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PHI DAY, JUM« 14, 1907.
THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEHBAPH
TAKE TIME BY THi FORELOCK.
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C Henry Watterspn’s
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But we thought Col.
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Lewis
3 black
Caught on
the Wing
pink whisker*
• great Confederate commander in many ] Herchel V. Johnson; tae Southern
! of his brilllantlv fought battles, nurs- Democrats for John C. Breckinridge
: ing him when wounded and also sooth- ai j d . J J>* e P h p ne : an * !* os *
; . . _ , _ i wished to stop the contest on the
j ed the suffering hours of other heroes j gj^very question altogether, on both
who were shot down In daring and j sides, voted for John Bell and Edward
bloody charges. Mrs. Clarke occupied Everett. The result of the popular
very much this position toward her ! vote was as follows:
husband, and his soldiers, in the war j Lincoln and Hamlin 1.S66.452
Tie errocth. talk o
leading statesmen of J
loving friendship of :h
Hens dating back to th
modoro Pe;r.- • <■
rflenn anyth: :g. ch
sometime? and her ;he
often havo prepared :
blow I- pr« rely th.v
patches Indicate an ugl
ing in Japan over the
on a Japa '. o ■ e restaurs
clsrr, The honor of
v-.lved aofo.-d'r.r ’of '
papers of that land.
. .-.out the
great na-
of Com-
e es.-arily
nations ■
more
a deadly ;
The dis- ;
• of feel- ;
tack •
t In San Frnn- '
Clppon” Is in- |
c Jingo news- I
and Viscount !
!dent Ro
lib way in which Nortb-
and orators. Including
sevelt, speak of “the poor ; very much les
By JOHN T. BOIr EUILLET.
Fifty years ago, when the voters and
genera] population of the State were
present
than at the
hites of the South,” the uninformed
ight assume that poor classes of
hit* people were unknown In other
eetions of the country.
iiop«
Hum
time, the Legislature of Georgia con
sisted of forty-two more members
than now compose this body. In 1S5T
the membership numbered 269. In
1907 the number is 227. A half cen
tury ago each county had a Senator.
Col. J. Hamilton Lewis is mistaken, i There ” er * “j, Senators and 154 Rep-
.. I resentatives. • Todav there are 44 Sen-
>o tar from Democracy be:r.g trcub.ed j ators and 183 Representatives. In
v. Ith a superfluity of leader* one'may [1859 there were 132 Senators. A cer
tain member of the next Legislature
says he expects to Introduce a bill
- an the horizon In vain to detect any
thing of fat character.
T tnl. loader of the -.opposition In the
House of ’Pr'.rr. declares that "our
mind Is (Irmly made tip.” and that if
diplomacy should rot bring about a
satisfactory solution the n ly way open
!>■ "on appeal to arm." Then he added
f e insulting statement: "It is cer
tain that America will yield, for Its
P" -pie are radically commercial in J
their sentiment."
Governor Hughes’ veto of the 2-cent
railroad fare b;ll in New York shows
that as a reformer he is not a "two-
fer." at all events.
providing for the discontinuance of
the^present system of having a Sen
ator to represent only a district, com
posed of several counties, and will
provide that each county shall have a
Senator. If this proposition becomes
a law the Senate will consist of 146
Senators. In the enormous Senate of
1*59 Philemon Tracy represented Bibb
County.
One of the most Interesting meas
ures that will come before the new
The Government printing office Is
respectfully informed that we arc out
of Roosevelt speeches, having used the
two last in stock in yesterday’s issue j General Assembly will be the bill to
of The Telegraph. extend the State railroad to the sea.
j This line has been a bone of conten
tion In more than one political con
test. The sale of the property was a
Jf Atlanta becomes confirmed in the
practice of having boozeless banquets I leading issue In the celebrated canvass
n „ mwr , „. „„ „ rra . *«•«* ••■>«*" *»—~*r»ss^Sr-i^r ,r SL5SS.5;
n 1 c m of t<i0 * rfa ' ’ kernes* at j ar q U | rp the habit of going out between j nf the Civil War. In one year during
speeches.
hip pocket armament both.
Willie R. Hearst, the political "Poor
Joe,” would not stand after Willie
Bryan put salt on his tail.
Washington to -arrlflcc California'*
constitutional rights in the matter of
school regulations in order to please a It is manifestly unfair for President
proud and "touchy" people who*e Roosevelt to carry the Big Stick and
heads have been turned by thPir vic
tory over unprepared Russia. Mr.
Dooley hits off the situation very well
and there Is no little method In his
tomfoolery v.hen he reads alleged dis-
Pfl-tch-s ps follows:
" ’Th’ Impror he'd a inertin' Iv
th' Elder Statesmen tonight to
discuss plndln' a flee* to Pan Fran
cisco to punish th' neglect Iv
throaty rights Iv th' Japa’ese be a
sthreet ear conductor who wud-
dent let a subjiek iv th' McAdoo
ride on th’ Thirty-first Sthreet line
with an Ogden Avnoo thransfer
dated August eighteen hundher an’
slventy-twe.' ’Tie’ Prlsidlnt has
orhdered th’ arrest an' imprlson-
mlnt iv th’ dentist In Albany who
hurt a Jap’nese whose tooth he
was Ailin’. He has raquisted th’
McAdoo to give us another chance
before toyin' waste our land.'
