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C. R. PENDLETON, President
THE SOUTH
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Minnesota
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THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
Th* Telegraph oan ba found on sale
at tha Kimball Hotica and the Pied
mont Hotel in Atlanta.
RACE PROBLEM IN CUBA.
The truth Is out. Cuba is up ii(fainst
tha raca problem. The majority of the
people are negroes. The negroes con
stitute 73 per cent of the Liberal party.
The Moderate party, composed of the
whites and the better element of the
people, stand no show to win In & pop-
alar election. Such an election is to
he "pulled oft" under the auspices of
President Roosevelt, when the Ameri
can troops will ba withdrawn and the
country turned over to the administra
tion of the successful party. This the
Moderates say will be followed by rev
olution. Only an American protec
torate can save the island from an
archy, It Is claimed.
The Havana correspondent of the
Wew York Herald says:
Record, "did not in
cur the debt, and no people ever paid
the obligations of a past generation if
they could help it. Resides, the Four
teenth Amendment provides that
‘neither the United Stite- nor any
State shall assume or ;ay any debt or
obligation incurred In aid of insurrec
tion or rebellion against the United
States.' The Sou.therr. pc-oplc lost
enough without reimbursing the Eng
lish people for their small losses."
Hren if allowed to do so. the South
was too poor to pay the Confederate
debt, there being too many other bur-
2,25:;.S09,000:
1.333,804.000:
1.488.589,000;
v.-nth with J,397,164,-
eighth with 1.299,-
390.000: Oreg n ninth with 1,262,610,-
"0C; North Carolina tenth with 1.080,-
602,000. ar, j California eleventh with
1.061.608,000 feet.
Ta< ! rge.-t cut of any on** wood was
that of yellow pine. 8,7.71,986,000 feet,
not including 9Si.342.000 feet of West
ern "yellow pine," of which all but
199.596.000 was cut in the South, Lou-
Goverrror Hughes Is actually going
to work in a systematic, business- fike
way to reform New York State affairs
and really proposes to perform more
than he promised. It is needless to say
that the distress of the Republican
politicians of the Empire State is pit
iful to look upon.
"I have seen very little evil in the
world, says John D. Rockefeller. There
would indeed be little hope for him if
he could see evil with the "plunks"
rolling in at the rate of two every tick
of the clock.
,-ith 1.787
>.000
dens
through
millions
of Union
>f carried
such .of
or the bit
taxation
■pent
oldie
fifty
ning
"No serious person,
foreign, believes that
arc fit for self-governn
body worth a dollar i
bow republic will be
in less than six mom
Will reign. The feeling
native or
the Cubans
• ■ i: Every-
■ i-rtaln the
farce, and
iis anarchy
growing
by :he ini]
providing
:ks and co
from thin
•ward the f
Still It is a fact of
history not be overlooked that the South
was not responsible for the repudiation
of the Confederate debt.
HERE'S PRECEDENT ENOUGH.
According to the Review of Reviews
for January, "a well Informed citizen
of New Y’ork, greatly interested In the
education and welfare of the colored
race, remarked not long ago that,
whereas, the colored people had pre
viously been ardent admirers of Mr.
Roosevelt, there was not now a single
negro in the United States who would
cast his vote for the President if he
were again to come up for election.”
Arkansr
ding 115,678.001
te pine.” nnd
t< ;• than the tot
of the oaks, i
>ries. walnuts a
is. aggregating
led in the
T ye:low pine was
a ter than the total
a the country, not
i feet of Western
2,984.027,000 feet
i! cut in the coun
ty i pies, chestnuts,
nd all other hard-
5,588.343,000 feet.
:ut of red gum and
Speaker Cannon lost his gavel and
had to use his knuckles In .calling the
House to order. The House has had to
knuckle ta Uncle Joe so much it must
have enjoyed Its revenge.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
to be short
It
refer
New
supportc
merits n
.as all right for Hughes to talk
a before the election, but the
York Republican politicians who
him look upon s
w as "bug house.”
uch senti-
cottonwood. Kentucky in yellow pop- j
lor. Louisiana In yellow pine and cy- ;
press, Tennessee In red oak and West
Virginia in the cut of white oaks.
Three Southern Slate?—West Vir- I
i
glnia. North Carolina nnd
Harvie Jordan
not cotton at all,
Savannah Press
•ays sontc of it was
but "dog tail." The
wants to retail the
From the Chicago News.
A man naturally hate
long.
It's better to be a small success than
a big failure.
Better a peaceful bachelor than a
fighting benedict.
Kleptomoniacs will take almost any
thing- except a Joke.
If you would make your friends smile
let your money talk.
A man usually charges his poor
judgment to bad luck.
Proof of the political pudding lies in
he size of the plums.
Before giving advice prepare to
dodge the consequences.
