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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1902.
A* w* understand It. Candidate Ouerry
believes in diversified politic*.
Hereafter senatorial debate* ought to be
conducted with at least five ounce gloye*.
It is now announced that the New York
atate Democracy is a unit. Heretofore it
ha* been a cipher.
Chicago postal clerk* have boldly de
fied President Roosevelt's dictum and in
sist on shorter hours.
Prince Henry will not be able to stop
long* enough In Nashville. Tenn., to blow
the foam off hie beer.
The Washington Poet suggest* to th*
Drmocr.H in congress that they need a
committee on muzzle*. .
Somebody has sent President Roosevelt
* parrot. They probably felt that he
needed one to do his swearing.
Every time Kitchener tries to comer
DeWet he meets the fate of th* man who
tries to corner the wheat crop.
Sir. Carnegie favors the Panama rout*
no strongly that some people ar* inclined
to think he may yet buy it for us.
It is to be hoped that th* balance of the
country will not judge South Carolina by
either h*r senator* or her liquor.
We can at least give those Boer dele
gates a few more resolutions of sympathy
during their staj* in this country.
The whole country will agree with Pres
ident Roosevelt on at least one proposi
tion—that it la entitled to a rest.
Th* packing houses out west have
made a cut in the price of meat. Another
effort of the devil to tempt us during Lent.
• With the elimination of the darkey it is
■atural that the vote tn Alabama should
be lighter. observes the Birmingham
News-
We sincerely trust Candidate Guerry
does not intend to try to make Governor
Candler's personal appearr.ee an issue in
the campaign
Before attempting to draw plans for
that depot It might be well to first have
acme mind-reader discover just what the
railroad- want.
The Republicans of the Ways and Mean*
committee have about decided to be hon
est with Cuba if Cuba will make it to
our interest* to do it.
They ar* having all sorts of trouble
with the light on the Statue of Liberty.
The anti-imperialists will naturally regard
this as another omen. %
But no matter, it is just as impossible
as .ever for any artist to paint a troth
ful picture of the battle of Santiago and
put the New York in it.
Nearly everybody seems willing to ac
cept President Roosevelt s verdict tn the
Bampson-Schley case rather than run th*
risk of reopening the discussion.
A Kansas railroad conductor has re
ceived a legacy of fl.ooo for being polite.
The railroad companies of the country
ought to post this in thetr cars.
New York papers are cautioning the
public not to slop over about the visit of
Prince Henry- Then they had bettef call
off one or two of those beerfests.
The mor* the Hon. J. Pope Brown sees
of this gubernatorial race the more he
congratulate* himself, no doubt, that he
decided to stick by the bird In hand.
A military company Is to be organized
among the patients of the Kankakee. 111.,
’tnsan* asylum. It would be highly appro
priate to arm them with toy pistols.
’lt has recently been discovered that
there are all sorts of germ* in the capitoi
at Washington. But that's all right; th*
average congressman usually goes loaded
fbr germs.
‘it fa to be hoped the entertainment com
mute* will take the precaution to see to
it that Poultney Bigelow is kept securely
muzsled while Prince Henry Is in this
•ountry.
Maybe th* Southern railway is merely
trying to tgake It clear that the Hon. Joe
Hall didn't known what he was talking
about when he said the Southern was be
hind that depot bill.
Tramps who stop at a certain Pennsyl
vania town ar* fumigated. Irrigated, vac
cinated and set at work upon the streets.
As a consequence tramps have about
stopped stopping there.
Th* British have bought 1.090 western
cayuse ponies and are shipping them to
South Africa. -At least one thing is cer
tain about this experiment; the Boer*
will find them tough eating.
Banker Andrew*, of Detroit, had a mot
to which was. "No man should work after
he is forty." But some of his depositors
will hardly be able to live up to it unless
be gives up more than he has.
Colombia, with only 4.000.000 inhabitants,
is twice th* size of Germany. It has only
•06 kilometers of railways, and apart from
the rivers, all communication with th* in
terior Is carried on with mules.
Senator Hanna says capital and labor
are twins. But. nevertheless. this
doesn't explain why one of the twins
dine* on cake and wine while the other is
glad to get rye-bread and beer.
The Rome Tribune's editorial appeal on
the morning before the recent dispensary
election, under the heading. "One Final
Sober Word.” seems, tn the light of the
returns, to have been almost prophetic.
David Christie Murray, the English nov
elist. has discovered that England made
a mistake in opposing American indepen
dence. But that's nothing new; England,
herself, discovered the mistake nearly a
hundred years ago.
In lieu of a joint debate, it might be
possible to get up a plowing match be
tween Candidates Terrell and Guerry—
except that nobody seems Inclined to in-
Bist on gubernatorial candidates running
M> their plowboy records any more.
SOUTH CAROLINA’S DISGRACE.
The pugilistic performance which occurred in the United States senate on
Saturday between the two representatives of South Carolina has brought hu
miliation alike on that august body and the state which is responsible for the
presence of these men therein.
It must be admitted that the senior senator from that state has by his un
ceasing bitter attacks on everything and everybody, but more especially upon
his colleague Mcl.aurln. Invited some such trtatment as was accorded him Sat
urday. • s
But the senate chamber was no place for such a disgraceful scene, and the en
tire country, very properly, resents the insult that has been offered it by both of
these men.
Nowhere will this feeling of resentment be stronger than in South Carolina.,
wnicb state must, unfortunately, bear the stigma of being represented by two
men who seem so utterly lacking in dignity, or even common decency.
