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THE CHRONICLE, AUGUSTA, GA.
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him.
The ucued island of Zante continues
to tremble.
'Hie men who wish to share the spoils |
tire simply spiling for their share.
The umpire’s lot is not. a happy one if j
liis lot happens to lie cast in Savannah, i
Mary Anderson will make bar next :
ifiipcar.'t.nce before the public in l>ook I
form.
The mail list of the Irwintop World ;
is now directed in a dainty feminine j
hand.
Christopher Columbus. Duke of
Verttqiin, is getting along well in his
American discoveries.
Ward McAllister is more convinced
every day of his life that Chicago is
lai king in cultivation.
Minister Pierce calls Mr. Dana “a
very palpable ass.’’ This will put the
sage of the Sun on his ear. no doubt.
Sunday was literally such a day
"As when some great painter dips
H,. pencil in the gloom of earthquake ami
eclipse.”
There is something new in intercolle
giate contests. I larvard and Yale (ire (ie
tunlly to engage in the tame diversion
of a debate.
An eating reform association has
been established in New York. It claims
that a man can live on two cents a day.
Somebody will go hungry.
A number of real, live gondolas now
skip to ami fro on Harlem river, manned
by real native gondoliers. Can’t Chi
cago enjoy anything in peace?
The John Hull train is not a type of
modern English railway trains. Let.
there be no mistake on that point, be
cause it really isn’t—not exactly.
The Belgium Chamber of Representa
tives having passed the universal suf
frage bill, it is hoped that peace will I
reign in Brussels us well ns Warsaw.
A New Jersey sprinter was shot and
killed by his backer for failing to win
the race. Athletics tire becoming the
favorite means of reducing the popula
tion.
■Whore genuine merit and ability is
wanting, abuse is brought, into requisi
tion in order to attract attention. The
Coekerill Advertiser perhaps catches our
idea.
The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland,
who is in prison for destroying a legal ■
do utnent. Ims an opportunity to eon-j
template the vicissitudes to which even
tbe nobility is subjected.
The American girls al [fortress Mon
roe have their iibs set. their pennants
Hying and come in before the wind with
a grace and dignity which charms every
foreign son of the sea in port.
Levi Morton is said to have become a
farmer in good earnest and although his
method of addicting was somewhat dis
similar, he says, like Hadrian, "If you
could see my cabbages you would not
wonder that I abandoned the cares of
state.”
The Hohenzollern palace has been vis
ited by tire. It mar be that “God protects
the Ilobeuzollorns.” ns the Kaiser said
when lightning st-uek the telephone, but.
the Emperor doesn’t have to believe in
dreams to see that he had better mend
Ids wavs.
it appears to those whose calling and
election is not sure that the mills of
the administration have been grinding
v<--y slowly, but an examination shows
that twenty-five more appointments have
been made than during the correspond
ing period of Harrison’s administration.
Tlie New York Tribune is stopped in
its wild endeavor to show that the spirit
of rebellion is still active in the South
by the recent, assertion of Justice Don
ner that the South surrendered its right
to secede when Lee surrendered his
sword. The Tribune is perplexed and
disappointed at having lost its hobby.
There is a vein of touching delicacy
in the notice recently issued by the po
lice who patrol the bathing beach at
Dieppe for their guidance in the coming
season. It reads: "The bathing police
are requested when a lady is in danger
of drowning to seize her by the dress
and not by the hair, which oftentimes
remains in their grasp."
There is much raw material for an
Amalgamated Society of Gluttons. An
“artist” at the Moulin Rouge is delight
ing Parisian audiences by his perform
ance of drinking eighty bocks of beer,
about five gallons, nightly. An eating
man is doing turns with him in a
Viennese music hall, and his ordinary
nightly meal is eight eggs, several loaves
of bread, some pounds of meat, raw cab
bages, and various other dishes.
Why a Protectorate.?
