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THE HUN TEMPI! PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. C. R. PENDLETON, President THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA. Th« T«Ugraph esn bo found on salt •t tho Kimball Houoo and tho Piod- mont Hotel in Atlanta. 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 l-M'-M-I-i-I-I-H"! ■l 'H"H-l', I -l-H"l-K"c | Caught on f f the Wing f •I-l-M-l-I-I-I-l-I-l ■H"1"H | I | 1 1 I-H-i-l-H- 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.