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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1907. i'THE TTTTCE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH V NEW YORK LEADS WORLD IN USE OF TELEPHONES XEW YORK, May 18.—New '*■ banner telephone city of t i^lephr Lrondoi more thar 75.000 num- not tercst< exes, udlnf tlj- in naturally Ir ures .showing’ the Imm th .« characteristically American utili ty. A careful e^tlrrate ha? . ttely co* n wade hy a Ffatlstlclan demonstrating that on January 1. 1907. t .ere were about 7.3.08,000 telephones, -or telephone station*. to use the technical term. In v * in vn-ious countries of the globe. Although no large development v-i nnpnouic i.tcillilc? has taken place :o hotel bills which Is the envy of all .♦..itei* h!> friends. while Mrs. Hall gives un- j deeded!* stilish, distracted attention to planning the most fetching if summer costumes. When winter comes and a trip to Flori da or the Gulf seems a much-to-be- deslred end, they don’t even stop to pack their trunks: they just go. For Mr. Hall Is the forunate owner of the odfle-t and most unique craft knewn I one. Unless a kid belt is very well ! modeled It r.as but little style, because j kid has been done to death in cheap belts. A white silk belt is modish and i r.ot extravagant if the quality washes. ! With a colored linen dress, a high belt ! of matching taffeta is quite chic. Sii- | v*r belts .i.iave come back into favor, and filagree and open-work girdles are HISTORY OF GEORGIA CROP LIEN; TOM BATTLE INDICTED FOR MURDER SOME NEEDED LEGISLATION j O’CONNELL FOR ATTEMPTED BRIBERY Editor Southern Cultivator: I no- i 500 pounds each, to be well and fully ' eton Hall I find the following: Edwin ttce in the Cultivator for February ! covered with bagging and securely : Booth. Mary Anders in, John McCul- that you advocate the repeal of the {bound with iron tie3. to be delivered in { lough. Dion" Boncicault, E. ,H. Sothern, “iien law" which authorizes the taking ; good order and condition at the ware- John E. Owens. Barlow, Primrose & At noon Saturday*the Federal grand Jury returned an indictment of mur der against Tom Battle on the charge of a lien upon growing crops. This i house of W. B. & C. in Albany, Ga.. on i West. ’Madame"Rentz’s' Mirist‘refs7~MiL nLuon" with‘'the al3 ° ^ " n ’ has long been a ■aobu.y with me. and i or before the 15th of^ October next.” ; ton Nobles. Jnunaschek, Simmons & I an Indictment ar 'ir the more I see of it, and the more I I This mortgage was foreclosed and Slocum’s Minstrels and Duprez & Ben- think about it, the more thoroughly j levied upon eight bales of cotton. A edict’s Minstrels. satisfied am I there can never be any claim was interposed, and on the trial j of all those, there are onlv three liv- _ ! real substantial prosperity among the ! of the claim case, the levy was dis- ■ ing, I believe. Marv Anderson, as Mrs. farmers until something is done to .’missed. The case was then carried to Navarro, is living‘in England. Prlm- NEW YORK. May IS.—Word of Fa> , remedy this great_cryi n evi 1 % j J the Supreme Court of Georgia. (See rose, an old man now and quite feeble. "" * ~ — ‘ ‘ ' comes to Macon occasionally; Milton Nobles is in New York, and possibly j Sothern, who made Lord Dundreary ,, , . , _. . ,—- -- —|— — - o «, —— — r—’famous, is living, but I do not think Ifi-foot beam, ana^ drawing only 3 ± i Grand opera house almost a ton of j prior to December. 1866, can there be • mortgaged he so described as to be he is. fee: of water, the "Oatka” is. in effect, flowers was passed over tho footlights 'found any such thing as a mortgage identified by parol evidence, and j a trr»in«r flat V»v tho wnlm rtf lt« _ *_> r*_ t. ... i .1. — T« * l 1 n * is a QUeS proof." “Phone city. In the United Stat the beginning of the present year were 5.068,800 telephones, or 68.5 per cent of nil in exi'fance Of these 3 PSS J,00 are pnr: of the Bel! system. Canada has about 1.10.000. In Eurone. aec-rdlng to tie best available Information, there nr* In the neighborhood of 2.000.000 oirdupols and removed eer tain of the graces and charms which once made her the queen of comic opera. Miss Templeton retires in tho cringed before the landlord and the Janitor of a Harlem apartment house: but being made of more heroic 6tuff I’"Of" «■* ***«>• « «»• :*;is.■ssi.’i,r, k-s?- number. Tht ’ only European coun- greet Jils erstwhile oppressor* with a f^° unt , , ®. a ,^ 00 .? man ^ J ha .^ trie, whose figures for January i. 1807. grin ; F * ?. pere ?„, nl . mb ,. 1 i in Evangeline* ' •’ >• ’ :, ” :l ’■ ■ ’ .'tY.il',: >■ a: Ger- Gin-Fizzes and G : n-Rickies. : -rut--.?!!- In ., M “f cr ’ tf . and many rnd Groat ’Hrita'n. which hive Until the'ast few days the purveyorsA® c l e A ht °A th . e cha P" respectively 078.855 and (81.012 te e- . f fancy drinks along the Great White ?[„ ™ / ed j tfc6 theaters to nes In tie rest of the world. In- Way have not been over-anxiou* about . J5applause and roses upon her. < - ■ r i • t :i ■ - i i • A - in. a ! ■ :.* <1 : >■.-.} .--rriva! of ,«t-ri:jg: for the . ’ r Tf r . s oa Broadway remember Australia .iud South America, there nrr? ! annual Importations of limes from the , r -r^ e L, P re ^ en ^ ou ® production nrtt m f +h«n hwr — j West Indies fcas b n .V- mrl of ^ E ^ Rice ' wIt : 1 u 1 f. ] ‘ >n ? fisherman about two-th!rdfi on many as enable without them It would have been im- 1 ulx £Z as tne of the tht' metropolis of America tv conda;«;t ! possible to meet the usual warm nefier.; - romeniber the pretty weather demand for grin-fizz, lime lem- ®pubrette with her shapely form and onades. gin-rickies and kindred b“ver- ; E i unn - n 5 ways and ad around charms ages. The lime- are here now, how- manner and appearance. It was ever. 2.000,000 of them. They came in Templeton, the same little girl one daj’ Inst week, inspiring pleasant ? v “ 0 way back in 1. 