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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-04-15
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track could be avoided altogether, and
very easily.
A few days ago an old lady was
killed on a trestle near Macon, where
she was caught by train while walk
ing across it. A few nights ago negro
man was killed on the track near
Augusta, struck by a train while he
was getting away after having COM
united murder. Thousands are
killas every year in this manner,
struck by trains on the track built
for trains and where pedestrians have
no business to be.
All these fatalities could be averted
simply by abolishing the custom which
makes a pedestrian road of the rail-
road tracks. It is allowed in no other
country, and it should be forbidden
here.
BY abolishing grade crossings and
by breaking up the custom of using
the railroad tracks for pedestrian
roads the annual railroad slaughter
IN our country could be reduced one
half. Statistics show that nearly two
thirds of the number killed are other
than employees and passengers, which
means that they are either tramps
stealing rides or people killed on the
tracks, and mostly the latter. This is
slaughter that could easily be
stopped, and it should be done.
Abolish all grade crossings and by
law forbid the use Of the railroad
rights-of-way to observation-disclosures
ia, (Ga.) Herald.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-04-15
ONE SLAUGHTER THAT COULD
BE STOPPED.

Over 10000 people are now killed
annually by our railroads, and over
100000 injured. This is a fearful
record which is equaled by no other
country. Even after allowing for our
greater railroad business and railroad
mileage the slaughter on our railroads
is out Of all proportion with that of
other countries. This is a most I'M
enviable record. It. is a blot upon
our country. And it should be wiped
out.
Not all Of this large number of the
killed are passengers on the railroads
or employees. A very large proper
ton of them are people killed on the
track, and who had no business there.
The time will never come when no
passengers and no trainmen will be
killed-although the number of these
victims could be greatly lessened by
proper care-but the fatalities on the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-04-15

in the fence and got into the corn
field and killed herself eating green
corn. Hearing the racket, the wife
ran out, upsetting four gallon churn
full Of rich cream into basket Of
kittens, drowning the whole flock. In
the hurry she dropped a So set Of
false teeth. The baby, left alone,
crawled through the spilled milk into
the parlor, running a brand new 500
carpet. During the excitement the
oldest daughter ran away with the
hired man, the dog broke up eleven
setting hens, the calves got out and
chawed the tails off four fine shirts.
Kansas City Journal.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-04-15
A WARMING TO BORROWERS.

A man who was too economical to
take his home paper sent his little
boy to borrow copy taken by his
neighbor, In his haste the boy ran
over a 81 stand of bees and in ten
minutes looked like a watery summer
squash. His cries reached his father,
who ran to his assistance and failing
to notice barbed wire fence, ran
into that, breaking it down, cutting
handful of flesh from his anatomy
and running SIS pair of pants. The
old COW took advantage of the gap
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-04-15
PEOPLES PARTY.

The first national convention Of the
People s Party was held in 1892 in
Omaha, Neb. It's first platform re-
minds one Of Roosevelt's message of
January 81, 1908. It stated that
already the "nation has been brought
to the verge of moral, political and
material RUM" that corruption
touches even the ermine of the
bench" and that "from the same
prolific womb of " governmental in
justice we breed the two great classes,
tramps and millionaires. -
The decline of the People s Party
began with it's "fusion" with the
Democrats.
Watson always maintained that the
party organization and identity should
be maintained. He urged "middle-
of-the-road" course in 1896, when he
protested against fusion on Presiden-
tial electors The existence of the
party name today is due perhaps as
much to Watson as to any other single
influence.
Like many other movements which
have seemed to fail, the Peoples
Party has rendered an undoubted
service to the country. While the
party waned its principles have
waxed. What shocked the country
or much of the country's more timid
element-in 1892 and in 1896, and
were denounced as "crazy populism,"
has come to be accepted as the "pro-
gressive policies" which all the peo-
pie want and are determined they
shall have.
Control Of corporations, restriction
Of the injunction, better hours for
labor, protection Of the child and
woman in the factory, government
ownership of government utilities and
postal savings banks are few of the
things to which the other parties are
indebted to the Peoples Party.
Like many an individual, standing
honestly for a principle, this party
has won where it has seemed to fail.
ellison Gardner in Cincinnati Post.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-04-15
A DEATHBED REPENTANCE.

