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I THE MCQITEIEERSPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. A 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 i i