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FRrwAV, MARCH 1, 1907. m •> • • « >■ * THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH The Nameless Season — Between Winter and Spring From the S - Lf.: ; ■ Globe-Democrat. WT.it shall • ' til this -aron—that n.i:i , s j . ..! between the night of winter sni the fall dawn of (print loom. - d dls i in’- ml it place.' toward children cal! use the odd tattle decora iavo company, springe, pool them "bat It Is not wlnt season wit! It Is n< rnarke ing; It is lua i to ?nce r standing. from the ts in the and road- W signs of pastures, mea- d land, now more r In the forlorn patchc- Tbe and ut the other ere was decide l gre-n- r-nd of March. The thrust Its head above around, and bet-.' and other Insects welcome It® n-jrr.e’.l.ng :1 .vers as if it were the nectar of fairyland. Even before the snow has mented the queer plant make* a hole In the ice. and by its own warmth keeps living and thriving. The row loaves of the liver wort. whose jewel-like blossoms are among the first to open, are still hid den In the long, downy hair that springs above the root of the plant. By and by they will spread into tend leaflets, resembling animal tissue, ju tlfying their ugly name. But very of n» know them by the real and more beautiful one of hepaticli. Makes Ready for Spring In the first of second week of April all doubt and Indecision vanishes, th world makes ready for the genuine outburst of life and growth that W| can spring. The sudden glow of sun shine, the subtile sense of happlnes the feeling of well-being common all of us. the humblest child as well as the thoughtful nature lover, makes these days the happiest season of the year. It is at this time, while yet the flood of spring is held In check, while the mlra'cle of resurrection and growth reveals Itself on every hand to him who will take the trouble to open *hi eyes, that all the subtle Indications of what Is coming are especially dear to the real lover of outdoor things. There Is a softness In the air that melts the most callous heart. We know that na ture never will deceive her votaries. There is a strange, premonitory con sclousness through the woodlands, ex pectant of the lady spring, that hints of her swift coming, that prom Ises that birds of April and the full blown flowers of May. set It up in good and I ■■ ,.i; the snow I( fleids. except in grim i dlowf and along f< sides. Perhaps there real spring in the bar dows and p dreary than t of dried gras->. the debris of stacks and biack furrow.' than when the first sparkling snow covered the lingering greenne *s of December. Has any wri ter ever described the g" .eral untldi* n- s' of nature at this season of the vear? 11 t kes a hopeful heart to enjoy a walk over these muddy roads and in the dripping wooods. But there are always compensations. Dawn in the grov'- where the sugar makers are at v. ork I see from afar the glow of their campfire and rutch the mingled odors of smoke and steam, all laden with a woodland sweetness unllk" anything else on earth. The old-time sugar camp is almost a thing of the past. Modern methods have come in to change this most picturesque of all our country coustoms, so that nowadays it is as much a business, is as common place as all the other dear old farm in dustries. changed now from handicraft to machine. The pioneer men who used to boil the maple sap In great open kettles over an outdoor fire, the pioneer women who rendered their lard and made soft soap after that Jolly old fashion, can not be blartied for talking about “the good old times.” fuedoauk" Vi vbgkq bgkq xzflfl Just the Mere Fun. If all there Is in life Is just the fun we get out of thing, as we go .llong (and who can deny it), then our pio neers had the best of it and need none of our pity. Think of wandering over' hill anil dale, In company with your j The winds of March, all night long best friend, to cut dandelion greens or I heard them roar and whistle. The dig sassafras roots. Think of Tom , mighty orchestry of the skies was at Sawyer’s Aunt Jane and her neighbor, work shrieking through the keyhole, who boiled their soft soap together In booming down the chimney, moaning the baek yard and "affectionately at the window, hurrying on over the abused their mutual friends and sor- . bare treetops to die away on distant rowfully bemenned the men." Do peo- hills. Out in the yar dthe pine tree pie make root beer nowadays—do they were sighing, the wind lingering and never go out before the frost is out of clung to the close foliage, and each the ground to dig "yaller dock” and green needle drew its point across the sarsaparilla and calumus roots to mix harp strings. A countless multitude of in a fearful decoction called “blood sighs, an undertone of sad complaint purifier?" Do they dose their chil- the whispering of spring, the burden of dren with sulphur and molasses to the wind, the echo of its music as St make their complexions clear, or with wanders over all the earth. March Is sassafras tea to thin the blood, or the month,of winds and now does old with dandelion greens to stir the liver? Aelus open his great bag to pour them It was Thoreau, the great high priest fourth upon the waiting earth, of nature, who said: “I am singu- j “I love to see dame nature do her Jnrly refreshed when I even think of spring house cleaning with the rain service berries, poke weed and juni- clouds for water buckets and the winds per. There is a certain health even for her brooms,” said Allen. “What in the words.” There is no scent on an amount of sweeping and drenching earth so wholesome as that of the she can do in one day! How she dash- pines no fragrance so penetrating and es pailful after pailful in every corner restorative as the life everlasting on until the earth .is clean as a new floor, hillside pastures. , Another day she attacks the piles or In the days of this nameless season dead leaves where they have Iain since the work of growth goes on unceas- last October, so that every cranny ingly. although the heavy snows may may be sunned and aired. Or. grasp- hide It from our longing sight. The lng her long broom by the handle The March Winds and Their Spring Message she will go into the woods and beat the icicles off the trees, ns a housewife would brush down cobwebs, so that the released limbs straighten up like a man who has gotten out of debt and almost say: ‘Now then, wo are all right again.’ ” The wind Is the domineering master of the weather who drives everything before him with capricious temper, but whose guidance is so absolute! * . ineb indispensable to the clouds and rains natures way to hold e\er> Inch £ now „ tlwt they couW not exist Indians called this raw, windy weather "the frog days.” because just now the hyla and toad, the leopard, green, wood and bullfrog are hurrying over the frozen earth to the water’s edge, where they may set up their spring house keeping. and some fine morning all the frog folk will be croaking and rattling ns if to welcome the good old summer time. Tenacious Nature. It 1 She gains and to press steadily on to- . . . . . Mm the time of leaf and flower. It t wIthout *»“»• , often happens that after a few mild Variable Winds, days in February we may see a hun- 1 There are hot winds and cold winds, dred little signs of her movement to- wet winds and dry winds, sea winds ward the greening and blooming. The and land winds, permanent winds, like lilac by the gate puts on a veil of the trades, periodical winds like the green, the ends of the twigs are monsoons, and variable winds like these swollen and wo can open the buds winds of Starch around us every day. that but a few weeks hence will fling There are mountain winds and valley incense over all the neighborhood. The winds, plain winds, “brave west p'um trees show hard little knobs that winds.” hard northeasters and “faint- will soon open, nnd people the woods lng air,” besides all the varieties of with pale and shadowy ghosts. The local winds peculiar to certain parts plump buds of the hickory reveal a of the earth, like the sirocco of Italy, miracle of silken sheen nnd we pluck the Simoon of Arabia, the kamsin in off the outer coverings to 'ay bnre the Egypt, the harma'ttin In Guinea, the r rnbt-vo of leaf breasts packed in man- mistral In France, the hot wind of I fold 'windings. Have you ever made Australia, the fohn of Switzerland, the a liickorv whistle in the early spring? northers of the gulf of Mexico, the Have you ever heard those primeval hurricanes of the Atlantic nnd the cy- pfes of Pan sound sweet and wild clones of the west But ail these are throughout the wildwoods on an early really alike In origin and nature. From April day? ! the lazy breath which does not lift a There is a tender beauty in the first leaf to the rushing current which voy- hints of spring that means more to the ages faster than the swiftest train, nature lover than does 'he full-fledged they are all but air In motion, growth of later days. The appearance , If there were r.o winds, we would of the leafless t-ee is often Ignored, [ have climate, but no weather. Wlth- nnd yet each specips has some peculiar j out wind the other elements would be some special beauty, which Is just now 1 passive, for in themselves alone they seen at Its br't. No other tree com- are mere local agencies. It is the wind bines such strength and stateliness, that blows the clouds to and fro. that such grace and delicacy ns the elm. In sends the rain flying over the land and the falry-like "dance of the leaves” it sea, that causes the snow to drift and leads the way. nnd with the red and ; deepen, the hail to beat down the silver rnapli s forms a trinity of loveli ness. A few warm days in February will open the flowers on the tonmost branches of a young elm, althoucli March is usually the blooming month. This year the strange cold and snow lias deferred the reason, nnd the fifll bloom is yet to come. The flower hnds of the elm are very plump, and may easily be recognized; they are much larger than thte leaf buds, and are found on the high branches. The buds of the silver manle are red and smooth nnd berre in groups, with very large flower huds. The flowers on some trees are very red. on others, yellow. On the red trees the ptstll- iate blossoms predominate, on the yel low ones the stamlnnte. The buds of the sugar maple differ considerably from these ef the other maples, be'ug smaller and more pointed. The win ter beauty of the beech •> well-known. The sinewy str- ng'h ef its trunk rh.- whiteness of its bark, the graceful shape of its noble head, the fine of its delicate boughs as they crops, the fogs to shroud the silent j earth. If life is movement, then the i wind is the life of the weather. Have j you ever thought how the weather.has I influenced the history of the race—the part the winds have played in time’s , great drama? It was wind and rain that brought about the de'uge: it was i a storm which drove the first inhabit- | ant= to America: it was a sea wind | which destroyed the famous armada land delivered‘England from Spain; it was a snowstorm which overwhelmed Napoleon In 1812: It wns a fogstorm whi- h helped Mary Stuart to "scape from JTisabeth and cross from'France ' to Fcet'r.nd: it was a fog which en abled the Russians to take the hill of j Inkerman. Cloud Scenes. The wind is also the groat artist of the Skies, the fresco painter of the rounded dome. We gaze each dav up on the pictures made by clouds' and „ v sunshine and never weary of their stand beauty. So much of the happiness of people, blest with the happy gift of perennial youth. Jump to the concius- •£ i' :: that winter is now over and past. ”j* And yet there is a wise old saw well J v jrth remembering, "One swallow J d • • r. jz make a summer," and one t "spell of spr ing weather Joes not rr.iwi 4- planting garden seed. In these wild March days we wait with patience for coming joys. Sometimes from out the clouded sky we hear a strange weird song. It is the call of the wild gee.'