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am n man
More sinn'd against than SHINING.
king Lear.
INSURGENCY In the Saddle

Speaker Cannon, who said that insur-
serve to be shot or hanged, is now by the
turn of events in the middle west left
stranded high and dry beyond all pop
ular waves At no point has insurgency
sustained a serious loss, and in all hot
and direct contests with standpattism 1t
has won victories.
The 2s out-and-out insurgents in the
present Congress will almost to a man be
returned, and already seven recruits are
troll the House in the next Congress,
Cannons chance for reelection as speak
er has already vanished into thin air.
The old man with the cigar stands ban
ished to a seat on the floor. Danvile.
ILL.,. may stand by him, but the country
as a whole will not. This is already pracl
tically determined. insurgency has in
fact not reached its maximum. 1t is a
gaining political factor, and Uncle Joe
is its first and principal victim. There
is no one to bewan his fate.
AS a matter of fact, the next House
will be democratic, and this will afford
the aged speaker a chance to step down
with dignity This is all that is left of
his political career as a leader. Kansas
and Iowa did 1t. The verdict is in favor
of the people and against special priv
ilege, and especially against that form
of special privilege known as czarisn.
Back of cannonism aas Aldrichism
rises up a fear that the old parties are
breaking up, and that new alignments are
coming. The struggle for the control
of the republican party means either
new party or else numerous recruits for
the democratic party; 1t is too early to
say which.
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for their seats in primaries. The Geor-
gia primary is to be held this month,
and a second primary has become neces-
sary in the Memphis district, which Mr..
Gordon at present represents. The
prospect of any increase in the number
of Confederate veterans in the House is
not good. The more active and alert
young men are crowding out the vet
Grams. 1t is a matter of individual push
rather than of forgetfulness on the part
of the south of services In the Confed-
crate cause on battlefields that will live
in song and story long after the poll
ticians of today are gone and forgotten
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STRENUOUS 17a1

Agnes Repplier in the August At.
lantic.
As Tor Industrious idleness which is
held to blame for the wrecking OF our
nervous systems, it is not unknown to
an earlier generation. Nine. lie Brun as
sures us that in her youth pleasure low
ing people would leave Brussels carly
in the morning, travel all day to Paris
to hear an opera and travel all night
home That" she observes-as well
she may-"was considered being fond OF
the opera" A paragraph in one 81
Horace Walpoles letters gives up thu
record of a day and a night in the
life of an English lady-l6 hours OF
STRAIN" which would put New York
to the blush II heard the Duchess OF
Gordon's journal Of last month";" h.
writes to Miss Berry In The spring OF
1871. "She first went to hear Han
deYs music in the Abbey: she ther
clambered over the benches, and wen
to Hastings trial in the hall; aftel
dinner, to the play; then to Lady Lu
cans assembly; after that to Rane
lagh, and returned to Mrs. Hobertl
faro table; gave ball herself in tn,
evening of that morning, into which
she must have got a good way; and Sc
out for Scotland the next day. Har
cules could not have accomplished >;
quarter of her labors in the same spac,
of time"
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Confederate Veterans In CONGRESS-

While there are in the present Con-
tives who are union veterans there are
but six senators and six representatives
who served in the Confederate army
This difference in numbers is. however.
not so great as the difference between
the numbers that served in the two
armies.
At present the Confederate veterans in
the Senate are John H. Bankhead and
Joseph F. Johnston of Alabama, James
P. Talliaferro of Florida. August o. Ba-
con of Georgia, fernando de Soto Money
of Mississippi, and Thomas S. Martin of
Virginia. Mr. Money is to retire in
March next. and Mr.. Taliaferro has
been defeated in his effort to secure re-
nomination in the democratic primary.
These changes will leave in the Senate
DuL TOUR 1OHleueIdle veterans dItcT
March next. and it is not improbable
that Alabama's two senators will be the
last veterans of the Confederacy to serve
In the Federal Senate. Mr.. Bankhead S
new term will extend to 1919 and there
will be few other actors of the period
of the civil war In Congress at that time.
In the House the Confede rate veterans
are George w. Taylor and William Rich
ardson of Alabama. Leondas F. Living
ston of Georgia. George w. Gordon of
Tennessee, J. F. c. Talbot of Maryland,
and A. w. Rucker of Color ado Messrs.
livingston and Gordon are yet 10 battle
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Uncle RemuS

