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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1907.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. I . SEELY, President. '
T. B. GOODWIN, Gen’l Mgr.
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00* PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN
AND NEWS etande for Atlanta's own
ing Ita own gat and electric light
planta, na tt now owna Ita water
worlta. Other citlca do thla and *Jt
gas aa low aa W cents, with a profit
to the city. This should be. done at
once. THfe GEORGIAN AND NEWS
hellerea that If street railways can be
operated successfully by Europeau
cities, as they are, there Is na good
ration why they can not ha w oper
ated I -re. But wa do not believe this
can bo done now. and It may bo some
Tiara beforo wa are ready far so h i
an undertaking. Still Atlanta ahould
set Its fac# In That direction NOW.
Three highwaymen held up a Chi
cago newspaper man. Clearly the
work of amateurs.
D. M. Ferry, tho great seed man, Is
dead, but his works will keep his
memory green.
Tho granite men are claiming that
they're still getting the marble heart
from tho Georgia railroad.
A Chicagoan, reported dead for
twelve years, has come back home
to look- for hta mothor. , No Enoch
.Arden atunta for him.
: Dr. Felix Adler takes exception with
George Eliot's views on immortality.
Hut we venture To say she knows
more about It than Dr. Adler.
Those who eeeapo fatalities In the
football games of the next few days
may reasonably expect to live till
noxt season.
The Boston Trartscrlpt says rats
are man's Implacable enemlaa. That
must be the reason all women fear
mice.
Vice President Fairbanks' study of
Ksperanto may help him to jioll the
solid Esperanto vote, hut It will
hardly be worth speaking about at
that.
. A Polish nobleman who came to
America to sock his fortune recently
committed sutetdo In hie desperate
poverty. Min inlstnke was In marry
ing before ho came.
Japan proposes to hold an ox posh
tlon at Toklo In 1912 that will begin
la cherry-blossom time and last
through the chrysanthemum season.
Hope her Intentions will not be nip-
lied In the bud.
It Is the hope of the traveling pub
lic that King Alfonso's, initiative In
using a dummy baby on hit trip may
become generally impnlar with all
classes of travelers.
A British naval officer, accused of
flippancy to the German kaiser, will
probably lose bis position. This
shows that the world Is advancing.
A few years ago and It would have
been Ills head.
Julian Thomas declares he could
have dropped dynamite straight down
from hie balloon Into the heart of
New York’s coast defenses. Sh! not
so loud, doctor; they'll hear you over
In Japan.
An historic peace tree Iti the
Botanic garden at Washington la to
be cut down that Grant’s monument
may be placed there. Again we are
reminded that the public took little
interest In The Hague conference.
That the government anil the people of
tin Palled States are lagging fir behind
the European oountriei (n the matter of
--‘erinl navigation la the opinion of Major
Henry B. Tierney, ehtef inspector of ih,.
I“ tumeat ranoorolnflent aervlce. ■ i ■
urge* that an aeronautical deitartment in.
»«t«h -lied by the government to keep pice
with tk* European powers.
H P r ‘
narks for
toe city a
the chars'
which will hare
-tat of action and
raetcr» representative of ts# various
■train of Berlin's population. The aapt-
raws for the prise and honor are warned
to avid the complex paycholoxlcai or proh
Ifni style, bat they are at liberty to auhiult
-‘>y form of play from farce to tragedy.
Iff all caaea it ninet lit remembered
THE CONDITION OP OUR COUNTRY.
This Is no time for pessimism and whining. Conditions as they ex
ist today In the United States are the result of possibly a little too free
a democracy In our laws and an over wrought nervous age that has
taken advantage of them. Few enough of us sit down and calmly study
tho situation and fewer of us read the facta that would establish In
our minds the remedy.
Let is consider the whole plan from the beginning and possibly
reason It out so a child might understand.
