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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. ■■■■■I The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, Prtiidem. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rites: One Ycsr $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months ... .. 1.25 By Curler, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. it 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. 1 1 J 1 J Entered as second-rites matter April %, 1*0*. it tbs Postofftcs st Atltsta, Os., under set of congress of Mtrob *. Iff*. % THE GEORGIAN COMES TO GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE % Giving Wings to Our Immortals. It la too ranch the tendency of tbla commercial ace to magnify material thine* and to aubordlnate the arta and the expressions of genlua. There la no tendency agalnat which thoughtful and cultured men and women In a great metropolla should more diligently protest than this. After all, the glory of n nation la not In Its wealth, or Ita temples, or Its trade, but In Its monuments. Its sculptors, Its artists. Its painters. Its poets and Its eloquence and songs. Wo of the South more particularly have at stake Issues of surpassing moment We are a land of sentt mr-nt or • land at least In which sentiment was once tho ruling force. The beauty of our women, the elo- onco of our sons, the charms of our poets and the kIob of our sentiments fill the world. The war swept us trim our moorings of ancestral tradition and forced us into the stern and narrow channel of necessary trade Within this line we have prospered mightily. Oiii • ■ ilfers are bulging, our fields are white or gold with emu r harvest, and our fullness goes through the valleys rejoicing like a song. llut Ichabod will be written above our civilisation It wi- forget the glories of the Immortal mind and of the Ira mortal soul. Music, art, painting and eloqufence are tb> crowning glories that encompass a people's life, and whenever and wherever In our municipal struggles the forces so eager and so strenuous are baited by a siren strain of music or a silver chime of eloquence or a ra diant touch of color, It Is at once an Instinct and a duty to halt and reflect upon the real glories of a people and uix,r. the high privllegei of wealth. Tho best power of money Is to foeter genlua and to cm. mirage art The noblest Impulse of wealth Is to de velop and to reach down Into the ranks of tho strug gling and with Its strong arm to lift up the singers, the painters, the sculptors shd the speakers 'whose works and worda and sounds are to delight tho world. This duty rests with Atlanta as with other cities, and wc are rich enough and great enough now to speed our struggling Immortals to their predentlned goal. In the musical circles of this city there has been found a boy with the stamp of genius on his brow and the touch of genius on his fingers on the violin, and Herbert Dlttler norms to be at the present moment, Atlanta's best and newest hope of an artist of International fame. Herbert Dlttler, violinist, has met and mastered all the lessons that could ooma to him from great artists In this city and on this side of the water. Masters of the violin In Atlanta and In Now York have told him that they have taught him nil they know, and these same masters havo counseled him to cross the ocean to the serenor nuil statelier masters of the old world's music to furnish his fingers with that consummate skill and to touch hta Mini with that more ancient fire that has made the mas ter violinists of the world. And so some friends of Herbert Dlttler In this goodly city of Atlanta are now preparing to give him a benefit i erfonnsnee at which the appreciation of the city for the genius of Its eons will not only be expreaeed In clapping bunds and waving bandkorchlofs, but alio In that larger way in which money pours Into the pocket of the artist to equip him for that higher and final study In which Ini genius shall roach Its best expression and lu which lli ibert Dlttler shall bring home International laurels to Atlanta, tho city of his birth. There Is a rehearsal of the critics tonight over the m.