Georgia Historic Newspapers

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THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
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mont Hotal in Atlanta.
ATLANTA'S LESSON EMPHASIZED.
Tha committee appointed by the
Dll*t meeting of citizens of Atlanta to
Investigate and report on the Sep
tember riots In that city has not
minced matters in making Its report.
If anything. It has rubbed It In by the
presentment It has made of those dia
bolical atrocities.
It calls attention boldly to the fact
that tbo victims of the mob's devilish
work were, without exception, law-
abiding, industrious and useful citi
zens, while In sharp contrast with this
It shows that the mob was composed
not of murderers alone, but of desper
ate robbers and petty thieves as well.
"The property of Innocent and unof
fending people was taken. Furniture
was destroyed, small shops were loot
ed, windows were smashed, trunks
were burst open, money was taken
from the small hoard, and articles of
value were appropriated.”
The report makes prominent tho fact
that while not one man has been con
victed of murder in consequence of the
riots, there are “several hundred mur
derers" enjoying the privileges of At
lanta citizenship today; that “as twelve
persons were killed and seventy were
murderously assaulted, and as, by all
accounts, a number took part In each
assault, it is clear that several hun
dred murderers or would-be murderers
are at large In this community."
The report shows that whereas "At
lanta has been a law-abiding city, and
criminals of all kinds, with a single
exception, had been punnished by
legal methods," that the "slaughter of
the Innocent does not deter the crimi
nal class from committing more crime;”
that "rape and robbery have been com
mitted in the city and suburbs during”
the three months that have elapsed
since tho riots.
"The slaughter of the Innocents docs
drive away good citizens," says the re
port. "From ono neighborhood twenty-
live families have gone. A great many
of them were buying homes on the in
stallment plan."
And in conclusion the committee
find it "amazing,” in view of all the
circumstances In Atlanta, "that the
small minority which constitutes the
tough element was allowed to crucify
this community In tho eyes of the
world, and shock the moral sense of
our own people."
The committee has acted wisely In
making a clean breast of Atlanta’s
black crime and offering nothing in
palliation of It. No light may again
relume the eyes of the victims whose
lives have gone out, nor can those who
were wounded and maimed be again
made whole. All that can be saved
from the horror Is the lesson which It
would teach to any people not wholly
lost to any teaching. Atlanta has been
made a hissing and a byword through
out the country by submitting herself
for a few mad hours to the reign of
her worst elements. But the horror
was no sudden outbreak without pre
liminary causes and steps leading up
to it- The bums, the thieves and the
' murderers merely took advantage of
the occasion to Are the train which the
•O.better elements either helped to lay
VB
' looked on Indifferently while it was
being laid. The very newspapers of
th*. community, which are usually
clawed among the better Influences,
ware charged with having scattered
the powder and applied the match,
leaving the criminal element nothing
to do but to revel in the bloodshed.
• ’the robbery and the destruction which
ever appeal to their natural Instincts.
But has Atlanta learned her lesson?
It would not seem so since "several
hundred murderers or would-be mur
derer*" are at large In that "commun
ity” abiding their time until another
moral lapse on the part of the "better
elements" give them the necessary
license to revel In riot, robbery and
bloodshed.
PRODUCTION OF FUELS IN 1905.
For the fourth time ia the history
of the United States, say.- the United
States Geological Survey, the produc
tion of coal in 1905 reached a total of
over 300,000,000 short tons, showing an
actual ouput of 392,919.341 tons of 3.000
pounds, valued at J476.75C.&C3. Of this
total, the output of anthracite coal
amounted to 69,339.132 Jong tons
(equivalent to 77,659,850 short tons),
which, as compared with the produc
tion of 65,318,490 long tons In 1904,
wa» an Increase of 4.020,662 long tons,
or 6 per cent. The value of the an
thracite coal at the mines In 1905 was
8141,879,000, as against 8138,975,020 in
1904.
The output of bituminous coal
(•vhlch includes semi-anthracite and
all semi-bituminous and lignite coals),
amounted In 1905 to 315,259,491 short
tons, valued at 3334,877,963, as com
pared with 278.659,689 short tons,
valued at 3305,397.001, In 1904. The
increase in the production of bitu
minous coal in 1905 over 1904 was
therefore 36,599,802 short tons in quan
tity and *29,480,962 in value.
The coke production of the United
States In 1906, which included the
output from 3,159 retort or by-product
ovens, amounted to 32,231,129 short
tons, as compared with 23,661,106 short
tons In 1904. The increase Jn quantity
in 1903 from 1904 was 8,570,023 short
tons, or 36.22 per cent. The total value
was *72,476,196, as against *46.144,941
In 1904, a gain of *26,331,255. or 57 per
cent. The average price per ton in
1905 was *2.25, against *1.95 In 1904.
The average output from the by-pro
duct ovens in 1905 was 1,158.8 tons per
oven from the beehive ovens.
The aggregate value of all the pro
ducts obtained from the distillation of
coal In gas works and retort ovens In
1905 was *56,684,972, as against *51,-
157,736 In 1904 and *47,830,600 in 1903.
