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■Tuesday, march i», nor. THE TWICE- A -WEEK TELEGKAPB Hinkle Writes an j recourse left but to accept this new "*" vo | American Declaration of Independence. Sr. A. B Interesting Letter to a Macon Friend. The following letter from Dr. A. B. Hinkle to a fro nd In Macon will doubt less be read with Inter.at by his and Mrs. Hinki.-'s many friends In this city. In company wish several hundred American- they are on : European tour: ON S. S. ARABIC, Keb. 24. My Dear Friend: Accor promise, I will write you a fe as I feel our .Macon friends will jo hear that Mrs. Hinkle and my are well and < nj .yiiROur trip to the ut- hv mosi ex - , ni speeding along: n the development o. great and palatial -alp "Arabic," with j tonight by u . u four months 1007. glac I We are now on our way to Valetta, on the Island of Malta: then to Athens, j Greece, etc. We are both enjoying the be?; of health and happy. With kind regard* to all friends and best wishes for yourself, I an yours sincerely. DR. A. B. HINKLE. Mrs. Valeria Lamar Harriss Writes Interesting Letter From Famous Resort. Development of South Depends on Extension of Railroad Facilities NEW ORLEANS, La.. March 15.— An appeal to all Southerners to stand ; railroads for 600 lively sen liny thirty ion. and quite Southland, through the Sea. with Id.- serene sea a Terpsichore mgers on board, repre- I leven State- in the En large number fro in our e arc now steaming -uitlful Mediterranean weather and calm and | 1 lovely moonlight nights. . igns .supreme on th decks to the strains of lovely mu anri lectures by ti.e most cultured ..f our land ir. the largo forward dining room enlightening us on the places of Interest to be visited passes away our time on board In a moot pleasant man ner. This is a great and glorious trip ! Mrs. Valeria Lamar Harriss. who Is i spending a brief season at Atlantic 1 City, writes an interesting description i of the gavety of the season at that fa- ; mous resort. Mrs. Harriss is one of ! Georgia's gifted women, having con- I tributed much to literature in neivs- • papers as well as being author of a very interesting novel. | Following is a letter to The Tele- 1 graph, written in Marlborougn-Blen- heim Hotel, where she has apartments: Atlantic City. R- L, March 13. i I came down here to avoid the slush 1 and slime of New York and witnessed ; a fearful snowstorm. The salted ! breath of old Xeptur.e, however, ha3 j melted it from view. I am glad to say. j I awoke up on Sunday morning to Hook and Ladder. No. 1.—Jo'an C. Deitz, foreman: C. W. Newton, secre tary: A. McCailie. treasurer: E. J. erty in Macon in 1S77. thirty years ago. By BRIDGES SMITH. of these. Here, without a cent of cost other than that for text books, anyone capable of passing the en- iWJ™-snntst sssa -sss Of the Board of Health there is not . one living today: C. Masterson. R. J. I gave the names o. Reddy. John G. Deitz. W. F. Brown. Treat Hines. James Madison Jones. Green J. Blake, W. D. Williams and W. P. Goodall. Last Sunday the business houses that were In ex istence In Macon thirty years ago, and ihe very few remaining business men. To those readers who can look back to that time, it was evident that almost, an entire generation of people had beerfr wiped out. The perusal of the names so familiar then, but long since forgotten, called up memories of those days when Macon was young and we were In our prime. Another thing, it caused us to think, to compare the old with the new Macon. In fancy _wc run over the old houses and vacant lots and to note with what they have been replaced and improved. How- many will remember the old Hayden flv :es visited and have passed and it will bo impoxslb you an outline of the pis panoramic scenes wc through. We left Macon in a'pouring rain Jan uary 31, encountering heavy snow In New York. On the 7th >f February we boarded the "Arabic," one of the largest and best equipped English ships of the White Star Lin*- atloat. and with every Imaginable convenience po-dole. Leav ing the snowclnd and icy blasts of New York for the balmy and sunny climes of Funchal, the capital city of the Ma deira Islands, full of verdure and cov ered with the most luxuriant flowers and tropical plant3. filling the very air with fragrance to this lovely spot. We landed on February 16, after ten days' voyage across the grand old At lantic, with some ruffling of our feel ings. causing about 500 on board to lose their appetites for two or three days. It was a seasickness that made many yearn for terra flrma once more. I could hear peculiar noises as passen gers leaned over the rails, looking over into the sea. some praying, same' whooping, and one newspaper man re citing the following paraphrase: "My country 'tis of thee—■ fitoaming across the sea. For thee I sigh. Jgind of the solid ground. Land where no smells abound, Land where no twin screws pound. For thee I die. How enn they cheerfully smile, How can they time beguile. Would I were home. What are their Joys to me-r Riearning along the sea. Woeful as I can be? Why did X come? Well, after two days’ storm old Nep tune was satisfied and all has since moved along smoothly. Those who lost are now gaining. The menu, good cooking and dolieions fruit Is the very best and all the most aesthetic could desire. After visiting Funchal, with its round pebbled, steep and narrow streets, riding in bullock sleds, sliding down the sleep mountain sides, we loathed to leave this beautiful and ro mantic spot, but pulled anchor on ihe 16th for a 600-miie run to the fam ous seaport from which Columbus set out on his momentous voyage of dis covery—Cadiz, Spain—often called the "Spanish Venico—Its high wails and fortifications, its white houses and splendid parks, and the wonderful sea view from tho public watch-tower, all tend to give the tourist a feeling of being in dreamland. From there we visited Seville by rail road ninety-five miles by special train