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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18. THE MM TELEGRAPH i’ge.l inter---; I.or! Dorb\ Engl PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING] AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE I MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. an C. E. PENDLETON, President average of 38.0O0 acres >e<!T. IIo*.- this was brought xplained by W. T. Stead, i aid: jbout is ho has I .imiable and cultured gentleman and a 's pleasing musician, but an unknown d | quantity as a statesman, to succeed i c. rmack, a mar. of great abilities, who h has created an impression so profound that the Washington Post saicf of him a f-w days ag.,, lamenting his inexplica ble retirement: 60UTH CAROLINA DI3PEN8ARY. I The dispatches from Columbia an- j nounring the abolishment of the dig- , pens a ry by the adoption of the Carey- f.’othran bill calling for elections in the ! respective counties as be-ween prohi bition and county dispensaries is liable to be a little confusing to the average mlr.d. It is ns much as to say “The dispen'nry is dead; long live the dis- rcnrary.” How it can be called the abolishment of the dispensary at all is du'fbult to conceive. The converse of th" dispensary idea in South Carolina r-.ti'-t needs be either to reopen the “The estates of the peers, which were originally of con-iderabie size, being granted them In order thr.t they might equip soldier- and maintain the King- authority in the land, have steadily grown un der the influence of laws pas-ed by peers for the aggrandizement of their own order." “He would have been an orna ment to British Parliaments that knew Burke and Fox and Pitt. He would have been distinguished in American Senates that contained Clay and Calhoun and Webster. | Caught on | | the Wing 1 id H H 1 I Id 1 I H 'H-H-l-H"! !■: By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. This is known as Georgia Day, be- Today, he adds, they control four- flfths of the land and one-half of the national legislature, forming a glgan- i tic trust. “As Parliamentary Govern ment has developed in Great Britain ■ monarchical rule has shrunken almost ] to a shadow and the power of the arls- ] tocrncy Increased beyond all reason." j we are told. It is easy to conceive what tyranny and abuse this power would result in and how it would eventually become intolerable, necessitating reform at the barrooms nf of old or to bring about I cost o* reaolution if necessary. But imd declare prohibition. The fact is. “Where is the man who does not respect him? Where is the man who does not admire him? All the wealth of either Indies would not buy for the base his lofty character, his unblemished honor. He retires from the Senate re gretted by ail his fellow-Senators. He is for a time, at least, lost to the public service in an official ca pacity. but no such man as he can live, whether in public station or private walk, a single day in vain. That brilliant Intellect, that exalted character, those splendid accom plishments will find a way to do the work set before giants. “His fate is that of thousands and thousands of other great men in republics where universal man hood suffrage maintains, and his friends glory in the Spartan cour age and Roman grendeur with which he has confronted it.” violent revolutions are out of date in the bill docs neither and no mere bill ; England and the House of Lords, while As if this were not enough, we are or net of the Legislature could do destined to be curtailed in power, will now Informed that Mississippi will < !th»-. The essential features of the j BCarce,y roach the point of being abol- choose its unpleasantly notorious Var- lshed. cause on February 12, 1733, one hun dred and seventy-four years ago, Gen. James Oglethorpe, of England, in his benevolent anxiety to relieve the dis tresses of the poor In his country, founded the colony at Savannah, and named the same Georgia, in honor of George II., King of England, who granted the territory to a corporation entitled'the “Trustees for settling the Colony of Georgia. "The settlement thus commenced by Oglethorpe has advanced to a high position of material greatness, and is grand in her insti tutions. prosperous in all her Indus tries. the pride and glory of her citi zenship, and known to the world as the Empire State of the South. From the opening gun of the Revolution, and in all-the wars of America, from then unto the present time, the best blood of Georgia chivalry has drenched the field of -battle, and dyed with a crim son hue the waters of the mighty deep. The sons of the commonwealth have followed the flag of their country from Valley Forge to the spows of Canada, dispensary In South Carolina are em- ■ rifled in the State Constitution of 5^93. and as is well known no ordinary act of the Legislature can operate to ehange the Constitution. These feat ures are that nothing less than a half pint of alcoholic liquors shall be sold; that the original package shall not be opened or the contents drunk on the premises; that the places in which liquors are sold shall not be opened be fore sunrise and that they must be kept closed after sunset and certain other restrictions. These features con stltuted really the soul of Governor Tillman's dispensary idea and he was phrewd enough to insist on their being nndo a part of the new Constitution which was adopted when his power in the State was in full swing. Under the dispensary system organized