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I THE TWICE-A-WEEK ' TELEGBAPE FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1907^ THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY, 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA- 0. R. PENDLETON, President TRIVIAL AND ABSURD, The anti-railroad rivalry and compe tition between the Atianta newspaper* has become so acute that the Georgian !• about to break away in disgust. Its evening contemporary, the Journal, has been raising a row, and beating around with its flail like killing snakes, because Chancellor Barrow, of the State University, has Invited a dis tinguished Southern lawyer and ora tor, Hying In Washington, to deliver a literary address before the student body at commencement. The cause of the Journal's fear and fright and fidgets Is that Mr. Thom Is "general counsel" for the Southern Railroad. It suspects plot and treason, and cries out from the bush. Whereforo the Georgian editor writes a broad gauge (two-column-wide) es say on “wisdom. Justice and modera tion," and expresses the fear that the Journal’s radicalism will cause a re action in behalf of tho railroads nmong tho people—p. thing tho Geor gian fears. Rut in one sentence tho Georgian tells tho whole of tho truth about it: "Tho whole protest seems trivial and absurd." THE WINNING ISSUE. In an interview In Washington the other day Senator Bacon said that the two things that should stand first in the Democratic national platform are tariff revision and opposition to cen tralism. That Is tho right kind of talk. It has the good "old time religion” sound about it. Of course there should and will be other things in the platform, but tho time has come when some organized body of men should stand together and make the old Democratic fight against centralized power at Washing ton and for a revision of the tariff on Democratic lines. The Republicans, many of them, are coming to sec that their party has gone too far on these lines. Taft has announced that the tariff should be revised by “its friends," tho Republicans: that no par ly can succeed that does not stand for a revision. Ts this not a Democratic opportun ity? No party can reform itself. The only way to reform is to beat the Re publican parly at tho polls. A great many Republicans are also becoming alarmed at the strides they are making towards Imperialism. Ts this not also another Democratic opportunity? The way to check the imperialism of Roosevelt 1s to beat the Republican parly. But Bryan cannot win. Ho does not stand for the Dem ocratic idea on these questions. He Is a weak brother on the question of the tariff, and he is pretty nearly as much of an imperialist as Roosevelt. WILL OR. LONG GET A “SQUARE j i DEAL?” > Dr. William J. Long, of Stamford, Conn., nature writer, or ''nature- faker." a* President Roosevelt terms him, calls upon Mr. Roosevelt, as man to man. to give him the square deal. Dr. Long ha - written some animal sto ries, based upon incidents that had come under his observation, as he claims, and some of these stories have been incorporated In the children's natural history school books. Presi dent Roosevelt, in an article in one of the current magazines, through the medium of an interview, pointedly de nounced Dr. Long's narratives as false In fact and Injurious to truth, for no better reason, apparently, than that they do not coincide with Mr. Roose velt's observations of animals In their wild state. The President- contents himself with asserting the absurdity, the Improbability and impossibility of Dr. Long's statements of facts, deem ing it sufficient apparently to give the other man the “llo” about a subject with which the general public is too unfamiliar to Judge for itself, because It conflicts with his opinions and ex perience. As a sample of Mr. Roose velt’s sledge-hammer, dogmatic style of going at Dr. Long, the opening of his attack on this nature writer Is given. Mr. Roosevelt says: LET US BE JUST. So far as we hnve observed, only Fouthern newspapers have discussed the experience of C. William Hinds, a negro ex-Senator of Mississippi, who, it is said, was unable to rent a house In Boston on account of the color of his skin and returned to his native State outraged and disgusted. According to the Atianta Georgian, “after visiting nearly every real estate dealer in the city and suburbs, and after offering to rent a good-sized store in half a dozen different locali ties in order to secure a house, he has failed in every effort” It is further stated that the ex-Senator was told by one prominent Boston real estate agent that no house on his list would bo rented to a negro. “There is no city in the South” comments the Chattanooga News, “In ! " * lon which ex-Senator Hinds could not rent ! from a white man a storehouse and residence for his mother. He could And what he wants In Memphis, Nash ville, Atlanta, Chattanooga, or any other Southern city—a house in which to do business and one in which to live.” But in the Southern cities mentioned and in all others he would be restricted to certain streets or localities; he would not be as free to choose as a white man. He could also rent a store and a residence in Boston or any other Northern city, in all probability, but he would be similarly restricted as tc locality and surroundings. Unexpected restrictions of this sort in the North