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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. •VEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14, ldOT. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon. .(Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At a West Alabama Bt. Atlanta. Ot. Subscription Rates! One Tear H-R si* Months »“ Three Months Onr Month « By Carrier, Ter Week 10 Telephones eonnecttnf all deport- mer.ts. Long distance terminals. 8mlth A Thompson, advertising rep- resmtatires for all territory outside of • NMnt, Chicago Office Tribune BuHfllng New York Office Potter Building If yon have any trouble getting TIIB GEORGIAN AND *\EW8. telephone the circulation department and hare It promptly remedied. Telephones: Dell 4927 main; Atlanta 4401. It Is desirable that alt communlca. tlons Intended for publication In TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to 100 words In length. It Is Imperatlre that they be signed, as on evidence of good faith. Rejected inanuecrlpta will not be returned unless stamps ure sent for the purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS print* iv# unclean or objectionable odvertla* |jg. Neither does It prlut whisky or .any liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM: TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS stands for Atlanta'* own ing Its own gas and electric light plants, os It uow own# It# water works. Other cities do this and get gas ss low ns CO cents, with u profit to the city. This should be done st once. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS I relieves that If street railways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are. there Is no good reason why they can not be so oper ated here. But we do not Iielleve this can be done now, and It may l»o some year* before we are ready for #o big as undertaking. Htlll Atlanta should set Its fsce In that direction NOW. A Fan’s Just Complaint. The "fan" public unquestionably boa Just cause for complaint against the management of the Atlanta Base ball Park In such Instances as that referred to In a communication on the sporting page of this Usue. The cir cumstances are correctly related, so far as the principle Involved Is con cerned. The management has no moral right to refuse to allow Us pa trons to pass out and In tho gates In search of shelter from the rain, when it falls to provide means for such shelter within the grounds. It makes no difference whether the company haa a self-made rule that the public ahall not pass out and In the gates during a game, nor la It material that this rule Is made and enforced to safeguard the soft drink concessions at the park. The presumption Is that the management It primarily engaged In the business ot furnishing amuse ment to the public at so much per head. This presumption Is not com patible with the policy of forcing pa trons to endure a driving rain In the bleachers, because, forsooth, they only pay two bltB for the privilege of seeing the game. They willingly forego the luxury of shade In order to witness the great national sport,at a prices they can afford, but this does not Involve a sacrifice of acting upon occasion on the great primal instinct of self-preservation. No sane man will contend that a bleacher patron, when he purchases a ticket for 25 cents, knowing that the seat he la to occupy is unshaded from the aun. agrees also to alt itiplnely throughout a driving rain, with the dire conse quences that It threatens to health, to say nothing of the bodily discomfort. Our laws do not require a man ac cused of crime to prove his Inno cence. The prosecution lias to prove bis guilt, and If It falls to do so he is legally Innocent. Many distinguished captains of industry have to thank this legal presumption for their pres ent ability to view the scenery or the Hudson from the quarter decks of their steam yachts instead of through grated windows.—Samuel E. Moffett in Collier's. The English language affords more than one way of saying a man's a thief and ought to be In tbe peniten tiary. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. (From The Chicago News.) Experience teaches a few and fools many. A girl with pretty teeth wilt laugh at any old Joke. Only a woman Is capable of Irons- forming a yawn Into a smite. Too many people deny themselves the eemforts of life fn order to pile up on es tate for a bunch of dissatisfied heirs to fight over. Many a man's good Intentions are due to the headache next morning. There Is more or less charity In tlte heart of every man—usually lesa Unless a man has sense In his head It Is difficult to keep dollars In his pocket. A woman realties that she Is getting the wont of an argument with her husband when he refuses to become excited. When a married man brings home a box of candy