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4 The Semi-Weekly Journal Entered at th* Atlant* Poatoffle* a* Mall Matter of th* Second Cl*»* Th* Semi- Weekly Journal la publish • 4 c* Mondays and Thursdays, and melted la ttm* for al! th* twica-a vMk star rout* malt*. It contain* the new* from all part* of th* world Srouaht over a •p*cial !*a**d wir* into ft* Joornal office It haa a staff of dtatlnaulabed contributors, with strong - AdtrtouJtural. Veterinary. Juvenil*. Scan* Book and ether of Meet*! value to the home and farm. X«aU wanted In every community 1* th* South. Jtamittane** may be made by. poet ofSce money order, exprew money or der. registered letter or check. Parson* who send postage stamp* in payment for eubeertptlotie ar* n»qu**t ed to send tho*e of the »-c*nt denomi nation. Amounts larger than W cent* • peateffle* order, express order, cheek gabecribers who wish their papers ehanaed should rive both th* old and th* new poetoffice eddre**. NOTT'-'H 'TO THE PUBLIC -The only mealing representative* of The Journal er* C. J. O Farrell. J. A. Bryan and Jas Callaway Any other who npresents hlmaalf as conß *f'*‘ d with The Journal as atrav*Ung*<*nt la a fraud, and w* win be responsible only for money paid to th* above named representative*. 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. . „ 9 '
