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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Bnter«l >■ eecomt-rte«» metier April M, ISOS, et the Pestoflce It
Atlsnts. Os., under set of cowreas of March 3. 1I7Z.
Municipal Ownership For Atlanta.
Hundreds of people hire commented favorably upon
the attitude of The Georgian last Saturday with refer
ence to municipal ownership of the electric and gas
plnnts. Words of encouragement have come to this pa
per tor It to Keep up the fight. Consumers who are fear
ful of offending the corporation have emphatically de
nounced the practices of the gas and electric lighting
people, requesting that their names be withheld for fear
that they will be made to suffer. Story after atory of
arbitrary practices, auch as that to which Mr. Van
Landlngham and Mr. Allen were subjected, have been
communicated to this office. Increase In rate without
rhyme or reason have been known.
Now the people are tired. Many a conservative cltl-
sen has shaken his head In silent rage while there lurked
In hla breast an Intense desire to bring about a change.
Many have silently resolved to lend their aid to any
movement looking to relief. The queatlon of an appeal
to the city officials has frequently been considered. But
then there came that same old queatlon of What's the
use? The corporation had the monopoly; It owned the
gas plant; It owned the electric lighting plant; It owned
the heaUng plant; it owned the street railway. It had
millions with which to light Its battles. And that It would
light went without saying.
The mind's eye looks back t6 the time when there
was competition In street railways. The memory of 3-
cent fares, heated cars and gas that burned brightly, to
gether with decent treatment by gas and electric light
company employees, has not died yet. And the people
wonder ’what has brought about the change.
A man up In Boston brought It about. He came to
Atlanta with his millions and now ho has taken nil of
bis millions out of Atlanta again and la taking many of
Atlanta's millions out with him. Money that could be
going to a reduction of the tax rate Is going for the en
largement of that Boston man's business; the Atlanta
millions are going to Increase the pile of the Boston
man's millions.
Every time the question of municipal ownership Is
suggested -there Is raised the cry of socialism. Every
one who knows anything knows that there Is not the
slightest similarity. A city Is simply an overgrown Indi
vidual. That Individual decides that It will make for It
self what it has been getting another to make for It.
There Is no question of dividing up the city's wealth. It
Is simply n question of putting a quietus on the plan of
a greedy corporation to collect an unfair per cent of what
the citizens of a city may earn.
Then there'Is raised the cry that neither the city,
state nor government should enter Into competition with
-the Individual. This cry la always raised by the Individual.
By hla very cry the Individual admits the greater strength
of the city. It Is an sppoal for sympathy. But <he Indi
vidual—which happens to be the corporation which
wishes to continue (ts practice of overcharging for Its
product—does not tell the city that there Is no question
of competition. The city does not Intend to manufacture
gas or electricity to ba sold. The city Intends to use- that
gas and electricity. The city will not be In competition
with th« Individual.
If a man knows the tailoring business and derides
that he wants to order a pair of trousers, Is It competition
with his fellow tailor for that man to make himself a
pair of trousers? If a woman needs a dress and Is capa
ble of making a dress—as all women should be—Is It
competition for her to doclde not to pay the exorbitant
tharge of the dressmaker, but to go to work and make
that dress for herself? Is that competition?
New York city owns the subway; she owns her ferry
line between The Battery and Btaten Island; she owns
an electric lighting plant on the Williamsburg bridge
which Is saving her annually many thousands of dollars.
The subway Is leased, but when the lease expires the
property will revert to the city. In the meantime the
city has absolute control and can dictate the manner
In which August Belmont and his crowd shall operate the
anbway. The Rapid Transit board can dictate that suffi
cient cars be operated so that working women and
men will not have to hang to straps.
The Staten Island ferry Is another municipally owned
and municipally operated property. Previously It required
the residents of Staten Island 40 minutes to reach Man
hattan Island, where thousands of them were employed.
Ok! boats, bearing a strong resemblance to Noah's Ark,
were used. The company operating the line would make
no Improvement. The people stepped In and took charge.
Now the time between Manhattan and Staten Islnnds
Is only 20 minutes—Just one-half.
The gas plant In Indianapolis Is another Illustration.
