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THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY, 563 MULBERR'. STREET, MACON, GA. Tru C. R. PENDLETON, President THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA. Th« Telegraoh can be found on sal? •t the Kimball House and the Pied monl Hotel ir. Atlanta. GOV. SJMITH MILDLY FOR LOCAL OPTION. lUp to the time when the political Goths and Vandals overran and ab sorbed the Democratic party the na tional platforms of that organization uniformly declared against "sumptuary laws, which vex the citizen.” In the narrower field of State politics the Democratic platform in Georgia has for some years declared for local option—the right of each county or community to regulate for itself the question of the liquor traffic. The last S*"*™ 1 P’ ablIc - wh >’ sbould tbe com ' platform as promulgated was silent on W havc 10 mortgage Its property to BADLY MANAGED, TO SAY THE ; LEAST. The despatches say that the Atlantic t and Deposit Company has been; named as trustee to collect funds to be j raised by the Jamestown Exposition I Company on a call for the payment, of! the remaining 72 per cent uncollected i 'in exposition stock. The report says I "the trustee is empowered to receive all notes offered in payment of stock assessments and negotiate the same for' the raising of cash.” And further: "Of the call for the remaining 72 per cent uncollected on common stock. 12 per cent is made due Au gust 1, and 10 per cent on the first of each month until the whole has been paid, the last payment being due February 1. 1908. It is ex pected to raise at once $130,000 for exposition needs In this manner. •‘A committee has been named to . make a personal canvass for the ' collection of the additional assess ment on the exposition stock. Up to this time only 28 per cent of the entire common stock sub scription had been called for." New Elements In South Georgia COMPARISONS. * Editor of The Telegraph: As appli- ; J cabl.- to the proposed canal across the • Georgia hills connecting Georgia rivers j ! with the Mississippi river and all its \ • tributaries, fifty-three in number. 1 • | compare conditions In New York State 3 ■ with those In Georgia. | New York—Spuare miles of tern- i I tory, 47,000; Georgia, nearly 60,000. I j • Se ' v York weak in minerals as com- | immigration to the South, and par- i pared with Georgia. New York rivers; . and canals suspended for transportn- j l * c .H a . ,dy to Georgia, much has^ b.en tlon purposes by ice five months of !f aid ‘ n to ‘ be aabject. treating every year. Georgia water transports- j it entirely as an experiment or a por tion all the year New York iarlher! slbl e °r even probable benefit to tae | from the mines of the West than Gear- I «**•», Empire commonwealth of the ! gia from the great coal, iron and lime- «-°utniand. ■ , stone, and other mineral deposits cf i. -^ s a matter of fact, the matter of I Tennessee and Alabama. New York immigration to Georgia has been set- dependent entirely for coal upon other j t,ed f? r . 3 " rne > ears aad / bat ’ toa- a | States, Georgia with large deposits, way that leaves very little room for the Yet New York producing manufac- ! mosj skepmcal and the mostpessmi.stie tured products from mines and quar-i‘° find fault with the results obtained. ; pies of what the right kind of immi- ‘ gration is doing for Georgia. This is I no experiment but rather an absolute j 1 success which has been practically proved and leaves no room for discus- j ! sion or argument. In addition to the i ITEMS OF INTEREST The railroads of this country are said to use S4.000.000 ties per annum. The giants of Tierra del Fuego. the Commenting on this the Richmond Times-Dispatch says: “The statement that only 28 per cent of the entire common stock subscriptions has been called for comes as a surprise to the the direct question of prohibition, but it was afterwards claimed that a reso lution favoring prohibition was passed separately, and was lost in the shuffle of the closing scenes of the convention. The prohibitionists pretty generally supported the candidacy of Hoke Smith, but he did not discuss the mat ter of State prohibition in his cam paign speeches, so far as we are able to learn. It was pretty generally un derstood, however, that he favored the local option plan, and it is known now that he does, but that he will sign a State prohibition bill If it comes to him from the two houses. “UN SOBER THOUGHT ON THE WRITTEN LAW.” The "unwritten law” is not as popu lar with reflecting editors as it Is with emotional juries. There is sharp crit icism, even condemnation, in the com ments on the latest case. The Richmond Times-Dispatch de clares that it has no sympathy for Judge Loving’s act and finds that "one of the worst phases of the unwritten law is the doctrine of irresponsibility.” The Richmdnd News-Leader warns the public that "with the law as it stands life is unsafe, the law against murder is almost nullified, and the State is in the ignominious position of being una ble to protect her own citizens.” The Baltimore Sun submits that "our civ ilization lias outgrown tire ‘unwritten law,' ” and the Columbia State de scribes it as "at best a stain upon our civilization." The Charlotte Observer says that “Judge Loving was acquitted, as foreseen, but there are some victo ries as bad as defeat. His daughter is disgraced by her own testimony, tfnd the brand of Cain is upon him. We don’t know but what the fate of Estes