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THE MACON TELEGRAPH : SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, vyo*.
EG1UPI
■till new, that we have only 80.000.-
>0 people scattered over the three
lousand miles between New York and
—■ ! Hni) Francisco, where there Is room
wbushbd every Hosmnp and ,
TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON j
TELEGRAPH PUBLISHING COMPANY j
563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON, GA. j
C. R. PENDLETON.
President and .'Unafer.
c. P. PfcXDLETON
Editors
EOl’lS PENDLETON !
THE TELEGRAPH in ATLANTA.
Ths Telegraph will bs found on aale
it tho KimbslI Hou*o and t»io Pied
mont Hotsl In Atlanta.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR MACON.
Macon hna passed through rather a
dull summer, but the end la at hand.
Bualneaa dlaturbancea which need not
bo recounted no w rath or ehockod local
enterprise, nnd discouraged business
In the early aprlng, but condltlona In
Macon today ore better than they were
'at the opening of the full aeaaon last
year.
Cotton opened laat year at ? cent*.
Thisyear It opened at 10 centa. but
year the crop wna very abort. This
year the output prontlaea to be grenter.
The peach crop laat year waa fairly
good, and remunemtivo. Thla year It
wua better nnd more remuoerttitve. 1.
hna brought thousands of doll urn into
the territory Contiguous to Macou
more than ever before.
A prominent dry gooda merchant
■aid yesterday that hla aalea fell in the
aprlng and early summer months
somewhat below tho corresponding
months of laat year, but thnt during
the months of July nnd August, up to
thla data, hla aalea had sxcsedsd tho
sales for the montha of July and Au
gust laat year. He expressed the con
fident belief that Mncon waa about 10
enter upon the beat bualneaa senaon
ahi haa known in n long time. The
grenter punch crop which hna been sold
for greater prices; the grenter cotton
crop, the price for which has opened
ut S cents advance on the price lnat
year, were cited by him to establish
hla faith In the fall and winter trade
now opening.
The discouraging symptoms which
at-i- ir.'d in the aprlng hava paaaed
a way, and a very bright Immediate
future dawns upon ua. Macon never
had \ more promising outlook.
But nature nnd conditions cannot do
It nil. lly united 'action, hard work
and Judicious advertising, Macon's
business men can do a great deal thla
fall sad winter to jJush the Central
City forward ae a mart for trade. The
Telegraph la the business men's ally
and friend, and It la here to help them
develop their' 1 trade, and to build up
thla city’
ners
tthout fear of bankruptcy, they will
> tt very promptly. The* Southern la
wMe-trscktng now from Washington
south.
MR. PAYNE AND TtJI JUSTICE.
The refusal of Postmaster General
Payne to accept a summons from a*
Chlcaro Justice of the peace In possibly
due to hla training In the Hooaeveltlan
school. One of the Issues In the pref
ect campaign la based upon the Inter
ference of the executive with the legis
late and judicial branches of the gov
ernment. Judge Parker In hla speech
of acceptance emphaalsed this. He
maintained that the constitution was
above the man and that all cltlaens
were In duty hound to regard Ita In
junctions scrupulously. Noting tho con
duct of the president In dealing with
the members of congress, msy It not be
that cabinet advisor Pnyne has
wrought himself to the conviction thnt
a justice of tho peace J » n pernon too
Inconsequential for him to obey. Mr.
Payne knows better, of course, but un
der the influence of the president’s
example he may have become un-
t hough ted. Being accustomed to fol
lowing and grooming the "rough ri
der," It Is reasonable to conclude that
In such n minor matter as a summons
from a Justice of the peace he could
Jump the hurdle regardless. Hut that
the postmaster general Will ultimately
make his devoirs and excuses nnd obel-
mce to thnt same Justice of the peace
o have no doubt
Mr. Payne should remember the fact
that lseforc the wnr, there wna a man
who, on retiring from the presidency
of the United Htntes, did* not think It
beneath hla dignity to accept the of
fice of peace Justice In hla vicinage and
to discharge Ita duties with fidelity
That was a far better example to sot
before the |»eople than that set by Mr.
Payne In his reception of the bailiff.
It waa said by aotrie of the greatest
authorltlea on English law. that the
very basis of public order and civilian
tlon could be expressed In Three words:
"Heaped for the constable."
THE TROUBLE IN MISSOURI.