The people got tired. They rose In their might and or
ganised their own gas company. It was operated with
a rate of 60 cents per thousand to the people and paid a
handsome profit. One does not have to go to Glasgow or
any of the foreign cities for examples. Municipal owner
ship exists In this country—and successfully.
If the people do not protect themselves In these mat
ters they may be sure that they will not be protected.
If they remain content to sit Idly by, working and slaving
that they may pay gas and electric light bills bearing
enormous profits to foreign owned corporations, then
they deserve to have this money taken from their pock
ets. Unless they assert themselves they may be sure
that the money grabbing corporations are going to con
tinue to assert themselves and continue to reap every
sheaf of the golden harvest that comes within reach of
their scythes.
Exorbitant rate for electric and gas power Is keeping
down local manufacturing enterprises Just as the freight
rates keep them down. When a manufacturer has to pay
a higher price for his power and light than does his com
petitor In's neighboring town. Just ao much does he have
to cut down his profits to meet that comiietltor. For that
very reason factories that would have been built In At
lanta, giving employment to hundreds of people, have
been built In other cities and smaller towns. The growth
of this city has been retarded.
The department stores that use largely of gas and
electricity are at a disadvantage. Money that goes to
paying gas and electric bills could be going to pay bet
ter salaries; to an enlargement of the business; to the
men who have Invested their capital In local enterprises
who would In turn spend this money locally, building
beautiful bouses. Improving real estate, paying taxes that
better streets and better roads might be built
There Is no disposition on the part of The Georgian
to Insist that the city enter Into competition with the
Georgia Railway and Electric Company In so far as light
and power are furnished to individuals. But the city
should own and operate Its plant. It should havo poles
and wires and conduits. The power and light would be
there. If the Individual consumer did not get proper
rates and treatment from the Georgia Railway and Elec
tric Company be court make application to the city for
light and power and the city would be In a position to
supply It at a rtasonablc rate so that a legitimate profit
might be made.
The mere presence of that plant would be a menace
to the arbitrary dealings of the corporation.- That corpor
atlon would have a continual warning that It must be civil
and Just In Its treatment of the citizens of this city.
The people have grown tired of Injustice.
The Georgian wants to get In touch with the people
oh this question, if, you have beep the victim of ill or
unfair treatment at the hands of the Georgia Railway
and Electric Company, tell us your grievance. Send us
an account relating just what the Imposition vas. If you
don't want your pame mentioned you tony be sure we
won’t mention It, Probably there may be business rea
sons. We will keep the faith. But we want to serve the
people. We want the citizens of this city to be treated
Just and fair. We‘ will be in position to belp you right
your wrongs If you will tell us what they Are.
Understand, we do not want to read a long account
of an Imaginary wrong. We do not want an unfair at
tack on the Georgia Railway and Electric Company. We
want to treat the Georgia Railway and Electric Company
with Justice, Just as we want the Georgia Railway and
Electric Company to treat the people with justice.
We want the people to think these things out for
themselves. We want the people to realise that tbelr
financial welfare la at stake. The financial welfare Is es
sential to the happiness of the home. It affects the edu
cation of the children. It affects your happiness, your
comfort, your future prosperity.
Tell us your experiences along these lines.
adduced during the recent investigation, there were cer- j He pointed to better worlds, but unfortunately he did
The Governor’s Responsibilities.
With this day at Macon, by the formal vote of the
Democratic convention following the gratifying verdict
of the Democratic primaries, the Hon. Hoke Smith be
came the nominee of the Democratic party and there
fore the next governor of Georgia.
It Is stretching no comparison to say that the eyes
and the expectation of the state and of the South ars
upon the new governor of this Imperial commonwealth.
All the circumstances which surrounded hla election and
all the militant force and aggressiveness of his own
eventful life have crystallized sectional and national ex-
pectatlon upon him, and the new governor of Georgia
standing In the white light of publicity will front the mag
nificent opportunity .and also the fearfuF responsibility of
fulfillment.
It can be said without fear of contradiction that if
any man could carry out the things with which he has
pledged himself. It would be the next governor of Geor
gia. Certainly no personality more forceful, more pro
gressive and more capable has held the executive reins
of Georgia within the present generation. With courage,
with capacity, with past experience and enermoua en
ergy of will power the new governor of Georgia becomes
at once a marked and national figure before he has as
sumed the reins of power.
