods Is a nneceaelty—alnee Atlanta could
not quite get along without the outside world yet a while. We don't make
quite a full line. We leaned so far In one direction that somebody had
to hold tbe red signal flag out on ua, and our home label campaign haa
taken more or leas of a chill.
We started out to help home Induetriee—mostly to encourage home
buying. We ran over onto the Idea and created the Impression that we
must even discriminate against anything not made In Atlanta. Atlanta's
manufactures only run about $25,000,000 a year, and lots of that Is ma
terial not used In Atlanta, such as unbleached cotton*, etc., while $254,000,-
000 patted thru our banks last year, and this fa not nearly all we spent.
So It la easily to be aeon that we make about $1 worth where we use any
where from $15 to $20 worth. «
Then, let'a bear In mind that our stores In every line—shoes, hats,
clothes, hardware, etc., benefit to some extent from what Is known at mall
order business—orders for goods by mall from Macon, Rome. Valdosta, Co
lumbus and hundreds of Atlanta's neighboring cities, and If we overdo the
strictly home-made, home-produced Idea, wo would probably lose consid
erable of this business.
So, non-, we see that at usual we cannot advocate any movement that
hasn't another aide. Whatever we do tread* on somebody's toes and moat
of ua lose our courage when we hear a complaint, and by going too far we
nearly find ourselves back where wo started. But let'a not fall to get
the good out of thla. We originally wanted to encourage home trade.
We should do that. New York. Chicago and the big. rich cities do not
need our retail trade—they get. our wholesale trade and have a fraction
of nearly every dollar we turn. Let'*'buy everything we can In Atlanta
and be as loyal at we can to our city. We will not then, hurt tbe feel
ing* of our neighbors, for none of our nearby cities retails to us. Such
things at are mnde here should have our patronage when they are us
good inti ns reasonable In prico at we can get from other makers. Our
home manufacturers do not aak more. Our manufactures hre small yet.
and depend ns much <m our state and nearby states at upon. Atlanta.
The trade of our city alone could hardly make any manufacturing enter
prise pay In competition with the big factories of the North with the
world ae their counter. So we must not make ourselves obnoxious to our
neighbors. And. to make a long story short, let us be aa brood In our
scope as we can. Let's any "home label" and "home made,” but remem
ber that "home" means Georgia, too, and the South, and that every time
we help our section we help ourselves. Buy what you can In town—not
In New York and Paris—and thus let the retailer, the Jobber and every
body have a square deal, but let'a not be clannish to the eatent that we
nro cqlled selfish*;''
JAPAN AND HER GREAT PROBLEM
Tbe ambition of Japan to become a world power baa received a aeri-
oua cbeck because of the financial problem* which are now engrossing the
attention of the leading politicians and financiers of that little empire.
These problems have assumed such proportions, It la to be expected that
for some time to come the genius of Japanese atateamen will be employed
In tbe Inauguration of certain policies which will provide an adequate and
essential Income for tbelr government.
Japan’s undertaking to natlonallxe railroads baa thus far proven to
heavy a burden upon the resource* of the government that It haa be
come neceetary for an Immediate change of financial policy In order to
meet the demands made by the navy, army and other branches of serv
let. In order to maintain Its position at a world power and to protect
what haa already been gained, Japan is forced to spend enormous turn■
annually upon the army and navy, to the neglect and detriment of other
branches of governmental service. These expenditure* are regarded by a
class of Japanese atateamen and financiers aa wholly and entirely out of
proportion with Japan's annual resources.
The Japanese people and government have begun to realise that It It
Imperative to develop the natural resource! of thetr country, and to es
tablish all possible Industrial enterprises within their borders In order to
provide the essential foundation for national prosperity. To do thla a
network of railroads covering the empire le an Immediate necessity., To
maintain and to properly equip these railway lines Japan. In her present
monetary condition, It unequal to the taak. The drain put upon the na
tional treasury by the demands of the navy and army precludes tbe gov
ernment's ability to cope with thla problem of Internal development. To
bring tbe annual Income of Japan up to the point where It will be suf
ficient for necessary and legitimate expeneea ta now the onerous taak as
sumed by the financiers of that country.
