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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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MONDAY, JUNE X, 1KV
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE'
“It la Indeed a dealrable thing to be well de
scended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
—Plutarch.
Mr. Alexander and Mr. Fleming.
The Honorable Hooper Alexander contributes to our
columns today his reasons for protesting against Mr.
Fleming's speech at Athens.
And Mr. Alexander's reasons are always both Inter
esting and Important. We commend them to dug con-
alderaUon.
They do not, however, convince us that Mr. Fleming
ha* been guilty of either unfairness or Impropriety. His
speech and Its theme were decided upon long before
the disfranchisement question became so “scute" In
Georgia polities as It Is today, and we repeat that the
Judgment and tact of Walter Hill and William Fleming
In that hour were much more likely to be Impartial
sod correct than the Judgment of Hooper Alexander,
the honest but flery partisan of this hour.
It Is our apprehension that Mr. Alexander In hit
*aver championship of a candidate Is Inclined to magnify
In this matter the fortunes of the candidate to the sub
ordination of the Issues of the campaign. The success
or failure of Mr. Hoke Smith or of Mr. Dark Howell In
the campaign Is not a matter of approximate Importance
to the greeter question whether negro dlefrsncblsement
and revised freight rates shall prevail.
The Issue of disfranchisement Is Indeed "scute,
but Its very “acuteness' demands the dissemination of
every honest view and of every essential fact that can
be put before the people to clarify their vision end to
simplify their votes. If s gentleman of approved public
character like Mr. Fleming believes that grave public
dangera front the people and the state In certain advo
cated policies, we do not recognise any presumption or
Impropriety In his seeking a great free, Impartial plat
form on which to present his views more deliberately
and Impartlslly than he could speak to a partisan au
dience upon a political platform
Tho Idea that a man should be shut out from one
of tho two or three Impartial platforms of the state,
simply because he does not agree with everybody upon
an "acute” politics) Issue, Is a new one, and not In accord
with the spirit and traditions of our fathers.
If Mr. Fleming's argument le so strong thnt It cannoY
be answered—and this we by no means believe—then
the state Is fortunate In having beard that argument In
a clear and tranquil atmosphere sod before a non
partisan company of patriotic voters. We have before
declared that the crying need of the times was such a
platform on which to discuss great Issues, unblended
by passion and unclouded by prejudice.
Mr. Fleming spoke perhaps to six hundred people
out of 2,504,000 In the state. The newspapers carried
u small and trivial part of that speech to the public.
The Constitution, as the organ of Mr. Howell, naturdlly
collected that small section which seemed especially to
set ee with Mr. Howell's position. Mr. Fleming’s speech
can be answered by Mr. Hoke Smith or Mr. Hoofer
Alexander at any time In Athens within this two mouths
to sn audience equally as large and much more repre
sentative of voters gathered upon the mere announce
ment of replying, and the newspapers will herald and
summarise the answer Just as wldsly and fully all over
the state as tboy did Mr. Fleming's speech. The mere
fact of Mr. Fleming's speech on this Impartial platform,
and the comment which hoi been arouapd by the orltl-
dam of It, will arouse greater Interest In the question
and In the answer to It, and advertise any speech or
article that may be offered In reply. And so the agitation
awakens the voter and educates him. ‘
There was nothing to prevent any man from speak-
Ing on the other ilde of the queetlon on the university
platform, and It is not the fault of Mr. Fleming, but
the misfortune of tho other side of the question that
nobody cared to do so.
So far from Sir. Fleming’s speech shutting out the
hearing of both aides of the question, It simply creates
a greater desire to hear both sides.
The significant and conclusive fact of all Is that while
tha arguments of Mr. Smith and Mr. Howell and the
other candidates upon the hustings have not made any
especial sensation at any time because of the partisan
and personal advocacy, this one Impersonal argument
upon this one Impartial platfor mhos crested more com
ment than sny other utterance of the summer, and It Is
so far from being sn argument against free speech at
the university commencement It makes us regret that
there are not other commencement! and other orators to
lift this great and transcendent question out of ths mists
and miasms of personal politics, and to set It clearly
betora this thinking people from those great Impersonal
and Impartial platforms devoted to education and to truth
as they see It
We-stand for such free, brave platforms. We don't
where we are to get them If the college and unlver-
ally chapels are to iie cloaed to the discussion of tha
great questions, however acute, that vitally concern the
state.