-, the clarion of their leader as he rushes through the gloom on his way to home and happiness. Who can for get the tender words of one who an swered the soulcry from afar? “In what strange land streaked with im mortal dawn doest thou wander? In what silent, sylvan waters wilt thou bathe thy tired breast? Always when I hear thy voice in the early spring, 1, too, would be up and away from these earthly marshes where hunt the dark fowler—would be gone to some vast, pure, open sea. where one by one, my scattered kind—those whom I love and who love me—shall arrive MM -i-H"H4Hi 1 toward Georgia for ousting the negro • Harvard University: and before enter- Caught on J legislators. In 1$59 | convention was held 4- purpose i-H-M lOther negro Macon, having the organization of a control prices of labor, j I^ A fTp i - ; H M. Turner was a leading spirit in Ll lw y' v- lng + this body, just as he was in the con- ”*■ vention the year before. If I mistnke not. Turner was elected to the Leg- •H-H-H-H-'l-l-i- By JOHN T. BOIFEU1LLET. Islature three times from Bibb County, ; ship when the late I and was also postmaster for a while. P. D. Pollock was another negro who represented Bibb in the Legislature in i those dark and stormy days. Frank Disroon got in the running, but he I was never allowed to take a seat in j the Legislature. Jeff Long was the ; ing actively upon the duties of the chair he again visited Europe, return ing in 3836. He then assumed the professorship, which he held for eighteen years, during which not only his official but his literary labors were remarkably uninterrupted and fruit ful. He was holding this professor- Josenh Le tleman to the effect that that eaglo was one of the earliest recollections of my childhood. “Weil," continued Mr. Wing, “on the night of the day that Georgia seceded I mounted astride of that eagle, and. waving my hat In one hand. I hollowed until I was hoarse. Joining my voice in the great safely* to be 'together Vnlkir “haunts of ■ chorus of rejoicing that filled the city . - . , ,, ■ nr»A»* Mio «rr»r»r gqfnn of tVitc Qrn m Tho immemorial peace. “You see that eagle yonder,” said Mr. George F. Wing to me yesterday, pointing to the gilded metal American bird of freedom that is perched with outstretched wings, as an ornament, ^ ls i building on P the corne/of Secondhand repres >nted the | j n England, “where his works are i.. Cherry streets. I answered the gen- IwV 0 * 1 , ♦ n5ress ’ \ v haps more universally known and read * 0 ,I- a short term, one year, butf than those of any other American au- Conte, of whom I wrote yesterday, left Macon to enter Harvard. In is’r.4 he resigned, but continued to r. - Jo a: Cambridge, In the house formerly oc cupied'by Washington. In l.sfiS-9 he revisited Europe and was everywhere recipient of marked honors, especially hi ms and Th and to benefit a take the Clay. It was gen out this State Speaker of the of the Senate of But ther, the field f tv. Y. Atkin bition burnt • glory of Georg to whole count s o of Senator S llv known through :<• that after serving ho H use and provider t'f the General Assemblj ■ desired :o be Gaverno] is another Richmond he Governorship-Sp by the efforts of Benjamin F. Butler Long was allowed $10,000, the salary for a full term of two years. thor.” I read in Prof. Clarke's sketch that Longfellow was succeeded In Har vard by Lowell, on whose retirement the specific chair became vacant, only . last year to be filled again by the ap- gilt edge • polntment of Mr. Bliss Perry, editor of upon the eagle, high in air, and from this splendid vantage place I viewed the grand demonstration • throughout the pity, and shouted and jubilated to my heart’s content.” This statement of Mr. Wing’s very much interested Clears the Complexion. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup stimu lates the liver and thoroughly cleanses the system and clears the complexion of pimples and blotches. It Is the best laxative for women and children as it i? mild and pleasant, and does not gripe or sicken. Orino is much superior to pills, aperient waters and all ordinary cathartics as It does not Irritate the stomach and bowels. H. J. Lamar & : me> and I asked him how did he hap- Co.. agents, near Exchange Bank. Ma- , pen ^ how di(i he manage to g ^ t con - | upon the eagle. He replied: "I was _ .. , _ , ,, . ... __ | at the time the printer’s devil on The Death of Dr. J. H. La.imer, Sr. : Telegraph, which paper was then HAZLEJHURST, Ga., Feb. 27.—Dr. J. j conducted by Mr. Joseph Clisby and H. Latimer, Sr., a very aged and re- j published in his building, especially sp'ected citizen, died this morning at j erected for the purpose, the same upon his home in this city at 9 o’clock. His | which the eagle was perched, as it Is funeral will take place tomorrow. He t at fhis very day. When the secession leaves a wife and several children. Dr. ' jubilation commenced in the streets J H Latimer, of Waycross, and Mrs. ! that night all the printers rushed John McLean, of Douglas, being two j through a trapdoor and out upon the of the number - : roof to view the sight, and I made a Judge T. A. Parker convened Jeff j dasl > for the eagie and proudly Davis Superior Court this morning and ; mounted the bird of freedom.” The over the secession cf this State. The night was a blaze of glory- Bonfires and torchlight processions illuminated the town, cannons were booming and bells ringing, bands of music were j presence, it has decide to visit the playing and flags flying, and there 1 j place of its birth. The decision has was, about a 14-year-old boy. seated | j us * been reached to hold the annual meeting of the Association this year The Georgia Bankers’ Association is coming back home. This organization was formed in Macon in j the Atlantic Monthly. May, 1892, and has never held an an- | nual meeting here from then until now. | Longfellow was named after his ma- Lut. after an interval of fifteen years, j ternol uncle, a lieutenant in the navy, during which time it has favored va- i who had perished in the tire-ship In- rious cities In this State with its 1 trepid before Tripoli in 1804. in a adjourned over to the fifth Monday in April, at which time the new court house will be ready for occupancy. An election for justice of the peace is being held here today to fill the unex pired term of J. H. Boone, who is post master here, ar.d recently resigned on account of the Hazlehurst office being advanced to the third class. : fires of patriotism burned in the breast of young Wing, and, lad as he was, it was not long before he had shoul dered a musket in defense of the South, and when Wilson’s forces ap proached from the West to attack Ma con Wing was found In the Confeder- in Macon in June next, and this is what I meant In saying that “The Georgia Bankers’ Association is com ing back home.” The leading spirits in organizing the Association were, Mr. Miles B. Lane, president of the Citizens' Bank, of Savannah, and Mr. L. P. Hillyer, cashier of the American National Bank, of Macon. Mr. Lane was elected president of the Associa tion, and Mr. Hillyer was chosen sec retary, to which position he has been unanimously re-elected year by year ever since. The Association started with a membership of