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THE NORTH GEORGIAN (SUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH GEORGIA BAPTIST.) Entered at the postofflee at Cura' King, Ga., as second class matter. Vfc| S’'- -- -- ■ Fortune, avers the Chicago News, Is reserving a lot of rewards for the gen ius who shall invent an absolutely dependable motor for aeroplanes. Sometimes it is the innocent by- Etander who has to display most pa tience and nerve in an automobile en durance contest, remarks the Wash ington Star. The new battleship Maine was laid up in dry dock for $..>00,000 repairs. A battleship wears about as well as a i*9-cent parasol, thinks the Lowell Oourier-Cltizen. The latest crusade of the Depart ment of Agriculture noticed by the New York Herald is aimed at house cats, on the ground that they destroy wild birds. Objection would have more force here if it were based on their destruction of sleep. What ought to be brought home to every man, in a way to grip his imagi nation, urges the New York Mail, is that the public lands are the people’s the parks are the people’s, the public buildings are the people’s, the public thoroughfares are the people’s, the public services are the people’s. Dvery citizen has a birthright share in these things, and when injury is done them, his birthright is impaired, lie is literally rendered poorer when ; a street is left unswept, to accumulate ! filth and disseminate disease. Holman Day, author of King Spruce and The Eagle’s Badge, has written for Harper’s an interesting account of “The Queer Folk of the Maine Coast.” Driven out of their old haunts by the ever-increasing number of cottagers, the “queer folk” have hidden them selves in undesirable clefts along the coast* in islands not wanted by peo #-w> jple can buy what they desire. Mr. 'Dayl Jound these shy and lonely char acters —among them the old man who still digs for Cap’n Kidd’s treasure; the three old brothers, one of them a poet, who occupy two separate shacks on account of a family quarrel—andi has written about them with sympa thetic interest. The character of Russia’s relations toward her neighbors is determined by the Czar, says Dr. Dillon in the Nineteenth Century. He and he alone can conclude treaties and transform ententes into alliances. The reasons why he is not at present in favor of an alliance with France and Great Bri tain are personal, dynastic, national. Believing that in the long run hostili ties between Germany and Great Brit ain are unavoidable, he holds that the certain disadvantages which would ac crue to Russia from participation in such a sanguinary war—whatever its upshot—would far outweigh the possi ble benefits. And, what is more and worse, he is disposed to think that an alliance, informal or formal, would in evitably lead to a war between his own country and Germany. And any thing would be better than that. The memory of Miss Maria Parloa will linger gratefully among those who cherish the joys of good food. The death of the celebrated cook and writer on cooking stirred up reminis cences among the elder generation of what was really the dawn of anew household era, when the written cook book was beginning to take the place of oral tradition in the kitchen. Dyp pepsia, observes the Boston Post, learned to know her as one of its most devoted foes. Good Health found in her an able ally. Her course of les sons in sick-room cookery to Harvard medical students some 35 years ago were the forerunner of a form of in struction in which every trained nurse is carefully drilled nowadays. Tradi tion loves to dwell on the savory foods prepared by our great-grandmothers. In reality, the average bride nowadays is far superior to the best culinary ar tist of a century ago, thanks to Miss Parloa and to others who have la bored with her to make the cook-book, next to Holy Writ, the most carefully studied publication jn the world. BONDS FOB WATERWAYS President Taft Declares Himself in Favor of Inland Waterways. WOULD SOLVE RATE QUESTION Mr. Taft Declare* Work on Improve ments Ha* Been Nothing More Than “a Procession of Jerks.’-’ Corpus Christi, Texas—ln an open address here before the Interstate In land Waterways league and the citi zens of Corpus Christi, President Taft announced himself as strongly favor ing a permanent and practical sys tem of Inland waterways as a means of controlling railroad rates, and said that he favored the policy of issuing bonds for carrying out a practical sys tem of improvements. Up to the present time, Mr. Taft declared, congress has provided for Improvements in piece meal fashion and the work on improvement has been nothing more than “a procession of jerks.’’ Before any project is en tered upon, the president declared, it should be thoroughly considered, in vestigated and reported upon by a board of engineers as to its feasibil ity and desirability. Once the improvement is declared desirable and ttie communities which it is to serve can convince congress that their growth has been such as to Justify the expenditure of a large sum of money to take care of increas ing trade, bonds should be issued in order that the improvements may be carried into effect at once and the benefits of it be quickly secured. The president took occasion to re fer to that in some localities that there is a disposition to do injustice to the railroads and to drive the cor porations to a system of economy, which prevents the development of the country through which they pass. The president said it was often the case that the citizens of a county would go to any extent to get a railroad to come into the county, but once there, no a friend of he railroad could anywhere be found, except perhaps the local counsel. The remark called out hearty laugh ter. The president turned serious again, however, and urged a “square deal” for the railroads, that they might not be deprived of reasonable profits through popular prejudice. CAR SHORTAGES SOUTH. American Railways Make Statement on Car Situation. Chicago, lll.—The American Rail ways’ fortnightly statement made public here shows a shortage of 23,- 431 cars in the east and south, and a surplus of 35,977 in the west and northwest. The report adds: “There seems to be no doubt that the rail roads are carrying as much freight as they did in October, 1907, and it is to be noted that the shortages are one-third of what they were then, when there was no surplus at all. The surplus has been reduced 17,4111 in the last two weeks. It is probable that we have reached or nearly reached a maximum shortage, although it is probable that the surplus will be fur ther reduced. If there is any serious shortage this fall, it will provably be upon the commercial roads. SWALLOWED GOLD TOOTH. Macon Woman Had Gold Crown In Her Lungs a Year. Macon, Ga. —ln a violent coughing spell Mrs. Walter Garrity coughed a displaced gold crown from a tooth from its lodging in her lungs, where it had been a year and a day. She was desperately ill and physicians had contemplated an operation. She will recover, it is believed. A year has passed since she was in a dentist chair getting work done on her teeth. A crown in her mouth slipped and she drew it into her lungs. She had several severe at tacks, but improved each time until the foreign matter was Anally thrown off. ANTHRACNOSE DOES GREAT DAMAGE. Disease in Cotton is Spreading a*id is Costing Planters Mill iotas. Columbia, S. C. —In a report just made to Commissioner Watson, State Botanist Barre declares that the dis ease of anthracnose in cotton is cost ing the growers of the state probably $5,000,000 yearly and the Georgia planters possibly as much as $14,000,- 000 each year. According to Mr. Barre, the disease is spreading. Its worst manifestations have followed the use of imported seed, for which reason he urges that inspection of cot ton seed be provided for in the pro posed legislation to minimize pellagra by the inspection of grain. DR. CARLISLE IS DEAD. Signer of Secession and President Emeritus of Wofford College. Spartanburg, S. C.— Dr. James H. Carlisle, the venerable president em eritus of Wofford college died at his home here. Dr. Carlisle was born at Winnsboro, S. C., eighty-four years ago, his parents having come from County Antrim, Ireland. In 1875 he was chosen president of Wofford college, and in this position continued until 1902, when he resign ed and became president emeritus. Dr. Carlisle and Colonel Robert A. Thompson of Walhalla, S| C., were the only surviving signers of the or dinance of secession which precipitat ed the war betweent the states. DEATH RATC DECLINING. So the Government Vital Statistics Show. Tuberculosis Is Decreasing. Washington, D. C—The great fight against tuberculosis is being won, ac cording to Chief Statistician Cressy L. Wilbur, of the division of vital sta tistics, United States Census Bureau. In a bulletin issued he says: “A continued decline in the death rate from it from year to year, may be expected.” He says that the organization of many state and local anti-tuberculo sis societies since the international congress on tuberculosis in Washing ton in 1908 has helped to check the disease. The total deaths from tu berculosis returned in 1908 was 79,- 289, exceeding those of any previous year of registration, but the death rate per 100,000 for 1908 is consider ably loss than that for 1907. In all registration states, the death from the tuberculosis showed a decline, ex cept in Colorado, Rhode Island and Vermont. Mr. Wilbur notes pellagra as a dis ease of increasing importance with twenty-three deaths recorded in J9OB. This does not include the bulk of pel legra deaths in the south, from which no records are received. Among the rarer disease, smallpox caused nine ty-two deaths; plague, five; yellow fever, two; leprosy, eleven and hy drophobia, eighty-two. COTTON GINNERS iitPORT. 