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Newspaper Page TextFOUR 2k Weekly News MONDAY, MAY 6. 1»12. WEEKLY NEWS. Issued two times a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, one year SI.OO THE MORNING NEWS, "very day in the year, by mail S.OO THE MORNING NEWS, daily without Sunday 600 ADVERTISEMENTS. Display advertisements 70 cents an * Inch each insertion. Discount made tor contract advertising, depending cn space and length of time adver tisement is to run. Local and Reading Notices. 20 cents a line. Marriage, Funeral and Obituaries SI.OO per inch. Legal Advertisements of Oridnaries. Sheriffs and other officials inserted at the rate prescribed by law. Remittances can be made by Post office Order, Registered L.tter or Express at our risk. COR RESPONDENCE. Correspondence collclted; but to re ceive attention, letters must be ac companied by a responsible name, not for publication, but as a guar antee of good faith. Ail letters should be addressed to MORNING NEWS. Savannah, Ga. Registered at the Postoffice in Savannah as second-class mail matter. THE GUBERNATORIAL CAM- PAIGN Now that the presidential preference primary is out of the way we shall have a season of state polities, al though it is going to take a good deal of hard work to stir up as much inter est in the gubernatorial candidates as there was in the presidential candi dates. There will be more votes cast in the state primary than there was tn the presidential primary for the reason that besides the candidates for Governor there will be candidates for other state offices and for the Legisla ture, and in many counties for county offices. It seems that the presidential pri mary has had some effect on state pol itics. since at least one man who was expected to be in the gubernatorial race announces that he will not be a candidate, and another who is a can didate announces that he isn’t the can didate of a faction There will be plenty of politics all through the summer and until the presidential election in November, more iri fact than the people want. It It rather unfortunate that such is the case since the farmers are far behind with their work and will be exceed ingly busy until the crops are gathered in the fall. In the presidential primary the peo ple had impressed upon them the fact that if thgy want good men to make the. laws and administer them they must study the candidates and the policies for which they stand. It looks as if this year la tbls state about all of their leisure time would be taken Tup with politics if they are to make < Ttlfnaelvi* ac<Hiaipted with ’ candidate)# and thej platfbrms, but if they are to act upon their own judg ment and not upon those of their would-be advisers they must do a good deal of reading and thinking. The truth ■» that we have too many elections. One of the gubernatorial candidates has suggested away to get rid of the bother of registering so often. Isn't there some other one of the gubernatorial candidates who can suggest away that would meet ap proval of getting rid of so many elec tions? And what is the use of having so many elective offices? The short ballot reform is attracting a great deal of attention, but to bring that reform about more of the offices would have to be flllei by appointment, leaving fewer to be Ailed by election. It is true that the tendency of the times is to submit everything to the people, but isn’t there danger of causing them to lose interest in elections if elections come so often that it is impossible to pre pare for them properly and to vote. If the people become indifferent to elections the demagogue and the boss are just as likely to get the upper hand of them as if fewer things were sub mitted to them for their action. THE OVATION TO UNDERWOOD The ovation the House gave Mr. Underwood the day after the Georgia presidential primary was a tremendous boost to his candidacy for the presi dential nomination of his party, not only because it was spontaneous and Showed how very strong a hold he .has upon the good will and respect of the members of that body, but also because the news of the ovation was sent to all parts of the country by the news agencies, thus impressing upon the people the opinion of the House that he is in every respect a fit man for the great office of Presi dent. Some of his opponents in this state in the recent presidential primary said frequently that he wasn’t known to the people. Os course, they ought to have known better, and they are estop ped by the ovation incident from say ing it again. In fact, it didn’t need the ovation to prove that the state ment was untrue, because the farm ers of this state disproved it when they rolled up such a big majority for him last Wednesday. Nobody would be surprised if Mr. Underwood should be nominated at Baltimore. All things considered he stands the best chance of getting the nomination. Both Speaker Clark and Gov. Wilson have more delegates at this time to their credit than he has. #but there are other things in his favor that overbalance that advantage. He will enter the convention with a very formidable support, and in the whole convention there will be a feel ing that he is the logical candidate. That being the case about