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THE twice-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1907. TIE XACOH TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. | The | -*ri' C. It. PENDLETON, President p*r*on ‘ I 1 line" iorI< wh < down someth! b*' pu: v of the in Nctt r < tne Anot in T(la button such a rule nd ard- the COMPULSORY EDUCATION. The criminal Indifference of a certain rlaj* of wh:t< people to the Interest? of thoir own • hildren In the matter of (■duration is fort Inc ma n y thoughtful r #nplo in tho Pom hern States to favor compulsory education laws, even where they were formerly opposed to any sut-h lntereference by the State in mat ters supposed :o belong to the domain • parental authority. Even aniomt those opposed to the proposition there |. an admls'lon that the policy must t.nd will prevail In duo time. Thus the Nashville Banner says: ‘ Tho Idea of a compulsory education law for Tennessee, which is beginning * to meet with growing favor Is an idea that should be well kept In mind In or der that tho objects desired may be promoted, but the enactment of a gen eral compulsory law by the present Genera! Assembly W >uld be premature, for the reason that the general public school facilities and conditions In the State have not yet rest lied that ad vancement which would best conduce to the proper enforcement of such a law. If we are to have a compulsory aw. and we should have one. In due ttine, it should be made effective and fiot a dead letter which may be easily disregarded. To make such a law’ real- !j* effective there Is yet much to bo done In school Improvement and In fos tering the public Sentiment that will support such a radical departure from the accustomed methods. The last Legislature enacted a compulsory s< hool law to apply to the counties of Union and Claiborne, but we are In formed that It lias not been enforced. A general compulsory school law unen- for cod would be more hurtful than helpful. Tin- Idea of compulsory edu cation should be Industriously Incul- , ated and school promotion should tend in that direction, but it would be of doubtful wisdom to undertake to apply s drastic law of this kind at this time.” whenc ik, to practice of a competitor ch joint to “RUIN OF IT8 COMPETITORS" "The ruin of Its competitors has been n ‘distinct part of the policy of the Standard OH Company In the past, systematically and persistently' pur sued. One method has been tho or ganisation of a perfect system of espionage over the shipments of its competitors, resulting in knowledge as to the destination of every car of oil leaving the refinery of an independent company. The Standard agent at the destination is held responsible If the independent oil is sold.’’ Such is the deliberate declaration of the Interstate Commerce Commission In its report to Congress of the result of tts investigation of the operations of the system of Which John D. Rocke feller Is and has becti from Its origin the deviser, ehief beneficiary and responsible head. "It does not appear that the railroad companies have directed the furnish ing" of the necessary "information, or that the practice has been sanctioned by superior officials of the road, but it dees appear that such Information” Is systematically obtained from the rail- rend employes. The testimony shows, that the Standard devoted a fund to this purpose. "It has frequently hap- penrd that the shipment" of an Inde- iwndent company when needed most has unaccountably gene astray.” The commission’s knowledge of the methods of the company, it states, "is obtained from evidence taken under oath in this investigation. The Stand ard was given permission to explain or rebut the facts,” but the inference is that it failed to do so. The commission says of the Standard that "its motto has been the destruction d competi tion at any cost, and this policy has been pursued without much reference would ship, but erects a ta in that lot rr. ike the businc s - unprofitable to the competitor, while prices were main tained in other localities.” Some of the methods of the Standard are brief ly stated os follows. The Standard has repeatedly, after becoming the owner, of a competing company, continued to operate it under the old name, carrying the Idea to the public that^ the company was still independent and competing with the Standard. It has used such purchased cr in dependently organized companies to kill off competitors by such com panies reducing prices. The oper ation of such fake Independent concerns has been dne of its most effective means of destroying competition. The Standard has habitually reduced tho price against Its, competitor In u particular lo cality. while maintaining Its prices nt other places. When competition was destroyed it resored or ad vanced former prices. The Stand ard has sold different grades of oil at different prices from , the same barrel. It has paid employes or independent oil companies for in formation a - to the business of those competitors and has paid employes of industrial companies to secure the adoption of its oil in preference to that of its competi tors. It has followed every barrel of independent oil to destination. Its agents are instructed to secure customers at any sacrifice, it has tampered with the oil inspectors in