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chaaad tha nama, good will, (ranehlsss,
advartialng eantraeta and subscription
Hat of Tha Atlanta Nows, snd Tha Nawa
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Tha Qaargian and Nawa, without ln»ar-
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Tha Georgian's astabliahad policy ta
sxaluds all objaotlanabla advartialng.
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you will receive only one copy ragti.
iariy.
an aadleaa chain prealdentla] boom for
Senator Scott, or West Virginia. Links
ta that chain will be forced all right.
Tom Dixon's press agent has appa
rently overplayed tha agitation game
with > Ttae Clansman." It seems to
have been barrad almost everywhere.
Paragrapher Nevtn. of The Wash
ington Herald, haa developed a mean
disposition since he left Georgia. He
predicates all his stabs at posts and
poataasec by quoting from those of hla
native state. Isn't Colonel John Joyce
•till In Washington?
If the directory don't give out be
fore the election, some of the local pa
per* will name the right man for chief
of police.
The Bishop of London says bache
lors are much more moral than mar
ried men. The bishop Is probably a
bachelor.
New York gobbles up another cah|.
net oScer in Secretary of the Trees
ury Shaw. Will have enough of those
fellows In Gotham pretty aoon to form
a society.
Even the schoolboys In Missouri In
sist on being shown. Expelled from
•chool a lad shot the teacher, be
cause be #buld not show him any
more-
Halting their own aalarlea made
the national lawmakers ao generous
that they have pulled the treasury
open tor a huge deflclt.
Still, pitchforking haa Its compen
sations. Senator Tillman's lecture
contract for the neat wvernl months
calls for HJ.OOO.
U (lienee really Is golden, that ac
counts for the scarcity of the metal
among the fair sea.
In Mra. Ella K. Parley’s line poem.
“In the Beginning.” the line which
roM “aa he turns the hands on the
dial of time and aun and hla laws un
derstood." should read "a* be turned
the hands on the diet of time, all na
ture bis laws understood." We 'make
this paragraph correction because
poets and poetesses neither like nor
deeerve to have their poems mutilated
by an nattmeful or Indifferent line.
This "brain etorm" Idea pro mi sea to
become common aa a plea before the
magistrate next day for some of the
gay old boys.
p ..Whenever Senator Platt's family
troubles simmer down enough to per
W him d alight breathing spell. Mae
Rood breaks In and rnutsus up bis
of mind.
JAOOF •OHVNCAX AMD SH POTIMM
A few days since Tha Georgian followed a natural Impulse In reseat-
lag-the suggestion of Jacob Bchurman that the Rockefeller donation
oUgbt be rallevad of III taint tt It was consecrated to the "civilisation of
the South."
And Immediately the newspapers of New York City and state. The
Herald. Times, Tribune, Sun. Brooklyn Eagle and the rest, rose to a de
fense more or lee* passionate, df Jacob Bohemian and his utteranoqa,
and to a criticism of Tha Georgian for answering him.
When a college praaldeiit and a leader of thought in New York and
the East lories a redaction upon an entire region of the country, those
newspapers, by Implication at least, demand that Southern voices should
be silent and let It pass.
But whan the region of country reflected upon sees fft to answer In
Impulsive warmth -the serious reflection upon Us own, by aa individual
citizen, these news papers rise to hla spirited defense.
Strange consistency this! An Individual may attack a state or sec
tion of country and Its reprasentaUves must ba silanL Bnt It a citizen
of the assaulted section criticises a leader of thought or a teacher of
youth In the North, the criUcleed leader must ba promptly tad almost an
grily defended. We cannot subscribe to the esUmale of representative
duty imposed in this line of policy. 1
And why should thaep newspapers ao eagerly defend Jacob Bchur-
man in hla reflection upon -the South? It It because they agree with, tha
written estimate In which be holds this region of the country, or Is tt be-
causo In answering the aspersion which he east upon Southern civilisa
tion. The Georgian hsa touched tha shield of those whose lancet are
nearly always leveled to the depreciation of thd South?
