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ENACTMENTS BY EXECUTIVE
j.»aR*Ggc In tho Constitution of
0. R. PENDLETON, President
THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
The Telegraph oan ba laund on aa!#
mt tho Kimball Houaa and tha Piad-
mont Hotal In Atlanta.
JUDGE STULTIFIED HIMSELF.
That Virginia. Judge In tha Strother
oaa# stultified himself In the end. Dur
ing the trial ha warned the jury there
waa no such thing as tho "unwritten
law" and when tha Jury returned its
verdict under tho "unwritten law” he
thanked them for the verdict and ap-
pealtd to tha precedenta ostabllahed In
Virginia undar tha "unwritten law”
that "no man triad for defending the
sanctity of hla home should ba found
guilty.” Is It any wonder the popular
mind should confuae tha Impulse of
eentlment with the principles of law
when the Judge on the bench so far
loses his bearings?
A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT.
The conservative Richmond Times-
Dlspatch says:
The aoqulttal of the Strother
brothers In Culpepper was a fore
gone conclusion, because It was In
accordance with the “unwritten
law.” That law Is not understood
at the North, and a few words of
explanation may be Instructive.
The law-abiding cltisens of Vir
ginia do not recognize the right of
any man to take human life, ex
cept as the unwritten law provides.
They do not recognize the right ol
any man to slay the despoiler of
his home, merely as a means of
taking revenge. "Why, then. Is the
■'unwritten law” recognized? Be
cause by common consent It Is the
surest protection of our women,
and, therefore, for the welfare of
society. The "unwritten law" par
dons homicide in certain cases In
order to prevent bad men from
committing a worse crime. If a
man slay the scoundrel who has
destroyed the honor of his home
and be hung for It, other scoun
drels of the same stripe may find
comfort In the verdict.
But there Is a solemn warning In
a code which provides that he who
Is mean enough or weak enough to
destroy what Is more precious than
life, by that act forfeits his own
life.
That Is the lesson of the Culpep
per verdict, and let all who need
It take heed.
If this “unwritten law” Is good in
Itself then why not enroll It among the
statutes and make It legal, also? The
Tlmes-Dispatch says the Strother affair
Is a lesson. It Is also an exception.
Hundreds of offenders escape the pen
alty where the individual avenger Is
left to take the law In His own hands
where one la punished. Make the law
certain and uniform by codifying It and
It will be Incomparably more effective.
l«et tbe Legislature solemnly doom of
fenders of thla class to death at the
bands of the avenger. The “scoun
drels” will then know what to expect.
It will then be a law to deter crime as
well as to punish It. What Is to leave
It as It stands and to uphold It but to
rstum to “lynch law,” whloh the
Tlmes-Dispatch opposes?
) Massachusetts, which Is said to have
j been described by Daniel Webster as
] Its noblest expression, reads as fol
lows:
"The Executive shall never exer
cise the legislative and judicial
powers, or either of them; the Ju
dicial shall never exercise the leg
islative and executive powers, or
either of them; to Ihe end that It
may be a Government of laws, and
not of men.”
The same Idea Is not so explicitly I
expressed In the Constitution of the J
Uiihed State*, but has always been |
quite as clearly understood. That Is, ;
| by almost everybody except President i
Roosevelt, who has again Invaded the :
legislative d .main in two particulars '
Just before the adjournment of Con- !
gross. j
Some time ago the President issued I
j an order adding some millions of i
j acres to the forest reserves. The act !
seemed to be a good thing In Itself, j
| The following explanation of the object
j In view has been Issued by Mr. Pin-
, chot, the head of the Forestry Division
! of the Agricultural Department:
I Forest reserves are created with
the main object of using all their
resources in the wisest way. Every
thing is for use—the timber, the
- range, the water, the land. Only
those lands chiefly valuable for the
production of timber or the protec
tion of the water flow are Included
in national forests. Little patches
of agricultural land, small moun
tain meadows and very inconsider
able areas of open grazing land
must necessarily fall within their
boundaries. All such tracts where
cultivation is possible are being
classified and are passing to pri
vate ownership through the act of
June 11, 1906. which Is an extension
of the homestead law to the na
tional forests.
The miner Is better off In a na
tional forest than on the unreserved
public domain. The mineral laws
apply In precisely the same way.
The prospector can explore and
locate his claims without the
slightest restriction.
All timber and wood In the na
tional forests are for use and for
prompt use. They are sold to the
small man and to the big man.
Everybody who needs timber to
establish his home gets it free of
charge when he asks for It. In the
sale of timber there Is no chance
for monopoly, for the Secretary of
Agriculture can sell as much or as
little as he pleases, to whomever
he pleases and for whatever price
he deems fair for the best Inter
ests of all tho people. The Gov
ernment gets a fair return for Its
timber, whereas before, under the
timber and stone law. It practically-
gave it away, and In such a manner
that It was monopolized In va«t
tracts by corporate Interests. And
after it was cut off the land was
burned over, and became a non
productive waste.