There la much bad feeling among
the Democrats of Missouri, due to fac
tional hlffcrences. It la probnble, how
ever. that Influences will be brought
to bear which will cauae the hatchets
to be buried before election day. The
Republicans have named their strong
est man for governor, and tho har-
titonlfon, of nrceesity, must be set to
pluylng. About the beat presentation
of the situation we have aeon hna been
made by a prominent cltlieh of Hprlng-
field, Mo., when Interviewed In Ten-
neeeee. He anld:
"UNINTERRUPTED PROSPERITY.”
Mr. W.. J- Hard ban, general mana
ger of the Jllgiols Central railroad, la
quoted by the New Orleans Tiraea-
Denwerat a* saying that the company
has added 50 locomotives to' Its equip
ment. making 1.150 engines in service.
We look for good business this year,"
continued Mr. Haraban, "particularly
In the Houth. The South alone keeps
up Its gait of uninterrupted prosperity."
Reports from other railroads and
other enterprlsea In the South confirm
this statement. Prosperity In other sec
tions Is more or less the result of an
artificial stimulation by speculators;
but In the Houth trade Is based on the
actual goods—cotton, fruits, agricultu
ral products, lumber, naval stores, and
the like. The cotton crop, which la go
ing to be a gopd one this season, opens
at three cents advance on the opening
lust year. There la every reason to an
ticipate a good winter's business.
The Atlantic Coast Line has placed
an order for 600 ventilated f»0,000-
pound capacity box cars, thirty-six
feet, long, double felt lined, v/Itn vide
and end' ventilators. ; They will Jiavs
steel trucks and steel body bolsters,
metal bralce beams, Weatlngkous» air
brakes, Thornburg tandem draft-gear
attachments and Tower couplers.
They are designed for the handling of
the rapidly Increasing shipments of
perishuble fruits and vegetables from
Georgia, Florida und tho CarollnaC
T0PIC8 OF THE TIMES.
RAILROAD TRAVEL.
The Interstate commerce commission
In Its n < nt report In which It Is shown
th » th.* rnllro-t !« of Groat Britain and
Inland In 1908 carried 1.194,888,000
I'iM.ni cf whom 1SS were killed and
1.918 Injured, while American rallrondi
carried 094.ft9t.686 persona, of whom
318 were killed .«nd ft.231 Injured
eluding employees the American roads
killed 9.640 und Injured 76.663. while
in Great Britain the total death roll was
1.168 nnd the number Injured
In other words one |ierson In 48,000,000
w t» killed In Great Britain nnd one It
2.000,000 In the United Htntes.
These figures do not reflect neces
f irlly upon the management of thi
American lints Many things have t>
be taken Into account. It must be
borne In mind that railroad enter
pii-v In thla country has had to di
largely with building In vast stretch*
of wilderness; that the area of the
country Is so great that all the British
Isles could be accommodated In the
state of Texas alone; that rallr
organisation In this country Is still In
a formative state and Just beginning
to be systematised. Not so many years
ago scores of our railroads were In the
hands of receivers, due to during of
Investors who deliberately laid rails In
the hope that they could hold on until
th» towns and cities rote upon the lint*.
While they lost their Investments,
those hopes were fulfilled end new
states were created end old ststee de
veloped. The era of organisation real
ly began only about forty yea re ago.
Within that period, brief aa It te, such
titles as 8L Paul and Mlnneapolla.
Ksi.-is City, Omaha. Beattie, Denver,
Halt Lake City, and a hundred others
have ripen into metropolitan dignity.
Without ths roads the West would still
he In » practical territorial condition,
nnd the pony express, the stage coach
and the wagon trull would still be the
means of communication. Th** the
management of the rntlroaas has been
treumstsnees. as to
of only one life In 2.000.-
806 of passengers carried is an evi
dence of care and not a matter for
reprobation We have not yet reached
compacted population
railroad owners In thla
our.try to double-track their lines. The
rttwatioii Is altogether different. If
►very road ran through such a popu
lous section as that between Washing-
lop and New York-with such cities
r*» Riltlmore. Wilmington. Philadel-
I Its .1 • r .
i»^i the terminals and all
within . -ix-h'-ur Journ y—we would
have .. d quadruple and sex-
IiipU* !r«< kx ‘
Crittenden made hie appeal H
announcing a resolve to exterminate the
f*" 1 '* on*. Th. p«>pl. b.ll.v»d In him
Kl5r..™ r, n* , P * u t?, •* » trwn.ndou.
majority, Knllt I. making hi. «nmp«Ygti
tariff ™ r ‘iu-' '" **ir, rmlTmt !. on nt
the boodtort, who have dlegrsced tho
81* Louis, be-
Ed. I hitler, the former boss who
has been excommunicated front ths 'Dem
ocratic party, haa ‘made an alliance with
! "’u-'rft'il’i'ii" 1 ,ur •ovwnw, c.
