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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20. 1902,
The early robin should be careful, else
h« is liable to catch a coW. Instead.
The British war contractor Is probably
in no hurry to see the Boers surrender.
The man who said figures won’t lie was
born before the "straight front’’ came
into use.
This sort of weather makes us feel that
the groundhog knew his business when
he went back.
Whv will the milliners persist in disturb
ing our Lenten thoughts with their Easter
bonnet displays?
In Cuba’s case the Republican theory
seems to be that starvation is the hand
maiden of protection.
An Illinois man has been discovered
Who never feels cold. What a stayer he
would be tn a game.
Manila is to have an exposition next
December. This is where the merry Mid
way will also follow the flag.
There is another thing about that pro
posed new 21-2 cent coin; it will sound as
loud as a nickel in the collection box.
Automobiles are to replace the stage
coaches in Yellowstone Park. The day of
the artificial geyser may not be far off.
The pneumonia microbe may think a
second time before it concludes to tackle
a member of the Roosevelt family in fu
ture.
If this thing keeps up the Jim Smith
gubernatorial rumor will soon be in the
same class with the Miss Stone release
rumor.
We are Inclined to feel somewhat hope
ful. Mr. Whitney says the kind of pros
perity we are now enjoying will not last
forever.
The Birmli.gh&m News thinks it Is quite
evident that some congressmen knew
which side their bread was oleomarga
rine on.
Both Guerry and Terrell opened their
campaign in dry towns. Perhaps Mr.
Guerry feels that this also was a rank
plagiarism.
Counsel Raynor ha* been presented with
a silver statue of Schley in miniature.
Somebody should present Lemley with a
brass statue of Sampson.
John L. Sullivan has retired from the
stage. No one could be found who would
play "Uncle Tom” to his "Simon Degree’’
for more than one round. f
Perhaps It has never occurred to any of
the gubernatorial candidates that we
might be able to lower the tax rate by
raising the assessments. «
Why not just admit that every one
of those European nations knew enough
no to interfere in that little affair of our s
with Spain, and let it go at that.
The street car companies of the country
do not look kindly on the proposed new
21-2 cent
foolish notions in the public mind.
Somebody has staffed a Joe Hill Hall
boom for speaker of the next house. Dol
lars to doughnuts the Bibb statesman will
refuse to be muzzled in this manner. •
It is almost too much for the Hon. Joe
Hill Hall to stand to be told that it is the
Southern railway that is trying to defeat
the acceptance of the depot proposition.
It seems impossible to find an appropri
ate sobriquet fbr any of the gubernato
rial candidates. “Private” John Estill is
the best that anyone has been able to
do so far.
A Filipino provincial governor has
skipped out with 94.000 of the public funds.
There would seem to be no longer any
reason for denying that the Filipinos are
ready for self-government.
It may be none of our business, but.
Somehow, we feel that we ought to ad
vise William Allen White to put off writ
ing that sketch of Ben Tillman until he
has attended to everybody else.
We might expeet a poem from Mr. Kip
ling on the British army scandals except
for the fact that it Is manifestly difficult
to arouse the tn use on the subject of em
balmed beef and spavined horses.
From the amount of space that has been
given by the American press to the Illness
of young Roosevelt, the people of Europe
may be excused if they form the idea that
he is the heir apparent to the presidential
chair.
A Boston paper thinks the local physi
cian who recently entered a pest hosse in
that city without first qpbmitting to vac
cination. just to establish a theory, is to
be pitted. Which isn’t bad. for a Boston
paper.
It I* not right to gossip about your
neighbor* during Lent. But. as some one
has suggested, it is not a violation of the
rules to merely mention somebody’s name
to a party of lady friends and proceed to
listen.
In a Kansas college recently prayers
were offered for Mie success of the col
lege's baseball tefm during the coming
season. But in baseball, as in war, the
Lord is on “the side of the strongest bat
teries."
If the sultan of Turkey keeps in his
{resent frame of mind, he Is liable to be
the only surviving member of his own
family. Already he has sentenced a ma
jority es his brothers-in-law and nephew*
to death.
Queen Alexandra has revoked her de
cree forbidding the wearing of jewels and
coronet* at King Edward's coronation.
We wish the lady had Insisted, however,
that not more than six rings be worn on
one finger.
The Hackettstown. N. J„ authorities
have posted the following notice: "All
. persons having dogs or cats running at
large are hereby notified that they will
be killed unless put under restraint.” This
strikes us as being rather severe punish
ment for person* who have done nothing
worse than own cats and dogs.
KILL THE TAWNEY BILL.
The Journal prints today In its •’Letters
From the People” a communication from
Capt. R. J. Redding, superintendent of the
Georgia Experiment Station, in which he
criticises an editorial that appeared re
cently in this paper.
Capt. Redding is an ardent advocate of
the Tawney bill. As we see It.
this bill has no other object
than the destruction of the manufac
ture and sale of oleomargarine by the
prostitution of the taxing power of the
federal government. He is of the opinion
that the solid Georgia delegation in con
gress which stands arrayed against this
bill and its ilk do not represent their con
stituents on the question of destroying
one industry in order to boost another.
Capt. Redding, like all the other advo
cates and apologists of the Tawney bill,
starts with the assumption that the oleo
margarine industry is disreputable and
that the people should rise in their might
to demand its suppression.
It is conceded that oleomargarine can
not be arraigned under our pure food
laws, for it has been proved to be quite as
chemically pure as butter and is probably
a great deal better than the average but
ter that goes to market.