forty banks, .but now there are 300 banks in the Asso ciation, representing about 90 per cent, of all the banking capital andl bank deposits In Georgia. One of the social features of the organization meeting was an elegant banquet tendered by the Macon bankers to the visitors. The late William Henry Ross, that courtly genelteman, was toastmaster. The Georgia Bankers' Ascsoclation left here In swaddling clothes but it will return full grown, and it will find that ate entrenchments ready to do his I Macon has kept pace with its growth part In repelling the onsault of the j and -is arrayed in all the rich and at- LIEUT. HAMILTON WAS NOT INSANE. SAYS COURT 13,500 Federal cavalrymen upon the city, but battle was prevented, as Wil son was informed, through a flag of truce from General Cobb, that by agreement between Generals Joseph E. Johnston and W. T. Sherman hos- tractive habiliments of progress and prosperity. The motto of the Associa tion is. “One for all, All for one.” The officers of The Association are: President, John H. Reynolds. Rome; firse vice-president, J. S. Davis Al- T, i JOJinsiuji auu *». j.. oiienuun nos- I luso vice-piesiueui., j. o. jjavls Al- ^rfarM-ffwhfch^Hrd First IJeut h John I* i tilities had been suspended pending j bany; second vice-president, Oscar E. — --- - - - - arrangements for “the disbandment of Dooly, Macon: third vice-president, all the Confederate armies, and a I Charles B. Lewis, Macon; fourth vice- biographical sketch of Longfellow by Nathan Haskell Dole, appears the fol lowing: “On the ninth of July, 18661. Mrs. Longfellow (the poet's second wife) was sitting in the library with her two little girls, sealing up some small package of their shorn curls. A lighted match falling on the floor set her dress on tire. She died the next morning from the effect of the shofk. and was burled three days later on the anniversary of her marriage day. Longfellow himself was so severely burned that he was unable to be pres ent at the funeral. Months afterwards, when some visitor expressed the hope that he might be enabled to "bear his cross" with patience, he exclaimed, “bear the cross, yes; but what if one is stretched.'upon it!" The New York Ledger paid Longfellow $3,000 for “The Hanging of the Crane.” In July, 1875, occurred the fiftieith anniversary of his graduation, and he wrote for the occasion his Morituri Salutamus. In 1S77 he received $1,000 for his -the uaily as hot as Clay stepped aside, and Atkins tered the lists for Gubernatorial hor ors. Atkinson won. It appeared as Clay had bt ?n "shelved.” at least ter porarilv. Th ' was in 1S94. Two year] later. In 1S96, cantc the election fa United States Senator. Atkinson served one term as Governor and been re-elected to n second ,erm. ( and Atkinson became candidates fo Senator. Clay was the victor and wltl unwavering loyalty to the South, anS in a spirit of*broad patriotism for th| welfare of th'e entire nation, he haj continued to represent Georgia in th" highest councils of this repnbl Going back to the days of J.ame^ M. Smith. He had served as Governor from January 12, 1S72, to January 1877. He was ambitious to go to Senate. Immediately at the expiratUvjj of his last term an election was he!' ( by the Legislature for a successor 1 Senator Norwood. Gov. Smith was candidate. His highest v.>te was twoni ty-nine. Benjamin H. Hill was ele The history of politics in this Stat does not make it apparent that \ Governorship is any certain steppir stone to the Senatorshlp. Perhaps thj reason for this may lie in a remnrf once made by that veteran. Allen Candler, when he was Governor. T question of making appointments to i flee by the Governor was under d ctisslon. Gov. Candler said lie would rather not have this patronage, "bel cause, for instance," he said, "if ther* are three applicants for the same fice the appointing power will m.ikj two enemies and one Ingrate.” WheJ \\". .T. Northon was Governor It wal believed that he desired to crown hiT public life with a Scnatorship. ThJ close of his Gubernatorial term fittei] In exactly right for the purp so. Itij Hamilton. Twelfth Infantry, on charges embezzlement, desertion nnd disobe dience. which found him guilty and sen tenced him to a term of 18 months in the Fort Leavenworth penitentiary. The firm and lasting peace.” On April 20, , president, James Knox, Waycross: 1865, Macon surrendered to General fifth vice-president, Z. C. Haves Elber- jndVe advocate penerai. after careful con- i T ilson ’ w 5 !ch 75? elev , e ? day ® 5, ft er ton; secretary, L. P. Hillyer, Macon; deration, reached the conclusion that *^e surrender of General Lee. _Wilson treasure. E. C. Smith, Griffin. John LICut. Hamilton was not insane when the entered the city via Tattnall Square. K. Ottley, of Atlanta, is chairman of acts w"rc committed and the President having come from Montgomery and the executive council. It will be ob- , Columbus. The advance of his troops ; served that three Macon banks are —— ' reached the limits of Macon about represented among the officers, towif After Four . nightfall. The terms of the surrender the American National. Fourth Nat’ were made in the office of General ' ' ~ Howell Cobb, on Mulberry street, op posite the Hotel Lanier, that general being in command of the remnant of the .Confederate forces In this city. took a similar view. G. B. Burhans Testifies Years. G. B. Burhans of Carlisle Center, N. Y.. writes: “About four years ago I wrote you slating that I had been en tirely cured of a severe kidney trouble by taking less than two bottles of Fo- j ley’s Kidney Cure. It entirely stopped 1 Mr. Wing and the eagle bring up the brick dust 'Cdlment. and .pain and other thoughts. Georgia seceded on ional and Home Savings. The Macon bankers will royally entertain the vis iting financiers. Dan C. Farmer, Wlio met his death in the wreck on the Georgia. Southern and Florida Railway on Monday morn- >n | ing. was the first engineer that has “Koramos.” Longfellow died March 24, 18S2, aged 75. It is said that ! administration ended in Novemb just before Longfellow reached his . 