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THURSDAY. JANUARY M. !»£■
Ths rubber trust got it in the neck re
cently.
Bomb Croker holds out the hope that It
is cot too late for even Tammany to mend.
So far Admiral Schley seems to have
risen equal to the Savannah chicken salad
test.
Tha nest time Germany asks Veneiuela
for that money Venesuela will probably
know it. • - • !
• Perhaps Admiral Sampson’s turn is com
ing al last. One of Schley's friends is to
write a naval history. .
The comic opera that George Ade has
Written will. In ail Probability, be a Cap
ital sort of Production.
Jackson Day besides reviling glorious
memories gave us some excellent speci
mens of after dinner oratory.
•Cotone! Cobb, of Alabama, of “Where
was-I-at" fame. Is out for the attorney
generalship of his beloved state.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, is
A said to have succeeded Mark Hanna as
the favorite authority at the white house.
The national surplus is said to be in
creasing at the rate of fIOOO.CW a month.
Notwithstanding the fact congress is in
If Rudyard Kipling would enlist himself
his impassioned appeals for more volun
teers for the South African war might
have more effect. .
Our war with Russia is over. Result,
one Cossack with a black eye and a bine
jacket with a small piece of ear gone.
Let us have peace.
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan is the sort of
millionaire the boys like. He distributed
dioa.oco among the clerks in his big bank
on New Tear’s day.
When It is considered what it sometimes
costs to get out of the New York exchange
the price of s9ft.oW for getting in seems
cheap by comparison.
It is said that we have four thousand
millionaires in this country and fewer
tramps than we had a year ago, but still
a hundred thousand or so.
Mr. Roosevelt has got to learn that a
President can be determined without
bluster and to make an ordinary tone quite
as imperative as a lond one.
The Hanna men and the Foraker men
now declare that they love each other.
They were only playing at Columbus last
week to amuse the Democrat's.
Kansas boasts that she has a practicing
physician over a hundred years old and a
man who got paid for a book before he
wrote it. Great state. Kansas!
People must be hard up for money when
that twenty-five cents baby bounty offered
by Chicago can bring about a steady In
crease in that city’s birth record.
Memphis has abolished its Mardi Gras
celebration. but New Orleans is prepar
ing to put on this famous specialty of hers
more gorgeously than ever this year.
Railroad accidents continue to occur
almost daily. There must be an improve
ment in railroad signals and there is a
happy prospect that it will come soon.
Senator Foraker complains that some
body has been lying about him. He prob
ably means that somebody about the size
of Mark Hanna has been sitting on him.
Recent celebrations would seem to in
dicate that all factions of the Democratic
party are at least able to agree that An
drew Jackson was a Democrat in good
standing.
The few Democrats in the lowa legisla
ture have politely agreed to make Mr.
Allison's sixth election to the senate unan
imeus. which is quite as much to their
credit as his.
Nobody seems to know whether to re
gard the man who has invented a tele
phone that sees as a public benefactor or
hot. Perhaps it will depend after all upon
the point of view.
It hah been well suggested that per
haps the c-nstpnt recurrence of disas
trous railroad wrecks is caused by try
ing to-do a double track.business on sin
gle track roads
It is stated that’ it required bnt ninety
minutes for Senator Clark to spend $300,000
• Cor oil paintings in New York recently. We
always suspected that Clark was one of
these catch-as-catch-can art connoisseurs.
Nobody can blame the transcontinental
pilroads for employing a big lobby against
(he Nicaragua canal project, but anybody
has the right to remember that a fool and
bis money do not keep company tong.
Boss Crokrt's declaration in turning over
the leadership of Tammany tq Lewis
Nixon that* as long as the society's leaders
are honest it can never be defeated at the
polls is a belated but valuable confes
«ron.
A professional college president who had
turned his back on fourteen proffered jobs
• has - graciously accepted the presidency
Os Columbia, which Seth Low gave up
to run for mayor of New York. The Co
lumbia salary just suited.
A Kentuckian claims to have invented a
wireless telephone with which messages
tnay ba transmitted a quarter of a mile.
Hut the average Kentuckian would scorn
to employ any arttAtrial means to make
himself heard that distance.
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President Roosevelt Is not inclined to
bother with the Mississippi Republicans
bnd will hardly be worried by their ma
king mouths at him. The average Missis
sippi Republican, it seems, will have to
Rrd some other way than ofllceholding to
get his bacon.
The president may soothe the wounded
feelings of General Miles by sending him
to King Edward's coronation. But it
Mat the general H 0.009 out of his private
purse to represent the United States ,at
the queen's last jubilee and it may be
that he does not care to invest in a coro
nation frolic.
JACKSON DAY SENSE.
The anniversary of the battle of New Or
leans was celebrated this year as usual,*
in many cities.
It is a day which Democrats have mark
ed with a red letter and when it rolls
around they never fall to honor the mem
ory of Andrew Jackson, one of their pat
ron saints and a typical Democrat, both
socially and politically. On Jackson day
we always hear much about the Demo
cratic party, its principles and its pros
pects. It is evident that the anniversary
this year was characterized by a Demo
cratic optimism that is pleasant to con
template after two overwhelming defeats.
