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Rev. Thomae A. Hoyt.
When Dr. Felton read the open letter of
Rev. Thomas A. Hoyt, copied from the
Nashville American into a Georgia paper,
be remarked: "I am repaid for saving
Tom Hoyts life many times over. I did
good work when I rescued him from death
tn the Oconee river, when we were both
grammar school boys In Athens. Tom
wee sinking for the last time when I got
hold of him and brought him to the bank.
We were all in swimming, and Tom was
almost done for that day. Dr. Nathan
Hoyt, one of the best preachers and finest
citizens in his day, came to me and
thanked me for hto son's rescue from
death with all his noble heart, but this
letter of Tom's pays the debt tn full. If
there ever was any obligation for rescu
ing the dear boy. who was as bright as
• shining new dollar when he was at
school and In college.” f
Here's a part of the letter:
"The dispute between the north and
the south to not settled, and will not be
settled while the negro remains. The
south cannot treat the negro as the north
demands, and the north will not try to
', learn the reason. The north expects of the
white race of the south what is impossi
ble to grant. The south naturally resents
this dicta .-on from people at a distance,
who are ignorant of the facts.
"The contest Is as irreconcilable as It
was in former days. Then the issue was
slavery, now It is equality—social and po
litical. Emancipation was forced by a
bloody war. The negro became the ward
of the nation.' The white people of the
south were placed under the ban as 'reb
els.* and the struggle began, still contin
ues, and will last as long as the nation
exists in its present form.
“All the dreams and fancies of peace
and harmony between the two sections
- have been rudely shattered by one act of
President Roosevelt. This Is its slgnifi
• canee: It has broken the truce of God.'
and sounded the signal of civil strife. I
would not judge him harshly. I think he
acted from impulse. I am told that he
• deeply regrets it: still the baleful effects
. remain. It gratified the hatred of north
ern fanatics: it shocked the sensibilities
of the southern people, and it filled mill
i iong of negroes with vain longings for an
impossible equality. The end .s not yet.”
He says further:
"The southern people have an invincible
prejudice against social equality with the
negro. Is there a reason for this preju
dice? It would become the publicists and
philosophers of the north to seek this
reason. Does it ever occur to them that
millions of intelligent and virtuous peo
- pie. covering one-third of the area of the
country, would not cherish such a preju
dice unless there was some good reason
for it? There is a good reason. It is that
such relations between the races would
lead to intermarriage, miscegenation and
the production of a hybrid race. Inferior
to the whites mentally, and to the blacks
physically. Such an admixture would
mean the degradation and ultimate ex
• Unction of the Anglo-Saxon in the south.
» ■ “This to the good and sufficient reason
for the universal prejudice in the south
against social equality with the negro.
“Thus fortified it is no longer mere
prejudice, but becomes a sacred senti
ment. a firm conviction, an inviolable in
stinct. a fixed habit of nature. These di
vinely imifianted motives are arrayed as
armed sentries at the gates to guard the
sanctity of home, the purity of blood, the
just pride of the superior race. Such hal
lowed feelings, shared by a whole people,
• cannot be violated with impunity. They
should be respected and especially by the
chief magistrate. They were respected by
President McKinley and. for the most
part, by hto predecessors."
Negro Loses Equal Rights Suit.
• New Tork Journal. Nov. 23.
"LANCASTER. Penn.. Nov. 22.—Arthur
Seymour, negro, brought suit here today
against Captain John B. Peoples, manager
of the roof garden here of F. W. Wool
worth. of New Tork. on the charge of re
fusing to sell him and a companion re
freshments. The defense was that Sey
mour's order was refused by a waitress,
without the knowledge of the manager.
Captain Peoples was acquitted by the
jury and the costs put on Seymour.** .
' The Pennsylvania politicians imported
numbers of Delaware negroes to vote in
the late state election, and the country is
. beginning to understand the negro prob
lem a little better tn that latitude.
Fanaticism against elavely Is one thing
* but enthusiasm for social equality is
to quite another thing. The press to be
ginning to say some very suggestive
things on the subject.
