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THE ATLANTA OEOROTAN.
MONDAY. JI'LY 9. 1!W».
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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"Porteus, thin It a proverb thou thouldit read:
‘When flatterers meet, the Devil goet to dinner.'”
—Peter Pindar.
Mr. Seely’s Return.
After alx weeki of absence and serious illness, Mr.
Fred L. Seely, president and publisher of The Georgian,
returned to the olDce for the Brat time on Saturday eve
ning.
The universal expressions of pleasure and of affec
tion lavished upon him by every employee In the offlefc
great and small, was the best proof of the solid and no
ble basis upon wjileh Mr. Seely Is building bis business
career. To be loved by those who are nearest to us and
know us best. Is, after all, the best of tributes to a man’s
life and a man's motives. .
And measured by this high standard, the president
of The Georgian Company has unusual reason to feel
happy and satisfied with the foundation be has laid.
A Freak of the Record.
Those who came Into possession of a certain copy of
The Congressional Record recently printed In and Issued
from the government bureau, sat up and rubbed their
r yes hard and wondered what thly could have been doing
tho night before.
In a conspicuous place In Its pages there appeared
tho most marvelous speech that ever adorned that In-
i (-resting periodical. It dealt with the present adminis
tration and tho work of the first session of the Fifty-
ninth congress, but It was the most amatlng commentary
on that work ever read by the people who dovour The
Record with more or less avidity.
It set forth that this was the most economical ad
ministration and the most thrifty session of congress the
country has known in years. The members of the house
and senate had handled the money of the people as
ir It had been their own. Russell Sags could not have
been more prudent and cautious In bis expenditures
than the appropriation committee had been.
At tho same time It was pointed out In the same
speech that congress had been spending money like a
drunken sailor. Tbo members of the house and senate
had been digging Into the public treasury and throwing
tho contents thereof at the very birds. Jimmy Haxen
Hyde couldn’t have been more prodigal of his wealth at a
chorus girl dinner than the representatives of the people
had been, and the first session of tho fifty-ninth congress
would stand out as a monument of extravagance.
With these adjustable views expressed In the same
apccch sot forth In The Congressional Record In all due
form. It la not to be wondered at that those who peruse
Its ptqunnt columns every day were wondering what had
hnppencd and to whom It had happened.
It would bo UBBoeottary to keep our own readers
In suspense, for they would never guess It.
It Is known of all men that at the end of a session of
congress the chairman of the appropriations committee—
who. of course. Is a member of the party In power—
makes out a ease for that party In a little speech where
in ho shows that ths greatest wisdom and economy havo
boon exercised In disposing of the people's money, while
tho ranking member of the opposition—a Democrat, of
course, In this administration—shows that the party In
power has been reckless In Its extravagance.
In the session just closed It was Chairman Tawney
who mado the hallelujah speech, and our own Lon Liv
ingston who gave out the Jeremiad.
Now, by some freak of the printer the two speeches
got Into The Congressional Record as being one and the
asms, and thousands of coplea of The Record were print
ed and mailed before the blunder was discovered.
Then there was a rattling In the valley of dry bones.
We are not Informed which of the two gentlemen
wns given credit for making this bl-partlsan speech, for
our copy was not one of the number which succeeded
in getting th^pugh the malls before the error was discov
ered. Rut we can well Imagine what must have been
tho feelings of either Mr. Tawney cr Mr. Livingston
when he saw such contradictory sentiments attributed to
him by the official record.
It would have been worth the price of admission to
study tho expression of countenance on the face of either
one of them when he came across that number of The
Record.
But some aleuth finally caught the mischievous blum
der, It not the mischievous blunderer, and the dual mind
ed Record was suppressed.
The County Patrol Bill.
We are on record here as In favor of the county pa
trol MU (Introduced by Representative Blackburn, of Ful
ton.
The merits at such a bill scarcely need to be ar
gued. The conditions of society In the rural and agri
cultural regions of the state are sufficiently well known
to all intelligent people to make manifest the reasons
for an enlargement of polios protection In the country
districts of Georgia.
We suppose that If any members of the state legisla
ture have an obJacUon to this bill It must be based upon
reasonable gronnds, and we feel sure that the author and
the friends of the bill ought to be able to meet this ob-
JecUon with equal reason and logic, and to make any
nmcndmenta and corrections which may be rendered nec
essary by constitutional criticism or objection.
