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MONDAT. JANUARY ». 1902
One way to atop the war taxes would be
to atop the smr.
What Cuba seems to want is an open
door that will nwjng only one way.
Has somebody stepped on the fuse of the
Hon. Jim Smith's editorial ' bomb?"
ft ought to have been Dewey and Miles,
well, it wasn't Corbin ajid Crownin
slMeld.
Virginia is talking about a Pocahontas
centennial. T*his ought to bring out the
Smith family.
Senator Morgan Is evidently inclined to
muddy what little water there is in the
Panama ditch.
Rathbone talks like somebody at Wash
ngton pinned Neely on his back while he
wasn’t looking.
At an;* rate. Maryland can feel that she
cannot be injured by exchanging Welling
ton for Gonna n.
When he gets there, we really hope
Richard Harding Davis will speak to
Chile about its behavior.
In the distribution of federal patronage
the question now arises, will there be
enough Rough Riders to go round.
Lord Kitchener has succeeded in captur
ing a Boer laager. This is explained by
the fact that it was guarded by women.
The Chicago Tribune notes that at least
one poet has died with money in bank.
He wrote the lyrics of Spotless Town."
• However, we would warn Admiral
Schley that one can't be too sure of that
Savannah punch until after the seventh
day.
It will not be necessary for the South
ern railway to issue more bonds. Mme.
Nord ice’s voice was not strained in that
wreck.
Professor Loeb will probably And that
in the case of the man who tries to thaw
out dynamite the death germ is located
in the brain.
Thio thing of hob-nobbing with royalty
M becoming so common among Americans
than even a royal flush la no longer much
of a novelt?.
At least one reform has been instituted
tn New York already. An order banishing
smoking from all the municipal offices is
being enforced.
In addition to the other honors that
have been thrust upon him President
Roosevelt has been elected a member of
New York's "KB."
The Georgia "Lily Whites” are getting
worse and worse tn their color crusade.
They even objected to "Pink” Morton on
account of his color.
The safest place on a train these days
seems to be in the middle coach; it evens
up your chances as to whether it is a
head-on or rear-end coLision.
In Peru eggs pass as currency. If the
same were attempted in this country just
now. we would be justified in considering
ft a contraction of the currency.
Secretary Shaw doesn't drink, smoke,
chew, swear, dance, shoot, automobile,
play policy or shoot craps. No wonder
be is worth a half million dollars.
Professor Lombard's theory that the
soul is in the spinal column probably
accounts for the lack of soul in politi
cians who haven't any back-bone.
It Is just like these pesky scientists to
spring the prediction at this time that we
are going to have a glacial period. Instead
of waiting until next summer to do it.
Mr. Carnegie's proposed university
doesn't appear to be much of a national
affair, so far as the south's representa
tion on the board of trustees is concerned.
Mr. Croker insists that Tammany did its
full duty by Mr. Belmont in the recent
* congressional election. And Mr. Belmont
naturally wonders which way he means
It.
We are unable to determine from Sena
tor Morgan's treatment of the Panama
canal representation whether the gentle
men are on trial for forgery or embezzle
ment.
It Is now stated that eating llmburgtr
cheese makes drunkards. It is more like
ly. however, that eating llmburger cheese
is the effect and not the cause of drun
kenness.
Now that the kaiser has decided to name
his yacht The Alice in compliment to Miss
Roosevelt, will she return the compliment
by using beer instead of champagne at the
christening
Somebody has accused Washington,
D. C., of being a tough town. And Wash
ington has retaliated by saying she is
merely what the balance of the country
makes her.
The failure of the president to appoint
Ctownlnshield as the navy's representa
tive at the coronation has effectually
solved the problem of providing a ship
large enough to hold him.
A New York actress nearly lost her
dress through the breaking of a shoulder
strap the other night. But unfortunately
for the management they could not ad
vertise the happening in advance.
Another one of the SOO who made the
famous charge at Balaklava died the
- other day at Tunnel Hill. Pa. This is
about the nine hundredth to die. and it
Is believed that there are now but a few
hundred left.
In refusing to listen to southern white
Republicans about federal patronage.
President Roosevelt Is evidently acting on
the Idea that ft is a condition and not a
theory that confronts him.
A Rochester. N. Y., chorus girl is suing
for $6.*W damages for injury to one of her
legs, which slipped through a hole on the
stage. We should think t.«e value of the
leg would depend entirely upon the site
of the hole.
WILL ANOTHER COBDEN ARISE?
The shrinkage of values In Great Brit
ain. the enormous expenses of the South
African war and the projects for the en
largement of the navy have made impera
tive provisions for refreshing the streams
that feed the British treasury.
