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' The Atlanta Georgian. SECOND SECTION ATLANTA, GA, SATURDAY, JUNE 30. 1006. In Atlanta TWO CENTS. 1 IvJLVyiii. on Train* FIVE (’ENTS. ® o • ® $ ® ® ® © ® ® @ ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® @ ® @ ® .*?, ^ 0 ^ ® ® ® ® ® $ # , ;3 @ $ .$ <j } ® # 0 .$ ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® » 0 ft ft ® 0 ft 0 JOHN WESLEY, FOUNDER OF METHODIST CHURCH, HELD THEORY OF EVOLUTION LONG BEFORE DARWIN He Wrote a Book on the Subject Thirty- ® Four Years Before Darwin Was Born, J and Eighty-Four Years Before the * . “Origin of Species" Was Written. ® (Si J • w ® ft o ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ® ® OHN WESLEY wrote a book in lets have been atraightened In an at- two volumes on the origin of ape- tempt to Institute a positive criterion for the line of demarkatlon between animal and * , 01 jvCn xortv, in iq2u* publication Is In two volumes, nlng altogether #87 octavo pages, win's book Is called "The Origin cles thirty-four years before Dar win was born, and eighty-four years before Darwin published his celebrated work on the, “Origin of Species.” The work written by the founder of Meth odism is entitled "Wesley's Phlloso- R hy," and was written In 1775, and pub- ■hed In this country by Mason & Bangs, of New York, In 1823. The | contain Darwin's book Is called "The Origin of Species,” but It is not on that sub ject at all, but on the modification of species. Wesley's book Is not called •The Origin of Species," but Is really on that subject. Darwin's book begins with species already started, and etu- dlously avoids giving us the origin of them. On the title page of "Wesley’s Phi losophy” are the following words:. "A survey of the wisdom of God In creation, or a compendium of natural philosophy, containing an abridgment of that beautiful work, 'The Contem plation of Nature,' by Mr. Bonnet, of Geneva; also, an extract from Mr. Deu- ton's ‘Inquiry Into the Origin of the Discoveries Attributed to the dents.' ” The preface Is dated 1775. Wesley says In the preface: "I have long desired to see such a compendium of natural philosophy as was not too diffuse, not expressed In many words, but comprised In so mod erate a compass as not to require any large expense of time or money, not maimed or Imperfect, but containing the heads (after all our discoveries) of whatever Is known with any de gree of certainty either with regard to the earth or the heavens; but I can not find such a treatise as this In any mod ern any more than ancient language. Anti I am certain there ia none such In the English tongue." "I am thoroughly sensible," he con tlnucs In the preface, "there are many who have far more ability, as well as leisure, for such a work than me; but «s none of them undertake It, I have myself mad* some little attempt In the ensuing volumes" The abridgment of the work of Mr. Bonnet la In the aecond volume, aa also Is the extract Ifrom Mr. Deutpn'a book, but the whole .work receiver Mr. Wesley** approval and Indoraement, and la put Into his.own language. It may be taken aa embodying the opin ions John Wealey had thirty-four yearn before Darwljwwas bom, of the origin, method and order of nature. This book contains the whole development theory In n form far more In accordance with the facte than the celebrated “Origin of Specea." Wesley represents species es originating In the only place ihey can originate. In the eternal mind of the Creator. Species, types, patterns. Ideas otean about the same thing, and while these may be modified by environ ment, natural selection, etc., they can not originate • In nor can they be changed by .natural selection or envi ronment. Mr. Darwin and his son, Francis, both confess (pp. 258. 26#, I.lfe and Letters of Darwin), “We can “ ■ lea haa .. v **et*ble beings, and equally so for that between vegetables and fossils. There Is such an obvious gradation In the scale of belngt, that It appears Impossible to ascertain wnere one species ends and the other begins. Again, on the same page, the missing link between the plant and the animal Is given In the following: "But there are Instances wherein nature ap- peara to combine the animal and vege table functions In the same beings, and the polypus may be considered aa the Intermediate link between the two kingdoms." 