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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1» THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN .cm rcimi cKMvcs. em- I. 1. SlUY,. CrrUdeit * Pub'ished Every Afternoon. •IJxsept Sunday i By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY, Al 3 Weft A la Im tua St.. Atlanta. On. Subscription Rates. One V*nr Sis Mouth*.. Smith A Thompson, advertising rep* retont:itire* for till territory outside ut Georgia. Chicago office Tribune Illdg. New York Office Potter Hldg. It you have any trouble getting THIS OKOIDHAN. telephone tin* Circulation Department nurt have It promptly rein- * ... . U»|l 4X7 Main. It Is ilorflruhle that all comuitinha- flon* Intended for publication In TUB • Jh'OKiJIAN he limited to 40) words In length. It I* Imperative that they be signed. an an evidence of goml fnHI*, though the name* will he withheld If requested. Rejected mu mi scrip's- will not he returned unless stamps are sent for the purpose. THK OfcOUUIAN print* no unclean or uhje$*tf outride advertising. Neither doe*-It print whisky or any liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM.—The Georgian ■Units for Atlanta's owning Its own gas ami electric light plants, ns it now owns Its waterworks. Other cities do this aud get gus ns low as 60 cents, with a profit to the city. This should Im done ut ouce. The Georgian In fsca lu tint direction NOW. What Is the Matter With the Po lice Department? What la the matter with the Atlanta police department? Not a week passes hut that a rum pus of some sort Is raised In that sys tem for the preservation of peace and correction of vice. llow at variance with the record the Atlanta five department has made! A scandal or row In the fire depart ment Is something unheard of. For twenty years that system has been do ing Its work In conspicuously efficient fashion, and not once—to onr knowl edge—has there developed any Inci dent. such as have been regularly com lng up to the discredited the police j department. Is It Hint a strong, honest man was for twenty yeara lit absolute charge of the Are department while the po lice department lias been In the hands of n board, which has been an Incubus around which the web of municipal liolltlcs lias beeu spun? THE STAND-PATTERS WILL DRAW CARDS. On the authority of the very able Washington correspondent of The lloslon Transcript, we have It that, with the future of t^ielr party on their minds, the Republican legislative leaders are returning to Wash ington In general agreement that If Republican politics are to command the support of the peqplc at the polls two years from now the. party must meantime move forward. , To resort to the vernacular of that eminent sport. Joe Cannon—the (J. O. P. finds It's poor poker to stand pat on a four-flush and, after drawing the limit. Is going to hike. How different from that stand pat slogan sounded a year ago is the cry going up from Republican moguls, "Rally to Teddy." The game now is to assist or make, pretense of assisting President Roosevelt In every move that he thinks well. Those .November election* seem to have awakened the Republican leaders. They now see that President Roosevelt received n splendid Indorsement at the polls a few weeks ago, and they are doubtless rather Inclined to the belief that his personality and his personal popularity, were perhaps the greatest factors in the presidential campaign of 1331. They seem to be aroused to tlie effect of the statement Mr. Bryan lias been making In siieech after siiecch since his return to America— that Mr. Roosevelt Is a pretty good Democrat In a mighty had party, and that every Importun! reform .Mr. Roosevelt has es|)ouaed him been a plank from the Democratic platform. President Roosevelt is going to dominate this last session of the Fifty-ninth congress. There Is no doubt about that. Though there may be a recalcitrant member, with some special monojudy to serve, here and there among the Republicans, as a whole the party will line up. and the Insurgents will lie yanked Into the fcld. They realize that they cannot afford to revolt against hint. They know the hold he has upon the peo ple, little as tney may like him or his measures. The next presidential campaign is two years off, but Its issues will be practically formulated this winter. For tills reason the president's message to the retiring congress will be an unusually luteresting document. It will doulglcss indicate, by way of suggestion, the grounds on which some of the opening skirmishes will l»e fought. It Is tacitly undeistood that the message this year will give a comprehensive Idea of what President Roosevelt expects his par ly to accomplish during the remaining two years of his administration. It Is known