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or-■" y^ v .i>' . v*-*-?*.j 1 ■ yor >mya jpyr THE ATLANTA. GEORGIAN AND NEWS. hhbh TK ATLANTA ffiOMUN (ANC NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. Editor. P. L. SEELY, President Published Every AfUrnoai (Except Hundiy) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At * Wert AUbews ItluU. Os. Subscription Rstss run* Months...... fey Osrrlrr. Per Week . HP :« IZ’W'l gHMjtli Cklrtro ogle* Tribes* Bid*. JZT«r5H~"....... •. .PottorBM*. i5»»SS5 Jt Is tapersttrj tkst they be ttgawl. ss «n erideace or (and ralth. Rejected asnoerrlpta will Sat be interned onlres stamps are sent ter the perpese. TOE OWIOIAM AND NEWH prists ee oscire□ or ehlectloashle sd- eertlstnr. Neither does It prtot whisky or say Honor ads. OUR FLATFORII.—The Oeorylse and News stands for Atlanta's owatat Its own ssa and rlrctrlellxht plaste. anjrSsws^heiisrrs' thi't iTstryt. rail- (norms dttm*M they are. them Is Safer tk. wjrjn&z Stoma he does eew. sad It asy ho «mb« mn bifor* w* an ready for aa Sfutsmsvsa NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND ADVERTISERS. On February 2 The Georgian pur chased the name, good will, franehlsoo, advortioing aontraoti and auboorlptlon list of Tha Atlanta Nawa,and Tha Nawa la now publishad ao a part at Tha Gaor ■Ian. All advartialng undar contract to appear In Tha Now* will ba printed in The Georgian and Nawa, without Inter ruptlen, except ouch aa la debarred by Tha Oeorgian'e established policy to exclude all objectionable advertising. Tha Georgian and Nawa regularly. AH aubaeriptlsna paid In advance to Th* Georgian and to The Nowa will ba ox- tended to cover tha time paid ter to bath newspaper*. — Should you—now. be receiving two tVpitC tf Tht Qssrgiin and Nomvb, VOW -nemo eppoere on both subscription Note. - gNTSrttt receive only eno copy regu “Private" John Dalsell baa atarted an andleu chain presidential boom tor 8anator Scott, ot West Virginia. I.lnks In that chain will ba forged all right Tom Dixon'e press agent bas appa rently overplayed the agitation game with “The Clansman." It seems to have been barred almost everywhere Paragraphor Nevln, ot The Wash Ington Herald, hai developed a mean disposition since he left Georgia. He predicates all hla stabs at poets and poetesses by quoting from those of his native state. Isn't Colonel John Joyce ■till In Washington? If tha directory don't give out be fore the election, tome of the local pa- para will name tha right man for chief of police. The Bishop of London says bache lor* are much more moral than mar ried men. The bishop Is probably a bachelor. ' New York gobbles up another cabi net officer In Secretary of the Trees- nry 8hs«. Will hive enough of those fellows In Gotham pretty soon to form a society. Even the schoolboys In Missouri In- alst on belne shown. Expelled from school g lad shot the teacher, be cause he would not ahow him any Baiting their own aalarlea made the national lawmakers so generous that they have pulled the treasury open tor e huge deficit. Still, pitchforking has Its compen sations. Senator Tillman's lecture contract for the next several months calls for 143.000. If silence really I* golden, that ac counts for the scarcity of the metal among the fair sax. In Mrs. Blla K. Parley'* One poem, “In the Beginning" the line which read “aa he turns the hands on the dial of Ume and aun and his laws tin deratood." should read "as be turned the hands on the dial of time, all na ture hit'laws understood." We make this paragraph correction because .poets BDd.poetesses neither like nor deserve to have their poems mutilated fey ao untuneful or Indifferent line. This "brain atorm" Idaa promises to feacome common as a |i|ea before (he axagtatrate next day for some of the $•* old boya. Whenever Senator Platt's family troubles simmer down enough to per mil him a alight breathing spell. Mae Wood breaks In and musses up bis peace ot Btnd- JAOOF 8CHUBMAK AMD HU DBPXMDXS8. A few