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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
MIRANDY ON THE VOICE THAT IS STILLED
CND BAKES.'
haids, an’ whilst you might
In yo* mind ft-uonderJn* bow
vould be befo* one of deni
hs would Ian* eni In do crazy
I you didn’t have n«» cause
BY DOROTHY DI X=
DUCHESS OF MANCHESTER
IS ACCORDED DISTINCTION
(Copyright, 1906, by \V. Jt,. Hearet.)
Ducbesa of Manchester, with her son. Lord Mandevllle, who wa* in
vited to Windsor Caatlo to witness the Investiture of King Haakon with
the Order of the darter.
back of his neck.' an' Ills hair a-rlsln*
oil his scalp us he listens to de voice of
Ills departed Ifariar a-tryln’ to boss
him from de cemetery.
"Tit he won't da’r not to turn *»n do
machine, for he can’t look dat funny-
graph In de eye a-knowin’ dat hit Is
loaded to de gyards wid las’ Words dot
hit Is bustin’ to turn loose.
de ole familiar tones dat rips a man
up de back lak a buzz saw when lie
comes home ‘bout three o’clock In de
mawnin’, dat I lay dat I’ll fetch hit one
swipe wld de ax, an’ smash hit Into
smithereens.
•* ’Cose 1 specks dat Jret at fust dat
do funnygraph inought be u comfort
to tie bereaved widower, cate de house
HUSBAND GONE FOUR YEARS
•■•Dat'H mu * -Huonn iW -hit luuks lak i" nuld *»*" lilni1 of Quiet an’ lonesome
dey was tr“n* riake anay alMe com- »•
fort fnmi/ip iiiiiinnPiK * ; » x him whar he stopped on hla way
"S c^I hl s eet savs Ma’v Jane home, an’ what he did wld dat twoblts
what la a gal an* Is got romantic no- - 1 K > , ° ? U hlm
IIU..H. •think of de rapture of heatin' I h Y|,k, Ll tor hi. stum*
nilck.-an* dat he can’t fool her by chew
in’ cloves cate she knows de smell
But after he gits over de habit of
n-tellin’ deni of deir faults I
forever.*
"1 hates to
you axes my
woman. Ure bound to env dat she'?
fakin’ a inighty unfair advantage of
game, to hear de funnyrraph start up
hirneti j v .j,j remarks dat de dear departed
dem wha.t performs on de pianola. | married man dat felt any call to
"Dey brought deli* troubles down on i de conversation of his wife. *Mo»
delr
cas* round
long
funnygraphs
house,
to pity ’em. *
“But dat was bec&ze you hadn’t prog
nosticated de true. Inwartlncs of dat
contraptshun, for hit ain’t nothin’
nor less dan a hant.
Vassum, hits de conjur. an* no mis
take, an* dere ain’t no wav to git away
from hit alive or dead. I always was
suspicious of hit, an* now 1 knows, an*
ef Jke was to bring one of dem things
home wld him. bit would be me for de
tall timber. Yassum. you would see
one fat ole nigger woman brenkln* de
record at skedaddlin'.
What makes me say what I does Is
dis—-las’ night Ma’y Jane was a-readln*
In de paper to me ’bout dat woman out
In Colorado whats puttin' in do time
whilst she's dyln' n slow an' lingerin'
death, by talkin' In a funnygraph so
dat when she's dead an’ gone all her
husband Is got to do is des to turn on
de machine, an’ shet his eyes, an’ dere
she'll be a-flandln’ him back talk out
of de grave, so to speak.
My Gord,’ says I, when 1 hears dat,
‘dat po’ man sho’ has got my sympa
thy. an* what his sufferln’s Is gwine
to be Is somethin’ dat I trembles to
think ’bout, ns he sets up of a evenin'. . ....... .
wld de goose flesh cornin’ out on uc j graph gits to monkeyin’ wld me in j you dasn’t shut me up.’’
ustoined to niakln’ ’bout dam
riUdse a lady, but ef j what flung away delr money In gamea
pinion of dat Colorado j.of chance, an’ got too Camillous wld de
demon rum, an* soclated wld dem low-
down folks lak de company what was
her husband. ' j present.
