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THE TWICE-A-TTEEK telegraph TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1907. F £y\ rrxs. tt LL& 1 By BRIDGES SMITH. -H-H- III!' I ! l-H-H" Mill l"l"l- . thinking the other day of how i our Vic. and son of Stephen Menard, people are living In Macon today | who was keeper of the market, tied a ! K-nher r the city I l together, tall crowd. If I long rope to the alarm bell rope, and y would make then tying the end of the extra rope to fire are hut few | the tafl of a cow that he turned loos I have seen the village r Into the town and from the town the city. fifty years ago . deal Looking backwa 1« a long stretch, but there is a r.f pleasure in the looking. It is some thin;.' akin to the marvellous to see the city today and. harking back to the ; to compare the tiroes, the; fd the people. - - * • in the old Court House Square. Th movement of the cow nipping the grass on the square caused frequent fire alarms, and all night long the firemen were being called out. There were so IF-- * i days, sa ; zig-zag lightning, and its use was con- j ( fined principally to the telegraph, the i • Ilr.es of which extended only to the {I cities. Messages were received on ' paper tape in dots and dashes until 11 Capt. J. C. Butler, then the superln- } tendent, found that he could take a I j message by sound as well as on the I * paper. • '' II • * • I That the streets could be lighted by ; l electricity was not even a dream. It IJ was not even thought of. On each , j street corner of the village was a gas 11 lamp. At first the lamplighter made ' j his rounds every night on foot with an : - olL lamp, but as the town grew, he lm- i ' proved the service by going on horse- hack. But many a time have I seen i him with his short ladder laid against ’ the post, open the door of the lamp, [j turn out and light the gas. then pick J I up the ladder and trudge to the next [| corner, leaving a dim. yellow flame, the ‘ ‘ light circle of which did not’cover more [ 1 than a few feet. These lamps con- I ! firmed in Macon until along in the, j ] eighties, and many a time the city was j : in darkness because of something go- II Jng wrong with the gas works. ... The stores used gas—that is, the principal stores—and perhaps there }' were a few residences, but these were I very few. Candles were the principal ' light. The poorer classes used the tal- j] low candles, and many made them H themselves. You could buy the molds V In any tin shop, at-B A. "Wise’s or Mc- T Elroy’s. Those who could afford them ; used the sperm candle, or the adaman tine, a translucent candle and very hard. Improvements fn candles were going on all the time. Those better off used oil lamps, but these were more for ornament than use. The candle was the main light. Camllestlcks were made of all sorts of nfliterlal, but the Japanese tin was the most , popular. Just think of the people of this day eating supper by the .light of a candle! Churches and public buildings were lighted by candles, because gas In those days was expensive. It has been years since I saw candle-molds, but fifty years ago every economical house wife had them, and on Saturdays would send to the grocer for tallow and wicks, and make a week's supply of candles. ... ifo get an idea of the light furnished by tha-e candles, you have only to look at the ordinary incandescent lamp of today, as It throws out the light of sixteen of the candles we read by fifty years ago. Today we press a button, and there tIs light! What an evolution. . . t ja Of all the old things, matches are the only things that linger. But there }!V. are thousands of matches struck today \l where there was one fifty years ago. I?’- Matches In those days cost money, and ; - were only used when the chunk of fire in covered up In ashes the night before j i': went out. A box of sulphurs would last a year. They were mostly in |H blocks, not separate as we see th'em today. Borrowing a chunk of fire from 11 neighbor to neighbor wa3 of common : | occurrence. The borrowing of matches Kj was a rare thing, because they were •I. not borrowable. There no at v sleotrlclty In those lich we saw in the many of these fals*' alarms that an investigation was made. Then every body swore that there were only two men in town who would dare to do such a thing, and they were Vic and Alex Menard, but both hatched up an alibi, such as it- was. * ... There were lots of hotels and board ing houses In the old village. There was the Lanier. Brown’s Hotel, Granite Hall, the Floyd House, the "Wayside House, Pea Liquor Hotel, and a num ber of small ones. ... Mulberry street from Third to Fourth, was one big wagon yard, and so was Third from Mulberry to Pop lar. Where one country wagon comes to Macon now, there was a hundred then. Bales of cotton were everywhere, and yet there were numbers of ware houses. There was one where the Dan- nenberg building stands, one across the street, and two or three on Poplar, the principal one being in the rear of the present City (Hall. ... Bridge Row' had a number of good stores on the north side, and good peo ple lived on the opposite side. In the big house near the Southern depot was the old Menard home, in which" lived Mr. Charles A. Williams, with Mr. Ste phen Menard, two of the most popular men in Macon In their day, and next to them the late Dan Gugel. . • * There were three papers printed In Macon fifty years ago. The only dally was The Telegraph..printed by Joseph Cllsby, in the building at the corner of Cherry and Second: the Journal and Messenger, printed by Simri Rose, where the new Empire Store is now; and the Georgia Citizen, printed by Dr. L. F. W. Andrews, over where the Postal Telegraph has its office. Below this latter office the father of Henry Horne was engaged In business with the late John Valentino. ! plained how he had been driven Into • bedecking himself In that style, but | added: "There Is one thing they will never be able to make me do In Wash ington society, and that is to ear pic with a fork. I