day* since The Oeorglan followed A natural Impulse In resent ing the suggestion of Jaeob Behnrman that the Rockefeller donation might be relieved of iu taint If It was consecrated to th* "ctvtUsaUon of th* South." \ •* And Immediately the newspapers of New York City aad stats. The Herald, Times, Tribune, Bun, Brooklyn Eagle and the real, rose to a de fense more or less passionate, of Jacob Bcburman and hla nttoranoas, and tc a criticism of Th* Georgian for answering him. When a college president and a loader of thought In New York and the East levies a reflection upon an entire region of the country, thee* newspapers, by Implication at Jpdat, demand that Southern voice* should be silent an'd let It pass. But when the region Of country reflected upon sees At to answer In impulsive warmth the serious reflection upon Its own, by an Individual citixen. these newspaper* rise to hla spirited defense. Strange consistency this! An Individual may attack a state or sec tion of country and Ite representatives must be silent. But If a citixen of the assaulted section criticise* a leader of thought or a teacher of youth In the North, the criticised leader must be promptly and almost an grily defended, W* cannot subscribe to th* estimate of representative duty Imposed In this line of policy. And why should these newspapers ao eagerly defend Jacob Bcbnr- man In his reflection upon the South? Is It because they agree with the written estimate In which he hold* this region of the country, or Is It be cause In answering the aspersion which ha cast upon Southern civilisa tion. The Oeorglan has touched the shield ot those vriios* lances are nearly always leveled to tha depredation of tho South? . And yet without exception th# whole troop of them, ‘Tray, Blanch and Sweetheart." unite In a chorus of harking against the principle that frankly and reasonably defends Its own. There Is no newspaper In th* South and no editor. If we may say It modestly, whose ientlments are more national than those of The Geor gian and of the pen that guides its editorial page- In saaaon and out of season, at home and abroad, we have stood always and everywhere for the obliteration of sectionalism, for the love of oodutry, of the flag and of the Union as It stands to bind a reunited country. And we do not for on* moment believe that tha people of the North Indorse the sentiments of critical depredation which their newspapers ao frequently voice. It la not the people,,blais you, for the Northern people really love the South and truat It and admire It, but It la the newspapers edited by doctrinaires who do not mingle with the people whom they rep resent but from their sanctums voice opinions that have come down to them by heredity and tradition. And it has bean all too much the habit of Northern newspaperi and Northern public men to speak In terms of condescandlug approval or In direct depredation of the South. Born of th* complacency out of which the Northern section of this country came victorious from the civil war. and amplified by the prosperity that was bullded while the South was draggling out of Ita ashes to the miracle of recuperation which haa glorl- fled Its people, thas* Northern pans and Northern tongues have been too much given to the habit of thinking and. of saying things Thar reflected upon the civilisation, the .culture and the lawfulness of the South. It la this spirit which has always aroused our resentment and which stirred the protest against a comment In the temper and terms employed by Jacob Schurman, of Cornell. Here is this man foreign born, and not even native to the soil, but yet A college president, a man of education and supposedly of travel and of observation and one at least who ought to know the meaning and significance of words, who proposes In specific terms to fumigate or to purify the questionable millions of Rocke feller In ‘‘dvillilng the South." 