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THE ATLANTA riEORHIAX AXI) NEWS; Tl'ESDAY. APRIL 20. 1000.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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THE 80N0 OP THE 8HIBT.
With fingers weary And worn.
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in nnwomany raff.
Plying her needle and thread—
Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! ,
In poverty, hunger and dirt,
And still, with s voice of dolorona pitch.
She ufif the Song of the Shirt!
Wort! Ww*T World
r Till the brain begins to swim!
Work! Work! World
; TUI the epee are heavy and dim!
'Seem and fusaet and band,
Band and gusset and seam,
Till over the buttons I fall asleep
And isw them on In a dreamt
Oh. men with sisters dear!
Oh. men. with mothers and wlvssf
It Is not linen you're wearing out.
Bat human creatures' Uvea!
Btttch! Stitch! Stitch!
In poverty, hunger and dirt,
Sawing at once, with a double thread,
A shroud as weU aa a shirt.
But why do I talk of Death?
That phantom of grisly bone,
I hardly fear his terrible shape,
It seems so like my own—
It seems so like my own.
Because of the fssts I keep;
Oh. God. that bread abonld be to dear,
And fleeh and blood so cheap 1
Work! Work! Wprkf
My labor never daga;
Ar* whst are Its wages? A bed of straw,
A crust of bread—and rsgs.
TM* shattered roof—and thla naked floor,
A table -a broken chair—
Ar* a wall so blank, my shadow, I thank
Tot somotlmes falling there.
w*rk! Work! Work!
Prom weary chime to chime,
Work! Work! Work!
As prisoners work for erlme!
Band and gusset and aeam,
Seam and gnsset and band,
Till the heart la alck and the brain bennmbed
As well as the weary hand.
Work! i Work! Work!
In tbs dnU Decamber light,
Work! Work! Work!
Whoa the weather 1a warm and bright—
WhUs, underneath the eaves,
The brooding owallows ding,
JLa If to show mo tholr sunny backs
And twit mo with the spring.
HWu bat to breathe the breath
jO! the eowsllft and primrose sweet—
Witt the sky abort my head.
And the gTMt beneath my feet;
Wor only one abort hour
To feel aa Z used to feel,
jWeforo i know the woes of want
( And the walk that costa a meal!
)f>h. but for one short honr!
• A respite however brlsfl
Bfo blessed leisure for Love or Ropa,
But only time for Grief! •
0. little weeping would ease my heart,
i But In their briny bed
ter t mm mutt .top, for .riry drop
Xladtrl DMdJ, u< thread!
With rnij.Ti wiry and worn,
With ayollda hoary and rad,
A woman ant. In unwomanly rap,
PI Tin, her noodle and thraad—
■Utehl Batch! Batch!
In poverty, hunger and dirt,
.And Mill with a voice of dolorona pitch—
Wonld that Ita tone conld retch tho Blch-
Bho ting thla Sons of the Bhlrtl
—THOMAS HOOD.
Easter has come and (tone, but the
glorious bonnet still lingers.
Tho new wheat king will do well to
remember the (ate ot Joe Laitar.
On the senatorial question Mr.
Bryab la said to be (till retaining his
customary altitude of willingness.
Why doeshT '‘the man from Indiana'
MiKKcst a tax on historical novels
while the tariff bill Is under discus
sion?
If France la really willing for Castro
to take up hla residence on her soil,
there can be very little ground for tbe
rumor that he Is short of funds.
The “Clean-Up.”
The announcement mad© thru the news columns of The Georgian
yesterday that the police board will cause the immediate removal of the
undesirable tenants under the Waeblngton-st. viaduct Is gratifying. Inas
much as It is an answer to tbe demand of two grand juries.
The location of these people, between tbe two high schools. In plain
sight of the boys and girls as they go to and fro, JuBt two blocks from
tbe state c&pltol, just four blocks from the heart ot our city, was a dis
grace to Atlanta.
But now we seem to have a police commission which Is really going
to "clean' up" and The Georgian wants to add Its word of encouragement
to the new .board's efforts.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, Is stllll
< omplalnlng because be Is required by
virtue of tbe deadlock In the state
legislature to do the work of two men.
Instead of aaktng the department of
justice to give him a definition ot
whisky, an exchange thinks that Mr.
Taft ought to have put this question
to the department of the Interior.
