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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.' AND NEWS: FRIDAY, AUGUST 13,1909.
THE ATLANrA GEORGIAN
■AND NH\PS>
r. L. SEELY, Foblliber.
6. E. DAVIDSON, AuocUt* Pr.M'iher.
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WIIAT OAH WOMEN DO?
Behind the desert'e rim vent dovn the enn
When from their tent deort, ell their eerrlee
dene,
Came forth the flehrev women one by one.
For Boialeel, the muter, who hid nre
And carious gift, end ehlll beyond compare,
Oreeter then ell Mliralm'i vert—
Had hidden that they approach it hie eom,
mend.
And In a foitekln epreed upon the send.
He ut end lev them ranged on either hud.
And loan, u came to pile, 1 alienee fill.
Then epake the Muter: "Danghterl of
Irrael,
I bring • word—I prep pea heathen will.
"Ood'e tibernade, bp Hie pattern made,
Shall fall of dnleh—tho In order laid—
Unleu pe women lend pour hinds to aid."
A murmur ran the crouched ueemblp thru
As each her tell about her cloeer drew—
"We are hut women: what can women do?"
But Beraleel made anawer: "Not a mu
Of all our trlbee from Judah unto Dan
Can do tho work that Juat pt women cant '
"The unctuirp curtalna that must vTiath-
rn hr
With fine twined linen with the colon thru—
Bine, purple, ecerlet, who can twine hut pe?"
"The cold and brofderp work about the diem
Of the prleat'e robe—pomegranate knop and
stem—
Man'e clumep Ungers ne'er cu compare
them I
"Toure Is tho rerp ehlll for which I call,
80 bring pour cunning needlework, tho email
The gift mep seem thn Lord has need of all."
O Chrlattan woman, for Ood'e templee ut
Throughout earth's drearp waatss, do not for
te!
Tho auctnarp curtains need pour hrolderp
pet!
— Mrs. Margaret J. Preston,
(Born 11*5, Died H07.)
Preildent Eliot's five-foot library
may be all right, but again we Insist
that bis five-foot religion Is all wrong.
To tbe clergy: An Indiana minister
baa recently been given a farm for
preaching ahort sermona. Verbum
rat.
Medical experta of Boston predict
that within the next 1,000 years civ
ilized man will have hoofs Instead of
feet.
"Mr. Bryan Insists'that be la a fix
ture In Nebraska," aaya an exchange.
To which The Richmond Tfmes-Uls-
patch adds an emphatic "amen."
The recent war of worda between
two Atlanta editor* has caused The
Houston Post to exclaim: "0 tern-
pora, O mores, O hades!”
An unusual example or loyalty la
given by the petition of a woman In
Seattle for divorce because her Eng
lish husband will not allow her ro
shoot off firecrackers and display the
American flag on the Fourth of Juty.
On the notice hoard of a church
near Manchester, England, the other
day the following announcementa ap
peared together: “A potato pie supper
will be held on Saturday evening. Sub
ject for Sunday evening, 'A Night of
Agony.'"
Tbe plight of the ISO passengers on
the steamer Dubuque, marooned on a
sand bar In the Mississippi near Grit-
ton, III., with no way to send for help,
suggests that It may be needful to
equip river boats with wireless ap
paratus.
One of the newspaper squibs which
Is going tbe rounds of tbe press Is
entitled 'The Perfect Man." It ema
nates from the fertile brain of a North
Carolina editor and shows not only tbe
quality of verse, but tbe state of mind
»bleb prevails today among tbe Tar
Heels.
Thera lv a man who never drinks.
Nor smokes, nor chews, nor swears;
1Vho never gambles, never flirts
And shuns all sinful snares—
Ho'* paralysed!
Thera is a man who never does
A thing that is not right;
Hi* wife can tel] just where be 1*
At morning, noon and night—
He'* dead!
Ijw.ver Albert Howell. Jr., apoke with more zeal for bis client than
meticulous regard for the truth when on Thursday ha declared before the
railroad commission that the newspni>crs of Atlanta, when they print any
thing Inimical to the Georgia Hallway and Electric Company, couch It In
(he language of opology.
