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' a n ———— GEORGIAN BHvB6. new HrM* -TtlMißhed Every Afternoon Except Sunday FV«*»l filing c»- By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY n Ba,,k At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ga I VjTTf J ■® con d-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under aet of March 3. 1879 “-•'-•■'on Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year. Gs) Payable in advance pR'M. DOG-. I; Wfc RENI SZFtend to the People’s Big Ikmeriet ta • f cash Business Registei $t * «* J’C'PE'S SPI Fun? guarai The Democratic Party Can and Ought To Do It. two years or free 1 ' Money refun.f prices per pound have gone up two or three cents in fill’ h pope \v ( week, four or five cents this month and eight or ten 1614 Main sti « . at— thin a year. j is the kind of fact that most deeplt concerns the mass A^^rEW^mimerican |><?ople. Il is the kind of fact that will con keji under "im*pricTP»’oph* ""td conditions are remedied. * ll l months that intervene before election day ■pWAEMERS 30 4-paasenr > condition, top. winding-Mountrv will have ample titne to consider I'Wrt-O-Lite and a ana ' I frhAuicd this oursholitical parties in the field offers the best pros- I I r *f ht and cheap t ' ■ , i i L fHEN WE offef from the commercial extortion and the industrial I I fevis A Almand. • 1 Beil phone odnet-d by monopoly. That party will win at the I R SALE Pope . L curing car in pmber. M let. Must h* B unbiased observer with ordinary sense will deny that S onipAom tiocrat ic party has an unrivalled chance to make itself jH ir'rar*’rmt. of the people's business. There is simply no com ■ " TTC 1 '* nu ’ , ' v ’h ( ' advantage of its strategic posi ■ ' GNErrsA**"' ” rK ' lal flnv r ' va ’- ■ * RFX'HAR<ng can defeat the Democratic parti’ except the fad B RBITRETOT r . i n > careful ale Democratic party to maintain its own unity. If the B v 'VB'* convention should permit itself to be split in two by ■I >d Ave., greed and folly it would destroy its own nn F fed opportuniti isoidd destroy also the only existing instrument in the L. makes ' the people that is capable of working a speeds solu ircycle det , , , .. . ' them dist the problem of monopoly. tell Comp. . . , ' . i <• i •r jis no good reason why nine-tenths of the convention not hold firmly together. There are in that convention every political gathering of a thousand men a few of reaction ami a few fanatics of reform. There are rfoNEH ess agents of privilege and there are frenzied agents of nshness. But the great mass of the delegates are temperate Jhonorable men. CARHy represent a party that has not been made fat with 40-42 PETFi{ e or drunk with power party that has not been a m the colossal crimes of the tariff and the trusts. f and ' eo ld , ‘ 9ie I’mted States have need of this party. ——l it in the integrity and strength of its working organi- They need it sound and whole. or it is onl\ as a complete and living tiling, a thine >»f his MH 'and reality, a vast and vital organism, rooted in evert HBH • and every town, and throwing its sap into the great trunk Mfl '’ederal Government, that the 1 ieinoer.it ic party can succor MNi shelter the people. - cihis is no time to wrangle over abstract principles. It is I t,f ‘ .ne to put principle into practice. [ « lft 'he nation has big business that needs to be done and the \ R f ‘ MLicratie party can and ought to do it. •' f J * ’.ansas the Modem Utopia oi the Gulliverian land of Laputa. where the industrious inhab ™ r,’ sought to make sunshine from cucumbers, there must have a spirit which has descended upon Kansas. (■r'or in that happy land the fly has been swatted, the roller iel abolished, the common drinking cup banned, and now a eant fgn is on to rout the gourmand from the shadow of the Sun ' Mfccer State. J* Under the direction of indefatigable Dr. t'rumbine. the state yoard of health is at work on formulas to determine how much a he Kansan should eat. These experiments, if followed, will save he individual money, improve his health and add to his wisdom. ' “One might as well take a tive-dollar bill and light his pipe vith it as to burn up that money In wrong eating." says Dr. Crum >ine. Isn't it simple’,' It requires a certain number of heat units o keep man going at a normal gait ; once that number is found for he various occupations all the Kansan will have to do is to visit l>jt»s4..le with his index in his hand, pick out the food with the -i juisite sustaining power and go serenely on his way Banished will be the fiend of indigest ion ami the deadly grouch. Jt'e have long sought for I topia in vain, but now we are turning >ur fevered gaze toward the West, toward Dr. Crujnbine and Kansas. i _ To Destroy the Hookworm Now for the hookworm! His case will be taken up in the fall at the fifteenth National Congress of Hygiene, when experts will report that he has been run to his lair. It is a large lair, embracing a belt of 66 degrees circling the globe. Fifty-four nations abroad are infected, though in Germany, Wales, the Netherlands. Belgium. France and Spain the disease is confined to the mines. , fj In our own country eleven states, with a population of 20.000.- *)0O. 