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MONDAT. FEBRUAPY 3. 1902.
If yon can’t come. Hennery, schrelben.
That is decidedly a Dole-ful sound that
eomes from Hawaii.
St. Louis will not have a midway—it will
be called by some other name.
The beet sugar trust appears very much
in the attitude of a dead beat.
Well, for one thing, we could give
Prince Hennery a drive out Peachenbaum
strasse.
But so far no one can accuse Candidate
Brown of plagiarizing Candidate Terrell’s
resignation.
One thing is certain, nobody can steal
the Hon. J. Pope Brown’s cane and cas
sava platform.
Four thousand millionaires'. They are
becoming almost as numerous as tramps
in this country.
So Schley refuses to let anyone pin a
presidential boom on his back. He evi
dently remembers Dewey.
The platform of all the gubernatorial
candidates agree on at least one point—
they all want the office.
But still Neely hasn’t explained how he
managed to save $50,000 in 13 months while
working for a $3,000 salary.
Let us hope that the government will
at least see to it that the Indians do not
have their hair cut pompadour.
Editor Knowles applies the term “poli
tician” to the Hon. Seaborn Wright as
though be intends it for an epithet.
And now Sybil Sanderson has broken
with her lover. And that. too. merely be
cause the gentleman had another wife.
A Nebraska woman with 14 children has
married a man with 12. They might have
their families incorporated into a town
•hip.
There are said to be 4.000 millionaires in
the United States. This probably accounts
for our per capita circulation being so
large.
Senator Money says. “Let the Filipinos
go te the devil:” WelL aren't we sending
them there as fast as they get tn rifle
range?
Professor Dyche contends that the Gar
den of Eden was located at the North
Pole. He is either a liar or that fig leaf
gtery Is a fake.
And now General Miles announces that
he doesn’t want to be president. But he
needn’t think that he can get it even by
this sort of talk.
* One of the generals of the Persian
army is only fourteen years of age.
That fellow must have had a "pult” even
when he was a baby.
But. one thing is certain. Candidate
Guerry cannot accuse Candidate Terrell
of plagiarizing the vehement support of
the Hon. Joe Hill Hall.
If the government Insists on making
the Indian get a hair cut how is it going
to overlook the football player and pre
tend to be consistent?
Chillicothe. O, has ? woman street car
conductor. The only trouble with this in
novation is that all the men will want to
ride on the rear platform.
A Philadelphia woman died the other
day at the age of 108. all of which time
she had spent in Philadelphia. She de
serves a front seat in heaven.
And now somebody has started the ques
tion. “What shall we do with our idle
rich?” The best plan would seeih to be
to marry one of their daughters.
Mayor Low says New York cannot be
reformed in a day. His critics should
stop a moment and think how long New
York has been getting that way.
The general manager of the Associated
X Press dined at the white house last Sat
urday. President Roosevelt is becoming
decidedly more practical with his feeds
here of late.
That Atlanta newspaper man who has
become the head of a $3,000,000 oil com
pany is being heralded throughout the
country as one of the shining lights of
Journalism.
The Macon Telegraph printed a two
eolumn story the other day about the
death of one of Judge Speer's horses. We
hope no one sent Congressman Bartlett a
marked copy.
An Indiana man has been married
twelve times and is now looking for his
thirteenth wife. There is a man who
evidently hasn't got sense enough tn be
superstitious. ,
The Mississippi legislature has passed a
bill appropriating $60,000 for a Mississippi
exhibit at the St. World’s Fair.
But Georgia will either have to pass the
hat. or stay away.
A Paria artist says New York's wealthy
women are so beautiful that he hopes to
be able to paint several of them for com
ing generations. That man evidently wants
to do a land-office business.
Senator Bacon wants the government to
take subscriptions to The Congressional
Record at $2 per annum. But in order to
boom its circulation he may have to offer
garden seed as a premium.
A German statistician has collected
proofs to show that married persons live
longer than single persona. Paragraphers
will please take notice that the Joke, “it
only seems longer.” is copyrighted.
Still, it is not too late, just to be dif
ferent from Candidate Guerry. for Can
didate Terrell to insert a plank In his
platform for reclaiming the arid counties
in the south Georgia prohibition belt.
Just like as not. there are people who
will say that even if Candidate Terrell did
steal Candidate Guerry’s platform, he
Isn’t guilty of anything more than petty
larceny. There are aueb partisans, you
know.
A WOMAN FARMER’S TRIUMPH.
In these latter days women have not
only entered more largely than ever be
fore into business and professional life,
but have achieved remarkable success in
lines of effort that narrow-minded men
until recently supposed them incapable
of pursuing profitably. The old idea that
women are not capable of coping with
practical problems has received so many
contradictions in actual experience that it
may be fairly said to be effectively dis
posed of now.
Miss Minna Eshleman, of California,
would be an interesting witness for these
narrow theories of woman's possibilities
to examine.
This woman bought in 1887 586 acres
of land near Fresno. Cal. It had been
hardly Improved at all and its present
condition is due entirely to the efforts
of Miss Eshleman.
