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FRIDAY, MARCH 29 ,1907*
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0. R. PENDLETON, President
AN INDIGNANT TEXAN.
The Washington Post has several
times discussed with mock solemnity
Senator Bailey's alleged distaste for
evening clothes during his earlier ca
reer, and not long slnca reprinted a
protest from the Honey Grove (Texas)
Signal after the appearance of Gover
nor Thomns Campbell In the garments
which appear to be looked uf>on with
suspicion by many of the voters of
that not yet effete and truly American
State. "Think of It, my countrymen!”
exclaimed the Signal. “This great com
moner from the sandhills of East Texas
decked out In a ooat without a front
tall and a vest thst touched only the
contour of his bread basket!”
All of which caused The Telegraph
to make bold to remark: "The excite
ment over this matter In Texas Is
founded on a misapprehension. There
Is point In objection to the accepted
evening dre*s for men on the ground
that if Is not becoming, but not on the
ground that It Is undemocratic. It Is
as democratic as any of the ordinary
togs that are worn and much more so
than some other glad rags of expensive
material and latest cut. It is worn by
poor clerks as well as by trust mag
nates. It makes brothers of waiters
and millionaires
poration men: they are reactionaries.
They must get out of the way or be an
nihilated. Do they appeal for Repub
lican support? Do they presume to
make their puny arrangements for con
ventions and del gates? That Is my
affair. It Is my prerogative. The Re
publican party. It is I.”
The Time* well says that this won
derful transformation of the Republi
can party is without a parallel In our
political annals. The G. O. P.'s organ
ization, It declares, "is controlled no
longer by a majority vote but by one
voice. It has surrendered the right of
Initiative. To raise a question Is to be
excommunicated. To disagree or to
criticise Is a punishable nrudaelty.
There is no safety but in effacement.”
It appears to ,us that the Times Is
substantially correct In Its analysis of
the peculiar situation, but It somewhat
overstates the fear of and meek sub
mission to the will of Roosevelt on the
P3rt of the Republican leaders. Their
opposition to his course In the dis
charge of the negro battalion shows
that they are ready to take issue with
CLEVELAND ON RAILROADS.
On bis return from bis snooting trip
In the pouth former President Grover
Cleveland had something to say on the
anti-railroad movement, and as the
sunset of life should give him "mys
tical lore" even if his reputation and
experience were not a guarantee of his
tions of the Thaw family.”
Among these were Winifred Black.
Dornhv Dlx. Emma de Zouehe. Xlxola
] consent to be literally snowed under
! the volume of the imploring epistles of
their panting countrymen. And yet
Greeley-Sniith, Beatrice Fairfax. Ada ' one Roosevelt and one Rockefeller
Patterson and Fannie Fair. j ought to be enough for a single gener-
Large sums were paid by newspapers ation.
for special articles by writers of wider
reputation. The New York Evening
practical wisdom, his words are quoted ] Journal paid Laura Jean Libbey at
Lee's character and the greatness of
his public services, we of the North are
only beginning to discover.”
here:
"There is much in the nature of de
lirium.” said Mr. Cleveland, "in the
popular outcry against railroad cor
porations, for instance. We shall all
be ashamed of it by and by. I dare
say I have some reason to know of the
real iniquities of corporations, and I
do know them, but there is much that
is not only groundless, but wrong, in
the ofThand attacks made on the rail
roads by thoughtless people on all
hands. What is well founded in them
will be cured but the craze of denun
ciation will soon pass. We shall re
reflect that railroads are vitally related
to our prosperity, .and that to attack
them needlessly is to attack ourselves.
It Is not the stock of soulless million-
him whenever the;- see a chance of en- j aires, but the property of citizens, of
rolling the masses of the party on their j widows and orphans, whose savings
side of the question. Ordinarily, how- ! are invested in railroads, that is being
ever, the chance of such an issue Is
very slim. Effective opposition in this
instance was possible only because of
the anger of the negroes of the doubt
ful States who hold the balance of
power In the Republican party.
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.”
' "Without any knowledge of chem
istry, and so illiterate that he Is com
pelled to seek assistance in writing to
drug houses for his ingredients,” John
Ellmore, a poor shoemaker of Altoona.
