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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 26, ISOL
Crowningshield seems to bear a charmed
official Use.
The general opinion is that the Schley
court scattered too much.
Historian Maclay doesn’t even know
enough to keep his mouth shut.
That new cabinet appointment is said
to give the southern congressmen a
Payne . ___
Still, we do not notice that anybody has
been asking Mrs. Bonine to lead any more
germa ns. -
The result of the Schley inquiry shows
that even a sea dog can be a dog in the
manger at times.
In kicking Maclay out of the navy the
policy of the administration seems to be
to take it out on the dog.
And now a French scientist has discov
ered that a microbe produces baldness.
. Moral—use a finer toothed comb.
Governor Candler believes in retrench
ment. By the free use of the veto power
he has aucceded in saving the state $687.
Those citizens of Pittsburg who have
not aa yet been blown up. scalded or cre
mated ought to form a survivors associa
tion.
As we understand General Chaffee’s re
port. the only obstacle to the complete
pacification of the Philippines is the Fil
ipino.
The effort on the part of certain people
to make a heroine of Mrs Bonine is not
mere maudlin sentiment—it is pure assi
nlnity.
Signor Marconi has just won another
signal victory. His engagement to Miss
Josephine Holman, of Indianapolis. Is an
nounced. *
Regardless of politics, the customary
salutation between congressmen, since
listening to the president's message, is
-Det's irrigate.-
A German doctor is said to have discov
ered a process for making flour out of
milk. We hope he will not take a notion
to reverse the process.
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Sir Robert Ball says the moon is surely
edging away from us. But it requires no
astronomer to discover that the sun is
doing the same thing.
After all. it would seem that we are
wasting a good deal of sympathy on the
Boers when we consider that It is spring
tn South Africa now.
Inventor Gathmann says his heart has
been broken by the failure of his big gun.
But It was about the only thing the gun
succeeded in breaking.
General Funston is doing a very reck
less thing in coming home. Look what
we have done to our other heroes after
getting them safely home.
National Committeeman Guffey declares
that all is now harmonious among the
Democratic factions in Pennsylvania.
United tn death, as it were.
The New York Times relates that an
Irishman putting up at the Waldorf-Asto
ria refused to put his boots outside his
door at night 'Tor fear they’d gild 'em."
As we understand it. the theory of the
Sysieians who attended the late President
cKinley is that the government is the
only thing that can stand the sise of their
bill.
Historian Maclay says the naval court
of inquiry vindicated him. The people
think badly enough of the court without
having Maclay aggravate them any fur
ther.
London newspaper men are afraid that
American women Journalists are going to
crowd them out of business. As a last
resort they might marry them in self-de
fense.
Recent disclosures in connection with
the arrest of Policy King Adams ought to
go a long way toward convincing the New
York police that honesty, after all, is the
beet policy.
Congressman Burkett has called a meet
teg of Western congressmen to talk irri
gation. We were under the impression
that this was a regular habit of all the
congressmen.
If Mrs. Roosevelt has undertaken to
patch up all the domestic feuds of Wash
ington she is destined to lead a much
snore strenuous life than her husband
ever hoped for.
A new fossil has been unearthed near
Sacramento. Cal., by zealous workers. It
is called the Shackasarus. Which shows
that the fossil hunters have about run out
of names at last.
In going to Milwaukee for his new cabi
net member. It is not necessarily to be
inferred that President Roosevelt intend
ed any official recognition of the fluid
that made the town famous.
Perhaps It would be well, after al!, to
wait and see what the late President Mc-
Kinley's physicians are going to do to
that treasury surplus before we under
take to Irrigate the west with It.
And still it continues to be demonstrated
that this Is a great country. The courts
have decided that a man can play poker
with lead dollars In uwiiza and give an
Indian a confederate bill in North Dakota.
Although Senator Deboe and ex-Gover
nor Bradley, of Kentucky are reported to
hav* buried the hatchet, it is believed
both of them took the precaution to
plainly mark the place of interment.
It is now said that Miss Stone will be
released and allowed to go on the lecture
platform. We are more than ever con
vinced that those bandits deserve all the
mean things that have been said of them.
Boss Croker Insists that it is on ac
count of his health that he spends so much
time away from New York. Well, cer
tainly New York doesn't promise to be
a very healthy place for Croker from now
on.
THE FIRING OF MACLAY.
President Roosevelt has won the ap
proval of the country by ordering the dis
missal of the man Maclay who has been
posing as a "historian” of the United
States navy. Maclay's book has abso
lutely nothing to justify its title and it
was written for no conceivable purpose
but to slander Admiral Schley.
Secretary Long instead of calling the
author of this libelous screed to account
has winked at the outrage he perpetrated
and continued to hold him on the pay roll
of the navy as a "laborer,” All the cir
cumstances connected with the appoint
ment and retention of Maclay and his
appearance before the public in the mas
querade of a historian point straight to
the conclusion that he was selected and
used as a tool by the enemies of Admiral
Sehley in the navy department.
He would doubtless have continued to
receive his pay from the treasury for his
dirty work had not President Roosevelt
stepped in and relieved the public service
of the scandal of his connection with it.
This was done evidently without the in
tention of Secretary Long and presuma
bly over his protest.
