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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
TUESDAY. JUNE 4. 19^
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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OCR PLATFORM: Tba Georgian
and New* atanda for Atlanta's owning
Ita own gaa and electric light plants,
aa It now owns Its watar works. Other
cities do tble and
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and News belleyea that If street rail
ways can be operated successfully by
European cities, as they are, there Is
no good reason why they can not be no
operated here Bat we do not believe
this can be done now, and It may be
some years before we are ready "
Mg an undertaking. Still A
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office. Changes of address will bo
made as often as desired.
The educational move muat not re
cede In Georgia.
The administration never mines a
ehsnce to hit race suicide a solar
plexus blow.
Summer Is trying once more
break In upon Its own season. We sre
watching the effort with much Inter
est
The sweet girl graduate has assum
ed her historic attitude—standing with
reluctant feet, where the brook and
river meet
Don’t forget that .public-spirited At
lanta owes one more half-hour’s work
for the brave boys of the Fifth regi
ment. Do It today.
Archbishop Ireland agrees with tho
president’s epigram "Peace with jus
tice," as opposed to the sweeping dec
laration, "Peace at any price.”
The Washington Herald li still la
menting Its failure to engsgo In con
troveny the Japanese general who
only knows four English words.
The Georgia press Is now marshal
ing Its ranks for an advance upon the
Jamestown fair. Georgia day would
be Incomplete without the Georgia ed
Itar.
The recent attitude of the Georgia
Railway and Electric Company toward
lights snd power baa done much to re
store the entente cordlale between
corporations snd the people.
And now Rsy Stannard Bsker has
discovered that the Southern people
do not ekt pie. Having alresdy elim
inated hash from our bills of fare, this
enterprising discoverer has now strick
en pie. But what has this to do with
the race question?
Atlanta Is the best governed city In
the country. It has been made so by
constant watchfulness and agitation
on the part of Its people and newspa
pers. I>et us keep It so. Eternal vigi
lance Is the price of good government.
Nice old gentleman that In tho edito
rial chair of The Macon Telegraph.
Willie tbe Bryan wave was sweeping
the country he was ss dumb as an
oyster and as meek as Moses about
tho Democratic nominee. Now that
there Is growing some opposition to
tbe Nebraakan he Is blossoming out
Into real freedom of expression. Is he
getting ready to abuse Bryan again?
Take care, Colonel. The Bryan wave
haa a way of coming back and you
may have to eat your words again.
Don’t get too gay until you tee which
way the Democratic cat la going to
jump.
In Ban Francisco It Is charged that
the banker, and magnatea are all
standing by President Pat Calboun.
charged with bribery. In Idaho It la
alleged that all tbe labor organizations
are standing by President Moyer,
charged with murder. If so, capital
and labor are standing by their own
with greater loyalty than discretion.
SUGGESTION IN BEHALF OF THE FIFTH REGIMENT.
Let us settle this question of the Fifth Regiment at Jamestown with
out further delay.
The bulk of the money needed baa been raised. There yet remains
a few hundred dollars to make the trip of the regiment secure. This
money can be won today. We suggest that any two good friends of the
regiment among the merchants on Whitehall street take three-quarters of
an hour or an hour at some time this evening ortomorrowmomlngand one
on one side of the street and the other on tbe other side, give sixty minutes
of their time to presenting the cause of the regiment and report the
financial results to tbe colonel of tbe regimenL If any especially good
friend of the regiment on Peters street and Decatur street and Broad
and Alabama will give thirty minutes to sixty minutes, or If some two or
three gentlemen who are going out of town to dinner on the Peachtree
cars between Marietta street and Brookwood ’will carry In their hands
a paper snd bring back the signatures on the return trip, and with what
has already been said and with the spirit that has already been awak
ened, we are thoroughly confident that the financial question will be set*
tied and that the regiment may begin to pack tlielr grips for tbe great
parade of the 10th ot June at Jamestown.
TBfE PASSING OF THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE.
The demise of The Chicago Chronicle Is worthy of comment. The
Chronicle was one of the most brilliant papers In the United States. Its
editor was n man of brains and Individuality, and had a staff that was
goncrally conceded to be perhaps the brightest and the most capable staff
of trained newspaper men In all tbe West. Its telegraphic service was as
complete as Its editorial page was able, snd The Chronlclp was never
less than interesting, and In most of Its editions a positively brilliant
newspaper. And yet, The Chronicle with ample backing died for the
lack of financial support. Its owners simply grew tired of pouring their
money Into a deep hole dug by Its monthly expenses.
