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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
Atlantans to See Formal Opening of the Canal
BIG DITCH NEARLY DONE

ton and prosperity. That much is
conceded by every student of the eco
nomics of the canal. The South will
become a great station and relay point
for the Oriental traffic of the world. In
a recent number OF The Worlds Work,
c. NJ. Keys writes:
Whole South to Benefit.
ITO guess whether New York or New
Orleans or some other port will be the
chief beneficiary of the change is lit
tie better than prophecy at this mo-
ment, but there is no reasonable
ground for doubt that the gulf ports
will be stronger in their competition
with New York than they ever were
before, so far as Oriental traffic is con-
cerned. 1t is not all Imagination, this
boast that one hears in the cities of the
South, that in the years to come the
headquarters of Americas Oriental
traffic may be along the Southern
coast"
Southern inland cities will profit ac-
cordingly. So impressed have Atlanta
business men become with the POSSIBLE
tiles of the canal for Atlanta that al
ready a movement is started to send an
Atlanta delegation to the formal open
ing of the canal in 1914. Certainly
number of individuals viii go, even if
the concerted movement is without re-
suits.
The canal will cost the United States,
when completed. several millions more
than the 1915 600 900 which congress
has appropriated. The charge on the
people for the investment of this enor-
nous sum will be $12,187,50 and for
the upkeep of the canal $3,877,405 each
year. In the light of this, the question
of tolls, which at present is agitating
the land, assumes a real significance.
The Panama canal has cost many
times more than the great Suez canal,
because of the difficulties which at
tended it's cutting-difflcult at which
man would have gasped with horrible
sense of impotency~a hundred years
ago, difficulties which discouraged the
French and broke DeLesseps and
wrought an international scandal
To cut through mountains to over
come the insiduous enmity Of disease,
to defy every obstacle that a print
tive nature could offer, is no child's
play, the French found, as did the
Americans after them.
The greatest difficulty has been the
slides. The sloping walls Of the big
cuts again and again have toppled into
the ditch as the workmen dug. Some
times the slides have been gradual.
sometimes with the ~uddeness Of ava
'ancn's, buiyiug men and buildings.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04

since that section is shy on Democratic
congressman.
Democratic congressman are claiming
the right TO name postmasters at Chat
tanooga. Nashville and Memphis, un-
less Lea, also of Nashville, insists on
the postmaster there. Lea opposed Me-
Kellar, Memphis congressman. for the
senate. Consequently Shields can be
expected to help Mcclellan land the
marshal and district attorney for West
Tennessee. as well as Memphis post
master
The only other big Jobs left are rev
enue collector for the state at large
and attorney and marshal for middle
Tennessee. Lea probably can put these
over. At best, though, it looks as if
Shields has the better end of the bar
gain.
The anti-Lea men doubtless will not
fall to spread the report at Washing
ton that Lea supported Hooper, a Re-
publican, for governor, in their efforts
to keep his friends from the pie counter.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04

A message to President Taft today
announces that the work of excavation
on the itsthmian canal would be com
pleted April L.
The dreams of DeLesseps, of the
South's own John Tyler Morgan, of
thousand prophetic minds, since Bal
boa first saw the Pacific are about to
be realized. The great god Steam
Shovel, removing mountains, under
mining rivers, cutting away all the
time into the heart of the earth, has
triumphed in it's labor
Colonel George Goethals, chief engi
neer, according to a recent interview,
thinks that the first ships may go
through the canal about September /.
Less than ten per cent of the total
excavation and concrete laying is yet
to be done.
About September /, then, the great
dixie at Bos Obispo In the center of
the canals length, will be blown up,
and the water from Gatun lake will
flow down toward the Atlantic ocean,
through the beg cut, through Pedro
Miguel lock, and into Mirafiores lake.
The Gatun dam will be opened at the
other end, and the water of the canal
will touch that of the Pacific ocean in
it's kiss of introduction.
Formal Opening in 1914.
Ships may go through at that time,
although 1t is likely that the formal
opening will not be held until some
time I'm 1914. not until armament for
the canal arrives. and until the de-
lenses are established Then. too, the
towing machinery, the steel work for
the lock gates and other contrivances
which can be installed at any time
will not be available before another
appropriation is made by congress,
1t will be a great ditch, 649 feet wide
at the bottom and wider at the top be-
cause of its lozenge- shaped sides. 1t
will carry As feet of water-deep
enough for the greatest ship. 1t will
have cost $400 900. 1t will reduce
by 5000 miles the trip between the
eastern and the western ports of the
United States and bring Asia thou
sands of miles nearer And 1t will
bring closer the civilizations of the east
aud of the west, the modern west and
the old, old east 1t is the very north
west passage that the old Spaniards
sought. together with their EldOrado
and the Fountain OF Youth, linking the
fabulous east with the busy markets OF
modern iands.
Ii will bring to The southern s.aLes
OF the United states q Sr"t rrg"neta-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
TRIAL FOR PARIS
BANDIT TERRORS

