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J rjATl ItpAl, UKCEMUKIt*. J9UW 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, I