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I i THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. xTIURSDAI, MAI W, THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) COHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon, • * < Except Sunday) Sy THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At ss West Alabama St. Atlanta. Os. GOfc >n >r **Jx Month* I *.M Thioo Month* 1.9 By Carrier, rer Week 19 ment*. Long distance Smith Ss Thompson, advertising rep resentatives for nil territory outside of Gwfrgls. _ _ .... BMf — Nenf It. Is desirable that «!S communlcs* tlon* Intended for publication In THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to too words In length. It ft Imperative that they be signed, ns an evidence of good faith. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unless stomps sre sect for the purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND NEW8 prints no nncleso or objectionable ad vertising. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor ads. A our” PLATFORM: The Georgian and New, (lands for Atlanta’, owning Its own dsa and electric light plants, at It now Owns Its water works Other cities do this and set gao as low as 10 cents, with a profit to tha dtr. This should be done at once. The Geocpap and News believes that If street rail ways can be operated successfully by European cities, ss they are, there Is no good reason why they can not be so operated here But we do, not believe this can be done now, and It may be some years before we are ready for so big an undertaking.' Still Atlanta should set Its face in that direction NOW. Persons leaving tho city can j have Tho Georgian and News I mailed to them regularly by send ing their order to Tho Georgian office. Changes of address will be . made as ofjt^n as desired. The Tabernacle’s Standard * Charities. Atlanta has learned to feel safe In following any suggestion* for charlta ble work that comes under the frank and Indorsement of tho Tabernacle, and It is therefore an announcement which carries Its own appeal to say that on next Sunday the Tabernacle, with Its organised enthusiasm and Its active force, haa^etermlned to make a 'filial and vigorous rally to provide, the .means to discharge the accumulated Indebtedness of Its charity work at the Infirmary and other enterprises which Involve the altruistic labors of that congregation. Dr. ilrougbton and his great enter prises havo occupied no little space In the Atlanta papers for the last six or eight weeks. But no one will deny that the* public and unselfish nature of these enterprises justify the gratui tous generosity of the press and the responsive generosity of the people. The great aui]jtorlnm project when brought to completion will be an or nament and a glory to Atlanta. Tho Tabernacle Infirmary and Hospital is already a helpful inspiration to the philanthrope life of Atlanta, and richly deserves that cooperative sym pathy and helpfulness which a grate ful but busy people are always will ing to give to one who works for oth ers and whose example points a way to a better charity than most people have time to .discover or skill to util ise. Dr. Broughton hopes that his Sun day services, will free his hands from the worry of these charitable debts and liberate them to other and more progressive usefulness for the future. Aud we join in the wish that the response may be ample. The Sentiment of Labor. The eloquent and thoughtful article upon General John B. Gordon In The . Journal of Labor will serve to Indicate to the people in general, that Atlanta's labor paper Is not exclusively engag ed In the business of agitating wages aud rates and the recognition of labor, but that Its editor and those who support it are themselves a part of all the noble and patriotic senti ments of the state and are fully re- ' sponslve to the occasions of patriot- . Ism and of admiration In which we pay tribute to our noble living and to our Illustrious dead. The article from The Journal of La bor, written by Mr. Jerome Jones, Its editor, will illustrate fully this spirit ■ in the journal set apart for the orgaa- lzed working men of Atlanta. Ten to one that Harvlo Jordan did not think to say to Emperor William, "Cotton Is King.” 8urely Hattiesburg, Miss., must be growing Wonderfully when It can af- ' ford a dally paper so bright, so newsy and so ably edited aa The