Instead of a box of otgan, his wife Imagines that he has been doing Something he Is nshamej of. Women say that men are all alike, hut •hen two men full In lore wlib the same wouiao a dlffea-uce sooa exists hetweeu. THE HOURS THAT ARE LEFT. [Fully realizing that possibly a large majority of the people at large—and especially our wives and mothers—are not deep ly Interested In political matters, and hence may tire of their treatment so fully from day to day. The Georgian wishes to re mind tnem that the laws wo live under, and that affect our wom en even more than they do the men, are made by our friends wtfio, from ypar to year, come hero for that purpose. '.Vc apol ogize to the good womon for what may seem to them too much attention to matters In which they are not Interested, but we indulge tbe hope that they will take time to study a little more fully the meaning and merits of the laws of our state and na tion and the making of them.] The time left for action by our General Assembly has now reached a matter of hours. Very little has been FINISHED, though much has been DONE. Extra sessions are always to be avoided if possible without serious neglect of the public welfare; $2,000 a day for an. extra session is a lot of money. The state needs it. We can ill afford to spend tho money that we have worked ao hard to provide. And yet we believe it is the opinion of the best people of the state—and these are the great majority— that we need the laws we have set out to get even more than we need the money -an extra session will cost. The measures that are pending will mean not only money, but more than money. The principal ones will give the state more money indirectly—practically all of them will give us more hap piness. And there i% not an important measure pending that, as a whole, would not give to the people of Georgia, both white and black, more happiness and greater comfort if enacted into law. Then, gentlemen, why npt be as brief as you can and wipe the slate by Saturday. If you have nothing vital to offer for or against a measure, don’t use tho valuable time that is costing the state nearly $7 a minute. Weigh well your words, and see if they are worth the price to the populace. We believe your own people, for whom you are working, will love you more for saving to their homes and farms the sum that must come out of taxes to hold an extra session, if, when you can not materially add to the success of measures, you be silent, than if you use the golden minutes in an unnecessary effort to prove your fidelity to your constituents. A man consuming an hour that costs Georgia over $600 in talk ing nonsense about dogs, just because some one crossed him, ought to get a bill from the state for the amount, with interest. Make hay now, good friends, and there Vfon't be any need of an extra session. AMERICA IS UNRIPE FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP, SA Y CIVIC LEA GUE EXPER TS (From the LItsrary Digest) That a committee of twenty experts cities to secure a blfher type of public senr/ chosen by the National Civic Federation should be able to make an exhaustive inves tigation of municipal ownership In the United States .and Great Britain without coming to any definite recommendation for or against It seems to some a lame and Impotent conclusion. “The wonderful con clusions of these wonderful coucluders do not seem to get us any forrader." remarks mo editorial writer of the New York Even- "If they had brought out any kind of pauu- ceu with ii great flourish," says the New York Evening Post, "sober people would have distrusted them," while as It Is, their from M. E. Ingalls, railroad magnate, D. J. Kesfe, president of the International Longshoremen's Association, with editors, college professors, lighting experts, and others between. Yet they all were able to agreo upon the report, save two who made some modification#, and one who wrote n separate report of bis own. Tho most Im portant point In the main report is the opinion tnnt municipalities should operate whatever affects the health of their people, but should not go into municipal trading, where revenue, nud not health, la tbe main object. To quote from tne report: "We are or the opinion that a public util ity which concerns the health of the cltl- sens should not be left to Individuals, where the temptation of profit might produce dis astrous results, and therefore It Is our HELP THE TECH, GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE 1 It Is to bo hoped that when tho Senate reaches that part of the gen eral tag act which provides for appropriations for state educational In stitutions, It will give the Tech.the Increased amount asked for—If nec-. essary amending It a little to thnt end. The House of Representatives has given the Tech all the money it seems to think the state can