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b’* THURSDAY, MARCH 6. 1902.
■hwggust'
The whisky trust has been hit a hard
> lick. John L Sullivan has quit drinking.
The steel trust cleared SB-V«».a» In nine
. •souths. And yet the tariff remains the
> same.
Minister Wu has at last acquired the
’ American habit of correcting his inter-
| It would seem that poor old Spain has a
few more "zad but glorious days” coming
, to her.
r Information from the Indian Territory
, Indicates that the Creek Indians are also
overflowing
The colored brother will soon have his
’ ehance King Menelik. of Abyssinia, is
coming over.
Tn retiring from the cabinet Secretary
I Long seems to be determined to live right
up to his name
And now somebody has started the sto
t ry that the battle of Yorktown was also
a captains’ battle.
The Chicago News thinks Tillman has at
* least done the country a service in supply
ing his own finish.
Se far no senator seems to have thought
of trying to find out what the Filipinos
think of Governor Taft.
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The outlook for the young king of Spain
looks gloomier than ever when you re
call that he is Alfonso XIII.
At last Austria has discovered that she.
i too. was friendly to the United States in
* ISM. This makes it unanimous.
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The lynching habit has so fastened it
self on Missouri that they lynched a negro
minstrel out there the other day.
No objection was raised in the senate to
I the ratification of the Danish treaty. The
senate never objects to spending money.
J Pierpont Morgan is said to have made
last year. This brings up the
old question, can a man tnak<* $10,000,000
E honestly?
We hope the presence of Candidates
Terrell and Gue try tn Waycross on the
same day will not precipitate another
••Waycross war.”
Somebody persists in asking the ques
tion. would it have been called “a cap
tains’ battle” if Cervera had escaped.
Don’t notice him.
We cannot believe that Cuba will ever
become thoroughly Americanised until
I President Tomas Estrada Palma puts an
“h” in his name.
Maybe the delay in securing a successor
for Secretary Long is the difficulty met
with in finding a man who thinks Schley
is a caitiff and coward.
The worst thing yet said about South
Carolina is that if Tillman should retire
or be expelled from the senate he would
be immediately re-elected.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun had no
doubt about the result of that Rome dis
pensary fight when it heard that the num
ber of barrooms was thirteen.
We warn the other candidates that
when it comes to shaking hands for the
governorship Candidate Estill is right up
at the head of the procession.
It would certainly be unfair to hold
that gubernatorial primary before the
Hon. Jim Smith can dispose of his cotton
or finish up his spring plowing.
English sparrows are conquering the
country. They are banishing the song
birds and are even attacking the hawks
in the farming districts of the west.
Governor Taft says three years is about
as long as an American can endure the
Philippine climate. But. no matter, we are
not tn the Philippines for our health.
The British war office explains that the
announcement that peace terms have
been agreed upon with the Boers is “pre
mature." That is a polite name for it.
And now someone is unkind enough to
call attention to the fact that we were
just as enthusiastic over Princess Eulalle
a short time before we grabbed poor old
Spain by the throat.
One thing is certain, if that Northwest
ern railway merger is declared to be Il
legal, it will be about the first thing that
has ever been able to be a violation of the
Sherman anti-trust law.
Candidate Quarry sent a list of ques
tions to Waycross for Candidate Terrel!
to answer. In lieu of a joint debate. Mr.
Guerry seems determined to sow Ucks on
his opponent’s cinder path.
"If the American boy will apply him
self closely.” says the Washington Post,
"and become great in pugilistic circles
the press association will send bulletins
from his bedside when he catches a severe
cold.”
- An exchange observes that whenever
they are in doubt up In Kentucky as to
whether a fellow murdered Goebel they
give him the benefit of the doubt and
merely sentence him to the penitentiary
for life.
A box of cigars has just been won on
a wager thgt in a company of educated
Americans three persons could be found
who would know nothing' of Ethan Al
len. Six frankly acknowledged that they
could not tell anything about him.
A Kansas man asks for a divorce from
his wife on the ground that when he mar
ried her she maliciously hid from him the
fact that she was insane. The lady
might retaliate by offering the marriage
certificate itself as full evidence that she
attempted no concealment of her mental
condition.
The Jasper (Ohio) Chronicle eomes for
ward with this timely hint for spring:
"Mortgages are signed by two witnesses,
same as last season, and folded to fit the
inside pocket. Back taxes will continue
to be ccmbed forward and parted on the
side nearest the mortgages. In this vari
able climate mortgages arc liable to ma
ture at any minute.’’
SOME STARTLING FACTS.
The Congressional Record is a very in
teresting document. While one would
not read every published speech on
every subject a great many people follow
the trend of national legislation with a
great deal of interest. It should be read
by our citizens far more than at present.
Senator Bacon’s resolution to lessen the
present price of the "document was a move
in the right direction.
The regular reading of the proceedings
of congress would do an immense deal
towards checking the present tendency to
waste and extravagance with public
money. There is nothing so helpful in
public affairs as publicity.
Ail public business needs a general air
ing. Secrecy and private arrangements
are like rats and mice in a neglected
granary. When you discover the loss you
have nothing left to look after.
A debate on clerks and messengers for
the senate will be found in the Record
bearing date of February 14, 1902. And
that debate and discussion we owe to
Senator Clay. He called a halt in no un
certain tones, and the matter was fairly
discussed before the senate. A resolution
to add on additional clerks and messeng
ers was sufficient, after debate, to get this
unsavory matter referred back to a com
mittee of investigation. It is a rich de
velopment.
