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THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD. WHijT does it profit them? itmr ll.e foolish people grumbling at the W!<ul and at the* rain; Tfcey complain nbout their losses or the little that they train; They arc frettllur Under burdens that have bent their shoulders low; They are mourning for the chances Hint they missed long, long ago; Thinking all the world Is drear, With sad faces they appear; But what profits are they gaining for the sadness that they show? {tee the foolish people frowning as they hurry on their ways. They have neither time for smiling nor for giving othe.s praise; They are thinking of their sorrows, which are always multiplied; They are hearing woes that ever In their minds arc magnified; They are hurrying along, Thinking all that Is Is wrong; But what profits are tln-v gaining for the joys they put aside? Hear (lie folisli people grieving over fan- rled slights and wrongs; They decline to search for gladness and they hum no hopeful songs; They arc looking out for evils and for getting In their haste To perceive tli glowing splendor of the precious days they waste; l'urdcnlhg them solve, c. with hate, They are cavilling at Fate; Hut what profits are they gaining for the bitterness they taste? Bee the foolish people passing joys they have the right to share; They are busy hunting trouble, they are clinging to despair; They go peering Into corners In their search for sin and shame; They are blind to all Hi" beauty that surrounds them; full of blame For the man whose look Is glad. They pass onward, bowed and,sad: Hut what profits are they gaining for the glee they will not claim? — S. 13. Kiser, in Fhleago Hecnrd-llernld. THE MAGIC BASS By Paul H. Woodruff. It was along In the latter part of March that I dropped In on Jack one evening and found him inspecting a short, flimsy looking fish-pole. “You must have It bad," I observed, "to go fishing in March, with the Ice not all out yet.” Jack looked at me in mild astonish ment. “Why, I'm not going fishing,” he re plied, "can't you know. Bass sea son don’t open 'til the 15th of May. I'm just looking over my tackle a bit, to be sure everything is ship-shape. "In fact," he added, "I may confess that I will probably do the same thing every day from now till the season opens.” “Well, I suppose you have nothing else to do with yourself,” was my scornful comment. "It’s a pity, Jack, that you haven’t got a man’s work to do, to make you remember you're not a kid. How a grown, one hundred and eighty pound man can spend val uable hours—yes, days in trying to fool and capture by strategy a little four-pound fish that he don’t need is beyond me. But to idle away the best of Hie year in gazing at the tools he uses to delude and ensnare the slimy objects is—well, the limit.” "So you cull a four-pound bass lit tle, do you? Shows you know nothing about it. Pretty long remark for you, though, doctor,” said Jack, with a grin. That’s the trouble with Jack. When you get him with an unanswerable ar gument he grins. One might as well allow him ills view of things, for he will take it anyway. “Well, Jack,” 1 resumed in a less in dignant one, "I will concede that you enjoy it. But I should sec the point more clearly if you fishermen were adding anything to the world’s store of knowledge. If you were discover ing new species of fish, or ways of propagating them scientifically 1 might be interested.” “We are adding to the world's store of simplicity, and contentment, and right living,” he replied seriously. “But you bring something to my mind ■that I am very curious about. Per haps wou would catalogue it as a sci entific discovery. “The Indians call it ‘Me-da Mon-nuh- she-gan,’ which translated means Magic Bass. He is said to be much like other black bass in appearance. But his peculiar attributes are these; “He must be caught by casting, with a surface bait, so that you can see him rise to it. He may be taken in running water where the clear cur rent foams over mossy bowlders and through gurgling, sunlit shallows; or in the silent pools where the forest hangs darkly over the stream. He may be taken at some still lake’s grassy marge where the water lilies build him a green and white and golden canopy; or in the open places when the west wind’s magic turns the glassy surface into silver. "But wherever you find him you will see that Nature rules supreme. And whether in brawling stream or quiet pool, in some peaceful lilied bay or just beneath the rippled broad ex panse, where the wild beauty of the spot makes your heart beat faster, ■there may you find the Magic Bass. “And this is his magic; That when you have fought him inch by inch, an%i have looked upon him as he lay exhausted in your