Such a discussion with boundless freedom of tiisat-
i iont was permitted to the editor of The Georgian upon
(he same great question upon the great platform of the
i nlreralty of Chicago In 1002, and we hare good reason
to beliere that the truths told upon that occasion have
borne the golden fruit of a better understanding of our
Southern problems among alt the people of this oountry.
Let ns suggest to Mr. Alexander that a batter thing
than Us criticism of Mr. Flaming’s use of the university
platform would be a challenge to Mr. Fleming to debate
disfranchisement from their separate viewpoints on
some public platform In Atlanta. We confidently belled
that Mr. Alexander can answer Mr. Fleming completely
a ad we are entirely aura that all this unnaceeaary p.|-
teet over free apeach at the unlveralty will reeult In
riving these two able and honest Georgian* an audience
of wider scope and of keener Internet than Mr. Fleming
had at Athens.
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Reduced Postal Rates.
Perhaps the.day will come when the people of this
country may enjoy tho economic blessing of tho parcels
post. The agitation In favor of it, while not persist
ently pursued, will continue unUl this rational reform
Ib established.
If the tremendous amount of public documents sent
through the mallB by members of congress were once
excluded, together with a largo number of publications
which undoubtedly have no right to a second-class rate,
the poetoffleo department would be well-nigh self-sus
taining, and then tho powers that be would find them'
selves In a position to give some attention to the
parcels post.
It should be regarded as a logical sequence of the
extension of the rural free delivery, which has done
so much for the people who live In the country, and
that step forward has given encouragement to tho
friends of tbo parcels post
This reform Is no mere experiment. It has worked
well In England and there Is nisolutely no reason why
It should not work well In this county.
Incidentally It may bo mentioned that the Universal
Postal Union, which recently convened In Rome, has
ordered a substantial reduction lo letter postage by In-
creasing the unit of weight. This reduction will become
effective on October 1. 1507. The unit Is to bo Increased
from fifteen to twenty grams, and while the postage on
the first twenty grams Is to remain st five cents, every
additional twenty grams Is to be at the rate of three
cents.
This Is Indeed a substantial reduction.
Great Britain and the United States urged that the
unit of weight for them should be fixed at one ounce,
as It would be a difficult matter for them to express
the equivalent weight of twenty grams, as they have
not adopted the metric system as yet, and this request
was granted.
This will give the two great countries exceptionally
low rates for the exchange of letters. Under the reduced
rates a letter to Groat Britain will cost five cents for
the first ounce nnd three rents for th* second ounce,
or eight cents for two ounces. In other words, when the
new rates become effective a letter packet weighing
six ounces can be sent to Great Britain at the rate now
charged for a two-ounce packet.
This reduction In the International postal rates will
mean a great deal for the American people, but the
crying need In the matter of postal reform Is the estab
lishment of the parcels post. It will broaden the field
of our great commercial bouses, and will make shopping
by mall an easy and convenient method.
A prominent member of the senate once said that
there were seven reasons why the law could not be
passed—and they were the > seven great express com
panies In this country. They are naturally opposed to
It and will continue to work against It, but before long
the people of the country may rise up snd assert ihem-
solves snd demsnd the establishment of the parcels print.
Lord, send us a Rowland Hill!
The rebate rascal* would get eomethlng like what la
coming to them tf they wen: compelled to reed The
Congressional Record right straight through.
Attorney General Moody will get all the moral sup-
tort he wants In his effort to put the Standard Oilers
n Jail.
The Debate at Rome.
Piecing things together out or the wreck of fact and
the riot of assertion which rages through the partisan col
umns of the two Sunday morning newspapers, snd relying
upon the Impartial representation of our own special cor
respondent. The Georgian has derlted the Impression that
Mr. Clark Howell acquitted himself much better at Romo
than he «ld In Atlanta, and that be Is fully entitled to
this statement at our hands.
Our correspondent, Mr. John Reece, who went to
Rome, la thoroughly reliable, accurate of habit and train
ing, and la an advocate of neither of the gentlemen who
engaged In debate on Saturday.
From the coincidence of the reports, where they do
happen marvelously enough to coincide In The Journal
snd The Constitution, as well as from Mr. Reece's accu
rate and Impartial advices. It may be said that Mr. How
ell's effort at Rome was better than either hla Columbus
or Atlanta speech, and gave more Just satisfaction to his
friends than any meeting he haa yet had with Mr. Smith.