8urely If Jacob Schurman Is fit for his position he ought to know that when he propoees to "civilise" a country It Implies directly the sug gestion that the country has no civilisation and that In greater or leas degree U to uncivilised. There to no other way In which hla language can ba construed by any outsider or by any citixen who does not know the facta but as a reflection upon an entire section and an entire people. Looking at hla statement as tranquilly and aa reasonably as we can. we can only explain It upon the theory that Jacob Schurman remembers the Atlanta riot and takes thit Incident as a type of this people and seeks to rebuke Tham for that amir ~6y An lttipUtHton upon their entire civilise- If Jacob Schurman meant thto. he ought to know at an Intelligent and reading, man that never in any section of the world ha* any Incident of lawlessness received a more prompt, a mere sweeping end a more em phatic condemnation by tho whole representative element of a people than the Atlanta riot received from Atlanta and from tho state and from the 8oulh. He ought to realise If he keeps In touch with current literature that the whole spirit of Atlanta and of the 8outh spoke In denunclatlbn of this lawless time. He ought to know If be reads the New York pa pers which are now so eagerly defending him, that by their own state ments the city of Atlanta haa. by withdrawal of patronage, put out of ex istence a newspaper which I* supposed to have encouraged and precip itated thto riot of last September. Why. then, should Jacob Schurman direct the questionable millions of Rockefeller to the "clrillxatlon" of the "Bouth?" Why should he not address bis nasal philanthropy to region* nearer home? Did not Wilming ton. Delaware, bum a negro at the stake under conditions as monstrous aa were ever stirred by the worst of the fearful provocations of the South? Did not Leavenworth and Topaka. Kan., do the same? Were any sweep ing resolutions pasted by th* people ot Wilmington, or Topeke, or Leav enworth against these crimes? Wat any newspaper put out ot existence In these regions as an expression of the public disapproval ot thoae ‘'civ ilised" regions for their part Id thto lawless era? Then why not direct the Rockefeller Civilisation Fund to Wilmington and Topeka and Leaven worth? Did not Pans and Cartersvllle. In llllnoli, lynch three negroes In a day, and did not Evansville, Ind.. In a aweeplng and destructive mob put out the lives ot aa many more? Then why not clvlllxu Danville. Ills., and Evansville. Ind ? I,et Jacob Schurman come nearer home. Did not (be city of New York, the metropolis of the republic and the ctaiter of that boasted "civilisation" of which Jacob Schurmnn to a noble even If a'nasal expo nent. produce a tnoh which from Thlrty-aocond street to Forty-third street turned the renter of New York Into a reeking shambles ot broken headed and bloody negroes In a riot as fierce and aa blttar and aa murderous In Its racial prejudice aa any that ever stirred the South? Why should not Jacob Schurman'* magnificent philanthropy begin at home? And why should not this great "dvlllxer" of Cornell begin hla charitable work with hla own people? If It be the pereeotage of Illiteracy In the South which stirs Jacob Schurman to philanthropy, why ahould he not be wise enough to remem ber thnt our percentage of Illiteracy to based upon the negro whom the North and hla own people have made our pressing and,surpassing prob lem? Why should he not recall the fact that with no means of thalr own this unfortunate people la carried aa a burden upon (he taxpayers of the South, and that their education prhgresses out of the revenues of n peo ple whose means have been exhausted because their territory was the theater of a destructive and devastating conflict? And why In the memory of these things which are of open and of gen eral repute should this man who to a master of language, and should be a master of manners and of tact, use a term which by Implication at least reflects cruelly upon the South and arouses the resentment of