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Beware of tha girl who wears nrtsttotoe' •Hteblita. ’> 7 ' If those Pan-American de legates under take »• file • report on what they didn't accomplish it will fill a book. tVe begin to suspect that somebody put a briek tn the stacking of Mtss Rertproc- • !ty. "the handmaiden of protection.’' A home has been established tn Chicago for hones: men. It wou.u be more *P pfoprlate to et!l ft a iftustaim. Hu* ala wants American ’missionaries ex cluded frea China and Japan. While try ing to borrow our money, too. t o^yesaicnaUy Lord Kitchener s troops do dlacewer that there are a few Boers left in South Africa. As the British. Cas ualties will prove. t .' The- came of- *x-Po*tma*;er General - Pspith only gooo to show how hard It Is for a newspaper man to reform .’and the business. - r T . » ,r • r. 1 A recently published portrait of LI Hung ( • Chan< * wide* makes his sudden death ail the more strang*. in. that It, d'.dn t « aeeur before. Pilgrim Barton says the millennium will come 4n IMS. Hara is a chance for oitf old fsiead. the Hon Joe HiU Hall, to do a lit- U< filibustering on the right line. Edward Kverett Hale continues to pro mulgate hi* rule that we should all talk gaprv day with somebody whom we know to be our superior. Thoms« B. Reed a . remark that our present itoanoiai system has the sanction of forty years of stump speaking Is a new was* of putting it. ........ i Congress hasn’t done much as yet. but outlook seems brighter In view of the tact that Senator Beveridge threatens to turn himself on after the holiday*. - ' President Roosevelt is understood to have spctled the paronage ruction In Mis . aouri eo that both Secretary Hitchcock aad National Committeeman Kerens lose out. > . .. . y .y! Uncle Andy L'arnegie’s propopiUen to pome forward with th* ca»h instead of Steol Trust bonds shows that he has the courage of his contributions.,. The Kansas City Star thinks there can be only one destiny for the Topeka boy who has sent In a request to Banta Claus for a Bible and a gun. Ha is bound Jo be a miasioaery. . . „ , It ia reported that tne twin children of a Chicago poetess ate up some of her poetry, which shows that the sins of the mothers are also sometime* viajtdd upon the children. ’ „ Mr. Seth Low is said to have made the interesting discovery that there are some good men among the politicians. Ail re formers” come to it sooner or later if they •ant to hold their jobs. , Senator Hanna saj«:, The Schley In cident is closed.” Senator Hanna may be recalled to public memory as the statesman who formerly pinned bls faith to the platform that "there are no trusts. - ' So the supreme court wouldn’t give the Hon Jo* Hill Hall a hearing. But what ve are really surprised at is that our eld friend from Bibb didn't offer to write out a sample decision for Jt_ The Pitttasurg Chronicle-Telegraph sug gests that Senator Gallinger. who has In troduced a Mil to stop the practice of docking horses' tails In the District of Co lumbia. might be called the handmaiden of the flowing taiL There are a half ralUlen unemployed ■ persons in Germany, very many of them skilled workmen. There Is evidently such a thing as over-protection as well as o*ar-production, and Germany's case well illustrates the danger of both. Th* Washiagtton Post thinks that some what of a reform couid be accomplished by the establishment of a rule providing tqat every contributor to the Congress ional Record must read the entire con tents of that publication. According to the Philadelphia Press, had not President McKinley been assassinated Postmaster General Smith would havg re tired from the cabinet some time ago. He gave up his house last spring with the Intention of leaving the cabinet. If the Twentieth century kid isn't rank heretic. It will not he the fault of the Comic supplements. Whether Santa Claus really uses aa automobile, a flying machine or a h*rd of reindeer is liable to become a live issue before long. In Russia the law specifies that one man may marry five time*, but do often er. It is certainly time for the law to step in and tak* charge of a man when b* show* a disposition to stand up for the tilth round. During the last year we spent eighLv ftre million* in supporting an army In the Philippines and the {wofl< on American good* sold over there aqiounts to a frac tion under H.'dn.MO. Expansion cornea high but ft looks Ilka our protected in dustries mus* have it. Two church organisations which spilt during the civH war have just succeeded tu getting together at a meeting held in St Louis. When the churche* can get together it I* about tins* for everyone tie* to bury the hatchet. President *.nosevelt appears to be de termined to put a quietus upon tbe Schley-Sampson controversy in so far as be can do so by virtue of bls authority as comnuinder-in-ciuef. But he. will do well to bear in mind that nothing Is •ver finally settled untd it la settled right. The Bavaaneh News draws thia parallel: •'The administration of McKinley, a man of peace, was made notable by a success ful war against one of the aneient powers of Europe The administration of Roose velt. a man of war. may be made notnble by the eminently peaceful gthfWtflß&vf of cocstructing a canal across the Isthmus of Nicaragua to connect the two oceans." AN IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT. Hwfli ie remembered th At th J general of women’s cluba which met at.Jfttwstfitee last year had a long and not’altogether good natured discussion over the color line. A clhb composed erittrbiy of negro wa nted apr*°<t fdr. terihbergh® in the feder ation and over the question of its admis sion the trouble ?!