It seems Inevitable that there will be
both an increase of old taxes and an im
position of new ones.
The most favorable estimate of the de
ficit for the present fiscal year is >50.000.-
000. This Is probably much too low. The
income tax which Is an Important source
of revenue Is falling off rapidly, and there
Is a decline in several other large items.
Great Britain’s humane and wise theory
of leaving the necessaries of life free from
taxation seems likely to be abandoned to
an extent that may cause serious trouble.
A start in this direction was made last
year by the levy of a duty on sugar and
imported canned goods which are used
very largely by the British people will
surely be taxed soon. A tax upon wheat,
which will Include American corn, is
threatened and considered imminent. This
will undoubtedly raise a large revenue,
but Is likely to be resented by millions
who have borne recently Increased and
fresh taxes with heroic patriotism and
fortitude. The memory of the hated corn
laws that oppressed the British masses so
lang has been vividly revived. From
many quarters came indignant and even
angry protests against this proposed tax
upon the people's bread.
The time seems to be ripening for the
advent of another Richard Cobden. To
Cobden far more than any other man
England owed her deliverance from the
tyranny of a system of “protection” that
ground the face of her poor. When Cob
den went to John Bright in the darkest
hour of the latter's life and found him
broken hearted beside the coffin of his
wife, he said:
"Come with me. my friend, and I will
show you millions In misery whom you
can help to deliver.”
Bright, like Cobden, devoted his life to
accomplishing the repeal of the hated corn
laws. It was the irresistible eloquence of
John Bright that fired the masses of
England to passionate opposition to those
laws and inspired them to a demand for
their repeal which no political party could
have withstood and to which Peel had the
wisdom to yield early.
Bright■ was the chief apostle of Eng
land's deliverance and Peel got most of
the glory and political profit of ft. but
Richard Cobden was the real leader of
that righteous and benevolent reform.
He held and proclaimed the faith when
it was accounted heresy and almost trea
son.
The proposed resurrection of the Brit
ish corn laws is planting in many hearts
the hope that another Cobden may arise.
Will he be forthcoming?
Will Lord Rosebery find in this desper
ate expedient of the party for whose over
throw is his dearest desire the opportuni
ty of his life?
THE PROPOSED PACIFIC CABLE.
The increasing political and commer
cial Interests of our government in and
beyond the Pacific has made the demand
for a Pacific cable very strong and one
will undoubtedly be constructed in the
early future. The only question is wheth
er it will be built by the government or a
private corporation. That question is now
before congress.
The Commercial Pacific Cable company
proposed last September to construct a
cable from San Frahclsco to the Philip
pine Islands and Japan, touching at
Hawaii. The company desires to carry
out this enterprise on purely business
principles. It asks for no subsidy or
guaranty of its credit and offers the gov
ernment all the privileges it Is entitled to
under the "Rood Act” of 1866, which gives
the United States the right to purchase
the cable at any time at an appraised
price. In the meantime the government
will have the right to fix the rate to be
charged for government messages over
the cable and government messages are
to have preference over private business.
Though this act has been in force thirty
six years no cable has ever been con
structed under ft and none of the existing
cables is bound by Its provisions. There
can be no reasonable’ objection to the
passage of this bill, and yet an organised
opposition to it has appeared in Wash
ington. Telegraphic communication with
the Philippines and Japan can now be
had only by a very circuitous route and
at an exorbitant rate.
Before the Commercial Pacific Cable
company asked for the right to build a
cable across the Pacific $2.35 a word was
charged for messages from New York to
the Philippines. Last November this rate
was reduced to $1.66 a word, it having
become clear that the projectors of the
cable meant business.
The Commercial Pacific Cable company
has made a contract for its line as far as
Honolulu, which is 2.814 miles from San
Francisco, and has bound itself to have
Its line to that point in operation by the
first of next November. It proposes to
make and maintain a rate of fl a word
from San Francisco to Manila and • the
same rate to Japan and China.
This would give the government and
citlxens of the United States much more
direct and much less expensive connection
with trans-Paciflc countries than they
now have.
There must be some special reason for
opposition to this enterprise and one that
is Inimical to the Interests of the govern
ment and those of the general phblic.
PROSPERITY AND THE CHURCHES.
It is hard to understand why contri
butions to the support of churches and
their enterprises should be more diffi
cult to obtain in times of prosperity than
when business Is normal or even actually
dull. According to reports from great
church organisations, however, such is
the fact The experience of the last year
seems to support the theory that pros
perity is bad for religion. The country
has never before had such general busi
ness activity as it enjoyed In the year
lately closed and yet every one of the
three largest Baptist benevolent societies
reports a decided decline of income and
are going slow in assuming new respon
sibilities.