There was not a newspaper In Chicago better merited of success In
tbe mere element of news and brains than The Chronicle. Tbe only pos-
slhlo explanation that can be given for Its death is the fact that it did
not represent tbe people. From first to last It was always and under all
circumstances the friend, the advocate and the champion of the corpora
tions and tho plutocrats. It could win readers but It could not hold them,
and Its subscription list, confined to the capitalistic few rather than to
the people at large, was so small that advertisers did not see their way to
buying Its space for a presentation of the articles which they bad to selL
The moral seems to be when a paper gives Itself up exclusively to
capital and Its representatives, unless capital pours Its grateful money
Into Its empty till, tbe people will let the newspaper alone and bankrupt
cy will do the rest
pally on their behalf that I beg of you
to uee your great Influence.
Apologizing for taking up your valu
able time, but hoping It Is not In vain.
I remain. Faithfully yours, on behalf
of the widow and children.
WII.LIAM EDWIN MORRIS.
Chatham. Kent. England, 107 Thorold
Road, May il, 1907.
Note.—Mr. Morris does not make
clear the present whereabouts of the
widow and children. If they are In
America. The Georgian feels sure this
appeal will not fall upon unresponsive
ears. If they are In England, the duty
would seem to rest there. In any event,
more definite Information on the sub
ject will be necessary before any action
In the matter can be taken.—Editor
The Georgian.
8PRING AND THE PARAGRAPHERS
GEORGIA’S EDUCATIONAL BENEFACTORS.
When we said the other day that Mr. Inman’s donation of ISO,000 to
Agnes Scott was the largest sum given by an Individual Southerner to ed
ucation, tho donations of Governor Joseph E. Brown had escaped our
mlndB.
'In 1880 Joseph E. Brown gave to the Theological Seminary at
Louisville, Ky., 150,000 which was subsequently Increased to $61,000 to en
dow the Joseph E. Brown Chair of Practical Christianity.
In 1884 Joseph E. Brown gave $50,000 to tho Unlvoralty of Georgia as
n loan fund to educate as many boys as posslblo under the MacDonald-
Brown Scholarship Fund.
This sum has not been so managed ns to make the Increase which
was expected. Jhe bonds pay 7 percent which In twenty-three years
would materially Increaso It.
And these donations, so far as we remember, had no condition at
tached to them except that the boys educated under tho MacDonald-
Brown Scholarship Fund were expected to pay back the sum expended as
they prospered In the world.
Probably no other Southerner of his time gave so generously to
Southern education as ex-Governor Brown.
Mr. Inman hns nobly begun an educational system of munificence
which ranks him side by sldo with the grent war governor of Georgia.
HOUSTON POST ABANDONED TO ITS FATE.
The Georgian has possessed Itself In patience for many weeks, hope
ful that with time to ponder seriously the gravity of the question con
cerning tho hereafter that somo sonso of the terrible Into of unregenera
ted parngrnphers would come to tho most depraved of the clan.
But blithely, oven gleefully, somo of them rush on toward the doom
that awaits them. With somo of tho piety Imbibed In tho state of his na
tivity still lingering with him. In splto of n diet of Tronton-flavored shad,
The Washington Herald paragrapher has shown underlying uneasiness of
conscience, though thero has been tho outward semblance of utter aban
don.
There Is hope for this p. p. because he Is due on Georgia soil shortly,
end Armuchco trout and bream with nn occasional dish of delicious Coosa
river cat, will make him forget that any suen flfth-rato edible as Trenton
shad ever existed.
But we shudder at the thought of tho fate In store for Tbe Houston
Post mau.
Not content with arrogant boastfulness of tha strawberry, the canta
loupe and tho watermelon raised In that vicinity. It has passed on to most
astounding and fearsome boasting of everything In Texas—and not a small
number of things existing solely In Its own fertllo Imagination.