-tits and graces of this brilliant child of genius. When their verdict Is rendored It will be given to tho people, ■ ml then Atlanta will Ira asked to rally In. thronging and enthusiastic numbers to give the aid that shall waft Her bert Dlttler to the more porfect school of musle where he i-hull seek the akill and the Inspiration which shall light him to enduring fame. We trust that tbe people of this goodly city will keep thi ir eyes and ears Intent that when this occasion la an nounced tho hall of hearing will be thronged with the spirit of culture and the spirit of philanthropy which will help budding genlua to simply help Itself. Mrs. Bums At Court. That was a notable occasion at tbe court of 8L James the other day when John Burns, tbe labor leader In iho House of Commons, together with his wife, were presented to the king and queen. It was, as the cables expressed It, probably the only time In tbe history of that august court, that a woman w li.) swept her own floors and cooked the meals, of ber husband and herself, was accorded such an honor, and the fact that the was that presented marked a distinct ejK»ch In the progress of democracy and labor In Ear hmd. Not since the days of Chartism, sixty years ago. has there been anything like a violent agitation In favor of the amelioration of the conditions of labor, and it is pn.bAla that there will never be any repetition of that revolm unary period, but tbe leaven of labor has been working steadily and strongly and when the recent upheaval came, hnrllng the Conservatives from power nn<l restoring the liberals. It was found that the labor party had fifty representatives In the lower house. John Burns was made the leader of this party, or ( Uon. Only a few years ago he was working on the Imtdon docks as a common laborer and all hit life has h 1 to eat his bread In the sweat of his brow. Bnt he studied and Improved his mind and at the Fame time he devoted his tremendous energies to tbe ■ muse of the working man. He became a strong factor hi the agitation for better conditions for the working classes and when the Udal wave of liberalism swept over the country he was chosen for a seat In the house of • otamons and for a portfolio In the cabinet of the new government The butterflies of fashion—the duchesses and other ladyships of all degrees—together with the unUtled no bility of England—stared at tbe daughter of the people who, by a strange turn of tbe whirligig of time, bad f'. md herself in the limelight Bnt In that brilliant aggregation there was no one of them all who conducted Lvrselt with greater poise sod decorum. In the midst of flashing Jewels and lirllllnnt gowns «he wore no jewels whatever and otherwise was quietly and becomingly atUred. The king and queen made It a point to be par ticularly gracious to Mrs. Burns and the Impression she created was entirely favorable. Tho democratic tendencies of tbe king are well known, but strictly as a mater of policy It was well thst he was gracious to Mrs. Burnt. The labor move ment In England la gathering force with each succeed ing year. It came as a surprise to tho entire coulitry that fifty representatives of that movement should havo been chosen to a seat In parliament, and tbe whole atti tude of tbe country has been altered. The good sense shown by the woman who can cook her husband's meala and yet conduct herself with punc tilious propriety in the drawing room of 8L James will go a long way toward giving prestige to tho labor movement In Great Britain. and animals, but Mr Truitt Is absolutely sincere and I He has almost completed his circuit of the world. He has consistent In his opposition to every form of cruelt: the lower orders of life, and If wc had a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals we should unhesi tatingly nominate Mr. Truitt as Ita honored and useful president. Ex-Governor Northen has received a letter from Rev. Wilbur Chapman, the celebrated revivalist who did such excellent work In Atlanta some time ago, an nouncing that he has recovered from his recent severe Illness. Mr. Chapman was one of tbe ablest speakers and most lovable men Atlanta baa ever had the honor of entertaining and the news of bis Illness carried genu ine regret to the hearts of his many friends here. It Is very gratifying Indeed to know, therefore, that he Is well again and will soon continue the noble work In which he Is engaged. A Charmed Life. That the man who la born to be hanged will never be drowned la undoubtedly true, and that some men are destined to escaped all accidents by land and sea seems equally certain. flt. Louis boasts of a man who has had more hair breadth escapes than any character In fiction. At re