that he will call for legislation providing for a system of progressive taxation on Inheritance, and pohzibly some way of mulct ing large Incomes. It is also known tliut it is the president's desire for legislation requiring all corimratlons—except railroads—doing an Inter state business to be licensed by the federal government. Requests for luws to prevent watering of stocks, to prohibit contri butions to campaign funds by corporations and to limit the working hours of railway employeea are also expected from the president. In short, the president Is expected to adopt the platform on which William Randolph llearat made his race for the governorship of New York. 1 But, one may ask of us, Is the Republican party become so good? Not yet. Nor soon. * It Is simply this: President Roosevelt Is a man of undoubted Integ rity n:id of undoubted—albeit somet lines misguided—patriotism. He Is lhe most dominant figure In the Republican party, but he la less of a Re publican than any other man in the party. The leaders of the party real ize his power with the people; also their ears are to the ground and they hear the rumble iu the distance. They may yield go the president in some of his pet measures In the hope of palliating him and of making show of being n real reform party, but In the back-ground they will be at work on the ship subsidy and other special privilege measures. The president Is an honest man, and because of his hdnesty Is a mar velously successful politician. They have got to follow him a little way, but they will never go the distance. , And he himself will fly ofT nt a tangent before he completes for him- Belt that which he conceives to be Ills destined work. There'll be n lot left for the Democratic party when all's said and done. PANHANDLER SEASON HERE; BIRDS OF RA GGED REA I HER ARE DRIFTING SOUTHWARD Cotton at 11 Cents. The cotton situation, from the grow er to the merchant dealing in the product of the loom, is u much dis cussed topic uf the moment. Among! the people directly Interested It Is the I all-ubsorldng question of the day. , Previous lo the appearance of tho] glnucrt' report the farmer was tho < “underdog" in the fight, appearances I being decidedly against him. only n ! very few of the expert statisticians | shedding a ray of hope for him aud ilia j money crop. Crop estimates were: against him. He Imd, according to! these statisticians, ruin'd more cotton ! than the world required, and mei-pro-1 duet Ion prices stared him In the face, i and ronbiued with a "broad and moat" j minimum price, fixed by one of his or- j conizations, there was a rush to mar-! ket by the sniiill farmer In order to ! get the minimum, which proved disas-1 Irons to that price and apparently con firmed bumper crop estimates. The speculative element took advantage of j the big estimates, and heavy crop movement, sold tne market short and . were confident tti their position up lo i tho publication cf tho last gtnners’ tv- 1 l»it, giving the amount ginnod up to November H at 3,531,000 bales, and from estimates at 13,000.000 to 11.000,- f 000 bales. It was figured the farmers; Instead of producing a small amount In 1 excess of the world's requirements, j placed by Mr. Ellison, the i; ;g||sh sta tistician at 13.500,000 bales, had fulled to meet the world's demand for cotton by some 300,000 or 000,000. s^The result was a decidedly u. -if demand for the heavy movement and at the present time such grades as are wanted by spinners are a very scarce article and the rapid rise of these grades Is causing a demand and belter prices fur the lower grades. These facts have dawned upon the slieculatlvc bear In a way that has placed the li>ss on his side of the ac- eouut, tlie producer reaping the bene fit of the advance while the speculator is pocketing a deserved loss. In his efforts to right himself. The spinners are now paying II rents for the staple and ti looks ns though that will lie the price at Inlc- 1 U r points in other words, the price i! . 1 to th<- Ir.iliter. 1 TEXAS RAILWAY SCHEDULES. I let Iter till Correspondence by John Temple Graves.) Let the man who seeks to escape the nightmare of broken railway schedules steer clear of this new and growing West. Bad as we are in the railway world of Georgia, we are blessed among travelers as compared with the people of Texas and the Terri tories. I have never seen tier dreamed of such universal demoralization of the American railway system ns that which prcralla all over the country and finds an especial emphasis In the "magnificent distances" of the West. I left Atlanta on Saturday night the 17th. t reached Birmingham over the Southern one hour late. I reached Meridian over the Alabama Great Southern three nnd n half hours late. I reached Shreveport over the