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LG'JIS PENDLETON • .
THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
The TcUfaph vwHI be found on solo
•t t;.q Kimball Houm and tha Plod*
mont Hotel In Atlanta.
of military govern
ency us the Phrtjpi
l>o lord ot All ho
»|K»noIblc to no on
A WEAK POINT IN OUR SY8TEM.
In iiia courageous. patriotic and alto
gether excellent speech delivered to
tbn notification committee by Judge
Parker on Wednesday, there wua noth
ing more character! a tie of the man
than the following utterance:
>f th<
1 will, Ood helping
IP .... peopl-. . .._
give to Uu> rtlwharKo
hit exalted nfri«-«* the 1: H
;h I nm capable and at the end of the
i retire to private llfn.
itvnll not ho a ciuidldntc for, nor ahull
'epi h ivmnnlijstlon. Several rcoaona
it Us Advanced for this position, but
oonifolllnfi I ' —
literary soldier of
aarlea King. II- la
led that hla Ideal of
iccupy the poaltlon
r of puch a depend-'
nwlf where he would
urvfy^l and lx? re
but hlitpelf. W«
are strongly Inclined to the belief that
hi* thlenta would Indeed find their beat
field of expression as the military dic
tator of uu out-of-the-way and little-
regarded dependency, and It there he
could also find leisure to exercise hi*
imagination by writing tales of adven
ture nnd war there Is every reason to
believe that hie dtp of happlqcs? would
run over. ;.J.S
THE CZAR'S HEIR.
The greut demonstration Jriq<je In
Russia over the birth of an heir to the
throne may havft.betn of.popular Char
acter and It may not have been. The
czar's ministers have a way of arous
ing the people to the necessity of mak
ing nn apparently patriotic manifesta
tion, whether or not they have any
heart in It.
Rut In view of the perils that now
confront the empire, tha child doef not
appear.to have been born under u par
ticularly lucky star. It will be a good
many years before the youngster shall
!llH pOrtltlOll,
with me 1* that I .....
^rruail-d that no Incumbent of that
i should ever lie pl/ieod
rmKlbU' temptation to c
effect of action taken by him in an
Iniwtrntive mutter of greet Importance
u have u|ion Ids political fortunes.
«i|i/ns of momentous consequence to
»f the people have been In the post
will t*o In the future tin m nted to the
tdent for determination, and In op
ening their consideration, as well nn
rebelling the fact:* and the argument!
■Ing upon them, he should tie unem-
it sued by any pOMdble thought of the
letter his decision ntsy have upon any*
ig whatever that rony affect him per-
Thus docs this excellent tnnti prove
(nice more that he would rather be
right than president. Should Judge
Parker bo elected, should this adminis
tration be highly successful, should
the people demand his re-election, ho
might be Induced to reconsider his de
rision thus nnnounr-xl. nnd he would
lie right In changing his mind at tho
uitrn stfikabto call of hh country. Nov-
* rtheless we now know enough of him
to feel absolutely h-isurod that hb
Makes the d^rlomtloe honestly and In
jerfre* good faittt
Judge Parker puts his finger upon
one ut the weakest points In our atra-
tem. Even the beet of the presidents
cannot possibly serve their country as
\v«»! na they could If the thought of
(mother term were removed from their
minds. Aa for those who are not the
heat, they tire almost constantly Infin-
«• ad by the degtro for re-election and
the Impelling need of scheming toward
tint end when the public business re
quires nil their thought and care. In
this »enat a second terni Is really more
dangerous than a third. That la to
*ay, If every president la to give his
beat energies to. schemes for a second
term, he may «» well be allowed to re-
pent the process ns to allow* a new mun
to dp tbs Uke. •
How different would have been the
course of Mr. Uo**uVeU In many In
stances during the past three years If
1 hud not been consumed with the
. : to extend hi* accidental occu-
of th
SThittf Ha
LOVER OF ADVENTURE.
