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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1907.
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every particle of its recuperative strength is needed to assist in eliminating
the poisons and impurities which are causing the trouble. It should not be
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Plates army. Tho commi-slons as
made out were In the following order:
ft. Cooper, A. S. Johnston, It. E. Lee,
j. B). Johnston and P. T. Beauregard,
J. E. Johnston remonstrated against
this, claiming that he should have
t-tood first, because he had been a
brigadier general in the United Slates
army, while none of the others had
ranked higher than colonel. Apparent
ly in consequence of this Lee was not
".or awhile appointed to any separate
command in the field, and seems for
a time to have been superintendent of
fortifications and to have acted as
military adviser to President Davis,
and to have performed many of the
duties pertaining to the office of Sec
retary of War. J. E. Johnston, who
commanded the Confederate forces in
Virginia, was wounded at xhe battle
of Seven Pines. May 31, 186": Albert
Sidney Johnston had been killed at
the battle of Shijob, April 6; and the
command of the Confederate Army of
Northern Virginia having been held
for three days by G. W. Smith, who
was disabled by a paralytic stroke,
■was given to Lee on June 3. 1S62.
Then commenced that, series of bril
liant operations which Immortalized
the name of Lee, and have gilded the
rages of history with the most glo
rious achievements of a patriot that
ever tho world had to admire.
Ths sun of the Confederacy went
down at Appomattox on April 9. 1865,
when Lee surrendered with his fight
ing force of only ten thousand (10,000)
men to Grant, who with one hundred
end sixty-two thousand (1G2.000) sol
diers hemmed in on every side Lee's
handful of famished and half-clad he
roes. Rather than sacrifice unneces
sarily tho remaining few of his gal
lant band Lee yielded to overxvhelm-
>ng numbers. It Is beyond the power
of human pen to fittingly picture the
parting scene between Lee and his
men at Appomattox. The deepest de
votion nnd tenderost love existed be
tween them. Tho great general and
bis noble comrades mingled their tears
legether. "Men, we havo fought
through the war together: I have done
my best for you.” were his Inst spo
ken words to them. His memorable
nnd affecting farewell address to tho
Army of Northern Virginia was Is
sued tho next day.
Lee became president of Washing
ton College, now called Washington
nnd Lee University, at Lexington, Va„
in October, 1865, and there were soon
live hundred students enrolled. Lee
was superb as a soldier and grand
as a citizen, hut in no sphere of life
was ho nobler than when teaching tho
young men of the South that peace
both her victories no less renowned
than war. He was struck with paraly
sis on September 28. 1870. nnd died
on the 12th day of the following month.
Up was survived hv h!« wifo. three
sons nnd three daughters. His death
carried grief to every hearthstone in
the South. The Southern heart never
felt a greater woe. Lee died in the
peace of God nnd in the hope of a
glorious immortality.
One of the greatest natural curiosi
ties in Bibb County is Brown’s Mount,
about seven miles below Maeon. It
can he distinctly seen from this city,
and presents a long high ridge of
shell-stone, several hundred feet above
the lied of the river. Tho ridge has
much the appearance of the oyster
r< i'N off the coast, 'flic whole mass
rppears one vast conglomeration of
sea-shells, the different genera and
species of which may be distinctly
traced, though some parts are of the
hardest filn:. nnd others in various
stages of decomposition. Brown’s
Mount is the property of Mr. G. M.
Davis. Macon’s well-known citizen,
nod who for so many years was the
faithful and efficient chairman of the
board of comlssioners of Bihb County,
and formerly an 1 1 or man of this city.
II 1 has owned tiia since about fortv
years, and it lias be?n In family fo’.
sixty years. Mr. Thtv j says Brown's
Mrunt is from 2,70 to 800 feet high.
It is surrounded at the has P bv stones
twenty feet high. Th» mount itself Is
or dirt, tn, 1 some years ago when
Mr. Davis wished to construct a wag
on road to the top of the mount so
he could plant a peach orchard he
had to blast a way through the rocks.
Cn the summit he has an orchard of
thirty acr *s m E'btrtas and other pop
ular vanth-s c f peaches and none bet
ter are grown in this section. Mr. Da
vis says his trees are seldom affected
bv the wfittber and he does not have to
use fertilizers of any kind.
whose proud march of conquest ended
with the death of De Soto in the spring
of 1342, from fever, on the banks of
the Mississippi, and to conceal his
death as long as possible, his body was
wrapped in a mantle and sunk at mid
night in the middle of the stream.
In addition to the foregoing anoth
er very interesting thing can be men
tioned in connection with Brown’3
Mount. Some years ago when the
question of a water supply for the city
of Macon was under discussion it was
suggested that a tower be erected on
Brown’s Mount in order to get suf
ficient elevation, to put water in the
houses on the hills in the city. A sur
vey was made, and it was shown that
the level of the water in a tower on
J Brown's Mount would be on a level
I with the second story of the building
I of the Wesleyan Female'College, which
we ail know stands on the crest of one
of Macon's highest hills. It was pro
posed to obtain the water from a great
spring and a creek near the foot of
the mount. This project, however, was
n«t carried out. When the late la
mented Prof. J. E. Willet was a mem
ber of the faculty of Mercer University
he would occasionally take the classes
in geology to Brown's Mount to ex
plore the earth’s formation and exam
ine the conglomerated mass to be found
there.