In October. next. when exPresident
Roosevelt is coming to Atlanta to as
sist in carrying out the plan for honor
ing the memory of the late Joel Chand-
Ter Harris, the south should respond
warmly and lovingly and financially, and
the purchase of snapbean farm, or the
Sign of the Wren - Nest. should be con-
summated. The plan consists of the pur-
chase and adornment of the home of
the author who knew the south and Its
characteristics and who put those char
acteristics into black and white as no
one else has or perhaps ever will.
Millionaires of the north who have felt
the charm of Mr.. Harris writings stand
ready to carry out the plan as 1t has
been outlined, but the hope is that no
the readers of Uncle Remus far and
wide, but especially In, the south, should
do themselves. When October comes let
all who have found wellspring of com
fort and delight in the simple tales that
Mr.. Harris wrote, because he knew the
south, be ready to make a pilgrimage
to Atlanta or else to send there sum
that will satisfy their own consciences
and be an honor to the south.
In other words. the south should own
Snapbean farm, turning 1t into monu-
ment to the writer that all loved so well,
for 1t was there that the wonderful
stories from the earliest lines of Uncle
Remus down to the latest story that came
from his pen before the days of the kind
ly, lovable author were completed. were
written. He loved his home and he never
of choice did any writing away from 1t.
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No Pronounced Drift TO the Cities

The population returns that have been
made public by Director Durand do not
strengthen the theory that the Amerl-
can people are rushing pell-mell to the
cities. True, these returns are not
numerous, and further returns may not
uphold those that have been handed out.
Thus far the urban returns have led to
disappointment and even anger The
growth of Cincinnati was less than IL
per cent. 1t practically stands where It
did 10 years ago. washington's growth
was but 5000 year. Wilmington In Del
aware and Reading in Pennsylvania have
had to accept an increase of about 20
per cent. Columbus, Ohio. is disgruntled.
and so is Jersey City. In exceptional
cases, like Oklahoma City. there is re-
joicing but in nine cities out of 10 that
have ascertained their respective official
population grouches exist. There are
demands for recounts. but none will be
made. Mr.. Durands figures are final,
be they high or low according to local
estimate or local hopes.
| When the returns are complete 1t will
be possible to form an opinion as to
whether the drift from the rural dis
tricts to the cities is less or greater
Ethan it was 10 years ago. At present
the evidence is incomplete The returns
for two states out of As have been pub
lished-Rhode Island and Oklahoma, and
neither of them is very representative.
The number of small cities has been
largely increased-cities having 25.000 and
less than $4,000 people-but beyond this
no story Is yet definitely told In the pop
ulation returns that the Associated Press
has flashed throughout the country.
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Clean Sheets and Pillow SLIPS

The lower house of the Georgia legis-
1ature has passed a bill requiring all
hotels that charge guests as much as 50
a day to furnish "clean bed linen unused
by any party since last laundered." The
Georgia senate has not yet passed the
BILL but If 1t does all s2-a-day hotels in
city or country will have to inaugurate a
revolution in sheets and pillow slips.
The bill is of Atlanta origin, but it is
sweeping in It's terms, extending geo
graphically from the hills of Habersham
to the marshes of Glynn. And the farther
the bill goes into effect in the country the
more radical and revolutionary will it
appear to be, and some Georgia hotels
may cut their rates to 81 10 a day in or
der to evade a socologic change in time
honored customs in bed linen.
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GENTLE ART OF LYING

