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THURSDAY, DECEMBER It. ItOL
To the Hon. Jo* HUI Hall: Requlezcat
In Macon!
The German reichsta* la having Its an
nual crisis.
Th* foolish turkey continue* to eat corn
and grow fat.
Th* country will be willing to tak* Ad
miral Dewey s word for it.
The Hon~Joe Hill Hall got an oration—
but Atlanta gets that depot.
Th* limit has been reached. A reformed
Ssherman has gone to preaching.
This Is the season of the year when w*
pay printer prices for summer-laid egg*.
The sublime faith of Mr*. BonJne s hus
band ta equaled only by th* lady’s nerve.
A whole week h*s passed by without a
new emperor for China b«ng selected by
Tai An.
As Christmas gets nearer and nearer,
this week's salary seems smaller and
smaller.
Notwithstanding th'* sort of weather.
they continue to shear lambs in Wall
■tract.
Now that th* annual Georgia talkfeat
has adjourned we are ready to hear from
These Joes make terrible watch dogs.
Here is Unele Jo* Cannon still protecting
the national treasury.
Now that the Bonine trial has ended,
Washington will have to look to con
gress for Its scandals.
A Praridence. R. 1., man is trying to
get a corner on bean*. In Boston that
would be considered sacrilege.
George Gould declares he is an optim
ist And It must be confessed George has
•omething to be optimistic about.
Os course it was an Irishman who ap
plied for a position as lineman of ths
Marconi Wireless Telegraph company.
We should think Mr. Carnegie would
haw his own opinion by this time of peo
ple who look a gift hors* tn the mouth.
With justice still withheld from the hero
of Santiago the United States can no
longer reproach France for that Dreyfus
taiquity.
Senator Hoar* thinks It would be suffl
cient punishment for anarchists to put
them on a body of land entirely surround
ed by water.
Captain Diamond, of the New York po
lice force, has been dismissed for crook
edness. Evidently a sort of black Dia
mond, as it were.
President Castro's attitude toward Ger
many would seem to indicate that Vene
zuela is rather inclined te presum* on th*
Monroe doctrine.
President Roosevelt has hit th* Fair
banks boom below the belt, but in exalt
ing Beveridge tn order to do so he has
added insult to injury.
When you come to think about it. It
•_ seems strange that President Harper, of
Chicago, didn’t make connection with that
Sto.MO.OM of Mr. Carnegie'*
A writer on household topics says the
way to keep a cook is to treat her as your
equal But the trouble with this plan is
th«re are cooks that won't permit it.
If you want to go up against a real
game of chance, just bet your money on
the kind of weather it wilt be tomorrow.
It te tbe most uncertain thing going.
Franc* is sending representatives to this
country to study the trusts. Somebody Is
evidently trying to corner either th* ab
sinth* or frog-leg market across the
pond.
Like Schley. Admiral D*wey has been
there, and h* knowa bow impossible It Is
to obey th* Instruction* of roller-chair
warriors to th* letter and get any re
sult*.
In a reoent speech at Boston Colonel
Watterson exclaimed: “God forbid that I
should ever be a candidate for president!”
But tn case God doesn’t, *th* Democratic
party will.
In a recent speech Hon. Joseph Cham
berlain said: “I might die tomorrow and
this great empire of our fathers would
still remain." It must be very consoling
to the British public to be thus assured
on this point.
It remains to be seen whether or not this
talk of electing Mr. Carnegie president
of Columbia college to succeed Seth Low
will have the desired effect of establish
ing terminal facilities with the gentle
man's pocketbook.
No wonder it is difficult to pacify the
Filipinos. Under the present tariff ar
rangement it is right for Hawaiian sugar
to come in free, but wrong for the Phil
ippine article to be admitted without pay
ing the full duty.
It is stated that J. Pierpont Morgan Is
now buying iron mines in Norway. There
i* no us* of iron hiding out any longer:
if there is any more of it in the world
it Bay a* well come in and give Itself
up to Mr. Morgan.
There is a young lady tn Philadelphia
who ha* never been able to laugh during
her whole Ilf*. Somebody should send
her a copy of one of these prohibitionist
articles commending Governor Candler
f*r his veto of the dispensary bill.
Statistic* show that 312.000 arrests for
drunkenness were made last year tn the
129 largest cities of .the country. In view
of ther fact that this is only about one
jag for every twenty citizens, we seem to
be getting along fairly well, after all.
While boring for oil water ha* been
struck in the Desert of Death, which arid
waste extend* from Oklahoma almost to
California. And there are those, no doubt,
who will claim that this is the direct re
sult of President Roosevelt s irrigation
message.
AS TO CROWNINSHIELD.
Whatever may be the public’s opinion
a* to the general effect of the Schley ver
dict, at least one point Is conclusive —that
Schley is not a caitiff and coward, as
charged by Maclay and indorsed by
Crownlnshield and his co-conspirators.
This charge, it will be borne in mind,
was the basis for the court of inquiry
wjiose finding has just been delivered and
on which point Admiral Schley has been'
completely vindicated by the unanimous
verdict of the court.
The fact that the charge was made by
a person utterly unworthy of notice and i
connected with the navy merely as an I
employe prevents further official action
against the author of the slander. But
this does not end the matter by any
means.
