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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH THE UCUUBBUFI PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 663 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. day will r/ji he accused and condemned to death. London ? seif-indulging rich whom he denounce? will merely smile at his ' presumption" and go on In their chosen way. The Chicago election cannot In any j GALUSHA A. GROW, sense be tortured Into a defeat for ■ A remarkable link was snapped be- mur.icipal ownership or a conkmna- tween the past and the present when tion of Its principles." quoth the At- Galusha A. Grow died Sunday In Penn- CU MULATIVE EVIDENCE. C. R. PENDLETON, President THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA. The Telegraoh can be found on sale at the Kimball House and the Pied mont Hotel in Atlanta. SETBACK FOR MUNICIPAL OWN ERSHIP. The result of Tuesday’s mayoralty election in Chicago is a decided setback for municipal ownership. Two years ago Edward F. Dunne. Democrat, was elected mayor on a platform calling for the Immediate ownership and man agement by the city of the street rail ways. to be obtained by condemnation proceedings if not otherwise. In the inor, election Mr. Dunne received 163,- 189 votes against 138,671 for John M. Harlan, his Republican rival. This The check? were given to Treas urer BID?, who took them to Chair man Cortelyou. If there were any among them of life Insurance com panies, or other like orgnr..za!i n«. of course Cortelyou must have in formed the President. This amount enabled the New York State committee to continue Its work, with the result that at least 50.000 votes were turned In the city of New York alone, making a dif ference of 100.000 votes in the gen eral restllr.—E. H. Harriman in let ter to Sydney Webster Jan. 2. 1906. referring to Republican campaign contributions in election of .1904. This statement the President characterizes as "a deliberate and wilful untruth—by right it should be characterized by an even shorter and more ugly word. I never re quested Mp. Harriman to raise a dollar for the Presidential cam paign of 1904.”—Press Dispatches April 2. 1907. lanta Georgian. Maj have been re-elected a the other fellow who - pal ownership? mu? Dunne all. or was it d for munici- A QUESTION WITH TWO SIDES. Mr. S. E Kiser, contributing to the Chicago Record-Herald, discusses child labor a* follows: • For a little bread and a little meat. For two poor soles for h!s~weary feet. For a tattered coat and a bed of rags And a curse or a blow If he ever lass— For the right to live a? a worm may live— He gives up all that a child may give. October 29, 1904, Judge Alton B. Parker declared with reference to Re publican methods: "The trusts are furnishing the money with which they hope to control the election. Iam sorry to be obliged to say this. If it were not true, I would 1 Ere he taste? the joy to which youth is j heir ; Hi? brow is seamed by the marks of care; 1 Before he has learned that he has the right To set his goal on the fairest height. He is robbed of hope and deprived of I zeal lAnd bound for life to the racking wheel. sylvanla. The name is familiar to the people of this generation merely as a historic.:: reminiscence. ft is a name associated with the giants of the ante- j helium period. All the generations of school boy? that have gr-r-wn up since . the great war knerw him as a familiar | friend through his niche in the “Pop- I ular Speaker." He was one of the elo quent orators of that tremendous period ! to which Clay, Calhoun, Webster Ben- | ton, and later Davis, Stephens, Toombs i and their contemporaries belonged. I He entered Congress in 1851 as a Dem- ; ocrat from Pennsylvania and was the ! youngest member of that body. He : inevitably, perhaps, changed his poll- ! tics to the complexion of the section : which he represented during the stir ring war' period and was Speaker of I the House of Representatives 1861-63. He played a great role in a great period and the fact that no infamy attaches to : his name indicates that he played It ! nobly and well. After forty years’ re- WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH SAN DERSON? In the recent campaign In Pennsyl- year, after two years’ experience with no { gny ^ g a ) n Presidency or municipal ownership politics, the result was Just the reverse. The vote re ceived by Frederick A. Busse. the Re publican candidate, was 164,839, while Mayor Dunne, standing on the same any earthly reward.” ■November 4, 1904, Mr. Roosevelt de nounced Judge Parker's statements as "unqualifiedly and atrociously false.” "Certain slanderous accusations as to Our God. we say, is a God of love. And we preach of glories that are . above, | tirement he returned to Congress four But never whatever