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THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1908
The Macon Telegraph
Published Every Morning by
THE MACON TELEGRAPH Pl'B. CO.
•M Mulberry Street, Maoon, Oa.
riant deserve tbelr freedom and wo
can not l»ut hop* that nuQgcrla. Ilk*-
Norway, will become independent
through a peareabi© revolution.
0. R. PENDLETON,
PRESIDENT AND MANAGER.
THI TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
TIm Tofogroph can bo found on aato
at the Kimball Houte and Piedmont
filial in Atlanta.
|k w-asiua
% HEtMATH HALL.
Ottb ot the Tory beat institution* In
|U«. fa Hetmoth Hall—a hoarding
tun* for young burlneaa women and
ijfoaaalo «tudont»—not a charity In tho
tsoand aenao; bat a oomfortablo, quiet.
^trad plaeo batonded to giro atrug
gljng foanaloa good board at a low
rato. Bomo of our pab!1**aplrltod and
.•ntarprlelng women aro promoting
In order to aid their loot fortunate sta
ter* In tho atrurglo for extatanc*.
The Soptombor roport mada by tho
i ' rlntrndont ohowa that tho Hall
I...» twenty*two regular boarders
'■ there ara aeren on tho "watting llat/
end marly thirty have boan turned
away for want of room.
Tho institution, aa ahown by tho re
gort, la not quit# aolf-auatalnlng.
Thara la a email debt. The Hall nooda
to bo enlarged. The officers In charge
are atruggllng with It They will not
Irt the word ••charity'* bo used In con
nection with Helmath Hall, because
the young women boarding there pay
tho board charged, and ara making
fhelr way with each help. This la an
opportunity offered to onablo them to
l«y their way. But there la a great
chance beta for tho well-to-do hu
i <nJUrJan to help tho needy ones
who ara atruggllng to help them
aelvea, which, if the ladles In cbarga
will pardon ua for saying,
greatest of all oharttles—helping those
Reserving ones who aro atruggflng to
fcelp themselves.
The Idle beggar exhibiting hla crip
fled Hmbi la alwaya under suspicion.
Tho indolent and slothful person
with a healthy body Is desplsabls.
Hut tbs struggling young woman
tolling for a pittance with which to
k»*p body and soul together while she
fights the wolf from the door,
speotaolo which goes deep down Into
tho depths* of all groat hearts and
sow la which aro fashlonad Ood*Ukal
Who doubts that auoh a contest In a
wicked world of unaqual chanoa is
•retched with bated breath by th* In
arisible guardlana of human kind!
To help those who hplp themselves
|s tho groat cat of all beneficent dsods.
When one feeds the beggar at the
•eer ha does not know but what h#
fs worming the aap In his bosom. There
•an never be any doubt, however, about
the deed when the hand la extended
Eo a needy one that Is aeon to ba toll
ing single-handed and asking n<
films
Helmath Hall la asking no alma, but
get her strugglaa mutely appeal to the
humanitarian who can and will pinch
a bit of hls affluence to help the
struggling poor among our whits re
orectablo females.
The noble women who ara giving
fhelr unselfish efforts to this work tn
Macon ara: Mrs. 8. T. Coleman, Jr*
groeidentj Mrs. J. C. Hinton, vie*
gnsl(V*rM; Mrs. It. R. Findlay, tress
tn er; Mrs. T. K. Ryala, secretary; and
Ml** Paulino Hudson, superintendent
where are other helping handaT
If
BULGARIAN INDPENDENCE.
Although this la an age of oorablna-
tlon In government as well as tn busl*
um, and aa a nils there Is nothing
fur the little fish to do but to submit
to bring swallowed by the shark, the
American, especially the American at
the Booth, Involuntarily sympathises
with Bulgaria In hlr determination to
throw off the yoke of Turkey.
it Is true that Turkey Is repenting
mf her sins and la preparing to grant
•ocstltutlcnal government
a taxes attached to her empire as wall
as to her own people, but Independence
•e better for a separate people than
weaetMutlonel government under
feretgn conqueror, and the desire and
••termination of the Bulgarians need
mo explanation.
tt ts remasfcabte that the event has
•ooa ae Wag delayed, for Bulgaria ts
sUttif sjid Is said to have long been
fax a position to secure her Independ-
aooe by force of arms.' Her fighting
aOTlolency Is considered by experts to ba
Very nearly equal that of Turkey al
though based on a P' - ; station only
»n«-sixth as large. It Is said that she
car. place 110,000 men la the Held
art thin ten flays and «an later reinforce
thorn with 120,000.
This means serious work for Tur
key If an attempt to coerce the re
volting state should be* mada and the
gem# would probably not ba regarded
a* worth the oandle but for the dan
ger of like revolt on Che part of other
bites of the empire The Bulge-
HOT SHOT INTO THE Q. O. P.
After smiting the Republicans hip
and thigh on the subject of the pub
licity of campaign contributions and
reducing Roosevelt and Taft to silence,
Bryan has been pouring hot shot Into
the sacred extortionate tariff and ef
fectively ridiculing the O. O. P. as
the boosted champion prosperity-
maker of the universe.
The Republicans may continue to
hall their party as tha author of the
good crops, and therefore of the rain,
the fall, and tho tun. but fhey will
find it very difficult to answer Bryan
if they «re forced to face prosaic and
Inconvenient facta In their order. The
other day he said:
•The Dempcratfc party Is abso
lutely necessary to rastore pros
perity. The Republican party has
had its chance and It hae failed.