'Th' Hoop-la T.ieaytre
was closed last night on complaint
Iv The Jap’nese Ambassadure that
th’ Fluff Opry Oomp'ny was givin' t
a riprltlntatlon iv Jap’nese ehar-
nekters in pink robes Instead Iv 1
th' semly black derby hats, a size |
too large. Prince Albert coats, j
pearl-colored pants, button shoes. |
sthring neckties an’ spectacles,
which R the well-known unyform
Iv t v gloryous race. As token Iv
their grief th’ Cabinet waited on
th’ Jap’nese Embassy at dinner to
night. an' Admiral Bob Evans has
been ordhered to sink th’ battleship
I.o syannv an' carry Gln'ral Kro-
kv's hat box to th' deepn.'”
"Tread softly and carry a big stick”
has been a -favorite quotation with
Pro Ident Roosevelt Xow is a good
t'rne for hltn to put fie ndvire into
practice. It will do no harm, and may
<’ i much good a few weeks or months
hence, if he will quietly send a con-
Gov. Brown’s administration the road
paid $400,000 net into the treasury of
the State, so I have been informed.
In his message to the Legislature in
1858. in discussing the road. Gov.
Brown said he would be willing, as a
private citizen, to lease the property
at a monthly rental of $25 000. It is a
coincidence that this very arrange
ment was perfected by him twelve
years later, he becoming the president
of the leasing company. Alexander H.
Stephens wrote to Gov. Brown that he
Tradition Says Every Ross Adopted a | would like to be one of the lessees,
Thorn For Protection. ' and would take an interest “to the
! extent of his property, which over and
The Xert.a American Indians of the above a ]j liabilities, • he thought was
western roa.it have a tradition that j ten thousand dollars.” A writer says
roses were created without thorns. So j that Mr. Stephens advised the bid-
tall and fair they grew that ail ereat- j ding to be carried to forty thousand
ures were attracted by their beauty ■ dollars rental per month, if Gov.
and grace. Animals that Browse upon ' Brown thought it worth it. Gov.
grass and green herbage soon discov
ered the tender sweetness of the roses’
abundant foliage, and then every rose
tree holding its flowers aloft but at
tracted attention and drew destruction
to itself. Every part of the earth had
been given its glory of roses, but in
every place there were animals which
sought the bushes to devour them, and
the tribes of roses were in danger of
becoming extinct. In their extremity,
they held a council: for in that far
away morning of the world, plants as
well as animals had power to speak.
Brown replied that he did not think
the propertv was worth a reptal of
more than $25,000. He made this bid.
and it was accepted by the State. In
stantly there were charges of "favor
itism.” and it was alleged that the
State had declined a more liberal of
fer. Enemies of Mr. Stephens severe
ly eritieised him for being connected
with the leasing company. Mr. Steph
ens stated in a letter that he knew
nothing of the transactions beyond his
short correspondence with Gov. Brown,
referred to above, "nor had he seen
of the Revolution. I read on the pages
of history that during part of the
campaigns in which Gen. Clarke was
engaged, his wife accompanied him.
and on one occasion, in attempting to
remove from a place of danger near
which an engagement was soon ex
pected. she had her horse shot under
her. while two children were on his
baeH with her. I learn from the same
historical authority that she was at
the siege of Augusta, and present
when the garrison under Brotvna capi
tulated, and many of the prisoners,
then and at other times taken by her
husband, experienced her benevolence
and hospitality. It is further related
that she once had her house burnt,
with all its contents, during . the
absence of her husband, by a pillaging
party of British and Tories, who de
vastated that part of the country In
which she then resided, and was turn
ed out to seek shelter as she could,
with a family of several children then
In her charge. The historian further
says that Mrs. Clarke was afterwards
robbed of the horse on which she was
riding to meet her wounded husband
near the Carolina line. Mrs. Clarke
died in Wilkes County. Georgia, in
1827, at the age of 90 years. Her gal
lant husband passed away in 1799. and
she was burled by his side at IVood-
burn, in Wilkes.
Douglas and Johnson 1,375,1
Breckinridge and Lane ..
Bell and Everett 590,631
All the votes cast at this election
amounted to 4.680,193, the largest num
ber by more than 500,000 that had ever
been known.
To the council all the roses came, and i any cause for suspicion that the trans-
each had a tale to tell of suffering and faction was not perfectly fair and above
disaster. At length it was decided to
send for help to the god-man of the
tribes—the Hiawatha of the West.
Delegates were chosen from among
those who were maimed and torn and
had suffered most. Others also were
sent who were tall and fair and grace
ful. Wisely this council discerned that
should Justice be denied the tribes,
beauty might prevail in their cause.
The conference was long and grave.
At its close an armory of thorns was
given to every rose, and thus were the
tribes of roses delivered from their
enemies.—‘Legends of Roses,” by Mrs.
A. S. Hardy, in The Circle.
board.” Shortly after the appearance
of Mr. Stephens’ letter, pertain parties
in Atlanta made a written statement
that they had offered $34,500 per
month, with ample security, and their
bid was ignored. Mr. Stephens then
became dissatisfied with the looks of
things, and he instantly transferred
his interest to the State of Georgia,
and got out of the company. The
lessees gave a bond of eight millions
of dollars, the Central Southwestern.
Macon and Western and Macon and
Brunswick railroads being among the
securities
Some of the Uses of Wireless Tele-
phony.
