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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN,
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1»
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OUR PLATFORM.—The Georgian
■Units for Atlanta's owning Its own gas
ami electric light plants, ns it now
owns Its waterworks. Other cities do
this aud get gus ns low as 60 cents,
with a profit to the city. This should
Im done ut ouce. The Georgian In
fsca lu tint direction NOW.
What Is the Matter With the Po
lice Department?
What la the matter with the Atlanta
police department?
Not a week passes hut that a rum
pus of some sort Is raised In that sys
tem for the preservation of peace and
correction of vice.
llow at variance with the record the
Atlanta five department has made!
A scandal or row In the fire depart
ment Is something unheard of. For
twenty years that system has been do
ing Its work In conspicuously efficient
fashion, and not once—to onr knowl
edge—has there developed any Inci
dent. such as have been regularly com
lng up to the discredited the police j
department.
Is It Hint a strong, honest man was
for twenty yeara lit absolute charge
of the Are department while the po
lice department lias been In the hands
of n board, which has been an Incubus
around which the web of municipal
liolltlcs lias beeu spun?
THE STAND-PATTERS WILL DRAW CARDS.
On the authority of the very able Washington correspondent of The
lloslon Transcript, we have It that, with the future of t^ielr party on
their minds, the Republican legislative leaders are returning to Wash
ington In general agreement that If Republican politics are to command the
support of the peqplc at the polls two years from now the. party must
meantime move forward. ,
To resort to the vernacular of that eminent sport. Joe Cannon—the
(J. O. P. finds It's poor poker to stand pat on a four-flush and, after
drawing the limit. Is going to hike.
How different from that stand pat slogan sounded a year ago is the cry
going up from Republican moguls, "Rally to Teddy." The game now is
to assist or make, pretense of assisting President Roosevelt In every move
that he thinks well.
Those .November election* seem to have awakened the Republican
leaders. They now see that President Roosevelt received n splendid
Indorsement at the polls a few weeks ago, and they are doubtless rather
Inclined to the belief that his personality and his personal popularity,
were perhaps the greatest factors in the presidential campaign of 1331.
They seem to be aroused to tlie effect of the statement Mr. Bryan
lias been making In siieech after siiecch since his return to America—
that Mr. Roosevelt Is a pretty good Democrat In a mighty had party, and
that every Importun! reform .Mr. Roosevelt has es|)ouaed him been a
plank from the Democratic platform.
President Roosevelt is going to dominate this last session of the
Fifty-ninth congress. There Is no doubt about that. Though there may
be a recalcitrant member, with some special monojudy to serve, here and
there among the Republicans, as a whole the party will line up. and the
Insurgents will lie yanked Into the fcld. They realize that they cannot
afford to revolt against hint. They know the hold he has upon the peo
ple, little as tney may like him or his measures. The next presidential
campaign is two years off, but Its issues will be practically formulated
this winter.
For tills reason the president's message to the retiring congress will
be an unusually luteresting document. It will doulglcss indicate, by way
of suggestion, the grounds on which some of the opening skirmishes
will l»e fought. It Is tacitly undeistood that the message this year will
give a comprehensive Idea of what President Roosevelt expects his par
ly to accomplish during the remaining two years of his administration.
It Is known that he will call for legislation providing for a system
of progressive taxation on Inheritance, and pohzibly some way of mulct
ing large Incomes. It is also known tliut it is the president's desire for
legislation requiring all corimratlons—except railroads—doing an Inter
state business to be licensed by the federal government.
Requests for luws to prevent watering of stocks, to prohibit contri
butions to campaign funds by corporations and to limit the working hours
of railway employeea are also expected from the president.
In short, the president Is expected to adopt the platform on which
William Randolph llearat made his race for the governorship of New
York. 1
But, one may ask of us, Is the Republican party become so good?
Not yet. Nor soon. *
It Is simply this: President Roosevelt Is a man of undoubted Integ
rity n:id of undoubted—albeit somet lines misguided—patriotism. He Is
lhe most dominant figure In the Republican party, but he la less of a Re
publican than any other man in the party. The leaders of the party real
ize his power with the people; also their ears are to the ground and they
hear the rumble iu the distance. They may yield go the president in
some of his pet measures In the hope of palliating him and of making
show of being n real reform party, but In the back-ground they will be
at work on the ship subsidy and other special privilege measures.
The president Is an honest man, and because of his hdnesty Is a mar
velously successful politician. They have got to follow him a little way,
but they will never go the distance.
, And he himself will fly ofT nt a tangent before he completes for him-
Belt that which he conceives to be Ills destined work.
