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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
Saturday. October vns.
The Atlanta Georgian.
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The Lyceum a Measure of Our Culture
It la to be hoped that Atlanta will not at any time per
mit tta enthusiasm to lag or its patronage to wane In the
natter of the Atlanta Lecture Association.
The past record of this admirable sene* of enter-
Ulnments fa abundant to ylndlcate Its claim to our hearti
est future support. There la not In the realm of entertain
ment so much of pleasure and of real profit to be derived
from the expenditure of so small a sum of money as that
which an annual membership In the Atlanta Lecture Asso
ciation provides.
The Atlanta Lyceum has brought to our people In
time pait many of the moet eminent, eloquent and distin
guished men and women of the United States. Orators,
thinkers, readers and entertainers of national and Inter
national reputation are put upon our opera house plat-
forma at stated Interval* at a coat which ta scarcely more
than the price of a ticket to one of our ordinary time
killing and mlnd-dl*slpntlng comic operas of the day.
It la a measure of Atlanta’* intellectual appreciation
that sne should faithfully sustain a lyceum association
which for live years past has ranked at the head of the
American list The editor of The Georgian has heard men
like Wcndllng, Hillts an' Ounsaulus declare that the At
lanta audience* of live years ago were In numbers, Intelli
gence. . nd enthusiasm the finest of America, and we have
been proud to beileve that the culturo and appreciation
of our people was being heralded widely and happily by
the nature and numbers of Its splendid lyceum auditory.
The Atlanta Lyceum list for the present season Is *ip
to the high standard of those that have gone before. The
list opens on November 1 with Dr. Leonard Levy, of Pitts-
burg, rabbi of one of the richest congregation* of Hebrew*
In the world, and himself one of the moat Interesting
•pcskers ot bis race. It include* *uch eminent attractions
a* Maud Balllngton-Booth, whose audience* always leave
delighted with the grace and eloquence ot this charming
and noble woman. Frank Dixon, who has frequently
pleased our people, and who Is one of tho growing men
of the American platform. The wonderful magician, Dr.
Edward Burton McDowell, tella of tho land of ixmls
Stevenson In "Samoa." The picture play of Lorna Doone
by Albert Armstrong comes, and that prince of the plat
form, George R. Wendllng, has also a strong place oh the
program.
These attractions coming in turn, with many others
probably to include some of the great political figures
now moving on the horizon, mako up a program worthy
of Atlanta and of the past record of Its great lyceum.
We commend this admirable Institution to the cordial
support snd practical patronage of the people.
Let the Auditorium Remember Art.
James B. Townsend, editor of Tho American Art
Ksws, and for many years a well known figure In the
art circlet of New York and London, In a recent letter
to the editor of The Georgian, asks a question which Is
not without bearing upon the Armory-Auditorium project
now meettng with such enthusiastic encouragement from
the Atlanta public.
"Is It possible," writes Mr. Townsend, who will man
age the second annual art exhibit to be held In Atlunta
under the auspices of the Atlanta Art Association, “that
the city of Atlanta has no gallery worthy to house a
representative collection of American paintings? Or no
hall which you use for exhibit, concert and lecture pur
pose*?"
These are embarrassing questions, to be sure, but
the time It ripe for cona.'derlng ihem, and, certainly ripe
for answering them In the affirmative. The (act alone
that Atlanta it to have annually a great exhibition of
painting*, and at Intervals throughout the year smaller
•Xhlbltlooa of pottery, craft work and other branches of
art. creates a distinct need (or an exhibit hall. Such a
ball would soon become as neceasary to the artistic and
esthetic life of our city as Is the picture gallery to
the artistic and esthetic life of New York,- Boston. Buf
falo, Cincinnati, St. Louis or any other great municipality
which recognises the vital relation of art to civic devel
opment.
When the great armory-auditorium ts planned, there
fore, let us Include a smaller gallery whose main pur
pose shall be the housing of the art exhibitions which are
henceforth to be brought to Atlanta from New York
and from European cities. To those who question the
practicality of such n suggestion, it Rhonld be sufficient
to remember that this gallery would be In constant de
mand for concerts, lectures and all occaslona to which a
vast auditorium Is wholly unsuited. At comparatively
little extra cost. It may now be Included in the plans,
while to neglect it would be to overlook a requirement
which within a few years’ time will have become a ne
cessity.
