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'lilh ATLANTA GEOKOiAN-
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Edllor.
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THE GEORGIAN COMES TO
GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE
A man may well bring a horse to the water.
But he cannot make him drink without ho will.
—Heywood.
Saturday Evening.
Thla to the migratory season of the year, when
humanity, with money In Its purse or gypsy-blood in Its
veins, swells the passenger lists ot outgoing steamers
and the exchequers of the seaside resorts.
This migratory Instinct Is sa strong In mankind as
In any ot the feattiered tribe, from the restless quail
which, hatched In captivity, will beat Its brains out
against the bars, td the wild goose whose honk marks
the coming and the passing ot winter. It is elemental
and primeval, and all the civilisation under the sun
cannot entirely eliminate it
Bayard Taylor tells us that as a boy, and long before
he began that marvelous career of wandering In which
he mastered a score of tongues and made himself at
home in all the continents of the earth, ha waa In
the habit of climbing the loftiest hills In the vicinity
of hla Inland home and looking out with a vague and
prophetic longing toward the ever luring sea.
Madame de Stacl has told us that travel I* “the
saddest of all pleasures," for we realise that In making
new and attractive acquaintances and In becoming at
tached to charming acenea In other lands we are mere-
ly forming ties which must be broken again as the ne
cessity for moving on arises.
It may be a sad pleasure, but we have It upon the
authority of the great dramatist that "home-staying
youths hava ever homely ways," and that
"It would be great impeachment to hla age
In having known no travel In hi* youth.”
There may be a certain class of people who would
ride a ( hundred miles td see an Interesting man, but
“would not throw open their window to see the bay
ot Naples." Theae are lew and far between, however,
and the desire to follow tho sun In his coune around
the earth Is aa old as the descendants of Noah, who
sought their future homes In the outlying lands, far
beyond the four rivers
This Instinct, together with the desire to better
their condition. Is responsible for the fact that more
than a million people 6raised the Atlantic last year,
and atlll more will come over during the present year,
to make their homes In the land of freedom and unlimit
ed opportunities.
"The grand tour" of the continent was at one time
a part of the education of princes and the members of
tho nobility, for It was a perilous and a costly undertak
ing. A form of insurance once prevailed by which the
Insurers received a sum of monoy on the haxard of
paying back a much larger sum In the event that the
traveler returned to hla home again. That was In the
ilnys when Coryat and Sir John Maundervllle and Marco
rolo made their daring voyages to the lands beyond the
seas and brought back strange and Incredible stories ot
the people they had seen.
The Ingenuity and development of modem time* hat
made not only “(he grand tour” but a much grander tour
possible without the basard Implied by the Insurance
arrangement of early times.
It Is a part of the culture of the times and one for
which , we ahould be duly grateful. The peoplo who are
"born In a teacup and never look oxer the brim” are
sadly handicapped In the race of life. It la wrought Into
the very essence of the soul, when one has stood .upon
the Alps and looked out across the wilderness of Ice
and anow where nature has written her moat Imposing
masterworka or stood upon the Palatine and surveyed
the crumbled ruins of an empire, built with handa, which
rose, reigned and fell In a cycle ot power, luxury and de
cay. It becomes a part ot our very being when we have
■trolled through tho dreamy temples of the Eaat, where
gnu-haired pundits teach the mystery ot Brahma, whore
muetslos call the Faithful to the worship o( Allah or the
holy men of all Christian creeds exhibit the living evi
dences of the life and teachings of the Naxarene. It ex
pands the mind and quickens the Judgment to 4race the
operation of laws and customs in Innds less free and hap
py than our own. It gives us a keener appreciation of
the blessings we enjoy under an enlightened republic
and a Christian civilisation.
ft la well worth while. In the highest and noblest
-sense, to become a man of the world.
lantn. are sitting under their vine and flg tree. In happy
enjoyment of a temperature which scarcely occasions
Inconvenience and Is certainly free from anything like
sunstroko or prostration.
It would Indeed be the meanB of bringing labor and
capital to flit* state If these facts were set forth as they
deserve, and no man Is better quallQed to do this than
Mr. Marbury.