Its people toward him and toward the voices for whom he thinks and for whqnt he speaks. These are the considerations which stir th* South and those who love llrio resentment and to Its expression. We know as well aa Jacob Schurman or St. Clair McKelway or any of the troop of Northern apologists that the 8outh I* not perfect, any more than they are perfect. We know that this region haa Ita faults and that It commits Its errors and that It has Ita lawless element Just as the North ern states have theirs even In greater and more menacing numbers and proximity. But wc have never yet heard from Jacob Schurman and hi* friends any proposition to "clvlllto" the region In whch they live, or to reflect upon tho general and representative culture, customs and manners of the en vironment which supports them and and does them honor Alt that we ask In these matters Is that the South which I* doing Its glorious best and haa attained even by tbelr own concession to glori ous results, shall not be reflected upon, and that particularly those who know the meaning of words and the significance of terms shat' not print for the reading of the world, propositions which shall east a shadow upon a Utilization whose men and women lu antebelluu time# were ike envy of the republic—whose magnificent emergence from rain and disaster to Independence aw! prosperity has elicited the admiration of the world; and whose representative spirit today In eondejn nation at lawlessness and In progress)vanes*. Ir educations' matters, Ir. conservatism of statesmanship, and In the supremely representative Americanism of Its population, to en titled to a recognhced equality with the beat development and the beat civilisation of 0m times In which we live. ’ THE SOUTH OAROLJNIANS IN NEW YORK AND ATLANTA. The jgouth Carojlna Society of New York to preparing to celebrate lu coming anniversary with a program which promises some more than ordi narily intonating speeches. v The South Carolinians of New York hold their banquets on March the 8th, which to the birthday of John C. Calhoun, whom Carolinians with one accord regard aa the greatest statesman of American history. Mr. W. A. Barber, ex-attorney general of South Carolina, to president of the society, and Mr. John C. Calhoun to th# vice president. The din- ner.wtll be given In the ball room of the Waldorf-Astoria, which will be decorated with. Palmetto trees and other emblems of the state. The chief glory of the dlnner.will be the program Which consists or four speeches. In the first of those the Hon. Grover Cleveland, of Princeton, N. J., will respond to the toast “The Nation." The second toast of the evening will be by Woodrow Wilson, presi dent of Princeton University, and will be an estimate of John C. Calhoun. The third toast will be “Our Native State," and this will be answered by' Governor Ansel, of South Carolina. Th* fourth and last toast will be "Our Adopted 8tate," and thto will be responded to by Governor Hughes, of New York. It .Is very rarely that so notable a list of speakers have appeared at any banquet, and when tbls'featlval occasion touches ao attractive a per sonality as that of the Palmetto State, the "Harry tiotapur of the Confed eracy," and the progressive commonwealth which vies now In manufactur ing progress with Massachusetts, wa may be sura that there wHI be thloge to be said that are worthy to bo heard by the sons of South Caro lina In every state and in every section, and worthy of tha consideration of Intelligent and thinking people In every section of tha republic. On the aau* evening tha South Carolina Society of Georgia will cele brate Ita annual banquet with a notable list of speakers and with their todies In attendance. . A DREWSOME RECORD. The New York Tribune ban been at pains to compile the list of rail road accidents which have shocked the last six months of the national life. Exclusive of the recent New York Central disaster the list as aa follows: Date. Railroad. Killed. Injured. Army-Navy Orders MOVEMENT OF VESSEL*. Army Orders. Washington, March 1.