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SHAFT TO HEROES
. LAFAYETTE. Ga.. April 27.—The people
Os Walker county look upon Memorial
dav as the day of the season. The Daugh
ter's of the Confederacy. Chickamauga
chapter, have lately erected just north
of the county courthouse in Lafayette a
beautiful monument, which was pur
chased from the McNeel Marble company
of Marietta.
The monument stands about 40 feet
north of the courthouse, and is about 43
feet high and looks northward along the
national pike or government road. On top
of this exquisite structure stands in
statue a Confederate soldier as guard,
with gan in hand, which figure is made
in Italy, and of the best Italian marble,
Caraca marble. The base of the structure
Is about 20 feet square, the second base
being nine feet, the third base seven
fret and the base upon which the shaft
rests is five feet square. The entire height
is 43 feet. On the west side of the monu
ment ia the following inscription: ‘ Many
of whom gave all. and all of whom gave
much.’* Just above this inscription is
crossed two Confederate guns, while just
above the guns appear the letters. ”C.
S. A.” On the north side of the monu
ment is the figures: ••1561-1855.’' also:
"Erected by the Chickamauga Chapter of
the Daughters of the Confederacy to the
Confederate Soldiers of Walker County.
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see
that our children shall know their virtues
and become worthy of their sires.”
On the east side follows: “C. S. A. To
those who were and to those that are.”
Just beneath this Is portrayed a flag of
the Confederate states.
On the south side appears: •1861-1865.
Centuries on centuries shall go circling
by, but they are not dead, their mem
ories can never die.”
This handsome structure should cause
all Georgians to be proud of its place
and its beauty as a part of the apprecia
tion we owe to the men who left this
section and went as soldiers of valor and
bravery.
The daughters and the veterans of the
bounty met with the public school on the
academy lawn at f*:3o a. m. today and
were led by the 11th Cavalry band down
and along Main street to the platform on
the courthouse square. The daughters,
acting as escort to the veterans, passed
through the double column formed by the
school and took places upon the plat
form. where the program was taken up
and carried out. The program was as fol
lows:
Music. “Dixie’'—Twelfth cavalry band.
"Auld Lang Syne”—By the daughters.
Invocation—Capt. J. Y. Wood.
Reading rules for bestowal of crosses.
Sone. "The Veterans’ Cross of Honor.”
Bestowal of crosses.
, Song. "The Homespun Dress”—By six
fettle girls. y
Introduction of the Orator of the Day—
Captain J. M. Jackson.
Address—Hon. George M. Napier, the
orator of the day.
Music—U. S. cavalry band.
Presentation of Monument by Daugh
ters of Confederacy to the Veterans of
Walker County—Mrs. J. E. Patton.
‘ Acceptance of Monument—Hon. B. F
Thurman.
Unveiling of the Monument- Robert
Steele. Robert Glenn, Helen Bale and
Margaret Patton.
Music—l'. S. band. *
After this program was carried out?
Captain W. A. Foster, mounted on one
of the’ flnest horses In this section, with
appropriate dress, sword on right, wear
ing suitable regalia, and himself a Con
federate soldier, and one of the best
posted men in military tactics in this sec
tion and the handsomest man in Walker
lormed the line of march to the city
Wmeterv. where the graves of the vete
rans were deco-ated. The band continued
to play during the decoration.
At the close of the decoration a feast
was spread. It was prepared for the oc
casion on the tables of over one hundred
feet in length.
The reception committee was on duty
the entire thne looking well to the com
fort of all attendants. The committee was
a< follows: P. D. Fortune. John W. Bale.
J. E Rosser. J. P. Shattuck. B. F. Thur
man. P. B. TAttle. T. A. Jackson. Earl
Jackson. P. D. Wright. S. A. Hunt. J.
F Wardlaw and R. N. Dickerson, men
all well calculated to handle the large
crowd and make them at ease.
WAYCROSS.—A fir* Monday nleht tn Reids
ville. a eclored subdivision of Waycross, de
stroyed three dwellings and two stores The
ftre started in the two-story store of Thorft
tcti Bros. Their leas was about tl.tro. with
insuran-’ amounting to M<» The bulldlnes
vrer- th* property of W. D. O’Quinn and
A. M. Knight, of this cityg and were insure!
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AMERICAN TARIFF LAWS
THE MILLS BILL.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
Failure on thee part of the forty-eighth
and forty-ninth congresses to pass the
two Morrison tariff bills did not deter the
Democrats in the house in the fiftieth
congress from repeating their former ef
forts in the direction of a low tariff. The
Democratic majority had been dwindling,
and was now down to less than one
fourth of what it had been when Morri
son tried to pass his "horizontal bill.