0" pog*" 2«2, volume 2. Wesley says', "when we consider In a general view the composition of men and quadru ples. we shall presently discern that there Is with respect to all of them the same foundation of structure, dif ferently modified In different species. In order to be convinced of this, we need only cast our eyes on those anat omical plates. In which are represented the skeletons of divers animals that have been dissected. From man. the ape and horse, to the squirrel, weasel and mouse, we shall see, throughout, the same design, the same arrange ment, the same essential relations, ex cept In a few particulars.” On page 142, volume 2, he says: "There are no sudden changes In na ture; all Is gradual and elegantly va ried. There Is no being which haa not, either above or beneath It, some that resemble It In certain characters and differ from It In others. • • • The polypus links the vegetable to the ani mal; the flying squirrel unites the bird to the quadruped; the ape bears af finity to the quadruped and the man.” Again, on page 224, volume 2: "All la metamorphosis In the physical world. Form* are continually chang ing. The quantity of matter alone la Invariable. The same substance passes successively Into three king doms. The same composition becomes by turns a mineral, plant, Insect, rep tile, fish, bird, quadruped, man.” On page 240, volume 2: "When the evolution begins in an organised whole, Its form differs so prodigiously from that which It will afterwards assume, that we should be apt to mistake It were It not to accompany It In all It* progreas." Again on page 248, volume 2: "Evo lution Is not uniform In all parts of the germ; they grow unequally, and this tnequlalty of growth may Influ ence the effects of contact, pressure, adhesion, etc.” On page 285, volume 2; “The same general design comprises all parts of the terrestrial creation. A globule of light, a molecule of earth, a grain of salt, a particle of moldiness, .* poly not prove that a single species has changed.” Agassis asked Mr. Darwin one troublesome question: “If spe cies do not exist, how can they vary?" This wa* the very. question that Mr. Darwin failed to answer. All of us can see how environment, natural selection, etc., vary species, but what the world " lints to know Is, How species came to be? Where did all the types, patterns, specie* and Idea* In accordance with which things grow come from? Thla question Is answered by John Wesley. He considers at length plant*, Insects, reptile*, fishes, birds, beasts and man. He treats also of minerals, metals and fosslla, of stars, and the machinery of the heavens, 1 shall take extracts from different parts of the work without reference to order, as my object Is to show that the whole evolution or development theory was In. the mind of Wesley long before Darwin was born. On page 117 he aays: "There I* a near analogy between animal* and plants.” In a note on page 258 of volume 2, In the part which I* an abridgment of the work of Mr. Bon net. of Geneva, It Is said: "Nalural- ®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®® ®® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® =By REV. J. W. LEE, D. D.=s== THE EVOLUTIONARY TREE a man, are only different strol design.” On page 268. volume 2: "What » multitude of physiological truths that were unknown to us In the vegetable lom has the arm polypus alone yn- . J to us? How do these truths ap pear as paradoxes, and yet how evi dently are they demonstrated? Who can doubt that there exists an animal, very animal, since It Is extremely voracious, .whose young grows like branches and which, being cut to prices and actually minced, regenerates anew In all Ils parts, and even In the small est fragments, that may be grafted by approximation or Inoculation, turned Inside outward like a glove, afterwards cut, turned back and cut again, with out ceasing to live, grow, devour and multiply?" He continues and gives us a lesson in humility, warning us not to Imagine we know everything. "It was not a lit season, therefore, to make general rules, to arrange nature, establish distributions, form systemat ical orders, and to raise an edifice, which future ages, better Instructed, will even dread to project. We have scarce any knowledge of the animal when we would undertake to define It. Because our knowledge Is at present In some measure Improved, shall we pre sume to think we thoroughly know, it? How many animals are there that are even more strange than polypuses, and that would confound all our rea soning could we discover them? It This picture gives us the whole divine process In creation In the form of a tree. It correctly rep resents John Wesley's Ideas, as welt as those of .all evolutionists of the present