The Indian mounds across the
Oemulgee River, contiguous to East
Macon are objects of curiosity even at
the present day. Some years ago they
were sought out by travelers and view
ed with much interest. According to
my recollection there are five of them:
two arc on the Patterson place, and
two are on the Dunlap estate, if that
portion of the property has not been
sold, and I believe Mr. M. J. Hatcher
owns the land on which stands one of
the mounds. The two largest mounds
are on the Patterson farm. The dif
ferent mounds are in a stnte of cultiva
tion. It Is supposed that the mounds
were used as burial grounds by tho In
dians. The mounds are of considerable
height and circumference. What is
known ns the Large Mound Is about
half a mile below the bridge. The top
of the mound is one hundred nnd twen
ty feet above the bed of the river. The
shape approaches that of a cone flat
tened at the top, which contains an
area of nearly a quarter of an acre.
The sides are covered with large oaks
and hickories, but the summit is used
as a garden.
One. situated in a once secluded and
romantic spot, is called McDougald’s
Mound, because Captain Robert Mc-
Dougald was buried there, by his own
request, in 1809. At the time of his
death he was in command of Fort'
Hawkins. The grave is on top of the
mound, and for many years it was en
closed by a paling, on which visitors
were in the habit of writing or cutting
their names. About ten years after
Captain McDougald died a brother of
his was buried on the mound by his
side. I have not visited the place in
year* and can not sav if the fence and
the graves are still visible. The Mc
Dougald Mound is thirty feet high. A
portion of one of the mounds was cut
away for the track of the Central Rail
road. Arrow heads and other evi
dences of former Indian life have often
been found about the mounds. The
Fort Hawkins alluded to above was
built for protection against the In
dians about the year 1803 nr 1806. and
during the war of 1S12 and the subse
quent Indian wars was a place of some
importance. History says the last gar
rison stationed there was in 1819. the
time of the first settlement of New
Town, the beginning of the present
beautiful and prosperous city of Ma
con.
In passing, it may be stated that
there are mounds in other counties in
Georgia besides Bibb. They exist in
Hancock. Jasper. Forsyth. Butts. Early.
Elbert, Cass and perhaps elsewhere in
the State. In Early County they are
in the nature of sacrificial mounds, one
being seventy feet in height, and six
hundred feet in circumference. This
mound is covered with large forest
trees, from four to five hundred years
old. I learn from the same historical
authority that ve.ars ago a shaft was
sunk in the center to the depth of sixty
feet, and at its lower portion a bed of
human bones, five feet in thickness,
and in a perfectly decomposed state,
was passed. It has been said that hu
man bones were found in one of the
mounds in Blast ^iacon soon after the
war.
On the mount are remnants of for
tifications. supposed to be Spanish, and
constructed by De Soto on his march
through here in 1540. Among the evi
dences Of the occupation of Brown’s
Mount centuries ago by white people
is a dish-shaped cistern or basin built
for holding water. It Is constructed
of a hard, whitish looking substance
like cement. !s fifty feet long, thirty-
feet wide and five fe^t deep. Mr. Da
vis says when lie first saw the cis
tern. about forty years ago. it was
open and otote white hut in recent
years much dint has been was
the basin by rains, and of lot.
had a garden in the cement
tacle which was constructed
dashing Spanish explorer men
ted into
he has
recep-
by the
than
tour and a half centuries ago for th,
purpose of furnishing water for the
Spanish and Portuguese cavaliers and
t..e others, who enrolled themselves as
his followers wh»r. he sailed from
Spain in April. 1538. j n search of an
El Dorado which \eas supposed to ex
ist in the vast region then catied Flor-
ida. If that De Soto basin on the top
or Frown's Moun: could talk what an
interesting story it might unfold of the
tspaniai ^ s conquest of this section.
..is hunt for gold mines, his search for
the fountain of perpetual youth, and
the dreams of the brilliant receptions
ih.it awaited him at the eonrt of Spdin
on hi* return from his glorious expe
dition’ And it might aiso tell of the
dangers and hardships of favel
through a country filled with hostile
Indians, and picture the sufferings
caused by sickness, and it might de
scribe the final breaking up of ,amp
on Brown’s Mount and the departure
•f the explorers towards the West,
As the Georgia fruit growers were in
session yesterday the following may
be timely and interesting:
I gather from reliable sources that
there are in the commercial orchards
of Georgia about 17.000.000 peach trees,
more than half of which are i> .ii'ir.g.