The Georgian Id one of those who have championed
without variation the principles upon which the new gov
ernor of Georgia won his splendid triumph. Far In ad-,
vance of Mr. Hoke Bmlth himself, the editor of . this pa
per has been the evangel and apostle of that doctrine
which would settle and establish the supremacy of the
white race In the affairs of this government for the peace
and welfnre of both racss. We rejoice without limit In
the accession of so grent and so powerful a recruit to
the ranks of the reform which we have so mllltantly
preached. And wo arc glad now that the experiment up
on which so much of our racial purity and our racial
Integrity will depend Is In the hands of a man so strong
with a mind ao fertile and so bold to plan and to exe
cute.
The one great duty which rests upon the multitude
of Georgians who have voted him Into this solemn respon
sibility and power la to hold up his hands In the execution
of the refprms which he has pledged. It beeomes a debt
of honor and a debt of patriotism that wo who have placed
this responsibility In his hands shall help him to fulfill
the expectation of the state. Without the surrender of
any Individuality, without forgetting for a. moment the
right of every eltlxen to think for himself, without giv
ing over the undisputed right to criticize and to reject,
yet we feel that the great body of this great people
should give their ears and tbelr hearts to the prudent
methods which the new governor of Georgia will Institute
to establish white supremacy and a Just and equitable'
rate for the transportation of commerce through the
state of Georgia. No captious objections should handicap
the honest efforts of a brave executive. No small Jeal
ousies should clog the way of vital and great reforms.
But with a high and resolute sense of the meaning of the
next two years to the people of Georgia, we trust that
every citizen will lend hla voice and his vote to his full
Intelligence and will give his co-operation without stint
to the reform measures advocated by the distinguished
Georgian whom we have charged with the responsibility
of their execution. -
We congratulate the next governor of Georgia. We
extend to hint our highest sympathy for the serious and
perplexing problems of hla administration and we send
to him the assurance that he may expect the honest com
mendation and support of this newspaper In every good
effort which he makes for the welfare of the people and
the glory of the state.
tain irregularities In the management of the association
which demand a clear and Impartial Investigation.
The days have passed when bitterness and rancour
prevailed between the Cotton Association and its critics.
We prefer to look upon this Institution In a purely ab
stract manner. ’ „
But we are honestly and frankly of the opinion
that tho best Interests of the Southern Cotton Associa
tion would be better subserved by the resignation of Mr.
Cheatham.
It Is an undented fact that this gentleman, 4rho Is a
high officer In the association, has been guilty, accord
ing to the findings of bis own friends and associates, of
speculating In cotton futures. .With one hand he was ad
vocating day after day the abolition of cotton speculation.
not lead the way, and with the other hand he was un
doubtedly guilty of dabbling in cotton futures and thereby
has brought the cotton association Into something like
disrepute.
There Is nothing of unklndnexs In this criticism. We
say It solely with a view to the best Interests of a great
Institution of which he is the secretary. But we hon
estly believe that the future of that institution would be
best subserved by tbe resignation of Secretary Richard
Cheatham.
Georgia reports a bumper crop of peanuts this year.
This may explain the wonderful activity among her poli
ticians quite recently.—Washington Post.
To say nothing of the shell game.
Growth and Progress of the New South
remarkable development of
Itif atttntlou.
Another Progressive Move in South Georgia.
Negotiations have been going on for some time by parties to procure
the larga / water power, mineral springs and lands clustering around the
old Banks mill.
This deal was consummated Monday whereby Mrs. Mary M. Banks, of
Atlanta, has disposed of this valuable property to the South Georgia Land
ahd Industrial Comr-nny. Mr. Peeler, the general manager, being Inter
viewed as to the property, states that there Is about 1,000 horse-power.
They will proceed at once to develop same for the purpose of lighting
furnishing power to small Industries and also constructing and operating
an Interurban car line from Mllltown to Valdosta, a distance of 19 miles,
traversing one of the richest farming sections of south Georgia. They have
secured the services of Mr. Frank Lederle, of Atlanta, to make estimates,
etc., on the power, and arrangements will be made to push the work for
ward with all speed possible.