landing net, you are his forever. For wherever you go and whatever you do there will come to you ever and often a dream of his first leap into the air, of the tugging line and of his body at your feet, and indistinct behind it all will lie the sparkling water, and the forest and the blue sky. In the dead of winter you will of a sudden hear the soft splash of the bass rising to your fly; you will feel the sudden tautness of the line, and the snow outside your window will melt into a summer landscape. When you are busiest there will come to you the song of the reel and the smell of pine and fir and balsam. That is the magic of the Mo-da Mon-nub-sho-gan " I had meant to laugh. But as 1 fol lowed without conscious volition Jack's outburst of imagery, some elemental emotion, long forgotten, stirred within me and I seemed to see as he saw and feel when he felt. "And how will you recognize the Magic Bass when you have caught him, if he so greatly resembles other bass?" I asked respectfully, even eag erly. "You will know,” answered Jack slowly, “because he will seem to you to be the most beautiful object you have ever seen.” "I am not a fisherman," I said gravely and without scorn. "But I know something of men, and the in fluence must be strong that will move a large man so easily. I am tempted to go with you.” Jack stuck out his hand. "It's a promise, doctor,” was all he said. There arc many men who are horn with the magic of Nature in their hearts, who grow up from childhood unconsciously believing that Heaven is a place of lakes and brooks, of bills and forests. There are others who gradually or suddenly attain to that sense after years of narrow life and cramped ideals. I was of the latter. What a marvelous summer it was! Onward wo paddled, through lake and stream and lake again; through foam ing rapids where the trees hung dark ly over, and through smiling rivers where the sun shone brightly on the meadowy shore. Through pleasant summer heat that once seemed unen durable, exulting in the storm that once seemed awful—ever onward, pur suing the Magic Bass. And when at last we were home again with the color of Indians and hearts of great content, I said to Jack: “Well, old fellow, we didn’t get our Mnglc Bass, after all. The ones we did get were so beautiful that I almost forgot to look for him. But next spring we will go again and I think we will find him. Here's to the win ter! May it pass speedily.” Jack was silent for a long time. Then with a smile; nuh-she-gan, doctor,” he said.—The Outing Magazine. MUSTACHES ORDERED. British War Lords and the American Girl. American women are just at present in bad odor with the British military authorities. For the latter do not hesitate to iisr.ribe to the all powerful influence of the daughters of Uncld Sam tiie growth of the practice by officers of shaving the upper lip and parting their hair in the middle. Now this is contrary to the military regu lations in England, and from time to time general orders have b?sn issued by the War Department in Ixmdon expressing its disapproval of the clean shaven face of its officers, as being “unsoldierly" and demanding that they should at once proceed to grow a mus tache. These general orders have been more honored in the breach tnan in the observance, and at length mat ters have reached such a pitch that drastic measures are contemplated. It is understood that King Edward, as chief of the army, entertains very strong views about the matter, and that it is by no means improbable that he may take advantage of some of the levees next year at St. James’s Pal ace either to bar clean shaven officers of the army from his presence, or, If he does receive them, to express his disapproval of their disregard of his wishes and'of the military regulations. This question of hirsute adornment is a matter which has always engaged the attention of rulers and of their war department. Queen Victoria attached much importance thereto, as is shown by her correspondence witli the late Bight Hon. Hugh Childers, when he was in office as Minister for War. Only one regiment of cavalry in the Austro-Hungarian army enjoys the prerogative of dispensing with mus taches, in memory of the magnificent gallantry of the corps in a certain bat tle of the Seven Years War, when, owing to the terrible loss of life in previous battles, it went into action composed almost entirely of beardless boys, the only thing available in the way of recruits. In those days mustaches were re stricted almost exclusively to the cav alry. The great Napoleon would not permit any of his infantry regiments to wear hair on their upper lips, ex cept his veterans of the so-called Old Guard, who were allowed mustaches as a special privilege and as a reward fo rtheir services. Hence their nick name of “Les Moustaches Grises de l’Empereur.” Nowadays mustaches are required in all branches of the army, and so particular are the rulers of Germany and Austria about em phasizing the military character of this hirsute adornment that they have in the past repeatedly taken means to express their strong disapproval of the wearing of mustaches by civilians peremptory orders having been on sev eral occasions sent to the actors at state theatres, and even to certain branches of the state administration, exacting that all hair should he re moved from the upper lip.