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THE HIM TELEGRAPH
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING
AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE
MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH
ING COMPANY. 9(3 MULBERRY
STREET, MACON. GA.
0. R. PENDLETON, President
PERIL OF OVER-EDUCATION.
! Th<* Telegraph has recently had oc-
[ casion to suggest In a kindly way to
j the negro people that It would be a
misfortune to them If they were as a
race universally educated In a way to
make them feel above manual labor.
The thought thrown out to them has
been applied to the white people them
selves In a timely and Interesting
article by the Industrial World, which |
The Telegraph esteems well worth
adopting and placing before Its readers
In this column. The Industrial World
■ays:
‘•The wholesale educational move
ment started by Andrew Carnegie and
being pushed forward by John D.
Rockefeller and other philanthropists is
6HIP SUBSIDY GETS ITS FANGS IN ! not meeting with the enthusiasm
At last iMp subsidy has gotten in an ! among manufacturers one would ex-
THB TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
The Telegraph ean be found on out#
■t tho Kimball Houao and tho Plod-
mont Hotel in Atlanta.
entering wedge and It will doubtless ! pect. Men who -spent years in colleges
eoon become a rigorous and lusty par- ■ and schools, and who, after graduation,
eslte on the body politic. It was per- | were compelled to start work on the
haps inevitable that so pertinacious and | same level as the average apprentice,
persistent an attempt to foist a new ! view with alarm the wholesale system
leeoh upon the country's swollen pros- j adopted in making brains, It has
perlty to draw more of It off lest we I caused many to remark that we are go
bMoni too full-blooded, should finally
succeed, and since It must succeed In
the end It la perhaps Just as well that
It should have been forced to Its pas
sage over the majority sentiment of
the representative legislative body. The
bill though defeated on the first ballot
was forced up again on the motion to
reoonslder and enough of the Republi
cans who had stood out against the
Iniquity were whipped over In the
meantime to give a majority of one for
the reconsideration of the vote. It is
only a matter practically of a few mil
lions bounty to be given the owners of
four steamship lines for carrying on
their business, but there will doubtless
be plenty of the daughters of the horse
leech In evidence at succeeding Con
gresses and the cry of "more, more,”
will sound forever more In the tax
payers’ ears.
The passage of this bill demonstrates
In a marked degree the futility of
President Roosevelt’s erratic methods
• t economic reform. The majority
ntlment of tho House of Representa-
/es has literally been placed on rec
ord as Hgroolrig with the common sense
view of the country that ship subsidy
Is an interested transfer of the people’s
money from the public treasury to the
pockets of the Spreckles, the Harri
mans and others of that class who do
not need It. Again and again the
measure was brought forward in one
Shape or another by Mark Hanna and
others and was tabooed by Congress.
Roosevelt was the last resort. With
his countenance and approval the trick
might be turned. Without It nothing
could be done. Of course Roosevelt
yielded. He always does when "the
Interests" appeal to him In persona.
In his message to Congress he urged
the enactment of ship subsidy and
presto, change, the deed Is done. The
evil of it will doubtless never be un
done.
AN ARMY ENGINEER FOR THE
CANAL.
Of course the average Republican
editor thinks that In selecting an army
engineer as chief constructor of the
Panama canal, to succeed Stevens, the
President has taken a stop in the right
direction. It is a fact of greater Inter
est and Importance that there are
Democratic editors of the same
opinion.
"If,” says the Philadelphia Record,
"this should be followed by the aboli
tion of the commission the situation
with respect to this enterprise would
be mightily improved. The methods
which obtain In the case of hydraulic
engineering work conducted by -the
Government in our rivers and harbors
under tho supervision of the War De
partment and the Engineers’ Corps
would be adopted at Panama, as they
Ihould have been from the outset. The
Aethod has been approved by results
‘ In a long series of public works. The
■army engineers almost Invarlablv have
performed their duties with credit.”
The same newspaper adds:
The building of the canal will
entail an expenditure of from
twenty-five to thirty millions per
annum: the Rivers and Harbors
Appropriations bill recently passed
carries an amount of over eighty
milpv’s—three-fifths of the esti
mated cost of the canal; yet no-
hodv suggested the crution of a
meddling and muddling Rivers and
Harbors Commission because of
the collective vastness of the un
dertaking.
If the method customary in the
conduct of the other hydraulic en
gineering work of the Government
had been pursued In the case of the
canal the plans of construction at
Panama would not be still indeter
minate after four years of bicker
ing and the expenditure of rix mil
lions or more for commis-loners’
salaries, borings, blue prints, sur-
vevs. etc., to say nothing of the
other millions spent for mosquito
chasing and disinfection, wh'le the
festering swamps of the Isthmus
have been left uncovered to breed
the malignant Chagres fever.