Hoke Smith is a mighty amusing
person. We refer to the governor of
Georgia, who was beaten for re-elec-
ton last year and will make way for
ugly little 10 Brown within the next
few months.
Georgia is eccentric in many things,
especially in the matter of her chief
executives. The people elect the gov
ernor's successor the year after he is
inaugurated, at a time when he is
hardly warm in his seat, and hasn't
had the opportunity to get the hang
of the new machinery. If he succeeds
himself, as is the usual custom, we'll
and good. In that event he has two
or three years Of leisure in which to
formulate and exploit his policies,
whatever they may be. If, as hap
pened in Hoke Smith IS case, his down
fall is decreed and new man named
to supersede him, what is he? An
official whose end is in sight before
he has begun, reed shaken by the
wind. This is what befell our Hoke
Smith.
But nothing can wholly suppress
him, or SO much as loosen the bond
between his acts and utterances and
the newspapers. He is no longer a
possible factor in public events. Even
the wave Of prohibition which con-
Cured with his election was the pre-
cursor not the consequence Of his
triumph. So also with the railroad
persecution. He rode into Office upon
that crest; he did not cause or stimu-
late it. He professed and he manipu-
lated all the whims and schisms Of the
hour without having originated
single one of them.
He took the whirlwind as it came,
he bestrode it, he galloped into office
with nothing but his debts to guide
him afterward; and before he got
easy in his chair Georgia repented of
her lunacy and turned to other
guidance.
Now he denounces and repudiates
Bryan, the one time Peerless, as if
any one would listen to his eleventh
hour counsels. He doesn't think
Bryan ought to run again and doesn't
believe he has following any longer.
We all know that; but it was his
business to know it and proclaim it
in the summer of 1907, when he was
potent and successful and when a
word from him might have arrested
the preposterous stampede. The trou-
BILE with Hoke Smith is that he is a
short-sighted and fumbling statesman.
Bland, beaming, fatulent in his hour
Of prevalence, he is without the wit
to seize and utilize reckoning emer-
gency. He sinks behind the rising
sun of little ugly 10 Brown, and these
deathbed outcries and expostulations
as the waters close over his fat and
futile head will challenge no notice
Aronx1o~
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-04-15
Atlanta, Ca, Thursday, April Is, 1909
Public Opinion 7hYouqhGGias1i' me Union

1t is too late to make a speciality
of Bryan's occultation. That is of
common knowledge. 1t is abroad and
it is riotous.-New York Sun.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-04-15
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Retail Trade Gain.

II. J. Porter, the well known clothier and outfitter. who returned recently from a visit to his old home, Augusta, said yesterday that by comparison business conditions were better in Birmingham than in the principal cities of Georgia.
 As far as my own business is con eerned l have reason to feel well sat isfled,. said MT. Porter 'When l opened an establishment here five years ago 1 had to build up a new trade of course. l made very good progress from the start, and ever since last fall when my present large quarters were completed, there has been a steady increase in sales. Every month this year has shown a gain over the same month of 1908, and the gain this month as compared with last May has been especially gratify- ing.
 Business is improving in all parts of the country and I think it safe to say that by the coming fall Birmingham will be enjoying a high degree of prosperity. In other words, the outlook is exceed ingly bright. The longer l am here the better I think of Birmingham. It is the best city in the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
Automobiles and Roads.

"The automobile is the real avant courier of good roads," said Frank " Evans of Jasper, editor of the Walker County News. who was in the city yes terday.
 Walker county has a large number of autoists who happen to be prominent taxpayers and influential public men and they are enthusiastic in their desire for good roads. Quite recently a number of these men have taken runs over to Birmingham in their machines and each became thorough convert to the good roads idea.
 From Jasper to Birmingham the dis tance is about 43 miles, and on Thurs day last this distance was covered in pour of rain, through mud, slush and steep hills and by ferry crossing of the Warrior river. It is estimated that with the expenditure of few thousand dol- lars on this road and the bridging of the Warrior the auto time between Bir- mingham and Jasper can be reduced to vantage this would be toward bringing the two towns close together.
 'So you see the automobile has mis- sion to perform other than that of a pleasure car. It is going to prove a good roads builder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
Famous Composer.

All music lovers who keep up with im- portant events in the realm of musical art know about Elgar, the famous Eng fish composer, whose setting of Cardinal Newman's poem, Dream of Gerontius," was the feature of the Birmingham, Eng land, music festival three years ago. It is of interest. therefore. to read what Frederick Stock director of the Theo- dore Thomas orchestra of Chicago says of him in his charming chapter on or chestration in the American History and Encyclopedia of Music. It is this:
 Edward Elgar's orchestral technic includes much that Is new and inter esting. Avoiding the ultra modern ten dency of a Richard Strauss, he has suc- ceeded in blazing his own pathway and achieving something new in the strictly artistic sense of the word His choral work. Dream of Gerontius,' is unique of its kind, the work of a genius, who even in this so-called enlightened age has the free courage of a golden conviction a truly great artist who in his living and creating expresses that which 200 years ago Johann Sebastian Bach repeat- edly manifested in his mighty works, T am Christian and I am proud of it. !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed disposition. -othello.
Another Year of Progress

