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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1806. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN • ft* TtKHl CHAVIS. Mb I I. suit. ft.tHt.l Pub'ithcd Every Afternoon. •Except Sucdnyi By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY* At S Wot Alalia tun 8t.. Atlanta. On. Subscription Rates. One v,n:- ft.®* Six Months Three Months I-5* By Carrier. I’or Week W Smith A- Thompson. mlvertlslug rep resentatives for ull territory outside of Georgia. Ghlengo Office Tribune tttdff. New York OfTta*** Totter Bldg. If you have any trouble getting THE GEORGIAN, telephone the Circulation Department ami hare It promptly rem edied. Telephones: Bell 4927 Main. A flan fit 4401. signed, n* tin evidence of good faith, though the umnea will l»e withheld If requested. lb * * * * not lie returiie for the purpt THE GEORGIAN prints no unclean OUR PLATFORM.-The Georgian itanus for Atlanta's owning Its own gas with a profit to the city. This should f»e done ut once. The Georgian be lieve* that If street railways can be operated successfully by European cities, ns they are. there is no good reason why they cannot he so operated here. Hut we do uot believe this rsti lie done uow, and It may tie some years before we are ready for so big nn un dertaking. Still Atlanta should set Its face lu tbit direction NOW. Minding One's Own Business. If Mayor Woodward has been quoted accurately, and there la no reason to doubt that he has, hh Is settlnR a might}' poor example by Insisting that this Wellington lie allowed to pan handle ill the streets after the Asso ciated Charities had taken up Ills case. Wellington has a cataract on one eye; this cataract Ik worth JIT. a day to him when the weather Is good, ho says, and he dovsn't want it removed. The Associated Charities, who had 111 vestlgated his case, had offered to have his eye-sight restored by an able specialist In this city. When ho de murred, t'le Associated* Charities sought to have him removed from the streets, limllug city ordinances benrlng on the cnsc. Then Mayor Woodward sent word to the secretary of the Associated Charities, telling him to mind his own business. It strikes The Georgian that that Is exactly what Secretary l/ignii was do ing. Also, tlint It Is exactly whnt Mayor Woodward was not doing. President Eliot's Triumph. With the playing of Saturday's foot ball games, tile season of 190G reached Its xenlth, ami will come to a close this week with a few gullies of lesser j national Importance. The result of It so far has been a | triumphant vindication for the new 1 rules. * Kverv big game played this season, | Kast, West or South, has been marked by a comiiarntlve freedom from luju- i rlea that Is In Itself remarkable; In addition the (day has been more sportsmanlike and has been of far more Interest to the spectator ami doubtless to the player. And yet, the season lias been one of mere exiierlmcnt anil except In Saturday's Yale-ltarvsrd hatttle. the IKHisIhllltles of the new rules have not been seized by the teams. With the fXiK-rimental work of this year to fur nish lessons for the uext. the season of 1907 may lie expected to be one of the most glorious in the history of the great college s|ioit. This year there has been an uncer tainty about the possibilities of the new rules, and III consequence the op portunities have not been taken ad vantage fully. The rules have been under trial, and they have been found good. The mien committee this winter will do well to avoid further emendation, contenting itself with the nt ded work ot revising the phraseology of the code mid making plainer some of (he points. When President Eliot, of Harvard, launched Ills invective against the old style game of football, he was met on all KideK with hoots, jeers and ridleulc. Yet he made his attaek so strong that for a time the very existence of the game was threatened. lie continued to force the Issues un til the leading exponents of the game took cognizance and laid the plans for their scheme of reformation. The plans have worked wonderfully well. It has been a signal triumph for the l*r»pleadty and determination of President Eliot. ll<* has undoubtedly saved the game ^om Itself. ®A*'-G it is a game that Is capable of pFcoiapllshlng so much goes! that It - • eg is- lost. THE TWO GREAT SENATORS OF TEXAS. tf ever a flaming crusade ended fn a flat fiasco, It was the