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Mr and loco
ships and f"
amniini of r.
yi-ar. These
per cent ove
l!»n5. of 28 j,<
new road btli
»ge nf rand'
re<
ei v*
in regard to ear a:
put the Cap tte say-.
The car famine of
months has not he. .
of effort on tie- part
to obtain new cquipi!
1 urns from tin ■ at
builders in tin D c
and Mexico five an <
cess of tier previous .
Official return fr
building compann
American continent (
small plants not bean
total number of rail
during 1906 as 243.671
Subway and elevated c
Include electric -;reet
cars. In addition to
railroads have built In
n targe number of c:
nnd passenger. Of l!i
output. 210.503 cars
service and 3,167 for p
236.451 were f.r dorr.
7.21ft for export. Till-
4r. p<r rent over the
output of 190n and of :
the output of 1904.
the
■stl
In n
:. i . at* sin*: <>A the South
ki: g what the Sotrh can a
ay rn -.Jnuod subservient
the Northern ward heelers wh
quer *■: • under the name of Democrats,”
thev are counting the cost of that
' ■ the North
Northern “Games” Framing Up.
Throe game- ire now "framing" up
wii the Democratic national'organ-
vit .... in 19* ,v . these Oemocrats slid.
They described them as follows:
Mr. Bryan has one. Vigorous intel
lectually. clean morally, more conspic-
uous In the public eye than any other
private citizen, he is -till unable to
command the support of any of the
influential lenjers of his party in any
part of the country, nor of any consid
erable body of Democratic citizens. His
candidacy is illogical and .-elf-destruct
ive. There is no demand for if from
the people as a patriotic desirability,
or from the leaders as a matter of po
litical expediency. It is a game in which
nobody but Mr. Bryan can take much
interest.
Mr. Hcarst has another. He is an
agjtator, a propagandist, a man of re
source. resolution and foresight. As.for
the rest, the description which these
Democrats give to Mr. Bryan fits him.
He is not a Democrat. He ought to play
built | his game with the Independence
ludes ' League party, or with the Union Labor
party.
Wall street has the other game. It is
now developing in this State, Pennsyl
vania. Indiana and Illinois. It is a game
both freight i of elimination, against Mr. Hearst, Mr.
anufaoturers' | Bryan, the Solid South and the Derao-
• for freight | era tic party. It is only incidentally a
nger service: : game of politics: mainly it is a game of
c use and ; high finance.
n increase of ) None' of those Democrats who dis-
ord-breaklng cussed the new Southern proposition
per cent over today Is a Hearst Democrat. They
j went so far as to say. in fact, that they
is quite as would become Republicans if Provi-
hullders in ' dence sought to place upon them the
i turned burden of a choice between a Hearst,
he year, a Bryan, or a Wall street Democracy,
-tic use ' Welcome to the Race Issue.
fn
North
two
»m) gh
is it •!> The present time. Sound
j ip-;, excused a temporary
,, n nf Southern Presidents, am-
hassadors and judges after the war,
Republicans said, but it is no
j.uiger sound national policy to k -ep
;-. f . < urh .n : !•:' i! "Stracism. As for
tic Nor'hern Democratic leaders, they
have all along held this belief. The sup-
prndoiis or Southern Interests of
the Northern Democrats have
h- i-n zir’.ly h.-iv- di- tat-d by con
siderations of party expediency alone.
Wti re the South's present opportu
nity lies to do a distinguished service
of permanent value t - h nation is (fib
miplete destruction of the socialistic
principle in the Democratic party. Its
fr; nds in the North would expect
nothing but failure if the South at
tempted a Democratic reorganization
Oh any o'her t*a is. tin the other hand,
should the South rise patriotically to
the responsibilities to which it now
seems to be imperatively invited, and
give to the Democratic party its best
thought and its best men. it- friends
believe it would solve all the problems
it considers of vital importance to its
physical and moral welfare, even
though it failed to elect
man President .
DIFFICULT WORK OF
sors fail, and achieve a more compre
hensible and direct method of commu
nication is the opinion of a verv wise
RFFORMINH I A\flIJ4fiF "liter on the subject in a London re-
i\Li uixitllitu LftmiunuL | vieu . There is springing up in the
______ | United States a language, this writer
claims, which is following the true so-
Fnm the St Louis Globe-Democrat. | iution as known to the student of
Philology is certainly a dangerous philology. Its “elements are diverse
science to trifle with \s. between ar td confusing as yet, but there is
; good reason why “a distinctive char-
build,ng the Panama canal and reform- acter - should be j on£ . to it , - a dIstinct _
mg me English language, the embar- | , ve language ,~ sprung up “in a vast
rassmt-nt> seem about equal. As poi country inhabited by recruits from all
schemes in the Presidential brain, they : tbe wor ] d Words that are most ex-
must be alike disquieting, In the be- pressive or easy or descriptive strike
ginning it was not so. To simplify a the ear and are gradually adopted, and
few words in a cumbersome language besides this there is a deep race char-
s t-med an easy matter until the edict
went forth and the critics and scholars
of two continents began to pasy upon
It. Now more than Brander Matthews
ITEMS OF INTEREST
rs, but docs not
and intcrurban
his total, the
heir own shops
The locomotive output
phenomenal. The twelve
the United Slat*- and Ctutail
out 6.952 locomotives during ,
of which 6,232 were for domi
nnd 720 for export. This i- an Increase - At least, these Democrats said, the
of 27.3 port-rent over last year’s total race issue is neither the free silver,
of 8.491. There were built 237 electric j the judiciary, the Socialistic.Issne^;nor
loebmoth ■< s and 292 compounds, as [ the issue of corporation lawyers or pub-
agalrvst 140 and 177. respectively, last lie ownership of public utilities.
