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CRY OF THE DUMB ANIMALS.
The Telegraph Ls glad to know that a
movement has seen made in Macon to
organlzo a Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals. The step has
been too long delayed. Societies for
thN purpose have long existed In most
of the large cities of the country and
that something has not been done In
Macon before In this direction U a re
flection upon our humanity. Citizens
of Macon have day after day gazed
upon the painful spectacle of crippled,
•tarved or worn out beasts of burden
bei,-,g driven and belabored through the
• treets by apparently unconscious ne
gro torturers until they have become
callous to the sight. The subject is too
pnlnful to dwell on. but the writer will
simply mention the most recent in
stance coming under his observation,
that of 'a wretched animal reduced to
a skeleton drawing a wagon and negro
driver, hobbling on three legs, the
fourth leg being bent almost double at
the fetlock. This horse, gingerly touch
ing the hoof rim of its injured leg to
the ground for the assistance necessary
from it for locomotion, passed through
the principal streets within sight of
officers In the uniform of the law and
the pitiful spectacle appealed in vain
to the civilization and humanity of a
Christian community. And there are
numbers of spectacles equally as atro
cious, let the shame rest upon whom it
may. What these dumb beasts suffer
from overwork, starvation and ex
posure to the elements in winter’s
blasts and summer’s heat God in his
Infinite mercy alone knows. But, at
least, let tho public conscience be cal
loused no more by the parade of these
pitiful sights through the public streets.
And while we are on the subject of
the sufferings of dumb creatures, we
would respectfully call the attention of
parents who entrust the charge of their
babes to strange or Irresponsible negro
nurses to the fact that cruelty to and
rough usage of these little ones is also
not an uncommon sight on the public
streets.
BEN TILLMAN’S WAY. AID FOR NEGRO EDUCATION.
It is significant and gratifying to note ] The gift of 51.000,000 by the aged
that Senator Tillman commands more | Quakeress, of Philadelphia, for negro
attention and arouses a great deal ! common school education in the South,
more of Interest and sympathy by his ! was a wiser philanthropy than the en-
rough speaking on the race topic in the j dowment of institutions for the higher
North than in the South. The Senator I education of the same people, the latter
made c. tour of the South and he went ! being already richer and better
through "like ships that pass in the I equipped than similar institutions for
night” almost But from the time he ) the whites, and rudimentary education
penetrated the Northern tier of States | being what the masses of any race are
we hear of him ranting In all his glory.
WOULD HAVE WOMEN POP.
The State Society of the Daughters
of Ohio, In meeting at the'Waldorf-
Astoria the other day, decided that wo
men ought to_bo allowed io pop the
question. One Mrs. do Rivera vigor
ously expressed that view, and, accord
ing to the report In the New York
Times, none of the other "daughters”
dissented. Mrs. do Rivera ls thus
quoted:
"Now, the way that every girl
is brought up nowadays is to be
lieve that the one thing In life for
her is to be married—have a little
husband, a little baby, and a little
flat. Tho cry of the times is that
the gir!-« must not go out into the
world, but go back to their natu
ral sphere—the home.
“But what I would like to ask Is
how the girl ls going to do this If
she doesn’t have a chance to make
the opportunity? If she tries tot
make an opportunity she Is con
sidered unworthy, unmaldenly, and
no good. If a girl In America is
brought up to believe that she must
marry, then she ought to have the
opportunity to get a husband.’*
Is It desired that a Federal law be
passed conferring on women the right
to propose under official sanction? Al
ready they are "allowed” to pop the
question, and sometimes they very
nearly accomplish it, or Indicate quite
plainly that they are at least In a re
ceptive state of mind. In rare Instances
perhaps they actually do 1L No one
At Pittsburg, Pa., he bad the honor
of being guarded by a detail of police,
and the audience voted to a white man
as he wished yi his hand primary on
the question. The Telegraph has not
seen any detailed account of the lan
guage In which he .addressed the people
of Republican Pennsylvania, but we
presume It was much In the same style
that he talked to the people of Massa
chusetts at Greenfield, of which we
have some account before us In the
following:
After speaking of the glory of
Massachusetts and congratulating
its people upon their achievements,
he told them that they had "mean
streaks” running through them,
and that he Intended to tell them
the truth, the whole truth and
nothing hut the truth, and so help
me God! you've got to stand IL"
He then said:
"I won’t call you asses, although
you know nothing now, and you
never did know much about the
race question.” "What Is It but
insolence to set up and say you
know more about niggers than we
do? . . . Having no niggers
here beyond now and then one, you
theorize and settle the question.
You decide that these negroes shall
be given the right to vote. . . .
We have disfranchised the niggers
to a great extent, but we had to
recapture our Governments. We
nullified the fourteenth and fif
teenth amendments. We took South
Carolina away from the carpet
baggers. Grant couldn't prevent
it”
"Resolutions In Boston against
the treatment of negroes were like
sheet lightning. You see it and It
passes away. We took South Caro
lina in spite of the United States
troops. We took the Government
and have had It ever since, and wo
intend to keep it. When the ne
groes are qualified to vote we shall
try to see who shall control the
Government. ' We shall struggle,
and. if we win, we will govern In
spite of the fifteenth amendment.