The range i s used for the grazing
of live stock. On those national
forests created after March 1, 1907.
there will be no Interference with
the grazing Industry, nor will any
[ tuners to procure troru any quarter the
labor supply they need.” The trouble
' is that these whore votes en*- t Federal
1 legislation fear that Southern negroes
may be driven North in too great num-
j bers by the competition of white immi
grants brought into the South.
t A
| Caught on f
l the Wing !
;-h-:-!-i-!-:-i-
By
JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
J.
HOGS AND EVOLUTION,
All is not well with the hogs of North
Carolina. The following report as to
their condition is quoted from thd
Southern Christian Advocate:
"Hogs over near the good church
Providence are acting queeriy here
recently, anyway. One of m.v
grave, dignified stewards was tell
ing me about it the other day.
“•Brother M..* said he. - a strange
thing is happe ing over in our ■
community.’ ’What in the wirld is
It?’ said I. ’Well/ replied my
steward. ‘It’s the hogs. They are
acting as I never saw them before.
They are actually rubbing their
tails off.' ‘You don’t tell me—rub
bing their tails off?’
"Steward: ’Yes. sir, it’s a fact.
It seems it is some sort of disease
that peculiarly affects that pnrt of
the hog's anatomy, and he goes to
a pine tree and rubs until the tail
is excommunicated. We have more
bobtail hogs in my section than you
can shake a stick at.’ ’’
A hog has not a great deal of tail to
lose, but nevertheless a hog without a "'ho- prize their books more for their
tan ua _ j<«. - ’ external beauty than their Internal
tail would be a different animal. The wor th. but t0 ? his the three ac .
California Indians had a tradition— ! complislied gentlemen just named by
which proved a delightful find for the gurns^hav^ v^rth^llbraries^f
Darwinians—that their ancestors were ' these learned gentlemen their erudi-
prairie wolves which sat on their tails tf° n "' ou ld have saved them from the
.. „ poet’s caustic commeaL It Is related
until the} wore them off. It would ap- that while waiting in an elegant libra-
pear that North Carolina hogs are to ry the poet took down a handsomely
th«,r ,.,1, .1.0, „„t by =n
them until they are worn off, but by i "Through and through the classic
intelligently filing them off against the „ leaves,
j Ye worms pursue your windings;
rough bark of pine trees. 'But, oh! respect his lordships taste,
Are the hogs to rise through an ; And spare the golden bindings.”
AtminfiAMnpi i \ , . . I There are innumerable good Iibra-
etolutionar} process into a higher spe- ! r | es j n Macon, but the three mendon-
cies, as did the wolves? If so, they ! ed above are possibly the largest and
i Mr. Olin J. Wimberly, the well
known attorney, no doubt has the
largest and jnost valuable private li
brary in Macon. It consists of about
four thousand volumes, embracing
I biography, history, science, philosophy,
I religion, economics, travels, politics,
I society, fiction and in fact the whole
' field of literature. Mr. Wimberly has
I spent much time, taste and money in
! the selection ‘ of ] his books and he is
j constantly adding to his store. His
j library is a grand haven of thought
j into which, the best of all climes Is
brought.
Another Macon lawyer who has a
1 splendid private library is Hon. N. E.
! Harris. His collection is very rare
and numbers twelve hundred volumes.
’It is highly entertaining and ins.ruc-
I live to linger in this atmosphere of
i learning.
i Judge Emory Speer has an exten-
I sive library ot • genuine excellence, as
• might well be surmised considering
I his culture and scholarship. It Is a
! repository of the classics.
There are some owners of libraries
their names. Presently the volumes
commenced to flow in from many emi
nent sources, accompanied In some in
stances by autographed letters. Among
th- contributors were the President of
the United States, an ex-President.
members of the Cabinet. United States
Senators, Governors, officers of the
army and navy. Mayors, authors, artists,
actors, journalists, publishers, women
of note, corporations, etc. True to his
word, Mr. Carling erected the two-
story building near the corner of First
and Arch streets, and ornamented the
same with a bust of S. B. Price, and
the library was duly installed. The li
brary was located where it is in order
to be accessible to a large element of
the working classes. Mayor Smith
watches over its destinies with zealous
care, in fond remembrance of its found
er who has “chcssed over the river.”
The movement which started with the
distribution of a few copies of news
papers has grown In sevgn years into
{ a library of 5,334 books and numerous
j periodicals. During the past year 1.334
: volumes were added to the shelves of
1 the library. The growing popularity of
tho institution is evidenced by the fact
that tlie circulation of books in 1906
was 1.732 more than in 1905. The aver
age circulation per day last year was
ninety-five.
BACHELOR REFLECTIONS
fellow
From the New York Press.
When a girl will admit
kissed her he didn't.
The trouble with reform is it never
begins where charity should—at home.
A man’s hand goes into his pocket
for charity much more quickly if there
is nothing there.
Either a woman is waiting for a hus
band to marry or for one she has mar
ried to come home.
You can tell when a man says he is
on a swear-off by the way he is afraid
his wife will smell his breath.
You can never make a woman be
lieve that she isn't saving money by
buying more to get a discount.
