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THE ATLANTA (iEOKdIAX AND NEWS.
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THE ATLANTA 6E0RQIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Ediior.
F. L. Sf ELY. President.
T. B. GOODWIN, Gen'l Mgr.
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lot Its o.ti (pt. «hd skgtrlc 1I*M
pl.ntt, or It now owns Its water
trort.. 0|b#r dtles <1* trie .fill get
lot aa low t.t centt. with . profit
to the oil-. Thlf aoonld *0 don. ft
once. THE GEORGIAN AND NEW*
li.ll.tr> thnt If atr.ft railway} -on b*
operated sarctaffnllr by, Buropf.ii
•Ttlot. a. they are. tlifttt fa no pood
t....Hi why they otn not li* «o 0P«-
at.d hoto. nut we do not hfU.ro this
can bo done now. and It may be aw
rear, before tro nr. ready for so big
an underrating. Still Atlanta ah.ulo
l.t It. fare In that direction NOW.
Thursday lit Hallowe'en, and "the
goblins will git you if you don't watch
out.”
The'abzonce cf gate receipts may
urovent ballooning from bocomiug a
iiopular sport.
There arc eight million telephone
girls In the world, and at times not
a single ono will listen to our call.
St. Petersburg has the reputation
of being the unhoaltblcst city in Eu
rope. Eruptive diseases, a specialty.
It seems that high finance Is some
times like "vaulting ambition that
overleaps Itself and falls on the other
aide.”
The Washington Herald says tho
new mayor of Ban Francisco Is n
stager. And the old one Is a jail
bird.
A girl in Gallatin, soya the Kansas
Olty Star, spells tho nsme of her
Iioodlc rhyd.au. Surely, that If
Msyme.'
The worst Js over, said the secrc-
tary of the treasury. And It has so
proved. Depend tr.t It, Cortclyou can
t«U yon.
Playing Diavolo. Is a fad recently
taken up by society people; tho* if
you believe cotpc folka they've beeu
at it til the time.
I<ewla Stuyvesant Chanter Is said
to bear a striking resemblance to
Henry Clay. Shall wc accept him at
his face value?
Turkeys arc scarce and the cran
berry crop la not good. So some of
us may hare to find something else
to he thankful for.
A young woman of Shauokin, Pa.,
wrote a poem and then committed
suicide. Now. don't paas hasty Judg
ment before reading the poem.
The brokers In New York last week
got so excited they forgot the rules
tnd smoked In the pit. And, for n
time, it looked as If everything was
going up Ja smoke.
Verily, foottail Is a dangerous pas
time. At a Philadelphia game, o
youth stuck one hundred and thirty,
two splinters In hit body. And
wasn't playing, either.
he
,T!;s coaster Is paasled over tbs
reasons why aa organisation of De
troit women call themselves the
Chauncey Depew elub. Not that they
are old jokers, surely.
i'o arc now Informed that the
American who was arrested and put
to a Rusnlgn Jgll, la In that country
search of material for a lecture.
He Is probably ready to come home
BIRMINGHAM’S BATTLE A SIGNIFICANT ONE.
And bo Hirmlngham has floated its vdjite ribbon to the breeze of
this reforming year and takes its stand among the moral cities of tho
republic.
Thai rote In Jefferson* county was astonishing to all participants in
the campaign which closed on Monday. It was regarded as a doubtful
battle with probabilities .balanced between both sides and with both sides
anxious and in doubt.
. And 2,000 majority In a single county Is not a bad record for pro
hibition even In this year of tidal wares of temperance.
It Is doubtful after the result In Birmingham If any city In the South
has any reason to be discouraged over the result of a faithful and earnest
fight for prohibition. There Is not a city which cannot win and wear
the white ribbon If It will only organize and fight as Birmingham did,
and Anniston.
Wo are quite sure that Chattanooga and JacltsdnvIIIe. whoso Jug
trade will menace Georgia on Its northern and southern borders, w lit fol
low fast in tho line of Birmingham's achievement If they only go at .it
with unfailing courage and with vigorous hope.
