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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-26
Wanton Murder in Mexico and
President TAFT Only Says
"PatienCe"===A Soft Answer
But 1t Doesn't Save Property
and Lives.

If there had been in the presidents chair at Washington
Cleveland instance of the softes most hesan
uve this country had there would be instead of an
srchy, in Mexico
disorder struggle of people against tyranny;
there principle involved higher than the personal ambitions
of soldiers of fortune gain and wealth by the sword
Mexico is weerng in murder and rapne. Bandit gangs
ravaging the nation preyng anybody who has
dollar The brgand chiefs call themselves generals
pretend flag the respectable approach
patriotism among them desire for and loot the
object of their campaign.
The and suarez-the elected
president and vice presidents proof that the who for the
moment occupy the national palace the capital are wagng the
sort OF the ranch raiders OF the outlying states
Madero after catching Diaz in full rebellion, should
be slaughtered by the whose life he spared makes this crime
supreme atrocy in the annals of barbarOus revolution
savage of prisoners takes Mexico out
side the class OF nations whose commissions are entitled respect
cynical pretense that Francisco Madero and his
president like Gusavo Madero before them were slain in at
tempting emphasizes the fact that brgandae and not
government is enthroned in Mexico City.
There will be many ldngsjust as coldblooded as
that of sundayf Diaz and Huerta to remain in power If
regime upset they will probably the victims instead
of the executioners.
will be the rule in Mexico unless perhaps master murderer
from the weller of crime and by his atrocities all the
bloody factions
Are we going to wait through years of disorder for that?
THERE Is NOT TODAY THE LEAST GUARANTEE FOR
LIFE OR PROPERTY IN MEXICO. AMERICANS ARE
AMONG THE SLAIN; AMERICAN INVESTMENTS HAVE
BEEN RUINED; AMERICAN PROPERTY HAS BEEN
SEIZED; AMERICAN WOMEN HAVE BEEN MALTREATED.
Outside the big cesand sometimes in themour people,
among Others hunted by bands of bandits for what they
have bears hunted for their pelts.
WE HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE ANARCHY IN
MEXICO The world contemptuousy watching the strongest
and richest of all the nations wabbng and bbg the job
that has to it.
We have promulgated Monroe doctrine, and the other
tons waiting perform the duties boldly
gated to ourselves
While murder Mexico Taft, the of
Straw makes bland speeches about the necessity of patience
the part of a Big Brother play.
it Big Brothers part by and let the little
brother in his tantrumS scandalize civilization?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-26
Letters From The Georgian's Readers

q Southerner and q Georgian, he
has known no section during his
long and valuable service as a ma
tional leader Of the farmers. He
knows more about the farmers and
their condition than any living
man. Had the matter been left
with Mr. Barrett, his name never
would have gone to Mr.. Wilson for
this appointment But the demand
from the people was SO great that
he could not ignore their wishes. II
is a case where the place is seeking
the man.
As to the paragraph in your edi-
torial referring to the rumor that
some of our Georgia delegation in
congress We're possibly Indifferent
as to Mr. Baretts appointment 7
believe / speak the sentiment OF 95
per cent of the farmers, is well as a
large majority of the business men
of Georgia, when | say that for any
member OF the Georgia delegation
TO tail not only to give Mr.. Bar
rett his personal support. but his
earnest, active and untiriug sup
port. win be held to strict account
ability in the years - come.
a Georgia congressman can give
no reasonable excuse for failure 10
do all in his power to place c. 8.
Barrett at the head of our national
agricultural department.
j. }. BROWN
Atlanta ga
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-26

~ HE discovery of the velocity
of light, which was made
- two hundred and thirty
seven years ago, by the celebrated
Romer, revealed the stupendous Sc
crets which without that great dis
coyery might never have become
known to US.
Bv certain calculations, based on
the observation of the eclipses OF
.Tupiters satellites, Romer ascer-
tanned the fact that it took light
sixteen minutes and five seconds
to cross the earth's orbit. In other
words. he fixed the velocity Of light
at about 10000 miles per second,
an estimate which has been con-
firrned by all subsequent calcula-
tions and which was finally demon
strated by Master Nicholson, Of the
United States navy, in 1879.
With the speed of light made
known, it became possible to deter
mine the distance of the heavenly
bodies and thus to get some sort Of
idea of the vastness Of the uni
verse. For example, knowing the
speed with which light travels, and
knowing that it takes it eight min
utes and fourteen seconds to reach
the earth from the sun, we know,
finally, that the big luminary is dis
tant from US about ninety-two mill
lions Of miles-a distance that
would require a railroad train
travelling thirty miles an hour three
hundred and fifty years to cover.
But when the swift messenger
has reached our earth he has just
started on his journey and when
y--- -lug 10 think that it will re-
luire three and half years for the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-26
cATrLE RAlsINe IN eEoRelA.