5,320,000 Bales Had Been Ginned to October 18. Memphis, Tenn. —The report of J. A. Taylor, president of the National Ginnors’ Association, indicates that there has been ginned to October 18, 5,320,000 bales, which is nearly a mil lion bales less than was ginned in this period last year. The reprt says. As the heavy ginning of September was kept up the first week in Octber, the falling off has nearly all come in the last half of the latter month. The crop is 79.7 picked, compared with 54.5 last year at this time, and indicates almost a crop disaster, ex cept in Georgia and the Carolinas, where the crop is better, but not as good as expected a month ago. The yield is reported disappointing in all sections of the belt, probably due to smallness of the bolls. Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas have the shortest crop ever , grown, and will total a little over half of last year’s crop, while Texas is not much better. OBLITERATE CASTE LINES. Methodist Home Mission Board Dis cusses Work Among Operatives. Charlotte, N. C.—The special con ference of the home mission board of the Methodist church, south, call ed to consider the relation of the church to the industrial problem, came to an end with the adoption of resolutions embodying suggestions as to the most advantageous steps to be taken in the conduct of work in mill settlements. The substance of the discussion was ihat caste lines in the church must be obliterated and that the churches in the cities having outlying mill settlements must contri bute to the work amongst cotton mill operatives. Statistics read in the conference show that there are in the south, 843 cotton mills, with 411,542 mill people, and the eagerness of the mem bers of the conference to reach these people was manifest. PATRICK 11. MXABKEN DEAD. Democratic Leader of Brooklyn Never Rallied After Operation. New York City. —Patrick H. McCar ren, state senator and democratic leader of Brooklyn, died at St. Cath erine’s Hospital, Brooklyn, never hav ing completely rallied from the ef fects of an operation for appendicitis which was performed on October 13. His death was not unexpected; in fact, the senator himself realized that his end was near. Lovett Succeeds Harriman. New York City —Robert S. Lovett, was elected president of the Union PaciAc railroad, to succeed the late E. 11. Marrimau, at a meeting of the board of directors. The executive committee was re-elected, with Judge Lovett as chairman, to which place he was elected as Mr. Harriman’s successor a few weeks ago. Would Bar Tobacco to Ministers. Savannah, Ga.— The use of tobac co by ministers will be barred, if the wishes of the Woman’s Board of Home Missions of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, are carried out by the general conference. Newsy Paragraphs. Asa result of a feud between Ital ian families of New Orleans, Lewis Manacia, aged twelve years, is dead and his mother and two children are dying. They ate sugar sent them as a present. It was discovered that it was sent by enemies of the family. Rocky Boy and his band of Chip pewa Indians, numbering about one hundred and fifty braves, encamped near Birds Eye, Mont., probably will owe their rescue from death by star vation to the promptness of Indian office officials, who took speedy means to relieve their desperate plight. The West Virginia synod of the Presbyterian Church in session at Elkins, W. Va., adopted a resolution protesting against the invitation ex tended to President Taft to address the laymens’ missionary convention November 11. This action was tak en after a lengthy discussion, argu ments in favor of the resolutions be ing based upon the president’s affilia tion with the Unitarian church. HIS TURN. —Cartoon by Berryman, in the Washington Star. BUILDS IDEAL TOWN IN HER IMAGINATION. If It Existed ’Twould Bea “Slightly Elevated Spot Somewhere in New Jersey” —Only One Church Needed, and Little For Lawyers and Doctors to Do—Mrs. Pattison Tells Women's Civic Club About It ’Arlington, N. J. —Mrs. Mary Patti son, president of the New Jersey Woman’s Federated Clubs, has built the ideal village—in her imagination. But she is sure that if such a place ex isted, in fact it would be “a slightly elevated spot somewhere, of course, in New Jersey.” This is how Mrs. Pattison pictured the ideal village in a talk before the members of the Civic Club of Ar lington: “Let us take an imaginary jour ney,” she said, “to a slightly elevated spot somewhere- —of course in New Jersey—and build an ideal village or town. Let there be a clean, wide sweep of greensward shaded with trees and cut with winding roads, a few hills and a cool, picturesque val ley to one side, through which a clear, happy rivulet curls its way untainted with sewerage and disease-carrying insects and unspoiled by the dumps of refuse usually deposited along such banks. L.4t see there instead grass, flowers and birds. “On one of these hills near by we find a roomy schoolhouse, than which nothing better is known, where the children are being educated in the real things of life, in common sense, and in industrial and organic matters, with no danger of forced mentality. Here