For Birmingham was not a city naturally expected to go for prohibi
tion. It Is a etty of mills and furnaces, a city of work and Industry- Its
population was largely born and largoly recruited from the foreign ele
ments of our own American population. It was a population which one
would have expected to favor the continental Sabbath and to remember
the beer gardens of Europo and the anti-prohibition sentiment of tho
old world. Hut that E»s!e.v, tho first industrial city of tho South In pro
portion to Its size, should give a sweeping majority for prohibition, tells
a tale blazing with hope that the foreign element. Itself has como to
realize that saving and thrift and happy homes and moral uplift follows
tiyc line of prohibition to tho dethronement of tho liquor traffic.
Birmingham Is a strong strategic redoubt which has been captured In
the enemy's country. The results of Its Monday's battlo will have a far-
reaching effect throughout tho Industrial an well as tho agricultural
South.
And we arc quite sure that the moral people of Jefferson county
will have something more then selfish or personal cause of congratula
tion In the splondld battle which they have fought and won for them
selves and for this Southern country.
A PINE “TIP” FOR OUR FUTURE CONVENTIONS.
One of the most beautiful. If not tho most beautiful, Impromptu
tribute that Atlanta and the South have ever received, was spoken
Saturday evening at tho Pledmout Driving Club. >
The speaker was Charles Hart, the newly eleoted president of the
International League of Presfi Clubs, and tho audience was a large con
tingent of the press people of other sections and a half hundred Indies
and gentlemen of Atlanta. '
It was not only the charming manner and tho silver speech of the
Press Loaguo president that made notable his response to a brief and un
pretentious address of welcome, but It was what he said and the sug-
gcstlvcneas of what he said.
The Pros* League had just come from Birmingham and that city
with its usual hospitality had ontortalned its people well and kindly.
They had been banqueted and excurted to every portion of Its city and
its environment. There was no lack or complaint of hospitality in the
Iron City of the South.
But the Press League delegates went away from Atlanta feeling and
saying that they had each had the time 'of their lives, and that their
brief day In tile capital city of Dixie had been worth more In pleasure
and Inspiration than all they had received since they hod crossed tho line
of the Potomac and tho Ohio. There Was no booming done for Atlanta
in the welcome accorded to Its newspaper guests. There was very' lit
tle of boasting and that of a purely casual nature, but tho guests were
made to feel at homo and they woro regaled with sentiment private and
public which dealt with affairs of hospitality and wclcomo of patriot
ism and of tho genuine gallantry toward their women and our own
gracious women. ■
■'Wo have been fed full, oven to satiety," said President Hart, “with
the hospitality of Birmingham and Alabama. We appreciate all of our
hosts, but that Is not what wo came South to aee. We knew that the
South was prosperous, and if we had not known It, wo could have bad
the fact told us In a dozen lines and our eyes could have caught It at
a single glance. But wo ourselves came out of tho smoko and dust of
rooking mills and booming Industrlca and we don’t come South to hear
or seo any more of them. What every man north and eaat of the river comes
South to see and to hoar is tho touch of the South Itself, whBt we have heard
of It, what we have dreamed of It—Its gallantry. Its graco and Ita chiv
alry, lta charming courtoslos. Its beautiful women and the reverence and
chivalry In which they are cherished by the gallant gentlemen of tho
South. We come here to seo soft skies, bright suns and tender moons
and moonlight on torraoo*, and to hear of love and to sep that breath
ing graco of courtesy which la famous all over the world. And when
wc fall to seo or hear those things no material exhibit of your throb
bing, hustling, steaming prosperity satisfies the Northern visitor to this
beautiful laud of romance and of song."
Along this lino tho speaker talked for ton minutes In » strain of
surpassing sweetness and naturalness reinforced by a manner and a
silver elocution that mado tho speech a charm to all who heard It.
But It was something better than a charm, it was a revelation to
the South along the lines of Its futurs hospitality. It showed from the
Ups of an almost Inspired visitor that any hospitality I* mistaken and
Inadequate In this Southern country that does not give to our visitor!
a touch of the things which make the South tho dream and aspiration
of all other parts of onr American world.
Lot us take a cue from President Hart of the International Preta
Club, and hereafter when our vlsltora como to Atlanta, from whatever
part of the country or of the world they coma, let us treat them as tha
press committee treated the Press League. Let us give them a breath
of ourselves, a suggestion of our civilisation, a sight of our women, tho
charm of our chivalry and that unbought grace of living which has made
the most charming and delightful peoplo of the world.
The world thinks this of us, the world rca^s these things about us,
and when the world comes to see us It comes as ipuch or more to see
the people as to seo their factories or their fields.
