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THE ATLAJSTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
.'OHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Eamuel Inman Finds His Work.
It Is a matter of peculiar gratlflca-
tion to the thousands of friends of Mr.
Samuel Inman that he Is giving the
vigor and Interest of his moro mature
years to the great question of educa
tion, male and female. In the Btatc.
Mr. Inman Is a figure dear and hon
ored among the people of Atlanta and
of Georgia. He has been called the
first cltlsen of Atlanta, and there nro
multitudes of noble actions In tho
wake of hla useful and gentlo life
which Justify that proud and noble ap
pellation.
Settled In life beyond the necessity
of an active prosecution of his own
affslrs. In perfect health, tilth blame
less years behind him and a beautiful
character budded upon his kindliness
and philanthropy of living, there could
l>e no nobler cause In which this no-
ble cltlsen could serve the state he
loves, and the state which honors him,
than In helping with all his sound
sense, with all his broad philanthropy,
and with all his gentle tact and
kindliness to Inspire and to help In
the direction of the educational life
and progress of the state of Georgia.
We believe that If a ballot of that
great host of Georgians who call them
selves Sam Inman's friends could be
taken tomorrow, or today, that the
ballot would bo unanimous that ho
has found his work among the youth
of Georgia.
And we are very eure that what his
bands find to do In this great and no
ble cause, be will do with his might,
faithfully, gently and generously to
the end.
The chances are that we shall have
some spring next summer at least.
The child Is the future citizen, nnd
the educational conference Is the
forerunner of the better state.
How good it Is to see the fair El-
berta blushing rosily over the funeral
notices preached above her In the
early spring!
. Has Congressman Grlggi deserted
Atlanta? The light of his counte
nance and the warmth of his smile
have not Illumined the Capital City
In many moons.
Senator Clay's prostration with the
grip Is robbing him and the spring
platforms of some charming mutual
reminiscences.
The letter of the editor of The
Georgian printed In The New York
World of Monday was sent In re
sponse to a telegram from The World
asking specifically for a further elab
oration of the Chattanooga proposi
tion without regard to apace. The
World Is la the ablest and foremost
of the independent Democratic pa
per! of the country, and Its courtesy
and catholic fairness are appreciated
here and elsewhere.
The revival of the citizen will be
a natural consequence of the reor
ganization of parties..
The Presbyterians and Harmony
are having a historic tussle in Bir
mingham. Here's to bafmony, which
*" fi” mesne discounts our loyalty to
THE EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE VITAL.
Georgia has rarely bad a more significant and Important meeting
than the conference of prominent Georgian! which gathers on Friday to
discuss the vital topic of education.
The practical spirit of this practical and effecUve age has come at
last to grapple the great question of education In a practical way, and
whereas we have heretofore been accustomed to confine our Interest
In educational matters to a few platitude* upon public occasions, and to
. relegate this great cause to our handful of teachers, and school commis
sioners, It has como now to bo recognised as a vital If not tbo most vital
question in this republic.
And In this high conception, the progressive public spirit of this
ago Is beginning to approach It with the seriousness and deliberate vigor
which Its Importance demands.
Here, for Instance, on Friday are fifty leading citizens of Georgia
who have been carefully selected, and who after somo weeks of due de
liberation and study have come together to gltrp, through the newspa
pers' and through printed reports, to tho state legislature and to the
peoplo of Georgia, their matured and thoughtful views upon the all-
around development of our Georgia youth.
Tho occasion Is one of vast Importance. Every father and every
mother In this Empire 8tate Is an Interested auditor, either by ear or by
tho "hearing of tho eye,” to the deliberations held at the state capital,
at the Kimball house and In the Chamber of Commerce.
Friday is most distinctly "Educational Day” In Atlanta, and the whole
progressive spirit of education In this progressive state should rally to
do It honor.
There Is a program at the eapltol In the morning, a program at the
luncheon ||lvon by the Chamber of Commerce at noon, and another pro
gram In the evening In the parlors of the Kimball bouse—all filled by
strong and earnest men and women of the state.