We are now in the midst of a
depression for which natural con
ditions furnish no excuse. Arti
ficial conditions are responsible
for the present business prostra
tion and those artificial conditions
originated In Republican policies.
The buslnsss failures for tbs nlns
months ending on Beptember SO
were 11,041 In number and the lia
bilities amounted to 9170,000,000.
It means that if the assets ara
worth In fact the amount at which
they are placed there will still be
n loss of 900,000.000 to account
for.
good, and when nature han not
withheld her bounty. It comes
when the Republicans art. in com
plete control They have a Pres I •
tha hands of ths Republican par
Hr, and a Rspubllcan House or
Representatives dominated by a
despotic flpeakcr. We can assume,
therefore, that they have done
everything they could do oonsiet-
ently under their policies to pre-
vent a panic, -and yet the panic Is
hers.
"In fact, tha failures of the last
nine months exoeed In number the
failure* of tha corresponding nine
months of 1119, and tho difference
between assets and llabllltlta Is
greater this year than it wns In
1119. although tha total amount of
tha liabilities was greater In 1019
than this year. But it must ba
remembered that tha McKinley
taw waa still in force In 1109. It
wan in foroa until tha summer of
1004. The Wilson bill was not
passed until ths summer of 1114.
Ths failures of that year wera not
at great alther In number or In
the amount of liabilities as they
were this year.’*
Noting that all this has come to
rasa while the tariff la so high that
even tha Republicans have been forced
to make doubtful promises of revision.
Bryan went on tn aay: "If we are go
ing to have prosperity we must have
a reduction In the tariff. The jxopl
recognize the Carlff as extortionate.
Even the Republican leaders are forced
to admit this, and yet they are delib
erately planning to prevant any real
revision by elsctln* a atandpat Con
while ths Republican candidate
Is talking about rsvlalon without glv
Ing any aaturanee that revision win
mean a material reduction. If the Re-
publican party wins It will not revise
the tariff In the Intereats of tpe con
sumer, and that msana that tha prta-
ent agitation must continue for four
ycara longer.**
•The Republican party can not es
cape from Its record," thundered Bryan
In conclusion. Nor can It. except by
dodging tho truth and continuing to
deceive fbe people.
to carrying Georgia for hie campaign,
particularly srhao It le known that the
Democracy fhn, If necessary, pollan-
atner -100.000 votes.
Rome of the Republican newspapers,
hard though the duty (a, are honest
«Rough to faoe the subject of the al
leged Cleveland article equarely. The
Chicago Tribune, while admitting that
a now "generally believed to
spurious," suggests: *1t Is hardly
llkaly that the man who sold It made
It up entirely out of hla own head. It
la barely possible that the article la
baaed In part upon conversations had
with Mr. Cleveland. In some particu
lars It eertalnly represents hie views.**
fluch a suggestion U not unreasonable,
but this may be granted aa the truth
and the article as a whole still remain
utteWy false and misleading.
Literary Forgeries
And Plagiarisms
A "Me Toe** Candidate.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Tbs ■ pec tad*, unprecedented, unsaem-
Iy and unpatriotic, offered by Theodore
Roosevelt to hls countrymen at this time,
should establish, and tn our opinion It
has already established. In the minds of
thoughtful people a convincing argu
ment In favor of a change of parties In
the national government.
If w« are to maintain the spirit of re-
R Ubllcan Institutions, overwhelming de-
tat and prompt rebuke must follow so
peat a desecration of the self-govern
ing principle, to say nothing about no
wanton a degradation of the presidential
dignity. *
Obvious!;
nettl. . .
Tha duel between him and the demo
cratic nominee for president proves noth
in. f— '*
Ing except that Mr. Roosevelt seeks
make himself appaar to the “wags earn-
mors Bryanlied than Bryan, whilet
secretly employing the agencies of _
scrupulous power and the resources of
corrupting. If not of predatory wealth, to
cheat ru' "e opinion nnd coerce reaulta.
He waa chosen chief magistrate to servo
(lie nutlo.i and all tin- people. When in
effect ha stigmatise* half tha p**opla us
menacing the national Interest he la ef
fect proclaims himself a recreant to Ills
oath of offloe. Never before was such
an affront put upon a free constituency.
Only the rage of a spoiled child, the
fury of a berried nnd foolish hoy, could
account for the exhibitions which for
the moment sre confined to the while
house, but which will presently be
plaoed on wheels and trollled nbout from
one end of the land to the other. Not a
despot upon the teal or the rnlmlo seem
ever showed Idmsclf mpre lost to self,
repression, lesn able to brook opposition.
Having at tha outsat exhausted the un
worthy agenclea at hls command to torco
upon Ida party the nomination of Judge
Taft hS foiwet* that Judge Taft ts
candidate. With the whoop of an lnd._..
chief he rushes to the front of the battle.
With a savage wave of the hand
hruahea hts late secretary rudely aside
and takes peraonnl leadership upon the
firing line. Like Macl*(h in the final in t
—like Richard upon Hullshury plain-tie
atrikes out blindly. With (lloster he be*
holda the darkling of the sun and di
vines the causa. With the guilty Scot he
Is told that Blrnam wood doth come to
Duntlnance and he shouts to Hitchcock,
the messenger—
^'Llar^and Slave!