By virtue of official rank, at least, there
are those connected with this conspiracy
who are deserving of official investigation,
and the matter cannot be disposed of, it
seems to us, until their case has been
attended to.
The fact that Admiral Crownlnshield
read the proofs of Maclay’s slander and
tacitly, at least, indorsed the charge that
an admiral of the navy is a caitiff and
coward would seem to clearly fix upon
him equal responsibility for the charge—
especially in view of Crowninshield's at
titude toward Schley both before and af
ter the celebrated engagement which
brought forth all this discussion. Indeed,
Crownlnshield appears to be the arch! con
spirator in all this diabolical attempt to
injure Schley and steal from him the glory
of his victory at Santiago. Upon him
more than upon any other man seems to
rest the responsibility for this whole dis
graceful scandal which has made the
navy department a stench in the nostrils
of the nation.
But whether his responsibility goes any
further or not, it must be admitted, in
view of the unanimous verdict of the
court of inquiry that he is equally guilty
with Maclay in uttering the worst slan
der that could be perpetrated against an
officer of the United States navy, or as
for that matter, against any man—that of
being a caitiff and a coward.
1* it possible now. tn view of these
things, that Crownlnshield will be allowed
to go unrebuked while the man who, next
to Dewey, has done more to shed lustre
on the American navy than any man now
living is held up to prurient criticism and
even censured for alleged technical errors,
even In the face of a victory that should
have overshadowed even the grossest
blunders?
Is it possible that the arrogance of the
naval clique will lead It to shield Crownin
shield from the censure that a fair and
impartial investigation of hl* conduct
would compel? In the light of the de
partment's past history we would not be
surprised at it, but it will make all the
more urgent the necessity for a complete
reconstruction of this department. It
should be scoured from top to bottom,
and the good work should begin with
Crownlnshield. Congress cannot allow this
important arm of the nation’s service to
be crippled by such scandals as have dis
graced it since the Crownlnshield gang
took charge.
MR. CARNEGIE’S GIFT.
That President Roosevelt has acted
properly tn deciding not to accept Mr.
Carnegie’s lender of 110.000.000 of steel
trust bonds for the purpose of founding
a national university will be generally
agreed. While the offer in itself was
none the less generous because of t*he
character of the securities tendered (for.
as is well known, Mr. Carnegie can easily
convert these into cash), and is none the
less to be appreciated, it goes without
saying that Its accepting would place the
government in an erabarassing position.
No one will accuse Mr. Carnegie of in
tending to bring about a relationship
between the government and the steel
trust that would prove as embarrass
ing to the former as it would be
beneficial to the latter, and yet it can
not be denied that this might be the out
come of the acceptance by the govern
ment of the trust securities offered by
Mr. Carnegie. At least this is the danger
that President Roosevelt and his advisers
foresee and frankly admit.
And right here is an point. It is clear
that the leading men of the country re
alize that some check must sooner or later
be placed upon the trusts. They foresee
that the government will be compelled
to deal with this vital qestion before long,
and. therefore, they prefer to keep It out
of any entangling alliances as it were.
This is not only commendable, but it
is encouraging. It is a definite official
recognition of a condition which if not
admittedly dangerous is. at least, guard
ed with grave suspicion. In our opinion
it te an evil which the government must
cop* with at a very early day; at the
same time, it te evident that the Repub
lican party will not undertake the work
until forced to do so. For the very
simple reason that the men who draw
trust dividneds are, for the most part,
the financial backers of the Republican
party—the ones who put up the campaign
funds.
The issue must be met. however, and if
th* Republican party much longer Ignores
it. then the people will entrust that task
to the Democracy, which latter seems the
most probable outcome. It te important,
though, to secure such admissions from
high Republican authorities as has been
made in this instance.
ABLEST DEMOCRAT IN SENATE.
It 1s the opinion of the Boston Herald,
that thoroughly non-partisan newspaper
and one, by the way, which has always
been eminently fair toward the south,
that the Democratic party must look for
some time to come to the southern sena
tors for whatever Influence and strength
the party te to have in the upper branch
of congress; and, for this reason. The
Herald thinks it important to weigh the
relative ability of these southern states
men.
In doing this it comes to the conclusion
that the ablest Democrat, practically
speaking, now in the senate is Senator
Bacon, of Georgia. But while he has the
qualities of leadership, declares The Her
ald. he needs more support than he is
getting from the south at present If he is
to take the control of that section
against the astute Gormin, who seems to
be Impending as a senator from Mary
land.
We believe this estimate of Senator Ba
con will be generally accepted. While
he undoubtedly lacks the experience of
either Senators Morgan or Vest, he has
the advantage of being younger by some
years, therefore more vigorous and ac
tive. He is also, beyond question, as pro
found as either of these noted leaders and
has few equals as a debater, and. more
over, never attempts to discuss a subject
until he has given It careful study. Geor
gia can but feel proud that her senior
Is thus recognized abroad as the real
leader of the Democrats in that body.
The Herald attributes the Democratic
party's loss of northern senators to its
suicidal connection with Bryanlsm, and
it sees nothing for the party to look for-
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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1901.
ward to In the immediate future, for the
Republicans, it shows, are encroaching
upon even the silver states themselves.
They are preparing to capture the next
Utah senator to be chosen, and they ao
not despair of Colorado. Hence, It is to
the south, and the south alone, that tne
party must look for whatever influence
It Is to have in the affairs of government.