Tli
l ’a
dian output was
that
n 1901
year.
Tn reviewing the receiver-iili
• foreclosure stiles, the '
The 'mileage nf road.'
the hand- -<f r' < elvers
op would be oxpT'cted in a i
Hiieh widespread prosperity:
fthe figure Is. with the exee
,1901. Die smallest -inee 1881.
year six roads went into r*
hands: the first of these, the
Railway and Terminal, as a dl
217.
and
“We have tried succes
cent into
is small,
icriod of
in fact,
ption of
In the
ecelvers-
■ Toledo
ct re-
dlcate our position on .-ill these Issues
by appealing to the Constitution.” said
they, “and we have failed. We can’t
do worse with Mr. Morgan's proposi
tion. And by accepting his issue we will
effectively displace all the others.”
Gixving to Mr. Morgan’s proposition
the serious consideration which it de-
Switzerland sold to the United States
in 1905 chocolate valued at $530,000.
The amoun: of tonnage entered at j
the port of Antwerp during the month
of October. 1906. has reached 1,005,-
536 tons, which is unprecedented in the
history of the port. This progression
was due principally tb the arrivals of
large cargoes of grain. The vessel ton
nage f#r October. 1905, was 877,518.
A curious custom procures In the
German navy with the sailors, hav
ing served their time, pass into the
reserve. They don the "reserve flask”
—also used on a similar occasion In
the army—and parade the streets wear
ing caps with ribbons which reach
to the ground, other ribbons being at
tached to the capes they carry.
In 1905 there were in the United
States 2.534.830 acres of flax under
cultivation—an increase of 271,271 acres
over the previous year. Almost all
the flax on this area was raised sim
ply for the seed, which was used in
the manufacture of linseed oil. The
Stalks, with all their possibilities of
use as fiber material. were burned.
A gift of $100,009 each has been
made to the Western Reserve Universi
ty by H. M. Hanna and Colonel Oli
ver H. Payne. The money will be
used in establishing and endowing a
laboratory of experimental medicine,
ivoly to yin- j A professorship of experimental medi-
acter which evolves its own mod
speech ”
“Skylarking” and “Skidoo.”
Whether the distinctive American
; will have to stand by the “royal ukase” language would recognize such ex-
| to make its projected reforms go j pressive and all-embracing words as
! through. j skylarking and skidoo. for instance, as
Tiic latest opp osition comes from no directly in the philological line of evo-
less an authoritv'than Professor Mun- i Iution,' this learned writer- does not
sferberg of Harvard, who proceeds to say; but it appears that in their “nice
; demolish one of its most appealing : independence of all hampering forms”
claims, to the effect that the projected j Americans are incorporating such
i ref-rm would favor the international words, not only in their common
Southern chances of the English language by re- I speech, but in their legal codes and
moving "the intricate and disordered regulations, as was recently noticed in
spelling." which makes it a puzzle and ! these columns, touching the edict
a mystery to the stranger, both within
and without our gates. How effectu
ally he sustains his position his illus
trations along the line of lost princi
ples, confounded relations of words,
and wandering part- of speech which
the new spelling involves, can show at
a glance.
It is easy to believe him, therefore,
when he says of this graciously pro-
I I !' Ini'.r-M-I-M-M-H-K-l"!"!"!'■M-l-H- i-I-H-H 1 l I ! I 1 H-M’-H -?-
Memories or College Friends
FROM THE CHI PHI YEAR BOOK
BY EMORY SPEER.
THE CEDARS. Vineville. Ga.. July * The complexion is dark, almost
22, 1906.—-Outside the rain is steadily swarthy. The poise of the figure is
falling. The dripping from the broad- j perfect. It is the form and face of
against skylarking pronounced upon
the police. To be sure, there is good,
old English authority for this busi
ness of going on a lark, whether sky
ward or earthward, and that it means
something “wild and giddy,” in either
case Dickens as well as the St. Louis
police regulators recognized. In fact,
America is rather given to nailing the
wild and giddy to a head in its ex-
cine has been created, and Prof. Charles
N. Stewart, of the University of Chi
cago. has been elected to the chair,
the first of its kind, it is said, to be
created in this country.
Representative Stenerson has pre
sented -to Vice-President Fairbanks the
invitation of Chiet Hole-in-the-Day.
second,
or dec
ile total
lbout 28
,suit of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton receivership. The Chicago
Terminal Transfer Company has hem
tn trouble since 1991. when the T.ake
Shore, ihe Rock Island and Die New
York. Chicago and Si. Louis moved
into the t,a Salle street station and
terminated their contracts with it for
use of the Grand Central station. In
terest lias been in default sinee 1905.
It is believed that J. J. Hill has al
ready or will ultimately acquire control
of the company, and the high market
price of Us bonds argues some favor
able outcome from its present troubles.
With the exception of the largest
road In the list. Die more important
foreclosures during Die year were
merely the necessary formalities of
finally taking over smaller roads by
stronger systems. The St. Louis and
North Arkansas, the largest in the list,
was never in the hands of a receiver.
Official returns from most of the
railroad companies in the country, sun-
plemented bv our own records nnd fig
ures furnished by the State Railroad,
Commissions, show that approximately
5.628 miles of new railroad line hive
been built in the United States during
the calendar ve.-ir I9f»6. The c . -a-
include 57 miles of new main Ira- k re
located. but do not Ir.elud
lbird or fourth track, sidie.
trie lines. The Incr-ase in
over last, year is 1.240 Ttlfl* ;
per cent.
