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ML BILLS LOST AS LEGISLATORS ROMP HOME Lawmakers Adjourn Sine Die at 1:13 A. M. —Getaway Ses sion Given Over to Play. The Georgia legislature adjourned sine die at 1:13 o’clock this morning. Officially, it adjourned exactly at mid night, but the clock was set back, after the manner of an old-fashioned fiction, and the hands were not permitted to indicate the midnight hour until a few seconds after the speaker's gavel had fallen for the last time. When the house met there was mass of business on hand to be disposed of before adjournment. The members were more in a mood to play than to work, and throughout the night’s pro ceedings a spirit of levity and hilarity, with an occasional dash of hysteria, prevailed. The one big fight of the night session came over a relatively inconsequential matter—the appointment of senate pages for the first session of the next legislature. The biggest matter coming to the house’s attention on its final day was disposed of with a mere wave of the hand—the banking bill. The house and senate were in dis agreement about few items, compared with the usual situation on the closing day. There was some difference of opinion with respect to the insurance bill and several iterng of the appropria tion bills. Fight Over Pages in Senate. None of these differences was partic ularly violent, however, and they were quickly adjusted and the bills passed. The fiercest conflict of the entire night was the fight to take the appoint ment of the senate pages out of the hands of Messenger Hargett and place them directly In the hands of the pres ident of the senate, just as they are In the hands of the speaker of the house. Mr. Hargett had rallied the senate strongly to his cause—largely, It was charged, through distribution of pat ronage to relatives of senators—and all ; efforts to reconcile the two houses on a I non-Hargett platform were unavailing. Finally the matter was straightened out by dividing the appointments be tween the president of the senate and the messenger—a solution far from sat isfactory to a majority of the member ship, but apparently the best that might be achieved at the moment. Woman Lawyer Bill Dies. Among the bills that went to their death last night were the lieutenant '• governor bill, the general banking bill e and the woman lawyer bill. - The appropriation bills, properly ad | justed, were crowded through at the last minute, and while the members chorused "The Old Time Religion," the house adjourned. Early in last night’s session the two houses had a love feast over the gen eral insurance bill, forced into confer ence because of the mass of amend ments submitted. The real fight came over the appropriations bill. The senate was determined to do nothing except squabble over the ap pointment of its pages: Its rules com mittee refused twice to fix the child labor bill as a special order and twice the vote sustained the committee’s de cision. The child labor bill never reached a hearing, although its adher ents claimed to have-pledged a major ity in the upper house. The surprise of the session came late yesterday afternoon when the senate in a 30-minute executive session con firmed Hoke Smith's appointments to the state board of education over which subterranean politics has been playing the entire session. Senate Sets a Precedent. The situation furnished by the sen ate's action is unique in Georgia’s leg islative annals. The senators, in face, have announced with satisfaction that they have set a precedent. The Smith apopintments on the board —Dr. Jere M. Pound, T. .1. Wooster, J. C Langston rind the late Judge E. G. Lawson —were made September 8, 1911. and have never been sent to the sen ate. GovemoS- Brown sent in appoint ments this session, superseding Pound and Langston by G. R. Glenn and Judge A. T. Moon. Walter E. Steed had been appointed in the spring to fill the place made vacant by the death of Judge Lawson. The senat- grumbled over the Brown appointments and became involved in a legal squabble arising over the fact that Smith’s appointments were made under a new act creating the present I board of education. Governor Brown then withdrew his I nominations It had happened that Governor! Brown had furnished the senate with the minutes of the executive office of 1 September 8. as fuel for the controversy. I The governor told the senate plainly i that the minutes were sent in merely as information and the names were not to I be considered as nominations. The senate thought otherwise. From | the minutes of the « xecutive office it 1 was concluded that Hoke Smith must 1 have made the above appointments. Th< ' were confirmed forthwit :. Th- action of the upper house means a court fight. Governor Brown, it is I undtistood. "ill hold that the senate I has confirmed no appointmen’ and 1 name men of his own choosing In this ev- nt quo warranto proceedings from j one side or the other " ill result" giving the supreme court a opportunity to | hand <:■•»• 1.1 tiling as companion of t n W< st-Shaekleford decision. 