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It is always ready with some pretext of lawyerly evasion. .. On Thursday the corporation brought suit in the federal courts to* set aside the ass2ssn;er.t imposed by the state board of equalization, taking refuge behind the plea that it is not a railroad company and, there fore, not subject to assessment; by the state board. It happens that the California constitution in defining the powers of the state board says nothing about "railroad companies." It says "the franchise, roadway, roadbed, rails and rolling stock of all railroads operated in more than one county in this state shall be assessed by the state board of equalization at their actual \ value." The Pullman cars are, of course* rolling stock of a rail-; road, and the franchise or good, will of the business is properly "assessed under this provision in addition to the actual value of The corporation further pleads that the assessment, fixed at $1,685,527; amounts' to confiscation of property by way of taxa tion, because, as the petitioner alleges, the plant is worth, in fact, only $866,368. This, of course, is matter of proof, butyit may be I saia now in answer tnat the corporation does not^come into court with clean hands in this matter, because it has constantly refused to furnish the state board with any information as to earnings," which must, always be the prime test of value. . If. for the sakei of argument, it assumed that the complaint states the actual ! cost of all Pullman cars operated in California, that, is not the final test oi value for assessment purposes as provided by the conr stitution. The state board is directed to consider the value of the franchise and to ascertain that the sum of earnings must be supr plied in evidence. The corporation has^ever furnished that informa tion, although repeatedly requested to do so, and in the absence of such knowledge an arbitrary assessment was justified in accord ance with the practice prescribed by law in such cases. As a matter of fact, the assessment is moderate, as will appear very clearly when the corporation is compelled by the court, to supply^ evidence of its earnings. THE AFFIDAVIT EDITOR' ON THE CANAL .~-.~-~.u- ''\u25a0 '\u25a0\u25a0 "^ rT"-'r T"-' '.•. • \u25a0 ' \u25a0 NO. 1 volume lof the Canal Record,, published at, Aneon, under the authority 6{ the isthmian" canal commission j Has made its modest appearance/; If this official organ of the commis sion shall depart from the past policy of concealment and misrepresentation that has characterised the press agency of .the caanl administration it will become a most esteemed contem porary. Otherwise it will be merely an- object of derision. \Ve hope that tht Canal Record has turned over a new; leaf. The editorial announcement says; among other -things: -,- \u25a0- .. . f -I Space will also be given to letters from employes relating to any topic upon which they roay choose to write, subject only to" the restrictions t)iat ficb communications mu«t be couched in respectful langiiage and- must be sigr.cd in each instance with the name and address .of. the writer. There is a hint of censorship in the phras^ "respectful language which may be supposed to' include, or rather ', exclude, a- multitude eA sfeis that grieve the official heart, but, perhaps, the blue pencil •will not often be required. The rebellious employe wijl seek. some other medium. Some idea of the social life on the canal is~ given. Tjiere-are four ' official