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THE TWICE-A-TTEEK telegraph
FRIDAY, FEBERUARY 22, 1907.
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By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
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what hand ir
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■ars
of go
from thir-
!he Union,
fair to t>5
WI
Imilar to the one ol
lea a convention of delej
Southern Stale? aaaemb
.' inted Howell Cobb. Th
nd another gentleman a
the State constitution of 1577, than it
is now, and va? more frequent and
liberal prior to the Civil war than at
any period since that memorable epoch.
The nmr.ic ipal rules ? in ante beilum
times seemed to think It wisdom to
contribute the public funds vhere it
would do the most public good. They
Its were hot hampered by constitutional
h.c Inhibition. For Instance: The city
cc. council subscribed $250,000 to the bulld-
r... Ing of the Central railroad, in 153^
ed from Macon to Savannah. She was a
small place, but she "came across"
handsomely and progressively. At about
i the same time the council subscribed
p- i to five hundred shares of stock of the
on Monroe railroad amounting to $50,000.
The brave little town bad her sleeves
rolled up to the elbow and was in the
push to the finish. Later, the Mon-
..... railroa . n— arre kn f .vr. ns th- Ma
con and ’Western, running from Macon
to Atlanta. Somewhere about 1S53. the
! here aj - (Mayor and council subscribed $200,000
ias B. King i to the capital stock of the Macen and
direct trade ' Brunswick railroad, now the Southern,
and go th-' pr
and immigration
Europe. It may
n the scene in
Tings .something
jdav. In the fif-
d In
c«|.
Vlcte
clnte
irtl
e? in Uilrty-thre*
from Maine to Or>■
to Mexico. In addition
fttlementa Major Cl'-'
Itlsh Co
in i Zone,
a of the
ie colony
een sold
different
?on ana
to these
sner his
commissioners to visit Europe
interest of the project. In Ms
its they were preparing to ma
first trip across the waters, th
visited at Macon by the minis:?
in
| operating between Macon and Bruns
1959.
their
were
plenl-
ited
lint
chr
nre
potentiary of the King Ff the Belgians,
-who wanted the commissioners to visit
his country with the view of estab
lishing direct trade relations between
Belgium and Georgia, and the South.
But soon thereafter the Civil -war com
menced and the direct trade project
and pros- | never reached fruition,
shown by
Industrious farm-
« In South Georg'a,
mtenterl
rotts Is
t that the far
I them anil
and Valdostr
r S1.2S1.600 <]
When asked
th
Florida,
, have at
-posited
how he sr
Geor- I
between I
aggra- I
In the !
:ured so ;
emigrants
■rtlsing."
the Major replied:
In the 1907 almanac and encyclopedia
of the New York World there is a list
of "The Famous Old People of 1907.’’
of ages from CO to 97, inclusive. Under
the age of 68 appears the name of
Senator A. O. Bacon, together with
wick. The enterprising spirits in the
golden long ago evidently believed that
railroads were potent factors in the
growth, development and prosperity of
a community. In 1860 work commenced
on the Macon and Augusta railroad,
and the Mayor and council promptly
came to the assistartfe of this enter
prise and subscribed $100,000 to its
construction. Here is a total of six
hundred thousand dollars ($600,000^
subscribed by the Mayor and council,
before the Civil war for the building
of railroads. I believe that the bonds
of the city were given for its subscrip
tions to the stocks of these various
railroads. So far as I can. recall, the
largest donation that has been made
by the Mayor and council since the
senator A. u. Bacon together vcitn c ] 0se / 0 f the Civil war, was $125,000
i r ™ S vLcHcll!I 11 !: ' I in bonds and ten acres of land, which
I believe the chief aim of the I mm!- '' “ “ ' ***"”"
gratlon convention is to devise ways
and means to obtain a supply of the
proper kind of immigrants from
Europe. This being so, the statement
may be of Interest to some of the dele
gates that last year there arrived In
this country from across the waters
1.100,735 immigrants. This was the
largest number that has. ever arrived
in th, United "Stales in any one year
in the history of th» American Gov
ernment. Of this number SS0.036 car
through the customs district of N
York. II does sc m that Georgia , oy , nr worm to oe piacen in us com- i the onIv one that dId not receive it n'a^
should be able by the proper effort to paratively .short Ust of "Famous- Old cia , assistance from the M«wir
get a full supply of good laborers People." yet I oplhe that Senator Ba- Council, and no rnih-oad whither bufit
from tin vast liord ■ that annually resents the Insinnanon that hei 5? , nto or out from the citv. either be-
, r into this country. Of th- immi- I aged. He feels that he is. In but the | .
grants Hint came here In 1996 Italy summer of his life. We all know that
fVrnlshed th.- largest number, towir. the Georgian is an active leader „in
i-o which was 51.641 more than | “the march of intellect," rind one of
"the choice and master spirits of this
age.” The World asks, “at what age
dees one become ‘oldT ” and says:
"Five centuries ago a man was old at
fifty. But the hale and hearty gentle-
ox-Queen Llliuokalanl. of the Hawaiian
Islands. John Morley, John Wana-
maker. Generals Brooke and E. S. Otis
and F. Hopklnson Smith. If Senator
Bacon had been one year older his
name would have appeared In the list
which contains the names of ex-Presi-
d<-nt Cleveland, J. Plerpont Morgan and
Admiral Dewey. Or if he were one
order to secure the location of the in
stitution in this city. This gift was
made in 1870 and 1871. The foregoing
recital of some of the liberal and pro
gressive contributions by Macon has
been prompted by the proposition now
before the Mayor and council for them
to appropriate $1,500 for the city’s rep
.. . resentat|o n at the Jamestown expori- i
year younger his name would be 1st- j Uon . Before leaving this subject it mav
Bonk'•feller. Admiral he 0 f interest to state that of all the !