The nationalisation of Japan's railway system la an Unpopular Issue
with the Japanese, who declare that the moat favorable solution of the
present difficulties Ilea In the proposed leasing of the raUrOtiVfor a term
of years to a syndicate or private company which shall relieve the Japan
ese government of all further financial burden and reeponflbillty. The
letting of the roads will provide for their eatenalon and adequate equip
ment. at tbe tame time paying Into tbe Japanese treasury a certain per
centage of profits. •
- For a month Important conferences have been held In Japan by the
leading men of that country, and by railroad expert*, engineers and
financier* from foreign nations. In an effort to reach a definite and satis
factory solution of thla question which touche* eo vitally upon the future
policy of tbe Japanese government. In these conferences of Japanese lead
ers and foreign men of affairs, Japan haa been Informed by financier* and
promoter* that money will not be furnished for the building up or the
maintenance of the army or navy of Japan, and that the great outild*
financial world will expect of Japan and her people a development of In-
tern*! and domestic resource*, rather than the enlargement of their navy
and army, which might prove a menace to the peace and tranquillity of tbe
other great national world power*. The nationalisation of the railroads
of Japan has undoubtedly put a wholesome barrier In the way or Japan
ese aggreaalveneat and Japanese ambitions aa a dangerous and menacing
world power.
V
ENGLAND AND NAVAL COMPETITION'
Tn** military :\urt n:ua! *•«:irnat***« "f
the British government for the current
year have proved disappointing to
many advanced liberals and friends of
peace, economy and progress toward
limitation of armaments. Not that the
estimates show a considerable decrease,
for the combined Increase for the two
services Is only 13.000.000. But the dU-
pleaaed elements of the party had ex
pected a reduction, and they are firm
ly of the opinion that this Is a decided
ly propitious time for an actual and
substantial retrenchment In “defense”
expenditures. The treaty with Russia,
the excellent understanding with
France, the Improved relations between
England and Germany—all these fac
tors, they hold, make economy possible
and safe, and where economy Is safe
liberal principles render It desirable.
A resolution criticising the govern
ment in thla sense had been introduced
and temporarily withdrawn as a favor
to the premier. After the estimates
were submitted. It was Introduced, and
the other evening Chancellor Asquith
made the speech on it that was in
tended to excuse and vindicate the
ministry. He denied that the govern
ment saw a menace in Germany’s naval
program for the future. He asserted
that It was earnestly opposed to need
less naval expansion and would do ev
crything to prevent “a new spurt In
competitive shipbuilding between the
great power*." It was not going to
anticipate developments or build
against "paper programs.” But it was
bound and determined to maintain the
two-power standard, and Its estimates,
now or in the future, must conform to
that fundamental principle.—Chicago
Record-Herald.
GERMANY'S PRACTICAL AERONAUTICS
The German victory 1n the United
Bitten lost October. In which the long,
eel (tight was attained, was no acci
dent. It wu the theory of the Oermon
aeronaut In control that ordinary bal
loon* are dirigible by means of shift
ing to different currenta at varying
elevations, and he chose for his as
sistant an American expert on upper
air ourrents, who for many years had
been studying this subject at the Blue
Hill (Mass.) observatory. The point
aimed at by the German balloonist on
his departure was New York city. He
landed at Asbury Park, which was n
close shot.
i It le announced that the German em.
peror and Jits military advisers have
ordered flvo balloons for army service.
The-moat noted airship builder In the
empire, Count Zeppelin, who has. at his
expense, carried on many notable ex
periments at the Lake of Constance,
believes that large bodies of troops ran
be moved thru tho nlr. His opinion
must have weight with the government
for tho Krupp work* are manu
facturing guns of a peculiar pattern,
Intended to sweep the air for miles,
vertically or otherwise, overhead. Two
German systems of wireless telegraphy
are adapted to balloons within a dis
tance of SO miles. Several large air
ship corporations have been estab
lished In Germany. The striking point
In German aeronautics Is their thor
oughly practical nature and the
(•■mfldenre with which they arv pursue I
from that point of view.—St. Louts
Globe-Democrat. • i-;
MEMORIALS OF MILTON
tn commemoration of the tercente
nary of the birth of John Milton, Pro
fessor' Slmkhovltch, of Columbia Uni
versity. has gathered together a won
derful collection of the poet's writings,
which Is now being shown In the libra
ry building. The exhibition (which an.