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NOOKS AND CORNERS OF AMERICAN HISTORY
JOHN RANDOLPH, OF ROANOKE
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
John Randolph Is the most remark
able character In American history, and
as an all-round wonder will probably
never ba equaled In the country's an
nals.
Born In 1773 and dying In 1833, the
courtly Virginian made ah Impression
Upon his day and generation that can
never be effaced.
Randolph fascinated his contempo
raries, and his life-story Is as fasci
nating to us of today as It Is surely
destined to be to those who are to come
after us.
In this brief article I would speak not
of Randolph the statesman, the poli
tician, the orator, but of Randolph the
man. As a statesman he was the peer
of any man of his age, as a politician
he was pre-eminently successful, while
as an orator he had but few equals and
no superiors.
It Is of Randolph the man that I
would here speak, hoping that this
short account of his personality may
prove to be an Inspiration to the
young Americans who may chance to
read It.
John Randolph was a man. Physic
ally, he was a mere shell, so thin and
frail that he wg* scarcely able to cast
a shadow. Jim Jeffries, had he been
living In his day, could have laid him
out with his little finger.
He was sick all his life, and for years
before the undertaker finally took
charge of him he was to all Intents
and purposes as dead as he Is today.
And yet, In the truest and highest
sense or the word, no man of his time
was so thoroughly and grandly alive as
was John Randolph!
Frail as he was physically, mentally
and morally he was a giant of the
giants, and by hla superb will power
and uncompromising Integrity of spirit
wrote a page of the nation’s history
that will always be to us an honor and
gloryI
He was a politician, but he was a
politician with principle. Whether lis
tening to the hosannas of success or
sitting in the ashes of defeat, he never
knew what It was to feel the sting of
shame, the lashings of an upbraiding
conscience.
He never championed a,cause that he
did not believe In with all-hla heart
and soul, and there was not a man In
the congress he served In who did not
know that John Randolph was too
brave to be frightened and too pure to
be bought.
Randolph had an Ideal. Falstaff did
not know what "honor'' meant. Ran
dolph did—and his honor was the
touchstone by which he tried every
thing that he said or did.
A physical weakling, erratic, eccen
tric, Impulsive, hot-tempered, tne great
Virginian never lost sight of the star
that guided him—the star of truth and
principle, of Integrity and manhood!
His soul was not In the market. For
no price could his honor be purchased.
He was high above being Inlluenced by
either threat or bribe.
A gentleman of the "Old School." he
was foolish enough to believe with all
his heart, and soul, and mind, and
strength, that there was an Eternal
Right to which he owed an uncompro
mising and unquestioning fealty—and
to that belief he was faithful unto the
end.
There were giants In those days, but
the giants were unable to scare him
from the path along which he felt It to
be his duty to travel.
Pages might be filled with his keen
sarcasms and merciless retbrts. Time
and again he was beset by the hench
men of unprlnclple, by the footllckers
and time-servers of his day, and upon
these creatures he turned with all the
fire and fury, with alt the wit and
vitriol of his Impassioned soul, blister
ing them until they howled with pain.
There never lived a man about whom
there Is a greater fund of anecdote. A
man might tell stories about John Ran
dolph by the hour.
But, Interesting as these stories are,
they pale before the simple fact of
Randolph's Incorruptible Integrity.
The old Virginian was brilliant, bril
liant as a star, nnd many In his day
were made to feel the sting of hls'ter-
rlble tongue—hut the main thing for us
to remember about the mail Is the fact
that he was a man, and that he was
not to be bullied or brlbwl from doing
the thing which he honestly believed he
ought to do.
Long life to the memory of John
Randolph, of Roanoke!
I’D LIKE TO SHAKE
FATHER’S HAND
By JOHN ANDERSON JAYNE
P ARKING down u street In Now Yqrk,
Just tbe other day, ft uinn happen
ed to look up to n high window,
nnd over It saw n name. The name stirred
aromas of recollection, nnd ont of the
mint of year* he naw. tho face of nn old
schoolmate who hnd borne that tin ins. He
entered the building, toqk the elevator nnd
presently stood fnce to fnce with the owner
of the nntne. He put out hfs hnnd nnd
said:
“How ore you. Will)*'
There wns u.minute or two of looking
nnd sen rolling the aisles of memory, nnd
then ertine the words:
“My Lord, Jim, where did you drop
from f’
Then begun one of those most plensnnt
experiences of life, In which present busi
ness enres nnd worries nre nil forgotten,
nnd through the dnys of Iniyhood Dnme
Fnuey takes the heart oud brings Into
view faces, names nnd scenes long sluce
forgotten.
