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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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THE DIM OLD FOREST.
Of sJI the beautiful pictures
That hang on memory's wall,
Zs ons of s dim old forest
Tbit sesmeth tha bast af nil.
Rot for Its {Railed oaks olden,
Dark with tha mistletoe;
Rot for ths cowslips golden.
That sprinkle tha rale below;
Rot for ths milk-white lilies.
That lain from the fragrant hedge,
Coquetting all day with the sunbeams.
And stealing their golden edge;
Hot for tbs Tines on the upland,
Where ths bright, red harries real;
Rot ths pinks, nor the pels, swat* violets
It sssmstb to me the best.
I ones bad t Uttls brother.
With eyes that wars dark and deep;
In ths lap of that oldtn forest
He Hath in psscs nslasp.
Lieht ns the down of Us thistles,
Tree as tha winds that blow,
Wr roved there the beantllnl simmers,
Ths summers cf long ago;
Bat h!a feat on the hills grew weary.
And one of the sntnmn eves
1 made for my tittle brother
A bed Of lbs yellow iosvee.
Sweetly his pile arms folded
My neck In a tweet embrace, ,
As the light of Immoral beauty
Ctlently covered his face; *
And when ths arrows of sunset
Lodged In the tree-lops bright, .
He fell, in bis sstnt-tlks beauty,
Aelrep by ths gates of light.
Therefore, of all tbs pictures
That hang cn memory's wall,
The cue of the dim aid forcct • • v-
It eecmeth the best of Ml.
-ALICE CARET. S
Andrew Carnegie announce* * gift
of f150.000 to Mart Hie numeration
of l’lttiburg, but wo fear Ibla will not
ba a drop In the bucket.
Cardinal Gibbons seems to . think
that Mr. Taft concaala a cast Iron
band In a silken gauntlet.
At any rate, tho South appear* to be
solid In ci.niplIuii'iiMiig tha HICO prob
lem featuro of the Inaugural addreta.
As Ashing time approaches an aa-
change ban commenced to advortlaa
for an efficacious exterminator of red
The man who predicted fair weather
for the inauguration laat week dc-
aerwea to be made president of the
Ananias Club.
The world move*. Emperor Nicho
las baa given *5.500 to the Russian
Young Men's Christian Association,
founded In St. Petersburg by Anion
Phelps Stokes, of New York.
There' Is a couple Hiring at liunfti.
Kaos., who hare been married TS
years; and the husband, who Is 92,
baa been an Invalid most of hts life,
suffering from dyspepsia.
If Oscar Straus la given the Japa
nese mission, Georgia will not be
alighted after all. The former secre
tary of commerce and labor was
reared at Thomas ton, where be used
to eat watermelons In the patch.
On Inauguration day Mr. Taft spoke
at Washington, while Mr. Bryan ipok*
at Pittsburg.
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
i i.c* saddest are these—It might hare
been."
The Baltimore Amerlcan.lt glad
that a law baa been found on the
-letuie books In Georgia protecting
ih.* ’possum from AprU to Octobet, In
view of the fact that this toothsome
n. iiauplai la now In thp same, data
"lih the American eagle aa • national
emblem. > ' '
Emit Haeckel, the scientist, who
has Just celebrated hla 76th birthday,
intends to resign the professorship of
roology at the Unlvenlty of Jena,
which be has held for St yean. He
will devote Ms time to the phyloge-
hntta museum, in which be Is studying
i he evolution of species and groups In
biology.
George W. Vanderbilt ts gradually
selling out hla fancy stock at Blit-
more, Ms North Carolina eatate. He
I as found that esthetic farming
<! a sn't pay. Levi P. 'Morton once
■aid. that the milk and champagnel
AftrvtG
ft* rue
I on bit table both coal him the
price per quart.
Conan Doyle’s Inspiration.