The effort to make capital out of the
action of Commissioner Blount in re
moving the United Slates marines from
the city of Honolulu back on board
their ship, and putting an end to the
warlike occupation of the island by
American troops, !>»■ calling it a lack of
patriotism to haul down the American
flag where it had once been hoisted, is
very strained. The day when might
makes right Ims passed away among
Christian nations, and if it was found
that there was no longer any need lor
the presence of soldiers on the island,
or possibily that their occupation of the
city and state buildings was never jus
tified. then it was a braver ami more
magnanimous act on the part of this
great nation to den) justly by this little
government than to have held it. in sub
jection simplv because we had the power
to do so. It takes a brave man tn dare
to do right under all circumstances, and
though his conduct may be criticised nt
the by the thoughtless or the vic
ious, the true courage of his course will
bo manifest in the long run. As with the
individual, so with nations. If investiga
tion by the chosen representative of
this government has found that there
was no justification for the state of
things existing on the island, then this
great nation has done a noble thing in
receding from its false position and ac
cording its full rights to this helpless
little government in the midst of the
sea.
And there lire reasons for believing
that Minister Stevens acted with undue
baste and without adequate authority
in placing the island under the American
Hag and arms. True the occupancy was
peaceful, but this was so simply be
cause the native government was pow
erless to cope with so great a power.
Queen Liliuokalani protested against it.
nml dechired she yielded to superior
force. It is claimed that it was to pro
tect the Provisional government and the
property of American citizens on the is
land, from destruction by the natives, but
there is grave reason to believe that the
demands for annexation of the island
by the I’nited States came not so much
from the natives of the island as from
interested Americans having property
interests there.
But be that as it. mav. and admit that
the steps which have been taken up to
date were all justifiable and proper, and
that there is a real desire on the part
of the people for annexation to this
country, does it not nt once appear that
it would lie much more seemly Io
have this petition for annexation come
voluntarily from a people acting under
their own government, than from a peo
ple powerless to defend themselves and
overshadowed and overawed by Ameri
can meu-of-war and American soldiets.'
If the people want annexation, the
Uniled States cannot do better than to
let them say so while not. under duress:
and if it has been found that they do
not, the United States can afford to deni
as fairly by this liclplesss people as by
the strongest of notion?.
Under any circumstances it is cleftr
that in the peaceful state of things ex
isting on the island there is no longot
a demand for the presence of soldiers
in the city, and Commissioner Blount is
doubtless pursuing the policy which was
determined on before his departure in
ordering them hack to the ships in the
event such was found Io be the cave.
The preposition to annex the islands be-
I fore the close of President Harrison’s
’administration of an ox parte showing
I was manifestly improper, and the sen
ate acted properly' in delaying the mat
ter. In pursuing the question further
this government will bo aloe to :|ct vih
full knowledge of the facts, and the
courage ami magnanimity of the action
already taken is the highest evidence
that it will do what is right.
Wisdom of Maturer Mnrrinpes
It is said to be n statistical fact that
there nre fewer early marriages than
’ formerly ami that the tendency is to
wards a riper age on‘the part of both
men and women before embarking in
matrimony. 1
In England it is est’mntijl that only 21
young mon'out of 1,(X)0 marry between
the ages of 20 and 25, while 138 out of
1,090 marry between 30 and 3.> years,
1 17 between 35 and -10 years, and 122
between 40 and -15 years of ago. The
i Bureau of Vital statistics of Michigan
I shows that, while in IS7O of the males
i marrying 37.77 per cent, were between
i 21 and 25 years of Oige ami 29.46 per
cent. were between 25 and oO years, ir
i 1890 the per cent of the males of the
former age hid sunk to 35.45 and the
; per cent, of the males of the latter age
had risen to 111.57. The same tendency
with still greater force is seen among
I fmaales. In 1870 36.50 per cent, mao
■ ried between 15 and 20 years of age ana
■ .37.45 per cent, between 20 and 25 years,
i but in 1890 only 31.24 per cent, married
j between the former ages, while 41.15
I per eent. married between the latter
J ages. Seventeen years of marriage srat
! istics kept in the Province of Ontario,
■ Canada, show that, the percentage or
• men marrying between 20 and 25 years
hs declined from 39 l» 33. while the per
centage of men marrying between 30
and 35 years has increased from 11 to
. 14
This tendency has been the subject of
i diesussion among statisticians and some
I extreme theorists have argued that the
human race would finally become cx
tinct because of the increasing delay in
i contracting marriage. The Philadelphia
■ Press, however, finds in the statistics
' gathered by a German investigator, rea
son to believe taat the race is better off
j for delaying the age at which marriage
takes place as the offspring of maturer
parents is less liable to ea»ly death and
hereditary infirmities, For ten years
this German investigator made it a f rac-
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THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, APRIt 19, 1893,
lice, whenever the death of a child was
registered. to inquire th • nge of thb
parents at the time the child was born
and to note whether the cause was hered
itary or due to some disease <,mtraet< a
after birth. In this way about 30,000
cases were recorded. and the conclusions
drawn, which eeern to be sustained by
the facts, are of a highly interesting
character.
