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4 THE SEMI‘WEEKLY JOURNAL Batwrad at Um AU**t* Jtestnfllee as Mail Matter of the Second Class. The Beart- Weakly Jburr.sl to published ea Mondays and Thursday*. end mailed in ll ’®* fee all the twtee-a-wnek star route malto. It contains the newt from ell P* rt * of ’?’• vortd tao—*>• ever a eaecta! leaaed wire Mio The Journal office. It has a staff of dletin rntaitod contributors, with strec* Agricaltaral. Veterinary, Juvenile, Home, Book and deaarueeata of special value to the home and farm. wanted tn every community tn the South _ • Jtamitmcces may be made by poetoffice money order, express money order. re<l stored gSlßbfitfQjC 77;*” TOi s -to icrter f than 1 order, I jW^^Hhem*wbe I *wkri> 1 their papers cheated ehouid rive both the old end the new PU»t.tC—Ths oaly travel** ispr>m*ta tires of The Journal are ' < j r> Farrell. J A Bryan aid Jams* Callaway. Any other who repressnts himself as t w*nevied with The Journal as a travehna event to a fraud, end we will bo reaponalble I Wlhr tor money paid m the aboeo named repreeentatfvee ATLANTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER f, 190 L *' * _ - ♦’ ~j 1* ■>?:>« ■■ < ' ' 7 ' INTEMPERANCE DECREASING AS BUSINESS INCREASES. AH the available evidence points to the conclusion that the Intemperate use e< elcohoiho drtaka la on the decline. A short time ago The Journal had occasion e© quote M. Jules Cambon. the French ambMaador to this country, end Arch toshop Ireland to the effect that their observation proved this statement to be true so **r as this country Is concerned. And in commenting on the statements of these two dltttngutehad observers The Journal took the position that this re mit was being brought about in large measure by the knowledge on the part of the young men of today that success In business or in the professions requires eenstant sobriety. - ; * Oto last Saturday the news columns of The Journal contained strong evidence ut the truth of both of these propositions. It appeared that the receipts hy the city of Atlanta from retail liquor li censes for the first ten months es the present year were M 3.01.91. as against JK Stff.4s for the first ten months of last year, showing a decrease of C. 234.54. Al (be same time. license* from all other business establishments in this city were 5114.477,45 for the first ten months of this year, as against 51C7.6W.83 for the eerrospoadtng period of last year, showing an Increase of JB.JM.Si, cr 8.18 per cent. The issue of The Journal showed, that the receipts of the Atlanta post offlee had Increased for the first ten months of MM. as against the same period of IM*. I<7 per ceaf. and that the bank clearings of the city haa increased over 17 per cent. That is. for the first ten months of MOO the total clearings were 574.209,- m.M. and for the same period of the present year they were W. 852.063.84, being an. increase of 512.442.158.85- r • » ** AU kinds of borines*. therefore. In the eity has increased from 8 to about 11 per eent. while the license* from retail liquor establishments have decreased over is per cent. . ’. 4 ‘ That is to say. while the city ts increasing largely in population and in com mercial Importance, and its general volume of business is growing rapidly, the demand for the retail liquor establishment is decreasing greatly. The busier the people are the less inclined they are to use alcoholic stimulants. x Another cause that leads to this happy result la the fact that social recogni tion Is obtained and held only by the temperate. Tne influence of the good wo men of this country is having Its effect in this matter, and we may soon ex ylf« t 0 t he fresh young man who feels called upon to keep his "whistle wet" in order to make himself entertaining disappear trim the face of the earth. THE WRONG TO SCHLEY. The evidence in the Schley investigation is ail hi and the argument has begun. It to generally accepted as a foregone con elaeioa that Admiral Schley will be com pletely vindicated, because the public cannot see how any other verdict could be made up on the evidence that is before the court Before one of his witnesses was heard Admiral Schley had completely refuted all the charges and insinuations of his enemies out of the mouths of wit nesses who were summoned tn testify against him. The evidence of hto own witnesses added to what had gone before, completely crushing every accusaticn that had been brought against Admiral Schley. The tjmntry confidently expects that the court headed by Admiral Dewey will do this heroic and greatly slandered officer fuH justice : ‘ Bht a greet wrong has been don* Ad miral Schley in malting if necessary tor him to go to the trouble and expense of tNh investigation. It Is said that it will cost him at least QMsn. and be to dependant entirely upon hto Salary that will soon be reduced 25 per cent by retirement on account of age. If Admiral Schley should be completely vindicated, as he undoubtedly will be. from charges which either originated or were encouraged by the navy department, ft would be nothing but fair for congress to pay the expenses of his defense as well as those of his prosecution, for it was repfiy a prosecution and not an investiga t iou. ' . , The country would heartily approve rich action on the .part of congress Ad miral Schley’s record makes the attempt ! . to Might hto reputation especially despic able. He has seen more hard service than any other living officer of our aavy. and • wbtw ver tried has agpuitted himself natty . He had Just graduated when the civil war begat. and in that struggle won high distinction by his enterprise and courage. In tfSV Immediately after the end of the tivfl war, he took a conspicuous part in thwaMppreesien of a coolie insurrection off the coast of Thru, whither our govern ment sent a 3eet