time. Those who speak of man coming from mon key* or from ahy lower species of life, do not understand what evolution means. Any one, by carefully considering this tree, will see that nothing but plants ever come from plants. Only tril- obltes come from trltobltes; only horses come from horses; only monkeys come from monkeys. The monkey limb remains a monkey limb throughout all generations. The topmost branch of the tree represents man. He comes last, ns Genesis and all evolutionists teach, because God saw the ne cessity of preparing a world for him, and all things necessary for his well-being, before He created him. Man could not have lived If simply created, and left hanging In the air, without any world be low hltn, or any heavens above him. But while man waa the last to appear, on the top of God's creative tree,"he waa the first In the.mlnd of God, who created all. things. The direction of the whole divine movement was toward .man, God's child, from the beginning. Aa a self-conscious, self-determining, self-active spirit, he came straight from the mind and heart of the Almighty. The process has been called evolution, not because dne species comes from another, but because one divine Idea succeeds another In getting Itself uttered by the eternal mind. God saw proper to make the atoms and plants and tower animals before He made man. That la what Moses said, and that la what Weatay said, and that Is what the latest science declares. The eaentlal thing about evolution la that God created all things from within, rather than from without. Men make plow- stocks from the outside of the raw material* of them, but God makes all that He haa made from the Inside of the elehtents of them. As transcendent, God la ether and distinct from all things, aa Imma nent He Is the underlying thought or Logos of all things. As trans cendent, according to Christian theology, God Is Father; as Im- menent God Is Son, as power dy namic and active, proceeding from the Father and the Son, and co operating with them In creation, God la spirit. As Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we have the living God transcending creation. Imma nent In creation and working out the divine program In creation. “Wesley’s Philosophy” is Sub-Titled “A Survey of the Wisdom of God, or a Compendium of Natural Philosophy, Abridged From Bonnet.” ® ® ® ® ® ® ® *' ® ® ® ®j ® - ®®®®®®®®o®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®® tlson. the distinguished rector of Lin coin College, not to know anything scarcely of Weeley or his work, when IVesley had been a fellow of his own college. Thla waa brought out one day when Hugh Price Hughes expressed hIs surprise to Mr. Pattfson that even hla college had no adequate memorial of the most distinguished fellow that ever adorned Ha common room. “What other fellow of Lincoln,” added Mr. Hughea “or Indeed of any Oxford col lege. had twenty millions of avowed disciples In all parts of the world with In less than a century after hla death?' "Twenty millions!" exclaimed Mr. Pat tlson, with it start, "twenty millions! You mean twtnty thousand?” Mr. Hughes had ta repeat It three times over to him be|ue he could perauadt him that l>» meant It. "I had not the faintest conception.'' said the lllus trtoti* rector of Lincoln, “that there were ao many Methodists.'' Yet the figures given by Mr. Hughes to the Rev. Mark Pattlson are Incor reel. ' There are of all branches o Methodism a constituency of 10,000,040. Journeying never less than 4.600 miles In any year, and always until his 70th year on horseback, before turn like or macadamised roads ware mown, we would suppose that JVealey gave himself up to horseback riding. In the fitly years of hla ministry hs traveled thus 360,000 miles. He preached 40,000 sermons In the fifty years of his aposlolste—an average of over two each day—we wonder how the man had any time left for anj thing but preaching. When we tal down hla works and see that he wrote an English grammar, a Greek grammar, a Latin grammar, a Heb raw grammar, we are led to con. elude that he must have given his Ilfs to tpe study of the structure of language and the writing of gram, mars. But In addition to all this Was. ley wrote a Compendium of Logie, hs prepared extracts for use In Kings wood School nnd elsewhere from Phan drus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal, Perslus, Martial and Sallust; ha wrote an English dictionary; commentaries on the whole of the Old and New Testa ments; a history of Englnnd from the earliest times to the death