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THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 593 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. QA. 0. R. PENDLETON, President THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA. Th* Tsl**r«ph oan b« found on oalo at tho Kimball Houso and tha Pied mont Hotel in Atlanta. poratlons, although tha latter, we may he well assured. Is no inconsiderable factor. MACON'S ORATOR OF THE DAY. The Sidney Lanier Chapter of the Daughter* of the Confederacy could not have been happier In the selection of an orator befitting the occasion of the celebration of the Lee centenary than when they aecured Col. James Arm strong, tlia silver-tongued and silver- haired orator of tho South Carolina me tropolis, to oerro It In that capacity. Oal. Armstrong is in ovary raapect the embodiment of tho peculiar qualities Chat have made Mo native mother land. Ireland, famous la history, song and atory, and which have made her •one and descendants transplanted to America, taka so kindly and genially to her frea and gaierous soil. The gallant captain of a gallant Irish com pany, who saw eervie# throughout the war, ho te known to be as modest as he Is bravo, and but for the ract that his mother wit and native eloquence makes him sought for at all genial so cial gatherings In Carolina an# its chief elty, his fame and the splendor of Me eloquence might never have been known beyond the confines of his State. Ts'rrw that Macon has heard and made the acquaintance of Col. Arm strong and Col. Armstrong has met Macon face to face both are to be congratulated on the new ties of friendship that have been cemented. POLITICS, POLITICSI It la truly a remarkable state of af fairs when a Republican President Is virtually put on trial by the members of hla own party and finds his strong est defenders among the Democrats. Aa Senator Carmack said on Wednes day, If the charges of Republican Sen ators are true, the President’s action In the Brownsville case Is so utterly without Justification and excuse that Impeachment ought to follow swift and sure " The Senator from Tennes see went on to say: ''No other punishment can be adequate for a man who wantonly and recklessly, on an unfair and prejudiced Investigation, without the sanction of law and In fla grant contempt of the evidence. Imposes a harsh and brutal pun ishment upon men who have a record of honorable and heroic ser vice and who have done no wrong. That Is practically the charge that the Senator from Ohio makes against the President. "The Senator tells us that MaJ. Bloeksom cannot be trusted to make a fair and honest Investiga tion and tell the truth because his futher. forty years ago, was a Democrat In Ohio. It la a divine law that the sins of the fathers shall be visited on the children, but I question the right of the Senator to pronounce the Judg ment. He may be tha God Al mighty of the Republican party of Ohio, hut he does not yet sustain that relation to the universe. 'My personal Intercourse with the Senator has shown him to be fttnial. generous and obliging, but I remember when I had a different Impression of him. I remember with what frantic energy he used to wave the 'bloody shirt.’ a shirt stained blood-red with the crimson current of his own rhetoric. I can remember when he used to go rag ing over tho land, a bifurcated, per ipatetic. bob-tailed volcano in per petual eruption, belching forth Are and smoke and molten lava from his agonised and tumultuous borw- els. "We can all remember when It was nothing short of treason for a Democratic Senator to question the accuracy of any statement pro- A reeding from the Executive depart- • went with respect to the conduct of American soldiers. Rut no flharge ever has been made by any Democrat In the flrecest partisan debate, equal in gravity and se verity to the charge which the 'Senator from Ohio has made. If the Senator can convict the Presi dent on that charge then he will have placed him on an eminence of Infamy from which no man t an 'take him down." Seeking the real motives for the Republican attacks on the President. Senator Carmack touched on the trans parent and self-seeking designs of foraker, and adds: "The President made the mistake of compelling his party to violate its traditions. He has forced the great corporations to rec- ognlte that there Is such a thing as law In the government of tjiis country. Helpless under the compelling force of public opinion that Is arrayed behind him. his party leaders have yielded reluctantly, but biding their time for an opportunity to strike back. This attack on him Is an effort to put the party back into its old position, to make peace with Its old friends and renew Its covenants with the plunder ers and oppressors of the American people.” The dispatches Indicate that Mr. Carmack's search for the motives of the Republican attack on the President ended here, which Is surprising, for this is not the whole or the matter. If Indeed It be the half. The President's most serious offense, as It appear* to ue. ts that In his desire to punish mur derers ami protect soeiety he has put the Republican party’s possession Of the negro vote In peril. The larger cau»e of Republican displeasure la to be looked for In the threats of the ne gro politicians of the close Stated rather than In the complaints of. oor- TURN OF HISTORY'S TIOE. The