Tho atmosphere of purple and fine
linen . marked . tho wedding of Miss
Harriet Stewart Brown, daughter of
Mr. and Mm. Alexander Brown, to T.
SufTem Taller, of New York, In Balti
more last week. From her parents the
bride received a check for tl.000,000,
while the bridegroom's gift was a
house on Flfty-#rst-st. In New York
and several diamond ornamenta. Other
presents were In proportion.
Street Improvements in Southern Cities.
From every part of the South comes the gratifying news of an un
precedented Interest In the matter of street paving. It has almost reached
the proiiortlons of a ground swell. Contracts for work aggregating mil
lions of dollars are to be let within the next few weeks In addition’ to
heavy contracts which have already bedn awarded. The revival it wide
spread. But too much enthusiasm on this vital topic of street Improve
ment can not be aroused. It Is absolutely essential to anything like real
growth In our towns and ciffes to have good streets; for what the veins
and arteries are to the hjiman body good streets are to the body polltlc-^
they are tbe channels thru which the life blood circulates.
Let us sweep tbe. horizon for a moment and see what some ot the
communities around ue are dolfig.
Greenwood, S. C., has contracted for street improvements to cost
150,000. ’
Savannah, Ga., has let contracts to the qptount of 1150,000.
Knoxville, Tenn., will this month award contracts for street paving
to cost $225,000.
Memphis, Tenn., In the near future, kill begin to make street im
provements, the cost of which, according to the budget, will be $453,482.
Gainesville, Ga., will let contracts on May 4 for modern pavements to
cost $50,000. ,
On Msy 12, Mobile, Alt., will let contracts for the best wood block
paving, to cost something In excess of $250,000.
Griffin, Ga., within the next few days will jssue bonds to tbe amount
of $75,000 for contemplated street Improvements.
Macon, Ga., on Juno 19, will vote on tbe question of authorizing an
Issue of bonds to the amount of $250,000 for the purpose ot repaving some
of the streets which are In need of repairs.
And so the list runs.
But the question recurs: What Is Atlanta doing to keep apace with
other towns and cities In this wide-awake .ernsade for better streets?
Boyond the recommended appropriation of $10,000 each for repairing
two of her most Important highways whose neglected condition (or years
has been a reproach and a shamo, she Is satisfied to sit with folded hands.
This Is her response to the bugle summons which Is fairly stirring the
blood of this entire section. Yet no city on the North American continent
has greater need of substantial highways to meet the growing demands of
trade and commerce than has Atlanta. .
But even the movement to repave.Decatur and Marletta-sts., for which
wo have beggod this pittance. Is at a standstill.
So many delays have occurred and so many hare been the spats be
tween city officials that If the required amount Is appropriated at the very
next meeting of council on Monday. It will be throe or four months before
the usual formalities can be observed and the work commenced.
The paving ordinance must first be advertised. This means a wait of
several weeks. Then the specifications will have to bo prepared. This
will consume additional time. Then It will be In order to advertise for
bids; and after bids have been submitted It will take,two or three meetings
of council to award the contract—If the customary rulo obtains In this
case.
Unless we are wise enough to resist tho temptation to delay, the sum
mer will be overtmd the fall actually upon us before the work Is well
under way. This street paving ought to be done before the heavy volume
of country trade begins. Two of our principal thoroughfares are Involved.
The wagon trado which Is tributary to these great commercial artqrles 1b
Immense; and If wo can possibly avoid such an embarrassment we do not
wish to hare the streots Corn up at n season of the year when ;they are
most In demand.
We have stated tbe /acts candidly and frankly In the hope that mem
bers of council will bestir themselves. Let us waive every formality pos
sible. Let us avoid any bitch or delay which Is not absolutely essential.
And, by all means, let us get the work finished before the fall trade begins.
General Booth's Eightieth Birthday.
Apropos of tho recent eightieth birthday celebration of 4tio veteran
founder and head of the great Salvation Army movement. General William
Booth, It Is Interesting to contemplate tho marvelous growth of this world
wide organization.
Tho Initial steps In what was destined to bccomo the crowning
achievement of modern evangelism were taken forty-four years ago. •
Less than half a century has elapsed; but today there Is hardly an
outpost of tho globe which has not been seized by tile marching legions
of this great army of crusaders.
Forty-four countries have furnished tho battlegrounds on which the
followers ot this Christian knight have fought; and one by one the ban
ners of the great movement have thickened until embraced today within
the bounds of this new order of chivalry there are 8,858 separate posts,
21,197 commissioned officers and 77,285 local officers and band men.