have tried It and I have found out I cannot do It and enjoy the pie* So blast my picture If I will pun- lsli myself In any such way again!” Edward B. Moore, of Michigan, was sworn in this week as Commissioner of Patents. The promotion carries with It. a decided distinction, for Mr. Moore is the first Assistant Commissioner, -^f Patents who has ever attained the commissionership. He was appointed from Michigan to a minor clerkship in the Patent Office and has worked his way through the various dep.irt.mcn’s with great success. The former com missioner. "Frederick L Allen, has gone to New York, where he will resume his practice of law. From now on until June 21. the White House will be the busiest place In the National Capital. On that date President Roosevelt leaves for his va cation at his home in Oyster Bay, and his summer outing will be a rest in every sense of the word, for he has announced emphatically that he will fill no engagements whasoever until well along into the fall. Practically the only public appearance he will make before leaving for his vacation will be made next Monday, when he will attend the exercises on Georgia Day at the Jamestown Exposition. In the latter part of September he will go to Ohio for the unveiling of the Mc Kinley monument, and before return ing here to resume his duties he will probably make a voyage down the Mis sissippi river. for Congress as an Independent Demo crat against that elegant gentleman and loyal Georgian. J. A. Billups, who had been nominated by the Democrats of the Ninth district. Judge Speer made a brilliant campaign. He was famous as a stump speaker, glittering and- eloquent Judge Speer was elect ed. In 18S0 Judge Speer was again an independent candidate, the Democratic nominee being- the "Demosthenes of the Mountains.” Hon. Hiram" P. Bell, who had twlcy represented his dis trict in Congress, and held numerous other honorable places. Judge Speer was again victorious. The “One-Eyed Plow Boy of Pigeon Roost’’—Allen D. Candler—waF -the cause of Judge Speer's undoing. In 1882 this rock- ribbed Democrat defeated the judge. I have heard that Mr. Candler was busy shingling his house when notified that he had been nominated by his party to make the race against judge Speer. He got down off the ladder, accepted the nomination and turned his atten tion to the job of defeating Judge Speer. In tirne Candler became Gov ernor of Georgia, and Speer went upon the bench of the United States Court. All the gentlemen whom Dr. Felton defeated for Congress, have passed from earth, judge Billups, with whom Judge Speer contested, has also gone to his celestial reward. The Seventh and Ninth districts have never had successful Independent candidates for Congressional honors since the days of Felton and Speer. The per capita circulation of money in the United States is at a very high mark. On June 1 it reached the great est amount ever attained. On that date the per capita circulation of money In the United States was 834.20, _ _ _ which is the highest point ever reached, The name" of Congressman Griggs Ts A gentleman informed me yesterday that Congressman W. G. Brantley has been making some old time Demo cratic speeches in his district, the Eleventh. He has been preaching the doctrine and faith of the fathers. By the way. I hear there is considerable talk among the friends of this splendid Georgian to have him make the race for Governor as the successor of Hon. Hoke Smith when that gentleman re tires from the Gubernatorial office. month of May. 1907. The per capita on June 1 Is based on an estimated population of 85.965 000 persons. On June 1 of last year it was $32.45. and on January 1, 1907, It reached $33.78. The Central Railroad freight depot was in East Macon where the iBibb Mill Is now. and below it were the shops and round house. "Where the and Western shop?- The father of Ed. Irvine was the Central’s agent. and an increase Of^ cents during the j also being frequently mentioned in n-i I-- t jjj s connection.' In conversation yes terday with two of Mrs. Griggs constit uents they said that at the proper time the popular Representative from the Second district would be urged for Governor. Of course both Brantley and Griggs are candidates for re-elec tion next year to Congress from their respective districts. A third member of the Georgia delegation is also spoken of for Governor—Congressman T. W. Hardwick, of the Tenth district. His friends are pointing to the promi nent part which he played in the last State campaign as a factor that should be potential in his favor In contest for the Governorship. . Mr. Hardwick is talented and ambitious. Mr. Smith has not been inaugurated Rives, with a mixture of mirth and friendly anxiety, gave him to under stand that he had really thought the tables had been prepared by somebody who did not know what he was about: but since they were Mr. Stephens’ own work, he could see them go to the pub lic with his misgiving diminished, but not removed. The tables, and the novel conclusions deduced from them, ap peared in the next morning Globe; and their accuracy has never yet been suc cessfully assailed. Caught on tHe Wing By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. After a silence of some years as a public speaker, owing to his advanced Governor for the term for which he age and physical weakness. Dr. W. H. j was recently elected, and it seems Felton, of “Near Cartersville.” deliver- ; very hasty and premature to be dis- ed an address on last Saturday at a | cussing , his successor, and yet a Gu- Central's shomarn I Prohibition rally in Bartow County, j bernatorlal campaign may burst out ! It must have been the cause only that j and blaze upon the State next year, could have induced “the old man ; The coming session of the Legislature eloquent” to sorely tax his little re- may throw some light upon the future, maining and fast fleeting strength. I ! And water. There was a well In every yard, and pumps on many of the streets. There was a snlendid well of water on Oak street