The family secret was well aired. We
can now get in on the Inside of a matter
which is literally soaking up hundreds of
thousands of dollars every year, and this
matter should be exposed.
There are eighty-eight members belong
ing to the United States senate—two from
each of the forty-four states of the union.
Each senator has been allowed a clerk
for a quarter of a century. The body is
extravagantly supplied with pages and
doorkeepers and all necessary attention
is given inside and out the chamber while
congress is in session. The regular pay
roll of the senate is very full, hnd the
men who are employed get handsome sal
aries by the year, not by the session.
But in these later years the single clerk
allowed each senator has been multiplied
and multiplied until the individual service
to each member of the body is something
enormous. Senator Clay called attention
to the fact that there had been added to
the pay roll of the senate within the last
thirty days, twenty additional and extra
clerks and extra messengers, all drawing
salaries of 11.440 per annum, of 1120 per
month. It was discovered that every
chairman of a committee (and there are
64 committees) has from one to two clerks
and a messenger, at 11,440 per annum. The
clerks range from $2,250 to SI,BOO per an
num on the regular roll, and these extra
clerks mentioned by Senator Clay get
$1,440. the same as messengers.
Senator Clay said: "It appears, Mr.
President, during the last thirty days we
have employed more than twenty addi
tional messengers and asisstant clerks in
the senate at a salary of $1,440 each, and
I have been Informed that messengers
have been employed for committees that
never meet. If we are creating new pla
ces for political favorites, regardless of
the need of the service we ought to stop.”
“Committees that never meet” are cred
ited with messengers who do something
else, and the pay goes on.
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, let in consid
erable light. He has a clerk, and has no
chairmanship, but he gets a messenger,
, who is uaid $720 per annum as a messenger
to the senator.
What does he do?
Answer: Study law!
Listen: "I have a laborer at $720 per
annum, and he is quite valuably to me.
He came here to study law. lie ekes out
his salary (as laborer) with money from
his parents. I feel a delicacy in asking
him to de extra work. I want him to have
time for bls law studies.” "Delicacy” is
the word!
This is the use the "laborer" was put
to by- a ‘United States senator from Ida
ho! Being a Democrat or fusionist in his
country, he must have places to bestow
and such senators are silenced by allow
ing them to put in “laborers” at $720 per
annum, while those who are more influ
ential get messengers at $1,440 per annum.
And these “laborers” study law, and
must not be Interrupted in their legal
studies to “labor” for a lord of the Amer
ican senate, who brings him to Washing
ton torbe educated by the money of the
government. Maybe it is his nephew or
brother or a son of an influential sup
porter. and the government supports him
as a laborer at a law school! This is no
hearsay. It is in black and white, printed
in the official records of the senate.
Mr. Lodge, the administration leader in
the senate admitted that these additional
clerks and messengers “amounted to giv
ing each senator two clerks instead of
one.” He addeji. "It is true that the roll
of the senate has swollen to enormous
proportions.” I
Senator Allison said these clerks and
messengers are “absolutely for their own
use.”
It is high time that senators were elect
ed by the people. It is high time that the
people should know how many students
are being supported by the tax money
of the people, expended, as Senator Clay
remarked, "on political favorites,” and
assigned to committees which never
meet.”
Have we an American house of lords?
Is there no man bra\e enough to rise up
and denounce these fraudulent appoint
ments?
IS THERE NO REMEDY?
And still they occur!
Every unusual spell of wet weather in
Georgia, it would seem, brings with it
one or more disastrous railroad wrecks.
More precious lives are sacrificed in
these constantly recurring accidents of
the rails. t
Why is this? Is it not time that this
question was being asked with some
force? Indeed, is it not high time that
the railroad authorities were required to
make answer thereto, and an answer, too
that will give some promise of a remedy?
Who is at fault when wrecks such as we
have seen too often of late occur? Cer
tainly there must be responsibility
somewhere. "Providential causes” cannot
■ be accepted as sufficient explanation for
all of these horrors.
Where does the real trouble He? Is it
with the track? Are the rails too light,
too old, or the crossties rotten, or the
roadbed in poor condition? Then, remedy
these defects, or hold the officials them
selves responsible, if need be, for the con
sequent slaughter. Are the trestles decay
ed, or the culverts too small or insuffi
cient drainage provided? Tnen, see that
these things are made right, or make
somebody, besides the innocent engineer,
trainman or helpless passenger, suffer the
consequences.
Here in Georgia we have been too lax
about these matters. Wreck after wreck
occurs and life after life is sacrificed, and
the only notice taken of it by the courts
is through a suit for damages. A few
thousand dollars paid out to the widow
and orphans of injured is usually
the extent of the penalty inflicted upon
the railroad.
In all reason and common sense, is this
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1902.
right? is this the protection that the law
ought to guarantee to the citizen? To our
mind, it is but a step short of licensing
homicide for a price.
The people are arousing to the impor
tance of this matter. They have waited
and waited for some step to be taken to
ward reform, only to see their loved ones
taken off one by’ one. All through some
body’s fault. All through too cheap con
struction of roadbed, or too economical
methods of operation, or too incompetent
management. The time has come when
this state of affairs can be tolerated no
longer. When people begin to feel that it
is almost taking their lives into their
own hands to make a railroad journey
during w’et weather, the business of rail
roading is manifestly not up to the stan
dard that the people of this twentieth
century have a right to expect and de
mand. If the remedy’ is not found, and
found speedily, then let the penalty be'
applied, and applied severely.
ONE BEACON OF HOPE.
