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THE NORTH GEORGIAN. (fiuocesßor to The North Georgia Baptist.) Entered at the poatofSce at Cam ming, Oa., an aeoond-olana matter. The question is, if the fish commis sion succeeds in creating a demand for the dogfish as food, whether it will not compete dangerously with th,e honeloss cod made from Mississippi catfish, wonders the New York Even ing Post. It is an old illustration that when everybody wants that of which there is but little, its value soars skyward, while when one wants that of which there is plenty, its value departs. That is the way of the world, and as a general proposition all we can do is to stand and take it. Remember, likewise, cautions the Indianapolis News, that the man who whizzes by you in a chug-chug may be no happier than you are. It is quite possible if you could see behind his goggles you would discover a bow-in t he - deuce - am-I -going- to-pay-t he-next installment expression on his face. Tho clumsy-looking and ill-fitting brogans hitherto worn by the seamen of our navy are to be replaced with up-to-date laced shoes of the Oxford- Blueher type. This is good news, for, as the Boston Globe says, “what con duces to the good appearance and the comfort of our sailors and soldiers can but add to the dignity of the uni form.’’ The opinion of a scientist is going round, to the effect that riding in au tomobiles makes girls homely. It is now nearly time to start the annual paragraphs about the danger of girls (jetting poisoned on ice cream, having their complexions ruined by candy, etc., suggests the Pathfinder. Armed with a supply of these paragraphs to read to his girl, no young man need find the expense of a summer courtship prohibitive. „ ‘‘Charitv, ns the word is understood a bribe of moneyed to make a community forget the wr< rigs heaped upon it.” says Dr. Emil Hirseh, of Chicago. “Tainted money” must be greatly in evidence In that neighborhood, to cause such uncharitable remarks, which reminds the Coast Seamen’s Journal that the distribution of the durned stuff is not nearly equitable enough to satisfy the demand of all the colleges and church es. Asa result of observations made by American army officers in the Far East during the Russo-Japanese war a change is to be made by the War Department in connection with the field subsistence arrangements. Here tofore the quartermaster’s department has had charge of all equipment per taining to the cooking and baking for the troops in the field, but under the new arrangement the commissary officials will have charge of such equip ment, as well as the matter of the preparation of food for the soldiers. Under this plan the commissary will not be dependent upon another branch of the service for the transportation and furnishing of ranges, utensils and bakery outfits when in the field. In a recent lecture, followed by an interview, Dr. Ludwig Fulda, the Ger man author and playwright, has ex pressed himself upon the trend toward femininity in literature. The consequent tendency, he finds, is toward the ef fete, says the New York World. It is so in Germany, but more so, he sus pects, in America. A general basis of truth exists for Dr. Fulda’s criticism so far as our country is concerned. Romance finds in our stage and fiction al literature its chief daily lingering place. It appeals not only to women, who are the nation’s chief novel-read ers, but to many men of affairs who look to books of sentiment for the diversion of their minds from busi ness. The love interest is valuable commercially because it makes ’’best sellers.” It is used as a literary sugar coating to novels intended to be “of purpose.” As it cannot lie effective without attractive figures, the ten dency is naturally, as Dr. Fulda says, “toward heroines intead of heroes.” EXTRAVAGANCE CHARGED Representative Brundige Throws Light on White House Expenses and Biffs President. The house Thursday listened to a bitter arraignment of the president at the hands of Mr. Brundige of Arkan sas, a member of the appropriations committee. Taking the items for the refurnish ing of the white house, the care of the grounds and the traveling expenses of the president as his text, Mr. Brun dige compared the expenses of the last Cleveland, the McKinley and the Roosevelt administrations. Under the Cleveland administration, he said there was expended for the executive department, including the salary of the president, $1157,200. Un der the McKinley administration there was expended $144,500, while the bill under consideration carries for the executive department, including the care of the white house, green houses, etc., $253,340. In addition to this, Mr. Brundige said that there were forty policemen detailed to the care of the white house and the grounds, and this was an additional $40,000 added, bringing the total to nearly $300,000, which he denominated as extravagance. He said he did not know whether forty po licemen were too few or too many, but he thought a section of the army ought to be detailed for the protec tion the president and care of the grounds, and these policemen permit ted to go into the sparsely settled