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HONDAT, JANUARY 27. 1962. .
/ft now takes both a king and a queen
to open parliament.
Rudyard Kipling is advised to remain in
Africa until hie last poem blows over.
Your Uncle Don Uvingston is no respec
ter of royalty. There are none of them
living in his district.
po we understand Candidate Guerry to
Insinuate that Candidate Terrell has
plagiarized his platform?
A Corean prince is said to have spent
gjn.noo seeing New York. He evidently
didn't see it ia a cab. then.
Mr. Carnegie says money is worthless
except to give away. Well, when a man
gets that much of it it probably is.
Bandits robbed a train in Kansas the
other day and got three dollars. Uncle
Russ Sage must have been on board.
The efforts that are being made to dis
lodge Pink’ Morton from the Athens
postoffice are calculated to make •'Pink"
The Invitation to Prince Henry to visit
8t Louis has at least served the purpose
of acquainting him with the town's exist
ence. •
Aunt Susan B. Anthony is of the opinion
that women will cease marrying as they
grow more intelligent. In this case, there
seems little use of establishing a census
bureau.
England, it would appear, is not having
so much trouble in whipping the Boers
as tn making them understand that they
are whipped.
A Chicago contractor has refused to
accept pay for "extras." At this writing
it is believed to be a temporary abberra
tion of mind.
The microbe which produces gray hair
has been discovered. This would seem to
dispel the idea that gray hair is due to
early poverty.
It begins to look like Europe may yet
go to war to determine which nation was
this country's friend during that little
affair with Spain.
Everything indicates that there are a
great many people in New York who have
money enough' for every purpose except
to pay their taxes.
The official and revised statement gives
the population of Canada as 5.339.666.
nearly ffi.OOOMO less than the children of
Uncle Sam number.
Os course the Panama proposition may
not have been forward in the interest of
delay, but the trans-continental railroads
doubtless appreciate ft just the same.
The director of the New Jersey weather
bureau is a woman. We should think
New Jersey weather variable enough
without having a woman in charge of it.
The Literary Digest is conducting a dis
cussion of the question whether a man
can be a Christian on IS a week. He cer
tainly can't be much of a sinner on that
•urn.
Andrew Carnegie says that he accumu
lated his millions "almost without inten
tion or desire.” This fact doesn't seem to
have interfered with his getting them,
however.
King Edward has again upset the fash
ionables by inventing a frock coat with
velvet cuffs. Since youth King Edward
has shown a wonderful adaptability for
the tailor's trade.
Perhaps it would be just as well not
to try to explain the fact that' most of
the people killed by that earthquake in
Chilpancingo. Hex., were attending divine
services at the time.
With the present price of food crops
staring him in the face, it oughtn't re
quire much argument to convince the
southern farmer that he should plant
less cotton and more grain.
A whisky drummer was mistaken for
Candidate Guerry at Waycross the other
day. declares an exchange. This is doubly
embarrassing, in view of the fact that
Waycross is supposed to be a dry town.
Kitchener has been authorized to spend
KOOO.nno for railways in South Africa. He
says he needs the roads in subjugating
the Boers. Perhaps he intends to resort
to the grade crossing in prosecuting the
campaign.
Senator Hoar wants an investigating
committee on Philippine affairs, and says
that the character of Aguinaldo should
be vindicated. Aggie s character seems to
be badly in need of vindication or some
thing else.
The steel trust will have to discipline
Schwab for his gambling at Monte Carlo
or lose the respect of the country, de
clare* an exchange. But it is not the re
spect of the country that the steel trust
wants; merely Its money.
Perhaps your Uncle Txm Livingston feels
that it won’t do any harm for him to try
to make a little "capital" by opposing
those appropriations for a special em
bassy to attend King Edward's corona
tion and for entertaining Prince Henry.
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Governor Candler has taken occasion
to remark that he isn't trying to please
everybody, notes the Savannah Press.
And The Press is one of those papers that
•kJnks Governor Candler is an unquali
fied success in whatever he undertakes.
It is said knee breeches must be worn by
•11 the male guests at King Edward's cor
onation. according to the rules of etiquette
to such made and provided. In this
ease, we are convinced that President
Koosevelt did right in not naming ex
president Cleveland as one of the Ameri
can representatives.
"She is one of the states that returned
her entire delegation last year.” Is the
reason ascribed by the Washington cor
frespondent of the Chicago Journal for
Georgia's Influence at Washington. Can
didate Hardwick will no doubt insist that
It is very uncalled for tn any Chicago
paper to Inject itself into the Tenth dis
trict congressional flghu '
A DILUTED DOSE.
The advocates of tho ship subsidy
scheme placed it before the last congress
with great confidence that they would be
able to rush It through pretty much as
they pleased. The result shows that they
reckoned without their host.
It was expected that the Democrats
would be practically solid against the bill,
but no Republican opposition worth con
sidering was looked for.
Senators Fry© and Hanna and Repre
sentative Payne, the chief directors of
the undertaking, were surprised to find
some of the strongest men and many lead
ing newspapers of their party arrayed
against them. The persistent opposition of
such influential members of congress as
Speaker Henderson and Senator Aldrich
and such Republican newspapers as The
Chicago Tribune and The Philadelphia
ledger Indicated a very serious Repub
lican division on this question. Long be
fore the expiration of the last congress it
became evident to the most earnest sup
porter of the subsidy bill that it could
not comman.l a majority of either house.
