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William Avrcher finds four social
strata in New York, the sediment,
the strap hangers, the intellectuals
and the plutocrats, He probably re
gards these as the American equiva- |
lents, retorts the Bosion Transcript,
of the four estates of his own coun- ‘
try. |
Says tha Pittshurg Dispatch: “Ag
riculture, the oldest of man's indus
tries, I 8 yet in its infancy, It is just
beginning to realize its possibilities.
During this century it will make
amazing progress, with engineering
experts on the farms and scientists
in the experiment stations and the
laboratorfes.”
' Many criminals have suffered from
eyestrain or some other defect of vis
fon, which prevented the exercise of
wmplete self-control. In conse
quence, asserts Cassell’'s Magazine,
habits of drug taking and alcoholic
excess were formed, and the moral
sense so perverted that crimes of
greater or lesser magnitude were
committed.
" Observes the New York World:
“T'he balance of trade in farm prod
uets in favor of this country was
$444,000,000, a 8 compared with a
favorable balance of only $2,600,000
in all other products. It is the
farmer, and not the captain of indus
try, who pays our bills abroad. Stocks
may tumble, but the real basis of na
tional wealth remains secure.”
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' Wonderful as are the advances in
crop raising during the past decade,
the soil surveyors declare that only
420,000,000 acres—not one-half the
farms of the country—can be classed
as lmproved land, and but one-third,
or about 290,006,000 acres, is fruit
~ful. Congress will do well to amplity
the scope and influence of the de
partment according to Mr. Wilson's
recommendations. 5
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¢ ‘An Bnglish social chronicler notes
that King Edward’s grandchildren do
not stand in awe of him. To them
he is “grandfather” with all that the
term implies. 'Twas ever thus, coms
ments the Boston Transcript. The
divinity that hedges a king hardly
ever comprehends a grandfather, or
even a royal father in the domestic
cirele, Mr. Samuel Pepys having oc
casion to take an important dispatch
to the Duke of York, afterward James
11., then head of the admiralty, was
ushered into the duke's private apart
ments, and there found him playing
with his two daughters, the Priacess
Mary and the Princess Aune, “like a
common father,” to the astonishment
of that delightful diarist. -
Dr. Evans, Chicago's health come l
missioner, finds cause for alarm in
the rapid increase in pneumonia and
consumption in his city, and has is
sued a bulletin in which it is stated
that walking is “almost a specific
against them,” says the New York
Herald. Heo recommended that every,
person llving within two miles of his
work should walk the distance twice
dally instead of viding in the cars.
To New Yorkers, wino are obliged to
suffer the torture of overcrowded
cars twice each day, the walking cure
is attractive. In this city as well as
in Chicago pneumonia and consump
tion are the most prevalent of all dis
eases, and physicians generally agree
that poisonous air in street cars,
homes and offices is the main cause.
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At every rung on the social ladder
now is a group of “soclety” guides,
lni\)oy‘arlll}‘od well-connected men and
wdmen ‘\"yhmofor a consideration—
assist fhose who are endeavoring to
relch’the.-l‘mmit. declares London
r,’l‘ruth. “TM way to ‘soclety,’ " ery
" those on the fih} steps; “This way to
the duchesses,” ery the guides a little
higher; “This way to title,” “This
way to the court,” “This way to the
tog,“ call others as the social elimbers
#pproach them respectively. The
“well-connected * hppear to be unablo
to move forward themselves any lons
ger, anl to bo only able to maintain
thé level they severally occupy by obs
x nly Jbayment Mr directing the so-
Jcial o of aspirants from the
kP Bl ik &
~ Bome of the big financiers would
do mighty well at steering alrships,
suggests the Atlanta Constitution.
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It costs more to live, and, since un
dertakers’ charges have risen, it costs
more to die. According to Puck, all
a man can do {8 hang on and trust
to luck,
.~ They may be able to maintain the
high prices of meat, propounds the
Indianapolis News, but when it
comes to beer something has got
to be done about it.