lated In a recent telegram to The New York Herald he was driving In Penrose street, near Obear, when the horses became frightened and ran away. Rets was burled under the horse*' feet. Horses and wagon passed over him and he escaped with a bruised right shoulder. Misguided hts wheel In riding the chutes at Grand avenue and Herbert street, In 1896, and was hurled to the ground while bicycle was making a speed of forty- five miles an hour. Left arm broken. In diving from a one hundred foot pedestal at tbe Lagoon, In Cincinnati, in 1865, he misjudged the tank below and hi* body was hurled violently agalnat the side of the receptacle. Ills body fell In the tank and ho was dragged out unconscious. Left shoulder bruised, other wise not Injured. In an attempt to ride backward down the chutes at Grand avenue and Herbert street his wheel reared to the side and He was thrown to the ground. His right arm and one rib was broken. While riding a bicycle in Casa avenue, near Jeffer son avenue, In 1899, ho was unable to atop his wheel and ran headlong Into a westbound Cass avenue car. His right wrist was sprained and his face bruised. While riding a wheel with great speed on Grand avenue, near North Market street, he sighted a street ear, but was unable to stop. He plunged forward, hit wheel rolling over the fender of the car. Reis was not scratched. In a street fight Reis was shot at close range, but tho bullet only grated tbe lobe of tbe right ear. Aa a member of the Morgan-Wright bicycle team In- 1865, he figured In over twenty "spllla," but escaped without serious Injury. On one occasion, at Louisville, he was guiding a squad in a ton-mile handicap on the three lap track at Fountain Ferry Park. On the last turn Reis was unable to guide the machine around the bend and the quadracycle, making a speed of nearly a mile a minute, dashed over a twenty-foot embankment and sailed In the air for a distance of fifty feet None of the riders was Injured. In 1908 Reis attempted to loop the loop at Suburban Park. Ills wheel left the mark and the rider was hurled In the air several feet. He was picked up unconscious and hardly reeognlsabls. His face and body were bruised and eut and seventy-two bones were found to be broken. Ho was taken to the Missouri hospital and recovered, ■fter lying In bed eighteen weeks. More than two hun dred stitches were taken by tbe surgeons In tbelr efforts to save his life. In lighting a gas machine In hla howling alley, No. 2600 Casa avenue, a year ago, he Ignited four gallons of gasoline, which exploded with such great force that bultdlnga for blocks around felt the shock. Although Reis stood within a few feet of-the explosion, only the hair on the back of hla head was scorched.' Tbe build ing In which the explosion occurred was wrecked. It will be Interesting to watch ths subsequent career of Mr. Reis. It Is presumed llut he still wears his ver miform appendix, so he has not yet patted the ordeal of having that removed. He has been a principal and not an "Innocent bystander" In all the accidents which have oome to him. He has never been caught rocking the boat. Ho does not presumably dally with ths toy pistol and thereby court tetanus. There are many untried avenues of death and the manner of his fins) taking off will Ira well worth chron icling. Bryan “Not Known” in Dresden. A noble lord, addicted to poetry, ha* declared that fame "la but to have one's name misspelled In the ga zettes." But tho friends of Mr. Bryan have received even a greater shock In learning how Insularly Ignorant are the people of continental Europe of the distinguished Ne braskan who has recently been In their midst. On Saturday The New York World sent a cablegram to Mr. Bryan, at Dresden. Informing him that several state conventions had recently endorsed him as a candi date for tho presidency In 1908. The cablegram was re turned to The World with the formal notice from the cable company: "Your cablegram addressed to Wllllsm Jennings Bryan, Dresden, not delivered. Psrty not known." The smug citizens of the tidy little center of com merce were too busy making chlnaware and admiring their old masters to pay attention to tbe fact tbfl one of the leading figures In Gie political movements of the day was cither present with them or speeding- toward them. They were content to smoke tbelr pipes and sip their beer or stroll along the Buhl terrace of an after noon to give heed to the fact tttit