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4 The Semi-Weekly Journal ■ntered at th* Atlant* Postoffice aa Mail Matter of the Second Claes. The Semi-Weekly Journal ta publish ed on Mondays and Thursdays, and mailed In time for all the twice-*- week star route mails. It contains the sews from all parts of the world brought over a special leased wire into Th* Journal office It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong Agriculture!. Veterinary. Juvenile. Mmm. Book and other departments of «r*ci*l value to the home and farm. Agents wanted tn every community tn the South Remittances may be made by post ofltet money order, expreas money er ase. roctsterod letter or check. ’ Persons Who send pasta** stamps tn payment for subscriptions are request ed to send those of the I-cent denomi nation Amounts larger than 50 cents poetoffice order, express order, check ar reststerwd mall. SubacrlVers who wish their papers changed should give both the old and the new poetoffice address. NOTU'K ‘TO THE PUBLIC-Th* only of The journal ar* C. J. O Farrell. J. A. Bryan and Jas Callaway Any other who represents himself as connected with The Journal as a traveling agent is a fraud, and wo will be responsible only for money paid to the above named roproaontaUve*. « DAT. NOVEMBER 11, ISOL Kov that Adjutant General Corbin la married he may leant to hold his tongue. Edwin Markham's latest poem Indicates that be is still very much worried over the situation. • President Roosevelt to trying to square himself by contemplating a revocation of the beer tax. No matter where he has gone. U Hung Chang at least escaped the Dowager Em press' return. They may aext try VanWyck for con tempt of court for even daring to run for w that judgeship. Senator Tillman says he is tired of talk ing about some matters. This would seem to make it unanimous. After all the greatest mistake Schley made was in not having Hanna along to show him how to do it. It is reliably reported that the cow which Mr. Bryan recently pi*chased gives 16 quarts at one milking. I Still. President Roosevelt cannot see In the returns anything like a vindication of his private dinner policy. France probably thinks that little de monstration was worth the trouble just to be able to crow over England. Now that Editor Bryan has purchased a eow, he does not have to take butter on subscription like the balance of us. | A lobster 31-3 feet long has been dug up tn Clinton. Mass. But. then, that’s not a very large lobster for Massachusetts. There might be more cause for rejoic ing over •white supremacy" in Maryland if It didn’t also mean Gorman supremacy. Croker says it was the silent vote that caused Tammany's defeat. We were un der the impression that it spoke mighty - food. • Nebraska had aero weather on election day. And the returns, from a Democratic standpoint, fully bear out the weather re port. Ex-Senator Pettigrew seems to have atruck his talent at last. He is at the head of the Consolidated Liquid Air com pany. The latest advices from those Bulgarian brigands is that they are sttll able to de liver the goods as soon as that ransom is ready. It is said that the new Ameer of Af ghanistan stutters. He probably acquired the habit while learning to pronounce "his own name. An exchange announces that congress has plenty before It to do. But why men tion it? This is always true after an adjournment. The Dutch have started in to redeem the Zuyder Zee. They ought to begin by changing the name of it, just as an evidence of good faith. It is said that hundreds of women work ing in the departments at Washington are more than TO years old. Don't worry, Willie; grandma’s working. These protected "infant industries" have grown to such an extent that they now show a disposition to turn around and defy the government. If he had done nothing else to prove hts bravery the way Admiral Schley has conducted himself throughout his trial would be conclusive proof of it. .This spectacle of rival Christians fight ing over the tomb of Christ is calculated to more than ever confirm the festive heathen in the error of his ways. A widow who owns a brewery worth half a million dollars is advertising in an eastern matrimonial paper for a husband Thia is a sort of double inducement. A Nebraska tax collector has seised a man’s winter breeches for nonpayment es a personal tax. Isn't this rather hit ting a man for taxes below the belt? It would not be surprising if the cake walk is substituted for the german at fu ture official functions m Washington—so that all the guests may take a hand. And now the Armours have cornered the New York apple crop. This simply means that we will have to eat their pork with out apple sauce in order to break even. Bad grammar may be cured by medical treatment, says a German specialist. We should think it would require a surgical operation to cure bad German grammar. The way the Rev. Sam Jones talks about it one would suppose that he does not be lieve you can absolutely reform a man by sending him to the legislature, at any rate. In wanting the Kentucky governorship Colonel Watterson clearly shows that he does not fear assassination. But what if some one should put water in his liquor? Some men seem to think it is better to achieve fame by being cured of something by somebody's tonic bitters than never to have had their pictures in the papers at all. United States Treasurer Roberts reports that the per capita circulation has in creased 5 cents. But the trouble, as usual, is that the few got the nickel of the many. Connecticut is paying stricter attention than ever to the enforcement of her for * *stry laws. Presumably the wooden nut meg Industry ha* nearly destroyed the fbrests of that state. The legislature made a great mistake in not taking the union depot to the state fair with them sa a part of Georgia's ex hibit. It would easily have proven the greatest curiosity cn the ground*. The current rumor that the Hon. Joe Mall was run into by a locomotive while in the onion depot the other night has been found to be untrue. The engineer managed to rave hts locomotive in time. MILLIONS PAID WAGE EARNERS IN GEORGIA. According