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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES - . . - Editor.
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The Armory-Auditorium and the Nation
al Democratic Convention.
The deciding rea»on why Kama* City secured the
Democratic national convention of 1900 waa becauao
Kanaa* City had Just erected the flne*t auditorium in the
We»t
With the advantage* and claim* of other cltlee In
tierce competition, and with the advocate! of other cltlee
vying with eagef eloquence before the committee, the
question that turned the scale In favor of Kansas City
wa* the presence of a great commodlou*. well equipped
auditorium capable of seating 18,000 people with acouatlce
In which any speaker of ordinary voice could be heard.
The Atlanta committee has had placed In Ite hands
the 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 city at the earliest possible moment In order
that we may Invite here either the national convention of
1908 or at least the national convention of 1912.
When Atlanta build* it ought to build for a great
and growing Atlanta. The halls and public buildings
erected in this city twenty years ago are totally Inad
equate to the demand* of tbla eplendld city of today.
And the4>ubllc buildings erected now for the Atlanta
or 1906, If they ehould 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.
If we do this thing at all we want to do It well, and
In building our great armory and auditorium It ought to
be built for a dty of 600,000 people, likely to entertain the
great convention* of tb* republic and of the world.
. Three things ought to be considered In building this
auditorium.
First, its capacity, which should not be leas than
10,000, and if possible should seat 16,000 people.
Second, Its acouatlce, about which should be gathered
tho highest expert knowledge and skill In the republic.
If we had a hall which seated 20,000 people and acoustics
that made It Impossible for only 1,200 of the audience
to hear, the hall would bo a failure. We are convinced
that more time thou Id be expended and greater care ex
ercised looking to tho acoustics of this great hall than al
most any other phase of Its construction.
Care thould be taken also that tti entrances and
exits and Its seats should be so- constructed as to mako
thp audience safe, and to keep them comfortable if they
are detained for one hour or tor five.
We take It for granted that the argument Is ex
hausted and that every man, woman and child In Atlanta
knows that It cannot do without the auditorium.
This Is one enterprise upon which we cannot afford
to'fall. Atlanta, after long deliberation, IndeBuitely post
poned the exposition of 1910, and there are enemies of At
lanta who will cavil at this poatponement. 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 tell or fall there are those by the thousands both
In and out of the atate who will declare that the far-
famed Atlanta Spirit has decayed and that we are no
longer the militant and triumphant and all-conquering city
that we had plumed ourselves to be.
It it no longer a matter of question whether At
lanta can build the armory-auditorium, for It has now
become established, tn pride, In prestige, in ivolley 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, la 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 le made up of farmers,
managed by farmers and set to the prosperity of farmers
tn every detail tn which farmers live and labor and love.
It* Judgments are unclouded by ambition, and Its
public announcements have neither eelflehness nor dis
play. Every position that the Farmers' Union has taken
in relation to the cotton crop of the South has been vin
dicated tn wisdom and discretion. National President
Chariot 8. Barrett and State President R. F. Duckworth
hare their mlnde and their energies concentrated nnd 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 end diligent them
selves, and ever on the alert for information and counsel
that le 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 organiza
tion of the republic, but that Jt Js JJJtely to be more and
more In the future the most useful and effective agent
toward the prosperity and happiness of that vast and In
creasing army of cltlsens, who, keeping close to the soli,
keep alio for that reason close to the country's vital In
terests, tnd to the honor and Integrity of the American
he me.
Monopoly’s Silence About Jacksonville.
You—you who have been receiving from time to
time pamphlets and periodicals In your mail 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 througn the mails 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
Jacksonvillt of the value of municipal ownership?
And this story, we told In full In Tho Georgian of
Wednesday afternoon.
The figures at Jacksonville will bear repetition. The
net cost of Its lighting plant on January 1, 1902, waa
$69,275.20 Including all moneys paid by the city to or
for the plant 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 this net cost, the same definite
method of determining the net coste on the 31st of De
cember of 1904 showsd that th* plant had paid for itself
to the lait dollar!
Jacksonville's public men are no more honest and
no more able than those of Atlanta.
What has been done In Jacksonville can be done
In Atlanta. The example of Jacksonville la a conspic
uous inspiration to Atlanta.
Ten year* ago the citizen* of Jacksonville were pay
ing $15 ptr month for 2,000 nominal candle power open
arc lights and 28 cent* per 1,000 watte for Incandescent
lights. The city bought Its electric plant It discharged
the monopoly, and though tho monopoly, Just as some
monopolies nearer home, proceeded to show that th* city
could not possibly furnish lights cheaper than the monop-
oly was doing—In spit* of this, the city Immediately re
duced open aro lights from $15 a month to $7.50 a
month and Incandescent, light's from 28 to 7 cents per
1,000 watte.
