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1 THE MM TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 583 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. C. E. PENDLETON, President THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA. The Talagraph can ba found on aala at tha Kimball Houaa and tha Piad- 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. i-H-i-i- r 11 h i m-i-h- i-i-n- | 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. <) 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. r