The figures prove, says the Press, at
least for the neighborhood In which the
investigation wns made, that children
born of mothers under 20 years of nge
arc much more subject to disease amt
dip in double the proportion from con
sumption and treble the proportion from
atrophy of children born of mothers over
the ago of 20. Where the father was
under 25 years the result of th ■ health
of the child seems to have been about
the same ns where the mother was un
der 20. The most healthful children, it
was found, were born to parents whore
the father wns between 30 and 10 yearn
of age and the mother between 30 and
35 years. With the facts before him
tlie German investigator constricted the
following table showing tjio pocentage
ol deaths from hereditary causes among
’children bom to parents of different nge
combinations:
Per cent, of
Denths Among
Ago of i’afliers. Ace of Mothers, (’hild’n
20 to 4030 to 3512.0“
20 to 3030 to 35. ... . . 12.30
Over 50Over 3512.68
" i t . in 20 t > I’O I" si
30 to 40fiver 3513.24
-10 to 50 20 to 3013.89
20 to 3lt i tver 35. ... . . 15.36
40 to 50" O to 3715 PI
Iher 5o . . .30 to 1’51754
40 to 5020 to 3018.51
20 to "oOver 3318 SO
(Ivor 5020 to 30. .’. . . .21.21
20 to 301 ’nder 2021.71
30 to 401.’nder 2027.88
The three, conclusions ithe investigator
drew from these figures wore: First, that
mon should not marry before they are
25 years of age if they wish to have
healthful children; second, womn be
tween the ng’-s of 30 and 35—and this
applies with still renter emphasis to Wo
men under 30 years of age—ought not
to contract marriages with men who
have passed the age of 50; third, that
it is not wise for women over 35 years
of age to marry men under 30 years.
In the individual case the experience
of others or the advice of the wisest
will do little good. AYhen two young
people become enamored of each other
and decide to marry they care nothing
for stntistics. The younger they are
the less they will be governed by pre
cedence or experience, but it is possible
by the gradual teaching of the nations
to teach the mass of mankind, and it
is probable that people nre constantly
looking more rationally and scientifically
upon till the relations of life. There is
little reason fur doubting the wisdom (f
the assertion of tbe scientist who de
clared that “the world would be better
off if one-third less children were born,
if it resulted in the other two-thirds be
ing more healthful and better trained
■ nd reared." f -•
Ex-Senator Joseph E. Brown.
We cordially add our own to the con
gratulations which are being extended
to ex-Senator Joseph E. Brow'n on the
attaining of his seventy-second year in
improved health. Though' ho has re
tired from the cares and bustle of active
life. Senator Brown keeps abreast of
the moving tide of public affairs, and
his Hear insight into men and affairs
is Doubtless as lie looks
on the busy scene and reads of the
great questions which are pressing for
ward for solution, he occasionally longs
Mr ;'i' legislative halls and political,
hustings wherein ho was wont to wield |
■in intiuenee second to none, brom the I
line lie entered the state senate in 1849 i
he became a public figure, and a factor !
f controlling intiuenee in Georgia
affairs, and as the war governor of
Georgia attained national prominence
from the boldness and independence of
his utterances and acts in matters of
state. He was one of the shredest
debaters and most successful of poli
ticians, and few mon ever held greater
sway in their state. His career in the
United States Senate was ia keeping
with the ability displayed in other
fields, and had he not voluntarily retired
because of failing health he cutld have
held the senatorship as long he
pleased. We hope that his declining
years shall be tilled with contentment
and peace, and made happy by the con
sciousness of a long life of service to
his state, and by the love and venera
tion of his interesting family and the
sincere regard of his fellow-citizens.