President Cleveland came forward with
a precedent-breaking annual message. Its
every word was devoted to the tariff, •
which he sought to have made the issue
of the presidential campaign, then only
some seven months away.
• • •
The effect of the message on the Demo- !
crats in congress was remarkable, and [
brought down to five the members of l
those opposing the policy of their own i
party. Under these conditions it was .
easy to see that the third effort to drive I
a low tariff measure through a Democi at- j
ic house would succeed. Roger Q. Mills, ,
of Texas, a dyed-in-the-wool low tariff
advocate, was made chairman of w aysj
and means. He and his committee to k j
four months to report a new tariff bill. ;
The measure was in reality only a partial •
revision of the tariff. It extended the,
free list, substituted many ad valorem ■
duties in the stead of specific duties, and
reduced most of the high tariff schedules, j
Wool was added to the free list, most •
lumber and lumber products were put
there. Woolens were given a duty of 40 i
per cent. Cotton goods came in for a like J
duty. Mr. Mills got figures from the bu- .
reau of statistics, going to show that the .
total remission of duties under the Mills' |
bill would amount to $50,000,000, of which i
$30,000,000 would result from reduction in :
duty: the remainder from additions to!
the free list.
• • •
The house debated the bill for more than ,
than a month. The Republicans attack
ed it on many gronuds. for the tariff had
now been a full-fledged party issue. First,
they asserted that it had been framed by '
farmers, and that the manufacturing
states had next to no representation on I
Aie committee that drew the bill. They ,
claimed, furthermore, that it had been'
concocted secretly by the majority, and
that the minority had been ignored until
the time of reporting the measure. They
got together a list of the articles affected
by the bill, and from that showed that
the "cotton" states produced them to a
value of $91,000,000, while the other states
produced them to the value of $1,715,000,000,
nearly twenty times as much. Then they
charged that free trade pamphleteers had
written the measure, and that clerks j
were detailed from the treasury depart- ;
ment to assist in making It as harmful >
to manufacturers as possible.
• • •
The Democrats responded by calling to I
mind what the Republicans had said iu ,
18S3. At that time the Democrats were |
plainly told that the Republicans were re
sponsible to the country for what con
gress then did, and that they were not
going to permit the Democrats to thwart
them in their efforts to live up to their
responsibility. Now it was the Democrats
who were telling that same thing to the
Republicans. Republicans replied with
taunts to the effect that the south had
not reduced the tariff on articles in which
It was interested, and was not willing
to practice itself that which it was
preaching to the north.
• • •
Most of the debate was in opposition
to the bill. There never has been a tar
iff bill considered in the house where the
majority was more lenient with the mi
nority than the Democrats were with the
Republicans in the consideration of the '
Mills bill. More than a hundred times the
committee of the whole took the parlia
mentary journey to the house and back
In order to limit the debate on a partic
ular amendment, but then only that
debate had gone on for a reasonable time.
The Republicans tried their best to amend
the bill, but Mills held his forces together
as a seasoned general upon the field, and
not once could the opposition get an
amendment past him.
• • •
While the bill was pending In the house
the national convention met. The Demo
crats were about as badly divided over in
dorsing the Mills bill In terms as they
were over the proposition specifically to
reaffirm 16 to 1 at Kansas City. But
there was no Bryan to lead them. The
bill was unanimously Indorsed by the
convention, but that Indorsement was not
made a part of the platform. It was a
sort of Parker "gold telegram.” promul
gated, however, by the whole convention
Instead of by the nominee. The Republi
cans denounced the Mills bill and came
out for the Randall Idea of repealing high
Internal revenue taxes instead of lowering
tariff duties. Some of the newspapers
enclosed "whisky and tobacco” in brack
ets after the phrase "internal taxes,”
and thereby made the Republican plat
form seem a declaration for "free
whisky.”
• • •
After the convention period was over
the house continued its consideration of
the tariff bill, and finally passed it on
July 21 with only four Democrats vot
ing against it. Samuel J. Randall want
ed to be paired against the bill, but was
not. After this the scene shifted to the
other end of the capitol, which was Re
publican. The senate was bitterly -opposed
to the Mills bill. The finance committee
got hold of It. and ostentatiously did the
things the ways and means committee
failed to do.