Presently tfie conversation turned Into
more personnl channels nnd ench told the
other sinnetbliig of bis experiences. Time
hnd dealt gently nnd fnvornbly with ench.
Kneh wns to n gm>d degree sneecisfiit In
his chosen lines. And yet, ns they looked
Into each other's fnces nnd henrd
story of tho yenra, eneh knew thrtt thero
hnd been times of bitterness, sorrow nnd
bnrd wrestlings with the world. For
truly ns the rocks ot. the *en const lienr
V»e mnrk of rising nnd ebbing tides, so
surely do men’s fnces record the story of
the sorrows of their heart nnd life.
As the conversation wnndered on, ques
tions were asked concerning the parents
of each. For one « mother hnd gone to
her eternal home. For the other, both the
father nnd the mother hnd pnssed from
these scenes of time nnd place to the abode
of the blest.
Snld one of the men. reminiscently:
“Father nnd I didn't get nlong very well
i GOSSIP!
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By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER
By rrlvnte Leased Wire,
New York, Sept. 4.—All old bs«btn
fan* of ihe previous- generations r -
tnember with pleasure the catchln, t
"Doc" Buahong, back In the eight!,,
"Doc" Settled down to the practice
hla profession after he quit baseball
and the players who know him knj
him no more. He distinguished him,,I,
yesterday at Ocean City, N. J., by m.J
lng a gallant attempt to rescue .
drowning woman, which nearly c,,.!
him hla life, and that of his c "*‘
daughter, who had gone to hi " r ?. d
cue, as well. r '**
Only the bravery of his dausht..
saved a tragedy. The three Bushon-I
and the woman they were trving to ref*
cue formed a life line. Misa B usho „V
being the tallest, went first. The n
ter had reached her lips before .hi
could grasp her father's hand Th,I
alt the others caught hands and
brought ashore. ™
President Roosevelt draws the line
n life mask. He has caused it to 2
known definitely and finally that he
will not submit to have his face cov
ered with wet, sticky planer and
breathe through quills till It hardens
This he declares Is more than po,t, r :
Ity has any right to claim of him.
The friends of David Dwight Holmes
prominent in the automobile trade la
this city, and Miss Grace McDonough
of Boston, were amaeed to learn today
that they had been married on Sunday
night In the 'Little Church Around th.
Corner." The couple were in an up.
town restaurant with three other cou-
£ les, when Holmes, turning to Mu,
IcDnnough, asked;
“Will you marry me tonight?"
For answer Miss McDonough moved
back from the table and extended her
hnnd to Mr. Holmes. Calling for their
wraps, the party entered Mr. Holme
touring car which was waiting out.
side, and all speed was made for th,
"Little Church Around the Corner."
undt>rstnml him. IVi
I>oth very much ntlke, nml pitch wns deter
mined to have his own way. nml so the
upshot of the nStole thing was that I left
the old home, nml In oil these ypsrs have
never gone linek. until Just the other day
there enme to my lienrt the old borne long
ing, niitl 'so I wont bnck.
"Everything whk changed. Stranger* In
tho house. No oho In tlio old town know
mo. I wit In tho old bnriior ohnlr, nnd
hnd tho old town bnrbor xh.ivo mo. but bo
didn’t remember me, nnd I didn’t toll him
who I was. Thou I wont to tho oolite-
tory on tho hill. Your mother In burled
there. Will, nbd mine not fur nwny
by mother's Mile fnther lien. 'Anil
stood there, all the remembruneen of t
INNUMERABLE GRADUATES
By MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN
Cheatham at the Bar.
The executive committee of the Southern Cotton As
sociation Is about to meet at Hot 8prtngs, Ark., today.
There will be quite a number of matters brought to
the attention of this committee which are of great pith
and moment. This association Is recognized as being one
of the great conservative forces In the economic life and
history of the 8outh. In the past It has done a great
work In holding together the tollers and the tlllera of
the soli who raise the 8outh's leading product We trust
that this committee will do everything In Its power to
make this meeting a notable one In every way. and to
contribute aa far as It lies In Its power toward the up
building of the South.