to a late census bulletin published in The Journal recently the state of Georgia pays annually to wage earners in factories alone the enormous sum of $20,344,071. This does not include the vast sums paid by the railroads, street railroads. Insurance companies, farmers and the various lines of mercan tile business. The total amount paid to all the wage earners In the state is doubtless three or four times the amount paid to factory operatives. • Considered from every standpoint this is a magnificent showing for Georgia. The savings banks should now reach out and encourage the host of wage earners who receive this vast sum of money annually to save at least a part of it. If the Wage earners should save 30 cents out of each dollar that is paid to them in one year's time they would accumulate over $4,000,000, a sum greater than one-tialf of the total debt of the state of Georgia. The city of Atlanta alone pays to its factory operatives $3,106,039. The other wage earners in this city, outside the factories, are probably paid twice this sum. so that If the wage earners of Atlanta should save 20 cents out of each dollar paid them their annual savings would amount to nearly $2,000 000. In Atlanta the savings banks are increasing in number, and are prospering steadily. In a very Khort time, with the great amount of money paid here in wages these banks should be able to t ake care of any bonds that might be on the market, and In many other ways prove of great service to the community. interesting census figures. The great mass of Information that was accumulated in the census taken last year contains much that is very interest ing and it 1* being given out in a series of bulletins before its final compilation and publication as a whole. One of these bulletins of recent date gives the figures regarding sex. race and nativity. We find that we have still a majority of males as we have always had. In 1900 our population consisted of 39,- 659.243 males and 37,244.140 females, tha former constituting 51.2 per cent, of the whole. Strange to say that while the rel ative number of women was greater than it was in 1890 it was less than In any pre vious census for fifty years. The increase of population from 1890 to 1900 was 13.233,631, or 21 per cent, of which 6,744.179 were males and 6.489.452 females. The number of males increased 29.9 per cent, and the number of females 21.1 per cent. The figures as to nativity are in teresting. Os the total population 65,- $43,303 were native born, and 10,460,085 were foreign born. The foreign born element was 13.7 per cent of the population In 1900, against 14.7 per cent in 1890. It will be observed that we are becoming more American instead of more foreign, as many persons suppose. In June. 1900. we had 66.990,802 white per sons and 9,312,585 not white. Os these 8,- 840,789 were negroes, 119,050 Chinese, 85,986 Japanese, and 266.760 Indians. The num ber of both Indians and Chinese decreased between 1890 and 1900, while the Japanese increased to a remarkable extent. The census shows the utter fallacy of the notion somewhat generally held, that the negroes are increasing more rapidly than the whites, for while the latter in creased 11,824,618. or 21.4 per cent., the colored population as a whole, increased 1.409.013, or only 17.8 per cent. The colored population constituted 12.5 per cent of the total population in 1890 and only 12.2 per cent in 1900. The negroes In creased 1,352,001 between 1890 and 1900, or 18.1 per cent while the Japanese Increased 71.587, or 407.2. As Japan is so progressive and pros perous and its people cherish an intense patriotic devotion it is hard to under stand the fact thus disclosed. During the decade the Chinese in this country decreased 7,728, or 6.1 per cent, and the Indians 2.5 per cent. Census figures are by no means the dry things that some superficial persons con sider them. On the contrary, they afford much material for thought and reflection. Properly studied they give a large in sight into the condition, tendencies and prospects of the country. AN IMMENSE SHORTAGE. It was known Jong before the Pan-Am erican exposition closed that it would not pay out. but there is general surprise that its expenses exceeded its receipts by more than $3,500,000. The exposition was pitched and carried out on a magnificent scale, and its patron age fell far short of what was reasonably expected. This was due to the fact that so many great expositions had been held in this country during the previous few years. Another reason of the financial failure of this great enterprise was the fact that the countries of Central and South Amer ica did not encourage and participate in it as they were expected to, and as several of them had given assurances that they would. The Pan-American exposition, in spite of its big name, was. strictly speaking, a local enterprise. True, it was by far the most comprehensive and magnificent show that any city ever presented, but the lack of any national feeling back of it had a great effect in limiting the extent and variety of its attractions and attendance. In the splendor of electrical display the Buffalo exposition surpassed by far any thing of the kind ever seen before, not excepting the Columbian exposition, or the last world's fair at Paris. It is to be regretted that the public spirited cltixens of Buffalo who subscribed so liberally to the fund for this great ex position and bought Its stock and bonds are to lose all they put up. but their city and the country at large to some extent have been benefited by the investment. It is estimated that $175,000,000 was brought directly to Buffalo by the expo sition. and the people of that city received back from many sources a large part of what they contributed to the enterprise. There is talk of appealing to congress to pay the debts of the Exposition company, but little probability of the success of such an effort is apparent. FAIR DISCUSSION. It is the policy of The Journal to keep its columns open for the fair discussion of public questions. Its own views are presented in its edi torials. but it does not believe that it is right for a