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0. B. PENDLETON, President
sons op the presidents.
R la »ftan remarked that the zons of
groat men era a disappointment to
their friends. This partly because too
much la expected of them from the
outset and they are extinguished rather
then distinguished by She fame of their
•Ires. Facts recently brought to light
regarding the aons of our Presidents
•boor that In many oases they have
really given a good acoount of them
selves. and that In some they might
erven have been called great but for
the overshadowing reminders of their
fathers.
Tt appears that six Presidents—
Washington, Madison, Polk, Buchanan
(a bachelor) and McKinley—left no
children. Two—Jefferson and Monroe
—left daughters only. Johnson's two
sons died before he was President
The sons of Cleveland and Roosevelt
are still too young <to be taken Into
account Sons cf the Presidents not
named have reached man's estate, and
they numbered twenty-one In all.
We are told that nine of the twenty-
one "have bulked large In the public
eye on tbelr own account** and that
Rail but one or two of them have been
solid, substantial cltlzsns." The prom
tnent nine are John Quincy Adams,
President diplomatist and Representa
tive; Charles Francis Adams, publicist
and statesman; Robert Tyler, Register
of the Confederate Treasury: Richard
Taylor, who served with distinguished
gallantry on tihe Confederate side of
the Civil War; John Van Burcn, prom
Inent In State politics and Just enter
ing national politics when he died;
Robert Todd Lincoln, Cabinet Minis
ter, diplomatist and president of a
world-famous corporation; Frederick
Dent Grant, diplomatist and general In
the army: Henry A. Garfield, lawyer,
banker and professor of politics In a
great university, and James R. Gar
field, State Senator and United States
Civil Service Commissioner and Com
missioner of Corporations In the De
partment of Commerce and Labor, now
In the Cabinet. There is also mention
of John Scott Harrison, who ‘‘made
good” by being the son of one Presi
dent and the father of another.
It la gratifying to -know that "prac
tically all of the Presidents’ sons who
hare grown to man’s estate have beon
good citizens; their lives have been
clean, wholesome and a credit alike to
their parentage and their country,
while ten of the twenty-one have won
unusual distinction.”
THE TEMPER OF THE JAPANESE.
It ha*. been known for some time
that thore were newspapers and poli
ticians In Japan disposed to stir up
trouble between that country and the
United States, employing the race
troubles In California as a means to
that end. Recent cable dispatches have
suggested conditions so threatening as
to cause American newspapers to print
them beneath the caption—"Japan on
Verge of Break Wlth^ Us."
According to a Toklo dispatch of
June 5, Foreign Minister Hayashl, la
replying to the deputation of Progres
sives who called on him and asked for
an explanation of the Government's
apparent Inaction and want of effi
ciency in the presence of grave diplo
matic questions, both with China and
the United States, Informed his vis
itors tt at the Government was taking
every measure necessary In regard to
diplomatic problems In connection with
both the countries named. The dls
patch states further that the Japanese
authorities are apprehensive of the fu
tore relationship between Japan and
the United 'States If the racial preju
dices evinced ait San Francisco con
tlnuo. *
And yet the recent attack on a Jap
anese restaurant by hoodlums In San
Francisco has been described In the
report of both the chief ot the San
Francisco police and the Governor of
California as a mere outcome of labor
trouble*. There Is probably more In It
than this, as race friction on the Pa
cific coast is manifest, but the disposi
tion of the authorities is not such as to
give the Japanese an excuse for taking
offense.
The facts seem to indicate the exist
ence of & powerful party In Japan that
would welcome a rupture between that
country and the United States. It Is
not unlikely .that large numbers of the
Japanese, Intoxicated by the Issue of
the conflict with Russia, have become
victims of the love of war and the lust
of conquest. The cooler heads sur
rounding the Mikado may earnestly
desire to avoid going to war without
Just cause, but at the same time the
Japanese Government Is seemingly
preparing for a groat conflict that Is
expected In the not distant future.
According to the Toklo correspon
dence of the New York Herald, "that
hor navy shall he more than double the
size and strength it was at the out
break of the war with Russia, and -that
her army shall be capable of muster
ing upon first call no less than one
million trained soldiers, this Is the
military program upon which Japan
has set out and to the consummation
of which all <the resources of the island
empire are being marshaled.”
That there is need for this country
to look after its defenses requires no
argument. Especially Is this true of
the Philippine dependency, our only
real weak point. If we are to hold that
costly and danger-freighted possession,
a prompt completion of the Panama
canal—enabling a more rapid concen
tration of our fleets—is highly desir
able.
MAYBIRD8 IN MAINE.
Early In the spring we had some
thing about Mayblrds, giving their mi
gratory habits, and stating that they
were variously known as the bobolink,
the liceblrd, the recdblrd and the May-
bird, according to changed latitudes
and changed plumages. Some of the
readers of The Telegraph questioned
the accuracy of our history of the fam
ous little bird—a songster In the North
and a game bird In the South, like the
robin.