PARIS, Feb. 3.-With the palace Of
justice under a heavy guard of armed
troops and gendarmes, the trial of TWEEN
tys automobile bandits who created a
reign of terror in Paris last year be-
gan today. Vast crowds assembled in
the streets about the palace early in
the morning, but only a few were en-
abled to get into the court room where
the trial is under way. So intense has
been the interest in the desperadoes
that mnay men and women came from
distant points to attend the trial and
besieged the presiding judge for tickets
of admission.
Three hundred and four witnesses
have been summoned. OF these $50 are
under subpenaes for the prosecution
bandits, who have been receiving money
from a mysterious source, employed
able counsel to defend them
There was a dramatic moment when
the prisoners were led into the court
room. Their demeanor was marked by
bravado and insolence, and they glared
around the room. One of them, no old
er than boy, curled his slender mus
tache points and smirked at the few
women present as though he Were al
ready free from restraint and was back
among the Apaches and guerrillas Of
the boulevards.
A list Of 567 questions has been pre-
pared by counsel to be put to the jurors
but before interrogation began Judge
Couinard addressed the jurors, telling
them to take no alarm from the threats
and anonymous communications which
have been received in the past "A hours.
The trial is expected to last from IA to
Is days.
The twenty defendants were members
OF the band led by Bonnet and GARNER.
who were shot to death in battles with
the police. Bonnet was killed at Choisy-
Le-Roi, after a fierce fight, in which
thousands of shots were fired
OF the accused bandits six have been
previously convicted on other charges.
and seven are liable 10 life sentences.
In the eyes Of some, the desperadoes
have become heroes. Scores OF scented
love notes have been received from
women and choice fruits ana buubons
have been acnt to the cells of tbe ac-
cused niou
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
PASTOR Of SAME
CHURCH 23Y YEARS