There 1* no parallel in the history of the senate for such an occurrence, the
attack of Brooks upon Sumner being the nearest approach to it, but the latter
was seated at his desk at the time, and the senate was not in session.
It would be difficult to take sides as between.the Individuals to this Intermi
nable conflict that has waged in South Carolina, and The Journal has no desire
to do bo. But, at the same time, it must be admitted that Tillman has been a fire
brand over since he has been In public life, and more particularly since he has
been In the United Stages senate; a distinction of which he has been palpably
proud.
It was generally considered only ti question of time, therefore, when,, if not
McLaurin, some one else would be goaded into resenting his continual slurs and
bulldoxlng attitude. *
Both Tillman and McLaurin are now held in contempt of the senate, but it\
is possible that they will be reinstated as soon as the senate feels that they have
sufficiently purged themselves of the offense. Although the dignity of the senate
has been seriously offended, it does not seem necessary that that body should go
to the extent of depriving South Carolina of representation, even such as she has.
On the contrary, it would seem better to leave it to the good sense of that state
to rectify its own twin mistakes at the proper time.
By reason of having estranged himself from the dominant element in South
Carolina, it is altogether probable that McLaurin’s political career will soon
come to an enu, and for other reasons, equally potent, it is to be hoped that the
state will retire his colleague at the first opportunity, and replace them both with
men better fitted to fill the seats of Hampton and of Calhoun and the others who
made South Carolina’s name respected and her influence in national affairs felt.
WOMEN IN IDAHO.
Opinions as to the advisability of wom
an's suffrage differ very widely but there
can be no dispute over the proposition
that it is advancing, because it is gaining
in the general confidence of the country.
Idaho is one of the states which has given
the full suurage to women and presents
an interesting study of the practical re
sults of that policy.
A writer who has observed how It has
worked in Idaho, says In a recent article:
"Non* of the horrible things predicted
by th* opponents of equal suffrage have
happened out our way. It has not trans
formed the women into howling dema
gogues, nor broken up families, nor caused
them to neglect their homes.”
Men of notoriously bad character and
vicious measures of legislation have been
defeated in several states solely by reason
of the fact that the women of such states
had the ballot.
The usefulness of women who have the
right to take part in the direction and con
trol of public educational interets has been
demonstrated conspicuously in many com
munities. Mrs. French.’ state superinten
dent of education in Idaho, has become
famous throughout the United States as a
most efficient officer. She is now serving
her second term and It is said that there
is not a man In the state who could de
feat her for the office.
Under her administration there has been
a remarkable improvement in the public
schools of Idaho. Her success has led to
the election of a large number of women
as county school commissioners and in al
most every instance they have proved
more efffeient than the men whom they
succeeded.
In many states which have not granted
the general right of suffrage to women
they are permitted to vote on matters re
lating to education and their influence
has been notably beneficial to this great
Interest.
In Atlanta we have a visiting and ad
visory school board of women whose re
ports and recommendations ate received
with great respect by the regular board,
composed entirely of men, and by the gen
eral public.
Women are exerting an Influence upon
public affairs in this country far beyond
that which they wielded some years ago.
It is an Influence that is growing and it
is destined to become much larger and
more beneficent. •
A RIGHTEOUS CAUSE.
The postmaster general has forbidden
postal employes to go to Washington to
urge the passage of any proposed legisla
tion in their behalf, or even to give the
reasons why they consider it proper.
This order applies to railway mail clerks
as well as to.other postal employes, and is
being faithfully obeyed by all of them.
But these faithful and efficient public
servants have friends who are being
heard in their behalf, and their cause is
sure of being fairly presented to the law
maktng and executive authorities of the
government. A bill to do justice to the
railway postal clerks is pending, with
good chances of passage. It will supple
ment th* scant recognition of thetr de
serti which congress gave two years ago
by reaching the classes in the railway
postal service, to which th* bill passed
then did not extend.
The postal clerks of all classes ask and
are entitled to better consideration than
they now receive from the government.
Though they cannot speak for themselves,
they have advocates who will present
their case well and will persist in con
teding for their rights. Congress moved in
the right direction on this matter two
years ago, but did not go far enough.
Th* members of congress who have tak
en up the righteous cause of the postal
clerks are backed by business men in all
lines and in all parts of the count!*}*, and
before the end of the present session we
shall probably see congress come nearer
to the measure of their duty to these
hard-worked and insufficiently paid gov
ernment employes.
We are glad to know that they have
flrm and active friends in the Georgia del
egation upon whom they ean rely, and
that the outside influences that are work
ing for them are increasing steadily. The
Journal has long been the advocate of a
mor* liberal policy toward the postal
clerks, and was never more Interested in
their cause than it is now.
.OUR GROWTH IN A CENTURY.
The government is doing a great edu
cational sendee by compiling and distrib
uting among the people Information of
every character that relates to the devel
opment of the United States.
The treasury bureau of statistics has re
cently issued an abstract which gives a
most interesting ahd impressive account
of the growth of the country from 1800 to
1900.
The plain statistics set forth in this pub
lication read more like romance than the
records of actual events.
The United States, exclusive of Alaska
and Hawaii, have grown from 827,844
squat** miles in 1800 to 3,025,600 square
miles in 1900. The poulatlon has Increased
from 5.308,483 In 1800 to 75,693,724 In 1900.
Virginia, which ranked first in popula
tion in 1800, was 17th in 1900. Pennsylva
nia was second in 1800 and still holds that
place. New York, which has been first for
many years, was third in 1800.
