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Georgian. SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1906. PRICE: On Trains FIVE WHEREIN THE OFFICE BOY BUTTS INTO A FLIRTATION Vain Search For Mr. Futrell at a Very Busy Flour Shows Lacy Was Living, a Double Life. By WIDEMAN LEE. It «■*• generally supposed that Lacey, the office boy In the local news room, had only a thinking part In the play pulled off at The Georgian office every day, but he turned out to be the whole show. The time was late In the afternoon, when Impatience among the bosses was rampant, for the baseball extra was be ing made up. There was a lot of hurry and hustle nround generally, and added to this was the sudden signal from the long distance telephone room. A re- porter who stood near answered the call. "Is Mr. Feutroll there?" came the re sponse from the sweet feminine voice of "Long Distance 22"—not 21. “Feutrell?—wait and I’ll see.' Johnny, a little chap about three feet vh< ..appened for once In h!s life to be" on hand, and was Immediately sent out on a still hunt for Feutrell. Lacey was nowhere around, so could not assist In the search, but Johnny conducted It as successfully os he ever does anything, end came back with the announcement, "There ain't no Mr. Feutrell here.” Cen tral whs so Informed by the reporter, who grew rather Impatient when she Insisted that Mr. Feutrell did work on the second floor of The Georgian build Ing. for she had talked to him. The telephone rang several times, and with the same Inquiry In the same voice for Mr. Feutrell, of whom no one had ever heard. Lacey could not be found. It was thought that he might settle for all time If there was a Feu trell In The Georgian office. The calls continued and the manag ing editor answered one. Wrathy would not express his feelings when he con cluded It—only his side of the con versation was heard: "Central, there’s no Mr. Feutrell In this department—WHAT?—you know there Is?—well, there Is no one here by that name, never has been, and never will be if I get a chance at him, so please ring off. for you ore annoying us extremely.” As the managing editor finished talk ing. he heard the central remark to one of her colleagues, “Ain’t that man the limit!’’ Central waa not to be outdone, so she continued to call and ask for Mr. Feu trell, while every one‘became more and more Infuriated—yes. Infuriated. No one would have minded It so much If Lacey had been around to answer the ’-•bone, but he couldn't be found on the place—a habit he has when wanted. After the managing editor, the entire force of reporters, and Johnny, the other office boy, who had remarked during the Interim that the telephone ought to belong to the whole Dam family, had become thoroughly Irri tated, and alt were calling down ven geance on Feutrell, who ever lie might be, and his sweet-voiced Central friend, Lacey arrived. He had In his mouth a piece of chewing gum so large that It dislocated his Jaws about every third chew. He was reading the sporting news ns he walked up the steps, while sticking out of his pocket was a yellow back novel, “special serial" on "Dia mond Dick's Daring Deed, nr the be- quel to Who Robbed the Milk Wagon." "Lacey,’’ yelled the managing editor. ”1 want you to stay here and answef the 'phone. What do you think we want you here for, to look at?" Lacey never would take a prize at a beauty show. His face Is a little one sided, freckled too, and the reddest hair, well, they are Just the kind an office boy like Lacey should have. The 'phone rang, Lacey whistled as If ho had forgotten something of which the 'phone had Just reminded him. He seemed to forget that there was any one around, as he ambled to the 'phone tv enough to sustain his Hello—oh. how are you? *1 I Feutrell—had a hard time getting me? —well. I was out on a story—yes, I'm a reporter—no, I ain’t seen you yet, but I wants to meet you. I like yer voice— oh, get out. you cut up—hurry, here's the boss behind me—(Loudly) I can' understand the score—Valdosta 3, Co lumbus 2. All right, call when the other games are over. All right, I’ll do my best—what's my first name?— Lacey." Lacey looked around after he had hung up the 'phone, and what he saw was too much for him. There stood the managing editor, the city editor, a half dozen reporters, all ivlth gaping mouths, us they gasped almost In one voice: “MR.—MR.