the only thing he will have to combat is the hostility of Mr. Bryan and his follow ing. In view of the fact that Mr. Bryan was defeated three times his influence will not be very great. If the nomination should go to Mr. Un derwood. Mr. Bryan would fall into line and support him. As the days go by it will be.ome clearer and clear- g er that Georgia did a good day’s work when she made him her choice for the nomination. WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH THE FARMERS? Can’t we raise enough potatoes in this country to supply the demand of our home market? It seems not. Mr. H. L. Preston, editor of the Produce News, says that the price of potatoes •would go to $8 a barrel If it were not for the importations from Ireland and Belgium. And we have here in the South literally millions of acres of land adapted to the cultivation of potatoes that are unused. In fact, right here in Chatham county there are thousands of acres that would produce 100 to 200 bushels to the acre by proper cultiva tion. With the price of potatoes so high doesn’t It seem strange that enough to meet the demand of the market isn’t raised? And the prices of meat and sev eral other food products are higher than they were a few days ago. In fact, the cost of living, if statistics are to be credited, is higher than it has been in thirty years. Mr. Preston says that butter and eggs are sure to be much higher next year than they are this because they cannot be stored for a longer period than one year. If the hens don't get busier than they have been eggs will be so high that only the rich will be able to have them on their tables. There is something radically wrong when with so much land vacant there is such a scarcity of food products. With prices of meat and bread stead ily advancing it isn't surprising that the government is arranging for an International investigation of the cause of the prevailing high prices for articles of food. UNDERWOOD AND THE BANKING INTEREST One reason why Mr. Underwood is so popular with business men is that he is strongly in favor of a reform of our banking and currency system. In the newspapers generally and in the trade and financial papers particu larly he has been and is being com mended for the plank in the Demo cratic platform of Alabama calling for a banking and currency system having elasticity and preserving independent banks from any dominant financial or political control. It is stated that it was through Mr. Underwood's influence that this plank was put In the platform. He wanted it in the platform of his party in his own state in order to show that he was deeply concerned for the welfare of the business and financial interests of the country. It has brought him almost as much approval as his work in behalf of tariff revision. The fact is that Mr. Underwood is a states man who is on the lookout all the time for the interests that make for the prosperity of the country. Our banking and currency system is just about as bad as it can be. Bank ers have been calling for its reform for years and many plans have been proposed, but because it is tn politics noThing has been accomplished. fn reforming the the banking and cur rency system there ought to be no politics. The best talent in both of the great parties ought to be utilized In framing a new banking and cur rency system and when completed party lines shouldn't be observed in its consideration and adoption. We have now pending in Congress the Aldrich plan, and it Is probable that it has the support of able men In both political parties, but because it bears the name of a Republican, Democrats shouldn’t reject it. It should be considered solely on its mer its and adopted if found to be what is needed. Mr. Underwood is a strong advo cate of banking and currency reform just as he Is of tariff reform. He sees what the country needs and he uses his influence and power .as the leader of the House to supply those needs. It is possible that Congress will pass a reform banking and cur rency measure before the next Presi dent is inaugurated, but if it doesn't it is certain «that if Mr. Underwood is chosen President he will make such a reform a feature of his administration. THE CENTRAL’S EDUCATIONAL BUREAU It doesn't need a second thought to reach, the conclusion that the educa tional bureau which has been estab lished by the Central of Georgia Rail way for the benefit of its younger offi cers and which is to be extended to its employes is a good thing. The idea originated with the late Mr. Harriman, and has been found to be of great ben efit on the Union Pacific Railroad, where it has been in operation for a considerable time. There are old problems which the men new in the service and new prob lems which the men older in the serv ice know little about. The educational bureau will be .an aid to both classes. And it is to be assumed that one of the things to which special attention will be given is the talent of taking pains. The man who always takes pains never thinks that a piece of work is done until he is thoroughly satisfied that it is done right and endeavors to acquire such proficiency that he knows when it is done right is bound to suc ceed, to advance in his calling or pro fession