And yet without ezeeptloq the whole troup of them, ‘Tray. Blanch
and Sweetheart." unite In a chorus of barking against the principle that
frankly and reasonably defends'Its own.
There Is no newspaper In the South nnd no editor. If we may aay
It modestly, whose sentiments are more national than those of The Geor
gian and of the pen that guides (ta editorial page- In leaaon and out of
season, a! home and abroad, we have stood always and everywhere for
the obliteration of sectionalism, for the love of ooontry, of the flag and
-of the Union as It stands to bind a reunited country.
And we do not for on# moment believe that the people of the North
Indorse the sentiments of critical depreciation which their newspapers so
fraquently voice. It Is not the people, bless you, for the Northern people
really love the South and trait It and admire tt. but It Is the newspapers
edited by doctrinaires who do not mingle with the people whom they rep
resent but from their ssnetums voice opinions that have come down to
them by heredity and tradition.
And It has been nil too much the habit of Northern newspapers snd
Northern public men to speak In terms of eondsacendlng approval or in
direct depreciation of the South- Bom nf the complacency out of which
‘.ho Northern section of this country came victorious from the civil wmr,
a 1 amplified by the prosperity that was bullded while the South was
struggling out of Its ashes to ths miracle of recuperation which hss glori
fied Ita people, these Northern pens and Northern tongues have been too
mnrli Siwm m the habit of thinking snd of saying things that reflected
of the tepuhlle—whoso msgnlfleen* emergence from ruin and disaster to
Indepsadence and prosperity has elicited the sd ad ration of the world; and
whose representative spirit today In condemnation of lawlessness aad lo
progresalvenese It educations' matters, Ir. conservatism of statesmanship,
and In the supremely representative Americanism of Its population. Is en
titled to a recognized equality with tha best development and the best
civilization of the timet in which we live. ,
THE SOUTH CAROLINIANS INHBW YOKE AMD AfLAMTA.
The South Carolina 8odety of New York U preparing to celebrate Its
; coming anniversary with m program which promises some more thab ordi
narily Interesting speeches.
The South Carolinians of New York hold their banqnete on March
the lib, which la the birthday of John C. Calhoun, whom Carolinians with
oa* accord regard as tha greatest statesman of American history.
Mr. W. A. Barber, ex-attorney general of South Carolina, Is president
of the society, and Mr. John C. Calhoun la the vice president. The din
ner will be given In the ball room of the Waldorf-Astoria, which will be
decorated with Palmetto trees and other embltma of the state.
r~ The chief glory of the dinner will be the program which cobs lata
of four speeches. *
fa the Bwt of these the Hoe. Orwver Cleveland, of Princeton, N. J..
will respond to the toast 'Tha Nation.’'
Tha seoond toast of tha evening will be by Woodrow Wilson, presi
dent of Princeton -University, and will be nn estimate of John C. Calhoun.
The third toast will ^e "Our Native State," and thil will be answered
by Governor Aniel, of South Carolina.
The fourth and last toast trill be “Our Adopted 8tate." and thle will
be responded to by Governor Hughes, of New York.
It I* very rarely that no notable a Hit of speakers have appeared at
any bsnquati and when this festival occasion touches eo attractive a per
sonality at that of the Palmetto State, the "Harry Hotspur of the Confed
eracy," and the progressive commonwealth which vlea now In manufactur
ing progress with Massachusetts, we may be aure that there will be
things to be eald that are worthy to be beard by the eons of South Caro
lina In every elate and In every section, and worthy of the consideration
of Intelligent and thinking people In every eectlon of the republic.
