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and shapely or of the elephantine pro- ! GREATEST OF ALL WARS, | public and the biggest empire the
portion* of those found In Chicago, j The habit that obtained, up to a re- j world ever knew. Mark and Kdward
Hut the omission is Immaterial, for I cent date, especially in the South, of I are jovial peacemakers, as well as as-
they are as likely to have been the j dating- events from the great Civil War^tute diplomatists. While Mark has t!,e j t ; ne -> aa d brings forward some facts
After; or War Between the States, has been j King's ear. it will be perfectly safe fo' -! and flg ures which on the surface seem
f, Teddy’ to give the whole army and
■MY LADY NICOTINE. 1
A writer in the July Scrap IBook
pays his respects to “My Lady Nico
tine,” and
MORNING |Chicago variety as any other.
all. Cupid is blind—or so said the wise | regarded and treated as something
ancients—and It is therefore nothing! a joke. The generation that lived j navy
wonderful that his arrows should fall | through that tremendous cataclysm |
CLB. PENDLETON,'PwBident
ON dietany reform.
Savanna** Press Isnonverted
to the benefit 1 <*
breakfast In fact, if says it is
better to begin tho d*r with an
fgpty atomecli." It appears
the oato plan of HMI’W t:e meat
tsu f t.—- M a oop We&ajh.
lfa a way *° th * * 1 ®* t
tmmt. fa* -iMiMP- VRt or any
other trust. The Fletcher system
P kheWtSK toot Is alee coming into
, In Hen T4p<k NtHi. The pa-
0 are igairiw Sunday supple
ments abbot dietary reform.—Sa-
sgbuHtl* Press,
nviranspset our Sawmagah contempo-
rmog ia '‘off Me f^ed” and in thU event
0,0 maggeet <the cultivation of a cheerful
(inin~ ~* "“•* and a reliance on nature
to sfSssri a lymyry. Tnrosr the Sun-
ay eupjflroufoto'twtth their theories of
•Kgtaay amfsmt 1 * tp tfke dogs. Get out
tmi do a day's hard work—the sort
High meVni man orbpy eat well, sleep
nail mJ jive well—and mark the trans-
fnsieis tlnn freni a qyzn seeking an ex
cun to dodge the breakfast table to
one whose nostrils sniff with the pris
ed pleasures pf youth the kitchen aro
mas of coffee, dried ham and eggs,
spring chicken and such, with a feeling
of an limited capacity for consuming
tha same. Reform the stomach and
the diet will take care oMtsalf. When
ever- one comes to . realise that a good
breakfast Is a burden to him let him
be sure the trouble Is not -with the
breakfast. And when, he begins to
consider the comparative advantages
of chewing and of bolting his food he
may rest satisfied the trouble is al
ready brewing. Who with a healthy,
able-bodied appetite ever thinks to
take note of how he eats? Whether he
ohewft like Fletcher or bolts his meat
as Dr. Wiley odvlac*. the result
to the dyspepMo is nightmare.
Like Gladstone, he may count his
thirty-two chews to th# morsel if
•he wants to, but by that act
the Incipient dyspeptic stands Infallibly
self-confessed. And whether he goes
to the breakfast table or avoids It, un
der the wisdom Just revealed to him
through the French Idea that break
fast is a superfluous function, the hal
cyon period of uninterrupted Epicurean
Joys has gone, never to return, per
haps. in its original freshness and
vigor. Still, there are methods of coax
ing back a coy appetite to something
of its younger Joys, but it Is not In
studying Sunday supplements. Rather
get away from them for awhile. If you
can. contemporary. Cut the newspa
pers out for ft time. Get out of the rut
and back to nature for a brief com
munion. She has a balm for sore
stomachs as well as diseased minds. Go
back to the old farm. Bring up the
moss-covered bucket and put your
mouth to its cooling brim. Go to the
orchard and gather fruit for dinner.
Plow or hoe a row. Rob the ibees of
their honey. Take a tramp through
the woods with yeur gun. If one re
turns from such intercourse without
renewed interest in the joys and aro
mas of the breakfast table he may well
fear he has reached the stage of lean
and slippered pantaloon, sans teeth,
sans smell, sans taste, sans everything.
to give
furlough.’
at random, causing often the most as
tonishing results.
