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“RICH MAN’S PANIC."
The reports of the New York stock
market afford thrilling reading now
adays to those who can read between
the lines and Intelligently estimate the
significance thereof. One day we are
told that the market has reached rock
bottom. That the prices of stocks have
been shaken down to hard pan, and
the very next day we learn that the
stock market was ‘shaken Into demor
alisation” by liquidation which "for
violence and precipitation had not been
equalled for years.” Wednesday, for
Instance, the tremendous volume of
J2.5S4.h00 bonda changed handa In the
course of one day. The Hill and Har-
rtman stocks led the slump, which Ts
attributed as an "aftermath of the
unbridled speculation In those stocks
entered upon last fall.” In spite of the
termendous shrinkage going on, how
ever, It Is notable that absolutely no
failures are being posted on the ex
change. The sudden and widespread
complaisance among the Hills and the
Harrlmans. however, shows where the
ehoe pinches. It Is a veritable “rich
man’s panic” and It Is comforting to
realize that the water that Is being
MARK TWAIN ON “HOT BREAD.”
Any Pouthcrn-borm man or woman
who has tried to eat that thick, yel
low, sawdust-tasting, throat-scratching
stuff called corn bread In the North
will delight In Mark Twain’s declara
tion that "the North thinks It knows
how to make com bread, but this is a
ADVERTISING PAYS.
There Is one institution in Charles- I
WEBSTER’S POSITION IN 1850.
N ting Senator Beveridge's attack on
ton that should think kindly of Owen
Wister—the Woman's Exchange. It
was while enjoying his customary
noonday luncheon at the Woman’s Ex
change that the author discovered the
the admirable speech of Mr. McCall, of
Massachusetts, on the subject of State
rights, in which the former finds noth
ing to commend, "though our Govern
ment was conducted on the ideas eulo-
THOUGHT HE HAD MENINGITIS.
Editor John Temple Graves was
stricken down on the street in Atlanta
Tuesday while quietly conversing with
; ly have withdrawn their opposition on
the strength of a mere rumor. It is
possible that Interesting disclosures
j may be-made if the two Senators from
a friend. The editor and his corapan- | South Carolina and Georgia actual!'
gross superstition." The Southerner i his book, and, also, the modest but
turned out is rather beneficial to th
dropsical, lover-swollen patient than _ partlcular , y a ' certa i n few of
otherwise and can be spared without
actual detriment.
will also exult in the famous author's
characterization of the Northern ob
jection to hot bread as "another fussy
superstition."
Mark Twain leads up to this in his
autobiographical discussion in the
North American Review of that "heav
enly place for a boy.” his uncle's farm :
] in Missouri. "The house.” he says, j
j "was a double log one, with a spacious j
floor (roofed in) connecting it with
the kitchen. In the summer the table j
was set in the middle of that shady j
and breezy floor, and the sumptuous j
meals—well. It makes me cry to think
of them.” This is his list of the de
licious eatables: “Fried chicken, roast
pig, wild and tame turkeys, ducks and
geese: venison just killed; squirrels,
rabbits, pheasants, partridges, prairie-
chickens, biscuits, hot battercakes, hot
buckwheat cakes, hot ‘wheat bread,’
hot rolls, hot corn pone; fresh corn
boiled on the ear, succotash, butter-
beans, string beans, tomatoes, peas,
Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes; butter
milk, sweet milk, ‘clabber;’ water
melon, muskmelons, cantaloupes—all
fresh from the garden—applie pie,
peach pie, pumpkin pie, apple dump
lings, peach cobbler—I can’t remember
the rest.”
The superiority was less In the food
Itself than In its preparation. "The
way that the things were cooked,’ he
saye, “was perhaps the main splendor
the
ion were discussing meningitis and the
^ suddenness with which it attacked its
delicious cake which gave the title to I gized by Mr. McCall for more than 100 : victims when he fell to the pavement
years of its existence,” and although I under a blow delivered by an unseen
until recently "all parties held that hand.
ours is a dual system—the Federal "What is it? Has meningitis struck
establishment supreme in the powers j me?” he gasped when he could speak,
delegated by ihe States, and the States So unconscious was he of any purpose
spirited Miss Eliza La Heu, the hero
ine of his story. The News and Cour-
rier says:
dishes. Fior instance, the corn bread,
the hot biscuits and wheat bread, and
the fried chicken. These things have
never been properly cooked irf the
LITTLE CHANCE FOR GRAY.