There have arisen in Atlanta of late
several cases of youthful depravity with
which it has seemed impossible to deal in
any’ satisfactory way. Young boys prac
tically without parental guidance or
home Influences have been picked up from
the street by the police, more to save
them from inevitable crime than for any
offense they had committed, yet for whose
punishment or restraint the law made no
adequate provision.
While it might have been within the
power of the recorder to commit these
youthful prisoners to the chaingang on
general principles, as it were, this he very
properly hesitated to do because of the
evil effects of the associations connected
therewith.
He thought to send them to the county
reformatory w’ould be the most humane
and practical w ay to deal with their cases,
but here the law establishing the reform
atory prevented, by reason of a provision
which prevents that institution accepting
prisoners not guilty of state offenses.
A provision, by the way, which is a
manifest absurdity if that institution is
to do the real work for which it was es
tablished, .1 e., to save the wayward
youths of this city and county before they
are beyond redemption. For* as the law
now applies, a youth must become a crim
inal, perhaps steeped in crime before the
law steps in to save him. An absurdity
again by reason of the fact that the city
of Atlanta, through its recorder's court,
is practically deprived of the use of an
institution, the cost of whose maintenance
the city pays nine-tenths. But these are
matters for future legislative regulation,
and will, perhaps, receive attention at the
proper time.
They have a bearing, however, on what
we started out to say by emphasizing the
great value to this state of an institution
already established and in successful op
eration, whose mission is to save the way
ward children of Georgia before the blight
of vice and imprisonment have dwarfed
their souls and marred their lives past all
hope of cure.
We allude to the Georgia Industrial
Home, founded some years ago by Rev.
William S. Mumford, a man w’hose work
for humanity has already given him a
place in the history of Georgia and made
secure his reward hereafter eyen should
his institution go out of existence today.
But thanks to the liberality of the good
people of Georgia there is no danger or
even possibility of this. On the contrary,
it has grown each year, until now it is
one of the recognized charitable institu
tions of Georgia with a definite place to
fill and a sound, practical purpose to sus
tain it.
The only thing lacking to make this
noble institution All that it should be is
state aid and state control, and those, we
are convinced, wisdom and humanity will
prompt some future general assembly to
accord it. No other argument in support
of this suggestion is needed than a visit
to the home itself and a study of the work
it is doing. It is making industrious, in
telligent God-fearing men and women out
of the waifs from our streets. It ’holds
out a hand to those who aft worse than
orphans and yet whom our orphan asy
lums cannot reach. It throws out the
life-line to the wayward youth before he
has been swept away by the whirlpool of
vice. It becomes a guide for those poor,
frail craft who, though no fault of their
own, have been sent adrift on life’s tem
pectuous sea without a rudder and with
out a chart.
It makes men, good, honest, industrious
men, of boys before the gangrene of sin
has eaten away the best that is in them.
And it nurtures into womanhood the frail
flowers that grow along the by-ways of
Hfe before some ruthless hand has touch
ed and tarnished all that is worth preserv
ing.
The Journal esteems it a pleasure to
urge upon the people of Georgia the most
liberal individual support of this most
worthy institution until such a time as
our law-makers, through a broader vision
of things, may see in its support and con
trol by the state the surest, easiest and
most economical way of lessening crime
and‘reducing the burden on our courts.
A NEW AND SERIOUS OBJECTION.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is gener
ally recognized as the leading advocate
of the Nicaragua canal, and so convinced
is he that this is the only feasible route
that he will not even listen to any other
suggestion. Yet, from his own state,
through one of its leading papers, and one
entirely friendly to Senator Morgan, comes
the most serious objection yet urged
against the Nicaragua route.
The Mobile Register takes the position
that a channel or canal dug through Lake
Nicaragua will not prove satisfactory,
and cites the Mobile Bay canal Is a case
in point.
This Mobile Canal is the longest of its
kind in the world and the most note
worthy. It extends along the axis of the
bay from Mobile City to a deep water
pocket near the mouth of the bay. It is
dug through mud and has a depth of
twenty-three feet.
The Register declares that while this
canal has been of the greatest value to
that city, increasing, as it has, its exports
and imports by several hundred per cent,
yet it has not always offered perfect fa
cilities, for the reason of its situation in
the middle of the bay. Contrary winds
and cross currents make the navigation
difficult at times, says the Register, and
if a vessel sheers from Its course it drives
its nose into the bank and the chance is
that it will go agrbund crosswise of the
channel and navigation will be blocked
until the vessel is pulled off.
Continuing the Register says: Rare as
are such mishaps, the fact that they do
occur must be considered, for, if there
are such difficulties here, where the bay
is of an average width of some twelve
miles, we can easily understand that diffi
culties very much greater will be encoun
tered by vessels seeking to navigate a
like canal through a lakg, which is actu
ally a small sea, and with the winds
sweeping the waters for a distance of
fifty miles in one direction and more than
one hundred in another.
This, it must be admitted, puts a light
on the Nicaragua proposition that is en
tirely new. And the value of the objec
tion, it must be seen, lies in the fact that
it is based on experience. It, at least, fur
nishes new food for thought in connection
with this great American indertaking.
THE STATE.OF JEFFERSON.
The Springfield Republican makes the
excellent suggestion that the new state
that is to be organized out of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory be named Jefferson.
For many reasons the metaory Os Thom
as Jefferson should be thus honored but
especially because the region which it
is proposed to establish as a sovereign
state is part of tire Louisiana purchase
which Jefferson accomplished. It is re
markable that only one of our states has
yet been named after an American patriot
and Washington is one of the latest addi
tions to the list of states.
Next to Washington Jefferson had most
to do with the formation of this govern
ment. No other statesman left so deep
an impression upon his own and succeed
ing generations and no better name than
his could be given to a state of this
union.
