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THE CONSTITUTION Pubashed Paflr. Tri Weekly CLASX HOWKLL POSTAGE RATES i ATLANTA, GA, May 1a, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS: Dailv, ewe jv I Even In dry states, the mint Julep associations are keeping perfectly cool. Dlai will never resign If they continue to write him up in the leading magazines. The Colonel may get his party into the receiving vault if he to ran it in a Uncle 8am la too buiy trying keep congress on the job to think running away with Canada. Perhaps some work will be accomplished.

If the senate Isn't unanimous for long naps after luncheon. As the rest of the world has to toil through the biasing summer days, don't see why congress should he exempt. Just as one Is in a frame of to give thanks for the gracious mer weather, Satan for the Ice trust. mind The men who killed the peach crop last April have In their appli cation for positions In the Georgia, canning lactones. No wonder the rebels don't want to quit.

The world didn't know they were living until they got a chance to work the war racket. Still, all the roads Mr. Bryan is traveling seem to' lead to the 1912 hiKhway. where one is in danger of being lost in the crowd. Jeff Davis is doing no harm at all by making them laugh at the close of senatorial oration.

With so much unfinished ness on hand, it is sad to conten the popularity or the congre with the motion to adjourn. no mistake. The men who are running the party are not traveling around the country with the states in their vest pockets. One day last week Mr. Bryan favored Wood row Wilson for the presidency.

But we doubt If Wood row Wilson will study to please him. Very little heard now of Mr. Ultimate Consumer. But they say he has a front seat in Washington and actually sees things ooming his way. Nick gets in the limelight with a talk on the tariff, but be doesn't bring the tariff down where the people can have a look at ap ahots of Meit Tbough in Washington and the states of Ohio and Illinois, there waa such a big demand tor whitewash, the fences of the spring gardens are THE VETERANS AT LITTLE ROCK.

From the vantage ground of half a century, the south hails them as the gray coated survivors of the civil war, who meet today at Little Rock in their twenty first annual reunion; For the south today is a south with the smile of victory jn eyes, the beauty of peace and the lure of. dawning destiny in her features. And these old men tottering, maimed, but with spirits untouched by time are the molders of that destiny, sponsors for a rehabilitation the world must yet live long to duplicate. Survivors of Bull Run and of Gettysburg, grizzled who tasted of the martial glory of the Confederacy at its high tide, and who mingled the sting of defeat with the task of rebuilding the south upon the debris of its institutions meet to live a few happy hours in memories of a past that is unique in our day. They "meet, too, as living symbols of the new era in America the permanent era of a country wholly united, the one time abyss" bridged, ancient feuds and bitterness remembered but as evil and fading dreams.

That is the sentimental side of the reunion. It looms large as we contemplate the sacrifices and heroism involved in the gigantic drama of which these failing old men are the survivors. They are happy in that they have been spared long enough to witness that sectional compensation meted out to the south in the wisdom and fullness of time, that gives to our people the broad and vivid outlook of today in exchange for the uncertainty and the disruption of half a century ago. For, viewed on the practical side, the south is coming into its own with a sureness not witnessed since Appomattox. Today the nation looks to the south as the stronghold of racial sanity, the field upon which is to be worked out the next great drama in national development.

The proscription, the bigotry and the isolation that ruled, inevitably, during the aftermath of reconstruction, have given way to a breadth and a tolerance that are based upon those southern ideals' and traditions worthiest of surviving. That is the legacy the south holds from these old men valiant, meeting today in' Little Rock. Let ns not forget the dfbt THE R. F. D.

AND THE ADVERTISER. In one of his recent attractive talks on advertising in The Con stitution. William C. Freeman asks. "I wonder if the national ad vert is er has ever given any consideration to the effect that delivery has had in increasing the value of the daily.

newspaper as a general advertising medium for their business?" It is to be doubted if many of the advertisers, in this section at least, have analyzed the connection between cause and effect in publicity as closely as has Mr. Freeman. But to his comment connecting rural free delivery with the daily paper, we would add an amendment extending the trade stimulating influence to the weekly and the tri weekly newspaper. Rural free delivery has inestimably expanded the field in which the large or small advertiser may look for business with the expectation of business. It has, practically, brought the country districts to his store doors, in that it injects salesmanship on paper, which is an advertising is, into tne uttermost corners ot tne rural districts.