(Iclpates the commemoration to be held
In London next December) was opened
to the public a few day* ago. and will
be shown for several weeks. Altho
Great Britain can equal. It can not
surpass Columbia's showing of first
and other editions; and It can not show
the unique Items exhibited In New York
—lost to England for all time—such as
the printer’s manuscript, with the of
ficial license, of the first book of “Par
adise Lott."’ which next to the "Com-
monnlace Book" and tile volume.of au
tograph poetry at Trinity College, Cam
bridge, mutt be regarded at the moat
precious of Milton relics.
Two -Items hare been loaned to the
Columbia exhibition by J. Pterpont
Morgan—thla manuscript and Cowper's
annotated copy of "Paradise Lost." The
manuscript, written on thirty-three
quarto pages by Milton's amanuensis,
ts the "copy" from which Peter Porker,
In 1667, printed for Samuel Simmons
(who held the copyright) the early edi
tions of the epic. On the Inside of a
leaf at the beginning Is tbe license. In
the autograph of the Rev. Thomas
Tomkyns, the censor of that period.
Accompanying the volume Is a long
and extremely Important autograph let
ter. dated "February 31 (173J). and
written by Jacob Tonson (a later owner
of the copyright) to his nephew tn re
lation to this manuscript, of which he
says: "It I* plain that the flrst edition
was printed by this very copy." No
other portion of the manuscript, auto
graphic or otherwise, was then (1711)
known, and this Is still the only known
extant specimen.
Next In Interest and "association'
value ts Milton's copy of "Lycophronl*
Alexandra." Geneva. 1601, In the origi
nal calf with his autograph signature,
>f purchase (1634)
price paid (13 i
the date of purchase (1634) and the
shillings) written on the
fly leaf opposite the title.—Boston
Transcript.
•‘IDEAL HUSBAND?" NO ANSWER
Ask a hundred women “What con
stitutes an Ideal husband?” and no two
will give the same explanation. Scarcely
a married woman but thinks, that,
given more wisdom at the time of her
selection of a husband, she might have
done better. Few meditate that, from
17 to 70. women enter Into matrimony
with the same Impetuous disregard of
anything but the desire for love, for ti
tle or for gold.
Some women say that the Ideal hus
band must be handsome; brilliant, good
tempered, generous—In fine, possess all
the attributes of a genius, nn Adonis
nnd a saint rolled Into one—and none
reflect that these attributes do not
travel together and that few posses*
them tn combination.
On one point women are agreed; the
Ideal husband must be generous. He
must not scan too closely millinery
bills, nor ask how certain sums have
been expended. The Ideal husband
should be good temnered, all assert, for
who could endure life with a bear!
Then. too. the Ideal husband should
nsver be Jealous. The excitements of
jealousy might lend spice to an engage
ment. but they prove cayenne pepper to
married life.
On the domestic qualities of the Ideal
husband women differ. Borne like a
husband to go to his club and enjoy
himself, solus, and leave them to gossip
or bridge at home or elsewhere: others
tHInk the Ideal husband should be n
constant companion and never experi
ence the least enjoymept In the so-
clety of any human being other than
his wife.
Some women think that the man
who Is able to order his own home and
everything In It—except hla wife—Is an
Ideal husbnmJ, while more of them be
lieve perfection to lie In that man who
lets his wife reign supreme In hi* home
and rule hi* every ad.
The Harlem branch of the Young
Men's. lCbristlap Association • Is teach
ing Its class of prospsctlve benedicts
all about thetr duties toward their
homes and even how to pick out a suit
able wife to adorn them, but It hasn't
tried to teach them what their atti
tude should be toward the wives they
win to wear the enviable title of “Ideal
husband." U does not know, and no-
body has ever discovered from any
united body of women, what const!
lutes the feminine Ideal of what a bus
band oqght to be.—New York Tribune.