1894, and the election was made by t seventy-second birthday he called u i Legislature which mot at that w friend’s attention to the mysterious, j time. Did the "Waycross war” pr significant part which the number vent this splendid Governor and c eighteen had played in his life. "I j ccllent man from going to the Senate was eighteen years old when I took my i It was thought for some time tha college degree; eighteen years after- Gov. Terrell would seek to encirc ward, 1 was married for the second political career with the beautiful am time; I lived with my wife eighteen fascinating Senatorial halo, but years, and it is eighteen years since ] present there are no signs that in she died. And then, by way of pa- | tends to try "to climb the steep wh renthesis or epicycle, I was eighteen years professor in the college here, and have published eighteen seaprate volumes of poems.” And he died in eighteen-eighty-two. like "Fame's proud temple,” Washing! ton “shines afar.” pcared. X am glad to say that I have ing convened in Milledgeville on Jan. j menced ooeration nearly ’0 venrs'a'tra never had a return cf any of those ; 16. for the purpose of considering the ; This lien'also has the verv excellent symptoms during the four years that question. Mr. Albert R. Lamar, once ! record of never having killed 'a nas- have e-apsed ar-: I am evidently cured editor of The Telegraph, was secre- j se nger. The unfortunate accident on to stay cured, and hcs-tlly recommend tary of the convention. A. Bibb County i Monday was the mou serious wreck in Foley’s lCi iney Cure to any one suffer- ! delegate. Judge Eugenius A. Nisbet. j b'sto-y of the comnanv ing from kidney v bladder trouble.” was the author of the ordinance of Farmer was the fourth engineer em ployed by the Georgia Southern, and he was considered one of the most H. J. Lamar & Co. agents, near Ex change Bank. Maccn. Death of Mr. John R. Shaw. AMERICUS. Ga., Feb. 26.—Mr. John R. Shaw, a former prominent and widely Vnown citizen of Aqpericus, died this morning In Atlanta after an illness of two months. The remains will be brought to Amerieus Thursday for interment. Mr. Shaw was for many years a leading and >rogressive merchant here, and was held n highest esteem for his strict integ rity. He is survived bv his wife, who ecession. He introduced the follow ing resolutions, which were adopted, after some discussion, by a vote of 165 to 130: “Resolved, That, in the opinion of this convention, it is the duty of Geor gia to secede from the present Union, and to co-operate with such other States as have, or shall, do the same, for the purpose of forming a Southern Confederacy upon the basis of the con stitution of the United States. •Resolved, That a committee of sev was Mi's Kate Folder, o'f Americas. He I enteen be appointed by the chair to pnt/vomn °hiiT U tho C ^f f w" report an ordinance to assert the orate veteran, out tne nest years of his . , , .. . business career were spent in Amerieus r *§fnts ana fulfill the obligation of the at the head of one of ‘the largest busi- : State of Georgia to secede from the ness enterprises of this citj'. | Union.” i President George W. Crawford ap- NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. ! pointed the committee, with Judge . - , , ’ ! Nisbot as chairman. On Jan. 19 Examine la cel on your pa- | Chairman Nisbet. for the committee, ■nn-r Tt tollc Tinnr von a+onH _ ^v. 1 reported the following ordinance. pST. in teilS nOW you Stand, on ! Which was adopted by the vote of 208 the hooks. Due from date on t0 „f, 9 r : , .1* _ , . , : “We. the people of the State of the label. Send in dues and. Georgia, in convention ^assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby Governors Colquitt and Gordon, not since the days of John Forsyth, in 1829, seventy-eight years ago ihas a Govern or of Georgia gone direct from the Gubernatorial chair, at the expiration of his term, to a seat in the United States Senate. In 1827 Forsyth was elected Governor, and at the expira tion of his term .of two years he was __ , elected to the Senate of the United efficient engineers in this State States, where he remained until 1S34, This is the anniversary of the birth j day of on? of the greatest men tliaj ever lived in Macon, a reno wned In four months Hon. Hoke Smith ‘ tist, a man whose fame is not confined will be inaugurated Governor of Geor- in America, but ha.-- s; read throughouj gia. To wear the toga of a United 1 England and over continental Europe States Senator is believed to be his The influence of his teachings Is chief political ambition. Just here this i from the Atlantic to the Pacific, question arises: Is the office of Gov- . h1s prolifiic scientific and philosophi-j ernor a stepping-stone to a seat in the j al writings have been re td before thtj Senate of the United States? As well i leading geological, mining zoological^ as I can figure it out, there have been , psychological, geographical and educ-a- thirty-nine Governors of this State j tional congresses of the world. Hut since 1789. the year that Georgia had j papers on evolution have attracted thy her first two United States Senators, j attention and study of some of thi^| and of this number eleven have been I strongest minds of this age. and he ad Senators. And. with the exception of ! vanced ideas and discovered facts t’ came to Georgia from Ohio in 1880, with the intention of keeping books, hut decided to become a fireman on the Central Railroad, and it was not long before he knew all about running an engine. When the Georgia Southern and Florida was ready to begin operat ing trains it engaged Farmer, know ing well his skill, reliability and fidel ity. Iso renew for the year 1907. Our Most Humiliating War. As we have said, but for Osceola there never would have been any Seminole War at all. and all things considered, his ca reer marks the most humiliating war the .United States ever engaged in. There were less than 6.000 Senfinoles, men. wom en and children, all In Florida, when hos- ilities began with the murder of Gen. Thompson by Osceola. That great chiefs cunning, capacity and courage had cost the nation no lessNhon $39,000,000 and the lives of threo soldiers for every Indian brave that ho led. Such an appalling record of destruction stands against no other fighter on all our frontiers.