—The follow ing orders have bass Issued: Captain Jams* D. Taylor. Jr., Eight eenth Infantry, from army hospital, at Hot Springs, to proper station. Private Dennis M. Mason, from Com pany E. Fourth Infantry, Fort Thomas to Thirteenth cavalry. Fort Bill. Private Edward BUsatar. hospital corps, to general hospital, Fort Bayard. Private W. Finn, from Troop K. Tenth cavalry, central hospital. Fort Bayard, to Troop M, Tenth ■ cavalry. Fort Riley. ordnance Sergeant C. W. Brooks from general hospital Fort Bayard, to Qalvtaton. relieving Ordnance Bar* gaant Donald Cara well, who wnt pro ceed to Fort Mlchle. Naval Ordara. Chaplain H. H. Ctark, placed on re tired list. Chief Gunner T. B. Watson to naval torpedo station. Newport. Me Venturis *f Vassal*. ARRIVED: February IT, Mayflower at Palm Bmch. BAILED: February 37. Tacoma, from ctenfuegoa for Guantanamo; Mayflower from Palm Beach tor Port Royal: Oaorgta. from Bradford, for Tompklnsvllle: Eagle, from Guantana mo, for surveying duty; Marcellu*. from Guantanamo for League Island; 8tartlng, from Guantanamo, for Phila delphia; Pmlrie, from Havana, for Santiago d* Cuba. February Jg—Bal timore. from Colombo for Aden; Chat tanooga from Cavite for Shanghai. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. Aug. 19—Pennsylvania Aug. 2.V*-Malne Central sept. 12—Canadian Pacific Sept. 18—Rock Island HcplJH—8L lxiuls and San Francisco 7 1 ... 12 10 0 sir Oct. 28—Pennsylvania 20 Nov. 12—Baltimore and Ohio ... 47 38 Nov. 29.—Southern 7 11 Dec. 23—"8oo" Line ... 16 31 Dec. 30—Baltimore and Ohio ... 69 60 Jan. 1—Oregon Short Line l 2 Jan. 2—Rock Island ... 3* 46 Jan. 3—Union Pacific 1 1 Jan. 0—Southern Pacific 2 0 Jan. 12—Buffalo. Rochester and Pittsburg ..... i » 0 tiSrt- Bank of Penneylrenle. (tret In the Untied Ktetne, chartered. ITXO-Ari ordering h United btiitee <-*n»u« lltl-ffeSecrV..f 0 the"S*melukr* at Cairo. 1817—Alabama territory formed. lsr-WllUam Dean Howetle. American no- thor, t*on». „ ... • _ 1M4-Mta L. U. N. lltDT#n*. C. T. t. lender. born. . . , 1967—NVliraskn proclaimed a by tho 1172—^•llowatoup Notion*! Park ••UblUhrd. I©".'—Supreme court nlNnuml cooitltutUHi- •Illy of the McKinley tariff act. 1294—f’rudtnte Mtrare elected prreldwrt of Brasil. 1897—Jip*u Adopted * gold *t*nd*rd. WILL NOT ACCEPr CALL TO TEXAS ■lan. II—CentYal New England. Jan. 13—Rock Island Jan. 15—Rock Inland Jan. 16—Nickel Plate Jan. 16—Reading •Inn. 16—Lake Shore •Ian. 19—"Big F\iur" Jan. 19—"Big Four" ..’ Jan. 19—Indiana Harbor Jgn. 19—Great Northern f. Jan. 19—Atlantic Coagt Lino Jan. 19—Atchlaon JgTL Ift^Nsw Orleans and Northwestern | M fri rtraraAiaara •»*»»• *V 'limBliqr • i 7 Jan. !0—Baltimore and Ohio Jan. 20—Nickel Piste * Jan. II—Lake Shura Jan. 31—Atlantic Coast Mao..... ........... Jan. 22—Southern Pacific;. .T.“.'". Jan. 22—New York Central Jan. 24—Baltimore and Ohio ."T. Jan. 27—Erl* Jan. 28—Northern Pacific ...'. Jan. 29—Boston and Maine Feb. 2—Baltimore and Ohio Feb. 2—Pennsylvania Feb. 7—Chicago Great Western Feb. S—New York Central.. Feb. 10—Boston and Maine Feb. 12—Lehigh Valley Feb. 13—Ontario and Weatern Total 351 474 To this appalling enumeration add the New York Central disaster In which there -were 27 killed and 139 Injured, and we have the total of 378 killed and 603 Injured. When we remember that this list or nearly 1.000 victims to nearly three times as large as the total of accidents In Europe In a year, we cannot escape the conclusion that there are some fatal and almost crimi nal defects In our American railway system which ehould be, and must be, cured In the Interests of safety and life. It to not profitable to spend time and breath In denunciation of the railroads for faults that are now generally acknowledged, but It I* the wiser thing to prod the men who control these great corporations until they put Into effect In this country aome of the rales and appliances which combine to make travel so much