there was a big central dis pensary or reservoir for liquors in Co lumbia from which the hundred or lmro subordinate local dispensaries distributed through the counties were supplied. The alleged "rottenness" of ♦ he state dispensary, as this central institution was called, consisted, as we gather from its history, from time to time, in our Palmetto contemporaries, in the buying of the liquors. The cen tral dispensary bought and handled a million dollars' worth of liquors annu ally. From the very outset there were scandals about alleged rebates, com missions. overcharges, inferior liquor.' purchased at prices above the market quotations, and such like. Tho scope for graft in a mllllon-dollar business can be estimated by almost any one. Whether there was graft or not Is not for us to say. It is claimed that this was the cause of the downfall of the dispensary. But in what does the downfall of the dispensary consist if the respective counties are to continue the dispensary Idea and system at their option, each for itself; If the only change brought about is thnt of local control, the cen tral institution having been abolished and the business of buying and se lecting the liquors having boon trans ferred to the local boards oT control? At this distance it would appear to be more in the nature of a change of men than of system. Whether tho mul tiplication of the purchasing agents will remedy the weakest points in the system, which was alleged to be in the deal- between the directors and the distilleries, needs actual experience to demonstrate. Wo do not understand the change to go radically to the root of the matter by divorcing the Govern ment from the liquor business. It merely takes the State administration out of it and substitutes the county ad ministrations for the central govern ment. | daman, who Is doubtless honest enough, but Is uncultured and behind RESOLUTION. hIs SENATOR CLAY S . • vn. j his age. in preference to Mr. John ! Curiosity as to his object is excited sharp williams, the brilliant leader of and from the hails of the Montezumas to the seas far away. Her statesmen have guided the destinies of the nation, and her patriots have propagated the doctrine of liberty. They have left to posterity the splendid memorials of their minds and their patriotism. Their deeds have been inscribed in golden and imperishable letters upon the mon uments which record the country's re nown. people of this State against the Gov ernment thereof, and for that purpose are. by letters, petitions, and other- wlso. daily exciting animosities among the inhabitants, under the pretense of redressing imaginary grievances, which by the -aid William Henry Drayton it is said this State labors under, the better to effect, under such specious pretences, an union between the States of Georgia and South Carolina, all which are contrary to the articles of confederation, entered into, ratified and confirmed by this State as a cement ♦of union between the same and the other United and Independent States of America, and also against the reso lution of this State, in that case made and entered into: Therefore, that such pernicious practices may be put an end to, and which, if not in due time prevented, may be of the most danger ous consequences, I have, by and with the advice and consent of the Execu tive Council of this State, thought fit to issue this proclamation, hereby of fering a reward of one hundred, pounds, lawful money of the said State, to be paid to any person or persons who shall apprehend the said William Henry Drayton, or any other person' or persons aiding and abetting him In such unlawful .practices, upon his or their conviction." The above will give some idea of the sterling and patriotic character of the first Governor of Georgia, under the first Constitution of this State. “When the contest for liberty commenced, he was found among the foremost of those who stood up in defense of the rights of America.” Recently when the Leg islature was forming new counties an effort was made to have one of them named Treutlen, but the very laudable movement did not succeed. JAPANESE PEANUT CROP. A report from Vice-fans a 1-General E. G. Babbitt, ol’ Yokohama, on the peanuf*crop of Japan, will prove of value, as the American yield of pea nuts last year was only half that of 1D05. Mr. Babbitt writes: The crop for 1906 is somewhat above the average in quality and quantity, and is estimated at 146.000,000 pounds. The different provinces gave the fol lowing yields In pounds: Chiba and Ibaragi, 5,500,000; Yenshieu and San- shiu, 7.000.000; Soshiu. 300.000; Sur shiu, 300.000; Suruga. 300,000; Chu- goku, 500,000, and Kiushiu, 1,000,000. The crops from Chugoku and Kiushiu aro almost entirely devoted to home consumption. The same can be said of the crop from Formosa. The har vests are Inspected by the guilds of the Evening Post. End-of-the-year and forecasts, coniir from Europe, show not the only mat fin? reviews g to hand by mail th:, t New York is where the appar- OUR FOREIGN TRADE entl.v untimely question is being asked, whether the markets are not near to a serious financial reverse. Home Eng lish and German publications, includ ing at least one review of the year by a London banking corporation, take up the same theme. In the Eeonomiste Francais, whose leading articles are usually devoted to more or less local and technical subjects, M. Leroy-Beau lieu takes up the subject, clearly show ing by his introduction that the same question is being asked In Paris as in Xew York. “People are beginning,".he says, "to ask themselves everywhere different provinces before being sold I if things have not been going ahead ! pretty rapidly, or, rather, if we are not for export Tne total exportation of , heafIe( j y or ;1 nioro or ],..