Arthur Conan Doyle, (he great English novelist, who has Immor
talized tha clever detective Instinct of Sherlock Holmes, bas been frank
enough to admit that his literary Inspiration was derived In largo measure
from the weird tales of the 8outh's somber child of genius. Edgar Allan
Poe. . 1 •
At tbe meeting which was held In London on the centennial of the
poet’s birth, 81r Conan was one of the speakers, and he eulogized the
acblereim nis of the Ill-starred American author In the most enthusiastic
terms
In view of the present world-wide appreciation which the hapless
author Is beginning to reap after facing starvation for year* on a salary
of *10 a week. Sir Conan says that It seems like the sheerest Irony of
fate that Poe should have died In comparative destitution.
And the great Englishman adds that If every man who has written
a atory which was Indirectly Inspired by Iho genius of Poo should con
tribute but a tithe to the memorial fund, It would he the means of lifting
to the poet's memory a monument which would dwarf the pyramids.
Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley la this magnificent euioglum upon j
Edgar Allan Poe.
But he speaks for two hemispheres.
Tbua In the alow progress of the year* the fame of the Immortal
author of "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" has at Idst reached the em
pyreal heights; but what a pity It Is that some of this belated apprecia
tion eonld not bare arrived In time to elude tbe pinch of hunger. £
Erase The Illiterate Stigma.
Much he* been said of late to the discredit of Oeorglk by reason of
the number of Illiterates who are still to be found In this state, notwith
standing the Imperative bugle call of the present age for educational
equipment.
And, to be perfectly frank, the statistics are possltively appalling.
in tome respects, Georgia Is one of the foremost states of the Union.
She Is rich In material resourdes. Her acres are fertile. Her mines are
opulent. Her water powers are ample; and. touched by the magic wand
of Industrial enterprise, the Is fairly bristling with manufacturing estab-
llshmenta. Some of her products are world famous. Georgia marble has
been used to construct scores of magolfloent buildings throughout tbe
North and East, Including many stata capitols. Georgia cotton helpa to
clothe the whole human race. The Georgia Elberta Is tbe queen-regent
of peaches. Tbe Georgia Rattlesnake has long held premier honors among
watermelons. And Iho Georgia climate Is a solar magnet which Is yearly
attracting to this -state myriads of Immigrants.
1 No commonwealth is more lavishly endowed.
Bnt Georgia will utterly fall to realize her splendid possibilities and
she will continue from year to year to discount her unsurpassed oppor
tunities nntll the stain of Illiteracy Is wiped from her escutcheon.
We are aahamed to confess how far down on tho list Georgia ranks.
The Idea has been current throughout the country for some time that
the explanation of this revolting status of affairs Is to be found In the
mistaken and narrow-minded economic policy of the state legislature.
Rut this shot la wide of the mark. Professor Jospph S. Stewart, of
thd State Unlvenlty, reminds us that during tho past live year* $8,825,000
has been raised by state tax and $2,500,000 by local tax for the mainte
nance of tho common schools. Moreover, the schools have been opened
from live to nine months each year and school- facilities have been
placed within a radius of three mltea of every child of school age In
Georgia. ,
According to this disclosure, It la evident that the wldeapread Igno
rance of the very rudiments of an English education which exists today
In this state la not due to (he fact that the treasury la locked.
Eleven millions of dollars In five years Is generous enough, It seems;
but, In spite of this nmple provision from the state treasury, there aro
84,380 Illiterate children today In Georgia.
What Is tho explanation?.
Briefly stated, It Is this: Georgia has up to this lime either failed or
refused to adopt such compulsory measures as will compel parents In
this atate to send children to school.
Of course, straitened 'domestic circumstances often make It neces
sary for parent* to pnt children to work on the farme and In the facto
ries.' But even-when Justified by the sternest edicts of poverty It le an
Imposition upon the child, for In this age of the world an educational out
fit for the young la of tb6 utmost Importance. It can not ba aeglactad
without tbe meet harmful consequences.