New main track tr.iieage is reported
.in 42 States and U-rri’ories. including
Alaska, where 16V- miles ..f new track
were built. Te-as leads the list, with
track laid on f/}5 miles, an inci a so of
297 miles over 1995. South Dakota,
which built 116 miles last year, is sec
ond this year, with 388 mips. Louisi
ana is tb,rd. with 334 mites and Ne
vada Is .fourth, with 2S2 rail -s. The
largest heerease reported is tn North
Dakot/. where only 217 miles were
built /ns compared with 520 mile- in
190'U' Illinois atld Oklahoma Ternitory
alan each show at lea-’ 109 Hides lo s
tj»n last year. The large--! decrease
Jim 1905 was Missouri, where 270 miles
were built in 1904. only 19 miles in 199,*
.nd 30 in 1906. In addition to the four
[tales already mentioned which lead
e lift. Arkansas. North Dakota FI *r-
k and Wyoming each built over 700
a. while Idaho. Georgia. Nebraska,
dssinpi. Utah, Ne*v Mexico. WL-
ln, California. Minnesota. Virgin, i,
is. Pennsylvania. Colorado. Wash
ington nnd Indiana, in des ’ending nr-
ider. Built over 100 miles of main line
[ jin 1966. No new mileage was reported
■ iln Connection. Delaware. Iowa. M lrv-
r lland. New Hampshire. Rhode Island or
'Vermont.
The following table ,-ljnws our figures
■for mileage built in Die United States
during the last fourteen years:
however, the friendly North- i of the White Earth Chippewas. in [Min
nesota, to attend the celebration next
June of the fifteenth anniversary of
the establishment of the reservation.
There are about 100 Indian families
on the reservation, and a large num
ber of them go under the name of Fair
banks and claim kinship to the Hoosier
statesman.
During the days of indignation and
anger caused by the recent Holienlohe
revelations the Kaiser had recourse
more than usual to his favorite bev
erage. Mexican coffee, which, he claims
calms as well as refreshes. He has a sup
ply sent to him periodically from a
German colony of planters on the Pa
cific coast of Mexico.
The Duke of Sutherland's celebrated
Trentham Hail library, recently sold
in London, by auction, brought low
prices. A perfect copy of the. rare
third folio edition of Shakespeare's
plays, published in 1664. was obtained
by a dealer for $1,950. little more than
half the sum paid for a slightly larger
copy of the same edition four years
ago. t
The Tax Collector of Adelaide, South
Australia, officially reported the con
scientiousness of a tax payer who, in
getting up a statement -of the.real es
tate he owned, for taxation purposes,
put down a piece of land of his meas
uring. nine feet by six feet in “——
cemetery." and uuder the column,
"Name of Occupier," gave that of his
departed wife.
A remarkable hunt which took place
in tlie northern part of Coahula, a few
days ago is reported from -MoncJova, in
that State. A party, of which about
seventy-five were hunters, went
on a deer hunt through the mountains,
being out eight days. The seventy-five
hunters killed S00 deer, an average of
10 a day, or more than one deer a man
a day.—Mexican Herald.
Hongay. Tonkin. China, has the saf
est coal mine in the world. The work
ing is on the side of a hill, which
is one solid block of coal about 200
feet high. To get at. the mineral it
is necessary only to remove a layer of
schist on the surface. The coal, which
is of good quality, is mined to t>.e
extent of about 1.000 tons a day. There
is a good deal of dust, which is used
for making briquettes. The staff of
the mine Is composed of fifty Europeans
and 3,500 natives.
1893
1894
'1895
1896
,1897
1898
,1899
•1900
1901
1907
1903
1904
1905
1906
.. .3.074
.. .1,760
...1,4 28
...1.692
. . . 2.109
. . . 9.965
. . .4 569
. . .4 894
MUG IIP
FOG
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
"By all means, if the South wants to
take hold of the Democratic party and
run it. let the South have i:."
New York State Demn--ra:s who to
day discussed Senator Morgan's prop
osition to make the Democratic party
a white man's party expressed them
selves that way They -aid that North
ern prejudice against til-- "Solid South”
could not possibly he so disastr ms in
1he national elections as Northern
prejudice against corrupt bosses and
ambitious demagogues, who now .«■ m
to be the only alternative.
“We don't care." said these Demo
crats. "whether Senator Morgan is
right in his contention :• ;i ■ fore
fathers organized this G->vci-::m< : *r
men with white skins, bn; ■ !-> ear a
whether the Government is run 1-y
men with black hearts.”
Continuing, tiiese Democrats declared
that it Is high time for the Democratic
party to wipe out Its mercenaries,
money-changers, bosses and freaks, and
to rediscover Its lost principles and
get some worthy men to the front to
represent them on its authority.
"We will pass up Tammany and the
i-rn Democrats said that it was not by
any means a certainty that the issue
! would prove fatal to Democratic suc
cess. They were inclined to believe
that an aj>p°al to the North, present
ing the facts which are tjow familiar
only to the people of the Sdutn. might
! be successful; but they recognized the
fact that the Republicans would raise
a great row over it on sentimental
| grounds for the vindication of Repubji-
| can history.
It was their further belief that a
withdrawal of the right of, suffrage j
from the negro is the, firs', essential
step towards the solution/of the race
question, and that shou*'d the South
take upon itself the, whole responsi
bility of a Presideitial campaign it
should honestly ir.4ke that demand.