There'll be n lot left for the Democratic party when all's said and
done.
PANHANDLER SEASON HERE;
BIRDS OF RA GGED REA I HER
ARE DRIFTING SOUTHWARD
Cotton at 11 Cents.
The cotton situation, from the grow
er to the merchant dealing in the
product of the loom, is u much dis
cussed topic uf the moment. Among!
the people directly Interested It Is the I
all-ubsorldng question of the day. ,
Previous lo the appearance of tho]
glnucrt' report the farmer was tho <
“underdog" in the fight, appearances I
being decidedly against him. only n !
very few of the expert statisticians |
shedding a ray of hope for him aud ilia j
money crop. Crop estimates were:
against him. He Imd, according to!
these statisticians, ruin'd more cotton !
than the world required, and mei-pro-1
duet Ion prices stared him In the face, i
and ronbiued with a "broad and moat" j
minimum price, fixed by one of his or- j
conizations, there was a rush to mar-!
ket by the sniiill farmer In order to !
get the minimum, which proved disas-1
Irons to that price and apparently con
firmed bumper crop estimates. The
speculative element took advantage of j
the big estimates, and heavy crop
movement, sold tne market short and .
were confident tti their position up lo i
tho publication cf tho last gtnners’ tv- 1
l»it, giving the amount ginnod up to
November H at 3,531,000 bales, and
from estimates at 13,000.000 to 11.000,- f
000 bales. It was figured the farmers;
Instead of producing a small amount In 1
excess of the world's requirements, j
placed by Mr. Ellison, the i; ;g||sh sta
tistician at 13.500,000 bales, had fulled
to meet the world's demand for cotton
by some 300,000 or 000,000.
s^The result was a decidedly u. -if
demand for the heavy movement and
at the present time such grades as
are wanted by spinners are a very
scarce article and the rapid rise of
these grades Is causing a demand and
belter prices fur the lower grades.
These facts have dawned upon the
slieculatlvc bear In a way that has
placed the li>ss on his side of the ac-
eouut, tlie producer reaping the bene
fit of the advance while the speculator
is pocketing a deserved loss. In his
efforts to right himself.
The spinners are now paying II
rents for the staple and ti looks ns
though that will lie the price at Inlc-
1 U r points in other words, the price
i! . 1 to th<- Ir.iliter. 1
TEXAS RAILWAY SCHEDULES.
I let Iter till Correspondence by John Temple Graves.)
Let the man who seeks to escape the nightmare of broken railway
schedules steer clear of this new and growing West.
Bad as we are in the railway world of Georgia, we are blessed
among travelers as compared with the people of Texas and the Terri
tories. I have never seen tier dreamed of such universal demoralization
of the American railway system ns that which prcralla all over the
country and finds an especial emphasis In the "magnificent distances" of
the West.
I left Atlanta on Saturday night the 17th. t reached Birmingham
over the Southern one hour late. I reached Meridian over the Alabama
Great Southern three nnd n half hours late. I reached Shreveport over the
Queen and Crescent ulno hours late and I went from the train to the
lecture platform at Paris, Texas, twelve hours late, to address an audi
ence that bad kindly waited for mo until 9:30 p. m.
During this entire week of rapid and consecutive travel, I have reach
ed no destination less than two hours behind the schedule time, nnd in
most eases four and alx hours late. The |>eoplc seem dazed and helpless
. under the demoralization of such schedules, nnd endure it with the grim
silent forbearance of the West, purely because they have no voice to speak
their discontent or to enter their public protest against the criminal negli
gence and apathy which auhjects them to such personal inconvenience
and to such commercial disadvantages ns the ch .otic railway conditions
eutall.
There is not a newspaper in Texas, or the West which seems to have
the courage and the clearness to Rponk out In behalf of the people hs our
Atlnnla and Georgia papers nro doing. And for that matter, Texas,
with all Hs vaunted claims of vast ness and empire, has not u dally news
paper equal In merit to any one of' Atlanta's three leading dallies.
The Houston Post aud The Galveston und Dallas News arc the three
best Untiles lu the gigantic slate, and any one of Atlanta's three uowspa-
pers discounts (horn from every standpoint of journnlistlc merit.
The railroads of Texas are us defiantly silent as are those of Geor
gia In tills (H-rlod of Irregitiarlty and disappointment, but now and then
one of their big chiefs essays an explanation. The aggregate of apology
for a world of Inconvenience amounts to this: The rainy season—un
precedented In Texas—has made the rail bed moist and soft all over tho
state. The heavy freights, travelling over these rights of way, cause it to
collapse ami sink iu places, compelling the trains to go slow to protect
the lives of passengers and the safety of freight.
