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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRfDAY, MARCH 22, TO* THE MACON TELEERAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK 0Y THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. M3 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. OA. C. R. PENDLETON, President LITTLE RHODVS REMARKABLE , BOSS. The young Democratic Govarnor of Rhode Island and Its Republican polit ical boss, Charles Ray Brayton. are In volved in a remarkable contest. For thirty years •‘Boss" Brayton baa sold legislation in the State and dominated Its law-makers. Governor Higgins brands him aa "Rob Roy demanding tribute ere political action can bo taken on any public matter.'* He makes his headquarters In the offieo of the high sheriff of Providence County, which Is in the State House directly opposite the door of the Senate chamber, from which he summons Senators and gives them his orders. Brayton exercises his power by reason of bis control of twen ty little towns In the State. Each of these towns, some of which poll lees than one hundred votes, have equal representation In the Senate with Providence itself. Sheriff White of Providence County io a tool of the boss. He merely smile* at the Gover nor's demand that he shall turn ©rav- ton out of the State's property and rays General Brayton shall have a seat In his offieo as long as he wants one, end Brayton puffs hla cigar and never says a word. Higgins was elected practically on an anti-Brayton platform, and the fight he swore to take up when he was cam paigning Is said to bn becoming so heated that charges and counter charges are fairly flying through the sir. and the atmosphere of the State House Is supercharged with recrimi nations. while such epithets aa "nox ious pest.” "Infamous characler.” "ras cal.'' ."bribe giver." "corruptionist,” “scoundrel" and "coward” aro more »ften heard than the more com mon expressions of greeting and leave- Aklng. Governor Higgins' letter to Sheriff White to expel Brayton from his office 's declared to be the most remarkable plea of its kind on record. It Is In part as follows: The people of Rhode Island have tolerated Boss Brayton and his brazen arrogance as long as they should. The time has at last ar rived when patience Is no longer «v virtue, and when In deference to an aroused snd Indignant senti ment throughout the State, this man should bo expelled bodily and forcibly, Jf necessary, from the walls of this Capitol. To nono Is his conduct known better than to you. Tear in and year out. he has occupied and used your office for his vile purposes, with your knowledge and consent. He could not haver appropriated your office without such knowledge and consent. You know that for thirty years this man has been in almost dally nttendance upon the sessions of the Legislature, dispensing his or ders to certain members with the most Imperious despotism. You know that for decades he has stood like an ancient brigand at the door of this Capitol and clubbed Into servility and compli ance with his demands practically all seekers of legislation, public and private franchises. You know that for a generation past many citizens have openly charged that it was Impossible to secure proper action on certain matters of legis lation without a first hearing or first paying tribute to the legisla tive Rob Roy of these Plantations. Your office In the Rhode Island Stale House has been almost Inva riably the center of his activity. The situation. In short, resolves Itself to this: The State House of Rhode Island, a building paid for by all the people of the State, sup posed to be used exclusively for public and legitimate purposes, has been turned over, so far as your of fice is <oncerned. to the private and illegitimate use of Charles R. Bray ton. In the secrecy of the Gubernatorial office the sheriff It is stated begged nnd said he would not for all the posi tions in the world oust Brayton. while In the open he dashed into print and accused the Governor of playing to the galleries, and Brayton smiles grimly when the matter is called to his atten tion and continues to run the machine. course with Nature tends not only to preserve the bodily health of her devo tees but equips them with sounder mental faculties and keener percep tion than other men. THE CHRONICLE FIRE. The Augusta Chronicle, which was burned out of house and hone as it I was about to go to press Tuesday I morning, comes to us in an unbroken | but abbreviated Issue under date of Grover Cleveland, at the age of 70. .'Tuesday. March.19, 1907, showing that ten years beyond the alleged Osier while its physical body has gone up In •tag* when chloroform coaid bo