are what outraged and discouraged him. The conditions seem to be alto gether similar in both sections now adays. Let us be Just to all concerned. “William J. Long 1s perhaps the worst of these nature-writing of fenders. It is his stories, I am told, that have been put. in part, into many of the public schools of the country in order that from them the children may get the truths of wild animnl life. “Take Mr. Long's story of ■Wayeeses. the White Wolf/ Here is what the writer says in hi3 preface to the story: ‘Every Inci dent in this wolf's life, from his grasshopper hunting to the cun ning caribou chase, and from the den In the rocks to the meeting of wolf and children on the storm- swept barrens, is minutely true to fact, and Is based squarely upon my own observation and that of my Indians/ “As a matter of fact, the story of Wayeeses is filled with the wildest Improbabilities and a few- mathematical impossibilities. If Mr. Long wants us to believe his story of the killing of the caribou fawn by the wolf in the way that he says it was done, he must pro duce eye-witnesses and affidavits. I don’t believe the thing occurred. Nothing except ft shark or an alli gator will attempt to kill by a bite behind the shoulder. There is no less vulnerable point of attack: an animal might be bitten there in a confused scuffle, of course, or seized in his jump so as to throw him; but no man who knows any thing of the habits of wolves or even of fighting dogs would dream of describing this as the place to kill with one bite. I have seen scores of animals that have been killed by wolves; the killing or crippling bites were always in the throat, flank, or ham. Mr. George •Shiras. who has seen not scores but hundreds of such carcasses, tells me that the death wounds or disabling wounds were invariably in the throat or the flank, except when the animal was first ham strung.” Mr. Roosevelt and his particular in formant never saw it done, therefore the thing is not only Impossible, but reprehensibly false. The Roosevelt viewpoint will admit no truth In any thing that does not come within its range. The know-it-all and authority on every possible subject of interest to mankind, how Is it possible he can be at fault in anything? Dr. Long has committed the crime of observing some animals under different aspects from himself and forming different conclu sions about them, an offense which has become lese majeste in these United States since the reign of The odore X, autocrat In all but name, began. And then he has the assur ance to ask for a “square deal.” In response to Mr. Roosevelt’s challenge to “produce eye-witnesses and affida vits” If he “wants us to believe his story,” Dr. Long produces his eye witness and affidavit and calls on the President to give him the "square deal” he preaches of so much. But when did President Roosevelt ever give any one a "square deal?” Did he give ‘Whitney a "square deal?” Did he give Bowden a "square deal?” Did he give Chandler, his friend and go-between, a "square deal?” Did he give the Democrats a "square deal” they formed an alliance with in the matter of the rate These were matters to which Id not have recovered for twenty years, and then only after having re turned to a sound money standard. The experience was severe but it was not Mr. Cleveland's fault that his sec ond administration encountered world-wide panic: It is his glory that he stood, unwaveringly, the fiery trial to which he was subjecteed, and, amidst the angry storm which beat upon him unceasingly, maintained the world’s standard of value. It is true that he went out of the Presidency without friends but he had safeguard ed the nation's financial welfare, against its will, and maintained con ditions which enabled it to rally quick ly from the panic and to come into the prosperity of today. One who hated him for it has since described the people as pressed from behind and confronted by a great chasm ‘across which they climbed in safety over the broad back of Grover Cleveland.’ ” No man In the. history of the af fairs of the American nation will sus tain as enduring fame as this man with tho "broad back.” save, perhaps, Washington. He will live in history when his detractors are forgotten. If the Hon. Charles R. Pendleton would make more frequent visits to Atlanta we should be better able to establish a proper equilibrium between his politics and his convictions.—At lanta Georgia. His politics and his convictions are affairs in his own keeping; besides. The Telegraph is re liably informed that the said Pendle ton does not regard Atlanta as the proper place to seek wisdom or right eousness. A New York woman has gone into the business of teaching etiquette to dogs. There is an Inviting field for her la bill? the entire country were eye witnesses and of the merits of which the onlookers were qualified to judge. But Mr. Roosevelt brazened it out that they were all liars, and he the only truthful man. Little likeli hood that he will give any attention to Dr. Long's appeal to him as man to man. The President has great respect for man in the masses. He Is extrav agantly devoted to them in numbers, for in numbers their breath of popular* ity it is that makes him great. But for man in the individual and unit he has little but contempt. Judging from the want of ceremony with which he relegates 3o many of them to the liar’s category. LABOR AS A MORAL FORCE. A forcible argument in favor of manual training as a moral force is offered by a writer in the Montgomery Advertiser. The writer holds that la bor is noble, even sacred, and it con tinually inspires hope, while only idle ness can develop a permanent despair. He says this Is because work, however mean, is in communication with nature and the desire to labor leads one more and more to truth. He might have added that to love to labor and to be of use in the world is to place ones- self In the order of tho universe de signed by Providence and to remove oneself from the disorder of idleness with all its attendant temptations. Discussing the need of showing the child how the beautiful and useful may be fashioned by trained labor from the crude product of nature, this writer says. 