different States. Tin- i’ vs of sev eral States concerning the inspec tion of oil arc singularly defective, and this has been turned to profit by the Standard. These things have been said before, first by Miss Ida Tarbell and other alleged "muck-rakers,” and more re cently by Corporation Commissioner James A. Garfield, but it has never been so lucidly and authoritatively stated as In the report of the Inter state Commerce Commission under consideration. How the men who-have deliberately devised and carried on this system against their fellows can main tain themselves and continue k their methods In the face of such an expo sure is one of the unaccountable mys teries of the age. pr rieace nl trying to square . i: of juries with the thooric b< ks will vie v these venerable maxims of the law with many doubts as to their .tfieacy while .he "unwritten law” though thrown fluently be relied on to get in somehow and play -ume part in tile proposition of exonerating fro-,- -blood-guilt the mart who walked up behind another in op yet It es for problems ar- - > :i\ it- by -u it Ann? - the < will take this 1 te.l rate the price pf oO j t crowded amusement place lutd with- iut warning shot him to death. ibnormal -stlons as ‘Haw old on of how long it of progress to get back :o the span of life which it Is re corded was allotted to the Jewish pa triarchs. We are quite willing to take f court may con- ; Dr. McGee's statement that the aver age length of human life Is increasing, and are more than willing to believe that the American of the future will be a larger man in inches, in Intellect and in strength than is the American of today. Most people are ready to be lieve statements that please their van ity as individuals, as a race or as a nation, and, where all is speculation. COURTE8SY AND BALD HEAD8. Shull bald-headed men sacrifice their lives rather than disturb Die traditions j why not believe that which Is'the most j of Southern courtesy nr.d chivalry? pleasing and self-satisfying? The world { THE PEOPLE MUST WAIT. The new denatured alcohol bill de signed to do what the law passed at the' last session of Congress was sup posed to do has been agreed upon by the House Committee on Ways and Means, but It carries a provision that the measure shall not become effective until after September 1, 1908. It Is stated that this date was fixed at tho request of the commissioner of Inter nal revenue. Mr. Yerkes, for the pur pose of granting him adequate time to prepare regulations for the manufac ture of alcohol by small manufacturers not connected with distilleries. It appears that the present law. which was heralded as a concession to the masses by removing the Internal revenue tax so that they could man ufacture It, practically permits only distilleries and factories having large denaturing warehouses to engage in the manufacture of the alcohol de signed for fuel, light, and manufactur ing purposes, and the bill just reported by the House committee is designed to convert their products into alcohol. It takes a long time for Republican legislative relief to reach the people. This is practically the query propound- d anti pathetically argued with ap parently personal feeling by the Bal timore Mews. The News >ays there have been many cases of la grippe and pneumonia in Baltimore recently and not a few deaths from these and >.ther pulmonary diseases, and it ap pears to think that the mortality has been peculiarly prevalent among bald- headed men. The News says: A courtesy inborn and distinguish ing Baltimoreans—a Southern chi valry which Is more generally ob served lit this borderland of the South than elsewhere, jio'slbly— demands that a man shall give his seat to a lady in a crowded street car: that he shall Rive her prece dence at all times in passing in and out of hallways, street cars and elevators: that he shall invariably remove his hat while in the same room or elevator with her. This Is as it should be. We of the South would not for a moment compro- Ajise with the strict requirements of cotirtesy and polite conduct. But there is a case of a bald-headed man with a slight cold who re- - moved his hat in an elevator and was next day down with la grippe, next day with pneumonia. His funeral was attended by a large concourse of friends. He wa.s an unsung martyr to a perfectly wor thy cause, but we are-inclined to relieve the pneumonia of entire re sponsibility by finding this man guilty of a contributory negligence which should be taken at its full value. The custom of taking off the hat in an elevator when Itidies are present is admittedly hard on bald-headed men, in view of the sudden draughts and change of temperature encountered, but if it really amounts to a matter of life or death with them they will be ex cusable, we are sure, in foregoing tho custom. The ladies will not mind the emission to uncover half so much as the bald-headed victim will mind tak ing a trip across Charon’s ferry before I Ills time for such a reason. has come. In a large measure, to take its theology* upon that basis. "Why not ! form extend it throughout the domain of speculative belief? Thus far, therefore, wo are with Dr. McGee. The world is getting better every year, the span of human life Is increasing, has increased, between four and five years in a cen