The Philadelphia Record, for example,
quoted on Thursday last Lincoln's state
ment that “there is a physical difference
between the two races which, in my judg
ment. will probably forever forbid their
living together upon the footing of per
fect equality.” and went on to say:
"Senator Culberson, we think, is mis
taken tn supposing that the problem of
social equality to sectional. The experi
ment of negro suffrage has had a strong
. ly educational influence In the nqythern
states. Social equality to talked of in the
. north by well meaning philanthropists,
who are very far from practicing what
they preach, but it does not exist. The
political necessity which keeps the south
ern states solid wherever the negroes hold
a balance of power to sure to assert itself
in the north in case of a negro migration
northward. Probably at this time upon
a fair vote tn Pennsylvania there is a
division of parties so nearly equal that
the casting of the solid negro vote one
way or the other would determine the re
sult. As the negro vote has always been
cast for the republican party, it has be
come a dangerous element in the Key
stone state. What education the negroes
have attained does not prevail to divide
B I s *h e joy of the household, for without
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SE which the expectant mother must pass, how-
W xMf E ever, is so full of danger and suffering that
she looks forward to the hour when she shall
feel the exquisite thrill of motherhood with indescribable dread and
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BKADHELD REGULATOR OO„ Atlanta. Oa. wB Hr ta u? SBiBXE E3f
them as white men divide upon questions
of public policy. At the late election in
this city the bulk of the negro voters
were qualified for the suffrage by the
purchase for them of poll tax receipts.
Many of them were also paid for their
votes, and actively employed as repeat
ers in debauching the suffrage which has
been mistakenly placed in their hands.
"The first step toward a solution of the
negro problem should be the withdrawal
of the right of suffrage by constitutional
amendment. Then, as Senator Culberson
suggests, Instead of vain and vapid clam
or for a social equality which nature for
bids, let us have education, forbearance,
moral training, just treatment, opportu
nities for labor, social separation, and
national tranquility.* ’*
“Put yourself tn the place,'' is very
good advice, and fits in remarkably well
when the northern people have proper ex
perience of the negro question.
Bridal Superstitions.
Relative merits of the various months
with regard to matrimony are set forth
in the rhyme, which runs:
"Marry when the year Is new.
Always loving, kind and true;
When February birds do mate
You may wed, nor dread your fate.
If you wed when March winds blow,
Joy and sorrow both you'll know.
Marry in April when you can,
Joy for maiden and for man;
Marry in the month of May,
You will surely rue the day;
Marry when June roses blow.
Over land and sea you’ll go.
They who in July do wed,
Must labor always for their bread.
Whoever wed in August be,
Many a chance are sure to see.
Marry in September's shine,
Your living will be rich and fine.
If in October you do marry,
Love will come, but riches tarry;
If you wed in bleak November,
Only joy will come, remember;
When Decembers' snows fall fast
Marry, and true love will last.”
Os the days in the week Wednesday is
the best and Saturday the worst on which
to get married. The old rhyme runs:
••Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health.
Wednesday the best day of all,
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all.**
If we are to believe superstition, a
bride's happiness depends not a little on
what she.wears:
"Something old and something new;
Something borrowed and something blue,”
is invariably regarded by brides. Accord
ing to an old rhyme:
"Married in white.
You have chosen all right.
Married in gray.
You will go far away.
Married in black.
You will wish yourself back.
Married in red.
You had better be dead.
Married in green.
Ashamed to be seen.
Married in blue.
You’ll always be true.
Married in pearl.
You’ll live In a whirl.
Married in yellow,
Ashamed of the fellow.
Married in brown.
You’ll live out of town.
Married in pink.
Your spirit will sink.”
Exchange.
Stormy Times in Old Greece Over the
Gospel.
It would seem that fanaticism, like
the smallpox, will break out in strange lo
calities and under perplexing conditions.
An immense mob of 30.000 persons con
gregated in the city of Athens, Greece, on
November 21 and passed resolutions call
ing on the holy synod to excommunicate
any person who translated the gospels
into modem Greek, as now spoken. Mili
tary and marines, patrolled the locality.
In frequent collisions between the mili
tary and the mob seven persons were
killed, 30 dangerously wounded and many
more less severely hurt. Armed men are
constantly arriving and bloodthirsty peo
ple are exciting the rioters.
At this distance from the scene of ac
tion it looks like “Much Ado About Noth
ing.”
Why such opposition exists against
translating old Greek into modem Greek
to not explained in our account of the
riot in Athens.
