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FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1907.
THE TmCE-A-TTEEK TELEGRAPH
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: Caught on
the Wing
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By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
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H"r+++++ | The annual meeting in Savannah to- i
J j n:orrow of tile Medical Association of
X I Georgia gives me occasion to say that
T ' t.,is , rganization was formed in Macon
% ■ in l »49, fifty-eight years ago. under
v- ! the name of" “T.-ie Medical Society of [
'the s:at<- of Georgia." Eighty phvsi- '
clans, representing thirty counties, met j
I in Kso6n on March 20, 1849, and organ—.I
ized the society with the election of |
L. D. Ford, president: It. D. Arnold,
and T. R. Lamar, vice-presidents; J.
.V. Green, corresponding secretary; C-
T. Quintard, recording secretary. Pres
ident L. D. Ford lived In Augusta, and
was one of Georgia’s most distinguish
ed physicians and surgeons. Secretary
J. Mercer Green was a highly esteemed
he Sen- [ citizen of Macon, and an eminent doc
tor. The meeting adjourned to meet
in- this city on the second Tuesday in
April, 1850. 'In 1868 the name of the
society was changed to the “Medical
Association of Georgia,” by which title
it has been known ever since. The
golden anniversary was celebrated in
1899 with appropriate exercises.
I notice that President Roosevelt has
d 'To the School Children of
H
ester-
Car-
ic-rton,
Willi-
-s, of
are can-
\Hn '■••ems to lie in ex-
ilth and shows no traces o'
ss of some time ago. Four
ove mentioned gentlemen
d a number of terms in the
1 are anticipating with in-
pleasure service on what
[all has termed the "Grand
he General Assembly, or, as
It on another occasion, the I addre
•e Graveyard.” XIne raera-
te last House will be In the
r-nate, and of this number
andidates for president of
Twenty of the Senators
have seen service in the House. Tom
Felder has his eyes upon all the Sen
ators who visit Macon. Hawes Willi
ford and Hay's are still in the city.
Akin has gone to Albany, and Flynt
has departed for—well. Jim in his
travels is somewhat like the Irish-,
man’s flea.
Among the legislative gossip of the
hour I hear that It Is probable a bill
■will be Introduced at the approach
ing session of the General Assembly
to increase the number of the State
Railway Commission from three to
five members the Governor to appoint
the two additional members for a cer
tain term of years, or simply until the
next general election. Another report
Is that a bill will be introduced to
abolish all of the present commission
ers nnd the Governor to appoint .their
successors until the next general elec
tion. I do not know what shape the
matter will take, hut It seems certain
there will be some very Important
legislation relative to the commission.
Judge Dick Russell Is a central fig
ure at the annual nu/ting of the
Grand Council of the Royal Arcanum
in this city. He is kept busy shak
ing hands with his innumerable
» friends. Everybody has a joyous greet
ing for the genial jurist. Judge Rus
sell is an ardent fraternal society man
and belongs to numerous of these or
ganizations.
One of the most devoted Royal
Arcnnlans In Georgia is Hon. J. M.
Pace, of Covington. He is deeply in
terested in the success of the order.
Col. Pace Is one of Georgia’s polish
ed gentlemen, courtly and courteous.
He has held numerous honorable pub
lic positions. As a member of the
Legislature he was a strong advocate
of the proposition to exempt church
nnd college property from taxation.
If J were to mention him as A. O.
Blalock many persons might not know
to whom I refer, but when I say "Bud”
Blalock then I he whole State knows.
He is one of the most popular men In
Georgia, lie has a legislative record
that is a honor to him and of great
.benefit to the entire commonwealth.
Ills response to the address of wel
come to the Royal Areanlans yester
day was a gen:. Alf. Blalock brother
of Bud. is also In the city, and like
Bud. has rendered the State much ser
vice ns a member of the Genera! As
sembly. The Blalock boys are wheel
horses In politics.
A meeting of the Gmnd Counci! of
the Royn! Arcanum would not look
natural without the presence of those
two soli.' Northeast Georgians, Judge
A. O. McCurry and Peyton Hawes.
They arc true gold wherever they may
he. Many public honors have beer,
bestowed upon them by the people of
thefr respective counties. Hart and
Eioert.
And Jim Hays was there, from the
halls of the Montezumas. so to speak.
Not onlv is he one of the leading citi
zens of Macon County, but ho is one of
the influential factors In Southwest
Georgia p '*•
After serving two terms as Grand
Regent .Hon. L. H. Chappell will retire
from this office. He has served the
Royal Arcanum well. The organiza
tion has prospered greatly under his
zealous and able management. His
annual report, which was submitted
yesterday was a splendid document,
and highly gratifying to the Grand
Council. Grand Regent Chappell has
endeared himself to every Royal Arca-
pian in Georgia. The report brought
forth many compliments and much
praise. Mr. Chappell has given Colum
bus a fine administration as Mayor for
several terms, but he has decided not
to offer again for the position. In his
management of the affairs of Columbus
he has demonstrated that lie possesses
rare executive ability.
A very popular person with the Royal
Areanlans Is Past Grand Regent J. A.
Peace, k. of Dublin. This gentleman
has been attending the Grand Council
for the past sixteen years, and is re
garded as one of the firm pillars of the
order, Mr. Peacock is a strong politi
cal factor in Laurens County.
Mr. Preston B. Johnson, of Thom
son. was given cordial greeting by his
fellow Areanlans. He has long been
devoted to the welfare of the society.
Mr. Johnson is fond of coming to Ma
con. He has spent some very happy
days here, dating far hack to the time
when he was a student at Mercer Uni
versity. in the class with ex-Governor
’William D. Jelks. of Alabama: ox-Con-
grersman Charlie L. Moses, of Geor
gia; ex-Congressman Thomas E. AVat-
son! of Georgia; Seaborn Wright, and
others. Mr. Johnson has been a prom
inent figure innumorous political con
ventions. and is one of the best law
yers in Eastern Georgia.
