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1 THE MACON TELEGRAPH •UBU8HED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY -THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. QA. C. E. PENDLETON, President THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA. Tha Talageaph oan be found on sole It the Kimball House and the Pied mont Hotel in Atlanta. I SOUTH AND NEW LABOR LAW. The new Immigration law which ie to be construed by Attorney-General Bonaparte and take effect on and after g a tr ee It bears on the question of toe State or of any pereon or corpora tion Inducing and assisting Immigrants Is as follows: Section 4 of the law snakes It a misdemeanor "for apy per eon, company, partnership or corpora tion. In any manner whatsover, to prepay the transportation or In any way assist or encourage the Importa tion or migration of any contract la borers Into the TJnlted States." Sec tion 6 provides that It shall be deemed a violation of Section 4 "to assist or encourage the Importation or migration of any alien by promise of employ ment through advertisements printed and published in any foreign country; and any alien coming to this county In consequence of such an advertisement shall be treated as coming under prom ise or agreement." But It Is further provided that Section 6 "shall not ap ply to States or Territories, the Dis trict of Columbia, or places subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States, advertising the Inducements they offer for Immigration theretd. respectively.” The economic spirit and purport of the law Is to prevent interested parties from bringing In cheap labor and bear ing the labor market In unfair com petition with the native labor. But It Is also intended to obviate any chance of preventing an influx of labor where there is anything like a labor famines and conditions can only be bettered by the new blood. Now this la peculiarly the condition In the south. The major portion of our labor Is of such a nature that no Immigration which we could possibly Induce to come to our shores would cheapen 1L The very labor lead ers who have helped to bar our doors against the newcomers In the Interest professedly of their crafts, are sadly at fault as to the situation. Immigra tion Commissioner Sargent, who par ticipated In the Immigration conference held here recently, and who is an en thusiastic labor unionist, did more to enlighten the minds of those who at tended the conference on the entire Immigration subject than any other one epeaker, and we say this without being invidious to any, as all who heard the commissioner’s address will readily appreciate. Commissioner Sar gent sneered, If so strong a word may be used In connection with so amiable and broad-minded a personality—he sneered at the suggestion that any element of the foreign Immigration pouring Into this country under his official eyes could cheapen labor con ditions In the South. On the contrary, he emphasized the point that no power could hold the Immigrants here after they came if the wages and conditions did not level up with those of other sections of the country. His point, to put it tersely, was that while white native labor might tolerate the de pressing effect of negro competition, employers would quickly he undeceived If they hoped to hold the foreign white ^•bor under similar conditions. Such Ing the situation, it is easy to see that nothing would so tend to elevate the conditions of labor in the South as the very influx of white labor which Mr. Gompers and other labor leaders •re reported to be opposing in the in terest of organized Southern labor. Now, such being the situation. It Is clear that while the letter of the new law will hamper the Attorney-General In a liberal and beneficial construction in the Interest of the South, the spirit and intent of It, on the other hand, ■would best be subserved by throwing wide open the doors of this section to white skilled labor. Organized labor •ltd skilled labor are synonymous. There Is nnd always has been a dearth rather than a glut of skilled labor in the South. Notwithstanding this fact • nd notwithstanding that the contract labor law is obviously designed to pro mote the Interest of labor. It has been Ingeniously amended to operate preju dicially upon Industrial conditions In the South In the Interest of New Eng- THE GLORY OF SELF-EFFACE- ROOSEVELT - ROOT BOOMERANG. MENT. I The best-devised theories of the The New York Sun tells the rail- ' President and his Cabinet advisers "aft roads that ' self-effacement is the price : gang agiey.” to paraphrase Burns, on of liberty” in their case. It advises them lone aspect of the White House policies to refrain from even the gentlest kick 'just now in the public eye. The New I-i-l I-H-H-I"H*1-I-1--I I I » 1 against the wishes of th • President and the public. The Sun urges them to do everything that is a-ked and more, and "go into bankruptcy with ail imagin able grace and affability." The Golden Rule for Railroading Ju31 at present sets forth that all wages of all classes of employes must he advanced to such figures as they are willing to accept and that ail rates for transportation must lie cut in two if possible.' If impossible, it is even more import ant that It be done at one--. All of which subtly recalls the history of the coal Industry