. following ts u quotation from
rtlcle contributed by Theodoi
•wit to the Century Magazine for
lmikortunt
. . I**
[ toll, br«
“8:
■).rv?r« U «f I begin to “take notice" nnd to compre
hend the part he may have to play In
tho rule of h!» dominion, provided thnt
that dominion shall be maintained un
til he is able to hold tho sceptre at
t*s length. It has been recalled that
the heuds of the house of Uomhnoff
have always gone .to the wars' when
the succession was secure. The last
Instance of this. If our msniory be cor
rect, j was when the Russlun armies
were marshalled against Osman, the
Turk, at Plevna. The child, however,
has been bom, at u moment when the
czar finds his armies nnd his fleet
brokoti by tbs Japanese 6,000 miles
from the baby's cradle and his appear
ance on the field of action, while It
might cheer his soldiers and sailors,
would accomplish but little In the way
of effective reorganization or of devls-
Ing another plnn of cnmpalgn. The
M{>cctacle of the czar trying to catch the
Japanese 1lca would hardly enhance
hla dignity.
There Is one feature of the domeatlc
event which Illustrates again the su
perstitious rutturo of the Russian. No
nation In the world, not even the Chi
nese, seem so Imbued with this spirit.
Rites nnd ceremonies, blessings nnd
lucky-pieces/ prophecies and portents,
are factors In religious expression.
Feast «lnys must be observed and in
vocations to purtlculur saints on par
ticular occasions nro ever iplnt up.
The armies In their marches puuso on
account of such things. It Is doubtful
If, even yet.’ the Russian people* as a
whole have realised the Jeopardy of
tholr country. The heir comes Into Its
inheritance, notwithstanding the signal
of Its advent, with far less hope of n
Joyous life than any little one born In
the home of a cottager, without nn en
emy lurking in every shadow, and with
only cheering voices to hear nnd help
ing hands to grasp.
A WORD WITH NORTHERN DU8I-
NESS MEN.
Henatnr Hoar In a msguslne article.
tm© time ago, took the poeltlon that
If the Houth hud acceded in 1659 sc
ion had been a success. Up to
that time, he said, the North recog
nized the principle of secession.
Hut the change in* the Northern
mind came about from buslnces «
slderutlone. The North grew In man
ufactures nnd she saw it would not
do from a financial nnd hu*lne*s stand
point to tolerate the old doctrine a
state rights. Ho, looking 10 her finan
cial Interests, the press of tho North
nnd her members of, congress begun to
discard the old theories and to boldly
claim the right of union government
control over the states, and that state
sovereignly ‘was a myth, a doctrine
held only by slaveholders of the Bouth.
New England and the North, look*
Ing forward io the Houth as n feedei
and patron of Northern manufacto
ries. pressed upon Mr. Webster, the
groat Webster, the prime Importune
of destroying the theory of state sov
erelgnty, and Mr. Webster was put
th«
Ins
ndvo
able.*'
of
Mir said It was tx
ft that the North
rd the importance
retain, W hy should not a reconciliation
be the first thing the paramount Is
sue? Let the North study the situa
tion. Fonder the matter. j
There are not care enough now to.
haul the Immense freight southward
from Chicago. Cincinnati, Terre Haute,
Kansas City. Kt. Louis, Louisville, Mil
waukee; nor cars enough, with great
steamboat lines added, to haul the
goods from New York, Boston, Phila
delphia and other cities of the North.
Under these conditions, the Bouth
doing her part, a vast empire for
Northern and Western goods of all
sorts, w'hy should the business of the
West njid the North permit ft lot of
politicians, tor sotn$ political selfish
ness, to set aside the business men
and deliberately go to work to weaken
the Houth. to disturb Iter progress
among her people, and threaten hdr
with “negro planks" gotten up at the
suggestion of Mr. Roosevelt, whose
object Is political advnntsgs.for 1908.
To upset conditions in the South, to
throw her back, impede her progress,
will simply be an upheaval that will
not only retard and check progress
here, but will not help the trade the
North desires. The more confusion the
North permits her politicians to bring
upon the Bouth, less trade It means,
less cars to move out from the great
Western and Northern cities.
A proper study of the situation will
bring all business men of the North
and West to fly to the aid of the South
and itcrrr.it not pollticlaim to throw
her Into confusion nnd trouble with
disaster to follow.
The South, with her negro prob
lem. nii no other peoples have it, feels
thut' the threats made at Chicago and
other acts of the man on horseback fire
a menace to ptuceful conditions and
progress, and her appeal Is to the
business men to think, to ponder; study
our situation, and save the Bouth from
the hands of politicians who care noth
ing for the business interests and trude
relations that exist', who rttrO hot a
straw If the Houth be so thrown Into
discord ns not to he able to order out
nnother car of goods from uny North
ern or Western city.