“What constitutes a beauty?” asks
the Chicago American. Well, an
swers the Louisvme. Courier-Journal,
any fall hat costing more than SSB
is so regarded by the average Ameri
can girl, w
When everybody produces and
everybody consumes everybody is
prosperous, observes the New York
World. To discharge willing work
men thereby cuts down consumption
and reacts upon production, Idle
hands make hungry mouths.
The Boston Advertiser declares:
“The average man in the United
States 18 just as well off ag he was
six months ago. He can do as much
business, soon, as he did then, if he
and all his business associates will
look on the right side of things and
live up to their professions.”
Clear thinkers, clean-cut writers,
who can condense their thoughts, are
80 rare that they are in great de
mand, declares Success. Kverything
is covered up with words, words,
words. The whole tendency of mod
ern life is toward diffusion. Rhetori
cal condensation is becoming a lost
art,
What are we to do with the tramp?
inquires Country Life. He has come
to hate the casual weard, with its com
pulsory work, which is abhorrent to
him, and its compulsory bath, which
is almost equally so—in fact, prefer
prison fare, which is much Dbetter
than it used to be, and which cerries
with it no compulsion to labor.
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f Aun eminent man, who is a strict
abstainer from both wine and Eumal
food, relates the Christian Régtster,
is obliged, in consequence of this pe
cullarity, to refrain from dining out.
He entertains, however, an occasional
kindred spirit. One such was recent
ly at his table. “You ought to have
seen them,” said the eminent man’s
son, “rioting over boiled carrots!”
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Hitherto the ordinary fly, the mus
ca domestica, has been regarded as
annoying rather than dangerous. Its
low tastes have been recognized, and
feeble efforts have been made to pro
tect us from its excessive familiarity,
It has shown itself superior, however,
to the influence alike of fly paper,
patent fly killers and window screens.
As an early riser, says the New York
Times, it has quite outdone the lark,
and as a disturber of late sleeping on
summer mornings it has been more
potent than the alarm clock.
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An exchange says that alcohol will
remove grass stains from summer
clothes. The exchange is right, ac
cording to the Woodbury Reporter.
It will also remove summer clothes
and also spring and winter clothes,
not only from the man who drinks it, ‘
but also from his wife and children. 1
It will remove household !urnlture‘
from the house and eatables from the
pantry; the smiles from the face ot'
his wife and the happiness from his
home. As a remover of things alco
hol has few equals.
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Another burden of the American
ambassador or minister abroad is the
importunity of his fellow countrymen
for social favors, such as presentation
at court, introduction to pérsons of
mark and the like, insists the New
Orleans Picayune, HKvery American
traveler seems to feel that the Ameri
can minister is in duty bound to look
after him, introduce him into the
best society and make him feel at
home. It is naturally something of a |
task to avold these importunities
without making powerful enemies,
who, however insignificant abroad,
wield great influence at home. ‘
NThe American public has becomel
80 hardened to the idea of bond-se
cured currency, withi no proper rela
tion to gold, and, therefore, no auto
matic elasticity, that we fear there is
little chance of creation of simple,
sound and uniform system of cur
rency. If American bank notes are
issued to an unlimited extent on se
curity of railway bonds, thinks the
Lordon Economist, we may have to
study again the history of Law's Mis
sissippl scheme, and of the French
assignats, which were proudly de
stribed as paper money based on the
@rm foundation of landed propdrty.
Transmitted to Congress By
President Roosevelt,
REMARKABLE DOCUMENT
Stands Pat on His Previous Recom-:
mendations and Suggests Strenu
ous Legislation Along Some
Special Lines. .
