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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta. Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoftice at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1873 Subscription Price —Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year . PaYab'.e in advance. The Sick Baby; the Silent Automobile—and Manners It It It Sooner or Later We Will Develop a Public Spirit Which Will Induce People to Behave as Mannerly in Public as They Do in Their Own Homes. A policeman stands on a street requesting all motor people as they pass to make as little noise as possible because a baby is sick in one of the houses and the noise or silence of the street may mean life or death to the child. It is an example of gentle civilization and, while unusual, illus trates very well an extension of the principle that a city must now do more than simply govern its people. The question, however, must arise why should it he necessary to warn anybody not. to make a nuisance of himself? There are many sick children, and many sick grown-ups as well, in the homes along the streets and boulevards; there are, in addition, thousands of people to,whom unnecessary noise is a nervous torture. The man who would not whistle in the street car or rattle his cane along the garden fences, or do any other unseemly thing, will whirl through the streets in an automobile rattling an open muffler and taking a particular delight in seeing how many kinds of noises he can get out of the machine. The sjked maniac is not Ihe only un comfortable person in the automobile. The noise maniac, while he may not be so dangerous, annoys an even greater number of people. It ought not be necessary for the policeman to have to warn automobilists to make as little noise as possible. The sick baby should be protected by a code nf public courtesy as strict as a code of private manners. We are reaching that stage of civilization, al though onr progress towards the goal is mortal slow. The railroad president or the head of a manufacturing company is likely to be the.pink of politeness in his personal dealings with his fellowmen. He rises when a woman enters the room he keeps his hat off when he talks to her should he inadvertently jostle her he is prompt 1n his apologies. The same man will fill her eyes with cinders from one of bis smoke stacks —will smudge her face and •oil her clothing and think it an outrageous persecution if the. city attempts to compel him to use coal or mechanical appliances which, will prevent his making an unmitigated nuisance of himself. The particular man in the automobile may not deliberately set out to splash mud over pedestrians—to scare timid women half to death—to whizz, by them and startle them with raucous horns —he would not deliberately wake up perfect strangers to tell them what a good time he was having, but he whirls down silent streets in the depth of night, giving as close an imitation as he can of an old sash ioned Fourth of July celebration, out of pure excess *f spirit any kind of spirits. He is likely to regard the frightened jump of the startled wom an and the exclamation of dismay at the splashed gown as a sort of a grim joke. The matter is not one to make those who are worried at the decay of public manners despair. Sooner or later we will develop a public spirit that will reach even those who go in automobiles. When that time comes the man who is unmindful of the rights of others will be regarded as severely as the man who now fails in politeness to the woman of his acquaintance, or who otherwise gives evidence that he has not learned the rudiments of decent manners. Puny Man and the Giant Tree In a bulletin just issued, the government calls attention to the giant sequoias, many of them more than 4,000 years old. only are the sequoias the oldest living things, but the tallest Within two parks there are thirteen groves containing more than 12.000 trees, ten feet in diameter, some stretching into the air for 300 feet. We think the big pines of the Western coast old at 500 years, but at that age the sequoia is in its babyhood. .So wonder man looking at these giants feels his insignificance. They had begun to grow when the Homeric epics were young. They were still young when Caesar invaded Britain. I hey serve to remind us that the seemingly endless glories of Athens and Koine, of Carthage and Tyre, of Spain and Old Mexico are nothing but flying leaves in the march of ages, since one tree has outlived them all. How to Manage a Man Founded on the theory that man is unreasonable, and that all men are more or less alike, a Los Angeles matron ventures to show the ease with which the species may be managed, if one adopts the right tactics. Sue agrees with the old saying