It has been the general contention of all
Bible lovers that the gospel should be
printed in all languages and distributed
among all peoples. If uneducated Greeks
cannot read the gospels In the ancient
tongue it would seem good common sense
to print the Holy Book in a language
readily understood by those who are eager
to read it.
Anyhow, it seems a poor thing to fight
about and the spirit of the gospels would
forbid murder and bloodshed on first prin
ciples.
It is evident that fanaticism has got in
to those modem Greeks in a very disas
trous way for their own good and na
tional progress. Whenever religion is
used to kill and destroy, then the spirit
has left the shell.
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"The few have no right to the luxuries
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There to a good deal of truth and wisdom
in this, but in view of the fact that the
system has been in vogue since the be
ginning of time, we don't see just what
we are going to do about it.
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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1901.
Press of the Country
H ■* - *•
Views the Schley Verdict
The Southern Press.
People Will Reserve the Verdict.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The dual report of the Schley Court of In
quiry will be read with mingled feelings of
Indignation and Joy wherever the flag of this
nation Is respected and loved.
The persecutors of Rear Admiral Bchley
have gained a nominal and temporary victory.
The American people, who have made the
hero of Santiago's cause their own, have won
an actual and enduring triumph.
Here then is presented the juxtaposition of
standards that have always divided, and will
everlastingly divide, the prurient crltlo from
the high minded and liberal judge. Between
such men there Is a gulf aa wide as space and
as deep as the Bay of Portugal.
The American people will reverse the unrea
sonable verdict of this Irrational majority.
From the judgment of Rear Admiral Benham
and Rear Admiral Ramsay, the case of one of
the flnest spirits that ever ruled the seas
against one of the most formidable naval
cabals that ever disgraced a nation, will bo
appealed to a higher tribunal. To the con
gress of the United States the controversy
will now be taken, and In that body which
responds most surely to the people's voice the
fame of Winfield Scott Schley will for all
time be made secure.
Dewey’s Opinion Outweighs All.
Macon Telegraph.
Historian Maclay. an obscure person on the
pay roll in the naval department as a laborer,
charged In his book that Admiral Schley had
proven himself In the naval battle at San
tiago to be “a caitiff and a coward.”
Webster defines “caitiff” as “one in whose
character meanness and wickedness meet.”
When It transpired that Admiral Sampson
had read Maclay's proof, and had endorsed
the book written to become a text book In the
naval academy. Admiral Schley demanded a
court of Inquiry.
It will be seen that neither the majority
nor the minority of the court sustained this
charge.
The endorsement of Dewey Is worth more
than the cumulative testimony from Long
down the line to the ward room gossips.
Dewey and Schley are the only Americans
alive or dead who have conducted a campaign
and fought a battle with modern battleships
and appliances. Dewey brought to bear on the
Schley case actual experience. The other two
theoretical knowledge.
We have not heard the last of this thing.
Against Admiral Schley.
Savannah Press.
The finding of the Schley Inquiry was not
what was expected. It was believed by those
who read the evidence that a verdict criticis
ing Admiral Schley’s course during the block
ade of Santiago and the retrograde movement
to Clenfuegos might be possible. The evidence
on these points was conflicting and the way
was open for a finding adverse to him. It did
not seem possible, however,- that Admiral
Schley could be censured by the court for
his loop of the Brooklyn or for his conduct
during the battle of Santiago.
The country was not prepared for what has
been given out by the court of Inquiry. Possi
bly there Is something to criticize in his
conduct preceding the battle of Santiago, but
Admired Dewey gives him the benefit of the
doubt and praises him throughout. This will
be the verdict of the country. There is talk
of congressional investigation. As a rule such
inquiry should be kept out of politics, but if
congress Is convinced that the prejudices of
the navy department have been too strong for
Schley and Dewey it will not hesitate to take
this matter In Its own hands and sift it to
the bottom.
Congress Should Investigate.
Charleston News and Courier.
Dewey's verdict Is the verdict of the Amer
ican people, and the appeal must be made and
will be made from the decision of the court
through congress to the people. The case will
not be settled until it Is settled right, and It
will not be settled right until the combina
tions which have been made to control the
naval establishment of our country In certain
Interests have been utterly overthrown.