They said that ^Senator Morgan had
given .-in nutjwlritatlve expression to
I a fundamental Southern belief and that
: it could o/]y he ignored in the event
of Southern supremacy on doubtful
grout)di/of political expediency.
O' ■ Die proposition to take hold of
tl>»* Democratic party, reconstruct
V'licies to meet the Southern ideas,
and place a Southerner in the field for
President, the S -itthern leaders have
been fora long time doubtful and hesi
tating. For about forty years they
have submitted to the initiative of
Northern Democrats because they be
lieved a Southern initiative would be
! fatal to tlieir own political interests.
According to their Northern friends,
they are still reluctant. But some of
tlieir friends sav today that while they
were willing to follow honorable and
capable Northern leaders, thev would
not be subservient to the dishonest and
Incapable and would not follow mere
gamesters of politics who happened
through Diem to be in possession at
times of the Northern balance of
I- 11 " Cl’.
Southern leaders, according to their
friends hero, are now convinced that
neither the interests of the country nor
their own political interests can be
conservede by blind indifference to the
Democratic party. Holding to their
opinions on the race question, and
barred from Republicanism by the
events f history, they cannot enter the
Republican party. Under the circum
stances, they must either abandon the
Democratic party to form a new party
of tlieir own or bring the old party up
to tlie standard they require. ' '
Anyway, both Northern and South
ern Democrats declare', i: is high time
to end tee National ostracism- of the
South. On that subject a -Southern
Supreme Court Chief Justice, Albert
Flail Whitfield, of Mississippi, has writ
ten to the Independent:
“Is secession forever to disqualify
any Southerner from the Presidency
of this Union, no matter how far su
perior he may bo. to any and other as-
pirants; and if not. what limit of time
must be reached before a Southern
man. thoroughly qualified, will be per-
mrtte 1 to be named for even the Vice-
Presidency? Is it not an unspeakable
shame that this is true? And ought
n *t the office of President to be filled
by that man whose moral character
is loftiest, whose intellectual equip
ment is host, whose patriotism is the
true growth of his affection for his
native land nn-1 her institutions? How
long shall Intelligence he insulted and
morality outraged by the contemptible
fact that a man 4s to be barred from
candidacy for the Presidency, merely
and only because he is from the South
Republican Pol : cy Sectional.
"is there any Ambassador of the
United States abroad, representing us
i at any foreign court now, or has there
; ever been under any Republican Presi
dent. any such Ambassador, from the
South or of Democratic faith? Is it a
. erect view of the functions of an Am
bassador that he represents a section
of this country, or one of its political
parties? Does he not represent the
whole country as a sovereign unit?
! "Has the South been treated fairly in
the judicial department of the Federal
Government? The theory is that the
President appoints the judges of the
Supreme Court of the United States, of
the Circuit Courts of Appeal, of the
District Courts of the United States,
and of the Territorial courts of the
United S:a:es—in short, ali Federal
Judges, because alone of special fitness,
above their fellows, without reference
!•> political creeds or affiliations. With
the single exception of Mr. Cleveland,
ail D o Presidents since the great Civil
War have been Republicans, and yet
n : one soirary Judge from tile South
has ever been appointed to the Su-
jpa- Court Judgeship of the United
save only Howell Jackson, of
T s. nor one single Federal
Judge of the Democratic faith to any
infer! r Ju-igerhip. save ex-Gov. Jones
i Of A) ilia in.-."
South’s Great Opportunity.
Some Republican politicians of the
North, who looked dispassionately on
■ th- projected political revival of D--
South, said today that Justice Jackson
i v-.ts rigs; in his charac-erizntions f
j the Republican ostracism of the South,
jected aid for the foreign student, that I Passive euphemisms, whether in the
"the spell which needs dispelling in ! cas , e of , the b , oodJer the skyscraper,
his case is not misspelling.” And since f„ nd ,”»>*“ smne_r S cease from entic-
our "intricate and disordered” language I ^ /'o 1 ,,./'!
allows such a plav upon words, it re- the English writer s idea that it will
„i,,*2 ‘ evolve a mode of speech embodying its
th ?, r o - s n ?hI e £ *rr ai J ' °"' n characteristics "in durable mat»-
! rial - as the Prehistoric monster was
_ fji ky the Presidents English, embodied in thfe alluvial mud.”
f ^tunsterberg but dimly hints ; That Ca]Ifornla man who ls trying to
at thi> nhen he shows the embarrass- | dev i se a language with all thd bad and
ahead
that the
ment of spelling kissed like list. But ; angry words left out of it. is way
fancy any poet in a moment of wildest , of the times . It would se ' em th
er(.husiasm apostrophizing a friends ; gwear words could be left out, bu
wife tifter the manner of Leigh Hunt,
if he had to write, "Jennie kfst me
when we met.” etc., or fancy Jennie
perpetrating such a deformity, or the
chance of it on paper. So far the Car
negie movement must have been in
but after
all when one reads of Mark Twain’s
experience with missing buttons in the
bathroom, it is’ easy to see how hard
it would be for the male creature to
get along without them. Some schol-
tell us that such excited ejacula-
leaved sycamore, and the gurgling
streams in the gutters, remind me of
the drip-drip on the Ghost's Walk at
Chestney Wold, when “the waters are
out in Lincolnshire." The house is si
lent, and tonight I am alone with
memory. From the wall of my study
I take and prop against the drop-light
on my desk a small frame containing
three photographic groups. The ear l-
board is yellow with age—and well it
may be. for it is now thirty-eight years
since the photographs were made, but
the figures are very distinct, and linea
ments of each face clear, lifelike and
true. The photographer, C. W. Motes,
was and is yet a celebrity. As a can
noneer in the famous T>-oup artillery,
for four years he had fought his gun,
sharing in nearly every desperate bat-
Henry W. Grady, who died while lov
ing the nation into brotherhood and
reunification. Of this w onderful man
I might say in the language of another;
"I knew him like a book, and loved
him like a brother." We were school
mates in boyhood: he was not quite
old enough to enter the Confederate
Army and remained at school, and •
when in 1866 I entered Sophomore,
he was Junior. But our intimacy was
never broken. Doubtless the Almighty
might create a sweeter or more lov
able genius, but doubtless also He
never did. Hunting in our boyhooc.