WHEN THE BIRDS GO TO SLEEP
The nightcap preparations of the
chubby little quail are very Interesting.
Knelt evening the covey form* In a new
place and this selection of the spot en
tails serious effort*. Bob White never
S uite lose* remembrance of the many
angers which make his life In a wild
elate one great fear. A whtte-throated
male, with soft clucks, calls togather
a dozen of his comrades and for a few
minutes they all huddle together, but
soon from the farther end of the
aviary a clear Whew-bobwhlte! rings
out and off scurry the whole band, this
time perhsp* to settle for the night In
the new place—a dense circle of little
forms, head* all facing out. Just as In
their native stubble they rest facing In
every direction, so that at the first hint
of danger from any point of the com
pass. the covey may explode and go
booming off In safety. Poor little fel-
towa. their wild life Is strenuous In
deed. Well for thetr race that every
nest hold* from ten to eighteen eggs
Instead of three or four.
The woodpeckers sleep resting upon
their tall*, even the flickers Invariably
following this custom, attho during the
day the flickers spend much of their
time perching In passerine manner,
crnsawlse upon, a twig. Small birds,
such as thrushes and warbltrs. sleep
usually upon some small twig with
hsads tucked behind wings In ortho
dox bird fashion, but they occasionally
vary thla In a remarkable way by cling.
Ing all night tn the vertical wires of
their cages, sleeping apparently as
soundly In this a* In the usual position
of rest. A bluebird In a small cage
slept thus about one or two ntghta out
of each week. Any explanation of this
voluntary and wtdesp
perching birds woul<
suggest.
The little hanging parrakeel* derive
their name from their custom of sleep
ing always In a reversed position, and
when distributed over thetr roosting
tree, they resemble some strange, pend
ant, green fruit, rather than sleeping
bird*.—Outing.
Back to Business
To the Kdltor of The Georgian:
Let us stop fighting and Join tn
building up equal commercial rights
for the former, laborer, manufacturer,
banker and the merchant, who are
pertnera and not competitor*. Before
normal condition* can be reetored, re
sulting In prosperity, we must deal
with each other as friends, not foes.
Corporate Interests are anxlout'to Join
the movement of readjusting them
selves to the new conditions. 8tart up
shops and put on trains, giving men
employment again. But this can only
be done thru business methods. It Is
impossible to secure business and set
the wheels of commerce In motion until
the energies wasted in warfare are
united for prosperity. We have gained
all we are going to gain (or commer
cial reform for thle time; all we are
able to digest. Constructive leadership
Is the need of the hour.
The Issue has been decided forever
between Die sovereign American peo-
K le and the power of combined capital,
ut the adjustment and constructive
benefits are set to be worked out. The
money of the country Is running out
of the pocket* of the people, and unless
this fight Is stopped quickly the people
will have nothing with which to buy
the products of the farmer, snd when
the farmer’s market (the people) tx im
poverished, the limes of ’»} and *37 are
sure to be repeated. The talent needed
In executive offices ts constructive
leadership which will restore normal
conditions, build up prosperity, put idle
men to work and restore wages by ere.
etlng a necessity for the worker thru
MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO.
CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS
Capital $500,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits $350,000.00
- Commercial Accounts Invited.
4 erf Interest, compounded twice a year, is
JO paid in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
5WF
PEOPLE AND THINGS
GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS
A XU THE STREET CORNERS
Hugh P. Galvin,. of the Piedmont
staff of clerks, is genial nnd pleasant
nil the time, *bm. Mommy he wns Just
bubbling over with geniality and hap
piness. To friends tvho noticed It nnd
remnrked about it, he told the reanon.
The reason? It’s a girl, who arrived
at Mr. Galvin’s home In the Avalon
apartments Sunday morning.
J. E. Bo'lcnbnnitr. of Atlanta, has been
* bt «
PAt* 1 .
Jrom twenty-one
states hare been appointed to date. Mr.
