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TOK JWLAHTJl ^SUMJAW. 1 "" The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President, Telephone Connections. Subscription Rstes: One Yesr $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sundsy by THE GEORGIAN CO. st 25 W. Alsbsms Street, Atlsnts, Gi. TT Fster.4 as ir con deli is matter April 25, 19)4, at the FoatoFlc* at Atlanta. Ga„ under set of conrrei* of March 1. JIT*. % THE GEORGIAN COMES TO I GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE J % "It scended Is Indeed a desirable thing to be well de but the glory belongs to our ancestors." —Plutarch. The Governor’s Message, The annual message of the governor to the state legislature which la presented In our columns today will speak for Itself. Its view of public affairs In Georgia Is wide and sweeping. Its recommendations are Intelligent and timely, and It will doubtless be held by the legisla tive body as a helpful and Inspiring line of suggestion to tbelc serious and Important deliberations. The message of the president or the message of the governor Is generally speaking a very fair summary of the history of national or state events for the year preceding, and a forecast of legislation for the year which Is to follow. 8uch papers are worthy of preserva tion for the Information and forecast which they contain, and the message which the governor sends to the legis lature today justifies upon a hasty glance the comment thnt It is an able, fair and Interesting document. No part of the governor's message Is more Interest ing than the two opening paragraphs, the first of which la a recital of the prosperous condition of the state In all its sections and In all Its lines of Industry, and the second a brief discussion of that time-honored principle that public office Is a public trust The first of tnese paragraphs Is In tho highest do- gree suggestive of gratitude and encouragement. The second Is In Its nature and essence an Injunction to good government, which the two factions In our state politics will doubtlesd construe In their separate ways and to their separate Interests, but the general principle Is cor rect. and cannot be too often Impressed upon the public or too profoundly regarded by the legislators and all others of authority. What a happy and golden thing government would be it overy man who bore a part In It held himself su premely loyal to the principle that public office Is a pub lic trust. The Congressional Wordfcst. The first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, now drawing to a close, will go down In history as remarka- hlo for many things, but In nothing will It stand out as more uniquo than for the amazing amount of "words, words, wordB" uttered during tho past seven months. Never before In the history of tho world, wo are told, has so great a volume of speeches been taken down In shorthand and recorded In printed form as during this presont session, and tho end Is not yet. Tho Con gressional Tlecord Itself will run to nearly 10,000 pnges, for which thero has never been anything like a parallel slnco the Fifty-first congress, which sat until Octobor, and besides The Record wo must take Into consideration the number of committee henrings. The house contributed the greater amount of talk, but the senato had a debate of seventy days on the rate bill and this swelled the volume considerably. The offlclnl reporters say that The Record has often shown sixty columns of printed matter as the result of a six hours debate, wblch means an average of 105 words a minute during the entire time. While there are some deliberate speakers In the lower house who do not In- dulgo In such rapid oratory, there are others like Lacey. Hull and DeArmond who more than establish the aver age. speaking as they do at the rate of at least two hundred words a minute. The number of hearings before the various com mittees has been enormous. At times there were six or rwen committees In session at the same time and at oim time there were eleven. These bearings not only required the constant attendahee of the regular corps of stenographers, but It was even necessary on several oc casions to go outside to employ official reporters. Taking the session as a whole It Is estimated that 40,000.000 words were spoken and recorded. Shakespeare Is said to have had the most exhaus tive vocabulary of any man who ever employed the Eng lish language. He had a range of 15,000 words. The members of the