sections of Washington, where thugs and marauders were preying upon defenseless women and children. He criticized the item appropriating $25,001) for the traveling expenses of the president and incident thereto, and said it was probably made for the purpose of providing for a repe tition of the “muck rake” speech. “No wonder, in view of the pres ent appropriations and present ex penditures, no wonder the president should hold up to public ridicule mag azines and newspapers of this coun try and public men and private citi zens who dare to criticise. “I entertained the hope and belief that the time will never come ii the history of politics of this gov ernment when any man occupying a position of public trust and public office will rise so high and become so great that the humblest citizen and the humblest newspaper or the larg est may not justly and properly crit icize his official conduct! and * ac tions.” He spoke of the president’s stable and enlarged on the number of the horses contained therein and finally spoke of the arrest of Mrs. Minor Morris and the appointment of the secretary to the president, Mr. Barnes, as postmaster of Washington, as show ing the high handed way the presi dent conducts his office. During the speech Mr. Brundige was frequently applauded by the democrats, the re publican side of the chamber being almost deserted. In referring to the policemen de tailed for duty in and about the white house grounds, Mr. Brundige satiri cally said he recalled the fact that recently the policemen made one very important “brave and gallant arrest.’’ Continuing along these lines, he said: “By the aid of a burly negro, those c-entlemen succeeded in ejecting from the white house an inoffensive, ouiet, peaceable American woman. They carried her out, it is true, with force: they carried her out in a man ner that has ever been and ever will remain an insult to the American people, to the American manhood and to the American womanhood.” (Ap plause on the democratic side.) PREACHER DFSERTFR FROM NAVY. Rev. Matthew Fortner Arrested for Skip ping Out After Fnlistrrent. a duly ordained Baptist minister and student at Furman University, was arrested in Greenville, S. €., for de serting from the navy. He is mar ried and has a child. Fortner enlist ed in the navy four years ago, and is said to have deserted from the steam ship Lancaster in Hampton Roads three months afterwards. He has been preaching and teaching ever since. WEAK LEADER IS GOREMYKIN. % Successor of Witte Proves Incompetent id Msy Be F : red by f *sr. According to reliable reports from Peterhof, Emperor Nicholas has about decided to retire Premier Goremykin. From the first it was apparent to out siders that ML Goremykin did not possess the force, capacity or skill necessary to steer the ship of state in the present crisis, and the em peror, who is extremely dissatisfied with the premier's sorry failure to make any headway toward a rap proaehment with the lower house of parliament, is now ready to sacri fice him. GEORGIA BRIEFS Surveying New Road. The Hartwell and Washington rail road Is now being surveyed. The corps of engineers is being accompa nied by W. O. Jones of Elberton and J. D. Mathewson of Hartwell. The men behind the movement claim to have plenty of money, and are among the best of the section’s business men. * * * Tech Commencement. One of the most successful years of the Georgia School of Technology will be completed by the commence ment exercises which will be held June 20 and 21, beginning with the second annual promenade and con cluding with the annual alumni ban quet which will take place on the night of June 21. * * * f Will Be Added to Endowment. J. P. Wi'liams, president of Emory College, which recently sold a large block of property in Atlanta, says that the fund accruing from the sale will be added to the endowment fund of Emory. It amounts to something like $135,000. Mr. Williams says the college has no immediate plan for spending the money. It will he re tained until opportunity for spending it to good advantage presents itself. * * Lightning Takes Two Lives. At Fayetteville a few days ago, while standing in the back porch of Mr. B. L. McGough’s residence, Glenn McGough, aged 21, and Russell Mc- Gough, 14 years of age, son and grand son of B. L. McGough, were struck by lightning and instantly killed. The peculiar feature is that only one repeat of lightning and thunder v .s made during the afternoon and there was no rain, wdth little indica tion. * * * Notorious Crook Escapes. Ed Cole, one of the quartet of noted pickpockets, who was sent up from y <: Mosta, a few weeks ago, has made Ins escape from the convict camps it Fargo. It is reported that Cole made a break for liberty through the guard lines, and was successful in getting away. hastily put on his trail. ISP(PK’ e'nided twTii in the swamps arid the search was given up after several hours. * * * Three Colored to One White. In the presentments of the Sumter county grand jury, interesting figures relative to attendance upon public schools of the county are given. Dur ing the past year sixty-one public schools were operated with a total scholarship