SALARIES OF JUDQE8.
The Telegrnph yesterday printed a
dispatch from Its Atlanta correspond
ent containing the* the following para
graph.
“The legislature raised the salaries
all right, but It forgot to appropriate
any money with which to pay them.”
The Telegraph cites the speclnl ( pro
vision of tho constitution in this res
pect, thut the legislature had no au
thority to mnke the appropriation.
Paragraph 1, of Bee. XVIV of Article
VI reads rts follow: "The Judges of
the supreme court shall have.*out of the
treasury of the stnto salaries not to ex
ceed three thousand dollars per annum;
the Judges of tho superior courts shull
have salaries not to exceed tow thous
and dollars per annum, etc."
The foregoing being a constitutional
provision the following further, provl
alon In tho organic law. being Par. 1,
of Sec. 1, of Article XIII Is apropos:
"Any amendment or amendments to
this constitution may be proposed In
the eenste or house of representative^,
and If the same ahull be agreed to by
two-thirds of the members elected to
each of tho two houses, such'proposed
mendment or amendments shull be
entered on tholr Journals, with the yens
and nays taken thereon, and the gener
al assembly shall cause such amend
ment or amendments to be published In
or more papers In euch congres
sional district for two months previous
to the time of holding the next general
election, etc."
And her© ts something more from
lhir. VII, Hec. I. Article XII:
"The officers of the government now
existing shall continue in the exercise
of tholr several functions until their
successors are duly elected or appoint
ed and qualified, but nothing herein is
to apply to any officer whose office
may be abolished by the constitution.'
As the Judge of the supreme court ts
a constitutional officer. It Is apparent
from the foregoing citations, that It
is for tltc people to ratify, at a general
election, the proposition to Increase
their salaries, utul not for the legisla
ture to make the Increment out of
hand.
Therefore, the legislature could not
make an appropriation until the bill
being "an not to amend the constitu
tion'' became a law, and It can not be-
| come a law until approved by the peo
ple. Hence the Immediate approprta
Ion.was Impossible.
A leading citizen of Hartford, Conn.,
res murdered a few days since by
’oung negro whose only grievance. It
s asserted. wt» that he had been <lls
barged from his victim's employ. One
©t these “voluntarily-formed posset,'
which are so frequently seen up that
wuy nowaday^ when the criminal has
a black fac«\ promptly started In pur
suit of tbs murderer two thousand
strong anti would have lynched him
but for the prompt and determined
slstunce of the point*. Either
Northern “voluntary?-formed posse
less courageous thalf the Southern
lynching mob, or the Northern repre
sentatives of the taw are move deter
mined to do their duty In such cases
than are the Sou thorn authorities.
little of Nyh. lerhqpr.
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the national campaign.
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Thu in cat I ess dinner pel! will be one
of the Issues a ftaborlng man' likes
meat.—Memphis Nin.
Mr. Hogg. of Texas, knows in what
forests the be>: political acoma fall.—
‘Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
About thp only thing seriously urged
against Parker ixnd Davis is that both
of them might die.—Louisville Courlep-
Jourqal.
The question now 'agitating some of
the hungry Is. When will the vlce-
presldentlal barrel be tapped?—Mont
gomery Advertiser.
Here it is six weeks after the nomi
nation of RooseVelt. and the Repub
lican comic weimy has not trotted out
its pictures of the full dinner pall.—
Rochester Herald.
The three P's—Parker. Peace and
Prosperity—will prove more attract
ive to the American people than the
three R’s—Roosevelt. Illot and Rot.—
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Senator Fairbanks must wonder how
It feels to be in iho position of Mr.
Parker, who has "jurned his bridges
between a good office and a possible
election to another.—Washington Post;.
Roosevelt's friends are now qiloted
as saving that “his election may sober
him." -It would he cheaper for the
country not to interrupt the Jag
any such terms as that.—Jacksonville
Citizen.
Republicans and Democrats
agreed on one point—both are In fa
vor of trade arrangements with foreign
countries when ulr the advantages nro
on the side of jjje United States.—To-
i to diwiipwr. She
Motufcl harmony. Buck
touth loathe* sect tons! -
ds the glad hand for
prosperity and for full
i«r eHUenefclp, and tho
r trade and patronage,
cth a terrible war to
ronto Mall.