The glitter of generality perhaps Inred Mr. Unwell into so careless a
statement. To have qualified his sweeping nssertlon with the words, "ex
cept The-Georgian." wottld have weakened the point, lie sought to make,
even tho strlct'regnrd for the truth demanded such a qualification,
Yet perhaps Mr. Howell was truly Ignorant of certain points Tho
Georgian has raised, and CARRIED against the Georgia Railway and Elec
tric Company. For he was conspicuously inconspicuous In those fights In
behalf of the people, and can hnrdly be expected to carry In his mind the
memory that comes from active participation In an event.
This Indictment Mr. Howell sought to bring against the press of At
lanta showed no recollection by the attorney of the long and hard cam
paign The Georgian waged for cheaper lights for Atlanta. It contained no
hint of tbe fact that The Georgian's campaign, carried along day after
day and week after week, with little active sympathy and less encourage
ment from outside the office, resulted In a saving of 180,000 a year to the
people of Atlanta. As said before, M r. Howell's Ignorance of Gils achieve
ment now Is very jlkoly due to the fact that he played no part In It—that
he never lifted his finger In the cause of the people.
When Tbe Georgian kept working and kept fighting and finally did
secure a twenty per cent reduction In rates for lights and power for tho
city and for tho people—aggregating a total saving In five years of about
8400,000 to municipality and people—where was Mr. Howell—where had he
been all tho time previous—where was his word of praise, his note of com
mendation?
The Georgian has no demagogic hatred of corporations because they
are corporations.’ A well-behaved and well-conducted corporation has our
friendly Interest just as any othgrbdslness house ha*. And a well-behaved
corporation I* entitled to be as ffee from political heckling and scheming
persecution as any'othcr business or any other Individual. This' Is a
general statement of what we believe to be simple justice and really the
best way of serving the people.
When a corporation becomes unfair or tyrannical, then Is the time for
a free newspaper to train Its guns and open fire.
The Georgian has seen this duty more than once, and It has fought—
even tho alone. And It will never In the future allow subsidy or "Inter
est” to bllbd It to wrong-doing by a corporation at the expense of the
people.
In view of the facts, Mr. Howell's assertion becomes ridiculous.
ARMY-tVA VY ORDERS
Washington, Aug. 13.—These order*
have been Issued:
Army Orders.
Tirst Lieutenant Clark L. Wurtem-
bjikrr, medical reserve corps, Fort
Wadsworth to Fort Jay, relieving Cap*,
tain Samuel J. Mortis, medical corps,
who win return to Fort Washington;
First Lieutenant Robert R. Wclclielmer,
coast artillery corps, from J35th com
pany to unq'rigned list; First i.ieuten
ant W nltrv \. Smith, signal corpa,
from Fort Logan to Fort DesMotnes.
Navy Orders.
Commander W. W. Bush, retired
from recruiting station. Oklahoma City!
to recruiting station. Cbattnnooga;
Lieutenant R. Morris from the Callfor-
2 7- l0 .- ,he Washington; Lieutenant J,
H. Graham from the Olympia to home;
Lieutenant E. A. Brooke from recruit
ing station, Chattanooga, to recruiting
station. Nashville. •
Midshipman J. w, Barnette.. Jr.,
Maine to the McDonough;
Mldshlpfnsn R. M. Jaeger from the
Maine to the Eagle; Burgeon A. Mc
Cormick from the Maine to home;
Passed Assistant Surgeon E. C. Rodd
from recruiting station. Chattanooga,
to recruiting station. Nnshvllle; As
sistant Surgeon if. Donelson. from re
cruiting stntlon, Oklahoma City, to re
cruiting station. Chattanooga.
Movements of Naval Vessels.
The battleships Connecticut. New
Jersey, Nebraska, Vermont and Minne
sota have arrived at southern drill
grounds; the cnlller-Marcellus at New
port; the tug Patapsco at Boston, and
the torpedo boats Whipple. Hull. Trux-
ton. Perry, Hopkins nnd Paul Jones at
Esqutmntt,
The gunboat Villa Lobo* has sailed
from Shanghai for a cruise up the
Yangtse.
Concerning Governor Brown’s Gourd. ,
On the subject of Governor Brown's gourd, which hangs In rustic
simplicity beside the water cooler in the executive Chambers at the state
eapltol—Innocent of any part whatever In the game of politic*—so much a
In tbe way ot frivolous banter has been said of late In tho public press that
even the Big Dipper which hangs In the northern heavens has become
an object 6f much smaller magnitude and Importance In the eyes of the
nation.