and the demand for the lynching of the coal bar ons for their failure to raise wages and for their delay In lowering the price of coal. It will never, we trust, be forgotten how the Inter position of a supreme intelligence solved that awful problem and brought anthracite coal almost within the reach of people of mod erate means. The railroads will scarcely be quick to take such advice, fearing that, after York Evening Pest says: If there is to be a round-up of :he various State Geverners at the White House, in order to impress them with the need of calling the Legislatures off the railroads some Interesting conversation would en sue. Dialogues like the following might occur: Governor Deneen—But, Mr. Pres ident, we thought that Mr. Root was speaking for you when he called upon the States to make their corporation laws more dras tic. Mr. Roosevelt—No. the point of what Root said was that I would find a way "by construction” to do the duty which the States are neg lecting.’ Governor Deneen—Then you must be glad that we are attend ing to it now. That lets you out. Mr. Roosevelt;—But I don’t want to he let out! SECONO THOUGHT COMING TO HIM. This is from the Wall Street Sum mary and is appreciated accordingly: going Into bankruptcy in order to bring "All who looked forward to a practical the people "to their senses," they will ; improvement. If not a solution, in the find that the remedy was a trifle too labor situation in the South and West, costly. Tho Sun's sarcastic remarks will not have much effect or. either side to tho controversy, but they furnish highly entertaining reading matter. through the approval of Secretary Straus for ‘State-assisted’ immigration, will learn with dissatisfaction of the ruling of Attorney-General Bonaparte. He contends that the action of the It is manifest, nevertheless, to the i States in paying the traveling expenses impartial and candid observer, that restrictive legislation, in response to popular outcry against corporations, has gone too far in some instances. A dispatch of recent date gives the fol lowing Incident in this connection: HOUSTON, Tex., March 9.— Sunset Limited, of the Southern Pacific, was annulled yesterday because It was 50 minutes late, the annulment being due to the recent order of the Texas Railroad Com mission requiring passenger trains to run within 30 minutes of their schedules. There was a large number of Northern and Eastern tourists aboard the train, going to the Pa cific coast, and they were com pelled to remain here 12 hours. A committee was formed to pro test against the enforced delay, and it is probable a test case will be made. Another State has made a law re cently requiring every car to be pulled not less than fifty miles a day—pre sumably with the Intent of preventing a freight blockade, and car congestion at terminal points. This law enforced would paralyze any road In existence. The average journey of a car is thirty- eight miles a day. There is no doubt that in many cases railroad managements and railroad em ployes have sinned against the people’s natural rights, as in cases of re bates, unequal rates, and the Juggling of tho stock market by certain captains of Industry, but while such evils ought to he corrected, and' can be corrected, It Is simple folly and madness to plunge the country into a populistic hysteria and business chaos on account of the sins in the past of some of the rail roads. If one cashier of a bank robs the vault there is no Justice or reason in hanging all the cashiers on that ac count. Caught on J the Wing | H-K--1-H-1 I--1 l-I-I I i H-K-i-h-b By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. of immigrants, and In assisting them to procure work, Is a violation of the Immigration law. The earlier decision I exempted States from the contract- | labor provision, and there seems no great reason why this exemption should not continue.- Nothing In the way of legislation can be effected be fore December next, but If there is anything in the shape of an ‘after thought’ coming to the Attorney-Gen eral on the construction of our new alien measure, we trust that it will dis cover itself without delay.” Today is dear to the sons and daugh ters of Erin, and as long as their hearts beat true to the Emerald Isle, which will he forever, so 16ng will the memory of Saint Patrick live fresh and green in 'the affections of his peo ple. And as his memory lives so will the shamrock live perennially as the national emblem of the Irish. It Is said that St. Patrick, when preaching the Trinity, used to Illustrate his subject by reference to the shamrock: and hence, perhaps, the Island of Saints adopted this plant as her national emblem. In St. Joseph’s Church In this city, is a handsome memorial win dow showing St. Patrick illustrating to the King and Queen of Tara, through the three leaves of the piece of sham rock which he holds in his hand, the doctrine of the Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In Thomas Moore's Irish'- Melodies appears the exquisite lyric—"Oh the Shamrock”—from which I copy the fol lowing verses: Thro’ Erin’s Isle. To sport awhile As Love and Valor wandered With Wit, the sprite. Whose quiver bright A thousand arrows squandered. Where’er they pass, A triple grass Shoots up, with dew-drops streaming, As softly green As emeralds seen Thro’ purest crystal gleaming. Oh the Shamrock, the green, Immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf Of Bard and Chief, Old Erin’s native Shamrock! tality of St. Patrick the faith Is now j as fr.'sh in Ireland, even In ^hfs cold twentieth century, as when it was first I planted. ” SENTENCE SERMONS. j The Times-Union 1 Philosopher i From the Chicago Tribune. There is no love without duty. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE TO THE EDITOR ’Twas Colquitt, Said Judge McRae. To the Editor of The Telegraph: Some one has observed that the ques tion as to who It was threatened to Conduct Is crystalized character. He who cannot learn has ceaaed to live. Sow helpfulness and you reap hap piness. Most of our weakness comes from worry. Work for your fellows is worship of wallow Alex. Stephens is exciting an j your Father. tands and wonders; faith straight- interest out of proportion to its im portance. Nothing, however, that re lates to the personality of any of that incomparable galaxy of statesmen, to which Mr. Stephens ar.d his contempo raries belonged, will fail to Interest pa triotic Georgians. One of the best Informed men in Georgia of the men and times to which Stephens. Toombs, Colquitt and others of that group belonged, was Judge John F. F. McRae of this county, who died about four ears ago. He was recognized as . authority, and there was scarcely a man prominent in Geor gia's public life sixty or seventy years ago that Judge McRae did not per sonally know. Many times have I, in company with other young men of his acquaintance, sal around him to eager ly listen to his thrilling recital o# events of the long ago. Among the many entertaining historical scraps with which he was wont to regal his . hearers, was the debate between Wal- I ter T. Colquitt and Alex. Stephens, during which Colquitt asserted his Credulity starts out and works. No Institution makes itself sacred by labeling all others as secular. He drakens his own way who makes light of the troubles of others. Life always Is a dull grind to the man who thinks only of his own grist. It takes the base line of two worlds to get a correct elevation on any life. Heaven cannot hear the prayer for j lows have a chan the poor that has no effect on my tention from the w From the Jacksonville Times-Union. Plagiarism is the tribute mediocri: and commonness pay to genius. The world will not believe much in man who has but little faith lit him self. It is funny how a political defo- can help a man to see disaster a'aea for his country. . Real religion is something a too big to be confined in the Jacket of creed. Anathema and abuse are the weap ons resorted to only by a cause that is j already defeated. Men would bo better if they were not so much afraid that they would miss something by It. The average man thinks more of an optimist, even if he fails, than of a pes simist who succeeds. When the big men die the little lot to attract some nt- ld. store. The most heavenly pictures seen oh earth are men and women doing com mon loving kindnesses. Health is a large part of happiness, and happiness of health, while both are essential to holiness. 98 becav him fr< FOREIGN NOTES An exposition for everything relat ing to paper making, printing, book binding and engraving, to be called the j ability to swallow his diminutive an- T . . - T i 4 i _ J CltATiVlnna J . V> « CS I I^XJ^OSltlOD IH16TOft tl on cl I © QU Ll\ re, Wjll ! tagonist, and Stephens made his fam- | hf . in p 1ri , frnm the Tll!v , ous reply. I have time and again test- I ed the accuracy and correctness -of Judge McRae’s memory in these his- be held in Paris from the end of July to October 20. 1907. A special feature will be the production of artistic ad- j torical ’rernimscencesT'and 1 * invariably I vertlaing and post cards. | found him correct: I am. therefore. ! The Japanese legation has sent word j willing to accept his version of this ’ to the Brazilian minister of foreign af- now much mooted incident. j fairs that there will shortly arrive in Judge Mc'Rae was himself, during the I j>] 0 ,j e Janeiro a large liner, belonging most of his long life, in the public ser- 1 vice, and h’s opportunities lior ac Many a man has lost slice a fleeting pleasure templec the path that leads there. As soon as a man realizes that he isn't absolutely essentia! : ' ’.lie w -’ 1 he begins to be really useful. Considering how mighty little the world cares 'about being saved. It i: remarkable how many want to save it. One advantage in being very rich is that you do not have to worry about what the rest of the, world thinks about it. FACTS IN FIGURES. Lord Strathcona. now In England has been informed by a cable dispatch that about 60.000 men will bo required by contractors for railway work in western Canada during the coming summer. Japan's exports of porcelain ware to Says Valor "See "They spring for me, "Those leafy gems of morning:*' Says Love. "No, no. ^For me they grow, . "My fragrant path adorning.” But Wit perceives The triple leaves. And cries. "Oh do not sever "A type, that blends "Three godlike friends / “Love Valor, Wit. for ever!” Oh the Shamrock, the green, immortal . Shamrock! Chosen leaf Of B'ard and Chief. Old Erin’s native Shamrock! quainting himself with the personal history of Colquitt, Stephens and their illustrious contemporaries, wgre