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The Democratic Party Can and Ought To Dn It.
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Beef prices per pound have gone up two or three cents in
the past week, four or five cents this month and eight or ten
cents within a year.
That is the kind of fact that most deeply concerns the mass
of the American people. Il is the kind of fact that will con
tinue to interest the people until conditions arc remedied.
During the four months that intervene before election <lax
the voters of the country will have ample time tn consider
which of the political parties in the field offers the best pros
pect of relief from the commercial extortion and the industrial
depression induced by monopoly. That party will win at the
polls in November.
No unbiased observer with ordinal - ' sense will deny that
the Democratic party has an unrivalled chance Io make itself
the agent of the people's business. There is simply no com
parison to be made between the advantage of its strategic posi
tion in the field and that of any rival.
Nothing can defeat the Democratic party except the fad
ure of the Democratic part) to maintain its own unity. If the
Baltimore convention should permit itself io he split in two by
an explosion of greed and folly it would destroy its own tin
precedented opportunity.
It would destroy also the only existing instrument in the
hands of the people that is capable of working a speed) soln
tion of the problem of monopoly.
There is no good reason wh) nine-tenths of the convention
should not hold firmly together. There are m that convention
—as in every political gathering of a thousand men a few
fanatics of reaction and a few fanatics of reform. There arc
shameless agents of privilege and there are frenzied agents of
foolishness. But the great mass of the delegates are temperate
and honorable men.
They represent a party that has not been made fat with
patronage or drunk with power party that has not been a
partner in the colossal crimes of the tariff atid the trusts.
The people of the United States have need of this parly.
The) need it in the integrity and strength of its working organi
zation. They need it sound and whole.
For it is only as a complete and living thing, a thing of his
tory and reality, a vast and vital organism, rooted in every
state and ever) town, and throwing its sap into the great trunk
of Federal Government, that the Democratic party can succor
and shelter the people.
This is no time to wrangle over abstract principles, ft is
the time to put principle into practice.
The nation has big business that needs to be done—and the
Democratic part) can and ought to do it.
Kansas the Modern Utopia
In the Gnlliverian land of Laputa. where the industrious inhab
itants sought to make sunshine from cucumbers, there must have
been a spirit which has descended upon Kansas
For in that happy land the fly has been swatted, the roller
towel abolished, the common drinking cup banned, and now a cam
paign is on to rout the gourmand from the shallow of the Sun
flower State.
Under lhe direction of indefatigable Dr. Crumbine, the state
hoard of health is at work on formulas to determine how much
the Kansan should eat These experiments, if followed, will save
the individual money, improve his health and add to his wisdom.
“One might as well take a five-dollar bill and light bis pipe
with it as to burn up that money by wrong eating,'' says Dr. Crum
bine Isn't it simple? It requires a certain number of heat units
to keep man going at a normal gait; once t hat number is found for
the various occupations all the Kansan will have to do is to visit,
the stale with his index in his hand, pick out the food with the
requisite sustaining power ami go serenely on his way.
Banished will he the fiend of indigestion and the deadly grouch.
We have long sought for Utopia in vain. but now we are turning
our fevered gaze toward the West, toward Dr Urumbine and
Kansas.
To Destroy the Hookworm
Now for the hookworm! His ease will he taken up in the fall
at the fifteenth National Congress of Hygiene, when experts will
report fiiai tie nas neon run to Ids lair
It is a large lair, embracing a belt of Gfi degrees circling the
globe Fifty four nations abroad are infected, though in Germany,
Wales, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain lhe disease is
confined to the mines.
hi our own country eleven states, with a population of 20.000.-
000. are in trouble, and of the total population of the world more
than half a billion live in countries where the disease has a foothold
The commission will show that millions of dollars are lost an
nually because of impaired efficiency of victims of the trouble A
campaign will be devised whereby the various nations may work
together to wipe out what is now regarded as the greatest scourge
of the human race.
Unde Sam’s Laundry
Uncle Sam has gone into the laundry business Instead of pay
ing sll a thousand to print new notes, he has installed a machine
to wash and iron old bills at a cost of 2’> cents a thousand.
Sowell does the machine do its work that tit' per cent of the
dirtv bills presented Io the treasur) department for redemption
come out as new and clean as though th’ x had never left the press
that printed them
This move is a step in th’ inter-'. of i eouoni) and with the
restoration of lulls to cireulaiion dad) the taxpayers of the
land will rejoice in the saving of u>ih).iiihi yearly,
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The Atlanta Georgian
Shooting Butterflies With Guns and Bows
A Strange Sport That Suggests Thoughts on Some of the Riddles of Existence.