—Lynn Tew Sprague in The Outing Magazine for February. House of Lords Safe. Marquise de Fontenoy in New York Tribune. American newspapers in discussing the inevitable conflict between the House of Lords and the House of Commons, owing to the refusal of the rmer to give the approval necessary convert into laws the principal measures submitted by the Govern- j Nisbet wns made one of the justices of ment and passed with an overwhelm- i the organization of the court, and was declared and ordained, that the ordi nance adopted by the people of the State of Georgia, in the convention of 1788. whereby the constitution of the United States was ratified and adopted, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly, ratifying and adopting amendments to said consti tution. are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated. “We do further declare nnd ordain that the union now subsisting be tween the State of Georgia and the other States, under the title of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Geor gia is in the full possession and exer cise of al! those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.” Judge jgisbet was a member of the first Confederate Congress at Mont gomery and at Richmond. He was one of the leading men of Georgia. While a member of the State Senate, in 1S30, he urged the formation of a Supreme Court of Georgia. This tribunal was not established until 1845. and Jud Today is the one hundredth anni versary of the birth of that affection ate, humane and sympathetic poet. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and elaborate prepartions have been made at Cambridge, Mass., for its proper celebration. I observe that there is at least one Macontle—'Prof. George Her bert Clark—who has taken special notice of the event, and has written Tor the last issue of The Standard, a highly entertaining centenary sketch of the author of "Evangeline,” “The Courtship of Miles Standlsh,” “The Spanish Student.” "Hiawatha.” and “The Hanging of the Crane.” Prof. Clarke’s article is illustrated with a picture of Longfellow, one of the house in which he was born in Portland, Me., and a picture of Craige House, Long fellow’s home In Cambridge. Prof. Clarke says thru Longfellow wais “one ‘of the poets of hearth and home, whose works are recited in when he was appointed 'Secretary of State of the United States. "During no period since- the War of 1812, had our foreign relations involved questions more important: and the honor and success with which they were con ducted were owing, in a great degree, to the talents and firmness of Mr. For syth.” He died in Washington cily, on October 21, 1S41, in the sixtieth year of his age. were never unfolded or developed by Swedenborg, Lamarck, Da Huxley or Spencor. He held "evolution Is entirely consistent witlj a rational theism and with other fun damental religious .beliefs.” His b on geology and zoology are among thf ■most able and interesting ever ten on the=e subjects, largely result of his studies under th" cele-| braied Agassiz, in Harvard. They valuable contributions as showing history of the earth. Hi-, view? physiology' and biology have r? civcij the commendation of the able ters on these matters, and to him imsj been accorded the credit of a of original thoughts on the phenomena}] of binocular vls'on, “which ha? mained a permanent possession of set-;i ence.” He held professershl Oglethorpe University, in thi; StateJI the University of Georgia. South Caro-j lina College, and the Univers' California, at Berkeley. The eleven Governors who were also Senators were: James Jackson George Walton, Josiah Tattnall. John Milledge, I of his intimate friends were Longefel! G. M. Troup. John Forsyth, Wilson j Lowell. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Em Lumpkin, H. V. Johnson, John B'. Gor- i son, Richard Dana, Agassiz, Guyot and don, Joseph E. Brown. Alfred H. Col- others who shone equally bright lr quitt. It may be well to state that galaxy of stars that Illumined the f James Jackson, Josiah Tattnall, G. M. • ament of literature, poetry ntyl s.-’enceM Troup John Forsyth, H. V. Johnson j This former Maconlte of whom I ani^| and John B. Gordon were Senators be- j writing, is Professor Joseph I.e Contef fore they became Governor. Jackson, i Troup, Forsyth and Gordon served in ! This remarkable man was h rt the Senate before and after being Gov- his father's plantation, "Woodir ernor. As well ns lean ascertain from ; ton,” in Liberty County, Georgia, Feb ruary 26. 1S23. and died in the mite. California. July 6. 1901. seventy-eight years. He was survive! Rjj Car-! the records I have 'by me, the only Governors that passed to the Senate direct from the Governor’s office were James Jackson, John Milledge. John i by his wife and four child Forsyth, A. H. Colquitt and John B. j Mrs. Farish Furman, formerly Gordon. I am not positive, but I think ! ledgevflie, now of Macon; M that Jackson was elected Senator be- j Means Davis, of Columbia. Sou i fore his term as Governor had finished. ] olina: Professor .Too Lo C< r.t<-. country j and if this Is true, X believe it is the i University of California. and lyceums, and studied in the grammar I on lj’ instance of the kind in the history 1 Carrie Lo Conte. Mrs. r... Coi schools, and read in the evening hour 1 of tbo State- James Jackson had a re- j her daughter. Miss Carrie re to eager children by her whom they ! markable record, and his career shows California, hut at nr'tent (he/are oi hold most dear.” In the opinion of! the poss'blllttes which this country a visit to Mr*. Le Conte’s gran-Maugh Prof. Clarke. Longfellow’s life was “the ’ contains for men of ability and excel- , ter, Mrs. J. N. Bailey of Macon. A tenderest of songs a long solo not ' lance of character. He was born in without glad choruses—of faith and 1 England, September 21 1757. When ■brotherhood.” He thinks that “The fifteen years old he arrived in Savan- Courtship of Miles Standish" is much n ah. and knew only one person there. Tall are four generation: ily, to-wit: Ml'S. Li ter, Mrs. Furman. Just the tad me faij out. clear cut. in exquisite tracery against the skv. The elm end thte beech express both grace ar.d beauty— the oak stands f V>r sturdy strength. The Honeysuckle. Of our domesticated plants the hon eysuckle seems to be in the •.