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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. PARDONS FOR MANYi OTHERS DECLINED THE J UN G L E FOR GEORGIAN READERS THE jungle Is tho mimo of Upton Sinclair’s powerful novel of Chicago's Pnckingtown, It brought about tho Na tional probe into the Bcdf Trust Methods. It contains facts with which every Amorioan citizen should be faihiliar. Facts make a book Great It contains romantic fiction which keeps In terest keyed to the highest pitch. Fiction makes, a book Don’t Miss This Story. Become a Subscriber Today Good Fact and fiction make a great and good book. Beginning Monday the story will be printed serially in The Georgian. It costs the subscriber nothing. If you arc not a subscriber, become one at once. You will get a clean paper—a pa{)or containing ALL tiie news. And you will get 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- — ■