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what he evidently wants to say IN a
novel for general consumption, so he
slips over the border now and again
and gives the reader only a fieeting
glimpse of the goal toward which he
is striving.
The publishers are careful to say
that ut is a remarkable story, though
done with such good taste and
chastity that any young girl could
read it," No question about II;
SYLVIA is a novel decidedly TO be
read between the lines.
The plot deals with the adventures
Of a sweet Southern girl, the belle OF
her county, who bewitches every man
she sees. She finds this too easy TO
be exciting, and then she meets
Frank Shirley, whose father has been
in prison rightfully or wrongtuily.
The son has shut himself out OF
social life to spare himself the snubs
Of ill-natured people; Sylvia falls in
love with Frank and Frank goes to
Harvard to educate himself.
Then Sylvia visits Cambridge, and
while there effects the conquest of
Douglas Van Tuiver, multi-million-
aire.
Van Tuiver wants to marry her;
she is already engaged to Frank. In
the end the news is brought that
Frank has been arrested in house
of questionable reputation, and, with
her family working on her sympa-
thies. she throws him over for Van
Tuiver without even writing for an
explanation. ~.
Mr.. Sinclair describes Southern life
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FOR YOUNG NATURALIsTs.

There isn't one OF us who hasn't
at some time been possessed with
mania for collecting things. Miner
ais. birds eggs, or butterflies have
inhamed our Imagination along with
stamps and coins.
These collections too often made
aimlessly. represented loves labor
lost. It is to instil real knowledge
Of the objects he is collecting that
most welcome book has Just been
issued by Harper & Bros. "Harpers'
Book for Young Naturalists," by Al
pheus Hyatt Verrill, $3.50.
A guide TO collecting and prepar-
ing specimens, It gives descriptions Of
the life, habits and haunts OF birds,
insects and plants
The author remarks in his preface
that any occupation which takes
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

Another suicide happened in the
Hunter Street side entrance, and there
have been several marriages perform
ed under the great Statue Of Liberty.
A young child fell from the third
story, landed on the ledge Of the
Governors office window on the
Washington Street side. and died, and
other events Of stirring nature have
happened within the walls Of the
state Capitol
The State Capitol stands on the
square of the old court house that
was hera when Sherman occupied At
lanta. Il was on those grounds that
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Gabbett, Gus
todian Of the Cross Of Honor, res
cued a prisoner who was tied to a
stake in front OF the court house,
and Il was there that the silver
tongues OF Robert Toombs, Alexander
H. Stephens and Benjamin Hill gave
voice TO the sentiments Of the times.
When the old court house was torn
down. the brick and mortar was car
ried out TO East Fair and Kelly
Streets, then known as Moore Street,
and used TO Ill in the old spring lot
which had provided water 10 wounded
soldiers Of the Northern and South
ern army as they lay in the hospital
operated on the next corner Of Hill
and Fair Streets. There was a "a
vine at that corner. The city filed in
the hole and sold it later on.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

NAV feel that sweet resistance to the hook"
which for all time has been the full and final
justification of the manly art Of fishing.
One must carry plenty Of blankets on this
ernedition TO Old Stonepile's neighborhood for
the nights will be almost cold; but he may
leave his mosquito net at home, safe In the as
surance that never yet has mosquito yentured
there.
Perhaps, however, one elects TO spend his
vacation neither in South nor Northeast Geor-
9ia but chooses instead the less rugged but still
mountainous section toward the West.
Around the foothills Of Lavender, not far
from Summerville and Armuchee, there are to
be found in generous profusion black bass, Cog
Rleeyed perch and red-horse suckers.
These fish as their names clearly indicate,
are not altogether Of patr1ctan persuasion as
are the red-bosomed Dream and the mountain
trout.
They are middle-class citizens In 1shdom Of
course, and as such they substantial, even
tempered, more mindful of the fitness of things
in their universe and less inclined to put on
airs or assume manners Of haughtiness and ex-
clusiveness.
The black bass one may meet under the roar
by way Of a mill dam, or along the more peace
full and less noisy ways Of the meadowlands.
He has no particular choice of location only
he is strong and lusty and needs running waters.
The goggle-eyed perch is a rare catch, but
beauty when landed. He keeps largely to him
self and loves to loaf much Of his time away
beneath friendly rocks in shady places; and If,
now and then, he rushes out TO snatch the tempt
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