Congress ought to provide for a committee
of investigation. and its work should be push
ed without fear or affection. In justice to
Schley, who is discredited In the report of a
majority of ths court, and for the sake of
As the years roll on It becomes more ap
parent that Georgia must have a more re
liable class of farm laborers than at pres
ent. Otherwise the farm lands will depre
ciate In value and pass Into the hands of
mortgage and loan companies, because a
living and taxes cannot be made from the
soil under existing conditions.
It would surprise many students of po
litical economy to know how near we have
approached to this unhappy condition.
Something must be done to Induce farm
labor to come in, and whether It will be
Chinese, negro or foreign white labor is
not half so important as to get enough
labor to cultivate the soil for its present
owners.
The stalwart negro labor has gone to
the railroads, the mines and rough labor
in manufactories.
Cotton picking and cotton hoeing is
largely dependent on negro women and
negro children. White farmers seem
obliged to keep their own children in
farm labor the best part of the year to
be able to pay taxes and buy food and
clothing. Much of the non-attendance In
school grows out of this unhappy condi
tion, because the question of food and
clothes precedes that of book education
by reason of necessity.
A great many people have given up
farm work because country schtfcils are
next to nothing and whenever they could
get a job in town and send their chil
dren to school they preferred to do it, as
the conditions are disheartening when
Mr. Jenkins’ Trespasser: A Ghost Story.
BY MAXIE DUNBAR.
Having reached my majority in the win
ter of 1882, I determined to run a farm of
my own. Thinking: thereby to show off to
advantage my great wisdom at that age.
Having no means, I gladly accepted a
home offered me by Mrs. Brown, a widow
of mjf acquaintance. I "rented" her farm
and boarded with her family, which con
sisted of herself, her little son and maiden
sister. ,
The last named, Miss Jenny Dale, was a
jolly good companion for all the boys. She
could mount a horse and race with the
swiftest riders, usually rounding up far
in the lead; and although her wavy locks
were white with the frost of sixty winters,
she led the dances of all the country round
about. None were so light of foot as she
or so merry of heart. Just the opposite
was her gentle sister, Margie. While Miss
Jenny entertained, Mrs. Brown soothed,
and every one loved her.
I readily made friends with them both
and when spring opened I was under good
headway with my farm, with every youth
ful ambition fully gratified.
Situated out of my own neighborhood, I
was no longer “Charlie” or “Mr. Charlie,”
bu\ “Mr. Jenkins.” The negroes called me
“Boss” or “Cap’n," and I heard it spoken
casually that I was a good farmer. Wheth
er this gave me an exalted opinion of my
self I will leave others to judge, as for
me I thought what Mr. Jenkins knew was
enough.
One thing annoyed me. Two negro boys
seventeen or eighteen years of age. work
ing on an adjoining place, made a custom
of passing through the plantation every
night enroute to their father’s home. In
stead of keeping the road they made the
way shorter by crossing my finest field of
cotton, thereby leaving sundry tracks
athwart my nicely plowed furrows.
I sought diligently for a remedy, and
finally decided to give them a scare.
I had ’possum hunted a great deal with
the negroes that winter and had listened
attentively to their tales of the different
"hants" that held full sway in their re
spective dens. There was a black one in
the "Hurricane Woods” that invariably
put the dogs to flight. White ones could
be seen near the old gravevard and such
the navy, the Investigation must bo contin
ued under condltfofis and by a tribunal beyond
the reach of official and political influences.
A Victory for Schley.
Chattanooga News.
The fact that Admiral Dewey upholds Ad
miral Schley will be considered a victory for
Schley all over the world. It is Dewey and
Schley against Ramsay and Benham, and the
people understand that the hero of Manila bay
and the hero of Santiago are the greatest sea
fighters known to this generation. As a friend
to Admiral Schely The News is satisfied with
the verdict.
Hurrah for Dewey!
Augusta Chronicle.
Technically some of these counts In the
complaints against Schley may be true, and
it as the consequence of any one of them the
Spaniards had escaped or one of our own
warships had been lost, there might be excuse
for stressing these rival points. But tn the
light of the glorious record of our great naval
victory, the bringing of these uetty charges
against the hero of that marvellous sea bat
tle, Is like charging that Napoleon didn't
have his shoes polished fit for full dress in
spection at the battle of Jena; that Wellington
didn’t carry his sword at the right angle in
the battle of Waterloo; that Oliver H. Perry
had his necktie crooked In the battle of Lake
Erie: that Stonewall Jackson didn't ride ac
cording to West Point requirements in the
battle of Sharpsburg; that General Lee didn't
have his horse curried in the battle of Chan
cellorsvllle; that George Washington had a
hole In his stocking at the battle of lork
town, or that Grant didn’t march bls army
as rapidly as he ought at Appomattox.