address of Charles Francis Ad ams, Sr., of Boston, head of the Mas sachusetts Historical Society, at Lex ington, Va„ yesterday ofi the occasion of the Robert E. Lee centenary cele bration, may not be epoch-making, but 1: marks the ebb-tide and receding waves of the prejudice and sectional ism that have heretofore prevented the great war between the Stales and Its causes being treated In the light of truth and Justice. It Indicates the final verdict of history and that that verdict as enunciated by a former foe qualified to speak for those who had antago- ! nlzed us is that the South's only j crime was the lack of success and that of all the great men the war developed none rose or fell so pure of offense as the chieftain of the Southern cause—this is glory enough to sat isfy any people. In view of the importance and historic sig nificance of Mr. Adams’s utterances, extracts from his address will be free ly given here. Addressing himself to the charge which, he sabi. was still "most commonly made against Lee in that section of the country to which I belong.” that "he was false to his flag," Mr. Adams said: "Coming directly to the point. I maintain that every man in the eleven States seceding front the Union Jind in 1861. whether he would nr no. to decide for himself whether to adhere to his State ot to the nation; and 1 finally assert that whichever way ho decided, if only he decided honestly, putting self-interest behind him, he did right. •'But this, it will he replied, though true of the ordinary man and citizen, should not have been true of the graduate of the Mili tary Academy. :he officer of tile Army of the United States. Win field Scott and George G. Thomas did nor so construe their al legiance: when the Issue was pre sented, they remained true to their flag and to their oaths. Robert E. Lee, false to his oath and flag, was a renegade! Tho answer is brief and to the point—the condi tions i% the several cases were not the same—neither Scot: nor Thom as Was Lee. It was our Hoston Dr. Holmes who long ago declared that the child's education begins about two hundred and fifty years before it is born: and it is quite Impossible to separate any man— least of all. perhaps, a full-blooded Virginian—from his parental tra- dilions and living environment. From them be drew bi« being: in them he exists. Robert E. Lee was the embodiment of those condi tions. the creature of that environ ment—a Virginian of Virginians. “To ask Lee to* raise his band against Virginia was like asking Montrose or the MarCellum More to bead a. force designed for the subjection of the Highlands and the destruction of the clan*. Where such a stern election is forced unon a man as confronted Lee. the single thing the fair-mfnded in vestigator has to take into account is the loyalty the slnsrle-mltided- ne<*i of the election. Was it de void of selfishness—'Was it free from any baser and more sordid, worldly motive, ambition, pride, jealousy, revenge or selGinterert? To this ouestion t>'Pre can, In the case of Lee. he hut one answer. When, after long and trvirg men tal wrestling, he threw in h1s fate with Virginia, he knowingly sac rificed everything which man prize* most—his dearlv he'eved home. h1s means of support, his professional standing, his asso ciates. a brilliant future nssured to him. Rorn a slave-holder in a race of slave-holder*, he was himself no defender, much less an advocate of slavery: on the contrary, he did not hesitate to pronounce it in his place “a moral and political evil." Later, he manumitted his slaves. He did not believe in seeession: as a right reserved under the Con stitution, he pronounced it ‘idle talk:’ but. ns n Virginian, he also added, ‘if the Government is dis rupted. I shall return lo my native State and share the miseries of un people. and save In defense will draw my sword on none.' ’’ Such was Lee the patriot. Of Lee the soldier and strategist Mr. Adams furnishes the splendid appreciation contained in the following: will accord and assent to this somewhat self-complacent convic tion t« open to ques ion. On the contrary, it may not unfairly be doubted whether a people pros trate after civil strife has often re ceived severer measure than was inflicted on the so-called recon structed Confederate States during the years immediately succeeding the close of Strife. Adam Smith somewhere defined rebels and her etics as 'those unlucky persons who, when things have come to a certain degree of violence, have the misfortune to be of the weaker party.'. Spoliation and physical suffering have Immemoriaily been their lot. The Confederate, it is true, when he ceased to resist, escaped this visitation in its usual and time-approved form. Never theless, he wae by no means ex empt from it. In the matter of confiscation, it has been computed that the freeing of the slaves by act of war swept out of existence property valued at some two thou sand millions: while, over and above this, a system of simulta neous reconstruction subjected the disfranchised master to the rule of the enfranchised bondsman. For ;> community conspicuously masterful, and notoriously quick to resent affront, to be thus placed by alien force under the civil rule of those of a different and distinct ly Inferior race, only lately their properly, is not physical torment, it is true, but that it is mild or considerate treatment can hardly be