newspaper to shut off those who differ with it on matters of public concern. The privilege thus offered must, of course, be subject to reasonable limita tions of space and style. Those who desire to accept it must make their communica tions as brief as they can anti must employ argument or suggestions instead of pas sion and abuse. The Journal often publishes in the same issue conflicting views on the same ques tion. thus giving its readers the oppor tunity to consider the reasons on both sides. For example, the Rev. Sam Jones and a number of other valued correspondents have been recently carrying on in the col umns of The Journal a lively and inter esting discussion on the subject of public schools and pensions. In printing the views of these correspondents The Journal in no instance intends to imply that It agrees with the writers, but believes it is fair to let them participate in the discussion. The* Journal's own views on these and all other public questions will ever be found in the appropriate columns. An exchange suggests that about the only regret those Ohio Democrats can have is that the unexpected did not happen. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1901. THE SULTAN BOWS TO FRANCE. After making several demands upon the sultan and finding no reliable assurance that he would satisfy her just claim France proceeded to enforce it. There Is no other way to deal with that treacherous monarch. France sent her most famous naval of ficer, Admiral Caillard, with a stroflg fleet to continue the argument that diplomacy had failed to br ng to a conclusion. After the fleet set out the sultan hasten ed to give promises that he would concede to the requirements of France, but Admir al Calllard acting under instructions pro ceeded to seise thras ports in the Island of Mitylene It Is announced that these will be held by France until the damages which Turkey is due certain French eitl tens have been paid. Today the sultan comes forward iji a more complete surrender of his first po sition in the matter then he has yet made, but no form of words will effect the with drawal of the French from the captured ports.| That can be accomplished only by planking down the money, which the sul tan will surely pay as toon as he can raise it. The rumor that Empeior William has bristled up over the action of France proo abiy has little foundation. Neither tha partition of Turkey nor the permanent oc cupation of the Mytelenean porta by France is seriously threatened just now. The former would not be attempted with out a concert of the European powers and Germany will surely have a hand in it when it comes, as come it must sooner Or later. Great Britain would not, of course, per mit France to establish herself perma nently in Mitylene, as lew things are dear er to British pride than British supremacy in the Mediterranean. The Sultan will in some way manage to borrow from foreign creditors dr squeeze out of his own people enough money to satisfy the claims of Constantinople quay concessionaires and then the French war ships will sail home. We may be sure, however, that the sultan will not be long out of his present trouble before he is in another and posisbly a graver one. THE NEW TREATY. Great hopes of the acceptance of the new Hay-Pauncefote treaty are enter tained by the administration and by the friends of the isthmian canal project. It is stated with a degree of confidence that seems to us to be hardly justified that the objections to the former treaty that caused its rejection have been re moved. • The exact terms of the new treaty have not been given to the public, but enough is known to make it certain that the ab rogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is provided for. That done the way to the construction of an isthmian canal on terms that would be acceptable to our government and our people generally would be clear. It is said that the new treaty concedes to our government the right to guarantee tha neutrality of the canal under all cir cumstances without consulting other powers. This is a concession of the right to fortify and control the canal and thus far a recognition of the Monroe doctrine. The plain meaning of the proposed treaty, if the analysis of it that is given out on well founded rumor be correct, is that the United States may do anything in reference to the canal that may be nec essary to protect ita own interests. This is a full implication of the right and duty of fortifying the canal. The ratification of the treaty, which now seems probable, would be a great diplo matic triumph lor Secretary Hay. But after that difficulties with Nicara gua over the matter of concessions which she claims have expired and the wrangle over the choice of routes will surely en sue. The outlook for an isthmian canal, how ever, is on the whole, brighter than it has been for come time past. The north cannot complain when a ne gro tries to kiss one of its white women, so long aa its leading men think the ne gro is a fit associate for their families and a suitable guest at their table. That in cident In New York city yesterday is the logical outcome of President Roosevelt’s rash act in Inviting a negro to eat at the white house table. It is not the effect that this invitation had on Booker Wash ington, for he is one of the highest speci mens of his race, but it is the effect that it will have, and has had. on the ignorant and vicious of tne race, who are promp ted thereby to think that they, too, are entitled to equal social rights. When interviewed the other day by the Savannah Press on the result of Tuesday’s election. Governor Candler said: “That New York election was a sad affair. In my opinion the worst Democrat in the world is better than the best Republi can." We sincerely hope nobody gave the governor any of that famous “chick en salad" while in Savannah. A man in Fordham wrote to Mrs. Hetty Green and told her he had just christened his first daughter Hetty Green B . says the New York Times. And, as might have been expected. Aunt Hetty replied by sending him a toy savings bank for the baby. President Roosevelt neglected to make another grandstand