The sponsors for the measure got together
last fall and modified it so as to remove
its most odious features, and their hopes
of success in the present congress waxed
strong. Rut they find that they are still
confronted by their former opponents and
a large contingent of new ones.
The principle of the original bill Is un
changed. The attacks upon that principle
have ben carried on incessantly and with
decided effect. All the leading labor or
ganizations have declared as emphatically
against the substitute as they did against
the orignal bill.
And now we find some of the subsidy
advocates admitting that it is beaten
again.
The concession of sijbsidies to freight
carrying steamers as well as the great and
prosperous lines which own the fast pas
senger lines removes the argument
against the discrimination that was at
first proposed in favor of companies that
are already making enormous profits, but
increases very greatly the number of
vessels that would receive subsidies.
The accumulating proofs that ships of
almost every character can be built in
the United States at less cost than In
England and the fact that our ship
builders have more business offered to
them now than they can handle nave
knocked the props from under the new
subsidy bill. v
A desperate effort will be made to pass
it at the present session, but there is a
constantly decreasing prospect that it will
succeed.
A great majority of the people of this
country are unalterably opposed to a
scheme that would take many millions of
money from the treasury and distribute it
among a few ship owners who are doing
well on their hook.
THE FRANCIS BOOM.
There is much talk in some parts of the
west about ex-Governor David R. Fran
cis. of Missouri, as a presidential candi
date in 1904.
Everjbody who knows Francis admires
him. He Is recognized as a man of ability
and has the art of winning popularity
wherever he goes.
A better type of the self-made man
would be hard to find.
He went to St. Louis a poor and un
known country boy and made his way to
eminence and fortune in business. His
success in politics has been remarkable
also. He was elected mayor of St. Louis
when he was but little past 30 and had a
highly creditable administration. . .. -
From the mayoralty he stepped into the
governorship of Missouri, where he dis
tinguished himself as a strong and clean
executive.
President Cleveland appointed him in
1896 to be secretary of the interior when
Mr. Hoke Smith resigned that office, and
he is now president of the great St. Louis
World's fair enterprise.
Governor Francis is in the very prime of
life and has succeeded to a remarkable
degree at everything he has undertaken.
He is the most popular man in his state
ant} has hosts of friends in other parts
es the west. He was a strictly business
mayor, governor and secretary of the in
terior and would make a business presi
dent of the United States. No other poli
tician has quite so fine a hold on “the
boys" in Missouri, and they are enthusi
astic over the mention of “Dave” Francis
fpr president. He has never wavered in
his conviction that the free stiver policy
was a temporarily fatal mistake for the
Democracy, but stuck to his party in the
confidence that it would soon get back to
solid ground on the currency question.
Francis may be a formidable candidate
before the next Democratic national con
vention. It is said that many of the lead
ing Democrats of the east are becoming
remarkably polite to him.
ATTORNEY”GENERAL WRIGHT.
The vacancy in the office of attorney
general of Georgia caused by the resigna
tion of Hon. J. M. Terrell has been filled
by Governor Candler's appointment of
Hon. Boykin Wright, of Augusta.
Mr. Wright Is already well known to the
people of Georgia. Though yet a young
man he has been notably successful in
the practice of his profession; active and
influential in politics. His services to the
Democratic party in the Tenth congres
sional district and the state at large have
been effective. They have been given in
variably with an ardor and unselfishness
that are highly appreciated by the Demo
cratic masses.
Mr. Wright possesses excellent quallfl
tions for'the attorney generalship and his
appointment will be very favorably re
ceived throughout the state.
SCHWAB A& A TEXT.
His evasive denial of the statement that
he created a sensation at Monte Carlo
recently by his heavy play has caused Mr..
Schwab, the young president of the billion
dollar steel trust, to be confronted with an
array of tell-tale testimony which he has
made no attempt to rebel.
The fact that Mr. Schwab plunged at a
rate that raised the hair of some of the
witnesses of his ferocious assault upon
“the tiger" seems to be established and
the high-rolling young plutocrat has be
come a text for many morafixations. One
of the penalties of such sudden eminence
as Mr Scwab has attained, or had thrust
upon him, is a closer scrutiny of his con
duct In public than is bestowed upon the
ordinary citizen.
The New York Evening Post considers
that Mr. Schwab’s exceptional position
gives exceptional importance to the Monte
Carlo episode. It says:
“It :s precisely because Mr. Schwab
is not the average wealthy man that his
alleged actions have called forth bitter
and well-deserved rebukes from many
quarters. Mr. Schwab's wealth has not
been lightly won and precariously amassed
as the resuU es speculative operations, hut
it constitutes the just reward of rare spe
cial ability in a difficult manufacturing
enterprise. His experience has been of
the kind that usually 'sobers a man and
nardens his moral fibre, and it is painful
to feel that one who represents a well-
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1902.
earned success, who controls the lot of
hundreds of thousands of laborers, and
who conserves the Interests of an army of
Investors should be capable of playing the
part of a gilded youth in the first riot
ous enjoyment of his patrimony or that of
a stock jobber of the Jim Fisk or the
Barney Barna to type. This is not the sort
of man to be in a position of great trust
and of vast financial responsibility. To
account for the case of Mr. Schwab is not
difficult. It falls under the head of the de
moralizing effect of money earned more
rapidly than its wise spending has been
learned. Here the social satirist mi?ht be
tempted to write a bitter chapter on the
subject of deferred wild oats, and a very
sordid chapter it would be—of dissipa
tion after dissipation has lost the glamour
of hot blood and high spirits, and of de
bauchery wnich borrows no grace of
Epicurean theory. Where many a man has
fallen into this slough, one would willing
ly believe that Mr. Schwab has merely
exhibited the recklessness which makes
such a fall possible. Tn either case his ex
ample is deplorable.”