The manner of his dismissal shows that
Long either declined to issue the order
himself, or that the president did it with
out consulting Long. The dismissal came
from the secretary of war, which looks
very much like a snub of Long, whose
animus against Schley has been notably
displayed in many incidents.
The rumor that the president is tired
of Long and prefers his room to his com
pany has strong semblance of probability.
The transfer of the naval portfolio -to
other and worthier hands would be grati
fying to the country and would undoubt
edly conduce to the good of the service.
President Roosevelt is resolved to rid the
navy as far as possible of the disturbing
influence'of the Sampson-Schley contro
versy and he cannot do anything worth
considering in that direction until he has
rid the navy department of the secretary
who has proved himself a rank and unfair
partisan in this deplorable business.
THE OUTSPOKEN VOTER.
It seems that as the provision for an ab
solutely secret ballot becomes more gener
al the demand for viva voce voting in
creases also. For many years at all elec
tions in Kentucky the voter was required
to stand up at the polls and call out the
names of all persons for whom he desired
to register his vote.
This was regarded as an ample assur
ance of an honest ballot and it undoubted
ly did prevent to a large extent the habit
of promising to vote for one candidate
when the citizen intended to vote for an
other.
In later years the attempts of employers
to dictate to their employes how they
should vote caused the demand for in
creased privacy of voting and the Aus
tralian ballot was very generally adopted
aa the best method of protecting the vo
ter from any undue influence, such as in
timidation and bribery.
Though this system is in very great and
increasing favor there are those who still
prefer the old viva voce plan and insist
upon its adoption. .
Several attempts have been made to re
introduce it in Kentucky, and the Vir
ginia constitutional convention that was
in session nearly all the summer wrestled
with the question at length on several oc
casions.
The convention refused to incorporate
viva voce voting in Virginia's organic
law. but that the principle has a strong
hold upon the people of that state is
proved by the action of the sub-committee
of the Democratic state committee, which
has prepared a plan of party regulation
that requires viva voce voting.
If this plan shall receive the approval
of the committee and it seems likely
that it will, all Democratic nominations
in Virginia hereafter must be made by
viva voce vote. The sub-committee pro
ceeds qp the theory that the objections to
this plan for general elections do not ap
ply to primaries as it is not presumable
that Democrats are either to be intimidat
ed or bribed.
The Democratic newspapers of Virginia
generally approve the viva voce method
of voting at primaries and it will probably
be adopted.
It will cause a commotion among the
large and increasing class of voters in
that state who have fallen into the habit
of promising every candidate for an of
fice to vote for him.
THE WAR ON MASHERS.
Kansas City has set a commendable ex
ample to many other cities by instituting
a vigorous and relentless war upon the
professional street masher.
The creature thus designated is one who
makes it his chief business to leer at la
dies whom he meets on the sidewalks or
at the entrances of theaters and other
public places.
There is no difficulty in detecting the
masher. He advertises himself by his
disgusting boldness and his vulgar dis
play of himself on all occasions. He
stares at ladies in a manner that often
impels them to invoke police protection.
Sometimes he becomes so audacious
that he actually pursues and speaks to
them. A Kansas City masher who per
petrated an Insult of that character a
few days ago was fined S6O by the re
corder and was warned that if caught
at such tricks again he would be put
on ths city rock pile. The word has
gone forth in Kansas City that the
masher must be suppressed. In their
attempt to put him out of business the
police hurry him on whenever he is
found loafing on street comers or
about any of his other favorite resorts.
He is a marked man wherever he goes
or lingers. His old haunts have been
made too warm for him to the great
and the unspeakable delight of the la
dies. f
The entire police force of Kansas City
is engaged in a laudable attempt to teach
insolent young men that when they ap
pear on the streets on the public
gathering places of that city they must
have at least the semblance of respect
ability It would be an excellent thing
if similar instructions were administered
in every other city in the land.
WHAT CANNOT BE RUBBED OUT.
The Chicago Tribune is one of the many
Republican newspapers that has persist
ently demanded justice to Admiral Schley
as the real hero of Santiago and its opin
ion is changed not a whit by the findings
of two members of the court of inquiry.
In fact, the press of the country. Re
publican as well as Democratic, was, be
fore the investigation, almost unanimous
in its high estimate of Admiral Schley and
its indignation at the injustice that was
attempted against him, and it is of the
same opinion still.
The reason why the press continues in
this state of mind is explained sufficiently
by the Chicago Tribune when it says:
"The dividing line in the findings of the
Schley court of inquiry will be drawn by
discerning persons between what occurred
prior to tha battle of Santiago and what
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1901.
occurred on that day. All the matter in
the Schley case relating to what took
place before sunrise of July 3 is trumped
up for a purpose, and all that has been
said so elaborately about it is rubbish. As
to what occurred on the 3d of July there
is little difference of opinion, even in the
findings of the court.
"Any man who wishes to study this sub
ject with ease and impartiality can relieve
himself of a great deal of useless labor
and stupid stuff if he will dismiss from his
recollection and observation everything
that occurred prior to the day of the
battle.
"There is a vast mass c* that antiquated
and irrelevant material which has been
raked up from a deserved oblivion by the
mudslingers who are enemies of Admiral
Schley. It has no bearing on the merits
of the case, but it was laid hold of by the
secretary of the navy and his followers
because they fancied they could make it
subserve their base and Ignoble purposes."