of George If we thing of Ood as one who transcends the universe only, we have the inscrutable absolute of Herbert Spencer. If we think of God as Immanent only, we Iden tify Him with all things and ob literate moral distinctions, Splnoxa. The Trinity work did worked out by (he Christian fathers Is not simply the only Christian view of God, but the only rational view of Him. would be necessary on that occasion to invent a ne'w language In order to de scribe our observations. Polypuses are placed on the frontiers of another uni verse that will some time or other have Its Columbuses and Vespucluses. Shall we imagine that we have penetrated Into the Interior parts of the continent because we have taken a slight View of some coasts at a distance? We will form to ourselves more exalted Ideas of nature; we will firmly persuade our selves that what we have discovered of her Is but the smallest part of what she contains. Having been heretofore astonished, we will forbear being so for the time to come, but will continue our observations; we will amasa fresh truths, connect them If we are able and bo In expectation of every discovery, because we will continually say that the known cannot be a model for the unknown, and that models have been varied ad Infintlum." This gives ua an Idea of how hospitable Wesley was of all discoveries of truth In the universe. His faith In God waa In no danger of being overturned by aome discovery that aome one might make In the do main of physics or metaphysics. His entire work on natural philosophy Is written In the most simple and unso phisticated way. It never seemed to dawn on him that anything In God's material universe contradicted any thing In God's spiritual universe. He wrote these bpoks for the people called Methodlata tri read, that they might understand the method of God In crea tion, as far aa that method could be determined from a study of hla worka John Wealey was the most Influ ential man of the eighteenth century. He had In his vein* the best blood In England. On both aides he “belonged to an unbroken ancestral succession of English gentlemen.” He was a fellow and Greek lecturer In Lincoln College when he was 22 years of age. Zeal and enthusiasm In behalf of men *led him Into disregard of ecclesiastical rules. He was unsophisticated and simple and human enough to think that men were so vsluabls aa to be worthy of saving at tbs cost of prece dent. This was too much for the clergy of the time. They closed upon him the door of every church In Eng land. Nothing waa left him but the open air. the fields and the wide en compassing sky. He lost the pious light that comes through stained wln- dowa the soft music from the solemn organ and the eentlment Inspired by ths effect of lofty vaultings and ex- qulaltaly carved columns but he gained 'commerce with nature and the .secret of Winning men to a better life. His work began to taks on something of But, nevertheless ure from the prescribed lines ordained by ecclesiastical ronsensas for the life and work of a clergyman In the Church of England did cut him off from the the untyerslty and cultivated circles of English social life. Because of this the prodigious amount of work per formed by Wealey between the years 1718 and 1711 was not noticed or con sidered by the upper end educated classes of Great Britain. He had ac complished more perhaps than any man ever did before In the same num ber of years, but It was hidden beneath the Indifference and conceit and con tempt of the ruling end thinking classes of his countrymen. Herculaneum was burled by the memorable eruption of Vesuvius In ths year A. D. 71. For 1638 years It re mained under the surface of the earth filled up and covered with volcanic tufa The accident of deepening a well led to the discovery of mosaics and paintings and statues of rare value, now In the museum at Naples. There Is no doubt but men often remain burled out of sight for ages. The re pose of Wesley, with his marvelous accomplishments, Is not to remain so long undisturbed aa that of the city of Herculaneum. Already excavations are being made, and Wesley la to be discovered to the admiring gaxe of the human race. A hundred and fifty 1 of oblivion, however, la not a _ price to pay for such work as wss wrought by the head and heart and hand of Wesley. And taking ths con ditions of ths age into con sideration 1 , perhaps the oblivion was necessary for the accomplishment of such work. It may furnish a theme for the speculation of the curious, how ever, to understand how It ware pos