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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1906.
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
F. L. SEELY
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The Armory-Auditorium and the Nation
al Democratic Convention.
The' deciding reason why Kansas City secured the
Democratic natlonaf convention of 1900 waa because
Kansas City had just erected the finest auditorium In the
West
With the advantages and claims of other cities In
fierce competition, and with the advocates of other cities
vying with eager eloquence before the committee, the
quesUon that turned the scale In favor of Kansas City
was the presence of a great commodious, well equipped
auditorium capable of seating 15,000 people with acoustics
In which any speaker of ordinary voice could be heard.
The Atlanta committee haa had placed In Its hands
tho model of the Kansas City auditorium, and one like
It or as near like It as may be possible ought to be built
In this dty at the earliest possible moment In order
that we may Invite here either the national convenUon of
1908 or at least the national convention of 1912.
When Atlanta builds It ought to build fur a great
and growing Atlanta. The halls and public buildings
erected In this city twenty years ago are totally Inad
equate to the demands of this splendid city of today.
And the public buildings erected now for the Atlanta
of 1905, It they should be built for our present status and
our present population, would be totally Inadequate for
the Atlanta of 1920, or even for the Atlanta of 1912.
It we do this thing at all we want to do It well, aud
In building our great armory and auditorium It ought to
be built for a city of 600,000 people, likely to entertain the
great conventions of the republic and-of the world.
Three things ought to be considered In building this
auditorium.
First, Its capacity, which should not be less than
10,000, and If possible should sent 15,000 people.
Second, Its acoustics, about which should be gathered
the highest expert knowledge and skill In the republic.
If we had a ball which aeated 20,000 people and acoustics
that made ft Impoaslble for only 1,200 of the audience
to hear, the hall would be a failure. W# are convinced
that more time should be expended and greater care ex
ercised looking to the acoustics of this great hall than al
most any other phase of Its construction.
Care should be taken also that Its entrances and
exits and Its seats should be so constructed as to make
the audience safe, and to keep them comfortable It they
are detained for one hour or for Avis.
We take It for granted that the argument Is ex
hausted and that every man, woman and child In Atlanta
knows that tt cannot do without the auditorium.
This Is one enterprise upon which we cannot afford
to fall. Atlanta.'after long deliberation. Indefinitely post
poned the exposition of 1910, and thero are enemies of At
lanta who will cavil at this postponement. Atlanta haa
now declared that her urgent and imperative need la for
an auditorium.
And If Atlanta permlta now this second great enter
prise to fall or fall there are those by the thousands both-
In and out of the state who will declare that the far-
famed Atlanta Spirit has decayed and that we are no
longer the militant and triumphant and all-conquerlog city
that we had plumed ourselves ‘c be.
it Is no longer a matter of question whether At
lanta can build the armory-audltorlum, for H has now
become established, In pride, In prestige, In policy and In
absolute necessity, that It shall be, and an absolute cer
tainty that It will be built.
The Great Farmers’ Union.
The Farmers' Union which holds the center of the
stage today, Is splendidly vindicating Itself In every added
year of Its useful and conservative life.
There are no pretenses and never a garish display
about the Farmers' Union. It Is made up of farmers,
managed by farmers and set to the prosperity of farmers
In every detail In which farmers live and labor and love.
Its judgments are unclouded by ambition, and Its
public announcements have neither selfishness nor dis
play. Every position that the Farmers' Union has taken
In relation to the cotton crop of the South has been vin
dicated In wisdom and discretion. National President
Charles 8. Barrett and State President R. F. Duckworth
have their minds and their energies concentrated and in
tent upon the Interests of the Individual and the aggre
gate farmer within the vast territory of their official
work. These men, capable, shrewd aud diligent them
selves, and ever on the alert for Information and counsel
that Is wise and prudent, are doing a work of essential
value for the agriculture of the country and of the several
states.
The magnificent numbers which compose the mem
bership of this union are a tribute to the drawing and the
holding power of Its splendid purpose, and It Is safe to
say that this Farmers' Union Is not only at this time
the most potential and effective Industrial organisa
tion of the republic, but that It la likely to be more and
asore In the future the most useful and effective agent
toward the prosperity and happiness of that vast and In
creasing army of cttlsens. who. keeping close to the soil,
keep also for that reason close to the country's vital In-
teiests, and to the honor and Integrity of the Amerlcau
Monopoly’s Silence About Jacksonville.
