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Samuel Inman Finds His Work.
It Is a matter of peculiar gratifies'
tlon to the thousands of friends of Mr.
Samuel Inman that ho Is giving the
vigor and Interest of his more mature
years to tho great question of educa
tion, male and female, In the stato.
Mr. Inman la a figure dear and hon
ored among the people of Atlanta and
of Georgia. lie has been called the
first cltlsen of Atlanta, and thero aro
multitudes of noble actions In the
wake of his useful and gontlo life
which Justify that proud and noble ap*
pollution.
Bellied In life beyond the necessity
of an active prosecution of his own
affairs. In porfoct health, \flth blame*
less years behind him and a beautiful
character bullded upon his kindliness
and philanthropy of living, there could
be no npbler cause In which this no*
ble cltlsen could serve the state ho
loves, and the shite which honors him,
than In helping with all his sound
tense, with all bis broad philanthropy,
and with all his gontlo tact and
kindliness to Inspire and to help In
the direction of the educational llfo
and program of the state of Oeorgla.
We believe that If a ballot of that
great host of Georgians who caU tbem-
selves Sam Inman's friends could bo
taken tomorrow, or today, that tho
ballot would be unanimous that bo
has found bis work among the youth
of Georgia.
And we are very sure that what his
bands find to do In this great and no*
ble cause, be will do with his might,
faithfully, gently and goncrously to
the end.
The chances are that we shall have
some spring next summer at least.
The child Is the future cltlsen, and
the educational conference Is the
• forerunner of the better state.
Ifow good it Is to aee the fair El-
berta blushing rosily over the funeral
notices preached above her lu the
early spring!
Ha* Congressman Griggs deserted
Atlanta? Tho light of his counte*
nance and the warmth of his smile
have not Illumined the Capital City
in many moons.
Senator Clay's prostration with the
grip Istrobblng him and the spring
platforms of somo charming mutual
reminiscences.
The letter of the editor of The
Georgian printed ip The New York
World of Monday was sent In
sponse to a telegram from The World
asking specifically for a further elab*
oration of the Chattanooga proposi
tion without regard to space. The
World is Is the ablest and foremost
of the Independent Democratic pa*
pen of the country, and Ita courtesy
sod catholic fairness are appreciated
bars and elsewhere.
The revival of the cltlsen will be
a natural consequence of the reor*
K
ganlsation of parties.
The Presbyterians and Harmony
are having a historic tussle In Bir
mingham. Here's to harmony, which
no mean* discounts our loyally to
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
THE EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE VITAL.
Georgia has rarely had a more significant and Important meeting
than the conference of prominent Georgians which gathers on Friday to
discuss the vital'topic of education.
The practical spirit of this practical and effective age has come at
last to grapple the great question of education In a practical way, and
whereas we have heretofore been accustomed to confine our Interest
In educational matters to a few platitudes upon public occasions, and to
relegate this great cause to our handful of teachers, and school commis
sioners, It has come now to be recognised as a vital If not the most vital
question in this republic.
And In this high conception, tho progressive public spirit of this
age Is beginning to approach It with the seriousness and deliberate vigor
which Its Importance demands.
Here, for Instance, on Friday are fifty leading cltltens of Georgia
who have been carefully selected, and who after some weeks of due de
liberation and study have come together to give, through the newspa
pers and through printed reports, to the state legislature and to the
people of Georgia, their matured a nd thoughyul views upon • the all-
around development of our Georgia youth.
The occasion is one of vast Importance. Every father and every
mother In this Empire State Is an Interested auditor, either by ear or by
the “hearing of the eye," to tho deliberations held at the state capltol,
at tho Kimball house and In the Chamber of Commerce.
Friday Is most distinctly “Educational Day” In Atlanta, and the whole
progressive spirit of cduentlon In this progressive state should rally to
do it honor.
There Is a program at the capltol In the morning, a program at the
luncheon given by the Chamber of Commerce at noon, and another pro
gram In thd evening In the parlors of the Kimball bouse—all filled by
strong and eamost men and women of the state.
Surely, In this grand abd thoughtful symposium of the vital Geor
gians of today, we should receive a forward pulse toward better methods
and larger liberality, both In conception among our people and In appro-'
prlatlon among our legislators for the higher and > the elementary
branches of education In the state.