in front of the old Cherry home, blit that locality was then a big oak grove. There were others, but this one was famous for Its cold water. The pumps were known for their quality of water. The pump on Mulberry, on the end of the park between the old Sol Hoge corner, then Rnrdman’s book store, and The Tele graph corner, then Campbell’s grocery, was greatly used, because it was in "the principal business section, bat that pump at the intersection of Cherry and Second had better water, and supplied the merchants on Cherry street. Near thesr pumps were cisterns for fire pro tection. and the wasteage from the (pumps kept them supplied with water. In less days water goes to every home, and you have only to turn a . faucet. ‘ * Tt seems wonderful how we got along ■without telephones in those days. The hou.s rwifo of today talks to the grocer just as she would if she were in the some room, and orders such articles a.? she wants. Fifty years ago, she either went to the grocer for what she wanted, or sent the ohildreiv to forget what they went after. The grocer never sent tilings home- You bought the articles, and carried them away with you. Delivery wagons were un known. "But this Isn't what I wanted to say. I wanted to give you. if possible, a pic ture of Macon as I saw It fifty years ago. Mulberry, from First to Fourth: Cherry, between the sania streets: Cot con avenue, from Mulberry to Plum: Fourth, from Poplar to Plum, and Bridge Row were the business streets. On the river bank, above the South ern Railway freight depot. T. & G. "Wood had a furniture factory, and where that depot now stands the father of Charlie Damour had a beau tiful little park he called Bonnie Nook. This and Spring Garden, whero the Bentons lived, the Singleton property now. corner Mulberry and Spring, were the only parks of the city. ... "What is now known as Coleman Hill was a wild pine grove, with a fine spring of water that fed a fountain in Spring Garden. Another fine spring was at the head of Cherry, now Mag nolia Street. The Coleman Hill made one 'of the best toboggan slides, with its covering of pine needles, In the world, but the word toboggan was not coined then. * * « There were no policemen in those days. The town marshal was the sole guardian of the village. * * • Dr. Mettauer Is the only surviving physician of those days. There Is not a lawyer nor merchant of those days now living that I can think of. * * » •Of the men I can bring to mind who. are now living whom I knew fifty years" ago. there are: (Lucien Ricks, who was a tinner then as he is now: H.'T. Powell, who was then a machinist, but now a banker; Sam Westcott and Dolph Gibson, both machinists: Bill Goodyear, then a schoolboy, and like wise Bob Price: TV. C. Singleton and S. H. Singleton, both teachers: Emanuel Isaacs and his sons. Sol and Henry: E. D. Williams and "Vic Me nard: Oscar Crockett. Elam Gillon, and —but these are all who come to mind. There are others, of course, but as I write this teir names escape me. Hun dreds of names of those whom I knew in the old days and who grew up to do tneir part of making a city of the vil lage come to mind, but they now sleep in Rose Hill. Heigho, filfty years Is an awful long time! am .sure that the appearance of this distinguished Georgian on the occa sion mentioned was an impressive sight—his splendidly formed head white with the snows of more than three score years and ten, and his body- trembling under the weight of time’s heavy hand. There was a day when his wonderful voice electrified the Sev enth Congressional District, and re sounded throughout the State. He could make the popular mind to toss and chafe life a mountain torrent in the wild sweep of its waters, and with the breath of that same wondrous power he could calm the passions he had excited Into the stillness of a sum mer’s lake when not even a zephyr ripples its glassy surface. •l-I-l-l-t-I-I-I-i-l-l-I ’I-I-l-11 .H-l-H-I-H- | Washington Gossip] •i-H-M-M- WASHINGTON. June 7.—Senator Beveridge has stirred up a pretty mess through his declaration that cowardice was displayed by army officers in the Philippines. Apropos of the unveiling at Indianapolis on Decoration Day of the monument to Gen. Lawton, the junior Senator from Indiana published an interview of some.personal impres sions of Gen. Lawton on the fighting line. This interview appeared some weeks ago,, and in it Senator Beveridge described an officer of Gen. Lawton’s The first time I ever heard Dr. Fel ton speak was in Catoosa County, in 1878, in his famous campaign for re- election to Congress. He was running as an independent candidate against the regular Democratic nominee, the one-armed Confederate veteran. George N. Lester, of Cobb County, who after wards was State Attorney General. Lester was full of fire, and he kindled a great blaze of enthusiasm in the dis trict. He was bold and strong in his attacks upon Dr. Felton. His words were burning, and seemed "like arrows of stone, heated in a furnace, and shot forward with unerring aim.” But they rattled In vain against Felton’s shield. The parson struck deadly blows. His assaults were terrific. When the dust of battle had cleared away it was seen that he was still the Richard Coeur-de- lion of the "Bloody Seventh.” His majority over Lester was 1,350. Dr. Felton served three terms In Congress, being elected each time as an independent Democrat. He sav agely attacked what he considered the trickery of the Democratic convention system of nominating candiates. He wrought a revolution in the political affairs of his district. He had an able and untiring coadjutor In his wife, one of the most ■brilliant and remark able women Georgia ever produced. She had a special genius for politics. As splendid strategists and masterly man agers the couple were famous the State over, and remained invincible for years. Mrs. Felton is an ardent friend of education, and her special mission in life seems to be to press "the cup of intellectual happiness” to the lips of the girls of Georgia. I understand thp.t