Pa., "has succeeded in producing a
compound," It is reported, “which
The garments which , causes common coal ashes, when mixed
so scandalize patriotic Texans are worn with a small quantity of coal, to create
by waiters, in fact, all day long as well I a heat of greater intensity than that
ns In the evening, and If that does not J from the highest grade of soft coal
make them democratic, nothing can.”
This harmless suggestion hns excited
grenl wrath in “A Texan” who writes
from Washington to Inform us that In
Texas "a gentleman always wears a
dress suit when the occasion demands,”
that In tho cities and towns of that
glorious State "there are many, many
occasions for dress suits,” but that we
are pitiably Ignorant enough to "have
■n Idea that Texas Is made up entirely
of ranches, cow-boys, etc.”
Not at all, dear. Infuriated, flre-and-
brlmslone-breathlng "Texan"—not at
nil. We are aware that Texas is not
wholly made up of ranches and cow
boys. although this Is much the most
Interesting and picturesque part of the
Lone Star Stato from the outsider's
point of view. We never doubted that
In Texas both prosperous citizens and
pompous negro waiters vio with each
other in their devotion to low-cut vests
and string-tailed coats. We are, in
fact, quite sure that "A Texan” himself
has long since Joined the common herd
who wear the democratic garments
mentioned and has otherwise carefully
suppressed all native flavor and indi
viduality. Except In his plctuaesque
vocabulary and his inability to under
stand an editor’s Irony, there Is noth
ing by which he could be distinguished
from those inhabitants of the Atlantic
seaboard whose chief aim in life is not
to vary one hair's breadth from a cer
tain monotonous level of custom.
"THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, IT IS I."
Discussing the denial from the White
House that the succession and the Re
publican campaign for next year were
discussed between the President and
Governor Deneen. of Illinois, the New
Tork Times hazards the statement that
"If It had been announced in an official
statement, after the manner now In
vogue, that the temporary and perma
nent chairmen ef next year’s conven
tion had been selected, tho committee
on credentials chosen, the order of bus
iness settled and the platform drawn
UP, we doubt whetheb in any Important
Republican quarter anything more
than whispered dissent would have
been heard.” The Times goes on to
say:
“The helpless pulp that once was
the Republican party Is no longer
capable of resistance. It accepts,
It acquiesces. What a contrast to
the old days when an Administra
tion had to defend and hold its po
sitions, often hnd to surrender them
after earnest conference with the
cb>ef men of the nnrty. the days
when. If the Administration ven
tured even tentatively to put for
ward Its candidate for the next en
suing election the tents were in
stantly pitched and drilling was
actively begun In opposition camps.
The complacent subjects of an
autocrat are never In a position to
evoke admiration. In Its present
supine condition nobody can ad
mire the Republican party, and its
unresisting acquiescence In the rule
and the decisions of one man. who
has swept aside the traditions It
once revered ns Imperishable and
substituted Ideas and principles
borrowed from William J. Bryan,
makes pity half-hearted and does
not altogether exclude ridicule.”
From the man who has wrought this
great change, however, the Times does
not -withhold Its admiration. "The
spirit.” It- says, "that la wholly gone out
of a long dominant party he possesses.
Its will is extinguished, its leaders have
vanished. His will and his power are
imperial. As history views him.
he may appear to have the grand air
that belongs to supremacy, but as his
contemporaries view him, & business
like efficiency seems to characterize
every aet He la fearless. If opposi
tion has the hardihood to raise its
head, the order goes forth that it must
be crushed. He haa great and positive
joy in conflict, but not with minor men.
Fairbanks, Shaw. Cannon—what are
they? Straws, mere straws. The
whirlwind tosses, but does not deign to
notice, them. Where real resistance is
set up the blows fall. They are cor-
fc
I when fanned by a forced draught.” It
! is said that the compound Increases
| the value of coal four-fold and will
| proportionately restrict its use and the
value of the fuel at the mine. Two
teaspoonfuls of Ellmore’s compound,
costing 25 cents, dissolved In three gal
lons of water, are sufficient, It I®
stated, to treat three-quarters of a ton
of ashes mixed with one-quarter of a
ton of coal, and will bring out more
heat for a longer period than one ton
of pure coal, bituminous or anthracite.
