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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS:
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THURSDAY. AUGUST 12, 1909.
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William P. Hill.
The unequal contest has ended. For months past the community with
bated breath has watched the brilliant city attorney's brave struggle for
life. Alternate hopes and fears have filled the hearts of his great host
of admiring friends. But the adversary with whom be wrestled has
proved the stronger. ,
And William P. Hill Is dead.
The Grim Visitor has seldom claimed a brighter Intellect—a warmer
heart—a stouter arm—or a more completely ronnded character.
In many respects the flattering expectations which waited upon
his admission to the bar some twenty years ago have been splendidly ful
filled. He had risen to a high plane among the legal lights of Georgia.
He had waged many a pitched battle and won many a signal victory for
Atlanta In the courts of law and Justice. The city which he has so
faithfully and so ably served will not soon forget him; and all of us know
full well that had the same success attended him In his own last heroic
fight the lost color would have been restored to bis cheeks and the silvery
ring of his voice would have echoed again.
The ways of Divine Providence are mysterious to men.
[.ess than twelve months have elapsed since Mr. Hill led his youthful
and beautiful bride to the altar. The rosiest of vistas seemed to be open
ing up before him. Overhead the sun was barely touching the line of the
meridian. Why death should lurk In the bowers of happiness or the sun
should be eclipsed and darkened at midday we caanot tell—we see too
small an are of the great circle.
But may we not cherish the hope—nay feel the assurance—that the
measures both of success and of felicity which were here but partial have
at length deepened Into the rythmic pulsations of an Infinite joy.
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
VESSELS.
AT LAST.
Wh«Q oo toy day of life the night ic falling,
AbA la tbs winds Iran oxutmnsd spscis
blown,
I bear far yoIcm out of darkness calling
My feet to paths unknown.
Thou who hast made my horns of Ufa so
pleasant,
Leave not Its Unant when its walls dscay;
0 love divine, 0 Helper ever present,
Be.Thou my strength and stay!
Be near zne when all else la from me drifting;
Earth, sky, home, pictures, days of shade
and shine,
And kindly faces to my own npllftlng
The love which answers mint.
Z have but Thee, O rather! Let Thy spirit
Be with me, then, to comfort and uphold;
No gate ef pearl, no branch of palm I merit.
Nor street of ahlulng gold.
Suffice It If my good and 111 unreckoned.
And both forgiven thru Thy unboundlng
grace,
1 find myself by bands familiar beckoned.
Unto my fitting place.
Some bumblo door among Thy many mansions,
Some sheltering shade, when aln and striv
ing cease, \
And Cows forever thru heaven's gTeen ex*
ptaaMs
The river of Thy peace.
Then from the music round about me stealing,
I fain would learn the new and holy song,
And find at last among Thy trees of healing
The life for which Z long.
—-Whittier.
Harry Thaw promises If he Is re
leased to dpvote his life to literature.
Stay where you are, Harry!
Boston may be short on milk, but
from the Istest advices she's still long
Recall the Order, Chief.
Against the disbandment of the fife and drum corps of the local
flro department The Georgian desire* to enter an emphatic protest.
Recall the order, chief!
In urging this course upon the head of the Atlanta fire department
The Georgian Is moved hy no considerations of mere personal compliment
to the gallant fire fighters who compose this band of music-makers.
The drum corps Is an asset whosor* practical value to the community
admits of no serious question.
Time and again It has won substantial recognition for Atlanta. On tbe
streets of distant cities It has splendidly sustained tbe prowess of the
Gate City of the South. It was no meaningless bonmot which ex-Governor
Francis at the St. Louis exposition uttered when he said that the presence
of such a body of men at the exposition was worth $50,000 to Atlanta.
He spoke from the standpoint of an unbiased observer.
Too many splendid recollections cluster around this gallant band
for us to entertain calmly for one moment the Idea of giving It up.
It Is useless to contend that there is any antagonism between the
drum corps and organized musicians: for In t£e very nature of things
there are and can be no frictional points of contact.