A report quite as unfaorable comes
from the Congregatlonallsts, who have
much wealth. The Episcopalians are wor
ried over a deficit of >BO.OOO and the Lu
therans are actually contracting their
, work.
The Presbyterians make encouraging
reports and the Catholics seem to be
keeping up with their record.
The Methodists made even more active
efforts than usual in 1901 to raise money
and succeeded wonderfully well. The
Boston Transcript says of their efforts
and their result:
"The singular exception to the rule that
religious progress seems hardest in finan
cially prosperous years are Methodists
north and south. The raising of $15,000,000
by the former and >1,500,000 by the latter,
a total of >16,500,000, is the most gigantic
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MON DAY, JANUARY 20, 1902.
thing of its kind any religious body, Prot
estant or Catholic, ever achieved. It is
true that the raising of it has Injured
some other Methodist interests, notably
the Income of the missionary society, but
allowing for the falling off in that direc
tion and allowing also for some loss in
other Methodist benevolences, it remains
that Methodists have defied conditions,
and out of a body of communicants far
less well-to-do than any others have dis
tanced all records at money-raising. And
to their credit it would be unjust not to
add they have employed methods that are,
in the main, unexceptionable, and they
have raised the large sum in such manner
as leaves Methodism in better mood for
funner giving than it ever was in before.
Furthermore, the spiritual advantage to
the denomination Is already considerable
in membership accessions and indications
point to even larger growth.”
But, though the Methodists did so well
last year, there was a general falling off
in church Incomes. They are reported as
follows:
Methodist, >18,Q61,000; Presbyterian, $16.-
338,000; Episcopal, >14,856,000; Baptist, >12,-
575,000; Lutheran. >8,100,000; Congrega
tionalism >7,350,000.
The religious papers of the denomina
tions whose income fell below expectations
in 1901 are endeavoring to awaken a live
lier Interest in church work and a more
liberal spirit for its encouragement. Like
appeals will come from thousands of pul
pits and we may see the deficits of the
year just gone more than compensated
for by the contributions in 1902.
THE HAPPIEST OF WOMEN.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, in a recent ad
dress to the Fortnightly club of Chicago,
said she was convinced that the American
woman is the happiest in the world. No
higher testimonial to our civilisation could
be desired; no better tribute to the Amer
ican man could be asked. Under our civili
sation women are very largely dependent
upon men for many of their conditions of
happiness and when conditions are pros
perous and pleasflnt for the women of
America it is convincing proof that the
men of America are behaving with com
parative decency and coming up to the
neighborhood of their duty. The fact that
the number of men in this country who
are supported by women has become very
large and is increasing steadily has ele
vated the respect and the pity also of the
true men of this country for women, but to
the superficial observer It would not seem
to have added to the sum of woman's hap
piness. The theory that It could not have
done so is baaed upon ignorance of wo
man's nature.
Some of the shrewdest observers have
declared that a woman never reaches the
heights of her possible happiness until she
bears the burden of a trifling man's sup
port. All of us have seen illustrations of
the strength and splendor of woman’s
character under such conditions. Many of
us have expended our compassion upon
such women and our indignation upon the
men for whom they made unspeakable
sacrifices, but in doing so we have proved
that we really know very little about
woman's nature. The happiest woman is
the one who is doing most of the work
that the man who should be her depend
ence should do. Still we trust that this is
not the reason why Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell asserts that the women of America
are the happiest in the world.
TO REFORM TAMMANY.
There appears to be a prospect of a
genuine reform, we may say a real re
construction of Tammany under Mr.
Lewis Nixon, the new chief of that or
ganization.
Mr. Nixon has demonstrated business
ability of a high order and is recognized
as a man of high character. Everybody
believes that he will never tolerate the dis
reputable methods and practices that
have obtained notoriouily in its manage
ment and provoked the opposition to it
that resulted in its defeat in the last city
election.
That Tammany can be restored to some
thing like its former power is the firm be
lief of most of its members and of many
who have never belonged to it. Mr. Nixon
is likely to accomplish this result and has
started about it in away that commands
confidence.
He declares that honesty is to be the
cornerstone of the new’ Tammany, and
adds: “This means the end of the ’graft’
system."
This is a frank admission that the
“graft” system, alias organized black
mail, has prevailed in Tammany and it
puts everybody in the organization and
outside of it on notice that this nefarious
practice must cease.
Mr. Nixon’s character is a sufficient
guaranty that he means what he says. He
has a great opportunity and we believe
that he will use it well.
FOR HEALTH PROTECTION.
The bill now before congress providing
for a national health service should pass.
