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Um THE ALBANY DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1906. ie Albany Herald —BY THE— ierold Publishing Co. McIntosh President , McIntosh 8ec. and Treas. . Davis Business Mgr. -very Afternoon Except 8unday. eekly (8 pages) Every Saturday. ERM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Herald, one year $6.00 y Herald, six months 2.60 r Herald, three months 1.26 kly Herald, 8 pages, one year 1.00 All subscriptions payable In ad- & ties a' Advertising rates reasonable and de known on application. Carde of thanks, resolutions of re- sot and obituary notices, other than oec which the paper Itself may give a matter of news, will be charged or at the rate of, 10 cents a tine, ex- ~pt vrhen such notices are, published charitable organization^, when a , eclal rate will be named. Notices of church and society and ill other entertainments from which a revehue Is to be derived, beyond a brief announcement, will be charged for'Ot the rate of 6 cents a line. Office, second floor Postoffice Build ing, corner Jackson and Pine streets. < The' Herald deals with advertising ents by speolal contract only, and advertising agent or agency Is au thorized to take contracts for adver tisements to be Inserted In this paper. ' :== THE HERALD 18 I Organ of the City of Albany. J Organ of Dougherty County. Official 'Organ of Baker County. Official Organ of the Railroad Com- mission of Georgia for the Seoond , Congressional District. ^ — TELEPHONES: Composing Rooih and Job Printing Office, 80 — 3 rings. Editorial Rooms and Business Of fice, 60, 'If you at It In The Herald It’s so. voptlse In The Herald It goes. i -WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1906. i= mu Thfi TUo State Democratic Executive ittee saw tbe drift of things In state and thought It was time to it a policy that would preserve the itegrity of the party. The rules and regulations adopted by the State Democratic Committee tor the Demooratlo primary this year, with speolal reference to the qualifica tion of voters, Is not different from : the ■ practice of some of the county committees of the state In paBt years, Only, white- Democrats who, when chal lenged, would signify their Intention to align themselves with the Demooratlo party and support the party ticket, state and national, have heretofore I 'peeu permitted to vote In the Demo- Wane primaries In some of the couu 'ties, and for these oountles the rules Inhl down by tho State Committee this year are in no wise “revolutionary," i)X. Why should a man who Is running .for the governorship of Georgia In a pemocratlc primary and who claims to ■stand for Democratic principles and ^measures object to having hl3 claims ■ passed upon bv Democrats alone? The howl that Is being raised In certain THE LOCUST BOOOABOO. We nre now being Informed from many different sources, mainly through the newspapers, that both the 13-year and 17-year locusts are due to appear this summer. And If we give credence to all the prophots and those who keep tab on the locust plague we may ex pect the locusts to be unusually nu merous and ravenoUB this year. Those who believe that the weather as well us pestilences and other calamities have some occult connection with the habits of Insects, birds and other ani mals are now telling us that they have occasion enough this year to fortify their belief In the malignant Influence exerted by the periodical locusts. An article In the Philadelphia Rec ord, discussing the locust plague, tells us that— quantity of self-sealing envelopes of uniform appearance and suitable size and q&allty for use In elections afore said.” But this act was amended on Nov. 30, 1900, by the legislature, the bill be ing offered by Representative Hitch of Chatham county, and the amend ment provides that— 1. The proper county authorities shall be provided with sufficient blanks, tally sheets and blank lists for vpters. In addition to those that are now furqlBhed. 2. That tally nheets shall have printed thereon proper heading and certificate, and, as far as practical, the names of the severe.! candidates, with proper headings and certificates. This opinion was expressed by Mr. Cook after a consultation with Attor ney-General Hart." i Hon. Ben Jones, of Macon, accuses The 13-year variety, despite Its unlucky number, Is not nearly as much of a “hoodoo" as the 17-year variety. It Is on record that the first appearance of the latter In Plymouth Colony In 1633 was at tended by a series of Ills. They “did eat up the gren things, and made such a constant yelling nblse as mado all the woods ring of them, and ready to deaf the hear ers; and there, came a very hot summer and a plague, which con tinued until cold weather and come a very hot summer and a plague, and near to Plymouth." We are not going to question the “record” handed down by the - Ply mouth Colony, but we must beg to be permitted to say that this 13-year and 17-year locust scare that is worked up periodically never materializes down here In God’s country. To be perfect ly frank about It, we don't, believe In the much-mooted and periodically pre dicted periodical locust plague. This writer has passed through several of these 7-year, 13-year and 17-year pe riods, and he has yet to see a plague of locUBts. We have more or less of tho locusts, the kind that "make the woods ring," every j'ear, but there haB never beon anything like a