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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. The \ 'IM * vrfTi . r'*>rkt>4"«T AT*' for s parliament nud a snare In the making anil artuilnls- 1 LAN i A IjrLUKLalAIs. terlne Of lava, it baa come at taat and Persia take* her JOHN TEMPLB GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEF.LY, President. K j Connections. Subscription Rales: One Year $4.50 Six Months....... 2.50 Three Months 1.25 J By Carrier, per week 10c Published Pvery Afternoon Except Sunday hr THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 VP. Alabama Street, Allsnts, Gs. ^ 1 J ™ i Uctcred ss second cfsst rosttsr April SB, 1906. st the Po#toFSca at Atlanta. Us., under set of congress of March 8. 1871. place among the modern atataa of the world. Thla atep cannot fall to have an Important effect on the future. Roaalan designs on Persia have been one of the features of the Par Eastern question for a long time, and England views them with a jealous eye. Wbat the course of the people will be under the new order of things remains to be seen, but at present It is all novel and strange. It Takes Two to Make a Quarrel. The currant Issue of Harvle Jordan's Cotton Journal Is filled with several additional columns of personal abuse of the editor of The Georgian. Wo have neither the In clination nor the purpose to reply. We are going to leave Mr. Jordan and his underlings the whole floor In this matter with full freedom to ex ploit themselves to the length of tbslr. rope and to the limit of their talents. We have no personal quarrel with Mr. Jordan, and If we had we have never believed that a newspaper was the avenue In which to exploit It. We have been en gaged In a great and serious work with good moUves to purify the Southern Cotton Association by the exposure and rebuke of those who were engaged In Improper prac tices within Its ofllcla! life. We have accomplished this righteous purpose without malice and without stooping to bitterness or abuae. The work hat been done, the end In view accomplished and the effort abundantly vin dicated In the results. The committee of Investigation has found all that we charged to be true, and their con demnation resting with our exposure satisfies the ouly purpose which we eet out to effect. If It be neces sary to revive these matters for the refreshment of the executive committee In September, or for the Information of the annual meeting In May, wo may perhaps feel It oar doty to do so. For the rest, Mr. Jordan and his underlings may criticise, abuae and storm to their hearts' content. Noth- lug they can say can Injure this paper or Its editor. We have no with to Injure them. Mr. Jordan and the editor of this paper both occupy responsible positions In tjie upbuilding of the South—the one as a leader of public sentiment, as an advocate of good causes and as the friend of every righteous movement looking to the glory of the South—the other as the chosen head and repre sentative of a groat Industrial and agricultural Interest which needs and requires all the help and cooperation that an Interested people can give It. Under these circumstances we decline to quarrel per- tonally with Mr. Jordan any further In this matter. Oar work Is done; our object It accomplished, and for the rest we have no personal feellnga at stake. It takes two to make a quarrel, and If Mr. Jordan la anxious to perpetuate thla one, he will have to go be yond The Georgian office lo find the second party to his feud. MK It Is our purpose now, ns far as we may be able, to aland by the Southern Cotton Association, to perfect Its life, lo encourage Its membership, to exploit Its decisions and to plead for Its righteous and discreet policies of trad*. So long as Mr. llairVIe Jot-dan remains Its presi dent we shall urge the members of tlio association to give him their hearty support. The Interest of the state and the welfare of this great material Interest transcends any Impulse upon our part to eligage even under great provocation In a wordy In terchange of bitterness and personalities. We have noth- Ing to fear; our conscience Is clean and clear and we aro beyond the reach of any bltterneas or of any malice which any enemy can direct toward ua. Moreover, we believe that tha people of Georgia will Indorse this spirit For the truth of this assertion, we submit these paragraphs from the columns of The Kn- quIrcr-Run of July 29th, whose spirit and comprehension touches very deeply our conscience and reaches our highest appreciation: < "Under severe provocation Editor Graves, whoso pen can lie ae caustic as It la uauully kind, restrained (he Im pulse to reply In bitter words to nn onslaught upon him self. True, he wns aided In this by the consciousness of good motives and of the high esteem In which he Is held, hut even these Influences seldom contribute lo such an evidence of self control. "Apart entirely from the subject under discussion, It may be said that Editor GruveB' utterances furnish an example worthy of emulation. If In public and private life the Impulse to Indulge In bitter speech, to say things that are cruel and hard and which sting, should be re pressed until another day, so muny of them would be left msald and fewer wounds there would be to leave scars" Another Constitutional Government.’ A more striking evidence of the growing popularity ot representative government could not bo found thun the fact that tha shah of Persia has just Issued a decree granting to his people a national assembly and a consti tutional form of government. In atriklng contrast with tha Insincerity of the exar, who has been liberal of his promises to his people, but niggardly In hla performances, the concessions made by the rulor of Persia have been straightforward and without delay. The proposed general assembly will consist of repre sentatives from all classes of the country except the very peasants, who, apparently, will have to wait for aome time longer, but their Interests ought to be safe In the hands of the sympathisers who are given seats In the delibera tive body. Tha new assembly will meet In Teheran, and all civil and constitutional laws will originate In that general assembly.' There has been practically no bloodshed and hardly anything which could be construed as a revolution. Thla breaking up of the old order of things and growth of the repreeentatlve idea of government la a striking Illustration of the rapidity with which the world moves and tha spread of the rule of the people aa op- tioaed to the theory of king-craft and autocracy. It la a shattering of old romance to think of Persia aa a constitutional government. Wo nrc naturally In clined to associate It with Darius nnd Cynn. and Xerxes, and the magnificent despotisms which flourished under them until they were swept nway by Alexander the Great. In the popular mind it Is the enchaqted land of the Arabian Night* and the benevolent rule of good Haraun al Rascbld. We think of It In connection with Laltah Rookb, the tulip-cheeked, nnd the Journey she made with the captivating Prince Feramor*. Indeed, until recent times It has probably preserved more of the manners and customs of the ancient days than any country In the world, and It comes ns n distinct shock to the sentimentalist to think of It as a land with a legislature and a constitution and an electoral system. Out the leaven of republicanism has been at work there as elsewhere. The people have been struggling A Transcendent Issue of the Campaign. It la difficult In this whirl of amblUons and storm of personalities for an honest and conscientious citizen of Georgia to keep hla judgment and hla ballot In bal ance with bla civic duty and bis personal obligations to the state. And yet. It la the boneet and sincere desire of The Georgian to do thla very thing. Abstracting ourselves then, from the malignant at mosphere of thla unfortunate campaign, one thing ap pears to ua as clearly a duty on tho part of the peo ple of Georgia, to themaalvea and to the future welfare of the state. Whatever else la true or false, It Is unquestionably a fact established in the Judgment of all these times that It Id necessary In every state and In the republic at large to demonstrate hare-'and now to the railroads and to the great corporations of the country, the shining and es sential fact that the people rule thla country and that the people must continue to rule It Now there la neither anarchy nor demagogy In tbta assertion. The Georgian has been tranquil and conserva tive amid tho Issues of tbla time. - We have aonght to Ar ray no prejudice; we have done no Injustice to any cause, or interest; we have been neither violent nor abusive, al though we have had abundant provocation to be so. And, we have striven to be fair, to be juat and to be broad In our attitude toward all Interests and all public queatlona of thla time. The necessity to curb and to restrain the aggressions of the railroads and cor|>orations la as well recognised at tbla period of our history as any public'policy In gov ernment has ever been recognised at any period of ottl* notional history. It Is not a matter of local prejudice; II la not a matter of state conditions; nor la It yet a spirit that grows out of any eapeclal discrimination, or least of all, out of any prejudice on the part'of people of moder ate means toward the corporations of colossal wealth. The necessity to curb and restrain the railroads without In auy possible way doing them any Injustice or any In jury, Is recognised In every section of our country. It has been the battle cry and shibboleth of victory