The Bangor. Maine, News, In a re
cent Issue, welcomed to that section
the tourist from the South. It said;
"The arrival of the darling of the sum
mer fields in Malno was not delayed
by cold weather or adverse winds or
■pasms of colic or strikes. It Is sel
dom that the bobolink comes to east
ern Maine before May 15, and In this | cratlc Institutions,”
cold and belated year of 1907 there j "Something Against
were two rollicking and mad male bob
olinks rattling off their drunken mel
odies In the cold fields of "Brewer In J Fifteenth Century," "Liquid Air," **Ed-
the middle of a cold and windy fore- ' ucatlonal progress In the United
New York school children have the
young bespectacled Apostles of Emer
son In Boston distanced In the educa-
tlonel race Judging from some of the
subjects assigned to girls and boys of
twelve and fourteen years to dis
course on. Among them are the fol
lowing:
"The Influence of the United States
upon the World's Diplomacy,” "Daniel
Webster’s Speeches," "The Constitu
tion of the United States,” "Resolved,
That any infringement upon the dual
Interpretation of- the Constitution of
the United States should be regarded
as a menace to the stability of demo-
State Rights,"
National and
I State Sovereignty,” "American Coln-
■
! age " "Trade In the East during the
Caught on
the Wing
By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
On the walls of the office of the
Commissioner of Agriculture at the
capltol in Atlanta hangs a picture of
Hon. A. O. Bacon. I was asked a fe
days ago why It was that the portrait
of Senator Bacon occupies the place it
does. Instead of being In the library
or In or.e of the Judicial rooms as the
gentleman Is a lawyer by profession
rather than a farmer. The placing of
his portrait where It is was a special
mark of appreciation of his valuable
services In helping to establish the De
partment of Agriculture of Georgia. In
1874 Mr. Bacon was Speaker of the
House of Representatives. A hot figh
was made In the Legislature against
the creation of the Department of
Agriculture. Speaker Bacon favored
the proposition. When the vote was
taker, in the House there was a tie.
The decision then rested with tH^
Speaker. He voted for the measure,
and thus by his vote the department
was created. In this connection It
might be well to call attention to the
fact that In a Legislature, the majority
of whose members were farmers, the
vote that established the department
which was Intended for the benefit of
farmers was cast by a lawyer. This
explains why the portrait of Mr. Ba
con adorns the office of the Commis
sion of Agriculture. The picture rep
resents Mr. Bacon with a magnificent
flowing beard. I guess it has been
nearly thirty years since Mr. Bacon
has worn a beard. On February 20.
1874, Gov. James M. Smith approved
the act creating the Department of
Agriculture, and on August 26, 1874.
he appointed Dr. Thomas F. Janes
State Commissioner of Agriculture
the first gentleman to hold the office.
In numerous other ways than by his
advocacy of the Department of Agri
culture has Mr. Bacon, during his long
public life, exhibited great Interest In
the promotion of agricultural affairs.
Some time ago, and perhaps It Is so
today, but I cannot positively say,
there were also In the office of the
Commissioner of Agriculture pictures
of Thomas Stocks. Mark A. Cooper and
Benjamin C. Yancey, former presidents
of the Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety. The portraits were the prop
erty of the society, according to my
recollection. Mr. Stocks was a resi
dent of Greene County, and was the
second president of the society, if I
am not mistaken, having been elected
on August 7, 1846. Mr. Cooper was the
first president. He was a prominent
political figure In Georgia for many
years. In 183S he was elected to Con
fess. and re-elected in 1S40, but re
signed before the expiration of his
term to run for Governor in 1813
ainst George W. Crawford. Mr.
Cooper was defeated. Mr. Yancey was
of Floyd County. Ho was a brother
of the distinguished William L. Yan
cey, of Alabamg. It may Interest some
to learn that on December 6, 1810, the
Legislature passed an act incorporat
ing the "Agricultural Society of
Georgia." Later. In 1846. another or
ganization was perfected, and called
the "Southern Central Agricultural
Society," and in December, 1860, the
name was changed to the "Georgia
State Agricultural Society,” the pres
ent organization, under whose auspices
the State fairs are given. The society
has had two presidents to become Gov
ernors—Alfred H. Colquitt and Wil
liam J. Northen. Former presidents
who went to the national
blade was broken, his left elbow crush-
d. his right col’ar-bone broken, and
:is head very badly cut, so that for
: while there was serious apprehen-
lon that his .skull had been fractured.
\Ir. Stephens received letters of sym
'athy from prominent men all over
fie country. That famous statesman,
rator and author, Edward Everett,
Vrote as follows from Boston. June 17,
S63: “I have been much concerned to
•ee by the papers that you have suf
fered severe injury by a railroad acci
dent. Newspapers bo often exagger-
ite, that I cannot but hope It is not so
bad as represented. If not too much
rouble, pray - et me have a line from
-.-ourself, containing authentic informa-
ib.-i. With much regard, faithfully
•••ours." Mr. Stephens was Injured
Tune 9, and In the fall of the same year
he was very 111 with an abscess of the
river. which was a repetition of former
attacks. His weight then wag about
righty pounds. Only a few years be
fore tho railroad accident Mr. Steph
ens had been stabbed with & knife
eighteen times In his famous rencontre
with Judge Cone. In later years he re
ceived a severe fa'l upon the ice In
Philadelphia, and was under medical
care a long time In consequence. He
was repeatedly stricken down wl*U
desperate Illness and excruciating suf
fering. It was remarkable that he
should have lived beyond man’s allot
ted three score years and ten.