Queen and Crescent ulno hours late and I went from the train to the lecture platform at Paris, Texas, twelve hours late, to address an audi ence that bad kindly waited for mo until 9:30 p. m. During this entire week of rapid and consecutive travel, I have reach ed no destination less than two hours behind the schedule time, nnd in most eases four and alx hours late. The |>eoplc seem dazed and helpless . under the demoralization of such schedules, nnd endure it with the grim silent forbearance of the West, purely because they have no voice to speak their discontent or to enter their public protest against the criminal negli gence and apathy which auhjects them to such personal inconvenience and to such commercial disadvantages ns the ch .otic railway conditions eutall. There is not a newspaper in Texas, or the West which seems to have the courage and the clearness to Rponk out In behalf of the people hs our Atlnnla and Georgia papers nro doing. And for that matter, Texas, with all Hs vaunted claims of vast ness and empire, has not u dally news paper equal In merit to any one of' Atlanta's three leading dallies. The Houston Post aud The Galveston und Dallas News arc the three best Untiles lu the gigantic slate, and any one of Atlanta's three uowspa- pers discounts (horn from every standpoint of journnlistlc merit. The railroads of Texas are us defiantly silent as are those of Geor gia In tills (H-rlod of Irregitiarlty and disappointment, but now and then one of their big chiefs essays an explanation. The aggregate of apology for a world of Inconvenience amounts to this: The rainy season—un precedented In Texas—has made the rail bed moist and soft all over tho state. The heavy freights, travelling over these rights of way, cause it to collapse ami sink iu places, compelling the trains to go slow to protect the lives of passengers and the safety of freight. More fo the point is the scarcity of labor. The railways and the cot ton growers are iu florae competition for every laborer. The railroads at groat expense import laborers from the North aud Northwest to go over their tracks. The cotton growers with their white fields clamoring for "pickers." are tempted to tamper with the railroads' Imported help, aud there Is eternal war between the planter nnd the railroad man. Bo far the cotton farmer 1ms outbid the railroad boss and stolen the railway hands for the cottou fields, whereupon the railway officials throw up their '.lands end explain their broken schodules by the successful robbery which the cotton men have perpetrated upon their carefully Imiiorfed labor supply. But there Is no end of hypocrisy In this claim. Back of all of the chaos Is the swelling, rolling, thundering live .freight trains whose mis sion and profit side-track the convenience of passengers and the sched ules of passenger trains. The money that Is in freight trains blinds the railway officials to the real and Implied objection to the human cattle that is held and stilled and halted and delayed and "tic-damned." while the brute beast.-, and the dead freight' go thundering by them. The best engines are for the freight trains. The best cars are for the dead matter, aud whenever the packed and suffocating passengers dare to lie comforta ble lu loss crowded cars, a car Is Immediately cut out of tlie train, and be hind a light nnd wheezy engine tho condensed human freight, repacked In smaller and fewer coaches, are sent crawling forward to get to the ter mini w hen and when* they can, I have seen this done twice within the last two days iu Texas, and my blood Is boiling yet nt the Indignity and the cruelty of it all. A fine thoughtful fellow traveler of mine said to me on yesterday: "I am beginning to believe that the railroad magnates are trying to lure:.- govcruniont ownership ujion the people. They would be glad to un load their vast watered properties upon the government just at this tffiio of overtax and outgrowth with them, and they have deliberately conspired all over the country to throw the railway schedules into chaos and tangle in order to aggravate the people into a willingness to Indorse Mr. Bryan's proiiosttion. and to take off their hands these vast while elephants out of which they have coined colossal fortunes, nnd whose preseut facilities and equipments are utterly unequal to the clamorous demand of the people u I ion them." Whether there be anything in this or not. it is undeniably sure that if the railway maguales had sought a method to popularize the govern ment ownership theory they could nut have found a better and more ef fective way than they have dev, loped In the tangled and uncertain sched ules which are Incommoding mid aggravating the people past patience or tolerance all over the country. Fort Worth, Tex., Nov.. 