contended. Yet this—slave con fiscation, and reconstruction under American rule—was the war pen alty imposed on the States of the Confederacy. That tin: policy in- § Ired at the time a ‘ feeling of hitter resentment in the South was no cause for wonder. Upon it time has already recorded a verdict. Following the high precedent set at Appomattox it Was distinctly unwnrihy Conceived in passion, it ignored both science and the philosophy of statesman ship; worse yet. it -was ungener ous. Lee, for Instance, again set ting the example, applied formally for amnesty and restoration of civil rights within two months of his surrender. His application was silently ignored: while-he died 'a prisoner on parole.' the suffrage denied him was conferred on his manumitted slaves. Verily, it was not alone the base Indian of the olden time who 'threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe."’ Thus IS the saying that “truth crushed to earth will rise again" illus trated. and out of the mouth of one of worthiest of our foes issues the testi mony that confirms the justice of all the South claims for herself in the greatest, most eventful war of modern times. WH I"!' l"H~l-d-l-h*i"i l I I H' H-M-+ Caught on { FALSE BRANDS AND ADULTER ATIONS. ; Consul D. I. Murphy, of Bordeaux, j furnishes a report containing facts re- I , , gardln^j the adulteration and mis- | I the Wing i branding of oils and wines received in | 1 I 1 t H 11 ‘H-H-H-t- By JOHN T. BOIFEUlLLET. i I have been reading a Bulletin re- ! cently issued by the United States Gov ernment on the manufacturing indus tries of Georgia, from which I ob- the United States from France, and of the extensive use of fictitious names in Connection with importations that will startle the unsuspecting public and create astonishment in business cir cles. It Will be observed that fictitious names are authorized by the laws of France, and that in many instances their use is directed by American im porters. The consul writes: The use of fictitious names, or “con- tremarques.” is common throughout France. The law of June ’3, 1857, protects the French manufacturer in tlieir use and authorizes him to em- | ploy such trademarks as lie pleases, | provided he has them duly registered I at the Tribunal of Commerce in- the | district where his business is carried | on. It is a common thing for manu facturers and exporters to label olive oil of secondary or inferior quality with fictitious names or trademarks, reserving their own proper names for their highest grade of goods. Many large American concerns order oil from the packers here with directions for special labels Bearing some particular names or trademarks of their own. That there is adulteration of wine rained some very interesting Macon statistics appertaining strictly to the true manufactures, showing the num ber of wage-earners, men, women and I children, and the annual amount of : their wages,** and the value of the products turned out by them yearly. The statistics embrace only certain specified industries, sixtv-one in num ber, aud do not include many of the smaller industries and hand trades. In the sixty-one manufactories there are ! employed 3,661 wage-earners, as fol lows: Males, sixteen years and over, 3.714: females, sixteen years and over, ; 39S; children, under sixteen years, 349. . The wages for the year amounted to ' $1,200,690, as follows: Males, sixteen years and over, $l,033p 1 5j _ females, sixteen years and over. $117,784: Chil- ■ dren. under sixteen years, $49,896. This show’s that the females and children take an important part in the indus trial life of Macon, and as wage-earn ers cilt no small figure.. The value of the products turned out during the year by the wage-earners was $7,297.- 347. The sixty-one manufactories have ' 39S salaried offciatS and clerks who 1 are paid $357,098 annually. There are nearly 300 industries of till kinds ... ... 'Macon and suburbs, and when we cou- goe.-, without saving, but to state the j ; idel . thtlt the a bnve enthusing statis- extent of or point out the parties en- | tics are of only sixty-one of them, we gaged in it is a difficult proposition. A PRISON ROMANCE. In the Federal prison in Atlanta there is a former resident of Provi dence, R. I., one Marcus Crahan. who received a fifteen-year sentence for j counterfeiting. It appears that up to I the time that Crahan conceived the ; get-rich-quick scheme of issuing coun- j terfeit $20 gold certificates he carried on a large photo-engraving business in Providence and was earning from $2,500 lo $3,000 a year. Therefore rtoney-lust . was the only excuse for his crime. He 1 is said to have made plates and printed as good a counterfeit of a genuine bill as the Treasury Department officials have ever seen. He Issued these at race tracks in New York and St. Louis, and was finally arrested in the latter city. Crahftn deserved all he got and his It is known that certain unprincipled dealer^ or brokers buy tip the entire output of some of the vineyards where good wine is produced, and with the addition of alcohol and water multiply the output many times over. On this subject in a recently published state ment Mr. Guillaume Chastenet, one of the members of the “Groupe Viticole" In tho French ‘Assembly, declared the "overproduction of wine from which the wine districts of France are suf fering is mostly due to fraud." He further