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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, TnrRSDAY. OCTOBER 11, lfW. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES - F.L. SEELY - Editor. President. rutUSHtO IVtIY AfTttMOM (Except Sunder) By THE GEORGIAN CO., it 25 W. Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. susscsimos satis. One Year $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By carrier, per week.. I Oc Return) at the Atlanta Postofrice at second- claaa matt matter. Telephone* eonneetloe all departments. Lon* dlttanre terminals SMITH & THOMPSON, Advertising Representatives for all territory ontside of Georgia. Chicago office mincNR nt'lLDINO NEW YORK OFFICE POTTER BUILDING It yon hare any trouble getting THE GEORGIAN, telephone the circulation Department, and bare It promptly remedied Telephone!: Jlell 43:7 Main. Atlanta 4491. It la dealrahie that all eommnnleatlona Intended fnr puhUeation In THE GEORGIAN tie limited to 4.10 irorde tn length. It la im- pent tire that they tie algned. at an erldence of gondtalth.thomn Ihe namea will lie withheld If requested. Selected JBkniieeTIpte will not tie returned unless atampa ore sent for the purpoee. The Georgian prints no unclesn or objectionable ad vertising. Neither does it print whisky or sny liquor advertisements. The “Independents” Mean Partisanship. The New York Independent prints with Its editorial Indorsement an anonymous communication dealing with the Atlanta riot with the statement from The Independent that It was written by one of the best educated of Georgia negroes "whose name. If It was safe to print, would have carried confldence to all Its readers." With regard to the educated negro who wrote it. The Georgian from an absolute knowledge of the situation denounces the statement to be a mass of tales, and regards the attitude of The Independent in printing it as a wan ton and unprovoked expression of Injustice to the South. The article beaded “The Atlanta Massacre” is one cow secutlve string of falsehoods from beginning to end. Lie number one Is tbe statement that the Atlanta mob grew out of the campaign of Hoke Smith for governor and from the comments of The Atlanta Journal during that canvass. Lie number two Is In the statement that The Georgiaji issued flaming extras during the period of the riot. Any educated negro who lives In Atlanta or anywhere else will testify that The Georgian issued no extras, neither on the evening of the riot nor on the suc ceeding days of Its continuance. Lie number three la In the statement that the business prosperity of certain ne groes In Atlanta was an Inducement on the part of white men to attack them. Lie number four Is the compre hensive lie In which the whole progress of the mob Is misstated and In which are given Incidents of brutality and horrors which no man ever saw and which never oc curred In Atlanta. The independent poses as an honest and Independent newspaper. It has had facilities for being both honest and Independent It has upon Its staff an eminent Georgia woman who knows the truth of the Southern situation and who has doubtless told It to the other members of the staff. But The Independent has printed at yet, not a single paragraph stating the condition* surrounding the mob and the awful provocation which produced It, al though that statement was at band on Monday morning, September 24. It promptly and cheerfully lends Its pseudo independent columns to the diatribe of a negro who mis represents from flrst to last In his statement of the con ditions preceding the mob and of the Incidents which characterized It. The Independent Is not Independent. It la malignant, narrow, partisan and prejudiced to the last degree. It seeks the negro side of the question while it studiously avoids the open statement of the white man's aide. The Indei>endent Is a negrophlllst without reason, and with- out limit. The kind of Independence which It pro fesses and presents Is not that of a free, broad Amofl. can citizen, but that of a narrow New England fanatlo which every Bouthern subscriber ought to resent Ridgway’s. The notable literary event of the last week In the- South Is the appearance of Rldgway's Magaatne. This magazine was Issued from Atlanta as one of the fourteen cities In which It makes Its simultaneous ap pearance. The Atlanta branch la under charge of Mr. Jos: Ohl, who was for so many years the able and popular Washington correspondent of The Atlanta Con atltutlon. And this connection assures for the Atlanta branch an able and capable treatment, and the Instant affiliation of a multitude of friends. Rldgway's first*ep- pearance makes an admirable