a man who may yet become tho chief of 90,000,000 peqpte was lingering for awhile on the soil of Sazony. "Party not known!" What In the estlihatfon of Dresden, Is essentlit to make a man known? Mr. Bryan*la an orator and a statesman. He has been In the public view for fifteen years. He Is singular!y free from the petty vices which so frequently contaminate public men. He. Is a ‘scholar and a gentleman. Recently he has become a traveler. broadened and dee[iened aa a result of hla experiences. Ho Is more than ever entitled to the respect and admira tion of mankind. And yet— "Party not known!” Even If be were not known, the Dresden operator might have taken It for granted that a man who was being prominently spoken of as a probable candidate for the chief magistracy of this great country was something more than an ordinary citizen. Was It courteous to refer to him as a "partjp" A man once referred to Grover Cleveland as a “per son" and Mr. Cleveland never forgave him. What must bo Mr. Bryan'S feelings toward tho Dres den telegraph office? A New L.L.D. Our esteemed friend, tho Hon. W. L. Scruggs, ex- Minister to Venezuela, has Just received from Furman University at Greenville, S. C., the distinguished and well-merited honor of the degree of L.L. D. Colonel Scruggs Is eminently Worthy of the distinction confer- red upon him by this famous and well-reputed Institu tion of learning- He Is a scholar in politics, studious, careful, thoughtful, a master In International law, an expert In the difficult and delicate questions which con cern tho relation of nations with ono another. Too many of these college degrees are carelessly and Im properly conferred—sometimes for political, and. at oth er times, for personal reasons. Bat In this case tbe com pliment of the university falls upon a gentleman who through long years of effort and endeavor along high line* has fitly won and will wear worthily the honor conferred by an Institution of dlgDlty and repute. Furman University was named for the revolutionary hero Rich ard Furman. No college In South Carolina has grown more rapidly In merit, equipment and financial strength within these recent years than this splendid school of the Carolina mountains. | We congratulate Dr. Scruggs upon the well-deserved honor which has come to him. SOME GOOD LOSERS. ‘ A Synonym. It Is Indeed a mad world, my masters; , And the mad men are oft the masters. We once heard that tbe gallant Stoeatel, who fought oven unto the last ditch at Port Arthur, was to dl* for dereliction, and now comet word that Rojeatvenaky may be executed for failure to win In the great naval battle of the sea of Japan. Other officers are under In dictment, and ao It merrily goes. m Scapegoats are necessary for lax bnresuerats at the helm of state, and If the people demand cauae of failure of properly equipping army and navy—why not lay blame upon the valiant men who bore the brunt of battle. With the douma Yecalcltrant, the peasantry In revolt, the harried landowners refusing to he further taxed, mutiny on land and sea, anarchism everywhere active, and a deep dlsaatlsfactlon throughout the esar’s domin ion— Russia and revolution are synonymous. In point of fact the Yeomen of the Guard hart always resented being called “Beef-eaters.’' The Pennsylvania clerk who "saved" $100,000 out of a salary of $1,600 n year doesn't need any lessons In thrift from Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. Anybody else. Our eeteemed and always humanitarian friend, Al fred Truitt, who moved so vigorously during the last session of tbe Legislature for a prohibition against the "nicking" of the horse's tall and the overchecking of his rein. Is now concerned to prevent chicken peddlers from tying chickens In bunches and carrying them wljh their beads downward. This last Item may appear to be going somewhat Into detail In the matter of cruelty to fowls “The lamentations of a German butcher In one of the markets who put a bet on my old horse, Paid Clifford, one of those days at the Bennlng meeting when Paul forgot to bring the kale home, eaused a lot of fun to the people who overheard the aad-aouled Teuton," sajd John Pan- trie, the Washington owner of thor nughbreda, at Baltimore-recently, days ago. “The German butcher was standing close to me, at the end of the eland, on that day. When the horses finished, I noticed that he ground the huge knuckles of his right hand Into his right