of the best. He was personally and, in many Instances, intimately acquainted with the ‘‘giants’’ of those days. He was in the service of the Federal Government at the timfe of the landing on the Gonr- to a Japanese shipping company, which ! the United States are increasing rso ls fitted up as a floating exhibition of I l.Ily. They were about S2.S00.000 worth Japanese products, says the Brazilian ■ in ‘ 1906, against $1,900,000 worth in Review. j 1905 and three and one-half as much A scheme is on foot for creating a | as in 1902. j Saint Patrick, the apostle and patron saint of Ireland, was born in 373 lq the town of Kilpatrick, on the mouth of the river Clyde in Scotland, hp- Japanese agricultural colony in the heart of Alberta, says the China Tele graph. Well-to-do Japanese farmers are to be taken out. according to the gia coast of the slave ship “Wanderer,” I project, and they -will turn their atten- and only a few years ago was the re- ! tlon to the raising of wheat and the cipient of several hundred dollars ! cultivation ugar beets and anything I per en & lne - through an act of Congress for services , else that wilt thrive in the’climate. j The exports of Nottingham lac A German article describes a locomo tive equipped with feed-water heaters which has recently been put into ser vice on the Egyptian State railways, and effects a saving in coal consumed of 21.4 per cent, or over $1,000 per year rendered the Government in connection According to a French consular re- ' H° ods continue very large—unequaled with that historic event. „„ ‘for many years, if ever—to the United GEORGE BRIGHT. port there ls an increasing t.emand in g tate;: The total lace exports to all Helena, March 16. the Canary Islands for all kinds of fur- | niture, due to the growth of Las Pal- I mas and to the extensive building of The Wirz Monument. To the Editor of The Telegraph: Ilav- j ing read an article, headed “Dark countries increased 20 per cent in value during the ten months ending with Oc-i tober. in comparison wjth the corre sponding period of 1905. The total value exceeded $17,000,000. The home trade ls also very active. Consul Harris reports from Nagasaki that during the year 1905 there were SI _ acres In peppermint in that district tween Dumbarton and Glasgow He ; wouTd'afford"me'"great” pleasure' to \ new process known as the Inshaw. | £*‘ P 5I 1 i died in Donn, Ulster. Scotland. March shake his hand. If the South had ; seamless iron and steel tutbes for The principal business is done in light goods supplied by Spanish manufac- Memories of old Andersonvllle,” by turers James Callaway I cannot refrain from j It ls announced that a Scotch com- wrltlng a few lines on that subject, j ... I do not know Mr. Callaway, but It I P an y is about to manufacture, by MAYOR MoCLELLAN’S GOOD SENSE. There was much good sense in Mayor George B. MicClellan’s -address at Princeton University last Saturday. “If some rich men are scoundrels and some corporations are criminal," he : was found In a church of his name in t h 0 article, "Dark Memories said, for example, "we shall not greatly Down, In 1185, and removed ffnoth- J Andersonvllle,” should be read in all strips at present used. w er P art tb e 3anle church._ Writers t j, e public schools of the much abused improie matters bj makin 0 a general tell us that at the age of sixteen he ; southern States. I was but a child was carried captive to Ireland by a i W hen the war between the States be- 1 Newfoundlanders, are admitted to Brit , , . . i„. „ S ; more men like him. how much better boilers. These tubes, it is claimed, will dates, St. Patrick was about 120 years -•*> — .u it. _ i —u - . — .. ... IN DEMOCRATIC STRENGTH UNION. In response to the claim that the Democrats must break down the large normal -Republican vote in order to win, the Philadelphia Record declares that Mr. Roosevelt was elected because a great many Democrats did not go to the polls, and calls attention to the fact that neither party got out its full vote in either of the last two elections. "The absentees are more on the Democratic than on the Republican side, but Mr. Roosevelt did not gain over McKinley in 1900 as much as the increase of population should have given him. and Mc Kinley’s vote in 1900 was a mere trifle larger than it was in 1896. In eight years the Republican par ty hns fallen far short of holding its own, in spite of the prestige of a foreign war and the alleged pop ularity of the President. The fact is evident that the candidates or the platforms or the acts of the F.epublican party are not giving satisfaction to the Republican voters. “That there has been still more dissatisfaction among Democrats is notorious. The party ha? been badly divided. But the election figures show that it has only to get together to have every prospect of winning.” assault on capital. Most of the pana ceas for the evils of the times sug gested within a decade savor far more of the environment of the socialistic dreamer than of the business common sense of the American people. Many of us have unwittingly drifted into an extreme of hazy radicalism In our views upon the reiatldns which should exist between Government and capital, which. I£ expressed in concrete form would place us. doubtless to our hor ror, in the ranks of anarchy.” "The demagogues have seen their opportunity and made the most of .. . . T „ . , | off we would be. He Is a brave writ- n ot corrode. It is said that they will old when^ he paSBed away.