We are glad to know that the new
plan is so excellent, but naturally won
der why It was not adopted before.
There have been so many plans and so
many changes that the average reader
Is puzzled. If not bewildered. Little
seems to have been accomplished as
yet but meanwhile nearly one-third
of the total estimated cost of $135,000.-
000 has been expended. Let us hope
that this last new plan will remain
the last proving its worth by bringing
order out of chaos and causing the
great work at Panama to make steady
and hopeful progress.
lng back to the days when muscle will
be the higher paid because of a surplus
of nice clean boys with college educa
tions who do not want to dirty their
hands In common toil.
“It Is noted In all sections of the
country that there is a dearth of la
boring men. The various ports of en
try are filled with agents of great cor
porations and many smaller concerns
looking for able-bodied men to work
as laborers. Each year the scarcity
becomes more acute. Each year higher
wages Is being paid foreign labor to
do this class of work, and the foreigner
has the field all to himself.
‘‘The American boy Is no longer
seeking work In the mill, mine and
factory. He wants an education. Once
ho has this, he will not accept-a posi
tion where he has to dig in grime and
smut. He must wear a clean collar
and a white shirt, and his gloved hands
nro too sacred to bo dirtied by grease
and the clay from whence he said
to have sprung. The American lad
wants a clerkship, an office Job. He
makes a good salesman, ofttlmes a
stunning promoter. But as a scientist
he is not in the ascendant In any num
her. His studiousness is not of suffi
clent duration to make him a genius.
He is turned out from the school-a
’half-baked’ member of the working
guild. He has neither trade nor pro
fession. He must learn the practical
things as well as the •theories. T
latter no one has any use for, unless
accompanied by sterling qualities of
commercial Importance.
“If the student, when completing his
course, is willing to get down in the
dirt and dig and delve until he has
mastered that part of his training he
will .make a much better man than the
fellow who never had any educational
benefits. After he has learned the
practical things, things that can he
sold for dollars and cents, then his the
ories will come into use. But until that
time he Is a useless member of so
ciety, because that field Is glutted.
“The graduate will find, on leaving
school, that there aro thousands of his
kind looking for clerkships, anxious to
do anything but to get down to hard,
dirty labor. It is because of this that
premium is being paid on the man
who will use his muscles. Take, for
Instance, the man who lays brick, who
can earn from S5.50 to $6.50 per day.
The man who can do a Job of plumb
ing, which Incurs the dirtiest kind of
work, can earn from $4 to $5 per day,
eight hours’ work; but the clerk, keep
ing a set of books, must be content
with from $12 to $15 per week, and
there are dozen men for each Job.
"Railroad offices are filled with
clerks drawing salaries ranging from
$35 to $80 per month, never higher,
while the brakemen and engineers are
earning double that amount. Even the
switchmen in the yards are paid better
than the men who add and subtract
figures Involving millions of dollars
each week.
"The American boy who Is willing
to get down Into the muck and mire,
who has a good common school educa
tion and who studies betimes to im
prove his mental condition Is worth a
hundred graduates of a college who
will not lay their hands to a piece of
work unless It has been previously
brushed off and cleaned for them. The
’kid-gloved’ men of the future cannot
hope to rise In their profession nor vo
cation. The surplus of student life
Is feared by the capitalist. It Is as
suming an alarming proportion. It Is
being classed with the idlers and sap
pers of the country. They are being
turned out in such enormous numbers, 1
which Is increasing, that the manufac
turer and producer is worried where ]
and how to get sufficient help to carry
on hts operations."
age. desires position to assist the
manager of an uptown broker's of
fice; has best social position and
s -me immediate following; small
Salary for one month to prove his
usefulness and to show that he has
valuable friends. Appiy, etc.
TThat Is proposed by this young
•’gentleman” (and others like him)
according to the Eagle, is tc
"work” his friends for the benefit of
his employer. He knows people who
have more money than good sense
whom he can induce to make such In
vestments as the crafty broker would
like them to make, and in return for a
good salary offers his friends as vic
tims.
Morally there is no difference be
tween this class of young gentlemen
and ordinary confidence men, but the
law does not reach the former, and the
losses to their victims caused by their
shrewd rascality are of course not in
cluded in the estimate of the annual
cost of crime.
"UNWRITTEN LAW” DOESN’T GO.