prof- j srnoke the sou! of the oldest paper in Itably applied. Is popularly looked upon : th* South still lives and triumphs over f material mutations. This is the second | time the Chronicle has -been burned out | in recent years, the former occasion him in the Philadelphia Public Ledger j abQUl fifteen years ago. But the President Woodrow Wilson says, "a I was about t(> mQve into a new great many men of both parties have ; buI](Jlna and plant at that tlme and recently longed for the safe courage ] the difficulty of continuing publication and thoughtful audacity of a man like [unbroken was not so great. However. as the councfllor-ln-chlef of the Amer ican people. In an appreciation of UP TO DATE CLAUDE DUVALS. Two gentlemanly thieves named Green and Rohrer were arrested as they stepped from a steamer at New York Sunday and divested of some $25,000 worth of diamonds, jewelry and other loot which represented the re sults of a season's operations in Lon don. The gentlemen, who had played the gallants like real Claud Duvals, to two fair ladies whom they met aboard ship on the trip over, proved to be American "crooks'' who were well known to the police and had done "time"—brief terms—for various of fenses on this side. The ladies were much impressed with the courteous at tentions of the "crooks'* and were sub- monious is not a proper exercise of the police of the State.” Mr. Cleveland, If there be any other ; tbe pPOmpt action of the Chronicle's Jected to the unpleasant experience of man like Mr. Cleveland.” His two j afternoon neighbor, the Augusta Her- terms of office as President._ separated | a ] d> j n sharing the use of Its plant with by Mr. Harrison’s single term, "fell : Editor Loyless and his people, the within a period of singular doubts and | proffer by the Augusts Typographical mutations In our polities,” says Mr. j Union of the services of every member Wilson. “In the midst of the shifting to the Chronicle and the aid and sym- AMERICA’S GRAND OLD MAN. The 70th anniversary of Grover Cleveland's birthday found him close to the bosom of nature duck hunting in the waters of South Carolina. In an article published in the New York World Sunday Mr. Cleveland extols the outdoor life and demonstrates In his love of it the reason for his ability to enjoy It at so advanced an age. "Nothing that the wealth of a city can buy,” he says, "will atone for the loss of that American sturdiness and Independence which the. farm and the small town have so frequently pro duced. In ray experience I have found that Impressions which a man receives who walks by the brookslde or in the forest or by the seashore make him a better man and a better citizen. They lift him above the worries of business and teach him of a power greater than human power.” It may be noted here that this love of and tendency to re turn to nature has been the character istic of the grand old men of different times and countries. Washington and Jefferson longed to lay down the cares of office and return to their country estates. Daniel Webster craved to die amid the rural scenes of Marshfield. Gladstone the grand eld man of Eng land, refreshed himself for his won derful labors by swinging an ax and by other outdoor exercises. This Inter- > scene Mr. Cleveland presently came to seem the only fixed point. H# alone stood firm snd gave definite utterance to principles intelligible to all. ‘Cour age, directness, good sense, public spirit as If without thought of conse quences either to himself or to his party, made him at once a man whom all the country marked* as a point In its affairs which did not shift or change.” He was a man of strong party con victions, Mr. Wilson says, but just here Is where the point of divergence arose between the President and his party, “He believed, as all practical men must, that party organisations are an indis pensable means of action and control in the politics of a Belf-governlng dem ocratic people; more than that, he saw, as all thoughtful men see, that party is more than a means for organizing victory at the polls—that It is a means a vital means, of putting men of the same views and temper in affairs for the accomplishment of common ends, an ind:spensnble means of subordlnat ing varieties of Individual opinion to the pursuit of common principles and large objects of policy. He never pre tended to be independent of party, al ways avowed himself a party man, and sought to work his purposes out through th'ciae who were of the same political faith and affiliations as he. But he had stronger and more definite party prepossessions, it turned out, than many of his fellow partisans; while he sat still they had changed; they grew more and more restive