^HIsbod} ter. and i admire his bravery. I think be placed on the market at £ ($34.07) of Old p e r ton. or less than the price of iron $800. and 9,792 pounds of liquici pep permint, distilled from dried mint, valued at $2,050. were produced, and that the oil and liquid, together witli’a large quantity of dried mint for dis tillation. were shipped to Osaka, where the menthol crystal crop of the Em- Foreign-bullt vessels, purchased by | plre is produced. Consul-General Guenther writes it. The results of playing to the gallery are so apparent and so im mediate that the temptation ' to strive after theatrical effect is al most irresistible. "Despite their traditions, despite their records of honorable achieve ment. our two parties have turned from the gods of their fathers to worship at the shrine of oppor tunity, bidding against each other in its cult. The curse of the day is opportunism. "During the last few years Con gress has been but little more than a register of the Presidential wishes. It has only been necessary for the Executive to express his de sires, to have Congress immediately carry- them into effect. The major ity of both houses has been loath to inaugurate any policy whatso ever without Presidential permis sion. Tho minority, on the other hand, with an opportunity such as has seldom been presented to act as a great restraining and con servative force, to build up a healthy public opinion in favor of the maintenance of the law, has oscillated Between a policy of senseless, unreasonable opposition, when it thought that opposition would be popular, and a feverish haste to outdo the majority in sup porting the Executive: in other words, in trying to get on the band wagon when it thought that pop ularity was on the box seat. "Strict constructionist has joined with loose constructionist. Demo crat with Republican, in trying to apply the Interstate commerce clause of the Constitution in a way to make the fathers turn in their graves.” land manufacturers and in defeat of Its true purpose. It remains to he seen -whether Attorney-General Bonaparte -will construe the law In accordance with the spirit or the letter. “Bleeding” Kansas declines to send John Brown’s statue to represent her in Statuary Hall at the National Cap ital. Perhaps Kansas la getting fas tidious in these latter days. Those "bargain hunters” In Wall street Friday doubtless picked up etocka discarded in the panic almost as freely as tha Confederates gathered up Yankee guns after the first Bull Run. Wall street dropped nearly $1,000,- 000,000 in five hours Thursday. Some body must have beer. fca.I'v e-’i-od but all the operators are still In tha ring. It ls pointed out -that the total Pres idential vote in 1896 was a little less than 14,000,009. "If,” argues_ the Rec ord, “the voters are increasing 8 per cent every four years, which is about the growth of population, then the possible Presidential vote next year will exceed 17.500,000. But at the last election it was only a trifle more than 13.300,000. A year from next November there will be in the country 4,000.000 voters who have not voted before, or who have not been voting at the recent national elections, but will vote then, if they care about the candidates and the platforms ar.d the records of their respective parties. The greater part of the four million are Democratic in habit and associations.” Undoubtedly the Americans inclined toward Democratic principles are in the majority, as the popular votes for Presidents have so often shown. Even under the electoral college system there is always a good chance of success when the Democracy is thoroughly- united. But there's the rub. The Wall Street Summary says it would be interesting to know if Presi dent Roosevelt remembers the remark made to him a few weeks ago by a friendly adviser, viz.. “Mr. President, it ts much easier to start & fire than it iS tO £Ut It ouL” Mayoy McClellan’s address Is very much the sort of thing that the Demo crat of the old school likes to read and regards as sound. But the astute Dem- 1 ' ocrat of the old type Is well aware that it is easier for a man of Mr. McClel lan’s type to talk sense than for him or any one to induce a majority of either the Democratic or Republican party, In these days, to listen ar.d re flect “With 60 out of 116 samples of city served milk watered, skimmed, drugged or below standard, with 76 out of 88 samples of sausage loaded with perni cious drugs, and with only three pure out of 39 samples of maple syrup, the ’Land of Steady Habits’ seems to be in urgent need of dietetic reform,” says the New York Tribune. band of marauders, where he was - Ran and ended, but what I can recol- Ish registry in Newfoundland duty free, | that in the year 1906 there departed obliged to keep cattle on the mountains : lect of aH our hardships and priva- while a Canadian purchasing a foreign : from the Port of Hamburg 173,493 c ml- f—•’~' 1 : tlons is stamped Indelibly on my j vessel and seeking British registry in eran$e ,Af,wln,r memory'. I was born in Russell Coun- ; the Dominion pays a registration fee of ty, Alabama, just one mile from Co- ' per cent 0 f t he ship’s value, rays lumbus, Ga. I was an eye