Dr. H. K. Hoy, a leading practitioner
of Altoona, Pa., who has interested
himself in Ellmore’s invention or dis
covery, says:
“I have demonstrated to my own
satisfaction, and the engineer of
the Edison electric light has had it
demonstrated to hi*, that Ellmore
can make one ton of coal do the
work of four tons, and do It more
effectually. At the same time he
will utilize a waste product that
has hitherto been regarded as
worthless, but which he can use
over and oyer again until a clinker
or slag Is the final residuum and
may be sold at a profit for road-
bulldlng.
"Ellmore Is so afraid that his
secret will be stolen from him be
fore his patent is granted that he
buys his ingredients In different
States and has them consigned un
der different names, and the mix
ing is done in secret.
"The manufacturing world will
unquestionably be affected by the
discovery, and it is purely a log
ical conclusion to say that the out
put from the coal mines will be cut'
down.”
Ellmore’s wonderful compound may ,
damaged. We shall recall what rail
roads have been and are still to be in
the development of our country, and
this craze will pass.
"Of course, there must be some form
of governmental supervision, but it'
should be planned In a quiet hour,
not in'one of angry excitement.
"Popular .emotions follow peculiar
laws. The psychology of a craze is
most interesting. The temptation is
well nigh irresistible to do what we
observe our neighbors do. If they be
gin to throw stones, we hunt for mis
siles ourselves.
“The railroads have had a hard time
lately. Every man's hand is against,
them. Wherever a railroad head is to
be seen it is safe and amusing to hit it;
its owner has no friends. There are
some pretty big difficulties before rail
road managers Just now. Before long
we shall have a crop to move under
perplexities greater than those of last
year. And the increasing production
of the country will increasingly embar
rass tho railroads."
least $500 for one article on the love
element in the case. Alfred Henry
Lewis is said to nave received $400
each for a number of contributions to
the New York American. Samuel -Hop
kins Adams was paid $30 a day for
introductions to the World's reports.
But perhaps the perennial feature of
del’ght to the sensational papers was
the Inexhaustible pictures and photo
graphs of the heroine in the case.
Evelyn Thaw had been posing and
having her picture taken ever since
the a^e of 12 and there was easily a
new picture for every day—two or
three, in fact, if they were wanted, j
Notwithstanding which, however, fam- j
ous artists were employed to sketch
her anew and put their names to the
picture for pretty sums.
Now that the trial has ended in the
appointment of a lunacy commission,
which should have been done at first, 'i
If at all, all this trouble and expense j
wculd appear to have been incurred
merely for the entertainment of the
public.
SAVANNAH'S NEWS CENSORSHIP.
The Savannah Morning News re
porters have been blacklisted at the
Savannah police headquarters. The ....
1 or otherwise approaching it
new reform chief of police, Capt. V. G. ;
. I desired purpose. There is a
I Austin, appears to have butted up
' against an old problem in police and
press circles and to have cut the Gor
dian knot, in so far as the local morn
ing paper is concerned, by shutting off
all information to its reporters. Capt.
• Austin, it appears began by exercis-
! ing .a censorship over all the news
given out concerning his department,
but became incensed about an item
! that was published without authority
' and issued an order barring the News
i altogether.
The Telegraph does not know any- |
thing about the merits of the Savan
nah question, but speaking generally, )
it is disposed to think that Capt. Aus
tin has made a mistake in this move
and will soon realize it The Savan
nah papers are nothing if they are not
conservative: otherwise either one of
them would gladly accept and profit by , , eave or vacatlon . The Tlmes thinks
the challenge the chief of police has j that there , g an impres£ , b n abroad that
HOW TO ADDRESS CONTRIBU
TIONS.
A frequent source of confusion and
embarrassment in the newspaper office
arises from mistaken methods of ad
dressing communications to the paper
for some
purpose. There is a disposi
tion among women, and some men, too,
as the Baltimore Sun says, who have
any kind of business with a newspaper
to address their communications to
some person connected with the paper.