In splendid contrast with the petty findings
of the majority of the court Is the report of
Admiral Dewey. The hero of Manila Bay
has honored himself In giving due honor to the
hero of Santiago. The heroes of the two great
victories of the Spanish-American war, the
first and the last, Dewey and Schley, have
had their names forever linked In grateful re
membrance by this court of inquiry.
Nothing Has Been Decided.
Columbia (S. C.) State.
The result Is to leave the issue just as It
was; nothing Is settled, though technically the
finding Is adverse to Schley. It will never be
possible to induce the Schley partisans to ac
cept the deliverance of two virtually unknown
naval officers when Schley is vindicated by
the declaration of Admiral George Dewey, the
most famous naval officer living.
The finding itself is hardly more than a
summary of the reasons for the diverse views
which the critics and admirers of Schley have
held. From the same facts and circumstances
It Is always certain that different minds will
draw different conclusions.
It is to be regretted that the decision is
not decisive. It will simply serve to conform
individual opinions already formed and to
strengthen Individual prejudices already ex
pressed. We may expect a continuation of
the sickening and harmful discussion ttiat has
raged for about three years: a congressional
Investigation Is not Improbable and there is
no telling what else.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
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Bears tha •A-l?-
of
Only two-thirds of the area of the lot can be
covered In Stockholm, except on street corners,
where three-fourths is allowed. The remainder
of the lot must be reserved for courts, for light
and ventilation. All chimney flues must be
twelve or fifteen inches, and must be swept
once a month from October to April by official
chimney sweepers.
A Chicago woman has been divorced three
times from the same husband. Has Chicago
ever produced a finer instance of constancy
than this?—Mail and Express.
What Can Be Done About Farm Labor?
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON.
farm labor cannot be depended on from
one day to another. The promise of a
job at 80 cents or H a day will stop a
mule and plow no matter how urgent the
fate of the crop may be to Its owner.
Nobody will work on Saturday after
noons. Some cut short at Friday night.
If It sprinkles the morning, that stops
the work for that day. If any hand’s
wages are docked for late arrivals he will
go elsewhere for a job and take a de
light in your confusion and perplexity.
And yet taxes never come down a pen
ny and the strain increases every year.
From the standpoint of a plain north
Georgia woman, it seems that we could
not do better than to pull the bridles off
and tell the Chinaman to come along and
make a living for himself as well as the
land owner.
We need not be dreading Impure men
and women of the yellow variety, or If we
do dread It we may acknowledge the fact
that It Is because we have been so long
used to such conditions.
So long as the Chinaman is a laborer
and not a voter, so long will his labor
be devoid of some unpleasant features.
It Is proposed to keep the Chinese ex
clusion act In force by making the limit
perpetual.
How can this be done when the Chinese
are by long odds and far away ahead of
all business peoples in the Philippine
Islands?
Everybody says the Chinese are the
thrifty inhabitants of Manila.
But some will say we have got all we
hideous noises were heard In the "nine
acre hollow” that they could never catch
any ’ppssums there. Os course, every old
outhoiise was suspected. Being slightly
superstitious myself, I quietly avoided
these places after the going down of the
sun, though I laughed at others fbr doing
so.
“Mrs. Brown," said I, coming in from
my work late one evening, "I want to bor
row a sheet.”
'•Borrow a sheet! Why, Mr. Jenkins,
what do you want with a sheet?”
T hesitated. Mrs. Brown was so kind
hearted I was almost ashamed of myself.
"I want to give Bill and George a
fright,” I replied. ”1 have asked them to
stay off of my cotton and they pay no at
tention to me. I want to give them some
thing tonight that they will remember to
tell their grandchildren about"
"Would that be quite right, Mr. Jen
kins? You might scare them to death, or
what to more dangerous they might shoot
you; all the negroes carry pistols these
days. I wouldn’t have you get hurt for
anything, my boy.”
This nettled me a little, for I felt old
enough to take care of myself, and I de
termined to have my way about it.
"Nonsense, Margie,” put In Miss Jenny,
"let him have it. I believe In having all
the fun you can whils you’re young. If
the proprieties did not forbid I would go
along myself and we would certainly have
a circus.”