You—you who have been receiving from time to
time pamphlets and periodicals In your mall boxes, deal
Ing with the question of municipal ownership have
you ever yet received one that gave the history of Jack
sonville, Fla.?
-.And If not why not? Because Jacksonville Is one
of our nearest neighbors. It Is' one of the brilliantly
successful Illustrations of the value of municipal owner
ship, and for this reason the history of Jacksonville will
never come to you tbrougn the malls from the sources
that are sending out these pamphlets from three or four
cities and towns throughout the country In which bad
management and Insufficient equipment have made mu
nicipal ownership a questionable success!
Now Jacksonville Is very near at hand. It Is only a
night's ride from Atlanta. It Is a city of 40,000 Inhab
itants. It is Just now one of the brightest, most pro
gressive and most growing cities of the South. It Is up-
to-date In every particular and Is keeping alive and
abreast of the procession In every phase of Its municipal
life.
Where could you find a better illustration than
Jacksonville of the value of municipal ownership?
And this story we told In full In The Georgian of
Wednesday afternoon.
The figures at Jacksonville will bear repetition. Tho
net cost of Its lighting plant on January 1. 1902, was
$59,276.20 Including all moneys paid by the city to or
for the plnnt directly or Indirectly through the proceeds,
bonds, taxation or otherwise, with Interest at the rate
of 6 per cent added annually and deducting therefrom as
credits only those conceded to the plant for lights fur
nishing the city and not paid for, and also deducting the
cash turned over by the plant to the city.
Beginning with tbla net coat, the same definite
method of determining the net costs on the 31st of De
cember of 1904 showed that ths plant had paid for Itself
to the last dollarl
Jacksonville's public men are no more honest and
no more able than those of Atlanta.
What has been done In Jacktonvllle can be done
In Atlanta. The example of Jacksonville is' a conspic
uous Inspiration to Atlanta.
Ten years ago the citlxens of Jacksonville were pay-
Ing $15 per month for 2,000 nominal candle power open
arc lights and 28 cents per 1,000 watts for incandescent
lights. The city bought its electrio plant. It discharged
the monopoly, and though the monopoly, Just as some
monopolies nearer home, proceeded to show that the city
could not possibly furnish lights cheaper than the monop
oly was doing—In spite of this, the city Immediately re
duced open arc lights from $15 a month to $7.50 a
month and Incandescent lights from 28 to 7 cents per
1,000 watts.
And in answer to the doleful protest of the retiring
monopoly, this price so far from running the city Into
bankruptcy, paid for the entire plant within five years.
it any wise and eloquent local monopolist will point
oqt just why Atlanta cannot do exactly what Jackson
ville has done, we wilt receive the Information thank
fully.
Tho fact Is there appears to be a regularly organ-
ised buroau In Atlanta whose source, origin and finan
cial backing can Just as well be Imagined ns described,
which Is sending out every pamphlet into which a plau
sible. objection can be printed, and In which can be
exploited an occasional failure or bod management In
municipal ownership, and tt Is hoping with these to stem
tho splendid tide of municipal ownership sentiment that
Is Bowing over the South. ,
The monopolies will not be able to do It. Tho peo
ple of Atlanta will fight thla battle and win. We think
they are on Intelligent people. They read the newspa
pers both at home and abroad. It Is possible that they
ev£n road the patnphlots on municipal ownership sent out
by the lighting monopoly.
But It Is s great reflection upon thtlr Intelligence
not to know that they promptly recognize ths source
from which these pamphlets come, and that they have
long since bean Impressed with the smallness In num
bers, and the remoteness In distance, and the wide sep-
aratlon In Instances In which the municipal ownership
plan has not been a great and beneficent success.
And the people of Atlanta are going to take this
matter In hand, and they are going to vote municipal
ownerahlp In Atlanta's electric lights, and they are going
to do it at tho next election.