Impression upon the mind and eye qf the South. Both Ip the excellence of its read ing matter carefully 'selected, and In the abundance and caliber of Its art editions. It Is a very striking and effective publication and will doubtless grow rapidly tn the appreciation and patronage of the people of Geor- gl». The Georgian cordially wishes It success In this Held of activity and predicts that this will be speedily won. The Monopoly Getting Scared. If anyone doubu the effect that the crusade for municipal ownership Is having upon the monopolies of Atlanta and of Georgia, he has only to watch the malls. Uncle Sam's pouches are pretty welt tilled every day with the multitude of doctrines which are coming to the city both from local mailing places and from outside mailing places containing literature carefully selected to antagonise tbe theory of municipal ownership. Not a day passes but some pamphlet or booklet or report bearing tbe earmarks of the monopoly comes Into tbe malls of hundreds and thousands # of Individuals throughout the city, and ;>erhaVs throughout the elate. It Is Just as well for the people to be on guard against these statements which are so carefully edited by the •gents of opposition. They are very specious In their pleas, and are apparently very well founded In their origin, but with most of them It will be found that they are the extraordinary statements of Interested wit nesses, and that they contain largely captious objections and factional reports of experiments which have had the slightest complication. We are quite confident that the jjeople of Atlanta are too well balanced In judgment and too well settled In their convictions to be unbalanced or •hanged by these wordy demonstrations. * Very clever suggestion. Mayor Dunne, of Chicago, to advise Sir Thomas Llpton If he couldn't “lift a cup" In American waters to "lift an American bride In American society.” And the same la to the credit of your honor and speaks well for the lady mayoress and the twenty little Dunnes who have come In season, and are always recog nized. Sir Thomas would be quite welcome as a sou-ln-law of the republic The Governor-Elect Makes Good. When a great people tn a distinct emergency elect from their number a strong man to be their loader and executive, they expect of him leadership and direction— not timidity and time-serving. And to thtg standard of expectation, Hoke Smith, governor-elect of Georgia, rose on Wednesday at La- Grange. There Is all too much of timidity, hesitation and cow ardice In the atmosphere of Georgia since tbe Atlanta riot. Apology, explanation and protest have ruled tbe hour, and In the wake of the priest or the tradesman, the voices of tbe people anti of tbe press have been. In the main, timorous, Indefinite and altogether lacking in that strong and aggressive comprehension which shapes public events Into future policies, and dominates crises In the real and durable Interests of civilization. There is no cowardly and Indefinite note In Hoke Smith’s utterance at LaGrange. He was elected In the majesty of magnificent numbers upon a definite platform of white supremacy, and he has not forgotten the Is sue and the people who answered -It in the splendid emphasis of the August primaries. Steadily and fearlessly the next governor of Georgia' lays dowu the doctrine that these two opposite, an tagonistic and unequal races cannot and must not be treated as equal under the laws of Georgia. Without a moment's hesitation the strong nan of August 22 declares that the white man must accept the full responsibility and control of the situation, and that the legislation and Its execution which Is to remedy the appalling evils of the present must be wrought out un der the doctrine of the white man's eternal superiority and supremacy which Is not Inconsistent with the black man’s safety and'protectlon under-the law. It Is significant beyond measure that the man Just elected governor of Georgia by the greatest majority In Its history, declares - his belief that the races may eventually separate, and that the policy of the Caucasian must be founded upon tbe wisest and safest control of the negro while he la a part of our system of govern ment. "The fourteenth amendment,” declares Mr. Smith, ‘hinders the most Intelligent mode of handling the subject,” and he Intimates that the time will come when the national government must legislate for tbe negro as It has long been accustomed to legislate for the Indian. The governor-elect devotes much time to the dis cussion of the criminal negro, the Idle, loafing negro, and the vagrant, and the methods of keeping them under rigid control. He stresses the necessity