> ■ W»lbrtd«r. Th* Inll.r w«« mnyor nf
g>. 1-ouU wh.n Butler ruin) whit „n Iron
nnnq. Tti.jr .r. nl.o partner* In hu.l-
n—• «>.«} t*ith ntn. khotilrn. in th* Kuril*
»5*. > vpoctrn Of munlrlixil orlvilrg.
Ifiaj <«m* nr.r *«ndlnK llutl.r lo th*
1—nllHnllnry. Tho com tta, rnvrr.nl In
lln. Miiprrmo court and Uullrr W«« ill..
**'-"■ f«lk h«d convicird him In
the lower court.
xiTSS* A" . ,M y.V ,nr ,n th * r 9'**ify districts
him\ fo L n 8. to vote for
pjji p*f nu »f they tielleVf he Is slncers In
his determination to drive the hoodler*
from the state. Two or three of them are
hi Mexico, two in France, one In
Hx In the penitentiary and sev-
r«w.L , .r AH? ,or ^nnlor After all the
him^h .»t^ntupmey has ronfcrrml upon
him, the t»**t thins he can do now for
governor* ** *° ***** the nominee for
It la hoped Sincerely by Democrats
throughout ths country thnt My. Folk
will hnvs such a majority as shall
make it clear to all the rest of th*
world that the people of Missouri are
squarely at'hla back In hla great work
of •stlrpntlng boodlerlsnt. If he
should lend his ticket nil ths better
for Missouri. He Is half way In hla
work and hla people cun not afford to
see him discredited In any way. Tho
moral effect «»f the endorsement will be
very great both at home and abroad.
It will Inspire officials of other states
to go and do likewise, that they re-
cslvs the tribute from their gratsfUl
people: "Wall done, thou good and
faithful servant!"
Here's to Alexia ’Nlkolnlevltch. May
he never get on the bomb.—Memphis
New'S.
It is always the fellow who hna not
been straight hints*If who Is the first
to Impugn the motives of others.—
Charlotte News.
In cuss Df a war with Turkey will
Roosevelt resign nnd organise another
troop of Rough Riders?- -Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
The Kansas City Journal declares
that Mr. Bryan has no sense of humor.
And yet Mr. Bryan Is highly amused
every time he tries to read a Kansas
City Journal editorial.—The Common
er.
After he hns fattened up a little and
had the look of deep-seated gloom
manicured off hla face. Senator Fair
banks Is going to have some more pic
lures taken.—New York Evening Tele
gram.
Probably tho Inventor of tho safety
pin, who Is still living. Is wondering
with the rest of us how the women ever
managed to hold themselves together
before he appeared on the scene.
Chicago News.
It is not generally known, but Chninp
Clark's motive In cutting his front
name down from "Benuchantnp” was his
Instinctive inversion to being called
"Be” by theso ribald parngraphers.-
Jacksonville Cltlsen.
True, the United Htntes may product
more beer than Germany does, but,
then, there's a grain of satisfaction for
the Dutchmnn when he looks at the
names of the brewers In this country.—
Roanoke Times.
Hesitates—Lost.—Western postmas
ter wants women letter carriers and
the department hesitates because
finds that the regulations will compel
them to wear trousers. Shucks! Most
of them do now.—New York' Herald.
Not much dependence evidently can
be placed In the recent cenaus of the
Philippine Islands, for Major General
Leonard Wood, the cable reports,
organising crack regiments for the
purpose of continuing his warfare on
the Moroa.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Judge Parker will get more votes by
not making any speeches ns he will
by making speeches. The people will
bo Impressed with the fact thut he hns
a due appreciation of the dignity of the
office nnd does not propose to do any
thing to lower that dignity.—Jackson
News.
The Democratic National Committee.
It la said, hns Grover Cleveland's prom
ise for two speeches this fall In New
Jer»«y. They will be delivered Juat
after the close of the Ashing season nnd
Just before the opening of the duck
■hooting season.—Springfield Press
Republic.
Should the Democrats of Mnssachu
setts nominate Richard Olney for gov
ernor; the Itomocrat* of New York
Daniel O. Lnmont; and the Democrats
of Wisconsin William F. Vilas. It might
not assure victory, but nothing would
have been left undone to deserve ...
