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THE TWICE-A- ft El-JK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1907.
GEORGIA LOCAL UNDERWRITERS
CLOSE SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION
h» Georgia Local Ur
ation was adjourn*
loon n tier enjoying
Log Cabin Club
rday af- j From t
oecue at
ch proved to
Quaint Fish Has Numerous Names.
Dundee Advertiser.
The monk-fish is a quaint CTeature.
even when it does not have a two-
h<
■n Jo
yen: ion. Th
The fulies" t
Cabin Club
preelation of the h
them by the memh
well as of the Pro;
people in general,
sai opinion th
local agent
xpi
■f th* „ rn - i pound tin of Colman’s mustard inside
me it, as a specimen landed at Scarborough
s enjoyed to | j as . week had. It is a sort of shark,
r of the Log | which looks much more like a skate,
f d their ap- i and other curious resemblances have
1 I I 1 i -i-'t-l-1 i"l-
>»plts
ijlty extended
f the club as
rogr. s- Club and the
It was the unlver-
the un/P rwrlters had
luded the mot
>ry
successful and m03t
ntlon in its history.
ard that much good had been done for
the local agents In general all over the
State.
The session -which met yesterday
morning at the Progress Club was an
executive session and was one of the
most important of the entire proceed
ings. The committee of seven which
had been appointed to consider the
president’s address and to recommend
.’mvthing they saw fit for the general
welfare of the association, made Us
report through its chairman, W. L.
•Wilson.
This committee commended the ad
dress of President Lumpkin very high
ly and recommended the various points
which it had discussed. The commit
tee also reported favorably upon the
articles of incorporation as read by
Col. Callaway at yesterday’s session.
It was the general opinion of the agents
that the association should be incor
porated under the laws of the State of
Georgia, and it was decided that the
ns-oelatlon should apply for a charter
to the Superior Court of Bibb County.
It was also reoommended that the
articles with a few changes as offered
by Col. Callaway, should be present
ed. *
The members took very’ favorably to
the Idea advanced by Vice President
Train, of .Savannah, that the organiza
tion of the -association should be mod
eled along the lines of the National as
sociation and that the committees and
general order of business of the Na
tional association should be carried out,
in order that the local association
should be systematic and ‘capacitated
to better n«sist the. local agents. The
National assessment was provided for
by volutary subscription and the inter
est in the progress of the association
was manifold.
The work of the various committees
was discussed in full, and various rec-
comr.iendntlons were made by the com
mittee of seven as to the work of those
committees. The committee on legis
lation was instructed to advocate such
legislation as would aid the under
waters, and to fight against any which
would curtail their power: in this par
ticular, the work of the legislative com
mittee of last year was praised for suc
ceeding in killing a bill Introduced in
the House which it was maintained had
it been passed, would have greatly un
derminded tho powers and advantages
of the local agents.
At the morning session the annual
election of officers took placo with the
following results: Geo. Turpin, of Ma-
. con, president: Morris Harris, of Ma
con. secretary; W. F. Train, of Savan
nah. first vice president: Edgar Dun
lap. of Atlanta, second vice president,
and E. A. La vert, of Atlanta, treasurer.
The association then adjourned to the
Log Cabin Club in the afternoon where
the concluding festivities of the meet
ing wore greatly enjoyed by all who
nttc-nded. The members went away
congratulating themselves on tho good
work of the association, confident that
thi- was the best session ever held.
Through the very cordial Invitation
of W. L. Wilson, a prominent agent of
Favannah, and chairman of committee
of :-even. tho association decided to
meet at Savannah next year.
given It a variety of popular names.
It is called "monk-fish” from its de
cidedly cowl-like hc-ad: "fiddle-fish” be
cause of its general shape, and “angel
fish" because Its wing-like pectoral fins
make it to the eye of fancy very like
a very bad angel. "Shark-ray” is yet
another name, and a composite pho
tograph of a shark, a ray, a skate, an
angel, a monk, and a ddle would really
give a very fair idea of this fish. Sci
ence is on the side of the angels with
tho name "squatina angelus.’’
New Style Preclou* Stone.
A considerable Industry is being built
up In the manufacture of gaialith. or
mllkstone. which Is cheaper than cellu
loid and is non-lnfiamable. The raw ma
terial Is the skimmed milk from the large
co-operative dairies. To this. In large
tanks, is added rennet, coagulating the
casein, which Is pressed, dried and pow
dered. an freed from its cheesy odor by
repeated washings, and finally is hardened
by a chemical process.
The product Is declared to bo more
brilliant, more solid, and a trifle heavier
than celluloid. It Is as easy to work as
wood, and can be made Into a great
variety of articles, such as combs, hair
pins. piano keys, buttons, knife handles,
umbrolla handles, hacks for brushes, -pa
per knives, dominoes. Inlaid ornaments
for futnlture. and almost any object re
quiring solidity and fine polish.
Altogether, this new mllkstone seems
to be a valuable Invention; and by no
means the least Important thing about
it Is the possibility that. In case of dire
financial stress, threatening starvation,
articles made of this stone might be cut
up. seasoned to taste, and eaten.
Prodigies in Fasting.
Westminister Gazette.
A French girl, one Christiana Miche-
Iot when recovering from a severe at
tack of fever, is said to have lived from
November, 1751, to July, 1755. on wa
ter, "without any solid food of any de
scription.”
Twenty years later Monica Mutche-
terla, a woman of Suable. while suffer
ing from a complication of nervous dis
orders, subsisted for two years on
dietary of curds and whey and water,
and. to add to her discomfort, she was
unable to sleep during the whole of this
peri d: while in 1762 we learn (and we
are simply quoting records of cases
which appear to have been well at
tested), Ann Walsh, a twelve-year-old
girl of Harrowgate, survived,for eigh
teen months on a daily allowance of
a third of a pint of wine and water.
