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PHI DAY, JUM« 14, 1907. THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEHBAPH TAKE TIME BY THi FORELOCK. »w Y- IdenUfled vd D*':r< rton's ’ D *■/ Tribune pro ?<*??•« to C Henry Watterspn’s icratlc Moses in Col. J. But we thought Col. »" vrof< 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. IVatterson's mstache and keep » si iff Ron hlrd i failed tion. Triton However, a third he has lomlna- th* 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. INDISTINCT PRINT “I