Besides, the Salvation Army publishes seventy-one different periodi
cals, printed In twenty-six different languages and read by more than fifty
millions of people. It supports 880 social Institutions and 520 schools;
and, last year. In nddltlon to supplying 600,000 meals, It furnished beds
to 3,250,000 occupants. f
.Especially for the work which bos been accomplished In the sub
merged districts of the great cities of the world like New York and Lon
don Is the Salvation Army to be commended.
It waa once tbe fashion to caricature the dress and to belittle the
work of tho 8&lvatlon Army; but today no right-thinking man sneers at
- the labors of this zealous band of apostles.
Nor Is It any perversion of the truth to say that tho evangelistic cru
sade which has been waged by this man William Booth represents the
greatest missionary movement which the worjd has witnessed for the
reclamation of the masses since Paul embarked upon tbe Mediterranean.
It It fairly Inspiring to contemplate this valiant old fighter. Despite
the Infirmities of four score years he Is still planning for future cam
paigns. Ills hair has whitened, but his seal has known no touch of frost.
Death Is sure to find him In his uniform.
The'secret of this man's wonderful success has been his enthusiasm
for the rescue of souls and hit abiding faith In the unseen realities. It
Is what the world needs today. It nerved the martyri In the Roman
arena. It encouraged the prophet to rebuke Ahab, and'it made Paul fear-
lesa In hla ebatna when Felix trembled on hla throne.
The frieuda of Colonel Alexander K.
McClure, the veteran editor of Phila
delphia, will regret to learn that since
his return home Ifter his recent ex
tended tour of the South, he has suf
fered a breakdown, the result of which
may prove very serious If not indeed
fatal. For years past Colonel McClure
has been one of the most zealous cham
pions of this section. He has made us
ftequent visits and bos always brought
us messages of congratulation and en
couragement. On*h!i recent tour he
attended quite a number of soda) func
tions and made several addresses; and
for one who has reached the ripe old
age of eighty-two this has been quite
a tax. It is to be hoped that he will
soon rally from this backset and be
spared to tbe country for many years
to come.
Tbe late Marlon Crawford's novels
never figured among the "best sellers,”
but it Is Interesting to know, says an
exchange, that several of them had’
each a sale of over 100,000 copies.
There was a steady demand for hit publican machine In the same state.
books among fiction readers who had
come to know that they were always
entertaining. He usually wrote two
novels a year, ■ which waa also the
achievement of Anthony Trollope, but
the methods of the two writer* dif
fered. Trollope wrote a fixed number
ot words every day, not knowing when
he sat down where hit impulse might
lead him. Crawford spent days In the
mental composition of his story, and
finally, with tbe complete tale In
mind, wrote with great rapidity, rare
ly correcting or revising. Trollope's
groat receipts for his novels were
$350,000. Crawford's are estimated as
slightly In excess of this figure, thus
showing that the literary profession,
Industriously followed, may be as lu
crative as any other.
"Maryland will never get an honest
election law till It smashes the Demo
cratic machine, says The Baltimore
American, and the humor or this re
mark lies In the fact that It conies
from Ihe newspaper organ of the Re-
Grammar School Ethnology
“4M
Race.
T HE Af-rl-can race, as sharp little boys and
girls will guess. Is so called be
cause It races mostly In Africa, hence
known as the Dark Con-tl-nent. In the heart of
Af-rt-ca the natives, when they want.to.pull.off a
minstrel show, whitewash their faces.
Some of the Af-rl-can tribes grow very large,
owing to the fact that they live mainly on ostrich
chickens. The Af-rl-cans nre very fond of the
white races, a feeling which Is so warmly re-clp-
ro-ca-ted that the white men spend large sums
on am-mu-nl-tlon for Ihe natives.
Af-ri-ca abounds In big game, but tho natives
are not good hunters. An Af-rl-can will kill nn
el-e-phant with a spear and a stone hatchet,
but thla is not considered sport. The great white
sportsmen carry a ^50 express rifle, with bearers
handy with a couple more. This Is re-gar-ded as
more sportlmr and also much safer than going
after the game with a spear.