eye, and began to moan guttu- ratly. Then he pulled a big bandan na from hie coat pocket and started In to weep bitterly. “ I blay dot Baul Clifford mlt swancy-fim tollar, all vat I malg In a veeg out of my mead shob, und he ged read a plock, no?' he eald, and then he rocked to and fro and blub bered. Aw, give him a cookie,' the hunch who were listening to his lamentations lesred at him, but he was past feeling the etlng of any Jeering, and went right on weeping disconsolately. “That was the first case of ths waeps thst Fd seen on a race track In a dog's age, and the Inclileht started me to thinking of kow gamely most big play ers of ths horses take thglr losses when the big wallop* come their way. “I happened to be present at the breaking of a Kentuckian who had owned a half Interest In one of the finest thoroughbred farms In the blue- grsss country, and imd for several rears raced a big string of good lores* of hla own and hla partner's breeding. He was too keen to bet on hts horses, though, and thst was what splksd him, os it spikes all of 'em In tun*. "First, he had to sell out hts Inter est In the thoroughbred farm to his conservative non-betting partner. Then alt of the big horses of the string reverted In the earn* direction, and finally he got to playing the horse* from the ground with-a few thousands thst hs had saved from the wreck. On the day that the great but erratic May Hempstead vena beaten by Rush, when May was st 1 to 8 In ths bet ting, my friend, the Kentuckian, had hi* whole faggot, a pat 98.000, on the May girl. Ho thought that Miss Hempstead would Just watt* home. “I was leaning on the fence alongside of him when Rush cantered home, kicking mud In May Hempstead's re proachful eyes. 1 knew that he was all In financially, and I suppose that I had a conslderable-stsed frog of sympathy In my throat for him. " 'Oh, welt,' I «*td to him, with a grin that I felt looked like something enam eled, ‘the peach blossoms are out, any how, and there'll be fruit pretty soon for ths asking.' "He looked perfectly perky and cheerful: and It wasn't any upstage Imitation work either with him. He pulled three |10 gold pieces from his pocket and studtsd them humorously. '"Well, I know what I'm going to do,' he said to me, as he Jingled the gold coins: 'I'm going to buy a couple of nanny goats and sell the milk to Invalids, rve got to be In the stock- raising business In some old way.' "There wasn't any slow-muslc busi ness In that kind of a finish, because he wasn't any slow-muslc kind* of a man, and two years later hts color* were flashing again on the southern tracks, with hts own good hors** to carry the boy* wearing them. You can't keep a beaver up a tree,, you "Eddie McAvoy, the runt of a lad from Elkhart, Ind- who, when he w*s something under eighteen, ran a bean- bag up to lll.ooo at the Hawthorne track in Chicago In 11*7, went broke aa gamely as any trick I ever saw for hla age, or nny other ag*. as far as that's concernsd. "Eddie began on ths Hawthorne track as a newsboy and gum seller, and on* day he put over a IW-to-l shot, with a four-bit piece that he had deposited with a handbook man outside the gate. Then Eddie spiraled right along, to the cone without a mis take, aa they say In Joplin. He didn't take anybody’s picks, tips, handicaps or suggestions, but Just clung unto the running animals doped out and figured as winners by one E. McAvoy, Esq. The result was that Just three weeks sfter he'd slid hi* 900-to-l thing over he'd combed the pile up to I1S.- 000. “Then, of course, hi* minute to make a mistake heaved along, as It nearly always does. He thought that Mary was a good horse. Macy may have been a good hone In spots, but he was a polka-dottrr. and the spots were hard to pick. Eddie McAvoy an* day put hts whole 111,SO* on Mary to beat the great old msr* Imp, and Macy felt before thht race was over as It the lady mare had Just gone away and hid from him out of pure hide-and-seek devilment. “1 was standing does to Eddie Mc Avoy when Mary failed to connect. Tb* qutet youngster spat reflectively at the grass, and then he trotted over to the stand of the boss gum man. “‘Gimme a couple o' boxes o* gum on tick,' said Eddie to the boas gum man, and then he began to circulate among the throngs, polltsly Inviting them to purchase pepetn gum from him at the uniform rate of 5 cent* the package. I guess that wasn't the spirit of the men who are now going to rebuild San Francleco! • • • • * 'Then I well remember the curious case or a man who only thought he was broke—Frank Boland, the Montana plunger.