The Car Coupler Aot.
One of the least and most praise-1
worthy acts of the late Congress was 1
the passage of the car-coupler act, which !
declares that within the next five years
all the railroads in the country shall
equip the ears with automatic couplers
and power brakes.
AVhen the great number of men who
are killed and maimed every year while
coupling cars is considered, the wonder
that this legislation in the interest of
humanity was not accomplished before
i The principal features of the act art
| embraced in the first three sections.
■ The first refers to power brakes and is :
■ as follows:
From and after the Ist of January, i
1898. it shall be unlawful for any com
mon carrier engaged in interstate com-
■ meree by railroad to use on its line any
: locomotive engine in moving interstate
i traffic not equipped with a power driv.
' ing wheel brake and appliances for oper
i atiiig the train-break system, or to run
any train in such traffic after said
; date that has not a sufficient number of
i cars in it so equipped with power or
! traan-brakes that the engineer or lo<x> |
■ motive drawing such train can control ;
■ ns speed without requirag brakemen to ’
j use tin 1 common hum! brake for that
purpose.
The second deals with the automatic
coupler and is as follows:
Secs 2.—That on and after the Ist
day of January, 1898, it shall be no
lawful for nay such common carrier to
haul or permit to be hatfhsl or tfsod on
its lines any car used in moving interr
.state traffic not equipped with couplers
coupling automatically by impact, and
which can be coupled without the ne
cessity of men going between the ends
of the cars.
The third pnovidea that any road
which has complied with the foregoing
sections in equipping its trains may
lawfully refuse to receive from connect
ing lines cars which are not thus equip
ped. Section four provides for (he plac
ing of secure grab irons or handholds
on the sides ami ends of each car by tbe
Ist of July, 1895. Section five author
izes the American Railway Associntiop
to designate the standard height of i
brawbars for freight cars, and subse
quent sections provide for penalties
etc.
This is a very important piece of leg
islation, and though five vears have been
allowed for carrying it into effect, so at
not to work a hardship on the railroads,
yet its passage moans a great deal for
humanity, and five years is a short
Dofiod in the life of a nation. The
passage of this act alone is enough tc
save a session of Congress from whole
sale condemnation.
Treat Them With Silence.
A good many papers in Georgia are
just now engaged in pointing out to cer
tain other papers the mistake they make
in holding, out overtures to the third
oartv leaders to come back to the Dem
ocratic fold. They deprecate the impor
tunce that is thus ascribed to these wan
derers from the Democratic fold, or de
serters from the faith of the fathers, and
then proceed to pounce upon them as
dangerous demagogues and enemies of
the public welfare.
Now. so far as results are concerned,
the papers which are thus criticizing the
unquestionably mistaken policy of the
first, papers are guilty of equal indiscre
tion in further airing the matter. To
tlie third party leader agitation is life.
He had just as soon be abused as
praised, probably a little rather, for the
latter gives him a chance to air his
grievances before his followers, and tell
them what he is endurinjf for their sake.
If he bnd two papers, one containing a
complimentary notice of him. and tlie
other abusing him like a pickpocket, he
would lie certain to ?cad from the latter,
and esteem it as much more valuable for
him. among his followers.
I hir advice to tie- Democratic papers
of Georgia is to let the would be Third
party leaders of Georgia severely alone.