For In view of the earnest snd Intelligent efforts of
the men and women who comprise the Atlanta Art As
sociation, It it inevitable that our city shall awaken, as
other great American cities have done, to the necessity of
civic advancement, and to the value of art Interests as
factors In the best development of our civic and national
life.
We shall learn, as other people In other sections are
learning, that to commercialize the whole ot life Is to
lay the ax at the very root a ot our civilization: but that
to preserve the true balance between utility and beauty,
the practical and the esthetic, and to let the Ideal be
cause, Is to make possible a civilization which Bball one
day surpass In excellence and stability
"The Glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.”
Saturday Evening and Atlanta.
ft Is a trite saying and credited to the Atlanta Spirit,
that Atlanta la the "best city ot Its size la the world.”
Let us see If there Is not beneath the proud asser
tion something more substantial than a civic boast, and
something more authoritative than the pride and hope of
a loyal citizenry.
Say first that In all the fluctuations of these two
eventful decades. In which trade has turned somersault*
and cities have alternatively waxed and waned, that At
lanta has never known a panic, recognized a depression,
or called one moment's halt in her stately stride of
steady progresa and development. Is there another city
in the land that can say as much?
Say, again, that alnce Sherman's soldiers left At
lanta In the lurid glare of Its burning homes, "marching
through Georgia" to the sea, that Atlanta has never been
so prosperous, so solid, so established in credit, so rich
in receipts, so prosperous In manufactures, so bulging
with buyers, so crowded with shoppers, so thick with
Investors, and so universally and unoxceptionally comfort
able and well-to-do ns she Is today.
And say, that even In the very pomp and fulness of
prosperity, the city strenuous, not resting nor baiting, Is
going forward now, today and every day 'with a buzz of
saws, a clanging of hammers and a pounding of masonry
In the most extensive and comprehensive building period
of Its long and eventful history.
Why has Atlanta never known a panic, when her
neighbors have b.en la gloom? Because Atlanta's pros
perity rests upon an Industrial life so varied and com
prehensive that only a universal depression could becloud
Its trade. Did you know, young fellow Just come to town,
that Atlanta has two hundred and fifty-seven different
Industries In successful operation? Did you know that
thla number does not Include the variations of a single
Industry, but counts, for Instance, under the general head
of furniture making the sccre or more of factories which
concentrate their work upon aome separate piece of
furniture?
Did you know that no other city of your near or
remote acquaintance and of approximate size has so many
Industrial Irons In the fire?
And did you know that this wonderful variety of
industrial activity Is the sound foundation for Atlanta's
unbroken progress and unvarying prosperity? Why, if
the Iron product sinks for a season to depression, Bir
mingham Is In the dump* and long faces line her
streets. If the cotton market slumps) continually. New
Orleans and Memphis are In gloom. If the furniture
trade la off, Grand Rapids sobs bard times, and so along
the long list ot cities founded on fewer factories.
But Atlanta, when the Iron market slumps, goes
whirling her products from two hundred other mills to
satisfy the world. When cotton wanes her versatile
wheels go turning her resources from other lines to
brldgfe the season Without loss, and whatever shadow
falls upon any section of commercial life, she la ready
and prepared to see ond to shed the sunshine that has
been stored by her genius and energy Into the other side.
Atlanta has no panics and no depressions, because
her energies and resources have been diffused through so
many various lines of productive work that the wise law
ot compensation keeps the balance of her trade In poise.
And she Is safe beyond her sisters for the future, for
her prosperity, so wisely and discreetly founded, Is
budded to endure.
Upon this deep theory of diversified Industry we
are set to continued prosperity and growth. It Is In
dividual as well as general.
A man In West End has six sons. They are growing
capably In six zeparate lines of business. Nothing can
bring that family to want If It will stand together. If
the son In cotton falla on evil times, the sons In Iron,
coal and patent medicines are there to bridge the time.
If five of them find business to languish lu their lines, the
sixth must Burely bo doing something that can hold his
crew together. And as with the family so with the city
In Its many phases of undustrisl life.
