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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1902.
At last account* the I Hon. Jim Smith
was still letting well enough alone.
The Hon. Joe Terrell seems to be con
ducting a sort of "mail order ’ campaign.
President Rooeevelt does not seem to
hare been so color-blind that he fiidn’t
know ••Pink.” t
This Is a very warm winter for the
fire Insurance companies of the United
States at any rate.
A Kentucky tnan has been sent to jail
for having 13 wives. He should have been
sent to the asylum
Then, there Is another way for the Hon.
Pope Brown to look at it; think what he
has saved In postage!
General Funston has Yecently been in
itialed in a lodge of Klks. That man
seems to bear a charmed life.
Perhaps it Is sheer modesty that pre
vents the railroads asking the state to
give them a-new depot rent free.
With Charleston. S. C.. celebrating the
birthday of Abe Lincoln it would seem
that the war is over some more.
New Tork doubtless regards that recent
subterranean explosion in Chicago as a
weak Imitation of her tunnel disaster.
A New Jersey woman, aged 32. ran away
the other day with a man aged 92 She
ought to be arrested for kidnaping.
In a recent South African casualty list
appears the name of Geoffrey George
Gordon Fits-Oarence. No wonder he got
hit. _
What's the matter with Candidate
Guerry engaging in a joint debate with
the Hon. Joe Hall on the liquor ques
tion?
The British claim to have De-
Wet's last gun. But what is more impor
tant they should capture his last
ditch.
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.The German reichatag has outlawed
Christian Science. Hereafter Germans
will have to be given the absent treat
ment. . .
Perhaps the sultan has merely been
waiting until those Bulgarian brigands get
that 175. W in their possession before cap
turing them
Both Sampson and Schley have retired,
and the public is beginning to feel that
their controversy has also about reached
the age limit.
There are those who think that the Cu
ban reciprocity proposition was intended
as a sort of Rough Rider to the Philip
pine tariff MIL
It was not that those senators didn't
want an increase of salary, but that they
feared some one else would draw it if
they voted for it.
The "Hundred Years' club" in New York
proposes to silence city notoes and stop
the adulteration of food. The Hub seems
to be welt named. ■
It anything else were needed. England
might refer to the way in which she has
been buying our spavined horses as an
other proof of her affection.
It seems to have been a case of retri
bution with that Virginia negro who stole
a preacher's valise only to find that it
contained over 3TO sermons.
Perhaps the railroads want to create
the impression that when they do accept
that depot proposition, it will be merely
to spite the Hon. Joe Hill Hall.
Candidate Estill says if he carries Chat
ham county he is going to name his own
friends as delegates. It's a wise candi
date that knows his own delegates.
Major Hanson's acceptance on behalf of
the Central railroad of the depot propo
sition sounds more like it was Intended as
an answer to the Hon. Joe Hill Hall.
That New York physician who offers
himeelf as a subject for vivisection ex
periments would perhaps prove a more in
teresting subject for the lenacy experts.
Under the laws of Turkey a man says
to bis wife three times. “I divorce you.”
and he is free. In America he has to
say it only once, and the courts do the
rest.
A .Buffalo policeman arrested two wo
men for bolding their skirts two high
while crossing a street. Perhaps their
style of hosiery was calculated to incite
a riot.
Counterfeiters have been following the
flag to Porto Rico. But inasmuch as they
have only been counterfeiting Mexican
dollars, the offense seems to be very
much mitigated.
Perhaps that trans-Atlahtic freight car
rying combination that has advanced
i*atee 100 per-cent will try to justify its
action by the plea that the foreigner
pays the freight. z
That hoarse chuckle which you hear
comes from the Hon. JOe Hill Hall as he
reads with what reluctance the railroads
are accepting the state's proposition to
build them a depot.
Maybe the Southern railway la merely
malting to see what did really happen to
Madame Nordlca In that recent wreck be
fore trying to decide whether or not It
will ever need a depot again.
A Buffalo student declared to his bed
fellow that he wouldn't set up until he
did. As a result both staid In bed four
days and four nights. Think of spending
money to try to educate a pair like that.
The Florence (Ala) Times rises to ex
plain that in Its last issue there was an
article headed "A Mother Factory.” but
that tj»e same was a typographical error
and should have read "Another Factory.”
The Leary (Ga.) Courier offers this one:
"A handsome little stranger arrived at
Dr. Cheney's ia*t week. Such lovely brown
eyes and soft, silky hair. The doctor's
good wife is very proud of the new arri
val. and well she may be. for there Isn't
a finer Jersey calf tn the county.”
THE PRESBYTERIANS AROUSED.
We are glad to know that The Journal's
recent editorial calling upon the Presby
terians of Georgia to bestir themselves
for the establishment in thia state of a
high class college has struck a responsive
chord in many members of that church
and Is heartily approved by many other
citlxens of this state not connected with
that denomination.
We are now more convinced than ever
that the time is ripe for the actual be
ginning of tliis movement and that it will
receive a support ample to insure its suc
cess. .