E. H. MURIUM GIVES
SAYS RAILROADS MUST
BUILT ALL OVER AGAIN
WASHINGTON. March 9.—Follow
ing his announced intention of taking
the public into his confidence to a
i greater extent than lie has done liore-
J tofore. E. H. Harriman, the railroad
! magnate who has been In Washing
ton for the past six days, let it bo
I known that he would be interviewed.
Most people's idea of a good cook is j j Ils secre tary, in making the an-
or.e that can fix up a thing that you j nouncement, said Mr. Hnrritr >n could
he seen this evening, and would "talk.”
n and did talk.
I will mention a few of the hundreds
of prominent men and women who have
given autographed books to the Price
Library, just to show the high standing
of its dsnors. I doubt if there is any
other library in the South that has a
larger number of volumes inscribed by
as famous persons. Here are some of
the contributors: Ex-President Cleve
land. ex-President McKinley, ex-Vice
Presidents Hobart and Stevenson, ex-
Cabinet Members Lamont, Hoke Smith,
Long. H>ay. Gage and Secretary of Ag
riculture Wilson. There are twenty-six
United States Senators on the list,
ambne them being Foraker Platt. Pen
rose. Tillman, and 'ex-Senators Hanna,
Ingalls and D. B. Hill. On the Con
gressional roll appear the names of ex-
Speakers Henderson and Reed. The
Governors of thirty-six Slates contrib
uted. Theodore Roosevelt was then
Govern’or of New York, and was a con
tributor. Books came from Mayors of
twenty-nine cities, from San Francisco
and Fargo to Chicago and Washington
and down to the Florida line. Twenty-
eight officers of the army and navy
responded, including such names as
Gen. Schofield. Gen. Corbin. Gen.
eat without guessing what it Is.
A man stops bragging about his
children after they learn how to spend
so much money that he can’t spend
any.
A nice thing about squeezing a girl’s
hand is the way she pretends she
thinks you are putting on your over- j
shoes.
A man will work for his wife and
give her all his money, but he’s not
hero enough to crawl out of bed on a
cold night and get her more cover.
all-
>or- ;
the
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
i , ui x» i M i >.Vi I uren. ocnuutjiu, uren. v^ui mu, ue»i.
ought to rise even higher, for they ap- most . val uable. JIr - Wheeler. Admiral Schley. Fighting Bob
- ‘ P - i er > als ° a member of the bar has, for , Evana and Sigsbee . Ambng the authors
e, one of the ver} best in this ; T flna wniiarn Doan Howells, Chas.
Connoisseurs sa> it is par ex- ( p ranc j s Adams. Thomas Nelson Page,
premeditation, while the transforma- i cit - v -
tion in the case of the wolves was a j ^mv^some mention of public and
purely Involuntary process, resulting ! collegiate libraries in Macon,
from the thoughtless habit of sitting j The fim , natI ^ of the kind in
on their tails. tb f S c jt y 0 f which I have any authen-
If an unreflecting wolf can become a tic account was the Macon Lyceum
Auufe—,. T and Library Society, organized on De-
canrornia Indian, a tailless and medi- ! comber 31. 1836. Progressive men
tative hog ought to be able to develop were the organizers, and first officials.
a mnf h_ mil linn „ iw. ! Dr. Ambrose Baber was chosen presi
dent; Washington Poe and Jerry
Cowles, vice-presidents, and the board
Into a multi-millionaire monopolist.
Mark Twain, John Clark Ridpath
George Ade. Rudyard Kipling. Elia
Wheeler Wilcox, Marian Harland, Mary
E. Bryan. Margaret Deiand. Will N.
Harben and more than sixty other
writers. Some of the artists were
Charles Dana GibfMn. F. Opper. Homer
Davenport, Chas. Neelan. There were
quite a number of players, such as
Mary Anderson de Navarro,-Viola Al
len. May Irwin. Sir Henry Irving. Anna
Held, Roiand Reed. Otis Skinner and
Wm. H. Crane. The Journalists came
forward finely, and in this column I
note John R. McLean. Henry Watter-
son. Wm. R. Hearst, Whitelaw Reid,
From the Chicago News.
Hope makes hopeless tools of some
people.
Look out for propositions that will
n-ot bear looking into.
Borne free church seats are not as
easy as they might be.
It’s often a matter of an hour when
a woman says “Walt a minute.”
Wireless telegrams come undeT the
head of disconnected sentences.
Some people are so skeptical they
even have no faith In their faith.
Few of tho golden opportunities of
fered us will stand the actual test.
A wise man never boasts of his wis
dom. He would’t be wise if he did.
— i Dead men tell no tales, but the an
ecdotes their friends tell about them
more than make up for it.
The recording angel doubtless has to
keep a special set of books in which to
record secrets women do not keep.
Think twice before you speak: and if
you think three times the chances are
vou will not think it necessary to speak
Mr. Harriman was
He talked much about rallro
roads from the standpoint of
tation, railroads and their
the general Government and
pie, and the co-operation
three.