Tho coat of the undertaking would be Insignificant
compared with the good that could be accomplished.-Five
or ten thousand o' these books scattered throughout the
country where they would be most generally read would
serve to attract new blood to this favored section.
It It royally generous on the part of Mr. Marbury to
offer to do this work without money and without price.
Impelled thereto only by hla civic pride and bis love for
the state as a whole. Hla offer Is heartily appreciated
and should be put Into effect at once.
Heard on the Corner
Electric Eels as Motive Power.
A Brochure on Our Climate.
The proposition ot Forecaster J. B. Marbury that
If the city will' defray the expense ot printing, he will
prepare a work on the climatic advantages of AUanta
and ot the stale, should be promptly accepted and put
Into execution.
Mr. Marbury, wbo Is one of the moat efficient ob
servers In the meteorological department of the govern
ment, la particularly well qualified to discuss thla sub
ject. and It la known of all men, when they atop to con
sider the facta, that thla Id* Indeed one of the moat de
lightful and wholesome climates In the world.
Mr. Marbury It quite right In attributing to thla ex
cellence of our climate ta targe degree of the material
prosperity of the city, and It would lie of Inestimable ad
vantage to have theae facta made known to the world at
large. There It ( something bracing and Invigorating In
the very atmosphere, while the temperature Is mild and
even. The AUanta observer speaks by the card when he
saya that It la the most delightful climate east of the
Rocky mountains.
What is true of AUanta Is true In lurge measure of
the ftate aa a whole. Georgia can boast of a climate
which makes life worth living the year round. It goes
without saying that there la no extreme cold such as
Northern cities suffer, and It It equally well known
by those wbo live here that when the large cities like
New York. Philadelphia and Boston are sweltering In
the summer sun, and humidity la claiming Its hundreds
very week, the people of Georgia, and particularly of At-
Will the horse power be supplanted by tbe eel power
as the dynamic measure of the future?
Tbe quesUon opens up a condition of affairs which Is
dwelt upon without a smile by grave and reverend
signors wbo ought to kDow what they are talking about
When the average man la told that concerted ef
forts are being made to utilize the electric eel of South
America aa a motive power he la naturally Inclined to
titter, but If Don Quixote de Esperando, of Venezuela,
cornea to thla country, aa he la reported to Intend, we
will hare "In our midst” the greatest living authority on
the electric eel, and In the meantime the people who like
to speculate on the wonders of tbe future are figuring
out tome curious applications of thla remarkable force
to tbe work of transportation and Illumination.
We are gravely told that one hundred of these eels
can be put In a xlnc tank and will give enough power
to run an automobile for twenty-four hours. Even If
It la a vary small automobile, thla would be a novel
means of transportation, and we are asked to believe that
tbe motive power would not be subject to the uncer
tainties nor to the expense that attends any of the va
rieties of power now employed.
A correspondent of The Chicago Post Insists that
10,000 of theae eels, distributed In suitable tanka or Jars,
would propel a three-coach train at the rate of 36 miles
an hour. (For how many hours I* not stated!) Carry
ing the calculation still further, w* are aaked to believe
that 300,000 of them. If so many could be oollected from
the Amazon and the Orinoco, where they thrive, would
carry a trans-Atlantic liner from Sandy Hook to Cher-
bohrg wlthont tbe slightest difficulty.
And In the matter of Illumination they would be no
leu useful. One eel would light a room with easo, while
a bunch of them, say a dozen or so, would light a whole
building. They would be the handiest things Imaginable
to have around , the house. The saving In gas and elec
tric light bllla would be enormouB, so tong os tbe eels
continued to live r.nd flourish. What the expectancy of
the average eel may be, according to the mortality .ta
bles, Is not stated, and what chance they would have
to thrive and multiply bo far from the South American
waters which are their native habitat has not been made
public.
Presumably all thla will bo made clear when Senor
Don Quixote de Esperando arrtvos In thta country. On
tbe whole It sounds as It the gentloman who Is quoted
aa an authority on electric eels were well named, and
that he might at any time be expected to employ a squire
and start out on a crusade against windmills, but we are
asked to accept tbe whole story seriously and we shall
endeavor to do so until Don Quixote actually arrives on
the scene.