The dictum of the Virginia court, in
the Strother case, Judge Harrison pre
siding, on the “unwritten law" ought
to put an end to the subject but it
won't Judge Harrison said:
"Some reference has been made
to the 'unwritten law.’ I want to
say most emphatically that so far
as any court in this State is con-,
cerned, there is no law or prece
dent on the subject, if by that is
meant that any person can take in
his hands the righting of his
wrongs. This explanation can only
be submitted in mitigation of the
offense, not in Justification. That
question is not presented here. The
court can simply lay down the rule
of law—that no matter how great
the provocation may have been, if
the offending person Is of responsi
ble mind and capable of responsible
actions, these acts can only be con
sidered In •mitigation of the offense
and not excuse or Justification.”
. What Judge Harrison says of Vir
ginia is true of other States. There is
no recognized law or precedents on the
subject in any of the States. It Is true
that the "unwritten law” has had much
to do with governing the verdicts of
Juries, bu.t not under the charge of
the court as to what the law is.
THE CLOTHES QUESTION.
Rev. Joseph H. Webber, of the Gen
tenary Methodist Episcopal church in
Philadelphia, preached last Sunday on
“What 'Shall a Woman Wear,” and 49S
women and two men (one a reporter)
gathered to hear him. The reporter’s
account In the Public Ledger reads in
part as follows:
"Do you know why the majority
of you girls will die old maids?”
the evangelist asked, pointing to a
group of prettily gowned young
women. "It is because you pay too
much attention to clothes. A young
man who is not rich would be una
ble to support you. Ask one-half
of the unmarried men why they
are bachelors and they will answer
that the women of today are too
expensive to keep. They expect a
man to give them a fine house and
fine furniture, and no end of fine
dresses. His salary cannot provide
all these things.
“How many women present hen-
peck their husbands for clothes?"
demanded the speaker. "Tou do it
right along; you can’t help it."
Suppressed exclamations were
heard when Mi*. Webber comment
ed on the appearance of his
hearers.
"You look fine, very fine,” he
said. "But I will venture to say
that many of you have clothes on
that were never paid for. Oh, do
not look shocked, because it is
true. The clothes question is one
of the most serious problems of the
day. Women will do almost any
thing to obtain fine gowns."
Immigration
40 Years Ago
By C. R. PENDLETON.
On to him upon the ocean.
Rocked upon its pond'rous motion.
Father, soothe the wild winds blowing,
Send the billows homeward flowing.
Show thy stars all glowing, glowing—
Go with him him wher’er he’s going,
End the motion, wild commotion.
Bring him safely from the ocean.
While the question of immigration is
up, and fresh. I wish to tell a hard-
When MaJ. Pendleton received the
words “come home” by cable he was
stricken almost dumb. He found him-
luck story, probably worth now recit- • self in a peck of trouble, and might
ing, of the first effort to secure immi- j find himself in Jail the next day. Men
grants into Georgia after the close of
the War Between the States. It was
forty years ago—1SG7 or 1S6S.
The planters in Lowndes County or
ganized an immigration association.
Cotton was worth 30 cents a pound,
but the negroes were demoralized with : ters
their newly acquired freedom, and with
politics. Thousands of acres were ly
ing idle and there were comparatively
few of the ex-slaves that oould be de
pended on to show up tomorrow if they
plowed today. MaJ. P. C. Pendleton,
who was a planter, and also the editor
of the local paper, began the agitation
Cor Immigration. As the result of his
work the "Lowndes County Immigra
tion Society” was organized. Some ad
vocated the Importation of the Chinese
coolie, but MaJ. Pendleton insisted that
they seek the sturdy Scot. Mr. Donald
McDonald, then treasurer of the old
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, who at
tended one of the meetings of the
Lowndes County Immigration 'Society,
had thrown up their Jobs to come with
him to Georgia. He had chartered a
sailing vessel which lay at port wait
ing its human cargo. He owed for his
board. He owed the newspapers for
advertising, and he owed the job print-
for literature, and he had no
■H-H-H-H-l-l 1 I I 'I-H-H-H-H-l-l-H-
| Caught on j
the WingP
By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
Here Is a local story Illustrative of
the truth that a woman will follow
the man she loves through weal and
woe, through poverty, through hard
ships, through disappointments; and
she will bind him the closer to her
heart, as his trials Increase, cheer hipi
in adversity, and ever remain unal
terable at his side. It Is a story of a
wife’s heroic devotion and her noble
adherence to the fortunes of her poor
but ambitious and deserving husband—
a story of womanly grit and indomita
ble resolution:
. — « , . Three years ago a young woman,
monej. A second cablegram to the ao but twenty-one years old, approach
ed Supt. George T. Kennet, of the
Willingham Cotton Milis, and asked
him in what department of the mills
BACHELOR REFLECTIONS
From the New York Press.