“The New York Times becomes quite
sarcastic" says the Sun, “In discuss
ing this practice and indicates some of
its disadvantages. If the communica
tion designed for publication, the item
of news offered or the advertisement or
order for subscription be directed sim
ply to the paper. It will straightway go
into the proper department and receive
prompt attention. If it is directed to
some member of the editorial or repor-
torial staff, it may be deposited upon
the desk of that person and may there
remain until that person returns from
attending the annual convention of the
Sunday School Union or from sick
"Time was.” remarks the 'Baltimore
Sun. "when the -Democratic clubs could
entertain Mr. Bryan on Jefferson s
birthday at a dollar .dinner. Now the
best they can offer him is a three-
dollar dinner and no explanations
given. Indeed, some Democrats were
so ill-advised as to invite the peerless
Democratic leader to a Jefferson day
dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria at $10 a
plate. It is needless to say that this
invitation was courteously declined.
Two other dinners were offered—a $3
dinner and a $3 dinner, the latter in
Brooklyn and that Is the one that Mr.
Bryan accepted.” The reason dollar
dinners are done for. the Sun should
have explained, is that Republican
prosperity has made it impossible for
even Jeffersonian simplicity to devise
a hunger-satisfying feast at that anti
quated price.-
REPORTING THE THAW TRIAL,
It Is estimated by Samuel Williams,
a writer in Pearson's Magazine for
April, that it cost the world of Jour
nalism $5,000 a day to report the Thaw
trial. Roughly estimating the trial as
consuming fifty active days in the two
months and more that it has been pro
gressing. a quarter of a million dollars
is well within the bounds of the total
cost of merely transmitting the inci
dents and the evidence of the trial to
the newspapers for publication. What
the trial will cost the -State of New
York and the defendant and his friends
there is no way of estimating. Some
of the comparisons made by Mr. Wil
liams in Pearson’s are interesting. -He
says that it is probable that it cost less
to report the great and decisive battle
of Gettysburg than to spread the news
of a single day of this trial. The im
peachment of Warren Hastings lasted
seven years, yet all the columns printed
about it at the time would not equal a
single day’s newspaper record of the
Thaw case. It marks a new record
for European Interest in American
news. London papers never before
be a "fake ’ like the Keeley motor, j gave such extended reports of an event
Time will soon tell, If true it would.j on this side of the ocean that was of
in some measure point to the solution j no International importance. One day
of the probable fuel famine which j four thousand words of Evelyn Thaw’s
President James J. Hill recently pre- i testimony were cabled to the London
dieted for the world In the oourse of
fifty years or a century.
Daily Mail, one of the longest news
paper dispatches ever sent from New
“LET THE SOUTH LEAD" York to (London. The cable tolls for
, , . . .. . _ .. the message amounted to $400. The
This is what that veteran Democratic . * '
■ previous record was held by the Mc
Kinley assassination when six thous
and words were In one cable message.
The San 'Francisco earthquake never
called for higher than three thousand
words by cable on one day.
As for the American newspapers,
they never before gave so much space
to a legal trial. There were two hun
dred million readers of newspapers in
America and Europe who followed
closely every stage of the proceedings.
To minister to this tremendous client
age there were gathered in the court
room seventy-five picked newspaper
writers and reporters, the brightest for
the business perhaps In the world. On
special days the number swelled into a
round hundred. They were assisted
and supplemented by a score of artists,
in black and white
painters of beautiful women and snap
shot photographers.
"In addition to these clever, ener
getic reporters, dealing strictly with
newspaper, the Philadelphia Record,
thinks about it:
“The South has tried Bryan
twice. It has -tried an Eastern
candidate once. There have been
three consequent failures. They
. were failures of default West and
East. There Is no need of going
into particulars.
"Now let the South lead. Let It
name its own candidate—some stal
wart Southern Democrat—and call
upon the true Jeffersonians of the
North and West to respond. That
is the logic of the political situa
tion.”
The familiar suggestion Is alluring—
it is. In fact, Inspiring—but the ques
tion is, has the South the necessary
unanimity, will, determination and
courage?
FELDER FOR PRESIDENT.