I have again wandered from my
theme of the pictures at the capltol,
and as my space for today is ex
hausted. I will have to revert to the
subject at some other time. It Is a
fruitful topic. In addition to the por
traits mentioned by me In my article
yesterday, and today, there are pic
tures of various men who were Gov
ernor of Georgia, and members of the
United States Senate and House.
There Is a picture of George Washing
ton. in an elegant frame, the whole
costing. It is said, several thousand
dollars. The last time I noticed the
portrait It was showing the bad effects
of time. There Is a rare old painting j
the resolution which reduces to the
ranks all brave men who belong there.
Probably the vicinage never under
stood the embarrassment to which Us
various promotions exposed humble
delegates to the annual convention,
who, being addressed by their titles,
had to explain the Innocent deception
to the real generals and colonels who
led them Into battle. Peace hath her
sufferings no less than war.
We commend the moral heroism of
the Confederate veterans to the sur
vivors of the conflict on this side of
the Mason and Dixon line, for It is be
yond cavil that there have been a good
many unauthorized promotions among
admired veterans of the Union armies.
The Loyalty of James Jones.
From the New York'World.
James Jones, the old negro who was
once the bedy-guard and valet of Jef
ferson Dayls. has again refused tq give
up the secret of the hidden great seal
of the Confederacy. The piece of silver
was intrusted to Jones Just before the
evacuation of Richmond. The valet
was cautioned never to tel? what he did
NOTES FROM THE LABOR WORLD.
1 Recent news from Germany points
| to the certainty that 197 will be the
year of great lockouts In that country.
! The International Photo-Engravers’
| Union has signed a five-year arbitra
tion agreement with the National Pub
lishers’ Association.
It is officially announced that tho
total cost of the American Federation
of Labor's political campaign. last fail
in the congressional contest was
*8.147.19.
Preparations are being made for the
seventeenth annual convention of the
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters, to be held at East Liverpool,
Ohio, next month.
There Is at present a great dearth
of telegraph operators throughout the
West, and a number of the railroads
have established employment agencies
In an effort to secure men.
The dally return fare for 31 miles
paid by a workman in Belgium Is 7*i
cents, and fares for shorter or longer
distances are proportionately cheap. As
with it, and now, after more than forty | a result, 100.000 Industrial workers
years, he says: "I will carry the secret live In the country, alt
to my grave.”
In the circumstances the loyalty of
Jones to his old promise Is unreason
ing. It Is nevertheless Impressive.
Such devotion to the wish of a master
long dead Is remindful of the most
cheerful side of the industrial situation
prevailing In the South before the war.
The precaution of conoealment pre
vented the capture of the seal by the
Federal troops. Undoubtedly that was
the purpose In view. If the instrument
were to be discovered today there
would be no authority for regarding It
as a national trophy. What th eSouth
and Its surviving veterans desire is
that the seal shall be found and placed
In the Confederate Museum In Rich
mond.’ Very probably the former Pres
ident of the 'Confederacy would him
self favor this Idea, but his wish rules |
as a national trophy. Whatithe South
a living South may Imagine It.
James Jones -has expressed the hope
of Lafayette, taken from a family por- I that he may not be asked again, for a
trait and entirely different from the 1 price or otherwise, to perform what he
likenesses we usually see of the great , feels would be the betrayal of his
Frenchman.' There are fine pictures of master. His. wish Is likely to be re-
Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson j speoted. His loynlty ranked by no
and other eminent Americans. A pic- means least amon? the manifestations
ture of Oglethorpe represents Geor- ■ of dedication day Monday about the
gia’s first Governor looked at a map of
the State. Tho face is very unlike the
one that Is generally seen of him. I
wonder what has become of the pic
ture of a woman that used to adorn
the office of the Secretary of State,
many years ago. It has not been seen
In a long time, I am told. Nathan Bar
nett said that when he first became
Secretary of State, In 1843. he found
the portrait in the office, but he could
never learn whom It represented, and
how It happened to be there. I do not
think the present Secretary of State
ever saw It. The portrait disappeared
before his Incumbency. I was In
formed once that it had drifted some
how Into a plunder room. I have heard
Jefferson
mond.
Davis monument at Rlch-
The Anglo-Saxon In the South.
From the New Orleans States.
Mr. E. N. Vallandigham has con
tributed to the Atlantic Monthly an
article In which ho deals with the In
fluence of semi-tropical conditions In
the Southern States on people of
English stock than exists elsewhere
outside of Great Britain, and they
present the only Instance In history of
, people of that race dwelling contln-
that It was the only picture of a wo- i uously for six or eight generations be-
Anglo-Saxon blood. He points out i
that In the region between Mason and j
Dixon’s line and the Gulf of Mexico j
there Is a larger population of pure apalis, has been made special woman
hough omployed
in the towns.
A plan which contemplates supplant
ing negro plantation laborers In Lou
isiana with State Imported white im
migrants has been announced by
Charles Schuler, State Commissioner
of Immigration and Agriculture.