is preferable to that of either of the survivors.” The Nashville American does not be lieve In Estes’ guilL Yet the dead man’s friends were unable to introduce any evidence to clear his name, the judge rigidly excluding all testimony tending to break down the story of the only witness for the defense. One un desirable result possibly to follow, in the view of the Philadelphia North American, is that “the girl who Is found out may be led to think that a harrowing tale, followed by a shooting, squares all accounts.” We may add that the assumption of the woman’s innocence ordinarily is justifiable, and is wholesome because it make? for the stability of society, but it.is dangerous as well as'unfair to go the length of excluding testimony tending to show the contrary. The old, old story of Joseph and the wife of obtain ready cash, when 72 per cent of the subscriptions to its common stock remains unpaid? The officers of the company owe it to the exposition, to the public and to the State of Virginia, which made a conditional appropria tion, to employ every expedient of law to enforce the collection of all unpaid subscriptions to its stock. The gen eral public will be satisfied with noth ing less.’’ We take it from this showing that of the individual subscriptions to the exposition made by the promoters and those most intimately and directly con cerned in its success only 28 per cent has been paid in. Meantime the expo sition has been operating chiefly on the public appropriations made to help out the private promoters and condi tioned necessarily on their first per forming their obligations, and the company is now reduced to mortgag ing the property to make up for the deficiencies in payment of the private subscriptions. If such are the conditions that exist the public will be forced to the con clusion that the Jamestown Exposition has been badly managed. Some peo ple may be tempted even to apply a severer term to it. ries of $493 000.000. against SH.000 - 000 for Georgia, against $873,000,000 for Pennsylvania by far the richest in mines and minerals of any State cf the North. New York, with far less ratural re sources than Pennsylvania, by far ex ceeding Pennsylvania in the total of her manufactures. Georgia, not only far richer in min erals of all kinds than New York, but also in agricultural resources, lumber of all kinds, with a veritable mine of gold in her cotton of which New York must import every pound, yet New York with the largest population of any State in the Union, with a total of manufactured products ten greater than that of Georgia. To what does New York owe its phenomenal prosperity in greater de gree than to any other cause? Thsre is but one answer, namelv to the wise foresight of DeWitt Clinton and* the people of New York in the construc tion of the Erie Canal. The reason why this is the only an swer is found in comparative statis tics within the State between canal and non-canal counties. The over whelming majority of population and wealth is in the 33 canal counties com pared with the 27 non-canal counties. Of cities, centres of industry, in ca nai counties with 7 per cent of the entire population of the State. 79 per cent of its local wealth, while cities in the non-canal counties contain but 3.3 per cent of such population but 7.9 per cent of such wealth. There are 36 counties in Georgia which would be upon the main stem of the canal. Inevitably a large number of other counties will be connected witn such canal as New York State by naviga ble rivers and canalized rivers, ulti mately no doubt as many as half the counties in the State. Cannot the people of Georgia re alize the vast importance of this ca nal in the future development of Geor gia, this canal which will be in use every day in the year against a closed season of five months upon the Erie Canal? Cannot the people of the cities and towns in the counties the canal will traverse, in the counties with which it will be connected, the seaport cities upon our Georgia coast see in the above* comparisons the ways to muni cipal greatness? C. P. GOODYEAR. A DIPLOMAT’S INDISCRETION. It is reported that certain alleged comments made by Ambassador Bryce the Oklahoma Constitution have given offense to the administration. While traveling in the West Mr. Bryce was asked for his opinion of the in strument named and is said to have commended it. This was an even greater mistake than to have criticized it, if it is true, as alleged, that Presi dent Roosevelt will be glad to find an excuse for a veto so as to keep Okla homa out of the Union until after the election next year. Mr. James Bryce, author of "The American Commonwealth,” Is a recog nized authority on our institutions and Government and his opinion of the Oklahoma Constitution would be inter esting and perhaps valuable. But he is now the British ambassador, and he can not afford to express himself on any subject of controversy between our political parties and give the weight of his opinion to the one side or the other. His tactical error, if he really committed it, is far less serious than that of Lord Saekville West in advising naturalized 'Englishmen to vote for Cleveland, or that of Depuy de Lome in criticizing McKinley in a letter that got into print—both of whom were given their passports—but it is important enough to cause annoy- Potiphar was not told in Holy Writ foriance at the White House. nothing. Above the level of the "under world” a like story is not often retold, but