'The proverbial ’bad’ boy, the ■boy whom modern criminology designates as the ‘dellquent’— what effects will manual training have upon him? In the first place, it will tend to reclaim him from idleness and truancy. The fact that the school holds out to him something other than books to en gage his interest will make the places which he has heretofore prefeerred less attractive. Once enlist the child’s interest and the problem is solved. Engage his attention in the things that he likes: occupy his unfolding mind, not alone with books, but with little contrivances in which he evinces a pleasure and a pride, and soon the school will he as favorite a place- as those he now frequents with such delight. For once ‘the blessed glow of labor is in him, it Is as purifying fire, wherein all poison is burnt up, and of smoke itself there is made bright, blessed flame/ ” Honest and earnest labor, whether of tho crudest or of the most exalted type, does indeed act as a purifying fire that burns up the poison of evil desire, as every reflecting man who knows temptation has realized in his own experience. It Is truly said that society is most corrupt at its extremes, and this is because the idle rich and the vagabond poor, unlike the mass of sober citizens engaged ’n useful em ployments, are the willful prey of temptation, and are unbiased by the Invisible rewards of earnest, painstak ing and persevering effort. HIS COUNTRY’S FRIEND. Addressing the American Cotton Manufacturers’ Association in Phila delphia recently, ex-Senator McLau- rln, of South Carolina, said that the prosperity of the present time is “due more to the courage and sagacity of Grover Cleveland than to any other man.” Heartily endorsing this sentiment, the Charlotte Observer pointedly re marks: "There are those who choose to remember Mr. Cleveland only in connection with soup houses in the cities and flve-eent cotton, but if it had not been for him the country would have gone upon a basis of de based currency, l$95-’99. with ensuing Shoos and ruin from which condition BIBB’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The law provides that the Board of Education of ©lbb County shall fix the amount to be appropriated for the maintenance of the public schools of the county, and it also provides that the County Commissioners may veto by refusing to appropriate, or set apart, the amount. But there has, so far as we know, never been any fric tion. Or disagreement, between the two. Last year the amount asked for and appropriated was $60,000. The year before it was $54,000, and for some years prior it was annually $50,000. This year the amount named by the Board of Education was $75,000, and the amount was yesterday set apart by action of the Board of County Com missioners. The necessity for so large an in crease -marks a distinct growth for Bibb county, and also incidentally it means a deserved increase in the salaries of the faithful and hard worked teachers, than whom there Is none better in the State. To these, as well as to the management by the Board, and the Superintendent, is due in a very great degree the reputation which the Bibb public school system bears throughout the country, as the best in the State. In behalf of the people The Tele graph congratulates the County Com missioners. the Board of Education and the teachers and principals, head ed by the Superintendent; for thus we are marching upward and onward. THE 80UTH SHOULD SPEAK. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Paul Mor ton on Saturday told a Richmond, Va., interviewer that he had been repeat edly asked two questions by Northern Democrats anxious to see a high-class, conservative Democratic candidate for President at the head of the ticket in 1908. Here they are: "Why does not the solid South solidify on a candidate in the na tional convention as well as at the polls on election day? “Why does not the South assert its full political power in conven tion and Insist on a man for the Democratic nominee like Senator Daniel, of Virginia; Judge Gray, of Delaware: Justice White, of Lou isiana. or Senator Charles Culber son. of Texas?” Commenting on this, tha Philadel phia Record, a staunch old Democratic newspaper of the sounder kind, says: "There is a growing desire pervad ing the ranks of both the great parties in the North that the friends of old- fashioned constitutional Government shall assert themselves in making the platforms and naming the candidates for the Presidential contest next year. The South is tile dominating force In the Democratic party. It will be de pended upon to elect the Democratic nominee. It is entitled to a paramount voice in deciding whom the candidate shall be. Will the Democracy of the South come once more to the front of affairs and name the man? “Even Mr. Bryan begins to see the practicability if not the desirability of going a little nearer the equator in the Presidential quest He says in his Commoner: ‘Let Southern candidates be presented upon their merits. Let them be brought forward as cham pions of Democratic ideas,' and they will find the North ready to listen.’ ’’ The South is handicapped by a tim idity of its political leaders. The Tel egraph has been insisting since 1900 that the Southern Democracy should mount to the saddle, 'but the main op position has come from our own peo ple. Some of them are now insisting that the difference in Democratic' availability between Bryan and Roose velt hangs to the side which favors Roosevelt 'for the Democratic nomina tion. As absurd as this proposition seems to us, it has its advocates. Others would prefer Hearst to either, and Hearst admits that he is not Democrat, and that if ho had lived in the days of Lincoln he would have been a Republican. Roosevelt denounced Confederate soldiens as anarchists, and deliber ately libeled Jefferson Davis. Lincoln fought tho War of Oppres sion, and drove the sword through the Constitution. The history of the Republican party —written in blood, steeped in the crimes of Reconstruction and smeared all over with corruption—began' with Lincoln and ends with tho present day fulfillment and determination in The odore Roosevelt, the greatest exponent of centralized power of ail the Repub lican Presidents. The departure from the paths of our fathers .had begun seriously with Lin coln. 'A war of conquest succeeded 'be cause “might is rfght." Millions suf fered deprivation, bodily harm and death. A generation has come and gone, and the wounds have healed and we have forgotten the loss of life and property. But the Constitution which was pierced bleeds more and more. They have pierced it again and again. They are building an oligarchy upon the remains of the best and greatest republic tho world has known. And yet these butchers are hailed, even in the South, as Democrats par excellence! 1 Is it not Indeed time for Southern Democrats to assert themselves, and name a man for whom real Democrats can vote? It is something to vote for principles and lose. It is a crime to vote for imperialism and win. there had been introduced into Con gress and the councils of the party the heated discussions certain to arise over the questions of the revision of the tariff. How soon the feeling in favor of revision shall crytallize into action cannot be foretold, but it is certain to come, and with it those schedules of j "RIGID POLITICAL MORALITY." I One must go South, according to the Washington Post, "for rigid political morality suggestive of old-time New England.” The New England States have all tried prohibition and have all given It up as a failure except Maine. “OLD HICKORY’S” BIRTHPLACE. The recent controversy between North Carolina and South Caro lina newspapers over the birthplace of ! President Andrew Jackson has served , to reduce tfae issue to a shape suffi ciently definite for the purposes of history. In behalf of South Carolina the tariff which have inequalities and , in it still stands, although in : the explanation of the puzzle made by TAFT FOR TARIFF REFORM. The Washington correspondent of the new York World says that Secre tary Taft is now squarely before the country as the tariff-revision candidate for the Republican Presidential nomi nation, and he is not disturbed by the denunciation of him by the Protective Tariff League as a free trader. He regards this characterization as ex treme, but he will gladly accept > the challenge of the (high protectionists and go before the country as favoring a modification of the tariff. A representative of the Protective Tariff League sent by Mr. Wakeman saw Secretary Taft last week and told him that he could not expect any sup port from that organization unless he declared for the stand-pat policy. This interview took place in the office of the Secretary of war after his return from New Haven. Secretary Taft declined to declare for the stand-pat policy for the reason that he believes the country needs a revision of the tariff. Mr. Taft frankly told his caller that he believed the people would demand a revision of the tariff so strongly that it would be dis astrous to the party unless some defi nite promise of revision were given, In discussing this interview and the action of the Protective Tariff League, the Secretary of War said to a repre sentative of the World: "I am a tariff revisionist. No man can win the next election who does not favor changes in the tariff. I agree with the position taken by the Ameri can Manufacturers’ Association which recently declared In favor of a re vision.” During the interview with the repre sentative of the Protective Tariff League the Secretary of War gave him a copy of his speech delivered at Bath, Me., in which he outlined his views on the tariff. Following is the language of Secre tary Taft in advocating tariff reform: “Speaking my individual opinion and for no one else, I believe that since the passage of the Dingiey bill there has been a change in the business condi tions of the