Nor Is It true that the demand for the disbandment of the drum corps
has come from tbe ranks of organised labor. 1
The unequivocal statement of Editor Jerome Jones of The Journal of
I-abor rings like a trumpet In refutation of this charge.
And the action of the Federation of Trades In Inviting the drum corps
to head the parade on Labor Day gives It an additional negation of the
most pronounced character.
Service In the drum corps does not make the fireman whose talents
are musical less effective In protecting the property Interests of Atlanta
from the flames.
Recall the order, chief!
Fused Into this appeal which The Georgian courteously but earnestly
makes are the respectful prayers of all the varied element* and Interesta
which are represented in Atlanta's civic population.
Only two members of the whole Ala
bama legislature declined to join In
the petition to congress for direct elec
tion of United States senators.
An exchange says that while Mr.
Rockefeller hotly asserts that an In
come tax Is confiscation. It would be
In bis case merely confiscation of the
time of the tax collector.
Dr. Parkhurst says the Imprcsslona
a child gets at mother’s knee are hard
to erase. The Impressions the boy
gets across father’s knee are apt to
wear longer, however.—Houston Post.
Observes The Washington Herald:
"The Georgia legislature has Just con
cluded a fifty days' sitting, and the
legislature that captures the freak-
law pennant from It will have to stt
more than fifty days. That's all.”
The New York Evening Mall sug
gests that tbe lady candidate for con
gress In Colorado run for the senate
since It Is only In tbe upper branch
that the rule of unlimited debate pre
vails.
Dean Stanley used to tell this story
with relish: He sent a note to a shoe
maker about a pair of shoes that were
being made for him, and the writing
was so bad that the shoemaker
couldn’t make it out. So he returned
the note to the dean, with a note of
Ills own, saying he was "unaccustomed
to tbe cbtrograpby of the higher
classes.''
Anti-Cigarette Legislation.
Under the terms of a law which went Into effect In the state of Min
nesota on August 1 last, It becomes a misdemeanor In that state either
to sell or to give away cigarettes or cigarette papers.
For some time past there has been In progress <n the middle West
a crusade of the most persistent type against this recognized menace to
the youth of the land, but tho Minnesota statute la the most drastic and
radical measure which has yet been enacted in the wake of this move
ment of reform.
Laws of similar purport but less stringent In character have been
operative both In Wisconsin nnd In Indiana for some months. <
On July 1 an nntl-clgnrette law wont Into effect In Iowa.
In Mississippi a law Intended to regulate the evil forbids cigarette
smoking by minors In public places.
To a limited extent the cigarette has also been the subject of adverse
legislation In Nebraska, Illinois and Michigan.
One of Chicago's leading philanthropists has announced that he will
mako no donations to colleges which tolerate cigarette smoktug by stu
dents.
Rear Admiral Shroeder has urgently recommended that cigarettes be
not carried among the supplies for American naval vessels. .
And ln-the new act of the British parlament for tho protection of
children, constables are empowered to confiscate cigarettes In the pos
session of boys under sixteen.
From this hasty bird's-eye view of the field It looks as If public sen
timent Is everywhere crystallizing Into a demand for the outlawing of tho
cigarette: and It seems to -bo fated to go.
Washington, Aug. 12.—First Lleuten
ant Frank L. Cose, Twelfth cavalry, to
Fort Riley for examination for promo
tion. .
Captain August B.. Warfield, Fifth
field artillery, from Camp Robinson to
Fort Snelllng. „
Major Herbert M. Lord, paymaster,
from fluty with committee on ways and
means.
Captejn George F. Junneman, medi
cal corps, from Fort Howell to Fort
Lomex.
Captain Thomas B. Duke, Twenty-
third Infantry, to Oklahoma university
preparatory school.
Naval Ordsrs.
Lieutenant Commander E. T. With
erspoon from the Maine to home.
Lieutenant Commander J. V. K!em
from the Marietta to home.
Lieutenant Commander F. P. Bald
win from the Maine to home.
Lieutenant Commander J. R. Y.