of teaching the negro In the public schools more of character, Industry and responsibility than of the contents or books, and he emphasizes with all his great natural force the important fact that the Industrious and law-abiding negro can only escape responsibility for the crimes of his race when he contributes all his energies and all his honesty to prevent those crimes and to deliver the criminals of his race to Justice- To this sound, and cantjld expression Mr. Smith adds the assurance that the white man must and will protect tbe Industrious and law-abiding negro and help him in every possible wsy. It Is refreshing and Inspiring to the philosopher of events, to find In tbe first utterance of the next governor of Georgia an utter absence of those empty platitudes of maudlin regret which haYe been all too common In the atmosphere of recent discussion, and a bold and vigorous expression of a mind and spirit which grasps firmly the nettle of our preeent danger and proposes to advocate and to execute the racial policies upon which the will and the wish of the people has been so magnifi cently expressed In the last state election. Timidity and the commercial spirit are the debilitat ing influences which hamper the firm and permanent so lution of the pressing problems of our time. There was never a Crists In which both courage and commerce were not called u|>on for tribute and sacrifice and lu this groat question which Involves the Integrity of race, the unity of the republic, and the sanctity of our noble women. It Is a matter of rejoicing that at the helm of stato we have n brave, firm hand that will be always duly regardful, but never slavish and subordinate to the whine of the dollar or the solflshness of trade. The governor-elect has made good In his flrst ut terance In Georgia, and we congratulate both him and ourselves U|>on the courage of his views and the tnsplr- OUR PLATFORM---The Georgian stands for Atlanta's Owning its own gas and elec tric light plants, as it now owns its Water works. Other cities do this and get gas as low as 60 cents, with a profit to tbe city. This should be done at once. The Georgian believes that if street rail ways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are, there is no good reason why they can not be so operated here. But we do not believe this can be done now, and it may be some years be fore We are ready for so big an undertaking. Still Atlanta should set its face in that direction NOW I GOSSIP RACE RIOT8 AND THEIR REMEDY, lug candor of their impression. Max Barber and His Lie. We are Indebted to a Chicago paper for the In formation that J. Max Barber has shaken the dust of Atlanta from his feet and that the Voice of the Negro will henceforth be published In the city of wind. Chicago Is welcome to Max. Ho Is the negro who wrote tbe anonymous letter to the Now York World In which he flrst Inaugurated that Infamous falsehood that the outrages uppn white women which provoked tbe mob were all committed by white men with burnt cork on their faces. Dozens of the news papers have wantonly paraded this shameful lie on the llpe of other Irresponsible negroes and It has gone broadcast through the region of prejudice to do Its damnable work. MR. FREDERICK WARDE.—The Atlanta Lyce um put Us best foot foremost oil its opening night In presenting to the Atlanta public Mr. Frederick Warde to lecture upon Shakespeare and his plays. Mr. Warde has for many years past been recog nized as the leading actor of the legitimate upon the American stage. His long experience, diligent study, and magnificent equipment In temperament and personality have made hint the most powerful and popular Interpreter of the Shakespearean drama of our country. His lecture Wednesday night drew, as it certain* ly ought to have drawn, a representative audience of the culture and taste of Atlanta. And It does not need to be said that to those who heard him. Ihe recompense was rich Indeed In pleasure and In profit to every member of the lyceum and to every visitor to Its opening entertainment. Tbe character of the lyccum is constantly advanc ing, and as the taste of the people becomes more and more educated to the higher things, the lower forms , of platform entertainment will give way to the bet ter and higher expressions which carry dignity and educational profit along with pleaaaut- entertain ment. To the Editor of The Georgian; In the prelude to the night sermon at the Second Baptist church of Chicago last Sunday, Pastor John Roach Stra- ton discussed the subject of "Race Riots and Tholr Remedy." He said In the beginning that his long residence In the south, and especially in Atlanta, Ga., where