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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1906. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES F. L. SEELY • - Editor. • President. ruitiSHio tvitv Arnttoot (Except Banda?) By THE GEORGIAN CO., tt 25 V. Alabsmt St., Atltnts, Gs. subjcitirnoa mis. One Yesr $4.50 Six Months.......... 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By carrier, per week.. 10c Telephuoe. connecting ill departments. Lon* distance terminals. Entered at thu Atlanta Postofflrs as secood* class mall matter. SMITH «c THOMPSON, Advertising Representatives for til territory outside of Georgia. TRtBUNB BUILDIXO POTTER BUILDIXO CHICAGO OFFICE SEW YORK OFFICE It yon have any tronbla aettln* THE O' 5 ®®” 1 *.?!' navSletL the Circulation Department, and bare It promptly rimnuiea. Telephones: Bell 49f! Jlsln. Atlanta 4«IL Is deilrabla that all eommnnleatlons lntentledforpnW(«tlo“ THE oloBOIAN taUgM ta |5> withheld It requested. .{“■“JjISs turned nnlasa sumps are sent for the purpose. The Georgian prlnta no unclean or objectionable ad vertising. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor advertisements. ■ The Armory-Auditorium and the Nation al Democratic Convention. The' deciding reason why Kansas City secured the Democratic natlonaf convention of 1900 waa because Kansas City had just erected the finest auditorium In the West With the advantages and claims of other cities In fierce competition, and with the advocates of other cities vying with eager eloquence before the committee, the quesUon that turned the scale In favor of Kansas City was the presence of a great commodious, well equipped auditorium capable of seating 15,000 people with acoustics In which any speaker of ordinary voice could be heard. The Atlanta committee haa had placed In Its hands tho model of the Kansas City auditorium, and one like It or as near like It as may be possible ought to be built In this dty at the earliest possible moment In order that we may Invite here either the national convenUon of 1908 or at least the national convention of 1912. When Atlanta builds It ought to build fur a great and growing Atlanta. The halls and public buildings erected In this city twenty years ago are totally Inad equate to the demands of this splendid city of today. And the public buildings erected now for the Atlanta of 1905, It they should be built for our present status and our present population, would be totally Inadequate for the Atlanta of 1920, or even for the Atlanta of 1912. It we do this thing at all we want to do It well, aud In building our great armory and auditorium It ought to be built for a city of 600,000 people, likely to entertain the great conventions of the republic and-of the world. Three things ought to be considered In building this auditorium. First, Its capacity, which should not be less than 10,000, and If possible should sent 15,000 people. Second, Its acoustics, about which should be gathered the highest expert knowledge and skill In the republic. If we had a ball which aeated 20,000 people and acoustics that made ft Impoaslble for only 1,200 of the audience to hear, the hall would be a failure. W# are convinced that more time should be expended and greater care ex ercised looking to the acoustics of this great hall than al most any other phase of Its construction. Care should be taken also that Its entrances and exits and Its seats should be so constructed as to make the audience safe, and to keep them comfortable It they are detained for one hour or for Avis. We take It for granted that the argument Is ex hausted and that every man, woman and child In Atlanta knows that tt cannot do without the auditorium. This Is one enterprise upon which we cannot afford to fall. Atlanta.'after long deliberation. Indefinitely post poned the exposition of 1910, and thero are enemies of At lanta who will cavil at this postponement. Atlanta haa now declared that her urgent and imperative need la for an auditorium. And If Atlanta permlta now this second great enter prise to fall or fall there are those by the thousands both- In and out of the state who will declare that the far- famed Atlanta Spirit has decayed and that we are no longer the militant and triumphant and all-conquerlog city that we had plumed ourselves ‘c be. it Is no longer a matter of question whether At lanta can build the armory-audltorlum, for H has now become established, In pride, In prestige, In policy and In absolute necessity, that It shall be, and an absolute cer tainty that It will be built. The Great Farmers’ Union. The Farmers' Union which holds the center of the stage today, Is