<«'■ All ihe sou'hTn clubs' ahti kerne ut’lMb«|r sectiSns protect ed against hssertlqrs qT equality while msnf smd western clubs insisted that negrb clubs should be reddiMed. NO final «te< telou ,<rf |bls, qpest|oi| was VMtchW 'ai 'Sfllira'ukee afid W wab left for the consldeiMUiou of the bitnnia! ; meeting tg be held- .Log Angeles next year, .. i’..o The clubs will discuss the matter before they send delegates io that convention so as to have them, represent fully and coarecUy Ute, MnUwe.it uf.their fallow members. Recently; a meeting fcf th» beard of |i <*ct*r» »f tbe federation was hald in New Tork and among other things it considered refpfytiohs adopted by various clubs on the admission of negro clubs. One of these resolution* went from the .tive board cf the 'Massachusetts fed eration and another from the axecutive board of the Georgia federation. These two represented the directly con flicting viam on the question under con sifl«wtioa.' The general board, took nt? action and made no recommendation further than to propor* that th* Masrachusstts and Geor gia federations should appoint a joint committee whose duty it shall be to de vise. if poSfiblA some form of amend ment to the By-laws which shall harmon- H a« the differences on the color line and preserve the integrity of the general fed eration. The Georgia and Massachusetts federa tions have a very difficult task before them and wo do not see how they can over cnme to an agreement on it. The Chicagd Chfionicle believes that Mrs. Lowe, of Atlanta, the president of the general,, federation has thy ability and tact to snake a peaceful solution of the master possible. It snyot “The federation is fortunate in this Cri shi to have as president a southern wo man who Is As energetic as he is tact ful. WbQe sympathising with tbe pecu liar sentiment existing in the south, she ia broadly intelligent enough to recog nise the honest conviction which prevails tn most of the northern states.” A GREAT FOREST RESERVE. The recent letter of President Roosevelt to congress urging the establishment of a great forest reserve along the lower Ap palachian range d«a*rves the prompt and favorable attention of congress The wis dom of making th* great Tellowstone res ervation Is now recognised and commend ed by tbe wfiole cqubtry Its present sad prospective vain* tq the country cannot be estimated In money. It Is worth manv times over all that it has cost, and the government could not afford to part with It at «py iFiol’c j !, ‘ ; , j This fmpiwislses the govern ment’s duty to secure and preserve the great region in Virginia, North Carolina. Tennessee. Georgia «nd Alabama, which President Rooeevelt would have set apart a* a national park. >. As the president says In his letter to congress, this territory is rich In abund ance and variety of beautiful and valuable wood* that will soon become scarce un less they ar* protected from the ravages that are denuding an many sections of the country of their forest growths. Th« estimates es the cost of this under taking Is estimated variously between $5.- 000.000 and 1W.Q00.000. but its accomplish ment would be cheap even at the higher figure. Congress can make, neither in battle ships nor gny other form of expenditure for the benefit .of tbe public interest, any better investment than this great forest reserve would require. The preservation of the forests to be in cluded tn this safely guarded territory, valuable as that wodld be, still would con stitute bu a part of the benefits that will be guaranteed by the establiahment of the proposed reserve. A vast watershed would be saved from disastrous washing and the consequent downpour of Roods to carry off the soil, destroy crops and other property in the lowiands and plains of the slopes and levels below, would be prevented. President Roosevelt has shown h’s prac tical statesmanship by giving so much at tention to forestry and irrigation and by endeavoring to Induce congress to co operate with him so as to make hie recom mendations effective. A WORTHY MEMORIAL. Soon after the death of William L. WM •on. the last years bf whose Hfe were Spent in the presidency of Washington and Lee university, a movement was set en foot, to endow a chair of economics in th* institution in memory of his distin guished virtues and -services. The sum of Sioeooo wan de<lre<P for this purpose and we are glad to learn that this Is wow practically assured. Contribu tions have come from the north, as well as the south. Kx-Prcsideut Cleveland gave HOM end there hav* been several other large subscription*. Tbe Income of IWl.flqn will support the professorship well. It will be a valuable addition to the university atid the most Atting memorial to th* noble and lovable man whose name it is to boar. Those who knew him feel that he would have pre ferred this monument to any other that could h«ve been given him. Dr. Wilson devoted a Targe part of hl* life to' the cause of education, and in it he was conspicuously useful both before entering congress and.after leaving It. Washington and Lee university prosper ed remarkably while he was Us president and h* left It on a much stronger footing than ft had when he took the direction of its affairs. Hid career In. congress 'was remarkably brilliant and gave him a high pl»ce among the statesmen of his time. His heroic bsEtti** against our oppressive tariff sys r tern road* hijn the most popnlar Demo eratfe leader In congress, and it was a great grief to him that the bill which he framed for the reduction of tariff taxa tion and tbe removal of its inequalities was at last emasculated by the connlv aac* and active aid of so-called Demo crats who played Into the hand of the enemy nt Democratic principles. The name of this pure and valiant statesman is held in high honor by hts country. The William L. Wilson professorship of econornk-s will Hye to remind this and coming generations of his brave and use ful services for the masses r>f the peo ple. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER'3O 1901 GEN. CHAFFEE’S EYES OPENED. manders In the Philippines but General . Chaffee stems tq understand tf»e situa tion better than any of bis prHqcessors. The maf* fault iit|i the|n wfs that they underestimated this task they Had In hand. Their rosy views of the case with which they could mjet and ipgster it misled ajid disapprtntcrf tbe ec.intry afin dguM* <li ß ' asure’p our troops that, would have been •v«rt«d by mote, thorough knowledge erf the conditions with which they had to deal. General Chaffee realizes that the cprpplete MibjacUQD sad - pacification oX ta* Filipinos i* going to ba v«ry diflAeult and must necessarily b* slow. He ha* studied the feature of that people and re alizes that the overwhelming majority of them are bitterly opposed to our govern ment and would be delighted to throw it oft. He tell* us of these conviction* frankly and is to be commended fordoing so. •she Malay races are both brave and crafty. They ar© ingenious, treacherous an 4 intensely patriotic, There 1* no rea to doubt that they will resist the au- of the United State* for a. long time to come hy every means in their power And will seize every opportunity to strike our soldiers. They are keeping up a desultory,, but ever watchful war fare which requires the most sleepless vigilance on Our p«rt, as *everal secent and snceessfnl surprises of careless com mands have demonstrated. The message received this morning from General Da vie, commending the department of Min danoa. incflcat** that Gefi4ral Chaff** has given timely counsel. It has been’Stated repeatedly that Mindanao IS completely pacified and loyal, but General Davis de clares that it I? necessary to place it un der military occupation and control again. It would be worse than foolish to dis regard this warning. : , ■ The country grew sick and tired of mes eeges from Otis and MacArthur that everything looked lovely in the Philip pines. aesurandt* tbfit were followed al most invariably by fresh outbreak*. It 1* fortunate that the army In those is lands is at last in command qf an officer who knows what he has to contend with, THE OLD STORY. Th* hope that th® present Christmas season would not be disturbed and dis graced by the disorders and crimes that have become the frequent attendants of such a time has been disappointed. Reports from all parts of the country shew that th* last two or three deys have mad* a deplorable reeord of brutality and crime. AB usual many men have in dulged In sensual excesses ahd demon strations of passion Instead of observing the real spirit Os Christmas. These re velling exhibitions hav« net been confined to any one part of the country; they have been apphlUngly wideepread. Bven the metropolis of the Country was disgraced yesterday by a pitched battle between mobs of whites and negroes. And we read that in many usually peaceful vil lages and in rural districts men whasfi blood was fired by mean whisky havq dyed their hands In human blood. It appears that the habit of making Christmas a season for the rule of the lower passions of human nature ha* a firm hold upon many of our people, and that the carnival of crime which has been Witnessed every ChMetma* for years past is to continue annual recurrence. The average citizen of tfaf VnJUd States is g peaceable and law-abiding citizen. Why. in the name of all that i* good and deeent is it that ah the time of edl Others when good conduct Should pre vail the lack of it is most conspicuous? The most deplorable feature of the wretched business is that the authors of Christmas deviltry, as ♦ rui*. are not ruf fians. On the contrary many, if not the major ity Os them are pertons who have borne good reputations and enjoyed the esteem and respect of their neighbors. t It is ■ sad subject and indicates in a lamentable manner the pHiftri weakness of human nature. ' - »•«*’ SECRETARY SHAW. Failing to . Induce Governor Crane, of Massachusetts, to accept ths treasury portfolio laid down by Secretary Gage, President Roosevelt has found a successor for that able and admirable official In Governor Bhaw. of lowa- The country knows comparatively little of that gentleman, beyond the fact that he has for some years enjoyed a high degree of popularity In his own state, and has recently been chosen ah Its chief ex ecutive for a second term. He is presumably a mart of ability, for President Roosevelt must have known much in his favor to entrust him with ou*. of the most important offices in the federal administration. it was generally expected that th# new secretary of the treasury would coine from t.ie east, but the west has furnished some es the most famously successful men who have filled that office. Salmen P. Chas* is remembered better as secretary of the treasury than as chief justice. i John Sherman won more fatn> In that office than |n any other that he ev*r filled. John G. Carlisle is recognized qs ope of th* ablest men who ever held It. and Lyman Gage has distinguished himself there very greatly. Western statesmen have won abundant laurels as directors bf pur national finances. ; What spacial training, if any. Governor Shaw has had for such service we do not know, but those who i. ow him express strong confidence in hiA ability to meet the requirements of the office and the whole country indulges the hope that this estimate of hts capacity and fitness may prove to be correct. CAROLINA’S BURGLARY LAW. North Carolina is the only state, we be-. Ueve, that makes burglary a capital of fense. That this law Is strictly enforced is indicated by the recent conviction and sentence to death of four njen w ho com-, mitted burglary. The case wa* appealed to the supreme court, but that tribunal affirmed the judg ment of the court below and the prison er* mugt die pn the gallows. t The North CgVollna burglar*' law js based on the well founded assumptidn that a burglar is a murderer at heart. Almost invariably he goes armed when he breaks into a hou*e and he will kill if by doing so he can prevent his capture. There have been in our own state and in Atlanta in-. stances in which burglars when surprised at their work fatally shot or stabbed per sons whose residences or pieces of busi ness they were violating., Where It is known that th* crime of burglary is llkely to be visited with death men will hesitate to engage in IL Citizens of North Caro lina generally approve the severe penal ty which their state fixes for burglary and believe that it has a salutary effect. .The execution of four men at one time for burglarv will he an Imnressifve obiert QPINIONB OF OTHERS. Very Small. su Louis Star. . About