witness to shipping Illustrated. He can secure the Federal army when it invaded and p.'ritish in Newfoundland bv paying a destroyed Columbus. Then the spirit f ee of only 5 per cent. This is the rea- of antagonism was planted deep down ; son given why so many foreign vessels in my heart. Forty years have passed purchased by Canadians seek British away, but that feeling still remains. ; registry in Newfoundland. and In the forests, in hunger and nakedness amidst snows, rain and ice. "Whilst he lived in this suffering con dition. God had pity on his soul, and quickened him to a sense of his duty by the impulse of a strong interior grace. The young man had recourse to Him with his whole heart in fer vent prayer acd fasting; and from that time faith and the love of God acquired continually new strength in his tender soul.” An account says that after six months spent in slavery. St. Patrick was admonished by God in a dream to escape and go to his own country, Scotland, and Informed that a „ . exceeding tho number leaving from that port in the preceding year by about 30.000. The following coun tries were the chief contributors to the exoflus In 1906: Austria (Bohemlft). 35.647: Hungary. 28:283; Russia, 7i.- 221: Germany, 20.057. Of the total. 152,134 went to the United States. 9,041 to Argentina nnd 4.875 to Great Britain. and will until I am laid away in Rose Hill cemetery. I have three sons and I have instilled into them as much of this feeling as I possibly could to despise the actions of the Federal Gov ernment In those days. I have known very little of the A common attendant of prosperous times is now evident in Great Britain. | in a state of unrest among trades union POINTED PARAGRAPHS ship was then ready to sail thither. He t prison life in the Yankee lands, ev- went at once to the sea coast, though ! cep t of that of Johnson’s Island. Ohio, at a great distance, and found the i My information about that place vessel: but could not obtain passage, j comes from letters written and state- probably for want of money. St. Pat- ! ments made bv my husband's uncle, rick returned towards his hut, pray- j Lieut. W. H. Hicks, and conversa- ing as he went, but the sailors, though i tions with the late Capt. Harry L. pagans, called him back, and took him | Rockwell, who were prisoners of war on board. After three days’ sail they j at that death hole, Johnson’s Island, made land, but wandered twenty-seven There hunger was so great that a days through deserts, and were a long number of them killed and eat an old while distressed for want of provis- ca t with a litter of kittens, while the ions, finding nothing to eat. Patrick Federal officers and guards lived in had often spoken to the company on luxury, with tables spread with all the Infinite power, of God, they there- the delicacies of the season, where fore asked him why he did not pray - these poor hungry fellows could smell for relief. Animated by a strong-faith. . the aroma, and see these captains par- he assured them that if they would ad- | take of the luxuries of life, dress themselves with their whole j There these two brave and noble hearts to the true God, He would hear souls contracted bowel troubles from classes. Advanced wages or shorter hours are demanded in many trades— in some cases with success, in others without. Tho refusals have been fol lowed by actual or threatened strikes, as in shipyards and several mining dis tricts. "Workmen are emboldened by the unsual demand for labor during this season of prosperity, to demand far more than they received in the preced ing dull years; and it is feared that strikes disastrous to trade generally will result. From the Chicago News. Go slow—and the other fellow may beat you to it. A man’s greatest success in life is usually unexpected. Some men would have more if their friends would pay up. Excessive politeness seldom has any thing in common with the truth. A man thinks he has forgotten his troubles when he is having a good time. About the second time you meet a Shrinkage in Values. woman -she begins to tell you her From the Washington Post. ! troubles. It is computed that the shrinkage in jt sometimes happens that a wise value of the railroad securities dealt in ! man has occasion to marvel at his in Wall street within the last twelve i ignorance. months amounted to the gigantic sum of $2,500,000,000. and this in a period of universal and unprecedented mate rial prosperity in every line of busi ness, commercial, manufacturing, ag- and succor them. They did so, and on 1 -which thev were never able to recover. the same ay met with a herd of swine, i Lieut. Hicks being told that his was j ricu]tura l and miscellaneou.. Various From that time provisions never failed | /ncurable so reduced him in strength cauaas . are aS3l sned f-?r this startling them, and finally they reached a cul- | and health that he sought relief by condition, tivated and inhabited country. | death at his own hands. Capt. Rock well’s condition, not being so severe. Some years later he was carried off a he was enabled to endure life of great second time, but escaped after two suffering. months of captivity. He resolved to become a missionary to the Irish, was ordained in Scotland, and after a long preparation was consecrated bishop. The writers of his life say that after his second capture he