?! * 0U .™™ Ul , ! railroads commenced at M-o°n he‘
While it is a compliment to be selected .he <~u v ii ' !
ria i by The World .q be placed In its com- £ 0 ^iv onTtha
arrived from there the yenr hefor-.
England sent less than 50,000 in 1906
and from the German Emplr,- came
l<ss than 40.000. Next to Italv there
Russian intro vrar.-s, the
total from Russia being 215.665. Of
the whole number or Immigrants in
the lls'.al year ending June 30, 1906,
there were: Laborers. 226.345; ser
vants. 115.984: farm laborers, 239,125;
skilled laborers, 177,122.
fore or after the war. has been of
greater benefit to Macon than the
Southwestern. It has poured great
commerce and other treasures into the
lap of .this city.
Efforts hnve been made in the Ge.or-
gia le gislature, from time to time, 'o
establish a State Bureau of Immigra
tion, and failure has marked the at
tempts. Rut I am sneaking a little
too fast, for once a Bureau of Immi
gration was established by Georgia —
In 1869—thirty-eight years ago It is
said that the movement succeeded in
adding one person to the population of
Georgia, a relative of one of the Im
migration Commissioners, who re
turned from across the waters with
him. An appropriation of $10,000 was
made by the State. Of this sum S3.000
was allowed for printing, and the
salary of Home Commissioner George
N. Lester was fixed at $2,000 per an
num. and Foreign Commissioner Sam-
n< 1 Weil’s salary was $3,000. A pub
lished historical report says: "Fnith-
ful efforts were made by both com
missioners, but owing to the persis
tent and rancorous Republican slan
ders against the good order Of the
State no good was accomplished, and
Col. I^ester. finding his office unavail
ing for benefit, resigned it before the
expiration of his two years’ -term.
Commissioner Weil returned frpm
Europe after fourteen months’ ab
sence. bringing his niece with him,
and there was a y.ii'l deal of raillery
among the anti-immigration men over
the alleged harvest of one immigrant
aa the result of this elaborate scheme
of State immigration. Tile report of
tins attempt at Immigration showed
that Commissioner Wei! had received
$0,000 salary and spent $1,520 for
printing: Commissioner Lester re
ceived $2,598
printing. W
bis salary, and Lester's were nearly
one-half of salary."
Which is the oldest business firm in
_ Macon? I mean what partnership has
man of today who has just turned sixty | existed longest without some change,
would probably protest against being i I think the banner belongs to Hayes
classed among old people, even if fa- & Mansfield. I mav be mistaken. If
molts. 1 ham T should like to be 1—for-—ed cor-
reetly. C. C. Haves ard W. H. Mans-
Rev. W. W. Landrum, D. D., of At- | field entered into their present part-
lanta. a noted Baptist divine, is a trus- i oershfp , "twenty-six years ago. this
tee of Mercer University. He has •™ lnIn F J ” n f- , Is tl"*re eny firm in
| Macon entitled to the belt over this
record? Of course, there are business
written an interesting reply to the ar
ticle by Editor Edmonds, of the Manu
facturers’ Record, of Baltimore, on Mr.
John D. Rockefeller’s recent gift of
$32,000,000 for educational purposes,
which fund was put In charge of the
General Education Board, of New
York. Editor Edmonds’ views were In
the nature of a warning. As explained
by Dr. Landrum, the editor’s idea is
that the funds, if expended in part in
the South, will evoke an unneeded
charity that will snp manhood ahd
sturdiness of character, and thst Mr.
Rockefeller is shrewdly seeking to lim
it freedom of teaching at those col
leges which accept his aid. Dr. Lan
drum points out that the facts are
dead against the alleged corrupting ef
fects of pecuniary aid to worthy young
men acquiring an education, and that
the trustees and faculties are loyal to
their charters, which expressly define
both their liberty and their limita
tions. Dr. Landrum makes this point,
which is of special local interest: That
gifts from the General Education
Board are directly promotive of in
creased liberality in the South, inas
much as every grant by the board is
conditioned upon the raising of a lar
ger sum by the recipient. For exam
ple, says Dr. Landrum: “At the re
quest of Governor Terrell and myself,
the General Education Board offered
President Jameson and the trustees of
Mercer Univerity, at Macon, $75,000,
provided they would secure $225,000
more. The effect is not to pauperize
salary and spent $a00 for | fj eor gi a Baptists. Far from it Already
■M's expenses exceeded fi ve Georgia men have pledged $5,000
I wonder if the Junior Order of
T'lillod Amera.m M.-ehanies w ll have
representatives at the Immigration
convention today. This organization
Is very zealous in its efforts to pre
vent unrestricted immigration. The
order has a large membfrsh'p in this
city and State, and throughout the
country. I understand Hint every con
fer. e.ee or convention which has been
assembled in the United States In
many years to discuss the immigration I
question has been attended by the Ju
nior Order’s Committee on National
Legislation or Its repr- septative. as
this committee says, "to defend tlie
principles of our order and our posi
tion on this burning question, against
all comers—the foreign society. the
employer of cheap labor, the political
manipulator, the college crank, and
the agents of the steamship com
panies."