safer In the old world. Surely we have the genius In this great and Inventive republic to safe guard railroad travel as effectively aa^an England and the continent, and If we have not tho Initiative to develop a system of our own. then In the name of common sense and of humanity, let ua Inllate the syitem which work* »} well scrota the seas. The railroad that can do this, and doesn't do It, should, by tow, be compelled to do It. ' Ret. 11 L Motley, pastor of the Central Baptist ,-blurb, will not leave Atlanta. Recently he received n moat Battering call to the leading rburrh of El Paan, Tex. After . nnalilerlng It mine weeha. Mr. Motley lie- •-tried to decline the offer, amt remain lu Atlanta. Mo haa been h«V etfht yaora. Employee It Bealdtd. While engaged In repairing ao engine Thtiraday morning In the Georgia railroad ronntlhouao Charlie Parrla, «n employee, wee badly Injured aa the result of the ex ptaalaa at « gaeottno fit , Fgrria was scalded ao badly be bad to lie taken to the Elkledtoldeealth eaollnrluui. The geeollee tank wee being need In the repair of the locomotive. Pullman Car Cate. Argument In the salt of Ur*. Sadie >n the Catted * le tea atrcelt -mart. will a rob ably lie Xatehed Friday end the cnee will go to the Jury. Mrs. Cllnte anee for the racer- —y of tfcao alleged'damages «*WI ejected from e sleeper lu Memphis six years ape. .. . - RETIRING CABINET MEMBERS ARE QUESTS OF ROOSEVELTS. Washington, March 1.—President and Mrs. Ronaavalt gave h dinner last night In honor of the retiring members of the cabinet. Secretary Bhatv and Becretary Hitchcock. The dinner also marked the first appearance officially of Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce. FREE SCHOOL MOVEMENT INDORSED BY JR. 0. U. A. M. Special to The Georgian. Decatur, Ala, March 1.—Winona council. No. 3, Junior. Order United American Mechanics, haa adopted reso lutions Indorsing Lieutenant Governor Henry G. Gray In th* position that h* haa taken for better education In Ala bama, and especially Indorsing hie ac tion In voting for free school books for the poor children of Alabama when a vote on th* bill resulted In a tie In the atate senate. A copy of th* resolutions haa been forwarded to the lieutenant governor. WORK SOON TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTING RAILROAD. Special to The Georgian. Hiintsvllt*. Ala, March 1.—T. Pratt. Madison county director for pic Nashville and Huntsville Railway Com pany, has Just relumed from New Tork and Mates that the American Construction Company la ready to go to work shortly, and that th* new road will be under way In good ehape with in a satisfactory time. With the Elect Would Bo BulK. All Right Th* president's epigram,, ("ba dear* rather than critics* of tha deeds others do," may tempt some audacious engi neer to tall him to go ahead and build hto own canal.-)-Washington Bur. On* Exoeptisn. Th* 3-cam rat* bill haa been squashed tn the South Dakota legisla ture ao far aa tbs present session at least la concerned.—Portland (Me.) Ex press. Net Folk's Way.' Th* Missouri state house has been fumigated because of a smallpox scare. Governor Polk, It may be r* mam be red, smoked tha legislators out on a previ ous occasion,—Providence Journal. Tower's Opportunity. If Ambassador Tower survives the the kaiser—Boston Record. — Boosting Hi* Boak. A fey more challenge! to duolt will put Kuropatkln'a book right up among the six beat sellers.—Boston Herald. Explained. Opposites a iways attract. Cortelyou success In Ilf* I* said to be due to hi* habit of listening to everybody and never saying a word hlmaalf. Now. does everybody see why Mr. Roosevelt haa been so very, vary kind to Oeorge?—Richmond Tlmes-Dlspatcb Moon-Shine. Now that Congressman Moon, of Tannaaae*. Is after the minority lead ership It looks as If John Sharp Wil liams' sun has sat.—Washington Post. Headline*. Th* “Actress-Averts-Panic" headline seems to b* getting every bit as com mon ae th* "Russian-Off leer-Aasasil^ noted" headline or the “Many-Pertsh- In-Wreck” headline.