In the meantime there has been no slump In the
price of coal on account of the prospective competition
from the electric eels'ot South America.
Gourdain’s Strange Case.
The case of Louis A. Gourdaln, of Chicago, who
la making desperate efforts to break Into the peniten
tiary, la one of tbe moat remarkable In tbe history of
American freaks and eccentrics.
Gourdaln waa arrosted. tried and convicted of run
ning n kind of. lottery scheme by which be had accu
mulated a fortune. He la represented as being a mil
llonalre aevoral times over. He made a vow la court
that It he was found guilty he would not appeal from
the sentence of tbe court and would return every dollar
of hla Illegal gains to tho people ho swindled.
He wae found guilty, all right, and was sentenced
to the penitentiary at Joliet for four years. After
few months' Incarceration however, an attorney, who la
said to have acted on hla own Initiative In the matter,
secured a pardon for Mm, and Gourdaln waa released.
He accepted Ms freedom under the persuasion of
hla wife, but he l.a# been conscience stricken ever since
and haa been mixing desperate efforts to be sent back
to the penitentiary. He Insists that bta honor la In
volved. and he haa be«n trying to see various Justice*
of the supremo court to have hla petition for relncarcer-
atlon filed In due form. He declared that If he la not
■ent back to prison he will erect a cell at hit own ex
pense on land which he haa already bought In the Im
mediate vicinity of the penitentiary and serve out hla
sentence, after which he will restore to the people who
trusted him the fortune he made and will embark on a
vessel with all hla Immediate relatives. Tbe Gourdaln
family will disappear from the earth.
It does not teem to occur to him that the Gourdalna
aa a whole may not be willing to embark on hla ship
and efface themselves from the earth at the whim of
Louis, but be that aa It may Gourdaln appears to take
the .whole'matter very seriously. True he made a vow
that he would not eat until he had been restored to
prlaon, but the pangs of hunger won out over that deter
initiation. He has gone from city to city, however, try
ing to find some Judge who will put him back In the
penitentiary, and haa met with no success.
The mystery of Itiall la that the man appears to be
perfectly aane, at least on every other subject, and an
nounces that he la simply conscience stricken and wmnta
to make amend*.
The chancea are that hla ardor will abate In a short
time, and certainly tb* ends ot justice will be met If he
will redeem hla promise to return the money secured
Illegally, with Interest, much more effectively than If
he went back Into, prison to brood over hla tins.
EXCHANGE AND BUCKET SHOP.
To tbe Editor of The Georgian:
I have read with great Interest what haa been pub
lished In The Georgian on the subject of bucket shops.
Commercial questions are out of my line, but I do know
something about law, logic and moral philosophy, and
I am not entirely Ignorant about political economy.
Two element* enter Into tbe essence of gambling.
They are both present In every act of gambling, and
wherever both exist In any transaction they make It
gambling. Theae elements are:
First. The smallness of the amount paid Into the
transection and the possible large gains, therefrom.
Second. The presence of contingency that wins
through the transaction.
Tbe capitalist who puts up 31,000 In an exchange
How He Got Eloctod.
Judge Joel Branham l» a recontuer
without a !>eer when you find him In
the mind for It—which Is almost any
time, as the venerable Jurist Is usually
In a rare good humor. He was at the
capItol the other day, and, the conver
sation drifting around to i-olltlclans
and their ways, he told this one:
“Cp In Floyd a good many years ago
a certain well known man waa a can
dIdate for the legislature. He was
getting on pretty well, though having
hot opposition. Then an ugly rumor
started that this candidate bad been
guilty of selling the cow of a widow,
which was her sole support, and which
furnished sustenance for her baby.
“Immediately the candidate got busy
and secured an affidavit from the wom
an that he had not only not sold her
cow, but that he hail given It to her
after her husband died In order that
she might live. The outraged people
rose up and elected him overwhelm
ingly as a rebuke to the parties who
started the first report. Ye.-ir- aftei-
w-ard he confessed that he started both
reports."