The advice of Senator Morgan that | North—in fact, no one there is able to
the Democrats nominate Gray, of Del
aware, for President is characterized
by the Washington Post as casting
pearls before swine. One particular
"pearl” dropped into the “Democratic
bog pen” Is quoted by the Post as fol
lows: “If the Democratic party really
•wants a President who represents the
principles of that great organization as
they are expounded in the first ten
amendments of the Constitution of the j cause of the method, of cooking but
learn the art, so far as my experience
goes. The North thinks it knows how
to make corn bread, but this is a gross
superstition. Perhaps no bread in the
world Is quite as good as Southern
corn bread, and perhaps no bread in
the world is quite so bad as the North
ern imitation of it.”
In our opinion, the Northern corn
bread is so very bad not merely be-
There is a great run on “Lady
Baltimore” cake at the Woman’s
Exchange these days. It is not
made anywhere else as it is made
in Charleston, and it is sold only at
the Woman's Exchange. Don’t
forget that. Several'days ago one
of our multi-millionaire visitors
called at the Exchange to lay in a
supply of this “delectable cam-
pound." He did not know what it
looked like, and, as the story goes,
mistook four little dried-out choc
olates lying on the' counter for the
prize he was seeking. He was
quickly informed by the charming
young woman in attendance that
they were not "Lady Baltimore,"
but that "Lady Baltimore” was in
the glass case, whereupon the pur
chaser said: “Give me four of
them.” "But." observed the dainty
attendant, “they are worth $1.50
each. The information did not feaze
the would-be purchaser, who re
sented the kindly affront to his
pocketbook by exclaiming: “I
didn’t ask you what they were
worth: I said give me four of
them,” and with $6 worth of "Lady
Baltimore” in his possession the
visitor went on his way rejoicing.
supreme in the powers reserved to
them,” the Washington Post goes on to
say:
Possibly if that tourist who encoun
tered the dignified vestryman and af
fronted “his religious principles" by
inquiring for the church made famous
In “Lady Baltimore” had encountered
“Daddy Ben,” the sexton, or his sub
stitute, instead, the “Insult” would have
taken a different form and would have
been gladly pocketed by the faithful
old retainer.
United States, they could have no good
reason for hesitating in the selection
of such a leader as George Gray.” But,
because of the persistent use of coarse
yellow meal instead of the finer,
sweeter and more delicate white meal.
says the Post, "that Is very sort of j Rice, however. Is wholly ruined in the
President »ho Democratic party does | North merely by the method of cook-
not want and will not have. The Con- j ing. It is boiled until the grains are
atltutton of the United States, and ■ entirely dissolved and It becomes an
especially the ten amendments, Is be- { atrocious gummy paste,
come a thoroughly useless and worth- | The North, it is further slated by
less thing of words In the councils of ■ Mark Twain, “seldom tries to fry
men who have possession of the Dem- chicken, and this Is well: the art can-
ooratic party and who make its nem- : not be learned north of the line of
inations. | Mason and Dixon, nor anywhere in Eu-
Though the terms employed by the j rope. This is not hearsay: it is expe-
Post cannot be approved of, it is to be j rience that is speaking. In Europe It
feared that It Is only too correct as to | i s Imagined that the custom of serv-
fnrt. We see little chance for the ; lng various kinds of breads blazing
nomination of any conservative states- I hot Is ‘American.’ but that Is too broad
man of the type recommended by the • a spread; it Is the custom in the’ South,
but it is much less than that in the
North. In the North and in Europe
IN RE THE ONION.
“Has an onion a. legal right to
smell?” is a question that is being^
learnedly discussed by some of our
up country contemporaries. The Rock
Hill, S. C., Record hands it to the able
Charlotte, N. C„ Observer, which pro
ceeds to go to the merits of the ques
tion, martialing all the known law and
precedents to establish the onion’s
property rights in its smell, both
through, inheritance and descent and
by adverse possession. As a possible j actme nt S which nullified the constltu
Senator Beveridge, in his speech
Wednesday, says Mr. Calhoun made
Mr. McCall’s speech years ago.
Quite likely: and so did Mr. Web
ster make that speech, even earlier.
