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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, JUKE 1, 1907. GEORGIA IN HALL OF FAME; BUSTS OF TWO GREAT MEN Stephens and Long Chosen for State’s Honors. An effort will be made during the coming session of the general assembly to take the necessary steps toward placing In Statuary hall. In the capitol Id Washington. < choice tor these places of honor—Alexander Ham ilton Stephens and Dr. Crawford W. Long. Georgia's choice was made some time ago, but since then no definite steps have been taken toward providing tai the statues. It Is probable that definite direction will be given It during the coming session of the general assem bly. The selections represent two distinct types. One peerless In the field of statesmanship, the other world-famed In the field of science. It Is a singu lar fact also that they were classmates In the University of Georgia. Alexander H. Stephens. Stephens was perhaps one of the most unique characters portrayed In the political history of this rourtlry. He was vice president of the Confed eracy, a member of congress and gov ernor of his state, and during much of that time was a physical wreck, al though mentally a giant In strength. Stephens' grandfather, Alexander Ste phens, was an Englishman, who set tled In the Penn colony In 1746, and was engaged In several conflicts with the Indians and In the old French war, serving under Colonel George Washing ton. The son, then known also as Alexander Stephens, became an orphan at the age of 15 years. Ho took the' middle name of Hamilton from the Hev. Alexander Hamilton Webster, who became his tutor after the death of his father, and who was much Interested In his career. He accepted an offer of the rreehyterian Educational Society to send him to college, with the un derstanding that he would refund an amount sufficient to pay for his edu ration If he changed his inlnd about becoming a minister. He paid the cost rtf Ids education as soon os he could earn the money. In that way he wns graduated from Franklin College, now the State University of Georgia. Stephens’ Great Scholarship. He was In very delicate health, but his scholarship attracted attention. After two months of the study of law he passed what was declared to be the best examination his examiners had ever supervised. In laid he entered the lower house of the legislature of Georgia. Hurcesses both In Ills profes sion and In the political field followed fust. He was bold In his advocacy of measures that were of doubtful popu larity. Stephens had great physical courage, which showed Itself by a total Indif ference to consequences, which was manifested In his encounter with Judge Cone, who had cut him terribly with a knife, and whrn about to bring the blado to his throat, with the threat, "Retreat or I’ll cut your throat." re ceive<1 the reply from Rtephens, "Then rut.” Hut before he rould execute his threat Stephens seised the blade In his right hand, which was forever disabled, so that he could never again write easily. In 1550 Mr. Stephens opposed the se cession movement In the South. In 185* he retired from congress and made a speech, declaring thnt the only way to get moro slaves wns to reopen the African slave trade, and In that way control the territories by means of slave-holding voles. He always sup- portrd his contentions with strong rea- CRAWFORD W. LONG. sons that carried great weight. Vice President of Confederacy. In 185* he made a union speech, and the next year became vice president of the Confederacy. In 1886 he was at the head of the peace commission on the part of the Confederate government In the Hampton Roads conference. After the close of the war he was ar rested and ronflned for five months In Fort Warren, Ronton harbor, as a R rlsoner of state. He was released on Is own parole, and made a reconstruc tion speech. In 1817 he published the first volume of his “War Between the Hlutes." After that he was confined to his house four years by rheumu tlsm. ltut he continued active In liter ary work and In the field of politics. He was defeated for a seat In the United Btates senate In 1871, but was elected to congress In 1874. In 1880 he was elected governor of Georgia. He died In 1888. During the lutter part of his career ’he walked only on