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4 THE SEMI‘WEEKEY JOURNAL Bnter*d at the Atlanta PoMoffic* as Mall Matter of the Second Class. ■ » Tta Ram 1-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesdays and Fridays, and "’•*'’2 *" U ,T* for all th* twice-*-week star route malls It cbntatnw the news from all P®**' wurM bfousht over a leased wire in to The Journal office. It has a staff of dlstln auiahe-1 contributors, with stron< Agricultural. Veterinary, Juvenile, Home, Book and other departments of special value to the home and farm. Arents wanted tn every community in the South. Baadttances may be mad* by poetoffle* money order, express money order, registered *** , Pem->ns *who send postage stamps In payment for subscriptions are requested to send thoae ot tl.e f-eent denomination Amounts larger than 50 cents postofflee order, express riT wbo wuh tlwir papers changed should give both the old and the new PfBLIC-The only traveling representatives of The Journal are C- J. O'Farrell. J. A. Bryan. Jas. Callaway and W. G. McNelley. Any other resents himself as connected with The Journal as a traveling agent is a fraud, and we * Till bo roapcnsible only for money paid to the above named representatives. I - ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER IX 1901. THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT. For the third time thia country has been shocked by assaults upon the life of its chief executive, two of which accomplished their devilish purpose. It bow seems that a kind Providencce will save the intended Victim of the teat It seems passing strange to law-abiding citizens of the United States that thought of asaaASinatine its president should ever enter the mind of even most depraved creature, as liberty is so large here and all the rights of every person so fu»f guaranteed and completely protected. And yet within the life-time of one generation, within a little more than thirty-live years, we have seen three presidents struck down by assassins. Dur ing that period France has had a president slain, Russia a czar, Italy a king, Austria a queen consort and Persia a shah. But this free government, the greatest republic in aU history, this refuge of the oppressed of all nations, shows a record unmatched in recent history of murderous designs against the head of the government whom the people's free choice has placed in power. This does not indicate the character of our people. Far from it. Nowhere are toe chief officers of the government held in higher popular re gard or more general affection. The indignation and wrath that were evident last night In every part of this vast country Indicate the feeling with which the masses of our people regard their president. They cannot be characterised hy the acts of madmen, or the delegated agents of anarchist organisations. We flung our gates wide open when the republic was established and Invited all , to enter. Among the multitudes of the good who have come there have been some who were devilish and Infamous. The warning given long ago that we should scru tinise those who would associate themselves with us and take part in our af fairs has been too laxly heeded. The dastard's deed at Buffalo yesterday will arouse us to a better sense of duty and necessary precaution. Another thing must be done. The propaganda of murder and anarchy which has been carried on in the United States, which flamed forth in the Hay market riots, instigated and ar ranged the attempt upon President McKinley's life, and has caused many other crimes -nust be throttled to its deserved extermination. The words of George Washington, uttered in the hour of supreme danger to ©or struggle for independence: "Put none but Americans on guard!” should be adapted to our present conditions and perils. We do not mean that all citizens who were not born tn the United States should be excluded from participation In the government or rtiare tn its responsibilities and honors, but that there should be the best possible precautions against those who are incapable of ap preciating and taking in the spirit of our institutions. This last desperate stroke of anarchy at our government is the more revolt ing and hideous because it was directed against one Who embodies and illus trates the noblest and loveliest traits of American manhood, whose life is so clean that it may be held up as an example and Inspiration to the youth of the land. > Our presidents have, without exception, been men of high and noble charac ter, but not one of them has been more universally beloved than William Me ytnley. No sectional lines bound the extent of the affection in wnich he is held. The dearest purpose of his heart has been to soothe the last lingering soreness tbs* was left by our civil strife, and his hand has laid upon it the balm of heal ing as no other hand ever did. And as be lies on the bed of pain and peril a whole nation sends up its prayers to God that he may be spared to continue this blessed work, that he may be restored to the country which has long held him so close to its heart and feels such a lofty pride in his virtues. And with these prayers for the sake of the nation and the sufferer, ascend others srith equal earnestness, and even more tenderness, that he may soon be