We have seen in few Democratic papers
so serious a charge against the secretary
of the navy and the official coterie about
him as that brought by this leading Re
publican Journal.
Whether this charge be true or not, it
undoubtedly Is true that the public re
gards a very large part of the matter
that was brought into the investigation
as “rubbish,” however it came to be
lugged in.
There are facts and results so pertinent
and important that what Schley did Os
did not do before July 3, 1898. are consid
ered as of little or no consequence by the
people generally. The condemnation of
two Judges of the court in no way touches
the real reasons for the popular faith In
Schley and the popular enthusiasm over
his great victory.
THE GEORGIA SENATORS.
The high consideration accorded to Sen
ators Bacon and Clay in the arrangement
of Democratic representation on the new
committees of the United States senate
must be gratifying to the people of this
state.
The senate committees do not express
the will of the presiding officer, as do.
those of the house of representatives, but
are arranged by the caucuses of the two
great parties which control the senate.
Assignments to committee honors and
duties in the senate, therefore indicate
the estimate that is placed upon each
senator by his colleagues of the same po
litical faith. The senate committees are
elected by the senators and an examina
tion of the Democratic membership just
agreed upon will show that the Georgia
senators have fared well.
Senator Bacon is the first Democrat on
the committees on the Judiciary, on rail
roads and Indian depredations. He is the
chairman of the committee on woman’s
suffrage. He ranks second among the
Democrats on the committee on foreign
relations, and is one of the three Demo
crats on the committee on rules. He is
also on the committee on Potomac river
front.
Senator Clay has the first Democratic
place on the postoffice committee and the
second on the committee on manufactures.
He is assigned also to the committees on
coast and insular survey, coast defenses,
commerce. University of tne United States
and immigration.
It will be seen that Georgia is to have
a hand in shaping the business of some
of the most important committees of the
senate, and that both of her senators have
been placed where they will be much in
evidence in the proceedings of the upper
house of congress. In placing Senator
Bacon first among the Democrats on the
judiciary committee and Senator Clay first
among the Democrats on the committee
on postotfices and post roads their Dem
ocratic colleagues have given just recog
nition to the distinguished efforts of the
Georgia senators on these committees at
former sessions.
These senators have given good account
of themselves in the past, and we may
confidently expect that they will honor
their state and themselves at the present
session of congress.
MARCONI’S GREAT HOPES.
That Marconi is a wonderful genius is
universally admitted, but his very lofty
expectations based on his recent attempts
at trans-Atlantic wireless telegraphy are
regarded by the scientific world aa being
decidedly premature.
The public, however, is inclined to credit
the possibility of Marconi’s complete suc
cess.
The achievement of wireless telegraphy
over the distance that the inventor claims
to have covered would be no more sur
prising now than was his first wireless
message at the time of its transmission.
Marconi has been so steadily extending
the range of his experiments that he has
created a popular faith that hardly any
thing in the way of sound signals is im
possible to him.
The Anglo-American Cable company
considers the possibility of Marconi s suc
cess a practical question, as it proved by
demanding that he desist from his experi
ments along the coast of Newfoundland,
where the company now has exclusive
rights.
This attempt to thwart the daring in
ventor will put him to increased expense,
but cannot prevent him from giving his
theory the fullest possible trial as long
as he can command the means to meet
the necessary expenditures, which are
quite large.
Marconi's confidence in himself is sub
lime, and all the world, except the few
whose Interests he is threatening, hope
sincerely that he may realize his highest
hopes.
At one of the numerous receptions that
have been given in his honor the inventor
spoke in the manner of a man who feels
that he has victory in his grasp. He not
only predicted the complete success of his
system of wireless telegraphy in the not
distant future, Jjut declared that it would
maxe the cost of cabling one-twentieth
what it is now. It is not strange that the
faintest possibility of such a result should
agitate the owners of ocean cable stock.
Marconi is Just now the most talked-of
man on earth and we shall undoubtedly
hear much more of him.
The marvelous achievements of science
in the last few years have made us slow
to deny that any scheme for the direction
of the forces of nature may succeed.
Marconi, by the common consent of
mankind, is regarded as a man of the fu
ture, and his every movement will be
watched with the keenest interest and
lively anticipations.
SECRETARY HAY.
Since the ratification of the new treaty
with Great Britain there has been no little
apprehension that Secretary Hay will
soon resign.
It Is creditable to the country that Dem
ocrats are joining with Republicans in
expressing an earnest hope that Mr. Hay
will continue to serve in the high office
which he has filled with conspicous abili
ty. It is creditable because it indicates a
broad Americanism that can ignore par
tisanship in estimating the work of a
man who in one of the most exalted sta
tions of the government h*’ stood not for
section, class or party, but for the honor
and interests of our common country.
About a year ago Mr. Hay suffered a
blow that destroyed his dearest personal
hopes, and he would have retired to pri
vate life soon after the death of his son
but for the fact that the taking off of
President McKinley very soon thereafter
caused President Roosevelt and the whole
country to feel that it was Mr. Hay's duty
to the public to remain at the post of
duty for which he had proved himself so
nobly qualified. He has continued in the
cabinet at a sacrifice of his own inclina
tions, but by doing so has found the op
portunity for such service to his country
as it is rarely given to a man to perform.
