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8 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 Don’t Pay Alimony to be divorced from your appendix. There will be no occasion for it if you keep your bowels regular with Dr. King’s New Life* Pills. Their action is so gentle that the appendix never has cause to make the least complaint. Guaranteed by all druggists. 25c. Try them. | Caught on | 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 STOMACH BITTERS 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. The The New Pure Food and Drug Law. We are pleased to announce that Foley's Honey and Tar for cough-': colds and lung troubles is not affected by the National Pure Food and Drug law as it contains no opiates or oth >- harmful drugs and we recommeni -'t as a safe remedy for children 1 adults. H. J. Lamar ,8- Co. n:..r Ex change Bank, agents, Macon.