We decided that this amendment
was null and void. We invoked a
higher law. When ‘coon’ voters
outnumbered whites we found a
way to protect ourselves.”
"We disfranchised 125,000 ne
groes at one dash. It gave us a
respite. We carried our negro bur
den from ’76 to ’95, when we began
to have a divided white party. I
stood for the equality of the white
men. My opponents believed in
aristocracy: I for Democracy, and I
won out.”
"There is nothing to us more
horrible than for white men to
lower themselves to the level of
negroes."
“Every man In South Carolina
has a big buck nigger on his back.
In South Carolina, Mississippi.
Georgia and Alabama and other
States they are wallowing with
niggers on their backs. If you think
they are your equals, why don’t you
organize emigration societies and
bring them up here? I’ll give three
niggers for one Yankee, and per
haps four. So far as capacity goes
for government your white man
outweighs a thousand niggers. We
disfranchised 125.000 niggers, but
not one white man."
“We do not want a fight between
races in South Carolina. A large
percentage of the negroes are ig
norant, debased and not fit to vote.
The i'sue must bo argued out. Is
the nigger the equal of the Cauca
sian -race? If yon can demon
strate he ls, the fifteenth amend
ment will stand. If he Is not, it
must fall.”
“A declaration of equality be
tween the two races . is a false
hood. The nigger cannot be edu
cated and lifted up. You can’t
make a white man of a nigger by
sending him to colloge.”
In cold print it looks strange if not
incredible that an audience should
patiently listen to and applaud a
speaker who began by intimating they
were “asses” and went on speaking to
them and at them in such a rude and
truculent language. iBut It Is Tillman’s
way and Is explained by a gift be has
somewhat in common with the late
Rev. Sam P. Jones. Tillman is essen
tially a man of the masses. His “I
am a plain, blunt man” has the advan
tage of truth over the eloquence of a
Marc Antony, who was compelled to
gloss over an Insincerity In this claim.
Tillman could not disguise the fact he
would bo greatly surprised to learn ^ he would, and becoming thus
in most need.
As the public schools for negroes as
well as for whites are under State con
trol, the trustees of this fund can do
no more than offer aid where they
think It is most needed—unless the ob
ject be to establish private primary
schools, In which case 51,000,000 would
not go very far. In the course of its
comment on Miss Jeanes’ action, the
Philadelphia Press says:
Our American annals have no
self-denial and no patient heroism
more splendid than that of many a
small hamlet of negro cabins, ig
norant, isolated, untaught, unled,
which has built Its own school-
house and eked out a scanty grant
from Its poverty. Such a hamlet
and these poor wage-earners have
had no such liberal share of the
taxes on property as goes In the
North to the schools to which the
poor wage-earner of the city sends
his children, or in which the boys
and girls of the sparsely settled and
poor rural hamlet find a State
grant aiding local effort.
These small rural schools for the
negro in the South work under the
greatest difficulty. They are cut off
from the education of their own
communities. Theli^ attendance is
Irregular. Their families are un
trained in keeping their children at
school. The teachers are untaughL
A poor, wretched schoolhouse is the
best the poor negro families can
erect. It ’s without educational
appliances. It is in the condition
which our public schools would be
if the quarter of the population,
poorest and most Ignorant, were cut
off. set apart, given a small per
capita grant and left to get their
schools up as best they could.
Precisely what this means In every
particular Is not clear, hut It ls suffi
ciently plain that the impression in
tended to be conveyed Is that such
meagre educational advantages as the
Southern negro masses have are due
to their own efforts. One would sup
pose from this utterance of the Press
that the negro public schools receive
State assistance only in proportion to
the taxes paid by negroes, and yet It
is estimated that up to 1900 the South
ern State Governments had spent more
than a hundred million dollars on ne
gro schools, more than ninety per cent
of which great sum was raised from
taxes paid by the whites.
Of this fact, which in the North ls
so generally Ignored, Miss Jeanes was
no doubt quite Ignorant. The many
gifts from the North added to what
Rev. Anna H. Shaw—whoever that
may be—declares that the way to se
cure universal peace is to give women
tne ballot. Apparently she assumes
that women are never emotional, never
get excited nor quarrel, nor talk too
much, but are always calm, level
headed, far-seeing, generous and Just.
If she believes that female voters could
never be induced to lend countenance
to a war, her knowledge of history is
limited Indeed. Perhaps she has never
heard of the Spartan women, or of the
Confederate women either.
A scientist says tho human brain is
seven-eighths water. Sometimes the
other eighth is a vacuum.—Savannah
Press.
It is doubtless due to the rush of
wind into this vacuum that we owe
the verbal disturbances that have re
cently afflicted the country and which
have been mistakenly termed "brain
storms.” •
Mr. Taft’s mother says she does not
care to have her son become President,
according to the Washington Post.
There Is still hope for her. Teddy may
heed her prayer in time to save her
son.
