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rapp ur THE ATLANTA GEORGLAN. MONDAY. JfT.Y 3«. lMi 1 -nn apn The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rales; One Year $4.50 Six Months 2.50 I Three Month, 1.25 By Czrrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. zt 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta; G*. j matttr April 2S, act Of COOffTMl —JT Catered as aecond-clois Atlanta. Ga.. aodf IOC, at the Poatofflea at of March S. l>7f. A man may well bring a horze to the water. But he cannot make him drink without he will. —Haywood. Let tjje Southern Cotton Executive Committee Be Judge. We take It for granted that the Investigation coni' mlttee called br Mr. Harvle Jordan to examine tbe sus picions against bis administration can scarcely satisfy Mr. Jordan himself, and we are perfectly confident that It will not begin to satisfy the great body of tbe cotton association and tbe vast number of people who are Inter ested in the affairs of the organization. Whatever position we have taken In this matter has been based upon the conception that the Southern'Cot ton Association Is In every sense tbe greatest and most Important organization In the South. There Is no other organized tfody In these Gulf and Southeastern states that compares In Importance or In meaning with the Southern Cotton Association, or carries with It so much of the prosperity and development of the South. Farmers' associations have been formed for these many years past In these Southern states and have all been Inaugurated with noble alms and lofty purposes, looking to wholesome development and fair prices for the products of the firm. Most of these organizations In time past have fallen to pieces through politics, through corruption, or through tbe graft and Incompe tency of their leaders. It would be fijtal beyond measure If this great body of cotton growers and agricultural men should share the fate of previous organizations. To avoid this catas trophe It Is eminently necessary that the lives of the of ficials of the associations and the executive heads of the organizations should be absolutely free from any culpa ble or dangerous connection, and as absolutely frse from even tbe suspicion of wrong-doing or of evil associations. It was for these reasons and for these reasons atone that The Georgian has led the fight for a thorough, fear less, and sincere Investigation Into tbe reflections which havo been urged upon certain officers of the cotton as sociation. Feeling that Mr. Harvle Jordan's administration was under investigation, and that that administration must be llko Caesar's wife, "above suspicion," we felt suro that the first Impulse which should havo moved Mr. Jor dan would have been to provldo tho largest, tho com- pletest and tbe most satisfactory court of Inquiry which could be secured to pass upon these affairs. We cannot see-how Mr. Jordan or Mr. Cheatham could be satisfied for a moment, or expect the public to be satisfied with a committee selected aa this has been. We do not think It ethical or proper for Mr. Jordan or for Mr. Cheatham, who are both officers, not of the Georgia association, but of the entire Southern association, to throw the respon sibility of their trial upon two members of the Georgia association, however excellent and clean are these mem bers. We submit not only to Mr. Harvle Jordan, but to the general Intelligence of the farmers and cotton growers of the South, that the most natural and reasonable court of Inquiry that could have beqn summoned to pass upon these Issues would have been the general executive com mittee of the Southern Cotton Association. This would have brought Into the court, men Impartial, men remov ed from Mr. Jordan and his administration, men whose verdict could not be by any stretch of suspicion, view ed as an Interested verdict, and men, more especially, who were entitled to hear and to pass upon these charges which affected their Interests and tbe general association of which they were the guardians. What right has Georgia alone to try an officer of tho entire Southern association? What right has a general officer of the association in summoning a court and a Jury, to omit from that court and Jury those who had an equal right to participate? We did not attach, and we do not think that the pub lic will attach, any degree of Importance to the court of Inquiry called for session on Monday morning. We are thoroughly convinced that If President Jor dan, of the Southern association, and President Johnson, of the state association, and Committeeman Peek vlll lay their heads together, they will promptly adjouru this small court of Inquiry and refer this question to the gen eral executive committee of the Southern Cotton Asso ciation, which can be called together by tbe president to meet, and to hear the evidence upon every side which touches the charges against tbe present administration. This Is what can be done and It Is what by all means should be