In 1800 the public debt was $78,*.i),00G
and it never reached any very large pro
portions until the civil war. In 1965 it
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, iw-'.
reached its highest point, $78.25 a head,
but by 1901 it had been reduced to $13.45 per
capita, a proof of the marvelous produc
tive capacity of the country. In 1865 there
was an interest charge of $4.29 per capita
and this had been reduced to 38 cents by
1901. The lowest rate of interest paid by
the government in 1865 was 4 per cent and
of the 4 per cents there were then but
$90,000,000 against $245,000,000 in 5 per cent
bonds. $1,213,000,000 at 6 per cent and $671,-
000,000 at 7.3 per cent; while in 1901 prac
tically one-half of the outstanding debt
stood at 2 per cent, and even those bonds
were selling at a premium in the markets.
The figures for the savings banks are
very significant as showing the increase
in the accumulations of the people. In
1820 the deposits in savings were $1,138,576,
and the number of depositors 8,635; in
1901 the amount of deposits was $2,449,547,-
885. and the number of depositors 6,107,083;
the average sum due each depositor in
1820 was $131.86, in 1901 it was $401.10.
The growth of the country's trade has
been phenomenal. In 18C0 the Imports were
$91.000,(GO and the exports $71,000,000, Im
ports exceeding exports by $20,000,000, or
nearly 30 per cent; in 1901 imports were
$823,000,000 and exports $1,487,000,000, the
excess of exports being 9664,000,000, or 80
4jer cent greater than the imports. Imports
In 1901 were nine times as great as in
1800, and exports were 21 times as great as
in 1800. \
No other nation ever made such ad
vances in a century as ours accomplished
between 1800 and 1900.
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BETTER HOTEL FIRE PROTECTION
The frequent recurrence of fatal hotel
fires in this country would seem to de
mand the enactment of more stringent
laws for the protection of life in hotels,
or the better enforcement of those laws
whlih we already have..
It seems strange that in a hotel such as
the Park Avenue, where hundreds of peo
ple are housed nightly, there were abso
lutely no provisions made by the manage
ment for fighting Are for the safety of
guests in case a conflagration occurred.
How badly this compares with the ex
treme precautions required by law, and
rigidly enforced, pn board steamships or
other vessels carrying human freight. Not
only must they provide life preservers to
the number of their passenger capacity,
together with life rafts and boats, con
stantly provisioned in anticipation of ac
cident, but the same extreme measures
are adopted as a protection against fire
or other disasters.
But how is it with the average Ameri
can hotel, where many more lives are'at
stake nightly than in any of these vessels?
A few fire escapes here and there, and
that is about all. Even these are so con
structed as to offer little better than
merely another form of death.
In some states, it is true, the law re
quires various other forms of protection,
but little or no systematic effort is made
to enforce these laws. There is. of course,
an occasional spasm of diligence on the
part of the authorities whenever one of
these holocausts occur, but within a few
weeks all concerned lapse again into the
same feeling of carelessness and security.
Too much stress cannot be laid on the
importance *f better Are protection in our
hotels, but it seems that nothing will ever
force a proper regard for the safety of
public life in this quarter until criminal
responsibility is attached to those in
volved.
AS TO THE SURPLUS.
The Immense and increasing treasury
surplus is worrying the Republican party
very seriously.
Two methods of dealing with it are now
before congress. One of these was intro
duced by Mr. Sulzer, Democrat, of New
York, and the other by Mr. Pugsley, of
the same state, who is a member of the
committee on banking and currency.
Os course, the party in power will not
let any Democrat have the credit of solv
ing the problem. They may take his idea,
but they will give it p new label If they
consider it preferable to any original Re
publican bill. The Sulzer resolution directs
the secretary of the treasury to deposit
all the surplus in national banks having
not less than $500,000 capital and a surplus
of not less than the same amount. It pro
vides that the government shall receive
2 per cent interest on these deposits. No
deposit of bonds is required to secure
them, but the government’s deposits will
constitute a Arst lien on the assets of the
bank. The amount deposited by the gov
ernment in any bank shall not exceed the
combined capital and surplus of the bank.
This plan would concentrate the surplus
in the larger cities and is therefore se
verely criticized.
The Pugsley bill is framed so as to re
move this objection. Instead of requiring
the secretary of the treasury to deposit
all the surplus in national banks, it au
thorizes him to deposit, at his discretion,
all of it in excess of $50,000,000. This bill
allows the secretary to make deposits in
national banks whose capital uoes not ex
ceed SIOO,OOO. The secretary may Ax the
rate of Interest at any sum not less than
2 per cent. ,
Matters arc getting to a pass which
makes some action concerning the surplus
urgently necessary.
During the Ascal year ended June 30,
1901, the government’s receipts exceeded
Its expenditures by $75,713,362. For the Arst,
six months of the current Ascal yeur the
receipts exceeded expenditures by more
than $40,000,000. and it is believed that the
surplus for the entire year will reach at
least $100,000,000. At the end of the first
half of the year there was an available
cash balance of $171,603,278 in the treasury.
This enormous surplus is proof of over
taxation and a standing temptation to ex
travagant appropriations.
Congress cannot afford to dally with
this matter. It should be attended to at
once.
GAME GALVESTON.
Those Who predicted that the terrlAc
Aood which laid Galveston waste and de
stroyed the lives of thousands of her
people and many millions of dollars worth
of her property would be the permanent
ruin of the city did not know what they
were talking about. Galveston is rising
from her desolation fairer than she ever
was before and is facing the future with
a conAdence that is well founded.