—New York Tribune. Alfred’s Inference. “1 see xtiat a man in Kansas lias applied for a patent for a spanking machine b* lias invented,” chuckles Mr. Flitchtrs, looking up from his paper. “Did he have to invent one, papa,” asks little Alfred, “because there aren’t any more women like mamma?” —Success Magazine. Georgia CuIIings Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Savannah Fixes Locker Tax. The committee of the whole of the Savannah city council fixed the locker club license at $300. The liquor license at Savannah has been $200 a year. It is said there will be a number of locker clubs organized in Savannah after January . Some are in process of organization now. * * • Suspected Safe Blowers Arrested. Suspected of being professional safe crackers and accused of dynamiting the safe in the Bank of Sharon, two neatly dressed young white men, giv ing their names as J. P. Eaker, who says he is a Southern railway conduc tor, and George Baston, a saw mill man, were taken to Atlanta by Sheriff W. Y. Edwards of Taliaferro county and locked in the police station there. * * • Dangerous Counterfeit Tens. What is considered by bankers and secret service operators to be the most dangerous counterfeit bill since the famous $100 note several years ago, has turnod up in Atlanta and as a re sult there is considerable activity among officials of the government's treasury department. This dangerous counterfeit is a ton- dollar bill of the series 1901, check letter “A,” and is known as the “Buf falo Bill.” So far five of them have been discovered in Atlanta and se cret service officials are of the opin ion that a dungerous band of crooks is operating in this section of the country. * * * Will Open School January 8. The trustees of the fourth district ag ricultural Rnd mechanical school, at a meeting in Carrollton, ordered that the treasurer of the school collect all un paid subscriptions and solicit further contributions to pay the debts con tracted in behalf' of the school. It is ordered by the trustees that the con tractors proceed to complete the build ings without delay. It satisfactorily appearing that the people of Carroll county are determin ed to comply with their contract to complete the school building and, hav ing confidence in their ability to com ply with their obligation, it was or dered by the trustees that the school be opened on January C, 1908. * * * Problem for Comptroller. Comptroller General William A. Wright has a knotty problem to solve in his capacity a sstate insurance com missioner. Some time ago the Flor ida Life Insurance company, chartered linder the Florida laws, applied for license to do business in Georgia. Be fore the Georgia commissioner can grant a license to an outside com pany, such company must file a cer tificate showing that it has $100,000 in money or negotiable bonds deposit ed with the state treasurer. The Florida law does not require such deposits. When acquainted with this fact, the Florida company desired to make the necessary deposit in Geor gia. As it is an entirely new point, General Wright has asked the attor ney general to render him an opinion on the matter. * * * River Survey Completed. After having been almost continu ously engaged for nearly two years, surveyors have completed the work of making a survey of the great water power of the Chattahoochee river be tween Columbus and West Point. It has been declared that this is the largest waterpower in the country, with the exception of Niagara and the result of the surveys seems to bear out these contentions. In a distance of 35 miles tile river falls 365 feet, affording a mighty en ergy that is estimated to be considera bly over 100,000 horsepower. Most of this power is owned by the Columbus Power company, a corporation backed by $350,000 of New England capital, and the surveyors who have just com pleted their tedious task were in the employ of this company. * * * Ba.d Vinegars Tabooed. Vinegars made out of acids and chemicals must vamoose from Geor gia. Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson has issued summons to 23 retail grocers of Atlanta, Macon, Sa vannah and Brunswick, who are charg ed with selling adulterated and mis branded vinegars. Samples were secured by State Chemist McCandless, who made the analysis. Not a trace of apple vine gar was found in twenty-three of the thirty-three samples tested. In his report to the commission, Dr. McCandless says that the vinegars re ported contained acids injurious to health. One apple grower has written the department that these adultera tions have practically driven apple vinegar out of the market and have done serious injury to the apple-rais ing industry. * * * Georgia Property Tied Up. Commissioner Hudson has returned from Jamestown, where lie superin tended the packing of the Georgia ex hibit and tried to wind up the state’s affairs there. All of the state buildings are now tied-up in a laborers’ lien on the whole exposition property. The employes of the exposition are trying to recover wages due them. It is hardly proba ble that the state buildings can be held, as they belong to the states, and the land upon which they rest is held under a 90-dHy option from December first. But the whole mntter is in court now and until an adjustment is reached Georgia cannot sell its building, which was modeled after Bulloch hall, the home of President Roosevelt’s mother. * * * I* Up to Roosevelt. A Washington dispatch says: The threatened removal of Postmistresses Mrs. Mary Melton at Conyers and Mrs. Hattie F. Gilmer at Toccoa has had a far-reaching effect. It has brought about a change of program in the post- office department. The action of President Roosevelt in sending for Postmaster General Meyer following the visit of Colonel Living ston to the white house Is taken tn mean that the president will turn down Mr. Hitchcock. The latter will prob ably still make nominations and chang es, but these will be scrutinized and revised carefully by the postmaster general before being passed on to the president. If any more postmasters or postmis tresses are to be put out, and that Is not improbable, the president proposes to see that they are superseded by Taft men and not Cortelyou workers. That is the crux of the whole mat ter. The fight for delegates to the national convention is on in earnest Mr. Hitchcock is one of Mr. Cortel- you's most activo lieutenants, while Mr. Meyer, the postmaster general, is friendly to Mr. Taft. • • * Freedom Near for Counterfeiters. With the release from the federal prison at Atlanta on December 29 of P. S. Coffee, formerly a farmer und mill owner of Henry county, the sen sational counterfeiting case which stir red Atlanta in 1904 will be revived. When Coffee receives his liberty, there will be only one remaining in the prison and he will be released shortly after the first of the new year. The last of the group, a citizen of Atlanta, hi J. N. Little. The others of the group received shorter sentences and have been en joying liberty for some time. The case which sent four Atlanta men to the prison and caused the ar rest of two others occurred in 1904,, and the plot to float $13,000 in “Buf falo” bank notes was nipped by se cret service officers. It was charged by the government that Coffee was the man who furnished the money to have the counterfeit plates made. Little was charged with having been the go-between and the man who secured an engraver to do the crooked work. Rebb were two pressmen who were convicted by the government and sent up. It was charged they printed the queer and that Will Wynne made the plates. Wynne confessed and w,as used by the government as a witness. He admitted helping to make the plates, and implicated Charles Mans- ton, another engraver, but no con viction was secured in the ease of Manston. Coffee and Little were sentenced to pay a fine of $1,<|00 each and to serve four years. McMlchael and Rebb got $500 each and two years. The case against Wynne was quashed by th9 government. WIDOWS AND CHILDREN Made Destitute by Frightful Mine Hor ror Will Be Aided. The permanent relief committee, headed by Governor Dawson, to pro vide for the widows and orphans in distress through the recent explosion at the mines of the Fairmont Coal company at Monongah, W. Va., has pre pared an appeal for funds that is be ing sent to chambers of commerce and kindred organizations all over the country. All newspapers are urged to aid the work by receiving contributions, ac knowledging them through their col umns and sending them to the treas urer. Contributions of clothing, toys for the orphans at Christmas time and similar donations are to be sent to W. H. Moore, mayor of Monongah, and chairman of the committee looking after the temperoray wants of the vic tims. Monongah is a mining town of about 3,000 inhabitants. This disaster has de stroyed almost one-half of the bread winners. The other half is composed of the employees of