that “the way to a mans heart is through his stomach.” This is her first rule. The second is of equal importanceDo not ask him questions the moment he steps into the house, especially as to where he has been or why he didn't arrive sooner.” Following the first rule, don't give your husband hot soup |on hot nights, because the cook s in the habit of making it, and * so on through the menu. Phis subtle lady, while maintaining that non are cranks, be lieies, nevertheless, that they are worth htunur"w i The Atlanta Georgian WHERE AHAB “DID EVIL” Wonderful Discoveries in Samaria ? / p ■ I BL flr (Lt. K ..... : _ . ' PICTURE No. t. on tho top at the left shows the forum, and after Ahab's Samaria liaxl become Herod's Rate of ancient Samaria and how the Romans at- Sebasteia. No. +. on the bottom left, is a view of the tered the angle of entrance. No. 2 on the rißht excavations from the top of the Roman steps, the his- is believed to be the ruins of Ahab's palace, the earli- torical strata of the ruins of Samaria.* while No. 5 <st Hebrew remains found at Samaria. No. 3, the shows the altar, and in the right foreground a crate targ’ picture in the center, is the colonnade that en- containing the trunk of a marble status of Caesar— circled the brow of the hill from the gate to the the Roman steps at Samaria. The Handicapped Wife It. Isn’t Fat, Nor Wrinkles, Nor Age That Drives the Man Away From Home—lt's the Faculty Wives Have to Bring Melancholy. By DOROTHY DIX. ("t <>ME)DY never treads so hard on the heels of tragedy as it does in matrimony, and as an example of It take this story: \ woman writes me that she is six years older than her husband, and that she dyes her hair because It is turning gray Before she was married she confided the secret of her age and her Titian locks to her betrothed, and he magnanimously declared that he didn't care; that if she was ns old as the Witch of En dor she would still be the only woman in the wortfl to him, and that as for her artificially tinted locks he’d known all along what they were, for anybody could tell a block off that her hair was dyed. Unfortunately, however, since marriage, it appears that the hus band has recanted these noble sen timents. He has changed his point of view on the age and dyed hair question, and lie now twits his wife about being older than he is, and her false tresses, and she's very miserable, and weeps barrels of tears over it, and reproaches him for treating her so unjustly. And she wants to know what she had better do. Dry Your Eyes. My advice to her is. first of ail, to dry her eyes. Quit crying. Hus bands are kittie cattle, and hard to manage at best, hut it can never be none by hydraulic pressure Before a man is married, when he per ceives a good-looking lady in dis tress, he invites her to weep upon the second button of his vest, but after he is married to her he tells her not to make a fool of herself when he takes notice that she is tuning up for a good cry. You can t preserve domestic fe licity by salting it down in brine, and any woman makes the mistake of her life who tries to do so. 'A man who has worked hard all day and who has been harried and harassed by business cares, doesn't want to come home at night to an understudy of Niobe Ami further more, he won't do It. and If you will tak< notice you will see that mo'-t of the neglect, l wives of your inqii.ilntaio , ar, women with (eg n (i I" ( f <<n lliseii (Hop.,anions BelliVv UP., Sistei. ii uu i fat, nor FRIDAY. AUG EST 23, 1912. wrinkles, nor age, nor gray hairs in a wife that drives the average man away from home to look for an affinity. It's the faculty wives have tor being melancholy and sur rounding themselves with an aura of gloom. It's the gayety of the chorus, and not its pulchritude, that attracts the average business man. lon never hear oj a woman \vli(* is jolly and easy going, and whose laughter is hung on a hair trigger, figuring in the divorce courts. TTierefore, sister, if you want your husband tn forget your age, and your dyed hair, and any other little imperfections in appearance that you may have, just cheer up, and make yourself such a brigh*, lively companion, and your home such a joyous place to go to, tliat he won't notice whether you are 16 or 60, or whether your waist is IS inches or 30. it isn't your gray hair that matters. It’s your gray thoughts. Try To Be Funny. My next piece of advice, if your husband twits you about your age, ' or any other peculiarity, is to sit down and diagram his remarks, and see if lie isn't only trying to be funny and witty when you think lie is being cruel. That's often the case. There are plenty of men whose whole supply of humor (-(in sists in holding th( ir wives up to ridicule. Don't you know some man whose pet dinner table s*ory