And so with a gracious acknowledgment of tho really exqulaite and
inspiring trlbuto which President Hart of the Press Club has paid us, let
us gather In true Southern tact tho lesson which his lips hare borne
us and let u* remember that while wo parade our achievements and
hlszou our prosperity, the thing of all things most charming to the
people of other section* and of other lands Is the exhibition of the South
of chivalry, of the South of romance, of tho 8outh of our beautiful
women, and of patriotic sentlmont. *
President Hart has given Atlanta the cue by which It can make Its
future hospitality transcend all othor expressions of hospitality even as
the oac bright day In Atlanta was worth to the Press people four solid
days of mnterjjil splendor In Birmingham.
A RESPECTFUL SUGGESTION TO BARTOW.
In the Interest of a sentiment that will be felt throughout the
state. The Georgian desires to make a suggestion—to prefer. Indeed, a
respectful request to the good people of Bartow county.
Perhaps It Is not necessary to do so. Possibly—indeed probably—
the thought has already suggested Itself to that community, rndeed,
we doubt not that that splendid people havei already fait bow generoua
and gracious a tribute It would bo to the memory of au honored and
well loved aon of Bartow, If her peoplo should voluntarily lay upon the
shoulders of Paul Akin the tega so worthily worn and so honorably
and spotlessly laid aside by the late senator from the Forty-second.
Wc make the suggestion, not In any spirit of meddling or pre
sumption—with no Impulse to Interfere In the local concerns of any
countv: but as a citizen of Georgia, claiming a share In the pride which
Georgia feele In the stainless memory of the high-minded gentleman
whom Bartow gave to the state. Not' only do we. In common with all
good citizens, claim a share In that memory, hut wo claim also a portion
itt the affectionate grief that the state, as well as hla native county, feela
far his untimely cutting off, and so me desire that generous testimony
should bo borne to the loving regard and respect In which the late
president of the senste was held by all the people. ,
In this spirit. In respectful deference to the political rights of his
native county. The Georgian earnestly hopes that the good people of
Bartow will join with us In tha sentiment, that no more gentle tribute
could be paid to John Akin's memory than by a voluntary and spon
taneous tender of bis unexpired term, and without u dissenting voice, to
his younger brother and law partner.
Nor Indeed. In point of worthiness, would it he an easy matter to
find a man more suitable to represent the district. Reared in large
measure under the tutelage of hla lamented brother; Imbued with tho
stainless personal spirit and high civic purposes of that clean-minded gen
tleman; and partaking with him of tho same splendid heritage of
patriotic blood, It would be easy to go far and find no more promising
successor.
Above all things. It seems to us that It would be a peculiarly gra
cious and appropriate thing. If the succession should bo voluntarily offered
with no discordant voice. There are times when things like this arc not
merely generous and beautiful, but become a sort of civic duty. States
and communities are elevated by acts of generous courtesy. This Is pe
culiarly an appropriate occasion for such an action, and John Akin s
friends throughout tho state (and they are legion) would accept It aa an
act very grateful to tholr feelings. There are many of them In Geor
gia who would wish that there he no contest for hla seat, but that
the peoplo whom he loved and cherished most should select his succes
sor In some way that would zoom a tribute paid to him.
And how could our good friends In Bartow do more signal honor to
the memory of a well loved son than by voluntarily selecting his brother
as their spokesman In hin stead? Of a certainty the people of the state
would hall It as a very gracious act. It would bo well pleasing to tho
spirit of a generous people.
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georjlnn here word* etffr «lnj
»on»e ecouomlc fnct l« reference to
the grnrard progress nt th* *><»a2n*
BY
JOSS?;; 2. LIVELY
A efiirter line Just !*»en granted the Ronnoli* IHwr Ronnl fnmpony, ftpaneko
Rapid*. X. r. # to nutnofnetnre j»n)p. «l**r*nd Miryl* **f *11 from wood m*»r.
The anthorir/Ml capital Is with $34.W> irolHirrlftHl hy Howard A. EdannK
4. II. Wallace and L. V. Ilonpt, of Roanuko Rapid*. Halifax county, New York and
i „, ul Mnmifsctnijny r«>:»j|Mvny. cf Murphy X. f\. Ims
1 ht*ft chartered. Authorised capital la UO.Ott, with *2,090 subscribed. 1 neoriMWiiturn
are Messrs. A. G, b#**eeoe, J. W. I’urd. l>. If. Yard. A, A. Kaln and S. \\. bnln*
good.