This Is a free country. Man may engage In any honest calling that
be may choose so long as he does not do violence to the few plain laws
of honesty by which we have been governed. These laws were framed
for and cover normal men—and do not provide for abnormal or unusual
cases. The merchant may sell a pound of sugar; he may sell a hun
dred pounds; If he Is big enough to get the business he may sell a mil
lion; then he may grow into a Jobber, and sell It In carloads and train-
loads. We can not make a law that will place a maximum limit on what
he shall do. He started to sell as a small retailer—he sold his first ten
pounds for more than !t cost him. That was how he made his living. He
continued to do so until by thrift Bnd cheerfulness he sold so many ten
pounds ho reached a point where he thought he would sell ten pounds
a little nearer what It cost than hla neighbor was doing and get a few of
hla neighbor's customers. His neighbor has a larger famlly-and Is not as
thrifty possibly and can not meet the cut, so soon the neighbor loses his
customers to the other fellow and goes down. Number One hears of his
tottering and says, Til take your stock at what It cost and hire you to
run the storo for me.” And so Number One puts his sign on his neigh
bor's store and says, “My Two Stores." A little further up the street Is
Number Three. Number One tries the game on him and begins to soe
how nice his own sign would look over Number Three's door. Be
fore ho gets Number- Three he has to sell a little under actual cost for a
few days, but Number Three eventually hae a new sign over his door
and Numbor One has three stores. And so on. Now there can be no law
to say that a man mum sell for sq much more than actual cost at all
times—there-can be no law to prevent a man giving away his business If
he likes—and selling anything ho has for less.than he .paid for It.even
though his motive be disastrous—but when this one man has succeeded
In placing his name over every store In his city, In his state, and finally
his nation, and then has his hirelings place a tariff law on the statute
books that prohibits our eighty millings of people from getting a mouth
ful to eat except from him’, then it should be In the power of the people
to rise up and say that If the monopoly shall he complete, there shall be
a maximum limit of tribute that the people ehall pay to thle monstor—
and the only alternative may be revolution.
The interest* under which our country auffers Just now aro en
tirely analogous to the case of the sugar and the grocer.
The country has fallen under the financial control of single Inter
ests which act largely as ono. The power began with so simple a com
modity as oil, a natural product which cannot be grown, as eatables
can. If labor be expended on tho soil. When you lease or control the
spots of ground where this. Important product may be found you have
done a lot toward controlling It. This monopoly grow until it has become
nearly complete today.
Wheu It rolled up a hundred millions—two hundred—and three hun
dred, nnd so on, It became most powerful In money centers, as well as In
the field which It controlled—it began to control banka and trust com
panies; then It controlled Insurance companies—then wbat could com
bine and eliminate competition finer than railroad Interests?
Then we see the Steel Interests combine Into a huge trust—hun
dreds of millions of dollars—then the oil trust leader, William Rocke
feller, goes to the Steel Trust directorate. Frick, who sold his Connells-
villc Interests to Carnegie for some sixteen millions years ago, and then
rf Steel trust, fame, becomes as much at home in Oil as In Steel.
Then the lines of railroad that had up to 18T0 boen combined to
form long trunk lines under single heads, began to combine parallel
lines and do away with competition and the like. Sentiment began
to disappear. Our honored, careful, old engineers, who cherished their
engines as one would a child, saw the names by which they had
known them painted off never to appear again, and only a number to
go by. Then they saw their own personalities fade under tho cold-blood-
od Iron-handed management that wantod only revenue for foreign mag
nates, and the old onglneor, himself hardly designated by more than a
number, as are the Italians and Polos who construct tho tracks, and the
new regime became about complete. Then we see the steady march of
thla no less than monster with its narrowing down process shrink to a
handful of cooperative groups of Interests, acting aa one man for their
mutual good. Standard Oil controlling lines of railroad over which their
own product—and that of the struggling independent—must travel; the
Independent made to observe the law nnd more, too—the trust-defied
law. Then, even the money thoy make by these moans goos to their
own banks In Wall street and la used there again to control now lines
of Industry until one by ono wo see oil, gas, coal, railroads, steel, Iron,
copper, electricity, and even lhe street cars on which we ride to and from
our work, pay tribute to the Interests, and now the effort Is being made to
control the newspapers, which are tbelr greatest enemies.
What then may he done? No law can be enacted to stop these
things, for who shall say whero development shall atop? What man
will refuse to sell hla all to these very Interests If they will buy, and
who has not the same right as they?
What we can do, la to say that the commodities they have to sell
shall como under govommont supervision Just aa the pure food commis
sion is sn.vlng that no man may dilute his goods nor deceive the cus
tomer who buys or cats his product. Time was when men were more
honest. Fifty years ago we needed no pure food commission. Benxoln
ot soda and aalycyllc acid were medicines In the eyes of our people then.