The value of the natural ga3 pro
duced in 1905 was *41,562,855. as com
pared with *38.496,760 In 1904, with
*33.807,860 In 1903, with *30,867,863 In
1902, with *27,066,077 in 1901, and with
*23,698.674 in 1900—a gain of about 8
per cent In 1905 over 1904.
The total production of crude pe
troleum in the United States in 1905
was 134,717,580 barrels, as against
117,080,960 barrels In 1904, 100,461,337
barrels In 1903, 88,766,916 barrels In
1902, and 69.389,194 barrels In 1901, an
increase of 17,636,620 barrels, or 15 per
cent over the production of 1904, and
of about 34 per cent over that of 1903.
The Increase In 1904 came from
Kansas and Indian Territory, and Ok
lahoma, Louisiana, Texas, California,
Kentucky and Tennessee, and Illinois,
in the order named. In round numbers,
the gains in 1905 over 1904 were as
follows: Kansas and Indian Territory
and Oklahoma, 6,395,000 barrels; Lou
isiana, 5,950,000 barrels; Texas, 5,890,-
000 barrels; Kentucky and Tennessee,
219,000 barrels; and Illinois 181,000
barrels. The largest decreases in pro
duction In 1905, as compared with 1904,
were In Ohio,' which showed a de
crease of about 2,529,000 barrels; West
Virginia, 1,066,000 barrels; Pennsyl
vania, 638,000 barrels: Indiana, 374,000
barrels; and Colorado, 125,000 barrels.
It will be observed that the greatest
gains were in the South and West,
and that, relatively, the Appalachian
field lost heavily.
The value of crude petroleum pro
duced during 1905 was *84,157,399, or
an average price of 62.47 cents a bar
rel. as against *101,175,455, or 86.41
cents a barrel in 1904, as against *94,-
694,050, or 94.26 cents a barrel In 1903.
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| Caught on I
It the Wing I
! By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
Atlanta knows where to go for good
things—she comes to Macon. In Jan-
. uary. Colonel Clifford Anderson will
be elected chairman of the Board of
'County Commissioners of Fulton
County. Mr. Henry Wood Is secre
tary of the board. Both of these gen-
■ tlemen were formerly residents of Ma-
! con. Colonel Anderson is a son of
the late Judge Clifford L. Anderson,
■ and practiced law for years In this
! city, unjil he removed to Atlanta and
formed a partnership with Hon. Por-
'ter King, which continued until that
' gentleman died. Henry Wood was for
‘a long time connected with the South-
' ern Express office in Macon. Soon aft-
' er going to Atlanta he was elected to
the responsible and lucrative position
j of clerk of the Fulton County Conr-
j miss loners. Of course, the county af-
; fairs of Fulton are managed splendidly
' by the two Macon men. Clifford An-
! derson is also colonel of the Atlanta
| regiment, and is mentioned as a pos
sible candidate for Congress. Henry
Wood stands high in Masonic circles.
p;ets. What Rome and Greece pro
duced had been great till his time:
but lions made leopards tame. He
was not only a poet, but a dramatist.
! He put the ideal In words, and made
actions speak. 1 saw a short time
ago a play of Tennyson’s. The actions
might as well have been in cot-beds
. well uteked in. There was plenty of
i poetry, hut no dramatic action.”
"Mozart was not deemed fit to sit by
] the side of theologians; yet all the
' theologians would have been forgotten
j but for Mozart."
“Shakespeare was tho lord of lan-
, guage. the master of expression and
■ compression. The confidant of Na-
| ture, he mingled laughter and tears.
! I love his sudden changes from grief
to joy—so that the tears of grief be-
j come the dimples of delight. He had
! an observant eye, a quick ear, and a
! brain that retained pictures."
j “To him the world paid tribute, and
! nature poured her riches at his feet,
j Shakespeare loved all lives. He mock-
; ed and worshiped all gods. He knew
j the careless shallows, and the tragic
; depths. His giving was hoarding, and
; with him waste itself was wealth.
! His mind was an intellectual ocean,
whose rivers touched ail the shores
of thought—an ocean toward which
all the rivers ran. and from which
the isles and continents of thought
now receive their dews and rains.”
There is an amusing rumor floating
about that Bridges Smith does not
want a renomination for. Mayor.
Neither does a girl want a new bon
net.
BEING FAIR WITH
THE RAILROADS
"Japan’s Eyes Are on the Two
Americas,” says the Baltimore Sun.
As long as she keeps her hands oft she
| Is all right. But she had better not
fool her "wooden gods” with the idea
that "Uncle Sam” is in the class of
"easy things” with the Russian B'ear.
"Senator Tillman's endorsement
ought to be good enough for Texas,”
says the Charleston News and Courier,
with scarcely veiled irony. Certainly,
since the Senator never fails to receive
the endorsement of South Carolina.
Senator Foraker may gain the negro
vote by raising the race issue in Con
gress, but if he forces a line-up he will
find the colored cohorts a poor depend
ence.
The Telegraph’s cast of the political
| horoscope Indicates that the “Big
Stick" and Senator Foraker's cranium
will be in conjunction directly after
the Christmas holidays.