bouse and senate have therefore spoken what would be equivalent to the entire English language something like 2,650 times. In fact, we know that on several occasions a single member has exhausted the English language and then found himself unable to make himself understood or persuasive as he would wish. This Is all very Interesting, but it Is not merely the amount of words expended by the Fifty-ninth congress wblch occasions alarm. It Is conservatively estimated thnt when it comes to a close U will be found that It has n I so spent $2,000,000,000 of the people's money, which Is of considerably more Interest and Importance to the aver age citizen of the United States. The Primrose Path. Tragedies such as that wblch has just stirred New York carry their own melancholy comment. The Immediate merits of the case—the degree of of fending tor which the dead man was responsible, the weakness of hla slayer, the passion, the impulse, the emotionalism—are all apart from the overshadowing, the indisputable facts. The Clreeen charm of a life where the sanity and nobility of nature were blasted In tho crimson glare reape the harvest It bad sown. Monday night It sent a distinguished artist In wood and stone to a dramatic death In a pleas in garden. Hundreds of years before It “burned the topless towers nt Ulon" and strewed the gulf of Actluui with the fleet of Antony. It sullied the names of Goethe and of Wag ner and clouded the closing years of Parnell. It blasted the fame of Aaron Burr and brought reproach upon An drew Jackson. • It Is a waste of words to sermonize upon IL It Is but the same rehearsal of the past: “Can a' man take fire In bis bosom and not be burned?” The primrose path Is broad and pleasant, but "the end thereof Is death-" The Deadly “Toy” Pistol. Wednesday of next week will be the birthday of the nation, the “glorious" Fonrth of July. There has been an earnest effort during the past few years to reform the celebration of this occasion by ellm- lusting the noisy nuisances which hsve become a part of the celebration, and the agitation is growing every year. Fortunately the use of fireworks on this day has never been so frequent In this section of the country as It has boon In the North. We reserve our firework for Christmas—a season, by the way, which Is not one whit more .appropriate for such nuisances. But we should bo thankful that we are comparatively free from the reign of the fireworks, except of the oratorical variety. This Is not entirely true, however, for the use of fireworks and the deadly toy pistol Is not altogether un known, even down here, and wo are not sure but what It Is becoming even more general. It f»-a statistical fact that five thousand pople were killed or wounded by the use of fireworks and toy pis tola during tho Fourth of July celobratlon last year. This Is a fearful harvest of death and demands the most earnest consideration of the general public. In spite of the repeated warnings of the pTess every year, the harmless looking paper-cap pistol continues to get In Its deadly work. The vast majority of cases of lock Jaw wblch develop at this season are directly due to tho toy pistol. The fact Is that, measured by Its ulti mate results, tho paper cap pistol Is one of the deadliest weapons we hsve. The difference Ib that the Injury Is to the youngster who shoots It and not to those against whom It Is aimed. But as an engine of destruction It has few oquals. This Is not some "old wife's tale.” to frighten young America from the enjoyment of his legitimate sport. It Is not far-fetebed or hysterical. It Is a cold fact, and, as we have pointed out. Is well 'unstained by the record of flvo thousand accidents, mostly fatal, last year. It ta hoped that the public will frown upon the prac tice thlB year. It Is hoped that parents will wake up to a realizing sense of the danger Involved In the use of the toy pistol and will keep It out of reach of tho small boy, who has a special fondness for It. If this simple rule Is observed all over the country It will save the Uvea of thousands of bright boys who are annually offered up as a sacrifice to this terrible Moloch of the 'July celebra tions. And the time to pass along the warning Is now. The New Orleans Baseball Issue. It la not often that the editorial column invades the affairs of the sporting page, and only unusual clrcum stances should Justify It. The charges which have been formally made by the Atlanta baseball club and other elubs of the Southern