He talked a little also a
tariff some about' finance, mentioned
' the Panama canal, and discussed rate
: legislation, works of art and a wide
i range of topics.
j In answer to the first question pro
pounded to him, Mr. Harriman refus
ed either to confirm or deny the re
port in Wall street today that he had
purchased the Reading road. He said
that he was not interested In Wall
■ street and could not be denying the
rumors which are constantly emanat
ing from there, “because,” he added,
“some time some rumor might come
out of Wall street, which I would not
want to deny." He did say. however
that he had not purchased or sold a
share of stock of any kind since he
had been in Washington.
With the question of the purchase
of the Reading out of the way, Mr.
Harriman talked more freely.
Roads Must Be Rebuilt.
Discussing railroads in the abstract
Mr. Harriman said:
“The railroads or the United States
will have to be rebuilt with much
heavier rails and with a gauge of six
feet. Instead of the present gauge ol
four feet eight and a half Inches.
This change will come within the next
ten years and the roads of 1917 will
be as much in advance of the roads ot
1907 as the roads of today are an im
provement over the roads of 1897,
Either locomotives of such size that
nobody now can imagine them, or
electric engines will have to’be pro-
I think In time the latter "’HI
Justice Brewer, the humorist of the
H. H. Kohlsatt. Numerous publishers United States Supreme Court, is also
LIFE OF THE POPULAR NOVEL.
It appears from the Bookman's tab
ulation of the six beet selling books
each month that from sixty to ninety
days Is a long life for a popular novel.
“In the current Independent,” says the
New York World, “appears a wave
chart based on the figures for 1906
showing variations as violent as the
rise and fall of a fever patient’* tem-
k perature. But while the hot summer
nonths tend to swell the mortality
Its, the vacation period seems to in-
Kace Increased sales of flotlon.” Con-
tlnulng, the World says:
During th© month of January Mrs.
Wharton’s "The House of Mirth”
held the first place. In February It
gave way to “The Wheel of Lire,”
which In March yielded to "The
House of a Thousand Candles.”
Owen Wlster’s "Lady Baltimore"
went up like a rocket in a blaze of
advertising In April, but before
thirty days had passed Mrs. Ward's
"Fenwick’s Career" shot like a me
teor across the firmament of pop
ularity. Winston Churchill's “Con-
lston” was the first of the six best
sellers for three whole months, a
phenomenal record, and Robert
Chambers’ "The Fighting Chance”
held Its own for nearly sixty days.
Upton Sinclair’s "The Jungle” was
only a fair second during June and
July and died away qulcklv with
the echoes of the Nelll-Reynolds
report and th* fuss over the meat
Inspection bill.
The World moralizes on the fset
that ’ the day has long passed since
readers of Dickens went down to the
pier In their Impatience to meet the
ship bringing over tha latest monthly
Instalment of one of hls stories,” and
It asks "which one of last year’s best
sellers fifty years from now will rank
aa a household book and be published
and republished as part of the author's
complete works In response to an un-
.rarylng popular demand?”
Still, what author would not prefer
to be a best-seller for six months and
a fortune in pocket to sharing Milton’s
fame with posterity as the author of
Paradise Lost with only £35 cash rec
ompense In hand?
grazing fee be charged during this
season on those national forests or
additions thereto created after
March 1. 7907. All stockmen who
have regularly used the range will
continue to do so. without any in-
terference from the forest service.
The land within national forests
is freely open to use as sites for
“° t6l i f’ stores, mills, residences and
all other legitimate purposes The
greatest possible use of the land
Is desired. All kinds of improve-
ments are net only permitted, but
are decidedly welcomed.
The aet seemed to be a good thing In
Itself, as we have said, but Congress
did not approve of it, and the Presi
dent’s authority was disputed. More
over, a clause was Inserted in an ap-
Savannah also looks upon the ses- j of directors consisted of twelve citl-
sion of Congress just closed as a sue- lcns equally as, prominent as Baber,
, s uc | Poe and Cowles. These men knew
cess In every respect The Press says: ‘and appreciated the value of books; .... —
“Charleston got her immigrant station ' they realized that “a gdod book Is the j like Review of Reviews. Scribners the best sneeehmakor among the nine
and Congressman Lagare thinks that i pre , ci( ? us Wc-blood of a master-spirit. , Sons> Frank Leslie’s AVeekly and others members of that distinguished body.
g nks that . embalmed and treasured up on pur- , D j. equal standing joined in the good
the late session was entirely successful j pose to a life beyond Ufa, ’ and that ; WO rk. Then there were Mrs. U. S.
in every respect,
her million dollars
at all.
When a young widow begins to take vlded.
the advice of a man seriously it’s a bc more feasible,
sure sign that she is willing bo let him : “The locomotives with the present
fill the shoes of the late lamented. gauge of tracks has reached its capac-
lty The freight car of the present
will have to give way to an all-steel
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE ■' freight car. which will he two feet
' wider, two feet higher and several feet
The Hon. Mrs. Harbord. of London, j longer. It will at *he s^e time be
has made a successful balloon trip j poss'b>e to make the car muchi lighter
across the English, chanhol. She is the ; in proportion to carriage capacity than
second woman to cross in a balloon. (the r.r? ? cnt car and to..*, will effect a
this estimate.”
was entirely successful ; pose to a life beyond lire, ana mar ; work . Then there were Mrs. U. S.