The equilibrium wae more nearly maintained. ,
It Is also evident from the concurrent reports, that
the debate war pitched on a much higher plane of dignity
ano courtesy tbsn any which have preceded It, snd this
la a matter of general congratulation to the friends of
both parties, and of decent politics in the state. It the
repeated and Insistent appeals of The Georgian to this
end have had sny effect upon this happy result, we are
richly repaid tor the time and tha pains which It has
taken us to make them.
It may also be said from the records that Mr. Howell
most happily departed In this debate from the. habit of
giving the greater part of his time to the dlecueelon of
personalities, snd dovoted himself during a much larger
period than heretofore to the dlsquselon of at least one
of the great Issues of the campaign, snd while we differ
from Mr. Howell's conclusions upon the disfranchisement
Issue, we feel that, having rdjteatedly criticised him for
the preponderance of tho personal objection In his plan of
campaign, that It Is nothing less than our pleasure and
privilege to commend him for the fact that he has seen
fit to change this poltey and to base hla campaign more
upon Issues than It has ever been placed before.
It makes nr difference whether Mr.' Howell has been
convinced by our arguments along this line, or whether he
has adopted this policy upon a second thought of hla own,
It |s a wise and proper policy, snd will unquestionably
add dignity to hit canvass and to hla repute.
Whenever we can reach the plane of felr, tearless
snd courteous discussion In great political campaigns, we
may be sure that the people will be happier snd the gov
ernment more sate.
right of a man who buys from two to ton thousand miles
of transportation to obtain that transportation cheaper
than the man who buys only a hundred or one hundred
and fifty miles Is perfectly clear and apparent to every
fair minded man In the city or the state.
The most colid, permanent and steadily profitable
patrons of the railroads are the drummers. Not only In
the matter of their own transportation, but In the routing
of the vast shipments which their orders produce, they
make tip a magnificent part of the revenues and profits
of every railroad In the state, nnd we confess that public
sentiment will share In part the disappointment of these
commercial travelers that their full demands were not
conceded as they have been In almost every similar por
tion of these United States.
Mr. Broyles makes an admirable point on tho railroad
when be calls attention to the fact that baseball clubs
of a dozen men; that theatrical companies In number
from ten to fifty; and that every convention or group
of prominent citizens aro given cheaper rates than the
drummers aro clamoring for at tho present time, and this,
notwithstanding the fact that these men produce no busi
ness to follow In their wako, that they como at rare In
tervals. and that frequently extra expense ts Incurred In
handling them by putting on extra service or equipment
for their trips.
The Inconsistency tn this treatment seems evident,
and we trust that the action of the passenger agents last
week Is but a preliminary step toward the concession
In full of the reasonable and well Justified demands
which have been made upon the transportation compa
nies. -•
Mr. Longwortb In knickerbockers looked very well.
He had been dancing attendance so long that his silk
stockings were well rounded out
A Battle Anniversary.
Tomorrow, the 26th instant. Is the forty-fourth an
niversary of the beginning of the Seven Days' Battle
near Richmond, Vs.
Georgia was represented by thirty-eight regiments
of Infantry, eight artillery companies and two regiments,
of cavalry. On this occasion General Lee's army num
bered 20,000 men and General McClellan's army num
bered 120,000 men. Including ten regiment* of regular
United 8tates Infantry, numerous regular United States
batteries of artillery and one regiment of cavalry.
Being the attacking party, the Confederates lost
nearly 20,000 men, and the Federal army, though pro
tected by strong field fortifications, lost 16,240 men. The
Georgia troops lost 2,374 men. One regiment alone, the
Forty-fourth, mustered 514 men and left 335 men on
the field of battle.
How little thought the youth of our day give to the
history of the period during the early sixties, when the
civilised world regarded In amaxed wonder the stu
pendous struggle and fearful losses of both American
armies.
Few, If any, people In the world's Jjlitory ever
Illustrated such bravery and endurance.
Upton Sinclair Is working as a day laborer under an
assumed name to get some more Important data. Speak
kindly to the new hired man. He may be a muck-raker
In disguise.
“Appreciative But Not Satisfied.”
The atUtude of the Travelers' Protective Associa
tion toward the recent concession of the railroads In
the matter of mileage books le expressed lo the tour
words or Chairman R. A. Broyles, which read: "Appre
ciative but not satisfied."