under his leadership: more and more chafed under his stubborn Insistence on the views with which he had set out; more and more resented his efforts to keep legislation to the paths of his prefer ence, and by the end of his second term were ready to break with him alto gether. He seemed at last a man without a party.” The difference between Mr. Cleveland and some of his party Mr. Wilson re gards aa having been unavoidable if the President was to stand to his party principles while the changes were go ing on within the parties. "The same ferment and disorder, as of disruption, were becoming evident in the Republi can party as well as In the Demo cratic. It was one of the almost chance happenings of politics that as the Presidential campaign of 1896 ap- proehed the Republican party did not espouse the cause of the free coinage of sliver Instead of the Democrats; it was hardly more than the Inborn in stinct of opposition between the two parties that prevented both of them from espousing It. The one was as willing as the other to play to the sup posed popular wish In the matter, re gardless of well-grounded principles of finance, and only its iong-practieed discipline and habit of union, the dis cipline and habit of a party trained to the exercise of power, prevented the Republican party from falling to pieces in factions. Mr. Cleveland consented to be left by a party which had shifted from the immemorial ground of Dem ocratic principle and practice in mat ters of finance. "His isolation led to the painful re- ults which always follow such breaches. He retired from office amid a storm of obloquy and misrepresenta tion: but time has brought about Us healing and its revenges. The misrep resentation has not entirely cleared away; it could not in a single genera tion, when once such fires of passion ate feeling had been kindled, but it is no longer a mist in the eye of the people. Their old admiration for the man, their old confidence in his utter honesty and Integrity, their love for his downright utterances and clear sense of right, their belief in his homely wis dom. have returned with an added force and enthusiasm, because of their nsciousness of the deep injustice they had for a while done him In their misinformed thought. He is hailed wherever he goes with as eager a wel come and with as keen a sest for what he has to say. as Is the more piquant Chief Magistrate himself.” pathy extended on all hands will great ly encourage them In overcoming an unfortunate situation. With the news that the old files of the paper, reaching back over one hundred years, have been preserved, The Telegraph In dulges the hope that the Chronicle has sustained no irremediable loss and will soon reappear in more prosperous shape than ever. BRITISH TITLES, SOUTHERN GEN TILITY AND NORTHERN MIL LIONS. A Washington dispatch states that "society in three cities nnd all through Virginia Is deeply interested in the rumor from London that credits Miss Nora Langhorne, youngest of the five handsome Langhorne girls of Albe marle County, with having captured the heart and received an offer of the hand of Prince Francis of Teck. the good-looking brother of the Princess of Wales. He is therefore a. member of the royal family Itself as well as brother-in-law of the future King of England.” It is further stated that Prince Fran cis is in a receptive attitude, having been willing for some time to exchange his title for an American fortune. Miss Langhorne, of Virginia, has no for tune, but her brother-in-law, Waldorf Astor, and the latter’s father, William Waldorf Astor. are said to be willing to furnish the necessary shekels, being "heartily in favor of an alliance that would place them in the innnermost circle of English society." If such results are within the bounds of possibility, from the Astor stand point the money would be well spent. To put up their money on the fair young Virginian would pay them bet ter In that which they most desire than to "grub-stake" a dozen Klondike min ers on the half-profits plan. The account further shows that Miss Langhorne’s sisters were all famous Southern belles and are now distin guished and popular matrons. They are Mrs. R. Moncure Perkins, of Rich mond; Mrs. Charles Daifa Gibson, of New York, but now residing abroad; Mrs. Reginald 'Brooks, of Boston, and Mrs. Waldorf Astor. “Their father’s estate ‘MIrado’ in the mountains of Albemarle County,” the story reads, "has been in the family for generations and, although somewhat depleted in the lifetime of its present owner, is quite the type of an English estate, from which even a prince might be proud to take a bride. Young Mr. As tor, who passed several weeks at Mi- rado last September, is said