Many of us remember Oglethorpe uni
versity in its prime; when it was a great
educat Ictal agency, a recognised power
for the moral and intellectual advance
ment of Georgia. By putting forth the
effort of which they are capable and
which it is to their interest to exert, the
Presbyterians of this state can establish
and maintain a university which will be
as Important and helpful now as Ogle
thorpe university was before the civil war.
We do not mean that the Institution would
be patronised and supported by Presby
terians alone. It would receive, if kept
up to a high standard, as any Presbyterian
institution of this kind surely would be.
aid a patronage from many sources out
side of that noble organisation.
The Presbyterians lay great stress upon
the necessity of thorough education. They
require of who would enter their uni
versity good natural endowments of mind,
a high degree of education and culture.
They are great educators.
It must be remembered furthermore that
the Presbyterian church in Georgia has
grown remarkably in the last few years,
is now far stronger in numbers and in
fluence than it was even a decade ago.
Its members are devoted to their church
and zealous to promote- its interest in
every possible way. They possess in the
aggregate a large amount of wealth and
they have proved their /eadiness to give
of it liberally for good causes. An appeal
to them for the money that is requisite
to the establishment of a great college in
Georgia would not be made in vain, if it
should be backed by the power of their
church in this state.
The lively interest which many leading
Presbyterians arc already taking in this
matter makes it sure that their enthusi
asm will become contagious and that we
shall soon see founded in Georgia a col
lege or university of which all who bear
the name of Presbyterian here and else
where may be. proud and whlcn all patri
otic Georgians will welcome.
LfJNte RANGc GUESSING.
Speculating as to who will be the pres
idential candidates of the two great par
ties in 1904 la rather premature just ydt.
but it is harmless amusement and there
be those who feel called upon to indulge
in it.
One of the New York Herald's interest
ing young men at Washington has been
diagnosing President Roosevelt's pros
pects for his party’s next presidential
nomination and is good enough to tell us
something, if not all, that he knows on
the subject.
We are told that there are more Repub
lican senators now willing to permit Mr.
Roosevelt to have this honor than there
were some months ago.
The politicians also think better of the
president since he made Mr. Payne post
master general. In fact. Mr. Roosevelt
has developed Inta a very skillful manip
ulator of the political wires, if we may
believe this oracle.
Senator Fairbanks was a very threat
ening presidential possibility until an In
diana appointment recently went forth
from the white house and knocked the
life out of the Fairbanks boom.
Foraker had high hopes of succeeding
McKinley but Hanna has disposed of
those completely.
Odell has generously concluded to get
out of the way and let Roosevelt have the
nomination. Hanna has risen to the
height of an equal self-sacrifice.
We are assured by the Authority whose
views we have been quoting that the way
Is now clear for the president's triumph
in the next Republican national conven
tion. provided- the convention does not
prefer some other candidate.
President Roosevelt was doubtless pleas
ed when he received this information, that
is. if it has ever reached him.
Considerably more than two years will
pass before either the Democratic or the
Republican party will nominate its candi
date for president and the average citizen
is not worrying at this time over the
chances of any of the gentlemen who are
looking longingly at these honors.
THE BOER WAR.
The emphatic manner in which the Brit
ish‘government rejected the proffered in
termediation of Holland s|ems to make it
certain that the settlement of the South
African war will have to be effected by
the British and the Boers without the in
tervention or aid of a third party.
The war has been carried on by Great
Britain at a frightful cost, a loss of life
and an expenditure of money that was not
dreamed of when op«n hostilities began.
It may be many months yet before the
Boers can be entirely suppressed, but
nothing but their unconditional surrender
will be accepted by the nation that is
overpowering them.
There was never any foundation for the
report that Germany would take a hand
in the fight and it is not probable that the
kaiser ever thought of taking such a step.
The idea that the war Is becoming so
unpopular in England that the party in
power would be constrained to stop it has
also been completely exploded. The Brit
ish government is bitterly denounced by
many of its subjects, but the great ma
jority of its subjects undoubtedly follow
'its lead blindly in this matter.
The British policy in South Africa has
been endorsed at every opportunity and if
a general election should be held now the
conservatives would probably win by
quite as large a majority, as it has al
ready.
The Boers will not soon surrender un
conditionally. They can maintain the
style of warfare they are carrying on now
for a long time to come, though they have
a mere handful pf men tn the field as
compared with the Immense army that is
being used against them and their military
supplies have run very tow. The end of
this year will hardly see peace in South
Africa.
EX-GOV. JOHNSTON'S AMBITION
It is reported that ex-Governor John
ston. of Alabama, does not relish his re
tirement from office and will be an active
candidate for the next Democratic nomi
nation for governor of his state. He
served two successive terms just prior to
that now proceeding, and at one timq was
generally considered the most potent fac
tor in Alabama politics. His overwhelm
ing defeat for the United States senate by
John T. Morgan, a little over two years
ago, was thought by many Alabamians to
have closed his public career, but he is
in the primq of life, ambitious and keenly
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1902.
alive to what is going on in hls state. He
is conceded to be an excellent politician
and his friends predict that he will regain
at least a very large measure of his form
er popular power.