sible for a man Ilka the late Mark Pat- 11; a short history of Rome;'a com pendlum of . social philosophy In five volumes; a concise ecclesiastical Ills lory from the btrth'Of fibfkt i4 tM beginning of the eighteenth century. In four volumes; a Christian library In M volumes, consisting of extracts from all the great theological writers of the universal church. He prepared also many editions of the "Imitation f the principal work Baxter, M >> ■ i m O0M Principal Edward* and Rutherford, besides a great number of abort blog reptiles, with an edition of a famous novel of the time, "The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland." He wrote : bong on medicine, entitled "Prtml- ve Physic, nr an Easy Natural Meth- d of Curing Most Diseases.” He pre pared numerous collections of psalms and sacred songs, with worka on music and collection* of tunes. He published his own sermons and journals, and started In 1776 one of tbe first megs- sines ever published ■ In England, nnd which continues to thla day. Though he wrot* In an ags when books were not circulated as they are now, he received for his publications not lesx than 8160,004, all of which he dis tributed In charity during hla lifetime. It waa his desire, he said, to distribute his money so fast that whan he died It would he found he had not left £60 behind him. Yet, In this enormous gmnunt of lit erary work, tbe energy of John Wes ley wss not exhausted. He founded an orphans' house at Newcastle, char ity schools In London and a dispensary In Bristol. Hs made experiments In electricity, and believed he had found In It a surprising medicine, and had an hour appointed every day when any one might try tbe virtues of It. He established a lending fund, from whlrh many men got the money that enabled them to lay the foundation of vast commercial enterprises. Hs had a room In connection with one of his preaching placea In London where poor women were Invited to come and card and spin cotton. He employed women who were out of work tn knit ting, and also sought to I" rn illstr Hut with the progress of thn nineteenth century the Wesleyan movement took on sucli, proportions that the tremendous **lg- i nltlcance of Wealey and hla work could no longer be kept In a corner. Murat- , ley went so fur as to administer a withering rebuke to tho literary . Imr- latnna of England, who proposed to write the history of the eighteenth' century w ithout Inking notice of Meth-j odlsm nnd prophesied that the hreedi would die out. Mr. Lecky, one of the! beat of English historians, put himself] on record as to the Ws-D-yan move-I ment In the following do "Although the cares d the splendid vlctn i' el.|o I.v Ian. Pitt nnd and aen that ministry form unqusstlonnhly the most dassllng episode in the ■ *- ,,r George II, they must yield, I think, In raul Importance, to that religions revolution which shortly before had begun In England by the prenchlng nt (ho We*- leyn nnd Whitfield.” M. Edmond Scherer was Impress ed with the work of Wesley Hint he wrote to The Revue Des Deux M,miles, of Paris, that Methodism was n rellg-, loun movement tlml lin.l ehangod tho face of England, and Hint “England we know It today Is odlsm.” A distinguish, theology In a German Ids d profe of Moth er stty Ills nphle and published tho snm to hla countrymen, that ‘‘.Methodism la : on the point of becoming In evangel- . leal Christlnnlty practically. If also tin-, known to many, the ruling power, llko Jesuitism In Catholic Christianity." Ho. wan by no menns n Methodist, for ho regarded this fact aa In many respect* | one of the gravest signs .,r modern Christianity. In his esteem Ignatius Isiyola, has raptured the Catholic churches i nnd John Wesley lias captured I the evangelical churches. John Hon-1 ry Newtnan came to the con-1 elusion that there was no middle way some years ago, and bsram* >t Calh-i olio. John Wesley also, Jn Ids day, believed there wnn no middle ground t nnd became a Methodist. Wesley was afraid of nothing In heaven *.r In sarin I,..I .l-.lnir a l "tig Tim higher critic* the [.resent <Iay would have lut.l no terrors for htn Tho truth Is, In ills note on the first chapter <>f Ht.* Matthew’s gospel, lie discloses and ac cepts the principle upon which higher criticism has worked. In lids nets, he asserts that St. Mark mid Ht. [.like.. In the genealogical tallies which they 1. 