done. “Mike O’Grady’s” Confession. Notwithstanding the statement of the Hon Richard Cheatham, made through The Constitu tion a few davs ago. that he knew nothing of the “Mike O’Gradv” in whose name some officer of the cotton association' was suspected of having traded in cotton through a brokerage firm. “3Iike O’Gradv” turns ui> in tho flesh, and confesses that he placed monev in the hands of Richard Cheat ham. secretary of the Southern Cotton Association, and authorized him to speculate for him on his fCheatham’s) own judgment. The confessioh scarcely needs comment. *The fact is established at last that Richard Cheatham, secretary of the Southern Cotton Asso ciation. has been using the advantage given him bv his position, to speculate in cotton futures, even though for the beneficial interest of his friend Mike O’Gradv.” . If Mr. Cheatham wishes to anticipate the judgment of the members of the Southern Cotton Association, in whose interest he has been waging warfare against gambling with one hand while he himself was playing the market with the other hand, be will resign at once. . The reader wilt understand that the officers of the Southern Cotton Association, through their reports and correspondence, have the whole cotton situation of the country at their Unger tips. If, then, there could be add ed to this great equipment the facilities of a modern bucket shop, the opportunities for making money would have been superb, magnificent, charming. The temptation was Indeed great. Let us trust and believe that the future will develop the fact that the Honorable Harvle Jordan and the equally Honorable Richard Cheatham, did not yield to this temptation! and that the Honorable A. »A. Fairchild was not really a scapegoat, but was. In point of fact, and beyond his own confession, the only sinner In this transaction. The columns of today’s paper will Indicate that many thoughtful newspapers and periodicals throughout the state and throughout the South Indorse The Geor gian's demand for an InveaUgatton into the charges which affect the official life of the Southern Cotton Association. The Savannah Press, The Albany Herald, The Mobile Register, all • published In tbe great cotton centers of the country, are among the number of news papers calling for an Investigation. The Cotton Trade Journal, of Savannah, one of tfle best reputed and most respected cotton and trade Journals of the South, pub lished in tbe great port of Southern shipments, has com ments to make which are exceedingly Interesting as In dicative of public opinion, and should be Instructive and enlightening to Harvle Jordan In the present emergency. The New Mr. Rockefeller. It Is a new Mr. Rockefeller who has come home from France to meditate among bis millions. It Is a case of "bless thee. Bottom, thou art trans lated,” when the New York newspapers refer to him 'as Jolly John D.,'' and In other terms of kittenish en dearment But the fact seems to be that, his liver Is working exceedingly well and he Is bubbling over with good bn mor. He was the most popular man on board the steam' er Ip which he returned to the United States. He met the newspaper men at the dock with a hearty hand' shake and dpened up freely when they wanted to Inter view him. He even Invited them to come out to his country place and play golf with him. He was a new and a better John. ‘ It Is a great pity that he didn't see the error of his way long ago. He would not have been pictured so often as a sort of ogre, and he would not have Incurred the odium of shutting himself up in his hermit estate, snarling at bis fellow man. Another sign of Improvement Is that he has author ized his attorney to accept service for him In the case soon to be tried In Ohio against tho Standard Oil Com- pany. He places himself In a much more dignified post tlon than by attempting to dodge tbe process server for an Indefinite time, as some of his associates have done. There Is no reason why the Standard OH Company should not come Into court and oxplaln why It has.done certain things which, to put It mildly, look vary much like a conspiracy In restraint of trade. There Is no rea son why Mr. Rockefeller himself should not come into court and tell what he knows about It But It Is this change of heart which Interests the people particularly at this time. The sun and the good, warm air of France seem to have done the work for him. He has shown that his fellow millionaire, Mr. Sage, was wrong—radically wrong—and that a vacation Is a good thing for any man. It has given him a saner and healthier view of life and he must feel like a very dif ferent creature. * His conduct In the future, and particularly In the trial which will soon take place at Findlay, Ohio, will be watched with considerable Interest. What If he should loosen up and tell all he knows? It Is nothing less than Just to day that the refusal of Hon. John D. Walker, of Sparta, Oa., to serve upon tho Investigation Ommlttee, did not contain any sug gestion of a lack