Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-29
POLITICAL NEWS
FOR BUSY MEN
How Mrs. J. Ham Lewis. Geor.
gian, interviewed the Great
Lii Hung Chang.
BY JAMES 8. NEVIN.

TIE new 1GltAOCIdllC S6lAdtOt -tASNb IL ~ ~
Illinois. was born and reared in Geor-
s;a, haiiing rom the good old county
Of Screven. in the southeastern section.
She was a Georgia girl. TO the manner
born, and she'is just as loyal a Geor-
siau to-day as sne ever was. more
over,
Mrs Lewis has never figured in the
newspapers extensively. being content
to let her brilliant husband appropriate
the laurels that might be gathered oy
the way-and the senator has not been
backward in the least about perform
ing the duty set aside by family con-
sent fos his attention.
once upon a time. however. Mrs.
Lewis did get away with something
that made 4 noise, all right-and ii VII
serve to show that in brains. intelH-
gently applied. her distinguished hus-
band has nothing whatever on her.
Mrs. Lewis, who was then Miss Rose
Douglas. of Screyen county aforesaid.
once did newspaper work in New York,
ana while writing on space here and
there she pulled a rafting good inter
view with Ii Hung Chang. the grea5
Chinese diplomat, when he was visiting
this cOuntry-and in doing that sae
beat the world and turned up story
tuat the best newspaper men in the
country had undertaken unsuccessfallv
time ana again To get.
Mrs. Lewis Miss Douglas. rather
was NOT engaged in newspaper work
regularly. She was studying in local
hosstal TO be trained nurse, and only
heHfed in an occasional story. one
Ga" l. Hung Chang was brought 70
tn hospital FOR a brief treatment. ard
/ Miss Douglas made up her mind TO
interview Kim. She communicated her
desire To q doctor she knew quite wei.
bur the doctor told her that man after
man had tried 20 get at the famous
Csiental diplomat. but never had there
been anything doing.
tins s. ould-be nurse. hoWeye., knew q
.5iI e or two, so she sent a curious old
ring she had on in to Ii by the accom-
oaating doctor and told him to tell
the great man she thought the rims
might have an interesting Chinese his
tory"
Il was as curious as cat-and the
ruse worked He asked Miss Douglas
to come in and talk to him. She d..
The interview was the result-and 1t
was a cracking good one
The lady sold II for s5o-which WIS
shame. for it was easily worth five
times that
/ When Ii Hung Chang found out VIVA
/ had happened, he stood W manfulv
/ and said it was all right. He really
admired the Young Woman's ingenuity.
/ Mrs. Lewis is a very handsome wom-
an. extremely popular in Washington
society, where she is we'll known, ana
mas played "a fine and compelling part
( in shaping her husbands cnlnenty
/ successful political career
/ Noting that there nave been coun-
I ties named for those three great Geor-
Stephens, Toombs and Hill-Tho
/ CorGele Rambler suggests that theta
should be one named to- Joseph b..
! Brown. the fourth of Georgia's grand
old guard of the long ago.
A Joe Brown county would he the
right thing and the present governor
would rather have one named for his
father than for himself, too
IF the election Of a Democrat.
president means that or's the presiden-
cy and a few high-up offices go to tha
/ Democrats, very naturally they are be-
ginning to wonder just why any change
| should be made at all" -ucgeste Taa
+. carroll County Times.
This please pass-the- pie plea Is
ting more and more vehement AMONG
4 the faithful OF Georgia every day,
Representative r. D. Cole. Of Bar
| tow. proposes TO introduce a bill in tb
next legislature requiring all ordinarie4
Of the state 10 attend to Confederate
pension matters free Of charge.
Tho law now permits them to char-
| 81 for each pension voucher made out
and Il is this fee that Cole proposes l.
have Withdrawn. II he can.
The veterans get comparatively liIla
/ individually. az it is, and as they are
generally poor men. he thinks the dol
lar saving to each viii be appreciated
and that It's loss By the ordinaries viii
hardly be felt.
AS a matter OF Edtts the = iLt ND IT. =
ordinaries who have made a practice Of
refusing this fec for years.
/ Editor shope. Of The Dalton CiJizen
again is after Judge FTte with a SHARP
stick
Age can not Ni.her nor custom ste
ctis merry wsrfare's infinite variety.
The rumor comes down from Wasa
tneton that Secretary Of State Bryan
again has limited TO Pleasant \. ST.
vail. Of savannah. that he would be
pleased 10 have 1fr. Stoyau take Tho
diplomatic mission 10 Argentina, rataa.
than switzerland
/ II is said 20 be Tire purpose Of tbs
present administration 10 90 aft.
south American trade hammer aa1
tongs. and Mr.. Stovall is looked upon
as a most desirable man for one 81
the more important South America d
legations such as the one in Buencs
Avres undoubtedly is.
/ Mr. Stoyau 80 is understood how