It is a slightly curious coincidence
that the brilliant Indianian deliv
ered his assault on States’ rights
exactly fifty-seven years, lacking
one day, after Daniel Webster made
his masterly constitutional argu
ment in the United States Senate
that , was “a. surrender to the slave
power," and for which Boston
closed the doors of Faneuil Hall to
Massachusetts' greatest adopted
son. Senator Beverldgo advises
Air. McCall to take down Calhoun
and be confounded to find himself
in agreement with the great South
Carolinian; but, if the Indiana
statesman will take down Web
ster’s “seventh-of-March” speech,
he will be confounded to discover
himself in radical disagreement
with the "godlike Daniel.”
The above, without explanation, may
convey a somewhat erroneous impres
sion. In his speech of March 7, 1850,
Webster did not agree with Calhoun.
He deplored the Carolinian’s mention
three days before of secession as ap
parently the only remedy for the
South’s grievances, and declared that
peaceable secession was impossible. It
was only in his younger days, during
the war of 1812, that Webster sympa
thized with the secession sentiment of
New England and threatened on the
floor of Congress that Massachusetts
would act independently of the Federal
Government.
In 1850 Webster was as much of a
“nationalist” as anybody at that time.
He stood, however, 'for a literal con
struction of the constitutional obliga
tions resting on all the States alike,
and in his famous speech referred to
he rebuked those Northern States, in
cluding Massachusetts, for their en-
party In Interest in this discussion we I tIonal requirement that slaves escaping
venerable Senator from Alabama.
OF A SON-
THE PERPLEXITIES
IN-LAW.
A prospective bridegroom opens his
heart to the editor of the New York
Sun e* follows:
T am going to get married next
June, and what’s bothering me now
is to know what I am to call my
father-in-law and my mother-in-
law. Am I to call them father and
mother, or am I to address them
as Mr. So-and-so and Mrs. So-
and-so?
If I followed my own Inclination
I should say Mr. and Mrs. How
ever much I might admire and re
spect them. I don’t see how I
could, out of my heart, address
my wife’s father and mother by
those titles. Such seems to he the
custom, hut 1 don't see how I could
do it.
I think for myself that if I had
sons and daughter? grown up and
marr’ed I wouldn’t want my
daughters-in-law and sons-in-law
to roll me father. Bure, I'd let
’em do as they wanted to: and if
1 had a charming and affectionate
daughter-in-law who really wanted
call me father why she should
hsyo her way. of course, and I'd
be pleased with the honor: hut I
think I'd he as well pleased if she
called me Mr. So-.and-.so, That's
the wav It seems to me now. And
I'm quite certain that if I had a
son-in-law I would nrefer that he
should address me by my proper
iW"g and title.
That's the way T feel about It.
My wife will he ell in ali to me.
and for her parents I have the
most profound respect and admira
tion and affection: but still I have
but one father and mather. and I
don t want to call anybody else by
those titles.
hot bread is considered unhealthy.
This is probably another fussy super
stition. like the European superstition
that ice-water is unhealthy.” The
widely-experienced humorist adds with
much point:
"It seems a pity that the world
should throw away so many good
things merely because they are
unwholesome. I doubt if God has
given us any refreshment which,
taken in moderation, is unwhole
some, exccpi microbes Yet there
are people who strictly deprive
themselves of each and every eat
able. drinkable, and smokable
which has in any way acquired a
shady reputation. They pay this
price for health. And health is all
they get for it. How strange it is:
it Is like paying out your whole
fortune for a cow that has gone
dry.”
desire to interplead and file a demur
rer. Our point is that the pleadings
should be made more definite and spe
cific. The verbiage "Has an onion a
legal right to smell,” is lacking in
professional accuracy and must needs
give rise to confusion. We take it
from the course of the argument so far
that the query our contemporaries de
sire to discuss could be amended and
made more certain in this form. Has
an onion a legal right to its smell?”
Or, better still, "Has an onion a legal
right to its odor?” We are riot suffi
ciently versed in botany to “know
whether the vegetable has organs con
forming to the olfactory nerve in man,
but certainly if It has It exercises the
sense In such an inconspicuous man
ner as to give no cause for complaint.
Having begun right, let us now see
where we are “at.” Possession is the
most ancient and indefeasible title to
property. The onion was found in
possession of its “smell” and it is a
fact of which the court will take judi
cial notice that it has never of its own
free will and volition aliened, trans
ferred, made over, remised or quit
SIMPLICITY IN FUNERALS.
The Atlanta Evangelical Ministers’
Association has inaugurated a cam
paign for “certain reforms in the pres
ent method of conducting funerals.”