Ample precautions are being provided
against a recurrence of the disaster the
city recently suffered. The people of Gal
veston act on the theory that heaven
helps those who help themselves and have
voted to issue bonds to the amount of
of $1,500,000 for the construction of sea
walls. The city’s credit is Ane in spite of
its tremendous losses. The proposed bonds
could be sold readily in outside markets
at a low rate of interest, but they will be
taken mainly at home. It is estimated
that at least $1,000,000 of them will be pur
chased by citizens of Galveston, hundreds
of whom have already expressed their
readiness to lend their city money at 4
per cent.
We say hurrah for Galveston Such
pluck and devotion as her people age dis
playing cannot be conquered. Th4y i will
make their beautiful city larger,' richer
and more powerful than it ever was be
fore and will win tor themselves the un
stinted admiration of the world.
♦ BILL OF SALE IS FOUND ♦
* FOR NEGRO CHILDREN. ♦
A bill of sale for four negro children,
aggregating in value $1,900, is a curiosity
that few possess although they were
doubtless quite common a half century
ago. Captain E. M. Roberts, who deals in
real estate, however, found such a bill of
sale among the possessions of an old ne
gro who once belonged to his father. The
old fellow is noW (lead. He was Uncle
Sidney, who for a number of years worked
in the zoo at Grant Park, but who died
some time ago. Uncle Sidney Is mentioned
in the bill of sale.
James Roberts, Who is referred to In
the bill of sale, a copy of which Is given,
was the father of Captain E. M. Roberts,
of Atlanta, and the William J. Roberts
in whose presence the paper was signed
is the brother of Captain Roberts, and is
now a prosperous planter in a south Geor
gia county.
It will be noticed that the bill of sale
is dated, February 20, 1854, which was 47
years ago. All of the negroes are living
with the exception of Uncle Sidney.
The bill of sale is as follows:
"South Carolina, Anderson district: Re
ceived February 20, 1854. of James Roberts,
of Hall county, Georgia, $1,900 in full for
four negro children to wit: Phillis, ten
years and four months old; Larkin, nine
years old; Sidney, eight years Arst of
August next, Merida four years old 9th of
April next, which children I warrant to
be sound in body and mind and slaves
for life, and the title good against all law
ful claims.
“Given under my hand and seal In pres
ence of William J. Roberts.
"8. L WESTMORELAND.”
OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
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What the Trusts Have Learned.
Richmond ¥imes.
The trust is In its infaney, but the mana
gers of trusts have already learned that the
very life of all such organizations depends upon
their good behavior. A concern that deals with
the general publie must be as shrewd and as
politic as any man seeking office. It must make
Its goods popular if it would sell them, and in
order to make them popular the goods must be
both good and cheap—the best article for the
money to be had. There Is the key to the trust
problem.'
Salaries of Officials.
Kansas City Star.
Propositions to raise Washington salaries will
generally be regarded with suspicion. The ex
planation that the officials are sacrificing large
private interests to accept a low salary from
the government has been stretched to the limit.
The fact is that comparatively few men can
earn $5,000 a year in the law or in any other
profession. Almost any town could entertain
comfortably a convention of those earning more
than this amount. With a few conspicuous ex
ceptions the office holders in Washington are
paid liberally. The country sees no occasion for
the flood of bills to increase salaries.
Good Outlook for Democrats.
St Louis Republic.
Not for many years has there been a time
when the Democratic party in Illinois could so
easily score victory for its principles and candi
dates. Democracy’s leaders in the state must
be prompt to recognize and improve so golden
an opportunity. There will be no excuse Tor
failure to do this when the situation is so
menacing to Illinois Republicanism that even
Illinois. Republicans themselves are prophesy
ing Democratic victory.
The Endless Chain Grab.
Johnstown, Pa., Democrat.
Only a little while ago we grabbed Porto
Rico to protect our coasts. And now we are
grabbing the Danish West Indies for the pur
pose of protecting Porto Rico. By and by we
shall be looking around for an island or a conti
nent as a strategical base in protecting the
Danish West Indies.
Chance for a Demonstration.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Some of those Boston editors are trying to
coax Mrs. Efldy to illustrate the power of her
faith by serving as a nurse in the smallpox
hospital without being vaccinated. It looks very
much as if they wouldn’t succeed.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Prince Henry, soon after returning from th*
United States, will celebrate the quarter cen
tenary of his service in the navy.
The father of Robert Fitzsimmons, the pu
gilist, is living in Australia, and, although 70
years of age. is said to be vigorous and hearty.
Lady Edward Spencer-Churchill has the
most wonderful amateur genius in the reading
of hands and has accomplished some marvelous
predictions in palmistry.
President Dixon has Introduced' the study of
Spanish into the curriculum of Newcomb col
lege. Mississippi, and Professor Nunez de
Villivieencio. of Havana, has been selected as
the instructor.
J. T. Gantt, of South Carolina, is at the
head of a movement In that state to have
built at the St. Louis exposition a reproduction
of the cabin In which President Andrew Jack
son was born.
Thetus W. Sims, a representative in congress
from Tennessee, was working thirty years ago
In a brick yard at $1 a day. and later wan
dered over the Big Bend State with the pack
of a peddler on his back.
Mrs. Virginia Waterman, sixty years old. Is
a student at the Northwestern Academy In
Evanston, 111. She expects to take full college
course, entering Cornell after her graduation
at Evanston. She Is the oldest college ‘‘giri”
on record.