On the same evening the South Carolina Society of Georgia will cele
brate Its annual banquet with a notable list of speakers and with their
ladles In attendance.
upon tbe civilisation, the culture and the lawfulness of the 8outb-
It Is this spirit which has always aroused our resentment and which
stirred the protest against a comdiont In the temper and terms employed
by Jacob Schurman. of Cornell, tiers Is this man foreign born, and not
even native to the soil, but yet a college president, a man of educatlou
and supposedly of travel and of observation and one at least who
ought to know the meaning and slgnlflcanoa of words, who proposes In
specific terms to fumigate or to purify the questionable millions of Rocke
feller In “civilising the 8outh."
Surely If Jacob Schurman ie flt for hla position he ought to know
that when he proposes to "dvlllte" a country It Implies directly the eug-
gestlon that the country haa no civilisation and that In greater or less
degree (t Ie uncivilised. There Is no other way In which hie language
can be-construed by any outsider nr by any citizen who does not know the
facta but as a reflection upon an entire section and an antlre people.
Imoklng at hla statement as,tranquilly and aa reasonably as we can,
we can only explain It upon the theory that Jacob Schurman remembers
the Atlanta riot and takes that Incident as a type of thle people and seeks
to rebuke them for that affair by aa Imputation upon their entire civilisa
tion.
If Jacob Schurman meant this, he ought to know as an Intelligent and
reading man -that never la any stycUoa of Uia world haa a^r Incident of
lawleaaness received a more prompt, a mare sweeping and a more em
phatic condemnation "by the whole representative-element of a people than
the Atlanta .riot received from Atlanta and from the elate and from the
South. Me ought to realise If he keeps In touch with current literature
that the whole spirit of Atlanta and of the South apoke Id denunciation
of this lawless time: He ought to know If he reade the New York pa
pers which are now ao eagerly defending him. that by their own state
ments the city of Atlanta hat. by withdrawal o( patronage, put out of es-
latence a newspaper which ts supposed to have encouraged and precip
itated this riot of teat September.
Why, then, should Jacob Schurman direct the questionable millions
or Rockefeller to the "civilisation" of the "South?" Why ehould he not
address his nasal philanthropy to regions neater home? Did not Wilming
ton, Delaware, bum a negro at the (take under conditions aa monstrous
aa were ever stirred by the wont of the fearful provocations of the Boutb?
Did not I-eavenworth snd Topeka, Kan., do the same? Were any sweep
ing resolutions passed by the people of Wilmington, or Topeka, or I-esv-
enworth against these erlmss? Was any newspaper put out of existence
In these regions as an expression of the public disapproval of those "civ
ilised" regions for their part In this lawless era? Then why not direct
the Rockefeller Civilisation Fund to Wilmington nnd To|ieka and Leaven
worth?
Old not Pans snd CsrtcrsvHle, in Illinois, lyuch three negroes in a day.
nnd did not Evansville. Ind.. In a sweeping and destructive mob put out
the lives of as many more? Then why not rlvillse Danville, Ills., nnd
Evansville, Ind.?
|x>t Jacob 8churmsn com* nearer home. Did not the city of New
York, the metropolis of the republic and the center of that boasted
"civilisation" of which Jacob Schurman la a noble even It a nasal expo
nent, produce a mob which from Thirty-second street to Forty-third street
turned the center of New York Into a reeking shambles of broken headed
and bloody negroes In a riot as fierce snd as hitter and as murderous lit
Its racial prejudice at any that ever stirred the South? Why should not
Jacob Schurmsn's magnificent philanthropy begin at home? And why
ahould not this great "civilizer" of Cornell begin Ida charitable work
with hta own people?
If It he the percentage of Illiteracy In the South which stirs Jacob
Sehurman to philanthropy, wb.v should he not be wise euough to remem
ber that our percentage of Illiteracy la based upon the negro whom the
North and his own people have made our pressing and surpassing prob
lem? Why should he not recall the fact that with no means of their own
this unfortunate people ta carried sa a burden upon the taxpayers of tho
South, and that their education progresses out of the revenues of a peo
ple whose means hove been exhausted because their territory was the
theater of a destructive and devastating conflict?