Education holds the key to tbe tremendous future that Is developing
before this people. Day by day as we measuro In comparison the In
terest and liberality of other states, we must be quickened through all
tbe veins of Georgia’s life and patriotism to a larger and a more vigor
ous treatment of this vital question at home.
"SINGLE SHOTTING” THE VITAL ISSUE.
The Savannah Press and Tho Msco/i Telegraph, discarding the has
ty and Intemperate and adopting tbe more deliberate and thoughtful
form of discussion, now complain that Tho Georgian and Its editor
are concentrated upon the one Idea of the “regulation of predatory
wealth,” whllo they, The Press and The Telegraph, are thoroughly Im
pressed with the fact (hat there are other Issues which dlvldo the
two political parties and the two men who are the chief figures In
each of them.
This position states clearly the difference between The Georgian
and its contemporaries. It Is at last a difference In degree rather than
In fact.
Wo recognize fully here the existence of other Issues beside the
control of predatory wealth and the regulation of the railroads.
But we recognise no Issue that Is so pressing and so vital In thla
particular era of our politics.
Wo are "single shotting” this Idea because It overshadows at this
particular period all other Issues and questions which divide the two
parties. In the economic process ot the last two decades, there have
grown In these United States a series of enormous corporations and
sovcral colossal combinations of business Interests whose Increasing
power over prices, over politics and over legislation have come to be
a real monaco to the country.
Twenty-five years ago, the Interest of political parties .might have '
well been divided upon tbe other Issues which The Press and The Tele
graph describe. At that time and In that more tranquil period It might
havo. been wise and iiolltlc to draw the lines and form the ranks of par- *
ty upon the Issue of the tariff, public Improvements, enlargement of
territory and the questions of labor and of capltol.
Theso questions still exist, and thoy are each of them of an Im
portance which no man la disposed to deny.
But no thoughtful man In this age will refuse to concede that
stoadlly and remorselessly the aggression of tho corporations and of or
ganized wealth expressed In railroads, In mergers and In the trusts bavo
come to be the supreme menace to popular government and the su
premo Issue in Amorlcan politics.
The other questions are not dead. They are simply subordinate.
This question may not be always as pressing as It Is tbday, but
for the present nt least It Is urgent, menacing and supreme. It Is
great enough and vital enough and urgent enough to justify the post
ponement of other questions while wo deal with it.
We bcllove that In their honest moments (and they have many) the
editors of The Press and of Tho Telegraph would concede tho fact that
if wo aro "single shotting one Issue” in this period of our economic
history, that we have selected that Issue which Is'the largos}, the most
dangerous and the most prtsslng of them nit.
Wo bcllove, too, that The Press and Tbo Telegraph, dealing fairly
with that great “patient” which we political doctors call tho people,
would Indorse the proposition that among several ailments wc should
treat first and most absorbingly that ono whleh most seriously threatens
the life of the sufferer. If a human frame should be afflicted with fe
ver nud u broken limb or a feunshot wound any wise physician would set
tho limb or treat the wound with surgory while he permitted the other
malady to wait until the urgent evil was relieved. A human body trou
bled with consumption and cholora at the samo tlmo would be approach
ed by a physician with reference to tbe rapid and aggresslvo disease
while ho deferred an especial attention to tbe moro deliberate malady
for a Inter time.
And ao It Is the Idea of Tho Georgian that In tho order of their Im
portance wo should first tako hold of this groat eating cancer upon
the body of the people and cut It out of our economic life, before we
proceed to give constitutional treatment to the other chronic maladies
which afflict tha body politic.
This, la a nutshell. Is tho position that wo take. We believe it to
bo founded and based upon reason and common sense, and wo think
that tho peoplo In the main heartily agree with It.
Thero Is another rnotlvo In The Georgian's position to which wo
direct the attention of our contemporaries.
These other questions which they press and which they so ardently
emplinslzo at this time are utterly handicapped In their treatment and*
remedy by the disordered and divided condition of tho parties which
champion their several sides. How are we going to get a divided and
factional democracy to treat these Issues of tho tariff, currency, states’
rights and territorial enlargement until wo can bring those parties to
gether in a coherent and united state?