The changes which ! 'lhe ministers ad-
claimed its property therein. It is true vocate as desirable are as follows:
from one State to another should be
delivered up to their owners. He said
emphatically that this requirement was
as binding in law and in conscience
as any other, and that the South had a
just grievance which ought to he re
moved.
It was this manly acknowledgment
that the "higher-Iaw”-than-the-Consti-
tution element denounced as “a surren
der to the slave power'and that closed
the fanatical doors of Faneuil Hall to
the great Daniel Webster. It was this
also that made Webster the candidate
of the independent Whigs in 1852 and
that caused such Southern Whig union
ists as Alexander Stephens and Robert
Toombs, with singular loyalty and de
votion. actually to vote the ballot bear
ing his name, although Webster died
several weeks before the election came
off.
They "pay this price for health," but
they don't seem to get the health thus
j paid for. The people who talk moVt
that if the onion maliciously used
its strength like the giant it Is to in
fringe the rights and disturb the peace
and comfort of others by flaunting its
odor in the faces and bringing tears
to the eyes of inoffensive persons, in
violation of the peace and dignity of
the State, it might be legally divested
of its property in this offensive attri
bute under the exercise of the police
powers of the State. But there is no
sounder principle of law than that each
one has a right to exercise and enjoy
his own possessions in security as long
1 about unwholesome food, “hot bread,” as he does not impinge upon the per-
I etc., are usually the sickest or the
I most delicate, and often they are no
doubt dyspeptic victims of past over-
indulgence. Moderate eating of what
ever one enjoys is probably the most
sensible and safe of all rules.
sonal and property rights of others.
The peaceable reputation of the onion,
The elimination of eulogies.
The abandonment, to a large extent,
of the Sunday funeral.
Use of less mourning and less osten
tation in mourning.
Discrimination in the practice of
sending floral offerings.
The Telegraph regards the proposed
reforms as eminently wise and needful,
with the exception of the abandonment
of the Sunday funeial, the reasons in
support of which we do not know.
“The elimination of eulogies.” What
is any man in the presence of his
Maker that we should send him back
whence he came with praises of his
deeds and of hi/? greatness? If his life
The Sun up to date ventures no re-
sparse hut a good many reflecting peo- |
pie will be likely to sympathize with
.the feelings of this young men and in- j
dine to the belief that the custom :
which staggers him is somewhat out- i
worn, it it ever was wholly desira- ;
ble. When a man marries he does not '
marry a whole family connection. I
Neither does a woman. The union j
ends with the husband and with the i
wife. Beyond these it is merely a i
matter of greater friendliness when
the conditions are favorable.
When the conditions are unfavorable,
when the wife's mother or the hus
band’s mother exhibits the disposition
of the traditional
“mother-in-law,” the custom Is not
only an absurdity but impossible to
follow.
"Supposing that the late Mr. Darwin,
wandering with his notebook through
the jungles, had stumbled unexpectedly
on Mr. Harry Lehr ?” propounds
the Richmond Times-Dispatch. That
is easily answered. The leader of the
"smart set" in Jungledom would have
had a man dinner and that would have
been the end of Darwin.
when not interfered with, in spite of I ^ as been upright and ennobling his
its exceptional powers both offensive neigbors will know it and his example
and defensive, is known of all men. i wiu be the best precept he can leave
or cause for an assault on him.
The blow had been delivered by one
J. H. Crutchfield, a man who was re
cently tried and acquitted in Fulton
county for shooting off his wife's leg
with a rifle. He was acquitted not of
the fact but of any public offense in
connection therewith. Juries somehow
or other make these nice distinctions
in their verdicts without exciting our
special wonder. Mr.. Graves' paper
published some reports of Mr. Crutch
field’s marksmanship, of the trial, etc.
Mr. Graves had never seen Crutchfield
or occupied his mind with his affairs,
much less his pen.
But'Crutchfield appears to have been
affected with the prevailing “exagger
ated ego” of persons-who figure in the
public eye nowadays through the chan
nels of the criminal courts, and having
been acquitted by the jury of any of
fense against the public peace in am
putating his own wife’s leg with a rifle
bullet. he doubtless felt he had license
to go out and knock off any one’s head
that didn’t happen to please him. At
all events he "landed” on the peaceful
head of Mr. Graves, who was unaware
of his existence, backed off with his
hand on his hip pocket, and was po
litely handed a "copy of charges” by a
police officer who was attracted to the
scene.