There Is no disposition on the part of The Georgian
or on the part of anyone who has been associated with
the recent Investigation of tbe executive branch of this
association, to be captious or hypercritical.
At the same time The Georgian would be distinctly
untrue to the trust which has been reposed In It If we did
not emphasize the ftfct that according to all the evidence
(Copyright, ISOS, by W. R. Hearat.)
It la a matter of serious thought nn to
what 1a to ba the deatlny of the legions
of grnduatea from the Innumerable sehoof*
all over the country. Aa one sees tbe
troops of iKiys and girls emerging for the
last time from tbelr schools one realises
thnt they are te no ont Into the world to
till a place In the great scheme of the
world’s work, and one naturally wonders
how mnny of them will be successful nud
how uisuy will tie failures.
Not Infrequently the poorest student nml
dullest scholar when he once embarks upon
hla life career astonishes those who know
him as n dullard by his astuteness and
alertness In the pursuit of the goal of Ids
ambition; while some of the faithful. pa
tient, conaHenthma students seem to Inpee
Into dullness and waut of comprehension of
the art of success.
Very few appreciate the responsibility
resting upan tnem. for, after all. It Is the
“ rldualt 1
IndlvbTuafs thnt make up the whole. As
each one does hla part, ao win the general
result be for the betterment of the world.
There Is a saying that one-half of the
world does not know how tbe other half
manages to exist. It Is quite true that a
much larger portion of mankind Uvea upon
the Inbttr and effort of the few than should
tie allowed to do so. One aecs continually
Illustrations In the same family thnt one
5 orks while the greater number piny. The
ilftless ones trust “to luck ' for their fu
ture needs, and It la nn unexplainable fact
that tbe ceaseless workers always come to
the rescue of the Indolent and Indifferent.
Among those who are graduating there
will doubtless he Edison*. Mnreonls and
Beaehya and other wonderful gennlses who
will startle the whole world by their mar
velous Inventions nml discoveries.
The young man who recently made such
an Interesting snd marvelous exhibition of
an airship built by him and In which he
circled tne Washington monument nml
soared far above the dome of the national
capital In hts frail craft la said to l»e
nineteen years of ngc. Ills ambition Is to
tlnally construct a ship In which he ran
go through the sir from Maine to Cali
fornia. and there are many persona who
believe that he will accomplish this won
derful feat In tbe not far distant future.
As In most coses It Is stated that this
young man has worked out hts wonderful
conception patiently and without enroqr-
r gement ana assistance of money, furnish-
ag evidence that money Is not au-powerfnl,
and probably had he lieen favored by for
tune he would not have persisted until be
will be of benefit to maakt—
» The greatest discoveries that have ever
been ninde have been those born of prlva
them before the pnbllc. Rome of the very
best and greatest Inventions that have
brought blessings to mankind havo yielded
little return to their authors. Latterly
Inventors and discoverers have had more
encouragement to assist them than was
accorded their predecessors, and tt*la to
be hoped that now aa money la so plentiful
thnt those of tho twentieth century may
not tie lacking of means with which to
work out their dreams.
Tho girls nnd young women who have
kept abreast with the young men and boys
In their classes have no less responsibility
than their male companions. I pon them
devolves the keeping of the homes and the
S vlng of much cheer to their life partners
whatever they undertake to do. nnd of
the holding of morality and Christianity
up to Its highest stsndsnl In the homes and
community In which, they live. They will
have much to do with Influencing hushnuds
and sous to superhuman effort In life's
achievements.
Few persons realise the growth of eduen
tlonnl advantages In the seventeen years
which Hr. Harris served as commissioner
of education. Five thousand Are hundred
high S4*hoola have ln*eu added; there were
but two thousand when Hr. Harris assumed
the duties of that office, while on bis re
tirement there are seven thousand flvs
hundred, which speaks volumes not only for
l>r. Harris' administration. tint of the am
bition and advancement of educational In
tereats In the I’nltcd States.