In Mlohlgan, In Wisconsin, In Missouri, as It Is In Georgia, and It has been an Isbiio of such general recognition that It has made tho great light which has enlisted tha cour age and the energy of the brave president of the United States, and tins been fought and wou in part In the Illus trious forum of the American senate. So, that there can be no question of demagogy, of bitterness nor of untlniellneaa In the demand which Is being urged that the railroads should be taught the pre eminence of the people In the affairs of this country, nnd that they should be rebuked In their effort both to dominate legislation and to discriminate at times In their rates of freight nnd transportation against the commer cial life and the personal comfort of the American people. Tho very universality of this spirit and tta recogni tion Is the best and most Incontrovertible argument to the voters Of Georgia that when-this question la brought face to face with our ballots and with our brains. It be comes our high and tinmlstakahlo civic duty to register at the polls such a verdict aa will best establish the su premacy of the poople and tho subordination of the cor- pormUons. It does not matter to The Georgian under what can didate this (liny be done or In what shape the lesson may be taught. But It does matter to The Georgian as a citi zen and a public voice that this great lesson should be taught now while It Is possible to teach It well—while the people hnve yet In their hands the power, the co herency, and the co-operative courage to administer the lesson. Neither The Georgian nor the people nos those who represent the people, deslro along any lines nor In any letter of legislation, to he unjust toward the railroads oixl the corporations, to restrain their liberty, or to crip ple their prosperity. Recognising In full the splendid In fluence of these Institutions In the development of the country, we glvo them our high regard and pledge them our fnlr and generous consideration In every act of legla- Intlon upon which we may be allowed to speak. But we do know and we do declare that tha spirit-of aelflsh ag gression, the spirit of Indifference, and the spirit of monop oly which havo expressed the policy of tha railroad* and the corporations for the last ten or twenty years absolute ly demands that when the Issue between the people and selfish plutocracy Is Joined, that the people mint win or that the people will sink Into deeper slavery and become completely subservient to the corporate will. Georgia simply cannot afford to do less In this elec tion than to win with its ballots the flght of the people for the rights of tho people against the selfishness of these vast combinations of power. To win now Is to ew tnbllsh Justice nnd |>opular liberty. To lose now Is to endanger both for ourselves and for our children. If the iwople should win ana a real representative of the iieoplo should be sealed In the chair of state, Tho Georgian pledges Itself with all Its might and main to protest and to dispute every effort on the part of that or any other public servant to be unjust or unfair toward these great Institutions which are entitled to tho care and tho protection of the state. Hut The Georgian knows now and here, and every honest man In Georgia who thinks and soon, will In dorse the statement, (hut with the Issue Joined ns It has been Joined and Is Joined today, the people should win and simply must win this flght for the sntoty and the protection of the people and of the railroads as well. In the years to come. And so, we appeal frankly nnd sincerely, with abso lute Indifference to any single personality In thla cam paign or to any single candidate In thla race—we appeal earnestly and fervently to the common tense and the pa triotism of Georgia to rise In the might of that ballot which la the expression of a free man's conscience, and to write In the result of the primaries the sovereignty of the people and the subordination of special Interests to the general good. Wo appeal to every cltlsen to put behind him the special .pleas of candidates and the dashing fallacies of nntbltlons and to set hit civic eyes clearly and reso lutely upon the central proposition that the people are lighting In Georgia aa they have fought In other states and as they aro lighting now In Washington to establish beyond all doubt or question that the principle of the greatest good of tho greatest number must be recognised, both by the government and the Institutions which flour- tsh under It, that the railroads must be just In their rates, fair In their trafllc, and must not seek through personal lobbies and political agencies to dominate the consciences and the legislation of these separate sover- ny. and hla business Is to ids plgn states. New York dty which had hlthertc