18 or perhaps earl- vls'ons of themselvps gracefully afloat , r „ s . ta ^ tec ‘ ? ut ,; n ^ er father’s theater in toll slender glasses, wiere litt’o JJ* ■ 5 ‘; Joseph, 5.0.. ns a child wonder, chunks of ice c’ink merrily: and with . f “ e ”f“ appeared in’many pieces in them came the heg'e that spring would J“ vcn:II f„„^ arts ’ but If waa not until come at lost to a waiting city, and for about Is.8 that an nngel came to tho a brief season banish hot drinks and front to back an operatic troupe with winter overcoat*. UONGACRE. Fa y Templeton as the star. Her pa- j rents, too. were in tho cast, but they contented themselves with humble ind with- ■its business expeditiously nut friction. Excitement in Spanish Quarters. Not since the day, which immedi ately preceded tie unpleasantness of *88 h->r there been such excitement in Spanish Manhattan as prevailed last Friday. It was tho day of days. Henceforth’ let- no man denominate it unlucky, for had not the fatos chosen H to be the birthday of an -heir to the throne of Castile and Aragon? At the Hotel Muro. at tho Hotel America, at the famous little resort on Water street, near Old Slip, where revolutions without, number have been planned, in all the dingy little cafes along the East river waterfront, wine flowr-d'un- ceaslngly in honor of the auspicious event. The hum of excited conversa tion wn- incessant, punctuated at brief intervals by foe musical clink of glass ngainst glass In response to frequent lonsts to the “new king." Dignified merchants whose eyes chanced to fall upon the first editions of afternoon pa pers announcing the hapnv foot, straightway forgot that the West In dian mails close at an early hour on Saturday, and hurried forth’ to spread the news and share in the rejoicing. The lobby of the Hotel America when the news first arrived resembled noth ing else so much as a corner of the Stock Exchange In a bull market ns foe excited dons chattered and ges ticulated. Even Sebastian, the genial proprietor of the little "bodega” on Pearl street, recognized that fact, nnd gave away twenty-five cigars to h!a countrymen .as he imparted the glad tidings. Sociologirls Studying the Bowery. Sixty young men who hope to bo so ciologists when they grow up, have re turned to foe sylvan shades of New Haven after a night and a day of strrtiuous observation on the Bowery, with fifty-nine notebooks filled with memoranda on the curious habits nnd customs -if the natives of Manhattan Island. Tho sixtieth notebook got Tost in a tangle of pushcarts and other de- r‘.lorafa at foe corner of Orchard and Itlvington streets, and the denizens of that neighborhood are in possesdon of advance Information concerning them selves which cannot fall to excite In terest. The Yale explorers personally conducted by Professor Bailey, arrived in New York on a mist un'-oelologlcnl private car. and as usual registered at Mills Hqtol No. 1. which Is supposed to be the life raft to which the "sub- P’erged tenth” cling when the storms of life overtake them. Just whore the night was spent, however, does not ap pear from the renrds of the exprdl- t' n: but foe chop'" suey e| abll.Vh.- ments of CWnr’rvn acjJ th.e ’nfo*~- palaces of the Tenderloin agree with i the students in voting sociology a great '■ study. The loss of the noteiiock is the oniy untoward deve’ipment so far. but there is yet time for others it i* re called by those who '.lave not forgotten the experience of tin enterprising young men of last year’s class, each of whom started an Independent invest'- gation In the disguise which lie c.-nsid- ored be-t suited to win the eonliJence of the Investigated. Thev met in a Bowery saloon and speedily reduced each other to tears by the ornate tales rf a hard life which they re'ated over tall snmp’es of the poor man's beer, which tales were subsequently wrought info elaborate theses against thp day of cxam'nation: nnd there Professor Bailev. with the aid of a mlseroscope. disci vexed the real sociological value of the incident. The Succulent Bivalves. "Within the year Just passed the 30.- 000 acres of cultivated oy.ner lands within the confines of New York city and along the shore of Long Island produced 1,500.000 bushels of tae suc culent bivalves, which were valued at JI.S75.000. Five hundred thousand bushels were cinsumed in the hotels, restaurants and homes of the city’, wh'le the ofoer 1.000.000 bushel Court of the Jan- the Su- Georgla rendering the this last case, ture saw proper to enact a law. known j tho learned Judge (Jackson) referring as the merchant’s and factor’s lien law j to its former decision, in the same (see Acts 1S66. page 141). by which j case fays: "We held that the instru- it was provided that "merchants and | ment foreclosed was a mortgage, and factors should have a lien upon the as a mortgage it was properly fore- growing crops of farmers for provis ions and commercial manures, fur nished. upon such terms as might be agreed upon by the parties.” Under the circfamstances then existing, that may have been a good law for the farmers: but in many instances it cer tainly educated them in the habits of extravagance from which they never recovered: so it