or in whatever classification of human endeavor railroading may prop erly be placed. In the operation of a railroad the main things aimed at are economy and efficiency. It would be impossible to enumerate the problems that are pre sented under the head of economy. They relate to every department of operation. A very slight saving in the handling of traffic, a saving so slight that to the ordinary mind It would seem hardly worth attention, amounts to a big sum in the course of a year on a railroad system, and efficiency means a great saving in of life and property and damages arising from injuries. With increasing wage demands and liability laws on one Jde and resistance to increased traffic rates on the other it is apparent that the railroads, to meet heavy fixed THE WEEKLY HEWS (TWO-TIMES-A WEEK) MONDAY, MAY 6, 1912. charges and make dividends for stock holders have got to have all the econ omy and efficiency it is possible to ob tain. The Central of Georgia there fore is showing wisdom in adopting means to get them. BOSSES SUCCEED BOSSES In the Pennsylvania state convention this week, the Roosevelt Republicans, having won in the preferential pri • mary and in the local contests, claimed everything in sight. They turned the old bosses, the Penrose crowd, out, and put new men in the irrtportajit places in the organization. The old crowd was known as the Penrose-Mc- Nichol combination, and the new crowd is designated as the Flinn-Van Valkenburg combination. The new bosses of the machine say that they are honest men and intend to work solely for the public welfare. But how often have we heard that promise! But do the records of the men who compose the Flinn-Van Val kenburg combination justify the peo ple in putting confidence in them? It will be recalled what the President said of state Senatory Flinn in his Massachusetts speeches. Flinn, ac cording to the President, is one of the municipal bosses of Pittsburg, and judging from the recent political rot tenness of Pittsburg’s municipal gov ernment, Senator Flinn isn’t an im provement on Penrose. Os Van Valkenburg. the Philadelphia Ledger, an independent paper, says: “The exchange of Van Valkenburg for Penrose, and Flinn for McNichol is a step downward. Van Valkenburg possesses all the political vices of Pen rose. with the further distinguishing trait of never playing the political gai.ie fair, even with his allies," and of Flinn it says that he represents "all the sinister influences of the con tractor boss in politics which Mc- Nicho! has exercised, but to an In finitely worse degree.” Assuming that what the Ledger says is true, in Pennsylvania at least the people haven’t been benefited by swap ping Taft bosses for Roosevelt bosses, and yet we have no doubt that Col. Roosevelt will tell the people that his bosses have no other thought than to promote the Interests of the people. THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FLOODS The situation in the Mississippi Val ley. owing to the floods, is becoming more serious every day. Scores of thousands of people are homeless and the farmers have very little prospect of raising crops of any sort this year. For the merchants and wage earners the outlook is an exceedingly gloomy one. With no crops in sight there isn't likely to be much business for the merchants. Many have written to those from whom they purchased their stocks for spring and summer telling them that they would be glad to send the goods back, since they see no prospect of .being able to pay for them. For the wage earner there is only poverty and distress in sight, espec’ illy farm laborers. The me chanics can go elsewhere and find em ployment, but such isn't the case with the farm laborers, who are not well equipped’ for wandering tfr in Hhe search of work. The promise now seem to be that the flood will be a record breaker. In that event the overflowed lands will not be sufficiently dry to be fit for cultivation until sometime in June. Planted so late corn, cotton and oth er crops would be in great danger of being caught by a frost. Hence plant ing so late is extremely risky. The flood sufferers are just begin ning to feel genuinely apprehensive as to where their food supplies are to come from. Most of them managed to save enough from the flood to last a few weeks, and there have been large contributions, but It cannot be expected that those who have been contributing will continue to do so, and the supplies that were saved have pretty nearly run out. The attention of the country has been so taken up with the Titanic dis aster that the great disaster In the Mississippi valley has in a measure been overlooked. The country, how ever, isn’t going to permit the flood sufferers to starve. When the call for assistance is made there will be a prompt and generous response to it. THE EVIDENCE ACCUMULATES Hon. Timothy S. Hogan of Ohio, who gave the Morning News an interview on the political situation while here as a guest of the Hibernian Society, among other interesting things said: "if President Taft were not here to day I would say that we of the North want to see a Southern man in the White House. The South deserves this recognition. The South has men who are every whit as able as