The New York Times Is even severer on
its comments on Mr. Schwab’s notorious
exploit and editorializes on it in this fash
ion:
“The ’sensation” was due to the reve
lation that a man who has assumed re
rponsioilities so numerous and so heavy
should publicly join the intellectual and
social dregs of Europe arcund the gaming
tables of Monte Carlo, and there make a
more or less prolonged effort to ‘beat’
a game which to a mathematical certain
ty cannot be beaten. Jt was the folly of
tho proceeding, quite as much as its wick
edness or its bad taste, that shocked the
business world, while the world not of
business noted with disdainful amusement
that this great captain of Industry and
finance could find nothing better to do
with his rare leisure than to participate
in an Ignoble and hopeless battle with the
laws ot chance. Perhaps if Mr. Schwab
had more of the education which it is his
habit to decry as useless for men of af
fairs he would not have betrayed so piti
ful a lack of mental resources the moment
he was freed from his accustomed occupa
tions, and, with the doors to all artistic
and historic treasures of Europe opened
by his wealth, he would not have been
obliged to offend and alarm so large a
fraction of his fellow' countrymen.”
This indictment of Mr. Schawb on the
ground that he has exhibited a lack of
sense will probably wound him deeper
than the rebuke of those who deplore
the fact that he set a bad example.
The magnates of the steel combine have
probably considered this matter even
more seriously than the editors who arc
drawing lessons from it and preaching
sermons about It, but we have seen no
intimation that the young man may lose
his Job.
MR. BABCOCK’S DOOMED BILL.
Many short-sighted and credulous per
sons believed that they saw a sign of re
pentance and a prospect of reform in the
Republican party when Mr. Babcock in
troduced in the last congress a bill for the
reduction of the tariff in away that
would interfere very seriously with the
schemes of many of the greatest trusts
already in operation and the formation
of others.
Mr. Babcock is a prominent leader of
his party In congress and holds a high
position on the ways and means commit
tee. He is chairman of the Republican
congressional campaign committee, a po
sition that indicates the confidence of his
political associates in his ability.
It was natural to suppose that Mr. Bab
cock represented the views of a consider
able element of his party on the tariff
question.
He made no effort to have his tariff bill
considered in the last congress even by
the committee. He introduced it at that
time merely as a matter of Information
and for the purpose ot giving notice that
he would press .t in the present congress.
Mr. Babcock returned to Washington to
find that he could count on very little
Republican support. Its death in the ways
and means committee has been decreed,
and will not be long delayed unless its
author concludes to. withdraw it.
Mr. Babcock says of the measure:
“It affords ample and full protection
where it is necessary, and places on the
free list those articles that are produced
.here cheaper than they can be in foreign
countries.”
This statement is quite sufficient to kill
the bill in any Republican
The duties upon which the majority of
Republicans in congress are most stub
bornly set are exactly those which Mr.
Babcock would repeal, the duties on ar
ticles that can be manufactured here
cheaper than anywhere else in the world.
It is these that yield the bounties which
the trusts are organized to monopolize.
Their repeal ■would deprive the trusts of
a great part of their profits and open the
way to competition by a both domestic
and foreign enterprise.
To effect that result would- be to dis
solve the partnership that exists between
the Republican party and the trusts and
proves profitable to both, to the former by
supplying millions of corruption money
for campaign uses and to the latter by
placing in their hands the power to re
coup themselves by exactions from the
trade and still leave them enormous arti
ficial profits.
No tariff reform worthy the name will
ever come from a Republican party.
THE CANAL COMPLICATION.
Following close upon the almost unani
mous passage by the house of representa
tives of a bill for the construction of the
Nicaragua canal comes a report from the
canal commission recommending the Pan
ama route and giving very strong reasons
in favor of it.
This complicates the question in away
that is designed to cause considerable de
lay in beginning the construction by our
government of any ship canal between the
two great seas.
When the house passed the Hepburn
bill it seemed to be generally conceded
that the Nicaragua route had been prac
tically agreed upon, but the unanimous
and earnest recommendation of the Pana
ma route made a few days later by the
experts charged with the duty of advising
congress as to the best location of this
great enterprise has the assurance of
very strong support in congress.
A large number of senators favor the
Panama route on what they believe to be
the merits of the case. Others who are
opposed to the construction of any ship
canal because they do not desire to see the
transcontinental railroads interfered with,
or for some other reason, will advocate
the adoption of the commission’s report in
order to put the senate and house at outs,
and thus delay the decision of the ques
tion.
The Pacific railroads are naturally us
ing every possible expedient to confuse
counsel on this question, and it is natural
that tney should do so, as they have such
immense interests involved. They realize
that a ship canal must be constructed
somewhere on this continent in the near
future, but every day’s delay of this in
evitable event is worth much to them,
and they are exerting every pull at their
command to defer the beginning of the
work.,
The proposition that full provision for
the construction of the canal be made and
the president be left to name the route
would be voted down by a large majority
of both houses. No such power should be
granted to any man, an-., fortunately,
there is no danger that a dictatorship to
this extent will be conferred upon Presi
dent Roosevelt or any of his successors.