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. "■ Uncle 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 25 cents a thousand. Sowell does the machine do its work that 60 per cent of the dirty bills presented to the treasury department for redemption come out as new and clean as though they had never left tlu- press that printed them. ; This move is a step in the interest of economy, and ufith the restoration of 25,000 hills to circulation daily the taxpayer' of tin land will rejoice tn the saving of SSOU,(X>O yearly. i \ • kiJ The Atlanta Georgian Shooting Butterflies With Guns and Bows A Strange Sport That Suggests Thoughts on Some of the Riddles of Existence. \ i*' '■ I ■ oL ''tsmaL 3BH- '- > 1 i*** * KILLING THE GREAT INSECT NAMED AFTER A Fl RE- BRE ATHI NG MONSTER; SHOOTING THE BUT TERFLY, TROIDES CHIMAERA, WITH A FOUR-PRONGED ARROW. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. IN the forests of. New Guinea, among the Owen Stanley mountains, dwell what may be regarded as the largest specie!* of butterflies in the world. Some of them have wings 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. They 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 ever fell into the hands of a white man WAS SHOT by Mr. A. L. Meek, with an ordinary twelve-bore gun He did not know that he had dis covered a new species until he had sent it to Trlng 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 science. It was named Troides-t'hlmaera—Troides being the family name of a group of but terflies, and Chimaera 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 Mr. Meek was requested bj Mr. Rothschild to try to obtain a specimen of the male. Mr. Meek was then in the Solomon islands, but he went back to New Guinea and began his search. After a,seven weeks' hunt he succeeded. He discovered raanj females, but could seldom see a male He found that the natives have a belter way of killing these gigantic butterflits than shooting them to pieces with shot. They climb up into the trees armed with a bow anil light, four-pronged ar rows There they lie in wait, in the vicinity of a branch that is laden with the that the butterflies -love. and when one comes along ami alights to suck the nectar a pronged arrow is sent into its vitals. The arrows do not tear the insects to pieces as shot are liable to do. Meanwhile, an other native crouches on the ground undernea’h he tree and prays for the 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 gigantic species were known In the islands of the Malay Archipelago but none as large as these They have b-en diligently sought by naturalists since the time when Alfred Russell Wallace mud'' his famous exploring expeditions through those islands and when ! found has been tr-asured Ilk j nuggets of gold Mr. Wallace has i I i TUESDAY, JULY 2. 1912. given most amusing and exciting accounts of his capture of the first specimens of the huge ornithop teras butterfly, which is thus nam ed because its wings are shaped somewhat like 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 tells of his sensations when he caught. In the island of Bata chian, the 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 less wonderful specimen, and of this he says: Very Excited. "1 trembled with excitement as I saw it coining majestically to ward me and could hardly believe 1 had really sueveded iti my stroke till 1 had taken.it out of the net and was gazing, lost in admiration, at the velvet black and brilliant green of its wings, seven inches across. Its golden body, and crim son breast.” Mr. Wallade remarked that the flight majestic, and when near the ground they look larger and are much more conspicuous than the majority of birds. "The first sight of the great blue Morphos. flapping slowly along in the forest roads near Para; of the o?o Kill That Pest &?<> By CHARLES LIEBMAN SNEAK behind it on the sly, Kill that fly. Strike it low. and strike it high, Kill that fly. Don't forget that you may save Human beings from the grave. If you're healthy, strong and brave. KILL THAT ELY ! 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, Swat it ere it is too late. KILL THAT FLY! Go for it with might and main. Kill that pest. If you miss it, try again. Swat that pest Don't permit it to infest, Slav it. flay it. don't give rest. Soak it. choke it. for your best, KILL THAT I’EST! » .. . . large white-and-black, semi-trans parent Ideas, floating airily about the woods near Malacca, and of the golden-green Ornithbpteras. sailing on bird-like wings over the flower ing shrubs that adorn the beaches of the Ke and Aru Islands tan never be forgotten.” It seems wonderful that any spe cies of animal should vary as greatly as do the butterflies in size. Most of those that we are familiar with in temperate clinics have a spread in wings not exceeding an inch or two. One with a spread of three inches a monster. Think, then, of Mr. Meek's speci- '■ mens, almost a foot across. If men varied as much as that in size we i might expect to encounter in the ' tropical forests representatives of our species from forty to sixty feet tall! Monk' ys and apes, which look often like caricatures of human be ings. vary greatly in size, 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 sevei.