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The Atlanta Georgian.
vol. i. NO. 45.
WHEREIN THE OFFICE BOY
BUTTS INTO A FLIRTATION
v ain Search For Mr. Futrell at a Very Busy
Hour Shows lacy Was Living
a Double Life;
By WIDEMAN LEE.
It uns generally supposed that
Lacey, the office boy In the local news
room, had only a thinking part In the
play pulled oft 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 around 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. Feutrcll there 7" chme the re.
sponse from the sweet feminine voice
of "Long Distance 22"—not 21.
"Feutrell?—wait and 1*11 see."
Johnny, a little chap about three feet
high, who considers It his chief duty
to Incur the displeasure of the tele
graph editor by never being In sight,
happened for once In his Ilfs to be on
hand, and was Immediately sent out on
a still hunt for Feutrell. Lacey wgs
nowhere around, so could not assist In
the search, but Johnny conducted It as
successfully as he ever does anything,
and came bock with the announcement,
• There ain't no Mr. Feutrell here." Cen
tral was 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 are 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 was 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 It
Lacey had been around to answer the
•nhone, 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 all were calling down ven
geance on Feutrell. who ever he 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 as 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, or the Se
quel to Who Robbed the Milk Wagon."
"Lacey," yelled the managing editor.
“I 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 prise 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 he
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
slow enough to sustain his dignity.
“Hello—eh. how are you?—this Is Mr.
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 volce-
oh, get out, you cut up—hurry, here'
the boes behind me—(Loudly) I can'
understand the score—Valdosta I, 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 edttorrthe city editor, a
halt dozen reporters, all with gaping
mouths, as they gasped almost In one
voice:
"MR.—MR.—Feutrell, well what do
you think of that!”
Lacey had never been known by
any other name, but now every one
In The Georgian building Is aware that
Mr. Lacey Feutrell, age f, size 4 feet
even, thin and ugly, Is employed there,
and a busy kid he la 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.
I'M THE LAST KING,
SAKS BRITISH RULER
EDWARD VII LAUGHINGLY MAKES
PROPHECY AS RESULT OF
RADICAL SUCCESSES.
By RICHARD ABERCORN.
Special to The Georgian.
London, June It.—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 his party out of office, Balfour
placed his brother, Gerald Balfour, on
the political pension list with a pen-
slon of 110,000 a
■■L I, . 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 commons
to indignation.
The labor members remember that
the aristocratic Mr. Balfour opposed the
bill to pay the members of parliament
a salary of 21,500 a year. Mr. Balfour
'hvlously believes that the labor men
deserve to be paid, but that his
do not- .
aristocratic brother Is well worth $10,-
ooo 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 n hugo fortune as
an army contractor In India and with
his wealth married his children Into
the highest circles of the aristocracy.
BOYS OF Y.M.C.A,
PREPARE FOR CAMP
TWENTY LAD8 WILL GO TO DEM
ORE8T JULY 5 FOR TWO
WEEK8.
For two weeks from July 6 some
twenty happy youngsters from the
boys' department of the Toung Men's
Christian Association will go Into camp
at Demorest, Go. This will be the sev
enth annual camp.
The boys will leave Atlanta on ,
special car at 7:20 o'clock on the morn.
Ing of July i, and will be in charge of
department; T. It. Weems, physical
rector; Rev. George Mack and W. J.
Fagan. In the past not an accident
and practically no sickness ever marred
the pleasure of one of these outings.
The best care Is taken of the boys,
and they spend the time In swimming,
baseball and other healthful outdoor
amusements. To data the follojvlng
boys have decided to go: James B.
Scales, Lock Crumley, Arthur Bass, W.
EL Campbell, Jr„ Harry and Dan Wood
ward, Robert Manly, William Rawson,
Edward J. Reid. Arthur Llnpold, Ran
dolph Loeb. J. D. Bowen, Earl Knight,
George West, Gray Carter, John Me
Rae and Ward Evans.
Other boys who desire to go to camp
should communicate with the secretary
of the Toung Men's Christian Assocla
tlon.
’"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
mid discreetly In political circles. It
1> said that when the continual suc
cesses of the radicals were announced
to the king he exclaimed laughingly;
"I am the last king of England."
Is Earth Pesr Shaped?
A novel theory as to the shape of the
earth Is put forward by Professor W. J.
Kolias, who has been lecturing in Lon
don on “Man and the Olaclal Period.
He contends that this planet Is not a
There, but pear-shaped, with the Paci
n' ocean at the broad end, and Africa
where the etalk la attached. Professor
Kolias believes that the thickness of
the geological formation of the earth’a
•rust ie about M miles, rejecting the
ao-epted theory of a 12-mile cruet,
and hie cellmate of the period neces-
sary for the formation of the atratlfled
rocks Is 22,000,000 years. These rath
er upsetting suggestions he puts for
ward In his recent book on "The age
"f the earth."