The National Fanners' Education
and Co-operative Union has organized
its first branch in Oregon, in tho Hud
son iBay country, with a membership
of 14. It Is expected to organize unions
In various other parts of the State in
the near future.
The Governor-General of the Baltic
provinces has received from Russian
colonists In Brazil a letter complaining
of the difficult position of the colonists
and the unfair treatment of them by
the Brazilians, and asking him to pro
hibit further emigration to the South
American republic.
There Is a feature of the British
workmen’s compensation act, which Is
to come into force July 1. that shows
the thoroughness of the legislation se
cured through the efforts of the labor
members of Parliament. Not only
does the act provide for the payment
of Indemnity to mechanics and laborers
In cases of damage by accident, but
domestic servants also are Included In
the protected classes.
The engine drivers and firemen on
the Great Western and Argentine rail
roads. who for a long time pa*t have
been making futile demands for In
creased pay and better conditions of
work, recently went out on strike, and
the engineers and firemen of all the
other railroads In the republic decided
to go out in sympathy.
Mrs. Berry Starkweather, of Minne-
man that ever found place In the cap- ! j ow the thirty-ninth parallel of lati-
itol at any time In the history of the j tude
Government. It has been thus descrlb- j Mr. Vallandigham being an lntelll-
ed: "The face Is that of a cultured i gent student and observer his views of
and refined woman apparently about J our people are rather Interesting. For
45 years of age. She has brown hair
and eyes. The hair Is parted In the
middle and combed smoothly. She
wears a white lace cap, the strings of
which are tied uner the chin. She
wears a plain cape, covering the shoul
ders.” Now let the historians tell
whose picture tt Is. Perhaps some de-
liehtful romance Is connected there
with.
No Need For Revision.
The Macon Telegraph suggests that
when President Roosevelt gets through
with the fake nature writers, he might
Congress Jump on the fiction authors also. We
were Mark A. Cooper, Thomas Harde- : respectfully make the additional sug-
man and Leonidas P. Livingston.
Another president, D. W. Lewis was a
member of the Confederate Congress.
The presidency of the Georgia Stato
Agricultural Society was regarded for
a long time as a good political stop
ping stone, especially to the Governor
ship and Congress. 'A short time ago,
when Hon. Pope Brown was the, presi
dent of the society he was looked upon
as excellent Gubernatorial Umber, and
his successor to the presidency, Hon.
Dudley Hughes, was viewed in the
same light, but he got Into the Con
gressional game Instead.
But let us gat back to the subject of has warrant In believing that his
the pictures of porminent Georgians at ,“I* as being correct,
the capltol. Have you ever noticed the Dublin Courier-Dispatch.
one of John Clark? The last time I
;aw the portrait It was dingy with age
and needed a touching up with the
painter’s brush. Do you remember the
gent'eman? He-firoke bhe wrist of the
great statesman. William H. Crawford,
with a pistol hall fired In a duel. He
From the New York Sun.
Every observing visitor to the South
has been struck by the abundance of
officers of high rank who served in the
Confederate armies; no crossroads is
entertained deep (personal and political ; without its general, and colonels are
example he asserts that the South
erner have acquired as the result of
his living In a semi-tropical climate
some of the qualities of Southern Eu
ropeans. while retaining his racial
characteristics. "He Is both fire and
snow,” says the writer. “He Is ardent
in love, but he at least equals tho
Englishman at home In Jealous regard
for the purity of his women and sur
passes him in his romantic devotion
to the other sex. He is of soft speech
and amiability itself, except when his
honor is assailed. He is polite, hos
pitable, unsuspicious.”
'This is a very fair picture that Mr.
Vallandigham draws of the South
erner, but the New York World under
takes to Improvo it by adding some
touches of Its own. It says: “Phvsi-
cally also the Southerner Is an Eng
lishman of the Midi. He retains the
tall stature of his race, but Is apt to
be dark and slender rather than fair
and large.” If the World were better
Informed It would know that the
Southerner who Is dark complected is
one who has in his veins the blood of
the Latin race, and that the people
of the South of pure Anglo-Saxon
stock are just as fair as tho people of
the same stock who live in England
or the Northern States and average
up to the same size. Indeed It may he
said that the Southerners raised in the
mountain regions of Arkansas. Ala-
liama, Georgia. Kentucky. Tennessee,
A Readjustment of Rank in the South, ; North Carolina and Virginia are larger
'men than the native Englishmen.
In discussing the social and politi
cal conditions of which he took note
In the South, Wr. Vallandigham Is in
clined to the belief that the Southern
er has suffered to some extent bv rea-
labor Inspector for Minnesota. Tho
position was provided for In a bill
passed by the last Legislature. There
are 80.000 women employed In shops
and factories In Minnesota, and Mrs.
Starkweather's task will bi to look , -
out for their welfare. She was largely ; didate for any office when she fee s
responsible ftor the creation of the ' s ”® has a man or men proper for the
The South With a Candidate.
i To the Editor of The Te e^raph: j
Has not the time arrived when the >
South should Insist ujron having a rep- }
resentatlve upon tho Presidential
! ticket. If not first place, the second.