Death has In store | years ag0 from Pennsylvania, but his For the little slave when he slaves no more j day was past. It is given to one man May the glee of youth he has never j to play a pre-eminent part in but one known Or the joy of winning become his own. platform as before, received 151,718, | Mr. cortelyou and myself,” said the showing a plurality of over 18,000 votes ; President, "have been repeateed time for the Republican candidate. The re sult of the election, while a severe de feat for municipal ownership, Is not an tmmlxed defeat for Democracy since the Republicans won by endorsing cer tain ordinances passed by the Demo- and again by Judge Parker, candidate of his party for the office of President. . . . There is not one particle of truth in tho statement as regards any thing that has gone on in the manage ment of the Republican party. Mr. cratlc City Councils and which were Parker’s accusations against Mr. Cor- made the chief Issue in the campaign. | telyou and me are monstrous.” These ordinances were submitted to ^ The insurance investigation conduct- the peoplo and were approved by a ma- j e( ] by the New York Legislature in 1905 Jority of about 40.000 votes. They re- established the fact that the great In ject municipal ownership, but provide surance trusts contributed *150,000 of for advantages which will be of great j the stockholders' money to President benefit to the people. It is conceded . Roosevelt’s campaign fund in 1904 and that the vote generally showed a de cided reversal of public opinion on municipal ownership since the mayor alty campaign of two years ago. It would appear that the people of Chi cago, after fuller consideration of the subject, concluded It would be unwise to embark In the street railway busi ness. The campaign, it is stated, was one of the most vicious Chicago had ever the President now admits it. Where does he stand? He may never know that the world is fair. And he never may struggle above de spair: He is robbed of the chance that he had at birth To claim the price that a man is worth. And, with limbs that ache and with eyes that plead. He is crucified on the cross of Greed. For a little meat and a little bread And a little rest when the day is dead— For the right to live as a worm may live—■ great epoch. Galusha A. Grow appar ently lingered superfluous on the stage of events. And yet though a wonder ful old man because of the times In which he lived, he was not so very old in years, being only in his eighty-third year. But the life of an octogenarian, crowded with wars and revolutions, must appear much longer than of one passed in the serenity of peace and quietude. BAILEY ELIMINATES HIMSELF. He gives up all that a child may give: Senator Joseph W. Bailey had an And we speak with pride of the grace j ovation on his return home from we claim j _ . . . ... ... ... And with love ’we mention the dear i Washington and did a sensible thing Christ’s name! | eliminated himself as a Presidential possibility. He did this by expressing himself in favor of his colleague. Sen ator Culberson, as first choice, and for A PRACTICAL REFORMER. Mr. Thomas Roseman, of Nebraska, Is no less an enemy of race suicide than is a certain illustrious personage whose name is a household word. But*] there is a difference. Mr. Roseman does not preach, he practices; he be lleves an ounce of the concrete Is worth known and appears to have been com- , a pound of the abstract. He has money plicated by the “butting in” nnd active 1 and Is willing to spend it in a way to participation of William R. Hearst, of j encourage an increase in the popula- New York, in support of Mayor Dunne, j tion. "William Randolph Hearst came per- j He is a wealthy retired cattleman of sonally from New York to take part In j McPherson County, Neb., and he pro- the campaign, and brought with him j poses to give $50 in gold to each and cartoonists and editorial writers,” the every baby born in that county and press dispatches announced. "His pa- j $ioo to every couple married in Me pers were tho only publications in the j Pherson County, provided they fix their city supporting Mayor Dunne, all other ; residence therein. Mr. Roseman, ac- newspapers being for Mr. Busse and j cording to the account before us, be- the ordinances. Tho papers favoring j lleves that his plan will not only in- Mr. Busse made much of the cry that | crease the number of children in faml- Chlcago was able to manage Its own j lies residing in his county, but stimu- intcrcsts without receiving Instructions j kite Immigration to that favored sec- ffrom New York.” j tion. How much Mr. Hearst contributed Such a belief is eminently reasonable, to Mayor Dunne's defeat there is no j The promise of *100 In gold on the way of estimating, but It was a bad | wedding day and $50 for every