The committee accorded the fullest
having allowed the minority—this time
the democrats—to participate in its
deliberations, and, in short, sought to
make the course of the house committee
look petty and unfair by contrast. The
bill was kept in the finance committee
until Oct. 3, when it was reported back.
• • •
Parliamentarily speaking, it was the
same bill. Actually, however, It was as
If a blue pencil had been drawn
through every word of it except "be It
enacted.” and a new bill substituted.
The measure was then perfunctorily
discussed until Oct. 20, when congress
adjourned. No effort was made by the
senate to pass its bill. The two party
measures, the house bill and the senate
bill had not been before the country,
'and that was all anybody expected
even if a few did hope for more. Con
gress had been in continuous session
longer than ever before in the history
of the nation—32l days. A possible ex
ception to this statement might be made
of the congress which recessed from
time to time during the Johnson admin-
THE ATLANTA SFMI WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 30,
istratlon, and was only technically in
session. I
• • •
The election of Benjamin Harrison
was construed as a verdict in favor of
the senate substitute for the Mills bill,
and as soon as congress reassembled the j
senate began the consideration of the j
measure. The Republican senate knew I
its bill could not pass the Democratic (
house, and that even if it did it would
be vetoed by the outgoing president, [
Mr. Cleveland; but the bill was eon- i
sidered for a month and a half, and
then passed. The house gave the sen- •
ate an old fashioned tongue-lashing
for substituting another measure for the .
one it had sent that body—just as other
houses had done when the senate vio- ;
lated in effect, if not technically, the j
constitutional provision that all revenue
legislation shall originate in the house. .
There it ended, and the Mills bill be- I
came forevqr a measure that might '
have been.
• • •
The debate on the Mills bill while
pending in the two houses of congress, I
constitutes not only the most volumnous
tariff debate in the history of theJ
world, but it is regarded by many as
the ablest and most comprehensive in 1
the whole list of tariff discussions.
William H. Springer, long a member of |
the house, predicted that it would al- i
ways stand as the foremost of all tariff ■
debates, it was in the course of the •
consideration of the Mills bill that i
Thomas B. Reed first awoke the na- I
tion to his powers as a debator. He ■
told a paraphrase of Aesop’s fable of |
the dog which had a bone and lost it I
by trying to get the bone from his Im- '
age in thhe water. Reed pictured one j
of the finest dogs going, carefully {
groomed, fat, sleek and with a nice i
mutton chop in his mouth. The dog ,
came to a bridge, and in crossing it he
saw his image in the water. Making a
dive for the reflection he lost his chop,
and finally got out "the nastiest,, most
bedraggled. muttonless dog in the
world.” To him the Democratic party
was that dog. It saw the markets of
the world reflected, and was seeking to
dive into the water to secure them,
the while neglecting the markets at
home, and figuratively in its mouth.
There were 151 speeches made on the
Mills bill in the course of general de
bate in the house. There were 240
hours of actual talk expended upon it,
or thirty days of eight hours each.
William McKinley, in speaking cn it in
his “Tariff in the Days of Clay and
After.” says that the debates would fill
some twenty-five quarto volumes the
size of an unabridged dictionary. But
he seems to be mistaken about that,
as the entire proceedings of the first
session of the Fiftieth congress occupy
only nine volumes of one thousand pag
es each.
• • •
The Mills bill was the first tariff
measure upon which the party lines
were drawn so closely as to make it
strictly a party measure. Since then all
tariff bills have received practically the
unanimous support of the party father
ing them and the unanimous antago
nism of the opposing party.—(Copy
right, 1909, by Frederick J. Hzskln.)
READ THIS!
DOTHAN. Ala.—We have been selling
the Texas Wonder for years, and recom
mend it to any one suffering with any
kidney trouble as being the best remedy
we ever sold. J. B. YOUNG. Sold by all
druggists. Price $1 by mail from St.
Louis. •••
NEWS OF GEORGIA CITIES 1
TOLD IN BRIEF FORM
FAIRBURN.—The Odd Fellows at this place
celebrated their anniversary Monday night.
Alex Ditler, of Atlanta, was the principal
speaker of the evening. Speeches were also
made by Dr. J. F. Longino and Col. C. C.
Smith. Music was furnished by local talent.
WASHINGTON.—The Washington Telephone
company has begun to install new equipment
In its plant by placing a large cable instead
of Ihe numerous wires that have given unsat
isfactory service. The business of- the plant
has grown to such large proportions that It
was found that the already numerous wires
were a source of unsatisfactory service anti
expense, and new equipment became a necessi
ty, hence the cable.