HE TALKS TOO LOUD.
No one who is at all familiar with the
career of President Roosevelt need be
told that he is a loud talker. His is the
strenuous nature. He prides himself on
it. His robustness is a’part of his stock
in trade. And he has turned it to good
account in more ways than one.
Since succeeding to the executive chair
it has served him well in dealing with
the politicians, who are the bane of the
president’s life. Roosevelt's robust, stren
uous nature prompts him to talk loudly.
And this te what has disconcerted the pol
iticians. '
As is well known, the professional poli
tician prefers the confidential, undertone
style of conversation. In the first place,
it is more impressive, and in the second
place it gives leas publicity to the object
of one’s mission. For Instance, it Is less
trying to present one's claims to office by
taking the other fellow aside and in a
plaintive, trusting voice broach the sub
ject than it would be to have to walk up
in a crowd and yell out what you want
as if you were at a railroad eating room
pie counter Instead of the political pie
counter.
And this Is Just where President Roose
velt’s loud voice has disconcerted even
the most hardened Washington politic
ians. The stdry comes from the national
capital that It Is simply impossible for a
senator, member of the lower house or
anyone else calling on the new president
in regard to an appointment to get a
strictly private conversation with him.
The presidential reception room te said
to be entirely too open. There are no
whispered conversations. Anyone pres
ent may hear what 1s going on. In fact,
he can’t help hearing it. If the caller is
inclined to be confidential and the presi
dent thinks others present are in doubt
as to what is transpiring, he invariably
makes his answer sufficiently audible to
remove the doubt
A few days ago. It te said, a member of
the United States supreme court called
on the president, and, catching him by
the sleeve, drew him aside to tell him in
low tones the substance of his request.
In a voice as loud as if he w’as shouting
to a companion in a moose hunt the pres
ident said: “I am sorry, but It cannot
be done; all promition* must be by
merit.” Other similar cases are report
ed. All of which goes to show that the
professional politician in Washington has
fallen on evil days.
A SOUTH CAROLINA MUDDLE.
The South Carolina senators are man
aging to get Into evidence often.
Senator McLaurin, who at his own re
quest, was taken off the roll of the Demo
cratic caucus, popped up last Monday
to protest against being ‘‘put out” of
that organization.
As Mr. McLaurin was “put out” on his
own petition the natural way for him to
get back in Is to ask to be reinstated in
stead of flaring up about the doing of
what he himself said he desired. His al
lusion to the matter called forth more talk
from Senator Tillman about resigning and
leaving the people of South Carolina to
settle the question.
And then Senator Hoar went Into the
squabble and declared that he has serious
doubts whether both McLauftn and Till
man are not already legally out of the
senate. He suggested that the commit
tee on privileges and elections look Into
the matter. Senator Hoar Is Inclined to
believe that Tillman and McLaurin ceas
ed to be senators when they mailed their
resignations to the governor of South
Carolina and that they could not with
draw them.
A pretty question has thus been raised
and the senate should decide it.
Senator Hoar adduced a precedent that
seems to be against the right of the
South Carolina senators to hold their seats
under their present commissions.
Mr. Blaine, when speaker of the house,
ruled in a case very much like this one
that a resignation of a seat in congress
once made to the proper authority can
not be withdrawn.
It may be that the inevitable trial of
strength between the Tillman and Mc-
Laurin forces will be brought on earlier
than has been expected and we have an
idea which will win.
THE VALUE OF _ HYGIENE.
The imperial health officers of Berlin,
after long study of the subject, make the
Important declaration that hygiene te the
great preventive of tuberculosis.
Cleanliness and order, they hold, are the
first requisites in the whole system* of liv
ing. The body should be washed daily
with moderately cold water, or It should
be rubbed rapidly with a rough, wet tow
el. The hair, beard, teeth and mouth, as
well as the nails, should be kept quite
clean. Keep the mouth closed and
breathe through the nose; this is the nat
ural filter for impurities and injurious
matter. If you are an employer remove
causes of injury to health or limit them
as much as possible (dust, smoke, etc.)
Work time and rest should be arranged
in appropriate proportion.
Devote your leisure time to strengthen
ing the body, especially those muscles
which do not come into play in your ordi
nary occupation. Take exercise beyond
your place of residence. When In the opens
air take frequent deep breathes, pressing
your hands into your sides. Accustom
yourself to inclement weather In the open.
Change damp clothing and shoes.
Go early to bed. Avoid excesses of
every kind. They destroy In a little time
what it has taken long to attain.
Finally, avoid Intercourse with persons
suffering from infectious diseases; if duty
or calling involve such Intercourse, do
not neglect the proper precaution*. If
you , take a house which has been pre
viously occupied by a tuberculous pa
tient, first have the dwelling thoroughly
disinfected.
CONVICTS AND GOOD ROADS.
The coming of the Southern Rallwuy’s
Good Roads train has, we believe, dohe
more to arouse interest In the subject of
better highways than antyhlng that has
ever been attempted along this line. It
has not only afforded a valuable object
lesson In the practical work of road
building, tfut it has put the people to
thinking on the problem of how to secure
better roads.