Surely, In this grand abd thoughtful symposium of the vital Geor
gians of today, we should receive a forward pulse toward better methods
and larger liberality, both In conception among our people and In appro
priation among our legislators for the higher and the elementary
branches of education In the state.
Education holds the key to the tremendous future that Is developing
before this people. Day by day as we measure In comparison the In
terest and liberality of other states, we must be quickened through all
the veins of Georgia's life and patriotism to a larger and a more vigor
ous treatment of this vital question at home.
“SINGLE SHOTTING” THE- VITAL ISSUE.
The Savannah Press Bnd The Macon Telegraph, discarding the has
ty and Intemperate and adopting the more deliberate and thoughtful
form of discussion, now complain that The Georgian and Its editor
are concentrated upon the one Idea of tho "regulation of predatory
wealth,” while they, The Press and The Telegraph, are thoroughly Im
pressed with the fact that there are other Issues which dlvldo the
two political parties and the two men who are the chief figures in
each of them.
This position state* clearly tho difference between The Georgian
and Its contemporaries. It Is at last a difference In degree rather than
In fact
Wo recognize fully here the existence of other Issues beside the
control of predatory wealth and the regulation of the railroads.
But we recognize no Issue that Is so pressing and ao vital In this
particular era of our politics.
Wo are "slnglo shotting” this Idea because It overshadows at this
particular period all other issues and questions which divide the two
parties. In the economic process of the last two decades, there have
grown In these United States a series of enormous corporations and
several colossal combinations of business Interests whose Increasing
power over prices, over polities and over legislation have come to be
a real menace to tbo country.
Twenty-five years ngo, tho Interest of political parties might have
well been divided upon the other Issues which The Press and The Tele
graph describe. At that time and In that more tranquil period It might
have been wise and politic to draw the lines and form tho ranks of par
ty upon the Issue of the tariff, public Improvements, enlargement of
territory and the questions of labor and of capital.
These questions still exist, and they are each of them of an Im
portance which no man Is disposed to deny.
But no thoughtful man In this age will refuse to concede that
steadily and remorselessly the aggression of tbo corporations and of or
ganized wealth expressed In railroads. In mergers and In the traits have
come to bo the supreme menace to popular government and the su
preme Issue In American politics.
The other questions are not dead. They afe simply subordinate.
This question may not bo always a* pressing as It Is today, but
for tho present at least It Is urgent, menacing and supreme. It Is
great enough and vital enough nhd urgent enough to justify the post
ponement of other questions while wo deal with It.
Wo believe that In their honest moments (and they have many) the'
editors of The Press and of The Telegraph would conccdo the fact that
If we are “Blnglo shotting one Issue” In this period of our economic
history, that we have selected that Issue which Is tho largest, tho most
dangerous and tho moat pressing of them all.
Wo bcllovc. too, that The Press and The Telegraph, dealing fairly
with that great "patient” which we political doctors call the people,
would Indorse tho proposition that among soveral ailments we should
treat first and moat absorbingly that ono which moat seriously threatens
the llfo of the sufferer. If a human frame should bo afflicted with fe
ver and a broken limb or a gunsbot wound any wlso physician would set
tho limb or treat the wound with surgery while ho permitted the other
malady to wait until tho urgent evil was relieved. A human body trou
bled with consumption and cholera at the samo time would be approach
ed by a physician with reference to the rapid and aggressive disease
while ho deferred an especial attention to the moro deliberate malady,
for a later time.
And so It Is the Idea of Tho Georgian that In the order of their Im
portance wo should first take hold of this great eating cancer upon
the body of the people and cut It out of our economic life, before we
proceed to give constitutional treatment to the other chronic maladies
which afflict the body politic.
This, In a nutshell, Is the position that we take. We believe It to
be founded and based upon reason and common sense, and we think
that tho people In the main heartily agree with it.
There Is another motive In Tho Georgian's position to which wo
direct the attention of our contemporaries.