VTe rehash these simple facts merely
to illustrate and call attention to a cu
rious phase that the courts and au
thorities are undergoing in relation to
the criminal elements. The Juries, the
officers and even some of the judges
are so excessively polite and sympa
thetic in dealing with the unfortunate
men caught in the toils of the law that
the least these can do to show their
appreciation when they are “vindi
cated” and turned loose is to go out
and carve up or knock down somebody
At this rate it will soon become so in
teresting when the periodical jail de
liveries come around that law-abiding
citizens will have to take to their holes
for their lives.
received authoritative assurances that
the immigration plans of their States
would be supported In the execution of
the new law.” The Post adds:
TO BOOST BRYAN’S BOOM.
The Attorney-General now hav
ing rendered an opinion that these
plans are contrary to law, the
South is confronted anew with a
most perplexing problem. Immi
gration must !v attracted to those
States If progress is to be made in
agriculture and manufactures. The
labor famine is acute. The solution
of the race question depends
largely upon the increase of the
white population, and this increase
cannot be expected from the North.
The current of immigration does
not flow normally to Southern
ports. Apparently new methods
must be evolved to meet the situ
ation. It is unfortunate, from a
practical standpoint, that the plan
begun so auspiciously by South
Carolina has been brought to a halt.
The habit of regarding the South as
a disconsidered section whose interests
may be ignored is evidently still strong
at Washington. This is a fact' which
Southern statesmen may well keep in
mind even at the risk of being called
“narrow” and “sectional.”
A dispatch from Hartford, Conn.,
date of March 8, reads: "Connecti
cut’s Supreme Court has decided that
barbers need not shave negroes. The
decision was reached on an appeal from
a Superior Court decision in Bridgeport
by Henry H. Foulkner, a negro, who I
sued Thomas Solazzi, a barber of that i has just
George Fred. Williams to Have All
Yankee Leaders Attend a Dinner.
Boston Dispatch in New York Sun.
William Jennings Bryan is to be the
guest of the Democratic State Commit
tee at the Quincy House next Friday
afternoon, and George Fred. Williams,
who is chairman of the committee on
tngc
nts, is
ins
that
to give Mr. Bryan a receptioi
surprise him and start the Nebraskan’s
boom-
Mr. Williams has planned it not
merely as a reception by the Democrats
of Massachusetts, but of Democrats
from all over New England. Accord
ingly, members of the New England
Progressiv-- T" .n.vratie League, .'rg.ai
med s me months ago. have been in
vited to meet Mr. Bryamat the dinner
on Friday.
While Mr. Williams has.refused to
discuss the dinner and its relation tJ
the politics of Massachusetts, it is re
garded as the beginning of the Bryan
boom in New England for 190S.
Mr. Williams is the Bryan leader in
the State, and he has been'bitterly crit
icised by the Henrst men for having
taken up the Bryan cause in the last
State Convention, which nominated
Moran for Governor.
The Moran-Hearst men arc not yet
quite, willing to admit that Mr. Wtl-
that the 32
Hants controls the St
delegates of Massachusetts next y<
will be pledged to Mr. Bryan. But
is believed that they will attend i
dinner.
•ar
A Clear Case of Bunco.
From fhe Washington Post.
The Southern Senators who opposed
the passage of the new Immigration
act, and who abandoned their filibuster
only after they had become satisfied
that the new law would become con
strued in aceordance with the decision
then recently rendered by Secretary
Straus, of the Department of Com
merce and Labor, appear to have been
j laboring under a serious misunder
standing. Attorney-Genera! Bonaparte/
ubmitted an opinion to thfl
city. Solazzi refused to shave Foulk- I President to the effect that while
‘ assisted South <jaiv?iina imrn ,rr ' -
ner, his defense being that his shop I were entitled to admission into the
MR. BACON’S FEARS WELL
GROUNDED.
The. Southern Senators who opposed
the passage of the new immigration
act now know that they were serving
the interests of their section and that
their fears were well grounded.
Senator Bacon believed that the
measure could not fail to be hurtful.
So did Senator Tillman and others:
but they were defeated arid the meas
ure went through. Attorney-General
Bonaparte has since submitted an opin
ion to the President to the effect that
while the assisted South Carolina im
migrants were entitled to admission
into the United States, and were in this
country legally, the new immigration
act makes such immigration unlawful
and renders such assisted immigrants
liable to exclusion. That is to say, the
plan of the South to induce immigra
tion by organized agencies has been
knocked in the head.