-foot man seems to most of Us an extra ordinary giant. What would the history of our race have been if some of its tribes had grown to a height of several yards w hile others attained a stature of only a few eet? Unless the little ones were more plentifully furnished with brains than their gigantic com peers 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 lows. for the big ones would have been so heavy that they could hard ly stand on their feet. A fully pro portionate man sixty feet tall would weigh about 300,0(10 pounds! THE HOME PAPER The One Best Friend & By 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.” In the midst of all the clamor and pursuit a little woman sent a wire less to the man the whole world is hunting down. "I love you." said the wirejess. ' "I will be your friend always, just the same. — Mother." I hope the man. who has run away with his neighbor's 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 it? I wonder what the woman he has run away with will look like to him when he reads the signature, "Always tl>e same. Mother." I wonder if he will stop and think a minute, just a minute, before he • blings any more sorrow to the one heart in all the world that is real ly his. ■'l love you. I will stand' by- you. I will never desert you." How mahy , men are there in this cruel old* world today who are kept straight by the knowledge that there is just such a message following them wherever they go? 1 saw such a letter as that not long ago. A girl showed it to me— a poor, painted, tawdry creature she was—a pitiful, broken toy of the wicked streets. She had run away from home and was leading the "gay life;” the “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 she found out, and here's what she says: "I'm coming to you. my little daughter—l'm coming straight to you. I love you, you are mine. I will novel- let you go. Never, neve' 1 Don't be afraid of me, I won’t scold you. l.ook into my heart, you will see nothing there but love. Hook into my eyes, Letters From the People SAYS STATE OWNS TALLULAH LANDS. Editor of The Georgian: There is pending before the Geor gia legislature a resolution, the purpose of which is to have submit ted to a Georgia -court of competent jurisdiction the question as to whether or not the property known as. Tallulah Falls 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 who may believe that the demands of progress call for the commercializing of Tallulah, and to those who may believe that the western hemisphere w ill be a sor rier place to live in if its greatest natural wonder is destroyed. Some of the facts in the case are as follows: The lands at and near Tallulah Falls were originally ceded to the United States by the ('reek and Cherokee nations of Indians. The United States ceded them to the state of Georgia. The legislature passed an act authorizing these lands to be cut up into squares and fractions 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 2(10 yards and more) lies the land in controversy. In making the survey, the surveyor ran the line to this bluff and stopped—measured this bluff as the river. The grants Issued to the drawers in the lottery referred to above de lined 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 novel been granted and is still the prepert.- of the state. There are numerous decisions of courts of last resort in the several stat, s and territories and of the su preme court of the United Stat- s which hold that when the bounda ries set --tit in the grant differ from those marked in the survey, the boundaries of the survey govern. Under section 12S‘> of the civil code of 1911. which provides that all lands w lit h have nia- r been sur veyed bo'ong to the stale of Geor gia. I am of the opinion that the state could recover this land. We -an establish by proof that it was always conceded in the community around Tallulah that th< state owned tin s-- lauds. This t e w ill Ye atlni:.-. iltle. as t!’o-*e grant/ wore made at various tiim s bet w i t n 1529 and I M - CHAS. G REYNui.I’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 and wants to. coni® ’home. I'll come and take you there.' ” And the painted cheeks of the girl were stained with tears, and her voice broke with sobs, and sh# said: "Oh, what shall I do, I am not fit to speak to her, what shall 1 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 tfnd 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 over 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 out 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 I will not let you go.” Down, down, down, the cruel steps to the cruel road below. How fast the little feet have run. How slowly they drag up the stairs again. But they are coming now, up, up and up—into the clean air, up into the honest world, up where stands waiting. “Always the same, Mother.” I 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. XVhat 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 gallowb- the equally atrocious horrors of the electric chair. This, it seems to me. would only be exchanging a "witch for the devil," and 1 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 '[ 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 Rouse or land, that pays the tax. 'rhe 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 is paying a dou ble tux on the same property— one assessed by the tax gatherer on the land, and another levied against his indebtedness thereon by the 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 hi- land and the mortgage on i' a moderate fee of one and a half per t-ent, equal to 15 tin- hundred dollars is charge by the - '.nt tor recording a mortgage, ami n.at is the - rid of It ELIZA FRANCES ANDREWS. Rome, Gu.