clubhouses for employes, With a total membership above U600: The great American games of pool, biliiards.'baseball and basket ball are encouraged. The Record is discreetly silent about poker and bridge. Mention of these .'games might riot:- be "respectful" to the administration:' ;\\V ; rejoice" :tb' learn that' vaudeville is provide^ a§ well as quinine. Some of us would as soon take one 'meditirie as the other*. - \u25a0 z\h; \u25a0 There is one alarming note that;we find Hidden avvay-in a corner of -the Record,, and it $ays: "The commission printing plant- turned out 24,000,000 pieces of. printed matter during the last }'ear." . God help us; the affidavit editor has invaded the canal zone. SOME CLERICAL INTOLERANCE THE clerical view or, rather; the views of a .certain section of the clergy, on the matter of Asiatic 'immigration finds exaniple :in the following paragraph written . by the Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts: . . Our present relations to the yellow an4' brown man: can no. more con tinue than our former relations to the black man. They : ;are equally.inconsi stent with the golden rule and the declaration of independence; Public conscience, when informed and aroused, will again overcOrjie selfish interests.. If American' planters' and i cotton manufacturers "could nofiperpetuate^slavery, 5 surely a handful of ' foreign workingmeri cannot , permanently . e'ndariger and dishonor our country by their insulting cry, "Asiatics ; must gol" . Rather," race prejudice must go. . -.- .-.-•-- •\u25a0\u0084-\u25a0 These utterances breathe the old 'intolerant; spirit that people used to know under the name of odium •theologfcum— the spiritt of religious hate. Mr- Grafts: goe? on to declare thitUhe movement to exclude Asiatic immigration is "due tHe aggressive; activity. of a small minority; of foreign workmen, who terrorize." congress.'' This is quite painfully distressing. .Who:^^shMirrescuec^gressffrom' these- vain and silly alarms? This pinf-ppt 'measure : fo>;i 'movement that agitates. America, Canada, Australia and South Africa atTiUses: Four great people's terrorized; and^none in sight^ to save .themibiit Rev. .Mr; Crafts ! \u25a0 By some": astonishing \u25a0-, process?, of *t^(l!!pg^ca^reasphirig^Mfi Crafts sees in the exclusion movement a parallel? with i^the; slayer^ that ; existed in the - south \u25a0 before*, the i war; :: As -: a^matter bl : fact;: the EDITORIAL PAGE purpose of exclusion -is. to^-prevent^ the creation of ,a. class- of ser vile labor. I . ; - 'i': -'-"\u25a0' .\u25a0'.' . ; V'- •We would not I classify otlier clergymen t with Mr. Crafts, and yet there is a distinctively clericar type of mind of which, lie offers an example^ loquacious,^ half baked and half ;\u25a0 cocked/ always/ ready to exploit a capacious* ignorance with all the pretentious air of an escathedra -judgment. .-- .^' "' . •"" ;\u25a0. * . " .-. . .\u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0•.",-'>'\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0*. :. \u25a0 . '\u25a0 : '\u25a0:~~~ : .~- ' :.;*.'.--'..-';.'- '' : .' • ; r,--- \u25a0\u25a0•\u25a0. .:'•.*; fTIHE Santa -Barbara Independent ,^appeals' to €aesa'r,' .: Will "^!r. 1 1 r ; : Herpn kindly remove the boodler '. W ils.ori'f rom . tbe state rail- X. rgsid commission? All-, other \u25a0means have .failed. .Says the . Independent: ;. ' .' ;H*rrin possesses powers that heretofore have stood every test. Itis freely-. admittfed : .