And Atlanta Is growing now like Jonah's gourd. We
who do not believe this simply do not go around. -Get
out of the shed In which you work a moment and look
around. Down at the end of the stirring street on which we
work there Is rising a stately structure. Look at It. It Is
five stories high, and it stretches the magnificent length
of two city blocks. Its floor space is Immense, It ts
built of concrete masonry to last a thousand years. It Is
the freight terminal of a single railroad, and tt marks
the fatth of tho 1-oulsvllle and Nashville In the present
power and certain growth of Atlanta. It Is spanned by
a long viaduct of stone—the greatest that. Atlanta owns—
and It ts going to revolutionize the appearance, growth
and business atatua of a populous portion of the city.
The Bell Telephone Company, which, ten years ago,
was housed in one room In the Healy budding, bought
a coetly lot and set out, ten years ago. to build a
stately structure that its friends thought bII too large for
Its nesds. The company had outgrown the bolldtng be
fore It entered it, and jras clamoring for space. The
north exchange was added, and then the east, and the
west, and today the Bed people are budding a structure
nearly twice a* large at the first, and twice as wed
equipped; and wondering where they shall find more
but the effort of hla body to make room for his crowding
wares. Look at the Pratts, who are so quiet that you
never hear them, but who are covering acres with fac
tories and mills and laboratories In the suburbs ot
Atlanta. Look at Jacob Elsas selling money bags to every
city In the world. Look at the Adairs planting every dol
lar as they make tt in Atlanta dirt.
Go anywhere, where there la apace, and see If it is
not filling or being sought to fill.
And, mark you, this great city Is built and being
built by Southern men. With wide welcome to those
who come to us across the border, with wide acknowl
edgment to those from colder climates who have done
their part, the fact standi clear and Inspiring that In the
great aggregate the stately structure of thla twentieth
century city is Southern built, home-made and homo
geneous.
This strain' la not exhausted. It might run along
Its current of Inspiring facts Indefinitely. Atlanta's credit
Is superb. Its merchants are as much, If not better,
trusted than any business men in the South. It has a
bank which, while 160 banka may outrank it In deposits,
Is yet rated about tenth or twelfth among the substan
tial Institutions ot the country. Its railroads have In
vested $8,000,000 In .Atlanta real estate within the decad
Its factories include every necessity from the cradle to
the grave. It manufactures the forceps which expedite our
first protesting struggle In the world. It manufactures
the cofllns which bury our bodies at Oakland or West-
view. It quarries the stone which tells our virtues to
succeeding years, and It manufactures every necessity
that we require between the forceps and the monument.
There Is no mortal man In all Atlanta who Is Industrious
and worthy who has an excuse for suffering today. There
are fewer paupers In Atlanta than In any city of Its
numbers in the world. There Is more and swifter charity
for human suffering than In any other town, and there
Is not among all the municipalities of modern progress
one whose air la softer and purer, fuller of ozone and
fuller ot Inspiration than this city of Atlanta.
Let us stop here—not for material, but for breath.
The moral is In cheer. Let us rejoice In our goodly
city. Let us beileve In It. Let us never deprecate, but
always magnify Us advantages. Let us have faith that
will speak In service. In affection, and In Investment.
And let us thank God on this Saturday evening that It
Is our happy lot to live, to labor and to love In the best,
the healthiest, the happiest and the most wholesome city
In the world. ,
HEARST AS I KNEW HIM
Personal Sid* of tho Msn Who Is Now the Central Figure in Polities.
His Genuine Conosrn for tho Under Dog—Many Instances Cited
by On* Who Has Had Peculiarly Good Opportunities of Study
ing tho Man in His relations to His Followman.
CHARLES E. RUSSSLL in Ridgway’s for October 27.
I suppose all the mystery that in
some minds seems to surround W. R.
Hearst, the course he has pursued and
the strength of his following, arises
from this: that his position Is wholly
new and seems sinister and abnormal.
Here Is a rich man that has turned
against his order and used his wealth
to fight wealth Instead of to gain more
wealth. We have never before In our
affairs known that, or anything like
The Instant conclusion among the
wealthy was, naturally, that such a
man could be actuated only by the
most wicked, selfish and malign of mo
tives, and this Idea, being diligently
fostered by the newspapers that are
owned by or conducted In the Inter
est of predatory wealth, has been ac
cepted as true by many men that have
ways In which men had tried to change
these conditions, the futility of even
the best meant philanthropy, and the
essential failure of most of the schemes
of beneficences. My faith was In the
coming of unother Wendell Phillips,
who, keeping aloof from parties and
politics, should achieve reform by per
sistent agitation. Mr. Hearst was all
for action, for doing something by
practical means, for controlling exist
ing machinery to secure present re
sults. We talked often of the men in
the United States that seemed able, or
likely, to do these things, and It never
occurred to either of us that he would
try to put his Ideas Into practice by
becoming a candidate for office.