may well be doubted whether or not the "factors’ and mer chants’ lien Iaw”was ever of any real benefit to the farmers of the country after all. In the year 1873 (see Acts 1873. page 43). "the merchants’ and factors’ lien closed, and we reversed the court - be low because the levy was dismissed on the ground that the paper was not a mortgage. It wa3 a mortgage on six bales of a growing crop, to be packed and hooped in a certain way, and delivered in a certain place, we held that if any six certain bales could be identified by parol evidence as tho six mortgaged, that the description would do. The cotton was in posse, not in esse: it was growing, and we went far enough, we think, under our Code, section 1955, to hold that a part of a crop to be yet grown and gathered and packed, could be mortgaged at all. This living over old times seems to i be enjoyed by’ the young as well as the at the ■ old. As to the old people, it is espe- trled i cially enjoyable. Tho other day I overheard a conversation between two veteran bricklayers. They were talk ing about former times, when sud denly Bryce Driggars said to J. C. Keel: "Dink, do you know the first time I ever saw you?’’ "It's been so long ago I’ve forgotten,” said Dink. ‘‘Well, you were building the brick kitchen for that big house on Second street for Col. Robert Findlay, where the Turpin family now lives.” “That's so.” says Dink, "but I thought it was further back than that.” That wais in 1854, fifty-three years ago, and both these veterans are still laying brick. FROM NEW YORK parts and meager lines and gave pre ty Fay the center of the stage and all the calcium entrances. In time she married and she choso from the ranks of her own profession. The lucky man. envied -of all the chap pies for a brief moment was William j West, the minstrel, but for some inex- I plicablo reason the union was a fail- XEW YORK. May 18.—At the pres- ! ure - T h <?y lived together Just one day ent time stocks and guimpes are very : an “ then they went their separate important features in the fashions, ways, and later West secured a di- Great pains must be taken to make the vorce. Fay went on her triumphant finish of the neck attractive. In many course, mowing down hearts and reap- of the stocks and chemisettes are in- ing fresh laurels in every part she at- troduced one or more colors, and on j tempted. some are found gild or sliver threads Rice produced "Evangeline," and in or cords of embroidery, piping or ap- - that she made her geratest hit. She plication. A pretty stock is made of became the talk of Now York and as interlaced folds of pale p'nk chiffon such attracted the favorable attention each fold piped with pink silk, and fin- • of Howell Osborn, the son of a wealthy ished with tiny silver cord. The cord ; mamma, who was doing his best to is looped and caught by little silver spend his allowance and let everything buttons. Guimpes with sleeves aro ! else go to the very old deuce and the shown to be warn with the jumper dickens. His mother had a fortune of dress and the kimono-sleeved slip-on. $5,000,000 and Howell was her pride Frills and bows also play a large and joy. until he took up with Fay part in the fashions for the summer Templeton. That almost broke the old nnd are really delightfully air}’ and lady's heart. attractive, lending a feminine toucOi to ; Faiy gnve the glad hand to the gilded the plainest of gowns. These frills are youth, and after he had squandered a made of embroidery insertion and small fortune on her •« New York they law" was amended so that not oniy The property must bo specified on merchants, factors and landlords but S which the mortgage is to take effect, “dealers in ferti'izers. and ail other j This mortgage only specified the s'x persons furnishing supplies, money. '. bales, as six to bo packed and hooped, farming utensils, or other articles of { and delivered in a certain way and at a THEY ME KODfifn HOiUJMU BOSTON, Mass., May IS.—Among | the passengers on the steamer Cano- . . . , — „ . mission appointed by President Roose support of families^, or medical ser- i tore. ... I veil. Vice President Fairbanks and vices, tuition or -chool books, shall | From this decision of the Supreme | Speaker Cannon to investigate aJl the have the same right to secure them— | Court originated the custom now so • phases, of the problem of immigration, selves from the crops of the year in ! popular of taking mortgages on grow- j The party cons-'sts of Senator Dilling- wbich such things are done and fur- j ing crops. Merchants, factors, deal- ! ham of Vermont, chairman of the m'shed as Is now given to factors, etc.” i ers in fertilizers, and others were 1 commission• Senator Latimer of The amendment was. unquestionably, ! quick to discover the advantage it gave South Carolina: Representative Bur- a terrible law for the farmers and why them, and quick to aval! themselves j nett, of Alabama, and Mr. Wheeler, of the farmers in tho legislature at the j of this advantage. While farmers ! California. Tho commissioners are ’ac- tiroe were ever induced to vote for J were not slow in giving assistance to a ! CO mpanled by clerks and stenographers such a law, and why the Governor of i system which placed them completely ’ the entire partv numbering about Georgia ever consented to approve it. j at the mercy of the creditors, who in { twenty persons are things which, iii ail probability, ‘ many instances not only told them The commissioners will remain will never be known. Nevertheless, the j what crops they