Pictures a Good Invettment.
How pictures, may be good Inveet-
1 icnts has been shown by the sale of
he collection of T. H. Woods, a part
ner in Christies, the famous art auc
tioneers. The collection brought In
pearly 2100,000 though Mr. Woods
f’.tubly did not spend more than
i:.ooo on forming It Boms of the pic-
'urea were sold at an amazing ad-
' »nce on what Mr. Wooda, who natur
ally waa an expert buyer, gave for
them.
For Instance. Hoppner's "Lady
" adegrave," for which Mr. Wooda
paid $120 In 1151 now fetched 0.000
eulneaa 1221.(00); Romney’s "Stan
hope Children" rose from 2147 In 1272
J" 221,1(0; ami Romney's “Head of
‘•»dy Hamilton" from ((0 to 21,(7(.
the original price of which Is unknown,
waa sold for 216,7(0, a record price for
a moderate sized work of thlz master.
Peers Bsar Foreign Titles. '
One of the Spanish grandees who at.
tended tbe royal wedding at Madrid,
the Duke of Culdad Rodrigo, Is better
known In England as the Duke of
Wellington, the Spanish title having
been conferred on his ancestor for his
ridding the peninsula of tbe French In
vaders. Several other English peers
bear foreign titles won by tbs material
prowess of their ancestors. Thus Earl
Nelson Is Duke of Bronte (conferred on
the great admiral by tbe king of Na
ples); tbs Duke of Marlborough la
Prince of Mlndelhelm In Suable, and
Lord Dundonald la Marquis of Maran-
ham In Brazil, where hla seafaring an
cestor so distinguished himself. The
Duke of Richmond and Dordon, who
descends from Mile, de Querouallle,
one of the ladles of Charles II's court,
who was created a duchess by Louis
XIV, may call himself Duke d*Aublgny,
while the Dukedom of Chatellerault.
granted by tbe French king In 1(41 on
the regent of Scotland Is claimed by
both tbe Duke of Aberrant and the
Duke of Hamilton.
Wealth at Root of Evil.
Wealth as the root of all evil Is the
keynote of a little book written by
James Paterson Gladstone. Tbe writer
brings argument and evidence forward
to prove that money grabbing la con
trary to the tenets of Christianity, de
spite John D. Rockefeller, Jr. "The
lives of great hosts of people not pos
sessing wealth,” be ears, "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 he nightly prayed that
no descendant of bis might ever be
rich." Of course, Mr. Gladstone roasts
the luxurious living people. “The
sol Id (fled worldllness which is created
by the possession of vast wealthy be
NOT A SIFTER IN ATLANTA,
SA YS OLD-FASHIONED MAN
G)l. Wesley Shropshire Spent One Afternoon
a Sifterless Quest—Don’t Sift Things
Here, He Now Asserts.
By JOHN C. REE8E.
Colonel Weeley Shropshire, of the
governor's executive ataff, la a sadder
and more chastened man than he can
recall ever being before.
And It comes of being a simple man
In his home life, and somewhat old
fashioned In hla hablta of thought and
living. Colonel Bhropehlre came from
the good old county of Chattooga and
the little city of Summerville therein.
Recently his family cams to Join him
here, end housekeeping began out on
Washington street. Somehow In the
transfer of household effects certain
articles were misplaced. Therein Ilea
the tragedy now holding Colonel
Shropshire In Its grip.
"Yea, you muat buy me a sifter,'
aald Mrs. Shropshire the other morn
ing.
"Why certainly,” was the reply of
the colonel. Innocent of his Impending
doom.
Sifters are used by all the best faml
Ilea In Summerville, and all the gen
eral atores have strings of sifters at
tractively displayed In show windows.
So Colonel Shropshire came up to the
•hopping district early In the afternoon,
FOUR VESSELS RACING
TO PORTS OF CHINA
Ry Private Leased Wire.
New York, June 16.—A race to China
ought
"Can I serve youT" politely Inquired
a clerk.
"Yea, I want# good sifter,"
"Yee; for coarse or line sand?"
"Thunder, no. I want s sifter to lift
meat through to separata the bran
from the good meal."
“Sorry, elr, but we do not handle
such articles."
That rather jolted the colonel, but
he did not despair. Next place he tried
wax a ten-cent establishment. A fluffy
hatred blond waited or. him.
“Got any sifters?” aald the colonel
humbly.
"Sir?" haughtily, as though she did
not quite catch the drift.
"Sifters, sifters, sifters. Say, don't
jrou know what a sifter la? Something
you use In the kitchen If you know
know what a kitchen Is like,” said the
colonel, shaken from hla usual genial
bearing.