•'•ear-': hurry to welcome the spring. Already the voting leaves arc appearing or. the old plant at the corner of the house. The bulbs are sundry little green lan ces up through the frozen earth. They ) must bo brave soldiers that are ready to face the cold east winds. Apple branches have'hcdd little liver-colored excrescences, th- future leaves, and j the great plumboles of the rhododen- 1 drons, cheerfully held In air all winter long, reveal beneath many folds the faint colors that arc to deepen, by and by. into the glory of the flaring blos- are merely brown reFnous tufts. The privet-badge, win s- shiny green leaves hang lirtp. and as if Masted with frost, are showing live spots *1! along the new wood. Even the 'omitropical wis teria has a hint of life, and rh ■ or is of Its branches are rough with live buds. The forsvthia hr: horny buds, rhe promls-* ol glory of April, wh-n all t! spring shell seem centered blossom-Wrten shrub Grasses have been ci der the drifted baaVs everywhere the vivid through the melting i< nnd shaded woods and ways those queer little points life in the country is at the mercy of wind : n.i V.vn::-, r. On these March days the sky is like a great gray can- vii-. some times i:eh:ene.l by feathery clouds or dark-gray streamers or pur ple masses. Darw columns of vapor, with harsh edges of gray, are blown by the wind across the pale color back ground. flying as if a bomb had burst I among them; i pass before u: re-elected at the expiration of his term. Before going on the bench of the Supreme Court he had been a member of the Congress of the United States. Judge Nisbet died in 1871. He was an elder In the First Presbyterian Church of Macon from 1837 until hits death. like o broad- bv ely majority by the Commons, seem take it for granted that the Upper Chamber Is doomed to be swept out of existence, by reason of its unpop ularity, In the near future. In fact, people appear to believe here that, when the fight between the Lords and the Commons resolves Itself Into an appeal bv the latter to the country I against the House of iAtrds, this time- i The newspapers have made more honored institution will be over- I or less mention of Bishop H. M. Tur- whelmed. nor and his connection with the negro Now, it by no means follows that, if I convention in recent .session in Ma- a general election was held on the con. This was not the first negro eon- issue of the abolition or radical reform vention held in this city at which of the House of Lords, the latter would Turner was a centra! figtird. Away be defeated. People who imagine this bac k yonder in 1868. during the decade do not take into consideration the immediately following the bloodv har- British character and Its peculiar pro- ! vest of war. and embracing the hor- iudiees and paradoxes. Above ail, thev rible days of recons'ruction. urner lose sight of that ancient saying, just i was the president and the controlling as true today as it ever was, namely, ; spirit of a negro convention, comnosed tail towers and castles that “the Briton dearly loves a lord.” on a swift panorama; TVere any attempt made to tamper years of age. he was elected Governor of Georgia but refused to serve. He was elected to Congress, and was again chosen Governor, serv ing from January 12, 1798, to March 3. 1801. being the first Governor under the censtitutinn of 1798. Pie served in the United States Senate from 1801 to 1806. He* had previously been a member cf the Senate, from 1793 to 1795. Jackson died in Washington on March 19, 1S96, while serving as Sen ator from Georgia. On the retirement went from South C: to attend her brotb fore her return to sor Le Conte more justly representative of Long- I He enlisted with the Americans in the i Mrs. Talley, and fellow’s art than “Evangeline.” Prof, i war of the Revolution, rendered gnl- [ dren who are M Clarke speaks of him as “the decor- j Iant service, and became a colonel. ] On Juno 3 0, 1901, ous singer of the household tones that Later, in operations against the In- I Conte's son Joe, ruled his time, but into which he often dians, he was commissioned a brig.i- imports strain after strain of haunt- dier general. In 1788, when only thir- J ng, old-world music,’ and he styles ! ty-one years of age. he Longfellow as "the most companion able among American poets." I learn from the Standard that Feb ruary 27 will he observed with .appro priate exercises as “Longfellow's Day” in all the schools of Cambridge. This evening there will be public ex ercises in a theater at which Mr. Wil liam Dean Howells will he the nrinci- pal speaker, and President Charles Eliot, of Harvard, and others, will also make addresses. A special chorus > Conte, her dang bob granddaus tr gre ■: grandchjS . Talley’s children rofcs r or Joseph irried Mrs. Davtij rolina to California tr’s marriage. B'eJ the South Profes- red to show his from the public schools "will sing the j of Jack-on from the Governorship to cantata. “The Village Blacksmith" j so to the United States Senate Da- This afternoon there will be a special | vid Emanuel, president of the State meeting, called "the children’s hour.” | Senate, became acting Governor. Here of the grammar grades. ’ nimals stride past, the with the constitution of the House of which will never live again: 1 Lords—the cradle of British parliamen- vinged birds sail Into the west, tary institutions—the light would re- er to return: grand chariots move solve itself into a struggle between that are turned into mighty giants ] Labor, more cr less colored with so on the horizon—nameless forms rise, cialism. on the one side, and on the glide past and vanish into space, and other all the rich, educated arid train- all thss ■ are pictures painted by the ed classes, the learned professions, the art ind pon heavenly canvt of spring ird the out- 1 heat, of •en. With be up and ini tag thing ■p. We gree th-- gold e spirit errogntlons . fresh gr aver the telp in would •drop ar.d from, her from h"r which old - ■ 1 she should wear. ■d Jn n Cht-res. • day cf March there was :at hinted ef he very eiecL owners of property, real and personal: the manufacturing, industrial ar.d financial interests, tbe clergy, the arm*, and navy, the tradespeople, ar.d. in i fact, all those who are anxious to safe- j guard property, religion and order. The present party lines would be ob- j literated. and Liberals, as well as Con- ; servatives, would rise in defence of ' that House of Lords which represents : the cne bulwark of the empire against. I precipitate legislation on the part of j the lower House, the political atrrjos- phere of which is constantly changing. ■ subject to the influence of ephemera! , T j- and sometimes unreasoning blasts of ' cc of delegates from more than eighty counties, which assembled in this city to discuss the action of the Legislature of that year in turning out twenty- seven n-gro members of the General Assembly, one of whom was Turner, a Rerrc'entative from Bibb County. No white persons were admitted to the convention. In n fiery speech Turner declared he would break up the Legis lature. Resolutions were passed vow ing vengeance, nnd Congress was ■ | memorialized to nrovet the negroes. Turner'.