those of the North, and they should de mand the recognition they are entitled to." This is in line with what we have been saying for the last four or five years, and particularly since Mr. Un derwood became a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. There is no (Joubt that other things being equal a Southern man would be a stronger candidate in the North than a Northern man, and it is in the North that the Democrats have got to win electoral votes if they are to win the presidency this year. One of the strongest arguments that will be made in behalf of Mr. Under wood in the Baltimore convention is that he is a Southern man. The Northern people would like an oppor tunity to show that there is no feeling in that section against a Southerner for President, and it is pretty certain that the independent voters of the North would almost to a man vote the Democratic ticket in the presiden tial election if it were headed by a Southern man. Besides being a Southern man. Mr. Underwood is singularly well equipped to lead the party in a nation-wide con test. He not only stands head and shoulders above every other candidate in his knowledge of the tariff, which will be the paramount issue of the campaign, but he is a leader of unsur passed ability, having both tact and forcefulness Nn a marked degree. Senator Bankhead of Alabama, who is managing Mr. Underwood s cam- paign, is well within the probabilities whesi he says that it is his opinion that the nomination will go to Mr. Underwood. ONE TERM FOR PRESIDENTS On the last day of his campaign in Massachusetts the President made the suggestion that the presidential term should be lengthened and that a pres ident should be ineligible to a second term. The suggestion was taken up by Representative Clayton of Alabama at once and put into the shape of an amendment to the constitution. This amendment is now pending before the Judiciary Committee of the House. It provides that a President shall hold his term for six years and shall not be eligible to a second term. It is the understanding that there is a great deal of anti-third term sentiment among Democratic congress men and it is thought that the Clay ton amendment will be reported fav orably in the near future. This mat ter hasn’t received attention heretofore because the Democrats thought that the country might get the impression that their party was apprehensive that Col. Roosevelt would be nominated by the Republicans. Now. however, that the suggestion of limiting Presidents to one term has been made by President Taft the opportunity is open for amending the constitution in accord ance with it. In President Jacksons time and when Grant was seeking a third term similar legislation was proposed. In the case of Grant the House adopted a resolution declaring against a third term. All along, however, it was felt that the wise custom of limiting a president to two terms was sufficient to safeguard the country against am bitious Presidents greedy for power. It seems, however, that it has little or no weight with Col. Roosevelt. No matter how many terms he might serve he wouldn’t be satisfied, except at the head of the government, admin istering it as If he were the only man fitted to rule. It will take a long time to get the Clayton amendment adopted, if, in fact, three-fourths of the states can be got to ratify it if Congress shoula submit it to them, but the unseemly contest between the President and the ex-President in Massachusetts has so awakened the people to the danger to the republic to be apprehended from third term ambition that there may be a sentiment strong enough to cause Congress to adopt the Clayton amend ment and the states to ratify It. The diagnostician of the Brooklyn Eagle has been studying the case of an eminent American politician who has been mailing a good deal of fuss lately. The Eagle’s specialist reaches the conclusion that he Is a paranoiac and explains that paranoia is a word worth nothing tor its relation to poli tics. It is as liable to affect a party as it is to obsess an individual. A form of it is a man's belief that he is absolutely right and incapable of er ror. A vice of it Is the man’s convic tion that those who differ from him are his enemies and the' enemies of the nation, of the human race. •FFrarfoA - wit4t-..bHRy and vigor of sUitement as well as with the insanity or conceit. Any doubt of the victim's propositions works havoc of friendship, however Intimate, and converts affection to malignity, truth to falsehood, love to hatred and co operation to a desire to destroy. PERSONAL —When Mrs. Eliza Weidner, 80 years old, was buried at the Blue Church Cemetery at Coopersburg. Pa., the body was deposited in a grave dug for her twenty-one years ago. When her husband died Mrs. Weidner felt that she would follow him soon, and had her own grave dug. —The oldest woman voter in Cali fornia. Mrs. H. Lawson Hill, favors President Taft for renomination and re-election. Mrs. Hill makes her home at Lakeport, Lake county, and when she registered under the new law giv ing her the franchise she told the reg istration clerk that she was 104 years old. Rev. S. Baring Gould, author of the hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers, re cently celebrated his seventy-tighth birthday at his home in North Devon. England. For 50 years he has been a prolific writer, handling with amazing ease theological studies, historical re searches. romances, novels and ser mons. In all that time his clerical work has not suffered. CURRENT COMMENT The Baltimore Evening Sun (Dem.) says: "The French President holds office for seven years, the Argentine for six years, the Chilean for five, the Brazilian for four. 