the riots of the past week occurred, had given him opportunity for careful observation of the situation between the races. He said that every consideration of honor and honesty required that we treat the negroes with fairness and Justice. They are not here through their own choice, hut as tbe result of the greed and Inhumanity of our forefathers, and It Is Incumbent upon us, therefore, to give them a square deal. “But,” said the minister, “we must not forget also to be Just to our own people end to our white brethren In the south. It the north could fully understand tha burden that the south Is bearing, there would be only a feel ing of profoundest sympathy for the section. If we could Imagine In Illi nois, In Chicago, such conditions as exist In the south, wc would be slow to judge our southern brethren hastily or harshly. Tile Increase of the un speakable crime of the negro man since the civil war la one of the most appalling facts in our national history, and It haa brought about In the south a condition that has never before been confronted by any civilization. Over every home In the southland the shad ow of on awful, haunting dread con stantly hangs. I received in yesterday's mall a letter from a dear friend—the father of a family, In which he told me that he had decided to give up a trip hway from home that he had planned, because, as he said, “The bad negro has become such a menace that I do not dare leave my w|fe and daughter at home alone.” Hon. John Temple Graves, editor of The Atlanta Georgian, told me personally during his recent visit to Chicago that he lived In constant dread because of the unfortunate situation. His home la at College Park, a suburb nine miles from Atlanta, and he declared to me that he never turned his face home ward In the evening from the duties of the city without feeling an Inde scribable apprehension that something might be wrong In the home; and If that Is the case In the cities, you can Imagine what the feeling must be in the sparsely settled country dletrlcte, where the blacks often outnumber the whites ten to one. Think of the far mer, who has to leave his home and go, sometimes three or four miles away to plow his distant field, leaving his wife at home alone to prepare his din ner! Think of the unspeakable and horrible fear that hangs constantly over them both. “The burning of the negro, Sam Hose, near Newnan, Ga., a few years ago. was one of the most disgraceful and distressing events In the history of our country, and It deserved. the de nunciation that was given It by the northern press; and, yet, the other side of the awful tragedy should have been even more heartily denounced than the crime which avenged It. Sam Hose was a trusted farm hand. He had been kindly treated by every mem ber of the family, which ho later de stroyed. One night the family were seated at the supper table—the father, his wife and the baby, when, suddenly, without a moment's warning, the door was opened In the rear of the father’s chair, and the negro, Sain Hose, stepped Into the room, and sank an ax blade Into the skull of the husband nnd father, and then slapped the baby frrtm Its high clmlr and Into Insensi bility, and kept the wife nnd mother a prisoner for hours In the very room where her dead husband was weltering In his blood nnd bruin. Can It bo much wondered that the neighbors of that highly respected and beloved fam ily should have come together nnd hunted down that man- very much us th«y would have tainted a wild beast of the Jungle? "And take the situation which called forth the riots In Atlanta. For weeks there had been assault after assault right there In that great city, until the tonslon between the races had be come Intense. On Saturday, preceding the outbreak on Sunday, there were four outrages perpetrated on white ladles by negroes. They kept coming one after the other from different parts •of the city, and the news fired- the citizenship more and more. Now, At lanta has a population of only a hun dred thousand people. If we had had in Chicago a proportionate number of assaults, thore would have boon eighty of them in the one'day. Can you im aglnc what your feeling would hnv been, nnd what the feeling of this en tire community would have been, If there had been eighty assaults white ladles and children by negro men within our city during one nfter- noon nnd night? Would we not have witnessed here, as we witnessed a Springfield, Ohio, even more disgrace ful scenes than those wrhleh occurred In the southern city? “This It said not to justify nor to excuse the awful Iniquity of racial prejudice and lynching. Lynch law means the ruin of civilisation. It