. Wireless telephony will do away
'■ithie number of our best ships w jtjj the trained operators on vessels,
: -.mnd Cape Horn bound for our Pa- J no that a larger number as well as
. Iflc coast. Han .all and the Philippines, smaller steamships can be In commu-
If the Micado really loves us too fondly "jcatlon with the shore or with each , . , . M
| other during a voyage. Not only can i Legislature elected the Judges, but the
to go to war with us, and has not yet | reports be made by coastwise vessels 1 people clamored for a change, and the
concluded to claim Jurisdiction over an ' 1 steamers on the Great Lakes, but 1 General Assembly passed a bill sub
Yesterday several gentlemen were
discussing unfavorably the present
system of electing judges by the peo
ple. I guess there will be no change
from this method soon. Before the
recent adoption of the existing plan
the election of judges by the people
once prevailed in Georgia. Prior to
the year 1S50. I believe it was. the
the w’.iole Pacific ocean, he is hardly
likely to demand an Instant apology
from onr State Department when he
learns that some of our ship
cruising in the neighborhood of our
own coast, and island possessions.
the exact position or the dangerou
proximity of other vessels or light
houses can be determined. This im
mediately suggests the use of wireless
telephony In naval ope.rations, espe- j standing that the Legislature had heen
are j cialiy with a fleet, or where a torpedo i In the practice of electing some splen-
mitting to the people the question
whether the judges should be elected
by the Legislature or the people. The
latter voted in their favor, notwlth-
boat or other vessel is employed on a
detached service. Wireless telephony
between sea and land does not stop at
tho receiving station on the shore, since
it is possible to connect the instru
ments so that conversations can be im
mediately and directly transmtited to
Since Mr. Graves cannot induce Mr.
Bryan to nominate Roosevelt, he re
calls that Bryan eight months ago ex- J the wire circuit of the land system’
pressed to him the idea that "Hoke I Farther more, experiments have
Smith would be abundantly worthy of
al-
"Every man who wishe* to over
throw every political and economic
principle which has made the country
g-eat. but Is timid about avowing It,
or even acknowledging it In himself.
Is an enthusiastic Roosevelt shouter,”
says th« Philadelphia Record. That is
why Mr. William J. Bryan cannot con
ceal his admiration of the "broncho
husler,” even when his own party and
personal fortunes are affected.
did men~to the bench. As a sample of
the character of lawyers chosen by
the Legislature I will mention a few
of the last lot selected. Just before the
right of election passed to the peo
ple, to-wlt: Hiram Warner Judge of
the Supreme Court: Henry R. Jack-
son. Eastern circuit; James Jackson,
Western circuit: Herschel V. Johnson.
Ocmulgee circuit: Alfred Iverson,
Ebenezer
. , __ .WSStS John H.
central offices or signal stations, and | Lumpkin. Cherokee circuit. In time,
even establishing direct connection with Jol^son and Iverson became United
public lines. In fact, the readiness | States Senators, and Johnson was also
with which farmers’ telephone lines.— i chosen Governor; Hiram Warner and
often using fence wires.—have been ; James Jackson. Congressmen and
constructed in the West leads to the ; chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
belief that a suitable wireless tele- j Starnes, judge of the Supreme Court:
phone system would find widespread Henry R. Jackson. United States min-
appreciation in rural communities and | jster to Austria and Mexico: Lumpin
mountRlnous ^ districts^—Herbert _T. | Congressman. In 1857 both Lumpkin
~ and Warner were candidates for the
ready been undertaken which have de-
rnonstrated the feasibility of commu- I Chattahoochee circuit;
any national honor which the party nicating between moving trains and Starnes. Middle circuit:
might seek to put upon him." What a
mistake John Temple made at Chat
tanooga In not asking Bryan to nomi
nate Hoke Smith. He would have had
the N’ebrnskan cornered without pos
sibility of escape- except by eating his
words.
I casually stated in this column a
few days ago that Charles J. Jenkins,
of Georgia, was a candidate for Vice-
President of the United States on the
ticket witli Daniel Webster in 1852.
A correspondent Inquires if I was not
mistaken In this assertion. He says
he has examined all the records he can
find bearing upon Presidential elections
and In none of them did he see any
mention of the Webster and Jenkins
ticket. Well, It must be admitted that
the ticket did not make much of a race,
for several reasons, one of which was
that Webster died before the election
was held. He passed away on October
24. only a short time preceding the
election. It may not be generally knotyn
that the convention which nominated
Webster and Jenkins met in Macon.
The Democrats had nominated Frank
lin Pierce for President and William R.
King for Vice-President: the Whigs
chose as their candidates Gen. Win
field Scott for President and William
A. Graham for Vice-President. Mr.
Jenkins had declined to support either
Pierce or Scott on account of the
Xorthern discussions of slavery which
had demoralized the Whig party, and
brought distrust to his mind concern
ing the Democrats. Because of the
slavery controversy at the North party
lines in the South had become badly
broken. Alexander H. Stephens and
Bob Toombs were the great Whig lead
ers in Georgia, but they declared the
X’orthern wing of the Whig party very
unsound on the slavery question. Mr.
Stephens and a number of leading
Southern Whigs -published a card ill
Washington. D. C., July 3, 1852. giving
their reasons why they could not sup
port Gen. Sc<#t. the Whig candidate
for President. The choice of Mr. Ste
phens was Daniel Webster, and though
the great statesman died before' the
election, as already stated, many of Tils
admirers, including Stephens." voted
for him after hi« death. Pierce was
elected. His majority over Scott, on
popular vote 211.901: on electoral, 512.
