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l’liE ATLANTA QEORGIAN. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, 1 Editor. F. L. SEELY, Preiident. Telephone Connection!. Subscription Rites: One, Year J4.S0 Six Months 2.50 Three Month* 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sundsy by THE GEORGIAN CO. it 25 W. Alsbsms Street, Atlsnts; Gs. J Entered as second-clsM natter April J8. 110*. at the Poatoftea St Atlanta, Ga.. under act ot consreaa at March t, UN. Subscribers failing to receive THE GEORGIAN promptly and regularly, and readera who can not purchase the paper where THE GEORGIAN should ba on sale, are requested to communicate with the Circulation Manager without delay, and the com< plaint will receive prompt attention. Telsphonsat Ball 4927 Main; Atlanta 4401. SMITH Sc THOMPSON. ADVERTISING REPRESENTA TIVES FOR TERRITORY OUTSIDE OK O E O It O I A. Eoatero Offices: Western Offices: Potter nidu.. New York. Tribune Bill*.. Chlcafo. The Georgian calls the attention of Its multitude of -.orrespondents to these facta: That all communications tiust be signed. No anonymous communication will be jrinted. No manuscripts will be returned unless stamps ■re Inclosed for the purpose. Our correspondents are urgently requested to abbreviate their letters as much is possible. A half a column will be read, whereas a 'ull column will be passed over by the majority of -aiders. ‘‘Where the Georgian Stands.” It would be Interesting to know Just where The Georgian stands polilfoally now. Is It in or out?— Dublin Dispatch. It Is not now. never has been and never will bo a matter of very great importance to The Qeorglan how It stands with any particular faction of the Democratic party. We are Democrats from tradition and Inheritance, snd Democrats by conviction and the record—Democrats of tbe real typo, because we believe In real Democratic principles, and are not held In the spurious loyalty of ■polls—Democrats who hold the creeds and mission of the great party above the schemes of faction and the ■elfish designs of ambitious men. But if our good friend of Tho Dispatch really wishes to know how wo stand In the general alignment after the battle of tho primaries, we will answer him frankly that he must have read very little or read very carelessly If he does not know that we stand resolutely and definitely with Hoke Smith upon the platform that carried him so triumphantly Into the governor's chair. Hr,4 could wo stand otherwise? Mr. Smith's plat form 1 was our platform, hla public principles were ours. ' May we say further—that we were building tho chief plank ot the next governor's platform before he got on It himself. Years before Mr. Smith or the strongest of his lieutenants had become convicted upon the disfranchise ment Idea the editor of The Georgian wns preparing the minds of the people, North and South, for tho Inevitable coming of the Idea. Upon Chautauqua platforms, before state legislatures, upon the rostrums of great universities, and upon a thousand lecture platforms at home and abroad, he had preached this doctrine of the eternal In equality of the races and the Impossibility of ruling them under the same laws and according them an equnl pnrt In this great government. And those speeches, attacked In pulpits, controverted In assemblies, discussed In forums, and assailed or approved In a thousand newspapers, North and South, have done their full and overflowing share In creating tho public sentiment which carried Hoke Bmlth on a tidal wave to victory and opportunity. Upon the other plank of his platform wo woro among the first to Join with the Atlanta Freight Bureau and our esteemed contemporary ot Tbe Journal In fighting for lower freight rates, tor the curtailment of the lobby and for the equal taxing of corporations. And oven after the rallronds had endeavored to throttle the Independence ot this pen by .•> treacherous purchase of the columns that It filled, we defied the power that held, or thought It held us, and without waiting or caring to nsk if It consentod, we advocated these same principles within tho very walls that monopoly had captured and consecrated to cor porate uses In time of need. During tho campaign Just closed we have advoented unceasingly upon tho hustings, and In our columns, the same principles which butldcd tho Hoke Bmlth platform. We have never varied In the fidelity of our championship of these things for which Mr. Smith was fighting upon the stump. It we were not so constant and so persistent as was one of our contemporaries, It was because the ceaseless vigor of that other contemporary's reiteration, made appropriate a quieter and less