Now they havo become chemical agenta by .which the unscrupulous may
fleece tho public regardless of the consequences to the health of the In
nocent purchaser—hence government interference. Eighty years ago we
had no railroads, no telephones, no electric cars and no malls to speak
of. Men lived quietly; honor was the fashion; people lived, loved and
worked their way through life. Now, wo have them all, and tho TO-
mlle-an-hour rate at which men live has grown so nervous a generation
that In place of living, loving and working we find It fashionable to He, steal
and work tho human race for all we can. Then the only remedy Is regu
lation by the supreme forces of our government, and until these forces
settle down to safe, methodical work thore will be flurries and panics
and depressions, and wc should thank God that In a time like thla when
humanity Is faced by a condition ot selfishness on the part of our mod
ern Croesuses! ?) such as tho world has seldom seen, we have been given
men to lead ua who have held as their highest atm the curbing of op
pression.
Panics, depressions and the like In the pact have been the result of pov
erty, poor crops, hunger and scourge. Haw different Is the condition of our
couutry now—standing on tho highest round ot prosperity our nation has
ever seen. Crops bunting from their storehouses, our own fields white
with nine hundred millions of their products, our national debt the envy
ot the nations because ot Its mlntmitude, and financial depression
abroad In It all. Was there ever a more anomalous state of affairs?
Can any one believe It la natdral? No, It la tho child of the causes
above set forth; tt Is abnormal; It la the effort on the part of the mon
opoly to starve our money centers tuto submission—to rock the boat till
we are scared—but so long as the sun ahlnes so brightly, and our streets
throng so morrily, let's stand by the men who hold In their hands the
only remedy we will ever have from oppressive measures that otherwise
will close tighter and tighter around the life of our Industries and our
homes aa the years roll on.
MR. BRYAN’S FUTURE POSITION.
Hon. William J. Bryan hat Issued a notable atatement to the Ameri
can public, making distinct and positive hla future position aa It relates
to the approaching presidential campaign.
For many months the politicians of the country have been speculat
ing aa to the future of Mr. Bryan and how tt would affect the aspirations
of any other public man In the Democratic organisation.
Tho statement of Mr. Bryan. Issued Thursday, from Lincoln, Neb.,
clears the atmosphere somewhat, yet necessarily leaves points for con
tinued discussion, which probably cannot be definitely settled until the
national convention of the Democratic party meets, adopts Its platform
and nominates Its candidate.
Mr. Ilryan'* position, as given In his statement. Is acceptive and
thoroughly non-aggressive. He says plainly und without circumlocution
that be will not ask tor or seek nomination, and learea the question of
his availability to bis friends and to the great mass of Democratic vot
ers. He generously acknowledges how deeply bo is Indebted to his
party for past honors, 8Dd thinks that the only question which should
weigh with tho organization Is whether It will be made stronger and
more powerful by his candidacy. Ho says he will not feel aggrieved if
the party shall select another standard bearer, yet shall be be selected,
he will accept the nomination and make the best fight possible.
Mr. Bryan's promulgation contains absolutely nothing new; It Is
only a repetition of the statement of the position ho has tacitly held ever
since the memorable campaign of 1804. But the fact that be recognizes
the propriety of saying publicly what he thinks and feels In this Import
ant Juncture of affairs opens the door of opportunity to any other man
who can bring to his support a following brave enough to enter the
struggle for future national honors against Mr. Bryan.
In so great and militant an organization as the national Democratic
party there must be a number ot men who because of intellect, charac
ter, achievement and the courage of political faith and conviction are In ev
ery way worthy of consideration at the hands of the Democratic voters
of'the country. . ,
The man who will lead the next campaign for the Democratic party
will have as hlx opponent- either Mr. Roosevelt or a candidate of Mr.
Roosevelt's selection. The man who shall bear the banner of Democracy
either to victory or to defeat muat be prepared to combat the remark
able popularity of President Roosevelt throughout the South and the al
most universal approval of his present policies felt In this section.
Mr. Rryan't statement, whllo simply reiterating hla views as to fu
ture preferment, Is valuable as the natural means of precipitating a
discussion of the availability of other prominent men for presidential
honors.