More fo the point is the scarcity of labor. The railways and the cot
ton growers are iu florae competition for every laborer. The railroads
at groat expense import laborers from the North aud Northwest to go over
their tracks. The cotton growers with their white fields clamoring for
"pickers." are tempted to tamper with the railroads' Imported help, aud
there Is eternal war between the planter nnd the railroad man. Bo far
the cotton farmer 1ms outbid the railroad boss and stolen the railway
hands for the cottou fields, whereupon the railway officials throw up their
'.lands end explain their broken schodules by the successful robbery
which the cotton men have perpetrated upon their carefully Imiiorfed labor
supply.
But there Is no end of hypocrisy In this claim. Back of all of the
chaos Is the swelling, rolling, thundering live .freight trains whose mis
sion and profit side-track the convenience of passengers and the sched
ules of passenger trains. The money that Is in freight trains blinds the
railway officials to the real and Implied objection to the human cattle
that is held and stilled and halted and delayed and "tic-damned." while
the brute beast.-, and the dead freight' go thundering by them. The best
engines are for the freight trains. The best cars are for the dead matter,
aud whenever the packed and suffocating passengers dare to lie comforta
ble lu loss crowded cars, a car Is Immediately cut out of tlie train, and be
hind a light nnd wheezy engine tho condensed human freight, repacked In
smaller and fewer coaches, are sent crawling forward to get to the ter
mini w hen and when* they can,
I have seen this done twice within the last two days iu Texas, and my
blood Is boiling yet nt the Indignity and the cruelty of it all.
A fine thoughtful fellow traveler of mine said to me on yesterday:
"I am beginning to believe that the railroad magnates are trying to
lure:.- govcruniont ownership ujion the people. They would be glad to un
load their vast watered properties upon the government just at this tffiio
of overtax and outgrowth with them, and they have deliberately conspired
all over the country to throw the railway schedules into chaos and tangle
in order to aggravate the people into a willingness to Indorse Mr. Bryan's
proiiosttion. and to take off their hands these vast while elephants out of
which they have coined colossal fortunes, nnd whose preseut facilities and
equipments are utterly unequal to the clamorous demand of the people
u I ion them."
Whether there be anything in this or not. it is undeniably sure that
if the railway maguales had sought a method to popularize the govern
ment ownership theory they could nut have found a better and more ef
fective way than they have dev, loped In the tangled and uncertain sched
ules which are Incommoding mid aggravating the people past patience or
tolerance all over the country.
Fort Worth, Tex., Nov.. 23.
"Hark, hark, the dogs do bark.
The beggars are coming to town:
Rome In rags and some In Jags;
AnA snmA In fpii’of trnwn "
What would a professional panhan
dler—beggar, the uninitiated would say
-—do If offered a nice easy job watching
a bunk at $60 a month?
That Is a question that the recent
experience the Associated Charities had
with G. W. Wellington, the blind man
who gathered In coin by grinding a
hand organ, has brought ab<yit.
Would he say, “Youse is so kind,”
and fall upon your neck and weep, de
claring you to be his good Lady Boun
tiful?
Hardly. If he knew you he would
tell you to chase yourself and quit your
kidding. If you were a prominent citi
zen and connected with a charitable
organization he might make an ,ap
pointment to meet you and not keep
It.
Panhandling is an easy graft, and
chen worked properly Is a lucrative
>ne. Of course, an able-bodied man
cannot work it unless he blisters his
arm und exhibits the burn or unless he
has nerve and wears blue goggles and
says he's blind. That’s risky. Fly cops
might get next and run him In.
But a man with one leg—shy a pin,
the professional panhandlers say—or
with an arm gone or with afflicted
eyes, has a cinch If he learns the game.
Association Steps In.
Until the systematic work of the As
sociated Charities put an end to It in
several cities of Georgia, panhandlers
were common sights on the streets in
the spring and fall of the year.
Anti these sights were made possible
because of the activity of the police of
Northern cities In running them out.
With New York made too warm for
them, these panhandlers migrated.
They start from the North about the
time Jack Frost leaves his visiting card
in the shape of a yellow leaf on a park
bench and begin working to the South.
By the time cold weather has hit the
North, they are generally well into
Georgia, and they work from town to
town until they strike Florida, Texas, 1
Louisiana and Alabama. By that time
things are getting warmer and the re
turn trip to the North is commenced.
Many a panhandler, with only one
leg. Is working a good graft—good
enough to board In good places, pay
railroad fare and set ’em up in barroom
haunts at night.
