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tc be merry over the suggestion of any exhaustion of the trustees that it has taken patient.nature centuries, even long geologic ages, to store in America. But the fear is hardly ns ; preposterous as is assumed. Even granting that we should do nothing for posterity on the theory that it has done nothing for us, we should make sure that things should last during our day. Already, for example, there is talk of a timber famine, and if paper manufacturers are to be be lieved the supply of woodpulp is almost gone. The price of oil in the not distant future will probably be a good deal higher than in the most squeezing days of the Standard Oil Company. Coal and pig iron seem to have been lifted to a price-level per manently higher. But to discover a remedy is more difficult than to discovejr an evil. The President makes no practical proposal. The natural resources of whose destruction he complains are almost entirely under private owner ship. It is feasible so to enlarge gov ernmental regulation that an inspec tor will stand over every woodchop per and miner, and supervise the farmer into getting the most out of his soil. Thus it was that the gov ernors journeying with the President, although doubtless academically ap proving anti-wa§te ideas, asked for a more specific statement before giv ing their indorsement. —New York Globe. THE SOUTH AND DEMOCRA&Y. The convention of Tennessee Dem ocrats called to meet in Nashville for the purpose of considering a move ment to nominate a Southern Demo crat for President, is attracting at tention throughout the state *and is likely to draw together in this city a number of earnest men who believe that this is the best policy for the party to pursue in the election of 1908. The party has lost in three presidential campaigns. It has real ly no potential existence or well de fined purpose outside of the South and the question may well arise whether the preservation of the par ty does not depend on the South’s assertion of itself with a candidate of its own choice on those principles that gave the Democracy strength and vitality in the past. The South supported Mr. Bryan and Judge Parker with equal fidelity and therefore the South suffers the aspersion of having no fixed princi ples in national politics and is charg ed with clinging to the name Democ racy whatever its platforms may de clare or its candidates represent. The South should give a clearer defi nition of its attitude and one that leaves less ground for the accusation of blind partisan attachment. The party in the Ncrth is badly di vided. It has been in the past three elections whipsawed between Eastern conservatives and Western radicals. New York, that had given a plurali ty for Cleveland in 1892, recorded 250,000 plurality against Bryan in 1896, and Nebraska, that gave Bryan % plurality in 1896, gave 80,000 plp xlity for Roosevelt in 1904. What is I South to do under conditions of it kind! Could the nomination of Southern Democrat possibly make Rters worse! Is it not probable bj the situation might be bettered! .ere are men in the South who have grown to < manhood since the Civil War, men whoso patriotism would not be doubted, whom the Democratic party could offer as candi dates. Certainly there is no treason to the country implied in offering such a candidate, and how could the nomination involve any bad faith to the Democratic party, that draws its only electoral votes from the South? James K. Polk, nominated in 1844, was the last Southern man the united Democracy dared to offer as its candi date. That was sixty-four years ago. Why should the South longer abase itself and why cannot the Democratic party trust it? This much is cer tain: As long as the South of its own accord remains in the background there will be no insistence from oth er quarters that it come to the front. —Nashville Banner. PETITION FOR CHARTER. STATE OF GEORGIA-—County of Fulton. To the Superior Court of said County: The petition of Thomas E. Watson and James W. Green of the county of McDuffie, and C. P. Byrd, E. A. Keese and H. B. Suttles of the coun ty of Fulton, all of said state, respect fully shows: Ist. They desire for themselves, their associates, their successors and assigns to be incorporated and made a body politic under the corporate name of ‘‘Jeffersonian Publishing C 0.,” for a period of twenty years, with privilege of renewal at that time. 2nd. The capital stock of said cor poration is to be Fifty Thousand Dol lars ($50,000.00) divided into shares of Ten Dollars $10.00) each, ten per cent of which has been actually paid in, or will be paid in before the privileges prayed for herein will be exercised. Petitioners ask the priv ilege to increase the said capital stock from time