Mr. Bryan has still a vigorous and splendid following, but bis re
markable personality need not obscure the claims ot other men to tho
presidential honors.
MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO.
CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS.
T? OR over a quarter of a century this bank has
paid particular attention to commercial ac
counts and is still prepared and desires to extend
to firms, corporations and individuals every facili
ty consistent with sound banking.
. ■
PEOPLE AND THINGS
GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS
AND THE STREET CORNERS
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
AND
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
Growth and Progress of the New South
Tlie Georgian here record! eneh fifty
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
*^*$ilckftoi». Mlm., p/ov. 14.—The following new Industrie! have been organized In
the fttflfe daring t be pm ft few day», and will shortly submit their charters to the
governor for approval: .. „ .. . ..
Rank of Weir, Weir, Attain county; capitalized nt $10,000; J. E. Cobb, J, It.
McKIrnon, A. M. Weir and others. „ . „ ...
Security Rank. Ripley, Tippah county; capitalised at $2o,000; T. J. Cole, G. \\.
Smith, a. P. Stewart and others. ... *
Rank of Ethel. Ethel, Attala county capitalised at $10,000; E. M. Gregory. A.
Reynolds. K. J. Cook and others. , „ .
Honthcrn Timber nud Lumber Company, Hattiesburg, Perry county; capitalised
at $50,000; William Lott. W. II. IUtten nnd others. „ * ...
Godbold Mineral Wells Company. Summit, Pike county; capitalised at $80,003; W.
W. Rrsdsbaw, 8. J. Harper and others. M
Clark-Herrtn Company, Clarksdnle, Coahoma county; capitalized at ISOjDOO.
Gainesville and Hall county, despite the disturbed condition of the fiusncla) sit*
uatlou throughout the country, is In finu condition to meet nud copo with the
situation. The banks are Itt fine condition with n banking capital of three quar
ters of a million dollars, nnd with an abundant supply of ready money on band.
They have bedn able to meet all demands on them nnd at the same time furnish
sufficient money to handle the eotton crop, without Issuing auy clearing house
certificates or borrowing money abroad. _ . . ...
The farmers over the country are In good condition, with good crons of both
cotton and com. They hive sold a large portion of their cotton nt ip%c nnd lie,
and are practically out of debt, with n good surplus on band for next year. The
merchants are bnvlug a fine trade, with good collections.
ONE OF MOST REMARKABLE EVENTS
IN THE HISTORY OF THE MOST
REMARKABLE TOWN IN THE SOUTH
(Editorial In The Charleston News and
Courier.)
Mr. ffeely's dinner In honor of John Tem
ple Graves at the New Kimball house In
Atlanta Saturday night wap one of the
most remarkable events In the history of
the most remark!) 'j town In tbs South.
Three hundred representative men were
present, ami among their number were Jur
ists, statesmen, governors, United States
senators, congressmen. supreme court
Judges, newspaper editors, the governor of
Georgia, lawyers, physicians and minis
ters. Every profession*f and business pur
suit was represented in this notable gath
ering, and while the dinner was perfectly
served, the meun consisting of oysters.
f ilsoked fish, quail on toast, coffee, Nenpoll
an cream and cigars, these were only tho
material trimmings of a great spiritual
feast, the llko of which has never been
known In this country. All that waa said
was well said, ami Mr. Graves. In hfs fare
well address, was never so tender and felic
itous In his eloquence.
“Graves loves tho world, and that'a why
he Jias auecteded,” said Honator Clay. "lie
Is going to New York not to defend the
flour h. out to Interpret It." exclaimed the
Rev. Ur. John K. \VmL-, pr,stor of tho ftoc-
oud Raptlst church. "Hfs life and career
are an Inspiration to every one of ua little
fellows who have been setting up through
tho lean yenrs of Southern newspaperdom,
and talaurefi our courses between princi
ples. the *pn«te pot nnd the pay roll.” re
marked James Thompson, proprietor of Tho
New Orleans Item. Hoke Smith, governor
of Georgia, after saying. “We coma on this
occasion with sorrow mingled with pride.’*
declared that "we shall hitas him, nut wo
have the consolation that he will not for-
B t us. and that ho will return." Clark
owe'.l, of The Constitution, after saying
that he had labored side by aide with
try's flag, nnd he will apenk for the whole
country wherever he goes," nnd after ex
pressing some doubt an to "bow Graves Is
! [olng to get along in the cold and mere!-
ess atmosphere of New York," the Rev.