From these talks that recurred
through many days and weeks, I could
see clearly enough the origin of some
of his peculiarities. I could under-
cepten as “'Tf. “ E stand, for Instance, a thing I had often
about"him!* and *has° been accenTuatad New York-that he would
by the prejudices of those already of-
space. .
Ten years ago Jim Nunnally was fearing that he
had far outbuilt bis needs In the little candy factory set
on Ivy street. He has quadrupled It since then, and on
yesterday paid $22,000 for adjoining space to double his
present factory
And Nunnally's Is the story of every man who has
staked bis Intelligent -faith In industrial Atlanta. Every
one of them has far outgrown the cgrly stake, and the
cry and problem of the hour Is more space In which to
come the real as gradually, aa logically, oa effect follows jgrow. Look at 8am D. Jones, whose amule avoirdupois 1*
fended on whnt we are pleased to call
grounds of tasto because Mr. Hearst
had chosen deliberately to address his
newspapers to the leaet fortunate. To
these and to many others It has un
doubtcdly seemed certain that a rich
man would not attack wealth except
under some strong Impulsion to gain
office and power for himself, and prob
ably to use for evil purposes what he
thus gained. . ,
1 suppose, further, that only those of
us that for years and years have been
closely associated with Mr. Hearst,
that from Intimate observation of him
under all conditions have learned what
he really believes and alms at and tries
to do, can understand how much the
men who do not believe In his sincerity
have missed the dominant keynote in
his character. Not freer than other
men from errors of Judgment, no doubt,
ts Mr. Hearst; but none of the men
that have known him Intimately ever
questions the honesty of his convic
tions, nor their essential excellence;
end It seems unfair In one of these not
to make a protest against whnt he
knows very well Is a radical Injustice.
If you Imagine a man among many oc-
cupatlons, distractions and ambitions
that still held always and first to a
perfectly unaffected, unpretended and
Innate sympathy with the less fortu
nate people In the world; that was pro
foundly dissatisfied with existing con
ditions; that really desired to do some-
thing to make life better anil easier
for those at the bottom of the social
title; that was naturally and first of all
Interested In lessening the burden of
misery, and then was determined to
follow what seemed to him the best
way to better conditions, you would
have a fnlr view of one side (and that
the most Important and effective) of
Mr. llearst's character. His way might
not be another man's way and It might
seem to many conscientious persons to
be strange and unwise, but It would be
at least honest throughout and truly
followed.
J go back now to a time when no one
had thought of Mr. Hearst as a can
didate for any office, when he himself
believed that his line of work was
strictly within his newspapers, when he
used to marvel boa* any man ever
made n public speech and would con
fess stage fright when he talked to hie
editors In council. We were traveling
In Italy. I was not then In his employ
(though 1 had been before anil was
afterwards), but our paths happened
to come together at Florence, and we
renewed an old friendship na we Jour
neyed together. Day by day and night
after night as we were Jotted about on
the Italian railroads or sat watting for
an Italian table d'bote, we threshed
over the subjects In which we were
most Interested.
So thrown together In tr foreign
country, without Interruptions and with
no reason for concealment, men usually
stop In the street to watch a limping
horse- or make an unreasonable ado
about a hurt vagrant dog. I could un
derstand, better, that night In San
Francisco, when there was a storm
and some fishermen were wrecked on
a rock outside, and he was the only
man that would undertake to get them
off. I could See what moved him one
day In Naples when he threshed a cab
man for beating a horse, and that other
time when the sight of maltreated ani
mals In a foreign city drove him to
hunt up on obscure humane society and
give It what was probably the largest
subscription In Its history. As to that
cabman, by the tvay, we were driving
In an open carriage, and Mr. Hearst
had twice told the driver to atop strik
ing the horse. The driver paid no at
tention,-so Mr. Hearst made one sudden
leap from the seat, got the cabman by
the back of the neck, and landed In
the street upon him.