By persistent and ingenious effort she
has brought the condition of all the land
she originally purchased up to a very
high standard, has increased her holdings
largely and Improved them to a like de
gree cf excellence. She planted grapes,
peaches, apricots, prunes and other fruits
and her orchards have proved very profit
able.
Some years ago she established a dalrj
and by keeping it up in the most approved
style has made its products famous. One
of her latest enterprises is a large can
nery built, and equipped out of the profits
of her orchards and dairy. Besides she
is going more largely every year into the
raising of blooded cattle and horses.
She is credited with having discovered
and perfected a new system of eliminating
all disagreeable odor of grass and other
cow feed from her butter which is in
steady demand at higher prices than are
paid for the average article. It took the
gold medal over all competitors at the
California state fair two years ago and she
has also won the gold medal for the farm
showing the greatest variety and best av
erage quality of products at a state fair.
One of the trophies of this remarkable wo
man was bestowed for the excellence of
the olive oil. made on her own farm.
She has refused $175,000 for her prop
erty. It has not cost her one-sixth of that
sum and its value is steadily increasing.
Among all the wonderful exhibits that
California can make we doubt if any is
more admirable than this woman and
the results of her genius and industry.
JUSTICE TO FITZ JOHN PORTER.
The bill before congress to pay the
widow and other heirs of the late Fitz
John Porter the amount pf the salary that
he would have received during his years
of suspension from the army asks for
simple justice, and nothing more.
The sacrifice of that gallant and faithful
soldier was the most notable and outra
geous assertion of political prejudice that
ever blotted our military records.
Porter was punished to shield General
Pope from the obloquy that his wretched
failure at the second BfSnassas would
have brought upon him had not he and
his partisans saddled the responsibility
for it upon Porter.
The testimony on which he was convict
ed and dismissed from the army was pal
pably biased and shamefully insufficient.
Porter lived to see the decree of the court
martial that degraded him condemned al
most universally and repudiate., by many
of those who most ardently defended It at
the time ft was delivered. When time and
a calm review of the case had cooled the
passions and corrected the misapprehen
sions of men, it was generally conceded
that a great wrong had been done to this
gallant and gifted soldier.
After his retirement from the presidency
General Grant went over all the testimo
ny, Including thkt which was given by
Confederate generals years after the trial,
and declared that Porter was Innocent of
the charges on which he was tried, con
victed and punished, and thyit he should
be reinstated.
Many other famous soldiers of the north
proclaimed a like change of mind on the
case.
Congress considered the question time
after time, the friends of Fitz John Porter
growing stronger continually.
In March. 1885, a bill to relieve Porter
passed both houses, but was vetoed by
President Arthur. A like bill to retire
Porter as a colonel was passed in 1886 Vy
an overwhelming majority of both the
senate and house, and was signed by Pres
ident Cleveland.
Porter was then vindicated by the gov
ernment as he had been long ago by pub
lic opinion, but for twenty-three years he
had suffered under a charge of ■which he
was innocent, and instead of being a
mere colonel in his old age he would, it
is safe to say, have risen to the rank of
major general before the time for his re
tirement. v
His country, after all. made scant repar
ation to a faithful and heroic soldier
whom it had permitted to remain a vic
tim of malice for nearly a quarter of a
century. The bill that provides for justice
to his family should pass without oppo
sition.
A WISE CONCLUSION.
It is well for both the Democratic party
and Admiral Schley that the caucus pf
Democratic members of the house of rep
resentatives declined to make a party
question of a resolution of honor to the
hero of Santiago.
Those were wise Democrats who ob
jected to this way of showing that the
great majority of people of the United
States are proud of Schley and feel that
he has been misrepresented and persecu
ted bfr his enemies. To give any tinge of
partisan politics in the Schley case would
be unfair to Admiral Schley. It would do
the Democratic party no good, for no
political party can appropriate this na
tional hero.
The caucus took the only sensible
course that was open to it.
MARCONI MEANS BUSINESS.
Confidence in the correctness and prac
ticability of Marconi's theory is growing
both among scientists and the general
public. The company which controls the
older Atlantic cable near whose western
terminus Marconi received his wireless
signals from over the sea evidently thinks
that there are great possibilities in his in
vention. for its agents ordered him to de
sist from further experiments along that
coast, and on the day after the news
reached London that he had registered on
this side of the Atlantic signals made on
the other the price of the company’s
shares had a decided fall.
Os course, Marconi can find many other
places on which to locate his experiment
stations, and the world expects to hear
from him again and more fully in the
early future.
Admitting that wireless telegraphy is
practicable it has been generally supposed
that two serious difficulties would still be
In its way. One is that wireless messages
could not be kept private, the other that
■ the expense of maintaining the necessary
stations would be prohibitive of any gen
eral use of this method of communication.
Those who have studied the Marconi syi-
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1902.
tern say that both of these difficulties have
been surmounted.