This thought has naturally turned to
that class of labor which the state al
ready owns and controls—lts convicts
And the opinion seems to be forming
that some rational, practical plan for
utilizing this labor to this end is the one
to be first considered.
The Journal frankly admits that it has
not as yet given the matter sufficient
thought to be able to advance a definite
idea as to what is best along this line,
but it has been impressed with the sug
gestion that to use the convicts to build
a modern system of pubbllc highways is
to be carefully considered, providing
such a system can be made practically
self-support’ng and at the same time be
free from the objectionable features which
are. obviously, involved in this public
display of criminals in stripes.
The first and foremost benefit to be de
rived, it seems to us, is in removing the
convicts from competition with honest,
free labor; a condition while clearly eb
jectionable, is no easy one to solve.
Other states have tried to solve this
problem In various ways, but so far with
indifferent success. If, as claimed, to
turn the whole system over to the yrork
of building modern roadways is the solu
tion of it, we take it that every one will
welcome such an arrangement.
The proposition to make the system self
supporting by conducting a clothing, shoe
and tool factory and a farm in connec
tion with the system, where all long term,
decrepit men and women convicts may be
employed in producing supplies for the
entire system, and for this purpose alone,
seems, on the facq of It, to be one way
of removing the convicts, as nearly as
would ever be possible, from competition
with free labor, and at the same time of
making the system practically self-sup
porting.
At any rate the matter is one that is
going to occupy the attention of our peo
ple from now on, and it may even be
made an issue(in future legislative elec
tions, so that w# may reasonably expect
to see the solution reached before very
long.
OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
Fellow Feeling.
Chicago News.
The average man is always anxious to know
the worst of his neighbor—probably because
of the fact that misery loves company.
Another Convert.
Minneapolis Times.
A member of the German Reichstag met a
confiding young person in Detroit, and shortly
afterward reported to the police that he hat!
lo»t |<2o. When he gets borne there will bo
another vote for a tariff to repel the American
invasion.
Encouraging Extravagance.
Baltimore American.
To preserve the harmony of the affair, Ad
miral Schley might spend that 118.12 prize
money in ride* on the loop-the-loop.
Getting Stronger With Age.
St. Loui* Globe-Democrat.
It is confidently believed that the Nicaragua
canal scheme is now tn a healthier and mor*
hopeful condition than it has been at any tim*
since it was first suggested, in the year 1800.
Evidently Serious.
Detroit Free Press.
"Shot in His Home” is the Journal’s head
line over a Port Huron dispatch. We infer
that the bullet hit the man where he lived. *o
to speak.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Pres*.
Wh»n you have it if* prosperity; when the
other fallow has it It’s luck.
Mott people feel they are generous when
they do only their duty to others.
Liberty 1* being able to do as you please
with the rights of somebody else.
Some people can never understand how a
person who is natural can be interesting.
About the time a man gets usied to being
a husband he has to begin to get used to
being a father.
There are mighty few of us who do not
question the judgment of engaged people in
choosing as they did.
Some women never Can convince them*elves
that every man who is polite to them is not
trying to marry them.
It is not *o muds that there is pleasure
when we do good deeds as that we do good
deed* when it is a pleasure.
The woman who knows how to broil a
eteak doesn’t need to read magazine articles
on how to make a happy home.
The finest Christmas present ever put in a
stocking is what prudish people won’t call
by name without pretending to blush.
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
The British Electric Traction Company has,
during the past year, earned £600,000 in
penny fare*.
The Russian Minister 1 of Justice has decided
to introduce trial by jury as a provisional
measure.
Stations on the Russian railway in Man
churia are placed eighteen miles apart with
out reference to the location of towns.
A single brewery in Munich uses 118 rail
way freight cars of its own, beside 28 belong
ing to the state. Other breweries have 141,
90, 52, 80, 100, 86, etc.
Ethnological investigation* recently made
show that gesture language is still a recog
nized medium of communication in certain
sections of Australia.
Out of the 88,000,000 Inhabitants of France
21 000,000 live in the town or village, in which
they were born and 30,500,000 have not moved
out of their native departments Only 1,500,000
have emigrated to France from colonies or
foreign countries.
In the Kew Gardens in London is a flower—
a new kind of lily—presented by a Boer,
named Melntjes, who received it from General
Louis Both*. Melntjes asked that the illy
should be named after Botha, but the author
ities at Kew would not consent and they
have named it after Mr. Melntjes.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The Chicago dry goods stores are complain
ing of a shortage of young women attendants
on account of the large demand there for mar
riageable damsels.
During the congressional recess oil was dis
covered on land belonging to Senator Clark of
Wyoming. «nd now there is said to be another
millionaire in “the upper house” of the na
tional legislature
Amoe Rusle, who stopped making basket* *t
112 per week to become a professional baseball
pitcher at 1150 a week during the season, is
now earning 11.50 a clay by digging trenches
for waterworks In Muncie. Ind.
Miss Lillian A. Norton, of Texas, recently
appointed chief of the finance division of the
postoffice department, draws the largest salary
of any woman in the service of the govern
ment—l2,2so per annum.
Miss Marie Corelli, lecturing at Edinburgh on.
“Imagination," read an extract from a book
on the Egyptian pyramids, published tn 1672,
which described the use of wireless telegraphy
by one Saurid, a high priest of Memphis.