when a squirrel was found, througii
his persuasion the guns were laid
sharing in nearly every desperate bat-* . „ ..
,Jo l.'IM th. Army M xortl*™ j j" ,d -SK. deSJht M
iss’K.'cs.'ss. »>■!«
work has been well clone. And so. al
though Appomattox was only three
years gone, the old photos vividly
bring back to me the companions of
my youth. The groups present the
pictures of twenty-five young men.
most under 20, and not one 25 years of
su T s.“ses B s£?.'s. r i.'! ,, Si^-r *v **■
i confidence would return they would
: furtively peep from their hiding places,
and in a moment disport themselves
with safe and even defiant Insolence
, Without training or unusual exercise,
’ Grady was the swiftest runner in col
lege. and in those days shapely and
the Eeta Chapter of the Chi Phi fra
ternity of the University of Georgia in
1S6S. Responding to a fraternal re
quest, I write for Chi Phis everywhere
my memory of these brothers, whose
young faces from a time since which a
generation has passed away, regard me
so intently.
sleeve, "for dawes to peck at," but
notwithstanding his gentle and even
careless nature, he had in need a su
perabundance of steady courage. He
was editor of the Atlanta Herald,
when, with the lamented Robert Al
ston, an irate individual, who consid-
league with the cold bacteriologists. ; tions were the first dawnings-of speech
who see in the ancient kiss nothing in fallen man, and the earliest type
but a deadly form of germ poison. The of expression found among different
only poetic remnant that fits the case races, and however that may be, the
is that somewhat dolorous one, which fiery expletives for his angry tem-
ends: '• pers appear to be about the last forms
"We (kissed) kist again with tears.” i of speech that poor sinners can aban-
More than concealing thought, Ian- ! don, and even saints need the support
guage would soon give itself to con- j of a better environment to render them
oealing iove. or. at any rate, congeal- | entirely secure against them,
ing it. for how long before we would It is rather getting the wrong end
have it live in the line of its phonetic j to. for this Dr. Frazier to start an an-
relations. Even the rose, which, In its j gel dialect before he has caught his
close association with love and beauty, i angels to operate it. It is to contain,
needs nice protection, would challenge j we are told, no “words significant -of
Shakespeare’s art' itself to find it | anger, ill will or even unpleasant emo-
sweet, when swept along the “nu skul” | tions,” which supposes that a large
wave as roz. Professor Munsterberg’s I proportion of the human family are to
idea that the familiar outer appearance j sit about dumb in the light of it. It
of a word has much to do with the ! is somewhat of a piece with the edu-
meaning it suggests, clearly weighs cat-or’s idea of doing away with the
something with words that poetry and devil in the small boy’s world by wip-
romance hav’e enshrined in a language j ing his horned image off the bill
for ages. It may be well enough to ! boards. There may be psychological
curtail such words as woe by even the | advantages in both cases, but it takes
dropping of an e. since neither the eye | some measure of inner grace to insure
nor ear has any. desire to cling to them. I them. B’oth tangue and imagination
but when it comes to blest and addrest, ! w’Hl fit themselves to the taste and
Of (ho aea,l,.rsss.&’ffif ffiS:
two were youngest. A smooth boj tsn
face is that of A. Pratt Adams, of
little
lived journal, made an assault oh
Grady, and instanly got a thrashing
which afforded his wounded honor the
I-Cu-Klux.” he stood by his friend
was in the secret, and returned shot
for shot upon the advancing enemy un
til his loads—a!! blank—were ex
hausted, and his friend dropped dead,
and tihen immediately scrambled up to
join the pursuit of Grady, who. seeing
kist and care^t. elsewhere than in Ger-
nvriy, the observing professor might
perchance find “whole classes reciting
them sadly.”
Old-Fashioned Words.
The philologist may begin his rebel
lion at thru and find,-with the president
of the University of California, nine
learned objections to the “haphazard
collection” of reformed words, but to
temper of their owners, and little devils
will see big devils, whether the sign
painters define them or not, just as
primeval man learned to invoke them
before Cadmus or any other worthy
had brought the letters of their pleas
ant names to light.