that its repetition is at least a possibility no judge or jury has a right to forget. SIDNEY LANIER. A brlll.ant and interesting little pub lication. Issued by the J. W. Burke The matter, may be less serious than is reported and, as is to be hoped, no action may he taken; but Mr. Bryce should learn a lesson. On account of his knowledge of and interest in Amer ican affairs he is incessantly called upon and he travels about delivering Bryan Organs at the South. From the New York Sun. A certain pathos attaches to the spectacle now presented by the Bryan organs at the South. In some vague way they seem to be aware that hostile forces are at work against their idol. In all parts of that section of the coun try sensible men and newspapers are beginning to propound unpleasant in terrogatories. One wants to know why the • Democracy should for the third time place itself under a fatal leader ship and ’embitter the sting of inevita ble defeat by espousing doctrines which the rounders of the party would have rejected with horror and indignation There are unmistakable evidences of a growing anti-Bryan tendency through out the South to take a second and more sober thought concerning the campaign of 1908. One hears men ask ing whether Bryan’s lien upon the Southern Democracy is perpetual, and If so, upon what grounds and under what convenant. The Bryan organs do not altogether relish this catechism, for they find the answers 'both difficult and unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, their at titude remains, and but for certain re cent manifestations of incoherence it would seem unchanged. The pathos grows more and more conspicuous, however, as the organs one by one take up the cry of conspir acy against Bryan,, hatched in Wall street and wickedly exploited by horde of subsidized emissaries. If any one thing connected with the Bryan obsession could be more preposterous than another, this feature of the com edy would receive the palm of easy ex cellence; but it is all so comical, so forlorn, so amusing and so piteous that the apprehensive mind is buffeted quite helplessly. Whether Bryan is more absurd than his devotees: whether his pretensions to prophetic and despotic domination are less offensive than ludi crous, and whether the oracle is greater humbug than its echoes and exponents—these are problems far be yond the ordinary grasp. But there can be no two opinions as to the mournful plight of the Bry organs, suddenly called upon to account for the attenuation of a once robust hysteria and finding themselves duced to the expedients of the dime novel and the opera bouffe. Offenbach himself would never have imagined a more uproarious conceit than that. He would, for example, have paid the tribute of his hopeless envy to the es teemed New Orleans Times-Democrat. which a week or so ago came stalkin down the stage with clenched hands and puckered-, eyebrows, hissing “Trea son!” And all because it had over- , . _ heard a whisper to the effect that the addresses with a frequencj which no g ou th would consult its interest as well former British ambassador has even j as its dignits - by throwing the Ne Company, is "Some Reminiscences and | remotely approximated. To continue | br ®f 1 X. p ™^?^_?Yf. rb °‘: l : d _^ nd J? this, especially as a Presidential cam Early Letters of Sidney Lanier,” by Professor George Herbert Clarke, with an introduction by Mr. Harry Stillwell Edwards. It i? neatly printed, hand somely hound, and illustrated. It is published under the auspices of theU 0 give Sidney Lanier chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and can be bought for twenty-five cents. Professor Clarke, since his retire ment from the chair of English at Mercer, has been contributing some Mercer, has been making some magazines of the country. This little work on Lanier is not the least, how ever, of his achievements. I ting the Democracy upon an even keel. There is reason to believe that the paign is only a year off. will he haz- 1 Bryan stupor will soon be lifted from c _ , . . i the Southern mind. Thinking men in ardous. Sooner or later so frequent, a that section have already begun to speaker will either fall into a trap or I ponder the possibilities of Federal own- make some unguarded utterance iikelv I ^ rsb *P I ?, ilr ?‘? d *|'. as advocated b J 1Ir - Bryan In hi? Madison Square address, offense at the White House, j and they now clearly see that the prop- Mr. Bryce, the publicist and historian, i osition contemplates a more abhorrent state of things than has yet been sug gested from any other quarter. They can imagine no more abnominabie ar- ' j rangement than that which would j officer the railway lines with colored Bsy. Zad H. Copp, of Washington.Men. Such a prospect may mean little win he obliged to. forget himself in Mr. Bryce, the ambassador. D. C., comes forward with the an nouncement that "hell is in the sun.” That would make hell a more benign influence than it Is gnerally supposed | or nothing at the North. It is a pros pect. however, which at the South sug gests immeasurable calamity: and when the Democrats of that section at la?: realize that it is their one-time idol who has demanded and would con A dispatch from Charlotte, Tenn., states that there is not a family in all that section with less than eight child ren and that many househr.lders count their offspring anywhere from twelve to eighteen in number. This arcadian spot will at once be cited in evidence of the glorious results