to protect property and Interest* pf some r>f Its cittxens. In IMS he also curved in sn expedition to the roast of San Salvador for a similar pur pose.. in IST.' he woa fresh fame by heroic deeds during the expedition to quell the Corean insurrection against the treaty powers In toll h* accomplished the relief and I regrwe of the shipwrecked crew of an , American seal vessel in the south seas. In IM4 he commanded rhe relief ex ped I tion which rescued Greely and his almost perishing band of arctic explorers, and through many hardships and partis brought them through 1.400 miles of icy seas back to dvtitoatton and Mfyty. His career and achievements in the war with Spain are well known to ail hto fellow ciUaens and to the world. The recent In vestigation has served to extend the knowledge of them and of the great w» -ngs done Admiral Schley WB! it be honorable in our government to permit gn pld and faithful officer to be impoverished as the result of the machi nations of his enttr.i't. some of whom are In the country’s payl Admiral Schley had either to live under the attacks that be has so completely re futed or incur the expense that will bur dsn him the. rest of hto Ufa. , The government should pay the entire expanses of the ffivesttgatlcn. , A DOOMED GOVERNMENT. In-, the nature of things it to Unpossible that the present Turkish government should last much longer. Any reform that would restore it to health and vigor to clearly Impossible un der the present sultan and to not to be sxnected under any of his successors, as • .no nation itself would never accommo date itself to the radical reconstruction without which its decay must. continue. The trouble with France may hasten the inevitable partition of Turkey. -J ' France is In earnest and resistance by the sultan to her demands would be made pt a flearful cost. Time was when Great Britain used Tur key as a buffer to the aggression of other powers in the east, but she will not dare take the sple reqpoosibillty of maintain ing the dultaa’a dominion much longer. Great Britain to’ncrw too firmly establish- ed tn the Mediterranean, in Egypt and the Soudsn to need Turksg** aid there as she once did and by continuing to act the part of his protector she would lose moral force both at home and abroad. The sultan is said to be so harrassed by debt and a complication of uncertainties that he is on the verge of desperation. He may take rash action in his present deal ings with France and thus precipitate the destruction of his empire. But whatever course he shall pursue that result is clear ly predestined and he can do nothing be yond delaying it a few year*. * France will exact th* last farthing due her citizens by Turkey on account-of the Constantinople quays, but how the sultan is to pay is a mystery. v " Europe's J’Sick. Man” was never before so friendless er in such strait* a* he And* himself today. * e FAREWELL TO WU TING FANG. The very general regret tn thl* country over the recall of Minister Wu-Ting-Fang is natural. Seldom has the representative of any foreign nation at our capital made such a pleasant impression or been more highr ly respected. This gifted and educated Chinaman ha* made a deep impression upon a nation as different from his own as it possibly could be. He has proved himself to be one of the most accomplished gentlemen that has visited us In a long time as well as one of the most skillful and judicious di plomat*. _ Z ’ He had for two years past occupied a very trying position and sustained him self admirably. He became a decided social favorite not only in cabinet circle* but among the citlaens of this country with many of whom he became acquain ted: Hl* knowledge of the United State*, its history, institutions, tradition* and con dition was »o Inrge and accurate as to cause frequent surprise. On several occasions he delivered pub lie addresses on subjects relating espec ially to our people and our government that w*u'd have done credit to any of our own public men. He became famous also as one of the happiest and wittiest of after-dinner speakers. Though Wu-Ting-Fang us from the mo*t stolidly conservative people in the world he displayed a modernness of thought and sentiment in striking con trast to our expectations. He has even more advanced idras than Li Hung Chang, whom we had long considered th* most progressive of all Chinamen. Why this remarkable and fatnoua minister has been recalled by his government is a mystery. It is probably the result of some whim on the part of that govern ment which seems to be controlled by su peretltltion and prejudice almost to the exclusion of reason. It is announced that he has been ap pointed to a subordinate >flk e in the gov ernment at Pekin, and it 1* the irony of fate that the brighest and one of the mefet illustrious men of China, one too who so far as we know has been conspic uously loyal and useful to hi* govern ment. ehouid be thua humiliated. BRIEFER SPEECHES IN COURT. Judge Shaw, presiding over Gullford, North Carolina superior court test Friday induced the four attorneys in a suit be fore him to limit their speeches to fifteen minutes each. This action of Judge Bbaw has evoked the high commendation cf reveral North Carolina newspapers and has given rise to a demand for the restoration of the for mer North Carolina law that gave the pre siding judge power tn limit debate. * Undoubtedly a great deal of time is wasted by lawyers in their speeches to ju ries. Judges as a rule are too indulgent in this matter. To allow unnecessarily* long speeches In the trial of cases is to Impose an unjust tax upon jurymen and to increase the expenses of th* courts be yond . Many a lawyer doos himself injustice by drawing out to attenuation arguments that would hav* been far more effective had they been presented th more com pact and pointed form. Juries are often wearied out by these lengthy speeches. Juries aad county treasurer* should be protected against lawyer* who never know when to stop speaking. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1901. BETTER PROTECTION OF GAME. Several southern states have recently provided better protection for game; and ft seems probable that this policy will be carried still further.- Georgia did a wise thing by reducing the season during which quail may be killed, and it could be cut down still further with advantage. There is a strong de mand in South Carolina for a very short deer-hunting season. ' In spite of the reckless slaughter of deer in that state. South Carolina still has large numbers of those noble animals, and as they breed rapidly there they would become much more numerous in a few years if they were given reasonable protection. The Charleston News and Courier ap peals for stringent legislation on this subject. It says: t * ' “There is no reason. It appears, why deer should not be as numerous in South Carolina as horses or mules and far more so than sheep, if that condition is de sirable. The experience of another of the older states shows what can be done in the matter. "In Vermont the open season covers but ten days, and in that time one person can kill or possess but one deer, and no •hornless deer’ may be harmed. The pen alties for disobedience are very heavy, and are rigidly enforced, and the severe restrictions have resulted in filling the state with the noble game In a few years. It is fairly ‘overrun with deer,’ says the Springfield Republican. They attained large numbers during a ‘close season.’ which was maintained continuously for several years, and the restrictions thrown about the brief ten-day open season, al lowed since 18H prevent much destruction among them.” The argument of The News and Courier Applies to Georgia as well as to South Carolina. Deer are becoming so scarce In this state that the hunting of them ex cept for a very brief period should be prohibited, under heavy penal ties. If that were done they would in crease rapidly, and in a few years we would have an abundance of them. Our experience with the Abbreviated quail season has given us an object lesson of the wisdom and value of strict game protection that should move us to further action. There is in th? south, not only a tendency toward cl jeer restriction of the game sea sons, bdt a closer watch for violators of game laws and an Increasing determina tion to enforce them. It is now dangerous to shoot out of sea son game that ts protected in Georgia, as some persons who have defied our game laws have learned to their sorrow. The present legislature would do an ex cellent thing if it should reduce the quail season still further and establish a ten day open deer season. UNNECESSARY TAXATION. The present immense And increasing surplus is as much an evidence of unnec essary and therefore unjust taxation as tt is of the country’s prosperity. The re port of the treasurer of the United States shows that ths net ordinary revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30 were $587.* , 858.837. an increase of 820.444.485 over the previous fiscal year, and the receipts for that year were the highest up to date, There was an increase in every source of income, but it was largest in internal revenue. The total expenditures for the last fiscal year were $590,967 362. An amount which has been exceeded only four times, in 1863. 1364. and 1865 and in 1899 on account of expenses Incurred in the war with Spain and that in the Philippines. » The surplde. outside of the $150,000,000 gold reserve amounted on June >0 to $77,- 717,984* The surplus is now averaging ii,000.000 and will probably be carried to $150,000,000 by the end of tne present fiscal year. President Gage is again purchasing bonds tn order to prevent the accufapla ticn of a surplus so large that tt will be a standing temptation to extravagant ap propriations and also to put more money Into circulation. Two per cent bonds au thorized by the act of March 14, MOO. have been Issued to the amount of $445,940,750 and exchanged for bonds maturing in 1904. 114)7 and 1908 and on October Ist AH’but $46 134.950 of these bonds had been deposit ed as security for circulation. During the last fiscal year the country’s monetary stock Increased more than SBB.- 000,000 in gold. $37,000,000 in silver coin anil about $16,000,000 in notes and certificates. The active per capita circulation increased from S2B to $38.50 on October Ist. The condition of the treasury is a pow erful argument for a reduction of taxes, but the subsidy seekers and the backers Os the other raids upon the surplus will resist any movement toward Its reduction. RAILROAD EXPENDITURES. The railroads of the United States never before had anything like as much business as they have handled thia year, and they have, perhaps, never made ho mueh money. The greater lines have found the de mands upon them too heavy for their transportation faculties, and they are all increasing their motive power and rolling stock very heavily in the confidence that the country’s production wIU continue on Its present immense scale, if it does not actually increase. It seem* likely that the present rush of railroad traffic will cause some important changes in the transportation facilities. One of its effects has been to bring the pressed steel car into rapidly increasing use, because of its superior strength and carrying capacity. The Pennsylvania railroad has set apart $15,000,000 for the purchase of 15,000 pressed steel freight cars, ali of them to be cem pleted and delivered within 12 mouths. Orders of several thousand cars of this style and of from thirty to fifty locomotives have recently been put tn by several other companies. The manufactur ers of pressed steel cars find