By Henry w. Shaw (Josh B1lllngs).
As easy as 1t Is to lie, l am aston
ished that thare are SO few engaged in
the bizzness, and that so few fust-rate
lies are ever told.
I'm not prepared to say how much real
sin thare IL in what is kalled a light
colored lie. that has no maliss or evil re-
suit In 1t, but have alwus notised that
the heft ov mankind love to excel in
awl they undertake, and I can't tell how
long a man would be willing to tell white
lies for fun when he might be turning an
honest penny for himself by telling black
ones.
Men don't generally bekum drunkards
by combining themselfs strickly tew sweet
slider.
Lieing is the lowest grade of shit
is more cowardly than stealing, bekausc
there is less risk in tit IS more danger
Gus than swareing. bekause there is no
there Is less risck In it--it is more demon
alizing than burglary, bekause there is no
ennyboddy else-it wuz the fust sin COM
most natral. and 1t will probably be the
last one committed. bekause no man
ever gifts so poor and degraded but what
he kan tell quite respectable lie.
Lieing is said tew be constitushionall
In sum 'folks-so is the itch constitushion-
all, bekause folks hang around WHARF
1t is. and won't dokter for 1t after they
gilt caught by it.
Finally-I might as well own it, hav
told a few very fair lies myself, but
kant reckollect ov one that l feel proud
ov now.
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PROGRESS OF BIRMINGHAM

From the Knoxville Sentinel.
The building of Corey, the Gary Of
the south, has made Birmingham. OF
which 1t is suburb, a much talked
of city. The new town will have mills
with payrolls sufficient to sustain a
population of 1900 people, it is esti-
mated Birmingham itself is making
rapid strides as a manufacturing city
1t is entering. in the words OF Its
boosters, on an era of finished pro-
ducts, having been known hitherto
mainly as a producer of raw materials
Birmingham has improved greatly In
appearance during the last two III
three years. 1t, is taking a pride In
it's looks It's city beautiful campaign
has had excellent results. Weedy and
rubbishy vacant lots are not tolerated
Grass, flowers and vines are grown
TO cover the bald earth and uti-
litarian structures. The city has many
handsome new buildings and Is ac-
curing a metropolitan air.
Birmingham deserves Its success
Its business men are enterprising and
pushing. They have no natural ad-
vantages to compare with those OF
this city and this section. rheir ex.
ample is one to emulate. East Ten
nessee should be a greater iron and
steel center than Alabama and it haf
many other mineral resources that thu
Birmingham district lacks.
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MARK TWAIN IN PRIVATE LIFE

THE fact Is, fellows. have Just re-
turned from a lecturing tour in the mid
die west. and l may a. well say right
here that the closing nights ware not
what even a press agent would call a
bowling success, so far as audiences were
concerned. Why, ii you'll believe me. at
a lecture the other week In a town Of
5000 souls-at least I suppose they had
souls-there were not over 50 of them in
the hall.
We smiled audibly.
WELL" remarked consolingly, IT sup
pose the rest of the people were at home
reading Innocents Abroad and forgot
al labout the lecture"
That's very kind and a useful sug1
to chance house-to-house canvass I'd
ascertain II that were so;'' then, after
few vigorous puffs. he continued: Il
only heard from one man in that town.
and he had got my name mixed UP with
George Francis Trains. and was heard
to declare that he wouldn't travel ted
feet to see that mountebank pranc1
around the stage In his blue swallow tailed
coat, with brass buttons. not even on )
pass I have wondered when ana how
he discovered his mistake, and II he did
so unaided. But that he did finally gel
Strengthened out was evidenced by th@
letter I received from him later, which
read something like this:
p" George F. Clements. Dear Sir: an
awful sorry that didn't meet you wheI|
you was in town. Have always thought
would like to see someone who had
been to the little graveyard where Adam
was buried. So you was some relation
to him, hey? Well, welll"
1t has been my good fortune to hayI
always found Clemens genial travelin|
companion and generally enjoyed hi
stories when told by himself quite
much as those printed In his books an
the magazines. and mono were more unct
uously told than those relating to tn
experiences on his pleasure excursion
to the Holy Land on the Quaker CIT
n June. 1851.
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Ludicrous Mishap That Resulted From
Hurried Stage Dressing