League against the New Orleans club for the use of dis honest balls, ts a much more serious matter than has been made of It up to the preecnt Ume. We are not prepared to say that the charges against the New Orleans club are true. They may be true or they may be based upon errjr, and with the matter of fact wo have nothing to do. But we do not hesitate to say that since these charges have been, made against the New Orleans club, they ought to be sifted to the very bottom and the truth should be ascertained In the Interest of fair play and In the llterest of legitimate sport throughout the country. Not only tho Atlsnta club, but every other club In tho Southorn League, and tho whole spirit of Southern sport has a vital Interest In the Investigation of this matter. Baseball Is the national game of America. It enlists thq enthuBlnsm and attention of nearly every full-blooded mnn and of two-thirds of tho ladles of this republic. It Is as popular la the South as la any section of the re public, and Its dally exhibitions In this and In other cities draws day after day the largest and most enthu. slastlo audiences wblch ape gathered in loyalty to any form of public amusemont la this country. 'And, because baseball Is our national game and ranks first among our national sports, It Is to the last degree Important that honorable conduct end fair play should distinguish all those who sre engaged In It. The spirit of fair play Is a principle that comes down to this people from onr English ancestry, and It Is an Indispensa ble requisite to honorable enjoyment and to the honora ble conduct of every American sport Whether ama teur or professions), the spirit of honor must prevail In this above all other games of our American people, be cause It Is the typical and national game. There Is no pleasure In going to see any game that Is not played upon the square, and under any other policy, audiences will very speedily fall, off In numbers and In enthusiasm, as they seem to have done In New Orleans, under the rumor of this unfair snd dishonorable conduct It New Orleans hdh been guilty of this unprofes sional and dishonorable conduct toward e visiting club, whether that club be Atlanta'* or any others, then It Is to the last degree neqpssery that the fact should be defi nitely ascertained and definitely published, and It It be true, the whole spirit of Southern sports will rise In the demand that a club, whether that of New Orleans or any other city, which seek* to win In an honorable contest by dishonorable means, ought to be either sternly re buked or entirely removed from the sseoclstlon and competition with other honorable clubs in tho Southern League- In the death of W. P. Burt on yesterday, Atlanta lost a valuable citizen and his friends a loyal and genial comrade In every fcense of the word. Dr. Bnrt, whether as a soldier, a citizen, or si a friend, retained to the lest day of his Ilf* the respectful confidence of his tellowmen. SUMMER DREAMS. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. (Copyright, 1606, Amcrieen-Journal-Examlner.) When the Summer sun Is shining. And the green things push end grow, Oft my heart runt over measure, With Its flowing fount of pleasure. As I feel the sea winds blow; Ah, then life Is good, I know. And I think of sweet birds building. And of children running tree; And of' glowing eun-ktesed meadows, And of tender twilight shadows. And of boats upon the see. Oh, then lit* seems good to me! Then unbidden snd unwanted, .Come the darker, sadder sights; City shop snd stlfitog alley. Where mlsfortufee'e children rally; And the hot crime-breeding nights, And the dearth of God's dellghta- And I 'think of narrow prisons Where unhappy songbirds dwell. And of cruel pens snd cages Where some captured wild thing rages Like a mad men In his cell. In the Boo, the wild beasts’ hell. And I long to UR tbe burden Of man's selfishness snd sin; And to open wide earth's treasures Of God's storehouse, full of pleasures. Fur my dumb and human kin. And to ask the whole world In. T. P. A.’8 TURNED DOWN. To tho Editor of The Georgian: If we get a correct idea of the result of the request made to the Southeastern Passenger Association by the T. P. A.'s of Georgia and other states at their late meet* Ing in Atlanta, they failed completely to grant the re quest which lias been pending for these years before this association. The T. P. A.'s asked for a 2,000 mile 2c Interchangeable mileage book good on all roads, which they, as