, Following tho preposterous story ot bass that feed on rabbit. The Post
boldly fathered a story ot s esrlosd of Texas hens that laid enough eggs
cu route to market to pay the freight! Emboldened by the credulity
of a few. given to similar exploitation, The Post has passed on to stu
pendous efforts of Imagination. But It has been hoist by Its own petard,
at last
Recently Houston battened down the Sunday lid so tight that there
hat been no leak, oven for tho thirst-consumed Post staff. For weeks there
was Impotent raging In The Post columns, together with personally con
ducted Sunday JourneylngB to Galveston, where tho lid was off. But that
did not avail, nnd now Tho Post Is writing long and eloquent panegyrics
on Houston water! If that Isn’t gall and wormwood to that Post para
grapher, The Georgian mistakes.
The Post Is abandoned to Its fate. The Georgian waahes Its hands
of responsibility In that direction. Let It go gaily on to Its doom. But
for The Washington Herald, The Newark Star, The Charleston News and
Courier, Tho New York Mail, The Cleveland Leader and Tho Rome Trib
une hope Is still stroug that they will sense fully the error of their ways
nnd reform.
What a pitiful newspaper spirit It Is
that would refuse to Join In the move
ment to send the Fifth KeRiment to
Jamestown because another newspa
per suggested It! Suppose we had
done that about Greater Atlanta? It
makes the prayer ot the Pharisee
seem appropriate: "Lord, we thank
thee that we are not as other men
arc." <
For the thrilling “Davis Silence” of
today, more credit Is due to Col.
B. M. Blackburn, of the executive
office, than to any other man In the
South, saving only General Stephen
D. Lee, who suggested it. Colonel
Blackburn has made It his loving and
loyal business for days past to over
ture railroad officials, editors, mer
chants and public men throughout the
South to the observance of General
Lee’s request, snd the response Is a
joint tribute to the Confederate presi
dent snd to one of the most loyal ad
mirers that a great man ever had.
A SOMEWHAT VAGUE APPEAL.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I would like to draw your attention to
a few facts concerning an accident to
an Englishman, reported In your paper
on the let or *d of May. •
Young Stephens was a personal
friend of mine, Snd at the present mo
ment hie widow and children retide
next door to me, and knowing the pow
erful influence of the press In the cause
of chanty. I thought that If you knew
the true facts of the case, you would
direct that Influence on their behalf.
There has been great depression In
the building trade In England for a con
siderable time, and previous to hie
leaving for America, young Stephens
had been unemployed for about eight
months, so you will readily perceive
that he nnd his wife were almost pen
niless. When he received Information
from hts chum that there was work to
be had In America. he borrowed the
’money and set out Immediately, and
then after an Interval of seven weeks,
the news arrived that he had been
killed.
Picture to yourself the state of hie
poor widow. In a delicate state of
health always, snd now crushed and
broken with this last blow. It Is a mat
ter of Impossibility for her to do any
thing for her children, and It la princl-
An ulstered spring makes grumblers
of us all. The thermometer of news
paper paragraphs proves It.
Go to tbe exchange table and thrust
your hand Into the pile blindly. If you
do, maybe you will come on The Her
ald. publlihed In far Mexico City. Then
you will retd:
Recent spring weather In Georgia haa
Induced "lemoncholla" among the ehlv.
erlng Georgians. They have soured on
the merry sprlngtlmo with frosty ac
companiments.
Georgia got a shiver out of that note
i well as Mexico. Coming north to
the Great Lakes, we find this Is In The
Chicago Examiner:
There are other things In spring be.
sides love and poetry.
Coal bills, house cleaning and new
onions must have made an Impression
on The Examiner’s staff.
Turn to the old reliable Bunpaper,
of Baltimore. It puts a mercantile
tinge on the matter by warning us:
Please examine all samples of June
weather thoroughly before accepting.
May palmed off a lot of miserable ma
terial on us.
New York takes to rhyme. In the foL
lowing from The World:
When will It come?
I mean that glaC but distant day,
When I can put
My winter overcoat away.
The one brave sentiment, superior to
the chill of a winter that outstays Its
welcome, comes from Maryland—from
The Eaeton Star-Democrat, to be ex
plicit. We did not know The Star-
Democrat Intimately. But we shall,
now that we have seen Its spirit rise to
such a glorious height as this:
Love, like the bee, files back home
from the fields of the world laden with
honey.
We’re going over to Easton soon to
take at look at that bee.—Washington
Times.
And to the general plaint, one of Mr.
Munsey’a Boston or Washington poets
adds the following:
NOTICE.
Lost—strayed—or stolen—
A planet called the sun.
Fifty million plunks reward
To you, or anyone
Returning It to Boston
By any hook or crook.
In time to do a stunt or two
Ere winter’s on the book.