Bodenbamer is slso secretary of the stnte
People’s partv executive committee, which
meets here March 24.
tho world. He ts tho IS-ronr-old son of
Mrs. E. B. Fitts, of 140 IHcnardson-st., sad
prior to his enlistment was s student st t*
Georgia Military .School In Mllledgevllle. 1
Is aboard the Vermont.
nsnser nnn president or me iisns or me
Manhattan Company, st 4) Wallst... leaves
Atlanta Monday tor hla home, after spend
ing Saturday nnd Sunday In Atlanta with
Atlanta bankers snd attorneys were
(Ions In the future. He attributes the ro-
rent depression to Inflated conditions ill
over the country, nnd he expects tbnt this
will be fallowed by sn era of economy and
snvlng which will show n better stnte of af
fairs.
iotinjf It. Smith. Of n»aiun, ram isrr «rar
of the Georgia debaters. He ts the son of
Mrs. A. G. Smith, of 145 Pesoptree st. Al
tho a Junior, he wom his place over seven
other aspirants, all either from the senior
or law clnas.
Young Smith Is s bright follow, snd when
student st the Boys’ High School won
the Omnkshnw debaters’ medal for two
successive years.
Ills colleague will be Sidney O. Smith,
of 'Gainesville, who Is a senior and a flue
deleter.
High honor has been paid n member of
the newspaper profession. William E. Cur
tis. staff correspondent of the Chicago Kec-
onl-llernld. In his appointment as s member
of the committee to carry out the recom
mendations of the International .conference
held at Rio In 1*07.
Mr. Curtis arrived In Atlanta Saturday
ARMY-NA VY~ ORDERS
AND
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
WASHINGTON, March 15—The
fallowing orders hare been Issued:
Army Qrdscs.o
First Lieutenant James N. Tilton
coast artillery.corps, transferred from
Seventy-eighth company: Lieutenant
Colonel Clarence Deems, coast artillery
corps, from Fort Howard to Fort
Hancock: First Lieutenant Thoms* T.
Duke. Twenty-third Infantry, from
general hospital, Washington barrack.,
to hts regiment: First Lteutansot Rich,
ard H.-Jordan, roast artillery corps,
from Fifty-seventh company to artil
lery district of Olongapo for klsitf duty.
Navy Orders.
Lieutenant J. E. Walker to .naval
station, Guantanamo.- -
Movement* of Vstsel*. -
ARRIVED—March II. Preble at l,o*
Angeles. Nexlnscoot at Portsmouth,
Perry and Saturn at Mare Island.
SAILED—March 12. Mayflower from
Norfolk for New Orleans. Preble'from
Los Angeles for Sart Francisco, Tank-
ton from Acapulco for Magdalena Bav;
March >3. Eagle from Santiago for
Guantanamo, Chicago from Rio de Ja
neiro for Bahia. New Hampshire or
dered commissioned, navy yard. League
Island.
Have You Noticed?
tla loft Atlanta !
•ut.
* In order to be prea-
-,/fhia conference will discuss the question
of arbitration between American republics.
Many prominent men are members of tbe
.committee, among them Andrew Carnegie,
Robert Rncon, assistant secretary of sfate:
Congressmen Slayden and Uinflls, General
Alfred Hntcs and other*.
Late Wire News
Because of a threatened 'strike of
coal miners and the rising up of mines.
thousands of
Ring
: city.
That spring moving Is beginning un.
usually early this year? Moving vans
are seen In nearly every street.
That fashionable persona are havlna
the roofs of their carriages raised to
accommodate the new coiffures?
That evtdencea of new street paving
are seen In many streets, where broken
stone Is waiting for the workmen?
That these bright mornings are in
creasing the number of pedestrians, to
the disadvantage of the trolley com
pany?
That the matinee crowds are begin
ning to take on the appearance of an
Easter parade?
That office workers are enjoying
some real fresh air thru their windows
for the first time In many months?
That some "1908" automobiles are
appearing In the streets?
That a new expression Is being heard
at the baseball park when someone
makes a raw error? It Is “Get the
hook!" and It evidently cam* from the
amateur nights at the Orpheum.