play, and also to prove his love of the strenuous, by em bracing in his reasons for observing Thanksgiving day the fact that it is al ways accompanied by a good football game. The fact that Minister Wu has been re called on account of his popularity only goes to prove, to the mind of the Wash ington Star, that the Chinese are keeping up their reputation for reversing the usual order of things. Mr. Jim Ijams. of St. Louis, is suing his wife for a divorce. If there is anything in a name, we are inclined to the opinion that the lady is the one who is entitled to the divorce. There would appear to be no dqubt tha? Mr. Croker was correct in at least one of his conclusions as to the result of the New York election—that the people "wan ted a change.” Let ils at least hope that the turkeys that will be killed on the 28th are not as old as most of the Thanksgiving jokes that are again going the rounds. Opinion of Others. Senator Hopps is brave enough to intro duce a bill in the senate to tax dogs in Geor gia. The last legislature made a pass at such a law. but busted by referring it to the various grand Juries in th* state. Pas* it like other laws, says the Thomasville Times-Enterprise, straight out, or let it alone. Sam Jones is getting it thick and fast for hi* recent attack on ths public schools, say* the Tattnall Times. Schley may or may not have told his Jackie* to give the Spaniards h—, say* the Fort Valley Courier, but lie seems to be applying this par ticular remedy to Sampson and his coterie of coyotes. The South Georgia Home says all kinds of fish and creeping things are being caught in Atlanta’s car shed. Wonder if any of the numerous fish wagons now plying the country caught their mullets from tiie gulf of At lanta ? About the meanest thing Seth Low ever did, say* the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, was to vots against placing the name of General Robert E. Lee in the Hall of Fame. Georgia legislators are down to work, says the Fort Valley Leader, and refuse to be be guiled by the invitations of festive and in dustrial organizations. Savannah is preparing to give the legislators a great time when they visit that city, says the Albany Herald, and a great time in Savan nah mean* much. Because a little circus band played in tha little town of Colquitt, and unwittingly dis turbed little Judge Sheffield, he sent the band to jail and imposed a fine of $l4O. The only clown in Colquitt was not in the circus ring that day, say* the Americus Times-Recorder. The majority of men aeem to vote from the force of habit and not for principle*. If this could be reversed we would have batter laws and fewer politicians and demagogue*, say* the Jackson Economist. The Macon News says it is a wonder Admiral Dewey has not used hi* influence to put an end to the court of inquiry before now. Such action would have been in keeping with a thousand other deeds of bravery to his credit. The legislature is asking for a summer re sort in Atlanta, say* the Waynesboro True Citizen. There the succulent netted musk melon is ever on ice and the mint is kept fresh from rosy morn till dewey eve. Atlanta still insists on the state building that big depot. That Atlanta needs a new depot no one who has ever seen the present old car shed will deny for a moment, says the Darien Gazette, but the question arises, -will Statesman Joe Hall, of the coutny of Bibb, allow the state to build it. So far as we have been able to ascertain, says the Ocilla Dispatch, there are no offices In this county sweating from every pore by reason of the race they are making after men to fill them. Atlanta is going to celebrate the opening of the Whitehall street viaduct -with ceremony and a set program. It Is a work worthy of such formal celebration, says the Augusta Chronicle. We know no other city that would have undertaken it. or so speedily carried it to successful completion. All hall, Atlanta, steel girders and all. The Waycross Herald sayß after the court of investigation adjourns Schley ought to kick Lemly all over the navy yard. a debt to the future as well a* to the past, says the Greensboro Herald-Journal. Let us provide comfortably for the needy vet erans and then spend the rest on the rising gen erations. Watson's lectures at $1 per head, says the Augusta Tribune, will be Immensely more pop ular than If the same doctrine was delivered free. Man is a strange animal. Schley’a original report of the. Santiago fight seems to have been thoroughly censored, says the Augusta Chronicle. It appears that Lord Roberts will have to re turn to South Africa, says the Bulloch Times. The Boer* are as far from being conquered as when he left there some six months ago. The Philippines come high, says the Daw son County Advertiser, but we’re into the bargain and must stay at a cost of $75,000,000 a year for keeping an army there. If Schley visits Savannah he will probably profit by the mistake made by the hero of Manila, says the Macon News. There is no necessity for undue haste in the matter of establishing a city court in Covington, says the - Star, and the people should have time to coinrider the question well before such a bill is made a law and put upon them. The usual dog law having been introduced in the Georgia legislature, say* the Waycross Herald, that body may now be considered *s having made a start. The dismemberment of the Turkish empire and the obliteration of Turkey from the map is only a question of time, says the Albany Herald. FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST. The total catch of for 1901 is esti mated at 540,000. New Guinea is suffering for the first time tn Its history from an epidemic of whooping cough. Canada's forests are found to be equal to supplying the world with pulp wood alone for S4O years. >n the basis of 1,500,000 tons of manufactured pulp a year. It has been found that perhaps the main reason why tuberculosis advances so rapidly at Hongkong is that in most easea it is com plicated with malaria. Far away from civilisation gesture-lan guage is still extant in Australia. Some of the tribes possess an excellent code that is almost as efficient as the