stand, and possibly all that could be ex pected of that body under tho circumstances. Some of the leaders who wore unwilling that Tech have more iiBcd the argument that each grad uate from that school cost the stato $1,000, while the public schools re ceived from tho state but $2.40 per child. Now, let's see about that. As a matter of fact, the 562 boys at Tech cost the state less than $100 a year each. The state's $2.40 per capita to the children of tho state'Is tho amount they get year after year, during their school life. However, all children who are of school age do not attend school; hence these figures used by our friends do not represent the case. But suppose they did—the children represented In the $2.40 per capita fund are all the children, the majority of whose education reaches Its maxi mum In the "three R's.” If, then, our friends who would, to tho great disadvantage of tho School of Technology, make the odious comparison of $100 for a few years of higher training against tho amount the chil dren of the stato receive from It for rudimentary education, then It Is .only fair to place both products side by side. A caso In point: Only a few weeks ago we had tho pleasure of a visit to our own great Exposition Cotton Mill (which, by the way, la tbe highest rated mill In the South, being rated 200), with one of tbe boys the Tech had educated. ThlB young man, the son of a widowed mother and of one ot our best Oeorgla families, Invited us. with a degreo of pardonable pride, to see one of the most marvelous machines used In the cotton Indus try—the mechanical knotter. One stands In utter amazement before the little device. No words can expross one's thoughts, as In nine minutes this little wizard ties nearly throe thousand knots that have always re quired a minimum of live hours by hand. Regardless ot tho argument that It takes work from the girls, wo have only to deal with the argu ment that our Northern competitors have them to our disadvantage, and we may not expect to bring trade to Oeorgla If we alt and do by hand In five hours what Is being done In tho rich mills of New England In nine minutes with this machine. But to the point: This machine, so mar velous, costing $5,000, was demonstrated and Installed In perfect work ing order by this splendid son of Tech. He knew every bolt and screw and felt every motion of tho machine, and Its successful operation In this, our home mill, was due to the brain and the schooling ot this Tech boy. Somebody says, "Yes, but wasn’t It a Northern firm, and tbe Inven tion of a Northern man, and didn't tho $5,000 go out of the 8011th?" Yes. just so. The looms themselves all came from New England; some of the carding machines, from England; the luppers from Rhode Island, and even some of the long staple used tor certain purposes, from Egypt. But whfit of that? Results are what we are after, and here Is where the young man figured, nnd where the Tech figured In the man. The mnchlncs In question are Intricate—very delicate—Being 250 knots n minnte In slender yarns and doing It far better than can be done by hand. There Is always a great deni of difficulty In the Introduction of such devices In now territory, and especially In the South, where good mechanics nroTiot abundant. One of the greatest difficulties Is to get men to treat Innovations of this kind without prejudice. Here comes our young man, with home traditions, home considerations, home character istics, nnd endowed with the best knowledge a man ever absorbed from a school of learning. He doesn't simply know the little branch of the business with which he Is directly conceived—he knows all the intricate processes of the cotton mill. He knows the causo of trouble with cer tain products. He knows tho habits, the hopes and the cares of the people he Is sent to servo, and he bends every effort to make the de vices with which he deals to succeed and accomplish their end. Better than all. he Is fitted to take the workman, who has never seen such a piece of mechanism, and train his hand to operate It suc cessfully, and thus avoid the necessity of Importing a man from another section to do something ho otherwise could not do, and take the money out of tho' hand of our native artisan. In a word, he la of our own blood and hone, nnd possessing the Intelligent training equal to that of any man In the world, he does good in a thousand ways and brings ben efits. dividends and fair wages, where, In our Inability to educate auch young men, we would be absolutely at the mercy of more favored) sec tions. with little hope of over rising above ourselves. What tills young man docs in his line, every boy .on whom the Tech bestows its Godspeed Is doing In a greater or lesser degree la the South today. ■ By no process of reasoning can you estimate the Tech'* claim on the state