Unlike the campaign for the pres!- j quick workers
dency of the Senate two years ago,
there does not seem to be any partic
ular issues at stake this year, except a
choice between worthy and competent
individuals. We have several candl- i the news, there was another group of
dates for the office in our own section , Writers,” says Mr. Wiiyams, "a dozen
and in our own congressional district— j women, typifying a new development
men whom The. Telegraph would de- j in Journalism. They wrote each day
light to support, were it possible to
support all of them—but of course this
paper would prefer to see our own im
mediate Senator. Hon. Thomas S. Fel
der, chosen. He is in the line: he has
a chapter of real life more graphic than
the imaginations Of fiction: they ana
lyzed the souls and minds of the hu
man beings before them with the keen
ness of a master of romance. These
THE MAN OF COURAGE.
There has been much talk of Mr.
Roosevelt’s courage and honesty, and
with good reason, too, for the most-
part, but Mr. Cleveland more conspic
uously than any other man of our time
has exhibited the courage that will
face even the fiercest popular clamor
and even go down to defeat for the
sake of unalterable convlctton.
This was shown when he wrote his
famous message on the tariff, although
he was warned that it would defeat
him and his party, as it did in 1888.
It was further shown in his second
term when he saved the country from
the results of the stiver craze In spite
of his \own party, and laid down the
reins government almost without a
friend. It is shown now when, after
admitting "the appreciation of Justice
which lies behind the present popular
clamor against corporations, and espe
dally railroad corporations,” he dares
to go on and say in the teeth of public
outcry and at the risk of being accused
of unworthy motives:
"There is much of the nature of
delirium in ,-.the popular outcry
against railroad corporations, for
instance. We shall all be ashamed
of It by and by. I dare say I have
some reason to- know of the real
• iniquities of corporations, and I
do know them, but there is much
that is not only groundless, but
wrong, in the offhand attacks made
on the railroads by thoughtless
people on all hands. What is well
founded in them will be cured, but
the craze of denunciation will soon
pass. . ...
"Of course, there must be some
form of Government supervision,
but it should be planned in a quiet
hour, not in one of angry excite
ment.”
'Mr. Cleveland has lately repeated
his well known opinion of the high
tariff protective system, which, he de
clares, is the mother of the trusts and
the origin of that system of favoritism
to special interests from which has
sprung not only swollen fortunes, but
tho socialistic nation that the Govern
ment is to be the parent of the indi
vidual’s private fortunes, and he urges
the Democratic, party to take up the
issue and fight the battle on it. (But
the Democratic party leaders will not
heed him, for they are lacking in his
courage.
had valuable legislative experience: he 'newspaper novelists, the modern
is able and clear-headed and has writ
ten his name among those, illustrious
Georgians that have put valuable legis
lation in our statute books.
His friends in Bibb ought to organ
ize a working committee at once to
promote his cause.
The mayor of Fort Dodge. Iowa, has
introduced an ordinance making it
compulsory on Fort Dodge bachelors
to procure a license and a bride in-
stanter. Look out for fleeing Fort
Dodgers.
Harry Thaw hurts his case when he
admits having instructed his counsel
in their conduct of U.
George Eliots and Jane Austens of the
press formed during the trial a school
of their own and took for their char
acters the actors in the drama un-
- folded before them in court. The In
humanity of woman toward woman is
| one of the mysteries of life. The five
unfortunates gathered around Harry
; Thaw became subjects of vivisection
for the literary group across the court
Every detail of dress, every expression
of face, every move of the eyelids was
; noted and analyzed. By deduction, by
j comparison, by intuitive knowledge of
| the inscrutable workings of the femi-
I nine mind, the new school sought to
I read the thoughts and depict the emo-
FOOD AND CHARACTER.
Prof, Irving Fisher, of Yale, holds
that the vegetarian is the strongest
type physically, and the experts of the
Agricultural Department go further
than that, contending that food decides
not only a man’s muscular character,
but his mental calibre and particular
fitness for business life as well. In
other words, the quality of the food
determines the quality of the man.
Such at leas! is the view of the Gov
ernment’s experts, as reported by a
Washington correspondent, who con
denses some of the conclusions of the
wise men of the Agricultural Depart
ment as follows:
To make money in the stock
market: Eat meat fresh from the
slaughter house, just aa the eagle,
the shrewdest of all types, kills a
lamb and eats It on the spot.
To become a prize fighter or a
great warrior: Eat all raw meats.
To be mediocre. Eat beef and—
To cultivate brainstorms: Eat
midnight lobster.
To be a mollycoddle: Eat nuts
and breakfast foods.