The Springfield Republican in making
the suggestion that Jefferson be thus hon
ored shows a broad patriotism that is to
be commended. Jefferson was a southern
man and set forth the theory of the gov
ernment which the south was the first
part of the country to adopt and to which
the great majority of its people still ad
here. The opposition to the Louisiana
purchase came mainly from Louisiana
and Jefferson has never been the ideal
American statesman in the estimation of
New England. But the Republican rec
ognizes his great services to his country
and proposes a very appropriate way of
recognizing them.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
It’s the privilege of a woman's best friend
to abuse her other friends to her.
A married man Is apt to get mad If he finds
out that his wife Isn’t worrying about him.
Some men live and learn and some devote
their time to trying to forget what little they
know.
Many a man would be able to live on his
reputation if it wasn't necessary to eat one*.
In awhile.
Evety man on earth has his faults, but the
girl who is engaged to be married is positive
there is one exception. ,
The women who denounce the torture of
binding the feet of Chinese girls haven’t a word
to say about tight lacing.
In any well-regulated household the chief
.Personages in their order of Importance are the
cook, the baby and the baby's puppy dog.
A girl who likes to walk five miles a day may
not be admired for the height of her Instep,
but she is likely to have strapping fine chil
dren. ,
That candidate who places himself in the
hands of his friends at the convention is likely
to be leftt on their hands after the votes have
been counted.
Arrange to have a woman catch you admir
ing her photograph as if you did not know she
was around and you have arranged to catch
her admiring you.
The real value of a family physician is that
when a women thinks nothing is the matter
with one of the ohildren He can make her
believe what she knows already.
’ POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
A bur hangs on longer thaa a strawberry.
Usually a girl isn't afraid of an armed man.
The choicest apple is alwayp just beyond your
reach.
A woman worth her weight in gold 18 worth
waiting for. ’
The more a spinster sees of men ths bettter
she likes cats. ,
Many a man’s <Tjath is due to his struggle
to acquire a living.
When paperhangers go to the wall their cred
itors do not suffer.
A man who is fond of cabbage Is .nearly al
ways a cigar smoker.
Unprofessional people give advice, but pro
fessional people sell it.
Nine times out of ten when a man does get
justice he doesn't like it.
Effects of a big feast are almost as bad as
effects of a big drunk. •
There never was a girl so homely that she
had no use for a mirror.
One convincing proof of good citizenship Is
the prompt payment of your bills.
Time steals on without fear of arrest, but the
man who steals often has .to serve time.
A man feels lonesome when he is in the com
pany of people who never make mistakes.
During his sojourn here on earth a man must
put up with a lot and put up for a lot more.
The wise woman enjoys a magazine fashion
plato because it shows her how not to look.
“It's impossible to keep a good man down,”
sighed the whale, as Jonah picked up his hat
and departed. '• X
When a girl begins to speak of herself as a
bachelor maid it is a sure sign that she has
given up all hope.
Occasionally a man's greatness can be trac
ed to the marriage of the woman of his choice
to some other man.
The average woman has no desire to enter a
room unless she happens tb see a “No Admit
tance" sign on the door.
When a woman listens attentively to every
word a man utters it’s a sure sign that she
either loves or hates him.
Fire worship Is supposed to be extinct, yet
when the mercury flirts with the zero mark Its
popularity seems to break out afresh.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Prince Henry, soon after returning from the
United States, will celebrate the quarter cen
tenary of his service in the navy.
The king and queen of England will spend
most of their time at Marlborough House until
the third week in March. The king will then
proceed to the Riviera, and Queen Alexandra
to Copenhagen.
J. C. P. Paz is editor and sole owner of “La
Prenza" (Buenos Ayres).' South America's
greatest newspaper. In 1896 thb building in
which the paper is edited and printed was
finished at a cost of $2,000,000.
Miss Mary J. Salter, a young Englishwoman
who is blind from sunstroke at the age of 22
years, is visiting in Richmond. Va. She has
written many short stories and Is now en
gaged in constructing a play.
President Roosevelt has been Invited to visit
Johnson City, Tenn., this spring to take part in
the formal laying the corner stone of the first
building to be erected for the Mountain Branch
National Soldiers’ Home at that, place.
P. D. Gwaltney of Smithfield, Va., known
as “the peanut king,” owns the largest pea
nut farm in the world. He was in the Con
federate army and after the surrender at
Appomattox began the work which has earned
him the nickname quoted.
Commander Booth-Tucker of the Salvation
Army, who has taken the oath of allegiance as
a citizen of the United States, said that he
was already half American, as his ancestors
were Virginians, and he had long since adopted
this as his country.
Arthur Maxson Smith, president of Oahu
College. Honolulu, Hawaii, who was sent there
from Chicago by President Harper, has ten
dered his resignation, to take effect in June.
Oahu College was the earliest in the islands,
having been established June 8, 1841.
A New Englander about 70 years old, having
learned that Dr. Heniw Van Djke made oc
casional expeditions to Canada and elsewhere in
search of big game, recently sent him a pen
drawing made by himself of a stag, and under
neath placed this motto in large letters: “Thou
Shalt Not Kill." Dr. Van Dyke, in acknowledg
ing receipt of the drawing) thanked his friend
for his kindness and suggested that under cer
tain conditions a more appropriate text would
be Acts x. 13: “Arise. Peter; kill and eat.”
Hoch!
Chicago Tribune.
As the prince's train drew into Atlanta
the waiting; throng cheered tumultuously.
"Hoch der Kaiser!”