Sinee Sivarmai, trnt “ ln books lies the soul of the whole j Grant. Miss Helen Gould, Clara Barton,
‘ g 1 past time, the articulate voice of the M iss Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Andrew
irs we may agree with past, when the body and material sub- | Carnegie. H. M. Flagler. Phil D.
Judge Carnes says he selected Elliott
County for the place of trial of Hargis,
Kentucky’s great criminal, because it
iyemote from the railroads and out of
the reach of the newspapers. From
this distance it would appear that the
jury should be deaf, dumb and blind,
as well as Ignorant, If Hargis is to es-'
cape his deserts.
Sir. Hearst has once more expatriated
himself from the Democratic party. He
leaves his partner, Murphy, safely an
chored In the Democratic stronghold,
however.
stance of it has altogether vanished
like a dream.” It has been well said
that ‘.’a library in a town is as an
evergreen tree,” and “the true univer
sity of these days Is a collection of
books.” Bacon was right when he
said: "Reading maketh a full man.”
Long ago the leaves were torn from
the “Book of Human Life” of the
founders of Macon’s first library, and
these men were summoned "to join
the innumerable caravan which moves
to that mysterious realm;” and depart
ing, left behind them • "footprints on
the' sands of time.” -
The Richmond, Va., newspapers are
now* agitating the government of their
city by commission. Their impression
propriatlon bill declaring that there ’ appears t0 k e that th ® government by
after no addition should be made to i m6n ' S a fallUre -
the forest reserves except by act of ; Nothing in Senator Carmack’s Sena-
Congress. The President signed the
bill, but not until he had Issued
tlonally for library purposes to the
•rift' cm,, to tho nnlv one oldest chartered female college in the States Senator to succeed Mr. Dryden.
Dr. bat le s world. A separate library building ; Sarah Bernhardt has been appointed
might he erected and supplied with \ (fie professorship of declamation at
valuable books. . Then would the name the Paris Conservatory of Music and
of Carnegie be linked with a noble pur- j Declamation. The appointment was
pose sure enough, and go sounding on made in order to remove the objection
through the ages. | D f the chancellory of the Legion of
Honor. whi,ch declined to confirm Mme.
torlal career so became him as his
^ ah- i leave-taking of It with the dangling
other order adding fifteen million acres form of the dead ship
to the present reserves by hls indi
vidual act. This was on the last day
of the Fifty-ninth Congress, when it
was too late for the matter to be
taken up.
The other defiance of Congress was
an order in the Postoffice Department.
The last act of Mr. Cortelyou (by di
rection of the President) was an order
establishing a system of weighing the
mails which Congress, after much de
bate, had refused to enact. The re
jected provision is now enacted by ex
ecutive order. Just as was done in the
case of a pension act defeated by a
former Congress.
This act, like that increasing the for
est reserve, may be right In Itself, but
the Constitution puts the legislative
power in Congress and not in the Ex
ecutive alone, and If Congress can be
ignored in a good cause It can be defied
In a bad. President Roosevelt's the
ory seems to be that the Executive
(when he himself Is the Executive)
should decide when Congress may be
permitted to exercise Its constitutional
functions and when not. He revealed
the same remarkable attitude when re
cently he said. “States’ rights should
be preserved when they mean the peo
ple s rights, but not when-they mean
the people’s wrongs.” [They can never
subsidy bill
clutched ln his relentless digits.
Somebody basely Insinuates that
young Mr. Beveridge gets hls ideas for
hls speeches along with hls words out
of tha dictionary.
Mr. EL H. Harriman propose* to take
the public Into his confidence ln future.
Curiosity la on tiptoe to know what Is
new “confidence” gamt,
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
Possibly Wall street Is only having
a little mtd-Lenten diversion.—New
York World.
There were only 34,879 bills Intro
duced in the Fifty-nine Congress.
And yet some people say the country
suffers from too much legislation.—
Philadelphia North American.
Dr. Dana says women are losing
their arms, which Is sad. but think
how miserable they would be If the
men were similarly affected.—New
York Herald.
Mr. Hearst has made fohnal an
nouncement that he has no further
use for the Democratic party, and he
is now waiting for It to lav down Its
arms and disperse.—Philadelphia In
quirer.
Mr. Harriman says he is willing to
sit by the President and advise him
all day long. We would like to have
an oil nainting of Theodore Roosevelt
taking some of Mr. Tarriman's advice.
—Washington Post.
Out in the State of Washington
The Macon Public Library and His
torical Society was organized ln 1874,
thirty-three years since, by the elec
tion of L. N. Whittle, president: Rev.
A. J. Battle, D. D., and W. A. Lof
ton, vice presidents, and a full board
of directors. Messrs. Whittle and Lof
ton were prominent attorneys, and Dr,
Battle was president of Mercer Uni
versity. Dr. Battle is the only om
Of these three gentlemen now ln life,
hut his sands are running fast, and
when he "wraps the drapery of his
couch about him, and lies down to
pleasant dreams,” it will be as it was
in the case of the lamented Whittle
and Lofton, “full of honor and years.”