And they are going to save thousands and hundreds
of thousands of dollars to the city and to the citizens
by simply falling In line with the wise, practical and well
established movement that Is at this time taking hold of
the cities, and towns of America. ,
great faculty of great teachers who surround him, he
has worked for two years, am) Is working now In perfect
and beautiful harmony without friction, without Jealousy,
without any cross purposes, and Is proving every year
that thla great Institution'has tho solid merit which a
great educational Institution ought to possess.
Tho Georgian Is proud of this splendid school for
girls-at MilledgevJHe. It Is proud of Georgia for hav
ing provided shch an Institution for Its young women.
And It Is proud of the way In which the peopel display
their intelligence to know a great school when they see
it and to patronfzd it with vigor and with hearti
ness.
Georgia can do nothing better than to stand by Its
Institutions that have demonstrated their Immediate
worth In their admirable work. The state can have no
higher opportunity and responsibility than to hold up
the hands of an Institution like this. And, without dis
crimination against the other great schools sustained
by the state, all of which are growing and prospering, we
do not hesitate to say that with the single exception of
the Technological School in Atlanta, no educational In
terest fostered and sustained by the state Is yielding
better results and paying nobler dividends than the school
at Slilledgevllle.
The Circus—A Bridge of Dreams.
The circus has come to town once more and the
very atmosphere is vibrant with the joy of youth, and
of happy anticipation.' For weeks the city’s walls have
told In great red letters and in unspeakable posters, the
story of this approaching epoch In the history of this
Southern metropolis. The children have hoarded with
miserly care their pennies. looking eagerly for this
day of days, when the blare of trumpets, roll of drums,
the insistent whine of tho steam piano, the leisurely
trend of camels and elephants, the glitter of tawdry uni
form and the march of caravan proclaim that the serious
things of life are for the present superseded by a won
derland of delight. No thought of tomorrow and its Inev
itable penalties darken the day for the boys and girls
who will gather within the confines of the great circus
tents. They will leave outside the wldespreading can
vas the everyday world, with its duties and realities,
which already begin to press upon the borders of their
young lives.
Even foot ball and baseball have lost their charm
for the present; tops, marbles and all manner of sports
have become Irksome and unworthy of consideration
now that the clown Is king and the bareback riders,
charioteers and acrobats make another world for young
and eager eyes. The “Greatest Show on Earth" has
Its mission to perform, no matter how prate the Berlous-
minded men—laymen _ or otherwise—to the contrary.
It has lis lessons to teach, minus text or textbook. With
all Its many varying phases It fills a place In the affairs
of men unoccupied by any other enterprise or insUtu-
tlon.
The first helpful lessons In natural history are taught
the majority of children just outside the bars of the Iron
cages of the menagerie; the love of the beautiful In
many a young heart finds earliest realization In the glit
ter of gay costumes whoso pathetic tawdriness are-soft
ened by the glow of artificial lights. The restless, motley
crowds which In teeming thousands fill the tents create
a kinship, one for the other, in their oneness of human
Interest In the sights and sounds of a big clt-cus. Like a
bridge o’ dreams the circus connects youth and old age,
across which troup like specters the memories of other
days. The odor of the tanbark dispels for a moment
many a pitiful tragedy of mature life, and leaves the
dreamer but a boy .again, when the future held neither
shadows nor disappointments. The blare of band will
awaken memories of tenderer melodies which found
expression on the lips of hopeful youth, and even the
Jest of the clown will bring a glimpse of the grotesque
and humorous side of earlier years, when • the bur
dens of later times were stored away in tho folds, of
an unknown future. But the bright things of life always
fade away; only the darkness It ture to remain. The
fonts will be packed away In long modern trains to
gether with all the belongings, animate and Inanimate,
and the “Greatest Show on Earth” will Journey to oth
er cities and to other children, leaving only big, bare
rings to tell of the brilliant charm, of tinsel life—
which for two days made the young happy, beyond
compare, and the old, sweeter and brighter, because they
have traveled across the year's, over the bridge o' dreams,
into the days of youth, where the sun shone always, the
flowers bloomed forever and sorrow was unknown.