move ment to oust Joe Bailey from the senate of the United. States. If the thing ao soon waa done for, what on earth waa It begun for? There was no lack of brains, ability and courage among the men who made up their minds four months ago that they would rebuke Sen ator Bailey's connection aa attorney with the Waters-Plerce (the Standard Oil) Company by persuading the legislature uot to return him to his place in Washington. The legislature had already been elected which was to choose Sen ator Bailey's successor, and his re-election was regarded certain. But thl.i scandal of thF Waters-Plerce Company was aired in the magazines nud public prints. Senator Bailey’s signal success In securing for bis clients the rights and concessions which they desired was recited. His princely fee was duly exploited and the rivals and enemies ot the Texas statesman thought they had at last developed an Issue upon which they could clip his. soaring wings and cut short that radiant career which hail already overshadowed everything else In the stale. As we have remarked, there was no lack of brains and courage behind the Scheme. There Is no better lawyer III Texas than General Crane. He Is a debater of great power, and of a courage as high and clear - as Bailey's own. He was the chosen volee and champion of a strong and brilliant coterie of Texas politicians which Included Attorney General Robinson and the Idea was that upon the real foundation furnished by the Stand ard Oil case, and taking advantage of the tremendous tide of public opin ion flowing against this and other corporatlnnn, they might overwhelm the young giant of the Southern Democracy and persuade the people to sign In every comity such master iietltlons as would coerce the legislature Into refusing Bailey a re-election. * The scheme looked promising and there were numbers of people In and out of Texas who were looking gravely ii|K>n the possible retirement and discrediting of the ablest man who represents the Democratic party In either house of congress. Houston, the metropolis of Southwest Texas, and the largest city In the state, was chosen ns the scene of the opening battle in this great cam paign of annihilation. The occnalon was widely heraldod and an enormona crowd assembled to hear the opening speech of General Crane. Bailey was Invited to meet hlin, nnd. of course, he came. It was a great de bate and It must be. acknowledged that General Crane held his own against the eloquent senator. The crowd was not demonstrative and seemed to ho comparatively Impartial between the two. Bailey was cool and confident. He claimed that as nn attorney he had a right to accept a fee from a corporation, and to do his best for his clients within the limit of the law. He pointed to his long career In congress without a flaw upon his loyalty to the people. He announced with absolute assurance that the effort to defeat him would fall still born, and asserted his belief that it would he dead In a week. It Is wonderful how accurately lie forecasted the result. Notwith standing the really brilliant and promising destructive campaign, the en tire scheme had practically collapaed In a week. General Crane never -made another speech. Attorney General Robinson swiftly subsided, and the petition blanks were given to the winds Instead ot pressed upon the people. Today there Is scarcely a comment upon the opposition movement, and Joseph Bailey, even his enemies being witness, Is stronger than he ever was before, and absolutely Invincible In Texas. For a’., this, Ills friends, and Ills partisans freely concede that his connection with the Standard Oil was a mistake In Judgment and politi cal ethics, but they absolutely repudiate any suggestion of graft or dis loyalty In connection with It. It Is a curious fact that the iieople of Texas, although they have al ways admired nnd appreciated Hajlcy hi a general way, nro just begin ning to understand wliat a really big man he Is. The Washington es timate of the senior senator Is just beginning to get home, and these peo ple nre slowly awaking to the fact that the young publicist of whom they have always been proud and fond ns a brilliant and promlaing hoy Is securely established In national regard as one of the very ablest and soundest statesmen In the republic. The prophet Is coming at last to his merited honor In Ills own country, anil when Texas gets this conception of Bailey In her groat