'Far Away From Hotels in Nature'sDells' POPHAMS FIND REAL “EDEN" I / Ml t & \\ / WW jESt ~ ■ wll” \ \ t Ml J- \ \ ■ /jk. \\ • PS-r- 1 L.;\ \ //Mw X ' I 'Uy/ ’t' >./•• WHI Fi I -ux. <?. 1 < •s'. o ; -■ x' ■ \ I ■'» “ T (t ''' ?>• k / 1..*5« P*■ e < I rix M'A •' ’‘‘ k-\ ■'.‘•""l i // AW- ”■ ■ x "j ■ Jf// x '-==fw»* \ \ -.is 4y/fiSv •lav,' ■F/ . s»- \\ <w r■ F w® ys As <A>W A'JEF hi ’Tis Wonderful. ’Tis Nice. This Floridian Paradise—Pastor- Poet and Bride Say So. Rev Willi in Lee i’opharn, poet and lover, who recently was detained in du rance vile by the unsympathetic police force of Atlanta because of certain dis crepancy ■< in signing his and his bride’s names to a hotel register, and who, therefore, was forced to bare the ro mance of his life to the world, the flesh and the devil, has at last found the proper environment for his untram meled "soul" with all its ramifications. Rev. Popham married a Kentuckj girl, but it was not until their arrest in Atlanta that the fact of their mar riage, together with several of his choicest poems, came to light. In a lengthy communication, received today by The Georgian, ho tells of having found a perfect place for the "making of a lovers’ paradise." This new Eden is on the Alflre river, just ten miles from Tampa, Fla., Here will he live with his wife. Pretty Alfirfd Nice. ‘The building site,” he says, "is by a mammoth spring of crystal water, which flows undisturbed from the bos- I om of Mother Earth and gently slopes its round banks into a beautiful flower bedecked brook, and this brook winds its timid way through clusters of dog wood and magnolias to the Alflre river." Going further, he tells of the many delights of the woodland bow’er —of its many advantages, celestial, floral, fau nal, exotic, neurotic ifrnd tommyrotic. In phrases laden with the honey dew of poesy, he tells of his future plans. The Rev. Mr. Popham is now on a lec ture tour through Georgia, but shortly will abandon this and give his time ex clusively to romance. Yes, Yes, Go On! "My wife is a mermaid,” he confided ; in his letter —and then, speaking for ; himself, "and we like the water, for all | ihe world loves a lover, and a lover I loves all the world, and three-fourths | of the earth is water. Then why should 1 we not have chosen such environments, i here in this dream-kissed spot among I the birds and flowers? Indeed, why not? ‘ Away from the smoke of the city, I but easily in boating distance, we have ! chosen to build our nightingale nest for | two; and in the beautiful solitude of i the woodland and beneath the spread ■ ing shade of magnolias we will glide , with the brook and float with the tide; and in the moonlight and starlight and i summer afternoons our boat will rock I us to slumber; and our dreams will be | written in both story and rhyme; and i our heart beats will be felt in the world's literature and our love will be I the fairy magic inspiration of every poem and every dream. Hear Things in the Gloaming. “At ' \ ning we "ill retire, shut in from the burdens and cates of the day; THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912. r J William Lee Popham and his bride who have found “Para dise” on the banks of the Alflre river in Florida. at morning, awakeh to feel the power of life and love and the perfume of a kiss—which only lovers are capable to bestow. In this earthly paradise our soul will revel in the sunshine of heav en and in the gleam of stars. Many a sweet voice we hear in the gloaming, which gives us new inspiration to write the messages of our heart. We hear the voices of the night where we lie in meditation —the lawn for our beds and the sky for our blankets.” Transmogrification evidently is a very small trick for Rev. Popham. First fish, then fowl, then woodland sprites, he and his mate will change form every time the humor strikes them down in this Floridian Eden. “We lilft? to travel as birds in the air,” he writes, “and as fishes under the water, and arm in arm we arc climbing life’s hill together.” It would hardly supposed that such a pair as this could think tn mun dane numbers, but he naively con fesses that he actually ate with his mouth in good old-fashion sixty chews-to-the-minute style. And it was candy, too. What the Waves Are Saying. “While writing this,” he admits, “we ire sitting together by an open box of candy, by the blue