Running expenses go right on when
j business is at a standstill.
Love is one of the things that don’t
| thrive on absent treatment.
! What'S the matter with the steeple
j climber as-a high churchman?
Faith is what a woman thinks she
believes because she believes It.
The severest strain on politeness is
to .-iep down and out gracefully.
Nothing seems to worry a burglar
more than a small dog with n big bark.
There isn't much hope for those who j
lock upon a church collection as a 1
hold-up game.
Seme regular preachers put people >
I to sleep, but an evangelist wakes them 1
' up.
NEW YORK BAINS
A DAY
suggests that German services he heifl
In Old Trinity Church ir necessary,
and points out the appropriateness of
Phenomenal Growth of the Metropolis |
in 1906—Night and Day Lawyer* For j
Tho*e Who Need Them—District At
torney Jerome Disappoints Insurance |
Mon—Church Services in all Lan- l other i
guages—New York's Two Adamlcss
Edens—Blondes to Disappear in 600
Years.
es in conne
f St. John
line.I as to
Id In Engl!:
1 of the tr
Ith the O.i
dog. Miss the point.
V irginia— • . '
.... i hav
contributed materially to the cut
white pine. West \
lock, Kentucky to 1:
sns, Kentucky, Miss!
olina and Tennessee
rginia to hem- i
ech, and Arkan- j
dppi. South Car-
to ash. and Ar-
A little of "the law’s delay" would
proved aceeptablc to Will Harvey,
the negro who was hanged three minu-
utes before his commutation arrived.
oky. Tennessee. Mls.sis-
t Virginia to the'cut of
kansas. Ken
sippi and W
; hickory.
Six Southern States—Louisiana. Ar
1 kansas, Florida. Mississippi,
Carolina and North Carolina—cut 704,-
”A Dream of Egypt’
for the French oven.
Is too Fronchy
FACTS IN FIGURES.
yet accomplished much for the negroes
in America. It also explains the at
titude of Republican leaders who have
not Foraker’s personal axe to grind,
but yet fear the effect of the Presi
dent’s course on their party’s fortunes.
that foreign countries must be re
lied on to compel the United States
to observe Its moral obligations
under the treaty of Paris.
"Ail the facts in the ease have
been presented to President Roose
velt, birt ho says the Cubans are
fit to rulo themselves; therefore
the new republic must be tried,
with a warning that if there Is
revolution the United States will
return and permanently ’occupy
the Island. Some suspect had faith
on the part of the Washington
Government or. at most, the play
ing of a comedy for the benefit of
the South American republics with
the intention of gobbling Cuba. It
cannot be done in this way with
out fighting the whole people at a
great cost and the loss of many
American lives.
"A protectorate would leave the
Cubans their president, their na
tionality and their flag and be wel
comed by the great majority of
Cubans. The foreign interests are
praying for it.
The Herald’s correspondent further
says:
"I believe the protectorate Is the
only salvation for Cuba, otherwise
there will be another Santo Do
mingo. Governor Mugoon is car
rying out President Roosevelt's
pnlirv. He does not think the
United Slates can let go of Cuba
because of the bad conditions and
America’s obligation to preserve
order, which England. Spain. Ger
many nnd France will insist bo
kept nr the Monroe doctrine set
aside.
"The form of protectorate Is not
much discussed, but essentials
seem to Include an American resi
dent Governor or minister, with
I> >wcr to say 'You cannot do this
nr that.' That ts to prevent certnin
and dreadful acts of retaliation of
the sue.cs-'ftil party on their oppo
nents, which fear has kept .all Cu-
hans with property out of polities
heretofore, leaving the country’s
affairs to ‘grafters' nnd the rabble,
with whom President Roosevelt is j
really now dealing.
"There should be American su-
per\ islson of every department,
particularly of the treasury, and
possibly 5.000 American troops at
the start. Several advocates of the
i rot or tornte. all Cubans, plan go
ing to Washington with this
scheme.”
In line with the Herald correspon
dent's opinion that Cuba should have
a United States protectorate, the Ha- ^ pursued by Roosevelt,
vaiin Telegraph says.
The Quebec provincial department of
South ! agriculture has just published the har-
{ vest results of 1906, showing an aver-
, . I age of only 65 per cent against 75 per
This Indicates that education has not j 175,000 of the total of 753.3G9 000 feet | cent in 1005, but the returns to the
FOREIGN NOTE3
values of
sure, but
of cypress; eight States—West
ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Virginia, Mississippi, North Caro
lina and Alabama—cut 720,137,000
of the total 1,210,216,000 feet of white
oak; seven States—Tennessee, Ar-
j Th, s Is why they inveigh against the j kansas. Kentucky. Mississippi. North
policy of punishing many for the sins
; of a few and repudiate the precedents
| cited by the president from our mili-
I tary history.