But It’s an entirely different sort of
person one sees In the barroom with
a good cigar stuck between the teeth.
Then he Is just an ordinary person
frequenting barrooms, with one Jeg
and wearing a crutch. But while
working his graft lie’s different.
It’s a Good Graft.
With the leg of his trousers rolled
up beyond where his leg Is amputated,
he sits upon the cold pavement with
out an overcoat, shivering, too, for It
looks more pitiful, nnd as he extends
his forlorn cap with a few pennies Jn
it he can hand out the most pathetic
whine one ever heard.
And to make things look even more
pathetic, he wraps some clean ban
dages around the end of hfs amputated
leg—Jt suggests a recent operation—
and the suckers do the rest.
Look as hard as you please and you’ll
never see anything In the hat except
pennies unless you see the silver you
placed there. The professional k pan
handler is too wise for anything so
foolish. As so op as the money Is
dropped In it Is taken from sight. Too
much coin would suggest comfortable
circumstances, and this would queer
his graft. And when business is good
a panhandler sometimes finds it neces
sary to get money changed so as to
have those stock-in-trade coppers. But
he always has them.
All afflicted persons who have ever
panhandled probably remain panhand
lers until they die, or are run In by the
police and sent up. Work, no matter
how easy, goes hard after the easy
graft of panhandling.
And so well has the graft worked
that many a grafter has blistered his
arm or hand for the purposes *of getting
sympathy and—money.
Hardly a circus that has been in At
lanta this year but had its panhandler
They travel with shows Just like they
work fair circuits. They follow
fakirs.
Not long ago one of these pan
handlers was pinched by the Macon
police and it later developed that he
was the advance man for the bunch
yeggemen Hushed by the Atlanta police
in the Gannon house. He hobbled about
with a crutch and one, leg and gave
cards with the mute alphubet on them
in return for money-he panhandled. F<
he was also u mute, was this pan
handler, in addition to being shy a pin.
Found Voice and Leg.
But arraignment In police court
brought about a different state of af
fairs. The first thing he did was to
demand in a loud voice that he be given
a lawyer and when searched by tiro
police and his long coat removed it
was found that his leg had been “am
putated” by being strapped up by a
leather harness. Not only that, but In
side a pocket In this leather harness
was found over $900. He could both
hear and talk and had two good legs.
The criminal part this panhandler
played was to enter stores on the pre
tense of begging nnd then size up the
situation so that his pals, the' yegge-
men. could plan safe-cracking expedi
tions. And even at that it was profit
able to him. *
In fact, the graft must be a profitable
one when a blind man like Wellington
prefers blindness ond good money »o
sight and work.
It Is to get rid of these panhandlers
that the Associated Charities is work
ing. Few of them are now on Atlanta’s
streets and fewer still there will be
when people find out what a swell graft
panhandling is.
Bo just to prove It. offer the next
panhandler you see a nice, easy job and
see w hether or not he accepts it.
Bep%iute from these panhandlers are
some afflicted persons unable to do any
work and beyond being cured who eke
out- an existence by selling matches,
newspapers. Shoestrings and the like,
but they are not in the same class.
Panhandlers arc in a class by them
selves, and it's a prosperous class.
Nooks and Corners
of American History
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
PATRICK HENRY’S FIRST CASE.
It woi the year 1763, «n«l Patrick Henry
bad Just passed his examination and bocu
Admitted to the bar. He Imd not ns yet
had n raise. He was the genius of poverty
und the living incarnation of Indolence,
and his fellow-townsmen hud anything but
rosy predictions concerning the future or
the new-fledged lawyer.
But the unexpected always happens, anu
the unpromising Ilmh of the law was des
tined to give his brother Virginians the
surprise of their lives.
Iu this same year. 1763. some sixty min
isters .d the fSpIsconal church of the Old
Dominion endeavored to retrovet/their hwu
from the reduction that had been wade
seven years before In the price of tobnc—*
At that time, owing to the fact that
many were lu the war or on guard --
home, tobacco went to the value of 6 shill
ings a pound, and the nss'*mhlv voted that
for a specified period debts might he paid
at the rate of 2 shillings ft pound, 'fills
ive general relief, aud the clergy
ic only tines to object.
Aud now the ministers were trying to
get out of having to help fiear tin* com
mon burden. The assembly Informed them
that nothing could Im* done for them, and
that they must share the afflictions of their
flocks. The ministers then appealed to the
ag. saying that they were not Virginians,
it clergy of the diocese of London.
