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4 THE SEMI‘WEEKLY JOURNAL touni st to® AtUiM Foatoffle® m Mall Mattar at tha Bacacd Clara. Tha ••■to-Wwkly Jemal to »«Mtotea4 aa Taaakar* aad Frtkaya and atoll®4 to tlma for all tee twloa-a-w«ak star route toilU It eontata® the aawa from an aarto •< “• Wti krswkt art* a apaoial laaaad wtra la to Th® Journal offic®. It haa a atafl of dletln ratabed eMtrftoßon. wf etronf A<rloulturaL Veterinary. Juvanll®, Homa, Book and irtf fimnriatf as apodal value to tha heme and farm. AMBta wanoad to ovary eomovnlty to the couth Rimma r~tr may be made by poetofflee money order, aapreae money order, raaletered who eared portage ataman to patoneet for aubecrlptteao are reeaaot.M to oead Wof the ? mi* liaimlartton Amounts larger than W cento poetoffloo order, ezproea 7beA or regia*»rrd malt rF vho wtah their a apt re ehanged should gtee both the eld and the new ,0 jfOTICB TO THB PVBUC.—The only traveling repreoentattvoa of The Journal are C. I OParreH. 3 K Bryan. Jaa/Qdlaway and W. U McXrUey Any other who rep reaenta hlomoU no ooMOO*ed wit* The Journal aa a traveling agent to a fraud, and we win be ieO|i en*b*» oafy for money paid to the above named reprosentativoe. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY. OCTOBER L MOL „SOUTH CAROLINA TEA. The Charleston News and Courier to •ver ready to reaent any reflection upon South Carolina. When a Boeton trade Journal attacked the tea industry in that state we were quite sure that the News and Courier would be heard from. We are therefore not aurprised to find that excellent newspaper declaring that the Boston man doesn’t know what he is talking about. The News and Courier haa the authority of Secretary Wttoon of the national bu reau of education and the re sults of its own observation to put against the assertion of a critic who never saw a South Carolina tea field, and probabty has never given South Caro lina tea a trial. Secretary Wilson has stated ofDcially several times that tea raising in the south Is succeeding admirably. . The tea planters tn South Carolina not only find a ready market but they have astd already all that they can produce tn the next two years and at prices that will pay a handsome profit. Recently a company of New England capitalists bought 4.000 acres of land near Charleston and upon it will grow tea on a large scale. They have already set out 7M.000 tea plants which within a year or two win yield a very large er op. South Carolina tea brings 00 cents a pound and the best of it considerably snore. It has been abundantly demonstrated ♦her the soil and climate of a large part of that state are admirably adapted to the cultivation of tea of a high grade. The industry to proving quite profitable to those who are engaged tn it and is ex panding steadily. South Carolina has reason te indulge high hopes of her tea industry. THE ANTI-TAMMANY FUSION. The attempt to unite the anti-Tammany forces in New York city now seems more hkely to succeed than it has seemed at any previous time. The opposition to Seth Low as the fu sion candidate for mayor has weakened reaaarkabiy within the last week. The ticket submitted by the anti-Tammany committee of eight was accepted by the general conference committee Monday night by a vote of 48 to 12. and it is an nounced that those who voted against it Win push their opposition no further. The ticket, as a whole, is regarded as wry strong, and will probably prove as acceptable te the great mass of antl-Tam manyites aa any that could be made up. It to beaded by Seth Low. a Republican, but a great majority of its other candi . dates are Democrats. Including the comp troller. ptasMem of rhe board of alder men. president of Manhattan borough. Judge of the city court, district attorney, sheriff, register and tws of the three Jus tices of the supreme court. All the offices with the largest amount of patronage are conceded to the Demo crats. and. on the whole, they get decid edly the beet of the apportionment. Never befofe in many years has so gen eral and well organised a movement been arrayed against Tammany. The leaders of that powerful organiza tion, however, are not only confident, but defiant. Tammany has so seldom been defeated tn New York city that it naturally consid ers Itself almost invincible. The prise to be contended for at the election a few weeks henee is so rich a one that both sides win put forth their utmost efforts. It will be the warmest campaign New York baa known in many years and the result seems very doubtful. WILL IT HOLD TOGETHER? If President Roooevelt shall succeed In keeping intact to the end of his term the cabinet that he found on his accession to ths presidency he will break the record. He te not the only president who has taken up an unfinished term and request ed the cabinet of his predecessor to re main. On the death of William Henry Harri son. John Tyler, who succeeded him, ask ed the entire cabinet to continue in office And every member of it agreed to do so. But Tyler very soon adopted a policy which made