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swiped, eloigned, jugulated, disembowelled, smoth ered. strangled, parboiled and otherwise scandalous ly maltreated. “Shout this loudly, from Habersham to Glynn, until the welkin rings, the teacups dance on the table, the dogs bark as they run under the house, the children fall off the fence as the excitement tears along the road, —and the first thing you know, you will be a champion Prohibitionist." Papers, papers, can Smith stand for this.’ —even from the man who less than two years ago failed to see the hypocracy that is so apparent today ’ Will he not be compelled to answer Mr. Watson? We think he will. Our readers will be amused at the fun we're going to have. Mr. Watson does not only find a belly-full of hypo.craey in Smith now, but he has discovered also an attempt on the part of the governor to steal his followers and bury him, and ask Smith pointedly if he did not tell a Rape Circular politician named J. Sid Turner that. “We've taken Watson's fol lowers away from him and now we are going to bury him and get rid of him." lie begs to remind the governor that he has no followers—which is true as he sold them out to the Republicans in 1904—but that it will be a bad day for Jeffersonian Democracy and Georgia when he and plotters succeed in burying him. Very poor, dear old Democracy! Poor dear old Georgia ! An Innovation in Georgia Politics and Railroad Economics. By Evad Reyd. Score one for the State of Georgia. 1 lard-hearted and envious newspaper paragraph ers have oftentimes poked fun at her Capital City, which they characterize as the only champion im itator of New York to be found south of the Mason and Dixon line. Atlanta may be lacking in fecundity when it conies to starting things new, but that part of Geor gia lying outside of Fulton county (and there are a few Atlanta folks who will admit, if pressed, that their town does not overspread the whole State) may be depended upon at all times to make good in any of the few lines in which Atlanta is deficient. This time our hat lies upon the floor in enthus iastic salutation to Richmond County, whose capital city, the peerless Augusta, becomingly and with great modesty wears the honor of being the only American city, the streets of which John D. Rocke feller has the nerve to traverse without his accus tomed guard of six detectives. Besides, John I), still lives to tell the story. As everybody knows, the railroads all around us have been put hard to it since the panic has been on to make ends meet. There can be no denial of this assertion, because the railroads themselves made it. and persistently declare it to be true. As proof, they point out that they have abolished many jobs and consolidated others. Where two clerks former ly flourished they have made one do. In territory where three telegraph offices used to be kept open for train order service, they have closed up two, and now offer rewards to countrymen for any authentic information regarding the whereabouts of trains, news of this order to be ’phoned or sent in by courier on horseback. Farmers’ boys are said to turn a pretty penny taking over this sort of work as a side THE REASON line to chopping cotton, while at the same time de veloping a keenness of perception and a strengthen ing of the intuitive faculty for locating articles lost, which may stand them in good stead should they decide to adopt sleuthism as an avocation. Having been for a long time understocked with presidents, first, second and third, fourth ami up to the 'steenth vice-presidents in the cases of some roads, and general managers ami superintendents and assistant superintendents and assistants to as sistant superintendents, and passenger and freight agents an I assistant passenger and freight agents, it was found inexpedient to spare any of these employes. Every single available man of their class of labor was clearly unsparable to the service of safe-guarding the lives and limbs of passengers n midnight rides through the forests and jungles and rice fields, for be it remembered, the son of the stur dy yeoman finds it more than difficult to spy out from his vantage place at the apex of the Georgia pine, after night has fallen over the surrounding country, the exact position of a railroad train wlr h has been cut off from communication with its guide, the dispatcher, for several hours. Here is where the official comes into utmost usefulness. Who, for n stance, would inspect the assistant superintendents if the superintendents were abolished ’ What would then* be for the superintendents to inspect if Hie assistant superintendents wort 1 sent about other busi ness, and how would nomadic trains ever get safely through without these inspections’ But let's not go astray. Richmond County is die text, and should not be neglected in this discourse in any discourse, for that matter. She is the se-ne of the most admirable, as well as pre-eminently unique departure in railroad economics yet reported from any quarter of the globe. Yet the move inaug urated by the Georgia Railroad Company to rut necessary expenses to an irreducible minimum is so simple, so wise, so natural, one is prone to wonder why it was not thought of before. The proposed innovation is just a plain merge] of two jobs, or. to be more exact, a consolidation of three jobs (two railroad and one State-comp- n sated) commonly worked by two men, into one .job to be looked after by one man. It is this way: As stated above, the railroads have got to saw oil their pay-rolls. As a general rule, transportation com panies have been in the habit of maintaining separ ately their operating departments, their departments of legal representation in the courts and their sub division for activity upon the floors of State ami National legislatures. Not infrequently the forces of the two last named sections have been combine I, but not for publication. But there is no record upon which to predicate a precedent for tin* determina' <>n on the part of the Georgia Railroad Company to openly combine Hie functions of its treasury and legislative spheres. 11 is not asserted, of course. t it these branches have been strangers to each other heretofore in any considerable portion of the coun try, but it is usual to treat the subjunction as a ten der and sacred affair of hearts and. therefore. of not sufficient virility to stand public exposure. Possibly upon the hypothesis that “Faint heart never won special privileges, ’’ the Georgia Railroad Company proposes to discard flowers and bonbons and midnight serenades under a silvery summer moon, in laying siege to its affinity, and will adopt strongarm ami big stick methods in its wooing. 5