It would seem to be likely that one of the results of
this heated and unfortunate state campaign would be
an even greater unrest and uncertainty among the ne
groes of the rural regions than we have had before, and
In this view it would seem to be entirely clear tbat a wise
and prudent legislature should prepare In advance for the
protection and guardianship of our fellow dtlaena In the
interior all the safeguards which wisdom and generosity
can lay around this element of our population.
The Forces That Have Fought For the
Children.
In distributing congratulations on Saturday among
the factors who bad been effccUva In the promised final
triumph of the child labor bill, wo did not propose at one
time to compass the entire list of the valiant and useful
friends of that great reform.
On Saturday our felicitations were extended to those
who took part In the acUve batUe of the last legislature
and were most prominent In tho spectacular debate which
enlivened both bouses upon this quesUon.
Tba Georgian realises, however, tbat back of this
fight were the earlier and the more strenuous batUes
which made the present victory possible. The vital
and Insistent attack upon public opinion on this quesUon
begah long ago In Georgia, and It Is only fair to say that
perhaps the earliest and most stalwart friends of this
child labor bill have been found among the representa
tives of the Federation of Labor and of organised labor
ral. No man baa ever fought harder or done more
cause than Mr. C. T. Ladson, the attorney of the
FederaUon of Labor. .Time was, and there were many
times, when this forlorn leader of a forlorn hope march
ed to the oapltol at the head of bis helpless but heroic
followers to present the cause and to advocate tho claims
of the children In the workshops.
For nine years the organisations of labor In Goorgla
have been. In season and out cf season, the persistent
friends and tireless advocates of this cause. They have
fought Its battles when Its friends were few, and no ele
ment of our Georgia populaUon has a better or larger
right to rejoice In the triumph of the measure than the
sons of toll, who have never wavered In their allegiance
to tba principle which It carries.
There are some good women, too, of the Georgia Fed
eraUon of .Women's Clubs and of other organlsaUons,
who have done heroic and effecUve work In building up
the public opinion which will triumph In the final pas-
sage of this measure. The agencies are numerous and
multiplied tbat have had a heart and a hand In this good
work, and It Is the desire of The Goorgian to rejoice
with them all In the triumph of a righteous measure
which marks the higher civilisation and the higher hu
manity of this great state.
To all of these, and to all others who are working In
good causes, we send the message of cheer which the
history of this reform has written. The thing that Is
right must ultimately triumph, the principle that Is Just
must win If it takes years to accomplish It, and the dy
namic force of a good and noble Idea will ultimately de
stroy all opposition and break down all barriers to Its
triumph and establishment
Dreyfus' Moral Grandeur.
This morning the Judges of the supreme court of
France began their dellberaUons on the case of Captain
Dreyfus, who, through his counsel, has asked that the
verdict of the Rennes court martial, confirming the pre
vious verdict of guilt, should be merely quashed without
a retrial. The Indications are that the decision of the
Judges will be handed down by the middle of the week.
Thus the closing scene of this most remarkable case,
which has been going on for thirteen years, Is rapidly
approaching, and the distinguished military officer, who
has been the victim of the most atrocious plot of modern
Umes, is about to be restored to hts rank and honors.
This closing scene Is worthy of the splendid courage
and patience of the victim, for he rises to a height of
moral grandeur which few men In a similar situation
would assume. He has absolutely refused to accept any
pecuniary damages for the Injustice he has suffered or
to be a party to any prosecution of those who hava
wronged him. He contends that all he wants or will
aocept Is the restoration of his rank and titles, and from
this determination his counsel cannot persuade him.
It Is a foregone conclusion that he will be acquitted.
As pointed out In these columns some time ago, It
oomes as a surprise to the general public, perhaps, that
Captain Dreyfus has never been acqulttod. In spite of
the overwhelming evidence of fraud, forgery and conspir
acy, entered into by his enemies, the verdict of the
Rennes court martial was "guilty,'' and he gscaped fur
ther punishment only by a pardon.
Rut he has not been satisfied with a pardon. Noth
ing but a verdict of acquittal would serve his purpose,
and he has been laboring to that end for six years. The
confession of Count Esterhasy that he forged the bor
dereau on which Dreyfus was convicted should have apt
at rest all controversy, but the army was not willing to
assume the odium of having so far violated erery princi
ple of Juettce ae to connive at fraud and forgery and to
save Itself It repeated Its verdlcrof guilty.