by the dollars-and-cents comparison that prompts some of orir good friends to discriminate against the school. It Is not a question cf a Tech boy against a school child In the country In so far as tho cle ment of personal selfishness or the Idea of the lion's share enters Into It. The Tccf hoy does get more from the stato than the one who docs not matriculate there, but the selfishness. If any. Is not on the boy's port. It should be selfishness for the state who needs the Tech boy In Us business, and If sentiment and every other consideration but state selfishness bo eliminated, tbe Tech graduate is tho best investment Georgia ever made. erateil by the publ... “We imve come to the conclusion that municipal ownership oJ public utilities should not tie exlemled to revenue-produc ing Industries wblcb do not Involve the public benlth, the public safety, public rsniportntlou, or tbe permanent occupation >f public streets or grounds, and thnt ntu- ilcfpst operation should not be undertaken solely for profit. “We are also of the opinion that all fa tore grants to private companies (or tbo construction and operntton of public utlll rty for operation, lease, or sale, paying fair value." America's unripeness for municipal own ership, as compured with Great Britain, is trented 111 these pnrngrnpha: "We wish to bring to your consideration the danger here In the United States of turning over these public utilities to tbo present government of some of our cities. Some, we know, nre well governed nnd tho situation on the whole seems to he Improv ing, but they nre not up lo the government of British cities. We found In Ungliind nnd Scotland n high type of municipal govern ment, whleh In the result of many years of struggle and Improvement, business men seem to take s pride in serving ns city councilors or nltlennen, nnd the govern.' rnent of such cities ns Glasgow, Manchester, nirmlnghsm. and others Includes insny of the best citizens of the city. These condi tions nre distinctly favorable to municipal operation. "In the United States, ns Is well known, there are ninny ettles not In such n favora ble condition. It Is charged that the politi cal activity of nubile service corporations bae In many Instances been responsible for the unwillingness or Inability of American This charge we believe to be true. However, there seems to be ao Idea with many people that the mere taking by the city of nil lte public utilities for municipal operation will at once result In Ideal munlci pnl government through the very neceselty of putting honest and competent cltlxens In charge. While an Increases Id the number and Importance of municipal functions may bave a tendency to Induce men of n higher type to become public officiate, we do not believe that this of Itself will accomplish municipal reform. We are unable to rec ommend municipal ownership an a political panacea. "In many cases In the United States tbs people have heedleuly given away their control or regulation, nnd we corruption of public eervante haa sprung. In large measure, from this condition ot things. With the regulations thnt we have advised, with tho publication of accounts nnd records and systematic control, the danger of tho corruption of public officials la very much reduced." Tbe committee's division of utilities Into two classes, one of which should fall In side municipal ownership nnd tbe other out- 1*1 side, Is supported by the following argu ment ot the New ) ork Journal of Com merce: / "There Is one Important factor lacking In nnd city government for the direction of any kind of business which Is not an essenttal part of the administration of affairs strictly governmental, nnd that is tbe Incentive of self-interest In those charged with the labor nnd responsibility of management. Certain functions, 'an tbe construction nnd care of streets, parks, and' piddle places, police, Are, nnd public health protection, nnd pro vision for general education, must be exer cised by ergnnlied government. It Is not eney to get them performed efficiently, economically, ami honestly, but they are things lntp whleh private self-interest nnd St can not practlenlty enter. The pro- PL _ .... auction nnd distribution of gas end elec tricity for light, bent, or power, and the or- f nnlaatlon and direction of facilities for ravel, are business mntters Involving In vestment, capital expenditures, financial con- Ipts kintemiiy iu.im.utP BUUlfSWUI results. This incentive of personal success mu! private gain needs tQ he under such control thnt public • rights nnd Interests shall bo duly secured, but It can not he dis pensed with without n loss of vigor nnd vigilance. There is need of nn effective regulator, but the motive power enu not he spared.” Another plan is presented bj Francisco Chronicle, which snvs. "Whnt we nro beginning to enll the *Mexl- enn* method of control ot public service cor porations Is not touched on In this report. Thnt method Js- the control by acquirement of n large, If not controlling, interest In the stock. There Is no reason for calling It a ‘Mexican* method, for It tins long been In use In Europe. The Sue* Cannl Company Is one example. German ownership In coal companies Is another. The old United State* bank Is still another. This method bn* the advantage of effective public control while retaining the stimulus of private Interest. The private stockholders can he relied on to prevent political abuses, nnd the public ownership assure* tho necessary publicity.