| Yet Republicans In the past have ap
proved the policy of punishing a whole
! section for the offense of one man. On
October 7, 1864, Gen. Sheridan reported
Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia—
cut 337,906,000 of the total 623,553,000
of red oak: eight States—Kentucky,
West Virginia, Tennessee, North Car
olina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi
and Georgia—cut 497,712,000 of the to-
tal 582,748,000 of yellow poplar; four
States—Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennes-
from Woodstock, Va., to Gen. Grant | see and Kentucky—cut 196,167,00 of the
that he had not only devastated a vast
region, burning all the barns and mills
and slaughtering or driving away all
the animals, but, his engineer officer,
Lieut. Meigs, having been "murdered”
near Dayton, "for this atrocious act ail
the houses within an area of five miles
were burned.” (Official Records of the
Rebellion, Series I, Vol. 43, Part II.,
| PP. 307-308). In other words, because
: some reckless man madly struck down
; one of Sheridan's officers hundreds of
; homes of Innocent people in that part
: of the country were burned to the
! ground.
I True, these innocent sufferers were |
| only white people, and they happened
j to be living in a seceded State besides,
I and their votes were of no service to
' the Republican party. They could not
expect a thousandth part of the sym-
’ pathy now lavished upr*t a battalion
j of negro soldiers dismissed from ser
vice because some of 'them are mur
derers and all of them joined in shield-
| fng murderers from punishment. But
thoso unfortunate people around Day-
ton, Va., whose homes were burned may
J at least serve as an Illustration of a
| time-honored policy of the Republican
party, and of a far more radical appli-
i cation thereof than this mild-as-milk
i action of Mr. Roosevelt.
; Hcan leaders would no doubt commend
’ Sheridan's cruel action even while they
loudly and craftily condemn the course
total 316,588,000 feet of red gum; four
States—Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisi
ana and Tennessee—cut 201,758,000 of
the total 236,000,000 of cottonwood, and
six States—Tennessee, North Carolina,
West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and
Maryland—cut 119.133,000 of the total
224,413,000 feet of chestnut.
In Europe Mr. Roosevelt seems ito
be regarded as a war lord rather than
as a peacemaker and surprise at the
last award of the Nobel prize continues
to be expressed there. George H. Per
ris, one of the most distinguished of
English workers in the cause of inter
national peace, writing in Concord, the
organ of the British Peace Association,
hiving cited a recent utterance in
laudation of war by Lord Rosebery,
concludes as follows: “I was about to
comment upon this insistence on the
honorableness of fratricide when I re
ceived the surprising news that the
object of Lord Rosebery’s embarrass
ing patronage had Just been awarded
the Nobel peace prize. The less said
about this decision, perhaps, the bet
ter.”
I farmers were, nevertheless, as good as
in 1905 because of the advance in
j prices.
There are in Chile 69S.8S0 horses and
mules. 2,477,064 head of cattle, 2,405,-
5S4 sheep, 461,90S goats, and 287.614
hogs. Cows are worth from $27 to $45;
steers $10 to $75. owing to their con
dition: calves, from $S to $12. and
yearlings $12 to $17. It Is estimated
that the country consumes 400,000 cat-
tie. 545,517 sheep, and 145,741 hogs,
nearly, of which about one-half are
consumed in Valparaiso and Santiago.
Building for November In thirty-six
of the leading cities shows a very sat
isfactory gain. During the month per
mits were taken out, according to of
ficial reports to Construction News, for
8,953 buildings at an estimated cost of
$$54,380,699, against 8,962 buildings at
an aggregate cost of $44,966,251 for
the same month a year ago, a decrease
of nine buildings and an increase of
$9,414,448, or 21 per cent.
It is estimated that there are 19,000
banks in the United States having a
banking power placed last year at $13,-
826,600,000, or 40 per cent of the bank
ing power of the world. Of these banks
upwards of 4,000 do not make any re
port to the Comptroller of the Cur
rency, and therefore are not Included
in his statistics of the conditions of
banks. The number of banks which
actually reported on June 30, 1904, was
14,850.
In 1SOO the imports of the United
States were 91 millions and the ex
ports 71 millions, imports exceeding
exports by 20 millions or nearly 30 per
cent; In 1901 Imports were 823 millions
and exports 1,487 millions, the excess
of exports being 664 millions, or 80 per
cent greater than the imports. Imports
in 1901 were nine times as great as In
1800, and exports were 21 times as
great as in 1800. Articles of food in
1S8S formed 31 per cent of the Imports
anti in 1901 26 per cent: manufactures
ready for consumption in 1886 formed
20 per cent of the imports, and in 1901
16.8 per cent; articles in a crude con
dition for use of manufacturers formed
23 per cent of the imports In 1886 and
33.5 per cent in 1901.
