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4 The Semi-Weekly Journal Entered at tha Atlanta Postoffice aa Mall Matter of th* Second Clara. The Setal-Weekly Journal la puWlsh ! ed on Mondays and Thursdays, and mailed In time for all the twlce-a vaak star route malls It contains the news from all parts of the world brou«ht over a special leased wire into The Journal office. It has a staff of dtstlnaulehed contributors, with etron< Agricultural. Veterinary. Juvenile. Home. Boefr and other departments of special value to the home and farm. Ageats wanted tn every community tn the South _ Ramlttances may be made by post* ortce money order, express mosey or der, resistered letter ar check. Pereona who eend postage stamps In payment for subscriptions are request ed to send those of the 1-oent denomi nation Amounts larger than M cents poet office order. OKpreas order, check or registered mail. Subscribers who wish their papers chaagsd should give both the old and the new poetoffice address. Wtrnot TO THE PUBLIC—The aaly traveltag representatives of The Journal are C. J. O'Farrell. J A. Bryan and Jaa Callaway. Any other who represents himself as connected with The Journal as a traveling agent to a fraud, and we will be responsible only "for money paid to the above named representatives. 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. ~ u 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.