* 1 False Impressions About Banking There are two or three prevalent %ut mistaken . Ideas about banking that we wish to correct: In tho first place, one does not have to be wealthy to open a bank account. At this bank, one dollar is as cordially welcomed tor a starter as one thousand. In the second place, tbe transaction ot business with a bank Is by no means a complicated proceeding. It requires no more technical knowledge than tt does to do business with a grocer, druggist or a department store, and ts generally a far more agreeable undertaking. Finally, banking Is the one business conducted without expense to the customer; as a matter of fact, a bank by paying Interest on deposits, pays Its customers for their patronage and furnishes be sides all the materials and facilities required, free of charge. The advantages of a bank account are manifold. It remains for you to accept the aervlce. MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO. SOME NEW BOOKS AND AUTHORS REBEL PLOTTERS ARE BUSY II CUBA Guerrilla Armed Bands Are Hiding Out Ready to Strike August 19. Havana. Cuba.. Aug. ll.Cuba Is excited over the discovery today of a plot for concerted uprising of rebels August 19. Ouerrllla bands, organized and,armed are hiding throughout the Island, wait ing the leader's word to strike. Many petty uprisings are already reported. WHY NEGROES OPPOSE DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL. To tho Editor of Thn Georgian: Monday, while the house was considering nnd discussing the measure commonly refer red to by pre«s nud public us tbo "dis franchisement bill," Mr. Trent, the gentle man from Heard county, Is reported to have exclaimed, "You dlnfranchise the white man nnd enfranchise the negro*.” Now, if this la to, w*hy did Representative Rogers, Ruck er, nnd tbe rest of the negroes, memorial ise this general assembly, * T For God’s sake, don’t pans this bill!” There are various reasons for our memo rial, and some of them ought to be appa rent, at least to every legislator. We lore Georgia and nre now, as freemen, ns we did while slaves, working for her prosperity, her glory snd her honor. \\ e would not ourselves humiliate her, nnd our aim, though weak, Is to protest against her humiliation at the hands of those of her nous who nre clothed with legislative pow- er. The disfranchisement bill Is intended to humiliate your black brothers. But, as a matter of fact, Its chief characteristic is that of u boomerang, whose reflex action will humiliate In the future the entire state, causing the children of the present law makers to pray to Im» delivered from the re sults of tbelr unwise notion. 1 argued be fore the house committee when the bill rested there that such legislation Is calcu lated to do the state Irreparable harm. 1 told them that we were then engaged In trying to stop the steady exodus of our goixl people from the state, and that If this kind oMeglslatlon Is enacted nnd enforced, our effort# In this matter become# futile. Duly the other day there appeared In yottr paper nn advertisement from n Western state. Inviting all good negroes to come out there and bring their families If they want ed "big wages.” Our people lmd rather live here among you and labor with you for th*» development of the state’s possi bilities and the education ami uplift, Cbrls- t In tt and material, of all her citizens. Ids- lam m SPREADS 1$ CUBA One Death and U. S. Sol diers Are Stricken JVitk Fever. Reviewed By ARTH UR PENDENNI3, JR. well In print. The telling of such har rowing Incidents as those of the re construction period must undoubtedly make clear and vivid to us of this g eneration the splendid heroism of tha outhem people amid their fearful trials and tribulations Immediately aft er the war. but naturally there Is the fear that the reading of Mr. DIxon'a "Trilogy." while undeniably full of facts as a basts for his fiction, will leave the searcher after truth possibly much the worse for his reading. Facts exaggerated or made most prominent hide the real truths which, history (not yellow journalism) gives us, and the reading of books such as "The Clans man” and “The Traitor" leaves us—at least Southern