The Junior order N maintaining
headquarters in Washington during
the session of Congress, and has a
committee present closely watching
every phase of the pending discussion
end legislation on the immigration
question. In the declaration of prin
ciples of the order appears the follow-
nc: "We announce an honest wel
come to all Immigrants wno come
hither seeking to hotter their conditio.,
and intending to become earnest and
law-abiding citizens of our country.
Rut we maintain that there is no room
in this land for the anarchist, the nihil
ist or the escaped criminal, or for any
one who is not willing to pledge al
legiance to our flag and nationality,
and to place the allegiance due it above
that conceded to any other power, civil
or religious." No applicant shall be
eligible to membership in the order
except he be: "A white male citizen
of the United Spates of America, born
within its then territory or domain,
or under the protection of its flag.”
Mr. W. IT. Moxle.v of Macen, is State
councilor of the order in Georgia.
000
each to Mercer, who, in all proba
bility, would never have done It, but
for the generosity of the New York
board.” It may be of Interest 4o state
right here that some years ago, on two
separate occasions, Mr. Rockefeller
generously remembered Mercer Uni
versity. In 1S91 he proposed to do
nate $10,000 to Mercer provided that
the Baptists of Georgia would raise
$40,000. thus adding $50,000 to the )>er-
manent endowment. This amount was
raised in cash and subscriptions, bear
ing six iter cent interest. In 1900, Mr.
Rockefeller, through the American
Baptist Education Society, offered to
donate an addilional $15,000 to Mer
cer University, provided that $50,000
more was raised by the friends of the
institution. The terms were met, and
the endowment was accordingly in
creased by $65,000.
houses in this citv which have be»n
in existence for a longer time, hut the
partnership name has been changed in
some respects. For more than a auar-
ter of a centurv these two men have
worked in harmony, which speaks well
for their fldePfv to each, other and
their compatibilitv of tempers.
Thev can sav with the poet:
”We have lived and loved together
Through many changing years;
We ha\*e. shared each other’s gladness
And wept each other’s tears”
The fact that Haves & Mansfield is
th? only living unchanged firm of
twenty-six years ago *neuld make all
of us pause. It teaches that every?
thing is subject to change, and shows
"how fleeting and paitrv is the estate
of man." and tells of the desolation
of time and of the vanitv of human
happiness. The partnership signs of
twenty-six years ago—where are they?
And echo answers in mournful
cents. "Where are they?” What are
twenty-six years? "A tale that is
told:” a dream. Twenty-six years
have erased all the partnership names
that existed over the doors in Macon
at the commencement of that period
and substituted others in their stead,
and In another twentv-six years the
partnership names of today will have
passed away on the wings of the wind.
“So for the hair’s breadth of t>me as-,
signed to thee live rationally, and part
with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe
olive, extolling the season that bore
it and the tree that matured it."
HOPEFUL VIEW OF THE NEGRO.
Saturday
majority
(Joel Chandler Harris, v it
Evening Post).
I believe that, at bottom
of the American people are a: one
with respect to the negro and his fu
ture. and the reason I have for mak
ing the statement is a sound one. name
ly. that a large majority of the peo
ple of this country are blessed with
common sense in a larger measure than
those of any other country on the
globe. This innate commo4 sense has
brushed away so many difficulties and
solved so many problems and carried
the country safely through so many
crises, and has come to the front in
so many emergencies that it may
confidently be depended on in the fu
ture.
The negro is of a different race, it
is true, and his mind may fall to re
spond to the different processes of civ
ilization and enlightenment: but this
remains to be seen. It has not failed
to respond thus far. * It seems to he
getting along remarkably well, consid
ering all the^ circumstances by which
he has been surrounded. He Is acquir
ing property quite rapidly, and in out-
modern civilization this facultv is re
garded. whether rightly or not. as the
highest possible test of progress.
for support
arm go up
"During
;g Philip Phi
runs.
the
lg which had late-
iur Mission.’ Tilt
scrap of paper from
ote a note, which be
chairman. Afterward
It was: ’Nev- lose
have 'Your Mission’
i composer <
piano and sang a s
jy been written—'1
President took a s
his pocket and wre
handed up to th
I saw that note
of evening let u
repeated hv Philip Phillips. Don'
I called for it.'