- convention of negroe- at Ma con Inaugurated the movement that resulted in another reconstruction r.f Georar'a. Turner's speeches anti reso lutions set Congr r s~ and the Repub lican North to talking about the ex pulsion of th" neago rrvnbers from th" General Assembly of Georgia. Tur- rer wen- to Washington ta mesont to Congress the resolutions, of tbe negro convention Senator Charles Summer, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill for T-egormrauetion of Georgia, and tor F-.'munds. of Vermont, of- for the pupil: _ As an enduring and valuable memo rial of the event. 200 bronze medals have been struck, some of which will be reserved to be given as prizes each year in the Cambridge schools. X statute of Longfellow will he erected in Cambridge. An appropriation of S4.000 has been made by Congress for the pedestai. Secretary Taft is pres ident of the commission that has in charge the erection of the statue. I learn further from The Standard that during the week of the ccntcnn'al an- niversnry an interesting public exhibi tion will he held at the Cambridge I public library of rare and beautiful Placed editions of the poet’s works, together | Are. with other memorabilia with his name. is an interesting historical incident concerning him: “Burke County was the scene of some severe Skirmishes between the Americans and British, in which David,Emanuel participated. On one occasion he was captured by a party of Loyalists commanded by Capt. Rraetlev and conveyed to McDcan's creek, where, after consultation, it was determined to shoot him. Brantley or dered a large fire to he kindled, and made Emanuel erd his fellow-prison ers. Lewis and Davis, take off their clothes, with the exception of their rh'rts. Three men were de-icnated to them, and the nrlsouers were between the marksmen and the "he word ‘fire’-was then given. connected in t-m- lhe young ferns, appear above the j the tangled skeins of sunlight, a ■- tint c-*tr>e In a sincF- n'ght grass ar.d Tb- sky sr-ib-d with :uc of Ma; popular sentiment, net to say hysteria. | fe r .->d ? measure repealing the restora- The British House of Lords is per- j tinp of Georgia, to the L~nion. Con- feetly safe for many, many years to , pressman Be”. Butler moved that G--or- come. and whatever reform Lakes place ; gjp-s vo te in the presidential election in its composition w. 11 be of its own of 1S6S be pot counted. And in other making, and not the result of any out- | ways was the implacable hatred of Seme lucky side pressure. »he Republicans in Congress exhibited L'cngfellow was born in Portland. Me., February 27. 1897. Biographers tell us that he entered Bowdoin Col lege at the age of 14. where he grad uated in 1S25. During his academic course he composed several . of the best known of his earlier poems among them the “H*'mn of the Mora vian Nuns,” “The Spirit of Poetry.” “Woods in Winter" and “Sunrise on the Hills.” After leaving college he entered the office of his father for the purpose of studying law; but in 3826 he accepted the offer of the professor ship of modern languages and litera ture in Bowdoin College. He went to Europe and devoted some time to pre liminary foreign study. In 1835, on the resignation of Mr. George Tick- nor. he was appointed professor of modern languages and belles-lettres in UP’ vhich Dav! leir death-dhots ’ s directed tc flssed hi= aim, ith the rapidity ver tile fire an and Lewis received but the man who disnatch Emanuel I'hereuoon our hero, of 'Igh.tning leaped made his escape.” And thus a future Governor was saved to Geori r:a. Hon. .A. O. Rocon is a living illus tration of the fact that it is not essen tial to he Governor ir. ord-r to reach the United States Senate. Three times he was a candidate for the nomination for Governor, and failed to win the prize, thour-h In the convention of 3883 he came within one vote of the nomi nation. He derided ta leave the Gov ernor-hip alone, and try for the Sena torial Inn. He was triumphant. He won the Senatorshlp the first time, ex actly eleven years after h1s last con test for Governor, and has continued to hoid the office with great honor to ! H. Stephens, who afterward, as Gov- da ugh tor the wonderful beauties of th' : Yoscmite. and together they mad trip lo the famous valley. in hi: rambles he over-taxed his strength, and on the evening of July 5, 1991, h was attacked with a severe pain i the region of the heart, which ' diagnosed as angina pect-ris, and the morning of the following day th- noted scientist died, “About 19 o’clocl while the Physician was absent pro-j curing additional remedies, he turne- upon his left side, and at once daughter saw a great change come ove: his countenance. "Do not lie unoi your left side, father” she cried. "Yo know it is not good for you.” With smile he answered. "It does not mat-; ter. daughter." The*- were his Iasi words. In five minutes he had cease to breathe. The remains were inter-: red In beautiful Mountain View Cem-: etery, California, and “his grave marked by a bugb boulder from n< the spot where he died in the Yose mite that he had loved so long am so well.” At the time of h's demise! he had been a professor in the Uni I varsity of California for more thau thirty years. His brother John, who' | was also a very able man. was for- I merlv president of the Institution, and i remained with it until the day of his 'death. April 29. 1.891 dying tn his sev ! entv-third year. The two brothers j were devoted and bad seldom been sep arated in their lives. The graves ■ these eminent Georgians are side b; side in far-away California.. Thei ! dertths were deeply lamented by students, faculty and all others con neoted with the University of Call forma. The murlflleencz of Mrs. Phoebe Anoerson Kenrst. mother of William Randolph Hearst, has done much for this Institution. The Le; Conte Memorial Lodge of the Sierra C’ub. a beautiful structure, has beeru, erected in tbe Yoeemi’e Valley. In hon or of Professor Joseph T-e C-nte. He had been an extensive traveler, both in th’s countrv and abroad. Tn hi-- reminiscences. Professor Le Conte sa'd: “Onlv one of mv nine school teachers bed any snecinl influ ence on me and that was Alexander: