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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 16,1909,
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
. (AND NEWS)
T. L. SEELY. PnMiifcer.
S. E. DAVIDSON. AsioeUte Pnblliber.
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BACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE.
A flre-mlit and s planet.
A crystal and a cell,
A JeUy-flah and a Marian
And cares where the care-men dwell;
Then a aenae of law and baanty,
And a face turned from tha clod—
Some call It Erolntlon
And others call It God.
A hast on the fair hprlton,
The lnfllnito tender sky,
The ripe, rich tints of the cornfields.
And tha wild goose sailing hl|h.
And all orer upland and lowland
The charm of the golden-rod.
Some of us call It Autumn,
And others call It God.
Like tides on s crescent sea-beach.
When the moon Is new and thin.
Into onr llrea high yearnings
Come welling and surging In;
Come from the mystic ocean
Whoae rim no foot hath trod—
Some of ns eall it Longing,
And others call It Ood.
A picket frosen on duty,
A mother starred for her brood,
Socrates drinking the heml»rfc,
And Jc«m on the rood;
And xnllilona who. hmnble and nameless,
The same straight pathway plod—
Some call It Consecration,
And others call It Ood.
—William Herbert (feroth.
Say* The Baltimore Newa: "The
pedestal for the statue of Robert E.
Lee Is missing, but Lee can stand on
his record."
One of the scientists has discovered
that a cork, If sunk 200 feet nnder
water, will not Hse to the surface.
"But who cares," asks an exchange,
"what becomes of the cork?”
It has been suggested that another
reason for naming the seven-mile rail
way In Louisiana after Roosevelt Is
that people riding over It are apt to be
jolted. ,
Bodies burled for 150 years have
been found In 8lberla In a state of per
fect preservation, but thia number will
have to be multiplied by 10 In order to
rival the mummtea which have been
pickled in the pyramids.
The recent death of Congressman
Francis Cushman has set the newspa
pers to moralising upon American wit
and humor on the ktump and In the
councils of state. The Washington
Post Is always full of Interesting remi
niscences of the capital, and the con
tribution which this paper makes to
the discussion Is spiced with allusions
to numerous public men. Says The
Post:' "Of course, Tom Corwin Is
widely quoted as expressing the regret
that ‘only the solemn ass Is a success
In the Held of American statecraft.’
Ilia fame as a humorist Is based on his
cornstalk militia speech, the session
of 1839-1840 perhaps It was, and It Is
now sn Irksome piece of reading. The
fact Is that Corwin acted humor. He
did not speak the home-made article.
On the histrionic stage he might have
been the first comedian Who ever
spoke our tongue In either hemisphere.
Proctor Knott, on the contrary, made
the humor he spoke, and It came spon
taneous and bubbling from an unfail
ing fount. Corwin could no more have
composed the ’Pennsylvanla-ave.' or the
‘Duluth’ speech than he could have de
livered so classic a lecture as Knott's
on Andrew Jackson or so powerful a
constitutional argument as Knott on
thfe fourteenth amendment. John Ran
dolph, of Roanoke, and Thomas B.
Reed were will who put virus to sting
and to fetter Into the wounds they
«ade. Corwin, Knott and Cushman
earried an oil of unction that cured the
braise they caused. The wit excites
anger that turns to malice; the hu
morist placates his victim and makes
him a friend for life. Duluth has noth
ing but love for Proctor Knott, whose
ridicule Brit made the town famous.”
Dr. Rowlett Defends Dr. Eliot.
Dr. John W. Rowlett, the pastor of the Unitarian church of Atlanta,
protests against the misconstruction which the newspapers have put upon
the views expressed by Dr. Eliot In his recent address to the theological
students at Harvard—especially with respect to the doctrine of the fu
ture life.
While there Is wide divergence between the old and the new schools
of thought upon many topics of religious controversy, he Insists that
those who belong to the new school, not less than do those who adhere
to the old school, reject the Idea of annihilation.