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KILLING THE GREAT INSECT MAMED AFTER A FIRF BREATHING MONSTER: SHOOTING THE BUT-
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By GARRETT P SERVTSS
IN Ibe fores I' of N'ew Guinea,
among the ow'en Stanley
mountain?, dwell what may be
regarded as Ihe largest species of
butterflies in the world. Somi of
them have w Ings which, when
opened, spread to a width of al
most a foot lacking but half an
inch. Many have a spread of
wings varying from eight to ten
Inches. Thev are brilliant in color
and haunt the branches of tall
flowering trees, so that it is diffi
cult to capture them.
The first specimen that evei fell
into the hands of a white man
WAS SHOT by M A. 1. Meek,
with an ordinary tw<Mvo-hore gun
He did not know that he bad dis
covered a new species until he had
sent it to Tring park in England,
where Walter Rothschild has a.
wonderful natural history museum.
Word was sent back to Mr. Meek,
who has been hunting in New'
Guinea and neighboring islands for
more than twenty years, that the
wonderful butterfly he had killed
was new to silence. It was named
Troides-Chimacra —Troides being
the family name of a group of but
terflies. and t'himae'a the name of.
the traditional monster that the
Greek hero Bellerophon killed while
riding the winged horse Pegasus
The Native Way.
It was a female, and M . Meek
was requested by Mt - . Rothschild
to try to obtain a specimen of lite
male. Mr. M<ek was then in the
Solomon islands, but he went ba. k
to New Guinea and began his
search. After a seven weeks' hunt
he succeeded. He discovered many
females, but could seldom see a
male. He found that tin natives
have a better way of killing tlie-e
gigantic butterflies than shooting
them to pieces with shot. They
climb up into the tr-es armed with
a bow and light, four-pronged ar
rows There they lie in wait, in
the vicinity of a branch that is
laden with the flowers that the
buttet flies love. and when one
comes along and alights to suck
tltc nectar a pronged ariow Is sent
into Its vitals. The arrows do not
tear the insects to pieces r- shot
are liable to do Meanwhile, an
other native crouches on the
ground undcrnca'h he tire and
prays for tip’ success of his com
rade up among the branches The
same arrows are used to kill small
birds.
Previous to the discovery of these
titanic butterflies of New Guinea,
several other gigantb species were
known in the islands of the Malay
Xrehipelago but none as large a«
these. Thev have been diligently
sought by pat ut allsts since the time
when Alfred Russell U allace made
his fann>u- exploring expeditions
through those islands, and when
found ha- been ttsasured Ik'-
I ntiKg. t of gold Mr Wallace has
TUESDAY. JULY 2. 1912
gix ’ n most amusing and exciting
accounts of his capture of the first
specimens of the huge ornithop
trras butterfly, which is thus nam
ed because its wings are shaped
somew hat lik® those of a bird. They
vary from six to eight Inches in
spread, and are gloriously beauti
ful in color and markings. Their
brilliancy and beauty, Mr. Wal
lace says, are indescribable. He
thus tell.- of his sensations when
he caught. In the island of Bata
<hian. th® first specimen he had
ever seen:
‘‘On taking it out my net and
opening its glorious wings, my
heart began to beat violently, my
blood rushed to my head, and I felt
much more like fainting than I have
ever done when in apprehension of
immediate death. I had a head
ache the rest of the day, so great
was the excitement.”
Afterward, in the Aru islands.
Mr. Wallace caught a second no
le-s wonderful specimen, and of
this tic says:
Very Excited.
"I trembled with excitement as
I saw it coining majestically to
ward me, and could hardly believe
1 had really succeeded in my stroke
til) I had taken ii out of the net
and was gazing, lost in admiration,
al the velvet black and brilliant
green of its wings, seven inches
across, it golden body, and crim
son breast.”
Mr. Wallace remarked that the
flight majestic, and when near the
ground they look larger and are
much more conspicuous than the
majority of birds.
"Tlie first sight of the great blue
Morphos. flapping slowly along in
the forest roads near Para: of the
t>?o Kill That Pest t>?o
By CHARLES LIEBMAN
SNEAK behind it on the sly.
Kill that fly
Strike it loxv. anil strike it high.
Kill that fly
Don't forget that you may save
Human beings from the grave.
ll' you're healthy, strong ami brave.
KILL THAT FLY !
Don't permit it to get by.
Kill that fly
Don't you let it multiply.
Kill that fly
If disease and death you hate.
For goodness sake, don 't hesitate,
Sxvat it ere it is too late,
KILL THAT FLY !
(to for it xvith might and main.
Kill that pest.
If you miss it. try atrain.
Swat that post.
Don't permit it to iuiesi.
Slav it. flax- it. <lon t give rest,
• - •
Soak it. choke it. for xour l>esl,
KILL THA I’ ITS’I !
large w hlte-and black. scm!-ti ana
parent Id’-as. floating airih about
lhe woods, near Malacca, and of the
golden-green <irnithopteras. sailing
on bird-like r ings over the flower
ing shrubs that adorn the beaches
of th® Ke -oid Aru Islands can
never be forgotten."