'i'he announcement thnt Mr. Cleve
land may Ikjcome Judge Parker's sec
retary' of state neglects to, explain
what use a Judge on the bench can
have for ft secrethty of state.—Kansas
City Jotirrmt.
elghty-sJx-poun«l watermelon
has been sent 4 Judge Parker from
Georgia* In this manner the distin
guished Jurist will be introduced to
one of the South’s greatest drawing
cards.—Austin Statesman.
Mr. Bryan's Insistence on being paid
In gold IriHteud of silver for hla Chau-
tnuqua lecture in.Indiana shows that
he has handsomely resigned himself
to being ''crucified on a cross of gold.”
—New York Copimarrlal.
It may be all right for Candidate
Dnvla to play poker with chips which
have no money value, but he Is about
due to discover that a national Demo*
cartlc cnmpalgn cannot be conducted
on that principle.—Pittsburg Times.
Just In order that tho matter may
not be forgotten, we ask whether Sen
ator FnlrbnnkB Intends to resign. If
he does not. It will be n confession
thnt he has no hope of election to the
Ice-presidency. — Indianapolis Senti
nel.
The Philadelphia Press complains
that the Democratic platform Is silent
n the money question; but then It la
..Iso silent on the right of secession,
the abduction of Charlie Ross nnd the
Man In the Iron Mask—Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal.
When the Tnmmnny Tiger purrs
peacefully on n perch at Wolfert's
Roost, thon. and not till them will stu
dents of political conditions in this
state believe that harmony has been
restored In the Democratic party.—
New York Trlbuhe.
Senator £odg6 dlscoverel thnt the
Idemnnd of Massachusetts manufac
turers for better trade relations with
Canada is n Itemocrntic plot to disrupt
the Republican party. The reason
other people do not perceive this Is
becauso they*are not “scholars in pol-
1 tics ."-—New York World.
Home of the lenders didn't like Cleve
land's methods, but the people did.
The’Democratic party needs a strong
man to lead it. and now it has chosen
one. He has a heavy load to carry,
but If he gets th* right kind of sup
port no man can coin© neurer winning
a vlctoYy for hla party than Alton Par
ker.—Houston World.
-•-•ut award of the Alaskan commls-
W. R. Miller, proctor of the Univer-
:v of College of Medicine at Rich
mond, Va., win probably be choeen
president of Hampden-Sidney College
**A Dr. Richard Mcllwalno. re
signed.
Bishop Grafton, of the Episcopal
church, who founded the Sisterhood
of the Holy Nativity, In 1882, bos an
nounced that he will remote the mother
° u *e from Providence, ii. i„ to Fond
j Lac, Wis.
Clement Doane, the oldest editor in
active, service in the state of Indiana,
has Just died at Evahsvllle. For forty-
seven years,he was editor and publisher
or the Jasper Courier. He was known
to hla frlefida as “the nestor of southern
Indiana Journalism."
Overseer John G. Speicher, second
man at Zion City, who was In charge
of the town during Dowie's trip abroad,
has started for Zurich, Switzerland,
where he is to take up the work of
Zion and oversee the erection of a large
tabernacle for Zlonltes lu Paris.
/'Nothing succeeds like success," is
the old saying, but Ernest Terah IIoo-
iey, the English bankrupt millionaire,
would probably say that "nothing suc
ceeds like failure.'' Mr. Hooley failed
for $5,000,000 in- 1898, yet he has lived
much better since than many a man
who has not had the luck to become a
bankrupt.
The Cleveland Lender has made an
interesting compilation, from Japanese
are of the ages of the foremost
Japanese generals In the present war.
Ah a rule, they are considerably older
than either the Union or Confederate
generals were when engaged .In the
civil war. If the present Japanese
generals win in tho conflict with Rus
sia, their triumph will be that of old
men. Every war breeds Its own he
roes. possibly some Japanese com
mander at present holding a subordi
nate iiosltlon mnv make himself famous
and eclipse the generals whose names
are now mentioned In the war dis
patches. Marquis Oyama, field mar
shal, Is 62 years old;'Count Nodzu, «3;
Baron Kurokl. 60; Baron Oku. 5S;
Baron Nogl, 55; Baron Nishi. 58;
Baron Kodama. 62; Prince Fushlml, 46.