'I he Confederate constitution altered 'he federal :n re spect to this point, lengthening the term to six jears. Th’ present mo nent seems a good one to inaugurate The Nashville Democrat (Dem.) says: “Good men everywhere deplore the seemly exchange of discourteous epi thets between the President and his predecessor. It makes little difference who is to blame, the fact is lament able, for if candidates talk that way then aspirants for scats in the Legis lature are limited only by their verbal ingenuity and dialectic deftness.” The Indianapolis News (Ind.) says: “The Democrats might well find other means to economize, for the present at least, than by abolishing the commerce court. For one thing, it is an inadvis able practice to take one step and then immediately to retrace it, unless it is apparent that a grievous blunder has been made. But this has not been proved of the commerce court. The court has • not yet been fairly tried. It would be better if Congress sus pended judgment and sought to rem edy more distressing errors at Wash ington.” The New York Evening Post (Ind.) says: “Hasn't Mr. Perkins some friend to dissuade him from further posing in public as the director of American political destinies? Let him give all the money he pleases to Theodore Roosevelt, but let him spare a weary public the long screeds setting forth his exalted motives and explaining that he is the one wise and patriotic man in Wall street. Mr. Perkins may be the most amiable of gentlemen per sonally. but he should not delude him self into thinking that his fellow citi zens will either forget his record or mistake his calibre. Potatoes are cer tainly running very smail this year if George W. Perkins is the biggest one in the Roosevelt basket.” The Proud Mother By Walt Mason. "Come hither, little Mary Ann,” the doting mother said; “I have about three quarts of jute to put upon your head. I see the neighbors' daughters go to school, fixed up so fine, and I won’t have it said, my dear, that you are not in line; so let me kalsomine your face with pigments rich and rare, and put some red paint on your lips and cook and curl your hair, and push you in a narrow skirt that shows jour every curve, so you will get from rubbernecks the notice you deserve. And you must wear your snowy shoes that advertise your feet, and eke the crazy hat that scares the horses on the street, for I won't have the neigh bors say that my dear little maid is not as good as any or as stylishly ar rayed. Os course you don’t look like a child with all your paint and curls, but you’re upholstered just as well as any other girls; of course you cannot run or play, as children used to do, but we must show the neighbors’ girls they have no edge on you; of course you’re like a monkey, dear, of course it is a shame; but since the neighbors turn out apes. I have to do the same'.” Copyright, 1912, by George Matthew Adams. A Little T ragedy. It was after 11 o'clock on a winter night, writes Margaret Louise Loudon in Lippincott's. The day before it had snowed and the streets were glassy. The trolley car that I was in stopped opposite a great noisy factory, where, apparently, the men were working even at this late hour. On another corner was a cheap restaurant with a large electric sign proclaiming that the place was open all night. A man came out. He wore a short, ragged overcoat over the grimy clothes of a workman, and he carried in his hand a tin cup full of steaming coffee. He started across the street to the factory. Somehow the sight of the steam rising from the coffee was infinitely cheering. I pictured his waiting din ner pall with the coarse but welcome food. How thin and tired he had koked in the glare of the electric sign. But—l almost cried aloud with anguish. He slipped awkwardly on the ice and fell, splashing the street with the coffee. Some one near me laugh ed. The car started and I turned round to see if he would return to the res taurant. He had regained his feet and stood there, shoulders drooping and hands clutching his coat about his shivering figure. Then he bent down slowly. He was so long in rising that 1 thought of the poor old cart horses that fall in the street and lie there stubbornly, too tired to get up. Finally he picked up the cup from the dirty street, looked into it and raised it to his lips, evidently to < atch the few drops which were left in it. Then he walked slowly and painfully back in the di rection of- the factory. Played Shop Window Poker. They are telling a story this season, at least the advertising men are tell ing a story, of a battle of brains be tween the clever advertiser and the clever customer, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It happened in a local shoe store and we are