It Is no exaggeration to ssy that the whole country has made the
acquaintance of Governor Brown's gourd.
Nearly every newspaper between New York nnd San Francisco has
given It git editorial thump. > •
And all kinds of rumors havo been set afloat concerning the objects
which this product ot Georgia husbandry was Intended to accomplish.
Mopt of the auspicious critics have hinted that the real purpose of the
vegetable was to catch votes.
And, according to'thls school of philosophers, It smacks more tellingly
of the ballet box than It does of tbe crystal purlieus of the mountains.
Any surmise which Is based upon the facts Is, of course, legitimate,
and If the facts convict Governor Brown of winking at the ballot box,
then tho dsfonso falls. What, then, are the facts?
To this much Governor Brown Is clearly entitled.
The story ot how tho gourd In question traveled from the verdant
slopes o/ upper Georgia to tbe precincts of tho governor’s ofllce has al
ready been told In this paper, but The Macon Telegraph briefly restates It
thus:
When Governor Brown was Inaugurated a friend of his from
Cherdkeo county came from the mountains down to Atlanta to
soe him Invested with tho authority of Georgia’s chief magistrate.
Cherokee was the old homo of tho Browns. From thence tho elder
Joe Brown was called back In the middle of the last century to the
governor's ofllce. The friend to the younger Joe Brown brought
with him a drinking gourd, and presented It to the now governor. -
A gourd Is a simple thing, nnd the act was a simple act of gen
uine friendship. Of course, tho governor did not toss the gourd
out of the window, nor did ho tuck it under the desk. It was a
shapely gourd, and no sweeter drinking vessel was ever made.
Tho governor, or ooo of hlB clerks, or iierhnps the janitor, hung
the gourd by tho water cooler. That was all there was to It. ex
cept tho dispatches which followed from Atlanta to the Northern
newspapers, nnd tho volumes of comment thereon. Of course, tho
Intelligent newapapor reader already knows about the Atlanta
penny a liner to the Northern press. He I* Incorrigible, unspeak
able.
One of tho first of tho nowspnpers to retract the unkind things which
have been said about Georgia's governor on account dt the gourd In ques
tion Is The Jacksonville Tlmcs-l’olon. which makes the following polite
amends: * • *•■ '
The story of tho gourd was published without explanation.
Naturally, we thought tho governor was pandering to tbe preju
dice of men who used only gourds. Many ot them nre as good and
ns Intelligent ns men who never saw a gourd, but It would Igtre
been a pretty poor sort of governor who would have sought popu
larity thru tho kind of vessel ho drank from.
Tile story about tho clothes of Georgia made clbth In which
Governor Brown was Inaugurated hns been told also In n way to
creato the presumption of demagogy against him. He found n
cloth mndo In Georgtn of as fine finish ns that made by the fac
tories of tho North, or that Imported from abroad, and, of course,
there ore as good tailors In Georgia as elsewhere. Governor
Brown has -done right in selecting cloth made In Georgia In pref
erence to thnt made elsewhere. » -
The tnith about the gourd falls to warrant tho hue and cry which
has been raised over tbla perfectly harmless nflnlr.
Bnt tho gonrd has not bcon an unwelcome topic of discussion during
the sultry'months of midsummer.
And perhaps this Is why so many newspapers have tarried at the well.
Governor Brown ts an unpretentious man of tho people. Much of the
father ban be distinctly discerned In the son. For years past.he has lived
on the outskirts of Marietta st the foot of Kenuesaw mountain. He Is
doubtless riot Indifferent to tho ballot box, but ho ts mile's above cither the'
venal practices ot the ward politician or tbs coquettish arts which suggest
the ball room flirt.
The Influence of Gsh. Lee
In looking for the source of Lee's
personal lnfliience..we have to go back,
1 think, to.the habit of Inherited respect
which the people of the South paid to
social position. It was not born of a
feeling of subservience, however, for
the poorest “cracker" hi<l an unmis
takable and unself-consclmis dignity
about him. He always walked up to
and faced tho highest with on air of
equality. No. this latent respect was a
natural response on the part of men of
low estate to good manners, and oft-
displayed sympathy. Lee, by his con
nection thru birth and marriage with
the moat distinguished and beat fami
lies of Virginia, represented the supe
rior class. Moreover, that he was a
Lee of Virginia, and by marriage the
head of the Washington family, had,
from one end of the South to the other,
a weight which the present commercial,
mammon-worshipping age knows or
cares but little about.