Professor Schaffer, an eminent German sur
geon. complains that the lance is a harmless
weapon, ft pierces a man without doing him
any vital Injury, and the humane professor
suggests that the lancehead be enlarged, so as
to make it more murderous.
Port Chester. N. Y., is without a receiver of
taxes, and there 1* no present likelihood of
anvone accepting the place. Six receiver* have
died since the office was established, most Os
them expiring suddenly, and everybody is of
opinion that the position is “hoodooed.”
The prince of Wales and his brother, the
duke of Connaught; the duke of Fife, the mar
quis of Lome and a lot of other titled people
are stockholders in the Great Northern Rail
way company. They were induced to invest by
Lord Sirathbonc, the Canadian railroad mag
nate.
The marquis of Dufferin and Ava. who Is
now 75 years of age, has done very little liter
ary work since his ambassadorial retirement
five years ago. The marquis' services to the
state have covered the period from 1855 (when
he was attached to Earl Russell’* special mis
sion to Vienna) down to 1596.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, was
asked by a newspaper to write an article on
how he keeps at work despite his age. He
wrote the article and said it was because he
had religious faith, and the article was re
jected. This rejection is the subject of hl*
text next Sunday.
The Elks held a lodge of sorrow at Cumber
land, Md., on the Ist of December, and Sen
ator Wellington delivered a eulogy on a de
parted member. In the course of his remarks
he said with great emphasis that he would not
eulogize anyone who in life had been a source
of disgust and disappointment to his friends.
This thinly veiled reference to the famous re
mark of the senator regarding President Mc-
Kinley was received with absolute silence.
No Deferred Payments.
Washington Star.
“Is your daughter learning to play by
note?”
"Certainly not,” answered Mrs. Cumrox
a little indignantly. "We pay cash for
every lesson. The idea!”
"Don’t you miss you husband very much
now that he is away?”
“Oh. no! At breakfast I Just stand his
newspaper up in front of a plate, and half
the time I really forget he isn’t there.”—
Exchange.
Talks and
At ck(attonal Capital.
Nothing has happened in a long time
of such interest to politicians as the Jolt
administered by President Roosevelt to
Senator Charles K. Fairbanks, of Indi
ana, says a Washington dispatch. The
appointment of Francis E. Baker to the
United States circuit court is so interpre
ted. Baker was the very special friend
of Beveridge. He was what might be
called the original Beveridge man. There
has been a hot fight over the judgeship
in which the'various factions In the state
took an active part. Beveridge came out
in the first place for Baker. Fairbanks
named no candidate, but concentrated
all his forces In an effort to defeat Baker.
The president appointed Baker despite
Fairbanks' protests, and the result can
only be looked upon as an overwhelming
rout for the senior senator from Indiana.
All of .which is taken to mean that Pres
ident Roosevelt is determined to smash
what was known <as the McKinley ma
chine.
Fairbanks has been a conspicuous lead
er of that organization. He was tempo
rary chairman of the original McKinley
convention at St. Louis and chairman of
tha committee on resolutions at Philadel
phia. He was recognized as one of Presi
dent McKinley's most intimate advisers.
Fairbanks at first indorsed Judge
Monks, but when he found that the pres
ident would not appoint Monks he took up
another candidate. Finally he announced
his readiness to indorse any Republican
other than Judge Baker, Beveridge s can
didate. who might be considered by Presi
dent Roosevelt worthy of so important an
appointment.
Judge Baker's appointment is a crush
ing blow to Fairbanks’ prestige, and the
effect of it, according to Indiana poli
ticians, will be to create a schism, in the
Indiana Republican organization which
will not be closed for a long time to
come. Another effect of the appoint
ment is to place Judge Baker in a posi
tion where he will have to review the
Judicial decisions of his father, who is
judge of the federal district court for the
northern district of Indiana.
Why Congressman Bartlett Quit.
Says a Washington special to the New
York Evening Telegram:
"Representative Bartlett, of Georgia,
who was a frequent visitor at the white
house during the McKinley administra
tion, and often came away with a frag
ment from the ’political pie counter,’ does
not fancy the Roosevelt style of doing
business. One of his colleagues remarked
to him today:
“ ’Charlie, what are you doing for the
good of the cause? I never see you at
the white house or in the departments,
where you ohce spent so much of your
time.’
“ ’There Is nothing doing with me Just
now,' replied the Georgia representative
dolefully. ’lt is useless to go to the post
office department to look after postal mat
ters while the postmaster general is
chasing around the country making after
dinner speechs, and I do not care to go
to the white house, because the president
wants everybody to hear your business, so
I have quit.’ ”
Liberal Appropriation for Navy.
Chairman Foss, of the house committee
on naval affairs, is credited by a Wash
ington dispatch with looking for a liberal
appropriation by congress this year for
the navy. He is prepared himself to take
the initiative by adopting the entire
building program suggested by Secretary
Long, and, if anything, is inclined to go
further than the recommendations of the
secretary.
“Secretary Long has asked for three bat
tleships of rhe largest type, and two ar
mored cruisers, as well as for a number of
smaller vessels. The president was very
strong for the navy in his message io con
gress, declaring boldly for battleships and
big cruisers.”