1 11.11 - h .1.1 ..III. a - Idst.elans selling, down these genealogies ns they stood I In those published nnd allowed records./ Therefore, they were to pike them »n they found them. Nor wns It ueedrul| that they should eorreet the mistakes] If there wore nny. l or th. se n., ..unis sufilrlenlly answered the end for whl. hi Ihey were recited." Orthodoxy, wltlij Wesley, rpnslsted In a holy. ...n-e-j crated life, and he took delight In quot-l Ing a piece of novice whlrh the arch-' bishop of t'anterbury gave him: ri “If you desire to be extensively use-- ful; do not spend your time nndl strength In contending for ..r ..gainsti such things as are of a dtareputnhle • nature, but In testifying t notorious vice, nnd In pn essential hollneas." Having read the life of Ignatius Icy ola, he spok* of him as "one of th greatest men who ever llred" It I reported of him that he quoted win npprovnl the words of an author wh. said: "What the heathen .all reason Holomon wisdom. St Paul grtor. m John love, Ht. Luther faith, I'enelot virtue, la all one and the -arm* thins the light nt Christ shining In .mr.-ren degrees under different dispensations' Darwin's work on evolution does no begin till things have started Wes ley begins with the types, patterns open, eternal evolves the universe out through th* power and .wl mighty God. The one glr the other give* us n rogitu reduces th* unlveree to tei ter. th* other represents i the beautiful language of Ood. lie universe. YOUNGEST CANTOR IS VISITING ATLANTA FASTER ISRAEL ROTHSTEIN, BOY WONDER, TO CHANT IN SYNAGOGUE. 'taster Israel Rotluteln, a 18-year- New York wonder, the youngest Hor In th* world, la In Atlanta and I take part In several public ser es. v . fhe boy will conduct religious ser es Friday night at 7:10 o’clock In th* rlsh synagogue tn Piedmont avenue I again Haturday morning at 8 lock. H( will chant th* evening yers in the synagogue Sunday at 0 O'clock and will also give a con- t afterwards. - - .. taster Israel has a woofi'Hully ret voice end has recelved much Is*. He has been traveling for the t three and a half rears and has n In every section of the United tes. He has been awarded, three 1 medals for hi* superb .-Inglng. MOM* Bablngt.i* M«C» day, Eoftlrt kls- la, su.iu ,-t. sad statr-iaea, wss U.i»telr fond of rtchlr .mlmiM-ted Up UW»h1 oaljr th«* rviily - EI.LANEot'H • • ••• he world la full of foolish l.ache- L, & II, PASSENGERS SOON TO RON HERE It la officially announced that the Louisville and Nashville road will be gin operating regular passenger trains over Its Cincinnati-Atlanta line about the middle of September, the freight service having become thoroughly es tabllshed. In the meantime, the com pany will employ a large force of men on the line putting the track in first class condition, and when the first through trains are put on In Septem ber they will run over one of the best railroads In the country. The tracks of the new line are being ballasted with rock from one end to the other, end the heavy rails will afford easy running for what the Louisville and Nashville will terip the fastest trains In the south. Ample lo cal trains will be put on, and. In addi tion, a test train will make the run each way dally. The city passenger and freight of fices on Peachtree street, near the viaduct, ore practically completed, and n large force of solicitors In both de- portments are being estaMIsbed there. District Passenger Agent J. G. HoUen- beck will have on his force one trav eling passenger egent and three solic iting less*tiger agents, In addJUon to ticket force*, and will make a n* itT'.rt to control tm northern travel from Atlanta and the south- east. When this line Is completed, and In good running order, the Louisville and Nashville will again give Its attention to bettering th* line from Louisville to New Orleana, through Nashville, and the building of another new line from Scbttsvllle to Stanford, Ky. KAISER AND THE CZAR TO HOLD CONFERENCE By MALCOLM"”CLARKE. Special Cable—Copyright. Berlin, June 10 I am Informed by a very high govemipent official that s meeting between the exar and the kaiser haa been arranged for tbe very near future. It la said that when th* kaiser returns from hla visit to Trondhjem, after havlhg congratulated King Haakon, of Norway, he will meet the RuseUn Imperial yacht which th* exar has even now ready for a cruise. To Build Churches, Special to The Georgies. Oriflln, G*-, June 80.—The four- weeks’ tent meeting nt Lakewood Height* conducted by Rev. J. Q. Watts, of artflln, Oa., has dosed. A Method- lot and Baptist church have been or ganised and steps hare been taken to build bouse* of worship for each or ganisation. Rev. J. Q. Watts will preach at th* tent next Monday night, and receive the applicants for member- Ip In th" Methodist church which ve not been tcevHed. (I, S, MAY CAUSE NEW WAR CLOUD By Private Leased Wire. Berlin, June 30.