Oreat mischief has been wrought at best The
French army stands condemned before the civilised world
as it Is. aild the finger of scorn is pointed at It from all
over the world.
Rut Dreyfus himself was not willing to force the
army to Incriminate Itself by another court martial, re
versing Its previous verdicts, and merely asked that the
civil court should quash the Rennes verdict. He has dono
more. It seems. Few men would be willing to pass over
the damages and the prosecution of the enemies who
wrecked his life. But this la the moral ground on which
he has planted himself, and the Indications are that the
quashing of the verdict and the consequent acquittal of
the Injured man will end the great drama which at one
time convulsed all Europe.
He has had his revenge In great measure, for many
of those who testified against him are In a suicide’s
grave and others are In disgrace.
It will be a long time before the French nrmy will
recover from the odium It has brought upon Itself, but
when the history of this great event Is written Dreyfus
himself will stand out not only as the moat unjustly
persecuted man of the century, but will occupy a post
tlon of honor and dignity and self restraint which will
give him an abiding place In the world's great‘hall of
honorable fame.
'(lists generally did their full duty in 1596. Did the
chairman of the national Democratic party do his? Did
he live up to hid agreement ? r lf he did not Is It not possi
ble that he is the one to blame?
Next he goes for Hoke and Watson on account of
Hoke's record. It appears to me that Hoke made a
great deal of that record, some years ago Inside the dear
old party amid the plaudits of all good organized moss-
back Democrats, and It was all O. K. and Hoke was a
great man until he got on the people's Bide. Now Is It
not true that If anybody would be Justified In kicking
at Hoke's record that It would be the Populists? I am
Inclined to think that good old moss-backs who ap
proved of Hoke's acts at the lime should be estopped
from attacking him at this late day.
However, It appears to me that Mr. Carswell has
taken up considerable space and possibly considerable
time, and when you come to the gist of the article It
could be expressed In nbout two sentences: First, he Is
an enemy of Tom Watson; second, he is a friend and
supporter of Clark Howell and as a matter of,course
he has n very unpleasant Job on both sides. For in
stance, when ho attacks Watson, the only charges he
can bring are that be defeated Bryan and caused the
nomination of Parker In 1904. Even the most kinky-
headed negro In Georgia knows tbat there Is no founda
tion In fact Ik Ma dhargea against Wotaota. Bgt WhaaJ
he undertakes the pleasant Job of defending his friend.
Clark Hpwell, no doubt he finds It almost as difficult
to say anything good of Clark as It was to say anything
bad of Tom. I shall not undertake to defend Mr. Wat
son. as ho has a record back of him of which any citizen
•e.'I'-i the stars and strip- ■< ' ' proud; he
has already carved his name high up In the sacred
halls of fame. He has so deeply Impressed his llfo and
actions upon the hearts of bis countrymen that gen
erations cannot efface It. Mr. Carswell will pass away
In common with the rest of us, but Watson's name and
fame will live on os long as time lasts,
SETH W. EVAN8.
Thomson, Go., July's, 1906.
REPLY TO MR. CARSWELL.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I note In The Georgian of the 4th Instant an article
over the signature of one P. W. Carswell, and It ta In
reply to that article that 1 desire to make a few com
ments.
Mr. Carswell says that he thinks that Mr. Watson
eras partly responsible for Bryan'a defeat la hts race*
for president and gives at ground for hie opinion that
McDuffie and several other counties where Watson's In
fluence controlled went for McKinley. To me the above
reason la the most farfetched statement for any one to
base an honest opinion on that haa ever come under
my observation. Did not Watson work day and night,
and apeak through the South and West until he almost
wrecked his constitution In the Interest of Bryan's can
didacy? Did not Watson, together with the other Pop*
ullst leaders, pledge the support of the Populist party
to Bryan? Did not Bryan receive over one million
Populist votes in 1896? Did not Bryan develop consid
erably more strength in 189t when Watson gave him
his support than he did lu 1940? Did McDuffie and
eeveral other counties go for .McKinley when Bryan
ran last? According to the logic of Mr. Carswell Mr.
Bryan should by all means have been elected In 1900
when the counties In which Watson controlled went
for Bryan.
The trnth of the matter Is that Watson and the Pop-
NOT TEACHING CHILDREN TO HATE GOD.
To the Editor of Tho Georgian:
In tbo morning edition of The Georgian of July 3
wo find nn article from the pen of J. C. C. Carlton under
tba caption “Teaching Children to Hate God.”