And why In the montory of these things which are of n|>en and of gen
eral repute should this man who Is a master of language, and should he s
master of manners and nf tact, use a temi which by Implication at least
reflects cruelly upon the South and arouses the resentment or Its people
toward him and toward the voices for whom ho thinks aud for whom
he speaks.
These are the considerations which stir the South and those who
love It to resentment and to Its expression.
We know as well as Jacob 8churman or 8t. Clair MrKelway or any of
the troop of Northern apologists that the 8outb Is not perfect, any more
than they are perfect. We know that this region has Ita laults and that It
commits Its errors and that It baa Its lawless element Just as tbe North
ern states have theirs even tn greater and more menacing numbers and-
proximity.
Rut wc have never vet heard from Jacob Schurman aud hla friends any
proposition to "clvtllxe" the region tn tv hell they live, or to reflect upon
the general and repreaeotatlve culture, customs and manners of the en
vironment which supports them and and does them hjfntir.
All that we aak In these matters Is that the South which Is doing
Its glorious best and has attained even by their own concession to glori
ous results, shall not Is- reflected upon, and that particularly those who
know the meaning of words anti the significance of terms sbal 1 not print
for tin- lending of the world. pro|s»slthuis which shall cast a shadow- iiihhi
a civillxation whose urea and women In ante-bellum times were the envy
A GREWSOME RECORD.
Tho New York Tribune has been at pains to compile the list of rail
road accidents which have ahocked tbe test six months of the national
llte. Exclusive of the recent New York'Central disaster the list as as
follows:
Date. Railroad.
Aug. lfl—Pennsylvania
Aug. 26—Malno Central
Sept. 12—Canadian Pacific
Sept. 18—Rock Island
8ept. 18—St. Lonla and San Francisco .,
_QcL <—Boston and Albany
Killed. Injured.
Oct. 28—Pennsylvania
Nov. 12—Baltimore and Ohio
Nov. 29.—Southern
Dec. 23—"Soo" Line
Dec. 30—Baltimore and Ohio
Jan. 1—Oregon Short Line
Jan. 2—Rock Island ...,.
Jan. 3—Union Pacific
Jan. 6—Southern Pacific
Jan. 12—Buffalo. Rochaeter and Pittsburg
.Ian. 12—Central New England
Jan. 13—Rock Island
Jan. 1C—Rock Island
Jan. IS—Nickel Plate
Jan. 16—Reading ....
Jan. 18—Lake Shore
-.Ian. 10—“Blg_ Four"
Jan. id—"Big Four"
Jan. 10—Indiana Harbor
Jan. 10—Great Northern
Jan. 19—Atlantic Coaat Line
Jan. 10—Atchison
Jan. 19—New Orleans and North western ........
Jan. 20—Reading ......—
Jan. 20—Baltimore and Ohio
Jan. 20—Nickel Plate
Jnn. 21—Lake Shore
Jan. tt—Atlantic Const Line
Jan, 22—Southern Pacific
~JanT32=New York Central. ;v. ......
Jan. 24—Baltimore and Ohio
Jan. 2"—Erie -
Jan. 28—Northern Pacific
Jan. 20—Boston and Maine
Feb. 2—Baltimore and Ohio
Feb. 2—Pennsylvania
Feb. 7—Chicago Great Western
Feb. 8—New York Central
Feb. to- 1 -Boston and Maine
Felt. 12—l>ehlgh Valley
Feb. 13—Ontario and Western
Army •Navy Orders
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MOVEMENT OF VESSELS.
JL.
Army Orders.
Washington, March 1.—Ths follow'
Inc orders have been Issued: •
Captain James D. Taylor, Jr.. Eight
eenth Infantry, from army hospital, at
Hot Springs, to proper etation.
Private Denote M. Mason, from Com
pany E. Fourth Infantry, Fort Thomas,
to f Wrtssnth cavalry. Fort Bill.