A Narrow Escape.
G. W. Cloyd. a merchant, of Plunk.
Mo., had a narrow escape four years
ago. when he ran a jimson bur into
his thumb. He says: "The doctor want
ed to amputate it but I would not con
sent. I bought a box of Bucklen’s Ar
nica Salve and that cured the danger
ous wound.” 25c at all druggists.
Gold Burled In Guam.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Fifty thousand dollars in greenbacks, to
be used in-paying Government expenses
at Guam, will be sent to that island by
the next transport. The greenbacks are
from J1 to 55 in denomination.
As there Is a shortage of small paper
money at the subtreasury, the greenbacks
were gathered at tho different banks.
The money is sent in this form at the re
quest of the Governor of Guam. He 3ent
word to the navy pay office that gold sent
to Guam went out of circulation almost
immediately, as the natives bury it as
soon as they receive it. The island is full
of burled treasure pots, the location of
which is known only-tl their owners. The
natives look upon greenbacks as stag-
money. and their desire"'to pass them
along keeps up a healthy circulation of
currency.
PORTER NA8EED IN ACT
oF“sncco
On Tuesday afternoon Mr. T. J. Car-
etarphrn. Jr., saw a box of cigars and a
caddy of tobacco pass out of the rear
window of his father’s storo on Second
street.
When tho services of the negro em
ployes were needed in the front part of
the store, a look for the goods developed
that they had been placed In a bag and
put aside. loiter in the evening when the
store was closing up. young Carstatphen.
from his hiding place, discovered the
porter. Henry Davis, taking tho bag and
contents away.
He grabbed Henry and turned him over
to an officer.
Yesterday morning when the abovo
faots were brought out. Henry was bound
over to the City Court on the charge of
larceny.
It also turned out that Henry was tho
Henry Davis who a y, tr or so ago was
charged with stealing a wagon belonging
to the Southern F.xpress Company. He
found the wagon without a driver, jumped
In and rode all over town in a wild frolic
until caught.
Must Sue For One Cent.
For the Inst sixteen years the Chica
go postoffice has had a surplus of 1
cent on its books. No one has been
able to find the source of the surplus
or to whom the money was due, until
yesterday. W. 1a Ciucas. a special
agent of the North American Life In
surance Company, notified postoffice
authorities that he had a draft for 1
cent on the office. It was Issued on
January 5. 1S91. to his father, W. J.
Lucas, of Lebanon, III.
w. J. Clue.is was postmaster at Le
banon, Ill., during the Administration
of Grover Cleveland. At the end of
Cleveland’s term of office. Mr. Ciucas
sent In his statement. It then appeared
that he had sent in 1 cent too much.
It was returned to him in the form of
n draft. Mr. Ciucas. wishing to keep
the dr-aft as a remembrance. never
cashed it. After his death, in 1899, the
draft was turned over to his son, who
kept it as a relic.
After the settlement of the estate,
Mr. Ciucas found it never could be
cashed, as his father, had not Indorsed
it In his name. For this reason, the
poMoffice auditor never will be able
to balance his books unless Mr. Ciucas
takes the matter into court.
Motoring In Flanders.
You can take your choice of route from
London to Old Flanders; sail over from
Dover to Ostend and come back by way
of Flushing and Harwich: It is all a de
lightful Old World tour In a silent tack-
proof car. The drive from London to Do
ver is on a finer road and through lovelier
downs than anything we have for a like
distance In America. There you can run
your car aboard the packet boat and pay.
ing a guinea, ship it to that wondorously
gay city which King LcoDoid has built
around his chalet at Ostend by the North
Sea. A few Americans already know
the charm of a still-hunt for the brass
amphorae, pewter, and rare old metal
ware of the Flemish low-lands: the Eng
lish in their cars are fast discovering it.
and as Frenchmen care for nothing so far
from the Bois de Boulogne, the Germans
are crossing the Rhine and the Maas to
augment their possession of the Alsatian
spoil of 1870.
elbows.—H. W. Wack In April Recreation.
It is all very Jolly for the automoblllng
tourist: but it makes some of the Belgians
angry to be forever dodging cars skid
ding down and across streets no wider
than a cobbled East Side alley. Only re
cently some amiable socialist besought
the Belgium Chamber to enact a law to
bum all automobiles in King Leopold’s
lovely country. He was tactfully sup
pressed with the argument that if left to
themselves, they would all burn up with
out the aid of the law. "Thev breed an
archists!” yelled a little runt sitting down
behind himself, "and they endanger the
lives of our dogs and women in tho
streets. Mon Dieu!” And this Is quite
true—in Belgium—for if ever cars dis
turbed a poDtilace and rode roughly over
personal right, they do so in the narrow
streets of the dead cities of Flanders.
Brick pavements and cobbled streets are
often so narrow there that two cars mav
pass only by wiping the paint and lamps
off each other, and incidentally tearing
tho arms off pedestrians with extended
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the Wing i
I-H-I I H-i-M-I-M-H- I"! -I i 1 1-H-l-H-
By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
A highly interesting story is contain
ed in this column today, and the noble
conduct of the central figure therein
should arouse the gratitude of the pa-
I triotic people of Georgia. This com
monwealth should erect a monument
[ in her honor. A few nights ago I was
reading the messages and documents
of the Presidents of the United States
addressed to the Senate of the Federal
Congress, when I ran across this one:
“Executive Mansion.
"Washington. D. C., Dec. 20. 1869.