" ‘Maybe/ rays i. ‘he's «*ech a po’! "No. Minuidy." says Ike. "don’t you
onery. shiftless, sort of a civeter dat i l ,u ^ , v °‘self to no trouble to go talkln
site couldn't git through speclfy.'n’ her { 1,0 \ MS words Into a funnygraph fr
opinion of him 111 die life time. Lecase In case .le Lan d should
"Or maybe lie's lak some folk.! P™!*!' tu , r «moye yqu fust III
dat X could name ef I wanted to. dat ! 'v'astlD along on what I kin remembe
would dran all of hi- money In crap things dat you Is already done
an’ cn Mwlnsii, r „«•»,*.. vaiier to me whilst you was alive, an yo
gals wld straight front freer* an*’mar- ton * ue "’«* ,n * ood forkin' order. You
SJui TOW ^VJJ."hhn ! ■“* * o>‘»* *° TOJJTSJ*
de Mhtvlra to think v. hat Ills wife Is j JLV1iShtTn u!L,n•hHut nfi
trivinp to La«■ Mho Icpii'Iipm i.i,,, r J thing dat ought to been said bout inj
* { a• , , , ; faults an* weaknesses dat you ain’t said
For what does de Good Book say j! dlsremembcrs' what hit could be.
on dls pint: De fear of Ills wife 1s “FurdermoV* says he. “dot funny
de beginnln* of virtue wld a man.' graph business whar do dead keeps on
" I ain’t a ’spulln* hit.’ *«va Ike. ’but h-talkin' to you Is a flyln* In de face
nil de same I sticks t.. lift dat a worn- ! n f Providence. When de Lawd stills
an says nil she’s entitled to say whilst I a voice, He wants lilt ta stay still be
she’s alive, an* dat when she. Is dead case de one data had to endure hit
an* gone her husband Is entitled to I has got enough of hit."
some peace on* res'. I know dat when j “Amen,’’ ’spons I, “an’ dot's de rea-
I'se a widower, an’ begins to sorter son dat 1’se tryln’ to say everything
feel m.v freedom dat ef any funny- 11 got to say to you whilst I’se here, an’
SOUTH CAROLINA FOXHUNT
IS REAL SOUTHERN SPORT;
HISTORY OF THE RED FOX
Fox hunters In the'Southern states
do not ride In white-top boots and cor
duroys, yet the sport Is more enthu
siastically pursued than in England,
writes U. M. Chester from Columbia.
B. C„ to tho Nashville Banner. They
are hunters after a rude but thorough
manner, and with horses doubly train
ed-In the deer and fox hunt, the South
ern fox hunter goes over hUls, rough
rooks, broken precipices, miry swamps
and open fields with the greatest ease,
while there can be no question but
that the hounds they follow are the
best on earth.
From Maryland to Florida, and
further west, through Tennessee, Ken-
’ tucky, Alabama, Mississippi and Igou-
tslnnn, fox hunting contends with deer
limiting as the favorite amusement. In
fact, the chase of the fox may be
» properly regarded as n Southern sport.
and tho modes of hunting are much
alike In all the Southern states. T'
the sound of the winding burn the
neighbors collect at an appointed place,
each accompanied by his favorite dogs
They send In their hounds to hunt
over the selected ground, and wait the
start. Thickets on the edges of lorn;
cultivated plantations, brier patches,
deserted fields covered with grass are
the places where Reynard Is most like
ly to have Ills bed. The trail he has
they have been In the races. Reynard
starts off across the bluff and througu
an old Held, followed.by the hounds Inn
solid grodp, running with the precision
of machinery. Tho pock Is in full cry,
and such music, The hounds and the
hunters are almost Insane with excite
ment, and Reynard Is sorely pressed.
He passes out of the old Held and
makes a .circuit of a near-by swamp.
Here he‘succeeds In throwing the
hounds off his trail, and by the time
they are fairly on It again he Is making
good tlina a couple of miles away. But
soon the* hounds have unraveled the
tangled skein which the fox made for
them In (he swamp nnd are going at
full tnt In his pursuit. Reynard takes
his way through a hundred-acre cotton
field, whore the fleecy staple Is ripen
ing In perfection, nnd he and the
hounds knock the cotton from the
stalks until It covers the ground like
snotv. It Is now nearly sun-up and the
early-rising planter, the owner of the
plantation, sees more than a bale of
cotton ruined by the fox. the hounds
and the' hunters. The planter is un-
pofctlcal enough to make the atmos
phere lurid with unprintable lunguage.