it impossible to keep up with their orders, though they are constantly increasing their capacity. The steel car costs no more than tho best styles of wooden csrs, but are more durable and carry a great deal mere. A full load for a steel car Is 110,000 pounds of ore, or 104,000 pounds of coal, which Is 21,C00 pounds more than the capacity of the best wooden • •. Charles T. Schoen invented th* steel par ten years ago, but fotind it hard to induce the railroads even to try them. Only 2,700 were sold as late as the year 1898. Last year 14,464 steel cars were sold, and this year the number Wia be far greater. Steel passenger cars are a so made, but they do not find anything like the favor that Is accorded to the steel freight cars. AN INEXCUSABLE BLUNDER. Last Saturday there occurred in Fay etteville, N. Cm one of those horrors at a hanging which have become so frequent and for which there Is no possible excuse. In this case the torture of the - con demned man was all the more revolting because there was very serious doubt of his guilt. In fact, the judge who presided at the trial, the members es the junp.qnd almost the eptlre.Jpcal bar had signed a petition to Governor AyCock to commute the death sentence to 15 years in the peni tentiary. , Nevertheless the man was and it was done in a most disgusting manner. When the trap was sprung the rope broke and the **ml*oon*cious wretch fell to the ground. Another rope was secured after a delay of some minute*..and the half-dead creature was dragged up to the scaffold and dropped again. That time the rope held and strangulation was soon effected. It is the duty of every sheriff who has to hang a man to provide a rope that cannot possibly break with the weight of the vic tim. It* is perfectly practicable for the eherlff to make sure that it will not break by trying it before he attempts tho exec cuflon. This North Carolina instance is the third or fourth one ai Its kind that has been reported recently. The carelessness indicated has become so frequent as to suggest the necessity of some legal provision for tho better testing of ropes to be used in executions. WIVES MUST PAY. The supreme court of Illinois has just decided that a wife in that state is liable for the debts of her husband. The statute on whicX.thls decision is based read* as follows: "The expenses of the family and of the education of -the children shall -be charge able upon the property of both- husband ahd wife, or either oTAhem. in favor of the creditors thereof?' and tn relation thereto they may Bte sued jointly or sepa rately." The court had, of course, to define the meaning of the term' "family expenses.” The case that was appealed to the high est court of Illinois was one in which suit had been brought for SIOO balance on a tailor’s bill for a $l5O suit of clothe* furnished the impecunious husband of a woman of means. ’ The court held that the statute “ap plies to the expenaeH of the family without limitation or qualification as to the kind or amount., and without regard to the wealth, habits, or social position of the party; that goods purchased by the hus band for. his individual use and used by him exclusively constitute a family ex pense.*’ It frequently happens that’ a tnan is Sued for his wife’s debts and in Georgia he is Hable tor them unless he has ad vertised his wife as “a free trader." It is a new departure to make the wife responsible for her husband's debts con tracted for supplies to be used by him ex clusively. Under the Illinois decision a wife may be held responsible for her hus band‘s cigar and liquor bills or any others that he may make. Wives In that state who are blessed with money but afflicted with trifling and extravagant husbands- will probably be gin to adopt the plab of # publishing them as “free traders.”. EDITORIAL AFTERTHOUGHTS. i What’s Nicaragua trying to do, anyhow —bull the canal market? Those Bulgarian brigands eheald next • employ P*t Crowe to arrange terms for their surrender. , The Philippine pacification and Boer banishment programs seem to be getting It neck and neck. ' ;• ■■•■=» Nicaragua acts very much like a coun try that haa been "seen” by the Panama canal directors. ' n .. We are beginning ta'th|nk thst, at any rate* this Naqdy ing a stern reality. IS the legislative 'loihly-dimply trying to defy Colonel Guerry. <rr is it because it needs the money?' -"-f s ■ Hall Caine to dabbling a little in poli tics. This is certain to bring forth a book that is really not fit to print. We sincerely hope Pjjter Dunne will be considerate enough not to write what happens at "Mr. Dooly’s” wake. The cartoonists are having a wofui time making the union depot look as bad as it is. Twy should simp|y use a kodak. In passing that Ellis I'esolution, perhaps the senate merely felt resentful because the house blew that cigarette bill in its face. If there is really n«' war in the Philip pines it is all very wrong to hang Fili pinos for giving aid to the "insurgent army?’ • Those peopl* who are demanding “Gor man for 1904’’ appear to want victory at any price. But can the party stand the price. • • We are probably safe In inferring that Candidate Estill has decided to play close tn the cushion in that child labor bill game. . < . .i There is’ another horrible thought about it—suppose all the witnesses in .the Schley case should begin to write for the maga zines. The rebuttal decision of the court of in quiry will enable witness Potts, thinks the Chicago Tribune, to re-butt into the case. ' There's--one consolation- those recalci trant legislators hav? to walk by the union depot every day before they can get a drink. , ' i - It is at least encouraging to note that President Roosevelt’s thanksgiving procla mation does not demand that we take only dark meet. For the life cf us we can’t sec how a white man Can look President Roosevelt in the face and, with any confidence, ask for a nigger’s job. Strikes us this hero business is being overworked. Somebody attempted to kill the uowagcr. empress of China the other day M'ith only a spear. It has probably n»Or occurred to the legislature that that flepot will have to fall down some day. And then what is it going to do about tt? Again the automobile gets the hoss laugh. One collided with a locomotive engine near Chicago the other day—and the locomotive arrived .on time. There are 27 divorce suits on the dock ets of the Kansas City courts. That Episcopal divorce canon doesn’t seem to have made even a dent on Kansas City. , That optimistic rumor that the sultan of Turkey was very ill appears to have been without foundation. He was only getting his consent to pay France’s little Mil. ' We may at least tolerate this thing of the government going into the. banking business, but it is coming it rather heavy for the banks to go into the government b«siness. Mrs. Wu Ting Fang says Chinese wo men will let their feet grow in future. And there. is certainly ptenty of room for growth with the average Chinese wo man’s foot. v We don’t believe it. but wo have h«ard it rumoredithat the Hon. Joe Hall is pre paring a bill tq build a new union depot out of. the net earnings of the state ex periment farm. 1 There is a great deed of contention over the oath .that Kin& Edward shall take, and yet we always had *n idea that King Ed was fully capable of doing his own .swearing when he had id- - I **»♦♦»*» ♦ OTHER PEOPLE’S VIEWS. ♦ ♦ ♦ Artillery punch, says the August* Herald, will figure as a conspicuous mate Hal for changing the political wires next Wednesday at th* stats fair. The state farm, worked by p'enltentlary con victs, will produce three hundred .bales ot cotton this year, says the Talbotton New Era, which will more than pay expenses. Under the new census, Oeorgi* has the same number of congressmen as under the preceding one. This being the case, says the Sparta Ishmaelite, there to no necessity whatever for any reapportionment of the state. It would be time and money The sudden death of Hon. Porter King, of Fulton county, removes one of the purest and ablest men from the legislature, says the Stillmore Budget. Had he lived, the-people would have desired him in higher positions. Atlanta appreciated and Georgia was learning to regard him very highly. The bill to exempt from the public schools the children of all men who do not pay poll tax, says the Twin City News, is a good one and can work no injury to any one. If a man is not able to pay poll tax he is not able to raise children and they should bo placed in a charitable institution. Those Englishmen who are telling as how to govern this country would do well to re member that they have had their Inning at it, says the Augusta Chronicle. If the part taken by Americans in the naval battle of Santiago requires a board Os inquiry Spain ts right to drop the matter without a word, says the Americus Tlmes-Recorder.; The Dublin Courier-Dispatch saj-s the horses in the gubernatorial race ate prancing around the tracks at too lively a gait for the judges t» determine just how many will be at the scratch when the bell taps. Th# governor In hts message recommends bi ennial sessions -of the legislature. And they ought to fall on off campaign years ao that there Would be less attention given to politics and more to legislative affairs, says the Ogle thorpe Echo. Admiral Schley has never uttered a word of censure against any one who took part tn the Santiago campaign, says the Lawrenceville News-Herald, but insists that there was enough glory for all. He will go out of the court of Inquiry a greater hero than ever. The ratification of the new constitution in Alabama, says The West Point News, is a certainty. The Roosevelt-Washington dinner was the concluding rivet assuring Its suocees. ■ —• t The beauty Os Correspondent Graham’s tes timony in the Schley case, says the Griffin Evening Call, is that he has the articles writ ten by him at the time to show that there is no afterthought about hi* statements. Atlanta is progressive enough to get low railroad rates when they have a "singing bee tn that City. Those fellows take advantage of every opportunity offered to advertise Atlanta, and that is what has made it the greatest city |n the south, says the Macon Telegraph. Grover Cleveland will speak for the Demo cratic candidate for governor of New Jersey. When things get in such shape that old Grover ean talk for them they are coming around all right, says The Valdosta Times, Nothing has been heard of the Hardwick bill to disfranchise the negro since the legislature convened. Has it been lost in the hum of th* Congressional bee? asks The Waynesboro News. Those who are not acquainted with the stste’s antiquated depot in Atlanta ought to brtve had business in the Gate City’s jam during th* past week, says The N* wnan Naws. WISDOM FROM NEW BOOKS. v Master Hawes spoke shrilly and H’P for which he would have been admired had It been affected, but for which he waa often ridiculed because it was natural.'—Captain Rav*nshaw. Children ars like jam; *ll very, well in the proper place, but you can t stand them all over the shop.—The Woulabegodds. ■r ■ - AU women fear and suspect irony when they are able to recognise it.—The Serious Wooq><. • "A man, Philpott*. I* never beaten, till h* haa said in his heart, I »m beat**. -Sir Christopher. ... t ; The whole affair was eminently uns*ti*f*C tory, yet so little might hav* made it p«rf**t; hut that is the tragedy of many things.—A woman Alone. Dogs scent danger sooner than men, and their fidelity. 4* more reliable.