Success in everything depends
upon the regulation of your diet.
It is further stated that the depart
ment now is engaged in an exhaustive
research into the precise effect upon
the human intellect of various kinds of
food, and will soon issue a formal
statement on the subject.
The ancients had a little of the wis
dom now so manifest in the Agricul
tural Department, or Shakespeare
thought that they had. The well
known line, “upon what meat doth this
our Caesar feed, that he is grown so
great,” is at once suggested. The meat
that our Theodore and our John D.
feed on is a subject of greater interest
to those Americans who yearn to be
the whole thing or to corner the avail
able supply of dollars.
When the Agricultural Department
shall have completed Its experiments
and can, without fear of mistake, point
out the road to character, capacity and
greatness through the alimentary ca
nal. then will Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.
Rockefeller be compelled to publish the
precious secret of what they eat and
then, omitting no least particular, or
thrown down. The ordinary relations
between newspapers and police circles
more frequently hamper and restrict
the newspapers, in thwarting the pub
lication of the most interesting news
stories, than otherwise, and enterpris
ing newspaper reporters would far
sooner have tho restriction "D. P.”
(Don’t Print) taken off and be thrown’
on their own resources to obtain the
news than to go through the tame rou
tine of getting it "officially’’ with all
the doubtless judicious reservations and
limitations that this usually Implies.
This entente cordlale which exists
well-nigh universally, with the excep
tion of temporary interruptions, be
tween the fourth estate and the police
authorities, is one of the bitterest vex
ations in the life of the more ambitious
than discreet reporter. How many big
headed first page stories with which
the town would have rung, had they
not died abornin’ under the cruel,cold
blooded dictum to "kill,’’ coming per
haps after a consultation between the.
editor and #he chief on the state of
the community, he alone knows. But
how much unnecessary suffering, social
wreck and ruin the average community
has been saved by this understanding
and agreement of the guardian minds
no ona can possibly know, unless the
Recording Angel shall have Jotted it
down as deserving of credit in those
who may have sacrificed professional
inclinations to save the shedding of
innocent tears.
There Is one thing, however, upon
which the minds of the newspaper peo
ple and the police never can meet, and
that is on the proposition to put the
newspaper’s blue pencil unreservedly
into tho hands of the police authority.
The ear and the conscience of reputable
newspapers are always open, and
where an appeal to their discretion
fails it is useless to attempt dictation.
As for putting up the. bars against
their getting the news, this in reality
but lets them down, as it leaves the
reporters free of "entangling alii
ances.’’
| when a person wants something pub
lished in the paper, some essay on man
or some views upon the desirability or
the undesirable and the inaccessibility
of the unattainable, the immortality of
the soul and what not, he or she can
by addressing these things to an indi
vidual enlist the Influence of that indi
vidual toward securing its publication.
This Is especially true of sonnets.
There are fow men connected with a
newspaper who have not received son
nets. It is futile to deny that the re
ception by a member of the staff of a
sonnet caus'es him embarrassment He
feels some kind of responsibility which
he endeavors to discharge by an hum
ble presentation of the sonnet to the
sonnet editor, by whom he is received
with gibes, and his attention is di
rected to the pile of sonnets already on
hand, of the proportions of a cord of
wood. If the sonnet should be directed
to the paper, it would go to the sonnet
editor and take its regular turn for
publication or the waste basket.”
The following advice from the Times
Intended for those who address their
contributions to individuals connected
with the paper, thinking that they are
thereby enlisting their influence, will
be useful if heeded by contributors of
all newspapers:
And it’s such a pity that they
think so, because they waste a lot
of their own time and a lot of the
time of their friend, who, nine
cases out of ten, has nothing to do
with the matter they have on their
minds. In sending contributions
or communications to a newspaper
the thing to do is address them
simply—and as reverentially as
circumstances will permit—to “The
Editor,” who knows everything and
does everything and enjoys noth
ing so much as making himself
universally useful.
"It can never be denied, and it should
never be forgatten." says Mr. Cleve
land, “that the tariff is the father of
the Trusts." We thought it was the
mother and the Republican party w is
the father. However that may he, Mr.