Senators Bacon and Tillman knew
what they were about and Senator
Simmons of North Carolina, without
realizing it, simply played Into the
hands of those hostile to Southern im
migration. Nor did the latter have even
the excuse of the support of the intel
ligent thought of his own State. On
March 2, the Charlotte Observer
warned him in these words:
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
E. H. Harriman always emphasizes the
first name in referring to the late Jay
G'uid. And yet Jay never cried for
quarter.
It is an humble member of every
community and not only knows its
place but keeps it until some one
scratches Its skin or otherwise excites
it to action. It never commits assault
and battery without sufficient provo
cation, and even then it does not let
out its strength until it is devoured
without mercy by its assailant.
But then look out. Its fury
knows no bounds. Its "brain
storms” and "explosions” are liable to
The Richmond Times-Disnnuh
thinks the President is strangely over
looking Derew and Platt in his search
for somebody who will not resign for
the Panama Job.
Uncle Joe Cannon Is teaching the
Porto Ricans the art of self-govern-
strife-breeding j nient. He should sit them around on
stools and show them how he passes
laws when Congress is in session.
spread destruction on the
cent noses. It fairly runs amuck and
slays everything in sight, except the
miscreant who stirred it up and put it
down his throat. In such case the
onion, or whoever has possession of
its "smell,'’ lose3 all rights under the
first law of nature—self-preservation.
He and it should be exterminated with
out mercy and buried without ceremony
deeply enough to clear the atmosphere
of any remaining vestige of the scent.
them. If it was otherwise, ’twere bet
ter to cover the fact with the charity of
silence.
"Use of less mourning and less os
tentation in mourning.” True mourn
ing cannot be expressed in outward
forms, in “inky cloaks” and “suits of
customary black,” for, as Hamlet says,
unless one has "that within which
passeth show” these are but "the trap
pings and the suits of woe.”
"Discrimination in the practice of
ost inno- I fioral offerings." All unnecessarily ex
pensive and burdensome accompani
ments of funerals should be eliminated,
because those who can best afford it
are deterred from funerals of this char
acter because of their commonness,
while those who can least afford it are
in a measure required to make sacri
fice? to maintain the fashion which
would but grieve the dead if they could
be further affected by earthly cares.
The provision that the State bu-’
reaus of immigration cannot re
ceive from individuals or corpora
tions contributions to be used in
the interest of the contributors is a
stumbling block which can be used
to trip up the movement at will.
Without such contributions little
can be achieved, and unfriendly
administrative authorities could
halt the State at any time by pro
fessing to discern signs that prefer
ence is being shown in the distri
bution of immigrants. When it is
recalled how bitterly the South’s
efforts to relieve its labor famine
have been and are being fought by
interests hostile to its industrial
development the mischief of plac
ing such power in the hands of the
political friends of these interests
is sufficiently manifest. The fact
that the immigrants brought to
Charleston were distributed, so long
as they lasted, to whoever applied
for them did not prevent a terrible
howl from resounding among the
hills of New England. This is
apart from the strong and, to us,
convincing argument that the
States should not only not be har
assed in the manner proposed but
should actually be allowed to serve
as agents of employers unable to
find a sufficiency of labor in this
country. The State would be
guarantor to the general Govern
ment that neither would an unde
sirable class of immigrants be so
licited nor the home labor market
be depressed.”
was not a place of public accommoda-
J tion within the meaning of the law.
The Supreme Court upholds that con
tention.” They always know how to
interpret the “meaning of the law” in
favor of the whites in that Northern
section which is supposed to be in
habited by the negro’s best friends.
Trust company directorates make
queer bedfellows. Among the directors
of the Carnegie Trust Company, ex-
Secretary Shaw’s new organization, are
Judge Alton B. Parker and Charles M.
Schwab.
Discussing the portentous warnings
and advice of the astrologers Zadskiel
and Raphael, the New York Sun sar
castically observes that the same will
not appeal to Americans because "their
affairs are ordered and regulated at
Washington by a higher wisdom.”
A scientist noty declares that the fu
ture woman will be without arms. An
other violation of our Constitution,
which distinctly says "the right to
bare arms shall not be infringed.”
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun cruelly
says: "Fifty or sixty Congressmen are
to visit the canal zone. Steamship
companies are not prohibited front
issuing passes.”