It is thought that in a good ye he
crop in this state is worth oxer i
000. The industry Is growing rapidly
and yearly increasing in value. The
hos: evidence that it is a richly paying
crop is seen in the fact that growers
are constantly increasing their hold
ings by enlarging their orchards. Some
growers make a fortune in a year, as
we estimate wealth in the South. Ma
con is right at the home of the peach,
and a number of her citizens own ex
tensive orchards from which they get
a large revenue annually. Among
some of these growers are E. J. Will
ingham. E. J & P. D. Willingham.
George B. 11. .T. Hat her. Fel
ton Hitcher. Judge Wm. H. Felton.
Barfield & Daniel Sttinrt Davis. Ralph
Small. Clifford Orr and others. Pos
sibly Mr. K. J. Wiilinghan-. is the larg
est grower among the Maeonitcs: ho
has an orchard of fifty thousand tro°s
near Marshallvilie. and with his broth
er. P. D. Willingham, owns sivtv-five
thousand trees in the vicinity of Byron.
The section of tlie state just to the
South of Macon is noted for its great
peach orchards and the fame of the
fruit has extended all over the United
States, and has reached even beyond
the waters. This i* the realm of Queen
Elberta: here she exists in finest form
an^ flavor, dellghtine the eye and
pleasing the t iste. She elicits 'he ad
miration of all baholders, Air. S. H.
THE STOMACH
Humph, of Marshailvllle. was the first
to produce this famous peach.
The statement above that there are
about 17.009.0 f '0 peach trees the
commercial orchards may seem to be
an exaggeration, but when we eonsid- j
er there are 7.829.516 bearing trees on !
the lines of the Centra! of Georgia ' m . ~ , ... T
Railway alone, the estimate of i7.ooo.- The Tome Treatment tor In-
ono bearing and non-be;,ring trees, for i
the entire state does not appear too ! digestion-Most Successful.
FARMERS' IM TO
ON A STRIKE
hlbh. T was unable last ex-ening.to ob
tain the exact number of bearing trees
on ai! the railroads in Georgia, bur -he
following estimate has been furnish
ed to me. The figures for the Central
and Georgia Southern and Florida arc
positive:
Central 7.S29.516
Georgia Southern 2on.ooo
Plant System 300.000
Macon. Dublin & Savannah.. 250.000
Georgia 200,000
Seaboard 250.000
Southern 1.500.000
Western and Atlantic 3on.ono
Atlanta. Knoxville & North'n 330.000
Wrlghtrvflle & Tennille 100.000
Total No. bearing trees... .11.279.316
If there should be sold from these
trees 5,000.000 crates of peaches a year,
at a dollar a crate, the crop would be
worth 35.000.000.
ATLANTA. Ga„ Jan.- 24.—The Na
tional Farmers Union, in its second day
of the annual convention here today,
adopted a number of important resolu
tions. Among these was one that the
union shall establish a minimum price
for the cotton crop of the present year
at its meeting next fall, and that by its
system of warehousing, it shall main
tain such price. The dix-ersifleation of
• crops was the subject of a resolution.
A Household Remedv Which : wW< * c ? ,Ie . d u r >on i|> e farmers of the
• 1 country to increase the variety of their
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Cured
* This Case.
Is Useful in a Wide Range
of Common Ailments.
Loss of appetite, coated tongue, bad
taste in the mouth, heavy dull head
ache and a dull sluggish feeling—
these are the symptoms of stomach
trouble. They indicate that the stom
ach is on a strike, that it is no longer
crops and more largely to raise sup
plies for home consumption. It was
urged that farmers raise something
which shall find a ready local sale
each month of the year. The Farmers
Union Press Association, organized
Texarkana. Ark., last September, held
its annual meeting today. Oniy rou
tine business was considered. The
convention will continue through
Thursday.
reliable | furnishing to the blood the full quota
of nourishment that the body demands,
hence every organ suffers.
There are two methods of treatment,
the old one by which the tjtomach is
humored by the use of pre-digested
foods and artificial ferments, and the
new one by which the stomach is toned
up to do the work which nature in
tended of it. A' recent cure by the
I have obtained from
source some of the rich results of
peach-growing in this section: A few
years ago Messrs. N. Dietzen and
brother near Fort Valley, cleared $24.-
000 from a 200-acre orchard, the net
profit being 3120.00 to the acre. Mr.
Ed. M. McKenzie, of Montezuma, by
his first year’s shipment, cleared
32.000 above all expenses from fifty
acres of peach trees. Mr. J. D. How
ard of Lorar.e. from a five-acre orchard 4
of three-year-old trees realized $1,200. I tonic treatment is that of Mrs. Mary
“CUT IT OUT”
says the doctor to many of his lady patients, because he doesn’t
know of any medicinal treatment that will positively cure womb or
ovarian troubles, except the surgeon's knife.
That such a medicine exists, however, has’ been proved by the
wonderful cures performed on diseased women, in thousands of
cases, by
Woman’s Relief
It has saved the lives of thousands of weak, sick women, and
has rescued thousands of others from a melancholy lifetime of
chronic invalidism. It will cure you, if you will only give it a chance.
Sold at every drug store in $1.00 bottles. Try it.