"Cubans are daily saying through
their newspapers that they will
rise against another republic the
moment the armed power of the
United Stntees is withdrawn. We
are able to state, without- fear of
contradiction, that the merchants
nf (he island, in whose hands is
thF whole commerce, are practical
ly unanimous for permanent Amer
ican control, and planters and
other producers of the island's
wealth, ns well ns the great rail
road and other interests, are
equally anxious for such a guar
antee of stability.
"Frequent Incendiary fires on su
gar estates continue to annoy the
provisional Government.
"Private information shows that
politics has very much to do with
a condition that cannot be cured
until politics are laid alside in
dealing with it. The negroes who
are doing the burning are Liberals
hoping for Government places anti
trying to live on the country by
blackmail and pillage, while they
walt for the new elections that
will put -their party in power.”
Thus it will be seen that everywhere
the United States runs up against the
race problem it gets into trouble. In
the Philippines It rounds the Pulajanes
up and exterminates them by the hun
dred, from time to time, with Gatling
guns. From the Congo Free State
come applications to succor the blacks
from the cruelties of their Inhuman
taskmaster. King Leopold. And now
this Government has Cuba on its
hands. It was not enough to fight a
war of liberty for the Cubans nnd give
them their freedom aa a gift, we are to
be called on to maintain 9 standing
army to keep the negroes from burning
and looting everything and everybody
on the island.
There is, however, one consolation
In all this to the people of the South,
and that Is, the more experience the -
Republican Administration and the I
Northern people have In solving race
problems the more occasion they will |
have to wonder that the South has !
WHAT THE SOUTH WILL DO.
: The Baltimore Manufacturers' Ree-
| ord says in 1906 the South
Built 3.055 miles of railroads.
Produced $2,000,000,000 on its
farms.
Dug 84.000.000 tons of coal from
Its mines.
Cut at least 13.000.000,000 feet of
lumber.
Gave $,00,000,000 worth of mer
chandise to American export trade.
Manufactured two billion dollars'
worth of goods in iron and steel
and wood and leather and cotton
and woo] and other materials.
Added $2,650,000,000 to the value
of its real wealth.
I "The South will do what In 1907?”
asks the Record. It will make a new
high record.
The Government printing office ad
vertises an edition of Teddy Roose-
The Repub- j veIt ’ s trip to Panama "with seven ap
pendixes and twenty-six full page
illustrations; making what Is denomi
nated a text-book on the subject of the
canal,” all for 50 cents. A text-book
in three days! This does make Poult-
ney Bigelow look like 30 cents.
And now the Government printing
office has gone Into the publishing
business on the side. It has prepared
an edition in book-form of President
Roosevelt's Illustrated Panama mes
sage. which it is offering for sale at 50
cents. This notice should entitle The
Telegraph to a complimentry copy, ac
cording to publishers’ custom.
BACHELOR REFLECTIONS.
SOUTHERN LUMBER INDUSTRY. '
i Nearly half of the lumber produced ’
• in this country annually is now cut in j
the South, says the Raitimore Manu
facturers Record. With the co-opera- '
tion of the National Dumber Mann-
facturers' Association, the North Car- i
! olina Pine ssociation, the Yellow Pine
Manufacturers' Association, the West- •
ern Pine Manufacturers' Association. I
the Southern Cypress Association, the
Northern Pine Manufacturers* Asso
ciation. the Western Pine Manufac- 1
turers' Association, the Pacific Coast
Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
and other organizations, the Forest
Service nf the National Department of
Agriculture has compiled and published
detailed statistics of the lumber cut
of the United States in 1905. Though
confessedly incomplete, the figures
show that 11.666 establishments cut
30,502.961,000 feet of lumber in that
year. Of that amount 12,330 683,000
feet were cut in the Southern States.
Georgia, with 349 mils, cut 712 604,000
feet.
Of the 47 States and Territories
where the Industry is carried on. say
According to Baba Bharati, the
| Hindu teacher now in this country
| preaching the faith of Hinduism. "In-
! dia is the heart of the earth and the
! Hindu religion is the soul of all re-
' ligions.” Doubtless it is well for Baba
i Bharnti that he thinks this, but one
I smiles a little when he complains of
| the "conceit” of Christians.
From the New York Press.
A woman judges the value of a let
ter by the postage it has to pay.
It makes a girl boil with Indignation
to have anybody see her kissed.
About the only, way a man can cut
down his living expenses is to go to
jail.
It’s surprising how fond of people
you can be if you are far enough away
from them.
Wonder If In heaven you have to
call boys fifty times before they will
get up in the morning.
When a woman won't say anything
nice about another it’s a sign she
thinks her husband does.
A useful thing about the telephone
is the way you can lie over It without
being seen how you are blushing.
When you hear a woman describe a
reception to which she was not invited
you would think it was a search for
the north pole.