They do not merit prtii-e, they glory in
abuse, but they sicken on silence. Treat
'hem as though they were dead men:
never mentioning their names, unless it
be in some proper news item in which
they are eoncerned as individuals, and
not (is politicians. In such items, do
not refer to them as Mr. Blank, “the
prominent Third party leader," but sim
ply as Mr. Blank.
A Mr. Blank of this kind who has been
a subscriber of The Chronicle for years. |
and who was appreciative as long as
we fought him, squealed promptly ;
when his name was omitted from our ;
columns. He would have been delighted
if we had reprinted the abuse of him
i from other papers, or had daily as
i sanlted him ourselves, but the iron en
i tered his soul when he discovered that
his name was never mentioned, and be
fore long name the revenge of small men
who consider themselves aggrieved by a
newspaper.—“ Stop my paper.”
There could not have been a more
patent acknowledgment of the fact that
the medicine was working, and there
can be no doubt that ignoring them com
pletely will be the bitterest pill that can
be administered to Third party leaders.
We suggest, therefore, that the papers
which are now abusing certain defunct i
statesmen, and writing editorials about
other ill-advised publications of recent .
date, try the policy of silence, and do
nothing to aid malcontents in keeping
before the public which is their chiefest !
delight.
The Central Railroad.
The interest in the Central Railroad
litigation is widespread, but the legal
steps whU’h have been taken are so com
plicated to the mind of the layman that
the average reader is already out of his
| depth, and finds it impossible to under
; stand the new and differing phases of
I the ease which are constantly appear
j ing ih the newspapers. In order to make
future steps in the litigation more in
telligible to the general reader, and the
past more simple, the Chronicle attempts
this morning a review and summing up
of the case in simple language, free from
legal technicalities.
The Central Railroad was brought intc
court, first, on a suit brought by Mrs.
I Rowena Clark before Judge Speer ask
, ing the appointment of a receiver. It was
J also claimed that a foreign corporation
J had control of the majority of the stock of
’ the Central, ami the purpose of the suit
i was to prevent that corporation from
voting this stock so as to elect officers
of the road who might be inimical to
the interests of the minority stockhold
■! ers. On this suit which was heard by
1 both Judge Speer and Judge Pardee,
- Judge Pardee put the road and its assets
i into the hands of the thirteen directors
: as temporary receivers who were
l trol its affairs until the election of new
I directors which was near at hand.
: In answer to this suit of Rowena Clarke
i the Central Railroad directors had de-
clared that the Central was solvent.'
but when the new directors were, elected
it was found by them that it wax not,
and they then made application before
Judge Speer for the appointment of a
receiver to protect the rights of credi
tors and preserve the integrity of the
system, claiming that the entire assets
of the Central Railroad and Banking
Company were a trust fund for its
creditors. Whereupon, Judge Speer
placed not only the Central railroad and
its assets, but all of its connecting lines
in the hands of President Comer as re
ceiver for the whole system. These
separate lines it is claimed, were thus
for the first time brought before the
court, and a receiver was thus appointed
for them, although it is claimed they
were solvent and not- in default.
Tbe next step was a' creditor’s suit by
the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company
to foreclose the tripartite mortgage
b»4d by it as trustee on the main line
from Savannah to Atlanta, and on the
Southwestern Railroad to secure $5,000,-
000 bonds. Tins was the first creditor's
suit, and in response to this Judge Speer
took the movers in it by surprise b/ up
pointing Mr. Comer receiver also in this
suit, though he was the representative
of the owners of tlie property and Presi
dent of the Central Railroad and Bunk
ing Company and was thus made, against
tbeir will, the representative of the
creditors al<o. The Attorneys in this
case placed on file their protest against
the appointment.
