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6 WEATHER DN DE GMNDDEMUCH Elements Polluted by Excessive Atmosphere—All Same Third Rail Whisky- Run Wild. Certain citizens "f Atlanta irhnhat* been irritated by the fact that the weather fore-' ast does not pan out more than one time in four, will un derstand now that this is not because of ana - err»r in the foreca.M, but be cause the weather fill- tn conform to the progrinsti. .'tion. That matte; was made ridiculous y plain to a Georgian reporter by Sec tion Director -I''. VonHerrmann. of the weather bureau, today The trou ble with the weather in Atlanta this summer is that It is on a lone de bauch The I'nlted States weather bureau can't tell anything about il The superhuman barometer can't toll anything about it. Nobody can tell anything about it. It's exactly like a man who gats unmercifully tanked and either doesn’t come home at all or cist etumbles In very late. This meteorological jamboree, so to epeak, is caused by a plethora of at mospheric pressure Rxcessive atmos pheric pressure has the same effect upon the weather as a quart of whisky has upon the human form Here’s the Plain Truth. For instance, as Professor VonHerr mann explained. Atlants has a normal atmospheric, pressure of 29.9 Inches Just now It has a pressure of 30 1 inches, and as even a tenth of an Inch excess atmospheric pressure Is equiv alent to a barrel of boose, anybody can see why it Is that the weather situa tion isn't a situation at all. but an orgy. That’s why It's so silly, as Director VonHerrmann explained, for a fellow to cal! him up from the shelter of a corner cigar store and ask him if he ■doesn't think he'd better change his fair ■weather sign to one that says at least somewhat cloudy, because it's been raining pitchforks for two hours. Director VonHerrmann explained that this fellow is silly for more than one reason Because, In the first place, the weather bureau hangs out Its weather signs as prognostications for the day • fte" "We don’t got paid by the govern ment." he said, “to predict the weather that's already happening Some hu morous persons say that we’re getting paid for predicting the weather that is not going to happen, but I II pass that, because, while the national weather bureau forbids us to verify our fore casts. I am pretty sure that we’ve been right nine times out of ten even this summer," How They "Hit It," Here - the point," explained Direc tor VonHerrmann. with lucidity. "We' i •a> the weather bureau here makes a fair weather prediction for tomorrow. Well, tomorrow comes and with it Dysentery is always serious and oft en a dangerous disease, but it can be cured Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has cured it even when malignant and epidemic. For Mie by all d< alera. SEASHORE EXCURSION VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1912. $6 Jacksonville; Limit 6 days $8 Tampa: Limit 8 days $6 Brunswick; Limit 6 days $6 St. Simons; Limit 6 days $6 Cumberland; Limit 6 days TICKETS GOOD RETURNING ON REGULAR TRAINS WITHIN LIMIT. Tickets to Jacksonville and Tampa oeod only on special trains leaving At lanta 8:00 p. m. (Pullman sleeping cars enly) and 8:30 p. m. (coaches only). Tickets to Brunswick. St. Simons and Cumberland good only on regular trains leaving Atlanta 9:30 p. m. Both phones, Mein 142. Write James Freeman, D. P. A, Atlanta, for further information. . DIXIE EYE CLASSES Do sou know that fen Opti cian? understand adjusting and frame fitting? Do you know that a poor-fitting frame will do the eves as much harm as poor lenses" You want your frames a* well as your lenses right; then come to ns, as we understand every part of the Optical busi ness. Twenty years experience In testing tin eyes and tilling Ocu lists’ prescriptions. HINES OPTICAL COMPANY 91 Peachtree St. Between Montgomery and Alcazar Theaters fSANTAL-miOY; Relieves in 24 Hours B Catarrh of the Bladder x >TOifi I comes a downpour of rain on upper Peachtree street, while it doesn’t rain iat all nt Five Points. According to the I ~ules of the department, we consider