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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
/TEUNEBDAY, JULY S, 1507.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Thero are at leaat two apparent
sides to every question.
May we remind Mr. William (Billy)
Emit btbat this Is now July?
Tennis Is the only great game of
llfo in which "love" la nothing!
The dry wave la not confined to
Georgia, its Fairbanks can testify In
Indiana.
It Is a paradox, but notwithstanding
their racquets the tennis players are
tho quietest sportsmen In the world.
Most of the things that are said at
long distance to the president only
reach the Loeb of his ear. t
The capitol Is a new place these
last few days. Old thlnga have passed
away anil all thlnga have become new.
Representative Covington aaya the
houso of representatives “Is as dry as
a powder horn." Only a member In
good standing can afford to say that.
Tho Georgian has a fine sketch of
UoprcsentsUves Scab Wright and Cov
ington getting ready for their great
speeches on prohibition.
Japan claims a standing army of
ono million men—each a Jiu jltau ex-
pert Thank heaven for tho water be
tween tta.
Every time the president goes to
Oyster Bay he becomes dumb. Influ
ence of environment and a new rea
son to change tbe name.
Let the captious critics note that
this reform Democratic - legislature
promptly decided In favor of the ne
gro Incumbent In the case of the con
tested election from McIntosh.
The Georgian congratulates Repre
sentative Russell, of Muscogee, upon
the evidences of hts Increasing popu
larity and Influence In the houBe. Of
this the chairmanship ot the elections
committee Is tn evidence.
Every time the Macon ball team
makes a run "Fan" Pendleton ap
plauds so loud that be forgets him
self and thinks he Is cheering the de
cline ot Bryan.
Editor Pendleton Joyfully an
nounces that he has bought the stock
of The Telegraph. And the Southern
railway gleefully declares that It has
sold the Central of Georgia. With one
voice.
When Cltisen J. E. McAshan goes
back to Texas we hereby put Tbe
Houston Post on notice that Atlanta,,
more appreciative than the chief city
of Buffalo Bayou, has promoted the
Texan tg a colonelcy. It It now Col.
J. E. McAshan, and we trust Tho Post
will not forget It.
Count Uncle Sam always among tbe
magnanimous. When be was one of
the conquerors In China he took In dt-!
vision twice ss much as the country'
owed him. Nov that he is atlll power-.
ful. he la great enough of his own ac-
to give half of It back. *
THE CASE OP MR. BUCHANAN. ,
It gives The Georgian pleasure to welcome to Atlanta and to his na
tive state, Mr. Ed F. Buchanan, of Norcross by way of New York.
The fact that Mr. Buchanan Is a Georgian, that bo baa tolled, that ho
has dared; that he has straggled and that he has won his fortune, are
matters of mere general congratulation.
The point of Interest In Mr. Buchanan's visit to Georgia nnd to
Georgians, Is In the fact that the winning and holding of money, has not
destroyed his state pride or bis filial loyalty.
What we like about Mr. Buchanan la that with millions suddenly
won In the great metropolis of the country, hla first and chlefeat thought
la for tbe old mother who presides over his Georgia home, and for the
friends who have been linked with him In the earlier straggles of hla life.
Nothing In Mr. Buchanan's life, not even the winning of his great for
tune, has ever becomo him one-half so well as this broad, generous re
membrance of the good woman who gave him life, and who, trained him In
tho conditions which have worked to hla success. •
And the fact that tbe New York capitalist comes back to Norcrosa
first of all, to build a stately and luxurious home for his aged mother, re
flects nobly upon the qualities within him which are better than those
which made his money.
It la no less a credit to Mr. Buchanan that he comes back to the
little city of hla birth to spend his money In making It beautiful for the
happiness and Inspiration of the people who lived with him there. This Is
the spirit that makes capital not terrible but beneficent In the times lo
which we live. This Is the spirit wh'.ch bridges the wide chasm between
riches and poverty. , *
It was In this spirit that the Beldlng Brothers with millions amassed
In the great metropolis In the manufacture of thread, went back to the lit
tle town In Michigan In which they were born and made of Beldlng the
parlor city of the Middle States and one of the most entrancing municipal
ities of tho commonwealth. It was this spirit which movhd Andrew Car
negie to scatter hie money In thousands In tho village of Sklbo, whore
ho was born, to moke the scenery more beautiful and conditions more de
lightful for the people who were his early neighbors and original friends.