The uges of some of the Union com
manders In our civil war in 1861 were:
Grunt, 39; Bherman, 41; Sheridan, 30;
McClellan, 35; Rosecrnns, 42: Thomas,
45; Buell, 43; Hancock. 37; Meade, 46;
McDowell. 43; Pope, 38. Among the
Confederates Lee was 65; Brngg, 4G;
Jackson. 37; Hood. 30; Early, 43;
Longstreet, 40; Beauregard, 45; Stu
art. 28: HUI, 36; Buckner, 37. It Is
noted that the Franco-Pruaslan war
was fought largely by old generals.
Von Moltke was 70 and Von Btein-
metz was 74. Napoleon was famous
at 31; Ney, 31; Murat, 20; Kellermun,
30. , At the beginning of a war the
armies muy be led by generals who
have won their spurs In former con
flicts. If the war beprolonged younger
leaders gradually uppenr on the scene.
In the American civil war much mili
tary ability, latent ut the beginning.
Some No
Itlahnp I
finding •
funk allk.
ople
Breakfast food mar become dinner
and supper food before the strike is
nded.—Memphis News.
r.MKlum) d.cllnM to consider the Red
Mil a Ku,Mli'ii hike; nod «he I. doing
some patrolling there herself.—Birm
ingham Age-Hernid.
Recnuse Baltimore considers Itself
benefited by the big fire Is no reason
why other cities should be burned
down.—Birmingham Age-Herald.
And still the Japs do not seem to
have been notified that the rainy sea
son has set In nnd thnt it Is unprofes
sional In them t<» keep on fighting.—
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Carrie Nation backed with a hatchet
five years and then didn't .chop out m
much of a saloon reputatiori as Bishop
Potter has sucked up with * beer pump
in one dny.—Philadelphia Telegraph.
Governor Warfield ot Maryland says
that a young womhn should not marry
until she Is 26 years old. If she gets a
good bid before thnt Urn** aho would bo
wise to take it.—Birmingham Agc-
11*-raid. . »
Anna Carlson dlvldos women Into
two generul classes—those who are en
gaged In running fancy ribbons
through their garments and those who
ure busy canulng fruit for the family to
eat next winter.—Topeka Herald.
The car conductor who found $1,500
nnd returned It to the owner, receiving
the reward of 25 cents, should congrat
ulate himself that the owner did not
charge him Interest for the time he held
tha money:—New York American.
The strike of the butchers, however,
will not leave an empty void in the "full
dinner psH.” The cold potuto hue been
playing n lone hapd since the rear
guard ot prosperity was shackled by
cunning and greed.—Milwaukee News.
Physicians at Croxer hospital. Ches
ter. P*- are going to try to restore a
man's lost voice by operating on his
brain. The patient la evidently not u
politician or his voice would operate
all right without any connection with
his brftln.*—Washington Post.
The growing hatred which the farm
Journals say the people of the rural
sections have for uutvmobtllsts muy not
be entirely without cape©. The drivers
of the St. Units auto party, on reaching
Toledo, reported that there were plenty
of dead chickens and duchs between
Toledo and Cleveland aa a result o«
the trip.—Boston Herald.
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POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
JU ‘ »
c, •,% c« •**• 1 •' • •' ^ **'■ ** • *• 1 '•••*• J
Prlm*e Eitel, the k.ii^rpr eecond son,
recently accomplished the feat of
swimming the Rhine Just abo%*e Bonn.
Senator Platt of New York likes
hotel life, but his wife doesn't, so he
hue purchased a Vttla at Highland Mills.
N. Y, and the couple wUh live then*.
Karl M«g of Columbus. O.. haw been
granted « peraonal pprdon by the King
was developed.
His Little Joke.
Said the regular customer of the res
taurant aa he stopped at the dsgk to
pay hts bill: “\Yh«*r© did you get that
you are serving t 1 ~\Yhat's
the mjn<r with It?" aggreelwly asked
the cash Ur. who scented another kick,
"There’s nothing the matter with It;
that’s why I iuk-vL
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
£• %
The Honolulu Chamber of Commerce
has Just adopted a set of resolutions
strongly favoring consolidated govern
ment forestry work, and the near fu
ture may witness a rapid advance in
Hawaiian forestry.
The old-fashioned yellow primroses,
which nro beginning to blossom In tho
south of England, have now* u compet
itor called buttercup primrose. It was
Introduced by \V. K. Harris, nursery-
nma of Philadelphia.