partisan advocacy upon our part. It in the campaign we did not place Mr. Smith's name at our masthead and thunder a personal advocacy of his claims, It was because of personal relations and com plications which rendered It difficult to do that. But if ever a paper made clear its position upon the Issues pre sented In a gubernatorial campaign we think The Geor gian did so. And there are thousands who believe that the more tranquil and non-partisan force of this advocacy ot the platform of a man rather than the man himself, did Its great and effective share In the sweep of the Au gust primaries. If The Dispatch wishes to know further how we stand now, we will Bay that with all our ransomed powers we are going to stand by Hoke Bmlth and his administration In bringing to pass the things for hlch he and The Geor gian fought during the past fifteen months. • We are going to give him full loyal and unqualified support In these measures, and we are going to hold up the hands and strengthen the efforts and advance the In fluence and repute of the new governor to the full meaa- ore u f our capacity, while be stands steadfast to the principles which have placed him In the executive chair of the greatest and moat Influential state of tbe South. For the rest, we have no favors to ask of Mr. Smith, no hope of bis rewards and no fear of his punishments, if he shall see fit to deal In either punishment or reward. We stand for Democracy In its genuine form. We stand for white supremacy by the beat poail ble means to secure It. We stand for the regulation of the railroads along lines of perfect Justice to the people and to the corpor ations. And we stand first of all for the people who need us most. Does The Dublin Dispatch know our position now? What Wc Have Accomplished for Our Women. If any man thinks that The Georgian has been simply firing in the air in its recent crusade against the idle and vicious negro, and in its appeals to the leaders of the race to thunder in diapason tones against the criminals and the crimes which have so greatly aroused the South, let him look at the record of achievement within the past few weeks. The Georgian, in full recognition of the casual but capable co-opcrntion of the other two Atlanta dailies, may justly lay claim to the dominant part in this public awakening. Day in and day out we have preached the doctrine that these heinous crimes against society and against the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race must absolutely cease. The offenses have grown so grave and so frequent that we are face to face with one of the great crises in our social history. The verdict is that something must and shall be done to put an end to this reign of terror and lawlessness. And to accomplish this imperative end we have counseled and demanded that the leaders of the negro race must take up the cause with tongue and pen—from pulpit and from rostrum must proclaim to their people that thia saturnalia of lust and murder and arson must end. Wo have called upon them to dwell less upon the irregularity of gumma ry justice and more upon the crimes which pro voke it—to unite heart and soul and mind with their white friends and fellow oitizens to stamp out the evil at the very fountain head. It is in itself a high tribute to the probity and patriotism and wisdom of many of these leaders of the negro race that they have risen manfully to this appeal of The Georgian and in no uncertain terms are declaring that the crimes which produce lynching must cease—that the purlieus of vice shall be stamped out and that tho better class of negroes must stand together for tho general good that all real friends of peace and order and higher morals may not be overwhelmed in a common ruin. We find H. H. Proctor, one of the ablest and strongest of the colored ministers of Atlanta and the South, preaching thia doctrine from his pulpit and appearing before council to urge that body to co-operate with him and with the better element of hia race to suppress tho hives of iniquity where these crimes are generated by idleness and de- bauchcry. He makes the perfectly fair request that new laws, if nccessnry, be enacted to bring about a more wholesome condition of things, and the whole city applauds his wisdom find practical fore sight. He has written himself down as one of the sin cere friends of the white race and of his own real friend of peace and order and higher morals in our civic life. And Editor Davis, of The^Atlanta Independent —he, too, is using his great and far-reaching in fluence through his paper to bring about a better condition of things. No one asks him to cease de ploring the resort to lynch