Many Af-rl-cans are employed by white, men In the dl-a-mond mines
on a part-ner-shlp basis. The black partner gets the ex-er-clae. the white
partner the dl'-a-monds. Also many Af-rl-cans enjoy themselves gattj-er-
Ing rubber In the Congo. If they gather enough
rubber they are re-war-ded by nbt having their
hands chopped off.
From all thla we learn why the Af-rl-can race
Is so gay, despite Its gloomy com-plex-lon.
VI—The Moorish Rice.
The Moore were once a great and pow-er-ful
race, looting Europe upon a large scale and
thereby gaining much glory, but now their loot
ing le on a small scale and Is called brig-and-
age. Which teaches us that eecond-story work Is
all right If done in a wholesome way.
Lately Europe was much-Int-er-Sst-ed In the
Moors, but soon found they had no money.
Moors make very good targets and are much used for this purpose
by French warships. They mostly die when hit by a shell, which spoils
their use-ful-ness to' a great extent.
The sultan of Mo-roc-co Is an e-lec-tlve of-
fl-clal. every gatllng gun counting ten votes, be
sides being used to ex-tln-gulsh op-po-sl-tlon
ma-Jor-l-tles.
Tho ancient songs of the people are preserved
In Moore’s Mel-o-dics.
VII—The Marathon Race. *
The Mar-a-thon race dlf-fers from others In
being longer and harder to guess the result of.
It IS found alt over the world wherever there Is
money enough. It Is akin to the Anglo-Saxon
race, Us most dls-tln-gulshed members being
Dorando, St. Yves and Longboat.
Longboat is also a member of the Indian race,
which Is growing shorter than the Mar-a-thon.
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
Washington, April 20.—The follow
ing orders have been issued:
Army Order*.
Captain Edward E. Cole, from Sixth
to Eighteenth Infantry; Captain George
C. Martin, from Eighteen to Sixth In
fantry; First Lieutenant Owen C.
Fisk, medical reserve corps, to Fort,
Leavenworth; First Lieutenant Charles
C. Demmer, medical reserve corps, to
Fort Ontario.
Captain Benjamin H. Kerfoot, coast
artillery, from One Hundred and
Twenty-tlilrd Company to Eighty-
sixth company; Second Lieutenant Ol
iver A. Dickinson, Fifth infantry, as
signed to slgnnl corps, and duty at
Washington; Lieutenant George B.
Foster, Jr., medical reserve corps, to
Fort Totten; Lieutenant James C.
Haley, medical reserve corps, to Fort
Porter; First Lieutenant James S. Fox,
medical reserve corps, to Fort Sam
Houston.
Brigadier General John B. Kerr la
retired on hi* own application after
more than 42 years’ service; Captain
Wesley \V. K. Hamilton, coast artil
lery, from Ninety-sixth company, to
Fort Worden; Captain H. H. Hllber.
coast artillery, from Twenty-eighth
company to artillery dletrict of Hon
olulu.
The folowlng promotions and as
signments In the coaat artillery are
announced:
Clarence Deems, from lieutenant
colonel to colonel; Charles H. Hun
ter and Stephen M. Foot, from major
to lieutenant colonel; George Blakeley
and Frank W. Coe, from captain to
major; Francla W, Clark, George A.
Wlecsork and Edward Canfield, Jr.,
from flrst lieutenant to captain; Ed
ward N. Woodbury, Ray L. Avery and
Edward A. Stockton, Jr., from second
lieutenant to first lieutenant.
Lieutenant Woodbury la attached to
the Fortieth company; Lieutenant
Avery, to the One Hundred and Fifty-
fourth, and Lieutenant Stockton, to
the Forty-fifth. The other officer* re
main at their present atatlona, except
Major Blakeley, who will aaaume com
mand of Fort Preble.
Navy Orders.
Commander C. W. Brown, from the
North Carolina to command the Buf
falo; Commander E. M. Boswlch, from
command of the Buffalo to home; Lieu
tenant Commanders V, Blue and F. A.
Traut and Lieutenant D. C. Hanrahan,
to Ihe North Carolina; Ensign A.
Claude, from the Kentucky to home.
Movement of Vessels.
The battleships West Virginia s
Pennsylvania have arrived at San
Francisco; the gunboat Eagle and col
lier Brutus, nt Guantanamo; the cruiser
Salem, at New York navy yard; the
gunboat Navajo and the torpedo boat
Whipple and the torpedo boat Hull, at
San Diego, and the gunboat Marietta,
at Port Llmon.