The line old fellow enjoys a fox hunt,
but this time It Is too near home for
him: the amusement is too costly. The
hunters (any not to hear the cuss
words, hut on they go following the
hounds, now apparently closing In rap
idly on the fox, but in this the hunters
In error, for Reynard seems to ge:
DOROTHY DIX:
She Tells How Women j
May Profit by
Studying Literature |
A CCORDING to., Brother Jasper,
“the »un do m&ve, n but ’
as women are concerned. It ‘s
impossible to say thither It tiiov
backward or forward. The modern
woman has a great many rights
which her grandmother never dreamed,
but her grandmother had a lot of soft
snaps that the woman of today has
missed: nnd so, at the last, the question
narrows Itself down to a choice be
tween roast beef and pie.
It must make any up-to-date, stren
uous typewriter Indy’s mouth water as
she swings to a strap In the crowded
“L” car with one hand and turns the
leaves of a hook with the other, to read
of the dear dead days when gallants
struggled with each other for the pleas
ure of picking up u woman’s hanriker-
chlef when she dropped ft, when there
were/ rows of suitors sighing at each
maiden's feet, and wlien the sturdy
masculine arm was always outstretched
to protect a woman from even being
Jostled by the hardships of life.
Being a woman* she thinks, must
have been a cinch Jn those days, and
then she looka at the long line of,men
lolling in their seats behind their even
ing papers while the women stand, and
she wonders how her grandmother
did 1t.
For this kind of woman—the woman
who prefers to be comfortable to be
ing helpful, and who yearns to trade
off all her rights for a few privileges—
the novels of the past contain three
valuable tips.
Adam's Burden.
.The first of these Is helplossness. Tho
heroine of the old-fashioned novel nev
er by any chance knew hoiv to do u
single, blessed thing that was of any
practical use.
She touched the light guitar and em
broidered dinky little things for her
lovers that they wore next to their
hearts, ang this exhausted her reper
toire. It tvft* then up to man to do the
rest, and he did It.
When Amelia’s father died bankrupt
nobody expected that gentle and cling
ing creature,to hustle out and support
the family by selling books or pros
pecting for gold In the Klondike.
When Clarissa's husband went'broke
In the stock market nobody expected
that tender floweret fo turn iti and heio
pull the domestic wagon out of the
financial rut, nnd even In times of fam
ily stress and trouble nobody looked for
the poetic Angelina to do anything
with her Illy white bunds except to
wring them In helpless anguish.
The whole, burden of existence was
shunted <011 man's shoulders and wom
an stood.from pnGer, nnd that Is where
our grandmammas were wise.
The curse of work whs laid on Adam
and not on Eve, and It was reserved
for the modern woman to appropriate
to herself a misfortune that was never
Intended for her, and for the accept
ance of which she has never gotten
1 her helplessness. This is not logical,
but It is faef. From which wo learn
that helplessness Is woman's greatest
graft.
The next interesting point to be
noted In the old-fashioned novel Is thnt
the heroine when confronted with any
unpleasant situation alwaya swooned.
This made men Careful about how
they told her a disagreeable thing, so
Instead of coming and dumping all of
his troubles down on a woman nnd
expecting her to sympathize with him
and help him bear it, ns the average
man does today, he locked his sor
rows In his breast, all of ...which en
abled tho foxy ladles to csejgj* nil wor
ries except their own. ^
It Is all very well, of course, to ask
a modem girl who Is taking a course
of hospital lectures on “First Aid
to the Injured" to bind up your
wounds, but a man couldn’t be brute
enough to expect a fragile tualdon who
would faint at the sight of a drop of
Mrs. Max Joseph and
Mrs. Joseph’s husband, a
ous Brooklyn lawyer, vanished In
1902 and went to New Zealand.
Last week the New Jersey courts
refused to grant her a
Below Is a picture of Lawyer Max
Joseph, the inlssmg husband.
N.
WHOOPS ’EM UP FOR DIXIE
IN ITS ANNUAL MEETING
any thanks from any man from Adam i blood to do such a service for him.
down.
The old-fashioned heroines, then,
teach the folly of butting Into trouble.
They didn’t know how to work, and
they didn’t bate to Work. We may see
the same condition of niTalrs today.
The woman who can support herself
always lias to do It. while the one who
is utterly Incompetent finds some
husky man who Is willing to stand be
tween her and the cruel world.