It is true that the etheric waves on
which wireless messages are carried travel
impartially in all directions. Marconi
could have caught the signals that reached
him in Newfoundland just as well if he
had been in Greenland. But no instru
ment but his own could have recorded
them. •
The instrument in Cornwall and the in
strument at St. Johns were “In tune," so
to speak, with each other. The one .was
fitted to send and the other to receive a
certain fixed number of vibrations per sec
ond. and no other instruments were so
fitted and adjusted.
The Marconi instruments will be made
in sets, each set “tuned” to its own speci
fied number of vibrations.
It would be impossible for any instru
ment to record messages from any other
instrument that was not made expressly
for the purpose of communicating with it.
The privacy of wireless messages is thus
insured.
Marconi himself disposes of the notion
that the cost of wireless telegraphy would
be prohibitive. He is confident that sta
tions can be built at a cost not exceeding
$75,000 as an outside estimate, whereas the
cost of an Atlantic cable is about $4,000.-
000. Marconi believes that by the wireless
system messages can be sent at a good
profit for one cent a word; the cable rate
is now 25 cents a word.
If Marconi can succeed in doing any
thing near what he claims that he will
the business of telegraphic communica
tion across the seas will, of course, be
revolutionized.
Great expectations are fixed upon this
daring young scientist.
LOUISIANA’S CAPITAL.
The old struggle for the honor of being
the capital of Louisiana has broken out
anew. A number of the New Orleans city
council is urging the removal of the capi
tol from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
The New Orleans papers do not shout
their approval of the ‘proposition. On the
contrary, the Times-Democrat deciares
that it will be ridiculed from the Arkansas
line to the gulf and that there is ab
solutely “nothing to commend the scheme
to enlightened public sentiment.”
The Times-Democrat continues:
“All persons who have lived sufficiently
long in Louisiana to become acquainted
with the history of the state and with
the temper of its people, understand that
for reasons of weight the capital was for
many years before the war situated at
Baton Rouge; that after the war. for
reasons without weight, the capital was
removed to New Orleans, and that later,
when the democratic party was restored
to power, one of its earlier acts was to
fix the capital seat in the historic city
in which for many years it had been
situated. In the constitutional convention
of 1898 the question was again considered
and again decided by this explicit pro
vision:
" ‘Art. 161. The seat of government shall
be and remain at the city of Baton
Rouge.’
“It is unnecessary to review here the
arguments presented both in favor of
and in opposition to Mr. Moss’ suggestion.
It is perhaps sufficient to state that the
constitutional convention, afer reviewing
the situation from every possibhe point of
view, declared that for the peace, pros
perity and honor of the commonwealth
the capital seat should ’be and remain
at the city of Baton Rouge.’ ”
It is a very rare thing to see a news
paper opposing a proposition to honor its
own city, but the Times-Democrat takes
a broad-minded view of the question and
doubtless expresses the conviction of the
great majority of the people of Louisiana
on this question.
SENATORS BY REASON OF CASH.
Os John F. Dryden, the newly elected
New Jersey United States senator, the
Manchester Union says: “He is a man
who would certainly never have been
heart! of in public life if he had pot been
a rich man.”
There are probably a dozen men already
sitting in the senate to whom this remark
would apply as well as it does to this New
Jersey plutocrat.
The chief reason urged for his nomina
tion by the New Jersey Republican cau
cus was that “he had contributed liberally
to the campaign funds of his party.”
That is the sole claim of “Gas” Addicks
to a seat in the senate from Delaware.
Addicks seems to have been even more
generous in his contributions of cash at
election time than Dryden for he boasts
that he has twice bought the election of
a majority of the Delaware legislature
and some of his peons have basely de
serted him after they got in. But Addicks
by the lavish and unblushing use of
money has succeeded in depriving Dela
ware of any representation whatever In’
the senate. There have been at each ses
sion of the legislature during that period
enough decent Democrats and Republi
cans to prevent his election, but he has
had the power to keep anybody else from
being elected. Dryden is a more respect
able man than Addicks. but he belongs to
the same class of politicians, a class that
has made ~s way into the senate solely
by the application of boodle to politics
a: i thereby lowered lamentably the char
acter of that body.
BACON KEPT HIS EYES OPEN.
There are accumulating evidences that
the proposition of Senator Hoar for the
appointment of a congressional commis
sion to examine into and report upon con
ditions in the Philippines is very timely.
Senator Bacon has recently returned
from those Islands after spending several
weeks there and obtaining much informa
tion as to the way things are going there.
We are looking for him to give at length
the results of his observations and con
clusions and we are sure that he will do
so in away that will interest the country.
In the discussion of the Philippine tar
iff bill Senator Bacon called attention to
the fact that there has been frequent vio
lation of the law which forbids the carry
ing of the products of American territory
between ports of the United States in
foreign vessels.
There have been probably many graver
offenses committed in connection with the
Philippine government. Senator Bacon
we are sure learned much during his stay
tn those islands that the public should
know, and we doubt not that he ipill be
heard from in the senate on the subject.
He is well equipped for the discussion
of all matters relating to our great experi
ment in the orient. He is capable of
rendering especially valuable service to
the country on these questions, and we
hope to hear from him on them before
long.
