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4 THE SEMbWEEKLY JOURNAL Kstared at the Atlanta FoetoHlee as Mali Matter of the Second Class. T»ie Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Monday* and Thursdays, and maned in time Ser ail the twtee-a-week star route malls It contains the news from all parts of tne world brought over a special leased wire tnto The Journal offlee. It has a staff of distin guished contributors, with strong Agricultural. Veterinary, Juvenile, Home, Book and other departments of special value to the home end farm. Agents wanted in every community In the South. Bemlttanees may be made by poetofflee money order, express money -order, registered lettar or check. Persoae who send postage stampe la payment for subscriptions are requested to send those of the I-cent denomination Amounts larger than SO cents postofflee order, express order, ebeek or registered mall Subscriber* who wish their papers changed should give both the old and the new nooftofttce a d dress MOTICM TO THE PUBLIC.—The only traveling repreeentatlvee of The Journal are C. J. CTFarrell. J. A. Bryaa and Jam** Callaway. Any other who represents himself as connected with The Journal as a traveling Agent la a fraud, and wo will be responsible only ft>r money paid to tha above named representatives. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. MONDAY. October 21. 1901. SCHLEY'S FULL VINDICATION. It Is very clear that the evidence so far aobmltted to the investigating board is overwhelmingly In favor of Admiral Schley. Some of the witnesses upon whom the enemies of that officer relied most confi dently have.discomforted them, and th. prospect of Admiral Schley's full vtndica tion is now so dear that it may be con sidered a certainty. * The testimony ot Captain Cook, given Monday, is so complete tn every detail and so conclusive that it cannot possibly be overcome. Captain Cook commanded the Brooklyn during the entire war with Spain and had a better opportunity than any other per son to observe closely the conduct of Ad miral Schley in every movement, both be fore and during the fight. His estimate of Admiral Schley was summarised in this strong statement: •1 have always regarded him as an eathasiastieally brave and patriotic of ficer. Never in any other way." Captain Cook went into every detail of the movements of the fleet, especially the Brooklyn, and declared that Admiral Schley not only displayed great skill and capacity as a 'naval commander, but courage and coolness of the highest order. The attempts of the government's coun sel to confuse his testimony or to draw him into the slightest variation in his remarkably clear and straightforward narrative failed utterly. Chptain Cook was speaking from knowl edge and not from hearsay. He was the best witness of what he testified to. and it will be impossible to controvert him. ' The two men who know moat about the part of the Brooklyn in the movements •gainst Cervera's fleet and in the battle * itself are Captain Cook, who commanded the ship, and Commander Hodgson, who navigated it. Both of these officers have testified in the plainest terms that Admiral Schley's conduct as a man and an officer was above reproach, tactful, courageous, cool and effective. Not one of the witnesses who have criti cised the actions of Admiral Schley had anything like as good opportunity to ob serve Admiral Schley during the period covered by the investigation or jo esti mate the quality and effects of his con duct and commands as either of these of ficers who have brushed away like cob webs every charge and aspersion that has been made against the gallant vietor of Santiago. MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY. The reverend uncle of Bulwer's Kenelln Chillingly was an enthusiastic advocate of “muscular Christianity." and was very proud of his success in teaching his pre cocious nephew how to "lick Tom Bowies An illustration of “muscular Christian ity" which would have delighted the heart of that game old gentleman was given by a New York minister a few jl nights ago. Rev. Dr. Erie St. Croix Wright, pastor of Lenox Avenue Udllarlan church, lives gi • hntme next to one which was until re cently occupied by a club which was really • resort for gamblers. The club was recently driven out by its indignant neighbors, but some of its hab itues were slow to ascertain that fact. Dr. Wright has frequently been rung up by late callers who mistook his home for the gambling den that formerly bad quar ters next door. Naturally the persecuted person grew weary of these attempted invasions. Last Friday night four men demanded 'admission to Dr. Wright's domicile. Thqy refused to accept his assurance that it was not the place they were looking for and pushed their way in. This was more ' t than the pious doctor could stand. He is a man of powerful physique and well skilled in athletic art. He did not call for help. but. unassisted, threw all four of the prowling gamblers down his front steps, sending them sprawling to the pavement below. The intruders realised that they had run up against a man who could handle them all and fled as soon as they could pull themselves together. Dr. Wright set a fine example of the righteous use of the manly art. and is »ow the cock of the walk throughout the aalghborhood. It is a good thing for a preacher as well as a layman to have a liberal supply''of muscle and know how to use It when nec eaaary. > PROFITABLE CONVICT FARMS. Soon after the war