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THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. C. R. PENDLETON, President THE SOUTH The Phf::i<i. !: the English ■ hr NOT RESPONSIBLE. ■ hi.i Rea ,rrl thinks that inMer -f Confeder;, :• h-r:. 'States voluntarily 2 pi r cent of th" fare I me \Y Louisiana Minnesota Michigan Pcnnsylva om: Mli.'i d with 3.317.164.000 feet, with :sin second with 2 ’>43.503.000; with with with third fourth fifth the 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 Such an election is to he "pulled oft" under the auspices of President Roosevelt, when the Ameri can troops will ba withdrawn and the country turned over to the administra tion of the successful party.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-