GOVERNOR TERRELL’8 MESSAGE
Governor Joseph M. Terrell’s admln-| not
latratlon of the affairs of Georgia has"
been an eminently practical and com
mon sense one and his last message
read to. the two houses of the General
Assembly yesterday is in keeping with
the course-or his official career. The
first paragraph sums up In simple and
direct language the story of his ad
ministration. He says:
It is my happy privilege in this, my
last meeeaga, to be able to congratu
late you, as I have your predecessors,
on the prosperity of the State and the
contentment of our people. Providence
has blessed us. Our laws are just.
The knowledge that person and prop
erty are secure has helped to enhance
values and stimulate new enterprises-
Georgia has a low tax rate, and her
oredit is high. Voluntary raturna of
the taxpayers continue te swell the
digest and make easy the gathering of
funds needed for the expenses of Gov
ernment; nor has this led to extrava
gance, for the State departments and
public institutions, though wall sup
ported, have been economically admin
istered, and the people have not been
burdened with heavy taxation.
Such Is the eloquent story of ft peo
ple democratically—not too muchly
but well and wisely—governed. The
people are prosperous, not heavily
taxed, contented and Sappy. It will be
well for Georgia if her future Gover
nors unbrokenly shard the good for
tune and happiness of Governor Ter
rell In being able to say as much when
they come each in his turn to lay down
the office.
THE ARROWS OF THE BLIND GOD.
We have heard somewhere of a sus
©ejrtlble gentleman who was “alatn by
a maiden's eyebrow”—possibly one of
the young sparks of Verona who con
sorted with Romeo—but not until Dr.
G. Stanley Hall discussed the subject
before the gaping students of Clark
University, in Massachusetts, was it
made plain how great Is the power of
a single item of the feminine make-up
to stir and subdue the heart of adoring
man.
Dr. Hall Is a professor of psychology
and ho bethought him to summon sta
tistics to his aid in the effort to de
cide what attributes or physical char
acteristics most attract a man to a
maid. He aproached a large number
of young lovers in order to ascertain
What in each ease have awakened the
tender passion. "Hundreds of replies
to his questions," reads an account,
“after being duly analysed, classified
and weighted, haws been subjected to
study In the light of cold reason. What
oftonest makes a man fall in love?
The statistics collected by the profes
sor of psychology show that various
factors operate, but the onuses of love,
fa the order of their potency, are these:
Byes, hair, alas or statute, feet, brows,
oom pi exion, cheeks, form of head,
threat, eara chin, hands, neck. nose,
finger aatls and contour of faoe. One
FIRE PREVENTION.
Since the great conflagration at San
Francisco a number of engineers and
construction experts have become en
gaged in a movement that approaches
a crusade against lax building methods
Investigations and tests have aOiown
that really fireproof buildings are very
rare, and that many which are labelled
fireproof. In large letters, are not so at
all. The consensus of expert opinion
seems to be that the remedy lies In
strict and strictly enforcing building
laws. In other words, do not trust to
putting out fire, but remove the pos
slbllity.
The United. States Geological Survey
has received reports from three emi
nent engineers who made an exhaust
ive study of the condition of buildings
after the fire In San Ffanclsco. These
engineers are Professor Frank Soule,
dean of the College of Civil Engineer
ing In the University of California;
Capt. John Stephen Sewell, of ithe
corps of engineers. United States
army; and Mr. Riohard L. Humphrey,
expert In charge of the structural ma
terials division of the technical branch
of the Geological survey and secretary
of the national advisory board on fuels
and structural materials. "They reach
the conclusion,” remarks the Engineer
ing Record, "that the lessons from the
Chicago and Baltimore fires have not
yet been learned, and that a great con
flagration, with Its attendant loss of
life and millions of dollars In property,
is possible in every big olty in the
country.”
Mr. Humphrey says In his report
that the defects of construction so
strongly condemned in San Francisco
"are no worse than those generally
practiced throughout the United
States." The cause of this, according
to the reports, le the short-sightedness
of builders, who, seeking; a large im
mediate return on investment, refuse
to pay for good construction. Fire
statietice in this country, it is pointed
out, show the false eoonomy in cheap
construction. If Individuals will not
cease to put up unburnable buildings,
say the experts, it 1s the duty of com
munities to do ao by law.
In his report Capt. John Stephen
Sewell says: “A conflagration never
yields comparative results, but from
such results as are available I think
that there ia no question that the best
fire-resisting material at the present
time Is the right kind of burned clay.”
This view Is shared, apparently, by
the foremost building experts. The
steel frames of the largest and highest
structures under way In New Tork
and other cities are being protected by
hollow terra cotta blocks, burned clay
products which keep the heat away
from the steel columns and girders
which they surround.