declared that it might be sup posed the great wine crop of 1905 would*make fraud a poor paying bus iness, but such was not the case. The growers were suffering because of this fraudulent increase in the wine crop, and the manufacture of artificial wines had developed prodigiously. ‘'Today," said Mr. Chatenet, "the consumption and production of wines might balance begin to realize something of the mag nitude of the manufacturing interests ; of this csrnrnunity, and to appreciate ; tt-c ract tit at the wage-earner is one of the fulcrum powers that moves the city onward and upward. Under the rotation agreement be tween Mercer University, Emory and the Btate University this is Mercer’s year to send a student to the Univer sity of Oxford, England, as tho re cipient of the Cecil Rhodes scholarship from Georgia. I wns asked yesterday what is this scholarship. An authority gives the following explanation. Cecil Rhodes, statesman, who died at Cape Town, South Africa. March 36, 1902. directed in his will, dated July 1, 1S99, that a part of his fortune, estimated at $10,000,000, should be applied to the creation Of a fund for the support of a certain number of scholarships covering a three-years’ course at the University of Oxford. He directed that the selection of the recipients of this gift should be made two from each Btate and Territory of the United States, or one hundred in all, fifteen from Germany an'd from one to pipe fropi each of the Rriti«h colonies. The scholnrshins are awarded on marks only, three-tenths whpreof shall he riven to a candidate for his "Literary if it were not for the fifteen or twenty and Bcholastie” attainments, the re mainder being for his love of outdoor ■millions of hectoliters (396,255,000 gal lons to 528,840,000 gallons) of sugar wines, or manufactured wines of all kinds, made with the lees and sul phuric acid.” Examination of the mat ter leads me to believe with Mr. Chas tenet that among the growers there is practically no fraud. The trouble is with Certain dealers or brokers who practice what is called “mouillage” or adulteration with water and alcohol. COTTON SITUATION At SHANGHAI Concerning the great congestion of athletics and sports, for strong manly aUhlHIes. such as courage, generoMty and kindness, and tor high moral character, and especially for ambition to serve and lead in large public af- fah-s. .The cohfitttnns regulating the award of Scholarships in the American States provide that the candidates shall have satisfactorily completed the work of at least two years tn some college of !1V eral arts and sciences. Excent under extraordinary circumstances the uttoer- age limit must he twenty-four years at the time of entering unon the schol arship at Oxford. To ho eligible the candidate must he a citizen of the United States, nr the son of a citizen, and must be unmarried. Eanh student only claim to sympathy was that he that t0 send in an V yer y optimistic re- J to par his colle-re fees and necessary was loved by Miss Sarah McCormi.- * 1 e ^ er1!,r ” , • As th * ****** ,s a young school teacher, to whom, by his order, $4,000 were turned over after his affairs were settled up. For four years this plucky young woman has worked for Crahan, endeavoring to se cure a shortening of his term, and she has finally succeeded in inducing the President to commute the sentence to six years. Two years, instead of eleven years hence, Crahan will be released and it will then be in his power to reward Miss McCormick by a ilfe time of de- vrition. It is said that her confession that she loved Crahatl and would marry him excited the President’s pity and caused him to grant Miss McCor mick's request. ports as to the situation there would | nnt nvAmh ^ unt „ Mfr1e ttfrtb after the be misleading. He writes: j arrival of the student he should go After seeing the stocks on hand and '■ •' ,H ™ad with one nr two hundred dol- interviews with the leading merchants, dealers and bankers, it can be stated that If no further goods are thrown on the market the stocks on hand will gradually ease off until they get down to a weight that can be handled. The foreign importer at 'Shanghai is called the “merchant,” while the Chinese merchant, to distinguish him, is usu ally deferred to as the "dealer." Most of the American goods come to Shang hai and are resold by the Chinese to men snme- ludi- and "Napoleon ie alleged first hRve remarked that ‘in war arc nothing: n man Is everything. As a former soldier of the Army of the Potomac, T now stand appalled at the risk I unconseinuslv ran anterior to July. 1863. when con fronting the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded as it then wns and as we were. The situation was in fact as had with us in thr- Army of the Potomac as it was with the Confederates in the Southwest. The U’Toftunete Pem berton there wns simply not in the "'imp class as Grant' and Bher- mnn. to whom lie found himself Opposed. Results there followed accordingly. So. In Virginia. Lee and Jackson made an extraordi nary, a most exceptional combina tion. They outclassed times terribly, someth erously: always Hopelet results in that case nls.i followed accordingly. That we were not ut terly destroyed constitutes a fiat and final refntnl of the truth of Napoleon's aphorism.” Rut 't is to the stately, self-contained man in defeat that Mr. Adams finally pnys. as every one must, the