New*. Dr. G. W. Bull, formerly of the West End Presbyterian church of Atlanta, and later of Nashville, 1b now winning golden opinions for his eloquence and Piety in the great Presbyterian church ol Scranton, Pa. Dr. Bull's recent sermon before.the 0. A. R. is com- | merited upon in terms of great admt- ration. THE PEOPLE WIN CHEAPEE LIGHTS AND POWER. YVhen the Georgia Jlailway and Electric Company underbid all com petltors for tho city’s lighting for the ensuing five years, Tho Georgian ex pressed its gratification In this evidence that our agitation for municipal ownership had borne its legitimate fruit and bad saved the city many thousands of dollars by the change of heart wrought In the minds of the directors of this company. We expressed our approval of the action of the company and our Indorsement of the committee's action In accepting the bid. W« qualified, however, moat distinctly this Indorsement with the pro viso that the Georgia Railway and Electric Company should subsequent ly make such a concession to the private users of lights and power as they had made to the city, and *o cheapen the cost of these commodities to Individuals as well as to the municipality. This concession the company has also made and upon the basla of these two concessions The Georgian cannot do less than express Its grat ification at tho more considerate spirit which the corporation has shown toward the municipality and to the citizens and to express Its pleasure In the acceptance by the committee and the probable acceptance by the council of the bids which the Georgia Railway and Electric Company has made. These have been the main contentions which we have had with this great corporation aud we feel a peculiar gratification In the fact that they have both been settled in the Interests of the people and to a very large saving of public and private funds. We shall .probably have occasion from time to time to make sugges tions In a friendly spirit to the company In Its handling of local and sub urban transportation lines, but we do not hesitate now to say that in the aggregate the corporation has rdtnoved the major basis of criticism and that Its present attitude toward the people la both pleasing and com mendable. If the strong stand which The Georgian has taken and maintained with vigor and consistency In favor of municipal ownership baa bad Its Influence upon these policies, we are sincerely glad. And tbe public may be assured that It 1b much more to our liking to applaud and to approve both public and private men than to criticise and condemn them in either relation, of life. THE INSPIRATION IN SAM INMAN'S BENEPIOENOE. That wqs a great scene at Agnes Scott on Wednesday when Sam Inman, Atlanta's noble and philanthropic citizen, gnvo $50,000 to this splendid college for young women. ' The occasion has a double significance. By sheer force of solid and substantial merit Agnea Scott has estab lished Itself by common consent beyond criticism and beyond jealousy In the very forefront of educational colleges tor women In tbe South. It is as standard In tho South as Bryn Mawr or Wellesley or Vassar In tho North, and Its diplomas are coming more and more to be recognized ns conclusive and substantial evidence of female scholarship and merit. Only patient work, only high Ideals, only, faithful service and only careful and rigid selection of teachers by the highest merit hqs estab lished this enviable reputation,. The moral attaching to this end of the comment is that- It Is In. col leges like these that Intelligent philanthropy delights to express Itself. And the fundamental reason for the princely generosity of Atlanta’s noble citizen lies In the fact of his absolute and well founded confidence In the merit and mission of Agnes Scott l Tho act of Mr. Inman la notablo in tho fact that It sets a high exam ple of the consecration of wealth In the' hands Of strong Southern men to tho great cause of education. Unless we greatly mistake, this la tbe larg est single contribution made by an Individual Southerner to the cause of education. The fact that It it glvon to tho education of women has per haps no other significance than the fact that In this ago education Is gen erally recognized as being as much womau's duo and necessity as It Is to men. .