I had expected (though a reasonable and Just request), would reject. The railroad people are not In the habit of granting rcaaonnble requests until they hnve to. They remind me of an o'possum who geta sullen with his tall wrapped around a limb of the sapling ho Is up In. You may use all mild means you can to get him to let loose with his tail, but he holds It the tighter till he Is forced down. When Pope Brown proposed a 2 cent flat rate for Georgia, the T. P. A. state convention at Macon voted against helping him In this move for a 2-cent Hat rate upon the plea by Mr. Max Krauss nnd others that tho railroads would grant their request quicker If they didn't do so. The national convention met In Savannah and had some of the leading railroad people there Jo talk the matter over. Another state convention rolled around and not n thing had been done toward granting tho T. P. A.'s request except fair promises. The matter of this 2- cent 2,000'tnlle Interchangeable book good on all roads was up before tho state convention at Albany and was discussed ably and freely and It waa practically decided If this request of the T. P. A.'a was not granted It would be the duty of all the T. P. A-’a to UBe a part of their valuable time In bringing the matter before boards of trade and merchants as well as all the people all over Georgia, and secure their Indorsement for a 2-cent flat rate and go before tbe railroad commission and legisla ture at Its next session nnd get a law passed making n 2 cent flat rate for Georgia. In our opinion they will get relief quicker In this way, and now let the railroad committee of tho T. P. A-.'s of Georgia and the special committee appointed at Albany to co-operate with the railroad committee, get up forms of petitions and memo rials and put Into the hands of every T. P. A. man In Georgia and let them go before tho boards of trade and merchants and get their Indorsement of a 2-cent flat rate for Georgia and the legislature will put It Into law while the railroad peoplo are making fair promises and doing nothing. The passenger association, as we have understood It, agreed to two mileage books, and the rate 21-2 cents per mile remaining the same It lias been oil tbe while, wblch ts practically no concession to the T. P. A.'s, for with two mileage books wo could trav el most of qur territory before and at the rate of 2 1-2 cents, which Is the same aa before. Yours truly, J. T. DAVENPORT, Post A, Savannah, Ga. , competition and some Independence to the citizen and good to the state may result. If we must have factions may It not be well that each faction In Its turn should take a rest? These questions are merely Incidental. I have opinions on issues but no'preference as to factions but look rather to what each faction stands for, and having no favors to ask Rpeak untrammeled In open meeting my opinions. Concluding, I notice that one white man was dls franchised In the valley of Virginia. This may be true If so, It is an Isolated case. Conclusive evidence that even with Its "understanding clause” the Virginia law Is fairly administered among white men. The ninth dls trict In the mountains has a majority of white Repub llcans who were not disfranchised. Few negroes In it. Very truly yours. C. C. BOWLING. Atlanta, Ga., June 22. 1906. THE NEGRO DI8FRANCHI8EMENT. To the Editor of The Georgian: I have decided to avail myself of your general invi tation to your readers to contribute their views on public questions. I offer this letter to Tho Georgian because Tho Georgian, while neutral as to the contending fac tions In the Democratic party, is outspoken as to Is sues. » The freight rate question Is of vital Interest to the business Interests and consumers, the whole peoplo of the Stull-. There are other quest Inns of interest, but that which overshadows all others Is tho dlBfranchlsemcnt of tho negro by constitutional amendment. So many personalities are being Indulged in by those who oppose negro disfranchisement that we are In danger of losing sight of the merits and demerits of tho proposition. It is true that there are some obstacles In the constitutional road to the disfranchisement of the negro. The principal 'obstaclo seems to be just now tho opposition of the heretofore dominant wing of the Democratic party. The claim Is mndo by those who oppose negro dis franchisement that It should not have beromo an lssuo In a general election. This may be true, theoretically. But It Is an Issue, whether It should