Mr. S. M. Mashburn of Barnesville,
from thirty acres, sold *4.500 worth of
fruit. This was a net profit of $133.00
to the acre. Mr. S. H. Rumph. of
Marshallville. is one of the largest in
dividual fruit-growers in the South.
He has 200,000 bearing trees. A per
son can stand on the veranda of his
country home and see more than SO.OOO
peach trees. It is said he received
about $90,000 gross one year for his
crop of peaches. He has over 20.000
plum trees. Mr. Rumph was formerly
engaged in the nursery business from
which the annual sales have reached
as high as $70,000. Macon county,
where Mr. Rumph resides, is the sec
ond largest peach-growing county in
the state. I know that in one season
from Marshallville alone 450 carloads,
or 240.000 crates, were shipped. The
whole number of peach trees in Macon
county is from 1,500,000 to 2.000.000.
Houston County is the largest peaeh-
growing county in the United States.
Edgexx-ood Farm, the property of the
Hale Georgia Orchard Company, at
Fort Valley, formerly covered ' 1.000
acres, but more land* may have been
added to this immense fruit posses
sion. Some time ago the trees num
bered 200.000. The orchard is located
on a table-land 600 feet above the level
of the sea. More than four hundred
persons are employed in this orchard-
There are over 3.000.000 peach trees in
Houston. I well remember that one
season 850 carloads of peaches were
shipped from Fort Valley, or about
450.000 crates. At *2.25 a crate this
would be over $1,000,000.
In the neighborhood of £5fton is
fine peach producing section. Cobb
County Is one of the best peaeh-grow
ing counties'in the State. Here Judge
George F. Gober lives, and he is large
ly engaged in the peach industrv. He
has extensive orchards in Cobb.' Cher
okee and Pickens countie.® Recently
he made large investmentsffn orchards
in and about Sumter County. I have
heard it stated that in his orchards in
North Georgia alone fie has more than
300.000 trees. There are many other
large growers in the Northwestern
part of the State, some of whom have
orchards containing from 50,000 to
100,000 trees. The year 1900 was a
popular one for the setting out of iiqxv
trees: 2.000.000 were planted that year.
It will interest Georgians to know
that the Boston Herald pronounced the
Georgia peach superior to that of Cal
ifornia and to all others. The Chivago
Record said: “The finest peach that
comes to Chicago- is the Georgia El
berta. richer than a bowl of fresh
cream.” The New Tork Tribune said:
"They are larger than the peaches pro
duced for this market on the Delaware
peninsula and in New Jersey, and by
universal consent much more delicious
than the Northern fruit." The New
Tork World said: "The more North
ern States of this country have long
had a deep sense of their obligation
to the State of Georgia for its devo
tion to the cultivation of the water
melon. This debt is now increased by
the success of the Georgia peach crop
which has this year been sufficient to
drive out of the Eastern market the
beautiful but tasteless peach of Cali
fornia.” The Chicago Tribune said:
"Fruit men agree in pronouncing the
Georgia peach as by all means the
best in point of size, flavor and firm
ness that comes to this market.’ 1
In -writing of Mr. S. H. Rumph
higher up in this article I should have
stated that not long ago he bought the
building on Cherry street now occu
pied by Joseph N. Neel Co., and
when he made the purchase he laugh
ingly remarked to a friend that the
amount invested in it represented a
part of that year’s receipts from his
peaches. I presume this store prop
erty is worth from $28,000 to *30,000.
Mr. Rumph has just erected a very
beautiful residence in Marshallville. at
a cost of about $25,000. xvhere he now
resides, having removed from his
country home near Marshallville. It Is
Mr. Rumph’s expectation to continue
in the fruit business the remainder of
his life.
Stackpole. of SI Liberty street, Lowed.
Mass. She says:
"I suffered constantly for years from
stomach trouble and terrible backaches
and was confined to my bed for the
greater part of three years. I was un
der the care of our family physician
most of the time, but did not seem to
get better.
COLUMBIA. S. C., Jan. 24—More
than four hundred delegates, represen
tative of the very best In this 'State’s
negro citizenship, were gathered In
Wesley M. E. Church. Sumter and Ger-
vais streets, at 11 o'clock this morning,
when Richard Carroll called to order
the initial session of the notable race
conference xvhich he has been the prin
cipal factor in promoting. It was most
decidedly an Impressive assemblage.
Probably never before were there col
lected together at one time in this
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GAVE UP SUPPORTER
“l wore a supporter for years, for
my womb, which had crowded every
thing down before it, writes Mrs.S. J.
Chrisman, ofMannsville, N. Y. “1 suf
fered untold misery and could hardly
walk. After taking Cardui I gave up
my supporter and can now be on my
feet half a day at a time.’
no'; 1 ~ ! Stateso^ny negroes of the kind the
house. My blood was impure and my
Now that the rivers and harbors
committee •of Congress has recom
mended an appropriation , of $25,000
for improvements in the Oemulgee riv
er between Maeon and Hawkinsville, a
short review of some of the history
of nax-igation on the Oemulgee may
be interesting. Historical records tell
us that the first steamboat to arrive
at Maeon was named the North Caro
lina. nnd it reached here on January
18. 1829. In command of Capt. Salter.