'It Is Here”
wood* ore Ereen-carpeieo, iuoup
wild violets nod their modest hem
passing breeze, wild strawlwrry
peep from cover, tad the yellow J
planting time on the farms and tbs
crop of ■ guano sets* ha* beer ‘
dressmaker,
continue fighting Is pulling down that
which Is built and preventing the build.
Ing of anything else, resulting In stag
nation and ruin.
We hav# got so much reform we
hardly know how to mtfnago It.
will take years to adjust the reform
measures already won In a way to get
any actual and permanent benefit from
them. Perfection can never be accom.
pushed all at on* time. It le the gross,
est Imperfection to attempt It. 6o much
reform as can be used la good, more
Is an emetic, producing reactionary
nausea. Reform acquired at Intervale,
allowing time for assimilation. Is nec
essary for civilised growth: too much
nutritious substance at one time Is pol-
son. The interne* of every ritlsen, In.
dividual and corporation, regardless of
political party affiliations, demands the
support of all In selecting and electing
a president, governor and representa
tives to work out commercial pros
perity. Back to business and prosper-
Ity would be my platform If I were In
the race for governor. Very truly
yours,
EDWARD H. WALKER.
College Park. Ga.
Baohman Made Chairman.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., March 16—
Nathan L. BWchman, formerly seer*,
tary of the Hamilton county Demo
cratic executive committee and a son
of Dr. J. W. Bachman, pastor of the
First Presbyterian chnrch of this city
for nearly forty years, hax been elected
chairman of the Democratic committee.
J. SI. Payne, city auditor, was elected
secretary. John E. Connor was declar
ed the nominee of tbe party for tax as
sessor.
Dewitt Fuller, aged 70. of Hancock,
who. It ts said, was private telegraph
operator fopPrrstdent Lincoln during
the Civil war, was killed on the Erie
tracks at Narrowsburg, N. Y„ Friday
afternoon.
By th* death-of his uncle In Germa
ny. John Kuhn*, a Trentpn Iron molder,
who disappeared from hla hqme In 1883.
falls heir to 3100.000. Word of the
legacy was recslved today by the rela
tives of the missing man. Kuhns wsa
last heard from In Ragland, Ala.
Counsel for E. R. Thomas and O. F
Thomas, of New York, recently Indict
*d for violating th* Insurance laws, to
day applied to Supreme Court Justice
Blanchard tor permission to Inspect the
i;rand Jury minutes. It Is alleged the
. ury In arriving at a decision took Into
consideration, evidence Illegal under
the criminal code. t
*' Ajsoclstlon of the Caro-
memltcrshlp of shout forty,
esslos at Columbia, H. C.
— C.. Is pree-
CbleSao brewery workmen will present’s
new wage seals to breweries asking for nn
Increase of i? a .week. They, now receive
tit. Another provbles that. during dull
tltnr* employer* nw. lie laid nff. but onlv
-x st-a tilde. TTi|e !■ to dirlde
uziumii simsitiie * WU, HIM l-
adopted tbe parte instead of tfte sword for
duelling. Two.uaed tlfase weapon* in the
last duet, and fifteen nilontfn decided the
bout. v.
The Pantlient) of Ibe Spanish colonies, a
pavilion In the IUtlro or Madrid, which
holds the tncinorlca of Spain'* vanished
greatness. la to he dismantled, and tbe
Down In thla part of the ▼inoyard th*
wood* are green-carpeted. thousand* of
”* -* “'■* odest head* to tha
Idouomfe
Jessamine
spreads abroad’ it* matchless perfume,
reach orchard* are a riot of pink. pt<im
orchards are like suow drifts, and tbe tint
Idrd neats are ready for the egg*.
- r Iff
WtlN
wlth the mHHner nod the
while papa la freshening up tbe band on
last summer’* straw hat. Tommy ha* al
ready been barefooted long enough to
stmnp every other toe, and papa has baa
to ”put up’ 1 for a new baseball bat. Bird
dogs ore beginning to take on fnt and
scratch fleas, fishing hole* are rilling to
those who understand, and "that tired
feeling” hna come again, re*, spring hts
eome. It slipped nut of the lap of winter
like a shadow falling from a mountain
at sunset, nnd now there seem* never to
have been a winter.