in tho quaint and peculiar compart ment and omnibus-like cars, and vis ited many places of rare interest. In cluding the Cathedral, one of the hand somest and largest and richest in Christendom; the Alcazar, the former palace of the Moorish kings; the Gi- ralda, originally a prayer to%ver, tho bull ring. etc. The proud Sevillians seem to have a right ro think their city to be more favorably located than any other in Spain, calling the country round about the "Land of Holy Mary." We were given a three hours' carriage drive through and around the city and dined at the "Hotel de Madrid”—a most sumptuous dinner—arriving back at Cadiz at midnight. Our next place of interest was "The Solid Rock of Gibraltar,” but it might be dubbed now, the "Honeycombed Rock of Gibraltar*. - ’ with its 1 innumera ble tunnels cut through the solid rock and around in Its fortifications, for out of Its hundreds of port holes in the rock a large cannon pokes its nose, ready to belch forth Its deathly rain of balls upon an approaching foe. The Srltish have certainly not spared or labor to make “this the sgest fort in existence. The beau- »! city of Gibraltar Is situated on the item side at the foot of the rock, ^tending up its side has one long »ln street, where we spent some time '■hopping, dealing principally with the Bombay Indians, who are quite shrewd In selling their silk shawls. Maltese lace. etc. We drove several very good bargains. We left there at midnight, entering the beautiful and emerald- greon Mediterranean Sea for Algiers, the Capital of Algeria, on the northern coast of Africa, a quaint old Moorish city, where are seen the beautiful specimens of Moorish and Byzantine architecture. This city now belongs to France and has a mixed population of French. Arabs. Turks, Moors. Bedouins, negroes and Maltese, making most pic turesque and queer sights in its nar row streets. Its harbor is large, spa cious and well fortified, the white city rising from the water's edge in a crescent shape up the mountain side, backed by still more lofty snow-capped mountain ranges In the rear makes a scene never to be forgotten, and the bay. I imagine, resembles that of Na ples. We were given a throe hours' carriage drive over this city, passing through the most wonderful palm gar den I ever dreamed of. Imagine 175 carriages carrying 600-odd people. winding around the mountains over probably the best macadamized roads In existence, probably made by the enslaved Christians years ago. and you can get an idea of what an imposing sight and long procession it was. The M oors a century ago were very progressive and aggressive—a terror t’> the maritime world and holding full sway over the sea. Tho ghastly extent of Algerian ptracy will tie best under stood by the statement that altogether 3 000 vessels fell into the hands of these sake of the South was made inley, president of outhern Railway, at a business banquet tendered him here. He said In part: “If the railways of the South are ! the eart jj j<ke Heaven—spotless - , . to be brought up to the standard re- and uncon taminated as the breath of & Goolsby stable that stood where the quired by the expanding business of j an ange ,. The snou . king had gone j opera house now stands? That was Southern communities the people j the very foot of the sce and | p^t)re thiin thirty years^fl£TO,^ but if that me i the South must be actuated by the t even kissed the waves with its icy lips, sic I f amo spirit of co-operation they showed j but the ebbing tide said “nay" and the ' j ni the early days of railway building, • v -hite caress melted in the throbbing vhen communities vied with each oth- | waves 0 f the ocean. It was such a se ductive sight, as I saw it from my win dow overlooking the sea, that I cannot desist telling it to you with some de gree of poetical fervor. Such a gay place this is! It’s the er in offering inducements for con struction. The day for governmental and municipal financial aid for railway lines has passed, and the many mil lions of dollars that will be required for additional trade capacity and ter minal facilities must be obtained from private investors. The greater part of the money must be borrowed. "Identified during most of my busi ness career with railways of the South. I know the resources of Its rail ways will be taxed to the utmost to provide the additional facilities that will be required. The provision of these facilities at the earliest possible date is of incalculably more Import ance to the South than any possible rate reduction or any proposition to penalize roads for failure to perform services which are beyond their pres ent capacity. “I believe that it is to the Interest of the railways and the people that a spirit of harmony and Just dealing be fostered.” REBATIi OF is too long ago for an illustration take the old Seymour. Tinsley & Co. store on the corner of Third and Cherry, where the American National Bank now stands. How many will remem ber the old white store that stood there? The fire department was made up of volunteer companies then, and was of ficered as folows: Chief. J. W. Truman: assistant chief, C. Machold; second assistant chief. J. A. Rohr: treasurer. E. P. Strong; sec retary, George P. Cornell. Freeman, engineer. Protection, No. 1—J. D. Holt, presi dent; TV. F. Grace, foreman: A. J. Orr. secretary: John C. Curd, treasurer; A. W. Gibson, engineer. Ocmulgee. No. 2 H. Spahr, presi dent; L. Vannueci. foreman: F. A. Schoneman. secretary: John Valentino, treasurer; Charles DeBeruff. Jr., engi neer. Young America. No. 3—Robert A. Morris, foreman: V. A. Menard, secre tary; Charles Drevfous, treasurer: G. S. Westcott. engineer. Mechanics’. No. 4—A. McKenna, pres ident: L. E. Crockett, foreman; James Warren, secretary: W. V. Davis, treas urer; H. Faulk, engineer. Defiance, No. 5 R. M. Rogers, pres- the sun and get a degree for his pains, and the institute points with justi fiable pride to many graduates of no table prominence in the business and professional world of today. Among them is the president of one of the biggest engineering and contracting firms in the city. Dr. George F. Kunze the gem expert, and. perhaps the most famous of all, the late George Wash ington Roebling. who designed and built the Brooklyn bridge. At the Now York Trade School, for a merely nom inal fee it is possible to learn almost any one of the practical trades, in cluding house painting, bricklaying plumbing, plastering, tile laying, fres coing, blacksmithing, printing sign painting, cornice work and carpentry; while the various branches of the Y. M. C. A. Include classes in languages: stenography, mathematics and busine'^ training, importing and exporting. m< ► tor boating, real estate, investmerv/s and automobiling. Burning - cf Almah Hall Recalls Incident of Forty Years Ago. GRIFFIN. Ga.. March 14.