The nine Itldse Lumber fompany. of Annliwhln. ( lirmWcp minify,/North t'aro-
llna, has receive*l a charter. The authorized capital stuck la $40,000, tint the com
pany may begin business with ftO.Oft). The Incorporator* are .1. X . Brown, or Apaln*
chla, JC. and George and 4ohti E. Oherne. of Kno.ivltle, Tomi.
The Parkersburg Lumber t'ontpany hn* Ireen Incorporated In the state of Meat
Virginia, with principal offices m Fairmont, W. Vn.. bat Its chief works will be
In Bampsui county, North Carolina. Authorized capital Is $23,900.
The Sllla Lumber Company Is being orrnnlzed to do a general lumber business In
Concord, N. <*., with a branch yard nt Charlotte, N, r. 8111* & Klutta hare wen
doing a large bnslneaa In (frefoett and rough lnwl»er St Coneord for several year*.
Mr. Kliitts now sella his Interest to Messrs. 4oe M. Sills, Ed Honeycutt and John
Creech, who are forming a company nnd will soon nsk for a charter to couUuuo
business as.tha Hflls Lumber Company.
The Leo Veneer Company, of LesJwrten, S. r. f bn* nil Its machinery In opera
tion now arid Is doing a much larger businesa than previously, having added now
wen hud Increased the output considerably,
Mr. Gregory, manager of the match fuetory being established nt I’nnda, N. C..
soys the new* concern will be In operation In tha near future.—Southern Lu»<ier-
niart. «
MOST REMARKABLE WILL
EVER MADE BY A MAN
Justice Walter Lloyd Smith, who preside* over the third department
of tile appellate division of the supreme court, brouijlit with him to the
dinner of the New York I'nlverulty Law School Alumni Aesoclnttnn, held
In the city of New York on the night of April 20, what he said was tho
most remarkable document that ever eante Into his possession. Others
who read the document, the last will and testament of Charles Lounr-
bury. who died Insane In the Cook County Asylum, nt Dunning, lit., were
disposed to agree with him. Here It Is:
"I, Charles Lounsbury. being of sound mind and disposing memory, do
hereby make and publish this, my last will and testament. In order as
justly as may be to distribute my Interest In the world among succeeding
men.
"That part of my Interest which le known In law and recognized In
the sheep-bound volumes as my property, being Inconsiderable and of no
account, I make no disposal of In this, my will.
"My right to live, being but a life estate, Is not at my disposal, but
these things excepted all else In tho world I now proceed to devise nnd
bequeath:
"Item—I give to good fathers and mothers. In trust for their children,
all and every, tho flowers of the fields, nnd the blossoms of the woods,
with the right to play among them freely according to the customs of
children, warning them nt the same tlmo against, thistles nnd thorns.
And I devise id children the hanke of the brooks nnd tho golden sands
beneath tho waters thereof, nnd the odors of the willow* that dip there-
In, and the white cloud* that float high over tho giant tree*. And I leave
the children the long, long days to be merry In. In a thousand ways, nnd
the night and the moon and the train of tho Milky Way to wonder at, but
subject nevertheless to the rights hereinafter given to lovers.
"Item—I devise Jointly all the useful Ideal Holds and commons where
ball may bo played; all pleasant waters where one may swim; all snow-
clud hills where one may coast, and nil streams and ponds where one
may flsh. or where, when grim winter comes, one may skate; to have anil
to hold the same for the period of their boyhood. And all meadows with
the clover blossoms and butterflies thereof, the woods and their appurte
nances, the squirrels and bird* and echo** and strange noises, and all dis
tant places which may be visited, together with tho adventures there
found. And t give to said boy* each his own pine® at tho fireside at
night, with all plattires that may bo seen In the burning wood, to enjoy
without let or hindrance and without any Incumbranco of care.
"Item—To lovor*. 1 device their Imaginary world, with whatever they
may need; as tho stsrs of the sky; tho red roses by the wall; the bloom of
the hawthorn; the sweot strains of music, and aught else by which they
may desire to figure to each- other the lastlngness und beauty of their love.
"item—To young men Jointly, 1 devise and bequeath all boisterous.