enrollment of 3,52 pupils. Of this number 1.007 were white chil scholarship enrollment of 3,852 pudpils negroes predominating by nearly three to one. This statement does not in clude the Americus public schools, where the attendance is 1,500 and nearly evenly divided. * * * Employing German Labor. The recent arrival in Brunswick of eighteen German laborers, who are now at work at the mill of the Taylor- Cnok Cypress company, .is only the advance guard of 200 of these laborers who are to arrive to work in the dif ferent mills and lumber yards. The eighteen already secured came in on the Mallory steamer, and imme diately went to work, and Superin tendent Friese announces that so far they have given perfect satisfaction in every respect. * * * Governor Suggests New Dormitory. Governor Terrell, in his address at the Georgia Normal and Industrial college, the past week, cited what had been done in this state since he became its governor for the cause of education, naming the many buildings that had been erected. He state 1 that it was his hope to see even greater works done during his last year of office, and the one thing he most hoped for was anew dormitory on the Georgia Normal and Industrial campus, capable of holding 300 addi tional Georgia girls. * * * Atlanta’s Zoo Grows. The Grant Park zoo in Atlanta re ceived thirteen new permanent visit ors the past week. They were a camel, two wild bulls, two wild eats, three monkeys, two babboons, a hippo potamus, a Hon and a leopard. The animals were recently purchas ed in New York by Chairman Walter R. Brown of the board, and they all arrived in good condition and were taken at once to the park and placed in the new quarters that had been prepared for them. The wild bulls came from the jun gles of Africa, the leopard from a zoo in New York, the monkeys were from the wilds of South America. The animals made a valuable ac quisition to the zoo and the place will now more than ever delight the chil dren and the grown folks who have to take them there. * * * Inter-Urban Trolley Line. At a meeting held in Atlanta a few days ago, the incorporators of the new interurban electric line between Macon and Atlanta met, subscribed the stock for the undertaking, appoint ed an executive committee, and au thorized that work on the line be be gun at once. qhe stock subscribed at the meet ing was SIOO,OOO, but this will oe increased from time to time. It is be lieved that work will start within two weeks. 1 he executive committee is compos ed of W. J. Kincaid of Griffin, chair man; W. J. Massee of Macon, Colonel Clifford L. Anderson and Edwin P. Ansley of Atlanta and W. A. Wimbish of Atlanta, secretary and treasurer. The line will be 88 miles long, and will connect Atlanta, Forrest, Grif fin, Forsyth, Macon and the interven ing towns. # * * Offer Cash to Get Road. The people of Hawkinsville seem determined to secure the Dublin and Southwestern road. In order to get the road, the people of Hawkinsville offer cash subscrip tions to the amount of $60,000, termi nal facilities in Hawkinsville, the right of tvay through Pulaski county, five miles of graded road from Hawkins ville to Deep creek and a charter for a road from Hawkinsville to Cordele. It I? said that the people of Cor dele will put up another $50,00-0, and that very advantageous terminal facil ities and traffic arrangements at Cor dele have been offered by the Sea board Air Line railroad. It is be lieved that the road will be built from Eastman to Cordele via Hawkinsville. Back Tax Fight Still On. The Central of Georgia and Geor gia railroads have not ended their fight against paying the back tax of nearly a million dollars on the 15,000 shares held by each in the Western Railway of Alabama stock. A conference was held in Atlanta a few days ago among attorneys of the two railroads for the purpose of deciding upon carrying the issue to the United Statens supreme • court. • While nothing was given out, it is be lieved that the ease will be carried j tc the higher court. Associate Justices Oobb and Lump- j kin are disqualified in this case, ow- j ing to relationship to some of the lit igants, and Governor Terrell will name two superior court judges to sit on the supreme court in order to make a full bench. * * * Hudson Issues His First Report. Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson has issued his first crop bul letin of the year and a decrease of 1 per cent is indicated in the cotton acreage in Georgia this year. From 750 correspondents reports of crop conditions were received and these have been carefully compiled in the commissioner’s report. This year’s cotton acreage is estimated as 99 per cent of last year’s. Planting time was some ten days later than usual for 1906, and as a result of cold and wet weather it was necessary to replant about 12 2-3 per cent of the crop. Condition of the crop is estimated at So per cent, 1 per cent below the gov ernment report issued a few days ago. A slight increase in the use of fer tilizers under cotton is indicated. Fer tilized cotton forms 94 per cent of the total acreage, and the percentage of commercial fertilizers used under oth er crops is 9S 