We have delayed this move long
; enough. It should have been done
years ago. The South has been the nest
part of the Democratic party for the
past 40 years, and yet she has had to
: play second fiddle to every other see-
' tton all those years. All we cou'-d do
| was to support the candidate chosen by
the Northern and Western wings of
the party.
Have we not been made a cat's paw
tong enough?
Is not the time ripe for making the
Initial move for a Just and proper
claim to have one Southern statesman
recognized as proper candidate for
nomination to one or the other place
on the presidential ticket. There is
better material in the South for the
purpose than In any other section.
Will the South any longer 'tolerate
the Idea that a third rate Western
State contains tho only man worthy of
being spoken of In thi« connection?
The Southern people have been *
asleep over their political rights and It
is hlsh time they were waking up.
The Initiative should be made now.
however poorly It may turn out at
first.
Tho Lord help us If we could not In
a very short while offer names for can-
elderatlon at least the equal of the
Taft. Roosevelt. "Bryan, Root, Fora
ker and like worthies.
Southern political leaders have had
little opportunity as yet to demon
strate their capabilities. They have
hardly had Inventive to show their
capacity for executive and administra
tive position. They have been kept In
•the back-ground all those years until
they have lost all spirit, seemingly.
The pure American citizenship of tho
South should exert Itself and should
make Itself felt In the future. It was
once powerful and must be so again'
soon or later If wo do what we ought
to do.
The only reason we have no H*ll or
Toombs or Stephens, or Johnsons, or
Yanceys to contend In the political
arena today Is slmp’y because Shere
has been little opportunity and Incen
tive for Southern men and we accepted
the situation altogether too meekly.
Have wo not?
We made a mistake In not making
the Initiative 10 or 20 years ago.
The South should drop Rryan. We‘ ^
have had enough of him. He Is really \
no friend of Che Southern white. Never |
has been.
The South has little In common with
Kansas and the Northwest anyway.
Our Interest must lie with all that
other section of one country east of the
Mississippi river rather than with the
far West.
If the South Is to maintain the party
lines of tho past and continue solidly
to affiliate with tho Northern Demo
crats it should be understood that she
shall claim tho right to present a can-
office. having drawn up the bill and
worked for Its passage.
place whatever It may be.
No doubt It Is very dlstastfu!
. _ I large number of Southern Democrats.
^ J aH «»**»• born Americans or nearly so.
ge*tion that he then enter the field of
fake history and give that a raking.
And to mako a thorough Job of_it. It
might be well for Mr. Roosevelt to
start with bis own work In that line.—
Augusta Herald.
Yes, he might revise his dictum that
Jefferson Davis was a traitor, since he
has come to see that Southern men
fought for the right as they saw it.—
Macon Telegraph.
Perhaps President Roosevelt. In view
of the fact that there are so many men
In the South and tn Georgia who are
ndw toadying to him. sees no necess'ty
to revise his statement. He certainly
noon. They were In full wedding cos
tume. and as they flitted from dead
weeds to tree tops, one could fancy
thzt some of the wedding rice was still
adhering to their feather*.
•'However much the rice planters of
South Carolina may complain about
the ravages of bobolinks among their
crops, here In Maine these birds are
Inoffensive end more beneficial than
otherwise. Though a seed-eater when
gathered In flocks, the bobolinks at
breeding time are Insectivorous In the
main, and work much benefit to ag
riculture by destroying moths and
worms. Such seeds as they may eat
are taken from the heads of dead pig
weeds. golden,rods and other harmful
plants.
“The laws of Maine, which give con
tinuous protection to bobolinks, are
wise and should be enforced. There Is
no more sociable and delightful bird
comes to Maine than this reedblrd of
Louisiana, rlceblrd of the Carollnas
and bobolink of Maine. May they be
fruitful and multiply and replenish the
earth.'•
States from the Civil War up to the
present time,” "Economic development
cf the United States from the Civil
War up to the present time.” “Early
Roman Law,” and “Was Brutus justi
fied In killing Caesar?”
That Is truly a remarkable victory
Governor Hughes has achieved over
the Legislature in New York with Its
member* falling over each other to
pass anything he dictates. It shows
that a really honest, earnest man with
the people behind him Is a power
after all.
Somebody has made the claim that
the hen makes more money for the
American people than the cotton crop,
but the statistics for the year 1900
place tho value of the > cotton crop at
SS2S.7St.171, and that of the poultry and
•Kg crop at 1281,070,69S.
What Is the use In so much spec
tacular trust-busting and regulating If
prices are to continue going up? ‘‘The
advance,” sadly notes Thursday’s Phil
adelphia Record, *1n the prices of all
packing-house products In Chicago
from one to three cents & pound on
Tuesday was reflected by the addition
of & like amount per pound yesterday
to the retail prices of beef and mutton.
Twenty-eight cents for ohops, un
trimmed, which not long ago could be
had for twenty cents a pound, trimmed,
and corresponding advances for other
meat, will soon compel people of ordi
nary means to take to beans and rice
for their regular diet.”
animosity toward Crawford, and chal
lenged him. Clarke was efected Gov
ernor In 1819 and re-elected In 1821.