Maybe purgatory is nothing but
everything
rot Id comes
to get into,
comfort of
worse next
Lowndes County Immigration Socie
ty brought no response. His own
private - resources at home were lim
ited, and 'bis family knew nothing of
his second message.
B'ut he made a fast and true friend
in Glasgow by the name of McGeorge.
With the aid of this gentleman—finan
cial and otherwise—and with the pa
pers he carried with him—MaJ. Pen
dleton established himself with the
legal authorities and escaped trouble
on that score, after delay and great
annoyance. From a mob which threat
ened he found safely in the private
home of Mr. McGeorge until he could
get away with a clean showing, which
dose of machine politics
These aro times when
goes fas!, especially out m
Half tha trouble in the ’
from there being no worse
A widow always has the
knowing she can’t do any
time.
A nice thing about having a wife is
all the other foolish things it keeps you
from doing.
A woman’s idea of comfortable shoes
are tho.-e she can wear for three hours
without fainting.
A man has a mighty sweet temper
to lose a collar button and not swear
it's Ills wife’s fault.
A woman likes to have her husband
brag about everything except how
much older his family is than hers.
A nun works hard all day to sup
port his wife, but not as hard .as when
■he gets home and has to button her
up the back.
declared that if they brought Scotch j he finally did.
This was an odd sort of a discourse
to be hoard from the pulpit, but not an
unwholesome one altogether. It will
not hurt gorgeously-clothed young wo
men whose fathers are on the verge of
bankruptcy to hear such plain speech
now and then. Xor would such a dis
course harm 'those lady journalists who
are engineering the crusade for taxing
bachelors.
The secret of Chief Engineer Ste
vens’ resignation is out. "Green mould
and no golf” tells the story 1 . "Mr. Ste
vens is a great reader but found It im
possible to keep volumes of any sort
in Panama because of the green mould
that settle on everything.” So says
the dispatch bearing the weighty tid
ings. And then "he suffered greatly be
cause golf was impossible.” The poor
man might doubtless have found a sub
stitute exercise in shoveling a little
dirt, but it is against the traditions of
Panama to shovel dirt.
The black republic of Santo Domingo
Is virtually annexed, for the treaty just
ratified by the Senate establishes a
protectorate over that Island for fifty
years. In matters of this sort, as Eng
land’s history shows, half a century is
as good as forever. Thus our march
of imperial expansion goes on.
John F. Stevens *ay» there la nothing
tn the Panama Job fit for a man of his
abilities. That It Is the mere digging
of a "big ditch,” which most anybody
could do. Strange how they all balk
at the digging, which anybody can do.
THE PECUNIARY COST OF CRIME.
Harper's Weekly figures it out that
the yearly cost of crime in the United
States reaches the grand total of
$1,076,327,605. and that “we spend more
than $500,000,000 a year a more on
crime than we do on all spiritual,
ecclesiastical, physical, humanitarian
educational, and healing agencies put
together.”
But the detailed list footing up even
this great total does not include all the
crime to which Is attached heavy pe
cuniary cost, to say nothing of the
moral cost. It does not Include, for
example, what is lost by the victims of
those "gentlemanly” young confidence
men whom the Brooklyn Eagle de
scribes as "Little Brothers of the
Rich," and who insert such advertise
ments as the following In the newspa
pers cf the larger cities:
Young gentleman, 22 years of |
The Savannah Press thinks Adam’s
Run, S. C., may be the place where the
angel stood with the flaming sword
when the father of the race was evict
ed from the “Garden of Eden,” other
wise known as Georgia.* More likely it
was .the place where he hid when the
Lord called him. r
"In fact
President
that leads
the cnly mollycoddle the
can abide is the industry
a sheltered life under the
wing of protectionism,” observes
Louisville Courier-Journal.
the
immigrants they (the Scotch) would be
owning .the lands after awhile. "That is
just what we want," replied Maj. Pen
dleton. "We want that class which
will assimilate, and buy our lands.
That is exactly the reason why I want
the Scotchmen.”
Mr. McDonald was a Scotchman, and,
by-the-way, he has worthy and sturdy
descendants in Macon,
Maj. Pendleton had his way, and the
association sent him to Scotland after
immigrants.
Ocean liners were slow in those days.
The first Atlantic cable had just been
laid and the tolls for cablegrams were
high. The details of the financial ar
rangements I do not recall, if I ever
new (because I was a youth then),
but Maj. Pendleton was to char
ter a sailing vessel, if he could
get a ship load of immigrants,
and when he. was ready to sail
they were to cable through Sa
vannah or New York banks the money.