These other questions which they press and which they so ardently
emphasize at thlz time nro utterly handicapped In their treatment and
remedy by the disordered and divided condition of tho parties which
champion their several sides. How are wo going to get a divided and
factional democracy to treat these Issues of the tariff, currency, states'
rights and territorial enlargement until wo can bring thoso partlea to
gether in a coherent and united state?
We ask our friends at The Telegraph and of Tho Press not to
forget that the other great central object of tho Chattanooga proposi
tion was to bring about a condition in which these parties could be re
formed and reorganized along honest and definite lines to champion,
and to carry the opposing theories of the government. We have not
been able for years to present a Democratic platform which carried any
great majority of real Democratic sentiment behind It because either
Belmont bad triumphed or Ilryan had prevailed and the Democrats who
ought to be Republicans, or tho Democrats who followed the old lines
have alternately held sway to the discontent and discomfiture of the
other faction.
It Is so with the Republican party, but more so now than ever be-'
fore, and so much so that perhaps the great bnd of reorganizing par
ties upon definite lines offers the great and not the lesser reason for
tho proposition which The Georgian has advanced.
Forty per cent of the Republican party In New York city voted for
Hcarat In the municipal election. Nobody knows wbat largo per cent
of the Democratic party voted for Roosevelt, in the last general elec
tion. .
Tho hopeless factions In eich party absolutely demand some op
portunity for a complete and wholesome reorganization, and If any man
will offer to the public any sensible and promising formula other
than an era of good feeling, by which these factions in cither party can
be let loose to re align themselves behind the principles In which they
really believe, we should be glad to bear It. .
hind theories of government and principles In which It actually be
lieves. The whole'integrity of the electorate depends upon Its ability
to do this thing. The habit which w6 have had for years of voting for
things in which we do not believe, and for leaders for whom we do not
care, simply because a caucus or a convention of tho accidental majori
ty- of our own party has decreed it. Is demoralizing to the Integrity of
tho ballot and to the real principle of representative government.
Tho opportunity for a new deal for the Individual citizen with his
Individual ballot Is a second supreme and compelling reason for one
great "era of good feeling” In which all party lines may be for a tlmo
completely obliterated In order that they may be no more definitely and
more honestly drawn.
After an era like this the Democratic party might be so reorgan
ized as to call to Its ranks every real Democrat in America. The Re
publican party of vested rights and privileges could be so reorganized as
to rally all Its honest and sincere advocates behind Its leaders. And
for the future we should proceed according to the convictions of the
voters rather than by the compulsion of bis ballot under party cau
cuses or political conventions. ,
Here, then, are two Issues Instead of one which we "single shot”
as compelling In their appeal for the temporary obliteration of party
lines in order to re-mark and re-deflne the honest and opposing theo
ries of the government.
LaFoIlette will be a fine "runner
up” to the finals of the presidential
tourney.
The “Southern Candidate” Is the
the most hopeful light on the whole
horizon of Democracy.
The paragrapher and the kingdom
are still far apart.
The Joint weight of our governor
and our governor-elect ought to de
light the fancy of Grover Cleveland,
who would have probably "turned
down” Tllden and Alex Stephens on
size.
LET tHE PEOPLE HAVE A
SAY-80 IN EVERYTHING.
Editor of The Atlanta Georgian.
I am one of many women who sub
scribe for your paper to have the great
pleasure of reading the finest editorials
emanating from a Georgian's brain.
i find myself embarrassed by my
riches In this respect when I attempt
to cull the very best chi write you
concerning them.
Las Thursday, May IS, your editorial
'Link Charter Revision to Greater At
lanta” was just too good for anything.
I do hope you will keep up a racket
along that lino, for we want that old
charter done away with.
"The Noble 49" came very near
granting the petition of the women who
asked that the women who own prop
erty should be permitted to vote In At
lanta and bogged them to recommend
It. If the women of Atlanta had munic
ipal suffrage, os the women of Kan
sas have, the licensed liquor traffic
would have to go out of business as It
Is going In Kansas, driven out by the
votes of women.