This library occupies a handsome two-
story brick building on Mulberry street,
which was erefited especially for the
purpose. There are about thirteen
thousand books in the library. In this
collection is the rare and interesting
library of the late Nathan C. Munroe,
which this philanthropist donated to
the city of Macon for the benefit and
use of the public. The city still owns
the Munroe collection, but has kindly
deposited it in the library where the
public can get the benefit of it. One of
the most valuable parts of the Monroe
library is the bound volumes of the
Macon newspapers of the long ago, and
various newspapers of other cities in
Georgia, which were published In the
days of tfuld lang syne. These copies
are rich in historical lore, and re
plete with the happenings in this State
and in the nation ln the early years of
the last century. Mr. Munroe was one
of Macon’s leading citizens before the
Civil War. He was always an active
spirt in educational, charitable and re
ligious affairs, especially. He was a
senior warden .in Christ Church for
more than twenty-five years. Mr. Mun
roe died on April 18, 1S5S.
Armour. Richard Croker. Henry Clews,
Isidor Strauss, Bishop Potter, Eugene
V. Debs. Augustus Van Wyck and hun
dreds of others.
The library of Wesleyan Female Col
lege has three thousand choice books
and is supplied with nearly all of the
best periodicals in the United States,
and quite a number of leading news
papers. There will be a special effort
from now on to bulld up the college li
brary. Several hundred dollars are
spent on it every year, but this expen-
Slr Charles Dilke, In spite of bis 62
years, is said to be one of the most
active members of the House of Com
mons. He is a skillful oarsman and
fencer.
King Edward Is a diligent collector
of walking sticks, match boxes, carica
tures and model ships. Hls collection
of canes numbers nearly 2.000. and
nrast of these have remarkable associa
tions.
- Dr. Thomas L. Shearer, one of the
most prominent physicians in Balti
more. has decided to go hatioss for the
great raving in the Cost of transporta
tion. Grades will be reduced every
where. tunnels will have to be en
larged. bridges must ho rebuilt to make
them equal to the strain of the in
creased loads that will pass over them.
To do all of these things will cost bll- .
lions of dollars—nobody can tell how '
many billions.”
Tilts brought Mr. Harriman to tbe
subject of finance, and he deplored thr
fact that the money question and the
tariff question of the present day had
not heon settled before the railroad
agitation wxs begun. While declaring
that the recent rate legislation had not !
injure 1 the railroads, he expressed the
j belief that it had had a tendency tc
advance the price of money to railroads, !
j and declared that the interest which |
others to follow hls example. Dr.
Shearer holds that if men would only
go bnrheaded a generation or two the
wc vii ii. c * g*sjyui, MUb . j. a , , , , . , ,
diture will be Increased hereafter. Some bnldheaded man would become a thing
time ago Mr. Andrew Carnegie offered I 01 ttle Past.
to give Macon $20,000, I believe the
sum was, with certain conditions at
tached, for the erection of a library
building, but the city did not accept the
tender. Would it not be a very grace
ful act on the part of Mr. Carnegie to
donate a handsome amount uncondi-
Jawes E. Martlne, the “Farmer Ora
tor” of New Jersey, enjoys the distinc
tion of having been the candidate of
his party—the Democratic—for almost
the last thirty years without ever hav
ing won. Martine. who-was defeated
for Congress at the last election, was
the Democratic choice for United
Bernhardt’s nomination for the cross
of the Legion of honor, on the ground
that actors could only be deeorateed In
the quality of professors.
There are 15,000 volumes ln the li
brary of Mercer University. Perhaps
this includes the books of the librar
ies belonging to the two literary so-
cities of the institution, which are ac- I
cessibie to the students of the college. 1 .
In the University collection are the , The ITimeS-UniOn Philosopher
Jesse Mercer bequest, the William J.
Green library and the large donations . j acksonvi]!e Times-TTnion.
f r _ orr L A A M - Walker, Thomas W .Tobey, Ene ’rgy j s that quality which a man
AV. H. Crawford and J. J. Toon. In a puts f ortb j n b [ s endeavors to avoid
statement by the University authorities | work
I see that the books are classified ac- „.
cording to the Dewey Decimal system ■ An pptimist Is s man who thinks
and t'o render them more easily avail- jnere is a lot of fun even in being in
able, there is the card catalogue ar- trouole.
ranged alphabetically by author, title : A long bank account will help con-
and subject. On the reading tables are siderably in making'up for a shortage
to be found a large number of the cur- in brains.
rent periodicals, the religious Journals
and the prominent dully papers.
STRANGE, ISN’T IT ?
St. Louis World.
That a cavalryman unhorsed is most
easily cowed?
That one can show his temper only
after he has lost it?
That a contractor should be called
upon to expand a house?