History says that this was the last
election in which the Whig party nom
inated a Presidential candidate. The
contest In regard to slave and free ter
ritory absorbing all fae Interest of the
country, the parties were re-arranged,
those in favor of slavery, or wishing to
leave that Institution undisturbed,
gathered to the Democratic party,
while those wishing to. actively oppose
the extension of slavery to territory
not yet occupied by it. united under
the name of the Republican party, the
W.iigs becoming extinct, as a party.
So It seems that Charles J. Jenkins was
a candidate for Vice-President in a
very momentous political year.
In 1872 the Democrats nominated
Horace Greeley for President and B.
Gratz iBrown for Vice-President. Gree
ley carried Georgia, but Grant defeated
him throughout the nation. Greeley
died before Lie day for casting the
electoral vote. The Georgia electors
split their votes. The late Henry G.
Turner and H. R. Casey voted for
Charles J. Jenkins, of Georgia, for
President. And thus was honored the
candidate for Vice-President in the
election of twenty years before. Elec
tors Julian Hartridge, J. M. Pace. J. N.
Dorsey. R. N. Ely and E. D. Graham
voted for Alfred H. Colquitt for Vice-
President. It may be of Interest to
tell how the other electors voted. H. L.
Benning, Washington Poe and W. J.
Hudson voted for Greeley for President,
notwithstanding that he was deed.
William T. Wofford, Julian Hartridge.
R. N. Ely. J. M. Pace, J. N. Dorsey and
E. D. Graham voted for B. Gratz Brown
for President. H. L. Benning. Wash
ington Poe, W. J. Hudson. H. R. Casey
and H. G. Turner voted for Gratz
Brown for Vice-President. William T.
Wofford voted for Gen. N. P. Banks, of
Massachusetts, for Vice-President.
Wade. In the American monthly Re
view of Reviews.
Typewriting Records.
From Youth's Companion.
A woman In a typewriting contest I »Uv broken bv the nomination of
Democratic nomination for Governor,
There were five strong men in the
race. Lumpkin led. There was a
prolonged dead-lock, which, was fin
King Ed. Is coming in for some crit
icism for not inviting Dick Croker, the
owner of Orby, t ie winner of the der
by, to the annual derby dinner. Doubt
less the King would have had the
American horse to dinner if it had
been possible, but his station requires
him to be select in his dinner company
even if he was not personally a stickler
for good blood and breeding.
In one of two voluminous speeches
on his last visit to Jamestown Presi
dent Roosevelt gave the editors of the
nation a great deal of correct advice In
the line of their professional duties.
dark horse, of a Joe Frown color.
Judge Iverson, alluded to above, died
at Macon. March 4. 1873. He was
elected to the United States Senate in
1855. and withdrew from that body as
soon as Georgia seceded. H« was a
strong advocate of slavery and State
rights. Bob Toombs was his colleague
In the Senate. In 1S61 Iverson and
Toombs were candidates before the
Georgia Legislature for the two posi
tions of Confederate State Senators.
Ben Hill was elected on the first ballot
over Iverson, Toombs H. V. Johnson.
Wm. Law and James Jackson. There
was a hot contest over the other Sen-
atorship. The first ballot resulted:
j Iverson. S5: Toombs. 49: Jackson. 35:
j Johnson. 22. and several scattering
| votes. Iverson withdrew after the fifth
j ballot. and then the vote stood:
| Toombs, 129 and Jackson 67 and
Toombs was elected. But Toombs w.as
contest he had to
to accept, say-
after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon i ing he preferred to serve in the field
while seated upon a barrel In J. F. : rather than in the Senate. Here is an
Williams & Co.'s saloon at 456 Pop- I extract from his letter of declination
lar street. . to Gov. Brown, which shows the state
Fuller had been in very poor health of his feeling-: “I deem it not Inap-
for over two weeks, suffering with ) proprlate on this occasion, to say that
heart trouble. 1 the manner in which the Legislature
Fuller had no relatives in the city thought proper to confer this tru
in Paris recently won a victory over
more than a hundred and fifty eom-
pctlto-s by writing 16.500 words In
four hours. A man wrote 17,000
words, but he made so many
mistakes that ho was ruled out. An
American woman has surpassed the
French woman’s record, for in the
ordinary course of husiness she once
wrote 10.500 words In two and a half
hours, and made three copies as she
went along.
FULlilWPED DEAD
A
John R. Fuller, a carpenter, about 60 i displeased at the conti
years of age dropped dead shortly ' make, and he declined
If the editors were disposed to reelp- | except acme distant ones in East Ma- Heves me from anv o'oiication to sao-
,, . con. Nearer relations, however, live in rifice either by personal wishes n r mv
rocatc they cou.d more than repay toe . p u biin and the funeral will not take j convictions of public fluty in order to
Electoral votes were cast for Geor
gians for Vice-Pres'dent away back
yonder in 17S9, at the first Presidential
e'ection ever held in this country.
There were but sixty-nine electors, of
which five were from Georgia. Geor-
g*a cast her five votes for George
Washington for President, and for
Vice-President voted as follows: John
Milton, of Georgia. 2: James Arm
strong. of Georgia. 1: Edward Telfair,
of Georgia. 1; Benjamin Lincoln, of
Massachusetts, 1. Milton was Secre
tary of S’ate of Georgia in 1789. and
Milton County was . named in his
honor. I a.n not certain, but possibly
Janies Armstrong was a member of the
well known Armstrong family of
Wilkes County. Telfair was Governor
of Georgia just before and- immediately
after he received the honor of one vote
for Vice-President. I d<i not think any
other Georgian received an electoral
vote until the election In 1824. when
William H. Crawford was given foctv-
one votes for President. In this elec
tion Georgia had nine electoral votes,
all of which went to Crawford: New
York gave him five. Delaware two.