■ "Dr. Eliot," says he, “Is a -Unitarian. He Is the son of a Unitarian
minister and the father of the present president of the American Unita
rian association; and belief In a future life Is one of the five cardinal doc
trines of this church. All Unitarians believe In ’the progress of mankind
onward and upward.’ Dr. Eliot In his recent address says. It Is true, that
the new religion will not attempt to reconcile people to present ills by tho
promise of future compensation. But In this statement Immortal exist
ence Is In no sense dented. Unitarians believe firmly In a future life, but
regard any doctrine of a hereafter that lessens the Importance of this pres
ent existence or that causes men to live less nobly here on earth as falso
and harmful.”
In so far as the eloquent deliverance of Victor Hugo on tho subject of
Immortality expresses faith In a future life, Dr. Rowlett says that tho
view Is heartily accepted by Unitarians the world over.
And reverting to the religious convictions .of Victor Hugo upon other
declarations of the orthodox creed, he asserts that tho great Frenchman
held to the same monotheistic conception of the Godhead that Dr. Eliot
affirms.
Freak Legislation.
After all, there is some degree of relative satisfaction In the knowl
edge that Georgia Is not tho only state In the Union whose legislature has
contributed to tho merriment of tho public during these sultry midsum
mer months, when the mercury la hovering In the neighborhood of blood-
heat.
There are others.
Indeed, most of the states seem to have chosen humorists to represent
them at the seats of legislation. -
And If Georgia Is after the palm, Tho New York World Is kind
enough to say that the old Empire State of the South will have to bestir
herself.
The metropolitan newspaper adds:
How can Georgia hope to compare with Oklahoma, where a
hotel may not use any receptacle for food which has cracks visible
to the naked eye, nor cover any bed with n sheet less than nine
feet long: where Senator Landrum's bill protects the feelings of
the aborigines by forbidding the use of wooden Indians ns cigar
store signs under penalty of 350 and six monthts' Imprisonment?
Kansas will still be a few laps nliond with Its acts forbidding
drinking on railway trains and the running of motor vehicles
at Illegal rates of speed except by n “political chauffeur," who
may “run an nutomobllloiis hand wagon at any rate he sees fit
compatible with tho safety of the occupants thereof.”
In Illinois a bill was Introduced "to establish a new mathe
matical truth, vlx, the squaring of the circle." A Western legis
lator has endeavored to make It unlawful fpr any druggist to
sell a patent medicine "unless thero bo affixed In a conspicuous
place In his store an affidavit stating that he has tried one bottle
of the mixture and experienced no harmful effects therefrom.”
Another has sought to have it declared under palnB and penalties
that every hotel menu should be printed In English, another that
every saloon must have n red light In front with the word "dan
ger” Inscribed thereon, while still another act provides that "It
shall bo unlawful to discharge any rifle or revolver in the public
highway unless to kill some wild, ferocious or dangerous beast, or
an officer In discharge of Ills duty.” In the Lone Star 8tate It Is
solemnly enacted that "the skies of Texas are as blue as the skies
of Italy." • ,
The foregoing Inventory shows that Georgia Is not alone In the effort
which she Is making to entertain, by statutory enactment, the great
masses, who must be amused even at the expense of the time-honored
traditions which have dedicated tho lnw-maklng power to the oracles of
sober wisdom. -/Lit ;; •.
Brush Up, Mr. Editor.
Homer sometimes nods. One of the leading papers of Milwaukee—
perhaps It Is best not to glvo tho name—contained recently the following
squib:
The centenary of Alfred Tennyson Is being celobrated. Many
years It Is since one of his lines was written, but It Is as apt now
aa then. "O God! that bread should be so dear and human life so
cheap!".
By way of good-natured demurrer. It may be suggested that there are
two errors In tho foregoing paragraph.
In the first place, the passage quoted represents not one but two lines
of the verso from which It It taken. The completo stanza rends:
But why do I talk of Denth?