Blakely from the Maine to the Wash
Ington.
Lieutenant E. IV. Smith from the
Maine to the Marietta.
Ensign M. F. Draemel from the Maine
to home.
Ensign K. F. Bernard from the Maine
to the Eagle.
Ensign D. W. Fuller from the Malno
to home. ^
Ensign F. J. Fletcher lorn the Maine
to the Pacific fleet.
Midshipman P. H. Marlon to the
Colorado.
Midshipmen J. Murphy. 11. R. Van
DeBoe and J. B. Oldendorf to the Cali
fornia.
Midshipman A. Barney from the
Maine to the North Carolina.
Midshipman II. A. Strauss from the
Maine to the Georgia.
Midshipman H. M. hammers from
the Maine to the Idaho.
Midshipmen C. L. Lothrop and A. W.
Rieger from the Maine to the Montana.
Midshipman F. A. Daubln from the
Maine to the North Carolina.
Passed Assistant Surgeon P. E. Mc
Donald from naval hospital. New York,
to naval academy.
Passed Assistant Surgeon W. 8. Dean
from the Maine to the Prairie.
Passed Assistant Surgeon W. Sea
man from the Prairie to home.
Movements of Vessels.
The cruisers Olympia. Chicago and
Hartford and monitor Tonopah have
arrived at Hath; the tug Patapsco at
Provlncetown; the gunboat Yorktown
at Seattle; the battleships Louisiana,
Ohio, Virginia nnd Rhode Island at-the
Southern drill grounds.
The gunboat Wolverine has sailed
from Escanaba for South Mnnltou nnd
Maclnac Island, and the et-ulser Albany
from Son Francisco for Bremerton.
The Nation’s Time
Religious News
and Notes
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.
Of Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain, Cal.
(1) How is exact time sent by electric signals from observatories? (2)
How do astronomers secure exact time?
E ACH great nation has a government observatory, as at Paris, France;
Greenwich, England; Washington. U. S. A. To this great central
observatory Is assigned the arduous work of finding and transmitting
exact time. About seven, or six, minutes before noon In Washington, the
"time man" enters the clockroom In the United States Naval Observatory’,
so long managed by the great astronomer Simon Newcomb, lately dm
ceased. He watches the minute and second hands, and as they approach
11; 85 a. m. he places his finger on a switch;
At the exact second, five minutes before noon, he closes an electric
telegraphic circuit. Instantly, In all the great cities of the country - , time
balls ascend to tops of staffs on high buildings. Nearly one million miles
of wire are In connection with the pendullim of the clock In Washington.
And then the American people begin to look at watches, clocks, regulators,
chronometers nnd all time recorders, from Seattle to Panama, from Bangor
to San Diego, from Walla Walla to Havana. Every person near any tel
egraph office may hear the clock In Washington In Its monotonous ticking.
Time was sent to me on three days at Washington noon In 1882, at time of
transit of Venus. I heard the beats as clearly as If I were In Washington.
The thirtieth second of each minute Is omitted to attract the more at
tention. This break Is caused by the cutting out of one cog In a wheel.
During the last ten seconds of the five minutes, or 11:59:50 a. m.. all cir
cuits are open and every Instrument Is silent, and everybody watches sec
ond hands of clocks and watches. At exact noon one tick Is heard, down
goes every time ball and the mighty nation has absolute time. This trans
mission of accurate time Is one of the most Impressive works of man. And
greater than this Is the sending of true time to ships far and away at sea
by wireless telegraphy.
(1) Time Is secured from transits or stars over the exact meridian.
A powerful transit telescope Is rigidly set In this meridian with all accu
racy that can be nttalned by the hand of man. This Instrument Is In be
tween heavy walls; It swings due north and south, but can not move east
or west by so much as the diameter of a hair. If one looks Into the eye
end of this perfect Instrument, a series of very fine vertical wires Is seen
Then, when the darkness of night draws on space, the telescope Is raised
or lowered so as to bo Just In "front” of a star. The rotation of the earth
soon moves the Instrument to the east; the star enters and seems to pass
rapidly across the field of view to the west.