tury: the race of the future will show great improvement in mental, physical and spiritual development: and in all of this grand march of improvement Americans will lead the van.” It seems to be established that the average length of human life in civil ized lands is Increasing, but how long this will continue and to what limit is pure speculation. It is agreeable to think that the American of the future will be stronger in body and mind and will remain in possession of all his fac ulties a few years longer, but we may well hope that our country will never be burdened with a race attaining the age of the earliest legendary patri archs of Israel. For if the birth rate continued as at present, before many American Mathusalehs could reach the over-ripe age of 989 years there would not even be standing room left on this continent and the whole race wtjuld die of suffocation. But we, the creatures of an hour, may safely leave the mil lion generations to follow us to tho care of that .Providence which has overlooked the million generations that have preceded us. BEVERIDGES BILL Without going into the child labor legist] the question as to the desirability or Undesirability of such legislation by the states—the Beveridge bill before the United States Senate Is a mischievous measure, because it goes to a length not hitherto gone in the direction of obliterating State lines. This bill pro vides that no interstate railroad shall be permitted to transport the products of any mill or mine that is known to employ child labor, or that is suspected of employing child labor. It is an indirect but a very effective and drastic way of controlling the af fairs of a concern wholly operated within a State, which is entirely under the control of the State. The Savannah News puts it in this | more profitable, rits of that they are da; The reports indicate g much talking in or- j without raising | dcr to cover their embarrassment, and j probably when they are not talking ; they are praying for a very ea:l.\ spring thaw. At any rate, they are j doing very little cutting. They com- j plain that "the regular hands are de- manding high wages,” and to import , new people is expensive. They also | HARDLY FAIR. The Pres; lent has bean appealed to. is stated, "to modify the violence n r' his attacks on trusts,” and ne has "expressed his willingness to reassure business by issuing a statement to the effect that ho is ont only for the bad trusts, and lias no intention to harm a good one.' ” The bill is a long step In the direction of centralizing power in tho National Government. If Con gress can say that the products of the mills or mines of any State shall not bo transported across State lines. If such mills or mines employ child labor, it can say that the products of such mills or mines shall not be transported by inter state railroads if they are -manu factured by labor that works more than four or six or any other num ber of hours a day or unless they are manufactured by mills or are the product of mire's that make no distinction in color in the employ ment of labor. There is no taint of any kind attaching to the goods. Hence it would be just as reason able to say that the products of no State that required a separation of the white and colored races in rai-1- .wny cars or the public schools should be transported by interstate raijroads. If Senator Beveridge's bill should become a law it would amount practically to a declaration that the time wasn’t distant when State lines would he so nearly ob literated that it would’t be worth while to contend that the States had any rights at all.” A CHECK TO THE SOCIALISTS. Socialism in the United Staes is still a progresisng force, but in Germany it seems not only to hnve reached its maximum but to be rapidly losing ground. Ever since the election of 1887 the Socialists have in every case increased their representation in the German 1 are none now over the child labor on It would be but one step further to pass a resolution declaring the Federal Constitution null and void so far as it relates to the “reserved” or any other ’Tights of the 'States:” and that State lines are a memory only. There is something peculiar about the discussion of this measure by its author, and about the general interest only awakened recently in the North on the child labor question: and that is the fact that the whole crusade is aimed at Southern cotton mills. In former years when there were no cot ton mills in the South—when the North had a monopoly of the business of spinning our cotton—there were no crocodile tears shed over the child worker in those Northern mills. There show that there Is far less good Ice , to be satisfied with available than nature would have peo- | and acidly remarks: pie believe. Indeed, it would appeal that Dame nature has shamelessly would carry little Joined In a wicked conspiracy against the persecuted “ice barons” and is de termined to prevent famine prices for ice another summer. All of which demonstrates beyond question that it is Impossible for everybody to be happy at one time. THE CONSTITUTION. The Athens Evening Call wishes that “the word ’unconstitutional’ could be p crsonn iiy an d politically expunged from the vocabulary.” The New York Times is not disposed uch a promise “An 'assurance of this