a reconstruction of his cabi net necessary. He was originally a Democrat, but was nominated for vice president by the Whigs both ti order to conciliate an element that was dissatisfied with Harrison as a candidate for president and also to at tract the southern vote. But Tyler’s Democracy still had a very strong hold on him and soon asserted it self The Whigs were in control of both bouses of congress and their favorite measure was the national bank bill. Fear ing that it might reawaken Tyler's former antipathies, they modified very much the original draft of the bill and passed it. It was promptly vetoed by Tyler and the Wrath of the Whigs knew no bounds. They declared that Tyler had betrayed them and the breach was never healed. The national bank bill was passed again in a stm milder form, but again President Tyler vetoed It. Every member of his cabinet, except Daniel Webster, resigned immediately. A little later Webster also left the cabinet, as Tyler's administration had become dis tinctly Democratic. There was a cabinet revolution very soon after the death of Preaident Taylor and the accession of Fillmore, Thomas Ew- Ing. of Ohio, being the only secretary to remain. Os the Lincoln cabinet only Seward, Mc- Cullough and Wells remained with John son to the and of his presidential term. Stanton refused to resign and had to be ejected from office by the president. On assuming the presidency tn Septem ber 1881. Arthur urged the Garfield cabinet to remain at least until congress should meet in the following December, but Wil liam Windom, secretary of the treasury, •nd Wayne McVeagh, attorney general, resigned within a very short time, and on the assembling of congress Mr. Blaine, secretary of state, followed suit. Then in quick succession Secretary Hunt of the navy department and Secretary Kirkwood of the interior department also left the cabinet. Robert T. Lincoln, secretary of war, was the only member of Garfield’s cabinet who remained with President Ar thur to the end of his administration. It does not seem probable that any such differences as have disturbed and dis rupted the cabinets of former presidents for unfinished terms will occur between President Roosevelt and his counsellors. The president has declared as clearly as he could that he will continue the policy of his predecessor and his official acts so far indicate that he will consistently do so. There to no reason to doubt that Presi dent Roosevelt meant what be said when be asked the cabinet to remain and no break in it seems likely to occur soon. THESE WORDS WILITiVE. In his last public speech, delivered be fore he fell at the hands of the assassin, President McKinley uttered sentiments which will live in the hearts of the people and have a saultary effect upon our na tional policy. The following aj*e among the golden words he then uttered that are worthy to be inscribed in letters of gold on his monument and to have a still more im perishable record in the mind and con science of the country: "Let us ever remember that our .in terest is in concord, not conflict, and that our real eminence rests tn thq victories of peace, not those of war. We hope that all who are represented here may be moved to higher and nobler effort for their own and the world's good, and that out of this city may coms not only great er commerce and trade for us all, but, more essentlkl than these, relations of mutual respect, confidence and friendship which will deepen and endure." These are words of true statesmanship and pure patriotism. A HAMPERED INDUSTRY. The above term is used appropriately by the Rome Tribune to describe the con dition of the great Georgia marble busi ness under the recent order of the South eastern Freight association, which has stopped all shipments of marble from this state. The order has had this effect because the freight rates to points out side of Georgia have been increased very heavily, in many instances being more than doubled. When we remember that the great bulk of marble quarried in this state is shipped into other states both in rough and fin ished forms it will be seen what a severe blow this is to one of our great home In dustries. Georgia marble te being used in con stantly increasing quantities in the north and west and has been sold largely right under the nose of Vermont, a state that was famous for its marble production long before anybody knew that Georgia had any marble to speak of. The present extent and prospects of the Georgia marble industry are appreciated by few of our people. Not many of them are aware, for instance, that in marble production Georgia is now second only to Vermont and is gaining upon Vermont so fast that she will soon pass that state. Not many Georgians are aware that in developing this great resource of their state more than 83.n00.000 has already* been invested and that this amount is in creasing steadily; that more than 820,000 to paid every month for labor at the mar ble works in this state, and that more than 8.000 people in Georgia are directly dependent upon