The cruisers Tennessee and Cali
fornia have sailed from Magdalena
Bay for San Francisco: the torpedo
boats Stewart, Perry, Truxtun, Far-
ragut and Rowan, from Magdaleha
Bay for San Diego; the battleship
Maine, from Culebra for Guantanamo;
the tug Nina and the submarine Plun
ger. from Norfolk for Newport; tho
yacht Mayflower, from Washington for
Charleston, and the gunboat Paducah,
from LaGuayra for San Juan.
Spring Beauty,
Beauty Is bound to happen
In her own mysterious way;
And right next door to the blizzard
Is the dreamy phantom of May.
Snow and the windy weather,
Flurry and the scurry and storm.
But deep In the lap of the valley
The violet snuggling warm.
1 —Baltimore Sun.
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian here records each day
some economic fact in reference to
tbe onward progress of the South.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
Latest mil! news from The American Textile Manufacturer:
Tbe new floor which Is being put down Is tho Kufaula, Ala., mills Is near
completion, after which ten new cards and 500 new Draper looms will be Installed.
The Burlington, K. C., Dye Company has Increased Its capital stock, enlarged
Its building and added a large boiler to Its now plant.
The Spalding mills, of Griffin, Ga., publish an application this week for nn
amendment to their charter allowing: on Increase in tbe capital stock from $29-
000 to anywhere up to 1800,000.
The building for the power plant for Harriet Mills No. 2, Henderson. K. C., Is
near completion; will soon begin to Install machinery. When completed this will
be on© of the best equipped plants In the South.
The Hope Mills Manufacturing Company, Hope Mills, N. C., we learn. Is mak
ing preparation to install $00 more looms In Mill No. 1. This will Increase the
number, we think, to over 700 in Nos. 1 and 4—more than the company has ever
run before.
Efforts are being made for the organization of a company to build a knitting
mill at Middlesex. N. C., and it is rumored that It. U. Patterson, v of that town. Is
the prime mover In the proposition. No more definite statement has been made
nt yet.
At a called meeting of the stockholders of the Watts Mills, of Laurens, 8. C..
Inst Wednesday afternoon, a resolution was passed authorizing tbe Issuance of
$200,000 In preferred stock. Among the out-of-town stockholders present for tbe
meeting were Captain Ellfsod A. Smyth and J. E. Slrrlne, of Greenville, and
Messrs. Fleming, of Ora. and Reuben B. Pitts, of Camden. /
Mount Pleasant, N. C.. Is to have another manufacturing establishment. The
James Knitting Mill has Just been organized by Messrs. A. N. and C. F. James.
These gentlemen will be the sol© owners nnrl managers of the mill, which Is to lie
built on A. N. James' property, on South Msln-st., and will have a capacity of 120
dozen pair of hose per day. Material for the building Is now Mng placed on the
ground and the mill will be In operation during the early summer. Medium and
high grata goods will be tamed out. An up-to-date dyeing plant will likely be
Installed later., ' »
AROUND AND ABOUT GEORGIA
Why Omit the "G«.7‘’
Atlanta will now proceed to educate
the educators.—Rome (Ga., Floyd Coun
ty) Tribune-Herald.
•“Dig, Brother, Dig.”
The open season for the flea has ar
rived. Dig, brother. dig.—Lincoln Jour
nal.
Fine—He Tried ’Em.
r. Green J. Lindsey has heartiest
thanks for a peck of extra fine red
yam potatoes given us last week. This
encourages The Bulletin man when a
good man like Mr. Lindsey remembers
us. They were fine, we tried 'em -
Irwlnton Bulletin.
Depends on His Wife,
Some days since Mr. John M. 'Ad
dington; of Coosa, brought us two flue
Irish potatoes-rone of them measuring
10 by 14’lnches and the other 9 1-2 by
161-2.Inches in circumference. We
planted them and this fall we expert
to exhibit something extra In Irish po
tatoes—If our wife' cultivates them as
they should be.—Union County Ban
ner.
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PIUTE PETE,NOW I
Wliat’s a Vacation
Without a Kodak ?
It's it near vacation,
that's what. If you’ve ever
gone on your trip without
a kodak you’ve wished you
bad one. So be sure to alip
one into your suit-case this
time.
We’ve a large stock of all
the new kodaks. The work
turned out by our finishing
department is peerless.
A.K.Hawk esCo.
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