The Shah of Persia, who is reported
to be dying, it is said, selected and
accumulated his S00 wives after the
manner that Artaxerxes, who ruled in
Persia before Christ, chose his help
meets. Every year one hundred of the
most beautiful maidens in the country
^rere brought before the Shah. He
sheeted the twenty-flve who were
m^t beautiful to him. A little figur
ing (indicates that for thirty-two years
the Hbah pursued this annual program.
For more reasons than ont he should
be cciitent to die without “kicking."
The production of gold in the United
Slates increased from 3,910,729 ounces,
valued at *S0,S33,64S, in 1904, to 4,265,-
742 ounces, valued at *SS,1S0.711 in
1905, an increase of 355,013 ounces in
quantity and of $7,345,063 in value. •
As ’’four taps” sounded the signal
that the fire he had been fighting was
out. Charleston's Are chief. O. G. Mar-
JenhofT. fell dead. He was a faithful
and' efficient fireman and he literally
died in harness.
Vardanian's good conduct as an ex
ecutive officer in giving his personal
attention to preserving the peace be
tween the races belles his incendiary
Bthod of discussing the race problem.
THE JEWS IN AMERICA.
Singer of hymns, by Sinai who adored
The Fire, the Trumpet, the Eternal
Law;
Builder of Temples, from Zion’s hill
who saw
Dawn smite the heathen with Jeho
vah's sword;
Exiled of nations, long for no reward
Keeping thy Sabbaths and thy Feasts
with awe;
Victor of sorrows, on a hed of straw.
Come unto us, O Israel of the Lord'
Here, past the Gentile seas, the stars
by name
Shine with the ages' welcome; here
anew
The rainbow towers; here the moun
tains wait:
Come! and then fill us with thy holy-
flame:—
We have a word to speak, a work
to do.
If once, like thine, our soul be conse
crate.
—William Ellery Leonard.
Hon. W. W. Osborne, of Savannah,
Is a very large stockholder In the Ma
con Railway & Light Company. His
election a few days ago as a director
of this company will no doubt make
him a frequent visitor to the city. As
is generally known, Hon. Herman My
ers. of Savannah, is president of this
company, and "the tie that binds" ex
ists between Mayor Myers and Solici
tor-General Osborne, and it is but
natural that these two gentlemen
should be associated in business to
gether. Messrs. Myers and Osborne
love politics, and they are living illus
trations of the fact that politicians can
be successful and practical business
men. Mr. Myers is a banker and large
wholesale merchant, and besides being
a lawyer, Mr. Osborne is president of
the new Exchange Bank of Savannah.
The office of Solicitor-General of the
Eastern circuit pays better than the
Solicitor-Generalship of any other cir
cuit of the State. It is thought that
Mr. Osborne's office yields him from
*25,000 to *30.000 a year. He is Solic
itor of the City- Court of* Savannah, a
fine source of revenue, as well as So
licitor of the Superior Court of the
Eastern circuit. Several years ago, in
1898, I believe it was, the Chatham
delegation in the House of Represen
tatives was unanimously- opposed to
Solicitor-General Osborne, and desired
to take the City Court of Savannah
from him, which would have cut hint
off from about *12,000 in fees yearly,
and for this purpose introduced a bill
in the Legislature. Hon. Fondren
Mitchell, Representative from Thomas
County, championed Mr. Osborne’s
cause, and made one of the most brill
iant parliamentary- fights ever wit
nessed on the floor of . the House. So
licitor Osborne gave him heroic as
sistance. Notwithstanding that Chat
ham's three Representatives made a
most determined contest, and in spite
of what is known as “Legislative cour
tesy,” which is usually potential in lo
cal matters, Mitchell and Osborne won
their contention, and defeated tho
measure. After that term until now
the Representatives from Chatham
have been the political friends of Mr.
Osborne. However, the tide changed
again this year and opponents of So
licitor Osborne were elected to the
Legislature, which conenes in June
next. What will the harvest be?
It may be of some interest to the
Macon Elks to hear that President
John Mitchell, of the United Mine
Workers of America, belongs to no
social organization but the Elks.
The Goodyear boys constitute an old
and well known family in this city.
They have been connected with rail
roads nearly all their manhood. They
are solid, substantial' men and splen
did mechanics, and thoroughly reliable
in all their work. Friday- night there
was a reunion of the four brothers,
'B. S., W. A., G. A. and John H.
and their'sister, Mrs. L. B. Garfield,
at the home of Mr. John H. Good
year. An elegant supper was served.
The occasion was the sixtieth anni
versary of Mr. Ben S. Goodyear. This
gentlemen has been connected with the
shops of the Central Railroad of Macon
for many lorg years. The next oldest
brother Is Mr. W. A. Goodyear, aged
57. who is familiarly- known as the
blacksmith. Mr. G. A. Goodyear,
who is foreman of the car department
of the Georgia Southern and Florida
Railroad, is 53 years old. Mr. John H.
Goodyear is the youngest of the four
brothers, being 47 years old: he is a
machinist with the Louisville and
Nashville R-ilroad at Decatur, Ala.,
but claims Macon as his home, where
his family reside. The only sister.