But Capt. Redding presumes that oleo
margarine has gained its great popularity
by masquerading as butter and that the
federal government should therefore pas*
a law whose effect would be to put oleo
margarine out of business.
We have had for years a law that im
poses a tax upon this article and imposes
restrictions upon its sale that we consid
er one of the worst enforcements of class
legislation ever perpetrated in this coun
try. Not satisfied with this, the anti
oleomargarine agitators propose to go
further and prohibit the use of that whole
some article at all.
They do not dare to attack oleomarga
rine on its merits, but they resort to the
equally effective but less honest device of
taxing it to death.
If the real purpose of the Tawney bill 1*
to prevent the palming off of oleomarga
rine upon the public as butter, why does
that measure prescribing every pos
sible precaution against such deception
also provide for a tax of 10 cents a pound
upon an article that is pure and digestible
and in great favor with the millions of
our people who cannot afford to buy but
ter even while oleomargarine is compet
ing with it?
Pass the Tawney bill and butter will
move beyond the reach of the poor peo
ple of the country. We use the word
“move” because butter has frequently
been known to exhibit symptoms of in
cipient locomotion.
The real design of the Tawney bill
brought out clearly several times during
the recent debate upon it tn the house of
representatives, especially when it was
proposed to place the working-over of
butter under federal regulation. Every
body who has ever witnessed tha| process
has looked upon a sickening mass of rem
nants of butter of all sorts and qualities
and of varying degrees of longevity be
ing worked into an apparently homogen
ous and coeval Identity, colored up to the
most approved hue, to be sent forth as
first-class butter.
Capt. Redding has no protest to make
against this deception of the public and
many of the Tawney billites considered
it suchza highly honorable practive that
they fought ferociously against the prop
osition to even inspect it.
Thoss who hays looked upon worked
over butter once never do so again as a
matter of choicp, and the internal revenue
officials that will be required to oversee it
should be well paid, for they will surely
have tough work to do. . ,
It is safe to say that- the great bulk of
the commercial butter in this country is
colored to make it appear richer or fresh
er than It really is.
But according to the Tawneyites who
are lineal descendants of the Grouters, it
is infamous to color oleomargarine. One
of the statesmen in this aggregation in a
moment of especially brilliant illumination
flashed forth a scheme to command that
all oleomargarine should be green. The
particular shade of green he was good
enough to leave to the mercy of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau.
Why this discrimnation of colors against
the sentimental violet, the lovely laven
der, the gorgeous, red, the sober brown
and the ultra-conservative black?
When Capt. Redding refers to the ’’hour
of victory” which the Tawney billers now
enjoy he should remember that their
scheme has yet to be approved by a ma
jority of the senators who will pass upon
it and that it is too transparent to endure
much further discussion.
We are happy in the assurance that
Georgia’s record will be kept straight and
purely Democratic on this question. Geor
gia presented a solid front the
Tawney biU in the house and has an
equally solid one to resist its passage
through the senate.
May the Georgia senators find them
selves in a company strong enough to
smash the life out of this very bad bill!
A NEW SALARY GRAB.
The average citizen probably does not
know how much we pay the commission
ers whom we have sent to govern the
Filipinos, who do not desire to be gov
erned by anybody but themselves, cher
ishing that ”fool”love of liberty of which
we ourselves have been guilty.
Gov. Taft, the civil governor of the
W. 000,000 people whom we bought from
Spain receives a salary of 120,000 and Ins
fellow-commissioners have to scuffle along
on 915.000 a year.
This seems to be pretty good pay. Each
of the subordinate commissioners receives
much more than the chief justice of the
United States, the general of the United
States army, the presidents of our large
universities and three times as much as
United States senators and members of
the house of representatives are paid.
Gov. Taft, as has been stated, gets
$5,000 a year more than the other com
missioners. But if we may believe these
hard-worked official, the government is
not doing the square thing by them.
Gov. Taft has informed a senate com
mittee that his salary is hardly ade
quate. for the reason that he hah a great
deal of entertaining to do. He thinks that
if he had more money to spend on ban
quets and other displays of the luxuries
of office he would be able to carry on his
work of reconstruction more hopefully.
The other commissioners are of the opin
ion that they could use an increase of
salary for the benefit of the United States
and the Philippines in a similar way.
What proportion of their salaries they
now use for the entertainment of the Fil
ipinos these petitioners do not state but
they leave us to infer th<qt the work of
pacification in the Philippines will be
greatly promoted if their pay is increased
It is costing us something like 9100,000,000
a year to hold the Phillippines now and
the addition of a paltry 925,000 or 930,000
to this annual expense account would
hardly be felt and would be very gratify-
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1902.
ing to Gov. Talf and the other commis
sioners.
The propriety of cutting down their ex
penses by reducing the number and splen
dor of their entertainments cannot be sug
gested without incurring the suspicion of
opposition, if not actual treason to the
plan of salvation for the Filipinos that
the administration is now workington.
By all means let the salaries or Gov.
Taft and his official associates be in
creased.
The only thing we should be careful
about is to ascertain just how much they
will be satisfied with.
Having obtained this information we
can proceed to rake the amount out of
the treasury and hand it over to them.
THE SOUTH AND HISTORY.
Many newspapers and a great many peo
ple in tjie south have welcomed the pros
pect of the establishment in the south of a
publishing house, one of the main objects
of which will be the encouragement of
southern writers, especially authors of
histories and historical literature in gen
eral and the preparation of fair school
histories.