nature from Mr. Rooseveli omfort, first, be cause it will still rest with him to de- termine which are the bad trusts, and his judgment on that point has in the past been swayed by considerations having little to do with goodness ot badness; second, because it Is' hard to believe that ho will in a year imme diately preceding a Presidential elec tion voluntarily abandon the policy of harassing the corporations which has ien so im mensely profitable to him. and, third. There is one safe and sure way to do b ecau3( , j n every State, nil over the it, and that Is to join with Roosevelt, t r n ion, he has a multitude of imitators Root. Beveridge and others, and punge” the Constitution. When shall have no Constitution then nothing will be “unconstitutional.” just as nothing is unlawful where there is no law. -But the country is suffering just now with a spasm of radicalism which in vokes a so-called “higher law” than the plain written law, and it is alto gether mischievous. DOMESTIC SERVANTS. The approaching Immigration- con vention. to assemble in Macon on the j 19th of February, should attract wide spread interest in Georgia, and it ' loses have been most marked, in sev- Reichstag,- but in -the election last Fri day, to the surprise of everybody, they lost eighteen seats, and the prediction followed that' their boasted 3,000,000 supporters would be halved. Their LAW OF THE THAW CASE. The Washington Post has employed a learned and distinguished authority on criminal law, Mr. William L. Clark, reviewing editor of the Cyclopedia Of Law and Procedure, to tell its readers just how the Thaw case will be tried give them the and determined and to law that will prevail in the proceed ings. Whether the prisoner is guilty or innocent, he says, “must be deter mined not on the facts which have been published in the newspapers, but on the facts as they appear from the to decency or conscience.’’ The mod- [evidence which may be given era lion of the commission’s language will be th-' only wonder after a view of some of the facts it states. It says, in bullet-like sentences: "The Standard oil Company largely monopolizes the handling of petroleum from the mouth of the well until it is s-dd to the retailer, and some times to the consumer." Estimates made in the report "show a profit on refined oil from the Sugar Creek refinery at Kan sas City of from 5 to * cents a gallon." The evidence shows little basis for tlie- contention that the company's enormous dividends "are the legitimate result of its enconomles.” the ! trial, and the question will be decided j by the jury on this evidence under the j court’s instructions as to the law. They [cannot convict unless they are con- | vinced of the defendant's guilt beyond j a reasonable doubt, and a reasonable j doubt as to his sanity at the time of the killing will require an acquittal. "With respect to the law there can be little question,” he continues. "In the first place, it Is perfectly clear that the so-called ‘unwritten" or ‘higher' ( law. in the sense in which the terms i have been used in connection with this J case, lias no place in the law of New should be largely attended. To thoughtful observers it is appar ent that we In the South are upon the eve of what must prove a revolution in the unskilled labor world. In other eral of the large cities, including Bres lau and Lelpsig. The Socialist power lias been greater ill Germany thanqkny other country of .importance. Its sudden and rapid de words the field occupied hitherto by clinc there would seem to Imply that the negroes as laborers and servants is 1 radicalism in this form has seen its being rapidly deserted by them. How j best days and will now go the way of this increasing shortage is to be sup- J other passing enthusiasms. But even plied is one of the great problems of pf the party itself should dwindle away, Germany's gigantic paternalism with the Kaiser at its head is in some res pects an embodyment of the. Socialistic principle. The large development of a Socialist party in most of the other countries is yet to come, and 'in the United States the battle between this “ism” and in dividualism Is still to be fought out. the day. It will not down. Skilled labor is scarce enough, but the un skilled is scarcer. The servant ques tion Is ever present We naturally look to the importation of white servants, but they do not as yet come to the South. Something migth be done in the direction of developing white help of this kind among our own people, if the cotton producing farms—no, -bless you, the North wants more and cheaper cotton, but no more spindles and looms In the South! It depends on whose ox is gored. The cotton crop of the South has been a golden fleece to the North for many years. Now that the South is retaining some of its own, the Bever idges are getting busy. What do States' rights, or the rights of any body, amount to, when they stand in the way of certain avaricious maws? people in poverty could be educated out ! former years the Democratic party of the erroneous idea, that it is de- ■ stood squarely for individualism, while LET THE WHOLE TRUTH COME. The report of the Interstate Com merce Commission on the Standard Oil Company,, from which we quoted ex tensively the other day, and upon which we commented, contained the