baby d«y for Hearslism as well as municipal ; born surely ought to increase the num- ownership. j ber of> marriages and stimulate the growth of families among people of These pathetic and appealing lines describe child labor, or child slavery, In some <of its phases, accurately enough. The boy or girl who works in a factory from sun to sun and from year’s end to year’s end, with no time for play and no strength left for school even when night schools are within reach, is a pitiable object and one which organized society should not tol erate. But there Is another side to the ques- W. J. Bryan, for $Vhom he has not al ways had a friendly feeling, falling the other. The wisdom of Mr. Bailey’s course was not so much In his choice of substitutes as in declaring himself out of the running. Senator Bailey nyiy well congratulate himself on the fidelity of his constituency and hi? triumph in the fight that was made on him. while not presuming too much on CAT AND DOG WORSHIP. A cable dispatch from the BTitlsh cap ital indicates that Father Bernard Vaughan, a “fiery-tongued Jesuit,” is out on tho trail of London society with a sharp stick. He has been preaching sermons on "The Sins of Society,” and society ha? been flocking to hear him, whether for mere entertainment or with serious purpose Is not stated. Before beginning a recent sermon Father Vaughan made the following itatemont iri regard to the "cat and Jog worship” which he had denounced: "Many correspondents have told limited means in that part of the world. If Mr. Roseman keeps it up, he may die poor, but he will have as sisted in bringing into existence many human beings who might otherwise never have seen the light. fne that what I said In prev'ous aermons about cat and dog worship among silly women Is not true. I, therefore, refer them to the serv ants who have to stay up half the night petting and nursing these little beasts; to the cooks who have to cater for th^m: to the veterinary surgeons who have to take care of their diseases; to the undertakers who have to furnish their funerals. "If this is not enough, let them go to the printers who Issue me morial notices edged in deep black inviting friends to a memorial ser vice In the drawing room, with the notification that It is not to say ‘adieu.’ hut ’au revolr’—Whatever that means. I suppose It means that they are all going to the dogs.” STILL AFTER THE BOLL WEEVIL. j Current dispatches from Washington convey the information that the De- 1 partment of Agriculture this season | will experiment with two new enemies , to the peace and health of the boll : weevil. "Chemicals and insetes which : for a time have given promise of help- i Ing the planter to suppress the pest I have repeatedly disappointed the ex- | pectations of their sponsors, and it i would be injudicious to rely implicitly ! on the present plan of using red ants and the larvae of a certain fly as de stroyers,” as the New York Tribune s says. The South will naturally be pleased | to see that the Government is contin- ! uing its efforts in this direction. The i Tribune truthfully says that "the area j in which the weevil makes mischief has j increased, sometimes slowly and some times rapidly, until it amounts to one- The last excellent sentence quoted 1 third of the whole region suited to the shows that Father % nughan ha^ quick- ; cultivation of the great Southern sta- ness of wit and sense of humor enough p i e . There 1? no telling where the to attract crowds even of those who go j trouble will stop. If the Invasion of to church without serious purpose. "I new territory could be prevented and have no patience with these people," the prevalence of the evil could be mln- he added, who ought to be dandling imized where it has already obtained a children In their laps and nursing their foothold an Immensely Important agri little ones instead of scandalizing every cultural industry would be vastly ben- eecllon of the community by pouring 1 eft ,ed. It Is gratifying to observe, out their love upon these creatures that therefore, that Secretary Wilson’s de- are not meant to be treated as their partment does not vet consider the own offspring. Fie upon them, end ; ca se hopeless. The weevil is only one upon those who encourage them. I C f several obstacles with which the have been sent a lot of trashy garbage co tton planter is obliged to contend. tion. We entirely agree with the prin- , them _ Qn Ws re{urn tQ h , g home tQWn clpal of the Chicago public schoo! who ( he dr£uvp by four mllk _ whlte contends that more discrimination ; horses j Q a carrfage of , avender and should be shown in the agitation against child labor, or the labor of per sons of any age up to 14 or 16. School ing Is necessary and play is, too, but the Chicago educator rightly argues that the habit of work