Cleveland hits the nail on the head
when ho adds: "The simple fact is
the tariff puts Into the heands of cor
porations a powerful weapon where
with to do Injustice to our own people.”
Harry Thaw’s exclamation "If X am
insane, who is sane?” seriously re
vives the question which has often
been propounded as to which portion
of humanity is crazy—those outside ojv
those inside the asylums.
"The ‘young social set uptown' that
got its fingers burned In ’Wall street
last week has decided to stick to bridge
hereafter,” says the New York Com
mercial. They may wish they had
burned their "bridge” hereafter.
“Hearst, perched upon the garbage
barrel of journalism, yowls, so lustily
at Cleveland that it’s almost worth
while to throw a brick,” says the Phil
adelphia Ledger.
Ex-Senator Burton says that his
body and not his mind has been in jail
at Ironton. He may still be in the
United States Senate—in his mind..
Washington is said to be experienc
ing a revival of interest in Shakes
peare since the Tillman minstrels have
taken to the provinces.
The Foraker-Taft war is on in Ohio.
Both have practically launched their
booms for the Republican nomination
for the Presidency.
"Missouri stands by the mule,” says
the Augusta Herald. It is well she
does not have to be shown in this
case.
THREE GREATEST AMERICANS.
The New York Times recently pro
pounded the question to thirteen pro
fessors of history In leading colleges
and universities: "Who have been the
three greatest Americans 7” The result
of the ballot follows:
Washington ....12
Lincoln 9
Franklin 3
Jefferson 4
Lee 3
Hamilton 2
Madison 1
Marshall 1
Emerson 1
Agassiz 1
Longfellow 1
It will be noticed that all but one of
the professors give first place to Wash
ington. The Idaho University proSes-
sor put Lincoln first. Professor T. C.
McCorvey, of the University of Ala
bama, names Washington. Jefferson
and Lee; Professor J. H. T. McPher-
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If their articles or contributions, what
ever may be the character of them, are
interesting and suitable to the columns
of the newspaper they will receive due
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of any sort. If not. no amount of in
fluence ordinarily will have the effect
to obtain space for .them. Newspapers
have no right if they possessed the de
sire to give space to productions merely
as a matter of favor.
WASHINGTON SEASON OF 1S03.
Discussing the promised new social
splendors at Washington for the sea
son of 1908 and. the announcement that
“high society at the National Capital
believes that It has reason to look for
ward to next winter’s pageantry at the
White House with a fervor almost
j semi-religious in 'Its intensity,” the
j New York Sun observes:
! "How could social functions at the
I White House be more impressive, more
! ceremonious and more picturesque
j than they have been during the imme-
I diate past? It has become the custom
i to enrich the President’s personal en-
I vironment with every imaginable ac-
President Janies J. Hill says "too
fnuch has been said. by railroad men
already.” He ought to know. He has
done most of the talking.
Washington experts say that raw
beef causes ferocity.and that vegeta
rian diet makes mollycoddles of men.
"I was simply railroaded to Jail,”
says ex-Senator Elirton. One more
enemy to the railroad.*.
Spring, gentle spring is getting on
her white shoes and peek-a-boo waist
It makes a great dc-al of difference in
Atlanta whose melon is cut.
Harry Thaw feigns sanity with tho
cunning of a madman.
BODIES ROLLED UP IN HAY
AND BURNED TO DEATH.
son, of the University of Georgia, j cessor y of processional display and
names Washington, Lincoln and Lee;
Professor N. M. Trenholme. of the
University of Missouri, chooses Wash
ington Jefferson and Lincoln; Profes
sor Kemp P. Battle, of the University
of North Carolina, chooses Washing
ton, Hamilton and Marshall; Professor
Lyon G. Tyler, of William and Mary
College, thinks that Washington, Jef
ferson and Madison contributed mo3t
worthily to the nation's good, but that
Washington, Jefferson and Lee “will
be longest remembered for their char
acters or their deeds.” Professor An-
circumstance. Foreign potentates may
■ and do have vaster theaters wherein to
! manipulate the pageant. But consid-
I ering the size of the White House, its
j limitations in respect of space and of
i architecture—for jt was adjusted to the
humble needs of the days of Washing
ton, Adams, Jefferson. Jackson, Van
Buren, Buchanan, Grant. Arthur and
Harrison—considering these things, we
say, tho most eager and exacting impe
rialist must admit that President
Roosevelt has made the most of his
opportunities. Nowadays when the
LONDON, March 28.—A special dis
patch from Sofia. Bulgaria, says that
according to some of the Rumanian
refugees who have arrived on the Bul
garian side of the Danube the insur
gent peasantry have been guilty of the
same ruthless cruelties which usually
mark the feuds in the Balkans. Matty
of the landlord class have been burn
ed to death, after thoir bodies and
limbs had been enrolled in thick twists
of hay or straw. Seven children, tho
refugees report, have been hacked to
death by the revolted peasants.