ocean, and while kisses are sweeter and certainly more lasting than candy, the latter is not unwelcome.” Then, continuing lyrical ly, paregyrically, “In a poet's Eden we ramble, where every tree is bloom ing its flowers of love—and even the flowers bend to kiss in celebration of our happiness and the waves roll over each other in glee and frolic and seem glad because of our gladness. The sea gulls, the emblems of peace and Con tentment. linger near upon the blui bosom of the rocking waves, and they sewn to know that even they will be a part of the love story which we are writing by the sea." If the original Eve had had the ad vantage of Rev. Pophams advice the human race today would probably be rambling in wooded glades instead of toiling in the money mill ami grinding on the grisslv grill H< makes the fol lowing caustic commentary of Adam’s methods of instructions: "If Eve's appetite for apples had been cultivated for kisses Eve have forgotten her desire for the apples at the gentle pressure of man's lips and today we would be rambling in the original courts of Eden.” In conclusion, Rev. Popham breaks—• nay, crashes into verse. In this metri cal conclusion he pays respects to the police who arrested him, to the re porters who brought to light the fact of his marriage and to such other per ■sons and Institutions as are necessary to complete the rhyme. Here it goes: "The hot retreats from Atlanta’s streets Hold no charm for me. Nor is there peace with the police For lovers such as we. From city walls and reporters’ calls And the eager camera’s gleams The waves seclude in solitude The safety of our dream. True romance will find some folks un kind, Tho’ the world doth love a lover, But what care we by the rolling sea, Where in the dunes we hover? Away from hotels in Nature's dells Lexers find their heax'en, For in the tent of sweet content We retire at six or eleven." LEITERS IN A PALACE GO“BACK TO NATURE” WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. -Mrs. Jo seph Leiter, wife of the millionaire and former wheat king, has eschewed the pleasures of Bar Harbor and Newport for the delights of her million-dollar glass palace in the woo'ls on the Vir ginia hills. The Leiter country home overlooking Washington has recently been com pleted. There Mr. and Mrs. Leiter are living a happy, back-to-nature ex istence. While the mansion is in the woods, it is luxurious and has been named the glass palace because many ,of the outside rooms are inclosed in glass. TO DELVE INTO MINDS OF CONVICTS TO STOP CRIME JEFFERSONVILLE, INI)., Aug. 15. Psychological study of state convicts, aimed to cure mental deficiencies that led men and women into ways of crime, will be attempted in the Indiana re formatory, according to an announce ment made by Superintendent David C. Peyton. A laboratory will be estab- I lished in the reformatory, "here tests of each prisoner’s mentality may he made, after which cures will be at tempted, according to the patient's needs. WANT AD WOOER RECLAIMS BRIDE Girl Who Thought She Had Been Deserted Leaves City With "Her Love.” Conway Hutcheson, the want ad wooer, and his country girl bride, whose romantic courtship of one day termi nated in an elopement to Atlanta and then the sudden disappearance of the bridegroom, today are reunited and are on board a train speeding through the country somewhere to some place— destination unknown. Following the publication of the story that the want ad bride, formerly Miss Mary McEachin, of Denton, Ga., was in Atlanta at the end of a four days honeymoon searching for her lost husband, she received a telegram yes terday from the missing bridegroom asking her to meet him at the depot last evening. The message came from Milledgeville. The "country girl" was almost over come with joy when she read this mes sage. and at once packed her grip, in forming her sister-in-law, Mrs. Herman McEachin, of 97 Lovejoy street, with whom she has been stopping, that the idea that her husband had left her was all an hallucination and that she would soon be "on her way.” Without wait ing for her sister-in-law to get ready to accompany her, Mrs. Hutcheson hur ried away to the depot, where she met the bridegroom and where an affection ate and dramatic scene took place. They then boarded another train and left the city. "I have no idea where they have gone,” said Mrs. McEachin. "My sis ter-in-law never told me a word ex cept that she would go wherever her love’ wished that she go.” SEABROOKE’S FAT EEL WAS A WATER SNAKE; GUESTS FEEL WIGGLY NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—Thomas Q. Seabrooke, actor, is a fine chef, but a bad judge of eels. Any one of the four persons who dined with the actor-chef yesterday