Inspiring sports of rivalry, nnd t give to them tho illsdnln of weakness
and undaunted confidence In thetr own strength, though they nro rude, t
give them the power to meke tasting friendships, nnd of possessing com
panions. und to them exclusively 1 give u!I merry songs and bravo cho
ruses, to sing with lusty voices.
"Item—And to those who are no longer children or youths or lovers, I
leave memory, and I bequeath to them the volumes of the poem* of Burns
and Shakespeare und of other poete, If there b« others, to the end that
they may live over the old t|ays again, freely and fully, without tltho or
diminution.
"Item—To our loved ones with Showy crown* I bequeath the happi
ness of old age, the lore and gratitude of their-children until they fall
asleep."
7HE FARMERS' GOODBYE
70 JOHN TEMPLE GRA VES
(Frost The fnlon Newt, official Organ of
the National Farmers’ t'nlun.)
The fnlon News feels deopl.v the lota to
Georgia of that greet editor, literary gonlui
and statesman, John Temple Graves, but
the fnlon News bellnres th*t Georgia's loss
will lie America's gain.
Tb« fact thst osr frtsnd has been given
„ larger Held In which to work, hsvlug been
made the editor of the largsat dally newa-
paper In the fulled Suttee, will enable him
aerre all America as ks has been la the
; TheVpereffeaVmyedltoriala. the work, the
life of Ala great mau, la marked hy Ita lock
f seltahnese.
|t was John Tootple Graves that gave ns
te tlrat aedtence that wo over hail with the
illtof of a dally newspaper In OmrcU after
>s launching of the Farmer*' l stun. He
then promicM tn K»vc it* ntir nftlsuneft
whirl: It wi»* In hl» powrr to rcwlrr, «uil
from Urn! dale until fbl* hr b/i» Mviponilrt)
nobly, untrlfifthly mul itnhrtltattngly t» thr
mil* mmlr upon ht*»tlmr by the Farmers 1
Fnlon. Thh wllllngne** «n hi* pert to a*
*l*t In forvmnllnjr the rffort* of till* errat
orpnulxuilnn hft* I'tniFd the inrutfnti of bU
riar.ir to ttrflt* ft rtmpotiillre rhord In the
hrori* of men and women throughout It*
Jiiri»llrtlnn.
Mr. nrsrim, your friends, the farmers of
we anr wltff the fhtihtort heart that
pomlblr for u* to <>ommnnd under the r|r-i
cumataiieo*. go nnd tuny pen or nnd lmp|»t-
i)r*a !* your*. Mny thnt unseUWnw** nnd
wIllliiBncM to *erve with wbleh /«u liftvr
'**“ “ * of Georgia
LABOR’S FINE APPRECIATION
OF JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO.
CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS.
Gpital $200,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profit's $600,000.00
Commercial Accounts Invited.
Interest, compounded twice a year, is
in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
4% jSS
THE YAPS FROM YAPVILLE
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iFrom Tho Nashville American.I
The el ty-born chap (• apt to In ugh nt
Ilcuhen'ft vordnnoy when ho como* to town,
nnd to Imagine that he bn* little Intel!!
genre, Tho city person who wna himself
once n green countryman I* even more apt
to mijke sport of Ilia country cousin* when
they rouiP *t-v town. Yet the city bred
nnm'J* umfpealrably green In the country
He egm not name « half dozen birds, o
plant* or tree*, know* nothing of the hnjdt*
of animats, the open secret* of nature are
to hint dosed secrets. *.» to s’peak. and If
lost In the woods he liecomo* a helpless
Idiot, knowing nothing of woodcraft or na
ture's signal*. The thlnga with whleh we
become tumlllnr cense to seem strange, Wc
palely challenge renfrudlc-
nnd
have
Hourly and thoughtfully considered It In
all Its aspects. This being true, then, It
follows that the things which become
old to us nre no longer new. It Is the un
usual which nrrests ami nttraet* attention.
A few days ago we noted In n paragraph
that a steeplejack working on the globe
at the summit of the Singer building In
New York. 709 fed from The ground, nt-
ttacted such a crowd the street cars were
blockaded, nnd remarked that "they stop
to gate at the iinuaua! oven In New York/'
The Now York Tribune contain* till* edlto*
rial on ••Yaps:"
"New York smiles Indulgently n* the rub*
Iferiicrk wagons go by. Jt cracks Its lit
tle joke nt the country visitor standing
agape before u skyscraper. ‘Yap* ami
•rube nnd 'hayseed 1 ore well-worn words
In Its vocabulary.