-. P serious eoo- peanuts in 1904 amounted to 4.315 S14 ; nomio crisis." M. Leroy-Beaulieu dis cusses the extraordinary rise in the price of metals during 1905 and 1906: discusses the theory that increased gold production Js at the bottom of the movement in prices; dismisses that f theory, however, as applied to 1906, because the price of products of agri culture did not last year move simply . . , „„„ , metals; mentions the part played by which the United States took $98,4<0 speculation, and then proceeds: worth and Canada $13,341 worth. ; “If. leaving the purely economic point _ , , , . , . , of view, we lock at the matter with the Hongkong almost dropping out of the . eyeg . of the pract j ca , fllianC !er. | t will market. I be seen that the 'notable phenomenon kin (kin, 1 1-3 pounds), valued at 3144.72S, of which the United States was the leading purchaser, taking $91,- 293 worth, and Hongkong $33 712 worth. In 1905 the exports were 3,- 147.422 kin, valued at $129,S69, of ,4 The Japanese exports of pqanuts fori <*£ the period is the extreme dearness I of capital procured for a short term, the first ten months of 1906, ending Oc- : Even gold, produced more abunrihntlv . „ „ - . History tells us that the founder of by Senator Clays resolution introduced , the Democratlc mlnorlty In the HousCi the Colony of Georgia was born in In the Senate calling for a complete . London, on December 21, 16SS. At the - .. „ ... . . !ttao is an honor not merely to his ‘ a „ e of 16 he was admitted a student of r <he eX P cndi[ ures bj the i state but to the South. I Corpus Christ! College, but he did not United States in the Philippines from . Tru]v , vhat n . xt , „ J finish his studies, the malitary pro- the acquisition of the islands to the ! „ J n , ' \ a ‘ “ ' fusion having more charms for him i seems to have the courage of his de- than literarv pursuits. His first corn- present time. The object In view is | flclencIes> has announccd that when i mission was that of ensign. After .the undoubtedly more than the — ~ ^ bringing to light of reliable informa tion on this subject. During the Presidential election cam paign of 1904, in which Imperialism was an Issue, Judge Parker declared that in the attempt of our Government “to bolster up Its option on the Philip pines we have wasted over $600,000,000 and sacrificed 200,000 lives"—a state ment understood to be based on the estimates of the late Edward Atkinson, the statistician. In response Secretary of War Taft declared that the "direct cost" of the Philippines up to that time did not exceed $200,000,000. If Senator Clay should succeed in getting the in formation he asked for. without reserve of any kind on the part of the admin istration, it will probably be learned that the figures of Mr. Atkinson are nearer the truth at the present time than those of Mr. Taft. 'Commenting on the resolution re ferred to, the Baltimore Sun suggests that “it may be asked by Mr. Clay or some other practical Senator what we have to show for it [the great cost] except a disaffected people in the Phil ippines, who cannot prosper unless we give their products admission free of duty to this country—and our trusts will not hear o fthat that," and goes on to add: “It may be that there are states men In Washington who would not be averse to keeping American money at home for domestic uses and giving Japan the glory of spending money to lift the Filipi- mere ' ,. T . „ __ „ . . ideath of Queen Anne, he entered into ne and Jim Vardaman get into the | the service of Prince Eugene. 'When Senate of the United States they are j 24 years of age he was brought into ntrtp. tn ^ „ ■ Parliament, and continued a member s 1 reform that hidebound and j for thirty-two years. In November, cobwebbed body and make things howl ! 1732. Oglethorpe, with 116 settlers, era generally. Let us hope that the other Southern Senators will contrive to pre vent them from making their section ridiculous and from sowing the impres sion broadcast that a land which once barked for Georgia, and on January 13, 1733. the ship dropped anchor outside of the bar at the port of Charlestoij, S. C. A few days afterwards ho pro ceeded on his voyage, and arrived at Yamacraw, where he marked out town, and called it Savannah. After ho tober 31. amounted to $103,988, com- ! than ever before, seems to be lacking | in the market: people cannot get enough of it. The reserves of great pared with $11S,006 exports for corre sponding period of 1905. While the ex ports have decreased since 1903, when WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.—Trade of. . . . , . .. the United States with its non-contig- the total export was i.o6o9<i kin,-the uous territories amounted to 131 mil- 1 proportion shipped to the United !SS«S5«Sr.S , SSOT 8Si«— 1903—1,333,437 kin having been shipped bred statesmen has utterly lost the • ha I ! , p]ace,i his coIony in as g Ti* asit . * u 1 e i nation as circumstances would allow, art - I lie secured the good will of the Indians. He continued to take a deep interest In AN ABSURD PROPOSITION the prosperity of the colony for many ft , _ ’ years. In 1743 he left Georgia for Eng- t seems that the town of Spokane, land, to answer charges brought disappointed at its failure to become against him by Lieut.