will go on record as to the correctness of this statement. Mr. Seabrooke Is the possessor of a bungalow at South Beach, S. I. While fishing he caught what he supposed was an eel. Being particularly fond of eels, the actor took it home, skinned and fried it. Then he called in his neighbors and Mrs. Seabrooke to par take. They ate liberally and remarked 1 that the actor was a great cook as well ias an excellent fisherman. All were smacking their lips when Dr. Hall, a friend, called. He listened io the story and examined the head of the supposed eel. "Thomas, you have eaten a water snake —a regular water snake. I don’t I know what you will do,” said the doc ! t or. Every one felt Wiggly and turned pale. "I prescribe whisky." announced the physician, and the fried snake received a liberal bath in the alcoholic beverage. SOME REAL CROOKS IN MINNEAPOLIS; 8-ROOM HOUSE THIEF’S LOOT MINNEAPOLIS, Aug 15. —The police and detective forces of the twin cities today have been asked to keep a sharp look out for an eight-room house that has been stolen. The house was the property of Mrs. Frank N. Edmonds. It stood at Fourth avenue, North, and Fourth street. One day Mrs. Edmonds got notice from the health department to clean up /he property. She sent her hus band, a real estate dealer, to investi gate. The lot needed cleaning. The house had been moved away and a lit ter of materials was left on the grounds. The police admit the case has, them puzzled. TWO LIFE TERM CONVICTS ESCAPE IN MONROE CO. FORSYTH. GA.. Aug. 15.—Sheriff T. S. Holland has just returned from an unsuccessful hunt for two white con victs serving life sentences, who made their getaway front the guards at the Monroe county convict camp. Choosing a time when the superin tendent was at home sick, one of the guards was having a good time at In dian Springs and a third guard was ab. sent with another body of convicts, Jim Harrison and Jeff Turner, sent up from Spalding county, asked permission to r< st in the shade of some bushes by the roadside and escaped into the woods. Unable to leave the large band of con victs, it was itnpo. sible for the guards to give immediate chase. Although the sheriff and the commissioners, with the aid of the county’s dogs, have been scouring the surrounding country, no trace of the escapes has been found. GRAND JURY PUTS SUNDAY LID ON TIGHT IN GRIFFIN GRIFFIN. GA.. Aug. 15.—The grand jury of Spalding superior court, which has been in session during the past.two weeks, has called the druggists and soft drink dealers before it and given warning that no Sunday selling will be tolerated. So the Sunday lid goes on In Griffin. The drug stores and. soft drink stands have sold cigars, tobacco and cold drinks on Sunday, just as any other day. Many of the citizens ap prove of the action of the grand jury in stopping the Sunday sales. PUBLIC CAN ADVANCE ONLYWITH ROOSEVELT, SAYS ALFRED H. LEWIS By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS. NEW YORK, Aug. 15. —In a recent editorial, one of our dallies, speaking for the trusts and for criminaj. privilege—those thumbs and fingers of Satan!—taunts the public with its political Idleness, and in pass ing calls It a "a Pharisee.” The public says the condemnatory daily—com plains of criminal privilege and accuses it of coercion, corruption and bribery. The daily points out how the trusts are frequently the victims, not the crimi nals, and—threatened by the public’s own elected officers—pay not bribes, but blackmail. The public, crying for protection, should—by word of the dal ly—|n its turn protect. It should save the trusts from extortioners in office before assailing them as extortioners, bleeding the public. This charge Is not new. It was made four years ago by Mr. Archbold. You know Mr. Archbold. He sits all day at No. 26 Broadway, inclosing certificates of deposit tor SI,OOO and $2,000 and $5,000 and $50,000 to ’’My Dear Gen eral Grosvenor” and "Dear Sibley” and “My Dear Senator Foraker" and “Dear Mr. Penrose," meanwhile urging per incident that this measure be killed or that measure pressed, or this man be made a judge or that man prevented from becoming an attorney general; and all and singular with a view to fr iending a corruption which in the be ginning produced him (Mr. Archbold) and has ever since continued to pleas antly foster and fatten him. Public Should Reform Itself. Mr. Archbold and the metropolitan daily have some reasonable right on their side. Good can come out of Naz areth, truth proceed from a metropoli tan daily or an Archbold. It may even be echoed by a Chancellor Day. And because of a woolsack aphorism which Insists that he who comes into equity must come with clean hands, a convict ed public, complaining