It indicates that the average Democrat is
not whipped and is quite-ready to fight
again for his creed and his party.
But there was also a very general indi
cation that the party will make its next
battle on different lines from those that
it laid down in 1896 and in 1900. On all sides
It was conceded by the orators of the day,
except a few irreconciiables, that the free
stiver issue is dead.
We shall hear little of it In the congres
sional campaigns next fall and still less In
the national contest in 1904. Mayor Rose,
of Milwaukee, in his speech at the Jackson
day banquet in Indianapolis, expressed the
sentiments that seemed to have prevailed
at that and nearly every other celebration
of the occasion. His main thoughts were
expressed In these words:
“It Is not necessary to hold an autopsy
upon the remains of those issues that
wrought such havoc in our ranks.
“Whether bimetallism was right or
wrong; whether a fixed or arbitrary ratio
was a necessary essential to the legiti
mate solution of the question, have be
come matters of absolute indifference.
This fact is conceded, and the experience
of the last few years has demonstrated
that the wonderful increase in the product
of gold has made the present total stock
sufficient for all the purposes for which
it was contended the two metals were
needed under the old conditions.
“In the last great struggle one issue was
urged to be of paramount importance. The
imperialistic policy of the administration
in power, by which it was sought to
engraft upon our republic a scheme of
colonial dependencies, was challenged in
our platform.
“High tariff may live without trusts, but
trusts cannot live without high tariffs.
These two twins of wickedness are the
destroying worms that are gnawing at
our vitals. They threaten industrial life
by striking down competition and reducing
labor to the level of the menial. They ruin
the individual manufacturer by absorbing
his identity, rob the consumer through
exorbitant prices and jeopardize our free
institutions by centralizing capital. '
“These questions are live questions, and.
every day their importance is accentuated
by iniquities they perpetrate. ‘Low tar
iffs and no trusts’ should be the slogan of
the next campaign, and with this for our
battle cry the great army of wage earn
ers will rally to our standard, the multi
tude of small manufacturers will enlist in
our cause, the agriculturists of the nation
will join our forces and victory will be our
reward."
From the present point of view It ap
pears that Mayor Rose outlined the issues
that will be made most prominent by the
next Democratic national convention and
on which the party will line up in a solid
ity that it has not known since 1892.
LESS LEGISLATION WANTED.
The tendency toward less frequent ses
sions of state legislatures is perceptible
in every section of the country.
Alabama, in her new constitution, pro
vides that her legislature shall meet but
once in four years, unless some emergen
cy shall require an extra session. It is
said that this provision was one of the
most popular that the convention put Into
the state's organic law. Within the last
few years several other states have wid
ened the space between sessions of their
legislatures and in others there is a de
mand for like reform that seems likely
to be recognized in the early future. The
Georgia legislature meets every year, tout
its sessions are limited by the constitution
to fifty days, and we have on an average
fewer legislative days than we had when
the legislature met biennially in its regu
lar session, but had the privilege of a
summer session the year after the regular
one.
The opposition to frequent sessions is
based partly on consideration of expense,
but mainly on the Idea that a multiplicity
of new laws is unnecessary and mischiev
ous.
Last year no less than 15,000 new laws
were enacted by our state and territorial
legislatures. Os course, many of these had
a merely local application, but a very
large proportion of them extended
throughout the jurisdiction of the enact
ing bodies. Experience leads us to expect
that many of these new laws will be re
pealed at the first opportunity, and, it
may be. before they have had a fair trial.
The people are growing weary of thia
making and unmaking of laws. They pre
fer to have well-matured legislation that
will meet all requirements for some years
to come and disturb the citizen and his
business less than more frequent passage
of new statistics. In some states the peo
ple hardly become aware of the enact
ment of new laws before they are wiped
out; the legislative authority busies itself
almost incessantly with making.an<f un
making rules of conduct and dealing.
Every legislature has a number of mem
bers who are ambitious to make an im
press upon the code of their state, and
they are apt to indulge an injudicious
activity in endeavoring to do so.
This accounts in large measure for un
necessary legislation, which, in many in
stances is pernicious legislation also.
The demand for a slower pace in law
making is well-founded.
PROGRESSIVE JAPAN.
The advance of Japan during the last
ten years has excited the wonder and ad
miration of the world. But Japan is not
resting on her laurels. She appears to be
more ambitious and active than ever. Her
strength is certainly increasing steadily.
The Japanese army is classed/ by mili
tary critics as one of the best in the
world. It did superb fighting both in the
war with China* and in the suppression
of the Boxer insurrection. The Japanese
soldier has won worldwide fame by his
superb drill, his steadiness and vigor in
action and his dauntless personal cour
age.
The navy of Japan is not so noted as her
army, but is being strengthened rapidly.