of Mr. Roose velt's crusade. In spite of reminders from the scoffers that ten or fifteen children can not conveniently be pro duced in one family in the course of only three or four years. Mark Twain is something more than a humorist He is a widower faith ful to and reverent of the memory of hi* dead wif^.. ~ ^** to be—the untiring benefactor of the trlve this sinister adjustment, the only human race, in fact. Don't slander the| < * n $£^ on w ’ tb them will be that of the I swiftness and the violence of their re good old sun. I pudiation. In that day. now rapidly j approaching, how melancholy will be . ,, ! the predicament of the Bryan organs Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan says King j ivlrlctl just now as so loud in their con- Edward is "a very nice man, quite likej demnation of the dissenters! The ulti- other nice men.” The British people Will scarcely like to have their Edward put into the common herd of men” in such an abrupt and American manner. Those who die for their country on the Fourth of July are luckless patriots who pass from mortal view unhonored and unsung. mare significance of Government own ership I» already plying far and wide throughout the South, borne on the nice : wings of anxious and discerning con- 1 troversy. What win the organs do to save themselves when the whole story shall be pat on every tongue and the terror firmly lodged in every quickened heart? What is a Roosevelt Democrat?—Al bany Herald. A John Temple Graves. A Modern Heart. "Do you see that lady over there? She broke my cousin’s heart!” “Was she so cruel?" “No. but the day before he broke off his engagement to her she inherited 200 000 marks.”—Translated for Trans atlantic Tales from "Fliegende Blat ter.” - - • ^ There are several colonies in this State which have long proved a sure and practical success, while the many new comers who have been brought here under the direction of the Georgia Im migration Association, the steady, hard-working, law-abiding kind of workers who have proved their wil lingness to help develop the natural resources of the South, have done more to place the immigration movement in its true light than hundreds of columns of description and explanation could Of the several colonies of foreigners who have quickly become helpful, in dustrious and goodly citizens of Geor- tirres j Sia, that of Piriia, located in Crisp County, is a very fair example. The true history of this enterprising set tlement is made 'of one constant suc cession of successes, and ail this done in such a quiet, practical way and with no fuss or feathers that very few Georgians realize how wonderfully they have solved this much mooted question. And there are several other settlements equally as prosperous as Pinia. It is only about eight year? ago that two brothers, A. Hiebert and D. J. Hie- bert, came to south Georgia, looked upon the land and believed that it was good. The future more than realized their highest anticipations. They pur chased property to the amount of some 1.300 acres, paying an average price of $6.50 an acre. Thjs was the beginning of a settlement which began to grow in numbers and influence from the very first. It was in 1904 that P. W. Enns while visiting the World’s Fair at St. Louis, happened upon the fine. State exhibit of Georgia. So impressed was he at the wonderful richness and versatility of Georgia's natural products that he immediately decided upon a visit to this State. It was while making quite an extensive trip through south Geor gia that he visited Fitzgerald and Cor- dele, and finally decided upon the pur chase of a place at Pinia. Mr Enns next brought his family to Pinia. and from that time has been one of Geor gia’s progressive citizens. Not content with bringing members of his family, he conducted a volumi nous correspondence with friends and relatives. ‘By means of these letter^ he gave wide and personal publicity to the exceptional advantages existing in ar>d around Pinia. While some of these to whom he wsote were sceptical, several of them decided to make a trip and see for themselves before settling else where. Once they had closely exam ined into.Pinia’s opportunities, they be came equally enthusiastic, located as citizens and later brought their fami lies for the enlargement of the colony. In speaking of the history of thi? settlement, mention must be made of P. F. Funk, who purchased 700 acres, and P. H. Penner. who bought 100 acres. Both of these gentlemen played an active part in the development of this successful colony. Mr. Enns then devoted his attention to writing a number of articles for newspapers calling attention to the op portunities in Pinia and south Georgia, following the same general line of de scriptlon which he had pursued with such good results in his personal cor respondence. As a result of the enthusiasm and enterprise of these newcomers, there are a number of German families at this place that now own 2,155 acres of land. Of this large tract'a goodly por tion is under cultivation, and it is ab solutely certain that fully $25,000 in cold cash 'has been invested in Crisp County land. Among the many fami lies who now make their homes in this settlement there are a large number who have tried farming in foreign countries and other sections of this country, especially Ru?sia, Germany. North Dakota. Minnesota. Wisconsin, Kansas and Oklahoma, and all are ab solutely agreed that in no other sec tion do suefn opportunities exist or can