tribute of his highest admiratlcffi He says: "Speaking advisedly and on fuller refici-'lon. I say that of ail he great characters of the Civil War. >nd 1! was productive of ma”v xvh-se names and deeds pos terity wtl! long beer In recollec tion. there was not one who passed ntyiv in the serene atmosphere and with the gracious hearing of Lee. From beginning to end those part ing years of his will bear closest scrmlny. There was about them nothing venal, nothing oneruious. no’h'ng 'n nuv w"y sordid or dis- annoln'inr. In his <ns<* there Was no anti-climax: for those closing years were dignified, patient, use ful: sweet In domesticity, they in all ‘hires commanded respect. ‘•rto'-ouse no blood flowed on the scaffold and no trmflseafinn of fiousd* of Isfids mar>«*d the close of our War of secession, It ha* al ways h»en te-sumed hv us of the v'c’^rtotis tiortv that extreme, in deed unprecedented, e'emenev was *hn«xn to Ike vanquished. and that subsequently thev hsd no good ground of complaint or sufficient oiuh tot restiveness. That history Julian Hawthorne does not like the President's English and describes his latest message as “a jumble of mis- begotteh and inopportune adjectives. I adverbs, intensive*, extensives and 1 similar redundant, forci'ble-beeble and exasperating verbal rubbish which hang and crawl about his compositloft as beetles and cobwebs crawl and hang about the rafters of an empty house.” If this is a fair sample of Julian's btst English, some folk, if compelled to make a choice, will be likely to vote for the President's. “outside” or "country dealer*.” The most encouraging factor at present is the fact of the rising price of goods in America, due to the cotton situation £T7<^ 'BLIECSIRKiPMII 1 By BRIDGES SMITH. Ttlil - IIk -J-4—1—h.t..’..t..t.-h4-t.4—1—I*—*.-t—t-j—t—1—b-t—b- American cotton piece goods at Shang- ; receives an allowance of $L500 a year, ■ , i payable In quarterly installments, hai, Special Agent W. A. Graham says j which is iii*t enough to enable him I Jars in his possession. I In rho't of the States the selection is made by a committee a Anointed by | representatives of the colleges: in «nme . the annointments are made in rotation * by the lending colleges. 1 At the beginning of the October term* 1904. there entered Oxford sev enty-two Rhodes sehoiars: fortv-three . were Americans, tw-entv-fmir colonials ! and five Germans. In' 1996 the fu'l number, one hundred and ninety In ell were In residence, and thereafter this numher will he maintained, the vacan cies be’pg^ oiled as men complete their three-yenfc’ course. The examination in the United Btates for this year is .. _ . , , , now being held. There will he ex- dealer there to Chinese merchants at aminftfions ttlsfi irtlSas. 1910 1011. lm?. other points, who are referred to as 1914. and so on. omitting everv third I year. The examinations are not com- j petitive. hut Qualifying. Inquiries as to particulars hv intending candidates | may he addressed to any college. In formation about Oxford. Its colleges I and course of studies, should he ad- • The Atlanta Constitution will be for sortie kind of protectorate over Cuba,” reads a dispatch from Havana cabled while Mr. Clark Howell and other Georgians were sojourning there. ' Snine kind" of protectorate over Cuba has been actually In force since 1898 and was formally provided for several year? laier by the provisions and re strictions of the Platt amendment. It was announced that Richard Cheatham, secretary of the Southern Cotton Association, would not stand for re-election. Jt 1* suspected that the association would not "stand for” It either. Neither does Tillman’s revival of the oid "Know Nothing” Cry of "America for Americans” appear to be in accord with the special effort hts State is Just now making to attract foreign Immi gration to her soil. The managers complain that so many telephone girls marry that the service is crippled. It is not strange that they should want to make permanent con nections. Senator Tillman discreetly declined to offer any remedy for the face situa tion. A remedy for it is the last thing he ia looking for. outside dealers at ’Chefoo, Tientsin, etc., through the merchants cheaper than the dealers were willing to sell from stock at Shanghai. THE HAUNTED PALACE. and the report that a good many mills dressed + o F. ,T. wYHn. the Oxford .aacnt are changing from the heavy export ! Rhotles tru9 * e es. 'Oxford, Eng- goods to lighter-weight goods for the horn* market. A few months ago the Anther v^Ulam*. the well known , „ _ , ,, former bank official, VtVidjv remembers dull market in TSew York and the rising i this month and period thirty years value Of the purchasing power of the j asro - This entire country was in a ,... - „ . . . . , . state of excitement, and especially was tael, due to higher exchange, was such | t n e ghuth in a condition of Ihdlgna- that goods could be imported by the ! G° n f° r the Republican party was en gaged in the unholy effort to steal the Presidential electoral votes of the States of Florida South Carolina and Louisiana from Tilden aiid deliver them to Hayes. Mr. Williams at this time was an operator in the Western Union office in MScon and received the press dispatches that came from Wash ington concerning the acts of Congress regarding the fraud and the proceed ings of the Electoral Commission, which latter body by a vote of 8 to 7 lost the Presidency to Tilden. By rea son of his position Mr. Williams was in a hot bed of excitement for the Ma- cr*l populace thronged around the Western Union to hear the exciting news, it was exactly thirty years ago that the joint committees of the Senate and House reported to Congress a hill proposing plans for counting the votes for Tilden and Hendricks and Hayes and'Wheeler. Therefore would it not he appropriate now to give a little of the history of that stirring epoch? The twenty-tli'rd Presidential election was held on November 7. 