Really the good old Sunday school
Savannah. He is probably
more than 16, akh a noble fo.ehead. an ,p Iest satisfaction. On another oc-
tne sveet a d < m a . . i casion, when as the result of a callega
resolute face indicate the manhood he pran ,. hp with p frlend was amb ushel
is to attain Distinguished as a l^fl--i a[ ni „ M and flred upon with blank
lator, he als ec< ne P * P _. .. cartridges by a band of supposititioui
eminent member of the State Cncuit „ . , , bl- friend wlm
Court Judiciary of his day. and pos- ■ Ku-Ktux. he stood bj hi., friend " li
sessing the confidence of ail the people,
was general counsel’ of the receiver
of the Central Railroad, representing
many millions in Values, at the date of
his untimely death, in 1892. His wife
and son survive him. Even more boy- . . „,
ish is the face of WalterB..Hill. At the had no.hin,, to fight for, sel
time of which I write, he was probably ; himself to outrun hi; persecutors with
the voungest under-graduate. He lived ; a speed mat would nave won tne palm
to be the chancellor of that renowned j * n Olympic games,
university, and amid the sorrow of the j N. E. Harris and Others,
friends of education everywhere, has j j would be glad to give extended ac-
just passed to his reward. Brother • C Q Un t of our brothers whose young
Adams was of the class of 69, and faces are b e f ore me< and w ho yet sur-
In the group with Brother Adams, viva. Each in his vocation is perform-
there is the figure of a stalwart, pow- Ing the duties of ennobling citizenship,
erful man, a shapely head crowned There is Xathaijjel E. Harris, president
with thick, matted curls. He was Hor- D f the State Technological Sohool,
ace D. Beene of the class of 6$. After trustee of the University, and with
graduation, he sought fortune on the
Pacific slope, and there many years
ago he passed away. His hand is rest
ing on the shoulder of one whose reg
ular features and placid expression at
once indicate a strong mentality and
his fine son, a Chi Phi also, division
counsel of the Southern Railway; W.
R. Hammond. ex-Judge of the Supe
rior Court of the Atlanta Circuit, a
pure, noble, unselfish, patriotic char-
the sweet Christian spirit of a 'gentle acter supporting every moral reform:
o. re* B ean '69 of R ev - John D. Hammond, his brother, a
nature. He was W.
Augusta, Ga. Never failing in recita
tion or examination, he shared the first
honor, and thereafter devoted his re
markable talents to the ministry of
consistent and eloquent minister of
Christ; Benjamin H. Hill, son of the
Senator of the same name, a distin
guished lawyer in Atlanta, and stand
ing master of the United States Courts
for the Southern -Judicial Circuit;
Moses Guyton, who, with W. R. Ham-
doggerel. "Let love through all your j the Presbvterian church,
actions run, and all your words be ) B his / lde in the p j cture sits bril-
more than the philologist or even sen- mild, could give this California phii- Hant g; dnc . y Campbell gifted as sci-
timenraiist the phonetic spelling which : ologist the true clew to the matter of enti3t and jiterateur He too belonged mond :ind w - Bean, was first honor
would cut us off from the good, old reforming a language along the moral . to a historic familv in the beautiful Man of ’69, and is a leading authority
household words which meant love and l ine which he seems to aim at. Love : old citv of Augusta’ and he, too has on insurance in the State of Florida:
tenderness and alipthe sweet folly of i and gentle words go hand in ’ ' TT —*’*—
it. would be much .like “cutting ufe off ■ hand. . Hatred and malice must
from tlie language -of the English Bi- have hard words to fit them. Anger
ble.” which President Wheeler laments, and indignation require adequate ex-
That there is something “intricate ar.d I pression,. and always will till wrong
disordered" and, above all, mysterious ! and injustice are done away with
in the language of love anywhere there j everywhere. Unless the growing ruth-
is no denying, but i to run it into the ’ lessness, magnitude and subtlety of
mist and list order, does not help the "man’s inhumanity to man” shall cease,
matter, even from the scholar’s stand- it may be all the bad words in three
point, and certainly not
lover’s.
There is something, to be sure, in I zier should seek out for
„ one * Hamilton Yancey, son of Benjamin C.
In’the lower group to the left is a i Yancey, k- nephew of William L.- Tan-
small. but compact and graceful figure, ce -’ more famous, perhaps, but not
the face kindly but resolute, the hair worthy—modest, manly and ,
worn long after the fashion of the effective.
foremost citizen of
time, and the broadcloth vest adorned an< * ! *‘ er ®’
with festoons of gold chain, which klso H- Rucker, renresentativo
-ifAi** -Murri tn» w-ntUh of Alma Mater, the classic city cf
circle the neck and guard tne watch. ... ... . „ .
He is Thomas F. Green. He won the Athens, and the ancient County _
■ • . . - . heart of a lovely daughter of our Clante. in t.ie General As»embi.\ Ol
from the languages inste*d of. the pretty ones j chancellor, the famous Dr. Andrew A. • Georgia, a gentleman whose high
| that a philanthropic soul like Dr. Fra- ; Lipscomb. For many years he has ’ courage has enabled him to overcome
something, to be sure, in zier should - seek out for a new com- j been sleepin or but his son is amon^ the vicissitudes of a daring business
Judge’s idea that the license in “foo- bination of Latin, Greek and Anglo- the brilliant°’young advocates of the Iife - ancl "' hos e exquisite bearing and
natic sphellin” makes an intoxieatedj Saxon into any satisfactory tongue for i college town where the father while
man’s use of the mother tongue jus^j mankind. . | uainlnghismindfound timetowoo
as “sinsible” as a sober ones, so that ' Some one recently intimates that if j and w j n his gen tle bride,
the infatuated professor who was ' the President does not see an end to
caught by his pupil talking “ootsy some of the evils of the land very
pootsy ittle dear” to his love in the shortly, he’ll take a further hand in
park shadows might claim the privi- reforming the language by a little vig-
leges of both orders. On the whole, orous English not set dawn in the
however. Henry James' tongue, when spelling list. It seems to be a present,
fairly translated into English, as one j as well as past, need that Moore dealt
admirer proposes, would meet the lov- ' with when he cried despairingly,
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE
Rev. William F. Brand, pastor of St.