“To the Senate of the United States:
“I hereby request the return of such
part of my message of December 9. in
response to Senate resolution of De
cember 6, requesting the reports o$ the
military commander of the-district of
which Georgia is a part, to-wit, , an
anonymous letter purporting to be
from ’a Georgia woman.’ By accident
the paper got with those called for by
the resolution, instead of in the waste
basket, where it was intended it
should go.
“(Signed) U. S. GRANT.”
What a train of reminiscences this
brought forth! What a thrilling pan
orama of a horrible epoch was unroll
ed! What a terrible era of sword rule
and arbitrary despotism—the stormy
period of bayonet reconstruction—was
unfolded! “A Georgia woman.’’ Whom
did President Grant thus style in his
official document? Mrs. Lloyd Carle
ton Belt, widow of the gallant captain
of the color company of the Ninth
Georgia Volunteer Infantry, who was
offered the office of colonel of his regi
ment, but declined the honor, prefer
ring to remain the commander of the
company which he organized and
equipped for the Confederacy, and who
fell mortally wounded on the soil of
Virginia In defense of tho South, dying
on May 14. 1S62. Before entering the
Southern army he was an eminent
physician of Bulloch County, of dis
tinguished English and Maryland an
cestry. His widow, "a Georgia wo
man," Is the granddaughter of Thomas
Talbot, a Revolutionary hero of Vir
ginia. and who. at the tender age of
18 years, commanded a company,
which he raised, in the battle of Ket
tle Creek, in Wilkes County. Georgia.
She is the great granddaughter of John
Talbot, who was so prominent in the
politics and liberty struggles of Vir
ginia in the days immediately preced
ing and during the Revolution. Her
father. Col. Wm. Jones, of Virginia,
was a captain In the war of 1812. Her
ties of relationship run through 'distin
guished families back to Presidents
Washington and Madison. Mrs.* Belt,
"a Georgia woman." was born in
Wilkes County, and is now living at
the advanced age of 79 years with her
son. Dr. Lloyd Jones Belt a leading
citizen and physician of Millen, Jen
kins County, in this State. And it is a
coincidence, and very appropriate, that
this lady who took such a prominent
part at Washington In the restoration
of Georgia to the Union, should now
be residing in the new county of Jen
kins, which was .named in honor of the
illustrious Governor who was removed
from office by military authority dur
ing the reconstruction era, because he
would not obey the mandates of Geor
gia's enemies, and who concealed and
protected the Great Seal of State and
a large amount of the public funds
until Georgia passed again under Dem
ocratic rule, when he brought them
forth from their hiding place and de
livered them to Gov. James M. Smith.
Mrs. Belt, and aid her.” He replied.
I cannot.” Mrs. Belt left the Wil
sons. and while walking up Pennsylva
nia avenue met Col. Fred Dent. Mrs.
Grant’s brother. The “Appeal" was
discussed by them. In course of con
versation Col. Dent said President
Grant had nothing before him bearing
upon the situation in Georgia but Ter-
ry’es report. I am not accessible to
Terry’s report at this writing but, gen
tle reader, as Gen. Alfred A. Terry was
in military- command in Georgia, under
a Republican dynasty, and favored the
interposition of Congress in our af
fairs. It is not probably that his report
contained any information favorable
to Congress. Just here I lose a thread
in my , narrative. I do not know by
what means “A Georgia Woman's Ap
peal” got to Grant, but it reached him.
I have an idea that Col. Dent received
it from Mrs. Belt and delivered it to
the President. I have heard that the
President had the “Appeal" copied and
addressed to himself, and he sent it
to the Senate "by accident.” as he said
in his special message, and it was re
ferred to the Senate reconstruction
committed,' just where Mrs. Belt want
ed it to go. It threw some of the Sen
ators into fanatical and political spasms.
Grant was severely abused and harsh
ly criticised for sending the "Appeal”
to the Senate. Then followed his mes
sage of December 20, 1869, recalling
the “Appeal.” and saying it should have
gone "in the wastebasket.” It has
been suggested that the‘Appeal” in go
ing to the Senate committee went to
the best wastebasket into which it
could possible have fallen. But Grant’s
message came too late. The “Appeal”
had sown the seed which quickly root
ed, grew, blossomed, and bore the fruit
of Georgia’s redemption from the hands
of the reeonstructlonists.
Famous Hoax Recalled.
The Paris Patrle announced. March
30. the death of the anti-clerical pam
phleteer Lao Taxil. The London Chron
icle tfhe next day said:
Leo Taxil was the nom de plume of
Gabriel Antoine Joyaud-Pages, who
had an extraordinary career as a liter
ary controversialist. Born in 1854, he
was educated by the Jesuits, but re
volted against his early training, and
threw himself in an .anti-clerical agi
tation of the utmost virulence, and of
the most slanderous character.
In 1S85 Oie recanted, and re-entered
the bosom of the church, receiving the
benediction of the present archbishop
of Paris, and the absolution of Pope
j Leo XIII. Then he turned on the anti-
clericals. and was responsible for the
I alleged revelations connecting Free-
| masonry with devil worship, which
! caused a sensation in Paris in the early
nineties. The high priestess of the
cult, Diana Vaughan, was his discov
ery. Then came another recantation,
in which Taxi! again spurned the
church, and declared that Diana
Vaughan and his other revelations
were the inventions ot his own imagin
ation.