fully restored to her to whom the tenderest sympathies of millions go out in thia hour of her bitter trial. May God spare the president! May God save our country from all that can disturb its peace or threaten its agfatr. EXPEL WELLINGTON FROM fHE SENATE. It is the misfortune of Maryland that she has George L. Wellington for one of her United States senators. Ob the evening when President McKinley was shot down and while It was sup posed that his death was near at hand Wellington said to a nc-wspaper re porter ' and I are enemies. I have nothing good to say about hkn. and trader the circumstances do not care to say anything bad. I am Indifferent to the whole tmtter.” jt was so Incredible that any man reputed to be decent and who had been the associate of respectable persons, not to say one who occupies the exalted office of Unite* State* senator from one of the oldest and most famous states of the union, rould have been guilty of such a brutal expression, that the public pre ferred to believe that Senator Wellington had been grossly misrepresented. But when ths interview was read over to him hours after It first appeared he refused to deny it. , In such a ease silence can only be construed as affirmation. Ns man would omit an opportunity to repudiate such words If he had not spoken them, or did not approve them. George L. Wellington has placed himself in the category and company of the rufltons who stood about the bulletin boards in several cities last Friday even tag and rejoiced over a deed that shocked the moral sense of civilised mankind. He to less excusable than these comparatively insignificant blackguards every one of whom was knocked down or kicked by those who heard his fiendish chuckle. Ho has branded himself as the apologist of anarchy and assassination. While the nation was plunged into grief and deep apprehension over the at toespt to slay the president, over an assault upon our system of government Itself, this senator of the United States had the hardihood to proclaim. "I am Indifferent to the whole matter.” because “McKinley and I are enemies.” jt to bard to comprehend how one who has had Wellington's opportunities and advantages could still possess a soul so smalt and cherish a spite so unspeak ably contemptible that his views on the attempted assassination of a president and all that It signified could be controlled by personal enmity against the man who bad been struck down. A private cltisen who had been dangerously and, gosalMj' totally, wounded by an unprovoked assailant would merit and receive tbe condemnation of all who heard his cruel remark. How, then, can we char acterise such conduct on the part of a United States senator toward the presi dent of the United States, who is so beloved for his nobility of nature and the purity of his life? Is the man who could utter the words which Wellington does not deny a fit person to sit tn the highest council of the nation? Is he worthy to be trusted with affairs that involve the honor and welfare of the country? We think not. What does the United States senate think about It? The senate is the sole judge of the qualifications of Its members. Moral dis qualifications should be as fatal as statutory provisions to a claim or a title to a seat in the senate. No gentleman in the senate can now respect Wellington: no patriot there or elsewhere can trust him; no man with a right mind and an hon est heart can fail to reprobate his meanness. The senate should purge itself of Wellington. We hope to see a resolution for his expulsion offered on the first day of the senate’s very next session, ordi nary or extraordinary, and we trust that it will receive the vote of every senator who is qualified to pass upon It. George L. Wellington is a reproach to the state of Maryland and a disgrace to the United States senate. Put him out! WHICH IS CORRECT? There has occurred in the Ecumenical Methodiet conference, now In seeslon In London. a clash of opinion as to the na ture and purpose of the South African war. Sir Charles Skelton, former mayor of Sheffield In welcoming the American dele gates denounced the war and declared that ’Mell is let loose in South Africa.” He urged the members of the conference to go forth to denounce such wars and make them Impossible in the future. On the day after this Impassioned speech was delivered the conference was treated to one which was about as red hat on the other side of* the question. a Dr. Leonard, of New York, thanked God for what Great Britain Is doing in South Africa and stated that it was car luring out God's design In that part of the earth. Now the question arises as to whether ex-Mayor Skelton or Dr. Leonard has read aright the lesson and divine purpose of the South African war. ft would bo interesting to know which of these gentlemen Is the more familiar with the plans of the Almighty and best qualified to explain them. We often hear men who are not es teemed especially wise In human affairs explain to us all the plans of the omnis cient and omnipotent ruler of the uni verse. We hear one man attribute certain events to the power of a benevolent deity and another declare that the same events are the rsult of the machinations of the devil. Ordinary mortals who have no means of ascertaining the intentions and