be or not, and tho peoplo of the state (If they can get a fair chance) have got to vote on this Issue along with others; nnd It becomes tho duty of overy white citizen to contribute what he can to a patriotic nnd wise solution of this ne gro suffrage question. Any Important political question, whether dealing with economics or the suffrage, may be forced before the people when It can not otherwise be settled. And unless .we had the “loltlatlve and referendum" all such questions must of necessity become confused moro or loss with personalities and with other Issues. Who nre most to blame for the presence of this suffrage question today In Georgia? Who are moot to blsms ttines who bcllcvo in constitutional disfranchisement and have so declared, or that dominant faction In the legislature which has heretofore defeated the disfranchisement res olutions. or the faction at present opposing disfranchise ment before tho people? Why blame cither vltuperous- ly? The Issue Is hero i nd cannot bo settled by personal abuse of those who advocato It, nor by general abuso of all of taose other noble and honorable Southern states which have adopted constitutional laws disfranchising the negro. I was born In another one of those Southern states (though I am now a Georgian) and It is a base slander on the whole South to state that tbe vast majority, nearly nine-tenths of tbe negroes cannot be dlsfran chlsed by legal and honorable, constitutional mothods. This unblushing Impudence on the part of those who oppose negro disfranchisement here is not only an In sult to other Southern states, but a reflection on tho In telligence of Georgians. For, If a question of honesty Is to be considered, let us compare the most questioned of all the constitutional methods In tbe different states with the old method of all tho Southern states, but now In use only lu Georgia and a few others where negroes are not so numerous as here. Tbe most questioned of the constitutional methods is the "understanding clause.” under which simple questions of the constitu tion can be submitted by the registrars when they wish to enfranchise a white man; or a complex and abstruse question can be submitted when they wish to disfran chise a negro. Much can be said even for this method, though It Is distasteful; but Is even this method as odious as the old method to which 1 refer of keeping the negro away from tbe polls by physical force, stuffing tbe ballot box or throwing out his vote and Intimidating the white elec torate with his threatening power? Under the suffrage. laws of Mississippi, Alabama, both the Carollnas and Virginia the negro has been effec tively disfranchised by slightly varying laws, and It Is not true that any considerable number of white men have been disfranchised by these laws. I travel all of those states except one, and am well acquainted with their people; and cannot help feeling resentment against the slanderers of their people. The white people of those states are now Indepen dent voters and can divide on public questions accord ing to their beliefs, as can the voters of sections of the Union where the negro Is not a menace; but formerly this was not so. Tne claim that those who advocate ne gro disfranchisement wish to Impair the supremacy of the Democratic party Is false and ridiculous, for the Democratic party is still supreme In every Southern state where the negro has been disfranchised. The Democratic party- of Georgia can best Insure Its per petual supremacy by serving the true Interests of all the white people of Georgia and not dividing them Into fac tions and parties. The claim that the triumph of negro disfranchisement would enthrone a permanent political machine is equally false. Can you Imagine a more ob noxious political machine than exlata now In Georgia? Both factlona of Democrats In Virginia have triumphed under the new law In different elections. If we must have machines le. us have a number of them, *o that THE RUSSIAN MASSACRES. To the Editor of Tbe Georgian: I read of the murders and outrages of the Rus sians against the Jews as portrayed In The Georgian yesterday, with feelings of horror and regret. I have ho commission from the Hearst or any other news service, but here Is a story, graphic and hideous, told by St. Matthew, commissioned by God, the Holy Ghost, of Jesus Christ, the Jew, conceived by the powe of tho Holy Ghost; born of the Virgin Mary, to save his people from their sins; who grew to manhood, was bap tized