traveled Into Gaul and Italy, and saw St. Martin. SL Germanus of Auxerre and Pope Celes- tine, and that he received his mission and the apostolical benediction from this Pope. SL Patrick .preached the gospel with such extraordinary effect that he has always received the credit of Ireland’s general conversion. He traveled over the whole country, pene trating Into the remotest corners, bap tized an infinite number of people, or dained clergymen, induced women to live in holy widowhood and continence, consecrated virgins to Christ and In stituted monks. He baptized the Kings of Dbblin and Munster, and the seven sons of the King of ConnaughL with the greater part of their subjects, and before his death had converted almost the whole island to the faith. He fixed his metropolitan see at Armagh, and appointed several bishops with whom he held councils to settle the discipline of the church. The Savannah Press thinks possibly the late flurry In Wall street “is a little blood-letting in the spring from a plethoric condition." and “the liquida tion may bring things down to a healthier basis.” “Actresses always have such beau tiful hair,” remarks a magazine writer. It doubtless pays in their business to get the best. Sometimes the President’s boom erang policies redounded so quickly that the country ceases to stare only to laugh. The higher the finance the farther £he tumble. The saint labored hard for the sup pression of slavery, which was one of the causes of so many marauding expe ditions in his time. He founded a mon astery at Armagh; another called Pat rick’s church; also a third, named Sag- hal-Padraig, "afid filled the country with churches and schools of piety and learning, the reputation of which, for the succeeding centuries, drew many foreigner® into Ireland.” Catholic and Irish writers love to speak of Ireland as the nursery whence St. Patrick sent forth his missionaries and teachers. They say w-ith pride that Glastonbury and Lindinsfarne. Ripon and Malmes bury, bear testimony to the labors of Irish priests and bishops for the con version of England. They emphasize the further statement, as showing the fruits ot^St. Patrick’s work, that Iona Is to this day the most venerated spot in Scotland, and with equal zeal they assert that Columban. Fiacre, Gall and many others evangelized the “rough places” of France and Switzerland. Panegyrists of St. Patrick love to dwell especially upon his great charity, and tell how he devoted the lands bestowed on him to the foundation of churces, of cloisters for both sexes, and of numerous monastic schools. Invariably he gave back the little presents which some laid on the altar, choosing, they say. rather to mortify the fervent than to scandalize the weak or the infidei9. In beautiful language they picture how he gave freely of his own. both to Pagans and Christians, distributed large alms to the poor In the provinces where he passed, made presents to the Kings, Judging that necessary for the progress of the gospel, and maintained and edu cated many children, whom he trained up to serve at the altar. A high Cath- jolic authority says: “By the instrumen- I am a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy and I look with pride at my certificate that adorns the wall of my country home by the side of tho Some of the blame is laid to the rate bill of fehe Fifty-ninth J Congress: some to the more recent ad- i verse legislation of the States, such as . 2-cent fares; some -to the loss of confi- ! dence in American business methods on the part of foreign investors: some ! to the inability of the railroads to speedily carry the traffic offered them: Every hatchet-faced gossip is in her glory when it comes to wielding a hammer. After choosing his own boss many a man is dissatisfied—so it’s him for ^he divorce court. Oyster stews served in some restau rants prove that the proprietors belong to a society for the prevention of cru elty to bivalves. PROVERBS AND PHRASES | in reference 'to the monument to be ^ * hc roads mast have make necessary erected at Andersonvllle by the improvements: some to the high wage Daughters of the Confederacy. I would ! of labor required to complete such im state that it would seem mors proper to remove the remains of so great and noble man as Capt. YVirz to a more sacred spot, and y to place of greater importance and more dear to the lovers of Southern chivalry, and there erect a monument, and not where it would be scorned annually by un friendly visitors and negro rioters. I provements. Doubtless all these causes helped to bring about the present situation, and there is small winder that Mr. J. Pier- pont Morgan has appealed to the Pres ident of the United States to confer with certain presidents of important railroad systems in order to devise some plan to avert the dire disaster am In hopes that the Daughters of the J that threatens. We do not see that Mr. Confederacy will abandon the idea of I Roosevelt has any elective other than erecting a monument at Andersonville, for with the present feeling existing in the ranks of the G. A. R. it would provoke -bitter resentments. MRS. EDWARD S. SMITH. Bibb County. Georgia. ITEMS OF INTEREST The Norwegians have whaling estab lishments in Iceland, Scotland, South America, Japan and elsewhere. For five months in the year Cairo. Egype. is a dead city, no one staying to endure the heat who can get away. to enforce the law of Congress: but he is the most influential individual in the country, and a statement from him to the public might serve to partially re- | _ store confidence at home and abroad. - roscs - German. If Europe should get in a panic, send our securities home, and market them for what they will fetch In gold, as was done In 1893. it would be followed by widespread disaster. In 1893 Europe concluded that the Sherman silver law had put our finances on the silver ba sis, and our securities came home by the shipload to be exchanged for gold at whatever sacrifice. If Europe has Long is not forever.