The general conclusions of the three
experts may be summed up in "Mr.
Humphrey’s words: "The only sure
way to remedy grave de'fects of this I
character is to enact strict building!
and the one that came up immediately
after it was disposed frequently to
grow tired of hearing of the war, and
those that have succeeded are perhaps
unnaturally Inclined to under
estimate the proportions of the con
flict-when looking upon the thin gray
or blue lines at the annual reunions of
the veterans which represent the frag
ments of the unequalled hosts on either
side that once were marshalled against;
each other. But that It was a conflict I
that for once and for all established!
the fighting mettle of the American |
people and made a repetition of civil.
war among U6 impossible, we trust, is
to be Inferred from the verdict now i
historically rendered that It was "the j
greatest single continuous war of
which history gives any account." An- j
swerlng the query of “A Reader.” the j
New Tork American makes this asser- ,
tion, we doubt not, with entire justice j
and truth. The American says: "In
the Civil War a million of men died !
on the battlefield, from wounds and |
from disease—about 600,000 on the
Union side and 400,000 on the Confed
erate. The total cost of the war, North
and South, including the value of the
slaves, the destruction of property and
the loss from the vocations of agricul
ture and trade, was. approximately,
$10,000,000,000.” The destruction of
life and property in this war has been
exceeded only by the marvelous
changes that have resulted from It but
it will no longer seem strange to any
one who reads the' facts in cold print
that a people should have been dis
posed tx> date all things from a con
flict that cost one million lives and ten
billion dollars of property.
startling.
Next to the excessive use of spiritu-
j ous liquors probably the most harm
comes from the excessive use of the
THE SAME OLD STORY.
Miss Julia Marlowe's experience
; England has In one particular been| tobacco f ,ant ln lts various forms,
similar to that of most Americans of j
• education and refinement. Sooner or|
• later, such an American is always told
•that he might readily be mistaken for
Jan Englishman, and he is unmistaka- >bacc0 bil1 ’ annuall y- is double that of
Ibly expected to consider himself highly! our blU , for bublIc education or for all
j flattered. As Miss Marlowe puts It,
According to this writer, the people
i of the United States spend twelve
, ; times as much cash as they spend on
the ministers of the Gospel. Our to-
| the furniture In our houses.
We pay out more money for the fra-
Every time
“about the highest praise an English
man can And to give an American jJ grant weed than for sugar.
to say that he Is not the least bit. like; s P end 10 celUs for bread > ' ve * and
over 4 cents for tobacco.
GUSH-MUSH-SQUSH.
John Temple Graves makes It
very plain that he Is the only man
in the country who enjoys real In
timate relations with the Prosi-
denL—PhiladelDhia Press.
We need not wonder at such sarcas
tic observations’ in Republican news
papers when “specials" are racing over
the wireB from the county seat of Ful
ton similar to the following clipped
from the New Tork Sun:
ATLANTA', June 23.—There Is a
persistent report among politicians
here the.t on Georgia day at the
Jamestown Exposition President
Roosevelt said:
“If I could be positively assured
of the electoral vote of a single
Southern State I would gladly be a
candidate for the Presidency next
year.”
Mr. Roosevelt made his declara
tion, according to reports, to John
Temple Graves, following the wave
of good feeling attendant upon the
dedication of the Georgia building,
which Is a replica of the home of
the President’s mother at Roswell.
Mr. Roosevelt was carried away
•with enthusiasm, and Georgians
who were present, among whom
were many well known politicians,
shared this enthusiasm. It was a
love feast: political issues and par
ty lines were forgot; each *«.n was
toasting the other, and all were
toasting the President.
Soon after this display of enthu
siasm John Temple Graves went
to President Roosevelt, It is said,
and urged him to run for another
term. Mr. Roosevelt, it Is said,
was moved by the plea, but re
called the promise made to the
public following his election In
1904. Then the President, it is re
ported, said that only one thing
would cause him to change his de
termination in this respect, that If
he could be assured positively of
of a single
an American." The distinguished ac
tress is quoted further:
One of the papers after our first .
performance over there said—al
most in these words: “They
meaning Mr. Sothern and myself)
certainly cannot be regarded as
Colonial."
I think the London Tribune went
still further and said: "They speak
the sort of English that went over
there in the Mayflower and has
stayed there since.”
'All her phrasing." said another
journal, “and her accents are ab
solutely un-American.”