Is unspeakable folly, because It does not check these crimes, but rauses more of them through the sensatlonnl dis cussions which the riots call forth. Unless we can protect our civilization by law, then anarchy alone awaits us, and we ought tn all sections of our country, north and south, to realize this, and re-ostnbllsh the reign of law. And the people of the north need to exercise pntlenco and charity toward their brethren In the south, because the burden that the south Is bearing is u grievous burden. "But one of the saddest parts of the whole situation Itv regard to these ra cial outbreaks Is that the Innocent arc made to suffer as well as the guilty. The outbreaks ngnlnst the negro In Springfield. Ohio, and In New York. an>I In Leavenworth, Kan., and In Terre Haute and Evansville, Ind.. as well as throughout the south, have demonstrated that racial prejudice Is on the Increase Instead of decrease. Nooks and Comers of American History By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. Some Pennsylvania Land Dealt. Against William Penn there are very few black mnrks, but the same can not be said of his sons, especially of his son Thotnas. Memorably- among the real estate transactions of Thomas Penn Is that known as “The Walking Purchase," of the year 1737. Penn claimed that a deed had been given to his fpther by the Indians for a tract of land a certain distance back from the Delaware, and. parallel to It. as far as a man could- walk In a day and a half. I When It came to confirming this al leged deed Thomas resorted to the tac tics which were worthy of Jacob of old. He hired the fleetest-footed woodsmen he could find, and In addition had the ground surveyed, the trees marked and a party of horsemen to speed the walk ers in every way that was possible. The Indiana sent a party of their braves along to look after their in terests, but they soon gave up the Job. claiming that the walkers were run ning rather than walking. When the day and a half were up the walkers were 30 mllea beyond the Lehigh river. Not only so. The line. Instead of be- Infr drawn from the end of the walk directly to the Delaware, as It ought to have been, was slanted upward for a long distance, so as to Include the en tire Mlnlalnk country, the most de slrable part of the province. Very naturally the defrauded Dela wares were decidedly reluctant about leaving their beautiful Mlnlelnk hunt ing grounds, and then It was that Thomas resorted to more tactics. Be ing unable of himself to oust the Del awares from thi coveted territory, Penn sent an agent with fine presents to the dreaded Iroquois, with the re quest that they use their Influence li the case. The Iroquois took the hint and sent the Delawares the following message; “You know that you are women. Return to where you came from." The fear of their overlords was effective, and the Delawares moved further west, leaving the valuable re gion In the hands of Penn. In 1764 Penn consummated another of hls shady land deals. By deceiving the Indiana with com- pass courses which they did not un derstand, and by tricking them Into granting a deed with the signatures of the tribes residing within the region, the unworthy scion of the good Wil liam acquired u territory west of the Susquehanna of some seven millions of acres—an area equal to' the state of Maryland—for 750 pounds! In other words, the price that the poor red men received for their land was the thirty-ninth of a penny an acre! And Thomas Penn wag a Christian— and the Indians were "benighted heath en,” Ignorant of the "will of God” and the "law of Christ!" Says the author of "The Thirteen Colonies:" "When the Indiana learned of this grant and were told that they must fall back among the stranger tribes to the westward, they went over In a body to the French, and were soon shooting down tho British regulara^and tearing scalps from the heads of worn en and children In Pennsylvania.” And tho "Christians" threw up their hands In holy horror to think of the atrocities of the "red devils! ' THINK8 WHISKY THE CAU8E To the Editor of The Georgian: I hove read In the columns of your paper various opinions as to, ihe causes tint led t-i ihe ii-.t, and I must say that the Rev. Sam Jones Is tho only one who has “hit tho spot." You can trace the enuse of the re cent riots to Its last analysis nnd you will find that It Is whisky. You may call It mean whisky, Decatur street whisky, but take the beat of It on De catur street, and It will have tha same effect Whisky In the hands of a negro brute makes him ft demon that knows no law and fears no punishment* To gratify hie momentary desires is hls ony aim. Fire Is added to hls animal