The next step was the bringing of sep
arate suits by tbe various roads which
had been placed in the bands of Receiv
er Comer as “assets of the Central.’
they claiming that tlie original suit of
Rowena Clarke had not involved them,
but only the Central railroad itself, ana
the latter ease, of the Central Railroad
and Banking Company under which
Judge Speer had placed the whole system
in the hands of receiver Comer, being de
pendent on the former Clarke suit for
jurisdiction in the United Suites Court,
could not go beyond the property invol
ved in the original suit. Again they
claitqed Hint the fact that the Central
railroad owned a majority of their
stock did not authorize the court to,
pl.-iee the roads thein-<4ves in tin* hands
of the receiver as assets of the Central
but simply the stock. For example, if
the King Mill in Augusta owned stock
in the Georgia railroad—a majority of
the sftock we will suppose—aad the
King Mill should be put in the hands
of a receiver, this stock would go into
the receiver’s hands as nart of the miiT?
assets, but that would not put the Geor
gia railroad itself in the hands of the
receiver also. Yet, it is claimed, this
is what the Central Railroad did under
its bill against its creditors. The bond
holders >f these several lines cannot
now look to the Central to pay the in
terest on their bonds, for Receiver
Comer has defaulted in every case when
the interest fell due, even though, they
ehar-'e, he had the money in hand with
which he could have paid, had he seen
fit. It was to his interest as receiver
of the Central to keep in hand all tlie
funds he had. and to further the reorgan
ization scheme in ayy wav in his power
But these separate roads while not an
tagonizing the reorganization, claim that
Receiver Comer in his official capacity
is not an impartial officer, being the re
presentative of the Central, and they
therefore ask the appointment of sepa
rate receivers for these several lines, to
represent them, as their interests and
that of the Central are opposed to each
other.
Tn speaking of these branch lines, as
their position towards tbe Central re
ceiver is tbe same, we have grouped
theln in seating their ease, but these
suits are brought separately and inde
pendently by each—the Bort Royal and
Augusta was first, and was brought by
the State of South Carolina to break
the lease of the Central and open up
I’ort Royal harbor in that state. Tlie
Bort Royal & M estern Carolina suit was
brought by the bondholders of the Au
gusta and Knoxville railroad, Receiver
Comer having defaulted in the payment
of their interests, eparate suits were
also brought by the Montgomery and Eu
fala, the Mobile and Girard, and tbe Sav
annah and Western. The position of
these lines is that Receiver Comer can
not properly .represent their interests
and the Central’s at the same time, and
they want- individual receivers to look
out for their interests in the reorganiza
tion, or in any other plan that may be
adopted, and in the interim, to keep sep
arate accounts so as to form a fund to
pay the interest due them.
This situation up to the time
of the atmeanuice of Mr. Crawford be
fore Judge Pardee in Savannah the
other day. and his sensational arraign
ment of Judge Sneer: and this brings us
to look for a moment at_ the
Richmond Terminal end of the
ease, the owners of the 44,W0
| shares of disfranchised stock in the
Central. It will be remembered that
there are two reorcanization schemes on
foot, and while Hollins & Co., are try
ing to reorganize the Central, Drexel.
Morgan & Co., are attempting the reor
ganization of the Terminal. In the Ter
minal reorganization it is proposed to
j float a collateral trust bond secured by
: the securities of various other companies
i held by tb«» terminal, and one of these is
; the (44,000 shares) majority stock of the
Central railroad. Tn order to establish
the vallie of these collateral trust bonds
it. will be necessary to give a value to the
securities on which they are based, in
cluding the Central common stock; and
to make this Central stock an available
asset. Mr. Crawford has attacked the
Central receivership, and is trying to
put the system back into the hands of
the stockholders, claiming th;:t it is sol-
vent. and the stockholders will be able
to raise all neceasarv funds for the opera
tion of the line. Mr. Crawford's attack
on the lease is based on the recently
published agreement between Hollis &
Co., the Mercantile Trust Company of
New York and the receiver of the Cen
trad railroad, which was ratified by a
decree of the court, and under which
agreement it is charged Hollins & Co.,
have their debt put ahead of debts of
other creditors, and on the failure of
the Central railroad to nav the $5,000,-
(XX) louat on July 1, 1893, Hollins & Co.,
are authorized to nut nn for sale all se
curities in their charge as collateral, and
buy them uv themselves at private sale.