Even when a woman buys her hus
band a Christmas present with his
money she finds on that morning some
one else has been forgotten and takes
It away from him to use on the other.
The man who imagines he is going
to be a sort of Chinese idol when he is
married generally winds up by finding
himself carrying a milk bottle, the bird
cage, and the cat when the family
travel.
There are about 400 bowling clubs in
Scotland. 23 of which are in Glasgow.
Japan's output of manufactured rub
ber goods ha- grown from $155,000 to
$625,000 in 1905.
Beards are liable to taxation in some
Japanese villages. The origin of this
curious custom is unknown.
Practically all of the Belgian State
railroads are now operated by the Gov
ernment. Of the entire 2.506 miles 44
per cent arc double tracked.
Tokio is to have an international ex
hibition next year from March 30 to
j September 30. This is in addition to
I the large exposition fixed for 1910.
I In Zululand, when the moon is at the
full, objects are distinctly visible at as
great ad x -ce as seven miles, while
even by su. 'ht one can see to read
print with ease.
'Bombay claims the greatest density
of population in the world, and its
claim is only disputed by Agra, also in j
India. Bombay has 700 persons an ;
acre in certain areas.
A new technical school has been
started in Campos, Brazil, by the Gov
ernor of the State, Dr. Nlib Pecanha, |
The new school will give instruction
in tailoring, shoemaking, gardening,
etc., and will be thoroughly practical.
The Kjelin electric furnace for the
production of steel Is about to be util
ized on a large scale in Sweden, states
the London Times. This is to be &one
' in connection with the development of
: the immense water power of Tralhatta,
near the extensive ore deposits In
1 Nordland.
Recently 300 Bamado charity school
children left London for Canada in a
body. In reporting the event the Lon
don Standard remarks; “Ninety-eight
per cent of the Barnardo children do
well. Eighty per cent of the old Bar
nardo boys of the necessary age in
Canada are now landowners.
"Whereas in the seventies of last
century the twelve-hour day was the
rule in the building trade in Germany,
there were in 1895 already 436 towns
with a ten-hour day, 103 with ten and
a half hours, 818 with eleven hours,
and 85 with more than eleven hours.
In 1905 there were 247 towns with a
nine-hour day, 293 with nine and a
half hours, 7,643 with ten hours, 1,453
with ten and a half hours, 3,524 with
eleven hours, and only 1£7 with over
eleven hours.
NEW YORK. Jan. 5.—According to
universal New Year’s custom. Father
Knickerbocker has v taking account
of stock, and finds occasion to con
gratulate himself that in 1906 his city
of Gotham has broken all records for
growth of big cities. The total in
crease in population has been 375,000,
or over a thousand new inhabitants for
every day in the year. The floating
population—visitors and others whose
stay is temporary, whose homes are
• the' hotels and lodging houses, and
1 whose presence gives the air of bustle
' and rapid life to the shopping district
; and the Great White Way. is numbered
at 150.000 to 200.000. To the city and
its suburbs during the year has come
an increase in real estate
1 $600.000,000—a trifle, to be
j nearly three times the property valua-
| tion of the entire State of Nevada in
i 1904. nearly equal to that of Arizona
and Wyoming combined, far greater
■ than that of New Mexico. Idaho or
; Utah, and just about equal to the en-
I tire valuation of South Dakota in that
year. For the year's work on rapid
transit projects, the total outlay has
| been $300,000,000, and the work already
under way will cost $1,000,000,000 by
the time it is completed. Just to keep
I in touch with things, the old gentle-
! man in the powdered wig has broken
! another record—that for telephone In
stallations. Within a radius of about
• 35 miles of the City Hall, there are now
■ in service some 389.000 telephones', so
j that now New York has In service
! more telephones than London nnd the
I ten other largest cities of Great Britain
1 combined; more than France. Holland,
| Belgium and Switzerland combined;
! and more telephones than are to bo
found In the twenty largest cities in
Germany. The new Installations in
the territory in and near Now York for
the year numbered 67,050, or nearly 200
a day.
New York has two Adamless Edens,
and bach by analogy has proved the
other to be a dismal failure. One is
he Hotel Martha Washington and the
what is known as the "Wid-
Icment” in the upper arm of
, ! the lake In Central Park. For a long
i time rumors of discord, if not actual
i war. have reached the outside world
I from the sacred precincts of the hotel
whose threshold few mere men dare to
j cross. The trouble reached a climax
I one day last week when a stockhotd-
, ers' meeting was called to consider
[ the fact that, whatever it may have
| been as a theory, the hotel has so far
' proved a protitles venture. Then arose
: divers guests who are stockholders to
j the extent of not loss than one whole
share of stock, and declared that it
was no wonder. Such management
would ruin anything, they complained.