The Grand Council
presen. . of Deputy
delighted at the
erne Regent W.
Holt Apgar. of New Jersey. He is a
live wire He is fill! of energy ami has
done splendid work for the order. Mr.
Apgar
the United States," a message on the
I significance of Arbor Day which during
the month of April is celebrated in
many of the States. In Georgia the
o.-casion Is not observed until the first
Friday In December, which date is a
legal holiday In this State by an en
actment of the Legislature. Arbor Day
is also a legal holiday In Arizona,
Maine. Maryland. New Mexico, Wis
consin. Wyoming, Texas, Nebraska,
Utah, Rhode Island, Montana. Oklaho
ma and Arkansas. Every State and
Territory, with the exception of Dela
ware and the Indian Territory, have an
Arbor day. A day Is thus set aside for
Che purpose of encouraging the pres
ervation of trees and to encourage tree
planting.
"J. C.,” in a communication published
yesterddy In The Telegraph, referred
to the famous debate between Aleck
Stephens and Walter T. Colquitt In
Forsyth, in 1844. and stated that Col
qultt. after his speech, left for Ala
con where he had an appointment to
speak. The occasion in this city was
evidently the great Democratic mass
meeting which was held on August 22
In support of the candidacy of Polk
for President. Thousands of people
were present form all over Georgia
and South Carolina sent several
her best orators and a number of
other citizens. A gorgeous banner was
offered as a prize to the county which
sent the largest delegation to the eon
vention. Many counties competed
Greene County 1 proving the winner.
T-iere was a 'mammoth procession in
which there were numerous banners
bearing various devices and caricatures
appropriate to the campaign. The chief
and iburn'ng question entering into
the canvas* was the annexation of
Texas. A Lone Star was greatly
evidence. Charles J. McDonald, whose
term h.s Governor had but. recently
closed, was the president of the con
vention. He made a very eloquent
speech General James Hamilton, J. S,
Rhett and others of South Carolina
spoke. Among the Georgia orators
were Henry R. Jackson. Governor Geo.
W. Towns, Governor Herschel V. John
son. Senator Walter T. Colquitt, H. L.
Penning-. A. H. Campbell and R. W.
Flournoy. There used to be great po!
itical meetings in Macon- before the
Civil War. This city was the storm
center of many turbulent campaigns.
Recently there has appeared in sun
dry newspapers a reference to “Conk
ling’s Appomalox speech,” in nominat
ing Grant for a third term for Presi
dent. I was asked yesterday what
mention did the great New York ora
tor make of Appomatox in his famous
oration. Conkling was the central fig
ure in the brilliant gathering which
assembled at Chicago in 1880 to nomi
nate a Republican candiate for the
Presidency. He was the mighty leader
of the historic 306 that tried to break
the unwritten law and overthrow pre
cedent hv giving Grant a third term
in the White -House. Roscoe Cqnkling
was the towering genius, the incom
parable orator of that occasion. When
he arose to nominate Grant he was
greeted with thunders of applause, and
then the vast audience subsided into
deathless silence and intense attention,
waiting for his utterances. He- com
menced his magnificent oratorical dis
play as follows:
"When asked what State he hails from,
Our sole reply shall be.
He comes from Appomattox.
And its famous apple tree.”
Conkling’s speech was considered
the perfection of eloquence, but it did
not win the nomination of Grant. It
Is said that Conkling could have been
the nominee, but he put the crown
aside, with these words, when the nom
ination was tendered to him by the
representatives of sufficient delegates
to have made certain the glittering
prize:
"Gentlemen. I appreciate your kind
proposition. I could not be nominated
in any event for if I were to receive
every other vote in the convention my
I own would still be lacking, and that I
would not give. I am here as the
agent of the State of New York to
support Gen. Grant to the end. Ant-
man who would forsake him unde-
such conditions does not deserve to be
elected, nnd could not be elected.”
Speaking of Conkling. Savoyard
says: "Had he chosen to stoop he
would have conquered; for had he or
dered forty votes from Grant’s column
to be bestowed as a compliment upon
Windom the first five or six ballots—
the stnmpede. set on foot by Windom.
would have been to Grant Instead of
Garfield. But” Conkling never stooped.
He refused to do things that a vain
man would have delighted in. and he
did other things that only a proud
man could do. His was the lofty prido
of a Ycre de Vere whose blood had
coursed ten generations of nobles
when Howards and Seymours were
plebian. A characteristic story is told
of him that When the proof of his
maiden speech in Congress was sent
him from the Globe office the one cor
rection he made was to strike out the
word ’Hon.’ before his name. Na
paste jewel for him: no flash tinsel far
the man who might have said with
the proudest gentleman of France:
•Nor prince nor duke am I—
I am The Sieur de Coucy.'”
Ashland.” the “Great Commoner,” the
man who said “I had rather -be right
than President,” spoke in Macon. The
fact that yesterday was the anniversary
of the birth of Henry Ciav makes ap
propriate a reference to his visit to this
city in March. 1544. sixtv-three years
ago. when he was the Whig candidate
for President against Polk, the nomi
nee of the Democrats. The famous
Kentuckian reached Macon on Satur
day, the 16th of the month. He ar
rived via the old Monroe Railroad
which was operating trains between
Macon and Forsyth, and to a short
distance beyond, toward Atlanta
Among those who came with him to
this city was the distinguished Geor
gia Congressman. Thomas Butler King,
who accompanied Clay in his South
ern canvass for the Presidency. On
Clay’s arrival here he was accorded a
grand ovation. A national salute of
twenty-six guns was given him. and
a long procession escorted him to the
Central Hotel, on the corner of Mul
berry and Third streets, where he re
celved the citizens. During his stay
in Macon he was the special guest of
his old friend in Congress, Judge E. A.
Nisbet. On Sunday, March 17. Mr.
Clay, with Judge Nisbet attended ser
vices at the Presbyterian Church,
-which was then located on Fourth
street, between Mulberry and Walnut
streets. On Monday, the 18th. Mr.