must be formed early in life or it may never be formed at all. He might well add that a cer tain amount of labor in early youth is both physically and mentally whole some aside from its value as indus trial training. "Four hours of school,” he says, “and four hours of work alter nating will make every child self-sus taining after the age of 10. Society and the law have prevented the boy from getting work that really is work. Every child ought to work every day of his life. He Is born Into a world which requires work, and he ought not’ to be permitted to form habits of Idle ness and shirking. Child Idleness Is worse than child labor.” This does not make the needed pro vision for play, but as a general prop osition the Idea is sound. The difficul ty is one of practical arrangements. How are four hours of school and four hours of work "that really 13 work” (remunerative) to be provided for either the poor boy or the son of pros perous parents? The latter has the usual number of school and play hours and does, or does not, as the case may be, the few tasks appointed for him In and about the home. The poor boy feels the need of employment as well as of schooling, but in order to secure the former, under prevailing condi tions, he must labor more than four hours. Reconstruction of methods Is necessary before anything approximat ing the Chicago educator’s plan can be practically applied to any large extent, but the plan in itself Is excellent Children, that Is, boys and girls, the former especially, should be taught to work and to regard labor as necessary all through their coming lives. Dean Russell, of the New York Teachers’ College, rightly declares that a mistake is made in this country in teaching the young that they may reasonably expect to occupy the highest political and professional positions in the laniJ— that they “can do anything but earn a day’s wages by a decent day’s day’s work." The ambition of the excep- white, over the town, followed by six bands, the local fire company, the en tire population of Gainesville and many visitors from the surrounding counties. His reception is thus further described: Every business house in Gaines ville was closed, the day was made a holiday, and when the Senator arrived every steam whistle in the town was blown and every other noise -making arrangement was turned loose. A special train filled with his friends met the Senator at Fort Worth and brought him in triumph into Gainesville. The fes tivities lasted all day. There was a big reception,.in which the entire town took part. . First at night there was another reception at the Elks’ Hall, and later on there was a banquet Senator Bailey spoke for two hours in the afternoon, deliv ering a blistering attack on his en emies. He scored every enemy he has but surprised every one by coming out for the first time in his life for his long-time political rival and foe, 'William Jennings Bryan. Bailey declared unequivocally for Bryan for President and took him self out of the Presidential race. This was a surprise for ever since Bailey and Bryan served in Con gress together, over twelve years ago. they have been politically un friendly. This unfriendliness was displayed at the Chicago conven tion in 1896. when, after the delega tion from eve»y Southern State had snatched up its banner and was marching around the hail wildly cheering for Bryan. Bailey held tho Texas delegation stolidly in their seats. Bailey has since consist ently opposed Bryan. Last August, when Bryan returned from Europe and made hi” Government owner ship speech, ‘Ba’,!ey showed his dis gust by rising from his seat in a box and walking out. Ten days later he withdrew his aecenlance of the invitation to attend the B'ryan reception at Louisville, because of Bryan’s Government ownership speech. Speaking of the fight that had been made on him. Mr. Bailey said: “These men. my countrymen, thought they were eliminating me from the Presidential equation of this country, I have long since eliminated myself. I know that I can never be President of this na tion. but that is not true because of anything they have said or done; it is true because of things I have said and done. “The fact that my name has dis appeared from the list of ellgibles is due to their hellish work, but their work will not last, for I will so serve my people and my country as to restore my name to the posi tion It occupied before this cam paign. These kind of men cannot prevail against an honest man who tells the truth to the people.” Vania. Treasurer William H. Berry charged that there had been prodigious and ahameleers graft in the furnishing of the new Capitol building at Harris burg. Governor Pennypacker and the rest of the Republicans big and little were deeply shocked, for Berry was a Democrat, am! with voices shaking with indignation they made the coun ter-charge that It was all a campaign sensation to mislead and attract un wary voters. Berry was not ready with the actual proof, and the Republican gang was established in power more strongly than ever, but his outcry led to the legislative inquiry now going on, which more than justifies his boldest state ments. According to a Harrisburg dispatch to the Philadelphia Record, a general summary of the main features disclosed since the investigation began shows the following remarkable fig ures: What State paid Sand erson. 