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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. The Atlanta Georgian. Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. tt 25 W. Alebame Street, Atlanta, Ga. tatvrnl as second-class natter April ». 190*. at the Portofflca at Atlanta. Os. under act of confrere of March i. U7I. One Year 94.50 Sis Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c THE GEORGIAN COMES TO GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE “It la Indeed a daatrable thing to be well do- acended. but the glory belonge to our anceatore." —Plutarch. The Governor’s Message. The annual menage of the governor to the atate legislature which la presented In our columns today will speak.for Itself. Its view of public affair* la Georgia Is wide and sweeping. Its recommendations are Intelligent and timely, and It will doubtless be held by the legisla tive body aa a helpful and Inspiring line of suggestion to their serious and Important deliberations. The message of the president or the message of the .overnor 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 la to follow- Such papers are worthy of preserva tion for the Information and forecait which they contain, and the meaaage which the governor aends to the legis lature today justifies upon a hasty glance the comment that It la an able, fair and Interesting document. , No part of the governor's message la moro Interest ing thnn the two opening paragraphs, the first of which Is s recital of the prosperous condition of tho state In all Its sections and in all lla lines of Industry, and the second a brief discussion of that tlmo-honorod principle that public office Is a public trust. Tho first of tnese paragraphs is In tho highest do- gree suggestive of gratltudo and encouragement. Tho second Is In Its nature and cssonce an Injunction to good government, which the two factions In qur state politics will doubtless 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 other* of authority. Whnt a happy and golden thing government would be If every man who bore a part In It bold himself su premely loyal to the prlndplo that public office Is a pub lic trust. The Deadly “Toy” Pistol. Wednesday of next week will he the birthday of the nation, the "glorious" Fourth of July. There has been an oarncst effort during the paBt few yeses to reform the celebration of thlB occasion by elim inating the noisy nuisances which have bocomc 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 tho country as It has been In tho North. Wo reserve our fireworks for Christmas—a season, by the way, which Is not one whit moro appropriate for such nuisances. But we should bo thankful that we are comparatively freo 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 la not altogether un known, even down here, and we are not sure but what It Is becoming even more general. It Is a statistical fact that five thousand poplo were killed or wounded by the use of fireworks and toy pis tols during the Fourth of July celebration last yoar. This Is a fearful harvest of death and demands the most earnest consideration of tho general public. In spite of the repeated warnings of the press every year, the harmless looking paper-cap pistol continues to get In Its deadly work. The vast majority of cases of locjt jaw which develop at this season are directly due to Iho toy pistol. The fact Is that, measured by Its ulti mate results, the paper cap pistol Is one of the deadliest weapons we have- The difference la that the Injury la to-tbe youngster who shoots It and not to those against whom It Is aimed. But a* an engine of destruction It baa fow equals. This Is not some "old wife's tale,’’ to frighten young America from the enjoyment of his legitimate sport. It Is not far-fetched or hysterical. It Is a cold fact, and, as we have pointed out, IS well sustained by the record of five thousand accidents, mostly fatal, last year. It Is hoped that the public will frown upon the prac tice this year. It Is hoped that parents will wake up to a realizing sense of the danger Involved In tho use of the toy pistol and will keep It out of reach of the 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 boya who are annually offered up as a sacriOco to this terrible' Moloch of the July, celebra tions. And the time-to pets along the warning la now. The Congressional Wordfcst. The first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, now drawing to a dose, will go down In history as remarks- bio for many things, but In nothing will It stand out as moro unique than for the amazing amount fit "words, words, words” uttered during the past seven mouths. . ' Never befqre lu the history