crutches, and his health was extremely poor, hut It nppeared not to affect the vigor of his Intellect. - Discoverer of Anaesthesia. Dr. Crawford W. Long la probably most prominently known ns the dis coverer of anaesthesia, hla right to that claim being almost universally recog nised. The fame of Dr. Long has been commemorated In many ways In his state, and the decision made to have his statue at the national capitol seems but a natural outcome of the contin ued honors that have been showered upon him. Dr. Long flrxt used an on- GETTING NEWS IN OLD DA YS BEFORE TELEPHONES CAME IN ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. aesthetic March 30, 1*42, at Jefferson, where a monument marks the spot on which he used It In operating upon a patient. His patient was James Venable, from whose neck several virulent tumors were removed. Dr. Long employed sul phuric ether and about the same time operated In a similar manner upon oth er patients without causing them phys ical pain. It was not until four years later that Dr. Morton, of Massachusetts, had one of Ills own teeth extracted painlessly while under the Influence of other. Five years after Dr. Long’s first painless operation. Sir James Y. Simp son. of Kdlnburgh, used a preparation of chloroform as an anaesthetic In his practice. Result of Observation. Dr. Idong's discovery resulted from observing a subject under the Influ ence of ether which was given him os means of observing hls queer an tics. At that time he observed that the subject seemed to be oblivious to pain, and the thought occurred to him that a surgical operation might be per formed upon a patient under that In fluence without giving pain. Reside hls great eminence as a sur geon. Dr. Long possessed an attractive personality. He loved harmless fun, and was extremely companionable. He loved the simple pleasures of the home, and was fond of. reading hls fa vorite authors to members of hls fami ly. Like hls distinguished friend, Alex ander Hamilton Stephens, he opposed secession, -but when it came he sup ported hls state. Dr. Long died when *2 years of age. being engaged in the practice of hls profession until the end came. IJe died lit# rally while "In harness." At newspaper readers thirty years ago was not the same proposition as It Is todsy. There were no telephone and Interurl trolley Hues to help oat In n pinch. Neither were there any automobiles to whisk a reporter to the scene of s crime or disaster at neck-onilanurrlnf: speed to get the facts for an "extra" hot from tho toss. In fact, "extras" were almost an Innta reporter, and Mayor Ilrldgrs BalUk, of Macon, who Jumped the newspaper game some years ago. but who recently went back Into harness on The Macon Tele graph. Few men can relate more Interesting anil thrilling experiences than old newsiui- per men. and of this class "Bruff" and midges Smith bare as many as the next to their credit They bare been In places where their lives were not worth a plugged pewter nny, and they hare stories to their credit ■t many others fell down on at the time. Way back la 1879, t«otb Braff and Bridges Smith were working In Atlanta together. But they were on different afternoon pa pers. and. although close friends, they fought earb other when It came to serving heir papers. - On Old-Time Papers, nruff was working on Tho Atlanta Post, an nfternoon no per owned by Colonel E. Y. Clarke, ana Bridges Smith was holdlug down a Job on The Atlanta Dispatch, own ed by Henry Dixon, when the town was startled by the news that «*ld man DeFoor and hls wife bad been butchered In their home near Bolton. What happened after ward when these two hustling reporters were sent out on the story Is told today by Mayor Hmith wb«n Anybody tells him Bruffey asked to be rctncmlwrcd to him. It was a time when Bruffey handed him a ripe lemon, although they did not kuow what that meant In those days. Old man DeFoor and bis wife Ured on the Chattahoochee, near Bolton. Their sons and tbelr families lived near by. One morning It was noticed that the old man's bouse had not been opened, and an tnrfw- tlgatlon disclosed, the fact that the old couple bad been \bopped to pieces with an ax. Hustle for the News. The nows finally filtered Into Atlanta, about 8 miles distant, nnd there was a hus tle In tho city editors’ rooms of The Dis