operations of the powers of good and the powers of evil In this world are perplexed by these conflicting reports. The revelations of the Bible seem to give no authority for the belief that the Brit ish were chosen by God to subjugate the Boers because they have done so, or that the Boers are the persecuted right eous because they have suffered so se verely. A Biblical precedent against the former theory is furnished in the story of the capture and enslavement of God’s chosen people by the Egyptians and equal Bib lical authority against the latter supposi tion is supplied by the fate of the foes of Israel who were put to the sword. It is possible that the «nan who de clared that "hell la let loose in South Africa" la as intelligent as the good doc tor who can see nothing In the' blood and slaughter that has been going on there THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901. except the fulfillment of a benevolent de sign. The fact that the Boers worship the same God as the British raises another difficulty. The annals of history bring forth ten thousand more. There has seldom been a conflict be tween two nations who looked up to the same supreme power in which each of the combatants did not have as strong a faith in the righteousness of its cause and its claims upon the Almighty as Its adversary. , The doctrine that the right always suc ceeds in war is the enthronement of phys ical might as the moral principle of the universe. Napoleon’s cynical observation led hkn to declare that Providence fights on the side of the heaviest artillery, but expe rience has proved a hundred times that a greater lie has seldom been uttered. The faith that there is a power above the machinations and struggles of men lives among the masses of men but it of ten requires a long stretch of time to re veal the line which this overruling power follows in working its will. The old hymn tells us that "God moves In a mysterious way His wonders to perform.”. We do not suppose that the convictions of any reasoning person as to the relative righteousness of either the British or the Boer cause will be changed by the assurance of any other person that he knows what God is taking In the South African war and why he is taking it. THE CORN CROP. « There are so many conflicting state ments about the corn crop as to make it probaole that the shortage has been exaggerated. The New York Journal of Commerce calls attention to the incongruous state ments concerning the crop that have been given out by some statisticians. The editor of the American Agriculturist, for instance, says the crop on September 1 showed a decline of five and a half points and yet raised his former estimate of the crop from 1,100,000.000 to 1,200,000,000 bush els. Both of these statements cannot be true. Another thing which some of the sta-, tlsticiens have failed to take Into account is the fact that the drouth of 1894 was quite as general and of much longer du ration than the drouth of the present year upon which the lowest estimate of the corn production is mainly based. The drouth of 1894 continued beyond the middle of August, The drouth of this year was broken during the first week of August and since then abundant rains have fallen and the condition of the corn crop has improved very much. In spite of the great drouth of 1894 the corn yield was about 1,200,000,000, an av erage of 19.4 bushels per acre. As the acreage of the present crop is nearly one-third greater than the acre age in 1894 and the conditions at least quite as good as they were then it is reasonable to expect a com crop far in excess of 1,900,000 000 bushels. Unless it should be cut off by an unusually early frost the crop will probably reach 1,500,- 000,000 bushels. There are many reasons for the belief that most of the estimates which have been circulated so industriously have been far too low. Speculators have had a large hand in this business. The corn crop will un doubtedly be short, but by no means as short as many estimates have indicated. A UNITED COUNTRY. As the leap of Curtius into the gulf that yawned in Rome restored the unity of the imperial city, so the blood of the stricken president has helped to cement the union of the lately severed sections of our country. There has been no distinction between north and south in the feelings aroused by the deed of the would-be assassin. In each section the dastardly assault has been equally deplored and condemned with equal indignation and wrath. The sympa thy of the south has gone out to the president and his devoted wife in equal measure with that of the north. Public men and private citizens in both sections have felt and voiced the common senti ment. From the people of every state, every city and every hamlet prayers bear ing the same pleadings have gone up to God. Veterans of the Confederacy have spoken out their condemnation of the cruel and infamous act of the anarchist In terms as strong as those that have come from Grand army posts. The south ern press and the press of the north have at last come into perfect unison. Political predilections hava been ignored and party lines obliterated. The people of all sections, all parties and all classes have -come together in common cause against anarchy, in com mon devotion to the