- t But tbe point 1b that this strong and liberal man who has grown rich In tbe South has set the example to other strong ahd liberal men who have grown and are growing rich In the South, to give magnificently of their wealth to the greatest of all causes which concern tho future and the welfare of this section of our country. Mr. Inman’s liberality la'not more munificent than It 1b wise. The Georgian trusts that It moy also be equally as lnBplrlng,. and that from this time on our great educational Institutions in tho South are to be established by tho consecration of some of the superb accumulations which have como to tho South within tho last decado of Its industrial and economic life. In behalf of a civilization whose foundation rosts upon tho educa tion and Intelligence of Its youth, wo thank Mr. Inman not less for the fact of bis well placed and noblo generosity, than for th» Inspira tion which It must Inevitably carry Jo other Southerners who love and would help tbe land In which they have prospered. THE A„ B. & A. &Y. AND COMPETITION. It is not the purposo of Tho Georgian to differ with the railroad com mission In transferring tho Atlanta, Birmlhgham and Atlantia Railway from class D to class C ot tho freight tariff schedules, thereby rednclng its freight rate* by about'10 per cent nlong tho line. Wo have, howover, a word to say about this road which might as well be said now In explana tion of the present and the future attitude of The Georgian toward It. Tho Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railway la a corporation like other corporations, run for the purpose of making money for its stock holders. It la not a completed road'as yet and la therefore undor enor mous expense In the process ot construction. Perhaps when tho railroad la completed. It may, as other railroads have done, become Indifferent to tho people, oppreaslvo In lta rates, ova- slvo ot Its obligations and Intent solely and alone upon making divi dends for its stockholders at tbe expense of tho poople. All these results may follow upon the completion of this railroad and upon Its full entrance upon tho field* of commerce as a great through lino of transportation. -• And when it does, the railroad and Its officials should be watched oa vigilantly and curbed aa relentlessly by the law aud by the commission as other railroads have been restrained and must be restrained at the present time. But tho point wc mako about tho Atlanta, ttlrmlngbam and Atlantic railroad Is that at this time its completion Is necessary for two reasons which are of Interest to the people. Iu the first place, the cry ot the age Is for Increased transportation facilities. The congested conditions of freight havo been tbe tragedy of commerce and the piling up of vast carloads of shipments In the depots and yards ot our Southern and other railway systems has well nigh pre cipitated a panic and has cortalnly provoked a revolutionary protest on tho part ot tbe people. More transportation facilities and better transportation facilities have been the cry ot the times. The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic contest in part, to meet this cry. It furnishes a through lino from Atlanta to the Bea and from Atlanta to the great Iron center of the South, where It touches tbe greatest distributing railway system of America, and it undoubtedly ought to relieve tho congestion of freight and traffic In the country. In tho second place, and perhaps as the most Important consideration the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad furnishes to Georgia what we have been clamoring tor through all our newspaper columns, and through all our lines of public life—a competitive railroad. This railroad la a distinct competitor with the Southern, the Central and the Seaboard Air Lino In this state and In tho other states through which It passes. It turnlshcs to the people of Georgia Just what wo have been try ing by law to compel tbe Central road to become—a competitor of the Southern In handling the business of tho state. So that the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic has tn especial and to a certain extent a beneficent and eco nomic meaning to tbe times and to the state, and is entitled to the encouragement and cooperation ot the pub lic and private people of Georgia a* an enterprise. It Is to their distinct and definite Interests as a people that this great line should be built. When It is built. It Is our duty to invoke every possible law