jour prediction verified. Or, we’ll aav Iwo predicted a rainless day and al phough it rains two or three times l dicing that da', if not more than a I fourth of an inch falls, our prediction j is verified, but, of course. if more falls ! ait prediction did not come true And, as I raid before, that's another reason that makes ft so silly for the fellow to call up and complain that we and the weather must have had a per manent falling out." In view of the bureau's success in prognosticating the weather so far this summer the reporter asked Director VonHerrmann if he thought we were going to have these fai- weather del uges right along up to Christmas Director VonHerrmann replied with becoming modesty that he didn't rare to make an explicit forecast on ac count of the abnormal atmospheric pressure, but he said that according to the weather averages lie thought there wouldn't be any great let-up in rain storms until September. Then he said It w ould probably slough r.ff sufficiently so as to bring the rainfall of the year to just about normal, which is 19 Inches here He said he couldn't fore tell this with the usual certainty be cause here It is only the middle of July and we lack but fiv<- inches of equalling the whole years normal fall. He was a little more confused over the situa tion because he raid Dublin, Gh , has already obtained more than Its year’s quota of mtn and on top of that three week's steadi rain fell In that town yesterday. Ot herwfse The weather In Atlanta today will be— ? MAJOR EDW. WHITE OF SALVATION ARMY IS SENT TO BUFFALO Atlantans Interested in the Salvation Army will miss Major Edwy White, who has been transferred to the western New York division with headquarters at Buf falo. The local division, which Includes Georgia, Florida. North and South Caro lina. will be in command of Colonel R. E Holz, of Philadelphia In the four years Major White has been tn the Houth the Salvation Army pro gressed rapidly New posts were estab lished at Rome, Waycross, Brunswick. Columbus. Anderson, B. Durham. N <’ . Raleigh, N C , and Newbern, N. C. |lllllllll!!Mllllllllil!!’!illllllllllllW I J.M.HKH COMBKNY. | ■Specials For Thursday '■ " " ' "I - - T I > ... 1- 111- 111 “ J ' ' _ | Save Money on Curtain Nets, Lace | Curtains. Etc. All Our 25c Curtain Nets SE Just for this one day sale wo give choice gzx ™ of our entire stock of Curtain Nets, in all I styles, that have never been I yLj offered under 25c per yard i Lace Curtains to $2.00, Choice EE One. two, three and four pair lots of Lace Curtains. Arabian and white shades, in beautiful patterns; $1.50. $1.75 Jl ss; jmd $2.00 values, pair | Drastic Reductions On Rugs k’ipf Japanese Matting Rugs In most popular patterns and —— coin s, very durable, < on] and high-elass 36x72 Rugs. 7.'r value 40c SS 30x60 Ruas. 50c value... 25c |SL_ == Brass Candelebras,Com- gg plete with Shade. Reg- =E ular Price 50c. |g To Close at - I | Floral-Cut Cream ~ ’ Whl „. | == and Sugar Sets, Metal Sanitary In- g == like cut, suc value c ups , § | 25 Cents I All Remnants of Table Linens and E Odd Napkins Will Be Sold at S Great Reductions Tomorrow 1 SI.OO Per Bolt English Longcloth | 12-yard bolls of fine English Longf'b'th. full yard wide. Jp F C S Ivonlarlv sl.iw> ppp bolt InillllpllllllllllilllllJllllllllillllllOiW THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS WEDNESDAY, JTLY 17, 1912. M’PHERSON TROOPS TO GO TO WAR CAMP AT COLUMBUS, MISS. Orders received at Fort McPherson to day will send one battalion and the Sev enteenth infantry band to participate in the Mississippi national guard maneu vers at Columbus next month. Either the first or the third battalion probably will be detailed. Roth these battalions are at the camp in Anniston. Colonel John T. Van Orsdale. In com mand of the Fort McPherson regulars at Anniston, will command the detachment at Columbus This will lie the third time Fort Mc- Pherson troops have been sent to the Mis sissippi camp SOCIETY TO NAME OFFICERS. AI'GI’STA. GA. July 17 The ■ - nual meeting of the Richmond County Agricultural society will he