is about some foolish extravagance of his wife? Or another who never gets his wife out in company w ithout telling how she signed a eheck, "Yours loving ly'."' or another man who has made up a perfectly Killing anec dote about his wif,'s frantic anxie ty about him when lie was two hours mte getting home some eve ning? These stories don't in the least indicate, as they seem to. that these men consider their wives tools and idiots, or wasters of money, or. the contrary, the men admire their wives very much ifnd wouldn't have them ('hanged, and have no idea that lli(‘ t v stall their wives In the ln.nl (Very liin, they tiriki the woman's w,; Iw ,uid mistake I a subject ut iivii.qou- Men's idea of humor is something women never grasp. Perhaps none of us has much of a sense of humor when we are the butt of the joke, but before a wife breaks her heart over her husband's jeering at her she should give him the benefit of the doubt and realize tliat he Is perhaps just trying to he witty when he seems most unkind. Finally, it is the part of wisdom for the wife who has any sort of a handicap to realize that it is up to her to make an extra effort to please it' she is tn succeed as a wife In other words, if you are short on one good quality, you must bring up ;he average by an extra supply of something else. It is a great thing for a woman to be young and beautiful if she wajits to hold a man’s fancy, but it isn’t every thing by any means. Gains Experience. It is one of the wonders of life that it never quite robs us. It always gives us something in place of the thing that it takes away, and when it steals away from a woman her youth it bestows upon her ex perience. So tlie woman who is a few years older than her husband should be crafty enough to turn that disad vantage to her own advantage. Un less she is an utter goose, the years should have given her tact, and diplomacy, and self-control; and they should have also taught her a few things about men that no young girl ever knows, and that should square all accounts with age. Tlie old woman can not compete with .the voting in physical attrac tion. and she is foolish to pit the rouge pot and tire hair dye bottle against Nature's roses and gold, but she can show a man a sympa thy and a comprehension; she can ply him with a delieatt flattery, she can subordinate herself to him in a way tliat plays upon his vanity and his seitishtK ss to a degree tliat grapples him to het with hooks of steel. Therefore. I bid the woman whose husband twits het with her age not to de pair, but to b, of cheer Hl ( • up \(.d ,ak .. f vou> r.ge it biv-Miuji nuivud ul u mis; rtune, THE HOME PAPER Garrett P. Serviss Writes on The Deepest Hole in the Ocean It Has Been Discovered Near the Philippines and Is More Than Six Miles Deep. Bv GARRETT THE depths of the ocean have a perpetual charm for the . imagination, all the stronger because, being invisible, they pos sess an element of mystery. Who has not shuddered on looking down into the black water of some deep ‘pool of unknown depth? When the bottom is SEEN it becomes less terrible. Almost every person making a sea voyage for the first time asks himself, if he'docs not ask some one else, “How deep is this water under us?" And usually he shivers at the reply: “It is two miles or three miles deep." The height of a mountain does not seem fearful, except to one who stands on the top of it. But the profundities of tlie ocean cow the spirit througli the imagination. The ancient navigators had no means of measuring the depths of the open sea. They sometimes thought of it. especially those who did not know the world was a globe, as being bottomless. The su perstition of a bottomless ocean occasionally crops out even yet. On my last voyage across the Atlantic I met a man who actually cher ished the belief that there were at least some places where no bottom exists! Rut the real facts are imposing enough. Recently the German ex ploring ship Planet has found, a short distance north of the, island of Mindanao, in the Philippines, the deepest spot yet discovered in any ocean. It sinks about 31,842 feet, or 162 feet more than six miles, below the surface. Hitherto the deepest place was believed to be near the island of Guam, where a few years ago a sounding line was sent down to the dottom a depth of 31.619 feet. The newly discovered abyss is 223 feet deeper. Great Depths. the deepest spot in the Atlantis is a short distance north of Porto Rico, where the bottom lies at a depth of 27,965 feet. The average depth of the Pacific is 13,448 feet, and that of the Atlantic 12,660 feet. There is a point on the steamer lane, south of Newfoundland, where the depth is 21.290 feet. If we compare the greatest ocean depths with the loftiest mountain elevations we find that