a splendid crayon portrait of the late Joseph E. Brown, formerly Governor of Georgia, has been presented to the State by Mrs. E. L. Connally, daughter of the de ceased, and that it will occupy a place on the walls of the executive office at the capitol along with the pictures of a number of other men who have pre sided over the destinies of the com monwealth. The portraits now in this Gubernatorial picture gallery are those of R. B. Bullock. James M. Smith. Alfred H. Colquitt. James L. Boynton, H. D. McDaniel. John B. Gordon. W. J. Northen, W. Y. Atkinson and Allen D. Candler. It will be observed that the picture of Alexander H. Stephens does not appear. It is to be regretted that the well known face of this emi nent Georgian is not seen in the col lection. I believe, that these pictures have been provided by the families of the Governors. Of all the Governors prior to the Constitution of 1863 Joseph E. Brown is the only one" whose portrait is hung in the executive of fice. Dr. Felton was first elected to Con gress in 1S74. The campaign was red- hot. The Democrats nominated L. N. Trammell, one of the best known men in Georgia. He was regarded as a re sourceful and shrewd leader. He has gone into history as president of the. State Senate, chairman of the Railroad Commission of Georgia, and the holder of other positions of public honor and trust. He was also chairman of the aff as being badly frightened at the celebrated Colquitt-Norwood conven- The City Hall and the market were in the street at the intersection of Fourth and Mulberry, and- the court house was in a big shaded ecu are at the foot of Mulberry street The La- m-'r Heu«e was about half i:s present | matter of fact, the battle of Teytey, size Where the court house now ! which Senator "Beveridge describes as stands, was .a big livery stable, and \ being a fierce and sanguinary affair, tiie old .Wademy in the mbidle of a big really was nothing more than a skir- equare filled wit: oak trees where mlsh. Only one column of troops, with taking of Teytey, and skulking in the line with teeth chattering until Bev eridge “felt sorry for him.” Senator Beveridge was not popular on his trip of inspection in the Philippines and was known to the army as “Senator Balloon." The officers of the army are prevented -by the regulations from making any reply to a United States Senator, but so much bad feeling was stirred up by the charges of Mr. Bev eridge that it is not at all unlikely rhfit n official inquiry will be made. As a tion. Felton and Trammell had a series of terrific joint debates. The strife attracted the attention of the entire State. Trammell considered the pro- ! prlety of withdrawing from the con test. for the party good, and so wrote to the executive committee of the dis trict. The committee decided hat Trammell should continue in the race. Later, however, he retired. Wm. H. Dabney, of Floyd, a gallant Confeder ate officer, and a splendid Georgian, was put forward as the Democratic standard bearer. The flames from the Felton-Trammell furnace had heated the whole district, but even they blazed rot so interseiy as these which burs: forth in the fiery meeting ■between There are two very familiar pictures of Mr. Stephens. One is from the im perial photograph by Brady, taken in Washington city. March. 1866. It rep- recents him sitting in a chair, with his hands folded upon his lap. His vest is half open, and his spectacles hang by a cord which is around hfs neck. The other picture is historic. It portrays him as he appeared during the delivery of his great statistical speech, "Georgia and Ohio Again.” delivered in Congress on January 15, 1855, in reply to Congressman Camp bell. of Ohio. It is from a photograph by Brady. It represents Mr. Stephens in a. standing posture. His left hand, half closed, rests upon a desk, and his right hand is against his waist with index finger prominent. The stream ers of a large black necktie droop upon his broad shirt front. A gold fob and chain hang from his watch pocket. I understand that the original photo graph formerly adorned the mantel piece of Mr. Stephens’ private room at Liberty Hall, Crawfordville. "Georgia and Ohio Again” was considered one of Mr. Stephens’ most masterly speeches. In connection with this mention of his picture I think it would be Interesting to state the circum stances under which Mr. Stephens de livered his famous rejoinder to Mr. Campbell. I take the facts from Henry Cleveland's work on Stephens, and from the life of Stephens by Rich ard Malcolmn Johnston and "William Hand Browne. Mr. Campbell had asserted that Mr. Stephens had valued the products of Ohio at too low figures, and those of Georgia too high, to prove which as sertion he had constructed a set of tables to show a heavy balance in fa vor of Ohio. Mr. Stephens in reply pro duced a memorandum drawn up for him some time ago by Mr. Campbell himself, at his request, giving to Ohio products the identical values which he had taken. This exhibition was a nail er. and Its production caused a great sensation. (He took up all Campbell’s points of statistics in turn, and in each showed triumphantly that they bore out the truth of Stephens* position. Mr. Stephens pointed out the monstrous fallacies of Mr. Campbell’s figures, such as estimating the hay crop of Ohio at $16.00 per ton. as so much of Ohio’s wealth, when it bore no suyh price there, nor anything like it; the New York cost, which Mr. Campbell had quoted, being chiefly due to the expense of transportation., This ridic ulous fallacy of estimating the whole hay crop of the Western prairies at the price baled hay was bringing in the New York market, as if the cost of transportation of a product to a -dis tant market was a part of the wealth, instead of an off-set to the wealth, of the producing region has been often since repeated and believed even by those who should have more sense. It would : be quite as reasonable to cal culate the tons of ice in the glaciers of Greenland and estimate them at their value in the market of