th* emaAkat thins ever perpetratefl by' either individual* ar corporations was th* *ct Os. Che Anglo-Arnerwan CabJ* Company In interfering with the experiments of Marconi in New Foundland. May Be Forgiven. Minneapolis Times. If ail pgr tnultunimonalres g*t tp-dlstrfbutiny their assets after the manner of Carnegie and Stanford, the public asperation over the piling up of big fortunes will be greatly mitigated. Travel. Mexican Herald. ' Travel frequently improves th* hurtian be ing. and it do** the earn* for crude whisky, which, aft*r a aea voyage .return* home ripen ed; and then there is the case of cottonseed kernel* which go abroad from the tilted State* and come home again as th* best quality of •Uv* OIL Negroes Would Not Entertain a White * Bishop I . ’ . - ~. Wayne Caun.ty (fOhkH Pepidcrst. ' Bishop J. XV Aaptißon. of San Francisco. Bishop of the Northern Methodist gplscopal church, preparatory to bin visit to Decatur, Alabama, to presjd* over the negro coafer *nce, wrote to prominent negroes,' asking that quarters be secured for him In some good, re spectable negro family. Nont of the negro members would *ntertain th* white btehop, ajjd he waa forced to go to a hotel, . The n*- fmer declared they wanted no more Books* Washington fooltahnneo. , Arbitration and Strikes. rhfladelpMa Ledger. A .strike ie really g war measure and it de tcrflUnte the matter In dispute, tier fry reason, but hy the *ndurance of the co»te*ta<ite. Labor Or capital ,ls starved or buffed Into an ac ceptance of terms of settlement. Nothing Is proved by th* settlement reached a* to th* .original right of th* matter. But a aettle m’ent reached by arbitration or agreement be fore a strike is inaugurated would presumably be a •ettiemenf according wit’ll ju*tic* and faltnea* to both contestKnls. .1 ' A Test of Sincerity. Buffalo Courier. The RepubHean perty. both in it* plstforme and through newepapere. professas anxiety to curb the rapacity of the trusts. It these pro fession* have been sincere It can hardly refus* to repeal taMff duties which have no other purpose thfcn to buttress .these combinations. They may still use the old arguments about the need of protection against foreign com petition in some lines of industry, but not ia the case of those h-hlch ate utlUerseJllng’’ f*r «lkfi er A oq Ihelt own; ground. Will ln*i«t on Full Justice. Pittsburg fHspateh. - . Whether the navy department is to be prltlr cised or not thaxe cin be nA doubt that tn* Ahterfcan pbopl* W.l! insist hpon full Justice t* the hocused officer. No good purpose c*a b* served by an attempt to, overrule DeWey S opiploq upon any pretext. That opinion Is th* Opinion of the couhfty. Whether it exceeded th* *p*clflcatlon* of n*t. it wwht right to th* root of th* matter and decided the point at issue. No amount ot quibbling can get around Viat. ’ -;w p? . Uncle Sam’s Paladins. Minneapolis Tribune. The aenount of Funston's capture of Agul natdo might be a leaf f*rn out of th* ad ventures ot th* twelve peer* of Charlemagne, who were called paladins, and those who stand aa the parftgoq* <?f knighthood. And if we ate looking for paladins we might find them in the humbl* ranks of privates of the L T nlted States army, among th* men who fought th«ir way out of the ambugh oC the bolomen in Samar, after the officers of Com pany C, Ninth Infantry, had been massacred- Oysters for the King. Sortsebofly Is bar?*! of Chesapeake Bay ey*t*rs to King - Edward. Let w« hope they are Lynnhaven Bays and large enough to cause him to forget the eleven-inch mon ster from Ceylon he tried to eat several years ago. The native British oy*ter is said to be small *nd t*«tdt*«<. but that ts a Jokt. Those young oysters ||o»orted Irani Franc* and Hol land and Yattened on British culture-beds ar* really one. BtlM. w* think, and rightly, that America* oyster* beat the world. We *r* selling about SLOOO.OOO worth a year to Eng land. but it is being kept a* quiet as poasibl* by these I* th* trede, because prices are very high, and if too many get in the gam* all may suffer. Same years ago London consumed 1.M.000.Q00 oysters a year, but today the whole of tSnglanil doesn't eat 150.000.600? which dost about 1N,000,000 The consumption 1 ryParis is ioo.ooo, *» a year; eesting about looo.offe. Fifty years ago th* same quantity coat JJM.ooo. ' The brie* of'th* bivalve th London has in creased In a Sew years from 1 eent to 4 cents Tn Faris in half a century It has increased from I-S of k<-**nt to >-10 of a cent. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. H ~ ’ ' ■ " - t ■ New York Pres*. , Some cheeks ar* as red as others are painted. Money makes the mar* go and women make the money go. The happiest marriages are th* ones which Haven’t coWi* off ret. . It may b* Just an accident, but usually soft hearts go with soft wits. v « . Maybe som* tndn don’t tell lie* bdcauste "th*y knew nobody would teller* them under any circumstances. ■ ....... r-q.'W, 11 ‘ ■ - ■ - 1 ..a POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago News. ' Many a man b«s a good appetite and noth ing to eat. while others hfi»« plenty to Mt byt nq if a jiourtg man owns real estate in a large atty it 'Ts an edsy matter fdf him to find a girl Willing to ah ar* his lot. The average m»n hgs sue* a good memory tftaj he finds U Impossible ts forget th* thing* h« doesn't want to rqmembsr. Many a man puts hl» heat toot forward *o far that his other fbot becomes discouraged in attomptfng to catch up with It. - Where on* lawyef In a small village would starve two ean make a good living. There is a gre*t big rao»*l concealed in this. OF GENERAL INTEREST. Nearly the whole of th* .Central American ih digo crop is gathered ip San Salvador. The emigratiop from Germany, which for somd time used -te average 220. WM) a year, sank last year to S9.WO. - ■ Th* Vislgnd Rolmfff railway, in Sweden, has mad* a datisfaettury tost of dried peat as fuel for locomotives, > The German law forbids teachers in the School to ppll the ears of their pupils. Many Case* of deafness have been shown to have resulted fnfcn evfch vanishment. A *team plow weighing 36.000 pounds and owned in S*n R*rnsMino county. California, is supposed to be the largest plow in the world. Last year Missouri produced more mtnufac tured tobacco than any Other state In the union, over 75,600.400 pounds passing through its factories. Crealgowan. which is hereafter to become the highland residence of th> prince and princess of TX%les. h*s been for many yfars th* home ot the royal commissioner. One of the Am«ric*ri innovations in ihe city of Ponce. Porto Rica, is a society for the pre vention of cruelty to animalß Which relentless ly prosecutes all violators of the law. . CURRENT COMMENT. The Panama canal is mainly valuable as a reminder of how not to proceed with an enter prise of this kind —Washington Star. S* far th* editor Os th* Congressional Recoed has been able to withstand the colored sup plement eras*.