If thou epenkcat false.
*—i the next tree shall thou hang a...
famine ding thee; If thy speech ba
Upon
Till f
sooth,
I can- not If thou dost for me .
Wherefore? Why. simply draperatlon
nd despair—the knowledge that after all
ha has said and (lone—the Immolation of
friends beneath the steam roller and
the mcr Ifice of reputation In the nhnnd-
HEARST*a HURRAH.
Georgians who should chance to
read the report of our State election
In William It Ilearst’a New York
American would acquire a hint as to
the proper amount of discount to al
low for anything seen tn that gentle
man's publications The account un
der an Atlanta date line Is prefaced
with these headlines In big type:
Yancey Garter Takes Big Rltce
Georgia's Hitherto Unspllt Vote-
dependence Principles Mike Startling
Headway Against Ring-Ruled Dem
ocraey.**
The body of the report aayst
Yancey Carter, the Independence
R rty candidate for Governor of
orgla, who opposed Joseph M.
Brown, the regular Democratic
nominee. In tha State election here
today, la tha first man to oppost
the rock-ribbed, ring-ruled Dem
ocracy of Georgia.
While the consolidated returns
from the Flat# In general cannot
be secured tonight, it appears that
Cant, carter win receive about
20.000 votes, which Ir admitted by
politicians aa being a most excel
lent showing, tn view of the fact
that all of toe voter* have always
cast Democratic ballots hereof*!*.
As a matter of fact, from tha fuller
rtturns tt le estimated that Carter
received 19,000 and Brown 111,000
votes, a proportion of one vole out of
nine or ten votes for the Independent
oandldate. Mr. Hcarat Is to be con
gratulated on hls nbUlty to see "Start
ling Headway" for "Independence
Principles" "Against Ring-ruled Dem
ocracy- la thesa figures. Ths spirit
as well as the principles of Indepsnd-
ence must be pretty dead In a State
here only one citizen out of nine Is
tnovsd to rise up and revolt against
•rock-ribbed, ring-ruled Democracy"
when there U no obstacle but their
own pleasure to coating their votes
against tt. It will be news, too, to
Georgians who have been
through tome recent political convul
sions la this State tn which the alleged
"ring-ruled Democracy" were claimed
to have been routed, ate* to Iftrn that
Yancey, the bolter. It "the first man to
oppose** the "ring* ruled Democracy.**
Whatever comfort Ucarst the as
sistant Republican, may find In the j Bna«t"n*0t the mm ef Shakeepsare'l
. , _ ,, , i characters ts mankind, and its separate
Oeoigta returns. It Is aafs to say tlmt! faebwa are the individualities of men.
when Mr. Taft learns that there ts ] f^r^J^^toSS^ewSe'ttSf tbi
only on* out of • nine voters for! human lira of human brings—a iub.'ect
. _ - of seek Immense profound anfl Intricate
Hcaret e Independent candidate fort variety that he aleae of all writers, la atl
Governor ha will give no more thought| {fyB wtcW ** adequate
Illfriline of civil eervl^^l
pledgne—the peopla will not permit him
to name hla suoceaaor; will not permit him
ho lav the precedent for a dynasty: will
not lie down on their bellies an«l let the
"Big fltlck" lie fiourlRbed over them; that
I they are yet free to choose tlielr own
ruler* nnd will not abdicate their power!
In abort, that Taft, hla legatee, ta hemteii
and that l«ryan will be the next president
of the United Stales.
Tn hla perturbed mind the thought la
•xnepamttng. He cannot digest It,-not
even reads* It. Hls undisciplined aftd
Immature temperament can tolerate no
let ta Ua deatres. no hindrance to Ita
wilt. The man who gainsays him be
comes at once a liar and a scoundrel,
whether he be governor of a state—In
hla vocabulary a province—or a senator
In congrcRs. or a private eltlsen lifting up
hla vole* In proper remonstrance. The
God he adore* I* Tower. The shrine
which he worships ts upheld by the
money chests of the preferred classes.
Ilia men-at-arma are the Me*are. Kook-
I»own. Pras-Out and Company, of the
High Tariff League, the Sugar Ring, the
Reel Plate Industry, anfl the ** - ■
Trust.
Judge Taft, the nomtnes. plays second
fiddle. He la attll but tVe fotch-and-
carry for Roosevelt. It Is another "MeJ
ton.** proposition -a ease of master and
man. Truly the Courier-Journal reck
oned not without It* host when. Immedi
ately after the completion of the work of
the steam roller at Chicago, tt deelared
that "upon a platform of Imposture the
republlcane have set a man of straw.''
What else except a make-shift la the
thing an rollers they are trundling about
try facing two way* aa occasion
I points of the compass may re
quire—a kind of patent patchwork ar-
"".""StTCSHUm «»«,.
A bed hy night, a chest of drawers by
^flay."—
now a couch for Theodore aiMlHH
baby's cradle for Taft? And. what Is Taft
^ghtte-Rc^m
echo the famous words of Thomas ntlller
Platt anfl then to wait for another or
del Mast before opening Mi llpa serin.—
Next to a woman scored, hell hath no
fury like a party balked of Ita prey. The
republican* take the cue from tnrir ehthf.