The phenomenon applies alike to the big and the small merchant. whether the advertising be placed in the large metropolitan tri weekly like The Constitution, for or in the country weekly radiating from the county seat to the farthest boundaries of the community. in this phase that oi the tri weekly the large and little ad vertiser is wide enough awake. Each one of the issues of The Tri Weekly Constitution is testimony. The great city merchants and the small merchants alike utilize it to reach a clientele they could not otherwise hope to bring range of their wares.

In other words, the daily, the weekly and the tri weekly newspapers have extended the trading scope of the nation indefinitely. Later on, when a general parcels post shall have become an actuality, the entire business world including the small country merchant will find a new and vital appreciation for rural free delivery advertising. THE SOUTH AS A NATIONAL ASSET. Pointing to the fact that the season now approaching its close has witnessed less fluctuation in the prices for cotton than its predecessors for years past, a contemporary estimates that two thirds of the latest crop, or about 8.000.000 bales, sold for about $600, Add to that the price likely to be received for the re mainder of the crop and for cotton seed and the south contribution to the national revenues, from this source alone, will be in excess of one billion dollars. In other words, the income from the south's great staple could finance expenditures of a session of the national congress.

its. most extravagant mood, up to tne present moment. One of the best features is that the farmer has this year bene fited more largely from reasonable prices than in many previous seasons. Cotton, with the exception of a month or two, has consist ently averaged 15 cents a pound, or about $75 a bale, to tne pro ducer. It is not hyperbole to say that, from this angle, it has been lifting mortgages with the velocity of dynamite.

That does not take into account the saving at twov other ends: Cash brought by the increased corn yield, diversification generally, and money kept in the south formerly sent west for grain and meat Footing up the iron, the coal, the timber and the manufactured products yielded by the southern states, the financial value of this section to' the rest of the country begins to appear. The latter is emphasized with respect to cotton. For the annual tide, of foreign gold that comes here to pay for cotton is the reliance of the na tion bankers lor keeping our international casn Daiance on tne right side of the ledger. If we have achieved this position with scientific agriculture. diversification and manufacturing yet in their infancy what may we not anticipate when all tnree snail come into tneir own and the millions of idle southern acres be surrendering dividends to thriftv American settlers? Neither is the imaee a dream unless coming conditions com monly known of the most rational business men may be called that.

THE BIRTH OF A NEW REPUBLIC. Out of the tragedy and travail in Mexico a new republic is being born. We have previously been so occupied with the opera bouffe aspects of the situation, and our grave responsibilities in the premises, that we have but lately awakened to the end at which events are driving. But the significance is now unmistakable. The fall of 'Juarez may or may not cause the fall of Dia2, or even recognition by America of the belligerency of the insurrectos.

It will, undoubt edly, centralize the disaffection that has heretofore undermined Mexico, and bnng closer the substitution of the new lor the old order. It seems we have been halfway sleeping all these years in our viewpoint toward the country of Diaz. What we mistook for a democracy was really a benevolent despotism. And now rises doubt as to the benevolence of the despotism, with no doubt at all of the inability of the failing dictator to mold the destinies of tne new nation today its oirtn throes. There is to be, eventually, popular government in the third largest state on the continent.

It may not come by Madero. It may. indeed, be delayed in its coming for several months or years; for the insurrectos have displayed a "singular lack of cohesiveness, and the country itself, like all nations where illiteracy flourishes, a rather pitiful incapacity to march forward sanely to a. definite purpose. But in the end a new and great republic is to rise upon the ruins of the domain of Maximilian, and upon the foundations of the government created by Diaz.

For "when all is said, it may not be denied that the once omnipotent old man has built the skeleton of stable rule in Mexico, though it seems now that the detail must be wrought in newly by hands more in sympathy with ideals that will stand the fire test of democracy. So that beneath the seeming sordidness and triviality of what appears to us guerrilla' warfare there is something after all suggestive of the portentous and majestic. The best we can hope is that the United States will not be disastrouslv involved in the work out of the salvation of a newly aroused peonle. I "JUST FROM GEORGIA" rtsrbv FRANK L. STANTON.

