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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WMI'lif J'W |J^| IJflMJKl ' \ " _ J\ The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE CRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, Preiident. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rites: One Year $4.50 Six Months....... 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Curler, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Exeept Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. it 25 Alabama Street, Atlinti, Ga. J -tx *—| | --- entered as second-ctast nutter April S, lNt. st tbs Postefflet st Atlanta. Ga.. under set of congress of March 8b 181*. SP, l| THE GEORGIAN COMES TO A« |j GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE % Giving Wings to Our Immortals. It It too much the tendency of this commercial ago to magnify material thing! and to subordinate the arta and the expreaalona of genius. There Is no tendency against which thoughtful and cultured men and women In a great metropolis should more diligently protesb than this. After all, the glory of a nation la not in its wealth, or Itr temples, or Its tritde, but In Its monuments. Its sculptors, Its artists, Its painters, Its poets and its eloquence and songs. We of the South more particularly have at stake !« nos of surpassing moment We are a land of sent! wnit, or a land at least In which sentiment was once the ruling force. Tho beauty of our women, the elo quence of our sons, the charms of our poets and the K>'<ry of our sentiments fill the world. The war swept ur from our moorings of ancestral tradition and forced uk Into the stern nnd narrow channel of necessary U; de. Within this lino we have prospered mightily. Our colters are bulging, our fields are white or gold with cither harvest, and our fullness goos through the valleys rejoicing like a song. But Ichnbod will bo written nbovo our civilisation It we forget tho glories of tho Immortal mind and of the Immortal soul. Music, art, painting and eloquence are tho crowning glories that encompass a people's life, and u henover and wherever In our municipal struggles the f :ees so eager and uo strenuous are halted by a siren t .-.in of music or a silver chime of eloquence or a ra dii nt touch of color, It :• at once an Instinct and a duty to halt and reflect upon tho real glories of a people and upon tho high privileges of wealth. The best power of money Is to foster genius and to encourage art Tho 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 t alntors, the sculptors and the speakers whose works and words and sounds are to delight the world. This duty rests with Atlanta as with other cities, and wo are rich enough and great enough now to speed our struggling Immortals to their predentlned goal. In the musical circles of this city thore has boon found a boy with the stamp of genius on his brow and the touch of rcnlua on his Angers on the violin, and Herbert Dlttler hcems to be at tho present moment, Atlanta's best and newest hope of an artist of lnternatloanl fame. Herbert Dlttler, violinist, has met and mastered all tho lessons that oould come to him from great artists In this city and on this side of the water. Masters of the violin tn Atlanta and In New York have told him that they have taught Jilm all they know, and these same masters Iinvo counseled him to cross the ocean to the serener and statelier masters of the old world's musle to furnish Ms Ungers with that consummate skill and to touch his soul 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 performance at which the appreciation of tho city for the r enlus of Its sons will not only bo expressed In dapping hands nnd waving handkerchiefs, hut also In that Isrger way In which money pours Into the pocket of the artist to equip him for that higher and final study In which his genius shall reach Its best expression and In which Herbert'Dlttler shall bring homo International laurels to Atlanta, the city of his birth. Thero Is a rehearsal of tho critics tonight over the merits nnd graces of this brilliant child of genius. When their verdict Is rendered It will be given to the people, i nd then Atlanta will be asked to rally in thronging and * nthuslastlc numbers to give the aid that shall waft Her- I ert Dlttler to tho more perfect school of mnsic where he shall seek the skill nnd the Inspiration which shall Mght him to enduring fame. We trust that the people of this goodly city will keep their eyes and ears Intent that when this occasion Is an- i.nunced the haH or hearing will be thronged with the > plrit of culture and the spirit of philanthropy which will help budding genius to simply help Itself. Mrs. Burns At Court. That was a notable occasion at tbs court of 8L James tbe other day when John Burns, the labor leader In the House of Commons, together with his wife, were presented to the king and queen. It was. as the cables expressed It, probably the only tims tn tha history of that august court, that a woman who swept her own floors and cookod the meals of her Im band and herself, wss accorded such an honor, and tin- fact that she was thin presented marked a distinct epoch tn the progress of democracy and labor la Ear laud. Not alnce 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 la probable that thero will never be any repetition of that revolutionary period, bnt tbe leaven of labor has been working steadily and strongly and when the recent upheaval came, hurling the Conservatives from power and restoring tho Liberals, tt was found that the labor party had fifty representatives In the lower house. John Burns wss made the leader of this party, or faction. Only a few yearn ago ho was working on the London docks as a common laborer and all bla life has l ad to eat his bread In the sweat of his brow. But ha studied and Improved his mind and at the tame time ho devoted his tremeodous energies to the cause of the working man. He become a strong factor :a tha agitation tor batter conditions for tbs working classes and when tho tidal ware of liberalism swept over tho country ho was chosen for a seat In the house of commons and for a portfolio In the cabinet of tbe new government. Tbe butterfllea of fhahlon—tha duchesses and other ladyships of all degrees together with the untitled no bility of England—stared at the daughter of the people who. by a strange turn of the whirligig of Ume, had f'oind herself In tho limelight. But tn that brilliant aggregation thero was no one of them all who conducted herself with greater poise and decorum. In the midst of flushing Jewels and brilliant gowns she wore no Jewels whatever and otherwise was qulotly and becomingly attired. The king and queen made It a point to be par ticularly gracloua to Mrs. Burns and the Impression sbe crested wss entirely favorable. The democratic tendencies of the king aro well known, but strictly as a mater of policy It was well that he was gracious to Mrs. Burns. The labor mon ment In England la gathering force with each succeed ing year. It came as a surprise to tho entire cou|itry that fifty representatives of that movement should havo been chosen to s seat In parliament, and the whole atti tude of the country has been altered. The good sense shown by tho woman who can cook her husband's meals and yet conduct herself with punc tilious propriety In the drawing room of St. James will go a long way toward giving prestige to the labor movement in Orest Britain. Ex-Governor Northen has received s letter from Rev, Wilbur Chapman, the celebrated revivalist Who did such excellent work In Atlanta some time ago, an nouncing that be has recovered from hla recent severe Illness. Mr. Chapman was one of tbe ablest speakers and most lovable men Atlanta has ever bad the honor of entertaining and the news of hla Illness carried genu ine regret to the hearts of his many friends here. If Is very gratifying Indeed to know, therefore, that he Is well again and will soon continue tho noble work In which he Is engaged. A Charmed Life. That the man who la born to be banged will never be drowned Is undoubtedly true, and that some men are destined to escaped all accidents by land and sea seems equally certain. 8t. Louis boasts of a man who has had more hair breadth escapes than any cnaracter In fiction. As re lated In a recent telegram to The Now York Herald he was driving In Penrose street, near Obear, when the horses became frightened and ran away. Reis was burled under the horses’ feet Horses and wagon passed over him and bo escaped with a bruised right shoulder. > Misguided his wheel In riding the chutes at Grand avenue and Herbert street, In 1896, and wss hurled to the ground while bicycle was making a speed of forty- flvo miles an hour. Left arm broken. In diving from a one hundred foot pedestal at the Lagoon, In Cincinnati, In 1895, he misjudged the' tdnk below and his body wss hurled violently against the side of the feoeptacle. His body fell In the tank and he was dragged out unconscious. Lsft shoulder bruised, other wise not Injured. In an attempt to ride backward down the chutes at Grand avenue and Herbert street bis wheel reared to the side and he was thrown to the