Mr. Crav.ford further claims that the
original Clarke suit under which the
directors were named ns temporary re
ceivers hud served its entire purpose
when the election of the new directors
took place without the majority stock
being allowed to vote, and wns no longer
in force. Therefore it could not be used
as a basis for the subsequent litigation
which has followed m a dependent suit,
and which was brouehr into the case
new property not included in the original
decree which placed the Central railroad
and its assets in the hands of the direc
tors as temnomrv receivers. The out
come of it all will bu awaited with in
terest. The attack on the ruling of
Judge Speer bv Attorney Crawford is
the talk of the hour among lawyers, and
we publish this morning an interview
with Judge Sneer relative to it. What
Judge Pardee’s rulina will be on the case
made bv Mr. Crawford and his asso
ciates remains tn !»• «oen. As we have
understood it. this is the ease up to date,
in a nutshell, stripped of all legal tech
nicalities. and told in the language of
a lavman.
The Man from Boston.
The Chronicle publishes this morning
n letter from The Boston Globe on the
“Curios from the South,” in which the
writer accepts as authoritative concern
ing the negro the views and statements
of a negro hack driver who believes that
George Washington signed the emanci
pation proclamation. Tbe letter is in
teresting from several standpoints, hut
especially from sources to which the
writer looks for information concerning
the negro. One of the many thousand ne
groes who enjoy the advantage of public
school education would have told him
that the white people did not endeavor
to keep their black brother in dense
ignorance and an investigation would
have revealed tlie fact that tbe negro
has the usual per cent, enrolled in schools
free to all, supported, like, all public
charges by the property of the state,
and it is not necessary to state that the
white people pay a far greater propor
tion of the tax. If the writer from Bos
ton will leave his prejudices at home he
might find information in the South
both interesting and valuable.
The Late George I. Se ey.
The death of George I. Seney last
week in New York closed a career that
was conspicuous for philanthrophy, piety
and business sagacity. It is stated by
one familiar with his charities that his
gifts would aggregate two million dol
lars, and this out of a fortune that was
never estimated at more than twice that
amount. To Wesleyan University, alone
he gave a quarter of a million dollars;
to the Wesleyan Female Seminary in
Macon Georgia he gave $125,000; to
the Methodist hospital at Brooklyn he
gave $410,000; to tile Long Island His
torical Society he gave SIOO,OOO, and
i north and south he bestowed hi s' bounty
with generous hand. Indeed his liber
ality to southern institutions was criti
cised by r northern people of narrow
i unnds and sectional prejudices. His
i liberality was specially bestowed in.
Georgia, and Athens and Oxford treas
ure his memory as well as Macon. All
of these institutions have had appropri
ate memorial exercises, and at Wesley
an his birthday has been made an am*
niversary for special observance, and
will be known as Seney Day.
Though not a recipient of his bounty,
Augusta shared in the admiration which
was felt for him all over Georgia and)
the appreciation of his generosity to
Georgia institutions. This was the
home of his maternal grandfather. Sena
tor Few of Georgia. His charity was;
bestowed with care, and with a view to
doing permanent good. He was a man
of fine sense, refined culture and a-sthet
tic temperm&nent. He was a lover of
art and one of its intelligent patrons.
The world is better for his living and 1
poorer in his death.
FELL ON THE SAWS.”
Calkaska, Mich., April 18.—John M.
Clark, half owner of the Freeman Manu
facturing Company’s wooden ware plant
here, while standing near a gang or
■ small saws, fell forwaral upon them ana
! two gashes three inches deep and five
i inches apart were cut from his breast
I to his abdomen. He lived a few hours.
It is surprising how people will suffer year
after year with
CONSTIPATION,
when a regular habit of body can be secured
without ( hanging the diet or disorgan
izing the system, if they will only
A SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE VEGETABLE
COMPOUND.
• I have us m! Simmons Liver Regulator for
>tipa.i >n. .< v, ith decided benefit. 1 *
—Hiram Warner, Lnte Chief Justice of Georgia.
•p Look for our Z Trail’-mark in red on
front of wr.ippor. prepared only !»y
J. H. / i-.L;.'., \ CO., Pa»