The king took their part, annulled the
decision of the Virginia assembly, and or
dered Ihal the uiliiisters' salaries he paid
iu full. The assembly paid no attention
to the king's order ami a UAv. Mr. Maury
brought salt for his claim la Old Ilau-
The people of I In Hover at once resolved
to tight the Kev. Mr. Maury to the last
ditch, nnd looked about them for an side
lawyer to take care of their side of the
case. But able lawyers at tluit tlnu* were
anything but plentiful lu the old Domin
ion. mid the few to he found were favora
ble to the king rather than to the people.
What were they to do? At lust some one
said: "Try Patrick Usury.“ The sugges
tion was taken up at once, and Henry was
employed.
When the day for the trial came, the
green young attorney was lu Ids place. He
was trembling like a leaf. By anti by the
time arrived for him to stand up before
-the Jury—and he nearly collapsed from
fright! But the scare was ouly for n mo
ment. Gettlug his feet well under him mid
bracing himself for his task, Henry sud
denly broke forth into such speech as \ Ir-
giuia Juries hml never heard before.
Pnder the scorching Invective, the min
isters. one after another, picked up their
hats, clinched their teeth nml shuffled out
of the room, while the people felt that nt
last they bsd found their young country
man's true measure.
In words that rang like the notes of n
bugle, the young orator declared that the
kfug who would support such eiaiuis as
that which the ministers were oontendln;
was a tyrant whom nobody was bourn
obey, and when the Kev. Mr. Maury
..,.*d tmt. "Treason!’’ Homy repeated hi*
words und then thundered forth this plot!
eer defiance of the Itevolutlon: "The bur
gesses of Virgluln arc the only nutbority
which can give force to the laws for the
-,f this colouy.’’
Mr. Maury got n verdict
. ...._, damage, aud Patrick Henry
strode forth from the court room the most
ruinous ninii In Virginia!
-iiiuent
• Kev.
>ne penny'*
NINE VOTES CAST
FOR OFFICERS IN
L ELECTION
If five men out of the 460 who com
pose the membership of the Chamber
of Commerce had been a little contra-
! ry Tuesday, they could, by agreement,
: have elected Just what officers they
might have had a fa,ncy to choose.
The voting began nt noon, and there
were two election managers on hand
to keep the tally sheet* straight and to
see that there was no stuffing of the
ballot box. At 5 o'clock the voting
ceased, and each of # the managers
counted the votes. A trusty adding
machine was called Into action, and It
was fofind that nine members had ex
ereised their prerogative.
The nominating committee hail sev
era I weeks ago agreed upon the officer,
and the members, while permitted to
vote for whom they please, always
follow the lead of the committee. For
this reason there was no Interest In
the election, and few voted. The fol
lowing officers were elected, all unani
mously:
Hon. J. Wilie Pope, presideil; Mr.
David Woodward, first vice president;
Mr. F. J. Paxon, second vice president;
Mr. H. L. Foreman, third vice presi
dent; directors. Messrs. George W.
Parrott, W. S. Duncan, E. C. Callaway
and C. E. Caverly.
BRITISH VESSEL
HELD AS PIRATE
Hongkong. Nov. 28.—The South Chi
na Morning Post’s correspondent at
Bumshul telegraphs that the launch
Flenam. flying the British flag, was
arrested by the British river gunboat his establishment.
Moorhen at Samshut Sunday and con
veyed to Canton.
The Flenam Is suspected of being
In longue with Chinese pirates. She
failed to report five cases of piracy on
board of her. In which passengers were
robbed. On one occasion at the be
ginning of the present month the
launch's passengers were robbed of a
large sum of money, with which the
pirates escaped.
HIGHER LICENSE
REPORT ADOPTER
BY COMMITTEE
The special police committee on liq
uor licenses met at 4 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon, but no change was made In
the recommendations regarding the re
strictions of the whisky traffic In the
city.
The meeting was held In the office of
Hon. James L. Key. The report, rec
ommending the raising of licenses, both
retail and wholesale, prohibiting sell
ing beer In white or colored residence
sections, and calling for a thorough
examination of all applicants for li
censes, \\;as again read and adopted.
A sub-committee was appointed to
draw up an ordinance, embodying the
restrictions agreed upon. Following Is
the report, us published In The Geor
gian more than a week ago;
To the Honoruble Mayor and Gen
eral Uouni^l, Atlanta—Gentlemen:
Your special committee, recently ap
pointed to consider applications for
liquor licenses, begs to make the fol
lowing recommendations, to wit:
1. That the legislature be request
ed to amend the charter of the city
of Atlanta fixing the license to seil
retail liquor at not less than $2,000
per year, nor more than $3,000 per
year, ami wholesale licenses not less
than $1,000 per year.