—Feutrell, well what do you think of thatl^H^M^^^^^^H Lacey had never been known by any other name, but now every one In The Georgian building Is aware that Mr. I.acey Feutrell, age 9, size 4 feet even, thin and ugly, is employed there, and a busy Rid he Is, with no more flirtations over the 'phone with Cen trals, who are supposed to give him the results of the Georgia State League ball games, TO WREST RUBBER INDUSTRY FROM CONTROL OF A KING John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is planning to become the head of a great rubber monopoly, and Is even now endeavor ing to corner the rubber market, driv ing King Leopold, of Belgium, out of business. Cut show* nt the top a por trait of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., wife of the new rubber king and sla ter of E. B. Aldrich, who Is Rockefel ler*# nartner. k Below from left to right ore John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Bernard M. Bar uch, their right hand man In their rubber plans. SCHWAB'S STENOGRAPHER OWES DEATH TO DRUG Hy Private LmimM Wire. Cincinnati, Ohio, June 10—Myrtle Howard, who caifli to Cincinnati from Pittsburg on May 14 In the hop* of being cured of the morphine habit, died at the city hospital shortly after mid night. She was’ 30 years of age. A few days ago, when It was thought she had mastered her worzt foe, she was attacked with pneumonia, and her en feebled condRIon mitigated against her recovery. Some month* before she came to Cincinnati Myrtle Howard was the stenographer of Charles Schwab, the steel magnate. Her fondness for the drug that Anally mastered her resulted eventually In her losing this position. FOUR VESSELS RACING TO PORTS OF CHINA By Private Leased Wire. New York, June 1*.—A race to China I'M THE LAST KING, SMS BRITISH RULER EDWARD VII LAUGHINGLY MAKES PROPHECY AS RE8ULT OF RADICAL SUCCESSES. By RICHARD ABERCORN. Special to The Georgian. London, June 14.—The labor and radical members of parliament are threatening to expose the nepotism and Inconsistency of Arthur Balfour, aris tocrat, late premier prime minister, and leader of the Tory party In- par liament. Before the people kicked him and hln party out of office, Balfour placed hla brother, Gerald Balfour, on the political pension list, with a pen sion of 110,000 a year for life. A more scandalous political Job hasn't been perpetrated In England for decades, and It has aroused the labor and radi cal members of the house of common* to Indignation. The labor member* remember that the aristocratic Mr. Balfour opposed the bill to pay the members of parliament a salary of 31,300 a year. ,Mr. Balfour obviously believes that the labor men do not deaerve to be paid, but that his aristocratic brother Is well worth $10,- auo a year for life as a political pen sioner. What makes the scandal worse Is that Gerald Balfour Is rich and doesn't need a pension. Balfour's grandfather made a huge fortune at an army contractor In India and with his wealth married his children Into the highest circles of the aristocracy. “I Am the Last King." A curious story of King Edward's comment on the liberal and labor vic tories In the January elections Is being told discreetly In political circles. It Is said .that when the continual auc- cesses of th* radical* were announced to the king he exclaimed laughingly: "1 am the last king of England." Iz' Earth Pear 8haped? A novel theory aa to the shape of the earth la put forward by Profeaaor W. J. Kolias, who haa been lecturing In Lon don on. "Man and the Glacial Period.” He contend* that thla planet Is not a sphere, but pear-shaped, with the Pad- lie ocean at the broad end, and Africa where the atalk I* attached. Professor Kolias believes that the thickness of the geological formation of the earth’s <rust Is about S4 miles, rejecting the accepted theory of a 12-mlle crust, and hla estimate of the period neces sary for the formation of the stratified rocka la 24,004,000 years. These rath er upsetting suggestions he puts for ward In his recent book on “The sge of the earth.” BOYS OF Y.M.C.A. PREPARETOR CAMP TWENTY LADS WILL GO TO DEM OREST JULY 5 FOR TWO WEEKS. For . two weeks from July 6 some twenty happy youngsters from the boys' department of the Young Men's Christian Association wilt go Into camp at Demoreat, Ga. This will be the sev enth annual camp. The boya will leave Atlanta on I special car at 7:30 o'clock on the morn ing of July 5, and will be In charge of W. W. Willis, secretary, of the boys' department; T. K. Weems, physical di rector; Rev. George Mack and W. J. Kagan. In the past not an accident and practically no sickness ever marred the pleasure of one of these outings. The beat care Is taken of the boys, and they spend the time In swimming, baseball and other healthful outdoor amusements. To date the following hoys have decided to go: James B. Scales. Lock Crumley, Arthur Baas, W. E Campbell, Jr., Harry and Dan Wood ward, Robert Stanly, William Rawson, Edward J. Reid, Arthur Llwpold, Ran dolph Loeb. J. D. Bowen, Earl Knight, George West, Gray Carter, John Mc Rae and Ward Evans. Other boys who desire to go to camp should communicate with the secretary or the Young Men's Christian