That phantom of grisly bone,
I hardly fear his terrible sliapo,
It scemi so like my own—
It seemB so like my own.
Because of the fasts I keep:
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
But the second criticism la still more serious. Instead of being Ten
nyson. It happens to be Hood who wrote the lines In question; and. If the
editor will'take the iialns to rqart an old familiar poem, he wilt find the
fragment which he quotes In the fifth verie of labor'a great classic, "The
Song of the Shirt." * N
For a centennial tribute to the master singer of tho Victorian era, the
Milwaukee paper has woven a choice bouquet.
Growth and Progress of the New South
Tha Oaonrfnn hara raaorda each day
soma economic .fact In reference to
tba onward progress of tho South.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
The news that Captain W. I*. Lsjr has succeeded In interesting the greatest finan
cial Interests of America In a proposition to develop tha water powers of tha Coosa
river and tha ganaral Industrial development of tha Coosa valley, has attracted wide
spread attention and has placed tha possibilities of this great stream along that line
in the limelight aa it never waa before.
Tha fact that an electrical energy of SA0.000 horsepower can be generated haa
been placed before the pioneyed men of the Kast In such n way that the Coosa river
will loons up aa tba greatest Industrial asaet within tha borders' of Alabama and
Georgia. ,
Captain Lay la receiving telegrams asking for further information aa to his
plana and those of the men behind him, but to all he has stated that they were not
reedy to be made public.
In speaking of the possibilities of water power development Captain Lay says, in
The Gadsden Tlmes-News:
"In figuring on thn.poasibllltles of an increased stream we can only figure on
the results obtainable from Its minimum discharge, counting all in excess of this to bo
wasted.
"The minimum discharge of the Coosa and Alabama rivers ia approximately
2,000 cable feet per second. This discharge will give 200 horsepower for each foot of
fall. There are 800 feet of available fall of the Coosa river for water power develop
ment between Green sport and Wetutnyke, Ala. This would develop 120,000 12-hour
horsepower.
"It would taka ta develop thia amount of horsepower by steam, according to
standard tables, 1.342,000 tons of coal, and when value<Lat 92 a ton, would reach the
enormous sum of 92,484,000. *
"Thia la not all. With the proper conservation of tha waters of this stream,
thia power can he trebled, and instead of 129,000 horsepower as produced by tha
minimum discharge, it can be aafely increased by conservation to 300,000 horsepower.
This means that it would require 3,720,000 tons of coal per annum to produce by
steam the power of thia river, which would coat 97,432.000.
* ‘ Suppose for a moment that the eoel field# of Alabama were sliding down an incline
and pouring over a precipice Into fathomless apace at a rata of 9,726,000 tons per
annum, how long would it take the people of the United States to get busy and try
to stop iieh a waste of God given resources t Yet what else are we doing when we
ait idly by and let the water of the stream go to waste while we ourselves burn up
the coal!"
Few men can present the facts aa Captain Lay, who haa made the Coosa river
a Ufa study. He originated the conservation plan and even now the general govern
ment haa a corps of engineers on the headwaters, near Cartersriile. at work on it.
All the power spoken of ran be generated within 100 miles of Gadsden,
Rome and Anniston.
Captain Lfy'a organisation haa advanced so* far that many of tha large menu-
teetnriog concerns of north Alabama are already fignring on nsing cheap electric power
within the nest tew years. The official* of the Southern Iron and Steel Com
pany are greatly interested, as are those of like concerns in the Birmingham and
Gadsden districts.—Roma (Ga.) Tribune Herald. *
:gX)oWe4
ism®
» A Protest.
Reduce the else of dollar bills?
Oh, look here. Sec. MacVeagh,
They’re small enough now as It Is
When we look at our pay.
We, open up the envelope
And sadly ponder, think
On how to pay the grocery-—
We can not If they shrink.
Reduce the size of dollar bills?
■ Oh, no, 'tvyould be too tough.
For at the present time we feel
They’re not half large enough.