already in ex istence, or. If necessary, to create otber laws aa may be necessary to pre vent Its merging Into other railroad! to destroy its competitive capacity. But, meanwhile. The Georgian feels that the people of tbe state ought to understand the conditions surrounding this railroad which mako It an object of unuaual Interest and of unusual helpfulness to our trans portation problems and to railroad competition at tbe present time. Un der these circumstances, we feel that the road should not be unnecessa rily or prematurely handicapped by any legislation looking to that end As we have said, the road Is not completed, and there are vast sums of money yet to bo expended for Its completion. The president of 'these lines, who has demonstrated a wonderful capacity in a flnanclal way, has yet .bis limitations in capacity and Is dependent for the money to complete his road upon the showing of profits he can mako for the capitalists who. sup ply tho means to exploit these great enterprises. We go a little further than one of our local contemporaries along this lino by saying that If wo had been a member of this commission, it Is quite likely that we should have deferred advancing tbe Atlanta, Bir mingham and Atlantic to tho C class of freight tariff until after the road was completed and running as a through line at least. It seems to us that public policy, whlcn always means the Interests of the people, would have Justified this consideration and forbearance, and wo believe that public spirit will sustain tho commission in such le gitimate encouragement as we give to this new and competitive line In the South. • These are the views which havo from time to time moved The Georgian to expressions of special kindliness toward the Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic road, and which may In the future Incline us to further consideration In Its behalf. ANOTHER COLLEGE FORTUNATE IN FRIENDS. The only, other college In Georgia that seems to be as rich In a de voted and admiring clientele as Agnes Scott Is tho Shorter College of Rome. Liberally endowed by Alfred Shorter some thirty years ago, Shorter has held a strong but not a pre-eminent place in Georgia female educa tion for tho last three decades. Within these five years there have grown up In Rome a half dozen men of largo mental caliber, and of broad and liberal spirit, who have realized their duty an<J their obligation to this splendid Institution, and have expressed their loyalty in noble and far-reaching liberality. Chief among these men. are Walker IV. Brooks, Paul Cooper hnd Jo seph Bass. Each of these youhg men leading the list with magnificent per sonal contributions-have not only aroused a now and splendid enthusiasm for Shorter College, but havo equipped It with an endowment which Is perhaps second to no other financial backing held by a college In the South. And so, thanks to the noblo public spirit and to the Intelligent liber ality of a few strong young men. Shorter College Is rapidly taking Its place among the leading* female colleges of the South. The moral In this case, ns in tho. case of Agnes Scott, Is that only when the state, either In Itself or through Its noblo and progressive citi zens, realizes' the pre-eminent necessity of education and backs Its faith by Its open pocket, will our Institutions begin to grow great and famous. What Sam Inman has done for Agnes Scott—what Walker Brooks, Paul Cooper, and Joseph L. Bass havo done for Shorter, other liberal men In other sections of tho South may do for the local educational Institu tions fjbout them, until in the prevalence of this splendid spirit our whole system of collego education in the South will receive a magnificent Im pulse In equipment and In merit for the work of tho future. Tho president's recent wetting In Virginia was Orthodox according to several denominational standards. He had first a "sprinkling,” then It "pour ed” and he was finally "Immersed. 