PEOPLE AND THINGS
GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS
AND THE STREET CORNERS
Tbp Jouroftl of tjibor f.ll.ltntpa Joho
Tempi. Crave, upon tkf moat aljual houor
wblek baa boon tieatowed upon film In hla
I*Inf . r.llixl tn the ohlef otlitorahlp of the
mlitbtle.t of Beaut dalllea. The New York
Amvriean, anti there Is not the leapt tlape
of regret at bla going. XV* know Colonel
Grave, and hla heart-work. We know tuai.
above nil thlnga. hla Inert la Iwun.l slut
eentere.1 In Hie material welfare nf the
tanny Southland, and we know that, even
■> and Ibe lole.
tha wound be
tween ihe Month and the North liaa not
been entirely hraleil. or. If healed, the near
•tilt ataudi between the niatrrial wealth
of the North and Boat and the material
prodaeta of the Homli. and n "friend at
eourt" enti do aa Inenlteiy more good than
an amhaaandor eeot..Colonel Hrarea' mate’:,
leap pen. lilt nnerrteg Ingle, bla memeathm-
ed Integrity, hla convincing eheinpuee can
of reader, bo will there bore millions.
And The Georgian, tba paper which be
baa been with aliu-e It, birth, loaea little
In the rbnnge. (or Colonel Graves' edltn-
rials will appear elmiiltniieonily In Atlanta
tor The lleOrL'biu. and in the North. East
nnd West In loe Hedrat dalllee.
Than t'otouol John Temple Graves, organ.
president doMratred orgnulged labor. Colo,
net Grave, wn* Brat to reatniud editorial-
ly, nnd the defense thus led wna anfflelent
for the ■'.invention tn rri.rullote Ita pril-
ilent; also when the prlntere' 'debt-hour
snuggle w-aa nt Its aralth bla pen Rowed
forth words of congratulation and Jgntlflra.
Hin for the struggle, wonts Wu of tbe
Intimacy be bun bait with tW printers for
more than « decode, t'ntoiirl Graves paid
■III eloquent tribute to Ibe prlntere' iwtrou
saint nt the Atlanta anniversary of itenio.
min Franklin's blrthilny In »H Ail In nil.
with the ralrnen sad frenknete of tbe
courteous flauthsrn gentleman, he has ever
lw**n r-'C'Ty t*> crl*frj*** ay C’SiuMStl ♦?•»*-*
Attorney General John C. Hart has
returned from Washington, where he
appeared before the supreme court In
the Ducktown copper case and the fa
mous “back tax case."
This Iqst case 1* that in which the
stato claims something near a million
dollar* in back taxes from tho Central
railroad for 15,000 share* of stock held
by It In tho Western Railway of Ala
bama. Tht* amount Includes taxes duo
counties and municipalities also.
A decision I* expected within the next
sixty days In this case.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Patterson have
returned after a two weeks’ trip North,
during which Mr. Patterson attended
the convention of the National Asso
ciation of Funeral Directors nt Norfolk,
Va. They visited Norfolk. Washington.
New York. Philadelphia and other
cities, and returning catnc down ilie
Chesapeake bay to Norfolk.
Dr. George Brown sets at rest the
rumor that ha will enter the race for
tho legislature In Fulton county by
stating that he ha* no political aspira
tion* whatever. He says that tho only
reason ho would entertain tho idea of
running at nil would be thnt embodied
In the proposition to establish n tuber
cular homo In the state. He says that
not having the money to make the taco
a* a politician, he Is sure that ho could
nevfir be elected a* a humanitarian.
"Let was It In Cohoes or Kalamazoo or on
lower Broadway In tho heart of the ftnnn*
ct*l dlttrlct Hint biislncs wts praitlollT
suspended yesterday whllo a crowd that
blocked traffic gated upward at tho steeple-
Jack climbing tlm flagpole of the new Singer
bunding? I* It In the columns of The
Penn Von Banner of Freedom or In the
great city ilolllea that tho 'spread-head*
glory of the event la told with full par-
llf'itlarlty of renortorlal detail?