We are surprised to find in the Louis
ville Courier-Journal the following at
tack upon this enterprise:
"A project to set up a publishing house
in the south for the benefit of southern
writers who cannot get their manuscript
accepted in the north would be certain to
fall, and a project to conduct a publishing
house to profit by and stimulate section
alism would deserve to fall. If the south
makes books on a large scale it must do
it as it makes cotton cldth or sugar—for
the benefit of everybody that wants them
—and must adapt its products to the
wants of the market as other branches of
business are obliged to do. There is no
such thing as an exclusively northern pub
lishing house, and there is no legitimate
field for an exclusively southern publish
ing house.”
An unfairer statement of the purposes
of the movement to which we have re
ferred could hardly be conceived. Nobody
has proposed to “set up a publishing house
in the south for the benefit of southern
writers who cannot get their manuscripts
accepted in the north.”
There is a strong and growing feeling in
the south in favor of industrial develop
ment in every possible line.
The Courier-Journal would be one of the
first to condemn an Indifference or lack of
enterprise in the south that would cause
the people of this section to depend upon
the other parts of the country for supplies
which they could furnish just as well
themselves. And yet it frowns upon an
endeavor to provide for a home supply of
school text books and considers it advis
able for the south to continue to pay 915,-
000,000 a year to northern publishers to
make these books for us.
There is not the slightest justification of
the charge that it is proposed to establish
a concern for the manufacture and distri
bution of books which are designed to
perpetuate sectionalism. The worst slan
derer of the south could hardly descend
to a wilder misrepresentation.
It is a fact, however, that the patience
of the south has been sorely tried by pub
lishing houses of the north which ✓have
worked off upon the south, where proper
vigilance was not kept, books pretending
to be histories which embody reckless
misstatements of the principles for which
the southern people contended in the civil
war and the manner in which they con
ducted themselves in that conflict.
Often, where school authorities have
been deceived or have been by Any sort oft
influences prevailed upon to the extent
that would permit the introduction of such
text books an indignant public has kicked
these slanderous publications out of its
schools. The people of the south would
rather that their children should not be
taught history at all than that they should,
be taught lies about it.
The Courier-Journal protests against the
establishment of a publishing house in the
south that would be effective in protecting
the south against imposition by the agents
of literature that attempts to pervert
history, and would at the same sup
ply text books based upon facts and the
indisputable accounts of men and events,
but it has no word of accusation or re
buke for the establishments that have
been busy for years in sowing and culti
vating the seeds of falsehood, whether
they intended their enterprises to have
that effect or not. > •
If it be maintained that an absolutely
impartial text book of history is an im
possibility all we have to say is that if
they insist that books of that kind must
inevitably lean one way or the other the
south shall have the fullest possible op
portunity to obtain for her schools those
that lean in her favor Instead of against
her. But the people of the south are quite
as liberal and fair-minded as those of the
north and have at least as little desire to
have history colored to match their pre
judices.
The Courier-Journal says: •“There are
no exclusively northern publishing
houses.”
We know of nobody who wants to estab
lish an exclusively southern publishing
house. ‘ t
But will The Courier-Journal say that
the general character of the literature
touching questions upon which the north
and the south have differed, and differ
still, that is sent forth by northern pub
lishing houses is historically reliable and
is presented with perfect impartiality?
Is it such literature as meets the appro
val of Intelligent and self-respecting
southern men and women? Nay, more,
do these publications, as a rule, present
the truth of history as the official records
compiled and preserved by the United
States government and the indisputable
testimony gathered from cotemporaneous
sources attest it?
It is a remarkable thing that a news
paper published in the south should not
only see no good reason for establishing
a great publishing house in this section,
but should go to the extent of attacking
an effort in that direction 'and even mis
represent that enterprise to an extent that
can be honorably excused only on the
ground of ignorance.
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS.
Last Wednesday the senate passed by
the requisite two-thirds vote the joint
resolution introduced by Senator Hoar
Which provides for a constitutional
amendjnent fixing the termination of the
Fifty-eighth Congress for the last Thurs
day in April, 1905. and providing for the
inauguration of the next president and
vice-president at noon on that day.
If the proposed amendment should be
adopted the date of our presidential in
augurations would be changed from
March 4 every four years to the last
Thursday in April.
The main reason offered for the change
of date is that the fourth of March usu
ally comes in about the most disagreeable
weather that visit* Washington, whereas
the latter part of April is almost invaria
bly very pleasant and healthful at the
national capital.
Senator Stewart opposed the resolution
and expressed the opinion held by many
that the inaugurations are already too
gorgeous and have entirely too much of
the military feature and that they would
become still more objectionable on these
accounts if held in the fine weather of
April which would attract larger crbwdz
and call for more pageantry.
The force of the Nevada senator’s ar
gument was not appreciated by the sen
ate, which remained overwhelmingly in
favor of the resolution.
This is the third time that the senate
has gone as far as it can toward effecting
a change of the time for Inaugurating of
the president and vice-president, the prop
osition having been rejected by the house
on both the former occasions.
It is said that the idea has grown in
favor in the house and it is freely pre
dicted that the Hoar resolution will re
ceive the necessary two-thirds vote in
that body.
But even then it will still be a long way
from the accomplishment of its object.
Before it can be incorporated in the con
stitution it will have to be adopted by
three-fourths of all the state legislatures
and then be signed by the president.
The process of amending the constitu
tion of the United States is very slow and
difficult and It is fortunate for the coun
try that it is so.
The Hoar amendment, however, is an
excellent thing and we hope to see it
adopted.
BISHOP POTTER’S POSITION.
It is the fate of prominent men to be
misunderstood often and to be not in
frequently. misrepresented.
Bishop Potter cjlaims that some of the
comments that have been made concern
ing his position on the subject of prohi
bition have been grossly unjust.