Again, nature In one of her moods
had made him the balanced product in
manners nnd looks of the well-bred and
aristocratic traditions of the gentlemhn,
transmitted anil Ingrafted at an early
age thru the cavaliers Into Virginia life.
But for his military prowess he had
something vastly more efficacious than
ancestry or filling the mold of well-
bred traditions. He hnd the generative
quality of simple, effective greatness;
In other words, an unspotted, serenely
lofty character whose qualities were
reactive, reaching every private soldier
and making him unconsciously braver
and better as a man.—Morris Behalf, In
The August Atlantic.
WHAT WAS ORIGIN
OF DEVIL’S RACE COURSE
Friday, the Thirteenth
I'
By O. B. KEELER.
f F YOU get out of bed with the wrong foot first—
It’a Friday, the Thirteenth!
If you've got a grouch that is fit to burst—
It’a Friday, the Thirteenth!
If the cook doesn’t come and the stove won’t draw,
Jf the toast Is smoked and the beeksteak raw—
If your car Is late
Don’t rail at Fate,
Just buck right up to the boss and state
“It’s Friday, the Thirteenth!”
If your best girl ups and throws you down—
It’s Friday, the Thirteenth!
If Fortune’s smile turns to Miss Fortune’* frown—
It’* Friday, the Thirteenth;
If the Crackers lose and the Champa run true,
Don’t go and cuss till the air turns blue;
If you don’t feel strong
For thl* wretched aong—
Juat thank your star* that it's not os long
As Friday, the Thirteenth!
Wife#
"The Blue Ridge mountains abound
In natural wonders," observed H. A.
Barpes, of Pen-Mar. "Most wonderful
of them all. In my opinion, Is the Devil's
Race Course, which la but a short walk
from Pen-Mar,
“At first view this strange natural
phenomenon appears like a broad road
way V of great stones which extends
away up the mountain In a path no
human hand could ever build. Many
of these great atones weigh tons, while
others are only a few hundredweight.
Lying close together by the thousand,
they present an extraordinary spec
taele.
■Tradition has it, and scientists
agree, that a thousand or more years
ago this strange track was the bed of
an ancient river. The conclusion is
drawn front the look* of the stones;
they' art all well rounded and worn
smooth, showing the action of water,
which hnd polished their rough edges,
no doubt, for centuries.
"But tho mystery Is If tills theory be
true to explain how the great body of
water was confined at the aides, for the
course Is not hemmed In by high banks
nor is It located In a ravine. In fact. It
stands somewhat higher than'the nat
ural side of the mountain. This pusxle
only Intensifies Interest In the queer
place and multiplies the arguments and
theories of Its prehistoric origin.”—Bal
timore American.'
Growth and Progress of the New South
Tbe Georgian here records each day
some economic fact la reference to
tbo onward progress ot tbe Houfh.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
The more Important new Industries established In. the Booth durtng^the week
ending August 11, es reported by The Tradesman, nre ae follows:
AlntHimn—Mobile, 15,000 nmnsement company; Illrmlnghnm. electric light plant;
Attnllo. $25,000 stnve mill; Anniston, $000,000 railroad company; Tuscnmbln, $150,000
Iren working plant.
Arkansas—Helena, $750,000 development company; Mttle Rock, $2,500,000 railway
company. $50,000 railway company; Hot Springs, $30,000 development company.
Florida—Jacksonville, (10,000 cork extractor company; I’eneacola. $10,000 laundry,
$50,000 hnrxe compnny; Madison, $5,000 hardware company; Bartow, $10,000 develop
ment company.
fleoR-la—Savannah, street railway company; Carteravllle, $70,000 Iron working
plnnt.
Kentucky—1-oulsvllle, $25,000 drug compnny, $110,000 realty company; Covington.
$20,000 really compnny; Bpartn, $10,000 hardware ropipany; Lebanon, $15,000 mill and
elevktar company; Owensboro, $5,000 amusement company; East View, railroad tlea
company; Fulton, $10,000 printing company.