Thla Is one great transcendont issue df/thls cam by them. An Instance In point was a large apartment negroes Ir. sections emained unlnva paign—and there are three candidates who profess al legiance to thla Idea. Every honest man and every loyal cltlsen of common sense can decide for himself what Is the platform and which la the candidate that will beat executs tbla duty which he owes to himself, to hie children and to the state. The Hon. Frank Langley, Jr„ of Troup, I* the Arm friend and advocate of hla friend and fellow cltlsen, the Hon. Frank Harwell, of Troup, for one of the seats In the new court of appeala established by the legislature. Colonel Longley believes that Colonel Harwell Is capable, popular, well equipped and crystally honest, and he la giv ing hla cordial'support to Troup’s candidate for thla re sponsible place. Let Us Have the Truth About the Soldiers’ Home. There has been too much smoke coming from- the consideration of tho Soldiers' Home to permit the legisla ture or Interested people to bait In the investigation until the presence or absence of Are Is discovered. For a long time rumors have been coming tfi The Georgian from this great charity of the statedrumors which we have been loath to believe and equally loath to handle. But at the present time these charges have been put In such definite form and shape, and so bravely assumed by members of the state legislature that there can be no honorable exit from this discussion short of a full, fearliMs and complete Investigation. Mr. Williams, of Laurens, made a brave speech upon this question on Monday In the house. The deflnlteness, boldness and evident sincerity of the representative from Laurens deeply impressed the house, and as reported impressed the state, and stamp Mr. Williams aa a direct and courageous statesman, not afrall to assume a re sponsibility and yet ready at all times to sustain his con tentions with the evidence from reliable sources. We are very glad that such a man a* Representative Wil liams has taken a personal lead In this matter and we Shall watch the results with keen Intereat and record them without hesitation. If Georgia baa glorified It* own gratitude and Ita own loyalty to Immortal memories by this splendid benefi cence to the old heroes of our lost cause, It would be Indeed a poor and grudging charity to deny to these our noble beneficiaries the real bounty of the state, and It would be a deeper shame If negligence or Indifference on the pgrt of the state permitted Georgia's bounty to be prostituted by mismanagement or to be Insulted by cruelty and unkindness In Its administration. Once more we assert that the mntter has gone too far now not to be carried to Its full and definite conclu sion, and we trust that without any other consideration than the vindication of the spirit and the motive which moved this splendid charity, the legislative committee will hew to the line and let the chips fall where they will. No Social Equality for Them. The evidences are accumulating every day that the pretended sympathy for the negro In the North Is the holloweat of empty shams, and that he Is not accepted on anything like equality by the people of that section any more than he la In the South. At least one man realises thle and apparently he Is profiting by It He is going at the matter In the most coldblooded and systematic manner, and It Is said that he has cleared up something like $10,000 on a recent deal. He Is the head of the Afro-American Realty Compa- house on Ninety-eighth street, which this shrewd real es tate man and "friend" of the negro race purchased. As soon ss It became noised abroad that this house was to be occupied by negroes, the people In the neighborhood became greatly alarmed. No love and fraternity with the negro race for them. They had lived thus far without being disturbed by negroes in the neighborhood, and they were not going to stand for a change If It could be prevented. There wns no wey toyenjoln the new tenants, for the property had been bought and. paid for. There woe noth ing to do but to buy the property, *o after a hurried con sultation on the part of the property owners and old- Ume tenants, the deal was made and-the head of the Afro- American Realty Company was richer by something like $10,000. , It was a novel Idea. It worked well. .He knew very well thariie could bank on the distaste of the average New Yorker for negroes as neighbors and he played the game on that theory. He knew that the only way for them to prevent this unsavory proximity was for them to buy him out, and they'dtd so. It was rather an effective object lesson In the real sentiment* of the people of New York when they are willing to cougn up $10,000 to keep'the color line clearly and dlstlncUy drawn and It alienees a great deal of the hypocritical