When the first wire runs over the star, a telegraphic key Is touched.
This makes a dot on a sheet of paper wrapped around a revolving cylin
der In a time recording apparatus called a chronograph. A pen filled with
Ink constantly touches this paper, always moving under It. When the elec
tric key Is touched, the "current” makes a little soft Iron become a magnet.
This attracts the steel pen, moves It aside suddenly and makes an Indenta
tion In the otherwise straight Ink mark laid down by the pen.
Suppose that there are ten wires In the eyepiece, then the observer
would make ten records on the cylinder. Thus tenths, hundredths or
thousandths of seconds may be recorded. The mean or average of these
ten records Is computed. Then a number of other stars are observed, the
mean of all taken, and then this average Is compared with the great clock,
when It Is at ortce known how fast or slow It Is. The clocks are In air
tight glass cases, and no work of men’s hands so far In their progress to
ward the perfect can exceed them. And every railroad train moves under
orders sent out by their wonderful wheels and mechanism.
*
iapotuetf
Woman.
Untamed and forever the tameless
The frail yet forever the free,
Unshamed and forever the ahamelesg.
The top of creation Is she.
All civilizations have passed her
And left her barbarian stiff.
And the man who had dreamed he if
) Is I
master
simply the slave of her will.
She simpers nnd glances demurely,
And looks like a saint as she goes-
As sweet ns a Illy, yet surely ’
She's leading some man by the nose
For hers are the primeval resources
Of strong, unregenerate sense;
Duplicity marshals her forces
And art Is her subtle defense.
Oh. man, you may marvel and wonder
May reason and argue and fret; '
Oh. man. you may bluster and blun-
der—
You never have conquered her yet!
You lecture and-tutor and teach her,
But still she Is ever the same,
The free, Irresponsible creature
That nothing can fetter or tame.
—Chicago News.
Hard Earned,
"Do you remember the first dollar
you ever earned. Sam?”
"Deed I does, boss; my-wife guv it
t' me."—Yonkers Statesman.
Hit Little Joke.
Percy—I—aw—wreetled foh ovah an
hour with me scarf this m&wnlng.
Algernon—Which won the vlstory.
deah boy—you or the scarf?
Percy—Neither. Cawn’t you see the
match wesulted In a tie? Haw! Haw|
—Chicago Dally News.
Delection.
He (Just rejected)—I shall never
marry now-.
She—Foolish man! Why not?
He—If you won't have me. who will?
—Boston Transcript.
A SouTkIis.
"That, my dear." said the husband,
who hffd been supping not wisely, but
too well, "was a real soul kiss.”
"So I Judge,” skid the wife, with-
•drawing coldly from his embrace, “from
the amount of spirit I notice In It."—
Tlt-BIts.
Around Georgia
For the Practical Uplift of the Negro.
Tho Georgian cordially commends the National Religious Training
School nnd Chautauqua for the colored race which James E. Shepard
la seeking with the encouragement of numerous whlto friends and
patrons to establish near Durham, N. C.
Dr. Shepard Is not a dreamer, or If ho Is ho possesses the power
of crystallising bin visions Into substantial realities.
Tho Importance of tho movement which has enlisted the energies of
this 'wise negro Is emphasized by various considerations.
First, the real leaders of the colored race for several generations to
come are likely to be furnished by ministers of the gospel.
Second, It appears from the tabulated reports that at the present time
there are In round numbers 30,000 negro ministers In tho United Btntes.
Third, the moat conservative eattmatea fix the number of educated
colored preacher* at 3,000, or 10 per cent, leaving 87,000 who are yet to
be renchod by edueatloual Influences. TTet Into the bands of these Ig
norant leaders of the rgee are largely committed the destinies of 8,000,-
000 negroes. 1
Tho various Institutions which are now In existence may be doing nn
excellent work—some pf them undoubtedly are. But they are not reach
ing a class which needs to he reached; and they are not checking the
Irreligious drift which Is taking place among tho younger set.
