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4 The Semi-Weekly Journal Brin* at the Atlant* PcstoCTe* a* Mall Matter «C tbs Second Class. >l■ ■ The Beat! Weakly Journal Is publish •4 on Monday* and Thursday*, and rr.allsd la Ums for all th* twice-a week star rout* mall*. It contains th* *«wi from all parts of the world Mawkt over a special leased wire into The'Jvumal office It has a staff of dlatlnruished contributor*. with strong Agricultural Veterinary. Juvenile Home. Book and other departments of ■rectal value to th* home and farm. Agents wanted in every community ts tfrt* OouOv Remittance* may be trade by post of»c* money order, express money or )<ttwr or chock PmoTs who send postage stamp* In paymmtt for subscriptions ay* requeet *d t* emsd them* of the 1-cret denomt aarion. Amounts larger than M cents MSteffcr order. express order, chock * a*oW*r*< asall. Ratoorlbers wh* wish their papers changed ehould give both th* old and th* poatoffice sddreee. NOTICE'tO THE PUBLIC.—TO* Meh, traveling representative* of The *Mraat ar* C. J. O’Farrell. J. A. Bryan and Jas Callaway Any other who repo state himself a* connected with Th* Journal as a traveling agent 1* a tread, and we will be responsible only for money paid to th* above Mined representative* 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. 1 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. i • »* i.jjh ■ f ' '"** 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. * t ♦ DAILY CHAT WITH ♦ ❖ GEORGIA EDITORS, t s♦♦♦<■♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*< I I »'»♦♦♦♦s 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.