Havana: a pro ceeding which would show that deso late region as richer than all Europe. Mr. Stephens’ exhibit of statistics showed that Georgia, with less than half the population, with nearly 3 third less land in quantity, and less than a third in value, compared with Ohio, not only equaled, but exceeded that State in her agricultural productions, according to the census returns of 1850. Mr. Stephens also demonstrated that Georgia, by the census, had one pupil at college for every three hundred and thirty-nine (3391 of her entire white population and Ohio had one for every five hundred and thirty-nine C639> of hers. With much emphasis. Mr. Ste phens said, “In this particular, Geor gia. by the .census returns, is not only ahead, and a long ways ahead of Ohio, but of every State in the -Union, and of any and every other State or nation in the civilized world.” Mr. Stephens fol lowed Mr. Campbell’s . example, and called attention to one or two other subjects which threw some light upon the workings of their respective social system. He showed that relatively Ohio had one hundred and twenty- three churches less than Georgia. Mr. Stephens said that Ohio church build ings were estimated at a higher cost of value than those in Georgia, “But,” he said, “with us we do not look so much to the splendor of architecture, or the outward appearance of our temples of worship, as we do to having a house of some sort where the people of all classes, including the ‘poor.’ yea the ‘slave,’ may have ‘the gospel preached to them.’ ” He also showed that dur ing the year for which the census re turns were taken there were but eighty criminal convictions in Georgia, while in Ohio there were eight hundred and forty-three. There were in Georgia, in the penitentiary, eighty-nine convicts: in Ohio there were four hundred and six. Mr. Stephens also showed that two-thirds of the railroads in Ohio were unpaid for. .while in Georgia less than one-twelfth of hers was unpaid for. ■During the discussion the following occurred: Mr. Campbell. You are wrong there Mr. Stephens. No. sir. I am never wrong upon a matter I have given as close attention to as I have given to this. Mr. Campbell. T can prove it. Mr. Stephens. You had a chance to show that I was wrong once before, but you signally failed. Try it again. The above will give a slight idea of the general character of Mr. Stephens" magnificent statistical address. I wish I had the space to give a synopsis of all the leading features of his masterly speech. LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LATE BUFORD M. DAVIS Memorial to Be Printed in Next \olume of Reports Tribute to Noted Macon Attorney elders, never attempting to decry their positions or answer their arguments except by sound logic and clear rea soning. No lawyer, perhaps, in any age or country ever more completely possessed the affection and love of the younger members of the profession, and none, save the Immediate mem bers of his family, felt a keener sor row than they when his death was an nounced to tile world. “Mr. Davis was elected to the Legis lature In 1S76 from Houston County without being a candidate for the of fice, and was re-elected in 187S. He also served one term as trustee of the Georgia Normal and Industrial College at Milledgeville. These were the only offices he ever held and these he did not seek. He always took, however, a lively interest in public affairs, and on important occasions never hesitated to leave his private business to discuss great public questions and always ex erted his utmost influence for the triumph of those principles which he advance the public The following memorial to Mr. Bu ford M. Davis has been prepared and ordered printed in the next volume of the Supreme court reports: “To the Honorable Supreme court: “The committee appointed to pre pare and present at this time a me morial commemorative of the life and character of our deceased broth er, Buford M. Davis, late a mem ber of the bar of this court, respect fully submit the following report: “It is a wise and kindly custom to ! believed would honor our departed brethren, and it ; good. It will doubtless not be out of seems perhaps to have been borrowed ; place just here to observe that the from remote antiquity. ’To transmit ; voice of fame marked him out for a to posterity the lives and character of high and honorable public career, and illustrious men ’ says Tacitus, the ; his friends frequently urged him to be- great Roman historian, ‘was an of- come a candidate for public offices fice frequently, performed In ancient which they believed him so weH quail- times. In those early seasons of vir- fled to fill, but he always declined, tue men were led by the impulse of , preferring to pursue his chosen profes- a generous spirit to a course of action sion, though he had every reason to worthy of being recorded; and. in like believe that to succeed he had but to manner the writers and speakers of i announce his candidacy. He was men- ganius undertook to perpetuate the j tioned because he was worthy, and not memory o. honorable deeds, without J because he indelicately or offensively any motives of. flattery , and Without | asserted his popularity or pre-emi- any views of iprivdte ambition, influ- • nence ov thrust them upon public no- enced oniy by the conscious pleasure | tice. On the contrary, there never of doing justice to departed merit, llvd a more modest man and the lit- Fo-tunate it is that the same good t]e arn bltlon of rising above his friends custom prevails with, us whenever a . desired office was utterly foreign to his noble heart. great and splendid characted incur profession is lost to the world. When the hour appointed by the court for memory and eulogy, arrives, the con- His Regard for Friendship. “Any estimate of the character of flict of opinion.the ardor of debate,and j Mr. Davis would be incomplete which all contentions cease. Through the omitted to point attention to the sa- Tifted clouds shines a serener and 1 . . _. , . . - purer sky. Even were