Mrs. Lloyd Carleton Belt, the subject
of this article, was in Washington city
during the reconstruction era. as the
correspondent of the Savannah Repub
lican: Col. J. R. Sneed, editor. She
wrote brilliantly, fearlessly and enter-
taingly. being intensely Southern and
ardently Democratic. By the bye, 1
have been told that the Smithsonian
Institute in Washington, bought the
files of the Republican covering this
period. Mrs. Belt heard the discussion
In Congress on "Beast” Butler's mo
tion not to count the vote of Georgia
In the Presidential election of 1S68,
and graphically pictured the acrimon
ious debate between Butler and Con
gressman John A. Bingham, a Repub
lican member of the House from Ohio,
when Bingham denounced Butlfer’s res
olution of censure of President Wade
of the Senate, as revolution and an
archy. Butler was chairman. I believe,
of the House reconstruction commit
tee. and Mrs. Belt heard his bitter and
fierce speech against the admission of
Georgia into the nuion. When coming
out of the capitol. a young woman,
walking at Mrs. Belt’s side rushed up
to Butler, caught him by the hand and
told him how delighted she was to
meet him and hear his speech, and
how her father admired him. He
seemed highly pleased with her admi
ration of his effort He offered his
hand to Mrs. Belt, which she refused,
saying, the young lady and she were of
different sections and of very different
opinion of him.
Mrs. Belt received a note from the
White House saying: "The President
is in trouble about sending your letter
to the committee, but you keep silent
—you got what you wanted.” Many
copies of the "Appeal” were printed
after it reached the Senate, but they
were called in and a bonfire made of
them. Judge Gibson, who represented
the Georgia reconstructionists before
Congress, said in Washington: "Gover
nor Bullock would have given fifty
thousand dollars not to have had that
‘Appeal’ sent to the Senate commit
tee.” Terry’s report and the “Appeal”
were sent to the Senate at the same
time by President Grant. It was one
of the Shermans who said: “Terry’s
report carried its antidote with it.”
Several months after Georgia had been
restored to the Union, the great Mass
achusetts Senator. Charles Sumner, was
introduced to Mrs. Belt. He shook
hands with her. and said: “And this
is the brave little Georgia woman who
was so solicitous about her State and
her people. Why did you not come
to me with your ‘Appeal?’ She re
plied: “The truth is. Senator Sumner,
I was afraid of you: you seemed to hate
the South.’ To which the famous
statesman answered: “You are mis
taken: I do not hate the Southern peo
ple."
On committee and in the House Con
gressman 'Bingham rendered able ser
vices in favor of the restoration to the
Union of all the seceded States, includ
ing Georgia. He reported the bill from
the committee for the restoration of
Tennessee, the first of the seceded
States that was restored to the Union.
In 1871. just before Mr. Bingham went
as United -States ambassador to Japan,
he wrote'tbe following letter to Mrs.
Belt:
"Washington, April 20, 1871.
‘Dear Madam:—It gives me pleasure
to recall your earnest and continued ef
forts to restore your native State Geor
gia—"The Empire State of the South”
—to her equal place in the Union of
States and the empire of the people.
"Whoever writes the history of that
struggle and writes it truthfully, must
assign you a place with the friends of
restoration second to that of m> other
person who appeared for Georgia. Such
fidelity and devotion to the interests
of a great people should neither be for
gotten nor refused the tribute of that
people’s gratitude. You surely will not
be denied this either by the people of
Georgia or by any true Ameri&n at
home or abroad.
“With the highest regards for you
and with sincere wishes for the health
of yourself and family, I have the hon
or to be
"Very truly your friend and obedient
servant.
“(Signed) JOHN A. BINGHAM."
Mrs. Carleton Belt.
Washington City. D. C.
In 1897. when Congressman Bingham
was eighty-five years oid, he wrote
a letter at his home, Cadiz. Ohio, to
Mrs. Belt, in which he said, among
other things: "Please accept my thanks
for the assurance that you still allow
me a place in your memory on account,
of the services I rendered in favor
of the restoration to the Union of all
the seceded States, including Georgia.
. . . . I hope that your native State
of Georgia will render a just tribute
to you in your old age for the great
services you rendered it."
the village was located about fifty
yards from toe principal channel of
Duke's creek. Twelve (12) years be- !
fore the discovery of the village a j
heavy growth of timber had been clear- :
ed from the site, showing the houses !
to have been built at some remote per- i
iod. and in addition to this the account I
of the discovery, published soon after i
it was unearthed, says: ’A great many 1
curious specimens of workmanship |
were found in situations which pre- I
elude the possibility of their having |
been removed for more than a thousand '•
years.” The Cyclopeda states that not- j
withstanding these evidences of great j
antiquity the houses were only par- , Mr. L. J. Brown, writing to The Tel-
tialiy decayed. The late C. C. Jones, i egraph from Brunswick and discussing
MACON BANKS WiLL BE ASSESSED
AT AN 80 PER CENT VALUATION
Goodyear’s
Canal Scheme
Jr., of Augusta, in his very interesting
work on Indian antiquities refers to
the discovery of the remains of a sub
terranean village near the mound in
East Macon.
There are four mounds in East Ma
con. as I have already stated. These
mounds may have represented the four
classes into which students of pre
historic antiquities have divided In
dian mounds, to-wit: Temples for sun
worship: residences of kings, rulers or
priests; lookouts or signal stations;
burial or sacrificial places. There is,
or was, /a very large sacrificial mound
In Early County, covered with large
forest trees over five hundred years
old. According to Historian Pickett:
"A shaft has been sunk in the center
to the depth of sixty feet, and at its
lower portion a bed of human bones,
five feet in thickness, and in a per
fectly decomposed state, was passed.”
Referring to that portion of the mound
in East Macon that was excavated
sixty-four years ago. Historian Butler
says: “At about thirty to forty feet
below the surface was discerned the
trunk of a tree, supposed to have been
poplar, twelve inches in diameter. It
was encrusted with stone two inches
thick, beneath which the wood ap
peared to be converted into hard coal,
and was black and heavy. What was
very singular, pieces of pine bark were
found in the same locality that were
sound and bore the distinct marks of
an axe.’’