such exceptional natural resources, be found as in south Georgia. Peter Dockweiier. a scientific farmer and one of the most prosperous and enterprising of iPinia’s citizens, states that he made over $500 by working only twenty-five acres and renting out twenty other acres. In this connection hot says that he performed all of the work on his own twenty-five' acres alone and that he raised oats, rye, eowpeas. hay, corn. Iris'll potatoes, sweet potatoes, groundpeas. sugar cane and many kinds of fruit. He has also made a nice Income from the raising of cows, chickens and hogs. He is con stantly improving his land, and reports that while he could secure $30 an acre for his land, he would not seil for less than $50 per acre. Mr. Enns. who owns the farm of 255 acres, renorts that eighty-six acres of this cultivated land brought $450 an acre, making a rental of $5.25 per acre. Mr. Enns also invested in land in Ok lahoma. 100 acres of which brought only $233. or $2.33 per acre. By figur ing the land at both acres at the same price of $30 an acre, the investment in Georgia land paid 17 per cent, while the investment in Oklahoma brought but little better than 7 per cent. Mr. Enns’ experiments along fruit lines are also certain to be profitably interesting. Devoting half an acre of his Pinia land to grapes these last years brought him a yield of 3.000 pounds of delicious fruit, acknowledged by experts to be almost equal to the California or Crimean grape. At an average price of 4 cents a pound, this half acre brought $120. Made into wine, this same crop would have paid from $200 to $300, or at an average rate of from $400 to $600 per acre. Mr. Enns and many of his neighbors are authority for this statement that money is easier made than from the cultivation of grapes. In addition to his vineyard Mr. Enns has sixty-four peach trees (coming three years old) which two years ago brought him 120 bushels of the very finest variety, which he readily sold at $1.20 per bushel. The report of Mr. Funk is in keeping with that of his other prosperous neighbors. From forty-five acres he netted $350. giving It out on halves. He insists that this never could havt? been accomplished in the West, where land now sells at from $50 to $75 per acre. Incidentally, he says he knows whereof he speaks from experience. Mr. Penner, one of the latest arrivals in the colony, is now working his sec ond crop in the South. Last year the heavy rains and many other setbacks had a tendency to rather discourage him. but when his crop was finally athered and he found himself $400 ahead he believed that for an off-year his returns were far better than from any other sections, and he has wide ex perience. THis year Mr. Penner is working fifty-five acres by himself. He does all the plowing and only hires* extra help for the chopping. He runs a two-horse- cultivator and a feeder, and with these tools he is able to keep the grass out of his fields and realize handsomely on his Investment. Theft are only a v prosperity of the'individual citizens of Ona Indians, are stunted in intellect. : Pinia this entire section of the State | The transparent glass ruler, an inno- has enhanced tremendously in value i vation, is of great assistance to drafts- and is now recognized as one of the | men in their work. Lucknow. India, boasts the largest room in the world without columns. It Is built of concrete. New York city pays $75 a year for the rats and mice that the reptiles of Bronx Zoological Park eat. At Fushima, Japan, there is a gold- lined well, affording abundant water supply to a garrisoned castle. Engineers say Victoria Falls could supply enough water power for all the needs of Rhodesia and the Transvaal. An equal division of the water used daily in New York city gives each in habitant forty-nine times his own weight. The Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, Mr. Rockefeller’s church, in New York city, is not nearly large enough to hold the people who desire to hear the new English pastor, the Rev. Dr. C. F. Aked. According to the Coroner’s records, asphyxiation is the favorite mode of suicide in New York city, there being an average of one suicide each three days, while there is about one in four days from shooting. With the recent discussion regarding I best In south Georgia. As for the social conditions which exist in this settlement, it would' hard ly be possible to improve them. All of these adopted Georgians are earnest, hard-working, law-abiding citizens and are universally respected by their neighbors. The family life is ideal. The children are in school and all of the citizens attend their own churches regularly. They are not only temper ate, but do not touch Hquor in any form. Besides this, in addition to being industrious, they are both progressive and enterprising. Already they have accomplished much in a practical way through the raising of diversified crops and the breeding of high class stock. Altogether it would be very difficult to recognize in the Pinia of this present day that same tract of land which was first purchased by the Hiebert brothers some eight years ago. A careful study of what has been done and the conditions which’ now ex ist in Pinia and other Georgia colonies is certain to convince the most scep tical and prejudiced of those who are opposed to the right kind of immigra tion. What has been accomplished also absolutely and directly disproves any reports to the effect that white im migrants do not receive the right