Imulalana—New Orleans, $25,000 canning company, $50,000 development compnny,
$5,000 real company. $$00,000 sngnr company; Shreveport, $700,000 development com
pnny, $10,000 lumber company; Diibnch, $150,000 lumber company; Jenn, $10,000 drug
company; Lockport, $330,000 sngnr refining compnny; Jennings, $12,000,000 railroad
company.
Mississippi—Biloxi. $10,030 warehouse company; Greenville, $10,000 tranaportatlon
company; Vicksburg. $10,000 development company, $10,000 electric company; Slots
Point, $5,000 publishing compnny; Matches, $10,000 gin manufacturing company.
Missouri—fit. ferula, $10,000 rubber and supply company, $5,000 construction com
pany. $5,000 manufifeturlag company, $2,310 explosive manufacturing company; Capo
Girardeau, $10,000 development company; Joplin, $20,000 mining compnny, $10,000 min*
Ing company; Kansas Pity, $10,000 printing company, $15,000 grain company, $1WOO
rubber niul supply company; Kelson, $3,300 canning company; Alba. $10,000 mlfiss.
North Carolina—Forcat City. $20,000 construction company; Charlotte, $25,000 de
velopment company, $20,000“ development company; Cherryvllle, $100,000 novelty
company; Jft. Olive. $10,000 woodworking plant; Fayetteville, $25,000 cleaning com-
pnny; Henderson, $25,000 tobncco warehouse company; Ited Springs, $25,000 Insurance
compnny.
I Oklahoma—Oklahoma City, $10,000 lumber company. $15,000 manufacturing com
pnny, $50,000 cement hriek company, $100,000 manufacturing company, $250,000 rail
road company; (Junpaw, $5,000 mines; Muskogee, $50,00* supply and navigation com-
pnny, $20,000 gna company, Irou working plnnt. $5,000 oil company; Rsvla, $25,030 oil,
gns nnd mineral compnny; Vlnltn, $10,000 oil and gas company; Davidson, $5,000 tele-
phone company; Capitol Hill, $5,000 nil nud gna company; Atoka, $10,000 oil and gna
company: Chelsea, $10,000oil company; Tulan, $10,000 oil and gns company; Cowling-
ton. telephone compnny; Alva, $8,000 telephone company; McAleater, $50,000 coal com
pany.
South Carolina—Greenville, $10,000 development company, telephone company;
Allendale, $40,000 cotton oil compnny; Snmnrln, $60,000 mines.
Tennessee—Memphis, $10,000 lumber company, $15,000 metallic packing company.
$125,000 mines; Chnttanongn. $25,000 hardware compnny: Huntsville, $25,000 mines;
Knoxville, $10,000 transfer nnd storage company; Greenville. $25,000 manufacturing
company; Jackson, $100,000 insurance company.
Texas— l-exlpgton, $7,500 brick nnd tile company; San Antonio, $15,000 develop-
moot company; Houston Heights, $25,000 Ire plnnt, $15,000 Innndry company; Hons-
ton, $10,000 nperlnltj rompnny; Midland. $3,000 metal and manufacturing company;
El Paso, irrigation company, $15,000 development company, $33,000 land company;
Trenton, $0,000 cotton gin; Abilene, $25,000 hardware company; Beaumont, $10,000 oil
company, $8.1,000 parking rompnny; Merkel. $25,000 waterworks system; Irving, $5,000
cotton gin: Palls City. $15,000 lumber company; Itorkdnle, mine; Balias. $70,000 vine-
gar and rider company; Snn Diego, $11,000 telephone company; Blessing, $10,000 ware
house nnd elevator compnny.
Virginia—Norfolk, $17,000 laundry, $75,000 lumber company. $50,000 cotton and
peanut company. $50,000 dairy company, $16,000 manufacturing rompnny; Richmond,
315,000 laundry, $100,00) development company; Onanrocf. $5,000 waterworks; Alex-
nndrla, $10,003 furnltute company; Lexington. $5,000 laundry; Pulaski, $30,000 Iren
working plant; Roanoke. $78,000 lumbar company; Mnnrhratrr, $50,000 paper !»x
manufacturing company; Rosalyn, $500,000 railroad signals manufacturing company;
Newport News. 125.000 wire nintiufnettirlng company.
Went Virginia—Charleston. $750,000 gin nnd romprraa manufacturing company;
Morgantown, $300,000 mines, $500,000 publlahlng company; Fairmont, $500,000 coal
company-
That Wit Htavtn,
I dreamt that I was dead and tbat
No more I had to rise
At 6 o'clock a. m. to rub
The aleep out of my eyes,
An* rttwn and stretch and growl and
scratch
My weary, tired head;
The clock could ring, I didn't care
For I was dead.
