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■ind TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGBUT. FRIDAY, MARCH 29 ,1907* IKE KIM TElEGRiPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH- ING COMPANY, 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. 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- There is one thing of which con tributors may. be assured. It is this: 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 attention’, without extraneous influence 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. INDISTINCT PRINT