—The United State* will probably be tha cause of raising another war cloud on the European horlson. American Inaction, U Is be lieved here, will be the cause of reopen ing the whole Moroccan queatlon and so give the German emperor a suffi cient pretext for again menacing France. The convention of Algedrsa was par ticipated In by the United States nnd on* of Its provisions was that It should not become operative unless all tha signatories ratified It The United State* senate has not even discussed the signing of the Algedrea convention at thin session and has put off a rota on the question until December 12 next. The convention provided for the ex change of ratifications by tht powers on December 81. It is believed here that the American senate will nqt vote to ratify and even If It should. It ll thought Impossible to ratify In time. Germany, whoso Moroccan pretension* were worsted, will. It le now generally | the In Berlin, this op portunity for reopening the whole Moroccan controversy. BEAUTIFUL HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE With the exception of the old family silver and Mrs. Hightower's jewels, ev erything In the beautiful old home at 160 DeKalb avenue, owned and oc cupied by J. B. Hightower, of the hard ware firm of.Hightower * Kirkpatrick, 80 Whitehall street, was Friday fore noon almost completely destroyed by fire. The total loss will probably ag gregate the sum of 816,000, the house alone being worth |»,000. This wss well covered by Insurance. The family Is at a loss to know ths exact cause of tbe fire, which started In the roof of the building shortly be. fore ll o’clock. The fire alarm was turned In at 10:14 from the corner of DeKalb avenue and Hunter street, bat before the fire apparatus could reach tha seen* of th* conflagration the names had become unmanageable. It waa not until ths entire roof had been burned*nnd tbe house completely gut ted, as well am several of the sides burned before the names were extin guished. The destruction wss th* quickest of any fir* In Atlfnta for some time, the age of tbs building and th* heat of th* Inst few days probably be ing the cfcuse. The furnishing of th* Hightower jn* waa especially beautiful and qe- ■acted with th* hand of a connoisseur. Among th* most r* grettqd It^ites uus AUTO PASSENGERS NARROWLY ESCAPE Special to The Gserslsa. Orantvllle, Go.. June 10.—A peculiar accident happened her* Thursday aft ernoon. An automobile driven by Charles Stewart Colley was completely burned. The occupant* of th* car, Mrs. Colley Leigh and two little son* and Misses Emm Bell* nnd Estelle Zellers, nar rowly escaped serious Injury, wing to some defect In th* mechanism of ths machine, th* gasoline tank become Ig nited and In an Instant ths automobile was a mass of flames. Completely burning th* machine up. The accident happened about 0 o’clock on th* out skirts of the town, and caused con siderable excitement. OIG CROWD ATTENDS FIDDLER^ MEETING CLARK HOWELL AND JUDGE RUS SELL WERE PRESENT AND SPOKE. fl.MIo School Bonds Sold. KprHat to TV Uforftas. ItoldvIUo, OAra Juno Id.—Bonds to tho •mount of Sld'OOd hav« been sold for th« new school buIMfn* and work on It will boob begin. an antique piano and several other val uable musical Instruments. At the time of the fire tht entire family waa In the house. Mrs. Hightower considers herself es pecially fortunate In being able to save her Jewels and ths silver, the loss oi which would have been irreparable. Kper|«l to The Georfls Kofierts. <is., Jon# V vestlos, wbti’h took tb# piece >-f th.* nnuual ill-day slnfing given fo <’rawf. nl muurr, brought to Roberta ZMKe p* r*.>i * from till peris t.f the stjrrtmn<lln* eountrj. In.-luillng. Houston. I’psoo. Te/Jor, JMbb. Mnoro* and. even from Pike end J"n*** end Twig**. A cordial Invitation w«* rxtewbwi &> all oi. tbe five esodldates for K«>\.rnor to m ly two of them re»j>»nd*«V Clark Howell end Judge It. It. Ituasell. Resides tbe reed Ida lx for K-.v.-rnor, ths candidates for co*n*r. •vemnn In the* Third, district ami for Judge «>f th.* rlr.-nlt w.»re In eviolence. t’«>ngn—mmi K It Lewis nnd bla oppor,. nt. Il-n hndl-v IT.igli.-a. of Twiggs, stiff Ji.dK* Wtfflmn F. ftt.n Nnd bts snfsgonlat. Il«n. if A. Muttheu**. ficus- >n. were ho*re. Ho far «■ hum king w.n . ..neemed*; It Win t."t a polttl4*iii iK'.n«.i..u Many rt«’ r.- to hear nddr.*»A*>t Mr. ell dl. mult- — —