1876. Tilden re ceived 293 votes of a total of 369. 185 being necessary to an election. This vote of Tilden’s included the votes of Louisiana Florida and Bouth Carolina. Immediately the Republicans set to scheming. Zarh Chandler, chairman of the National Republican Executive Committee, on the day following tile election telegraphed from New York to the Rttuhlicnn Governor of Florida as follows: "Hold Florida for Hayes and Wheeler. Money and troOpS will be sent you.” This was the starting of the diabolical p.'ot which ended in the fraudulent seating of Haves and Wheeler. Republican returning boards canvassed the returns in Florida and Louisiana, giving those States to Hayes. The Democrats maintained that such a result could only be reach ed by fraud, and their electors cast the votes of those States for Tilden. mak ing thus two returns from which Con gress must choose. Returns by two electoral colleges were also made from South Carolina and Oregon. By Edgar Allen Poe. In the greenest of our valleys By god angels tenanted. Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace—reared its head. Tn the monarch Thought's dominion— It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow. (This—all this—was in the olden Time long agol. And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid. A winged odor went away. Wanderers In that happy valley. Through two luminous windows, saw Spirits moving musically To a lute's well-tuned law. Round about a throne where, sitting, (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The ruler of the realm was seen. And all the pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door. Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing And sparkling evermore, A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty Was but'to sing. In voices of surpassing beauty. The Wit and wisdom of their king. But evil things, in robes of sorrow. Assailed the monarch’s high' estate. (Ah. let Us mourn!—for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desalatelt And round about his home the gh That blushed and bloomed Is bnt a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed. riory And travelers, now. within that valley. Through the red-littPn windows gee Vast f OrmS that move fantastically To a discordant melody. Whit" like a ghastly raiiid river. Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh—but smile fie more. In looking back over the happenings of twenty-five or thirty years ago. I find that those with a touch of humor in them have found more secure lodg ment in my memory than others. The tragedies are forgotten, while the com edies. are still fresh. The mysterious murders in Macon have no charm for me whatever, but I can revel In the funny things other people forget. One of the most amusing things that ever happened in Macon was Mr. E. D. Irvine’s 4th of July celebration in 1SS0. With is public spirit. Ed was always patriotic, but on this particular occa sion his patriotism ran riot. He reek ed with patriotism. His idea was to get up a celebration that would startle the entire North, with fireworks enough to light up the entire union, and till the universe with glory. His rockets were to be set off at Central City Park, burst over Boston, and the stars would fall over all New England, and be seen from Maine to California, and that his bombs would be heard wherever waved the stars and stripes. • • * Col. Nat Harris was then, as he is now, one of the leading lawyers of the State, and was much in demand as an orator. If there was any speech-mak ing to be done, Col. Harris was called upon. He has, in his time, made more speeches of welcome and more* presen tation speeches, and college speeches, than am- man in the State. He was in his prime, ready with eloquence, a fine address, and a voice that could reach • the last circle of a sound wave. Mr. Irvine secured his consent, after con siderable coaxing, to read the Declara tion of Independence. The bloody shirt was being waved in Congress, the bloody chasm was a by-word, and the echoes of the reconstruction period were still rumbling through the South. Mr. Irvine thought that if a gallant ex-Confederate would take part In the celebration of the 4 th of July, the bloody shirt would he sent to the laun dry. the bloody chasm would be closed forever, and the reconstruction echoes would be hushed into eternal silence. 