to be ready to restore the glories of the estate to something of Its status before the war period, when the grandfather of his bride was the owner of 1,000 slaves and everything about the land and man sion was kept in the highest state of order. Should Mr. Langhorne consent, Virginia will present a manor house and estate equal to Blitmore, In North Carolina, to which will be added all the romance and tradition of a typical i Southern family of high degree.” being arrested with them and searched. They proved to be innocent of any guilty knowledge of the robberies, however, and were released. One of the ladies named Miss Kit Dealtry. who is an author and dramatist, said the experience was Jn fact valuable to her, as it furnished her with the plot of a new comedy she would write under the title of "The Lady and the Rogue," The profitable moral of this arrest, however, is pointed out by the Phila delphia Public Ledger. The two thieves are fair examples of the ordinary crlm inal trials In this country which the Ledger properly characterizes as *‘farC' ical.” “There is. In the first place, long and tedious trial: then there Is new trial: then follows an appeal, and between trials or pending the appeal the crooks are usually released on bail which they often promptly repudiate. At some stage of the proceeding resort Is made to habeas corpus: and If by miracle there is a conviction and the culprit is finally sentenced, the term is brief, even in the ease of a man with a criminal record.' But this time Green and Rohrer will have to do with Justice of the “Old Bailey” variety. The Tiffanys in Lon don were their chief victims. The Ledger says: If the pair are extradited there will not be the slightest doubt a3 to their fate as a result of robbing a jewelry store. A few days after they land In England they will be trotted from the prison Into the prisoner’s dock, and some grim old Justice Hawkins or other will di rect the. prosecutor to "proceed with the case.” There will not be the slightest delay in getting the jury. Twenty minutes will suffice to hear the plain evidence, and in an hour and a ^talf after the be ginning of the case the Justice will pronounce his verdict of from seven to fourteen years at hard labor for grand larceny. There will be no foolish objection to the introduction of evidence. There will be no appeal, because the judge will not .grant an appeal for the purpose of obstructing jus tice. Old habeas corpus will be un disturbed. The rogues will just go to jail because they are guilty, and that will be the end of it. And It is safe to say if they emerge therefrom while life lasts they will steer clear of-Old England in any fur ther operations they may feel like con ducting. “JIM CROW” AND THE SUPREME COURT. The Florida “Jim Crow” car case before the Federal Supreme Court has come to nothing on account of the technical objection that the record in the case was not filed with the appeal from the State Supreme Court, but it is asserted that the complainant’s counsel “regarded the appeal, forlorn hope and studiously failed to comply with the rules of pro cedure.” That is, to say, no redress of the alleged grievance was expected, but it was desired to confuse the issue and disguise the defeat. It appears that Andrew Patterson, the appellant, was arrested for refus ing to leave the white compartment of a street car In Jacksonville and sen tenced to pay a fine of $10 or serve a term of fourteen days in prison. The case being appealed to the Florida Su preme Court, judgment was Tendered against him, the court holding that the Did any Southerner of the ante- I Jacksonville ordinance was In the na- bellum regime, except on the great cot- j ture of a police regulation to prevent ton and rice plantations of the lower I raco friction and consequent breaches South, own as many as a thousand j °f peace. Appealing to the United slaves? And if so, how were they j States Supreme Court Patterson in- employed? If accurate records on this j voked the Fourteenth amendment, and subject are obtainable their publication also claimed that he was the victim of would be of interest and value to the The New York World e>ays Gen. Sherman’s remark "War Is hell.” was not original with him. but that it “ap pears to have had an Italian ancestry.” Neither was Gen. Sherman's method of making war orginal with him. One Attila was attend of him there, loo. The Richmond Times-Dispatch has heard Ben Tillman and It is asking this question: “Would you rather be a mollycoddle or a Bentlllman?" This would be a stumper for President Roosevelt. Wall Street Summary has a leader under the caption ''Recovery Too Rapid to te Healthy." “For the Lambs," it should have added. the "cruel and unusual punishment" ! which the Constitution forbids, j The case has been stricken from the docket of the Supreme Court for the reason stated. But even if there had been no technical error Patterson would no doubt have lost his case. It was long ago held by the Supreme Court in the Civil Rights cases that Congress could not enact a civil rights act the object of which was to protect negroes in the equal enjoyment with whites of the privileges of hotels, pas senger trains, etc. The court held that Federal legislation in that case cannot properly cover the whole domain of rights appertaining to life, liberty and property, defining them and providing for their vindication. That would be to establish a code of municipal law- regulative of all privileges between man and man in society. It would be to make Congress take the place of State Legislatures and to supervise them.” Commenting on this case the New York Sun pertinently observes that "while the question involved in the Patterson appeal was the constitution ality of a municipal ordinance and not that of an act of Congress, the police power of the State seems to be as much a controlling factor in the one "Speaking of funeral reforms, why I case as In the other, and it is not sur- cannot we abolish the necessity of fu- j prising that lawyers balk at arguing historian. In these matters romance is too often employed in lieu of fact, particularly when social pre-eminence in the world's capitals is the object of absorbing ambition. However that may be, it is to be re marked that Southern gentility. British titles and Northern millions form a very strong combination — strong enough to triumph over everything ex cept the forces that were let loose dur ing the French Revolution. Such com binations promise the establshment in this country of a dominating aristoc racy, allied with that of England, such as the founders of this republic ab horred and de«ired to destroy. A Missouri editor is being sued by a woman because in writing the obituary of her husband he slated: "He has gone to a happier home.” Who can hope to define the limits of a woman’s Jealousy? The advice of the Americus Times- Reeorder to that town, to be progres sive as well as attractive, reminds the SaVannah Press of the apostrophe of the Hindoo to his god. "I know that thou art not beautiful, but I believe that thou art great.” PREVENTION OF PANICS. The commercial health of the coun try depends on women keeping strictly up with the fashions In matters of dress, according to Mrs. Belle Arm strong Whitney, an authority on dress. In an address to the dressmakers of Chicago, she demonstrated that the way to avert great financial panics Is for women to wear plenty of fashion able clothes. Mrs. Whitney said: "Women wear new clothes that men may make money. The rea sons that we have new fashions in dress is because men who have billions invested In the manufac tories and dry goods stores of the world insist upon earning just ns big dividends one year as another. "If they waited for women to wear out clothes they bought last year dividends would be passed this year. If you refused to wear new clothes for six months there would be a financial crisis that would be tCorld-wide. So in wear ing fashions early and late you are helping to dispel financial clouds and giving the worker and the capitalist their due.” This Is certainly a comfortable doc trine for the ladies, to espouse about Easter times and incidentally It should help swell the exchequers of the dress makers and milliners. “QUEER DIPLOMACY WITH [ Ben Tillman, who got his start by CASTRO.” ! arraying the wool hats of South Caro- The Loomis-Bowen episode and the i Una against the aristocrats, says he 3 FAT OPERA SINGERS MUST GO, The edict has gone forth in New York against fat opera singers. Oscar Hammerstein. who opened a house re cently in competition with the Metro politan Grand Opera House, is respon sible for the proposed reform. He has made it a condition of his contract with Signor Ancona for the next sea son that unless the baritone' takes at least five inches from his waist line he will have to hunt for another engage ment. Hammerstein says of Ancona: He’s too fat to look any part but Falstaff, and if he comes back here next winter without having taken off that extra girth there'll be noth ing doing so far as the Manhattan opera house is concerned. That’s one of the definite conditions in his contract. Dalmores goes to n gym nasium every day, and there is no reason why they should not ail do that when they’re too fat. Lovers of grand opera have always had to contend, more or less, with the disillusion of fat, stuffy or otherwise ugly heroes and heroines, introducing