Chairman Foss has no doubt that con
gress will give all that Secretary Long
has asked for, and would not be surprised
if three armored cruisers instead of two
were appropriated for. Six vessels of the
battleship and armored cruiser type
would cost between 135.000,000 and $40,000,-
000, and while numerically they may not
make much of a showing, the money they
carry is considerably more than the gen
eral public realizes. “When the government
appropriates foj- a ship we Include full
armor and battery, and a battleship or
an armored cruiser of modern type costs
just about $5 000,000. So If congress provides
for $35,000,000 worth of battleships and
cruisers at this season it will be doing
fairly well. Plans for the battleships have
already been drawn by the navy depart
ment, in compliance with the terms of
the last naval appropriation bill, so that
there will be no time lost In awarding the
contracts. This will be done as soon as the
bill becomes a law.
vualrman Foss declines to discuss the
prospects of legislation regarding subma
rine torpedo boats, but It is easy to see
that he does not look kindly upon it.
Mr. Foss is equally non-committal in
regard to Secretary Long’s bill to provide
for four vice admirals to the navy. There
are two other matters of naval legislation
in which he is especially interested, and
they are the scheme tor a national naval
reserve and an Increase in the number
of enlisted men.
“I presume,” said the chairman, "that
we will have to increase the number of
enlisted men in the navy as it is apparent
that with the constant addition of new
vessel* to the active list we must have
more men. The president and the secre
tary both urge this, and congress will
doubtless give 2.000 or 3.000 more sailors.
I am now preparing a bln which I will
introduce shortly, providing for a national
naval reserve.”
Nepotism In the Navy.
An order issued by the navy department
Is the result of the discovery that certain
paymasters were getting their fathers ap
pointed as their clerks. This order pro
hibits the appointment as clerk to pay
master of any near relative. The imme
diate cause of the order was a case in
which the paymaster appointed his father,
who. it is said, was discovered to have
the palsy and to be entirely incapable of
performing the duties of the office.
The order also provides for the physical
and mental examination of candidates for
the position of paymaster’s clerk. An
eligible list is to be kept so that when
ever a paymaster needs a clerk one can
be furnished him from the eligible list.
The candidates must be passed upon by
some paymaster other than the one who
nominates
He Talked Too Freely.
Commander Lucien Young has been re
lieved as captain of the port of Havana.
This action is the result of an interview
with Commander Young in a Louisville
paper In which he expressed his opinions
about Cupban politics.
Some time ago the party which sup
ports Maso appealed to Secretary Root to
prevent interference in the campaign. The
secretary replied that the United States
would not Interfere. The Maso party re
plied that while it accepted Mr. Root’s
assurance about the attitude of the gov
ernment, it was a fact that some of the
officers in Cuba were expressing their
opinions about politics in the Island, and
asked him to put a stop to it.
Appropriations to Wait for New Year.
Contrary to the general custom not an
appropriation bill will be reported to the
house before the Christmas Holidays, say*
a Washington special to the Chicago
Tribune. It is usually necessary to report
and adopt promptly an urgency deficiency
bill to relieve the pressing necessity of
some of the departments. Chairman Can
non said: “We will not take uj> any of
the general appropriation bills until after
the new year begins. It will not be nec
essary to consider urgent appropriation
bills, as none of the departments of the
government is in urgent need of funds.
Some of the sub-committees are already
at work considering some of the general
appropriation bills, but in my judgment
they will not be considered by the house
for two or thrpe weeks.”
How Aggie Had Spells That the
Home Remedies Could Not Touch
BY GEO. ADE.
Copyrighted, 1901, By Robert Howard Russell.
A man and Wife had a peachy
Daughter named Aggie. When she
was 17 they put her into Training for
her coming-out Party.
Now that Aggie was a Young Lady,
about to be Launched, her Parents
were much relieved to know that she
had been Brought Up so successfully.
They thought that inasmuch as she
ad passed through the Perils of Child
hood and survived the Mumps, Meas
els, Scarlet Rash, Cholera Infantum.
Whooping Cough, etc., etc.,- she was
safely out of the Woods. They had
guided her through the Grammar and
.. gh Schools and sent her to a Danc
ing Academy and the Music Teacher
came to the House twice a Week. Now
that Aggie had theoretically arrived at
the Age of Discretion and the final
coat of Shellac had been put on her
List of Accomplishments, they looked
upon her as a Completed Job.
But as Time passed on, they learned
that there are many serious Ailments
Chat may overtake a Girl after she
flutters out of the Nursery. About the
time that Aggie formed the Chocolate-
Cream Habit and began to wear her
Hair in the Anna Held Style, she
caught the Matinee Fever, complicat
ed with Actorltis and Photomania.
She would go. to the Theatre as often
as she could muster the Price and
there she would sit in a pensive At
titude and gaze yearningly at the pal*
Leading Man with the Blaca Ringlets.
After returning Home she would mope
around in ..er blue Kimona and s\y
that she didn’t care for any Dinner.
Then Mother would give her some
Camomile Tea and a hot Foot-Bath
and tell her that she had caught Cold.
When it came to Diagnosis. Mother
was a Smne.
While she was still subject to these
recurring Attacks of Actorltis, anoth
er Malady laid hold on her.
One Day when Father came home he
was met by Agg.e’s Mother, who was
pale add worried.
“Something terrible has happened,"
she said, “Aggie has Art on the
Brain.”