of the world, wo are told, has so great a volumo of speeches been taken down In shorthand and recorded In printed form ob during this present sosslon, and tho end Is not yet Tho Con gressional Record Itself will run to nearly 10.000 pages, for which there has never been anything llko a parallel since tho Fifty-first congress, which sat until October, and besides The Record wo must tako Into consideration the number of committee hearings. Tho house contributed the greater amount of talk, but the senate had a debate of seventy days on the rate bill and this swelled the volume considerably. The nlficlnl reporters say that The Record has often shown sixty columns of printed matter as the roeult of a six hours debate, which means an average of 16S words a minute during the entire time. While there are tome deliberate speakers In the lower house who do hot In dulge In such rapid oratory, there are othera like Lacey, Hull and DeArmond who more than establish the aver age. speaking as they do at tha rate of at least two hundred words a minute. The number of hearings before the various com mittees has been enormous. At tlmos there wore six or seven committees to teuton st the same time and at one time there were eleven. These hearings not only required the constant attendance of the regular corpa of stenographers, but It was evon necessary on several oc casion! to go outside to employ official reporters. Taking the seuioo as a whole It la estimated that 40.000,000 words were spoken and recorded. Shakespeare Is said to have had the most exhaus tive vocabulary of any nun who ever employed the Eng lish language. HO had a range of 15,000 words The members of the house and eenate have therefore apoken w hat would be equivalent to the entire English language something like .2.6511 times,. In fact we know that on several occasions a single member has exhausted the Kngltsh language and then found hlmaelf 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 which occasions alarm. It Is conservatively estimated that when It comes to a close It will be found that It has also 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 Statu. The Primrose Path. Tragedies such as that which has -Just stirred New York carry their own melancholy comment The Immediate merits of the ease—the degree of of fending for whfeb the dead man was responsible, the weakness of bis slayer, the pauion, the Impulse, the emotionalism—are all apart from the overshadowing, the Indisputable facta. The Clrceaa charm of a life where the sanity and noMfity of nature were blasted In tho crimson glare reaps the harvest It had sown. Monday night It sent a distinguished artist In wood and atone to a dramatic death In a pleqsirt garden. Hundreds of years before It "burned the topless towers of lllon” and strewed tha gulf of Actlum with the fleet of Antony. It sullied the names of Ooethe and of Wag ner and clouded the closing years or Parnell. It blasted the fame of Aaron Burr and brought reproach upon An drew Jackson. It la a waste of words to sermonise upon It. It la out the same rehearsal of the past: “Can a man take fire ia hit bosom and not be burned?" Il l primrose path la broad and pleasant, but "the end thereof Is death." The New Orleans Baseball Issue. It ta not often that the editorial column Invades the affairs of the sporting page, and only unusual circum stances should Justify It. Tho charges which have been formally made by tho Atlanta bnsoball club and other dubs of the Southern League against the New Orleans club for the use of dis honest balls, Is a much more serious matter than has been made of it up to the present time. * . 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 error, and with the matter of fact we 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 nnd In tha Intereet of legitimate sport throughout the country. Not only the Atlanta club, but every other club In the Southern League, sad the whole spirit of Southern sport has a vital Interest In the Investigation of this matter. Baseball Is the national game of America. It enlists the enthusiasm and attention of nearly every full-blooded man and of two-thirds of the ladles of this republic. It Is ns popular In tho South as In any section of -tho rei public, and Its dally exhibitions In this and In othor cities draws day after day the largest and most enthu siastic audiences which are gathered In loyalty to any form of public amusement In this country. And, becauso basobatl Is our national game and ranks first among our national sports, it Is to the last degree Important that honorable conduct and fair play should distinguish all those who are engaged In It The spirit of fair play It a