Private Edward Streeter, hospital
corps, to general hospital. Fort Bayaid.
Private W. Finn, from Troop K.
Ttntb cavalry, general hospital. Fort
Bayard, to Troop M, Tenth cavalry.
Fort Riley. _
Ordnance Sergeant C. W. Brooke
from general hospital, Fort Bayard, to
Galveston, relieving Ordnance Ser
geant Donald Carswell, who will pro.
ceed to Fort Mtchte.
Naval Orders.
chaplain H. H. Clark, placed on re
tired list.
Chief Gunner T. B. Watson to naval
turpado station. Newport.
Movement# ef Vessels.
ARRIVED: February 27. Mayflower
at Palm Reach.
HAILED: February 27. Tacoma,
from t'lenfuegos for Guantanamo:
Mayflower from Palm Beach for Port
Royal: Georgia, from Bradford, for
Tompkfnavltle; Eagle, from Ogantans.
mo, for aurveylng duty: Marcellua,
from Guantanamo for league Island:
Sterling, from Guantanamo, for Phlla>
delphlu: Prairie, from Havana, fur
Santiago de Cuba. February 21—Bal
tlmore, from Colombo for Aden: Chat
tanooga from Cavite for Shanghai.
THIS DATE Df HISTORY.
MARCH I.
ITSO-Bank of JVnnaylranla. flret In the
I'nit*! rbarlerad.
179ft—An ordering • l-nlted Ktaioa cense*
« )«•*! by congress. . .
nssnrrr of ths Mamelukes at Cairo.
111?—Alabama territory formed
1 $37_ Will I a hi Bean Howells. American nu
ihor. Itorn.
11144— Mrs. I*. M. N. flteren*. W. C. T. t.
Icailcr. Iwru. .
1SC7—Nebraska proclaimed a state uy tna
....-?*id!oirsuine National Park established
Hnorenie court affirmed constitution
nitty of the McK!uI*\y tariff act
MM— Prmleutc Mcraea elected president of
Itraatl. 4 . .
1*97—Japan adopted a fold standard.
WILL NOT ACCEPT
CALL. TO TEXAS
Rer. II. 1.. Motley, pallor of the Central
Beptlet I'hiin-h.-wlll not leave Atlsnln.
Recently lie received n taoet flattering cell
to the lending church of Rl Peso, Tex After
ronelderlns If «ome u-eeka. Mr. Motley de-
! •-Pled lo decline the offer suit remain lu
Atlanta lie tins lieen here eight yearn.
Employes Is Scalded.
While euzsged In repairing an engine
Tburaday morning In tge Georgia railroad
roundhouse Charlie Karris, an employee,
wan hatllr Injured at the reeult of the ex
plosion of n gasoline tauk.
Karris wan scalded so badly he. had. 1» lie
taken to tbe K.lkln-Oolilsmltb asnliartuni.
The ssaoline tank was beliig used In tbe
repair of the loeomotlre.
Pullman Car Case.
Argument In the eult of Ure. Radio
faints against the Pullman Palace Car Co.
tn tho United States ctrmlt court win preb-
ntilr tic finished rrtrtnr and the case will go
to the Jury. Mrs. Cslhtx aoee for the recov-
j ery nl mm alleged damage; for being
ejected from a ali-rfer In Memphis- Su
years ago.
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1
RETIRING CABINET MEMBERS
ARE GUffBTB OF ROOSEVELTS.
4
Woehlnitton. March 1.—Preeldent
13
ami Mr*. Rooaeveli Rave a dinner laet
4
night In honor of the retlrln* member*
13
of the cabinet. Secretary Bhaw and
Becretarv Hitchcock. The dinner alao
marked ihe^flret appearance officially
3
'4
13
FREE SCHOOL MOVEMENT
Total 361 474
To thla appalling enumeration add the New York Central disaster In
which there were 27 killed and 129 injured, and we have the total of
378 killed and 603 Injured.