spoken language. The verv large yield* of wine in recent years in French vineyards are attributed largely to the importation of vigorous Amer ican vine* to replace those killed by phyl loxera. Two more divisions of sailors are to be added to the personnel of the Russian navy on January 1 next. The average strength of a division of the RussSian service is about 1,500 of all ranks. Four more Berlin police officers have gone to London to study methods employed by the London police in regulating street traffic with a view to the adoption of the English system in Berlin. The school beard of Rixdorf, near Berlin, has granted a subvention to the schools there for providing all necessary implements for outdoor games, except foot ball, which is supposed to be too rough a game. POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. Kaiser Wilhelm still continues to keep up his reputation as a hunter. One hundred and twenty-two rabbits, two pheasants, and a hare were killed by him recently in one afternoon. It is not generally known that the Empress of Germany is a year older than her husband. There has been considerable comment on the fact that the Empress, with her almost snow white hair, looks much older than the Em peror, who is but 43. The loneliest missionary in all the world is said to be the Rev. J. O. Springer, whose station is on Herschel Island, near the mouth of the Mackenzie river, well within the Arc tie circle. The latest received letter from this most solitary man is dated October 22, 1900. John Mac Done, who has been known as the "Patriarch of Connemara.” has just died at the age of 125 in ’hi* cottage at Errislanin, near Cllfden. on the west coast of Ireland. He was born in 1774 and had a vivid recol lection of the French invasion of Ireland in 1798. M. Lepine, chief of the Paris police, has de termined to do all in his power to check the importation of toys from Belgium and Germany. To accomplish this end he has of fered prize* to such French workmen as are capable of designing attractive toys for the holiday trade. Anin Pasha, Turkish Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who died recently at the ago of 75, was considered to be one of the most progressive and enlightened men in the employ of the Sultan. While his sym pathies were alt on the side of reform he was politic enough never to incur the wrath of the more conservative elements in the government. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago News. Security is the offspring of caution. It doesn’t take a bride iong to get over her shyness. Adversity trie* some men and police judges try others. Poverty may sidetrack a man, but it never blows him up. When a man wants to make a fool of him self he usually get* some woman to help him. Tli* average young lady changes her dearest girl friend about once every three months. Take things as they come—but remember there are lots of things that it will pay you to go after. This is the season of th* ysar when you can buy a lot of things you don't need at much less than cost. The man who talks without thinking and the man who thinks without talking are apt to make each other tired. Many a man’s shiftlessness is due to the fact that his father bore down too hard on the grindstone when lie was a boy. Things Seen and Heard. By Thomas W. Loyless. Livingston Is for Gorman. Congressman Livingston was a familiar figure in the arcade last night, and, as usual when he comes to town, was the center of an admiring group throughout the evening. He returned from Washing ton about a week ago, and since that time has been at his home in Newton county. To a crowd who were discussing Tues day’s elections, and especially Gorman’s victory in Maryland, Congressman Liv ingston declared unequivocally that he was for Gorman for president. "I tell you, boys.” he said, “he is the man of all men for 1904, and I would stump the country for him. You have no idea what strength he has with all ele ments. Why. before I left Washington I heard a man say he would contribute $25,000 to the campaign fund if the party nominated Gorman—and what’s more, that man usually votes the Republican ticket.” "But how about yourself, colonel?” in terposed some one. “I see in The Journal where they are talking of moving you into Howard’s district.” "Oh, I don't think there can be much in that rumor,” replied the colonel, smil ing that bland, sweet smile of his. “Why should they? Don’t I serve the Fifth dis trict all right? But, of course, if they should gerrymander me out of my own district, while I would hate to give up my neighbors in Newton, there’s nothing to keep me from moving, is there? Atlanta is not such a bad place of residence, af ter all—and I don’t guess they’ll ever move Fulton county out of the district, will thev?” "By the way, colonel,” remarked some one, “are you going to get Rucker's job for a white man?” "I am if I can,” was the prompt reply. "And I think if the right man can be found he can get it. The president is de termined to appoint only good men to office, and I think he would be willing to make this change if the proper represen tation is made. I see, by the way, that some one has been saying that I have already pledged myself as to the revenue collectorship. This is an error. I did take a young man to the white house and In troduce him to the president, but as he was a Republican, I distinctly told the president that the matter must be be tween them, as I wanted to see a Demo crat put in the place.” What Kind of Cotton is Thia? Dr. A. B. Duncan, Lee county’s able and popular representative In the house, re cently br aught to Commissioner of Agri culture Stevens a stalk of cotton raised in Lee county that is truly wonderful, and which has excited no little curiosity since it has been on exhibition in the commis sioner's office. If it can be permanently developed in its present form it will prove the salvation of the southern planter, for Instead of a bale to two and three acres, he can grow from one to two bales to the acre and not half try. I had heard of this wonderful cotton and I ask Dr. Duncan about it, as he stood talking with a number of legislators