I GOSSIP
TOM WAT80N’S NEW PUBLICATION.—We are
pleased to indulge the prediction that the next lit
erary venture of Hon. Tomas E. Watson will be more
successful than the',last. — ■
Mr. Watson has definitely made up his ‘mind to
publish a monthly magazine either In Atlanta or In
Nashville. It will be called Watson's Monthly Jef
fersonian. The only doubt as to the location de
pends upon tho termB which can be secured from
the publishing houses of Atlanta and of Nashville.
Other things being equal, Mr. Watson will certain
ly decide in favor of Atlanta. The magazine will be
his personal property. There will be no corporations
to control, to hamper, or to destroy him. He will
own the magazine Individually and be personally re
sponsible for all of Its obligations.
Among his own people and as the manager of Jils
own affairs, giving them his personal attention and
his Individual care, Mr. Watson has never yet failed
to make a conspicuous success In the matter of
money and ropnte, and we congratulate both our
selves and hint upon Ills entrance Into the local field
of publication with n mission so definite and an
equipment so ample and so superb as bis.
SOUTH’S DEVELOPMENT
SHOWN BY BIG INCREASE
IN BREADSTUFF EXPORTS
Baltimore, Md., Oct. It.—Among the facts of steady Southern progress
noted in this week's Issue of.lThe Manufacturers' Record is the increase
In the value of brendstuffs exported from Southern ports. In compari
son with those exported from other ports of the country. During the
first nine months of the year, the value of exports of principal articles of
breadstuffs nt twenty-three of the lending ports of the country was
2130,407,719, an Increase over the same period last year of $43,401,454.
Of this Increaso more than 63 per cent was at six Southern ports, the
figures for Individual ports being as follows:
DISTRICTS.
Baltimore
Newport News
Norfolk and Portsmouth
Galveston
Mobile
New Orleans
Total
All ports t...
At the six Southern ports tho Increase In the value was- from $28,-
876,743 to $66,536,470. or by $27,658,727, equal to 95.7 per cent, while at
the 17 other leading ports the Increase was from $68,129,822 to $74,072,-
ZOO, or by $15,942,927, equal to 27.4 per cent.
This trend to Southern ports follows activity In railroad construction
toward them and the Improvement of terminal facilities. The application
by the Seuhoard Air Line railway for a franchise to enter Charleston,
S. C., suggests an Increase In that city's Importance as a port through
the construction of on extension 'from n point near Camden In the course
to Charleston, a distance of 105 miles. .
1903.
1906.
. $9,640,698
$18,623,400
. 3,506,343
7.523,346
600.075
2.387.075
. 3,308,359
11.139,664
. 2.234,482
2,1000,359
. 9,557,786
14,861,626
.$28,874.74$
$66,535,470
. 87,009,066
130,407,719
Georgia’s Great Girls’ School.
. The state of Georgia Is building up at Mtlledgevllle
one of the greatest schools for women to be found In
all the country. #
The Georgia Normal and Industrial Instltute’for girls
Is an Institution already to be proud of by every citizen
of Georgia, and It la growing better and larger and
more fruitful of good results every year.
One of the great advantages which the G. N. I. C.
has enjoyed Is In the fact that Ita affairs have been ad
ministered by an unselfish and harmonious board of
trustees. There has been no friction in this board. There
has been no politics In It at any time. No personal mo
tives have had a place In Ita deliberations, and for the
last five years st least, the one clear motive which bas
moved and dominated every action la the single Idea
of the beat Interests cf this great inatltutlon and the
beat and wisest way to attain them.
The Glrla’ Industrial Institute Is fortunate In having
a great president In the person of Prof. M. M. Parks. One
of the ways In which he bas demonstrated that he la a
great educator Is that he bas never been afraid to sur
round, himself with other strong men and other great
teachers. No foolish Jealousies and no cowardly appro-
henslon of being supplanted bas prevented President
Parks front surrounding himself with men as strong, as
vigorous and as well reputed as himself. And It Is one
of- the highest evidences of his wisdom that with this
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT'
IN THE SOUTHERN ST A TES
ninttiMiiMig.-i. Te®n.. Out. 19.—In Its re-
view of Southern Imluatrinl niorcuiciitR,
Tho Tradesman preaent* u record of ng
greaslvetiena for tlio |K>rloil of one tree!;.