should plant, but fixed j abroad about three months, during law was not without its gied results. ! the price they should receive for their j which time they will get in communi- It opened the eye? of the people who ! crops. Thirty years have passed ! ca tion with all diplomatic and consu- had been apparently asleep, and when | slnc-e the adoption of that custom, j j ar agencies of the United States in the farmers at last realized how they j thirty crops have been made and mar- ! a ll of those countries from which set- were being legislated against for the I keted. And for thirty years farmers tiers come to the United States. The , _ „ go months from the date of the approved . around you for the farmers who were j thoroughly into the subject than it has amendment, all laws giving Hens on i supposed to be In g;od circumstances : over been gone before.and to obtain growing croos to merchants, factors, j thirty years ago, and how do you find i so far as may be possible, all facts dealers in fertilierzs. and other per- j them? In nine cases out of every ten a t first hand, sons, except landlords, was duly re- they have “gone to the wall,” ‘ and ' pealed. (See Acts 1874, page 18). j that tenth man you will find did not The merchants’ and factors’ Hen j mortgage his crops, but raised his law was a thing of the past. It has | supplies at home. Now these are no never been re-enacted, and God forbid j exaggerations .but facts, inccntroverti- that it ever should be. { ble facts, and what are you going to do But what next? * [about it? In 1873 a party, whose name it is j Now, my- suggestion is this: Let not necessary to mention, mortgaged i every farmer?' club, agricultural ?oc,ie- “six bales of cotton crowing and be- i ization of farmers in every county in ing grown on a plantation in Lee Coun- I ty, cotton association, or other organ- plaited na'nsook. and for convenience suddenly eloped to Paris, and from i ty. cultivated by himse’f. myself, and ! the State pass a resolution requesting in laundering, many of them are de- : across the waters came occasional : known as the .Tos*e Tucker plantation, i the next Legislature to pas? a law that tachable. The little bows are made stories of their times on the boule- to produce said six bales of cotton, 'from and after the first day of .Tanu- of lawn, fine hamburg embroidery or vards and of how Fay and her husband Valenciennes lace. One of lawn would : were enjoying the gay life of the capi- be very prety if tho pointed ends were : tal. finished with strips of colored lawn : Then Mrs. Osborn died, leaving her faeoted to the edges. immense fortune and a peculiar will. That there i« a charm about the way She gave her son Howell $400,000 in a veil is worn may be acknowledged trust and an additional $300,000 which by nearly every woman. It is a fin- he could do with as he saw fit. except : ishing touch to a modish costume if that it could no^ be willed to the ' it Is artistically arranged. A thin issue of any wife who had sung, acted l gauze veil gives youth to the face as or danced professionally on tho stage j well as a decided air of tidiness to the for hire. This, of course, was aimed | wearer. As a rule, veil-- are tied ton at Fav. In 1895 Howell Osborn died ! tightly, which feels very uncomfortable and by his will left Fay $100,000. The ' on the face, but If they are too loose, instrument was attacked in court by as much trouble is caused by trying to other members of his familv, who held . tighten them at the back or by pulling I that ho had been improperly ir.fiuenc- them up over the top of the hat. , e d to make the will and that the clause Spotted veils are undoubtedly beeom- ' j n }f r? . Osborn’s will precluded that ing, but great pains should be taker- in disposition of his money. The matter placing them so th3t the snots will mas fought out in the courts for sev- not come over foe eyes. This may . era i venrs and Fay finallv won. But not only inlure the eyes, but may give her victory did not avail her much, a. very -odd expression to them. If a f or U onn final settlement It was found dot rests on the tip of the nose, it is that Osborn’s estate amounted to less nnt to lengthen the features. If two . t h,-. n $io.ono. of them outline the corners of the i p av took to tho stage again and as mouth. It will give a bad-tempered ex- { one the stars of the Weber & Fields pression. while, if they rest just above ; company she achieved new triumphs. to secure) will be used and applied, i to be gathered, shall not be valid and said six bale- of cotton are to average collectible. were 314 more pupils in the country I licensed, as in these days, and the . ’ clerk of Council collected a license from each Show that appeared, and in addition, a sufficient number of tickets, ing to school then. I for the aldermen and officials. Finally PL v i^i^riTnf,'lHh f nnika P dn^ ‘tso ! fomented to remain with the ] There ‘were only nineteen school ! didn't belted” netting fhow'uckete see that the spots are veil placed, them wonders in their way, and had shipped broadcast for the delectation .of epicures all over the country. As oyster* of the ordinary size average 200 to the bushel, this mean? that New Yorkers ate fully 100.oeo.o00 of them. Now that tie !au ne has joined tho great majority. Mr. G^irge C. Whipile if the American Society of Civil Un- clneers arise 5 before the County Ho- pi-: opath'.e Me-d'cnl Society and fle- c’.irep that most of them were a men- .... ’'c-.