2-3. * * * Lieutenant Governor Wanted. If a resolution introduced by Sena tor Crawford Wheatley of the thir teenth district in the senate at the last legislature is adopted by the gen eral assembly at its coming session, Georgia will have a lieutenant gov ernor. The bill of Senator Wheatley, which had its first reading at the last session, provides for the amend ment of the state code and constitu tion so that a lieutenant governor may be elected by the people. Although a two third vote will be required to secure the passage of the bill, Senator Wheatley is confident that it will be adopted by the senate and that the house will concur in its passage. The creation of the office of lieuten ant governor will prevent the compli cations that would arise if a governor of Georgia should die while in office. Under the present constitution the president of the senate would act as governor of the state provided the chief executive died within the last six months before his term expired, the president of the senate would hold the office only until a general election for governor for the remainder of the term would be held, entailing an ex pense estimated at SIOO,OOO. FOR GORMAN’S SEAT Aged Ex-Governor and Ex-Senator Whyte is Appointed by Governor of Maryland. A Baltimore dispatch says: Ex- Governor William Pinkney Whvte= has been appointed to All the unex pired term of the late United States- Senator Arthur P. Gorman, whose' death left a vacancy in the federal, congress. The appointment of ex-Gov er Warfield has caused much comment on account of the impression which is general that Whyte was the bitter est enemy of Senator Gorman. Ex-Governor and ex-Senator Whyte will now enfer the senate for the third time, and for the second time by appointment to fill an unexpired term, he having been named by Gov ernor Swann to fill out the term of the late Reverdy Johnson upon the. appointment of the latter as United States minister to England in 1868. William Pinckney Whyte was born in Baltimore August 9, 1&2'4. He be gan the study of law with a promi nent law firm, later entering Harvard' law school, and he was admitted to* the bar of Baltimore in 1846. In 1847 he was elected to the house of dele gates of the Marylanu legislature, this being his first public office. He re fused renomination for the legislature in 1849, was defeated for congress in 1851, was elected comptroller of Ole treasury of the state of Maryland in 1853, was again defeated for congress in 1857, was a member of the dem ocratic national convention in 1868- and was in that year appointed by Governor Swann United States sena tor to fill out the term of the late--- Reverdy Johnson, appointed minister to England. In 1871 he was elected*, governor of Maryland and in 1874 Ifni ted States senator. p He declined re-election as senator-- in 1880 and in the following year was. elected mayor Baltimore. In 18S3 he became attorney general of Maryland and in IGB9 was appointed by Presi | dent Harrison a delegate to the con gress of American nations, which he declined. In 1898 he was made chair man of the commission that prepared: the new charter of the - timd|?e, and in 1900“*Tre solicitor, that being his most recent office. It is related that his first j meeting with the late Senator Gor- I man, whom he is to succeed, occurred | in 1871,"when the late senator called at his office to tender Mr. Whyte his support in the contest for the govern orship of the state then in prog ress ELLERBE IS STAMPING PAT. Congressman Refuses to Be Bluffed Anenf Attack on Acreage Report. Representative Ellerbe gives out the-, in formation that he proposes to stand pat on the resolution introduced by him charging the manipulation of cot ton acreage. An attempt had been made to discredit him by the state ment that the idea was inspired by Harvie Jordan in an effort to bull doze the department of agriculture. “Asa matter of fact,” continued’ Mr. Ellerbe, “Mr. Jordan was not con sulted one way or the other before? the introduction of my resolution.” HOWELL AND SMIIH IN DEBATE. Joint Speaking Held in Atlanta By Resident' Gubernatorial Candidates. Before an audience of more than* 6.000 people, a mass of enthusiastic humanity cheering and applauding tee the echo, and taxing the utmost ca pacity of the Peachtree Auditorium,. Clark Howell and Hoke Smith met in Atlanta Friday night upon the same stage, in joint debate upon the issues, involved in the pending campaign for governor. MILITIA ARRIVED TOO LAfE. Mob in Florida Were First at Jail and' Lvnch-d Negro Prisoner. Jim Davis, alias “Dago.” the negro? who murdered Mr. Russell and his ne gro servant at Felicia. Fla., Tuesday, was lynched at Inverness Thursday night by a large party of masked men. The soldiers sent from Brooksville to* protect him arrived too late. FOR ALLEGED ATTEMPT AT BRIBERY Secretary of State Houser of Wisconsin !*• Placed Under Arrest. A Madison, Wis., dispatch says r Secretary of State Walter L. Houser was arreste'd Thursday, charged with attempted bribery of a state official. The charge grows out of testimony given recently by State Insurance- Commissioner Host to the legislative insurance investigating committee.