—The top story of Almah Hall, which was built a few years prior to the Civil War, was completely wrecked by fire yes terday before the flames could be sub dued. The building has been used for almost every purpose known to man. showed that. ss £1!,“ . o, tm5 •ss ! jk? ssra vs&k'bsjsr- ATLANTA, March 16.—The progress In registration of corporations with the Secretary of State under the new law. has not been as satisfactory as Secre tary Cook and Governor Terrell had hoped for, and the indications are that the law will have to be amended in some respects in order to increase its effectiveness. Less than 3.500 corporations filed their registration last year, although the indications are there are 10,000 to 12,000 of them doing business in the State. Tho progress of registrations for this year has been extremely slow, but there have been some few coming In for last year as well as this. In order to ascertain tho number and names of the various Georgia cor porations—that is, those to which charters have been granted by the Superior Courts of tho State, Secretary Cook some two months ago addressed letters to each clerk of the Superior Court, along with a list of the corpor ations from his county which had reg istered. asking that a list of all those who had not complied with the law in accordance with this list, be sent to him. •Up to the present time replies have been received from only sixty of the clerks, leaving eighty-six others to be heard from. Out of these sixty heard from only two have refused to comply with the request, the Fulton and BTbb County clerks. The Fulton County clerk stated that it would be impossible to furnish the list asked for. while the Bibb County clerk stated that it would require the services of a capable man for about two weeks to compile the information asked for, and wanted to know if there were any funds available with which to pay the expense incurred. On the other hand. Clerk Walker of Richmond Superior Court promptly complied with tho request, sending Secretary Cook a list of about 150 Georgia corporations in that county which have not complied with the reg istration laws. It is said there are some 3.000 corporations doing business In Fulton County, only about 500 of them being registered. It is regarded as necessary that some arrangement bo made by which the required information can be obtained. Of course clerks of Superior Courts can furnish only the names of Geor gia corporations: those of foreign cor porations must be otherwise obtained. It is probable that some amendment will be made to the law at the coming session of the Legislature providing methods for securing this very neces sary information. Up to the present time Secretary Cook has not enforced the penalty against any corporations, and it is probable he' will only do so at present in cases whero corporations wilfully and knowingly ignore and violate the law. Plenty of time will be given all Interested to thoroughly familiarize themselves with its terms, and once a record of all the corporations In the State is secured, there will be no dif ficulty in securing subsequent registra tions. the Marlborough-Blenheim, two blend ed into one. It is built like a Moorish castle, tho coloring of that Camelian green, and looks as if it had grown mossy under the touch of time: though it is fresh from the hands of the archi tect. Radical Change in Style. The toilets here for dinner are more like Palm Beach, or that still more fashionable haunt—Aix les Bains, France. The style of dress for this spring, as I am closely observing, has undergone a radical change. Short how many are in the flesh today. Many of these officials were young men then, some were in middle life, but there were very few who were known as old men. And yet the thirty years that has elapsed leave but a few to be reminded by this of the old days, and only one holding the same office he held then. May he be spared to hold It many years more. Freeman, now with Parmalee: Andrew .T. Orr. now in insurance husinosr- AY. Gibson, now at the G. S. & F. R. R. shops; H. Spahr. now in South Caro lina; Robt. A. Morris, now in "Way- cross; V. A. Menard, now deputy sher- Of the countv officials, six are living iff; G. S. Westcott, ex-sheriff; R. M. today. Judge Barnard Hill was judge | Rogers, now in New York; Geo. T. Har- of the Superior Court. He was the I Hs, who visits Macon occasionally, and father of the late Walter B. Hill, i A. H. Stephens, now fanning. Of the living there are: J. A. Rohr, now living in Washington; George P. „ _ Cornelly, .now at Indain Spring; E. .T. ^ >e 7 that within three months King Ste phan has taken the »aths of office as ruler of Servia. and that his claims to the blood-stained throne of Alex ander have been reviewed and sanc tioned by ecclesiastical authorities in Servia. It is further said that the Government of the United Stales and is'entfrely'out of vogue. ~ The"hats are j who very much resembled his father, j There were four railroads thirty years | ® l » ? a T* , ■ — — 1 Judge Hill died manv years ago. ’ The Central, tho Macon and | hf d their official attention called to Congressman Charles L. Bartlett j Brunswick, the Macon and Augusta. ‘ he f j* ct , that Stephan Dusanovic was the Solicitor-General, and was I and the Southwestern. There are eight 1! 