They, too. are in a rax*. Whichever
way they turn defeat stare* them tn tho
•ye. the democrats wilt carry New York
by a hundred thousand majority. There
ta little leas than republican chance tn
Ohio. In Indiana the elephant ta hope-
leaely down of Ariattc cholera. Already
democracy. beginning with Illinois,
■weeps the west like a prairie fire. How
eould It be otherwise In the face of
what the president I* doing?
Liferary forgeries and plagiarisms fs
a subject which Is just now prominent
In the public mind, by reason of the
attempt of one Broughton Brandenburg
to rev amp the more or lees wall known
sentiments of antipathy the former
President Grover Cleveland entertain
ed for Mr. Bryan and publish them
over Cleveland's name months after
he waa dead as a timely expression
for tha republicans on the present po
litical situation. Horn* of the unduly
eager republican journals that gulped
the forgery without any qualms on
the score of its auspicious source and
environments affected to find In It In
ternal evidence of Ita genuineness ns
an expression of Cleveland's Ideas.
Ilut who can really tell where an Idea
originates and certainly Identify It
with the original author? All great
authors have been more or less plegt
erlsts, whether consciously or uncon<
sciously really does not matter, fiorrte
of the finest pee sages In literature and
many of the moat eloquent utteranoea
of the great orators were based by
those who got the credit for them
on the Ideas of persons who preceded
them. A few of the many Instances
may be Interesting and Instructive:
One of the most admlibd passages
In all literature Is that In which Macau,
loy, In reviewing "Ranke's History of
tho Pope** in 1140, says of tho Roman
Catholic Church:
"She may still exist In undl-
mlnlshed vigor when some traveler
from New Zealand shall. In the
midst of a vast solitude, take his
stand on a broken, arch of London
Bridge t 0 sketch ths ruin of St.
Paul's"
Macaulcy was so fond of thla beau
tiful Image that he repeated the Idea
In at least two other Instances, and yet
gentle Oliver Goldsmith as far back
as 1700 had written "A City Night
Pleoe*' In Tha Bea In which occurs the
passage:
"Whtt cities as great as this,
have • • • promised themselvse
Immortality? Posterity can hard
ly trace the situation of some. The
sorrowful traveler wanders over the
awful ruins of others • • Hero
stood their citadel, but now grown
over with weeds; there their sen
ate house, ^but now the haunt of
every noxious reptile; temp lea and
thentres stood here, now only an
undistinguished heap of ruins.”
And Horae# Walpole In hls "Letters
to Mason" In 1774 had hit It off more
closely. In words and form. In the sen
tence:
"At last some curious traveler
from Lima will visit England and
S lve a description of the ruins of
t. Paul's, like the editions of
Baalbec and Palmyra."
It seems Impossible that so omnl*
verotia a reader as Macauiey had not
sesn and so tenacious n memory as
hls had not retained one or both of
these passages.
Daniel Webster's famous sentence.
"I wns born an American: I will live
an American; I shall die an American."
In hls speech of 1060 Is but an elab
oration of Patrick Henry's terser son
tlment In the Virginia convention, more
than half a century before: “1 am not
u Virginian, but :»n American."
In fills second speech on Foote's
resolution In 1110. Webster uttered the
phrase. "The people's govsrnment. made
for the people, mads by the people, and
answerable to the people.’ In hls brief
dedication speech at Gettysburg, which,
for simple grnndeur. purity and brev
ity, will remain for all times an Kna
llah classic. Abraham Lincoln said,
without ouotatlon marks: "Government
of the people, by the people, for ths
people snail not jiarish^from tha earth.”
Benjamin Disraeli said In 1114, "Free
trade ta not a principle. It le an exped
ient," and Grover Cleveland, referring
to the tariff In hla annual message In
1117 said: 'Tt Is a condition which con
fronts us—not a theory." a cognate
Idea which by the Inversion of Its
terms, is freed from any suspicion of
plagiarism. Tha famous phrase pop-
ularly credited to Cleveland. "Public
office ts a public trust." waa. how
ever, expressed by varloue persons in
substantially the same words before
Cleveland mada use of tt.
first printed In 1040 and with which
Shakespeare wa* doubtless familiar,
•is found tha proverb: ''An 111 wind
that blowcth no man to good/*
In King Henry IV. Shakespeare puts
Into the mouths ot those two delight
ful rogues. Sir John Falstaft and An
cient Pistol, this dialogue:
"Fallataff: What wind blew you
hither. Pistol r
"Platdl: Not the 111 wind that blows
no man to good." r »
And again in Henry IV. ke^aaysi f
Another ot Heywood's proverbs Is:
"Tha eat would sale fish and would
not wet her feete."
Lady Macbeth In her attempt to
"screw" Macbeth's "courage up to the
sticking place" to murder Duncan,
scolds him for
"Letting I dart not* wait upon'
would*
Like the poor cat i* the adage."
In the "Apology for Actors." by
Thomas Hey wood (a contemporary of
Rhakcsepeare), printed In 1012, four
years before Shakespeare died, occurs
the lines:
“The world's a theater, the earth a
stage.
Which Ood and Nature doth with
actors AIL"
Shakespeare's finer line* and more
elaborate treatment of this idea In
"As You Like It," beginning with the
words
"All the world's a stage, ^
And all the men and women merely
players,**
are well known.
These examples are recited merely
to show that different men may use
the same Idea, dressing It up In dlf*
forent language as their Uric* may
dictate, nnd It Is not meant to Imply
ttnt such poetic license or plagiarism
1s In the same clas* with the offense
of the forger who Invades the sanctity
of tho grave and puts In the mouth
of the silent dead words which would
leave a lasting stain on hls memory
uttered and put forth at the time and
under the circumstances of tte
Cleveland forgery.