23. "Hark, hark, the dogs do bark. The beggars are coming to town: Rome In rags and some In Jags; AnA snmA In fpii’of trnwn " What would a professional panhan dler—beggar, the uninitiated would say -—do If offered a nice easy job watching a bunk at $60 a month? That Is a question that the recent experience the Associated Charities had with G. W. Wellington, the blind man who gathered In coin by grinding a hand organ, has brought ab<yit. Would he say, “Youse is so kind,” and fall upon your neck and weep, de claring you to be his good Lady Boun tiful? Hardly. If he knew you he would tell you to chase yourself and quit your kidding. If you were a prominent citi zen and connected with a charitable organization he might make an ,ap pointment to meet you and not keep It. Panhandling is an easy graft, and chen worked properly Is a lucrative >ne. Of course, an able-bodied man cannot work it unless he blisters his arm und exhibits the burn or unless he has nerve and wears blue goggles and says he's blind. That’s risky. Fly cops might get next and run him In. But a man with one leg—shy a pin, the professional panhandlers say—or with an arm gone or with afflicted eyes, has a cinch If he learns the game. Association Steps In. Until the systematic work of the As sociated Charities put an end to It in several cities of Georgia, panhandlers were common sights on the streets in the spring and fall of the year. Anti these sights were made possible because of the activity of the police of Northern cities In running them out. With New York made too warm for them, these panhandlers migrated. They start from the North about the time Jack Frost leaves his visiting card in the shape of a yellow leaf on a park bench and begin working to the South. By the time cold weather has hit the North, they are generally well into Georgia, and they work from town to town until they strike Florida, Texas, 1 Louisiana and Alabama. By that time things are getting warmer and the re turn trip to the North is commenced. Many a panhandler, with only one leg. Is working a good graft—good enough to board In good places, pay railroad fare and set ’em up in barroom haunts at night. But It’s an entirely different sort of person one sees In the barroom with a good cigar stuck between the teeth. Then he Is just an ordinary person frequenting barrooms, with one Jeg and wearing a crutch. But while working his graft lie’s different. It’s a Good Graft. With the leg of his trousers rolled up beyond where his leg Is amputated, he sits upon the cold pavement with out an overcoat, shivering, too, for It looks more pitiful, nnd as he extends his forlorn cap with a few pennies Jn it he can hand out the most pathetic whine one ever heard. And to make things look even more pathetic, he wraps some clean ban dages around the end of hfs amputated leg—Jt suggests a recent operation— and the suckers do the rest. Look as hard as you please and you’ll never see anything In the hat except pennies unless you see the silver you placed there. The professional k pan handler is too wise for anything so foolish. As so op as the money Is dropped In it Is taken from sight. Too much coin would suggest comfortable circumstances, and this would queer his graft. And when business is good a panhandler sometimes finds it neces sary to get money changed so as to have those stock-in-trade coppers. But he always has them. All afflicted persons who have ever panhandled probably remain panhand lers until they die, or are run In by the police and sent up. Work, no matter how easy, goes hard after the easy graft of panhandling. And so well has the graft worked that many a grafter has blistered his arm or hand for the purposes *of getting sympathy and—money. Hardly a circus that has been in At lanta this year but had its panhandler They travel with shows Just like they work fair circuits. They follow fakirs. Not long ago one of these pan handlers was pinched by the Macon police and it later developed that he was the advance man for the bunch yeggemen Hushed by the Atlanta police in the Gannon house. He hobbled about with a crutch and one, leg and gave cards with the mute alphubet on them in return for money-he panhandled. F< he was also u mute, was this pan handler, in addition to being shy a pin. Found Voice and Leg. But arraignment In police court brought about a different state of af fairs. The first thing he did was to demand in a loud voice that he be given a lawyer and when searched by tiro police and his long coat removed it was found that his leg had been “am putated” by being strapped up by a leather harness. Not only that, but In side a pocket In this leather harness was found over $900. He could both hear and talk and had two good legs. The criminal part this