In eald article tho writer takes George A. Beattie
to task for teaching In the Sunday sehopl lesson that
there It a place or condition In the future world known
hell. He says all thoee who teach and believe
such a doctrine are “deluded, blinded, Ignorant, misrep
resenting God as a Cruel, fiendish monster so repulsive
to the nature of a child as to make them shudder and
turn In horror away from said 'monster' rather than
turn to Him and embrace Him as a loving heavenly Fa
ther." Mr. Carlton doesn’t believe there is a place or
condition of eternal retribution, therefore he seems to
conclude that somo of the wisest beads of any age havo
missed the mark by far when they differ with him and
goea so far as to use those strong adjectives. We feel
sure he wrote hastily. He seems to know all about tho
Greek words and bow they were translated. The great
demand of the people today la plain English. But It Is
ARGUMENT AGAINST EXCHANGES.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
There are so few people who know
tho reel character of the buelnesa dene
on the New York Cotton and Stock Ex
changee that It la not eurprlslng that
you should be deceived Into giving edi
torial eanctlon to them as “legtUmate
exchangee."
It la true that In a aenee the gamb
ling In futures on margin it ••legiti
mate,” In that It la allowed by law, but
It Is to render Illegitimate, eo far as the
people of Georgia are concerned, the
eglalature nnd the business men are
now at work. A few years ego It was
“legitimate'' In this country to do busi
ness with the Louisiana Lottery, but
ascertainment of the truth, Mr. Editor,
will lead you to boldly declare that all
the lotteries, faro banks, poker Joints
and horse race* pale Into Insignificance
before these two Institutions which you
have unwittingly in your editorials In
dorsed.
Tou seek to draw a distinction be
tween these “exchanges" and bucket
shops. The exchanges are big bucket
shops, while the bucket shops are little
bucket shops, and this Is the first dif
ference-^ difference without distinc
tion. This Is not, however, exactly cor
rect, for a bucket shop Is honest with
you, and you do stand some show for
your money, while, .with your so-called
exchange house, you have none at all.
Let ue see how this le: You make a
bet with a bucket ehop that the price of
cotton will go up or down, according to
the figures that wilt be ground out
by the New York Cotton Exchange
machine; you are both on the outside;
neither one of you have anything to do
with the making of the figure on which
you bet, and at this game you Hand
about as good a show at the gueas ae
he dose; but suppose you bet with the
exchange itself and see how you come
out. In that case you put your money
Into the hande of the exchange;' It
knows Just how much you have up and
the machinery In operation on the
Inside proceeds to make Its quotations
so as to fit your pile and scoop It In. If
you ever did play In a game where
the cards were marked and stacked
against you, you are In It with mar
gins up on the New York Cotton or
8tnck Exchange.
With a bucket shop you are dealing
at arm's length; the chop la honest
with you; the man who rune it le after
your money and tells you so. But the
exchange member you look upon as
your agent, he represents himself as
such, but precedes to play the cards
against you. To Illustrate: Brakes A
has bought for fifty of hts lambs scat
tered over the country ten thousand
bales of cotton at 10:80. Brokers B, C
and D have each done the same thing.
They all get together and figure out
that an average decline of 40 points
will clean up the margins of these cus
tomers, and so' down goes cotton to
10:10, the elate has been wiped off and
they proceed to work the example over
again. Of course this le all against
thoee very "strict end stringent” rules
of these so-celled "legitimate ex
changes.” The public would never tol
erate a game that didn't have rules.
We wouldn't go Into a game that didn't
have a rule against marked cards or
loaded dice.
But you say these exchangee must
exist In order that the manufacturer o(
cotton may protect himself against
fluctuations of the market. That la
very much like saying that a man who
had become addicted to morphine must
continue to use It In order to keep
alive. It speculation on margins on
tha exchanges Is wiped out. then wild
fluctuation wilt end and the manufac
turer will have no need In this way to
protect himself. Now. do the facte
show that anything but gambling le
carried on on your "legitimate ex
changee?” Take our crop of cotton,
which last year amounted to about
elevn million bales: turn to the records
of the New York Cotton Exchange alone
and you wilt find that during the past
year about two hundred million bales
were bought oa margins. Now, how
many of these bales were bought on
this so-called "legitimate exchange"
with the remotest Idea In a single In
stance of ever taking a single bale of
thie cotton? I do not believe that there
afb t per cent of the people In Georgia
who have made trades In the poet ten
years on margins on the New York
Cotton Exchange who will rise up and
say that they expected at the time of
making the trade to take a single bale
of the cotton. It would be Interesting
for your to-colled "legitimate ex
change" to explain or. any basis of
legltamacy how It is at this time that
July options oa the New Orleans Cot
ton Exchange are quoted a cant a
pound higher than the same July op-
sometimes nece«aary to go back to tho original tongue.