CORPORATION CONSCIENCE
IS NEGATIVESAYS GIBBONS,
“AND MAGNIFIES EXCUSES”
Putt in th« Corner.
Ono of the popular residents of X.
Jackson street almost had a fit tbe
other morning when she missed two of
her choicest angora kittens. Search
high and low failed to rereal their
whereabouts. Ah a court of last resort,
she appealed via telephone to her laun
dry people. They had taken away a
basket of wash that very morning.
Uha was Just in the nick of time. The
contents of the banket were being In
troduced to the first degre when the
telephone bell rang. A quick search
disclosed the precious pair comforta
bly ensconsed in pa’s discarded soft
■hlrt.
American Cardinal Discusses Question
“What is the Remedy for Social and*
Civic Unhealthfulness ? ”
Houssr's Story.
’Colonel" Frpd Houser, the genial
chief clerk at the Aragon hotel. Is a
veteran In the hotel business and la
fond of relating tome of his expe
riences to his friends who may be whil
ing away the hours on a rainy evening.
One of the stories told cv him illus
trates the wonder and simplicity of the
Briton. An English gentleman who
was n guest at a hotel with which
Houser was connected was given. a
fishbolt for breakfast. He slxed the
thing up for a while: then, deciding
that It must be some sort of a roll,
picked It up in his fingers and took a
bite. Amaxed at tasting animal matter
where he had expected vegetable, he
exclaimed with horrer: “Oh, mem,
there's something dead In me bun.
COURT FIXES BOND
FDR W,W, COLLIER
Trihl of Alleged Embezzler Set
for November 12, at
Bainbridge.
Special to The Georgian.
Bainbridge, Ga., July 21.—W. W. Col
lier, who waa Indicted at the November
term of court, 1905, on the charge of
embezzling funds of the Mexican Gulf
Oil and Mining Company, of* which he
was treasurer, was brought to Bain
bridge yttzerday from Belton, Texas,
by the sheriff of that county and his
bond assessed nt 22.000.
When Interviewed Collier said: "I
will moot them when the time comes."
The bond of J. 8. Ml Refit Indicted at
tho name time as Collier on a charge
- 'of embezzlement, was also fixed at 32,-
non. McHt-c whs president of the oil
company.
The trial Is set for November 12.
HOUSE IS WILLING
TO RELIEVE COURT
The action of the Georgia Bar Asso
ciation In naming a committee to form
ulate some plan to present to the legis
lature to give needed relief to the su
preme court seems to have met a re
sponsive echo In the liftuse.
Several members are heartily tn fa
vor of giving thta relief, the only dif
ference being In the mode.
Some think an Increase of judges to
nine or ten would give the relief, as
that would lessen the work upon the
individual members. Others are wed
ded to the Idea of establishing an In
termediate court.
Th(s sentiment that relief Is needed
Is not confined to the lawyers of the
house, either. Representative Kelly, of
Glascock, who Is a physician and not
a lawyer, thinks the addition of one
or two more Judges would meet the re
quirements. It wonld be easier to get
one or possibly two than three on more
Judges.
Mr. Flanders, of Johnson, another lay
member of the house, also believes la
Increasing /the Judges, making the
Private WIr* to Waro Sc Leland.
New York, July 21.—In an Interview
today Cardinal Gibbona, who la resting
In the Shlnnecock hills on Long Island
with Bishop Foley, of Detroit, In an
swer to the question, “What ia the
remedy for the social and civic un
healthfulness that Is giving occupation
now to so many muck-rakerar* said:'*
That la comprehensive. I would
rather attempt to answer a dozen spe
cific questions, but I think I may an-
swer thin by saying, when the sanctity
<.f the marriage tl* and the obligation
of family relations are more fully real
ized and religious training In the fami
ly becomes more general, we may look
for better conditions.
"Dlsect the questions as me may, we
are forced back again and again to
the same conclusion—moral and rHig-
Ioiih training In the family are
tlal, and Just as they are neglected do
these evils Increaes.
Excuses the Corporation.