President Roosevelt sent to congress
a special message Friday which is, in
reality an uncomprosmising and
categorical review of his administra
tive policies, an analysis of their
meaning and the necessity for their
existence and a vigorous attack upon
criticis who have sought to ‘discredit
the administration campaign against
commercial corruption, or to hold it
responsible for the recent paaic. He
omits no single phase of the war
against “predatory wealth,” points out
the interest of every citizen in decent
government, dwells on the prime ne
cessity of railroad and corporation reg
ulation, touches on federal and state
functions in this direction and on the
question of jailing or fining malefac
tors of “great wealth,” He calls cor
porationg and individuals by name
with unerring fluency.
The president calls for the immedi
ate reenactment of the employers’
liability law, which has been declar
ed unconstitutional, in such form as
will meet the requirements of the su
preme court. He depends upon the
respective stateg to do their part to
ward fulfilling the duties of which
the federal government is deprived.
He also urges that an aet be passed
compensating government employ'iel
injured in public service,
“It is all wrong,” says Mr, Roose
velt, ‘to use the injunction to prevent
the entirely proper and legitimate ac
tions of labor organizations in their
struggle for industrial betterment, or
undar the guise of protecting property
rights unwarrantably to invade the
fundamental rights of the individual.”
He promises to send a special mes
sage to congress on the case of Adair
vs. the United States, the effect ot
which ig far-reaching, but which of
ficers of the government have not yet
had the opportunity to study in all
its bearings. : T
The president would give the inter
state commerce commission the right
to pass on any rate or practice 9W
railroads on its own initiative. "He
would also give the government super
vision over the financial affairs of in
terstate railroads, to the end that over
capitalization might be avoided, specu
lation eliminated and bond proceeds
devoted only to legitimate purposes.
He declares that overcapitalization al
ready of fixed value must be recognized
as affecting thousands of innocent
shareholders. Many rates, he contends,
are already too low, and it is better
in the interest of imperative improve
ments that earnings should be too
liberal rather than insufficient. The
Sherman anti-trust law, he says, calls
for immediate amendment. In its
present shape it is entirely unfitted to
meet the conditions of today, oftemn
tending to produce the very evils it
alms to suppress. The president speei
fies certain combinations which are
lawful and expedient for the railroads.
The president attacks stock and mar
ket gambling in strong terms. |
Thé message created a great deal
of comment among the nation’s law
makers. The. president's friends com
mend it enthusiastically. Some of the
talks in the cloak room and corri
dors turned upon a third term for
Roosevelt and discussed this action as
a bid for support from those who be
lieve President Roosevelt is the only
man with the determination, grit and
perseverance to fight through congress
the aggressive policies outlined in the
special message. &
It came as a surprise that the presi
dent should send anotlier message to
congress calling for further corporate
regulations; particularly since he reit
erated his old recommendations in his
December message. In the senate the
message was heard in decorous sl
lence. In the house it was continuously
applauded, particularly the reference to
punishment of wrongdoers and his de
fense of federal judges.
“A splendid democratic doctrine,”
said Senator Jeff Davis. “A bid for a
third term,” said Representative Clay
ton of Alabama. Senator Davis moy
ed that 10,000 copies of the message
be printed anvd the motion was
adopted.
BUSINESS BLOCK IN ASHES,
Loss in Big Stone Gap, Va., Confla
gration of SIOO,OOO.
An entire business block at Big
Stone Gap, Va., was wiped out by fire
Thursday morning, entailing a loss of
SIOO,OOO. Among the bulidings burn
ed was the Hotel Eugene; the South
ern Express company and the West
ern Union officers were also destroyed.
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ACQUITTAL FOR THAW,
Must Serve Temporarily in Asylum at
Matteawan—Curtain is Down on
Malodorous Case.
A New York special says: Adjudged
not guilty of the murder of Stanford
White by reason of insanity at the
time the fatal shots were fired, Harry
Kendall Thaw Saturday was held by
the court to be a dangerous lunatic and
was whirled away to the stale hospi
tal for the eriminal insane at Mattea
wan,
It was quick transition from the din
gy little cell in the Tombs, which
had been the young man’s home for
more than eighteen months, to the
white-bedded wards of the big asylum
tucked away on the snow-covered slop
ing banks of the Hudson g‘ver, a 0
miles above the city.