A CAUSTIC MILITARY CRITIC.
In the light of the recent severe repri
mand of General Miles for having ex
pressed a complimentary opinion of Ad
miral Schley it would seem that Major
George K. Hunter, of the regular army
is a candidate for a like distinction.
At a banquet in Lv. Louis a few days
ago Major Hunter hit out right and left
In his comments upon the conduct of our
•> the war with Spain and was es-
pecially severe on one of his superior of
ficers.
He said that General Shafter aid noth
ing at Santiago, but “sit in a hammock
and mop his brow.”
He declared -hat the volunteer system
showed Itself to be a failure and that
the much lauded rough riders had to be
shoved Into their places by the regulars;
that we had too many soda water colonels
in our war with Spain.
It will be seen that Major Hunter made
a sufficient number of complaints and ac
cusations in this one after-dinner speech
to rouse the wrath of both individuals
and classes.
We have never heard of any achieve
ment by this self-constituted military
censor that would entitle him to pass as
an authority on the matters that he dis
cussed over the walnuts and wine at a
St. Louis feast with such an air of dog
matic wisdom and superior virtue.
It will be interesting to see whether the
war department will take notice of Major
Hunter’s post prandial fusilade. '
/THE OLD, OLD DODGE.
Speaker Henderson resorts to a very
weak and stale pretext as his reason for
opposing tariff revision.
He deciares' that he “cannot believe it
wise to begin a reduction which inevit
ably will open up the whole field of re
vision. and thus put a serious check upon
the business of the country.”
Perhaps Speaker Henderson could
know better, as there is really no good
reason why the duty of tariff revision
should not be entered upon at once.
The poor plea he puts up has been
heard whenever it has been proposed to
reduce tariff taxes that were unneces
sary ana therefore unjust.
It is invoked now against any revision
cf a system of taxation that is raising
revenue at the rate of $100,000,000 a year
more than is needed to support the gov
ernment even on its present extravagant
scale of expenditures.
It is put forward to shield taxes that
are outrageously high and discriminat
ing, a system of protection that instigates
and fosters trusts which kill competition
home and enables them to sell their
products in foreign markets cheaper than
at home.
The time will never come when the few
who profit by these bounties which the
many must pay will not resist their re
peal. Any attempt to cut off unnecessary
taxes and bring the tariff nearer to a rev
enue basis will ever be met with the cry
that to do so would disturb business.
There are some kinds of business In
this country that should be disturbed.
One of them Is the business of building
up monopolies behind the tariff wall,
erec.ed under the pretense of protecting
our own people who find that it is used
to Increase their burdens. The apologists
of the present tariff seem to have no bet
ter defense for it than that it is right be
cause it exists.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Small m«n have big opiniona of themselves.
If you forget to tell a woman you love her
she forgeta you do.
The man who can keep a promise is the man
who never makes one.
It takes good dressing to catch a husband
and good cooking to keep him.
When a woman decides that a gown is cut
too low it to some other woman’s.
When you dig into a man's vanity you touch
the spot where bls hatred for you Iles.
The Turks mgke almost as much trouble for
the missionaries as the missionaries make for
us. <.;•#>
The more colleges rich men found the more
poorhouses they should endow for the gradu
ates.
An entertaining friend Is one who will listen
to you tell the same old story for the ninety
ninth time.
Some people’s souls are ao shallow that If
you throw a pebble into them it strikes bot
tom before it splashes.
It seems ever so much more so to. say that a
woman is older than her husband than to say
a man Is younger than his wife.
No woman likes to think that the man »h«
cares about would rather see her happy and
plain than pretty and discontented.
So long aa the bull pup isn't lost and the
cook is in a good temper the children can stand
most anything that happens to the rest of the
family.
The average girl thinks it is smart to try to
make other girls think she has refused to
marry a man when she is in hysterics for fear
ae won’t ask her.
There are men in this world who think de
generacy is brilliancy and viciousness is smart
ness. but, thank God. they never got those
ideas from their mother. ,
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
The has-been to not Ipst, but gone behind.
Everything comes to the waiter who waits on
himself.
It is said that the electric chair is a sure cure
for insomnia.
A nfan’s dullness Is usually due to hto in
ability to reflect.
Too many things are done well that are not
worth doing at all.
Many of the flights of genius are from a
high bluff downward.
All things come to those who get tired wait
ing and go after them.
It's usually the man who shakes the tree
that gets the least fruit.
We are told that figures do not lie—yet there
are numerous lay figures.
Nothing so effectually cures a man of the
flattery habit as marriage.
Silence is golden when a girl purses her lipa
for the benefit of a young man.
Just when a girl thinks she is marrying hap
pily all her relations shed tears.
A spinster who to willing but unable to catch
on sayn that marriage is a failure.
When the highwayman goes on the road he
is willing to take other people's dust.
A woman Is considered eccentric if she does
not talk when she has nothing to say.
You never realise how dearly you have paid
for your whistle until you try to sell it.