' To say nothing of the absurdity of re-
! fusing to serve wine jelly with the
| Christmas dinner, just because It is a
temperance hotel. It was a positive
shame to charge for rolls when that
is all one really needs for breakfast,
and the head waitress was altogether
too fat to be artistic, even If she was
efficient. Then, too. It was simply Im
possible to get—well, certain interest
ing novels from the hotel library. But
when it came to the lady bell-hops,
j they were the limit ! There was no
such thing ns Inducing one of them to
j do a little thing like tightening a few
I strings or buttoning a waist up the
back without a tip. Up i- -A,' .in
tuition In Central Park Direc.'er SmiJT
last summer had a colony of 176 do
mestic ducks and only a dozen drakes.
To be sure the ducks don’t Wear
waists that button up the back, an" ,*
their creature comforts are look, u
after by a mere man. But since they
were put into limited winter quarters
a short time ago. -there have been sin
gle combats and battles royal which
the old keeper declared to be nothing
more nor less than a fight for a hus
band. So a couple of dozen more
drakes were transferred to the lake
and tho trouble has entirely disap
peared.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
PROVERBS AND PHRASES
It was cruel of Speaker Cannon to
remove Representative Williamson,
convicted of land frauds, from his com
mittee merely because he had not at
tended tho sessions of Congress. The
unfortunate man was doubtless pre
vented by circumstances over which
he had no control.
King Edward has made peace be
tween the Duke and Duchess of Marl
borough. It is fortunate Theodore
Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel
peace prize before this achievement. A
little thing like effecting peace between
Russia and Japan would never have
been considered even.
Before honor is humility.—Bible.
Experience is the mistress of fools.—
Latin.
See that you tie so<you can untie.—
Dutch.
Time misspent is not lived, but lost.
—Fuller.
Thrift is the philosopher's stone.—
French.
Be a horse ever so well shod, he may
slip.—French.
Any time is proper for saying what
is just.—Greek.
Every age Confutes old errors and
begets new.—French.
By three things we learn men; love,
play and wine.^-German.
He must keep a sharp lookout who
would speak the truth.—Danish.
Things unhoped for happen oftener
than things we desire.—Plautus.
The population of Goldfield, Nev., de
creased in a week from 15,000 to less
than 8,000.
Boston has one telephone to every
twelve persons, and 20,000 names In
her Blue B'ook.
A Toledo man, accoYding to testi
mony in a divorce suit there, used to
pray for strength and then proceed
to beat his wife.
In six Swiss colleges no fewer than
2,193 women are now studying. The
majority of the enrolled female stu
dents are Russians.
The Texas Railroad Commission has
ordered a reduction of 20 per cent In
Pullman seat and berth rates in that
State, and a fight Is on.
Rev. Jenkin-Lloyd Jones, of Chicago,
declares that It is a disgrace to Wls
consln to permit the old
capitol at Belmont to be used as a cow
stable. Mr. Jones urges a movement
to rescue the historic building and
preserve it for the State.
The nation’s capital has the largest
collection of anthropological specimens
on the face of the globe. Four thous
and to five thousand skulls and skele
tons of human beings are there pre
served. Two hundred brains are ar
rayed in jars. These are exhibited
with those of animals for the purpose
of comparison.
Mohair is likely to become an Im
portant product in the United States.
At present, however, there are proba
bly not more than 1,000.000 pounds of
the substance grown here. It comes
from the back of the Angora goat,
three or four pounds being secured
from each animal. The price varies
from 35 cents to $1.25 a pound.
The New York City Board of Educa
tion has decided to prohibit the use of
all text books prepared by teachers in
the city’s employ. Only one member
of the board voted against this action.
January is the harvest month of the
The New Yorker to the manor bnrn
expects to shuffle off his load of care
and get home to Molly and the baby
some time before breakfast tho next
morning: but the Sunday school super
intendent from the interior who comes
to town once a year or once a lifetime
with a high steam pressure and a neat
little roll of the long green ones in his
right-hand trousers pocket, expects to
stay right on the job until he sees a
finish. Less than a year ago a night
and dav bank was started to look after
his financial needs, but seemed only
to Increase his demand for other sim
ilar conveniences. So now a company
has been formed to furnish legal aid in
all sorts of emergencies at any hour
of the day or night. All'that is neces-
sarv is to> ring up the office from the
hotel and then pay the bill. Not long
ago a hustling business man remem
bered that he-was engaged to he mar
ried in an up-State city the next day,
and that a steam yacht' was a neces ;
sary part of the equipment. It was
after office hours, and the question was
to find a lawyer qualified to draw up a
lease for this particular kind of mat
rimonial craft. All.other sources hav
ing failed, application to the all-night
law company brought the desired re
sult. At the hour of 5 a. m. the lease
was signed, sealed and delivered, and
at 8 the bridgroom steamed away up
the Hudson, apparently blissfully un
conscious of the fact that a railroad
runs so close along tho edge of tho
river that sometimes it falls in.