And in this spirit Ed Buchanan comes back to Norcross to divide the
largess which diligent and vigorous years have brought him with the peo
ple who smiled upon hts struggling boyhood, and to be a benefactor, not
to an alleu race or to strangers, but to tho people among whom he was
born and'Under whose traditions he was reared.
We don’t'care so much about Mr. Buchanan's money so far as It Is
related to this city or the state. Wo have no designs about It of a selfish
nature as It touches this twentieth century town of Atlanta. But we are
doubly rejoiced to welcome home a Georgian who has not only won In
the world's struggles and on life's strenuous battle-field of endeavor,
but who has not lost In the struggle one throb of tbe loyalty to hts state
or the love of his mother which stamps him as a man and a citizen wor
thy ot our affection and respect.
It Is at last by the tie of a mother that Georgia binds to herself to
day a president of the United States and Theodore Roosevelt bows his
knee to this dear commonwealth because It gave birth to the woman who
gave birth to him.
And of the samo spirit and of the same throb .must be reckoned Ed
Buchanan who comes back crowned with successes to his native Georgia
to share his earnings with his people and to crown with reverence and
with comfort the fading years of bis beloved mother.
We don't know what the rest of the people went to tbe Chamber ot
Commerce on Tuesday to welcome. But The Georgian went there purely
and simply to honor this rich man whom filthy lucre had not divorced
from filial loyalty and from civic pride.
MR. GRAVES AT LEXINGTON AND ELSEWHERE.
The telegraphic account of Mr. Graves' speech at Lexington, Ky., car
ries nothing new.
Mr. Graves said no more and no less than he has said before.
And what he said was drawn out by a direct question from the audl-
Icnco In front ot him.
Mr. Graves Is a Democrat from principle and not from interest. He
loves the party from a conception of Its great mission to the people, and
not In tho mere spurious loyally ot spoils.
As a- Democrat ho believes after the old fashion that Democracy
means nothing more or less than the rights ot man as opposed to "shackles
forged by authority or privilege.”
In this belief he has from the ranks urged upon hla party to seize
upon the opportunity to make certain tho accomplishment of the pressing
nnd vital economic reforms by continuing In office the one man who has
demonstrated the power to aebtovo them. As a Democrat hopeless of
healing the factions which divide and destroy the organization, he has
urged that all parties should merge In support ofone great and acceptable
president as they did In the Era of Good Feeling under Monroe, In order
that after tills temporary merger our roal and definite Democracy might
reorganize along honest and united line* In a platform on which we could
win and hold tbe government for twenty years.
He still believes that this counsel carries the highest statesmanship,
nnd the supremeat Democratic common sense. If It be In hts power to
persuade hts party to adopt It, ho is willing to stand the criticism, to puf
fer the misrepresentation and to enduro the reflections, for the good that
ho can do.
He belloves—he knows—that whatever tho ultimate outcome, the
frank, straightforward suggestion at Chattanooga hat done more to awak
en and stimulate the Democratic party than all the time-serving platitudes
and the truckling eulogies paid to It by peanut politicians since the dec
ade began, and his party conscience la calm and serene.
If the party to which ho belongs Bhould decline to accept the honest
and earneBt suggestion of Its follower from the ranks, and decides tq nom
inate llryan or Hoke Smith, or Culberson or anybody clso that la honest
and really Democratic, you may be sure that Mr. Graves will fall prompt
ly and loyally Into line and fight with all hja ransomed powers for the
faith of his fathers nnd the leader who carries Its flag.