The Cry of Lift. way There, are blossoms where we But It's toll and toil, 'to the Judgment Day. At the cry of Life for bread. And to bo there. In the careens fair! But the grip of toll Is everywhere.

The stars gleam bright In the holy night, But we dnan of the day that's For sun there comes, with the morn lag light. The cry of Life for bread. And at dim rest. With a Sower on the' breast. And the old world whisper, "God The Roa4 to Little Rock.

"Good lock to the boys on the Little Rock road!" said the Old Philosopher. 'And It'll be a great gathering of war that reunion. They talk about the 'thin gray line' of veterans, but I notice that the line always steps lively enough on the wsy to the joyous reunions. Life and battle spirit in the old boys still! At these reunions they get young again, fighting the battles over warming hearts and hands at the camp Ores of the war hills and valleys of the Past. They seem to get more appreciation then for the hearts and homes of Dixie are wide open to them, and they don't feel so close to 'Fame's Sternal Camping Ground." "It's all right to talk of 'Glory' acting sentinel to the white tents In the Silent Country, hot jolly gatherings on this green old earth will keep the gray line with us longer: perhaps op there, In dne time, but the thrill of three cheers when the bands play Dixie' puts' new life In tlal barbecues always get the far pale incense of glory.

"A reunion a week wouldn't be too much for the health of the old brig, adesl" A mockln'blrd la singin', and his soul la in the 'He's thankful for the sunshine the Hay: And a feller with a fiddle Is a aalvln' Ufa's big riddle At a cabin door, with "Darlin" Nelly Gray." Nuggets From Georgia. 1 that the fire doesn't go out In this world, and that you'll the We dance as long as the old life fiddler plays, and then go growling home when he passes his hat for pay. Many a man who feels that his life work Is to "save the party," wants to lead it to his private picnic grounds and monopolize the speech, making. Of course, Judgment Bay will find unresigned office holders calmly wait ing for promotion to the soft places in Paradise, where resignations are no more. The Sure Prophet.

Though hard my lot la here below fThey rushed me through the Settle When I fooled 1 "Rest content, July!" Aa sure as day And a flower In May, They'll burn up next July NEW PISTOL LAW TO HIGH COURT Up to the Supreme I to Decide Canstitu Tbe question of whether or not Geor gla's recently enacted plstol totlng law la constitutional or not, is now up to the supreme chart. The case of J. L. Strickland, against the state, which came up from the city court of Carrollton. and which mvolv the constitutionality of the act, was neara By tne supreme court Mo morning, the ease having been ti rerrea to the supreme court by the court of appeals.

fined under the law passed last su mer, "and which provides that all pt sons carrying, pistols, openly or ce cealed. must register with the ordinary and obtain a license. Strickland ap There are several cases of this char' eter pending in the higher court, bu he Strickland case was taken up as 1 est case, and the Judgment In that casi rill be made the judgment In all oth re. A decision will probably be ran iered within the next few weeks. GRANDSON OF MENELIK PROCLAIMED EMPEROR Prince Lidji Takes Over Reins of Government in Prince Udjl was proclaimed heir to the Abyssinian throne on May 18.

1909, when he waa 18 years old, two days before ha had been married to Princess Rorkana Onok. the year old gTanddausrhter of the late Emperor John and a niece of Empress Toltu. At taken over the affairs of because of the Incapacity was appointed guardian of the heir apparent The regent died on April IS last. 1U Balnbrldge. May (Special.) The county and city authorities, in one of the most important road work and the most useful.

It consists of an 18 foot fill and viaduct, with a 50 foot roadway about 200 yards long. leading from bluff at the foot of Calhoun to the Flint river bridge, making a grade of lees than 5 per cent. Formerly, at this point, there waa a steep grade and a sharp curve at the bottom, where numbers ot serious accidents have happened, and Uvea have bean tost. The new road erfmlnaes all danger, and facilitates the congested travel coming from the west aide over the bridge. The authorities are to be congratulated on thla important enterprise.

YOUNG DOCTORS GIVEN DEGREES Are Forty Four Stu meneement of the Southern Dental college, held yesterday afternoon at the Qraad. forty four students received their diplomas. The degrees were conferred by Hon. T. A.

Hammond, appropriate Introductory remarks preceding te delivery of the diplomas. Following the overture, the program waa opened with an Invocation by the Rev. Rolderby, chaplain of the college, after which the annual report of the dean. Dr. S.