And when children are denied this sacred right and privilege fay par
ents who are simply too Indolent and too trifling to work, they are the vic
tim's of criminal Injustice, and provision should bo made for correcting
this evil by the'moet rigid penal enactments.
No fault can be found with the appropriations which Georgia hat
made to the common schools of the state. They have been lavish; and
In the schools which have been provided there nre scats for thousands
who have simply failed to attend.
Professor Stewart makes the astonishing statement thjt there aro
hundreds of Ignorant white boys lp Georgia who. are actually plowing
furrows around the achoot home. But they never cross tho doorstop—
they never aeo the Inside of n text book—they imbibe oo Inspiration from
tho fountain-spring of learning, within light of which they suffer tho
keenest pangs of thirst.
Is It not time for the state to adopt some discriminating measure of
compulsion, when, despite tho commonwealth's bounty in the matter of
education, the total of Illiteracy has decreased only 1.8 per cent?
Why take from tbe pockets of the people tha enormous sum Of money
which la needed for the education of the massea unless some measure Is
adopted for making the appropriation effective? «
This question Is not argued for the purpose of curtailing the appro
priation, but for the purpose of arousing the conscience of the state to
the necessity of compelling parents to give to children the fundamental
birthright opportunities of an education which are vouchaafcd to them by
the statutes'of the commonwealth. \
Georgia Is doing'nn Injury not only to her taxpayers, but to her youth
ful offspring In not providing some moans for making her expenditures
for tbe common schools effective. ,
Tho only civilized countries on the globe which can furnish her a
precedent In this reaped are Russia and Turkey. She can not afford to
trail In the wake of these benighted lands. She can not afford to point
for her Justification to the two great autocrats of Europe whose thrones
are built upon popular Ignorance—the czar and the sultan.
In the vary nature of things, the succees of republican government
depends upon tha Intelligence of the masses, and until Georgia erases this
Illiterate stigma kbe wilt not only merit the reproach of her sister states,
but she will forfeit both the prestige and tbe leadership which her Inher
ent wealth entitles her to retain. ■
The Invaders
By WEX JONES.
I SAW a legislator n-runnln* like a deer.
"Look out!” he wildly shouted, "the suffragettes are here.”
-But you are paid.” I answered, "to represent the atate.”
"I'm paid.’,' exclaimed the sprinter; "but jusl to legislate,
I'll face a delegrallon from ths country or the town:
I'll make a speech of twenty hours to turn a motion down;
I've never tried to flee before from dangers, trials, frsts;
But 1 haven't got the courage to fact the suffragettes”
The streets of Albany were bare; the crowds had vanished clean;
So populous an hour before, they were a saddening scene.
Hats had been dropped upon tht way by senators In flight.
And left to Us upon the mud, so great their owners' frtsh:.
One aged man alone I saw I shouted at him hard.
Ho grinned and only showed me "DEAF"' upon a large whits card.
No wonder that he smiled at eaae. despite the horrid threats
That had sent alt others fleeing before the suffragettes.
•Tls so ths tide of try el uproariously eels
from Albany before the march of tht battling suffragette
Improving ths World.
Lots of us busy improving the world,
making It run our way;
Lota of us think If It listened to us all
would be running O. K.
Lota of ua worry because It's not Just
the way wo believe we'd have
made It—
But It Isn't the world that la wrong—
oh. no, it's the men of the world
that degrade It;
Lota of ua busy Improving tbe earth,
but Its evil and wrong and aln
Are not In the beautiful world with
out—tho evil la that Within.
—Folger McKInsey In The Baltimore
Bun.
A, Fatal Breath.
Brookton (with atatletlcal bent)—Do
yotl know, old man. I've Just been
reading up a lot of atatlstlca on pres
ent-pay mortality, anil I have learned
some remarkable things Why. every
time I breathe a man dlea!
Brockton (comprebendlngly)—By the
great autofumes: Then why In the
name of the rensua don't you chew
cloves?—Philadelphia Ledger.