We ask our friends of The Telegraph and of The Press not to
forget that the other great central object of tho Chattanooga proposi
tion was to bring about a condition In which these parties could be re
formed. and reorganized along honezt and definite lines to champion
and to carry the opposing theories of the government. We have not
been able for years to present a Democratic platform which carried any
great majority of real Democratic sentiment behind It because either
Belmont bad triumphed or Bryan had prevailed and the Democrats who
ought to bo Republicans, or tho Democrats who followed the old lines
have alternately held sway to the discontent and discomfiture of the
other faction. •
It Is so with the Republican party, but more so now than ever be
fore, and so much so that perhaps the great end of reorganizing par
ties upon definite lines offers the great and not the lesser reason for
tbe proposition which The Georgian has advanced.
Forty per cent of tbe Republican party in New York city voted tor
Hearst In the municipal election- N'obody knows what large per cent
of the Democratic party voted for Roosevelt, In the last general elec
tion.
The hoi>eless factions In each party absolutely demand some op
portunity for a complete and wholesome reorganization, and If any man
will offer to the public any sensible and promising formula other
than an era of good feeling, by which these factions in either party can
be let loose to re-allgn themselves behind the principles in which they
reailv bcltev*\ w» should be clad to bear It.
hind theories of government and principles In which It actually be
lieves. Tho wholo Integrity of tbe electorate depends upon Its ability
to do this thing. The habit which we have bad for years of voting for
things In which we do not believe, and for leaders for whom wo do not
care, simply because a caucus or a convention of tho accidental majori
ty of our own party has decreed it, Js demoralizing tp tbe integrity ot
the ballot and to tbe real principle of representative government.
The opportunity for a new deal for tbe Individual citizen with his
Individual ballot Is a second supreme and compelling reason for one
great "era of good feeling" In which all party lines may be for a tlmo
completely obliterated In order that they may be nq more definitely and
more honestly drawn. ,
After an «ra like this the, Democratic party might be so reorgan
ized as to call to Its ranks every real Democrat In America. The Re
publican party-of vested rights and privileges could be so reorganized as
to rally all Its honest and sincere advocates behind Its leaders. And
for the future we should proceed according to the convictions of the
voters rather‘than by the compulsion of bis ballot under party cau
cuses or political conventions.
Here, then, are two .Issues Instead of one which we “single shot”
as compelling In their appeal for the temporary obliteration of party
lines In order to re-mark and re-deflne the honest and opposing theo
ries of the government.
LaFollette will bo a fine "runner
up" to the finals of the presidential
tourney.
The “Southern Candidate” Is the
the most hopeful light on the whole
horizon of Democracy.
The paragrapber and the kingdom
are still far apart.
Tbe Joint weight of our governor
and our governor-elect oufcht to de
light tho fancy of Grover Cleveland,
who would have probably “turned
down” Tllden and Alex Stephens on
size. .
LET THE PEOPLE HAVE A
8AY-80 IN EVERYTHING.
Editor of The Atlanta Ooo{gian.
I am one of many women who aub-
scribe for your paper to have the great
pleaaure of reading the finest editorials
emanating from a Georgian's brain.
I find myself embarrassed by my
riches In thle respect when I attempt
to cull the very best rf)d write you
concerning them.
Lae Thursday, May 16, your editorial
"Link Charter Revision to Greater At
lanta" waa Just too good for anything.
I do hope you will keep up a racket
along that line, for we want that old
charter done away with.
"The Noble 46” came very near
granting the petition of the women who
asked that the women who own prop
erty should be permitted to vote In At
lanta and begged them to recommend
It. If the women of Atlanta had munic
ipal suffrage, as the women of Kan
sas have, the licensed liquor traffic
would have to go out of business as It
Is going In Kansas, driven out by the
votes of women.
We hope Mr. Maddox will be a mem
ber of the charter revision committee of
Greater Atlanta, for he Is our friend.
Mr. Elite la not so we wouldn’t vote for
him for conatable or any other office
for that matter.