The thrifty woman who knows how
to fashion her’ own gown and pinch
and pare and economize will always
have the privilege of being her own
costumer nnd of financiering a la Rus
sell Bage. while tho husband of the
dainty darling who can’t set a stitch
and has to have luxuries will go about
and get the money for her somehow.
Furthermore, the husband of the
first woman will not be grateful to her
for her helpfulness, while the husband
of the second woman will love her for
Woman's Fault.
No doubt It was also tremendously
effective, and we cun only surmise that
the ability of a fragile creature to
swoon away at the psychological mo
ment, and he caught In the proper par
ty’s arms, had much to do with tho
matrimonial boom that existed In those
days. However, It Is idle to discuss
this phase of a subject, for fainting is
practically a lost art among women.
The most Important thing to bo
learned from the old-fashioned novel,
after all, though, Is the value of tehrs.
The Amelias and Flnrlssas and Ange
linas could burst Into tears at a mo
ment's notice.
They shed gallons and barrels and
oceans of tears. And always and in-
aviably they got what they wnted;
It may be suld that the Amelins and
Clarissas ami Angelinas did not rep
resent the highest type of women, but
they knew a lot alniut managing men.
left behind him during his nocturnal I his second breath, and he carries them
rambles being struck, the hounds m e j more thuh twenty miles through fields
«nooutUfcd by the voices of their' *
Irlvers, nnd with great speed the trail
i* followed through the crooked end
(•actions ways the fox bus taken in
ol» search for quails, meadow larks,
field mice and his bum yard prey.
Nearly always, unless the trail Is a
\ery warm one. the dogs experience
great difficulty In getting on the direct
trail, the fox having doubled his course
so often. When the trail Is warm tlw
dogs follow with gr* at precision and
unerring certainty, and the struggle
lie coiner exciting. Then the hunters
dush In after the crying pack of dogs
mid when the woods
er hills. Poor Reynard’s brush
Is somewhat lowered, nnd at last, fa
tigued arid stiffened by exertion, his
enemies seize him, and he dies brave-
Iv, defiantly fighting and snapping with
his teeth to the last. The fox finally
killed, the dogs and horses are stand
ing with mouths and nostrils wide open
for breath; the horses’ sides uTe heav
ing and their bodies covered with foam.
The hunters, however, are gayer than
ever, all talking together and relating
some amnstng or extraordinary event
connected with the chase. The sport
„ for the early morning being over the
open the i hunters return to their homes, hut not
hunters keep up with the hounds, and ; before arian^ng for another chase Just
the fox Is frequently In sight. Us soon as the hounds ure in condition.
In his efforts to escape. Reynard,
after he despairs of Ids heels, com
utenecs his maneuvers to dude his
pursuers; he plunges Into thickets,
double* on his track, runs Into water,
follows a fence top for a hundred
yards or more, and then makes a des
perate bound to caitjt, that he may
break Id* trail. But the hounds are
after him, and the. woods and fields
vibrate with the soul-stlrrlng music
•»f the pack, while the fleet-footed and
long-winded deg* are encouraged with
luaty veils from the hunters. The fox
shows his "natural smartness, and
pits this against the combined re
sources ot the dog, the horse and men.
In the contest he displays abilities
which make It difficult to decide‘un
qualifiedly that he Is not entitled to an
equal shate of honors In what at lirst,
appear* a most unequal contest. Key
nurd pbtjK around a« though toe be
lieved nothing serious Is Intended -ind
amuses IdmselC bv coursing hither and
thither among the switch, cane and
briers, crossing and recrosslng m*
track, climbing front one sheltering 1
ravine to another, apparently deter
mined not to leave the comfortable
• surrounding* he had selected tor his
urtrters.
Finally ...■■PBI
are getting too warm for
make* a run for his llff.
'hour’s turn among
lolers. lie mount
moment for fresh
course across tl?»
UtmUucs.Iw. Ui ttov hound* know
as soon — —
There have been some notably long
runs of the red fox In this state. Hev-
al yeniii ago a red fox was chased
ELLA WHEELER. WILCOX
, She Warns Mr. Upton Sinclair Against the Danger
of Caste Creeping Into His Socialistic Colony.
I T IS Intere.tln, td read of the colony I way* follow In the wake of earthly ex.
which Mr. Upton Sinclair line | l*t*nce.