Description—quite a large-sized sun.
With whiskers ’round the. edge.
Inclined when he Is wanted most
On gala days, to hedge
Behind a cloud—and yet, withal.
Of genial disposition—
A fat, round run, a pleasant sun.
When In the right condition.
Two days ago he strayed away.
Reward to the first-comer
Who brings him back
In time to give
A little bit of summer.
NOT L. H. O. MARTIN
OPPOSED BY FARMER8.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I notice In the editorial column of
your paper of the 29th a card with the
head lino, "Not L. H. O. Martin Op
posed by Farmers.” ‘
You make an explanation about an
article on Immigration I wrote In reply
to Mr. O. M. Davis, state lecturer of
the Farmers' Union, and Mr. Davis fol
lows with a card In which he says. "In
a personal letter, Hon. L. H. O. Mar
tin, of Elberton, calls my attention to
an error made In my reply to T. H.
Martin, Talbotton, on the Immigration
question.
"I regret very much that the reply
should have coupled Hon. L. H. O.
Martin’s name with the article of T.
II. Martin. Hon. L. II. O. Martin Is a
member of the Farmers' Union of El
bert county and Is opposed to Immigra
tion.
"Thle card Is written In fairness to
Hon. L. 11. O. Martin, tor certainly,
under no circumstances, would I do
him or any other man an Injustice. I
trust this explanation will be aatle-
factory to all concerned."—O. M. Da
vis.
Now, I must say all this It much ado
about nothing so far as I am concern-
I have not seen any reply made
to my article by Mr. Davis, and of
course do not understand these expla
nations.
If Hon. L. H. O. Martin felt he was
attacked and wrote a personal letter to
hie brother State Lecturer G. M. Davis,
I feel like the boy the calf ran over. I
do not know "where I am at" In this
mlx-up, and desire to be Informed who
hit "Billie Patterson." I am strongly
In favor of Immigration and believe It
to be the only solution of the negro
problem and to Improve our moral con
ditions and supply the much-needed la
bor on the farms throughout the state.
I see the Farmers’ Union In the state
meeting In Atlanta on May 15 passed
resolutions opposing Immigration and
Hon. L. It. O. Martin appears as one
of the committee making the 'report,
and 1 do not understand why Mr. Da
vis. being state lecturer, should not be
posted as to this report and get my
article mixed up with L. H. O. Martin.
I see nothing In the resolution* to cause
me to alter my convictions on the Im
migration question, and I must say In
all candor, I believe the Farmers’ Un
ion In opposing this movement Is doing
great Injury to the development of the
agricultural and material Interests of
the state. Wo never can hope to rench
that perfection In diversified and high-
grade farming with the Ignorant and
unreliable negro who only knows how
to run a scooter and scrape nnd raise
cotton at a toss, and the farm he tills
growing less productive ae the years
go by. Give me the Anglo-Saxon white
farmer anywhere to build up a country.
T. H. MARTIN.
Talbotton, Ga.
JUDGES AND THEIR CIRCUITS.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I note with pleasure another article
from the pen of Francis II. Harris,
Brpnswlck, Ga., on the question
electing the judges of the superior
courts and how they should be re
quired to-serve, etc.
In tho first proposition Mr. Harris
says: "Judges should be olected by the
vote of the entire atate, and not as
now, by the vote of the respective cir
cuits.” Tbe Judge* are now under the
present law elected by a vote of the en
tire state, and as this Is the case It '
sufficient reason why the governor
should be empowered with authority
to transfer each of the Judges elected
In the respective circuits to some oth
er circuit In the state In which to
“operate as Judge.”
I knew a judge once, who when go
Ing out of office during the last six
hours of his service, held a secret ses
sion of his court In order to enter
up Judgments In cases where they were
represented by a lawyer who had sim
ply committed no crime except to vote
as he pleased In the election. Yet this
Judge, through prejudice of the rank
est kind, was permitted, under the
present system, to do damage h
prejudicing clients against their attor
ney and causing them serious harm
and damages, just because the Judge
operating remembered the boys who
hail transpired to bring about his de
feat. This Is Just one In a number of
similar cases which we might be able
to produce, were we caring to “rake
up old lores,” eto.