7 h ® on J* lawful ruler of Servia. and ciuite a younr man then. i railroads today. James Hoge was a*?ent j favorable answers have been re- Albert B. Ross was clerk of the i of the Macon and Augusta: Dr. E. A. | oelved from some of the European -i ! Flewellen was manager of the Macon I Governments which have All the lesser titles of nobility: have become so common in New York that even a royal duke excises little more than passing comment: but a real, live, truly sworn and duly authenticated king, living in New Jersey and doing business in an office on Broadway, is a good deal more interesting. This is King Stephan Dusanovic. scion of the house of Dusan. who during the past two years has organized about him a i T t., junta of Servians, with a smattering Prn.vnaser consult rahlj. Ho of Americans, which, with New York the ° hnniw as a headquarters, has been working | ? e Vje People were hung, actively for the overthrow of King Pe- . ter while awaiting a favorable moment thought‘that to return to Servia and claim his own. H ° wever ’ confoIed by . t ( he , l , hat It is stated by certain Servians here ! a t0 ' vn never appreciated its own taU j When the Civil War ended there was a New York regiment camped in East ! Macon. These soldiers had enlisted ! for the war, and when the official news of the surrender came they were free. A sutler in that regiment, named j Lee. had organized a minstrel company j for the enlivenment of camp life, and . when all washover some of them want- j ed to become professionals. They had | tasted minstrel life and liked it. | A Macon man secured them, added ! some local talent, and then started out I to rake in the harvest, it being the j first company to begin business after ■ the great struggle, it was given tho name of Mess & Warren's Combination Opera Troupe. The first performance was given in May, lSGo, at Concert Hall, oyer George Payne's drug store, now King and Oliphant's, to a slim audience. This sleeves are passed, and the short skirt chancellor of the State University, and i trimmed and twirled, turned and twist ed and look like very ornate straw flower-baskets, filled with the blossoms of spring time. This is a blue season. I notice tho deep shades predominate almost as much as the faintest and most deli cate. A rich golden brown comes next, and is generally made up in voile or ent no way, the company went to At lanta and performed at what was then known as Davis Hall, and the only hall of the kind in that city. There was another slim audience. This caused a halt. It had been planned to go on to Chattanooga. Nashville, and beyond, make barrels ' of money and come back wearing dia monds. But a second slim audience was not on the. program, so a meeting of the company was held In the par lor of the old Trout House. The up shot of the meeting was that there was not enough money in the treasury to Superior Court, and was one of the flewellen was manager of the Macon* ^veinmems wn oh have never recog- North and Just enough to go back most accommodating officials of the and B n ™»eyw*s : > South as far as Griffin, The majority county. Geo. W. Sims was the deputy clerk. some other sheer fabric. The skirts ! He is now living, but an old man. All are elaborately trimmed, and the waist ! his life he wrote a good hand, and be- are of the same color, though lightened : Ing a printer, correct in spelling and greatly by the use of white. In fact. 1 punctuation. The county records in they are made of white all over lace ^ his handwriting are models, and trimmed with the same fabric of ! Judge Thaddeus G. Holt was judge the skirt. The much exaggerated long- ! of the County Court. He was waisted corset has been abolished, tho short waist effect Is in decided evi dence. The Josephine style of dress is more popular than ever. It is grace ful and gives a certain indefinable charm to the figure, maybe this style Is so closely connected in our minds with that womanly empress, and her strong personality was gentleness and refinement. Elderly Women in Majority. What strikes me forcibly is the dis tinctive beauty of the elderly woman, who. by the way, is certainly in ma jority at this resort. She comes for the healing and bracing atmosphere of the ocean, but to go back to her ap pearance—her snow white hair and her few wrinkles in her pink and white features, is the only Indication of her age. she Is, In pet parlance, well- groomed from her fluffy white pompa dour and crown of artificial puffs, to her high-heeled white slippers, step ping so sprightly under her much be- ruffled petticoat. She is dainty—(and if not too em-bon-point), delicate as a perfumed flower. She reminds me of some of the ex quisite confections created on the Rue- de-la-Paix and perfumed as if they were just culled from the garden of the Tuileries. You see I do not liken her to the real flower! Nothing in the way of perfect beauty of physical charm can exist unless fresh from the hands of our Great Creator. This grand dame has lost, I affirm, some of her softer and more revered claims to our admiration. She, The street railway, running from \ during .the past week by the presence j fonav the wav home so to Griffin they Tattnall square to Mulberrv, was owned j here of two noteworthy representa- | > . *- by James A. Hill & Co. Byes of that country. One of these is ; " This Almah Hall had been used as * * * ! Alexis Aladyin, who was leader of the j aw A man Man naa neen iisea as „„ |L .. Goodness, gracious! What a differ- peasants or the "group of toll” in the I T4At|ne"no t hin? 0 el , 8e^tod 1 ^ courtly gentleman, and in his prime ence thirty years can make. | th ^ r R ^ n ln ’%"" ^ I’thS company ^^d'Tn^Lnd 'feaned^ I ^JohnVMcManus was ordinary. He Trusting