Has Georgia Lost Rank in Every 1
Respect Save Population?
Roosevelt, the Here
of San Juan Hill
BY J. H. M.
"Inline on tha upper road.
And death upon the lower.'*
Reflection* of a Bachelor Qlrl.
t Hsiao Rowland In Washington
Herald.
Now Is the tlma of the year whsn a
man's amotions begin to tnko a rest
and hls conscience starts to work.
Men will continue to marry Inferior
women Just as long as they build
barbod-wlrs fences around their hearts
hlch no girl enn climb over anfl
only an insignificant little thing with
no scruples will stoop to emwi under.
A woman could understand a man
so much more easily If he would sim
ply Ho to hor all of tho time Instead
of only three-quarters of the time.
A realty clever woman apprectatss
tha compliment a man Intend* whan
ho calls her "a little fool" because,
after all. that*a what he secretly
hopes she la.
A man always feels as though he
had been cheated out of some legttl.
mate excitement when a woman')
first kt»s cornea easy.
The wav to a man's heart may be
reached by simple cooking, but tt
takes diabolical conning or real brute
force to reach hls pocketbook at this
time of the year.
In love, aa tn gambling, those who
coma to play remain to pay
thakeepeere and Byron.
New York American.
To the Rdltor of tho American:
Ita—XVe* Byron as great a poet n«
Shakespeare? If set why not? F. A. H.
(All of Byron'* personage* have the
•erne Individuality. *»d It is the tndl-
vidusUty of the poet .himself. Reckon
“ up. end the ram tufa! ta Lord
once quoted by Zeb Vance. North Caro-
Una's famous wit In tho United State
senate:
"Old Grlmea ts dead, that good old
man.
Wo ne'er shall set him more
He used to wear a long blnck coat.
AH buttoned down before."
Thla Is the only thing thnt Is over
quoted from Albert Cl. Greene, a poet
who was born In 1002 and dlod In 110*.
In Matherne Churchyard appsars the
following Inscription to the memory of
John Le*. who died May 91, 1853
"John Lee Is dead, that good old man.
Wa ne'er nhali see Mm more:
He used to wear an old drag coat
All buttoned down before."
. And In HolltwsU'a Nureery Rhymes
of Kngland the *ame rhyme occurs
with the change ot a few w ords
• Old Abram Brown. Is dead and gone,
You'll ne'er see him more.
He used to wear a l3ng black coat
That buttoned down before."
From thla array of elsglao tributes
It would be hard -to show who first
Immortalised the typical figure of the
old man "with the long black coat” of
whom every community has more or
loss tender memories.
Martial In one of hla epigrams wrote:
"1 do not love thee. 8abld!us. nor can
1 sav whv: this only I can aay, I do
not tova thee.*' Thla waa tong before
Tom Brown expres»ed thla familiar In-
stinct In the well known verse:
•I do not like thee. Dr. Fell:
The reaeon why I cannot tall:
But this alon# 1 know full wait
I do not like* thee. Dr. Felt"
Francis Bacon, "the wisest, brightest,
meanest of mankind." according to
Tope, wrote: "Virtue la like precious
odor*—most fragrant when they are
Incensed or crushed." And the grace
ful and loveable Olive Goldsmith
nine:
•As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow:
But crushed or trodden to the ground
Diffuse their balmy sweets around."
Bacon tn hi* essay on goodness
wrote: "The desire of power in excess
caused the angels to fall: the desire
of knowtedc# tn excess caused man to
f.ill" And Pops ta hla ' Essay on Man"
"Pride still la aiming at the blest
abodes:
Men would be angels, angels would
be gods.
Aspiring to be gods. If angels fall.
Aspiring to be angels men rebel."
Bacon tn hls essay "On Gardens"
•ays: "Oofl Almlghtv first planted a
garden." Cowley tn hts essay on the
Oarden wrote: "Ood the first garden
wade, and the first city Cain." And
Cowper ’ In The Task" says: "God
made the country and man made the
town."
Among the nruverbe of John Nor
wood. the earliest collection of Eng
lish coSoqulal' sayings, which were
The observation of Phlneaa T. Bar-
nuin, the great showman, that "the
Americana lovo to be humbugged" la
familiar to every one. Barnum knew
human nature Intimately and he prof
ited greatly by playing on hta knowl
edge of thla weakness. Since Bar-
nutn'i tlmo a greater has arisen, one
who Is as essentially a showmen
ever Barnum was, who employs Bar-
num'a methods aa successfully, though
In a different sphere and on a wider
stage. When ths verdict of history
shall have been made up Theodore
Roosevelt, Instead of figuring as one
of the greatest presidents that he does
In the popular ayea of hls time, will
be set down oa a spectacular showman
and humbug. Already under the fire
ho has been recently subjected to, the
whitewash Is peeling off In spots nnd
Is tietcaying tne true color of the ele
phant beneath. Roosevelt, the spieler
before the scenes of the grrnt moral
show, can never square with Roose
velt. the "practical" man and wire
puller behind tho scenes, and more
and more as the truth of history un
folds the sham will he exposed.