— Washington Post. Governor Yates and Bourke Cockran are con tributing sortie rapid-fire language to the South African war —Mail and Express. A new eure for eaAcer is discovered each week, but none at any time for Tillman of South Carolina.—Salt Lake Tribune. That little I T 00,000,000 surplus will he a handy thing to have when the ishmian canal gets .past the talk stage.—Denver Republican. Schley has refused an offer to lecture at |SOO per night. Sampson has not even been offered a place in a dime museum.—Butte The Bnera will have to quit shooting Eng lish soldiers if they desire to avoid Kitchen er’s charge of conducting the war in a bar barous manner.—Salt Lake Tribune. Mrs. Btuyvesant Fish, of New York, hqs ceased pouring teg and taken to th* more ex citing diversion <ff engine parties. Woiildn’t that make you ot>*n tho throttle?—St. Paul Dispatch. ' ‘ The topical Index of all the debates in con gress, upon which Mr. Peffer, of Kansas, is working, seems to be an ill-considered scheme for popularising the Congressional Record.— Chicago Tribune. You could just as easily convert ft Into United Sta U-s bond*, couldn’t you, Mr. Car negie?—Chicago Tribune. Senator Foraker's declaration for President Roosevelt In 1964 is more valuable as showing the *tress of Ohio politics at present than as indicative of the future.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Now that Mme. Nordlca has traced ragtime to Wagner and hae given II a classical status, it Is up to the public t* drop it.—Buffalo Ex press. A company has been incorporated at Balti more to make wbieky from rip* Watermelons. It will have to be mighty good whisky to —f ; ->- *'» —!»«••• •va’-rmelons.— •• ---- YOUNG MEN OF THE SOUTH y SHOULD BE TAUGHT A TRADE CHARLOTTE, N. C„ Dec. 23.—1 had an interesting talk with a leading sputherft manufacturer recently regarding ’inp "young man’s chances” which are so freely discussed these’ days, and he gave some facts which are Interesting. "Recently I had an application from a young man In a small town not far from Charlotte for a placs in my works,” said the ’ manufacturer. "As we do not take In any but those who give, promise of do ing something for themselves *nd the es tablishment. I wrote to a citizen of the young man s town with whom I was well acquainted and asked him If there was anything In the fellow; if he was worth trying; did his record at home show that he was really desirous of learning some thing and making a mechanic of himself, or was he merely hunting a job? “1 received in reply quite a lengthy let ter, and it impressed me, for the reason that to a considerable extent it showed some of the reasons why young men In the south today are In many cases not what they might be. The young fellow about whom I Inquired was on a par with about a dozen lo that towji, and for that matter every oth<>r town in his section. He sgid thpt any one of them would work in a ttore or anything, of that kind for s»l --arlefi which would allow them to wear fairly stylish clothes and move in ’so ciety—attend the functions, germans. etc., but that as for getting down to learning a trade, that with them was a doubtful iM-pblpm !M they ready want to learn a ttfide.* said my correspondent, ‘why there is the best opening that could bq wished for them right here in this town. We haven’t a competent carpenter, nor a brick-layer who can do first-class work. Fine w’ages would be paid a man in al most any trade, and if good workmen were here they could get plenty of work. As it is now’, when a citizen of this town wants a building erected after anything like the fashion of the day he must send off some distance to secure the workmen, and this fact discourages new enterprises just as the presence of good workmen would encourage the upbuilding of the community. B-ut. coming back to the young man you inquire about, I cannot say that there- is any reason why you should give him a trial—certainly no mdre than tbjt all thqsi of his special class should be provided for, ahd of course I would not recommend the whole lot to any business man.’. "As a result of this letter the young man who applied for a place is, so far as I know, still waiting for an oppor tunity to learn a trade, and the chances ar* that he will always be ready to take up any Job that comes along, for he will not have perfected himself in any particular line of business, and ordinary laborers are not hard to get AU About Santa Claus. (Christmas rhymes written for Yvylyn. Marjorie and Kenneth Humphries, of Mt. Airy, and to be enjoyed by all the other children of The Journal.) 