printing it just to beat some trade paper to it. The local shoe store, aforementioned has been conducting a bargain sale In men’s shoes. In each pair of shoes in the window there are three new $1 bills and the sign reads, "Three of a kind take one pair.” The $3 shoes have been going rapid ly. Recently, however, a big young man entered the store and asked: “Do you sell these shoes according to poker rules, as advertised?" "Yes, sir, 1 ' answered the clerk, who had played a bit himself. “Good. I wear a No. 9. Wrap me up two pairs of them." He received the shoes and handed over $3. “Excuse me,” said the clerk, “these shoes come to $6. You took two pair." “That's all right," said the young man, "but three of a kind beat two pair.” "I know that." responded the clerk, promptly, but three of a kind don’t beat four nines." The customer paid. She Feared an Explosion. John Temple Graves is a long-dis tance, never-fail, always-on-the-job public speaker, and his catalogue of epigrams and anecdotes is as big as a standard dictionary, says the Woman's World. Here is what his wife con siders his very best: “A robust old woman in the moun tains of North Georgia was ill for the first time in her life and a doctor was sent for. Partly by persuasion and partly by force the physician induced his patient to swallow some big qui nine capsules—a simple enough opera tion. which, however, scared the old woman almost to death. She was soon able to sit up. and her daughter thought she would give the convales cent a treat. She took her mother's corncob pipe from the shelf or mantel, filled it with tobacco and. picking up a live coal between two sticks, started with it toward the bed. “ ‘Ma,’ she said, brightly, ‘jes’ look what I got fer ye,’ "The old woman saw the pipe and the live coal. “ ‘Git away from me. Sary,’ she screamed in terror. ‘Take away dat fire! Take hit away! Don't yer know Is done plumb filled up wi’ cair tridges?' ” Degeneration. The tragedies of early married life were illustrated in an incident that occurred not long ago in a Baltimore household, says Lippincott's. A young wife sought out her mother in-law with a most agonized expres sion and threw herself into a chair with an outburst of grief. “Has anything happened to Henry?” anxiously asked the mother-in-law. “He’s taken to staying out at nights'.” wailed the unhappy wife. “It doesn't seem possible! How long has this been going on? How late does he staj- away?" “Well.” sobbed the young woman, “you know he usually leaves the of fice at 5 o'clock. Night before last he did not get home until «, and last night he didn't set foot in the house until twenty minutes after six! Oh. what shall I do? What shall I do?” Was on to the Bott. The bookkeeper came out looking mysterious and called for the office boy, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. “What are you doing?" “Nuthin'." “The boss wants to see you right away. 1 guess it's the bounce for yours." "Nix." declared the office boy. “I know what he wants.” “What does he want?” "He wants to know what new play ?r» have been signed." "Beware of the Movement," Said a Frenchman. "Which Generate* It* Own Song*.’’ From May American Magazine. Ray Stannard Baker, writing a re port of the Lawrence strike, says that the movement in Lawrence was a sing ing movement. "It is the first strike I ever saw which sang,” he says. Mr. Baker goes on: “I shall not scon foiget the curious life, the strange sudden fire, of the mingled nationalities at the strike meetings when they broke into the universal language of song. And not onlj’ at the meetings did they sing, but at the soup houses and In the streets. 1 saw a group of womcn-strikers, who were peeling potatoes at a relief sta tion, suddenly- break into the swing of 'The International.’ They hare a whole book of songs fitted to familiar tunes—the ‘Eight-hour Song,' the ‘Ban ner of Labor,’ ‘Workers, Shall the Masters Rule Us?’ and so on—but the favorite of all was the Socialist song called 'The Internationale.’ Here are two stanzas: Arise, ye prisoners of starvation! Arise, ye wretched of the earth. For justice thunders condemnaticn, A better world's in birth. No more tradition’s chains shall bind Arise, ye slaves! no more in thrall! The earth shall rise on new founda tions. We have been naught, we shall be all. Refrain: 'This the final conflict, Let each stand in his place, The Industrial Union Shall be the human race. "It is not short of amazing, the pow er of .1 great idea to weld men to gether. Each morning at the strike meeting they called the roll of the races—Armenians. Syrians. Germans. Jews. American Italians. Poles, and so on—and as each was called, the repre sentative arose and gave his report for his people. There was in it all a pe culiar intense, vital spirit—a religious spirit, if you will—that I never felt be fore in any strike. Moreover, the meetings were conducted with the ut most publicity—no secret conclaves, no underhand dealing. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people to gether, but aside from the skilled men some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole the strike was conducted with little violence." Milking Cow* to Mutic. London Cablegram to the New York Herald. It has been said that fish sometimes will be lured into the net by the soft piping of the fisherman when all other baits have failed but Mr. Josiah Grant of Wisconsin has come over to show how tho cow can be prevailed upon to yield more milk bj- the playing of mu sic that sympathizes with her poetic soul. Mr. Josiah Grant is no dreamer. He believes that most of the unfortunate cows that now give no milk can be “cured" with just the necessary sen timental music to calm their nerves and restore their placid temperament. “It is no sentiment,” said Mr. Josiah Grant to a correspondent to whom he was anxious to explain the object if bls mission to England. “It is down right business. If I get the British farmers to listen to me I mean to convince them.” He says he has already convinced some experts in the United States and he wishes to carry bls benefactions to the old country. At milking time, according to Mr. Josiah Grant, the best music to play is a slow, soft tune which will soothe the troubled nerves of the cows. Young cows prefer light compositions. All cows like to hear a waltz. They revel in a waltz, but care must be taken that thej‘ do not dance. And the milk turns sour, if they are treated to a vulgar music hall air The wedding march from “Lohen grin” has been found to have a good effect on many animals and to yield milk of a very superior rich quality Harmoniums are, as a rule, safe to ex cite a yield of extra-special, as they saj- of the “limmor.ade” they make at Ballyhooly. But, jnind you. no or chestras A full brass hand has been known to send cows speeding across the meadows, with swirling tails and voices raised in loud protest, and all the milk scared out of them. The great point Mr. Josiah Grant insists upon is that the cow is a very gentle, peace-loving animal. Act ac cordingly. The Fifth City of the World. From Henry B. Fuller's “Chicago” in the May Century. Just as the American West looms up as the most sudden improvisation in history, so Chicago stands out as the quickest and- vastest growth in the West. Three short generations com prise the development of the fifth city of the world. Chicago is the center of our great, new. middle region—the pulsing heart that beats forth and brings back those vital fluids of thought and action which make for a strong, stirring, and highly charged life. Young in years, rich in energy, Chi cago combines hopes still fresh with experiences accumulated through swift and incessant activity. The city pos sesses both the firm confidence that follows on signal accomplishment and the high expectations that are justified by a momentum which still continues unchecked. Chicago is qualified to lead —and leads. Vigor, confidence, and in itiative have won for her the authori tative captainship of the great mid region of our land. The Box He Lott. Six years was his age, and he had gone out to his first party, says the Baltimore American. He had enjoy ed himself immensely, and the only dis appointment was that he hadn't been able to take sister Sue with him, as she had a bad cold. “Now, Freddy,” said his hostess to him, as he was about to take his departure, “I want you to take the box of chocolates home to your sister, and here's another for yourself for your trouble.” Freddy, like a well-behaved boy. thanked her nicely, and trotted off home with his nurse, the two boxes of chocolates clutched tightlj- in his two fat little hands. Unfortunately, he hadn't taken hold of nursie's hand, and he stumbled sud denly. so that one box of chocolates spread themselves on the dirty, mud dy pavement. 'Freddy picked himself up and looked at the box intact in his hand; then he looked at the one in the mud. "Poor Sue,” said he. Paternal Pride. A Northern Missouri justice of the peace, whose fence marks the bound ary between Missouri and lowa, is much impressed with his position, says Everybody's Magazine. One day he saw his son and the hired man fighting and ran toward them, shouting: “Cease, in the name of the state of Missouri!” Just then the combatants '-rashed through the fence and the old man halted. “Give it to him, son!" he whooped. ‘‘l've lost my jurisdiction." STEAMSHIP SCHEDULES Ships sail on Central Time, one hour slower than city time. For New York- • Steamships City of Memphis, Chat tahoochee. City of Macon and Talla hassee carry only first cabin passen gers City of St. Louis. May 14. 23. City of Montgomery. May 9, is, zs. City of Savannah. May 11, 21, City of Atlanta, May 7, 16, 20. Steamers to Jacksonville will sail Sp. m-. Central Time. The Baltimore and Philadelphia steamers will sail at sp. m., Central Time. Subject to change without notice. For Baltimore, Merrimack, Thursdaj’, Baj’ 9. Suwannee, Saturday, May 11. For Philadelphia- Lexington. Tuesday. Maj’ 11. Quantico. Friday. Maj’ 10. For Jacksonville. Steamers daily, except Wednesday and Sunday, 6 p. m., Central Time. Will Our Faith in the Soul Save Civilization? From Current Literature. Souls are out of fashion, declared the late William James at Oxford four vears ago. Even in the year 1874 Prof Tyndall, in giving his presidential ad dress before the British Association, made an inquest into the death of animism and held a funeral oration over its