’By civic evils we refer to cqrporate
greed, financial Immorality and official
Infidelity, an in the rase of the Insur
ant e crimes and the group of crimes
broadly classlfled as 'graft. 1 I do not
know enough of the facts In the pack
ing house scandals to Include them In
this generalization, but generally
speaking this class of evil Is dm* to a
lack of conscience as applied to cor
porate acts.
“A man will excuse much In his cor
poration which his conscience would
condemn In himself.
“Corporate conscience U negative, h
minimizes responsibility and multiplies
and magnifies excuses.
“A rudimentary moral sense will keep
a man from stealing his neighbor's
goods, but the moral sense must be
educated to see moral wrong, sin and
crime In the unconscionable acts of a
corporation.
Awakening of Public.
“There has been of late a great awak
ening of what Is called the public cotv*
science. Tills has given rise to much
broad, liberal discussion of prevalent
abuseH and their causes, fixing the re
sponsibility and often disclosing crim
inality, and. Is doing much to remedy
these abuses and bring business, moral
ity bark to the point of safety. This
Is, at least, my hope. I believe I can
see a decided tendency In that dlrec
tlon.
“Public discussion brings understand
ing and men who have been blind to
the wrongs of corporate crime* havi
had their eyes opened. They now see
much that they did not see before.
“This is business morality. Social
morality depends upon something more.
The family, which is the foundation of
society. Is the source to which we must
look for Its purification. The great
crimes and scandals which are now ex<
citing so much comment can be traced
directly to a lack of sanctity in the
family relations. Until the sanctity of
family ties Is more generally recog
nixed I see little hope for Improve
ment.
As to the False Standards.
“The principal obligation of the fam
lly Is the religious education of tbe
young, the Importance of which Is ap
parent. With if everything may b<
accomplished. Without It we may have
great awakenings, we may have
general revival oi public conscience,
but relapses will come again because
the foundation Is lacking.
“Most og the putridity of private
character, as disclosed In the revela*
tlons of courts and the press, grows
out of family relations with false
standards and without religion, and not
fr*on u Jack of family relations. He
turning to the civic side of the ques
tlon, It may be asked why, if I see
such close relations between the mo
rality of business and religious train
lng in the family' I did not Join the
policyholders’ committee In Its efforts
to do away with the scandalous condl
tlon that prevails In these companies.
Declined Reluctantly.
I was reluctant to decline the place
offered me on* that committee, but I
believe that the questions involved are
very intimately associated with great
and vital matters of finance. With such,
I am not sufficiently familiar to enable
me to Judge fairly, should doubt arise,
and I felt that my best course was to
decline* which I have done. My reslg
nation nas been received by the com
mlttee and reluctantly accepted.
"The whole matter Is in good hands
now, and I trust and believe will bo
worked out wisely.” . . .
JOHN D. LOSES HIS WIG !
HAIR DRESSER MAY SUE HIM
By PAUL VILLIER8.
By Private Lea rad Wire.
Paris, July 21.—Tile wealthiest peo
ple In the world are not exempt from
physical discomforts which attack us
all, as the King of Petroleum, Mr.
Rockefeller, has Just discovered. As
hs was making a quiet little excur
sion of the forest of Compelgne re
cently he lost not his hair, for he has
none, but his wig, which Is as pre
cious to him as the apple of his eye.
Happily, Paris Is well provided with
wig makers. Mr. Rockefeller at once
put himself tn communication with a
celebrated tonsorlal artist here, whose
number as high aB ten, In letting the
justices consider the cases In pairs.
Mr. Flynt, of Spalding, one of the
strongest lawyers of the house, believes
an Intermediate court the proper rem
edy. -With such a court, restricted to
reviewing all misdemeanor cases, and
civil enses up to a certain amount,
making the final tribunal In such cases,
would give the deetred relief.
This would relieve tbe burden now
upon the supreme court Justices, and
give them sufficient time to oonslder
the really Important litigation that
goes to that court.
Mr. Jenkins, of Putnam, also believes
the Intermediate court the only way
t11 Klx.- the teller. He .11.1 llot think ..11
Increase of tho Judges would meet the
needs of the situation.
Mr. Covington. In Indorsing the prop
osition, said that all city and county
courts should he abolished. If necea-
snry. he would favor a supreme court
Judge lit end liny. Iti.lhin.i has
such a system, and Georgia might well
emulate that example In view of our
increasing prosperity and the conse
quent Increaa eln the volume of litiga
tion. •
Will Rsturn to Atlanta,
8peclt! to The Georgian. ,
Opelika, Ala, July 21.—H. H. Ham
mond, who for nearly two years has
been manager ot the Opetlkn, Auburn
and Lafayette exchanges ot the South
ern Bell Telephone Company, has re
signed his position, to take effect Au
gust l. Mr. Hammond will return to
the purchasing department of the
uine company, with headquarters In
Atlanta.
establishment Is In the Castlgllone, and
commissioned him to replace the lost
wig. The hair dresser made Inquiries
nn.l found out that Mr. Rockefeller paid
350 francs in New York for his original
wig.
Being a good business man, tho Pari
sian hair dresser determined t»st he
would charge the American billionaire
more than that, and sent In a bill for
500 francs, nr 3100. Mr. Rockefeller
absolutely refused to pay any such n
price, so the hair dresser threatens to
sue him. The case has not yet come
before the court, and if It does the de
bates will be amusing to listen to, and
the attorneys are sure of a packed
house.
WILL WORK FOR PA3SAGE
OF IMMIGRATION BILL
Special to Tbe Georgian.
Augusta, Ga, July 21.—Secretary
Moore, of the Chamber of Commerce
ztatez that the Immigration commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce here,
together with some Influential men,
will go to Atlanta when the Immigra
tion bill Is to come up before th« kMN
and will urge Its pAssage. He says the
movement that has been started for
the Immigrants for this section will not
1.1- allowed 1.. get lukewarm, but, mi tif
other hand, tho question will be kept
at white heat by the supporters of the
bill here until It has passed both the
house and senate.
PRE8S ASSOCIATION
ELECT8 NEW OFFICERS.
Special to The Georgian. v
Newberry, S. C, July 21.—The South
Carolina State Press Association, now
In annual session at the Iale of Palms,
Charleiton, haa elected the following
officers:
President. E. H. Ault, of Newberry:
vice presidents, William Banka and J.
C. Mayce; secretary, R. L. Freeman;
treasurer, August Kohn; executive
committee, W. Vy. Ball, E. H. De
Camp and C. M. Galloway.
Escaped Convict Caught.
Special fo Tbe Georgian.
Newberry. 8. C., July 31.—Mllledge
Green, a negro, who last fall escaped
from the Georgia chalngang, was ar
(ruin ilia nt <u Kill i wll Br*
rested by Magistrate C. 8. Blrase on
Wednesday In this city, and taken to
Atlanta.
on December cotton, In no moral aenao differs from tbe
clerk wbo puts up $10 In a bucket abop on the same
hazard.
But a mill man. It la urged, should be allowed to buy
a supply of cotton to be delivered.In December at a
price to be agreed upon lu July, In order that be may
know how to price tbe goods be must deliver In Jan
uary. "Therefore the cotton exchange may tell cotton
futures." But since mill men never buy from bucket
shop* the bucket shops should uot be allowed to tell cot
ton futures, for It ia well established In law and morals
that dealing In cotton futures la gambling. And It la
gambling because the transaction la conducted between
a small wager and a contingency that Is cot settled
until tbe game la played out, whether In the exchange or
bucket shop.
Speculation ia not wrong. There la no harm In "buy
ing and telling and getting gain.” to long as honest deal
ings prevail.
There are two ways In which contracts for future
delivery of goods may be made, whlcb are not gambling
contracts. Example: , , , „
First. A mill man buy* from a farmer In July 35 I
bales of cotton to be delivered In December at tbe mar
ket price that shall prevail in December. To secure thla
contract the mill man pays the farmer 34 a bale for
the cotton In advance. Such a trade would be legitimate.
The uncertainty In which the future price of cotton Is
Involved la Just the uncertainty that tbe farmer baa had
to meet from the first of the year clear on through. All
productive Industries without exception are confronted
constantly by tbe uncertainty of future markets.
Second. The other way la thta: The mill man goes
to the farmer and buy* 36 bales of cotton to be delivered
In December at 360 per bale, and gives his note for the
amount In thla transaction the future price Is agreed
upon without reference to what the market price may
be and tbe deal la doted on that basis. The note, of
course, bat Its present value In bank. There la spec
ulation In It but there Is no gambling, because the
amount paid In I* the full and adequate price for the cot
ton estimated at the time of the trade to the satisfaction
of both parties. No “margin" la "put up,” but a full
payment Is made.
The cotton exchange la, of course, the representative
of the farmer In the telling of cotton and the moral prin
ciples that bold good in one cate would be juit aa good
In the other.
1 do not know whether anybody ever buys or tells
cotton at a cotton excb&uge In either of tbe way* I have
described us legitimate. The usual practice I know Is
very different. A buyer "puts up” a margin of say 32 a
bale on December cotton at 10c. That la he bets 32 a
bale that he will be able to buy cotton at 360 a bale
In December. The exchange or bucket shop, as the case
may be, puts up lu engagement to furnish the cotton at
that price, or pay the difference, which la the corre
sponding wager on its side. Such a transaction la gamb
ling. pure and simple, whether conducted In an ex
change between the cotton mill men of all America on
oue side and the New York Cotton exchange on the
other, or between a 325 dork and a back street bucket
■hop.
No iuffident reason can be given for allowing cot-
toit mill men to operate on future prices through cotton
exchanges, or flour mill men through wheat exchanges,
or steel and Iron mill men through their exchanges. The
farmers and miners are obliged to carry on their oper
ations relying entirely upon the laws of business and the
dispensation of Providence to make their price*. This
Is true of all productive industries. On what principle
of economics or morals should manufacturing Industries
be allowed to evBde the law* of business and Providence
by trading In futurer? The whole scheme Is presume
tuous Bln against the God of providence, and can bring no
possible advantage to anybody, except a gambler’s ad
vantage who wins while another lose*.
It Is tho earnest hope of all good people that our
lawmakers will forbid the continuation of the gambling
In futures. The demand for thla reform Is cloaeiy
related to the demand for reform in divers other places
Let the good work go on. J. L. D. HILLYEU.
By Private Leaned Wire.
New York. July 21.—Of all men, A|.
fretl Belt, the diamond king, who died
In London this week, would have been
the last, when he was alive, to be con
sidered the hero of a love romance, it
was through the Instrumentality of .
prosaic American life Insurance policy
that It became known that England's
richest man had fallen victim to Dan
Cupid.
The Elizabeth Bennett, In whole fa-
for Belt took out on 350,000 policy u
"my Intended wife," has been Identified
and Is believed to be a beneflclary un
der the Wiir of Belt. She la a widow,
not young, but the Junior of Belt by
several years, who lives In Mayfair.
Her husband was a mining engineer'
who was a companion of Belt when the*
latter was prospecting In South Af.
idea and they were partners.
They separated before Belt laid the
foundation of his fortune In Kimberly
nnd Bennett died not sharing that good
luck. But Belt remembered Bennett,
looked him up and became Intimate
with his family after his fortune had
begun to rapidly grow, and the friend-
ship for the family continued until
Belt's death. As one mark of his
friendship. Belt undertook ta educate
Bennett's son and daughter
did not marry the widow never will be
known.
After all, Sarah Bernhardt Is not to
wear the ribbon ot the Legion of
Honor. The government nominated her
—as has been told—but with the coun-
ell of the order the prejudice was too
strong nnd they have refused to con-
firm the action. To show that such
prejudice did not tell against the great
actress. Major Dreyfus was decorated.
Interest in the coming wedding of
Mlsa Anne Ide, daughter of Governor.
General Henry C. Ide. of the Philip,
pines, to W. Hourke Coekran Is Inten
sified by the report that the ceremony
Is likely to be held In the old historic
Malacanang palace, where Mlsa Ids
nnd her sister Marjorie have entertain
ed liberally and become popular Jn the
military society set of Mnnlln.
To hold the wedding In the gover
nor-general's palace, It was said, would
mark a raro precedent. Miss Ide would
thus become the first American bride
to be led to the altar In the grand
drawing room of the historic pile. On
tho other hand, many of the Invited
guests could not possibly voyage hslf-
way around the earth to see Miss Ids
mnrrlcd, and the affnlr would lack the
brilliance that would bo possible In a
marriage In the national capital.
Another offlclnl advocate of marriage
has been found In Acting Mayor Mc
Carthy, of Jersey City. He declares:
“The man who marries and helps to
rear children does what he can to make
this world a better place to, live In. We
need more Itulilcs. We mn't get too
many of them. It Is needless to say
that I am violently opposed to race sul-
cldc. I'll be acting mayor for a week,
and I offer nil couples who have a
right to wed a first-claHS, all-wool, cop.
per-rlveted, asbestos-lined carriage
ceremonoy free of charge.
"I'm a batchelor, but It Is not my
fault. I'm ready tn marry when the
right girl comes along.”
Frank Work, father of My*. Burke-
Roche, who Is married to Aural Ba.
tonyl, Is employing nt least one, and, It
t a -If....A mAa,AMn1 aBLas* Vaix* Vrtflf
Is believed, several other New York
detectives to watch all Incoming steam-
era and trains. The purpose of the
quest. Is kept secret.
Meanwhile tho gates of the Work
mansion, “Elm Court,” are chained and
the gardener has been Instructed to per-
mlt no one to occupy the house. Mr.
Work declares that Mrs. Batonyl never
can enter Elm Court again. This ap
parently contradlctz the rumor that he
md forgiven his daughter.
Messenger 4126 draws the line on
blrd-catchlng. He was sent for to get
a canary which had escaped front
Bellevue hospital. The messenger boy
was offered 60 cents to climb the tree
In which the bird sat, but when he haa
struggled to the top the songster again
hopped elsewhere.
"Wat do youso ttnk I am—a bold,
me A. D. T. exclnlmcd. “I can t 1Mle*
dls little yeller feller wldout wings.
Dr. Thomas or Knabenahue If y?<-*«
want to ketch dla bold. 1m foln ter
'beat it* back to de oflls.”
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, July 21.—Here are som*
of the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—V. H. Oeelbaway, J.
Hargrave, C. B. Howard. E. E. Lowe.
L. Reynold*, W. W. Reynolds, W. MIH-
SAVANNAH—H. W. Cowan, Mrs. J.
M. Hampton, J. J. Corrigan.
IN PARI8.
Special to The Geor*lan. . . .
Paris, July 21.—Mrs. Nellie Black tad
the Misses Anita and Louise Black, or
Atlanta, Oa., registered at tha
the European edition of The New lor*
Herald today.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
poet.
JULY 21. _
1794—Robert norao, ScotUah
Bore January X, 1759.
1797—Battle of the 1'jrramlda la MU*'-
1014—Inquisition reeotablUhed In
died.
U14—Inquisition re-eotnblienea in <v“j-v 4
the'Sttb'of coned'
toti**- cniost
1X74—Charges of Theodore Tilton «**'
Hrory Wart Beecher amdejobfl.. p<
Anthony J. UondeOa.
1*39—Robert G. Ingerooll died. Born d*
902—Shaking d™"- etremer
.lag of Klim river steamer t rnojj
Hamburg! one hundred
1909—Grrat'uilldlug trade strike lu >»«
named for r>'«~
1906—lExplomfon r *on t'nltrd '."Tw'ra
Bennington lu San Itlcgo harbor,
ty*Wght moa killed.
SERVANT PROBLEM
IS VEXING ROMA" 8,
Special to The Georgian..
Rome, Oa., July 2I.-Tbe
question seems to be a problem _
Rome at preaent, as well a* the cri
need of farmers to get sufficient
to work their cro|i». There ■J*”’*
a plot among the negroes here,
male and female, not to work “
can keep from It. One fiegro * JTin
was heart to say: “De nigger wth j g
Rome has now got de white worn
de kitchen, an' dey 'apeels ter
dem dar."