138.7 779.472.96 155.369.60 80,748.80 69.408.00 1.619.20 02.416.40 3.256.80' 2.796 80 2.281A0 Glass mosaic friezes In the rotunda...$ Baccarat cut glass. Painting and deco rating Designed woodwork for 14 rooms Rostrums for Sen ate and House caucus rooms.... Thermostats Bootblack’s stand.. Woodwork for Sen ate postoffice and other ante-rooms Barber's case in Senate toilet 38 mahogany clothes-trees .... 31 umbrella stands. Woo d w o r k for Governor's suite. 50 desks for Sen ators 208 desks for Rep resentatives 'Medicine” chest for room of Pres ident pro tem. of Senate Desk for Lieuten ant Governor Chan d e 11 e r s and bronze ?taea«-d-_ including $137,600 for models 2,187,122.96 According to 8a’on Sanderson's broth- er-In-1 aw. the comparative figures on the chandeliers alone are 1,612.572.56 Electric lighting... 71,833.60 Cost to Sand erson. 28,759.20 $ 7.224.26 2S.0S4.34 174.962.00 28.170.00 2.060 00 24.835.00 125.00 6.145.00 323.00 456.00 434.00 94.208.00 13.230.00 59.432.00 16,080.75 3.250.00 16,224.00 239.20 349.60 75.09 130.00 550 000.00 17,825.00 tition when the aging and less efficient man, unlee* In command of a business of his own, must inevitably drop out of the race. MARK TWAIN AND THE SOUTH ERN ATTITUDE. Mark Twain - * Southern habits and Southern attitude in certain matters are brought to light quite vividly now and then in his autobiography in the North American Review. Recently we noted some of his remarks in favor of old-fashioned Southern cooking and against certain “fussy superstitions" at the North in regard to the Imaginary dangers of hot bread, etc. Later on we find this kindly reference to the ne groes, revealing an attitude typically Southern: “All the negroes were fr'ends of ours, and with those of our own age we were in effect comrades. X sat- in effect, using the phrase as a modification. We were comrades, and yet not comrade?. Color and condition interposed a subtle line which both parties were conscious of. and which rendered complete fusion impossible. We had a faith ful and affectionate goad friend, ally and adviser in 'Uncle Dan'I,' a middle-aged slave, whose head was the best one in the negro quarter, whose sympathies were wide and warm, and whose heart was honest and simple and knew no guile. He has served me well these many, many years. I have not seen him for more than half a century, and yet spiritually I have had his welcome company a good part of that time, and have staged him In books under his own name and as ‘Jim.’ and carted him all around—to Hannibal, down tho Mississippi on a raft, and even across the Desert of Sahara in a balloon—and he has endured it all with the patience and friendliness and loyalty which were his b’rtli- righL’* As he came up to me he said. I wsnt to know what you mean by such an answer as that.' I told him I meant just what 1 had said that It was a free hall, and a man had a right to be .iust where he pleased. 'Sir,' said Keitt. I will let you know that you are a black Re publican puppy.' 'Never mind, said I, 'I shall occupy such place in this hall as I please, and no negro driver shall crack his whip over me' This angered Keitt and he made a grab for my throat, and I struck him. "This proved to be the signal for a rough-and-tumble fight. The Southerners who were sitting near rushed r> Keitt’s assistance, and ame to mv .aid. Barksdale. 3ls?lppl, who essayed the a peacemaker, caught hold Potter, thinking that : ; e meant me harm, hit him. :!e di 1 not know who it was him. but supposing it was ithers \V. Cat Wi lg the bed assault on hi? ;arli :ff his wig. Barks dart picked If up and put it on wronc end foremost. This made him ap pear so ridiculous that all burst oui laughing, and in this way the affair ended." Tho house: linas ?e were warm times in both : of Congress and South Cam- representatives appear to have been as ready with blows then as some of them have been in more recent times. It will be recalled that it was another representative of the Hotspur State, Preston S. Brooks, who about the same period struck Charles Sum ner for the latter’s attack on his rela tive. Senator Butler, in the court' of a political speech, an incident which fired the blood of both sections at the time. But in view of the tremendous conflict