This, you understand, Is tho time of preliminary counsel and sugges
tion. It Is a time to express honest and fearless opinions as to the
thing to do. Wo have utilized It to speak freely and to counsel fear
lessly.
But when conference Is ovor and the battle Is on wo ehall challenge
tbe best of thorn to loyalty and service for the party that atlll carries,
and will always carry the hope of the people.
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS AND THE CONFIDENCE OF
STUDENTS.
Whenever the president of a college reaches the point where be finds
himself out of touch and sympathy with tbe students, and out of touch
and sympathy with the faculty, he ought In simple honesty and In plain
common sense to sever his connection with the Institution.
It does not matter how Btronga man may be In Intellectual attain
ment, how ample hts equipment, how honeat hla purposes, and how sin
cere his temper, tho fact stands that If after one or two or three years as
the head of an educational Institution he has failed to win the confi
dence and respect of tho student body and tho co-operative affection of hts
fellow teachers, he Is just simply not fitted for this particular class ot
work.
This failure may not arguo that the president or chancellor,so falling
may not bo worthy of respect and sympathy, and may not be fully quali
fied In other ways to do good work In the world. There are men who
are highly successful In other forms of life, men who enjoy the respect
and confidence of their fellow men In other callings, men who have made
money In other vocations who are not mentally equipped for usefulness In
tho great field of education.
We know men who have been eminently successful preachers, men
who have won high praise as judges, men who have been conspicuous at
the bar, who have failed to establish that fellowship and sympathy with a
body of students which makes their whole usefulness and entire Influence
In this high and responsible station.
It Is an essential prerequisite to success In teaching boys that one
should get Ir, touch with them and command their affection, their confi
dence and their respect. The fault where It falls in this direction may
be one of temperament and not of character or ot purpose or of talent.
From the days of Dr. Arnold at Rugby down to the present day no teach
er was ever great and useful who did not win and hold the affection and
loyalty and regard of tbe body of students over whom he was called td
preside.
Take Chancellor Barrow at Athena! There are many men In Ameri
can educational lines as well equipped or better than the chancellor at
Georgia's university. There are men who have made a more conspicuous
study of educational themes. Thero may be men of higher executive
force, but tho fact stands that Chancellor Barrow la making a glorious
success as the head of that university for tbe simple reason that each
and every student In It. from the senlol leader to the freshman fag. Im
plicitly trusts and devotedly loves "Uncle Dave." .
And today the knowledge of what "Uncle Dave" wishes Is a stronger
force In tbe university than a law of the faculty or a canon of the trustees.
Walter Hill commanded at Athens the same trust and boundless confi
dence of tbe young men of the university, and both of these men wero
conspicuous and ever-increasing factors In education In tbe state.
Now we are making no personal applications of this platitude which
wo present today. If It strikes anywhere amonp the Georgia schools, let
It strike wholesomely and without prejudice to the welfare ot tbe great
cauao of Georgia youth. We present It without prejudice and without per
sonality as a sound principle, that no other qualities, either Inherited or
acquired, can take the place at tbe head of a•/ educational Institution ot
those qualities which draw young men and Influence them by weight of
character or heart to noble ends.
Tbe Georgian trusts that this suggestion, which has a meaning not now
to be mado plain, will have due effect and will make unnecessary a further
allusion in a personal vein.
WESTERN APPRECIATION OF CALHOUN.
At the commencement exercises ot tho University of Dakota last week
there was delivered among other orations, one on John C. Calhoun, whose
merit Is best attested In the fact that It won first prize among tho many
able and well delivered orations presented at the tlihe.
It Is further notable that the award was by a unanimous decision and
among {he Judges was John Buxke, governor of North Dakota.
The governor later presented the diplomas and In his address to tbe
graduating class concluded by saying:
“May you each and every one be as loyal and true to North Dakota
as John C. Calhoun was loyal and true to South Carolina.”
Tbe next day The Grand Forka Dally Herald, the best newspaper In
the state, saw fit to copy the prize oration In Its entirety, printing only
a small section of the other orations and giving the place of honqf to this
one.