The amount of money annually re-,
ceived in Greece from Greek emigrants
to the United States Is assuming pro
portions thut have attracted the at
tention of tne Greek government,
bankers and public. Greek officials
cstlmato that over $1,930,50L03 thus
reached Greece during 1903.
The Belgian town Ham-sur-IIeuro
has fifteen factories, In which base
balls and othur pluyballs are made,
recent strike for u 20 per cent advance
in wages revealed the fact that tho
women who cover the balls with
leather get only '20 cents for a day's
work, representing twelve dozen balls,
Russluns are scarce at their favorite
resorts on LaKe Geneva this season
but the hotel keepers find compensa
tlon in the growing number of auto-
mobillsts. who go there because of tb«
good roads no less than the fine
scenory, and who are willing to pay for
good accommodations.
The Russian government Is Justify
Ing the confiscation of the property of
the Armenian church by the assertion
that the Armenian clergy Is encour
aging and supporting the revolution
lets to such a degree thut the recent
outrages committed In Transcaucasia
und Armenia really were the work of
Armenian priests.
The results of-tho tariff war which
hus been waging for some time be
tween Canada and Germany are man-
Ifest In the fulling oft of German ex
ports to Canada during the firtt por
tion of the year 1904. The reports for
January und Februr y, 1904, reveal
to an alarming extern the damages in
flirted upon tho latter country.
During the last year ,the New York
street railroads and elevated took In
u billion 5-cent fares. This, accord
ing to tho New York World. Is .the
first time that the billion mark has
been reached. That means tho pay
ment of $50,000,000 by the people of
Now York for the services rendered by
the local transportation companies.
Experiments are about to be carried
out In Itevnl Harbor with “metal bal
loons" In raising sunken vessels.
Italian engineer claims that if his
“balloons" are filled with, water, then
sunk and fastened to the side of ii
sunken ship, they will each be able to
arise a weight of 1.000 tons when the
water has been pumped out of them.
Tea was grown In Japan in 1902 c
an area of 12ftrl97 acres, producing 57.
457,611 pounds. In the previous year
the area was 119.712 acres, and fhe
production of 57.984,067 pounds. These
figures do not include the Island of
Formosa, which. In 1901. produced 18.
7*2*946 pounds, making the tots! for
the empire In that year 71,737,013
pounds.
The candidates fro mthe ranks for
commissions In tho army - have or
rived at Leavenworth, Kan* and will
begin their course of Instruction at
that post in charge of Captain R. X.
Brown. Fourth cavalry. The period of
Instruction will continue from June 15
to gepteinlHtr 1. when will occur the
final examination. There are forty-one
of theee candidates, thirteen of whom
came from th© Philippines, and twen
ty-etgkt from various "stations In this
It Is estimated that there are at the
present time In Spain over 1.000 works
generating electric current for light
Ing and power, and that ove
generating sets are Installed. Many
of the companies are using water
pewer. Two of the -ncnipanles estab-
Hubert In IVilboH are now ©ngag.
Nocturnal Experiences of
South American Insects,
eating roHults have followed the
introduction of the electric light In the
streets o£ Port of Spain. Trinidad. The
largely populated insect world of that
region has never before seen such
brilliant Illumination aa the arc lights
offered, arid they have shown great cu
riosity, says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Every morning the ground under the
lapips Is found to be strewn with
thousands of dead insects of many va
rieties. It Is Impossible to walk with
out treading on them.
If the supply of insects were not in
exhaustible, some of the varieties would
certainly be doomed, to extinction. In
fact, one kind is evidently less numer
ous now than before the electric lights
tvere Installed. . * -
This Is a kind of giant waterbug, of
■which such incredible numbers were
destroyed that the bug has come to be
generally known as the electric beetle.
The lamps are no longer-visited by the
crowds of these bugs that at first came
to inquire into the meaning of the
strange brilliance. Either the species
has b$en greatly depleted through the
destruction of many thougsapds of 'Its
members, or else some kind of instinct
has.told them that arc lamps are dan
gerous things to medd|e with.
The owls in their wisdom have
learned to profit by the fascination
wftlth the arc lamp has for Insects.
Aa the Illumination is turned on at
night fall* the owls may be seen wejjcP
Ing their way to the neighborhood of
the lamps, for they have discovered
that fheir prey is more abundant there
than anywhere else.
