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;PECIAL NUMBER 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 Sfe-. ..J^ . | |J|S|j| JHHBf -'■ 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 I ?fj^ ■ - <j%^ K tP 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 ’// s *;'\ 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. S' < ■ iiiiiuifihi ißß^S^.<k->«Saiiag;v.. v 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 / 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”