aii G. Dronghton said, "Rut be that ss
It may, he goes from us with the hearty
Godspeed good will and good cheer of the
people who have known and loved him so
mitat A. Ho..ell, nt The Jtnktnnrlllr
Metropolis, assured the company present
that. "I am not afraid of wbat be Is go
ing to do." and that "In the power nnd
strength of his life he la able to measure
worda with the Achilles of public oplulon
In this country." nnd Colonel Walter J\
Andrews aujagested that tho Democratic
convention place the name of John Temple
Graves on the ticket for vice president,
"as the man most cspnhle of bringing the
triumph of the Democratic party in tho
next presidential campaign." The Rev.
Richard Onne Flint* expressed regret at his
going, "hut ns he goes to broad fields of
usefulness he Is followed by the love and
the good wishes of the whole people of
a n nnd tho Mouth," and Pleasant A.
I. of The Savannah Press, after
speaking tenderly of Colonel Graves* ven
erable father, General Graves, who was
present, expressed confidence that the son
"will continue to guard the dignity nnd
the purity of the Month In his new home on
he has always-done # here."
There were a number of other speakers,
among them Walter Vlsnuiika. who. repre
senting tho Mouth Unrollna Society of Geor
gia, and a native of Abbeville county, lit
this state*. Iii which we IhjIIcvo Mr. Graves
first saw the light, rejoiced at the de
served honor which had been conferred upon
the distinguished guest of the evening.
And then ennie the parting words. Mr.
Keely, the proprietor of Tho Georgian, say
ing briefly that he henrtlly fiidorscd all
the good things that had been said of Mr.
Graves during the evening, presented him
with a beautiful laurel wreath sent by a
Florida Indy and a handsome cone, the
gift of The Atlanta Georglnn family, nnd
then with his eyes filled with tears, umldst
the cheers of the company, and the chnutau.
qua Solute, made by u flowing sco of nap
kins. Mr. Graves, "Mfn'Mklng slowly, fender-
ly, Ids voice shaken with feeling," said
that he would go away "with the wonder
ful knowledge that 1 am secure In the af
fectionate regard nnd esteem of my own
people," and that when they came to
know* his psrtuer as he knew him, they
would cease to regret his golnr, and would
"find him as I have always found him, true
to every Jiiat cause, true to rlaht, true
to all that la best nud highest In life."
In Its admirable report of the finely din
ar. The Georgian notes that the tonpts
were ell drunk "In sparking water," nnd
thus proved Its faith <u the cause of prohi
bition by Its works.
* ir best wishes attend Mr. Graves In his
field of labor. He hits a great oppor
tunity. if Mr. Heorst will 4 |il> give him
a halt chance. We do not share lu the
fear expressed by the Rev. Mr, Rroughton
that Mr. Graves will be affected Iii any way
by the rarer atmosphere In which he will
live and move In the grant metropolis, ex
cept that ho will be made stronger In ills
faith and more eloquent lu his denuncia
tion of evil wherever It may l*o found.
Once more, Va!#'. Yalqto sc plnudlte!
ASKS ROOSEVELT
TO HELP HIM OUT
Imagining that he has 8(00,000 In the
Fourth National Bank, on Which he is
Unable to Is)' his hands. Pierce Nelson,
a negro student et Morris-Brown Col
lege, a few tfaya ago wrote tv letter to
Colonel James W. English, Jr., nnd
another to President Roosevelt, asking
the president to aid him In getting his
money.
The matter was turned over to the
police and Nelson was arrested by Plain
Clothes Officers Heslett nnd Dorsett
end ts being held In the police station,
It being thought that possibly constant
study of the country's financial condi
tion has unhinged hla reason.
The students Insists he has money, not
only In the Atlanta bank but In Fine-
ROOM OE TEACHER
On lielng suddenly nwaltened by a noise
In her bedroom shortly eft.r midnight Fri
day morning. Miss Nlnn Hornsdy. of *6 E.