And In anewer to the doleful protest of the retiring
monopoly, this price so far from Tunning the city into
bankruptcy, paid for the entire plant within five years'.
If any wise and eloquent local monopolist will point
out Just why Atlanta cannot do exactly what Jackeon-
vlllo has don<p, we will receive the Information thank
fully.
The fact Is there appears to be a regularly organ
ized bureau In Atlanta whose source, origin and finan
cial backing can Juet as well be Imagined as described,
which Is sending out every pamphlet Into which a plau
sible objection can be printed, and tn which can bo
exploited an occasional failure or bad management In
municipal ownership, and It le hoping with these to stem
the splendid tide of municipal ownership sentiment that
la flowing over the South.
The monopolise will not be able to do It. The peo
ple of Atlanta will light this battle and win. We think
they are an Intelligent people. They read the newapa-
peri both at home and abroad,
even read the pamphlets on municipal
by the lighting monopoly.
But It Is a grsat reflection upon their Intelligence
not to know that they promptly recognize the source
from which those pamphlets corns, and that they have
long since been Impreteed with the emallnett In num-
here, end the remoteneee in dietance, and the wide cep-
aratlon in Inetaneee In which the municipal ownership
plan hat not been a great and beneficent euceei*.
And the people of -Atlanta are going to take this
matter In bend, and they are going to vote munlclpnl
ownership 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 lino with the wlee, practical and well
eetabllched movement that le at this time taking hold of
tho cities and towns of America.
great faculty of great teachers who surround Him, ho
has worked for two years and.Is working now In'perfect
and beautiful harmony without friction, without Jealousy,
without any cross purposes, and Is proving every year
that this great institution has tjiq solid merit which' a
great educational- Institution ought to possess.
The Georgian is proud of this splendid school for
girls at Milledgevllle. It Is proud of Georgia for hav
ing provided such an Institution for Ita 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 patronize 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 etate, 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 slate Is yielding
better results and paying nobler dividends than the school
at Milledgevllle.
The Circus—A Bridge of Dreams.
The circus has come to town onie 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 the steam piano, the leisurely
tread 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 if* inev
itable penalties darken the day for tho boys and girls
who will gather within the confines of the great circus
tents. They will loave 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 football and baseball have lost their charm
tor the present; tops, marbles and all manner of sports
have become Irksome and unworthy of consideration
now that th$ 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 serious-
minded men—laymen or otherwise—to the contrary.
It has He 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 Institu
tion.
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 findB earliest realization tn the glit
ter of gay costumes whose 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 bums'll
Interest In the sights and sounds of a big circus. 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 tho tanbark dispels for a moment
many a pitiful tragedy of mature life, and leaves the
dreamer but a boy again, when tho 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 Is sure to remain. The
tents will he 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 years, 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 WATSON’S NEW PUBLICATION.—We are
pleased to indulge the prediction that the next lit-
erary/venture of (ion. Tomas E. Watson will be more
successful than tho Jast.
Mr. Watson hns definitely made up bis mind to
publish a monthly magazine either in Atlanta or In
Nashville. It will be called Wat3on'a Monthly Jef
fersonian. Tho only donbt as to the location de
pends upon the terms which can be secured from
the publishing houses of Atlanta and of Nashville.
Other things being equal, Mr. Watson will certain
ly dqpldo 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 wtll
own the magazine Individually and be personally re
sponsible for all of Ita obligations.
Among his own people and as the manager of his
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 repute, nnd we congratulate both our
selves and him upon his entrance Into the local field
of publication with a mission so definite and an
equipment so ffimple and so superb at his.
SOUTH’S DEVELOPMENT
SHOWN BY BIG INCREASE
IN BREADSTUFF EXPORTS
Baltimore, Mil., Oct. 19.—Among the facts of steady Southern progress
noted In this week’s Issue of The Manufacturers' Record Is the Increase
In the value of breadstuff* exported from Southern ports. In compari
son with those exported from other ports of the country.' During the
first nine months of tho year the value of exports of principal articles of
breadstuff* at twenty-three of the leading port* of the country was
1130,(07,719, an Increase over the same period last year of $43,601,664.
Of this Increase more than 83 per cent was at six Southern ports, the
figures for individual ports being as follows:
DISTRICTS. ' 1905. _ 1906.