like Georgia and nearly every other southern state, was driven to the convict lease system as a matter of necessity. These states were so impoverished by the war that they were not able to adopt any other penitentiary system. In Mississippi, as in every other state that has tried it. the convict lease sys tem was afflicted with abuses that made it odious and provoked a very general demand for its abolition. As they have become able to do so moat of the states which adopted this expedient have aban doned it and adopted various substitutes. Several years ago Mississippi resorted to a convict farm plan very mueh like that which Georgia adopted a little later. It has worked well in both states. , The results in Mississippi have beefl •ven more satisfactory than was expect ed. The state has direct control ot all its convicts. They are placed on twelve large farms where they raise cotton mainly, but •Iso enough provisions for their own use. First rate land was bought for these farms and they are so well managed that last year they paid Mississippi a net rev enue of more than $25,000. The state has recently purchased 12,000 acres which will also be cultivated by con victs and a large increase of the revenue 'rem Its convict labor is confidently pre , licted. The health of the convicts is said to average much better than did under the lease system; little trouble is found in their management and there is rarely any complaint of cruelties. Mississippi, from every point of view, made a happy exchange when she swap ped her convict leases for convict farms under state management NO DIVORCE CANON. The Episcopal convention, after long consideration by both the house of bishops and the house of deputies. Wednesday de cided *to take no action at this session on the subject of divorce. It seemed certain a few days ago that the convention would adopt a very sweeping canon on this sub ject, but objections to It on the ground that it was too stringent increased so that it was found Impossible to adopt the canon in its original form or to agree upon any modification of It. The discussions and votes, however, de veloped the fact that there Is in the Epis copal church very strenuous objections to divorce and a growing determination to set the influence and authority of the church against it as it is now generally permitted by Protestant churches. The action of the convention after re jecting tha proposed canon Indicates that it is to continue its war upon the divorce evil in away that may make it more ef fective than the independent action of one church possibly could. It was resolved that a committee of three bishops, three presbyters and three laymen should be appointed to confer with official representatives of other religious bodies with a view to uniformity of prac tice on the subject of matrimony and di vorce. i The Protestant churches all agreed upon an anti-divorce policy and the Catholic church arrayed absolutely against di vorce would undoubtedly have a power ful effect in restraining an evil which now sorely afflicts our social system. MANY BRITISH—FEW BOERS. The war In South Africa still drags on because, as it seems, the Boers have de termined that though they may be ex terminated, they just won’t be conquered. The British secretary of war, Mr. Brod rtek, has recently* made a very striking statement of the relative strength of the British and Boer forces In South Arica. He shows that there are, in round Am ber* tn the field 200,000 men and 450 guns. In addition to these there are no less than 100,000 men in Great Britain who are un der training to supply reinforcements. The British government is furnishing supplies dally to 214,000 persons in South Africa who are directly or Indirectly em ployed in the war. It is feeding 248,000 mules and horses and bringing in horses at the rate of 10,000 a month. Look at the figures for the Boers: The total number of Boers available for army duty is put by this British official at 11,000. Such a disparity of nominal strength hns seldom been known since Leonidas and hjp three hundred stood against the Persian host at Thermopy lae. Nearly 20 to 1 is fearful odds, but the Boers keep on fighting. ROOSEVELT ON TRUSTS. Ajnong all the great opportunities that lie before President Roosevelt that of de vising and enforcing some method of re straining and regulating the trusts is surely one of the most important. » The president Is on record In favor of trust restrictions and it Is hoped that be may effect something in that direc tion. In an address delivered at Minneapolis shortly before he became president Mr. Roosevelt said: 'More and more It is evident that the state, and if necessary the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision and control as regards the great corpora tions which are its creatures, particularly the great business corporations which derive a portion of their importance from the existence of some monopolistic ten dency." Publicity is dreaded by nearly every trust and If full light could be thrown up on their affairs their power for harm would be greatly diminished. The right of supervision which President Roosevelt says “the state, and if neces sary. the nation, has got to possess" is the first necessary step toward the sup pression of the evils of the trusts. It is believed that in his first message Pres ident Roosevelt will handle this subject in a manner that will show that he means business. OUR ENORMOUS FIRE BILL. In no other country is the loss by fire