The annual reports of retiring Pres ident Raul and of Secretary Babb show that despite discouraging circum- stances of a general nature Bir- mingham has rounded up year of building and advancement. Four new office buildings were erected, and 3225 houses, and the average cost of these homes was higher than in any previous year. In the county there were 7119 real estate transfers during the year extending from May 1, 1908, to May l, 1909. "Tbis building activity" says Secretary BaIb, 'fs eloquent of the abiding faith that our people have in this community-a faith justified by the history of development here"
 There is nothing in the reports of President Raul and Secretary Babb that calls for criticism or, indeed, any thing but praise. These reports ad- mirably outline the work that has been done and that remains to be done in behalf of Birmingham. It is un- fortunate, indeed, that President Kaufs scheme of general improvement cover ing many years could not have been sarted and fairly inaugurated. His successor would do well to consider it.
 If there be lack in these annual re- ports it relates to an extension of the Birmingham Southern railroad to the river, and the early use of an Open Warrior The subject has not been fully appreciated in the past, but per haps the matter was not considered imperative in point of time. It will be this year. however, for the Squaw Shoals will be overcome and the river opened the year round to six-foot nayi- gation abreast of Birmingham in 1911.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
Open Door Theatres

The Western Theatrical association. controlling PAT playhouses in the mid dle west, has declared for "the open door," and and they will not hereafter limit themselves to the Kaw- -Erlanger or any other booking agency. They propose to regain their independence both in respect to attractions and the order of placing them. They have be- come tired of acting as janitors of a single agency. The Shuberts, too, will appear next season backed by big capital, many attractions and string of theatres.
 The old-time open door among the atres is certainly desirable so far as the public is concerned and so far as the general level of the amusements of the people are concerned. The op- posite plan has been tested and the at fractions offered by it have fallen to a lower level each succeeding year.
 When the middle west is well sup piled with open door theatres the bat tie for freedom and independence in the playhouses of the country is more than half won. The Western The atrical association should stand by its
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
ANOTHER EGYPTIAN WONDER.

From the Baltimore News
 Another wonder of ancient Egypt has been uncovered by the hand of Professor Flinders Petrie, who, during his work of the last year at Memphis, discovered the palace of King Apries, the Pharoah- Hopra of the Bible and the contemporary of Jeremiah, B. c. 629-5SS.
 The details of the palace show 1t to have been very impressive with a length of 400 feet and breadth of 200 feet, paint ed columns 40 feet high and the middle court 100 feet square.
 The approach to the palace led up through a large mass of buildings to a platform at a height of about 60 feet above the plain. In the ruins a scale armor, hitherto rarely found in Egypt, was discovered. Good bronze figures of gods were also found. What Professor Petrie described as the one supreme solid silver a pound in weight, deco rated with bust of Hathoor, with gold face of the finest workmanship of the line of Apries the Great.
 gate way and immense walls descend ing deep into the mound indicated that there lay ruins of successive palaces built one over the other.
 Professor Petrie expects within a few years to have discovered the earliest records of the Egyptian kingdom
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30

GOO 1t is estimated he was worth little previous to that time, he not only encoun- tered a penitentary sentence but found himself overwhelmed with an indebted ness of $7,000. GOO. This is a good deal of money to be owed by a man who has none at all. Morse has testified that he hasn't a penny.
 Nevertheless, through the efforts of his wife. who disposed not only of all her realty and ordinary personal property, but also of the last gem in her wonder fal collection of jewels, this S7000000 has been reduced to S2.00O00O
 Now Mrs. Morse makes application for her husbands release upon the theory that if he is allowed liberty on bond he soon will be able to pay off the trihing two millions he still owes his creditors. Perhaps he would quickly be able to do so. for in his wife alone he possesses an inalienable asset worth many millions.
 When she was asked if she had sold all of her jewels to aid in satisfying her husbands debts, Mrs, Morse replied;
 "Of course. What wife would not? I was only happy that had them to sell. And 1 had a great many ct one time"
 There are wives and helpmates, and there are women to whom man is mar ried Mrs. Charles w. Morse is a wife and helpmate. She is the most precious of all the jewels of which her prodigal husband ever was able to become pos goeead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
HARD BOILED EGGS.
An American Makes Vain Search For
 One In Vienna Cafe.