J. C. C. <\in do a»a> with Gehenna and shcol all
right. Gehenna was a garbage valley, he says, and this
Is what our Saviour meant In Matthew 10:25 where He
says “Fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and
body in Gehenna.” bell. If hell was this garbage valley,
and had only a transient duration then you make Jesus
Christ a liar. Indeed there might have been such a
thing as this garbage valley at one time, hut is It
there now? We don't think it Is. In Mark 9:43 you
hear these words coming from the lips of Jesus himself:
"It thy hand offend thee, cut It off: It Is better for thee
Id enter into ilfe maimed, than having two hands to go
Into hell. In to the fire that never shall be quenched."
You ought'to read on from the forty-third to the forty-
eighth verses- You won't find this to' mean a garbage
valley. When He says fire which never shall bo quench
ed. He means it won't be quenched at all, but will burn
all tho time—eternally. "Never” means a continuation,
nothing transitory. In Revelations It is referred to as
the "lake of fire.”
How soma people can take God's Word and add to
It and diminish from It, accept Its teachings of heaven
and refuse Its teachings of lieu. Is more than I can un-
derstand. Such knowledge and practice Is too wonderful
for me; It Is low; I cannot descend unto It. It la past
finding out. Mr. Carlton doesn't want the chlldi-ti
frightened. He Is a most unselfish man. but I feel
sure he doesn't want his own peace and case disturbed.
Christ says “if you love me, you will keep my com
mandments," and this Is what God requires at our hands.
If we do this we will oscape eternal perdition. It we
keep God's law as a rule and guide for our faith and
practice in this present world, In the world to come our
lots will lie peace, ease, comfort, pleasure, luxury, bliss,
Joy and happiness and it shall be eternal, but If we are
defiant and robcllloua toward God, hard-hearted and stiff
necked. walking not after the ordinances of God. but
following the dictates of the world, the flesh and the
devil, then our part will be In the "fire that never, Bhall
be quenched.” or the "lake of fire," and this means' eter
nal. If I am obedient God will save me from tills terri
ble eternal punishment; If I am disobedient ho will
damn my soul in an ctornal hell. So also la It with Mr.
Carlton and everybody else. Selah:
CHESTER E. JOHNSON.
Bonlfay, Fla., July 4, 1906.
AN APPRECIATIVE LETTER.
To the Editor Of Tha Georgian:
I have read your editorial today In reply to the ques
tion by The Macon Telegraph and The Columbia, S. C.,
State. I havo taken The Georgian since lta beginning.
I was not going to vote for you for the senate, not be
cause I had any objection to you. hut that 1 had always
voted for Senator Bacon, nnd was satisfied with what he
had done. And now, since 1 am taking your paper, 1 feel
that It would have been a distinct loss to the people of
Georgia had you been elected senator, not that you would
havo fallen short of the measure of your position, but
that Journalism would have lost one of Its ablest and
plennest writers, and the people lost, In a field where be
could best. serve them, a fearless and able champion.
Respectfully. T. M. McINTOSH.
change. Again, It would be lnMrestlng
for them to show what per cent of
these two hundred million bales of last
year’s crop bought on the New York
Cotton Exchange on margins were ac
tually delivered, and then some fact In
support of the legitimacy of these
traneactlons will begin to find Its way
to light.
Let me say In conclusion that there
A-ould be no need, eo far as a few 1 peo
ple are concerned, for a law in Georgia
against carrying pistole, shooting craps,
playing poker, or gamollng Ip futures;
but laws are made for the good and
protection of the greatest number. It
the legislature of Georgia will go to the
root of the matter and strike down
margin trading on the so-called "legiti
mate exchanges” and every other state
will get In line the bucket shops that do
nothing more then . feed upon the
crumbs that fail from their master's
table will make their own exit, Wall
street Itself will go to pieces and In a
country like ours there will be no occa
sion In the future for hard times, no
squeeses In the money market and no
need for Thomas W. Lawson to fur
nish the country with any other remedy
for “Frensled Finance." L. S.