1 Who says the president Is not an able politician? . Ray Stnnnard Baker is still "Fol lowing the Color Line." But the Amer ican’s readers are no longer following Ray. TAXATION AND EDUCATION., To the Editor of Tho Georgian: The present agitation of tho educational question In Georgts moves mo to air -some views of my own upon tho subject, which I submit without apology, though not with out a full realization of the probability that they wilt .receive -the vigorous con. deinuatlon of most of those who nmy chouce ‘t> Mo this letter. t)f course, I nm. “shocked, grieved and mortised” to discover, from ,the statis tics Which ar. Just now being given such wldo publicity, that my native state oc cupies so unenviable a pre-eminence among her slater commonwealths tn percentngo . nit, toklng Into consideration that Georgia lms the largest negro population of any state In tho union, the figures ap- r «r somewhat lest appalllng-to me. And must confess, moreover, that I would rejoice exceedingly to see tho aforesaid per centage still furthor Increased by the de- f ortnflon of about two-thirds of our moat Ighly cultured coons. It Is ill very well to prate of our duty to tho Inferior race: but, for my port, I maintain that our first ond highest duty Is to our, own race. Fur thermore, I do not admit that the negro Is made a more deslrntdo member of society by receiving tho kind of education which conduces to the highest development of Ilf I wore asked to give a recipe for ruin ing a good negro I would say: "Educate him!" If the people of the North desire sort, not on oort-for tbe Instruction of negro youths. I would be willing to con tribute liberally, according to my mean*, to a fund for defraying the expenses of any who wish to avail themselves of the any who wish to avail themselves or tno privilege, of such Instltatlone—on condition, of course, that they never return to the [South. The Idea that a negro can by snx pos- bllltv be educated up to a pnsltlo- ‘ equality with the whlto man lx <*e v I R should he vigorously combatted by every believer In white supremacy. Tho preva, MBMaAmUeiiisartMSMisIh whites MmMHMPMPKtofir, if no! soley. responsible for the fact that wo h»v, a "race problem." To my mind, all history presents nothing •q Incomprehensible, to paradoxical, at the Course of tbe Southern people with refer ence to the negro since the war. In etav. ery the negroes were useful, happy end remectable—If not literary. They bail no Mine to (tody Latin or mathematics; they [ad sonicrhlng clac to do. There were no [Dr. Waablngtons" lu those dnys. At the lose of the War. the Republican perty— the negro, upon which tn large measure ae- pended the perpetuation of Its power, the party deemed It necessary., or at least high ly desirable, thst a goodly number of Jht| •nation’s werde” shoold be provided with offices end clerkships under the government. I |The chief. If not the only. Impediment to the nofompllsbmcnt of this scheme (the tbe L' Site Bonth) wee the Incapacity, by reason of Illiteracy, of the nrgro to dll fitch po sitions as the goremment had to offer. From this dilemma the G. O. P. was promptly delivered by the action of the Southern people tbenuelves.' lor aome In explicable reason—or for no. reason at all— we saw tit to employ a considerable portion of onr scanty resources, which were to sorely needed for the education and up- ’ Idlhg of M MM isolating Jor poatmaateri. internal revenue collectors and government-clerks of all kinds. Those who so loudly bewail tbe Afrlcaalutton of onr railway mall service and other governments! departments, and who advocate the education of the negro, or at least tacitly Indorse It. should Brat go out and kick themselves, or get aome s eagerness of the colored peopl _ . chance to *en«l their children to school,' ettee it typical Instance of a family of mill operative* who employed a intro rook, *5ndf while they sent their children to the mill t« work, the cook *ent her children to school :”~ln order, I suppose. ,that they plight qualify themaelvea to pnrau* eomc occupation more high-toned than that of cooking. If auch cases as thla seem to tha negro to hold a promise that the next gen- great Eric canal vjateui connecting the oration may see a reversal in tbe status of the two races, can we ’* Hig tbe point Is, that the -.JMPmHL-M! negro servants' children attend while our own little ones are tolling lu the factories and in the Helds, derive their support al most entirely from funds which we rallo by taxing ourselves! The very best negr * **-—gw men and women wii •17 and whoaa quail „ •ible for whatever of kindly feeling—and there is much—still exists between the two races—are for the most part hopelessly Il literate, On the otber hand, the negro eil itor who left Atlanta somewhat hurriedly about the time of the recent disturbance and who at present infests Chicago, where ho Is boldly advocating amalgamation ay the only possible solution of tbe race prob lem, Is a sample of tbe highly educated ue- «ro.' J? own "race;' sad' fifths 'Republican party", which lias always stood, for principles and practices moat obnoxious to Southern sentiment, needs moro educated negroes for political purpose*, why let them take tho raw material and work It up at their own expense. BARI.E RICHARDS LIVELY. Atlanta, Os., May 27. 