President Roosevelt goes to Oyster
Bay June 12 to rest. There will be
nothing oyster-like In his rest, or we
are no prophet.
The "Undesirable Citizens” club ls
now open for membership.
LETTERS FROM THE
PEOPLE TO THE EDITOR
Free Negroes in Georgia Could Own
Slaves Before tne War.
To the Editor of The Telegraph: If
Judge C. J. Wellborn will examine the
case of Bryan against Walton, in Vol
ume 14. of the Georgia Reports, page
204, he will find his question of yester
day as to free negroes holding slaves
answered In tho affirmative. Wo
learn from that case that many years
ago a family of free persons of color
by the name of Nunez, residing in
Burke County, owned a number of
slaves. Joseph Nunez in the year
1846 sold some of his slaves to Alex
ander H. Urquhart, a white man. The
matter afterwards got into the Su
preme Court of the State, and it was
held that Joseph Nunez being a free
•person of colors could not sell his
slaves. Chief Justice Bumpkin in his
opinion gives a very Interesting state
ment of the status of that class of
people. This case of Bryan against
Walton Is a leading one on that sub
ject and It went to the Supreme Court
at least four times.
By reference to the case and to tho
authorities cited by Judge Lumpkin,
it appears that previous to the year
1818. there was In this State no re
striction upon the ownership of prop
erty by free negroes: but In that year
the Legislature from considerations of
public policy, passed a law prohibit
ing them from acquiring real estate
or slaves. ^
The next year another act was pass-
ed explaining was not the
the South is doing for them have really j tentIon of the law to forfeit the prop-
placed theynegroes in a better condi- j erty held by these persons when the
_ | first law was passed, "but that the
* ! same shall remain in the owner or in
tlon are concerned, than any but the i his or her descendants after his or
classes of whites. 1 her death.” Tho court In construing
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By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
An editorial in The Telegraph Tues
day recorded as surprising news and
extraordinary procedure the action of
the Senate of the Florida Legislature
In adopting a Joint resolution "to de
clare the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the Federal Constitu
tion void.” It Is probable that some
thing. while not exactly of this kind,
yet akin to it, will be advocated at the
coming session of the Georgia Legis
lature. It is said that when the ques
tion of disfranchisement Is before the
Genera! Asesmbly It will be argued that
the fourteenth and fifteen amendments
were never legally ratified by the Let
Of the speaker, thundering out his
edicts to the representatives of the
people, ordering them to disperse and
begone to their homes, adjourning
them at his pleasure and calling them
back when he pleased, and these obe
dient servints of the people going and
doing his behests! Why, sir, the scene
was pitiable.”
Harris was an extraordinarily large
man and was known as “Fatty Har
ris.” Said Senator Joshua Hill: “Why,
sir, there sat on that occasion a
great ‘ton of man,’ front the State of
Ohio, I believe or somewhere else,
who, enthroned like another Fa’staff
acting the part of King Henry VI be
fore his profligate son, overawed and
thundered Into silence the representa
tives of the people. Who was he and
whence came he? He ls big enough
to come from Ohio, from Porkopolls or
anywhere else.”
The New Cardinals.
There was great disorder in the
Georgia House before and after tho
election of a speaker. J. E. Bryant, a
lslature of Georgia, and that the fif- Republican, opposed Harris’ despotic
teenth amendment particularly ls not |
rightfully a part of the constitution of Blja " t ' Several white Republicans
the United States, and for this reason. I ? n ® was Fitzpatrick, of Bibb
as well as others, disfranchisement : bad a fight with Br>anL By the most
should prevail in Georgia. I am not ! outrageous procedure twenty-four
well informed on the subject, and do 1 Democratic legislators were ousted
not pretend to write altogether Intel-
. 12. This is
Is under Pius
to Merry d.ol
tter is dead,
do Alburqne.
and thirty-one negroes were illegally
seated. Bullock' was In the saddle,
and riding on a most revolutionary
road. Not only did this Legislature
adopt the fifteenth amendment by
ligently concerning the matter, but the
situation seems to be somewhat liko
this, as well aa I can gather from a
hasty reading of sundry historical rec- . . .
ords printed In this State: On June fraudulent practices, but It re-ratified
16. 1S66, Congress passed the fourteenth the fourteenth amendment at Bul-
amondment, which contained, among lock’s direction on the theory “that
other provisions, one giving negroes the : there had been no reconstruction, that
rights of citizenship. This amendment i the first ratification was Invalid, and
was submitted to the legislatures of j that everything must be done over
different States for ratification. Con- j again.” Even a military board had
gross had provided that the admission been appointed to inquire into the
more prosperous
The negroes of the United 'States have !
been rarely fortunate in this particular. I
Educated out of savagery through the
this law decided that while such prop
erty would go to tho children upon tho
death of the owner, it could not be
disposed of by will or otherwise, and
if no children then it escheated to the
industrial school of slavery during two state. Inheritance from collaterals
hundred years, they profited by a white
man’s quarrel, were set free, enfran
chised, and became tne object of a spe
cial consideration. And now their
children, and particularly their youth
of college age, have educational ad
vantages superior to thosewithin reach
of the poorer classes of whites.
