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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELE GK APR Friday, June 28, 1907 /■ .. — THE RM TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE INC COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. OA. MACON TCLBOftAPH PUBLISH- 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, I mnTSTTNCT print