patch nnd The Dost. Bruff was the star reporter on The Post, while Bridges Smith wns considered the swell man on The Dts- P Now, The Dispatch woa credited with bav- Tbe Poet, so Bridged Smith was commis sioned to hire a horse and buggy and hus tle out to the scene of the crime. It was the quickest way to get there, for there was nothing doing In street cars nor au tomobiles. When Bruff was put on the Job, nothing wan said about hiring a horse and buggy, and It wan up to him to hoof It out to the Chattahoochee. It was then about 8 o’clock In the morning, and Bruffey was wonder ing how he could walk to the scene of the crime, get hls story nnd walk back again in time to get It in the paper the same afternoon. In rain did be look for a farm wagon going out that way, but they were all coming In.. He thought It over, but he could not solve the problem. Then Bridges Smith drove along tvith a prancing horse. Tbs minute the future mayor of Macon saw Bruffey hitting It along the sidewalk, tie knew bis friend wns on the Job for The Post. lie knew, too, that Bruff had n slim chance of walking out to the river and bark In time to get the story in the paper that afternoon. lie Just could not resist the temptation. 8o be whipped up bis horse and sticking bis bead out the buggy top, he gave Bruffey what might bo termed In later days the "high sign. He handed him the merry ha! ha!—and to Bruffey It sounded like n horse laugh. And nstthc sound of the Jibe was Bmotli- -ved by the thud of Bridges Smith's horse galloping up Broad street, Bruffey felt wire, nnd wished lie worked for a paper that could hire n horse and buggy. How "Bruff” Got Even. v For quite k distance, Bridges Smith kent bis horse going at a the story today, be felt »•"•••. ana „„ glSd fwunStoW Bruffey ou the biggest story the town !u»d turned' loose In a month of Hnnduys. He Imagined bow The Post would look without the DeFoor mur der story, and then thought how well bis storr would look lu Tho Dispatch under b1 FhiMlly l, the < house where the murder was committed loomed Into view. There was a morbid crowd of onlookers about the door, but not one of this crowd w f * *"**[■: paper roan. He pallet! up Wa horse with that feeling a newspaper man has when he thinks he has au exclusive piece of Tnd as I." /topped hie bone. Bniffey ran ahead of him and forged hls way Into the Tw rlilii™ out hnndng on th. h.rt of the buggy hired for Bridges Smith by *Bot fffVhe tiny home he ant by the side of Bridges Smith on the buggy seat. HAD BEEN HANGED BY MOB BUT HE LIVED TO ESCAPE Few hospital* enn rreonl the fact of hnv- So it daylight an Investigation wn« made In, bod a putlent nJMtvJipuHenepcMj | .nd- „„„ A „ t „ mlnll „ on from inenlnxtll. nnd from Ihe effect* of tie- in, lynched. Fewer ,1111 can record a pa tient almost dead from tbl* singular rotnld- oatlnn. who ha. disappeared completely and of whom there waa nerer found a trace. Vet the Macon Hospital can. The eleventh annual report of thll excel lent Institution hna Jn,t been sent out. iinil although It tells of ttisgnltlccnt growth and good work done, there I, nethlnx about the •insular myitery surroundln, the patient ■ 'ynehed and who Ingltla. Jngei tendent of the waa nearly dead from raenlngltle. Dot Hr. Eugene B. Elder, soncrnlsuporln ... .„ Institution, remembers Ihe mystrrtnns disappearance of hls patient and he will tell the story wbeu lu a rerololacoot It was almut two years ago that an el derly woman In Jones county, near Macon, waa attacked by a ne,ro. Vine slorlea were printed In the newspaper* of a negro ladn, chased nnd raptured, and while these slorlea did not say so people In the vicinity of I ho crime Intimated alron,ly that the guilty ne,ro had lieen caught and dangled at Ihe end of a rope. Found Rope's Victim. The day after this hlnted-at lynching, a farmer drlrln. Into Macon heard ,nmna near the roadside. He stopped hla mules, and upon Investigating found a ne,ro lying In tho hushes off from the road In au un conscious condition, lie dldu't know any thin, to do except take him to the hospital In Macon. The itroanln, negro was received at the hospital, and Dr. Elder became satisfied that Ihe negro was snfferlog from menin gitis, hut he was at a loss to account for the lacerations on the negro's throat They did not look Ilka knife