country making It wise and just to revise the schedules of the existing tariff. The sentiment in fa- vore of a revision of the tariff is grow ing in the Republican party, and in the near future the members of the party will doubtleess be able to agree on a reasonable plan. "But the work of the present session, which was pressing in its urgency, could never have been accomplished if are excessive will be readjusted. • “The reasonable prospect of a revis- | ion of the tariff by the Republican par ty on conservative lines should ‘ cer tainly be greatly preferred by those who favor revision and yet believe in the protective system to legislation which is always threatened by the in coming of a Democratic Congress and a Democratic Administration under the battle cry, ’A protective tariff Is a robbery of the many for the benefit of the few/ and to the disaster to general business which inevitably follows.’ Secretary Taft is convinced that there is a strong sentiment throughout the country in favor of a revision of the tariff, and that this is especially strong on account of the increased cost of living, for which the tariff is large ly responsible. Taft’s position is of great political importance, and the World's corre spondent thinks that it probably lessens Taft’s chances of securing the nomination. The tariff interests always have been the heart and core of the Republican party organization, and his action sets in motion against him machine which numbers its parts in every State in the Union and which is particularly strong in its represent ation among Republican politicians, With this issue drawn as It Is now an anti-Taft and anti-revision element will begin its fight' on the Secretary of War, and the scrap will be lively. It will likely prove a new Joint in the Administration’s shield at which For- aker will drive his spear. "THE SUPPLY OF SWILL.” In a recent speech in Boston Secra tary Bonaparte compared the trusts to bogs which "crowd their smaller and weaker fellows from the feeding trough so that they don’t get their fair share of our national prosperity.” His pro posed remedy was to fence off the big trusts and give the little ones a chance. All this had a plausible and persua sive sound, but the Secretary’s idea was not made quite clear until he add' ed: "The Democrats propose to cut off the supply of swill, or, in other words, to destroy our prosperity by un settling all our business relations.” Mr. Bonaparte’s characterization cf the special favors provided by an ex cessive tariff as “swill” dished out to contending "hogs” Is more to the point than be intended it to be. Tariff re former Democrats are willing to ac cept the Illustration as an excellent one. The Democratic idea has been that the Government should not furnish swill” for "hogs” either big or little, but merely open the way for a free op portunity for competing men. The Democrats would indeed “cut off the supply of swill” from the favored hogs” of all sizes, believing that such a course instead of destroying our prosperity" would make it genuine ana cause it to include the many as well as the few. TWO SIDES TO IT. Recalling that the recent “rioh man’s panic” was described as the poor man s opportunity, the New York Times sub mits: “How true this was. appears from the fact that the Pennsylvania Railway now has 45,496 stockholders, or twice as many as ten years ago. Many of them got the stock at a lower range of prices than when it was pay ing a lower dividend, and when the prospect of an increase was less than the prospect of maintenance of the present rate. Nearly half of the pres ent stockholders are women. Standard Oil has disbursed nearly three times as much in dividends as this lead ing railway iu the last dqcade, and yet it has only 6,000 stockholders. The dis parity Illustrates' that the railway shares of the better sort are the most widely distributed investment the growing disfavor. “Meanwhile prohibtion in the shape of local option Is rapidly covering the South and Governors of States and many other Influen tial citizens, in and out of office, are teetotalers. There Is a more general prevalence of extreme temperance sentiment, of total abstinence sentiment In the South today than anywhere else in the country. In the East, North and West, as in the South, there is much less of drunkenness than there was only a few years ago; but outside of the South there has been a great decrease of opposition to well-regulated drinking saloons. “One must go South, too. to find the Intensest feeling against gam bling. The Post recently made mention of a new anti-gambling law in Mississippi, and expressed a doubt of the ability of the police and courts to enforce all the drastic provisions of the act. But there is to be an effort In that di rection. A telegram to Tho Post of last Sunday from Yazoo stated that ‘Judge Miller, having ordered an investigation of recent 'card functions’ held at ‘private resi dences and at club rooms, has an nounced that indictments have been returned against several prominent persons. As a result, there was a wholesale exodus to day on early trains, many women being among those who left. Prizes, it is said, figured in each indictment returned. Judge Miller, it is claimed, had pointed out the ■State law against card competi tion for trophies, money, or other spoils, whether at social or gam bling functions/ “It