kind of treatment jn Georgia and the South. In fact, these stories of mistreatment were long ago traced to the unscrupu- lou? reports and stories told by immi gration agents who were employed by Western land companies or State com missions who were endeavoring to at tract settlers to other sections of the country. Both President Gunby Jordan, of the Georgia Immigration Association, and ' Chairman John .A. Betjeman, - of the State executive committee, state that in the direction of Georgia immi gration only the very best of settlers and home seekers will be permitted to come inta this State. By restricting these newcomers to the sober, industrious, law-abiding, en terprising and progressive white peo ple. the Georgia Immigration Associa tion Is now bringing, and expects to bring, .such citizens as will develop the wonderful natural resources of Georgia and add to the general pros perity of the State by furnishing com petent and adequate labor to meet the constantly growing demands. Such is and has always been the mission of the association, and that the results will be both practical and beneficial have already been proved both by the Pinia and other Georgia colonies as well as hundreds of other individual who have sought to work out their own salvation in the many cities and sections of Georgia. With the Versifiers A SUMMER DAY. Now glides the day reluctant to the night Dreading his fond embrace and easel yet to stay. Flooding the distant hills with iridescent light: Threading the dreary wood with many ar golden ray. Lagging her step and ardent her desire: See now the glory of her parting smile! See how she sets the western clouds on fire. Sprinkling the lake with myriad gems’ the while! Peace to thee, day! And surcease of re gret! Go to thy rest beyond the distant hills. Soon shalt thou wake to greet the violet: Soon shalt return to banish night’s dread ills. By Laura IV. Sheldon, in the July Metro politan Magazine. A LAST SPREE. BACHELOR REFLECTIONS From the Ne\Y York Press. A girl hates to be kissed by a man unless he hasn’t the right to do it. The only sure way to cut down your living expenses is to go to jail. When a woman says a thing is hide ous she means it isn’t fashionable. Peeople don’t like champagne so much if there is nobody to see them drink it. When a girl imagines she is in love with a man it’s a sign she believes it more than if she really were. From the Now York Sun. I used to say that I have came. —_ And also that I done it. And I desire to warmly speak .. Regarding ma’s new bunneL -, I also mean to say it’s me. On any old occasion. And I will say Just what I shall Unheeding of persuasion. I would have went down town today. Although I hadn't orter, I haln't got no more to say. Here comes the college darter. The blissful phrases now I use Without a single stammer. The graduates will soon be home To knock the old man’s grammar. FAME. PROVERBS AND PHRASES TOPICS OF THE TIMES Congressman James Burke reports the Knox boom growing.—Wait till the green bug hits it.—New York World. Japan should understand that our intentions as well as the future sta tions of our battleships are pacific.— New York Mail. But after all didn’t that one cock tail show that Charlie, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, is a hu man being?—New York Sun. Mr. Riis has simply come to the con clusion that no man can be “the world’s most useful citizen” while ho is a widower.—Washington Post. Disarmament is' said to have been the topic of a lively conversation at Oyster Bay recently. Not of the Pres ident, however.—Washington Herald. There isn’t going , to be much peace in this cquntry until Carrie Nation buries the hatchet and the New York World finds out what is a Democrat.— Philadelphia Press. Maybe the British anthropologist who says that the human head is diminishing in size is only trying to perpetrate a Mark Twain joke on the London public.—New York Tribune. Education is a poor man’s haven.— Latin. By dint of going wrong all will come right.—French. A golden bit makes none the better horse.—Italian. Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.—Pope. Lies and gossip have a wretched off spring.—Danish. It is easy to stride a tree when It Is down.—Danish. A wise physician is more than armies to the public weal.—Pope. Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.—French. POINTED PARAGRAPHS From the ‘Chicago News. Vanity makes a lot of remunerative work for the beauty doctors. You never , really know your friends until they become your enemies. Many a convincing political speaker can’t even get a hearing at home. It takes a brave man to tell a wo man that her baby looks just like any other. A wise woman always lets herself get the worst of an argument with an egotist. Some men don’t mind getting it in the neck if their neighbors get it just as hard. Every man is entitled to a limited number of faults, but most, men exceed their limit. From the New York Sun. Before you strive for glory •*- As famous to revolve. Before you strive for laurel. This triple riddle solve: We hailed him as a leader. We dubbed him sage and great, But tell us who in thunder Was Bryan’s running mate? The ladies wept about him, The papers showed his face. But. pray, who was the hero Of last year's murder case? The almost central figure And keystone of the arch. Who was the happy bridegroom Of last year’s wedding march? THE OPINION OF SATAN. From the Atlanta Constitution. Satan come ter my house Sweet ez