It makes provision for what has long been
needed, namely, co.-operatlon between the
national and state authorities. This would
bring the two classes of service’ into much
closer affiliation and co-operation, and
would tend to strengthen the state boards
of health in their relations with munici
pal and local boards, which at present are
frequently unsatisfactory. Having au
thority of law the surgeon general would
be enabled, when occasion demanded, to
call together, not necessarily the health
authorities of all the states, but of such as
may have a direct or pressing interest in
the matter calling for the convention.
Should necessity arise for a convocation
of all .the authority is provided. With re
gard to the collection and publication of
vital statistics, it is believed*that after
the adoption of uniform blanks the pride
of each state health organization will
prompt It to see that the necessary reports
are made to insure their publication in
the national health bulletins published by
the service.
The membeYs of congress from the south
have a plain duty to do in this matter.
The south is the most healthful part of
the whole country but it should not fail
to adopt every possible precaution to pre
serve this happy condition, and this fa
mous pre-eminence.
RAILROAD HORRORS.
There has been a frequency of fatal ac
cidents on the railroads of the United
States of late that is without a precedent.
These catastrophies have not been con
fined to new and unseasoned railways,
but the greater number of them have oc
curred upon old and well-trusted lines.
There is a demand for a reform in the
system of running railway trains that
must be respected.
We boast of the progress of our great
lines of transportation by steam, the mag
nificence of their passenger trains, the
luxury and completeness of their appoint
ments, their unprecendented speed and
many other attractions that they offer,
but ’ conceding all these claims, they are
still Hable to the gravest of all indict
ments, if they have failed to pay due re
gard to the safety of their passengers and
made the best possible provision for their
protection.
That they have subordinated this great-
est of all considerations to others seems
to have been abundantly demonstrated
within the last two months. That they
have, at least, failed to come up to the
measure of intelligent precaution is indi
cated by the urgent recommendations of
the chief train dispatchers of some of the
great railroad systems that the signal
systems now depended upon by those sys
tems is appallingly uncertain.
After this warning from those who are
commissioned to look after the safe move
ment of trains neglect to adopt the im
proved methods that have been proposed
will be nothing less than criminal.
A signal system that would have avert
ed most of the fatalities that have oc
curred recently on our railroads has been
urged by practical and experienced train
dispatchers for weeks past, but the rail
road authorities have made no move to
adopt it.
It is a very expensive business to them
to rush along on theories of protection
to their passengers that are Almost every
day being proved to be fearfully imper
fect and are far below accomplished pos
sibilities of a service tnat would be im
' mensely more humane and far less costly
to the road in the way of actual damages
and the Incalculable loss of reputation for
safety.
FOR THE CORONATION.
There was a very general expectation
that Admiral Dewey and General Miles
would be appointed to represent dur gov
ernment at the coronation of King Ed
ward.
President Roosevelt has upset this and
all other calculations about the mattee-by
selecting for this service Whitelaw Reid,
of New York, special ambassador, Major
General James H. Wilson, of the army,
and Captain Charles E. Clark, of the
navy.
These are all distinguished and well
qualified men. Mr. Reid is famous as one
of the foremost editors of the country.
He was minister to France in President
Harrison’s administration and was a can
didate for vice president with Harrison
in 1892. He has been very high in the
councils of the Republican party and the
estimation of the country for the past
twenty-five years as a very able and ac
complished gentleman.
General Wilson won fame both in the
civil war and in the war with Spain and
is regarded by military critics as ope of
the most efficient officers of our army.
Captain Clark stands among the most
notable officers of the navy. • He had the
good fortune to command the Oregon in
the Santiago fight and handled his ship
superbly.
These three men will represent the Unit
ed States admirably in the assemblage of
famous national representatives at the
coronation. There is general gratification
that the president did not select Rear
Admiral Crowninshleld as one of the rep
resentatives of the United States. It has
been reported that he might do so.
Crowninshleld has been one of the? most
active leaders in the effort to drag down
Admiral Schley, and tyls appointment
would have provoked a very general pro
test. He was undoubtedly urged upon the
president and the refusal to send him to
the coronation in an official capacity is
a distinct snub. His appointment just
now would have been especially unfor
tunate in view of the fact that the pres
ident has reopened the Schley investiga
tion which may put .Crowninshleld in
even a more unfavorable light than that
in Uhich he stand* Already.
IS THE TIDE RECEDING?
The pension bill how before the house
of representatives qarries >139,486.000 which
is about $6,000,000 less than Federal pen
sions will cost during the present fiscal
year. The reduction is not due to any
decrease in the number of pensioners. On
the contrary, there are more names on
the roll than ever before, but the amount
paid for arrears of pensions has been
coming down and there are fewer pen
sioners drawing large amounts.