It Is always a pleasure to note evidences like these of the growth of
a real and genuine spirit of fairness and catholic patriotism among the
people of any section of the'country.
Perhaps no part of the republic entertains these sentiments more
loyally and more heartily than the great West. There Is something In
the amplitude of Its magnificent territory, in the sweep of Us prairies, In
the strenuous and manly endeavor of Its great people, which drives away
narrowness, and obliterates littleness and eradicates sectionalism, and
makes the spirit of the people as broad as the expanse of the horizon
about them.
The West is simply glorious In Its spirit of national patriotism. The
editor of The Georgian knows by experience how great Is the sentiment of
go6d will on the part of this great people toward the South. We have
touched It In winter and In summer, In the discussion of questions both
national and sectional, and we bear cheerful testimony here to the fact
that we do not know In this republic a bigger, braver, broader and greater
people than those who live In North Dakota and In the great West.
What better practical evidence could we have than this? Here Is
the leading Institution of learning In a great Northwestern state. Here
Is the state's most trustworthy and representative newspaper, and here
la the chief executive of that state, Joining to give the award of merit to
a young and militant youth of North Dakota who chooses as his subject
the greatest man whom the South haa produced, and treats his record and
bis character with a touch so masterful as to elicit the discriminating
and unqualified preference of these great forces ot that far Northwestern
country.
Platitudes are rendered unnecessary In the presence of practical
evidence of catholic patriotism like this. And The Georgian, speaking .or
Georgia, sends back to North Dakota the greetings of the commonwealth,
and by hereditary right, the greetings of the Palmetto State, to the noble
and national spirit of a commonwealth whose youth rises to the diligent
study of a great American character, whose militant and triumphant forces
are equally broad to commend the selection and to award the palm ot
merit tor capable discussion.
We are indebted to Mr. Thomas J. Bartley Shanley, once of Georgia,
who sends us from North Dakota this most Interesting Incident, as a con
tribution to the general truth that the spirit of sectionalism Is dead—East,
center and West, and South In this republic.
It Is upon sympathies so broad and a spirit so national as this that
the South may confidently present Its candidates to the catholic senti
ment and fraternity of a great and united country.
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
—AND—
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS
Washington, July 3.—Tho following
orders have been Issued:
Army Orders,
Colonel Enoch Crowder, general
staff, from general staff corps, August
15, to retain permanent station at Oov.
ernors Island, while on temporary duty
In Cuba; Brigadier General Charles F.
Humphrey, quartermaster general of
the army, placed on retired lift, with
rank of major general.
Colonel Charles S. Smith, ordnance
department, and Lieutenant Colonels
Rogers Blrney and Ira McNutt, ord
nance department, appointed Water-
town arsenal to conduct Investigations
pertaining to construction of ordnance
material; Second Lieutenant Carroll B.
Hodges, Twelfth Infantry, report to
Brigadier General Charles L. Ilodglns,
In Philippines, for staff duty.
Navy Orders.
Rear Admiral P. Garat, placed on
retired list: Captain C. J. Badger, de
tached navy department, July 15, to
duty at superintendent naval academy;
Commander A. W. Dodd, detached
Princeton to home; Lieutenant J. J.
Fisher, to naval ship Portsmouth; Mid.
Shipman H. E. Welle, to Vermont;
Midshipman V. N. Metcalf, to Charles
ton.
Movsments of Vessels.
ARRIVED—June 30, Manly and Tal
bot at League Island; July 3, Pena-
cock and Iowa at Norfolk, Amphttrtte
at Charleston, Thornton at Newport,
Wolverine at Sault Ste. Marie, Paul
Jones at Mare Island.
BAlLED-*-July 2, Severn from An
napolis for a cruise, Iowa from Hamp
ton Roads for Norfolk, Indiana from
Hampton Roads for League Island,
Tennessee and Washington from Roy-
an. France, for Isle d'Alx and La Ro
chelle.
Nebraska commissioned July 1. at
navy yard. Puget Sound.
THAT IRREVERENT TEXAN.