honeycomb. Holler down de chimbly: “Neighbor, is you 'home?” Den I up en answer, In a trim'bly way: “No. suh, ef you please, suh. Long time moved away!” Loud ez loud kin he ; “Wen it comes ter lyin’ You wos' ez good ez me!” Satan fell ter iaffin’ ADVICE. POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE Rev. Edward Twitchell Ware, just elected president of Atlanta Univer sity, is a son of the first president, Edmund Asa Ware. Prince Edward of Wales is, as a cadet of the Royal Naval College, mak ing his first cruise on the Eclipse, a British man-of-war. Rev. S. Baring-Gould. author of ‘Onward, Christian Soldier,” is 73 years of age, but straight and strong and a tree chopper for diversion. John Kendrick Bangs, the author, has forsaken New York and will here after make his home in Boston. He will spend his summers at Ogunquit, Me. The King of Siam has become Eu ropeanized in most respects, but he still maintains a large harem in a special “town.” to which no man but himself is ever admitted. F. Oliver, Minister of the Interior of Canada, accompanied by Mrs. Oliver and their two daughters, is in Wash ington spending a few days sight-see ing before going to the Jamestown Exposition. The Duke of Orleans, who has al ready explored hitherto unknown ter ritory at the extreme north of Green land,' has just left Christiania for fresh voyage to the polar seas on his stout little yacht, the Belgica. Victor Herbert, who has been com missioned by Oscar Hammerstein to write a grand opera with an American theme, is now at work on this theme, which will be founded on an Indian legend, at Lake Placid, N. Y. THE HUMORIST^ Bad Advice: “He complains that his wife refuses to listen to him.” “H should cultivate the habit of talking in his sleep.”—Houston Post. “The devil take these motors! If they go slowly I can’t run them in, and if they go fast I can’t see what their numbers are.”—Fliegende Blatter. Tourist: “And are there any ab sentee landlords in these parts of Ire land?” Car Driver: “Shure, yer anner, the country’s full o’ thim!”—Illustra ted Bits. Waiter: “The fish that the gentle man on the terrace has ordered smells a bit.” Proprietor: “Well, serve it to him when a motor car goes by.”— Meggendorfer Blaetter. Biobbs: “No. I never have any financial dealings with Bjones." Slobbs: "Always wants to borrow money, eh?” Biobbs: “Urn, no, not exactly: but he never has any t‘ lend.”—Philadelphia Record. “What was the most thrilling mo ment of your life?” “It occurred last night. I walked the floor with the baby for two hours, and, just as he had finally dropped off to sleep. I trod on a squeaky board.”—Cleveland Leader. Sir!” exclaimed the icy co-ed, after the kiss had been stolen, “how dare you! No man has ever kissed me be fore.” "Oh! that’s all right,” replied the nervy student. “Somebody had to break the ice.”—Wisconsin Sphinx. Sabbath School Teacher: “Where have you been lately, Sadie? I haven’t seen you at Sunday school for some time.” Sadie Smith: “Oh, please, miss, I’m learning French and music now, so mother doesn’t wish me to take region just yet.”-rSket£b. Some Tenures of Office. From the Washington Post. The public career of an American statesman is much shorter than that of the European. No American has yet served in Mvhat Is called the national councils—the Senate, the House and the cabinet—as long as 50 years. Few have gave 40 years to such labor. Indeed, it is an unusual distinction for a public man to have given 20 years to Congress. John T. Morgan was one of the four men who were six. times chosen to rep resent States in the Federal Senate. John Sherman, Justin S. Morrill and William R. Allison were the other three. George F. Edmunds entered the Senate in 1S6G, and had he elected to continue in that body he would be a member of it today. William E- Gladstore served in the Eng lish Commons more than 60 years; but he several times shifted lii.? constituency, be ginning with a “rotten borough.” Of all American statemen perhaps Ben Hill and Edward W. Carmack made most reputation when we take into account tile brevity of their Congressional careers. The weakness of our system lies in the fact that the public whim affords envy such opportunity to aim at shining marks. There are but three men in the present Senate who were members of tha body when Morgan entered it—Allison. Teller and Whyte. He became a Senator simul taneously with Garland. Beck. Hoar and Eustis. Voorliees came in a few months later. Morgan’s colleague in 1877 was a carpet-bagger. Conkling was the most conspicuous man in the body and the leader of the majority. Thurman led the minority. In-ails was just fairly launched on his brilliant career. Morton was just leaving the stage on which he played so great a part. Sherman resigned to go into the cabinet the day Morgan entered the Senate. Two Democrats were Sena tors from Connecticut. Vest and Vance came in two years later. Hale and Frye came in four years later. Blaine preceded Morgan a few months. William A. Wal lace. the rival of Samuel J. Randall, was a Democratic Senator from Pennsylva nia. Though John T. Morgan was S3 years of age when he first entered the Senate, he lived to witness a change in the entire personnel of that body save as to one in dividual—Mr. Allison. Teller left the Sen ate in 1882 to enter the cabinet, and there were many years between the nres- ent service of Whyte and his former. We do not believe that such .eomnara- tlveiy short tenures of political life in the two