It might be added that the Press is
entirely wrong In saying that the ne
gro attendance at school is "irregu
lar” and that' “their families are un
trained in- keeping their children at
school.” Exactly the contrary is true.
They are most regular, and shame
many whites in this particular.
that Mrs. do Rivera herself popped and
that she forthwith acquired a "Httio
husband” exactly to her taste—the kind
that Is easily managed and that was
born to be henpecked.
i doubly patent to a popular audience It
serves to prepare his hearers to listen
i to and excuse anything he says. Not
j only does he put himself en rapport
with a popular audience by the way
Mon of that type might like to see i b e says these things, but on this race
.young women come a-popping, but it is j question the masses at heart really
doubtful if the average man would. ( baovv no North or South. They are
The latter’s nrdor would be likely toJ e ^er white or black men and Mr. Till-
cool under such an ordeal, and In nine ' man shrewdly plays on this assurance,
eases out of ten he would he apt to I 11 is for this reason that The Telegraph
complain that “this is so sudden” and ' ls gratified with the observation that
offer to be a sister—no, a brother—to I Mr - Tililr ‘ an can p!ay to much greater
the fair suitor. We are loath to take ! eflfect ' 3n thts strin S In the North than
Issue with persons so influential as the
Daughters of Ohio, but must venture
the opinion that the girl who formed
the habit of popping would be likely to
restrict rather than extend her “oppor
tunity to get a husband.”
"In New York and Ohio." remarks
the Philadelphia Record, “the President
ls using his power of removal and ap
pointment In the Interest of Governor
Hughes and Secretary Taft respect
ively, and if any Federal officer shall
Join the Foraker Club of Iowa the other
club will descend upon him." But why
Is Mr. Roosevelt running two candi
dates when one President ls all that
the country can have at one time?
Does he want to beat Taft with Hughes
seat Hughes with Taft, so as to
provide ample room for that "over
whelming demand" for Roosevelt?
THE LAMBS WERE SHY.
Wall street stood ready to coin the
President’s reassurance speech at
Jamestown into gold, but somehow the
mint would not work. The Telegraph’s
New York Stock market letter says:
For a good many days past Inti
mations have been current in stock
market circles that the address of
President Roosevelt at the opening
of the Jamestown Exposition would
contain matter calculated to re
vive active operations in securities
and quiet all apprehension over the
attitude of the Administration to
wards corporations. Immediately
upon the publication of the address
today all activity died out of the
stock market and practical stag
nation ensued. The habitual oper
ators in stocks were so disgusted
with the apathetic reception of this
expected reviving Influence that
they abandoned operations. The
president’s speech came . in for
much discussion, nevertheless. His
citation of Burke's “If I cannot re
form with equity. I will not reform
at all,” as the exact spirit in which
this country should move to the
reform of abuses of corporate
wealth and his stress on the point
of permitting such ample legiti
mate profits as will encourage in
dividual initiative were dwelt on
as offering assurance of Immunity
for invested wealth from such dan
gers as have been ostentatiously-
dreaded. by capitalists. But the
market was not stirred from Its
lethargy by this consideration.
was .not allowed. Those acts of the
Legislature may be found In Cobb’s
New Digest, pages 993 nnd 995.
Tho result of this legislation as con
strued by our court was that such
free persons of color as owned land or
slaves in ISIS were allowed to keep
them as long as the owners liver, and
at their death the property went to
their descendants, if any; but after
ISIS they could not acquire land or
slaves except by inheritance from their
ancestors. This continued to bo the
law up to emancipation.
W. L. GRICE.
Hawkinsvilte. Ga.. April 26, 1907.
'Married men may take the medal as
A class for courage, but the old soldier
who recently proposed to Carrie Na
tion easily merits the individual medal
for the bravest man In the world.
in the South. It demonstrates that the
masses of our people are too well
grounded in the merits of the race
problem and alive to the magnitude
and gravity of It to tolerate patiently
the Southern Senator’s utterances. To
the Northern masses It Is a new sub- 1 jj> f aC ( w - as established that a Pres-
jeet, in a measure, and Mr. Tillman can ] i^ent could "bull” the market as well
more safely Indulge In reckless talk ad- | as “bear” It by his utterances, the
dressed to the caste prejudices of his [ temptation would prove too great for
:e lesson is a useful one doubtless.
WAS JEFF. DAVIS A TRAITOR?
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
In today’s Telegraph you quote Rep-
ingresentative Hay, of Virginia, as
reminding Southern people that Pres
ident Roosevelt had condemned South
ern soldiers to execration by describing
them as no better than anarchists."
This was in reference to Mr. Graves’
suggestion that the Democratic party
nominate President RoosevelL An In
cident of the Memorial Day exercises
here today may Interest you in this
connection. Instead of the usual set
address by some budding orator, sev
eral local Confederate veterans were
asked to make short speeches on this
occasion, and they made It the most
interesting Memorial Day celebration
held here in years. One of the speak
ers, a country school teacher, told of
the principles of Government Involved
in the struggle between the States and
of the moral heritage that was ours,
and then he said:.