Baltimore $9,640,693 318.623.400
Newport News 3,606,343 7.623.346
Norfolk and Portsmouth 600.07S 2,387,075
Galveston .3,308,359 11,180.664
Mobile 2.224,482 2,000,369
New Orleans 9,667(786 14,361,836
Total I $28,178,743 (S6.6JM70
Alt ports *7,008,066 - 130,607,719
At the six Southern ports the Increase In the value was from 128,-
$76,743 to 366,636,470, or by $27,658,727, equal to 95.7 per cent, while at
the 17 other leading ports the Increase was from $58,129,322 to 374,072,-
200, or by 315,942,927, equal to 27.4 per cent.
This trend tn Southern ports follows activity-In railroad construction
toward them and the Improvement of terminal facilities. The application
by th* Seaboard Air Line railway for a franchise to enter Charleston,
8. C., suggests an Increase In that city’s Importance a* n port through
the construction of an extension from a point near Camden In the course
to Charleston, a distance of 106 miles:
:lpa! ownership sent out {INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMEN7
IN 7HE SOU7HERN S7A 7ES
Georgia’s Great Girls’ School.
The state of Georgia la building up at Milledgevllle
one of the greatest schools for women to be found In
all the country.
The Georgia Normal and Industrial Institute tor girls
Is an Institution already to be proud of by every citizen
of Georgia, and It le 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 la in the fact that its affairs, have beqn ad
ministered by an mfselflsh and harmonious .board of
trustees. There has been no friction In this board. There
has been no politics In it at enf time. No personal mo
tives have had a place in ite deliberations, and for the
last five years at least, the one clear motive which has
moved and dominated every action is the single Idea
of the best Interests of this great Institution and the
best and wisest way to attain them.
The Girts’ Industrial Inatituto Is fortunate In having
a great president In the person of Prof. M. M. Pqrks. One
of the ways In which be has demonstrated that he I* a
great educator la that he baa never been afraid to sur
round himself with other strong men and other great
teachers. No foolish jealousies and no cowardly appre
hension of being supplanted haa prevented President
Parks from surrounding himself with men as strong, as
vigorous and as well reputed as himself. And it Is one.
of tbe highest evidences of his wisdom that with this
ChAttanooKn, Tenn., Oct, 15.—In It* re
view of Bouthern liitlustiinl movement*,
The Trnilcamnn present* <t rei-onl of its
gresslvor.es* for .the period or one wceu.
From the state of Alnluuim nre reported n
power company ntnl a content work* with
eapltallxntlou of $1,000,0W each, lieslile*’
oral other notable new concert!*. A $240,000
lumber company appear* In the l!»t from
Kentucky.
A ga* cotniKiny capitalized at $L2T»),000 I*
among the new' Industrie* reported from
TeitticMime. Saw mill nnd lumltor compa
nion, Iron nnd coal development concent*,
cotton mill* mol gin*, arc re(Hirted In large
nttmlHTM from the respective Mutes. Tue
Tradesman's list for the week Is ns fal
lows:
Alabama.
Phoenix—$109,Mwf Ir.mber mill.
lUrnilitghairi-$.‘).'iOO lend company.
AiinlAioti-i.V'/V’n lime work*.
I mdevllle— $10,000 hint ••otMpmty.
flay ton—Fertiliser factory.
Montgomery—$1,00X000 |K>wer company.
Knfaula—$3,000 hardware company.
Florida.
Jacksonville—$50,009 construction company.
West Palm Beach—$50,009 Investment com
pany.
Georgia.
Jskin—'Turpentine plant.
Macon—$5,000 naval stores plant.
FIRST AND LAST.
By BARTON GREY.
They *nt together, hand In hand.
The sunset flickered low,
Tho fickle sen crept up the strand
And caught the afterglow.
up t
wanton laugh.
Caught up the song the poet planned
Aud snug the other half.
Times change—tbe two went divers ways.
The evenlug shades Increase, 1
On him grown old lu fame nnd praise.
And her, |u household peace.
Ha* psWd. as |>as« the summer birds
Before the winter's snow.
Kentucky.
Lexington—Manufacturing company.
Monroe— 1 Telephone system.
Owouslwro—Powder mill; $109,000 l
Wllllainuburg—$25.0(0 coal company.
I*oulsvllle— Manufacturing company; |
WO iojiI tar product* company.
M'mnlstork-Td'—* —*•*“*
Mayfield—$m0
-lollnnd—T
Jamestown .