The song was repeated, and
chairman announced that it was by the
request of ‘one whose authority was
not to be questioned,’ Of course ev
eryone knew that that meant the stoop
shouldered sad-faced, attentive figure
sitting in the middle of the hall: along
with the ‘plain people’ he loved:
"Two months after this came
tragedy of Lincoln's death."
• he
the
CONTROL OF PIPE LINES.
The .negro Is also acquiring an edu
cation—slowly, as a matter of course,
but surely—and by so much as the
minds of the pre'ent generation are exertion of vigorous Standard Oil in-
prepared and equipped! by just so fluence last spring the "rate law”
(Washington Cor. N. Y. Journal of
Commerce.)
The control of pipe lines which has
been wanting for many years will,
whatever is done w.tJT regard to the
making of rates through government
agency, be demanded as a necessary
element in the improvement of pres nt
conditions. Had it not bern for the
much will be the minds of the gene
ration to come be prepared, to assimi
late knowledge.
The reason that I can. afford to be
hopeful in the matter lies in the fact
that I am famii°r with the hi'torv of
a county in Middle Georgia where' the
negroes comprise a majority of the
population. In that county lynching Is
unknown because the particular crime
that incites to lynching is unknown.
Such a crime has never been commit
ted in the county, and I roentWi the
fact with considerable pride, for the
birth. It may be thcr-hf that t ; t’s
is a descent to the particular, but the
point I desire to make is that the over
whelming majority of the in
all ports of the Routh. especfatlv in
the agricultural regions, are leading so
ber, industrious lives.
A temperate race is bound to be in
dustrious. and fbe no—-oes are to—>ner-
ate, as compared with the whites. I
am sneaking, of eogrse of the negroes-
on the farms, but even, in the towns,
the majority cf them are sober and ip-
dustrVme. The idle and criminal classes
among them make a s-?” show >« the
police records, but ririit .here in A’lan-
tbo m—en d negroes
far outnumber these w-’-o pre on the
iis*s of the police as old or new of-
fe-derg.
I am bound to cone'nde from what I
pee at] about me and from what I know
of the raoe elsewhere, that the ne-ro.
notwithstanding the la*e start-he h?!
made in civilization and eattghtenment.
is cans hie of making himself a usaftfi
member in the communities in which
he lives and moves, and thi/t he is be- !
coming more spa more deatrous of con- i
would have absolutely specifi-<l that
pipe lines should be kept absolutely
separate in ownership from oil produc
ing and refining concerns.
Senator Tillman stood out for th’s
provision for a good while, but h s
efforts proved to be of comparatively
little offecL He was forced by general
fee’ing in the Senate to yield the
point and to consent to the changes
that were made. It shou’d be under
stood, also, that the first breach In
this part of the bill was made by S'n-
ator Forokor. who took the ground
that under no circumstances shou’d
it apply to gas companies. Some of his
const tuents were interested-, in the
long-distance pip'ng of natural gas
and they were desirous of being left
fre' to carry cn this business in con
nection w ! th the gas wells. Mr. Fnr-
: aker carried his point, and. when that
had been done, it was natural that
othevs shou’d make use of the fact .as
a basis for ins sting on th ir de’”»nds
Thu? the opposition to Senator Tillman
and those who were desirous of in
cluding o'l pipe l'nes was considerably
strengthened, a n d later became irre
sistible.
One argument that was us-d w'th
mu-b force n ’he S 0 ””’? was that thi
rl’-e line control wou'd. be highly in-
j'-rious to independent concerns, "f 1
that the-e ind' pendents were nonns -d
to the rot lev. . It was supposed then,
ana ba S - Hocome increasing'’ pi ar
since that time, that the "Independ
ents.” for whose welfare thei—' was so
much anxletv. were more or less im-
ng nary, and that so far as th^y ex
isted at al! they were working and
talking tinder a control which pro
ceed’d from some central source.
forming to all the laws that have b Pe n NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
enacted for the protection of society.
NOTES ON LINCOLN,
Examine label on yenr na.
! -per. It tells bow you stand on
ti e books. Due from date on
Frcm the New Y-rk Tribune.
President Lincoln as he impressed ai„ , , , nj - a
girl not yet out of her teens avas the j t-Tie label. Seild ill < dlieS c.Tld
referred a moment ago? He was one ! north Georgia, and that section- sel-
of Ms cop’s’ most progressive citizens. : dem divides in politics. It has usually
He was not only largely interested in proceeded on the Kentucky idea—
: railroad building, but' he was presi- j “United we stand, divided we fall.”,- — ■ - — -- — t—r—. — . - ,, -triorr
i dent of the OcmulgOc l5ank. which was And Wright may not oppose Clay.— : timely subject of a paper read by Mrs. j.&iS.O I'SHeW I OF tile year 1»U/.
organized jn T.837. and was connected John T. Boifeuillet-in Macon. .Tele- | Mary,Coffin Johnson at the. monthly! —.
with other financial institutions, owned 8Taph. j meeting of the Daughters of Ohio in INCREASE OF RAILWAY -EARN-
the first .flreVprocf warehouse, in the Discussion in regard to the next race ; New York held at the Waldorf-Astoria . INGS.