We hope Mr. Maddox will be a mem
ber of the charter revision committee of
Greater Atlanta, for he Is our friend.
Mr. Ellis Is not so we wouldn’t vote for
him for constable or any other office
for that matter.
"Let U* Have Fewer Secret Sessions
of Public Bobles” was the next editorial
to strike my fancy. You expressed tn
your own Inimitable way my Ideas on
that subject and I Indorse every word
of It.
Why should a few men. ‘‘servant*
of tho people," meet secretly and elect
other men to positions on the police
board, board of education, commis
sioner of publlo works, city engineer,
school superintendent, etc.? If per
mitted once or twice there 'will be no
end to It. The men people are not
weary of voting, they like It and- wish
to vote for those they wleh to serve
them. It Is natural for Americans to
love to vote and (that Is the reason so
many women waht to vote—they take
after their (laddies, don’t you see?
Besides all that we women want to
see election days come oftener than
they do, for the abominable licensed
saloons are closed, and our men folks
cannot get drunk sq easily as they did
when Atlanta was a wide-open city and
every election day was a horror. Tho
women were compelled to stay at home
to save themselves from Insults of va
rious kinds generally offered by "men
In liquor.” We like the change, Mr.
Editor, and our eyes are opened to the
necessity for many other reforms.
For Instance, we see that the bal
lot Is a wonderful power, nnd should
not be Intrusted to drunken, irresponsi
ble people of any color or condition. I
was delighted to read In last Saturday's
Georgian how the working men
(may God bless them, every one!),
were protesting to council condemning
the plan to effect official* by that
body, and that the railway employees
held a meeting and pledged themselves
not to vote for men supporting that
plan.
Those men had tho courage of their
convictions, and they know that the
ballot le the right preservation of all
rights. How happy they should be
In knowing they hud such a powerful
weapon with which to defend them
selves and their Interests.
They know that tho average council
man and politician love ballots as well
or better thun a goat loves tin cans,
and other things he has no business to
handle, and they also know that with
that powerful weapon, which belongs
only to free men, they can forco their
■ervants to do their will.
We have ell been taught from In
fancy that our republican government,
national, state and municipal. Is a gov
ernment of the people, for the people,
by the people, with the best of the peo
ple (women) left out.
When the blessed forty-nine (49)
get to work on the charter revision busi
ness? let us hop* that they will see the
utter absurdity of taxing women who
own property without granting them
the power of exercising their undoubt
ed right to vote for men (and women)
who will carry out their wishes In an
open-handed way, without star cham
ber proceedings of any kind.
Finally, let ine tell you that the ma
jority of women want a perfected
Australian ballot, the initiative and
referendum, woman suffrage and all the
other good things women should havo
had a hundred years ago. And we ex
pect you, Mr. Editor, to fight our bat
tles for us, for you arc one of the few
true knights of the twentieth century
which Victor Hugo predicted would be
the woman's century.
Help us to come Into our own. We
are a feeble folk. Very truly,
mary l. mclendon,
President Georgia Woman Suffrage As
sociation.
Atlanta, May 20.
put up Roosevelt and make hla election
unanimous has this significance: Clews,
a Republican, Is a Well street banker,
and thus belongs to tbo element which
Is popularly supposed to have pro
scribed the president.
Here Is a fact of much greater sig
nificance: Many stalwart Republican
papers, situated as far apart geographi
cally as The Newark Advertiser, The
Pittsburg Gasette (the oldest 'paper
west of the Alleghanles) and The Min
neapolis Journal—to mention only three
representative party organs—declare
that when a national convention, voic
ing an overwhelming popular demand,
nominates a man for president. It Is his
duty to accept, regardless of his own
personal preferences and regardless
also of any previous utterances which
he may have made.
Many things can take plice between
now and the opening of the conven
tions twelve months hence which
might alter the political situation and
make present forecasts vain. It I*
only fair to *ay, however, that some
of the enemies whom President Roose
velt has made- and whom he Is now
making ate by their enmity to him
raising up new allies for him among
the people every day.