desires and a rape Is the consequence. Whisky In the hands of a white man makea him lawless, shameless, heartless and without regard even for hls -.ivii flesh and blood. The murderer, the gambler, the defaulter comes from this class. This same whisky that caused the rape caused tho lawless white clement to shed Innocent blood, disgrace our city and cast a shadow upon Southern manhood. Our country friends have long since discovered that to protect their wo men they must get rid of whisky, for a mean negro follows the whisky. At lanta has monopolized the whisky busi ness and has drawn the vicious negroes from ell parts of the state, for they have not adapted themselves to the "mall order system." Our poor, helpless women and chil drop suffer enough from starvation and brutal treatment from drunken white men without heaping upon their de fenseless heads the negro rapist. If Southern men could feel that whisky was an army, that made such havoc of homes, fortunes, lives; that murdered tho Innocent, starved the helpless and raped our womon, thoy would shed the last drop of blood they possessed to dethrone It. Whisky Is an army. If they could but realize It—an army generaled by whisky dealers, with landlords, politicians and newspapers as lieutenants. I will not attempt to desrribo the rank and file of this army, that marches heedlessly over women and children, that leaves blood tears and new made graves In Its wake. We have grown callous over tho sit uation. We have been "doped" by the politicians, and some of the newspa pers. Thank God for The Georgian with Its clean sheets and Its brave editor and proprietor, who have nerve enough to turn down whisky we nds If you want to know the cause of rape and riots, "ask the revenue of ficer." GEORGE J. CARPENTER. VALUE OF PROVINO THE FACTS. THE VALUE OF THAT LETTER. To the Editor of The Georgian: Dear Sir—Having read with deep Interest and full approbation your pow erful and eloquent letter to The New York World, I forwarded The Oeorglan to The Portland Oregonian, with the comment that It voiced my own senti ments and expressed, as I believe, the feelings of every decent white man in Christendom. The Oregonian, which Is by all odds the greatest newspaper In the West, has not always been the moat chari table critic of the South In Its discus sions of the race question. But you can see that the letter In The World had its Impression. It elicited the en closed editorial leader, which nearly fair as Northern papers evor get to Southern problems. I confess myself, with The Oregon Ian, that the way by which the races are to be separated Is not clear to me. But whether ' you are still problem However, the people of the South owe the editor of The Georgian a pro found debt of gratitude for the Influ ence that he has, by voice and pen, exerted on tho Northern mind, respect ing the real situation In the South. My heartiest good wishes to Tho Georgian, which, In my humble judg ment, has no superior In the newspaper world—nnd few equals. It Is an (deal newspaper. In depth and versatility of thought, In brendth and charity of vision, In profundity of philosophy and statesmanship and In eloquence, virility and beauty of expression. Sincerely yours, ROBERT .MONTGOMERY. Puyallup. Washington State. Oct. 4. Dogs for Motor Cars. From The London Standard. The cult of pet dogs has led In Paris to perhaps more crazes and fads than anywhere else, 1 am told that for the moment, however, the attention of fad dists Is diverted from useless, if pretty balls of puff to training larger dogs for motor cars The motor car dog Is trained to guard tho ear when the owner leaves It tem- pormrily by the roadside; but, incident- alls - . It Is necessary to have a dog which takes kindly to high speeds, and also to the clothing which Is necessary to keep him warm In winter, and tn the spectacles for hls eyes. According to The Figaro, the bouledoguc Is no good, because he hates motor ears, while the fox terrier Is bound to be too nervous. So far. the best dogs have proved to be the Scotch aheap dog, the collie, and, above all. the poodles, which, as soon , . . ,„T, v »* they see a ear. are said to jump Into and It bodes no good for our country. ,| u> an j , u bmit to tha goatskin There la a need of Christian sympathy and co-operation on the part of all the people front all sections of our country, that a more Christian spirit may come to prevail In our dealings with this nnd with all of our other problems. Chris tianity. at last. Is the only hope for (lettering present conditions between the races, nml for tho safeguarding of the future. The mean white man and the bad negro can never solve this