-Col. Cook. | now aspires to become the capital of a ■ was dismissed from the service. In new State to be named Lincoln which I 1744 Oglethorpe was appointed one of , , . ' the field officers under Field Marshal 11 no P e s to form out of “the eastern j the Earl of Stair, to opposed the ex counties of Washington, the northeast- ! Pected invasion of France. In 1765 he ern porn*,- rw , . | received the rank of general of all his ern corner of Oregon, and the ‘pan- maJe sty s forces. Oglethorpe died at handle* of Idaho/* After thus appro- | Cranham Hall. Essex. June 30, 1785. prlatingr the choice parts of three I was at the present site of p Macon in 1737, while making treaties nos up to a lofty level of civiliza tion. The Philippines are within easy distance of Japan. The islands would furnish an outlet for all the Japanese who are under the neces sity of seeking employment in other lands. Our practical states men may be convinced that the transfer of the Philippines to Ja pan would be an excellent thing for the United States, because all friction over the immigration of Japanese coolie labor to this coun try would be removed if the coolie labor to this country would be re moved if tlie coolies were free to go to the Philippines. Is Japan wil ling to accept tile same altruistic responsibilities in the Philippines which we have borne for eight years? Could the transfer of title be made without opposition from the European nations having inter ests in the Far East? Is Uncle Sam at last convinced that he is wasting his money on an invest ment which will never pay a divi dend? If he is. who knows but that he may be glad to give to some oilier unselfish nation the noble task of working out the destiny of the Philippines? Who knows‘but that our statesmen of light and leading are coming to think that it might be better to transfer the Philippines to Japan as a friendly act than run the risk of surrender ing them, under force of circum stances. in the future and spending an enormous sum to regain pos session?” The Sun seems to wish to suggest CONFLICT BETWEEN LORDS AND COMMONS. We have heard a great deal recently about the fight to the death that the English Commons are about to open on the hereditary House of Lords be cause. as asserted by Sir John p. Wal- ' that Senator Clay desires to show that ton. Attorney-General of Great Brit- useless as well as a most expensive nin. "the House of Lords is entirely j luxury, and that the Administration Is out of harmony with democratic instl- ' n °t averse to having the showing made tutions and must go: that the Govern- in order to prepare the country for ment will endeavor to give effect to the some method of disposing of the Phii- w:)l of the people" and a “combination } ippines, probably to Japan and neces- of the Crown and people to defeat the j sariljr at bargain-counter rates, aristocracy, is on the bills. How far j However this may be, and whatever King Edward gave countenance to ; the outcome, a complete statement of those declarations in h:s speech from ; the expenditures of the United States tho throne on opening Parliament • in the Philippines from 1S9S to 1907 Tuesduj we cannot determine from the i will be highly Interesting and instruc- statement in the dispatches that “lie tive. and we hape—though not with a made guarded reference to the ar- | confidence altogether complete—that it proarhir.g conflict between the House 1 will sohtrly be forthcoming. of Lords and the House of Commons.” J — — but while his sympathies are undoubt- TRULY, WHAT NEXT? cdly with the people and their imnte- j The remarkable announcement is j diatc representatives it would be too I mride Iha t being offered a choice be- ; States, Spokane is willing for Idaho to get satisfaction by appropriating a further slice of Oregon in turn, and ad vises that the remnants of Oregon and Washington consolidate in one State. Commenting on this ridiculous prop osition, the Washington Post says: "Each of the States of this republic is practically about as indivisible as is the Union itself. No State can be di vided or deprived of any of the terri tory without its consent, as well as the consent of Congress, except the State of Texas, which came in under a spe cial dispensation, waiving consent of Congress, and leaving that immense commonwealth at liberty to cut herself into five States. But she has not yet done any cutting, and is firmly set against any reduction of her vast area, being reasonably hopeful that at no very far-off time she will surpass New York in population, thereby leading the entire family of States in representation in Congress and the electoral college." No State "can be divided or deprived of its territory without its consent” with Indians in this section. The Legislature of Georgia, at its last session, appropriated the sum of $15,000 to a fund with which to erect, in Savannah, a monument to Ogle thorpe. The Legislature prescribed that on the monument shall be this inscription: . “Erectec} by the State of Georgia to the memory of its founder, the- great soldier, eminent statesman and cele brated philanthropist. General James Oglethorpe, who in this city on the 12tli day of 'February, A. D., 1733, es tablished the Colony of Georgia.” The Oglethorpe Monument Associa tion will augum'ent the State’s appro priation by a handsome amount. In 1752 the trustees for the colony surrendered their charter to the crown, and Georgia became a. roval Govern ment, with privileges and regulations similar to those of the other colonies. The first Provincial Congress of Geor gia met in Savannah on July 4. 