and others in the arcade last night. “Well, it’s so,” he said, “I have seen it growing for two years now, and it’s the same every year. It beats anything I ever heard of, and if it holds up it is bound to revolutionize cotton growing in the south. This cotton wgs first discover ed last year by C. H. Beasley, solicitor of our city court at Leesburg. It grew on his place and there was only one stalk in the entire field. It was so full of bolls and was so altogether peculiar that he saved the seed from every holl and care fully planted them this year. This gave him twelve or fifteen stalks this- year, and they are just like the original one. "Now the average cotton has from six to twenty bolls to the stalk; yet this has from thirty to forty. But the bolls them selves are equally wonderful; instead of from four to six locks to the boll, like or dinary cotton, this new cotton has from ten to twenty. Instead of being planted in rows three and a half to five feet apart and two to three feet in the drill, like ordinary cotton, this can be planted in rows three feet apart and twelve inches in the drill, because the limbs are shorter and the foliage less. It is the most won derful cotton I have ever seen, and I haven’t found any one yet who could ex plain it. Mr. Beasley will have enough seed next year to make a larger experi ment, and then- he will know more about It.” Diamonds in Georgia. Did you know that there are diamonds in Georgia? I don’t mean the kind you saw at the horse show or those that blind your eyes every evening at the thater, and sometimes (sad to relate) even in the street cars and on railroad trains—but dia monds in che rough It was a startler—l almost said a sparkler—for me when I heard it from the lips of a prominent Georgian in the arcade last night. "Yes, sir,” said Senator McAfee, of Dah lonega, “there are unquestionably dia monds to be found in north Georgia. It is a fact that a diamond of considerable size was found in the rough on my mining property in Lumpkin county not long since. The finder of the stone didn’t know at first what it was, but it was afterwards submitted to a lapidary and he pronounc ed it a perfect stone. "The result of the test caused consid erable excitement at the time. The stone was cut and proved to be a first water gem. By the way, what is of local interest, it is now being worn by a prominent At lanta lady and has been greatly admired. She has the distinction of wearing the on ly diamond ever found in Georgia.” The find of a rough diamond in Hall county was reported some years ago. but this story has been declared to be a myth. The Lumpkin county diamond, however, can be produced in evidence. Get on a Cash Basis. “I’ll tell you what it Is,” remarked one of the ablest members in the house last night, “the Blalock resolution providing that the public proprty fund now in .the treasury be used for the payment of the public debt is the only sensible solution of Georgia’s present financial problem. “It will at once put Georgia on a cash basis, with neither a surplus nor a deficit. And this is what we want, instead of the present absurdity of having both a surplus and a deficit. It is simply plain, common business sense and for the life of me I do not see how any sane man can oppose it. “If it isn’t legal to do it. we will find it out before the legislature adjourns and then it will be for us to try to find some other remedy—though no other remedy can be found that will equal this one. But in my opinion and in the opinion of some of the best lawyers of Georgia, it is entirely legal to use this public prop erty fund to pay the Interest on the bonds, and the supreme court will so decide. For the simple reason, as has already been de cided, that the interest on a debt is a part of that debt, the coupon on a bond a part of that bond—and the proposition is simply to pay th* coupons with this money Instead of the bond Itself, which is duly provided for and fully protected by the regular sinking fund. “For my part,’ I cannot take any stock In the patriotism and sincerity of a man who would oppose this rational, business like solution of the present muddle. It is what any sensible business man would do with his own business, what any cor poration would do with its business; there fore, why isn’t it the thing for Georgia to do with her business? “I say get on a cash basis, instead of running behind all the time and kiting from year to year, as we are doing now.” Mr. Blalock’s resolution has been re ported favorably and read for the second time. It is one of the most important mat ters before the present legislature, for If the money is appropriated, the money which has been raised this year by tax ation for the purpose of paying the inter est on the debt next year can be used for general purposes. Mr. Blalock says this plan will remedy the present finan cial difficulties which the state is under going, will leave money for the teach ers and a surplus in the treasury. A Word For the Public Schools Partly in Reply to Refr. Sam BY W. A. JOHNSON. Editor Journal: There ara two kinds of lobbyists—one kind come to Atlanta and spend their money, thus helping to build up the city. These are the money variety. The other variety are pen and ink lob byists, who freeze onto their money, while they sit in a back room at their homes in some cross road town and sling mud at the members of the legislature. I am not acquainted with any lobbyists of the money variety, but simply name them as described by those who claim to know them. I do not wish to be classed as a lobbyist of the pen and ink variety, because I do not propose to advise the Georgia legisla ture what to do. I suppose that they will carry out the wishes of those to whom they feel indebted for their elec tion. This is right, and I intend to let them alone. I do not feel that I have a right to make a fight anywhere, but at the ballot box, and if my man is outnumbered there, I expect the one elected to go ahead and make such laws as he is pledged to make. I think that it 1* immoral to bulldoze, flng mud at, intimidate or bribe a man to induce him to violate an election pledge. The one