Clay spoke from the portico of the
court house at the foot of Mulberry-
street. He was Introduced to the im
mense multitude by Hon. Washington
Poe. father of Air. W. A. Poe. Fol
lowing the magnificent speech came a
reception at the hotel. The day’s
events were closed with a brilliant
ball in the evening. Air. Clay took his
departure the next morning for Alill-
edgeville, the capita', of the State. Not
only Whigs, but Locofocos joined in
showing the honors to Air. Clay while
he was in Alacon. Locofoco was a
nickname given to a member of the
Democratic party, and the Locofocos
had a large club in Alacon in the Polk-
Clay contest. According to the dic
tionary. locofoco is of uncertain ety
mology: loco foci instead^f fire: or. It
was called so from a self-lighting
cigar, with a match composition at the
end. invented in 1834 by John Alarck
of New York, and called by him
locofoco cigar, in imitation of the word
locomotive, which by the uneducated
was supposed to mean, self moving.
In the United States, at the present
time, the word means a friction match.
The name locofoco was first applied in
1834 to a portion of the Democratic
party, because, at a meeting in Tam
many Hall. New York, in which there
course in the first instance, fired his
pistol in the air, upon which Air. Ciay
advanced with great emotion, exclaim
ing, *T trust in God. my d°ar sir. you
are untouched: after what has
curred, I would not have harmed you
for a thousand worlds.” It is related
that years after, when Randolph wa
about leaving Washington for the last
time, just before his death, he was
broug*ht to the Senate. ”1 have come.”
he said, as he was helped to a seat
while Clay was speaking, “to hear that
voice.” An historian says that the
courtesy was met at the conclusion of
Clay’s speech with his accustomed
magnanimity by the orator. “Mr. Ran
dolph, I hope you are better, sir,” he
said, as he approached him. “No, sir.”
was the reply: “I am a dying man. and
I came here expressly to have this in
terview with you.”
Great honors were heaped upon Air.
Clay by Kentucky. Congress and the
Government, but he could nc-ver reach
the glittering goal of his ambition, the
Presidency of the United Staes. He
was defeated three times for this' of
fice. He repeatedly represented the
Ashland district in Congress. He was
first elected to the Senate before he.
was 30 years old. In 1S11 he was elect
ed a representative In Congress, and on
the day of his first appearance in the
Representatives’ hall as a member he
was chosen Speaker by a large ma
jority, “a distinction -without parallel
since the meeting of the first -Con
gress.” He was re-elected several
times. Clay made innumerable nota
ble speeches. He was Secretary of
State under President John Quincy
Adams. While serving as a Senator
from Kentucky he died in Washington
on June 29, 1S52. aged 75 years. Mr.
Clay became heavily involved finan
cially by the loan of his name, and as
an evidence of the esteem and kindness
of his friends. $25,000 were raised by
popular subscription to pay off a mort
gage on bis estate. This occurred only
a few years before he died. “As a
leader in a deliberative body Mr. Clay
had no equal in America,” was said of
him by a political opponent. “His au
dience was enraptred and led as if en
chanted by the lyre of Orpheus.”
EVENING DRESS IN TEXAS.
From the Alacon (Ga.) Telegraph.
It has been asserted that the begin
ning of Senator -Bailey’s troubles in his
home State was his failure to keep his
promise never to wear evening dress.
When he was first sent to Washington
he vowed to remain a true Texan and
never put on the undemocratic gar-
l ments of a degenerate society, but after
was great diversity of sentiment, the j he became a Senator he succumbed to
chairman left his seat and the lights ; his surroundings and donned the for-
were extinguished for the purpose of i biden apparel, thus causing a shudder
dissolving the meeting: when those ] to pass through the length and breadth
who were opposed to an adjournment j of Texas, where a “swallow-tailed”
produced locofoco matches, rekindled coat and the snares of the evil one ap-
the lights, continued the meeting, and J pear to be synonymous. »
accomplished their object. Polk de- We had supposed that Air. Bailey’s
TALES OF HORROR.
There is a skull said to be that of a
negro murdered by his master; a Ro
man Catholic priest, at Bettiscombe
House, near Bridport. in Dorsetshire.
Several attempts, it is said, have been
made to bury or otherwise dispose of
this skull, with the invariable results
of dreadful screams proceeding from
the grave, unaccountable disturbances
NAPOLEON’S READING.
HERR STATUS.
The news that nineteen volumes of
Napoleon’s library have just been found
at Marseilles, and are to be put back
in their place at the Alalmaison. ha3
caused a little tremor of excitement
among some of the Emperor’s wor
shippers in Paris: for, much as is
about the house, and other equally un- , known about other details of his life,
pleasant occurrences. An account of ! very few know anything about Xapo-
the house arid skull, on the authority i leon’s favorite books. 'His annotated
of Dr. Richard Garnett, will be found 1 copy of Alachiayalli has run to more
In Ingram’s “Haunted Homes and Fam- editions in France than the plain copy
Af “Tho PrinAa " >on^ m»^i„ i
From the New York Time
W1
in infant, in the sa’
ily Legends.” second series, page nine
teen. In the same volume, at page
fifty-eight, is a notice of another haunt
ed house. Burton Agnes Hall, near
Bridlington. Here the skull is that of
a lady of the Boynton family, who was
attacked and murdered by two ruffian
ly mandlcants in the sixteenth century.
B'efore she expired she implored her
sisters to preserve heT skull in the
family mansion, which was then being
built. This was not done at first, but final
ly the sisters were compelled to com
ply with this strange request by the
noises, resembling claps of thunder,
which resounded through the house
every night until the skull was taken
from the grave. Several attempts have
been made to bury it, with the same
of "The Prince,” and the marginal
notes leave little doubt that the book
was read and reread by the Emperor.