it true, as cred resrard wh,ch he always had for critics more severe than wise have , the rights of friendship. No one ever at times suggested that the encomi- ! held them more Inviolable. A secret urns we offer are couched in formal-! confided to him became his by that phrases, that thye sometimes become ' confidence, and his devotion to his too trite and general, and that in . friends never faltered. Nor was he laudation we become indiscreet and j ever more delighted than when he felt exaggerative—the custom, as has been well said, . would still be one that ought ever to be reverently observed, as well for its benignity to ourselves and for the encouragement of the living, as for the proper honors to the peared obliged." He constantly prac- memories of our deserving dead. ticed the greatest of all virtues— that he was really and truly serving others. Kind, thoughtful and consid erate always, pcsso-sed of a tact and delicacy rarely equalled, ‘whener he conferred a favor it was he that ap- Born in Sumpter District. “Mr. Davis was born in January. 184S. in Sumpter District, S. C-, in a State which has given many illus trious men to the world, and moved tat a very early ag J with-his parents to Houston County, and spent the great er portion of his youth on a planta tion located a few miles from Perry, the county site of that county. “Just before the close of the war between the States, and though only sixteen years of age, Mr. Davis en listed as a private in the Confederate States’ army, and thus manifested at a very early age that devotion to duty charity. There are many left behind who will miss his generous heart and open hand. The pathway of his life was marked with kindly words and deeds which, after all, constitute >his best and noblest eulogy. “Mr. Davis, "when left to himself, enjoyed above all else the congenial society of his accomplished and de voted wife and the presence of his children and friends around his own fireside. Here at home the man, great in the current of business and affairs, became still greater in the genial, con fiding. generous qualities of mind and heart that diffused sunshine and glad- and that love of his State and country P. es , s around him and made him the which so conspicuously marked his : ’ do1 k* s children and his friends. In entire career. At the close of the i ^he relafions that wa% *he prepared himself for college j REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR uar Academy houses on Fou Hodgkins hou Wharf, now O Rogers home a en The corner now i«. street w< The re .the big which Senator Beveridge was not pres- Felton and Dabney. Felton triumphed old * ~ ’ ' This > street: Light foe boarding house on t berrv, known then house, and Brown’s bouses on Third str houses at the inter: an! Third, the Avr Roosevelt home, : he and the house ro-.v Ladies’ Home. The' brick buildings on thi House, one where t ti >nal B: Foundry. Fee-01.1 • the Turp The onA the st re nrn saw anything like fighting at all. was Gen. Hall’s command, which d , in a bri-rk. if brief, engagement lost e. i three men killed and eleven wounded. Wainutt the old i The only.other casualties suffered by ic cover of Mul- I other-columns in the assault on Tevrev «s the Murdock j were through heat prostrations. This Hotel The big ; information is taken from the official 'et were the four [ reports. The army is thoroughly stirred nut j 11 r> over the matter and It is likely that Dr. . Senator Beveridge's unfortunate re nte. | flections on the fighting men will not Old • be allowed to remain unanswered. big 5yd ; They are telling a good story on "Wisconsin’s new Senator. Uncle Ike Stephenson. It appears that about fifteen years ago, when he was serv ing his first year in the house, he an nounced a rule of table manners, which, to sav the least, were unique ectlon Mas cere the ■om; Na me Amer:car rands and Findlay's residence portion of Findlay hente. now ■roe. was the only one. of any size on First where the Volunteers’ Is. Speaking of the old City Hali and Court House Square, I am reminded of the old a'nrni be".] that sounded the fire calls to the volunteer department. It was on the City Hall, and the r-'pe hung on »-e outside of the building where it c'uid be ea-iiv reached. One and "Washington hostesses are wonder- it g whether he is still adhering to it. When he firs: came to Washington be balked at the conventional evening suit, but finally his daughters 00m’- peiied him. in order to maintain peace in the family, to buy a swallow-tail coa* and a low-cut vest Fome of his admiring constituents discovered him this glad raiment and k. night Mr. Victor Menard, father of | were horrified. Mr. Stephenson ex by something over two hundred ma joriry. In 1876 the Democrats again nominated Dabney. Felton’s spirit panted for the fray. Once more the Seventh district sizzled, apd once more the parson fried Democracy on the griddle. His majoritv til’s time over Dabney ran up to 2.462. In 1878 came the Felton-Lester combat, to which I have already referred. The proud charger and victorious steed of many furious and brilliant races was at last left behind by a "Mountain Colt.” This occurred in 1880. when Judson C. Clements came out of Walker County, way up yonder near the Tennessee line, and got on the track, flying the Democratic col- that hi ors. After retiring from Congress. Dr. Felton represented Bartow County several terms in the Legislature win ning new laurels in numerous impor tant parliamentary battles and general legislative debates The defeat of Dr. Felton left only one independent in the Congressional delegation from Georgia—Hon. Emory Speer—the present United States Court judge for The Southern district of Georgia. In 1878 Judge Speer ran On December 14, 1854. Mr. Mace, of Indiana, made a speech, in which he gave notice of his intention to intro duce a bill to repeal the Kansas-Ne- braska act. and to prohibit slavery forever from these territories. In this speech Mr. Mace had spoken of slavery as injurious to the industry and the development