principle that comet down to this people from our English ancestry, and It Is an Indispensa ble requisite to honorablo enjoyment and to the honora ble conduct of every American sport. Whether ama teur or professional, the spirit of honor must prevail In this above all other games of our American people, be- oause tt It the typical and national game. There It no pleaiure In going to see any game that Is not played upon the square, and under any other policy, audlencee will very speedily fall off In numbers and In enthusiasm, as they teem to have done In New Orleans, under the rumor of this unfair and dishonorable conduct If New Orleans has been guilty of thle unprofes sional and dishonorable conduct toward a visiting club, whether that club bo Atlanta's or any othera, then It le to the last degree necessary that the fact should be defi nitely ascertained and definitely published, and If 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 elty, which seeka to win In an honorable contest by dishonorable means, ought to be either sternly re buked or entirely removed from the association and competition with other honorable clube In the 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 sense of the word. Dr. Burt, whether aa a soldier, a dtlxen, or aa a friend,.retained to the last day of hla Ilf* the respectful confidence of bis fellowmen. SUMMER DREAMS. ' By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. (Copyright. 1906. American-Journal-Examlner.) When the Bummer sun Is shining. And the trecn things push and grow. Oft my heart runs over measure. With Its flowing fount of pleasure. As I feel the sea winds blow; Ah, then life Is good. I know. And t think of sweet birds building, And of children running free; And of glowing sun-kissed meadow*, And of tender twilight shadows, And of boats upon the sea. Oh, then Ilf* seem* good to me! Then unbidden and unwanted, Come the darker, sadder sights; City shop and stllllug alley. Where misfortune's children rally; And the hot crime-breeding nights, And the dearth of God's delights. And I think of narrow prisons Where unhappy songbirds dwell. And of cruel pens and cages • Where come captured wild thing rage* Like a mad man In his cell, In the Zoo, the wild beasts' hell. And I long to lift the burden Of man's selfishness and sin; And to open wide earth's treasure* Of God's storehouse, full of pleasure*. For my dumb and human kin. And to ask the whole world In. T. P. A.’8 TURNED DOWN. To the 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.'* of Georgia ami other states at their late meet ing In Atlanta, they failed completely to grant the re quest which has been pending for these years before this association. The T. P. A.'s asked for n 2.000 mile 2c Interchangeable mileage book good on all roads, which they, ns I had expected (though a reasonable and just request), would reject Tho railroad people are not In the habit of granting reasonable requests until they have to. They remind me of an o'possum who gets sullen with his tall wrapped around a limb of tho sapling he la up In. You may use all mild means you can to get hint to let loose with hla tall, but he holds It tho tighter till he Is forced down. When Pope Brown proposed a 2 cent flat rate for Georgia, tho T. P. A. state convention at Macon voted against helping him In this move for a 2-cent flat rate upon tho plea by Mr. Max Krauss and others that the railroads would grant their request quicker If they dldn t do so. The national convention met In Savnnnah and had some of the leading railroad people there to talk the matter over. Another state convention rolled around and not a thing had been done toward granting the T. P. A.'s request except fair promises. Tho mntter of this 2- cent 2.000-mlle Interchangeable book good on all roads was up before tin- stale convention at Albany and was discussed ably nnd freely and It was practlcnlly decided If this request of the T. P. A/s was not granted It would be the" dutyVjf all the T. P. A-’s to use a part of their valuablo time In bringing the matter before boards of trade and merchants as well as all tho people all over Georgia, and secure their Indorsement for a 2-cent flat rate and go before the railroad commission and legisla ture at Its next session nnd get a law passed making a 2 cent flat rate for Georgia. In our opinion they will get relief quicker In this way, and now let the railroad committee of the T. P. A.’s of Georgia and the special committee appointed at Albany to co-oporate with the railroad committee, get up forms of petitions and memo rials and put Into the hands of overy T. P. A. man In Georgia and let them go before the board* of trade and merchants