Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, February 03, 1902, Page 4, Image 4
4 • The Semi-Weekly Journal at the Atlanta Postafftet aa Mall Mattar es the Secttid Cl*.-» The Semi-Weekly Journal l» puWlah ad on Monday* and ThureJay®. and ■tailed la time for al! the twlce-a reei star rout* Malls It contains the w«i from all parts es the world brouctit w«r a <pecial leased wire Into The Journal office It haa a staff of ttotiMWtobod contributors, with strong Agricultural Vetrrtnary. Juvenile Hmm. Book and other departments of nlw :o the home and farm A<ente wanted in every community tn the So* th Haaaittaacee may be made by poot ortco money order, exprees money or der. registered letter or check Persons who eead postage atampe in payment for reba<xlpt!ono are request ed to —cA those at the t-cent denomi nation Amounts larger than SC cents order ..pee- order, check er register*’, mail. Sub—rlbers who wish, their P*P er ? changed should <’• both the old and the new poetoftlee add— NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC—The only traveling repreaentatlvea of The Journal are C. J. O Farrell. J A Bryan and Jas. Callaway. Any other who represents himself as connected with The Journal aa a traveling agent la a fraud, and wo wilt be reeponslbto only for money paid to the aboie named representatives 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. Note premium list in this issue, make your selection and subscribe at once. 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.