of confidence or regard for Mr. Jordan. Mr. Walker declined becauso of pressing engagements elsewhere, and there was no moaning to his refusal be yond tho one which he assigned. However, our congrat ulations to him upon getting out of It were based upon our own view of the situation and not on Mr. Walker’s, which we did not know. Mr. Walker Is clean, capable and above suspicion, and we feel sure that however little he may have been willing to shirk the responsibility, from our own point of view he Is fortunate In not being able to serve as a member of this committee. Tallulah Falls a State Park. Nothing Is more apparent than that Georgians are attending strictly to the material upbuilding of Georgia and not at all to the beautifying of any part of tbe com' monwealth and the enhancement of the pleasure of She people. Prosperity makes mankind desire other pleasures and other recreation, and there Is nothing which would add more to the Innocent pleasures and commendable pride of Georgia than the ownership by the state of an Immense park of mountain landscape at Tallulah Falls with the great cataract set as a gem In Its center. Geor gia Is able to purchase, Improve and beautify this natural ly beautiful and romantic section. It could be used for encampments of our soldiers both state and national— an Ideal training camp In time of war; for vast gather ings of the people and for Chautauqua purposes. It would In time of peace become the favorite Mecca for the pleasure seeker, tbe tired American worn down with hard Work and threatened, with nervous prostration and also for tbe convalescents; a pleasant resort and sana torium for all ciasses and peoples. A chain of hotels would dot the greenssrard; happy children play under the trees and drink In the Invigorating ozone, which would make of them stalwart men and handsome wo men. That Georgia had such a playground would at tract visitors from other lands, and these visitors might become clttyens, colonists with money to pay toy lands and houses In our favored clime. All Americans glory In the possession of Yellowstone park and speak with pride of Niagara Falls, especially when their feet press foreign soil. Virginia has Its Otter Peaks and Natural Bridge; Oklahoma Its Wichita mountains; Kentucky its Mam moth cave. California Its Yosemtte. Georgia should preserve the falls of Tallulah aa a monument to Its sen timent of the beautiful' and grand! The following description of Tallulah Falls, taken from "Our Native Land," Is generally regarded as one of the most exquisite eYer written; Nowhere In Georgia can there be seen such a nov elty of mountain scenery aa Tallulah chasm, In the northeastern part of the state. This Cherokee name means the terrible, and was originally applied to the river on account of Its magnificent falls. It runs through a mountain land, and Is narrow, deep, clear, cold and subject to every variety of mood. During the first half of its career It winds among tbe hills In uneasy Joy, and then, for several miles, it wears a placid appearance and you scarcely hear the murmur of tbe waters. Soon tiring of this peaceful course, however, It narrows itself tor pproachlng contest, and runs through a chasm whose 'dwelt among the rocks and under wyter falls; that they walls, aliout two miles In length, are for the most part 'were the enemies of the Cherokee nation; and they knew perpendicular. After making five distinct leaps, as the : that these little folk had decoyed the missing hunters chasm deepens. It settles Into turbulent and angry mood, to death in tho waters of Tallulah. In view of this le- and so continues until It leaves the gorge and regains i gend, It Is worthy of remark, that the Cherokees, he-. Its wonted character. The total fall of water, within the fore departing for the west, always avoided the falls two miles mentioned, has been estimated at 100 feet, and of Tallulah, and were never found hunting or fishing In the several falls havo been named Ladore. Tempesta, ; their vicinity. Oceana, Hurricane and Bridal VelL At these points the i stream Is exceedingly winding, and the granite cliffs on either side vary In height from 000 to 900 feet, whllo the mountains which hack the cliffs reach an elevation of 1.600 feet. Many of the pools are very large and deep, and the walls and rocks are everywhere covered with the moat luxuriant mosses. The vegetation of tbe whole chasm Is In truth particularly rich and varied; for you may find here not only tho pine, but specimens of every variety of the more tendfer trees, together with lichens and vines, and flowers, which would keep,a botanist em ployed for half a century. Only four paths have been discovered leading to the margin of the water, and to make either one of these descents requires much of tbe nerve and courago of the sapphire gatherer. Through this Immense gorge a strong wind Is ever blowing, and the sun never falls upon tbe cataracts without forming boautlful rainbows, which contrast strangely with