to a memory not always I from securing financial support from j Three^days' 1 afi 3 tht iots h^been°re- 1 was the father of T, McManus For : reliable, mistakes occur in this column, other nations until it inaugurates in- I TyT,..,, '‘ iv ,e i, n ii n -n«enVahio ! many years he was city clerk, and in I was reminded Of one yesterday. Of ; ^ te^na t hmal" Crease re* % t0P * by i A stage was constructed and then came -- the cigarmakers thirty years ago, I i international pressure to the torture I irinoii,- mentioned that Mr. A. Mantoue was I of political prisoners in the Russian * be it t frol tiokota io 'horr^v dead. I learned from Mr. Chas. L. ! jails. The other distinguished visitor ” s L Snh n P1 r Moses, his nephew, that Mr. Mantoue is 1 is Nicholas Shiskoff. an aristocrat and ' th benches frorn a church neailj in Europe, and that he left Macon in ■ & representative of the zemstvos, who v ,, 1878. Jaques & Johnson, wholesale ! came here to solicit support for the tn h’u rinses* friends ! grocers in 1877. were accidentally omit- | starving Russian peasants. According - - ted. Mr. Newton Johnson was known ; to Mr. Shiskoff, practically the entire to the writer as a man who did more j population of a section of Russia half his day no man had more friends. Henry J. Peter was tax collector. He is farming In Florida now. and no one would suspect how oid he is. Capt. R. J. Anderson was tax re ceiver. as he is today. It was always a mystery, even how such a quiet man as he is could h °L R‘chapman* was coroner. For | charity without letting anybody | as ferge as the whole United States veers and veara this o1d-leeg"fl vet- kn °w it. than any men he ever knew, is without food and dependent on eran' was staMo’n sergeant He has i JIr - Jaques is still living and engaged j outside support from now until the been dead a number of irears in the wholesale grocery business as He next harvest. He adds, however, that George F ChTrrv was the sheriff waR then ‘ The ty Pes twisted the ini- five dollars will keep a child alive He was in his prime thenono of the i tinIs of E " is & Gutter, th" lumber deal- until then and eight dollars a man I” f ™ P Yn xTsrnn anrl one of I ers - The fir m was composed of J. E. i or woman. The Russian famine relief handsomest men in Macon, and one of — A Ar „ ,, , .v. , the most popular. William Foster was deputy sheriff and jailor. He was one of the gamest, though a small man. He died many years ago. The county commissioners were: William Hazlehurst, A. R. Tinsley, James Holmes. John B. Giles and Christopher Burke. Walter G. Smith was clerk. * * * Of all these, there are now living: Judge Bartlett. George Sims. Henry Peter. Bob Anderson, A. R. Tinsley and Walter Smith. Ellis and M. H. Cutter, and both are living and in good health. notice"to subscribers. Examine label on your pa per. It tells Imw you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. committee has been organized here with headquarters at 135 East Fif teenth street and contributions are already coming in. one of the first be ing a cheek for $100 received from President Roosevelt. Bishop Potter is president of the committee and the Rev. Samuel J. Barrows is secretary. GOTHAM GOSSIP. NEW YORK: March 16.—"Every year.” says Signor Nitti. a deputy in the Italian Senate, "an Italian province There are Ten Thousand Asked for Al leged Defamation of Char acter One more landmark of old New York has disappeared before the march of progress. This time it Is the Hotel Griffou, in West Ninth street, which has fallen upon evil days. In a generation when Fifth avenue and Ninth street was not too far down town, the Hotel Griffou was a famous resort for Cuban patriots, painters, writers and sculptors, and it is safe to say that no other hostelry in the city has numbered among its guests proportion of well known people. The walls of the office and But death resiDed a greater harvest among the city officials. Col. W. A. Huff was Mayor. Thirty , . I years ago Col. Huff was in the full flush is transferred to America. ......... ..... , rlr ,. n possessing all of this beauty and : manhood. Active, aggressive, ‘ pub- | more Italians in the'pity today’than a _ ]ar tenacity of youth, lacks what we love lie-spirited, a tireless worker, he is a there- are in all of Venice. Most c.f j n 1 memory, the grandma of our , ij v j ng illustration of the saying that these immigrants rench' the country ; corridors Vro crowded thick^Yth iu7, U childhood. Maybe. I am dwelling too j hard work never kills. Of all the city : through tho port of New York. As a Ssof 1 ™ long in delineation of the fashion- officials of- thirty years ago. except al- : matter of figure, the number is some- j wero honored e-n^tVin^ thn able patroness of society. I have tokl . de rmen, he is the only one living. ! thing like half a million annually. Most davs of n .,„ t you of her claims to admiration, but I Capt . chas. J. Williamson was treas- | of them come from the impoverished tonio M-moo pLJ™ Mm vn^" am not unmindful of the loa elines^ . urer I,ike*#iapt. Bob Anderson, he was southern provinces and settle ip flu ' Aime nl ' c ^ ™, T .‘’ MI J?' of the sprightly girl of this healthy one -armed. but he had no equal as a j larger cities, notably Boston. New 1 century. In truth I can scarcely desig- bookkeeper. He held his office a long ! York, Washington. New Orleans and ^ £“7° ' nate the maid from the matron—so j tJrne .. ci,i..— — .