There are said to be stone mounds
in Putnam County. One of them is
thus described: “It is six and a half
miles north of Eatonton, and repre
sents an eagle lying on its back and
measures 102 feet from beak to tail
and 120 feet from tip to tip across the
1 wings. In the highest part it is only
i eight feet above the surrounding sur-
| face of the country. The other stone
I mound, very much the same in design,
j but slightly larger, is near Lawrence’s
ferry on the Oconee River, and is built
I entirely of white quartz, surrounded by
' a wall of the same material.” Histo
rian White tells of a very interesting
mound in Bartow County. It is on the
north side of the Etowah River. The
mound is seventy-five feet high, and is
more than 1,100 feet in circumference
at the base. On the summit is a level
area 150 feet across. The earth which
formed this mound had been taken
from a ditch twenty feet wide and ten
feet deep. Its course is that of a semi
circle, the extremities extending to
wards the river, which form a small
elbow. Many, many long years ago.
while the Indians were yet roaming
through these parts, a writer for Silli-
man’s Journal visited this mound. He
says: "On these great works of art
the Indians gazed with as much cu
riosity as any white man. I inquired
of the oldest chiefs if the natives had
any tradition respecting them, to
which they answered in the negative.
I then requested each to say what he
supposed was their origin. Neither
could tell, although all agreed in say
ing that they were put there by our
people.” So far as I know, from his
torical accounts, the counties in Geor
gia in which there are Indian mounds j
are Bibb, Early, Elbert Bartow, Han- I
cock. Jasper. Forsyth and Butts. It is !
known that the Indians had their tern- I _
pie.of the sun. and on the rocks of the ! for within that time hisdreatryt, as
Hon. C. P. Goodyear's canal scheme,
which the iatter discussed in Sunday’s
issue of this paper,.says: '■»
Hon. C. P. Goodyear is now promot
ing a system of canals which will be
the greatest thing not only to Georgia
but the entire South Atlantic States
and the North Central States that has
been done in the last one hundred
years, and he proves that it is entirely
feasible and at a reasonable cost—not
exceeding at the utmost 56,000,000.
His plan is the construction of canals
243 miles in length, connecting the
South Atlantic coast through the Alta-
maha river via Macon and Atlanta to
the nerest point on the Tennessee river
—the extreme south bend in Alabama
or in Tennessee, which would give
water connection between the South
Atlantic coast and the northern Mis
sissippi and its branches.
Speak to the average person about
such a canal system crossing the Alle
gheny Mountains and he at once thinks
of the Panama or Suez canals and hun
dreds of millions of dollars and will
hardly give the matter thought except
as a pipe dream: but Mr. Goodyear
has given this matteer a thorough in
vestigation by getting facts and fig
ures, considering the streams to ’be
traversed and mountains to be crossed,
as well as having made a study of ca
nal construction in the United States
and Europe, and he can convince you
that such a scheme is entirely feasible
and practicable, and at a cost not ex
ceeding at the utmost 56.000,000.
This can be done and has been done
under greater difficulties by locks, lifts
and other methods of carrying canals
across mountains in the past. He says
that the Morris canal, uniting the Del
aware and the Hudson rivers, crosses
the Allegheny Mountains at a height of
700 feet above the Delaware and 914
feet above the Hudson. Other canals
in Pennsylvania cross mountains at
greater heights.
The Languedock canal in France,
connecting the French Atlantic and
the French Mediterranean coasts, rises
610 feet, crosses by aqueducts 55 rivers
and -has 119 bridges over it. was built
in 1681, and is in operation today.
It may 'be laid down as axiomatic
that, given a sufficient water at each
lock level, a canal can climb over any
mountain that a railroad can.
If these were possible under old
methods of digging canals, how much
easier it would be tottay.
Are these matters worthy of consid
eration? If accomplished they would
not only bring competition but un
told wealth in general development to
the country affected.
Even now as fast as railroads are
built and enlarged they cannot meet
the necessities, and cannot possibly
cope with the future, and canals are
a necessity. Old canals which were
practically abandoned some years ago
when railroads were built sufficient to
meet the demands are being rehabili
tated and used again on account of the
great development of the country.
"Who is Mr. Goodyear, and what con
sideration is he entitled to? He is
man who has done things. He has
tackled big problems and either car
ried them through to a successful fin
ish. -or others have taken up his ideas
and done so. He is an investigator and
one who makes a study of big prob
lems and is generally five to ten years
ahead of the times in which he lives:
mountains in North Georgia are visi
ble carved representations of the
bright' orb of day. "They heard the
voice of their God in the morning
breeze: they saw him in the dark
cloud that rose in wrath from tho
West: they acknowledged his univer
sal beneficence in the setting sun, as
he sank to his burning bed.” And—
“when the last Indian shall have stood
they are sometimes called, are gener
ally developed and made a reality.
Note tho deepening of the Brunswick
bar with dynamite and our prospective
30-foot channel and a future magnifi
cent city where •Brunswick now stands,
with millions of dollars now going into
the greatest and finest docks in the
world.
Three years ago he went from citv
upon his native hilis in the West, and i to city and adjoining States advocating
shall have worshipped the setting sun a steamship line with the West Indies
for'the last time, perhaps some youth
may rove to the green mounds, and
ask with wonder what manner of be
ings they were.”
CAN YOU ENJOY
A HEARTY MEAL ?