the surrounding gloom and horror, and the roar of tho water falls, perpetually ascending to the sky, comes to the be holder with a voice'that bids him wonder and admire With regard to tbe more striking feature of the chasm next to the falls may be mentioned the Devil's Pulpit, the Devil's Dwelling, tho Eagle's Nest, tho Deer Leap, Hawthorne's Pool and Hank's Sliding Place, whose several names convey an Idea of their character istics or associations. After emerging from Its magnificent chasm, the Tal lulah river runs quletly-tbrough a beautiful vale, which Is bo completely hemmed In wl|h hills as to be quite inac- ceaslMa to • vehicle of any description. In this narrow valley stands a solitary cabin, which though now desert- od and forlorn, was once the happy home of Adam Van diver. the hunter of Tallulah. In politics, which he de- splsed. ho went for men, not principles, and from the time that ho fought under General Jackson In tho Creek war until bln death, he continued to vote for him for president at every subsequent election. Many generations ago, according to. the Cherokees, It so happened that several famous hunters, who had wandered toward the Savannah river, never returned. The fears of the nation were excited, and they sent a delegation or medicine men to find, tho hunters. When they returned, they reported that they had dis covered n dreadful chasm In a' strange part of tho country. They said It was a very wild place, Inhabited by a race of little people, who TALLULAH FALLS FOR A PARK. To the Editor of The Georgian: Aware that The Georgian takes the lead in advocat ing those things which tend to tbe welfare, the pride and the pleasure of Georgians. I n;a> !»■ pardoned for directing attention to a subject In which the people of the dear old commonwealth are greatly Interested. 1. e., the permanent establishment of ample recreation space at Tallulah Falls for the enjoyment of present and future generations. That this Niagara of the South- should be developed and utilized for mere money making and that tho hills and dells should be occupied—by a population devoted to earning n scant subsistence ns mill opera tives, grates harshly upon the finer sensibilities of a large perreningi- of the liihal-ltupts .if th" state. That It shall be used bv the Empire State ef the South as a pleasure ground for Its people has taken shape by the appoint ment of a committee to acquire It by the senate and house at the session of 1905. The patriotic chairman of the combined committee Is thoroughly Imbued with the spirit of preserving unimpaired all the grand scenery and great water falls for tbo dellcht of the sons and daughters of Georgia. Yet efforts are afloat to establish electric power plants and pulp mills at Tallulah Falls. That roaring Tempesta. raging Hurricane, seething Oceana and the milder Bridal Veil shall be harnesBed to turn the wheels ef manufactories, muffling their loud voices and hiding their grandeur forever; that the grand chasm shall become a stagnant lake, and the rugged handiwork bf Nature when at her best shall bo obliter ated that a few capitalists may add moro millions to their riches, is vandalism pure and simple. Georgia will not stqpd for it. But before the committee acts some one of the many Individuals and corporations who havo an eye only to their malarial advantage, may acquire possession of the property and thus render the acquirement by the state more difflciflt or perhaps Impossible. I am reliably Informed, howevor, that If the committee Is ready to act, that conditions are such that the state may acquire cer tain portions of the falls and lands which would give it the key to the posltjon and preclude the development of tho water power for* manufacturing purposes. Quick ac tion Is necessary, however, nnd cannot bo urged too earn estly by press and people. RABUN. SOUTHERN PAPERS DEMAND A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION 8pseulating Officials. From The Memphis Commercial-Appeal News dispatches state that It hae been charged upon the floor of the Georgia legislature that certain officers of t|ie Southern Cotton Association are stockholders and sharers In the profits of a large brokerage firm, chiefly en gaged in the handling of cotton futures. This In Itself fs not an offense per se, but In view of the fact that the asso ciation has been most active In efforts to suppress all forms of future con tract trading In cotton the thing. If true. Is most culpable. Immediately upon hearing that such charges had been made. President Harvle Jordan appointed a committee of three from among the officers of the association to make an Investigation and report on the matter. The cotton growers should unite In demands for the strictest Integrity of conduct by their officers, who are paid and supported by a tax levied upon the products of the tollers. The associa tion's members are more than stock holders In an Institution; thsy are In effect citizens of an economic body, a body entrusted