2. That no license to sell beer be
granted In either white or colored
residence sections of the city of At
lanta.
3. That each applicant for a liquor
license be examined as to his moral
character, his past record and as to
his seeming ability to keep order in
OUR THANKSGIVING
BREAKFAST SERIAL
By WEX JON EH.
Synopsis of preceding chapters: Things
happen to Hiram Hlghslgn. who Is rapt
from home by a passing balloon.
Synopsis' of succeeding chapters: More
things happen to Hlrntn.
CHAPTER VI.
As the result of his adventure with the
ball, Hlrntn contracted a severe cold.
—. etlng n strm
whose watch had
asked the time.
'.'My dear fellow,*’ said the stranger, “you
are hoarse; you’ve got n fierce cold. I kuew
a mini who died from n smaller cold than
that. What ore you doing for It—nothing)
My dear man, come with tne and I'll fix It
for you.”
“Hut 1 bust be od by way.” remonstrated
Hiram.
“Never mind, never mind.” answered the
atrnuger. "You're on the way to the grave
If you don’t have that cold cured. Aud I'll
soon cure It for you.”
Seizing Him nt by the arm. the stronger
led him Into a beautiful one-story apart
ment, with elevator service to tlie base
ment by means of nn Inclined plnuk.
"Here.”* said the stranger, "is n good,
stiff dose of quinine nnd whisky. Drink
t "l/ut I ilever touch qulddldc or whisky,”
huskily protested Hiram.
"Drink It," said the stranger. "The quln-
will kill the whisky, aud the whisky
will kill the quinine."
"Add how about the cold?" usked Hiram.
“The gold will be killed by fright. DrJnk
(Until) had Jiii*t drained the glass when
the stranger's wife cm me lu.
"Oh. John." she cried, "that stuff's no
S ikmI for n cold. The |nn>i* fellow should put
Is feet In Isrillug water nnd take eucalyp
tus Here. let me fix him."
Ho Hiram presently found himself with
Ills feet In water that- seemed several de
grees above liolllng point. "Keep them In,"
iKlinnniHhed the lady when he attempted to
gala a moment's relief by lifting his feet
f the wafer. "And get the eucalyptus
I gossip!
By ChOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
New York, Nov. 28.—A German stat.
Istlclan lias made a careful Investiga
tion to discover In which countries
the greatest nge Is attained. The re
sults show that the German empire,
with 35,000,000 population, has but 78
persons who are more than 100 years
old. France, with a population of few.
er than 80,000,000, has 213 who have
passed the 100th birthday. England
has, HO; Scotland, 86; Denmark, 2;
Belgium. 5; Sweden, If, and Norway,
with 20,000,000 Inhabitants, 23.
Switzerland does not boast a single
centenarian, but Spain, with 18,000,000
population, has 410. The moet amaz
ing figures come from the troublesome,
turbulent region of the Balkan penin
sula. Servla has: 673 persons who are
more than 100 years old. Roumanla
has 1,084, and Bulgaria 3,883. In other
words, Bulgaria has a centenarian for
every 100 of Its Inhabitants, and thus
holds the International record for old
people. ' In 1892 alone there died In
Bulgaria 860 persons who had lived
for more than a century.
Miss Bdwlna Lawrence, the young
Atlantic City stenographer, who re
cently’inherited a quarter of a million
dollnrs from a rich uncle. Is willing
to bear testimony to the fact that
wealth brings Its own troubles. The
young womun Is at present 111 and un
der the care of physicians In an Atlan
tic City hospital. She has been over
whelmed by letter writers who seek
aid, others who want advice and hun
dreds who wish to marry her.
Corner grocers, tired of getting up at
6 o'clock in the morning and putting
up tho shutters late In the evening,
have written her telling how well they
could care for her and make her happy.
Gray-halred old farmers have offered
to pool their unproductive acres and
prospective crops if she will consent to
marry them.
An ocean power boat r#ce of a mag- I
nltude never before attempted on this I
side of the Atlantic now seems as
sured for next season. Thomas Flem
ing Day has received from a member
of the New York Yacht Club a cup fit
the value of 81,000, to be offered us a
prise for a race from New York to
Bermuda. It has been decided that the
start shall be on June 8, from off the
Motor Boat Club house, Hudson river.
The distance of 600 nautical miles
will be made in the best of time by
boats built specially for this race.