It le the high duty of the Democracy
this year to put Its strongest men In
the front of the battle.—Philadelphia
mbers because he sat through a
-Avo-hour session on July 19-20
1 participated. In that time, In nine-
dlvlslons.
ot:c of Verestschagln's letters to
rc'-s Claret le, published In the Re-
tlw Russian painter remarks:
icn I returned from Japan I wrote
hr* czar that a terrible war would
soon br»*ak out. But the kind-hearted
man. filled witb Ideas of peace, would
not believe me.”
Blr Qttrge Sydenham Clarke, who
haa been appointed secretary of the
British defense committee, haa had a
busy and a varied career. He has been
employed In making gun-carriages at
Woolwich, has been governor of Victo
ria, earned a medal and the khedlve's
Star In the Egyptian war of 1882, and
has filled many foreign missions.
William J. Bogan, who has been ap
pointed superintendent of the Chicago
athenaeum, to succeed Charles IL Bar
rett, resigned, has been principal of tho
Washington day and night schools for
the last four years. He was born in
Michigan, was educated at the Ann
bor high school, and at the Teachers*
College of the University of Chicago.
He has taught In the Chicago public
schools for the last ten years, and has
high reputation ns an educator.
The richest man In Europe Is the em
peror of Russia; hla reported contribu
tlon of* 200.000.000 rubles to the war
fund Is quite possible, as his ancestors
left him an enormous wealth, and his
annual Income Is estimated at <
$40,000,000. His expenditures are on the
same scale. A single court bnll cost a
million rubles. Yet for his personal
needs the czar Is said not to spend over
$50 a day. The empress has the Anest
Jewels In the world, hut wears them
only half s dozen times u year.
Charles Robert Wilson. M. A.. I)
Litt., late princlpel pf the Indian Gov
ernment College at Patna, died a
Cl/lphom, England, recently, at the age
of- forty-one years. He whs a zealous
and conscientious student of Indian
historical records, both written nnd ep-
Igrnphlc. and the two volumes of "Ear-
Annnls of the English In Bangel,'
brought out under his editorship, some
eight years ago, throw considerable
light on many obscure points In that
fascinating section of the history of the
British connection with India.
ITEMS OF INTERE8T. *
nirrinriYiirtiinifirwirinninifXiifiifxinirngri
REPUBLICANISn AND POPULISM,
WATSON WORKING FOR ROOSEVELT.
Sf> Cents
; week for choice of Misses* and
Children’*
Low Cut Shoes.
E. B. Harris & Co.
ARCHITECTS.
Record.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE,
i «.VJ1 *6 sA <£«A •A'&A •fh.Wkii >0
Roger Williams, the "boy violinist,
THE CZAR’S BENEFICENCE
When the heir to the Russian thi
was christened The Telegraph called
attention to the beneAcencoa of the
cssr—grants for the betterment of the
condition of his subjects. At the same
time It commented upon the fact that
the Russian people were centuries be
hind In securing such concessions as
the esar made In order to signalise the
advent of the heir. The liberty which
Americana, Mexicans, Britishers, Ger
man, French, Italians, Spanish. Danes
and Scandinavians enjoy, notwith
standing all that Nicholas his sire and
hla grsndslre have done to make the
people happier, has not nearly been
attained In the land of the Muscovite.
The contrast was emphasised by the
czar's very beneficences.
Now comes the Nashville Banner,
taking the same View. It says:
To nrortalm «Heer OMneettes and mwh
tt,-d rrftim* in cowmmmt (or
reason that the roar lx fesitn* e«vl oxer
the Wrth or a son. loroagMhlni hy
eetehniibMf of a onIkXinm rile,
n»s Itself the srrbslc buomiIiw of rh*
tnMtUe ages *h*t the enlightened wnrt.t
wonders why swrh aimers have all tt*,
time been toteratrd In a great modern
power that relta Itself rtrtlised. It u a
shMOtt thought that the reforms would
not have beet, made had the little AIt»m
been bnrw a girt. The deltas of IDL.
heneArewt edict, according to the anti
quated Julian aUaodsr which tl<« rest of
Star ups itlecardid some centuries ego. end
» les Is thirteen days behind tse correct
time, but to which Russia slid adhere
through a relifckMM prejudice, vuggesi* m
itself (tie extreme Wxxtrdiww of the
4 : Nfcftt tut Empire
who died at Oxnard. Cal., last month,
was a lineal descendant of the founder
of Rhode Island.