—The King * Messenger. One way or other, belief is a frightful, thing. It assassinates everything except itself —Tem ple House. Life is a brittle loan;; Who makes good usance of it doeth well, But without craft and wit this cometh not. —The Voyage of Ithobal. Culture ts accessible to everyone, but there are people who not only do not need ft, but whom It is liable to spoil.—Foma Gordyeeff. There rfever was a republic or a democracy so elemental, *0 pure, as this one of letters. It is always th* best man that wins, and he wins or loses by his own acts.—American Au thors and Their Homes. The price of existence with some people must be an eternal silence.——Two Men. Yankees rush in where angels f*ar to tread. ►-Two Men.' Nature shows us the beautiful while she conceals the interior. We do not see Ike roots of her roses and she hides from us her skele tons.—The Morgesons. Th* world’s a-dyln' o' clo’s. Perlitical am bition. serciety ambition, this world’s fashion —What is it all, I ask ye, but clo’s?—Flood- Tide. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. ? ■■ Chicago News. An old fool is always more foolish than a young fool. < Long sermons are sometimes referred to as Clerical errors. When American meet* Greek the chance* ar* he can’t read it. Always do the beet you can and let other* think a* they will. The sWimmlng instructor is apt to be Irf mersed in business. Beauty is a delusion and a snare—especially to women who lack it. A hypocrite is like the letter p—the first in pity and the last in help. "NeVer give up.” is a good motto for people who don't pay their debts. / , Love to blind. That is why so many women marry men. to reform them. Every man know* a lot of other men that he would like to class as strangers. • • Many a man's success ts due to th* fact that he never attempts to do anything beyond his ability. A physician always asks a sick man whaj ails him, and then proceeds to charge him s'2 fer the information. Some men get on in *e world rm the sam* principle that gives a m»n With a paint pot the right of way through a crowd. NEWSPAPER WAIFS An Inquiry.—Uncle Hiram—”l see the editor of the Banner has a long article on the bu bonic plague.” Uncle Silas—" That so? Is he for or ag’in it?”—Puck. Saving Time.—He (at a swell restaurant)— "You may have anything on the blli-of-fare, dearest. Shall I read it to you?” She—" No. darling. Just read it to the waiter.”—Chicago News. Judson-" Carrie, sometlm*s I think you are a ninny.” Mrs. Judson"—What, after living with you so many years? It Can’t be possible; I admit I might have been when I married you.”—Boston Transcript. Great Scott!—Bonus—“Naggus. I’m gettlns out a little pamphlet descriptive of the gam.* of skat. Give me a good name for it, will you?" Naggus—"Well, call it ‘A Skit on Skat, by a Skate.’ ’’—Chicago Tribune. Kdvertisiufr- Novelist (desperately)—"Unless my book succeeds at ernes. I shall starve to death!” Publisher icordialjy)—"My dear, sir, I commend votrr resolution. Nothing you could do would better advertise your work, I think.— Life. - • • Ruin Ahead —Mamma—"No. dear, you can’t go out this weather. Now. if you’ll only promise not to ask me to let you play out doors, I’ll get you any toy you want.” Tommy —"All right, ma. get me a bow and arrow; ' Philadelphia Press. Wherein it Failed.—" Why didn’t the tenor sing tonight? "He has such a oympathetfc voice.” "Well, the reason he didn't sing was that his voice wasn’t sympathetic enough to touch the manager for a week's salary over due.”—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Not of the Upper Ten.—Mrs. NeXtdoor—“l have found out one thing about that Mrs. Newcomer. Whoever she is, she has never moved in good society.” Mr. Nextdoor—"How do you know about that?” Mrs. Nextdoor— "She shakes hands as if she meant it.”— New York Weekly. She—“Oh, dear! Just as I expected. That stuck-up Mrs. Wagstaff's husband has got £BOO damages out of the railway company, and you didn’t get a farthing, although, you were ih the same accident.” He—" But I was not hurt at all, while Wagstaff has lost a leg and an arm, and will never again be able to work." She—" All the same, Mrs. Wag staff will be flouting a new sealskin jacket ia my f*6e next. Some people’arc born luckyi”— Tit-Bits. The Attenuated Attorney Who Rang in the Associated Counsel BY GEORGE ADE. . J Copyrigtit 1901, by Robert Howard Russsll. Once there was a sawed-off At torney who had studied until he was ’ Bleary around the Eyes and as lean as a Ragor-Bsck. He knew the Law from Soup to Nuts, but much learning had • put him a little bit to the Willies. ‘ And his Size was against him. He lacked Bellows. He was an inconspicuous little Runt. When he stood up to Plead he came a trifle higher than the Chair. Os the 90 pounds ho carried, about 45 were Gray Matter. He bad Mental Mer chandise to burn but no way of de- • livering it. When there was a Rally of some other Gabfeat on the Bills, the Com mittee never asked him to make an Address. The Committee wanted a Wind-Jammer who could move the Leaves on a Tree 300 feet distant. The I dried-up Lawyer could • write Great ■ Stuff that would charm a Bird out of a - Tree, but he did not have the Tubes to enable him to. Spout. When he got up to Jtalk, it was all he could do to hear himself. The Juries used to go to sleep on him. He needed a Mega- • phone, he had about as much PersonalMagnetlsm as an undertak er's Assistant. The Runt lost many a Case because he could not Bark at the Jury and pound Holes in a Table. His Briefs had been greatly admired by the Su preme Court. Also it was known that hb could draw up a copper-riveted Contract that would hold Water, but a* a Pleader he was a Pickerel. At one time he had an Important Suit on hand, and he was Worried, fpr he was opposed by a couple of living Gas Engine* who could rare up and down in front of a yap 7ury for further Orders. "I have the Law on my Side, said th* Runt. "Now, if I were only Six- Feet-Two with a s6le-leather Thorax, I could swing