Associa tion. Pictures a Good Investment. How pictures may be good Invest ments has been shown by the sale of 'he collection of T. H. Woods, a part ner In Christies, the famous art auc- (loneera. The collection brought In nearly $100, *40 though Mr. Wood* probably did not apend more than 35,000 on forming It. Some of the pic ture* were aold at an amazing ad vance on what Mr. Woods, who natur ally was an expert buyer, gave for them. . For Instance, Hoppncr’s “Lady "isdegrave," for which Mr. Woods paid $120 In 1181 now fetched 4.000 guineas (331.544): Romney's "Stan hope children" ro*e from 3147 In 1172. t" 321.150. and Romney's "Head of l<ady Hamilton" from 350 to 31.67*. A Portrait of MPa Ogllvte by Lawrence, the original price of which Is unknow n, was sold for 315,750, a record price for a moderate elzed work of this master. Peers Bear Foreign Titles. One of the Spanish grandees who at tended the royal wedding at Madrid, the Duke of Culdad Rodrigo, la better known In England as the Duke of Wellington, the Spanish title having been conferred on his ancestor for his lidding the peninsula of the French In vaders. Several other English peers bear foreign titles won by the material prowess of their ancestors. Thus Earl Nelson is Duke of Bronte (conferred on the great admiral by the king of Na ples); the Duke of Marlborough Is Prince of Mlndelhelm In Suable, and Lord Dundonald Is Marquis of Maran- ham in Brazil, where his seafaring an cestor so distinguished himself. The Duke of Richmond and Dordon, who descends from Mile, de Querousllle, one of the ladles of Charles IPs court, who was created a duchess by Louis XIV, may call himself Duke d'Aublgny. while the Dukedom of Chatellerault. granted by the French king In 1543 on the regent of Scotland Is claimed by both the Duke of Abercom and the Duke of Hamilton. Wealth ss Root of Evil. Wealth as the root of all evil Is the keynote of a little book written by James Paterson Gladstone. The writer brings argument and evidence forward to prove that money grabbing le cob-' trery lo the tenets of Christianity, de spite John D. Rockefeller, Jr. "The livee of great hosts of people not pos sessing wealth." he says, "show that a fortune Is not s necessity either for the noblest kind of life or the purest hap piness. It is said of an ancestor of Emerson that be nightly prayed that no descendant of hie might ever be rich." Of course. Mr. Gladstone roasts the luxurioos living people. “The solidified worldliness which Is created by the possession of vast wealth." he says, -may be seen today In the West NOT A SIFTER IN ATLANTA, 671 YS OLD-FASHIONED MAN around the Cape of Good Hope Is on between the American bark, K. B. Hut ton. and the Hritsli barks Alcldes, Bltndrnn and Arrow. The vessel* are loaded with case oil shipped by the Standard Oil Company. - There le considerable speculation on the race among maritime exchange members, with the yankee boat the fa vorite. THE jungle in th*? name’ of Upton Sinclair’s powerful novel of Chicago's • Packingtown. It brought nlxmt the Na tional probe into the Beef Trust Methods. It contains facts with which every American citizen should be familiar. Facts make a book | Great | It contains romantic fiction which keeps in terest keyed to the highest pitch. Fiction makes a book Fact and fiction- make a great and good book. Beginning Monday the story will be printed serially in The Georgian. It costs tho subscriber nothing. If you nrc not a subscriber, become one at once. You will get a clean paper—a paper containing ALL the news. And you will get THE JUNGLE By UPTON SINCLAIR. Col. Wesley Shropshire Spent One Afternoon a Sifterless Quest—Don’t Sift Things Here, He Now Asserts. By JOHN C. REESE. Colonel Wesley Shropshire, of the governor's executive staff, la a sadder and more chastened man than he can recall ever being before. And It cornel of being a simple man In hla home life, and somewhat old- fashioned In hie habits of thought nnd living. Colonel Shropshire came from the good old county of Chattooga and the little city of Summerville therein. Recently hie family came lo Join him here, nnd housekeeping began out on Washington street. 