But what else did he read? Some bi
ographers mention that he borrowed
Rousseau’s ‘‘Confessions” when at Val
ence, in 17S0. and it is also known that
he liked Aleliere and admired Corneille
so much that he would have made him
a prince if he had come back to earth.
The finding of these nineteen little
volumes of Cazin editions, which are
once more to stand on the shelves of
the famous library at Alalmaison—the
one In which the execution of the Due
d’Enghien and other equally famous
and less ignorable plans were conceiv-
ed—has almost doubled the knowledge
about what Napoleon read. Among
results as at Bettiscombe. At page 257 j the newly-found'books, says the Lon-
is a rather unsatisfactory account of don Standard, are two volumes of Alme.
a skull, said to be that of a murdered de Stael’s “Influence des Passions” and
heiress, kept at Tunstead Farmhouse. Mercier’s “Visions Philosophiques ”
near Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire. These nineteen are all that remain of
“The Skull House” is the title of one thirty which Napoleon deposited at the
of Roby’s “Traditions of Lancashire.” Marseilles library, when hurrving back
The house referred to is "Worsley, or, I to Paris from Egypt. He forgot to Ve-
as it is*sometimes called. AVardley Hal’, I claim them, and 'they remained there
an ancient building about seven miles until 1S14. M. Thibadeau, prefect of
west from Manchester. It was an old the Vienne, commandeered 100 TDo
seat of the Downes family, of which a remainder lay on a top shelf behind
member; who lived in the seventeenth some dusty quarters until ISIS
century appears to have been in the A certain Al. Gauffret found them
habit of first getting more wine into then, and wrote an article about hi
his skull than was good for him. and discovery in a Ararseilles review He
then brawling with his brother sons of wrote down the names of the ’ books
11 cbo London streets. In one I and mentioned the passages annotated
of these nocturnal rambles he was kill- or underlined, and also said that a
ed, and his head was sent to his sisters I certain page in Alme de-Stael’s hoot
as an announcement of his fate. They bore a large coffee stain. He reminded
in vain tried to bury it, and were only his readers xr„—,
feated Clay. It may be remarked In
passing that in Alarch. 1S49. ex-Presi-
dent Polk-also visited Alacon. and was
received with the same popular dem
onstration that greeted Clay. He ad
dressed a vast assembly, being intro
duced by Hon. A. H. Chappell. One
of the series of social entertainments
accorded the ex-Fresident was a visit!
to Wesleyan Female College, where he
was introduced to all of the young
ladies. While In Alacon Polk stopped
at the Floyd House. He was accom
panied by Airs. Polk and two nieces,
and ex-Seeretary of the Treasury
Walker.
Just now I alluded to Clay as the
“Alill-boy of the Slashes.” This was
an “electioneering sentimental watch
word." Clay was born April 12. 1777.
in Virginia, in a rural district abound
ing in swamps and hence known as
The Slashes," A biographer explains
the origin of the term which gave Clay
a popular designation in his Presiden
tial campaigning days as follows: “It
had its foundation in the filial and fra
ternal duty of Henry Clay. who. after
early objection to evening clothes was
due simply to his not being accustomed
to -them nnd feeling ill at ease in them,
and that the alleged position of his
constituents were mere jest. But now
a clipping from the Honey Grove
(Texas) Signal that has reached pur
table shows -that Governor Thomas-
Campbell has got into trouble because
in a moment of weakness he yielded
to the temptation to put on evening
clothes and show himself in .public.
“Think of it, my countrymen!” ex
claims the editor of tlie Honey Grove
Signal. “This great commoner from
the sandhills of east Texas decked out
in a coat without a If-Snt tail and a
vest that touched only the contour of
his bread' basket!” The Signal indig
nantly adds:
able to secure respite from the haunt-
ings by placing it in a niche on the
staircase of the hall.
The peculiar horrible disturbance at
Hinton Sumpner Alanor [House in 1770
have been narrated in more than one
collection of ghost stories. The full
est account Is to be found in The Gen
tleman’s Magazine for November and
December. 1S72. It is there mentioned
that when the house was being taken
down (in 1797) "there was found by
thV workmen, under the floor of one
of the rooms, a small skull, said to be
that of a monkey: but the matter was
never brought forward by any regular
inquiry, or professional opinion resort
ed to as to the real nature of the skull.”
—Notes and Queries.
England’s Wheat Supply.
Tho population consumes 130,000
tons a week, says a writer in the North
American Review, so that, if it de
pended entirely on supplies from
abroad, about twenty-six steamers, ay . ,, .. . -
eraging a carrying capacity of 5.000 , 1 , em posterity. Misnas might
tons, ought to arrive every week with J’ a ' e . long lived happy and contented
that Napoleon drank a
great deal of coffee and used to read
at meals, when in Egypt. The coffee
stain is still to be seen, though faint
n °w— on the page mentioned by M.
Gauffret. The marks in these ‘little
books show that Napoleon liked to read
history and philosophy.
One page marked in Mercier’s “Vis
ions Philosophiques.” on a page which
is torn, provides food for reflection.
Alercier tells of a mythical person call
ed AUsnas. Misnas was honored as the
most valiant captain of India and, eag
er crowds held him in much respect
and admiration. He was able to ap
proach the presence of his God. being
one of the first to receive that awful
honor. He received, with an ironic
smile as though indifferent or superior
to his own destiny. Misnas looked out
over the future, first on the side of
happiness. He saw his victorious ca
reer; he beheld conquered towns and
subjugated peoples, and got all eager
to learn of his great deeds and to trans-
long ago.
She had no devoted parents to restrain
her acts, and so
She monkeyed with the buzz-saw. or. in
other words, picked u»
The* knack of malting playthings of the
chaos she’s kicked up.
At first she made a membrane, with a
breath of air inside.
And hatched it go a-bobbing on the
ocean’s .salty tide:
Then by coddling It a little in her primal
incubator.
She turned out the gentle bivalve and the
naughty alligator.
Her play- was so amusing almost any one
could see
Progression humped its progress with a
great celerity;
And between the primal primate and the
Alan she called a human.