Mr. Vanderbilt Is about to lease Ills
big brown stone mansion on the south
east comer at Fifth avenue and For
tieth street. Mr. Vanderbilt does not
like the business Influx around his old
home. He lives on his big estate up
the Hudson. He will lease the houses
furnished.
The secretary Of the treasury and
Mrs. Shaw will entertain the president!
and Mrs. Roosevelt-at dinner on Jan-5
uary 8 at the Arlington hotel, Wash
ington. Their daughter. Miss Erma
Shaw, will make Jier debut on Decem
ber 10 at a tea in the Arlington.
Mr. and Mrs. Payne Whitney, the
latter formerly Miss Helen Hay. and
Mr. and Mrs. James Wadsworth, Jr.,
the latter formerly Miss Alice Hay,
have started for Washington to spend
Thanksgiving with Mrs. John P. Hay.
The governor of Maryland and Mrs.
Warfield gave a large dtmee at Annap
olis Inst night-. -A number of young
women, this season's debutantes, went
from Washington to the dance and .will
remain for the Thanksgiving hop to
night at the naval academy. - >•
In Baltimore they do things right.
The wires say that seven married
daughters attired in their wedding
gowns, attended the dinner in honor of
tho golden wedding anniversary of for
mer Postmaster General and Mrs,
James A. Gary. The guests at the
dinner Included the children and
grandchildren of General and Mrs.
Gary, thirty In number. Mrs. Garys
sister. Mrs. Theresa Wilson, who acted
as maid of honor ut the wedding of
General and Sirs. Gary, was also pres
ent. .
flow. .
Mriitjillv. Hintm added „
1 riint be must eternally avoid.
Mflrjr." snlil nn «tld la«l;
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
ealyptus t«» Ills
My ilear ainry. said an old ind.v who
had just «ntt*MHl tin* room, "you'll kill tin*
Ihh'i; mail. Tlu* Idea! Stuff a e<dd."
Hiram * Vl ^ 1,1,1 ,UH * didder,” protested
"Never mind,
i who proved to
i "Never mind. '
ten III the house
GOURD. NOT LEMON',
SENT TO ROOSEVELT
Elgin, III.* Nov. 28.—Congressman
.Mmiser received a mammoth gourd
front Mr. LIppincott, who requests him
to take It to President Roosevelt when
Mopser leaves for Washington. The
gourd Is more than four feet long and
resembles th$ president's "big stick.**
Attached Is this message:
"Mr. Roosevelt: Please accept the
'big stick* and send it to congress, at
tached to your next message (marked
exhibit A) and tell them to be good.
It was evidently designed' by Provi
dence for official use.”
BESTED BY DRINK,
HE ENDS IBS LIFE
City Engineer Rtsigns.
j Spe«‘lal ft* Tin* Georgiau.
! Meridian. Miss.. Nov. 28.—City Kti-
* gftteer Waldo C. Myers has tendered
Baltimore, Mil., Nov. 28—Raymond
R. Craig, aged 22, son or Robert M.
Craig, of ,02 Edmondson avenue, com
mitted suicide some time Monday by
hunglng himself from a heum In a
back yard of the premises of Henry
Kfaimer, 7S4 Frederick road.
The body was discovered at 6 o'clock
Tuesday morning hy .Mrs. 'Henrietta
Klalmer, wife of Henry Klaimer.
Discouragement ut his ineffectual ef
forts to throw off the habit of drinking
is said by the men's relatives to have
l>e«n the cause of his taking Ills life.
NEW STATE ROAD LAW
WANTED IN ALABAMA
Special to The (ieorgiun.
Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 28.—The!
county board of revenue has Instruct
ed tlie county attorney to draw up u
suitable bill to be presented to the ne tt
legislature in reference to the working
of tlie public roads. There Imvc been
many complaints about the failure to
work tile roads and the hoard of reve
nue wants a law passed so that tho
"nurd can have the work done, but
make the people pay for It, '
"Bat it's
said tile brisk old indy,
Im* th<» strnniter's mother.
Th-rc's plenty *>f eohl unit
iml hits of hreml. You'll
* on iiUlllg (ill iM-iltlnie.”
bjv eolil—| flqu't Cftft* If It's
* together.!
NOVEMBER 28.
1634—London Pnlvernlty Instituted.
1851—l.ord Grey, governor-general of-Cnn-
uthi. horn.
1862—Buttle of Crane Hill. Ark.
qsss—Fire In Boston destroyed 14,000,000 b>
property.
1®2_fambet ministry In France resigned on
the I'unnnm sesudul Issue.
1897—Austrian ministry resigned owing to
disorders in the rriehsnitb.