With auch facilities ns are provldeil for
the cultivation and tralulug or the youth
of America they have no excuse for occupy
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came lwek, nnd nil his deeds of courage
nnd daring snd love, nml ns I retneniliered,
I snld to myself:
“ ’Today. I would give nil thnt I nin
worth to shnke fnther's hand and heir him
•ny, "How nru you, .Bin; how nre you,
Jim?
Then enme n summons nt the 'phone, nnd
the two friends pnrted to meet again.
When? Where? (Julen snbe. sni»e Dlost
But tbe story still rings in (be heart,
and the words:
“Today I'd like to slmke father by ths
hand.”
It's a pretty hard thing for n boy or n
grown young man to realize rhnt h*» father
Is hl» best friend,
ind
••Hilly If the fnther
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
8EPTEMBER 4.
1M2— Plxarro landed In Peru.
ISK-I’htllp II of Spain died.
lTW-BenwIIrt Arnold’s treason discovered.
lgS7—Congress convened In extra session to
devise measures to relieve the finan
cial embarrassments of the country.
1844—Two hundred lives lost In hurricane
at Matamorns.
1W1—General Burnside oe«-npied Knoxville.
11*4—The Confederate General Morgan's
forces rnnted at Greenville. Tenn.
W74—Town of Mokelumne Illll, CaL totally
destroyed by fire.
-First National bank, of Helena, Mont.,
Especially. too. If the young nun.
flint the fnther hns waited Ids fife,
yet. It's a g4i»Kl thing for luiyi nnd yousg
men to reitienilier thnt. even vllh ml »h»
tnlHunderstniiillug nnd fault* the father luu*.
there Is thnt In him thnt uiiike.i him love
Ills boy nnd want him to go In Hie right
path. •
Why must It be thnt not until the rears
of manhood have ebme does 1 boy realize
what bis father Is to him? Why must lie
have to wait until «’io filler is sleeping
his last sleep, waiting 'he ingcl'H trump,
before he feel* ns though he would like »o
shnke his fnther by the hand? Vet ti»o
often It Is the ense. Too ofici sons and
fathers nre estranged from eneli other
when by tbe tie of blood that binds them
they should be the treat of friends -the
father a guardian to the son, tho son to
the father. Only orcnalojinJJy do farhers
nnd sons have the mutual love nnd for-
ben ranee ope for the other that bey should
have,
Whose fault la It?
Today, fnther, when you go home you
know your boy will not meet you with a
smile. You know he la afraid or nshnmed
of you. By the hopes and the sorrows of
make the mutter right.
Today, Imy, young man. you may be far
away from your father, even though living
under the same root tree with him. Boy.
young man. In-fore It Is too Inte. senreli
your own heart, and If you are at fault
mnke the matter right. !>on't let years
add to the estrangement. Don't let bitter
months and years store you In the fnce
when you shall stand by the coffined dust
of your fnther nnd say:
"I’d give all I'm worth today Just to
•hake the hnnd of my father.”
GEORGIA NEWS
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In
Maurice Csuipliell hns deferred the pro
duction of “Pilgrim's Progress" untU uext
spring.
Mtrgnret Augllu
Wllllnm Vaughan
flrzxit Iklvl.t* 7 ’
dy's play, “The
Jsmes J. Corbett Is to l*» seen In a new
play soon. If Is to lie calle4l "The Bur
glar nnd the Ijuly.”
Robert Hilliard Is to Ih» seen this season
In a play of New York Bte entitled •’The
Turn of tbe Tide.”
A riinnco has been made In the name of
Kills Jeffreys’ new piny. If ‘
ed "The Dear I'nfalr Rex.'
MIm Alice FJ»hr~lll
... icw play,
early next month-In Chicago.
Ernest Htnllnrd, an English actor, ha*
*en engaged to support Henrietta Croa-
mau In "AIl-of-a-Hu . ,eu Peggy."
I«oiifn James opened his season this week,
nrliiR "The Mt-rrT WlrM .if Wlii'l**.' 1
waiwn *111 mrry him to the ltcUSc
couit.
__ __ drtlnltelr
Lmglrjr', Innr of Amorim _
month. Ilor r-pottolro will Inolmlo "TwUt
Mxhtfnll nml Xlghl."
hf Graham Hill.