- Boland was broke a good many times during his career against the faro bank and the horses, but he was always so unctuous about It that you'd have thought that he really en joyed going broke, and he wasn't Just throwing on the dog In the matter, either. “This time, when he thought he got a big bump at St. Louis, was a sure- enough entertaining Incident. Frank had started In at the old fair grounds' track In St. Louis with a 9100,060 wad that he'd hoed out of the Hot Springs pool rooms during the winter. “But the fair grounds' game whang ed him good. He got the croea-cut and the whipsaw from the running of the Inaugural handicap, and every time for the high thousands—Boland didn't know how to spell the word 'piker.' The boys on the high chairs had Bo land rocking long before the meeting began to draw to a doe*, but Frank went right ahead with the grin that oouldn’t be erased. On* day the bookies noticed that Boland wasn't playing 'em at all, and they Joshed him about it. Hs didn't play on the next day, either, nor for the next five days. He Just strolled around with his hands In hts pockets and permitted the Josh ing bookmakers to offer him the loan of a chew of tobacco or the price of a bottle of pop. On the sixth day, Mr. Boland became suddenly busy. There was a good old campaigner In one of the races, named Siva, and 8Iva was an even-money thing. Boland had twenty 91,000 bills os the remainder of Ms package, and he'd been waiting for the race and for Siva. He traipsed around ths ring and got ths svsn- money price against Siva for 990,000. Then he loaned against a stanchion, shucked peanuts and watched the race. Siva ran second. The bookies crowded around Boland with hoarse hoots of merriment—hla personality mad* him a favorite all over the West—but he broke through the gibbering cordon and raced like a deer for the gate. There happened to be a truck-garden er’s cart passing Just at Boland got outside. “ 'How about a ride Into town, mate?* Boland said to the driver, and when the startled driver of ths truck cart, noticing Boland's fins raiment, nodded. Frank jumped Into the cart and took a seat alongside ths driver, The scene wse visible from the back of the grand-stand, and a roar went up from the men In the stand who were Bo land's friends. Hey, watt a few minutes. Frank,' one of them yelled to the Montana plunger, 'and I'll carry you to town In my. trap.' "Tve done been trapped,' Boland called hack, and then tho truck cart, piled Mgh with cabbages anil things, turned a corner, with Boland In good- natured and Interested conversation with ths driver. “Boland didn't find out tut he reach ed n St. Louis ticker that. Instead of being broke, ho was worth Just *40,- 000, for tho horse that best 8lva—a thing called Cangaltop—was disqual ified on account of the rider’s rough riding and Boland's pick was placed first. He got back at the books from then on and chased some of them aa far a* the Arkansas river and be yond.''—Washington Star. Tins DATE IN niSTORY. JUNE 12. 1481—James III of Scotland died. 1665—New Tork city Incorporated. 1689—London deprived of Ita charter by Charles II. 1720—Treaty between Denmark and Sweden. 1734—James, duke of Berwick, killed before Phllllpeburg. 1776—Declaration of Rights adopted by the Virginia convention. 1788—Treaty of Hopewell with ths CMckasaws. 1806—John A. Roebitng, builder of the Brooklyn bridge, bom. Died July 99, 111*. 1816—General Pierre Augsresu, Due de CastlgUonl, died. 1846—St. Johns, Newfoundland, burned. 1848—Louis Napoleon elected deputy to French National Assembly. 1861—Paper duty In Orest Britain atolUhed. 1864—Battle of Cynthiana, Ky. 1878—William Cullen Bryant died. Born November 1. 1T»4. 1885- James H. Rutter, president of New York Central railroad, died. 1891—Csar of Bunts presented mineral collection to Lsland Stanford University. 1897—Disastrous earthquakes In Cen tral India. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. New York, June 19.