As The Journal has published some se
vere criticisms of Bishop Potter we take
pleasure in giving the bishop’s own state
ment views on the question which is
now agitating New York. He says:
“I have never dreamed of regarding the
present saloon as either a blessing or a
necessity, and no word of mine, whether
uttered recently or at any other time,
warrants any such inference. I have sim
ply regarded it as an inevitable and nec
essary evil, until it was displaced by some
thing better.
*'To close it, whether on Sundays, or on
any other particular days, is not to dis
place it by something worthy of public
respect and legal protection; and my con
troversy is simply with those who have
no other aim, in dealing with a mischiev
ous institution, than to suppress it;
whereas, the only hope of reform here is
in displacement by substitution.
“The present proposition to close the
saloons on Sunday and otherwise leave
thent alone, is tne policy of those who re
fuse to face facts, or to deal with them
as their exigency demands. And,, be
cause thi* is so, the present agitation as
to closed, or open, or hajf open, saloons,
does not interest me in the smallest de
gree. It is equally superficial and sophis
tical.”
Every man in this country has a right
to think as he pleases on public questions
and to express his opinions concerning
them in his own way.
The above statement given out by Bish
op Potter himself puts him in a very dif
ferent attitude from that which some of
his critics fixed for him and he is entitled
to the full benefit of |t.
A SERIOUS MENACE TO COTTON.
The government Is very properly pre
paring to combat the Mexican weevil be
fore it can,gain a stronger foothold in this
country. ,
It has already done great damage in
Texas and there ar,e> apprehensions of
still heavier ravages i>y it this year.
Senator Culberson stated a few days ago
that the weevil destroyed 300,000 bales of
cotton last year.
Congressman Burleson told the house
committee on agriculture Friday that
Texas lost at least 910,000,000 last year on
this account. The government Inserted an
item of $20,000 in the general agricultural
bill to be immediately available for the
eradication of the pest.
The senate will undoubtedly concur in
this appropriation at the first opportunity.
The agricultural department seems to
realize the importance of immediate ac
tion in this matter and we may expect
excellent results from its efforts. The de
partment is better than ever
before to contend with such a problem.
The weevil which destroys cotton, as the
grasshopper destroys other crops, in
creases and spreads with marvelous rapid
ity. It has been only a little over a year
since it made its first appearance in Tex
as, but it has already proved a terror
there, and unless something shall be done
early in the coming spring to check its
progress this fell destroyer will probably
extend over a very much larger area in
Texas and invade other qotton states.
When the weevil first appeared in Texas
very little was known about it, but the
entomologists of the agricultural depart
ment have studied the inject industrious
ly and believe that they can master it as
soon as they can get fairly at the work
they are to undertake.
The prospect of the extermination of
the weevil in this country is excellent and
the accomplishment of that result will be
another demonstration of the Immense
value of our progressive national depart
ment of agriculture.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Because a man looks unhappy is no proof
that he Is married.
A mother’s slipper has saved many a boy
from a jailor’s handcuffs.
A woman’s logic has more crisscrosses In it
tharp a patchwork quilt.
An acquaintance is a friend that you are
a bit ashamed to acknowledge.
It is not that being good isn’t easy; it is
that not being bad is hard.
Men like women to be intelligent; what
they hate is to have them intellectual.
Women don’t worry half as much about
beauty in old age as ugliness in youth.
Women diet the way they read history;
they pick out the parts they like and skip
the rest.
Confession is nine points of the law.
Envy is one part wounded vanity and three
parts malice.
A woman can forgive herself a great many
sins of commission if she has not the sin of
omission in not having nice wavy hair.
A man who can't appreciate the good
qualities of a rich wife probably would be
suspeious of the soundness of a government
bond.
The first time a man runs for an office he is
cocksure that he is going to be elected and
wind up in the White House; the next time he
knows he is going to be beaten and wind up
in the poor house.
They All Wheel Into Line.
Dallas News.
Congressman Babcock is acting tn the ways
and means committee in a manner calculated
to annoy the Republican majority of that
body. But that may be mere play. These
Republicans can in committees cut up high
jinks, but when they get out in the house
where a vote is taken they are usually as
meek as lambs. Ix>ok at Senator Hoar, for ex
ample. He talks rebelliously, but when It
comes to the voting time he can always be
found right in the front of the charging Re
publican column.
To Renew the “Old Black Silk” Dress.
A few little touches applied with skill will
make your "old black suit” quite nice enough
for many a day. It wii! require new sleeves,
made bell shape, with embroidered muslin un
dersleeves. Trim the bodice with a small
round yoke, a collar, and a ruffle down the
front of the embroidered muslin. Outline the
yoke with narrow velvet ribbon, and trim the
edge of the skirt with the same.—February
Ladies’ Home Journal.
OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
Not So Much Fun in That.
* Baltimore Sun.
So fascinating is the humor of our tariff
that our German brethren are seriously con
templating the adop.tion of some of our best
jokes. The cardinal principle of protection is
to restrict if not to prohibit purchases from
foreign nations. That strikes the Teuton as
such excellent fun that his parliament is about
to apply to the JJnited States the same prin
ciple which our congress has applied to Ger
many. "We will take our schedules,” says
the relchstag. "and enforce them against all
American goods Imported into Germany."
That may not provoke laughter on this side of
the Atlantic, but why shouldn't it? The Ger
man is quite as much entitled to his little
joke as we are.
' Mr. Babcock is Inconsistent.
Milwaukee Journal.