There has Just been Issued by the
Broadway Publishing company, New
York, a timely and clever little volume
entitled "Roosevelttan Wict and Fa
ble." from the pen of Sirs. Annie Riley
Hfle. Tho author dlsseots with a keen
knife and la very successful In ths
discrimination of the Roosevelt In fact
from the Roosevelt of fable, as he ts
best known to the popular mind. The
chapter on "The Snn Juan Hill Myth"
Is probably as striking an example of
the material out of which Roosevelt's
greatness Is made as enn be cited.
Kvery one will remember that after
the Spanlsh-Amerlcnn war Theodore
Ilooaevelt. colonel of the Rough Riders,
waa popularly declaimed everywhere
ss ths hero of Pan Juan Hill, who led
tlje charge up the hill and captured
the block house, Hts feat wa* Immor
talized In song and story. The llmn-
er*a art was brought Into requisition
and Vereschagin, *ne Russian military
painter, came to Washington and put
the scene of the battle on canvaa„ un
de^ the eye, It la said, of the hem,
tusking tho colonel of the Rough
Riders on hls charger waving hls
ord the central figure. Jacob Rita,
Roosevelt’s Boswell, enthusiastically
declared of the scene that "It will live
forever In the American rnlnfl." I‘
was on this "war rocord." saj** Fran
cla Leupp, one of hla historians, that
Roosevelt "made bis campaign for ths
governorship of New York." The ve
racious account of the charge up Ran
Juan Hill, as quoted from the New
York Run of date, July 4, 1000, will
serve to show how Col, Roosevelt and
hta Rough Riders monopolized all thfl
glory of the affair. Bald tha Bun'a r
port:
"When they came to the open,
smooth hlltalde, there wag no pro
tection. Bullets were raining down
at them, and ahot and shells from
the batteries were sweeping every-
‘"fis-
When wa get very zralous to pro
mote some good cause, we often say
extravagant thing# which' convey a
wrong impresricn. Only a short whlls
ago our leading papers la their teal
to accomplish a laudable reformation
said, things about our dear state that
were calculated to do her great harm.
Now eotnee the statement ot a good
lady that GeorglA sine# 1890. accord
ing to census bulletins, has lost rank
in every respect aava population, and
we find the statement quoted In the
New York Post. Now let Us see if
this assertion ta not a little too strong.
In 1890 In the estimated true value
of all property four southern states.
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Texas, were ahead of Geoigla. The
same four outranked her in 1800. Ac
cording to a United State* census bul
letin of 1904, Georgia had passed Ten
nessee and was pushing Kentucky
close. In 1890 Georgia ranked second
of all the otates in the production of
cotton. Her rank was the same In
1900. Georgia ranked third In 1902
and In 1903. In 1904, 1905, 1900 and
1907 Georgia ranked second, being
surpassed by Texas alone, a state
many times larger.
In 1890 Georgia ranked fifteenth
among all the states of the union In
the production of com. and in 1100
her rink was twonty-first. Georgia
ranked twelve in 1907, being ahead of
tho great corn states of Michigan.
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
If next season Georgia should fall
back to number t twenty-one In corn
production. It would not indicate lack
of enterprise or of intelligent woric.
but lack of good seasons. In the year
1899, the one reported In the census of
1900, Georgia made a very poor show
ing as a fruit state. Yet Georgia's
falling off was not due to unskillful
management of orchard men, but to
tha worst fruit season that Georgia
haa aver known. In 1899. the census
year. Georgia produced 84,082.280
bushels of com, valued at 817,160.818.
Each year the United States govern
ment Issqcs Information concerning
the various crops, and Georgia has
advanced each year until her com
crop of 1907 wa* 67,588.000 bushala,
valued at 248.789,000.
In th© census year Georgia produced
1.800,000 balsa of cotton and the total
value of a’l the products of this crop
was 848,981,682. There haa been a
steady increase above those figures up
to 1907, when Oeorgla produced L-
991,570 bales, with a value for all the
products of that crop amounting to
9110.790,680, tha lint alone bringing
9101.084,842. The total value of that
crop exceeded that of her closest rival,
Mississippi, by a little over 120.000.000.
and came within 127,000.009 in value
cf the crop of the vast atate of Texas.
If Georgia should be brought down
from that high rank this yeir or next
It will not be due to lack of Intelli
gence among her farmers, but to un
favorable seasons. The rank of any
state is liable to fluctuation by reason
of unfavorable conditions; but. such
fluctuation cannot be set down to ths
discredit of that state.
In ths production of sea island cot
ton Georgia still holds first rank. Of
the total amount of 00.895 bales of this
finest cotton Georgia furnished 44,719
bales, or over half, atid the value of
Georgia's crop was $4,217,638.
We know enough of what Georgia
orchard men did this year to say that
Georgia ranks now higher than ever as
a peach growing state The exact fig
ures are not yst available.
In commercial growth. Georgia haa
made tremendous strides. But this
article is long enough already.
AH the figures that I have given art
official, taken from United States bul
letins. Georgia has a larger negro
population than any other state In the
union and therefor© must expect to
make a worse showing In llHteraoy
than any other. I have traveled In
mxnv states, north, east, west and
south and have found the very best
of people and many of them In them
all, and never yet have I been obliged
to blush for Georgia or her people.
JOSEPH T. DERRY.
Statistician for the Georgia Depart
ment of Agriculture.
velt and the Rough Riders belonged,
but by the infantry.
Col. Roosevelt and hls Rough Riders
were not on San Juan Hill when the
charge was mado, but were on Kettle
Hill.