It was too True. She had attended a
Studio Tea in a large smelly Place all
done in passionate Red with paste
board Armor on the Walls. There she
had met an Artist. Any one could tell
that he was the real Latin Quarter
Article, for he wore the corn-silk Tas
sels and never combed his Hair, and
smoked a Pipe even when he had Call
ers. He was made up in Velveteen and
a Fauntleroy Collar and his Cravat
would have done for a Sash. Aggie
was pining for Bohemia. So she de
cided that she would marry the Genius
who never had been Shaved, and they
could live together In the Paint-Shop
and cook all their Meals In a Chafing-
Dish. She began to comb her Hair
down over her Ears and moved her
Waist-Line up until it was stopped by
her Arms, and she wore long clinging
Raiment and tried to be exactly like
the Slim Sisters that show up In a
Burne-Jones Panel. All this made
Father very Exhausted. Father was
In the Pig-Iron Business and he didn't
think {hat Art was such a Much. He
said that a Man with silky Jo-Jo's .
who painted Dying Sunsets that no one
wanted to buy, was not his pick for a
Son-In-Law. He wanted Aggie tp se
lect a Practical Man—a Brewer, If pos
sible.
There Is no telling what would have
happened If a new Disease had not at
tacked Aggie. For one Day, as Father
entered the Drawlnr-Room he heard a
strange Thumping and Pounding over-
Fight Whisky Until Hell Freezes Over
And Then Fight On the Ice
SAYS REV. SAM P. JONES.
CARTERSVILLE, Ga.,
Dec. 10, 1901.
The Journal of this afternoon carries
glad news to Its thousands of readers
because of the news given out that the
senate had almost unanimously pass
ed the bill which will erect a magnifi
cent passenger station on the old de
pot site In Atlanta- There was gen
eral interest in .hat bill, and the
mature, deliberate opinion of the
thinking men of this state has been
carried out by this act of the Geor
gia legislature. Os course the gover
nor will approve this bill and it will
become a law.
I have noticed with a great deal of
interest the sayings and writing on
the governor’s veto of the gen
eral dispensary bill. I note tnat
Mr. Wright Is quoted as say
ing: The strongest pressure brought
to bear on the governor to
get him to veto that bill was brought
by Bishop Candler and Frank Potts.”
I am for Seab Wright first, last and
always, because I believe Seab is a
terror to the aquor gang and his heart
is right on the liquor question; but
I declare I was disturbed in mind about
It. A friend of mine spoke to me yes
terday saying: “Sam, I am glad you
washed your hands of that uispensary
bill; you could not Indorse a thing you
couid not champion, and I do not oe
lieve the day will ever come when £ou
will take the stump and champion a
dispensary in any county in this state.
I know that if the governor Is In fa
vor of the suppression of the liquor
traffic he is placed in an awkward po
sition because of his relation to other
bills passed by the legislature Insti
tuting and inaugurating dispensaries
In dry counties by legislative enact
ment. without even giving the dry
county the privilege of voting upon the
question. If such Is the case, that is a
species of deviltry and infamy that
ought not to be tolerated In a free
country. No legislature has a right to
pass a law putting any bad thing Into
any county which that county don’t
want. It is undemocratic and has the
devil in it. If the governor has ap
proved that sort of bills, then he Is
no friends to prohibition, to say the
least of It.
I understand there Is now pending a
till (whether passed or not I do not
know), giving the citizens of Floyd
county the right to vote on whether
they will have dispensaries or saloons.
Some have intimated that he would
veto that bill. If he does, then he be
longs to the whisky gang from snout
to tall, and he cannot deny it. and his
denial of that fact won’t weigh one
hundrdth part of an ounce with think
ing men.
Seab Wright talks right out in meet
ing, but I am candid when I say that
not but one citizen of the scores who
have spoken to me in reference to that
general dispensary bill, but that has
said to me: “I am glad you withdrew
your championship of the dispensary
hill.” I prefer dispensaries to saloons,
lust as 1 had rather have smallpox
than yellow fever, but God knows I
want neither. But something has got
to be done in Georgia generally on the
whisky question. If the legislature of
this state is to pass local laws Inaugu
rating dispensaries in these dry coun
ties, and they are to be approved by
the governor of the state, then It will
not be 24 months until the whole thing
is'dispensarizea or saloonized. I wish
I could cut a canal through old Floyd
and Fulton counties and drain them,
as dry as the desert of Sahara, and
then they would cease to slop over on
the decent dry counties around them
head, which caused the whole Building
to Vibrate.
“Somebody Is tearing out the Second
Story,” he said in Alarm.
“No,” replied his Faithful Wife, “but
the Worst has come. Daughter te
having an Attack of Physical Cul
ture.”
They went up and looked through the
Key-Hole. Aggie had on a scanty Suit
of Blue Flannel and she was trying to
beat the Shape out of a Punching-
Bag.
"Is there anything we can do?"
asked her distracted Pop.
“Nothing.” was the Reply. ”W*
must let Nature take Its Course. .She
will get over It in about Three Weeks.
In the meantime we must watch her
carefully or she may elope with some
Weight-Lifter.”
Truly enough, the Spasm of Muscu
lar Development lasted only 21 Days,
after which she took a good Rest and
slowly regained her Health. Her Pa
rents felt hopeful. The Violent Ex
ercise seemed to have worked all 0e
Art and Actorltis put of her System.