The arrix-al of the boat was hailed as
the commencement of a new era in
the commercial life of Macon and the
beginning of a new epoch in the his
tory of Oemulgee navigation. The Ma
con Telegraph, which had then been
in existence two years, made this men
tion of the coming of the steamboat
up the river: “Many of the people
along the banks were alarmed at the
smoke and noise. Some mistook the
noise for a roaTing lion: others for
the sneeze of an elephant. Some pro-
ted it was the his«ing of the sea-
serpent, or the groaning of an earth- I
quake: others thought it was ‘war. pes- |
tilence and famine, but the most gen- i
ral opinion was that it was the Tar- I
iff coming in propria persona to eat I
up our cotton and corn, and to drink
up our rivers, and that was an In- ■
fringement upon State rights. There j
complexion pale. I suffered from
flashes of heat, followed suddenly by
chills. I had awful headaches, which
lasted from three to four days. I
could get but little rest at night, as
my sleep was broken and fitful. As a
result I lost several pounds in weight
and became very nervous.
“I was in a wretched condition when
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills were brought
to my notice by a booklet which was
left at my house. I started to take the
pills at once and began to 'gain in
weight and health. I was encouraged
by this to keep on until I was cured.
My friends and neighbors often re
mark what a changed woman I am j
and I owe it all to Dr. Williams’ Pink i
■Fills.” !
These wonderful pills have been used :
State and the race needs most.
Governor M. F. Ansel and Judge W.
C. Bennet addressed the gathering to
day. Booker T. Washington xvill be
among the speakers tomorrow evening.
NEW YORKSUN KNOCKS
wants to chasten them, correct their
evil practices, and properly sterilize
them to the public use. In that direc
tion he has certainly made tremendous
progress, and the public at large
■wishes him well. He ought not. how
ever, to let a lot of crazy but too
capable imitators in the several States
usurp and pervert his oxvn functions
when by a xvord of friendl/ counsel he
could so easily restore them to sanity
and common sense.
From the New Tork Stln.
An interesting problem in the rail
road situation is presented in the
South. It differs from that which is
Cured of Lung Trouble.
’It is now, eleven years since I had a
narrow escape from consumption,”
writes C. O. Floyd, a leading business
man of Kershaw. S. C. "I had run
down in weight to 135 pounds, and
coughing xx-as constant, both by day
and by night. Finally I began taking
Dr. King's Nexv Discovery,. and con
tinued this for about six months,
xx-hen my cough and lung trouble were
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lYomotea a luxuriant growth.
ITrvcr Fails to Restore Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cures scalp diseases A hair falling.
C0c*apd 31.U0at Druggie
with the best results in the treatment ! observable pretty nearly everyxvhere
of stubborn cases of stmach trouble ■ else only in being more acute. Busi-
and as they are a poxverful blood build- i "ess has wholly outgrown the capacity
er nnd nerve tonic they are useful in a i of the railroads, and both business and
xvide range of diseases, such as anae- ■ the railroads are being seriously hurt,
mia. rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia. | Take the Southern Railxx-ay. as an in-
nervous headaches, and ex-on locomotor ; stance, in 1895, in a year of great pros-
ataxia and partial paralysis.. peritj', the number of tons carried one
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by mile was 1,098,932,884: last year the
all druggists, or sent, postpaid, on re- number of tons carried one mile was
cqipt of price, 50c. per box, six boxes 1 4.488.915.839. The figures are almost
$2.50. by the Dr. Williams Medicine j beyond comprehension. They are elo-
Compan'y, Schenectady, N. T. quent of the growth and prosperity of
I the Southern States, but they are otni-
.' I nous as regards the Southern Railxx-ay
i A well equipped, effectix-o railroad.
Joseph Willet and others. This was in j transporting, for Illustration xve xvill
1819. They built the first three boats
on Sxvift Creek, and sent them to Da
rien loaded with cotton. At the same
time "mountain boats” xx-ere coming
to Macon from Henry County, up the
river, xvith.dxty or more bags of the
fleecy staple, and xx-ould take back
merchandise of x-arious kinds.
The coming of the North Carolina
put new thought into the minds of
citizens, and two enterprising men,
Messrs.- Charles Day and James R.
Butts, decided to build a stern-wheel
boat exclusively for the trade of Ma
con on the. Oemulgee. They construct
ed the -‘’Pioneer,” of timber obtained
in the woods surrounding Macon, and
carried a load of cotton to Darien,
xvhere they procured the machinery for
the steamer and returned to Maeon
with a big cargo of freight. The late
Albert G. Butts, of Maeon. x\-as a
brother of Mr. James R. Butts, an’d
was interested with him in Oemulgee
navigation. The "Pioneer" was a
financial success, and xvithin three
years from the time of its maiden
trip. January 30. 1S3, there xx-ere sex-en
say. 10,000 tons of freight a day, can
do its work xvell and earn its fixed
charges, a just and proper dividend for
its shareholders, and provide for its
reasonable betterments. But if the
10,000 tons a day is suddenly increased
to 15.000 -tons a day the res'ult is very
different. The road xvill transport the
tonnage, it is true: but under vastly
less efficient conditions and at
greatly increased cost. The margin for
its betterments xvill disappear first: its
dix-idend xvill go next, and unless it can
get a new and large capital its property
xxrlll become depreciated and its credit
impaired.