problem. But a Christian spirit, ever growing and deepening within the ranks of both races, will bring about a better state of afTalrs.” CITIZEN. eat and submit to the goatskin anu me spectacles with every appear ance of pleasure. Army Hss New Officers. Special services will be held at the Salvation Army hall on Marietta street Thursday evening to welcome Adju tant and Mrs. Jackson, who have ar rived from Knoxville, Tenn., to take the places of Ensign ami Mrs. Boucher, who have been transferred to New Orleans. Adjutant Wldgery. secretary to Major Berriman, will Introduce the new officers. To the Editor of The Georgian: Amidst all the discussions, reports, recommendations, demonstrations, commands and requests about the re cent race riot In the new capital of the South, the most sensible thing I have rend or heard Is your editorial of the 24th, "For Information of the Outside World.” Mayor Woodward’s "Appeal for' the Reign of the Law" came too late. The law had been broken. If the law bad been reigning those Decatur street dives would hare been clqeed before Saturday night. If the law had been reigning those eleven assaults would never have been committed or at tempted. Our system of- laws Is defective at some points. Where I do nOt know*. And their execution Is entirely too slack, and Is fast becoming to be re garded as a farce. Why I do not know. The comical nation of the rioting and lawlessness-’by the citizens, and espe cially the ministers of Atlanta, was tlmo and breath wasted. It did not help the situation. 1 do not believe In unjustly crltl cislng anybody, and I most especially do not wish to lay my hand or voice upon one of our ininletera In a way to hurt or harm, but Dr. Jones struck a responsive chord In my heart In hls talk upon why tbe ministry was fall ing off when he said: “This nge of commercialism had rather a minister would wobble In hls doctrine than hls etiquette," The class of citizens who Cause and compose these riots need the gospel. There Is nothing else that nil] take its place. When our Master was upon this earth He mixed and mingled with and preached to the rabble; the outcasts were received by Him. I fear tho church today Is drifting too close toward the Pharisaical Idea of the old Jewish church. It Is not the whole who need a physician, but the sick. When a man has lost hls reason for the moment and Is guided only by the Impulse of revenge, the cry to sup press, disperse, dlsarui.'etc., falls upon deaf ears. There Is only one thing that can avail then, and that Is an opposing force of more men and guns. The sympathy tendered the Innocent sufferers is time ly, but does no more good than sym pathy at any other time. Whenever any wrong Is committed Innocent peo ple always suffer when Ihe guilty are punished. But your article, referred to above, gives an explanation of the cause of this riot (which can not be Justified either legally or morally). It tells ex actly why nnd how It happened, tt gives a remedy—separate the races. It appeals for help; will It be given us? If so, we can separate peacefully and orderly. For the present, as well as the fu ture, let this he a warning not only to the negroes of Atlanta, but of the en tire South, that so long as we remain together white people are going to rule, and are going to remain their supe riors. Let It also be an Incentive to them to do everything In their power to prevent the crime which causes riot ing. LEMUEL D. KING. Covington, Ga., 8ept. 24, 1906. By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. New York, Oct 11.—Another Inter, national marriage has gone wrong After a brief marital experience the : pretty love romance of Mr. and Mra ! George A. Schroter. of New York I Greece and Mexico, has come to as end. and It was learned today thx| tho couple have parted. Tho wife has taken apartments in the Manhattan, while the husband has gone to Hex leo. ‘ Mrs. Schroter, before her marriage was the Countess De Lilly, of Athena Greece,' granddaughter of General Uoloc Dronls, leader in the Hellenic light for Independence In 1823, and sister of a present aide de camp to King George. Mr. Schroter Is well known in mining circles. Ho Is chlel engineer for the Venture Mining Cor. poration of London, and the 8tratto8 Independence mine. He has large bus. Incss Interests In Mexico. It wn* In Mexico nearly a year ago that ho met the countess, who was traveling. They foil In love and, aftot an arduous wooing, became engaged. They were married July 2 by Rev. Dr. Oeorge Nixon In the presence of many friends, and later thore was anothei service ceremony In the Greek church In Manhattan. Strange things happen In New J«r. sey. Rev. John