There seemed to be a yawning, so kind
Nature made a Woman.
Now there are those who doubtless have
the imprudence to think.
Because of her position. Woman forms
the Missing Link.
But whatever were Eve's parents, and It
seems she must have had ’em.
She was capable of making quite a Alon-
key out of Adam.
Surgery and Hickory.
“Our surgery is not different from
vegetable surgery. For recreation I
hybridize hickories.” writes Dr. Robert
T. Alorris, in the Atedieal Reward. -It
became necessary to find an expert
grafter. High and low, all over the
country, search was made. Horticul
turists all said the same thing. ‘Hick
ories cannot be grafted. Millions of
dollars a year would come to us if we
could do that grafting.’ Finally I found
a man in Massachusetts who could
catch 25 per cent of hickory grafts, and
a man in Texas who couid’catch 90 per
cent of them. Both said that there was
no trick about it at all. Nothing was
needed but quick, neat work. Surgeons
have to face precisely the same situa
tion. A few will do with ease what
most others say cannot be done at all.
"I have no confidence in any man
who does not believe that his own
country excels in everything, no mat
ter where he lives. From that stand
point of patriotism I want to b-fiieva
that America, has the best surgeon^ in
the whole wide world.”
supplies. The figure 5,000 tons is se
lected, as this is the average dead
weight capacity of many liners and
cargo steamers. So long as there is
a margin of safety, such as the six
weeks' minimum supply already men
tioned, it Is immaterial if thirty-two
steamers arrive one week and only
twenty the next week. At this point,
we may usefully note that almost ex-
had he not wished to know the end of
his triumphant discovery.
What a change! A jealous King
dispossessed him and exiled him and
those whom he had covered with fav
ors tore down his effigy and broke it
into a thousand pieces, while inscrip
tions bearing his name were obliter
ated. Alisnas remanded motionless and
astonished. Heedless of his laurels he
actly a thousand steamers a week en- bad f° r years above the noise of
ter the ports of the United Kingdom, tIle brilliant fetes given in his honor,
and. of these, 600 are British; so that, and . then he had beard a voice yyhis-
in the above assumption of twenty-six Pering, “Thou shalt die in exile and
“When plain Tom Campbell appeared ( steamers, carrying wheat, only 60 per I forgotten.” How often did he curse
in Honey Grove last summer looking
for votes, how different the habiliments
that wrapped his democratic frame!
Weil do we remember the $1.50 slouch
hat that canopied his dome of thought - .
And the cheap alpaca coat with a
ripped pocket, covering a shirt front
not immaculate and shewing a pair of
he was big enough was seen whenever : suspenders not new. A plain leather
the meal barrel was low, going to and i **assisted in keeping h.s trousers
fro on the road between his mother’s i at right place, and this was of the
house and Airs. Darricott’s mill on the I same material as the bellyband of
Pamunkey River, mounted on a bag j £. ag °P . hara ^; s - a wo ’' d
that was thrown across a pony that Tln ?ley tobacco, and cpitld expectorate
was guided by a rope-bridle: and thus i as . blga stream of yellow fluid as was
he became familiarly known by the ev ®^ aimed at a crack in the floor. —-
people living on the line of his travel i The excitement over this matter in ( the wheat is spread out as part ear
ns the “Mill-boy of the Slashes.” Clay ! Texas J. s founded on a misapprehen- | goes in a large proportion of the thou-
cent, or sixteen of them, undergo war
risks.
If, in these circumstances, we place
the -war risks at the very high limit
of 6 per cerrt,' then one out of each
group of sixteen British steamers
would be reckoned as captured.’ Obvi
ously, if the prices in Great Britain
are materially higher than on the Con
tinent. the natural tendency would be
to run a couple of extra British or
neutral steamers in with wheat, and
so-more than discount the 5,000 tons
of wheat per week lost by capture. Of
course, in practice, the eggs are not
nearly so much in a few baskets, for
the day when he wished to unveil the
future! And the page on which the
legend was written was torn by Na-
polgan’s hand.
Advantages of Madness.
The truth is. I fear, that madness
has a great advantage over sanity.
Sanity is always careless. Aladness is
always careful.
There is a great deal of falsehood in
the notion that truth must necessarily
prevail. There is this falsehood to
start with: that if a man has got the
truth lie is generally happy. And if
he is happy he is generally lazy. The
incessant activity, the exaggerated in
telligence, generally belong to those
who are a little wrong and just a lit
tle right.
The whole advantage of those who
think that Bacon wrote Shakespeare
(opines Gilbert J. Chesterton, writing
in the Illustrated London News) lies
simply in the fact that they care
whether Bacon wrote Shakespeare. The
whole disadvantage of those who do
not think it lies in the fact that they
do not care about It. The sane man
who is sane enough to see that Shake
speare wrote Shakespeare is the man
who is sane enough not to worry
whether he did or not.
DOLLAR FOR A DEAR HEART.
removed to Kentucky in 1797,
commenced the practice of law.
and
Ye
kne
>ction. H<
_ r, and
the Areanlans into
greatly pleased with the
to g
the business-like spirit
high terms
displayed.
ntncil has met in Macon
mi’s, largely because of
hus insuring a full at-
'gates. It is hoped that
mtunlly be selected as
place of meet’ng. Such
lie.:: a big saving in
,’rand Council would do
follow the -nurse of the Ala-
,1 make Alacon its regular an
ting city.
The Grand l
Th
One of the
r. R. Tnllaferi
never fails to
in the affairs <
h’d an ornam
He was a juri:
A promt ne::
Council is Hon
Ison. Like th
AIorgan Count
gii:p Mr. WP
t werit v-eigh: h
ate. He w:d
in that body.-
most highly esteemed
» Grand Council is Judge
■o. of Sandersville. lie
manifest active interest
if the order. The bench
^nt In Judge Taliaferro.