PHILISTINE AND PHARI8EE.
From Tin- New York Globe.
Naturally Elbert liubbard, writing con
cerning s little tourney to Concord, N. II.,
tho sbrlne of Eddylsm, drops Into some-
tblg like genuine admiration. May not
— admire soother! May not tho
profit tlixt waited to be garnered on the
other? Ho hee harvested mmewhat f
his little cult, but what, efter ell, le '
Aurora to Concord! What Is the Income
derived from Bobby book corers compared
to the eteady return from Science and
Health—copyrighted. Invariably In advance?
In one respect, however, the mulls of
Mr. Hubbard's prowling about Concord
havo ntwa value. Mrs. Eddy llvaa. Ue
saw her; wea so near her tbat dismissed
la to be the theory that a lay Bgnre, with
wazen features modelled and colored to
Imitate tha departed original, la paraded
about In a carriage to fool the faithful
n s. He beheld a creature of flesh
xxl step Into tho waiting barouche,
to be driven off by the coachmen who
aha re* to the oitent nf IS) a week In the
good bastneas hla mlstrraa baa built up.
The eyea were nndlmmed, the face an-
wrinkled, the form that of Bernhardt; tha
disbelieve In the materiality of the body,
believes In the materiality of pretty things
-the woman haa triumphed over the
iropheteaa, vanity haa held her place de
pile the onslaught of philosophy.
Serene, her ml ad unruffled by thoatkt
f the three husbands that were (two dead
end one divorced), Mrs. Mary Ilaker Glover-
Mudd.Kddy haa conquered peace—sweetly
supported by the eonsrlouanros tbat aba
owns as beautiful a monopoly as the world
baa ever seen; that business was Barer
better: that uersr wars there ao many
answers to her meaeege, "Come onto me,
all ye that ere heavy laden, end I will
give you a book bound In eloth for S3:
ralf, B, and levnnt, IS; with my trustee
ISO of unroll-
both Inor-
discovers
very an.
In*.or unfolding as applied to I
S ole *nd organic bodies) readily
it tbe theory of descent Is a ....
cwut one. Ita conception la aald to bare
originated with Empedocles, and this con-
option was elaborated by Arlatotle <B. C.
384-4Z2) who, aa an anatomist, conceived of
a genetic succession from lower to higher
forma, and who believed Jn heredity, mu
tilations and reversions. Saint Augustine
(A. D. 164) and Thomas Aquinas (1226) held
that the creation of thlnga was due to a
series of causes. Lelbnlts (164€*1716) believed
In the connection of species, a chain of
beings and the continuity of nature and
waa the author of the formula Natura noa
faclt aaltuni. Button (1707-1781). the great
zoologist, held that animals were derived
from a single type, observed the effects of
firaie inai some conceptions on the sub-
iecr of the origin of species were enter
tained lone before the time of Wesley,
and that, therefore, his mantle of priority
oyer Darwin must fall from tha shou“
of Wealsy» to be lost in the aolltude o
was doabtleaa Influenced by the
writings of Bonnet, whose works. ? *Con*
temptation de la Nature nnd Pallngene-
ntSP
des Etres Vlvants. lie-
\ uriauaiiiauie, ne, according 10 ur. l-see,
translated Into English In an abridged form
In 177s. If Wesley’s views on species,
types and animal forma were based solely
upon Information gained from Bonnet, they
referred to quite a different evolution from
that considered by Darwin In the descent
J ‘*“ *“ ern sente by
WE8LEY AND EVOLUTION.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
The communication or the Rev. J.
W. lie# to The Georgian of June 86 from lie
title. “John Wesley Held Theory of Evo
lution Long Before Darwin Was Born,'*
titled 1
It ei
deliberately chargee the founder of Math
odtsa with entertaining vtewa la accord
with Darwin’s conclusions drawn from
systemstUattoo of the vast store of tecta
collected under the title, "Origin of 8pe
des,” or that he Is prepared to say tbat
Darwin's researches were merely a reper
cussion or amplification of Wesley's lucu-
tuitions on physical metamorphosis and the
like! And yet be as vs, somewhat with an
air of challenge or or triumph. “John Wee-
lev wrote a book la two volumes on the
origin of species thirty-four years before
Darwin waa bora, end eighty four years
before Darwin published hla celebrated
work on *The Origin of Socctee!' 1 '
It le not quite evident what good purpose
Is te be achieved In contrasting the nat
ural philosophy of Wesley and Darwin, or
In seeking to establish aa a priori rela
tionship between them. That John Wee-
fey belli to a theory of evolution would
scarcely shake tbd bold of Darwtn on tho
Scientific world, neither would It be espe
cially gratifying or pleaaaat for Methodists
to reflect that Wesley waa a Darwinian In
during which the retained motion (energy)
undergoes a parallel transformation."