1 And being a man of peace, Col. Nat was won over. It was to he no ordinary celebration. There had been attempts to celebrate, but they lacked snap and patriotism. Years previous, before all the swords had been turned into plowshares, the genial and gifted O. A. Loehrane had read the Declaration of Independence to a crowd down at the old cemetery at the foot of Cherry street, but tho celebration was a tame, one-sided af fair. What Mr. Irvine wanted was a real, live, genuine celebration, with lots of people. Excursion rates on the rail roads were secured and. there is no doubting the fact, the people came. The program promised many things. In addition to the rending of the De claration by Col. Harris, the Macon Volunteers, under Capt. W. W. Carnes, were to give an exhibition drill by the light of bombs imported from Ger many, and they were really magnificent things. The city was at that time lighted by gas. On each street corner was an iron post with a glass-framed lamp, in which burned a sickly yellow flame. It was the joke of the town that one Would have to strike a match to see if. a lamp was lit. Electric lighting had been heard of, but never seen in Macon, and the program called for an exhibition of an electric lamp. It took Ed Irvine and George Payne, who was a leading druggist here then, some two weeks to rig up batteries and colls and all that sort of thing to produce this wonderful electric light. The program called for a salute of thirteen guns from Vic Menard's famous cannon, a.nd also a brilliant display of Chinese fire works. Very few fireworks were made in this country then, but both Irvine and Payne had read up on their man ufacture. and they made worlds of col ored fire powder and arranged some set pieces, one of them being a por trait of the lamented Tom Hardeman, tnen a candidate for Governor. That night Central City Park was crowded as it was never crowded be fore, and Ed Irvine was happy. But in the midst of his preparations a sus picion struck him with the force of a brick between the eyes that to admit such a crowd the gatekeepers must be working overtime. So he dropped everything, to find that the gatekeepers •were rather suffering for want of work than otherwise. The discovery that many of the crowd, in fact a very largo many, had avoided the gates and had used the fence, over, under and through the cracks, put a crick in Ed’s patriotism, hut the show had to come off, gate receipts or no gate receipts. As a debater, orator and attorney,. Col. Harris had faced many audiences, but this was the limit. The great ma- Commission) was passed by the Sen ate. 47 years to 17 nays, and the House passed the measure on January 26. . 191 to S7. The Senate was Republican and the House was Democratic. The commission consisted of five Senators, ! five Representatives, and five judges i of the Supreme Court, to which the : contested points were to be submitted. Their decision was to be final, unless the Senate and House agreed to order | otherwise. Eight members were Re- ! publicans and seven Democrats. The 1 decision was made on party lines, and • gave the disputed States to the Repub- | Means by a vote of eight to seven. The Senate and House could not agree to change the decision and. by the compromise law it was so recorded, to the dissatisfaction of the Democrats, who believed that investigation would establish the fact of fraudulent action by the returning boards, and give the election to .Tilden. The Republican majority of the commission decided that a re-examinatlon of tho State re turns by Federal authorities would trespass on State independence; the Democratic majority held that elec tions of the Federal executive were a proper subject of Investigation by the Federal Congress. , Jorlty were jubilant over their Tree ad mission, some were really patriotic. atiJ i some were in for a night of fun. They 1 didn't want any Declaration of Ilide- ! per.dence, but one of our modern tttid- ways would have tickled them to death. But the Declaration had to be read. He got as far as "there is a tide in the affairs of men," when there arose from tho crowd in spots sttclf ejaculations as 'pull down your vest." ! and “chalk your chin." and "come off i your roost," and “where did you get that hat." and other utterances calcula ted to disturb a veil-behaved De.'mr- atir.n of Independence. Ignoring the unseemly interruptions, and ihltikin-: the crowd would quiet down. Col. Hat 1 : ris proceeded, but no one understood i a word, until finally; in desperation, he i came down from the music stand. I It must he understood that in such a vast crowd there were people who appreciated the splendid rending of tho Declaration. And another thing, to the pan taken by Col. Harris In this celebration must be attributed the rap id healing of the wounds mode by the war. By that act he did as much to ward bringing the sections I ter understanding of the sit i closer together as any oth the South. But Col. 'Harr! today that :lie readlhg of ration of Independence on this ! was the hardest day’s work of his ltie. J It was right here that the elements ’ took pant in the proceedings. For a few minutes tliore was on awful st tm In which thunder, lightning and rain electrified and drenched the entire crowd. After it was over the next ; thing i'ii the programme was the firtn.r j of the salute of thirteen guns. One mar. : was sent to hunt Vic Menard’s cannon to a bet- [uatlon atn? ier tnai i in !? will tell the Dr !Cla* its deen si on and another was sent for the powder while Ed Irvine and George Payne looked after the wonderful electric light. The man sent after the cannon reported that it could not be found, and the man sent after the red fin* pel hogs containing the powder brought them in, but the powder was so wet that the bags sagged. This Caused -Itu electricians to