this industry for their living. These facts concern not alone the men who have Invested their money in the Georgia marble Industry and those who are employed in it. but the state at large. It would be a misfortune to Georgia to have this Industry permanently hampered by freight charges, and the adoption of that policy by the railroads would have a deterring effect upon the investment of capital in other industries in this state. The men who have put more than 83,- 000,000 into this business have done much for the development of the state and will do a great deal more if they are given a fair showing, and that is all they ask. METHODISTS AND WINE. The Methodist church of the United States, both north and south, has very strict rules of conduct for its laymen and still stricter ones for its clergy. The English Methodism are much more liberal tn this respect. Consequently many American Methodist ministers who attended the recent Ecumenical confer ence In London were greatly surprised to see English Methodist ministers and their families use wine and beer at their tables. They learned that this custom is preva lent among British Methodists, both cler gy and laity. The American Methodists commented upon it to some extent while they were abroad and their doing so has THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1901 called forth retorts from some of their British brethren. Rev. John Bond, secre tary of the Ecumenical conference, said in a newspaper interview: "They have made remarks, though I do not mean to say they have been unkindly ones, on the matter. My answer is that this is a free country. America is not. We reserve the right to drink alcoholic liquors in moderation, if we wish. The American dictum would be ruled out by Wesley, who drank wine to the end of his life." Some of the Methodist periodicals in this country are rather severe in their comments on the wine-drinking habits of Methodists in England. A great majority of Methodists in this country would lose confidence in a minister of their church who indulged habitually in wine or beer, and he would probably be tried and dis missed from the conference to which he belonged. The smoking or chewing of to bacco by one of their ministers is regard ed with disfavor by most American Meth odists. Though they hold the same ar ticles of faith there is a decided difference between American and British Methodists on matters of church discipline. NO FEDERAL INTERFERENCE. The New York Evening Post says: "There could be no happier augury for the new administration than the firm con viction that it stands for a national pol icy, and that the decline of sectionalism will be accelerated under Mr. Roosevelt. Time and experience have at last con vinced all candid men that the day for sectional legislation is past. There are grave problems still to be solved in the south. The relations of the two races are yet to be adjusted upon a satisfactory basis. The question of negro suffrage, in volving as it does proper restrictions upon the voting- of the ignorant and proper freedom for the Intelligent, has not yet been rightly settled. "But the nation has finally learned one thing—that this whole problem must be worked out in the south, xhe Federal authorities can only make mischief by interference. The supreme court has af firmed the right of the southern states to frame constitutions under which the negro vote can be largely disfranchised, and it is plainly Impracticable for con gress to devise any system for cutting down the representation of those states in congress and the electoral college; while agitation of the matter wou— only embitter the relations between the two races.” • The prospect thus set forth has every semblance of probability. The north has long since realised that the scheme of reconstruction was one of the most complete failures on record; that the Intelligence and property interests of the south was an utter absurdity under our form of government and that the southern states can never be prevented by the Federal power from conducting their domestic affairs in their own way. Besides, Roosevelt, both by his course in the past and-the strong assurances he has given since he became president, stands pledged to non-sectlonallsm in its broadest and best sense. There will be no further Interference or attempted interference with the rights of the south. It will be left to work out its own salvation as part of the Federal union according to its own ideas and by its own methods. WEBSTER’S MEMORY. The celebration by Dartmouth college of the 100th anniversary of the gradu ation of Daniel Webster is a deserved honor to her most illustrious alumnus, her most effective friend in the hour of her greatest need and the greatest statesman who ever went from New England to the national legislature. There is much tn the life of Webster to Inspire the youth of this generation, es pecially in his unswerving devotion to the letter and spirit of the constitution on which our federal government is founded. For his fearless and unanswerable