In the late contest over the new Ala
bama constitution he vigorously opposed
its adoption and it was at one time re
ported that he. General C. M. Shelley and
several other strong men had determined
to form a new party in that state. John
ston and all the other prominent men who
were discussed in this connection have de
nied emphatically that they are going out
of the Democratic party. It seems very
probable, however, that they will make
an effort to git control of it. and we
may see some very lively times in Ala
bama In the early future.
The present governor, Hon. W. D. Jelks,
of Eufaula, succeeded to the office on the
death of Governor Sanford and is under
stood to be a candidate for election to a
full term. 'He is a young man of fine
character, marked ability and great popu
larity.
The latest gossip from over the Chatta
hoochee is that he and ex-Governor John
ston will be left alone to contend for the
next Democratic gubernatorial nomina
tion.
The Alabama newspapers are already
having much to say about this prospective
contest and it may prove very interesting.
A POWERFUL APPEAL.
No map in England has a stronger hold
upon the regard and confidence of the
working men than John Burns. He has
devoted his life to efforts for the better
ment of their condition. The influence he
has acquired in parliament has enabled
him to promote the success of many move
ments in behalf of the working classes
and to secure legislation favorable to their
rights and Interests.
The cdunsel of John Burns is always
seriously considered by English working
men. In all his public addresses always
relate to practical and timely Issues.
In a recent speech in London he dealt
very impressively with the evils of the
drink habit.
To this he attributed largely the over
crowding of tenements in London, the
amount of pauperism, the prevalence of
crime, the increase of betting and the
growing isolation of th® poor from the
rich. He said;
"I deem it my duty to say that but for
drink and its concomitant evils our prob
lems would be smaller and our remedies
more affective.”
"Think more and drink less,” is the
motto which workingmen should adopt
and act up to. *
John Burns believes that any real tem
perance reform must depend more upon
the individual's own morality and
thoughtfulness than upon legislation, but
he considers it the solemn duty of the
the government to reduce The number of
drinking places. The British orink bill of
33tM».(X)0.0C0. or 320 a head, every year is.
John Burns says, a stigma upon the na
tion and a ruinous waste of its substance.
Liverpool, since 1889, has reduced its police
drunkenness cases from 16,000 to 4,180, its
crime from 926 to 552 per 100.000, its police
men by 100, at a saving of 340.000 to the
rates, by the simple remedy of having got
rid of 345 licensed premises in 11 years.
The adoption of a similar policy in Lon
don would be of immense moral and ma
terial benefit to that city.
The increase of drunkenness* among
British artisans is accountable to a great
extent for the loss of British trade and
is bringing other calamities and burdens
upon the British people. John Burns could
not be engaged in more patriotic work
than his heroic efforts to stem this tide
of dissipation.
SALARIES OF FEDERAL JUDGES.
I’r.r years Ser»t<r Hoar has been the
special champion of an increase in the pay
of the fedora) judiciary. A bill which pro
vides for a substantia’ addition to the
present emoluments of these officials has
passed the senate and will probably bo
accepted by the house. Men who are ap
pointed, to places on the federal bcrch
should be such as have proved their pos
session of legal attainments cf a high or
der, and if they have done that they must
almost invariably make large sacrifices
of present, and prospective Income.
The expenses of judges of United States
courts, if they live in a manner which
would be naturally expected from those in
so exalted a station are so large that- the
salaries now allowed them are barely suf
ficient to keep them up.
They have, it is true, the advantage of
being appointed for life, but the longer
they lemain on the bench the poorer will
become the prospects of their earnings
from the practice of their profession. It
is the frequent fate of those of their num
bet who had not independent fortunes
when they entered the government's ser
vice to die poor and leave their families
In straitened circumstances.
Even our justices of the supreme court
arc paid much less pay than the judges
of the higher courts of some states, while
federal circuit judges and judges of the
federal court of appeals receive smaller
compensation than is given to judges of
common pleas courts ih some of our cit
ies. The pending bill proposes to increase
the pay of the chief justice of the supreme
court from 310.500 to 313.000 and the asso
ciate Justices from 310,000 to 312,500 per an
num. The circuit and district court judges
are advanced in about the same propor
tions, so as to make the salary of a cir
cuit judge 37.600 a year And that of a dis
trict judge 36,250.
The propriety of increasing the pay of
senators and representatives has been dis
cussed much in recent years and good
reasons have been advanced for giving
them considerably more than the 35,000 a
year they get now. Their salaries would
probably have been increased and con
tinued at a higher figure long ago, but for
the unsavory memory of the notorious
salary grab of 1873. by which the mem
bers of congress not only voted them
selves an additional 32,500 a year, but made
it reach back of the date of the legisla
tion.
Since that time the great majority <•£
congressmen have been very shy when
ever an increase of their pay, which can
not be procured except by their own
votes, has been proposed.
FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.
About two weeks ago Seneeor Bacon of
fered a resolution providing that the Con
gressional Record should be furnished to
all who applied for it and paid a stated
subscription price which is very reason
able.
tThe resolution was adopted unanimous
ly, as it should have been. We have no
doubt that it will be concurred in by the
house of representatives.