who does these things is not a safe counselor, and snows that his sel fishness is more to him than the public good. But I do feel at liberty to give such information and reason to the public as will enable them to form an intelligent opinion on public questions, but in doing so. I do not lay claim to be e. g. 0., for I know of many men who are abler than I am. I know something about the public schools of Georgia, and also of the feel ings of the common people on this ques tion. The people do want their children edu cated, and if given the chance will vote the money to do it, no matter how much it takes. They don’t want to, and they don’t intend to have any less children than they have. This is about the only Industry a poor man can invest in, and there are not evangelists enough in Geor gia to check it. anti that ain’t all—these children are going to be educated by the state of Georgia, and those who stand in the way will have to move to Africa, or get run over. The education, brains and intelligence which put life in the locomo tive did not do this to drag an antidelu vian gospelite (so-called) around the country to air his ignorance and selfish- GEORGIA'S UNPUBLISHED RECORDS BY GEORGE G. SMITH. The colonial records secured by Mr. Howard and burned in Mr. Scomps' house have been carefully scanned and every thing of Importance has been already drawn from them. No man that knows anything of Colonel Jones as a historian can be made to believe that a single item of Importance has escaped his eye or his reproduction. He gives about 800 octavo pages to Georgia as a colony and when it is remembered that he covered only about forty years we are prepared to ac cept the statement above without any hes itancy. But the records for 1754 of the council, the list of land grants, the revolu tionary records, the list of head rights, the wills, etc., are of great interest and cast a flood of light on all Georgia his tory. They are in good shape for the printer and for perhaps SI,OOO the work of putting them in shape to be used might be done. The ladles of the Atlanta chap ters moved to it by Mrs. W. L. Peel, whose interest in Georgia history is so well known, had prepared a roster of the troops in the regular army. This was done by the very careful work of Cap B. F. Johnson. I have given an abstract of the names of the soldiers from this roster, but my list does not show where these men WA TER SUPPL Y OF OCONEE RIVER BY B. M. HALL, U. S. GEOL. SURVEY. The three hydrographic stations on this river, maintained by co-operative work of the United States geological survey and the Georgia geological survey, are at Dublin. Ga., and Barnett Shoals, Ga., on the main river and at Buckhead, Ga., on the Appalachee river, its largest tribu tary.* The amount of water flowing in the Oconee river during the last three years at Dublin, Ga., was sufficient to produce the following net horse power per foot of fall on a water wheel realizing 80 per cent of the theoretical power. OCONEE RIVER AT DUBLIN. GA. Net H.-P. per foot of fall at low- est water in year *» < 9 Net H.-P. per foot of fall at low- est water in ten months 104 89 Net H.-P. per foot of fall at low- est water in eight monthsL9 9- 189 Net H.-P. per foot of fall at aver- ■ age of 12 monthly minimums. 178 271 229 By comparative measurements the fol lowing has been established as the flow of the Oconee river at Milledgeville, Ga.: 1898. 18M. 1900. Net H.-P. per foot of fall at low- est water in year 63 63 » Net H.-P. per foot of fall at low- est water in ten months 83 71 38 Net H.-r. per foot of fall at low- est water in eight monthsl27 <4 131 Net H.-P. per foot of fall at aver- age of 12 monthly minimums.. 142 217 183 The last item in the above tables may be taken as average low water during the year. In order to find the continuous net horse power, without storage, available at any shoal near one of these points, multiply the “horse power per foot of fall” by the total fall of the shoal in feet. Example: MODERN EDUCATION. BY HELEN EAGLESTON. One of the greatest evils of the day is the desire for bookish education—the so called education of the schools and col leges whose aim is to cram young minds with as large an amount as possible oi material which is more or less useless, generally more, for fitting them for that station in life to which It has pleased God to call them. We would make a plea for a liberal and generous education for all according to individual ability and needs without the pernicious cramming which prevails in too many of our schools, and which all too frequently brings about temporary physical collapse, and, indeed, worse, the total wreck of the pupil's health How often nowadays do we see growing boys and girls studying home lessons until long past the hour when healthy young people should be in bed a«l»ep. No wonder they are old in ap pearance while still young in years. The beneficent factory act limiting the hours of labor for children in manufactories might, with equal justice, be applied to schools. Education which has for its only aim the passing in a creditable manner certain fixed forms of examination without refer ence to the future needs of the pupil is like expecting a blacksmith to make a lady’s bonnet with credit to his reputation as a worker in iron. A return to some of our older methods would doubtless exert an influence for good, for it has never been denied that the son of a tailor makes a beter tailor than the boy who has been reared in the at mosphere of a chemist’s shop. It would not be practicable for our towns to have a tailor’s quarter, a shoemaker s quar- ness. but in the hope that he might learn the ways of civilized Democracy. But it seems that while great praise can be shown for the education and refinement of the people in distant states, he can’t stand the toll in Georgia, which is re quired to keep up these highly esteemed things at home —wants them to keep up outside of Georgia by somebody else, and he can slip off on a free pass over an educated railroad, and thus enjoy, free, these elements of civilization —take up a collection; return home, and fling mud all over the Georgia