-. I «ecKwltti. and Guy Wetmore Carry!. similar are they In appearance and ap parel. Easter tide is near at hand! Balti more. Philadelphia. Washington, Rich mond and New York itself empty their society—at least those who are not down at Palm Beach—at this resort. It is full. I think. I told you. even now to suffication—I don’t wonder at it— the air is so bracing—the shops so seductive—the boardwalk such a promenade of peacocks—the restless sea sobbing-and sighing and wafting its sweet zephyrs into our faces. This is the most delicious spot in this cold climate. It is said to be the most genial north of Virginia—in spite of the same claims made by Lakewood thirty miles north of this. The gulf stream is not far away from and we know that Its warmth can Walter T. Ross was records at tho City Hall give evidence of his beautiful writing. Robert W. .Temison was city attor ney. He was the father of our Bob Jemlson. and was one of the old school of southern gentlemen. Capt. J. C. Wheeler was city engi neer. He was one of the most court eous officials at the City Hall. He was the father of Capt. Pohill Wheeler. W. D. Williams was chairman of the board of health. For years and years i Chicago, where many of them seem to j w - ,. T . J , .9* 1 Prosper exceedingly well. Their prop- | wa3 long aji, a freouen ^ „ P f atr }^ erty holdings in this city alone are valued at S60.000.000. More than $15,000.- 000 of this aount consists- of deposits in the savings banks of Manhattan. They own 10,000 stores, 4,000 pieces of real estate, and send more money home as long' ago a frequenter of the house, and Edmund Clarence Stedmnn and Charles G. D. Roberts, and Bliss Carman,. and Josiah Flynt, until he died: and more than once the place has figured in the tales of Thomas Janvier. But Mme. Marie Griffon for the Blind. He was the father of j kidnapings and other outrages of the i Dr. Howard J. Williams, who for years has been a member of the Board of Health, of which his father was so long the chairman. Capt. O. F. Adams was chief of po lice. No man In Macon was better than any other class of adopted Amer- i "V . W,U ” M leans. Last year the sum amounted to to $13,000,000, most of which went to ■ If 7 d< ; ln a °- I ? e Italian savings banks for deposit. The | S *112?P, **1 ° c 5° ber ^f stencd Its race is also credited, or discredited, j d d f 7* Oliver Her- with the largest share of the more vio- i Fjj* ‘-P* e ft 0 °£ But it was all without avail, and a week ago the place was closed through the attempt of the State Board of Excise to collect the license fee. LlUdlU IICtH4.il, A Vi J tUio t* mi •» j 4Y1C11 lilC biial C U1 UIC IIl’JIC VIVA— . j l » |i .. he was tho principal of the Academy j lent crimes, such as murder, stabbintrs, j P f fellow artists temper the wind of this bleak coast, j known than Obe Adams, as he was fa though not quite genial enough to ; miliarly known. He was afterward City bring the roses into blossom or open Treasurer, holding that office when he the eyes of the daffodils. I must | died. think of them blooming In the garden j Sol R. Johnston was street over- of my Vineville home. ! seer. He was perhaps the oldest man Before I leave this fashionable : holding office at that time. His was a throng. I must tell you that their J rugged character, but no man ever had former keeping of Lent is in deca- j a truer friend. dence. | Hyde A. Harman was city sexton. The opera Is, and has been, in full ! His father. Alex Harman, held the of- blast ever since Ash Wednesday, and [ flee before him. black hand variety. This, according to Signor Conte, r.nti] recently secretarv of the Italian consulate in this city and now the newly appointed Consular Agent at Milwaukee, is directly due io the influence of factory life and the unnatural conditions to which Italians are subjected in the larger cities. Hence the organization of an Italian agricul tural colonization ««cneme througa ■ . , , r , . which it is proposed to relieve the con- tll6 DOOKS. 1JU6 irOIH (tclt© OH gested districts and distribute Italian 4.u p lahpl in rTnpg nnrl immigrants to farm colonies throughout tne laDel - oena ln aa eS ana the South and West. ; NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on ycur pa per. It tells bow von stand on : also renew for tbe year 1907. Father Knickerbocker has just bo- ; HOT SPRINGS-MEMPHIS flyer ran come the proud possessor of a family INTO OPEN SWITCH, of nine golden eagles, which have been [ LITTLE ROCK. 'Ark.. March 16.—East cruel ruffians. In six years England bast 350 ships and 6.000 subjects en slaved in 1703: 115 Americans were en slaved in 1S12. This country was pay ing J22.000 a year tribute to Algiers until in 1816 Pur brave Commodore I Uecatur appeared before the city and (rave the Pey official notice that ran- ! soms and tributes in future would h« : Alleging in a petition filed ln the Superior Court yesterday, that J. B. Reeves, a conductor on the Southwest ern division of tho Central of Geor- Railroad. was the author of a :e slanderous, outrageous and ma licious defamation of his character, thereby holding him up before the public in a manner calculated to bring upon him the public hatred, contempt and ridicule. .Tames L. Mathis, a flag man In the employ of the same com pany. is seeking $10,000 damages from the former. Mathis specifically avers ln his pe tition that February 23 he was on duty on the same train with Reeves: that when the train stopped at Amerlcus there boarded a passenger. WilHs Rut land who had in his possession a nair of shoes which he was conveying to his home in Leesburg; that when Rut land got ready to leave the train he found It impossible to locate his box of shoes: that upon the request of Rutland, he (Mathis), began to search the devotee to fashion Is as much to i William L. Johnson was keeper of ! added to his net stock and poultry farm j bound Rock Island passenger train No. be seen there as she is in her pew at ! the Powder Magazine. In those days in Central Park. Kansas has so long 1 known as the Hot Springs-Memphis St. Thomas'. She partakes of the ' this was an important office. It was ; been credited with the ability to rais" j OT^ked'at Cuneo 38* miles east of T i'tiL same rich viands at Sherrys: and she j before the days of shells and cartridges, i almost anything from grasshoppers and Ror ,f.' ] ato today. Engineer Killoyne and nibbles her same little vices as of ! and powder was as staple as flour. I cyclones to record-breaking crops