L. Scudder, of Jersey City, was holding a temperance meet ing'In hls church, the First Congrega tional. The "demon rum" was getting nil that was coming to him, when Randolph DeutI, a saloon keeper, ask ed for the privilege of the floor, which was granted to him. Among other things, Mr. DeutI said: "The spirit of Intolerance has brought no good to any cause, and no church should try to wipe out a legal ized business. In Germany, where I was born, there Is no liquor question. "You cannot keep men from drink ing. The thing to do Is to better the conditions under which liquor Is sold. The church must teach men not to drink to excess. The church must preach against the treating habit, which Is an evil one. 'Saloon keepers should not sell to any man who Is Intoxicated.” There was a good deal more In the same vein. When Det|jl sat down he was applauded vigorously, which is not the least strange part of the pro ceeding. ’ The wedding of Miss Elsie Marion Farrell, of Antonio, Conn., worth 42,- 000,000 In her own right and heiress to 96,000,000, and George H. Goss, of Wa- terbury, lias given society folk some thing to talk about. About eighteen months ago. Miss Farrell broke an en gagement to marry David Huyier Gaines, nephew of David Hoyler, the New York candy man, because he ducked her and her mother after shoot ing the chutes. She also shoPed her' independence several years ago by working a* a stenographer for 915 a week- ■ Goss waa formerly a member of the Yale football team, and was .a class mate of Gaines. The latter was se cretly married to Miss Florence Steu- ber, an Erie, Pa., heiress In New York, last June. Norfolk, Conn., le mourning the lose of the "village cut up.” Ho le P. R. Haycock, who has come to New York chauffeur for C. E. Bigelow. Hay cock, before leaving Norfolk, distrib uted this card among hls lady friends:, P. R. Haycock. Cable address, "I Got a Feeling For You." Hold ing hands a specialty, wholesale and retail dealer In love, kisses and up-to-date hugs. I have no solicitors, persons claiming to be are fakirs. A trial Is all I ask. Sole proprietor 6f 1/iveFs Leno. Special attention to other people's gtrls." Said one Norfolk girl today: "II Is Indeed to be regretted that such a man la to leavo Norfolk, but our loss will be New’ York's gain.” Former Alderman Thomas Clrary, the Equitable Life Assurance Society's 9t6,000-a-yesr janitor. Is dead at hi» home In Bath Beach of Bright’s dis ease. Clary represented the flrst as sembly district In the board of alder men and was a former chief of the volunteer fire department. During the Insurance Investigation last year It was brought out that Clear}-, as lanltor, was paid 926,000 s year, more than luQf the salary of the president of the United States, nml that he lived rent free ,ln apartments on Broad atreet owned by the Equita ble. It was while holding the place as janitor that Cleary was elected to the famous "boodle hoard of aldermen." He served for several years nnd finally was Indicted for bribery. The Indict ment, however, was dismissed on the plea of the district attorney that the prosecution of Clear}' was well-nigh Impossible became of difficulty of pro curing sufficient evidence. Anti-Phonetic, From an Exchangr. President Eliot, of Harvard. Is no be liever In the Roosevelt spelling reform. Once there was a student who was a candidate for the degree of doctor of philosophy. This man adopted spell ing reform as hls particular line of work, and as commencement day drew near he went to Preeldent Eliot with i request. "You know. Mr. President.' he said, “that yon are proposing to make me n Plt.D. Now, f have made a specialty of spelling reform and I al ways spell philosophy with an f. I therefore called to esk you If you could not make my degree F.D. Instead of Ph. D7" "Certainly, my dear sir," re plied the president of Harvard. "In fact. If you Insist we shall make It a GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM New York, Oct. II.—Here are some of the visitors in New York today: ATLANTA—A. C. Holdt. E. K. Barnes. . IN PARIS. Paris, Oct. 11.—Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Haas, of Atlanta, Ga., registered at the office of the European edition of The Herald today. THIS DATE IN HISTORY- OCTOBER 11, iFi—Battle of Vigo. • 1797—Unttle of Cpiuperdown. ^ 1961—Confederate steamer Theodore escapes frotu charleston. S. C.. with Ms**" „ sad HIl,fell on board. 1972—Kt-kcnstor Pomeroy .shot by ex < - o- _ gressmsn Conway, in Wsefunzt"" , 1911—I’efilament biilhllug In Quebec n; ’ Cl r, y dynamite. 1994—IVIju enptntml by Ike Japanese, tana-Transvaal wsz began. t!*J4—I'titte,! Ktntes battle skip Ultln-ked at tilth. ,rfle