Mr. Babcock is opposing relief for the Cu
. bans through a reduction of duties. If he in
tends to stand before the public as a reformer
of monopolistic tariffs for the reason that they
are oppressive and ought not to be permitted to
exist he must square himself to his preaching
by helping the Cubans from a like situation,
especially as it can be done without sacrificing
any material home interest. If his position
and utterances are sincere and his arguments
good he must abide the logical result*. He
must not flinch 'when confronted with new or
other propositions which are governed by the
same principles. His position means tariff re
form or it means nothing.
The Republican Dilemma.
Kansas City Star.
A large number of Republican* are con
vinced that they muat face one of two things—
either a substantial reduction, of the protective
tariff, beginning with the Cuban schedule, or
invite such an assault on protection as would
endanger the whole institution. Either pros
pect is good for the country. The best thing
that could happen would be a deliberate wiping
out of practically the whole protective system,
but the thfpg that will make that ultimately
possible is such a beginning as seems inevit
able as a result of the Cuban question awl the
specific demand for a removal of a part of the
outrageously discriminating duties on steel
and iron.
Discriminating Between Thieves.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The action of the senate in recalling the
confinnation of one of Mr. Roosevelt’s rough
riders because of the assertion that ha had
been in jail for theft is taken as showing that
the senate cannot stand so doubtful a record
as that. Yet the nomination has twice wen
considered by the senate of a man who while
-a member of the Pennsylvania legislature was
exposed in presenting an expense account com
posed of such stunning allowances for car
fare and miscellaneous expenses that the mere
publication of the items terminated hl* politi
cal usefulness before the voters of Pennsyl
vania.
Errs in His Methods.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
In desiring to improve the civil service th*
president la animated by an admirable motive.
In executing his purpose he has. however, hit
upon a singularly unfortunate plan of opera
tion. He is not unlike the architect who would
remove the foundation stone of the edifice in
order to provide a cornice for one of the stately
pillars that upheld the structure.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago New*.
Youth has ideals; old age has ideas.
As a pin i* bent, so is it inclined to carry it*
point.
A on top of the wheel doesn’t care for
a turn.
Let well enough alone—unless you ar* a
physician.
Undertakers lose out when the dead past
buries its dead.
A girl’s love for pickles doesn’t necessarily
sour her disposition.
Woman is a good listener when ahe can’t
think of anything to say.
Humanity is more extravagant with an
athemas than with praise.
Woman grows old about as gracefully as she
climbs out of a hammock.
Few rich men with poor relation* believe in
the art of healing by touch.
For some unaccountable reason the amateur
vocalist never loses his voice.
Repartee either makes a man’* reputation
or cause* him to lose his job.
Compositors must be jolly good fellows, for
thev are always setting ’em up.
One woman may envy the beauty of an
other, but her intelligence—never.
Children of poor parents are born lucky;
they have no inheritance to lose.
With her first engagement ring a girl imag
ines life for her ha* just begun.
With the exception of lovemaking, there ar*
many new ways of doing old thing*.
Some people think things they don’t say, and
others say things they don’t think.
When a man starts for a dentist’s office he
usually strikes a tooth-hurty gait.
A young man may be as bright as e. dollar,
but some girls would rather have the dollar.
If a girl has, freckles it’s a sign she has a
good memory; she simply can't forget them.
Some folks are saddest when they sing; and
other* are saddest when they are not asked to
sing.
If the average man knew what was beat for
him there would be less said about blesslbga
in disgqise.
Only a man who has nothing to live for can
afford to sit down and wait for the happening
of the unexpected.
When a man’s life is in danger and he Uvea
to tell the tale he generally tells It in after
years on the least provocation.
‘The would-be humorist rubs it in on the
mother-in-law occasionally, but realising
which side of his butter the bread is on, he
let* the father-in-law religiously alone.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Samuel Perkins Bishop, the oldest banker
in the world since the death of the late Fred
erick Fraley, is very ill at his home in Cin
cinnati. He was born in 1806 in Liverpool. Nova
Scotia. /
General ’ Oliver O Howard, in a reminiscent
mood, says that of the twenty-seven com
manders of Union armies during the civil war
only two survive. General Schofield and him
self.
Sir Noel Paton’s will, recently recorded in
Edinburgh, Scotland, asks that his sons and
daughters keep together his works, finished and
unfinished, and also the collection of armor
and arms which he has brought together.
Dr. Seward -Webb, of the Vanderbilt family
was supposed To have gone to Vermont for his
health, but he has developed into a candidate
fdr governor. He has also engineered one or
two successful and important railroad deals in
the Green Mountain State.
Mrs. Long, wife of the secretary, is about
the only woman in the cabinet contingent who
goes in for walking. Nearly every morning she
accompanies the secretary to his office, and
not infrequently meets him there and walks
home with him in the afternoon.
Lieutenant Franz von Preuschen, an officer
of the Austrian cruiser Szigetvar, at present at
New Orleans, is a grandson of General Hen
derson, who was governor of the Texas Re
public and an ambassador from the little re
public in 1836-37 to England and France and
his mother was a native born Texas woman.
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
The manufacture of silk in France has not
increased since 1895. In 1900 it was 37.63 per
cent, of the world's commerce in silks.
The Mexican National Board of Health re
ports in its last bulletin that since 1888, when
the Pasteur treatment of hydrophobia was in
troduced there. 4.000 persons had been treated,
with a total mortality of only 3 per 1,000.
The experience in Edinburgh, Scotland, is
that Wooden pavements, even when made from
the creosote-bearing Australian jarrah wood,
last, on busy streets, but ten years, while
granite blocks, if reset once or twice, will last
thirty year*.