The Wsather Prophet.
Who always gets It In the neck when
ever It la snowing.
Who ha* hla troubles by the pepk when
summer winds are blowing.
Who gets tha blame for flush and Ice
and drought and wind, and so
forth.
Who's ridiculed In weather nice by all
the folks that go forth.
Who, none the leas, a record makes
that'* splendid, altogether.
And proves he I* no kin to fakes? He
who forecasts the weather.
—Kansna City Time*.
Giriilh.
By the time a girl get* old enough
to believe that men don't mean the
nice thing* they aay. she 1* so old they
don’t aay them any more.—Chicago
New*.
An Excellent Breed.
The Earl of Warwick at a banquet In
Washington was quizzed about the-
hunting-yarns he had swapped with the
president while dining at the white
house.
"Oh, yes," Lord Warwick said play
fully. “thsy were tall yarns—tall on my
aide, I mean. I outdid the wandering
hen.
“A hen, you know, set out to aee the
World, and met a crow In a distant
wood.
•• 'But,' skid the crow, 'are you not
afraid, without wings, of losing your
way In all Mil* tangle?'
‘"Afraid? Not I.' scoffed the hen.
'Every little while 1 lay an egg to guide
myself back by.'"—Washington 8tar.
Around Georgia
Around 1tie Clock
“The Decorations'’
Billed Tot Week.
Bill Sharp** believes In tbe old-time
kind of ••stretcheM” that ’ father used
to take,” and he was in the midst of u
thorough and perfectly comfortable one
last .Monday.
'’Like a rood meal." says BUJ t " a
stretch, to bo properly enjoyed, must
not be hurried thru." Inasmuch us the
wprk of decorating and remodeling the
Bijou had begun that morning, and
there was to be nothing doing In th-
show line for two weeks, there was nt
need for hurry on this occajlon.
fn haunters a man: up Jim steps t**
the box office, and addresses himself to
Bll)!'
"Say, what’s on this week?’*
"The Decorators," the treasurer re
plied. "Thirty of ’em. Count ’em."
‘‘Bounds like a burlesque. Thought
they had cut It out," essayed the man.
"Isn’t burlesque," came the Informa
tion. 'Tt’s opera. Listen to the sing
ing of the saw. Ain’t It grand?"
J. D. a.
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
VESSELS.
Wathlnglon, March 9.—The following
.-r.l-i l::iv„ been issued:
Army Order*.
Lieutenant Colonel William Stephen-
son and Mnjof William B. Banaater,
medical corps, from Philippines di
vision to San Francisco; Flr*t Lieuten
ant James Goethe, Thirteenth cavalry'*
from Philadelphia to San Francisco;
Captain James K. Parsons. Twentieth
Infantry, to PreMdlo of Monterey. Cal.,
relieving Captain William H. H, Chap
man, Twentieth Infantry.
Captain William L. Little, medical
corpe, from Fort Sam Houston to Foft
Adams; Captain Roger Brooke. Jr.,
medical corps, from general, hospital,
Fort Bayard, to Manila, Philippine Is
land*.
First Lieutenant Wade H. Carpenter,
now unasaigned, to Ninety-ninth com
pany coast artillery.
First Lieutenant I-outs L. Pendleton,
placed on unasaigned list. He will re
port to commanding officer of the ar
tillery district of Mobile.
First Lleutehant Edward Ij. Rain*.
Twentieth Infantry, dropped from rolls
for desertion; First Lieutenant Edwin
W. Patterson, medical reserve corps,
from Fort Bam Houston to Manila.
Captain Joseph Matson, coast artil
lery. from general hospital, Washington
barrack*, to h'a station.
Navy Order*.
Lieutenant Commander J. H. Reed,
when discharged from treatment at
naval medical school, Washington, alck
leave of three month* granted; Lieu
tenant Commander F. N. Freeman, to
bureau of navigation, Washington, D.
C; Ensign C. A. Lohr, resignation ac
cepted.