8omehow In the transfer of household effects certain articles were misplaced. Therein lies the tragedy now holding Colonel Hhropehtre In lie grip. "Yes, you must buy me a sifter,” said Mrs. Shropshire the other morn ing. "Why certainly," was the reply of the colonel, Innocent of hie Impending doom. Sifters are used by all the beet fami lies in Summerville, and all the gen eral stores have strings of sifters at tractively displayed In show windows. So Colonel Shropshire came up to th* shopping district early In the afternoon, and stopped In a store where slf ought to be sold. -Can I serve you?" politely Inquired a clerk. "Yes, I want a good sifter." “Yes; for coarse or line sand?" "Thunder, no. I want a sifter to sift meal through to separate the brun from the good meal.') "Sorry, sir, but we do nbt handle such articles." That rather Jolted the colonel, but he did not despair. Next place he tried was n ten-rent establishment. A fluffy haired blond walled on him. "Got any sifter* ?'' said the colonel humbly. “Sir?" haughtily, aa though ahe did not quite catch the drift. “Slflers, sifter*, aiders. Say, don't you know what a sifter Is? Something ou use In the kitchen If you know now what a kitchen Is like," said the colonel, shaken from hie usual genial bearing. "This Is not a country store. Only Ilubes use such things,” and ah* of the blond Imlr turned away. "Well, I'll be !" he ejaculated, nnd swung angrily out. From store to store Colohel Shrop shire trudged until evening shadows closed the marls of trade, lie had rpet with rebuffs, but no sifter. One clerk. ARAGON HOTEL ADOPTS THE EUROPEAN PLAN MANY IMPROVEMENTS WILL BE MADE IN THIS POPULAR PEACHTREE HOSTELRY. End of London, and more or less It la In every west end pf every, city In the world. Several years a preacher In Westminster Abbey had the courage to declare that th# 'West End Is the greatest danger to the British empire.’ it Is the pestilence which breeds In masses of wealth that Is worse than any physical scourge, and the West End represents a great portion. If not the greater portion, of the enormous -wealth of the country." "Of course, I don’t want to criticise, but I don't think It was altogether right for. David to .say ‘all. men are liar*.’ ” » "Well, at any rate. It'was aafer than to pick out one man and. any It to him."—Philadelphia Ledger. LOCK TYPE OF CANAL IS ADOPTED BY HOUSE By Private Leased Wire. Washington. June" 1*.—It. was de cided by the house yesterday that the Panama canal shall be a lock canal. ‘ An amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill provided that none of the 116,000,000 coined for the canal should be expended on the sea level ‘The question was taken up In com mittee of the whole house, and the vote for a lock canal was 110 to 34. The amendment calling for th# lock type of canal was offered by Re press nature Llttauer. of New York, A point against the amendment was made by Mr. Bartlett, of Georgia, whe Insisted that It was new legislation. Hr presented argument along that line. Mr. Burton, of Ohio, said that In the so-called Spooner law, authorising the expenditure of 3H5.'H>*,000 for the Pan ama canal, and giving the 'president The Aragon Hotel; which hee been run for the past fifteen years on both the European nnd American plan, adopted the European plnn exclusively, th* new arrangement going Into effect on Saturday morning. Manager J. Lee Barnes has had It In mind for some lime to concentrate all the resources of the houso upon the European plan, and In doing so finite that he meote the wishes of s large majority of his patrons who will thert by secure better and more satisfactory service. So on Saturday th* American dining room, as such, was close) and will be used henceforward for banquets, con ventlona and other similar demands made upon the house. This will be an Important feature In th# future. The senior class banquet of the Georgia Tech Is already planned lo be held there on Tuesday, and this will be but one of a long series of such entertain ments. The (.'oilier estate Is spending a large sum of money In refurnishing and rehabilitating the house, under the direct supervision of Manager Bernes and George W. (.'oilier. New carpets ' elng laid throughout the house he wall paperers. will soon lend their transforming touch. J. W. Olio, who did the decorative work In the Candler building, will begin at once to decorate the cafe, which will be made one of the most up to date In the city. The kitchen will be moved from the second to the first floor, so as to facili tate Hie service, and the number of trained waiter* will be greatly In creased. A complete system of telephones has been newly Installed, on# In every room, nnd all, of course, communicating with th" office and the cafe. Manager Barnes and Assistant Man ager Jesse Couch are to he congratu lated on the brilliant prospect which opens up before them under the new arrangement. , evidently, not long from rural parte, voucheafed Information that he had henrd of sifters, nnd. perhnpr, a tin smith would, under stress, turn out one for him. Mad; disgusted nnd slfterless, Colonel Shropshire returned homo and reported his bootless quest. "Hhtlcke, this town's getting blamed hlfalutln when It goes past sifters. Guess the folks eat bran. meal, trash and all. I don't see anything for us to do but adopt the style nnd chuck the whole business Intp the stove nml ran the risk like the balance of 'em seem to do." LESTER WAS A MEMBER OF NINE CONORES8E8 Kuril* KzftlilH Lester waa born In Rurke, county, Georgia. December 12, 1837. He uan graduated from Mer cer University In 1857, and was admit ted to the bar In Savannah and com menced the practice of low In 1859. In 1861 he entered the military ***r- vice of the Confederate) BtntCH and re- malned in the service until the end of the war. He then resumed the prac tice of law. He was state senator from the First district from 1870 to 1878, end wn# president of the state •ennte during the last three yearn of ""“vice. 