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MEN IN THE PUBLIC MIND
Home Rule In Ireland
Manchester Deputation’s Report.
deputation of four liberals and
r unionists, which left Manchester
the beginning of this month to
dy the home rule question in Ire
d, and returned last Sunday, has
v issued its report. It is of a re
rkable character in many respects,
ne of the conclusions arrived at are
en as follows:
n Cork and district we had ample
of that boycotting still exists —
ms we visited being actually under
ice protection—and in one case
re were five constables protecting
life and property of the occupant,
nonconformist farmer. The few
onists who met us seemed actually
aid to be seen talking to us.
n Dublin we saw slums of inered
e squalor, in which tiiousands of
nple exist in filthy tenements, which
mid never be permitted to exist in
y town in Great Britain. The rates
re are 11s. 5%d. in the pound ster
g without education rates, as against
inchester rates averaging Bs. 2 7-10 d
lich conclude education rates,
in Sligo the rates are 11s. in the
und sterling. Here again boycotting
ists. No unionist is employed by
e corporation.
We next visited Enniskillen, where
v natioalists have not been in power
inference of Seasons in the Northern
and Southern Hemispheres
(From Kansas City Star).
Spring and summer in the Northern
emisphere are six clays longer than
II and winter, while in the Southern
emisphere the seasons of fail and
nter exceed in length those of the
ring and summer by exactly the
me number of days. This inequal
i of the seasons is due to the vary
g rate of speed of the earth as it
rings along its orbit. When in per
elion, that is, nearest the sun, as is
e case about the 31st of each De
mber, the earth moves with greater
pidity that at any other point of its
ith.
As is well known, the earth’s axis
not upright but in inclined at an
igl e of about 23 1-2 degrees; so, as
ie earth speeds up when the lands
the Southern Hemisphere ar near
ig the sun their summer season is
msequently shortened. Being nearer
ie sun, however, at that time than
le Northern Hemisphere ever gets, a
reater amount of heat is receiv’d in
given time by lands to the south of
ie equator than is received by thosa
i the north in their summer season,
hus the shorter summer of the
outbern Hemisphere is compensated
>r.
Astronomers tell us that the North
rn Hemisphere is given each year
.464 hours of day and 4.296 hours ot
ight. In the Southern Hemisphere
he hours of day time total only 4,296
rhile those of the night time total
,464. There ore, although as much
leat is received there in the hours of
lawlight as is received in the North
ern Hemisphere, less heat is retained
iecause 168 more hours of night are
;iven in which the heat may be radi
oed off. It is known that the tem
jerature of the Southern Hem sphere
s lower than that if the Northern
but scientists attribute this to the ice
which surorunds he South Pole. This,
however, is probably a direct result
of the com! aratively longer total
night season there.
The days and nights of both hemis
pheres would be the same length
throughout the year if the plan of the
earth’s equator corresponded with
that of its orbit, but owing to the ob
liquity of the latter there are only
two such days in the year—March 21
or the vernal equinox, and September
22, or the autumnal equinox. The
name “equinox” is used to indicate
the equality of the length of the days
and nights. Our four seaeons are
thus clearly defined and marked;
winter begins December 22, the short
est day of the year, and continues
until the vernal equinox, March 21;
spring begins then and continues un
til June 21. the longest day of the
year; summer then comes on the
scene and remains until superseded
P A. METHVIN
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-'■ A. Methvin, chief food inspector,
* s a native Georgian, the son of Colo
■k] John P. Methvin, of Coweta county.
•Mr. Methvin has been at the head
°r the state food inspection depart
ment, for the past seven years. He Is
known as the best posted man on food
’'allies in the state if not the entire
South.
Mr. Methvin counts his friends by
"‘e hundreds and is known for his
h'eas-ant matter of fact manner with
everybody with whom he comes in
contact.
for 300 years. The rates are as low as
4s. 3d., and for this amount we found
well-made and well-kept streets, clean
houses ,and a beautiful park, in con
trast to the filthy, uneven streets and
general squalor of Sligo.
From the condition of nationalist
towns, we are convinced that the local
self-government Is so bad as to prove
that those in authority are not capable
of properly controlling and governing
national expenditures.