Mov*mints of Veitels.
The cruiser* Prairie and Dixie have
In ths Spring. »
The winter shall end and the heaven*
shall smile with the beauty of spring.
The bullfrog *hall woo In the glpamlng
and the robin shall merrily *lng. The
h?r,«^Triia*ni»Jdi kS SfiV'lh* ta'rk I *t Hampton Road*; the gun-
.mJfi nwnk» m ,C th« yt mnrnlnl!'nnri ihne " oftt Hist nt Manzanillo; the crul»er»
*hall awake lh_ the morolng and sing Tennessee and Washington, nt Punta
Arenas. Co»ta Rica; tho tnnkshlp Are-
thusa, at San Francisco; tho battleship
Rhode Island and the cruiser Chester,
at New Y'ork: the training ship Hart
ford, at Norfolk; the cruisers Salem
and Birmingham, nt Portsmouth. N.
from the tip of a roll, the wind shall
disport with the washing and the mod
eller maids ahall go walking with shot
In the hems of their skirts.—Meigs Re
view. -—-
Brolci^lltlr Blumbtr.
Many beautlflir things and many ugly
things pass thru this town and the
average Homerlte sleeps on. but when
Dutchman and a Baalam passed thru
last Monday Ihty all sat up and look
notice.—Banks County Journal.
Rapid-Fire Motion,
dust Mason called out over half the
Cltlsene of Homer lost Sunday to help
him "break" a little Indian pony weigh
ing about as much as a sack of guano.
The pony kicked ao fast they had to
wrap him In wet blankets to keep him
from catching on Are.—Banks County
Journal. ;. ■ ,
Auto Rural Delivery.
Mr. Foy Haynes has bought an auto
..toblle and now the patron* of R. F. D
No. 4 have their mall dellv*r*d to then
almost as quickly as the people In the
city. Tho farmers are entitled to this
quick delivery and we trust It will not
be long before all the R. F. D. boy* will
get machines to deliver their mall. It
would look good to see Mr. Alex and
Uncle Jo* spinning along Early county's
good roads at a 2:40 gait carrying the
mall to our rural friends.—Blakely Re.
porter.
8tuok on Jack.
Jack Blnns la certainly a tar with
an sdmlrtr In every port.—Brunswick
New*.
Not a Tight Wad,
Brother Wade say* hla ovsrshos*
have not been returned, but If the "poor
devil" will notify him when he will be
back h* will let him have hla rubber
coat and umbrella to go with them.—
Mayevlll* New*.
our Dyes
Did you ever atop to
think how precioug they are
to yout Did it ever occur
to you that if you have an
eye trouble and put off
having it corrected, the
longer it goes the worse it
get*, and all the while it is
lowering your visual accu-
ityt
If you have difficulty in
reading, pains in your eyes,
or, headaches, come in and
let us examine your eyes.
A. K. Hawkes Co
OPTICIANS
14 Whitehall—125 Peachtree.
ana ittrmingnnm, at t-oriamoum. *v.
H.; the cruiser* Des Moines and North
Growth and Progress of the New South
Th» Georxlin here record* each dsy
eotue economic fact la reference t#
the onward progre** of the South.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
New York Commercial: Texa* I* » gre«t •l»te—and by thli li no: me.nt gre.t-
uc„ in enrol of territory only. .Itho in th»t one p.rtlrnl.r tho Lone Stor -on giro
oil the oilier forty-fro ototoo "rordo ond opidoo"' and win In tho meoiuroment. bho
to tho blgcoot ta tho whoto oliterhood—in or-o 205,7*0 oquoro mites, fevoo ts larger
lhan tho kingdom of Italy. IhVkinrdom ol Spain or tha republic of Franca; aha hi*
more territory than tho Germxn empire haa; two Japans could be set down within
her borders without uncomfortably crowding either one of ihem : and (Ire Imglandi
could ba opreod ont there irith aoaae room left for'» Sutherland or taro or acore or
more of Jlon.ro*. Tha popnl*>l° a of Tone la around S.OOO.OCO. while the population
of tho countries or'prinripolltlea Just riled ran«ea from 5,000 to 00,000,000and more.