COLUMBUS.—John Frank, arrested last
week for the violation of the prohibition law,
was Tuesday bound over to the superior court
under a bond of S3OO for his appearance to
answer to two charges, cne for keeping whis
ky In his place of business and the other
for selling whisky.
COLUMBUS.—The hull for the big dredge
No. 4, of the Chattahoochee improvement fleet,
built at the government shipyards on Front
street, had a successful launching Monday
afternoon. The dredge, when completed, will
work out a channel of fifty feet.
j SAVANNAH.—J. A. Herman, a policeman
in the employ of the Atlantic Coast Line
I railway, who was shot by a brass thief on
the wharves of the company Monday night,
will get well. He is now at St. Joseph’s hos
pital. The bullet from the negro's pistol was
diverted by a bunch of keys In *$ e officer's
pocket and did not reach a vital spot. It
was thought at first Herman would die. but
It Is now announced that he wifi get well In
a short time. I
SAVANNAH.—At the Catholic library hall
Wednesday the Chatham Agricultural club
was organized. This combination Is going to
work for the good of all the truckers in -.he
county and It is expected it Will be a pro
nounced success. It Is hoped to keep a modern
canning plant supplied with material through
the efforts of the member of this organiza
tion and the other truck growers about Sa
vannah. Truck was never In better shape
than now, and there will be thousands of dol
lars’ worth to send to market in a very
short time.
SAVANNAH.—The case against Dr. E. S.
Gallaway, a principal in the public schools,
who was arrested for having a punll.
was nolprossed In the city court Tuesday. The
pars nts of the bey upon whom the punishment
was Inflicted decided they would not prose
cute the case.
MILNER.—Hon. .Taseph L. Stoppelbeln, head
consul for the Georgia jurisdiction. Woodmen
of the World, delivered a public address on the
"Principles of Woodcraft” here recently. This
address was given under the auspices of the
local camp Woodmen of the World. After the
address the audience repaired to the "Forest”
of Red Elm camp, as its guests, where refresh
ments were served.
WAYCROSS.—The Fourth Annual Holiness
Camp meeting wil be held In this city begin
ning May 7th and running until May 16. The
meeting will be conducted by E. A. Fergersou
and W. B. Yates. Both of these workers are
well known In Waycross, having held a meet
ing here two years ago. The services will be
held in a big tent on Albany avenue.
' WAYCROSS.—Under the auspices of the Wo
man’s Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. a little
play, or mock trial, will be given on Friday
evening, which promises to be of unusual in
• rest. The farce is entitled a "Breach of
Promise Suit” and the leading parts will be
’..ken by prominent members of the local bar.
’•idgc John T. Myers. of the city court, will be
he defendant. Judge Frank Park, who is pro
dding in the superior court this week for Judge
T. A. Parker, will be the presiding officer.
I'he places of other officials, witnesses, etc.,
will be filled by leading attorneys and the
jury box will be filled by twelve good men and
•rue taken from among the leading business
ind professional men of the city.
BOY’S DISAPPEARANCE
SHROUDED IN MYSTERY
MOBILE. Ala., April 28—A Selma special
says: Shrouded In mystery is the strange dis
appearance of Albert Hall, the fourteen-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Hell, from
I his home. Young Hall disappeared April 22
and no trace has been discovered of his
whereabouts.
Colored Men
and Women
Wanted
Organizers for the grandest
Beneficial and Protective MK
Order In the United States. ML
Give all your time, or only HMb IMKX
■pare boura. Will pay you KS £*!’"’
well. No experience re- wV ’t ’
qulred, a« the supply of lit- r
erature we will send von. wtywjJwil
does its own talking. Makes
it plain that every colored
man and woman (including L*
young folks over , -‘s. I
W) wlll find it
great! y to their I /
advantage to be- ’ \ \ --jAJV
come members. I //
W. a. Criichlow, Prt*. and Fonndnr.
THE !~L-U
GRANO LODGE
is an International Chartered organization of
white people. Inviting their colored brothers
and sisters to join tn the work of uplift, secur
ing equal opportunities and protection for
all, higher wares and prices for crops, self
improved conditionsand betterment in ev
ery way. Over 60,000 members already under
our banner, and membership rapidly growing.
Liberal Cash Benefits to members, includ
ing fIOO 00 at death of member: $26.00 at death
of beneficiary of member, SIO.OO for children
(10 to IK years) $5.00 children (8 to 10 years).
Many other fine benefits.