is understood that in other Mississippi cities and towns similar proceedings are to bo inaugurated. The heinous sin of playing at pro gressive euchre for amusement and offering a china vase as a prize ‘just to make it interesting’ must be stamped out! Morality must and shall be preserved!” We presume the point is that after experience the South, like New Eng land, will learn that tho great expen diture of effort to prevent gambling and a comparatively few cases of drunkenness might be better employed in checking more serious evils, such as murder, homicide, lynching and the like. BACTERIA HEALTHY IN MILK. In an article entitled “Milk: A Re markable Food,” In The North Ameri can Review for the first half of May, Dr. Henry Dwight Chapin gives some absorbingly interesting facts about this popular article of diet which not withstanding its universal use has lat terly fallen under suspicion. Among other things he says: “Milk, as it leaves the cow’s udder, contains bacteria. If the cow Is dirty or there is loose hay around, dust from the cow’s body and the hay settles in the milk- pail, and this dust is swarming with .bacteria. As soon as they reach the warm milk they com mence to multiply, and in a few hours they may have increased until there are millions to the teaspoonful of milk. It is these bacteria that cause milk to sour, but most of them are not only harmless, but positively beneficial. According to Prof. Conn, half a teaspoottful of cream which was sour enough to be churned for but ter-making contained 1,300,000,000 bacteria. If bacteria were as harmful as some imagine, no one would be alive, for who has not drunk buttermilk or eaten cottage- cheese made from sour milk which contains so many bacteria that few could grasp the numbers con tained in a pint of it? “The bacteria are plants belong ing to the same class as yeast and mushrooms. No one is afraid to use yeast in bread-making, or to eat mushrooms, so no one should be afraid to drink milk simply be cause it contains similar vegetable forms. Sometimes poisonous bac teria get into milk, but the cases of poisoning resulting are, com paratively speaking, rare, and no one need give up drinking milk on this account.” Milk may be all the healthier for having dirt, otherwise known as bac teria, in it but we trust those who handle it will not be encouraged to impose on that theory. Wo would rather have it clean at the risk of being a little less healthy on that ac count. HAVE WE A "LEISURE SEX?” Europeans smile, and with good rea son, at the “leisure class” in this coun market affords. There cannot be the trJ . com posed of those young sons of slightest doubt that the Increase of millionaires who lack their fathers’ love the Pennsylvania shareholders is rep resentative of the general tendency. It was said that ten million dollars was withdrawn from the savings banks for Investment in the stock market during the recent slump. The money came for a similar purpose from all over the country, according to one of the finan cial monthlies, by express, by drafts, and by check. Farmers, school teachers, mechanics, clerks invaded Wall street in a way never before witnessed, and took away 3.000,000 shares, divided about equally into lots above and be low 100 shares apiece. It was said that 50.000 shareholders were added to the lists of 200 concerns. Very little went abroad, but much to New England, more to the South, and most to the West.” No doubt this Is a Just statement of facts too often forgotten. Many more of the comparatively poor than of the rich are vitally concerned in the prosperity of the average corporation whose shares have been largely pur chased in small lots by the hard- earned savings of anxious bread-win ners. The trouble is that too many large corporations have not been man aged in the real interests of the “wid- born, and negroes. V hen we add to of money making and are contented with the occupation of money spend ing. For the class is very small, most of even the richest young Americans preferring to have some interesting and paying occupation. Foreigners contend, however, that we do have a “leisure sex,” and that while our men work our women play, and also rule. There is some foundation for this. In no country are women so much petted as in ours, and every American man is ready to add that in no coun try do they so deserve to be petted. On the other hand, it is doubtful if any other country offers so many respect able and gainful occupations to wo- j A. S. Buell In his "History of Andrew j Jackson” has been submitted. Mr. j Buell says: I “Jackson was born in 1767. At that time the exact bounder" line between tihe two Colonial Carolina's was debatable; at least it had never been subjected to scientific delimitation. But the spot where the McCamie cabin (the house in which Jackson was born) was, in 1767. under the unquestioned—or rather Che tacitly admitted—Juris diction of the colony of South Car olina. Therefore, Andrew Jackson was born in that colony. But shortly after the adoption /of the Federal Constitution In 1789 an amicable movement for the defini tive location of the boundary was made. This brought about a sur vey during 1793-’94 by John Floyd, the result of which was a readjust ment not only of the line between the two Oarollnas. but also of tho south boundary of Tennessee. So far as concerned the Carollnns. but little change