There la ample room in Teiaa tor 8.000,000 farme ol 20 arrea aaeh, without daitroy.
Ing on acre of her superb fnresta—and tha forma already under cultivation and
yielding pro5t ran ba counted In myrUdo. The Lone Star is also dtftinguishrd by
tlie fact that aha haa the lirgeit pnbllc aehool fund of any etatn in tha Union tnd
tha loweal t*< rata among those which lory direct atote taxes. Thera are 24* coun
ties in tho atate, aha aenda atxteen represantatlraa to congre,*. haa been great In great
men ill along down the lino from Sam Houston to the Hon. Joseph Weldon Itailey and
la said by not a few obaarrant and diorrlminating Amerietoa to possess more politic!
to tho aquaro yard than any three other otatro combined.
Getting down to loe«llt!oe It may truthfully bo asld that Galveston la teaching
tho world a valuable leeaon—• laaaon In one of tha beat forma of municipal gorern
ment. At the World'a Fair or Louiaiane Purchaae Expoaltinn at St. Louie Smith
county in Taiav seal awarded tha (old medal for tha grraieit variety and tha flneat
quality of peaehaa—and arar alnea then the fruit und "truck” indnatry of aaat
Taaaa haa been menacing tho prestige of California. Tha rotton crop of tho atoto
rnnjes around and generally above 4,000,000 bate* annually, it generally eonatitotei
about one-third of tho rntlra rrop of tko United Statea, and Is not Idfrequent.'y
three or more times ni great aa'tha cotton crop of any of th* other four statea in
tha million-bales clnaa. .
And yet. despite all thaae things, a aurprlalngly few people comparatively In other
elates or in tho world-nt-large know vary much about Taaaa aacapt In tha abatract.
understand tha condltfona there or appreciate tha vast opportunity of tho great Lone
Star Stale. . '
If yoa can’t roll In and nut of that commonwealth like a railroad "magnate,”
keep your ayo on Teaoo at loaat!
Carolina, at Guantanamo; the crubers
Colorado and South Dakota, at Corillo;
the destroyer Whipple, at San Pedro,
and the torpedo boats Perry, Stewart
and Hull at San Diego.
The gunboat Eagle ha* salted from
Port-au-Prince for aurveylng grounds;
the tug Ajax has sailed from Hampton
Road* for Newport New*; the oolller
Nero, from Lambert Point for Guan
tanamo; the battleship Illinois, from
Hampton Road* for Boston: the battle
ship Kcarsarge. from Hampton Roads
for Philadelphia; the battleship Wis
consin. from Hampton Road* for Ports
mouth: the supply ship Glacier, from
Panama for Amapala; th* cruiser Ta
coma, from New Orleans for Guan
tanamo; the battleship Vermont, from
Hampton Roads for Boston; the battl*-
ship Georgia, from Hampton Road, for
Philadelphia, and the gunboat Albanv.
the tug Fortune and the torpedo boat
Truxton. from Mare Island for San
Diego.
Did He Mean It?
A prominent Grlfflnlte came down to
his place of business one morning feel
ing bad after a sleepless night with a
sick wife. A friend asked him:
"How la your'health?"
"Horrible, abominable," he replied.
"And how la your wife?"
"The same,” he replied, abgenC-m!nd-
edly.—Middle Georgia Farmer.
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The finest, most tasteful mid
wholesome biscuit, cake and pas*
try are made with Royal Bak*
ing Powder, and not otherwise.'
Royal *» the only Baking Powder*>
' made from
Royal Grape. Cream of Tartar
DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?
DID] MARCH? WELL 1 SHOULD
SAY NqTJIRode IN A CARRIAGE
.HE
I TkrlHMJCu ration