Thanks to Miss Jenny, I got the sheet,
and proceeded to an old gin house that
stood m the middle of the field. The
house was built in the old-fashioned style
with gearing underneath for the horses
and a "lint room” at the end.
Concealing myself near this room, with
the sheet wrapped securely around me, I
waited. I could view the route readily
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' OPINION IS DIVIDED AS TO EF- <
]' FECT OF THE FINDING, BUT <
]! MAJORITY DEMANDS A FUR- 3
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VINDICATION. ij
The Northern Press.
Schley is Vindicated.
New York Journal.
Fighters know each other. The victor of
Manila recognizes and does justice to the vic
tor of Santiago.
Dewey places the laurels where they be
long. and where the American people, guided
by their common sense and love of fair play,
have Insisted on placing them ever since the
battle of Santiago was fought and won—on
Schley's, not on the absent Sampson’s, brow.
To the American people Admiral Dewey was
the Court of Inquiry, summoned to pass judg
ment upon Schley. Had Dewey condemned
him and Admirals Ramsay and Benham up
held him, the verdict of censure by the minor
ity would have carried Incomparably more
weight than the majority report. So now,
when Admirals Ramsay and Benham report
against Schley on sundry counts and Dewey
supports and praises him. It Is Dewey’s judg
ment that will be accepted as against theirs.
It is easv after the event to pick flaws in
the conduct of a commander who had to take
the responsibility of making decisions In
Cl lt e ?s to be regretted, of course, that the re
port of the' Court of Inquiry leaves any room
whatever for division of opinion as to Admiral
Schley’s competence under all circumstances
as a naval commander. The country would
have been glad had the debate been definitely
closed by the removal of every Inch of dis
puted ground. But It Is not likely that the
small critics will have a happy time hence
forward. while/ they dwell upon details that
have no bearing whatever on the main point.
For Schley was really on trial on these three
charges: _ . . _ ,
1. Incompetency at the battle of Santiago.
2. Cowardice at the battle of Santiago.
8. Endeavoring to steal from Sampson the
honor of victory. .... - ..
On all three counts Admiral Schley has been
acquitted, and more than acquitted. The ma
jority report gives him full credit for courage
and Admiral Dewey awards him the glory of
the victory.
The Verdict Cannot Stand.
Baltimore Sun.
It is most deeply to be regretted that the
two inferior members of the Schley Court of
Inquiry, constituting a majority of that body,
have had the hardihood to make a report
voicing substantially the prejudices of jealous
fellow officers in the navy department, rather
than the plain truth, as made manifest to the
American public by the great event with
which the whole world Is familiar. Evidently
a finding so out of keeping with the judgment
of the unprejudiced public cannot stand, but
will necessitate a congressional investigation
and second inquiry, thus creating an unpleas
ant parallel to the Dreyfus scandal.
Dewey’s Verdict Is Enough.
Washington Post.
The country has heard the deliberate opin
ion of the one member of the court who
possesses Its unreserved respect and confi
dence and will accept It with practical una
n the attention of the public to the
fact that Admiral Dewey's signature to the
report is purely formal and perfunctory. As
the presiding officer of the court, it was in
cumbent on him to certify to the validity of
the document. All that Is regular and proper
enough. But Admiral Dewey tells us In suffi
ciently plain terms what he personally thinks,
and that, we venture to say, will fill the meas
ure of the nation's real solicitude. It will be
perceived on close Inspection that Admirals
Benham and Ramsay have reached their ver
dict by the simple process of Ignoring the
testimony of such men as Cook and Clark,
and confining themselves to that of such men
as Chadwick. Southerland.' and Bristol. Either
Cook and Clark have lied, or Admirals Ram
say and Benham regard them as lacking In
Intelligence. The American people will have
little trouble in choosing among these con
tradictory hypotheses.
It is clear to us that Admiral Schley should
take his case Into a civil court, suing Maclay’s
publishers for libel. Through this expedient
only can he bring to light the infamous con
spiracy against his fame, and hold up to
public execration the conspirators thus fai
screened by the department, whose favorites,
tools, and beneficiaries they notoriously are.
The country Is thoroughly convinced that the
navy department is honeycombed with vicious
and Ignoble practices.