—Baltimore Ameri- Anti - Expansionists. "The peopl* of Georgia era nominat ing Hoke Bmlth for president," says a contemporary. Didn’t they nominee him for shah of Persia, also?—Charles ton News and Courier. Diaelaimt Responsibility. "Shall none but millionaires run the government?" sake Senator Beveridge. t_bava no «av so tn the matter, senator, you will slIB Be able to take a small share In th* lob.—Columbia •State. Well, Liateir to Thiel The Atlanta Georgian thinks that “Vice President Fairbanks would be a warm proposition In kilts." We ahould say h* would be a cold onr, and would be liable to arrest for go ing about without visible means of support.—Montgomery Advertiser. BOY DIES FROM BURN8 RECEIVED AT OPEN ORATE. Special to The Georgian. 8partanbnrg. 8. C., Mardh 1.—Dixon McCravy, ageiTflve yeart, Is dead at the home of his mother, Mrs. Mattie McCravy, as the result of burns ha re calved last Tuesday morning. The boy was standing near a fir* and his cloth ing csiugbt on fire and before steslet- burned -about tbs face and sack. UNIVERSITY 0LEE CLUB WILL MAKE TOUR OF SOUTH. Special to Tb* Georgian, Athena, On. March 1.—Th* Univer sity Glee Club, about forty strong, will make a tour of a number of Southern cities tn April, visiting and appearing In concert at ^Athens, Macon, Atlanta, Savannah. Augusta, Jacksonville and other points. SHOT BAD NEGRO TO DEATH, THEN GAVE-HIM8ELF UP. DIFFICULTIES OT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE On my coming tn Florida this win ter. one of the Itret newspaper articles to attract my attention, was on the had spelling of th# present day. The author said, the purest English was spoken tn the South Atlantic states of America. 1 would like tn afld to this, that It Is also thn most grammatical and the moat distinct. A few weeks ago 1 heard a tnurlat say that after spending a winter South, and getting accustomed to the soft and distinct Southern speech, he found It hard to understand hts own family, on his return North. Yet even In the South, as tn all the states, you find difference* of expres sion and pronnunclatlon that are aec- ttonal—local Idioms—certain phrases and words that originate and are used among the moat highly educated. We gel the name England from Anglklalul. the home of the Angles and Saxons, and from It we get the world English The Saxon language was one •*f monosyllables, and with but few exceptions, our only remaining Saxon< words are those of one syllable. The Norman Conquest brought In the French, and the Roman Conquest brought In the lattln. A tittle Greek and Danish came In with com merer The Latin style remains for all legal terms ttre In !.atln. all .medical terms are In l-*riln,.wlth a lit tle Greek, and -leu our botunbal words, atop, By TOURIST. are. In Latin. Indeed, any of our old time professor* would say that It la Impossible to be a good English scholar without a knowledge of Latin. Fifty years ago French was th* court language or Europe, and today English Is the polite language or the world— certainty of the commercial world, and It Is the moat copious and the most difficult With regard to bad spalling. It has been complained of for several yaara, and Is universally ascribed to th* modern method of teaching It. Th* pupil le seldom mkde to pronounce each syllable, and by sound as wall as memory, make the word. Instead of thle, he la made to call out the betters In n tine, and then pronounce th* whole word, thus depending on memory atofl* to recall the right letter*. The difficulties of the English lan guage lie In Its spelling. Its pronouncla. tlon. Its accent, Ua us*. . There are so many wonts spelled differently, the meaning different, yet pronounced alike, as funeral rite wheelrtte. tn p* right, to write with pen; an many words spelled nltke. pronounced alike, end meaning different, aa board, a plank »l w-nod. tn board, to pay for abetter, and food, board of trade, to board a vessel, an