From the state of Atnlmnm nre reported n
power uompniiy nml n foment tvork« will
rnpltiillxiitlon of 91,000,010 each, liealdoa sev
ernl other lintnMe new concern*. A 9210,000
lumiier company appear* lu the Hat from
Kentucky.
A isna rompnny cnpltnllxeil nt fl.KJ.OOO la
nmotiK the new Itniitatrie* reported from
Tennessee. Haw mill nml Inmtier compa
nies. Iron nml cool development concerns,
cotton mills nml Klim, arc reported In Inrgi*
nnmlMTs from the respective states. The
Tradesman's list for the week is ns fol
lows;
Alabama.
Phneall—9lttMft> Innil-er mill.
Hlnuingham—land company.
Annlaton—SkyrO lime works.
padevlllo-IJtf.OOb loud company.
ilnglnnd—4150,000 l»rl«*k aid tif*» works;
91,no0,0(K> cement Works; power plant.
flay ton—Fertilizer factory.
Montgomery—41,oo\(MO power company.
Eufaula—925,000 hardware company.
Florida.
Jacksonville—990.009 construction company.
West Talni Beach—430,000 Investment com
pany.
Gsorgia.
Jnkln—Turpentine plant.
Macon—926,000 naval stores plant.
FIRST AND LAST.
By BARTON GREY.
They sat together, hand In hand.
The sunset flickered low.
The tickle sen crept up the strand
And on light the afterglow.
: a snug, s little soug
e snug r
No otbei
looked up and thought him strong,
poet kne
up and - — ,
Looked down, aud deemed him true.
snug the oth
Times change—the two went divers ways.
The evening shades Increase. »
On him grown old In fame and praise.
Ami her, In household pence.
The echo of the toft, sweet words
He spoke m long aao
tins passed, a* ikus the summer birds
efore *
Kentucky.
Lexington—Manufacturing company.
Monroe—'Telephone system.
Oweiisliora—Powder mill; 9103,000
nery.
\\ llllniiislnirg—9J9.0O9 coal company.
Louisville- Manufacturing company;
oo coni tar product? company.
WiMMlstiN-k—'Telephone system.
Mnrfleld—9-10,000 tuuilicr company.
Itollnnd—Telephone system.
Jamestown—'Telephone system.
Burhottrsvllle—(las plant.
Mississippi.
Vicksburg—:925.000 building company.
BriNikhmeii—In* company.
Meridian—Canning compeuy.
Tutwller— Hoop factory.
New Albany—Stave factory.
North Caroling.
Weldon—913,000 brick works.
High Point-4100.000
Durham—450.(100 lock :
Kllsnbetj!
Statesville ____
WaynesvlUo-4190,000 cotton mill.
8outh Carolina. r
Columbia—IIOO.OM mining company.
Smallwood—Mineral cotupauy.
Chester—laundry.
Charleston—413\0O) building and
company: carbonating company.
Orangeburg—420.090 oil mill.
Tcnnsases.
Nooks and Corners
of American History
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
NATHANIEL BACON, THE
FIRST AMERICAN REBEL.
The echo of the false s
He sung long ago.
Charleston, 8. C,
the winter’s snow.
Hut ns tonight the angel hand
I^M>s*>tia the silver cord.
And $-alls her to the other land
Of love's supreme reward.
“RAISON D'ETRE.”
By ELLA ANGLIN VERNE.
51 y fnvnrltn flovrn; Juxt thro. I n.iilil.
Anti each to tho other 1. tAUInlllutint.—
Of th. violet*. liu,* ure your qm .J true,
Th. Illy', your fare no fnir.
Ami th. vavittx nitow.r of tho Etuhluiu
Flower,
I. tho .btnlnc cold of your hair.
IN PARI8.
Pari., Oct. 19.—Mlsn Thornbury anil
Min. Alice Steele. of Atlanta, Oa„ and
Minn Ruby Burden, of Bnvannah. Go.,
r*(l.tcreif at the office of th. Euro
pean edition of The Herald today.
Or. Willstt. Sp.sk. at Covington.
Spit'lal to Th. Georgian.
Covington. Ga.. Oct. 19.—Dr. A. A.