following, which will interest every reputable newspaper publisher in the country. "The ‘Standard buys advertising space in many newspapers, which It fills not with advertisements, but with reading matter prepared by agents kept for that purpose and paid for at advertising rates as ordinary news. The assumption is that this literature furnishes many of the ideas touching tho great benefits conferred upon the public by the Standard Oil Company. In justice to the reputable press of the United States, the commission should publish the names of the “many” newspapers that have thus taken the Standard’s money and de ceived the public in the Standard’s in terests. The same may be said of the rail roads that have connived with the Standard to crush the latter’s compet itors. Let the guilty be uncovered in both cases so that the innocent may be re lieved of unjust and hurtful suspicion. We doubt not that the Standard Oil Company is a harmful monopoly, and we believe that it should bo hedged about with proper restraint and pun ished for every infraction of law, but we protest against these general charges, in the case -of newspapers, and railroads as well, without such specifi cation as will justly set apart the sheep from the goats. The report is a condemnation not merely, of the Standard but indirectly and j “many newspapers,” so that it is rather j a ridiculous anti-climax when nothing | more is recommended than the fixing of rates. “Under these conditions.” the i report mildly concludes, “It may be- i come necessary to the uprooting of ! established wrongs and tile prevention ! of others that the Government shall fix in the first Instance the rates and reg- ex ~ i who, observing his astonishing success. ' ve ! have adopted his policies and would not abandon them even if he should suddenly resolve to cease being a rad ical.” A President who acts hastily and at tempts to solve so many difficult prob lems in a single fortnight deserves sharp criticism and is bound to get it. but criticism is more effective when it docs not impute bad motives. , Wallace, Taft and Shonts come and go but the canal will go on forever. “All coons look alike to me,” the President declared, but not for publi cation, at the Gridiron dinner.' What, not excepting Booker, with whom he dined? It Is announced that the “unwritten law” will not figure in the Thaw trial. This will be resented by the amateur lawyers throughout the country who have tried and settled the case under this authority. After twelve years’ negotiations the negro who owned the cabin on the Biltmore place that “Vanderbilt couldn’t buy” has sold out to the owner of Biltmore for 52,000, which is $6 500 less than he was originally offered for the place. It seems that it takes a conference' of the lawyers with the entire Thaw family connections and various other persons to decide upon the line of de fense to be pursued. A case so con ducted ought to be “pie” for the other side. grading to do dofnestic work about the | from the outset the Republican party house, or garden, or to drive a plow. There are many -boys and girls com SENATOR BACON FOR LEADER. Reports from Washington indicate that the contest for the leadership of the Democratic minority—If there is ! also of the railroads in general to be a contest—will be between Sena tors Bacon and Culberson. Senator Bacon has haE long expe rience in tho Senate, having been first elected to that body in 1S94, and he was unanimously re-nominated last August for another term of six years, which term will not expire until March 4. 1913. Long before his experience in the I illations for the transportation of this When asked some questions about his new position as head of the New York Traction companies, Mr. Shonts said he “knew nothing about traction matters, blit I expect to have a pleas ant time.” Ho knew enough not to get too deep In the canal Job for hiS health and pleasure. ■> Speaking of her prospective visit to the United States, Ellen Terry is re ported to have said: “We shall not leave the civilized parts of the States. Our tour will not take us farther West than Chicago.” Chicago will be puffed up some more when she learns that she is civilized. Senate hegan Senator Bacon won Ills 1 traffic. This method has been adopted spurs as a parliamentarian, having by the Legislature of one State. It lng to work age—the age of use, might'more properly say—in our or-' ington. Now a strong impulse in the phan homes, as well as in- the homes * socialistic direction may be discovered j of poverty. These should be sought * n both parties. The reason for this : York. The innocence or guilt of one "The Standard buys advertising i w », 0 k j]| space in many newspapers which it Alls, not a-ith advertisements, but with reading matter prepared by agents kept for that purpose.'' “At the basic of the monopoly rests the pipe line," which, the commission says. Is about the only "legitimate ad vantage" the Standard has over its competitors. "The cost of piping a barrel of oil from the Kansas field to tho Atlantic seaboard would not be much, if any. above 30 cents.” "Pos- seaslon of the pipe lines enables the Standard to absolutely control the price of crude petroleum and the price which its competitors in a given locality shall pay. It can raise the price In one lo