It is the verdict of the civilized world
that in negotiating the treaty which in
sures the construction of the Nicaragua
canal Secretary Hay has entitled himself
to the gratitude, not of his own country
alone, but of mankind. He displayed a
wisdom, a firmness and a patience which
enabled him to win a triumph of diploma
cy that will be historic. Among its results
are closer bonds of friendship between the
two great English-speaking nations, the
assurance of the early construction of a
great isthmian waterway that will' be of
incalculable benefit to commerce and that
will conduce immensely to the peace and
prosperity of the world.
As citizens of the United States we
have special reason to honor Secretary
Hay because he has won for our nation
every concession it could reasonably have
asked, and has removed a source of pos
sible trouble with the nation nearest to
us by ties of kindred and tradition.
It is true, the great treaty is now a
matter of history, but the country will
still have need of the capable statesman
ship that directed it so well In this
peaceful conterftion. Secretary Hay has
established himself very strongly in the
confidence and regard of his felloyv-citl
zens, and they are earnestly desirous that
he shall consent to remain where he is.
The address-he delivered before the New
York chamber of commerce a few days
ago proved that he has a high conception
of what should be the aims of our gov
ernment, and that in promoting its hon
orable and prosperous relations with
other powers he can be depended upon to
counsel and to lead well in the future as
he has in the past.
It would be nothing less than a public
misfortune to lose Secretary Hay from
the cabinet at this time.
AGAINST THE SUBSIDY GRAB.
The forces arrayed against the ship sub
sidy scheme have not been decreased eith
er in numbers or determination by the
presentation to congress of a modified
form of the original proposition. On the
contrary, they are growing stronger and
more representative.
The Illinois State Grange has recently
renewed in more emphatic terms than ever
its opposition to ship-subsidy legislation in
any form. It declares that the principle is
vicious and that its application would be
an abuse of the power and right of our
government.
This great farmers’ organization is only
one of the many representatives of the
agricultural interests of the country that
are fighting the ship subsidy bill and the
principle it embodies. The farmers can
not see why the few men who carry prod
ucts to market in ships should receive
bounties from the government while the
millions who haul products to market in
wagons are given no such consideration.
'xhe labor organizations are "as active
and outspoken’'against the ship subsidy
raid as the farmers. In their local and
general organizations nearly all of the la
bor unions have entered their protest
against this attempt to tax the millions
for the benefit of a fortunate few.
The ship subsidy proposition is weaker
now than it was in the last congress, and
It was not strong enough to pass then.
The discussion of it has invariably in
creased the number of its opponents and
some of its strongest advocates now ad
mit that its passage by the present con
gress is improbable.
The ship builders of the United States
are already overcrowded with work. Some
of them are refusing orders. Others are
enlarging their plants to meet the re
quirements of their business, and a num
ber of them are building ships for for
eigners in competition with the ship
builders of other nations with whom they
claim they cannot compete without sub
sidies from the government.
The subsidy seekers are beginning to
realize that they are engaged in a hope
less task.
PREPARING FOR THE CANAL.
It is certain that congress at its present
session will make a start toward the con
struction of an isthmian canal.
Bills for this purpose have already been
introduced at either end of the capitol,
one by Senator Morgan and the other by
Representative Hepburn.
Both bills designate the Nicaragua route
and both authorize the president to perfect
the necessary arrangements with Nicara
gua and Costa Rica. They agree likewise
in fixing the maximum cost at $180,000,000,
though the Morgan bill appropriates $5,-
000,000 as a beginning and the Hepburn bill
$10,000,000.
The principal difference Between the two
measures is the manner in which the work
shall be controlled and directed. The Mor
gan bill entrusts it to a board consisting of
the secretary of war and eight other cit
izens of the United States to be appointed
by the president.
The Hepburn bill turns over the con
struction of the canal to the president and
the war department.
A significant provision of the Hepburn
bill is that which directs the secretary of
war to construct at the termini of the
canal safe and commodious harbors with
such provision for defense as may be
necessary for the safety and protection qf
said canal and harbors.”
The Morgan bill leaves much less dis
cretion to the administration than does
the Hepburn measure and is criticised as
defining too ftlosely the methods under
which the canal shall be constructed.
There may be a spirited contest between
the advocates of these two bills on the
point indicated, but it will not delay the
action of congress seriously.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York I Tess.
Possession Is nine points and one more of
the marriage law.
We all think more truth than we are truthful
enough to tell.
People who live tn flats haven't room even
for a family skeleton in the closet.
Women who want more rights don't need
any legislation to get them; all they've got to
do is to take them.
The difference between brave men and cow
ardly men Is that the man who is afraid to be
afraid has a contempt for the man who is
afraid not to be afraid.
A Long Outing.
Tit-Bits.
Wife—l am going down town this morning
to try and match a piece of silk.
Husband—Very well, my dear; I’ll tell the
cook to save soir® di*”'** von. and I it put
th* *
OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
Their Fate is in Jeopardy.
Omaha Bee.