of j Fireman Currier, both of Argentina. Ark., yore. She does not even make a pre- • H. S. Holder was superintendent of wheat and corn, that it is not surnris- were killed, and two mail clerks, an ex tense of a disguise. “It is a custom. : Pumps. This was before the days of (Lent. I mean, with her) more in the •' water works, and the city was filled breach than observance.” VALERIA LAMAR HARRISS. stopped and that he must immediately i rclease all Americans held in slavery. t y,, The crafty Dey. Impressed by the reso- i , v j lution of the admiral, and recognizing ' r ,-., that Algiers lav at the mercy of the i Vir American fleet, acceded to fhe demands I t a, but asked that in order that he might not lose prestige with the other na tions. the United States should merely continue a nominal arnual gift cf some powder. But the sturdy commodore grimly declared that “if ihe Dey took the powder he must take the balls also.” and the unwilling D«y. no( rel ishing the implied suggestion, had no j for the shoes and located them wedged in between the casing and the seat. I and placed them in his satchel pre- | paratory to delivering them to the own- j er upon the return trin of the train. I Mathis further alleges that Reevts took possession of the satchel contain ing the shoes, .and brought them to Macon, where he went to the office of IV. Boulineau. the trainmaster pf road .and charged the petitioner h. being a common thief: that as a jit he was discharged from the =er- ? of the railroad, hut upon proving alleged falsitv of the charge he : reinstated to his old place. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on tbe books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. LYNCHING OF TWO NEGROES CALLS FOR PROMPT INQUEST. BATON ROUGE. La.. March 17.— The lynching of two negroes early Fri day morning at Monroe. La., caused Gov. Blanchard to call upon District Judge Madison, of Monroe today to make a special investigation, in a letter to the Sheriff of Monroe the Governor said: “Lynchings do not prevent crime. One wholesome hanging by law is more effective than several lynnhingfs. We cannot hone to have capital and immigration continue to come to our State with such acts of lawlessness every now and then.” with street pumps. The keeping them in order was Important. Dr. T. W. Mason was the city phy sician: He was one of the leading phy sicians of that time. The Board of Aldermen was com posed of: ing to learn that the new acquisition came from the Sunflower State. The birds in question had constituted one of the many forms of trouble with which a farmer in the western part of Kan sas had to contend, and were seri ously interfering with the prosecution of farm work through the necessity of watching the henhouse with a shotgun, j tho negro porter car waiters were in press messensrer. four negro dinin, jured. At the Rock Island general offices In this city, it Is stated that the wreck was without doubt the work of a train wreck er. There was a number of passengers on the train, but beyond a few cuts, none of them were injured. First Ward—Granville C. Conner, I Finally, by, the lebiral application of Edward O’Connell. James A. Nelson. Second Ward—William F. Grace, C. C. Wilder. John Knight. Third Ward—W. C. Singleton, Ed ward J. Johnston, Roland B. Hall. Fourth Ward—M. R- Rogers, Albert G. Butts. Sylvester B. Price. Of this board W. C. Singleton and Roland B. Hall are tile only survivors. nf the police department. O. F. Adams, was chief. John Hurley first lieutenant, and Henry Taylor, second salt to their tail feathers, or some other equally effective means, they were cap tured in good condition. Finding live eagles with healthy appetites a good deal more of a nuisance in captivity than when at large. It occurred to their i "of "the‘"hou captor that New York is so full of ! day . COUNCIL BITTERLY CRITICISED THE SPEAKER. AND LEGISLATURE WROUGHT UP. NASHVILLE. Tenn.. March 16.—The Lower House Of the Tennessee Legisla ture today ordered the arrest of the May or and City Council of Nashville, and re quiring that the members be brought be- ‘ next Mon trouble anyway that a little more or less would scarcely count. Accordingly he wrote to Director Smith of the Central Park menagerie, who justified his hopes by eagerly accepting the prof- lieutenanL with the following constitut- erred shipment, and the birds have ing the police force. ' just arrived. The park authorities have Chas. M. Wood. Patrick Murphy, : had a great deal of trouble In keeping Patrick McCafferty, Henry Abel. E. J. i this species of eagle ln captivity, until The Council Is charged with contempt, the members having recently adopted a resolution bitterly criticising Speaker Cunningham for a speech he made on the floor of the House in which he is alleged to have said the Councilmen were con trolled by a local telephone company. PITTSBURG VISITED BY A $?00.000 FIRE PITTSBURG. Pa.. March V.,—In a fi-e that threatened the entire Mr. Washing ton so :i -»n o' 'he ,-itv hu-'T-es* st-uct- urec and dwellings were destreved or datr°*red 'oday. causing a loss estimated YOUNG PLANTER SHOT SWEETHEART AND SELF. : NEW ORLEANS I.a.. March 16.