When we add to these conditions the
increase in the cost of everything that
a railroad has to buy, the enormous
adx-ance in the price- of engines, and of
all kinds of cars, and the formidable
demands of labor, which have every
where been met, it must be apparent
to tlie most casual obserx-er that the
outlook calls for very serious consid-
eratio**
In t* circumstances one would sup
pose that the administration of a rail
road had a sufficient burden imposed
on it—capital to be raised: almost
other steamers plying the Oemulgee : superhuman difficulties of operation to
between Maeon and Darien, and in be overcome, ex-ery hour strained day
time the number Increased, and occa- an< I night to satisfy, in some fashion.
sionally trips xvere made by boats from
Savannah and elsewhere. By 1837 the
business had become exceedingly pros
perous and steadily growing. There
xvere two cotton barges on the ri\-er
with the poetical names of Bonnet
O’Blue and Lalla Rookh.
And while I am on the subject of
the river it occurs to me that the fol
lowing geographical and historical
points fn connection xyith the Ocmul-
ee might be interesting: I have the
authority of Mr. John C. Butler. Ma
con’s only historian, and a most ex
cellent one. ■ that the name Oemulgee
is of Muscogee oriign and derix-ed from
the Indian "Oe” or “Och” xx-hich sig
nifies xx-atcr, and “mulgee,” boiling or
bubbling. The name was applied from
the many springs that xx-ere found
along its course and whose pure wa
ters flowed into Its channel. The
streams in Georgia were all clear wa
ter until the country began to be
thickly settled, the forest cleared and
the land plowed. My first information
concerning the origin of the name Oc-
mulgee is different from that given
by Mr. Butler. In my boyhood days
xvas told that once upon a time an
Indian xvas crossing the river at a
shallow place with an ox and a mule
and while driving them he exclaimed:
"Ox-mule-gee!” and in the course of
time the name became Oemulgee. How-
ex-er, I guess Mr. B'utler is- right
about it, especially as geography and
history agree that the Oemulgee rises
in Fulton and Gwinnett Counties. One
head spring was traced, at an early
date, xvhere now the large and thriv
ing city, Atlanta, the capital of Geor
gia, has been built up around it, and
the old National Hotel, which former
ly stood where the "Whitehall street
viaduct noxv is, marked the spot of
that spring. "The other txx - o streams
head in Gwinnett: the three unite
northwest of Monticello. about fifty
miies above Macon. The course of
the ri\-er is south for one hundred and
fifty miles, xx-hen it heads almqst into
a semi-circle and unites with the Oco
nee in Montgomerx- County, about thir
ty-two degrees of latitude. The dis
tance by water from Macon to the
sea is estimated by all of the old nax-I-
gators at not less than four hundred
miles." When modern Atlanta finds
climbing of trees, and a picking ; out that she is at the head of the
of flints, and had not the boat made I Oemulgee she will set Lon Lix-ingston
s escape, it would have been hard to ! to work to get a million dollar ap-
xx hat the consequences might hax-e | propriation to open up the river
been." The North
many of the peop
Carolina afforded
of Maeon their
oportunity to take a steamer ride
upon the xvater.
tion from Atlanta down in this
tion.
The North Carolir.
from Cape Fear rixe
made hut one Dip.
rival in these waters
• ame to Macor.
and I think it
Prior to its ar-
about forty flat-
bottomed boats, propelled with poles
in the hands of men. xvere used on
the Oemulgee ; n carrying from four
to se\-er, hundred bags of r-otton on
each trip from Maeon to Darien, and ]
would r---tiirn with about seventy-five
t«r« of freight. Th» fi"«t persons here i
to engage in the building of such j good."
boats w«r« E. McCall, David Fiapders, 1 Bank.
the public demands. Not at all. On
all ‘sides there is an insistent clamor
for lower rates for all classes of trans
portation': the legislatures everyxx-here
are being invoked, and successfully in
voked, to attack the railroads, to cut
dovji their tariffs, to impose all sorts
of penalties for car shortage and for
inadequate service, and to harass in
every conceivable xx-ay the trice un
happy railroad, executive. What is
going to come of it all?
In the case ©f the railroad we ha\-e
instanced, we suppose that one hun
dred millions of dollars could wisely
and justifiably be expended upon it at
once in view of actual and prospective
conditions in the Southern States.
Where is the money to come from? The
fact of the matter is that transporta
tion rates in the South are much too
low; they have been reduced in fever
ish haste in the desire to encourage
the countless new industries which
have sprung up, and in the overzealous
effort to help nexy communities to get
on their feet.