That the plow must be soiled before
The S. B. Price Free Library, Night i
and Industrial School for Working Peo- j
pie, was opened in 1900. This institu- !
tion is a monument to the man who j t* 16 S01 ^ can b° plowed.
was Mayor of Macon for a longer pe- j That a susceptible fellow Is hardest
__ __ 0 _ riod than any other person that has ; hit by the softest glances. t
member of the Legislature has intro- i ever occupied the office. It has been I That no young married man ever rose
duced a bill to prohibit the newsp?- 'called the most unique library in the rapidly till he had settled down?
pers from publishing reports of all i world, and to this appellation has : That hard liquor should upset a fel-
been added the truism: “The more
unique, the more attractive: the more
attractive the more can be accomplish-*
ed.” Some years ago. while Daisy
Price was Mayor, he thought It
would be a good thing if certain work
ing classes had more opportunity for i
sorts of crimes, but it does not refer
to crimes committed by the Legisla
tures.—Philadelphia Press.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
The Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. started
out to get ?250.000 in seventeen days,
and got 8273.000.
reading.
I low who has been setting it up?
! That so many students cannot state
J bald facts without splitting hairs?
I That in everything (save baseball)
[ you must strike out to make a hit?
That the papers so often refer to a
mean the latter for they are nothing JSSSt *30.000.000 gold
but the rights of the people In their
organized capacity as Stales].
Hls Idea seems to be that there
should be one dominating Intelligence
—and it should be that of the Execu
tive—to decide when constitutional
regulations may be put ln force, and
when not. The question which this
attitude and the acts It leads to brings
before every reflecting mind Is, where
Is It all to end?
“They have the cotton In the South
and the all-the-year water-courses to
turn the wheels of the cotton mills—
raw material and raw power ready at
hand for Instant use—but they lack
the deft fingers of white labor to put
the finishing touch upon natural ad
vantage.” says the Philadelphia Record,
and very pointedly adds: “There is
manifest impolicy ln any hampering
Federal legislation that would interfere
with the effort of Southern manufao-
j a number of copies of each day’s news-
, . ; papers of Macon be sent at hls expense
The railroad projects which the Gov- factory operatives. In time this
nment of C.ai.i has in mind will cost . action of his heeame known ln the
The Australians are buying more
American clocks nowadays than either
English or German clocks.
It’s the opinion of one who has lived
among them that the Moors of Aforocco
will never take kindly to American
breakfast foods.
The Cairo streets now know 264 reg
istered honk-wagons, and the Alexan
dria streets 127. Cleopatra would have
enjoyed a honk-wagon.
Uncle Sam did not do a very large :
business with the country of the Shah
last fiscal year. Exports to Persia,
$14,600: imports from Persia. $25,000.
Government control over freight and
passenger rates on the railroads of
Mexico is now an accomplished fact,
and reductions Interesting to American
freight shippers are expected.
In Copenhagen the street car con
ductors and motormen get from $293
to $402 a year, their uniforms, one
day’s rest a week, six holidays in the
year, and pensions if incapacitated aft
er twenty-five years’ service.
The Ashfleld and FarmviHe folks are
a good deal stirred up over Richmond's
solicitations to their colleges—Ran-
dolph-Macon and Hampden-Sidney—to
move into town and become parts of
her projected big university.
Accordingly he ordered thqt ; man’s double as a singular career?
That the stralghter a man drinks his
whisky the crookeder he walks home?
That the clergy should constantly re
fer to even the sandiest morals as men
of clay?
I action of his became known In the
city, and citizens commenced sending
to Mayor Price magazines and vari
ous periodicals to be distributed in the
same or similar channels in which his
copies of newspapers were passing.
"Tall oaks from little acorns grow."
The movement which was started in so
humble a way by Price steadily grew,
enlarged and expanded. Then he con
ceived the idea of establishing a reg
ular free library and night school for
working people, in accordance with the
technical name of the institution men
tioned above. He found an enthusi
astic sympathizer and active helper in
his life-long friend. Thomas J. Carl
ing, who was always ready to stand
by Daisy, and ever willing to aid in
any philanthropic or charitable move
ment. He told Daisy that he would
erect and donate a library building if
Daisy would get the books. Damon and
Pythias clasped hands and the com
pact was sealed. Bridges Smith, the
present Mayor, was then clerk of Coun
cil. and Daisy’s right hand man at the
City Hall. He also entered heartily
into Mayor Price's project, and under
took the work of collecting the books.
He addressed letters to many men
and women of prominence, both ln this
country and in Europe, explaining the
philanthropic object and soiocitlng tho
contribution ot books inscribed with
PROVERBS AND PHRASES
Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul.—
German.
Silver and gold are all men’s dears.—
Danish.
No weather is ill If the wind be still.
—German.
God rights the man that keeps si
lence.—Persian.
One cannot hinder the wind from
blowing.—French.
He who sings frightens away hls
ills.—Don Quixote.
Many a man gets along just as well
by keeping getting caught as by being
really good.
A groom is the male that either at
tends to your horses or else marries
your daughter.
It isn’t at all hard to be modest when
all the re=t of the world is discussing
your good points.
It is funny how much sicker a man
j thinks he is if there is some one on
hand to pet him.
j It Is astonishingly easy to find an
I excuse for doing something that you
j really want to do.
i The hardest thing a man has to do
' in this world is to make his acts con-
j form to his advice.
* It is a great pity that sons cannot
Inherit the virtues of their fathers as
! well as their estates,
j It is mighty fortunate for men that
* women cannot blame any lack of beau-
I ty on'' their husbands.