The Massachusetts fish and game commis
sion has a souvenir in the shape of a seven
and a half inch black bass, caught by ex-
President Cleveland, who pald'a fine for taking
fish of an illegal size.
Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxie, sculptor of the
Lincoln statue which stands In the capitoi at
Washington, and the first woman sculptor to
receive an order from the government, is
about to move with her husband from Wash
ington to St. Paul. Minn.
HIGH ON THE HILLS.
High on the hills the great winds strongly
blow; .
The crisp, dry gratscs shiver to and fro;
A fleck of white, a drifting, wind-blown boat,
Salls over head: immeasurably remote.
The blue, haze-hidden valleys lie below.
The far-heard, lonely cawing of a crow
Thins Into silence. Ghostly still and slow.
The long cloud-shudows softly float
High on the hills.
inimitably far the blue skies go;
The world-wide, wind-swept spaces wider grow;
A pulse of mighty meaning thrills the throat
Os echoing silence with soundless note;
Eternity draws nearer than we know,
High on the hills.
—Henry Holcomb Bennett !» th* Independent.
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Barnesville News-Gazette: It is stated
that Hon. Jim Smith will have rooms at
the Kimball for the next month or so.
We hope that’s as far out Peachtree as he
will ever get.
Cartersville News and Courant: Colonel
John D. Taylor, of Summerville, is being
spoken of as our next state senator, this
being Chattooga’s time to furnish the
candidate. Mr. Taylor is an able lawyer,
a man of fine character and would make a
most acceptable man for the place.
Albany Herald: We see in the Atlanta
Journal conspicuously displayed headlines
which convey the Information that
"Chances are Good for New Depot.” In
view of Atlanta depot history covering
the last four or Ave years there is some
thing genuinely pathetic in thtese lines.
Time and again differences between the
parties at interest have been settled and
all arrangements completed for tearing
away the old car-shed to make way for
one of the most magniAcerit passenger
stations in the south—all on paper. The
old story has been repeated over and over
till now it has long, gray, whiskers on its
chin, and the renewed assurance that
“chances are good for new depot” would
be amusing were it not pathetic. But it's
a long lane, Atlanta, that turneth not.
Selma (Ala.) Times: Atlanta is deter
mined not to be caught napping when the
time comes for a prince to tour the coun
try again. Already The Journal is advis
ing it to take time by the forelock and
cable an invitation to the crown prince of
Japan to make Atlanta his home if he de
cides to come over.
Stillmore Budget: The Atlanta Journal
truly has a corps of able writers for the
Saturday issue. Some good literature,
timely and helpful, Is to be found in that
paper. In last Saturday’s Issue Tom Loy
less gives a glowing intimation of a trans
continental railway in the south. When
you consider the matter you cannot with
hold your endorsement.
Cedartown Standard: Sam Jones says a
great many good things—some wise and
some witty—and he doesn’t like it much
if everybody doesn’t take what he says as
“so, whether it’s so or not.” However,
SAm Jones is as apt to get wrong as al
most anybody who talks as much as he
does, and we believe he is certainly wrong
in his attacks on the public school sys
tem. Not that the public school system is
perfect, for it is not, but it is not vulner
able’ on the lines of Mr. Jones’ criticism.
Americas Times-Recorder: No man
should be elected to represent the people
of his respective county in the general
assembly wh® is not a property owner and
Ananclally able to meet his personal debts.
Injurious and defective commercial laws
are generally enacted by voters in the
legislature who are willing to saddle bur
dens upon the people in the way of heavy
appropriations and other iniquitous meas
ures, purely and simply because th ex will
be exempted from their*share of the re
sult of same.
Cuthbert Liberal: The people of Terrell
county are talking of sending Editor
Rainey, of the Dawson News, to the leg
islature.’ A man who runs as good a pa
per as does Brother Rainey would „be a
valuable addition to our lawmakers.
Hamilton Home-Journal: It would be
exceedingly funny if some of the an
nounced candidates for the speakership of
the next Georgia house of representatives
should fall of election in their respective
counties. .
Cuthbert Liberal: We see that Colonel
M. C. Edwards. Jr., of Dawson, is spoken
of as a probable candidate for the state
senatorship of the Twelfth senatorial dis
trict. Colonel Edwards was reared in this
county, and our people, knowing him well,
would be glad of an opportunity to vote
for him for senator.
Fitzgerald Enterprise: If Guerry over
comes the whisky inAuence in this state
and is elected governor, he will be
titled to a place in the Hall of Fame.
OF A BACHELOR.
New York Preu.
Woman doesn’t need man; she needs several
of him. /
You can’t make * silk purse with a college
education.
Spend your pennies and some one els* will get
your friends.
Mental science is splendid to cure you of
things you haven’t got.
Women can stand an effeminate man better
than men can stand a masculine woman.
Some men get over being conceited the same
time they get over the habit of breathing.
There is no past perfect tense in achieve
ment for the man who has to make promises.
A man’s thoughts run furthest back to his
mother and further forward to himself.
The girl who never has been kissed in the
dark has never been in the dark very much
with a man.
There was always a time when a girls hair
was so long that she could sit on it. and when
a man was trained down to nothing but
hard muscle.
A boy can understand the argument of a
switch every time, when reasoning with him is
all Greek to him.
The same kind of man who runs after you
when you have money will run away from you
when you haven’t.
The first thing a man must do when he goes
Into public life is to forget all the rules he
learned from the head of his copy book.