»tailed on Soelalletle principle*. The Danger Point.
Anything which can elmpllfy the j The woman who takee her breakfaet
complicated machinery of modem life j In lied feel, *he la on a little higher
and help to give people the opportunl- plane of refinement then the woman
tlea of enjoying comfort and beauty \ who brings her breakfast to her.
without dispensing n fortune In ihe ef- j The man who sits before the tire nnd
fort le to be welcomed in this age. {dream, of mef.ial achievements feels
There Is. however, a rock on which j he Is of finer mold than the man »v|)o
Ihe colony Is liable to founder, unless I builds the fire before which he drenins.
Its members are all developed to a high, j Oftentimes he Is, and again ha Is not.
from Kdgelleld county clear across the broad understanding of life Md «•» j wiu/.Mr. Sinclair's Imagination and
country Into Laurens county, a distance Wholly emancipated ftom selfishness | |j teral . v all ,| constructive ability, It
of more than one hundred miles. How [and prejudice. j would be a crime for him to spend his
long a fgx—the red—will run, or the | | no te In a recent account of tills; time,in cutting wood, building fires,
exact speed he will attain to. are (pies- I Ctllonv that Mr. Sinclair emphasizes the j cleaning floors and milking cows. It
lions not easily answered. It Is assert- ' ' , servants In IV" 11 *. 1 I,P Gods plans, for
ed by experienced hunters that a pack > drt " ut a,c ",! He gives talents to use.
of superior hounds, UnI by a red fox, the colony. The work, however. I* not Besides, It would also deprive oilier
have run a mile In sixty seconds, sur-| to be performed by dividing the tasks men who are unfitted for mental work
passing the best speed of a horse. .Th«»| * monir me members,, each perforating [or the means of a livelihood,
red fox Is supposed toxhave been |m- j >,n<irMfnthle duties in rotation quite proper that Mr. Hinclair
ported* froni England to the cast,™ " Members who ,»y for their i * hould fV i° r h,,! k< ‘'“! ,, 1 * ‘, n coN C
Share of;Maryland, and to have eml- Those inetnDeis «no pay roi tnetr (jl)v wi , h ,|„ money Ills brain can!™* ,
***—■-*" ■- *■— living are to be known a* residents of; bring aug that he should be a resident. I ac ^ ld ® <1
the colony: those who work for their i It Is quite proper that any other man
living are 10 be know n as workers. ; or woman who has Intellectual pur-
Vow toti.tHtt nature needs to be suits should do the same, and that
Now. Human l.ttuie nceos to thus,, who know how to perform the
carefully educated ... gresp »*»• deal,, domestic tasks of the colony should he
to avoid tho creeping of tho *er|»ent of;given this opportunity,
caste Into thl* colony before long. I Buc, I say again. that the utmost
The ordinary Individual is very Iht-icare should be exercised in the selec-
blo to consider himself as k resident a! tlon of the residents, or In a very brief
Let I.*ibor boldly walk abroad, and tuke
Its rank with Kings,
For who ha* labored more thun God.
the Maker of all things!
Quite Human.
F;ur because thnt mythological ;hIo
was taken seriously and preached from
all the pulpits of the Christian world
human beings have gone on feeling
work a disgrace and leisure a sign of
emancipation from the ban of God.
And the feelings of superiority of th“
emancipated class over the world’s
workers has awakened the hostile class
hatred which exists wherever society Is
found.'
To annihlkite this feeling and prevent
any exhibition of it by tlte change
the word “servant" 1
To a fanfare of trumpets about 400
members of the New York Southern
Society gathered in the grand ball
room of Hotel Astor the other night to
“B-e-e-ylp! E-e-e-yow!” over any
thing and everything said and done
to Impress upon New York that each
Southern slate Is positively the best
In the Union, says Tho Now York Bun.
lYoin 7 o’clock till midnight the ban
quet hall made a noise like u Demo
era tic convention.
On the little balconies overlooking the
diners were draped the red, white and
blue In profusion, and behind the .flags
were tho wives and (laughters of the
Boutherners In those and all the other
colors of the rainbow. Looking down
on the seem? one saw little trans
parencies on each state’s table on
which was lettered the nickname of the
commonwealth.