6hiidren you merit highest praise For being patient so many days. Now, I’ll rehearse a little song— It you’ll be quiet. I’ll not be long. Perhaps you all would like to know The strange old man who loves yau'so: •Well, 1 will undertake to tell Who comes with song and Christmas bell, Whose sack is filled with everything That he can down the chimney bring—* With everything’ tis nice to see Hanging on a Christmas tree. According to old custom’s taws All people call him “Santa Claus.” I do not know from whence he cams; He has a sort of German name, But he is not of German birth— He’s kin to all the! folks on earth; For from some fair and happy CMm* He comes along at Christmas time, And girls and boys ot every land Get presents from his liberal hapd- One Mrs. Love was his good mother. And Kind Regard his gallant brother; Good Will, his noble sire we call, Grace, Peace, Hope. Joy his sister* ajl. His children are a mighty brood Os all the pretty and the good. In every land and neighborhood. Well, when the snows of age do fall On Old Year s locks, and Winter’a pall Covers lltabs in ice. Old Santa Claus in odd device Arrays himself with hood and mask And hastens to his yearly task. His little ponies. Wind and Light, He hitches to his chariot bright. And through the a|r he takes his flight; And all around the world he goes, Where toys are made or nice fruit grows. He visits cities, towns and shops. And stores and mills—and never stqpe Until he gets his chariot full. As much as Wind and Light can pull He mounts his seat and cracks his whip. And away he files on his Christmas trip. Right down the chimney, or through the door. ' With softest tread across the floor, He goes to qhairs or to bed post As noiseless as a gliding ghost. The little stackings hanging there. He takes and fills with greatest care. And what a pretty lot of things The good old Santa always brings— Candy, sugar-plums and cakes, H*rses, cows and goats and snakes. Figs and grapes and orange yellow, Raisins, nuts and apples mellow, Books, albums, dolls and bells and bats, Binging birds and screaching cats, Rattles, whistles, horns and drums, Jewsharps, fiddles, harmonlcums. Pictures, wagons, sticks and fans, J Buckets, baskets, boxes, cans. Rockets, marbles, pops and cracks. Merry Andrew’s, jumping jacks. Knives and guns, teasets and rings, Cornicopias and baby things. Breastpins, gloves and silver ware. Combs and flowers for the Vase*, bracelets, cups and bows, And how much etoe there’s no one knows. He leaves his gifts and steals away; And there on th* morn of Christmas day The children make with gtod surprise i And sejze their gifts and feast their eyes; They eat confections, play with toys And thank old Santa for their joys. How nice ’tis now a child to be So many pretty things to see! And what is so much better yet. So many pretty things to get! There were no dolls with pretty curls And all such things when we were girls. Now all these things you plainly see •Hanging on your Christmas tree; Now take your gifts with thanks and love To those on earth and Him above. M. T. H. Mt. Airy. Ga. DECEMBER. When the feud of hot and col* • Leaves the autumn woodlands bare; When the year is getting old. And the flowers ar* dead and keen the girt When the crow has new concern. And early sounds his raucous note: And—where the late witch-hazel* burn— The squirrel ’ from a chuckling throat Tells that one larder’* space Is filled, And ttlte upon a towering tree: And. valiant, qulofc, and keenly thrilled. Upstarts the tiny chickadee; W’hen the sun’s still shortening arc Too soon night's shadows dun and gray Blings on, and fields are drear and dark. And summer birds have flown away— I feel the year's slow beating heart, The sky's chill prophecy I know; And welcome the consummate art Whtch weaves this spotless shroud of snow! —Joel Benton. FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST. Os an money transactions in England 97 per cent, are transacted by checks, only 3 per cent, by notes and gold. A church tn London still possesses an in come originally given to it for the purpose of buying faggots for burning heretics. THe census returns tor Algeria show that in lees than fifty years th* native popula tion of the colony. Arab and Kabyle, has al most doubled, having risen from 2.307.000 in *‘C • f "• f * 1 tlnr. and their pay is of course meagre as compared with that of the skilled men. It Is hard for young men to* become Apprentices in machine shops or fac tories these days, but as a rule they are required to show that they begin the work in good faith before a manu facturer will give them any considera tion t be cahnof afford to have lhe room in his factory encumbered by a man W*ho will not apply himself, even rtlough he pnys‘ him small wages, for ft is as to what the man will be worth In Ik* future that his employer is looking. These who are holding the leading places In the factory will not be there always fend the apprenticed are fihe ones to take their places. "But the conditions in the south are Im proving. and while I have no doubt that what my friend wrote from a neighbor ing town is now true tn every particular not only in his own community, but all over this section, it wfll not always be so, because people without occupations are finding it harder and harder to get along, ; and those who perfect rhenasetves In the various pursuits are furnishing an object lesson .which will have its effect. "Formerly the deficiency of youth wax lack of education or knowledge; now the most hindering deficiency Is lack of train ing or skill. Formerly the youth waa re quired to work on a farm or in some dhop. At twenty-one years he was accustomed to work and had whatever skill pertained to the calling of his parents or others with whom he worked. These youth of the olden time were usually successful. They frequently experienced embarrassment in after Ilf* for lack Os education or knowl edge. This brought them to push the subject of education or college attendance to the front and led to much abandonment of the old habit of requiring youth to ac custom themselves physically and in pa tience to do work many firms today pre fer to employ a boy from the Who has scant education but who is will ing and able to Work to one from the colleges who Is unaccustomed to work and is without training or skill of any kind.' ■ . "Every youth should learn a trade. Aside from Its value in assuring a liv ing to the person it gives an elbow touch with all humanity whtch is a source of strength tn after Hfe. It develops the physical as college training developed the mind. >. ' ‘Take two young men at tl years old. one a college graduate without practical training, the other a skilled mechanic with a common school education, the lat ter ts