Tha traveling men feel that some concession baa
been made them and this they appreciate, bat they do
not feel that they have received n fair proportion of what
they asked or s proper share of what their claims de
serve.
Mr. Broyles beset hie further argument to the rail
roads upon the same foundation ts that on which the
editor of Tho Georgian spoke snd wrote tn behalf of the
commercial travelers, and that foundation we believe
to he solid nod unassailable—the right to purchase toy
commodity cheaper In wholesale than In retail quantities.
Neither the railroads nor any form of business un
der the sun will protest this general principle and tbo
Justice for Dreyfus at Last.
A little paragraph, which thus far has attracted no
particular attenUon, announces that the French court
which Has Had the matter under consideration, has de
cided to grant a new trial to Captain Dreyfus, and the
celebrated case which kept Europe In a turmoil for near
ly twelve years Is to be resumed.
It will come as a surprise to many people to learn
that Ckptaln Dreyfus was never acquitted, such Is the
brevity of men's memories. They know that the cap
tain Is free, after having had a second trial, that he did
not go back to Devil’s Island, and they assumed that he
was acquitted.
But such was by no means the case, snd It has
been one of the longest, most dramatic struggles tor the
vindication of a good name in the history of the world,
by which Captain Dreyfus, whose sword was broken In
the court yard of the Ecole Mllltalrs on January 4, 1895,
has sought to secure Justice.
Most of bis friends snd enemies alike are dead.
Zola, the terrible protagonist of the convicted man—the
author of the "j’accuse" documents which were eo bitter
that they brought about hla exile, bss gone to hla long
reward. Many of the perjurera and forger* who wore
their net-work of lies about Dreyfus, killed themselves
or have since died a natural death. Tho whole affair haa
almost passed from the minds of men.
But Dreyfus has never rested since the day when
hla esse was reopened and he was brought back from
his living death. The courtmartlal st Rennes, during
the month of August, 1199. resulted In a verdict of guilty,
with mitigating circumstances. Dreytua waa sentenced
to ten yeara penal servitude, the amount of time he had
served to be deducted from the sentence. The members
of the court martial united In n recommendation to
mercy end on September 29, 1899, he was pardoned by
President LouheL V
But Dreyfus was not content with a pardon. He
demanded a vindication, and he has been struggling for
It ever since. Esterhaxy confessed that the bordereau,
on which Dreyfus was convicted, was n forgery which
he had made at the Instigation of n superior offleer, and
all the evidence produced at the Rennes courtmartlal
was of the flimsiest character. Everyone knew that the
army was but protecting Itself, after Its own fashion, by
convicting the defendant, and no one believed him
guilty.
Bo he took advantage of the liberty accorded him by
his pardon to accuro a Vindication. Six' years have
elapsed since he was given his freedom, and ever since
that time he has been endeavoring to secure' a new
trial.
The unpretentious little telegram of last Friday In
dicates that his desire has been granted and that he
will be heard once more In order that the stigma which
rests on hla name may be wiped out forever.
The devotion of the prisoner's wife snd brother, as
well ss the Interest of Zola, Moltre Labor! snd others,
furnished a few bright spots In the shadow/- picture of
the man's life, and those who are yet living among his
frietMs have never deserted him.
That he will be acquitted there can be no doubt.
The odium will be placed where It belongs and the
French army, Instead of one of Its despised captains, will
stand disgraced before tbs world.
MR. ALEXANDER CRITICISES MR. FLEMING.
To the Editor of The Georgian: v.
I dissent from your position In regard to Mr. Flem
ing’s speech last Tuesday, and I do so with a respect for
Mr. Fleming quite as profound ss your own. and a per
sonal'friendship for him folly as warm as yours.
I have nothing to say as to any question of mere
good taste on hla part. In making the speech. That la n
personal matter with which I have neither the right nor
the desire to meddle. Bnt there U a question hack of
that which I conceive affects the rights of the citizens
of Georgia and the alumni of the university.
The disfranchisement question Is an acute present
Issue in Georgia politics upon- which the cltisens who
support the university differ, snd on which the slnmnl
differ. Any citizen bolding views on the subject has the
right to express them In hla own time snd place, but
when he Is given the solo opportunity to speak from the
rostrum of the unlveralty and at the annual commence
ment, It ts a distinct violation of the rights of hla fellow
citizens nnd hla fellow alumni to take advantage of the
occnalon to promulgate views which cannot be answered
upon equal terms.