It seems wonderful that am spe
cies °f animal should var.c as
greatl.x a.- do the butterflies in size.
Most of those that w® are familiar
with in temperate ’. limes have a
spread in wings not exceeding an
inch or two. One . :*h a spread of
three incites seems a monster.
Think, then, of Mr. Meek’s speci
mens. almost a foot across, if men
varied as much as that in size we
might expect to encounter in the
tropical forests representatives of
mu- species from forty to sixty feet
tall! Monk’i sand apes, which look
often like caricatures of human be
ings. vary greatly in siz®, and so do
beetles and other insects; but the
majority of animals have an aver
age limit of dimensions, which is
seldom much exceeded, so that even
a six-and-a-half or seven-foot
man seems to most of us an extra
ordinary giant. What would the
history of our race have been it
some of its tribes had grow n to a
height of several yards while others
attained a stature of only a few
eet? l.'nlcss the little ones were
more plentifully furnished with
brains than their gigantic com
peeis they would have had small
chance of survival, except in the
slaves of their huge masters. But
the law of gravitation would have
come to the rescue of the little fel
low-;, for the big ones would have
been so he;ivy that they could hard
li stand on their feet. A full.', pro
portionate man sixty feet tall
would weigh about 300."00 pounds!
THE HOME PAPER
The One Best Friend B>
Bv WINIFRED BLACK.
THE wayward boy has grown
to be the wayward man, and
all the world is after him
with a hue and cry. From one ship
to another the word flashes,
catch him and bring him back.”
Jn the midst of ali the clamor and
pursuit a little woman sent a wire
less to the man the whole world is
hunting down.
"1 love you," said the wireless.
"I will be your friend always, just
the same.—Mother."
I hope the man who has run
away with his neighbors wife and
taken a. lot of his neighbor's money
along with him will get that mess
age his mother sent.
I wonder what he'll think when
he does get if? I wonder what the
woman he has run away with will
look like to him when he reads
the signature, "Always the same,
Mother.”
1 wonder if he will stop and think
a minute, just a minute, before he
brings any more sorrow’ to the one
heart in al] the world that is real
ly his.
“1 love you. I w ill stand by you.
I w 111 never desert you." How many
men are there in this cruel old
world today who are kept straight
by the know ledge that there is just
sitelt a message following them
wherever they go?
I saw such a letter as that not
l”ng ago. A girl showed it to me -
•' poor, painted, tawdry creature
she was—a pitiful, broken toy of
tlie wicked streets.
She had run away from home
and was leading the "gay life;"
lhe “gay life" of the wretched,
the "gay life" of the forsaken, the
"gay life" of the friendless and the
disgraced.
"My mother has found out,” said
the girl. "I thought she didn't
know, but .'-he found out, and
here’s what she says:
"I’m coming to you, m.v little
daughter -I'm coming straight to
>ou. I love you, you are mine, I
will never lot you go. Never,
nevei ! Don’t be afraid of me, I
won't scold you. Ixiok Into my
heart, you will see nothing there
but love. Look Into my eyes,
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Letters From the People
SAYS STATE OWNS TALLULAH 1
LANDS.
Editor o r Tlie Georgian:
There is pending before the Geor
gia legislature a resolution, the 4
purpose of w hich is to have submit
ted to a Georgia court of competent
jurisdiction the question as to
whether or not the property known
as Tallulah Palls belong to the
state or to a private corporation.
This is a question of vital concern
to all the people of Georgia —to the
people w lio may believe that tlie
demands of progress call for the
commercializing of Tallulah, and to
those who may believe that the
western hemisphere will be a sor
rier place to live in if its greatest
natural wonder is destroyed.
Some of the facts in the ease are
as follows:
Tlie lands at and near Tallulah
Palls were original!.' ceded to the
United States by til® Greek and
<’herokee nations of Indians. The
United States ceded them to the
state of Georgia. Tlie legislature
passed an act authorizing these
lands to be ent up into squares and
fra.'tions to be disposed of by a
lottery to be held as provided in
the act.
These lands were surveyed and
disposed of as provided in the act.
At some distance from the Tallulah
river there is a high bluff. Be
tween this bluff and the river (the
distance being about 200 yards and
morel lies th® land in controversy.
In making the survey, tlie surveyor
ran the line to this bluff and
stopped—measured this bluff as the
river.
The grants issued tn the drawers
in the lottery referred to above de
fined the boundaries of the lands
"as shown by the survey." The
boundary on one side was defined
as the river. The line in the early
survey did not go to the river. This
is shown by the survey recently
completed by the University of
Georgia. Under these facts, the
association claims that the land
between the river and the bluff has
never been granted and is still the
property of the state.