8HARP IRONY IS AROUSED BY GEORGIAN CONTRIBUTOR. To the Editor of The Georgian: One af the Ideas for which our forefathers fought and died was "Freedom 4 to worship God." One of the principles upon which they founded our government waa "Lib erty." We as Americans and as Christians are wont to boast of the liberty of our people, and the freedom of our speech. But when liberty and freedom amount to license and license “to false representation and unjust accusations It would seem as If It- were time to rail a halt. For the past twelve months one of your contributors has with syntemntlc regularity misrepresented what he-hat l>een pleated to term "Orthodox* and religionists," and 'intlou he Ins employed from lgiioramu* to-Infidel, lefente of hit contributions, you aay you publish articles from Rev. Fllnn, f)r. White, llabbt Marx and Father tribe against all others who do not chooye to think-and speak as they do. If words are the signs or Ideas, oh for n word that will convey the Idea of "a lib erty" which allows a man to class every body who trusts In the blood of Christ for salvation as a coward, who apologises for the statement upon the excuse that It was hastily prepared, and then later reiterates the statement In harsher language. Apd for another word to»expreaa "a free dom," the Joy of which "exhilarates his soul and sends the wings of his aspirations to tho very throne of uod." The pity of It la that It could not have stayed there, re turning to earth again with Information, that 1 am glad that Paul- did not give us, and whtcb was not revealed tn John. This Information consists in the statement that an Infidel Is not a "bug-a-boo." Ob, what Information, what Jlbtrty, what free dom! Then for the sake of convenience ho groups Infidels into two classes, namely, "Theoretical and Practical." Having defined a "theoretical" Infidel sat- Great Lakes with the Hudson river and At lantic ocean In New York harbor. Comparable with ;i work now progressing In South Ariierlca, in the Buenos Ayres din-, trlct, 23G miles long, connecting the Jurliu and Parana rivers, under engineering diffi culties far surpassing those upon tUe route of our canal. Incomparable In the resu'Js It will achieve, the number of people it will benefit, of any canal of auclent or modern times. Southern in location, it will be intense- lv national In character. In purpose, in ben efits. C. R Brunswick, Ga., May 28. n purpose, in hen I*. GOOD YEAR. ♦HE AUDIT DAY OF GOD. (A reply to Itudyard Kipling’s of Martha.") By Arnold B. Hall. The Tribune of Tomorrow, Eternal in Its decrees. Will give for every sorrow Fairness for Its fees, planet -of st_. ng house of God: ie Want and sable pall. For, though men may often irec, God, the giver, won’t forget; And with word* of wisdom sweet He will all the toilers greet; If they, do as best they can, As n worker and as n man, He’ll not place them ’neath the ban, lie will read the meaning meant, He will fathom each intent, And on that.great audit day God will in proportion pay. Oppression then will pass away. Though It now Is green and gay; He trill tyranny deride, Tyrants who to him have lied, For they claim to serve him now, Though they're brulslug Labor's brow. All the sufferers of this life Will receive the roses of life; Kings of commerce In, tbe end Won’t declare a dividend; some money-glutted clown, Aii of these in fitter here, God will In abundance cheer; Human demarcations deep In God's book are very cheap— So cheap In sooth they're naught; He can not be bribed or bought; All Ms Jewels for the Just • In hlg temple of .pur trust—. These await the weary who Tolled and suffered ns be knew. He’s, the controller of our fate, Be the ending soon or late; He will not accept rebate, Even could men offer one, In the realm beyond the sun; He knows all humsu needs And will rightly judge our deeds. N, Y, POLICE THINK CAPTURED YOUTH IS GIRLS SLATER