to which the agitation led up. it is marvelous on the whole, how few personal collisions there were among the leaders of the oppes ng elements. Mark Twain feels and speaks on this subject precisely as does the average Southerner of the older generation who ! GLADSTONE AND THE PEERAGE, was closely associated with the ne- It is a popularly accepted tradition groes as slaves and later on as family concerning William E, Gladstone; tile servants. The attitude may be de- great English commoner, that he de served as one of protecting kindliness cllncd the peerage and remained a and. friendship on the part of a supe- | commoner by choice. This tradition i? rior toward an acknowledged inferior. ! somewhat Spoiled by "Marquise d? All of which clearly indicates that to live in Pennsylvania, and “get in on the ground floor” with the Republican gang pays better than to be the owner of a dozen "Klondike mines. KAISER A FINE DRUMMER. Emperor William of Germany missed his vocation, as the popular phrase has it. He has the talents of the mod ern commercial traveler highly devel oped. He showed a bent in this direc tion soon after he came to the throne, it is said. In his frequent journeys to foreign countries he always bore in mind that he had great business con cerns at home, like Krupp’s, which would be very glad of big orders, and especially from the Sultan he managed to extract quite a number of valuable orders for steel rails and cannot!. One of the latest evidences of this bent Is told In the following: Now he has gone a step further. In a walk through his estate at Cadinen some time, ago he hap pened to notice that the clay in a certain district looked remarkably like clay he had seen somewhere used in making pottery and porce lain. Ho had specimens examined by experts, who declared It good. Then he lost no time. He had a factory built, ordered designers and other skilled workmen from the porcelain factory at Charlntten- burg to the new works In Cadinen, deviated a great deal of time and money to the enterprise and in a few months the factory began to turn out articles in majolica which he pronounced better than anything of the kind produced abroad. His tiles for flooring he was particu larly proud of, and he began -at once to solicit orders from friends. When he went to shooting parties or visited any of his magnates he was loud -in praises of the Cadinen manufactory, and numerous were the orders he got. He is also fond of saying a good word tor his farm produce, his prize bulls, boars, fowls, arid is im mensely flattered if he gets orders for stock. The emperor has a habit of not ing his orders on his shirt-cuffs with a scrubby bit of lead pencil. No doubt if the Emperor had been In the private walks of life he would have vied with Harry Lehr as an am bassador of trade. The venerable author’s mention Of his use of “Uncle Dan’I" as literary material In “Huckleberry Finn” and other works Is of especial interest to Southern writers of fiction, all of whom have from time to time likewise drawn upon their recollection of some negro or negroes with whom they were fa miliarly acquainted (without being on terms of equality) in early life. tlonal youth may be usefully stimulated in this way. but the average boy is j The South wiH ap P laud Mr - Bailey harmed and too often learns to scorn | for his manful s P lrlt and sympathize the only means of making an honest ! with him in hl? work o£ P ersonaJ re habilitation. living that matches his limited .abili ties. —I cannot call it literature—on this The expected has happened. The lunacy commission has decided Thaw Is sufficiently sane to advise his coun sel. Jerome says he will now push .... weather Is another, though its ef- j f or a conviction. But as he has not subject of the intelligence and of the fects varv from sea5on to season Me _ 1 souls of dog. and of cats. Why do | teorological conditions are bevond hu- they not go on to rats and mice? If Mn control , but a , arse desree of SUc _ one animal has a right, all others , cess hag attended the war on the pests equally have it. which attack fruit, tobacco and other In another recent sermon, according „. ops , and a simIlar conquest mav to the dispatch. Father Vaughan boldly j FOlne day be effected ln the cotton “declared that the elite of London though nominally members of either j the State or the Catholic Church, were I i fields of Texas and Louisiana.' been trying to prove Thaw guilty of murder the question naturally arises. , what sort of a conviction will he push j tor? According to an Indianapolis news paper. an educator of that city, the head of the "Technical Institute,” Jour neyed to Washington to invite Mr. Roosevelt to deliver an address at the unveiling of a monument to the late Gen. Lawton. In the course of the in terview with the