And I recalled how, Jn New York, he
used to Insist on going home from the
office by the wny of the Bowery and
would observe and comment upon the
ffiuman wrecks that drifted there, or In
the "breadline" at Flelshmann's, and
these were manifestations of the same
Interest tn whoever or whatever In the
world for any cause fared lit or suf
fered wrong.
But all these things are familiar
enough to the men who have worked
with Mr. Hearst, so that they will rath-
er wonder why I set them down. They
will recall the many occasions In man?'
winters when we had to turn the staff
Into charity organization societies to
go about the tenement house* with
wagon loads of food and supplies; the
tug tha't he hired to pull a stranded
schooner off Fire Island beach In the
heart of a howling blizzard: the count
less Instances and wnys of which the
outside world has never heard wherein
he has used the machinery of his of
fices to relieve distress; and none of
those men will need to be reminded
that all these sprang from the same
genuine and spontaneous Interest tn the
unfortunate und the unassisted. <
He has Ills full share of faults like
other men, but they nre not the faults
that have been attributed to him, and
to my mind they seem unimportant
when weighed against the fact that,
having wealth and power, he Is willing
to fight the corporations snd try to do
something practical for the men ot the
bottom.
No other man tn our time has been
so fiercely ussalled, but In ull history
every man that hns disturbed vested
Interests has been made the target of
the same sort of attack. The weapons
Mr. Hearst hns chosen have not always
been pretty, but It Is beyond question
that they have been effective. Any
way. 1 have no more doubt of hts sin
cerity In waging war on the men that
he believes arc oppressing the masses
of people than I had of Ills sincerity
million dollars of thb people’s money
In overcharges to the trust, and I
worked to secure the passage of an
80-cent gas law. and then we
court and obtained an Injunction com
pelling the company to furnish gas at
80 cents, In accordance with the law.
"Then I fought the shipyard trust,
with which corporation Campaign Fund
Collector Sheldon was scandalously
connected. I Instituted criminal pro
ceedings, but Jerome quashed them.
"I fought the Ramapo water grab.
“I fought the Brooklyn franchise
grab.
"I fought the scheme to rent seats In
public parks.
"I fought the Seventh National bank
wreckers and had the depositors paid
In full and the president Indicted and
fined $10,000.
“I fought the wreckers of the
Merchants' Trust Company, and peti
tioned Governor Higgins to remove
Banking Superintendent Kltbum as
corrupt and Incompetent. This Hig
gins refused to do. I applied to Je
rome to Institute criminal proceedings,
which Jerome refused to do, but we
had-the depositors paid In full never
theless.
"I fought the traction trust In New
York city and petitioned Attorney Gen
eral Mayer to Institute proceedings.
"I fought the' election cases through
every court, not only for myself, but
for all the candidates, and, above all,
tor the people and for principle. I
will never cease fighting these cases,
and, If necessary, I will spend every
dollar I have In the world to have these
votes counted ns cast.
“I fought the New York Central and
other railroads disaster in the tunnel,
and presented Immense petitions to
Mayor Low and helped to secure the
electrification of the road now under
way.
"I fought the New York Central and
other railroads for criminal rebating
to the sugar trust, nnd gave tho gov
ernment the evidence, which was pub
licly acknowledged by Attorney Gen
eral Moody. The officials of the New
York Central have lately been convict
ed on all counts. ‘
“I fought The New York Herald for
printing n directory of vice on Its-front
page nnd for sending procurers' adver
tisements Into respectable homes to
lure Innocent girls and wives to their
destruction, and today James Gordoh
Bennett and The Herald and tho busi
ness manager of The Herald were In
dicted by the United States grand
Jury on eight separate counts for un
lawfully, wilfully and knowingly de
positing In the malls of the United
States non-mailable matter, consisting
of -obscene, lewd, lascivious and Inde
cent advertisements.’
"I have made all these fights for the
public good, nnd certainly my sincer
ity Is established by the many powerful
enemies l have made.
"I have made all these fights not
only without pay, but at the cost of
hundreds of thousands of dollars. And
certainly that Is some guarantee of
sincerity.”
i GOSSIP I
TOTS DATE IN .HISTORY.
OCTOBER 27.
1S0O—Rcnjnniln- Franklin Wade, Mnssnelm.
setts stnfcsinnn, horn. Died March
1878.