Prussia has 200 meteorological stations fully
equipped. 2.200 rain gauge stations and 1.400
stations that record storms and unusual phe
nomena. The results of their observations are
reduced and published for each week, for each
month and for each year.
Advantages of Hospital Treatment.
In a majority of instances, ard with very
few exceptions Indeed, it is far better to be
treated in a hospital than at home for any
trouble requiring the knife. To those who by
actual personal experience or by observation
of relatives and acquaintances who have been
patients in a hospital, are convinced of the
facilities existing there for healing the sick, no
argument is needed to prove that the hospital
is a place of luxury-, convenience and comfort.
The ordinary home cannot compare with it in
a single particular.-Margaret E. Sangster, in
The Ladies' Home Journal for February.
Aggressions by the Senate.
t Louisville Courier-Journal.
The bouse is Complaining of the extent to
which the senate assorts Itself in revenue legis
lation. There is some basis, in fact, for such
complaints. By making new revenue bills
o ight, under the gui*e of amendments, the
st ..ate verbally nullifies that provision of the
constitution which requires such bills to origi
nate in the house. But how can it be other
wise when the house persists in sending to
the sentfre bills that have not received ade
quate consideration and which do not com
mand the unqualified assent of a majority?
So the South Carolina legislature has
also turned down a child labor bill. Per
haps the mill owners of that sftate have
also voluntarily agreed to abolish child
slavery—like they have abolished it in
Georgia. - ,
Mr. Dooley On the Bad Man From the West.
1 v . 4
BY P. F. DUNNE.
(Copyright, 1902. by Robert Howard Russell.)
isee,” said Mr. Hennessy, “th’
sinit has rayfused f’r to con
firm th’ nomynation iv a man
' f’r an office out West because
“I
he'd been in jail.”
“Pro-flssyonal jealousy,” said Mr.
Dooley. “Ye see, th’ fact iv th’ mat
ther is th’ slnlt don’t know what th’
people iv th’ Far West want an’ th’
prisidint does. Th’ sinit thinks th’
jooty iv th’ counthry to th’ land iv
th’ tajantuly is done if they sind out
a man too weak in th’ lungs to stay
in th’ East an’ wan that can multiply
com-pound fractions in his head. But
th’ prisidint he knows that what’s
needed in th’ Far West is active, in
tllligent officers that can shoot through
th’ pocket. Th* other day it become
necess’ry to thrust on th’ impeeryal
# territory iv Aryzony a competint per
‘son Yr to administher th’ laws an’
keep th’ peace iv said community, an’
th’ 'pollyticians in Wash’nton was f'r
givin’ thim somewan f’rm Connecticut
or Rhode Island with a cough an’ a
brother in th’ ligislachure. But th’
prisidint says no. ’No,’ he says, ’none
but .th’ best,’ he says, ‘fr th’ domain
iv th’ settln’ sun,’ he says. ‘I know
th’ counthry well,’ he says, ’an’ to cope
with th’ hardy spirits iv Aryzona, 'tis
issintial we shud have a man that can
plug a coyote fr’m th’ hip at fifty
paces,’ he says. ‘How can you dhraw
to yon hectic flush so’s to make him
good again th’ full bands iv thim com
munities where life is wan gay an’
tireless round iv shoot,’ he says. ’Ye
can’t expict him to riprisint th’ majes
• ty iv the governmint iv Wash’nton an’
Lincoln. He'd be bucked off befure he
got his feet in th’ sturrups. No, sir,
th’ man iv me , choice is Tarantula
Jake, th’ whirlwind iv Zuma Pass.
This imminint statesman has pocketed
more balls thin anny other disperado
west iv Tucson an’ anny docymints
iv state enthrusted jo his hands Is
sure to be delivered to their object,*
he says, ’or,’ he says, ‘th’ heirs iv th’
object,’ he says.
“ ‘But,’ says th’ slnlt, ’he lost an ear
in a fight.’
“ ’A boyish error,’ says th’ prisidint.
‘Th’ man threw th’ knife at him,’ he
says.
“ ‘An’ he kilt a man,’ says thev.
“ ’Ye do him an injustice,’ says th’
prisidint. ‘Kilt a man, says ye! Kilt
a man! Such is fame. Why,’ he says.
‘He’s kilt more men thin th’ sinit has
repytations,’ he says. ’Ye might jus’
as well say me friend Sinitor Bivrfdge
wanst made a speech, or that Shakes
peare wrote a play or that it's a fine
tooth I have. If all th’ people Jake
has kilt was aHve today, we’d be
passin' congisted disthrict ligislachion
f’r Aryzony. Kilt a man, is it! I give
ye me wurrud that ye can hardly find
wan home in Aryzony fr’m th’ proud
est doby story-an’.-a-half palace iv th’
rich to th’ lowly doby wan-story hut
iv th’ poor that this flagrant pathrite
hasn’t deprived iv at laste wan orny
mint. Didn’t I tell ye he is a killer?
I didn’t name a man that on’y wanst
in a while takes a life. He s a rale
killer. He’s no retailer. He's th’ Ar
mour iv that particular line ov slaugh
ter. Ye don’t suppose that I’d propose
Yr to enthrust him with a lofty con
stichoochional mission if he on’y kilt
wan man. Me notions iv th’ jooties iv
public office is far higher thin that, I
thank hlven. Besides in th’ cas ye
speak iv ’twas justifiable homicide.
He had ast th’ man to dhrink with
him. No, sir. I have examined his re
cord carefully an’ I find him like a
horse afther a hay wagon. He’s th’
man Yr th’ place, th’ quick dhrawin’.
readily passionate, hammerless gun
firin’ Terror iv th’ Great Desert.’