When we remember that this list of nearly 1.000 victims Is nearly
three times as large aa the total ui accidents In Europe In a year, we
cannot escaite the conclusion that there are some fatal and alntoat crimi
nal doierts lu ntir American railway system which should he. and must
he, cured In the Interests of safety and life.
It is not profitable to spend timo and breath In denunciation of the
railroads for faults that are now generally acknowledged, but it Is the
wiser thing to prod the men who .control these great corporations until
they put Into effect lu this country some of the rules nnd appliances
which combine to make travel no much safer In the old world.
Surely we have the genius In this great and Inventive republic to safe
guard railroad travel as effectively as can England and the continent,
nnd If we have not the Initiative tn develop a system of our own, then In
the name of common senae and of humanity, let us Inltate the system
which workt •> well across the seas.
The railroad that can do this, and doesn't do It, should, by law. be
compelled to do tt.
Special to The Oeorgten.
Decatur.-. Ala., March 1.—Winona
council, NO. 3. Junior Order United
American Mechanics, has adopted reeo.
lutlons Indorsing Lieutenant Governor
Henry G. Gray In the position that lie
has taken for better education In Ala
bama, and especially Indorsing his ac
tion In voting for free school books for
the poor children of Alabama, when a
vote on the bill resulted In a tie In the
Mate Semite. A copy of the resolution*
haa been forwarded to the lieutenant
governor.
WORK SOON TO BEGIN
CONSTRUCTING RAILROAD.
Special In The Georgian.
Huntsville. Ala., March 1— T. W.
Prstt, Madison county director for the
Nashville and Huntsville Railway Com
pany. hss Just returned from New
York and states that the American
t’onstt uctlon Company la ready to go to
work shortly, and that the new road
will be under way In good shape with-
In a satisfactory time.
With the Elect
Would ffe Built, All Right
Tbe president's epigram, "be doers
rather than crttlcas of the deeds others
do," may tempt some audacious engi
neer to tell him to go ahead and build
hla owa can*].—Washington Star.
One Exeeptlsn.
The ‘ 2-cent rate hilt has Men
squashed In the South Dakota tegUfia-
iure so ter as the present eesaiooTat
least Is concerned.—Portland (Me.) Ok*
Not Folk's Way.
The Missouri (tat* houas has boo*
fumigated because of a smallpox scar*.
Governor Folk, It may bo remembered,
omokod the legtotetore out on n previ
ous occasion.—Providence Journal.
To war's Opportunity.
If Ambassador Tower survives tho
l.ehr episode In Germany, he need not
fear to THoch" anybody he likes before
the kaiser.—Boston Record.
Boosting Hio Book.
A few more challenges to duels will
put Kuropatkln’s book right up among
the elx best sellers.—Boston Herald.
Explained.
Opposites a Iwayo attract. Cortslyou
success In life la said to bo due to hla
habit of listening to everybody snd
never saying a word himself. Now-,
does everybody see why Mr.
Roosevelt has been ao very, very kind
to George?—Richmond Times T Dlipatcb
Moon-Shine.
Now that Congressmen Moon, nf
Tennessee, Ie after the minority lead
ership It look* as If John Sharp Wil
liams* sun has set.—Washington Post.
. Headlines.
The “Artress-Averts-Panif" headline
seems to be getting every bit as com
mon as the "Ruastan-Offtcer-Aasaaat-
nated” headline or the "Many-Perleh-
In-Wreck” headline.—Baltimore Amerl*
Anti - Expansionists.
‘‘The people of Georgia are nominat
ing Hoke Bmlth for president," says a
contemporary. Didn't they nominate
him for ehah of Persia, also?—Charles
ton News and Courier.
Disolaime Responsibility.
Shall none but millionaires run the
government?" asks Senator Beveridge.