habits do him little credit, and yet there is at
least one member Of his family-the channel cat
that deserves more than passing comment
The channel cat lives, like the bass, in run
ming water and feeds upon the daintiest food he
can find. He is no scavenger or son OF a
scavenger.
His sleek sides are silvery white, and he
fees from the contamination and coarsening eff
fects of muddy water as instinctively as wild
duck hastens South when the frosts begin to
nip the Northern woods,
AS food supply, the channel cat is worthy
and well qualified; and his first cousin, the will
low cat while less plentiful, is not to be sneezed
at.
Indeed, there be those who know and say that
It is, after ALL only the hopeless 'yaller" cat
that is utterly impossibe-he seems to be the
one cur dog that every fisherman feels always
free to kick around 10 his hearts content.
All is fish that comes to the net Of some
fishermen, If not most fishermen, of course, and
Old Erastus summed up much piscatorial phi
losophy when he said;
$50 lohen frotos nah line out dGr,
Pse no pdr-tto'l1r choice!
All takes de food de Lord provides,
An IN NAH heart rejotcei
Come, b0nV carp, or sIpp'ry eel,
Come, sucker-JtSh or breGn,-
Hits al de same ter me-Ah shouts,
Nah praises loud ter Him!
Why, then, since so many of rs cannot go to
the seashore nor yet to the mountains because
the expense Of it bars the way, shall many Of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

revenue for the Government The
vote Of Louisiana was given to the
Democratic ticket under the assur-
ance Of that platform on the tariff
plank that I'VE favor the ultimate at
tainment Of the principles we advo-
cate by legislation that viii not injure
or destroy Legitimate industry"
Many Of us who have the respon-
sibility for advising Louisians con-
corning their interests in politics and
government felt that statesmen ana
men Of affairs would never counter
anCe under such a platform plank the
destruction OF an industry which gives
direct support TO hundreds Of thou
sands Of American farmers. brings
prosperity to practically the entire
populations OF Porto Rico and Hawaii,
and, under the present fiscal system,
gives the Cuhans preference over
ether tropical sugar raisers. In seek
ing TO receive the votes Of Louisiana
In its Democratic State Convention /
know the Wilson managers gave as
suranCes that Mr.. Wilson did not
contemplate any such radical action
as he has taken regarding sugar al
though the well-informed element eN-
pected no consideration at all from
Mr. Bryan.
Most Of us remember the classic
remark Of Mr. Havemeyer the genius
Of the Sugar Trust-one Of the worst
criminals Of an the yrusts-'the tarin
is the mother of the trusts This
supposed confession was calculated 10
make a profound impression on sin
Ele-Cy IildereG minds. As a matter or
fact the Sugar Trust, which is a re-
finer AMI not a producer OF sugar on
American soil. has sought and still
seeks the destruction Of the Ameri-
can sugar growing industry. For the
growth of the industry in America to
a stable. self substantial basis. would
mean the continued erection Of indie
PENDENT sugar .efineries and the
eventual destruction of the trust.
American sugar needs a tariff for
The protection nf the rest Of the coun-
try against American Sugar Trust
under "a frae-traliuS monopoly Of
American sugar refining Only 90
per cent az our Southern lands are
uudUr cultivation. There is unused
sugar land FIN Louisiana, Texas and
Fl0rt-a capable Of producing all the
sugar consumed IN America. ana
America consumes 90 per cent Of all
tGe sugar used ia the world
Sugar is the only one Of the worlds
great food products that has not in
grea sei iu price in recent years To the
curz -uer To has steadily declined.
from 10 ia - cents a pound 20 a
present wholesale price on granulated
sugar o. little over L. cents a
pound Cuban raw sugar to-day is
selling at fE-l6 cents 0er pound on
the Island. The largest user OF sugar
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
E HOUSE OF OUR FATHERS By DR.. John E. Viii