We do not believe that the present ses
sion of congress will be permitted to end
without a definite determination as to
route and ample provision for the begin
ning of the work at an early day.
The people are aroused to the necessity
of the construction of a ship canal, and
will insist that it be undertaken
There will be, of course, a sharp contest
in both houses between the friends of the
two routes that are being considered, but
one or the other of them will probably be
chosen within the next few months, and
the actual preparations for a work that is
to revolutionize the course of a large part
of the world’s commerce Will be entered
upon very soon thereafter.
MR. TERRELL’S ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Journal published Thursday the
resignation of Attorney General Terrell,
coupled with the announcement that he
is a candidate for the Democratic guber
natorial nomination.
Mr. Terrell had held the office of at
torney general about ten years.
In it he won an enviable reputation for
legal ability and scrupulous fidelity to the
rights and interests of the state.
It has been generally believed for some
months past that he would be a candidate
for governor this year. His formal an
nouncement that he will make the race is
set forth in a manner that is highly cred
itable to him, as a reading of its full text
will show.
He bases his candidacy upon sound Dem
ocratic principles which are admirably
presented. There is no evasion or equivo
cation when he deals with the questions
upon which the people desire and have
the right to know the views of those who
seek their support for this high office.
The quality of Mr. Terrell’s Democracy
is proclaimed in unmistakable terms.
Nobody can doubt where he stands on
any important issue which must be con
sidered in selecting the next Democratic
nominee for governor. Mr. Terrell is for
tunate in having a record that guarantees
his sincerity of purpose and his high
character, both as a man and a public
servant.
He distinguished himself in both bran
ches of the state legislature and in the
office of attorney general.
He enters the canvass for the governor
ship with a clean record and the enthusi
astic support of friends among all classes
of the people in every part of the state.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Little vices keep company with great vir
tues.
Being a crank depends a good deal on who
turns the handle.
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will
spend themselves.
It Is a wise woman that lets her servants
have their own way.
A lazy woman is In danger of sin because it
is too much trouble to escape It.
A woman’s logic moves backward just like a
crawfish, but It doesn’t go so straight.
Give a woman your love and she will over
look some mighty serious moral deficiencies.
No woman will ever admit that she got beaten
at a bargain except when she got her hus
band.
The kind that ought to drink themselves to
death never do; they just keep getting a big
ger thirst.
What a man wants to do with a woman is to
love her in her way and let her love him in
the same way.
You can fool a woman into thinking she Is
fooling you. but yoq can’t fool her into think
ing you are fooling her. (
When a woman goes into a dry goods shop
to buy a spool of thread she begins by pricing
$2,500 Russian sables.
A man can love a woman with a dog and he
can love a woman with a cat, but he quits at
a widow with three children.
A week-old New Year’s resolution ceases to
be an ailment that will cure itself; It is a
disease that must be got rid of.
A woman will get mad at you If you don’t
try to have the last word, because you have
to do that to give her another chance to
have it.
When a man says It Is snowing he means
that It is snowing now; a woman means that
It was snowing yesterday or will snow to
morrow, or that it is doing anything but snow
ing now.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Since the commencement of the war In South
Africa Scotland has sent to the front 15,500
non-commissioned officers and men and 330
officers; total, 15,830.
Medical men have noted the Injurious effect
of the Philippine climate on wounds. The
time for healing is much longer than here.
In South Africa it is shorter.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give
for a free public library building in Saratoga
Springs, provided the village furnishes a site
and $2,000 eaq for maintenance.
The average number of counterfeiting cases
now handled annually is about 600, and of this
number nearly 50 per cent are those of per
sistent and habitual violators of these laws.
It is reported from Berlin that the German
emperor is about to send Freiherr von Loen, a
gentleman farmer, to the United States to
study there the conditions of agriculture.
Tho c!tv of Aguadilla, Porto Rico, is desirous
of negotiating a loan of 150.000. The money is
needed to pav the present municipal debt,
amounting to SB,OOO. and to build a market
house and pave the streets.
M. Brlac, a French professor, has originated
a plan to make the study of English compul
sory in all French schools without exception,
and French in all English schools, thus cover
ing the world with two languages.
Tomas Estrada Palma, the first president
elect of Cuba, is tho descendant of a distin
guished Castilian family and has been called
the "Franklin qf Cuba." Palma at one time
conducted a school for boys at Central Vallej*,
Orange county, N. Y.
John Anderson, of Chicago, editor of the
Scandinavian, has been decorated by the Nor
wegian government with the Order of St. Olaf.
The honor Is conferred In recognition of his
services in the Interests of his countrymen
America.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Sir Redvers Buller, having just attain<-d the
age of sixty-two. has five years to serve as a
general officer on the active list of the British
armj’.
Senator McEnery, of Louisiana, says his elec
tion cost him just $5.90. the price of a rail
road tibket from New Orleans to Bato’n Rouge,
the state capital.
Senator Tillman says that the Louisiana del
egation in congress is composed of "as tine a
group of Republicans as I ever met, so far
as the sugar interests are concerned."