White lies require a great deal of white
washing io keep them from turning black.
In nine cases out of a possible ten ft is one’s
own fault when the unexpected happens.
The coquette who is fat. fair and forty may
not be a goose—and she is no spring chicken.
Every man’s reputation would be above par
If he could get credit for his good intentions.
No matter what a man has done the world
soon forgets him unless he keeps right on do
ing.
The poet is born—unless he writes a magazine
poem that nobody can understand; then he la
made.
Beauty may be only skin deep, but thick
skinned people are not necessarily the most
beautiful.
It has been said that short accounts made
long friends—but there are notable exceptions
to the rule.
After a man reaches the top of the heap !W
worries continually because of the attempts to
displace him.
A middle-aged woman is one half-way be
tween the age she acknowledges and the age
you Imagine she is.
The average woman may not be able to love
three men simultaneously, but can make
a strenuous bluff at It.
The Individual who gets the hardest knocks
In earlv life is apt to be fairly well content
with his lot in after years.
It sometimes happens that a widow refuses
to be comforted because no other man is will
ing to offer himself as q sacrifice.
If all the so-called beautifiers were what they
are cracked up to b« there wouldn't be a single
homely female >n earth in a short time.
Straight-Out Machine Methods.
New York World.
President Roosevelt has decided to remove
Penrose McClain, the internal revenue collector
at Philadelphia, against whose administration
of the office no complaint has been made, and
to appoint in his place William McCoach, one
of Senator Quay's henchmen. The president
does this, he admits, because McClain support
ed tho Independent Republican and reform
ticket against the Quay-Ashbridae machine at
the recent election. Who would nave expected
to see Roosevelt, the idealist and reformer,
constituting himself the protector and tender
of Boss Quay's corrupt and execrated nia
. chine?
SILVER NOT AN ISSUE
It Has Gone Into the Domain of the Dead
Froln the date of the realignment of po
litical parties following the conclusion of
the civil war to the present time the Dem
ocratic party has been but once divided
upon a great political issue. From 1868 to
1892 the party was a magnificent political
host—great in members and powerful In
organization and leadership.
During these years it was not only suc
cessful in repeated struggles for the con
trol of the national house of representa
tives, but it was distinctly the victor in
three out of seven successive presidential
elections. Its most signal victory was in
the election of 1892, immediately preced
ing the date of the unfortunate division
on the silver question.
In the succeeding year it was that
Democrats, all of them loyal in their very
blood and marrow to the fundamental
principles which had guided the party for
a hundred years, divided among them
selves over a question that had never
been put in issue prior to 1873. That divis
ion has been followed by the unbroken
defeat of the party in every subsequent
election. There is no reason why that di
vision should continue. That which caus
ed it will remain an academic question
upon which most men will continue to
hold their preconceived opinions, but it
has ceased to be one of the active or prac
tical questions of the day. That it may no
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
X
The king of Sweden Is acknowledged to be
the most learned man in Europe. He speaks
seven languages and can now write to China’s
emperor In Chinese.
The number of persons to the section of
land is, tn Great Britain. 342; Japan. 300; Italy.
274: Germany, 270; Austria, 225; France. 187;
Hungary. 154; Spain, 92; United States, 22; Rus
sia, 15.
Mrs. Anna Conover, formerly an American
actress, who has been the soul of the cam
paign for preventing cruelty to Paris cab
horses, has been officially listed for decoration
with the cross of the Legion of Honor.
Miss Agnes Leavitt, who is exhibiting about
fifty paintings, mostly of the Alps, at the
Appalachian mountain club, painted one of
them at the altitude of 10,000 feet, and most of
her Alpine pictures were painted at an alti
tude of 7,000 feet.
Edward Whymper. the noted mountain climb
er who attempted to scale the Canadian
Rockies last summer, has made the statement
that they will not be explored this century.
He has previously climbed the highest Alps
and the highest Andes.
Hans Christian. Andersen, the famous au
thor of juvenile books, formed his style by
narrating his stories to various groups of
children before he wrote them down. His one
thought was to become famous and he was
very careful not to make any enemies.
Emperor William's six sons are to get their
education in part at the military academy at
Pion. Two of them are there now and three
have been there. The crown prince is at
present at the University of Bonn and Prince
Albert is making a long trip on a military
training ship.
James Gordon Bennett is just now a promi
nent figure among American residents in Paris.
He is the lessee of the historical preserves
near Versailles, where Louts XIV used to
shoot. Among those who have shot pheasants
and hares over Mr. Bennett’s enclosures are
the Grand Duke Alexis and M. Waldeck-Rous
seau, president of the council of ministers.
The Lincoln park commissioners of Chicago
have authorized the erection in the park of a
monument to the memory of David Kennison,
who is declared to have been the only soldier
of the revolution who went from Illinois, re
turned to Illinois and lies burled in Illinois —
in fact, in that park. A bowlder, perfectly in
scribed, will probably be placed over his grave.
The Sons of the Revolution will bear the cost.