Mr. Fleming has Inforentlally Justified this Invasion
of the equal rights of his fellows by a vague reference
to freo speech, and The Georgian reinforces tho plea by
assorting that
"The university rostrum Is or ought to be one of the
great freo platforms of the state.”
Precisely so, Mr. Editor, but haw Is It a free plat
form when but one side Is permitted voice there?
In th© very nature of things. It is impossible at tho
commencement to give a hearing to both sides. There
fore when the alumni, among whom there are acute dif
ferences of opinion. Invite one of their number to ad
dress them at their annual convocation, every consider
ation demands that lit- abstain from making the occasion,
on till- very eve of hatth-, an instrumentality for giving
the slightest advantage to one Hid,- over the other upon
an Ibsuo which they have laid aside for the time being,
in order to renew tho filial and fraternal memories of
youth.
To mako an address for or against either side on
such an occasion Is no vindication of the right of free
speech. It Is a suppression of free speech. It Is not an
assertion but a denial of that great right.
Mr. Editor, both you and Mr. Fleming Inforentlally
admit the wrong of which I complain. Mr. Fleming says
In his card to The Journal that he mentioned no mania
name, and "you say that the discussion is all right.
"So long as the discussion steers clear of personal
allusion or partisan alignment, ns this discussion
ran."
Both of you thus admit that partisan advocacy at
such a time and place Is wrong. But both of you deny
that Mr. Fleming thus offended.
Stfch a subject, Mr. Editor, cannot be discussed In
Georgia In June. 1906, without being partisan. Mr.
Fleming might Just as well have argued from the univer
sity rostrum that Georgia towns have fair,freight rates
or that the state has no right to regulate them. The
one argument would have been no more partisan than
the other.
Moreover, Mr. Editor, you are both unfortunate In
your assertions as to the personal quality of the speech.
It Is quite true, as a mere literal technicality, that Mr.
Fleming, as ho said, "called no man's name," but Mr.
Fleming Is a man of too much frankness to deny that be
meant Hoke Smith when he spoke of "promim-ni lead
ers, opeply announcing, etc.,” nnd he will bo equally
frank to admit that all that portion of his speech which
referred to disfranchisement by state legislation was an
argument, and'was Intended as an argument, against
the platform upon which Hoke Smith Is now running.
And when that admission Is made, how can you say, Mr.
Editor, that this discussion was "free from personal al
lusion or partisan alignment?" There were nearly three
columns of nonpareil type In The Constitution report
of thlk speech that was a distinct and avowed argument
against the position of a prominent candidate for gov
ernor, and with exact personal references.
And this, Mr. Editor, was from the unlveralty ros
trum, without opportunity for reply, and distinctly
charged on all of us who differ wlthr Mr. Fleming, tho
Instinct of Injustice and the purpose to defraud.
Upon this subject I say that Mr. Fleming had no
right to make such accusations or such argument at such
a time and from the university rostrum.
I say moreover, that both he snd The Georgian
gravely misunderstand what "free speech” Is, If you
call that free speech. And the want of freeness In It
Is the more manifest when the opposition candidate for
governor headed a committee to select next year's or
ator, and they chose such a man as Dr. Hadley, of Yale.
These things do not commit the university to free
speech. Thoy bind the voice and suppress free speech.
Mr. Fleming had the right to speak from his own ros
trum alone, or challenge an adversary to debate the
question, and either course would have been within hla
right, but when he made a political argument from tbo
university rostrum to which his adversaries could not
reply, he wronged them.
I do not say these things because t consider the ar
gument likely to Injure the cause he attacked. I have
no doubt In the world that that oaose Is going to suc
ceed. Mr. Fleming made Just as good an argument on
the subject as can be made, and hts personal character
Is high enough to give It all the weight It deserves, but
It will fall. The people of Georgia have made up their
minds and they are going to eliminate the negro as far
as possible from politics, and I think they aro right, and
ao tar as that question Is concerned I care nothing about
Mr. Fleming's speech.
But I do caro for the university and I do love fair
play and freo speech, and because I love the university
and free speech, and because I respect and esteem Mr.
Fleming, and becauso I am hla friend, I take advantage
now of this occasion to protest sgstnst the university
rostrum botng ever again made tho partisan advantage
of one political faction.
HOOPER ALEXANDER.
JUDGE REID INDORSES "BREATHING SPACE3.”