leave their Vtbrlc fot alvhlie to hunt for the eannnn, putting a neero to watch the batteries. One j lest lingering flash of lightning* caused ' the negro to fly for his life, nod ill ' thus flying he overturned the batteries, and another strong feature of the am- gramme was cut out. thus preventing the peonle from seeing what an elec tric light was for several years. Blit the fireworks were safe, and the display wns so fine that the crowd who had paid admission, were sn'is- fied. The drill of the volunteers, then a company of a hundred or so men, by the varl-colored lights of the fire works, was a beautiful sight. The company went through the manual of arms like Clock-work, and in their white and grnv unjforms presented an I appearance thnt did more to stir up i a patriotic thrill than all else. ! There are many people In Macon who will remen-ber this celebration, not as a great affair, but one accent- nantefl hv more mishaps than any oth er. and yet voted a stieerpg. for ir spite of everything, including the ""ea-t number that went in over the Tence. Mr. Irvine cleared seven hundred n>id fifty dollars, and he deserved ever.' cent of it. ' Tn the TelegraArties of last SttnOny I said that Julian Prlre. one of the : amateur minstrels, had passed away | This T find Is a ml'Vake. He is living ' the Ilf” of a farmer down In Lee Coun ty. When the dav's work Is done tbe I stock watered and fed. the rows m 1 1 k n ,d | and the simper over. T wonder If he i ev°r gives that gnld°n voice full swax* : with the old songs. A Knot of RHie qnd ! Orax- and Nanex* Lee. both hist suited , to b(s x*oice. were his favorites in the old days, and If he sings them now down j on his planta'ton, I enx-v the lis*en|pg j trees. I x-erilx- believe that If tho , xx-ickedes* nf ps could honr that quar- . tette. Banks Winter, .Tnllnn T '*-1ee. .-\r- ■thur Findlax- and Arthur Wood sing j a few of the old songs, we would be a thousand times better in ex'ery way. POINTED PARAGRAPHS i From the Chicago T^ews. i Poets are horn, but good husbands ] are made. Criticise yourself today and others tomorrow. I Large fortunes from small graft? soon groxx-. Other men’s ideals are not always square deals. : The man who looks for trouble is seldom disappointed. | Silent watches of the night are those J we neglect to xvind. i Opportunity doesn’t bother men who j take beauty sleeps. i Unless a man has money he can’t | afford to be eccentric, j Sax-age dots have caused many a ■ to travel for his health. An elex’ator sometimes enables a mar. , to rise to the occasion. ! Too many lawyers make a specialty ‘ of handling beer cases. I BACHELOR REFLECTIONS ; From the New York Press. | Tt’s a long honeymoon that has no I return .to sanity. I If it’s only a stickpin it’s jewels when I a woman loses It. ! Money may be the root of ex-11, but i lack of it is the full-groxvn tree, j Sometimes women play cards at a card party if there is nothing to talk ; about. | The reason a girl like? to haxe you j squeeze her hand is because she says ; she doesn’t. | When a man Joins the church ho thinks he’s going to die or he’s going Into politics. A man has got to he a Imro about | something if it’s only a boil his grand father once had. Hardly anybody is such a fool as to Imagine girls like him because he goes to Sunday school. On January 25. 1877. thirtv years ago, the compeoniiea law (Electoral The Republican Senators on the Electoral Commission xx-ere Edmunds, Morton and Frelinghuysen. and the Democratic Senators were Thurman and Bayard. The Democratic Repre sentatives were Payne. Hunton and Abbott, and the Republican Represen tatives were Garfield and Hoar. The Democratic judges were Clifford and Field, and the Republican judges were Miller, Strong and Joseph P. Bradley. The country has never forgotten "Aliunde Joe." The Democrats did not want cix-il war and accepted the Electoral Com mission measure in the interest of peace. I bellex’e that William E. Smith xvas the only Georgia Congressman that x-oted against the bill. Notxx-ith- standing the fact that Florida. Louis iana and South Carolina Were stolen from Tilden, even then his plurality xote was 250.000 more than Hayes’. In October, 1877, President Hayes visited Atlanta, ftcompanied by Mrs. Haves. Secretary of State E\*nrts and Posi- master-General Key. The party were riven a great ovation and Governor Colquitt tendered them a brilliant re ception at the executive mansion. POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE Theodore Gill, the world’s greatest authority on fishes, works for tho United States Government for $1 a month. He is a rich man on whom many unix-ersities hax-e conferred titles and degrees. Lord Cork, who has entered his 4fith year, enjoys txx-o earldoms, two xis- countcies and three baronies in the peerage of Ireland but he has no s°at in that country and is himself of Eng lish descent. The King of Italy has decorated F. A. Perret, of Brooklyn, well known ih scientific circles, with the Cross of Cavaliere Offieiale for his conduct and services to humanity and science at the time of the eruption of Mount Ve suvius last April. Mrs. Lew Wallace, dex-oted to th4 memory of her distinguished husband, has kept everything in the library where he wrote in exactly the condition in which he left it. Even the book which he was last reading lies open at tha page as he laid it down. indistinct PRINT