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HHgngHH THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. i..i|i^i J fli.uuPUiini mwwmm The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rites: Onc.Ycsr $4.50 Six Months ....... 2.50 Three Months ..... 1.25 •"If Csyyier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. it 25 V. Alibima Street, Atlsnts; Gi. 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. HHMMMHHHMlMIMMIMSMmiHHHMMMHtHMIMMItMMHHtttl 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! J 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 ‘ ’ 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 IN PARAGRAPHS oooeooooootwoooooopxrooooo 0 PLAY8 AND PLAYER8. O O O DO<H?aOOOOOOOOODOCKH>OOOOOaQ 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