From The Houston Poet
We said when the story appeared
that we didn't believe it, and now our
confidence Is fortified by this explicit
statement from Colonel Grave* him
self.
Anything In the world which will for
tify an Impression that "Georgia's Il
lustrious grandson" Hill quit the pres
idency on March 4, ISOS, will always
be gladly received In this office. If
Colonel Graves Is considerate enough
of our peace of mind t,> guarantee that
he will urge Mr. Roosevelt no further,
then our happiness will be Increased
doubly.
Colonel Graves evidently does not
appreciate the fetchtness of bis elo
quence. It requires a strong man. In
deed. to resist hts beautiful, rhythmic
appeals, and so long as he Insists that
Mr. Roosevelt must run there will al
ways be danger of the great man at
Oyster Bay relenting and consenting.
Aa rugged as Roosevelt le, as stern,
tempestuous, rambunctious, restless,
willful, obstinate, stormy, megaloph-
onous, rlpsnorting and big stlckish,
he Is not absolutely proof against the
beguiling music of our Georgia friend’s
voice. There Is not the slightest rea
son to doubt that Colonel Graves could,
within the compass of a single oration,
talk a cold ambition Into an Inextin
guishable blase.
If the colonel will promise The Post
that he will no longer tempt Roosevelt,
no longer urge Democrats to make him
tho candidate of our party, no longer
beguile the country with poetic pic
tures of the happiness that would fol
low a third term, no longer talk about
"eras of good feeling," we shall for
give him.
It Is tor the purpose of wooing him
away from the gorgeous dreams which
Illumine his fancy that The Post has
Invited him to Texas. We atlll believe
that a visit to south Texas, a plungi
Into our beautiful bayou, and the en
velopment of a 40-pound Houston wi
termelon, will bring him back to the
earth and make him a factor In the
practical affairs of every-day life.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
It is no new thing for the MADDOX • RUCKER
BANKING COMPANY to have a Savings Depart
ment. For many years they have encouraged thrift
and economy in this community by allowing interest on
savings accounts. With more than a million dollars be
hind their deposits, their patrons are amply secured.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
ABUNDANTLY JUSTIFIED.
From Harper's Weekly.
The discussion of Mr. Bryan and his
policies In the Southern newspapers
Increases In Interest. The leading’Jour
nals of the South now declare that
there Is no reason for preferring Mr.
Bryan to Mr. Roosevelt; that they are
substantially In agreement on public
questions; that John Temple Graves
was abundantly Justified In nominating,
as the Joint ticket of the two parties,
Roosevelt and Bryan. It Is Justly
pointed out that—as this ticket, al
though logical, Is Impossible—Mr. Bry
an could not defeat Mr. Roosevelt or
any candidate whom tho president
would select and who would be In
agreement with his policies. Those who
believe as these two men believe would
prefer Mr. Roosevelt for many reasons.
As one of the Southern editors puts It,
Roosevelt has his record to point to;
he may prove hla sincerity by what he
has done, while Bryan could simply
promise that he would do as well. But
the Southern newspapers are also, as
we have already pointed out, giving af
firmative reasons for their Increasing
opposition to Mr. Bryan. The Rich
mond Tlmes-Dlspatch, quoting Sena
tor Rayner's protest against centrali
zation and paternalism, says:
These are the two questions that
touch Democracy at the vital point.
These are the fundamentals, compared
to which Mr. Bryan's government own
ership and referendum proposals are aa
sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.
The Meridian (Miss.) Star nominates
Gray and Johnson, and says that—
Colonel Bryan can carry the solid
South, not necessarily Including Mary,
land and certainly not West Virginia,
and no more. Gray and Johnson, or
Johnson and Gray If preferred, could
carry the solid South and without doubt
the states of Minnesota, Maryland and
Delaware. Upon such a ticket, whether
Johnson or Gray head It, nothing Is In
the way to hinder cordial and fighting
union between the two wings Into
which the party separated In 1896. Tho
"Bryan Democrat,” If he Is a Democrat
Indeed, can follow the Minnesota "regu
lar,” and the "Gold Democrat" can
support Gray. Meantime, both are
Democrats In their uncompromising op
position to the centrallstte policies of
Roosevelt which menace the rights of
the states under the constitution, both
are tariff reformers of approved record
and by clear conviction, and both are
free of the tainting endearments of the
"Wall street crowd.”