Xlarxnrol Itnlo who ha, hmn int'llnx
woman with John Iirow. I, tho h-a.llntr
t.o. to u ti ,- ra no, now plor. "Tho
jtut pruduovj tu New
Cotton Boll Woovil.
SpocinI to The (ioorplan.
Hnddock, Go., Sept. 4.—Information
received through farmers in thin vtcln.
Ity Indicate that the recent rains hav,
.done great damage to the cotton crop,
until the rains set In the prospects for
ft good yield were never brighter, but
the Ind I rat I on., are now that not mors
than 00 per cent of an average crop
will be made. The boll worms are
prevalent and are doing much damage,
only a few bales have been marketed.
Mail Carrisrs Enjoy Barbecue.
Special to The Georgian.
Amerlcus, Ga„ Bept. 4.—Rural mall
carriers from the fourteen-counties of
the Third congressional district as
sembled In convention In Anterlcu,
yesterday afternoon with a large at
tendance. The carriers were welcomed
by Colonel Z. S. Childers and Colonel
Allen Korf In appropriate addresses.
The visitors were entertained at a
barbecue dinner and adjourned to meet
In Ellaville on Thanksgiving day-
8tore Is Burglarized.
Special to The Goorghin. .
Amerlcus, Ga., Sept. 4.—The stor,
of Cobb & Montgomery, at Preston,
was burglarized a few nights ago, th,
safe opened and nearly 3409 In cash
carried uway. They effected an
trance to ,tlie safe without using ex-
plosives.
Crusade Against Vagrants.
Special to The Georgian.
Macon, Ga., Sept. 4.—As ths re«ult
a 'inlet crusade against vagrant,
and Idlers by city and County officers,
Mnron Is almost rid of the criminal
rises of negroes. Many charges have
been preferred In a quiet manner dur
lng the past week, and convictions re
sulted.
No 8estion of Counoll.
Special to The Georgian.
Macon. Ga., Sept. 4.—There will b«
no session of the Macon city council
tonight on account of the sessions of
the state Democratic convention.
Macon Prisoners Removed.
Special to The Georgian.
Macon, Ga., Sept. 4.—Albert Wilson
and Henry McGill, held In connection
tvlth the killing of John Newsome, on
Bridge row, last week, were removed
from tho city prison to the county Jet
yesterday. They did not get a trial
In the recorder's court, the cases hav
ing gone over till September 15.
Mtcon Court Conventa.
Sptu'ln! to The Georgian.
Mnron, Ga., Sept. 4.—The September
term of the city court of Macon opened
yesterday. Before the hour for ad
journment for the holiday celebration
many cases had been cleared from tbs
docket.
Died During Night
Special to Tbe Georgian.
Conyers, Ga., Sept. 4.—Last Friday
night Squire William W. Swann re
tired In Ills usual health, and «»•
found dead In his bed next morning
The .deceased was a prominent clil»*«
of Rockdale county, and held the offlrt
of district magistrate for not less this
thirty consecutive years.
New Pastor Preached.
tqierlnl to The Georgian.
Hawklnsvllle, Ga., Sept. 4—Rev. C
L. Greaves, the new pastor of the Bap
tist church, preached Sunday mornln*
and erenlng to large and attend'*
congregations.
“AND ONE CLEAR CALL FOR ME*
My ooul lx slipping Its Smith tonlzhr
(They mill My I mobly dim1){
Rut you flonttHl ndimn the moon pot*
white.— * . „ fhi
Down the rienr moon-path, where tut
n**n It wide: . . ...
You were veiled In diaphanous t$Ir
And called me to your ride.
I 1M«I thought yon lout In • formic** mi*
8lnce the rlar entombed your ,
So I onlv tiutut to your yrnve. nkd
The violet* that fluahetl It with mu*
thyxt, . .
And kept with my *rief alone a trj»L
Above your wnxeu fhee.
O love that I mourned so long and der*
While you dreamed In Hindis*. .
You hnve nuked at last from yonr
WlthT’bloomy dawn In yonr rn.liaa*
And tonight a tryst with my J«r- I
On the moon-path to the »kt«*#-
nd men
Thus to atlll ... r -
'They know not I waited so long.
For the nuwitt pnih to sliver the
That I caught the breath of a xerapu
Tonight; snd ^o&J^jftaANU