ground. Hla right arm and one rib was broken. While riding a bicycle In Casa avenue, near Jeffer son avenue, In 1899, he waa unable to atop his wheel and ran headlong Into a westbound Cass avonue car. His right wrist wss sprained and hla face bruised. While riding a wheel with great speed on Grand avenue, near North Market street, ha sighted-a street car, but was unable to atop. He plunged forward, hla wheel rolling over the fender of the car, Rel* was not acratched. In a afreet fight Reis was shot st close range, but tho bullet only grated the lobe of the right ear. As a member of tho Morgan-Wrlght bloycle team in 1895, he figured In over twenty ''spills,'' but escaped without serious Injury. On one occasion, nt Louisville, he waa guiding a squad In a ten-mils handicap on the throe lap track st Fountain Ferry Park. On the last turn Rets 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 Rela attempted to loop tbe loop at Suburban Park. Hla wheel left the mark and the rider waa hurled In the air several feet. Ha was plckod up unconscious and hardly recognisable. Hla face and body were bruised and out nnd seventy-two bones were found to be brokon. He was taken to tbe Missouri hospital and recovered, after lying In bed eighteen weeks. More than two hun dred stitches were taken by the surgeons In their efforts to save hla life. In lighting a gas machine In hla bowling alley. No. 3500 Casa avenue, a year ago, he ignited four gallons of gasoline, which exploded with such great foroe that buildings for blocks around felt the shook. Although Rets stood within a few feet of tho explosion, only the hair an the back of hla head waa scorched. The build ing in which the explosion occurred was wrecked. It will be Interesting to watch tha subsequent career of Mr. Rela. It Is presumed that he (till wears his ver miform appondlx, so he has not yet passed tbe ordeal of having that removed. He has been a principal and not an "Innocent bystander" In all the accidents which have come to htm. Ha haa never been caught rocking the boat. He doea not presumably dally with the toy pistol and thereby court tetanus. There are many untried avenues of death and the manner of hla final taking off will be well worth chron icling. A Synonym. It ta Indeed a mad world, my masters: And tbe mad men are oft the masters. We once heard that tha gallant Stoeasel. who fought even unto tbe laat ditch at Port Arthur,^was to dte for dereliction, and now comes word that Rojeatvensky may be executed for failure to win In tbe great naval battle of the sea of Japan. Other officers are under In dictment. and so tt merrily goes. , Scapegoats are necessary for lax bureaucrats st tbe helm of state, and tt tho people demand cause of failure of properly equipping army and navy—why not lay blame upon the valiant men who boro the brunt of battle. With tho douma recalcitrant, tho peasantry In revolt, the harried landowners refuting to be further taxed, mutiny on land and tea. anarchism everywhere active, and a deep dissatisfaction throughout the ctar'a domin ion— Russia and revolution are synonymous. - In point of fact the Yeomen of tbe Ouard have always resented being called "Beet-eaters." The Pennsylvania clerk who “saved" $104,000 out of a salary of $1,500 a year doesn't need any lessons in thrift from Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. Anybody else. Oar esteemed end always humanitarian friend, Al fred Truitt, who moved so vigorously during the last session of the Legislature for a prohibition against the "nicking" of the hone's taH and the overcheeking of hla rein, is now concerned to prevent chicken peddlers from tying chickens In tranches and carrying them with their beads downward. This last Item may appear to be going somewhat Into detail In the matter of cruelty to fowls and animals, but Mr. Truitt Is absolutely sincere and consistent In his opposition to every form of cruelty to tho lower orders of life, and If wq had a Society for tbe Prevention of Cruelty to Animals wo should unhesi tatingly nominate Mr. Truitt as Its honored and useful president. Bryan “Not Known” in Dresden. A noble lord, addicted to poetry, has declared that fame "is but to bare one's namo misspelled in the ga zettes." But the friends of Mr. Bryan have received oven a greater shock In learning how Insularly Ignorant are the people of continental Europo of the distinguished Ne braskan who has recently been In their midst On Saturday The NCw 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 the presidency In 1908. The cablegram was re turned to The World with the formal notice from the