and get their Indorsement of a 2-cent flat rate for Georgia and tho legislature will put It Into law while tho railroad people aro making fair promises and doing nothing. The passenger association, ns we have understood It, agreed to two mileage books, and the rate 21-2 cents per mile remaining the tamo It has been all the while, which la practically no concession to the T. P. A.’s, for with two mileage books wo could trav el most of our territory before and at the rate of 21-2 cents, which Is the samo a* before. Yours truly, competition and some Independence to the cltlien and good to the state may result. If we must hare factions may It not be well that each faction In Its turn should take a rest? Theae questions arc 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 speak untrammeled In open meeting my opinions. Concluding, I notice that one white man was dis franchised In the valley of A’lrglnla- This may be true If so, It Is an isolated rase. Conclusive evidence that even with Its “understanding clause" the Virginia law la fairly administered among white men. The ninth dis trict In tho mountains has a majority of white Repub licans who were not disfranchised. Few negroes In 1L Very truly yours. C. C. BOWLING. Atlanta, Ga., June 22, 1906. Post A, Savnnnah, Ga. ’ID. IUUID II III/, J. T. DAVENPORT. THE NEGRO DISFRANCHISEMENT. To the Editor of The Georgian: 1 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 The Georgian because The Georgian, while neutral as to the contending fac tions In the Democratic party. Is outspoken aa to Is sues. The freight rate question Is of vital Interest to the business Interests and consumors, the whole people of the state. There are other questions of Interest, bnt that which overshadows all othera Is the disfranchisement of the negro by constitutional amendment. 8p 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 the proposition. It Is true that there are some obstacles In the constitutional road to the disfranchisement of the negro. The principal obstacle seems to be Just now the opposition of the heretofore dominant wing of the Democratic party. The claim Is made by those who oppose negro dis franchisement that It -ahould not have become an Issue In a general election. This may be true, theoretically. But It Is an Issue, whether It should be or not, and the people of the atate (If they can get a fair chance) havo got to vote on this Issue along with othera; and It becomes the doty of overy white dtlxen to contribute what ho can to a patriotic and wise solution of this ne gro suffrage question. Any important political question, whether dealing with economies or the suffrage, may be forced before the people when It can not otherwise be settled. And unless wo had tho "Initiative and referendum" all such questions must of necessity become confused more or less with personalities and with other IssueB. Who are most to blame for the presence of this auffrago question today In Georgia? Who are most ito blame—those who believe In constitutional disfranchisement and have so declared, or that dominant faction In tho legislature which has heretofore defeated the disfranchisement res olutions. or tho faction at present opposing disfranchise ment before the people? Why blame either vltuperous- ly? Tho Issue Is hero i nd cannot be settled by personal abuse of tboBo who advocate It, nor by general nbuso of mil of uiose other noble nnd 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 la a base slander on the whole South to state that the vast majority, nearly nine-tenth* of the negroes cannot b* disfran chised by legal and honorable constitutional methods. This unblushing Impudoncq 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. Fbr, If a question of honesty Is to he considered, let ue compare the most questioned of all the constitutional methods in the different states with the old method of all the Southern state*, but now In use only In Georgia and a fow othera whoro negroes are not so numerous as here. Tho most questioned of the constitutional methods Is the "understanding clause/' under which simple questions of the constitu tion can be submitted by the registrar* when they wish to enfranchise a white man; or a complex and abstruse question can be submitted when they wleh to disfran chise a negro. Mach can be said even for this method, though It Is distasteful; but Is even this method as odious as the old method to which I refer of keeping the negro away from the polls by physical force, stuffing the ballot box or throwing out hla vote and Intimidating the white elec torate with his threatening power? Under the auffrago law£ of Mississippi, Alabama, both tho