the meit capable of the two. ’The youth who has never been to col lege nor served an apprenticeship is in deed in a pitiful condition. The mechanic wOth the common school education can NO LACK OF PROSPERITY. J_ Baltimore American. Is this country still reveling in a burst of splendfd prpsperlty, or has It struck a retrogressive movement? This question IS pertinent just now, because it affords an opportunity to decide between substan tial prosperity and speculative prosperity. Perhaps the question, with its suggestions of doubt, would never be asked were it not for the trouble which the speculative markets have encountered. A cloud of gloom hast hung over them for fully six months. The stockbroker and thb plunger find things very dull. Fictitious security values have been shriveling. Stock ex change business has been diminishing. On these accounts the frequenters of “the street.” as the speculative neighborhood is familfdriy called, have lost those smiles whtch were worn last _ spring. Observing this change in the one special locality, the average citizen is disposed to make ilnqu+ry: "Is the loss of smile on the part of the speculator a premonitory sign of decreasing prosperity?” Under or dinary circumstances th* question would be aptly put. In thia particular case, however, the apeculatlvp market and the actual business market are at variance. Stock speculatlon Is flat, while general business is active. The two lines of tra ding have, for once, taken divergent courses. It presents an instance In which speculation is dull, despite an animated foreign and domestic trade. When It la recalled that speculation has collapsed because of special reasons, it can be understood why general trade should not be judged by speculative de pression. Speculation—which is a species WANTS A CUSTODIAN FOR MILCH COWS Editor Journal: Please grant space In your valuable pa per, and also ask your assistance byway of an editorial from time to time on an ordinance I think the next council should pass, as to creating in connection with the milk Inspection, a custodian for milk cows that are brought Into the city for First. All cows giving milk to be sold inside the city limits should be l«ft In the custody of this commissioner for a time of six or eight days, to satisfy the com missioner as to the health, quality and quantity of milk recommended by the party or parti** selling. Second. When such cow is taken out of the custody of said commissioner the party owning said cow will pay to the commissioner an amount in accordance with the expense of keeping the cow. Third. Then said commissioner will furnish to party selling th* cow a certifi cate of health and condition of cow with markings thoroughly describing said cow. Fourth. The proceeds derived from this source to be applied to paying expenses of keeping tpe cattle an<J add to the sal ary of the officer in charge of this partic ular office. I think fl per head would be satisfactory compensation. Then when a man appears with a milk cow to sell he has one that he can t mis represent. for' when such ordinance is passed everybody considered will be sup posed to know the law surrounding the disposition of a milk Cow. Parties wishing to buy will ask for the commissioner’s certificate, that they be sure of getting a cow that is all right, for these cow traders, as a rule. wHI sell any kind of a cow, in any condition, un der any circumstances for the sake of a ••ale. A very common way is to sell a cow with an adopted calf (cows going dry for a fresh milker), cows unwell, in many ways, often spoiled sacks. I am speaking from a position occupied by one who has suffered from such a source as above mentioned. I think such a move wla also help the pure milk cause as well as save an innocent public from being swindled by that class that has no scruples whatever only to sell their stock In trade, and in the passage of such an ordinance the humane laws are also en forced to a great extent. Also toak® H « fine to sell a cow without this certificate, and require the aid of a certificate any way at all times before a cow can be sold- •• This cow commissioner can be appoint ed by (the board of health, that same board having jurisdiction over the entire surroundings and actions of this cow commissioner. Th.s action will meet the approval of many who have suffered from transactiens had with the class guilty of such swindling methods of preying up on an innocent public to sell them un^. er misrepresentation, unsound and uncondi tioned cattle. New Mr. Editor, you may ask for ex pressions *n this line from your readers If you choose to, get the drift of senti ment. I believe it will be a most popular and beneficial undertaking, and feel sure It will become a taw in the eity of Atlan ta from the fact the operations of the class I refer to as preying upon innocent and uninitiated are so extensive, unless there is some way to stop them and reg ulate their maneuvers an honest man »♦•< ♦ • ♦ BY J. C. ABERNATHY. work out an education for himself. The college man without practical training can get the practical training by proper effort. But the young fellow who has been allowed by his parents to grow up in a sort of respectable idleness and who at 20 or 31 years begins to realize that his parents cannot keep him always is in a truly deplorable position. "It used to be that parents were wont to neglect the education of their children; now they neglect their practical training. The one neglect is as injurious as the other. The only proper equipment of" youth for any life work is an equal amount of practical experience and sehsol training. For the making of a living if either is to be curtailed, it had best b« the schooling. •The development of practical skill brings resources into development. It is the few who have both knowledge and skill that make the work for the others. If all youth were required by their par ents to serve some apprenticeship it would conduce immensely to the development of home resources and to the making of abundant and profitable occupation at homa.’