the Verdict.” i , While he was repining, in came a Friend 6t his Youth, named Jim. This Jim was a Book-Agent. He was as big as the Side of a House. He had a Voice that sounded as if it came up an Elevator Shaft. When he folded his Arms and looked Solemn, he was a colossal Picture of Power in Repose. He wore a Plug Hat and a large Black Coat. Nature Intended him for the U. S. Senate, but used up all the Ma terial early in the Job and failed to stock the Brain Cavity. Jim had always been at the Foot of the Class in School. At the age of 40 .he with an Sh and sank in a .Heap when he tried to add 8 and 7. But he was a tall Success as a , Book Peddler, because he learned his Piece and the 218 pounds of Dignified superiority did the Rest. Wherever he went, he commanded Respect. He could go into a strange Hot*l ahd sit down at the Breakfast Table and say: "Please pas* the Syr up” in a Tone that had all the majestic Significance of an Official Utterance. - He would sit there in silent Meditation. 4 Those who sized up that elephantine Form and noted the Gravity of his Countenance and the fluted Wrinkles of ht* high Brow, imagined that he was pondering on the Immortality of the Soul. As a matter of fact. Jim was •f wondering whether he would take Ham or Bacon with his Eggs. Jim ha* the Bulk and th* awe-in spiring Front. As long as he preserved out thS Bluff. Little Boys tip-toed Unwritten Chapters in Georgia History. a BY GEORGE G. SMITH, Vlneville, Macon, Georflia. ’,, v . Not New England itself was a more genuinely religious land than was col onial Georgia in her earliest day. Her patriotic men. her colonial laws. - all attest her character, but at the end of the revolution after the state was formed the religious condition was Awfully bad. There was only one Episcopal ehurch left. The Lutherans Sere scattered and their church-house ad been used as a stable and there was no pastor for the few who were left. Mr. Battsford, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Mercer the Baptist were exiled and had not returned to the new country above Augusta and the Presbyterians and Methodists had not come. The people in the new lands were as sheep without a shepherd,but a few years af terward things wore a brighter hue. Mr. Marshall came back, then a corps of useful Baptist preachers were at work. The Presbyterians came and organised Churches and a presbytery. The Methodists had a conference and . the Catholics organised their first con gregation. The frontier population was • not a wme one. They did not drink wine as the printers made me say last week, but they drank rum very free ly when they could get It, and once, Mr. Campbell says, when a congrega tion met for worship In Burke coun ty, some one came to the door and said: “The rum Is come,’’ and the whole congregation left the preacher and went for the seductive beverage. The crowds who came to the court grounds found the rum. carts there. The county fiddler was always on hand and "BiHy in the low ground” drew •the crowd. Then there was a quarter race and then there was shooting for a beef, and now. and thsn a gander pulling and never a court broke up without there was a fight in the ring. There ujere few churches and few preachers, but the Methodist and Bap tist preachers of those days were light artiltory. and they did brave work in moving from one part of the field to the other. > *' Among leading men their work was apparently in vain. I do not think thers was a man among all the law yers who made the slightest preten sion to piety. Mr. Telfair and Mr. Walton and Mr. Glascock had their pews tn St. Paul s, and the Haber shams. MUledges and Jacksons attend ed still the church of their fathers in Savannth, Most of them were like Dooly and Crawford and Clark. They drank, gambled, swore and fought dugte. The Methodists began well, but in 1800 there were only one half as many members as there had been in 1188. Preachers were few and * those who were experienced and had married were forced to give up their cirenfhi and settle-on farms that they might provide for their families. The people came in a great flood and while many of them had been relig joufe in the older states now on this frontier they fell into-- the habits of the frontiersmen. With French infi delity among the upper classes, and the habits of wild dissipation among the lower there was a sad state of moral decadence. Dueling was con sidered indispensable. A gentleman must not lie nor steal nor cheat nor be mean and he must be ready to re sent any insult and to go on the field of -onor at a moment’s notice. Mc- Intosh fought a duel with Gwinnett and killed him. Jackson fought a duel with Governor Wells and kill ed him- He fought with Gibbons, with Watkins, with Seagrove. W*. H. Crawford fought with Van Alien and killed him. and with Clark and was wounded by him. Mitchell fought a duel and killed hto opponent. Dooley went on the bench with eyes bloodshot. from a night’s wild revelry and spent night after night at the gaming table. In Augusta there were 4,000 people, a theatre and a race course and one small church poorly attended with per haps twenty communicants of all classes. Savannah was not much - better; the gentlemen had a hunting when they came near him. and Maid* en Ladies sighed for an Introduction. Nothing but a Post-Mortem Exami nation would have shown Jim up in hte Traa Light. Th* midget Lawyer looked up in Envy at his mastodouic Acquaintance and sighed. "If I could combine my Intellect with your Horse-Power I would be th* largest Dandelion in the Legal Pas ture,” he said. Then a Happy Idea struck him amid ships. "Jim. I want you to be my Associate Counsel," he said. "I understand, of course, that you do not know the dif ference between a Caveat and a Caviar Sandwich, but as Jbng v as you keep your Hair combed th* way it is now and