1775. Georgia was prompt to take part with the other colonies In resistance to the agressions of England. During the Revolutionary War that ensued Geor gia was overrun by British troops, and the principal inhabitants were com-* pelled to abandon their homes and fly into the neighboring States. In 1778 Savannah was captured by the British, and in 1779 Augusta and Sunbury. In the latter year an unsuccessful attempt made by was made by the Americans and under ordinary circumstances, but the j French to recapture Savannah. The rule flirt not . British evacuated Savannah July 11, rule did not hold when it was desired 178 2, and the authority of Georgia was to humiliate and ruin poor Virginia established ovqr the State. Georgia after the war of 1S61-5 More than a I frnmpd its Constitution in 1777. a . e tnan a | second in 1789 and a third in 1798, thiid of nei soil was alienated without i which was several times amended. The her consent by the Government to ! Constitution of the United States was which she had , ratified by Georgia on January 2, 1788. generously ceded in ; After the Revolutionary War Georgia suffered on her frontiers, from the in cursions of the Creeks and Cherokees. earlier times the great territory now included in the States of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois. Michigan, Wisconsin and Min nesota. Spokane can hope to have her wish only by bringing about: another such revolutionary era and by placing her self on the side of the strong—by oc cupying. in fact, a front seat on their band wagon. Of this total of 131 millions. 59 mil lions, speaking in round terms, was merchandise shipped to those terrlto- . ries, and 72 millions merchandise re- 1 to 4 ^ e Dnited States in 1905. ceived from them. In addition to this, there was received from Alasaka over 18% million dollars’ worth of gold pro duced In that territory, and 6% millions of foreign gold, presumably chiefly continuous movement: on the other hand, the commercial bills in their portfolios Increased incessantly. It may be recalled that these phenomena according to the view of the sagacious and ingenious observer. M. Clement over 1904, and a large increase over j Ju.glar, aro the forerunners of crises. MO ft DAY. "An experienced man of affairs. M. Jacques Siegfried, who has devoted himself for many years to observing the commercial and financial move ments in periods of inflation and de pression, and who has adopted the method of M. Jug'ar, undertakes, ia the Revue des Deux Mondes of De- From the New York American. ui j Ulc , ,, ulu icouiiwui vuicu All over the world the people’s duds _ _ H from”the B British’ territory^'adjacent/of r Are 8 uds? h suds; an<1 squashinK in tubs of j cember IS. an exhaustive article on the The globe is haloed in steaming haze, On Monday, soapiest day of days. The very first Monday that ever came And this one today are just the same. When Adam invaded that kitchen Eve’s, He found his riblet washing leaves. the 59 million dollars’ worth of mer chandise sent to the non-contiguous territories, about 22 million dollars’ worth went to Porto Rico 17% millions to Alaska, 12* millions to Hawaii, and 7 millions to the Philippine Islands. The shipments to Porto have increased from 12 million dollars in 1904 to 22 millions in 1906; those to Alaska, from 11% millions in 1904 to 17% millions in 1906; lose to Hawaii, from 11 mil lions in 1904 to 12% millions in 1906; and those to the Philippine Islands, fifom 5 millions in 1904 to a little over 7 millions in 1906. The value of merchandise received' from Hawaii has increased from 25% million dollars in 1904 to 29 1-3 mil lions in 1906; from Porto Rico, from 13 millions in 1904 to 20% millions in 1906; from. Alaska, from 10% millions in 1904 to 12 millions in 1906; while the Philippine Islands show a slight ! in France, in Finland, here, in Cathav; reduction, the figures of 1904 being 10% millions and those of 1906 a little over 10 millions in value. Of gold re present economic and financial situa- I tion, and while ho does not absolutely , j reach the conclusion that a crisis is j near, at least he seems Inclined to ro- j gnrd that eventuality as a possibility 01 j and according counsels prudence. “The actual situation is certainly at And she cried, “Oh, can’t you go out and j bottom a good deal more solid than stay— ... . j that of 1881 and 1889 periods when o Let J — : LII.iL iool flllU lOOJ pPrjiJUS W 11611 Don't you know, you chump, this is wash- ; the last two particularly more seriohs Perched'up on the roof in that terrible j normal Stock Exchange movement; rain. I shares of numerous enterprises, notn- With the crowded ark in the maddest ; bly of banks, mounted to dizzy heights. hubbub. A catastrophe was already impending As Mrs Noah went scrubbity-cr|b-ub , whe „ the fa „ of the Union Generale ' p ' caused a collapse which stretched throughout the market and threw the Where she dried the things, pernaps you can guess: I never could dope it, I must confess. And ever since then has Monday's scope Been strictly narrowed to bars of soap, ■•er the 1 wo All ovc vorid. soap’s boss today. In 1790 and 1791 treaties were con eluded with the chiefs of those nations. BRITISH MEAT IMPORTS LAST YEAR. The imports of frozen meats into the j to October 31, 1760. United Kingdom during 1906 increased ' - Jan ? es .fright, from October 31. 