Do you know that some of the so.
llcltors of this state are working (
very serious evil on the state Just elm
plv because they are not supported by
the entire bar of the circuit In which
they attempt to be such officers? For
Instance, let ua see If the solicitors In
some of the circuits are not practicing
Just this kind of a game. They are
refusing to try tho cases In the clr.
cult where the defendant In the crlm
Inal cases are represented by an at
tomey who furnished any kind of op
position to his election, for the purpose
of throwing that lawyer out with a
class of clientage and forcing that clase
to say wo don’t want to employ such
nnd such a lawyer because the so
licitor and lie are at outs nnd If It is a
bad case, he can’t effect a compromise
and rob the state, etc. In other words,
the solicitors In some of the circuits
In this state are selling out the vir
tue of the state for a song, not more
than the cost. In order to enhance his
own private fortune the easiest old
way. while there Is another class of
criminals not any worse that he puts
to the limit of thq law. Just because
the lawyer on tho other side exercised
the highest privilege guaranteed to
an American citizen. This Is a seri
ous business for the bar In each cir
cuit where such Is the practice. And
It Is a more serious business to society
and to the state. I knew of some
clients who were brought out of an
other state In a criminal case to be
tried, and held for whole weeks a num
ber of witnesses In order to try their
case at great expense to themselves
and tho -state, and the case was not
tried and could not be tried on the
ground nbove Indicated. If there Is
a mean animal on earth It Is a mean
prosecuting officer in the service of
the state. You say Impeach, others
will suggest other remedies, but I sug
gest the shipping out as the very best
remedy which can be afforded and the
one that Is most convenient and effect
tve.
Has not this thing been an observe
tlon throughout various parts of the
state bv members of the bar and by
honorable citizens? Then let us have
a remedy for the evil, which Is one of
the most menacing ever exercised by
an official of any character. Truly,
H. W. NALLEY.
Dallas. Ga.. May 25. 1907.
To the Editor of Tho Georgian:
I believe I speak on behalf of t large
number of Southern Democrats when I ask
for Information on tbe following points:
1. Why Is It that certain great Southern
Democratic lenders, like senator Halley, of
Texss, snd Hon. John Shsrp Williams, of
Mississippi, nre so active and emphatic in
tbelr opposition to Mr. Bryan's slightly
Illogical and undemocratic Idea of federal
ownership of "n few trunk lines” of rail
road. while at the same time they are slleut
aa tha grave on Ids purely Democratic and
strictly constitutional Idea of state (not
federal or national) ownership of all rail
roads within tbe boundaries of tbe respec
tive states?
2. Do not theto grent leaders well know
that under stats ownership (as distinguished
from federal ownership and from private
monopoly) of public utilities, Including rail
roads, there conld be no possible danger of
the "negro domination,” the "centralisa
tion nt Washington" nnd the "Moilrnnlsn-
tlon of this republic,” about which the
lion. John Hhnrp Williams seems so greatly
agitated?
1. Why do them distinguished gent!
greatly magnify Mr. Brynn’a slightly erro
neous advocacy of federal ownership of "a
few trunk lines," nnd wholly Ignore his
brave and honest ndvoca
lent, constitutional nnd
to the dnmnnhle i
public highways known
trying to
olid I
THE OPALESCENT PORTALS.
Ita palace serial
With glory ethereel.
In tbe loud of tha West,
Where all days rest.
Till the clarinet rlsnr
Calls morning here
To honor and raise
Onr little lire-lays
To the Master of days.
-Arnold B. Hall.
Pendergrass^ Os.
street railways, waterworks, lighting plants,
schools, sowers, penitentiaries, asylums,
hospitals, market places, postal fsclll
etc., etc.? Do they, by their cheap-
talk about "socialism." expect to bo Sble to
scare honest snd sane Southern Democrats
Into the belief that the public—the stats nr
tho city—should not retain, own nnd operate
Its own public Internal, and not torn tbe
unto over to prlrate and selfish money
schemers to ho monopolized and operated
by on* of these modern firtlnnnl and soul
less entitles known ns n "corporation for
pecuniary profit?”