If President Roosevelt’s advice to break up
the Indian tribes and treat the red man like
any other man is followed out what will be
come of the Indian agent and the Indian trader
and the other reservation invaders who have
looked to Uncle Sam's guardianship of the
tribal Indians as the source of their Incomes?
Thinks Himself Indorsed.
Baltimore Herald.
Mr. Maclay talks as though the Schley
court.of inquiry proceedings were arranged to
afford a recommendation for his slanderous
publication, and glibly says that all the state
ments he has made have been substantiated.
This from the man who called Admiral Schley
a caitiff adds insult to injury.
Maclay Should Be Dispensed With.
Indianapolis Journal.
In view of the unanimous finding of the
naval court of inquiry that Admiral Schley's
conduct in battle was self-possessed and' that
he encouraged In his own person his officers
and men, this would seem to be a good time
for the navy department to dispense with the
services of one Maclay.
The Picturesque Does Not Count.
Lewiston Journal.
Some 'complaints are being made that the
present congress Is lacking jn the picturesque
ness which has distinguished former sessions
but of course the congress wasn't Instituted
to look at. and If It succeeds in satisfactorily
dispatching the congressional business per
haps this deficiency will be overlooked.
Clique is Ruining the Navy.
Wheeling Register.
Let the people once get the idea that the
navy department is run—as it is now—in the
Interest of these selfish and arrogant parlor
knights who have made a practice of discredit
ing the real fighters and there will be an end
of naval advancement.
Merely an Entering Wedge.
Boston Herald.
The new subsidy bill is by no means a sat
isfactory measure to the men who have fath
ered It. but they are anxious to get some
measure recognising the principle of ship sub
sidies through congress and are willing, because
they must, to wait for what they most desire
until they can ask for it ari the ground that
congress must stand by the policy it has in
augurated and perfect it. The aim of this bill
is to capture the support of western members,
who revolted against the boldly obnoxious fea
tures of the former bill, on the ground that
the new bill is harmless. But for the purpose of
getting some kind of a subsidy measure through
as a starter, Senator Frye and the rest would
not consider this bill worth fighting for.
Ohio’s Revolt Against Hanna.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The news from Columbus that the old-time
hostility between the Foraker and Hanna ele
ments is to be revived is but what might have
been expected. So long as the senior senator’s
fortunes were bound up with those of the ad
ministration the junior senator was powerless
to carry on the war, but with changed conddi
tlons he is not only free to fight, but appears
to have an equal chance for victory. Ohio
Republicans may become deeply interested in
the struggle, but for those of other states the
approaching contest is a spectacular rather
than a vital campaign. The stakes are simply
the control of the party in Ohio, unredeemed
by any higher motive.
WITH THE STATE PRESS.
Augusta Chronicle: Just like a newspaper
man. Work like Turks to get in the cabinet
and then throw up the job. Editor
Atlanta, did it. Editor Smith, of Philadel
phia, did it.
Gainesville Eagle: With Smith and Brown
already in the race for governor, the Daw
son News says: "Look out for Jones. It
will be remembered that a man by the name
of Jones, whose given name Is Samuel, was
in the race about four years ago a
couple of weeks, but wisely concluded to
•‘come down.”
Sparta Ishmaellte: The next governor of
Georgia will not be a chain-gang boss, who
ever he may be. The office may not be as
elevated as it once was, but it hasn t fallen
that low, as yet.
Jonesboro Enterprise: At last the Bon.
Joseph Howler Hall has ceased to gab and
gyrate as a "defender of the constitution
and has retired to the peaceful ? ha £n".
Vinevilla where it is to be hoped he will be
given an undisturbed opportunity to nurse his
wrath and chagrin over the dismal failure he
scored as a legislator.
Nashville South Georgian: L. F. Living
ston, of the fifth congressional district, is by
long odds the most Influential congressman
from Georgia. He gets what he asks for as a
rule and he asks for a plenty. He Is a con
gressman worth having.
Brunswick News: Atlanta newspaper read
ers should be tired of street car talk whether
they are or not.
Americus Herald: Lon Livington's nose goes
instinctively to that surplus in the United
States treasury.
Rome Tribune: The chronic office seeker
doesn't worry about a knife when :
to pie. He reaches for it with both hands.
West Point News: When Governor Candler
signed the Atlanta depot bill, he at the same
time consigned Joe Hall’s boom to oblivion.
Statesboro News: Gold has been dug out of
the cotton patches this year.
Jefferson County Banner: The chaplains of
both houses of congress are blind—but per
haps it is just as well. Some n « re “ l ° r !* l
conduct would prove a severe trial to a minis
ter of the gospel if he had his eyes open.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
White flowers are the most odoriferous.
It Is illegal to practice hypnotism in Bel
gium.
One-fifteenth of the Inhabitants of Spain
are nobles.
Thoroughbred dogs are less intelligent than
mongrels.
Quite 50 per cent, of the property of Eng
land is Insured.
Nearly all the royal personages of Europe
are cousins.
London requires 600,000 cows to supply it
with dairy produce.
Colored races never have blue eyes. Their
eyes are always dark brown, brown, brown
ish, yellow or black.
Until recently medical missionaries were the
only doctors in Madagascar. The capital now
has a school of medicine and a hospital.