In other words, there Is In the organic
world a continual change from the homo
geneous to the heterogeneous or from the
generalised to the specialised. Bonnet's
term evolution had reference to successive
unfolding (e, out—volvere, to roll) of pre
formed germs, the metamorphosis of frogs
and butterflies, and la quite distinct from
that defined by Herbert Hpencer.
The evolutionary tree la tho well-known
genealogical tree of leatnarck (1744 182k), the
founder of organic evolution and of Inverte
brate paleontology, and It may or may not
have been known to Wesley.
Tbat Wealey was the founder of the
Methodist church Is sufficient to flx bis
name and fame forever, but tbat be was
the forerunner of Derwln, or that the crude
platitudes qudtod from bis "Philosophy"
may be Interpreted as in any sense —
promising the magnificent results of
Win, or of furnishing working material for
his epoch-making contributions to modern
science Is, to say the least, overstating the
case. I am, yours sincerely.
ItKltNAIlb WOLFF.
Atlanta, Qa„ July 8.
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To the.Editor of Tbo Georgian:
Kindly cancel former ballot and replace
with the one Inclosed. No doubt my bal
lot was the one you had refrence to a few
day* ago. and I admit "being on the
wrong aide," after reading all articles care
fully. Converted, I drop the “municipal
ownership" Idea, and rental^ yours trvlir,
Atlanta, Oa.. July 5, ISO! A ‘ 8 ’
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
JULY 9.
1553—The Elector Maurice kilted nt
battle of Blaverebauaan.
1578—Ferdinand II of Germany bom.
Died February 19, 1617.
1688—League of Augsburg formed
•gainst France.
1734—Dantxic surrendered to the Rus
sians.
1788 General Braddock's expedition
against the French In Canada
defeated.
1782—Peter III of Rusala deposed
. and succeeded by Catherine II.
1797—Edmund Burke, Irish orator,
died. Bom January 7, 1710.
1919—Ellas Howe, Inventor at the saw
ing machine, bom. Died Octo
ber I, 1847.
1934—Earl Grey and Lord Allhorp re
signed.
1889—Zachary Taylor, twelfth presi
dent of United 8tales, died. Bom
November 24, 1714.
1880—Prince of Wales sailed, for
America.
1899—General Torel offered to surren
der Santiago If his troops were
allowed to march out with their
arms.
1904—Alton B. Parker nominated tor
president by Democratic con
vention at 8h Louis.
Bev. J. It. Muer. of Mooessen, Pe., bo*
fere* soot, all of them clergymen. Are dlf-
fere at denomination. Mug represented
■stoof the young men. Nose of (hem hee
ever heard any of the others preach. They
bare one sister, who Is married te a
pro. cher.
liy I'riTflte Lee«cd Wire.
New York, July 9.—Waldorf Astor It
a British eubject and while he will oc
casionally honor this country with his
presence, he has no Intention of giving
up his citizenship in the adopted land
of hla father.
The young mnn and hi* bride, who
was Mrs. Nannie Langhorne-Shaw, on*
of the Virginia sisters famous for their
beauty, .-topped in New York after
landing just long enough to breakfast
at the Holland House. Then they took
a train for Isleboro, Maine, w here today
they occupy the Charles Dana Gibson
cottage. They expect to remain there
several weeks.
Before leaving this city Mrs. Astor
remarked to a friend that the waa very
happy.
"I really didn't Intend marrying
again," she sold, “until I met Waldorf.
Hq Is a very nice young maa"
The young heir to William Waldorf
Astor*# great eatatea In England and
Manhattan was asked:
"What are your plana during your
stay In this country?"
"I don't think my plans are of suf
ficient Importance to Interest the pub-
he answered, still smiling. “We
shall go to Maine, and then to Vir
ginia, where we shall visit Mrs. Astor's
relatives. I don't know whether the
place Is near Richmond or not I have
never been there.”