Friends of DE-. A. r. Holderby today
are congratulating him on his twenty
JnTd anniversary as pastor of the
Moore Memorial church.
DR. Holderby preached a special SER
mon yesterday appropriate to the occa-
sion He said that of the 100 persons
"ho composed the membership % years
ago only twelve now are identified with
Inc church. the others having moved
away or died
At the First Presbyterian church
next Sunday, DR.. Hugh K. Walker will
deliver special sermon dealing with
Inc needs of the church and of the work
accomplished during the past year
rms will be his first anniversary as
pastor of the First Presbyterian. DR..
walker came to Atlanta from Los An
Se'eS' and in the year he has been here
Ets won the respect and admiration of
d" denominations.
Fleetwood Criticises Pastors.
NeF' h. Dean Ellenwood, pastor of
l'e flrst Gniversalist church, told his
.ongFegation last night that a purifica-
ION of the pulpit was needed in At
MA and said that this city was not
- PACK as its ministers and over-zeal-
'0S feformers had painted it.
according to DIR. Fleetwood, the va
nus ministers throughout the city
1--we spread broadcast a false report of
."e shamelessness of the city. He
'sSlhes these colleagues of his "a well
,n'edhing group of reformers, whose
love" - pei {" ~
.,' Ellenwood closed his sermon by
ing that he wished a preacher could
"elu as accountable for his utter
as a lawyer or political speak
sn,t ana that while it would probably re-
u III few fruitless damage suits. at
tbo same time "it also is probable that
would be effected a publication Of
pulpit which is needed very much .
,,,, ~ dunbar ogden. pastor of the Cen
ts,. ntesbyterian church. took as his
Do Ahclent Foes at the Foot of the
..r. 1t was his first address in At
uGl' aller returning from Mississippi,
n. ne mas been holding a revival
u... psden said he believed that the
br..., form Of sin is evidenced when 1t
's 'u' IN legaized power.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
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essary financial help, gladly and will
tngly. 1t is not thought that the ex
pertinent viii require a great deal Of
money.
The following brief and very much
to-the- point bill has been introduced in
the Ohio legislature:
Whoever carries a pistol, bowie
knife, dirk or other dangerous
weapon concealed on or about his
person shall be imprisoned in the
penitentiary not more than Ave
years nor less than one year.
There is no alternative of fine
permitted by this act. The carrying of
concealed weapons means the peniten-
tiary-no less.
In Georgia, the pistol toter" often
too often-escapes with a fine. A great
many people will think the proposed
Ohio plan a better one.
Former President of the Senate Rob-
ert L. Berner, of Macon. will be an ap-
plicant for United States district at
torney for the southern district of
Georgia-and he likely will be a most
formidable candidate, moreover
Mr.. Berner is one of the best known
men in Georgia, and has figured prom
inently in politics for many years, al
belt more actively few years back
than recently
He went up against Uncle Allen"
Gambler. the one eyed plowboy Of
Pigeon Roost,'' few years ago. in a
little rough and tumble fight for the
governorship, and Uncle Allen" got
away with the prize. Still, the cam
paign that Berner made then has not
been forgotten my many people.
He will be backed heavily for the at
torneyship by scores of admirers
throughout the state.
Former Tennesseeans, now hibernat-
ing in Georgia, are taking a keen specu-
lative interest in the effect the election
of Chief Justice John K. Shields to the
United States senate will have on the
Democratic Federal pie distribution
that will come with the new Democrat
ic administration.
Senator Luke Lea Led the opposi-
ton to Shields election. Consequently
Shields may be expected to oppose any
of LEAFS friends for Federal patronage
and vice versa. Shields comes from
East Tennessee, where there are two
Republican congressmen-the only ones
In Tennessee. Postmaster al Knoxville.
n narshaiship, district attornership and
several fat national soldiers home johs
are Ia lru IN Fast 1r.un,ssaaa.p. ,..1,fs.
shields friendS claim he sbon'd name.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04

The authority within the department
of agriculture is ample enough, but the
funds in hand are not sufficient to war
rant the undertaking, and unless the
legislature. at it's forthcoming session.
is willing to provide the money for the
experiment. nothing likely win come OF
it-and that would be more or less Of
a pity, too, as the offer generally has
appealed to the governor profoundly.
There was no feature of the corn
show held in the state capitol this win
ter that attracted more interested and
approving attention than the one lone
apple exhibit from Habersham.
Very few people dreamed that such
magnificent and beautiful fruit was
to be had from Georgia orchards. Those
who have seen the famous Oregon ex-
hibits found little if anything lacking
in the Georgia exhibit by way of COM
parison
So pleased was Secretary Walter
G. Cooper. OF the Atlanta Chamber Of
Commerce, with that exhibit, that he
Immediately announced his intention
OF making the apple show an annual
attachment TO the corn show.
The legislature will be asked by the
department of agriculture 10 make the
necessary appropriation. in order that
Mr. Magid's tender may be accepted
and the apple experiment tried out. and
Commissioner Conner hopes and be-
iieYes--that the general assembly Viii
40 aDpreriata the frpunrt.nt. 80 Aha,
susg' ton thar II viii furnish the ncc-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
THIEVES STEAL WIRES
CARRYING 1900 VOLTS