the sea car ries off the palm. The highest known mountain is Mount Everest in the Himalayas, whose elevation is 29,002 feet, according to trigo nometrical surveys, made from a distance of a hundred miles, for even the foot of the great mountain has not yet been reached. Adding this to the depths of 31,842 feet, just found in the Pacific, we have 60.844 feet, or a little over eleven and a half miles, as the vertical difference in elevation between the loftiest point on land and the deep est depression of the sea bottom. If a man could drop from the top of Mount Everest in a straight line to the bottom of the Pacific near Mindanao, he would, neglecting the resistance of the air and the water, fall the entire distance in a trifle over ONE MINUTE. He would strike the bottom with a velocity of about 1,970 feet per second. Let us consider for a moment the conditions prevailing at those im mense depths. The pressure of wa ter increases directly as the depth. At a depth of 31,842 feet the pres sure would be nearly seven tons to the square inch. Yet this immense “The City of Dreadful Night” By H. E. H. *1 /A 1 n V (by day) of towers and streets; ■Cx A city of promise and fame; A city of progress and business feats; A city of mighty name. j, A city (by night) of a million lamps; A city with shameful blight; A city of greed and murderous deed; she City of Dreadful Night.” A city (by day), of power and strength; A city most fair io see; A city enormous in breadth and length; A city of dignity. A eiti (by night i of thug and thief; A eit.v of fear and fight; A eiiv of graft, and cunning craft; "The City of Dreadful Night.’’ .i % a ■** « P. SERVISS. pressure would not prevent any body that readily stinks to the bot tom of a glass of water from sink ing to the bottom of the deepest hole in the Pacific. This is due to the fact that water Is almost ab solutely Incompressible, «o that Its relative density Is very slightly in creased even at a depth of six miles. If, then, any body Is denser than water at the surface 1t will ba denser also at the sea bottom, and thus nothing will prevent It from continuing to sink, as long as theirs Is any water under it. Elven a piece of cork, if once immersed deeply enough to be greatly compressed by the pressure of the water, would inevitably sink to the bottom. No Sunlight. There is no sunlight In the ocean at a depth beyond a few hundred yards. The blackest of black nights prevail there. The most brilliant electric light could ba seen but a short distance away. Whether there is any life in the deepest abysses we do not know, but we do know that wonderful creatures live at depths of many thousands of feet, and possibly there may be such inhabitants even in the profoundest depressions. The creatures of the ocean Mva in a land of wonderful valleys, plains, caves, mountain ranges and peaks. The water is their atmos . phere. Nature has not left them without light, although she has de prived them of the sunshine. Many of them make their, own light. They possess a chemistry far more cun ning than ours. If we ever master its secret there will be a revolu tion in industry. • Here is a legitimate field for the Imagination. If we could drop down into that abyss near the Phil ippines, it is possible that as we approached the bottom we should look down upon a marvelous spec tacle. We might think that we were drawing near to some magical city, illuminated with stationary and moving lights, tmttattng the soft splendor of millions of glow worm and firefly candles. Over the rocks and the red ooze would, crawl creatures such a* neither science nor fancy has ever drawn, their long, pendulous bodies adorned with rows of phosphores cent lights, like the battle lan terns of an old-time frigate. In some the lights would be concen trated about the head, surrounding the huge eyes with circles of strange incandescence and project ing pale green rays into the encir cling gloom. Wonderful shadows would play through the passages of that submarine city. Darting and struggling forme would be seen— for the creatures of the ocean, no less than those of the land, are subject to the law that life must feed upon life, and they are as mer ciless as anything that lives in the sunlight. We might see, issuing from cavernous holes, cteatures a glimpse of which would make us turn and hasten away upward, where they could not follow. These, to be sure, are fancies, but they are not unwarranted, by " the discoveries that biologists have already made in the ocean deeps. The fact is, we are too fond of setting limits to what nature can do. We should meditate on what the great French mathemattetan and. physicist, Henri Poincare— who died the other day—said.: "The human mind is only a lightning flash; but that flash is all we have.”