1760, The Governors of Georgia, under the trustees, were: .Tames Edward Oglethorpe. July 15, 1732. to Julv 11. 1743. William Stephens. July 11. 1743, to April 8,-1751. j Henry Parker. April S. 1751. to Octo- ! her 1. 1754. The Governors, un were. John Reynolds. October 1 February 15 1757. Henry Ellis, from February 16. 1757, the crown. 1754. to .to July 11, 1782. about 9 per cent over 1905. reports the ; James Habersham. President of London Financial Times. Council and acting Governor from July . , ... .12. 1771. to February 11 1773. . imports of colonial and j The Governors, under the American foreign beef, mutton and lamb were j Government, were: valued at $84,916,600, of which $24.- Pre ^ dp l n - t - of 4 Cpanc ” ^ I °f Safety from June 22. l,7o. to Janu- °4-< 00 worth came from the colonies, ! ary 20. 1776. $32,110.9900 from Argentina and ' Archibald Bulloch. President of the con ; Provincial Council and Commander-in- - a..800 from other foreign countries. ; chief from January 20. 1776. to Feb- chie-tly lhe United States. North \ r uarv 22 1777. ceived from Alaska, the total of do mestic production was. in 1904. a little over 9 million dollars, and in 1906. 18% millions, the receipts of domestic gold from that territory having thus more than doubled in two years and being in 1906 2% times the amount paid for that territory. Even this growth of 31 million dol lars in ' two (years, in the trade with the non-contiguous territories, seems small when compared with the growth which has occurred dring the decade. Figures just compiled by the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor show that the value of the merchandise sent to Porto Rico in the calendar wear 1896 was $1,955,814. and in 1906. $21,998,646: to Hawaii, in 1896. $4,184,351. and in 1906. $12,430,955; to the Philippine Islands, in 1S9C, $174,287, and in 1906, $7,101,831; and to Alaska, an estimated value in 1896 of $4,000,000, and in 1906, $17,- 318,039: while in merchandise received fro mthose territories the increase has | been proportionately large. The value of merchandise brought from the Hawaiian Islands to the United States Is now about 30 times as great as in 1875. and the Value of mer chandise sent 'to that island from the mainland is also 10*times as great as in the years immediately preceding an nexation. less than a decade ago. In these cases, where the United States has become a large purchaser of the products of these tropical islands, their production has been stimulated and they have in like degree increased their purchases of manufactures and food stuff? from the United States. Prior to American occupation the share of the imports of the Philipnines supplied from the United*States seldom reached more than 3 per cent. During the period from 1900 to 1904 it aver aged 13 per cept. and in 1905 jt»- was 18 3-5 per cent. In the five years end ing with 1894 the share supplied by the Unijed Kingdom averaged 30 per cent, and in the five years ending with 1904 but 17 per cent. In 1905 it was also 17 per cent. In the five years ending Paris Bourse into a perturbation from which it did not recover for several years. “In 1889 Europe found that it had All over the world it’s squish, squash, bepa making altogether too extensive squosh, i loans in new countries, .such as South As the housewives go for the weekly America, which were in no condition wash. The Eskimo. In her melted snow. Scrubs and rubs at her furry clo'. And if Peary on Monday hits goal' He’ll find her wash on the long-sought Pole. And the South Sea dame, where it’s al ways fine. Hanes her Monday’s work on the handy line. On Monday all women for once are kin. Whatever their creed, their race or their skin. As they rub. rub. rub, and scrub, scrub, scrub. In river or lake or pond or tub. And today there is never a thing may cope With the world-wide empire of suds and soap. STATE PRESS VIEWS An advertisement in a contemporary is headed “We pay railroad fare both I ways.” So do we. dog gone it, but we don’t count it any merit.—Griffin News. Newspapers and school teachers are the only things we know of that have not been advanced in price. And they are worth all the rest!—Alpharetta Free Press. Judge Parker’s declaration that the negro is not fit to vote may be re garded as a direct attack upon the Foraker Presidential boom.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Now Congress is meddling with the freedom of the press. 'Congress had better let that matter alone, if it don’t want to get mixed up in a hornet’s nest.—Rome Tribune. B'ailey, the Senator, is causing trouble over the way he got it; while Bailey, the circus man, raised a rum pus over the way he disposed of it. The deadest one is to be excused.— Americus Times-Recorder. A statistician has figured out that to pay interest regularly. . It was in evitable that at the first unfavorable accident there would occur at least a momentary insolvency on the part of these countries which would result in a general crisis. It was the downfall of the house of Baring, and of several other less important concerns involved in these excessive loans to .South America, yvhich opened the eyes of every one and started the crisis. “It does not seem that we are today in a parallel situation. It is true. tSe price of copper cannot forever remain at 107 or 108 pounds sterling per'ton, any more than the other metals can hold at the high prices which they have reached. It is also true that among the mass of securities that are introduced daily on the Paris market there must be many of an ephemeral character, which will disappear. It may even he said that all this will probably end by bringing about—I do not say a 'debacle.’ something which would be a rather bold prediction—but reaction in the market for bank stocks financial and industrial shares, which are today, in high demand. To this extent, it is probably enough that in due course a reaction can and ought to occur: but it does not seem In tho least probable that this backward movement could have' the violence and intensity or the duration of the crises of 1882 or of 1889 and 1890. It would, in short, be an ejftcgeration to say that the situation is altogether healthy; but it is not profoundly threatened as it was at the two peflods referred to. “The truth is. the world has entered, so far as concerns the use of capital and industry, upon a new period: cvery one is alike; workmen, contractors and engineers, as well as capitalists and employers. This increased request for capital in industry, and. on the other hand this enlargement of the indus trial world, through the opening to efv- ilized production of Immense tracls of the world’s population, 750,000 go . ...... “partially clothed.” We had no idea previously unexplored or walled in— that the chorus was so large.—Colum- | this is exactly the phenomenon whl bus Ledger. Judge Emory Speer wants to know with 1905 the share of the imports 1 if ‘' thc courts of the United States drawn from Spain was 24 per cent, and ' he utilized by one gambler for the in the five years ending with 1904 7 per | purpose of recovering money which he cent. Thus the United States shows i has P aid mother gambler.” No, we a large gain in the share of the im- J think not. Thomasville Times-Eenter- ports and also in actual importations, prif®- , which did not average as much as a i Senator Tillman says that every helf million dollars from the United ! Senator knows that negroes are not al- States during the decade prior to j lowed to drink at the bars in Wash- occupation, and have steadily grown i ington's best hotels. Of course the until they now aggregate 5% millions, : Senators know it only by-hearsay.— or 12 times as much as the annual av- j Douglas Enterprise, erase during the period og 1884 to 1894 I The next Presidential contest will be This proportion of less than 20 per I a ver >' duI1 affaJr unless the Democrats cent which the United States is sup- cast aside tho chronic candidate.—' plying of the imports of the Philip- , Blakely Reporter. pines, while very much greater than I ^ re tnink that that murder case in that prior to American occupation, is still in marked contrast with the share being supplied in Hawaii and Porto Rico, which are now customs districts of the United States. In the case of I Porto Rico. 90 per cent of the mer- j chandise entering the island is brought ' from the United States and in the case _ Btltton Gwinnett, w^th same title as ! n f the Hawaiian Islands 21% per cent, Bulloch, to May s, Ii<i. ! the larger share of the imports drawn „ . „ „ „ . fron> foreign countries in the case of The first Governor of Georgia, under : Hau* ii and the Philippines being due the new Constitution of t..e State, was j to the presence of a large Oriental John Adams Treunen. from S. Ii77, to population, which draws upon China violent an innovation on English con- tw-een John Sharp Williams and James American shippers also sent $47,947,100 worth of live cattle and sheep. It Is estimated that of the total consump tion of meat in the United Kingdom, frozen meat now represents 17 per ZrtLn ‘'"'"I b T/ h<? ad<3e 4 d ' thP Pr °* ! ten Givinnett. Historical records show J Jrates"required"fo^the~8u«£r Estates portion rises to 26 per cent, while, it ; that in 1«S0. an act was passed by j are to be had only in foreign countries. January 8. 177S. He was elected by a i and j apan f or supplies of food and large majority over his opponent. But- | clothing, and to the fact that the ni- New York will result in a Thaw out. (Copyrighted).—Darien Gazette. BACHELOR REFLECTIONS. < un .cus,.is.i ton- , jmnorted live cattle anfi | the Royal Government of Georgia rrvatistn for the British King to ex- ^ a rdaman as its representative in . ‘ ^ ; disqualifying and rendering incapable press his sentiments openly, whereas I thp lTn 'tcd States Senate, the State of an American President under similar I iI!s *lssippi Is about to choose the lat- elreumstances would proceed to handle ! ter * or at an >' ratP thp latter has the our house of lords “without gloves." j bettPr chance. This suggests as a The contention between the two I Pertinent question what will the people houses of Parliament is an old and i " f somp of the Southern States do often recurring one. and while it is next? Arkansas has retired possible that the present determined fight on the Lords will have some ef fect to curb and check the growth of their power It is not within the bounds of probability that it will result in this branch of the legislative body being abolished. The gi.