cable company: “Your cablegram addressed to William Jennings Bryan, Dresden, not delivered. Party not known.” Tbe smug citizens of tbe tidy little center of com merce were too busy, making cblnaware and admiring their old masters to paj^ attention to the fact tlirj one of the leading figures In tho political movements of the day was cither present with them or speeding') toward them. They were content to smoke their pipes snd sip their beer or stroll along the Buhl terrace of an after noon to give heed to the fact that a man who may yet become the chief of 90,000,000 people was lingering for awhile on tho soli of Saxony. "Party not known!" Wbat, In the estimation of Dresden, is essential 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 singularly free from the petty vices which so frequently contaminate public then. He Is a scholar and a gentleman. Recently he has become a traveler. SOME GOOD LOSERS. "The lamentations of a German butcher In one of the markets who put a bet on my old horse, Paul Clifford, one of those days at the Bennlng meeting when Paul forgot to bring the kale home, caused a lot of fun to the people who overheard the sad-souted Teuton." said John Pan- gle, the Washington owner of thor oughbreds, at Baltimore recently, days ago. "The German butcher waa standing close to me, at the end of the' ntand, on that day. When the horses flnlfhed, I noticed that he ground the huge knuckles of bis right hand Into his right eye, and began to moan guttu- rally. Then he pulled a big bandan na from his coat pocket and started In to weep bitterly. " 1 blay dot Baul Clifford mlt swnncy-ftm tollar, all vat I malg In a veeg out of my mead ehob, und he ged pead a- plock, nor he said, and then he rocked to and fro and blub bered. 'Aw, give him a cookie,' the bunch who were listening to his lamentations leered at him, but he waa past feeling he sting of any Jeering, and went right on weeping disconsolately. "That waa the first case of the weeps that I'd seen on a race track In a dog's age, and the. Incident -started me to thinking of how gamely most big play- era of the horses take their losses when the big wallops 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- grass country, and trad for several -ears raced a big string of good orses of bla own and his partner’s breeding. He was too keen to bet on his horses, though, and that was what spiked him, as it spikes all of 'em In time. "Firet, he had to sell out his Inter est In the thoroughbred farm -to his conservative non-betting partner. Then all of the big horses of the string reverted In the ssme direction, end finally he got to playing the horsea from the ground with a few thousands that he had saved from the wreck. On the day that the great but erratic May Hempstead was beaten by Rush, when May was at 1 to 8 In the bet ting, my friend, the Kentuckian, had his whole faggot, a pat 88,000, on the May girl. He thought that Mies Hempstead would Just wait* home. "I was leaning on the fence alongside of him when Hush cantered home, klrklng mud In May Hempstead's re proachful eyes. I knsw that he was all n financially, and I suppose that I had i considerable-sued frog of sympathy In my throat for him., " 'Oh, well,' I said 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 the asking.' "He looked perfectly perky and cheerful: and It wasn't any upstage Imitation work either with him. He pulled three 810 gold pieces from hie pocket and studied them humorously. "•Well. I know what I'm going to Jo,’ he said to me, as be Jingled the gold coins; Tm going to buy a couple of nanny goats and self the milk to Invalids I've 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 colors were flashing again on the southern tracks, with his own good hones to carry the boys wearing them. You can’t keep a beaver_np a tree, you *' • > • • • "Eddie McAvoy, the tjtnt of a lad from Elkhart, Ind, who, when he was something under eighteen, ran. a bean- bag up to 819,000 at the Hawthorne track In Chicago In 188T, went broke 'as gamely as any trick I ever saw for his age, or any other age, as far as that's concerned. “Eddie began on the Hawthorne track as a newsboy and gum seller, and one day he put over a 100-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. ns they say tn Joplin. He didn't take anybody’s picks, tips, handicaps or suggestions, but Just flung unto the running animals doped out and figured as winners by one E. McAvoy. Esq. The result was that Just three weeks after he’d slid hie 800-to-l thing over he’d combed the pUe up to 818,- 000. “Then, of course, hie minute to make a mistake