corpse; and the cultured pub lic was well' prepared by th.e Darwin ian theorj' to bid it a regretful fare well. But now William McDougall, the eminent “psychologist and philos opher of Oxford, is making the at tempt to bring the soul again into fashion, declaring not onlj’ that it is not a thing of the past but that, if society is to survive, it must free it self from the clutches of a mechanis tic materalism and return to a sound conviction of a life after the grave. In a newly published “history and de fense of animism” he points out the fallacies of those who have rejected the soul from the realm of science and philosophy; attempts to show that the arguments against animism do not logically necessitate its rejection; points out the inadequacy of the prin ciples of mechanism to explain the facts of general physiology, of human behavior, and psychology; and finally indicates a novel view of the nature of the soul” in harmony with all the facts established by empirical science.” The belief in the soul and in a life beyond the grave is essential to ths future of religion and civilization, de clares the Oxford philosopher. “I be lieve that if science should continue to maintain the mechanistic dogma, and constantly to repudiate animism, the belief in any form of life after the death of the body will continue rap idly to decline among all civilized peo ple, and will, before many generations have passed away, become a negligible quantity.” But Prof. MacDougall claims the utmost impartialitj’ in his discussions, realizing as he does that “to many minds it must appear noth ing short of a scandal that anyone occupying a position in an academy of learning, other than a Roman Catholic seminary, should in this twentieth century defend the world old notion of the soul of man.” He admits that most of those who have defended animism have been moved by a desire to support religious doc trines which they have embraced on non-scientific grounds. He disclaims any similar bias. She Like* Amereksn Men. I San Francisco Dispatch to New Yorl Tribune. Lady Clifton Robinson of London widow of Sir Clifton Robinson, whe was knighted for his achievements ir tramway construction, announced hei decision to-day to make her home it California and will buy a home in this state. She is greatly pleased with America, and in an interview to-daj paid a high tribute to American men. Declaring that she was not a suffrag ist. Lady Robinson said: “No, I don't want to vote. Os course the American men are so nice about it that they don’t even think of refusing women the right to vote when the re quest is made. That is one of the rea sons I have decided to remain here ir California—your men are so awfully nice. Nicer than the English? I think that question is answered already.” Lady Robinson and a companion Miss Olive Morrison of Chicago, ar rived here a day or two ago in the steamer Korea, after a tour of the world, and in a few days will leave for Los Angeles, where she formerly passed several months. She is one of the richest women in England. Her husband was possessed of great wealth most of which went to the widow. She has a son in England who is about 21 years old. Trick* Hit Way Into Jail. From the Philadelphia Record. Milwaukee May I.—Well dressed with considerable money in his pock et. and apparently a well-to-do citi zen, a man who says his name is Leonard Schefferling. 32 years old. ask ed to be arrested on a charge of vag rancj to-day. His wish was granted, whereupon he admitted that Scheffer ling is not his name and that he does not live in Milwaukee. “I want to serve this sentence to ease my conscience,” he told the court. Years ago I did something—no mat ter what—and it has bothered me ever since that time. I feel that I should pay the penalty, and I have suffered for years. I did not know what to do. If I confessed in my home town and was sent to jail I would be ruined for life. Yet my conscience would not let me rest. So I finally decided to so arrange my business as to be absent several months, and have mj’self ar rested and locked in a prison 'cell. Maybe now my conscience will let me rest.” Storing a Loan. A Memphis character, well known about town as brilliant but boozy, was persistent in his applications for loans and extremely careless about re paying them, says the Saturday Even ing Post. Several years ago this man had in duced a local bank to loan him S4O and had given his note therefor. At the end of each three months he invariably appeared and asked that the note be renewed; and. as there was nothing else to do, the bank al ways renewed it. One day he went into the bank and said to the cashier: “I'd like to renew that paper of mine you have here.” , ", c ® rta , inly ” r *Pl>e<l the cashier; “I'll fix it up for you." The cashier made the proper prepa rations for the renewal, and as he was fixing up the paper he said: ' Sa >’- t, hc directors were talking about this paper of yours the other day. They- decided thej- wouldn't charge you interest on it any longer." “That's very considerate of them.” was the reply “I am glad to hear it. I an ? V. er to them.” “No.” continued the cashier, “we re ■not going to charge you interest, we're going to charge you storage!"