panhandler played was to enter stores on the pre tense of begging nnd then size up the situation so that his pals, the' yegge- men. could plan safe-cracking expedi tions. And even at that it was profit able to him. * In fact, the graft must be a profitable one when a blind man like Wellington prefers blindness ond good money »o sight and work. It Is to get rid of these panhandlers that the Associated Charities is work ing. Few of them are now on Atlanta’s streets and fewer still there will be when people find out what a swell graft panhandling is. Bo just to prove It. offer the next panhandler you see a nice, easy job and see w hether or not he accepts it. Bep%iute from these panhandlers are some afflicted persons unable to do any work and beyond being cured who eke out- an existence by selling matches, newspapers. Shoestrings and the like, but they are not in the same class. Panhandlers arc in a class by them selves, and it's a prosperous class. Nooks and Corners of American History By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. PATRICK HENRY’S FIRST CASE. It woi the year 1763, «n«l Patrick Henry bad Just passed his examination and bocu Admitted to the bar. He Imd not ns yet had n raise. He was the genius of poverty und the living incarnation of Indolence, and his fellow-townsmen hud anything but rosy predictions concerning the future or the new-fledged lawyer. But the unexpected always happens, anu the unpromising Ilmh of the law was des tined to give his brother Virginians the surprise of their lives. Iu this same year. 1763. some sixty min isters .d the fSpIsconal church of the Old Dominion endeavored to retrovet/their hwu from the reduction that had been wade seven years before In the price of tobnc—* At that time, owing to the fact that many were lu the war or on guard -- home, tobacco went to the value of 6 shill ings a pound, and the nss'*mhlv voted that for a specified period debts might he paid at the rate of 2 shillings ft pound, 'fills ive general relief, aud the clergy ic only tines to object. Aud now the ministers were trying to get out of having to help fiear tin* com mon burden. The assembly Informed them that nothing could Im* done for them, and that they must share the afflictions of their flocks. The ministers then appealed to the ag. saying that they were not Virginians, it clergy of the diocese of London. The king took their part, annulled the decision of the Virginia assembly, and or dered Ihal the uiliiisters' salaries he paid iu full. The assembly paid no attention to the king's order ami a UAv. Mr. Maury brought salt for his claim la Old Ilau- The people of I In Hover at once resolved to tight the Kev. Mr. Maury to the last ditch, nnd looked about them for an side lawyer to take care of their side of the case. But able lawyers at tluit tlnu* were anything but plentiful lu the old Domin ion. mid the few to he found were favora ble to the king rather than to the people. What were they to do? At lust some one said: "Try Patrick Usury.“ The sugges tion was taken up at once, and Henry was employed. When the day for the trial came, the green young attorney was lu Ids place. He was trembling like a leaf. By anti by the time arrived for him to stand up before -the Jury—and he nearly collapsed from fright! But the scare was ouly for n mo ment. Gettlug his feet well under him mid bracing himself for his task, Henry sud denly broke forth into such speech as \ Ir- giuia Juries hml never heard before. Pnder the scorching Invective, the min isters. one after another, picked up their hats, clinched their teeth nml shuffled out of the room, while the people felt that nt last they bsd found their young country man's true measure. In words that rang like the notes of n bugle, the young orator declared that the kfug who would support such eiaiuis as that which the ministers were oontendln; was a tyrant whom nobody was bourn obey, and when the Kev. Mr. Maury ..,.*d tmt. "Treason!’’ Homy repeated hi* words und then thundered forth this plot! eer defiance of the Itevolutlon: "The bur gesses of Virgluln arc the only nutbority which can give force to the laws for the -,f this colouy.’’ Mr. Maury got n verdict . ...._, damage, aud Patrick Henry strode forth from the court room the most ruinous ninii In Virginia! -iiiuent • Kev. >ne penny'* NINE VOTES CAST FOR OFFICERS IN L ELECTION If five men out of the 460 who com pose the membership of the Chamber of Commerce had been a little contra- ! ry Tuesday, they could, by agreement, : have elected Just what officers they might have had a fa,ncy to choose. The voting began nt noon, and there were two election managers on hand to keep the tally sheet* straight and to see that there was no stuffing of the ballot box. At 5 o'clock the voting ceased, and each of # the managers counted the votes. A trusty adding machine was called Into action, and It was fofind that nine members had ex ereised their prerogative. The nominating committee hail sev era I weeks ago agreed upon the officer, and the members, while permitted to vote for whom they please, always follow the lead of the committee. For this reason there was no Interest In the election, and few voted. The fol lowing officers were elected, all unani mously: Hon. J. Wilie Pope, presideil; Mr. David Woodward, first vice president; Mr. F. J. Paxon, second vice president; Mr. H. L. Foreman, third vice presi dent; directors. Messrs. George W. Parrott, W. S. Duncan, E. C. Callaway and C. E. Caverly. BRITISH VESSEL HELD AS PIRATE Hongkong. Nov. 28.—The South Chi na Morning Post’s correspondent at Bumshul telegraphs that the launch Flenam. flying the British flag, was arrested by the British river gunboat his establishment. Moorhen at Samshut Sunday and con veyed to Canton. The Flenam Is suspected of being In longue with Chinese pirates. She failed to report five cases of piracy on board of her. In which passengers were robbed. On one occasion at the be ginning of the present month the launch's passengers were robbed of a large sum of money, with which the pirates escaped. HIGHER LICENSE REPORT ADOPTER BY COMMITTEE The special police committee on liq uor licenses met at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, but no change was made In the recommendations regarding the re strictions of the whisky traffic In the city. The meeting was held In the office of Hon. James L. Key. The report, rec ommending the raising of licenses, both retail and wholesale, prohibiting sell ing beer In white or colored residence sections, and calling for a thorough examination of all applicants for li censes, \\;as again read and adopted. A sub-committee was appointed to draw up an ordinance, embodying the restrictions agreed upon. Following Is the report, us published In The Geor gian more than a week ago; To the Honoruble Mayor and Gen eral Uouni^l, Atlanta—Gentlemen: Your special committee, recently ap pointed to consider applications for liquor licenses, begs to make the fol lowing recommendations, to wit: 1. That the legislature be request ed to amend the charter of the city of Atlanta fixing the license to seil retail liquor at not less than $2,000 per year, nor more than $3,000 per year, ami wholesale licenses not less than $1,000 per year. 2. That no license to sell beer be granted In either white or colored residence sections of the city of At lanta. 3. That each applicant for a liquor license be examined as to his moral character, his past record and as to his seeming ability to keep order in OUR THANKSGIVING BREAKFAST SERIAL By WEX JON EH. Synopsis of preceding chapters: Things happen to Hiram Hlghslgn. who Is rapt from home by a passing balloon. Synopsis' of succeeding chapters: More things happen to Hlrntn. CHAPTER VI. As the result of his adventure with the ball, Hlrntn contracted a severe cold. —. etlng n strm whose watch had asked the time. '.'My dear fellow,*’ said the stranger, “you are hoarse; you’ve got n fierce cold. I kuew a mini who died from n smaller cold than that. What ore you doing for It—nothing) My dear man, come with tne and I'll fix It for you.” “Hut 1 bust be od by way.” remonstrated Hiram. “Never mind, never mind.” answered the atrnuger. "You're on the way to the grave If you don’t have that cold cured. Aud I'll soon cure It for you.” Seizing Him nt by the arm. the stronger led him Into a beautiful one-story apart ment, with elevator service to tlie base ment by means of nn Inclined plnuk. "Here.”* said the stranger, "is n good, stiff dose of quinine nnd whisky. Drink t "l/ut I ilever touch qulddldc or whisky,” huskily protested Hiram. "Drink It," said the stranger. "The quln- will kill the whisky, aud the whisky will kill the quinine." "Add how about the cold?" usked Hiram. “The gold will be killed by fright. DrJnk (Until) had Jiii*t drained the glass when the stranger's wife cm me lu. "Oh. John." she cried, "that stuff's no S ikmI for n cold. The |nn>i* fellow should put Is feet In Isrillug water nnd take eucalyp tus Here. let me fix him." Ho Hiram presently found himself with Ills feet In water that- seemed several de grees above liolllng point. "Keep them In," iKlinnniHhed the lady when he attempted to gala a moment's relief by lifting his feet f the wafer. "And get the eucalyptus I gossip! By ChOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. New York, Nov. 28.—A German stat. Istlclan lias made a careful Investiga tion to discover In which countries the greatest nge Is attained. The re sults show that the German empire, with 35,000,000 population, has but 78 persons who are more than 100 years old. France, with a population of few. er than 80,000,000, has 213 who have passed the 100th birthday. England has, HO; Scotland, 86; Denmark, 2; Belgium. 