every year anything like as great as that in the United States. And yet we have the most perfectly equipped, the most expert and the most expensive fire departments tn the world. The main reasons why so much of our property goes up in smoke every year arc defective construction and the care lessness of property owners and tenants. Many persons who are prudent In other things allow combustible material to col left in dwellings, shops and stores and lie ready to catch every spark that may fall. The careless use of matches is accounta ble, perhaps, for more fires than defective flues, incendiarism and all other causes combined. We cannot wonder that fire Insurance rates are so much higher in the United THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1901. States than in Europe when we remember the much greater risk the companies take here. Instead of decreasing, as it wouM If the lessons of experience were regarded, the annual fire loss In this country is in creasing. Fbr the completed nine months of this year it reached the enormous total of $111,679,950 and for the like period of last year It was $105,361,899. or over $6,000,000 less. During the first ten days of October the fire losses in this country aggregated $3,706,000.* The prospect is that the total for the year will be alarmingly large. We boast of being the richest nation on earth, and it seems that we literally have "money to burn." THE DEVELOPING SOUTH. The Illinois Central railroad is one of th* most prosperous and best managed rail way systems in the country and has done a great work toward developing the large region of the south through which its lines nass. It maintains a bureau of information which advertises the south in a very at tractive way and gives publicity to the enterprises and improvements in its ter ritory. Recently this bureau has sent out the statement that during the present year 363 industries with an aggregate capital of mow than $10,006,000 have been started along its lines. Os these no less than 244 are in the south and they Include a great variety of enterprises. To the Illinois Central Itself belongs a large part of the credit for the establish ment of these industries, the investment of the large amount of the capital they represent and the benefit to the great number of persons to whom they have given work. , That company has for years been ald- Ipg very materially the developments of the south. It has encouraged the Inauguration of those already established. It has given fa vorable freight rates and fine transporta tion facilities. It has purchased immense tracts of land, cut it up into farms to suit settlers and sold it on easy terms. Such a rairoad company is a power for good wherever It goes. It benefits Itself by helping along the territory In which it operates. POSTAGE STAMP CURRENCY. The habit of sending postage stamps to pay for small purchases Is very general. Retail merchants, publishers and others receive so many stamps through the mails that they are put to serious inconven ience, as nobody wants stamps for change and they are not readily convertible into cash. Many merchants will not take stamps In lieu of money, but it is often inconvenient for those who send orders by mail to procure postofflee postal notes and they do not like to send coin in letters. Assistant Postmaster Hubbard has a plan that he thinks will be a great con venience to both merchants and pur chasers by mail. It provides for the Issue of postage stamp certificates. The customer would be allowed to buy from the local postmas ter at very small extra cost a stamp cer tificate for the desired amount and send It instead of the stamps it represents. The receiver of this certificate could convert it into stamps at its par value, or into cash at a discount of only 1 per cent. , This plan is approved by many Chicago merchants and has been endorsed by the newspapers of that city. It will be proposed to congress at its next session. • WIRELEBS TELEGRAPHY. Recent experiments indicate that wire less telegraphy will soon be of far great er practical value than was at first thought probable. The theory that this method of commu nication Is impracticable where there are intervening obstructions, such as walls, seecns to have been exploded. Last Saturday messages were exchang ed between the steamship Umbria lying at her pier in New York and the Lucania more than thirty miles away at sea. The operator of a* Marconi instrument on the former vessel asked “Where are you?” Very pftmptly from the Lucania came answer, "Off the bar." Wireless telegraphy has been used be tween ships at sea much more than thirty miles apart, but this is the first clear demonstration that tall buildings, masts and other intervening objects do not in terfere with the passage of wireless mes sages back and forth at least for thirty miles. Marconi’s wonderful Invention will un doubtedly be very useful and will prob auiy soon be perfected far beyond Its present possibilities. We may now ha ze to have another court of Inquiry to find out who really did make that loop. It might be possible to solve the Carrie Nation problem by sending her over to do a little missionary work in Bulgaria. - Quite an innovation has been introduced in Kentucky. Spectators in attendance on the Caleb Powers trial will be required to leave their weapons at the door. The heart of an Indiana man is said to be slowly turning to stone. If this keeps up he may be able some day so qualify as the manager of some charity bureau. We will all probably agree that matri mony is a good thing if it keeps Chauncey home at nights and prevents him from making any more after-dinner speeches. Now that Judge Cantrill refuses to‘al low Kentuckians to wear concealed weap ons in the court room the attendance on the second Caleb Powers trial Is likely to be considerably reduced. The late Ameer of Afghanistan, being asked how many wives he had, replied: “How many? God only knows.” And yet we were told that his death was a “sur prise." The antl-Tammanyites are trying to hold out the inducement that if Dick Croker is defeated in the coming election he will make his permanent residence in England. Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New. Hampshire. Delaware and Utah have not had a lynching in five years. But then, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio manage to keep up the averse for the northern states. I PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS The following interesting paper on thq "Prevention of Tuberculosis" was writ ten by z Mrs. Eliza Hubbard McHatton, of I Macon, Ga., the talented wife of Dr. H. M. McHatton, one of the most distin guished physicians in the south, and was published in the September number of the Medico-Legal Journal as one of the ablest papers read before the American Congress of Tuberculosis at its May session: "I think it would be well to enact a law compelling all premises where a case is known to exist to be well cleansed and disinfected a week or oftener in far ad vanced cases, and all rooms where a case has died to be as thoroughly disinfected as in any other case of contagious dis ease, the expense to be borne by the city if the people are not well off. A point to bo considered is <he choosing of a nurse for children. The family physician should tn all cases oversee this matter and that a woman healthy in body and mind is procured. Some such supervision is used in regard to a wet nurse, but it is just as important to be sure of the health of the regular nurse or nursery governess, and to be sure that there is no active tubercu lar trouble in a nurse or others in the in timate relations existing between such persons and their young charges. Also great care should be used in the feeding of all young persons, especially seeing that they have the best and most nutri tious food and plenty of it. Poorly or badly fed persons are much more prone to any disease. A great factor In the spread of tuberculous disease of the air passages is dust—so that it seems to me if the proper dampening of all streets in thickly settled places could be enforced it would help greatly in its prevention. Also the floors and walls of all public buildings to be frequently washed with a disinfecting fluid and all public and pri vate buildings to be built without sharp angles or corners as the most up-to-date hospitals are, thus reducing the places for germs and dust to lodge. "I am indebted to my friend, Professor Dudley Williams, of the Georgia State Academy for the Blind, for thought and attention that he has given to this sub ject, and he writes me: ’For small com munities It would be well to use drastic measures (as fir instance in cities), but NEW STATES IN 1904. I $ .. . ft Kansas City Star. It is practicajly certain that Oklahoma will be admitted to statehood before the adjournment of the Fifty-seventh congress and quite certain that it will be a state before the national election of 1964. There is much more speculation about the man ner than about the fact of admission. The Fairbanks bill, Introduced In the fifty sixth congress, provided for the imme diate admission of Oklahoma, leaving it to the discretion of congress later to embody the Indian Territory or to admit the latter as a separate state. The bill failed to secure consideration for lack of time, but doubtless the same features will be embodied in a new measure at the first session of the next congress, for the Oklahomans are Impatient. Sentiment is pretty well divided as to the combination of the two* territories in one state. Doubtless politics will have a good deal to do with the solution of the question. Oklahoma originally was Re publican by a small majority. The occupa tion of the new Indian lands has added about 100,000 population to the territory without changing the political complexion very much, the belief being .that the Republican majority has been* de creased rather than increased. The popu lation is now about r 500,000, and that of cAn Atlanta Girl's Recountal Os Some College Boys' Scrapes ' BY ELLE GOODE. Several years ago the two boys of whom I shall write attended' a certain college in Illinois. One was an Atlantlan, who studied art exclusively, the other, an Illinois boy, who devoted ffis time to law. Harvey, the Atlantlan, and Guy, the Ullnoislan. preferred a boarding house close by the college to the dormitory, so established themselves there—the only gentlemen In a houseful of girls. Os course they found it highly entertaining, ana about thanksgiving day prepared to give the girls a “glorious" time. So, the night before that great festival they took tea down town at a restaurant, and after tea went out and purchased two lim burger cheeses and “started” for home. They took care, however, that it was quite late by the time they reached there. As they passed the college, only one lone, low light was visible In the dormitory. "Now Harvey, stuff every key hole aiffl crack you can find,” whispered Guy when once inside