It is estimated that 1.000.000.000 acres of land
are devoted to the cultivation of tobacco.
The world consumes each year 6,300.000.000
pounds, or 2,812.500 tons, worth £02,000,000.
Contracts to build steel vessels to run on
the great lakes cover a carrying capacity of
3,000,000 tons for construction in 1902. an addi
tion to present lake tonnage of 10 per cent.
Boy bridegrooms are growing In number in
London. There are four under twenty-one in
every hundred bridegrooms. About sixteen
girls under twenty-one per hundred get mar
ried.
One of the most curious plants In the world
is the toothbrush plant, a species of creeper
which grows in Jamaica. But cutting a piece
of the stem and fraying the ends the natives
make a toothbrush.
The per capita of currency was $28.73 on De
cember 1. on a population basis estimated by
the treasury at 78.324,000. The total amount of
money in circulation was also larger than at
any other period in the country's history, be
ing $2 250.206.230, as compared with $2,!58,«61,367
on December 1, 1900. «n increase of $91,494,863.
The amount of money held in the treasury as
assets of the government was $289.09a.666.
which was a decrease of more than $8,000,000
since November 1, due to bond purchases.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
A. Hamilton Rice, a grandson of the late
Governor Rice of Massachusetts, has been
made a fellow of the Royal Geographical
society of London.
If the Baroness Burdett-Coutts survives to
witness the coronation of Edward VII. it will
be the third event of the kind in her experi
ence. She was present at the coronation of
William IV. and of Victoria.
With a single exception al! committee room
doors in the capitol at Washington are labelea
with the names of such committees as occupy
them. One of the handsomest bears this simple
and Imposing sign: "Senator Quay." There is
nothing to indicate what committee or how
many the distinguished Pennsylvanian controls.
One of the most prolific of modern writers
is George Alfred Henry, the writer of stories
for boys, who is at present writing at the rate
of three books a year. He has eighty stories to
his credit now. He reported for The London
Standard the Austro-Italian, Franco-Prussian
and Turko-Servlan wars and the Abyssinian
and Ashantee expeditions.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, although
the second oldest monarch of Europe, is still
much devoted to hunting and a climb of two
or three hours in his Tyrolean costume Is
not too much for him. Between the years of
1858 and 1897 he killed in his various domains
1,243 deer, 1.730 chamois and much of other
game. He is particularly fond of Offensee,
where he spends the night in a cabin, and early
In the morning the game Is in his dlrec-
Scrved Her Right.
Baltimore World.
"Why did you murder your wife?” asked the
missionary of the cannibal king.
•Pr-'-ause she put no doylies under th-' flr”'er
table ,4 ’
The Cut-Up Who Came Very
Near Losing His Ticket But Who
Turned Defeat Into Victory
BY GEO. ADE.
Copyrighted, 1901, By Robert Howard Russell.
In a Prairie Hamlet, far from the
madding Department Store, where ar
rogant Wealth did not flaunt itself be
fore the Humble, and where the Peo
ple were so Primitive that they did not
know how to get Money except by
Working for it, they were making
large Preparations to tear Things wide
open at Christmas.
AU through the abbreviated Commu
nity, the W’omen Folks were feverishly
popping Corn, and cracking Hickory
Nuts on a Flat-Iron and making
home-made Candy. The Unmarried
Kind were secretively working on Yarn
Mittens.
There was to be a Tree at the Church
and preceding the Distribution of Pres
ents there was to be a Show, alias a
Methodist Vaudeville, which consists
of Pieces, Responsive Readings and the
best that the Choir can do. The Drug
gist in this Village had laid in what he
called an Elegant Assortment of Holi
day Goods. He had all of Will Carle
ton’t Poems and a Counter covered
with fragile Toys that smelled of the
Paint, also an attractive ±Jne of Per
fumeries and some Toilet Sets. One of
these Toilet Sets was the Prize Exhib
it of his Stock. The Comb and Br.ushes
were of Celluloid, the Amber and
White being scrambled in a very ef
fective Manner. The Druggist was will
ing to give a Guarantee that the Bris
tles were Real. This Toilet Set reposed
in a puckered Nest of Yellow Satin.
The Box was of Blue Plush with a neat
Clasp and on the Lid was the Follow
ing, in Silver Letters: "Merry X-Mas."
Every Girl in Town came into the
Drug Store and leaned on the Show-
Case and gazed longingly at the Work
of Art. It was evident that the local
Beau who loosened up for $6.50 and
gave that Toilet Set to his regular Sun
day Night Dulclana would win in a
Canter. But there was general Doubt
as to whether any one would be so
Reckless as to fork over $6.50, just
for Foolishness. All who went into the
Drug Store and Stood Mn Solemn Si
lence, admiring the Blue Plush, the
Yellow Satin and the gleaming Cellu
loid, conceded that the Outfit was Pur
ty, but they allowed it was too Fine
for Actual Use. It was supposed that
the Box alone would come to $3. Some
said the Letters on the Lid were gen
uine Silver. Others contended that they
were merely Plated.
In every Household the Toilet Set
was a fruitful Topic. The general Ver
dict appeared to be that, in all proba
bility, the Druggist would either have
to knock off something on the Price or
else be Stuck. There had been one or
two Offers of $5 for the Piece de Re
sistance, but the Druggist claimed that
he had paid more than that for it,
Wholesale.