They did not participate
Significant, Indeed
Hawkins, stormed San Juan Hill and
captured the blook-house.
Algeria History of the Spanish-
American war (the author was secre
tary of war for the United States at
the time of the war) is cited on page
l-'Virwarfi. charge. Col. Roosevelt
led. waving hi* sword. Out tn the
open tha men went and up the hilt
Death tn every man seemed cer
tain. The crackle of the Mauser
rifle* wes continuous. Out of the
brush came tho Rldera. Up. up
they went with ths colored troops
alongside of them, not a man
flinching, and forming aa thsv ran.
Roosevelt was m hundred feet In
the lead. Up. up they went. In the
face of death, men dropping from
the ranks at every atep. The
Rough Rldera acted like veterans
It was an Inspiring sight and an
awful one. . . . The more
Spaniards were killed, the more
seemed to take their place. The
rain of shell* and bullets doubled.
Men dropped taster and faster,
but others took tbelr places
. * . Recaevelt sat erect on hie
borae, holding hie sword, and
*houttng for hts men to follow htm.
Finally hls horae wa* shot under
him, out hs landed on hts feet
and continued calling for hls men
to advance,
"He charged up the bill afoot
It seemed an age to the men who
were watching, and to the Rough
Rldera the hill must have seemed
miles high. But they were un
daunted. They went on. firing as
fast a* their runs would work. At
could atm have annihilated
Americana, but the Yankee dsrtng
dated them. They wavered for an
Instant, and then turned and ran.
"The position was won. and the
block-house cartured. In the rush,
more than half of the Rough
Riders were wounded."
This la the etory a* It was copied
ar.vl published and tqld all over the
country at the time and aa tt Is popu
larly believed today, despite the efforts
of legitimate history to overtake ana
correct It Notwithstanding the par
tiality and elaboration of detail with
which thla story ts totd. however,
there are a few Important points tn
which the authentic history of the af
fair contradicts tt.
The assault on San Juan Hill was not
made by the cavalry, to which Reoee-
which first attacked Kettle Hill,
did not advance on San Juan Ridge
at the time of tho assault by Kent’s
infantry division Th* First Vol
unteer Cavalry, under Col. Roose
velt, as wall as parts of the reg
ular regiments which captured Ket
tle Hill, did not join the Infantry
in It* charae on Sen Juan block
house and that portion of San Juan
Ridge to the left of Santiago Road,
commonly known aa San Juan
Hill.**
•The military reports of General J.
Ford Kent, of Captains A. C. Mark-
ley, Henry Wygant and Ch'arles Dodge,
of the 24th Infantry all of whom took
part In the Ban Juan Hill charge, make
no mention of Colonel Roosevelt or
the Rough Rldera." says the author.
Captain Herbert H. Sargent’s book
on the Santiago campaign, and Gen
eral Shafteria (commanding general)
Report in 2898 establish the fact that
Laa Guaalmas was a cavalry fight, but
that the victory at San Juan was due
primarily to th© Infantry. • • Dis
interested civilians like ‘Bonsai say the
Infantry took the Hill and the cavalry
came after."
Rut any doubt concerning the truth
of the mRtttT Is precluded by the tes
timony of the hero himself. After he
.waa elected governor of New York Mr.
Roosevelt wrote a history of the Rough
Riders tucked away In which, on pages
184-136, Is this statement:
“No sooner were we on the crest
-of Kettle Hill than the Spaniards
from their line In our front where
they were strongly entrenched,
opened fir© upon Vs with their
riflles and two pieces of nrtlllery.
. . .On the top bf the hill was
a huge Iron kettle, probably used
for sugar roflnlng. Several of our
men took shelter behind this. W#
had a splendid view of the charge
on San Juan block-house to our
left and a third of a mite to the
front, where the Infantry of Kent, 1
led by Hawkins, were climbing tho
hill."
This paragraph In Roosevelt's book
le almost lost In th© book which la so
p«rvaded with Roosevelt that aa Mr.
Dooley said It should have been named
"Alone In Cuba." Possibly It waa for
convenient reference placed on file to
turn to some day when the truth of
history should be made known to
show that he never had claimed that
he was tn the 8an Juan charge. But
he |s quoted aa elsewhere stating that,
at a certain stage of the battle he
"found himself at the front In com
mand of all six regiments of the cav
alry division" and John W. Bennett
rsks "what had become of Wheeler.
Sumner and Wood? Not to apeak of
ths other brigade and regimental offt
cera. many of whom, down to Lleuten
ant colonel, must have outranked
Roosevelt? Did they all think them
selves In command ef all six regl
menta?"
'By the time the Bth army corps
wera mustered out on Long Island in
the summer of 1898,* says the author.
"Theodor# Roosevelt commander of
600 men In an army of 16,000, loomed
bigger than avery living soldier in the
republic"
How did he do It?
Did he hypnotise the war correspon
dents and cause them to see things
that did not exist?
Perhaps the disgusted New York Sun
could tell something concerning the
methods of It. On June 28. 1908, some
ten years after It, among other news-
K pera. had first circulated the glow-
1 picture of Roosevelt at the head
of tha Rough Rldera charging up Ban
Juan Hill, and later, when Ms horse
had been shot under him. leading the
charga- on foot tha Sun In an edi
torial under the heading "Once More
the Old Fiction" denounced the Ban
Juan fable which waa revived every
time a Rough Rider died or was ar-
rested and charged Roosevelt with be
ing responsible for th* circulation of
the misleading picture. The Sun call-
••i n t'-.o ir-'! 1-MU to "either Mipp.rs*
the picture, or courageously change the
mendacious title."