^that tj}e,"§outhefri *Facifi? "attorney /in';chief; is* the J. governor general i/of -'California;*-* H'ef made ; : Wiisonfal.railroad"'"coW^i*sßiorjer.v?He f ' can .un"^akehWiboa-andVtheVeby;wm;.thr^^^^ :',' :: *. . The: writer prays": that- th« ''reader* 'of this article will not construe his words'; oh Herrin; as .in Vany •'sense" sarcastic. .It is* but -' : t', plain statement "of facts. That ' the "people |of j California a'fe > 'satisfied- with" ; th'q - "conditions \u25a0 and their government ha 6 . been \ amply : proved .' iri the .'repeated elections, ' Hvhen they' have voted "again. toVepntinueHerrin? in "power. •"•. " : ' : ' Herrin has no%v the oppprtunity "to" prove ' hjs appreciation of [ the' loyalty of the people to, him. '.\u25a0''..." 7 ' ; : Mr. Heffin does not seem (to. share the prejudice against boodlers i and bribe takers. Indeed, ; they, are a commodity in VwhieH he deals: Whether the. b^ of offic? or- other^; inducement/ fie ; cannot afford to the industry. Wilson is worse;" than; hfs. colleagues -on the board, because he has been . found out ; but none of them lis honest. 'I They all take money \u25a0from the state -f or >/.whjch / --'tjiey-'iender' : no •\u25a0service." Jheir official is a :§candal, ' If they had any soft of decency they^would one arid all resign. - \u25a0 - - • \u25a0 •• ' Russia proppseV- to build the biggest battleship afloat.''; It will , be 'of ;. little use . for ; nghtivig: purposes ;ifi it doesn't stay ; afloat longer than- her other ones did. *-."..* :;;;.>;. • ..• Fairbanks supporters insistVthat'his boom . is not dead. To be sure,' , rigor mortis " has ; not set jn • . but ;i it's : suf 4 ficjently ; comatose to cease > worrying anybody but Fairbanks \u25a0 and his ad herents. -\u25a0*--."* .-I. : "i- v stfflSS \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0'•'\u25a0' '"\u25a0"'"' Governor Hughes' says • that ' the F. "W. Street of Soaora is at the Dor chester.V7'\ . •-/*- "".-"• ''\u25a0\u25a0:!\u25a0 •'..;;. ' : /' : ='- .\u25a0James J. -Hamlyn ;of ' Qrovllle Is at the Baltimore." ' ' : '' r V/-T\~ ';W/9B§&*i& Dr. S.VJ. Littler -is at the St.- James from Petaluraa. \u25a0.".;'\u25a0' Dr. G."~ G. Hart, Unjted States navy, Uat the ; sa.v'o'y.' \u25a0 '\u25a0"' 'V- "\u25a0' : "\u25a0- :: G. Herding, and' family ; of Sulpun ajre at the Stvjanves. :. '.' - * _\u0084 . -,r, r ' : -ji.'D.,'WaJ6hiis -kS guest, at- the -ba)6 from Kansas, City. \u25a0.;' ' Ciiarl ea ; ; E< c Day of ; Providence; R. ; I:, \» at the St; Francis-; >. Lieutenant v p.: J.?Morrlsaey : t« at'the Imperial (rojn* Boston". ' i \u25a0 . C, I*' BUlfs^i. inining:: operator of Oro vllle.iU^at' the^lraperJal.. . / ;.;:;. Theo'dbre Say«rs- .registered '. at\th<J Dale yesterday," from " Reno: J6hnipH.fMlU?r^andaMr£;g Miller of New^York cltyjarf ;at?th«^Sayojv / Dr. e7 : T.\ Gazley ; andi &Ir»;> Gaziey far« at* the : Mijestic' from v Austtii';< Nev.'r- • fc^dJutantlG^neral-^B.^LauckioflSaoi TUlman Gomes to Town, IfE^RIN, ;W|tSON 5T AL. NOTE AND.': COMMENT plundering of; the public has come to an'"end/r Too isn't on a par with his' optimism". Or, perhaps, . "he*^.thinks '.there's nothing left •. to- plunder/'. ..•'•:\u25a0;.;• 'i - . "\u25a0 - • ': ; Professor Howison of Berkeleyjhas barred riewspapermen.vfrom his^l'ec-r' tiires; : -Gonsjderirigt'vhow-Vmuch; he dislike* \u25a0- reporte.rs.v he can hardly/.be blamed, for /wanting ; to avoid, them in this : world, ; for,:- having called them lost soiils." he I cannot hope to escape them.in:th&.next: :i - . : ; :-.. ' "v^r. Personal Mention ramer.to is a -guest *at the Grand 1 Cen tral.