Three Days before Christmas there
appeared on the Yellow Satin a Card
marked "Sold.” The News spread like
Wild-Fire that some one had blown
himself to the Limit. There was but
one Question agitating the whole Vil
lage for the next two Days, “Who
will get the Toilet Set for Christmas?”
Speculation ran rife, and every Girl
who kept Company was hoping against
Hope, even though her cold Judgment
told her that, in all likelihood, her Fel
low had not seen $6.50 in six long
Months.
The Druggist had been pledged to
Secrecy, and it became evident that the
Populace would have to wait until
Christmas to have its Curiosity ap
peased. So it waited with a lot of Im
patience.
The Village Wag, whose name was
Amos/ had been one of Several who
"DO WE KNOW LOVE WHEN WE
FIND IT?” DR MONK INQUIRES
"No such thing as love at first sight.
Judgment must precede love."
So announced Dr. Monk Sunday in his
afternoon sermon to the congregation of
St. Mark's Methodist church, assembled
at North avenue Presbyterian church.
Dr. Monk’s subject was the love of God
for man. His text was from St. John,
111., 16: “God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son that whoso
ever belleveth on him should not perish
but have everlasting life.”
Among other things. Dr. Monk said:
The uses of the word love are so com
mon and so varied that we lose not only
much of the beauty but the power in the
thought of God's love. How lightly we
accept Its meaning even in a human sense!
It was not very long ago that I heard a
woman declare that she loved potatoes!
Let us pity the soul that can love pota
toes!
Our courts are filled with petitions for
divorce: although no woman will m&rry a
man until she has been assured more
than once that he loves her, she may not
believe these words, but she must hear
them.
Do we know love when we find it?
Matrimonial mesalliance demonstrate
that many marriages are founded on ad
miration and fascination, and not on real
affection. There is no such thing as love
at first sight. A young man sees a beau
tiful girl. He Is stirred with admiration,
and rushing into her presence, bends his
knee for her smile: but this is not love.
It is said that we love our opposites.
This is not true. Like loves like. A man
does not love his opposite if he knows it.
When he pictures the woman he expects
to marry, he paints on fancy’s canvas a
radiant creature with all the gifts that he
most admires. This picture is born of
himself; it is his counterpart, made out of
his heart. Like produces like, and it is
character that we love.
» We are given only two commands to
love—“ Thou shalt love the Lord thy God."
and "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self.” /
We are to love only those like ourselves.
We are not told to love even the angels.
We ask, "What is love?” and “What is
God?” God is love, and we only are cre
ated in the divine likeness. Os all the
creatures God has made, man alone is
stamped with this mark of God’s love; this
strand of divine affection following him
through the windings of life and even to
the possibilities of Calvary's bloody brow.
We can have interests; we can have likes,
but we can ijave love only for God and
man. A man can not love a horse, and I
have seen only a few women who can love
a dog. A maji can not love money, until
he has abnormalized himself.
Love Is not silent. If you love me tell
me so. Love has voice; love has lips; love
has feet; love has hands; love has a puise,
and can not be still or silent towards love's
object.
It makes a difference who loves. Dewey
kissed a child and the family will cherish
the kiss for generations. Was a kiss so
much? No, it was the one who gave the
kiss..
God Almighty saw the splendbl angels
fall, because of sin, ovqg the battlements
of heaven and into everlasting darkness,
unfollowed by His love. But when His
child was lost, nothing was too precious
to bring him back. Parental love is the
longest and the strongest affection in the
universe. •
Ah! if you and I could go beyond the
parting of the skies and the chanting an
gels, and ; resting in His bosom, hear the
straining of the. Heavenly Father's heart
as it yielded to the sacrifice—which is no
•'n’.r '•"•Jtter san. perhaps
looked at the Toilet Set and counted
their Money and passed out. HeJoved
a Girl named Luella, but he had a
Frugal Mind. It seemed to him that it
would be more Sensible to save his
Money and make a First Payment on
a Home. Besides, the Poultry Business
had been a little Slack and he couldn't
see himself giving up $6.50 for a dosh
burned Gimcrack that was no Account
except to look at. So he gave up 60
Cents for an Autograph Album and let
it go at that. He would have gone
ahead and bought something for a Dol
lar. only Amos thought he had a
Cinch. His only Rival for the Hand of
Luella was Tallmadge N. Crockett,
proprietor of the Livery and Feed Sta
ble. Amos was so much more Comic
and Conversational than Tallmadge
and had such a Taking Way that he
wasn't for a Minute afraid of being
Cut Out by Tallmadge.
Being thb recognized Village Wag,
Amos was called upon to impersonate
Santa Claus at the Christmas Tree
Entertainment. Amos was a born
Romp, and the Congregation was sure
of many a Hearty Laugh when he
came in as Santa and began to cut
Didoes.
Amos borrowed a Buffalo Robe, a
Strand of Bells and a Fur Cap. He
rigged up a set of Cotton Whiskers
and prepared to be even Funnier than
usual.