ADVANCE OF THE RIOTOUS
peasants continues
VIENNA, March 28.—A dispatch re
ceived here from the frontier of Routna-
nin. says the advance of the rlormta peas
ants on Bucharest continues. Up to tho
present time, it has been found Imposslb'e
to divert them. There is great alarm n
the Roumanian capital. The garrisons in
is of the forts forming the defense of tho
citv have been Increased, and the Royal
Palace waere King Carol and Queen
Carmen Sylva reside, is strongly protected
by soldiers. T
MAN STRANDED WITH
TRIPLETS ON HIS HANDS.
son D. Morse, of Amherst College, Mas- ; President of the U nited States gets
sachusetts, was the only Northern man | rea dy to descend from the Illustrious
who voted for Lee as one of the three.
Professor McPherson, of the University
of Georgia, concludes his estimate of
Lee with this splendid tribute:
"His strength, his dignity, his
unsullied purity, his gentleness, his
humility, his courage and manli
ness his generosity and sympathy,
his unselfishness, his high sense of
duty—all mark the outlines of a
character in which it is impossi
ble to find flaw or blemish. The
supreme greatness of Gen. Lee is
becoming more appreciated with
every day that passes. Its enno
bling and inspiring influence upon
the younger generations of the
South, and indeed of the whole
country, is incalculable. For the
mighty nation that has arisen from
the ashes of the great war is proud
to claim him as her own.”
Prof. Morse, the only Northern man
who voted for Lee as one of the three,
frankly declares that "the grandeur of
apartments upstairs and gladden with
his presence the assembled courtiers
on the lower floor a trumpet blast In
the hallway ushers in the All Highest.
Ten blazing military officials precede
him. Everybody rises with reverent
activity. Army. Navy and Marine
Corps officers go ahead in serried and
bedizened circumstance. With bulging
chests and radiant livery they march—
nay, nay, they swim—a vision of pecu-
1 liar majesty and grace. Nothing more
beautiful ha? ever dawned on human
I vision. Thus it is a question in the
unenlightened mind whether there, can
be any possible improvement on the
existing system."
Why not let all the officials genu
flect. all the private citizens kowto-.v,
and all the ladies salaam, while the
band plays “God Save the King?”
ATLANTA, March 23.—Three trio
lets six months old, their father,
mother, brother and sister are strand
ed in Atlanta. Mr. Wooten, the fath-
I er, came here from Greenville S. C,
i looking for work and falling to find it
is now anxious to get back home. Tho
Associated Charities is taking a hand
in the case.
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS LEAGUE
TO BE ORGANIZED IN ATLANTA.
ATLANTA, March 27.—At meeting
of a committee composed of prominent
Atlantans, tonight plans were made to
organize a local and State anti-tuber
culosis league, to fight the spread of
this disease. The societies will co
operate with the medical profession.
The charter organizations of city are
especially interested in formation.
JENNINGS IS RE-ELECTED
ATLANTA CHIEF OF POLICE.
ATLANTA. March 28.—At a meet
ing of the Atlaflta board of police com
missioners held tonight, Henry Ji :i-
nittgs was re-elected chief of the At
lanta police department. No other an
nouncement as to changes or elections
was made. There has been a hot race
on for chief, many other Atlantans
having been mentioned for the place.
THREE ELECTRICAL STORMS
1 DAMAGED property
2S—Within an
; this city and
rt three electri-
Innry severity,
nrth of damage
PITTSBURG. March
lnerval of several houi
vicinity today experienc
cal storms of extraor
Thousands of dollars w
was caused by lightning, but no fatalities
were reported.
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