people—vindictive and revengeful, It may be that a reading of Mr. Dixon's "Trilogy" will promote (at least let us hope so) a desire to In. yestlgate thoroughly these facts. His- tory on this subject Is certainly har rowing enough without aany shade of "yellow," and a study of It would re dound so the profit and information of Southern people. "The Traitor” Is an absorbing story. The reader will be thoroughly enter tained, and while there will .not be left In the reader’s mouth so bad a taste as came from the perusal ot "The Clansman," a little llsterlne "after tak ing" would not be found unpleasant. Mr. Dixon has a genius for creating a literary whirlwind, whether he treats of reconstruction days or deals with the love of men and women. In tho wake of his stories there can generally be found pitiful and hopeless wrecks, of things animate and Inanimate. Clenfuegos, Aug. 14.—Yellow fever Is spreading here. There was one addi tional death today, and the Inhabitants are leaving. Several American sol dlers are stricken. PRIEST AT DURAND’S NOT YET LOCATED Some person, probably a foreigner, with very hazy ldeaa as to the geography of Georgia, mailed a letter In New York addressed to: "The Parish Priest of Durand, State of Georgia." When the mall clerks got hold of the letter on Its way to Georgia they consulted seriously over the situation. The only Durand they knew was Da rand's restaurant In Atlanta. It mat tered little that the restaurant kept no parish priest. They decided that they discovered the Intended destina tion and so had the letter delivered there. Until the real addressee ts dis covered or until the restaurant employs a parish priest to ask the blessing, tlte letter will remain there unopened. f Deaths and FuhSrals frinchlsement measures, although operated ngnlnst and affecting many whit tes. though net so Intended, or If so. artfully, as Stated by some of tho statesmen, will not eneour* ncf thousands of eolored people to remain by your sides. t do not wish to see my native state hu miliated. t do not want tA see this exodus of eolored people from the state continued. I do not favor oppressive legislation, no matter who Is to receive tta force. I do want the good people of both race, to live In peace ood harmony—each admitting nnd respecting the rights of the other. These. Mr. Trent, nre some of the whys we mcmorlnllged the Georgia legislature against disfranchisement. Respectfully. It. A. RUCKER. The following letter explains Itself: Ion. Seaborn \Vrlght, state Capitol, ( Itear Sir: As a lusty ot eltliena nnd voter* ns well ns a hotly pf stalwart supporters of ohthltton entile, we beg to think tr open letter which appeared la Issue ot The Atlanta Georgian, (or yonr open letter which appeared la day s Issue ot The Atlanta Georgian, plaining your position on the $3.*) club tax amendment, whleh you Introduced In the house of representative*, and also to heartily Indorse the stand which you hsre thus taken In Introducing such a Idll. At nn exeenttre session of this longne we have transmitted to the senate n resolution calling upon thnt body to ktnend yonr bill Joseph Johnson, The funeral services of Joseph Johnson, who died suddenly In Char lotte. N, C., Sunday morning, were con ducted Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock tn the chapel of Barclay A Brandon. The Interment was In Oak land cemetery. Frank J. Williamson, Jr. The funeral servlcea of Frank J. Williamson, Jr., the Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Williamson who died Tuesday morning nt the family resi dence, 536 Washington street, were conducted Tuesday afternoon o'clock at the Church of Immaculate conception. The Interment was Oakland cemetery. Mrs. Ellen East. The friends of Mrs. Ellen East will be sorry to team of her death which occurred at a private sanitarium tn London. England. She and her sister, Mrs. Thomas McWhlnney, had gone abroad to spend the summer. Mrs. McWhlnney sailed for home Wednes day. Joseph Johnson. The remains of Joseph E. Johnson, son of Mrs. M. J. Johnson, who died Monday morning after a short illness In Charlotte, N. C„ arrived In Atlanta Tuesday morning. The body was re moved to the chapel of Barclay A Brandon, where the funeral services will be conducted Wednesday morning, the hour to be decided later, lie was 31 years of age and was one of the best known telegraph operator* In the city.