Maryland one, and obj Virginia did
herself preud by casting her entire
vote of twenty-four in favor of the
great Georgian. There were four can
didates, to-wit: A ndrew" Jackson. John
Quincv Adams. William H. Crawford
and Henry Clay. Jackson received 99
votes: Adams. 84: Crawford. 41: Ciav.
37. Whole number of electors 261.
Necessary to a cho'ce, 131. Neither of
the persons voted for as,President hav
ing received a majority of the votes
of the elector*, it devolved on th*
House of Representatives of the United
States to choose a President from the
three highest on the list of those voted
for by the electors for President, which
three were Jackson, Adams and Craw
ford. A member from each State, mak
ing twertv-four. were appointed tel
lers. who having examined the ballots,
announced that the votes of thirteen
States had been given for Adams: the
votes of seven Sta’es for Jackson, and
the votes of four States for Crawford.
The Speaker then declared that John
Ou'ncy Adams, having received a ma
jority of the votes of all th«> States of.
tbi« Unl'm. was duly elee’ed President
of the United States for four years, to
commence on March 4. 1825. John C.
Calhoun having received 182 electoral
votes for Vice-President, was thereby
elected to that office. Mr. Clay east
his vote in favor of Adams. Clay's
enemies denounced this action ns “bar-
rain ar>d ro--’inMon.’’ and John Ran-
Labor Laws and Immigration.
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
For the past several months there has
been a concerted effort to induce im
migration to Georgia. When . the
proper Immigrants come it will be a
blessing to all. AVith the blossoming
of the hills with gardens and vineyards,
with the building of homes for hard
working, honorable toilers like tho
Caucasian In race and traditions, will
come better schools and churches for
the country, and more security for the
women who live upon the farms. Speafl
the day when they come to make Geor
gia to bloom and blossom. She needs
them. But with the labor laws staring
them in the face, with those who seek
to divert the tide, painting worse pic
tures than are facts, can we expect
them to come fast? Can we ask them
to run Into tyranny and seek a land
■where imprisonment for debt is veiled
under the thinnest excuse of a pretext
ever put upon a statute book?
.Georgia was founded that the hor
rors of imprisonment for debt might
be shunned, yet after the passage of
nearly two cent vies, we have what
amounts to virtually the same thing—
at least the same result In its working
—In tho contract labor law. Shiftless,
Irresponsible labor is enough to stir
the patience of any one. One who has
to deal with it should have the sym
pathy of all. But to curb it can we
endanger the very foundations of our
free Government? Make the security
of money above the security of man
hood, go down into the hearts of all
who contract and make their actions
afterwards speak for the state of their
feelings at the time' they did contract,
saying If you agree to work and pay
and don’t do it you shall be Impris
oned. for this Is the real meaning of
the' law. If such perversion (now
principally directed at a class that is
perhaps badly in need of a master) is
allowed to stand, what is to prevent
the addition of a clause—
“Be it further enacted, that any per
son who shall obtain from another any
money, goods or.other thing of value,
with intention to defraud the creditor,
by . promising to come and pay the
same in three days and don’t pay it, or
come to pay it, and the other clauses
of proof provided in the labor contract
law.’^
If such is added (which is about as
free from objection as the other act)
what Is to prevent any person who
furnishes any poor unfortunate credit
of a dollar, from taking this thin veil
of “fraud” to imprison the debtor?
Wherein would we be one stitch re
moved frvm the old laws for imprison
ment for debt that our fathers tied to
escape? The law as it stands is vio
lative of the spirit 'of the Constitution
of nearly every civilized country.
Granting that it is not. for the sake of
argument, it has made the creditors
reckless In advances, and the debtors
worthless in performance. It has been
abused, and terribly abused. It is
driving country labor from the country
to the towns and cities as fast as it
can go, where there are no fewer such
contracts and possible prosecutions,
and can we expect hard-working, la
boring men who would come as la
borers. who know nothing of our laws,
but who hear of their severity mag
nified a hundred time?, to como and
take up the burden? Can we offer them
freedom from vexatious prosecutions
and perhaps convictions from some one
w2io would perhaps abuse the laws
that hold men virtually as serfs? Of
course there are circumstances of de
fense. Even under the veil of serfdom
that the law puts on the laborer, there
are outlets for good cause, but the
weak and ignorant laborer hasn’t the
judgment to find them, or the funds to
pay for their finding by counsel. There
are ways of evidence, but the weak
and Doverty-ridden laborer has not the
weight of the wealthv and successful
opponent that confronts him.
Read the labor conti act law of 1903,
figure it out. and ask yourself if you
were seeking a new 'home would you
not fear to rLk Its consequences or
dare the probable abuse of its provis
ions against you? Can wo ask the im
migrant to do otherwise than we would
do under the like circumstances?
C. H. iBEEZLY.
Honor in tho Army.
From the New York Times.
Th« "case" of Lieutenant Richard
son. United States Army, has been dis
posed of by the act of the delinquent-
Lieutenat Richardson had been guilty
of no offense cognizable hv any civil
court. It was simply that, having
agreed to marry a young woman i:
Teas, ho had failed to kxeep his agree-
S47.953 i ment. Not only had he failed, but
he had permitted the day to be named
and the wedding party to assemble.