It Is pro|iosed In this new movement to unite religious and mental
Instruction nnd also to furnish an educational opportunity at small cost
both of time nnd money to thousands of negroes whose engagements
will not permit them to attend college, and whose means nre furthermore
lacking.
The practical training school and Chautauqua course outlined by Dr.
Shepard seems to meet tho needs of the situation.
Some of the foremost whlto cltlsons of Durham have become contrib
utors' to tbe enterprise and haVe also consented to genre on tho advisory
committee, which Is made up of representative men In both sections.
Gen. Julian S. Carr, an cx-Confedcrate soldier, has accepted the treaaurer-
ahlp of the fund and Mr. B. L. Duke has donated several acres of land.
Tho project la In every respect praiseworthy and It not only de
serves but will undoubtedly receive the hearty support of the white peo
ple of tbe South.
One of the greatest junkets on
record will start for Europe next week
with $50,000 of Uncle Sam'a money to
squander In easy if not splendid living,
nils Is the Federal waterways commis
sion, composed of 20 or more United
States senators, representatives, army-
officers and other*. They are to study
European waterways and development
of transportation by water, and they
will come back at least as wise a* they
are now. Meantime the treasury def
icit continues.
• Theodore Roosevelt, In working Into
the heart of British East Africa, soon
will find an Irish girl ruling over an
estate of 175,000 acres. She I* a
daughter of the Earl of Enniskillen,
and her- marriage to Lord Delamere
was a romance of the hunting field.
Delamere was thrown from hi* horse
and the young woman nursed him In a
farmhouse. Soon they were married,
and Delamere took his bride to Kan
Africa.
Growth and Progress of the New South
Tbe Qeorftnn bere reeonla each day
ftotnt economic fact In reference to
tbe onward progress of tbe South.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
Milt., An*. It.—Th. following new i-orporatloni hnve been formed In the
ntnte within tbe pnat few dnyn. nnd wilt shortly submit their charters to the gov
ernor for approval:
onut (lln Company, Oma, Lawrence county. Capitalised at $8,000; II. E. Little,
1. T. Illlhon, nnd others.
Mlanlaatppl Wholesale One-era' association, Jackson. Binds county. No capital
stock: n. II. Orren, *. J. Taylor, and othera.
Ailama tllnnlng nnd klnnurnclnrlng Company, Nstrbtz, A.loins county. Capital
ised at 110.000; fl. It. Houston, P. Hand, ami othera.
Areola lilii Company. Arcotn, Washington county. Capitalised at 18,000; M. D.
London, fl. It. Houston, ami others.
Lyoo Packet Company, Greenville, Washington county. Capitalized at 110,00*;
Frank Lyon. Harry L. Lyon, and othera.
For the Brat lime In nearly two yean, all department! of the Maryland Steel
Company are running full time all days a week. Orders for rails have been coming
for several week*, and now tbe tonnage on the company’a hooks Is the largest since
1*07, with promise of steady expansion.
'The Tennessee Cnnl, iron k llallrnnd Company Is now Bring eoko ovens In the
vicinity of Pratt City. Ala. It It reported there that more than 400 oreos will be
lighted.
Tbe Altoona coal mlnea and Cradup Iron mines of the Southern Iron and Steel
Company, In the Birmingham district, have resumed operations.
Lieutenant Sharkleton, who recently
penetrated nenrest to tho south pole, In
hin written report declares that he was
delivered from the perils of hlu trip by
special Providences. “It was during
ihoac periods that some power beyond
our own guided our footsteps. If we
acknowledged this, as wo did, down
among the Ice floes, It la only fitting
that we ahoyld remember It now when
the some Power has brought ua safe
home thru all these troubles and perlla."
That pensions may be provided for
deaconesses In the Northern Methodist
churches, a prominent Chicago layman,
Mr. Norman IV. Hnrria, ha* given $100,-
000 ns a nucleus for this fund.