The Cnarlotte Observer says on this sub
ject:
"The effort to put our esteemed con
temporary, The Congressional Record, in
the hands of the public by printing a
cheap edition, it is to be feared, will not
be a howling success.”
There has been no "effort” to circulate
the Congressional Record.
The object of the Bacon resolution is
Why Should the South Not Have' a Great Trans-Continental Railroad?
IT IS THE IDEAL FIELD FOR INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT—J. PIERPONT MORGAN FORESEES THE INEVITABLE, AND IS PRE
PARING FOR THE STRUGGLE—THOMAS K. SCOTT’S GREAT DREAM MAY YET BE FULFILLED.
BY THOMAS W. LOYLESS.
The reorganization in Brunswick the
other day of the Brunswick and Bir
mingham railway, with a mfllion-dollar
construction company to carry on s the
work of building that line, is, I believe,
a more significant thing than most peo
ple imagine. I have watched the pro
gress of this gigantic enterprise closely
and I see in this new move the real be
ginning of this tremendous undertaking
on the lines originally laid down by Colo
nel Machen, the man who conceived it
and put the machinery in motion.
There are' people who still scout the
idea of a transcontinental line through
the gulf states. But I doubt if these
people have ever given the matter more
than a Moment's consideration. They do
not stop to think that the great northern
lines were built under greater difficul
ties than could ever confront such an
undertaking as Colonel Machen has pro
posed. They do not stop to consider that
the south is a much more inviting field
for investment today than the northwest
was at that time, while the natural ob
stacles in the way of an enterprise of
this sort are as nothing in comparison.
To my mind the building of an Ofean
to ocean line through the southern states
Is Inevitable. The immense increase of
population and general progress in all
lines of endeavor in the south, coupled
with the radical advance of our position
as a world power, have accentuated the
necessity of such a line and investors
will not be slow to recognize the sagac
ity of such a proposition when once they
have given it a little thought. Indeed it
is no wild statement to say that it will
be impossible to much longer delay the
building of a short southern line, when
population and industrial, agricultural
and commercial interests are combining
quietly, steamly and surely, with great
marine transportation interests to corr
test for the oriental and occidental bus-
Wlth these facts in mind certain moves
that have been resently made by the
to supply a want that has been growing
for years.
Nobody will subscribe for the Record
unless he needs it or desires to read the
full proceedings of congress which are re
ported In that publication more complete
ly and more accurately than the proceed
ings of any other parliamentary body in
the world. The Record will employ no
canvassers or agents nor will it advertise
Its attractions. But at every session of
congress many persons are specially In
terested In matters of public or private
nature that are in the hands of congress,
and are anxious to keip close track of
them. They cannot obtain the Record
now Acept by favot of some member of
congress cr some high official of that
body and the number of copies allowed
to these is too small to meet anything
more than a very limited demand. The
rule under which copies of The Record
must be obtained now is as follows:
"The public printer shall furnish The
Congressional Record as follows, and shall
furnish gratuitously no others In addition
thereto:
"To the vice president and each sena
tor. forty-four copied; and to the secre
tary and sergeant-at-arms of the senate,
each 20 copies, and to the secretary, for
office use. 10 copies; to,each representative
and delegate.. 34) copies, and to the clerk
and doorkeeper of-th# house, each 20
copies, and to the clerk, for office use,
10 copies;"to/se supplied daily as originally
published or In the revised and perma
nent form bound only in half russia. or
part ,’n each form, as each may elect.
“To the vice president and each sena
tor representative, and delegate there
shall be furnished two copies of the daily
Record, one to be delivered at his resi
dence and one at the capitol.—Section 73,
public printing act of January 12, 1895. ’
The Bacon resolution fixes a price for
The Record whicb will compensate the
government for supplying it to all who
choose to subscribe. It will not be forced
upon anybody and there will be no pub
lic expense consequent upon the practical
and easy method of obtaining it which
Senator Bacon has proposed.
JURY REFORM.
Justice Brewer 1 , one of the ablest and
most accomplished justices of the United
States supreme .court, finds time from
his official labors and cares to discuss
many questions in the magazines or in
public addresses.
Recently he gave his views on the sub
ject of jury reform. He does not think
it will be possible to dispense with juries,
a policy which many lawyers and laymen
are advocating, but he does believe that
material changes should be our
Jury system.
, In the first place he would increase the
pay of juries so as give more adequate
compensation for the serious interfereflee
with their private concerns which many
jurors have to endure. Better pay would
tend to improve the general character
of juries. Eight well paid jurors would
be preferable to twelve poorly paid ones.
Justice Brewer pleads also for the relief
of jurors from some of the hardships
they, now have to endure. There is no
more reason, he thinks, why jurors should
be confined night and day during the pro
gress of a trial than there is for treating
judges in like manner.
A bad man on a jury or on the bench
cannot be guarded against temptation
and corruption by any amount of watch
ing. It degrades the office to make every
Juror feel that he is an object of sus
picion.