In the preliminary debate on the bill it
was stated confidently that the high tide
of pension expenditures has passed and
that it will recede steadily. We would like
to believe that this is true, but we have
heard the same statement so often and
seen it fail so far short of the fact that
we hesitate to credit it now.
Ten years after the close of the civil
war James A. Garfield declared on the
floor of the house of representatives that
the high water mark of pensions had been
made. Pension expenditures were then
$25,000,000. They have risen since that time
until the beginning of the present fiscal
year during which the federal govern
ment will pay out nearly six times as
much as Garfield said in 1875 was the lim
it. And the war which is accountable for
the great bulk of this expense will have
been over 37 years next April. Now
claimants for Spanish war pensions are
flocking in at a great rate. More than half
of the members of some regiments are
seeking to be put on the roll forgone al
leged reason or other. Undoubtedly a
great many Spanish war veterans will be
pensioned though the number of the killed
and wounded in that conflict was very
small. <
The pension fever still rages and we
shall not be surprised to see pension ex
penditures raised next year beyond any
thing we have yet known.
T H E WEST PoTn T ST A N DAR D.
The Military academy of the United
States has been famous for years as the
best school of its kind in the world.
It is better now than it ever was before.
Its course is both more comprehensive
and more thorough; its standard is higher
and it is more difficult to pass its exam
inations from first to last.
The Journal printed an Associated Press
dispatch recently which showed that the
number of cadets fotind deficient in the
higher classes at West Point’ was almost
unprecedentedly large. These young men
went through the second and third years
of the course acceptably, but for some rea
son failed to come up to the requirements
of the third and fourth years and were
dropped.
It seems hard that they should suffer
this fate, but the academy is conducted
on stern principles and when it sends out
its graduates eVery one of them must
have proved his right to receive such dis
tinction. The standard of scholarship
ever been high at West Point, but the
standard of conduct has been elevated and
failure to measure up to it caused the
failure of most of the cadets who have
been dropped. No just complaint can be
lodged against this more stringent re
quirement. Demerits are dangerous things
at the academy now and very few of
them are necessary .to close a career
there.
We are proud that the name of no
Georgia cadet appears in the list of the
delinquents, in which so many other states
are represented. Georgia is making a fine
recard at both the military' and naval
academies. Her sons at each of these
great schools are buckling down to their
work and their state has high hopes of
them.
Col. Robt.J. Lowry Talks
On Southern Conditions
Washington Times.
Col. Robert J. Lowry, president of the
Lowry National Bank of Atlanta. Ga., is
at the New Willard hotel. He is inter
ested in a bill soon to be introduced in
the senate and expects before he leaves
the capitol to have a talk with Presi
dent Roosevelt.'
Colonel Lowry is a representative of the
progressive element of Republicanism in
the south. He prophesies a great future
for the Republican party in his state
when the better type of white Republi
cans shall be more generally recognized.
"If the two elements of negro control
and hunger for office could be eliminated
from the ’party there would be a bright
outlook for Republicanism in the south."
he said. “A wise recognition of the pro
gressive and respectable white Republi
cans of the state during the next few
years would build up a great party—a
party which would gain the Support of
many who now believe in the economic
principles advocated, but will not be dom
inated by an inferior race or by political
spoilsmen.
“We are now a manufacturing country.
There are many who are coming to believe
in the protective tariff and the monetary
tenets of Republicanism who are deterred
from joining the because of
the elements named. We need men who
are willing to join the organization be
cause of belief in the principles and not
with an eye to political gain.
"We need men in the offices who have to
be sought—we have had too much of the
chronic offleeseeker. When such men are
more generally recognized they will form
a magnet which will draw to them the
more respectable and progressive classes
of the south.” ,
Colonel Lowry was president of the
American Bankers’ association when it
met in St. Louis in 1896. At that time he
was a Democrat, but his sound money
principles caused him to change his po
litical faith. He was a personal friend of
President McKinley, whom he entertained
during his last visit to Atlanta. He was
one of the three southern members of the
McKinley Memorial association appointed
by President Roosevelt.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
The man who never has sinned never was a
man.
We educate children; we teach dogs; and the
dogs learn.
Some men don’t mind being insulted It it
doesn’t cost them anything.
Some young women have soul yearnings worse
than the stomach ache.
A girl’s second engagement always lacks
snap, like the sequel to a story.
Little babies are a sure cure for a lots of
things that women have.
A man can’t gain years after thirty as
fast as a woman can lose them.
The way to get the reputation of being a
thinker is to keep your mouth shut.
No woman is ever a complete failure; it takes
a man to be complete in anything he does.
The man who thinks he knows It all is tod
enough, but the woman who thinks he does,
too. is worse.