1894—French frigate nrrlced st Annapolis,
conveying French minister to the
United States.
1888—Mrs, Janies Russell Lowell died.
1SS8—Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth pres-
mitre the tramways.
1898— Philadelphia celebrated peace Juldli
1899- Florence M.lrryntl, novelist, tiled
tsiudou.
190-1—lTlr.ee Alert mnde half mile hi :37V
1904—Thu Netv York suliway opened.
come to pretty fair knowledge of each , when he thrashed the cabmen: and l
other's minds. Before we parted tt was I understand quite well that In both In-
-*-■ stances the primal motive was the
same.
On Monday night, tn Madison Square
both legs crushed off*
BOY DIES FROM INJURIES.
Special to The Georgian.
Macon, Oa.. Oct. 27.—While playing
along a sidetrack at Fifth and Poplar
streets yesterday afternoon, Ossie
Rowe, 8 years old, slipped under a
moving string of boxcars, and before
he could be rescued two cars ran over
both hts legs.
He died an hour later In the city
hospital. The remains were removed
to his home at 818 Walnut street.
BY CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
New York, Qct. !?.—J. Plerpont
Morgan Is planning an Italian garden
to adjoin his residence at 219 Madison
avenue, to be laid out on the site of the
house now occupied by Mr. 'Morgan's
daughter, Mrs. Herbert Satterlee.
He Is having a, brand-new house
built for her next to his magnificent
library In East Thlrty-sixth street.
When she moves Into tt In the spring
her present house will be torn down
Immediately, and no expense will he
spared to make the J. Plerpont Mor
gan Italian garden the most beautiful
small formal garden In the country. It
will cost him about $1,000,000.
T. P. O’Conner, better known as "Tay
Pay," both In Great Britain 'and over
here, where he has been for the past
two weeks on h mission to get sub
stantial help for the Irish party, of
which he Is one of the leaders In par
liament, declared today that he had
been far more successful than even he
had hoped.
Mr. O'Conner was at the Hotel Prince
George, on Twenty-seventh street, near
Fifth avenue. He sails today on the
Lucania, and hts last evening was spent
at the home of Mark Twain, who had
invited him to a private dinner to meet
a number of friends of the Irish leader,
and also some noted American writers.
"My mission to the United States."
said Mr. O’Conner to a reporter today.
“Is the most successful I have ever
had. I am going away most satisfied.
Within the next twelve months I ex
pect that there will be $150,000 contrib
uted for the cause ot the Irish partv
as a result ot my two weeks’ stay In
the United States.
“And I am not going away leaving
the work uncared for. I can go away
the better satisfied, although regretfully,
because I am leaving behind two of
my most able helpers—Richard Hazle
ton and Timothy Kettle—both mem
bers of parliament.”
Commander Nebolsine, the new naval
attache of the Russian embassy, and
Mme. Nebolsine have reached Wash
ington accompanied by their children,
and have taken a house In M street.
The new attache arrived in this coun
try in June with hts family, and has
occupied a cottage at Black Rock,
Conn. Mme. Nebolsine Is an accom
plished Russian woman and a linguist
of ability.
The doubting surrogate In hearing a
rill contest does not believe a woman
could possibly hide her father’s will for
80 years and not look at It—not take a
single peep at the precious paper In all
those years. The woman says she did.
I wonder!
Hugh Duffy died 80 years ago, leaving
an estate valued at 810,000. Since that
time hts children have acted on the
resumption that he left no will nnd
tave divided up the property.
Recently one of the daughters. Mar
garet Duffy, produced the wilt nnd
asked that It be declared the last will
of her father, and testified that while
she knew, that the paper In question
was tho will of her father, she put tt
away In a box nnd that she never
opened or looked at It from that time
until just before she offered It for pro
bate.
"Without following the common as
sertion as to the curiosity of woman,”
Surrogate Church said In Ills opinion,
"it Is assuredly beyond the realm of
probability that any person would re
ceive a will and keep tt for 30 years
without ever having opened It to see
what It contained."
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey arc enter
taining at their Washington home the
latter's sister, Mrs. Ludlow, wife of
Rear Admiral Ludlow, U. S. N.
The Atlantic Fruit Company's
steamer, Yumurl, arrived early yester
day from Port Antonio, Jamaica, with
a cargo of 15,000 bunches of bananns.