There is a time in every girl’s life when she
hesitates to take any man in the world, and
there Is a time, if she has passed the other
time without being married, when she would
take any man who asked her.
The way to do with a woman is the way a
good driver does with a horse—let her believe
when she is going up hill with a load that
she could run away with the trap if she
wanted to; going down hill or on the level,
light, make her believe th* curb could run
away with her if it wanted to.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The population of the Australian common
wealth is 3,773,856.
Some famous men were born in 1809, among
them Abraham Lincoln and William E. Glad
stone.
Realty sales In the city of London during
1901 were £5,553,098, compared with £4.934,769
In 1900 and £6,290,314 in 1899.
The total number of medical pracMtioners in
Great Britain and Ireland is 36,788, an In
crease of 404 within a year. .
In 1877 there were high schools for 3.626 Ger
man pupils in Hungary. Today all these schools
have ceased to exist.
Because two-thlrds of Germany’s 150,000 music
teachers are alleged to be incompetent, the
coming Reichstag will be asked to pass a law
compelling the teachers to undergo a state ex
amination.
A full cargo of New England rum, compris
ing 570 puncheons and valued at $120,000, was
lately cleared from the port of Boston, con
signed to the use of the aborigines on the
West African coast.
In the five years from 1895 to 1900 Germany
for the first time gained more Inhabitants
(94.125 more) by Immigration than it lost
through emigration. In the period 1880-1885 there
had been a loss of nearly 1,000,000.
It is announced from the Vatican that dur
ing 1901 only 2,300,000 lire had been contributed
as Peter’s pence, which is the worst year since
1870. The United States is third in the list of
contributors with 246,000 lire.
The McKinley memorial committee of Hono
lulu proposes to devote $20,000 of its funds to
the improvement of a public park, to be named
after the late president. The local papers are
opposed to this project, believing that the
money could be better expended in the build
ing of a children's hospital.
Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth, wife of the London
publisher, has made a sensation in Paris by
appearing in a most novel automobile coat,
made of the hide of a perfectly white colt,
trimmed with sable tails and having a large
collar, which can be turned up and buttoned
so as to leave only her eyes and the tip of
her nose exposed.
The high protectionists who have made
investments in Cuba or the Philippines
have modified their views on the tariff
question and are willing to admit that it is
the plain duty of Uncle Sam to let their
goods in free. The tariff, it would seem,
is also sometimes a personal issue.
A GRAPHIC PEN PICTURE
OF MOST SENSATIONAL
SCENE IN THE SENATE
From a Staff Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Saturday in
the senate is a listless day.
They have been talking two weeks on
the Philippine bill. O the interminable
wrangle! The monotonous speeches, stud
ded with gems in the shape of dry facts
and figures.
But this Saturday the house is not in
session. There is nothing for the streams
of visitors to do but How into the senate
gallery. And then too, Tillman, the fire
eater, is to perform today. Maybe he will
breathe smoke from his nostrils in the
heat of his anger—yes, to the senate gal
lery! Pile in, stack in, wedge in, until not
a seat is vacant! ■
They are all here now. Daughters of the
American Revolution. Araoskeag veterans
in colonial costume, delegates to the Wo
man’s Council, Grand Army of the Repub
lic Vets, Confederate Vets; men, women,
children. AU closely woven Into a gigan
tic, multi-colored wreath and set over the
brow of the nation’s mighty intellect.
There goes Tillman’s roar! He is hurl
ing thunderbolts at the Republicans for
holding the Philippines. How he rends
them with his scorn! Bee the scowl upon
his countenance! Hear the mockery In his
voice! His rage .is fascinating to the
men upon whom it is unleashed for they
bend forward to catch the very breath
of it. Some are pale. Ail are silent.
Gravely silent.
Hoar is transfixed. He stares at Tillman
through his great round spectacles and
his fat, smooth face is Hushed. About his
thin lips there linger* that unfathomable
smile which tempests have failed to upset
or time to alter. Hanna blinks at Tillman
from under his heavy lids as though he
would comprehend his meaning if such a
thing were possible to a Republican sena
tor. Lodge is smiling sarcastically. De
pew, looking down from a seat in the gal
lery beside his new-made bride, smiles
blandly.
See Spooner! He Is crouched like a cat
ready to spring. Tillman is his prey. Have
they not fought half a hundred fierce
battles in debate during the last ten days?
Did Tillman let one vulnerable statement
escape while Spooner spoke yesterday?
Watch Spooner. Tillman observed him
and Tillman has thrown a dart at him.
“I am glad to see the senator from
Wisconsin is here now,” Tillman shouts,
turning his single eye, biasing, on his po
litical enemy.
“I hope the senator does not think I
stayed away because—” Spooner angrily
begins, as he half rises from his seat.
“Oh, no,” Tillman contemptuously re
torts. “I do not. I threw no bricks while
he was absent and shall throw no rocks
now. My friends on the other side—”
“Who are your friends on the other
side?” demands Spooner, desperately, de
termined to harry his opponent at every
possible opportunity. /
“I have many friends on the Republi
can side,” and with this Tillman smiles
blandly. “Personally, you are a nice,
clean-hearted set of men.” The smile has
vanished and that scowl, deeper than be
fore, reappears. His voice changes from
mock amiability to a thunderous roar.
“But politically you are the most Infamous
cowards and hypocrites that ever hap
pened.”