—Here are some of the vtsltors tn New York today: ATLANTA—A. F. Alford, M. C. Far rar, J. W. Hoyt, L. S. Collier, W. M. Timmons and wife, W. R. C. Smith, M. 1L Sullivan and wife, O. Wiedemann. MACON—it. Waterman. SAVANNAH—W. J. Derrime, Mies A. Derrime, W. W. Derrime, D. B. Hull, N. E. Solomon. Lightly Viewed From Washington. From The Washington Post Those deluded souls who have cher ished the notion that either Hoke Smith or Clark Howell would be the next governor of Georgia have another guess coming, according to authentic Infor mation from that glorious common wealth. “Plain Dick" Russell Is coming to the front like an ambulance wagon, bringing his remedies with htm. "Farm er Jim” Smith, of Oglethorpe, forces a sob of sympathy from <vsry farmer In the state. Colonel EaUll's myste rious Fabian policy pussies and af frights his more ahowy antagonists. So the plutocrats of Peachtree have mu tual foes to fight, In addition to the agreeable task of wiping each other off ths earth. It would be highly agreeable to re count the reasons why Farmer Jim. of Oglethorpe, la popular with his compa triots, and the recital of Colonel Es- tni's campaign plans would be delecta- ble to the world; for the present, the candidacy of Plain Dick Russell en gages our attention. On the authority of our esteemed contemporary, Tho Tgccoa Record, tt Is declared that every word of Plain Dick's “cornu fresh from *.*1®?* heart whose pulsations are with love for the common people of his beloved state.” He goes fearlessly from county to county, “meeting the peuole face to face, Impressing them elngly and co lectlvely with hla eternal faith In the Integrity and virtue of the peo ple." Nothing daunts htm. “Plain Dick has kept everlastingly, at It, going before tbe people day after day and week after week, undaunted by weather or vituperation by the big papers, and with no help but his own strong arm. • • • He did It with a smllo on his strong bronzed face; no fear, no fawning, no hesitating there, but, like the cavalier that he Is, he charged the forts made of paper money.** The first battle cry of Plain Dick ^? qu * r * De * 1 and * Full Meal!" This swept the red hills like a prairie fire. Then .he challenged Hoke Smith and Clark Howell to mor tal wit combat. Howell artfully alde- ateppsd. Hoke fell Into the trap. They wrestled at Montloello, and the result was a dogfall. They clinched at Dah- Inncga, and Hokt counted time. The death struggle ensued st McDonough's gory field, where Plain Dick dapped his wings and crew, while Hoke was withdrawn for repairs. Hoke’s friends refused to permit him to go up against Plain Dick at Toccoa. and thenceforth Plain Dick was forced to face the peo ple all alone, but still unterrlfied. An Impassioned Georgia poet has Immortalised Plain Dick In verse, ut- ting forth a part of hU platform. No form of verse yet Invented can sm- blason this platform In Its entirety, of course. But an Inkling of the good things In store tor Georgia when Plain Dick Is elected is conveyed by the laureate. He begins: Two-cent-a-mll* passenger far* he advocates. Others deal in generalities in railroad rates." And continue*: 'He advocates removing a tax burden thst stings By exempting three hundred dollars of household things." And ends: “You see hla platform deals with ques tions much bigger. While others devote all their time to the nigger." Let Hokt’s friends shout and Howell's henchmen return the cry; they cannot any longer deceive the country. The peaches i* Georgia do not all grow tn Peachtree street Plain Dick RusselL Ms square deal and square meal, hla eternal love of the people, and the poetry he has Inspired must all bo reckoned with. < Heard on the Corner Treat’* Treatment Ai ,r °[)' , H of the presence | n Atlanta of Mr. Treat, the following story told by The New York WorkM, tou” omplalata came pouring in I'harle.s II. Treat, treasurer of the hlted States, that ono of hi. negro wn* no cross and ugly that nobody could get along with him >5 was all aged to Mr. Treat that this me. fencer snapped ut everybody spoke to him. and that his treatment of people who bad business in ,?' treasurer s office was scandalous h •■Treat called the messenger in Here, he said, 'ivhat Is all this I hear about you being so cross uglj ; t h«; nr ;l'0'ly can get along w*hh you? \\ hat a the matter, with you j Don t you know that It is your bust, ness to bo poltte to everybody-" —Yas sir, Mr. Treat.’ said the mes, aenger, 'I suttlnly does know dat b'it crMly cnln'^ 0 " 1 ' n ° h ° W - 1 Jbt n ^' ;;;whatl* the matter with you?'^H ... 