We try to stretch them now, but If
You cut their stse In two
How can we pay the butcher—what
The dickens shall we do?
Reduce the size of dollar bills?
Why. golly, aren’t they small
Enough, when we remember what
The tariff In the fall
Will do to us? Why. when we start
To pay the trusts their price
We’ll wish the bills were twice a# large.
And wlstf It In a trice.
Reduce the size of dollar bills?.
The Idea Is absurd;
I'll bet that Teddy yells when he
Gets leas for ev'ry word.
Oh. Mr. Secretary, change
Your mind—It's fierce to dig
For less than we get now—and make
Our dollars twice as big!
—Arthur Roche, In The New York
World.
The Modern Way.
The Whistling Girl and the Crowing
Hen looked at each other and burst out
laughing.
“We’ll show 'em!” they exclaimed as
with one voice, and then, with their
heads In the air, they marched In i
any number of girls who couldn’t wl
tic and hens which couldn’t crow and
signed for, the vaudeville circuit at
31.000 a weik.—Puck.
Foreshortening.
Magistrate—Was his motor going so
very fast?
Cop—Your, honor, It was going so
fast that the bulldog on the seat beside
him looked like a dachshund.—Kansas
City Journal.
Forthcoming Classics.
"He’s starting out In the literary field
very confidently.”
Yes; he expects to make ’em elon
gate that five-foot shelf by at least
eighteen Inches.”—Philadelphia Bulle
tin.
Where Denials End.
"Whnt Is the proper time to announce
the engagement?”
Tepends on how fashionable you
are. Some deny It right tip to the al
tar.”—Kansas City Journal.
Lack.
Many a man Is so lacking In the es
sentials of success that he Isn't even a
successful liar.—-New York Times.
The Sovereign Test.
How to keep the heart on straight, -
That's the thing to know;
How to keep the spirit sweet
As the storm-winds blow;
How to dwell In pleasantness.
That's the sovereign test
When In happy summer time
Mosquitoes sing their best.
—Baltimore Sun,
The Deportation of Wun Bad
Four newspapers, fn New York,
Washington, Richmond and Atlanta,
have for some months been screaming
themselves block In the face over a good
roads movement throughout the South,
with special reference to a highway
from New York to Atlanta for auto
mobiles. They have beeh sending out
devil wagons In all directions, and their
columns have been largely surrendered
to long and enthusiastic accounts of the
more or less Impracticable roadways
and the alleged ecstasies of the natives
over the prospect of nn early better
ment. Everywhere the "special com
missioners" or "staff correspondents."
or whatever the newspapers please to
■call their respective Wandering Willies,
have been received by country mayors,
leading tradesmen, and so on. Farmers
have "spelled" their teams and looked
over fences nnd cheered on general
principles. At last the readers of the
newspapers In question know what the
residents of the various sections in
question have known all the time, that
Southern roads are not as a rule adapt
ed to tourist automobiles from the
North, and the hullabaloo 1s gradually
simmering down.
Mennwhlle a vast froth and scum has
been brought to the surface along the
lines that have been explored. “Lend
ing eltlxens” art writing to the four
newspapers to say that they are heart
Around Georgia
Mr. Brown, of Sugar Valley,
Mr. 811ns Brown nnd wife, of near
Sugar Valley, were In town Wednes
day, doing some trailing.
Mr. Brown was In fine spirits, as he
nearly always Is.
It Is an Inspiration to meet and talk
wltH such men ns him—always genial
nnd hopeful, they make you feel better
by having talked with them.
Mr. Brown says he has got tired of
working for other folks and expects
.from now on to work just enough to
mnke a living.
Don’t want anything to sell—or give
away.
Don’t you give Silas out; he Is al
nn hand with the goods.—Calhoun
rays o
t-Bay
Improvements In Amsricus.
The weeds on tha old hotel plaxa
were cut down.yesterday, and not a
bear or nlllgator was found hidden In
the dense morass.—Amerlcus Times-
Recorder.