If not. try taking a dose of the Bitters S «a^ors oTVftt
N :.uv same. It will give you an appe- th e rescue wori: he
Republican leaders in this State were
In Washington trying to get Congress
to re-reconstruct Georgia. This State
was among the very last of the South
ern States to acquiesce in the recon
struction demands of Congress. While
the battle was raging fiercest in Con
gress over Georgia, and the State was
nailed to the cross and groaning under
her crown of thorns, and all seemed
dark and desolate for the proud and
long suffering commonwealth, there
suddenly appeared a ringing and pa
triotic letter called "A Georgia Wo
man’s appeal.” The Iliad recited no
truer or more pathetic history. No
Ilium epic more vividly pictured the
fallen splendor of a country. It told of
"the glory that was Greece and the
woes of her people with a pathos and
trueness never before revealed to a
Radical Congress. The communication
created a tremendous sensation among
the ranks of the despotic reconstruc
tionists, and started a reactionary tide
in favor of Georgia which culminated
in the Democratic representation of
the State in Congress and the happy
rehabilitation of Georgia in all of her
affairs at home. “A Georgia Woman’s
Appeal” proved to be the rainbow to
Georgia’s clouds, the beacon light on
her stormy shore.
'mach in its work of di
in ar.d assimilation and prevent
ailments that heretofore troubled
HOSTETTER’S
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is especially adapted for making weak
stomachs strong and thus curing Dys
pepsia, Indigestion, Costiveness, Head
ache, Liver Troubles or Female Ills.
Try it today. It is pure.
SALVATION ARMY’S RESCUE
WORK IN SAVANNAH.
SAY ANN AH. Ga.. Mav 5.—Salivation
Army posts are usually militant, but Capt’
Pavers, who heads the organization in this
city, has been doing good work of so ag
gressive a nature R s to keep him con
tinually in the public eye. and so laudable
is this work, that it keeps the public ton
gue sounding his praises. Perhaps the
ist striking feature of the endeavors of
Is to be found in
is doing for unfor
tunate white children who have been
abandoned by unfortunate o- henrt’ess
parents and left to the more or less
tender mercies of negro foster parents.
A number of such cases have been fer- - cau
reted out by the officer recently, and in
thorn all he has been successful in taking
the children from their negro custodians
Moreover, he has found or is finding them
homes among reputable white people. In
two Or three cases the rescued children
have been adopted into families of ex
cellent material circumstances, so that
fine prospects confront little ones who
but a few days ago had n let before them
th*-1 offered naneht save fear and d-e«d.
( Fapt. Sayers has the support of the
i grand jury and the endorsement of th©
I people generally in his rescue work.
Congressman Bingham, alluded to
above, was a member <of the recon
struction committee. Mrs. Belt made
no effort to conceal her identity as the
author of “A Georgia Woman's Ap
peal, "as President Grant in his mes
sage to the Senate, quoted above, when
he referred to the communication as
“an anonymous letter.” He knew who
was the writer, according to my infor
mation, and as I will attempt to show
presntlv. Mrs. Belt sent the “Appeal”
to Congressman Bingham, with the re
quest that he lay it before the recon
struction committee. He came to her
the next day and told her he had re
ceived her letter, but it would be as
much as his life was worth to place it
before the committee, presumably, be--
of the then bitter feeling to
ward Georgia. She asked him to re
turn the letter, but he said no. he in- j an aboriginal
tended to keep it. But she had a copy discovered
and she went to Senator Henry Wil- |
son, of Massachusetts, who became I
Vice President when President Grant i
was re-eiected. He would not listen
to Mrs. '3elt. and said. “Georgia needs j
punishment, her people are so rebeili- ,
ous. and unconquered." His wife was j
in the parlor and heard the converse- *
lion, and «aid, "Oh. Harry, hearken to •
A local article in The Telegraph yes
terday informed us that one of the few
lingering remnants of a race of men
that once inhabited this section, and
made the forest echo to the war dance,
and rippled the bosom of the Ocmulgee
with swiftly gliding canoes, will soon
disappear before the remorseless hand
of the progressive pale face. One of
the last traces of an Indian empire, of
which the site of the rising city of
Macon was a part, will shortly pass
away, and be lost sight of forever un
der the crushing wheels of the tri
umphal car of progress. This /relic
of former active beings, whose council-
fires blazed along the banks of the riv
er. and whose whoop resounded far
over the hills and fields, will, in a few
hours, be only a memory. Mournful to
the mind is this departing fragment of
other ages. The sanctuary where the
Great Spirit was worshiped is being
broken down by the steam shovel. The
•tomb of the children of the forest is to
be used as mere dirt for “filling in” pur
poses by a. railroad. The green mound
of Indian sepulture is to be buried in
the vortex of oblivion. O Progress,
mighty is the strength of thy arm, and
pitiless is thy tread!
The mound in question is one of three
others in East Macon. They have of
ten been referred to by standard writ
ers upon Indian antiquities as among
the most reamrkable tumuli in America.
Only recently I gave a full description
of these mounds in this column, so I
will not redescribe them now. In 1840,
Elam Alexander and Robert and Chas.
Collins, of Macon, were given the con
tract to build the Central Railroad be
tween Macon and Oconee. The mound
specifically alluded to above was on the
right of way of the Central, and in ex
cavating for the line a portion of one
side of this central mound had to be
removed, and skeletons, skulls and
numerous Indian implements were ex
humed. It is in evidence that this
mound was used in different ages for
burying purposes by tribes who may
have had no acquaintance with each
other. How ancient the mounds are
is not recorded in any of the annals of
the centuries. DeSoto found them here
nearly four hundred years ago. Relic
hunters may find much to interest them
by visiting the mound now being de
molished.
It does not seem to be generallv
[PUBLIC OF
No one would take Senor Carlos Sil
va, of Santiago, editor El Mercurio,
the oldest daily newspaper in the re
public of Chile, for a Latin-American,
says the Washington Herald as he
has the light hair and fair complexion
of the Teutonic race. He is young
and highly educated, and with his
wife he is seeing the United States
for the first time, very greatly to their
gratification.