And the question of the hoar I*. ’Will
there be a late March frees*f—Albany
collection of books and paintings and vast
archaeological, geological, anthropological«
mineralogies! and botanical treasure* It
contains are to be scattered and burled
among tbe libraries of, the museums of tbs
A Isrge number of death sentences were
passed mindly In various pacts of Roads.
Those who will suffer the death penalty
Include ton robbers at Krem-ntehug. four
robbers at Klsv, three tnen who tnsd# in
attack upon the postoffice at Proskurov.
three brigands at Itods, a peasant of Ksr*
kor snd two political prisoners st Kuril.
A moving picture theater at Holyoke,
Mass., was emptied In three minutes Sun
day, after an alarm of fire. There were
1.5ft) people In tbs house.
irlemsgne and Mrs.
of the German emperor I
Third-termers In Washington are still
clamoring for four more years of
velt. Every wire Is being pnlled to this
end.
rpngress has been asked to «P|> r fP r i*!i
135.000 In order that twenty-five delegates
may attend *jbe first'Pan
American
Chile. n«
Officers on the torpedo flotilla hare wired
-jorae that tbaf were, royally received at
Panama. Several entertainments were ar
ranged.
Railroad* of the country hat#
transport troop* at the old rate of 1
a mile. Tbe problem la np to the war
department. I
Growth and Progress of the New South
Th* Gesrxlsn hers record, eseh dsy
s»me economic (set In reference te
tt>» onward progress of th* South.
• BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
Wtat Is sslil to tie the richest strike of Jsck ever msd* I* this end of the Mir
soorlKinsts mlnlnx district. *nd the most pbenonieunl strike made In the rutlre
district within th* last three year*, sty* the Manufacturers' Record, win
wlthtu the city limits of farthare within th* last three weeks. About s month
ate t.. I*. Beitua. one of the host known mlnlnx men In this district, secured lens',
nn S acres of land'at th* northwestern limits of the city. The territory covered m
eludes the Cbautxoqux grounds anil the I’orter snd Myers lots, where twenty year,
ago some 37».o» worth of mineral was taken out nt « shallow depth.
It wes Mr. Menus'* Men that richer ore undertsld this shallow ore. snd his pr*_
dictions have sot only Itren vsrited, hut the tlmllns* In tbn two drill holes hs<e
been tho talk of tho district.
_ The first hole wsa on the I'orter lot. just serosa the commons from the •ll*so“, fl
Psclllc depot. At 3S feet the drill went Into Jsck islnct. snd eontlnned there.n
without Interruption to J» feet, where the drill was stopped. At 7« to » r, ' x
Jerome Fiery, the drill man. estimated that tho (round would nessy 3 per cent,
•od At lit to 161 feet. Where the' ore wee It blue-Snd yellow flint, hie estlniste
feet th* drill went In'"
feet. From 76 feet tn lj 1
- the fist
district
and has Rotten steadily better down to UO feet, where tbe drill In now In blue ore-
ro?« B SsUm' Imf' **‘° 0,,n, **• ground, came her* alma three years *«■•
The oBtcIsl report as died In the effle* of tho HuKport Business U««“' ' f
Gulfport. Mist., for Februxrv shows that I4.70I.0)* feet of lumber. Istsrd measure.
were slipped from Ihxt inter durinc Ibe month. Tottl shipments were mined st
nJMIS. snd make one of the best month's exports In the history or the ,Po r '
inker shipments with 'heir value, were: t.»7I pile*, rained at *H.4tf.«: UAJJ
rets of rosin, rained nt 144.043. and I,..-) Iwrrels of turpentine, rained nt IK.*'
Tn* second note its reel north of the Bret. At I) feet th* drill wt
lead, nnd continued In phenomenally rich ore down to 7-1 feet. From 70 fe«
tho trrnnnri w*» free of ore. the only difference hem* In th* texture of tl
At W0 feet the drill struck the richest Jack ever seen In this end of Ibe