There are numerous decisions of
courts of last resort in the several
states and territories and of the su
preme court of the United States
which hold that when the bounda
ries set out in the grant differ from
those marked in the survey, the
boundaries of the survey govern.
Under section 1285 of the civil code
of 1911, which provides that all
lands which have never been sur
veyed belong to the state of Geor
gia. I am of the opinion that the
state could recover this land.
XX e can establish by proof that
it was always conceded in the
community around Tallulah that
tin stat® owned these lands. This
rii’icmi will he admissible, as
giant« were made at various
times between 1829 and Uin.
i H AS. G REYN' 'LI'S
don't shrink—you are just my lit
tle girl, just my poor little tired,
naughty girl who has done wrong,
and is sorry anti wants to come
home. I’ll come and take you
t here.' "
And the painted cheeks of th®
girl were stained with tears, and
her voice broke with sobs, and she
said: “Oh, w hat shall 1 do. I am not
fit to speak to her, what shall I
do?"
But in a little while she washed
her face and she combed her hair
as she combed It when she was a
little girl at home and thought it
hard that she had „to wear It so
plain. And she went out and found
honest work, and she is living in a.
little hall room now. cooking oxer
a gas jet and waiting for mother.
And when mother comes she will
find her little girl waiting for her,
and they will cry all the misery
and the shame and the grief and
the despair mil together in each
other’s arms, and they will go home
together—mother and the girl she
would not desert.
"I will never let you go. little
daughter. Never! Never!” Who
stand out against such love as
that?
"I don't care how beautiful you
are. or how clever, or how brilliant,
or how stupid, or how disgraced, or
how forsaken —to me you are al
ways the same, always just my lit
tle girl, my dear little girl, and 1
will not let you go.”
Down. down. down, the cruel
steps to the cruel road below. How
fast the little foot have run. How
slowly they drag tip the stairs
again. Hut they are corning now,
up. up and up—'into the clean air.
up into the honest world, up where
stands waiting.
“Always the same. Mother.”
1 should not care to be the wom
an who helped that foolish boy to
disgrace an honest name when he
gets that message, would you? I'm
afraid the scales will fall from his
deluded eyes—just for a minute,
maybe—but In that minute I’m
afraid the charmer will look just a
little tawdry, just a little cheap
—by comparison.
What do you think?
PROTESTS AGAINST ELECTRIC
CHAIR.
Editor The Georgian:
As I belong to the disfranchised
class and have no voice in shaping
the laws under which I must live, I
trust you will allow me the use of
your columns for an appeal to our
lawmakers in behalf of two legal
reforms which I believe will meet
the approval of the great body of
our people when the matter is
brought to their attention. The first
concerns the criminal code and re
lates to our barbarous methods of
inflicting capital punishment.
I have seen it stated In some of
the papers that a bill is to be in
troduced at the present session of
the legislature in favor of substi
tuting for the gallows the equally
atrocious horrors of the electric
chair. This, it seems to me. would
only be exchanging a “witch for
the devil,'' and I would beg to sug
gest that if any such action is tak
en. it be modified in the interests
of humanity so far as to permit a
poor condemned wretch the option
of being put out of the world in a
more merciful manner. This has
already been accomplished In some
of the more progressive Western
states by a. provision allowing the
unhappy victim of the law the al
ternative of having administered
to him by some reputable physician
some painless drug, such as mor
phine or cynaide of potassium,
from the effects of which he could
die decently in his bed. undisturbed
by the lurid paraphernalia of the
gallows or the electric chair
The other reform to which I
would call attention, is a revision
of the law relating to the taxa
tion of mortgages on real estate.
The law as it now stands virtually
imposes a double tax on the poor
man who Is reduced to the neces
sity of mortgaging his home. I
am aware that it was enacted with
the ostensible object of producing
just the reverse effect, on the the
ory that it would hit the holder of
the mortgage, who is supposed to
pay the tax on his investment. But,
as a matter of fact, it is the poor,
hard-pressed man who has to mort
gage his house or land, that pays
the tax The holder of the mort
gage simply adds the amount of
the tax to the interest charges,
and the poor man pays it without,
suspecting that he i s paying a dou
ble tax on tile same property—
one assessed by the tax gatherer
on the land, and another levied
against his indebtedness thereon
by tiie mortgage holder.
in our sister state of Alabama
they have a law regulating this
matter which Georgia might copy
with advantage. Instead of assess
ing a debt as property—which is
practically what our law does when
it permits a man to be taxed both
for his land and the mortgage on
it a moderate fee of one and a
half per cent, equal to 15 cent” on
nr hundred dollars is charged by
tin tats f'oi recording a mortgage,
and that i- the end of it.
ELIZA ERANt'ES ANDRE" 8.
Rome, Ga.