wear that Thoughtful Expression you’re just as good as the whole Choate Family. I will introduce you as an Eminent Attorney from the East. I will guard the Law Points and you will sit there and Dismay th* Op position by looking Wise." So when the Case came up for Trial the Runt led the august Jim int* th* Court Room and introduced him a* Associate Counsel. A Murmur of Ad miration ran throughout the Assemb lage when Jim shewed his Command ing Figure, a Lahr Book under hi* Arm *nd a look of Heavy Responsi bility on his Face. Old Atlas, who carries the Globe on his Shoulder*, did not seem*.to be in it with thia grand and gloomy Stranger. For two hours Jim had been rehears ing his Speech. He arose. "Your honor,” he began. At the Sojand of that Voice a sacred Silence fell upon the Courtroom. It was like the Lower Octane “Your Honor,” said Jim. "w* ar* readv for Trial.” The musical Rumble filled th* Spa cious Room and went echoing through the Corridors. The Sound beat out through th* Open Windows and check ed Traffic in the Street. It sang through the Telegraph Wire* and lift ed every drooping Flag. The Jurors turned Pale and began to quiver. Opposing Counsel were as white as a Sheet. Their mute and frightened Faces seemed to ask, "What are we up against?” Jim sat down and the Trial got under way. Whenever Jim got his Cue h* aros* and said, "Your Honor and Gentlemen of the Jury, I quite agree with my learned Colleague." Then he would relapse and throw on a Socrates Frown and the Other Side would go all to Pieeea Every time Jim cleared his Throat, you could h*ar a Pin drop. There was no getting away from the dominating Influence of the Master Mind. The Jury was out only 10 Minutes. When the Verdict was rendered, th* Runt, who had provided everything except the Air Pressure, wa* nearly trampled under foot in tho general Rush to Congratulate the distinguished Attorney from the East. The Littl* Man gathered up hl* Book* and did th* customary Slink, while the False Alarm stood in awful Silence and per mitted the Judg* and others to shake him bv the Hand; MORAL: An Associate Counsel should weigh at least 300 Pounds. club where they bad weekly rides with the hounds and where there was a sup ply of brandy, ale, porter and game, and a roast of beef or a ham for lun cheon. There was, however, a few places where there was some religious life left: In the newer counties the Baptists.’ Methodists and Presbyterians were at work. Daniel Marshall after a life of wonderful saintliness was dead and there was none like him but there were a few earnest if not culti vated men among the Baptists. The Methodists had about covered the new er counties with their circuits but preaching was rare and matters were gloomy enough when the new century dawned. It was not only the case In -. Georgia but in Tennessee aJid Ken tucky which were like Georgia on the frontier. The first settlers on the prairies taen knowp as the Barrens of Kentucky were Presbyterians and they had annual communions like those in Scotland. At toe one in 171*9 there was a wonderful mvakening and the revival fire biased tor days. The people came in wagons and camped out. And thus campmeetings began. They were brought into Georgia and with their coming came men wonderfully capacitated for the work of conduct ing them.. Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians at first united. Then the Baptists had meetings of their own and the Methodists and PresbyterlAng met together. A grove was chosen, a bnsh arbor was built, trees were cut down and logs rolled In their places for seats. A stand of split logs was J provided for the preacher. Great pihe knot fires were made to give light at night. The people carte tn wagons and carts and built booths. They brought with them cooked* food and slept tn their wagon bodies or on the ground. They did not have night meetings, but they had a dinner for everybody and the people near by spread beds on the floor tor all guests. ' The Methodists had their great camp meetings; 5,000 people were sometimes present. They had many local preach ers and a few itinerants. The Presby terians met with them. Some timed there were five preachers at onee. A sermon without a shout was pretty much of a failure and if the sermon did not melt the people the song did. The leader of the Methodist hosts was Steth Mead. He was a Virginia gentleman, a kinsman no doubt of Burk Meade. He was a great singer, a warm, earnest preacher and had mighty power over the people. He built the first Methodist c’i”.reh la Augusta and laid the foundation tor ’ the future of the church in the interior. Among hto helpers there were men of great power with the people. Hoke Hull was one of these. Hq was a man of large frame, great eloquence and ?■ mighty Influence. He was not a trav elling preacher, but was local, but be ing a man of means he went everywhere preaching without fee or reward.* He was one of the strong friends and on* of the first trustees of the State uni versity, but the oddest and most re marked man of hto times was a down easter. Lorenxo Dow. He wore hto hair long, never shaved and never failed to attack the Calvinist, whom he called the all part people. He sent hto ap pointments a year a head and always met them. He was the free lanee of those days, but claimed to be a Meth odist. During this period Lovlck Pierce and his brothers, Reddick, James Rupell and many others who were famous in aftertime, began to preach. None of them were educated, they could barely read,- but many of them become famous. This revival reached all classes out of the cities and changed the face of the country. All churches shared in it and from this time the rural people of Georgia began to be noted for their substantial piety. It was Georgia’s first great and in its es- • sects perhaps the greatest the stats has ever known.