What Is the sense In a girl looking under
the bed to see if anybody is after she
is undressed ?
Men don’t mind looking old if they don’t
feel it; women don't mind feeling it if they
don’t look ft.
Ndlots never see the clouds over the honey
moon because they can’t look at anything
but each other.
A girl comes near enough to squaring a
circle to satisfy herself when she puts her
finger through a wedding ring.
, A man can love a woman without marry
ing her. and marry her without loving her.
But it is the combination that is the thing.
The size of a woman’s shoe depends on
whether she is wearing it for an afternoon
walk or to sit in a chair and show off her feet.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Charles G Wahlgren of Chicago is Mid to,
be the double of President Roosevelt.
Carolus-Duran, the painter, who passed the
latter part of the summer and the autumn In
Venice, has returned to Paris in robust health.
Gerhardt Hauptipann. the young German
dramatist, is a confirmed nomad. He has just
completed a fantastic residence at Blasewltz
on the Elbe, not far from the Saxon capital.
The Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale will
be eighty years old on Thursday, April 3,1962.
Plans have been begun to recognize fittingly
the day with a celebration national in char
acter.
Miss Lillian Marks, who labored in the
famine districts of India for several years, is
in San Francisco for the purpose of securing
funds tor the 500 orphans left in her care by
the ravages of the famine.
Miss Albertine E. Ridley, one of the first
American girls to go to the Philippines as an
army nurse, has returned to California. She
says American rule has iq/hitely bettered the
sanitary and other conditions in Manila.
At a recent sale In Leipsic of autographs
of famous musicians a two-page letter by
Schubert brought the highest price. SIBB. in
spite of the fact that Bach, Beethqyen, Haydn
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Weber and
Wagner were represented.
Baron Joseph Von Schwegel, who is coming
from Austria to study the Industrial system of
the United States and the methods of “trust”
organizations of capital in particular, is a
member of the Austrian parliament and the
leader of the German party in that body.
of"general interest.
The sun gives 600,000 times as much light as
the full moon.
The electric cars at Ramsgate, in the south
of England, are said to make an undue noise,
which is attributed to the resonant nature of
the chalk soil.
Nearly £IO,OOO worth of music was enjoyed
by the people of London in the parks and open
spaces under the control of the Londqn county
council during the past summer.
James N. Lann of Middletown, N. Y., a
preacher, doctor and author, is 99 years of
age and has been married thirteen times. His
first marriage occurred at Milford, Pa., in 1830.
The Norwegian council of state has decided
to negotiate for a loan of £2,000,000, to be
used for the construction of railways and
a thorppgh telephone system ’throughout Nor
way.
The Bohemian chamber of physiefans has rec
ommended the enactment of a law that every
one before marriage must be provided with a
physician’s certificate of bodily and mental
health.
San Francisco bay Is to be tunneled to ac
commodate the traffic between opposite sec
tions of the city which now has to go around.
The distance is about five miles, and the
subway will pass beneath an Island In the
buy.
At the University of Buda-Pesth a lunatic
from the local asylum appeared in charge of
his keeper and asked to be allowed to pass
his examination. He passed successfully and
returned to his asylum with his diploma as a
professor. *
The amount of gutta percha that will be
required for the trans-Paciflc cable, estimated
at 3,000,000 pounds, is causing some concern
among the army signal officers, lest the de
mand will seriously affect the price of the
material.
In the last congress two-thirds of the sen
ators and nearly two-thirds of the representa
tives were lawyers. The present house has
twelve farmers, two planters, one druggist,
two mine operators and one vessel master.
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
Some Japanese young girls, when they desire
to look extremely captivating, gild their lips.
Last year the sale of agriculture machinery
in Greece was fourfold that of the preceding
The Upper Congo to th* Great African Lakes
Company has been incorporated in Brussels,
Belgium, with a capital of $5,000,000.
Several ancient crucifixes having been pulled
down at Arles by order of the municipality,
the mayor has been hooted and members of the
town council assaulted by an angry mob.
In the coldest parts of Siberia a rainbow may
sometimes be seen all day long in a cloudless
sky. It is supposed to be due to the reflection
of the sun on fine particles of snow in the
air.
Valdivostok. which forty years ago consisted
of four Chinese fishermen’s huts, is now a
flourishing city of 50.000 souls, and Khabarofsk
and Blagovestochensk are not far )*ehlnd in
wealth and population.
THE BETTER PART.
When our Soldiers brave were marching to the
Battlefields of yore.
And their thoughts were all concentered on the
Scenes of future Gore,
One martial Lad admonished well the Lady
of his heart.
That ’twas with view to fight for her that he
did then depart.