government and com mon concern and yearning for the re covery of the president. One touch of na ture, one thrill of patriotism has revealed the kinship and drawn closer the tie that binds the whole country together. In the dispensation of providence this sad event may have been sent for the purpose of linking the hearts of our peo ple more firmly together, leading them to kindlier consideration of each other, a better comprehension of their common interests and indivisible destiny. HESTER’S COTTON REPORT. The annual reports of Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton exchange, are always awaited with great interest. Mr. Hester has established a reputation for reliability, as well as enterprise, which gives his reports high value in public es timation. Last night he Issued his report for the cotton year of 1900-01 in which he puts the crop raised last year at 10,383,422 bales, an Increase of 947,006 over the crop of 1899-1900. The crop was largely underestimated by most cotton dealers, and many of them refused up to a few months ago to concede that it would go over 10,000,000 bales. This is the old story and it will probably be repeated in the average estimates of the crop now pmtur- ing, though it is certain that this crop has suffered very severely from unfavor able seasons. Most of the estimates of the last crop by the national agricultural bureau have been much more correct than they were generally believed to be when issued. This is especially true of the earlier bureau's estimates. According to Mr. Hester’s figures the crop of Texas, including Indian Territory, increased 1,218,000 bales as compared with last year. / The crop in the group of states consist ing of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Utah and Kansas decreased 179,000 bales, while there was a decrease of 92,000 bales in the group of states consisting of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia. The average commercial value of the crop is put by Mr. Hester at $47.63 per bale, considerably more than any aver age in many years. The immense increase in the value of the crop is shown by comparison with the two previous crops, the figures being $494,567,549, against $363,784,820 for last year and $282,722,987 for year before last. The cotton crop of 1900-01 was by many millions of dollars the most valuable ever produced. One of the most Interesting parts of Mr. Hester's report is that which refers to the great advance of the south in the manu facture of cotton. The total number of spindles in the south on September 1, 1901, was 6,531,694, an increase since September 1, 1900, of 264,731. During the year 25 cotton mills were built in the south, making the total num ber 6&. The consumption by southern mills was divided as follows: Alabama, 164,357 bales; an increase of 16,- 435. Arkansas, 1,729; a decrease of 651. Georgia, 354,499; an Increase of 15,389. Ken tucky, 23,985; a decrease of X 564; Louis iana, 16,527; an increase of 107. Missis sippi, 24,303; an increase of 1,753. Mis souri, 4,931; an increase of 783. North Carolina, 434,978; a decrease of 708. South Carolina, 510,486; an increase of 13,340. Tennessee, 35,407; a decrease of 2,340. Texas, 12,985; a decrease of 5,062. Virginia, 36,744; a decrease of 11,683. Total con sumption of cotton in the south, 1,620,931; an increase over last year of 23,819, and over year before last of 221,532. It will be seen that while South Caro lina still leads in the quantity of cotton consumed by southern mills, Georgia shows a greater Increase of consumption than any other state. In North Carolina, which is the second southern state in cotton manufacturing, Georgia being third, there was a decrease in consumption of 788 bales, while Geor gia's increase of consumption increased 15,389 bales. This is a fine showing for Georgia and indicates that she is gaining substantially on the Carolinas in the manufacture of cotton. During the last 12 months there has been a comparative depression in mill circles, owing mainly to Chinese difficul ties and competition between northern and southern mills. This feeling has been strongest in northern mills, but has had its effect in the south also. , The outlook has brightened during the last 60 days. The consumption of American cotton by northern mills during the year Mr. Hes ter puts at 2,050,000 bales, a decrease of 250,000, while the consumption of southern mills Increased 23,819 bales. Mr. Hester takes a very hopeful view of southern cotton mill prospects. He says that had all the mills run as they did last year, including the new concerns in operation, their consumption would have reached 1,725,000 bales. He claims that with anything like fair trade the latter amount ‘should be ex ceeded during the coming season. He shows that Including those which commenced building last year there are now 42 new mills in course of construc tion in the south with 846,214 spindles, showing that the work of building up the industry is still going on at a rapid rate,'though the conditions do not stand comparison with last year’s phenomenal results. The world's consumption of American cotton for the year covered by his report was 10,161,000 bales, against 10,996,000 for 1899-1900 and 10,759,000 for 1898-99. The total visible and invisible supply of American cotton in the world on Sep tember 1, 1901, 1,431,000 bales, against 1,- 125,000 last year, an Increase of 306,000, and the total visible and invisible supply of all kinds of cotton in the world Septem ber 1, 1901, 2,185,000, against 1,738,000 last year, an increase of 447,000. He gives the receipts of new cotton of the crop of 1901-1902 at delivery ports at bales, against 22,620 last year. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago News. Bankrupts are broken, but idiots are only cracked. Better do a few things well than attempt to do many. When some people are unable to do a thing they boast of It. Many a woman studies her glass to the neglect of her heart. If a girl has teeth like pearls she’s never as dumb as an oyster. All women are born equal, but some spoil it by getting married. Nothing aggravates a girl so much as her inability to make a man angry. It some men would work more and hope less they would get along better. The bachelor guests at a wedding are com pelled to contemplate matrimony. A genial man is one who enjoys fun and comfort at the expense of other men. Love Is responsible for a good many frosts in summer and for a few hot waves in winter. Never enter into a partnership with a man whose wife is president of a woman-suffrage club. Howison Should Withdraw. Albany Argus. It Is difficult for any impartial man to re sist the conclusion that where there has been so much smoke there must be some fire. It may be that Admiral Howison is capable of rendering a fair and impartial decision, but he Is so generally suspected of bias against Schley that he ought to relieve the court of his mem bership therein, and he should do so without other prompting than his own sense of honor and propriety. WOMAN SAVIORS. BY REV. WALKER LEWIS. New York city has a great many women of rare gifts and graces, of exquisite culture and attraction; but on none of these ought the eyes of the metropolis, and indeed of the whole country, to rest more grate fully and admiringly than upon Miss Frances R. Miller. Full-dressed and hatted though she was, this brave, soulful girl leaped from the deck of a yacht, whose male passengers dared not do it, and swam into Pelham bay August 25 to save a drowning boy! And she succeeded. She was not known to him. Neither he nor his friends had any claim upon her for tnat risk of life. She ought have shrunk from the im perious call that her heart felt at the boy’s peril to go to his relief and hid den in the weakness of her sex and in the duty her male attendants knew to be theirs and not hers. She might have impatiently recoiled from taking up the neglected work of others by nature better fitted to battle with the elements than was she, and let the boy sink while she wept over his drown ing. But she did nothing of the kind, and giving life to risk she snatched the drowning lad from a watery de struction. It was a great deed. It was equal to Schley’s heroism upon the deck of the Brooklyn off Santiago or to Wheeler’s before Santiago’s trenches and armed Spaniards. AU honor to Miss Frances R. Miller! There were two qualities the girl must have had to execute this attempt. She had a heart to feel. Without this deep instinct of sympathy she never would have plunged into the brine for that unknown boy. Others, many of them, would have felt a passing sensation of horror at his danger, and cared more for their dress than for "his life. But this woman has a great heart, and all things but helping are forgotten in the peril of another by the great hearted. Still there was another thing with out which her true heart would have been powerless to execute its piteous resolve. She must have been mistress of the waves. That she was. The ca pacity of help she had acquired by practice in the sport and exercise of swimming. Where heart and' hand went together, rescue followed the movement. Boys and men are in the sea by the thousands. Their own parents have not succeeded in keeping them in the boat or in rescuing them when overboard. Evil habits have drawn them into the flood, and they are drowning every day. The gay crowds sail by and gaze upon them as they sink, but it would spoil their sport and their suits to leap into the billows after them. “Why don’t some one throw out the lifeline?” is often asked by thousands who neither throw it nor go after it. The cigarette, liquor, licentiousness are breaking like the Johnstown horror over the unsuspecting, and in their muddy and remorseless byjows boys and men are getting drowned. The social evil runs six feet deep through the streets of our cities, and Instead of ditching against it or trying to filter the flood. It is let alone to drown all it can. Intemperance in drink or in the cigarette use is adding tens of thousands every year to the lists of the destroyed. Nevertheless, for merchandise's sake, these perils are condoned, tolerated and sometimes defended! Then, woman, it is time for you to begin the work of rescuing men. Res cue work for women is Christ-like. It is well to recognize man’s need of res cue likewise, and leap into the flood after him. Oh, for more women of the Miller heart and hand! It would lessen drowning everywhere. The crowded cars on a late trip Politics Corrupt in This State. CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Sept. 