No discrimination regarding sex, nationality
race or creed.
/Vo Traveling Necesssiry
We want men and women representatives to
■tart Subordinate Lodges in their home local
ities where we have none at present. Easy to
secure members, by following our simple in
structions and distributing our instructive
literature, coplee of Official Paper, etc. Full
Organizing Outfit furnished, including beau
tlfully engraved Commission of Authority.
This also helps one's standing and prominence
in the community. It should aid you in dif
ferent wavs to be an Official Representative of
this sound and substantial Secret Society. ’
We do want several Traveling organizers,
also, who can devote entire time to this work.
Good salary and traveling expenses paid.
Write at once for particulars, and enclose
10c for copy of "I-L-U Home Journal.” Don’t
wait till someone else gets ahead of you. Ad
dress W. G. Critchlow. Pres., 1-L-LJ Grand
Lodge, 162 l-L-U-Bldg., Dayton, Ohio.
JOHN R. WILKINSON
HONORED BY MASONS
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JUDGE JOHN R. WILKINSON
MACON, Ga., April 28.—Judge John R.
Wilkinson, of Atlanta, ordinary of Ful
ton county, past master of Gate City
Lodge No. 2, F. and A. M., thirty-third
degree Scottish Rite Mason, and honored
in many branches of Masonry, was yes
terday elected grand master of the grand
council, Royal and Select Masters, Geor
gia Masons.
The grand council met in its sixty
sixth session and was attended by lead
ing Masons from all parts of the state.
The full representation comprised 32
Georgia councils.
The retiring grand master is I. C. Pos
tell, of Savannah.
J. B. Roberts, also of Atlanta, was
elected grand conductor of the work of
the grand council.
The other officers elected by the grand
council were as foliows:
J. C. Harman, deputy grand master,
Tennille; W. A. Wolihin, grand treasu
rer and grand recorder; J. M. Rushln,
grand chaplain, Boston; R. B. Ethridge,
grand captain of the guards, Conyers;
A. E. Sansburn, grand marshal, Newnan;
W. B. Kent, grand conductor* of the coun
cil, Mount Vernon; Joe P. Bowdoin,
grand steward, Adairsville; R. B. Tall,
grand sentinel, Macon.
NEEDS FORItEVENUES
FOR STATE OF ARKANSAS
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., April 26.—Gover
nor Donaghey today sent a special mes
sage to the general assembly, showing
that revenue insufficient to meet tne ap
propriations for the bi-ennial period anfl
asking for a revision of the revenue laws
so the state would not have to operate
on a scrip basis.
In another special message the governor
asked an appropriation of $175,000 provid
ing for the payment to Contractors Cald
well and Drake any amount found due
them by the board of arbitration for work
on the new state capitol. George W.
Caldwell today stated he knew nothing
about any agreement with the governor
to abide by the decision of the board,
such as the governor stated in his special
message.
WO M an” suffrage
LAUDED BY QUEEN
LONDON, April 28.—Delegates to the
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
had a picturesque reception at Albert
Hall last night. Prior to this celebra
tion there was a procession of more
than a thousand women representing
all professions and callings, through
the streets of London.
Albert Hall presented a brilliant and
animated scene during the evening and
speeches were made by Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt, of New York, and Rev.
Anna Shaw. Mrs. Catt announced that
the queen of Norway had sent greet
ings to the congress. This was the
first time, said Mrs. Catt, that a queen
had ever sent greetings to a woman’s
suffrage congress.
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Uns made a special study of men. and I am
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lor the cure of deficient manhood and »lgot
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HONORS ACCORDED
L'ENFANT’S MEMORY
NOTED FRENCH ENGINEER WHO
DESIGNED CITY OF WASHING
TON IS HONORED BY TWO NA
TIONS IN CAPITOL.
WASHINGTON, April 28.—Unusual
honors were today paid to the memory of
Major Pierre Charles i’Enfant,' the fa
mous French engineer, who, under the au
thority of George Washington, laid out
the city of Washington.
His body, which was disinterred from
its resting place on Digges’ farm, in Ma
ryland, near Washington, where he was
buried in 1825, was taken to the capitol un
der military escort today.
In the rotunda, where the body lay in
state, ceremonies were held at which
Vice President Sherman and Ambassador
Jusserand, of France, paid tribute to the
noted Frenchman.