5. Or ere them gentlemen artfully aiming,
by nrrarlng the Hotithern Democracy
against the objectionable doctrine of fed
eral ownership of any anal every sort, and
committing It to absolute alienee on the
correct nnd Democratic doctrine of state
and mnnlrlpat ownership tnot federal)—sre
they by this meins playing Into the hands
of the Harrlmsnt, the Hills, the Morgans
nnd- the (loultls. whom sole end only nlm
Is to saddle upon the country and the sev
eral states for another forty yearn the gi
gantic anil fraudulent Republican farce aif
federal aor state) "regulation" nnd "con
trol" of private thievery. Instead of "public
ownership of public utilities?"
g. Let’s see, ahieen't tbe state of Georgia
aiwn n raltrawid? Texas does. Are the peo
ple of Georgia operating their own railroad,
at cost, for their own benefit? Or have the
pulltb-lsns turned It aaver to some little
Gonial or Vnnalerbllt hecnnaae tboy (the poli
ticians! are grrntly frightened alaotit "so
cialism?" The politicians needn't be scared.
Democratic communities owneal anal op
erated their lass highways, nnd Improve]
highways, hundreds and perhaps thousands
of years before auch a thing ate a corpora
tion for pecuniary profit wo* beord of. anal
before the word “socialism" was cailnetL
7. Thank g-t-luess the day la rapidly ap
proaching when time servers nnd dishonest
polltlclsns will have to come out ifi the
open and plainly declare themselves as be
ing -nreserreally In favor of private mo
nopoly of public utilities, at against state
itnd mttnlcfpal ownership; or they wilt be
driren Into open ndroency of the Republican
fraud doctriue of federal “regulation" and
"control" ot legalised larceny.
F. Q. 8TCAUT.
8hrereport. La., May 21, 1907.
THE ERIE CANAL AND OURS.
To the Ealitor ot The Georgian:
Any account of the Erie canal a* Il
lustrating what would result In Georgia
from a canal and In Alabama another
section of canal, thua connecting
through the Tennessee river the Mis-
'slasippl river and Ua tributaries, with
the Georgia rivers and coast, would be
Inadequate, which did not refer to the
other, and subsequently built canal
feeders of the main stem the Erie.
There were constructed in all, be
sides the Erie, thirteen other canals
largely by feeders of the Erie.
These ehort canals have not, through
the entire period since their construc
tion, been uniformly profitable, aa has
the Erie. Indeed, the aggregate of loss
haa been a large sum, not large enough,
however. *o that aggregate earnings,
with earnings of the Erie have been
insufficient to pay all operating expens
es, expeneea #f maintenance and entire
cost of the canals, and leave a large
surplus over. .
These canals have no doubt, as haB
the Erie, contributed to the wonderful
record of New York’s Increase ■-
wealth and population.
There Is probably no doubt that his
tory will repeat Itself In Georgia,
where .the main mileage of the canal
will be In the construction of a num
ber of canals as feeders, aiding greatly
In the development of the states re
sources. C. P. GOODYEAR.
Brunswick, Ga
THE B083.
hen things go essy, he Just ssunters
round „
At 10 o’elock or so: then rends bis mall.
Dictates some half doxen letters to the
girl, ,
Tosses us each s word, nr maybe two.
Looks at tha papers; lights a good cigar,
'Phones to s friend, and then goes out to
And l* B fo boa* nnd say to maw: “Goo
I hate to work! I wisp I wuz tho boss!’’
But my! when things go wrong! Maybe
a etrlke. , , .
Or prices down, or some bank goee nnd
Then ain’t he Johnny-on-thoapot at 81
Than he don't rake no tlmo to read the
Nor eat"no lunch, bnt kseps us all a Jump.
Then he shoots letters at tho girl till she
Gets flustry red spots on her cheeks; and
Eren 1U oIif*Chief Clerk hustle; yon know
Thst*fnt’one, with the sort of double chin.
And me—why. I’m greased lightning when
he calls. . ......
And when night comes, then he looks kind
And nnxiousllke. end yet so full of fight,
I get a sort of aching In my throat.
Like something cbokln me, when I look nt
borne and say to maw: “Geo
him.
And I^ko
Blsness la tough. I’m glad I ain’t tlic
—Harper’s Magaslne.
WEALTH AND EDUCATION.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
We can not pick up a paper now
without seeing where some rich man
has given a hundred thousand or
million to some educational Institution,
Thla has got to be so common It has
led the general public to ask, “Have
the rich gone Insane on the subject of
education?" Now, everyone who knows
anything knows education Is to the hu
man Intellect what.a grind-stone Is to
an ax, and everyone who knows any
thing knows If you keep fooling with a
grind-stone you will soon have mo ax.