-iuse of the 3SO sewer out’ets whleh disciarge their contents ‘nto New York harbor and the rurrour.ding waters. The famous North river •fond, which was such a gustatory delight a few years ago, was n fine swimmer, and when the waters here- n mt* lost their pristine flavor, be- :.itik himse’f to others better suited to long, in light tints with polka dots the size of a dollar, or pink dots, one pie. and of crea The little tulle with the lace coats dainty. They are made on smai frames, fitting the head closely, and are completely eovored with silk tulle, or mellre as it is also called. Not a bit of straw, net or lace are seen on these hats: foev are all of tulle. Long drooping aigrettes or ostrich feathers trim the left side. The most beautiful trl’nm'ng is the bird of paradise Plume, but th's ha* become too costly for many to purchase. The only hats seen wlfo flower trimmings were lavender tulle elaborately garnished with vio lets The becoming tulle bows are as fashionable as ever, but are actual)}’ worn about the neck, either being twined in guise of a scarf, or filling in the deco’letage of a prince's gown. This Is the season for separate coats, even for street wear In the davtime. end for evening wear over thin frocks, they Cists never been more in evi dence. Everything is made in the new Japanese lines, loose, with full kimono s'ecve*. The favorite length is the three-quarter, but the short hip-lencth end those covering the hem of the dress arc much worn. The material for these wraps one sees in every color of pongee with lace dved to match, flowered or plain In soft silks, liberty satin* .and Shantung, which seems to be the favorite. The white coat is sel dom seen now, and in its place are the ter. says Mr. TVhipple. must grin and j relf-tone and biscuit shades. light he brown or blue, not light enough to soil quickly. One of the hip-len.gth coats made with a ivaistcoat is very stylish, it being made of light-weight b'seuit- colorcd cloth, with self-toned bands of soft liberty se.'in. Large French knots embroidered an the edge of the satin 1* an improvement in the look. The Jannese s'eeves are three-ouarter length with, bread turn-back cuff 5 . De spite the simplicity of this next three- ciierter length cmt. it has quite an air ab'ut it. It is of natural colored pon- r»» t-immed with silk braid and ball fringe ail of the same shade. It has short flowing kimono sleeves. T^e rest Is no'nted and embroidered in dlf- fe-ert tints of blu» with roses. This ve't, however, may be omitted w:th- ou* sr*o : ’i T5 g the effect of the cfot. Novelties in belts of brown and yel low strew .are seen to some extent. Some of them have straw buckles and closes, o’her* finve the buckles and .-ir.s’-s covered with the same material of tie j buckles I. say that tie b*valve simply when sanitary conditions are liking, and that ovsters can pgated only under conditions of st absolute t'canl’nf c ». Mr. > also sail s •m«:hing abaut the to bathers at O r.oy Island and e -hv resorts from swallowing -irfosted water, and the fact could make such S m'ytav-e as ordl-sfy Coney Ts- foor would swstl'ow water un- i : -riir-’nnces has served to • bj= entire st-tement in the if the •.•-irr-fo , .! l '~ed. A Seaporg F’at. ne mar in New York for irsi of Mav brings no dread flight before th“ cm-p- if the landlord. When the • -ing turns the th nights of t ’ e irmr-' f moving id Mr*. \r w. Hail are se- r< nt Wh< n the first warm d vs f per s--t ether neopi- to r-h-- of s“?t water .and r.-can .-a Pr>? C-ad o- tee roaf of Main-'-, yjr. Ha” smiles in ’he snye r j,as sort of way l*nd v der a' There she made her third matrimonial ven ture, when she became the wife of William Patetr-«on, a wealthy manu facturer of elevator and conveying ap paratus. Horrors of Drops of V/ater, A drop of water, even three or four dorps, falling on the head, says the London "Chronicle, seems a thing un worthy of attention: nevertheless in China a slow and continuous dropping of water on the head has been found to be a cnethod of torture, under which the most hardened criminals abjectly howl for mercy. When a professor in the Sorbonne They will begin their labors in It aly, and when they get through they will know the character at home of Italians who come to America, the methods by Which they are gathered up and sent here, and especially will they undertake to find whether any of these are selected for exportation because of their undesirable charac ter at home. From Italy as the season progres ses. and as the warm summer months make labor in the warm countries un- ■■■ desirable, the commisioners will pro- said advances (meaning thereby the j ary, 1908. mortgages given on growing C eed to Russia and find out about the consideration, the mortgage was given { crops before they are matured and fit I emigrants from that section of thh world. They -will go through Germa ny, perhaps through Norway and Sweden, through France, and. in fact, will touch all important points from which immigrants come to the United States. With the assistance of a large •body of diplomatic and consular agents it is expected that foe commission will get at essential facts concerning the character of the people who will leave their homes for the new world. They will personally visit the homes of these people, will see them at the ports at which they will embark and ■will learn all about the influences that cause them ti leave their homes.’ The work of the commission will be only fairly begun, when its members return to America. Then will come extensive and interesting inquiries concerning what becomes of the emi grants after they come to the United States. The commission will seek re cords from all the public institutions to ascertain what proportion of the inmates Is foreign or of foreign pa rentage. in order to In some measure ascertain how it measures up in general citizenship wltl}.- the native born Americans and Americans of na tive parentage. The committee will report Its find ings and recommendations to Congress, and they will be used as a basis for legislation on the question. It is re garded as likely that out of the work of the commission will grow an inter national congress to deal with the wohle general subject The law creat ing the commission authorizes the President to call for such a conference if he should deem such action to he desirable. How Macon has grown in the past thirty years can be illustrated in many ways, but one of the most striking illustrations is in the growth of the public school system. At that time the total number of pupils in attend ance was 2.146. These were divided as follows: City, 717 whites and 149 ne- groe?; country, 511 whites and CS9 negroes. It will be seen that there of those beautiful trees. I could have hanged every man that hit a lick on those trees. * * * T note the ideats of Judge Barnard Hill, father of the late Chancellor Wal ter B. Hill. Like father 'like son, two men whose lives were absolutely clean. % * * * In those days the theatre was not Today there are over 8.000 children in foe schools, and the salary for the coming term will be about $97,000. * * * I find in The Telegraph, in looking over the old files, the announcement tlon as to whether they should accept the tickets. They kept on taking them. * * * There are many who will remember Joseph Block, who kept a cigar ■store on the corner under Ralston Hall, that Miss Cynthia Horton, who has where the Exchange Bank now stands been serving as a supernumerary has been assigned to active service at the South Macon Grammar School. Just foink of the faithful and long service this good woman has given to the pub lic schools of Bibb County! * * * The amount of money given by the county to the support of the schools in .those days, in 1877. was $10,000, , - IT—, tv—m .tnose days, in i»n. was Jio.ooo, stated this to, his class the other day and in a few d the Bolrd of Edu _ O "«_ 0 L^ e jS d S? t fJ?, U / h ^_ ta - Cr ^; cation will go before the County Com- ouslyrjond -'aid It would take a good deal" of that sort of thing to affect him. The professor assured him that even one quart of water dropped slowly ento his hand would be beyond his endu rance. He agreed to experiment. A quart measure filled with water was brought in, a mieroseopie hole was bored in the bottom and the per formance begun, the professor count ing. During the first hundred drops the student made airy remarks. With the second hundred he began to look less cheerful, then gradually all his talk died away and his face took on a hag- — rfl tortured expression. With the third hundred th" h.a>“d begun to swfell and look red. The petin in creased to torture. Finally the skin broke. At the four hundred and twentieth drop the skeptic acknowledged his doubts vanished and begged for mercy He could bear no more. df SUMTER SUBSCRIBES TO THE McMICHAEL LAW AMERICUS, May 18.—The county board of education of Sumter today adopted the provisions of the Mc- Michael law providing for local school taxation. Sumter was divided into twenty-eight districts, containing sixty schools, and practically all of these will levy special taxes for educational pur poses. County missioners and ask for $70,000. That’s growing some. * » • One smiles when looking over The Telegraph of 1877 to read paragraphs iike this: Master Joe Blount, son of Congress man Blount. Ieave3 tomorrow for Pro fessor Neal's school at Kirkwood. Master Frank Hazlehurst, the 10- year-old son of Mr. William Hazle- hurst. was hurt yesterday by being thrown from a horse while riding. * * * Big men frequently visited Macon in those days. Governor Colquitt was in the city frequently. Senator John B. Gordon, while passing through on his way to Houston County, stopped over as a guest of Hon. A. O. Bacon. Sena tor Ten H. Hill was also an occasional visitor. • * ■ It’s a shame to mention this, but there it is in type Where apybody can read it. so here goes: Mr. Charles A. Caldwell, of Macon, offered a prize at the Houston County Fair for the ugliest man. and the com mittee unanimously awarded it to Mr. Caldweli. * e • A Savannah firm e.dv"rtls»d tele phones. and Tlie Telegraph alluded to He was the father of Aleck, Nick and Ike Block. Mr. Block was an educated rnan, and as at that time there was no regularly appointed rabbi, he often of ficiated in that capacity at all those •functions requiring the presence of a ■rabbi. Among the well known citizens *of that time was Mr. George B. Turpin, the founder of the present firm of Tur pin Sons. Everybody loved George Turpin, but with no class of citizens was he held in higher regal’d than foe ACE JURY SIOX FALLS. S. D., May 18.