—German. Good right needs no help—Dutch. From little things men go on lb great.—Dutch. Truth, faith and love are all that make life.—Beranger. He lives in fame who dies in virtue’s cause.—Shakespeare. If two men ride a horse one must ride behind.—Shakespeare. Love, a cough, smoke and money cannot long be hid.—-French. If you have no troubles, you will have nothing to growl abouL—Humboldt. He is truly rich who desires nothing and he is truly poor who covets all.— Solon. One’s own thistle field is dearer to him than his neighbor's garden of Your enemies are your best friends. If you had no enemies, what need you for friends?—Homer. < POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE Frederick A. Woodson, a resident of Denver, is the sole surivor of a trio who organized the famous Scroll and Key Society, which is now one of tho now concluded that our railroad stocks , i argest college fraternities in the world. There are almost as many winter as \ are on a non-dividend-paying basis, or summer visitors at St. Moritz, Switz erland. Nearly all of them are Eng lish. The number of students at all of the German universities this winter is 45,- 136. This is equal to an increase of 159 per cent since 1876-77. In the leper hospital at Constantino ple good results have been obtained by the use of bacterium which goes by the name of streptotrix leproldes. In Russia there are agricultural or ganizations of zemstvos, through which large quantities of farming supplies and machinery are purchased. The Japanese are increasing their canning factories. The consumption of foreign canned goods is limited to the foreign population, and a small per centage of natives. At Santa Cruz. Cal., In the St. George Hotel, is a tank containing fifty trout so fame that they take meat offered to them from a man's hand and rub their sides against the hand of the one that feeds them. Sixty years ago a Pennsylvania farmer cut down a chestnut tree on a neighbor's property. Last Saturday the heirs of the two farmers paid the costs upon final decision of the suit. The total expenses have been $30,000. The adage which advises people who live in glass houses not to throw stones will have to be revised. The glass that Is. now used in making houses i breakable approaching it, we may be sure her bankers and Investors will force liqlud- atton. and general liquidation always means financial disaster, and can mean, nothing else. BACHELOR REFLECTIONS From the New York Press. Any man can stand abuse if it’s be cause he ls rich. A nice thing about' gambling is your wife won’t be mad with you if you win. A good way to make the furnace bum well is to have a warm spell of weather. The best way for a woman to pre serve her Ideals about a man is not to marry him. People are awful rich when they aren’t afraid to go to a wedding in a street car. A man thinks he deserves a lot of credit for having some relatives who becomes famous. Money ia a very useful thing not to have in your pocket when anybody tries to borrow from you. When a man says people have enter tained him delightfully he means they let him do all the talking. It takes a good deal of beauty for a girl not to need to be told she has it if you want to be popular with her. A woman would rather have her hus- Maj. Gordon W. Little, otherwise known as “Pawnee Bill,” refused to fulfill a contract to deliver seven buil bisons to a Mexican senor when he i learned that they were to be used in ; the arena. It is said that Governor Hoch, of ' Kansas, does not intend tot serve out his term. He has accepted a number | of assignments from a lecture bureau for this summer. He Is to receive, so it 13 said, $150 a night, ar.d will be able to make from $10,000 to $13,000 a year. Regis Henri Post, who is to be Gov ernor of Porto P„ico, has been Secretary of the Insular Government since 1904. He is a Harvard graduate of the law department of the University of New York. He belongs to an old Long Is land family, being descended from the Posts who settled in Southampton in 1640. out of Chinese Differences. From the Minneapolis Journal. His compass points South. In saluting you he puts on his hat. Walking with you, he keep? step. He shakes his own hand instead of yours. He says east-south instead of south east. . To be polite, he asks your age and income. He throws away the flesh of tha melon and eats its seeds. material. ^ His women often wear trousers it**1 ooks"liice "white marble | band Tie’ about how he likes to go to j while he often wears a gown, in the same way as that church and not do It 'than to so and J He presents coffins to his frienda \*dmlt the truth, %*s you present cigars or books. INDISTINCT PRINT