white humanity, yellow hunoanatS
or black humanity,
Sd. The question Of being true -
ourselves-of faithful self-exau1ina-
ton as a people The South - .
candidate for the courage whSeA
dares TO look in the glass frankl5.
and that resolutely takes over 70
itself the task Of candid BolS-Ox4t&-
cism and correction.
4th. The questions OF fde@a and
leadership. Southern public opsn-
ion, State by State, must nx ths
type It proposes to exhslt and masR
by. The representative Southern
quality in civic manhood IL to be
defined. The question 70. whether
in main characteristic II shan BE-
Of the quality ante-be1lun OF post.
bellum-the cool, steAdfast, tolerant
thoughtful man. nobly just, sincere
ly conservative and passionatsay
chivalr1c, or the wsSpfsh, agitnteA
precipitouc, extensively sentative
man, Unexpectedly pretudiced. and
Indifferent TO brutalities. who ~
lies classes, foments feuds, fGttsns
on factions and defiantly challenges
law and the conscience OF history.
Both these types have played a part
in the past history OF the South.
both are ancestral to the present
generation. It is not the older man
who must make great distinctions
OF Southern heredity, but the
younger men who will preserve
that which may be proudly pre-
served out Of heroic heritage, and
who will take the Southern banner
forward. asking honor from moth
ing which may not be submitted to
the scrutiny and the Judgment Of
mankind.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

TOD never successfully overcams the
reluctance of a majority Of the
Southern people to disrupt the I'm
ion. The success Of Secession was
foredoomed in this moral repug-
nance and we are now able ade-
quately TO estimate II as one OF the
profound explanations Of tho fail-
ure of the Confederacy and the de-
feat OF the Civil War Before the
Southern Historical Society Of At
lanta, in 1874. Senator Ben Hill used
these remarkable words The sad
dest chapter In Confederate history.
which the future historian will be
called upon 10 write. win be that
one In which he viii undertake to
define the real cause Of our failure.
For the truth must be told Five
million Of people IN such a country
as we possess were not conquered,
because our resources were infer
Tor. or our enemies were 10 power
full All physical Disadvantages are
insufficient TO account for our fail
ure. The truth is, we failed be-
cause too many of our people were
not determined to win"
In his 7th or March speech, Dan
iel Webster said with reference to
the proposed Nashville convention.
which had been called TO assemble
in June, and II any persons should
assemble at Nashville for the pur-
pose Of concerning measures for the
overthrow OF the Union. over the
bones Of Andrew Jackson. that old
hero would turn in his coffin.
AS late as 1850 the real heart OF
the South conceived OF no such pos
sibility as an actual attempt to
break up the Union. The House OF
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

our Fathers was the slogan Of the
south's soul and it's disruption was
a tragedy too appalling to ooHtem-
plate. The Southern soldier never
rejoiced in spirit over the spectacle
OF a permanently broken republic.
II was IN the camp when the blood
Of the hot conflict was cool--in the
long winter leisure Of soldiers 10
think, reflect, and ask deep ques-
tions-that the intrinsic morale of
Lees army suffered in many brave
and high hearts. II was the dis
quieting doubt, whether tho ex-
change OF the house OF our faith
ers" for an unproven Confederacy
which might be a military despot-
ism, that made the leakage Of res
olution in the Southern people, who
we're at home in suspense and be
reavement, The protesting ghosts
Of Washington, Madison, Jefferson,
and Marshall lowered sadly over
every battlefield IN Virginia.
Robert E. Lee. himself. suffered
poignantly in the consciousness that
George washington's life passion
and his immortal genius were suf-
fering calamity not less sad because
memorable.
Viewed as II win be in the dry
light Of Southern intelligence the
Secession movement win be regard
ed as the most pathetic and disas-
trous vast enterprise OF history.
While we gather and forever pre-
serve the pure gold Of Southern
honor and heroism which dropped
out Of the white-hot furnace OF the
war itself, there is little gold Of
moral glory 10 be cherished from
the quarrelsome passions on both
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