W. Fon.r mary of the year's affairs of the college lng very nicely. The degrees were Hon. H. H.

In Donalsonvllle for violating I next conferred tlon by the at" ss being; divided delivered tfc. address ot the occasion In his characteristic style, and this, together with the valedictory address by Dr. J. Russell Mitchell, proved of much Interest to the large audience assembled to see the young dentists receive their diplomas. The benediction waa pre nouaced by Rev.

H. L. Bdmondaon. Degrees were conferred upon the following students: Johnnie Adams Bishop, James Hln ton Brewton, Cecil James Bowling, Lucius Wesley Busbee. William J.

Conway. Fred Wilson Carruth, Victor Charpla, Martin Luther Dominion, James Everitt, Robert J. Exley, Henry Levi Gay, Thompson Oscar Grlgg Raleigh Hardin Orlffm. Robert Hart, George Waddell Harmon, Ruble Blrt Henry. John H.

Hacks, Claude Everett" Hilary Herbert Kendrlca, Edward Francis Lafitte. clabus Lloyd John Russeli Mitchell. Antonio Maria Marquettl, Hugh McDonald. Clinton McEntyre. Broiler McCune Nash, Samuel J.

Parker, Joseph A. Rogero. Christopher Columbus RuaeelL Rafael Jose Remaldoa, Jaeper Newton Reddlck. Max Springer, Emmett x.r,*r Enforce. "Blue Lews." Balnbrldge, May IS.

(Special.) grand Jury of Decatur superior ourt. In session last week. Indicted drug stores In Balnbrldge, two in iron City lng cold drinks and cigars on Sunday. Aa a result of the indictments, all places In Balnbrldge were eloaed yesterday, and it waa Impossible tor anything to be obtained. Consequently mucn grumbling about the eniorcement of blue laws.

The indict 1 ed parties will likely fee given a trial uncertainty. now ane gamed a Manoav. weex. A doctor with much knowledge of East End life tells this story of how a Most ray on rremiunu. wince so uw betay swam Utile Jewish glrVof years earned Washington, May 15.

Non resident Austell School Commencement. Test la the sataluies Use; the pence neceasary to enable her to Insurance companies operating In Lou Auatea May 15. ot. sr. am la woosheas share In a summer holiday She began Islana must pay taxes upon premiums Commencement exercises of Austell or'to tsTaerauaaei sot wltb a of one halfpenny, with due them under open accounts with res public school Friday "JT ,11 which she bought a sheet of brown Idents of that state, according to a an with exercises by hErh or net the bimop.

paper. This she sold in Petticoat Lane preme court decision today. It la said school gMidea. aSmenceroent ssf waer. urM ae suet sae ssowt for one penny, and with thla she the decision opens the way for other mon.

May 21, at 11 a. by Rev. E. K. bought two more and sold and resold states to levy similar taxes.

The in Aiken, of Kirk wood, Ga. Monday May till she had the money. ahe wanted, surance companies stubbornly contest 32, at 9:30 a. exercises of primary tad so the bottertle. Another part of the story Is that she ed the case, and contended that' there grades.

Literary address at 11 aTm. J'" hid the money In her bed, and her waa a difference between a premium by Hon. Herbert Clay, of Marietta. mother would hardly credit her story due on open Insurance account and an May 22. at p.

m. Lecture by the gorgeous peepy sasi when she told her how she bad earned open merchandise account belonging to 1 Rev. Marvin Williams, of DouglasvUle. Red bluing 1. the the money.

a non resident. I Ga. sow Oh) gala When Us 4w ft SoasT mmTJSSSh Mrs. Worry a.voicht Or Oh) limpid nun Where tie lUUs lesat wb iJJsD And a. ereea the "Strslsa Sea," I LtT MCB OH I MOPC ShC Where will the pejlld Bestsata WALL.

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OVtC HAVE TO (AtOfl ATAiti ooooKiesA ill urr tu.m) DR. MORRIS TO DELIVER Jt COMMENCEMENT SERMON ML Atlanta Religious Editor and I I i A Lecturer Moody I Martin. May I published at this place, said? 8 ll I Dr. Silas L. Morris, editor of The Ml I pinT of and.