Harry Furniss In the August Strand
Hurried dressings often bring about
ludicrpus incongruities in costume. /
remember in my early days the massive
form of the well known English singer,
Ainsley Cooke. I was in his dressing
room at the old Adelphi when he was
playing Falstaff "Ah,' he said, 81 am
thankful for one thing. I am blessed
with an angel for a wife. In fact,
don't know what l should do without
her. I don't trust to my dresser. My
household genius comes every day and
places all my things ready for me. BY
jove, I'm late Here, just help me on
with these things. This basket-body of
mine-here. stuff all these things in!
I've sent my man out for a paper Well,
that angel of a wife of mine-hang me.
I've only one boot onl Where the deuce
is the other? l must be on in minute.
Cad, what has that careless woman done
with it? That's my CALL But where's
my boot? Oh. why am cursed with
an idiot for wife?'
He stormed, he ragged; I and the CALI
boy searched everywhere for Falstaffs
other boot. The singer cursed his mat
rimonial fate. and just then my amateur
ish dressing caused his basket costume
to fall Off That moment l felt 1t time
to escape. but just as 1. was picking up
my hat I cast one glance at the strange.
exciting scene--Falstaff, in despair and
rage, with one boot, and his massive
frame. parted from his waist, lying in
front of him-but. to the delight of all.
from within that basket-body stuck out
the missing boot! In the hurry Of
dressing. 1t had been stuffed inside.
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THE DREAM

BY Theodore Watts Dunton.
Beneath the loveliest dream there coils
fear:
Last night came she Whose eyes are
memories now,
LONE dimmed them once, SO calm they
Love dimned them once, SO salm they
shone and clear.
Sorrow" | said. has made me old
my dear;
IT'S |, indeed but grief can change the
BROW
Beneath my load a seraph's neck might
bow,f
svirgils like mine would blanch an an.
gels hair
Oh, then | saw. I saw the sweet lips
/ saw the love-mists thickening in heJ
eyes
I heard a sound as II a murmuring dove
Felt lonely in the deils of Paradise;
But when upon my neck she fell, my
love,
Her hair smclt sweet OF whin and
woodland spice.
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but when 1t Is. 1t will be another link in
the chain. of mutual interests binding the
colonies to the mother country. Lord
Kitchener Is now commissioned to visit
the different colonies for the purpose of
comforting with local commanders and
promoting the governments new volun-
teer policy
Mr.. Grenfell said he was not only glad
that parliament changed the Kings &C
cession oath so as to eliminate express
sions offensive to his majesty's 100000
Catholic subjects, but that the change
was made with so little opposition.
Asked what would become of the House
of Lords, Mr.. Grenfell replied:
That branch will be reformed. The
whole matter Is now being considered by
a commission of four conservatives and
four liberals, and at the next session of
parliament action will be taken. An up
per house will be retained. of course, but
the reformed branch will not have tho
power to veto important measures passed
by the commons. Just what changes will
be made, however, I cannot say. The
upper house may or may not be heredi-
tary; the one thing demanded is that
it shall not have the right to nullify the
action of the popular branch
Mr. Grenfell spoke in exalted terms Of
Mr.. Asquith. the liberal prime minister.
He thinks him one of the ablest and
most Just statesmen that Great Britain
has produced.
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Mich Lower Than Estimates

although the census figures thus far
announced have been far below the esti-
mates furnished by mayors or CONNER
cial bodies, I cannot help thinking that
Birmngham's census population will be-
larger than our Chamber of Commerce
clairns-125 oo0," said a statistician.
ut may be that the enumerators could
not count all our inhabitants but l
would be willing to bet a cigar that Bir-
mingham is over the 10000 mark. Hous-
ton, Tex. claimed 10000 but gets less
than 1000"
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Frank Haywood in the New York Evons
Do