"Hoch der Prinz!”
"Hoke Smith!”
Yelled the crowd impartially.
It is probable that Justice Gray of the
United States supreme court will soon re
tire on account of his recent stroke of pa
ralysis. He is now 74 years of age and
his physicians insist on his retirement.
Justice Gray is from Massachusetts, and
it is generally understood that his suc
cessor will come from one of the New
England states.
"Knowing your own mind isn’t a ques
tion of how long you have lived with it, I
find; some know it at eight, others don’t
know It at eighty.”—“By Bread Alone.”
♦ POLITICAL GOSSIP.
♦ ♦
Guerry’s style of campaign, and his
statement that he proposes to follow Ter
rell as closely as possible is causing a
great deal of comment. Never before in
the history, the political history, of the
state has such a method been adopted, and
the people are wondering what the out
come of it will be. At Waycross Saturday
Mr. Gqerry heard Mr. Terrell’s speech,
but he made no comments while the
speech was being delivered and asked no
questions of Mr. Terrell. Saturday after
noon he made the same attack on Mr.
Terrell that he made in Atlanta, and
again made use of his newly coined term,
“The Two-Eyed Pigeon of Plow Boy
Roost.” Mr. Terrell refrained from men
tioning Guerry or any other of his oppon
ents in his speech in Waycross. It has
been charged by some that this "never
mentlon-the-other-candidate” style that
Mr. Terrell has adopted is causing Mr.
Guerry to get a little angry. He is angry,
too, it is reported, because Mr. Terrell
won’t answer his questions. Terrell’s
friends say that he outlines his platform
in his speech, that his platform is in full
and the people >can see for themselves
what he represents and what he advo
cates.
While Mr. Guerry has not adopted the
personal letter system that has been
characteristic of the other candidates, he
has written a few persona!! letters, and
several cards to the newspapers. It is
predicted now that Terrell and Guerry
will get into a discussion of some sort be
fore the campaign is over, as the men will
probably meet very often during the com
ing week, and if they do get together there
may be some interesting accounts of the
speeches. If they do not get together it
will not be Mr. Guerry’s fault.
Colonel Estill is not taking a hand in
the speaking. He makes his own trips
and has but few clubs, and while the
other two candidates are down in the
southern part of the state he is up with
the mountain boys telling them face to
face that he wants to be governor, but he
is a Democrat and that he stands for aJI
things Democratic. He takes long drives
through the mountains and valleys. He
stops at the houses of the farmers, and
sometimes eats dinner/with them. The re
sult is he is Increasing in popularity. Sev
eral people in North Georgia said recently
that Colonel Estill was growing in their
section. Colonel Estill said a few days
ago that he was very much elated over
his prospects and the assurances of sup
port he was receiving from every section.
"I am a great believer in my luck." said
the colonel, “and I think I will be the next
governor of Georgia.”
I do not believe that a late primary is
wanted by the people of Georgia. I have
talked with many prominent men on the
subject within the past few days, and
the unanimous opinion was that the pri
mary should be held as soon as possible
so as to get the thing over with. The
campaign has been on for a year or more
now, and to prolong it until August or
September would make the people want to
vote for somebody else. They have heard
about Terrell, Guerry, Estill and others
until they have about made up their minds
as to who they shall vote for anyhow,
and to prolong it until August would prob
ably cause ttie voters to become tired of
the whole affair.
Mr. Guerry, as a citizen and not as a
candidate, wants a late primary. Chair
man dußignon, of the executive commit
tee, says, however, that he can see no
reason why the primary should not be
held at tne usual time, and he is inclined
to think that the primary will be held
then. All, of the candidates have friends
on the committee which will meet here
soon, and the matter will be decided then,
but from all indications the primary will
occur some time in May or June.
Two supreme court justices are to be
elected this year and will be nominated in
the primary. Associate Justices Samuel
Lumpkin and Andrew J. Cobb are candi
dates for re-election. There is no oppo
sition as yet, and it is not likely that
there xyill be any. Both men are efficient
judges and have done an enormous
amount of work since they have graced
the supreme bench. Under the law two
justices are elected every two years. For
some time there was talk that Judge John
S. Candler, of the Stone Mountain circuit,
would be in the race, and that he would
oppose Justice Cobb, but Judge Candler
says that he is not a candidate. Judge
William H. Felton, Jr., has also been men
tioned for the position, hot he has not
made an announcement yet that he would
run.
Seaton Grantland will not be a candidate
for congress this year, and now it seems
as if Charles O. Bartlett will be without
opposition. Mr. Grantland said several
days ago that he could not arrange his
business affairs this year so he could
make a campaign, but it may be that he
will be heard from two years from now.
Mr. Grantland is one of the most popular
men in the Sixth district, and if he should
get into the race he will make it interest
ing for the other fellow.
The race for the legislature In Muscogee
county will be watched with great inter
est this year. Three of the most promi
nent men In Columbus have announced as
candidates. Muscogee is entitled to two
representatives' in the house and the two
must be selected from the three men who
are running. The candidates are Thomas
Chappell, B. S. Miller and G. Y. Tigner.
The contest will be almost as interesting
as the one in Bibb, where Joe Hill Hall,
Thomas S. Felder, Lew J. Kilburn and
Roland Ellis are running for three places.
The three men in Columbus have all been
candidates before and are fully acquaint
ed with the duty of legislators.
John M. Slaton and Thomas Egleston
will probably be candidates for the legis
lature from Fulton county again, as will
t. C. Houston. Mr. Slaton has been in
the house for several sessions, Mr. Hous
ton represented Fulton last term and Mr.