- Besides his mother he Is sur vived by three sisters. Mr*. Leon J. McRae, Mrs. John C. Maddox and Miss Kate Johnson. The Interment will be In Oakland cemetery. Katl* Joblonski. The funeral services of Katie Joblon ski, wife of C. R. Joblonski, who died your action In Introducing such n.lilll snd Mn’ndav afternoon at her to publicly state that we Iielleve year mo- . . n S* on lives to be pure and trno I Itellwood avenue, were conducted T' vorxu MEN'S’ PROHIBITION LEAGUE• day afternoon at 3 o'clock. The In OF FULTON COUNTY. utent was in Hollywood cemetery. “THE TRAITOR." By Thomas Dixon. Jr. (Doubleday, Page & Company.) From history we learn that when the federal army occupied Alexandria. Va., John C. Underwood used his posi tion as United States district Judge to acquire the homestead, fully furnished, of a Dr. McVeigh, then of Richmond. Judge Underwood had confiscated this property to the United States; had dehlsd Mr. McVeigh a hearing; had the property sold, bought It In his wife's name for $2,850 when It worth not less than $20,000. and later hod his wife deed it to himself. 1873, Mr. McVeigh's home was restored to him by law, the United States su preme court (McVeigh vs. Underwood) pronouncing Underwood's court "a blot upon our jurisprudence and civiliza tion." Judge Underwood waz In pos session of the McVeigh home when he presided at the trial of President Jef ferson Davis. While the author does not so state, It evidently Is upon this fact of his tory. together with a mixture of love, adventure, treason and the United States secret service, that Mr. Thomas Dixon, Jr., has written the closing vol ume of Ills "Trilogy of • Reconstruc tion," dealing with the decline nnd tall of the Invisible empire or Ku Klux Klan. The author has named the closing volume “The Traitor.” The other two books. It will be recalled, were “The Leopard’s Spots” and “The Clansman.” "The Clansman" was dramatized—riots were even threatened over Its production and sometimes It was prohibited, In certain towns, though no riots ever materialized and many good people were led to believe that the author was either a fire brand or a moit Industrious press agent. There Is not any likelihood, however, of any race riots being sug gested. even In the newspapers, over “The Traitor.” In "The Traitor" the author has shnpty changed the name of Judge Underwood, of history, to "Judge Butler" In the book—furnished him with a beautiful daughter, beyond the dreams of any poet—turned the Dr. McVeigh, of history. Into a dash ing young veteran of the Southern army; "John Graham,” who was the head of the Invisible Empire, In the state of North Carolina, with Inciden tal supernumeraries of love, adventure, treason, etc., necessary to complete a "thriller.” Mr. Dixon has made a "thriller" all right—all right—there Is no doubt of that. And as some one has said, the author has surely brought to the attention of everyday readers the terrific Injustice of reconstruction times, which possibly could not have been accomplished If simply left to his tory. But Mr. Dixon seems to have written of those time not untruth fully. for hts fiction ts borne out by facta (see history), but he has stated his facts In and a way and In a flam boyant style, now designated by the name of "yellow Journalism." The au thor states his facts correctly but It is the false light of his yellow Journalistic methods, which reflects not the truth alone, but the truth en veloped In a sensational atmosphere. "Judge Butler" haa taken over tho home of “John Graham.” Graham calls on this Judge to demand restitution, at which time he threatens Judge But ler with the Ku Klux Klan and first meets Miss Butler—that paragon of loveliness. ,The Inltlaf interview with Mies Butler Is sufficient to put to flight all of Graham’s plans of revenge ngalnst her father—for. of course, he falls Immediately and violently In love with the daughter. Soon after this meeting, General N. B. Forrest, su preme head of the Invisible Empire, by decree, disbands the Ku Klux Klan. The book deals principally with the talse Ku Klux Klan organized by Irresponsible*, Immediately after the tUsbaadlng of the real Invisible Empire which had been necessary for these trying times nnd which had accomplished great good. Everybody In the state became mixed up with the crimes of the psuedo Ku Klux Klan—agents of the United StateB se cret service were brought to ferret out the trouble; and love, adventure and almost everything necessary to hold a stimulated Interest are Introduced by tho author into Ills exciting novel. The Ku Klux Klan had a habit of calling on certain belles of the neighborhood, so Mr. Dtxon says. It was at a gath ering at tho home of Miss Butler, who knowing as she did her father's preca rious position In tho state, the reader will be more than surprised to And the Klan at her home upon her Invita tion. Judge Butler was astasslnatcd by another company of false Ku Kluxers, while the genuine members of the Klan are dancing In another part of the house. Ovyr the dc-ad body of her father. Miss Butler swears to find and punish the murderer. The fulfillment of this oath becomes the real plot of the novel. SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. Judgments Affirmed. Plnnebad v. Plnnebad. from