This afternoon the body was taken to
the Arlington National cemetery, under
a military escort and religious services
held there. Besides the regular troops
who took part in the procession there
were various patriotic organizations as
well as civic associations of Washing
ton. Rev. William L. Russell, rector of
St. Patrick's church of this city, which
Major i'Enfant attended, officiated at
the services at Arlington cemetery.
Jusserand Speaks
One of the principal speakers today at
the exercises held in the rotunda of the
capitol in connection with the re-inter
ment of the body of Major Pierre I'En
fant, who planned the city of Washing
ton, was Ambassador Jusserand, of
At the outset Ambassador Jusserand
called attention to the primitive con
dition of the land upon which the fu
ture capital of the nation was to be
erected, and to the great transformation
which had taken place in a little more
than a century, and said that “the will
of congress, the choice made by the great
man whose name the city was to bear,
the talents of a French officer, the one
whose memory was being commemorat
ed today, had caused the change.”
Washington, he said, quickly made up
hfs mind as to the location of the fed
eral city, but the question arose as to
what sort of a city it would be—a resi
dential one for statesmen, legislators and
judges, a commercial one with the splen
did possibilities afforded by the Potomac
river, or a mixture of both? Would it
be planned in view of the present or
the future, and of what sort of future?
Major Pierre I’Enfant, said the ambas
sador, had been selected by Washington
because during thirteen years of asso
ciation he had had many occasions to
appreciate the Frenchman’s qualities of
character and his abilities.
Wounded at Savannah
L’Enfant, however, said Mr. Jusserand,
although gifted, plucky and energetic,
was difficult to handle. He had been one
of the earliest enthusiasts of the Ameri
can cause, served throughout the war of
the independence, and had been left on
the battlefield severely wounded at Sa
vannah, where he had led the vanguard
of one of the columns of the attack and
lost two-thirds of his men. Later he was
taken prisoner and afterwards exchanged
for Captain Von Heyden. a Hessian.
For Major TEnfant, said the ambassa
dor, the planning of the city of Washing
ton was a work of love. “A mere glance
at that work,” he said, “showed that
the officer had decided not to work for
a nation of thirteen states, but for one of
fifty; the streets were unexampled any
where, gardens, parks, fountains, statues
to famous men—all were devised in view
of a great and powerful nation, the na
tion of today.”
L’Enfant, he declared, had foreseen
present greatness in all its aspects, “even
the last acquired one, the one of which
the American nation is so justly pround,
her navy.” The ambassador declared that
the plan fitted so well future times and
so badly present ones that for many years
criticisms were ceaseless and that as late
as 1851, Jean Jacques Ampere heard jokes
on “that strange city, made up of houses
without streets and streets without
houses.”
The Love of France
The intuition I'Enfant had of the fu
ture of his adopted country was nothing
I very extraordinary, the ambassador con
tinued. “All French people had the
same. From the first, France thought
that the United States would be and
should be a great nation. The first diplo
mat ever sent here came from France.
In conclusion the ambassador said:
"And now, Pierre Charles I'Enfant will
sleep his last sleep in that Arlington cem
etery. where so many are buried who
fought as he did, and felt as he did for
the nation; near that General Sherman,
who left such examples of heroism; he
will rest on slopes from which can be
seen the growth of the ‘Federal city’ now
called Washington; ‘a revered man’ wrote
another Frenchman; Chastellux, when
visiting, in 1782, another and earlier town
of the same name in Connecticut, a re
vered man' whose memory will undoubt
edly last longer than the very city called
upon to perpetuate it.
"May the fame of both continue in
creasing forever.”
NEGRO IN TREETOP
LYNCHED BY MOB
BARTOW, Fla., April 28. —Charles Scar
borough, the negro who attempted to as
sault Mrs. Taylor Frierson, of Ft. Meyer,
here yesterday, was captured ano
lynched this morning.
The posse, which had been following
him with dogs since yesterday, found him
in a treetop this morning and made him
descend. A rope was put around his
neck and, as he was drawn up to the
limb of the tree in wfhich he had sought
refuge, a score of shots were fir®l into
his body.
The negro confessed that he entered
Mrs. Frierson’s room for the purpose of
assault, but was lightened away by the
screams of his intended victim.
ALABAMA SEEKS FLAG
IN STATE OF MICHIGAN
LANSING, Mich.. April 27.—Governor
Warner has received from the department
of archives and history of the state of
Alabama, a letter asking if the flag of
the First Alabama cavalry Is In Michi
gan. The flag in question was captured
during the civil war by the Fourth Mich
igan cavalry at Middleton, Tenn., and is
In the preserved collection of the Michi
gan Pioneer and Historical society at
Lansing.