Judge Parker Is a man who is
slant to one tailor. The same mar
made n suit of clothes twenty year
has been making the Judge's clothes
ever since.
Capt. A. 8.* Rowan, who carried the
message to Garcia, la soon to wed Mrs
Jowphln* Degrsayer, of Han Francisco
Capt. Rowen's first wife died a fi
montha ago,.
Mrs. Thomas Taggart, wife of th<
chairman of the Democratic national
committee, does not believe In wont
permitting the publication of their p
lures In the newspapers.
Bob Womack, who discovered the
gold deposits in the Cripple Creek dl
trtet In Colorado. Is a pauper paraly
•t • sanitarium In Colorado Springs,
and at the point of death.
The Stradtvartus of Coldwater. Mlc„,
was William Forty, who died lost week,
aged 8$ years. He waF noted for the
excellent's of his violins, some of whtc
have sold for $1,888 a piece.
*e exar receives nearly 1.880.088
id* per annum. Ills salary is pAld
monthly Installments * of $0,888
pounds each, which are sent to him by
check on the National Bank of Russia.
The admirers of the Parisian painter
Ib'gss recently* celebrated his seventi
eth birthday. Hla works claim special
attention at present because U»eir In
dividuality ta largely due to the Influ
ence nt Japanese art xyhtch they betray.
Kfencer Cturringum, member of the
British parliament. 62 years old. has
received a silver cop from admiring fri
ll is estimated that 6 per cent, or
about $86,000,000 of the annual Income
from American railroads goes to fore
ign Investors.
Chinese styles come up from the
South.' Shanghai being the Paris thnt
sets the fashions for all people save the
court Manchus. Just now the Worth
nnd Doucet of Shanghai have trimmed
the baggy, looxe. sleeved Chinese coat
down to the scantiest lines. ^
Central Africans make a kind of
sweet beer, which is effervescent nnd
tastes a good deal like champagne. It
is made by mixing water and banana
Juice nnd allowing this to turn sour.
It Is anld to be wholesome, but it Is
drunk only by women nnd children.
For military purposes a census Is,
taken annually of the number of her**?*
existing In France. The census of
horses this yv:»r showed that there
were only 90,147, against 81,016 twelve
months before, a decrease of SCO In a
single year, which is likely to become
accentuated.
The custom of marrying girls when
they are mere children of 0 or 10 years
Is Increasing rather than decreasing
In Bengal nnd other parts of India.
The resulting racial degeneration is
becoming so obvious that laws have
been passed In several regions forbid
ding the marriage of girls under 14.
The number of persons on tho pay
rolls of the railways of the United
States, as returned for Juno $0. 1802,
was 1,812,687, or 6S9 per 100 miles of
line. .These flgures, when compared
with corresponding ones for the year
1902, show an. Increase of*123,222 in
the number of employes, or 46 per 109
miles of line. —
Two imperial princes, one the brother
nnd the other the second son of the
Hhsh of Persia—uncle and nephew be
ing about th© same hge— are In flight
nnd have sought refuge at Constanti
nople, where their extradition is being
demanded by the Persian envoy. They
nre. It is said. Implicated In a plot upon
the life of the king of kings.
In Germany when a person breaks
down with consumption he Is sent to a
government sanitarium, where he *s
kept until ho recovers or dies. In the
meantime his fninlly receives a weekly
pension from a fund to which the pa
tient himself contributed when he was
in good health. By this means the risk
of spreading the disease is avoided.
The police In Knglnnd and Wales at
the time of the recent censn* numbered
44.904, the army 441.986 pers*mh. Pm
clergymen of the Katnbllshed Church
26.2*6. the Roman Catholic pr'-ests
8.088, the ministers of other denomina
tions 11,672, barristers and solicitors
0.998. doctors (Including surgeons)
22.698, painters, engravers and sculp
tors 18,949, und actors and actresses
12.487.
Papers have been drawn* for the
transfer to a New York syndicate of
If1,000 acres of spruce lands In the
Southern part of Vermont the consid
eration being $1,608,000. The pur
chase Includes tracts in Danby, Mount
Tabor. Peru. Manchester, Winhall.
owned by six companies, and the,
Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Nar
row-gauge road This road Is to be
changed to standard gauge, and ex
tended from Wilmington sixteen mtlea
Into the forest
The seminary for Oriental languages
at Berlin has, during the present sum
mer course, 156 students. Of these. .0
are Jurists, 45 are candidates for the
diplomatic and consular service. 29 are
scientists teachers and members of the
philosophical faculty. U are govern-
(By Savoyard, in Nashville Banner.)