plague of locusts to “eat up . the green things’ down here In God’s country since we have been old enough to sit up and take notloe of thlngB. And we are no spring chicken. That locusts do some times appear In sufficient numbers to do damage to the “green things" In some sections and localities we shall not dispute, but the peflodiclty of the plague, or the classification of the In- soots Into 7-year, 13-year and 17-year locusts, each class appearing in Its regular order, looks to us! more like a legend on superstition than a fact borne out by observation. quarters over the action of the Stnte Democratic Committee for adopting clear-cut Democratic rules and regula tions for the state primary Is evidence . of the fact that It was time to straight en out the parly lines. Those who have been Populists whenever there was a Populist candidate and Demo crats only when there was no other Choice to be made, will now have to .show their hands and bo Democrats or i Populists—one or the other. The president has called off Father Sherman’s official body guard, and the Sou of the Union general who laid Georgia waste will march to the sen alone, If at all. General Duvall, com- mauder of the Department of the Gulf, seems to have been responsible .for , the assignment of a cavalry escort to Father Sherman, and that officer has been directed by the War Department to show for what purpose and by what authority he acted. The President’s promptness In calling oft the partici pation of Federal troops In the expedi tion Is to be commended, and the peo ple of the South will be disposed to accept the Inference carried by recent developments, that he knew nothing whatever of Father Sherman’s pro posed trip until hls attention was di rected to It by the outburst of Indigna tion which rose from every part of the South. A FALSE ALARM. The Atlanta Journal uncovered a mpro’s nest yesterday afternoon when It declared, upon the alleged authority of Secretary of Slate Phil Cook, that the date set by the State Democratic Committee for the convention was so late that It would bo Impossible for the Secretary of State to comply with the law requiring him to send, out blanks for the election thirty days prior to the date of election. But this morning's Atlanta Consti tution makes Secretary Cook reverse himself. Either that, or the Journal did not quote him correctly yesterday at tei noon. The Constitution tills morning says; “Tho date set by the Democratic Ex ecutlvo Committee for the state con vention, Sept. 4, Is all right, and there Is absolutely nothing about it in the least to Interfere with the legality of the state election in October, declares Secretary of State Phil Cook. Statements In an Atlanta afternoon paper l,o the effect that the date set for the convention was too late as to interfare with'the stilt i election laws are declared absurd by Mr. Cook, so the whole effort to raise a disturbance over this matter turns out to be tempest In a teapot. The secretary’ of state is required to seud out blanks for the election thirty days prior to the date of the election, but he Is only required tp have the names of tho candidates put on the blanks as far as practicable. The situation is told In the two acts quoted below; Section 181 of the second volume of the code provides that- "At least thirty days previous to the election of governor, members of the general assembly, representatives to congress, etc., the secretary of state shall furnish each ordinary of the Btate with printed formB of returns, certifi cates and directions, together .with any advice he may deem necessary to secure proper returns; and he’ shall the Macon hotels of extortion In the matter of rates for delegates to the State Democratic Convention, and he threatens to build .a 100-room hotel be fore September 4, the date of the con vention. Mr. JoneB got hls Irish up, It seems, after applying to the Macon hbtols for rooms for Clark Howell headquarters. The Macon hotel men deny that they are In tor a hold-up game ’ and declare that they will charge only the regular rates during the convention. “Just Putting Up a Holler.” From the Bavunnah Preas. - Mr. A. A. Lawrence, a member of the state executive committee, and who was on the committee on rules, which drafted the provisions objec tionable to the Journal, was shown the telegram giving the attitude of that paper. Mr. ’Lawrence said the Journal was mistaken about the ordinaries having to be furnished with blankB, etc., thir ty days previous to the day of the election for governor. The committee looked up this point,, says Mr., Law rence and found that ten days was the legal time. Mr. Lawrence says, in reference to Mr. Youmans having expressed any doubts about the matter, that’if Mr. Youmans had anything of this sort to say he did not’hear him. Mr. Lawrence concludes by saying: "They’re Just putting up a holler.” All the World’over there are legends about mermaids. The Chinese /tell stories not unlike others about tho sea woman of tliolr southern seas. Man kind Is taught on the most excellent evidence that a mermaid was captured at Bangor, on the Rhores of the Bol fast lougli, In the sixth century, while Legend of n Boole. A quaint and kindly legend, Illustrat ing tbe sorrow devout Christians used to feel for tbe paganism of their fa vorite classlq authors, Is .that of St Cadoc and .nth Virgil. St/Cad’oc,*whose day Is Jan. 24, was tho son of a South Welsh prince, who