Various military, civil and political of
fices were conferred upon him. He was
son of the celebrated General Eli
jah C'arko. after whom Clarke County,
Georgia, was named. John Oarke was
born In North Carolina In 1766. and
came with his father to Georgia when
he was about ten years old. At fne age
of sixteen he was aprrolnted a lieuten
ant In the Continental army, and wts
soon promoted to contain. He fought
at the sieve of Augusta under the com
mand of his father, and 1787. distin
guished himself at the battle of Jack’s
Creek In Walton County. Later, the
Legislature of Georgia elected him
brigadier-general, and then major-gen
eral. In toe war of 1S12 with Eng’and
John Oarke was placed In command
of all the forces assigned for the pro
tection of the searnast and Southern
part of Georgia. Ex-Governor Clarke
died In Florida on October 15, 1832. The
next day a large number of Georgians
met in Milledgeville and passed eulo
gistic resolutions on his life and ca
reer. which a r so exnre*sed deep sor
row at h's death. Here are a few lines
taken from the resolution: "Hts mem
ory will long live In the hearts of ibis
countrymen, and his example will light
them to the paths of honor and patriot
ism. In the preen davs of his un-
ripened boyhood, wo honor that ardent
courage rrhloh promoted him to en
counter the danger.s of battle, and that
unshake:. -nnstancy which sustained
him in enduring the hardships and pri
vations of the camD. In his- mature
years, we admire that Integrity of
heart, fibat warmth of affection, and
I fixedness of purpose, which marked
' him as an upright man. a disinterested
| patriot, a generous and constant friend,
a pure energetic, and conristent states
man. We revere that unalteraVe reso
lution and Inflexible virtue, which never
| yie’ded to an enemy which never for-
I sook a friend, which never swerved
England. Japan. Franca and Russia ££!**£*meemeat
have entered Into an alliance to main
tain She present state of affairs in
Asia, to guarantee to «ach country
what It now possesses In the Eastern
Hemisphere, and to prevent any nation
from extending lte dominion there. The
agreement Is described os a Monroe
doctrine for the far East. The United
States and Germany are the only two
flrst-claes powers with Eastern pos
sessions that are hot Included. Some
of us would be better satisfied if the
wore crape on the !»ft arm for thirty
davs. in token of their grief and In
honor of his memory.
Side by side I have seen at the efi®!-
tol the pictures cf Herschel V. John
son and Charles J Jenkins. One of the
warmest fights ever made in Georgia
for tibe Governorship weg between
these two eminent Georgians, in 1853,
Johnsen ran as a Democrat and Jenk
ins made the race as a Wh'g. Toombs
and Stephens were among some of. the
great men of th“ State who supported
Jenkins. Mr. Stephens took a very
active part in the canvas*. The fights
was exceedingly c'n*e. and an official
United States were also left out of the j count was recessary to determine the
list of the powers that hold Eastern
possessions.
If he does run for President, my,
won’t he r
result. After severer davs of anxious
waiting J->hn*on was declared tibe win
ner bv less than five hund-ed maturi
ty. During this cawoslvo Mr. Stephen*
came verv rear being killed In a ra'l-
road accident, near Macon, while en
route to this city. His right shoulder
i thick at way stations. This Is not said
in disparagement of the Confederate
soldier: no braver man ever shouldered
a musket, and if he was not always a
general or a colonel. In most cases he
deserved to be. ‘ "We take pride in the
reunion at Richmond: in the enthusi
asm of the spent and maimed veter
ans: In their devotion to their heroic
womenfolk: In their sturdy faith In the
Lost Cause: for of such stuff are made
the Americans who will save the re
public from civil enemies and defend
it against the insolvent foreign Tot*,
and no Americans are more loyal to tffs
flag of a reunited country than the
Confederate veterans and their sons,
as was proved by the sacrifices they
made in the Spanish war.
If we speak of. the profusion of regi
mental and brigade commanders In the
B’uth and the dearth of company offi
cers and privates, we have warrant for
It in the resolution adopted at the con
vention of Confederate veterans In
Richmond which provided that here
after no survivor who did not win the
rank of general by services performed
during the war should be recognized
as an officer of that rank. There may
continue to be colonels who were, pri
vates In the conflict, but the line is
drawn at musket bearers who call
themselves general. An explanation of
the condition which the convention had
to take cognizance of and to remedy
Is offered by the Baltimore Sun. whose
devotion to* them who were the gray
cannot be questioned.
Tt seems that when the war endied
regimental rosters contained so many
blanks that promotions were obvious
and rapid; privates 'became lieutenants
end captains, and company officers
looped into the command of skeleton
brigades. On returning home the sur
vivors could give but a lame account
of their regimental rank, and the
temptation to exalt It could not always
he resitted. In the procesz of hero
worship high privates wore promoted,
nolens volens. to the command of brig
ades. and It was an undersized or
humble veteran who was net addressed
as colonel. Tn some cases plain men
pro’e’ted. hut were overruled. They
went Into the war privates, “fit” hard
In the ranks and came out genera! offi
cers and co’onels. according, to local
tradition. This story of a sad case of
reluctant distinction is told by the
Baltimore Sun:
‘‘An honored veteran from Maryland,
now a co’one], and a Kentnckv general
met in Richmond la-st Sunday and
opened their hearts fo each other.