As we have no say so In the matter,
senator.'you will still be able to lake s
Wall, Listen to Thiel
The Atlanta Oeorgten thln'ta
that “Vice President Fairbanks
would be a warm proposition In kilts."
We should esy he would be a cpltf one,
and would be liable to erreet for go
ing about without visible means of
support.—Montgomery Advertiser.
BOY DIES FROM BURNS
RECEIVED AT OPEN GRATE.
Special to The-Georgian.
Spartanburg. S. C., March 1.—Dixon
McCravy. aged file years, la dead a.t
the home of his mother, Mrs. Mattie
McCravy. as the result of burns he re
ceived last Tuesday morning. The boy
was standing near a fire and hla cloth
ing caught on fire and before assist
ance could reach him he waa horribly
burned about tbs taco sad nook.
UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB
WILL MAKE TOUR OF SOUTH.
Special to The Ocorgtan.
Athens. Go.. March 1.—The Univer
sity Glee Club, about forty strong, will
make a tour of n number of Southern
cities In April, visiting and appearing
In concert at Athens, Macon, Atlanta,
Savannah, Augusta, Jacksonville and
other points.
8HOT BAD NEGRO TO DEATH.
THEN GAVE HIMSELF UP.
DIFFICULTIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
on my coming to Florida thl* win
ter. one of the flint newspaper articles
to unmet my attention, wna on the
bad npedlnff of the pre»ent day. The
author eald. the purest Kngllah won
spoken In the South Atlantic states of
America. I would like to add to this,
that It I" wise the most grammatical
and the most distinct.
A few neekn ago I heard a tourlNt
say that after spending a winter South,
und getting accustomed to the soft and
distinct Southern speech, he found It
hard to understand his own family,
on hla return North.
Yet even In the South, ns in All the
stAtea. you And differences of expres
sion nnd pronounclniton that are sec
tional—local Idioms—certain phrases
and words that originate nnd are used
among the most highly educated.
We get the name England from
Angleland. the home of the Angles and
Pnxons. and from It we get the world
English. The 8a\on language w as one
of monosyIInbles. nnd with but few
exceptions, our only remaining Hnxon
word* are those uf one syllable.
The Norman t'onquest In ought in the
French, and the llom-in Conquest
brought In ths Ijitln. A little (heck
snd Dntilsh came In with commerce.
The I,atln style tvoialn* for rt|j «»f our
legal term* are in Latin: ull of our
medlrat trims ure in l.utln. with a lit
tle tireek. and *lsu vur botanical aurda*
By TOURIST.
are In Latin. Indeed, i any of our old
| time professors would aay that It Is
Impossible to be a good English scholar
(without u knowledge of Latin,
i Fifty yearn ago French was the court
language nf Europe, nnd today English
is the polite language of the world—
certainly of the commercial world, ami
it Is the most copious and the most
difficult.
With regard to bad spelling. It ha*
been complained of for several years,
nnd Is univetsall.v ascribed to the
modern method of teaching it. The
pupil Is seldom made to pronounce
each ryliable, and Jfy sound as well as
memory, make the word. Instead of
this. Im Is made to call out the letters
In n line, and then pronounce the whole
word, thus depending on memory alone
to rev-nil the right letters
The difficulties of th»* English lan
guage lie In Its spelling. Its pronouncla-
tlon. Its accent. Ita use. There ore so
many wonts spelled differently, he
mennlng different, yet pronnumed
(alike, aa funeral rite wheelrite. to
be right, to write with pen: so many
(words npelled nllke. pronounced alike,
! and mennlng different, as board, a
plank of wood, ta* board, to pay for
j shelter, and food, boa id of trade, to
board a vessel; so many words spelled
alike, yet with a different accent mak-
' Ing n different meaning, as invalid, a
transaction of no value. Invalid, a sick
l»e:-son: so many words spelled alike,
pronounced allk*. >et with :» different
J use, making a different meaning, us.
we wind up our business to make It
•iop, aad wind up our watches lo make
them go.