Senor Silva told a Herald reporter
a good many interesting facts about
his country. "I wish.” said he “that
the people of the United States knew
more about Chile. We seem to know
far more about your country than the
Americans do about us. All our edu
cated young people speak the English
language with fluency, but I find very
few, since landing here, who can con
verse in Spanish. Chile is going ahead
faster now than at any time in its
history. We have had but one revo
lution in sixty years, and another one
is improbable. Our country is of vast
size, but has only 5.000 000 people. We
need more people and more capital.
The lack of money keeps us from de
veloping resources as abundant and
rich as can be found on the globe. Our
copper mines alone should produce
millions annually, and will when we
get the money with which to work
them. In the northern districts there
is nitrate enough to supply the world’s
demand for the next 400 years.
"It required thirty-six days to make
the journey from Santiago to New
York. We could have come quicker
by the way of Europe, and more com
fortably. This lack of good communi
cation between Chile and the United
States is a serious injury to both. The
Chileans are fond of travel, and if
there were a good steamship line be
tween the two countries you would see
our wealthy people coming here by the
hundreds instead of journeying to
London and Paris.”
SAVANNAH IS TO, HAVE
SPLENDlu TOURIST HOTEL
SAVANNAH. Ga., May 7.—With
northern and Savannah capital inter
ested. plans have been practically com- ; portation for which the utmost efforts
and South America, at the time getting
little encouragement, but some three
months ago was pleased to hear from
the president of the steamship com
pany developing this- trade that it was
his (Goodyear’s) suggestions that led
this company to take up the idea and
put into execution. We now have a
steamship line to the West Indies that
will be extended to South America as
fast as the ships can be built to meet
the demands.
He has surrounded himself with a
library of statistics on all subjects and
from ail sources and goes into a thor
ough investigation of any big scheme
of development that presents itself to
his mind until he has thoroughly mas
tered the subject.
AVhen he says these things can be
done it is not a Juies Verne nor a Don
Quixote statement.
If the scheme of canals is practicable,
the possibilities are so great that it
should not only attract individual and
corporate interests, but the Govern
ment—both State and Federal—should
co-oDerate.
Will be succeed? We expect before
many years to stand in Atlanta and
with field glasses watch the white
winged birds of commerce bearing the
flags of all nations rise from the stormy
Atlantic and as they are saluted by the
flag from the dome of the Capitol of
the State, take thei- migratory ’•!v':t
to the more peaceful waters of the
great Mississippi.
L. J. BROWN.
In a private letter to the editor of
The Telegraph Mr. Goodyear supple
ments his letter printed last Sunday in
part as follows, which we take the lib
erty to print, in part:
Brunswick. Ga.. May 3, 1907.
Hon. C R. Pendleton—My Dear Sir:
Yours of the 2d inst. duly received. As
to the project for a canal froMacon
to or near Atlanta, thence using as
much of the Etowah ana Coosa valleys
as possible to the point on the Tennes
see river nearest to Guntersvilie, I ‘be
lieve it to be the most important single
thought just at present for Brunswick.
Macon. Atlanta, Rome and for all that
magnificent and as yet undeveloped
country upon the Ocmulge.e, Altamaha
and Oconee rivers, opening up as it
would to the Atlantic seacoast all the
navigable river system of the West.
I have given it much thought and
know that it is entirely feasible within,
as such things go, a moderate expen
diture. It would I think be entirely
possible to get the Government to take
hold of It. It would insure larger ap
propriations for the Altamaha, Ocmul-
gee and Oconee rivers. .
There is a problem to face in trans-
There was quite a batch of news
in the details of the meeting of Council
on Tuesday night that could not be
printed owing to the late hour at
which Council adjourned.
Among the petitions was one from
the Conner Manufacturing Co. asking
permission to use an unoccupied por
tion'of Mulberry street below old court
house square, for the purpose of tem
porarily storing the artificial stone
blocks made by that concern. This
went to the committee on streets.
The Christ Churcli Sunday School
asked for the use of Central City Park
for a picnic on the 25th, and this was
referred to the public property com
mittee with power to act.
Edward Wolff asked for an en
croachment on Monroe street, between
Forsyth street and Washington ave
nue.
The finance committee reported ad
versely on the request to increase the
pay of the sewer inspector for the
reason that all salaries had been fixed
for the year.
The same committee recommended
that the claim of Elizabeth Allen for
damage done to her property by street
grading be settled for 5250. This was
adopted.
The license and tax committee sub
mitted their report on appeals for re
ductions and corrections of assess
ments, and also their recommenda
tions as to the manner of assessing
banks. The committee stated that
exclusive of banks, the total of taxes
involved in the various appeals for
reduction was 5550. This, the com
mittee thought a remarkable showing
in an assessment of nineteen million
dollars.
It was the contention, of the banks
that they should be assessed at a sev
enty-five per cent valuation, the same
as other property is assessed, that
brought about a very lively discus
sion. The committee did not con
cede the seventy-five per cent their
recommendation being practically on
an eighty per cent, valuation, nndi
this is what was adopted.
I. W. Ford was granted permis
sion to turf an old sidewalk in front
of his store on Fourth street, near
Hawthorne.
Kittrcll % Hilbun were allowed to
erect an electric sign in front of their
place of business on Second street.
The Southern Railway Co. was al
lowed to lay a spur track on the city
reserve from a block leading to the
Bibb Brick Co. so as to reach the
bobbin factory, the track to be re
moved at the' will of the Mayor and:
Council and to be laid under the di
rection of the city engineer.