Wlllets, presented by the Alkahe.t Ly
ceum course, .poke to a large and ap-
pre.latlvr audience la.t night on the
subject of •’Sunshine."
Nathaniel “Bacon tvaa born In Suf
folk, England, January 2, 1442, and
educated at the Inna of Court, London.
Handsome, Intellectual, rich, with the
best blood of Britain In his veins, Ba
con, at the age of 28, came to America
and acttled In Gloucester county, Vir
ginia.
When Bacon landed on the shores of
the New World lie found In the colony
some SU.ooq people, a small minority of
whom were living In princely style,
while the overwhelming majority were
little better than slaves.
Of aristocratic birth, Bacon was at
heart a democrat of the democrats;
man who loved justice and right as (ho
hungry man loves bread, nnd It took
tfim but a little white to declare hlm-
sdlf.
He put himself squarely on the side
of the people versus the stall-fed mi
nority, who were dolnc their best to
keep them in bondage.
At the apex of the Virginia Iniquity,
aa Bacon found It. wns old Governor
Berkeley, the representative of the
Crown.
Close nft.r the pompous oh! gov
ernor came the ••gentlemen,” the aris
tocrats, wKh lived In the mansions
along the rivers and feasted on the fat
of the land.
Against this combination Bacon de
clared "war to the knife."
Circumstances opened the way for
Bacon to strike the wlshed-for blow ut
the selfish and arrogant nrlstocracy,
and he avnlled himself of It with the
avidity of a man of genius nnd with the
energy of a thoroughly sincere demo
crat.
, In the summer of 1675 there waa a
great Indian uprising—and old Gov
ernor Berkeley did nothing about It.
Tho settlers were murdered right and
left, but the governor raised not n hand.
He was In the fur trade with the In
dians. As r result of that trade he
wns making money, and why should ho
Inrlte the lll-wlll of the red inen on ac
count of the death of a few palefaces?
But while Berkeley was taking It
easy, Bncon acted. A military force
made up of the plain people elected
Bacon qs their general, and the neces
sary plans were begun to be laid for
the securing of the peace and safety In
the colony that all so earnestly desired.
Then old Berkeley got mad to think
that Bacon had dared to beard him
without a commission from his high
mightiness. At that the people got
mad, elected n sufficient number of
themselves to the nssembly at James
town to control It, and gave Bacon a
commission as general.
That made Berkeley more wrotliy
then ever, and he refused to sign Ba
ron's commission that had been given
him by the house.
Five hundred fearless patriot* gath
ered about Bacon, and with these he
marched to Jamestown, the caflltal, and
demanded the signing cf his commis
sion, and on July 4. ons hundred year*
before the proclamation of the Declara
tion of Independence, the stubborn old
governor yielded, nnd by his signature
ratified the votes of the assemblymen.
Bacon Immediately set out on his
marrh against the Indian.. But. he had
no sooner gone than the hypocritical
old governor proclaimed him a rebel
and a traitor.
Thla unaccountable action Immedi
ately aroueed Bacon's anger, and with
his force he marched on Jamestown.
Berkeley uua there with an army, but
the army was too cowardly to fight,
and Bacon burned Jamrstown to the
ground, leaving only the old brick
chureli tower, which itltl stands.
In the meantime the hated represen
tative of the Drown had lied to the
eastern shore of Chesapeake Bny, where
by promise of booty he began raising
a force to suatnln him In office.
Haring cleared the field on the main
land proper. Bacon was preparing to
croea the Chesapeake for the purpose of
driving Berkeley from Virginia, when
BY CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
New York, Oct. 19.—Although the
gnekwar of Baroda did not admire
American women when he toured the
United States a short time ago, evi
dence that he was deeply Impressed
with the educational Institutions of
thl* country arrived In New York on
the White Star line steamer Baltic in
the person of his eon, Shrimanh Jal-
slnyroo. an engaging nnd clever youth,
who may enter one of our colleges
Shrimanh Sampnproa, a brother of
the raekwar, who accompanied him on
his tour, wns with the young East
Indian. The boy has Just completed
his studies at Harrow, and was in
tended by his father for Cambridge
university, but If he fancies Harvard
or any other American university he
will complete his education In the Uni
ted States.