city which afterward became the tor United States Seijhtor in this State , yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Johnson her- ! The gross earnings of 134 railways
present city hall, and when the Mon- appears to be warming up. The above ; se if was the girl, and her paper was in 1906. according to figures compiled
nxpii i.ic • * * J «r l “ j. 7’ ; bob nw tu ncj pit jjci \vn» ISI’h, accciruins LU liguress izviirijmeu
roe railroad . was put on the block from tne pen of Mr, John Boifeuillet, j made up of notes which she jotted by the Commercial and Financial
r a Northern clerk of the House of .Representatives, : down at the time. Chronicle reached the total of $2;131,-
Cowles bought it in for !■■■■■■■■ .
party. When Cowles purchased this is_ important as in view oj his' evidence
, “Married at
an increase of $224,062,452. or
A V*. • • V A- " ‘ “ _ ... « . ' , , , * -**'-«-* »■ ‘'"“I LUi lift YJt
po?e.' The line was-'coir.Dleted to At- j'aoubtless based on what he believes to ; in my diary the things I saw and heard miles of road. Assuming: that■ between
lpnta, and there.connection was formed , correct information. ^TVe do not i and I made careful nob? of every time 25.000 and 30.000 additional miles are
with the State road, which reached think, however, that the fact that Mr. ; i looked at Lincoln. not represented in the tables. the
northward as f-ir as Tennessee, arid Clay and Mr. Wright-are both from : “The first time I saw ’him he was chronicle estimates that the returns
ac ” just over tbe line of that common- I north Georgia has any. bearing on the standing up at his full height, calm from all roads would shoiv an increiso
wealth. In time the State road con- | situation. Mr. Clay is from Marietta, , and unconcerned, apparently, in an of approximately $240 000.000, of u’hicn
nected with other northerly lines. aq<? j -which is not much more than suburb | open barouche, opposite my door in tha $135,000,000 would represent the results
these with others, and who knows but } °* Atlanta and should not be properly i street.of a Southwestern city. The car- j of the first six months of the year
what .Terrv Cowles’ road mav yet be classed as north Georgia. It is At- j riage moved slowly, the street being an d $105,000".000 the operations of the
a link in a great chain of roads reach- i lanta. which means Atlanta pure and I blocked by masses of people, and I. like j as t six months. The figures of 134
ing to the North fwffe. Mr. Cowles ■ simple. As regards geographical po«t- ” " ’ ’ ” -------
1 fcion. Atlanta represents no nartlcular
section but Atlanta.—Rome Tribune.
THE SPOT ON THE SUN.
built the handsome brrhnsion on Bond's
Hill, now owned end occupied by Mr.
J. W. Cabaniss. This hou=e has been
known longer in local cH-cles as the
“Bond place.”, than it has by any other
name. It was owned for a long time { XV• J. L., in New York World.
by Col. Joseph Bond ' a wealthy plant- I Note,—Professor Brashear. of the Al- . ......
er He was a lakg^vrower of cot- 1 lesrheny Observatory, -Pittsburg, dis- | was not easily impressed at-that .time,” i tf nes nearest to
everyone else, gazed at hipi with all my railways include the Canadian lines,
eyes. Unattractive he was in his per- but not I the iMexican roads or the
sonal appearance, unpolished, with no , mining operations of the anthracite
pretentions in his manner to superiori- CO al roads. The percentage of increase
tv, and yet something about him. some- of the Southern group of .railroads is
thing in his dignitv and simplicity and 13.6. a larger, percentage than any of
the strong individuality of his pres- the other groups. Northern. Northwcst-
ence. impressed me verydeeplv. And I j ern. Middle and Western or firunk
this percentage is
The recent annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Southwestern
Railroad Company in tip's citv fur
nished material for reminiscence. The
Southwestern is an illustration of the
truth that a small beginning often
makes a big ending. T had a 1 wavs
heard that the late Jerry Cowles
started the building of this road, but j
to be certain of this I consu'Wl Ma
con’s only historian. Mr. John C.
Butler, on the subject, and he con
firmed my imnresslon. Mr . Rutler j
that in tbe summer of 1845 M r .
ton. and in the .year 1*59 he attracted ! covered a spot on the sun last Wednes- j Mrs. Johnson remarked parenthetically, : that of the Southwestern group, which
the attention of ,rhe State to him by fi a >’ three and a half-billions of square I by any serious person.” : u .<
making a single ssH4 erf bis cotton crop
of 1858. which transaction netted' him
over one hundred thousand dollars
($100,000). While tile Mg deal was
still the talk of the peonle they were
astounded, to hear that Mr. Bond tmd
been shot and killed on one of his
plantations in Southwestern Georgia
liv .a former overseer whom he had
d'seharved for "cruel treatment of a
slave owned hv Mr. Bond. The re
mains of the deceased were hrou»-M A shadow which reflects, perhaps,
to Macon aftd interred in Rose Hill Us integrity!
Cemeterv. and over them has been
miles in area.
What?
A spot.
On the sun? Alas
Titat this shculd come to pass!