In tho past few years the United
States has seen many political preju
dices , discarded, many. prepossessions
challenged, many parallels pushed
aside and many precedents abolished.
It Is altogether possible that 1908, In
tho Republican convention and at the
polls, may end the career of another
tradition.
Army-Navy Orders
MOVEMENT OF VESSEL8.
ANOTHER TERM FOR R003EVELT.
Charles M. Harvey In Leslie's Weekly.
But If the thing which Is expected by
many Democrats and many Republi
cans really comes to pass, the paper
which can say "I told you so” with the
greatest pride and emphasis Is the New
York World. As long ago as March 28,
1908, a few weeks after his Inaugura
tion for his firs: elected tjrm In the
White House, that paper predicted that
"Theodore Roosevelt will be renomi
nated for president of the United States
In 190S, nnd he will be re-elected."
Tho fact that Henry Clews, of New
York. Joins John Temple Graves, of
Washington, May 18.—The following
orders have been Issued:
Army Orders.
Following changes coast artillery or.
dered: Captain James A. Shlpton, from
Schenectady to school of submarine
denfenses, Fort Totten, os disbursing
officer, relieving Captain Robert E. Cal-
lan, who will proceed to office chief of
artillery, Washington, relieving Captain
Lloyd England, who will proceed to
Forty-eighth company, coast artillery.
Recruit John W. Higgins, Infantry
recruit depot, Columbus barracks, hav
ing enlisted under false pretenses, dis
charged without honor from the army.
First Lleuteant Haywood S. Hansell,
assistant surgeon from Washington to
Fort Snelllng, relieving Captailn Walter
D. Webb, assistant surgeon, who will
proceed to general hospital, Washing
ton barracks; Captain George L. By
road*. retired from Culver Military
Academy, Culver, to home; First Lieu,
tenant Francis W. Clark, coast artil
lery, to Artillery School, Fort Monroe.
Private (first class) Auburn Moore,
signal corps, from Fort Omaha to Fort
Wllllnm Henry Harrison; Major John
B. McDonald, Fifteenth cavalry, to
Fort Ethan Allen: First Lieutenant
Parks L. Willard, signal corps, from
office chief signal officer, to Seattle;
Corporal Edward Ward, signal corps,
from Key West barracks to Fort
Wood; Post Commissary Sergeant
Joshua E. Banks, from Fort Oglethorpe
to Fort Dade, relieving Poet Commis
sary Sergeant Harry Corcoran; Ser
geant Walter Baker, troop A, Sixth
cavalry, Fort Meade, discharged from
the army In the Interest of the United
States.
Navy Orders.
Read Admiral G. A. Converse, re
tired, detached duty as chief bureau
of navigation, navy department, to duty
as president board on construction;
Mldshlpmsn V. Baker, detached Ken
tucky to Des Moines; Assistant Sur
geon W. H. Short, to naval hospital.
New York; Warrant Machinist R. J.
Vickery, to navy yard, Boston; Ensign
A. T. Brisbln died on Tacoma, May 21,
Movements of Vessels.
ARRIVED—May 21, Maryland, nl
Kobe; Rhode Island, at navy yard, New
York; Saturn, at Sandlego; Sterling,
at Newport News; Boston, at San
Francisco,
SaILED—Mray 20. Morris from
navy yard. New York, for Newport.
May 21, Rocket, from Washington for
Norfolk; Rhode Island, from Tompklns-
vllle for navy yard, New York; Nnn-
shan, from Kobe for Cavite.
Surplus and Profits (Earned) $589,894.68
These figures, according to. our last published statement, repre
sent the amount we have accumulated from our earnings since
organization for the protection of our depositors. This sum could
be deducted from our resources at any time and there would still
remain a balance sufficient to pay every dollar due depositors and
leave our capital of $200,000.00 unimpaired.
MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO.
and scalawags until 1870, nnd In 1871
the legislature gave for public schools
8125.000. This amount has grown, until
In 1906, out of Georgia's limited means,
they gave 81,711,844. Georgia provides
free tuition for all her children between
the ages of 6 and 18 years.
No state In this union has done more
according to means to educate her
children than Georgia, nnd the citizens
of no state In this union have accom
plished as much since our Civil
war as Georgia. Your city, with over
8,000 when surrendered to Sherman, the
Pushmataha of the federal army.
Atlanta was sacked and destroyed,
and scarcely 10 per cent of her build
ings left, Iiob risen, Phoenix like;
today we have more tnan half as much
wealth as the state had after Sherman
and his followers left It.
When this government made war on
our southland, Georgia, by the United
States-census, was the seventh wealth
iest state In the union per capita, and
after we had been robbed by the In
vaders, losing about 87 per cent of
our wealth, we were among the poorest.
Why, Massachusetts, at the end of the
war, had-one-half as much wealth as
the fourteen Southern states.
The record of Georgia Is without a
parallel in the world.
France had a White population of
87.000. 000 and after her war paid a war
Indemnity ot 81,000,000,000, and the
world was amazed. Georgia, with
less than a million of white people, lost
1530.000. 000, and In twenty-five years
after the war had a credit equal to any
state In the union and floated a 3 1-2
jer cent bond at par. In 1905, her cot
on crop alone sold for more money
than the taxable value of the whole
state after the war. Sixty per cent
of this crop was planted and made by
our white people.
All honor to Georgia.
tonor to Georgia.
W. B. BURROUGHS, M. D.
WHEN HE IS KING OF SPAIN.
There Is a yonag l'rlnce of Asturlsz,
About anything;
llut when he Is king
Re Is likely to find It Injurious.
—W. J. I,nmpton.
Vino Rich In Rubber,
A vino has been discovered In Mexico
nceordlng to reports, which contains more
rubber than nny other known plant. There
Is so much rubber In the stems that It
holds togethsr oven after the fiber of the
wood Is broken.
Should a method be. discovered of ex-
trading the rubber, it Is believed that the
discovery of the vine .will greatly affect
the rubber Industry.
The characteristics of the vine was first
noticed on a cocoa plantation. Chinese In.
borers observed tho wonderful elasticity of
the vines, and wore them Into hammocks
Tho drier the stems became the more man
tle they grow.
Upon Investigation tho vine was fonnd
to contain 20 to £5 per cent of rubber
There was n total absence of essential
oil nnd rosin. The vine Is said to grow
of Mexico.
extensively lu many parts i
"Fudge."
Tho expression "Fudge!” which Is
heard so often nowaday! Is not a new
one. On the contrary, Its origin dates
back to the reign of Charles II, when
there was a sea captain who was
named Fudge.
No matter how unsatisfactory his
.voyage, this nautical man always re
turned with an endless string of pre
posterous tales of great deeds and suc
cess. His propensity for falsifying be
came »o well known that whenever
any one was heard telling a question
able exploit, it became the custom to
cry, 'Oh, you Fudge It!"
RAILROAD ACCI0ENT8.
(Broken rest snd broken discipline hsve
msny more fatslltles to their scoru than
Woken rails.—New York World editorial.)
True, trus; alas, too true.
These words so fitly epoken;
And yet wbnt makes these fatal breaks
Remains unbroken.
Strides of London Amusements.
The proposition to build another theater
specially for London's 20,000 amateur play
ers calls attention to tho wonderful strides
mads In recent years by amusement places
In tbs British metropolis.
Thirty year* ago there were only Arty-
flve theater* snd practically no music
800 theaters, mi
a daily attendance of 150,000 persons In s I-
son. «
In 1870 thorn wsro only throe theatrical
companies "on tbs road" In Englnnd; now
there are nearly 800, nnd for each of these,
of conn*, s theater has to bo found each
week.