“But th’ sinit didn’t approve iv him.
Th’ sinitor fr’m Matsachoosetts where
human life is held so cheap that no
man thinks Iv takin’ it, pro-tested
again him an’ ’twas fin’lly discovered
that early in his career he’d been
caught runnin’ off a bunch iv cows an’
pushed into jail, an’ tha,t was too much
f’r th’ hon’rable body, hardly wan
mimber iv which has iver been caught.
So they give Jake th’ go-by.
"But it’ll come out all right in th’
end. Th' presidint knows what th’
west wants an’ he'll get it f'r thim.
Th’ west is no effete community,
where th’ folks likes a quiet book
keepin’ life, an early supper, a game
iv cards, lock th’ windy, wind th’
clock an’ go to bed. That may do
f’r th’ east. But in th’ west, we de
mand Sthrenuse Life an Sudden
Death. We’re people out here on th’
des’late plains where th’ sun sets pink
acrost th’ grey desert an’ th’ scorpion
clings to th’ toe. We don’t want pi
anny tuners or plasther saints to gov
ern us. We want men who go to bed
with their spurs on. an’ can break a
gun without spikhi’ their thumbs.
We’ll have thim too. Undher precedin’
admlnisthrations. th’ job wint to th’
la-ads -rtdth no more qualifications thin
is needed to run a dairy lunch. Some
iv th’ bes’ places In th' West is held
be th' poorest shots, while-men capa- /
ble iv th’ mos’ sthrikin’ gun plays Is
left to devote their talents to private
functions. An’ they call that th’ merit
system! I expict th’ time is near at
hand whin justice will be done these
worthy citizens. At prisint whin a
man is needed f'r a governmint office,
he is called on to set down with a
sheet Iv pa-aper an’ a pot Iv ink an’
say how manny times eight-an’-a
half will go into a line dhrawn fr’m
th’ base iv the hypothenoose an’ if
he makes th’ answer bright an’ read
able, they give him a place admlnis
therin’ th’ affairs iv a proud people
that cudden’t tell a hypothenoose
fr’m a sea-llon. But whin things gets
goin’ rijtht undher this administhra
tlon. th’ civil service commission con
sistin’ iv th’ Hon. Bill Cody, th’ Hon.
Texas Jack, an’ th’ Hon. Bat Mater
son will put th’ boys through an ex
amination that’ll bring out all there Is
In thim. I’m preparifi’ a pa-aper f’r
an examination Iv candydates f’r
sup’rintindint iv th' Smlthsonyan In
stltoot:
“1. Describe a round-up.
"2. Name five iv th’ best brands (a)
cattle, (b) whisky, ye have usqd.
"3. Afther makin’ a cinch, is it prop
er f'r to always kick th’ critter in
th’ stomach or on’y whin ye feel like
“4. Undther what circumstances shud
a Mexican not be shot, and if so. why?
“5. How long shud a tinderfoot dance
befure he Is entitled to live?
"6. Name eighty reasons f’r dhrawin’
a gun.
"7. State ye’er opinyion iv sheep
men.
“8. Write a brief account iv th’ life
an’ death iv Billy th’ Kid.
“Iv coorse. Hinnissy. this is on’y a
part iv th’ exercise. They'll be practi
cal test* as well. Th’ iligible list’ll be
taken out into th’ yard an-’ required to
shoot at movin’ an' stationary targets,
at -pedeethreens an' horsemen, fr’m th’
hip. over th’ shouldher. fr’m a win
dow with a sawed-qff shot gun. an' so
on. They'll be required to bust a
buck'n’ bronc. cut out a steer fr’m
th’ herd without stampedin’ th’ rest,
lassoo movin’ objects an’ give other ex
hibitions iv science. An’ th' la-ad that
wins out’ll have to defind his job again
all comers f’r a month.
“I want to see this day. We’re a na
tion iv hayroes an’ none but hayroes
shud enjye th’ spoils. Thin we’ll read
that th’ Hon. Mike McCorker has been
appinted ambassadure -to England.
Mike is wan iv th’ mos’ detarmined
statesmen between Rapid City an’
Rawlins. His early life was spint in se
clusion, owin' to a little difTrence
about a horse, but he had no sooner
appeared lu .public life Uxia be made
his mark on th’ marshal iv Red Gulch.
He applied himsilf to his chosen ca
reer with such perseverance an’ so
thrue an aim that within two years he
had risen to th’ head iv his pro-fission,
a position that he has since held with
out interruption excipt durin’ th’ pe
ryod which th' Hon. Grindle H. Gash
shelled him» f’r three days with a
howitzer. His remarkable night attack
on that gallant but sleepy statesman
will not soon be f’rgotten. A great ova
tion will be given Bill whin he pulls
his freight Yr th’ coort iv Saint James.
Some iv th’ boys is loadin’ up Yr it
already an’ near all th’ Chinese has
moved into th’ hills. Ambassadure
Gash was a Rough Ruder durin’ th’
late Cubian war.
“ Th’ appintment iv Judge Rufus
Flush to be Chief Justice iv th’ United
States supreeme coort is hailed with
delight be all citizens iv New Mexico.
Judge Flush is th’ recognized author
ity on gun shot wounds an’ lynch law
in th’ southwest, besides beln,' In pri
vate life a pretty handy man with
knife or gun himsilf. He was wan tv’
th' first men up San Joon Hill on th'
mim’rable day.