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The Absent Minded Fairy Godmother.
Os course, you all know that a very
great many years ago all good children
had fairy godmothers. Even if you don’t
know It, it must be’ so, for so very many
people who write about things say so, and
people who write about things know
every single thing there Is to know, espe
cially me. .
In those days of which I write one little
girl named Mary Emma had a fairy god
mother who was very absent-minded. In
deed, she was so absent-minded at times
that she forgot she was a fairy godmother
at all, and so, Instead, of helping Mary
Emma make her fortune, as, of course,
she should have done, she just stayed
at home and kept house just like any one
else. In fact, if it had not been for Mary
Emma herself, the fairy godmother might
have forgotten that she had a goddaugh
ter, but every once and a while Mary Em
ma would wink her left foot three times,
which would immediately summon the
fairy godmother to her side.
Mary Emma did not want anything at
all, but she was a very far-seeing little
girl, and she knew that some time she
might want something, and if her fairy
godmother did not have some practice,
she might forget what it meant when
Mary Emma winked her left foot three
times, and never come at all! But the
way you can tell whether or not you
have a fairy godmother by just trying
that. If a fairy godmother with a sugar
loaf hat and a long wand does not ap
pear as soon as you have winked your
left foot three times, then you haven’t
any. . .
Well, one day Mary Emma decided that
she was old enough to go out and seek
her fortune, so off she went. She had on
her very best frock, a nice lunch in her
basket, and she felt sure she was going
to find a very nice fortune indeed. She
left her mother stoning cherries on the
back porch and walked on and on and
on, until she had gone farther than she
had ever gone before. After a while she
entered a deep forest. She had been quite
hot and cross In the sun, but it was de
lightfully cool in the forest under the
great trees, and she thought that seek
ing one's fortune was just heaps of fun.
Mary Emma was going along singing
at the top of her voice, when all at once
she turned a corner of the forest and
there were three robbers lying in wait
for her. My! But she was frightened! She
winked her left foot three times just as
Aiard as ever she could, and her fairy god
mother appeared rubbing her eyes and
looking very cross, for she had just been
taking a nice nap when she had been so
suddenly awakened. The robbers were
just about to rob Mary Emma of her
lunch basket when her fairy godmother
appeared, but as soon as they saw her
they all stepped back a few paces, clench
ed their teeth and said, "Foiled!’
"Oh, please change those dreadful rob
bers into something quick!” cried Mary
Emma. Her fairy godmother looked very
severely at the robbers and waved her
wand. "Why don't they change?” asked
Mary Emma, and then she looked around
and saw that her fairy godmother had
changed herself into a bicycle by mistake.
"Qh, dear me!” said the bicycle. "What
ever shall I do now? I must have used
the wrong magic formula, and now those
horrid robbers will steal me." The rob
bers all unclenched their teeth and said.
"At last!” They were just about to steal
the bicycle, when Mary Emma jumped
on it and rode off as fast as she could
ride. The robbers ran after her. called
to her to stop, but she kept on. Mary
Emma did not know how to ride a bicy
cle, but you know this was a fairy god
mother bicycle, and so. of course, it could
keep Itself right side up.
Mary Emma soon rode the bicycle out
of the forest, and then It wanted to stop
ana rest a while, for It said it was not
used to being a bicycle and was complete
ly tired out.
"Nonsense!” said Mary Emma. •The
Idea of a bicycle getting tired! I never
heard of such a thing!” and she rode on
faster than ever. Just as the bicycle was
getting so very tired that it did not know
what to do, they crossed a little bridge
over a running brook. You all know
that when anything that has been en
chanted crosses a running brook It turns
back to its former shape at once. Well,
as soon as they had crossed this brook
the bicycle changed back again, and Mary
Emma found herself on the back of
fairy godmother’s neck. “Get off the back
of my neck at once!” cried the fairy god
mother. crossly, for she was very tired
from being a bicycle. “You ought to be
ashamed of yourself—a great, big girl like
you sitting on the back of an old lady like
me! Sit on the back of your own neck,
if you want to!” Mary Emma got down
at once. Then they found that they were
hungry. They sat down by the side pf
lae road and began to eat the lunch that
Mary Emma had in her basket.
They ate and rested and rested and ate
until the lunch was all gone. Then Mary
Emma said: "Why don’t you change this
lunch basket into a coach, so we can get
in and ride? I don’t like this walking
about while I am making my fortune."