Samuel G. Bylthe in June Everybodys.
 Well, I was just as earnest in the Ni- l enna restaurant in my quest for eggs as had been elsewhere, and I put in aa order for two. hard boiled along with other food. I didn't get the eggs, but that did not annoy me- for l knew 1 shouldn't Instead they brought me some buns with caraway seeds on the outside and I said: "Bitter' and let it go at that.
 Still, I learned something in that res taurant; it was that, in addition to the little trick of charging admission, the Viennese restaurant keepers are much better equipped in the science of getting you to pay all their servants than are their brethren anywhere else. It is perfect system. A captain takes your order. A boy opens your water or wine. Another waiter serves you. Then, when the feast is over, they line up at the table-captain, wine boy and waiter. You call for the bill, and a grandoise person approaches, who adds it up with four ish and takes his stand by the others. Then the man who served takes the money and brings back change, handing the salver to the man who added up the bill, and he gives the change to you.q You have never seen him until he does his mathematics, but after a long con versation yolf-aiscover that he gets the largest tip the man who took your order comes next, the waiter next and the wine boy last
 Then, when you go out, you find an- other ancient Viennese lady who charges you few heller for having checked your coat and still another who holds it. l went back and asked if I could not leave a few heller for the proprietor, but. it made the waltz king so angry to see me I did not pursue the matter further. However, l was informed there would be no difficulty about leaving the heller. The proprietor would take them.
 We continued the Gran Circular Kilo- metrique toward the home of the sturdy Swiss Not referring to those egg efforts in Budapest that resulted mostly in goulash and also in the depressing real ization that this Is the country from which We get our Hungarian bands and that, apparently, the supply is inexhaust- ible, 1 have only to say that high-born Austrians are naughty people, but they do not understand the use of money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
IN QUEST OF SNAILs.
Professor Has Obtained 10000 Specl-
 mems in Valleys of Tahiti.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald
 Prof. II. E. Crampton, curator of in- vertebrate zoology in the American Mu- sum of Natural History, has left New York by way of San Francisco for the South Sea Islands. He will be absent for about eight months, and will continue his study of snails begun for the museum in 1906 and continued with grant from the Carnegie institute in 1907 and 1903
 "You may think that there is not much in snails," said Professor Champion yes- terday. "The fact that some snails are red and some are brown, that some twist in one way and some in another, does not seem very thrilling. Most of my friends ask me why I don't come and dig snais in their back yards. But the fact is that under the typographical con ditions of Tahiti and surrounding islands snails offer about the most remarkable illustration of Darwin's theory of evolu- tion that we have at the present time.
 Notice in the map of Tahiti the val leys extending from the inland to the coast. In each of these valleys the snails live in the warm, moist jungle They cannot get over the ridges, and so each colony develops along it's own lines. Sometimes a few manage to wriggle over ridge and start colony of their own. There are a great commotion and many signs of an evolution going on now among them.
 Tt Is necessary to mako a very ex- haustive study of them. I have already obtained 90,00O specimens from 173 val levs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
NEW CHINATOWN ARISING.

From the Baltimore News.
 Along with the rise of new San Fran sico comes the regeneration of the most famous Chinatown in America. A writer in the Bohemia says:
 The new Chinatown contains no joss house. In the old Chinatown there were half a dozen of these gorgeous temples and the absence of these places of devo- tion exctes comment from all visitors But the Chinaman is practical before everything When you interrogate the dwellers in Chinatown about the absence of the joss house they reply that they are not only less religious than they were but they think that shops, dwell ings and schools ought to be built before temples
 To show the up-to -dateness of China town the San Francisco Telephone com pany has a Chinese central" In the telephone book there are over 500 num- bers belonging to Chinese subscribers. In this book the names and numbers appear both in Chinese and in ordinary characters Thus these members of one of the oldest and most conservative of nations are more progressive in this re- gard than many merchants in European cities,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
Fast Shedding In Automobiles

The eastern states are inclined to remove all specific speed restrictions from automobilists, even from joy riders, and to hold them responsible under the common law rule of reason ableness only. Speed is not the best test, for in some places slow rate of speed is as dangerous to pedestrians as a high rate Owners and operators are required to be cautious everywhere and the penalty of carelessness is as- sessed by a jury.
 New York is about to impose a new code of license fees. A fee of $4 a year is to be paid on automobiles under 20-horsepower; $6 on those between 20 and 30, and $1O or all above 9O- horsepower. These licenses go into the state treasury.
 Among intelligent automobilists there is afeeling that more caution is needed on the part of all who own or drive automobiles. Public sentiment is rendered hostile by joy-riding and reckless speeding. The best friends of the automobile think all such actions should be stopped, otherwise hostile Legislation will be fostered. Reason able action on the part of all who use the streets that belong to all would work out satisfactory result
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-30
THE HOUSE OF MEMORIES.

From Pall Mall Gazette. There's a little house in a little street A little way from the sea, And oh, when I'm weary of all the world It's there that I fain would be. For the world is full of sorrow and care And the darkness lies before; And the little house Is full of the dreams That were ours, but are ours no more. In the. little street in the long ago In the little house by the sea. We dreamed of the days that had no
 dawn,
 Of the years that shall never be. But you were young and I was young, And we dreamed and had no care, And dearer and better than life has
 been
 Were the dreams that came to us there. And so when I'm weary of all the world, Of it's sordid hopes and it's pain, think of the little house that was ours, And sigh to be there again. 'Twere heaven enough if we found our
 dreams
 And dreamed them again, maybe, In the little house in the little street, A little way from the sea.