Mrs. L. B. Garfield, is the eldest of
the five children. Many delightful
reminiscences were told at the very-
pleasant family reunion Friday night.
May they experience many similar
gatherings, and during years to come
"May their joy be as deep as the ocean.
Their trouble- as light as its foam.”
Never In the history of Georgia, has
there been a deeper or wider interest
in education. Enlightenment is the
jjreat necessity- and the great glory- of
our age. On enlightenment the future
prosperity of the commonwealth . de
pends. Education is waiving its
triumphant banner over every field of
opposition. Its influence is irresisti
ble, and It is seen and felt in the life,
the habits and the ideals of our people.
Macon does not boast of her superior
virtues and does not desire to improve
the morals of cities which are good as
she is, but the lovely town is always
ready and willing to match ideas with
any other city on this terrestlal globe.
The famous skeptic, and gifted ora
tor, Robert.G-. Ingersoll. lectured in
Macon a few years ago at the Aca
demy of Music, on "Shakespeare.’’
His words were gems of thought, elo
quent, classical, beautiful. On this
last Sunday in the dying year let me
quote a few of Ingersoll’s comments
and quotations:
"Let me not live when my flame,
(he. Ingersoll, taps his forehead) lacks
oil. to be the snuff of younger spirits.”
“O Churl, to write all and leave
nothing for those who come after.”
“When a man eats a crust he thanks
God: when he sits at a banquet, he
congratulates himself.” “The out
stretched wings of his imagination
filled the sky."
"Shakespeare created perfect wom
an. but he had too much sense to
create perfect men. There is as much
difference bet ween talent and genius as
between the s one mason and sculptor.”
'The greatest compliment ever paid
woman was that line: 'Eves that do
mislead the morn.' Just think about
that three or four months.”
“Shakespeare knew too much to
have been a physician: his generaliza
tions were too perfect. Nor was he a
lawyer: his sense of justice was never
dull by reading English laws." "There
is no darkness but ignorance, and in
telligence is light." '‘Conscience Is a
form of love, and if you have never
loved, you htive never known con
science.”
"Shakespeare was the greatest of
■From The Atlanta Georgian.
No one who Is familiar with recent
newspaper history in Georgia will sus-
| pect the editor of this paper of any
undue partiality toward the railroads.
Over his protest, and under circum
stances of peculiar aggravation, a rail
road bought the controlling stock of
a paper which he had been the chief
instrument in establishing, and created
a revolution In his life which is not
j likely to leave behind it any pecu-
; liar sense of gratitude or partiality to-
! ward the corporation,
i But the disposition to be fair trans-
i cends, and will always transcend, all
j personal considerations, and a publi-
! cist has no right to regard private
| grievances In dealing with general af-
! fairs.
| It has been impressed for some time
| upon the mind of the- Georgian that
i there are some things that ought to
j be said in behalf of the railroads at
this period, when the public and the
press are united, almost with one ac
cord. in ‘heaping criticism, complaint
| and abuse upon the various systems
, of the country.
• We have done our share in time past
| in protesting against the defects of
the present railway system, and have
helped to the full in creating the pub
lic sentiment which has finally quick
ened the railroads to a sense of duty.
But, with this sentiment already creat
ed and the railroads now fully aslir,
j the period seems to have arrived for
some conservatism and co-operation ns
; a proper substitute for continued de-
; nunciation and abuse,
j The present condition of the rail
roads is plainly and evidently due to
a tidal wave of prosperity which has
swept the country, multiplying traf
fic, freight and passengers to a degree
far beyond the present equipment and
facilities of the- railroad systems of
the country to care for. Under these
conditions, freights of today are hin
dered. passengers are delayed, trains
are late, and the whole system of com
merce and the carrying of mails and
matter ar.d men seems to be in a tan
gle of irregularity and delay,
i Under the circumst .nces that pre-
, vailed ten years ago, or even five years
ago, the railroads would have been
able to handle this matter with case
: and with comparitive regularity.
It may be urged that the railroads
! have foreseen this wave of prosperity
and should have provided for it far in
advance by the multiplication of ,en-
i gines, cars and double tracks before
! the tide of prosperity reached its flood.
Let' us see if this is a good argu
ment. Did you who read this article
foresee the tide of prosperity that has
. come upon us? Did the banker fore
see it: did the merchant foresee it, or
1 the professional man? .
1 Scarcely. If any man of affairs could
have foreseen or forecasted the pros-
' perity that has come to the coun
try, the multiplication of values, the
demands for products and the increas
ing use of all forms of commodities and
of luxuries, he could have doubled his
own fortune, and''would have doubled
his own fortune, by a prompt and fear
less investment of all the means that
he could command or acquire at a
, time when they were comparatively
cheap, for the purpose of selling them
in this great era of prosperity which
he foresaw. Any man who claims that
he accurately fpresaw the present con
ditions. with sufficient certainty to act,
and did not act. is either making a
false claim fo prophecy or is reflect
ing upon his own business intelligence
and commercial discretion in his fail-
i ure to utilize the opportunity.