"I will never vote for President for
the man who called Jeff. Davis a trai
tor: if he was a traitor all of us were
of the Southern States to the Union de
pended upon their ratification of the
amendment. Georgia Democrats vio
lently opposed the amendment In a
message to the General Assembly in
November, 1S66, Governor Jenkins said:
”1 ask you to consider, however, why
it is that you are called upon to vote
upon its adoption, whilst your State
had no voice In Its preparation? The
constitution secures to the State the
one right as distinctly and as posi
tively as the other.” The matter of
the adoption of the fourteenth amend
ment was referred to a Joint Legisla
tive committee, and In Its report, which
was written by Representative R. J.
Moses, of Muscogee County, these two
propositions were laid down: “First.
If Georgia ls not a State composing a
part of the Federal Government, known
rxi the Government of the United
States, amendments to the constitution
of the United States are not properly
before this body. Second. If Georgia
Is a State, composing a part of the
Federal Government known as the Gov
ernment of the United States, then
these amendments are not proposed ac
cording to the requirements of the Fed
eral constitution, and are proposed in
such a manner as to forbid the Legis
lature from discussing the merits of the
amendments without an Implied sur
render of the rights of the State.” The
following resolution was unanimously
adopted by the Senate, and received
only two opposing votes In the House:
"The Legislature of Georgia declines
to ratify the proposed amendment add
ing a fourteenth article to the consti
tution of the United States.” Soon af
ter this Gov. Jenkins was removed from
office, reconstruction, like a pestilence,
seized the State, Bullock was counted
In as Governor and twenty-eight ne
groes were elected to the Legislature.
Under such conditions it Is not sur
prising that the Legislature, on July
21, 3S6S. ratified the fourteenth amend
ment. Congress had also dec'ared in
the preceding month that Georgia would
not be restored to Statehood unless
she adopted the amendment. The vote
on ratification in the Georgia Senate
was 24 to 14 and 89 to 70 In the House.
eligibility of Democratic legislators.
The amendments were ratified on Feb
ruary 2, 1870.
But Bullock was not satisfied. He
schemed to get Congress to prolong
his Gubernatorial term and to extend
the term of the notories Legislature
two more years, but in this he ulti-
mntely and signally failed. He hast
ened to Washington. A fierce war
was waged before Congress. History
says: "The House committee report
ed against every act of tho re-organi
zation ot tho Georgia Legislature. It
condemned the use of A. L. Harris,
the seating of the next highest candi
dates nnd the reference of the ques
tion of eligibility to the military
board. A warm discussion ensued in
the House. The bill was passed re
storing Georgia to Statehood, and it
went to the Senate, and the struggle
over it there was long and severe.”
The Senate passed it by substitute
and hack to the House it came, and
then the House tinkered on it a while,
and over to the Senate It went again,
like a foot ball. Finally Congress de
clared “that the State of Georgia is
entitled to representation in the Con
gress of the United States.” Further
more. Congress solemnly asserted that
the State of Georgia had legally rati
fied in good faith the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments. But were the
amendments ratified by the legal Leg
islature of the State? TJhe House
committee of Congress did not think
so.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
The fifteenth amendment, which con
ferred on negroes the right to vote,
was passed by Congress on February
27. 1869. and came before the Georgia
Legislature for ratification on March
10. 1S69, in a message from Governbr j a smile on tap for the man behind tho
From the Chicago News.
Wise is he who profits by the fool
ishness of others.
It is sweet to suffer when we suffer
for those we love.
'Beware of the mining stocks lying
around on the ground floor.
Work is a great institution—when we
can induce others to do it.
Even the proprietor of a canning
factory sometimes says, “I can not.”
Few photographers would care to
take people for what they are worth.
Most women have a head for figures
when it comes to looking out for No. 1.
The man behind the bar always has
coin.
You can make almost any man nerv
ous by telling him that a policeman
was asking about him.
Don’t worry over lost opportunities.
Keep your eyes open for the next one
that comes along.
Many a fast young man has made the
startling discovery that the race Isn’t
always to the swift.
Bullock. Some of the Republicans
charged that Bullock secretly worked
against the adoption of the amendment
"in order to aid his project of further
reconstruction.” Be this as it may, the
amendment was defeated. A published
account says: "In the House, twenty-
five Kepublicans on the first action,
when the amendment was carried, vot
ed for the amendment, four against
It. and twenty-four dodged a vote, in
cluding Gov. Bullock’s fast friends,
Adkins. Tweedy, O’Neal and others.
On the motion in the House to recon
sider, the next day, which was carried,
seventeen of these dodgers voted for
reconsideration. In the House a major
ity of Republicans thus defeated the
Republican measure. In the Senate .
thirteen Republicans, including Pres- One great comfort to a widow is to
ident Conley, voted for the indefinite I pretend that morning isn’t becoming
postponement of the amendment, and I to her when it is.
six against. Upon a reconsideration of if a man matches for the street car
the indefinite postponement, eight Re- ! fares and loses he looks as if he’d been
publicans voted for the passage of the j beaten running for office,
amendment, eight voted against It, and j Ha j f t]le t j me . a m an stays out late
eight dodged, and the amendment was : ,- ust t0 „ et t ij e name of a gay rounder
defeated by a Republican Senate. Of when he>d much ra ther be home in bed.
the Democrats fortv-two in the House
*rom the New York Tribune.