de fense of the constiutlon he was denounced by the radical elements in his own state and section, which spat upon the consti tution because it stood in the way of their scheme. The vapors of that wrath have long ago disappeared, and Webster’s figure towers clear and serene, becoming nobler in the eyes of men as time passes. To Dartmouth he endeared himself per manently by his masterful ai)d victorious fight for her very life, a battle in which he won his first national fame. As we go along in our national career it is well to recur often to the wisdom of the fathers, to consider gravely their coun sel and to look to the landmarks by which they steered so safely. We can never become so greet and pow erful that a far departure from their course will be conducive to our best in terests, for the principles on which they stood involve the very essence of our sys tem of government. It is a good time for a Webster revival. SECRETARY HAY’S AMBITION. Very soon after President Roosevelt made his request that all of the members of President McKinley’s cabinet should remain as his official advisers every one of them except Secretary Hay consented to do so. I It is now stated definitely that he also will continue in the office of secretary of state and the announcement is received with gratification by the public. Secretary Hay is a man of exceptional ability and large experience in affairs of state and there Is a reason which makes it especially desirable that he should re main in charge of the state department. He is in a better position than anybody else could be to clear‘the way for the construction of an isthmian canal. There is good reason to belive that he can re move the obstacles that have hitherto prevented an agreement with Great Brit ain that will enable our government to have that control over the canal which the people of this country insist it shall have. It will be remembered that at the last session of congress the senate put an amendment on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty which the British government refused to accept. The prospects of the proposed isthmian canal then seemed to be very much beclouded, but Secretary Hay at once set to work on the effort to nego tiate another treaty that would be satis factory to both parties. He and Ambassador Patmcefote have agreed upon the draft of a treaty that will be submitted to the senate early at its next session. The provisions of this agreement have been kept scrupulously secret, but it is known that Secretary Hay is very hopeful of its acceptance by both our government and Great Britain. It is a worthy ambition to bring the two great English-speaking nations to gether on terms for the accomplishment of an object that will be of such vast benefit to the world and especially our country. But for his profound Interest tn this matter Secretary Hay, it is said, would have retired from the cabinet at an early day. The recent death of his gifted son has affected him very deeply and his per sonal inclination to Igave public life is known to be very strong. The patriotic motives which have induced him to re main in office deserve the recognition and regard of the country. A VERY YOUNG VETERAN. There is an apparently interminable dispute as to who was the youngest sol dier in each of the great armies in the civil war. Many claimants of this honor, both north and south, have appeared and the controversy, if it has not definitely set tled the question, has at least proved that many very young men wore both the blue and the gray. It is hardly probable that there will be any such contention over the question as to who was the youngest United States soldier in the Philippine war. The claim of Manly Lawton, of Lex ington, Ky., to this distinction appears to be undisputable. He is a son of the heroic General H. W. Lawton, who lost his life at San Mateo through his insistence upon taking the lead in a charge. Blood will tell and young Lawton seems to possess the irrepressible spirit of dar ing that characterized his father. He went to the Philippines with General Lawton and when he was only eleven years old had not only been in battle but actually under fire on several occasions. It is said that he was absolutely intrepid and though a mere boy as cool as a bat tle-scarred veteran. He served with various commands and was in many engagements. Immediately on his arrival tn Manila he went to the front with General Mac- Arthur and a little later he was assigned to the position of volunteer aid on his father's staff with the rank of captain. Soon after his father’s death young JLawton returned to the United States. He is now bugler of the first battalion artillery, Kentucky State Guard and is called "captain” by the entire command. He is only thirteen years old and though he has had hard military service and proved himself as brave as a lion he is said to be in appearance and manner as youthful as boys at his age usually are. A brilliant military career is predicted for this game TRUSTS IN TROUBLE. Trusts sometimes have