"And while you're doing that.” the Girl made
answer, "You may know
That I remain to ask for you Heav'n’s Blessing
as you go.”
CHAS. EDGEWORTH* JONES.
Augusta, Georgia.
Rugged Hiram and Hiram's Giddy Wife.
BY GEORGE ADE.
Copyright, 1901, By Robert Howard Russell.
ONCE there was a staid
Business Man who was
hooked up with a hoop
la Spender. It was often re
marked that Hiram's Wife
seemed to take it for granted
that Treasury Notes grew on
Trees. She wore these long
lozenge-shaped Rings that blind
the Spectator, and she had a
different Sunburst for every
Day in the Week and a Dia- v
mond Tarara that made the
other Women sizzle with Envy.
She wore a trailing Worth
Gown that kept coming into
the Room long after she had
entered.
Now and then she would give
a Party at which SBO worth of
• Spinach would be hung on the
Chandeliers. The highest
priced Caterer in Town wouid
deal out the sparkling Conver
sation Water as if Brut and
Buttermilk cost about the same.
She was, in very Sooth,among •
the highest of the Rollers, hut
Hiram stood for the Bills with
nary a Whimper. He was
proud to be the Husband of the
Lady Ki-Bosh of the Local
Knickerbockers.
He never pranced into the
Ring himself for Fear that he
might Interfere or throw a
Shoe, but he sat back in Sec
tion A and rooted for the
Missus. Every time she was
awarded a Blue Ribbon for an
other Social Triumph, he was
pleased beyond Compare.
Hiram was a Child of Na
ture, and he never had been
able to ojitgrow_ his Birth
right. Even when he was at
tired in his $135 Evening
Clothes, one could tell by look
ing at him that he knew how
to milk a Cow. He had more
Hands and Feet than he could
dispose of at one Time.
Hiram could not comb his
Hair so that it would Stay,
and although he had been in
the City for 30 years he never
contrived to get the Hang of
a tie-it-yourself Bow Tie, so he
used the kind that fastens be
hind with a little Buckle. It
was even said that Hiram was
unable to put the Studs in his
Shirt without getting Finger-
Marks on the Bosom. Hiram's
Wife or daughter Jessie always
had to go tb his Room and look
him over and turn him around
a couple of times before they
dared to lead him out where
the Company could see him.
When there was a Theater
Party, Hiraln always sat back
between the Curtains so as to
avoid’ spoiling the Picture, and
at the same time keep the
Draught away from the other
People. At a Dinner Party he
was usually put in between two
gabby Girls who had tacit In
structions to keep him elbowed
into the Background.
And yet, withal, Hiram was
a Man of Sterling Worth and
many admirable Qualities. He
was the Family Gibraltar, while
his Wife and Jessie were sup
posed to be mere Floral Orna
' ments. Best of all, Hiram was
known to be a Star at getting
the Coin. The Fact that the
Family put up such a tall Front
in the Society Column helped
the Public to believe that Hi
ram was as good as Old Wheat
and as prosperous as a Kansas
Farmer. And he was supposed
to be long on Business Integ
rity. It was argued that one
so Yappy would have to be cor
respondingly Honest.
Hiram was so Severe and
Puritanical and had so much
clinging Agricultural Simplici
ty that no one dreamed the
Truth about him. In Reality,
his Arteries were surcharged
with Sporting Blood. When no
one suspected it, he liked to
put on a Mask and sneak out
and hold up the Stock Market.
That is what he did until one,
sad Day in May, the Stock Mar
ket up and Did him. He got
it right where the Hired Girl
wears the Ruching.
Hiram came home as Pale as
a. Ghost and broke the News
tfiat he was in the Hole. He
hesitated to tell the M ife, for
she was a Fragile Being, un
accustomed to the rude Buffets
of the Strenuous Life, and he
feared that such a cruel Blow
might crush her. But he final
ly divulged the frightful Truth
and then flopped to the Settee
and began to Bluff about kill
ing himself so that she could
get the Insurance Money. She
told him to Behave, and then
she went out and made a Cup
of Strong Tea for him.
Hiram had been an Impos
ing Figure so long as he had
his Financial I nderpinning,
hut when they vanked away
his Supports, he did a horrible
Collapse. When he got the
Swing in the Plexus and top
pled over, he proved to be a
sorry Quitter. He lay on his
Back and claimed a Foul, while
his Wife and Jessie hustled
around to save some of the
Wreckage.
They gave up the Servants
and soaked the Jewels and
moved into a smaller House.
It was a rapid Come-Dow*n, but
even while they were doing the
Parachute they continued to
look Pleasant and be Game.
Although their Female Friends
came around to express Sym
pathy and stick Pins in them
they forced the Angelic Smile
and did not act a bit like
Heavy Losers.