Justice Brewer takes strong ground In
favor of abolishing the requirement of
unanimity. This change has been ad
vocated very much ot late. The require
ment of unanimity is preserved only by
respect for tradition and Is condemned by
reason. Its abolition w-ould save much
time and the course of Justice would be
made so certain. At least so Justice
Brewer thinks.
He makes an excellent point when he
says that the people as a whole, especial
ly the more intelligent and responsible
classes of them should be educated to feel
that jury service Is a part of their duty
to the government. Justice Brewer says:
"We cannot to often repeat the state
ment that If popular government is to
continue, all must take an Interest therein,
and realize that upon each one rests
some share of responsibility; and the ad
ministration of Justice is one of the pecu
liar duties ot government.”
The otherwise good citizens who dodge
Jury duty are largely responsible for that
public affliction, the professional juror.
If a majority or three-fourths of jurors
had authority to render verdicts they
could rid themselves of the man who
"hangs” Juries in order to Increase his
pay and of the stubborn cranks who
delight to oppose the convictions of oth
ers.
There is much force in some of Justice
Brewer’s recommendations for jury re
form. It is a matter that deserves serious
consideration and it is not Arcadian to
hope that the present system may be
greatly improved before long.
great shipping interests of the north and
west seem more than ordinarily signifi
cant. The recent publication of J. Pier
pont Morgafi’s plan to form a gigantic
shipping trust to control the transporta
tion business of the world, presupposes
a disposition on his part to override all
other Interests. This, at least. Is the
view ordinarily taken by the reading
public. But it is just possible that the
real reason is far different. There are
those who believe that Mr. Morgan fore
sees the inevitable construction of a gulf
states trunk line across the continent,
and that this move on his part is but a
life and death struggle, in behalf of the
controlling spirits of the long and heavi
ly bonded northern transcontinental
lines to protect'their property from prac
tical annihilation by the building of a
line that would be more than a thousand
miles shorter and that can be built and
operated so much cheaper as to stare
the old lines in the face as a positive
menace.
Mr. Morgan knows that the idea of a
shorter transcontinental line through thb
gulf states is not a new one by any
means; for no less a person than Thom
as K. Scott, the greatest railroad presi
dent the Pennsylvania railroad ever had,
originated and worked to carry out such
an undertaking. Mr. Scott proposed to
build and operate a transcontinental line
from New York to San Diego, Cal.,
through Atlanta. But other interests in
terfered and the scheme fell through.
And to Mr. Andrew Carnegie is due
much of the blame or credit for that
fact. Carnegie refused to endorse for
Scott in his Texas and Pacific transac
tion and he was therefore compelled to
abandon that portion of his proposed
transcontinental line, thus giving Jay
Gould his opportunity to buy that road,
which he did. Then came the abandon
ment of the Virginia Midland and the
Piedmont Air Line in rapid succession.
But such was Scott's faith in the original
proposition that he had gone so far as
to provide terminals at San Diego, Cal.,
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Falling in love is inspiration; staying there
is habit.
The errors of one man are the guiding lights
of another.
It is lueky for the men that women love
without intelligence.
The wittyJ man is never the wise man; the
wise man is never the happy man.
No woman who is able to bring a man to
the point longs for the right to propose.
To spare the one she loves a pis scratch the
average woulu torture all” umanity..
It is betting or a certainty to back one love
letter against all the reason and logic in the
world.
The up-to-date train robber finds it safer
and more profitable to conduct a railway res
taurant.
When a man says he is ruined it always
means money; when it is a woman—well, she
never says it.
It is believed by some that the time is not
far distant when an honest man will actually
command respect.
There is one road to heaven, which is never
overcrowded; there are 40,000 to perdition, and
all have rapid transit problems.
The man who- wants t® teach the treasury
department how to finance the government can
never manage to make his income and his bills
agree.
There is a mysterious game called “love in
the dark." The mystery is due to the fact
that young people who play it are inclined to
be close-mouthed.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
As acquittal is a sure remedy for temporary
insanity.
Don’t worry if your sins find you out; they
will be sure to call again.
Much of the trouble in this, world is due to
the fact that ignorance isn't bliss.
If people were as wise as they think they
are the unexpected would never happen.
An Intelligent husband is all right—provided
he doesn’t indulge too frequently.
Young people who marry for fun are in a
different humor by the time the divorce court
is sighted.
Tell a girl she is "pretty as a picture” andfl
she never stops to consider how unattractive
some pictures are.
When the office seeks the ritan it usually
finds him: but, unlike Diogenes, the office
doesn't require an honest man.
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
Snow shoe races are coming into vogue in
Switzerland.
There are about 900,000 more women than
men In the German empire.
The two tunnels most needed in Europe now
are for the Caucasus and the Pyrenees.
To secure additional holidays the students of
eighteen Italian universities have resolved to
come out un ttrlke during the present month.
The Tyrol, following the example of Nor
wav is trying to encourage the winter tourist
business by offering better facilities for winter
sports.