troubles of their own. In the United States there have been notably .instances of overcapi talization and the purchase at high prices of comparatively worthless plants in ord er to prevent all competition. The logical result has followed in the collapse of such grasping combines. The trusts in England are neither so numer ous or so reckless aS they are in this country, but some of them are having a sad experience. The hardest pressed of the big British trusts at present is the English Cotton company. It absorbed almost all the manufacto ries in its line in the United Kingdom, paying for some of them who held out prices far in excess of their real value. The trust has loaded itself down so heavily that in order to meet its last div idend the company was compelled to bor row 8250.000 from Its reserve. The announcement that this had been done caused a heavy fall in the securities of the trust and It is threatened with very serious complications. Within the past year there has been a decline of over 840,000,000 in the selling value of the stock of six British trusts which for merly sold at a premium. The trusts that seem to have a sure thing often overstep themselves and pay the inevitable penalty. CHARLESTON UP TO DATE. Our Charleston friends seem to appre ciate the drawing power of the modern midway and are justly Indignant over a report that has gone abroad to the effect that this great attraction has been cut out of the preparations for their great exposition. They want it understood that this enter prise is designed to come up to the most advanced exposition standard, that it will be both grave and gay, according to where you strike it. The Charleston News and Courier expa tiates upon the plans for the midway with an enthusiastic volubility worthy of the most accomplished "spieler.” Hear it: "No midway, indeed! We will have the genuine article with a variety of attrac tion and a gorgeousness of ensemble that will make all previous midways compara ble to a punched nickel. While our mid way will be deliciously warm and en trancingly frisky, we can assure the pub lic that it will offer nothing that will offend the most fastidious taste. Twenty one acres of the exposition grounds have been reserved for this part of the show, and nearly every foot of this large area has already been taken. There will be camels, elephants, and gondolas and wild Indians and buffalo, and congresses of oriental beauties and danping girls who have taken medals at all the great expo sitions. and restaurants and refreshments without end.” This is sufficient. Twenty-one acres of midway will do# and we hereby promise The News and Courier that we will all come to the Charleston exposition. It is generally conceded that Welling ton’s explanation does not explain. Uncle Sam warns the insurgents to keep away from Colon. This is where the colon stands for a full stop. It looks like Colonel Hanna has con cluded that it is his turn to "go away back and sit down.” And now the naval conspirators are claiming an alibi for Admiral Sampson. To which he is clearly entitled. Mr. Croker probably doesn’t care if the Reformers have Low so long as he holds High. Jack and the Game. | Cardinal Gibbons' Beautiful Tribute § | To the Late President McKinley I ' BALTIMORE, Sept. 20.—Memorial services were almost universal yesterday throughout this state, many congregations meeting and uniting in other than the places of worship. Perhaps the most important and impressive were the ; ceremonies at the Cathedral in this city at which Cardinal Gibbons delivered the following eulogy: It has been my melancholy experience in the course of my sacred ministry to be startled by the assassination of three presidents of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1885. James A. Garfield was mortally wounded He was struck down surrounded by a whom who would have gladly risked hi in 1881, and William McKinley received a fatal wound on the 6th day of September. Mr. Lincoln was shot in a theatre; Mr. Garfield was shot while about to take a train to enjoy a needed vacation, and our late beloved president fell by the hand of an assassin while lending the prestige of his name and influence to the success of a national exposition. In the annals of crime it is difficult to find an instance of murder so atrocious, so wanton and meaningless as the assas sination of Mr. McKinley. Some reason or pretext has been usually assigned for the sudden taking away of earthly rulers. Baltassar. the impious king of Chaldea, spent his last night in revelling and drun kenness. He was struck dead by th* hand of the Lord. How different was the life of our chief magistrate. No court in Europe or in the civilized world was more conspicuous for moral rectitude and pu rity; or more free from the breath of scandal than the official home of Presi de nt'McKinley. He would have adorned any court in Christendom by his civic virtues. Brutus plunged his dagger Into the heart of Caesar because of his overweening am bition. Whatever may have been the er rors of judgment