5. Editor Journal. After a tour of nine weeks’ constant work I am back home again shaking hands with friends and enjoying their greetings. I am glad to note the wide-spread and profound interest in the coming Tabernacle meetings. We shall have the largest corps of efficient preachers this year that we have ever had, and I believe the peo ple not only feel the need of great religious awakening, but that they are earnestly praying for it. Personally, I want to see and feel the greatest religious awakening North Georgia has ever experienced. This shall not be a rellgio-pollttco cam paign. It shall be conducted along the lines of repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, for wfi may say what we will about reform ation but the only permanent reform ation that can come to the human race will be through the personal re generation of each individual soul. In this dearth of religious Interest and enthusiasm which the church has been passing through humanity can realize that man does not live by bread alone. McKinley and prosperity may fill the pocket and then leave an empty soul. We old people and middle aged people need more religion, and the time never was in the history of the United States when the young people needed the grace of God and the restraining power of religion more than they need it today. The boys are going to the devil in groups and squads. The girls are going into fashion and fondness for dress, and disinclination to en gage in those pursuits which strength en the body, ennoble the mind and beautify character. Our boys are dev ilish and our girls are silly, and I don’t know which is more hurtful to character, devilishness or silliness. You may talk about a girl having a pretty mouth or a pretty eye or a pret ty foot or beautiful hair. To the dogs with all these things, a beautiful character is so far above and beyond all such things that they ought not to be mentioned in a week of each other. The average young man seems to im agine that he must drink whisky and cuss to be a gentleman, but I rather be a dog than a gentleman if that’s the qualifications of a gentleman. Re ligion teaches the boys to “first seek the kingdom of God and his righteous ness and all other v...ngs will be add ed unto them.” We want everybody to feel that they are invited to come and enjoy the meetings with us. We will feed them as long as we have got a crust of bread and pray that God may feed them also upon heavenly bread and water of life. In glancing over our home papers to day I find that there is a growing in terest in candidates and political issues in Georgia. There is one criticism pretty gener ally used, and that is: Why begin to agitate so early? Twelve months ahead of primaries, fifteen months ahead of elections. Os course this cry is not raised by the friends ot prohibition, but ft is the clamor of the saloon gang. To begin early means organization, and organization means everything. Here tofore we have let matters go along; courthouse rings and district enques have gotten in their work through their little machines and made it Impossible tor the God-fearing, good citizens of this state to do anything, but we pro pose to begin and lift the calf over the gap when he is young and lift him every day until we will be used to lift ing him when he is a full grown steer. The difference between a pile of scrap iron and a locomotive engine is the fact that the engine is organized iron and the scrap iron is not organized. The courthouse cliques and rings and HHT jWIIkBb ■a • ■BBL ■ -’wwl ■k I " 4 . L • * Ik Ji caused me to share my seat with a young man. He impressed me at once with his ability and gentlemanliness, and conversation drifted Into matters touching the sin and cure of drunk enness. He had been an awful drinker. One day a lovely girl he knew went after him in the sea. •‘John, why don’t you try the Keely cure and quit drinking?” He hadn’t the money, and freely said as much, saying further that he would not ask help of his father. The next night her pin money savings for years were in a check for $l5O, and this she would have pressed Into his hands. Declin ing her gift, his soul was so moved by her interest in him, he resolved to go. He diu, was cured, and is today a splendid business ran and her hus band. Was it Keely cure that saved him? No; that was the lifeline which her fair hands threw him as he was sinking, and with that she drew him to land and life. Women of the church, follow the northern and the southern girl Into the life-saving service! It is certainly a noble outlay of service you can ren der your Lord, for he is every drown ing man’s brother, and motherhood as well, for every drowning boy Is some mother’s son. What young man have you, fair readers, sought and asked and entreated to give up intemper ance and gambling? Are your hands too soft, is your heart to hard to let you throw them one line for escape from the roaring billows? Join the life saving service! Somebody’s husband, or brother, or boy, if not yours, will then find help in the hour of despair. Whatever Greek saved a life was crowned by his country with a chaplet of distinction, and our government medals the heroes of the stormy surf beat. Let our women become greater and ascend