■‘Humankind Is pretty mueh alike la Its
curiosity, it leaves Its counter la tho
country town to seo tho ndnstrel troupe
march up from the depot or comes to its
Broadway office window to watch tho chow
der party pass. On the Mississippi, It
throngs thp river banks to s-e tbe presl-
ilent’a stenm boat go by nnd on tfc» Hudson
congests tbe pier where the Lusitania Is
docking so that tho police reserves are
called out. It runs across City Halt park
after the lire engines, stops to seo the
chore* girl co-respondent alight from her
automobile and Jams the church doors tg
tec tho bride step Into tier carrlnge.
"But tbe '.vnp' la always the fellow from
the other town. New Vork extends the
compliment 1,1 Cleveland, Cleveland pastes
it on to Colnmbus. Columbus hands It
over to Urbans, till In time It reseliei
the remote rural region whence tbs farm
boy I* tn cotne who In his turn will look
out of tho Wnll street window. When
Bussell Mnge and Jny Gould and Thomas
F. Hjsn came to town who was then tbs
J VS tho most part, the men who bare
been tho leaders of thought, learning r
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
AND
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
GEORGIA.
Georgia. Suvunnalt nnd Chattahoochee's
child.
Crowned hy Rabun peak and shod In
t 'arleton wild;
Hutt-kl*aed, fountain-laved, flower,
flecked.
Ecphyr-fanned, blrd-eholred and dew-
bedecked,
Not a siren tho' river embraced.
Not a fairy tho' wold graced.
Not a gnome tho' mountain faced.
Not a nymph tho' ocean Interlaced.
Is redeemed from the crypt of the
ages
To romance her history’* page*.
Her greatness Is not In legends hoary,
Her men are- her strehgth, her women
her glory.
With Lanier, Ryan and Haynt In song,
And our Htantnn the note to prolong;
With Cobb, Colquitt, Evan* nnd Gor
don,
In bnttle to form Immortal cordon;
With Toombs, Miller, Grady. Graves
and Hill
All hearts to quicken and ears to fill.
With Lumpkin, Speer, Bleckley and
Lamar,
Giant* on the bench and at the bar;
With Pierce, Mercer, Jones, Broughton
and Means,
Painting hellish horrors and heavenly
scenes;
Uncle Remus, BUI Arp and Knight,
Giving to sad, tired souls delight;
While Stephens, Johnson, Watson and
Brown
Have statecraft In fadeless vellum
bound—
What mors could any stats have de
sired.
To what grander heights of honor as
pired?
This a divine hope*her bosom swept
As an Intoxicated public slept;
For years she’d a ceaseless vigil kept.
And by dsy sighed and by night wept;
Her beauty marred and her peace un
done
By the leprous touch of the demon rum.
But sighing and crying had ceased and
work begun.
When the Union and League entered
tho Held us one;
Women united and men leagued to
gether
In the noble effort to save each other.
Sanity, sympathy and honor .cams
apace,
As men thundered reason and women
pleaded grace.
And vital love broke Georgia's alco
holic cup.
And the demon went down and the an
gel stood up.
J. S. WIMBERLY,
Sunlight, Go.
with whom ■ he wits thrown In contact
when, their conduct was .ncti ns tn Inter,
eer me pin,nr „r to In, n iMiidic qurwmm
In leaving Atlanta for nn.nlier flebl of
mmerisl suefes*. t'oinnc Graves loins Intuits
wlfb Hint other princely cxtxmrut of tbe
f rit's of workingmen n iiutcnt—wmintu
tin mini I'li tlrnret. Blabt now. when the
crisis of every question uf right n-cnis to
•It heniwlti tbe slunlmv of it, Injunction.
John Temple Grave* mul \VIIUnm Itnndnlph
Hcnrst run nnd will wield n splendid tsurer
In the imprest of right itgnlnst wrung.
, B /* M " graphic IImile to tur. Iirotberty
frltrltntlon that we note tbe fact that
John Temple Grave* pl-keil tip bln I,rllll.nl
carve* of love nnd endenvn? (or tba Kim Hi
'.’I ,T u !‘ n ' Hcry Grady (lured nsme) had
ibt It down -nnd * worthy •IniHlnnldwarir
•Army' Orders.
Washington, Oct. 29.—Captain Richard T,
Ellis, const artillery, from 110th Company
to fitxteenth Company, Eey West barracks.