on the part of our late presi4ent, (and who Is free from them?) no man can honestly charge him with tyranny or official. corruption. The Redeemer of mankind was betrayed by the universal symbol of love. If I may reverently make the comparison, the president was betrayed by the universal emblem of friendship. Christ said to Judas Iscariot, "Friend betrayed thou the Son of Man with a Kiss?” Few presidents were better equipped than Mr. McKinley for the exalted po sition which he filled. When a mere youth he entered the Union army as a pri vate soldier during the civil war, and was promoted for gallant service on the field of battle to the rank of major. He served his country for fourteen years in the halls of congress and toward the close of his term he became one of tna most conspicuous figures in that body. He afterwards served his state as gov ernor. As president he was thoroughly conversant with the duties of his office and could enter into its most minute details. His characteristic virtues were cour tesy and politeness, patience and forbearance, masterly self-control under very trying circumstances. When unable to grant a favor he had the rare and happy talent to disappoint the applicant without offending him. The domestic virtues of Mr. McKinley’s were worthy of all praise He was a model husband. Amid the pressing and engrossing duties of his official Hie he would from time to time snatch a few moments to devote to rhe invalid and loving partner of hie joys and sorrows. Oh, what a change has come over this afflicted woman. Yesterday she was the first lady of the land. Today she is a disconsolate and broken hearted widow. Let us beseech Him who comfort ed the wiaow of Naim that he may console the lady in her hour of grief. it Is a sad reflection that some fanatic or miscreant has it in his power to take the life of the head of the nation and to throw the whole country into mourning. It was no doubt this thought that inspired some writerg within the » last few days to advise that the president shbuld henceforth abstain from public receptions and hand-shaking and that greater protection should be given to his person. You might have him surqgunded with cohorts for his defense with bayonets and have him followed by argus-eyed friends and yet he will not be proof against the stroke of the assassin. Are not the crowned heads of Europe usually attended by military forces and yet how many of them have perished at the -hand of some criminal. No. let the president continue to move among his people and take them by the hand. The strongest shield of our chief magistrate is that love and devotion of his fellow-citizens. The most effective way to stop such crimes is to inspire the rising generation with greater reverence for the con stituted authorities and a greater horror for any insult or injury to their per son. All seditious .anguage should be suppressed. Incendiary speeches Is often an incentive to criminal acts on the part of many to whom the transition from words to deeds is easy. _ ' We have prayed for the president’s life, but it did not please God to grant our petition. Let no one infer from this that our prayers were In vain. No fer vent prayer ascending to the throne of heaven remains unanswered. Let no one sav what a lady remarked to me on the occasion of President Garfield s death: "I have prayed.” she said, “for ttie president’s life. My family have prayed, for him; our congregation prayed for him; the city prayed for him; the state .* prayed for him; the nation prayed for him and yet he died. XS hat then is the US °God Answers our petitions either directly or indirectly. If He does not grant ’ us what we ask He gives us something equivalent or better. If He has noti saved the life of the president, He preserves the life of the nation, which is of. more importance than the life of an Individual. He has infused into the hearts of the American people a greater reverence for the head of the nation and a greater abhorrence of assassination. He has intensified and energized our love of country and our devotion to our political institutions. What a beautiful spectacle to behold prayers ascending from tensj of thousands of temples throughout the land to the throne of mercy. Is not this universal uplifting of minds and hearts to God a sublime profession of our faith and trust in Him. Is not this national appeal to heaven a most eloquent recognition of God ■ »uper intendlng providence over us? And such earnest and united prayer will not fail to draw down upon us the b.essing of the Almighty. WHlllam McKinley has passed away, honored and mourned by the nation Theodore Roosevelt succeeds to the title, the honors and the responsibili ties of tne presidential office. Let his fellow citizens rally around “im Let them uphold and sustain him in bearing the formidable burden thrust upon him. May he be equal to the emergency and fulflU h*» duties wl.n credit to himself, and may his administration redound to the peace and pros perity of the American people. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. BY MRS. W. H. FELTON. Whether it is because his mother was married at Roswell, a north Georgia town that I am tenderly attached to and made her home there as a blithesome young Georgia girl or because he is a manly man. able to express his own wishes, ride his own horse and stand erect in his own place, I am not yet able to decide, but I do like him and feel as if we have a typical American in the white house —one not afraid to walk the streets without de tectives close at his heels or to open his mouth when he has a mind to say some thing and who can go to war if necessity calls for it as commander-ln-chief of the American army and navy. There is in every true woman’s heart an admiration for heroism and manly cour age. It is born there. I was a small tot when I first remember hearing the fife and drum at a general muster, which all the old people of this country can recall at some time in their young livss. My father was a major and dressed in a major’s uniform with a magnificent plume floating from his military hat. When my young mother pointed him out to me in the procession as he rode a pranc’r.g charger (and people rode fine horses in those days) I could hardly keep my proud little feet to the grouna, my filial exultation was so overwhelming. I couldn't tell where my love tor my father left off and my love of country began, but it was put in me to stay, for according to the lights before me, I have been as true to my native land as opportunity and ability permitted to a plain Georgia woman. It may sound like a silly reason for ap preciating the new president, but I do admire a manly man, one who is not afraid to fight bears and tigers and also warlike Spaniards, when he has a mind to perform a necessary feat of this kind. "The bravest are the tenderest; The loving are the daring.” I expect I am going to differ with him in some of his conclusions as chief magis trate, for 1 am not expecting a great deal toward the south with his present envi ronment, but I do trust he will rise to the hight of the situation and indulge in pride ®f race as well as loyalty to party. This is a white man's country because white men won it from the savage and defeated British tyranny. It Is going to remain a white man's country after the present fitful fever la past. Some of our late presidents were im pressed with this fact, but the tide of sectionalism set too strongly to try to stem the current and make a landing on solid ground. But I feel in my heart that President Roosevelt had a strong attachment to his Georgia mother, who, like the well born lady she was, had a strong attach ment for her Georgia forbears, and deep down in his soul he will keep a tender place for the traditions, the sympathy, the memories and attachments of that Georgia mother. This nation is a combination of states, divided into counties, neighborhoods and families, so on down to individual units. Every individual is a sensible part of L 1 ' X? I > I • , the nation, just as units make up the sum total in a count. This being a white man's country—the inheritance which was left to white men's children and grandehildren—l take it the new president, as a father of several chil dren himself, would like to see this in heritance transmitted to his own grand children down to the remotest genera tion. There is an Immense difference when a subject is viewed through spectacles of expediency and also without glasses in the clear light of responsibility to one's own—those whom God has given to us for our own weal and woe. Great mistakes have been made in pan dering to sectional hate and partisan fury in the past. These mistakes have been injurious to both races in this country. There has arisen more prejudice against the blacks In the north, east and west within the last decafle than in the south, according to numbers. A casual observer can draw conclusions and every student of history knows that there must be a sharp reversal of condi tions or the black and white races must be forcibly separated In the next half century. Where is the Moses to come from who will lead the owners of this inehritance out of bondage to the debasing influences of sectional revenge and partisan poli tics? The best friends of the negro are today clamoring for a separation. Bishop Tur- Uncle P. Pod—" Age entitles its owner to respect.” Summer Boarder—" Then there's many a joke that shouldn't be laughed at.” ner, one of th© wisest of his race, pleads for It with the eloquenca of a Demos thenes and the earnestness of a father. He sees the inevitable hand of fate In a future division and separation of inter- In God’s own way He brought the Afri can to America to learn the blessings of civilization. In His own way He is able to provide for their future progress and prosperity, but when the Almighty Maker demanded that His chosen people of Israel should not Intermingle or marry into heathen tribes about them He Him self endorsed the separation and de nounced miscegenation and mixed races of people as a policy to be condemned. 