- ";•..;-: \u25a0 \u25a0 v•,-;"..v •,-;".. •\u25a0\u25a0..".".;- ".' '.<;\u25a0 '-'\u25a0' ,"v;;- .•\u25a0-. : Alfred. Hanford; registered at: the.. St. : FranclS;yeaterflay u from" Sacramento-.- JaniesiM. Burchiaiid Mrs. «Biirch are guests at the Fairmont: from DHbuque.^ - Juliqf ;,Tutuef; :of*'Clev^iarid .took apartments^at? the; Fairmont; yesterday. -.V.S.'^ A. Spjliman . of Ottumwa, lowaTrarid Mrs."" Spillman are V guests at ; the Balti more., ''-:\u25a0.';•-'-:.* .--\u25a0^ '. : :-"" '.'\u25a0-, — :. ' .".P-. M- VRlqrdan, mine ; owner ; and ' iri vsstor, Is at .-the 'Fatrmorit : from : New .York."- "-''' ..-:-''\u25a0'.:\u25a0=. ] -'".r": /- - '-• :::, : -A. J.* .Roberts. ; a \u25a0?., mining cmari of araortgltheTgu'esta • at "the Savoy..-; ;--: c ',s '\u25a0. \u25a0; '\u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0 - ..'vi .v.'.v . -'.\u25a0: ,^\, Edward v AckVrman ;,*arid ;Mrs.; Acker man of ; \u25a0 'Anselrco are .at -: the' Dorr Chester. ''\u25a0">'\u25a0 .-..;.""\u25a0 -\u0084" / - H. ;N: Whl tf ord ; of JJanlia and ; Lucius Robsoa *of i New , York Tar e *" at . t'|ie\ Jef ?«rson*"-:v,: .•\u25a0;-; : •_:.. \u25a0 ••• - : ;;v>; " \u25a0.->'.'".',• ;v \u25a0\u25a0 . - Thomas. A: Ma-fshair. of Kelthsbufg,' Ind.,- Christopher SGottlech; of Kaiisaa Frorri the Call's Joke . Corner GOOD IDEA '\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0. "Ms*, landlady gives me a bored.lt*\ ing" whenever eht* speaks \<y me." "...;;; ': "Then.wtiy don't j"Ou get bokrd some : vbere" «lse?'-' . - •„--.•: BEATS "I wen^ to one of these- srand opry ishows S wh«a" f Was. down'- to th"« j city," said the postmistei I '," "an*. I cat there f^r.twoihours tryinVto flg^er It out, At last Isaysto' a. feller sittin" next to m«." :What'sthie^ thing'; about?" an' he" said. _'It's fcbout over;; thank the Lord V: This culch^r • business .' maV; be" all-right, "but wheh ; it .comesiriisrht : down" to enjoyin' music, ."give •. me - one : of . the", nsichinV p'ianers : an*^.turn"", loose old .'Swine't River.'" " ' ' -- :, :'\u25a0 ' ; ..- --'A 5. vs"PAii.V";- : --:\. .. : . '::\u25a0--\u25a0, . ''pid . those rairiingf atocfes go up tl}*t you.bougb.t last;rnonth?". ' "*v»o,~ but the:companyd!d." MUTUAL StrgPICIOTT "B]anK and ; BHnk: seem' to", be 'trying to r avoid • each 'Other • Ut«ly. ' Did they have'a cjuarre)?'"C. /' . .' ' '•" '.-; : -'"No;^bu't'.'lßUriktdwe'sr Blank " twenty and- is afraid Blank will 'ask: him i for it; and-'on- the other hand -Bl»nk 'is afrAid Blink "will" try to touch" hlnifor another twenty." Answers to Queries - .-SANK -IN f THE.-eATr-rC: M. K..' -A!»i medal- CaJ- .The ferry. boat-^sm-Rafapr sank .In ".the *bay " of San • Franeuco Ji<j-" vemb«r" 3d," 19O1;>; :!.'.. r ' ' \u25a0 \u25a0}'; v. ARBITRAT IpNr-A. i .,5.. _C[ty: -The United " \u25a0Railroads ; : company oftei-ed"' to settle * th« itroubli ; with" :* the ": carmen iby arbitration before : the sir Iks . last '>fay. L- WHEEL ': COMPANY—A. B. g.. Stock ton,' Cal. For v information '-/relative to Bom« , one; connected ;.wlth: a wheel; 'coni-' pa/iy of Toledo.' p.,-;addres* acoTninunir cation "to "the secretary" of the com pany. ' './ ' "J \u25a0 \u25a0;' ' ' \u25a0--. \u25a0 . -fr;l ./-.' / q.hd :, H. "'.. Justin, ; . who ara oh a.~f western hunting- trip.*: registered at .the St. Francis yesterflftvr ; ' >/ Charles, :'B:, Holjister.'.a s fruttf^^ grower of 'POrtlapd,' is 'registered at the Grand Central. -..' f ••./.. "." * -. .