and wide spreading mind, he la In Washington to stay ns long as he pleases. The man Isn't llviug that can heat him for the senate now. The truth Is that Texas Is so big It takes a long time for a man’s worth and reputation to permeate It. A Texas statesman must fight and struggle a long while on high lines to he known all the eight hundred miles from Texarkana to El Paso. Take Senator Culberson, lie Is every whit as good a senator as Bai ley. Not so eloquent, perhaps, and. iierliaps, not so profound a constitu tional lawyer. But as a sound and prudent statesman, he commands ever}' whit as murh confidence ns Bailey, and Is much more isipular among his col leagues. He has a better temiier than Bailey's and n warmer heart, and If the judgment of the Democratic leaders should ever lie equal to the wisdom ami courage of choosing n Southerner as our candidate for president, I am prepared to believe that Charles Culberson, of Texas, would come nearer to the views and measurements of the men who con trol conventions than any man who has yet been named, lie Is a great, clean, safe man In every way. The truth Is that Texas, tnken altogether. Is the best represented slate of all the union. In the high arena of the senate. And Culberson, be It remembered, Is a Georgian by lilrtli, and Halley Is a Mlsslsatpplnn. The South has mighty reason to he proud of both. FROM CHINA AND SOUTH AFRICA. Because It Is a matter ever with us, we deem It not to need an apolo gy that we again refer to the negro question. There are so many phases to the Issue, so uiuch being said and so much more that might lie said that a brilliant young Atlantan Is to publish a magazine devoted solely to the question. Which would Indicate that the subject Is far front exhaust ed. and that there seems to us to lie something significant In two letters that have recently come to The Georgian. One, which Is from one of the officials of the Soo-Chow tChina) Uni versity, appears elsewhere oil this page. The other Is a word from C. Hampden, Box 571, Johannesburg. South Africa. Both are comments on the race problem, being hung on the news- peg of the recent trouble In Atlanta. Now, tiike a map of the world; draw a straight line from Johannes burg. South Africa, to Atlanta, Go., anti then extend this line across America and the Pacific ocean to Soo-Chow, China. It will give you some Idea as to the aco|ie of the race question. That question Is uot as provincial as some have seemed to think. In the editorial from The North-China News, edited by a Britisher, the iHiint Is clearly made that when the negro attempts to attaia equality with, or superiority to the white, trouble must ensue. The letter from Mr. Hampden, which Is certainly a good old English name, brings out a point, which has Itsd a parallel lu the South. He says there Is an Ilk In South Africa, known as Kelr-Hardlcs. These Kelr-Har- dles, he Indicates, may tie compared in a manner with the cariiet-liaggera of ottr reconstruction days. Inasmuch as they nre English inlltlclans who ally themselves with the Zulus In conflict with the colonials, said al liance being made and sympathy professed solely for sordid purposes. Mr. Ituni|ideii says the women of South Africa are In the same terror from assaults of the Zulus ns those of Georgia and of the South. The only Inference to he drawn from these two expressions from re mute corners of the world is that the race question Is one that exists w herever whites and blacks attempt to live together. And the solution? 8TUDENTS WILL ISSUE A COLLEGE ANNUAL. Sj,-. wl to Tilt* tireraUn. Oxford, Oa.. Nov. 26.—In uddlMun to the Emory Phoenix, the present month ly publication of UMinmii Literary S< 1. st III ii-sae a college annual to noun us the “Km- irI Is to la- edited and dnunc >iar by the senior class. The board of edttora for this yeur were elected as follows: J. (1. Stipe, of Carrollton. Ua.. editor in thief: J. YV. Iauvrence, oxford, busi ness manager: \V. A. Woodruff. Poi- Few and Pill | tcrdale. assistant business manager; A. (etles. the student | T. Mind. Atlanta, and Wltliain R. Bry SOUTH'S RACE PROBLEM AS VIEWED BY BRITISH ( IN THE EAR-A WA V OR TEN! To the Editor of The Georgian: ^ „ / Inclose editorial clipped, as shown, from The Sorth China Dally Sews, a British newspaper, published In Shanghai. White possibly Inaccurate in paart. it shows that there are some In dis tant portions of the world and of