'rom January. 1883, to January. 1819, he waa mayor of Hnvannah. He waa elected to the fifty-first, flfty-ser* ond, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth. fifty-seventh and fifty - eighth congress*** nnd re-elected to the fifty-ninth congress. receiving 7,246 vote# to 322 for D. II. Higdon, Repub lican, and 70 for n. M. Hitch, Independ ent. Home time ago he announced hi* In tention to retire from active political life at the dole of hi* present term In congre##, anti several candidate* have announced to succeed him. hu* Work Began on Theater. Hperlnl to The Georgian. Decatur. Ala.. June 16.—Wor! started on the new Lyceum theater, at the corner of Tonal nnd Church ntreet*, nnd the building I# to bo completed by Heptcinber 16. TH# building will cost JI .i.i**hi The tlicjitci H owned hy the I.Yii'iim St<»« k t'oinpmy. which com pany la composed of local buslnesli men. ELECTRIC RAILROAD MOVEMENT GROWING Rprrlsl In Tbs Georgian. Columbus, Ob.. June 14.—The move ment to build an electric railroad from thla city to Dothan, Ala., and thence to St. Andrews Bay, Ha., Is taking ahaps, a targe number of the business men of this city having signed an agreement to heartily support the proj ect, both morally and financially. Th* success of the Atlsnta-Mscon electric railroad haa aroused new Interest In th* home project, and It Is probable an organisation will be effected shortly and the road financed to the point where work will begin. PARDONS FOR MANY; OTHERS DECLINED PRI80N COMMISSION ACTED ON TWENTY-NINE CA8ES THIS WEEK. < After deliberating from Tu Thursday afternoon, the prl* mission completed It* work I and adjourned. Twvnty-nine cane* were co: Thirteen received favorable mendatlona and sixteen were Five of tne latter were murd* Three 'murder cases were c< to preaent service. The commission determined regate the tubercular patient* farm, and a hoepltal will be e* ed to properly care for those * minuted to *«*g- nt the tubllsh- uttering from that trouble. The ed upon were a# follow: R. C. Gully* Decatur < limy; remove disabilities. I*aav Wiim.m-. • •!.». «' tary manslaughter; ten mute to present service. Frank Adarn*, Dodgo c der; life; commute to pr« harles Hoyden. Fulton ceny, five years; comrnut service. Rill Lewi*. Hancock co Ing and swindling; eight n mute to preaent service. Florence Rivera, Montfc i nJ * 1 • m» .' fi"i , film- in mute to preaent aervlce. Reuben Kitchen", Glam murder, life; commute to | Ice. Lon Martin. Tift coui three year*; commute to j Ice. ■Willie Jone*. Muscogee grancy; twelve months; preaent service, f J. Major*. Marion petit; service, nty, lar- present ly, lar- the right to Inaugurate thla movement and carry It to a successful conclu sion, the type wmm left with the presi dent with certain specifications and limitations. He said the question of type of canal should be settled without delay. He declared thirty-four of the ablest en- C neer* of the world were for the lock vel type and he believed thla Judg ment should be accepted. ceny; fine; remc Abe Oormley, Humter county; rob bery; ten years; yommute to preaent service. Horace Hammond, Dade county, murder; life; commute to present service. Walter Brown. Fulton county; lar ceny; six months; reduction <>r fine from 3100 to $50. The commission declined to Interfere In the following cases: Jock Meek**. Folk county, robbery. Henry Carden, Pike county, rape; twenty yenrs. C. T. Trice, Pike county selling II- quor; twelve months. II. C. White, Fulton county, !ar< enyj 1500 or twelve months. E. p. Martin. Fulton county, bur glary; six years. Isaac Harris, Monroe county, bur glary; ten years. Lovett Rryant, Bibb county, mur der; life. Floyd Harrison, Fulton county, horse stealing; twenty years. Zeb Carlton, Hank* county, nttempt to commit murder. f!v»* years. William Colquitt. Macon county, robbery; fifteen years. Dews Halley, Miller county; murder; life. Florence Halley, Miller county, mur der; life. orge Phillips. Miller county; mur der; life. yette Tlfton. Walker county, t to murder. **even years -w Sfienrer. Hrooks county; sell* ^ iquor. $100 ..r ten rn •nth* Ht»»\e Glea.-ui, Liberty county; nuiP der; life.