law, but he has seen that the need of tho hour is to denounce in stento rian tones the crime which lies at the root of the evil rather than the evil itself and in this ho is ren dering yeoman service. Ho is opening the eyes of his race to the course which they must pursue if they are to escape the wrath to come and live in peace and amity with the only people who are real ly their friends. Commissioner Stinson, of the Morris Brown college, who is recognized everywhere as one of the ablest and most sincere men of his race in the South or the North—he, too, has heartily joined forces with The Georgian and is preaching the same vig orous doctrine. His own people hear him gladly, for they recognize in him the genuine leader that ho is. Thomas T. Fortune, of The New York Age, whose fame is national, has taken the same line and is doing good work in the cause. Cast but far from least, Booker Washington himself has declared that the policy contended for by The Georgian has shown him the way to a new and more effectual service, and as a consequence he is advocating the course suggested first by this paper, The Georgian elaims no credit for haring tak en the initiative in this matter. While we were all floundering in the dark for some practicable rem edy for the tremendous evil which environed the Saxon women, it occurred to us to sound the slogan that the leaders of the negro race must do this work. Until it was done—until this wearying rep etition of denunciation of lynching, which we all deplored, gave place to an even more vigorous de nunciation of the underlying crime, and the negroes of the South were brought to a realization of their offenses, we advocated, and we would repeat the advocacy if need be—that the white people of the South withdraw their support from the negroes. We announced a policy that until the negro editors and teachers and preachers all over this Southland took up the cry, the white people should refuse to help them build their churches and their schools, should withhold those manifold acts of charity and assistance for which they look instinctively to the white race. It would not be long before they felt the pressure and would be brought to a realizing sense of the enormity of tho crimes which have been a veritable epidemic in this community and in this state. We prefer to believe that the leaders to whom wc have referred are brought to their present course by the noblest sentiments—that it is not the threat of ostracism, hut a sincere desire, once their minds and consciences were aroused, to bring about relief from the body of this death. But whatever may hav$ been the moving cause we find them co-operating heart and soul with The Georgian and denouncing death and damnation to the rapist and the murderer, rather than dwelling academically upon the evils of lynch law. This crusade has, among other things, brought about an investigation of the conditions in Decatur street, where very nurseries of crime exist at ev ery stop. A delegation from council visited thnt section on a tour of inspection and found 2,455 idle vagrants in the saloons of that quarter. It is said that had it not become noised abroad that the in vestigating committee was coming it would have been an easy matter to find at least one thousand more, loafing and drinking and incubating crime at the very time when the crops are rotting in the fields because there are not laborers enough to har vest them. On its very face it betrays a situation which is well-nigh intolerable. We feel sure that since the enormity of the condition has been made apparent by facts and fig ures, something will be done along the line suggest ed by Proctor, and these haunts of vice will be cleared out. ( The time for sermonizing has passed, except as to solemn watnings on the part of the negro teachers and preachers and editors, thundering against idleness and vice and all forms of crime. The time has arrived for resolute and vigorous ac tion. To clean up Decatur street and put the va grants to work is a step in the right direction, but the propaganda must not stop there. • The fight must be kept up until every such den has been elim inated, until the negro shall be taught that ven geance swift and sure will be his portion from his own race as well as ours, if he commits a crime, and that this reign of terror is not to be repeated so long as the blood runs red in Anglo-Saxon veins, The Georgian appreciates tho splendid co-op- cration that has been accorded'this paper iu its ef forts to solve the problem. We feel thnt the peo ple of the whole South recognize and appreciate it, and likewise do they appreciate the part the wise and pnt.iotic leaders <■ the negro race have taken in holding up our hands. The negro leaders-have done nothing in twen ty years that commends them so much to Southern white men, as the answer to this appeal. A Suggestion to Peachtree Pavers. One ot the foremost citizens of Atlanta has called our attention to the faet that In the repairing of Peachtree street all pipe laying and underground work should bo done In advance to avoid tearing up the pavement aa has been done In the paat. The suggestion Is timely and sensible. Most of ua know the Injury that has been done to the asphalt pav ing by having holes cut In It by gas, electric, sewer and other workmen. It has been asked furthor why It la not practicable to use vitrified brick pavement laid on a conercate bed, as la ao successfully need la such cities aa Cleveland, Detroit and other cities. Some of the beat examples'of this class of pavement are found in Texas. There la no reason why we cannot enjoy ns jierfect streets aa o(her cities have, and we are suro that If the street car tracks are solidly laid In concrelo so there will be no breaking of the pavement next to the rails, and suitable brick pavement laid, we will be rid of the disgraceful aspect presented by our beautiful thorough fare. James B. Hammond, the wealthy manufacturer of New York, who ha; for many years suffered f.-om neural gia, la having constructed for him a portable hotiBe, which ho will carry with him wherever ho goes, and with It ap paratus whoreby he will supply the house with the quali ty of air necessary to alleviate the torturing pangs ot hla disease. Growth and Progress of the New South A Lecture Course For the Farmer. It la a recognised fact that the railroads are among the most useful agencies In the upbuilding of the South, and an Illustration in point la about to take place In Mississippi. j For several years the railroads of the North have run what they call "seed and soil specials,” having on board a number of specialists qualified to lecture on the subject of diversified Industries. They have been of Incalculable benefit to the people ot that section, and have done a great deal to stimulate agriculture. And now for the first time the Illinois Central will run one of these farmers' special trains south of the Ohio rljer. As the farming In the South differs In many reapecta from that In the North and West, these talks will be on very different lines. Thia special train will start from Hernando, Miss., on October 1, and the trip will terminate ten days later at Memphis. The course will be South by way of Jackson, through Mississippi and Louisiana, to a point near New Orleans, and then north over the Yaxoo and Mississippi valley line. It I* said that lectures will be delivered In 97 stations, and that In some places halls will be rented for the purpose. Tho best of special talent will be employed for this purpose. Among tbr lecturers will be Professor J. C. Hardy, president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College; Professor W. L. Hutchinson, di rector of the Mississippi agricultural experiment station: Walter Clark, pres- Ident of the Cotton Growers' Association; H. E. Blakeslee, commissioner of agriculture and Immigration; Charles 'Schuler, commissionv of agri culture and Immigration of Louisiana, and Professor W. R. Dodson, direct or of the Louisiana agricultural experiment etatlon. This la a fine array of special talent and their talks should be of tha greatest benefit to the places visited. Such a plan would be welcomed by the people of Georgia. Which of the great systems entering this state will take up this matter and give Georgia the benefit of this technical education? It would make a warmer placo for the railroads, and they would add to the good work they have already accomplished. DRAMATIC NOTES. By WEX JONE8. Among tho now play* to bo produced thia season “Sul, the Washboard Girl," in likely to meet with ino»t success. Hnl la nn Indus trious girl, who earns her tmme from her energy lu disposing of the weekly trash. — Ticked landlord trios to win her uwny Ills gold from Jack, tho Iceman, who loves Hu I "with ill the devotion of nn horn est man's heart.” The climax Is a thrilling scene In the dumbwelter sttaft. Sal shins up the rope to r the Inndlord. who falls with u dull snd Impales himself upon the Ice tongs. Jnck Jumps Into the dumbwslter and pulls himself upstnlra In time to clasp Hnl ns she falls fnlntlng. As they stand lu the blissful flush of mutual lore Hal dis covers n wallet upon the flo4»r. The Inndlord bAd dropped It. It contains $150,000 In |»|||a. Jack says, “Keep It; he forfeits his money who pursues a woman.'! (Cheers.) They kee pit. (Curtain.) •Faust” will be dramatized l»y well •ling uslc. Is an- aong writer to compose the A novelty In comic opera ploti nouneed. King A wants his son to marry King B s daughter. The otin goes to visit King R's court. He meets King It’s daughter and her mnld. doesn't mistake the princess for the maid and fnll In lore with her. D'Annunzio has lieoome ao exciting and niirenaonable In the mounting of hla plays that neither Duse nor any other player of note will undertake hia new piece. PLAY8 AND PLAYERS. Tho name of the conwtJy in which Mary Maunerlng will appear has been changed from "Ijidy Betty 1 ’ to ’'Mistress Betty. A prototype of Andrew Carnegie Is to be seen In "The Measure of a Man.” soon to be brought out nt the Chestnut street theater. I'bitadelphln. Cora Mayuanl is tbe author "Richard, the Brazen Townsend Brady, Is to be dramatized by Edward Peple for the use of Heury K. Dlxey later lu the 84*ason. Herbert Kelcey and KfTle Shannon are to head the enst of Charles Klein's latest play. to be produced Kyrle Bellow Is engaged In rehearsals of his new play, "Brigadier Gerard,” by A. Comm Doyle. The niece Is to have Its first presentation nt the IIUib ‘ “ early In October. The distinction of David Belaaco'a new theater In New York, the Htnyveaant. Is to lie a double stage, at the lmrk of which one scene may be *#*t while another Is proceed ing before the spectators. Then the stage swings the new scene before their eves, and .«,*. advances without halt Illusion. MUCH IN LITTLE. Four hours' hard thinking exhausts the tissues as much as teu hours of manual labor. * The Congo Free State has an area of WO,- 000 square miles, and an estimated popula tion of no less than .D.oon.ooo. The jmldle executioner »f Austria wears a pair of new white gloves every time he car ries out a capital sentence. If. W. Martin, of Beloit, WIs.. has Just paid $.1,000 for Lord Bacon, the highest price ever paid for nn Atnericun-hred liog. Out of ©very hundred ptraon* In New lork city slxty-ono nre unmarried, thirty- one married, five widowed and three di vorced. During tho year J90G the Methodist Epis copal church sent out seventy.two new mis- slonnrles to reinforce Its workers In the foreign lands. „ The noiae of a railway train can be heard 2,800 yards through the air, and the whistle of a locomotive ns far os 3,300 yards. The women of Ohndjons wear ornaments on the upper Up, which Is enlarged by in- sorting small piece# of wood q- -♦«««• ..«#« the Up protrudes sufficiently. Cnnada pnld the following Imuntlc* for the first eleven months of tho 1906 fiscal year; $624,191 on Iron. $831,591 ou steel, $27$,- 44 °. ro,lH * * !3 * 471 binder twine and $267,043 on crude oil. trade with the states was I gossip! By CHOLLY KNICERBOCKEa New York, Sept. 19.-i rea t ti„ in store for John D. R^efelle,™. I" 1 day school class. The*,,, of king has completed plat , or .. " Inff of the class on Octotr g 01 A steamer, not an oil b^ er hv oversight, will take the j,, n ’ Tarrytown, from whence t . ier automobiles will take hem J magnificent Pocantlco es,„ elder Rockefeller. of tha Just what the scope of th en ,„.,„ ment there will be will ru k! 31 ' 1 ' public at present. It Is hint: ,, lemonade and home-made “ will bo served to the guest" fehnuu While he ha*_no Intention,. longing Joe Gans for the lln„ P S; title, Kermlt Roosevelt has dftrmffS to learn the manly art of self Fred Byerson, the Instructor71 "■ Ing at the exclusive Groton teaching young Roosevelt. ! knows n little about the game •■77' as he and his brother, Theodor. Cf’ received many lessons finm.h., father. ,he| f Byerson’s ability aa a teachawi, have Its test when Kermlt retur. li the White House from his holi,| a .., cation and puts on the gloves witi president. Mrs. Prudentla L. o. Nugent nt, of the first commander of the u brigade, General Robert .Vuvent . dead at her late home, Brooklyn ■ was 71 years old. Bourke Ooekran, Taminnny and representative In congress t* yet ready to name the date and else of his marriage to Miss Anne m, daughter of the former governor the Philippines. Mr. Cockran has i„„ returned from a trip to the West to w, his fiancee. She will be In New York In a few days and the announcement of tho wedding plans will b. made. Assistant United States district »t, torney Francis J. Carmodyj who rled the daughter of Mrs. "hum— Platt and whose marital troibles h™ caused a sensation, declares that hi, wife loves hltn still, but they are km apart by Mrs. Platt. GEORGIANS IN GOTIIVM. New York, Sept. 1*.—Visitors t York today: ATLANTA—C. I. Albert, Mrs.F. & Ellis, W. I. Walker. MACON—Mrs. L. I* Dempsey, t E. Findlay, M. G. Ogdon. SAVANNAH—G. T. Canes, T. (am- ble, H. Hengeval, R. W. Hokemein, G. N. Jones, Mrs. E. A. Well. IN WASHINGTON. Washington, Sept. 19.—At Washl,. ton hotels: GEORGIA—Stewart Phlnlsy, Lou, Phinlzy, of Augusta, at Willard. Till? DATE IN HISTORY. 8EPTEMBER 19. 1737—UottUtrmi university opened. 1800— Robed Emmet put on trial. 1535— Ktluiri; AllttU Hitchcock, secretary of illnn minister wreck of tb« the Injerlor, horn. 1839—WIIHnii Paterson, Gnu of ciZtonm. Isom. If54—Mnuy*;l|vo# lout in the (jiiecutMiurlottc. 1862—Gencri Itoffccrnu* began attack oi L’onfcihrnto force* at luka, Miss. 1871—Iilsa#tons fire In Virginia City, Net. 188J—ITcsbHit Garfield UJetl at Lon| Brunch X. J. 1901—I’rcsliUit McKinley burled at Canton, Ohio. Porta Itlco . „„„ $18,648,991 In purchiiS4>« ami $19,055,474 In shipment*. _ The Philippines bought $6,458,- ** 1’hauillHt* and ship* The 867 worth of domestic |H*d hither $12,237,027. llnols theater, Chicago break In the I The break In the relationship between Be last's) nnd Mrs. l^*slle Carter Is undoubtedly permanent. Mrs. Carter has idgned a five- vear contract with Mr. Dillingham, while Mr. Belnsco I# looking over the nehl enre- fully for some one to replace Mrs. Carter In his plans. Meanwhile a relief of Blanche Bates has r»*p!ne.*d the medallion of Mrs. Carter that has long ln»en a feature on the first leaf of the program at the Bclusca theater. Consul M. A. Jewett, of Treblzond, Tur key, reports the esfftbllshnmnt of n new steamship service between Liverpool mid Vorts of the Black Sen. One of Its objects s to forward American goods destined for countries lmnlerlng on or lH*hlud the Black The Japanese foreign trade for the first five months of this year amounted to $174.- 000,000, fir $10,000,000 less than iu (he rorre- spend In ir five month# of 1906. The whole of the decline wns In import*. In which there aws n large falling off beenuse of the close of tbe wur. William II. Newman, of the New York f’mtral railroad, hold# the record this year for directorships nnd trusteeships. He rep resents the Vanderbilt Interests In 106 cor porations. Frederick fmlerwood, president of the Rrle road, holds 72 directorship* and trusteeships. NEWBERRY COLLEGE WILL OPEN NEXT FRIDA#. Special to The Georgian. Newberry, 8. Sept. 19.—The for mal opening of Newberry College will be held on Friday morning, September 78, In the college auditorium. Ad- drennea will be delivered by dlatln- gulahed friends of the Institution, and ao a part of the formal opening a re ception will be tendered the new ,tu- dent» by the Young Men’s Christian Association that night. Rev. W. H. Groover, editor of The Lutheran Church Visitor, has accepted President Scher er's Invitation to deliver the principal address on that occasion, and It Is ex pected that Rev. M. O. J. Kreps. presl- dent of the South Carolina synod, will also be present, and address the stu dents. As usual, the pastors of New berry Win take nn active part In the opening exercises. OOOOOOOCbOOOOOCKj OOOO000090 0 NOTSS BY THE WAY. B>C, B. Thomae. oooooooopioooooooooooooooo Never put l^y one off till tomorrow that you can ff today. It la a pleasot change to eat cook apples, and It h^ps the drugglet# Do not wglk flinty from strange (fan however threatens their appearance. Hun. Remember tha the only thing that wears Jewelry wire it can’t be ?cen I* the oyster. Don be an oyster. Let your diamonds sine and your pearl* glimmer until thg give other w men Jealoun spasms. ■' IV- Remember that>eekaboo cheese made In other coU|rles than Switzer land. Fudge Is an excepnt substitute t<* beefsteak, and Is bp troublesome t*. cook. Serve with tnthed potatoes ana imitation linoleum. Burlap makes an e^ellent lining M the bath tub. Bee stings are sallto be good fot rheumatism. Bulldogs are good fojklowness. An up-ended tack Itgood for tired feeling. The Fourth of July la ttreat curt for deafness. A red-hot stove Isgoodor chill*- If you feel generally • the Nil* eat plenty of sugar. Hu la cure with sugar; w|iy not you. Home-made pies make pful art* tos mats. In buying a dog be caref to Ine his teeth. If they are rot* J™ sharp, pick another dog. ou n can tell when your dog ma cos a dislike for you. A disused trolley car make; char® Ing houseboat If you can In*- » float. Eggs make a good breakf ' 1 *-* They can be cooked In sev* An egg boiled until It i a ; Ilclous with bacon or strawbei J Goldfish are sensible Uttle long. They live In glass ‘ never throw stones. Remember that »o long JLL, see a mouse you're safe. L •. taC $ he gets out of sight that h* «- ^ you. In case of danger Jnmj* ‘ 1{ g hath 'tub and turn on * h mol , water. The most ferocious m ^ not venture to harm you head