Frank Haywood in the New York Evons
ing Post.
X lark TWAIN has been spoken OF
MI as possessing no semblance OF
1VX humor when in general CONVEX
sation or "out in company" I do not
know whether this may be true or
not. but one does not expect to see
a flint give out sparks unless brousnI
sharply into contact with steel; one can
not even be expected to rise to the
occasion" at all times and set on
Joke as you would rocket
1 knew Mark Twain fairly we'll. MY
acquaintance with him began 80
wears ago, somewhere in the '70s, quite
accidentally, while travelling to New
York from Elmira. On the first &C.
ca sion we met in the comfortable smok-
ing room Of one of the broad gauge
cars of the Erie railway, which once
distinguished that road from others,
but which have long since been dis
continued for the standard gauge. He
was returning from Elmira, where Mrs:
Clemens had lately presented her liege
with a daughter--the second. He men
TONED the TACT III tHo CouiSo VI SHo
ride, and while had known of the
baby's arrival, did not know its sex.
congratulated him. of course, and
ventured to ask, Mr.. Clemens, is the
first Mark" Without a change of ex-
preston, but with slight twinkle in
his gray eve. he replied: No. this
makes the Twain"
l always found him very pleasant
company-good in repartee and seldom
given to ill-natured criticisms, which.
if ever INDUCED in, were used with a
sugar coating that effectually removed
the possibly bitter taste.
On another occasion we met on an
Erie train at Elmira. with Dan OF In
nooents Abroad" association. We were
again seated In the smoking compart-
ment and enjoying Marks cigars. He
seemed rather quiet. and not inclined
to talk mucn. Dan rallied him on his
unusual reticence. when Mark slowly
replied:
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Tho Park Concerts

Zone of the best examples of what can
be done in ensemble music by practice
and frequent playing together Is found
in the band of 10 or 20 men rendering
the park programmes" said an anna
teur AT first the band was rough, but
after two or three concerts there was
marked improvement. heard the band
last Tuesday night and 1t was really fine.
While most of the music played is Of a very
light order, practice and some taste are
required for its proper execution
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REFLEcrioNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
Marshmallows or dividends, they just
get eaten up.
A bald head will go around plumtpg
himself that he isn't bowlegged.
A wife will stand more faultfindins
than the cook. because she is more
used to it,.
II woman's mother comes to tea
on Sunday evening she can call 1t a
weekend house party.
i The trouble with getting your salary
raised, by any amount Is you raise
your expenses twice as much.
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came to this country in the last fiscal
year. The Italians and Russians led all
the rest, but a good sprinkling of Ger
mans, Englishmen, Swedes and Scotch
came over also.
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There will be something doing in the
population business when the figures for
Birmingham and Atlanta are announced.
Birmlnghams nerves are steady and nor
NAL
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If Aldrich had gone to Kansas also
it would have been landslide. but the
Rhode Islander is too foxy to go where
he is not wanted.
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Canada is about to do in the case of
case of Porter Charlton-send him back
to the scene of his brutal crime to pe
tried.
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| happy and prosperous It is well to en-
courage the man who can raise the largest
tomato in his little back yard. and the
woman whose fig trees produce the most
and create the largest profit to the fam
lily.
l know one good woman with a little
place out near st. vincent's hospital who
is making a good income this summer
from her three dozen fig trees. She is not
only making something for herself, but
nurturing her neighbors and-dolng a good
to all about her who revel in the luxury
of figs.
So let the people who manage the rail-
roads and the street railway and the al
dermen get together in a friendly and
co equal spirit and get the viaduct built
over the tracks about First avenue and
the Sloss furnaces, where all the railroads
cross.
1t is needed.
Don't let one element try to get the adj
vantage OF the other. Be fair, just and
wholesome with one another.
Then let the people who own and oper-
ate the public franchises-such as the
electric lighting of Birmingham-get to-
gether with the people and the aldermen
and thrash out what Is right and nroner
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A RAIN SONG.

A RAIN SONG.
Drearily the rain is railing,
DEARLY doth moan the wind;
Through the wet blue jays are calling
To the nestlings left behind
Here and there blossom swaying,
Sadly drenched and all forlorn,
In the fields the floods displaying
Turbid lakes amid the corn.
/
Drearily the cutters rumble,
DEARLY the rain-drops beat
On the roof, or lightly tumble
Down the windows, silver-fieet
Overh cad the gray skies lower
Not a single beam to cheer
Heart of bird or dropping flower,
Till my lord. the sun, appear.
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HARD WORK.

well, are you afraid to go home
in the darlk?" asked a facetious police
man of a quiet and respectable look
ing man who was leaning against a
telegraph pole at an early hour of the
morning.
mot at ALL" answered the respect
able looking man, yawning prodigious-
ly. my wife's away and I'm forcing
myself to stay up until o'clock for
at least one night, so I can persuade
myself that I am having a devil of a
time"
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Senator Aldrich deeply regrets that
Kansas and Iowa were admitted as
states. They decline to respect special
interests or the czar.