He spent two or three months In Glas
gow and Edinburgh advertising Geor
gia and pledging immigrants to sail
on a certain date. He secured the
ship load, arranged passports, etc v
and then cabled for the money.
Meanwhile, about that very date, the
bottom fell out of the cotton market,
and from 30 cents a pound it went
down to 15 cents. The Lowndes Coun
ty Immigration Society held a meeting,
canvassed the situation, and
Backed down!
But not until there was an acrimo
nious debate. A minority wanted to
go forward, and send the money. The
majority were rattled by the fall In
cotton. They sent him these two
words:
“Como home!”
One said In the meeting: "We must
send him sonic money, because he may
not have enough to get home on."
How my youthful spirits sank to my
very shoe soles when another replied:
"Let him come home by the under
ground railroad!”
Those were curious days—days of
demoralization—Just after the war!'
For days and weeks his family heard
not a word from him whom they
adored.
Had he been arrested as a fakir and
thrown into jail? Was he sick and
penniless? Had the great storm which
swept up the Atlantic coast and out to
sea swamped the home-coming boat
on which perhaps he had taken pas
sage? His wife and his children knew
not, and the Lowndes County Immigra
tion Society, or a majority of its
members, which had adjourned sine
die, seemed to them to care not!
At last word came across the deep
that he would sail, on a certain day
from Liverpool. The date fixed threw
him probably in the track of the great
storm. The time went slowly by, but
there were no tidings from the vessel.
It was a week or ten days overdue.
A bright lad of a boy, one of his
sons—a genius whose poetic sou! fled
later to a brighter shore ere he reached
manhood’s estate—penned the follow
ing little poem during the anxious
waiting for his return:
And after being tossed at sea, and
overdue a week or ten days he landed
safely at home.
The Lowndes County Immigration
Society never held another meet
lng, and Maj. Pendleton liquidated the
debts contracted in Scotland out of his
own scanty purse.
The next year Mr. McGeorge came to
America, and he dropped in at Val
dosta to see his friend, but a new
made grave marked his last restin
place on earth.
AFTON WATER.
among thy
In thy
Flow gently, sweet Afton
green braes;
Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a son
praise:
My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring
stream.
Flow gently, sweet Afton. disturb not her
dream.
Thou stoek dove whose echo resounds
through the glen.
To wild whistling blackbirds in yon
thorny den.
Thou green-crested lapwing, thy scream
ing forbear:
I charge you disturb not my slumbering
fair.
How lnftfy, sweet Afton, thy neighboring
hills.
Far marked with the courses of clear
winding rills!
There daily I wander ns noon rises high.
My flocks and my Mary’s sweet cot in
my eye.
How rleasant thy banks and green val
leys below.
"Where wild In the woodlands the prim
roses blow! /
There oft as mild evening weeps over
the lea.
The sweet-scented blrk shades my Mary
and me.
Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely
it glides.
And winds by the cot where' my Mary
resides;
How wanton thy waters her snowy feet
lay
As gathering sweet flowerets, she stems
thy clear wave.
Flow gently,, sweet Afton, among thy
green hrnes:
Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of
my lavs;
My Mary’s asleep by the murmuring
stream.
Flow gent'y, sweet Afton. disturb not
her dream.
—ROBERT BURNS.
HOW TO PRONOUNCE "ALABAMA.”
From the Mobile Register.
Apropos of the legislative definition
of the pronunciation of the name Mis
souri is the reader aware that there
is no legal certainty as to how “Ala
bama” should be pronounced? The
ho~t usage Is to pronounce it ‘Ala-
bah-ma.” with the emnhasis on the
second syllable and the final "a” short,
but there are Alabamians who pro
nounce it “Alla-bammer.” and yet oth
ers who make It "Arlarbnrma.” The
State Legislature might do a good
half-hour’s work by putting the pro
nunciation in the record.
could a woman earn the largest wages.
He replied, the weaving department.
She said she would like to obtain em
ployment as a weaver. He inquired
what had been her experience in weav
ing. She answered. "I have no ex
perience in that line at all and have
never worked in a cotton mill a day
in my life, but I wish to learn weav
ing and I hope, sir, you will let me
try." Supt. Kennet was Impressed
with her earnestness, and he employed
the young woman. The first week she
did not make a cent as the valuo of
the material she ruined in endeavoring
to weave was more than an off-ot
against any wages she had earned.
She fared scarcely any better the sec
ond week. But she did not become
discouraged and with undaunted spirit
she kept at her task. The third week
she made considerable headway, and
The Times-Union Philosopher
Jacksonvilo Times-Union.
A man has to have a lot of sense to
get any credit for it.