The feast is spread bofore them, and
nil they have to do Is to dash out from
the trees and capture a moth or a bee
tle that Is winging Its way to the daz
zling goal. Then the owls return to
their perches and wait for the next
comer.
The but8 also have learned to make
use of the lights in this unsportsman
like manner for catching moths and
other insects.
Not a few explorers in tropical re
gions have complained that Jt Is Im
possible to have a light in camp during
the night w-lthout Incurring unpleasant
visitations from myriads of insects.
One of them recently wrote that he
often forced to dine In the dark,
as an attempt to use a light attracted
swarms of files which got into his eyes
and dropped Into his food.
The naturalist, Eugene Andre, In his
recent dcstrlptlons of Journeys In the
Orinoco basin, found that he could
carry on his work of collecting insects
at night by the use of lights. One
evening &n assistant took a number of
llashllght photographs by using the
magnesium light.
An invasion of the camp by moths
and other insects ut onco occurred,
and Andre secured more than one hun
dred specimens. On the following
morning he found the singed and mu
tilated remains of many others that had
perished miserably, lured by
strange spell which.a bright light casta
upon them.
utnii
vurta i
his bit
escape array service,
James A. Reed, who wtm a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor of Missouri against Jowph W.
KWh. is a Northerner, having been bom
■nd reared In Iowa.
Professor W. F. King, chief Mtroo-
omm for Ok Canadian government, hi
undertaking the reaurvey of the AUa-
kan boundary la accordance with the
«g waterfalls for Ufo
nt used by five n
engaged In supplying
LURED BY LIGHT.
I
To order your Fall Suit simply
because you ar& not ready for It
now. When you do want it, it’s
like the Texan and his gun.
OUR FALL STYLES are ar
riving dally and the Fashion
Journals are showing what au
thorities say you ought to weapr
All are open for your inspec
tion. Leave ypur order for fu
ture delivery. Medium weights
in abundance for those who want
them.
Suits Io a r, d c $20 to $50
$ The Jacobs=Bowen Co.
Incorporated
TAILOE8
568 Mulberry St. Macon. Ga.
PRIESTS AS WEATHER MEN.
Six Jesuits in Chargo of tho Bureau In
Manila.
Six Jesuit prleats are the corpa of
workcra in the weather buronu at Ma
nila, a phenomenon that Is pointed out
to travelers In the far east and one
whlcti never falls to arou.o their sur
prise, say. the Washington Post. This
arrangement, however odd It seem, nt
first, la aeen to bo perfectly natural
when one undcratanda the situation
and, to make the altuatlon clear, alx
columns of the Dally Bulletin, of Ma
nila, were devoted to It in an anniver-
snry edition of that paper.
It' la the boaat of the capital of tho
Philippine, that ahe poaaeaaea within
her walla tho pioneer meteorological
Institution of the Orient. It happened
in title way:
In 188S occurred a typhoon that
cauard much loaa of life and property.
Thla territory hnd been assigned to the
order of Jesuits and It was to them
thut the people looked for old In time.-,
of stress, Just ua people In Catholic
countries always look to their priests
for help and Instruction. The prleats,
realising the need of some protection
against a repetition of such n disaster,
determined to establish n meteorolog
ical observatory, which they dl,l by
thu procuring of u single set of Instru
ments to which additions were gradu
ally made. This was in IS65. ton years
before the service of Japan was begun
und nineteen yours Jefore Hong Kong
took up the work.
The priest by whom tho beginnings
of thla work were undertaken was
Father Fanra, who was allowed to
devote all his time to the work of the
observatory after 1878. Before that
time the grleata had done this In addl-
tltm to their other religious and scho
lastic duties. Fruter Fuura won the
confidence of the people by predicting
typhoons that actually came to pass
and In this way convinced the skeptical
of the Importance, of the work of the
observatory.
'The .ucccts of the earlier year, made
It seem desirable to Increase the ef-
Hclency of this work by giving the ob
servatory an official character and
making it the center of a system of
sub-stations. This was done In 1884
after the prleste hod mude an offer to
the Bpanieh government to erect at
their own expense n suitable building.
The Manila observatory pointed out
to travelers today is the result of this
combination of church and state.
It Is In this building that the vlsl-
tor tinda himself face to face with
men who to all Intent, and purpose*
nrc government official., yet who wear
the black gown of the Catholic priest
American military government ha*
not altered the etrange condition. The
necessity of an official metccrologicnl
service was evident Americana found
a first-class observatory, though a
private Institution, and n staff of ex
perienced .men devoted to their work.