Having said that we were not
Colonial, that our speech had come
over in the Mayflower and that we
were un-American, could they go
further in their praise?
The English are certainly tena
cious of their opinions, once gained.
That the American accent is a wild
and weird appendage of the aver
age American outfit is a clause of
their creed. We had some very
amusing experiences in relation to
this.
In our company absolutely the
only Individual who is not an An
glo-Saxon Is a Mr . Riker. who
speaks with a very slight German
accent, which Is really only an in
centive to make him strive even
harder than the rest of us to speak
correctly. He was, of course,
picked out by the reviews as the
man who had a distinctly Ameri
can accent.
We had one Englishman -with us.
not the haw haw type, but with a
very placid,- well bred voice. He.
too, was selected as an example of
“the strange difference between the
American intonation and our own.”
All this is very funny. For a people
whose empire Is almost world wide the
English are remarkably Insular, local
and narrow In their point of view and
prejudices. The peculiarity is more
marked among them than among other
branches of the English-speaking race,
but they do not stand alone in this
particular. Here in the United States
a similar tendency Is found among the
people of different sections. Slight va
riations of custom, forms of speech and
of accent in one locality are eagerly
pointed out by people of another who
are unconscious of their own colloqui
alisms and believe that they alone up
hold the standard of perfection. Such
is human nature—and human conceit.
the electoral vote
Southern State—if he could break
the solid South—he would be a
candidate tor a third term.
President Roosevelt spoke at
some length on the solid South, it
is said, and declared It should be
broken and that he would never
run again except he could be as
sured that his candidacy would
change the South from one way of
voting.
According to reports Graves as
sured Mr. Roosevelt that he could
carry Georgia and probably two or
three other Southern States, and it
is said that a promise was given to
the President to attempt to stam
pede Georgia at the proper time.
The foregoing is an interesting spec
imen <ot the gush-mush-sqush of pres
ent-day political sentimentality.
MARK TWAIN AND EDWARD VII.
American kings of finance appear to
look down on American men of letters,
classing them with mere expert sten
ographers. On the other hand, Amer
ican men of letters seem to look down
on their country’s kings of finance, re
garding them as of the same species
as predatory wild boars. The kings of
Europe who are bom In the purple are
evidently more appreciative of literary
genius, and are more kindly regarded
in turn.
It is said of Edward VII., King of
THE GEORGIA CENTRAL.
Touching the ■ rumor that the Cen
tral Railroad of Georgia has been, or
Is about to be, sold to the Baltimore
and Ohio, or some other corporation or
company, the Atlanta Constitution
makes the editorial suggestion that it
be offered to Georgia, or that Geor
gians offer to buy it, and hold it apart
from the great through lines of the
country.
The Telegraph has no information
about the reported deal except that
which the newsgatherers in New Tork
have sent out Whether the road has
changed hands,' or Is likely to change
hands, we do not know; nor have wo
been able to find out. The New Tork
rumors are the extent of our informa
tion.
But if the Central is on the market
we presume that the highest and best
bidder, in the order or things, will get
it. If the Constitution will organize a
Georgia company with sufficient cap
ital and bid for the property (if it is
for sale) it may or may not get it—we
do not know. The presumption is that
if a Georgia company makes the big
gest and best bid, it will get it. Talk
is cheap, but buying railroad proper
ties come high. The thing to do, if
enough Georgia capital can be brought
together for that purpose, is to organ
ise and go after the property. It will
not do to assume in. advance that a
Georgia company will not have a
chance at it—if the property is really
for sale. If Georgians with capital
want to make the investment let them
go after it, as we have said.
But capital Is cautious in Georgia, as
It is elsewhere. The men with money
will want to know whether it will be
a good investment to buy the property,
and then Isolate It, cut it out from
and cease to make It a part of the
great through lines of the country. As
a local road wlli it pay as well as if it
were a part of the great through trunk
lines of the country? These arc con-
Ali the gold coined in this country
last year would fall short of covering
our smoking account by nearly $100,-
000,000. fer we spend yearly for cigars,
cigarettes, smoking and chewing to
bacco. and snuff more than $300,000,000.
The money paid by Americans for
smoking equals the amount paid for
shoes for our 80,000,000 inhabitants.
Smokers burn up an equivalent In cur
rency 150 times the sum burned in
fireworks. The vast fortune that we
swap for tho comfort of smoking,
chewing and snuffing would build
thirty great structures like the Na
tional Capitol at Washington.