was made, Bhe read justment nowhere amounting to more than a mile or two, and even that was due to the mere stright- ening of old lines that had been carelessly located or Inaccurately marked in the colonial surveys. At the particular point concerned in this narrative the old and Irreg ular line veered far enough from a true parallel to throw the site o' the McCamie cabin on the Sout Carolina side. But Floyd’s survei . located the line on the true par allel, which cut through a small chord of the former erroneous arc and thereby locatede the McCamie cabin about eighty rods north of the line. In what was then (1794) Mecklenburg County, but since set off in what Is now Union County. North Carolina. Therefore, Jack- son, though born In the colonial South Carolina of 1767, was also born on soil that became part of foe State of North Carolina in 1794.” It Is a little curious that South Car olina, which did not—and still claims it does not—want Jackson should have gone off at a sufficient tangent from its natural boundary line to take in a spur of about a mile of North Car olina territory at the particular point where he was born ir. order to keep North -Carolina from making the claim of being his birthplace: but conceding all that South Carolina here claims, the spot where Jackson was born is in North Carolina; it was not In the present territory of South Carolina and was never hers except by a tacit admission—apparently an absence of protest against her claim which no one took the trouble to make, but which was authoritatively settled when tho line between the States came to be de finitively located. This, it seems to us. gives the decision of the question to North Carolina on South Carolina’s own showing. * But * North Carolina’s champfon, the Charlotte Observer, re inforces its claim by ft resort to record testimony which is the best possible evidence in the cast. It traced the title deeds to the McKemey cabin in which Jackson was admittedly born. These were recorded from the begin ning in the Mecklenburg County rec ords and show a chain of title In that jurisdiction which would be conclusive in a court of law and must needs prove sufficient for the tribunal of history. Says the Observer: “For many years It was not ■known In which State the McKe mey cabin was located, but the records of land titles in tfae Meck lenburg County court house es tablished the fact that the site if the cabin has always been In North Carolina. In a deed given •by McKemey to Craword In 1792. It is described as- being ‘north of WaxbAw creek/ The Mcklenburpr tract of land was sur veyed in 1757 for John McKemey. and it was patented in 1761: was sold by John McKemev to Repent ance Townsend in 1761. and by Townsend to George McKemey in 1766. McKemey sold ft to Thomas Crawford (son of James Crawford) 1792: Crawford to Jeremiah Cure- ton in 1796: from him it pissed to his son. William J. Cureton. ‘rDm whose estate it was purchased by Mr. J. L. Rodman, the present . owner (1903). The records of the transactions prior to 1842 are In the Mecklenburg County cou“t house: after that year in Union County.” So Andrew Jackson was a "Tar Heel" and it was not the unfilial hand of a son that kept South Carolina In the Union the first time she was dis posed to kick out. The Macon Telegraph suggests that when President Roosevelt gets through with fake nature writers, he might jump on the fiction authors also. We respect fully make the additional suggest ion that he then enter the field of fake history and give that a raking. And to make a thorough Job of it it might be well for Mr. Roosevelt to start with his mva work In that line.—Augusta Her ald. Yes: he might revise his dictum that Jefferson Davis was a traitg. since he has ccme to see that South ern men fought for the right as they saw it. It now costs an up-to-date Londoa swell $3,500 a year to outfit his person in clothes, and a New York editor de clares that a Manhattan smart-set men of education and refinement. Here : man spends as much for the same pur- perhaps less than anywhere in the j poses. What will it cost If King Ed- world do such women feel conpP e ^ ei ^ j ward succeeds in his reported aim to to "marry for a home” when it hap- j lead a fashionable return to the pens that the desirable man has not j many-colored and gorgeous outfits of touched their heart and they would prefer to remain single. Recent statistics show that 4,833,630 women in thi3 country are earning their own livings in whole or in part, and one-tenth of these, or 456.405, are listed as "farm laborers,” composed doubtless in large part of the foreign- seventeenth and eighteenth century fops? There are hard times coming for the plain American man. ows and orphans” who hold so much of the stock but for the benefit of the few "in on the ground floor” who con trol. Herein is the cause of the out- CTf. this showing the work of women in their own homes, it will be seen that our “leisure sex” Is largely confined And now it appears that Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has come out in favor of a third term for Roose velt. Why not? Francis Joseph and all the other emperors and kings woulT no doubt like to see a life term for such an instinctive autocrat as our President. It would help the weaken- to the marriageable daughters of pros- j ins cause of imperialism all over the Qerous families. world.