The matter has been referred to Col.
James Cox.
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RURAL CONDITIONS
IN SOUTH GEORGIA
Visiting a hundred country schools In
the "wire-grass’’ counties affords an un
usual opportunity for observing conditions
in the rural districts of south Georgia.
In some respects this section may be
considered the new part of the state. As
a farming section it is certainly entitled
to be so denominated. The days of “Tim
ber cutting”—hewn timber for shipping
have long passed; "boxing” for turpen
tine is no longer a chief industry. It is
still going on. but not on the large scale
of fifteen and twenty years ago; and
the "saw mills on wheels” that made a
finish of the forests of scarified pines
have almost entirely disappeared. And
now the landholder is coming into his
own, as a farmer and permanent occu
pant.
In ail the counties visited there are evi
dences of progress; and improvements are
going on in all lines bearing upon farm
life. The first of these improvements
to be noticed are very naturally
THE ROADS.
The chief obstacle to be overaome in
road improvement in this section ard
the “sand beds.” And by this term it
must not be supposed that only here and
there are excessive accumulations
sand, for these beds extended practically
the whole length of the road relieved oc
casionally by a creek or branch. The
remedy for the sand roads is a top dress
ing of clay. This clay is generally ob
tained by digging into a near-by ridge,
though in some cases it is necessary to
haul it a considerable distance. This
“claying the roads,” as it is termed,
gives them a hard surface with little dust
in dry weather or mud after rain, and
this method of road improvement seems
therefore satisfactory. There are already
many miles of "clayed roads" in these
counties and the road boards are push
ing the work very energetically, backed
in many instances by owners of auto
mobiles in the towns. There is a manifest
pride, too, in straight roads.
Many curves and sharp turns have
been eliminated and it is not an unusual
thing for one to be able to look ahead
over a stretch of road extending two or
three miles. In bridges and their ap
proaches much excellent work is being
done. Near Blackshear, in Pierce county,
is a new bridge nineteen hundred and
fifty feet long—over a third of a mile.
It Is of a uniform width of twelve feet,
not wide enough to allow two vehicles
to pass, but this is provided for by widen
ing the bridge at two places giving am
ple “pass ways” and thus obviating long
waits at the end. In Ware county the
policy of enclosing and - roofing all the
bridges seems to have been adopted by
the road officials.
WIRE FENCES.
Another gratifying improvement is the
substitution of wire fences for the old
style rail fences with its troublesome cor
ners the condition of which in the days
before the negro tenant system camp in
to vogue, was considered a sure index
of the kind of farmer the field belonged
to. There are miles of this wire fence
well secured to stout lightwood posts giv
ing the impression that the owner of the
land it encloses has confidence in his
holdings and expects to stay there.
“MARCH ON THE STUMPS.”
But perhaps the most striking and sig
nificant improvement is the movement
against stumps. The spare time in win
ter heretofore given to clearing new
ground and cleaning fence corners, seems
now to be devoted to removing stumps.
Only one who rides for a half mile along
fields .dotted with stumps and then
comes to a beautiful level plot unmarred
by a single black stump can fully appre
ciate the inspiring effect of this improve
ment. And it is full of meaning, too, for
it is the sure forerunner of labor-saving
implements, the weed chopper, the mow
er and the sulky plow, these in turn re
quiring more intelligence and skill in the
farm laborer.
THE RURAL SCHOOLS.
But most interesting of all in this grow -
ing section, certainly to the writer, are
the rural schools—strictly speaking—Geor
gia’s "common schools." In these, condi
tions vary widely. In several respects,
however, the schools taken altogether
progress. A larger number of the teach
ers than ever before are such as have
had more or less training in normal
schools or summer institutes. This is es
pecially true of the women teachers, and
it will surprise others, no doubt, as it
did the writer to learn that sixty per
cent or more of the teachers in these
schools are women. And it is only justice
to them to say they have won their way
to these places by better preparation for
the work than men are willing to make
and by actually doing the work better
than it is being done by men. This ap
plies to the single room school requir
ing but one teacher. For these it is fas’
becoming the belief of school boards and
superintendents that women are the prop
er teachers, and though men have the
advantage in the matter of securing board
convenient to the school, and in their
opportunity fv meeting and talking with
patrons and '6kHe it is a fact that gen
erally they are preferred by matrons, there
is nothing surer than tb«& the days of
men as teachers in single room rural
schools are numbered and the places that
now know them will soon know them no
more.