Each year we smoke nearly 8,000.-
000,000 cigars, cheroots, stogies and
all-tobacco cigarettes, 3,500,000 cigar
ettes with paper wrappers, and con
sume 300,000,000 pounds of smoking
and chewing tobacco and snuff.
Every day we smoke 22,000,000 cigars
and 10,000,000 cigarettes, and either
smoke or chew 500 tons of tobacco, all
of which costs $800,000. Every minute
of the sixteen hours a day that we are
awake we make ourselves poorer by
$800—for 23,000 cigars, 10,000 cigarettes
and half a too of plug and fine cut.
It is estimated that there are 13,000,
000 devotees of the weed, or about as
many smokerB as voters. This esti
mate is based on the assumption that
one person in each six of our popula
tion is a puffer of smoke,
i- When the bill for $300,000,000 Is dl
vided among 13,000.000 smokers, the
■smoking habit doesn’t look so purse-
breaking, after all. For the amoun
spent by each smoker is only about
$23 each year, or less than 50 cents
week. And yet the yearly sum lav
iahed on this narcotic herb by any one
of thousands of men would build
comfortable country house and support
a bed in a hospital besides.
Eight .billion cigars a year! Could
man smoke fifty cigars a day, he would
have to live more than 400.000 years to
consume all the cigars smoked by the
nation in twelve months.
In length, cigars average four and a
half inches. Laid end to end the 8.000,-
000,000 would make a brown streak
little short of 570,000 miles. Cut in
half and made Into two perfectos or
panatellas, the man of earth could,
from either of his two cigars, blow
smoke directly into the face of the man
in the moon. Placed end to end in 160
parallel rows they would floor a bridge
across the Atlantic from New Tork to
Liverpool, and floor it tightly, too.
And yet, abuse it as much as many
will, we are not of those who contend
that the use of tobacco Is wholly harm
ful. Scientists, so called, disagree
about It, just as they do about the
effect of the moderate use of alcohol.
A peculiar thing about the fragrant
weed is that, according to the best au
thorities, it is claimed as an original,
or indigenous product by nearly every
country in the world. It seems to have
appeared as a new plant nearly at the
ame time on all parts of the globe.
It grows in the frigid north and in the
torrid regions about the equator, and
all along between, going also in the
direction of the south pole.
There are crusaders against the use
of the weed, but the tobacco habit will
likely be with us yet awhile. We may
not understand fully why, but there
is something In the make-up of the hu
man frame which calls for it, and It
serrations made by him after his visit
to royalty shows him to be anything
but in his dotage. Speaking of his re
ception he said:
I think it is no exaggeration to
say that the Queen looks as young
and beautiful as she did thirty-
five years ago, when I saw her
first. I didn’t say this to her. be
cause I learned long ago never to
say an obvious thing, but to leaver
an obvious thing to commonplace
and inexperienced people to say.
That she still looks to me ns
young and beautiful as she looked
thirty-five years ago is good evi
dence that ten thousand people
already have noticed this and have
mentioned it to her. I could have
said it and spoken the truth, but I
have been' too wise for that. I have
kept the remark untittered and that
has saved her majesty the vexation
of hearing it for the ten thousand
and oneth time.
All that report about my propo
sal to buy Windsor Castle and„its
grounds is a false rumor—I started
it myself.
Nothing senile in this brand of phil
osophy and wit. Spanking of his inter
view with King Edward Mr. Clemens
(or Twain) said:
His majesty was very courteous.
In the course of the conversation I
reminded him of an episode sixteen
years ago. when I had the honor to
. walk a mile with him when ho was
taking the waters at Homburg.
I said I had often told about that
episode, and that whenever I was
the historian I made good history
of it, and It was worth listening
to. but that it had found its way
into print once or twice in unau-
thentic ways, and had been badly
damaged there. I added that I
should like to go on repeating this
history, but that I should be quite
fair, and reasonably honest, and
while I should probably never tell
the story twice in the same way,
I should at least never allow it to
deteriorate at my hands.
His majesty intimated his wil
lingness that T should continue to
disseminate that piece of history,
and added a compliment, saying
that he knew good and sound his
tory would not suffer at my hands,
and that If this good and sound
history needed any improvements
beyond the facts he would Intrust
me to furnish those * embellish
ments.
It requires royalty of wit as well as
of manners to sustain and carry off
There are no more “competitive
points." There are no more cutting of
rates. There is a juster uniformity.