He had, at the last moment, sent a
message pleading illness, although, in
fact at the time appointed for the
wedding, he was disporting himself
in an automobile ride. This is to
say that he not only jilted the young
woman but he jilted her under "cruel
and unusual" circumstances.
We -repeat that, since he had not
gone the length of making a matri
monial cotract, his offense was not
cognizable by a civil court, except, in
deed, through a civil action for dam
ages on account of breach of promise
brought by the injured young lady,
but it goes to show the depth and
keenness of her injury that she dis
dained to bring such an action and ex
hibit her wounds In public. Possibly
the case might have been cognizable by
a court martial. "Conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman" is a wide
ly comprehensive expression. HcVo
again, as the aggrieved person refused
to investigate action, there seems to
have been nothing done. But Lieuten
ant Richardson, it is now clear, be
came cognizant of a chill in the so
cial air. Apparently his fellow-officers
declined association with hltn. At any
rste, he lately offered his resignation.
It was promptly accepted, on the rec
ommendation of his commanding of
ficer. Quickly following this an
nouncement comes the announcement
STATE PRESS VIEWS
Monroe Advert!?
dark horse may w
even then not be
upper lip.
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keep » si iff
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Newnnr News: Theodore of
Third .Term has not branded any if his
fellow-citizens n liars for more than
two weeks. Theodore must be taking
a summer vacation.
Adel News: Ex-Governor Candler Is
right. We need no Federal control of,
the public school system of Georgia.
We may need financial aid. but not
bad enough to Invite outside interfer
ence.
of his suicide.
What else was left for him to do?
As the poet has it.
When faith Is lost, whe hnonor dies,
The man Is dead.
It is true that Richardson might
have done even worse. Ho might
have married the young woman, lived
with her for years and then, when
they were aging together, have repu
diated Iher in favor of a younger and
to him"a more attractive spouse, with
out any suggestion on his side of a
fault qn hers. That would have been
immeasurably worse. The wound of his
victim would then have been incur
able. That Richardson's minor offense
was cosidered in the army to he in
expiable seems to show a keener sen
sitiveness in the army on such a point
than generallj" exists among business
men and in civil life.
Bnxley News-Banner: No wonder
Attorney-General Bonaparte is rather
slow in tackling the trusts, for the next
one on the list is the dynamite true’,
and to hammer it—well, you can see
what may occur.
Columbus Equirer-Sun: When the
Democratic party gets ready .to drip
the policies that have come to It from
the West, it will have gained n vicory
which will pave the way for regaining
its prestige and tho confidence of the
American people.
Athens Banner: If the Democrats of
the South would stand firmly for the
nomination of a Southern Democrat
for the Presidency, there would he no
trouble in securing -such a nomination,
but it is very doubtful whether they
will do so.. They are more than apt to
do as they have always done—yield to
the cry of expediency and trail their
colors behind those of some Northern
man.
WAS ARDENT SOUTHERNER
From the Washington Post.
Miss Julia Magruder, the well-konwn
Virginia author, who died at Richmond.
Va., yesterday, was 52 years old. Miss
Magruder was aware of her serious
condition and accepted the approach
Ing end philosophically. Only a week
ago' the French academy bestowed up
on Miss Magruder the "Order of
Palms,” and the notification of this
honor was conveyed to her as she lay
in the hospital. Before her death she
publicly expressed her appreciation of
the honor.
She was earnest and sincere In all
of her work and took up every subject
about which she wrote as a sacred
duty. Unlike many writers. Miss Ma
gruder was noted as a conversational
ist and story-teller, ns well as an au
thor. She was an ardent lover of all
the traditions of the South; but de
sired to see all sectional feeling die
away, and she had as many friends in
the North as in the South. In speak
ing of her book "Across the Chasm”
she once said:
The people of the North and South
look at things so differently. The
color question. Is of course, today the
main point, and I am one of the South
erners who approve of President
Roosevelt’s attitude. I approve of the
recognition of Booker Washington or
any other black man. who may develop
equal ability. Taking the standard of
‘the greatest good to the greatest
number,’ what more useful citizen have
we than Booker Washington.
The American Babel.
This upper corner of the stanch
American State of Michigan is
show-ground of the people of thirty
nations at work, side by side, in peace
and comfort. The native-born is out
numbered on a basis of one American
to a hundred .foreigners. The Cron
wall and Finnish miners lead in num
bers. followed by the Irish. Scotch
Welsh. German, Polish, French, Dan
ish, Norwegian. Swedish, Polanders
Russians. Hollanders, Greek. Swiss
Austrian 5 , Belgians, Negroes. Slavs,
Bohemians, with a sprinkling above
ground of Chinese. Arabians, Persians
and one family of "Laplanders.
This is an amazing medley of races
In which the American seems fairly
lonesome. Among the local newspa
pers are the Weekly Glasnik. the Daily
Patvalehti. The American Soumetnr.
and La Sentinelll. Even the leading
American newspaper publishes for the
benefit of its subscribers a dally col
umn In the dialect of Cornwall,—Ralph
D. Paine in The Outing Magazine.
Canada’s Coal Supply.
Only a few years age pessimistic
wiseacres were estimating the proba
ble coal supply of the v’orld and
counting on a shortage in our great
grandchildren's time. The calcula
tions of these estimable statisticians
were excellent in detail and were
wrong oniy in that the basis on which
they were compiled was absolutely
false. It was assumed that wo knew
of practically all the large coal areas
of the universe. Since those croaking
figures wer<* given to a nervous public
it Is probable that fifty times as muoli
coal has heen located as the amount
on which the woeful estimates were
based. Australia. India and Chin i
have more than enough to supply their
own requirements for many genera
tions to come, but Canada has enough
and to spare to supply the wants of
both hemispheres.
