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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. b ■' -■ .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.