A las that this good sun of ours.
The source of heat and light.
Should have a sbsiioti- on Its work
As anv mortal might!
Alas that we, who every day
Look*uD to it. should see
Cowles had called a public meeting erected the handsomest private monu
for a certain night at the Citv Council ment in the South.
Owing to the foresight and energy
f a certain druggist, a former Macon
man. the pure food drug and liquor
law which was enacted at the last ses
sion of the Legislature, and to take
effect from and after the firs: day of
August. 1007. contains the proviso that
the act shall not apply to stocks of
drugs and medicines on hand in this
Smte. urni! the ties: dav of August.
190$. This gives the druggists ample
time in which to dispose of all stocks
on hand that may not come up to the
rcoulrcment of the act.. Dealers in
foods, beverages, condiments, candies
and liquors must dispose of their pro
hibited stock by August, 1907. The
former Macon druggist alluded to
above, contended single-handed and
alone before the Legislature for the
extension of time allowed the drug
gists. Perhaps the other druggists
though: they could dispose of their
prohibited stock by August t. 1907, but
some of them now find they were mis
taken. and others are just learning that
they have until August 1. )f next year,
ir, which to get rid of their stock and
chamber to discuss the project of con
structing a line through soutbv-e<:t
Georgia. Tbe night o; the mee’irig
was dark and verv rainy. Mr. Cnv-bs
found no one In attendance excent Mr.
A. R. Freeman, the clerk and treasurer
of the council. He asked him to re
main and keep tbe lights burning
while he went out and drummed un
a crowd. And tb's is who, hannened.
ns Mr. Butler tell“ It: Tbe night be
ing so inclement Cowles found no one
who world aeeomuanv him until he
p'et Mr. Simri Rnee. in b ? s printing nf-
fieo. mho agreed to eo with him to the
"t’ubiic Railroad co,vio^_
Rose and Freeman were the onlv per
sons present They soon determined
When St. Josenh’s Catholic church
get« jts new chimes of twelve bells. ... ■ ...
Macon will hear some beautiful and -etting spotted every lime
delightful music. • The chimes will T.,at snots are handed ’round.
We c.annet tell, we dfo not know—
The sun is far from here:
And we may onlv guess by what
Is happening more near, ,
The sun’s hot stuff, no doubt of that.
And hot stuff: we have found.
“Three years later I was in Wash
ington. Mv first glimpse of h'm there
was at a formal function, where I had
tbe pleasure of a handshake and a
brief word from the President. The
shows 13.4 percentage of increase.
The increase of earnings is greater
on all the roads than in any other
year from- 1896 to 1906. The Railway
Age says: “It is due to many favor
able influences among which may be
following Sunday I Sat but a few yards | mentioned the unparalleled industrial
away from the pew which the Presi- j activity, the successive abundant har-
dent occupied at the New Aork-Avenue : vasts and the free movement of traffic
Presbyterian Church, and I, was struck j permitted by the open winter in the
■L h ^ S J areWC i r ^ l00 ’ i ’ '"? iines , early months of last year. The aggre-
delightful music.' The chimes will _
play many sweet and familiar tunes. " u * •**>■
Among those for popular concerts will However gay
he the following: Wostmins’er Chime ° r an '’ other way
Quarters. Suwannee River. Thine Eyes
so Blue and Tender. Bluebells of Scot
land. R^bin AQalr The Chimes of Trin
ity. Lohengrin’s Wedding March. Home,
Sweet Home. Flow Gently. Sweet Af-
ton. When the Harve it Days Are Over,
Intermezzo (Cava. Rusticana). My Old
Kentucky Home American hymn. St.
Patrick’s Day. The Marseillaise. Dixie
_ , , Land. Columbia. Gem of the Ocean.
upon a programme, and drew tin a pre- stonewall Jackson’s Praver, March of
gL-.L the Men of Harlech. Bonnie Banks of
elected Lo c h Lomond. Wearln’ o’ the Green,
Bannie Doon. Killarnev, Auld Lang a aa ‘t million miles big?
Syne. Medley of patriotic airs. For go. pig.
a Saturday evening prologue the^e Also rats.
will be such nieces as Juanita. Shells Are New Yorkers sun sharps or sun
of Oce-n. Roc’-ed in tbe Cradle of .
the Deeo. and in music’s sweetest 1S t,le w«r»t.
strain. Of a sacred character ttmre 'idn t New York get there first?
will be. Nearer- My God to Thee, Our
Lord is PA = o n: Jesus. tb e Very , ° ut > Pittsburg spot!
Thought of Thee: Abide With Me; j ~ ;
Hnlv nod. we Prai'e Thy Name ! The Trained Nurse.