flub-dub Indulged In by negro sympathisers at the North. The Tendency Toward Tariff Revision. The efforts of the administration to hold the Repub lican party to _ “aland pat” policy on the question of the tariff are becoming more and more hopeless every day. While It Is true that the platform adopted by the Re publicans of Iowa was not very radically In favor of tariff revision, It la pointed'out that Governor Cummins’ per sonality and bis Individual opinions, .coupled with hla triumphant renomlnatlon, are more significant than any platform, and that he is an earnest tariff reformer la un disputed. The Springfield Republican recalls * hla vigorous as sertion last fall that "all the graft of all the insurance companies from the beginning cannot equal one-fifth the amount of which tha people are robbed every year by excessive tariffs.” So staunch a Republican paper as The New York Tribune Indorses the demand of the Republican! of the middle west for tariff revision, aDd finally The Outlook, for the present week, summarising the opinions of the press and people, expresses the conviction that “It I* In creasingly evident that thoae who believe in a protective system will lefore long have to choose between a system gradually modified In the direction of a freer trade by the Republican party, and a system of tariff for ifvenue only brought In by the political victory of the Democratic party." This Is an Impartial authority, and makes It certain that the country Is drifting gradually but Inevitably to ward tariff revision nnd toward the time-honored princi ples of the Democratic party. By I’rlvnti* I^eoml Wire. New York. Aug. 14—English society people are whispering that If Lad. Leonora Sophie Tankervllle had not been American born she would never have permitted her French maid to an noy her to the extent of bringing a suit for damages. That she would not set tle or compromise or retract from her position Is taken aa an indication that her American spirit still exists, thourh she has been married more than tee years to the Earl of Tankervllle and lived In an English castle. Her trou- ble seems to be the possession of a French maid who did not know he? place. They were going on a railroad Journey and Lady Tankervllle wanted seclusion. She told the maid to tales a seat In the van which carried tha luggage of the party. As often ae the mistress Insisted tht maid refused and Anally left In a huff She secured an attorney, brought suit for damages, and nearly won It. Lady Tankervllle is the daughter of J. c Van Harter, of New York, and has been In the public eye many times since ber hasty marriage. Her hus band was Lord Bennett and engaged In evangelistic work In the state of Washington when she met and fell in love with him. For some time after their marriage they continued their re vival work. > Among the candidates for a place on the new rail road commission to be elected by the people, Is Colonel J. E. Mercer, of The Fitzgerald Enterprise, and while The Georgian Is not In the habit of committing Itself In advance to any one candidate for this responsible and Important post, we do not hesitate to say that our esteem ed contemporary Is one of the llvest, bravest and most honest public men In Georgia and wonld grace any posi tion of trust or responsibility to which he might be called. Growth and Progress of the New South South wblrh deserves something more thin pan* Greater Demand For Cotton Seed Oil The retent session of the cotton seed crushers In Atlanta, which waa one of the moat notable conventions held In this city during the present nummer, lend* timely Interest to the following article from The New York Commercial. The newspaper In question says that If n suggestion put forth by a Southerner Is acted upon by the cotton oil Interests of the country, there I* likely to be soon a greatly Increased demand for cotton oil, which would be certain to have a far-reach In*? Influence on cotton oil prices for home and export shipment. The suggestion Just put forward la that the Interstate Cottonseed Crushers' Association should Inaugurate a movement for the sale of cottonseed . to the general public In line With the methodH In use by the Standard Oil Company, In the sale of Its Il luminating and lubricating oils. It la proposed, In other words, that cot ton oil tanks on wheels should be sent throughout the country with a view to selling cotton oil from door to door, not s|mply as a institute for lard. but on Ita osu merits as a culinary* grease. 