with their financial wel fare. The demand Is for men of probi ty and Intelligence to guide It. The charges may not be sustained, but It behooves the association at all times to look clossly after Its own and to punish with severity malfeasance In office, should there be such, conse quently President Jordan's aot provid ing an Investigation cannot be too highly commended. The association has been a power In the cotton market at times since Rs organisation. That power cannot be maintained If the suspicion gains cur rency that those In command are us ing the wide Influence of the organ ised growers for selfish and speculative purposes. There should be absolute di vorcement of the personal Interests of officers and the conduct of Its public policy. , Standing In With Buokst Shops. From The Savannah Press. We trust that the Investigation or dered by Mr. Harvle Jordan will be thorough. If any official connected with the Southern Cotton Association has been Interested In bucket shops or has been engaged In speculating In fu tures the facts should be known. No one believes that Mr. Jordan himself has been Implicated, but there were rumors associating some one In his office with this kind of practice. Now this Is the very thing for which the Southern cotton growers have been exposing the. statistical bureau In Washington. Such a thing Is Intolera ble and should not be covered up by technlcallty. We see it stated that the association has no power to send for witnesses or to administer oaths. This would create a bad Impression. One man has already acknowledged that he owned an eighth Interest In a bucket shop, but says that he has let it go. Another man answers that alt charges that he was speculating In cotton fu tures was "hearsay.” The whole thing came out during Mr. Anderson's speech against Mr. Boykin's futures bill. A cotton Jour nal, said to be tbe organ of the Cotton Orowers' Association, vigorously sup ported the Boykin bill and viciously attacked the opponents of that bill. It was then that Mr. Anderson was sup plied with Information which he used on the floor of the house that certain partlee connected with the asaoctatlon were said to be speculating In futures under an assumed name, and that one of them waa actually Interested In a bucket shop. Just how far the facts will sustain the chargee will be proven In the hearing If a full and free hear ing Is had. Mr. Anderson claims to have the documents and says he will be able to ahow that some of the men who have lined up so strongly for the Boykin bill were living In glass houses Trade Journal “Not Surprised.” From Savannah Cotton Trade Journal. We are not entirely surprised that attention has been attracted to the con duct of officers of the Southern Cotton Asaoctatlon. The Cotton Trade Journal railed attention to a number of things done on the part of President Jordan hlmactf. Which were tending to Impair his usefulness aa the association’s ex ecutive. notwithstanding they Involved nothing more than getting Into com pany with hta official name where he did not properly belong. It was not thought wise for him to become the tool of promoters of this end that con cern, In New Ydkk as wall as the South, aa director or otherwise, and then per mitting the parading of the associa tion's head as an Indorsement for pat ronage among Its members. Unsolicit ed letters of approval of The Journal's position which came from all over the cotton belt was a sufficient assurance that the people were opposed to such alliances on the part of their president. When the association'! officers wish to embark.In enterprises that may In volve a withdrawal of confidence In their fidelity to their trust, they should be able to eee what Is ahead for them, and acting for Its welfare, retire In “Will Have a Time Explaining.” From The Mobile Register. The Southern Cotton Association of ficers will have a time explaining Sec retary Cheatham's connection with the Piedmont Brokerage Company, a buck et shop of Atlanta. Cheatham haa been-systematically bulling the market for a year or more, persuading planters to hold their cotton for a price that was never realized. Meantime, so says a stockholder In the bucket shop, he has been giving tips on the market, making money on the side. These are the same men who propose to Southern people to put up several millions of dol lars to make paper out of cotton stalks —a new way to manufacture sunshine from cucumbers. THE MULBERRY SELLERS • OF THE COTTON FIELDS Is the Cotton Stalk Products Company, headed by the Hon.