of trust extor tions and the encroachments of crimi nal privilege, should turn honestly ac tive in an effort to reform itself. As declared by Mr. Archbold and re declared by that metropolitan dally— defending criminal privilege with red faced zeal—the public too often and too carelessly has maintained a band of wolves at its capitols as part and parcel of what it calls congresses and legis latures. Failing of its plain duty, the public, in the business of Its office-filling, has allowed itself to be ruled by bosses ruled by money. These bosses were mere wolf-masters. They picked out and controlled the public wolf-packs The big parties were both to blame There was the Republican part of the pack, which corresponded with the black timber wolves of our Northwest ern woods. There was the Democrat fragment of the pack which —dingy and brindled as to moral hue—found their prototypes in the big gray wolves of the plains. Being gathered together, gaunt, huegry-eyed, famished of flank, the wolf-pack, letting its glance rove about the plains of business, describes a fat trust—felonious, but fat. It is now the chase begins. The fat company is be set by some bill or some resolution, cal culated for its injury or destruction. Price Must Be Forthcoming. At this crisis, enter the 111-odnred folk of the lobby, whose province is the unclean province of the go-between. The threatened trust is told the price of peace and safety. Unless the price be forthcoming the injurious bill or de structive resolution will be voted through. The harassed company pays the price. With that the wolf-pack fall upon that blackmail —after the bosses and minor have torn off their shares —and rend it to pieces. Who Is responsible for this special and particular corruption? Is it the trusts, hunted by the wolf-pack? Or is It the public, lazily Indifferent both to its ballot duty and its political respon sibility? The above, however, doesn’t mark in full the boundaries of a public culpa bility, and Mr. Archbold and the metro politan daily stopped talking too soon. In Its laxities of politics the public is not only to blame for wolves of black mail in legislatures and congresses, hut also for the leg freedom wrongfully enjoyed by a multitude of trust organs and felons of criminal privilege. Os these Mr. Archbold and the excited daily say suspiciously nothing. ‘ Consider those beef acquittals in Chicago and those sugar dismissals — through the interposition of a conven ient statute\ of limitations —in New York. Consider the score or more of similar waterhauls in anti-trust litiga tions—those farcical dissolutions by the supreme court of Tobacco and Stand ard Oil. Forget not, too. those one hundred and one “investigations" of steel and sugar and railroads and in surance Those trials and investigations in their results gave the world a long and ebon roll call of self-confessed male factors. These letters were self-ad mitted criminals, by both letter and spirit of the law. They had committed crimes of rebate and perjury and lar ceny and forgery. Than they' no Paul Kelly, by their own admissions, was more the proper cancTtdate for stripes. But the law was not enforced. There came no convictions, no sen tences. no stone walls. As to these rich and trust-bulwarked rogues, the pub lic's attorneys heard as little, saw as little, forgot as much of what should militate against them, or go to prove their mean iniquities, as they might. Trust Rogues Rich, The reason? Those trust rogues were rich and therefore "respectable,” and "respecta bility,” as a phrase, had been twisted and turned and improved upon until it operated as an indulgence. It so oper ates today. He who is "respectable” may commit bribery and perjury and larceny and embezzlement and pecula tion—by means of robber commissions and salaries never earned—and still live ' safe from the layv lash. ! "Respectability!” It is the modern benefit of clergy. Today the thief has but to plead his "respectability” and courts, juries, the very law Itself, grovel before him. No , officer lays hand upon his shoulder. No prosecutor presents, no grand jury In ’ diets, no court convicts, no chains clank, no bolts shoot home. For. 10. he is "respectable!” W hile the public is correcting those blackmail evils of legislatures and con gresses. against which Mr. Archbold and the metropolitan daily have so _ wailingly—and honestly—protested, it should also dertfand the RECALL, wherewith to twist the recusan tails of trust-owned judges and money-ruled p district attorneys. t In his "Confession of Faith” Mr. Roosevelt sets forth “The right of the ] people to rule." No one will challenge this claim. And yet. co-related to that "right to rule” Is the responsibility of not only ruling, but ruling rightly. As a picture of popular power and the pub lie's ability to command its own offi oers. Mr. Roosevelt also uses these words: 1 \\ hatever I did as president I was able to do only because I had ’ the backing of the people. When * on any point I did not have that backing, when on any point I dif fered from the people, it mattered not whether I was right or whether 1 was wrong, my power vanished.” Law Never Suppresses Crime. 