of the physical resources of a country. Mr. Stephens made im promptu one of his happiest off-hand replies. To this speech of Mr. Steph ens. Hon. Lewis D. Campbell of Ohio, replied briefly on the same day. His speech, however, was not published until some time after. When publish ed it was greatly elaborated with vol uminous statistical tables gotten up In the meantime to controvert the posi tions of Mr. Stephens. The great re joined of Mr. Stephens was one of the ablest statistical papers ever prepar ed. and one that cost Mr. Stephens much labor. The impression made upon the public by the new facts and startling conclusions of his speech, may be estimated by its effect upon Mr. John C. Rives, who, at that time, had the control of the Congressional Globe. Mr. Rives in pursuance of his habit of close personal attention to his business, looked over the speech as it came from the hands of reporters, and the accompanying, statistical tables which Mr. Stephens had furnished to be inserted in the right place. He was Immediately struck with what seemed to him the impossibility of the cor rectness of the tables. Knowing Mr. Stephens’ usual accuracy in all mat ters of fact, and being also his per sonal friend, and feeling solicitous well-earned reputation in this particular should not be put to the blush, he sent for Mr. Stephens and stated to him his doubts as to the possibility of the facts, and suggested the propriety of withholding the pub lication of the tables, supposing, he said that they had been carelessly prepared by some other person, and had not undergone his own close ex amination. When Mr. Stephens in formed him that they were his own work, and that he was prepared to maintain their entire accurcay, Mr. From the -New York Press. fhe average man thinks he is good if he* keeps out of jail. There’s hardly anytJMng that makes a girl hate you more than not to call her freckles tan. A woman can cry when she sees a steamship sailing just by imagining how it would be if some of her family were on It. A girl would rather have a broken engagement than none at all. Some men are lucky to die even If they go to the wrong place. ■Women are smart enough to make believe they aren’t so that you get fooled by them. There’s no fun at all In sleeping late in the morning unless you ought to be at work. When a bride gets a wedding pres ent she has to try to exchange it to see how much it is worth. A daughter’s gain of a figure is her mother’s loss. When a policeman reforms. It’s a sign he’s on his deathbed. A summer resort is a very conve nient -place to wish you were having a good time. It’s awful bad manners for a man who snores to go to church. POINTED PARAGRAPHS, From the Chicago News. Freedom exists only in our minds. No man Is really free. Many a grafte- has built his fortune on a steal foundation. Some men attempt to do a.main-tent stunt on a side-show ability. Only a silent man is able to realize tfae folly of talking too much. When a man’s moral rights go wrong he begins to talk about his legal rights. Lots of men find folly so attractive that they haven’t any desire to acquire wisdom. It’s often better to go straight ahead slowly than to travel in a circle at a rapid pace. A woman’s reason may be no reason at all, but It is a waste of time for a man to argue against it. It makes a woman with a baby aw fully nervous when she hears of an epidemic of any kind a thousand miles away. It’s easier to acquire a poor wife than a good cook. Men with wooden legs naturally have a lumbering gait. ■No. Alonzo, a literary club isn’t nec essarily a big stick. If women have no one else to tell a secret to, they telephone. Anyway, the place that kills always gets in its work on the right people. It doesn’t take long for a coming man to get into the has been class. It’s up to every man to get a hurra- on himself when he is homeward bound. under the direction of Col. William Leroy Brown,, and enterafl the Uni versity of Georgia in 1867, where he spent two years, an<i returned to his home in Houston County, where he immediately entered unon the study of the law. He was admitted to. the ba- of Houston" Superior court in 1870. fireside of home, and in the impulse* and affections -that live in the sanctu ary of the heart, this great, good man who stood up so strongly in the rough struggles of men displayed the ten derness of a gentle woman. Into tbo- sacred privacy of his home life we do not feel at liberty further to intrude. Suffice it to say. that a more tender land devoted husband, a kinder and ■During the dark days of reconstruc- j more indigent father, a truer and tion which followed upon the close of! mOT _ e faithful friend, never lived. It the war. although still very "young; -the * *?*! . consolation to his people had no truer, wiser, better i f amily friends to feel that al of friend, and in the most melancholy j hlm t j la ^ gamed our love, and raised hour, (when the wolves were tearing ol,r admiration, still subsists, and will the victims of the war as the coyote I ever subsist preserved in the minds of the woundedrf eer. his eloquent voice I r T en *, OT i r was frequently heard, nor indeed was 016 imperishable records of the State, ever hushed, until Georgia, redeemed. Devoted Episcopalian, regenerated and disenthralled, once ‘ “Mr. Davis was a devoted and consist- mot% stood erect in the great Sister- I ent member of the Episcopal Church, and SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 9.—Com mencement exercises at Syracuse Uni versity were held today, the baccalau reate sermon being delivered to the 362 graduates by Chancellor James R. Day. hood of States “Aftei* the close of the war Mr. Da- vla was associated for a time in the practice of the law with the late Gen. Ely Warrent at Perry, and later with the Hon. Warren D. Nottingham. In 1884 he moved from Perry, to Macon. Ga., and became associated in the practice of law with Col. Isaac Harde man. Subsequently, the late lamented C. A. Turner became a member of the firm, and still later Mr. George S. Jones was associated with them. Upon the dissolution of this firm some years later, Mr. Davis and Mr. Turner con tinued the practice until the latter’s death in 1904. After the death of Mr. Turner Mr. Davis formed a co-part nership with Judge A. L. Miller, under the firm name of Davis & Miller, and wa? a member of this firm at the time of his death on June 1. 