something of the burlesque into the divinest of productions. There is noth Ing more painful to fat people than unaccustomed exercise, but the opera singers are a high salaried class and It is but right they should take the ox, erclse necessary to keep them In form. Dalmores, the French tenor, it is said, arises early, takes a cold bath and boxes with his valet until it is time to go to the gymnasium. He takes long walks or other outdoor exercise. Ancona, on the other hand, takes a late breakfast in bed and arises in time to lunch. This lasts until late in the afternoon, and he rides home to dress for dinner. The wonder is that he has wind enough to sing at all. PEN PICTURE OF A PERSONALITY. According to Col. George Harvey, editor of tho North American Review, and orator of St. Patrick’s day at Charleston, S. C., Theodore Roosevelt is a most ingenious paradox. If It was he that Col. Harvey referred to during his speech in the following pen picture which does not have to be labelled to be identified. Col. Harvey said: In the ordinary course of human events, especially in the turmoil and excitement and misapprehen sion of a national political contest, an error might be made and one might be chosen by the nation as its Chief Magistrate who should combine in himself qualities of pro fession so inconsistent with h1s practices as to create general dis trust nnd constitute a real menace to the stability and permanence of our national institutions—one, for Instance, who. while demanding vehemently that all should be doers and builders, himself should be the most striking exemplar of constant undoing and persistent tearing down; one who should sternly de nounce all critics, though himself the most censorious of persons; one who should sneer at opponents for antagonizing radicalism instead of proposing actual reforms, while himself forced to appropriate the notions of political antagonists: one who should hold aloft the banner of idealism and simultaneously trade with those notoriously cor rupt; one who, while urging the necessity of individual achievement, should encourage socialism by in viting attack upon accumulations of wealth, which are the natural results of the very individual en deavors thus advocated: one whose sense of personal righteousness should so far overpower his sense of personal charitableness as to induce frequent denunciation of those disagreeing with him as wil ful, malicious and unqualified pre varicators; one who should, while constantly railing at trusts, yet shield with the utmost care the sacred tariff, breeder of them all: one who should deplore political contributions for corporations, yet raise to the most powerful position in his Government one who had sought and obtained them; one quicker than any other to castigate the beneficiaries of a violation of trust, firmer than any other in de manding restitution of diverted funds, yet painfully silent respect ing the disposition of large sums of money taken from policy-holders and used to insure, not the lives of the insured, but the election of a President. The colonel’s picture fs certainly true tX life- fiasco of our National Administration's ultimatum to President Castro of Ven ezuela a year or so ago, which Presi dent Roosevelt found it convenient to forget about later, are recalled by an article on “Queer Diplomacy with Cas tro," by Herbert IV. Bowen in the cur rent number of the North American Review, it will be remembered that there was crimination and recrimina tion between Loomis and Bowen at the time which President Roosevelt um pired by “firing” Bowen, who was minister to Venezuela, in favor of Loomis, who was apparently a favor ite of the Washington Administration, and who was also later advised to travel for the good of his health. Mr. Bowen says: The main issue between the United States and A'enezuela was the asphalt case. In July. 1904, President Castro had demanded ten million dollars from the American Company, known as the “New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company,” and had threatened, if that amount was not pqld immediately, that the whole asphalt lake and the prop erty of the company would be seized. He based his demand on the alleged support given by the Asphalt Company to the Matos revolution of 1902: but, as he did not demand anything from the countless other supporters of tho revolution, it was clear that his demand on the Asphalt Company was piratical. The demand was refused, and the lake and property were seized. The Government of the United States naturally pro- tsted vigorously against President Castro’s high-handed procedure, sent a military attache to Caracas and prepared, as the newspapers announced, to