cality and obtain its own oil from an other. and reverse the process when it desires to do so.” Th. ptp* line sys tem of the Standard "is not a natural, but rather an artificial another depends entirely j upon the application to the facts of the j law established by the statute and ju dicial decisions of the State. Of course, it is possible fer a Jury to disregard the law as laid down for their guidance in the charge of the court, and this is ali there is to the idea involved in this use of the term ‘unwritten law.’ but in New York jurors are not the judges of the law. but of the facts only, and under their oaths they are required to decide according to the law as given them by the court.” All thia will sound very familiar to frequenters of the courts of Georgia and other States as well as those of New York, and such will gcnrcely feel fhe need of the law book editor step ping down from his ponderous and weighty tome to tell us about it. But the application or nen-appl!cation of it Will appear more clearly when j out and induced to take positions in private families, as helpers to the heads of those families, and taught that it is no disgrace to work with the hands. All men cannot “live by their wits,” nor can all women go the pace of "society.” Some must work with their hands. The negroes are not wholly to blame for deserting the farm, the kitchen and the washfub: nor are the poor whites to be expected to seek eagerly after these deserted jobs. There is consid erable blame at the door of Mrs. Money and Mr. Wealth. Rapidly Increasing exhibited the socialistic tendency to- I ward putting almost everything into i the hands of the government at Wash- ! Se, '' ed ! e ™ ra ^ rn,s as s P eaker of the j Probably will be found necessary to Georgia House of Representatives. For I disassociate In the case of oil, as in j years he has been regarded as an au- I that of other commodities, the function j thority on parliamentary law. Tact- j of transportation from that of produc- ful and able as 1 a debater he will prove tion A speculative "gent” of the West who looks into the future with a far-seeing eye and prophesies amazing things to come, selects John D. Rockefeller as a type of the magnificent “evo- luted” American of the new golden age. This provokes a .“robust kick” from tho Montgomery Advertiser, which is “not willing to believe that our descendants wiil dll be bald-headed billionaires.” among Democrats, is not inherited in stinct or party tradition, these being altogether on the side of individualism, but a new, yet none the less a very real fear of the power of multi-million aires and great corporations. and distribution. What other The Amalgamated Association of the Lonely has Just been organized in New York, it is said. It probably includes GULF STREAM PLAYING PRANKS. s The announcement has been made by the Gulf Division of the Hydrographic office at New Orleans, in charge of Capt. John C. Soley, that ’’the Gulf stream has changed its course.’ The dispatch says further that these changes are noted between the time prosperity and wealth has turned the j the stream leaves the north coast of heads of men and women. They leave off the simpler life, too often, and set a pave of extravagance and show, which j is to issued next month. : South America until it enters the At lantic. A map indicating the changes in turn upsets their socially ambitious but poorer neighbors, and away they Whether these changes produced the recent earthquakes, or the earthquakes go! A place in the society columns of , produced these changes, or that -they the daily newspaper is more greatly to j were in any way related as cause and lx- desired than a sound mind in a ! effect, no one will probably ever know; healthy body which comes as the re- ( and yet the thought involuntarily ward of useful employment in the day I spring up with the information as to and restful sleep at night. j the coincidental facts. The indolence of ease is not only '< It was reported some weeks ago, harmful to those indulging it. but it is • just before the Jamaician earthquakes, harmful also to others. i that the Gulf Stream was' abnormally The discussions at the immigration warm. There is little doubt, perhaps, convention should lake a wide range. . that these changes in the current and a worthy foeman of the best talent on remedies in adition to those already | the lady who made au unsuccessful at- provided it may be necessary to pre- j tempt to become acquainted with her scribe can be better determined in the ; next-door neighbor by sending the lat- the Republican side. More than this, in these days of radi calism run mad in both political par ties. Senator Bacon would be justly conspicuous as a minority leader for his conservatism. He is one of the few left who stand hard apd fast by the best traditions of the old Demo cratic party, and by the principles enunciated in the beginning by the fathers of the Republic. His steady hand is against the extremer phases of Rooseveltism on the one hand, and Populism as accentuated by Watson and Hearst on the other. His many friends and admirers in Georgia would be pleased to see him put forward as the minority leader by his Democratic collenmies. NOT AN UNMIXED BLESSING. near future by the results of expe rience in administering the present law.” We are of the opinion that the coun try has had enough of expensive inves tigations without tangible results fur ther than the filling of the public mind ■with suspicion of the Innocent and the : ter a present of a plate of hot biscuits, and had them returned to her with tho message that gifts from entire strangers were not acceptable. When Mr. Wallace deserted the canal for more agreeable employment the President was indignant and virtually accused the retiring officer of being a guilty alike. Let the evil be uncovered | traitor to his country. Now Mr. Shonts and the doers thereof punished, and let i kas d° ne the same thing and retiriuj. the ban of suspicion be removed from j the President’s blessing.