• It must be accepted as a general
1 fact that the present condition of over-
i demand for everything has come as a
i surprise to the entire business world,
and that the railroads are no more to
; blame for not- foreseeing it and invest-
! ing far in advance of their Immediate
necessities than other business insti-
1 tutions and corporations who are una-
! ble at this time to meet the public de
mand upon their equipment for pro
ducts and the handling of them.
Let us take another view of the sit-
I uation. founded not upon theory, but
upon fact. If the railroads are blama-
| ble'in this present state of affairs, and
I in many Instances they undoubtedly
are, it cannot be denied that the peo
ple are themselves culpable and ob-
structive to prosperity and to the
proper expediting of transportation.
' Nearly every freight yard in the cities
of the country is absolutely blocked
and congested by the multitude of
freight cars which are left there by
| consignees who really have not time,
i or refuse to take time, to unload the
; goods which they contain, and who
nearly always utilize the last limit of
demurrage before emptying these cars.
With seventy-two hours as a frequent
demurrage limit for consignees to un
load freight shipped to them, there is
scarcely a car that is taken, out until
| the limit is about to expire.
, Take Savannah, for instance. The
yards of the Central Railway are
blocked to the limit with cars which
I are not unloaded by the busy mer
chants of that city until their seventy-
; two hours have expired. So full are
these yards with freight that the Cen
tral Railway in its utter inability to
find a place to store another car has
been forced in self-defense to refuse
to receive any further freights for
Savannah until the yards - are clear.
’ The platforms of many of the depots
in cities nearer home are so packed
with cotton left there by consignees
waiting for a rise in price that the
railroads have no place to discharge
the additional cotton which they bring
there, and therefore refuse to accept
it as freight. Of course all this means
that the merchants are busy and that
the merchants are prosperous and that
their hands are full and that their
own equipment is inadequate to per
form the work and to meet the obliga
tions which they. owe to the railroads
and to their patrons.
But the mere fact of the conditions
which prevail in each man’s own line
of work and in the individual busi
ness establishments of the country, at
least gives us some comprehension of.
the difficulties with which the rail
roads have to grapple at the present
time.
Of course this does not excuse the
railroads or justify them in apathy or
in folding their hands ar.d accepting a
situation which entails loss and in
convenience upon thfe business world.
If they do this, the whole force of
publicity should be brought with all
Its thunder and acclaims to arouse the
railroads to action, either through pub
lic opinion or though the instrumen
tality of the law.
Let us see, then, if the railroads are
doing anything—if they are rising to
the profound necessities of the situa
tion and are bestirring themselves to
secure the equipment and to effect
the changes which will meet the
great demands of modern transporta
tion.
Let us take for an - illustration that
system which has been most under
criticism and discussion in the South.
The Southern Railway, to begin with,
has increased the number of the dis
tricts into which its great system is
divided. It has on this same line of
reform increased the number of super
intendents who have charge of these
divisions, and has therefore multiplied
the personal supervision over each di
vision along its lines. The Southern
Railway is moving as fast as men and
money can be obtained, in the work,
of doubling the tracks along its line
between Lynchburg, Va„ and Charlotte,
N. C., which seems to be the territory
of its accidents and delays. Between
these two cities there are a number of
converging lines which empty their
traffic, passengers and freight, upon
the main line of the Southern and
therefore complicate its schedules and
multiply its accidents. Four powerful
lines converge at Lynchburg. Five rail
roads empty into the Southern at Dan
ville. Three at Greensboro, three at
Salisbury and at Charlotte the whole
Southeastern systems come together in
long arteries of rails.
Here, then, at least In this matter,
the Southern has gone to the core of
its difficulties and is making titanic ef
forts to expedite the doubling of its
tracks, which will greatly relieve both
the congestion and the danger of the
present hour.
In addition to this the Southern Rail
way and other railways have their or
ders in at the car shops and the loco
motive works for all the engines and
cars that can possibly be turned over
to them.
And be it remembered that the cor
poration. too. just as the individual, at
present is working in these lines un
der the enormous difficulty of secur
ing laborers for the work and .under
the impossibility of hurrying the great
car shops and locomotive works which
are in turn pressed beyond their capac
ity to meet the demands of the pub
lic and who can only dole out their
products in small quantities to all the
clamorous lines that are after them.
The same difficulties and the same
tidal wave of demand which is flood
ing the corporation is flooding the
small producer and the manufacturer
and merchant everywhere.
And so it is simply fair to recognize
the community of difficulty between
the corporations and individual enter
prises. and there should be at least
a bond of sympathy established by
the mutual obstacles which hamper
and handicap them both.
In fair and tranquil consideration of
these .facts one ought to be able to
look at least with some patience and
consideration upon the present prob
lems and difficulties of our railroad
systems. Of course, there are other
things which the roads can do, and
ought to do. They can Increase the
wages of those employees who hold re
sponsible positions to the end of ob
taining the best men who can stand
between the people and the peril of ac
cident and the loss of schedules. The
railroads have, many of them, already
advanced the wages of employees along
certain lines, and we confidently be
lieve that the stress of public opinion
joined to their own good sense will
lead them to an advance'in the wages
of all their responsible employees, to
the shortening of the hours of labor
and to the securing of the best and
highest class of men as the public in
terest and the public safety demand.