When that famous Gotham murder
case gets thoroughly Thaw-ed out we
may expect a perfect freshet of elo
quence before the jury.
Among other things Congress did
not do at the recent session was to re
ceive the resignations of Senators De
pew and Platt.
The usual number of political “lame
ducks” received Presidential nomina
tions on the recent adjournment of
Gongress.
The resignation of Senator Spooner
was so sudden that so far only one
candidate has appeared for his seat.
United States, and were in this coun
try legally, the new immigration act
makes such immigration unlawful and
r on dors such assisted immigrant? lia
ble to expulsion. In short, the plan of
th© South to induce immigration
through organized agencies has been
knocked into a cocked hat. The condi
tion feared by Senators Tillman arid
Bacon has / comc_ to pass.
It was very plainly stated in the Sen
ate that assurances had been given
that the Administration would construe
the new law'in favor of assisted im
migration along the lines adopted by
South Carolina. Evedinetly the attor
ney-general gave no such assurances.
Who did? Were the Southern Sena
tors in communication with somebody
in authority who gave such assur
ances? Presumably they received as
surances from an authoritative source,
as they are not men who are accus
tomed to buying nigs in h poke They
were able to hold up the immigration
bill indefinitely, and might have con
ducted a successful filibuster against It.
They would hardly have withdrawn
their opposition on the strength of a
mere rumor. It is possible that inter
esting disclosures may be made if the
two Senators from South Cartl'.na and
Georgia actually received authoritative
assurances that the immigration plRns
of their States would be supported in
the execution of_the new law.
The attorney-general now having
rendered an opinion that thesp plans
are contrary to law. the South is con
fronted with a riiost perplexing prob
lem. Immigration must be attracted to
those States if progress is to be made
in agriculture «nnd manufactures. The ■
labor famine is acute. The solution of
the race question depends largely tioon
the increase of the white population,
and this increase cannot he expected
from the North. The current of immi
gration does not flow normally to
Southern ports. Apparently new meth
ods must he evolved to meet the sir-
uation. It is unfortunate, from a prac
tical standpoint, that the plan begun
so auspiciously by South Carolina has
been brought to a halt.
Th'e Baltimore Sun is of the opinion
that the South was certainly “buncoed”
on the immigration bill.
After all, it is not so Important to see
the dirt fly as to see the water run in
the Panama canal.
Not His Grandfather Says Neyle Col
quitt.
From the Savannah Press.
”1 notice they have gotten down
Alex. Stephens' boomerang drfi to rpv
grandfather, Walter T. Colquitt.” said
Mr. Neyle Colquitt, secretary to. the
mayor, yesterday. "I allude, of course,
to the famous- reply about swallowing
him alive and about having more
brains in the stomach than in the head.
“I do not think it can be ascribed to
Walter T. Colouiti. Every time I have
heard it mentioned it has been attrib
uted to Mr. Stephens and Judge Frank
Cone, and this is Mr. Max Drsverges’
understanding.”
GREAT DAMAGE DOME
BY OVERFLOW OF RIVER.
Money being the root of all evil, the
Schley County News thinks country
editors should live sinless.
The contest for the First district seat
in the Sixty-first Congress has reached
the announcement stage.
An ordinarily pious contemporary
cannot refrain from observing that “at
last reports from Zion no chariot of fire
had come down for Elijah II.”
HAMILTON. O., March 14.—Three
railroads were washed out. a freight
train was wrecked, 200 persons were
rendered homeless. 1.000 thrown out of
employment and 5750,000 damage was
caused today by the sudden flood of the
Great Miami river, following rain
storms. A freight train on the Penn
sylvania railroad ran into a washout
near Collinsville aqd thirteen cars were
piled in ruins.
The tracks of the Cleveland, Cin in-
nati. Chicago and St. Louis railroad
were washed out and trains are de
toured over the Cincinnati. Hamilton
and Dayton. Several factories are in
undated. The police rescued in boats
200 residents of Peck's addition.
The St. 'Louis Globe-Democrat says
we are getting rich at the rate of $10,-
000,000 a day. Now we know why mo
ments are precious.
BANDIT KING OF MEXICO
HAS BEEN CAPTURED
Just wait until Georgia's Douma gets
going!—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. It
may do-more talking than work.