Belfast greatly surprised and im
pressed us. With rates at 6s. lid. in
the pound sterling, this city with many
of the greatest industries in the world,
with wide, well-paved and well-kept
streets, gave many evidences of pros
perity and efficient government, and
proved to be in very decided contrast
to the towns where nationalists have
the administration of affairs. We were
impressed most of all by the absolute
sincerity and resolute determination
of men—liberals. noneomformists,
trade unionists —who have dropped all
party, denominational, or trade dif
ferences, in order to present a solid
and unbroken resistance to home rule.
In conclusion, we beg to state clear
ly and distinctly that the great wish
of all these loyal people is "Heave us
alone. What is good enough for Eng
land Is good enough for us.”—The
Scotsman, Glasgow.
by autumn, September 22. the au
tumnal equinox, when tile days and
nights are again of equal length.
From this time until December 22 the
A. JL. Franklin
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Solicitor General
Augusta Circuit.
Richmond county has never been so
well served by the office of solicitor
general as by the present incumbent,
A. L. Franklin, who is now in the sec
ond year of his term, which expires
Jan. 1, 1917.
Mr. Franklin is a self-made man
of the old school, attaining his pres
ent p-*3ition in life by dint of hard
struggling and many sacrifices. He
had practically no assistance in the
securing of an education, being com
pelled to work his way through col
lege.
He was born in Burke county, Geor
gia, in 1873, and when eight years of
age moved with his parents to Au
gusta. After graduating from Kim
berlin Heights College and Milligan
College he returned to Augusta and
took up the study of law in the office
of Judge Henry C. Hammond. He
was admitted to the bar in December,.
1900, and has practiced his profes
sion in this city since. With the ex
ception of serving as police commis
sioner of Augusta for five years, a
portion of which time he was chair
man of the board, his present posi
tion of solicitor general is the first
of a public nature he has ever sought.
ERNEST LEE WORSHAM
State Entomologist
fall or autumn season is with us. Of
course the division of the year thus
into seasons is purely arbitrary, but
it is convenient.
WHAT A HORSE MIGHT SAY
(From Our Dumb Animals.)
If a horse could talk he would have
many things to say when summer
conies.
He would tell his driver that he
feels the heat on a very warm day
quite as much as if he could read a
thermometer.
He would say: "Give me a little wa
ter many times a day, when the heat
is intense, but not much at a time, if
I am warm; if you want me to keep
well don't give me any grain when
you bring me warm into the stable,
just a half dozen swallows of water,
and some hay to eat until I am cool
“Don't water me too soon after I
have eaten my grain; wait an hour.
Especially do I need watering between
9 and 10 at night. I am thirstier then
than at almost any other time of day.”
He would say: "When the sun is hot
and I am working let me breathe once
in a while in the shade of some house
or tree; if you have to leave me on
the street leave nie in the shade if
possible. Anything upon my head, be
tween my ears, to keep off the sun,
is bad for me if the air cannot cir
culate freely underneath it, unless it
is a sponge kept cool and wet. If
you treat me as you would yourself,
and not clip off my foretop, you need
not have such fear of losing me by
a sunstroke.
“If on an extremely warm day I
give evidence by panting and signs of
exhaustion that I am being overcome
with the heat, unharness me, take me
Into the shade and apply cold water
or even broken ice, wrapped up in a
cloth or put in a bag, to my head,
sponge out my mouth and go over my
legs with a cool, wet sponge.
FLIES IN ENGLAND
(From the Indianapolis News.)
England, which has frequent plagues
of wasps and an occasional overpro
duction of fleas, has long been suppos
ed to be free from flies so that it was
no special cruelty to deprive horses of
their tails, a useless appendange, as
there are not. as in American, any
flies to brush away. A recent case in
a' Condon court shows that when the
has a chance no such immunity pre
vails. ..
j Perry Bland, of Sunbury-on-the
Thames, complained of a “plague of
flics” against his neighbor, Stanton
Yates, an intensive gardener. The
justice said be was reluctant to inter
fere with what appeared to be a prof
itable industry but that he must grant
an injunction restraining the defend
ant from stacking or depositing ma
nure so as to be a nuisance to the
plaintiff. Defendant testified that he
used about erne thousand five hundred
tons of manure a year making beds
for his intensive gardening. From
which it appears that in England a
man may not carry on even a neces
sary and profitable industry to the
injury of his neighbors.
WHATCHT!
While Shamrock IV is a fast yacht,
She’ll not win the cup that we’ve gacht.
We have three that are groomed.
And Tom Upton is doomed,
For wei’ll heat him with one of the
laeht. —Cincinnati Enquirer.