It warn the reward of recognised ability
to leave them there end there they
remained.
ARCHITECTS.
Archlte>l
Willis F; Denny
Curran R. Ellis
Offices C 6. 7, Amn. Nat. Bank Bldg.
P. E. DENNIS, Architoct.
568 Cherry st., Macon, Ga.
Twenty years experience and silc-
:essful practice.
OCULIST AND AURIST.
DR. MAURY M. STAPLER,
Oculist and Aurist.
Office, 556 Cherry Street,* >
Day ’Phone, 2271. Night ’Phone 3058.
DR. J. H. SHORTER.
Eye, Ear. None, Throat.
Cherry and Second Streets.
Phone 972. office. Residence, 3073.
Alexander Blair
& Kern ....
Architects,
678 CHERRY ST MACON, GA.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
OSTEOPATHY
'hones 920-3389.
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
GABRIEL R. SOLOMON,
Civil Enginoer.
Plans, Estimates, Survoys,
For development of Water Power, Wa
ter Supply, Sewerage, Pavcmente, Mu
nicipal Work. S6S Cherry sL Office
phone. 962; residence phone 169.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Wm. B. Birch. BenJ. J. Dasher.
BIRCH & DASHER,
Attorney, at Law.
Special attention to deeds and ab-
etructs. American Natl. Bank Bldg.
M w!!X, n »'r F u^ E . l ^ AN ’ Attorney.
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SPECIAL ATTENTION,
cominyrclal Law. Municipal Law.
**“* Kvrutjlnvestmonta. local and for.
&?‘n5rT2S?CuJ. t Wood ' Uarra ™ *
JOHN P. ROSS,
Attorney-at-Law.
Offices in Exchange Bank
DR3. J. M. £ R. HOLMES MASON.
... . Denttsts.
Mi Second at... Phone 724.
A Costly Cup of Coffee.
From London Truth.
When Dr. Richter, the gmtest llv.
lug .-unduelor, ffually adopted the
baton, be burned all hie composition.,
making with them, he said, -the
sweets* cop of coffee I ever tasted."
EXCURSION RATES
To Tybee-by-th.-Sea. via Central of
Gecrni Railway.
|!0.»« round trip on eaie da-!v. good
for return until September 12th. 1964.
89.60 round trip on sale T .rsdays
and Saturday.. June. July and August,
good to return ten day. In addition to
date of able.
85.IS round trip on pale Saturday.,
good to retorn leftring Savannah not
later than Tuesday night following date
of sale. . *
J2.n round trip.on sale for Seashore
Special Sunday tnornlrg.. good return
ing on d ite of rale. Se.i«hore Predial
leave* MAC I 4:49 a. )u. arrives Types
11:42 a. m . 8unjwe "i.ly. '
For further inforn.atloi
Aw d| EL M. JACKSON, Dentist.
Office on second floor Commvri ia]
Bank Building. Triangular Block. Tel-
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
DR. W. H. WHIPPLE,
« ^S ,c i’. S i3 at ~ rooms 4 and
5, Washington Block. Hours: 9 to 10
a. nt., 12 to 1, and 5 to 6 p. m. Tele,
fdimoe connc,>tlon8 et office and res-
DR. J. J. SUBERS.
Permanently located. In the special.
Leo venereal. Lost energy restored
Female Irregularities and poison oak-
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Macon, Ga. "
N. T. CARSV/ELL, M. D„
Has moved hie office from Ax-re.'
Building to tho Y. M. C. A. Building
corner of Cherry and First streets
PTacttce limited to general surgery mid
diseases of women. Office hours- ii
a. m. to L p, m.; 8 p. ro. to s p. m.
Dr. Che,. H. Hall. Dr. Thos. H. Hall
Office. 610 Mulberry at
Residence, MT College st.
Office hours- *:» to 9; 12 to 1:39; 6 to 6.
20».
axer.t.
Jos
W.
ag*tit. M«.-
BYES TESTED FREE.
G. 0. COPFY,
Optician. 568 Cherry st
DR. C. H. PEETE, OeuliiL
Of'l'-e Thone 3554: residence phone 47J
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GEORGIA TITLE A GUARANTY CO.
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T. B. WEST. Altf.