cuts. They looked like the sklu and flesh had been scmiM‘,1 or lorn. Uke n Itnih the reason earn, to Dr. Elder. illy while "In harness.” At the time of hls death he did not know that the priority of hls claim as the discov erer of anaesthesia would be ,o widely rrcoitnlxed as It la at this time. The dispute over the Identity of the dla coverer of anaesthesia occupied con' Kress, but was not settled during the lifetime of Dr. Long. The Early Bird. Bishop Brewster, of Connecticut, la noted for hls funny slorlea and hi* latest ls said to he about an old reprobate who decided to repent, and announced to every one that whatever wrong he had dons should be made right. So a nan whom he had cheat ed mil of a large sum of mooey went around at mklalght to demand It. "But what did yon come at this honr for. and wake me up? Why nut watt till to- lorrowr said ihe old .Inner, crossly. “I r-PUed the man, “to avoid the rush."-Harper's Weekly. • During the ilay the negro regained roa- srlonsnesa, hut because of the condition of hla throat he coaid not talk. Any attempt to question him produced a singular effect The negro would stare at hla qnestloaer, hie eyes starting front their aocketa and terror written on hls every fretnre. Each opening and closing of the door In ward produced the aame effect. A description of the grin In tb with that of the negro who was I have committed the Jones coat., tallied. Ho stron, were this and other ctr- enmatanres In favor of this by Dr. Elder became convinced tlent waa the negro who had I . and that he had afterward been cut down by friends when tb* mob had left tho scene of the lynching. Developed Meningitis. That afternoon tho negro lapsed again Into unconsciousness, and because of the feet that meningitis had also developed Dr. Elder removed hla patient Into a house In the hospital yard, where ho would he away from the other patients. It was l natural can Dr. Elder i Ion that the negro won The patient was gone. the ground In the yard showed the track* of one man. The police were notified nnd every effort was made to ascertain the whereabouts of the patient Patient Disappeared. Many theories were advanced. Some of Ihe official* thought -members of the mob had learned of the negro's miraculous es cape from death and bad followed him to the hospital to make sure of the Job. Oth ers were Inclined to the belief that the negro regnlnetl consciousness and escaped from the hospital, fearing another attempt and a ancscaaful one, would be made lo lynch him. But notwithstanding the efforts of Ihe entire police department, net a trace of the negro wns found Afterward. Ills former home was watched, but he never went Ihero. The only thing thnt seemed to substan tiate the belief that the negro eara|>rd was that several months afterward hls ramlly left Jones county for unknown parts. If the negro escaped and later sent for hla family. Dr. Elder wonders how a man ‘ ‘ng from meningitis and from the effects bavin, been hanged by the neck conld And Atlanta s Mark On New Stamps Did yon know that the stamp* of Undo Sam to be sold In Atlanta at an early dale will have woven Into the design the •me of Atlanta? If not It’s time to "get wise” to this fact. The poatofflee department of the government baa decided upon twenty-six cities of the conotry which will be ao hon ored, and. needless to my, Atlanta la right there In the midst of them. Special stamps will soon be auppllcd to 5,000 dtles of the country, with the names of the respective cities Impressed thereon. Only In twenty-six dtles, however, will the name he woven Into the design. This cos tom of supplying special stamps to the different dues has never been fol lowed to any extent in this country, bat Is Jj«Ua tho thing In Mexico end other coun- Just when the new system will be I ns neu ral ed In America has not been announced. I*ook out for the Atlanta stamp. . There'S a reason for tho now scheme. Stamps are often stolen lo big quantities, and afterward sobl. If the name of tho city appears It makes It coaler to traco the origin of the stomps and find s clew. Both in and Out The Needy One-I say, old man, conld you lend ms s dollar for o day or two?* . Tbs Other One-My dear follow, tho dol lar I lend Is out at Present, and I've sev eral name* down for It when It comes back. •-Harper s Weekly, .