— j Accosting Miss Dudez Dobson, his 17- year-old sweetheart, on the Main street of Pointe Lahache. La., last evening, i Whintve Moliere. a young planter, asked her to marry him. Upon being j refused Moliere shot and killed the girl and himself. Miss Dobson was the | daughter of Ernest Dobson, a promi nent planter of Plaquemine Parish. Kimbrew, J. A. Simpson. Geo. D. Law rence. L. C. Ricks, Henry Garfield, T. I B. Grace. Think of it! Thirteen m&n made up the entire police force thirty years ago. . There are now fifty-eight. • * * Lieut. Murphy is the only man now an education on the force who was on it then, and he : charge or at i looks good for thirty years more. With ! whether it be him are living todav: Patrick McCaf ferty. Capt. J. A. Simpson and L. C. Ricks, oniv four of the thirteen! was discovered recently that a cer- rnile out of town, and having no money with which to pay for the hauling, tho boys toted those heavy benches all that distance. One of the company was a printer, and as he had done some little work for Uncle Sandy Murray, who was printing a paper called The American, he was allowed to strike off a lot of bills free. In this way the show was advertised far and near. At last the night came on which the money was to pour in. The hall looked all right. Mr. Logan, who was depot agent at that time, had loaned the big fly a tent, and this had beex made into h'drop curtain, and on which the artist of the company had painted a big red eagle fit was the only color of paint he could get), and a big red flag. Candles were up all over the hall, with a row of them on the stage for footlights. The members of the company had given out quite a number of comlpl- mentarles in exchange for courtesies, such as drinks and tobacco, etc., hay-’ ing no money, and It seems that thrso tickets had fallen into the hands of young fellows who were lust Hue enough to be pulled for soldiers when 1 the war ended, and as they couldn’t ! get into the war they concluded to have as much fun ns possible In Almah Hall that night. They had raided a ten-pin alley, and as they filed past the doorkeeper each had ten-pin con cealed beneath his coat. The hall was on the second floor, and the doorkeeper was at the ’ big front door down stairs. He noted with pain the enormous number of fpeo tickets, but as the audience would cer tainly not he slim an in the other towns, ho was satisfied. By S o'clock the hall was packed, and the total receipts in the hands of the doorkeeper was fourteen dollars. Suddenly there were screams of women and children. The man at the door looked up the flight of stairs and saw the lights go out. He rushed up stairs to ascertain the cause of tho commotion, and as he reached the ton step some miscreant struck him about the waistband with one of those ten pins. Down the steps he roiled, with that awful crowd running, falling over him. These things do not last always, and when all were out, the doorkeeper picked up his bruised frame and crawled to the top of the stairs. There had been a fight between one of the company and one of the town hoys, and the fight had become general in character. The wreckage over tho hall Then while this explanation was be ing made to the doorkeeper, who was likewise the manager, a big man. with a big hat and a big stick, and a hig voice, stalked up and asked for the license. Of course nobody had thought of a license being necessary. The war had just ended, and order and law had not been restored, but all the same he wanted the license, which was $25. And there were only fourteen dollars In the > treasury. This sheriff, or town marshal, no matter which, could not be reasoned with. There were two dancing girls in the company, and they tried their hand, or rather their face, for aever did they smile sweeter. But it was no go. He flatly, cruelly, refused, and said he would see the company in the morning. Then he deliberately walked down stairs, locked the big front door and carried away the key. There was a consultation ' by the light of the one candle that had escap ed destruction. And it was a weird scene. The boys in their black faces, showing furrows made by perspiration, were a sight to behold. They discuss ed the painful situation. They were sixty miles from Macon, twenty-one men and two ladles, with fourteen dollars to pay board bills, hall rent, license, and other Incidentals, to :ny nothing of railroad fare, and locked up in a two-story building, and r.o moans of escape. Finally one of the company discov ered. In looking out of t:’° r"ar win dow. that some painters had left a ladder leaning against the wall. It was a dangerous and difficult thing, but in a short time every member f the company had gone down ;hat lad der. ladies, big bass fiddle, and all. the ladies. The City Assessors were: M. R. Free man. F. M. H°ath and H. R. Brown. And right here is another illustration of how the oitv has grown. The valuation placed on the real and personal prop- ] ALABAMA MAN APPOINTED ON BOARD WITH SETH LOW WASHINGTON. March 16.—The tain proportion of fish was necessary j president todav appointed Seth Low, to their diet: but the new arrivals are i 0 f xew York, and Thomas G: Bush, expected to remain for manv years, a , 0 f Birmingham, Ala., as representatives sort of living monument to Kansan en- ! 0 f the general public under the act of ! The money was given terprise. Comrress of March 2 last and being ' vho ' vere s ? nt to the hoi*-’ 1 - . Then 1 a foundation for industrial peace, the ! balance of the eompanv One can acquire almost any kind of j basis of which is the recently awarded the __ Norwegian Storthing, thus completing | halting. the composition of the administrative Y hen the tram for V ,r °n board. along the manager traded ■ t.i icai Instruments to the conduc WIFE DRIVEN TO SUICIDE passage to Ma n. BY LONG SUFFERING 1 There are some of the m-:■ itself plays but a small oart: for bv ATLANTA. Ga.. March 16.—Mrs. Minnie I ing todav. Th" mention of th* far the greater amount of free hlghe- . £>nck. ^Sieide^'tonight ""by j education is that gi\en lu endowed ; qjooting herself through the ahdomen tP,f? horrible ox- ■■.-■• l e * 1 school? which are entirely free or The wound is probably fatal. She told I ln 65 vividly to m:n.*. '. nearly so. Cooper Union is the largest j her husband she was tired of suffering. ^ doorkeeper will remmeber it w New York free of merely nominal cost. , i four-years’ college course of a year's training at the plumbing trade. There is probably no : other. city In the world so free with \ Its educational gifts, in which the citv ' nausiriai reace. tae ; ■■ • ■■■ he Nobel prize fucA I town to the railroad and followi d the he President by the i track to the station this side before ,11.