many Worde spelled alike, yet wlih a different accent mak ing a different meaning, ae Invalid, a transaction of no value. Invalid, a sick person: eo many words spalled alike, >ur | pronounced alike, yet with a different our j use. making a different meaning, ae. them go. There are so many mispronounced letters which w# get from the Hanes, aa "C" pronounced "K." and "th." pro- nounetd "f" aa In cough. There are also the many illent letter* to which our president so much ob jected, that he gave order* to the Whit* House officials to leave them out of 100 words. There are our peculiar uxe of nu merals which the author chevlntx French say*, le a relict of the Nor man*. We eay a herd of cattla, but we do not say. a herd of ho roes I W* aay a drove of horess. a flock of aheap. XT# aay calf when alive, and vast when dead. Uow. w hen alive, and beef when dead. Sheep when allvs and mutton when dead. Why la all of this? No reason but that usage requires It. These are only a few of th* many thing* which make our language so difficult tn forelgnere. With regard to our prnnoundation, the best le eald wherein E. I- Babin Bake, why w* do not make, "Break to rhyme with freak, sew to rhyme with few. shoe to rhyme with foe, bos* to rhvm* with dose and lose?" The vagaries of our language are well and amusingly lllusirated in the follow ing taken from St. Nlchotae: “Know won knead weight toe ba* tolled the weigh toe do ao. A rile eutta Utile won. the aun of a grate kernel, flue up the rode, and after a rhyme, stopped at a blew house, and wrung the belle. • Hie low hurt hymn, and Ind up our buslneea to make It he kneaded wrest " , and wind up our watebea to make These .word! ait all spelled uiiea- Speeltl to Th* Georgian. Athens. Oa.. March 1.—Teaterday evening In the yards of tho Central of Georgia railway, Jim Simms, colored, ahot and killed Ctfarlle Drake, a bad' negro. They had fought earlier In the day and threats had been made. _ The negro coolly shot twice, the second shot piercing th* heart ot Drake. Wltb the smoking pistol tn hla hand, Simms quietly gave himself up to the officer. GORDON M’OONALD ON TRIAL ON DOUBLE MUROER CHARGE. Special to The Georgian. Hawklnavlllr, Ga, March 1.—Supe rior court to In session, having con sumed two weeks, and will probably be continued through next week. Two caaea are being heard against Gordon McDonald, charged with killing Csley Cheney and Herechal Burns on Decent- bar XI. Many witnesses are present, and It la expected that th* trial will last several days. The case ot Scab Hunt, who will be tried on the charge of assault with In tent to murder Bart Hendley, will ba tried ntxt. Roswell Denial, aa princi pal In this case, was aoqulttad at th* last session of court. ly. .pronounced correctly, and used wrongly. Il la not Infrequent to meet parsons ho pride themselves on their educa tion. fall In their spalling, and often meet people, apparently wall educated, yet who make mistakes In thalr gram mar. aad this jars dreadfully on th* ■enaea! TV# do not Ilk* our president'* "de formed spelling," ae soma on* calls IL and quite agree with the congressman who said, that "Webster was a greater man than Roosevelt” Our language as now used, cannot b* Changed, sgoepf by th* gradanl changes which have mad* It what It to. It haa not bean vary long alnc# honor was spelled honour, labor spelled labour. Such changes com* Imparcept- ■bly. Other changes are now taking place, and that U the dropping of capi tal lettare Used tn distinguish word* spelled the same end thd meaning dif ferent. For some time, ns we pa per* have bean spalling. Firm, a company of capitalists, with a small f; th' Spring of the year with a small ", and th* Fall of the year with a small f There seems no ranaut for the** change*, and they are somanme* very confusing. We have acquired a mastery of nut present oithography and polite ussc* sanctions It. so we are unwilling t< acquaint ourselves wltb any au-calM Improvements Lake City, Florida.