Editor of The Georgian:
More than for anything else In your editorial record
In this city, brilliant as It has been and Is, you deserve
credit and commendation, In my Judgment, for your per
slstent and unremitting insistence on breathing places
for the people. Skyscrapers are all right; let them reach
the sky! Walls of brick and mortar and marble and
trap, bespeak wealth snd prosperity and commerce, and
they make loyal clttxens proud and Intensify tho At
lanta spirit of Atlantans, but the real beauty and aspira
tion of life must be found In nature—It can never be
found anywhere else. Why not keep the woods with us
and let the tree* and the grass and the birds snd even
the murmuring Insects and. In the necessary absence
of the rippling brooks, artificial fountains teach us tho
happy, bright lessons of life and cuggest the more sol
emn thoughts of destiny. No people were ever great who
left nature; no people were over spiritually refined, to
whom It was denied to see the stars through overarching
branches of the tree*, and who have not heard In the soft
twilight, aa evening melts Into night, the myriad voices
with which, In harmonious lullaby, the setting sun puts
the day to sleep.
8entlment may not make money, but It alone makes
life worth living, and all things that contribute most to
|ta proper development should be nurtured sad encour
aged. Aud betides, If so called practical minds demand
practical considerations, these same breathing place*
will add more to the health of the city, or as much st
least, than any other slptllsr regulation.
Keep the fight going. Our city fathers will finally
see Its wisdom snd multiply small parks, to the beauty
and the prosperity of the city. Very truly,
H. M. REID.
June 21, 1908
TO A HUMMING BIRO.
(By J. Vivien.)
Whence, spirit bright, that touebest even flow'ra
With dainty protest, nectar graceful scorning?
Thou eeemest not a thing of time; thine hours
Seem measureless by evening or by morning.
What eve and morning, linked, thine advent numbers?
What eve can close thy superfine career?
Time’s nice slembie, yet, distills a tear
For thee as all. In love of cosmic weal.
To gem unfeund doth tear of tbine congeal?
In the mute night, white thy wee plumage slumbers.
Ah, whither flits thine astral? Can It be
More exquisitely pathed, more rare, than thee.
That feed'st on Aow'r-dealt fragrance, poised free;
That turn'sL disdainful, back the great sun's ray
From thy rich breast, more brightly various-gay?
"BEST PAPER IN THE 80UTH.”
(South Fulthn Enterprise.)
The Atlanta Georgian continues to be the newsiest
and brightest paper la the Soutfc. The management Is
sparing neither pains nor expense to give the people a
paper which Is first class in every detail. In view of
the fact that The Georgian has openly declared for all
things that tend to uplift humanity snd has refused to
countenance those things which have a tendency to de
grade and drag men down. It Is the bounden duty of all
who profess to stand for right and principle to give their
support snd encouragement to this paper for which they •
have been clamoring. Of course The Georgian 'Is already
a big success, but The Enterprise simply wants to go on
record as giving the “glad band" to lu founders In their
noble work.
Cho/ly
Knickerbocker
Gossips About
People.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, June 25.—Bishop Henry
r. Potter lines not agree with Urn-la
Bussell Ssgs on the vacation ques
tion. Misbelieves that even the preach
ers are entitled to their summer rest.
He declares n.
"If the city rector does not take hit
summer vacation of three, four aix
or eight weeks, he Will KO mad dr h«
will deteriorate Into what hit con-
HtUuems least destre, a mere machine
"The rector may carry on a work
undltnlnlshed every hour In the day
every day In the year, but eventually
one of the two alternatives will come.
The demand of the city parson for a
vacation Is an equitable demand."
The bishop Is also Interested In the
layman who is left at home and who
may or may nut get a vacation re-
itardle»i of Ills needs In that Una
This good mlvlce Is given to him:
-If deserted by famtly and friends
during the summer months, do not fall
Into vagrant habits. Donotjoln (nufth
questionable companions In question
able occupations. In this sort of semi-
vagabondage, with the excuse that you
die left very much alone, and to be a
great deal alone Is to be very III off."
Society folk tn Germantown and
Ogontx nre discussing the elopment
of Miss Helen llrooks Lewie, daugh
ter of .Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Lewis,
Jr., of Ogontz, and O. Henry Stetson,
the youngest son of the late John B.
Stetson, the millionaire hat manufac
turer.
They were wedded last Friday after
noon. nnd the first Intelligence either
of thetr families had of the event wae
received last night, when telegrams
came from New York. Mrs. 8tet»on la
18 years old: her husband Is 20. They
had been engaged for two years with
the approval of thetr families.