Country people today are using as an
excuse to get to town they want to
educate some 12 or 14-year-old kid
The kid ought by all means to be kept
at work at that age, his physical make
up being a matter of ten times as much
Importance at that age as mental de
velopment nnd at the samo time a sine
qua non to mental strength anyway.
Medicine, education and religion are
all right when properly administered,
but It won’t do to go crazy about
either one. As a general rule, the
rich are not well educated themselves.
Conditions are such they do not mix
With the masses, nor do they know the
needs of humanity at large, hence tho
sitp-up In Judgment. I read a rldtcu
lous piece In the paper the other day,
Illustrated, showing the poor "one-gal-
farmer ns he Is today and as he
will he when Rockefeller’s millions have
enlightened him. * Now, I wonder If that
editor knows that 95 per cent of the
agricultural classes of Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas
are today os well educated as Rocke
feller himself and so far as general men
tal makeup and mental balance Is con
cerned hts equal or superior. The
motive, of the rich In making these
magnificent gifts need not be ques
tloned—they are perhaps good. It is
true some of them may be led astray
by a hope ot posthumous fame, but
then they are the losers. Fame of any
•kind Is the most ethereal, worthless
diet ever dished out by the Goddess
of Fortune to weak humanity, ’"TIs
true, 'tls pity and pity 'tls true," ac
cumulated wealth Is dangerous, no mat
ter whether In the hands of a private
Individual or In the hands of the
church. Its danger doea not change
because of a change of ownership. Un
less this craze of dumping the wealth
of the country Into the hands of this or
that eduratlonal Institution stops,
the governments, as a matter of public
policy, will have to confiscate It as they
did church property hundreds of years
ago. Millionaires can’t carry their
wealth with them, but I think no more
of It Is needed by either church or
school. Let them give It to the poor.
The poor are numerous and always
with us. We are told upon good au
thority that the widow's mlto Is worth
more to the cause of Christianity thnn
all the gold that ever glistened on tho
Pacific coast, or the diamonds that
have sparkled In South Africa. The
rich man’s wealth can't keep up the
church. The pious man’s dollar must
do that, and the pious man Is always
ready to give the dollar, so let the rich
keep their wealth. It they lose post
humous fame It is not worth a conti
nental anyway. Alexander, Caesar and
Napoleon have been remembered. Cice
ro and Demosthenes by'thelr eloquence
make us think of them occasionally, but
the majority of us need not Indulge In
any such foolish hopes. When we are
gone we are gone, and even our widows
forget us for a better looking man In
twelve months.
J. F. ALEXANDER.
Rome, Ga., June 1, 1907.
The Endless Chain Prayer.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
The endless chain prayer frond, which
haa I teen circulating all over the cnnntry.
deluding n lot of good people ami attributed
to Blahop Lawrence, I* not worthy of tho
thought of any Intelligent Christian or
Protestant.
It Is s perfect example of the tireless
system of prayer against which Luther and
the other greet reformer* of tbe elxteenth
century fought nml freed tbemaelrc* of, to
anything tlmut thl* "chain.” nor as to why
It bn* been promulgated In hi* name. He
requests all who receive them to destroy
theaL
And now. good people who have sent out
this "prayer chain," kindly Inform your
friends of this fraud so that thla harmful
fake may lie brought to an end. and here
after beware of "spiritual benefits" obtain
ed In such fashion.
. „ ALEX L. BROOKS.
Cedar town, Ua.
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ARMMAVY ORDERS
—AND—
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS
Washington, June 4.—The following
orders have been Issued:
• Army Orders.
First Lleqtenant Samuel Franken-
berger, field artillery, detailed to attend
encampment organized militia of Con
necticut, July 22 to 27.
Following officers, corp* of engi
neers, to departments designated as
chief engineer officers: Colonel John
G. D. Knight, Department of the East;
Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Blxby, De
partment of the Lakes; Major John
Biddle, Department of California, and
Lieutenant Colonel Solomon W. Roesa-
ler. Department of the Columbia.
Captain Ward B. Pershing, Tenth
cavalry, having been found by retiring
board Incapacitated for active servtcj
on account of disability"Incident there
to, his retirement Is announced.
Captain James P. liarbeson, Twelfth
Infantry, to charge construction work
Governor’s Island, vice Captain Moore
N. Falls, quartermaster; Captain Ed
ward A. Shuttloworth, quartermaster,
from quartermaster’s department:
Captain Ulusses G. McAlexander, gen
eral staff, from general staff corps, de
tailed professor military science, Ore
gon Agricultural College, Corvallis.