1 This last suggests a thought some- - what aside from politics. The thought is not novel, yet no less important. The 1 public has imposed upon it not only a ! political duty, but a dutj' of sentiment. 1 Crime is never suppressed by effort of mere law. Men fear prisons less than - they fear infamy and loss of name and friends. And it is these last great pen alties. as much as any failure of action by judges and district attorneys, which are peculiarly wanting in the cases of our rich and "respectable” scoundrels. Take the men who at these trials and " "investigations” confessed— creatures of f mire-born avarice and a morality of , mud! There followed, as stated, no jail sentence. But what was their social or commercial punishment? Did they lose place, or fall behind? Were they thrust ” aside? Did they become outcasts as the result of their discovered and admit ted guilt? ' t Perish the thought! Nothing of dte a aster, whether of church, club, draw ? ing room or bourse, arose to overtake ” their evil heels. The same friends p grasped their hands and dragged them home to dinner. They dealt with the t same banks, and their accounts were as d welcome and their money-potent signa'- r Hires as deeply rejoiced over as of yore. f At. night they repaired to the same clubs, to encounter receptions as warm dr Ink highballs as comforting, and play p bridge for old-time thousands with the t same old "respectable” gamblers and t sots with whom they had guzzled and [4 gßmblpd for ypars. "Respectable” Till-Tappers. "Virtue Is its own reward,” says the moralist, and Lord Byron adds in his journal: w "And truly the poor jade J } ought to be damned well paid for her I , trouble." Virtue is Its own reward! J I hat may b- as it may. The feet re- ~ f malns . howler, that our ? till-tappers of politics and money . know' so little of virtue that they will 1 do naught, fail of naught, for its pale and tasteless sake. , Ih? Eskimo, of dull, perverted palate, I if Offered his arctic choice between a . cluster of grapes and a dripping morsel r of whale’s blubber, will seize the blub ber. And so with our "respectable’’ ! crime-saturated rogues of trade and , politics. As between virtue for virtue's , dollarless sake and those rotund If rot , ten millions, they will never hesitate. . They will take the rancid millions, finding for them and for themselves I thereafter as wide and as ready an acceptance as for whiter characters . and money much more clean. Recurring to the political angle, and letting the moral-sentimental go adrift, . it Is safe to’say that publics are never . saved from the shore. They save or sink themselves. Whether It were a , blackmailer in a legislature, or a trust- • tamed district attorney, not an evil has been mentioned which the RECALL wouldn’t cure. Hope Lies in Roosevelt. How are you to get it? Mr. Taft is against RECALL. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Roosevelt profess to favor It. Who ’ is the surer man in that recall con nection—Mr. Wilson or Mr. Roosevelt? . Mr. Taft, by his own word, is out of the question. He is for the god of things as they agree. To vote for him Is but to confirm present conditions or retreat to worse. Os the other two on whom would you sooner rely to put through a RECALL— the man of action or the man of alcoves? Frederick the Great once said: "If I wanted to punish a province, I’d have it governed bv a phi losopher." Mr. Wilson is a philoso pher. With a last word, it’s all in the lap of the public. The public can advance with Mr. Roosevelt; it can stand still with Mr. Wilson; it can go backward with Mr. Taft. The public is its own architect and builds for itself. For whatever happens publicly the public has no one save itself to thank. It can not be too often repeated that government is ever the just expression ' of its people like a flower of its stalk. For good or bad, or black or w'hite, it is unflaggingly a match for the popular desert. In the eternal fitness of things, i men will get man-government, dogs will get dog-government. And why I not’.’ Why waste a man-government on a dog-public? Would you pelt pigs with pearls? A dog-public should have dog-government—a kick, a kennel, a collar, a bone to gnaw, a chain to I clank. 5