h--!d to morrow. Officers will lie elected hi><l other important business trapsai-ted. The society was formed largely through the efforts of the late P. J. A Berck mann. Georgia's most prominent h.iii cuituraHst and one of the leading agri culturalists of the state. R. c. Beck mans. a. son of the founder, is now president. Low Summer Excursion Rates CINCINNATI, $19,50 LOUISVILLE, SIB.OO CHICAGO, - $30.00 KNOXVILLE - $7,90 Tickets on Sale Daily, Good to October 31st, Returning City Ticket Office, 4 Peachtree as BOOSTERS FOR TWO NEW COUNTIES GET JOLT IN COMMITTEE The Georgia legislature, if the house committee on constitutional amend ments knows what it Is talking about, is in no mood this year for the creation of new counties. The committee came down hard on the proposition, argued for three long hours, to make a new county of a slice of Berrien and to call it Cook county, i M- RICH & BROS. CO. Ol 5 “The Real Department Store” ® 1 I PRE-INVENTORY I t I PRICE REDUCTIONS IN THE | | y-[ “Ready p- j 1 PANAMA, SERGE AND VOILE | | SKIRTS! | I I - * l' wn himdi'Pfl splendid quality Panama, Absolute $5 to $8.50 /f IX * Serge and Voile Skirts. In a large variety \()\V S jTW of fashionable colors and novelty weave ■K- effects. Gray and tan mixtures, liiaek " and white stripes, tine cheeks, shepherd Absolute $9 to $11.75 * grays av ith pencil stripes, solids in NOW eJ* navy, black, tans, brown, black and white - 2 jg ——i— Absolute $12.00 to $lB. do (bZ* E* • ,** feels, Dutton trimmed, dust look at the values-- rill / ■ ’=s Pre-Inventory Prices. NOW “ TOMORROW i f LINEN SUITS AT HALF AND LESS THAN HALF PRICE f — —a E— TOMORROW t * Marquisette and Lingerie Dresses Greatly Reduced in Price i T! , *. ;;g Lingerie Waists and Shirts Blazer Coat Suits «: * . A grand assortment and charming variety of We have a few very select quality models of J* these fresh, sweet, new. s these popular Suits. Car- J yj daintv, lace and embroid- # M B dinal Coat and white \ - M erv-trimmed ® B M > I pique combination. jS SI.OO Waists Regular $12.a0 to sls : S J; w Dimity Shirts Blazer Jackets ; ; ■ J ; «» Dimitv Shirts with colored collars and cuffs, We have eighteen of these stunning Coats "Jp -J and all-white Shirts S in the brilliant blazing d* Z\ Q Sr “S with low sweeping 1 Bz-T orange and black, and <P f J C* collars. SI.OO f orange and blue com- S k:* \ allies V W B. y binations. Absolute m 0 ;| i F x values $6 to $7.50 at .... ' »3R 2 >1 ——— ’ 2 Tailored Shirts Red Norfolk Jackets , \\ ( > w j|| make a quick clearance of all of We offer the remainder of our Red Norfolk Jp* 2 our Tailored Jackets at practically d» J" ' * Shirts in our # I’l half price. Beautiful $ F O J •J, positive $1.50 4 T garments that were ml i values B ZBx > formerly priced at a 1 ym ;1 i $9.75 to $12.50, at I M. Rich & Bros. Co. r | —— j in homm of the secretary of state. It also throttled another proposal to mike a new county of several slices of Ap pling, Ware and Coffee, and to call it Aiken. There were two delegations on hand fmm Berrien. One urged the new coun ty of <’ook The other advised against it. When it came to a vote, the new county men lost out 11 to 2. The bill will be reported adversely, and can not hope to pass. Th» Aiken county proposal hardly got a look in on the committee. BOY, 7, THE LATEST VICTIM OF OIL; LAMP EXPLOSION IS FATAL The death of Clarence Watson, seven years old, 96 Wheeler street, was add ed to the inflammable oil toll yesterday when he succumbed to burns received when an oil lamp exploded at the fam ily home Monday afternoon. The boy died at a private infirmary. He will be buried in Westview ceme tery late today. JACKSONVILLE-BRUNSWICK ROAD SHORTENED 15 MILES BRI XSAA ICK. GA., July 17.—A nen public road has just be£n completed through Camden county, which short ens the distance between Jacksonville and Brunswick fifteen miles. The new road also does away with the portion of sandy and rough roads south of the St. Marys rive/, which has made the Brunswick-Jacksonville highway so unpopular to autorrtobilists traveling 11 his section.