"Let Ue Have Fewer Secret Sessions
of Public Bobles” was the next editorial
to strike my fancy. You expressed In
your own Inimitable way mV Ideas on
that subject and 1. Indorse every word
of It.
Why ehould a few men, "eervants
of the people,” meet eecretly and elect
other men to poaltlons on the police
board, board of education, commie-
sloner of public works, city engineer,
school superintendent, etc.? If per
mitted once or twice there will be no
ond to it. Tbo men people are not
weary of voting, they like it and wish
to vote for those they wish to serve
them. It le natural for Americans to
love to rote and that Is the reason so
many women want to vote—they take
after their daddies, don’t you see?
Besides all that we women want to
see election days come oftener than
they do, for the abominable licensed
saloons are closed, and our men folks
cannot get drunk so easily as they did
when Atlanta was a wide-open city and
ever>- election day wni a horror. The
women were compelled to stay at homo
to save themselves from Insults of va
rious kinds generally offered by "men
In liquor.” We like the change, Mr.
Editor, and our eyes are opened to the
necessity for many other reforms.
For Instance, we see that the bal
lot Is a wonderful power, and should
sot be Intrusted to drunken. Irresponsi
ble people of any color or condition. I
was delighted to read In last Saturday's
Georgian how the - working men
(may God bless them, every one!),
were protesting to council condemning
the plan to effect officials by that
body, and that the railway employees
held a meeting and pledged themselves
not to vote for men supporting that
plan.
Those men had the courage of their
convictions, and they know that the
ballot Is the right‘preservation of all
rights. How happy they should be
In knowing they hud such a powerful
weapon with whleh to defend them
selves and their Interests.
They know that tho average council
man and politician love ballots as well
or better than a goat loves tin cans,
and other things he has no business to
handle, and they also know that with
that powerful weapon, which belongs
only to free men, they can force their
servants to do their will.
We have all been taught from in
fancy that our republican government,
national, state and municipal, Is a gov
ernment of the people, for the people,
by the people, with the beat of the peo
ple (women) left out.
When the blessed forty-nine (49)
get to work on the charter revision busi
ness, let us hope thnt they will see the
utter absurdity of taxing women who
own property without granting them
the power of exercising their undoubt
ed right to vote for men (and women)
who will carry out their wishes In an
open-handed way, without star cham
ber proceedings of any kind.
Finally, let mo tell you that the ma
jority of women want a perfected
Australian ballot, the Inttletlve and
referendum, woman suffrogo and ell the
other good things women should have
hod a hundred years ago. And wc ex
pect you. Mr. Editor, to fight our bat
tles for us. for you ore one of the few
true knights of the twentieth century
which Victor ituko predicted would be
the woman's century.
Help us to come Into our own. We
are a feeble folk. Very truly.
siary l. McLendon,
President Georgia Woman Suffrage As
sociation.
Atlanta, May 20.
put up Roosevelt and make his election
unanimous has this significance: Clews,
a Republican, Is a Well street banker,
and thus belongs to the element which
Is popularly supposed to have pro
scribed the president.
Herq Is a fact ot much greater sig
nificance: Many stalwart Republican
papers, situated as far apart geographi
cally as The Newark Advertiser, The
Pittsburg Gazette (the oldest paper
west of the Alleghanles) and The Min
neapolis Journal—to mention only three
representative party organs—declare
that tOhen a national convention, voic
ing an overwhelming popular demand,
nominates a man for president,-It Is his
duty to accept, regardless of his own
personal preferences and regardless
also of any previous'utterances which
he may have mado.
Many things can take place between
now and the opening of the conven
tlons twelve months henca which
might alter the political situation and
make present forecasts vain. It Is
only fair to say, however, that some
of the enemies whom President Roose
velt hoe made and whom he Is now
making are by their enmity to him
raising up new allies for him among
the people every day.
In the past few years the United
States has seen many political preju
dices discarded, many prepossessions
challenged, many parallels pushed
aside and many precedents abolished.
It is altogether possible that 1908, In
tho Republican convention and at the
polls, may end the career of another
tradition.
Army-Navy Orders
MOVEMENT OF VESSELS.
ANOTHER TERM FOR ROOSEVELT.