Carolines and Virginia the negro has been effec tively disfranchised by slightly varying laws, and It Is tot true that any considerable number of white men tare been disfranchised by these laws. I travel all of those state* except 1 one, and am well acquainted with their people; and cannot help feeling reeentment against the slanderers of their people. The white people of those statee are now Indepen dent voter* 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, ton the Democratic party Is still supreme In every Southern state where the negro has been disfranchised. The Democratic party of Georgia can best Insuro Its per petual supremacy by serving the true Interests of all the white people of Georgia and not dividing them Into tac 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 exists now In Georgia? Both factions of Democrats In Virginia have triumphed under tho new taw In different elections. If we must have machines le. us have a number of them, eo that THE RU8SIAN MASSACRE8. To the Editor of The Georgian: t 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 havo no commission from tho Ilearst 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 power of tho Holy Ghost; born of the Virgin Mary, to save his people from'thclr sins; who grew to manhood, was bap tized by John the Baptist, attended by the witness of God tho Holy Ohost, nnd the approval of God the Fa ther. nnmely, "This Is my beloved Son In whom I am well pleased.” Who lived through three years of public ministry, snd upon the Mount of Transfiguration again had the approval of God the Father, namely; “This Is my beloved son. Hear him.” And again, had His appro val when In answer to the prayer of Jesus, the Father spoke to him saying, "I have both glorified thee and will glorify thee." And some of those who stood by nnd' heard the volco said It thundered. There was a meeting, not of the douma, but of the sanhedrin, the Jewish supreme court There 'was a hasty decision rendered that jesua must be put to death. He was hurried before the Roman officer, who alone could pronounce the death sentence- Under the pres sure of the opinion of that mighty mob. crying crucify, crucify, the Roman officer took water and washed his hands and said, "I am Innocent of the blood Of this just person. See ye to It" Again tho cry—essentially of ficial: "His bicod be upon us and our children.” Per secuted, afflicted and tormented, has been the history of the Jewish race from that day until this. Truly his blood has been upon them and their children from gon- eratldn to generation In nnswer to their prayer. And It will follow any other nation who tramples under foot tho Son of God; who counts His blood an unholy thing, and who does despite to the Spirit of Grace. "God rules nnd the government at Washington still lives.” "God rules among the armies of heaven snd tho Inhabitants of earth, and none can stay His hand or say unto him. what doest Thou." “The Lord God omnipotent ruleth.” Tho word of God came not at any time by the will of man. but holy men of God spake, moved by the Holy Ghost. Tho Apostle Paul—the apostle to tho 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 be saved.” Again, "Hath God cast nway His people? Hts chosen and peculiar people.” "God hath not cast away his people whom He foreknew." But blindneis In part hath happened unto Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles shall be brought in.” Bo they, when the fulness of the Gentiles shall ,iave been brought in; when God’s covenant unto them, to removo tho blindness which h(ts happened unto them In part, to take away their sins, shall bo fulfilled, then will tho Jews be mighty upon this earth, and again. Indeed and In truth, thoy shall be his chosen, his peculiar people. And what shall then happen to the Gentiles? LEMUEL D. KING. Covington, Ga., June 22, 191)6. A Word From Mr. Fleming. To the Editor of The Georgian: I Intended to write you a note thanking you for the broad-minded ness exhibited In your aditortsl of last Saturday, snd I find In your paper which reached me this morning, that I am under still 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 can only tell you that there were men In tha audience who were Just aa much gnd men who were just as well qualified to pdan upon the propriety of my address aa Mr. Alexander la, and theae gentlemen were outspoken In tna their statement to me, not only that my LET THE LADIES SHOP EARLY. To the Editor of Tho Georgian; May I ask the prlvllego cf a smalt apace In your pa- ( per? I notice an article In Friday's Georgian In whlfch a gentleman deplores the fact that tho men of today, and especially the young men, keep their scats In a crowded car and SHOW- the Jodies to stand.’ While I agree with the writer of this article that It Is iingentlcnmnly la any man, whether young or old, to allow n Indy to stand and swing to a strap when he has a seat Slid Could offer It to her. I would like In present another side of Ids mut ter which 1b greatly responsible for the existing condi tion of ladles having to s'tand While meft keep their seats la crowded cars. There Is a great number of ladles who have no household cares to worry them while at home. These ladles make It convenient to go calling in the fore noon, go homo to lunch and rest and cool from their morning exercise, then late In tho afternoon go shopping and stand in the stores "bargain hunting” until the stores nro closed at 6 o'clock, when there Is about as many shoppers as there aro clerks to be turned out of the stores Into ths cars. This Is Just tho tlmo that 90 i>er cent of the working men of Atlanta are going homt i rom their dally toll; men who have been on their feet from 9 to 12 hours and a great many of them are very tired tad worn out at the close 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 how bad a man feels be Is no gentlcmnn (In the lady's eyes) If ho keeps his seat and allow* her to stand. I am a working man mjoelf and speak from personal observation- Some daj-s I havo gone home and felt as though a seat would be worth 25 cents, but have had to stand because there were too many bundles and lady shoppers on the car to allow a gentleman to sit, although tt has been after thinking twice before f gave up my seat. If all tho ladles who go shopping would make It convenient to do so early enough to get home before tho working class start home there would not be so much room for complaint about ladles having to stand while men keep their seats In trolley care, and I hope that those who read this will exert their efforts to do so. It the men who have wives and slaters that make a practice of late afternoon shopping and calling would explain to them how a man feels who has worked and been on his feet all day, and how much he enjoyi a seat when he gets on a car and atari* home, t 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 Balnbridge Tribune.) The many friends of Col. Luclen C. Bower are pleas ed to see him back tn Balnbridge after quite an absence due to his attending the “Varsity" at Athens, where he ha* been taking a special course In modem languages Like his brother*, the Colonel Is an attorney at law. hav ing been admitted to practice a year ago last December. Cloonel Bower, however, has another year to spend at the 'varsity before he gets his degree, and It la said by some of hts Intimate friends that be will likely forsake the bar for the United States diplomatic service. A gentleman of pleasing appearance, a brilliant con versationalist. of wide travel, and a master of Romanic languages, the colonel would do his native city nnd state great credit no doubt. In any foreign post that 8ecretary Root might place him. The demand for American consuls, who can speak fluently the language of the country in which they are located, hSs become almost Imperative, and Mr. Root la sold to have decided to require consular aspirants to show thsmselves competent linguists before their appli cations for diplomatic posta will be even considered. they endorwd my address tn full, but they also approved.heartily of the pro priety of making It. One distinguished gentleman, whoa* name I do not care to mention, and who stands aa high aa any man In Georgia for good judgment and good taste, and who la In no way connected with active politics so far aa 1 know, said to me: "I endorse everything you sold 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 taw and-morals to on admitted atate of fact*. So tar from having Injured the unl- have done It a great ktMftt; if shall have contributed any- Cholly Knickerbocker Gossips About People. By Private Leased Wire. New York, June 27.—There may bt happier men about New York today that General Horace Porter, former ambassador to France, but It would be hard to find them. He has Juet re. celved a cable from Paris announcing that he Is now "Grandpa” Porter. A fine daughter has been bom to his daughter, Elols, now Mrs. Edwin Maude, of Paris. There is consternation today In the colonial white house. Riverside Drive and One Hundredth street, managed by Miss Mary Twombly, over tho al leged discovery by Dr. William B. Conkley, one of the boarders, that Strychnine had been served to "him In a glass of milk at the table. Dr. Cosk- ley came from Chicago, about a year ago, and Is one of the students In tha Hudson Street Hospital. When seen Dr. C'oakley refused