Editor The Georgian;
The farmers Of Ebert county
nave won my admiration and wish
to voice it through The Georgian.
They are going TO send a train
load Of cattle to market next jan
uary. not only 10 indicate their
faith in the money there is in cat
tie raising in Georgia, but to en-
phasize the necessity of raising
something else besides cotton in
this state.
Diversificatiou Of crops is to be
the salvation of the farmers Of
Georgia. Georgia ought MOTTO buy
one bushel of corn, oats, hay or
foodstuff outside the state. Last
year we bought $S0o0o,000 worth of
CORR alone.
Let Georgia curtail its cotton
CROP diversity its other crops, and
go in for cattle and stock culture.
More corn and more hogs in Geor-
gla--iu that way lies happiness and
prosperity.
State EnlomoIogis Lee Worsbam
IS going all over the state telling
tine farmers how to sidestep the
boil weoy.l He is doing "a fine
work. One OF the things he advises
IS divers feai9n OF crops and early
ouou
The farmers OF l. bert are point
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-26
ROner's Discovery
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

messenger to reach Alpha Cen
tauri, our nearest neighbor among
the suns of space, we know that
that star is separated from MS by
a void that is equal to twenty-oAs
billions of miles-two hlnoTea
thousand times greater than taa'
which separates us from the SUM-,
BY the discovery of the rat. o'
speed with which light travels il
was made possible to determine
the staggering fact that 81 CEsni j,
distant from us sixty billions ~
miles; Lyrae, seventy five bI..oaS'
Sirius, eighty -four billions; tI5-s
one hundred and forty seven '''
lions; Arcturus, one hundred anu
ffty-fou billions, and so On
Thus it is by the aid OF h''..
discovery that the students OF a.
tronomy are able to comp ..
hitherto impossible gulf OF -i'
and measure the distance d.. .
fixed stars, thus impressing De.
one and the same time. VIII. |
greatness Of creation and le ,''
tleness of ourselves.
And yet we may find SOFIA
to cheer us up in the Ho.,.
Pascal:
MAN is but a reed, the No.@
in nature, but he is a Ta"...-
reed. 1t is not necessary TIM. u.
entire universe arm itself t. ~
him. A breath of air, o.'.
water. sufices to kill me. Bu. ".
the universe to crush hm
would still be more noble tina.
which kills him, because hs
that he dies; while the
nn4- pathing 2i the adv al ."R'
has oycl him
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-26
TAFT SHOULD ACT.

Editor The Georgian:
heartily approve the stand YOU
take with regard to United States
intervention in Mexico Your car
toou, printed recently, showing
President Taft as a STRAW man"
hits the situation off nicely. If one
is to believe a third Of the reports
coming from Mexico, American
lives and property are in grave
danger Already American citizens
i'm Mexico have suffered sufficiently
TO make intervention Imperative
The president should take every
immediate preCaution to see thar
citizens Of this country are ciyen
Nrotegj.aon ia the -Iivcn
'nualle TO the spu11 of u.s.
columbus, Ga. NJ. j. 7.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-26
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.

duces only a hoarse, gratin- s,r.,
when in motion, but If the sand 3.
of even grain. hard, more or ,.s-
spherical, and polished bv low
friction under the action Of vat.s
its motion may give rise tn ~,
most startling limitations Of instr,
mental sounds. although tn, to,..
always possess a weird bsaptv
which is all their own. A mlv+,r,
Of dirt in the sand 1nvariab,v Z.
stroys its sonorous properties.
The theory of the action or r,n.,.
cal sands is simple; in grinding n.
gether they set up sonoroug v,sy..
in the air, similar to what nav :.
produced by rubbing the wA+t.s
finger around the edge Of a g,ssa
partly filed with water.
Reaction Of Vibrating Glass,
In that case the reaction o. N.
vibrating glass may be visual,v dr.,
served in the qulvering rings form.
ed on the surface OF the water
Variations in the size Of Tire sands
account for the different tones nm.
duced.
There are many famous deposits
of such sands known in various
parts OF the world. Those OF the
peninsula OF Sinai are particularly
celebrated. ON account, perhaps. Of
the sacred recollectIons with whlc,
that strange region Is associated.
Humboldt found musical rorksn in
the valley of the Orinoco, which
gave out concordant sounds at sun.
rise. due, no doubt, to internal
strains and vibrations caused BY
the heat, Similar rocks have been
noticed by travellers in Arabia Pc.
ira, and 1t has been suggested that
the famous statue Of the musical
Memnon. on the banks Of the Nile,
which was said to sing at sunrise
consisted OF stone whose particles
were set into vibration By the ace
ton Of the sunlight.
Musical beaches have been found
on both the Atlantic and the Pa.
cif1c coasts, and they are known
also at interior points as on the
Wisconsin river, near KtIbourn City
and on the shore of the Mississippi
opposite Carondelet
Hawaii Barking Sands. "
On the southwest coast Of Hawaii
there is a deposit OF barking
sands" which initiate. more or less
closely. the backing of dogs
When the sands are wet the mu-
steal tone is lost and they emit only
a squeaking noise. Notwithstand-
ing the experiments Of Mr., Carus-
Wilson. some maintain the hypoth-
esis that the sounds are due to in
ternal oscillations in the body Of
sand. whose particles are KEEP.
asunder by cushions Of Included
air. which is set in vibration by th.
movement of the sand.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-26