to higher distinction for life-saving serv’?e in the billowy sea of tempation. Miss Miller richly de serves a statue for her noble daring and unselfishness. But service of the girl who saved her lover from drunk enness, and other like acts of best women, deserve notice in higher re gions of reward, and are destined to get it from the lips of the King, who sees and remembers. You can’t help save them! Then, for heaven's sake, don’t push them out of the boat or over the rail into the sea. If your voice and hand cannot be enlisted to save, let them not be used to destroy. Heaven save our drowning boys and brothers and fathers, and lift them out of brine into blessedness by the ministry of wide awake women! - political gangs have b*en the locomo tive in former campaigns, and the good people who pay the taxes and stay by the stuff have been the pile of scrap iron lying out to one side motionless and powerless. If this campaign shapes up right I propose to take a hand. Not as the champion so much of a man or men but as the champion of measures. If there is anything I ad mire more than another this side of heaven it is a manly man. I love wo manhood and admire manhood. If the cause of prohibition and the anti-sa loon element of this state shall organ ize within the next six months then I doubt not but that very candidate for governor will be as pronounced as the Hon. Dupont Guerry. When it comes to opposition to saloons and whisky I yield the palm to no man; when it comes to paid lobbyists and lobbyism with their corruption fund and vicious influences, I am as unalter able and pronounced against that as any candidate can be, but I have my views along some lines. The railroads of this state and of all the states are the great arteries of commerce and business. I never will join in the hue and cry against corporations simply because they are corporations. I be lieve in equal taxation upon all classes alike, but I don’t believe in putting railroads and saloons In a bunch and jumping on both together as If they were both a common enemy united to wreck and ruin this country, and neith er does Dupont Guerry. I have mixed and mingled with every class of rail road men. I know railroad men from top to bottom. I am the friend of rail road men and I am glad to know they are my friends, and I wjll not join In any attack that is made upon railroads because they are corporations. If there is a deficit in the revenue of the state don’t squeeze and, coerce the money out of railroads to pay that deficit, but do like honest people ought to do, live within their income, reduce expenses rather thai> increase values and tax those increased values by Inqulsitorious methods. A dishonest sentiment ma terializes into a dishonest law and a dishonest law makes dishonest men. When a hungry set of politicians and demagogues in the legislature begin to jump on railroads and corporations who can blame railroads then for meet ing such a spirit with paid lobbyists and corrupt influences, so-called? All I ask the railroads of Georgia to do is to stay out of this fight. If incontestable proof is given that they have locked arms with the whis ky crowd to defeat the will of the people in the coming election, then we may carry the war Into Africa. I know that it has been charged that rhe railroads pool issues lr legislative fights not because they are any kin or have any fellowship otherwise, but because it costs each one just half the ■ money to do the work. Be that as it may, I have never yet fought a rail road because it was a railroad or a corporation, and I never will. I have a hundred friends among railroad men, where I have one in politics, and if I have one friend among the liquor gang I don’t knpw w*ho he is. Cut down your pension roll and your school tax and you will be getting down at the root of all our trouble. I have no sympathy with your pension busi ness, gentlemen. Our old soldiers and their widows were getting along bet ter without pensions than they are getting along now with them in my honest judgment, and I am tious and honest when I say that whenever a father can’t feed and clothe and educate his own kids, the • best thing he can do for his coun try is to go out of the "kid” busi ness. The old log-school bouses, to which our fathers subscribed a scholar or a scholar and a half or twe schol ars and paid the tuition, turned out more grand men in the United States every twelve months than all the col leges and public schools of America turn out now. I am in favor of edu cation and not a year tor twenty years but what I have had poor boys and girls at school educating them. Nothing truer than the following coup let: ■ . . "How empty learning Is and how vain is art - w But as it mends the’ life and guides the heart.” I am in favor of anything and every thing that fosters manhood and Cher ishes independence and begets ambi tion. I am against everything that minifies or dwarfs either of them. With Increased taxation and increased school facilities and ever increasing ■ number of officials and pap-suckers, the morals nor the manners of the peo ple are improved, nor the manhood of our country conserved. Nearly every Interest in this country Is In the hands of small politicians from governor down, and needs