Chnrles M. Harvey In Leslie's Weekly.
But If the thing which Is expected by
many Democrats and many Republi
cans really comes to pass, tile pajier
which can say “1 told you so" with the
greatest pride and emphasis Is the New
York World. As long ago aa March 28,
1945, a few weeks after hi* Inaugura
tion for hla firs: elected term In the
White House, that paper predicted that
"Theodore Roosevelt will be renomi
nated for president of the United States
la 1908, and he will be re-elected.”
The fact that Henry Clews, of New
York Joins John T-mule Grave*, of
Washington. May 22.—The following
orders have been issued:
Army Orders. »
Following changes coast artillery or.
tiered: Captain James A. Shlpton, from
Schenectady to school of submarine
flenfenses. Fort Totten, ae disbursing
officer, relieving Captain Robert E. Cal-
lan, who will proceed to office chief of
artillery, Washington, relieving Captain
Lloyd England, who will proceed to
Forty-eighth company, coast artillery.
Recruit John W. Higgins, Infantry
recruit depot, Columbus barracks, hav
ing enlisted under false pretenses, dis
charged without honor from the army.
First Lleuteant Haywood B. Hansel),
assistant surgeon from Washington to
Fort Snslllng, relieving Captain Walter
D. Webb, assistant surgeon, who will
rroceed to general hospital, Washing
ton barracks; Captain George L. By-
roade, retired from Culver Military
Academy, Culver, to home; First Lieu,
tenant Francis W. Clark, coast artil
lery, to Artillery School, Fort Monroe.
Private (first class) Auburn Moore,
signal corps, from Fort Omaha to Fort
William Henry Harrison; Major John
B. McDonald. Fifteenth cavalry, to
Fort Ethan Allen; First Lieutenant
Parks L. Willard, signal corps, from
office chief signal officer, to Seattle;
Corporal Edward Ward, signal corps,
from Key West barracks to Fort
Wood; Post Commissary Sergeant
Joshua E. Banks, from Fort Oglsthorpe
to Fort Dade, relieving Post Commis
sary Sergeant Harry Corcoran; Ser
geant Walter Baker, troop A, Sixth
cavalry, Fort Meade, discharged from
the army In the Interest of the United
States. #
Nety Orderi.
Read Admiral G. A. Converse, re
tired, detached duty aa chief bureau
of navigation, navy department, to duty
as president hoard on construction;
Midshipman V. Baker, detached Ken
tucky to Des Moines; Assistant Sur
geon W. H. Short, to naval hospital,
New York; Warrant Machinist R. J.
Vickery, to qavy yard, Boston; Ensign
A. T. Brlsbln died on Tacoma, May 21.
Movements of Vessels,
ARRIVED—May 21, Maryland,
Kobe; Rhode Island, nt navy yard, New
York; Saturn, at 'Sandlego; Sterling,
at Newport News; Boston, at San
Francisco.
SAILED—Mray 20, Morris, from
navy yard, New York, for Newport.
May 21, Rocket, from Washington for
Norfolk;*Rhode Island, from Tompklns-
villo for navy yard. New York; Nnn-
shan, from Kobe for Cavite.
Surplus and Profits (Earned) $589,894.68
These figures, according to our last published statement, rpre-
sent the amount we havo accumulated from our earnings mce
organization fot the protection of our depositors. This sum culd
be deducted from our resources pt any time and there would tin
remain a balance sufficient to pay every dollar due depositors nd
leave our''capital of $200,000.00 unimpaired.
MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO.
and scalawags until 1870, nnd In 187;
the legislature gave for public school!
8125,000. This amount has grown, unit
In lOft* nut r,f Gnnrffln'■ llmllnd manna
In 1906, out of Georgia’s limited mean?,
they gave 21,711,844. Georrla provides
free tuition for all her children between
the ages of 6 nnd 18 years.
No stste In this union has dene more
according to means to educate her
children than Georgia, and the citizens
of no state in this union have accom
Vino Rich in Rubber.
A vine has been discovered In
according to reports, which contains m,:
pihbrr than any other known plant Th!!!
» "° much rubber In the stems' that .