The noise then about competing lines.!
is very largely talk only. There is no
competition because it is practically
forbidden by law. This fact was evi
dently In President Hanson’s mind
when he said in these columns yester
day feat the relationship between the
Southern and the Central had never
cost the people of Georgia one dollar.
The State fixed the rate on both lines
for State transportation. Under the
new national law the Interstate Com
merce Commission will fix the rates for
interstate shipments.
I Tho agitation, in Georgia was very
I largely a piece of political design, and
yet there seems to have been a techni
cal violation of law. notwithstanding
j the opinion of Hoke Smith and other
! lawyers, and we think that it was a
j wise step to cut the thing oft at the
neck by making a sale of the stock to
j other and Independent parties.
SCHLEY WOULD RATHER BE
LOVED THAN PRESIDENT.
Admiral Schley would have made a
successful gambler. He knows how to
play a good hand for all it is worth
and to jump the game when he Is on
• “velvet." He demonstrated the first
j mentioned qualification on the occa-sion
that he caught Cervera and Ills fleet
| off their base down at Santiago, when
J Sampson was off chasing the horizon,
and the lal or qualification is lllus-
j trated in his reply to an admirer who
proposed to bring him forward as an
’ideal Democratic candidate for the
(Presidency. After thanking ills friend,
(Admiral Schlev said: “Rut I may say
Gov. Terrell's
Last Message
The last four years, as shown by tho
■ voluntary returns of tho citizens, have,
I >o trting an occasion with such easy| been the most prosperous years within
| and graceful commonplace.
THE 3AlE OF THE CENTRAL.
The sale iff the Central Road puts an
end to the agitation In regard to the
legality of the late ownership of that
splendid property, as held by the Rich
mond Terminal Reorganization Com
mittee. Although a number of lawyers,
and among them the incoming Gover
nor of Georgia, have held that the ar
rangement by and through the Rich
mond committee did not violate the
Constitution of Georgia, President
Hanson was anxious to remove all
doubt and have it conform, as he said I ovcr $40,000,000 per annum.
_ : markable increase was not confined to
to The TelegrapM, to the spirit as well j any one class of property, but to all
as the letter of the law, inasmuch as classes, as will appear from the fol-
., , . . , lowing figures taken from the report
the matter had become more of a pa- of th | Comptroller General, showing
lltical Issue than a business eonsldera- j the valuation of a number of tho
tion. He has been devoting his ener- I 01 r "‘ 0 P ert £ ) : l j„ 1906
gies for some months to the work of I Lands $l24.799.f>is $159,455,040
Manufacturing ... 23,494.373 29.S17.251
the State’s history. Credit for this
condition is due to no one man. nor to
any one body of men. Our entire
country In tho main has been pros
perous. and that which has made
Georgia forge ahead of other States Is
attributable more largely to her splen
did citizenship than to any other
cauije. The fact that no legislation
was enacted during the last five ses
sions of the General Assembly that had
a tendency to retard the advance of
that prosperity Is a record of which
your predecessors may feel justly
proud. In 1902 the taxable values of
the State as returned to the Comptrol
ler General and tax receivers were
$407,310,646, and in 1906 they were
$627,631,539, an Increase of $160,220,893
for the four years, or an average of
The re
consummating the deal. He found
very great indisposition to invest now
in railroad properties, but eventually
the deal was landed.
Waving all questions as to the Iagil-
ity of the holding of the Central Rail
road stock, the President realized that
it ’would be best to clear up all doubt,
and remove as far as possible this great
and splendid piece of Georgia property
from the influence of political agita
tions in this State. While Hon. Hoke
Smith made what may fairly be termed
a.vigorous anti-railroad campaign In
Georgia last year. It will be recalled
that he never attacked the legality of
the holding of the Central’s stock'by
the Richmond Committee, but there
were others who did, and repeated pubic
threats have been made to precipitate
a campaign for the repeal of the Cen
tral’s charter. To avoid further fric
tion, confusion and injury to the prop
erty, he devoted his splendid energies
and business sagacity to bringing
about this change in ownership. The
Telegraph does not take any stock in
some flippant newspaper talk about Its
being all “a huge joke,” and a “new
evasion:” The sale we believe to be
entirely genuine, and for the best busi
ness reasons. The Gentral has suffered
from agitation in this State, and as
prudent business men those who have
Great Britain. Emperor of India, and
ruler of one-fourth the population of! slderations to be taken under advise-
lover ta enraptured xrHb the eoulfu!