The Populist party is a Republican
this year, and it will not be the fault
of Its candidate for president—honest
man—If It does not earn its salary. It
had to go to the precincts of Mammon
to notify its candidates, and to the
looker-on In Vienna the Honorable
Thomas E. Watson plays as important
part—and is a more valuable asset—
in the economy of the G. O. P. as one
Mrs. Harris had In the out-golnga and
Incomings, tho conversations and the
imagination*, of Mistress Salrey Gamp.
Perhaps It is more of a sinuosity than
curiosity of politics that Watson's
"notification” cost more than Roose
velt's and Parker's together. It takes
money to rent Cooper Union, and time
must tell how much Watson's speech
is worth. Tho party 1s In politics in
1904 to take votes from Parker. That
Is all it hopes to do and all It wants
to do—that Is what Watson's speech
means and all It means. The fowler
hns spread hla net In sight of the
birds. \
A partnership between the Republi
cans and the Populists la perfectly
natural, though a marriage between
them would be illegal, because inces
tuous, for they nre of one blood nnd
within the Levitical inhibition—both
are the children of paternalism, both
believe in government and both dis
believe In the people. According to
their philosophy people exist to the
sole end that governments may prac
tice statesmanship on them, whereas
the Democratic Idea Is. that govern
ments are tolerated in order that peo
ples may apply statesmanship to them.
The difference between the Republl--
can party and the Populist is simple,
but marked—the former would rob the
poor to give to the rich and tho latter
would rob the rich to give to the poor.
They are not divided as to the virtues
of paternalism It Is merely a difference
of application that separates them.
The Populist party Is not new. Cleon
waa a Populist, Rlenzl wns a Populist,
Jack Cade wns a Populist, Marat was a
Populist. Scratch an exaggerated
demagogue and you catch a Populist.
Had there never been an abuse In
government there would have been no
Populist, for Populism is the child of
abuse. A governmental policy that
gives more than the wealth of Indiana
to swell the extortion of a trust In
evitably makes ft statesman like Wat
son nnd musters a soldier like Coxey.
For whatsoever a man soweth that
shall he nlso reap. The same Is true
of a government—where It robs Peter
to enrich Paul it binds nnother set
of plunderers who would rob both
Peter and Paul.
with admiration nnd tentative ap
proval. It takes up what It calls his
arguments and applauds their honesty
and intimates that It is against the law
for a Democrat to disagree with this
demagogue in statesmanship and Jan
izary In politics.
The Tribune characterized ns "prin
ciple" In 1904, what is called Idiocy in
1896. Then, according to the Tribune,
Watson was a fool and possibly a trait
or; now the Trlbun^ is persuaded he
Is a statesman and is certain he is a
patriot The Tribune is determined
that the gold standard Is an Issue and
proves It by Watson, who, it contends,
is'a heap better Democrat than Parker,
or Bryan or Cleveland, or John Sharp
Williams, aa any of the others.
Can it be that the Republican cam
paign is so desperate thnt Tom Watson
is become a valuable political asset, re
cruited to help Roosevelt because the
Democrats nominated a gold standard
man? What good can the ravings of
this blatant demagogue about the gold
standard do the Republican cause,
when only laat xvlnter, he Insisted that
the Democratic convention should nom
inate another gold-standard man, if it
xvanted his support. Is William R.
Henrst better than Alton B. Parker
because he had ft barrel and knocked
the head out of It—both heads?
It Is a dangerous business this thing
of having dealings xvlth the Populist
party—better trade with Trnpbois. The
Democrats know how It Is. Encourage
ment lent to Watson In 1904 will work
to strengthen the socialistic movement
of the future. # In 1908. our country
may be confronted vwlth ft danger
greater than that of 1896. Whatever
strengthens Tom Watson now will
have Its effect then.
Why cannot the Republican party
have a fair, stand-up flght with the
Democratic party? Is It afraid? O, If
that committee that has him hand
cuffed nnd gagged, would only turn
the Rough-rider loose! We would
then have some politics.
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Classified advertisements under
this head are intended strictly for
the professions.