by John tho Baptist, attended by the witness of God tho Holy Ghost, and the approval of God the Fa ther. namely, "This is my beloved Son In whom I am well ploased." Who lived through three years of public ministry, nnd upon tbe Mount of Transfiguration again had the approval of God the Father, namely: “This Is my beloved son. Hear him." And again, bad His appro val when In nnswer to tho prayer of Jesus, the Father spoke to him Baying, "I hnvo both glorified thee and will glorify thee." And some of those who stood by and heard the voice said It thundered. There was a meeting, not of tbe douma, but of tile sanhedrin, tho Jewish supreme court. There was a hasty decision rendered that Jesus must be put to death. He-was hurried before the Roman officer, • who alone could pronounce tbe death sentence. 1'nder the pres sure of the opinion of that mighty mob, crying crucify, crucify, the Roman officer took water and washed hts hands and said, "I am Innocent of the blood of this just person. See yo to It” Again the cry—essentially of ficial: “His blcod be upon us and our children." Per secuted. afflicted and tormented, has bden tbe history of tbe Jewish raco from that day until this. Truly his blood has been upon them and their children from gen eration to generation In answer to their prayer. And It will follow any other nation who tramples tinder foot the Hnn of God; who coiiiks Ills blood an unholy thing, and who does despite to the Spirit of Grace. "God rules and tho government at Washington still lives.” “God rules among the nrmles of heaven and the Inhabitants of earth, nnd none can stay His hand or say unto him, what doest Thou.” “The Lord God omnipotent ruloth." • The word of God came not at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake, moved by the Holy Ghost. The Apostle I’anl the apostle to the Gentiles, himself a Jew—moved by the Holy Ghost, says: "Breth ren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel Is that they might bo saved.” Again, “Hath God cast away His people? Hla chosen nnd peculiar people." "God hath not cast away his people whom He foreknew." "Hut h'lndnc-.s In part hath happened unto Israel until tho fulness of the Gentiles shall be brought In.” So they, when (he fulness of the Gentiles shall aavo been brought In; when God's covenant unto them, to remove the blindness wblch has happened unto them In part, to take away their sins, shall be fulfilled, then will the Jews be mighty upon this earth, and again, Indeed and In truth, they shall he his chosen, his peculiar people. And what shall then happen to the Gentiles? LEMUEL D. KINO. Covington, Ga-, Juno 22. J906. LET THE LADIES 8H0P EARLY. To the Editor of The Georgian: May I ask the privilege cf a small space in your pa per? I notice an article in Friday's Gedrgfati In which a goiitlemnn deplores the fact that the men of today, nnd especially the young men, keep their seats In a crowded car and nllow tho ladles to stand. While I agree with tho writer of this article that It Is ungentlemanly In any man, whether young or old, tn allow a lady to stand nnd swing to a strap when he has a seat and could offer tt to her, I would like to present another side of his mat ter which Is greatly responsible for the existing condi tion of ladles having td stand While men keep 'their seats In crowded cars. There Is a great number of Indies who have no household cures to worry them while at home. These ladles make It convenient to go calling In the fore- noon, go home to lunch nnd rent nml cool from their morning exercise, then late In the afternoon go shopping and stand In the stores "bargain hunting" until the stores are closed at f, o'clock, when there Is about as many shoppers ns there are clerks to be turned out of the stores Into tin ears. This Is Just the time (hat 90 per cent of the working men of Atlanta are going homi from their dally toll; men who have been oil their feet from 9 to 12 hours and n great many of them are very tired and worn out at the closo of day, while the lady shoppers are fresh from their dally "nap" before going shopping. But, of course, this makes no difference (to the ladles), no matter bow bad a man foals ba Is no gentleman (la tba lady’s ayes) It ba keeps his seat and allows her to stand. I am a working man myself and speak from personal observation- Some days I have gone home and felt as though a seat would be worth 25 cents, but have had to stand because there were too many bundles nml lady shoppers on the ear