The czarina of Russia Is said to be ex
ceedingly clever with the pencil and crayon,
especially in the drawing of caricatures. Her
cartoons of Russian statesmen afford great
amusement to the csar, who recently Insisted
that she should add a caricature of himself
to her collection. She thereupon sketched him
clad in robes of state, but with the face of a
child, seated upon a footstool. Rbund him
are several grand dukes and duchesses, each
with a cup and speech, who are ingratiatingly
offering the czar some dainty trifle. The lit
tle fellow, however, desires none of their
offerings, and, pouting, pushes them away.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In China the year begins in February.
Every year 20,000 Spaniards emigrate to South
America.
England used half a million Christmas trees
last Christmas.
The state of New York has furnished three
postmaster generals.
Five presidents of the United States have
been of Scotch-Irish descent.
Tea consumed in England is subject to a
duty of twelve cents per pound.
Thomas A. Edison has taken out nearly 800
patents on his various inventions.
A man five feet eight inches in height ought
to weigh 160 pounds when he is forty.
California has almost a monopoly of the
cultivation of apricots in the united States.
Japan now possesses the heaviest and finest
battleship afloat, the Mikasa, of 15,200 tons dis
placement. .
Tacoma. Wash., is 3,209 miles from New York
by the shortest route, and it takes 127 hours
to get there.
A library of 18,000 volumes, all written by
women, was left by Madame Kaissavow, who
died recently in St. Petersburg.
Peck at first meant a basket or receptacle
for grain or other substances. The expression
at first had no reference to size.
It takes about seventeen and one-half years
for a dollar to double Itself at 4 per cent In
terest compounded semi-annually.
The word hoyden, now applied exclusively to
a noisy young woman, formerly denoted a
person of like character, but of either sex.
Ship rats, which are propagators of the
plague, have been thoroughly exterminated at
Marseilles by the use of liquid carbolic acid.
One of the first Indian women to take up the
calling of a trained nurse Is an educated girl
of the Pueblo tribe. Miss Seicher Atsye.
Twenty years ago a few foreigners had risked
their lives in landing tn Korea, but today its
capital has an American street railway plant.
There are 13,958,622 acres of uncultivated land
in Italy which might be developed and made
productive by the application of ordinary en
terprise.
The ancient Mexicans had a species of whistle
which produced at least three tones. It had
two Anger holes and a mouthpiece on the side.
The yield of cranberries for 1961 was as fol
lows: New England. 246,000 barrels: New
Jersey. 120,060 barrels; the west. 40,000 barrels,
a normal crop. \
The name Oregon first appears in “Jonathan
Carver's Travels ” published in London about
1778. Possibly it is a corruption of the Spanish
“Aragon.”
A young man can seldom account for hto
father’s lack of knowledge, but In after years,
when he has sons of his own, he begins to
realize the Ignorance of youth.
At the University of Budapest a lunatic from
the local asylum appeared in charge of his
keeper and asked to be allowed to pass his ex
amination. He passed successfully and re
turned to his asylum with his diploma as a
professor. t
At Yarmouth. England, the town council
employs a band certain months of the year to
play twice daily tn Wellington gardens, where
a charge of a penny a head is made for ad
mission. The receipts during the recent sea
son were 813.500.
It is calculated that about 108.000 skins of
the ermine will be used to make the peers'
and princess' robes tor the coronation, and that
as the price of this fur has much increased in
view of the demand, about £27,000 worth will
be needed for the ceremonial.
For many years, German emigration has
found its chief destination in the United
States. About six million people have come
from Germany to this coifctry; and they, with
their descendants, now constitute a very large
element of our total population.
Another “Lady or the Tiger” Story.
It is now twenty years since Frank R. Stock
ton wrote the story of "The Lady or the Tiger,
which brought him immediate fame and which
still remains one of the finest examples of the
short story ever written. The editor of The
Ladles' Home Journal recently wrote Mr Stock
ton asking if he would no.t celebrate “The Ladv
of the Tiger's” “china wedding” by telling the
world which one really was behind the curtain!
Mr Stockton replied that It would be impossi
ble for him to do this, as he himself did not
know But he also said that he had just writ
ten "A Lady or a Tiger” story about a
balloon, and that story will appear in the
March Ladies' Home Journal.
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The wages of sin are not regulated by an
earthly trust.
longer serve as an Incitement to discord
it would seem that the one essential Is
that In the future there should be by’ all
Democrats unreserved recognition of the
fact that it is an issue belonging only to
the past. In so doing there should be, as
to the past controversy, no assumption of
superior political judgment on the one
hand nor confession of error on the other.
It were bootless to contend who was
right and who was wrong regarding It, for
on this there could be no agreement, and
It Is unnecessary that there should be any.
As one who has changed his opinion
on the academic question, I would say
that It will be sufficient that all Demo
crats shall recognize that whoever was
right and whoever may’ have been wrong
In the controversy, conditions have chang
ed. the country and its business have
been adjusted to the new order, and the
Issue, once so vital and Intense, has now
passed from the sphere of .the living Into
the domain of the dead.