.old* together even after ttTmEr of’**
I’OTHI la hmlran ’ lu
Should a method he discovered "
acting the rubber, It la behaved that fi?,
.emery of the vine will gre*.tv
will greatly afTect
piianea as muen aince our civuf The chorqcierletJcg of tho vln#» «... * .
war as Georgia. Your city, with overjnotleed ou a cocoa plantation. ChRSLW
3,000 when surrendered to Sherman, the *>«*ers observed the wonderful «laatieirl vS
pushmataha of the federal army. * * roT « tfcam intff Sanwiocki
Atlanta waa sacked and destroyed, •>•*•*• tbe more eiaS *
id scarcely 10 per cent of her build-! upon 7 investigation the vine wn, f6lin „
Uktflte contain lo to ti per cent of tSS?\
* W .L*.2» V.“.! M sbienco of eiSSfii
and
Ing. Ief(. has risen, Phoenix
today we have more than halt ax much _
wealth as the state had after Shermanoll and rosin. The via* la gild to"»Vn» I
and his followers left It. fxtsoslrsly In nmny parts af Mexico. * .
When thla" government made war on ■ "
our southland, Georgia, by the United
States census, was tha seventh wealth.
test state In the union per capita, and.,
after we had been robbed by the In
vaders, losing about 87 per ctnt of
our wealth, we were among the poorest.
Why, Massachusetts, at the end of the
war, hod one-half as muoh wealth as
the fourteen Southern states.
The record of Georgia Is without a
parallel In the world.
France had a Ivhlto population of
87.000. 000 and after her war paid a war
Indemnity of 81,000,000,000, nnd the
world was amazed. Georgia, with
less than a million of white people, lost
2530.000. 000, ant) In twenty-five years
after the war had a credit equal to any
state In the union and floated a 8 1-2
per cent bond ot par. In 1905, her cot
ton crop alone sold for more money
than the taxable value of the whole
stato after the war. Sixty per cent
of this crop was planted and mode by
our white people.
All honor to Georgia
lonor to Georgia
W. B. BURROUGHS, M. D.
WHEN HE IS KING OF 8PAIN.
But when ha'I* king
He la likely to find It Injurious.
—W. J. Lampton.
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
(Broken rest and broken dlaclptlne have
juny more fatalltlei to their seoru t —
broken rulla.—New York World cdltorla
Truo, true; alas, too true.
These words ao fitly apoken;
And yet what rnnkee tlieae fatal breaks
Itemolns unbroken.
Strides of London Amusements
The proposition to build another theater
specially for London's 20,400 amateur play-
era calls attention to th. wonderful .trldes
mad. In went years by amusement places
Id tbe British mstropolla.
Thirty years ago there wera only Arty-
five theaters and practically no music
halls 111 London: today there are nearly
800- theaters, music sad concert halls, with
a dally attendance ot 150.000 persona lu a | ■
son.
(bars ware only tlireo theatrical
a "on the road" In England; now
nearly 300, nnd for each of theao,
of roorae, a theater has to be found eneb
week.
whole of Great Ilrltnfn, requiring fewer
than 8,000 actors, actresses and employees.
At present there are over 1,000 thetter* and
halln. with 12,000 performers and employees.
It was found. In 1894, that 1.9 per cent of
London's population attended theatrical por-
fonnonces; fast year the percentage waa 2.9.
/ ' “Fudge,”
The .expression "Fudge!” which la
card ao often nowadays la not a new
" >. On the contrary, its origin dates
k to tha reign of Charles II, when
ere was a sea captain who was
ted Fudge.
o matter how unsatisfactory his
.age, this nautical man always re-
Dnert with an endless string of pre-
Mterous tales of great deeds and sue.
* i. Hla propensity for falsifying be.
:e so well known that whenever
one was heard telling a queetlon-
explolt, it became the cuatom to
■Oh, you Fudge It!”
ot Worth a Tinker's —
jtrary to the general Impression,
thehrase, "not worth a tinker's dam"
le of Innocent character. It orlgl-
natrim a device that tinkers have
useftrom time Immemorial whenever
theylpslred to flood a portion of their
workWth Bolder. It Is a circular wall
<Rgh raised about the rim of a
piatoyith a turned over edge, and
■ervelto prevent the melted solder
fr «! n . leaping. The material from
wmchbch a wall or dam is made Is
wortfflh after having been used once.