the front door. The house was dark and lis occupants all asleep, so taey set io werk with a vengeance, and soon had everything stuffed and perfumed with Hmburgher cheese. Then they "turned in" themselves. By morning the house was filled with the odor and all the girls came down with handkerchiefs pressed closely to their noses, and “sniffling” was heard on every side. But the boys took no notlc* of the odor at all, and when the landlady, who, poor soul, nearly distracted, asked them if they had noticed "that peculiar” odor, they Immediately replied: “Why no, we haven't noticed it,” and off they went to the college. Harvey had no sooner seated himself at his easel, when a student just in front of him set upon his easel a picture of two boya, hurrying home in the dead of night, and each with a llmburger cheese under his arm. > Harvey saw it. and so did the girls, who boarded at the same house he did. But he took no apparent notice of it, and worked along very steadily, until for some reason or other he looked around and discovered that his fair fellow boarders had lei.t the art room. “Something’s up,” he mumbled to himselt "I must tell Guy," and he step ped off to find his chum. “Let’s go home. Guy, and see what’s up?’’ he suggested, on finding that young man standing on the steps of the law building whistling. “I say so, too, for I’ve seen everyone of our girls go towards the house. We’ll have some fun, so come on,” and they started home too. “Why, Guy, you crazy, this Is Thanks giving day and we don’t have to work. Only those of us who had a little ‘extra’ to do came over this morning. Os course that’s why the girls have all gone home,” insisted Harvey. “You’ll see there are more reasons than one, my friend.” Guy answered, as he pointed to the baggage wagon standing In of their house. “Why Guy, you don’t mean to say they are moving out?” gasped the astonished boy. “That’s what I did it for. Do you sup pose I would have wasted my money on a llmburger cheese for nothing?” As they reached the house they saw the baggage man coming down the steps with a trunk, and the landlady sitting In the hall weeping. So to avoid her, they slipped around the house, to the kitchen, and up the back stairs to their own room. Having locked the door, they pull ed off their coats and Guy rolled a ciga rette as he sat down in an easy chair and put his feet in the open window. “Why don’t you put down that win dow?” began Harvey. Just then a knock was heard at the door. Harvey turned to open the door, as in larger fields of government they would be of little use since the evasion of the law would be more possible. Thus educa tion of the people seems to me to be the only sure and permanent mode of ac complishing final results. It appears to me that physicians, ministers, school teachers and all other such persons as have an opportunity of catching the pub lic ear can most certainly bring about the desired end. An appeal in all cases be ing made to the Ben Franklin side of hu man nature.’ “Another friend who has spent much time and thought on the betterment of humanity Is Professor D. Q. Abbott, for many years superintendent of the public schools of Bibb county, Georgia, and now filling the chair of mathematics in the State Normal school at Athens, Ga. He advocates any and all methods, laws and education that can possibly be used to prevent diseases of all sorts, and writes: ‘Really, I go further in my think ing and would prevent by rigid and pro hibitive legislation all marriages which had not a sound certificate of health for its basis. We owe it to posterity to re duce the percentage of the blind, the scrofuletic, the imbecile, the morally de generate and the hereditary vicious. This may (nay must) be done by legislation no matter what may be the amount of ignorance on the subject nor how Un popular It may be at first.’ , "This opinion in regard to marriage I think applies perfectly to tuberculous subjects, and if it is possible to prevent their marriage I think it should be done. There can be very little true happiness in a home built on a foundation of pos sible, nay probable, tubercular disease in the parents, or, worse yet, in the innocent child. “Long years of anxiety and nursing destroy all the pleasure of living and the constant dread of the sword falling on the head of the little ones renders life a burden. If, however, tuberculous sub jects will either wilfully or through igno rance marry, theh I think that the inno cent should be protected by not being al lowed to be conceived. This opinion I know will be considered rank heresy, but I utter it only as a plea for the innocent. Is it not better to prevent than try to cure that which never should have been?” the Indian Territory is not far from the same figures. The latter is strongly Demo cratic, and should the two be combined In one state the electoral vote would go to the Democratic ticket, a contingency that is likely to b$ guarded against by a Re publican congress. The two territories as one state would give seven electoral votes, whila Oklahoma alone would furnish four votes. New Mexico and Arizona are sure to renew tneir efforts to attain the dignity of statehood. The former has less than 200,000 population and the latter about 125,000, and under statehood would be en titled to three electoral votes each. New Mexico is close politically, although at present represented in congress by a Re publican delegate. Arizona Is Democratic. If Oklahoma and Indian Territory should be