The creation of seven new cardinals
makes a total membership of 63 In the
Sacred College, There are 37 Italians and
25 foreigners, which gives the Italian ele
ment a majority of 12. Fifty years ago.
when there were 67 cardinals, there -were
only IS ot them non-Italians. At that
time the Italian element had a majority
of 49. which in the Intervt
tury had been cut down
tho third creation of cardir
X. In 1903 lie gave red l*a
Val and Callegorl. The 1
In 1905 Samassa, Arcorvcrd
Cajetano dc Azavedo and Splnola y Me s-
tre were created cardinals. The" *>.st
named cardinal died last year. Sketches
of the cardinals appointed" today follow:
Pietro Maffl.
The Papacy, has had literary men, poets,
historians and scientists, but as yet no
practical newspaper man has worn the
tiara until yesterday. Pietro Marti is not
50 years old. He is a Lombard by birth.
About this time last year the city of Pisa
celebrated the silver jubilee of Ills ordina
tion. Before he was a priest he was a
newspaper man: wrote for local paoers
and was correspondent for Roman dailies
and several foreign dallies. As he grew 1
older ho turned toward the sciences.
After his ordination he was professor of
physics and natural sciences at Pisa Sem
inary. He built an observatory ajt Pisa
and also later reorganized the Vatic tn
observatory. While at the seminar}' In
Pisa he owned and edited "II Ticino,” a
weekly paper. On the death of Uonsisnor
Capponl h« was appointed to the see of
Tuscany. This was the last episcopal
nomination of Lett XIII. Cardinal Marti
has presided over several meetings of
scientists from all parts of the world. In
addition to his work ns a theologian,
physicist and newspaper man. the cardi
nal has written several novels. One of
them. “The Village Hawks," Is said to he
n't best effort in this lino”
Francois Joseph Mercler.
The new cardinal for Belgium ls a pys-
chologist. He is live years younger than
MalTl and succeeded the late Cardinal
Goosens as primate of Belgium. At tent
time he was president of the Leo XI'.’.
Feminary of Louvain. His principal sci
entific work ls “The Sources of Contem
porary Psychology.”
Benedetto Lcrenzetli.
Cardinal Lorenzolli will always be
known as the fluneio at Paris prior to the
breaking of. diplomatic relations between
the Vatican and tho Kronen Govern mom.
He has been 'n tho diplomat!? services
of the Vatican since he left the seminary.
He represented the Vatican at The Haguj
for three years, and later was at Munich.
In 1904 he succeeded Monslgnor Olillardl
as archbishop of Lucca, and is about tho
same age as his colleague. Cardinal Mer-
cier.
Aristide Cavallarl.
Cardinal Cavallari, like his predecessor
In the patriarchal see of Venice, Is more
noted for his simple pietv and sense of
justice than for bis intolt-otml attain
ments. He was born in Chl'ggia In tho
diocese of Venice, in.1849, and has tne
appearance of a man of «o. He was arch
priest of iSan Pietro del Castelle when
named as successor to Plus X at Venice.
Alessandro Lualdl.
Carainal Lualdi was born at Milan 49
years ago. and so shares with Cardinal
Marti the honor of being the youngest ot
the group. He came from an old and
Wealthy Lombard family. He gave his en
tire fortune to the Lobard Seminary at
Rome, for the founding of which Cardinal
Borremeo gave 520,090. He was profes
sor in the Grand Seminary- at Milan for
several years, then became rector of the
Lombard Institution, which he nut on a
high intellectual plane. Some nVTtie'nrvst
gifted clerbymen of the Catholic Church
have gone out of Lombard Seminary. He
is at present the archbishop of Palermo,
and at the time of his nomination to that
see Pius X remarked that It was neces-
s*t "to graft a Lombard branch to a
Sicilian trunk.”
Aristldo Rinaldini.
Cardinal Rinaldini is the Papal Nuncio
at Madrid. He will represent the Pope at
the baptism of the expected hrir of tho
King of Spain. was born in Monte-
faleo in 1844. an?, . < been in the diplo
matic service since 1868. when he was
sent to Lisbon as secretary of the nuncia
ture. He was under secretary of state
Leo xm from 1893 to 1896. He is the
eldest oi the group.
Gregory Marla Aguirre y Garcia.
■ Burgos. Spain. i s one of the higgest
anu wealthiest dioceses In all Spain, and
the new cardinal. Aguirre y Garcia, one
of the most popular prelates In the king
dom. Ho Is more than 50 years old. and
is noted In his own country for his fit's
erary attainments. He is a Franciscan.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
BACHELOR REFLECTIONS.
From the New York 'Press.