And Mr. Bryan, as the growing num
ber of Southern editors attest, Is not
“opposed to the centraltstlc policies ot
Mr. Roosevelt,” nor Is he such a sincere
and hearty tariff reformer os the Dem
ocratic party now seems to demand for
Its leader In 1908. The eonteat
warmly sincere and very American.
LET IT DEVELOP.
From The Moultrie Observer.
The Macon papers seem to think that
when John Temple Graves called on
President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay he
was a man with a mission. Tell us all
you know, Mr. Graves.
LOOKS GOOD TO US.
From The Douglas Enterprise.
And now John Temple Graves, of
Atlanta, comes forward and says he
■till wants Mr. Bryan to nominate for
president of the United States Theo
dore Roosevelt, of New York, and for
vice-president Hoke Smith, of Georgia.
That looks good to us, as It Is the only
way the South will ever get a man on
the presidential ticket.
THE REDOUBTABLE
TEXAN SURRENDERS.
THE WIND IN THE PINES.
From The Chicago News,
After a man has been married about
ao long he joins the peace-at-any-prlco
advocates.
How dear everything Is when you
want to buy, and how cheap when you
want to sell!
Shortly after her marriage a woman
Is apt to realize that her vanity has
been alt In vain.
Attempt to follow the advice of all
your alleged friends and It will be a
padded cell for you.
After a man has been married about
elx months he ceases to have Illusions
about women.
For each bachelor who elghs because
he le alone, fully a dosen married men
■Igh because they are not.
We have no reason to believe that the
Lord loves a cheerful giver who adver
tises hla charity broadcast.
Instead of trying to mend their ways,
tome men could save a lot of time by
bustling for a new supply.
A few weeks after marriage a man
discover* that hts wife monopolise* the
big tent and he I* but a side show.
It a man Is too laty to make hay
while the sun shine* he usually ha* to
borrow an umbrella when It rain*.
A physician say* that worry make*
people thin, but It doesn't seem to af
fect fat women who worry over their
By Lawton Riley.
Low, low, low, blows the wind through
the pines,
And 'tit still on the stretch of the
S lain and dark on the sky;
e spirits are calm, and the
gloom It Is deep In the pines;
And only the etlr of the trees, and
the sad, faint spund of a cry.
Oh what are the spirits that move with
the wind In the night,
And the phantom* that creep when
the dark gloom ha* routed the
day?
Oh what are the meanings of sighs of
the wind In Its might.
The sad wind that blow* through the
lordly old pine* and away?
Away, o’er the stretch of the plain to
the terminal sea; -
Away, through the valley* and glens
to the uttermost regions of day.
Oh, the yearnings, and sighs, and the
pain of the wind that Is free.
The sad wind thqt blows through the
stately old pines and away!
Is there evil or good In the wild wind
that blows In the night?
What songs does It sing to the quick
and the dead and the sad and the
gay?
Does It speak of the pain and the
wrong and the scorn of the
right?
Docs It tell of the good that has fled
with the end of the day?
Blow, blow, blow, ye night wind In the
pines;
Blow, blow, blow, with the spirits
that move In your might.
Do ye say that the morning will
bring us the cheer of the sun tn
the pines.
And the new day will give us the
whispers and greetings of Light?
Low, low, low, blows the wind through
the pines; .
And 'tls dark on the stretch of tbe
Plain and dark on the sky;
And tho spirits are calm, and tho
gloom It Is deep In the ptnea;
And only the stir of the trees, and
the faint, asd sound ot a cry.
From The Houston Post.
The president is protesting so vigor-
ously that hla renomlnatlon now seems
a foregone conclusion.