With the final removal of this sole
cause of division, there is no need of
the promulgation of a new political creed.
The basic principles of Democracy are
as true now as they were a hundred years
ago when its great founder gave them
form and utterance. They are as suffi
cient for the problems of today as they
were applicable to the questions of the
first years of the republic. As the great
Making and Wasting Congressmen.
• BY JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
ONE of the most striking and
suggestive of recent biograph
ical sketches is one in a cur
rent periodical entitled "The
Most Powerful Man in Of
ficial Life.” and describing the position
and influence of Senator Aldrich, of
Rhode Island.
Senator Aldrich is chairman of the
senatorial steering committee of the
dominant Republican party, and by
reason of the superb training and
equipment which he brings to the dis
charge of the duties of the position,
as well as by reason of the senate's
superiority to the house in many es
sential and conclusive powers, the
thoughtful author of the sketch unhes
itatingly declares and conclusively
demonstrates that the Rhode Island
senator exercises a greater influence
in shaping the legislation and con
trolling the affairs of the country than
the speaker of the house, or the vice
president, or even the president him
self.
The opportunities of the position, but
above all, the equipment and abilities
of the man, make this influence pos
sible, a,nd it is certainly true that
Senator Aldrich is one of the most
powerful, if not the most powerful,
man in Washington.
Rhode Island is the smallest state in
the Union. Neither its population nor
importance warrant the vast influence
which its representative exercises in
the affairs of the republic.
But the abilities of the representa
tive, sustained and persistently re
turned to office by the judgment and
good sense of the people whom he
represents, bring to pass the results
so creditable to the senator and so
vastly beneficial to the state.
And hereby hangs a moral of sur
passing moment to these southern
states which have such vast inter
ests, both moral and material, at stake
in the legislative developments of the
next ten years.
Senator Aldrich has represented
Rhode Island in the senate consecu
tively since his first election many
years ago. He will be returned to the
senate from Rhode Island as long as
his health and faculties survive to
continue such services as he has ren
dered to the state. Rhode Island is a
commercial state. Its people are clear
headed business people, and they have
the conspicuous common sense to real
ize that no other man. whatever his
gifts or abilities, could do them as
much good in the senate as Aldrich.
It would almost be the same if he
were their representative in the lower
house.
He has been literally trained to the
public service until he is a political
expert. That is his value. He knows
every ramification of congressional
usage and custom. He has the rules,
precedents and traditions of congress
at the tip of his tongue. He knows
supremely the fine art of bringing
things to pass. This is a power that
can be acquired in no ether way known
to man than by long acquaintance and
constant study of congressional life in
personal daily contact.
He is not an orator, and rarely
makes a speech. But his sliort crystal
statements, flawless in fart and ac
curacy, are worth more than ttys most
brilliant orations of a less expert and
reliable publicist. He has! absolutely
mastered the details of th‘e economic
and commercial issues which rule the
country, and many a time when some
brilliant orator of the opposition has
captured the galleries and enthused
the senate with his eloquence, this
practiced and long-trained publicist
will arise and, in a few terse ques
tions, puncture the fallacies of the ar
gument and destroy the whole force of
the oration with a few hard, cold facts
that can neither be answered nor gain
said.
It is only the representative of long
training who can do this; one who has
studied and acquired and practised in
the actual arena of congressional busi
ness until he has become invincible.
Rhode Island has the most effective
senator in the United States because
she recognized a good man when she
had him, and has kept him in office
until he has been trained to be the
finest political expert in American pub
lic life.
If she had played politics with the
politicians, had listened to ’ the ca
joleries of ambitious place hunters,
had traded with factions and retired
her consummate expert “just to give
some other fellow a chance." she
might have sent a half dozen brilliant
windbags to Washington, and reaped,
not a tithe of the benefits which have
accrued to her from the wiser policy.
I wish all my heart that the
south could learn the invaluable lesson
written in this biography. It was the
policy of the old south which gave her,
for so many years pre-eminence in na
tional affairs. Alabama has vindicated
it in the long and glorious services of
John T. Morgan—the oldest and most
respected and most influential public
man who represents the south in
Washington today.
in this age, even more than In the
era of sentiment and assertion, we
will find this the only policy which will
win for us our due weight in the law
making and section-building of the re
public. We will never reap the best
fruits of public service unless we
make it a policy to hold fast to public
servants who have demonstrated the
character and capacity to serve us
well.
When a congressional district of
Georgia or any other southern state
finds a representative who displays the
qualities of eminent usefulness to his
people joined to unquestioned integrity
and patriotism, in the name of all that
is reasonable and sensible, and grate
ful he should be held in his position
BY SENATOR
A. O. BACON,
IN
PHILADELPHIA
TIMES.
common law, the product of cental
gone, how determines the right in
troversies arising under present co
tions then undreamed of, so these
Democratic principles are the standi
to be applied to the political problem
the present, and by them public measi
are to be condemned or justified. T
porary agitations cannot shake them fl
their base or 'weaken the faith of tl
who believe in them. Democracy is
cause of the common people. It is
posed to privileges for the few at the
pense of the may. It condemns the
of might, and defends the weak aga
the strong. It believes in the republic
its purity and in its essence. As sue
would maintain it, and is opposed to
perial or monarchlal theories and m
ures. come in what guise they may.