—The case of Mrs. Emma Kaufman, wife of a rich brewer of this city, charged with the murder of Miss Agnes Poi- reis, her 16-year old domestic, will be Jews. In consequence, he‘was always i taken up for trial In the State cir- a special guest at their homes. ' j cuit court here this week. Since a On one occasion when there was a • week or two after her arrest last June gatheflng of all the Hebrews of foe I Mrs. Kaufman has been at liberty on city, and to which of course Mr. Tur- j bonds cf $25,900. Th« best obtainable pin was invited, Mr. Block prepared legal talent in tho entire northwest has the best speech of his life. Being an j been engaged to defend the accused extra occasion, he wanted to make an I woman and the trial will undoubtedly extra speech, and he wrote one to his satisfaction and had it committed let ter perfect to memory. That night Mr. Turpin was the only Gentile present. At the proper time be among tho most notable in the his tory of the judiciary of South Dakota. The girl whom Mrs. Kaufman is al leged to have killed, Agnes Poire'?,was a Bohemian and could speak but little against Cornelius O’Connell, the well known Poplar street saloon keeper, upon the charge of attempted bribery and Interfering with a Governmerft witness. B. J. Hunt. Battle was remanded to jail without bond, and O'Connell was re leased upon giving $1,000 bond. Judge Sreer made the following con cise and impressive charge to tho grand jury: Judge Speer’s Charge. “Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: “Your term of duty will be brief, hut none the less responsible on that ac count. You have been summoned to make inquiry js to one or two alleged crimes. One of these involves what is alleged to bo the death by violence of a fellow creaiure at the hnnd3 of an other. The bare statement of this'fact is sufficient to awaken the conscience, and uplift the senae of responsibility in the hearts of a sensient and con scientious jury body. The preservation of human- life is the deepest- concern of ihose laws which from the earliest period have been enforced for tho government of men. The right to live one’s allotted time Is the most price less of all rights. ’The weariest and most loathed earthh-' life, that age. ache, penury, or imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death.’ The right of the ac cused to every constitutional safe guard. familiar to every intelligent citizen, is not less sacred than life itself. Indeed. In capital cases, the life of the accused may also be in volved. Need I say more to make you appreciate your awful responsibility to society and to the individual whoso conduct you may consider? The . dis trict attorney is your legal advisor, and the assistance of the court is at your command. You may retire, and proceed with tho discharge of your du ties.” The jury consisted of Messrs. J. F. Wooten. W. F. Holmes. F. M. Houser. R. L. Permenter, W. C. Kilpatrick. B. A. Moselv. T. 31. Mercer, T- J- Hunt. W. S. «Deidrick. J. It. Warshnm, T. C. Burke. C. C. Hasford. A. T. Baker, O. F. Willingham, F. N. Watkins. A. H. Thompsqn. J. H. Hall, S. 3(. Caldwell, W. H. Buff, W. B. Richat-dson. R. H. Holmes, J. J. Butler, W. B. Russell. When the indictment was brought in both Battle and his counsel, John R. Cooper, were present. District Attorney Alexander Aker- man asked that the caso be set for 3Iay 2$ by the court, but Attorney Cooper objected, stating that work in the D,i- catur County court would prevent his being in Macon on that dato and asked that the second 3 T ondav in June bo chosen Instead. The court, however, chose the 28th as the date. > Several new witnesses will probably be introduce^ at the Inter trial. Suspicions wore aroused in' the morn ing durinx they examination of witnesses against O’Connell .and tho further inves tigation resulted in the Issuance of a bench warrant and Its serving by United States Marshal George F. White. Mr O’Connell took advantage of the $1 non bond unde' which he was Placed .and is now at liberty, his bond having been signed hy Messrs. Hicks and Mul- lally, the stablemen. O’Connell Denies Charge. Questioned I n ?t night hy a Telegraph reporter regarding bis position in relation to the cas" Mr. O’Connell made the fol lowing statement which, he said, covered ev"rvth!ng that be knew that could pos sibly have any bearing whatever on the matter: "Jim Hunt came to me this morning and was drinking heavily and asked me for a drink, which I gave him. and for which he fai'ed to pay. He was very voluble and was talking about the Uittlo case. He sold that the whole trouble contracts! from the engine"?, and that the eng!n"pr had said that if Mr. Bottle fooled with him that 1 As would kill him. He also said that Mr. Berry and Mr, 3nttlo had a misunderstanding In the morning and that Berry told him (Hunt) later, that If ’that old Irish — foils with me. I will kill him.’ and later in the evening they came in contact on th« soaf- folding, and that when Berry fell after striking at Battle. Battle reached after him. I told him that I had to pi down to the bank to cash some cheeks and' would drop Into the court room and shako hands with old man Battle. ”1 met Mr. Clarkp Hicks, my assistant at the . corner of Second and Cherry streets, and asked him to come and go with me. 'We went Into the court house and sat down awhile, and Hunt came in and sat between us. To Hicks Hunt re marked. Tf I w"s to tell the truth on him it would he coldolooded murder, but I’m not a go'n’ to tell It.' to which Hicks renlied: 'You better mfoo th» t"stimoiy4 acain that you made before the Cnroner'si| Jury, because you are now b"f ire the* United Plates Court and they'll get you in 1 atari'" if you don’t swear to tho truth.’ a As Hunt continued to talk to me In a loud volee. Tv vis afraid that it I re mained he w"uld flnal’y cause trouble In the court room, and I left him and shook hands with the prisoner, and then hand ing 3Tr. 1-,cks • — eheeks and a-'-ir.g him to tak" them down to the American Nations! Bank nnd have them cashed, stating that I wished to stay long enough to bear the Judge’s charge to the jury. Hunt still continued to talk to me. how ever. and I finally left the court room. As I went out I rn"t Mr. Tallv .Tonkins and we want over to Mike O'Hara’s "id place and got a drink. Wo parted rorh-* nary at Hove’s corner and I came on h >ck to my businora. and the thought of brib ing any one for ■'any nurpose whatever never entered my head and I ne”"r thought of snob a thing until my arrest.'' Mr. O’Conne’l was borne out In bis statement throughout by Mr. Hicks, who said ho was with O’Connell nearly all of the day. 3Ir. Block, who wa3 a very timid man 1 English. She died in terrjbie agony with all his education and study, arose j at a local ho-pital early last year, to make the speech. He began by say ing: "Ladies and Gentlemen arid Turpin.” This created so much laughter amon the guests, none enjoying the, slin more than Mr. Turpin, foat 3fr. Block became so confused that the speech was left unspoken. he believed had been hot. The coach man was told by Mrs. Kaufman to car ry the girl to her room. Shortly after ward. he said, Mrs. Kaufman follow ed him with a solution containing a strong mixture of lye and Instructed the coachman to bathe the girl’s feet and legs with It, saying that it would take tho soreness out. Other fiendish acts, alleged to be true,: were related by other witnesses, and Mrs. Kaufman was bound over and placed in the custody of tho sher iff. It is rumored that the attorneys for the accused woman will enter a plea of insanity. The statements of former servants in the Kaufman household sustain this view to some extent. The death of Mrs. Kaufman’s only daughter is said to have caused i temporary aerangemnt from which he woman never entirely recovered. 3!any witnesses stated they had often seen Mrs. Kaufman Fitting before a. life sized portrait cf her dead daughter few months after taking employment J f^ arin “ at ^ moodily ,or a time, and Mr', j as a maidmfoe Kaufman hoVVVhold: ! bursting forth Into b’asphernous : Her body was Interred at Parkston, S. curese.against God for b re<-\i..g n r. Homo of baa After these spells, it is said, she would The. alianthus. or heaven tree, came In for considerable attention. The re port got out that this tree produced fever, and foe edict went forth that every one of them must go. The axe was busy for some time ohonoing them down. Th°re wa* one in the rear of jrrs. Ar.doin’s millinery store on Sec ond street, where the Dana-Bragg the fact and mentioned the telephone i Company Is now. and there were people as the wonderful invention of all in ventions. Death of Mrs. Juris Rioddan Lynch. ATLANTA. 3Ia\* IS.—Mrs. Julia Riordan Lynch, aged 67, widow of There w?.« a festival at Ayer’s Park. Do you know where that was? On _ Third street, between Walnut and Oc- , Linen g'rdi"* wifo 'rnetai 1 Michael Lynch, an Atlanta pioneer, j mulgee. was a grlve cf oak trees and • cleaned up the old cemetery on Poplar 'extremely stvl.fo th ! ? -".i- idled this afternoon after a long ill- j festival's were frequent there. Not so . street this old burial place was found waiting to swear that they caught fever from this tree as they passed by on the street. As these tree* were cut down they were hauled down to the reserve, and the other day when the street force so- \n antiove huck’e =e: with r>- 1 ness. She and her husband were born j many years ago the street force went j to be full of them. Frown from foe ._ , buck.m stores?'i« much hinds „re r ? if in Ireland and lived in Charleston and then one night when tie city was [ off^otet^ trees cut down in 1877. befitting that indifference 1 a woman is lucky enough to ■possess | Savannah before coming to Atlanta. J asleep, and whacked down the last one Among the attractions at the Ral- D.. the home of her parents. It was but a short time until ugly rumors regarding the manner of the girl’s death wore circulated. The re mains wore exhumed and according to the physicians the body was a mass of bruises and scalded flesh, covered with gashes and scars. Through the testi mony of other servants of the Kauf man household, who told tale* of al most fiendish brutality, the wife of the millionaire brewer was placed under arrest, charged with having caused the death of the girl. At the preliminary hearing the coachman declared that he had seen Mrs. Kaufman knock Agnes Polreis down, and that many times he had witnesed the girl on her knees plead ing pitiful}’ for mercy while her mis tress was beating her. Shortly before the girl wa? sent to the hospital,suffer ing from the injuries which caused her death, the ccnchman testified that he was called to the house by his mis tress where he found the maid lying on the floor In a pool of water, whica be seized with fits of anger in which she was cruel and vindictive against all young girls who came In her way. BROTHERHOOD ST. AM DREW * TALKING Or DIVIDING SAVANNAH. Ga., May IS.—The Brotherhood of St. Andrew in Georgia may also divide, fallowing tho exam ple of the diocese of Georgia. The question came up at the meeting of the brotherhood tonight. No dc, ision was reached, after much discussion, but a committee was ,ipr.cln:od to take the matter under advisement and re port to the next annual meeting. The following officers of the broth erhood were elected: President—A. V. Wood. Brunswick,. Vice-President—T. E. Berry, Colum bus. Secretary—H. M. Johnson, Savan- nah. Treasurer—Benjamin Wallis. Savan- p^^STlNCT