"This la not a country store. Only
Rubes use such things," and she of
lhe blond hair turned sway.
"Well, I'll be 1" he ejaculated,
and swung angrily out.
From store to store Colonel Shrop
shire trudged until evening shadows
closed tlie marts of trade. lie lied met
with rebuffs, but no sifter. One clerk.
around the Cape of Good Hope Is on
between the Atnerlcnn bark, E. R. Sut
ton and the Hritqh barks Alcldts,
Blendcqn slid Arrow. The vessels are
l.iaitaal II, I e tv os La ..II uhltuiaA hu (Is#
loaded with case' oil shipped by the
standard Oil Company.
There Is considerable speculation oh
the rare among maritime 'exchange
members, with the yankee boat the fa
vorite.
ARAGON HOTEL ADOPTS
THE EUROPEAN PLAN
evidently not long from rural parts,
vouchsafed Information that he had
heard of sifter*. and, perhaps, a tin
smith would, under stress, turn out on#
for hltn. -
Mad, disgusted and slfterles*. Colonel
Shropshire returned home and reported
his tmotles* quest.
“Shucks, this town's getting blamed
hlfaluttn when It goes post sifters.
Guess the folks eat bran. meal. trash
and all. I don’t see anything for us
to do but adopt the style nnd rhuck the
whole business Into thn stove and run
the risk like the balance of ’em sectu
to do.“
LESTER WAS A MEMBER
OF NINE CONGRESSES
Rufus Exeklel Lester was born In
Burke county. Georgia, December ij»,
1117. He was graduated from Mer
cer University In IV,7, and wan admit
ted to the bar In Savannah and com
menced the practice of law In
In 1M1 he entered the military ser
vice of the Confederate states and re-
msfned In the service until the end of
the wsr. He then resumed the prac
tice of law. He was state senator
from the First district from 1870 to
IS79, snd was president of the state
senate during the last three years of
service.
From January. 1883, to January.
1889, he was mnyor of Havannah. He
was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-sec
ond, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, Mfty-flfth.
fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh nnd fifty-
eighth congresses and re-elected to the
fifty-ninth congress, receiving 7.349
votes to 323 for D. II. Higdon, Repub
lican, and <0 for It. M. Hitch, Independ
ent.
Homo time ago he announced his In
tention to retire from nctlve political
Ilf.- ill till* ( I..-4** Ilf his present term In
congress, and soveral candidates have
announced to succeed him.
Work Began on Theater.
Special to The Georgiao.
Decatur, Ala., June 18.—Work has
started on the now Lyceum theater, st
the corner of Canal and Church streets,
and tb" building 1m to 1)4- completed by
September 16. Tho building will coat
316.000. The theater Is owned by the
Lyceum Stock Company, which rnm-
pany Is composed of local business
men.
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THE JUNGLE
By UPTON SINCLAIR.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS WILL BE
MADE IN THIS POPULAR
PEACHTREE HOSTELRY.
Tha Aragon Hotsl, which has been
run for the past fifteen years on both
the Kuropcnn and American plan, hae
adopted the European plan exclusively,
the new arrangement going Into effect
on Saturday morning
Manager J. Lee llarnes has had It In
mind for some time lo concentrate ail
the reoourcee of the hnuso upon tho
European plan, nnd In doing so finds
that hs meals tha wishes of a large
majority of Ms patrons who will there
by secure better and more satisfactory
■go on Saturday the American dining
room, aa such, was closed and will be
used henceforward for banquets, con
ventions snd other similar demanda
made upon the houae. This will be an
Important fssturs In the future. The
senior clsaa banquet of the Georgia
Tech la already planned to be held
there on Tueeday. and this will be but
portrait of Miss Ogllvle by Lawrence, says, “may be eeen today In tttr Wexv
End of London, and mors or less It Is
In every west end of every city In the
world. Several years a preacher In
Westminster Abbey had the courage to
declare that the 'West End Is
tbs pestilence wMch breeds In
masses of wealth that Is worse than
any physical scourge, and tha West
End represents a great portion. If not
the greater portion, of the enormous
1th of the country."
wealtl
"Of course, I don’t want to criticise,
but I don’t think It waa altogether
right for David to say ■all men are
llare.' ”
“Well, at any rate. It was safer than
to'pick out one man and say ll to
him."—JPbUadslsUn Ledger.
LOCK TYPE OF CANAL
IS ADOPTED BY HOUSE
By Private Leased Wire.
Washington, June 16.—It was de
rided by the house yesterday that tbs
Panama canal shall be a lock canal.
An amendment to tbe sundry civil
appropriation Mil provided that none
of the 222.000,000 coined for the canal
should be expended on the sea level
‘The question was taken up In com
mittee vf tbs whole bouse, snd tbe vote
for a lock canal waa 110 to 24. Tha
amendment calling for the lock type of
canal was offsrsd by Represenattlve
Littauer. of New York.