Linden avenue, a private school teacher nnd
formerly ■ well known tencher lu the puhltc
schools, dlacorered u.hoy burglar, apparent,
ly not more than if or u years of nga,
climbing cut of a window.
Tbs boy. with the skill and daring of an
old nnd experienced burglar, had entered
the room while Its occupant slept and bad
ransacked It. He hud worked the Job with
absolute snore., until the time for bis exit,
when he fumbled by making a noise nt the
window.
Notwithstanding this, however, he made
good Ills eacape and Is still at large.
Miss Hornsdy, on seeing the childish form
going nut of the window, leaped from her
lied nnd ran to the door, only to nee the
J. J. Akers, chief clerk to tho super
intendent of the Atlanta division of the
Southern railway, has been promoted
to the chief clerkship to tho general
superintendent of the road, with head
quarters at Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Akers
hss been chief clerk for the superin
tendent of the Atlanta division for sev,
oral years, and Is an expert In this
Una. His manv friends are congratu
lating him on his promotion^
"Funny things happen around here
sometimes,” said Commissioner ot Ag
riculture Hudson. “A few weeks ago
a man enme In here v.lth a small bug
of cotton seed meal. He sold that he
wanted It examined, na some from the
same bag had killed his cov.-.
•T had the chemist to make an nnly-
sls, and ho reported the men! absolute
ly pure. I then asked the man who
brought It to the department:
" 'Whdt makes you think this meal
killed your cow? The chemist finds It
pure In every way.'
'“Why, after my cow died,' replied
tho man. ‘I cut her open. All I found
in her stomach was a small amount
of this meal, and a ten-penny null
sticking through her Intestines,
thought, of course, that It must be the
meal.' **■
"I saw a terrible disaster averted by
a singular incident over In Birmingham
the other day," said John Harris, n
former Atlantan, now resident In Bir
mingham.
“A wagon, with 2,040 pounds of dyna
mite on It, was crossing Morris avenue,
when a switch engine, traveling very
slowly, struck the rear wheel. Tho
wheel was crushed, but the engineer
applied his brakes so quickly that the
axie of the wagon rested on the pilot
of the engine. The dynamite was hard
ly Jarred, but. I’ll tell you, there wpro
some white-faced folk around there.
That driver has not stopped running
yet, and I have not ceased getting trem
bly In the knees.”
"Japan lias lmd her panic and It
blew over Just a* America’s Is blow
Ing over. Your panic, however. Is not
among tho banks, but the people."
That Is what Toyotaro Yukl, a Jap
anese banker from Toklo, stated. In
reference to the financial situation.
Mr, Yukl Is spending several days In
Atlanta and Is stopping at the Pied
mont.
In regard to war talk Air. Yukl, like
many others, blames It all on the "yel
low newspapers."
"Wa have one In Toklo," he said,
“and the war talk In Japan Is confined
to this newspaper. The people and the
officials are not thinking about war.
Japan and America were never better
friends."
Mr. Yukl is a great admirer of Sec
retary Taft.
"He always makes a big Impression,"
stated the Japanese hanker Jocularly.
In regard to labor, he Is of tho opin
ion that Japanese labor would be a
fino thing for the South.
“In Japan." he said, “the laborers gat
to centa a day. They would work here
for Tt cents and 11.00 and would be
glad of tho chance.”
Rev. E. Dean Ellenwood, pastor of
the Unlversollst church, Atlanta, lec
tured In Canon, Ga., Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, returning to tho
city on Friday.
Z* and Germany. ThM.ueratoC*. «*£ .* U. *»V
ona. English and th. president -'re f “'"nsd,
such nature thst It was at once decided. „., y W | tb „ 5 nni , „ thrvk for „„
the negro was craxy and should be I nieyele Pollerum II. E. Smith and Jarne-
confined. son were notified, and made ■ search, find
ing In the yard another cheek, taken from
somewhere else ami drefeed by the lad In
bis flight.
Before entering school Nelson was In
the Philippines In the United States
army, and says he mat (be president
there, as well as rulers ot other na
tions.
"I met President Roosevelt In Ma
nila," saya Nelson, "and he at once
became my friend. He la standing by
ahould b« tied up In bank vaulta when
no much gold Is being shipped to this
country."