1906. “On the 19th of November. 1876. Mr. Davis married Miss Rosa Brown, of Houston County, an accomplished daughter of the late Bryan W. Brown. This union which was in the highest sense ideal extended throughout a period of nearlv thirty years and was only severed when “the pallid messen ger with the inverted torch beckoned him to deoart." His devoted widow and several children survive to mourn his loss. Ranked With Foremost Lawyers. “In the practice of bis profpss'on Mr. Davis attained the highest altitude. He stood as one of the leaders of the Ma con bar. and ranked with the great lawyers of the State. He was not only a jurist of great learning, but an ad vocate of matchless power. He could ably discuss the 'most intricate ques tions of law before the highest judi cal tribunal, and as ably present the facts in a case to a jury gathered fresh from all the walks of life. An eminent judge in a si'ter State, speaking on an occasion similar to this of a departed lawyer friend, made use of language, which may with equal fidelity to truth be said of our own distinguished brother: “ 'In capacity for rapid absorption of case, arrangement of facts in their proper relation, and in the application of principles to facts he greatly ex celled. As a trial lawyer, he was self- reliant and courageous, and when a case took a sudden and unexpected turn, and defeat seemed almost in evitable. he exhibited rare skill and great reserve power It was." perhaps, on such occasions that he appeared to the best advantage. Called upon to name in briefest phrase the most prominent trait in his mental charac ter, I should say it was his power of discernment and analysis.’" The arguments of Mr. Davis were clear and forcible, commending them selves to the soundest judgments, his appeals eloquent, arousing the noblest Impulses of the human heart. He was model that any student of highest . mhition might adopt the bar of any State be proud of, and the courts oL any country welcome to its forum. It is eminently fitting that the- name and memory of such a lawyer should be perpetuated upon the records of the court. After all, as has been well said, this is the lawyer’s monument, and it will remain when monuments of marble or stone have crumbled and fallen and mingled with the dust. “The treatment of the younger mem bers of the bar by Mr. Davis is deserv ing of special remark. He accorded them the same consideration as their was for many years an officer in that church. He took an active Interest in all of its affairs, and sought by precept and example to ooint attention ’to the better and the nobler way.’ He was a sincere, practical Christian, and accepted with a sturdv. old-fashioned belief. ■without doubt or hesitation, the Old Testament and the New. The lessons there incul cated he carried into practice in his daily life, and frequently utilized in illustrating and enforcing his arguments before courts and juries and upon the hustings. This unfaltering faith unquestionably gave him that marked stability of character so conspicuous in his career, and leads us to believe that 'in the midst of death and in the silence of the receding world, ha heard the great waves breaking on a farther shore and felt already on his wasted brow the breath of the enternal morning.’ “To say bf a character truly great, that integrity and a spirit above corrup tion, made a part of it. were mere tautol ogy, as injurious to his “irtues as it is unnecessary. Even the love of fame, that "fine incentive of generous minds, could neither betray him into an ostenta tious display of virtue, nor induce him to practice those specious arts that court applause and often supply the place of merit. On the contrary, throughout his useful life, in the language of the immor tal Milton— x ” “His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth or change his constant mind. Though single.’ “The life-work of Mr. Davis was wgll done. Looked at. however, from a human standpoint, it would seem that he might for several rears have been spared to his family, his friends and the state; but a ’Disposer we are little able to reelst. and whose wisdom it behooves us not at all to dispute, has otherwise decreed.’ If it be true, as the wisest and best of men. have thought and believed, and as Mr. Davis himself so strongly thought and melieved. that— “ ‘There Is no Death! "What seems so la transition: This life of mortal breath \ Is but a suburb of the life elyslan. Whose' portal we call Death. And if— \ ” ‘To live in the hearts he left behind Is not to die.’ then our friend ha? oniv gone nearer the Eternal Light—’only gone as a sunbeam to revisit the native skies— only gone as this mortal to nut on immortality.’ “In the beautiful city that he loved so well, and upon the banks of the Ocmulgee River, he was tenderly laid to by gentle and loving hands and there he quietly and peacefully sleeps under 'his white memorial stone, awaiting a hap py resurrection.’ “Resnectfullv submitted. “WALTER J. GRACE. "Chairman. *‘C. C. DUNCAN. "HOKE SMITH. . “E. A. HAWKINS. ’ ' “W. M. HAMMOND. •'JOS. B. GUMMING, “P. W. MELDRIM. “A. L. MILLER.” MEXICO SENDING FORCES TO GUATEMALA’S FRONTIER. MEXICO CITY, Mexico, June 9.—A‘ train load of sappers, a number of am munition corps men. and 11 ambulances left today for Guadalajara. It is un officially stated that these troops will later be transported to a west coast port and from there go to Sallna Cruis. later they will be transferred to the Guatemalan frontier. Offers from Governors of the various State? to fur nish national guardsmen in case of hostilities, continue to pour Into the Federal authorities. Geuerro was the latest State to offer men,