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20 THE ATLANTIAN (r ATLANTA BAGGAGE & CAB CO. ESTABLISHED 1865 BONDED AGENTS OF ALL RAILROADS Telephones: Main 204-205-260-1000-4500 Railroad, Passenger and Baggage Trans fer Largest and finest equip ment in the South NICE CABS ON CALL AT ALL HOURS Baggage Checked Direct from your residence to destination. Baggage Transferred from one part of the city to another. When ticket is purchased request ticket agent to check your bag gage from hotel or residence direct to destination OFFICES AND AGENTS AT BOTH STATIONS. AGENTS ON ALL INCOMING TRAINS. W. C. WILSON, President and Gen'l Mgr. A. N. COOK, Supt. Pass. Dept. J UNSENTIMENTAL BERES- FORD. I.ike all nautieal people, says tlie Gen tlewoman, Lord Charles Beresford is de void of any suspicion of “side” or non sense. At the dose of one of Lord Charles ’ meetings at York, at the time he was wooing that constituency, a sol emn and sedate old clergyman who had keen seated on the platform eame up to the candidate and said with much grav ity: “Allow mo, Lord Charles, the pleasure of shaking hands witli you. I had the honor of being confirmed, many years ago, by your respected uncle, the Pri mate of all Ireland.” Lord Charles instantly shouted in stentorian tones to his brother, who was near the door at the other end of the hall: “Bill! Bill! Here’s a parson who says lie was confirmed by old Unde John; come up here and have a talk with him! ” AND IT SO CAME TO PASS. you can have the apple pie if I swear. “So next Sunday sho went to cliurcli and sat ia the front seat beside the apple pie. “He said: ‘By God wo live and by God wo die.’ “And the little girl got up and said: ‘ By God you loso tho apple pie. ’ ” CONSIDERABLE ACCELERA TION. “Horses!” said the Yankee. “Guess you can’t talk to me about horses. I had an old mare, Maizypop, who once licked our best express by a couple of miles on a thirty-mile run to Chicago.” “That’s nothing,” said the Canadi an. “I was out on the farm one day, about fifty miles from the house, when a frightful storm eame up. I turned the pony’s head for home, and, do you know, he raced the storm so close for the last ten miles that I didn’t feel a drop, while my dog, only ten yards be hind, had to swim the whole distance. ’ ’ Asked to write a short composition, a pupil in the fifth grade of the Webster school, according to the Duluth Herald, turned in tho following: “Once there was a littlo girl. She didn’t like to go to church, so one Sun day a preacher came to her home and lie said to tho little girl: ‘You haven’t been to church for a long time.’ “The little girl said she didn’t like to come because sho swears. “So tho preacher said to the little girl: ‘You come next Sunday; if you hear me swear you can have an apple pie. And you sit in the front seat and ARE THEY FIGHTING BY PROXY? A dance in Topeka Monday offered the finest exhibit of wiltd collars ever seen in Kansas, the State Journal says. It reminded John C. Waters of the Turkish dignitary visiting in our more or less progressive little country, who, upon being given a spectator’s scat at a so ial hop, barked brokenly: “What? You do you own dancing? In my coun try we hire it done. ’ ’ Johnnie favors tho Turkish system. 1 AN AUTHORITY ON MISCE GENATION. When President Eliot resigned his place at the head of a great educa tional institution in America, a volume of testimonials and appreciation of his work and character echoed throughout civiliation and it was the consensus of opinion in Europe from the highest au thorities that he was the foremost liv ing American who had done more than any other man of our time to shape our thought and influence our national character. He is from a section where public opinion is opposed to that of the South on many important issues, and his observation and experience have given him splendid opportunities for judging correctly. When President Eliot speaks on the relations between the races, we should remember that he ha3 observed the Negro when thrown with white students on a footing of theoretic equality—that he has heard the ablest of Negro students speak as representatives of his university, and has given many diplomas to men of the race. If such a man is influenced by surroundings, then it would follow that President Eliot must have seen strong reasons to disagree with what would naturally be his preconceptions or his prejudices on the subject. Therefore, the endorsement of such a man so trained and living such a life, for the opinion of the South on a national issue is all the stronger, and should be convincing. When ex-Presi- dent Eliot comes to the South with this message of endorsement for her policy, we must discount the theory of “the door of Hope” and the “Square Deal,” as applied to social and political relations of the Negro in this country. He bases his conclusion on scientific grounds, when he declares that the mixture of any two races widely sep arated in blood, ideals and conceptions of morality degrades both; what other two races are wider apart than the Anglo-Saxon and the Negro? Why should not the experience of the Latin with the Negro be accepted as a warn ing to us? On such grounds this dis tinguished observer declares: “In the case of the Negroes and the whites, the races should be kept apart in every respect. The South has a wise policy. I believe that Booker T. Washington has the right ideals and that Dubois is injuring the progress of his race with his views.” Suppose this opinion be the correct one; immediately we understand that under the Republican policies the Re publican party has spent millions of public money and inflicted untold evil on a great section of this country to impose this opinion on the South and to maintain it in tho North—that this opinion has been urged as a vital and J. T. SEWELL, Secretary-Elect Lodge 302, B. R. T. cardinal conception of duty in cam paign after campaign, and has tinged the course of federal legislation for a generation. Now if the Republican party has been wrong in this, is it not fair to conclude that it is wrong in other important issues. If this policy of the Republican party has brought the people and the nation into the zone of danger, what may we not believe of other policies wherein the evidence was not so plan and the tes timony so overwhelming? W. E. TREADWELL & CO. 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