They had to take in Room
ers and give Lessons in China-
Painting in order to save Hi
ram from the Poor-House, and
yet with all their Skimping and
Economizing they never pre
tended to know Poverty.
When a Man loses his Money
he goes to his Bed-Room tn
drink himself into a trance. A
Woman lights the House from
Cellar to Garret and sends out
Invitations for a Party.
On an income of about*s3 a
Week. Hiram’s Wife and
Daughter managed to keep up
Appearances and occasionally
have some of their Old
to Dinner. Hiram never un
derstood how they managed it.
When he looked at his empty
Bank-Book and then out at the
Cold World, he was for giv
ing up and disappearing be
neath the Wave#. His Wife
braced him and told him to
think of Jessie. Hiram wept
and said there was no Hope for
the Child of a Pauper. Not
<' -withstanding which, Hiram's
Wife kept the Family right
along in the Swim and married
Jessie to a desirable Catch. It
is true that she starved the
Household for six months in
order to give the Young Couple
a daisy Send-Off.
And all this time, Hiram,
the astute Business Manager,
was standing around on ’one
Foot like a Town Simpleton at
a Kissing-Bee.
Hiram had learned how to
do Things with Money, but he
had to turn to his frivolous
Wifey to find out how to Man
age it when there is no Money.
In other words, Hiram dis
covered that Cash had been the
Essence of his Existence while
it had been the mere accidental
Adjunct of his Wife’s Social
Campaigns.
Without a big Reserve, he
was a Smoke. She, minus her
Check-Book, rose to greater
heights of Diplomacy. In* time
she succeeded in resuscitating
her groggy Husband and put
ting him back on the Track,
but he had lost his Ginger. He
was stoop-shouldered and gray
as a bat.
She turned up at the Club
Meetings just as chipper as of
Yore, only she came by Trolley
instead of Coupe.
MORAL: It is the upheaval
of Tough Luck that causes a
Transfer of the Family Scep
ter.
What Do Men'Live For?
Central Georgian, July 21, 1861.
They are delegated to do good, and If
ever that mission was faithfully executed
by any one man, that man ia Mr. Mark
Newman.of Sandersville. Since the Wash
ington Rifles left our town, four months
ago, for Pensacola, his energies have been
sleepless and untiring in contributing to
their comfort. Was there but an intima
tion—and often without any intimation—
that they were in need of provision or
luxuries, to name it to Newman was
equivalent to seeing the required articles
delivered at camp. And now, within th®
last two weeks, by his own exertions he
has raised money to buy a complete outfit
of new clothes, went in person and pur
chased the cloth, has superintended th®
reception and packing of everything in
tended for the Rifles, and leaves with
his freight for Virginia tonifcht to see that
all is right upon its arrival. His labor for
the Washington Rifles, for the county, and
for the country since the breaking out of
this war has been immense. He has re->
ceived no reward, and has asked none,
but acts from an approving conscience,
and a burning patriotism that would en
noble any of/human mind. It is seldom
we feel called upon to so emphatically en
dorse tlj actions of any man, but we
cheerful.f do it on this occasion, unsolic
ited. feeling assured that every heart in
this community will respond to the hum
ble but just tribute we upon to
pay thia whole-souled and patriotic gen
tleman. He has been as a father to th®
Rifles (we don’t wisn friend Newman to
think we are saddling age upon him), and
we know the brave men composing that
corps will appreciate his tireless devo
tion.
Mr. Newman informs us that upon mak
ing it known on the streets last Saturday
that the Washington Rifles were in need
of blankets, forty-nine pairs were donat
ed by our citizens in less than half an
hour. We haven't the names of the don
ors, or we would give them to the public.
We have other patriotic deeds to chroni
cle. and in good time all shall know who
are the liberal and great-souled people
that are contributing to maintain and
comfort our brave soldiers ifi their strug
gle for southern independence and honor.
Old Washington is nobly vindicating her
self in this struggle. ,
LADY POVERTY.
The Lady Poverty was fair;
But she has lost her looks of late.
With change of times and change of air.
Ah, slattern, she neglects her hair.
Her gown, her shoes. She keep? no sta.tr
As once when her pure feet were bare.
Or—almost worse, If worse can be—
She scolds in parlors, dusts and trims.
Watches and counts. Oh. is this she
Whom Francis met. whose step was free,
Who with Obedience carolled hymns.
In Umbria walked with chastity?
Where is her ladyhood ? Not Jiere.
Not among modern kinds of men:
But in the stony fields, where clear
Through the thin trees the skies appear
In delicate, spare soil and fen.
And slender landscape and austere.
-Alice MeywtL '