The'r titles have never been impeached
at home. But thev deemed It sufficient
glorv to have fought a* private soldiers
throughout the conflict. The colonel
disclaimed the right to any title, while
the general was eoually emphatic In
proclaiming himself a private.”
The convention seems to have bean
full of such valiant and honest gen
tlemen. and under the lead of the'r old
rorrr“ande-s thev rose In rebellion
! ’ '■>! rrodtflnn. even against
npfl nas*e8
eral Government at the suggestion of
the National Civic Federation to In
quire into the extent and menace of
child labor has organized with the fol
lowing officers: Chairman. Ellison A.
Smyth, of Pelzer. S. C.. president of
tho Southern 'Cotton Manufacturers’
Association: vfce-presldent. Mrs. Sa
rah S. Platt Decker, of Denver, presi
dent of the General Federation of Wo
men’s Clubs; secretary. William B.
Wilson. Congressman-elect from Penn-*
svlvanla. and secretary of the United
Mine Workers of America. A number
of other men and women equally well
known are included among the mem
bers of the executive committee of the
commission.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
son of his political isolation, though
theoretically the Union is rpw intact
politically, and as a result "the South
remains in some measure provincial.”
But it is well to remark that the
Southerner Is content with his pro
vincialism. if it be such. He prefers
the ideals, the customs, the rules of
conduct and tastes of the South to
those of the more progressive North
from which Is fast disappearing the
Americanism and Anglo-Saxonism
which It once possessed In equal
measure with the South.
However. Mr. Vallandigham Is Im
presari bv tho fact that the Southern
er—the Englishman of the Midi as he
terms him—has gained more than he
has lost by his long sub-tropical resi
dence. for ho has acquired “a warmth
and color from the genrou3 sack of his
own sunshine ” which the thrlftv
Northerner lacks, yet this friendly and
admiring observer ventures the opin
ion that the future of the Southern
er will best be promoted if he will
“break the bonds of isolation, rid him
self of the itvovinelalism and enter In
to eve-y field of endeavor In friendly
competition with his brother of the
North for the promotion of national
progress—becoming not alo 1 ** politi
cally, but Intellectually and spiritu
ally one with the rest of the Union.”
So far as ‘‘the field of endpa-vor” Is
concerned, the Southerner is already
ve-y much In evidence thece if we
may Judge from the remarkable record
o,f progress the South is making In ag
riculture, mining and manuf 0 during,
and the enormous wealth It Is amass
ing. In regard to the question of
political Isolation the South has no
vain Illusions. It Is fully awre that
It is In the Union, hut not In the Gov
ernment—a condition In which Its
Northern .Republican brethren have
placed It and In which It is their de
sire and Intention It shall remain as
long as thev have the power to keep
It there. But to this the Souherner
has no objection to make, but accepts
it as the fortune of war. He knows
that to the great masses of the North
ern people, his section of the country
Is as much a province as though It
were Brazil or Paraguay, hence we
long ago ceased to look for or expect
sympathy or unde'standlng. He
finds, however. Intense satisfaction In
the knowledge that the province In
■which he lives Is growing rich rapidly
and with wealth will be coupled power
to bring the South Into her own again.
Proper Footgear.
For a clergyman—Cloth. ;
For a tourist—Ruber.
For an explorer—Arctics.
For a Caucasian baby—White kid.
For a negro baby—Black.
For a milkman—Pumps.
■For a book agent—Canvas.
For a waiter—Tipped.
For collector of the port—Custom-
made.
For country lovers—Over-gate-ers.
For a cheeky person—Bronze.—June
Bohemia®.
From the New York Press.
A woman expeects her own faith in
It to convince others of her beauty.
The average girl's reason for not
marrying a man is because ho doesn’t
ask her.
Men would rather always have hot
water for shaving than brains In a
wife.
The girls that read the prize essays
at the commencement exercises don't
read the most love letters afterward.
A woman couldn’t really have a goofi
time away on a visit unless sho could
worry about how the children are at
home.
Somehow children make you think
of eating their way Into heaven.
Girls’ handkerchiefs are almost as
big as their shoestrings for their
pumns.
When a man writes a girl a love let
ter she knows he means It and he
thinks he dees.
A woman likes to think her husband
could be a bad man If he didn’t love
her so much.
Most men make more fuss over hav
ing their wives sit In their lap than
over heavy dumbbell exercise.
It’s Just human nature to get a
strong affection for a suit of clothes
your wife is ashamed to have you
wear.
to have to affiliate with such a body
of men as compose the rank and file
of tho Democratic party of the North.
But "politics must make strange bed
fellows.”
The better social element ef the
North are Republicans. North of tho
Mason and Dixon line the Democratic
party is composed of a very mixed ele
ment. mustering *n Its rank nearly all
of the more vicious foreign class that
are in politics for tibe money and know
no’hlng of principles for which the
Southern white contends.
The fact of it is politically the South
Is in a hole. She Is in a quandary. Srie
ju*t doesn't know what to do to make
things right. But let us make a be
ginning.
There Is one man at least that the
South can well afford to make It with
—let the other be whoever he may,
whether from Georg'a or Alabama or
South Carolina, or Texas, or Virginia,
the mother of Presidents, the land of
battlefields. Sacred to every Southern
State, has the man for the occasion
and his name Is Senator John Warwick
Daniel.