The verdict came after twenty-five
hours of waiting and when every omne
connected with the case had abandon
ed all hope of an agreement ever being
reached in this or any other trial.
Four hours after the foreman’s lips
had framed the words “not uilty” with
an accompanying insanity clause, Thaw
protesting he was sane, was on his
way to Matteawan. A little after night
fall he had been received in the in
stitution under commitment papers,
which directed his detention “until dis
charged by due course of law.”
Scarcely an hour later the members
of the Thaw family were in conference
with their lawyers as to the advisabil
ity of applying for a writ of habeas
corpus. Thaw was greatly enraged
over being committed to the asylum
and argued strenuously for the appli
cation to be made. It was finally de
cided to defer this action at least a
week.
After deliberating twenty-five hours,
the jury brought in a verdict of “not
guilty” at 12:45 Saturday afternoon.
The verdict was arrived at on the
ground that Thaw was insane at the
time the deed was committed.
Although practically cleared of the
charge of murder, Thaw is not yet a
free man.
On the recommendation of Justice
Dowling he was taken to the insane
asylum at Matteawan as a dangerous
person and one whose malady is likely
to recur at any moment.
This noted case may be summed up
Chronologically as follows:
Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit were
married in Pittsburg on April 23, 1905.
On June 25, 190 G, Thaw killed Stan
ford White on the Madison Square root
garden, and on June 28 he was indict
ed. In January following the first
trial began. Ten days were required
for the jury to return a disagreement.
The trial cost the county of New York
SIOO,OOO. The cost to the Thaw fam
ily is estimated to have been $400,000.
The testimony of alienists brought the
figure to this great total.
The enitre second trial occupied but
seventeen days, five of which were tak
~en up with the selection of a jury. The
prosecution had but few witnesses and
‘made out its case in four and a half
hours. The defensa: hrought witnesses
from several European centers, from
the Pacific coust of America and from
a namber of other cities. The cost to
the county will hardly exceed 325,000,
while the cost to the Thaw family
will be equally as much as that of the
first trial. The case may justly be
referred to as the “million dollar mur
der trial.”
FIVE VICTIMS OF FIRE.
Fatalitiec Result from Burning of
Reoming House in Kansas City.
Five persons were burned to death
and twclve others injured in a fire in
a three story rooming house in Kan
sas City Saturday morning.
The fire started from an explosion of
natural gas in the basement, The
flames axd dense smoke spread quick-
Iy throughout the building and before
an alarm cou'd be given all means of
escape by the ordinary exits had been
shut off. The five persons who lost
their lives were asleep on the third
floor.
ARTHUR GIOVER HANGED,
Paid Penalty at Augusta, Ga., for the
Murder of Maude Dean.
At Augusta, Ga., Friday morning,
Arthur P. Glover was hanged for the
murder of his sweetheart, Maude Dean.
He professed to forgive all those who
had anything to do with his 753nvlctlon.
but said up to the last that he never
knew when he Kkilled the girl.
Though the execution was private,
by order of the court there were about
100 people in the jail yard, wearing
badges of “special deputy.” Twenty
minutes after the drop fell Glover was
cut down,
BAN PLACED ON WHISKEY.
L. & N. Will Henceforth Refuse Ship
mems into Dry States,
Annonucement was made at Louls
ville, Friday night, by the Louisville
and Nashville railroad that it will no
longer recelve shipments of liquor into
the states of Georgla or Alabama,
which have recently passed prohibition
Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
Comptrolier Issues Fi. Fas.
Comptroller General Wright has is
sued tax fi. fas. against the Savannah
Electric company for $11,596.88; the
:Brinwn railway for $297.93, and against
ithe Western Union Telegraph compa
ny for $420.03. The executions were
|issued at the request of the tax col
ilector of Chatham county for taxes al
leged to be due the county.