Long before the present severe cli
matic conditions converted the Polar
regions into the Arctic regions Im
mense forests flourished on what are
now the shores of Hudson Strait and
Baffin Island; these forests, now large
coal fields, may, even in our own day.
supply tho steamers that will, within
a few years, adopt the Hudson Ray
route for carrying wheat from Mani
toba to Europe.—Frank J. Nicolas, in
the American Monthly Review of Re
views.
Labor in New Zealand.
From Rochester Democrat and Chron
icle.
The more detailed the information
wet about the operation of the
.ompuSsory arbitration law in New
Zealand, the less satisfactory it ap
pears. The law in its nresent shape
offers no means by which strikers can
bp madp to abide by an adverse de
cision of the boa."d of arbitration.
They can be fined, hut it is agreed
that the fines are inadequate. One
authority declares that no fines which
the workers could pay. either as in
dividuals or as a union, would be
enough to balance the loss which a
strike might impose on an important
manufacturing concern. It is held
that the Government itself must bo
dolrh stic”Prized it as a "coalition of | compelled to carry on th c businea
resident in three words the value of •
-‘ch they best appreciate: "Boil it
own."
p r *«jq»nt Roosevelt exposed his six-
shooter under the tails of his frock
coa: while laying the cornerstone of
Masonic Temple in Washington.
From the incident it appears that Mr.
Rnoseveit gives his endorsement to the
hip pocket as the best method of tot-
.ing one's gun.
The Griffin News wants to hear from
President Roosevelt before It will give
its entire credence to the Scriptural
version of Jonah and the wbaie.
place until advices have been receiv
ed from them as :o the disposition to
be made of the remains.
Upon examining the body Coroner
Young decided that an inquest was not
necessary.
A Bullfighter’s Earnings.
From :ho Boston Transcript.
Mnchaquito, :. e crack bullfighter of
Spain, makes 41 n 0 0C0 a year at his
brutal calling, and perhaps Is the oniy
matador alive who is by birth a gen
tleman. He was married the other
day. To eigna.'ize the occasion he
gave .$10,000 to the poor of Cartagena
and founded two asylums for the aged
poor The wedding presents, many of
which bore cards front Spain's oldest
and noblest fami'ies filled three large
room*. By way of contrast, it may be
mentioned that the Premier of Spain
receives an annual salary of $4,009.
I accept it." Mr. Iverson published a
I letter declaring that as the Legisia-
’ ture had defeated him for the office b«
would not accept the appointment from
I Gev. Brown. Dr. John W. Lewis, a
warm friend of Gov. Brown, was ap-
: pointed. Lewi? had loaned
money to attend the Yale !aw school,
and when Brown became Governor in
1S57 he made Lewis superintendent of
the State road. Lewis WM succeeded
in the Confederate Senate by Herschel
V. Johnson.
puritan and blackleg.” hence the duel'
between Clav and Randolph. During
the Frec’dentinl campaign Crawford
was stricken with paralysis.
One nf my correspondents says:
■ "Recently I read an article bv you con
cerning Nancy Hart. Wasn’t the wife
! of Gen. Elijah Clarke also a Revolu-
! tionarv Georgia heroine? What ran you
1 to!! me about her?" Mrs. John B.
I Gordon accompanied her husband in
J his glorious campaign in Virginia dur-
* ing the Civil War. and was near the
One other Georgian than those
named by me has figured as a candi
date in a Pres'dential election. I have
made a brief reference to him In this
connection once before. I allude to
Herschel V. Johnson, who ran for
Brown | Vice-President on the ticket with Ste
phen A. Douglas. TMs combination
may have won if the Democrats had
net divided. In fact, there were three
divisions of the Democrats in the field,
and together had a popular majority of
947.2S9 over the Republican-. The di-
vision represented by Douglas and
Johnson was far In the lead of the
Other two divisions. Th ; ? was in the
memorable election of i860, just before
the Civil War came bursting and blaz
ing firth. The Republican party nom
inated Abraham Lincoln for Pres'de^t,
and Hannibal Hamlin for Vice-Presi
dent. The Northern Democrats voted
mainly for Stephen A. Douglas and
that is suspended by st- ike or lock
out—must save the employers from
loss when strikers refuse to accept
the court's decision, or save the work
ers from loss of wages should em
ployers refuse to continue work after
a lock-out.
Dog eJalouty.
There Is a strong trait of Jealousy
in a dog's nature. A story is told of
a Birmingham dog that had been a
great pet in the family until the baby
come. There was suspicion that he
was jealous, hut he cou’.d not be de
tected in anv disrespect to the new
comer. It always happened however,
that when the dog was left alone with
baby the baby began to cry. No sings
of trouble were ever to be seen upon
entering the room, and the dog was
always found sleeping peacefully be
fore the fire. Finally one day a peep
Ono Man Who is Two Men.
Scranton Dispatch to Philadelphia
North American.
According to the statutory Jaws of
the United States and of Pennsylvania
Antonio Palonio is' two men. and he
has asked the Lackawanna County
Court to. decide whether he is Antonio
Palonio or Antonio Scavazzo or both
or neither.
In 1899 Antonio was naturalized
citizen of the United States and the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania, under
the poetic name of Palonio. Since
then some relative, while delving
the family history, discovered that the
family name was Scax’azzo.