KIT HAVE been reading" says a
correspondent, "of the sound
Of drums and trumpets ris-
ing out Of a sea- beach on the coast
Of Cornwall, when It is walked on
Is this fact, or bait for gulls?"
have read of that wonderful
beach myself, in some scientific
journal, and l believe that what is
told OF it is mainly fact, because
similar phenomena are known to
exist in many parts OF the world,
and their cause has been disclosed.
These strange sounds, as weird as
the notes Of an aeolian harp are
sometimes heard on steep hillsides
where slides of loose sand, set in
motion by the wind, or by the jar
Of footstep, trickle down the
slope. The effect has been COM
pared to a chorus of high-strung
voices, suddenly breaking on the
ear, with prolonged resonance.
More frequently, however, they
are audible on sandy beaches, and
occasionally they are so loud, and
the musical tones are so harmo-
Nous and beautiful, that the hear
err stares about him in wonderment,
and feels his nerves tingle at the
suggestion Of his Imagination that
invisible musicians are playing in
the air about him.
Is Increased.
The sense of mystery is heights
ened by the fact that the Ginning
sounds do not, at first appear to
come from the ground, but to be
born out of the surrounding at
mosphere When they are loud
and multiply in tone 1t requires but
little aid from the fancy to Tecog-
nize in them the various instru-
ments OF an orchestra, played in
perfect time, but with an express
sion that seems more ethereal than
human.
Such phenomena are due to
musical sands" and they have
been scientifically investigated and
explained. No doubt they are re-
sponsible for many of the old su-
perstitions about fairies, and about
aerial tongues whicn Syllable
mems names"
All sands are not musical. Music
is regulated noise, and in order
that moving sand shall produce
harmonious notes as its particles
slide over one another. it is neces-
sary that the particles shall be
smoothly rounded, equal in size
and composed OF q sonorous sub
stance, like flint or quartz.
Mr.. Cecil Carus-Wilson, in Eng
land, has devoted special attention
to the phenomena of musical sands,
and has even been able to produce
them artificially. He has found
that a coarse sand, composed of
irregular, angular particles. pro-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-26
Garrett 2. Serviss
"MusiCalSands"

Why Sounds That Mimic Instruments
and Voices Are Heard Issuing
from Sea Beaches and from
Rocks So Realistically that Ones
Nerves Jingle at the Suggestion
of Invisible Musicians.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-26
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-05-31

BY Gertrude M. Price.
Height-5 #. 10 in. Weight-185
pounds. Hair-Brown. Byes-Gray.
Attachments Many. Profession
''Movie" man.
That's George PeriOlati
For little more than three years
the character man Of the Flying A
company of the American Film pic
ture makers has been emphasizing
the fact that a man may play many
parts with equal ability if, he's blessed
with versatility. George Periolat has
it all right and he turns it into thrills
for movie" fans every day of his life
that the sun shines.
This picture of Periolat is taken in
his cowboy makeup, one he often
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-05-31

uses. He lives out near Santa Bar
bara, California, where you can see
the sun kiss the mountain and shim-
mer on the sea at the same moment.
He was the old Mexican, maybe
you remember, in the mission in the
Desert. " He says his best chance
was in the character of the hermit in
'The Hermit's Gold"
Before he took up moving pictures,
Periolat was on the stage. He play
ed in stock with Otis Skinner and
many other well-known actors.
Wait for the real show! Prussian
workingmen are preparing to strike
for equal rights at the polls with the
capitalists.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
TAFT PREDICTS PROSPERITY
HE CoNGRATULATES SOUTH ON
ELECTION OF WILSON AND
PRoPHEslEs PROSPERITY.
He Gave His Philosophy of Policies
and the Verdict of the People
at the Polls.