to allow a gentleman to sit, although It has been after thinking twice before I gave up my seat. ^■If all tbe todies who go shopping would make It convenient to do so early enough to get homo before tbe working class atari home thero would not be so much room for complaint abbut ladles having to stand while men keep their seats In trolley cars, and I hope that those who read this will exert their efforts to do so. It the men who hsve wives and.sisters that make a practice of late afternoon shopping nnd calling would explain to them how a man feels who has worked snd’ been on his feet all day, and how much he enjoys a seat when be gets «m a car sad-starts home, 1 am sure many of the ladles will change their hours of going home on the cars. Very respectfully, J. R. WOOLLY. Atlanta, Ga., June 24, 1906. COL. LUCIEN C. BOWER. (From The Balnbrldgo Tribune.) The many friends of Col- Luclen C. Bower are pleas ed to see him back In Balnbrldgo after quite an absence due to his attending the “Varsity" at Athens, where he has been taking a special courso In modern languages Like hit brothers, the Colonel Is an attorney at law, hav ing been admitted Jo practice a year ago last December. Cloopel Bower, however, has another year to spend at the Varsity before he gets his degree, and it 1a said by some of his Intimate friends that he will likely forsake tho bar for the Ucltoil States diplomatic service. A gentleman of pleating appearance, a brilliant con versationalist, of wide travel, and a master of Romanic languages, the colonel would do his native city and state great credlLno doubt, In any foreign post that Secretary Root might place him. The demand for American consuls, who can speak fluently the language of the country In which they are located, has become almost Imperative, and Mr. Root is said to have decided to require consular aspirants to show themselves competent linguists before their appli cations for diplomatic posts will be even considered. A Word From Mr. Flaming. To tho Editor of Th«aeor*lan: I intended to write you a note thanking you for the broad-minded- nooa exhibited In yo«r editorial of last Saturday, and I find In your paper which reached me this morning, that I am under stilt further obligations to you for your defense against the criti cism of our mutual friend, Hon. Hooper Alexander. I do not see that you have left any thing for me to say on this subject. I ran only tell you that there were men tn the audience who were Just as much attached to the University as Mr. Alex ander. and men who were just as welt qualified to pass upon the propriety of my address as Mr. Alexander Is, and these gentlemen were outspoken ■ they endorsed my address In full, but they also approved heartily of the pro priety, of making IL One distinguished gentleman, whose mum I do not care to mention, and who stands as high as any man In Georgia for good Judgment and good taste, and who ts In no way connected with active politics so far as 1 know, said to ms: "I endorse everything you said In your speech: moreover. It was an academic. Impersonal discussion of a great public question, and was en tirely proper.” I merely applied proven principles of law and morals to an admitted state of (acts. So far from having Injured the uni versity by my speech, 1 shall consider that I have done It a great benefit. If their statement to me, not only that my course shall have contributed any thing toward- making the Athens plat form on alumni day the place for the free expreselon of honest thought We will then get some.life Into the oc casion, and put an end to mere oratori cal stunts on glittering generalities and dull common places. I presume Mr. Alexander’s criticism was writtsn before he had an oppor tunity to read my speech In full, as I did not mall him a copy until quite recently. ir any of your friends or the readers of your paper desire to Investigate the subject further, I will send'them upon request a printed copy of my speech SO that they may Judge for themselves. Thanking you again. I remain. Your* truly. t WM. H. FLEMING. Augusta, Ga^ June 24, 1904. Cholly 1 Knickerbocker Gossips About Pople. By Private Least Wire, lew York, Jut, 27.—There may be happier men abq, New York today that General Hence Porter, former ambassador to Ftpce. but It would bs hard to find thet, H e has Just re- ceived a cable frq, Paris announcing that he Is now "Crandpa" Porter. A fine daughter has been born to his daughter. Elols, how M „. Ed . Mende, of Paris. - There Is ronsterntinn today In ths colonial white* hous. Riverside Drive and One Hundredth street, managed by Miss Mary Twotpiy, over tho leged discovery by t r . William B. 