When Palonio, or Scavazzo. which
ever it is. learned that his real name
is Scavazzo he bought property in
South Scranton under that name. This
property is in a different ward than
the one in which he lives, and for three
years he has been paying taxes on it
under both the names of Palonio and
Scavazzo.
Snakes Kill 75,000 Yearly
An inexpensive intrument. called
the “snake-bite lancet ” the invention
of Sir Lander Brunton. has been in
troduced In India with splendid re
sults. It is being distributed by the
Government in an effo-t to reduce the
fearful loss of life, which amounts to
75.000 peonie each year.
A report by one person is to the ef
fect thae sou id obNcmfwypvbgkqjjjj.1
feet that he had saved the lives .of
twenty persons bitten by cobras and
karaits within the last year by the
use of one lancet.
Did Not Wish Letters Published
An interesting fact has recently
been broueht to light In connection
with the life of Judah P. Benjamin.
Secretary of War under the Confed
eracy. So great a dislike had Ben
jamin to the publication of personal
co'resrondence. especially after the
writer's death, that be made it .a rule
to dstroy all letter.* or other manu-
scrin mater’al of which such use
might possibly be made. Writing to
Francie Lawley in 1853 he says: . “I
have never kept a diary, or retained
a copy of a letter written by me. No
letters addressed to me by others will
be found among my papers when I
die. With perhaps the exception of
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, no one has
many letters of mine: for I have read
so many American blog- aphids
which reflected only the passions and
prejudices of their writers, that I do
The American Midi.
Washington was mainly an English
man rather than a man of the Midi.
What is true of him is almost equally
true of several of his Southern contem
poraries. Jefferson had marked traits
of the Midi, and so had John Randolph
of Roanoke. Calhoun seems almost a
dual personality: he was Intense an i
passionate in spirit, but coldly logiv!
in his mental processes, and ns con
scientious as the sternest Puritan. Hi?
paternal family, indeed, came late to
the South, though he inherited unon
one side old Southern blood. Coming
further down we find in Llncolnn
marked traits of race with others that
may have been climatic, for he and his
had long been men of the Midi. Stone
wall Jackson, too. was, so to speak,
mingled Covenanter and Provencal,
with the Covenanter element in far
larger proportion. As to Jefferson Da
vis, he was a Southerner of English
blood whose racial characteristics seem
to have been peculiarly resistant to
climatic, influences. When he shall
cease to be the scapegoat of half a na
tion, and . New. England shall regard -
the Confederate President dispassion
ately. she may well find in him some
thing very like a Puritan of the South.
—E. N. Yallandigham. in the June At
lantic.
Canadian Wheat.
Wheat is. of course, the staple
product of Western Canada, and there
is no better test of soil. Taking the
official returns for the three prairie
provinces for eight years 1898 to 1905,
it is found that there was an average
yield of 19.73 bushels per acre, which
for land cropped year after year with
out any resort to fertilizers is uncom
monly high. The official average for
Minnesota for the last census period
of ten years was 14.2 bushels per
acre, and for Iowa 14.7 per acre. In
1898 there were 1,795,812 acres sown to
wheat in Western Canada, and from
these 31,500,000 bushels were raised.
In 1905 the acreage had Increased to
3 S49.025 acres and the yield to 83,-
500.000—an average fur that year of
over twenty-one bushels to the acre.
These figures tell their own story of
the fertility of the soil and the re
wards that are reaped by the indus
trious husbandman. To handle this
enormous wheat business there are
1,015 interior elevators, with a storage
capacity of 27,063,000 bushels, repre-
enting a capital investment of $55,-
000 000. There are ten terminal eleva
tors at the Lake Superior ports of
Fort William and Port Arthur, with a
total capacity of 18 200,000 bushels. In
addition there are ninety-three three-
roller flour mills, at various points
throughout the West, with a daily ca
pacity of 18,500 barrels.
The price of wheat in Western Can
ada is determined in the main hy the
price in the Liverpool market, less tha
cost of transportation to that market
from the point of initial shipment.
This price varies with the season, but
It approximates Fort William price
per bushel from Winnipeg to Liver
pool. At the time of writing the cash
price of Fort William wheat as quoted
In Winnipeg Is 7312 cents per bushel
for No. 1 Northern, and proportionate
ly less according to freight rates, at
points in the West. With an average
yield of twenty bushels to the acre,
the cash returns on lands purchased at
the relatively low prices which have
been noted are large enough power
fully to attract enterprising agricul
turists. who make a business of farm
ing for profit, from other lands.—John
W, Dafoe, in the American Monthly-
Review of Reviews.
through the keyhole disclosed th
canine nibbing his cold wet nose up | not want to leave behind me letters
and down the baby's back.—Ralph X*. I and documents to be used in such a
ville, in The Outing Magazine. work about myself.”
The Dominican Debt.
Santo Domingo owes today in
round numbers $33,000 000. and is
compelled to pay $1,200,000 interest
and at least $700,000 into the amorti
zation fund. By the new American
treaty arrangement the debt is re
duced to $17,000,000. the interest is
reduced to $1,000,000 and the amount
of the amortization fund payment is
200,000. On this basis, it is esti
mated that in thirty-eight years.more
or less, the republic will be free of
debt. The period can be shortened
if the amount o? the annual pay
ments to the amortization fund are
increased.
Kuroki Sailed For Japan.
SEATTLE. Wash.. June 12—General
Baron Kuroki. the Japanese envoy to
the Jamestown Exposition, sailed Cor
Japan today.
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