Mirza S. K. Nweeya. the Persian student
who is takinz a course in medicine in a col
lege in Indianapolis, is an applicant for the
po'ltion of consul general to the United States
from Persia.
Lewis Nixon <not Lewis F. Nixon, ns he is
often called), the new Tammany leader, is a
graduate of the naval academy at Annapolis
and Is a man of scholarly attainment, besides
being a designer and builder of ships.
Nothing quite so violent has been seen ot
late in Washington as the waistcoats now af
fected by Congressman Shattuc. of Ohio. It is
held around the wearers' expansive form by
enormous buttons and throws a glow like an
iron furnace.
Secretary Hay's funeral oration on William
McKinley will be delivered before the senate
and house of representatives at Washington on
February 27th—twenty years to a day after
Secretary Blaine's previous oration in memory
of Carfleld.
• Judge John H. Reagan, of Austin. Tex., has
finally retired from politics after a half century
of service. He was postmaster general and
secretary of the treasury in the Confederate
cabinet and was father of the Interstate com
merce law.
Mrs. Hannah M. McPherson, widow of a
veteran of the war of 1812, died in Baltimore
this week and over her casket was thrown a
piece of the flag that waved over Fort Mc-
Henry during the bombardment and the same
one that Inspired Francis Scott Key to write
"The Star-Spangled Banner.”
While engaged in the transaction of city
business a day or two ago Mayor Collins, the
chief magistrate of Boston, was notified that
Mrs. Hettle Green wished to see him on private
business. The mayor sent word that his office
hours were entirely given up to city affairs and
he could not see Mrs. Green. "The richest
woman In America’’ was angry, but had to sub
mit.
OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
Look Like Bogus Rows.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
It Is one pf the curiosities of buckeye politics
that two or three weeks after the friends of
each senator were threatening political extinc
tion upon the other side, ending In Hanna’s
supporters capturing the house and Foraker's
adherents the senate, the whole aggregation
should he found voting unanimously for the
re-election of one senator and pledging Itself
for the re-election of the other. Incidents, like
those are calculated to arouse a suspicion
whether the political geniuses of Ohio do not
got up these sporadic outbreaks simply for the
purpose of enthusing the party and keeping it
in fighting form.
Facts as to the Philippines.
IndianattollfC News.
Senator Hoar has offered in the senate a
resolution calling tor an Investigation of the
conduct of the Philippine campaign. We sin
cerely trust that it tnay he adopted. The time
has passed when criticism of the Philippine
policy can be met by mere denunciation of the
anti-imperialists or by condemnation of it as
a cloak for free stiver. So we may now safely
—and calmly—consider the great questions pre
sented to us. as a free and enlightened people
ought to consider them. But little can be done
in this line until we know all the fatrts.
• An Issue for Next Fall.
New York World.
Representative Babcock Introduced yester
day his bill removing or reducing the duty on
Vnanv articles In the iron and steel schedule
which are admittedly produced more cheaply
here than anywhere else,and sold at lower
prices abroad than to our own consumers. If
the Republicans do not pass such a measure—
and there is little chance that they will—the
Democrats will have a "corpse reviver" issue
for the congresslohal elections this year.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
If you would remain a favorite never ask a
favor.
Point of view sometimes blunts the intel
lect.
The Intellectual type of beauty Is heard but
not seen.
Blood will tell—but the less some blood tells
the better.
Reputation is a bubble hard to blow out but
easily burst.
A young man who weds an heiress knows the
girl is well off.
You can’t convince a dyspeptic that to be
good is to be happy.
Unless a man settles down he is seldom In
a position to settle pp.
The hot corn dealer is the one to
put up another margin.
Faith may move mountains, but it takes coin
to move household goods.
Beware of the female who has command of
more than one language.
The great trouble with first love seems to be
that it is seldom the last.
No man Is truly great who allows his great
ness to swell his cranium.
The man who makes a fool of himself seldom
boasts of being self-made.
If a young man is really in love he never says
he can't afford to marry.
Many a Young man leaves the fares because
there is no place like home. F
If you are fixed for life the Insurance com
panies will fix you for death.
There are men who can take one glass and
stop—provided you treat first.
The average man loses a lot of money out at
the hole In the top of his pocket.
No man is ever perfectly sure of a girl’s
love until she declares she hates him.
Distance of manner does not lend enchant
ment to a young man’s view o< a pretty girl.
Occasionally a woman uses a hammer to
drive a tack—if there Is no hair brush handy.
The man w’ho kicks himself for having made
a fool of himself only adds injury to insult.
Clothes do not make the man, but his tailor
frequently gives him an expensive appearance.
What a jolly world this would be if all the
millionaires would shut up and let their money
talk!
Adversity may prepare a man for the life
beyond, but It curtails his credit while here on
earth.
There Is more than one way to shuffle off
this mortal coil. That’s why doctors often dis
agree.
The vegetable dealer is apt to get Into a peck
ot trouble when his measure falls short of the
standard.
The man who Is made of the stuff used In the
construction of heroes never calls another man
a coward.
The lazy man consoles himself with the shop
worn adage about the race not always being
to the awift.
Some men get up and howl about the burden
of holding a political office, but they never
think of resigning.
It is simply impossible for a young man to
keep his engagement secret. He is in duty
bound to Inform the interested female.