Fnptsln I.ytle Brown, corpt of engineer!,
to Second battalion of engineers, IVashlng-
ton barracks.
Captain Frederick It. Dsy, paymaster,
from detail In pay department,
Following officers detailed to attend an
nual meeting of National Guard Association
of Pennsylvania nt AVIlkesbarrc, November
8: Major* George O.. Spier, signal corps,
and Lnwson M. Fuller; ordnance depart
ment; Captains Chnrlcn D. Rhoades, Sixth
cavalry, nnd William T. Merry, Ninth Infan
try-
Colonel Edgar It. Robertson, Ninth' Infen.
try, having been found by retiring board In
capacitated for active service on account of
dlnnblllty Incident tbercto, has.beeu placed
on retired list.
Navy Orders.
Rene Admiral A. Ross, Captain U. Hutch-
las. Ensign It, 1,. Levin nnd Fast Assist-
tt Surgeon It. A. May commissioned.
Commander W. I,. Rogers, additional
duty, army war college.
Lloutensnt-Couinsn'dor J. C. Leonard, to
Philadelphia.
Lieutenant J. O. Church.' ."detached navy
yard, New York, tn Whipple.
Lieutenant V. S. Ilnqston, detached Wor
den. home, wait order*.
Lieutenant C. S. KorrleU, detached Stock-
ton, to command Worden.
Lieutenant G. D. Johnstone, commissioned
lieutenant junior grade.
Ensign T. L tisliulu, detached Hull to
couiuinml Stockton.
Assistant Naval Constructor If, S. Hour-
VSlI,
appointed In marine corps.
Movements of Vatssls.
Arrived—October 2d: I’neas at Key West
Sailed—Nero, from Bradford for Torti-
moulli, N. II.
Newport turned orer tn New York stats
navsl militia at navy yard, New York, Oclo-
A CORRECTION.
T" the Editor of Tho Georgian: 1
I notice n lyppsraphtoal error In my cum-
niiiiilcatlmi In The Georgian of last Slou-
d«y. It rends: "I wrote to lion. Thomas
E. Batson In June, ISM." It stvmM hsve
liceii thnt I wrote tn hint In January.! It
was a mlstakr of the printer, who pot It
June lust,'nil of Jnnuary. Hoping Hint jou
will uiako tho correction, I muslh.
W. II. NOLAN.
Temple, Go.
ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW
WITH CHURCH AND STATE.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
There will never come a time w hen
the knowledge of how to distill or brew
alcoholic aplrlta will h* loaf among
men, and piwbnbly should not be. There
In nothing equal to It as a medicine In a,
general way, confined In legitimate;
channels, but If we are going to have]
prohibition, let'* have prohibition thst
prohibit*, anil not let prahlbltluu, feed
th» court house more than open 'bar
room*. Moral suasion among the
churches for their respective member
ship to "render unto t’nesnr the ihlt)g»
that are Caesar's" is the only thing In
th|* connection to keep this subject ogt
of.politics. A* far us I am concerned, t
have no compunction* of conscience
over taking a drink at whisky or get-vr
ting intoxicated, provided no temporal!
Inconvenience result*, I suppose, hop-i
ever, a man might, sear his conscience
along any line: i ;
This is one time and prohibition I*
one law whose virtual enforcement Is
as much In thn hands of the church as
It Is In the hand* of the etate. Thi
spirit of Bacchus Is n deceptive spirit,
but while It flows you'll often notice
more liberality nnd law In o barroom
than you will In a dead church. ,
It le up to the preachers to tell tlttlr
congregations to obey the law, whet?"
It involve* s question of morality
uot. An honest ttifTeranca of oplnl
about making and drinking whisky I
existed from nwav back. Law, to
law, must have the mural support of,
censorship last It be worse than no
nnd become a plaything for Jack-leg
lawyers. The fathers of the prohibition
law must raise Its children. I heard a
man preaching on the etreets of Atlan
ta the other night- He said ne traiuu»«"
to no church, but w4s the enemy of no
church. He «sld he was preaching to
reclaim and save chureh members. »
the church membership In Georgia_were
to agree to a man to abide by and en
force any law, It would be so complete
thst ere long the law’s necessity would
be forgotten. The American people
grew so big before they Americanised
that they will hsve to appoint a eser
some day until they catch up with their
growth.
CLYDE PARKS COUSINS.
J-vUrtb-WN ri,