LARNED. KANs., Feb. s.-Placing
themselves in danger of electrocution,
members of an organized gang of thieves
nave begun cutting cables from the in
terurban trolley lines throughout southern
Kansas. Many of the cables stolen SO
far carried $500 volts Officials OF the
losing companies believe the operators
are experienced electricians, as amateurs
would doubtless have met death.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
WOMAN AUTO DRIVER
IS SUED FOR $4,000

CHICAGO. Feb 3.-Dr Bertha VAN
Moosen is accused OF violating the city
ordinance requiring operators of motor
vehicles to stop when approaching street
cars which have stopped to allow pas
sengers to alight in personal injury suit
for $4,000 fled in the circuit court The
PLAINTIFF, Ethel Tobin. claims that she
was run down by the physicians auto
mobile October 6, 1912. while alightfng
from street car at West Sixty third
and South Halsted streets.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04

acres of the best
apple land n
Habersham coun-
ty, for the states
use as an expert
mental apple or
chard, if the state
will accept and
maintain 1t.
The governor is
absolutely without
authority in the
matter, but he has
referred the prop
osition to the de-
partment of a gri-
culture, and that
department h a s
taken the pro-
posal under Sc
rions adYisement.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
PASTOR C0NFESSES TO
BURNING HIS OWN HOME

MADISON. MINI, Feb r. REV Enan.
uel Ekeland. of Lake Shore township,
Lac Qui Parle county according 10 dep.
uty fire marshals. has confessed that he
burned his own house ana barn January
20 aud that he burned h's Automobile laaf
iuns No wax arrested
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
BY JAMES 8. NEvlN.

Louis B. Magid, of Atlanta, has adj
dressed letter to Governor Brown,
rendering the state of Georgia five
Evening star., 1913-11-28

irritations Venezuela has more than
doubled her purchases of American
goods. Colombia. still smarting under
the t-stimulated rebellion that
made our acquisition of the Panama
Canal Zone possible. nevertheless
bought from us to the amount OF So
33s.0 900. against s2.500o0 in 1890. Our
gains appear everywhere. They have
been achieved without such close at
tention to the taste OF the purchasers
as both British and German manufac-
turers show. and without any such
banking facilities in South America IS
England offers to her exporters.
The removal of sources OF irritation
by wiser statesmanship we are sure
VIII stimulate this trade. The recog-
milton OF banking needs is bound 20
come. On that depends the safe grant
ing OF time TO buyers as English sellers
DO. often discounting six months
paper. And above all. the Panama
canal is yet to produce its effect In
the immense extension of our Latin
American commerce IL the present
outlook is not deceptive broader mar
kets will within two or three years
make oyerproduction a thing of the
past in the United States. our factories
VIII be working overtime. labor will
be in '-insistent demand. and all the
prophecies of Mr. Redfield viii be on
their way TO fulfillment
Evening star., 1913-11-28
BRITAIN'S ONE-MAN JOBS.
Royal Whipping Boy-Took Place o
Princes Needing Punishment.

From Fearscn's Weekly.
Many curious old court appointments
have been abolished but there are still
several very quaint posts about the
throne.
There is. for instance. a marshal Of the
Gentle -Archers. He is the commander of
a company of Scottish archers who have
the right of acting the kings body
guard when he is in Scotland. Their uni
form is the ancient archers color-I-in-
coin green. They practice in an Edin-
burgh public park.
There is a kings verderer for the forest
of Dean. This is probably the most an
cient of all court appointments yer
derer is a sort of gamekeeper In charge
of deer, and the office dates from early
Norman times, when the hunting of deer
was the favorite royal sport. The holder
of this office is elected at a special court
presided over by the lord high sheriff of
Gloucester. t--s.s
1t is only a few years since King Ed
ward VII abolished the offices of king s
ale faster and royal rat catcher. The
royal rat catcher had handsome salary
OF ESQ year, with allowances for the
upkeep OF his dogs and ferretS. This lat
ter Office dated from the time of Charles
IL
There is still steward of the Chiltern
Hundreds Any NJ. p. can have the post
for the asking. In fact, he Is compelled
to ask for IL IL he wants TO resign MS
office. as in theory no M. p. can resign
except on accepting: IAN office of profit
under the crown. The profit is exactly
81 year. and. as far as. is known, no
M F. has ever touched that sovereign.
as the first thing retiring NJ. F. does
after obtaining the office Is to resign It,
The office dytes from the days when the
Chiltern district lin Bucks swarmed with
outlaws.
1t is not many years since the high
sounding post of uncorker of ocean bottles
was abolished News travelled slowly IN
. Queen EliZabeth's time. and the first news
She had of the taking OF Nova Zenbla b.,
the Dutch was found in a bottle picked
up by Deal fisherman named ionneid,
who forw arded the message TO the lord
high admiral.
Queen Elizabeth was struck with the
idea and decreed that all bottles with
Enclosures found on the coast should be
forwarded to the lord high admiral, Ton
field sbeins appointed uncorker. The post
survived for centuries.
youthfuI royalties must at times regret
Ftbe abolition of the post OF royal whipping
| boy. whose duties were to act az deputy
| for naughty princes when corporal pun
ishment became advisable.
Evening star., 1913-11-28
The Cedars of Lebanon.
the Wide World Magazine.