! The greatest success genius ever
1 achieved was in making the rest of the
j world recognize it as such.
Wisdom is the force that keeps a
i man from putting his thoughts into
; words for others to hear or read,
j If goodness is a pre-requisite to be-
: ing an angel, there are to be a lot of
j homely angels ln the world to come.
| When a man announces that he
: would rather be right than President,
it is a sign his party isn’t considering
him.
The Good Old Days,
LaGrango Reporter.
Mayor Bridges Smith has a column
ln the Sunday Macon Telegraph de
voted to reminiscences of the earlier
daj's of Macon, while local in nature
possess a wide interest. Last' Sunday
his column was devoted to amusements
of thirty or forty years ago. in which
he brought up memories of the little
trick circus mule, "Whoa January," the
delight of every boy in Georgia: of the
In time of sickness the soul collects I Berger family of Swiss bell ringers;
itself anew.—Pliny. j old John Templeton and his talented
Manv blame the wife for their own ; company; of old Sol Smith Russell and
thriftless I'fe Scotch | his famous song, ‘Goose Stuffed With
Take the middle of the way and thou I Sa S e an - d In su ns " The bo >' s of today
wilt not fall.—Spanish.
Where one sin has entered, legions
will force their way.—Rogers.
March wind and May sun make
clothes white and maids dun.—Old
Saying.
When you take out and do not put
in. expect to reach the bottom.—Mod
ern Greek.
do not have the fun nor see the good
shows, the splendid acting nor hear
the fine singing of those old times like
Bridges Smith and some others did in
their boyhood days. Those old-time
entertainers did not know of “one
night stands,” but remained a week in
a town and became personally ac
quainted with each of their patrons.
They gave good shows, too.
25 to 33 1-2 per ent higher than it
was a year or more go. and this not
for any other reason than that lenders
of money did not know to what ex
treme the -agitation aginst railroads,
would lead. Three and one-halt pci
ent was a good interest rate in France,
he said, ytk the French lenders wefe
charging the American roads 4 1-2 and
5 per cent.
Money Question Not Settled.
"I do not consider the money ques
tion settled, by any rheans.” continue#
Mr. Harriman. "It will become a live
ly Issue when hard times shall coni;
again, as they undoubtedly will, al
though there is nothing in the present
situation which would lead me to be
lieve that there Is any danger In the
Immediate future. They may not
come within the lifetime of any man
now living. I think it would have been
beitev, too, if there had been a modi
fication of the tariff before the rail
road agitation was begun.”
Mr. Harriman explained in answer
to a question that generally speaklns
he meant a readjustment of schedules
to meet changed conditions by his ex
pression of "modification.” and that In
many things he believed that Wie modi
fication should be a reduction. Of
course, there might bo some instances
where the duties should be increased
Asked to specify some articles upon
which he would have a reduction made,
Air. Harriman smilingly said: "Oh
work of art for instance.”
"And steel rails?” was suggested.
“I wisli that they were works of i
arts,” replied the man who controls 25.-
00 miles of steel rails, and he smiled
again.
“There has been a growing suspicion
against railroads,” continued Mr. Har- 1
riman. "and it ought to be dispelled.
There ought to be greater co-operation
among the railroads the general gov
ernment and the public. I believe in
Government regulation of railroads, but
I believe also that the combinations if
railroads would be legalized to the ex
tent that such combinations will aid In
cheapening transportation.
"Such combinations are a present
day necessity and the Government in
exercising its right of regulation
should recognize that necessity. Then
the Government and the realroads can*
co-operate and the public will be ben- ,
efited.”
No Feeling About Canal.
Speaking of the construction of the
Panama (ijnal. Afr. Harriman said that
the statement was untrue that the
transcontinental roads were doing -what
they could to hinder its construction.
It was nothing but fhe old cry against
the railroads, lie said.
“I was asked by the Interstate Com
merce Commission,” Air. Hnrrimar
went on, "what I regarded as the great
est of my railroad experiences. Aiy re- *
ply was that I considered the closing
of the break In the Colorado river, as
the most remarkable achievement ol
recent history. In the handling of rock
and stone our engineers made a record
which is likely to stand for many years
to come.
"Temporarily at least, the Colorado *
river has been conquered, but like the I
Missisippi ln its delta region, it will
bear watching always. The people ol
the Imperial Valley, are naturally ,
greatly rejoiced at tho successful work i
of the engineers of the Southern Pa
cific Railway.”
Mr. Harriman closed his Interview
by - ’ that President Roosevelt, he
believed, had come to a realization ot’
the necesstly of railroad and Govern
ment co-operating, and that he believed
that the President saw the necessity o;
legal combinations In thft Interest *1
cheaper transportation. Afr. Harr*mar
d he spent a pleasant week in AYash-
ington.
Damage Suits Filed.
BATNBRIDGE, Ga.. March 9.—Day-
age suits amounting to $S5.000 were
filed against the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad in the City Court on one day
this week. AH these cases were re
moved to the United States Court be
cause of the defendants being non
resident
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