Believe Leon Graham Killed Pretty Amelia Staffeldt. C KSd out. what prostitution! Thou claa.lng the rust of society's Inflitols as "prsctlesV ha define! them aa being everything from u hypocrite to a thief, con cluding with the etntementa that the prac tical Infidel "thrives upon theology and con tinues Its Insidious work with the function end often th* actual cooperation of the or thodox," and continuing, adda: "Tbe prac. tlcal model la a welcome member of every church that lifts lta splr* heavenward.'' i ik for every church that lifts , veaward, but of the churches which I do know the above statements are ahftolutely untrue. This contributor reminds me ot a certain IUlde character who “went np to tbe tern- pie” r» make a stump speech to the Lord, v. ■ "■*-* I thank thee fe; not even like tt»M poor eowerds who trustrin the Mood of Christ for salvation. Every bhturday I mount tbe platform of The Georgian and there with entiling face upturned to God I proclaim tnyMlf a "the. oretlctl Infidel," ctoMlug tbe poor orthodox end, chnrch members as "practical Infldcls." Oh, liberty of speech, ok, freedom of prees, give him more ensce. „ LEMUEL D. KINO. Covington. Ga. OUR GEORGIA CANAL. To the Editor of The Georgian; New York. May Sd—Arraigned before Magistrate Conncrton In the long Island police court todny for baring attacked 5- ycarold Mamie Luck, at Corona, Leou Graham, a.savage-looking youth, furnished the police with a startling evidence which (minted fo him at tho ''probable slayer of Amelia Staffeldt/' every detail of big appearance,- oreu to the attire howweara, tho yonug mnn bear* a startling resemblance to Henry Becker, tho half-witted, prisoner, who has boy*, niUIctl to the confessed to haring nuncseo twcire girls; that he told n fnleo story as to hla whore, about on the day tbe child wai killed, nil that lu hla home a shirt from which tolcs had been out was found, hat given still mure baffling turn to the Stnyfeldt mystery. . THINK COREY HAS QUIT JOB New York. May 80.—The presence In this city of Alva C. Dinkey, president of the Carnegie Steel Company, baa revived tho report that he will succeed IV. E. Corey •a president of the United Statea Steel Corporation. In Wall street circles the Imprcaalon la quite general that Mr. Corey bne placed Ids resignation In the hands of tha direc tor*. but It Is said In one well Informed quarter that " lo accept It. On Your Savings Compounded Twice a Year The average balance for each account in onr Savings Department is $391.20, As nearly all of these ac counts were started with small amounts—many with one dollar—this high average clearly indicates the success of those who regularly save a part of their income. MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO. DONALD FRASER ENDS ooooocooooooao&ocwooiyooooo a THIRD IN SAYRE FAMILY O . TO COMMIT SUICIDE. O 2 a <* Binghamton, N.‘Y.,-May 30.—O U John Sayre, aged 63 year*, com- O O mltted suicide in hla home yes- O 0 terday by shooting, going Into tho 0 0 nantry to commit the act, tn which a O hto grandfather and father both 0 0 killed themaelvea by cutting their 0 O throats many years ago. O O o 000000000000000000000000011 0 0 O GIRL'S WILD RIDE O 2 TO MARRY LOVER. O O a 0 2 Helena, Mont., May 30.—Three 0 O hours affler Miss Fanny Morris. O 0 daughter of a rich Wyoming stock O 2 man, rode Into Lewiston yeater- O 0 day afternoon she was married to O 2 Robert McFarland, one of her fa- 0 O ther'a employees, who had pre- 0 0 ceded her. Tho girl rode alone a ' 0 distance of 750 mile* through the 0 wildest parts of Wyoming and 0 North Dakota and Montana to 0 marry McFarland. 0 O 0 0000000000000000090000000a AFTER LONG ILLNESS. NOBLE ROME WOMAN DIES, Special fo The Georgian, Rome, Go., May SO.