Houses of Congress are wholesome. Experience is the handmaid of talent, and genius itself makes profit out of it. The New England States and Towa appear to Baltimore News. Don’t say you’ve read tho page six months or so. Cut it out. Don’t say you fear wastebasket’s hungry glow, Cut it out. If the best that you can do Can’t withstand wastebasket’s view. Then the next best thing to do. Cut it out. V It you have to make excuses, . , Cut it out. I If you have to heap abuses, I I ’ » Cut it out. . ' ‘ » If vou want to write a letter And can’t think of nothing better, And if writing is a fetter. Cut it out. Don’t phone numbers and page friends galore. Cut it out. Don’t build air castles on newspaper shore. Cut it out. If you’ve nothing you might say Give the space you’d use away. Do not trifle or get gay. Cut it out. If you have a word or two that’s any 'good. Send it in. If a thing you know is really a brain food. Send it in. If you have a little gem. Or some thing as good as them. That the tide of thought might stem. Send it in. Just write a little verse or bit of prose. Send it in. If it’s worth the room is takes, in It_goes. Send it in. Do the very best you can. Write a little like a man. Something that can stand a seal., Send it in. So get together something that will pass. Send it in. And count yourself a member of the class— Come right in. Get together something quick. Something lively—something slick— In the page it’s sure to stick— — , Send it in. FRANCIS JOSEPH NOT AUTOCRATIC Marouise de Fontenoy in Washington Post. Emperor Francis Joseph has been subjected to a good deal of misrepre sentation in the foreign press in con nection with his sensational departure from Pestli last week, in the midst of the official celebration of the fortieth anniversary of his coronation as King of Hungary. The cable dispatches are right in ascribing his angry return to be ahour’aii^he^States'ieft’that'se'e'the j Vienna to a quarrel with the Magyar advantage there is in long tenure for j cabinet national public servants. i . . , Perhans Mor-an owed his six terms in | unjust, in the Senate to his practice of leaving se verely alone local politic? in Alabama. He never asked a vote for himself and never electioneered for another. Merit, pure merit, was his only capital. The first time you kissed her? Cap. You Remember? Men, think this over: Can you re member the first time you wore trousers? The first time you tried to smoke? The first girl you were in love with? The first pair of long pants you wore? The first dress suit you had on? The first dollar you earned? The first stiff hat you cfonned? The first time you proposed to a girl? The first time you were sent for milk and drank some on the way- home? The last time your daddy tanned your hide?”—North American Review. Grape Fruit. The popularity of grape fruit is a sign of the times that Invites consid eration, says the Boston Transcript. Three times a day in some households does it appear at table, so completely is its vogue. And no one is ever heard to say he is weary of it. Grape fruit holds its own, now that it has really come into its own, as not all fruits can. For besides the fine flavor of it it has certain properties, it is said, that make it healthful, and that is a combination always desirable. So it Is good to be told, having reached this stage in contemplating its place with us, that down in Florida the grape fruit orchards Increase yearly in size and number, and that nowadays for every orange tree set out four grape fruit trees are planted. For this news assures us that future demands for thi fruit win be as fully met as are those, _ _ at jthe prsepnt ^ • > • -y ' , but are not only wrong, but describing the dispute as due refusal to give his consent to cer tain constitutional guarantees demand ed of him by Parliament. The impres sion conveyed thereby is that the Em peror is seeking to defend the cause of absolutism against the people. Quite the contrary is the case. Tho measures to which the ministers at Pesth have been seeking in vain tho sanction of Francis Joseph have for their object to perpetuate the power and predominance of the Magyar mi nority at the expense of the over whelming Croatian majority. The Em- j peror is thoroughly aware of the in- ' tolerable oppression to which the Croatians have been subjected until now by the Hungarians, and has de clared that he would not sanction any' measures calculated to perpetuate it, until they had been demanded of him by a big majority, in a new Parlia ment, elected, not according to the old franchise, but on the basis of univer sal suffrage. He is introducing the latter in the face of Magyar opposi tion in Hungary, and it will have tho effect of giving for the first time to> the Croatians a voice in the control of their destinies. In one word, if Francis Joseph is at odds with his Hungarian ministers, it is because he' is championing, not the cause of abso lutism, as the cable dispatches would' appear to convey, but the cause of de-» mocracy, and of universal suffrage. The heir apparent, who is more or les3 of a political enigma, apparently' shares the views of his uncle. Less patient than the latter, he was so en-' raegd by the attitude of the Hungarian ministers toward the venerable sover eign that he left Pesth with eclat even twenty-four hours before the Emperor, driving straight from the Church of’ St. Matthias to the railroad station, and declining to take part in any of' fUEtftfit fceremoiuya. _ ^ N