St. Augustine, Fla.-President Taft
IN a speech here congratulated the
South upon the election of a Demo.
cratic president, predicted nationwide
prosperity under the new administra,
ton and spoke with pride of the way
this nation takes the quadrennial
verdict of the people at the polls
The president spoke in the Masonic
temple and the crowd which listened
to his words cheered him to the echo.
He gave his philosophy of politics
and closed with the remark that
swept the hall with laughter:
THE only sorrow | have" he said,
lis the thought that there will break
in upon the people and some indi,
viduals the fact that there are not
enough officers to go around"
President Taft said in part: Your
distinguished chairman, Senator Flet.
cher, has said something about the re.
lations of the North to the South, and
has read from one of my addresses
with reference to the recent election.
| meant every word | said. | am not
taking back a word, only | want you
to understand that l was playing the
part of a philosopher and was at.
tempting to find good out of some
thing which might have been differ.
ent
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
DANGER FROM GRIPPE
Lies in That Cough and Weak,
WORKOUT Condition.

Grippe, pleurisy, pneumonia, these
are greatly to be feared at this time
of the year.
To prevent grippe from being fol-
lowed by either pleurisy or pneumo-
mia, it is important to drive the last
traces of it out of the system quickly.
Our advice is to take Vinol, our
delicious cod liver and iron prepare
ton without oil, and get your strength
and vitality back quickly.
Mrs. A. A. Grabill, of Strasburg,
Va. says: Grippe left me weak, run
down and with a severe cough, from
which l suffered four years. l tried
different remedies, but nothing seemed
to do me any good until took Vinol,
from which l received great benefit.
My cough is almost entirely gone, and
l am strong and well again, and I am
glad to recommend Vinol to others
who suffer as l did"
Try Vinol with the certainty
that II 1t does not benefit
you we will give back your money.
Ackerman-Stewart Drug Company,
Palatka, Florida.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
STIFF POLICY FOR MEXICO
UNCLE SAM DETERMINES TO
BETTER CONDITIONS SOUTH
OF BORDER.
Note of Warning Will Be communi
Gated by Ambassador Wilson on
Return to Vera Cruz.

Washington.-The determination Of
the administration to adopt sitter
policy toward Mexico as disclosed in
the announcement of the purpose to
make fresh representations to that
government regarding the continue
ton of the rebellion is directly attrib'
utable to the recent return to Wash
ington of several persons thoroughly
cognizant of alleged evil conditions
existing south of the border.
First was Henry Lane Wilson,
American ambassador to Mexico, who
has been in close touch with every
one of the American consular officers
in the disturbed districts and who is
also personally aware of the attitude
of the Mexican overnment toward
the large number of American claims
Then there have come forward the
three members of the self-constituted
committee of Americans, representing
the large plantations and mining In
terests in northern Mexico who from
personal knowledge were able to in
form the state department of the va
rious practices employed by the rebel
leaders to extort money from the
American managers and foremen and
of the comparative Indifference OF
the Mexican government officials to
the numerous appeals of the Ameri
can interests for protection from the
raiders.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03

The Tampa Tribune thinks the dem
ocratic senators from Florida should
move for the confirmation of the re-
publican Judge Cheney to the FEEDER
al bench, though if they will not and
seem determined to hold up the APP
pointment until the incoming Presi-
dent Wilson can name a democrat,
then, the Tribune thinks, they should
unite on Peter o. Knight of Tampa
The Tribune argues, and with reason,
that Jacksonville democrats are net
the only democrats to be considered
in the matter of Federal appoint
ments for this state, and it was only
natural that it should name Tampa
jurist for this honor. The weakness
of the Tribune's selection is in the
man, not the place. Peter o. Knight
ability is not to be questioned. but
for the Office of Judge of the United
States District Court, the Palatka
News trusts that the successful can
didate will have something other thar
legal and intellectual attainments t.
commend him. Peter o. Knight has
the name of being legislative LOBBY
list, name he has undoubtedly earned
and which will stick to him till ttr'
end. 1t is an undesirable name to car
ry with one on the bench. 1t would
weaken public estimate in the quality
of justice dispensed. If the true ard
tried progressive democrats of Flo,-
ida want a man for the Federal bench
who will measure up to all the re-
Observation-Disclosures, legal, NOR,
ala man with clean private and
public record--a man of the people and
who would not pander to the inter
ests-let them unite on Hon. S. ]. Hill
Durn of Palatka. Hilburn measures
up to the full stature of the place.
His appointment would add to, not
draw from, public confidence in the
judiciary.