There are so many mispronounced
letters which we get from the Danes,
as ‘V pronoun* e«l "K.“ and "gh." pro
nounced *T* as In cough.
Thete site also the mury *l!ent letters
to which «»ur president mo much ob
jected. that he guvo orders tt> the White
House officials to leave them out uf JOU
wolds.
There are our peculiar use of nu
merals which the author chevlnlx
►Tench *s\e. Is a redet of the Nor
mans. We say n herd of cattle, but
we do not sav. a herd of horaes! We
•ay n drove of horses, a Hock of sheep.
We say eelf when alive, end veal when
dead. i*ow. when alive. an«l beef when
dead. Sheep when alive nnd mutton
when dead. Why is all of this? No
reason but that usage requires It.
These are rnly n few of the many
things which make our language so
difficult t«* foreigners.
With ragunl tt* our pronounclution.
tha best la said wherein E. L Sabin
aska. why we do not make, "Ureak to
rhyme with freak, sew to thyme with
few, shoe to rhyme with foe* hose to
rhyme with dcse nnd lose?"
The vagaries of our language, are
well and Amudngly Illustrated In the
follow tag taken from Ht. Nicholas
“Know won knemi weight toe bee
tolled tic ws|gli tiM» do so. A ilte suite
little won. the sun of u grate kernel,
flue up the iode, and after n thyme,
stepped ni n blew hoiiFP. «n«l wiung
the l*e|i*\ His tow hurt hymn, and
h* kn* aded wrest.**
Tiicra wuids arc all spelled correct-
spoolsl to The Georgian.
Athens. Oa., March 1.—Yesterday
evening In the yards of the Central of
Georgia railway, Jim Slmma, colored,
shot and killed Charlie Drake, a bad
negro. They had fought earlier In the
day and threat* had been made. ^ The
negro coolly shot twd^e, the second
shot piercing the heart of Drake. With
the smoking pistol In his hand, fllmmt
quietly gave himself up to the officer.
GORDON M'DONALD ON TRIAL
ON DOUBLE MURDER CHARGE.
Special to The Georgian.
Hav.klnsvlllc. Oa.. .March 1.—Supe
rior court Is In session, having con
sumed two week.-*, and will probably be
continued through next week. Two
cases are being heard against Gordon
McDonald, charged w ith' killing Coley
Cheney and Herschnl Burns on Decem
ber L’3. Many witnesses are present,
and It Is expected that the trial will
last several days.
The case of Scab Hunt, who will be
tried on the charge of assault with In
tent to murder Bart Hendley. will be
tried next. Roswell Daniel, aa princi
pal In this case, was acquitted at the
Iasi session of court.
ly. pronounced correctly, and used
wrongly.
It is not Infrequent to meet person*
'■in* pride themselves on their educa
tion. fall In their spelling, and often
meet people, apparently well educated,
yet who make mistakes in their gram
mar. and thle Jara dreadfully on the
senses!
We do not like our president's "de
formed spelling.•’ as some one calls It.
and quite agree with the congressman
who suld. that "Webster was a greater
man than Rnoaevelt."
our language as now used, cannot ba
changed, except by the gradual ^hmifca
which have made It what It In./
It has not been very long alnce honor
was spelled honour, • labor spelled
labour. Much changes come Impercept
ibly. other changes are now taking
place, and that Is the dropping of capi
tal letters used to distinguish words
spelled the aitme and the meaning dif
ferent. For some time, newspapers
have been spelling. Firm, a company
uf capitalists, with a small f: the
Hpiing uf the year with a small e, and
the Fall of the year with a small f.
There seems no reason for these
changes, end they are sometimes very
confusing.
We have acquired a mastery of our
I resent oiihugraphy and polite usage
J sanctions It. ei> we ure unwilling to
j acquaint ourselves with any ao-cutled
Improvements.
Lake City, Florida