Egleston filled the unexpired term of the
late Porter King. No formal announce
ments have yet been made, but it is gen
erally understood that the three men are
in the race.
A politician estimated today that as
much as $12,000 had been paid the United
States government during the past two
months in postage by various candidates
in Georgia. There has been a great bulk
of campaign documents from many of the
candidates and 2-cent stamps are always
used. The gubernatorial candidates, the
legislative candidates, men who want to
be congressmen, sheriffs, county tax col
lectors and other things are using the
mails, despite the fact that some people
do not like the personal letter style. Pos
tal clerks on the trains have been given
lots of work to do, and In places where
there are letter carriers the pouches are
very heavy.
When Mr. Terrell returns from his south
Georgia trip it is probable that he will be
invited to address the voters of Atlanta.
Mr. Terrell has never made a political
speech in Atlanta, and as he has hundreds
of friends here he would no doubt have a
tremendous audience. While no Terrell
club has been organized here, there are
lots of Terrell supporters, and’ it is be
lieved that Mr. Terrell will accept the in
vitation.
The Hon. James M. Smith, of Ogle
thorpe, remains like the sphinx. By some
he is regarded as a candidate, by others
a probable candidate and by some more
as out of the race altogether. Charlie
Webb said the other day that Mr. Smith
would run. as he had told him he would,
but that has been a week ago, and noth
ing in the way of an announcement has
come from Mr. Smith.
A well known politician from Elbert
county said several days ago that if Smith
did not run Terrell would carry that
whole section of the country, and if Smith
did run he would have to fight mighty
hard to get the votes which have already
been pledged to Terrell.
T. J, SIMMONS, JR.
Two Tabbies Who Were Sorry
People Were Interested in Pegs
BY GEO. ADE.
(Copyright, 1902, by Robert Howard Russell.)
IT befell that Mrs. Cadwalader and
Mrs. Frisbie met at a Tea Fight and
proceeded to wrassle with Current
Topics.
Mrs. Cadwalader was Corresponding
Secretary of the Society for Ethical
Research and once dined at the same
Table with President Eliot. Mrs. Fris
bie was the Party that read the Paper
before the Tuesday Morning Club.
These two began to deplore the Ten
dencies of this year’s Journalism.
They wanted to know if it wasn’t
too Bad that the Papers printed so
much about Horse-Racing and other
Crimes when it was possible to drop in
at any Litry Club and get enough Hot
Stuff to fill the whole Sheet.
Mrs. Cadwalader said that her Idea
of a gingery Daily would be one with
a Picture of Jeannette Gilder and a
couple of Book Reviews on page 1,
some Club Notes and Society An
nouncements on page 2, a few useful
Hints on how to clean White Gloves
without making them smell on page 3
and then fill the remaining Space with
Poems.
“Ain’t it Sickening to pick up a Pa
per and. find Columns about these Bru
tal Prize-Fighters?” asked Mrs. Fris
bie. "Just at present it’s all about
Fitzsimmons and Jeffries. It begins
to look as though they might get to
gether.”
"It would have been pulled off long
ago if Fitz had not Insisted od an
even Split of the Purse,” said Mrs.
Cadwalader. “It looks very Fakey to
me when a Man holds out for 50 per
cent, win or lose. I think Jeff is right
in insisting that the winner take the
"Big End.”
“You seem to think that Jeff has a
Cinch,” said Mrs. Frisbie in a Sarcas
tic Tone.
"I think it’s like robbing a Child's
Bank," said Mrs. Cadwalader. “I
can’t see any one but Jeff. Goodness!
He has a Right that would change
any Man's Religion.”
"Well, Bob is quite a Few
when it comes to sassy Rights,” main
tained Mrs. Frisbie. "Once he hit a
Man in Evansville and the Man woke
up in Memphis. Any time that he lands
one of those. Mary Anns, there’s some
thing doing in the other Corner.”
"You seem to forget that Jeff once
gave him his Trimmings,” said Mrs.
Cadwalader, with a Smile of Superior
"Wisdom.
"But Fitz says that he was
Drugged!" retorted Mrs. Frisbie
"Back to the Night School!” ex
claimed the Corresponding Secretary
JVIr. Dooley On European Intervention
BYP.F. DUNNE.
(Copyright, 1902, by Robert Howard Russell.)
TH’ question before th*
house is,” said Mr.
Dooley, ‘‘which Iv th’
Euro-peen powers done
mos’ f’r us in th’ Spanish war.” „
‘‘l thought they was all again us,
said Mr. Hennessy.
‘‘So did I,” said Mr. Dooley, ‘T>ut I
done thim an injustice. I was crool to
thim crowned heads. If it hadn’t been
f’r some wan power, an’ I can’t make
out which it was, th' Cubians today
wud be opprlssed be th’ Castile instead
Iv the Beet Sugar Thrust, an’ th’ Fil
ipinos d be shot by Mausers Instead
iv Krag-Jorgensens. Some wan power
stretched out its hand an’ said,‘No, no,
it said, ‘thus far, but no farther. We
will not permit this misguided but
warrum-hearted little people to be
crushed be th’ ruffyan power iv Spain,
it said. ’Niver,’ it said, ‘shall histhry
record that th’ United States iv Amer
ica, nestlin’ there in its cosy raypub
lic fr’m th’ Atlantic to th’ Passyflc,
was desthroyed an' th' hurtage iv lib
erty that they robbed fr’m us wasted
because we did not give thim support,
it says. An’ so whin th’ future looked
darkest, whin we didn’t know whether
th’ war wud last eight or be prolong
f'r tin weary, tragic minyits, whin it
seemed as though th’ Spanish fleet
wud not sink unless shot at, some
kindly power was silently comfortin’
us an’ sayin’ to itsilf, ‘I do so hope
they’ll win, it they can.’ But I don’t
know which wan It was.