“ ’Th’ sicrety iv state was visited
yisterdah be throop B iv th’ Rough
Riders, includin’ th’ sicrety iv th’
• threesury, th’ postmasther gin’ral, nine
disthrick judges, forty postmasthers,
an’ wan hundred an’ eight collictors Iv
intarnal rivlnoo. Th’ conversation was
informal, but it is undhersthud that
th’ advisability iv an excursion to Bos
ton to' shoot up th’ anti-impeeryalist
saloons was discussed. Th’ prisidint
dhropped in durin’ th’ conference an’
greeted all prisint be their first name,
which is Bill. jThere was some good
natured chaff as to which iv th' gin
tlemen was first at th’ top iv San Joon
Hill befure th’ meetin’ broke up. Th'
postmasther gin’ral is sufferin’ fr’m a
slight knife wound.’ ’’
“Ar-re all th’ people West Iv th' park
shootin’ men?” asked Mr. Hennessy
timidly.
“I think so,” said Mr. Dooley, “but a
man that’s been out there tells me
not. He says annywan but an English
man cud go fr’m wan end iv th’ West
to th’ ether without carryin’ a gun an’
that people that kill each other are
not considered raysplctable in Tucson
anny more thin they wud be in Eyes
ther Bay, but that they are mostly
dhrunk men an’ th’ like iv that. Th’
towns, he says, is run be men that sell
ribbons, milk, yeast, spool thread, an’
pill* an' pull teeth an’ argye little fool
ish law suits, just, as th* towns down
here are run, an’ th’ bad men are
more afraid iv thkn thin they are hr
each other. He says there are things
doin’ out , West that niver get into th’
dime novels an’ that whin people lose
their lives they do it more often in a
saw inill or a smelter thin in a dance
hall. He says so but I don’t believe
him.”
! “I suppose,” said Mr. Hennessy, “a
man iv me peaceable disposition wud
niver get a job.”
"Make a repytation.” said Mr. Doo
ley. “Buy a gun.”
THE EUTHANASIA CREED.
It has been argued often in recent years
that the dictates of mercy require physi
cians and surgeons to administer the
means of painless death to persons whose
last hope of life is practically gone.
There has been introduced recently in
the parliament of Saxony a bill which per
mits duly qualified physicians to put to
death, at thetr own request, all persons
suffering from an incurable disease.
It Is probable that this biJi will not be
come a law, but it cannot be denied that
the advocacy of euthanasia is gaining
strength both among the masses of the
people in the more advanced nations and
among men of science.
It will be a long time, however, before
this doctrine ’can gain recognition and,
adoption in Christian countries. As the
New York Tribune says:
“Euthanasia has always been condemned
by Christianity. However much the
churches may differ in other respects,
they all agree in believing that only God
who gave life should, take it away. Nearly
every great Christian divine from the
earliest times hae, by implication at least,
taken this attitude. There can be no
doubt, therefore, of the position of Chris
tianity on this matter. Yet, in spite of
the opposition of Christianity it cannot
be denied that the opinion in favor of eu-.
thanasia is growing, though many who be
lieve in it do not care to make themselves
unpleasantly conspicuous by avowing
their views. It is said that the belief is
making headway, especially among phy
sicians, an increasing number of whom
think it would be a kindly act to termi
nate the sufferings of those who cannot
possibly be cured.”
All the arguments in favor of euthanasia
will have little effect for a long time to
come, and they are being discussed now In
the newspapers and reviews mainly in or
der to show that there is no prospect of
their authorization by any nation or their
adbption by any considerable proportion
of civilized men.
Queer Reasons for Reading a Book.
It is a curious fact that no theatrical
manager can tell whether a play will fail
or succeed, nor can the shrewdest pub
lisher predict the fate of a book. The
public simply takes the bit fn its teeth
now and then and runs away with the
play or book—why. nobody knows. Last
fall the public was running away with
a novel called The of Way;”'and
in order, if possible, to ascertain why,
the publishers printed several advertise
ments In the dally press of the country
asking readers to kindly say why they
read this book. The replies were curios.
From all over America and Canada came
letters—l,4B6 in all. These were care
fully tabulated with this result:
711 sjaid they had heard it favorably spok
en of *by friends who had either read
it serially or in book xorm.
468 had seen it advertised or both adver
tised and reviewed.
114 had read reviews of it.
86 had read something the author had
written previously and liked his style.
84 had read the serial themselves, and
wanted the oook in consequence.
23 replies gave frivolous reasons—"be
cause they had the price.” because "a
fool and his money are soon parted.”
because “they were dull and wanted
something exciting,” because “they
wanted something to talk about.", be
cause "they read a.i the new books,”
“they wanted to be up to date,” etc.,
etc. x
All this leaves the publisher pretty
much where he started. But one thing
js clear. While readers. In the long run,
are the best advertisers, it is the review,
and in some cases, as in this one, the
serial- publication at the outset, that sets
them talking.
LOVE STILL LIVESiON. .
I loved you: I crowned you king:
And life at best seemed meaningless.
But with the hope your love did bring
I loved you. and it was joy to do your will,
To know that you were near.
I love you still.
A purer, stronger love is mine
Since I’ve forgiven, and I will prove
Mv heart’s still thine.
Time has not power to lessen love.
But shines It e’en thro’ clouds.
As do tty. stars in heaven above.
Mv heart hleeds not
As when its wound was freshest.
Yet the scar remains,
And even so my heart confesses
That )<>ve lives on.
And it is still in chains.
And though no more an image graven
Os thee I’ll make.
True love is indestructible;
It comes from heaven.
And still lives on
Though hearts may break.
-PEARL CANNON.
Augusta. Oa. . „
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