Some men measure their pleasure
by the headache that follows it.
The smaller the thing is that is wor
rying a man the more fuss he makes
over it.
You can generally tell how badly a
man wants a thing by the way he rails
against it.
A man considers it a good excuse if
his wife will believe it when he tells
it to her.
The world doesn't call It experience
unless It has some mighty unpleasant
results.
.... , .... , If there wasn't so much advice in
steadily improved, and in the course j tp 0 world people would pay more al-
of time she became an expert weaver, 1 tention to it.
It hurts a man to see a baby bc-
earning two dollars a day, or twelve j
dollars per week. In the meanwhile . . . ,
Supt. Kennel and Mr. C. B. Willing- «“>• h “ to aJmit that once he
ham had been attracted by the perse- j looked ,ike that.
verance and determination of the ! Culture is what a woman boasts
young woman to succeed in her ef- ! about having when she recognizes that
forts at •weaving, and they Inquired ; ske isn’t beautiful.
something of her history, and this was A bachelor maid is an unmarried wa-
what they learned, so far as bears upon j man who has recognized the inevitable
the story: j and quiet struggling.
She had a husband and two little chll- j Many a man has actually managed
dren. He was very poor but desired • to be happy without meddling in some
to become a lawyer. His devoted wife : other fellow’s business,
was In sympathy with his aspirations. when a man keeps insisting that he
but how was he. utterly without funds , g a KenUeman , it ’ is a sign that he
to realize his ambition was the per- ^ s doubts aboU t it.
plexinsr question. He had himself, wife _ . . . . .
kiid two children to support, and this I , Ono , advantage In being a woman is
he could not do and read law at the ’ !lat the world , does , n 1 ex Pect you to
same time. The faithful wife solved I have a rcason for what >' ou
the problem bv learning to weave in j It is real funny to see a man trying
the Willingham Cotton Mills, and with ; to be honest when he is balancing his
her earnings she supported the family
while her husband attended the law
school of Mercer University. And fur
thermore. this splendid young woman
would arise early enough In the morn
ing to cook sufficient food to supply
the family for the day and report at
the mill by 6 o’clock. At night the
husband and wife would sit hand it}
hand in their humble room and In calm
confidence speak of tho future, as more
full of hope than fear. Recently the
husband successfully finished his course
at Mercer’s law school, and with his
family went to a town In Southwest
Georgia, where he has established him
self, under favorable auspices, for the
practice of his profession. In his wife
this man possesses a treasure, and
with .such love and worth as hers
wherever he dwells must be a temple.
May their years always be encircled
with the halo of happiness and pros
perity. and may their lives be one long
springtime "full of sweet days and
roses.”
merits againgt his short-comings.
Some men think success consists of
amassing enough wealth to make it
worth while to contest their will.
Knowledge would be more general
If men could only be convinced that
they do not know as much as they
think they do.
NUGGETS.
The death a few days ago of Col.
J. R. "Wright, in Fort Worth. Texas,
loaves in life only one ex-Grand Mas
ter of the Grand Lodge of Free and
Accepted Masons ofGeorgia. The sola
survivor Is Dr. J. W. Taylor of Lu
therville, Meriwether County, Ga. Col.
Wright moved from Rome to Texas
several years ago. He was Grand
Master in 1SS2 and 1883. and was suc
ceeded by John S. Davidson, of Augus
ta. who continued in office until 1S93.
being succored by John Shannon, of
Elberton. Shannon’s successor wag .T.
W. Tavlor, who .served in 1896 and 1897,
and Taylor was followed by W. A.
Davis, of Maeon, who held the place in
1898 and 1899. after which time the in
cumbent, Max Meyerhardt, of Rome,
ras chosen and he has been Grand
Master ever since.
From Success Magazine.
Pray for a short memory as to all
unkindnesses.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans
in any market.
Genius has a twin brother whose
name is patience.
Anxiety never yet successfully
bridged over any charm.
True merit is like a river. The deeper
it is the less noise it makes.
We postpone and postpone until
smiling possibilities are dead.
You will not find poetry anywhere
unless you bring some with you.
"The world raises its loftiest shaft
to the man who ’delivers the goods.' ’’
B'y sparing ourselves the daily task
we dig the grave of onr higher possU
biUties.
Some one asked Thomas A. Edison,
“Don’t you believe that genius Is in
spiration?” “No,” he replied, "genius
is perspiration.”
"If you have but a word of choer
Speak it while I am alive to hear.”
QUEER, ISN’T IT ?
ITEMS OF INTEREST
On the Ocean.
By P. C. Pendleton. Jr.