'it has been demonstrated," says the advocate of thla Idea, "that re fined cotton oil not only meet* all requirement* In this respect, but Is actually superior to lard In this connection. The people should be made acquainted with cottop oil. A cotton oil tank wagon, with liquid measur ing facilities, could dlspoee of the oil at thd rate of IS cents per quart. Take the negro portion of the population of the South. They use great quantities of lard all the time. The Idea Is to visit every habitation, without regard to color nr nationality. In this way, Just as soon as the people realise the value of reflned cotton oil, a home market could be ob tained for most, If not all, of the cotton oil manufactured In the South and Southwest, and at paying prices, regardless of expert needs. "It might be well to assume some sort of preliminary step In the way of advertising prior- to actually taking the field In the manner sug gested. Printed circulars, newspaper advertising, and possibly a series of lectures at food exhibitions, ns well as In great cities, carried on syste matically might expedite matters. If we are to place cotton oil where It rightly belongs, something on the lines suggested must be done. Individ ual effort Is vain. "The hope of auccese In such a movement Is strong when undertaken by a powerful organisation such aa the Interstate Cottonseed Crushers' As sociation. An Individual crusher or refiner would hardly make a break In this direction on hie own responsibility. Concerted action In the matter of educating the people of the United States to the value of cotton oil as an edible product la Imperative. It gives fair promise of success. The needs of the trade demand It, and I trust that ways and means will be un earthed t«' put the suggestion Into effect." I THINK I THUNK A LIE. That there wss was f grief cry tear client And — — .. And love could never die; Rut thinking now of whitt I thunk I think I thunk a lie. I lined to think About nirkelf And think that 1 would lie governor $ir a president. While years rolled slmvlv by, ‘ ■ — * i„ K „f what I thunk, thnnk n lie. I used to ihlnk the Indies were All sweetness coiutdued. That they were nil <toil's Inst nnd best Of perfect no** reft mil. That the; Dint they were not hnlf nad* and paint. Hut angels from on tilgli. Hut thinking now of what I thunk. like other men. Ami were not tempted of the genii. And could not therefore sin. Rut since I've traveled round n hit. I've watched them on the sly. And thinking now of whnt I thunk, I think I thnnk s He. LANDING THE FISII. Jack Spotto was a nice fellow, and he had barrels of monoy; at least Ills father had. Tom King was a nice fel low, too, and he had barrels of money, or his father had. Ethel thought a Jot of each of them, and she was as nice as she could be to both, but somehow or other neither Jack nor Tom would come to the point here one discusses the residential merits of Jersey or Long Island. The summer was slipping by without proposal, and Ethel began the sign of a . ^ to grow unhappy. So one evening she wrote two letters—ahort letters, but full of tnennlng. One ran: 'Dear Tom—I promised to give you my reply tonight. I am sorry to hurt you—but, Tom, 1 love another. I may as well tell you It's that adorable, ath letic boy you've seen me with several times, Jack Hpotte. I shall always en deavor to be a trua Hater to you. # "ETHEL" Then Ethel wrote another letter, worded Juat the same, except that It began "Dear Jack," and referred * to Tom King aa the adorable athlete. Then she took the letters out to the postofllce. carelessly getting Tom's let ter Into the envelope addressed to Jack and Jack'a letter, of course. Into Tom King's envelope. Next morning Jack Spotte opened his mall. "That chick King proposed to Eth el!" he cried. "And she loves me! There may be time." Tom King opened hla letter: "That scrub of a two-ffpotte!" he cried. "Proposed to Ethel. Indeed! And nhe loves me! There may be time." Ethel had Just accepted the panting iiic honest tiller of the soil. When, marketing hla crop. Takes pnlnn to nut the ripe and liest Always ti|i»n the top. 1 used to think thorn* honest men Wonld never cheat or try. Hut thinking now of whnt 1 thunk. I think I thunk a He. !.onMwliM» that wny I need to think. Ami now it lunkcit me ory To think nlN>nt the wnj' I thunk. Ami Ixrw | thnnk Whnt nolde men the dwtors are, I lined to think they cniue From heaven or some heavenly land And worked for love ninl fame. That they could cure all human Ills And never let us die. Rut thinking unw of what I thunk, 1 think I thunk n lie. The lawyers, too. I used to thlnk- Ofc! God forgive the though*— That their cotivletfoun of the right Could not by klinven lie iMUisht; That they woo id not n client rub Or ''sell"* him on the sly; Rut thinking now of what T thunk, 9 I think I thunk " I used to tiiluk they told the truth. Ami nil their profits lost. 1 thought a yard wns full throe feet— Don't ask my reason why— Rut thinking now of whnt I thunk. I think I thunk s He. The niggers, too, I used to think. If once they were get free Would innkc good honest cltlsen* l.lke white folks used to lie. Rut they have wsndcrod fnr from grace. think I thunk n He. ■Columbia Record. New York lo suffering from a plague of fleas. They are high-toned .lent at that, nnd none but the bluest blood satisfies them. The Insects have cen tered their campaign In the territory contiguous to .Riverside drive, em bracing hundreds of fashionable apart ment houses. In many of the houses which are overrun pith fleas, com plaints have been made to landlords and the tenants have threatened to move unless successful war of exter mination Is .waged. A policeman for 37 years who never knew of a case of graft is New York's latest offering to the country. The .man Is William T. Coffee, of Bensonhurat, who waa given a farewell banquet by hit* comrades upon his retirement. In responding to the presentation of a loving cup, he said that In all his ca reer he had never known of a single case of graft. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. nr PrlTSte Leased tt'lte. New York, Aug. 14.—Here are some of the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—A. 8. Emerson, H. John son, Jr„ H. K. Neer, J. 8. Hntcher, M. A. 81ms, H. Stone, J. B. Zachery. Jr. AUGUSTA—Mrs. J. B. Graham, \V.' J. Higgins, J. M. Landrum. SAVANNAH—J. Cohen, J. Levey, J. Lyons, H. W. Wllyoover, Mrs. M. S, Cabling, Misses Calding. Hporlal |o Tho (ii"or*liin. Paris, Aug. 14.—C. B. Howard, Mrs. M. C. and Mlsa Edith Russell and Ed ward R. Y an Winkle, of Atlanta, On, registered at The Herald office today. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. Fnust snd Rcknffer. 1321—Mexico surretidi-rcd to Cortes. 1717— Pope Plus VI lH»rn. 1766—'Fort Ontario sod Fort Oswego de stroyed by Montmlm. 1813—Ilrltlnh sloop l'ellmn captured United States sloop Argus In English clinu* net. 1842—President proclaimed Florida War at sn end. 1848—Oregon Territory formed by set of congress. 1887— Dexter made the fastest time on rec ord—2:1714—«0 Buffalo. „ , 187ft—Admiral David U. Fnrrngut died. Rom July ft, 1801. 188ft—Cathedral nt Cologne completed; 631 rears building. ollce ordered to expel *H Moscow iHtllre ordered ft Jews within, two mouths. „ ^ . 1886—W. W. Toy lor. extres surer of 84.11th from the state tren J908—Jeffries defen ted Corliett In fight for the pugilistic championship. 1904—Naval battle off Vladivostok. A PROTEST. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Copyright, 1888, by Amerlenn-Journni H* ninlner. To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of race Has dlmltcd on protest. The hum no Had no voice heea tB Imiolsltlon yet would serve the law. And guillotines decide our least disputes. The few_ who dare must speak snd speak Speech, No Tested power In this day ami land Can gng or throttle. Press nnd voice may f^md (SjLipprovnl of existing Ills; Hay criticise oppression nnd condemn The lawlessness of wealth—protecting law* That let the children snd chlldlM-arera toll Tp purrhase ease for Idle millionaires. Therefore 1 protest against the boast Of ImleiMMidenro In this mighty land. Cnll no chain strong which holds one rusted Call no iand free that holds one fettered slave, „ , , . ntll the innnncled slim wrists of bshee Are loosed to toss In childish simrt nnd glee. Until the mother 1u*ars no burden, save The precious one lienestti the heart. u»o| tiod'a soil Is rescued from the Hatch FACTS. GLAD IT WAS WRITTEN. To the Editor of The Georgian: I must thank you for that edito rial of Tuesday August 7, about the present campaign. Yes. 1 am glad you wrote It up and compared b^thS b,,m I “ S&S rmSuSSSTSZ ^ ul 5 ;," M". murmuT«l swretly. wha ' h, ‘ “ ,d * nJ dld - "And to think, dear." said Jack, af* I HENRY 8. FARROW Porter Springs, Ga. ter Tom had gone "to the devil/ he had bitterly announced his desti nation. "to jhlnk that I might never have won you If that letter hadn't got Into the wrong envelope." "Just think of It. dear," answered Ethel. "Wasn't it Just luck?" And over his shoulder she winked at herself In the glass. By JAMES J. MONTAGUE. Up Iwyoitd the strait <»f Bering wn!s*' n » human!* are careering. . Peevish polar tu*ar* are prancing throe** the sifting. shifting snow; By the frozen Colville river frsppcd nre* tie foxes shiver And th»* seals are swarming, fcelwrga to escape the Eskimo- Which don't make ns say coolrr, but we're glad to know lt'» #0. Where the pole looms dark nnd dreary. Ths thermometer* endeavor to remain af* fixed forever . . . , . Immovable ami solid, at ninety-eight I** of, but t> on Greenland's gloHal ranges, where the weather never changes. Before yi»u breathe you bare to use a stove to melt the sir; There Is little persnlrrtttofe op that way. ami he«t prostration Is S4» etrtktngly Infrequent It's considered •rather rare— Al of which |s very pleasant, though, somehow, we do not care.