When Mr. Stetson celebrates lilt
twenty-first birthday he will come Into
possession of several millions of dol
lars. Ther’e was a provision In tils
father’s will which provides that If he
married before he came of age the
allowance was to be substantially In
creased.
Newport ts to have a moat distin
guished city government. It Is to be
In the hands of a representative com
mittee after January and among the
members of the committee will be Rear
Admiral French E. Chadwick, Beer Ad
miral Stephen B. Luce, Colonel Rob
inson, Robert Walton Goelet, Charles
Wilson Goelet, Colonel Addison -Thom-
as, Edward R Thomas, R. Livingston
Beeckman, Professor Agassiz, I. Town
send Burden, James A. Swan, Edward
H. Butkty, Louts L. Lorrllkird, Royal
Phelpe Carroll, LorlHard Spencer, John
R DrexeL William Watte Sherman and
James Brown Potter.
Little old Philadelphia will con
tribute two handsome matrons to this
season's Newport beauties, Mrs. Jo«-
eph M: Wldener and Mrs. E. Moors
Robinson. These two are very be-
coming foils to each other and It Is
always a pleasing addition If the land
scape to see them together.
Little Mrs. Wldener 1 ! brunette type
ts the complement to Mrs. Robinson's
beauty. Sirs. Robinson !■ constantly
being quizzed by her less fortunate sis
ters as to her method of preserving
her complexion. Society still remem
bers what a pretty showing these two
made at the horse show last year as
they sat side by side tn Mrs, Joe's box.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Titrate Leased Wire.
New York, June 25.—Here are some
of the visitors tn New York today:
ATLANTA—H. Ohlpley, W. C. Cole
and wife, Miss E. Cole, F. B. Dabney.
J. H. Hllsman, J. IV. Hoyt. Mrs. C. D.
Knight, B. C. Martin, H. H. Leech, K.
N. Mullln.
AUGUSTA—A. K. Clark, C. Hlllyer
and wife. J. W. Hitt.
MACON— TV. F. Bunchanan. C. O.
Smith.
SAVANNAH—Mrs. Gibson. S. R
Harris and wife. Miss I. Henderson, J.
L. Morrison, W. A. Smith, J. " ■
Thomas,
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
• JUNE 25.
1080—Diet of Brlxen, held.by Henry IV,
deposed the pope and elected
Clementine III.
1530—Confession of Ausburg present
ed to King Charles V.
1889—France declared war against
England. King William's war.
1738—John Horne Tooke, author of "Dt-
versions of Purley,” born
1788—Virginia ratified the Federal con-
stltutlon.
1795—Union College, Schenectady. N.
Y, instituted.
1813—Hampton, Va., captured by the
British.
1841—Brigadier General Scott appoint
ed general In chief of the United
States army.
1848—Louts Bonaparte, ex-king of Hot-
land, died.
1868—'William Walker elected presi
dent of Nicaragua.
1881—Federal! repulsed at battle or
Roanoke Station, Va.
1870—Abdication of Queen Isabella ii
of Spain. .
1878—Battle of Little Big Horn-tne
Custer massacre.
1888- Shore end of the Bennett-Maca-
ay cable laid at Watervllle.
1889— Mre. Lucy Webb Hayes died.
Bom August 20, 1991.
1891—India cloaed her mints to tn*
free coinage of sliver.
1895—Princess Helene of Orleans mar-
rled to duke of Aosta.
1696—Lyman Trumbull dlgd. Bora Oc
tober 12. 1111.
Thanks From ths Homs Comers.
To' the Editor of The Georgian:
On bohalf of the Georgia state fair,
i destre to thank you for the be» utl I
editorial on the "Home Uom<n« _ M
Georgians,” which appeared to
Georgian yeatarttay. „«,»[
The home coming will be a
event. 1 look for thirty W forty ‘ h ‘>“
sand visitors from other state* »
two days.
With best wishes, 1 remain.
YouravmgU^^
Secretary and General Manager.
Atlanta, Ga., June 22, IW»-
A double-header atate tonyentFn
will be held at Burlington.'t. ™
Thursday of this week. The .
erats will meet in elate convent5m“nu
there will also he an Independent co "
ventlon to nominate P. t\. CtoJJJV t#
governor. An effort will be in JJj ^
have tho two conventions 00
Clement ticket.