heaved along, as It nearly always does. He thought that Macy was a good home. Macy may have been a good horse in spots, but be was a polka-dotter. and the spots were hard to pick. Eddie McAvoy one day put hie whole 818.000 on Macy to beat the great old mare Imp. and Macy felt before that race was over as If the lady mare had Just gone sway and hid from him out of pure hide-and-seek devilments I waa standing doee to Eddie Mc Avoy when Mecy tolled to connect. The quiet youngster spat reflectively at Ho has almost completed his circuit of the world. He has broadened and deepened as a result of his 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 "partyp” 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 the Dres den telegraph office? A New L.L.D. Our esteemed friend, the Hon. W. L. Scruggs, ex- minister to Venezuela, has Juit received from Furman University at Greenville, 8. 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 the relation of nations with one another. Too many of these college degrees are carelessly and im properly conferred—sometimes for political, and at oth er times, for personal reasons. But In this case the com pliment of tho university falls upon a gentleman who through long years of effort and endeavor along high lines has fitly won and will wear worthily tho honor conferred by an Institution of dignity and repute. Furmnn University was named for tho 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. Heard on the Corner | the grass, and then he trotted over to the ntand of the boss gum man. “ ‘Gimme a couple o’ boxes o’ gum on tick,’ said Eddie to the boss gum man, and then he began to circulate among tho throngs, politely Inviting them to purchase pepsin gum from him at the uniform rate of 6 cents the package. I guess that wasn't the spirit of the men who are now going to rebuild Son Francisco! . . . . e 'Then I well remember the curious case of 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 waa always so unctuous about It that you'd have thought that he really en joyed going broke; and he wksn’t just throwing on the dog In the matter, either. "This time, when he thought be 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. Louie with a 8100,000 wad that he’d hoed out of the Hot Springe pool rooms during the winter. “But the fair grounds' game whang ed him good. He got the cross-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 tha high chairs had Bo land rocking long before the meeting began to draw to a olose, but Frank went right ahead with the grin that couldn't be erased. One day the bookies noticed that Boland wasn’t playing 'em at all, and they Joshed him about It. He didn't play on the next day, either, nor for the next five days. He Just strolled around with hie hands In his 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 tbe sixth day, Mr. Boland becams suddenly busy. There was a good old campaigner In one' of the races, named Siva, and Sira Was an even-money thing. Boland had twenty 81,000 bills as the remainder of hie package, and he’d been waiting for the race and for Siva. He traipsed around the ring nnd got ths even- money price against 8lva for 880,000. Then he leaned against a stanchion, shucked peanuts and watched the race. Siva ran second. The bookies crowded around Boland with hoarse hoots of merriment—hie personsllty made 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 e truck-garden er's cart passing Just as Boland got outside. ■How about a ride Into town, mate? Boland said to the driver, snd when tho startled driver of the truck cart, noticing Boland's fine raiment, nodded, Frank jumped Into the cart and took a scat alongside the driver. The scene wae visible from the back of the grand-stand, and a roar went up from tho men in the stand who were Bo land's friends. 'Hey, wait a few minutes, Frank,’ one of them yelled to the Montana plunger, 'and I'll carry you to town In my trap.* '"I've done been trapped,' Boland called back, and then the truck cart, plied high with cabbages and things, turned a corner, with Boland In good- natured end Interacted conversation with the driver. "Boland didn't find out till he reach' ed a St. Louie ticker that. Instead of being broke, he was worth Just 840,. 000, for the hone that beet Slve—i thing celled Cengallop—was. dlsqual tiled on account of the rider's rough riding end Boland's pick wae pieced first. He got beck at the books from then op end chased some of them as for os the Arkansas river end be yond."—Washington Star. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. JUNE 12. 