It would be excellent if the Populist
party were as powerless for harm ns It
Is impotent for good. Ten years ago
It seduced nnd debauched the Demo
cratic party, and thus defeated the ef
forts of Grover Cleveland to supplnnt
Republican abuse with Democratic re
form. It Is written In the works of a
great English statesman that the walks
of Carthage trembled when Hannibal
entered Cnpun. nnd we may say that
tariff reform was postponed a genera
tion whe'n the Democrats of the Fifty-
third congress joined the Populists In
the denunciation, repudiation and
overthrow of Mr. Cleveland’s ldens of
Democracy find policies of reform.
Hannibal had an excuse—the wlno of
Cnpuu wns nectar and the women of
Capua were houris; but there were no
such seductions to tempt tho Demo
crats of the house nnd senate. 1893-95.
They fled to Cannan and possessed the
wilderness nnd fed on husks and nearly
frose to death. Aside from inglorious
detent what they have to shbw for a’l
of it Is the efforts of the Popu.llxt par
ty of 1904 to beat Parker and elect
Roosevelt. The Democrats are out of
the wilderness and hungry for the inilk
and honey of Canaan, which their
fathers enjoyed. They are marching
on Canaan to possess their birthright,
which their lenders sold for a mess of
potttige in 1896, and didn’t get the pot
tage. Watson’s mnd because the
Democrats are marching on Canaan.
It is amusing to read the greetings
the Republicans give Watson. They
are ready to hall him Blucher. The
New York Tribune quotes the man
ment officials, merchants and private
persons. It are officials of the federal
postoffice department, 18 ora army
officers, 8 are physicians, 3 are theo
loglans and 2 era technicians. The
number of foreigner* is 19.
The consul-general of the United
States at Cairo has notified the de
partment of commerce and labor,
through the department of State, that
In view of the report present*?4 by the
KhedivUl Agricultural Society calling
attention to the ravages M cott.»r.
plantations In America by a
Insect, and setting forth the consequent
danger to the Kgyptlsn product of In
troducing Into the country American
c«mon seed, a decree tras Issued on
June 26 forbidding Its Importation Into
Egypt.
Director Campbell, of the !.k*k Ob
servatory. reports that the D* O. Mills
expedition to Santiago. ChttL secured
up to June 1 tost more than 18# pho
tographs of stellar spectra, many of
which have been measure.! nnd re
duced. Professor Wright has also de
tected numerous spectroscopic binary
■tars, which seem to be alngl) stars
under most powerful telescop?*. From
these data and what have been gath
ered at the Lick Observatory sines
1896. the problem of the motion of the
solar system through space ira Ms di
rection and speed will be solved.
Joseph W. J. Lee, secretary of the
United States legation, Panama, In a
communication to the state department
reports that a competition has been
authorised by the Panama govern
ment for the submission of d -signs
for a national coat of arms nnd a na
tional flag. A prise of $200 e««:n is to
be awarded to the successful competi
tor. Treatment, colors. obJecD nnd
other elements which enter Into the
composition of the shield or flng w>U
be left to the free will and Ideas of th<
competitors without limitations, ex
cept that the sketch©* must be origi
nal nnd In good taste.
Coffee enthusiasts wlU find Justifi
cation for thetr much-maligned fa
vorite beverage in the work of two
American Investigators, who have pub
lished their work in the American
Medical Journal. These original work
ers have been experimenting to de
termine tho antiseptic qualities of cof-
fed Infusions. They And that a 10
per cent, infusion prevented the growth
of micro-organisms such as typhoid
and anthrax bacilli, etc. If they are
correct in this contention ^it would
seem that coffee drinkers should
tnmu
dtsea
• In a
i due
fro
feetton of th<
memary tract. The germicidal p
ertles of coffee sre surprising. It
fofind that ground coffee well m
with the yolks and white* of eggs
with chopped beef prevented decor
sltlon. Home observing housewife
dispute this from her observation
coffee infusions exposed to the all
some time often become covered
mold, but closet Investigation will
dose the fact that. whID this
happen, ths Infusion itself never
comes sour or turbid through hoc
development.
i those
OSTEOPATHY
DR. F. F. JONES, Osteopath.
»34 Second st Macon. Pnoi
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
History of the Ancient Olympic Games.