Mary’s Protestant Episcopal Church,
Beiair. Md., recently celebrated his
ninety-second birthday, and has served
the church continuously since its foun
dation fifty-five years ago.
The most powerful individual in
China today is Yuan Shi Kai, the vice
roy of Tientsin. He is virtually the
dictator of the empire, having as his
ally the aged Empress Dowager. No
decree Is issued from Pekin without
his approval.
Count Tolstoi neither dripks, smokes
nor eats meat. It is his boast that
he does not possess a single article
he could possibly dispense with: and
he has even refused to receive a bi
cycle as a present, on the ground that
it was a luxury. His recreations are
chess and lawn tennis, at both of
which he is an expert.
The heir to the Turkish throne.
Prince Reehad. has been the victim of
a system of tyranny of which history
offers but few instances. Like the
rest of the imperial family, the heir to
the throne has been virtually a prison
er in his own palace. For thirty years
he has been deprived of free* inter
course with the outer world, but dur
ing that time he has’ read more and
studied more than if he had been
actually free.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at the tenth
annual banquet of his Bible cla“s, told
the members that he never drank, and
that his father and his grandfather
were both abstainers.
An American citizen is a candidate
for the Russian Douma. He is Dr.
Isaac A. Hourwich, formerly cf Wash
ington, D. C.. but who returned to his
native country about two years ago to
represent several papers prior to the
breaking out of the Russian-Japa-
nes.i war.
Prof. Louis Schneider, the first di
rector of the Marine hand in Wash
ington and the leader of the Imperial
band, which was at the surrender of
Sedan, has died in New York. He
received decorntirms from Napoleon
III. from the King of Italy, the King
of Belgium and Pope Leo XIH
John Fellowes Wallop, a brother of
the Earl of Portsmouth, a: present a
resident of Sheridan County. Wv.Til
er's case better from the very starry
intricacies of its flights.
There would almost seem to be a
conspiracy against lovers, anyway, who
try to manage their affairs or love-
making through the clumsiness of
speech. Even to “get themselves mar
ried” in proper shape seems difficult ' thin
“Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason like a deadly blight
Comes o’er the counsels of the brave.
To blast them in their hour of might.’
Italian Lineage.
manners mark the gentleman and the
thoroughbred he IS: there is Walter
S. B'eeks for long a Judge of the City
Court of Griffin, esteemed and be
loved by all who know him: there.
In the same group is the tall form tno _ may be seen the youthful face nnd
and placid features of Bowdre Pmnizj. fj gure Q f that gentleman who is no.w
The name and the lineage are Italian. ; jj or i_ peter W. Meldrim, of the
This man might look out of the pages c j-y of savannah, State Senator, May
or of his famous city, noted for his
of one of Mario Crawford’s novels.
The sinewy form, the clear olive com
plexion. the high color, the penetrating
eye, might portray a descendant of old
Saracenseca. His father was Ferdi
nand Phinizy. He won the heart and
hand of Miss Mary Lou Yancey, the
toast of all the collegians, a young
Certainly there’s a need of some- who even * hat c l ay I is falling, with the dear faces of his
meres a ueea ui some ! f u i-women, would have been the belle! ”, f .. b dr<»n->-
tng fiery and virile to meet the so- : nf ~ nl ; ntrv - on earth, save the State 1 boyhood before him. h-s be n tru
gifts of advocacy, and quite recently
the leading counsel for the defendants
in the cause ceiebre. the United States
vs. Greene and Gaynor; and there,
then as now, in the bonds of Chi Phi.
is your friend and brother, who, while
the night wanes and the gentle
The learned and eminent theologian : ought to be devised by the philologists, i,_ _ om{ , mea=ure thf * mother’s charm
who was- the head of a college in one | of course, the psychologists could j Th ™? is the tal fnrm o Ja^ T
of the ancient universities was also eperes-ate a few Sundav school rhil 1 ,. ere ! s ine
a bachelor of manv vears* standing segregate a icu ounaay scnooi emi white, who carried off the third honor
rf Dcicneior oi man> 3 ears stancun 0 . ^ ren an ,3 try the pale and pleasant honors in those davs
So, when the sweet young: thing: to „ nrm rhem nnd sen if ; —about an tne nonors in tnose a->s
whom he was “much attached” came tonsu ® up . on tn £ > m : , an< * see t lf icame to Chi Phi. A noble. g:eerous
. , - n li u V 1 came gp outs wings. But for those in the v.^o r t was his but recently stilled in
to him and pledging him beforehand. t £ lck of th * fighti something like death recently stilled in
p f ,a?nr;.'I \^h S you t^mar^me.’’The j Washington’s “divine swearing” ^ there was Robert H. Johnson
ominant thoainmnn „«a A e „^t ! at dastard foe or turn~coa^ seems still from nriffin. da. Rr too. won thr
serviceable. Indeed, one of our mod
ern prophets, H. L. Wells, appears to
think that it will take the fiery visita
tion of a comet to wipe out all our
sins and meanness (as Sam Jones has
it) and bring the reign of love and
eminent theologian and head of a col
lege was naturally, as Maclaren re
lates. “in great consternation.” “To
marry you!” he cried in dismay. “I
want to please you, my dear, but I
can’t do that. You know you are only
29 and I am nearly 70, and don’t you
from Griffin, Ga. He, too. won th<
heart of another “Maid of Athens,”
whose personal and spiritual charms
dominated the student body. Georgians
of every class of society, then and now,
are a simple religious folk, and in the
Methodist “revivals,” when amid do
ing sweet dreams and sad to the soul
for
“When Time, who steals our years
away,
Shall steal our pleasures, too,
The mem’ry cf the past will stay,
And half our joys renew.”