5; Sweden, If, and Norway, with 20,000,000 Inhabitants, 23. Switzerland does not boast a single centenarian, but Spain, with 18,000,000 population, has 410. The moet amaz ing figures come from the troublesome, turbulent region of the Balkan penin sula. Servla has: 673 persons who are more than 100 years old. Roumanla has 1,084, and Bulgaria 3,883. In other words, Bulgaria has a centenarian for every 100 of Its Inhabitants, and thus holds the International record for old people. ' In 1892 alone there died In Bulgaria 860 persons who had lived for more than a century. Miss Bdwlna Lawrence, the young Atlantic City stenographer, who re cently’inherited a quarter of a million dollnrs from a rich uncle. Is willing to bear testimony to the fact that wealth brings Its own troubles. The young womun Is at present 111 and un der the care of physicians In an Atlan tic City hospital. She has been over whelmed by letter writers who seek aid, others who want advice and hun dreds who wish to marry her. Corner grocers, tired of getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning and putting up tho shutters late In the evening, have written her telling how well they could care for her and make her happy. Gray-halred old farmers have offered to pool their unproductive acres and prospective crops if she will consent to marry them. An ocean power boat r#ce of a mag- I nltude never before attempted on this I side of the Atlantic now seems as sured for next season. Thomas Flem ing Day has received from a member of the New York Yacht Club a cup fit the value of 81,000, to be offered us a prise for a race from New York to Bermuda. It has been decided that the start shall be on June 8, from off the Motor Boat Club house, Hudson river. The distance of 600 nautical miles will be made in the best of time by boats built specially for this race. Mr. Vanderbilt Is about to lease Ills big brown stone mansion on the south east comer at Fifth avenue and For tieth street. Mr. Vanderbilt does not like the business Influx around his old home. He lives on his big estate up the Hudson. He will lease the houses furnished. The secretary Of the treasury and Mrs. Shaw will entertain the president! and Mrs. Roosevelt-at dinner on Jan-5 uary 8 at the Arlington hotel, Wash ington. Their daughter. Miss Erma Shaw, will make Jier debut on Decem ber 10 at a tea in the Arlington. Mr. and Mrs. Payne Whitney, the latter formerly Miss Helen Hay. and Mr. and Mrs. James Wadsworth, Jr., the latter formerly Miss Alice Hay, have started for Washington to spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. John P. Hay. The governor of Maryland and Mrs. Warfield gave a large dtmee at Annap olis Inst night-. -A number of young women, this season's debutantes, went from Washington to the dance and .will remain for the Thanksgiving hop to night at the naval academy. - >• In Baltimore they do things right. The wires say that seven married daughters attired in their wedding gowns, attended the dinner in honor of tho golden wedding anniversary of for mer Postmaster General and Mrs, James A. Gary. The guests at the dinner Included the children and grandchildren of General and Mrs. Gary, thirty In number. Mrs. Garys sister. Mrs. Theresa Wilson, who acted as maid of honor ut the wedding of General and Sirs. Gary, was also pres ent. . flow. . Mriitjillv. Hintm added „ 1 riint be must eternally avoid. Mflrjr." snlil nn «tld la«l; THIS DATE IN HISTORY. ealyptus t«» Ills My ilear ainry. said an old ind.v who had just «ntt*MHl tin* room, "you'll kill tin* Ihh'i; mail. Tlu* Idea! Stuff a e<dd." Hiram * Vl ^ 1,1,1 ,UH * didder,” protested "Never mind, i who proved to i "Never mind. ' ten III the house GOURD. NOT LEMON', SENT TO ROOSEVELT Elgin, III.* Nov. 28.—Congressman .Mmiser received a mammoth gourd front Mr. LIppincott, who requests him to take It to President Roosevelt when Mopser leaves for Washington. The gourd Is more than four feet long and resembles th$ president's "big stick.** Attached Is this message: "Mr. Roosevelt: Please accept the 'big stick* and send it to congress, at tached to your next message (marked exhibit A) and tell them to be good. It was evidently designed' by Provi dence for official use.” BESTED BY DRINK, HE ENDS IBS LIFE City Engineer Rtsigns. j Spe«‘lal ft* Tin* Georgiau. ! Meridian. Miss.. Nov. 28.—City Kti- * gftteer Waldo C. Myers has tendered Baltimore, Mil., Nov. 28—Raymond R. Craig, aged 22, son or Robert M. Craig, of ,02 Edmondson avenue, com mitted suicide some time Monday by hunglng himself from a heum In a back yard of the premises of Henry Kfaimer, 7S4 Frederick road. The body was discovered at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning hy .Mrs. 