admitted as one state, and if New Mexico and Arizona were also taken in before 1904, the Democrats would be practically sure of ten new electoral votes, with a fighting chance for the othef three. This possibility has an important relation to the other possibility of a close national vote, and for that reason it is to be be lieved that the Republican congress will try to make sure of the vote of Oklahoma proper, more especially as there is about as much sentiment for separate as for combined admission. Guy rose and stuck his head out of the window to wave good-bye to one of the girls. Harvey found the landlady in the hall. “Yes, It’s even In here,” she said, snif fling as she entered the room. “Say, Mr. ■ Guy, don't you smell it, now?” Guy turned to answer, but as he did so, he knocked the stick which supported the window, out on the roof of the porch and was held fast—head out, feet In. The landlady approached nearer him—“ Don’t you smell it?” she said, as loud as she could. Holding his nose, he shook his head, so she turned to Harvey impatiently. "I think it is llmburger cheese myself—it smells just like it,” and she waited for an answer. “That’s what it is, I declare. I saw the cook with some this moAiing. Did you ask her anything about it?” Harvey suggested. “No, I didn’t, I guess I had better do that, at once, and I will call an officer to investigate the whole affair for I find it in the keyholes and cracks, which shows that some one has evidently gone to the trouble of stuffing it in them,” and she tossed her head defiantly and left the room. Harvey helped Guy in and f informed him that an officer was to soon investigate. “Well, get that half a cheese out of here. Let’s put it in Bridget's room.” So they prepared to carry out their words. On seeing the landlady go out the front gate they slipped down the back stairs to Brid get’s room and deposited the half cheese inside poor Bridget's wardrobe, on top of her best dress. Then they slipped back to their own room to await developments. In a short while they heard the land lady’s knock at the door and opened it to admit her and an officer. “You see, it is even noticeable In this room, but much less so than in any room in the house,” she remarked. “Would you like to search us, officer?” asked Guy, assuringly. “Yes, I will look around a bit, for I’m after a trace of that cheese," and the of ficer proceeded to ransack the premises. When they left the room a few moments later the boys locked the door and Har vey drew a sigh of relief as he sank into a chair. “You are not going to miss the fun down stairs with Bridget, are you?” asked Guy as he unlocked the door and opened it. "You going? W’ell, I guess I am, too.” Again they hurried down the back stairs and reached the back porch just in time to see Bridget weeping, the officer with the half cheese and the landlady with an. angry face. “But I don’t know nothing about it,” sobbed Bridget. “Well, how do you account for this cheese in your wardrobe?” "You ought to know I wouldn’t never have put it on my best dress and give it the smell of that stuff.” Bridget said, drying her eyes with the corner of her apron. Guy giggled aloud in spite of himself. Bridget caught sight of the two as they scurried up the back stairs again. "Well, who did do it? Have you zany idea, Bridget?" demanded the landlady. “Os course I know who did it.” “Anybody living in this house?” “Yes, and there ain’t but one more like ’em on the place.” “Bridget, tell me honestly—do you be lieve It was Mr. Guy?” “If he hadn’t laughed at me just now and hadn’t a ruined my best dress I wouldn’t never have told on him. 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They drove off every young lady In my house, and now I have only the two themselves, left But they’ll pay for it.” “Yes, madam, I will see to It at once, for this is not the first offense from these two. Good morning.” The president then dispatched a messen ger for Guy* and Harvey, who hastily obeyed the summons. As to the details of that Interview the boys told a big tale of the way two very brash students faced an indignant presi dent. However that may be, they prom ised to do so no more, and were allowed to remain. POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. The Austrian Emperor, in spite of his ad vanced age, attends personally to al! his pri vate correspondence. Sir Douglas Straight, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, and one of the veterans of London Journalism, is about to publish a volume of reminiscences. Henry Sienkiewicz, author of “Quo Vadls,” spent most of this summer in a crowded hotel at Ragotz in Switzerland. Amid such sur roundings he claims to find both rest and Inspiration. Wth the recent death of the Duke of Leuch tenburg, the senior line of the Empress Jose phine's descendants came to an end. The duke was the of Josephine’s son, Eugene de Beauhamais. FOREIGN NLi ES OF INTEREST. The total number of persons now being pro vided for by the Indian famine relief funds is 422.000. The Belgian government has offered an an nual prize of 5.000 francs for the best work in the province of medical research. Sugar growers now predict that within twenty-five years the Australian province of Queensland will become the greatest cans growing district In the world. In view of some recent happenings !r< Chatham The Augusta Herald very prop erly resents the fact that The Savannah Press should ever have presumed to lec ture Augusta on the purity of the bal lot.