Upon U basis, naturally enough, the
expresfa came to be employed to
charactUa anything that wes of onty
temper.-} usefulness.
“Humbug.”
’Ttumbug” owes Its origin
to a mint) worthless Irish coin. King
!*,yl a lot of money made at
the Dubllnmint, Its Intrinsic value
was comflntlvely nothing, twenty
qhllllnga oL being worth only two
pence sterlll
William If, after the battle of
Boyne, ordai that the crown and
halfcrown ofhs mint be taken as pen-
**” y. respectively. The
metal out of which
le was called by the
(pronounced “Oom-
le the word “hum-
:ethlng with the ap-
but In reality prac-
ny and hal
soft mixture
the coin wag
Irish "Ulm-r
bug"). Thus
bug." mean!
pearance of
itcally worthies*
Of course, a larg* part of the patronage
of the city's amusement'place* la by visit
ing foreigner*; the United fttntos, Canada
and continental Etiropo supplying enough
"transients” each season to maka many of
the placet pay handsomely.
About $5,000,000 n year Is expended In
running the thirty-two lic*t known theaters
of Ixtudon'a West End. The cost of pro-
CORRECTING SOME ERRORS
A3 TO GEORGIA'S ILLITERACY.
Editor of The Georgian:
I read In Sunday's Atlanta Journal
an article on “Popular Education," by
Rabbi David Marx.
He says that we have, according to
the United States census of 1900,
per cent illiterate children between the
ages of 10 and 14 years, and exclaims
‘what an appalling burlesque on the
wealth, • • • progress, etc., of our
state.” Again he says, the average il
literacy In tlie United States for native
white males over 10 years of age is
about 5 per cent; that of Georgia la 13
per cent. Further on In his article, he
says "three-fourths per cent of our
white children In this city, between
the ages of 10 and 14 year*, were In
1903, Illiterate," etc.
Yesterday I visited the state school
commissioner's office, but failed to aee
him. I procured a copy of his report
for 1903, which shows a total school
population of Atlanta 22,583.
Of this amount, *82 were Illiterate,
less than S 1-2 per cent; If wc count
only the white children, less than 2 per
cent.
Now, let us take Savannah, the sec
ond city In wealth and school popula
tion, we find one-half of l per cent of
the white children between the ages
of 6 and 10 are unable to read or write.
This Is the lowest percentage of Il
literacy shown by any city of tta equal
population in the world. 1 do not have
access te the United Stntea census, and
I leave the city tomorrow.
In 1905, the while people of Georgia
■ (it to vna on llAA Ailrt ... 1.11 —
p«i<l taxes on $557,000,000, white the
►lorsd people paid $20,000,000.
Notwithstanding out negroes pay less
than 3 1-2 per cent of our property tax.
duclng a playsvtriffs ROM « week, r«ry
lug between $2,000 and $7,(00.
In nridltion, them Is tho orlglnnl coat of
production, which way range from n few
thominim dollars at a sronll house to n
i 100,000 pantomime or spectacular drama at
)rury Lane.
Something About the Brain.
That portion cf the substance of the
brain which Is known as gray matter Is
supposed, according to tbe highest author*
ltles, to be most Intimately related to In
tellectual action. Pometltnc* curious aggre
gations of gray matter ore found In par*
tlculnr parts of the brain and Dr. Oswald
Morton has recently suggested that these
may be the cause‘of the extraordinary men
tal powers occasionally exhibited by per
sons whose general Intellectual cnpecjty
hardly rises above that of Idiots. Such
powers, or aptitudes, always relate to some
special faculty, like memory, without In
cluding other faculties.
The aggregations referred to might ex
plain the tuarvidous memory for music ex
hibited by "HUnd Tom," and tbe still more
extraordinary power of Ilelnecker, the
Child of Luberk, who llred lu the early
t nrt of the elghteiuttli century; nml who
new the chief Incidents of tbe Pentateuch
at the nee of one year, had mastered ell
of snored history nt two venrs and was
Intimately acquainted with modern nnd
profane history nud geography, nnd spoke
French and Latin, besides his native tongue
at the age of three. When four years old
he died.