A central point which we had in
sonable view of the difficulties which
surround the railroads at the present
time, and with a reasonable recogni
tion of the fact that they will them
selves be wide awake and diligently
astir to enlarge their facilities and to
increase their equipment to the meas
ure of the public demands—then com
mon sense would seem to teach us
that the heads of these great corpora
tions are fully as anxious now for a
sufficiency of equipment as we are to
have them secure It. They are better
prepared in judgment and in knowl
edge to do these things in their own
way than to be hampered by too much
foolish legislation from budding and
ambitious legislators, or by arbitrary
rulings on the part of men who do
not know half as well how to remedy
existing evils as those whose interest
is largest in them.
We are not an advocate of any relax
ing of an interest on the part of Rail
road Commissions or on behalf of
those who make legislation for corpo
ration regulation, but we do think that
this vigilance and interest can be
mixed with so much of discretion as
not to impose upon the struggling
railroad at this time any hasty or ill-
advised legislation until we have fully
discovered what the railroads them
selves are now doing and intend doing
to remedy the evils at which we aim.
You may rest assured that this will
be no happy and joyous Christmas
to President Finley, of the Southern
Railway, or to any other of the great
executive heads of the systems who
are struggling now under such tre
mendous responsibility. President
Finley is by common consent an ab
solutely honest man and an official,
by his record, as sincerely consecrated
to public affairs as to private inter
ests. He will probably spend this
season which so many of us will pass
in lightness and frivolity in the serious
day and night consideration of the
problems of transportation which are
giving to him and to us so much of
concern.
Let us at least be fair In this time
of great unrest. And let us extend
proper consideration to the great
transportation systems in the difficul
ties that they are combatting and
whatever clear and vigorous measures
they are taking for the relief that the
public needs.
In the highest possible consideration
for the great body of the people whom
we represent, and whom we will
always serve, we do not hesitate to
suggest fairness and just consideration
for the railroads at this time.
STATE PRESS VIEWS ) FOREIGN NOTES
Roosevelt is as manv-sided as a
family row.—Dalton Citizen.
! President Roosevelt is still standing
; pat on the Brownsville affair. Bully for
; Teddy.—Nashville Herald,
j Santa Claus is our candidate for
President on the Democratic ticket.—
Gainesville Times-Enterprise.
! This Congress will not confer citi-
j zenship on Porto Ricans. More stand-
pat politics.—Amerieus Times-Re-
cor-der.
Georgia people are very much inter
ested in the question of immigration.
It Is a matter that means a great deal
to this section.—Columbus Ledger.
Next to an unsuccessful political
candidacy there is hardly anything so
forlorn as a bit of wilted mistletoe un
der which no maiden stood.—Columbus
Enquirer-Sun.
Since revision of creed is getting to
be such a fad among some of the
churches, it’s almost as hard to be lost
as it used to be to be saved.—Irwin
County Courier.
President Johnson says the late Gov
ernment estimate of the cotton crop
cost the farmers fifteen million dollars.
Maybe we will make it back on the
next one.—Moultrie Observer.
Senator Foraker is after the Pres
ident for the use of his "Big Stick” on
the negro soldiers. Ohio’s negro vote
has become quite a formidable bulwark
on election day.—La Grange Graphic.
TVhen Georgie took free passes from
the Judges, their salaries were raised.
Congressmen cannot ride on free passes
after January 1, and their salaries
should be raised.—Dublin Courier-Dis
patch.
•Mr. Roosevelt Is already urging that
the Government at Washington should
have more power along these lines, and'
many of his party will follow him. We
will see what we will see.—Cordele
Rambler.
A young Parsee merchant of Calicut.
India, Kh. D. Mugascth. has just es
tablished the first ice factory on the
West Coast, the plant being able to
turn out a ton of ioe daily.
Belgium, where public libraries are
almost unknown, has 190,000 public
houses. That means one public house
for 36 inhabitants, or one public house
for 12 men under 17 years of ago, tho
publican included. During the last
60 years tho population has increase 1
50 per cent, and the number of public
houses 25S per cent.
The effect of placing citrus fruit on
the free list by Canada quickly worked
a.change for the better for American
imports. One firm in Montreal at once
ordered a carload of Florida oranges
oh which the saving Is *100. The hol
iday fruit traffic from the United
States will be largely benefited by this
tariff change.
At a recent conference, held at the
Ministry of Commerce, St. Petersburg,
it was decided that agricultural m i-
chinery required by peasant emigrants
to Siberia and other portions of
the Russian Empire would have to be
ordered abroad this year, as the Itus-
sian factories would be unable to de
liver In time. Next year an attempt
will he made to introduce Russian ma
chinery among the settlers.
The Ceylon Government is reaping
the benefit of the rubber boom, states
the London Commercial Intelligence.
A big sale of crown land, suitable for
rubber growing, has just been held,
and record prices were obtained. Alto
gether some 10,000 acres were put up
for sale, and *200,000 was realized.