Nelson) will be examined by Dr. WU-
, .... , kins. Hxlth ward physician, and will
me In thla matter, and will help me probably then be tried for lunacy He
get my money. I don t think my money la at present held on "sueplclon "
■!Tho boys of the Seventeenth In
Cuba nre homesick for Atlanta," said
Lieutenant Charles H. Danforth, who
returned Thursday from the Island,
where he has been stationed for the
past year, to join the third battalion
of the Seventeenth at Fort McPherson.
"They are leading almost the same
life In Cuba that they do when at
homo,” continued blcutenant Danforth,
•'but It Is not as much fun. They have
their gnirlsou duty and their usual so
cial life and receive courteous treat
ment from the Cubans, but they prefer
Atlanta.
"There hae been no symptoms of a
disturbance on the Island recently. All
those Interested In property wnnt n
stable government. The soldiers are
very kindly treated. It Is merely a
peaceful occupation of the country."
Raymond Hitchcock, the famoue
comedian whose disappearance stirred
little old New York a few weeks ago.
and over whom same four or five cases
are now hovering. Is scheduled to make
his appearance In Atlanta on January
17-10 tn "The Yankee Tourist."
And he will appear, provided, of
course, "the goblins don t get him"
before he gete here.
In addition to the fact that Hitchcock
Is one of the greatest comedians on
the American stage, and that "The
Yankea Tourist" Is probably the best
vshlcle for the display of hie powers
along the funny linn that he has tver
appeared In, there Is a great deal of
mystery and additional Interest cen
tering around the fascinating man, and
the crowds that will greet him In At
lanta will, 'of course, be large—very
large.
ete from New York to
they hollered to Ite Absolutely good for nit
the way, even In the Atlanta Ihtxgnfe nnd
Cab ComjMny's bus. censed qnlte n scour
et the TerinliiAl Station Thursday night
when called upon to pay their fare from
n wild druinnstratlnu. lulleTlng that tbe
nrui of the law hed said they were uo good
M New Orleans.
Two Greeks were railed In to Interpret,
but they foiled ntierty. When, by eigne,
diagrams nnd other means sn understand
ing *vas retched, n compromise was ef
fected nnd the party went to spend the
night nt a hotel, leaving n weary police-
man enylng hunt things about the mine
ot Immigration.
LIVELY IS HELD
TO STATE COURT
Jolin Lively, tbe !*>y Who is alleged (o
Imre cut nnd terlotiftly tujured N. M. Rol»-
lusoUe a ren of County Offtw Robinson,
tv»! bound over to the sn|>erfor court on n
Zl •32S ,t w,th I ? t#nt ro murder by
Judge orr I* rid** morning. Lively’* bond
wa* fixed nt $100. which he gave.
Tbe cuittlu* lx sold to hove taken pine*
n Mflrfeftn fttreef gbotit two necks ago.
Kntdusuii bad owe kulfe wound on his
bend, one on hfs neck end mother on his
Army Ordtrs.
Washington, Nov. Llcutenaut-Colotiei
Erasmus Miller,-signal corps, to Augusta to
nttend meeting commissioned officers, Na-
tionul Gunrd of Maine, December 4.
Gnptoin George M. Hoffman, ccyrps of en
gineers. detailed for duty with Isthmian
on uni comniUHtou, Panama.
t'Aptnln Gll/ton C. Kinney, Twenty-fifth
Infantry, report to commanding officer of
Ninth Infantry.
First Lieutenant Joseph V. Kuzdlk, to
Fourth cavalry; Major Carl ttelsohmnun, t<»
Twenty-fourth infantry; Captain John W.
Wright, to Third Infantry.
Captain E. I*. Campbell, appointed judge
nriroente-generat, with rank of captsiin for
four years from November 12.
Captain M. R. Delhi, resignation qs Judg.*
advocate-general, accepted to special tem
porary duty, Washington.
Navy Orders.
Commander A. E. Culver, detached De§
Moines to office osslstant secretary of the
navy yard department.
Lieutenant-Commander A. L. K4y. detach
ed genernl board to Quincy, general Insnet-
tor Ffalem and to command said vessel when
commissioned.
Lieutenant-Commander L. M. Nulton, de
tached naval academy to Tanther.
Lieutenant C. II. Nelson, detached Por
poise and Sh ark to Missouri.