The subject of denominational jour
nalism In receiving renewed attention
on the part of rooit of the leading de
nominations. At Portland the Baptists
had a special committee at work on the
subject, and they report that of their
1,200,000 Baptist* less than 80,000 sub
scribe for church papers. The com
mittee recommended th* consolidation
of the eight impern now existing Into
four, nnd the organization of the de
nominational forces In n general cam
paign to support these four papers.
Nineteen native Armenian pastors of
the Congregational churches were mas
•acred at Adana.
When the American board mission
ship, the Itlram Bingham, recently ar
rived at the Gilbert Islands, bearing a
load of Bibles, every. Bible was sold
within an hour after the supply was
opened.
Yale. Princeton nnd the University of
Pennsylvania maintain special missions
In non-Chrlstlnn lands. Now Harvard
men have organized a mission to estab
lish a school nnd hospital In China.
It Is reported from Smyrna that the
famous English preacher. Rev. F. B.
Myer, conducted a service In the ruins
of the theater at Ephesus made famous
by the Apostle Paul’s experience.
Bennlnghnff, Is one of the lecturers at
the Wnsedn university In Tokyo.
A Baptist committee In China has
declared In favor of one Baptist de
nomination for the Chinese Empire.
A proposal has been made to the Bel
gium government that the missionaries
of the various boards at work on the
Congo be withdrawn and supplanted by
Belgian missionaries, for whose support
the Belgian government Is to provide In
part,
8ong of th* Motorist.
Oh, I am an Auto-mo-bll-lst.
And I sail the bounding pike,
I give my high-geared.wheels a twist
And go wherever I like.
I bound along o'er the country roads,
Pnst fresh green fields and fnrms.
And with what Joy my heart explodes
As I breast the thank-you-marms.
I strew the way with butter and eggs
When I hit a grocer's cart.
And once In a while a grocer's leg*
And the grocer come apart.
To smash bang Into a load of hay.
And scatter It left and right, .
With a Yeave-ho-he and Tara-dl-ay,
Is a source of sheer delight.
No care have I of the sort that chill*
The man who Is soon to "bust.”
Whenever I note my unpaid bills
I go out and raise the dust.
I raise It here and 1 raise It there
Till It reaches the spreading skies,
And I find enough and plenty more,
To throw In my creditors' eyes.
So It’s ho for my trusty automobile
And hi for my bounding pike!
Let others rave over the horse and
wheel—
The tame and the arduous bike.
Let others rave o’er the brigantine
That plows thru the realm of ths
conch.
It's for me the car of gasoline
With Its glorious iionk-hodk-honk!
‘-Washington Timet.
Snow Is' White.
Talk about stating old facts,
newspaper announcement carries the
Information that a Mr. Snow Is In ths
race for nldermanlc honors at Macon.
—Dalton Citizen. Yes, and he's white,
too, because he came from Monroe.—
Walton Tribune.
Need Biennial Sessions,
The present session of the Georgia
legislature lift* demonstrated beyond
the shadow of a doubt the wisdom of
the people In demanding biennial In
stead of annual sessions. The people
do not need a legislature to play poli
tics for them.—Barncsvllle News-Ga
zette.
A Reason for Game Law.
The woods nre snlil to be Tull of
young partridges, and It Is n great pity
that there Is not a sufficient game law
to protect them. The chances are that
at least half of them will be kilted be
fore the season opens.—Fort Gaines
Sentinel.
Why
Glasses
f As Per Our Notice to Run a 1
Series of Advertise
ments in the Form
of Short Educa
tional Optical
Talks.
NO. 2
Of course the only kind of headaches
cure nre those arising from defective eyes,
the sole object of glasses is to properly focus light on the
retina (back of the eye), thus relieving strain, which causes
headache.
It is wonderful whnt the right glasses will accomplish in
such cases.
We ar* perfectly equipped for examining ths ayes for glasses snd
for proscribing and grinding the right lenses.
OUR WORK IS ffCLIABLC.
, A. K. HAWKES CO.
14 WHITEHALL. OPTICIANS. 129 PEACHTREE.
Cure
Headaches
that glasses can
Remember that
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