Northampton, England, has purchased its
street car system from a private company for
the purpose of converting it from horse power
to the electric »ystem.
Valletta, Malta, being midway in the Medi
terranean, between Gibraltar and Port Said
imports more than half a million coal
for the use of passing vessels.
The gold fields in Swedish I.apland yield a
much higher percentage of gold than ex
pected. The mines are situated north of the
polar circle, near the frontier of-Finland.
An official statement from the British Cycle
and Motor Trades Association puts the average
profit on a bicyrfle at 12.16 and the number of
persons employed in the cycle trade at 100,000.
A French minister of justice proposes to re
form the obscure legal phraseology, which is
even worse in France than in England, and
substitute plain, straightforward sentences
which even the most uncultured people will
be able to understand.
A novel fort has just been completed at San
Paolo Island, at the entrance to the mllitary
harbor of Taranto, Italy. The fort is a large
steel tower, with external armor five feet
thick. It contains two twelve ton guns. The
entire tower can be turned in any direction
by hydraulic power. The tower weighs 50,000
tons and cost £480,000.
The biggest induction coil known has just
been completed in Paris by an electrical en
gineer for the Russian government. Whereas
verv powerful coils only gave a spark from 25
to 50 centimeters long, the apparatus in ques
tion produces one 80 centimeters in length. It
is nearly one meter long and consists of 70
kilometers of wire. This gigantic coil is to be
used for wireless telegraphy.
The distribution of bread and milk among
children up to six years of age has been inau
gurated in Budapest. The distributiort takes
place, morning and evening in a by street. The
milk is first boiled in four large boilers, whence
it runs into a cooling apparatus. Fifty chil
dren are allowed to enter at a time, either with
their mothers or alone, while the others wait
for their turn in a neighboring warmestube,
another charitable institution.
The Wit of the Celebrated Zimmerman
Salad for the Social.
The celebrated Zimmerman went from Han
over to attend Frederick the Great, in his last
illness. One day the king said to him. “You
have, I presume, helped many a man into
another world?" This was rather a bitter pill
for the doctor; but the dose he gave the king
in return was a judicious mixture of truth and
flattery: "Not so many as your majesty, nor
with so much honor to myself.”
THE WORD OF THE WATER.
(For the unveiling of the Stevenson Fountain
in San Francisco.)
God made me simple from the first.
And good to quench your body’s thirst.
Think you He has no ministers
To glad that wayworn soul of yours?
Here by the thronging Golden Gate
For thousands and for you I wait.
Seeing adventurous sails unfurled
For the four corners of the world.
Here passed one day. nor came again,
A prince among the tribes of men.
<For man. like me. is from his birth
A vagabond upon this earth.)
Be thankful, friend, as you pass on.
And pray for Louis Stevenson.
That by whatever trail he fare
He be refreshed in God’s great care!.
—BLISS CARMAN.
for his great system. San Diego, by the
way, seems to be the objective point of
all those who have ever dreamed of an
Ocean to ocean line through the # gulf
states.
But can It be called a dream? Carne
gie's abandonment of Scott caused him to
give up his darjng scheme, but it did not
eradicate the idea from the minds of man
that such an undertaking was not only
feasible but an ultimate necessity. Hence
this dream, of a transcontinental line has
been revived, and it would seem that
shrewd capitalists are not loath to pin
their faith to it. And J. Pierpont Mor
gan, with his proverbial far-sightedness,
is not slow to see the significance of it.
Indeed, it may be believed that he realizes
that tjie combination of the northern ma
rine lines with Morgan's long northern
transcontinental lines is an absolute ne
cessity for their salvation.
The idea has been that these interests
were more concerned over the proposi
tion to build an isthmian canal than any
other one thing. But while an isthmian
canal would, undoubtedly, be a menace,
it is hardly comparable to the havoc that
would be wrought with rates and the time
saved by the building of a line 1,200 miles
shorter across the continent, through a
section where climatic conditions cheapen
the cost of construction, maintenance and
operation.
This, I believe, is the real solution ot
the recent activity tn combining the great
marine lines with Morgan’s northern rail
road lines. It is a positive necessity of
the hour. But the question of importance
is. will this operate to the strangling of
the proposed gulf states trunk line. There
are several reasons why this seems' un
likely. In the first place, the ocean is
free. No combination of capital can con
trol that great highway absolutely.
Again, the money circle, through combi
nation. has been made smaller and small
er. The wide distribution of water that
was Injected into the trust properties has
not been made, but the sellers of Individ-
One of the Three Would
Make a Very Good Governor
CARTERSVILLE, Ga.. Feb. 3, 1902.
To The Atlanta Journal:
Gubernatorial candidates
are not multiplying in Geor
gia today. Farmer Brown
has .retired from the race. Farmer
Smith has not fuly entered it, an edi
tor and two lawyers are still in the
ring, neither disfigured much up to
date. Georgia certainly has good ma- <
terial to pick from when she selects
her next governor. Colonel Estill, of
Savannah, is a gentleman of irre
proachable character, and is highly
esteemed by all who kneyv him per
sonally. His business career has been
a success; his octal life without a
stain. All this can be truthfully said
of Candidate Terrell. One of the lead
ing educators of Georgia and one of
the purest patriots of this state wrote
me some time ago that he had lived a •
near neighbor to Dupont Guerry for
eight years, and he said in his letter
to me: "Dupont Guerry is one of the
cleanest, purest, brainiest, bravest
men I have ever known."