dree of his Bttaa Janes, aaothsr with | Uw " wh,oh wln °° mpe! ‘ n observance
Karr AM's fluffy hair, a third wlth| of the eMentlale for ^proof
eUMB’s cheek* and so on
con-
• truetion."
through the whole Hat of feminine
charms. While beautiful eyes make
the most victims, they are not accord- J
A Kentucky admirer of Mr. Bryan
says he Is a man of destiny. There Is
no doubt of this. Mr. Bryan Is mount-
teg to Dr. Hall’s statistic#. Invariably L d on tha 8h .« kler8 ot the Democratic
the victors, but are at times Ignored In p, rty ai flrmIy aa tbe .. ola Man ot th .
Caver of the hair, feet chin,, nose and j ev< . r wa8 on tta back of “Stnbad.
the Sailor,” and he le destined to ride
it to death while he reape a fortune de
livering Chautauqua lectures on aca
demic politics from his comfortable
perch.
to
b
the finger nails. A low voice
often captivates, but some men fall in
love with a high one, and a liep has
been known to touch the heart.”
The most remarkable ot the state
ments that Dr. Hall U alleged to have
made ia that "feet” are among the
single objects that have been known
to Inspire love. It would be interest
ing to know whether these were small
Mark Twain is evidently bent on
realizing tbe boast of-eld Jack Fhlstaff
that he was not only witty In himself
but the cause that wit .was in
the globe, that he "enjoys the distinc
tion” of being an old acquaintance of
Mark Twain, “with whom he cultivates
that rarity of palaces—a jolly laugh."
In one of ihis books of travel In Eu
rope. relates the Baltimore Bun, “Mark
complained of the slight Albert Ed
ward had put upon him once in Lon-
ment.
Through tickets, through freight
bills, through checks are a great mod
ern convenience. In fact & present ne
cessity. Just as the short local lines
of forty, fifty and sixty years ago suc
ceeded the old stage lines, so the great
through trunk lines have succeeded
charge of the administration of its af-
may be that its use staves of some • f a j rs naturally desire to remove as far
greater vice. j as possible all cause for friction and
further disturbance.
don by passing him by without stop- j the short local lines. Fight as we may
ping for a friendly chat. Borne years (over freight and passenger rates, we
ago at Homburg, the Prince, on meet-: do not think that the country is ready
lng the author of the ’Jumping Frog,’ I to go back to detached local lines, and
sought to make amends, asking about i as we understand it. that is what the
MARK TWAIN HOBNOB8 WITH
ROYALTY.
Mark Twain Is truly wonderful at
his age, having passed Pier 70. To
read of his antics in cold print one is
disposed at first 'blush to believe the
perennial humorist in his dotage. What
ordinary celebrity in his senses,
thoughtful of his reputation for sanity,
would think of visiting the houses of
Congress In white flannels (or was It
duck?) on a winter’s day when a bliz
zard was raging, or of emerging from |
his hotel in London in bathing cos
tume like a society fairy on a board
walk at the sea beach? The man is
either become the disembodied spirit
of fun or he is a lunatic. Which?
That it Is not the latter is completely
demonstrated by the world renowned
humorist'B Intercourse with royalty at
the King's garden party. How deftly
snd masterfully he hobnobs with the
crowned heads and not only puts them
but keeps them at ease. The average
snob would have racked his brains for
city
122.672 195 154.775,636
• 2.S36 37.520.245
2.138 24,397,965
16.C11.652
24.104.341
20.S92.505
33.467.2.40
56.893,466 90.S32.1S7
Having done what has been loudly
demanded of them—having settled all
questions of proprietary relationship
with the Southern—it smacks of In
sincerity now -for certain ones
wiho made the loudest outcries against
the former conditions to Insist that
there has been no sale. It looks really
as if they are disappointed, and are
very sorry that the sale has been
made, because it removes a bone of
contention which they delight to
gnaw on.
We have left—after one Ideal and
then another has been smashed,
some confidence in the honesty
and sincerity of men in the world
of business; but we have left precious
little confidence In. or respect for. a
certain class of politicians who live
to agitate, and who agitate to live.
What great pickings there would be !f
the Ceneral could be wrecked again
and divided out to the eagles!