Ever fraternally yours.
EMORY SPEER.
PEANUT CROP SHORT.
From the frequency with which in
quiries are being received from Amer
ican dealers in peanuts by Consul-
General R. P. Skinner, of Marseille, he
says it would appear that there is a
considerable shortage in the United
see, my child, you would never be love’s sweet tongue of peace and joy quent exhortations and inspiration of states at present, and that imports-
happy.” Of course, the startled young to earth. It is hard to think that.it ; song and worship, sweet Susie Hill ; *
lady hastened to bring foward the true • > s nuite so bad as that, but, howeyer , and others not less fair, would move
tions from Europe will be necessary.
lamb of sacrifice, and relieve her an
cient friend by assuring him that it
was his honored ministrations at the
marriage ceremony that she was seek
ing: but. it was a fine confusion of
speech that covered them both.
The inadequacy of any system of
“bobbed-off" spelling to meet such exi
gencies is clear at a glance, and Ham
let’s cry. "Ah. reform it altogether.”
is the natural one which might wait
upon any efforts at the remodeling of
a language burdened with such multi
tudinous synonyms, strange idioms and
tricks of both sense and sound. That
the people will take it up, if the profes-
g. ha
of a large ranch D
.11?
1 TIT
So Tired
It may be from overwork, but
the chances are its from an in
active liver —.
With a well conducted LIVER
one can do mountains of labor
without fatigue.
It adds a hundred per cent to
ones earning capacity.
It can bekeptin healthful action
by, and only by
it may be brought about, there is no
question that it is love, and love alone,
that will effectually refine our spf-ech,
as well as our lives.—Irene Clark
Safford.
Cured of Lung Trouble.
“It is now eleven years since I had a
narrow escape from consumption,”
writes C. O. Floyd, a leading business
man of Kershaw. S. C. “I had run
down in weight to 135 pounds, and
coughing was constant, both by day
and by night. Finally I began taking
Dr. King’s New Discovery, and con
tinued this for about six months,
when-my cough and lung trouble were
entirely gone and I was restored to my
normal weight, 1-70 pounds.” Thou
sands o.f persons are healed every year.
Guaranteed at all drug stores. 50c
and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
among the students, and add them i Mr. Skinner continues:
personal entreaties to the Prayers of j information is to the effect
the mei of God. there was little room !
at the chancel for the thronging peni- that the new crops, both in India and
tents. And. if the more obdurate I Africa, are excellent, and prices being
tne owner
AMERICAN LEATHER IN GREAT
BRITAIN.
The imports of American leather into
the United Kingdom are stiil on the
increase, says Consular Reports,
amounting, during the first eight
months of 1906 to $12,593,600 in a total
import of $31,992,200. This is an in
crease in the imports of American
I leather of $2,936,300, as compared with
j the first eight months of 1905. and of
i $823.S00 as compared with the first
three months of 1904. The .countries
! from which the imports of leather
i manufactures were imparted during
! the three periods are not given in the
j official returns from which the leather
tatistics were taken.
sometimes relapsed to the life of the
worldly, under simitar influences a re
conversion was easily accomtilishecl.
With his hand resting on the shoul
der of one who dearly loved him, my be
seen the slight but shapely form and
classic Huguenot features of
Le Conte. No purer strain tha
Such faces pressed at Ivry where “led
the helmet of Navarre.” He was a
close kinsman of those famous broth
ers, John and Joseph Le Conte, whose
reputation for learning and science is
known the world around.
There, -too. ls Howell Cobb Jackson,
fluent in discourse, astonishing in
memory, combining the ability of the
Cobbs and Jacksons—Revolutionary
strains, which have largely dominated
Georgia from the earliest times.
And there, too. is Otis Jones, a coun
try boy, with the sincerity and out
spoken directneess of his tyne. He
was killed while hunting by the aeci-
de-'al discharge of a gun. At one
time he was a candidate for anniver-
sarian of the Demosthenoan Societv.
Tap Ward, a debonnair and diplomat;.-
little gentleman, promised his vote, j
When the count was made. Otis had j
received but one vote. Tap met him !
shortly afterward, and g'-ntiv taking i
his hand, said: “Otis, old fellow, vou
were defeated, but you see I kept my j
promise." To Tap’s consternation
sadly replied, “Tap. I cast that
myself.”
Henry VV. Grady.
Standing next to the lad who
to become th° chancellor of the
quoted for future delivery are certainly
weaker than those now prevailing. The.
nuts shipped from India are invariably
decorticated, and can scarcely be eon-
Louis j gjdered for the American market al-
; though answering the requirements of
i the Marseille oil manufacturers satis
factorily. The Spanish crop, although
excellent for edible purposes, is n it
sufficiently important to have, a dis
tinctive place in this market, so that
the only source of supply in which the
United States could he interested is
the African West Coast. Tlio nuts
from there are always shipped in the
she!!, and are decidedly the best arr-i
highest priced reaching Franco, where
the crop is chiefly absorbed. My in
formation Is that there will he from
160,000 to 170.000 tons of new crop
West Coast nuts for export. Pra< ticai!/
trine of th; re nuts have y. r cvpe to
hand, but large shipments are expect d
from now on. My last available quo
tation on West Coast nuts. i V--
nroportioned
the bosom c
his bond *hrust ; n !
broadcloth jacket. 1
than these of tvrelvx