1405—James III of Scotland died. 1065—New York city Incorporated. 1683—London deprived of Its charter by Charles It 1720—Treaty between Denmark and Sweden. 1734—James, duke of Berwick, killed before PhUllpeburg. 1775—Declaration of Rights adopted by tbe Virginia convention. 1700—Treaty of Hopewell with the Chlckoaawe. 1805—John A. Roebllng, builder of the Brooklyn bridge, born. Died July . 38. 1819. 1115—General Pierre Augereeu, Due de Casttgltbnl, died. 1040—8L Johns, Newfoundland, burned. 1045—Louis Napoleon elected deputy to French National Assembly. 1051—Paper duty In Great Britain abolished. 1064—Bottle of Cynthtena. Ky. 1075—William Cullen Bryant died. Born .. November 3. 17*4. 1185- 'James H. Rutter, president of New York Central railroad, died. 1801—< «ar of Russia presented mineral collection to Leland Stanford University. 1107—Disastrous earthquakes In Cen tral India. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. New York, June 19.—Here are some of the visitors In 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, H. Sullivan and wife, G. Wiedemann. MACON—M. Waterman. SAVANNAH—W. J. Derrlme, Mies A. Derrlme, w. W. Derrlme, 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 inter- matlon from that glorious common wealth. “Plain Dtek" Russell Is coming to tho front like an ambulance wagon, bringing his remedies with him. "Farm- er Jim" Smith, of Oglethorpe, forces a sob of sympathy from every farmer In the state. Colonel Estlll’s myste rious Fabian policy pussies and af frights his more showy antagonists. So the plutocrats of Peachtree have mu tual toes to fight. In addition to the agreeable task of wiping each other off the earth. It would be highly agrccablo to re count the reasons why Farmer Jim, of Oglethorpe, Is popular with hit compa triots, and the recital of Colonel Ks- tlU’s campaign plane 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. The Toccoa Record, It Is declared that every word of Plain Dick's "comes fresh from a great big heart whose pulsations are with love for the common people of his beloved state.” He goes fearlessly from county to county, "meeting the peonle fare to face. Impressing tbem singly and collectively with his eternal faith In the Integrity and virtue of the peo ple." Nothing daunts him. "Plain Dick haa kept everlastingly at It, going before the people day after day and wesk after week, undaunted by weather or vituperation by the big papers, and with no help but hie own strong arm. • • • He did It with a ■mile on his strong bronzed face; no tear, no fawning, no hesitating there, but, like the cavalier that he le. he charged the forte made of paper money." The first battle cry of Plain Dick J*** "4.. 8<,uar * D** 1 »nd a Full Meal!" This swept the red hills like prairie fire. Then he challenged Hoke Smith and Clark Howell to mor tal wit combat. Howell artfully side stepped. Hoke tell Into the trap. They wrestled, at Montlrello. and the result was a dogfall. They clinched at Dah- lonega, and Hoke counted time. The death struggle ensued at McDonough’s tory field, where Plain Dick clapped his wings and crew, while Hoke was withdrawn for repairs. Hoke's friends rofuaed to permit him Co go up against Plain Dick at Toccoa. and thenceforth Plain Dick was forced to face the peo pie all alone, but (till unterrifled. An Impassioned Georgia poet has Immortalised Plain Dick In verse, set ting forth a pert of his platform. No form of verse yet Invented can em- blsson this platform In Us entirety, of course. But an Inkling of the good things In store tor Georgia when Plain Dick Is elected Is conveyed by tbe laureate. He begins: "Two-cent-a-mlle passenger fere be advocates. Others deal In generalities In railroad rates." - And continues: "He advocates removing a tax burden that stings By exempting three hundred dollare of houeehold things." And ends: "You see his platform deals with ques- - tlons much bigger. White others devote aU their Ume to tbe nigger.” Let Hoke's friends shout end Howell’a henchmen return the cry; they cannot any longer deceive the country. The peaches •% Georgia do not all grow In Peachtree street Plato Dick Russell, HU square deed and square’ meal, hie eternal love of the people, and tha poetry ha has Inspired must ell be reckoned with. Treat's Treatment Apropos of the presence In Atlanta of Mr. Treat the following atory told by The New York World, is of inter est: r "Complaints came pouring in tn Charles H. Treat treasurer of the United States, that one of bit negro messengers was bo cross and ugly ths- nobody could get along with him it was alleged to Mr. Treat that this me. senger snapped at everybody vho spoke to him, anil that hie treatinent of people who had business in 'h« treasurer's office woe scandalous “Treat called the, messenger In " 'Here,' ho said, 'what Is all this I hear about you being oo cross and ugly that nobody can get along s-tih you? What's the matter with you? Dont you know that It Is your bust, ness to be polite to everybody' '"Tas sir, Mr. Treat.’ sold the mes- senger, 'I suttlnly does know dat, bit I caln't be polite nohow—I Jtat nsch erally cnln't.' n * cn “ 'What's the matter with you’* ‘"Mr. Treat, J's got de Indeeestum »n f bad I caln't be pleasant 4?f my” •Indigestion? Why don't you do something tor Itr 0 •' 'I spends nil I km afford on med icine, but they ain't nothin' that reaches It. You eec, Mr. Treat, I ain't got no teef an' I caln't chew noth- “’Haven’t got any teeth? Let ms "The messenger opened a cavernous mouth. There were but two etumiie of teeth In It. ** "'Here,' said the treasurer, pulling out a nine new $10 bill with hie name on it, 'take this and yet yourself a set of teeth made. I don’t blame you. but It has got to be stopped.' ” Pursued In An Auto. A young couple from Marietta, who had Just been married, left for ths east on tho noon train recently, and while at the terminal station their friends, who had preoeded them, made their wait for, the delayed train any thing but pleasant. The "send-off’ lasted from the end of the Marietta car lino on Marietta street until the couple reached tho station. It seems that the 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 shoes, rubbers, rice and other mis siles followed the happy couple to the station. The coachman received many of the missiles on the starboard ear, but ho didn't aeem to mind it a lit tle bit, driving his precious charges through the streets with a good-na tured grin which showed hla appre ciation of the circumstances. MEN AND WOMEN. ago of 80. lives a simple life la s kiw sttle room, surrounded by his boobs Ass Pckluge, who has been chosen chief of tho Apache Indians to succeed Geronlmo, s a graduate of tbe Indian school nt Csr- lisle snd has great Influence with hts tribe. Dr. Lynn, of Pans, 111., the oldest phy sician In that ststo, has Just celebrated Ills one hundred and first birthday. Mere than 1.000 persons attended a reception glvon In his honor. General J. C. Jamison, s Mlssourlsn of the old school, the greatest bird lover In Oklnhnmn. bis present home, Is advocating tho adoption of the study of birds and their protection In the public schools. A3T& tfcdS! c Coflcgo of Alabama and one of the best-known medics! men In tha country, died on Tuesday. He wss one of the organisers of th* Medical college Hon. Thomas W. Backnell. of Providence, R. I., Is known as ths "champion monument reiser," having started more monument tends and assisted nt morn monument dedi cation* than any other nun In the conntry. lit Is S years old and saw hard service In tbe Boer war. Sir Purdon Clarke, director ofthe Met ropolitan Museum, will sail for Europe tt- day snd while abroad will make arrange ments to got copies of certain mnuterptece* which the museum may never hope lo ob tain possession of. i - , .'* reported from Japan perer has decided to send his hlXhneM, Prince Lenin, as special envoy to Ataeriej to show Imperial concern for the dtaa«troua Man Francisco earthquake. He will utt for this country June 88. THE PROTEST. REFLECTION. (By em Anglin Verne.* Css one of Earth's mortals afford to he WbftelJte's best endowments obtain? ' Ah. no! hour tomorrow may hold but a Vainglory can soon tarn to pela: Jost keep the heart gentle with radiant Said the greet machine of Iron snd wi "1.0, I am a creature meant ter good. ite. If owned by the many-lnstesd of the one. "If owned by the people the whole wide 8ho«fid* h |eern my pnrpoee and know my I wonkl'cloee the chaam that yawns In oul soil 'Twist unearned riches and No man ahoald hungsr. and no man i»«■ To fill the pur*# of tn Idle neighbor. k 4ml e*ch man should know when Me work Were*! shared by the Many-not owned bfi ODO. "I am forced by tho tew, with their g«*3 To forge‘for the meoy newfetters ef^sial Yet this le my P nipper, and everwm^, To set tho slaves of tho wockshon rrc. God hasten the day when, overjoyed. That desperate best of the u n D 'Ki"Iod, Mhsll beer mvmeesege snd nnd«.tsno, And hall msfrlcnd In an opulent isno. IF YOU LOVE ME, DARLING. TELL ME WITH YOUR EYES Thro’ the gloaming chilly Falls the silent snow, WSSUL 3# DO I * It Iff I 3UHMA gooa to ashes gp: Up. that more met often when they love-BreWls.. If you love me. dsfUwg. TVU me with poor eyes. am ■OHM