The new Japanese battleship Mikasa is
the largest naval vessel in the world. This
mighty fighting machine has recently
been completed by a famous firm of Brit
ish shipbuilders and will soon proceed to
Japan. It is 432 feet long, 4* feet beam,
draws 27 feet, has 15.15 ft tons displacement
and 15,000 indicated horsepower.
lY will have a speed of 18 knots and a
coal capacity so enormous that it can go
at the rate of 10 knots 9.000 miles without
recoaling.
The armament is very formidable, con
sisting of four 12-inch breech-loading guns
and the following quick-fire guns; Four
teen 6-inch guns, twenty 12-pounders, eight
S-pounders and four 2 1-2-pounders.
In addition to these powerful weapons
the Mikasa has four submerged torpedo
tubes, which are rated highly by naval
experts.
It Is the dearest hope of Japan to fit
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herself to cope both on land and sea with
Russia, her worst hated foe.
It would require very little provocation
to drive her to attack Russia now, and
she would put up a mighty good fight.
A NEW COTTON SEED PROCESS.
The value of cotton seed, which up to
a few years ago was mere waste, is grow
ing steadily.
It has been predicted that the time will
come when the seed will be worth as much
as the lint of- cotton, and the constantly
increasing number of cotton seed prod
ucts makes this prophecy begin to look
reasonable. It is announced that a new
process has been discovered which sim
plifies greatly the treatment of cotton
seed, and yields both a larger quantity
and a better quality of products. The
claim for this new process is set forth
as follows:
"The hulls and lint removed from a ton
of seed by the new process are said to
yield 1.000 pounds of paper stock, as com
pared with leas than 400 pounds by the
method now tn use; and this paper stock
is worth, in the condition left by the new
processes, from $lO to S2O a ton, as com
pared with between $3 and $4 per ton for
the amount of paper stock recovered by
the usual method. This alone would con
stitute a net gain of from $9 to $lB a ton,
or, on the basis of laflt year’s product, it
is contended, would save tt> the cotton
growers of the south about $38,000,000.
"In the process of extracting the oil, the
oil cake is freed from the chemical and
becomes adapted for use as a food prod
uct for cattle or as a fertilizer. Under the
usual method it is possible to extract only
about 40 per cent of oil from the seed,
while the new process, its backers as
sert. makes possible the extraction of
practically 100 per cent and the cost of
producing crude oil by the new method is
reduced 50 per cent." ,
It is hardly probable that this new
process will do all that Is claimed for it,
but we may expect that it will accom
plish much.
In cotton seed the south has a source
of wealth the magnitude of which is not
yet fully appreciated, but the comprehen
sion of it becomes larger every day.
RECENT RAILROAD HORRORS.
The alarming frequency of fatal rail
road accidents recently has caused a de
mand for better methods of safety. The
railroad authorities seem to be bestirring
themselves to Improve their signal sys
tems-and it is prooable that their efforts
will result In practical reforms of great
value.
It is admitted that the signals used on
most railroads now are liable to be over
looked or misunderstood by fast flying
trains, and that many of the accidents,
pro ba bit* a majority of them, that have
caused so much loss of life lately would
have been averted If less uncA-taln signals
had been in use. A number of train dis
patchers on important railroads have join
ed In urging the adoption of a plan that
has strong practical considerations to
commend it.
These ,men who have had much experi
ence in directing the movements of trains
agree that block systems cannot always be
relied upon wtoen trains are going at a
'very high rate of speed and they would
substitute for it a system of colored elec
tric lights that can always be seen and
never misunderstood. These would be at
tached to the cab of the engine as well
as to switches and railway telegraph sta
tions.
Mr. A. C. Milner, chief dispatcher of
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, com
mends the proposed change. He says:
“Automatic blocks or lights In the en
gine cab mean just two things—when they
are clear or white the train should pro
ceed; when they are red. the train should
stop. There should be no written orders.”
The railroads of the United States are in
advance of all others in many respects,
but they need more reliable provisions for
the avoidance of accidents. Within the
past 30 days we have had many impres
sive reminders of this fact and the prob
ability that the signal systems generally
used in this country are to be improved
is a cheering prospect.
PROGRESS TOWARD THE CANAL.
The practical unanimity with which the
house passed the Hepburn Nicaragua ca
nal bill Indicates the overwhelming
strength of the popular pressure for Im
mediate procedure toward the construc
tion by our government of an isthmian
commercial waterway.
No measure of Immense importance and
involving an enormous expenditifre of
public money ever before went through
the popular branch of congress with only
two votes against it.
There will be a larger opposition to the
ship canal soheme in the senate, but it is
safe to count on a very large majority for
it in that body. The Morgan bill will be
pressed in the senate in preference to the
bill that has passed the house, but there
is no radical difference between the two,
and an agreement between the two houses
upon some satsifactory anh final session
may be expected at an early stage of the
present session.
The opposition to the canal enterprise,
backed by the transcontinental railway
companies, has counted upon the possibili
ty that the house and tne senate might
fail to agree upon a bill to begin opera
tions in the near futune, but no such dead
lock seems to be imminent.
The prompt action of the house has in
tensified the popular interest in this great
undertaking and the popular protest
against delay in beginning it.