take drastic meas ures to secure justice and to main tain its dignity and prestige. “got as good a pedigree as any man who was ever horn on the face of this earth." When a man can command $200 a night lecturing it is time he be gan looking up his pedigree. The heard of Harry Thaw Wednesday night when Jerome de- 1 dared he was bughouse and had been ! all along he was furiously writing .1 statement for the public to prove the truth of the district attorney's state ment. nerais altogether?" asks the Savannah Press. Dead people might get tired from a brief which maintains that the separate compartment law in Southern walking around forever Just to save i cities where negroes are numerous and the trouble of burial their relations with the whites inhar- A gentleman and his wife, while re turning from a party at 2 o’clock in the morning in Charleston, were ar rested by a policeman and “sent In” under the charge of fighting. The lady was taken ill on the way home and fainted. The policeman appears to have Jumped to the conclusion that hubby had knocked wtfle out. The too faithful guardian of the peace will have reason to congratulate himself if the affair does not prove a knockout blow for him. At' this juncture Mr. Bowen says Castro was induced to consent to ar bitration, to which President Roosevelt and Mr. Hay, Secretary of State, agreed as the ex-minister shows by an ex tract from the^book on Foreign Rela tions. This extract recites that “the President approves acceptance of 5,000.000 bolivars, annually to be paid to all creditor powers from customs revenues, provided said powers as sent. . . . “The President approves tho suggestion of an arbitration treaty with the United States for settlement of all questions which, being of a dip lomatic charaoter. cannot be settled by mutual consent. Also of the provision to settle by arbitration unsettled claims of all the powers, except contractual claims and bonds held by citizens of other Governments. - The department will cable Mr. Bowen bases of protocol for arbitration of all disputed claims of the United States and other nations, excepting bonds and all claims of a contractual nature.” All this was satisfactory to President Castro, Mr. Bowen says, and the prom ised protocol with bases for arbitration was eagerly looked for. When it came, Mr. Bowen says: “It was signed by Mr. Loomis and did not cover the 5,000 000 bolivar agreement, nor the claims of other na tions. nor anything except the asphalt case! And it was couched In such dis pleasing terms that President Castro immediately rejected it. No word of explanation or apology accompanied it. The Venezuelan Government, as well as the American minister, was as tounded. Subsequently, it was learned that the entire protocol had been writ ten by tho attorney of the Asphalt Company. The explanation offered by President Castro’s friends was that the Asphalt Company feared arbitra tion, and so broke up the entire scheme by getting an offensive protocol sent to President Castro. Negotiations were continued for a time to induce Pres ident Castro to settle fhe asphalt case, but he sent to Washington an agent, who succeeded absolutely in under mining the influence of Mr.^Hay, as is shown by his cablegram to President Castro sent just after Mr. Hay ad dressed his so-called ''ultimatum” to Venezuela, and stating in substance that after President Castro had an swered the ultimatum the matter would be allowed to drop. “Several attempts have been made to fix on Mr. Hay the responsibility for all the occurrences in the Department of State at this time, but It is now pretty generally known that he was utterly unable to cope with the forces arrayed against him.” Mr. Bowen says that President Cas tro was pleased to have the whole scheme of arbitration fall and that he now became a strong supporter of the Drago doctrines and joined the ranks of -those who want all the rights of sovereignty without any of the respon sibilities, while the United States tamely receded from the grounds it had taken in opposition to those doctrines. In its warm tribute to Mr. Cleveland the New York Sun speaks of the great changes which have taken place since he was the object of fierce attack. Wonder if the Sun recalls tho pot names it used to call him, such as “Stuffed Prophet,” and the like. President Roosevelt made no mis take when he selected Charles J. Bon i- rarte for Attorney-General. Mr. Bo naparte has written an article entitled "Two years of a Government That Docs Things’-for one of the magazines. Noting the fact that "a day or two ago an Atlanta bully knocked down Col. John Temple Graves and now somebody has shot into iho home of Hon. Tom Watson.” tho Houston, Tex., Post wants