The average man may look all right in a
new suit of clothes, but It is a cheese sand
wich to a bakery that he doesn’t feel that
way.
lowa Is the Hawkeye state, Ohio Is the
Buckeye state, and. according to the eternal
fitness of things, Kentucky should be the Red
eye state.
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
Germany at the end of 1902 will have a
standing army of 495,500 men.
Wireless telegraph stations are now being
erected by the Japanese authorities on the Co
rean coast.
The glass manufactory in Altare In Savona,
Italy, has been carried on for over a century.
A new oven is now being constructed that will
be the largest in Italy and which will produce
In twenty-four hours ten tons of the finest
white glass.
The Palazzo degli Angulllarl, in Rome, Is
now entirely restored and has been opened to
the public. The twelfth century tower is to
become a museum devoted to objects of me
diaeval interest and will certainly result in be
ing a new attraction for visitors.
At a recent sale in Leipsic of autographs of
famous musicians a two-page letter by Schu
bert brought the highest price—slßß—in spite
of the fact that Bach, Beethoven, Hayden, Mo
cart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Weber, and
Wagner were all represented.
It seems to be about settled that the two
largest Islands In the world are both in the
Arctic ocean. Greenland Is unquestionably the
largest—if Australia is counted as a continent—
and recent explorations of Baffin Land show
that it is second only to Greenland in extent.
From Vienna comes the news that Herx-JBar
telmus, an Austrian electrician, has invented
a system for preventing railway accidents. The
invention, it is said, makes it possible to pre
vent accidents arising from trains meeting one
another of from one train running into the
rear of another.
It is often said that the French president
receives no more than $120,600 a year for his
services. That is, as a matter of fact, the
actual salary of the head of the republic, but
It is not generally known that M. Lou het is
supplied gratuitously with a number of house
hold necessaries which represent in value at
least SIO,OOO a year. For fruit. vegetables,
game. oil. logs for his fires, gas and electricity
be pa vs nothing, while in addition his house
hold linen Is washed free ot charge.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
The czar is a costly visitor when he goes
on a state mission. His trip to France will
cost the government of that country nearly
3.000,000 francs.
An English architect has designed a little
country house in the English style for the king
of the Belgians, which is to be buillt on the
sand dunes at Clemskerke. near Ostend.
M. Before, a German engineer, has Invented
a huov whose merit consists in that wave
action lights it electrically. These buoys are
now being largely employed In the shallaw
Waters along the German coast.
President Roosevelt has no time or inclina
tion to give to the study of clothes. His figure
and carriage are hard on clothes, anyway.
Fifteen minutes after he has put on a new
suit it is pulled out of shape and wrinkled all
ovgr.
It is figured that Danny Maher, the American
jockey who will ride the King of England s
horses this year, will earn in all About $55,000.
Os this $25,000 will be his fee for handling the
king’s horses and the rest will come from out
side engagements.
Cautious German Financiers.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Germany’s new loan is to be taken at home
at a heavy discount from its par value. It is
evident that the German financiers have not an
overabundant faith in such a renewal cf pros
perity in their country as will enable it to pay
its debts at maturity, and it would seem to be
Important for the German government to as
certain the cause and the remedy for this
costly skepticism.
Increasing the Pension Burden.
Philadelphia Ledger.
There is no protest from anyone against the
granting of pensions to those whn really de
serve and need them. It is the abuse of the
pension system to which objection is made
and that abuse will be greatly increased if the
principle ot service pensions should be adopted.
Pleasure Marred.
"My dear,” said Mrs. Gush, "your mourning
bonnet is just lovely.” •
"Yes," replied the young widow, petulantly,
"bet the fact that I have to pay for it myself
robs me of all the pleasure I might have in
wearing it.” —Philadelphia Press.
Pious Pilgrims in Ancient Advertisements.
BY BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER.
IT IS QUITE safe, in so far as this
world is concerned to indulge popu
’ar sins; but it is extremely dan
gerous to practice a vice that has
gone out of fashion. The very peo
ple who in the days of its popularity
were most addicted tv st, olako the
least allowance for it in others when it
has ceased to be modish. The case of «
the belated sinner is then very much
like that of the last purchaser of land
just as a “boom” expires; if he gives
the land back to the original owner,
together with all that has been paid on
it, he finds himself still in debt and
liable to a suit. He had the land last
and thus he incurs the penalty of being
the last fool who bought it.
This view of the south s connection
with slavery came to me the other day
when I read in a Charleston, S. C., pa
per the advertisement of q slave sale
In Boston, copied from a New England
paper dated about the year 1790, if I
remember correctly. Our typical south
hater reproaches us not because the
south once owned slaves, but because
we had them last. That is the head and
front of our offending.
If any one cares to examine the sub
ject the fullest and most conclusive
proofs of the justice of this .observa
tion will be found in a book written
by Dr. George Henry Moore, a native
of New Hampshire, and long time the
librarian of the New Y’ork Historical
Society, and subsequently the librarian
of the Lenox library in New York
city. His work entitled "Notes on the
History of Slavery in Massachusetts,”
contains much that Bostonians will
find very “Interestin’ readin’ ” if not
pleasing to their pride of ancestry.
Dr. Moore gives a number of ad
vertisements of negro slaves for sale in
the town of Boston, that shed light up
on the kind of slavery then common
in New England, and which show also
the reasons for its eventual disappear
ance from the home of the pious Pu
ritan. The most common reason given
for the sale of the negroes is "want
of employ”—w’hich being Interpreted
means it was no longer profitable to
keep them, but it paid better to sell
them.