The opposition, in whatever guise It may
come, will be speedily brushed aside and
the work of actual preparation will begin
soon.
THE NEW INTERSTATE BILL.
Last November a convention was held
in St. Louis at which forty-one Important
commercial bodies were represented.
The most Important matter considered
by the convention was the interstate com
merce law and Its need of material
amendment. Finally a bill was agreed up
on which has the support of the interstate
commerce commission, and it will be urg
ed for passage at the present session of
congress.
This is a much more thorough measure
than the present law, and "it is said’ that
the great railroad Companies have organ
ized to oppose it.
The pending bill makes any deviation
by a company or its agent from its pub
lished rates a misdemeanor, punishable
by a fine of from $5,000 to $20,000.
The bill increases the powers of the in
terstate commission and clothes it with
authority to enforce its orders, subject to
appeal to the United States courts.
There is no recognition of traffic associ
ations or pooling arrangements. The in
terstate commerce law has so far been
ineffective, as the commission has had no
power to enforce its decrees. If the pro
posed changes in it shall be made the act
will probably be put into operation as it
never has been yet, and for this reason
the bill now before congress is being so
stoutly opposed.
It is evident that attempts will be made
to evade the provisions of the proposed
law If It should be passed.
A prominent New York Central official
said a few days ago to a newspaper re-<
porter: •
“From what I have read of the bill, it
does not impress me as being much of an
Improvement over the present law. The
interstate commerce commission, if this
amendment is passed, will experience the
same trouble that it has all along experi
enced, namely, the inability to obtain evi
dence against rate cutters sufficient to
convict them, even if the power to en
force its rulings is conferred upon it. You
don’t suppose for a moment, do you, that
if I knew positively that a certain road
was cutting rates I would testify against
' that road? For I couldn’t tell but what
some day that same road might be called
upon to testify against my road. The pro
posed amendment contains no pooling
clause and no clause regarding traffic as
sociations. Allow the railroads to have
pools and you will have uniformity in
rates and no more rate cutting.”
If the policy thus Indicated should be
adopted by the railroads generally, the
enforcement of any interstate commerce
law, however carefully drawn, would be a
difficult matter, but the supporters of the
St. Louis convention bill and the mem
bers of the interstate commission are con
fident that they Will ire able to reach vio
lators of the pending bill if congress will
only pass it.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Age withers the body but blossoms the
heart.
The early bird catches a cold stoking up the
furnace in the cellar.
The drink that drowns your sorrow waters
*your bed of thistles.
When a man is at the end of his arguments
he swears: a woman cries.
Platonic friendship between the sexes Is as
llkeb’ as temperate dipsomania.
More people look ahead to success ten thou
tand times over than look back at it.
A man's woman is the kind that can take
him Into camp whenever she feels like it.
To spare her child a grain of physical pain
the average woman will risk its souk
Nobody who ever loves a woman ever asks
himself why he loves her; he doesn’t care why.
The woman who smokes and likes it is as
rare as the man who doesn't drink and likes
not to.
Immortality doesn't always mean immodesty
any more than Immodesty always means im
mortality.
Some people seem to nourish the serpent with
the idea that It may come In handy to bite
somebody else.
The average woman’s Idea of being well
dressed is to have other women wonder how
she can afford it.
Some women are happiest when they are
miserable: but just to be unhappy they’ll quit
being miserable sometimes.
Tell a girl she’s pretty and she will like it,
but will not be sure you are in earnest; tell
her she is prettier than some girl she knows is
pretty and you’ve got her.
RELIGIOUS HUMOFL
Whoopler (cheerfully: “I am thinking
very Seriously, Dr. Broadhurst, of joining
your church.”
Rev. Dr. Broadhurst (dubiously): "Well.
—er—h’m—Brother Whoopler, just as soon
as a vacancy occurs in the church I will
let you know.”
Miss De Puyster: "Do you really think
it is possible for us to love our enemies?”
The Bishop: “Wall, I think wc can love
some people more as enemies than we
could as friends.”
Teddy: "I wish I hadn't licked Jimmy
Brown this morning.”
Mamma: see now how wrong it
was, don't, you, dear?”
Teddy: "Yes. cause I didn’t know till
noon that he was going to give a party.”
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A shipyard at Ominato, Japan, still In opera
tion. was established 11900 years ago.
Dr Samuel Smile*, the author of ‘‘Self-
Help, ’’ has just celebrated his ninetieth birth
day.
About forty bartenders attended services In
a Cleveland church on a recent Sunday, by in-
, vitation.
Chicago prohibits the gathering of cigar butts.
The human lungs usually contain about one
gallon of air.
In the last thirty-three years $240,000,000 has
| been spent in this country upon an Indian
population of about IJQ.oOO.
Out of 1,000,000 soldiers of the civil war whose
heights were recorded, 6,313 were over six feet
three Inches In height.
One of the Buenos Ayres newspapers has a
consultation room in which the poor can get
medical aid and medicine free.
A French botanist has conceived the idea of
vaccinating plants to render them immune to
certain kinds of harmful Insects.