THEY REDUCE US TO HUMILITY.
From. The Houston Post.
Well, we guess Georgia wilt not sing
so boisterously In the upper register for
the next month or ao. Her legislature
is In cession.
HE IS PALE, PLACID, POLITE.
From The Houston Post.
Colonel John Temple Graves wants
Atlanta to decorate for tho Fourth of
July. Why decorate when the colonel's
Fourth of July editorial will be lurid
enough to Impart a carmine tint to the
whole Georgia situation?
SLAYERmrORNEYS
SKIP m CANADA
Warrants Have Been Is
sued For Their ;
Arrest.
Detroit, Mich., July 3.—An almost un
precedented situation has arisen hero
In the murder trial of Peter J. Schlaff,
who Is charged with killing his wife,
January 35 last. Sehlaff's defense Is
Insanity, and hla counsel, McHugh &
O'Nell, disappeared the first day of tho
trial, sending j 'dge Connelly a note to
the effect that they considered him
prejudiced against the Insanity defense.
Warrants havo be*n Issued for Mc
Hugh and O'Nell, but they have crossed
Into Canada. Judge Connelly Is deter
mined to proceed with the trial, but
does not like the Idea of trying a man
who Is not represented by counsel.
The case will be resumed this after
noon. Nearly every man who has been
examined for Jury duty said he would
favor the man tried without counsel.
MAY ISSUE BONDS
FOR LIGHT SYSTEM
Special to The Georgian.
Mount Airy, Ga.. July 8.—The Haber,
sham Progressive Club, of Cornelia, met
at the town hall last night and dis
cussed matters of importance toward
the Interest of building up and adver
tising Habersham county. They dis
cussed alio the matter of Issuing bonds
to have electric lights and waterworks
system In Mount Airy and adjoining
towns.
CLEVELAND OFF
ON FISHING TRIP
Utica, N. Y., July 3. —Ex-President
Cleveland Is expected to be at Redfleld
the latter part of this week, and for tho
following ten days or two weeks will
whip the streams tn that locality for
brook trout. Mr, Cleveland will be the
guest of John B. Davidson, a lawyer ot
New York, who makes his summer
home In Redfleld.
80N OF SHERIFF 8HIPP
DEAD OF HEART TROUBLE.
Special tn Tbe Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., July 3.—John E.
Shipp, 17 year* old, eon of Sheriff J.
F. Shipp, and a deputy on hi* father s
force, la dead from heart disease. In
addition to the long and expensive hear
ing growing out of the Johnson lynch
ing case, the sheriff has had a great
deal of sickness In his family.
THE LAST HOPE GONE •
(On account of the scarcity In lumber, the price of coffins Is slated for
an advance. In addition to this. It Is announced that graveyard lot rentals
and the purchase prices of cemetery lots will soon be almost double the
present prices.—News Item.)
The cost of living’s booming fast—there's no denying that— j
And no one but a millionaire these days can rent a fiat—
The cost of food Is something fierce, no matter where we try—
And now, alas! O, bitter day—It costs us more to die.
It coats us more to keep a cook—It costs us more to play— '
It's costing more to print this stuff I'm grinding out today—
It cost* u* more to drink end dress—It cost* u* more to smoke-
But now the worst of all ha* com*—It co»t* u* more to "cro*k."
It'* money—money all around for everything we do—
Oh. tell u*. kind and gentle friend*—whst are wo coming to?
The poor man once could dream of rest when In the grave he’d He—
Now only the exclusive rich have got tbe price to die.
A man esn do without hts drink or ease up on his grub—
And. like Diogenes of old, take lodging In a tub—
A man can cut hi* smoking out and bid the cook good-bye—
But how can he sidestep the grave and coffin should- he die?
Alas! Ala*! Oh. bitter day—oh, what a fate In *tor*—
For everything we try to do It’* costing more and more—
Excuse me If I seem to wipe a tear drop from my eye—
I find I can't afford, to live—nor yet afford to die.
—Qrantland Rice In The Tennessean. j