Spooner is fiatly floored. As he resumes
his seat he sighs wearily and throws a
resigned look up into the galleries. Tlll
m-n, as though unconscious of routing his
enemy, proceeds with his Aery speech.
Spooner recovers only after a long rest,
but he Is strong again when Tillman
speaks of Bryan’s trip to Washington to
secure votes for the ratification of the
Paris treaty.
The South Carolinians has declared that
the Republicans could not get enough
votes for a long time, in spite of Bryan’s
efforts on the same line. He volleys them
again with his cannon tones.
“But you did get votes enough and. you
know how you got them!”
Spooner is on his feet. He is crossing the
aisle toward Tillman. His face is white
with suppressed wrath. Now they stand
glaring at each other like tigers.
“I don’t know how we got them. How
did we get them?” And Spooner's fist is
clenched at his side.
The galleries can hardly wait for the
answer. Faces go ashen gray with the
intense’ excitement. Breaths come thick
and slowly. Will, they come to blows?
Surely, unless Tillman backs down.
“Circumstantial evidence shows that you
got them by the use of improper influ
ences!” Tillman will not back down!
“Name the influences and the man who
was subjected to them!”
Spooner is goading Tfilman. Now the
senate can hardly wait for the answer.
All along the rows of red desks they
know what that stroke meahs. The South
Carolina feud! Spooner has pried it open
again. He has Tillman pinned to the wall,
and Tillman can escape only by one pecu
liar blow. With that blow he must strike
not Spooner, but —
McLaurin! Where is McLaurin? Invol
untarily nearly every eye on the senate
floor Is turned to McLaurin’s chair. It is
vacant. Tillman sees it is vacant. He
parries.
“I got my information in confidence!”
He cannot escape with that glancing
blow.
“The man who impugns another in con
fidence is a coward,” Spooner retorts.
And the galleries let off a battery of ap
plause.
Tillman trembles. The color has fled
from his face. He is growing desperate.
Spooner has stabbed too deeply for a
fighting man like Tillman to suffer it un
flinchingly. Born into politics fighting,
fighting up through politics to the highest
ramparts, Tillman knows when a stab
is dangerous. But he must be wary. Is
there no way out? Just one, perhaps.
“The charge of cowardice does not rest
upon me. I believe improper influences
were used uut I cannot prove it.”
• No, that way will not let him out.
Spooner bloqks the path.
“Then I would not say it!” Spooner
cries in taunting tones.
’ “Well,” and Tillman pitches again head
long into the fray, “the patronage of one
state was given to a Democrat who voted
for the treaty.’’
“Name the state!"
“The state of South Carolina!”
They heard it out in the rotunda,
through thick walls.
Subtle Spooner! He has torn away the
barrier between the bull dogs at last. Let
them at each other now! He smiles tri
umphantly and turns to his desk. Over
his shoulder he flings a parting shot.
“Go fight it out with your colleague,
then.”
“I am ready!” cries Tillman, and every
man within the sound of his voice knows
he speaks the truth.
“So is he,” laughs Spooner, dropping
into his seat. His task is done. He has
wrenched the charge of corruption again
from Tillman. He has made the fighter
heave it in the open senate at his col
league.
In heaven’s name, where is McLaurin?
Tillman is here, now again plunged into
the depths of his fiery debate on the Phil
lipine bill. On he goes, unassailed, un
molested. Who cares what he says now?
Where is McLaurin?
A small boy, a page, who had stood stup
ified at the loud and angry utterances of
the two senators, suddenly awakes and
darts up to the desk of the president pro
tempore. There sits Frye of Maine. He
is strangely white and visibly excited. He
learns over and whispers to the boy. It
is a loud hoarse whisper. Half a dozen
senators near him hear his words.
“Go get Senator McLaurin.”
At the same moment Spooner arises and
walks down the aisle to the desk of the
president pro tempore. These two whis
per a moment and then a page, called up
and given an order by Spooner runs across
the chamber and fades out through a
door to the stenographer's room.
In another moment McLaurin walks in.)
He is calm, cool, deliberate. Slowly he
traverses the space to his desk. That
desk is only separated from Tillman by
three seats. One is Senator Bailey’s. He
is not in it. The next is Senator Teller’s,,
the patriarch from Colorado. He is
dignified, sedate, unruffled. Senator Har
ris, who usually occupies the next, is not
in it. McLaurin sinks into his seat and
begins to read a few pages of
ten manuscript which he held in his hand..
as he entered the chamber. Tillman is,
speaking still. His crashing voice sounds
out directly over McLaurin's curly head.
Yet McLaurin heeds it not. He is deeply J
interested in the manuscript. It is a ver*'
batim report of Tillman’s dialogue with.
Spooner a few minutes ago. Tillman sees ■
him reading. Tillman knows the manu
script. But Tillman booms right on with
out a tremor in his tone.
Spooner and Frye, both watching Mc-
Laurin as he reads, exchange significant:
glances when they see him lay the man
uscript upon his desk; when they see hi* ,
countenance grow stern and set. Frye
leans back, whispers to a powerful look
ing man at his side, who thereupon step*
down from the rostrum and walks unob
served to a point directly behind Mc-
Laurin. The powerful looking man is
Assistant Sergeant-at Arms Layton.
Twenty minutes pass. Tillman has fin
ished speaking.
McLaurin bounds to his feet, but In
stantly regains composure. Every eye in.,'
the chamber, from the rearmost gallery'
seat down to Teller at his side, is fixed
upon him. Every ear is strained to hear
what he will say. The silence is abso
lute. No one can even breathe untn Mc-
Laurin speaks. He throws his head back.