Englands bop crop approximates 660.000
hundredweight, while . Germany’s has fallen
from 558,000 hundredweight in 1900 to 313,500 in
1901.
Berlin i>avs a salary to a professional bird
catcher. who keeps scientific and educational
Institutions supplied with birds, birds' nests
and eggs, and he is the only man in the empire
permitted to do so.
Japan has only one orphanage, ypt in no
other land are fatherless children better 6ared
for. Every family cares for the sick, destitute,
or orphans nearest to It. There is a supersti
tion that a childless house is accursed.
Gold can be beaten out so thin that it allows
light to pass through It. in whicn case, though
It still appeals brilliant yellow by reflected
light, it is green as viewed by transmission;
that is, by the light that passes through it.
In the Isle of Man roads are maintained
by the revenue from two sources—a small tax
upon every wheel and shod hoof and a levy
upon every male inhabitant, who must give a
day's work on the road or its equivalent in
cash.
' Nearly all the old-time champions of Alfred
Dreyfus, Including Maitre Labor!, are rising up
against him and denouncing him as a monster
and an ingrate. About the only conspicuous
one of them who apparently remains true
blue is Emile Zola.
An investigation of the state of affairs In
Kansas regarding prohibition reveals the fact
that in 100 cities saloons are running, and in
ninety-two they are not. In one-fourth of the
cities' where liquor is sold the saloons are
openly licensed, and in one-halt they run
without any license.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The state in which there are the least num
ber of government pensioners is Nevada, in
which they number only 275. There ire 800
in Wyoming and 850 in Utah. Ohio and Penn
sylvania together have 210,000—only 10,000 less
than the total number of persons engaged in
the federal service of the United States at
home and abroad.
It was recently announced in a Chicago
paper that a carload of manufactured honey,
in the comb, had been received in that city
from California. In reply to this the pub
lisher of the American Bee Journal has of
fered SI,OOO for the sight of a single pound of
manufactured comb honey. He adds that he
has been making this otter for twenty years
without finding a taker.
The police of Philadelphia have ascertain
ed that there are 352 blind persons in that
citv. The inquiry was made at the request
of the Home Teaching Society and Free Cir
culating Library for the Blind, a society
whose objects are to find out where the blind
reside, to send its teacher to Instruct them in
reading at their homes, and afterward to sup
ply them with a regular exchange of embossed
books from its library.
The increase of population In Venice has
been not less than 50.009 during the last
twenty-five years. During the last ten years
it has been nearly 17,000. In 1890 the official
census showed 157,785; in 1897. 172.481; in 1900,
174,378. This has been an entirely natural in
crease, caused by the excess of births over
deaths, because there has been no immigration,
and more or less emigration to the United
States and the Argentine Republic.
Up to a few years ago the average pay of
lighthouse keepers was fixed by statute at
S6OO a year. The whole cost of lighthouse
establishments is more than $3,000,000 a year.
The chief item. $700,000, is for the pay of
lighthouse Weepers, MOO,OOO is required for re
pairs, $550,009 for tl* expenses of buoyage,
6425,000 for supplies for lighthouses, $350,000
for lighthouse vessels, $300,000 for the expenses
of lighting navigable rivers, SIIO,OOO for fog
signals, $5,000 for the purchase of oil. and
$5,000 for the surveys of new lighthouses. It
costs $6,000 a year to maintain a first-class
light vessel. ,
Winter in Mexico.
Modern Mexico.
Preparations are being made to receive more
American tourists this year than ever before.
Every year a greater number of people ap
preciate and take advantage of the fact that
there is nothing more typically foreign on the
banks of the Nile than is to be found here in
Mexico within a few days’ comfortable journey
by rail, and that the winter climate of the
Mexican highlands is several degrees milder
than that of the famous Italian winter re
sorts. The demand for a large, well-kept hotel
on the American plan tn the City of Mexico is
unsatisfied. The existing hostelries have been
full for three months.
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State Politics §
Legislative candidates are beginning to
spring up in the various counties of the
state, and within the next few weeks there
will perhaps be move than 300 men in
Georgia aspiring for legislative honors.
The Democratic primary is some five
months off yet, but in -Georgia these days
it is not considered at all out of place
to announce for office several years in
advance of the election. This is evidenced
by the fact that of the four gubernatorial
candidates now in the race three an
nounced last summer.
The executive committee will be«called
next month by Chairman Fleming dußig
non, and this call will probably bring
forth more political announcements than
anything else. The committee consists of
nearly 100 members, and in the coming
meeting will have but very little to deal
with. The rules of the former primary
will probably be auopted. as there Is no
serious opposition from the Fbpulist par
ty. Some of the aspiring congressmen
may have a few complaints to make about
the congressional conventions and this
will be about all the committee will have
to look into, except naming the date for
the nomination.
Chairman dußignon said some time ago
that the primary would in all probability
be held this year in June, 'ihis would
give the candidates four months in which
to do their campaigning, and in that time
they would be able to get into nearly
every county in the state.
The meeting of the committee will bring
nearly every'politician of any prominence
to Atlanta for several days, and at that
time it can be determined who is in the
lead in the gubernatorial race, as the
leaders from all the districts will be on
hand, and generally they voice the senti
ments of most of the voters.