A point against the amendment was
mads by Mr. Bartlett, of Georgia, whs
Insisted that It was new legists: inn. He
presented argument along that line.
Mr. Burton, of Ohio, said that In Iht
expenditure of 2125,000,004 for the H
ams canal, and giving the prealdent
HICID 'III a uewuw/. weeee wise as-
one of a long xerlea of such entertain
ments.
The Collier estate Is spending a
large sum »f money In rerurnlehlng
and rehabilitating tbs house, under the
direct supervision of Manager llarnes
snd George W. Collier. New carpets
are being laid throughout the house
and the wall paperers will soon lead
their transforming touch. J. W. Otto,
who did the decorative work In the
Candler building, will begin at once to
decorate the cafe, whirls will be mode
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 fsrlll-
tste the service, and the number of
trained waiters will be greatly
creased.
A complete system of telephones has
been newly Installed, one In every room,
and all. or course, communicating with
the office and the cafe.
Manager llarnes and Assistant Man
ager Jesse Couch are to be congratu
lated on the brilliant prospect which
opens up before them under the new
arrangement.
ELEC1RIC RAILROAD
MOVEMENT GROWING
flperlil to Tb* Georgian.
Columbus, Oa., Juno 18.—Tho move
ment to build an electric railroad from
this city to Dothan. Ala., and thence
Ito fit. Andrews Bay, Fla., la taking
shape, a large number of the bualneta
men of thle city having aigned an
agreement to heartily support the proj
ect, both morally and financially. The
success of the Atlanta-Maron electric
railroad has aroused new Interest In
tha home project, and It Is probable an
organisation will be effected shortly
and the road financed to the point
where work will begin.
the right to Inaugurate thle movement
and carry It to a successful conclu
sion, tho type was left with the presi
dent with certain specifications and
limitations.
He aald tho question of type of canal
should be settled without delay. He
declared thirty-four of tbe ablest en-
E neera of the world were for the lock
vel type and he believed this Judg
ment should be accepted
PRI80N COMMISSION ACTED ON
TWENTY-NINE CASES
THIS WEEK.
After deliberating from Tuesday to
Thursday nftemoon, the prison com
mission completed Its work for June
and adjourned.
Twenty-nine cases were considered.
ThlrtC4»n received favorable recom-
rnendaiions and sixteen were declined.
Five of tho latter were murder cases.
Three murder cases were commuted
to present service.
The commission determined to seg
regate tho tubercular patients at the
farm, nnd a hospital will be establish
ed to properly care for those suffering
from that trouble. Tho petitions act«i
cd upon were as follow:
R. C. Gully, Decatur county; big-
nmy; remove disabilities.
Italic Williams, < »t»t» county, volon*
fiiry inuiiHlauKhter; ten years; com
mute to present service.
Flunk Adams, Dodge county, mur
der; life; commute to present service.
I'hurleH Hoyden, Fulton county, lar
ceny, live years; commute to present
service.
Hill Lewis, Hancock county, cheat*
Ing and Hwlndllng; eight months; com*
mule present service.
Florence Rivers, Montgomery coun
ty. misdemeanor; nine months; com-
mule (<| present service.
Reuben Kitchens, Glascock county,
murder, life; commute to present serv-
ftea.
Lon Martin, Tift county, larceny,
three years; commute to present serv
ice. .
Willie Jones, Muscogee county, va
grancy; twelve months; commute to
present service.
L. J. Majors, Marlon county, lar
ceny; fine; remove disabilities.
Abe Gormley, Humter county; rob-
>ry; ten years; commute to present
service.
Horace Hammond, Dade county,
murder; life; commuto to present
service.
Walter Brown, Fulton county: lar
ceny; six months; reduction of fine
from 1100 to 160.
commission declined to Interfere
In the following coses:
Jack Meeks. Polk county, robbery.
Henry Carden, Pike county, rape;
twenty years.
C. T. Trice, Pike count}! selling li
quor; twelve months.
II. C. White, Fulton county, larceny;
3600 or twelve months.
E. D. Martin, Fulton county, bur
glary; six year*.
Isaac Harris, Monroe county, bur-
glary; ten years.
Lovett Bryant, Bibb county, mur
der; life. _,
Floyd Harrison, Fulton county, horse
stealing; twenty years.
Zeb Carlton. Hanks county, attempt
to commit murder; five years.
William Colquitt, Macon county,
robbery; fifteen years.
Dews Halley, Miller county; murder;
life.
Florence Halley, Miller county, mur
der; life.
George Phillips. Miller county; mur-
Tift
Walker county, at-
urder. * seven years,
ncer. Hrooks county; sell-
31')«) <*r ten months
ison. Liberty county; mur-
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