President the educa tor stated that the "Technical Insti tute Is a place where we teach our young men how to beat swords into One point which Mr. Harriman failed ! plowshares.” This beautiful metaphor to elaborate sufficiently i? how did the • from Holy Writ did hot produce the $200,000 raised by himself and friends I usual effect, for it brought out the turn 50,000 votes. Were votes quoted at $4 each in New York in 1904? Pres'dent Roosevelt says he "never as dovod of Christian ethics as the ! requested Mr. Harriman to raise a dol- heathen: In fact, worse, because they ■ lar tor the Presidential campaign of "Ryan. Root. Roosevelt” Is the allit had the light, but hid in the darkness i 1904.” No, indeed. Roosevelt would 1 eratlon which binds together the latest of the worst vice* of antiquity.” j never have risked his chances on the j political combination, according This free-spoken Savonarola of our I “dollar fund" proposition. J Harriman. quick response: “Your young men should also be taught to beat plow shares Into swords.” That waa a cruel April fool joke to 1 Easter played on the ladies with their i bonnets and costumes. SAVINGS BANKS IN THE SOUTH. The Washington Herald quotes C. Thomas C'oombs, of Chicago, whose business brings him in touch with the banks of a large section of the United States, as saying that “the most inter esting phase of banking is the great development of savings banks in sev eral of the Southern States, especially North Carolina and Tennessee.” And further: “It has not been so many years ago that people of the South hardly knew what savings banks were. The thrifty habits of the people of New England were unknown south of the Potomac: but all that has changed, and now you will scarcely find a town In .the cotton belt that will not accept the dimes and dollars of wage earners.” The observer quoted attributes the change in part to the establishment of factories. “The employes of the va rious industries are more apt to put away money than laborers in a purely agricultural region. At High Point. N. C., which has more than a hundred furniture factories. 1 was told that 90 per cent of the operatives had money in the local savings banks.” It is added that “in a good many places in the South the negroes are beginning to see the wisdom of saving and are or ganizing bank*.” The saving* banks Is a mean* of lay ing by for a rainy day. or rather for the unproductive period toward the close of life, which no poor man or woman can afford to neglect, particu larly in these time* of intense compe- PLENTY OF ENCOURAGEMENT. The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) having several times called upon the South to lead In Democratic counsels, the Nashville American asks if the former is witling to express an opinion as to what would be the result, and the Record replies: Yes. A winning campa'gn In ?90S on the old issue of individualism against paternalism and centrali zation of power in the Federal Government. The country Is gov erned too much, and with rank fa voritism. Let the South name a Democrat, not a dreamer, and stand him on an old-fashioned Democrats plat form. The time i? ripe tor a re turn of the Government within (he fold of the Constitution. The South is in a position to demand the leadership. She has stood by the Democratic colors through thick and thin and earned recognition. And the New York Sun of the day before remarks: "The South is In a position to dictate the Democratic nomination in 1908. No candidate dis tasteful to the Southern delegates is likely to be seriously considered. If they present a firm front against Mr. Bryan or any other man, he will be dropped as unavailable. No man can be the logical candidate if the South doesn’t want him, although it will be in the minority in tho convention’. The section for Mr. Bryan to canvass with his sample case containing the pana cea of ultimate G-o% r ernmont ownership Fontenoy,” who, writing in the Wash ington Post, says: Lord Liverpool's death serves to recall the fact that it was as Earl cf Liverpool that the late Will am E. Gladstone was at one moment on the point of being raised to the peerage. There was a time when he was not only willing, but even anxious to wind up his wonderful career in the house of Lords, pro viding that the- earldom bestowed upon him could be that of Liver pool, a city with which he was so greatly Identified by family and political association?. It is claimed that only when he. found that there were insuperable obstacles to his taking the title of Earl of Liverpool that he declined to consider any further the idea of accepting a peerage, and made up his mind to die a? he had lived, plain Will'nin E. Gladstone. The obstacles wore in the form of objections raised by the last of the Jenkhj >on earls of Liverpool's maternal