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. Must Continue Conyers Train.
‘ The railroad commission has given
Superintendent W. S. Brand of the
Georgia railroad and the people in
’terested to understand that it would
not permit the discontinuance by that
!road of the daily accommodation train
' between Conyers and Atlanta.
This announcement was made fol
lowing sthe conclusion of the hearing
on this subject.
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Slayer of Policeman Doomed.
Andrew Johnson, the negro who kill
ed Patrolman Manier in Atlanta, some
months ago, will have to hang, accord
ing to a decision of the state supreme
lcourt, handed down last Friday morn
ing. The opinion was rendered by
lJus,tlce Atkinson (all justices concur
ring), and affirmed the decision of the
’lower court in refusing a mew trial.
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County Liable for Debt.
In a decision handed down a few
|days ago by the state supreme court,
Butts county’s liability to the Jackson
Banking company for mcney loaned
|the county by the bank is fixed.
| From February to October, 1906, the
Jackson Banking company loaned
Buttg county about $48,000 on motes.
All but some $19,000 was paid, then
the county treasurer declined to pay
any more of the amount on the ground
that the county was not liable.
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Big Power Company Projected.
A company has been formed in Jesup
with a capital of $300,000, for the pur
[poae of developing water power and
‘generating electrieity for manufactur
-ling purposes,
| The company will ereet a cotton
‘mill and a cotton seed oil mill and
sterage warehouses, and will build
and operate an electric railway from
Jesup to several other surrounding
towns. :
- Application for charter is. now be
ing prepared. The privilege of increas
ing the capital stock to $500,000 is
asked.
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| Postal Clerks Transferred.
? Twenty railway postal clerks and
;about $25,000 a year in salaries spent
in Atlanta will be taken away as a re
‘sult of changes recently made by the
'Southerp railway in its train sched
fiules. Orders to this effect moving
‘away from Atlanta this number of men
'have been issued by L. M. Terrell,
isuperintendent of the United States
Tailway mail service.
~ Under the schedules as changed
ithere was no other alternative for Su
perintendent Terrell, and he was com
‘pelled to have twenty clerks transfer
'red to Washington.
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~ Appeals to State Supreme Court.
B. C. Sloan, son-in-law of the late
Rev. Sam P. Jones, has appealed from
the decision of Judge Fite, in which
he awarded the little grandson of the
great evangelist to his grandmother,
Mrs. Sam Jones, at Cartersville, for
five years.
In an effort to obtain possession of
the baby his wife waived her claim to
‘the boy to her mother, Mrs. Sam P.
Jones, and Judge Fite, after reviewing
the case, ordered the child to the care.
of Mrs. Jones, its grandmother,
It is from this decision that Mr.
Sloan appeals to the supreme court
of the state,
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Ocilla Declared County Seat.
According to a decision handed
down by the state supreme court,
Ocilla will be the county seat of Ir
win county instead of Irwinville, the
old capital of the county.
- Following an act passed by the last
‘leglsluture a new county, named Ben
Hill, was created with Fitzgerald as
the county seat, out of parts of the
‘county of Irwin and adjoining counties,
Irwinville was at that time the county
{seat of Irwin county, and was left
in the old county. A petition was got
{ten up, signed by the required number
of tax payers, seeking to change the
lcounty site from Irwinville to Ocilla,
also in the old county. On the face
o? the returns Ocilla won. Proceadings
were begun by certain cmze'rg to stop
she transfer of“the county seat to
Ocilla, and in the lower court, Ocilla
| again won. The case was brought up
|l’m~ review, with the result that the
lower court was sustained, and Ocilla
won out again. .
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Uncle Sam Issues Liquor Licenses.
From the records of the internal
revenue office in Atlanta, information
is gathered that since the first of Jan
'uary, 66 federal licenses have bheen
issued for the retailing of spiritugns
and malt liquors in the state of Geer."
gia.
~ The purpose for which these licenseg
are secured is of course not apparent.