The competition among buyers was of
the keenest, and some of the test land
offered brought three times as mu. a
as the upset price fixed. ** .
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
The dispatches announce that “.Mr.
Hearst and party” have arrived in
New York. It seems that the great
editor is still a party leader in spite
of his defeat.—Houston Post.
French waiters, it seems, receive
$75,000,000 a year in tips. Is it any
wonder, then, that when they come
here they are often mistaken for the
nobility?—New York Herald.
Whereas 10 years 4go silver was
the leading item among a bride’s gifts,
cheap jewelry of a showy though quite
up-to-date class is now given by even
the richest of our relations and friends.
—The Tribune.
Panama canal workers, the President
announces, are to he given badges.
Too bad the contractors cannot be
knighted, but perhaps that will follow
the Institution of the order. — New
York American.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE
Apostolos Mawrogenis, the last of the
Greek champions of liberty of 1821, lias
died, at the age of 114.
Ex-Speaker John G. Carlisle looked in
at the House of Representatives ono day
last week and not a person know him.
Herr Johann Strauss, a nephew of the
eminent composer, has been sentenced to
a week’s imprisonment for debt in Vien
na. His liabilities are said to amount
to *35,000. ’
The New Orleans Picayune loving cup.
an annual award to the citizen who has
done the most meritorious service for
the city of New Orleans in the preceding
year, has been presented to Charles Jan
vier.
Tom Cale, the Delegate from Alaska
for the two years’ term beginning March
4 next, has arrived in Washington. He
is 65 years old. but exceptionally vigorous
for his age. He was born in Vermont,
but went to Alaska as a prospector ten
years ago.
Henry G. Davis, the Vice-Presidential
candidate, will build a Presbyterian
church to cost *50,000 at Gasaway, W. Va.
The Davis Memorial Presbyterian church
, at Elkins, that State, was built by Mr.
: Davis for his son who was drowned off
j the coast of Africa,
j Dr. W. C. Farabee. an instructor In an-
! thropology at Harvard, sailed on Monday
I at the head of an expedition for South
America to make an exhaustive study of
the little known Andean Indian tribes of
the region of the Amazon and Parana
rivers. They expect to be away three
vears. Dr. Farabee has done similar work
In other parts of the world.
Senator Tillman probably earns more
money every year on the lecture platform
than any other American who talks to the
public for pay. From an authoritative
source the statement comes that the
South Carolinian’s net proceeds thus far
this year from his lecture tour are *25.000.
Senator Tillman is paid from *25) to *500
a lecture, and he is constantly in demand.
His season is not confined to the summer
Chautauqua course, and ho fills nearly as
many dates In the winter as at any other
time of the year. In the last four years
it Is said that he has laid aside over
$60,000 from Ills lecture receipts.
PROVERBS AND PHRASES
FACTS IN FIGURES.
The exports from Japan to Hawaii
in 1905 amounted to *937,604 and to
the Philippine Islands *671.136.
The shipments of raw silk from Mi
lan,' Italy, to the United States for the
fiscal year 1906 amounted to *13,507,-
000, a decrease of *2,273,000 from 1905.
For the first nine months of the
present year Germany imported 333,-
j 600 tons of pig iron as compared with
271.400 for the corresponding period of
1905.
The sea-level canal from Marseilles
to the Rhone river is to be completed
seven years hence at an estimated cost
of *13.703,000. A large amount of work
has been done, chiefly under the head
of developing detailed specifications.
The latest rice crop forecast for Ja
pan is 211,18S,050 bushels, being prac
tically that of a normal year. The im
proved methods of cultivation would
have resulted in a much larger crop
had it not been for bad weather while
the plant was in flower.
Statistics show that for the quarter
ending September 30 there has only
been a slight falling oft in shipbuilding
in Germany. Under construction were
263.900 tons, against 268,200 tons on
June 30. and 223,500 tons on Decem
ber 31, 1905.
He tried the luxury of doing good.—
Crabbe.
A lie needs twenty more to prop it.—
German.
Muddy water won’t do for a mirror.
—Italian.
Ignorance Is a voluntary misfortune.
—French,
A wise head has a close mouth to
it.—Portuguese.*
Thrice happy they who have an oc
cupation.—Byron.
One link broken, the whole chain Is
broken.—German.
Better suffer for truth than profit by
falsehood.—Danish.
Don’t cry hurrah' till you are over
the bridge.—German.
The most difficult mountain to cross
is the threshold.—Danish.
For the pious, Farac!ise exists every
where.—Lord 'Beaconsficld.
TVho offends writes on sand; who Is
offended, on marble.—Italian.
The smoke of our own country is
brighter than fire abroad.—Latin.
One never goes so far as when one
don’t know whither one is going.—
French.
He who leaneth against a good tree,
a good shelter findeth he.—Don
Quixote.
One tear of a mother can wipe out a
thousand complaints against her.—
Alexander.
From those I trust, God guard me;
from those I mistrust I will guard my
self.—Italian.
There is a palate of the understand
ing as well as of the senses.—Ben
Johnson.
POINTED PARAGRAPH
From tho Chicniro New?.
Two swelled heads are worse than
Tho art of living consists in not boh
dead ono.