Now let us be Just. For a moment
the circumstances of the unintended j Constitution proposes: and this being j some new form in which to express j let us forget politics, prejudice and
slight. Mark explained that at thei«o, our own local capital is not likely trite flattery of their royalties. Not so j preconceived opinions. The fight
time tbe thing occurred the Prince to make a venture in that direction.! Twain. He at once assumed to be the j against the Central and the Southern
wa* in a carriage and he himself on: But if our Atlanta contemporary can
top of a penny 'bus, so that he oould! induce them to do so let them under
afford to overlook the whole matter, take it.
His graciousness won Albert Edward’s
gratitude and frlendahip. It ia aaid, to
sudh an extent that—now that Edward
la King—Mark 1a persona gratis*! ma
at Windsor, and while sipping the
Our own State road—built and
owned by the State—owned by the
people—is not operated by them. No
proposition for them to run it, except
under lease to some railroad corpora-
royal champagne earnests anew the j tion, has ever been entertained since
amicable relations—of the greatest re-; the wax between the States,
center of attraction, with the freedom! in this State has been made in the
of the jester* of old and by the sover-j name and in behalf of competition,
eign right of humor. The King laughed j But Is it not true that competition is a
heartily at his jokes and the Queen j thing of the past, made so by our State
was much amused when he gravely! Railroad Commission and. our National
asked if he could buy Windsor Castle I Railroad Commission? Do not these
from her majesty. As an illustration
of Twain's tact and choice of foolish
governmental bodies now fix the rates?
Isn't It the present policy of the State
thing* to Bay. since some must .be said | and National Governments to make a
'^ut such occasions, tbe followiag ob- i dead level of uniformity in rates!,
Town
property
Horses and cattle
Banking capital....
Household furni
ture. etc
Merchandise
Railroad, telegraph
and telephone
companies, etc...
The largest percentage of increase
appears in railroad property and
banking capital. The former is due
largely to the franchise tax law of
December 17, 1902, and the latter to
the great number of new banks es
tablished in every section of the
state.
With this growth of the property
interests of the people there came a
corresponding enlargement of the de
mands upon our public Institutions.
Notwithstanding these demands were
fully met by increased appropriations
for maintenance and new buildings,
the tax rate has been reduced from
$5.30 on the thousand in 1902 to $4.SO
in 1006.
The returns for 1907 will not be
fully completed for more than a
month, but after conference with the
Comptroller-General, who is In re
ceipt of advices from various sections
of the state, enabling him to make a
comparison of the returns with those
of 1906. I feel sure that the Increase
for 1907 will be fully as much as $40.-
000.000, the average for the last four
years.
The Governor deals at length with
state finances taxation, agricultural
chools high schools, educational in-
titutions. public Institutions, the of
ficial reports and various other sub
jects and concludes ns follows:
Laws Enacted,
I deem it not Inappropriate in thi*.
my last message, to express my appre
ciation of the fact that your prede
cessors. in response to recommenda
tions made in my previous messages,
have enacted, among others, laws to
tax the franchise of railroads, to
limit the rate of taxation on property
constitutlonal amendment, to levy
a specific tax on business corpora
tions. to provide a better system of
local taxation for common schools, ex-,
tending the same by constitutional
amendment to militia districts: for
the relief of the Supreme Court In
the creation of the Court of Appeals:
to create nine new counties: to de
velop the Agricultural College of the
University of Georgia, by the appro
priation of *100.000 for buildings and
equipment, and to establish on Agri
cultural and Industrial High School
in each congresional district of the
slate.
In addition to the ordinary subjects
of legislation which have heretofore
received the attention of the Genera?
Assembly, your immediate predeces
sors passed a number of important
Statutes intended to benefit and safe
guard the public. These acts seem to
have given general satisfaction to the
people, .and ther eports so far received
indicate that they are accomplishing
the -good results intended without
detriment to any legitimate right of
person or property.
Among Ihese laws are those which
protect the interests of the children
bv limiting the age at whleh they can
work in factories: those which guard
the poverty of the borrower from the
extortion of the lender; those Whleh
are intended to prevent adulteration
of food and medicine.
The law to prevent speculation in
futures promises the happiest results,
both to the individual and to the ^pub-
lic at large, for this statute protects
the speculator against himself and at
the same time retains Within tho
State thousands that once flowed into
the offers of foreign brokers without
returning anything of value. ,
For the confidence reposed in me by
the people of Georgia in twice electing
me to this high office, and for the cor
dial support Which they have given mo
during the many years in which I
have served my native State, I am
profoundly grateful.
J. M. TERRELL,
Governor,
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