"Not Worth a Tinker’*
Contrary to the general Impression,
the phrase, "not worth a tinker's dam,"
le one of Innocent character. It origi
nated In a device that tinkers have
used froth time Immemorial whenever
they desired to flood a portion of their
work with solder. It Is a circular wan
of dough raised about the rim of a
plate with a turned over edge, and
nerves to prevent the melted solder
from escaping. The material from
which such a wall or dam la made Is
worthless after having been used once.
Upon this basis, naturally enough, the
expression came to bo employed to
characterize anything that was of only
temporary usefulness.
“Humbug.”
The word "humbug" owes Its origin
to a mint of worthless Irish coin. King
James II had a lot of money made at
the Dublin mint. Its Intrinsic value
was comparatively nothing, twenty
shillings ot It being worth only two
pence sterling.
William 111, after tho battle of
Boyne, ordered that the crown and
halfcrown of this mint be taken as pen-
ny and halfpenny, respectively. The
soft mlxturo of metal out of which
the coin was made was called by the
Irleh "Ulm-bog” (pronounced "Oom-
bug”). Thus- came the word "hum
bug,” meaning something with the ap
pearance of value, but In reality prac
tically worthless.
London's population attended theatrical per
formances; last year the percentage was 2.9.
CORRECTING SOME ERRORS
AS TO GEORGIA'8 ILLITERACY.
Editor of The Georgian:
I read In Sunday's Atlanta Journal
an article on "Popular Education," by
Rabbi David Marx.
Re says that we have, according to
the United States census of . 1900, 22
per cent Illiterate children between the
ages of-10 and 14 years, and exclaims
"what an appalling burlesque on the
wealth, • • • progress, etc., of our
state." Again he says, tho average II-
literacy In the United States for native
white males over 10 years of age Is
about 5 per cent; that of Georgia Is 13
per cent. Further on In his article, he
says "three-fourths per cent of our
white children In this city, between
the ages of 10 and 14 years, were In
1903, Illiterate." etc.
Yesterday 1 visited the state school
commissioner's office, but failed to see
him. I procured a copy of hla report
for 1903, which shows a total school
population of Atlanta 22,583.
Of this amount, 782 were Illiterate,
less than 3 1-2 per cent; If we count
only the white children, less than 2 per
cent.
Now. let us take Savannah, the sec-
nnd city In wealth and school popula
tion, we find one-half of 1 per cent of
the white children between the ages
of 6 and 19 arc unable to read or write.
This Is the lowest percentage of Il
literacy shown by any city of Its equal
population In the world. I do not have
access to the United States census, and
I leave the city tomorrow.
In 1905, the w hite people of Georgia
paid taxes on 8557,000.000. while the
colored people paid 820,000,000.
N. twithstanding our negroes pay less
than 3 1-2 per cent of our property tax,
5? per cent of them attend our public
schools 'After the Civil war wan
of tho city's amusement
Ing foreigners; the United States, Canada
nnd continental Europe supplying enough
"transients” each season to mske many of
the Pisces par handsomely.
About 15,000,000 n year Is expended In
ruunlng the thirty-two best known theaters
ot London's West End. The cost of pro
ducing s plsy averages 84.000 a week, vary
Ing between 82.000 and 87,100.
In addition, there la the original cost of
production, which may rsngs from n few
thniisnnii dollars at s small house to n
lioo.ooo pantomime or spectacular drama at
Drury Lane.
Something About tho Brain.
That portion of the substance ot the
brain which le known as gray matter Is
supposed, according to the highest author
ities, tn be most Intimately related tn In
tellectual action. Sometimes curious aggro-
gallons of grey matter aro found In par
ticular ports of tho brain snd Dr. Oswald
Morton has recently suggested that those
may bs the cause of tho extraordinary men
tal powers occasionally exhibited by per
sona whoso general Intellectual capacity
hardly rises above that of Idiots. Huch
powers, nr aptitudes, always relate to somo
special faculty, like memory, without In-
eluding other faculties.