two other mines of the same company, and of the usual stores, etc., which go to make up a purely mining community. Fully 250 widows and 1,000 children are left without any means of support. The magnitude of this disaster is too great for West Virginia to render all the help required. It commands na tional attention and the relief commit tee feels sure that its appeal will bo heard and responded to by the nation. All checks should be made payable to the Monongah Mines Relief Commis sion, J. E. Sands, Treasurer, Fairmont, W. Va. A MILLION ALIENS Swarmed to Our Shores Dur ing Past Fiscal Year. ALL RECORDS SMASHED Total Influx Was 1,285,349 According to Report of Commicsioner Sargent. South !a Just Beginning to Draw Well. Immigration for the yenr ending June 30, 1907, was vastly greater than lu any previous year in the history ot the United States. The fact, with all its interesting and important details, ir, placed in strong light in the an nual rejiort of Frank P. Sargent, com missioner general of immigration and naturalization, which was made pub lic at Washington Sunday. Of this great flood ot' Immigrants, Commis sioner Sargent says: “An army of 1,285,349 souls, they have come, drawn hither by the free Institutions and the marvelous prosper ity of our country—the chance here afforded every honest toiler to gain a livelihood by the sweat of his brow or the exercise of his Intelligence- surpassing in numbers the record of all preceding years.” The immigration for the year 1907 exceeded that for 1905 by 184,014, and that for the year 1905 by 258,850, or an increase of over the year 1900 of more than 17 per cent, and over the yenr 1905 of more than 25 per cent. During the fiscal yea*/ 1906, 12,432 aliens were rejected at our ports; dur ing the past fiscal year, 13,164, an increase of 632; hence the total num ber of those who have sought admis sion in 1907, viz.: 1,293,413, exceeds the number who applied in 1906, viz.: 1,113,167, by 185,246. Commissioner Sargent says It is of particular significance that matiy im migrants landed at ports in the south during the past year, and he refers especially to a party of 473 Belgians— excellent types of immigrants—receiv ed at Charleston, S. C., having been induced to go there by the state au thorities. The increase of immigration to the south, the commissioner says, “is directly connected with the grow ing desire of the southern states to draw within their boundaries a num ber of tiie better classes of immi grants, it being considerrtl by practi cally all of the leading men of that section that the future development and welfare of the south depend upon its ability to receive and absorb a reliable laboring and fanning ele ment.” Striking increases are also shown at New Orleans, Galveston and Hono lulu. Interest nat urally attaches to tiie pro portionately large immigration from Jnpan. While the exclusion laws have rendered practically nil the immigra tion from Chinn, the immigration from Japan, although relatively not groat, has doubled in the past year. This increase is significant, too, because it comes in the face of regulations adopt ed by the American government, with the assent of Japan, which it was supposed, would curtail the immigra tion of Japanese to this country very materially. The reports show that thousands of Japanese landed in Mex ico during the past year, and ultimate ly gained admission, surreptitiously, into this country. Once in the Uni ted States it was impossible to locate them, except in the rarest instances. The total amount of money brought into the country by arriving aliens was $25,599,893, or an average of almost $20 per person. Of the 3,064 aliens who were turned back during the year, 1,434 were con tract laborers, 30 per cent less than in the preceding year. In a discussion of the new immigra tion act, Commissioner Sargent very strongly urges that advantage be taken of a provision it contains for calling an international confeicnce on immi gration and emigration. EXPOSITION RECEIVERS NAMED. Federal Judge Waddill Makes An nouncement of Appointment. Judge Edmund Waddill of the Uni ted States circuit court at Richmond, has announced the receivers for the Jamestown Exposition company. They are Messrs. Alvah H. Martin, late di rector general of the exposition; Ed ward T. Lamb of Norfolk and William M. Geddes of Washington. The National Bank of Commerce of Norfolk is made the depository for all funds received. A bond of $50,000 is required of the receivers. LINERS BADLY BATTERED. Big Steamships Limp Into Port Show ing Evidences of Storm. Battered by engulfing seas that de layed their passage across the Atlantic, seven trans-Atlantic steamships, due at New York Saturday, crept into port Sunday with their sides and super structures