Oh. the rain is falling, dashing—
On the doors and windows splasing,
And the lightning flashing, flashing,
And the mighty thunder crashing,
And the heavy wind in motion
Rolls the billows o’er the ocean.
One Is on the water driven,
Mayhap his sails are riven
By the dread, alarming heaven;
And the happy hope once given.
Of the home far o’er the ocean
Perish-in the vast commotion.
Some statistician has discovered
that the average woman carries forty
to sixty miles of hair on her head.
Judge Charles T. Woodward, lately
appointed to the Maine Supreme
Court, never had a picture taken.
The Bank of England employs about
1,000 people, pays $1,250,000 yearly In
wages and $175,000 yearly in pen
sions.
The island of Java is losing Its su
premacy as a coffee producer. The
crop produced in Sumatra now almost
equals It.
London’s new contralto, Marie
The Waycross Journal says that Ma
con and Atlanta are having a big row
over the next State Fair. This is an
other case of going away from home to
learn home news.
If it is true that "God Almighty
hates a quitter" the Isthmus of Pan
ama must be very much in the Omnis
cient's mind these days.
It is a good time to begin building
cottage homes In Macon.
Still the rain is falling, falling.
And the lightning's glare appalling—
And the thunder's voice is calling
Clouds to fill the gloomy walling
Of the sky, while for the ocean
Heaves its breast with heavy motion.
I am praying for him. praying,
Longer on the ocean staying
Than of parting we were saying;
But the tempest fiercely braying
Fills my heart with deep emotion,
Heaving for him on the ocean.
Still the rain is falling, pouring.
And the tempest st'll is iow’ring
O’er the bounds of ocean roaring,
Bearing him my heart adoring.
Rushing on in wild commotion—
God be with him on the ocean!
I am praying, praying, weeping
While the storm, its fury keeping
Dashing o’er his children sleeping.
On ia whirling whirlwinds sweeping,
Stuart, who has pleased all the crit
ics. is six feet two inches in height
and is called the "tallest lafiy singer
in the world.”
Grenoble, France, probably manu
factures more ladies’ kid gloves than
any other place in the world. Paris,
Chaumont and Millau aro also largely
engaed In the industry.
The Chinese laborers In the Van
Rhu gold mines recently presented to
their white manager a handsome sil
ver tray to mark their feelings of af
fection, "as deep as the sea.”
All the paper for the millions of
postage stamps used in the United
States is manufactured at Mechanic
Falls, Me. Once a month the firm re
ceives a requisition for 1,000,(100 sheets
of the paper, and each sheet will make
3661 stamps.
! A consignment of extraordinary fine
! diamonds has reached London from a
: new mine In the Orange River colony.
• The mine in question Is called the
Robert Victor, and is situated at Bo-
shoff, a few miles across the border
from Kimberley.
In the j’ear 1814 the Thames froze
and the English channel was for a
time impassable because of icebergs.
The coldest European winter on rec
ord was that of 1708-1709. It began
early in October. In 1740 also the cold
was so intense that birds fell dead to
the ground.
At the final meeting, on February 7,
of the Waterloo and City Railway
Company (tube), London, which has
been taken over by the London and
Southwestern, the chairman mention
ed that since the railway was comple
ted in 1S98, it had carried 41,000,000
passengers without an accident.
A. G. Wise, secretary of the SL He
lena committee In London, states that
since the withdrawal of the troops,
which has reduced the island to a
s.-te of bankruptcy, the only occupa
tion of the inhabitants of St. Helena
is catching rats. The Government
I pays two cents for each of them.
I understand that the waters of the
Totvallga river (or creek as it is some
times called), will be used to generate
electricity for propelling the cars of
the proposed new- electric line between
Macon and Atlanta. This stream, after
dividing part of the northeastern sec
tion of Spalding County from Henry
County, runs through Butts and Mon
roe Counties and empties into the Oc-
mulgee river. I had the curiosity to
know the derivation of the Indian name
Towaliga. so I consulted Historian But
ler and he says the Indians had slain
some whites in the month of July, and
op Returning home the scalps began
to spoil through intense heat; the war
riors encamped on the river, and dried
the scalps over a fire, hence Tow-aliga.
roasted scalps. John Moore and Jogdan
Massee should see to it that no pas
senger on their road is left uninformed
as to the meaning of the name of the 1 of cIav?
river whose waters will assist in car- *
riving them to their destinations. Jn
this connection It may be of interest to
give the derivation of the Indian names
of the two well-known creeks in Bibb
County—Tobesofkee and Echeconnee. I
am Informed that Tobesofkee comes
from Sofskee. an Indian dish, prepared
of meal or corn, and Tobe. I have lost.