The centipedes, scorpions and taran
tulas that accompanied the succulent
fruit were down on the manifest.
Banana crews hnve their troubles. It
is a common sight to see a dozen centi
pedes basking In the warmth of the
forecastle, while tho big hungry taran
tulas crawl around and dry up In the
warmth.
"That’s all right, though," said one of
the Yunturl's officers. "The tarantulas
are useful In their way. They're so In
telligent, when the mate strikes eight
bells he has no need to go forward to
call the watch, because the tarantulas
know what’s wanted. They make tho
sunny, dull, booming noise In the men’s
ears until they tumble out and get on
deck.”
The Yumurl sailed again for Jamaica
today for another cargo.
Thirty-four children from the Hos
pital for Crippled Children who were
out for an airing In two large wagon*
were made happy when a handsoinely-
dressed woman gave to each a half-
>und box of candy and a glass of srnla.
Their wardens had stopped and the
children were buying candy from a
vendor. The woman, after warning
the little ones of the danger of eating
such candy, took them to n shop n few
blocks away and for the next half hour
the proprietor had the busiest time of
his life. Tile woman would not reveal
her Identity, but she said she had spent
several weeks In a hospital recently as
the result of being thrown from a horse
and that her eympathtea were with alt
cripples.
perfectly clear to me that this man bo.
Ileved he had a work to do In bettering
conditions, believed In his own ability
to do that work, and would follow Ills
convictions to the end without the
ellgluest concern about the opposition
he might arouse. Ills course since
then has been perfectly consistent with
that Impression—with his views ex
pressed without reserve In many Inti
mate talks—and perfectly logical, also,
although events hnve turned out so
differently from anything we then ex
pected.
We used to talk about the steady In
crease of the (Mover of wealth tn the
republic; about the Interference of the
corporattone In politics and public fife,
the control of the government for the
corporation Intereets; about the grow
ing evil of slums In the cities, the mil
lions of people that live therein with
out sufficient food, light, air or oppor
tunity; about the startling parallel be
tween the situation tn America and
the situation In Rome at the time of
the Gracchi ond the last days of the
Roman republic.
For all these evils he had the same
remedy—which was the extension of
democracy and the turning of the first
attention of the government to the state
of the less fortunate. Progress seemed
Garden, he gave a catalogue of the
things he has done In the war he has
made. Put together thus, they make an
amazing showing. On the whole, he
seems to have good erason to be proud
of the results. This Is what he said
about them:
"Insincerity Is to say something you
do not mean, to profess something you
are not willing to perform. I point not
to my worde. but my actions.
"When I first came to Ne>- \i„lc, t
fought and killed the fuel » o. Then
I fought the Ice trust ,nd the Ice trust
mayor, and reduced the ’'rice of Ice
one-half and put the trust In the hands
of a receiver and the Ice trust mayor
out of office.
"Then I fought the beef trust and
furnished the United States govern
ment with information showing that
tho railroads were giving rebates and
discriminations to tho packers.
"Then I fought the coal trust and
compelled Divine Right Baer and other
coal road residents to produce In
court their criminal contracts, and as
a result of this fight I Introduced In
congress a bill to give power to the In
terstate commerce commission to (lx
railroad rates. This bill the Republican
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to him to mean the progress of the lust: party two years later stole and passed
man in the procession: and he said he land takes credit for.
thought It a much more Important fact , "And then I fought the gaa trust and
that there were people that did not' tiled an appeal with tho attorney gen-
have enough to oat than that we had j eral to dissolve the trust as an illegal
built beautiful houses and big cities. I combination. I then enjoined the gas
We used to talk about the different mayor and Oakley from paying three
A CHEAP LUXURY.
Half the people deny themselves many luxuries because
"they coat too much.** That may be just what you are think
ing about a Kodak. You may want one, and want It badly,
but Imagine that they cost a pile of money. Now, just for
get that a minute, and listen. You have all heard of that
wonderful little watch. “The Dollar Ingeraoll” and Its repu
tation for keeping good time. Well, the little “Dollar Ko
daks" are In the same class. They take astonishingly good
pictures, and just anybody can handle-one. Of course, tye
have fine ones, too, but If you want to take excellent pic
tures on an inexpensive ecale, atari on a "Brownie,*
A. K. HAWKES CO.,
14 Whitehall Street.