to know If there is In Geor gia a vendetta against genius. Gleason has superseded Dclmav again. The trouble with tho Thaw side is that it has too many lawyers, including the defendant himsolf, who ore trying to make a reputation out of the case. Tho growing popularity of "shad roe" foreshadows the extinction of this most tasty of fish It ih said. It Is short-sighted greed to eat tho egg that lays tho shad. "The more wo read, hoar or meet some professional reformers, th? better we like somo professional poll-, ticlans. They are manlier.” So says the Brooklyn Tom Lawson offers $5,000 for. the best review of his story recently pub lished. Who Is to be tho judge of the review? After all Anna Gould is haggling about the price her lawyer charged her for relieving her of B'opi’s presence. Some more balking, backing and fill ing in the Thaw trial, just as the public was promised tho end of it. If battleships can be blown up by wireless, the only point of danger in future will be on the battleship. Wail Street. W. J. Lampton In N, Y. World. Oh, say, Get out of the way Of the tumble! Don’t you hear It rumble Down in the Street? But it isn’t the lambs that bleat— t It’s bull meat. And, say, The way Stocks have hit the slide ■ For a ride Is fierce, ain't it? Words can’t paint it. Azd yet Nobody seems to get The knockout lick As quick As one might expect When everything '.-eems to be wrecked. Why? Oh! me! Oh! my! Don't you know? You must be slow. It's water, water everywhere In every valuation. And what seems loss will hardly ben. The full Interpretation Of loss because the loss is not Of actual valuation: But it is something—um, let’s see—■ Well, gay. deliquidation. You want to know what that is. eh? In this case It’s about Like -ranching holes In anything To let the water out. See? | Gee!. ■Water, water everywhere— The actual stuff's behind it, And when the water’s all let out Is when you’re going to find it. Punch, brothers, punch with care. Punch for the water everywhere: Get right down to the solid rock And when you have It havo stock as i3 stock. If you want to feel safe From the jars and jerks Of the Street, you must smash Tho waterworks— That's what! NEGRO LACKEYS FOR CADETS. The alleged confession of D. C. Gray, a member of the discharged negro bat talion, telegraphed from Galveston the other day, ends with these words: “We swore to stick to the lie.” This is cer tainly a plausible explanation of the great amount of lying—and foolish ly ing at that—before the Senate investi gating committee. William J. 'Bryan says he will not discuss Government ownership since President Roosevelt has expressed his opinion on it because “if I did say any thing I might be charged with pla giarism.” Weil, this beats all. Afraid to wear his own clothes for fear of be ing charged with stealing them from thp President. WASHINGTON. March 20.—Morn trouble with colored troops Is predicted as a result of an order issued by Sec-'* retary Taft detailing 76 men of the [ Ninth Cavalry, colored, for duly at the West Point Military Academy. Th- e colored troops will relieve the detach ment of white cavalry which has been stationed at West Point in the past, and for the first lime in the history of the military academy- the young cadets will have their horses and accoutre ments cared for by colored troops and will take turns commanding thoso troops. According to the statement made by the War Department the reason colored troops have been sent to the military academy to replace the white cavalry men there is that the latter objected to taking care of the horses used by tho cadets as well as their own mounts. The War Department believes the col ored cavalrymen will not object to thi3 extra service. The rest of the Ninth Cavalry has been ordered to duty in the Philippine Islands, as has the Tenth Cavalry, also colored and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry, the other two colored regiments. ATHENS IN THE THROES OF BIG FREIGHT BLOCKADE. ATHEN’S. Ga„ March 39.—The city of Athens is in th< midst of a big freight blockade, which the railroads seem unable to remedy. There are now standing on the tracks in this city several hundred loaded cars, con taining merchandise that the mer chants of this city need in their bus iness. while there are many !oa>r»d The Washington Post thinks the end cars that cannot be shipped out. The 8eat hog is better worth knocking than j situation has been brought to the at- the ground hog. He is a more reliable indicator of fine weather than the other. tention of the Railroad Commission of the State in the hope that the body may find a way in which to compel the rail roads to do something to relieve th» Situation. INDISTINCT PRINT