The whole world loves to pet tho luugiT
on a lover.
Don’t hope to please others if you can’t
please yourself.
Marriage isn’t ant to be a failure unless
you marry your ideal.
A woman Is seldom a heroine to her
16-year-old daughter.
Beware of the man who is envious of
tho happiness of others.
Lots of women claim to be man-haters,
but they can’t prove it.
It’s as easy to annoy grown folks as it
is difficult to amuse a baby.
Many a man’s credit isn’t good because
he is unable to make good.
Wo are told that man is made of dust -
and yet dust always settles.
Some love affairs end at the altar—but
the majority never get that far.
The worst thing about a. bore is that
it’s almost impossible to insult him.
Many, a man becomes weary from try
ing to dodge people who make him tired.
Xo girl is really in the spinster class
until she begins to get angry when called
one.
Every time a large man shrinks from
his duty a small man rises to the occa
sion.
An average woman judges the worth
of a painting by the beauty of the
frame.
Many a man talks as though ho con
sidered himself chief adviser to the Al
mighty.
Wise men ascertain what is on the
other side of the hurdle before jumping at
conclusions.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
Ten years hence, declares Profefinor
Flinders Petrie, there will be little
need for archaeological work. In every
direction the chances of recovering
history are disappearing, and they will
have vanished forever by 1916.
High prices have been paid for a
number of Wagner manuscripts at a
sale at Lepke's art. auction house In
Berlin. The original manuscript of
the “Meistersinger” was sold, for 130
pounds, and a collection of twenty
letters written by Wagner was sold
. •
for 70 pounds.
The idea of catching fish by means
of a beehive with a hole in the top of
it is a strange enough one. Yet this,
says the Country Gentleman, not inad
equately describes the method em
ployed by fishermen in the Philippine
Islands, who clap their apparatus down
over the sluggi.-h bottom-feeding fish,
and then, putting their hands through
the hole in the top, extract their vic
tims.
Near Ashcroft, in British Columbia,
arc a number of small lakes, whose
shores and bottoms are covered with
a crust containing borax and soda in
such quantities and proportions that
when cut out it serves as a washing
compound. The crust is cut into
blocks and handled in the same man
ner as ice, and it is estimated that
one of the lakes contains 20,000 tons of
this material.
In the South Seas and in various
groups of islands in the Indian Ocean,
the aborigines shoot fish with the bow
and arrow. Tho art Is extremely dif
ficult, as in taking aim at an object
under water t.he archer has to allow
for refraction. If he were to aim di
rectly at the fish as he secs It, he
would, of course, miss. Long practice
has. however, made the natives expert
in this sport.
Most of the world's supply of plati
num. stated an official of the Geologi
cal Survey, comes from the southern
part of the Ural Mountains in Russia.
According to the report of the Russian
Ministry of Finance, the Increased de
mand for the metal of late years has
raised the price for the raw material
to nearly $300 a pound, and yet only
12,000 pounds of it were produced last
year. In fact, the production 'feller ft
largely from that of the preceding
:ar.
The ITimes-UnioV Fnilosophe,
BACHELOR REFLECTIONS.
From the New York Press.
A woman thinks another is ugly unless
she says so.
Lots of people act as if they were sen
sible before they are engaged.
You can always tell a man of good
deeds by the way he tells you.
One of the hardest tilings Is to convince
a girl you love her after she knows you
do.
There is hardly any way you can com
pliment a girl more than by being jealous
about her.
What in the world would a man do with
all the money he would have If he
weren't married?
A girl Is always afraid that if you find
out she likes mince pie you will think she
is not womanly.
A woman worries a good deal about the
kind of necktie her husband is going ta
wear at her funeral.
If they passed the collection plate at a.
vaudeville show, all the men owulcl anwt
to sta ayt home and smoke an old pipe.
Men have awful poor memories about
where they really were when they teli
their wives they were working late at
the office. ,
Florida TImes-Unlon.
There is no use forgiving a man for
anything if you are not going to forget
it, too.
A man who can make *he world be
lieve he is a genius is a genius in very
truth.
Laziness is a sort of locomotor
ataxia that destroys the power of am
bition.
Carelessness is a fault that never
fails to bring Us own punishment
with it.
A cynic is only a man whose heart
was unprotected when a freeze
came on.
The best way to draw heaven 3own
to us is to lift our fellow-man up to
ward it.
Some men seem unable to do another
a favor without forever after talking
about It.
The book of life that some men
write must be mighty poor reading for
the Recording Angel.
Love writes the epitaphs of the ab
sent ones on the hearts of the living,
and not on tombstones.
The cut fr:m the sword of the ene
my does not pain us nearly so much as
a pin-prick from a friend.
There would be less faults apparent
in this old world if some people would
just stop looking for them.
The brighter the fire has been, the
drearier the ashes seem that lie in the.
grate when the lire is gone.
Many a man never reaches success
because he tries to carry too much
along with him on the journey.
Every man knows his own merits,
but most of us have a lot of trouble
making the world recognize them.
Hearts need no words to speak to
one another, and a hand-clasp is often
more eloquent than polished oratory.
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