Mary. Star of the Sea and numerous From th° Baltimore Sun.
others. Tbe total weight of the bells . The Maryland Stat“ Association of
til
The official organ of tbe Junior Or
der does not seem pleased that Oscar
Straus. Is secretary of the Department
of Commerce and Labor, and that Rob
ert Watchorn. who was born in Eng
land and ha« only been a resident of
the United States for about fifteen
years. Is the commissioner of immigra
tion at Ellis Island. Mr Watcho-n is
the gentleman who conducted C s alr- I 1.
man John A. Betjeman, of the ?:--c Jf
executive committee of the Georgia tio
Immigration Association, tnd State • r>r :
Commissioner of Agriculture Hu .is ? -
and other Georgiars ’hr.vueh c V - r v do de
partment cf the Eiits Island station, on : t’-i
the reo“nt visit of these gentlemen t 5 ’
to the North to studv the immign-
tlon sitnnfion a"d conditions, with S-
vievr of presenting th-flr observa-.’e-.s
and ideas to th" corv-ntion h 0 ;sj n£r j n • drv
Macon today. The tff'cia’ organ, of the ’ cas
Junior O-der c’oses »n editor! il w-rh me
these words: "The time is come w-on Li
the President of the United 8v;os ha;
should he convinced that the peatve
of the United Crates want ar. 4—0-. 1
ican in the office of secretarv
Department of Commerce and
and an American on guard at Kills
Island as commissioner of Immigra
tion, so Americans and .tot Jews and
things
mer Mr
tout the
m drtlgn
rht
th,
ult«
branding and imitation of foods for
nup or beast, of hew-a!*<•-,?, cand'es and
condiments, of medicines, drugs and
liquors or the manufacture and =aie
thereof in th" State of Georgia. Rome
of the druggists are busv examining
the act to fi-d if it really doe? n't
go i”to force and effect until Angus?
1. J9 n 8 so 'nr as thev are concerned.
Cowles was ttnapi
chairman, and Mr. Freeman secreiarv
of the meeting. On the part of the
audience Mr. Rose presented the busi
ness for the meeting, which was al
ready rrenared. and the resolutions
were adopted amid much enthusiasm,
without a dissenting voice. And such
was the commencement of the South
western Railroad, much has done so
much for the prosperity and welfare of
Macon, and the growth and develop
ment of the section of country through
which it runs. From the meeting of
that trio, on a dark and rainy night,
s of nice j grew the road that runs from Macon
of the for- | to Albany, and on to Blakely, a d’s-
art in quo,-- ] ;ance of 156 miles, and down to Eu-
-ation. nvs- j (aula and Ft. Gaines, and over to Co-
f food? f r | lumhus.
* I A less indomitable and persevering
spirit rhan Jerry Cowles would have
collapsed under the conditions with
:uk: c ;i he was confronted in his first
effort to bu’ii the Southwestern. In
I pere~<her. 1845 the General Assembly
of Georgia granted a charter for the
I building e? the road Tp the follow
ing vear the Central railroad supplied
: 'rods to have a survey made. On
I February 10. 1*47. the company or-
Tbo sun may have been acting.
What we want to know is
How did it happen that this spot on its
phis
Was discovered from Pittsburg
Tn=uei(j of New York?
That’s what
w e want to know about the spot
By gosh!
Do our astronomers s’o.sh
Around the heavens and not see
A sort said to be
Three
which the past three years had drawn
in his face.
“Near the close of January. 1865. I
went aga'n to Washington. With our
party were several men who represent
ed a noble, unpaid charity wh’ch the
Civil War had brought into existence—
the United States Christian Commis
sion. These men had an interview with
gate increase in the ten years from
1896 to 1906 was $1,325,000,000. In
that period the smallest gain over the
preceding twelve months ,vas in 1896.
when it was 0.26 per cent. The aver
age for eleven years is 7.51 per cent.
In that period an unbroken record of
yearly gains 1? shown. If business
conditions enable the railways to add
President Lincoln at the White House, j to the se results another year of in-
by appointment and I was allowed to crease in 1997, it will be an historic
alone is nearly icnoo pounds and with Graduate Nurses yesterday enjoved an
the fnme and complete appliance will _ . ,,
aggregate over 23.000 pounds. The - nt restin S program of discourses per-
cost of the chimes is $6,600.
int-restin
tinenf to their useful and philanthropic
profession. The work of the trained
nurse is of such a beneficent and im-
AVill
United
Clay?
that no
It will
m Al
ir«s- i wi
H enry L.
irer It t!
rv council
Jew
h suh-
e. and
noth-
' m- ’ -
Mr w-ight
proviso which
More Senatorial Gossip,
eib Wright be a candidate for portant character, and is usually car
ried on in such a lofty"’ spirit of self
consecration. that it desrrves the high
esteem in which it is held Maryland
has. It appears. 500 registered nurse3,
most of whom are members of the
nurses’ association. Besides these,
th°re are hundreds of others who have
left the profession, and others still who
have not been able, owing to invincible
circumstances, to carry their training
to the point of graduation, but do
good work in the ackroom and obtain
the love and gratitude of the families
in which they find cmoloyment
Nursing begins, in fact, to be con
sidered one of the most Important parts
of the healing art. Correct diagnosis
is. no doubt, very important but, after
I think Mr. ail, nature does the principal part of
States Senator against Steve
The impression exists with
at he will. If Governor-elect
loss riot enter the race it may
imurobshle that Mr. Y.’right
--e the fight. It is not believed
h Smith and Wright would run.
probably be decided at the
g session of the Legislature who
be the candidate or candidates in
-Lion to Clay. Wright is ambl
es we all know, and as he as-
to the Governorship he might
•e averse to ccupvtng a seat in
n .te of t 1 --? L'nited States. I be-
th.’.t Mr. Wright Can he reckoned
?.s a cand'date in the near future
.rher th? Senator-hip er the Gov-
?hip. The people who know Mr.
has In cor
A "-pr
of the
LnH-r.