Will you visit Newport?”
No, we are not going to Newport. I
don't know how long we shell be In
this country.”
"Are you to take charge of your
father's affairs In this country?"
‘That doesn’t Interest the public,” he
said. “I shall be back and forth."
"Mr. Astor, are you an American
citizen?' he was asked.
“1 believe not," he replied, laughing.
"I live In England and hava no Inten
tion of returning to this country to
live at any time.”
The young man said that he and
Mrs. Astor had met Congressmen and
Mrs. Longworth once before they left
England.
Frank J. Gould, who waa hurt In an
automobile accident at Norwich, has
been brought to hla home In this city.
He has a fractured rib. The automo
bile waa upset by the chauffeur In or
der to avert a collision with a wagon
which hod been driven directly across
the road.
The purchase by Lyman J. Gage, for
mer secretary of the treaaury, of the
Prospect Cotage, adjoining the prop
erty on which stands the temple pre
sided over by Mrs. Katherine Tlngley,
the "purple mother" of theosophy, at
Point Lomax, coupled with the fact
that he has resigned the presidency of
the United States Trust Company, is
taken by Mr. Gage's friends here ss
proof that he has permanently given
up the prominent position he held In
the business world, and will devote his
life to the study of the mystic phil
osophy of the followers of Mme. Blav-
atsky.
A long .course In the occult studies
that Is declared to hava been handed
from the earliest philosopher awslts
the former banker before he can con
sider that he has mastered even tha
fundamental principles of the theory.
A business career would be Incom
patible with bis work, And the tenets of
the system of thought that he la about
to abeorb do not leave room for active
dealings with the work-a-day world.
The former cabinet officer Is the
greatest convert that the mystlo oult has
ever received from ths public Ilfe of
this country.
A marriage of unusual romance has
Just been disclosed, when It wns known
that Wellington Corlet, a son of Mrs.
John N. Tisdale, of 88 West Thirty-
second street, had eloped with and
married Miss Loretta Jefferson, of
Bussards Bay, tha favorite grand
daughter of Joseph Jefferson.
The young man, mho was graduated
from Harvard on June 22, thought that
a marriage license was of more Im
portance than a "sheepskin," and to
prove It he quietly slipped away from
his alm& mater, and from his own
mater for that matter, and married tho
pretty girt on June 8 hi Bussards Bay,
fourteen days before he was gradu-
•ted. • ■
Nobody but a college chum and a
minister witnessed the simple cere
mony, but the marriage was approved
of by friends of both families as soon
os the news reached them of the event.
John Are, 82 years old, who says he
fought under General Robert E. Lee,
Is at Bellevue Hospital, where he was
sent. In a starving condition. He had
applied at the municipal lodging house.
He said he had ridden on freight train*
and walked from Wilmington. N. C.. |"
New York In search of work. He Is In
a serious condition.
Even the Adirondack deer have de
clared war against the automobile
speeder. William E. Snyder, a trav
eling man, tella a remarkable atoiy «
on attack made upon an automobile in
which he was riding by a giant buck
deer. The rear tamps and one of th«
tires were demolished, he says, and the
deer got away.
Because a woman neighbor. Just for
n Joke, told Mrs. Irene Duff, of -•*
West Thirty-fifth street, that thf *■*"
tee’s husband had died, Mrs. Duff le
In Bellevue hospital today with a gash
across her throat which she Inflicted
upon hareelf with a butcher knife. She
scarcely had finished her attempt «j
suicide when her husband reached
home. 8he went Into hyoterlcsi and
became uncontrollable* When taken
to Bellevue It was necessary to restrain
her.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, July Here are some ot
the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—T. H. Brannen, B. Dil
lingham and wife, J. 8. Hamilton, M. 8-
Roberts, Miss Stephens, Mr*. N. Stew
art. Miss L Street, Miss M. B- White-
side, A. D. Jones. E. L. Morris. E «•
Robinson and wife.
MACON—8. B. Fielding. 8. B. F1«W
Ing, Jr, M. Happ and wife, J. Morris.
E. H. Pope. A. Tift.
SAVANNAH—J. W. Schley. A. De-
bellmont, T.JIcCarthy.
Hicks—What do you think eC »kat
university making Dumley a doctor *
“wfckg—Oh. well, the universities do
very craty things sometimes.
Hicks—Yea, and yet they're always
supposed to be In possession of thstr
faculties.—Catholic standard.