Here is an advertisement from The
Independent Chronicle, dated March 30,
17S0: 1
“To Be Sold Very Cheap, for no other
reason than for want of employ,- an
exceedingly active Negro Boy, aged 15.
Also a likely Negro Girl, aged 17.”
Where were the parents of that boy
and that girl? Had this advertiser sep
arated parents and children already?
Or, was he about to do so?
In The Continental Journal of Jan
uary 4, 1781, appears the following:
“To be sold a hearty, strong negro
wench, about 29 years of age, fit for
town or country.”
From the same paper, November 25,
1779, is taken this: "To be sold, a likely
negro girl, 16 years of qge, for no fault
but want of employ.”
Again in the same paper, March 9,
1780, was inserted this advertisement:
"To be sold, for want of employ
ment. an exceedingly likely negro girl,
aged sixteen.”
It may have been that the advertiser
of November 25, 1779, and that of
March 9. 1780, were the same person.
If so, his stock had been reduced, it
seems, to one “exceedingly likely
negro girl” of the age of “sweet six
teen,” and she was rather slow sale.
He was evidently not minded to give
her to her parents, if they were free,
nor to present her to their master if
they were still slaves. The relation
of parent and child it thus appears
cut no figure in the plans of this
thrifty saint. He wanted cold cash
for warm, human flesh and blood.
If thTs last case seems heartless,
what shall be said of the next? It is
of such an extraordinary nature I
hesitate to transfer it to the columns
of a southern paper, lest I offend a
just sense of propriety. Certainly no
such advertisemeat A'er appeared in
any southern paper during all the days
of slavery. I copy It with apologies.
It is from The Independent Chronicle
of December 28, 1780, printed during
the Christmas season, the glad key
note of which is “peace on earth and
good will to men.” It reads: "A ne
gro child, soon expected, of a good
breed, may be owned by any person
Inclining to take it, and money with
it.”
The mother expectant was not to be
parted with by her master; she was of
too “good breed.” perhaps. But the
unborn child was not to be permitted
to divide attention with her servile
cares. and thus subtract from her
profitableness. That there might be
as little delay as possible about rid
ding her of the incumbrance a pre
natal advertisement was used to se
cure an owner. Mother and child
were to be parted with all possible
haste after its birth; there was no
time to lose.
Slave holders in the south often
bought negroes that they did not want
and sold others that they preferred
to retain in order to preserve un
broken families: but it may be safely
affirmed that no such brutal transac
tion as this advertisement proposed
was ever heard of or even dreamt of in
the south. It may well be doubted if
it ever had a parallel outside of New
England anywhere on the planet galled
Earth.
These advertisements show clearly
Root and Miles At Arm's Length.
A Brooklyn Eagle special from Wash
ington says:
It Is understood that a break has occur
red between Secretary Root and General
Miles over the reprimand of the latter by
the former. One thing is certain. General
Miles has not called on the secretary
since the receipt of the reprimand, and
his friends declare that he has stated that
he will never again voluntarily call on his
official superior. '
All business that has been transacted
between Secretary Root and General
Miles since the incident of December has
been by correspondence and through the
private secretary of Mr. Root and the
aides of the general's staff. Prior to the
reprimand General Miles was a frequent
visitor at the office of Secretary’ Root, and
his sudden withdrawal has been all the
more remarked. The two men were much
interested in the question of national
camps, and General Miles was made the
president of a special hoard to Investigate
the matter. He called often at the big
office of the secretary to get advice and
counsel. It was frequently remarked that
the two men were on excellent terms, and
those who remembered the relations of the
general commanding and former Secreta
ry Alger commented on the fact that the
star of Miles was on the ascendency. All
this is now changed, and it is likely’ that
it will be war between the two men from
now on. It is known that General Miles
feels very bitterly toward Secretary Root
and toward the president, and that thf
wound caused by the reprimand has not
healed at all. It is said at the war de
partment that General Miles has received
a great many letters from friends and
strangers condoling with him for the re
buke, and expressing sympathy generally.
So far as the president goes, every
thing indicates that he has dismissed the
incident from his mind. The one object
that he sought to achieve has been ob
tained—that of silencing the army and na
vy officers on the Schley controversy. If
anything, the president has been more
attentive to General Miles than before.
The general commanding the army was a
guest at the diplomatic dinner given by
the president, and as a mark of special
where Mrs. Stowe and other New Eng
land writers of her type got their ideas
of slavery. They fancied that the
slaves of the south were treated as
formerly slaves had been dealt with
in Boston. Their ghost stories were
comppunded from reminiscences es
tnelr own ancestors.
Among other interesting things Dr.
Moore brings to light this fact: “The
first statute establishing slavery in
America is to be found in the famous
’Cod© of Fundamentals or -Body of
Liberties of the Massachusetts Colony
in New England.’ the first code of
laws of that colony, adopted in Decem
ber, 1641.”
It is also a fact that Massachusetts
Is the only state in America that ever
engaged in the slave trade in its cor
porate capacity. This trade it carried
on with a process that had bondage at
both ends of the line; Indian captives
were carried out and sold: while Af
rican slaves were captured or pur
chased and brought in. Dr. Moore
says: “It will be observed that this
first entrance into the slave trade was
not a private, individual speculation.