Senator Ben Hill once said that the
man who is privately corrupt cannot
be politically pure, and a man who is
politically corrupt cannot be personal
ly pure. If what he said holds good
in all cases. Georgia never had better
timber to select her governor from.
Candidate Dupont Guerry is doing
more talking than any of the candi
dates. and. he is not talking tnrough
his hat either; he is saying some
thing every time his lips j>art. In his
speech at Cartersville he made friends
and made votes, too. He disclaimed
all animosity or opposition to /rail
roads and corporations, and professed
for them the kindliest feelings, but
said: “If I were governor of Georgia
they would pay their equitable pro
portion of taxes with any other class
of citizens.”
He professed the profoundest animos
ity to the.saloon and the liquor traffic
In cur state. No successful candidate
in the history of Georgia has ever
talked right out upon the great issues,
moral and social, as Dupont Guerry Is
doing. Candidate Terrell may be as
clean in his personal life as Dupont
Suerry. The difference in their atti
ides on the issues involved in this
campaign is that Candidate Terrell
seems to be sitting on a stump watch
ing ihe procession go by, smiling at all «
classes, cliques and clans, as much as
to say: “Boys. I am willing. If you
want local option, I am willing; if you
want 24 wet counties slopping over on
117 dry ones, I am willing; if you want
lobbies and lobbying in your legisla
ture, I am willing: if you- want equal
taxation of all cliques and classes. I
am willing; if you want prohibition, I
am willing. I am willing for anything,
gentlemen; you just make me gov
ernor; that's all I, want, is to be gov
ernor, and my attitude toward all
classes and issues will be friendly. I
won t help or hurt anything that comes
along if I can help it; I am going to
make you a good governor; I am go
ing to behave myself: I am going in a
gentleman and I am coming out a gen
tleman. My motto is, ‘Peace on earth
and good will tFmen.' My rule of •*
conduct shall be in line with the best
interest of my campaign, and my own,
success as a candidate. I have sawed
a good deal of wood and I may keep
on sawing until I have more sawdust
than •«;ood. but it shall be non-comba
tive sawdust; it shall be peacable
sawdust. I am no bull; red rags don't
have any effect on me. I don't believe
in antagonisms. The truth of ,the
business is it does not comport with
my ideas of a gentleman to be in a
row. I am going to be a dignified gov
ernor if I get in. I am not going to
use my influence with the legislature
about anything that I don’t want to
use it about.
But. if anything. Colonell Estill is
more peacable and kindly than Can
didate Terrell. He sits quietly In his
sanctum and looks out at the win-*
dow as much as to say, "I have got
friends on both sides and I am not
going to take any stand. I want to be
governor as bad as Joe Terrell, and I
don’t believe in pitched battles
and joint debates. I write; I don't
talk. I remember my mother told me
when I was a boy, ‘A still tongue
makes a wise head,’ and somebody
wrote me for a copy in my copy-book
at school, ‘That *the pen was mightier
than the sword.’ ” But Dupont Guer
ry champions something and fights
something. He is tremendously in
favor of some things; he is awfully
against some things , and he .talks
plain English with good logic and fine
rhetoric. The politicians and the
newspapers are for Candidate Ter
rell; Southeast Georgia is for Estill,
and there is a whole lot of us scat
tered around through the state that
are for Guerry. first, last and always.
My first choice is Guerry; my second
choice is Guerry: my third choice is
Guerry; all the time after that I am
for Guerry. I am for Guerry because
' he is against something. I prefer him
to the other candidates because he
has got, the grit to say his say and I
believe he has got the grit to do his
ual properties to the trusts have realized,
and they know the weak spots. They are
prepared, therefore, to join in the up
building of new enterprises, whether it be
factory, field, mine .or transportation.
They have unloaded their holdings on th?
trust magnates and their allied financial
concerns, and are ready to repeat the
operation. With money and sagacity at
hand, they have taken time to survey the
field and have decided that the south is
the land of future business promise. Poli
tics can no longer be turned against out
side investment. The loud-mouthed howl
er has been relegated to the rear. Diver
sified education is getlng in its deadly,
work against the power of the* paid lobby
ist and heeler.
Is it any wonder that the greatest fear
of the northern lines is that the southern
country will combine with foreign capi
tal and the foreign carrying trade to con
trol the “cross the country" business, and
thus place the transportation of interna
tional products without the power of Mr.
Morgan and his allies to abnormally tax
it?