“I rise to a question of personal priv
ilege.”
Ah! Now a great, quick breath around:
the entire hall, and listen close again! ’
Those words cut the silence like blades
of steel. What next?
"During my absence a few minutes ago
the gentleman who has just taken hie ■
seat—” A pause. A glare at Tillman. ;
“The senator who has just taken hlsi
seat,’ with a strong emphasis on the word
senator, “said that improper influences ■
had been used in changing the vote of
somebody on the Paris treaty. He then
went on to say that the charge applied
to the senator from South Carolina who
had been given the patronage of that
state. I think I have now stated the sub
stance of the controversy.”
His voice is breaking. How angry he
is. White anger. But he pauses for i
breath and again becomes cool enough to '
proceed.
“I would not use as strong language as 1
I intend had I not, soon after the senate
met, replied to these insinuations and said ‘
that they were untrue. I now say that
tllat statement is a wilful, deliberate, ma
licious lie!”
Like a pistol shot the word echoes
through the death-like silence of the
chapiber. It startles senators and spec
tators alike. It reached Tillman first and
now, before anyone can draw a breath. ’
senate and galleries see the one-eyed ti
ger spring from his chair and leap to
wards McLaurin. He places one hand on
Teller's desk, the other on Teller’s shoul
der and over that reverend and grave
selgnor Tillman Rings his own frame as
easily as a trained athlete might go. He
is by before Teller realizes he is ccunin*.
Harris's chair he kicks aside as a dozen
senators start to their feet, yet before
o|ie is fully straightened up Tillman has
reached McLaurin. With not an instant’s
pause he raises his clinched left fist and
bangs it squarely against McLaurin's
right tye-brow.
McLaurin’s head flaps back. He recov
ers and sends his own clenched right fist
plump irito Tillman’s left eye. Tillman’s
head flaps back. He recovers. He grasps
McLaurin with both his hands about the
neck. McLaurin hammers him away a
space but Tillman is back again. A short
arm blow from Tillman glances from Mc-
Laurin’s shoulder and smashes into the
face of Assistant Bergeant-at-Arma Lay
ton, who has run in from behind and
clasped McLaurin about the waist.
The combatants lock in a tight embrace.'
reel, recover, struggle an Instant. Then
the fight is over. Senator Warren, of
Wyoming, the giant of the chamber, has z
picked up Tillman, struggling still, bodily
in his arms and pulled him back to hi*
seat. Layton forces McLaurin into hi*
seat just as a score of senators reach the
spot.
Dignity in the senate? Not at all. Wild
uproar, though not a word has been spok
en for a minute. Women are softly*
screaming in suppressed excitement up in
the gallery. Men up there are standing, >
shuffling about in desperate endeavors to
lean forward and catch a glimpse of th*
fight. Senators are crowding about th*
late combatants In no 'other guise than
unrestrained curiosity. Dignity? ThroWfa ,
to the wind*!
McLaurin is dazed. Tillman is bleeding.
He draws a handkerchief and wipe*
blood from his eye. His face is a puzzle.
Who can read it, now that his impetuous
soul has at last driven him to real battle
in open session?
Another second and the gavjl has
brought order again into the senate. Mc-
Laurin attempts to proceed with his re
marks. but Teller, jus: now recovering
from amazement at Tillman's leap, inter
rupts him to protest against a fist fight
in the United States senate. He is joined
by Foraker, of Ohio.
Jcs a moment the guards are clearing
th® galleries of the seething,, excited
throng. The senate has gone into execu
tive session, after experiencing the' first
fight in open session in its history.
In 1&54 Charles Sumner, senator from
Massachusetts, denounced an uncle of
Preston Brooks on the floor of the senate.
Brooks at that time was a member of the
house of representatives from South
Carolina. He heard later in the day of
the denunciation of his relative by\ Sum
ner. Picking up his cane, he hurried
through the rotunda of the capitoi and
entered the senate chamber, boiling with
wrath.
The senate had adjourned for the day,
but Sumner was seated at his desk. Tfl
him Brooks almost ran. When he reached
the senator, without a word, he raised
the cane and brought it down with all his
might on Sumner’s head. Again and again
the cane rose and eacu time striking
Sumner’s head, until at last the senator,
sank unconscious in hip chair and Brook**
anger was appeased.
Sumner came near dying from the ef
fects'of the clubbing. It is said he never
fully recovered. Brooks was expelled from
the house, but on going home was re
elected by the people of his district, and
came back at the next session of congres*.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
Short friend* often make long account*.
Man’s loose action* often get him in a tight
place.
Consistency is often but another name for
contrariness.
When a man is spoiling for a fight he is
naturally too fresh.
A practical man is the one who carries out th*
plans of a theorist.
Selfishness is the result of a misdirected
search for happiness.
Fireproof building* are provided with fire
scapes Just the same.
A heated argument is one of the thing* th*
wise man quickly drops.
Possibilities of genius are few when com
pared with impossibilities. ' _,
Only a fool man believes that a woman be
lieves everything he tells her.
A small boy with an armful of snowball*
can make a strong man tremble.
The gas bill may be a light affliction, but
getting it receipted is a heavy one.
Women defend the wearing of corset* o*
economic grounds; there is less waist. A
He who steals a woman’s purse gets awaj
with a lot of samples and other trash.
Contentment should be measured by the
number of things you are willing to do with
out.
Toadstools are often mistaken for mushroom*
and gall is sometimes mistaken for genius.