Lieutenant F. D. Rerrien. dotacbed Mis
souri to staff commander socond squadron,
Atnlnttc fleet, on lionrd Minnesota.
Midshipman A. C. Meyers, detached-De
Long to Truxtom
Midshipman fi. G. Kno, detached String-
ham to Whipple.
Movements of Vestals.
Arrived—November 12: Wasp at nary
yard, New York.
Sailed—November 12: California, from
finn Francisco to Rrctnerton; Justin, from
Honolulu for Nan Francisco.
Retiring North Georgia
Commander Is Enthu
siastic. , *
"It wam one of the grandest reunions
T aver nttended. Tbe people ot Augusta
showed us unbounded courtesy and I
never enjoyed an occasion more.”
Thus spoke General L. P. Thomas,
former commander of tho North Geor
gia brigade of Confederate Veterans,
of Augusta hospitality and the Confed
erate Veterans' reunion held In that
city, nnd from which he has just re
turned.
General Thomas was unstinted in his
praise of the reception accorded the
thinning ranks of the veterans of the
gray, and declared that the reunion In
every particular wan one of the most
successful that has ever been held.
"They positively refuted to let us pay
for anything,” said General Thomas,
“an." there wns nothing we wanted that
we could not get without money and
without price. The young people espe
cially seemed to appreciate our visit,
and the way In which they waved flags
and enthusiastically cheered us on the
parade waa a scene tn mako tho heart
of the old soldier overflow with Joy.
Notable Address,,.
"We had some of the best speeches
I ever heard. Governor Smith's ad
dress was notable, as was that of Gov
ernor Ansel, of South Carolina. And
General A. J. West, who Introduced
tho speakers, should not he forgotten.
His speeches Introducing Ahe speakers
were most happy efforts, and his elo
quent and fitting remarks were com
mented upon afterward, hy Governor
Smith and many other,.
"The North Georgia brigade was
there In large numbers." continued
General Thomas, "and l think this
j remnant of the Georgia army attracted
quite as much attention as any body of
veterans ever did.
"Of particular Interest was Sergeant
Edwards, of the Forty-second Georgia
regiment, who marched In the rear of
the carriage In which I rode, and who
carried the old battle flag of Ills regi
ment, rent and scarred by shot and
shell, blackened by the smoke of many
battles nnd now little more than a rag.
He Carried the Colors.
"Sergeant Edwards," said General
Thomas, as he drifted from talk of ths
reunion and trailed off Into remlnls-
cencea of the stirring times of the war,
"was file last color sergeant the Forty-
sccond had. At the battle of Resacn,
where our colonel woe killed and I, as
ranking captain, took command, our
color hearer was shot down. Edwards,
who was hut a young boy, was near
him at the time, and seizing the fallen
colora he bore them to the front. We
then made him color sergeant and he
carried the flag through every fight In
which the regiment afterwards en
gaged.
"When we surrendered at High Point.
N. Edwards concealed the flag about
his person and carried It hornet and he
has kept It ever since. I spoke to him
once about putting It In tho state Capi
tol with the other Georgia flags, hut
he seemed so much attached to It thst
I hadn't the heart to Insist.
"We secured the next reunion for At.
tanto," continued the general, ns lie
once more drifted back to talk of the
reunion, "and if the people of the city
will co-operate with us there will be
nt trouble about holding It hare. It <*
desired to hold the reunion on July
20, 21 and 22, the days on which the
battle of Atlanta was fought, and un
less the plans are changed this will be
done.”
General Thomas, who has been in
command of the North Georgia brigade,
was succeeded by J. Old Morris, of Ma
rietta, one of the best known Confed
erate veterans In the state. The change
was made In accordance with a rnlo
adopted at Savannah that this post
shall only be held for one year by each
commander.
A letter has been received by Gen
eral Thomas from Mr*. F. 8. Gregory,
of Madison, Fta„ who desires to get In
communication with some one wh“
knew her husband. Ferdinand Sturr
Gregor)', ■ private In company A. Sec-
The defendant was represented hy Attor- - r , — —-
Stf *•-?' KupntrlcX. while Attorney B. u. ond regiment, Gartre|l's brigade of
Hnrwinfrp nrwrerefi rep tire prr*pfjt»l^. Rct^rvfn.