splendidly vindicating Itself In every added year of Its useful and conservative life. There are no pretenses and never a garish display about the Farmers' Union. It Is made up of farmers, managed by farmers and set to the prosperity of farmers In every detail In which farmers live and labor and love. Its judgments are unclouded by ambition, and Its public announcements have neither selfishness nor dis play. Every position that the Farmers' Union has taken In relation to the cotton crop of the South has been vin dicated In wisdom and discretion. National President Charles 8. Barrett and State President R. F. Duckworth have their minds and their energies concentrated and in tent upon the Interests of the Individual and the aggre gate farmer within the vast territory of their official work. These men, capable, shrewd aud diligent them selves, and ever on the alert for Information and counsel that Is wise and prudent, are doing a work of essential value for the agriculture of the country and of the several states. The magnificent numbers which compose the mem bership of this union are a tribute to the drawing and the holding power of Its splendid purpose, and It Is safe to say that this Farmers' Union Is not only at this time the most potential and effective Industrial organisa tion of the republic, but that It la likely to be more and asore In the future the most useful and effective agent toward the prosperity and happiness of that vast and In creasing army of cttlsens. who. keeping close to the soil, keep also for that reason close to the country's vital In- teiests, and to the honor and Integrity of the Amerlcau Monopoly’s Silence About Jacksonville. You—you who have been receiving from time to time pamphlets and periodicals In your mall boxes, deal Ing with the question of municipal ownership have you ever yet received one that gave the history of Jack sonville, Fla.? -.And If not why not? Because Jacksonville Is one of our nearest neighbors. It Is' one of the brilliantly successful Illustrations of the value of municipal owner ship, and for this reason the history of Jacksonville will never come to you tbrougn the malls from the sources that are sending out these pamphlets from three or four cities and towns throughout the country In which bad management and Insufficient equipment have made mu nicipal ownership a questionable success! Now Jacksonville Is very near at hand. It Is only a night's ride from Atlanta. It Is a city of 40,000 Inhab itants. It is Just now one of the brightest, most pro gressive and most growing cities of the South. It Is up- to-date In every particular and Is keeping alive and abreast of the procession In every phase of Its municipal life. Where could you find a better illustration than Jacksonville of the value of municipal ownership? And this story we told In full In The Georgian of Wednesday afternoon. The figures at Jacksonville will bear repetition. Tho net cost of Its lighting plant on January 1. 1902, was $59,276.20 Including all moneys paid by the city to or for the plnnt directly or Indirectly through the proceeds, bonds, taxation or otherwise, with Interest at the rate of 6 per cent added annually and deducting therefrom as credits only those conceded to the plant for lights fur nishing the city and not paid for, and also deducting the cash turned over by the plant to the city. Beginning with tbla net coat, the same definite method of determining the net costs on the 31st of De cember of 1904 showed that ths plant had paid for Itself to the last dollarl Jacksonville's public men are no more honest and no more able than those of Atlanta. What has been done In Jacktonvllle can be done In Atlanta. The example of Jacksonville is' a conspic uous Inspiration to Atlanta. Ten years ago the citlxens of Jacksonville were pay- Ing $15 per month for 2,000 nominal candle power open arc lights and 28 cents per 1,000 watts for incandescent lights. The city bought its electrio plant. It discharged the monopoly, and though the monopoly, Just as some monopolies nearer home, proceeded to show that the city could not possibly furnish lights cheaper than the monop oly was doing—In spite of this, the city Immediately re duced open arc lights from $15 a month to $7.50 a month and Incandescent lights from 28 to 7 cents per 1,000 watts. And in answer to the doleful protest of the retiring monopoly, this price so far from running the city Into bankruptcy, paid for the entire plant within five years. it any wise and eloquent local monopolist will point oqt just why Atlanta cannot do exactly what Jackson ville has done, we wilt receive the Information thank fully. Tho fact Is