The consequence is that the earn
ings which for nearly ten years have
been devoted to enhancing the effeiency
of the property no 'longer exist, and
only the expenditure of new and stu
pendous capital can 'better the situa
tion. Had a more reasonable and less
optimistic adjustment of rates been
obserx-ed the road would have been in
a much better position to provide the
expansion of its capacity, which has
become essential. As it is now It is
threatened with a compulsory reduc-,
tion of rates that are already inade
quate. a threat of which 'the immedi
ate effect is only to prevent the road
from obtaining the capital it so urg
ently requires.
President Roosevelt is in no degree
responsible for the undue and onerous
prosperity of the South, but he is re
sponsible for the general insanity on
the subject of the railroads which all
sorts of communities betray every
where throughout the country. He has
too lightly esteemed his own influence,
and especially the contagion of his ex
ample. Indeed, there can be no man
ner of doubt that he must feel that the
people are now ox-erdoing it. that they
are going much further than he ever
intended that they should go. If he
will abandon himself- to a few mo
ments’ reflection he will see that the
results are bound to be infinitely xvorse
for the South than for the Southern
railroads. A misled and infatuated
people can bankrupt a railroad corpor
ation without any great difficulty, but
how are they going to Indemnify
themseix'es for thp Infinitely greater
damage that they Inflict on :hem-
selx-es ?
A wise and timgly word of adxfice
from President Reesex’elt would do
more good at this juncture than any
thing else that can be imagined The
popular belief 1s that he would like to
wreck ail the railroads, and there i*
a x-ery general determination that be
shr.il riot lack help. Mr. Roosevelt, of
course, entertains no such ambition.
congress formally set forth as axio
matic the statement that every ship
is a missionary of trade, that steam
ship lines xx’ork for their own countries
just as railroad lines xvork for their
terminal points, and that it is as ab-
Three years ago thp Trans-Mississlpt
surd for tho United States to depend
upon foreign ships to distribute Its
products as it xx-ould be for a depart
ment store to depend upon wagons of
a competing house to deliver its goods.
This statement is the literal truth.
American Ships' Competition.
entirely gone and I was restored to my "Moreover, it must be remembered
normal xveight. 170 pounds.” Thou- that American ships do not have to
sands of persons are healed ex-ery year, i contend merely against the subsidize-
Guaranteed at all drug stores. 50c
and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
Experience of
Roof in His Tour
Desires To Create Another
Infant Industry at Ex
pense of People.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.—President
Roosex-elt’s message in support of ship
subsidy was received and read by both
houses of congress today. After the
reading in the house the message xvas || ___ ___
referred to the committee on merchant 1 the present European lines. The South
marine and fisheries, from which ai American republics now see only our
mail subsidy measure has just been j xvarships. Under this bill, our trade
reported. In the senate the message ■ friendship xvill be made evident to
was sent to the committee on com- them. The bill proposes to build largo
tion of their foreign competitors. The
higher xvages and the greater cost of
maintenance of American officers and
erexvs make it almost imperative for
our people who do business on the
ocean to compete on equal terms with
foreign ships unless they are protect
ed somewhat as their fellow country
men xvho do business on land are pro
tected. We cannot as a country afford
to hax-e the xxages and the manner of
life of our seamen cut down, and the
only alternative, if we are to have sea
men at all, is to offset the expense bv
gix-ing some advantage to the ship it
self.
“The proposed iaxv which has been
introduced in Congress is in no sense
experimental. It is based on the best
and most successful precedents, as for
instance on the recent Cunard contract
with the British Gox-ernment.■■ As far
as South American is concerned, its
aim to prox-ide from the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts better American lines to
the great ports of South America than
merce. The president calls attention
to the "great desirability of enactment
of legislation to help American ship
ping and American trade by encourag
ing the building and running of lines
of large and swift steamers to South
America and the Orient.”
The urgent need of our country’s
making an effort to do something like
its share of its own carrying trado on
the ocean, has been called to his at
tention, the President says, in striking
fashion by the experiences of Secre
tary P.oot in his rece.it South American
tour. State aid to steamship lines, the
President says, is as much part of
the commercial system of today as
state employment of consuls to pro
mote business. The President dis
cusses the bill noxv before the com
mittee and says:
“It would surely be discreditable for
us ' to surrender to our commercial
rivals the great commerce of the
Orient, the -great comeree we should
have with South America, and even
our own communication xvith Haxx-aii
and the Philippines.” The urgent need
of our country’s making an effort to
do something like its share of its own
carrying trade on the ocean: the Pres
ident says, has been called to our at
tention In striking fashion by the ex
perience of Secretary Root on his re
cent South American tour. "The facts
set forth by Mr. Root are striking, and
they cannot but arrest the attention
of our people. The great continent to
the ’South of us. xvhich should be knit
o us by the closest commercial ties,
s hardly in direct commercial com
munication with us at all. its commer
cial relations being almost exclusix-ely
with Europe. Between all the princi
pal South American ports and Europe
lines of swift and commodious steam
ers, subsidized by their own goveVn-
jpents. ply regularly. There is no
such line of steamers between these
ports and the United States. In conse-
quenceyiur shipping in South American
ports is almost a negligible quantitv;
for instance in the year ending June
30, 1905, there entered the port of Rio
Janeiro over three thousand steamers
and sailing x-essels> from Europe, but
from the T*iited States no steamers,
and only sex-en sailing vessels, two of
which were in distress. One prime
reason for this state of things is the
fact that those xvho now do business
on the sea do business in a world not
of natural competition, but of subsid
ized competition. State aid to steam*
ship lines is as much a part of the
comercial system of today as state
employment of consuls to promote
business. Our commercial competi
tors in Europe pay in the aggregate
some twenty-fix-e millions a year to
their steamship lines—Great Britain
paying nearly sex-en millions. Japan
pays between three and four millions.