'Henrietta Klalmer, wife of Henry Klaimer. Discouragement ut his ineffectual ef forts to throw off the habit of drinking is said by the men's relatives to have l>e«n the cause of his taking Ills life. NEW STATE ROAD LAW WANTED IN ALABAMA Special to The (ieorgiun. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 28.—The! county board of revenue has Instruct ed tlie county attorney to draw up u suitable bill to be presented to the ne tt legislature in reference to the working of tlie public roads. There Imvc been many complaints about the failure to work tile roads and the hoard of reve nue wants a law passed so that tho "nurd can have the work done, but make the people pay for It, ' "Bat it's said tile brisk old indy, Im* th<» strnniter's mother. Th-rc's plenty *>f eohl unit iml hits of hreml. You'll * on iiUlllg (ill iM-iltlnie.” bjv eolil—| flqu't Cftft* If It's * together.! NOVEMBER 28. 1634—London Pnlvernlty Instituted. 1851—l.ord Grey, governor-general of-Cnn- uthi. horn. 1862—Buttle of Crane Hill. Ark. qsss—Fire In Boston destroyed 14,000,000 b> property. 1®2_fambet ministry In France resigned on the I'unnnm sesudul Issue. 1897—Austrian ministry resigned owing to disorders in the rriehsnitb. 1899—Hnrpers* publishing house, New York, failed. , 1001—Coksnhtnn Liberal troops surrendered nt t'olou. ■'.".e 11 'lire you." said the ...... ye II enre Hint eold If It kills yon. nv JIMUy." eried Hiram. "Be for the nghilig loudly hut freely, lie tied GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. woods. AihI ti down tin BOBBIE'S ESSAYS ! By WILLIAM F. KIRK STARS. !» llltel eliuiiks of lit*' I hut beelil, i us from the grate hevveus above, tuny never work ouly ut lilte wlch is what imilks them loot p„| t . u,, H | oil" idle I'a mini liomu at hist, A Slu Sisl Well, so you have inlinJ & I'a sell Yes. Illy deer, I was looking at thi* shirs, how I'tiilfnl they lire lonltel \ »|a wot Hon* ninny sines nro than*, you have* ls*cn fliit long <*utiff to 4*8>unt them nil. Darling wlf»*. Pa *i*d. liiin* Hondcrful Is tlu* uni- sraVrenH . ", ' “ * «»• thCUl roomless iHtlins of litand reeffso (hat «n*cb or ii)i*in Is n mm NtirrotindtMl hr erths llk«* "Itr"* "T 1 ’* 1 crtli full of iKMtnk*. it malks mo fn.l very small liumbel. Sc Ma soil Wfll. >on ought to fts*| small cjmvay. »hnrr* nn* lots of illffm-out stars I know jh.* unims of llki* the North star A tin* Do>r star A. and fh«» star of flu* wviiIiik & *. tnr * '“i 1 "! ,ht ‘ *' ,f,k > Wny wlch is the Itronduay of tin* hevvens. , star tills tired of holding town < New oVrfc. Nov. 28.—Here ore some of lie visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—Sirs. Johnson, C. SI. Slluln- ter. SAVANNAH—B. A. Hlsks. BONI ON THE JOB. Kiimtiiucs lug the »ky A fulls, and that Is n sliisd. THE MOON. Hie luiiin Is bigger, thnn the slurs hut not s*i shiny, it Is nluiiit ns lull as the sun hut sunt times It Isont so fut, then It is rnMt"l the New 1110,111. the moon Is lils»'r l" tiMik nt than the sun. btfkaus when yon look ut the sun it malks you su.'i'i.e It Iitt-s euio |„ jure eyes. bun* I. a mail lu the moon wlch you *' MSI it WUS II man —I wife lu it butiMOl • got llin fell hurt Jly JAS1KS J. MONTAGES. (He Cssielliiiie Ims been offered n posltlon us bead Walter lu n New York restaurant.— A Press Agent.) The feet that on the boulevards Onee sauntered here . Kirk open now the disir that guunls The iTief within his failr. The voice Hint whispered Ma eherlel lu nrreuts low nllil sweet Is Intel}' lifted lustily IVItb Double Oil the wheal. The lierfnmed lingers. White and soft, Thnt Idled nil Ihe 'tay Now. spri'Hillug. deftly isilst* aloft A groaning, steaming iniy. Tlie accents Hint I" ' hansous gn> St. Munmihly us«*d lu run v„ w Mjtiiiiii hhmil: One mlfk-nml hay; Two eggs, u sleep—draw oin»! The lips Hut sipped llie Kldevh Where love und laughter lures Now growl with gloomy brusouerle. gents, speak up. " hst s ) And you would liever dream, unless Yon lienrd a stlti**«l sol*. Thai this brisk, glittering success Was Bonl on the Job. What’s yours why the is always smiling- »*, 1*111 tbar- wiiit |iim hen In* got thnn* In* itm* « the erllr wfef» is off * she lots of things wrote songs ic |Hiems etc. M>* al*»ut tic* moon wieli semi to the editor. It Z iilxmt the ...—... - 1 — . Ma wrote a poem alsmt th- sbe was going to send t«* I went Uk*' this- 0 Itivlv moon wlch salleih through the «kr * listen, all thy nulls."jr m1 the erlh Like Memory shining oa itie deer in d 1 nsi. but she .ibleft send If Is ■kails she red It to I™ UrM k he laired liiinl Iwehaus he 1 ,-!....:.: it was tunny, wteh It was hut »tn go; u.n.1 nnd burned Jt uw. .