;t of high character and
: figure
Q. I.. AY
the Grand
ford, of Mad-
ise citizen from
., splendid Gear-
rill represent the
in th.- next Sen-
lnfiuential factor
lay several lawyers were
I discussing the Thaw trial and the
‘ pert which Jerome and Dolmas played
in it. Mention was made of the suc-
' cess that has attended various advo-
I cates in Georgia in the defense of
I criminal cases, when one of the party
; remarked that during the career of
! Col. .T. V. Preston, of Alacon. at the
, bar he has defended sixty-throe per-
1 sons charged with murder, and not
one of tiiis number has been hanged.
He has had clients condemned to
i death, but he finally succeeded in sav
ing their necks from the gallows. Tho
| last most noted case of the kind with
j which Col. Preston was connected was
Tom Allen’s. This trial has becorr.-- 1
' famous in the criminal annals of
I Georgia. Its history was of so recent
[ date it is not necessary to relate the
fa ts here. Be it sufficient to say
that not only did Col. Preston help in
saving Allen from death on the scaf
fold. but after serving some time in
, the penitentiary Alien was pardoned.
; and at last accounts he was still alive.
1 do not mean to say that Col. Pres
ton was the sole counsel in the defefise
of t.-ie sixtv-three capital cases, for
counsel was associated with him in
some of them, but the point I wish to
bring out is the remarkable record of
the gemleman in his defense of crim-
Clay was personally acquainted with
Aradame de Stael. He met this famous
literary genius and brilliant conversa
tionalist in Paris, on the occasion of his
isit to Europe to represent the Uni
ted States at Ghent, in signing the
treaty of peace with England in the
war of 1S12. The following dialogue
occurred between Air. Clay and
Aladame de Stael. at a brilliant ball in
the beautiful French capital: “Ah!”
said she, “Air. Clay. I haf-e been in
England, and have been battling your
cause for you there.” “I know it
mndame: we heard of your powerful
interposition, and we are very grateful
and thankful for it.” "They were very
much enraged against you ” said she:
so much so that they at one time
thought seriously of sending the Duke
of Wellington to command their armies
against you!” “I am very sorry,
madome,” replied Air. Clay, "that they
did not send his Grace.” “Why?”
asked she. surprised. "Because, ma-
dame if he had beaten us we should
only have been in the condition of
Europe without disgrace. But if -we
had been so fortunate as to defeat him.
e should greatly have added to the
renown of our arms.” She afterwards
introduced Air. Ciay to the Duke of
Wellington at her own house, and re
lated the conversation. The Duke re
plied. that "if he had been sent on the
service and he had been so fortunate
as to gain a victory, he would have re
garded it as the proudest feather in
his cap.”
sion. There is point in objection to the | sand steamers arriving ev.ery week. In
accepted evening dress fPr .men on the ; addition, a far greater loss than we
ground that it is not becoming, but not j have assumed might be cheerfully
on the ground that it is undemocratic, borne without replacement, and still
It is as democratic as any of the ordi- i leave the wheat comjumed per head of
nary togs that are worn, and much j population at a far higher figure than
more so that some other glad rags of j that of Germany,
expensive material and latest cut. It
is worn by our poor clerks as well as
by trust magnates. It makes brothers
of waiters and millionaire*. The gar
ments which so scandalize patriotic
Texans are worn by waiters, in fact, all
day long as well as in the evening, and
if that does not make them democratic,
nothing can.
Mr I. S Ledbetter, of Cedartown.
i* a man of much fame in the Or >nd
routteil. jus: as he ; s a strong influence
in his section of tae State.
It was a great occasion. A vast
‘ audience was present. Many dlstln-
- guished politicians were in attend-
■ a nee. I refer to the time when the
I “Mill-bay of the Slashes,” the “Sage of
Clay fought two duels and narrowly
missed fighting a third." He repre
sented a tavern keeper of Frankfort,
Ky.. in an assault and battery case,
against United States District Attor
ney Daviess. "Air. Clay pushed his
adversary with his accustomed bold
ness, and was challenged by the colo
nel. Ready as Jackson himself to meet
an antagonist in this way. he waived
any court priviliges -which he might
have pleaded, and accepted iL The
affair, however, was happily terminated
by the interposition of friends.” This
was in 1S02. Ir. ISOS, while Speaker
of the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Kentucky, he introduced
resolutions strongly approving of the
foreign policy of President Jefferson.
They were carried by a sixty-four to
or.e, the only negative vote being cast
by Humphrey Marshall. He stigma
tized Clay as a demagogue. Clay chal
lenged him. They met and fired twice.
Marshall being wounded at the first
fire, and Ciay at the second. Their
seconds then interfered and terminated
the combat. In IS24 Air. Clay was one
of the four candidates for President.
William H. Crawford, of Georgia, be
ing one. The electoral college having
failed to give any one a majority, the
election devolved nnon the House,
wh^se choice was limited to the three
highest candidates. Adams. Jackson
| and Crawford. Clay having received
thirty-seven votes. Ciay voted for
John Quincy Adams. John Randolph
termed Clay's action as a “coaliton
of puritan and blackleg,” for which
language he was challenged by Clay.
They met on the field of honor April 8,
1826. on the banks of the Potomac.
Tbc-y exchanged two shots. An ac
count say? that the first fire of neithe.r
took effect, though both Shots were
well aimed. At the second. Arr. Clay’s
bullet pierced hi* antagonist's coat.
Randolph, as he had all along intend
ed, though he was diverted from this
The Rea! Enemy of the Panama Canal.
There is food for sober thought in
teh article by Alaj. Charles E. Wood
ruff, surgeon in the United . States
army, in the current Harper's Weekly
on the danger of excessive sunlight at
Panama. In particulars of immense
importance Panama has been made a
healthy place. Yellow fever, malaria,
and dysentery are no longer serious
perils there. But still we see able-
bodied and abled-minded men go
there full of energy and ambition,
work enormously for a time, and then
lose their spirits and courage become
despondent, and quit their job. So it
was with Wallace: so more recently
with Stevens.^But Alaj. Woodruff finds
an explanation of the changes in
these men's feelings and of similar
transformations, in the effect of tropi
cal sunlight upon energetic men who
do not know its dangers nor take the
necessary precautions against them.