different nationality who have a very much keener appreciation of and clearer insight Into the problems and conditions that confront our people than many of our own countrymen. It further dem onstrates that the good reputation of Atlanta Irfby no means local. With best wishes for yourself and The Georgian, I am. Yours very truly. Soochow, China, October 18, 1908. (From Tlie North-China Daily News, Shanghai, October 17, 1906.1 THE RACE PROBLEM IN AMERICA. The race war at Atlanta, Georgia, America, accentuate* a great principle In government—the principle that white and dark-skinned race* cannot live to gether under one form of government Ithout becoming embroiled. The emancipation of the American negro was excusable. But the conferring of the elective franchise, almost simul taneously with his emancipation, ww i Injury, for ft placed him on an equality today with his master of yes terday. Owing to his numbers, on ob taining his emancipation and the elec tive franchise, assisted by Federal bay onets, the negro became ruler Instead of slave in nil of the Southern states of America. This rule could not last. The white race In any land will never sub mit to the domination of the black. The whites of the South became active. After the withdrawal of the Federal troops they redrafted their state consti tutions. and practically disfranchised the negro. And today the negro In the Southern states fills the sphere, but fill* It poorly. The recent terrible racu war at Atlanta, where negroes were shot flown as Indiscriminately a* black birds, had It* Inception in the shocking outrage committed by a negro on un accomplished English lady visitor. Miss Ethel Lawrence. The Indignation ot the whites was aroused. Bloodshed ensued, the state troops were sum moned, but being of the people they inflamed rather than quelled the Indig nation of the community. The negro problem In the Southern States of America Is one of the great est that confronts America today. All kinds of schemes have been advanced for Its solution, but the problem re mains unsolved. The colonisation of the negro In the Philippines, or else where, meets with objection from the negro himself. The negro being a na tive of America, a citizen of the land, under amendment* to the constitution, and In many Instances a property own er. he could not, without manifest un fairness nnd great wrong, be forced by might to seek residence elsewhere. And If he were so forced, the tenets of a free, enlightened and constitutional government would be Jeopardized, if not destroyed. The education of the negro makes him a worse citizen than A. D. THOMSON. were his ancestors without education. With education he becomes Impudent, overbearing and mischievous. Educa tion to an American negro, instead of being an advantage, is a disadvantage —It Is a badge of non-employment—for the white race, the employers of edu cated folk, wilt not employ an educated negro. What is the result? The edu cated negro becomes a disturber: he Incites the ignorant of his race to com mit deeds of violence against the whites, and the Inevitable happens—the negro meets crushing defeat. The edu cation of the Filipino by the American government will result In similar con ditions. The American negro Is a distinctive race. There Is no race suicide In the race, nor In the family. He Is rapidly Increasing. He cannot he absorbed by marriage with the tvhlfe race, because such marriage, even among the de praved white class. Is abhorrent. The American negro cannot return to sla very. If It were left to a vote today of the former slave states, and If that vote were final, whether the negro should be relnslnved or remain free, there Is not a state that would not de clare emphatically. In Immense majori ty, for the negro’s continued freedom. And why? The negro Is not wanted as a citizen, neither Is he wanted as a slave. Even in the cotton fields .of the South be Is rabidly being sup planted by white labor at a far more remunerative wage than he, physically strong ns he Is, Is willing or able to earn. It Is not possible to dismiss the subject by complaining of the lawless ness of the white residents. Atlanta Is the capital of Georgia. The city, for Its size, enjoys the distinction of being the most prosperous in the world. Its Inhabitants are far more distinctively American than are the Inhabitants of Chicago or New York. They are large, ly descendants of the first