4 So long as the negro is encouraged to believe that he is entitled to rulersMp over white men, that long will the na tional cancer of violence, lynch law and rapine extend and disease the body politic There have been a thousand aets ■of such violence to every ten befora acted during the last five years. XVill the new president rise above the mists of party demands and view the sit uation in the clear atmosphere of reason, common sense and patriotism? For one, I am willing to trust his na tive goodness and patriotism, never for getting that his Georgia mother loved and raised him to be a gentleman and a pa triot. - ■ , HIS WIFE IS OUT OF TOWN. '■ ■ / We see a man with tinderlip that has a down ward droop, Upon his face a scowl as if he’d fallen in the soup! ... He roams about the busy streets in an umasy And puts' a surly accent on the things he baa to say. He goes into a restaurant and drops Into a And wonders why they’ve » thing fit for a dog to eat. And if you care to seek the cause that makes him feel so brown. You’ll not have very far to look; his wife la out of town. We see another man, dressed up unusually He wears a smile of gladness and a button hole bouquet; He Joins the cruising parties where the white topped schooners sail. And goo-gooe all the pretty girto who chanee to cross his trail. At striking of the midnight hour he yet is on the street. Is strenuous in his efforts to control his wab bling feet; , He wears his hat tipped sideways on bls beer-befuddled crown; The mousey knows the cat’s away; his wife is out of town. —James Barton Adams In Denver Post. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New. York Press. One thing that money cannot buy to a clear conscience. An old man fallen into love is an old man fallen into folly. Some men are never old enough to know better than to go and get married again. The way for a man to get a proper estimate of his importance in his own house to to bring a baby into it. You can. teach a woman how to forgive the sins of another woman, but you can never teaeh her how to forgive another for wearing better clothes than she does. A General Pioneer’s Reunion. To the Editor of The Journal: In conversation with several of the older citizens of Atlanta recently I find a gen eral desire to have a pioneers' reunion some time during the fair. It is thought this would be the best time to hold it, as some who do not live here would be more apt to attend a reunion, taking advantage of the low railroad rates. No more pleas ant occasion could be thought of than a meeting of the older citizens, together with their children, some of whom have not met in years. It might he that thia reunion could he held at the fair, and no doubt Secretary* Martin would do ail in hi? power to help the pioneers and friends have a big day. ‘Will not others speak up •nd let the people know what they think of it? L. L. P. Ths Wail «f Envy. Chattanooga News. It will be observed that those newspa pers which have no news service etfi at tempting to make capital out of the pre mature announcement by the Associated Press of President McKinley’s death. The fact remains, however, that the Associat ed Press is the best news-gat haring agen cy known to the civilized world, and the newspaper that does not get the service makes poor headway. Living Like a Savage. Baltimore American.. Civilized people will be shocked at the advice of an English physician to a weal thy patient to live like a savage to be cured. Savages, it may be recalled, do not belong to clubs, have no stock exchanges, know nothing of trust and trade combina tions. run no political campaigns and so reserve soma vitality and nerve force for purely living purposes. Accounted For. First Suburbanite—l see Jones has bought.a cow. Second Suburbanite—Yes; he’s got to get ria of the vegetables he raises some way.— Punch. The Real Thing. Detroit Free Pre®*. "Uncle Tom. what is charity?” • Charity, Tommy, i® finding good excuse® for the faults of people we don't llks.” Ths over-exercise of a critical faculty is always dangerous, and by too much Judging of port Benjamin ruined his ca reer.—The Seal of Silence. z THE SUMMER GIRL’S GOODBY. By Vicor A. Hermann. It seems as though the morn to hushed. A sombre halo hangs above; • A dozen throbbing hearts are crushed, A dozen silly men in love! And all because her trunks are there, * Her golfing bags and telescopes; The grinning "Boots.” die coach and pair. All seem to mock their once f*Mjd hope®. She cornea at last, they star©—the men— A dozen bosoms rise and sigh; She climbs aboard, anhelped. and than— . A smile, a handshake and goodby! They stand and gaze far down the road. The little nd and lovelorn crowd; - Until the coach and preciou® load Are but a distant, dusty cloud. Untouched are line and rod and reel, i _ Deserted are the fishing bights; The gong sounds forth the noonday meal. But twelve have Joat their appetites. - Oh, cheer up. chaps, forget her soon. * Let not her absence cause you pain. For she'll be back again next June To whetrte on your hearts again.