- ; •.;"."'.*-•: • 1 George ,W. \ Hoot {a.aA Mjr?. Hoot of Grass .Valley are afnbng \ the guests at .the;E>a.le^;V.'.-.""- ;''." \u25a0"-\u25a0'-.-\u25a0 -,'.."' . "_.' \u0084•''•,;-. ; \u25a0 B.. Golinsky and l^rs.v Goltnsky of Keiinett ; have apartments at ths « Ma"- Jostle" annex, "j :\-: \-- \\ r > " , -' : , : '\u25a0\u25a0• : ". -:- : H. '-iC- \u25a0\u25a0Pluriimer and' Mrs. Plumatier. registered : at "' the Majeeric'yeisterday fromfPlacervllle.>' rHap-ey^Gralnger^Mre. Grainger- a.*nd MlssjMary : Grainger I, of . Savannah, "Ga.i a'r*i«Lt*;t}tft F^irmon't."y,.V ..W.jHV/Cariaon." former mayor of San Diego. Js *aft : ,th'e,Fa!ririont.;-Ifs is' ae companled -by j his : w}f « aad ; •on.'^ n;7,~ : . 'i.Tr.^B.Tflric'kman.. general^agent \t6r Sarita"'.Fe:-lines x 'at : Sacramento. "Is j'at the_^Ha.mliri'With ;Mr«.' Hinchman. - ; !v j \u25a0/.TrillianvfH. .:*.Wet«H. L X specjaj - corre ispondent;'b(: the Evening Star.:. Washi* iii^ton. r>.,e.', : is ; 'a tithe'* Jefferson.. .He Is erathering ; data ; for:" special ; articles ; on the^Japanese 'fjuestionVV-J'^ ' - '•• Mrs/;;:" K: ; McCauly, Miss"A^M.iMlli ler, Mlss/iM. M: MlHer.'andMis's^Flpreiicft J ." BigelowV'* missionaries : en ; .route V? to Korea;"*; ar«?ifegistered; at \u25a0\u25a0; the f Grand Ceritral/^They:are|frora ; New'iYork;;- \u25a0 SEPTEMBER 22, 1907 Exploiting a Poet The queer literary effects produced on a bagr pipe at the expense of George Sterling and , Ambrose Bierce Edward F. Cahill TT TALKING by the circus tent on Market street the. other day I listened AA/ -for a'mbmentr to the man within who was making a noise like a lion 'on the bagpipe of an auto. Strange, mysterious sounds, they set the yeung imagination all agape with visions of lions, tigers and* chimeras dire. 'Hidden* behind the canvas the swelling roar gave a small boy the creeps, and after all it "was but a nature faker codging for nickels. . There, is no objection to circus methods in the circus, but when the brass banding and the. bagpipe squeezing and the burnt cork are applied to the exploitation of- v work of art for a'sordid purpose the^rocess is vulgar 'and .'debasing.* One feels a certain sympathy for George Sterling and Am brose Bierce for the shabby way they have been used as cheapjohn mer chandise. Mr. Sterling has written a poem. Mr. Bierce has praised it in terras that do not appear to me extravagant. All that is very well, but here steps in the editorial press agent and with clumsy fist tries to convert Bierce and Sterling into a minstrel show. It t3 the method of the circr.s faker making aya v noise like a lion by" squeezing his bagpipe to wheedle dollars from -j a hayseed pocket. "The celebrated and unexampled Mr. Ambrose Bierce,* 1 will 'appear in tights for this one occasion only. Mr. Bierce's legs are a poem. w Why should George, Sterling be converted into a holy show? Not very' long before Tennyson died he wrote to a friend on one of the literary reviews. "Don't, let the awkward squad fire over my grave." 1 But the cruelty is greater when the' sufferer is alive. * "The, piping of, the press agents will not accomplish its sordid purpose. Sterling's poetry will never be popular. That is no reproach, nor on the other hand'is popularity the poet's shame. Bierce compares Sterling's verse with Mijton's "Coraus." The comparison is apt. "Comus" is one of the greatest .poems ever written and I venture to bet my neighbor*? umbrella that not a hundred men* in America have read it through outside of the phil6lpgers, ! a truckling folk and- tiresome, suspected of cherishing Beowulf, whichsounds like a remark made, by a "dog. It was my fortune once to see '•Comus" put en the stage. Good Lord^ow many years ago!