JUDGE HENRY G. HAMMOND
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Hon. Henry C. Hammond, who is
serving his third term as judge of
the superior court of the Augusta cir
cuit, and whose present term expires
next January, has announced that ha
will be a candidate for re-election. As
his popularity as a magistrate is uni
versal throughout this judicial circuit
it is a foregone conclusion that he
will have no successful opposition, as
at the three preceding elections. Judge
Hammond was first appointed to the
bench to fill the unexpired term of
Judge W. T. Gary, who died in 1904.
Judge Hamtnond was born in Au
gusta on Dec. 10, 1868, and after com
pleting his education in the public
schools of Augusta and Richmond
Academy, read law in the office of
Major Joseph B. Cumming, being ad
; mitted to the bar when he was 20
; years of age. He practiced his pro
fession until elected to the bench.
He was twice elected to the
state legislature (1895-98) and has al
ways taken a prominent part in all
I übllc spirited movements in Augusta,
especially in the Improvement of the
i levoc system and the Stevens Creek
j Development.
'UGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
IN CITY, STATE and NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Sibils
class. He came to Augusta in the same year and has since been actively en
gaged in the practice of his profession without interuption, this being the first
time he has sought any City or Public Office.
Dr. Horne is a member of the Richmond County Medical Society; the
Medical Association of Georgia; Georgia Surgeon's Club; Southern Medical
Association; Congress of Clinical Surgeons of North America; American
Medical Association, and Instructor in Gynecology in the Medical College of
the University of Georgia.
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Hon. J. Randolph Anderson.
Mr. Anderson had not had the opportunity of visiting all the counties of the state, and as he is detained
in Atlanta by 'his duties as president of the senate, his campaign committee takes this method of presenting
briefly his platform principles to the voters of the state.
In setting forth the principles for which he stands, and the enactment of which he wil urge, Mr, Anderson
says:
The functions of the railroad commission should be enlarged and it should be made a state corporation
commission.
Georgia needs a careful and economical administration of her finances, held within the limits of her in
come.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad should be leased so as to bring the maximum return to the state, and
to protect the counties and towns upon the line in the matter of taxes.
Georgia should have a state highway commission to co-operate with the counties in the improvement of
public roads.
Better and stronger laws should be enacted for the advancement of Georgia's educational system and the
protection of her teachers.
He does not favor the leasing of the Western and Atlantic Railroad by the Seaboard, because it would
invite' paralleling by the L. & N. and thus endanger the state’s property.
Georgia needs an adequate system for the collection and recording of her vital statistics.
The drainage of Georgia's overflow and swamp lands is an important and much needed state development.
A safe system of rural credits should be established Tor the advancement of agriculture, to which an ef
fective system of land title registration should be provided as a preliminary.
The equal and impartial enforcement of ail the laws is the duty of every public official.
The Georgia legislature should meet only once every two years.
The governor should be elected only once every four years and permitted to serve only one term.
The terms of office of all statehouse and all county officers should be made four years, thus reducing
cur politics one-half.
There has been no governor from South Georgia since 1823.
DR. GEO. T. HORNE.
Anderson Alone, Offers
A Progressive Platform
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J RANDOLPH ANDERSON of Savannah is the only candidate in
I the race for governor who has offered the voters of the state
a substantially constructive ar.d progressive platform. His com
mittee submits to the voters substantial reasons why he should he
elected, rather than reasons why others should not be
Long legislative service, including the presidency of the state
senate the past two sessions, has not only familiarized him with
state conditions, but has brought him into intimate touch with pub
lic needs in all their phases. He has, accordingly, outlined a program
which must appeal strongly to the voters who have Georgia’s prog
ress and advancement at heart.
Extension of the powers of the railroad commission so as to pro
tect the people in their dealings with all corporations, and the elim
ination of a lot of Georgia’s unnecessary politics, are among the fea
tures which appeal strongly to the progressive voter.
Dr. George T. Horne, nomi
nated at the Spring Primaries for
Councilman from the Third
Ward, is a man well worthy of
the confidence of the citizens of
Augusta, and should receive their
unanimous endorsement at the
polls next fall.
D.\ Horne was born August
sth, JB7J, in Edgefield County,
South Carolina, on his father's
plantation. He completed his
common school education at an
early age and entered the Medi
cal Department of the University
of Georgia, from which he gradu
ated with high honors in 1894,
being the Valedictorian of his
“AUGUSTA IN 1914”