1899—Hnrpers* publishing house, New York,
failed. ,
1001—Coksnhtnn Liberal troops surrendered
nt t'olou.
■'.".e 11 'lire you." said the ......
ye II enre Hint eold If It kills yon.
nv JIMUy." eried Hiram. "Be for the
nghilig loudly hut freely, lie tied
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
woods.
AihI ti
down tin
BOBBIE'S ESSAYS !
By WILLIAM F. KIRK
STARS.
!» llltel eliuiiks of lit*' I hut beelil,
i us from the grate hevveus above,
tuny never work ouly ut lilte wlch is what
imilks them loot p„| t . u,, H |
oil" idle I'a mini liomu at hist, A Slu
Sisl Well, so you have inlinJ & I'a sell
Yes. Illy deer, I was looking at thi* shirs,
how I'tiilfnl they lire lonltel \ »|a wot
Hon* ninny sines nro than*, you have* ls*cn
fliit long <*utiff to 4*8>unt them nil. Darling
wlf»*. Pa *i*d. liiin* Hondcrful Is tlu* uni-
sraVrenH . ", ' “ * «»• thCUl
roomless iHtlins of litand reeffso (hat «n*cb
or ii)i*in Is n mm NtirrotindtMl hr erths llk«*
"Itr"* "T 1 ’* 1 crtli full of iKMtnk*. it malks
mo fn.l very small liumbel. Sc Ma soil
Wfll. >on ought to fts*| small cjmvay.
»hnrr* nn* lots of illffm-out stars I know
jh.* unims of llki* the North star A tin*
Do>r star A. and fh«» star of flu* wviiIiik &
*. tnr * '“i 1 "! ,ht ‘ *' ,f,k > Wny wlch
is the Itronduay of tin* hevvens.
, star tills tired of holding
town <
New oVrfc. Nov. 28.—Here ore some of
lie visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—Sirs. Johnson, C. SI. Slluln-
ter.
SAVANNAH—B. A. Hlsks.
BONI ON THE JOB.
Kiimtiiucs
lug
the »ky A fulls, and that Is n sliisd.
THE MOON.
Hie luiiin Is bigger, thnn the slurs hut
not s*i shiny, it Is nluiiit ns lull as the
sun hut sunt times It Isont so fut, then It
is rnMt"l the New 1110,111. the moon Is
lils»'r l" tiMik nt than the sun. btfkaus
when yon look ut the sun it malks you
su.'i'i.e It Iitt-s euio |„ jure eyes.
bun* I. a mail lu the moon wlch you
*' MSI it WUS II man
—I wife lu it butiMOl
• got llin
fell hurt
Jly JAS1KS J. MONTAGES.
(He Cssielliiiie Ims been offered n posltlon
us bead Walter lu n New York restaurant.—
A Press Agent.)
The feet that on the boulevards
Onee sauntered here .
Kirk open now the disir that guunls
The iTief within his failr.
The voice Hint whispered Ma eherlel
lu nrreuts low nllil sweet
Is Intel}' lifted lustily
IVItb Double Oil the wheal.
The lierfnmed lingers. White and soft,
Thnt Idled nil Ihe 'tay
Now. spri'Hillug. deftly isilst* aloft
A groaning, steaming iniy.
Tlie accents Hint I" ' hansous gn>
St. Munmihly us«*d lu run
v„ w Mjtiiiiii hhmil: One mlfk-nml hay;
Two eggs, u sleep—draw oin»!
The lips Hut sipped llie Kldevh
Where love und laughter lures
Now growl with gloomy brusouerle.
gents, speak up. " hst s )
And you would liever dream, unless
Yon lienrd a stlti**«l sol*.
Thai this brisk, glittering success
Was Bonl on the Job.
What’s yours
why the
is always smiling-
»*, 1*111 tbar- wiiit |iim
hen In* got thnn* In* itm*
« the erllr wfef» is
off * she
lots of things wrote
songs ic |Hiems etc. M>*
al*»ut tic* moon wieli
semi to the editor. It
Z
iilxmt the ...—... - 1 — .
Ma wrote a poem alsmt th-
sbe was going to send t«* I
went Uk*' this-
0 Itivlv moon wlch salleih through the «kr
* listen, all thy nulls."jr m1 the erlh
Like Memory shining oa itie deer in d 1 nsi.
but she .ibleft send If Is ■kails she red
It to I™ UrM k he laired liiinl Iwehaus he
1 ,-!....:.: it was tunny, wteh It was hut
»tn go; u.n.1 nnd burned Jt uw. .