It was the enterprise of the authori
ties of the colony.”
Cotton Mather’s "Magnalia” and the
records of the colony are quoted, pas
sage and page being given, to verify
this statement.
Georgia prohibited the slave trade
from the first days of the colony;
while Massachusetts allowed it from
1641 to 1788—the colony itself engaging
in the business for a part, of that pe
riod. Georgia was a slave-holding
commonwealth for about 110 years;
Massachusetts for 147 years.
' When very tardily Massachusetts
prohibited the slave trade by the act
of 1788, the act was carefully drawn
so as not to abolish slavery, while pro
hibiting the slave trade, and as a mat
ter of fact, slavery has never yet been
abolished by any act of the legisla
ture of the state of Massachusetts.
In this connection I may mention the
fact, (not as generally known as its
importance demands) that the consti
tution of the Confederate states 'of
America outlawed the slave tradJ,
while section 9, article 1 of the consti
tution of the United States forbade
even 4he federal congress to prohibit it
prior to the year 1808. The words
“slave” and "slave trade” do not oc
cur in that section or elsewhere in th*
constltulon; language is unmistakable.
It reads as follows: “The migration
or Importation of such persons as any
of the states now existing shall think
proper to admit shall not be prohibited
by the congress prior to the year one
thousand eight hundred and eight.”
Article 4. seetion 2. paragraph 3 pro
vided for the delivery of fugitive
slaves to their owners on demand, but
in it the use of the word "slave” was
carefully avoided. These two sections
of the federal constiutlon which pro
vided for the continuance of the slave
trade until 18C8 and for the protection
of slavery In perpetuity, while skill
fully omitting to employ the word
slave, were wittily called by the Hon
orable John Quincey Adams “the fig
leaves of the constitution.” Th«?y are
in sharp contrast with the naked and
undisguised prohibition of the slave
trade by the constitution of the Con
federate States of America.
But why dig up all this old history?
Partly just for the fun of it. Partly
as a matter of historical Interest.
Partly as a means of grace to New
Englanders, many of whom run far
too easily to pride and who therefore
often require the kindly help of their
friends and neighbors to keep them
suitably humble. But, chiefly, to raise
this question: If sectionalism is to run
against our southern ancestors and
their children a sort of moral bill of
attainder, when (if ever) will it ex
pire? And then I wish to Inquire
further, how the Inhabitants of Mas
sachusetts. the chief of sirm®” 8 among
the American states in the matter of
slavery, escaped this bill of attainder,
and when? ,
There are fortunes In Boston thh
foundations of which were laid in mon
ey received in payment for slaves; but
there are no such estates In Georgia.
It seems to me the Pilgrim children of
Pilgrim fathers ought to get rid of
this tainted money. They are surely
too pious to retain such ill-gotten
gains. I cannot think they have yet
given enough for the education of the
negro to purge themselves of all this
vile stuff. Let them proceed without
delay to “bring forth fruits meet for
repentaneb.” When they begin to
throw down this awful price of blood
at the feet of the elders of the land
maj' you and I be there, gentle reader.
I trust their experience then will
not be as bitter as that of the poor
fellow who in telling his religious ex
perience is reported to have said,
“Brethren, when I was repenting for
my own sins I got on very well, but
when I began to repent for Adam's
transgression it came mighty nigh to
killing me.” We of the south can
appreciate the fix in which he found
himself. Most of us never had a slave
in our lives, but we have been made
to see awful times on account of the
slaves our fathers once owned. But
as the sons of Massachusetts have
gotten from under the load and have
kept the slave money in the bargain,
maybe without any negro money in
our pockets we. too. may yet find ab
solution. So mote it be.
honor was asked to escort to the banquet
table Miss Carew, sister of Mrs. Roose
velt, and a guest at the white house. So
far as is known. General Miles has not
called at the white house since the repri
mand, except in response to social invita
tions.
GEN. MILES HAS LEARNED.
It may be said truthfully that nothing
that occurred in the era Immediately suc
ceeding the war ' aroused such general
and intense indignation throughout the
south as the shackling of Jefferson Davis
in his prison at Fortress Monroe. Mr.
Davis was as securely’ incarcerated as a
man could be and was surrounded by a
military guard. No giant could possibly
have escaped from such incarceration.
The prisoner was a frail man whom ter
rible responsibilities and crushing cares
had worn until his physical strength was
almost exhausted. And yet he was put
Into irons with no other possible motive
than to humiliate him, if possible.
The people of the' south resented this
treatment of a man whom they greatly
honored and loved as an outrage upon
him and a cruel Insult to them.
It is not too much to say that this event
had the effect of delaying the reconcilia
tion of the sections.
General Miles was in command of Fort
Monroe at the tir.ifr.
The Washington Post vouches for trie
authenticity of the following story:
"General Miles, who has gained great
popularity in the country by the Schley
incident, was entertaining a gentleman
the other morning, who came to call upon
him with Representative Rixey, of Vir
ginia, when the southerner, a blunt man,
said: ‘So you. General Miles, are the man
who put handcuffs upon Jefferson Davis?*
‘Yes,’ replied the general, with great suav
ity,' ‘but you must remember that I was
a very’ young man at that time. I am
older now and know a good deal more
than I did then.’ . The general's callers
went away greatly pleased."
Frozen turkeys, geese, ducks and fowls are
being sent In increasing quantities to London
from Victoria.