Every statehouse officer will be a can
didate for re-election Mo far as is known.
Some of them will have opposition, and
some will not. State Treasurer R. E. Park,
Comptroller General W. A. Wright, State
School Commissioner G. R. Glenn. Secre
tary of State Phil Cook, Commissioner of
Agriculture O. B. Stevens, Prison Commis
sioner Thomas Eason will all be candi
dates to succeed themselves.
Commissioner Glenn will have opposition
as W. B. Merritt, of Valdosta, has an
nounced that he would be a candidate for
the position now held by Commissioner
Glenn.
For a long while it was stated that W.
J. Speer, former state treasurer, would be
in the race against Treasurer Park, but he
has not been heard from recently.
W. J. Walker, of Webster county, inti
mated very strongly during the session
of the legislature that he would oppose
Mr. Eason for prison commissioner, but
no announcement has come from Webster
county yet. Mr. Everett, of Stewart, also
had aspirations along the same line as
Mr. Walker’s, but he, too, has had noth
ing to say on the subject.
There was talk for a time that R. T.
Nisbet, of Marietta, would again be a can
didate for commissioner of agriculture
against Mr. Stevens, but he has set such
talk at rest by announcing that he would
not he a candidate, and this announce
ment practically leaves the field clear of
opposition to Mr. Stevens.
Secretary of State Phil Cook will also
probably be elected without opposition.
Mr. Cook has been in office for more than
four years and in that time has made
hundreds of friends. There have been no
reports regarding anybody gunning against
him, and from the present outlook he will
have smooth sailing.
Associate Justices Samuel Lumpkin and
Andrew J. Cobb of the supreme court of
Georgia will be candidates for re-election
in the coming election. Justice Lumpkin
has been on the bench since 1892 and
Justice Cobb has been a meipl)?r of the
court since 1897. Judge John S. Candler
was prominently mentioned as a candi
date for a long time, but he has assured
both of the judges personally that he will
not be in the race against them. This
assurance from Judge Candler leaves the
field practically open to them also. At
only one time have any of the justices
had opposition since they have been elect
ed by the people and that was in 1898,
when Judge George Gober, of Marietta,
was a‘ candidate.
Governor Candler's announcement that
he will not be a candidate for any office
until he has completed his term as gov
ernor, which announcement appeared in
The Journal last Monday, was read with
interest by a host of Georgians. Some
time ago Governor Candler announced
that he would retire from the political
arena altogether, but since then he has
very probably changed his’ mind, as he
emphasizes the fact that he will not be a
candidate until his term as governor ex
pires. Just what office he will ask for
then is not known, as further than the
statement already quoted he declines to
talk. It has been stated very often re
cently that he would oppose Carter Tate
for congress in the ninth district at the
coming election, but this he denies. He
will not oppose Senator Clay for his po
sition and after the • election next fall
there will not be another for two years.
Maybe it is his intentiem to remain quiet
for two years and then open up again.
The governor Is one of the best cam
paigners ever known in Georgia and he
will make it interesting for anybody he
goes against. It may be that he really
has congressional aspirations again and
that he intends getting in some of his old
time work in the ninth district for 1904.
William Clifton, of Darien, is touring
the state in interest of himself as candi
date for the secretaryship of the senate.
Goode Price, who will be Mr. Clifton’s
secretary if the latter is elected, is also
doing work in Mr. Clifton’s interest.
Charlie Northen, of Atlanta, the present
secretary, is in the race again, and is
keeping posted regarding the movements
of the opposition. Mr. Clifton held the
position of secretary several years ago
and at that time Mr. Northen was his
assistant. Later on Mr. Northen I*got 1 *got the
place, and now Mr. Clifton wants it
again. Both Mr. Clifton and Mr. Northen
were on the lookout during the recent
session of the general assembly, and the
members of the house who have senatorial
ambitions were in mapy conferences. Both
men are popular and the contest between
them is being watched with a great deal
of interest.
Frank Curry, of Butts, is running for
the senate from his district. He will be
remembered as the judge who held court
at Indian Spring on a certain- Monday
morning at two minutes after midnight
and fined some five or six poker players
who had been engaged in the game of
draw for nearly fifty hours. The affair
became a state sensation arid for a time
there was grave doubts as to the legality
of the court. A section of the code, how
ever, was found which authorized the trial
and grand jury of Butts county immed
iately raised Judge Curry’s salary. It is
said that one of the main planks In his
platform for the senate will be in the
Indian Spring raid, as it is familiarly
known. If Judge Curry Is elected, he may
be a candidate for the presidency of the
senate.
Harvey Jordan, of Jasper, has announc
ed as a candidate for the senate from
his district, and if elected he may be in
the race for the presidency also. Mr. Jor
dan is known all over the south as an au
ti<rtty on agricultural matters, and in ad
dition is one of the ablest men in Georgia.