"The Olympic festival, which was
held on the banks of the Alphelus In
Peloponnesus, near the old oracular
temple of, the Olympian Zeus, not only
grew up uninterruptedly from small
beginnings to the maximum of Pan-
Hellenic Importance, but even pre
served Its crowds of visitors and Its
celebrity for many centuries after the
extinction of Greek freedom, and only
received Us Anal abolition, after more
than 1.100 years of continuance, from
tho decree of tho Christian emperor
Theodosius in 394 A. D. I have already
recounted In the preceding volume of
this history the nttempt made by Phel-
don, despot of Argos, to restore to the
PIsatnns, or to acquire himself, tho
administration of this festival, an event
which proves tho Importance of tho
festival In Peloponnesus, even so early'
ns 740 B. C. At that time, and for
some years afterwards. It seems to
have been frequent chlef]y, If not
cluslvely. by the neighboring Inhab
itants of central and western Pelopon-
Spartans. Messenlans. Arkndl-
nns, Trlphyllnns. Plvatans, Eleinns and
and Achneans—and It forms nn Impor
tant link connecting the Aetolo-
Elelans, and their privileges ns Agono-
thets, to solemnize and preside over it,
with Sparta. From the year 720 B. C.
we trace positive evidences of tho
gradual presence of more distant
Greeks—Corlnthlnns. Megnrlans, Boeo
tians. Athenians, nnd even Smymae-
nns from Asia. We observe nlso other
proofs of growing Importance, in the
increased number and variety of
matches exhibited to the spectators,
nnd In the substitution of the slmrle
crown of olive, an honorary reward.
In place of the more substantial pres-
Olymptc festival nnd all
festivals began by con-
he victor. The humble
constitution of the Olympic games pre
sented originally nothing more than a
match of runners In the measured
course called the Stadium. A contin
uous series of tKe victorious runners
Inscribed and preserved
by the Elrlnna. beginning with Ko-
roebua In 776 B. C.. and was made to
serve by chronological Inquirers from
the third century B. C. downwards, ns
a means of measuring the chronologl-
f Grecian events.
» occasion of the seventh
Olympiad after Koroebu* that Dntkles
the Messenlnn first received for his vic
tory In the Stadium no farther recom
pense than a wreath from the sacred
olive-tree near Olympia; the honor of
being proclaimed victor was found
sufficient, without any pecuniary nddl-
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tlon. But until the fourteenth Olym
piad <776 B. C.) there was no other
match for the spectators to witness be
sides thnt of simple runners In the Sta
dium. On that occasion a second race
was first Introduced, of runners in the
double Stadium, or up and down the
C8U
| plat
cou
land
thu
th*
loni
next or fifteenth Olym-
thlrd i match, the long
ners. or several tlrm
ft Stadium. There
*es—the simple Stadium,
dlum, or Dlaulos. and the
Dollchos, all for rtfnners
which continued without addition until
the eighteenth Olympiad, wh*n the
wrestling match and the complicated
Pentathlon (Including Jumping, run
ning. the <M>!t. the Javelin, and wres
tling) W’ereooth added A further nov
elty appeared In the twenty-third
Olympiad (668) the boxing match; and
another still more Important event In
the twenty-fifth (680 B. C.) the char
iot with four full grown horse* This
lost mentioned addition Is deserving of
special notice, not merely as It diversi
fies the scene by the introduction of
horses, but also as tt brought In a to
tally new class of competitors, tiqh
men and women, who possessed the
finest horses, and could hire the most
skilful drivers without any personal su
perlorlty or power of bodily display In
tb^j
The prodigious exhibition of wealth
In which the chariot proprietors
dulged I* not only an evidence of gi
ing Importance In the Olympic games,
! but also served materially to Inc
i that Importance and to helghter
I Interest of spectators. Two farther
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matches were added In tho thirty-third
Olympiad (648 B. C.) the Pankration,
or boxing and wrestling combined, with
the hand unarmed or divested of that
hard leather cestus worn by pugi
lists, which rendered the blow of the
latter more terrible, but at the same
time prevented him from grasping or
keeping hold of his adversary—and tho
single race horses. Many other novel
ties were introduced one after another
which it is unnecessary full to enum
erate—the race between 'men clothed In
full i»anoply and bearing each his
shield—the different matches between
boys, analogous to those between full
grown men, and between colts of the
same nature as between full grown
horses. At the maximum of its attrac
tion the Olympia solemnity occupied
five days, but until the seventy-seventh
Olympiad all the various matches hud
been compressed Into one—beginning
at day-break and not always closing
before dark. The seventy-seventh
OlympDd follows immediately after
the successful expulsion of the Persian
invaders from Greece, when the Pan-
Hellenic feeling has been keenly stim
ulated by resistance to a common
enemy; end we may easily conceive
that thla was a suitable moment for
Imparting additional dignity to the
chief national festival.”—From History
of Greece, by George Orate, publisher,
John Murray, London. EngDnd. *
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