— at Drury ; Lane.. It was about that time they began to call the theater "Old Dreary." In .-all' "Comus"- there is; just one line that has fastened itself on the popular imagination, and that is always misquoted. It has earned immortality by transmutation into a proverb. Guess what. Every schoolboy ought to know that because, mind 'you, this is one of the greatest poems ever written, and rib circus about it. i Suppose we put ' Sterling m the class with Coleridge &id Keats. Does anybody read these poets nowadays? If it were all like this — I quote from memory?— _. In Xanadu did Kublai Khan But there are dreary deserts of words in both writers, while the best~3^ it is too go<rd for the popular taste. Yet the homely phrases of Gr3y"> Elegy have bscorne part of the everyday language of the plain people.- If there is any place in which Sterling fails it is perhaps in that exquisite sense of nature that Mathew Arnold attributed .to the Celtic influence on literature. I. cannot explain. this sense, but I may offer an example. Again Vquote from memory, a slovenly practice, but since the fire I have no books, jt is a line written by Mathew Arnold: The wide ur.plumbed estraying s*a: - So far as I know that is about the only really poetic line in ali> Arnold-"* verse, but that is glory enough for one man's achievement. . t : I advance the opinion with some diffidence that Sterling fails *ome\vh3t of this. -I can see that, he works fora like effect, but I venture to say v that the result^fs hard and creaky at the joints. It see.rr.s to me tolickftie spon taneity that- a little more, elbo^v grease might give. That sounds ;!ike 3. contradiction in terms, but it is not. I'dbnot insist on point. I merely Suggest, and infact there are verses in th* poem that nearly touch perfection in this regard, as fcJr instance-—. ' ". / The colored morning shakes .- A ; splendor on the rut>y sanded bead?. .. • ' \u25a0 Vet I think that Sterling's muse is one. of the Furies rather than the Nymphs.. = What more frightful than: ••• \u25a0 And Satan yawning on Ms brazen seat t .- •• . . v*i F Ond ifls; a screaming thing his fiends have flayed. o> That last line offers example of a common fault in Sterling's "verse. .'lt does not scan. _ ._ . • ": , ''• ggj % Verse Current in Press of Nation THE- VANISHED DAYS LAY the Jest about the julep in the camphor balls at last, For the miracle has happened and j the old* n days^are past: That which j^ake* Milwaukee thirsty • ; 4oeß not foayij in Tennessee,- • And the l!d In old" Missouri 1» as tight locked as can be^- < . Oh, the comic paper colonel and his </ ". cronies well may sjph, For th« mint is waviajr* gayiy. but tha '"south, is going: dry. r . .: . By the stilUido'onthe hillside in K«n .: ' -lucky. all isstUl, . . For th« only 'damp refreshment must * ' -be dipped up from the rill, No'th Ca'lina'* stately ruler gives his 'soda glass a shove, , Arid discusses local option with the j . South Ca'lina go v.: \u25a0 ; It is useless?- at the fountain to bs . . ' wlnkful of, the Qyttft&Smik .For the cocktail irlass is dusty and the soujth is golns dry. It is water, water everywhere, and not \u25a0 ' a drop to drink;*;; :.:,.:.