families of the South—of pure English ancestry. Atlanta Is the home of culture. I* abounds with schools, seminaries, col leges, art galleries, libraries, publication houses for the dissemination of litera ture, nnd churches. What Boston Is to the North, Atlanta is to the South. Significant and weighty is the fact that a race war should have broken out In this city of culture and twentieth century advancement. It Is more—It Is appalling, for It brings not only the attention of America, but the civil, ized world, the race problem In Amcr lea, for which, as yet, there Is no solu tlon. Nooks and Corners of American History By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. NEGROES AFRAID OF RIOT; MANY LEAVE CITY FEARING OUTBREAK ON CHRISTMAS No Grounds For Ru mor Spread Among Negroes. An exodus of negroes from Atlanta, aused, it l* said, by the rumor that on Christmas another riot will start. In hlch the mob will have for Its aim the wiping out of negroes, is causing consternation In some quarters nnd every effort Is being made to reassure the timid that .there I* no ground for any such fear. Just how a rumor of this kind spread among the Atlanta negroes Is not known, but It Is said that some negro preachers have been sowing the seed of fear among their flocks and In this manner many of the l>est negroes of Atlanta have either gone or are making preparations to sell out their effects and leave the city. It Is said that the negroes believe plans have been made to start another riot on Christmas and that a massacre of negroes will result. Business men who have dealings with negroes declare that a general exodus will follow unless they are assured that nothing of the kind has been planned, or even thought of. It Is thought by some that this rumor has been spread among the negroes for business pur poses, but It Is hitting some business houses hard. That Atlanta has had all the riots It will have for many years to come there I* little doubt and prominent negroes are making every effort to assure the timid and fear-stricken members of their race that the}' will he safe In At lanta. 1,400 GRAVES OF CONFEDERATES CANNOT NOW BE FOUND IN THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS THE IROQUOIS LEAGUE. While ns yet no white man tail set foot ti[K)ti the .Imre, of the New Worlil. there won lielitg Mulcted upon the virgin continent nil the |)Un«e« of the ilrnnnt tlint wmk going mi In Europe. Bed-nltliiueil wsrriortj mnt ntntenmen were tinny with their tullUnry tactics sad affairs of state, and midst the “forest primeval" the came of war and politics urn* befog pluyed quite u* earnestly aa In tb« Old World. History gives us a faint glimpse of an Onondaga chief named Hiawatha, who was lioru about inn years before the coming of Columbus. „ , „ Hiawatha was a “savage, but all the «ntue lie possessed the Jie.-irt of a ( hrislinn nnd the brain of a ■tafe*inau. fifty years liefore the landing of Columbus, Hiawatha, assisted by the Mohawk chief Ihigonoweda, had brought about the confederacy known as 'The Iroquois League." The ineinliern of this celebrated confed eracy were the Iroquois trllie* known ns the "Five Natlous"—the Heneens. Caytigns. Onondaga*. Oneldn*. and Molmwks. The object of the league wn* twofold- first, to nut a stop to the ererlattlog war- fnre which wn* decimating the tribes, and second, to create the power whtch would safeguard the federated trllie* against sueli other Iudlau* a* might threnteu them. The plan worked to perfection. It made the Iroquoi* the strongest power on the contlncut. nud the knowledge of that power among the ml men generally tended to make them more cautions about sounding the war-whoop. Mr. Gladstone declared that the constitu tion of the I’ulted Htntes was the "greatest piece of work that ever sprang from the brain of man,*’ nnd certainly we have no desire to take Issue with the great English man’* statement; but let It no* In* over- looked that the Iroquois I.cngne anticipated our constitution by almost SO years. The ignorant “snvnge*’’ thought of, nnd put to work ill their midst, the Identical principle* that underlie the operation or our Federal government. The Idea running all through our consti tution, of “nn indestructible union of in destructible states.” Is precisely the Idea thnt dominated the Indian confederacy. The “Nations” remained tuitions, presort - lug their tribal existence Intact, nt the same time thnt they federated themselves for certain common cuds. It Is n pity thnt we do not know more nlNiut the great Indian who got such a long start of Jar nnd Franklin. Hamilton nud Madison, nnd the rest of the famous men who framed the constitution of the United States. OUR THANKSGIVING BREAKFAST SERIAL I GOSSIP Col. Elliott Has Diffi culty in Carrying on His Work. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 26.—Colonel William Elliott, of the war department at Washington, is in imliunupolis. *eek. Jng the graves of 1,400 Confederate soldiers who died at Camp Morton dur ing the civil war. Colonel Morton apprehended no trou ble In finding these graves until he ar rived here nnd begun his search. Stu pendous difficulties now confront hint, nnd apparently nil the older citizens of Indianapolis are unable to aid hint, though they are eager to do so. Removal From Greenlawn. Records In the government war de partment show that the 1,400 Con Crown Hill cemetery. Believing his task all but completed, Colonel Elliott investigated at Crown Hill. Hut they told hint there thnt not a single Confederate was burled In that cemetery. In Greenlawn no trace of them could he found. Trying to Find Gravos. So the problem remains unsolved. Colonel Elliott will continue his senrch until the graves are loeated. The war department In muklng an effort to And the graves of Confeder ate soldiers In the North Is ucting un der the provision* of the Foraker hill passed by the last- national congress. The bill authorizes the war department to ascertain where all confederate sol. •Hers lie buried In the North and to place a marble slab at the head of each grave. The Confederate prisoner* who died at Indianapolis were brought to Camp Morton In February, 186?. They came from Fort Donelson and had belonged to General Buckner's command. Fif teen thousand Confederate* were cap tured at Donelson by General Grant federates who died ut Camp Morton | and were brought North. Several thou sund of these prisoners came to Camp Morton. The weather was bitterly cold when they arrived here and many of them contracted pneumonia as the result of the sudden change In temperature. The Confederates had no blankets and had only thin comfort* to wrap themselves In when they slept. were burled In Greenlawn cemetery here. In the state library Colonel El liott found a history of Indianapolis during war times, written by Colonel It. Holloway, now I’nited States minister to Halifax. Colonel Holloway states that the bodies of the Confeder ate* were removed from Greenlawn to mutual to In* , an. Wrlghtsvtlle. literary editor*: K. li ” This an- { McGregor. Buena Vista, and J. \V. film-I inuneed each mon*. Atlanta, athletic editors. I WHAT THE SOUTH CAN DUPLICATE Each setting r un sees the South richer by over 63.’n)o,ooo in actual wealth, but even this Is not more Important than the accumulation of experience In the uitllfxatlon of our resources which Is now' In progress and the awakening of the entire country to the fact that in the Hmith Is to center the mightiest industrial and commercial forees of the world. This section can duplicate the coat and iron »nd steel industry of the North and West: It can duplicate the cotton-spinning Interests of the world: It tan duplicate the lumber and woodwctklng interests of the entire coun try; It can duplicate the oil trade of America, If not the w orld’s: It can continue to monoi/ollze the world’s cotton production: It can produce nil the rice needed In Ameiicu. nearly all the tobacco and much of the sugar; It can duplicate all of the citrus fruit and trucking Industry of the coun try: It can double Its present cereal crop of S00.000.0n0 bushel*, double and quadruple Its cotton crop, duplicate through Its great rivers ami splendid I arbors rHe coastwise and Coreigtt trade of the country. If cun. ami will, do uji these things, und ever then not have reached the limit of it* development —Manufacturers’ R;« ■ ni. By WEX JONE8. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP TERS—Hiram Hlghslgn Is snatched from his happy home by a passing bal loon and Is dropped beside a farm house. After u savage dog has taken a sotivenli* from his leg, Hiram Is ad mitted by the lady of the house, and Is congratulating himself on his good for tune. when a terrific crash shakes the building. CHAPTER IV. "Oh,” observed the hostess, “Man* dy’s begun washing the dishes. 