Captain Edwin G. Davis, from unas-
slgned list to Sixty-first company, coast
artillery; First Lieutenant William R.
Bettlson, from unassfgned list to One
Hundred nnd Twenty-fifth company,
const artillery: Captain George Blake
ly, coast artillery corps, to Fort Tor-
rey for duty with One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth cempany, coast artillery
corps during Joint army and militia
coast defense exercises.
Major General John P. Story, re
tired. from national coast defense
board to home: Captain Harry A. Eat
on, Twenty-third Infantry, detailed
professor military science West Vir
ginia University, Morgantown, vice
Major James M. Burns, retired, who
will proceed home.
Sergeant Major Harry B. Smith, sen
ior grade, coast artillery, from FoYt
Leavenworth to Presidio, of San Fran
cisco, relieving Sergeant Major George
W. Harvey, senior grade, coast artil
lery corps, who will proceed to Fort
Barrancas, relieving Sergeant Major
John E. Anderson, senior grade, coast
artillery corps, who will proceed to
Fort McKinley.
Sergeant Major Louis O., Huffman,
Junior grade, coast artillery corps,
from Key West barracks to Fort Mott;
First Sergeant William Rogers, Forty-
seventh company, coast artillery,
plaeed upon retired list; Private (first
class) Jolce W. Price, hospital corps.
Fort Sam Houston, discharged from
the army.
Naval Ordart.
Lieutenant D. C. Bingham, to Ten
nessee; Lieutenant H. L. Wyman, de
tached Naval Academy, to Tacoma:
Lieutenant D. C. Hanrahan, detached
Tacoma, home to wait orders; Lieu
tenant J. H. Tomb, detached Stockton,
to command Hull; Lieutenant W. N.
Jeffreys, detached Naval Academy, to
Alabama; Lieutenant W. K. Riddle, to
Maine; Lieutenant W. G. Mitchell, de
tached Naval Academy, to command
Stockton; Lieutenant H. E. Cook, de
tached Louisiana, to command Shu-
brlck; Lieutenant A. W. Johnson, de-
tarhed Hhubtick. to Naval Academy:
Lieutenant W. T. Cluverlus, detached
Naval Academy, to Mississippi; Lieu
tenant T. C. Hart, detached Hull, to
bureau of ordnance, navy department;
Lieutenants R. Wallace and L. U. Wal.
lace nnd Paymasters B. C. Colby and
H. A. Wise, Jr., commissioned; Assist
ant Naval Constructors J. E. Ottereon
and C. A. Harrington, appointed; Gun
ner T. J. Hurd, detached navy yard,
Washington, to Prairie,
Movements of Vesaela.
ARRIVED—May SI, Caesar, at Cu-
lebra; Rocket, at Washington; Rhode
Inland, at Tompklnsvllle; Sylph, at
navy yard, New York: Nina, at Annap
olis; Denver and Cleveland, at Gi
braltar; Helena, at .Amoy. June 2,
Wnsp, at Key West; Wolverine, at De
troit: Elcano, at Hongkong.
SAILED—June 1. Rhode Island, from
navy yard. New York, to Tompklns
vllle; Wasp, from Port Tampa for
Key West; Olympia, from Norfolk for
Annapolis; Sylph, from Oyster Bay for
navy yard. New York; Eagle, from
Guantanamo for Hampton Roads;
Wolverine, from Erie for Detroit. June
2, Chicago, from Sandlego for Bremer
ton: St. Louis, from San Lucia for
Bahia.
FAITH’8 ANSWER TO THE AGES.
Brother, tell me of the spirits
Who hare left this life we know;
Do they rest lu Glory's region
Whon from us thoy’re called to goT
Do they then Inhabit Heaven
And nwatt our landing there.
Or do they forget tlie friendships
'Mid tho Joys so bright and rare?
Do they pass the Pearly Portals
As tbe spirit takes Ita leave.
At the mind on earth Is darkened
Does It lire aa wo bellere?
Not the snnset of existence
Is tbe drapery of otir life,
'Tla God’s spirit transportation
To Ills Kingdom without strife.
Glory has It* guardian spirits
And their memory to us clings;
Thev sre helping ua to Heaven,
Where the glory-anthem rings.
They are railing us to listen
To the welcome words of lore;
They are telling of the teachings
Of the Savior-King above.