“At first I thought it was England.
Whiniver ye hear iv anny counthry
helpin’ us, ye think it it is England.
That’s because England has helped
-us so much in th’ past. Says Lord
Cranburne in reply to a question in th’
House iv Commons: ‘I am reluctantly
foorced to mesllf to blushin'ly admit
that but f’r us, people on their way to
China today wud be gettin’ up an’
lookin’ over th’ side iv th’ ship an’
saying’, ‘This is where America used
to be.’ Whin war was first discussed,
mesilf an’ th’ rest Iv th’ fam’ly met an’
decided that unless prompt action was
<took our cousins an’ invlstmints acrost
th’ sea wud be damaged beyond re
pair so we cabled Lord Ponsyfoot to
go at wanst to th’ White House an’
inform th’ prlsidint that we wud regard
th’ war as a crool blot on civilization
an’ an offinse to th’ intillyglnce iv
mankind. I am glad to say our inther
vintlon was iffycaclous. War was im
meedajately declared. I will not tell
me how high our hearts beat as we
r-read th’ news fr’m day to day. Ye
know. I will on’y say that we in
sthructed Lord Ponsyfoot to do Ivry
thing in his power to help our kinsmen
an’ he faithfully ixicuted his ordhers.
He practically lived at th’ White
House durin’ th’ thryin’ peeryod an’
his advice to th’ prisidint such as:
‘lf ye go on wit- this binnyficint war
th' United Powers will knock ye’er
head off,’ or ‘I think I can secure
fav’rable terms fr’m th’ Powers if ye
will abdicate in favor tv a riprisin
tltive iv th’ house iv Bourbon an’
cede New England to Spain,’ done
more thin annything else to put heart
Into th’ American foorces. I will add
'that durin’ this time, we was ap
proached be an ambassadure iv wan«lv
th’ powers who ast us to inthervent.
I will not say which power it was
exfcipt that it was Austhrya-Hungary
an’ I'm previnted be th' obligations iv
me office fr’m mintionin’ w-hat powers
was behind th' move beyond hintin’
that that they was as follows: Ger
many, France, Rooshya, It’ly. China,
Turkey, Monaco, San Marino, Bool
gahryg, Montinaygro, Booloochistan <
an’ Parshya. Pah's reply to th’ am
bassadure was : 'I will do all I can’
as he kicked him down stairs. It ill
becomes me to say what else we done
f’r that home iv freedom—an’ hiven
knows I wlsht it’d stay there an’ not
be wandherin’ over th’ face iv th’
wurruld—but I’m not proud iv me
looks an’ I will remark that Tiddy
Rosenfelt was capably directed be th’
idltors iv England, thim hearts Iv oak,
that th' American navy was advised
be our mos’ inargetlc corryspondlnts
an’ that, to make th’ raysuit certain,
we lint a few British gin’rals to th’
Spanish. Cud frindship go farther!
As they say in America: ‘I reckon, be
gosh, not.’ ”
"Well, whin I read this speech I was
prepared to hang th’ medal f’r savin’
life on th’ breasts iv th* hands acrost
th’ sea where there’s always plenty iv
hooks f’r medals. But th’ nex’ day. I
picks up th' pa-aper an’ sees that ’twas
not England done it but Germany. Yes,
sir, 'twas Germany. Germany was our
on’y frind. They was a time whin it
looked as though she was goln’ to shoot
of the Society for Ethical Research.
"I’ll tell you what Drugged him. It
was that Haymaker that was handed
him in the Second. That was a regular
Lizcumtizzus. After he got \hat one
he didn't know whether he was in the
Arena or up in the Hay-Mow, looking
for Eggs.”
“Let me ask you something,” said
Mrs. Frisbie with considerable warmth.
"Didn’t the Sailor stay for 25 Rounds
with this big Burly? Then didn't Fitz
put him away the fourth time dp? Now
if there's anything in the Dope, how
can you figure anybody but the Kanga
roo? Don’t talk to your Aunt Hester!
Any time that they beat him on the
Square they’ll have to push a Steam
Roller into the Ring. The next time he
gets Mr. Boiler-Maker in front he'll
take his Measure in a hurry. He will
certainly light on that naughty Actor
and sting him like a Bee. Jeff will
think that somebody is shooting Gloves
at him from a Rapid Fire Gun. All that
the Klnetoscope will show w|ll be
something that looks like an Electric
Fan in Motion. Little Bright Eyes from
California will begin to see Stars that
never were on the Chart. Now, I'm
telling you.”
"Go back and finish your Nap,” said
Mrs. Cadwalader, giving her friend the
Banjo Eye. “You must have received a
few Marconis from Dreamland or else
come False Friend has been feeding
you the Baked Atmosphere. To hear
you talk one would suppose that at
any time Fltx comes into the Ring
they have to put Asbestos under the
Matting. He may be fairly Warm but
I don't think that he has to wear a.
Steam Gauge. I will admit that he is
all right in his Class but he has hl»
Nerve with him when he tries to upset
a Baby Elephant.”
"The bigger they are the harder they
fall.” observed Mrs. Frisbie.
“It’s like starting a Dray HorM
against McChesney,” reiterated Mrs.
Cadwalader. "If ever Jeff connects, the
small Boys will be picking up Freckles
around there for a Week after.”
