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ATLANTA iBOWUN (ANr NEWS) „ - ~ HQTICI to subscribers JOHN TEMPLE GRAVE*, Editor, r. L. SEELY, President. Fabilehed Every Alta reset t Except Sunday) Sr THE GEORGIAN COMPANY, At m West AUbsma St.. AtUstl. Os. Subeeriptlon Qm Teer 5i r ^8Slb-w»:-: Bet-red at tbs Attests rostoffles as iw«»i«Uaa stall stsltsr. i-stspliMiss rnnaerllM all depart-eote* i«is Jmasts tmslssts Osortta. ..Trnans.RMt. It la de,lmt*te tbat' atl r««Bitit»trs; ss&giOTB? iJn.ii.M'.o gSvl 'f«Nh. Rejected tnanuasrlpta —lit Mtl>s rstsrssd unless stasipasrs Saul nrlsta so snrtJsn or sblsrltaasMs ad- TSrllatne. Neither dosa (tprlst srblsbr or any liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM.—Tba Georfltaa end New. attsda for Atlanta.a owiitn* its osm «aa a3 slaetne Hgbt P'*”'*. aa It soar owns Its waterworhe. Other cltlse do thle asdaat gas as low as » WBS*SSjSi TBSran K dona MW. and It may bn JHSBKiHtafii!, and advertisers. On Fobrua-y * Tha Qaorfllan pur- chaaad tha nama, good will, (ranehlsss, advartialng eantraeta and subscription Hat of Tha Atlanta Nows, snd Tha Nawa la naw published as a part of Tha Oaor- glan. All advartialng undar Mntraet ta appaar In Tha Nawa will ba printed In Tha Qaargian and Nawa, without ln»ar- rapttan, axoapt aueh aa la dabarrad by Tha Georgian's astabliahad policy ta sxaluds all objaotlanabla advartialng. Subacribara to Tha Nawa will roealva oubaariptlona paid In advanea to Tha Qaargian and to Tha Nawt will ba as- tandsd to eovtr ths tlms paid tar to both newspapers. Should you now bo raooivlng two saato appears an bath subscription lists. Aa boon aa'thoaa list* can bo aamblnad 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 --wed—- v — 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. "15 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