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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, country in a <