* Barrie Jordan, and heralded throughout tho South during tbe past few Weeks, calculated to decelva tbe unwary and Inrelsla the farmer! of tho South Into taking stock In a visionary and Impracticable scheme? The Chattanoogn Tradesman has taken up the matter, and sonnds a note of alarm. In the issne of July 16, The Tradesman soys: The character of Colonel Mulberry Bell- era. so graphically depleted In Mark Twain's I took, 'The Glided Age," wee taken from reel life and haa Iti counterpart In many persona of tbe present day. It Is the rallying cry of Wall street In every new enterprise that Is lsn that rea' millions . »w enterprise that Is Itnnched In thnt realm of glided allurement!: 'There's la lt,in<r and almoat everywhere else, Slid In behalf of every conceivable scheme, no matter bow visionary. It Is the same old song of Msrk Twain's hero, 'There's mil- 11 • 111 *a In ItV' s to tbe Ilenlsens of dtrkeat Africa to treat the afflicted there at $1 per eye. He ex plained that there were a million of them who had sore eyes, and that would he a million dollars, bat as these had two eyes enrh It would donbls this sum, lihd so ,v. There's tnilllUIIN IU II. Hut bIihv Colonel Helton’ day, other* have exploited various acbemet, on paper, that were equally aa clear, and they all claimed by a similar process of reaoontnff, •’There’s mllllona In It.” With one It waa the making of paper from swamp grasses; with another It was giant powder from coal dust; another was going to convert corn stalks Into cellulose ana other prod ucts, nnd behind this there were actually ••mllllona”—In stock* of questionable value. Still another was going to start a monkey farm In Florida, and use these In the cot ton fields to - displace tbe negro In pick ing cotton, while still another was going to corral tbe fire-files and do away with gas or electric plants for lighting towns and cities. In all of these, and many tbera of similar character, the cry was: There’s mllllona In It!” But there has ro- ently been organised a company that for elaborateness of exploitation and extensive- nesa of claims lays It over all others ef-er lie fore presented to a gullible public. Colo nel Mulberry Heitors would turn green with envy. If he were alive and could hear what this company proposes to accomplish. It la called 'The Cotton Htalk Products Company,” and waa organised under the laws or Maine with a capitalisation of $16,000,000, and Its business will I* to make paper and denatured alcohol out of cotton It la going to achieve, as announced by !i f remoter*: It will enhance the value of he cotton crop $100,000,000 It will rev olutionise (?) the handling of the cotton crop ami aave $30,000,000; It wilt cheapen “*■ price of paper lb and save millions SW...C; It will klilMhe boll weevil Slid save $76,000,000 to the farmers that la now lost by that peat OT?). It will grow the material for the paper mllls-and these will lw established every 5 miles through the cotton belt—at the back doors of these mills, and this will save lt« transportation, I>es1des putting out of busi ness the 760 paper mills no*p In operation, ami transfer tnelr annual Income of $200,000.- 000 to the Hotith!!! It will save the forests of the northwest, now being denuded for "r*i announcements state that there are 19,000,000 tons of cotton talks produced with mule team, driver and hands to load and unload with a delivery of say. I mile* to the nearest mill, and that weuld entail an actual loss* In cost of labor alone at that ig t* tl— would give 4,S*.7O0 tons of paper, about enough to supply the dally papers In a few of our metropolitan dttoa, ami yet this com ' “ mill But aivan.. which arc to follow from tk* Opera tlon of I hi. MkUa mtrarte-pradaring com- pany. Thera will be S per rast of alcohol with alcohol from the mill, of thla com pany,* which will render good roads every where prevalent, and the railroads will So- like the horse, relented to non-uoe, and the rate question will he a thing of th* .past. Yet the crowning achievement to result from the production of thla alcohol In ttaeae mill, la to be the running of tor- pedo boats with a .peed equal to the fastest express trains of the country!.'! Mlraldle dictu! as the .ohl professor of Latin used to express It, and this would work a com plete revolution In the rodstrnetlon of tor- liedo boats, which would then settle the qenstton forever of which wa, the strong- eat navy In the world, since the** torpedo Imata could clear the seal of battle ships liefore they could get Into action or even turn around. The public la further Informed thnt thla ompany promoters, the old Southern Cot- iop Corporation and the 16-Cent Cotton Trust all combined. It Is worthy of these and a half dozen Colonel Mullierry Sellers thrown In for good measure. Of conne, such a company with inch un limited possibilities before It has no stock for oale! Away with such a base sugges tion, for no sane director would permit any portion of Its lit,000,000 of capital to Im offered for sale at any price; hat It may be well for the pnlillc. Including tbe door cotton planters of the South, to read and ponder over tbe following letter, from two of the directors of this company, and compare them wltb the foregoing claims put forth on tbe authority of tbe reliable New York Commercial nnd swallow ed, ball, hook, line and pole, by aome of the leading dally papers of the South: "Birmingham. Ala., Jnne JO, 1,06.—The Tradesman, Gkattanooga, Tenn.—Hear Sir: In reply to yonr letter of tho »th Instant, would slate that while I can not a, vet, from my own knowledge, sake any stale- meat aa to the feasibility of the manufac ture for commercial purposes of paper, de natured alcohol and other by-products from cotton stalks, 1 have seen some very satis factory samples ami bare received assur ances from YV. YV. UlhlM and M, W. Mtra- drn. of Philadelphia, who claim that tbeas products can be mannfactnred from cotton stalks at to low a cost as to make the pro- located at some eligible point, and that future stork offerings to the public are to be based entirely upon the actual results obtained by thla mill. “While the enterprise nppeara to be an nortant one, tbe process should Im given thorough, practical test Imfore stock la rt and plants established on a lore scale. _ W. P. O. HARDING, "Prestdeut Pint National Bank." Birmingham, Ala., Juna 10, 1101—Tbe Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn.—Dear 8lr: I bare yonr favor of May », making In quiry In regard to the company organised to ntlUxe cotton xtxlkn of ihe Konfh. "I do not know that I ran give yen tbe Information that you desire, and, therefore, refer you to W. W. Olbbs, Penn sylvania building, Philadelphia, who con trols tbe patent. "Tbe proceu appealed to me for two rea sons: "First. It 1, a coat Of paper year by year, and that tbe price of paper Hy Private Leased Wire. New York, July JO.—President Roose velt, while a member of the Reformed church. Is no bigot In the matter of re ligion. He attended the Presbyterian church at Oyster Bay yesterday, the services , being arranged • specially tor his edification. He listened to an ap. propriate ranrfon. and Joined heartily In the singing. News reached me from Hanover Maos., that James A. Garfield, who haa been dangeroualy III from an ditack 0 f pneumonia, has rallied somewhat, and now has a good chancellor recovery. There should be an Inspiration to tht young men of the naval academy In their new training ship, The Olympia, from whose bridge Dewey fought the battle of Manila Bay, and demonstrated to the world that the American navy. In a generation of peace! had lost none of the efficiency from the time Paul Jones made It The moat effective fight ing machine which aallx the aeax. Tht famous ship Is to be used for the gen eral Instruction of future Deweys, Schleys and Sjmpaona. The Lord's day observance cbmmlt- tee of the Massachusetts legislature sent to Coney Inland to glean Ideas for some new blue laws, sat In Magistrate Voorhles' court thla morning to ace what fish were caught Jn the legal net of the resort yesterday. They had done the whole Island tht <Jny before and found the fun so Inno cent and wholesome that they de clared they would frame a very mod- erste law when they got home. Noth ing happened In the police cotirt today to change the Impreoalon their Sun day's Jaunt had made. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York, July JO.—Here are some of the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—T. Abbott, C. B. Bed- well, A. Blustenthal, H. S. Cole, A. Dias, Jr„ M. W. Gray, F. P. Hayes, A. O. Morris, YV. R. Norris, F. YV. Patterson, C. P. Phillips, YV. H. Roaer, T. J. YVex- ley, C. Blosser, E. J. Dickey, F. M. Kaufman. . AUGUSTA—Mies A. L. Branch. ' MACON—R. S. Krause, J. M. Min- ter. IN PARI8. Special to The Georgian. Parle, July JO.—Mr. and Mrs. David H. Keefe, of Atlanta, Ga., registered at the office of the European edition of The New York Herald today. ..... nil , sted for a number of yean, the company buying corn stnlka from the farmer* at from tl to W per ton. The company bought and worked np an enormous amount iipany la gulag to pat all Ike other paper la of Ibe country ont of hoMueas!! lot thla la not all of the rraslta. by any obtained, and this will so cheapen this nr- tlele that Internal combustion engine, will everywhere appear, and the bone will go nut of hnolneoa Why. It Is told In thla announcement that In I»l» there will bn HO.- 00* of oneh engines lu dully use!!! - Thera engines. of course, must be supplied • u unknown fh?t that tbs pulp la gradually Increasing and that the price of psper rery burdensome to large con- "Second. It woald be a strictly Month- rn enterprise and one that ought to ap es) to tbe Investors of tbe Month. "Of courae. one can never tell what ttis commercial value of a proposition like this would bs until n fair trial haa lieen made on a large scale. The experimental plant Is claimed to hare been s greet success, hat a grant many other conditions might arise when manufacturing ou a largo scale. The Intention of the company at present Is to imlld end equip one plant, nnd If this is sorrrafal, to fntrodnee them all over the Mouth and utilise a product which has here tofore been waste,) uud burdensome to dis pose of. W. II. IIA88INGBR. '•Vice Pretldent Republic Iron and Bteel Company." $2,000,000 LOST Tn” EXPERIMENTS. The Trsdrsmsu has made some Inquiries concerning the Marsden Company, of Phil, adrlphla. seder the patents of which It has lieen claimed tbs Cotton Mtnlk I'rod- ncta Company would operate. Mo far as has been ascertained, this company has bud only one Plant that has lieen operated for commercial remits, and this Is located at Owroslmro. Ky„ sad the following tot ter from a reliable source In that city to Tbe Tradesmen bus tbls to my regarding of corn stalks, but the great difficulty they -'tertnnred was In getting suitable ma ttery for extracting the pith from the Ik. They spent a large anioqnt of money lerlmcntlnp, and replaced the machinery the mill three or four times, at a tre- .... ndona outlay of caah. "They Anally abandoned the machinery entirely and bought the pith only from the farmers, hut the writer la not familiar Is knewn Si the American Milling Company, and we do qot“know what disposition waa over made of the Maraden Company. It Is eatlmated that they apeot anywhere from Jl.CPO.OOO to (LOW,000 In Owensboro since the basinets was Aral started." COTTON STALiTpRODUCTS CO. Editorial from The Tradesman. A few years ago, a company was organ- lied lu Philadelphia to make eellulora ahd other valuable products from core stalks, nnd great claims were made by Its pro moters aa to tbe bencAta the farmers of the country would receive through tho conversion of a waste product Into a aourc, of wealth. The epmpany was capitalised sway up lnto'tbe mllllona of dollars, sud men prom inent In the Arinurisl ami business world wore nnmed as Its officers and director!. Numerous factories were to be Immediately erected In various portions of the corn raising section, and to give greater weight to tho Inunchlug of the company It was allowed to get out that there would lie a tremendous deninizt for the product of these factories lor the lining or naval vessels, through which they would be come practically safeguarded from danger. In that the elasticity of this material was •nob that all boles from shot or aboil would Immediately lie closed. , , , I'nder aueh announcement! nnd claim* large blocks of Hock were marketed, and commercial iKsllet upend np extended cor respondence with the company for the loca tion of factories lit their reipeetive commu nities. hut so far ns The Tradesman bat been ndvlsd, only one plant was ever erect- d, nnd the atoek of the company went to pieces, the last reported rales being si JUe on the dollar. . „ .. YY'hen the nullouneemrut of the Cotton Mtalk Products Company Arst there was no much In IT that bore •I ml to the original corn stalk concern, that - •- • ■ 1 — — ■ lection be- ,rltv felt Instinctively there was n eoimectlon bf- tween them, am! aure enough It ns the P*t' ente and processes of the utter which the Cotton Htslk Products Company are to see. Ami then when s farther Isvestlgsiloo wee Instituted by The Tradesman soeh a dll- cretmocy was found to exist betweeu^tbii sthtementi the new company and one prominent directors, as rat for.. cle found elsewhere In our columns, tost The Tradesman, by virtue of Its long service In reporting tbe organisation Oj such Industries In the Mouth, felt Impelled to souud a note of caution regarding It. No one questions that paper con he mna* from cotton stalka. aa It can lie from corn •tnlka, and a great many other «AJ ,e JPf" 1 ' nets, bat when the attention of epttoz raisers waa acemlnfly sought for the nj* enterprise lyr the statement that the de struction of the boll weevil would fol low Its operations aa a certainty, this *"• so ntterly ntisnrd that we were aurnried to find fhoughtfal pnbllihen reproducing It. for cotton stalks are now regularly burn ed In the Aelda where frown, and th'* should certainly hare more effect ton aw destroying Ibe boll we-rll than would re sult from, a mere re moral of them. Then, again, great stress wan apparent ly Is Id on what the amall fraction of de natured nleobol. Z per rent, obtained In process would lie able to do In the oper* tlon of l,vr|*do I sails, when-llwra are "J* leroas other ashetaneeo that yield l« r (* returns of alcohol; so muck so, that i' >• worse than nlmnnl to Imagine there could he a revolution In torpedo liost prop” 1 ; slon on srrnnnt of the small Zgpptf k ?* denatured alcohol to lie obtained from tbl* cotton stalk conversion. These statements, together .with ®fncrs equally extravagant mm Irrelevant. m*ni to tmllmte that there It a stock|ob t ' n - pc heme behind It, In which Iti chief pb” motels ire more Interested than In say possible beneAts to the farmers of the Mouth. If aueh experimental results h*v* been aecorapllshed. as one Is kal to Infer tram the nnnoanrameots made, why do not these gentlemen pat their own mrmey nt-' the enterprise? Xo one will rejoice more over their success then will The Trs'lr* man. bat ssUI the enterprise cas ks dra- onsirated possible and commendslly P ron .L —v •*•*••**»«* iiiiMHiin (jihiiw BH'i runu*ni i«iv » ~ iat punt: *hto we adrtoe letting the Block acieraj •Th« Maraden Compaaj, of Philadelphia, ** *