Of the Southern conscience win be
registered in applause Of the men
who opposed the ordinance Of Sc
ceasion in the several States.
The really tragic loss OF the Sc
cession movement of the war and
It's entail was not in men or treas
ure, nor in the devastations and
ruin of armies, but II was the ar
rest of Southern national life, the
Limitation of Southern interest for
a half century to the narrowing
consequences OF self-regarding and
morbid motives, and the withdrawal
from the Nations affairs at home
and abroad of its most intense An
glo- Saxon force, which ceased in
such a large degree TO participate
infiuentialiy in Americas mission
to the world. The house OF our
fathers" needed us never so much
as when we thought It was in dan
ger Of objectionable Dissertation We
never needed the house OF our
fathers" so much as at the very
time we made the vain effort TO
build one of our own. We did not
do the house of our fathers"
any good by deserving It and by
separating ourselves from the obli-
CATION to help keep It as they built
1t. We suffered the sorest reprisal
and the severest sacrifice any peo-
pie we're ever called on to suffer
The Southern people with these
things behind them to be realized
are at a momentus epoch now when
they are called on TO take again
the responsible part in the national
glory. Are we prepared 10 take up
where we left off in 1902 Have
we lost any vital element Of civic
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

Three hundred thousand people de-
pend more or less directly for their
daily bread on the cane sugar crop Of
Louisiana Thirty-fve millions of
dollars IS a fixed investment I'm Louis
iana's sugar machinery and equip
ment.
Reduction Of the price Of sugar TO
the consumer is the stated purpose of
the pending tariff bill. Unless a
world wide and totally unexpected
raise occurs in the price OF sugar,
the passage OF this tariff bin win de-
Etroy this entire investment. Louis
iana's sugar growing industry viii
become q thing Of the past. Thou
sands o. people trained TO It will be
thrust out Of work. These are prac-
tieally oue-hfth Of the population OF
the State.
Colorado. Michigan, California, ID
aho. Utah. Kansas, Indiana and Mon
tana together produce twice as much
sugar as Louisiana. Their farmers
grow beets, instead OF cane. They
refine their own sugar in independent
renneries. This American sugar Of
fers. IN its manufacture, the only
practical opposition 20 the American
Sugar Refining Company-the Sugar
Trust
The cane and beet growers. with
their dependent families. are about a
million OF the population Of the Tn
tied States. they produce annually a
million tens Of sugar This is about
one-third Of the entire amount con-
sumed by our people.
OF the three millions of tons Of
sugar used, d million is grown in our
own country nve hundred thousand
in our dependency Of Hawaii -four
hundred thousand in our dependence
of Porto RICO and thirteen or four
teen hunarza thousand comes in from
Cuba and paws "a preferential duty Of
one and thirty -four hundredths OF O
cent a pound The nominal duty OF
1s4 cents a hundred on sugar Is OF
little value to American sugar grow.
ers-
The Government collects on thi'
Cuban sugar a. yearly duty Of ATTY
tao 10 ffty- FIVE millions Of dol lars
r-Vreu- for a short time during IN.
cleveland administration. both Dem,
ocrats and Republicans have for
hundred years employed the slgl'
tara as an equitable way q raising
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

Southern lumber. sugar, cotton and
wool interests. is the most refresh
ing moral spectacle afforded the
American people since Abraham
Lincoln's day.
But the ability of the South to
come back permanently into nation
al power must abide a severer test
than national politics can submit.
II is the best of our own local and
sectional civilization We can not
play big part at Washington per-
manently for the world to see If
we play a little part at home for
the world TO know. Our ability to
advance the civilization OF the ma
ton and the world must eventually
be measured by our success IN
achieving a safe and morally noble
civilization in the States South OF
the Potomac. -Four issues now con-
front the people of these States
concerned in their own behalf and
with the necessities of their own
situation.
1st.-The question OF education
a trained citizenshlp-the relief of
illlteracy. The fact that our pop
ulation is 16 per cent Of the nation
whole, but that our illiteracy is 33
per cent OF the total backwardness
Of the United States is one that
bears directly on the outlook OF the
South for national success.
"a. The question Of public breadth
and sympathy, OF world conscious
ness. Of amenability to the fixed
standards of Christian civilization.
The Southern people can not expect
a great permanent expansion Of po-
litical leadership unless 1t accepts
the full obligation TO be interested
in humanity as such, whether 1t be
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and moral capacity IN our wilder
ness Of political inertia and our
detachment from national oppor-
tunity7 These questions may not
be fairly tested by the success or
failure Of the woodrow Wilson ad-
minfstration. but they are to be
tested in the Immediate future. 1t
is a time when the Southern people
are to inventory their civilization.
It is a great day for US and the signs
in the sky are for the hour most
propitious. The record Of the past
few months at Washington is up to
the level of the best traditions Of
Southern states7nanship. The sim
plicity and dirsctness OF Democ-
racy is being given a new aocen-
tuation at tho hands of the Southern
men now in direction of the nations
Affairs. The religio-m moral point OF
view in government is clearer IN
Washington at this time than It
has been in any hour since the
Philadelphia convention Of 1897,
that produced the Federal Consti-
tuition, was formally organized into
prayer meeting on the motion Of
Ben Franklin.
The Underwood tariff bill is the
sincerest moral doctrine any great
political party ever actually put
forth in fidelity to conscience. The
straightforward honesty Of the
President. the square and stubborn
consistency Of Champ Clark and
oscar Underwood in the new tariff
bill is the most invigorating speci-
men OF political fidelity this coun-
try has witnessed in a half-century.
In the teeth Of the loudest protests
and threats, party desertion from
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
THE LAND ACROSS THE
SEA"

