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« THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH THE MCI TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 663 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. 0. R. PENDLETON, President “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 Editor John Temple Graves was stricken down on the street in Atlanta Tuesday while quietly conversing with ; ly have withdrawn their opposition on the strength of a mere rumor.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. I INDISTINCT PRINT