He has many friends who will aid him in
his coming race and under the rotation
system of electing senators, which system
xnakes it Jasper county’s time to elect
the man, V Jordan will no doubt receive
the endorsement of his county. This en
dorsement means an election.
T. J. S., Jr.
MR. DOOLEY ON DISCIPLINE
FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
• BY F. P. DUNNE.
Copysight, 1902 By Robe rt Howard Russell.
/ /TV There did ye spind !
th’ New Year's?” I
’ asked Mr. Dooley.
‘‘l didn't go to th* White
House rayciption, ’’ said Mr.
Hennessy pleasantly.
‘*l see ve didn't.” said Mr.
Dooley. “Ye'er ar'rm is not in
a sling. Man an’ boy, Hin
nissy, I’ve taken manny a
chanst on me life, but I'd as
lave think iv declarin’ th’ sin
timints iv me heart in an
Orange meetin’ as dhroppin’ in
f’r a socyal call at what Hogan
calls th’ ixicutive mansion.
That is, if I was a govermint
emplyee, which I ain’t, havin’
been born wrong.
“’Hi’ time was whin a man
lost his job an’ his heart to th’
prisidint at th’ same time. A .
reproof was administhered to
him with cbloryform. He woke
up an’ rubbed his eyes an’ says,
‘Where am I?’ an’ th’ poisman
says: ‘Ye’er'in an ash bar’l.’
He come fr'm th’ White House
with tears in his eyes an’ was
tol’ he was out iv wurruk. But,
Hinnissy, th’ prisint occypant
iv th’ White House is a hear
tier person. A reproof fr’m
him is th’ same thing as a com
pound fraction. A .wurrud iv
caution will lay a man up f’r a
week an’ a severe riprimand
will sind him through life with
a wooden leg.
“There was me frind, Gin'ral
Miles. No more gallant sojer
iver dhrew his soord to cut
out a patthern f’r a coat thin
Gin’ral Miles. He’s hunted th’
Apachy, th’ Sioux, th’ Ary
pahoo, th’ Comanchee, th’
Congressman, an’ other sav
ages iv th’ plain; he’s faced
death an' promotion in ivry
form, an’ no harm come to him
till he wint up th’ White
House stairs or maybe 'twas
till he come down. Annyhow.
Gin'ral Miles was pursooin’ th’
thrue coorse iv a nachral war
ryor an' enlightenin’ th’
wurruld on th’ things he hap
pened to think iv. ’Tis what
is ixpicted iv him. Wan half
th’ pa-apers iv th’ counthry is
edited be Schley an’ th’ other
half be Sampson, an’ Gin’ral
Miles is a conthributor to all
iv thim. If ye don’t read him
ye don’t know what’s goin’ on
in th’ wurruld. Ivry Sundah
I pick up me pa-aper an’ hurry
through th’ articles on what’s
a suitable Christmas gift f’r
th’ hired girl who’ll pizen th’
soup if she gets three yards iv
calico, be Winnyfield Scott
Schley, an’ what ought to be
done f’r th’ Chinee, be Cap.
Mahan, an’ get down to what
Gin’ral Miles thinks. ’Tis al
ways good an’ full iv meaty
advice. ‘ls Mars inhabited?’
‘Th’ future iv th’ Columbya
river salmon,’ ‘ls white lead
good for the complexion?’
‘What wud I do if I had a
millyion dollars an’ it was so?’
‘England’s suprecmacy in Co
chin, China,’ ‘Pink gaiters as
a necissity iv warfare,’ ‘ls th’
linpire shouldhers goin’ out??’
‘Waist measurements iv war
riors I have met,’ an’ so on.
Gin’ral Miles is th’ on’y in-an’-
out, up an’ down, catch-as
catch-can, white, red or black,
with or without, journylist we
have left. On anny subject
fr’m stove polish to sun wor
ship, I’d take th’ wurrud iv
me frind Gin’ral Miles before
th’ man that made th’ goods.
“ ’Twas that got him into
throuble. Wan day afther in
spictin’ th’ army, Gin’ral Miles
give a chat to wan iv his
fav’rite journals on what he
thought about th’ navy, him
bein’ a great authority on navy
affairs befure steam come in.
I don’t know what th’ divvle
he said, an’ I don’t care, f’r
me mind was made up long
agd an’ itrybody that don’t
agree with me is ay ether a
Schley man or a Sampson Inan
an’ little betther thin a thrait
or or a cow'rd at that. But
annyhow, he give his opinyion
an’ afther givin’ it, he got his
bonnet out, had a goold beater
in to fix up th’ epylets, got th’
ilicthric lights goin’ in th’ but
tons, found th’ right pair iv
blue an’ pink pants, pulled on
th’ shoes with th’ silver bells,
harnessed to his manly hips
th’ soord with th’ forget-me
nots on th’ handle, an’ pranced
over to th’ White House. As
he wint up th’ hall, he noticed
an atmosphere iv what Hogan
calls cold hatoor f’r wan iv th’
durekeepers said th’ prisidint
wasn't home an’ another light
ly kicked him as he passed, but
like a sojer he wint on to th’
East room where Mr. Rosen
felt. th’ pa-apers tells me,
shtiid in front iv th’ fireplace,
nervously pluckin’ Sicrety
.Gage be th’ beard. ‘l’ve come,’ /
says Gin’ral Miles,’ to pay me
! rayspicts to th’ head iv th’
z naytion.’ ‘Thank-ye,’ says th’
prisidint, *l'll do th’ same f’r
th’ head iv th’ army,’ he says,
bouncin’ a coal scuttle on th’
vethran's helmet. ‘Gin’ral,
I don’t like ye'er recent con
duct,’ he says, sindin’ th’ right
to th’ pint iv th’ jaw. ‘Ye've
been in th’ army forty years,’ -
he says, pushin’ his head into
th’ grate, ‘an’ ye shud know
that an officer who criticizes
his fellow officers, save in th’
reg'lar way, that is to say in a
round robin’, is guilty iv I
dinnaw what,’ he says, feedin’
him with his soord. ‘I am
foorced to administher ye a
severe reproof,’ he says. ‘ls
that what this is ?’ says Gin’ral
Miles. ‘lt is,’ says th’ prisi
dint. T thought it was capital
punishment,’ says Gin’ral
Miles, as he wint out through
th’ window pursooed be a
chandelier. His nex’ article
will be entitled ‘Hospital
Sketches,’ an’ I undhershtand
he's dictatin’ a few remarks to.
his nurse on providin’ atthrac
tive suits iv steel plate f’r
gin'rals in th’ anny. ’
“Well, sir, they’ll be gr-reat
times down there f’r * a few
years. A movement is on foot
f’r to establish an emergency
hospital f’r office holders ah’
politicians acrost th’ sthreet
fr'm th’ White House, where
they can be threated f’r infrac
tions iv th’ Civil Sarvice law
followed be pers’nal injitries.
I'll be watchin’ th’ pa-apers
ivry mornin’. ‘Rayciption at
*th’ White House. Among th’
casulties was so-an’-so. % Th’
prisidint was in a happy mood.
He administhered a stingin’
rebuke to th’ Chief Justice iv
th’ Supreme Coort, a left hook
to eye. Sinitor Hanna was
prisint walkin’ with a stick.
Th’ prisidint approached him
gaily an’ asked him about his
leg. ‘ ’Tis gettin’ betther/
says th’ sinitor. ‘That’s good/
says th’ prisidint. ‘Come again
whin it is intirely well an’ we’ll
talk over that appintment/ he
says. Th’ afthernoon was en
livened be th’ appearance iv a
Southern Congressman askin’
f’r a foorth-class
Th’ prisidint hardly missed,
him be more thin a foot at th’
gate, but th’ Congressman be
in’ formerly wan iv Mosby’s
guerillas, escaped, to the gr-reat
chagrin iv Mr. Rosenfelt, who
remarked on his return, that
life at th’ Whit? House was
very confinin’. **l will niver be
able to enfoorce th’ civil sar
vice law till I take more exer- : ’
cise/ he said heartily. Th’ am
bulance was at th’ dure prompt
ly at five, but no important
business havin’ been thrans
acted nearly all th’ cabinet was , •
able to walk to their homes.
'“Yes, sir, ’twill be grand, an*
I’m goin’ to injye it. Fr th*
first time since I’ve been at it,
Ar-rchey road methods has
been inthrajooced in naytional
polliticks. I knew th’ time
wud come, Hinnissy. ’Tis th’
on’y way. Ye may talk about
it as much as ye want, but
governmint. me boy, is a case
iv me makin’ you do what I z
want, and if I can’t do it with
a song, I'll do it with a shovel.
Th’ ir’n hand iv th’ velypt
glove, th’ horseshoe in th’ box
in’ mit, th’ quick right, an’ th’ z
i heavy boot, that was th’ way
we r-run polliticks whin I was
captain iv me precinct.” .
“But ye niver Was prisidint,
said Mr. Hennessy.
“I always had too soft a spot
f’r age,” said Mr. Dooley; “an’
*tis th’ aged that does up us
young fellows. An’ annyhow,
I done betther.”
FIGS AND THISTLES.
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The Ram’s Hom.
The viveeection of spiritual things will aura
ly kill them.
It is better to have heaven in your minft
than to have your mind in heaven.
Christ is the focus that has gathered in and
given out every ray of light the world has
ever seen.
He who comes into touch with Christ, tha
center, touches every radius in the circumfer
ence of civilization.
Cruelty is one of the marks of cowardice.
The world needs saints more than their
mons.
»
Brave hearts break out their own oppor
tunities.
Breadth of outlook depends on elevation of
life.
People are not reclaimed by calling them
names.
Personal salvation will solve the problem*
of society.
Doing the will of the King is bringing .in
the kingdom. ... ■
God had to think out man before man could
think out God.
The new church believes in doing good as well
as in being good.
Time may be money, but money is neither
time nor eternity.
The truth is found only by those who ara
willing to lose their theories.
The hands will not point the right hours with
out the mainspring of right motives.
Better to suffer for being ahead of your
times than to be lost for being behind them.