founded several monasteries In Glamorganshire and neighboring regions, but was driven away to Brittany by the coming of the Saxons. There he was walking one day with a copy of Virgil’s poems In hls hand and wept to think that Vir gil as a pagan might be In hell. An ultra orthodox friend who was with film severely reproved him for even doubting tbe fact, and a sudden gust of wind carried the book out of Cu- doc’s hand Into tbe sea. But that night he beard In a dream a sweet voice saying; “Pray for me; weary not In praying. I will slug the mercies of the Lord forever.” And next day a fisherman brought Cadoc a fish inside which the Virgil was found uninjured. —London Chronicle. ’ Mixed Wives. In the early part of the last century there lived in an old New England town a Mr. Church, who In the course of hls earthly life was bereft of- four wives, nil of whom were burled In the satn'e lot. In bis old age It became necessary to remove the remains to a new cemetery. This he undertook him self, but In the process the bones be came hopelessly mixed. Hls “New Engln'nd conscience" would not allow him under the painful circumstances to use the original headstones, so he procured new ones, one of which bore the following Inscription: “Here lies Hannah Church and prob ably a portion of Emily.” Another: “Sacred to the memory of Emily Church, who seems to be mixed with Matilda.” Then followed these lines: Stranger, pause and drop a tear, For Emily Church lies burled here. Mixed In some porplexlng manner With Mary, Matilda and probably Han nah. —Harper's Weekly. The Last Versailles Bourbon. - There Is at Versailles an orange tree some five centuries old. This tree, which was taken from Foutalnebleau of Versailles oa the completion of the orangery, was already famous under the title of the Grand Bourbon. Ac cording to tradition, the tree had been planted In 1421 by a Princess of Na varre and after several changes of owners canto luto the possession of Francois I., by whom It was placed at Fontainebleau. When it reached Ver sailles the king came to visit it, anil two grand Bourbons were then face to face. The man passed, and even his bones, torn from their tomb at St. Deals aud tossed into a trench, have perished. Not a pinch of his dust ‘re mains. But the; tree lives and blooms land bears fruit, the only Bourbon at Versailles, serene, Invincible, enthron ed.—Farmer's Versailles. In Darkest Africa. A weird tale of witchcraft comes from the taterior of Africa. A receut another caught at Edam In 1403 was tn a i at the Lilongwe court proved that carried to Haarlem and kept there for a untive WO mun killed by a lion had many years. i Wanted All That Was In It. Father (whose wife 1ms presented him with twins) — Tommy, you rquy stay home from school today and to morrow tell tbe teacher that you have two now brotliere. Tommy—Wouldn’t It be better to say that I bave only one now brother? Then I can.’stny home.a day uext week for the other one.— FllegendS Blatter. Health Crnme*. The pursuit of health, like the mor phia habit or drunkenness, grows on people till It really becomes a vice. Continuous thought and anxiety about one’s health Is extremely bad for the constitution and undermines It quicker thau port wine.—London Queen. Snre Thing. Teacher—A miracle Is going against the natural order of things. Are mira cles performed today? Bright Boy— Yes’m. Teacher—Name one. Bright Boy—Well, mamma says that pupa Is always turning night Into day.—Life. None can tell where the diamond goes to in combustion. When burned It leaves no ash and not a trace of the, once brilliant stone. been partly eaten by another native who was accused of Impersonating the lion. The prisoner cdufessed freely that he j had eaten of the womau’s dead body, the excuse being that he had pur : chased from ;i “witch doctor” a medi cine which euabled him to turn Into a lion at will—In other words, to Indulge in cannibalism Jn Its lowest form ►he mood took him. A Miniature Inland Ocean. One of the queerest sheets of water in New England or within the limits of the United States, or the world for that matter, Is the celebrated “Snow’s ocean” In the state of Maine. When calm It is to all appearances an ordinary pond of no great dimensions, but ob servations and investigations made more than a century ago, prove that the little body of water is a veritable ocean. It Is located in Orrington, near Bangor, and its peculiarity is that, al though situated among some high hills some distance from ocean or river, it has tides which rise and fall as regular ly ns do those of the great Atlantic. Many so called scientific examinations o^ thjs miniature ocean’s bed and sur rounding banks have been made, but so far no tenable explanation of the phenomenon has ever been given to the nubile * The Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance Co., ad vises relative to San Francisco disaster: . “We take pleasure in announcing that our reserve and large capital will be intact and there will also remain a very substantial surplus BEYOND THESE ITEMS AFTER THE PAYMENT OF ALL OUR LOSSES.” You can get absolutely safe insurance by applying to DANIEL C. BETJEMAN, Agt., Rooms 7 and S Woolfolk Bldg. provide and keep on hand a sufficient J. K. PRAY. President. A. P. VASON, Vice President* EDWIN STERNE. Cashier. . The Citizens’ National Bank OF ALBANY, GA. Capital. - - $50,000. 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