The Alalmnuins sat around ihe Yel
low Hammers’ legend nnd In various
parts of the ball room glowed other
transparencies that showed the location
of the El Dorados of Florida, the Pel
icans of Louisiana, the Mossbuck* of
Mississippi, the Palmettos of South
Carolina, the Moonshiners of Tennes
see, and the F. F. Vis, the Crackers,
the Blue Grass, the Orioles, the Tnr
Heels, the Lone Stars and the Arkan
sans, who spurn a nickname.
President Morion J. Verdery, who
has taken George Ade’s advice and has
deserted Georgia for New York, pre
sided. At the head of the menu was
a little quotation from Collier that
runs:
“Plainly the crying need of the twen
tieth century Is a means of choking
off long speeches after dinner.’’
The toustmustor referred to tills
quotation In hi* opening remark*, and
a* each speaker came out on the car
pet lie also mentioned It feelingly and
regretted that each one hadn’t at least
five hours to tell of the glories of hi*
partlrulra state. (Ylp-e-e-e-yow! >
Alabama led off ns usual and the
live minute talk on the state was de
livered by Dr. John A. Wyeth, whose
witty remarks early got the rebel yell
Into its true stride.
“Alabama has been first in everything
ever since It came Into the Union,"
began Dr. Wyeth, with the native mod
esty that characterized all the talk* of
the night. “Tell me of one encyclo
pedia published that doesn’t give Ala
- have end
grated across the Ice to Virginia in the
severe winter of 177r-*SO, at which time
tfi** Chesapeake was frozen over, in
17VJ the first led fox of which there fs
record In the United States was killed
In Pennsylvania. A few years pre
vious to this, one of the colonial gov
ernors of New York hud imported some
red foxes from England, which were
turned loose on Long Island. That
the red fox I* not a native of the soil
f M shown from the fact that he Is only
found In districts of country long set
tled by men. He. has worki*l his way
southward, driving before him the pay
fox. and fs never foutgl In the pine ba“
»rkcr" will be
a difficult matter. , r , , -r .
It will be quite Human to flo.l the j ?""!* **»«, ‘oeoooJrffn
orkers In the colony envying the real- ! '' * n mSKi ni?
dents and to find the residents fetdlnr 1 IfYimense work called the Medical Die-
iat thev are entitled t», ni’ivit#^* »**,♦ 1 tlonury that contains the names of
“orJ«1 to the wori“e,; P * no! 12U.OOO practicing physician, and sur-
.curueu 10 in* worueis. an ,i tir.iianu. u. loitLN me
Southern states the gray fox Is thought
to Ih» almost worthless for the chase;
farther North the same species are
very game and afford most excellent
sport. The red fox of Kouth Carolina,
Georgia amt Virginia is u superior anl-
* wm nnd he I the settled portions of the country,
xrter o lK.if t where thickets, brier patches and old
i'p.nd "ihe, hushes and W „e,ds are emnmou. ^ ^
its a high IdutT. •' * h , ,. n! |re country shoo ' era states, lie Is dependent upon local-
I'*h nlr. anil scleeis ms j u ( vary |„ .trength and aofiuHjy j Itles for Ids development. «nd it attains
period of lime the workers will feel
there is little difference between that
word anti the old word servants.
There Is not much In a word often
times. It Is only how that word Is in
terpreted.
The old fable of the ••fall of Man"
.ill'] tlie rnrse which Ood tiiaeed on him
as a consequence, the Curse of l-abor,
tuts .lorn- humanity an utmost Irrepar
able Injury,
God never regarded labor as a curse'.
How could He?—Ihe greatest worker
I hope my prophecy la not to lie ful
filled.
I hope this colony I* to he it great
and shining example of the pi ogres* of
the race toward a higher developmeui.
Heat en knows the human family
need* such development.
And ihe effort of Mr. dim-lair Is a
noble one.
May It prove ,lie nucleus of u new
society!
But no new society can moke all va
rying degrees of human evolution as
similate as tine, nor can'll bring to
gether under one roof, however exten
sive, a largo congrcgutfon of human be
ings who will live harmoniously until
parenthood becomes u science and chil
dren are taught the lesson of unselfish-
nees nnd htotherhoou In the home.
tine musi is- Hist n good human lic-
lt;n before being a gissl fbHlalist or
■ cftiruier.
geoits, and the Alabama scientists ure
listed, of course, on the very first page.