A Good Suggestion.
The Advertiser has many times
urged the fitting up In the court house
of a rest room for ladles. Seeing so
many tired, watting women sitting
around at the stares and postoffice yes
terday while their husbands "swapped
jokes” with their friends impels us to
speak again. Will not this body of
grand Jurymen suggest that their
wives and children nnd the wives and
children of othef out-of-town eltlxens
of Habersham be made more comforta
ble by having a quiet resting place
when they find themselves with time on
their hands while In town?—Clarkes
vide Advertiser.
Disappointed Editors.
Some of the country editors suffered
a cruel disappointment at the recep
tion tendered them recently by Gov
ernor Brown.
They were moving around slowly on
the piazza and In the hall of the man
sion. meeting distinguished people and
talking to each other, when Secretary
Blackburn approached and said, in a
confidential manner, "Gent!omen, fol
low me.”
Quite n string nf the rural quill
drivers followed close In the wake of
the affable secretary, who led the way
upstairs.
"Where Is he carrying us?" Inquired
one of another as the motto nf the
procession seemed to be "Excelsior."
No one knew, but all were from Mis.
sourl. Visions of cool and amber de
coctions from Milwaukee, or perchance
a sparkling ant? rare old vintage from
the grapes of Cobb county. In n se
questered nook, brought moisture to
the parched throats and Itps of the
opinion molders, for whom no oasis
had appeared In the desert Intervening
between Douglas and Atlanta.
Entering a large room. Mr. Black
burn said. “Gentlemen, leave your hats
here."
An arid wave caused the tempera
ture In the room to rise rapidly.
Wiping the’perspiration from their
domes of .thought, the victims of an
unintentional but cruel disappointment
grinned dryly at each other and slow
ly wended their way downstatn.
One was heard to remark, confiden
tially. ’To my sorrow. I am thorough
ly convinced that Governor Brown Is a
prohibitionist.”
“Blackburn ought to be prosecuted
for using false pretenses,” quoth an
other.—Cuthbert Leader.
u
By WEX JONES.
f PON the Isle of Bomblloo there
dwelt a decent crowd.
To say ‘I come from Bombl
loo" gave ono cause for
being proud.
Of course, they wore no halos and they
had no wings to show,
But still a pretty decent buch as mor
tal beings go;
And wanderers from the outer world
who struck their happy shore
Found their treatment eminently fair
and sometimes even more,
So when Won Bad struck Bomblloo,
tho he made his home a dive.
He found the tolerant people permitted
him to thrive.
Won Bad was very cagey and he quite
won Bomblloo
By putting on a bathing suit and
chopping off his queue.
He learned to swim and climb and fish
and dawdle round, and thus
The Bombllooloos soon declared "He’s
really one of us.”
Buj Wun Bad was fashioning his ways
upon an artful plan.
And soon was rooking all the sports by
running brace fan tan,
And hfs popularity at last came to a
Anal stop
When the natives found he taught their
youths to dope themselves with
nop;
So a deputation waited upon their"
chieftain, Bangaroo,
And asked the smug Celestial be
# chased from Bomblloo,
But the chieftain said they mustn't
ter the alien from their shore,
And talked at length of tolerance and
praised the open door. . .. .
Next day Wun Bad, who’d made a pile
In that open-hearted land,
Approached the chief with a request
for his eldest daughter's hand.
One moment stared the astonished
king, then with a maddened leap .
He lit upon that alien man and kicked
him In the deep.
| A BAD WAY TO BUILD GOOD ROADS
and soul for good roads, and village
officials are slowly settling up for tho
fried chicken and buttermilk that have
been consumed In the excitement. Let
ters come from Huckleberry Bend. Hog
Wallow, Squirrel Ford, etc., to say that
the writers are tremendously worked
up over good roads and ready to stand
by and see them constructed at any cost
to somebody else. With one voice they
bid the road-builders godspeed, and
then get back to their corn pone and
yellow legged chicken with a sense of
having acted very handsomely nnd lib
erally toward n projected Improvement
In their neighborhood. Nothing could
be moro encouraging than the public
sentiment that has been worked up
over the feasts of watermelon and near-
beer that have blossomed along the
routes pursued by these ardent pion
eers. Everybody In the district Is
ready for good roads. Everybody Is
waiting for the good work to' begin.