Btirlxmrsvllle—Gas plant
/ Mississippi.
Vtcksburg-436.00? building company.
Bronklmtei»—Ice company.
Meridian—Canning company.
Tutwller—Hoop factory.
New Albany—Htuve factory.
North Carolina.
Weldon—$15,009 Inick works.
High Polnt-$190,000 class factory.
Durham—$50,000 lock factory.
Kllzalieth City—Furniture factory.
Htntesvlllo—$50,000 Investment compan
Wayne*vllle-$15O,0OG cotton mill.
South Carolina.
Columbia—$100,090 mining company.
Smallwood— Mineral company.
Cheater— Laundry.
Charleston—$150,00) building and 1
company: carbonating company.
Orangeburg—$29,090 oil mill.
rennee|aa.
Chattanooga—$1,250,000 gas company.
Nashville—$50,090 lumber compsuy.
Nooks and Corners
of American History
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
The echo of the false sweet song
He sung so long ago.
Charleston. 8. C.
“RAISON D’ETRE.”
By ELLA ANGLIN VERNE.
My favorite flower*? Just three’ I count,
*nd etch to the other Is tantamount,—
f the violet’* hue nre your eyes so true,
The Illy’* your face so fair,
Aud the waving shower of the Emblem
Flower,
la the shining gold of your hair.
-i
IN PARIS.
Paria. Oct. 19.—Miss Thornbury end
ills* Alice Steele, of Atlanta, Ox, and
Ml** Ruby Burden, of Savannah. Ga.,
registered at the office of the Euro
pean edition of The Herald today.
Dr. Willetts Speaks at Covington.
Sp.-riel to The Georgian.
Covington. Ga.. Oct. 19.—Dr. A. A.
Wlllela, presented by the Alkahest Ly
ceum course, spoke to a large and ap
preciative audience last night on the
subject of "Sunshine."
NATHANIEL BACON, THE
FIR8T AMERICAN REBEL.
Nathaniel Bacon was born In Suf
folk. England, January 2, 1642, and
educated at the Inns of Court,. London.
Handsome, Intellectual, rich, with the
best blood of Britain In his veins, Ba
con, nt the age of 28, came to America
and settled In Gloucester county, Vir
ginia.
When Bacon landed on the shores of
the New World he found In the colony
some 60,000 people, a small minority of
whom were living In princely style,
while the overwhelming majority were
little bettor thnnjdaves.
Of aristocratic birth, Bacon was at
heart n democrat of the democrats; a
man who loved Justice and right as the
hungry man loves bread, and It took
him but a little while to declare him
self.
He put himself squarely on the side
of the people versus the stall-fed mi
nority, who were doing their best to
keep them In bondage.
At the apex of the Virginia Iniquity,
i Bacon found It, was old Governor
Berkeley, the representative of the
Crown.
Close after the pompous old gov
ernor came the "gentlemen," the aris
tocrats, who lived In the mansions
along the rivers and feasted op the fat
of the land.
Against this combination Bacon d.
dared "war to the knife."
Circumstances opened the way for
Bacon to strike the tvlshed-for blow at
the selfish and arrogant aristocracy,
and he availed himself of It with tbe
avidity of a man of genius and with th*
energy of a thoroughly sincere demo,
crat.
In the aummer of 1675 there was a
grsat Indian uprising—and old Gov
ernor Berkeley did nothing nbout It.
The settlers were murdered right and
left, but the governor raised not a hand.
He was In the fur trade with the fit-
dlan*. Aa a result of that trade he
was making mpney, and why sho
Incite the Ill-will of the red men i
count of the death of a few palefaces?
But while Berkeley was taking It
easy. Bacon acted. A military force
made up of the plain people elected
Bacon as their general, and the neces
sary plans were begun to be laid for
the securing of the peace and safety In
the colony that alt 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 a sufficient number of
themselves to the assembly at James
town to control It, and gave Bacon a
commission as general.
That made Berkeley more wrothy
than ever, and he refused to sign Ba
con's commission that had been given
him by the bouse.
Five hundred fearless patrlots.gath-
ered about Bacon, and .with these be
marched to Jamestown, the capital, and
demanded the aignlng of hla commis
sion, and on July 4. one hundred yeura
before the proclamation of the Declara
tion of Independence, the stubborn old
governor yielded, and by his signature
ratified the vote* of the assemblymen.
Bacon immediately set out on hla.
march against the Indians. But he had
no sooner gone than the hypocritical
old governor proclaimed him a rebel
and a traitor.
