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FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1907. THE TmCE-A-TTEEK TELEGRAPH 11 n 111 h- : Caught on the Wing —I—1--I !"i : I I l-I I 1 ; I-i By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. Several • r ,f »v, e n( . x t Jar,if-.- J, FI Ha v. of Or •a for Jndgt Akin and Flyht lency of JJr Joe Hill Jury ’ ol he callo, ' w, :, bers of remlng five are this bod 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. 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