Glynn superior court, before Judge Parker Crovatt & Whitfield and John M. Gra ham, for plaintiff tn error. D, w. Krnuss, contra. Murray ot al. v. McGuire, from Glynn superior court, Judge Parker. D. W. Krauss and F. H. Harris, for plain tiffs in error. Bennet & Conyers, con tra. Martin v. Hunter, from Ware su perior court. Judge Parker. Walter T. Dickerson, Wilson, Bennett & Lambdln. for plaintiff in error. S. C. Townsend, contra. Thomas v. Herrington, from Coffee superior court. Judge Parker. F. Wllllz Dart, for plaintiff In error. W. W. Ben nett. contra. (Direction’given.) Richards v. McHan ct al., from Ful ton superior court, Judge Pendleton. Chambers & Smith, W. R. Daley, and Peeples & Jordan, for plaintiff In error. Smith, Hammond & Smith, contra. Culbreath v. Martin, from Richmond superior court, Judge Hammond. F. W. Capers, for plaintiff In error. Bry an Cummlng, contra. Harrison, administrator, v. Harrison, from Hancock superior court. Judge Holden. W. H. Burwell, for plain tiff In error. R. H. Lewis, contra. Cordele Sash, Door and Lumber Company v. Wilson Lumber Company, from Crisp Superior court, Judge Lit tlejohn. J. T. Hill, for plaintiff in error. W. H. Dorris and W. H. Mc Kenzie, contra. (On condition.) Clark v. Knowles, from Colquitt su perior court. Judge Mitchell. T. H. Parker and W. C. McCall, for plaintiff In error. J. A. Wilkes, contra. Ford, administrator, v. Clark, from Colquitt superior court. Judge Mitchell. W. C. McCall, for plaintiff In error. E. L. Bryan, contra. Judgements Reverted. Wldencamp v. Jones, from Tattnall superior court. Judge Rawlings. W. T. Burkhalter, for plaintiff In error. C. L. Morgan, contra. Ivey et al. v. City of Rome et al and Town of East Rome v. City of Rome et al., from Floyd superior court. Judge Wright. (Reversed with direc tion to dismiss In term.) Henry Walk, er. for plaintiffs In error. John W. G. E. Maddox, contra. Dismissed. Curry v. Curry, administratrix, from Clinch superior court. Judge Parker. J. W. Quincey, S, C, Townsend and W. T. Dickerson, for plaintiff In error. R. G. Dickerson and Leon A. Wilson, con tra. ' JEROME JONES TELLS LABOR’S POSITION Miss Butler wrongly suspects John Ornham. She .decides to make him love her, then through hts love to force him to disclose the secrets of the In visible Empire. Right here alt readers of romance can figure out what hap pens to young women who lay such trans, with young handsome men for thetr opposites. Mr. Dixon does not destroy our tradition of romance. Gra ham Is arrested, tried and convicted by a negro Jury, not of the murder of Judge Butler (the real criminal having been discovered—a la Sherlock Holmes), but of conspiracy against the United States, and sent to. the prison at Albany. N. Y. Of course, by this tlmo Miss Butler Is wild, tears her hair, weeps, defies Graham’s enemies (now her own. she says), calls'herself names (good ones, too, the reader will think), nnd so on. There may be wom en in real life similar to Miss Butler, but the reader wilt call himself lucky to have escaped such termagants and viragoes among his own acquaintances. Beautiful, charming and fascinating as she appeared to Graham, she was a fiend Incarnate and (praise God) most unlike Southern girls of today or of any other time. Graham gets hi* par don and In time married Miss Butler. If Graham wanted her. there really Jerome Jones explained Wednesday the position of the Atlanta Federation of Trades In advocating elections by the people. "We know.” he said, "that the fewer officials the people are allowed to vote for She less Interest «fill be taken by the people. This Is evidenced always In the primaries, where the voting In the wards where there Is no contest Is nlways lighter than In the wards where contestssnre waged! Lack of Interest by the people la always dangerous and a menace to good government, and the Federation, In aeklng for popular elec tions, Is actuated solely by patriotic motives. "While I may have some doubt as to the wisdom of electing the superintend ent of public schools by the people, I am satisfied that If the schools were brought closer to 1 the people or the people closer to the schools our children would not have to be shut In ramshack- ly little barns and abandoned coal bins to get a little education." AGED WOMAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING STROKE 8pecial to Tbe Georgian. Meridian, Mlsa., Aug. 14—Mrs. Annie L. Barnes, one of the oldest residents of this county, was Instantly killed by a bolt of lightning at Collinsville yesterday evening. The body was found later by a visiting neighbor, sit ting up In a chair In front of the nre- — — — place with a wound tn the top of the was no serlou* objection to the mar- head. The tlghtnlng set fire to tits rlage—non* at least that would took house, but this went out.