For 40 years each morning I
1 Had, at the crow of cock.
Been rudely wakened from my sltep
By that unfeeling clock—
A tinkling horror sounding o'er
Ths bureau by my bed.
But non- the blamed old thing could
ring. .
For I was dead.
Relentlessly each mofnlng that
Alarm bell had at 6
Sent me a-scrambllng out of bed,
My clothes and hair to fix:
Its loud command brooked no appeal
And filled my heart with dread.
But now "you're late" had lost Its
sting.
For I was dead.
All thru my life I had believed
That heavenly joys would be
A pair of wings, a harp, a cloud,
A spirit floating free;
But now I know that heaven Is
To He upon your bed
And know when the alarm goes olt,
That you are dead.
—Hank,
Unprejudiced.
Mike McGinnis was being examined
for Jury duty In a murder trial.
"Mr. McGinnis." asked the Judge,
"have you formed or expressed an opln-
Ion as to the guilt or innocence of tht
prisoner at the bar?”
"No, sir,” replied Mike.
"Have you any conscientious scruples
against capital punishment?"
•'Not In this case, your honor." Mlk*
replied.—Success.
No Terminal Facilities.
"They say Harold Coddllngton has
brain fever.”
'Impossible! Could an angle-worn
have water on the knee?"—Chicago
Record-Herald.
Vagaries of Genius.
Shakespeare could not use a type*
writer In composing his plays.
Longfellow never wrote while eating.
Robert Louis Stevenson Insisted upon
holding his pen In his light hand.
Sir Francis Bacon would not use a
fountain pen under any circumstances.
Dr. Johnson was never known to est
Ice cream,
Mrs. Hemans did not wear peekaboo
waists.
Dante never called his ‘Inferno" pro
fane hlstoiw.
Charles Dickens always walked up
stairs.—Life.
In the Fighting B*IL
‘‘May I ask you a question?"
"Sure, stranger."
"Why Is everybody In this section
mixed up In a feud?"
"Well, nobuddy keers to take chances
on being an Innocent bystander."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Handicapped.
"Sir, I wish to marry your daughter,
.ltercd the young man.
“You do, eh?" exclaimed the fond
parent. "Well. I have been rather ex
pecting this, nnd, to be thoroughly
orthodox. I shall put a few questions to
you. Do you drink?"
"No, sir. I abhor liquor."
"You do, eh? Smoke?"
"I never use tobacco In any form."
"Well, I didn't abplIbBe you ate It
Do you frequent the race course?"
“I never saw.a horse race In my life,
sir."
"Um-tn-m. Play cards for money?"
"Emphatically no, sir."
"Well, s’oung man, I must say you
are heavily handicapped. My daughter
Is a thorough society girl, nnd I can't
for the life of me see what she Is going
to do with you. However. It’s her fu
neral. and If she wants to undertnke the
Job she can risk It."—Tlt-BIts.
AROUND AND ABOUT GEORGIA
Where Gum Chewing le Contsmpt of
■ Court.
s, Ida Duncan, a negro woman, ap
peared In police court ns a witness
last Tuesday, and when testifying was
chewing gum so fast she could hardly
talk. Judge Roup requested her to
quit chewing while In the witness
chair, which she did for a moment;
but began again, and he fined her 31
for contempt of court, unit when she
was leaving the stand she made a re
ply. when the judge ordered the po
liceman to luck her up In the city
prison for one hour.—Third District
(Ky.) Review.
This Is Going Seme.
No more shall the volume of music
roll out, no more shall the tunes be
heard, for like mist Its source has dis
appeared as swift ns the wings of the
bird. Trie wait* of "Merry Widow."
"The Good Old Summer Time," have
gone the way of many nnd many and
many a tuneful rhyme. His head Is
bowed In sadness nnd his voice Is soft
and low; his sigh has the tone of deep
distress nnd his face depicts his woe.
He hns bought him a Jen-sharp now
they any. and oft In the even' twilight
his spirit soars Into realms unknown
—If not 'tfs nretty night It.—Monte-
xuma Record.
Where the Trouble Lias.