* A conversation, a few days ago. with a New York business man—one who Is con nected with one of the largeet concerns of its kind In the exact ly the same Idea of opportunity as re gards the metropolis. “There are,” said he. "perhaps more idle people in every line of work In New York than any other American city, and there is a constant stream of Immigration to that center from all over the country, and yet the door of opportunity to the competent man there is wide open. There are a great many peo ple In the metropolis who are today hold ing good paying positions which they are not competent to fill. As soon as a fully equipped man In any line of business shows up In New York he has nq in finding a place; kn-iex mand for him, anTTtsr Isald before, whjl* there is probably a greater surplusage of men In every calling in the metropolis than anywhere else In the United States* 1 there is yet a greater scarcity of comp*-, tent men. They are wanted all the time, and a man who Is thoroughly up to hl# work can always find employment in Nbw* York. If you want to live in the metrop olis and ate able to do something better* than the general run of those now etn-j ployed, you need have no hesitation about going there.” These are the opinions of business men? meh who know what they are talking about, and it certainly appears from what they have to say that the thing for • young man to do these days ts t» perfect himself in some one. line of buHnera; it makes not so much difference what that la Just so he can do it well. of artificial trading, with expectation! an«t sentiment as leading forces—has passed through a series of unsettling reversbs since the Northern Pacific eplsdde. Only on* of thes* reverses has had any bear ing on th* movements of actual business. Public confidence has been so acutely sha ken by the losses sustained on account of rank manipulation that the great outsids element is touching the speculative mar ket very gingerly at present. That la why business is so flat in that quarter. Tbe chief adverse factor In actual trade, which also affects the speculative, waa tfc« corn shortage. The high price, however, to which th* cereal has since attained hqs mope than counterbalanced the shortage In crop. The buying power of the farming class has. consequently, not been crippled. Moreover, the shaky industrial conditions in Germany, wnlch at on* time menaced the volume of our foreign business, have wonderfully improved, so that even that particular obstacle to our progress Is rt cnoved. On top of these Intangible evi dences comes the more practical showing i of our railroad reports and our weekly bank Clearances. They continue to show increases over the phenomenal record of last year. Railroad companies cannot find cars enough to move their traffic and the bank clearings in all sections of th* country are disclosing a splendid expan sion in th* present evolution of business. All this testimony In favor of continued prosperity is entirely too overwhelming to be offset by more speculative depres sion. Even the latter depresaion ia ex pected to enjoy a transient respite after January 1. In the cattle business will have to class* out. Thanking you kindly, I remain. Ver/ respectfully, W. H. JOHNSON. 83 Herbert street, NANCY HART AGAIN. Atlanta Journal: I have been much Interested at the vs-j rious accounts given of Aunt Nancy Hart by people who have known so much tn re gard to this truly patriotic woman. I have desired to write you before now, but was anxious that all the discussion would be over before I should write, because I wished that others more competent than myself would record the few facts that I' know in regard to this matter of history. What I here relate has been told over and over to me by my father, and I know It to be as true as truth itself. My father’s name was Samuel Meredith. < He died In IM6 in his Btth year. He wai) related to the Morgans of South Carolina and to Nancy Hart. When he was a boy about 7 or 8 years of age he went with his father to Brunswick, Ga., and oelled to see Aunt Nancy. She took quite a fancy to him and was struck by his great love of hearing her relate her adventures. She was then very old and took a great delight in telling of her past life. She was so struck with my father’s eagerness to hear all she told and knew that she gave my father the Identical conch shell that she claimed to have blown during the revolte tfonary war. There was a bullet hole in it filled With beeswax. My grandfather and father were ever proud of this horn. It has been an heirloom in our family ever since. I have it now. Nothing could induce me to part with ft, although I am a poor man and have many children de pendent upon me. I look at the old shell occasionally, and It brings to my mind my dear old father and grandfather on their trip, with the long train of freight wagons and their many voyages from Brunswick to middle Georgia. I love this old shell and I show it to my children with eagerness and solemnity. It Is all I have now to connect me with the great past and of my relationship with, this great woman. Respectfully, V. O. MEREDITH. Americus. Ga. Western Fear of the Chinese. Tacoma Ledger, j There are thousands of people on the Atlantic slope who know less of the Chi nese than they do of the Hottentot. They "annot understand the impulse to exclude him, because they do not know what free dom of ingress implies. They do ndt stop to think, as is the solemn and de pressing truth, that were the Chinese permitted to come they would overrun this coast, or they do not have a care for the welfare of this eoast. Perhaps their theory is that the Chinese would stop this side of the Rocky mountains. But ha would not. He would In a brief time poss ess the land fro.n sea to sea, and white labor would be reduced to beggary. Those Same Cigars. Indianapolis Sun. “As we grow older our tastes change,” re marked the obsarvapt person. “I remember when I was a boy I couldn’t bear the taste of cabbage. ’' “And now?" asked his friend "And now." continued the observant ohe, "I can smoke my wife's Christinas cigars and never turn an eyelash."