The aggregations referred to might ex.
plain tho marvelous memory for music ex-
hlblted by "Blind Tom," oud tbo still moro
extraordinary power of Ilelnccker, the
Child of Labeck. who lived lu the esrly
E arl of tho eighteenth century: nnd who
now the chief Incidents of tbo l’entntonch
st tho ngo of ono yenr, had mastered *11
of snored history ot two years snd wns
Intimately acquainted with modern and
profane history snd geography, snd spoke
French snd Latin, besides hla native tongue
at tho ago of three. When four years old
ho (lied.
With roforonco to what has been nailed
the relation of "brain light snd dronnis.”
Professor Scripture, of Vole, once stated
that ho had ipaaon to think that the faint
“Hurrah."
The history of many a race may bo
read In Its battle cry. The "Banzai!"
of the Japanese, the "Faghaghballah!”
of the Irleh, and our own “Hurrah!"
have found their origin far back In
history.
Although many authorltlee have de
clared that the word "hurrah" Is a
development of the Jewish "Hosan
nah,” the consensus of opinion now lo
that It Is a corruption of the ancient
battle cry of the wild Norsemen, "Tur
ale!” moaning, "Thor aid ue!" For
merly the word wae spelled "Huzza”
and pronounced "Hurray.'’ In one
form or another It l» used by almost
every nation.
Sound Advice.
Many friend* of a well-known horse-
man aro still amazed over hie expe
rience with a faker. Some little Unto
ago he owned a horse which bothered
him a great deal by foaming and driv
eling at the mouth. At last one day he
saw an advertisement In one of the pa
pers of a new and sure remedy for the
trouble. The price asked was only five
shillings, and he concluded It was sure
ly worth that to him, so he sent tha
money along by the next poet. A few
day* later came back a neat typewrit
ten letter, with tho following advice:
"Dear Sir—Teach the horze to spit.
-Tit-Bite.
General Kuroki.
If General Kuroki le not one of tho
moat Impreeslve exhibits at Jameatown
It will be because the American people
have forgotten the battle of the Ya!u
and hla brilliant victoria* subsequently
as commander ot.the right "Ing of
Oyama'a army In Manchuria. In Kuro.
kl we have ae a visitor one of the ablest
of living soldiers. Nevertheless, hi*
first thought on landing In America
waz of the Japanese school children in
San Francisco, for whom he made a
graceful and friendly plea, suggesting
a contrast truly Japanese.—New Yorx
Sun.
eyes, and which appears In tho form
of rings, waves and Irregular figures. It
due, not ns Is generally supposed, to cbeml
cerebral light sppesrs to lie located
In those higher eenlers of the brain that
are connected with visual memories and
Iraagliinilotiii. A rinse relation bas been ob
served lietween throe cerebtnl light figures
snd tho rontonts of dreams, sud Professor
Scripture suggested that the hallucinations
produced i>va drug*, like liaeblrb. may ho
simply modifications of such figure*.
Tho witty Bishop Hanford Olmsted, of
Colorado, at n dinner In Denver, said apro
pos of Habbnth breaking:
“I was talking to an eastern clergyman
the other ilny nl>out his ehurrb attendance.
'• 'I suppose,' 1 said, 'that In your ills-
trict mlu affects the attendance consider-
le smiled faintly.
Indeed* yes.' he said. 'I hardly have
a vacant seat when It la too wet for golf
or motoring.' "-Loo Angeles Times.
Comemrcial Value ef Flies.
File*-* ahnlllng nnd a InV a pound! Yea,
thl* la the price of dead files In London.
Yon did not know that tbo peatlfetou*
Insects had a commercial value, did yon?
These sold In London nr* caught In Brasil
*hlri>*<l to England by the barrel.
Men living along the Aiuaxoti make their
Men living along the Amazon make their
living by nitcblng files nnd sending them to
Europe, where they ere imMnsed ns food
for canary bints and gold fish.
a pe*fd of files formerly cpst 5-ponce.
»t the Incrensed demand remit,-I In n rise
The ancient drillxatton of Borne Includ'd
the doll as in Instructive plaything for
children.
Wrestling la the populnr sport of I
Great tournaments or* held to decide »
proiuaciea of district*.