The fairy godmother said that she would
do that before Mary Emma could spell
"Jack Robinson” backward tn German,
and then she laughed so hard at Mary
Emma while she was trying to spell Jack
Robinson that way that she very absent
mindedly forgot what she was about, and
at the same time that she turned the
lunch basket Into a coach she turned her
self and Mary Emma Into two splendid
coach horses. Mary Emma was very an
gry when she found herself harnessed to
the coach and helping her fairy godmoth
er draw It along the road. "Now. just
see what you’ve done,” she cried. "I do
declare you ought to keep your wits about
you more. How are we ever going to get
out of this?” Just then the prince of that
country and a lot of courtiers came along
riding on oxen, for there were no horses
in that country.
When the prince saw the two splendid
horses drawing this superb coach along
the road he was delighted. He had never
seen any horses before, but he had seen
pictures of them in hto natural history
book, and so, of course, he knew what
they were at once. He got in the coach
and drove the horses all the way to hto
father’s palace. The horses were just as
angry as they could be, and they told
the prince he was no gentleman to make
ladies draw him along the road In a
coach like that. The prince said they
must not dare to talk that way to a real
prince, and that they were not ladle*,
anyway, but only horses, and that If they
didn’t behave themselves and trot along
nicely, he would hit them with hto whip.
“Oh, just you wait till we cross a run
ning brook, and if I don't change you into
a last year’s mince pie, you may have my
gold spectacles!” said the fair godmother.
The prince thought that perhaps there
might be something in that, so he drove
them over roads that did not cross run
ning brooks.
When they came to the palace the king,
the prince's father, was as pleased as he
could be. and said that the prince was
just the dearest boy that ever lived. "You
can have the coach,” he said, “but send
the horses to my stable and give them
some oats.”
"Oats, indeed!" said Mary Emma, 111
have you understand I never ate an oat In
my life, and, what is more, I am not going
to any old stable, either.”
Then, as soon as they were unharnessed
from the coach she and her fairy god
mother started to run, but just as they
had gone a few steps they crossed a wat
er pipe full of running water that led to
the paiace, and they immediately turned
into their proper shapes again. Then the
king was furious.
"What do you mean,” he shouted, ’by
changing yourselves Into something else
when you are the only horses I have? 1
never heard of such conduct 1 Change
yourselves back into horses again at
once!" ,
"I will do no such thing,” said the fairy
godmother. "If you think I am going to
uve In a stable and eat oats, you are very
much mistaken.”
"Seise them and cast them into the deep
est dungeon!” cried the king to L-s army.
The army got ready to seise them, and
then Mary Emma and her fairy godmoth
er were frightened almost to death.
“I guess may u e we had better change
back to horses after all,” said the fairy
godmother.
“I guess maybe we had,” said Mary Em
ma. So, just as the army was about to
seize them, the fairy godmother waved
her wand, but she did It so absent-mind
edly that instead of changing herself and
Mary Emma she changed the whole army
Into horses, and they immeaiately began
to eat grass. The king was delighted at
this, because now, he had enough horses
to stock his whole kingdom, ana, besides,
he owed the army two years’ wages, and
now he would never have to pay them.
All this time the Prince had been star
ing at Mary Emma just as hard as he could
stare, and now he dropped on one knee
and told her that he thought she was the
very sweetest girl he had ever seen and
that he would like her to be hto princess
at once and for evermore. Mary Emma
said that She didn't mind, for she had
always wanted to be a princess, and the
king said they had better hurry up about
It. for dinner was almost ready and he
was hungry. So they were married at
once, and then they all decided that they
had better send the fairy godmother home
as fast as ifhe could go, for fear she
would absent-mindedly change them all
Into something else. The fairy godmoth
er was getting homesick, so she flew off
In a hurry, and all the rest lived happily
ever after.
When the fairy godmother got home she
called a convention of all the fairy god
mothers in the world and told mem all
about the way she had been treated. They
all said It was perfectly shameful and
that they were a very much abused class
of people. Most of them went out of busi
ness right there and then; that Is why
there are so very few lalry godmothers
about today.
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Mr. Jim Colllflower; ”1 wouldn't say dat
'Rastus sells his vote. But he’s willin' to
hire it out ’caslonally to select parties.”—
Washington Star.
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