to discuss the poison story, saying: "I am about to publish a scientific work, and the notoriety which would follow the publication of any state ment by me regarding this matter would be very detrimental to my In terests." American army tailors may now ae* for themselves. George T. Winters, the English army tailor, has ar rived to revise and modify the patents for American soldiers' uniforms to "make men In the ranks to look Ilk* officers and officers to look like gen erals." In order to prove his pet theory that the atlng of the bee Js a Bure cure for rheumatism, Frank McGlynn. of Phila delphia. has permitted hlmsblf to be stung by a hundred of the Insects that had previously been stirred up to a frenzy. His hack looked ns though it had been freshly tattooed, but with an air of satisfaction McGlynn declared the benefits would come. Henry Twining, a veteran nplculturlst, who Is a con vert to the McGlynn theory, nnd who also suffers from rheumatism, permit tee a stvarm of the Insects to sting him on the arm. Medical men and aplculturlsts are watching the experiment with Interest Heard on the Comer - Polysyllable Verbiage. If a man should hand you his card with the following appearing on It what would you do to him? Crlnlcultural abscission and cranio- logical trlpsls, phrenological hair cut- and hydropathlcal shaver of beards. Work physiognomical!)- exe cuted." A man with evidences of rural ex istence clinging about his person climbed Into that fellow's chair ths other day, nnd one of tho cards was passed to him. The visitor from Squash Hollow spelled It alt out care fully. iin.l then squirmed f r ..-a the razor and reached for. hla coot - and hat. "Podner, Pm a pretty fair sort of m:in In my deestrick. but I'll !..* stvoggled If you nor any other man c'n- call mo names like that without me resentin' It." And wiping the lather from his chin, ho walked out of the shop. Touch and Go. For some minutes, & well-dressed citizen stood on the 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, he looked up st the window: then nt the empty tracks. A smlie broke over his face. For a moment he hesitated, pulling his long white beard, then entered. “I'd like to enter the army,” said the Joke-Inclined citizen. One of Captain C. P. George's ser geants looked up from the work of fill ing out application blanks. Then h* turned his eye again to the form on the desk. "Sorry," he said, cafter a moment, "but you'll have to get th* permission of your parents." Tne elderly citizen caught the next car. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York, June 27.—Here are some of the visitors In Nqw York tod*y: ATLANTA—K. O. Bonke. J. A. Buchanan. Q. W. Collier, It. Collier, E. Jacobs. D. MacDougall. A. MacDougsll, .1. A Williams an,I wife. H E !' • B. Simpson nnd wife. Mr*. C. C. Cox. Miss Cox, C. C. Clay, W. J. Lowensteln. E. Lowensteln. H. J. Scales, J. D. Wing, Jr., C. E. Adams. W. & Rick and wife, A. C. Drugha, Dr. J. D. Cro mer, M. E. Turner. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. thing toward making the Athens plat form on alumni day the place for the free expression of honest thought We will then get some life Into the oc casion. and put *n end to mere oratori cal stunts on glittering generalities and dull common places. I presume Mr. Alexander's criticism was written before he had an oppor tunity to rend my speech In full, as I did not mall him a copy until quite recently. If any of yoor friend* or the readerr of your paper desire to Investigate the subject further. I wlU ser.,1 them upon request a printed copy of my speech ao that they may Judge for themselves. Thanking you again. I remain. Yours truly. WM. 1L FLEMING. Augusta, Ga., June 26, 1904. JUNE 27. 1462—King Louis XII of France born. 1550—King < ’bailee IX of Fran died May 30. 1574. , 1650—Jean Rotron, French dramatist, died. 1682—King Charles XII of Sweden born. 1720—The "Mississippi bubble" burst 1777—Dr. William Todd executed at Tyburn. 1832—Cholera appeared In New York. 1844"-Joseph Smith, founder of Mor* nionlem, killed by mob at Car* thage, 111. * 1882—Lee defeated McClellan At bAttl* of Gaines* Mill, Va. 1863— General Meade succeeded Gen eral Hooker In command of Army of the Potomac. 1864— Confederate** victorious At bat tle of Kenneaaw Mountain, GA- 1874—Henry Ward Beecher requeued Plymouth church to appoint* i "Mirnlttee t<> Investigate ton chargee. 1885—Jamee D. FUh. bank defaulter, nentenced to prison for 10 ye*™ in New York. I—Nineteen victim* of the Samoan disaster burled at Mare falano. 1904— Steamer Norge lost off Scottish count and 444 person* pertahed. 1905— Mutiny broke out on board Rus- ■lan battleship Knlax Potemkin* at odes fa*.