EL PASO. Tex.. March 1-1.—The noto-^
rious Mexican outlaw ami bandit. Gerardo
Nunez, who recently robbed the Estanee
Blanch ranch. In Durango, of $7,000. and
| who. with Ills band has long defied the
civil and military authorities of Mexico,
has been eantured and bin band ex: r-
niinated. it was reported tonight. Nu
nez is one of the most desperate of-the
| bandit leaders who infest the remote and
j almost Inaccessible mountain fastnesses
of Northern Mexico.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
TWENTY-THREE CADETS
EXPELLED FOR HAZING
Rev. Dr. Peters says that “men will
go to hell for a woman." If they do
they will get left, for we are reliably
informed that there are none there.
A scientist claims the coming man
Will be without * stomach. Everything
seems to work in favor of dyspeptic
John D. Rockefeller.
"The unwritten law seems to be a
life-saver in all parts of the country,”
says the Savannah Press. In New York
it is destined to Rave Harry Thaw
from the bughouse.
If the powers will go on building
j and playing with big and destructive
i fighting machines they can have ail
I the bloody results of a battle even in
i times of peace. The blowing up of one
j battleship "Maine” or "Jena” costs
; more lives than a Spanish war.
One of the bright things John Ran
dolph of Roan ike said was this in a
letter to a friend: "Can you put me in
no way to become a successful rogue to
an amount that may throw an air of j gave no such trances. Who did?
! Were the Southern Senators in com-
The Washington Post hints at trick
ery at the capital.. “It was very plainly-
stated in the Senate,” It says, "that as
surances had been given that the Ad
ministration would construe the new
law in favor of assisted immigration
along the lines adopted by South Car
olina. Evidently the Attorney-General
j Mrs. Russell Sage has let loose $10,-
Secretary Otrtelyou begins his ad- j 000,000 for the Sage Foundation de-
ministration of the treasury by going signed "to elevate the standards of
Leslie Shaw one better In extending ; living.” The trusts have heretofore
ihe deposits in the favorite banks. 1 attended to this without assistance.
dignitv over the transaction and divert
the attention of the gaping public from I munication with somebody In authority
the enormity of the offense to that of | who « ave * uch assurances? Presuma-
ably they received assurances from an
authoritative source, as they are not
men who are accustomed to buying
the sum?" This looks like prophecy in j
in the form of an interrogation.
, . .. MEXICO. Mo., March 14—Twentv-
From the Chicago News. three cadets of the Missouri Military
If a man has one enemy he has Academy, many of the members of prom-
enough. ! inent families, today were expelled from
Poverty has taken many a hard fall j cLne^ie yonrs ofa’^was
out of ambition. . v,- e j 2c , ( ] by hi s fellow students and thrown
An easy mark *by any other name { icy waters of a lake. He narrowly
would be just as foolish. j escaped drowning.
Women learn more as they grow
older; it’s different with men.
Many a man’s first mistake was in
the selection of his parent*.
Hazy men are always talking about
some other men who are fools for luck.
Flatter catches silly people, but dis
agreeable -candor never catches any
body.
BACHELOR REFLECTIONS
The Rome Tribune wants to shake | pigs in a poke. They were able to hold
with Tom Johnson when he says the : up the immigration bill indefinitely.
Ideal
treet car system is one that ■ and might have conducted a successful
charges no fare at all. * filibuster against it. They would haxd-
FTom the New York Press.
A man who has a good conslence
hasn't had many chances In the world.
What a boy learns in college is de
termined by the cube root of what he
spends.
If there was a law against going
home early nights, everybody would be
there.
The average man gets more fun out
of betting his money and losing it than
making it by working.
A woman can never understand how
a man who is careless about parting
his hair can be successful in business.
PATROLMAN MALONEY WAS
SHOT BY TWO MEN.
WILLIAMSPORT. Pa.. Mr.- h 1 ' -
Patrolman John P. Maloney was shot
and killed tonight while attempting to
arrest two men on the Reading rail
road tracks near Mosser’s tannery in
the West End. Maloney started after
the men and after a struggle a -shot
was fired. The men ran away and Ma
loney was found dying.
japan requested to send
SHIP TO RESCUE THE DAKOTA
LONDON. March 14.—On the represen
tations of the London underwriters, who
s-and in the position of losing something:
jHte J2.600.000 In the event of the total
loss of the Great Northern Steamship
Company’s liner Dakota, which ran ashore
in the Bay of Tokio March 3. the British
Admiralty ha? requested the Japanese
Government to send a warship to the
scene of the wreck and i" render every
posslble assistance in salvaging the
steamer.
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