1. * ** w mi you; Ic'f' “ 1 lnt ”* pI * a * ant Wlf tny- " ‘Indigestion? Why don't you da something for Itr y 00 '"I spends all I kin afford on med. iclne, hut tbfcy ain't nothin' that reaches It. You see, Mr. Treat, I amt got no teef an' I caln't chew noth- In. ' ^‘Haven't got any teeth? Let me "The messenger opened a cavernous mouth. There were but two stumne of teeth In It. ” " ‘Here,’ said the treasurer, pulling out n nice new 910 bill with his name on It, 'take this and yet yourself a set of teeth mode. I don’t blame you, but tt has got to be stopped.’ “ Pursued tn An Auto. A young couple from Marietta, who had Juat been married, left for the east on the noon tram recently, and while at the terminal station their friends, who had preceded them, made their wait for tho delayed train any- thing but pleasant Tha •'send-off'' lasted from the end of the Marietta car line on Marietta street until the couple reached the station. It seems that tho couple, after being married, had endeavored to elude their friends by coming to this city on the electrlo car, but four of their friends secured an automobile and arrived ahead of them. The young bride and groom entered a cab, which was awaiting them at this end of the Journey, and that was where their troubles began. Old sh'oes, rubbers, rice and other mis. slles followed the happy couple tn ths station. The coachman received many of the missiles on the starboard ear, but he didn’t seem to mind It a lit tle bit. driving his precious charges through the streets with a good-na tured grin which showed his appre ciation of the circumstances. MEN AND WOMEN. Frofeaaor Rlnnldo Lothron IVrklni, on* of tb* most scholarly men of lloaton, nt tho ago of 80, lives a slmnle life Id a unuill attic room, surrounded by bis books. Asa Dekluge, who has been chosen chief of tbe Apache Indians to succeed Gcronhno, s ft graduate of the Indian school at Car lisle and has great Influence with bis tribe. his one hundred and than 1,00 persons attended given In hie honor. General J. C. Jamison, * Missourian of the old school, the greatest bird lover In oklahomn. Ids present home, Is advocating the adoption of till' study of birds and tbelr protection la the pub on* ofthsorgaatsers of the Medical college, Hon. Thornes W. Buekncll. of Providence, R. I.. Is known ns the "chemploD monument raiser," hnvlng started more monument funds and assured at more monument dedi cations than any other man In too eoontry. Clsnds Kemper, whose father Is t rice sdmlrsl of the British .navy, hss enlisted In the United States Marine corps unit It now stationed at the Norfolk navy yard. To It * year, old and aw hard terries s the Boer wsr. Sir Pardon Clerk*, director of the Met* ro do titan Unseam, will Mil for Europe tie day and whlta abroad wlU make arranr- menu to got copies of certain masterpieces which the museum rosy never hop* to 0> teln possession of. It , HS to «r SMi Is reported from Japan thst jjw f or bis derided to seed hie highness see Usln.ee special esroy to A"**™ show Imperial concern for the dtastnuM n Krisrfsco earthquake. He will sav - this country June *• REFLECTION. tBy Ell* Anglin Vented Can one of Earth's mortals afford to be WhETEife's best endowments obtain? Ah. reJYowr tomorrow may hold but s Vainglory can toon torn to pals! Just ^keep the heart gentle with radiant And eternally brer this la mind. Thst on Earth—qsltc as sure as s Hearts shore- There's t Heaven Is Just being kind: THE PROTEST. (By Ells Wheeler WI led.) ild the great machine of Iron •"d" 00 * U>, I sm n erretnre mrent for *«»•. 5i MtteS^d ^ Wh5re»’!e ta « , rS. r u, , h , i’n tb. If owned by the many—Instead of the on* “If owned by the people the whole wlds Sbosdd Irero my purpose and hnow ml I wn:iMVlose the chtsm thst yswne In out •TwUt unesrned riches ssd lU-psJd tolk No men should hunger, end no mso Utwi To fill the pare* of an Mlo neighbor. Ami «»ch man should know when wor» W*re*I shared bj the Mnny—not owoed M on®. "I sm forced by the few, with their gt*e< To forg!‘ I 'for .ke.many‘new fetters sfjsjjj Y*t this la my purpose, » nd ever win -w Ss^wWoreriorM^ S rt bfe Si u u«S, And hall me friend In *n opnlrut lind. IF YOU LOVE ME, DARUNO, TELL ME WITH YOUR EYES Thro' the gloaming ehfily Falls the silent snow. Like n sbhttered My Drifting to and fro: Yet beside oar Ingle Summer dreams ariae- If yon love me, darling. Tell me with year eyes. ,J .W name* thst rush sed rto«. . Mc«»a to a.ties go; Up. that mm ret . A lien they love, sre wise. There sr* none tol 1steo. IVi'.-n’ILJtglances **lSre^ Need n6 low replies. If tow lore see. itarilns. Tell me with your eyes.