A Warwick to the rescue' The name
Is significant. It Is a good one to be
gin the fight with. Who known! It
mav be the very opportunity for bhe
"broken sword.”
For It is the broken sword that the
Democratic mrtv ho’ds. It is only a
Southern Warwick,” that mleht win
with it. He can at least win our »'ght
to competo for all things henceforth.
S. A. COOK.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
Any man can marry an heiress—In a
novel.
It’s hard for the diffident lover to
sav soft nothings.
Bookkeepers for Ice companies make
a lot of cold calculations.
Marv a bad man has been cowed by
the milk of human kindness.
Give some men bread ’today and they
will expect pie tomorrow.
When an awkward man lends a hand
he’s apt to put hi* foot In it.
The Joke is usually on those who
marrv at leisure and repent in haste.
Happiness Is often nothing but con
ceit. .
And It Is better to be a has-been
than a never-was. !
It takes a mighty good Christian to J
pray for the Ice man.
Admiration Is a woman’s first love
and devotion is her Ia e t.
One can’t always judge a woman’s
truthfulness by what she says.
Many a man’s empty pockets are due
to his wife’s fondness for change.
When a man starts to blow In his
money his friends like to get wind
of It.
An Appeal to tho Whitee.
Mr. Editor: As the negro Baptist
| convention Is In session In this great
city where the relations between the
: races are tho best in all tho South. I
i beg that you allow me to say through
! your paper to our white friends, and
! especially the Christians, that there
j will bo a special service held In tho
city auditorium Sunday at 4:30 p. m.
I in the interest of the orphanage oper-
| ated on the Wilborn land purchased
by this convention. I am endeavoring
to make out of the Inmates indus
trious and useful citizens and those
that attended the negro fair saw our
agricultural exhibit. I hope to estab
lish a laundry next year. We want
the co-operation of the white people.
These Inmates are the grand and
great grand children of the old ne
groes that guarded your wives and
children during the Civil War. Its for
these I am pleading. I hope that you
will attend this meeting. Your pres
ence will greatly help us.
GAD S. JOHNSON
THE GARDEN OF 1REM.
A Huxley Anecdote.
A Huxley anecdote from John Fiske’s
essays recently issued Is Interesting.
The author says.
I never knew (not being Inquisitive)
Just when the Huxleys began having
ttelr "trj'l tea*” on Sunday evening;
but during their first winter I seldom
met anv visitors at their house, except
once or twice Ray Lankester and Mich
ael Foster. Afterward, Huxley with
his wife, on their visit to America,
spent a. few summer days with my
famllv at 'Petersham, where the great
naturalist learned for the flrst_ time
what a tin dipper Is. Once. In London.
In speaking about the starry heaven.
T had said that I never could make
head or tail of any constellation ex
cept the Dipper, and of course every
body must recognize In that the re
semblance to a dipper. To my sur-
Yo know Sheddad, the son of Ad,
Who In the dessert’s dusty space,
A sudden wondrous vision had
Of A1 Jannat—tt j holy place.
And how its beauty drove him mad.
So that the splendor-, many walled.
He strove to cop- in the plain:
And Trem’s Garden there installed.
That made the waste to flower again.
Saffron and mu.ri: and em-rald.
But Allah saw: his rr.lghtv frown
Upon Its domes and walls he cast:
And sent the rains of heaven to drown.
And all the winds of heaven to blast.
So that !‘s triv.i rs went toppling down.
But sometimes. In the desert haze.
The thirsty waif sees Bheddad's
dream.
And Trem’s opal fountains blaze
In the pearl gardens, all agleam:
" ‘Tis only sand and sun.” he says.
—London Chronicle.
Orchard and Hi* Thrilling Story.
Boise Dispatch to New York Times.
Orchard spoke in a soft, purring
voice, marked by a slight Canadian ac
cent, and except for the first few min
utes that he was on the stand he went
through his awful story as undisturbed
as if he were giving the account cf a
May day festival. When he said ‘‘and
then I fhot him,” his manner and tone
were as matter-of-fact as If the words
had been "and then I bought a drink."
There was nothing theatrical about
the appearance on the s’and of this
witness, upon whose t< mony the
whole case against Hat \. d. Mover.
-Hm one of the tour* ladies asked, f and the other 'eaders of the Western
” * . _ .. a.i nr^ - C* A. _ i T - - r, * I-, n If Vic Co.] <*) n 1V*
What is a dipper?” My effort at ex-
Tfanation want far enough to evoke the
Idea of a "ladle.” but with that approx
imation I was fain to let the matter
rest until that August day In New Eng
land. when, after a tramp In the wood*,
my friend quaffed cool mountain wa
ter from a dipper, and I was told that
Federation of Miners is based. Only
once or twice was there a dramatic
touch. It was a horrible, revolting,
sickening story, but he told it as sim
ply as the plainest narration of the
most ordinary incident of the most
humdrum existence. He was neither a
braggart nor a sycophant. He neither
not only the name, but the thing, Is a boasted of his fearful crimes nor sniy-
— - I eied in mock repentance.
Tanked notion.