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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."
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and Philadelphia steamers will sail at
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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!"