This unaccountable action Immtdl-
ately aroused Bacon's anger, and with
his force he marched on Jamestown.
Berkeley was there with an army, but
the army wa* too cowardly to fight.'
and Bacon burned Jamestown to the
ground, leaving only the old brick
chureh tower, which atlll eland*.
In the meantime the hated represen
tative of the Crown had fled to the
eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, where
by promise of booty he began raising
a force to sustain him In office.
Having cleared the field on the main
land proper. Bacon was preparing to
cross the Chesapeake for the purpose of
driving Berkeley from Virginia, when
BY CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
New York, Oct. 19.—Although th.
gaekwar of Baroda did not admlr.
Amerlcun women when he toured th«
United States a short time ago evl
dence that he was deeply Impressed
with the educational Institutions of
this country arrived In New York os
I be White Star line steamer Baltic In
the person of his son, Shrlmanh Jai
Slnyroa. an engaging and clever youth,
who may enter one of our colleges
Shrinmnh Sampaproa, a brother of
the gaekwar, who accompanied him on
his tour, was with the young Fast
Indian. The boy has Just completed
his studies at Harrow, nnd was In.
tended by his father for Cambrldzt
university, but If he fancies Harvard
or any other American university hs
will complete his education In the Uni.
ted Stntes.
Miss Elizabeth Magle, the brilliant
Chicago young woman whose remark
able offer to sell her accomplishment*
to the highest bidder aroused Intents
Interest all over tbe country, has re.
eelved a bushel basket full of replies
from all sorts -and conditions of per-
sons. I-'rom 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 haa
sent them the following reply:
"Mr. ond 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: poa.
slbly you really believe that I am In
danger of selling myself body and soul.
I enn hardly blame you for getting this
Impression, considering the way that
some papers reported me.
"But I never meant to do anything
of the kind. In. the first place, I never
Intended that the 'document,’ If it ap-
penred In print at all, should appear
over my name. <1 did have some vagus
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 papera here asking what
It would cost to Insert as an advertise
ment, nnd that Is the way the reporters
got It. I was paralyzed when I saw the
whole thing In the papers the next
morning with my name and all.
“But now that It la 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 genuine offers of marriage,
and. I am aorry to say, some base
propoaltlons. Those who made th* lat
ter I 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 beat that la In me.
True, 1 love to have a Jolly good tlms,
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 appenled to mo
more deeply than any other offer I
have received. I skimmed throuth
letters of foreigners and wealthy
Americans, who threw themselves at
me bodily, but your letter I 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 mads good bull-
ness propositions to me. One of these
propoaltlons I have accepted.
"I am In a position now to work for
th* betterment of my leas fortunate
brothers and slsttrs and In doing this I
•hall ba moat happy. Instead of sell
ing myself Into deeper slavery than
that In which 1 found myatlf, I have,
on the contrary, found my highest
freedom. By one single desperate
bound I have sprung into famt, free
dom and usefulness.
1 writs you this In detail to explain
the situation and also to tell you that
as soon aa I can finds the time It will
give me pleasure to go down to your
tome and see you, and I hop* that w«
shall become good friends."
THtS DATE IN HISTORY.
OCTOBER 19.
porter of tbe fitusrt cause lu Ireland,
norn. Hied July 21, 1483.
1622—I'esce of Moutpeller, ending tb* Hu
guenot wars. ,, .
1745—Jonathan Swift, English writer, died.
Horn November 10, 1*17.
1779— End or siege nt fiarennab, Oa,
1812—Reread bn tile of Poltoak.
1843—Mormon temple at Xauvoo, Ilia, ds-
lSgl—'Thomas IVIIdey, founder "f the In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, died.
Born January 15. 1782. , ,
1384—General Hherldan victor at battle of
f’edar Creek. Va. „ .
1887—Mr Jnmea Hontb. famous English as
tronomer. died. Born 1786.
1998—Harold Frederic. American norc lit
and newspaper correspondent, died.
19)3—Creaeens trotted mile In 1:59V
Destiny called a halt.
In th* low, flat marahee of Tide
water Virginia tha death malaria lurked
and before that silent, but terrible,
foe Bacon fell, October 11, 1(76. at
the early age of 84.
With their gifted young leader gone,
the people (earned able to do but little,
and In the following month Berkeley
and the aristocrats were In the eaddis
again. ,
Had Bacon lived the Independence of
America might have com* a hundred
years earlier than It did. That malaria
In the Jamestown swamp* postponed
the great Declaration nnd the Starry
Flag a round century.
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