The nature! inference from this Is, of
course, that those men aro also the best
men In tlivlr profession iq the coun
try. tVtrd Yip! K-ve-yow! from the
Yellow Hammers. I
"Kvery first-class newspaper publish
ed ib« election returns of Alabama on
ihe first column of the first page—and
always it shows, too, the necessary
Democratic majority. (K-e-e-c-yow!)
Now Virginia, you will find way down
at the bottom of the column with state*
like—like—well Utah, if you come
down to tile Southern state* proper—
and they're all proper—and travel over
the railroad nf the late Samuel Silen
cer. whom we have with us tonight (I
say the late Samuel Spencer merely.
because lie rides on his own railroad) j John B. Abney, Charing Has
you will find a great arch of Southern I Hamilton Holt, Stunley !• Mo:
states of which Alabama I* the key-| Karl It. Miner, Perry A. Plrknii
atone. Now, If that keystone were to Charlta S. Bryan. . • •
fall Into the gulf the tvho|s- Union
would fall after It.
“\Ve had tho first capital of the Con
federacy .(Yip! YIpS etc.) in Alubamu.
and It would have stayed there tf Mr.
Davie didn't find It heceasary In move
further north In order to aee tlie F. F.
V.’e—which letters, as we all know,
stand for "Fast Flying Virginians.'”
(Laughter.) .
Dr. Wyeth then told feelingly.o( Ala- t
bama's part in t|te reconstruction work
after tlir war; “Arid since the war.
where elae will you find euch material
progress? Tile heavens above our Male
aro black with the smoke of her fur
naces, u pillar of cloud liy day and of;
tire by night. Her plains are one great
field of snowy cotton, so that no longer
can Franco clulm thb field of the cloth
of gold."
After Ihe dust 1 had settled William r.
McCombs rose to respond to the toast:
"Arkansas." The sparse representation
of Arkansas at the dinner, argued Mr.
McCombs, gave evidence that few of
them cared to follow George Ade’s nd -
vice about leaving the elate. Like the i
oilier speakers, Mr. McCombs proved {
conclusively thnt but for Arkansas
there would lie no civilisation, no any- i
thing.
William A. Barber'spoke for South
Carolina and said that after hearing
the other speakers he was glad that
Ills own state was on the'same conti- I
nept with those llutt had been praised J
earlier. He, thanked heaven, especially >
after listening to Ralph Holland's talk I
on North Carolina, that South Carolina
was so close to Its slater.
Judge Charles F. Moore, the last
speaker of the evening, denied fur the
Old Dominion Htate that F. F. V. elands
for "Fast Flying Virginians."
"Nor do the letters Insinuate that we
at the Virginia table tonight confined
ourselves to fruit, fish ana vegetable*.
(Laughter.) They do not etand either :
for four flushing vagrants, nor for tha ‘
fifty-seven famous varieties, and I an- i
sure you with all sincerity that thev
aren't an abbreviation for the five tool- I
ish virgins. No, those letters mean that j
despite a windstorm that recently J
wrecked our railways a few faithful j
Virginians have arrived here tonight.
(E-e-e yip! E-e-e yotv!)
"Virginia Is always at the bottom
of the column, as has been said. Tho- .
where she belongs. Where else should
Virginia be when she is the foundation
and support of nil the others?” (Ex
plosions.)
Throughout the evening there were
parades of different orchestras of vmt-
ous nationalities. Hungarian, Italian
and others, who esme to play a teiee-
ttdn and departed to give way to an
other band, all supplied through the
kindness, said the toaatinaater. of Wil
liam Muscltenhelm, of the hotel. Hein- .
rich t.'anried sent two singers. Miss
Lui-lle Lawrence and Miss Lucy
Call, and the gallant Southerner.-' rose
to give them the Houthem yell all the
time they were In the hall. Wallet
Pamrusch, who sat with the North Cat.
nltnans. supplied more musicians, amt
there wcre three negro songsMre that
won wild ttpplauei'.'
■Scattered throughout the ball at the
curious* Mate tables were John G. or-
Utile, Stuyvescent Fish, Dr. William M.
Polk, Thomas Nelson Page. Dr. John A.
Wyeth. Ham tie/ Spencer, John C. *'nl-
iroun, the Hon. Augustus Van Wjn \
Samuel )i. Jarvis. Walter l- JlcCot kle.
Dr. Virgil I*. Glbney. Lindsay Ru-'-ll,
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