0 Htrain laughed hysterically. "Don’t string me,” he said; “I’m over strung already.” "Never mind,” replied the hostess, "let’s go to u matinee and be rest ful.” Is there a theater near the farm?” asked Hiram. "No, no,” was the response. “We’ll go to New York; It’s only 350 miles, and we shall be In plenty of time for the show the day after tomorrow.” “See," added the mistress of the house, picking up an unusually large carving knife; "with this I shall carve our way to the stage." Hiram experienced a vague feeling of unrest, and his resentment against the balloonists began to Increase. "We’ll go to the railroad In my mo tor car,” said-the landlady. "I think perhaps I’d better not," ob jected Hiram. “Oh, yes, you must,” said his host ess, delicately toying with the carving knife. Hiram grew still more uneasy. He followed the Indy to the yard, where she paused before a wheelbarrow. "Here Is the oar," she said, placing her hand upon the wheelbarrow. "And > # ou,” she added, "are the motor.” Hiram groaned. "Go up ull the hills you can,” con tinued the hostess. "I love going up hills. And as fast as you can, for I’m quite a reckless chauffeur." The carving knife looked infernally long and sharp. Hlrnm took hold of the wheelbarrow. I’m Inclined to think the lady is not absolutely sane." he thought, as he braced himself to run the car. "Make a noise like an engine!" com manded the lady. "Choo-chug! f'hoo-chug! I’hoo- chug!" responded the unhappy Hlrnm. "Hhe must he a bit rocky nt the sum mit.” he thought. "And here," said the lady, hanging a pair of rubbers around Hiram's neck, "is a couple of spare tires." But Hlrnm \vlth u wild "honk! honk!” lied madly down the country road. By the side of the now motoriess bar- row lay the figure of a woman, shaken convulsively by some great emotion. "Mercy!" she gasped, 'i’ll die If 1 laugh any mole. Hut I sure scared that panhandler off the premises for good. "And he certainly can travel some— (To be Continued.) FALL TERM OEBATES AT EMORY COLLEGE. Speelnl t«* Tin* Georgian.. Oxford. Ou., Nov, 37.—On last Satur day night the annual fall term debate between the Few and Phi Gamma I.lt- entry Societies of Emory was held In Fe v Hall, Professor J. p. Danner pre siding. Few’s representatives were T. M. Sullivan. Hotn?r. G.t.: <\ I). Elliott. Covington, Ga.; J. N. Townsend. Tlf- ton. Ga., negative; while Phi Gamma's speakers were T. J. Dempsey. Jackson Ga.; G. C. White. Newnnn, Ga.; L. C. Dickson, Fayetteville. Ga.. affirmative. Question: "Resolved That experience teaches thnt the wist aggregation or wealth In the hands of private manu facturing corporations is Inimical *<» public welfare." The decision was ren dered In favor of the affirmative. By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER New York, Nov. 26.—Smart pem,, e are defying the old-time traditions an.] snapping their fingers at them a * did Mrs. "Jack” Gardner. On a reien . visit In Italy Mrs. Gardner nnd her maid found themselves in for a Journey In a railway compartment that bG.'i three half drunk men. Their presence jarred the nerv*** the leader of Hub society to such nn extent that she finally suggested to the maid that they defy a superstition and open an umbrella to serve as a S i leen It was done. With Mrs. Astor a.in peacock feathers, with brides chow«iu* Friday as their wedding day and with Mrs. Gardner opening an umbrella in- doors. It looks as if society were to fling all fear of "hoodoos.” Harry Gordon Selfridge has <„, ne back to get Ideas for a department More to be established In London on .\in«>ri. can lines. It is to be located on • »\f., r j street, under the name of Se|fri,| Ke . Waring Company. Mr. Selfrldgc plans to make the store headquarters f.. r London shoppers. Having put down In "Jmpn-*shniT her observations In Europe, tin* • t.un- tess Margaret Hoyes, sister of Prince** Herbert Bismarck, is touring tin r n |. ted States in search of. more -|i n . presslons.” Countess Margaret wrote for a London weekly several sk-tdies of German and Austrian society. she and her companion, tlie Countess v„ n Plesse, will he entertained for a v.^k In the Austro-Hungarian embassy Jn Washington, after which they will g.