- Is this the innocent even though demagogues may thus be robbed of a large part of their stock in trgde. AN UNFINISHED STORY. j Apparently the desire for wordly | honor does not always end with death. Delightful winter weather” is re- According to report, a gentleman resid- ported from all our States that touch ; n Kokomo, Ind., has just died and i because the President is a man of | mdods and there is no telling what ho | may do under given conditions, or be- [ cause Mr. Shonts was less prized than Mr. Wallace and really did not earn his fancy salary of $30,000 a year? MAN PROPOSES. According to Dr. McGee, of the St. Louis Museum, the American of the future is to be a giant both in Intellect and in bodily development and will live much longer than men of today, returning gradually toward the longev ity reported in ancient times. He cites In support of his argument that the average length of human life has in creased within half a century from twenty-seven to twenty-nine years, a century ago the average being between twenty-four and twenty-five years. Commenting, the Portland Oregonian observes: "We leave to those whose temperature of that wonderful moving - body of water, has had something to do I with the remarkably mild winter wc i have so far experienced in the Atlantic j able circumstances. : and Gulf States. Cold wave after cold j wave has appeared as usual on the i northwestern Canadian border, but they i have steadily refused to come down I this way. Something has caused them | to travel eastward along the upper j lakes and out by the St. Lawrence ' route. ; The scientists have not yet begun to ! solve the mysteries of the earth and ! air. They are perking at the pebbles on the sea shore with the unfathomed ocean before them. the Canadian border. This means that . the snow lies thick and dry and grainy 1 as granulated sugar, that the continual sound of sleigh hells is In the air, that the lakes and rivers are frozen hard deep down, and that wagons laden with merchandise as well as the skating feet of happy youth pass over them. It also means a struggle to find suf ficient means to kep warm on the part left $50,000 to the church he frequented on condition that his spirit be elected a member of the board of trustees and be permitted to attend its meetings. This is one of the many stories that are disappointing because of being "clipped off in the middle," so to speak. Was the gentleman’s spirit elected a member and has his immortal part yet attended a meeting and insisted on of the poor as well as fine crisp air j takinf . a fan part in the discu< and good health for those in comfort- To the former we ! would say: Pack your bundles and ; come South where a warm welcome will be yours as well as a balmier cli- j mate, and where the fight for a com fortable existence is so much l^ss strenuous. Lastly, the old-fashioned winter | . weather in the States referred to is a ] The New York Times has printed a sore distress to the "ice barons.” Na- j letter from "A Contented Y.’orking- ture’s bountiful store of ice for the [ man," but withheld his name and ad- coming summer is not to their liking, dress, doubtless fearing that he sion? Or did the other members beg to be ex cused and cause the church to sacri fice fifty thousand good dollars rather than be scared stiff by the presence of a ghost at their conclaves? It is a | crime to excite curiosity in this man- , ner and then leave the story unfin I ished. People—or those of the feminine gen der—dote on a wedding ceremony, and it Is not a surprise to learn that em ployment of one to fill the seats of a theatre In Hagerstown, Md., was high ly successful. The alert theatre man ager paid the generous sum of $25 to the bride and bridegroom themselves for the purpose, and in addition paid the minister, the hack hire, and gave the hride a bunch of flowers. The poor est of plays might be made to succeed in that way—at least for one night in every small town. X fupposeri scant supply of manufae- be overwhlemed with letters would asking $u:cd ice at high prices being much j him for the precious secret. We have more good ships than good sailors, it would seem. The new bat- | t eship Connecticut, only just turned ! loose from the hands of her builders for a career of marine adventure, has already been run upon a reef while en tering the harbor of Culebra Island. As a result there was a break fifty Toot long in her forward plates. The ves«.-i will have to b decked for repairs. Phir- that cost from five fo ten mil lions eijght to litivr a fen : ■ -1 sailors an board.