The Discussion regarding the Sensa
tional Press was taking an acrimonious
Turn when the Hostess entered and
asked them to step into the Front
Room and hear Agnes Gladys Otis read
something from "The Ring and the
Book.”
“Gracious me! I hope it isn't any
thing aboat the Prize Ring or the Win
ter Book,” said Mrs. Cadwalader. "We
get enough of that in the awful Daily
Papers.**
MORAL: People may be opposed to a
Vulgar Pastime and yet be Posted.
at us to keep us fr’m th’ consequences
iv oud rash act. They’se nawthin' Ger
* many wudden’t do for or to a frind.
Yes, it .was Germany. But it was
France, too. La Belle France was there
with a wurrud iv encouragemint an’ a
glance iv affection out iv her dark eyes
that kep’ growin’ darker as th’ war
proceeded. An' it was Rooshya. Whin
th’ czar heerd iv th’ war, th’ first thing
he said was: 'l’m so sorry. Who is th’
United States?’ An’ ’twas It’ly an’
Boolooochistan an’ Boolgahrya an
even Spain. Spain was our frind till th
war was over. Thin she rounded on us
an’ sold us th' Ph’llpplnes, t
“They was all our frlnds an yet
on’y wan iv thim was our frind. How
d’ye make it out, Hinnisay? Hogan
has a sayin’ that onalsy lies th’ head
that wears a crown, but It seems to
be as aisy f’r some iv thim as f’r th’
mos’ dimmycratlc American. But who-
Iver It was that saved us I’m thank
ful to thim. It won’t do f’r ye to
look at th’ map an' say that th’ pow r
ful protlctln’ nation wud be hardly big
enough f’r a watch charm f’r a man
fr’m Texas or that Euro-peen assist
ance Fr America is about as useful as
a crutch f’r a foot-runner. But
Fr th’ Inthervention iv our un
known frind, we’d’ve been annihila
ted. Th’ powers wud’ve got together
an’ they wud’ve slnt over over a fleet
| that wud’ve been turrble If It didn t
blow up an’ th’ crews didn’t get sea
sick. They wud’ve slnt an Irresisti
ble ar-rmy like th’ wan that Is now
crushin’ th’ Boers with th’ Infirmities
Iv ol’ age; an’ fin'ly, if all else failed,
they wud rayfuse food. That’s goln
to be th’ unlxplcted blow Iv anny
war that th' parishes Iv Europe wages
again us. They will decline to eat.
They will turn back our wheat an’
pork an’ short rib sides. They 11
starve us out an' If left to their own
resoorces, as Hogan says, Europe cud
outstarve America in a month.’
"I’m not afraid Iv thim,” said Mr.
Hennessy. ‘‘When I was a young
man, I cud take a runnin’ jump acrost
Germany or France an’ as f’r Eng
land we'd hardly thrip over It in th’
dark.”
"Perhaps ye’er right,” said Mr. Doo
l</y. "But if all thim gr-reat powers,
as they say thimsllves, was Fr to at
tack us, d’ye know what I’d do? I’ll
tell ye. I’d blockade Armour an’ Com
p’ny an’ th’ wheat illvators iv Mln
nysoty. F’r, Hinnissy, I tell ye, th’
hand that rocks th’ scales in th’ gro
cery store is, th* hand that rules th’
wurruld.”
FOREIGN NOTEB OF INTEREST.
In Germany the yearly number of divorces ex
ceeds 10.000.
Taxes amounting to over £1.000.000 are col
lected every week at Somerset House.
The Paris Municipal Council will shortly be
asked to name a street after Richard Wagner.
While gold digging in Demerara, a negro has
unearthed a nugget weighing 87V4 ounces.
Territory of the Antilles has been suggested
as the American name for the Danish West
Indies.
! The total number of medical practitioners
in Great Britain and Ireland is 36,788, an in
crease of 404 within a year.
Os every three persons in Berlin, -one has a
savings bank account, or, more accurately,
ten of every twenty-seven.
Os all the bicycle factories in Germany only
six paid dividends last year. Fifteen targe
factories are on the point of going out ot
business.
For the first time since its arrival from
Malaya, In 1898, the giant orchid In the tropi
cal liouag at Kew Gardens, London, was In
bloom recently.
Dueling among the students at Jena has
been forbidden by the Vice Chancellor of the
university, who has also broken up the college
fencing club. •
The lowest tide in any large sea is tn the
Mediterranean. At Toulon there is about four
inches which is the average for the whole
Mediterranean. ' *'
By using compressed air In the blowing of
glass a Dresden inventor has discovered a
method of manufacturing glass teasels of un
usually large sire, such as bath tubs and
kettles.
In the coldest pdrts of Siberia a rainbow
may sometimes be seen all day long in a
cloudless sky. It Is supposed to be due to
the reflection ot the sun on fine particles of
snow in the air.
Lord Roberts, replying to a correspondsnt
who suggested using corps of veterans for
British home defense, says he appreciates the
patriotism of the proposal, but is of opinion
that soldiers who have served their country
may now look to younger men to defend it.
A reward of £5,000 is offered by the depart
ment of agriculture in Queensland for the dis
covery of a means of eradicating the prickly
pear pest, which is a cactus imported from
America. The remedy must not cost more than
a certain sum per acre.
In consequence of the occurrence of several
fatal accidents through the bursting of shells
brought home from South Africa as relics of
the war, the British Home Office has felt it
necessary to Issue a warning to the public as
to the danger incurred in the handling and
storage of these mementoes.
A thing is never worth while doing If it does
not do us some distinct good, if ft doea not
make us better, whether spiritually, mentally
or physically.—March Ladles* Home Journal.