we And usefulness with beauty of method; as a result, horse or coarse play and disrespect are un known; individual and careful think ing are encouraged, and appreciation is developed, with charm of manner and the cultivation of the healthiest bod+es. “In the centre of the town, near a few choice shops and offices, we And an airy and well built market, where only the best and purest foods can be bought, not necessarily luxuries, but the substantial varieties that make blood and muscle strong and of good quality—a place where it is not suffi cient* to simply label the contents of packages, but where it is necessary to tell which beefsteak has had its juice AMERICAN HABITS ARE BREEDING INSANITY So Says Dr. Crafis and Names Alcohol and Special Haladies as Chief Causes. St. Louis. That conditions of American life promote insanity and that heredity, alcohol and a special group of diseases are rapidly increas ing the number of insane persons in proportion to the total population were statements made by Dr. Leo M. Crafts, of Minneapolis, before the Mississippi Valley Medical Associa tion. Dr. Crafts, giving figures for States which he said were typical, showed the extent to which insanity had in creased in this country during the past generation. The insane percent age of Illinois as typical of this sec tion, he said, in the past thirty years AUTO OUST HEINO HAS REVENGE Me Rushes Through Darien, Conn., With a Tree Drag ging Behind and Vet Breaks No Law. South Norwalk, Conn.—The police and public of Darien are up in arms over the actions of a New York auto mobilist who is, they say, the mean est man on earth. This man, whose number they think is 1770, fastens a large limb to the rear of, his machine and, with this trailing in the road, he goes racing through the town, leaving a (loud of dust which entire ly envelops him and the machine number, and which leaves the town sputtering and fuming, winking and blinking, for some minutes. Even the Rev. H. £l. Brown has joined in the protest, saying that the nuisance is the cause of perversion, extracted, what fish and fowl have been embalmed, what animals died in disease, and what fruit has had its natural fermentation stopped by the use of preservatives. It is, in place to buy food where one is not in danger of one’s life, or worse, one’s health, at every turn. “Let us perhaps build two churches in our beautiful village, although that may be one too many, but let there*be one opening the gate of heaven through the intellectual door or un der the portal of the understanding where reason reigns and science proves; then a liftle further on let us And another, bringing God on earth, through the aid of the emotions, with the heart as the knower and the senses trained to love. Let them both be beautiful, but let us go flrst to one and then the other till in the future they unite. “Our community is made up of homes, cheerful, normal, happy homes, individual In expression, co operate in management and lovely in design, where the atmosphere is the guiding element, where nothing is held that gives more trouble than worth, where harmony, health and happiness leave not a crevice for hell to peek through. “And now a little walk to the right, and opposite the park we are led to the village clubhouse, a Ane pleasure ediflce equipped for all ages. It is a place where play and gymnastics are supervised, a place for games of all sorts, with rooms for music, art, dancing, etc., and for that foolish frivolity without which society ■would lose its charms. “May we keep our hand to the wheel, and help to usher in the new village home, if not in detail, at least in essence—a home where one might free the spirit by just living, where doctors and lawyers are at the mini mum in number and teachers at the maximum, a place where only health is known, and where the whole air rings with life.” has increased four times as rapidly as has the population. Other States and sections were no better off, he said. According to Dr. Crafts, other countries were developing insanity through American habits. Since Japan adopted Western methods of doing things the proportion of insane persons in that empire has rapidly in creased. The negro was also pointed to as furnishing another example of a race incapable of adoption of Ameri can methods and environment with out an increase in the number of those who go crazy and have to be confined in retreats. and that a match factory would have a better chance of doing business in the atmosphere of the place than a preacher when the dust is in the air. The autoist fastens the large limb to his machine at one end of the town and drops it off at the other end. Under the old Connecticut law Da rien had a reputation for arresting speeding automobilists. As many as fifty were caught in a day and fined. It is thought that the dust fiend is a victim getting even. The new law al lows of no arresting save in extreme speed cases, hut the police intend to arrest him as a common nuisahee and put him under bonds.