Of all the weighty subjects discussed
by the savants of the American Asso
ciation for tho Advancement of
Science, who for a week have been
holding forth at Columbia University,
none attracted greater attention than
the talk of Maj. C. E. Woodruff on tho
“Disappearance of the Blonde Types
in America.” Even tho grey-halrcd
members sat up and took notice. Not
an eye closed to the end of the discus
sion. According to the major, who
has made a close study of blondes
(under what circumstances he did not
state) there Is to bo a slow disappear
ance of the type, which is to vanish
entirely in about 600 years. It was
also argued, a fact which even a non
scientist can recognize, that blonde
women will be more and more sought
as they become scarcer. Major Wood
ruff holds out only scant hope that
science may yet d'seover some moans
of transplanting pigment into the skin,
which controls the color of tho hair
and the complexion: but It is hard for
New Yorkers to believe that in only
600 years Lillian Russell's golden locks
will have disappeared forever or given
placo to tresses of dusky brown.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE
District Attorney Jerome has proved
a distinct and bitter disappointment In
the Insurance cases, and no one admits
it more readily now than George W.
Perkins, of the firm of ,T. P. Morgan &
Co., and ex-Secretary of the Treasury
Charles S. Fairchild, the two gentle
men who have just been indicted by
the grand jury for forgery in the third
degree In connection with certain
dummy sales of stock. When it hap
pened, the election of trustees was all
over but counting the ballots, and even
that had been satisfactorily arranged
for by means of those convenient card
index systems which are either elab
orately to the ends it is intended, ac
cording to the ends it is intended, to
serve, and equally capable of proving
territorial I anything either way. There were 700.-
| 000 of those ballots: they had cost
some one a dollar apiece to collect, to
say nothing of the incidental expense
of Inducing policy holders to see the
matter In the right light, and It would
never do, so the officials said, merely
to count them and abide by the result.
First the ballots must be sorted and
arranged geographically. Them they
must he counted, but simply to ascer
tain the tffial vote cast. After that
the cards, each having 43 separate
and distinct entries for each ballot, ex
clusive of the signatures of the Inspec
tors, would come into play. This meant
something over 15.000,006 ntries be
fore the actual count and tabulation
of votes could begin. Four years, the
officials said sadly, would probably be
required, to complete the work: but,
they added more cheerfully, remem
bering that if a few more years were
necessary, the matter would be so
nearly forgotten by that time as to oc
casion little or no comment, the re
sult would probably be heavily in fa
vor of the present administration any
how. Then the blow fell. There is no
ouestion that Mr. Jerome is to blame.
Chilianes, of the Australians, the Ar- I The grand Jury itself said that it would
Gen. Picquart. French Minister of
War. is a sort of Amlrable Crlch'on.
for, besides a wide general cultivation,
he reads, writes and speaks Russian,
German, English and Italian.
Waneta Toskatombn, a full-blocked
Chickasaw maiden, well educated .-Mid
worth $100,000 in her own right, has
decided that she will never marry, but
will devote her life to charity work.
King Edward’s chef, M. Menager,
has a salary of $9,000 a year, besides
free lodging near the palace. He does
nothing In connection with breakfast,
but devotes his attention to preparing
dinner, which is served at 9 o'clock.
Miss Ilildora Adelaide Bloomstino is
the only woman druggist In Ohio. Sho
recently opened a drug store in Cleve
land and is in personal charge of tho
prescription department. She Is 25
years old and was born In Youngstown.
John D. Rockefeller has sent a check
for $100,000 to the Board of Foreign
Missions of the United Presbyterian
Church "toward permanent property
needs in Egypt and Egyptian Soudan.”
The biggest part of the gift will bo
used in the erection of new buildings
for the Asiut College.
The Japanese Government has sent
its chief railway engineer from the Is
land of Formosa to spend six months
in Europe studying the latest methods
of railway construction. His name is
H. InagakL He has just arrived in
San Francisco, where he will remain
a month. He is a young man in tha
early thirties.
After seventeen years’ striving tire
lessly to invent a mechanical device
which experts told him was impossi
ble, Joseph Pertillo, of Boston, has
succeeded* in inventing the long-'*
sought-for “one-wheel quarter-hour
striker” for clocks. For a century
skilled workmen from all over the
world have been at work trying to ac
complish this striker.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
i
gentine folks and the New Zealanders.
February is the harvest of India—Feb
ruary and a part of March. The Egypt-
not have indicted had ho not so stren
uously insisted upon it. The charges
upon which the indictment was based
ians, the Persians and the Syrians har- I would have been outlawed by the stat-
vest in April, while the Chinese, the I ute of limitations in another five days.