-t of the complaint against the House of Lords, as tersely stated by John Morley, is that it *‘U highly re spectable and capable member of the Senate in favor of a coarse-grained, mouthy demagogue named Jeffries Da vis, who unhappily is called “Jeff" and thus an honored Southern name of for- included. it is 37 per cent. Ten years ago imported beef, mutton and iamb amounted to only about 32 per cent of the consumption. Of the Immense to tal of 413.296 tons passing through the Smithfleid market, the proportion of meat of all kind count of disease was only 168 tons, or .04 per cent, and none of that was frozen meat. I certain persons from hold'ng or exer rising any office in Georgia and I POINTED PARAGRAPHS mer times is brought forward cheap connection. Tennessee has chosen cs-Governor “Bob" Taylor, an Mr. Treutlen had the honor of being ' From the Chicago News, placed upon the list as “Rebel Gover- I Soft people occasionally use hard nor.” When Treutlen was at the head j words. of the administration in Georgia, a ! A toast—May the best you wish for proposition was made by South Caro- ! be the worst you get. lina to Georgia to unite the two : Minds of too many men are fi.lled seized in 1905 on ac- I States: and William Henry Drayton j with useless knowledge. 1 was appointed one of the commission- ' The more a man wants to borrow the ers to propose this union. All Georgia harder he shakes your hand, was strong against the proposition. When any one has done you a favor Drayton was a leading citizen of South how small it looks the day after. Carolina. Governor Treutlen issued an Efforts of a homely girl who tries to interesting proclamation in regard to | look pretty are very .often vain. Drayton and others, which was. in part, as follows: “Whereas, it has been represented unto me that William Henry Drayton, of the State of South Carolina, and divers other persons whose names are yet unknown, are unlawfully endeavor ing to poison the minds of the good PULAJANES BURN TOWN AND KILL CONSTABULARY MANILA. Feb. 14.—Pulajanes at tacked and burned two towns in the province of Occidental Negros yester day and killed six members of tlie con stabulary. From the New York Press. A woman has a real good time shop ping unless she buys something. There would be a heap of virtue. *n the world If there was more fun in it. A man can break out of jail, but he’s got to die to get over having a big nose. A man has to be mighty amiable to laugh at a joke he was going to get off himseif when the chance came. You can nearly always tell a man who is making money by the way he doesn’t feel he has to spend it to prove it. A girl cails her love affair a failure if her parents approve. Ask a man for a contribution and he will offer you a lotted of introduction. When a woman doesn't get bad news she can be sad thinking she is going to. A man calls it training his child when he gets mad with its mother because it cries. The more of his own money he has in his pockets the less use it seems to his wife to be married to him. Some men outlive their usefulness and some others are born without anv. Euloqies on Life of Rlxey. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.—Eulogies on the life, character and public services of the late John F. Rlxey. of Viriginia. will he held in the House of Representatives at 10 o'clock. Monday. February 23. EDNA MAY. THE ACTRESS. ENGAGED TO OSCAR LEWISOHN LONDON. Feb. 13.—Edna May. the American actress, is engaged to marry Oscar Le-wlsohn. son of Adolph Lewisohn. of New York. The wedding will occur some time this year and th~ couple will reside In London. Miss May will con tinue her theatrical career. was inciting in 1882, a fact which ren dered the crisis of that epoch so ter rible and so prolonged:- nor did this advantage present itself with anything like the same degree in 1889. * “Today these conditions offer soms assurance nf comparative stability: it is diffcult to see where the conditions of an outright panic can be found. If people have not avoided all excesses, at any rate they have, not committed blunders as grave as those of other- years. It is entirely probable that a reaction will be witnessed, and perhaps that in certain countries where credit-- have been manifestly abused there may be some serious shock: but It does not seem likely that we are annroaching a financial crash for the world at large. ' “Nevertheless, it is time to take In sail. Difficulties may suddenly ari=-e: we have reached the point where new excesses cannot, safely be permitted: prudent people will do well to. avoid entanglements and keep their position carefuliy in hand: prudent nations should do the same. It will be -.vise bn the part of the United States to cut down heavily the stupendous pro- . gram of railway construction which they have in view for 1907: In the same way. certain South American States will be wise if they cut down the figures of the loans for which their* applications have become too frequent. We ourselves will do well .to curtail our colonial loans. Assuming such precautions, one may be as«ured of a transition, without financial distress, from the period of exaltation to the normal period; the violent shocks of panic may bo prevented and be re placed by gradual reaction and a mod erate depression. But, on the other hand while it may be premature to plunge into economic or financial pes simism, It will be unquestionably dan gerous to persist in the extr.ivn'--> n - optimism which has been prevailing.” X ATLANTA MAN NAMED AS ONE OF THE DIRE CTNCTXXATT. O . Feb. 14.- state Mantle nnd Til Manuf sociation. in session hero to the fol!ov.*inp officers Presid F. L,orenzo. Chfensro • vJoe-pi F. Dur u im. G-envil [c. S. C. T. Tv. Graff. Plttsbn c-.’ * Cx-b naittce: G. F. Knh ■T S. TUlier. Phflodel phla* an «nps- St. Louis * T.«»- as the n'-xt pla*:c of meeting. CT0R3 J.CFr-