showing evidence of the continual storms they met. HORSE-LAUGH IS COMING To Prohibition Statesmen in Con gre3s Who Attempt to Foist Universal" “Dry” Law. A Washington special says: T;,^ prohibition question is a live wire with statesmen from the south just now peclnlly those who come from states that have already, or are about to en act statutory prohibition laws. So f u u of current is the wire, that they are sidestepping and tiptoeing, i n an ef fort to placate their constituents and at the same time maintain their refu tations. It’s a job, too, is this at tempt to escape the “laugh" list and satisfy the folks at home who are y e ]j. ing for prohibition. Here is the hitch: There is in the constitution of the United States a paragraph which insures to each stute the right to govern and regulate its internal affairs—state’s rights—but the prohibitionists at home, the wool hut boys and the good women who mould public sentimeftt, insist upon a w tional prohibition law. The senator or representative who introduces a bid to “dry” up the United States will at once go down as the biggest “laugh" of the sixtieth congress, yet If he fails and cannot explain, he may re main at home. Senators and representatives, es pecially those coming from the dry and partially dry states of the south, are being pestered to their wits’ end by enthusiastic temperance leaders among their constituents who believe a national prohibition bill not only possible, but probable. Their daily mall is full of letters and petitions urging j them to propose statutory prohibition for all of the United States, Porto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines and Cuba, if necessary. Thus far no such legislation has been proposed, and no such bill is like-1 ly to fall in the hopper of either house, bearing the authorship of » southern statesman. And it Is hard ly probable that the temperance lead ers in other sections of the country can induce any of their representa tives to champion such a measure. The reason should be obvious, espe cially to southerners, but there arol many representatives and senators in Washington who are ready to swia'I to the contrary. In their enthusiasm,I some of tho temperance leaders out-l side of congress seem to have forgot-l ten about the civil war and the umlcr-l lying causes for the bloody conflict! —they have eradicated from their I memories all thought of state's rights.! "Talk about centralization," exclaim-! ed a prominent senator from the sou:li| In a discussion of national pro-1 hibition, “but tho temperance folks to-l day take the cake. They would out-l Hamilton Hamilton, they would sw<-p;)I away the last vestige of state’s rigliwl In a single move, with a single stroke! of the pen, and then see the supreme! court set it back again. I "I am a prohibitionist, I have always! been one, and, further, I am a temper-1 ance man—I practice what I preach.! but 1 can. never and will never votal for a bill in congress to regulate and! control the internal affairs of the! states. 1 believe each state shouldl regulate Its own affairs, and though (I sincerely hope to see the day when! liquor hns been driven from each of I them, 1 will not vote to place th'I power in the federal government. Whonl we reach that stage, we might as well! abandon our state governments.” I The senator in question is a pr->| hibitionist, and as he himself said.! he is also a temperance man. H<i has been greatly annoyed during the! Inst two weeks or ten days by tbel number of letters and petitions he hasl received urging him to introduce a| national prohibition bill in congress,! but believing as he does, and his fa-1 ther before him did, in the sovereign! right of each state to regulate its ln-j ternal affairs he will not stultify him-l selr by proposing such legislation. And this particular senator is alone. Dozens of others have b een | besieged to present such a hill in con ‘l gross, and every one who has been approached gives practically the sam- reasons for not doing it. HOME DEFENDER PARDONED. Governor Comer Again Approves C M Unwritten Law. In Issuing a pardon to Thomas Keoj nedy of Jackson county for killing a l man who betrayed his daughter, G° v | ernor Comer of Alabama, said: “This man was convicted of an fenso committed In defense of M home; such offenses as these, I think right to overlook, and to the offender, that he may return the continued care and protection his family.” I MANY CORPSES RESCUED, j Total of 225 Dead Taken From E>P °1 Sion-Wrecked Mine. I Steadily and almost uninterruptc I nTnes Nos. 6 and 8 of the bah’ 1,1 ® I Coal company at Monongah, 1 are giving up the victims of the >■ _1 explosion. When the force 0 1 cuers went on duty Wednesday J thore had been a total of 325 1 taken out. I