to time by a majority of the vote of the stock holders to an amount not exceeding Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) in the aggregate, and to decrease said capital stock similarly, but not be low said original sum of Fifty Thou sand Dollars ($50,000.00) and to re ceive in payment of subscription to said capital stock, whether it be orig inal or subsequently increased stock, money, real or personal property, in cluding the good will and patronage of any publication or publications which the Board of Directors may de sire to take over and edit and pub lish. 3rd. The principal office and place of doing business will be in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga., but petitioners ask the right of doing business and establishing branch offices anywhere in the United States. The principal object of the proposed obligation is pecuniary gain and profits to its stockholders. Petitioners propose to engage primarily in the publishing and circulation of the two publica tions now known as ‘•Watson’s Jef fersonian Magazine,” and ‘‘Watson's Weekly Jeffersonian," doing the me chanical work themselves o»* letting out same by contract with others, but petitioners desire the right to engage in the business of publishing «ny oth er periodical, magazine, or book, eith er for themselves or under r.j.i tract with others, as well as doing and ex ecuting all kinds of commercial print- WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. ing, binding, etc., and all other kinds of work usual and incident to the printing and publishing business, to that end petitioners desire the right to purchase, whenever the Board of Directors may deem it advisable to so do, such a printing and publishing plant, including machinery, presses, type, etc., for the better carrying out of the purposes of this organization, paying cash therefor, or buying same on time upon such terms as the Board of Directors may agree upon. 4th. Petitioners ask the right to borrow money, issue notes and other evidence of indebtedness therefor, and to secure the payment of said borrowed money by any form of se curity agreed upon by its creditors; to have and to use a common seal; to sue and be sued by its proper name; to buy or lease for cash or on time any real estate necessary for use for the purpose of this incorporation; to make bylaws and do all things and acts necessary or incident to the car rying out of the purposes of this in corporation, and generally to have all the powers in addition to the above as are given by the constitution and laws of the State of Georgia. Wherefore, petitioners pray to be made a body corporate and politic un der the name and style aforesaid, with all the rights herein prayed for, and entitled to the rights, privileges j HIGH CLASS SECURITIES I || Amcsr others, we mention a small block of stock in one of the largest and most conserva- I 1 tive banking institutions in the >*outh, which will increase $50.00 per share in the next year. B 3 This is of interest to large or small investors and will be on the market but a short time. You • wi 1 find this a genuine bartrain. Call or write H CHAS. E. THOMPSON, Stocks and Bonds, 204 Equitable Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Berckmans' Trees NONE BETTER We offer an immense stock of Fruit and Shade Trees, Evergreen and Deciduous Shrubs, Conifers, Roses, Palms, etc. Our stock is free from disease or insects. Special Department for Landscape Work We are prepared to make surveys and plans for residential grounds, parks, cemeteries, mill and sub urban villages. Consult us and our experts will help you. Catalogue on application P. J. Berckmans Co. inc. FRUITLAND NURSERIES Drawer 1070 AUGUSTA, GA. Established 1856. We do not sell through agents. and immunities, subject to the restric tions, affixed bv law. GREEN & WATSON, Attorneys for Petitioners. Filed in office this October 22, 1907. STATE OF GEORGIA—County of Fulton. I, Arnold Broyles, Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the appli cation for charter of “Jeffersonian Publishing C 0.,” as the same appeals of file in this office. Witness my official signature and the seal of said Court this October 22, 1907. ARNOLD BROYLES, Clerk Superior Court Fulton County, Georgia. WAKEFIELD Poultry Yards has a few more Barred Plymouth Rock and White Wyandotte cockerels for sale at $1.50. Send in your order now so yon can get eggs early In the season. My barred Rocks are almost perfect In color. All orders filled from now until February 1 at $1 for 13; after then $1.50. Order now, will ship when you want them. W. A. LILES, Prop., Wake field, N. C. 3me If there is a moral in the Fair banks case, it is that no man should be after the Presidency and a church office at the same time. PAGE FIFTEEN