An Indian was crossing the creek in
his canoe and lost his provisions: hence
the name. I am further Informed by
Historian Butler that Echeconnee sig
nifies a dear trap. At some places the
banks of the creek were very steep, and
as the deer would go in at the fording
places in summer to eat the moss from
tile rocks, the Indians would post them-
selves, some above and some below the
ferd. while others would wade in, at
tack and kill the deer. Echeconnee
was formerly spelt Icho-con-naugh and
was once also called Little Tobesof-
kee.
As before explained in this column,
“the name Ocmulgee Is of Muscogee
origin and derived from the Indian
Oc or Och which signifies water and
mulgee. boiling or bubbling. The stream
was clear wa.ter until the country be
gan to be thickly settled, the forest
cleared and the land plowed. The name
was applied from the many springs
that were found along its course, and
whose pure waters flowed into its
channel.
From the Reader.
That a cavalryman unhorsed Is most
easily cowed?
That one can show his temper only
after he has lost It?
That the plow must be soiled beforo
the soil can be plowed?
That no young man ever rose rapidly
till he had settled down?
That a contractor should be called
upon to expand a house?
That a susceptible fellow is hardest
hit by the softest glances?
That in everything (except baseball)
you must strike out to make a hit?
That so many students cannot stale
bald facts without splitting hairs?
That hard liquor should upset a fel
low who has just been setting it up?
That the straighter a man drinks his
whisky the crookeder he walks home?
That the papers so often refer to a
man's double life as a singular career?
That the clergy should constantly re
fer to even the sandiest mortals as men
That being a big ass at night will
often make you a. little hoarse the next
morning?
That a chap who can’t abide pets
about the house will sit up half the
night to fatten up a kitty?
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE
Under the present law the Adjutant
General of Georgia Is appointed by the
Governor, and. as I understand it is a
member of the Governor’s staff, with
no definite term of service. I have
been informed that a bill will probably
be introduced at the next session of
the Legislature making the Adjutant
General elective by the General As
sembly. A very influential m6bet—elect
of the Legislature favors the proposed
change In the method of filling the
office. Judge S. W. Harris now oc
cupies the position of Adjutant Gen
eral.
I heard the verv interesting state
ment made yesterday that neither W.
A. Covington, of Colquitt, nor Sea
born Wright, of Floyd would Intro
duce the prohibition bill, but that It
would come from a very unexpected
source. This Information was imparted a
to me by one of the Judges in this j The chest^was* brought to
State, | 1638 by Sir Francis Willoughby,
Congressman Butler Amos, of Massa
chusetts. is said to be already In training
as an aspirant for the seat of Senator
Lodge, whose term has still four years
to run.
Miss Birdie Kern, a St. Louis girl, IS
years old. is believed to be the best wrarft
an bowler in the country. He r father,
Martin Kern. Is .a winner of the men's
national championship.
A monument to commemorate Mr. War
ren. who invented and manufactured the
first sldehill plow, will soon be erect-d in
Peril. Me., according to plans recently
formulated by a wealthy Philadelphian, a
son of the Inventor.
Hector Macpherson. who resides a few
miles from Edinburgh. Scotland, though
only IS years old. is an astronomer of
note, his 'work in that science having won
him membership in Societe Beige d'As-
tronomie. He took to star-gazing when a
boy of 12. and has written two notable
books on astronomy.
Benjamin James Brown, one of the
latest American painters to berome an
annual exhibitor at the Paris salon, is a
native of South Boston, and first began
to paint at the age of 3D. Ilis first nota
ble picture was purchased 1)V a Philadel
phian. It was called "Preparations for
Communion'by Peasants of Brittany. -
Congressman Dunwell, of Brooklyn. 55
.years old and one of the smallest men
in the House, thinks he has taken no
exercise at all if he has not stepped off
at least ten miles before he sits down to
dinner every day. He sets so furious a
pace. • too, that few of the noted pedes
trians in Washington any longer try to
keep up with him.
Francis Coutts. who has inherited much
of the wealth of the Baroness Burdetts-
Coutts. is a man of literary taste. He
soon will publish two import-nt books,
one a volume of poems, containing a few
lyrics and some 2,000 lines of b'ank verse,
the other a volume of criticism of the
book of Job. concerning which Mr. Coutts
has an entirely new view. *
George C. Raymond. of Sprinfield.
Mass., has a treasure In a che«t once
owned by Queen Elizabeth, which has
come down to him through his Willough
by anc-stors. the Queen having given it
to Margaret Willoughby, her maid of hon-
direct
stor of Mr
Raymond,
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