there appears to be a regularly organ- ised buroau In Atlanta whose source, origin and finan cial backing can Just as well be Imagined ns described, which Is sending out every pamphlet into which a plau sible. objection can be printed, and In which can be exploited an occasional failure or bod management In municipal ownership, and tt Is hoping with these to stem tho splendid tide of municipal ownership sentiment that Is Bowing over the South. , The monopolies will not be able to do It. Tho peo ple of Atlanta will fight thla battle and win. We think they are on Intelligent people. They read the newspa pers both at home and abroad. It Is possible that they ev£n road the patnphlots on municipal ownership sent out by the lighting monopoly. But It Is s great reflection upon thtlr Intelligence not to know that they promptly recognize ths source from which these pamphlets come, and that they have long since bean Impressed with the smallness In num bers, and the remoteness In distance, and the wide sep- aratlon In Instances In which the municipal ownership plan has not been a great and beneficent success. And the people of Atlanta are going to take this matter In hand, and they are going to vote municipal ownerahlp In Atlanta's electric lights, and they are going to do it at tho next election. And they are going to save thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars to the city and to the citizens by simply falling In line with the wise, practical and well established movement that Is at this time taking hold of the cities, and towns of America. , great faculty of great teachers who surround him, he has worked for two years, am) Is working now In perfect and beautiful harmony without friction, without Jealousy, without any cross purposes, and Is proving every year that thla great Institution'has tho solid merit which a great educational Institution ought to possess. Tho Georgian Is proud of this splendid school for girls-at MilledgevJHe. It Is proud of Georgia for hav ing provided shch an Institution for Its young women. And It Is proud of the way In which the peopel display their intelligence to know a great school when they see it and to patronfzd it with vigor and with hearti ness. Georgia can do nothing better than to stand by Its Institutions that have demonstrated their Immediate worth In their admirable work. The state can have no higher opportunity and responsibility than to hold up the hands of an Institution like this. And, without dis crimination against the other great schools sustained by the state, all of which are growing and prospering, we do not hesitate to say that with the single exception of the Technological School in Atlanta, no educational In terest fostered and sustained by the state Is yielding better results and paying nobler dividends than the school at Slilledgevllle. The Circus—A Bridge of Dreams. The circus has come to town once more and the very atmosphere is vibrant with the joy of youth, and of happy anticipation.' For weeks the city’s walls have told In great red letters and in unspeakable posters, the story of this approaching epoch In the history of this Southern metropolis. The children have hoarded with miserly care their pennies. looking eagerly for this day of days, when the blare of trumpets, roll of drums, the insistent whine of tho steam piano, the leisurely trend of camels and elephants, the glitter of tawdry uni form and the march of caravan proclaim that the serious things of life are for the present superseded by a won derland of delight. No thought of tomorrow and its Inev itable penalties darken the day for the boys and girls who will gather within the confines of the great circus tents. They will leave outside the wldespreading can vas the everyday world, with its duties and realities, which already begin to press upon the borders of their young lives. Even foot ball and baseball have lost their charm for the present; tops, marbles and all manner of sports have become Irksome and unworthy of consideration now that the clown Is king and the bareback riders, charioteers and acrobats make another world for young and eager eyes. The “Greatest Show on Earth" has Its mission to perform, no matter how prate the Berlous- minded men—laymen _ or otherwise—to the contrary. It has lis lessons to teach, minus text or textbook. With all Its many varying phases It fills a place In the affairs of men unoccupied by any other enterprise or insUtu- tlon. The first helpful lessons In natural history are taught the majority of children just outside the bars of the Iron cages of the menagerie; the love of the beautiful In many a young heart finds earliest realization In the glit ter of gay costumes whoso pathetic tawdriness are-soft ened by the glow of artificial lights. The restless, motley crowds which In teeming thousands fill the tents create a kinship, one for the other, in their oneness of human Interest In the sights and sounds of a big clt-cus. Like a bridge o’ dreams the circus connects youth and old age, across which troup like specters the memories of other days. The odor of the tanbark dispels for a moment many a pitiful tragedy of mature life, and leaves the dreamer but a boy .again, when the future held neither shadows nor disappointments. The blare of band will awaken memories of tenderer melodies which found expression on the lips of hopeful youth, and even the Jest of the clown will bring a glimpse of the grotesque and humorous side of earlier years, when • the bur dens of later times were stored away in tho folds, of an unknown future. But the bright things of life always fade away; only the darkness It ture to remain. The fonts will be packed away In long modern trains to gether with all the belongings, animate and Inanimate, and the “Greatest Show on Earth” will Journey to oth er cities and to other children, leaving only big, bare rings to tell of the brilliant charm, of tinsel life— which for two days made the young happy, beyond compare, and the old, sweeter and brighter, because they have traveled across the year's, over the bridge o' dreams, into the days of youth, where the sun shone always, the flowers bloomed forever and sorrow was unknown. I GOSSIP TOM WAT80N’S NEW PUBLICATION.—We are pleased to indulge the prediction that the next lit erary venture of Hon. Tomas E. Watson will be more successful than the',last. — ■ Mr. Watson has definitely made up his ‘mind to publish a monthly magazine either In Atlanta or In Nashville. It will be called Watson's Monthly Jef fersonian. The only doubt as to the location de pends upon tho termB which can be secured from the publishing houses of Atlanta and of Nashville. Other things being equal, Mr. Watson will certain ly decide in favor of Atlanta. The magazine will be his personal property. There will be no corporations to control, to hamper, or to destroy him. He will own the magazine Individually and be personally re sponsible for all of Its obligations. Among his own people and as the manager of Jils own affairs, giving them his personal attention and his Individual care, Mr. Watson has never yet failed to make a conspicuous success In the matter of money and ropnte, and we congratulate both our selves and hint upon Ills entrance Into the local field of publication with n mission so definite and an equipment so ample and so superb as bis. SOUTH’S DEVELOPMENT SHOWN BY BIG INCREASE IN BREADSTUFF EXPORTS Baltimore, Md., Oct. It.—Among the facts of steady Southern progress noted in this week's Issue of.lThe Manufacturers' Record is the increase In the value of brendstuffs exported from Southern ports. In compari son with those exported from other ports of the country. During the first nine months of the year, the value of exports of principal articles of breadstuffs nt twenty-three of the lending ports of the country was 2130,407,719, an Increase over the same period last year of $43,401,454. Of this Increaso more than 63 per cent was at six Southern ports, the figures for Individual ports being as follows: DISTRICTS. Baltimore Newport News Norfolk and Portsmouth Galveston Mobile New Orleans Total All ports t... At the six Southern ports tho Increase In the value was- from $28,- 876,743 to $66,536,470. or by $27,658,727, equal to 95.7 per cent, while at the 17 other leading ports the Increase was from $68,129,822 to $74,072,- ZOO, or by $15,942,927, equal to 27.4 per cent. This trend to Southern ports follows activity In railroad construction toward them and the Improvement of terminal facilities. The application by the Seuhoard Air Line railway for a franchise to enter Charleston, S. C., suggests an Increase In that city's Importance as a port through the construction of on extension 'from n point near Camden In the course to Charleston, a distance of 105 miles. . 1903. 1906. . $9,640,698 $18,623,400 . 3,506,343 7.523,346 600.075 2.387.075 . 3,308,359 11.139,664 . 2.234,482 2,1000,359 . 9,557,786 14,861,626 .$28,874.74$ $66,535,470 . 87,009,066 130,407,719 Georgia’s Great Girls’ School. . The state of Georgia Is building up at Mtlledgevllle one of the greatest schools for women to be found In all the country. # The Georgia Normal and Industrial Instltute’for girls Is an Institution already to be proud of by every citizen of Georgia, and It la growing better and larger and more fruitful of good results every year. One of the great advantages which the G. N. I. C. has enjoyed Is In the fact that Ita affairs have been ad ministered by an unselfish and harmonious board of trustees. There has been no friction in this board. There has been no politics In It at any time. No personal mo tives have had a place In Ita deliberations, and for the last five years st least, the one clear motive which bas moved and dominated every action la the single Idea of the beat Interests cf this great inatltutlon and the beat and wisest way to attain them. The Glrla’ Industrial Institute Is fortunate In having a great president In the person of Prof. M. M. Parks. One of the ways In which he bas demonstrated that he la a great educator Is that he bas never been afraid to sur round, himself with other strong men and other great teachers. No foolish Jealousies and no cowardly appro- henslon of being supplanted bas prevented President Parks front surrounding himself with men as strong, as vigorous and as well reputed as himself. And It Is one of- the highest evidences of his wisdom that with this INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT' IN THE SOUTHERN ST A TES ninttiMiiMig.-i. Te®n.. Out. 19.—In Its re- view of Southern Imluatrinl niorcuiciitR, Tho Tradesman preaent* u record of ng greaslvetiena for tlio |K>rloil of one tree!;. From the state of Atnlmnm nre reported n power uompniiy nml n foment tvork« will rnpltiillxiitlon of 91,000,010 each, liealdoa sev ernl other lintnMe new concern*. A 9210,000 lumiier company appear* lu the Hat from Kentucky. A isna rompnny cnpltnllxeil nt fl.KJ.OOO la nmotiK the new Itniitatrie* reported from Tennessee. Haw mill nml Inmtier compa nies. Iron nml cool development concerns, cotton mills nml Klim, arc reported In Inrgi* nnmlMTs from the respective states. The Tradesman's list for the week is ns fol lows; Alabama. Phneall—9lttMft> Innil-er mill. Hlnuingham—land company. Annlaton—SkyrO lime works. padevlllo-IJtf.OOb loud company. ilnglnnd—4150,000 l»rl«*k aid tif*» works; 91,no0,0(K> cement Works; power plant. flay ton—Fertilizer factory. Montgomery—41,oo\(MO power company. Eufaula—925,000 hardware company. Florida. Jacksonville—990.009 construction company. West Talni Beach—430,000 Investment com pany. Gsorgia. Jnkln—Turpentine plant. Macon—926,000 naval stores plant. FIRST AND LAST. By BARTON GREY. They sat together, hand In hand. The sunset flickered low. The tickle sen crept up the strand And on light the afterglow. : a snug, s little soug e snug r No otbei looked up and thought him strong, poet kne up and - — , Looked down, aud deemed him true. snug the oth Times change—the two went divers ways. The evening shades Increase. » On him grown old In fame and praise. Ami her, In household pence. The echo of the toft, sweet words He spoke m long aao tins passed, a* ikus the summer birds efore * Kentucky. Lexington—Manufacturing company. Monroe—'Telephone system. Oweiisliora—Powder mill; 9103,000 nery. \\ llllniiislnirg—9J9.0O9 coal company. Louisville- Manufacturing company; oo coni tar product? company. WiMMlstiN-k—'Telephone system. Mnrfleld—9-10,000 tuuilicr company. Itollnnd—Telephone system. Jamestown—'Telephone system. Burhottrsvllle—(las plant. Mississippi. Vicksburg—:925.000 building company. BriNikhmeii—In* company. Meridian—Canning compeuy. Tutwller— Hoop factory. New Albany—Stave factory. North Caroling. Weldon—913,000 brick works. High Point-4100.000 Durham—450.(100 lock : Kllsnbetj! Statesville ____ WaynesvlUo-4190,000 cotton mill. 8outh Carolina. r Columbia—IIOO.OM mining company. Smallwood—Mineral cotupauy. Chester—laundry. Charleston—413\0O) building and company: carbonating company. Orangeburg—420.090 oil mill. Tcnnsases. Nooks and Corners of American History By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. NATHANIEL BACON, THE FIRST AMERICAN REBEL. The echo of the false s He sung long ago. Charleston, 8. C, the winter’s snow. Hut ns tonight the angel hand I^M>s*>tia the silver cord. And $-alls her to the other land Of love's supreme reward. “RAISON D'ETRE.” By ELLA ANGLIN VERNE. 51 y fnvnrltn flovrn; Juxt thro. I n.iilil. Anti each to tho other 1. tAUInlllutint.— Of th. violet*. liu,* ure your qm .J true, Th. Illy', your fare no fnir. Ami th. vavittx nitow.r of tho Etuhluiu Flower, I. tho .btnlnc cold of your hair. IN PARI8. Pari., Oct. 19.—Mlsn Thornbury anil Min. Alice Steele. of Atlanta, Oa„ and Minn Ruby Burden, of Bnvannah. Go., r*(l.tcreif at the office of th. Euro pean edition of The Herald today. Or. Willstt. Sp.sk. at Covington. Spit'lal to Th. Georgian. Covington. Ga.. Oct. 19.—Dr. A. A. Wlllets, presented by the Alkahe.t Ly ceum course, .poke to a large and ap- pre.latlvr audience la.t night on the subject of •’Sunshine." Nathaniel “Bacon tvaa born In Suf folk, England, January 2, 1442, and educated at the Inna of Court, London. Handsome, Intellectual, rich, with the best blood of Britain In his veins, Ba con, at the age of 28, came to America and acttled In Gloucester county, Vir ginia. When Bacon landed on the shores of the New World lie found In the colony some SU.ooq people, a small minority of whom were living In princely style, while the overwhelming majority were little better than slaves. Of aristocratic birth, Bacon was at heart a democrat of the democrats; man who loved justice and right as (ho hungry man loves bread, nnd It took tfim but a little white to declare hlm- sdlf. He put himself squarely on the side of the people versus the stall-fed mi nority, who were dolnc their best to keep them in bondage. At the apex of the Virginia Iniquity, aa Bacon found It. wns old Governor Berkeley, the representative of the Crown. Close nft.r the pompous oh! gov ernor came the ••gentlemen,” the aris tocrats, wKh lived In the mansions along the rivers and feasted on the fat of the land. Against this combination Bacon de clared "war to the knife." Circumstances opened the way for Bacon to strike the wlshed-for blow ut the selfish and arrogant nrlstocracy, and he avnlled himself of It with the avidity of a man of genius nnd with the energy of a thoroughly sincere demo crat. , In the summer of 1675 there waa a great Indian uprising—and old Gov ernor Berkeley did nothing about It. Tho settlers were murdered right and left, but the governor raised not n hand. He was In the fur trade with the In dians. As r result of that trade he wns making money, and why should ho Inrlte the lll-wlll of the red inen on ac count of the death of a few palefaces? But while Berkeley was taking It easy, Bncon acted. A military force made up of the plain people elected Bacon qs their general, and the neces sary plans were begun to be laid for the securing of the peace and safety In the colony that all so earnestly desired. Then old Berkeley got mad to think that Bacon had dared to beard him without a commission from his high mightiness. At that the people got mad, elected n sufficient number of themselves to the nssembly at James town to control It, and gave Bacon a commission as general. That made Berkeley more wrotliy then ever, and he refused to sign Ba ron's commission that had been given him by the house. Five hundred fearless patriot* gath ered about Bacon, and with these he marched to Jamestown, the caflltal, and demanded the signing cf his commis sion, and on July 4. ons hundred year* before the proclamation of the Declara tion of Independence, the stubborn old governor yielded, nnd by his signature ratified the votes of the assemblymen. Bacon Immediately set out on his marrh against the Indian.. But. he had no sooner gone than the hypocritical old governor proclaimed him a rebel and a traitor. Thla unaccountable action Immedi ately aroueed Bacon's anger, and with his force he marched on Jamestown. Berkeley uua there with an army, but the army was too cowardly to fight, and Bacon burned Jamrstown to the ground, leaving only the old brick chureli tower, which itltl stands. In the meantime the hated represen tative of the Drown had lied to the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bny, where by promise of booty he began raising a force to suatnln him In office. Haring cleared the field on the main land proper. Bacon was preparing to croea the Chesapeake for the purpose of driving Berkeley from Virginia, when BY CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. New York, Oct. 19.—Although the gnekwar of Baroda did not admire American women when he toured the United States a short time ago, evi dence that he was deeply Impressed with the educational Institutions of thl* country arrived In New York on the White Star line steamer Baltic in the person of his eon, Shrimanh Jal- slnyroo. an engaging nnd clever youth, who may enter one of our colleges Shrimanh Sampnproa, a brother of the raekwar, who accompanied him on his tour, wns with the young East Indian. The boy has Just completed his studies at Harrow, and was in tended by his father for Cambridge university, but If he fancies Harvard or any other American university he will complete his education In the Uni ted States. Miss Elizabeth Magle, the brilliant Chicago young woman whoee remark able offer to sell her accomplishments to the highest bidder aroused Intense interest all over the country, has re ceived a bushel basket full of replica from all sorts and conditions of per sons. From this collection she has picked one letter sent her by a couple occupying a prosperous farm In Wis consin. The communication made such a deep Impression on her that she has sent them the following reply: "Mr. and Mrs. Davis: Dear Unknown Friends—I have received many, replies to my advertisement, but none which touched me so deeply as your letter did. Perhaps you have misunderstood the deepest meaning of my document; pos sibly you really believe that I am in danger of selling myself body and soul. I can hardly blame you for getting this Irhpresslon, considering the way that some papers rsported me. "But I never meant to do anything of the kind. In the first place, I never Intended that the 'document,' If It ap peared in print at all, should appear over my name. I did have some vague notion, however, of filling It up and getting it Into print some way, If I could raise the coin to do It. I sent It to some of the papers here asking what It would cost to Insert s* an advertise ment, and that Is the way th* reporters got tt. I was paralyzed when I saw the whole thing In the papers the next morning with my name and all. "But now that It !a done, good will come out of It. Good has come out of It already. I have received many ex cellent letters commending my action and 'offering me assistance. I have received gepulne offers of marriage, and, 1 am sorry to say, some bass propositions. Those who made the lat ter 1 look upon with contempt and pity; the former are appreciated, but are declined,'with thanks. "What I really wanted waa freedom from the fear of want, and an oppor tunity to develop the best that Is In me. True, I love to have a Jolly good time, but I love equally well. If not better, the simple life, and therefore your of fer to take me Into your home and give me all these things and ask nothing of me In return has appealed to mo more deeply than any other offer I have received. I skimmed through letters of foreigners and wealthy Americans, who threw tHemselves at me bodily, but your letter 1 read over and over again, and I marked on the envelope 'The- highest bid.' “Your letter rings true. You don't know how much I appreciate It. If I had no further 'bids' I should havt gladly accepted yours. But since tele graphing you I have received many other letters and several telegrams, and have been visited by newspaper, repre sentatives who have made good busi ness propositions to me. Ono of theae propositions I have accepted. "I am in a position now to work for the betterment of my less fortunate brothers and sisters and In doing this I shall be most happy.' Instead of sell ing myself Into deeper slavery thRn that In which J found myaelt, 1 have, on the contrary, found my highest freedom. By one elngle desperate bound I have sprung Into fame, free dom and usefulness. "1 write you this In detail to explain the situation and also to tell you that ns soon as I can finds the time tt will give me pleasure to go down to your home and see you, and I hope that ws shall become good friends." THIS DATE IN HISTORY. OCTOBER 19. Born November 10. 1447. 1779—Knil of aloxe nt knrsnnsb, Gs. 1812—Mncoml buttle of Foltosk. 1918—Mormon touiple at Nauvoo, Ills, ue- st rayed. 1164—Fotnl panic at the 8urrey Gardeni mnidc bull hi London. 1861—Thomas Wlldey, foamier of the In dependent Onler of (hid Fellows died. Horn January IS, 1742. . . 1664—General Bherldau victor at battle of cedar Creek. Va. 1847—Hlr James Hontb, famona Engtlib as tronomer. died. Bora 1785. 1899—Harold Frederic, American^ norellit 1:69V. Destiny called a halt. In the low, fiat marshes of Tide water Virginia the death malaria lurked and before that silent, but terrible, foe Bacon fell, October It, 1676, at the early age of 34. With their gifted young leader gone, the people seemed able to do but little, nnd In the following month Berkeley and the aristocrat* were In the saddle again. Had Bacon lived the Independence or America might have come a hundred yeara earlier than It did. That malaria In the Jamestown swamp* postponed the great Declaration and the Starry Flag a round century. The Atlanta Georgian Is On Sals Regularly at th* Fol lowing Hotels and News Stands. BUFFALO. N. T.-troqnols Hotel. , BALTIMORE. MD.—The Sew Holland. Belvldere Hotel. BOSTON, MA8S.-B nrktr Uouae, Young'* lintel. Summerset lintel. CHICAGO, l(,LM.-Ureat Northern Hotel. V. O. Nevra Co.. TaBuer Houae. K. II. Clark, 112 Hearborn 8t.; Atnlltorlmu Hotel. Joe lierroo, Jackaun and Hear* liorn atreeta. CINCINNATI. OHIO.—Olbaoo Houae. Grand Hotel, l'ataoe Hotel. 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