A girl calls It a romance to see a
man in the street who looks like a
foreign count,
UNANSWERED,
W. J. L. in the New York World.
What is a Democrat?
Who knows?
voted for the amendment and fifty-six
against. In the Senate five Democrats
voted for and nine against the amend
ment on its final defeat.” It is related
that Foster Blodgett, the warm friend
of Bullock, ls said to have predicted . W
to President Grant, in a conversation I Who scents the vanished fragrance ot
in Washington, that the Democrats In j the rose?
Georgia Legislature would support the j Is he a dream
fifteenth amendment “for the purpose ! Of other days
of inflicting negro suffrage in turn on j Gone now on long-forg6tten ways?
the d— Yankees.” Just so soon as the j Is he the rhelody,
Legislature adjourned Bullock went to : Once shed
Washington for the purpose of using ; On offices of public trust,
the defeat of 'the amendment against | Now dead?
traitors.”” And 7he audience broke into j Georgia in order "to speure further re- ] Is he rhythm of a rune
a storm of applause. (construction of the State.” Instantly j Of ancient glory, out of tune?
A little testimony from the "plain various bills were introduced in both | Is he a dead one by the road?
branches of Congress for the complete j Where once he ran to win?
reconstruction of Georgia, and condi- j Is he a dead one by the road,
tioning that she should not be allowed’! And too darn dead to skin?
to enter the Union un’ess she ratified . Is he-a faint and far off strain
the fifteenth amendment. Grant was a t Of music like a misty rain
willing party to the diabolical scheme '.That seeks to pour, but seeks In vain?
of reconstruction. Congress enacted a j is he a has-been,
monstrous reconstruction measure, di- 1 Wand’ring lone
rected Bullock to convene the Leglsla- I With nothing he can call his own?
ture. and he was authorized to call for Is he the Johnny-on-the-spot
the military. Says a writer “The val
idity of the fourteenth amendment was
partially resting on Georgia’s ratifica
tion as a State, and yet she was dec’ar-
od not a State, while the said ratifica
tion was claimed as good. The State
was not allowed to be a State, and yet
Its ratification of the fifteenth amend
ment was sought, the act of State, be
fore It should become a State. Such a
blaze of political incongruities wifi find
no parallel.” Bullock convened the
people” 1? interesting occasionally, es
pecially since their salvation is the ob
ject Mr. Graves has in view.
E. C.
Quitman, Ga., April 26.
Teddy Knows What to Steal.
From the Chattanooga Times.
Will Teddy Roosevelt please catch
Willie Bryan when he next takes a
bath and steal that new garment he
has added to his stock and which he
calls the initiative and referendum?—
Macon Telegraph.
Not for Teddy. That wilj- politician
knows a good thing when he sees It,
and by the sarfie token he is quite
“wise” to the bad ones. It may be
noted that he has stolen nothing from
Mr. Bryan that wasn’t worth having.
hearers. It will at ieast have the good
effect to open the eyes of some of the
"holier-than-thou” Northern critics of
the South to a true insight into the
sensitiveness of the question with
which this sect! ?rl has to deal and the
difficulty of the task before us of bring
ing the two races, so nearly equally di- I
vided. Into kindly understanding and
relations with each other.
the incumbents even of that high office
to play Into the hands of the profes
sion. But possibly the trouble was that
the lambs had been shorn too recently
and had not had sufficient time to gTOW
more wool for a new shearing.
Hotel rooms at Jamestown are said
to bring S3 a day. If Capt. John Smith
and Pocahontas could get a royalty on
-- ! ihe revenue floating Into old Virginia
A news item sent out from At.anta , (heir advertising "stunt” what
says a man armed with a heavy club j wea j[j 1 would be theirs?
held up a dozen trolley cars and d
A NIGHT SCENE.
By George D. Prentice.
’Tis a sweet scene. ’Mid shadows dim
The mighty river wanders by.
And on its calm, unruffled brim.
So soft the bright star-shadows lie,
’Twould seem as if the night-wind’s
plume
Had swept through woods of tropic
bloom,
And shaken down their blossoms white
To float upon the waves tonight.
And see! as soars the moon aloft
Her yellow beams come through tho
air
So mild, so beautifully soft.
That wave and wood seem stirred
with prayer:
And the pure spirit as It kneels
At Nature’s holy altar, feels
I Religion’s self come stealing by
In every beam that cleaves the sky.
Of other times when Jack c on set
The pegs of victory and spoils
No party can forget?
Is he a breeze from Araby
TPe blest, across the vale.
That shows a mystic figure 9
That hasn’t got a tail?
Is he arthought. a word, a deed?
Is he a tenet or a creed?
Is he a memory that comes
Amidst a shower of Juicy plums
That fall to others while he waits
Legislature on January 10. 1870. With- • And yearns outside the orchard gates?
out legal authority he signed himself j s Bryan one?
“Provlslonar Governor.” It has been
truly said: "There never has been and
never will be seen In Georgia annals
another wretched, humiliating, arbi
trary, lawless farce as the re-organiza-
tlon of that Legislature.” It was the
Legislature of 1S63 which Bullock re
convened. He selected A. L. Harris,
an emplove of the State road, to organ
ize the House. Of this illegal and far- _
deal preceding. Hon. Joshua Hill in 1 yet are they what now seems to be
thb United States Senate, in 1S71. in | ^n echo and a memory?