> South nnd thence to the Pacific mast. Involving certain rights In the Ktseu- hut automobile patent, which, it i* ton- tended, antedates the well-known Se|. den patent, a suit is being Instituted i>y Mrs. Ella V. Eisenhut, wife of the in ventor, and her niece. Miss Marian <}. Reid, claimants to Interests therein, to regain possession of patent stock recently sold by Isaac Gates, a wealthy capitalist of Wall street. Miss Virginia Harned, who is ap pearing In "The Love Letter," declares the American girl has not been taught to use good English. "There should be nn institution of national character where girls might be taught the use of good conversation al English,” she says. “I think It Is of more importance even that the national school of dra matic art—almost as Important. If not quite, as, the national theater." nh»* continued. "You van have no Idea how many girls, otherwise gifted for a stage career, come to the theater with ab solutely no conception of the correct English.” The Intention of Senator Christy Sul livan to race a pretentious stable in 1907 was announced at the Denning lace track. Jn line with such a plan rt bill of transfers and sale wa* re corded at the secretary’s office where by the new senator is set forth as the purchaser of the Interest held by Morty Lynch, the club-house commissioner. *n the colt Rye. Sullivan also bought two useful two-year-olds. Royal Lady and Krushman, which are bound to develop Into useful racing medium three-year- olds next season. James Halligan, of McChesney street, Orange. N. J., got the tlpsey idea that he needed some aerial exercise. I’n- steadily he, a muscular fellow, 27 years old, climbed to the top of the Lack awanna railroad's lofty signal tower at Nassau street. There he seized the semaphore, which stood at a right angle, nnd 50 feet In air, he swung out and began to do stunts like a elrcm athlette on a trapeze. While Halligan yelled at the top of hls lungs, he swung to and fro. kicking all the while as if he were swimming In another element. The tower signal man added hls cries. He momentarily expected Holllgan to fall off and no dashed to pieces. But there was an other danger. While the man’s weigh* hung on it, the semaphore, and the chain of signals of which It Is part, could not be moved. Halligan scoffed until hls arms grew weary* and then descended. Patrol man George 8chott promptly arrested him. Halligan, after a long sleep. t«w Justice Bray that he remembered noth ing of the dangerous adventure. •I fine you 810,” said the Justice. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. MUSCOGEE AT WORK FOR DISTRICT SCHOOL. 1 H- NOVEMBER 26. 17nt—Wlllinin «'owner. English Died April 25. 1800. 1N22—Knrl August Hnnlenbei'} MatesuMii. who romHieted reslMtnuce to Nitpoleoil., • May 51. 1750. 1MJ1—Queen Maud of Norway I Mb—Fire lu Lynn. Mam., «le> ooo.oo) I it property. 1899—Charles Frnneln Adams resigned pf hlenry of I'r.lon Pnellh- railway 1894—Marshal Ilhiueo resigned the .tlL • '•iplaln general of ( ubn. 1899-British defeated Boers In ld“" |v 1 n tie of Modder river. 19)2—Flight tel nnd Germany nulled their elnlniH upon Venezuela. 19>l—President U.msevelt visited M 1 “ 1 world's fair. MRS. COCKRAN KNOWN IN GADSDEN, ALABAMA Mpeelii! fo Th* Georgian. Gadsden. Alu.. Nov. 26.—Mi^ 'uni* Ide. the young Indy who recently m* , ‘ lied Bourke t’oekran, the noted York politician. 1* well known 1 ‘' ^ whet" site had often visited. Fn* ! ’ n the daughter of II. C. Me. of Jn* * vllle. Ala., a well-known inere.ian f ■ j' manufacturer. H? was appoint* *. President McKinley n* one or tit* mlssloner* to the Philippine P - 1 HI* daughter Is a striking Dl” Houthern beauty. ' i WILL INVITE CONFERENCE ‘ TO GO TO BAINBRIDGE Speelnl to Tin* Georgian. I Columbus. Ga., Nov. 26—Following! j up the recent action of the grand Jury Special to The Georgian. ■ In adopting a resolution urging the! Bainbridge, Ga.. Nov. 26.—Th* f I county commissioners, the commons I quarterly conference of the Bain*' J commissioners and the city counc il :.>» station warn held In the First M* ' 1 • take an active Interest In securing the ■ church last week. The rep*> r,v state agricultural college, which I* to jail deportments of the church be established In the Kouith dlsttlc:. | phowret) the church to be In fin- j the committee apimlnted by Foreman i Hon. Rev. J. A. Smith. paM° r In • iSjSinw Jur> ' hH * ,m ‘ l :1 ! trill leave for conference nn th' V " 1 * iu, '‘ natnol mi Mr. Smith has Iwn authortf'l 1 ' « I?!.!. . I active Meta, nr’ t.. ,:r»ni-'.’ of Ihc church to I't'l" lx taUen lo bi n* aaoui lb* Uczlrci j next rewlan of the South Geontm * fereuca to Painbrhlgtv. result.