With a prohibition law operative in the
state, making illegal the sale of intoxj.
cating liquors or beverages, the num
ber of licenses issued by the federa]
authorities, expressing the permission
of the national government for the
holders of those licenses to do the
thing which is prohibited by state law,
becomes exceedingly interesting.
A perusal of the internal revenue
record of these licenses show_s that
most of them were issued to people
who give Savannah as their place of
business. Only four of the whole
number are charged to Atlanta, with
an additional license issued to a fish
ing club located at Brooks Station i
Fayette county.
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Decision in Favor of State Fair.
There will be a state fair at Pied
mont Park in Atlanta this fall. The
old machinery hall will be torn down
this spring. These two things were
agreed upon by the park board after
a three-hour session, at which a num
ber of prominent citizens, including }a
dies, were heard from. There were ar.
guments against the holding of the fair
at the park so all the old buildings
might be removed, .and there were ar
guments for the holding of the fair
for commercial reasons.
The argument to tear down the eld
machinery hall came in the way of a
compromise, as this will give room fer
the immediate beautifying of a portion
of the park which will not be used
for fair purposes.
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Crime Decreases in Atlanta.
Here is the record of Atlanta’s first
month under prohibition. It speaks
for itself:
Total number of caseg tried in poliee
court in January, 1907, 1,663.
Total number of drunks, Bs4l.
Total number of cases tried in Jan
uary, 1908, 768.
Total number of drunks, 64.
The first month under the reign es
prohibition shows a slump in poliee
court business of 895 cases. The de
crease in the number of cases eof
drunkenness is even greater than iam
the total number of cases.
The police court acts as a splendid
barometex. and gives a good idea of
the effects of the “dry” reign.
JEROME LAMBASTS THAW.
Likewise District Attorney Severely
Scores White in Summing Up.
A New York special says: William
Travers Jercme, representative of the
people, made a masterly plea Thurs
day that justice be done in *he case
of Harry Kendall Thaw,
V!ndlqtiveness, sneers, insinuations
all were lacking; logic, analysis and a
calm consideration of the facts were
thoir substitutes.
It was no blind appeal for the ven
weance of the law that Mr. Jerome ad
dressed to the jury, but ever and al
ways there was the note of fairness,
even at times of mercy,
The year that has elapsed since the
first trial had wrought a wonderful
and startling change in the prosecutor.
No lecnger attempting to shield the
name of Stanford White, he accepted
the story teld by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
ag true—all but the drugging—and he
made frank confession to the jury that
the velvet swings and mirrored rooms
of the studio houses deseribed by the
girl were indeed a miserable reality.
No ‘longar attacking Evelyn Thaw
as a skilled adventuregs, Mr. Jerome
pleaded for the girl, because she never
had had a chauce for any of the higher,
cleaner, sweeter things of life.
The climax came, however, when
Mr. Jerome denounced both Thaw and
White in one breath and classed them
a 8 “two degenerates quarreling over
& woman.” And the woman, the pros
eoutor declared, knew no more—had
been taught no more by the world—
than to play one against the other
until in jeslous rage, in blindest rage,
in vengeance of “an undeniably gross
wrong done to his wife,” Harry Thaw
shot and killed the architeet.
ESTILL ESTATE APPRAISED.
Property Left by Late Editor Stated
‘ to Be Worth $643,000.
~ The report of the appraisers of the
estate of the late J, H. Estill, at Sa
‘Vlumfih, Thursday, and shows the to
tal value to he $643,000,
The principal item in this scheduke
is The Morning News, which is valued
at $400,000, The debts against the
estate amounted to upwards of SIOO,-
000.
DATE OF ELECTION CHANGED.
North Carolina to Vote on Prohibition
Question May 26,
The North Carolina state senafe has
amended the bill passed some days
ago for general election on state pro
hibifion by the house so that the=-
election will be May 26th, instead of
April 20th. In this the house con
curs,