Those who have allegiance to these
kindred principles are a mighty host,
divided they in great probability mak
majority of all—they certainly const!
a great majority of all the white m«
the United States. It is for them to m
unitedly and aggressively, and with
time vigor, against those who pervert
lie agencies to the advancement of
vate interests, and who in the promo
of Imperialistic and monarchial measi
would subvert our free institutions
revolutionize the character of our gov
ment-
until his usefulness is weakened or d
stroyed.
Every year of experience adds to I
value, every term of service is an ed
cation in equipment, and the real us
fulness of the man is only at its z
nith when he has bad the train!!
which gives him the power to bsii
things to pass.
There are some foolish and shot
sighted people who are blind enoui
to believe that the offices of this cou
try were created chiefly to give ar
bitious young fellows a chance to ma
a name and a fortune in the publ
service. It is the selfish shibboleth
the politicians that there should be t
tation in office, and that when o
man has held office for a given tin
he should be retired to give some ot
er fellow a pull at the public teat.
There never was a principle so cho
full of tomfoolery and public dang
as this.
Suppose that any-ordinary buslne
man should conduct hto business up<
this poncy. Suppose that a tnercha
or a banker or a railroad man or
planter should employ a servant f
supposed fitness for especial wor
give him a few years of training
the business, and as soon as he b
came efficient and useful and unde
stood his business should turn him <
to give some other young and untrt
fellow "a chance?* The neighb*
and contemporaries of such a buslne
man would very properly characte
ize him as a fool, and his buslne
would inevitably suffer the conseque
ces of his absurd folly.
What Is this government, but a gre
big business corporation run to pi
mote the Interests and prosperity
the people who are its tax payers ar
stockholders?
And why should the sound princip
of industrial business men be throx
to the winds at the clamor ot po
ticians in the great business house
popular government?
It is one of the things that this e
lightened and material age is teac
Ing. and one of the things that i
are sure to learn that the offices
this country are not created as a pr!
to be scrambled for by every ambl
ous young fellow who thinks he
fitted to shine in public station, b
were established in the wisdom of t
fathers, and under the genius of fr
government, for the great and tran
cendent purpose of carrying on t
vital business of the people with t
wisest, best trained and most relia!
employes that popular intelligence ci
discover and elect.
If this principle be true—and it cai
not be gainsaid—what unspeakab
folly to be changing tried and prow
servants of the people for untried I
pirants whose merit and capacity m.
be existent, but must necessarily
undeveloped and unproven!
And if this was ever true at any tia
it is true at this time in our country
history when we are fronted with t
gravest crisis, and have at stake t
most vital interests of morals and
money and ot history!
And if this is true In any time <
public service it is especially and no
ably true in congressional represent
tlon when all these great issues hai
their largest trial and must find the
wisest solution.
There are members of our own Geo
gia delegation in congress to who
this wise and common sense polu
should apply.
It is not my purpose to take an
part in the personal Issues betwee
candidates or to meddle in campaign
which do not concern me.
What I am after is the great pru
ciple of bettering and eztablishing tt
, public service on the same lines 1
'which wise and prudent business me
manage their individual affairs.
The scriptural injunction to "pro?
all things, and hold fast to that whlc
is good,” may be applied as pointed!
to men as to principles.
I have the common Interest of a cit
•zen in the nature, character ar
training of the public men who repri
sent my country and represent m<
I am tired of the small fellows thi
go about in candidate form pleadini
"This fellow has had it long enough
Turn him out and let me in, an
when I have had it a little while,
will get out and let some other felloi
in!”
In all the literature of polities ther
is no demagogy so cheap as this.
The people who listen to balderdas
like this establish their own foil
and their deep unworthiness of th
blessings of good government.
Let this be the motto of the intell
gent voter In the future: “Prove a
public men and hold fast to those wh
are good!”
FLASHES OF FUN.
Jenks—lt seems the old custom of mi
ing New Year’s calls has died out al
gether.
Burroughs—Not altogether. »I th
Markley will surely make one on me.
Jenks—That sot"
Burroughs—Yes. a three months’ n
I gave him will fall due on that day.
Catholic Standard and Times.
“Joaksrnith, it appears, is mafrried s
has gone to housekeeping.”
“Not at all. What made you think s<
“He's been writing so many jokes atx
servant girls lately, he must have I
some experience with them.”
"Nonsense! If he’d had such expt
ence he wouldn’t joke about it.”—Phi
delphia Press.
An Irish judge of the old school, ir
recent summing up at the Four Cow
Dublin, created a great effect. The pla
tiff was even more beautiful than !
beautiful daughter, who was a witn<
"Gentlemen of the jury,” his lordship
gan, “everything in this case seems, pl
—except Mrs. O'Toole and her charm
daughter.”—London News.