Why all thl* knocking of the legis
lature? The members are only human,
nnd they are the men we elected sad
sent there. If we want more work
done and less fiddling of time and play
ing of polities, we should elect men
who will not usd ofnee for their own
personal nnd political advancement,
but devote their time to the public
good. It Is the kind of men the pub
lic hnve been electing that make bi
ennial or even quadrennial sessions
welcome, as a boon to suffering hu
manity.—Tlfton Ornette.
Good for Carroll,
Carroll county, we believe, can boast
of as many large families as any
county In the state.—Carrollton Free
Press.
A 8nakt Story,
You may talk about snake stories all
you want to, but Jlnt Franks tells the
snakiest snake story that we have
heard In many a day. nnd everybody
that knows Jim knows that he never
tells anything but the truth. Here Is
his story: "A few days ago while
some children were playing at the
Haynes school house, they noticed
Inrge garter snake which had Just
crawled from under an old stump, nnd
proceeded to kill It. After the reptile
tvna dead, the children noticed the
distended condition of Its body, and
concluded to Investigate the cause
thereof. So they made a knife from a
piece of seasoned timber and cut the
body open, when lo! they brought to
light n den of $0 squirming, twisting,
Striking serpents, from one to three
Inches long." Now, come on. gentle
men; Jim didn't start in to be bent, so
trot out your snake stories.—Young
Harris News.
Small Tomato**.
The smallest tomatoes ever exhibited
In LaOrange were aent to The Reporter
ofllce Monday last by Mr*. J. W. Free
man. They were about the size of a
common grape and had the flavor of
regular size tomatoes. She ordered
some seed last year from a regular seed
house, nnd part of them turned out to
be of this variety. She had only a few
vlnea of this kind. AH who have seen
them say they never saw anything like
It before.—LaGrange Reporter.
AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT
AIN'T IT TOUGH WHEN YOU COME HOMO
AND FIND THE HOUSE UDCKED »JP TIGHT
Not in It
Mr. George Hownrd passed by our
office and tantalized us by showing us
a handful of sweet potatoes he h«d
grabbled from his patch below town.
But Mr. Hownrd ain’t In It. for Mr.
Philip Clemons set us up Tuesday t»
enough large frying else sweet pota
toes to make n good meal for our
family. He hnd dug a lot and put
'em on tho market.—Early County
News.
Distinction Already Gained.
A new-B Item states that Atlanta I*
planning to become the greatest mule
market on earth. From the amount of
braying that has been going on In tb{
eapltol for the post few weeks, It would
seem that Atlanta ha* already st
rained thnt distinction.—HaWklnsvIH*
Dispatch nnd Newe.
What T*~Ne*d*d.
That Georgia legislature can spend
as much time considering a little bill
as any set of men. They are at lean
good dellberators. Now, If we only
rind some good deliverers.—Jefferson
Reporter.
An Eatenten Messenger,
An Entonton bachelor spent tn*
past week-end on an excursion down
"where ocenn breezes blow.” They do
sny, when the thin man "blew In’ ®J
the beach In his balloon fitting bathing
suit, the spectators thought Avl»>” r
Blerlot hnd blown across from tn*
English channel.—Eatonton Messen
ger.
A Women’s Work.
A woman has been arrested In Han
cock county for making moonshine, a
Is woman's business to make sun
shine.—Elberton Star.
Fine Corn. .
Hey. Q. T. Hurst has left on tn*
table In the sanctum sanctorum
The Messenger office nn enr of com
ten Inches long, with eighteen rows.
containing SO grains to the row.
....<■ Is Indeed a fine enr ot corn. ano.
better still, Mr. Hurst tells us that »•
has three acres of this corn on n|»
home place near Cairo.—Cairo
aenger.
In th* First District. . ,
Alt Herrington I* a cffndldate to
congress to succeed Edwards in
First district. It Is said that JOdR
Thomas M. Norwood, of Savannah. »> 1
also be a candidate. In which
there will be something doing In *■>*
"deeslrlek."—Balnbrldge Benrehllg" 1 ’
Goss Whols Hog. ..
If any one town can enjoy * pF®'
nny more thnn another. It Is Graymo'] ■
It generally goes the "whole h°*
. making these summer occasions
I cessfitl, nnd thus place* Itself In » P®
Islllnn to obtain sell the possible enj .
ment from them.—Graymont Hustle*'