grandson. Ce cil George Foljanibe, who, in 1S93, was created Lord Hawksbury. It is a matter cf unwritten law In England that no newly-created peer should select as his title one which has belonged to a family which is still In existence, nnd which has expectation 'of having the dignity in question revived in its favor by the Crown. These ox- , pectations were realized in the case of Lord Hawksbury. For on being appointed lord steward of the royal ■household on the accession t> power cf the present Liberal ad ministration, the Earldom of Liv erpool. last held by his mother's father, was recalled Into existence in his favor by King Edward. Thus we will once more have to re sign the illusion that a man was found who was too great to bow to the blan- j dishmenls of honors nnd titles. WOMEN AND BABiES. “A kind-hearted woman lately ‘held’ a beautiful baby in a Manhattan de partment store to oblige 'a perfect lady/ who assured her 'she'd return in a minute.' ” says the Brooklyn Eagle. "The ‘perfect, lady' fai’e-d to return at is the South, and not New England— 1 all, and the :e hav< icd to take impotent and barren New England. .Mr. Bryan, of course, knows this; but he would like to go down into the South with as many promises of dele gates from the North as he can mus ter, realizing that the South is cold to him because It will have none of Gov ernment ownership, the mere sugges tion of which fills it with the gloomie..= t forebodings.” The South again may not be allowed to lead, or may not try, being loath to assume the responsibility; but if the latter, it will not be for lack of encour- j agement. The foregoing are but exam- i pies of numerous utterances of a sim ilar character. charg about kind of the 'beautiful baby.* This the hundredth instance of i i two years, in this c'ty. Ev< one of them has hr op published hut kind-hearted women seem not to learn anything from them." What does the Engle expect the “kind-hearted'’ wo man to learn? To un!c-,rn her love of babies beautiful or ugly? To view them with distrust or suspicion when offered from any source? Rather Ft them be themselves "kind-hearted - ’ and ignorant or gullible still. Both Carnegie and Rockefeller are larger contributors to charity than Mrs. Rus'ell Sage, but the latter Is a larger. IN ANTE-BELLUM FISTICUFF CONGRESS. Galusha A. Grow, who has just died, though he entered Congress at a period when the great triumvirate. Clay, Cal houn and Webster, was being broken up by death, and who was a familiar friend of Thomas H. Benton, used to relate In the following words the story of his famous fight with Keitt, of South Carolina: i contributor to the tax collector than either of the others. Mrs. Sago pays taxes on $7.or>S,000 while Carnegie pays on *7.300.000 and Rockefeller pays on a little more than $3,000,000. Having did or are harm Mr said things supposed to Roosevelt is vhich much “It was during the debate as to whether Buchanan's message on the Lecompton Constitution of Kansas should be referred to the Committee on Territories, which was Democratic, or to a select commmittee of ten. I had pre viously been chairman of the Com mittee on Territories while Cank- was Speaker, and was then a mem ber of the committee, and. accord ingly, had charge of the Republican forces. The House sat until long after midnight. About 1:30 I crossed over to the Democratic side to consult with John Hickman as to the best means of protracting the session until morning. While I was lalk'ng with Hickman Gen. Quitman arose to sneak We did not want him to talk, but to keep on voting, and I objected. "Keitt. who wan sitting near where I was standing, broke out. 'If you are going to object, go hack to your own side of the hall.’ I re plied that the hall was a free one, and every man had a right to go where he pleased. Keitt then arose from his seat and came around to th« aiele tn which I was standing. recently tave don expected at an early date to say something to the : contrary which will undo the harm. : He will S3y It. all right, as there never j was a question up yet that he did not ! get on both sides of it. But will it un- i do anything? Hardly. The Roosevelt-Harriman episode may be regarded as Indicating a good reason why Theodore Roosevelt will not venture tor a third term. Tt was a lulu hand the President played on the corporations that furnished the money for hi? election which, it is obvious, hs could never play again. The Old Dominion is cg't.ating the question of incorporating the "unwrit ten law” among her criminal statutes. We don't need it down this way. The hip pocket pra- tice and deadly gun play are sufficiently developed as it Is. Poor old Depew saj-s somebody did say something to him about the French ambassadorship, but he isn't kicking if they will let him alone in peace. k INDISTINCT PRINT
