Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-29

mOpolite though an agriculturist,
failed to fall off as they should have
done.
"Umm-humm. Umm-humm," he
said, and the smile continued to radi-
ate. Rather interesting, isn't it?
Yes decidedly interesting-an ah,
complex, 1 should say"
He enunctated these words as
plainly and unaffectedly as he would
have an order to one of the negroes
on the place to go to the Wayside
store and buy a new scutter plow He
| read it with the same show of inter
est that Nat Goodwin or DeWolf
Hopper reads of a similar action
against him and no more.
And yet along these lines Cuyler
is an amateur, while the two afore-
! named Thespians have a twentieth
century record that rivals the mark
of Henry XIII set some years ago.
Cuyler has evidently abandoned the
idea of being thoroughly cosmopoll-
tan. Right now, to all appearances,
he is as much a fixture in Jones
| County as the court house. He al
most looks the part.
He was found seated on the front
veranda of the old Cuyler homestead.
| It's a pretty nice place to sit, espe-
| cially on a summer day IN Middle
Georgia.
Hall in Family Since 1908.
The place was bought by one Of
| his great great grandfathers in 1903
and the home was built shortly aft
erward, though to all appearances the
| house is modern and of decidedly bet
| ter type than the average Georgia
| farm home seat. The fact that it is
morticed and pegged alone shows its
remarkable age A beautiful lawn
: fronts the house, and there are big
wicker chairs and screens on the
| porch.
1t is evident that Cuyler IS living a
| life of ease and of peace. Though he
was freshly shaved and his hair was
| parted in the middle as carefully as it
would have been had he visited A
! IA shionable barber shop in 1905 he
wore soft shirt with a soft collar,
| tennis trousers and his feet were in
cased in Chinese straw slippers,
| He pulled on a cigar Of excellent
| tobacco as he talked, and his only
| sign of more than impersonal interest
| in the affair was that he chewed .he
| end of the panatella.
Just a moment" he said, until
| get fresh cigar" He lighted It
carefully and watched the smoke curl
upward as he assembled his thoughts.
Personal Equation Figures.
"Ah, yes, this matter" he began
again as though the subject of the
: conversation had slipped his mem
! DRY. LAS / said before, it is rather
interesting and quite complex. Don't
you think SOP
Silence for a second.
! do you know that modern journal
| ism is a tremendous wonder to me.
Under the present system even the
| best newspapers pay little attention
to the serious things of life. If they
| do, why should they be interested in
this matter? Can you tell me?'
More silence
The answer is evident. The makers
| of newspapers are following the trend
of the times. That trend is to delve
into the personal side of everything.
The personal equation outweighs ev-
erything else.
For instance, consider our litera-
ture Fiction is dead. There are no
serious essayists. There are even
less poets. The successful persons in
literature are the persons who write
of themselves.
People are anxious to buy me-
moirs. They will buy the memoirs of
Lady de Somebody Che had a name
for her but not wishing to display
ignorance no question was asked to
get its spelling) or they will buy
the memoirs of Mary MacLane They
will devour the memoirs of Beacons-
field or General Sherman or Tod
Sloan or Jack Rose
THE astute newspaper man recog-
nizes this. He realizes that the pub
lie is interested in the personal side
of Lafcadio Hearn or Telemon Guy
Ter. Don't you see?"
Will Consult Counsel.
But to return to the original sub
ject. AS I said before. it is many
sided. This is absolutely the first
information that l have had of the
suit. I will have to give considerable
thought to the matter. 1t may be
that I will have to go to Atlanta to
consult counsel
"Then / will probably have a state
ment to make. l may be there in a
few weeks. I don't know My time
is rather well taken up now
You see we have rather a large
estate here" (Neighbors say it COW
ers more than 1000 acres of good
river lando Il have to devote much
of my time to this. And then, am
building a new house, right across the
road out there, down which Sherman
marched.
81 am drawing the plans and will
superintend the construction myself
Have a look at the plans"
They were typical OF Telemon Guy
Ter. He had mixed his cosmopolitan
ideas with the traditional architec-
ture of the Southern plantation. He
had provided library. parlor. living
rooms. sleeping porches and all the
rest. but he hadn't forgot the dog
trot," and there were some fine Champ
1 Clork hounds shocking around the
lawn right then to add local color 60
the scene.
Fish Biting ExcelIently.
Then the fish are biting excellent
" now" he resumed, and l spend an