T v
can - '
or •>rd eounr'I ha«
monev i n rash and
iterori???. Thl? nroe-
ti,-“ n-»5 mor? common in the days >of
auid lang syne, before the adoption of
huted much
to mibiic er
under the control of the Cen
tral by lease.
Who was Jerry Cowles, t” whom I
siderc>>!e rept
r.nd much ea
friends say J
fight but wi!
4om.es. Clay
mciitton tne m-
erai interesting meas-
sessfon of which con-
•on may come to him,
itgn material. Clay’s
i* hot hunting for a
re-'dv for whatever
.! Wright are from
the work of cure, and the nu-se is
nature’s intelligent handmaid, who sees i Bishop MoCabe), and by a war corre-
accompany them.
"We arranged ourselves in the great
East Room, and after a little delay
the President came in. We rose to our
feet George H. Stewart, president of
the commission, addressed him. speak
ing of the trust the people had in him
and alluding to the sympathy he had
shown the poor fe’lows in the Southern
prisons, and thanking him also for the
aid the commission had received at his
hands.
"The President stood with clasped
hands, tal! and vaunt (that familiar de
scription is really the only one that fits
his figure). He was even more hag
gard than when I had last seen him. a
year before.
” ‘You owe me no thanks.’ he said,
'for what I may have been able to do
for you. or for our brave men in the
field, and, if I may be permitted to say
it I owe you no thanks for what you
are doing so well. We are alike work
ing for the cause, and it is becau-'e the
cause is just that we find Joy in the
work.’
“Then the President shook hands j
with the members of the commission j
’•nd a?ked the party to come into the !
Blue Room. He wanted some ’personal
conversation’ he said. I remember him
as he sat in his chair, in the same awk
ward position made familiar to us bv
the pictures of him. He conversed
with the same freedom he would have
shown If he had bee" making a neigh
borly call back in Illinois.
“Two evenings after that there was
gathered at the capital one of the most
distinguished assemblies ever conven
ed in America. The members of the
diplomatic corns were there and the
cabinet, including Secretary of War
Stanton. Schuyler Colfax was present,
so were James G. Blaine and Admiral
Farragut in full uniform. The occa
sion of this meeting was the anniver
sary of the United States Christian
commission, and its special feature a
d’senssion -of the dreadful conditions
of the soldiers confined in th? South
ern prisons. Presently President Lin
coln came in. followed by two officers,
and siinped into a seat in a row oc
cupied by plain citzens. The most tell
ing recitals were the ones made by
Chaplain C. C. McCabe (afterward
achievement.”
Surf Driving Is a Fine Sport.
At Waikiki, near Honolulu. Is a fa
mous bathing beach. Here, winter and
I summer, the surf canoes, or better yet,
the surf boards, come danieng in' on
the long rollers and men become
amphibious.
There is no sensation quite compara
ble to riding a surf board on a Pacific
roller. It is tobogganing on a moving
hill-lde of water, or, if you are clever
enough to stand up on your board. It
is taking this hillside on a single big *"
ski.
The beach runs far out before it
shelves into deep water.'and at high
tide the breakers begin to mount al
most half a mile from the shore line.
You go out there with your surf board
and wait for the wave.
You learn to catch it at the right
moment, throw your board inshore and
climb upon it just as the crest of the
roller mounts and catches you. Then
on this crest you sail in toward the
shore, to slide down at last when the
wave breaks, down the foaming incline
into shallow water and churning foam.
It Is royal sport.—-Travel Magazine.
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to it that the patient gives nature the
best possible chance to effect her
miracles. A.6 between the nurses and
the doctors, the former win the most
hearts, if the clerk who issues mar
riage licenses is permitted to testify.
spondent. A. B. Richardson who bur
a short time before had escaped from
the Salisbury stockade in North Caro
lina, and after weeks of wandering in
the mountains had finally reached the
Union lines. As Mr. Richardson stood
He Got the Ghost.
On one occasion in Scotland a guest
arriivng rattier late at a country house
was quartered in the haunted room. Al
though professing to be a skeptic, like
many others, his courage vanished with
the light. Determined, however, to pro
tect himself as well as possible, he
placed a loaded revolver under his pil
low and awaited events. As the clock
struck midnight he saw a fleshy hand
at the end of the bod, and steadying
his nerve he addressed the visitant
thus: "If you do not instantly removes
your hand I shall fire without further
warning." He counted three ar.d then
discharged thp bullet.
A how] of pain which aroused the
household followed, and it wa? soon
discovered that the successful marks
man had shot awy two of his own
toes.—Throne.
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