More than this, in many places the
double room, or two-teacher schools, have
women at their head, and it Is due them
to say that in scholarly equipment and
In the care of buildings and grounds they
may with confidence challenge a compari
son with the men holding similar posi
tions. Whether in the training of the large
boys and girls of these schools they will
show themselves as. capable as men is as
yet a debatable question.
Tn several of the counties visited a num
ber of school districts had voted the local
tax allowed under the McMichael law
and had erected commodious and comfort
able school houses. While the houses are
well built and of good proportions they
are all defective as to interior adapta
tion to their uses. It is strange that be
fore proceeding to build, the building
committee did not consult the county
school commissioner or drop a card to the
By
B. M. Zettler,
Kirkwood, Ga.
state school commissioner for
There is no vestibule or ante-room fog
depositing dinner baskets, umbrellas,
cloaks and hats, and these axe hung
against the walls in the school room—•
prolific source, the doctors tell us, of con
tagious diseases. The stove flue, which
was invariably suspended on "stirrups'*
as Is required in cities to guard against
fire, was in the center of the room, neces
sitating a position for the stove that se
riously breaks into the orderly arrange*
ment of desks.
The teacher’s platform is at the farther
epd of the room and the children’s backs
are towards the door. A partition across
the room six feet from the main
with a passageway at each end wauld af
ford a vestibule or ante-room and at the
same time provide for the teacher's plat
form between and near the two entrances
and require the desks to be so placed that
the pupils would face to the front. A
cross partition to the right or left of the
main door would give the girls a private
ante-room where they could have a mir
ror, comb and bruslj and a wash basin—as
indispensable requisites for girls as a ball
ground for the boys.
In many schools were new desks of the
very best pattern and in two counties
the commissioners stated that the board
of education had decided to buy single
desks exclusively.
In the case of three new buildings the
attempt had been made to provide for two
teachers by making the building forty
five feet long, the idea being that both
teachers could use the same room, one
at each end; and in two of these build
ings a teacher and her assistant were
trying to do the work as the builders of
the house intended. But the needed
changes in buildings will come, but
when! O when! will come the change of
running these schools on five and six
months’ credit?
Thirty-seven years ago Georgia came
under complete control of her own peo
ple and the present public school system
was inaugurated with a three months'
term on a six months' credit basis. We
have lengthened the term to five and a
half months, but in most of the counties
we have the same old plan of requiring
teachers to wait five or six months for
their pay after they have done their
work. All honor to the nineteen coun
ties that by adopting local taxation and
the few others that without this, have
wiped this blot from their school sys
; terns! And let south Georgia hold high
her head for a majority of these local tax
counties are tn the southern half of the
state, and standing proudly among them
are three of Georgia’s youngest, Tift,
Crisp and Ben Hill. To them may be ap
plied Commissioner Pound's strong
words: 'THEY ARF AWAKE; THEY
FACE THE EAST; THEY ARE MOV
ING WITH QUICKENED STEP!”
SCHOOL WALKS.
In the absence of a better name the
term “school walks” is given to a unique
Improvement seen at one of these wire
grass schools. Diverging from the school
house in four directions, were paths about
three feet wide and extending at least
one mile and as straight as if laid out
for a railroad. They were made with a
plow and hoe and raised sufficiently to
render them comparatively dry after
rains. To one familiar with this flat coun
try the advantage of these walks in wet
weather or when dews are heavy, is at
once apparent. They evinced a thought
fulness and enterprise that are highly
commendable.
Altogether this wire-grass section ts
highly interesting, especially when
considered with reference to its rural
conditions.
The Daffodil as a Decorative Flower
It was high noon, at the country wedding
of yours truly, when a beautiful little bronze
pitcher, then, as now. of historic interest, was
filled with golden daffodlla and placed in the
center of the dining table. This was without a
precedent. j.
No one present had before seen flowers used
for table decoration. Strange as it now sound*
not for many years later were they used in the
churches on any occasion. Fifty years later,
we entertained the remnant of that Interest
ing company with a host of other friends,
when daffodils were again used in the old
pitcher for the centerpiece, and were used with
arbor vlter, exclusively and elaborately for dec
orating. with the most gratlfyptng result*,
as my little poem but imperfectly portrays.
Staid Creature, He
Yonkers Statesman.
Bacon—Didn’t I notice you were moving up
at vour house today?
Egbert—Yes, all but the hired man.
Everybody Happy
Philadelphia Record.
The man who would rather be right than
be president generally has his preference
gratified.
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