Miss Elizabeth Magle, the brilliant
Chicago young woman whoee remark
able offer to sell her accomplishments
to the highest bidder aroused Intense
interest all over the country, has re
ceived a bushel basket full of replica
from all sorts and conditions of per
sons. From this collection she has
picked one letter sent her by a couple
occupying a prosperous farm In Wis
consin. The communication made such
a deep Impression on her that she has
sent them the following reply:
"Mr. and Mrs. Davis: Dear Unknown
Friends—I have received many, replies
to my advertisement, but none which
touched me so deeply as your letter did.
Perhaps you have misunderstood the
deepest meaning of my document; pos
sibly you really believe that I am in
danger of selling myself body and soul.
I can hardly blame you for getting this
Irhpresslon, considering the way that
some papers rsported me.
"But I never meant to do anything
of the kind. In the first place, I never
Intended that the 'document,' If It ap
peared in print at all, should appear
over my name. I did have some vague
notion, however, of filling It up and
getting it Into print some way, If I
could raise the coin to do It. I sent It
to some of the papers here asking what
It would cost to Insert s* an advertise
ment, and that Is the way th* reporters
got tt. I was paralyzed when I saw the
whole thing In the papers the next
morning with my name and all.
"But now that It !a done, good will
come out of It. Good has come out of
It already. I have received many ex
cellent letters commending my action
and 'offering me assistance. I have
received gepulne offers of marriage,
and, 1 am sorry to say, some bass
propositions. Those who made the lat
ter 1 look upon with contempt and
pity; the former are appreciated, but
are declined,'with thanks.
"What I really wanted waa freedom
from the fear of want, and an oppor
tunity to develop the best that Is In me.
True, I love to have a Jolly good time,
but I love equally well. If not better,
the simple life, and therefore your of
fer to take me Into your home and give
me all these things and ask nothing
of me In return has appealed to mo
more deeply than any other offer I
have received. I skimmed through
letters of foreigners and wealthy
Americans, who threw tHemselves at
me bodily, but your letter 1 read over
and over again, and I marked on the
envelope 'The- highest bid.'
“Your letter rings true. You don't
know how much I appreciate It. If I
had no further 'bids' I should havt
gladly accepted yours. But since tele
graphing you I have received many
other letters and several telegrams, and
have been visited by newspaper, repre
sentatives who have made good busi
ness propositions to me. Ono of theae
propositions I have accepted.
"I am in a position now to work for
the betterment of my less fortunate
brothers and sisters and In doing this I
shall be most happy.' Instead of sell
ing myself Into deeper slavery thRn
that In which J found myaelt, 1 have,
on the contrary, found my highest
freedom. By one elngle desperate
bound I have sprung Into fame, free
dom and usefulness.
"1 write you this In detail to explain
the situation and also to tell you that
ns soon as I can finds the time tt will
give me pleasure to go down to your
home and see you, and I hope that ws
shall become good friends."
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
OCTOBER 19.
Born November 10. 1447.
1779—Knil of aloxe nt knrsnnsb, Gs.
1812—Mncoml buttle of Foltosk.
1918—Mormon touiple at Nauvoo, Ills, ue-
st rayed.
1164—Fotnl panic at the 8urrey Gardeni
mnidc bull hi London.
1861—Thomas Wlldey, foamier of the In
dependent Onler of (hid Fellows died.
Horn January IS, 1742. . .
1664—General Bherldau victor at battle of
cedar Creek. Va.
1847—Hlr James Hontb, famona Engtlib as
tronomer. died. Bora 1785.
1899—Harold Frederic, American^ norellit
1:69V.
Destiny called a halt.
In the low, fiat marshes of Tide
water Virginia the death malaria lurked
and before that silent, but terrible,
foe Bacon fell, October It, 1676, at
the early age of 34.
With their gifted young leader gone,
the people seemed able to do but little,
nnd In the following month Berkeley
and the aristocrat* were In the saddle
again.
Had Bacon lived the Independence or
America might have come a hundred
yeara earlier than It did. That malaria
In the Jamestown swamp* postponed
the great Declaration and the Starry
Flag a round century.
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