The public will readily recall the panic
of May 9th, last, which uncovered the dor
mant jealousy and hostility that exists
between the giants of finance who ignore
"gentlemens agreements,” “community
of interest” arrangements, and all other
agencies of compact when their own green
pastures are invaded by each other. That
panic was, possibly, a blessing in disguise
as an object lesson; for since that ttane
attention has been increasingly turned to
other fields of investment, where free
dom from such recurrences will protect
the sleep of the investor. |
The south opens that field, and is today
looked upon lovingly by cauital for hope
of profit, by the as weing a field
heretofore unjustly ignored and abused,
by the health seelter as his hope of ref
uge, by philanthropist as being worthy of
his favors, and by the multitude as being •
the truly American section of the Ameri
can continent. t
do if you give him a chance.
The battle will wax warmer as it
goes on and wlll t soon narrow down
to two candidates, Candidate Guer
ry and Candidate Terrell. If I can
get Joe to go bn the platform in joint
debate with Dupont, there will ba
blood and hair and the ground torn
ufi for two hundred yards all around
the platform and* Joe will furnish
most of the hair that ' you will see
flying through the air,.
While the state campaign progress
es they are having a very warm cam
paign In Floyd. Editor Knowles and
Editor Wright have been pulling wool.
I guess by this time they are bald
headed. I yam for Wright and his
crowd just like lam for Guerry anil <
his crowd, It is a mighty hard mat
ter to conduct a campaign on issues
like that in Floyd without getting
I wish Editors Wright and
would stay in a good humor.
1 have fought whisky and the devil
for thirty years, and I have tried to
stay in a good humor all the time.
Seab deserves to whip the light; he is
on the right side of that issue, b?-,
cause of the two evils the dispensary
is the lesser one: but after all ft will
be left to the voters of Floyd county,
and many a man who is undecided to
day will vote for the dispensary on the
day of the election. A many a man
won’t decide until the hour of decis
ion comes.and no man who really fears
God and looks the issues squarely in
the face Can deliberately walk up and
vote for saloons as a choice between
the saloons and the dispensary, for I
• keep on saying it, the worst thing this
side of perdition is an open saloon,
and I am sorry for any man who has
a good mother or a good wife or in
nocent daughters who can deliberate
ly walk up to the polls on election
day and vote for an infernal saloon
to be opened or be perpetuated in his
county.
in Bartow county we want neither
saloons nor dispensaries. In Floyd
county, if 1 lived there. I would cham
pion the dispensary, not because the
dispensary was right, but because I
beUeve it a thousand times leas harm
ful than the saloon. It is all I can de
to keep from going over there and tak
ing a hand in the fight, but I am afraid
if I champion the dispensary in Floyd
county, and the red-nosed rascals
should, ever get the fight up in our
county and I were to fight the dispen
sary they would have the joke on me.
It will be a great blessing to Bartow
and Polk and Paulding and Gordon
and Whitfield if the saloons are down
ed In. Rome and a dispensary estab
lished, for whatever else you may say
of a dispensary, it does not slop over
like a damnable saloon will do on, all
the territory in a hundred miles
around, and then another good thing
the dispensary will do in Rome, it will
down that dirty liquor crowd that has
run the politics and bossed the ring of
the county fbr so long a time. I
may not shout out loud but I will say
“halleluiah” easy when the dispensary
is victorious in Fldyd. .Yours truly,
SAM P. JONES.
P. S.-My good friend Pope Brown,
and I like him, he got out of the gov
ernor’s race like the Dutchman in Cin
cinnati in the political meeting, who
got up and said: “Gentlemen. 1 dush
make a few remarks myself; Ish been
voting In this fourt ward three years
and never opened my mouth.” A fellow
hollered “Kick him out.” He turned
and looked at his assailant and said:
“If you dinks you kick me out you
just come but doors and I will kick
myself out.”
Pope didn’t wait to be kicked out: he
just went out doors and kicked him
self out. Yours S. P. X
Sorrow’s Sole Need.
George Elliot.
But we must live as much as we can for
human joy, dwelling on sorrow and pain only
so far as the consciousness may help us la
stirring to remedy them. . *
THE SIREN RIVER.
Like a tree beside the river
Os her life, that runs from me,
Do I lean me. murmuring ever
My fond love’s idolatry;
And I reach out hands of blessing.
And I stretch out hands of prayer,
And with passionate caressing
• Waste my life upon the air.
In my ears the siren river
Sings, and smiles up in my faca—
But forever and forever
Runs from my anbrace.
Spring by spring, the branches duly
Clothe themselves In tender flower.
And for her sweet sake as truly
All their fruit and fragrance shower}
But the stream, with careless laughtsr.
Runs in merry beauty by.
And it leaves me yearning after—
Lone to weep, and lone to die;
In my ears the sired river
Sings, and smiles up in my face—
But forever and forever
Runs from my embrace.
I stand mazed in the moonlight.
O’er its happy face to dream:
I am parched In the moonlight, • Z*
By that cool and brimming stream}.
I am dying by the river *
Os her life, that runs fron. me, ~
While it sparkles by me ever, «
With '.ts cool felicity.
In my egfa the Mrcn river ’ »’
eings. >h‘i smiles up In my tape—
But forever and forever l .
Runs from my embrace.
—Gerald Massey.