Ed. Miraglia was allowed to build
a stable in rear of his "property on
Mulberry street, the same to be re
moved whenever ordered.
Attention was again called by the
committee on lights to the breaking
of globes in the lamp on Tattnall
Square. A motion was made to re
move this lamp, but was lost
A deed to an encroachment granted
several years a,go to G. P. Rankin, was
authorized to be issued.
The Crescent Laundry was gran’ed
an encroachment on Second street, be.
tween Poelar and Plum.
Ear roncnments were K Iso granted
to W. H. Malone and Giles G. Harde
man.
The market committee through Al
derman McKenna submitted bids for
certain improvements on the build
ing. but owing to the absence of
Chairman Brunner, the opening was
deferred until the next meeting of
Council.
To avoid delays in securing curbing,
the street committee was authorized
to buy curbing from whever they
saw fit. and to lay the same by con
tract or bv the city forces, just as
they saw fit.
American Therapeutic Society. j
WASHINGTON; May 7.—The Ameri
can Therapeutic Society adjourned to-
dav to meet in Philadelphia May 7. S >
and 9. 1908. Dr. John V. Shoemaker,
f Philadelphia, wits re-elected presi
dent and .Tames C. Wilson, of Philadel
phia, and Alexander McPhedran. of To
ronto. Canada, were added to the mem
bership of the council. The reft of
the officers were re-elected. The an
nual banquet was given tonight.
LOCATION OF HUMAN SOUL.
Members of the American Philost-
phical Society, says the Philadelphia
North American, spent a morning in
search for the location of the soul.
The world .and history were ran
sacked, philosophers pf other ages were'
dug up and conned over, authorities
the soul, from Dr. MoDbugall. of
Haverhill, who recently "weighed” the
soul, to the. learned men of Greece and
to Confucius, were referred to. But the
scientific searchlight availed not. No
explanation over before accepted satis
fied the soul-seeker?, and when the ses
sion adjourned the seat of the human
consciousness was still lost.
Of all the theories advanced, that
of the ancient Babylonians was the
cause of greatest interest. When Prof.
Morris Jastrow. of the University of
Pennsylvania, said the inhabitants of
the haughty city of early days believed
the soul was located In the liver, a
smile went around among his hearers.
The thought was ingenious and amus
ing. but they knew better.
Even before Adam, persons had al
ways wondered where the soul was.
Prof. Jastrow explained. By the time
the B'abylonians came upon the scene
was, in a sort of indefinite way, be
lieved to be in the liver. When the
Mayor of a Babylonian town or some
other politician died, and his friends
wished to say something good of him
they put on his tombstone the Baby-
Ionic characters, meaning "He had a
good liver.” Babylonians were deeply
interested in the welfare of their liv
ers.
Later the heart, being the seat of
organic life, eame to be regarded as
the seat of consciousness. The Stoics
believed in this theory, and it was not
until the Greeks and Romans found
that the source of emotional life was
in the bratn that the Stoic belief died
out. In modern America rr.anv theories
'nave come ir.to prominence during th'e
last generation or two. but these were
touched upon very lightly.
During the aves, however. Prof. Jas
trow said, the Bornese had cherished a
strong faith in their livers, and to
day they adhere to a modification of
the Babylonic belief.
Bride of Two Days Suicided.
READING. May 7.—Mrs. Joseph Mc-
Kently. of Springfield, a bride of two
days, committed suicide last night by in
haling illuminating gas. She was married
to MeKently Saturday. Her friend t say
she has been melancholy ever since the
wedding. She was 48 years old.
pleted for the erection of a splendid
tourist hotel here. More than 2,300
lots of land along Estill avenue in the
southern section of the city, have been
secured for the enterprise. The project
will be capitalized at SlOO.Pfu. Titus
and Green, hotel men of New York,
have already obligated themselves to
of our railroads are inadequate.
We must for heavy freights use our
rivers and make canals and canalize
such rivers as need it.
I hope you will see your way to give
this idea indorsement.
The Alieghanies were crossed as far
back as 1828 by canals with far higher
known that near this mound there were ! lease the hotel, which will be open for i summit levels than the proposed route.
i earthed
and
ome years ago the ruins of
settlement. Gold was
in 'Habershan County in
cn after a subterranean vil
lage was found In Habersham by some
workmen who were digging a canal for
washing the geld. The Cyclopedia of
Georgia u nys that the houses were
bui’t of logs from six to ton inches
in diameter and from tea to twelve feet
]rv_r. Th-" walls were perpendicular,
from three to six feet in height, and
but four months in the winter. Some
of the best known business men of
Savannah are identified with the plan.
Barbara Krupp Married.
ESSEN Germany May' 8 —Barbara
Krupp. second daughter of the late
Herr Krupp, the steel magnate, was
married today at the villa Huegel, near
here, to Baron Ti'o Von Wilrr.owski.
The couple wil! live at Bonn, where
the baron is a Government official.
as the "Morris” canal connecting the
! Hudson and Delaware, 'he summit
i level of which was on one side 760 feet
] above the Delaware, on the other 914
feet above Abe Hudson. \
j The summit level of the proposed ca-
: nal would be 743 feet above Macon,
and 493 feet above the nerest point
! upon the Tennessee.
I insisted that the bar at Brunswick
i could be deepened with dynamite. I
I had the world against me, as well at
firs' as my own town. I procure! 11 feet
of increased channel depth, which U
making Brunswick.
You will remember my talk upon ..a.
West India steamship line which you
kindly published. The steamship line
is here and successful and but the fir it
step toward a vast trade. The deep
ened channel made it possible,
canal project I believe equally impor
ant. Yours very truly.
C. P. GOODYEAR.
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