By the proposed legislation, the United
States will still pay reiatix-ely less
than any one of our competitors pays.
THE COLD DAYS
is very hard on one whose system is
weak or run down and blood in an
impoverished condition. You take cold
so easily and unless promptly attend
ed to will result in something more
serious. If you xvill build up and for
tify the system with
A Thousand Dollars Worth of Good.
A. H. Thurnes. a well known coal
operator of Buffalo. O- writes: “I
haxe been afflicted with kidney and
bladder trouble for years, passing
gravel and stones with excruciating
rain. I got no relief from medicine
until I began taking Foley's Kidney
Cure, then the result xxas surprising.
A fexv doses started the brick dust like
fine stones and noxv I hax-e no pain
across n y ktdne.es and I fee! like a new
man. It has. done me $1000 xvorth of
H. J. Lamar, near Exchange ; Nothing could b» further from I-is de- j pepsia. Indigestion. Costiveness.
‘•Ire tvn»n to wxenk mojr railroad. He t iouanest, Female lit* and Malaria*
HOSTETTER’S
STOMACH BITTERS
you have the surest preventix-e against
Chills and Colds.. It aiso cures Dys-
Indigestion. Costiveness, Bil
sized steamers of sixteen knot speed.
There are nearly 200 such steamships
already in the xx-orld’s foreign trade
and ox-er three-fourths of them now
draxv subsidies—postal or admiralty, or
both.
Will Encourage Ship Yards.
"The bill will encourage our ship
yards, which are almost as necessary
to the nation's defense ^s battleships,
and the efficiency of xx-hich depends in
large measure upon their steady em
ployment in large construction. The
proposed bill is of importance to our
navy because it gixujs a considerable
fleet of auxiliary*steamships such as Is
now almost wholly lacking, and also
provides for an effective nax-al reserve.
"The ■ bill provides for fourteen
steamships, subsidized to .the extent of
over a million and a half from the At
lantic coast, all to remain to South
American ports. It provides on tho
Pacific coast for twenty^wo steamers
subsidized to the*extent of two millions
and a quarter, some of these to run
to South America, most of-them to Ma
nila, Australia and Asia. Be it remem
bered that while the ships will be oxvn-
ed on the coasts, the cargoes will
largely be supplied by the Interior and
that the bill xvill benefit the Mississippi
valley as much as it benefits the sea
board. I have laid stress on the bene
fit to be' expected from our trade with
South America.
The lines to the Orient are also of
vital importance to commercial p~s;.i-
billties xvhich are unlimited and for na
tional reasons'it is imperatix-e that we
should have direct and adequate com
munication by American lines xvith
Hawaii and the Philippines.
Pacific Lines Threatened.
"The existence of our present steam
ship lines on the Pacific is seriously
threatened by the foreign subsidized
lines. Our communications xvith the
markets of Asia and with our own pos- v
sesstons in the Philippines, no less
than our communication xvith Austra
lia. should depend not upon foreign
but upon our own steamships. The.
Southxvest and the Northwest should
alike be served by these lines and if
this is done they will also gix-e to the
Mississippi valley throughout the en
tire length the adx-antage of all trans
continental railways running to the
Pacific coast. To fail to establish ad
equate lines on the Pacific is equiva
lent to proclaiming to the world that
we have neither the ability nor the
disposition to contend for our rightful
share of the commerce of the Orient:
nor yet to protect our interests in the
Philippines. It xvouid surely be dis
creditable for us to surrender to our
commercial rivals the great commerce
of the Orient, the great commerce wo
should have xvith South America, and
even our oxvn communication with
Hawaii and the Philippines.
“I earnestly hope for the enactment
of some law like the hi!! in question
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
"The "White House, Jan. 23, 1907.”
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
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the hooks. Due from date on
the label. Send in dues and
also renew for the year 1907.
Resignation Capt. W. T. Dixon.
ATLANTA, Ca.. Jan. 23.—The re
signation of Capt. W. T. Dixon as cr.v*,.
mander of the Chatham Artillery o*
Savannah, has been received and ac
cepted by Adjutant General Harris
The election of his successor will occur
at the Chatham armory on the nighl.
of February 20th. From present indi
cations R. J. Havant will succeed hint
*s captain of .the Chatham Artillery,^