• We no longer ; hear., the music of the ' mellow" crystal clink. • \u25a0 When i the • colonel arid - the major and --, •-"•\u25a0"; the gen'l.and the-jedgs Meet'to" have" a little-nip to their "appetites an edge, For the eggnop now Is nogless and the rye has gone awry, . '\u25a0•-,'. And the ; puxieh)bowl -holds carnations, and the south Is going dry. AH the nightcaps noTt- have : tassels and v ar« worn' upon the -head— Not; the nightcaps that were taken •when nobody went to bed; And the breeze above the bluegrass is " * aat 'solemn a? Is death. For it 'bears no pungent clove tang on its odorific-breathv - And \u25a0 each : ; man " can/walk a chalk - line \u25a0wheh the stars are in the sky, ; Foy' the' fi«; glass row is f^zzless. and . the south is gotric dry. . L4,yl the Jest about: the. julep 'naath the ."^cihestnut tree at list. For ' tbere*» but i one - felnd of moonshine ';\u25a0 • and the olden days are past; Conditions In California ;v.;.V.T"4» Ciiiforni»Prci-3tion eowaittw wir«d tl>» faUavriif ta' iU \u2666«*:•« ;bur**u'te'^«w York yeitariliyi \u25a0 • \u25a0"-'' CaJU«rnia t»rap»x»turei for th« lut 3J hsar*: Eureka \u0084 « . . M i»l«w» M .lluinna M . . ' U*l*nasiu* .. . . . . . .......... v ...Waimma 44. . .. . .lUsipua 70 / --: / Biß'Fraaoiiwbaildiaf p«naiu Ut tl>« WB»Ji,»a4t?s |*jit, *U 1307: .-.\u25a0 Permanent ;;.....»•....;.....,., Tt«,,,,.YA?w* \, »....,»,,.,.. .«n*0C3,C00 .^;>ut»r»tieß»^ ..'... ..;.::•.....,. , % 4»,,,,,,v»va* ,v\ ;\u25a0;\u25a0;." ,*k. '.'... 2?.0c0 ; : Arraafeiaects liave l>e«n mad* in t*cmß*nlia fw *n iMjtif»to^y «1m« A hot«l «tructar» ,'of 300 rooms,' at T«ath kod ' K atmU. «a * *ii» H-»*«i.». ?&» %»»t wf iiildln* *ad «it» vril : b« $Bso,ooo.'i^sg*3ppQ ; V .^erk ba»bejiin on tba'aw* buildinf, »» lnt|M «»mi *M CUr* Im»4, S»a Fkuxcmco. Xhi»"Vill It* an «ipht «tery cl*M A itruetui*. lU»m, wi* * Using of t«rt4 cott*. For the water /wagon rumbles through the -southland on Us, trip..:. And it helps no one to drop off to pick up the driver's whip,. For the mint bed makes a pastur* and the corkscrew hangeth high. All is- still along the stillside and the south Is going dry. -\ — Atlanta Georgian. • * • GETTING BACK TO GRANDPA'S I'd rather be to grandpa's house "Than any place I know; For grandpa says I anThi3 boy And grandma loves me- so. When I get down to grandpa's houaa You bet I'll make things hum; I There won't be no one then to say. "Now, sonny, stop that drum." I'll go barefooted in the grass And do just as I please; I'll paddle in mud puddl«3 and I'll climb the biggest trees; Til slide down the banisters; I'll shin up every door; I won't be scolded when I track Up grandma's kitchen floor. S'' - i When I get down to grandpa's house ' I'll be a boy again. _ Folks ain't afraid of freckles there, - Nor: bother "bout the rain. I'll ride thd horses bareback and I . - I'll walk on ev'ryfenca; ! No cr.e'll scold me when I tear My pants— gee. that's Immense ! I'd rather.be to grandpa's hocae ; Because I have such fun, j And^l'U be awful sorry when ' Vacation time is done. i. j I'll soon be down to grandpa's house " And be a boy once mare.*< \u25a0 I Where I 'won't get no scolding -when j I track up "grandma's floor. I — New York Sun EXGLAXD'S COLONIZATION SCHEME -Extract from a British schoolboys e«ay on how Engrland colonises:. "I will tell you Kow. Engiind obtain* her colonies. First sh* sends out h»r mis sionaries, and they look about for th*> best land. Whtn thay have found it they call \u25a0 the people to prayer, aad when their ey*s are fast shut up goes th* union jacJi."-