Now that the Junketing nnd the Jubi
lation are over, however, who Is going
to build the roads? There has been a
whole Hood of talk, nnd nn air full of
Interchanging compliment nnd loving
gesticulation, but whnt Individual or
whnt community In the South Is going
down Into the pocket to Inaugurate the
much lauded enterprise? In nearly all
Southern neighborhoods the roads are
very bad for automobiles, bad even for
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
VESSELS.
H.
Washington, Aug. 16.—Second Lieu,
tenant Harry L Greer. Twenty-seven!!)
Infantry, to Fort Leavenworth for ex-
amlnation for promotion.
Colonel Thaddeus W. Jones to Tenth
cavalry.
Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin
Cheever to'Third cavalry.
Major Robert J. Duff to Second cav
alry,/
Navy Orden.
Ensign H. F. Emerson from the Hixt
to home nnd leave of one month.
Midshipman XV. H. Pashley from the
Pennsylvania to the Albany.
Movements of Naval Vessels.
The gunboat Galveston has arrived at
Chefoo; the cruiser Albany at Bremer,
ton; the tug Potomac at ProvJncetown
nnd the torpedo boats Whipple, Trux.
ton. Perry, Hopkins and Paul Jones
at Bremerton, and the cruiser Prairie at
Philadelphia.
The collier Culgoa and the tug Hor.
net have sailed from Hampton Roads
for Southern drill grounds.
Werk Day sn a Plantation
The day begins on a plantation when
It ts yet night. The big bell rings he.
tween 4 and 5 o’clock for the "hand,"
to go to the fields. Mammy starts her
small sable assistants around at th«
"big house" with early coffee about «.
Without this tiny cup of cafe notr your
true creole gets up on the wrong side
of 'the bed. I* lias no appetite for
breakfast after a ride thru the fields,
and still less for his generous noonday
dinner. Supper Is served at night nnd
the dishes are typically Southern, the
corn and batter breads, fried chicken,
nnd woffles and fig preserves, with
"syllabub," that moonbeam mixture
that makes modern Ices and confer,
tlons heavy by comparison for dessert.
Life on a plantation Is not dull. There
hre visits to town and a constant
stream of visitors from town. There
arc "sugar house" parties and hog kill
ings, Christmas doings and Thanksglr.
Ing dinners, to say nothing of houne
parties and hunts.—Memphis Commer-
rial Appeal.
the local traffic, not one-half as good u
they ought to be. anyhow; but every-
where they are as the people desire or
deserve. If the roads around Charlotte
nnd Staunton or around Leesburg and
Winchester are comparatively excellent
It Is because the taxpayers of thoee
vicinities will have them so nnd eee
their profit In it. If they are bad elee-
where it In bectuise the property hold-
ers do not see any money In making
them better. Who expects them to rl«e
up ns one man hll along the line from
New York to Jacksonville, via Atlanta,
agree upon a continuous scheme for a
luxurious highway and pour out their
dollars for Its construction? If the
thing Is not done In this fashion, how
Is It to be done and who Is going to do
It?
Because a cbrporal's guard of vagrant
reporters go bustling about the South
dllntlng on the advantages to somebody
i first-class highway to the fur
South, are the Josklnses of Virginia,
the Carollnas, Georgia and Florida to
turn out and pave the way for Joy
riders from unknown lands? It seem,
to us, on the contrary, that the more
these flying prophets talk about the au
tomobiles to como-the more the Jo,-
klnses will keep-their pockets buttoned
and let the automobiles and their va
rious occupants stay at home.—New
York Sun.
NEVER AGAIN! ByT.E.Powers