-Lait evening at 7:» «clock. Mrs. ’ “— • — ‘ lotfl- lllners. sought health bom# eighteen months ago but slightly ben- Defore bar marriage, Mr,. Veal waa Mtoa Fannie Manly, daughter of John F. Manly, formerly of Augusta. Bnnrlvln* are a de- voted husband and two daughters. Misses Anna and Beheeca-Veal. The funeral will l» held Friday morning at St. Peter* chnrch. nod Interment wifi be In Myrtle lllll cemetery. J, Bara Veal died after * fur two year* Mrs. Veal 1 In Asheville, and returns.! J! I In what rank shall the canal be classed _ ... . _ , _ connecting tbe Mississippi river and all its' Upshaw at Gosptl Tent, trfbutnrlea with the Atlantic ocean upon 1 ith tbe Languedoc canal connecting the Mediterranean with the Atlantic coasts ot France, With no other single canal In France, bnt easily comparable with the entle 'canal system of Trance, connecting every rlrcr with every other rlrer, the difference he- Ing that It require* a mileage of canals to connect «,W> mile# of rlvera ft Franco, nenriy equal to the entire rlrer mileage, while our canal of about SM miles In length concert* mor- — *“* —" -* Ooniparabb William D. Upshaw, editor of The Oolffen Age. will speak at the new gos pel tent, at Pulliam and Crumley Streets. Thursday night at 8 o’clock. The tent meetings are being conducted by Rev. Sam W. Small, of the ISgie»ton Memorial church, but Mr. Small will be absent from the city Thursday. • Senator Hale III. Baltimore, Sld May M-Ualted Btote* Meaator Eugene bale, .if Maine, to III at ot’an^peraVlom “ ,he rt,ult A’fter the moat prosperous year tn the history of thd school, the Donald Fraser has closed Its fourteenth ses sion. The following prizes were awarded: First honor waa won by William Steele, It., Lafayette, Ga., whoso yearly aver age was 05.73. Tho second honor was awarded to Clifford Cowles, Jr, De catur, Ga., whose .average waa 95.41. The American history medal, offered by the George Muse Clothing Company, Atlanta, was awarded to Wharton Me- Jntyre, Corona, Ala. Special credit Is due to Clifford Cowles, who has for the fourth time taken first or second honor In the school. Worthy of honorable mention are William' Thlbadeau, Decatur; Eugene Taylor, Summerville, Ga.; William Jen- kins, Atlanta; Stacy Caper.1, Newnan, Ga.; Edgar Walker, Quitman, Ga. To these young gentlemen large credit is due for the success of the school monthly. Orange and Black, whoso last issue Is a decided hit and a credit to a much larger Institution than Donald Fraser. • With one exception, the entire facul ty will be re-elected, Bon Lacy, Jr., haying resigned to go to Oxford, Eng land, on a Rhodes' scholarship. Mr. Lacy’s successor Will be Louis T. Wildes, Jr., who comes to the school with very high qualifications. A largo number of the old student* will return, and everything blda fair to break all precedents for the coming year. ODD FELLOW EDIIQR TO BE HONORED GUEST Hon. William H. Barnes, formerly of Atlanta, but now of San Francisco, where he edits the oldest secret order paper In the world,•’will he the honored guest of the local lodge* of Odd Fel lows and Rebckahs next Tuesday night. In honor of his visit all the members from every Odd Fellow and Rebekah lodge In the.clty will meet In their hull, corner Broad and Alabama utreets, where Colonel Barnes will deliver an address. Colonel Barnes Is well known In Georgia, where he took an active In terest In secret order affairs before his removnl to San Francisco. He to past mnster of the Georgia Odd Fel lows, and was tho first Georgia repre sentative of the Odd Fellows to the sovereign grand lodge, which met In Baltimore Immediately after the Civil War. COUNTY EXHIBITS PROMISE SUCCESS Advices being received dally by Sec retary Frank Weldon of the State Fair Indicate that the display of county ex hibits at the fair this year will be bet ter, larger and more attractive than In the history of elate fairs In Georgia. It was learned Wednesday that J. W. Fountain, one of tho largest and most successful farmers In Gwinnett county, will send down one of the flneat ex hibits ever rent out of Gwinnett county and will endeavor to have h!» county secure the first premium. Mr. foun tain runs a farm of 1,400 acre* and he has already planted his various crops with the vlow of making a P”**' winning exhibit. It Is also probable that there will he on excellent Indi vidual exhibit from the lame couBb. During the f.ilr In Atlanta ill 1905, Mr. Fountain helped to make the Gwinnett county display and It waa considered one of the finest at the fair. A meeting of the board of director* of tho Fair Association waa held wed- neaday morning at which aevernl mat ters connected with the fair were dis cussed. One of these was the propo sition of a Chicago man to bring a hip podrome, but no action wa* taken re gardlng it THE KODAK HOUSIj Every thing that the nime Im plies. Latest model kodaks; rreta supplies of all kiadi; !*•* toSat finishing work in the South. us your films. Mall order* given prompt attention. 14 WHITEHALL or 125 PEACHTREE (CANDLER BLDG)