Estelle Ryan Snyder has supple
mented her little book Of travels
along the Pacific coast OF her own
country with The Land Across the
Sea-" a happily told record Of har
trips in Europe.
Mrs. Snyder shows great improve
ment in pOrtraying scenery. features
and peoples In this book Of tourings
she uses delicate peTspicuity in tell
ing us just what we want to know
about the material necessary for
jaunting in foreign countries, while
she Eliminates the beauties and
grandeurs OF cities and open vistAs
The comparison between Paris and
London is cleverly presented and de-
cidedly entertaining. The chapters
are in the nature Of delightful chats.
Published by the ". J. Snyder Pub
fishing Company.
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SYLVIA. ="

Upton Sinclair has written a novel
called SYLVIA (The John c. Winston
Co.; S1.20). In It he attempts to pic
ture the terrible results Of moral
obliquity as evidenced in physical
man.
But we think he has missed his
point. Here is a subject that must
be dealt with boldly and openly, or
not at all; there is no sense in mine
ing matters. Either the author must
say all he means to say, or say moth
ing at all.
Now, II is hardly possible to say
all he wants outside Of a medical
disquisition; at least. he capnot say
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

A spn,n0ry of the address delivered
BY Or. White at commencement Of
Mercer UntVersity. II iods IN the ma
t,re of message to Southern VoUrg
men.
with a Southern man IN the
Presidency. a majority Of Southern
men in the Cabinet, and Southern
leaders in control OF Congress, the
Southern people may assert as real
tiles and experience: we are in
the house OF ur-fathers our broth
ers are our companions. and we are
at home 10 stay. thank Godi"
This fact is now submitting 70
the South a serious test whether
we are prepared to reassume re-
sponsibls National leadership for
the whole country. and whether our
capacity for large constructive
politics has suffered the loss OF any
Of It's vital elements during the half
century Of essential disuse so far
as the governing policies OF the Ma
ton are concerned.
The south's approach 10 the OPP
portunity now presented must be
the ante-bellum temper and start
with the fact that this Republic is
THE House OF OUR FATHERS"
and that there is a hereditary moral
obligation 10 think in national terms
and 10 act under the inspiration Of
national ideals.
The indestructible Union Of in
dsstructible States" was the deep
rooted passion OF southerners. and
the agitations OF the Secession per-
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LITTLE ToPsY THISTLE. +"

LITTLE ToPSY THISTLE"
Much subtle understanding Of child
nature is requisite in the authorship
Of books for the little folks; II isn't
easy, via literature" to reach, please
and develop very young intelligence.
Caro- Frances Warren obviously
has this gift as may be discovered IN
the small volume Little Topsy This
tie" published by David Mckay. This
entertaining story is one of a series.
among its predecessors being Little
Betty Merrigold." Little Polly Prim-
rose" Little Rob Robin"
In this TOpsy book, there's the
charm Of animated flowers, an &C
quaintanceship with the live creatures
of the fields, and birds Of the forestry
often join the happy groups.
The story tends to make children
intimate with nature, with the inhab-
ltants Of the outdoors" An espe-
cially appealing story for the young
sterS.