On Christmas Eve the Church put
them in the Aisles, so great was the
Interest in the Tree. The Superintend
ent of the Sunday ScljroJ.-looking tin
usually pale and 'scrubbed-up and
smelling of Bay Rum, stood up in
front of the Tree and made an Address
that was Facetious, from his Point of
View. The Choir sang one of its hard
est Anthems and after two or threa
other Stunts, Amos, the Merry An
drew, came in as Santa Claus and did
some of his best Comedy Acting. He
galloped up and down the Aisles and
scared several Children in Arms into
Convulsion*. Then he went up to the
Tree to assist the droll Superintendent
in distributing Presents. As a Team
thev were expected to spring a great
many timely Quips, right on the Spur
of the Moment.
While standing by the Tree, waiting
for the Infant Class-to conclude a
Carol. Amos saw on a Table the mag
nificent Toilet Set, with the $6.50 Mark
still on it. He drew nearer to read the
attached Card and almost fainted with
Horror when he saw the Name of Lu
ella Crockett. The Shock was so great
that everything Swam before his Gaze,
the same as in a Natatorlum. He
could not see anything except his own
Finish. When Luella came to compare
the superb Toilet Set and the 60-cent
Autograph Album, he knew that he
would not be One-Two-Seven. He was
Inspired to a Desperate Action. He
happened to remember that Celluloid
contains Gun Cotton and Camphor and
other high Explosives. The Infant
Class stood between him and the Con
gregation. Stealthily he plucked a
lighted Candle from the Tree and
dropped it on the Toilet Set Then he
leaped over the Rail. There was a
terrific Report, a flash of Fire, an odor
of Camphor and the Air was full of In
fant Class. A Panic ensued. Throw
ing off his Disguise of Vvhite Cotton
Whiskers, Amos gathered Luella in
his Arms and carried her to a Place
of Safety. When Quiet was restored,
there was nothing left of the Toilet
Bet except the Clasp and the letters
spelling "Merry X-Mas.”
MORAL: True Love will prevail
against the Vulgar Bank Roll, even at
Christmas-Time.
GEORGE ADE.
we would think more of God’s love. Men
may sin against business; against con
tracts; against ijonor; but to sin against
love like this—that is basest of sins!
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
A wise man never wants what he can’t get.
Money can’t always make the mare go in
time to lift the purse.
The kleptomanlc regards things from an ab
stract point of view.
Being daughters of Eve, young ladles are of
course partial to twilight.
A married man isn’t necessarily a Hercule*
because he’s fond of his club.
There Is evidently electricity in a cornfield,
because it produces shocks.
When beggars cease to ask you for alms tt la
time for you to change your tailor.
Some men think twice before marrying—
then regret that they didn't get a third
think.
A soldier defines a kiss as a report at head
quarters and a sailor says it la a little pleas
ure smack.
The man who scatters ashes on an icy side
walk is never remembered in the small boy’s
prayers.
"He was a stranger, and I took him in.”
remarked the whale in speaking of his meet
ing with Jonah. ,
fore ign notes of interest.
About 600. W people are employed in Italy
in rearing, silkworms.
There is one titled personage to every hun
dred commoners in Russia.
By a law recently enacted it it illegal to
practice hypnotism in Belgium.
The heaviest silver coin In the world be
longs to Anam, where the silver ingot is
worth about £3.
Spain is, in one sense, the most aristocratic
country in Europe. Os its total population
one-fifteenth belongs to the titled classes.
A criminologist, who has been pursuing his
studies In London, estimates that 700,000 resi
dents of the English capital live by crime.
Sweden has 2.303 miles of government and
4,387 miles of private railroads. The govern
ment has not yet succeeded In acquiring the
latter, although efforts have been made to
do so.
About $8,000,000 was spent on the great Cha
nab irrigating canal In India and the crops
of last year from the irrigated lands were
valued at twice that amount.
The business of the Council of Government of
Malta is now transacted by the vice president
and six official members, the thirteen elected
representatives having withdrawn as a pro
test against alleged illegal taxes.
Berlin has the best cab system in the world
and the cheapest. There are over 17,000 cabs,
each equipped with a taximeter, which regis
ters the distance traveled and indicates on a
dial the amount of fare due. The lowest
charge is twelve cents, the rate being 17ft
cents a mile.
THE DEPARTING FRIEND.
Old Year, old friend,
I know the end
Is near
And thou art dying.
I, in my vain despair, am crying,
"Hold! hold, apace!
Let me but look upon thy face
One moment more. Nay, do not die
Until, In sorrowful good-bye.
Remorse and sad repentance find a voice
For recreant remissness. Ah, what choice,
Fair chances thou didst offer me
In life! What lib’ral legacy
Thou wouldst have ’eft me had I known
The half I know today! I own
I’ve been too thoughtless of thee.frlend.
Today, while thou art dying—
Already in thy snow-shroud lying—
The mem’ry of the hours come back
■When, had I done thee kindness, Tjme.
While thou wert In thy vlg'rous prime.
Thou wouldst now will me something more
Than withered hopes and keen regret. Alack.
Thou’rt gone, irrevocably past.
And now at last
There come, from out the shadow of the year
a gone
But bitter memories. And thou and I. wa two
alone.
Know, ’mid the sufTring and the sin,
What might have been—what might havs
been!” —D. G. BICKERS.