'oakley, -tne of the boarders, that itryrhntne had been erved to him In i glass of milk at the .jble. Dr Coak- ley came from Chloaa about'a year ago, and Is one of th?*tudents In the Hudson Street Hospltl * When seen Dr. Cooley refused to discuss the poison atofr, Haying: "I am about to publh a scientific .. ork, and the notorlet) which would follow the publication f any state mrnt by me regarding! this matter would be very detrlmenu to mv In. terests." American army tailors *ay now see for themselves. George winters, the English army talloi has ar- ..ved tn revise and modlfy'he patera* for American soldiers’ utfurms to "make men in the ranks l look like officers and officers to looklike gen erals." " In order to prove his pet teory that the sting of the bee Js n suf cure for rheumatism, Frank McGlynn, -f Phila delphia, has permitted himsif to be stung by a hundred of the Insets that had previously been stirred ip to a frenzy. * His back looked ns thougl |t had been freshly tattooed, but wit an air of satisfaction McGlynn decked the benefits would come. Henry 'wining n veteran aplculturlst, who Is* con vert to the McGlynn theory, ad who also suffers from rheumatism, ermlt- ter a swarm of the Insects to stlg him on the arm. . Medical men and aplculturlst are watching the experiment with In;rest. Heard on the Corner Polysyllabic Verbiage. If n man .should hand you hla erd with the following appearing on It, what would you do to him? “Crlnlcultural abscission .and cranl- loglcal trlpsls, phrenological hair cu. ter and hydropathlcal shaver ( beardB. Work physlognomlcally ext cuted." A man with evidences of rural 'ex lstence clinging about his persui climbed- into -that -fellow's chair the other day, and one of the cards was passed to him. The vlBltor from Squash Hollow applied, it all out care- fully, and then squirmed from under the razor and reached for his coat and hat. "Podner,' Fm • a -pretty -fair sort of man In my dcestrlck, but I'll be horn- • swoggled If you nor any other man e'n-oall. me. names Ilka that without me resentin' It.? And wiping the lather from his chin, he walked out of the shop. Touch and Go. For some minutes, a well-dressed citizen stood on tho corner of Alabama and Pryor streets, waiting for a car. then Impatiently took several turns up and down tho latter-named street. His eye being arrested by Uncle Sam’s recruiting office sign, lie looked up at the window; then at the empty tracks. A smile broke over hla face. Fur a moment he' hesitated, pulling hi* long white beard, then entered. ■Td like to enter the army," *ald the Joke-Inclined citizen. One of Captain C. P. Gcorge'e ser- geants looked up from the work of fill ing out application blanks. Then he turned his eye again to the form on the desk. "Sorry," he Bald, after a moment, "but you'll have to get the permission of your parents." The elderly citizen cauglt the next car. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Loosed Wire. New York, June 27.—Here re some of the visitors In New York oday: ATLANTA—K. O. Bonke, J. A. Buchanan, G. W. Collier, B. Cellar, E. Jacobs. D. MacDougnll. A. Msekiugsll, J. A. Wllllnms nnd wife. H. E. Usher, B. Simpson nnd wife. Mrs. C. t. Cox. Miss Cox. C. C. Clay, W. J. Lowesteln, F. E. Lowensteln. H. J. Scale*,J. D. Wing, Jr„ C. E. Adams. W. a Rick and wife, A. C. Drughn, Dr. J. D-l'ro* mer, M. E. Turner. THIS DATE IN HISTORY JUNE 27. 1462—King Loul* XII of France bon. 1550—King Charles IX of France, bor; died May 30, 1S74. 1650—Jean Rotron. French dramatis died. 1682—King Charles XII of Bwedei born. 1720—The “Mississippi bubble" burst 1777—Dr. William Todd executed at Tyburn. 1832—Cholera appeared In New Tone* 1844—Joseph Smith, founder of Mor- monlsm, killed by mob nt Car* thage, 111. 1862— Lee defeated McClellan at bnttw of Gaines’ Mill, Vo* 1863— General Meade succeeded Oea- oral Hooker In command of army of the Potomac. 1864— Confederates victorious *t bn** tie of Kenneenw Mountain, 1874—Henry Ward Beecher Plymouth church to appoint » committee to Investigate tne tu- ton chargee. 1885—James D. Fish, bank defaulter sentenced to pflaon for 16 Y In New York. 1891—Nineteen victims of tbe Samoan di-aster burled at Mare Island- 1904—Steamer Norge lost off Bcettk coast and 646 person* pen*"™- UlftC Yt..S Is. .. Kmlrd mil Gfl hiB - 1