: a great speech, among other things, , \rhat is a Democrat?
Is Bryan that
"Which answers to a Democrat?
Is Parker one?
Is he the goods
To Iced the lost ones p-om the woods?
Is Hearst the great and only one
To stand for Thomas Jefferson?
And there are others,
Thev who ciaim
The’.shadow of a mighty name;
said:
moralized street car traffic hunting for
the conductor that winked at his wife.
Is Atlanta trying to put a new wrinkle
In the unwritten law?
Senator Depew says he is a happy
man because he married the right wo
man.
j league, Tom Collier Platt.
The living soul of beauty fills
The air with glorious visions: bright
They wander o’er the forest hills
And linger in the pallid light:
Off to the breathing heaven
Rather a mean fling at his col- Along the earth they live and gio
Shed on the stream their smiles,
1 And beckon to Its purple Isles.
• “By some hocus-pocus Harris ap
peared there on that occasion to or
ganize this Legislature. taking his
chair of State nnd lokoing. as I fan
cy, Xorbury did when he rode the
bloody assizes In 1798. Men looked
j amazed and aghast. If there were
! ev.er Kit Klux in Georgia, it occurred
I to rrse that that was about the time
| they ought to have showed themselves |
they go, i —when a stranger, a man wholly a
I stranger to tho Legislature, and al-
l*mo«t ro tho whole people of the State.
I appeared there, dnd occupied the chair
That
Who knows?
Go where the car of progress goes.
And watch it whiz by with Its load,
Then step behind it in the road
Is that
A Democrat?
Austin K. Jones has been bell-ringer
at Harvard for forty-nine years. He
has rung the clapper of the bell in Har
vard Hall 3,175.000 times, and has walk
ed to and from the bell rope nearly
half a century. 59 045 miles. He is
eitrhtv-one years old. and has rung in
and tolled out five Harvard University
presidents.
Sweden’s canals are frozen up on an
average or 155 days in each year.
Railway servants in England are
supposed to receive 51.500,000 a year
in tips.
One-seventh of Great Britain’s to
tal foreign commerce passes through
the Suez canal.
In 1840 Austrian noblemen could le
gally claim two days a week of un
paid labor from all their tenants, who
were at that date practically serfs.
M. Constant Coquelin, the comedian,
is 67 years old, but his vigor does not
seem to be in any way abated. Dur
ing his recent appearances in London
It was remarked that his playing was
never more full of zest.
Glass bathtubs are being made In
Germany and are said to have advan
tages over the metal and enamel, the
principal one being that they are
much cheaper. They are made In a
solid piece, and one can be turned out
complete in about five minutes.
A record Is he’d by the Rev. E. Clap
ton, vicar of Stebbing, Essex England.
On a recent Sunday he assisted In
ringing a peal of 720 changes on the
bells before church. After this he
conducted the whole service—preach
ed the sermon and played the organ.
The annual production of coke has
quadrupled In the last twenty-five
years and Is now about thirty-three
million tons. Nine-tenths of all, the
Scientific American says. Is yet made
in beehive ovens. Coke is mainly
used for smelting iron ore, in a total
production for the United States of
twenty-three million tons of pig Iron
last year.
Four hundred and slxty-two new
national banks were created In 1906.
For the last seven years the average
has been within a fraction of forty a
month. We now have 6,345 national
banks, with $877,099,275 capital and
5596,343 022 circulation. Seven years
the banks numbered 3.617. with
$616,308 095 capital and $254,462,730
circulation.—New York Sun. .
The architect of the new Sniger _
building in New York, forty stories in '
height, and exceeded in altitude bv
only one building in the world, is
Ernest Flagg who had previously
planned the Corcoran art gallery In
Washington and the Naval Academy
at Annapolis. He was a pupil of
Paul Blondel, the late "guardian"
architect of the Louvre and Tullerles.
It Is estimated that 510,000,000- is In
vested in the outfit of golf clubs in
England and that 20,000 people were
converted to the game in 1906. There
are 2 000 clubs and about 30,000 play
ers, and their total annual expenditure
Is estimated at over 527,000.000 an
average of $90 for each player. At
the rate of a ball a golfer each week
15,000,000 balls are used every year by 1
golfers on British links.
In human history a great river has
sometimes formed "a dividing line be
tween peoples possessing quite differ
ent characteristics. Dr. W. M. Lyon,
Jr., has discovered a similar phenome
non affecting squirrels in Borneo. H“
found eight different forms of squir
rels Inhabiting the northern and wes
tern parts of the great island, and ob- .
served that a large river prowl an
effectual barrier In separating two dis
tinct races.
Sir John Tenniel, the famous Bunch
cartoonist, who celebrated his eighty-
seventh birthday the other day. is still
a fine military-looking man. with all
his faculties intact .ml as keen a mind
as when he drew his first cartoon.