legislature and the good people of the state for wanting him to divide the collection, so that we who can’t ride free, can set up these things at home. I attended a meeting of country people not long ago, who had met for the pur pose of getting up a nine month’s school. They stated (and some of them were poor men) that they would spend all they could raise to employ two teachers for nine months. They had seventy-five chil dren to school. It is charged that the white man in Georgia is indifferent to schools. Thia is a mistake. The well-to-do farmers are finding out that, in order to keep up the value of their lands and have help con venient, that free schools are a necessity to keep the people from moving to the cities and towns, who are doing so as fast as possible in order that they may edu- . cate their children. The people in the country want nine month schools, and they are going to have them some of these days. The United States government Imposes the taxes on liquor and tobacco to raise the money needed to pay its pensions, and as long as tnose who drink and use liquor or make their living off of thls trafflc don't kick, let those who Ito not-tiee 'these things stop kicking about pensions soldiers. I am in favor of the state of ’ Georgia controlling the liquor and to bacco traffic in such away as to pay pen sions, and turning all other moneys Inta the school fund. I don’t believe liquor drinking and te* bacco using are good things, but as ex perience shows that they cannot be gotten rid of I am in favor oi taxing them for the benefit of pensioners, just as the Unit ed States government does, or through a dispensary system. If we can do this, then the member of the legislature who pays only a poll tax at home, will pay some pension tax when he comes to Atlanta and takes a drink or smokes a cigar. Atlanta, Ga. < served, nor what they received. The orig inal roster exhibits these fac|s. I am very proud of the record of Geor gia. in so generously caring for her invalid and needy soldiers; but for what they did there would be no taxes to levy. I am sor ry we are behind some of the states In car ing for our records, or in supplying our ’ library. The lawyers are the only people who have profit from the library to any great extent. When Mr. Brown took charge he set to work to gather a complete collection of Georgia authors. He had no money to buy the books except as he gathered it by selling codes and reports, but by ex changing and begging and buying he made fine progress. Mr. Deßeum bequeathed a very rare and valuable collection, and now there is in the library a very good collection of the printed books bearing on Georgia history, but there are unprinted a few volumes which would be of great ser vice to the- historian of an after day. I hope the legislature will appropriate at least $2,000 to have the work begun, and I do not know of any people who will bo better prepared to take the work in hand than the D. A. R., of which the accom plished Mrs. Park Is regent. There is a shoal just above the Georgia railroad bridge at Milledgeville, Ga., * where a practical power head of 80 feet can be developed. Multiply the figures in the 1898 column -by 30 and we get the fol lowing powers: 24 hours per day, without storage, that could have been realized in the year 1838, with a head of 30 feet: At lowest water in year ttw.lß9o net H.-P. At lowest water In 10 m0nth5.,...2490 net H.-P. At lowest water in 8 m0nth5.,.,.3810 net H P. At average low water in year.... 4360 net H.-P. The station at Barnett shoals, on the Oconee, and at Buckhead, on the Appala chee have both been established in the present year, and the record of gauge, height and discharge measurements has not covered a long enough period to give sufficiently accurate results for publlca- tlon. Some of the most important shoals on this river and its tributaries are: OCONEE RIVER. Baldwin county, Milledgeville, Ga.... 30 ft. fen Putnam county. Long Shorfl 15 or 30 ft. fall Oconee county, Barnett Shoals 54 ft. fall APPALACHEE RIVER. Morgan county, Furlow Shoals 26 ft. fall Oconee county. High Shoals ...60 ft. fall MIDDLE OCONEE RIVER. Clark county, McElroy Shoals 23 ft. fall Jackson Co.. Tallassee Bridge 5h0a1..33 ft. mil NORTH OCONEE RIVER. Jackson county. Hurricane 5h0a15....30 ft Ml The above is a statement of only the most abrupt falls, but all of these streams are a ' succession of cascades from their headwaters to Milledgeville, Ga. More definite Information concerning the flow of the Oconee can be found in the hydrographic reports of the United States geological survey, and published data can be seen at the Atlanta office, 409-13 Temple Court. > ter. etc., yet It Is possible to educate boys, and girls, too, in an atmosphere of that trade, calling or profession to which they are most accustamed or for which they are better suited. Indeed, on this last** word hangs the whole of the question. B Education should be in sympathy with . interests and tastes, and not indiscrimi nate as it so frequently is. A “STRENUOUS” TIME AT THE WHITE HOUSE. The president sat in the white house chair— He hadn't been there very long— But he stretched his legs, he liked the air. And he felt very strenuous and strong. It's true he’d come In by the basement floor. An assassin’s pistol had opened the door. The north and the south since the Spanish war Have both got along very well. . Old quarrels and wrangles had vanished afar And the era of peace had a spell. "I’ll stir up some strife,” cried the president •’To help me next term,” so at it he went. ‘ No president has ever dared to Invite A negro to dine with him—never a one— Now. i’ll sit dot7n end a card I'll write— I’ll break in the social traditions for fun,” I’ll dine with a negro—society’ll stare. It’s a strenuous thing social usage to dare. So the cowboy president had his way. “I'll reform the social customs, by Jove! I’ll dine with the niggers just any day. It’s the old abolition style I love. Now let us revive the old strife of gone days. The good of the party sure calls for new ways. —KAY W. KAY. Note premium list in this issue, make your selection and subscribe at once.