From the Wide World Magazine.
All that now remains of the cedars of
Lebanon is little forest of some four
hundred trees. which are rigidly pre-
served. They lie on a small fertile
plateau. situated at an altitude of GLIB
feet above sea-level. The grove is reached
from Bsherreh by steep and winding
road.
With the exception of few stragglers,
the grove is inclosed by neat stone wall
built by former governor of Lebanon
to protect the smaller trees from goats
The older trees have always occupied a
position of honor in the estimation of
man because of their come ction with the
temple built by Solomon and the various
allusiOnS to them in the Bible.
Among the dWellers in Syria, where
forests Of tall trees DO not exist, the
cedars naturally excite admiration, and a
modern Syrian writer says of them that
they are undeniab bly, the most lofty of all
the vegetable kingdom. We know, of
course. that this is hardly the case, for
the famous redwood trees of California
reach height of over three hundred
feet, while in Tasmania the blue gum is
almost as large so far as height is con-
cerned The eedarS are actually about
50 feet high, which is more than the
height of the trees of an average forest.
Evening star., 1913-11-28
Detective Evans Assigned.
Elephants Teeth.

rom i!t-Bits.
The elephant has no cutting teeth
Ike most animals, but only a series
of molars. These molars, or grinders
as they wear away, gradually move
forward in the jaw, and the remnant
OF the tooth when the surface is com
pletely destroyed is cast out in front
The same molar can thus be replaced
as many as eight times. The tusks
which are only enormously -elongat ted
teeth. can be renewed only once. This
wearing process and the election OF
the stump of the tooth go on very
slowly during the life of the elephant
only one or two teeth at time are
in use, or in view, in each jaw. There
are always other teeth waiting to pass
forward and begin their work. al
though there is a limit to this success
sion. for. when the last has come into
use and haen worn down the elephant
can no longer chew his food. and must
die of starvation. il he has not already
succumbed to old age.
Evening star., 1913-11-28
Catarrh Victims
Get Immediate and Effective Re-
lief by Using Hyomei.

Hyomei is natures true remedy
for catarrh. There is no stomach
dosing-you breathe it.
When using this treatment. you
breathe healing balsams and ci-
fectively reach the most remote
air cells of the throat. nose and
lungs, the catarrhal germs are de-
stroyed--quick and sure relief re-
suits.
Hyomei often restores health to chronic cases
that had given up all hope OF recovery. ~
hest action is at the start OF the disease WHOM
the breath is becoming offensive. and constant
sniffing. discharges from the nose. ,iroppngs in
the throat and frequent sneezing. or that choked-
up feeling begin 10 make life burden. Al
the first symptom OF catarrhal trouble such
crusts. in the nose. watery eyes. hawking and
morning choking surely Hyome and how
quickly you get relief All druggists seli Il.
The complete OUTFIT including inhaler and
bottle OF liquid. costs hut Sl.00: extra bottles
OF liquid. il later needed 80 cents. Hyomei i
sold by Jas. O'Donnell with guarantee TO refund
! the money IL Il does not give satisfaction