With reference to whnt hns t*en called
the relation of "nrnfn light ■ and dreams."
Professor Wcrlpturc, of Vale, once stated
that he had icanon to thluk that the faint
light which Is seen In darkness, or with
closed eyes, and which appears In the form
of rings, waves nud Irregular figures, Is
due, not ns Is generally supposed, to chemi
cal changes going ou In the retina, but
to something ocmrrina In the brain. He
proved that It should be colled ••cerebral
light." %
This cerebral light appears to be located
In those higher centers of tbe brain thnt
•re connyted with visas! memorlt's nnd
Imagination*. A close reiaWon has been ob
served between these cerebral light figures
und the couteuts of dreams, and Profeaaor
Scripture suggested thnt the hallucinations
produced by drugs, like hashish, may lw
■Imply modifications of such figures.
«H|
Tho history of L y a nc9 mav b§
read In It* battifi V. The "Banzai!”
°? the Japan*"*. tIV-paghaxhballah!"
Of the Irish, and own "Hurrah!”
have found their, L ln far ln
history. \
Although many aiL rttle , have de .
clared that th# wot "hurrah" I. a
development of the ) w |,h "Hosan-
Bah," the consensus c, p i n | on nmv is
that It Is a corruptloB the al u'i™t
battle cry of the wild ,raemen. "Tur
ale!" meaning, 'Thor s ui i" For
merly the word was ni P( j "Huzza”
and pronounced "Hurt " j n one
form or another It Is uj by almozt
every nation.
Sound Advict
Many friends of a wcll-l, wn horze.
man aro still amazed ov(j,ix expe
rience with a faker. Som^tle time
ago he owned a horse whl<bothercd
h|m a great deal by foaming a r | V .
eltng at the mouth. At last , day he
saw an advertlzement In one the pa
per" of a new and euro remeif 0 r the
trouble. The price asked w*s,| y n V o
shillings, and he concluded It V sure
ly worth that to him, »o he , t t )„
money along by the next po»t\ few
days later came back a neat t> wr n-
ten letter, with thn following vice:
"Dear Sin—Teach the horse t, p |i.-
—Tit-Bits.
The witty Blabop Hanford Olmsted, of
Colorado, st ajlinuer lu_ Denver, said apro
pos of ttslituitb breaking:
"I wit* talking to nit enateru clergyman
the other day nliout hi* rhurch sttendanee.
;• 'I .oppose.' | Mid. 'that In ynitr dla-
trlet rnlu nffeeta the attendance conclder-
shlr’ -
"He nulled faintly.
“ 'Indeed, yea.' he nald. 'I hardly have
s varnut test trtten It It too wet for golf
or motoring.' Los Angolea Timer.
Comemrcisl Value of Flita.
o»-* shailing ond a hi\f a pound! Yea,
thla Is the price of dead file* la London.
Yon did not know that tbe pestiferous
Insects bad a commercial value, did yon?
Those sold In London are eangbt lu Brasil
«r.i .hipped to England l.y the lotrrol.
«en living alou* the Amazon make tltelr
living hy catching file* ami sending them to
Europe, where they are nor.-ho.v-3 as food
for cniMtry bird* and gold Hah.
poiiml of We* formerly ciart 5-ponee.
the Increanod demand n-otlte-1 In « rtao
Gtnertl Kurokl.
If General Kurokl Is not on* qhe
most Impressive exhibits at Jametm
It will be because the American pti*
have forgotten the battle of the >j
and hit brilliant victories tubsequey
a* commander of. the right wln*(
Oyama's army In Manchuria. In Ku
kl we have as a visitor one of the abb
of living soldiers. Nevertheless,
first thought on landing In Amerh
wss of the Japanese school children i
San Francisco, for whom he made
graceful and friendly pled, auggeatlni
a contrast truly Japanesc.v-New lort
Sun. <
The ancient civilisation of JUroe Indod-J
the doll ss tn Instructive plnythlne mr
children.
Wrestling Is the popular sport ft PerdJ;
lrent tournament* art held to awi'i** *
iMHisala. a6 Alatelets
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