Japanese, the Moroccans and the Al
gerians harvest in May. The Spanish,
Greek and Italian harvest time is
June; the Russian and Austrian is
July: the English, German, Dutch and
Canadian is August; the Scandinavian,
Scottish and "Welsh is September, while
the northermost parts of Russia, Nor
way and Sweden do not gather their
harvest till October.
As it is 1907 promises additional
trouble for tho insurance magnate
whose life for the past two years has
been a strenuous one.
LADYLIKE GEOMETRY.
L A straight line is the shortest
distance between two millinery open
ings.
II. A straight line determined by
two bargain tables ]s considered as
The point of the thorn is email, but i prolonged both ways until the store
lie who has fell it does not forget it.—
Italian.
Tammany Leador Charles F. Mur
phy is surprised that Mayor McClellan
should so far follow his feelings as to
reject Murphy's nominations for office
after the war that has be?
tween them for the last year. Murphy j
must expect the mayor to sprout wings. 1
HOT ONES.
got along with the negro as well aa the Record, but 11 cut more than
1,000,000,000 feet. Of these, Washing-
It
William R. Hearst la to have
count. Thought his claim was
he had not had a first count.
Are you patient or just lazy?
Most self-confidence is born of ig
norance.
Put pleasure before business and
on be- j you'll lose both.
Everybody can say nothing. Few
know when to say it.
Some people have great ancestors
and others have to go on their merits.
The craze for the nude in art hasn't
brought out enough naked truth to
1 re-
that
closes.
III. A broken line Is a series of suc
cessive straight lines described by a
woman alighting from a street car.
IV. A mixed line is a line composing
the reception committee of a club's
presidential candidate.
V. A plain figure is one all points
of which have been neglected by the
dressmaker.
VI. Figures of the same shape don't
always have the same style.
VII. Figures of the same size never
consider themselves equivalent.
VIII. Women equal to the same
thing are not always equal to each
scare Anthony Comstock.—Strickland other.—Nellie Parker Jones, in Chicago
5". GiUraan, in Chicago News. 1 Record-Herald.
The rapid change in the character
of the population of New York has led
the authorities of the Episcopal Church
In this diocese to adopt a significant
departure in enlarging the scope of its
work. The new plan is one that has j
been carefully studied by Bishop Pot
ter for some time, and provides for :
conducting the services of the church |
in every language spoken by any con-
slderabie number of people In the |
city. It Is pointed out that New York
has the most polyglot ponulntion of .
any great city of the world, not ox- j
cepting Cairo, including 400 000 Ital- j
[ ians, 700.000 Jews and 30.000 Armen-
' ians. to mention only three of the
j many nationalities, and that the
j church at present makes no adequate j
• provision for reaching these elements :
of the population. The work among !
I the foreign-speaking population is in- ;
: tended to be not so distinctively mis- i Press.
1 sionary work as to provide means of
I bringing religious serivees within the
! reach of those who do not sneak Eng-
j lish, and
! prived of
; Bishop Potter
i recentlv licensed a man to preach in
i tho Yiddish district, and that he baa
! in view the appointment of others to
[ conduct services In various other lan
guages. Among other departures he
Carrie Nation Is at Washington,
quite prepared to be a lobby all by
herself.—Philadelphia Inquirer. f
San Francisco may go even further.
nd decide to bar President Roosevelt's
works from Us public library.—Kansas
City Star.
John Sharp Williams declines the
Presidency because the White House
is damp. Perhaps, also, there could
be conjured up other reasons.—Phila
delphia Ledger.
The most essential thing in life is
“balance,” according to Justice Har
lan. And at this time of year very
few of us have any at the bank.—
Washington Post.
Wo must set our faces rigidly against
the proposal to substitute alcohol for
gasoline in automobiles. Hard enough
to dodge them when they are sober.
—New York Herald.
A cable dispatch referring to Mr.
Brvee as a mountain climber says ho
first made the ascent of Mount Ararat.
But Noah got there first by an easier
route.—New York Globe.
The reports showing the rise in wages
and the Increased cost of llivng only
go to prove that the great American
public is bent upon attaining the High
er Life, however mum it costs.—New
York Tribune.
As this is not the season of the year
when they can play ba" and swear
at the umpire. a:.d so forth, the base
ball people are just contenting 'hem-
selves with a little row over th" sched
ule for next season.—Philadelphia
Carriaces Burned in Columbus.
Jan. 5.—In an ear-.
those who do not sneak Eng- COLUMBUS. Ga.. Jan. —In an car-/
who otherwise would be flp- ly morning fire, destroying a st>b!a#
the facilities of the church. ! of Mubin Wilson at th.- Driving Park* „
otter announces that he has sixteen carriages and one hears# _ ^ /
burned, entailin'.
1 sand dollars. :
; ered by Inaurai
1 tire is unknown
I cued from the
f several rhou-
■vhich is cov-
origin of the
rscs were res-