But as Secretary Loab for the presi
dent says of Jude* Psrkeris charge that
Cortelyou got $100,900 from Standard
Oil In 1904 for hls campaign fund. )t
_ an old story and does not call tor
A reply."
The average resistance of th* human
body from the feet to the hands, when
the soles of the shoe* are saturated
with water and the hands axe wet, ts
about 5.000 ohms, and may be repre
sented approximately by the resistance
of a copper wire about two-two-hgn-
dred-and-flfty-fourth of an Inch In
dtameter and 7,710 In length.
Wall Street Summary (Rep.).
■ Mr. J. J. mu tells us that In all hls
the 1 experience, he ha* never seen party lines
Uj so thinly drawn as they are at present
and, consequently, ah astlmate of the po|
lltlcal situation is Impossible. We be|
lleve this to be the opinion of many
Independent thinkers who do not permit
Impulse or partisanship to sway them.
Mr. Bryan Is Immeasurably stronger now
than at any time heretofore. He will run
better In the west than In hls previous
candidacies. Hls trip around the world. I
Chautauqua lectures, and writings In the
last tight years have contri-utM to the
formation generally of a better opinion
of him among the people *t large. Hls
platform save In regard to bank deposit
guarantees end labor Injunction* Is
harmless If vacuous; while hls theoretloal
radicalism Is not believed by many to
approach the actual performances of Mr.
Roosevelt. He Is and always has been
very much In th* "public eye," and hit
chance of leading to the polls a
monixed democracy la fairly good. BMP
these things are In hls favor. On the
other hand, Mr. Taft la regarded In many
quarters aa a secondary figure, merely a
proxy of President Roosevelt, who con
centrated in himself the attention of the
entire oountry until a few days aro, by
the contentious correspondence which he
carried on with various gentlemen, sup-
jposedly in the.Tsft Interests, butr
|emlng which not * few have vtawe..
marts with alarm and misgivings.
:em!ng which not a few have viewed hls
.efforts with alarm and misgivings. It
was Bryan and Roosevelt: It has never
been Bryan and Taft. Despite the splen
did attainments of Mr. Tart, hls honor*,
ble anl «— ^ * —~
Taft. Despite the eplen-
of Mr. Taft, hta honor*-
distinguished public service
‘ * ' “ he of the pnb-
—.., nils campaign
I has been mismanaged—shamefully mis
managed, In our opinion: and. to mnke
matters worse, some republican states
are laboring with party dtasenstons. This
Is notably Ihe case in Indiana and Wis
consin. and In New York, and. probably
In Ohio th# outlook tor republican suc
cess would be stronger If th* loyalty ot
tome party leaders was above suspicion.
Disregarding, totally, the handicap or
the panto, which by the unemployed and
discontented Is laid at the republican’s
door, tha situation dispassionately re
viewed Is hard to unravel. At the worst
It Is an equal fight, and that augurs
badly for
At signing of declaration of Independ
ence John Hancock raid gravely: 'We
must all hang together." “Yes," agreed
Franklin, half jocularly, "or we shall as
suredly all hang separately."
"Have you made any freak election
beta?*'
“Yes, one."
•What ar* th# terms?"
"I bet my wife that I'm going down
town to hear the election returns and she
bets that I'll be In before 0 o'clock o
she'll crack a milk bottle over my head.'
sign that he la married to the wrong
woman.
In car—Look here, sir, 1 got up to give
my seat to that lady.
Feoond man (ulttlng down)—That’s an
right old fellow, she's my wife.—Life.
After Lee’s surrender at Appomattox
courthouse. April 0, I860. Grant agreed
privates In cavalry and artillery ehnuld
take home their own horses, as they
would *'ne«d them for the spring plow-
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nesldeace phone 3288.
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permit
1 habits
Seme persons brag no one <
them! But ‘ -
IS
"So," remarked the boyhood friend,
•you are In th# swim."
"Mother and the girls think X am," an-
rwered Mr. Cumrox. "but my personal
feelings are those of a man who has fal
len overboard and ought to be hollering
tor help."—Washington Star.
Th* kits one woman bestow* upon an
other Is almost n* meaningless ns tire
handshake of the hotel clerk or that of
the politician before election.
First African Lion—I have a present!-
First African I.lon—t saw Teddy beers
In my sleep last night—Life.
yaer In Germany 139.m4.0O0
Jld workmen In
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No off lee of any else tn th* Japaneea
empire ara without electric strtet cart.
There are 545 miles of trolley tracks.
An electric blower for hot air fur
nace haa been devised which greatly
facilitates the heating of buildings.
Whenever the reigning sovereign* of
Great Britain travel by rail through
their English domain, a special train
de lux* is at their exclusive disposal
It Is ventilated, heated and lighted by
electricity, and In the king's own pri
vate car an electric reading lamp Is
fixed over th# head of the bed. In the
queen's boudoir car th* furnishings are
marvels of beauty, while the equipment
of the dining car and those for the
accommodation of the royal suite la
all that convenience and comfort could
suggest. All expense* connected with
this train are borne by the owners, the
London A Northwestern railroad oora-
paoy. .
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