The idea that excessive light is dan
gerous is novel to most of us. who have
•been taught to consider only the bene
ficial qualities of sunshine, and to sup
pose that the mischiefs it does result
from heaL
Ancient Dentistry.
The prehistoric skull In the Etruscan
museum at Villa Papa Giulio in Rome
with an artificial tooth sustained by gold
claps at once suggests that dentistry is
no modern art. Cicero attribute* this
art of !I’.e dentist to E?u:!;ipiu.-\ who dis
covered manv things concerning the sub
ject. But besides Esculapius, going back
1300 years before Christ, Hippocrates in
the fourth century B. C. occupied himself
with the teeth and their ailments. The
Greeks knew all about teeth and the arti
ficial substitutes for them held in the
mouth by a plate.
In a tomb of Tanagra that dates from
the third or fourth century B. C. such
artificial teeth have been found and also
in other Greek tombs teeth carefully fill
ed with gold in the modern manner. In
the remains of Greeo-Roman tombs they
are found filled with a special mastic
paste. Befor.- the Greeks even the dent-
art reached a. noteworthy grade of
perfection in Eirypt and from them passed
to the Phoenicians and through them to
the Etruscans, with whom they traded,
which accounts for the skull in the Etrus
can museum before mentioned.
Tho anejent doctors disliked to extract
teeth and well knew the methods, often
decreed modern, of attaching artificial
teeth to the sound ones remaining. In
the laws of Decemviri. 450 years before
Christ, people are forbidden to bury or
bum gold with their dead except in
case these have teeth bound together
with filaments of £old.
The Romans had a sort of cult of the
teeth, preserving a child's first teeth and
carrying them in a bracelet or amulet.
In the first Centura- of the Christian era
the art of imitating lost teeth artificially
reached a great perfection.. Their use was
very common, as may he read in Afartial
and Petronius. and great sums were ex
pended on dentifrice.
With the fall of the Roman civilization
By Eugene Field.
She was ready for sleep as she lay on my
arm
In her little frilled cap so fine.
With - her golden hair failing out at the
edge.
Like a circle of moon sunshine:
And I hummed the old tune of “Banhurv
Cross.”
And “Three Men Who Put Out to Sea,
When she sleepily said, as she closed her
blue eyes:
“Papa, what would you take for me?
And I answered, “A dollar, dear little
heart,”
And she slept, baby, weary with plav.
But I held her warm in my love-strong
arms.
-And I rocked her, and rocked away.
Oil. the;dollar meant all the world to" me
The land, the sea and the sky.
The lowest depth of the lowest place.
The highest of all that’s high.
All the cities with streets and palaces,
AVith their people and store of art.
I would not take for one low. soft throb
Of my little one's loving heart:
Nor all the gold that was ever found
In the busy wealth-finding past.
Great Speeches.
The New York Time-, the Brooklyn
Eagle, the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle, and other papers of high
standing have been discussing that
Appomattox-apple-tree speech , by
which Roscoe Conkling, in the national . _
convention in 1880, proposed Grant for Would. I take for one smile of my darl-
a third term. It was a powerful speech,
and everybody who read it at the time,
and especially everybody who heard it,
will be apt to remem'ber sufficient
about it. and about the man ivho de
livered it and the circumstances which
called it forth, to know that it was an
address which will live in the annals
of the age. An interesting fact con
So I rocked m.v baby and rocked away.
And I felt such a sweet content.
For the words of the song expressed
more to me
Than they ever before had meant.
And the night crept on. and I slept and
dreamed
Of things far too gladsome to be.
nected with this subject, and one which And I waked with lips saying close to
no paper mentioned, is that the his- my ear.
torically great addresses in the na- I Pa P a - "'hat would you take for me?”
tional conventions of the big parties
have won no prizes for the men in
whose favor they were made.
ALL LOOK TO LONDON
__ The pre-eminence of London Is due
In eloquence and' point""no other I parlI >' to lts geographical position,
speech in the Whig convention in Bal- "'nich renders Great Britain so coni'
timore in 1852 even remotely- ap- paratively secure yvith for instance,
proached the one which Rufus Choate Paris or Berlin, says Afoody’s Afaga-
made for Webster, but Webster was zine - The enormous\foreign trade of
never a serious factor in the balloting England, exceeding that of any other
In everv one of the fiftv-tbree ballots fi a t' on - and its sound banking system
Fillmore and Scott had* several times are other important factors. The prin-
as many votes as Webster, and Scott I cipaI reason - however, why everybody
carried off the candidacy. Robert G.
Ingersoll’s “plumed-knight” speech in
which he said, “Like an armed warrior,
like a plumed knight. James G. Blaine
marched down the halls of Congress
and threw his shining lance full and
fair against the 'brazen forehead of
every defamer of his country and ma
ligner of its honor,” in the Cincinnati
convention of 1876, gave Blaine a so
briquet which he carried to the end of
his life, and it made Ingersoll famous.
(But Hayes and not Blaine won the
nomination. Conkling;s Appomattox
speech in the Chicago convention of
willingly takes bills on London in pay
ment of international debts and leaves
large sums on deposit yvith the prin
cipal English banks and banking firm*
is because England pays ail of its
debts in gold; because for the last cen
tury England has been the principal
gold market of the yvorid and no great
obstacles are placed in the way of
exporting gold from London, as is of
ten done in Paris and Berlin.