Just as Father and Mother were be
ginning to feel easy in their Minds
an awful Thing came off. Aggie wan
dered out one Afternoon and happened
to stumble on a Club Meeting ax which
an Authoress with Gold Spectacles did
a Balancing Act on a high Pedestal.
Aggie came home with the Literary
Microbe biting her at every Step. She
decided to write an Historical novel
and she thought she had better hurry
and get at it before she was too Old.
So she began to wear her Clothes loos*
and had Pencils stuck ta' hor BacK.
Hair and Ink-Stains on her Finger*.
She succeeded in getting acquainted
with some of the Literati. Now and
then she would bring them up to th*
House and Feed them. Father couldn’t
see them at all. Aggie said it was a
great Privilege to meet People who Do
Things. Father said that some of them
ought to do Time. The Dealer in Pig-
Iron was not very Bookish.
Just about the time that Aggie was
convalescing from the severe Case of
Literature, she was seized with Social
Reform. She discovered that she had *
Mission. She was going out among th*
Working Classes to show them how to
be Intellectual. Mother suggested that
she remain at Hom* and show Father
how to be Intellectual. For nearly ten
Days she was but uplifting th* Lower
Classes. Then one day she bounc*d-4nto
the house and said: “Mommer, I am
going In for Photography."
Mother groaned, but she was not
greatly surprised. She was getting used
to the Fads and Foibles.
Aggie began to blow up the Hous*
with Flash-Lights and she converted
the Clothes-Press Into a Dark-Room.
The Premises had a Chemical Odor.
The Pictures would have been all right
If the Light had been better, or if they
had been given Time Exposure or the
Camera hadn’t waggled, or Something.
As It was, they were full of Fog and
Moth-Balls.
One afternoon Aggie was swiftly
transformed from a Kodaker Into a
Mentlculturlst She brought home a
Book so Deep that Mother couldn’t
make Head or Tail of IL
Next Day a Young Man walked Into
the Office and said to Aggie’s Father.
“Sir, I should like to marry your
Daughter.”
“I don’t know who you are,” was th*
Reply, “but you can have her.”
MORAL: The Quick-Change Artist te
too much for the Old-Style Parent.
with their jugs and cases of liquor.
These infernal old saloon keepers of
these wet towns visiting the dry towns
ai.d taking orders for whisky is an out
rage on decency and right.
But some folks will have whisky, yet
in my judgment it is a mighty low
down kind of folks that want IL If all
the whisky drinkers in Georgia could
be marched out into line and a fellow
could look at them as they marched,
and especially look at the tail end of
the procession, if he had a spark of
manhood or decency, It looks like he
would forever quit the crowd that
brought up such a rear procession as
he is marching in, I used to march
with the gang—l know them—but
thank God, thirty years ago I quit
that gang and have quit them for good.
I am troubled in my mind about the
condition of things in Georgia on the
prohibition question. There Is the
mutterings of trouble ahead. There is
going to be thunder and lightning and
storms and cyclones and tidal waves
Jn my judgment in the next twelve
months along this line. As the saying
is, there are thousands of us fellows
w'ho have an old grudge against liquor
which is mlghtly easy to stir up, and
when you do stir it up you stir some
mighty hot blood on both sides.
I don’t know what brother Walker
Lewis is going to do now. lam afraid
the governor's veto has put a quietus
on him. I was counting on brother
Lewis in the coming issues. The pro
hibitionists of Georgia that requested
Governor Candler to veto that dispen
sary bill, and now lie dormant and
quiet in coming issues, their request
and their views and opinions amount
to no more with me than a dog a
barking.
If there was a whisky man in Geor
gia who fought that dispensary bill
I have yet to hear from him, except
Seab Wright's reference to the main
pressure brought to bear upon the
governor. There is one thing I do not
like as quoted from Seaborn Wright,
and that is, that he expects to retire
to a quiet life on his farm. If he does,
then two of strongest and most vig
orous men, who stand on the right side
of all questions, will have retired—
Tom Watson and Seab Wright.
Now, gentlemen, you can all fold
your tents and take to the woods, but
I am going to fight them until perdi
tion freezes over and then fight tnem
on the ice. I just ain’t built that way,
boys! You can all take tQ the woods
that want to, but I am by whisky like
the Hon. Joe Hill Hall Is by rail
roads—l am “agin” it on all occasions.
I don’t care how the legislature goes
nor how the governor goes nor how
the supreme court goes (and if a ma
jority of the supreme court Judges’
noses were as red as a beet they
would not lean more unerringly to the
liquor side of every question they have
up before them Involving the over
throw of liquor and the maintenance
of prohibition in our state), nor how
the world, the flesh and the devil goes,
I propose to go with the women and
children of this country and fight
everything that makes a wife miser
able, a mother unhappy or wrecks a
home. This may be undemocratic. It
may be unpreachercratlc, it may be
unmethodistlc. It may be unblshop
like. but them is my sentiments, gen
tlemen, and by them I will stand.
I leave tonight for a tour of Missis
sippi, Louisiana and Texas, D. V.,
winding'up my tour in time to get
home Christmas eve.
A merry, happy, jugless, kegless,
bottleless Christmas to all the people
of America! Yours truly,
SAM P. JONES.