a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness. South Carolina with her pitchfork politicians never needed John C. Calhoun like she needs him now; Texas in the hands of her small politicians never needed old Bam Houston like she needs him now; Kentucky with her blood and thunder gang in charge, never needed old Hen ry Clay like she needs him today; old Georgia never needed Herchel V. John son and Alex Stephens like needs them now. IF THE PROPRIETOR OF A BIG BONANZA SALOON HAD BEEN GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA FOB TEN YEARS. AND HIS WHITE APRONED CLERKS HAD BEEN STATE OFFICIALS. THE SALOONS OF GEORGIA COULD NOT HAVE HAD AN EASIER TIME OR MORE UNDISPUTED SWAY, and I for one am tired of it, and a majority of the fathers of Georgia are tired of suefli a regime, and we are going to clean them up, too, watch us if we don’t Yours, BAM P. JONES. P. B.—l believe every newspaper man in Atlanta has a place In my heart and affections. Gentlemen, come up and enjoy our meetings with us, and to tell you the plain truth I believe you need religion. If you have got all you need, come up and help us get all we need. Come to my house; come to any house in town. The latch string is on the in side. SAM P. JONES. N. B.—l see the press has me down among campaigners. They may be more of a prophet than they think. I may give out a list of “appointments” some of these days that will stir th< red-nose rascals very deep.- 8. P. J. Gubernatorial Situation As By State Press, Must There Be a Ring? Dawson News. Mr. Guerry to after “the rlnx” with a sharp stick. If Mr. Guerry gets in how long will it b« before there will be another ring? A Snag For the Bandwagon. Macon News. The Quitman Free Press says: It seems ♦het Mr. Terrell is the one to incur* ( the Con stitution’s support. ‘lncur is good. x The Peacemaker. Thomasville Times-Enterprise. Editor Perham kindly offers the u« of his sanctum to Messrs. Turner and Estill to meet in to settle their differences and suggests that they meet there on the 7th of September and talk th* situation over. Blessed is the peace maker. Guess Who. Covington Enterprise. The man who has not yet announced will moat likely be the next governor of Georgia. He sits serenely In his office at the capttol dally and more is written about him thar any of those who have announced. Turner’s Burchard. Valdosta Times. It is amusing to see some of the small-bores in the upper part of the state trying to read Hon. Henry G. Turner out of the Democratic party. They do not take the position that he was’ wrong in advocating sound money four years ago, but they are mad because he was not as idiotic as they were about that time. The Fight Is On. Albany Herald. It is now very evident that we are to have a clean-cut well defined prohibition fight in Georgia next year. Indeed, the prohibition ists are already lining up for it, and the .fight will be made in the Democratic pn- DuPont Guerry having been the first gubernatorial candidate to make an unquali fied declaration in favor of state prohibition, and to enter the race subject to the Demo cratic primaries, ft seems a foregone conclu sion that the prohibitionists will take him for their candidate. Mr. Guerry has already en tered upon an active canvass and has fully verified the prediction made by the Herald when his candidacy was first announced—that he would prove an aggressive campaigner and hard fighter. .. . . . The Herald candidly confesses that ft dreads this prohibition campaign. It is not the re sult, so far as the sale of liquor is concerned, but the strife and bitterness that the cam paign will engender, that we dread. It arouses two classes of fanatics In the community and arrays them against each other —the one who believes that his business or his individual liberty, as the case may be. is being interfered with, and the other a sort of moral or relig ious Pharisee who feels that he is called upon to reform the world and believes that ft can be done by legislation. Neither can be reasoned with, and between the two there is no middle ground—no peace, no rest for the conservative cltisen, whether he be pious and temperate or not. MADE IN GERMANY. Fair Gretchen keeps a toy shop Os woolly lambs and things. That roll about or wildly pop Forth on their agile springs. And when she chooses to display Her well-made store to me, She says in quite a haughty way, “Yah! made in Germany.” She thinks that I might like a doll. Have I a little girl? “See dot sweet leetle pet: look, all H*r hair vas real”—A curl Has strayed forth from sweet Gretchen’s The one real curl to me. What are the other curls that hap To come from Germany? A wooden horse, all painted brown, Just like Von Waldersee’s, Quite meekly in this China town Supports some dolls Chinese. I’d quickly buy this charger fine. If Gretchen would but be A fallow-traveler of mine. And flee to Germany. Ah! rosy Gretchen, can’t you see ’Tie not your wares I seek? What though they be from Germany, They cannot love or speak. ’Tis your sweet self, for love has laid His fairy wand on PHi. . I want the maiden who was made In wise old Germany. —Annulet Andrews In Ufa, A Little Fishy. Montgomery County Monitor. Who said that North Georgia would stand aside and let us name the next governor! The idea Is a little fishy.