As a result of these factors J^-indon
has for nearly a century been the
financial centre of the yvorid, and
drafts on London have groyvn to be
money
1880 in favor of Grant captivated the I an international money acceptable
country at the moment, and “swept throughout the commercial world. More
the convention of Us feet" (except the fore te n exchange is drayvn in English
delegates). Garfield’s in favor of Sher- j sterling than in the moneys of all oth-
man in the same convention yvas er countries combined. Similarly it is
scarcely inferior to Conkling’s in point ; estimated that fully 90 per cent of all
of power. Neither Grant nor Sherman i letters of credit issued throughout the
received the candidacy. Garfield’s \ world are drayvn in English money,
speech for Sherman helped Garfield to I Exchange on London in the payment of
get the nomination for himself, in the
deadlock, although neither he nor any
body else at the opening of the ■’onven-
tion had thought of him as a possibil
ity. When Bryan made his “cross of
gold” speech which stampeded the
Chicago convention in 1895 he yvas not.
ostensibly, talking to himself, nor did
anybody in the cony-ention think of him
in connection with the candidacy at the
time he got up there to speak. He
entered that convention as a member
interna!innai debts is not onlv al
acceptable but generally preferred. A
shipment of cotton from New Orleans.
La., to Hong Kong. Ch’na. would gen
erally be settled through bills drayvn
on London owing to the readiness with
which such bills can always be sold.
MEAT ONLY ONCE A
DAY FOR DR. WILEY
By Harvey M. Wiley, M. ,D.
A man may drink a. glass of typhoid
germs if he is in vigorous health and
may not get typhoid fever, because his
system may throw off the poison, but
if he is broken doyvn one of the germs
will get hold of his intestines and pro
duce ulceration and typhoid.
Not a man but has a pneumonia
germ in his mouth. It will not affect
the health, but let a man get a cold
and it yvill take Us seat in his lungs.
I think a man ought tn choose his
oyvn ration. Lots of people are vege
tarians. I think yve eat too much meat
for health. I have voluntarily cut down
my meat to one meal a day, and I do
not eat much at that.
For the sustenance of physical ex
ertion. if you hay-e hard work to do,
there is nothing better than-starch or
sugar. The cereal-eating nations can
endure more physical toll than tlio
meat-eating nations.
You cannot tire out -a Jap who eats
rice. He yvill drayv you all around toyy-n
on a pound of rice and be as fresh at
the close of the day as yvhen he start
ed.
You could not do that on a pound
of meat to save your life.
The Richest Man in the World.
The richest man in the world can
not hay-e his kidneys replaced nor live
without them, so it is important not to
neglect tnese organs.. If Foley’s Kid
ney Cure is taken at the first sign of
danger the symptoms will disappear
and vour health yvill be restored, as it
strengthens and builds up these or
gans as nothing else yvill. Oscar Boyv-
man, Lebanon. Ky., writes: "I have
used Foley’s Kidney Cure and take
great pleasure in stating it cured me
permanently of kidney disease, which
certainly would have cost me my life.”
H. ,T. Lamar & Co., near Exchange
Bank. Alacon.
the art of dentistry was lost and artifi- candidacy.
cial teeth were no longer made in Europe In choosing Presidents the people
and the Arabs rezarded odontology as a ’
branch of surf:ply. Long after, in the and , n ° t tbe .flyer-.ongued orators are
seventeenth century. prirripaUy j n | dominant in the conventions as yvell.as
France, It began to arise again. ' i at the polls.—Harper's Weekly.
The D. and H’s New President.
Leonor Fresnel Loree, the Delayvare
and Hudson's neyv president was born
_ in Fulton City, Ill., in 1858. educated
of a contesting delegation, and was un- I at Rutgers College and became an as-
known to the country- at the time, ! distant in the engineer corps of the
though he had the Presidential bee in ! Pennsylvania Railroad in 1877. He
his bonnet and yvas yvorking for his j ros e through the positions of transit-
own nomination ail the time that he man, leveller, topographer, and engi-
was in the convention. ! neer of maintenance-of-yvay. until he
Champ Clark's speech proposing I -became general manager of the Cleve-
Cockrell in the St. Louis convention of land and Pittsburg division in 1889.
1904 yvas the most breezy and eloquent . Seven years later he was made fourth
yvhich was delivered there, surpassing ! vice-president of the Pennsylvania
Afatrln W. Littleton’s in favor of Per- lines west of Pittsburg. He held that
ker. but Cockrell yvas far down in the ; office until he was elected head of the
list in the voting, and Parker got the j Baltimore and Ohio system in 1901.
His presidency of the Rock Island last
ed from January to October 4. 1904.
Since then he has heen chairman of
the eexcutive committee of the Kansas
City Southern Railway Company,
Savings Banks.
In March 1807, an act was passed
in the British Parliament which cre
ated the first savings bank and estab
lished a system which has extended
over a large part of the civilized
globe, says Lesl'e's Weekly. The Uni
ted States, yvhich was both young nnd
poor at the time, was a little slower
than some oj;her countries in folloyving
England's lead, hut we did this early
enough to get “honorable mention" by
the historians and stn: isticians who
wrote about tlie system around the
middle of the nineteenth century. The
Philadelphia Savings Fund Association
opened for business in November, 1816.
and the Provident Institution for Sav
ings started in Boston in December of
that year. That was the beginning of
the savings bank as an institution in
the United States. In recent tirr-es ■
we have far surpassed England in this
field, and have taken the first plncq
among the nations. New York, with
deposits of approximately $1,400,000,090.
heads th* 1 list of States in the extent
■f savings banks, yvith Afassa-
chusetts, $650,000,000. second. New York
city, of course, is far ahead of other
towns in the country, and the Bowery
Saving* Bank, with deposits of over
$104,000,000. leads all the institutions
of that sort in the world.
The deposits in the savings banks of
United States in 1907 are three and
wo-third* time.* as great a* the entire
ntcrest-bearing debt of the national
overnment. They exceed the aggre
gate tangible. marketable property,
real and personal, of the whole United
States in 1840. And all of this vast ac
cumulation of $3,400,000,000 represents
the savings, and only a part of the
savings of the laborers, mechanics,
clerks and the rest of the humbler
yvage yvorkers of the country.
the
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