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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1902.
A little more of thl. weather and you
ran both! yous overcoat.
It begin, to look like congress has Pres
ident Roosevelt on its hands.
Official Washington is beginning to ask
Itself ••What will the president do next?”
Harvard always has a degree handy
when there are any distinguished visitors
around.
It is safe to say this country has never
bed such an epidemic of speech-making
in its entire history.
It looks more and more like it will be
Cheaper tor the Easter rabbit to lay his
own eggs this year. •
The only drawback to this sort of
weather is the thought it brings of the
price of Easter bonnets.
Now. ts Spain had put up one of those
Barcelona riots in Cuba, it might have
taken us a while longer.
This is the season of the year when con
gressmen are sowing free garden seed
even as they would reap.
The Hon. Joe Bailey seems to still en
joy his favorite occupation ot keeping the
flies off the constitution.
Perhaps President Palma, of Cuba, feels
that by remaining in this country he is
nearer the real seat of government.
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Here is a paradox for ybu. The agnos
tics of the country are to spend a million
dollars to promulgate their beliefs.
From his continued silence, we are led
to infer that the Hon. Jim Smith hasn’t
ywt marketed his 3.000 bales of cotton.
Bird 8. Coler says with harmony New
York Democrats can win next time. They
have tried everything else of late years.
It appears that Miss Alice Roosevelt
will compromise by attending T. Estrada
Palma's inauguration as president of
Cuba.
Perhaps President Elliott thought It
would be well to appease the British by
saying we like Henry for his grandma's
sake. '. _
It is beginning to look as ts Millionaire
Rica really committed suicide and that
Jones is merely trying to steal the credit
for it.
And now another evangelist is preach
ing that the millenlum is near at hand.
* There seems to be no end to this sort of
thing.
Boston is at least to bo commended for
not making “Der Watch Am Rhein" the
chief feature of her entertainment to the
prince.
It seems a pity that the paragraphers
can’t be vaccinated against that joke
about the man in jail breaking out with
smallpox.
In Arizona three Yuma Indian medicine
men. having lost seven patients, were put
to death in accordance with the laws of
the tribe.
/ Now that it U all over, we are willing
to concede that Henry Hohensollem has
clearly earned the title of “The Flying
Dutchman."
The speculators show a tremendous
amount of indignation because a president
of the United States dares to disturb the
stock market.
Considering all the trouble we are hav
ing with Cuba, what a fortunate thing It
seems to be that we didn't also start out
to free Ireland.
And now General Funston also declares
that there is no war in the Philippines
How, then, does he think he came by
those epaulettes?
The gentlemen in charge of Candidate
Guerry’s question department seem to be
trying to run into Mr. Terrell at every
turn of the road.
The Savannah Press claims that Colo
nel Estill has the largest number of news
papers for him. General Evans had them
all and a few over.
It begins to look to the Savannah Press
like the state school commissioner race Is
going to crowd the governorship race from
the center of the stage.
The man who started that report about
Thomas B. Reed being Boss Platt's can
didate for governor of New York appears
not to know either Reed or Platt.
It is proposed to form an amalgamated
association of international workers in
cork and wooden legs. Hereafter you may
have to wear the union label on your leg.
General Funston says the Philippines
are as peaceful as Kentucky. This state
ment would seem to be fully justified by
a comparison of the respective casualty
lists.
That Brooklyn doctor who offered him
self as a subject for vivisection ought to
feel very much cut up by this time over
the way the newspapers have handled
him.
A Kentucky pauper has been driven out
of a poor house because he asked the
superintendent to cash two checks of 335
and because he owned a farm of 100 acres
wuurth DM an acre.
Senator Clark's Montana friends are be
ginning to talk about him as a candidate
for the presidency. They evidently think
this is as easy way making money for
themselves as any.
The Walton News makes mention of the
case of a citizen of that county who start
ed in to keep a correct list of the can
didates for speaker of the house of repre
sentatives and who is now seriously ill
with a case of nervous prostration,
brought on by working over-time.
Terrell at the age of 18 “plowed a red
mule in a cornfield." Guerry at the age
of 13 "plowed two mules and a horse.”
The Cordele Sentinel seems to be of the
•pinion that Farmer Jim Smith will have
to select the bob-tailed bull route to the
people's heart.
THJE SOUTHERN FARMERS’ OFFICIAL PAPER.
It is of interest and importance to the farmers of the south to know that The
Semi-Weekly Journal has been selected as the official organ of the Southern
Cotton Growers’ Protective association, and is the only paper recognized officially
by that association.
We say this is important to the farmers of the south, nearly all of whom are
cotton growers to a greater or less extent, because it gives them, without cost,
a vehicle for advancing their interests and disseminating information that Is val
uable to all of them.
The officers of the association will issue all of their official communications
through the columns of The Semi-Weekly Journal, instead of through the more
costly and less satisfactory means of circulars as heretofore. This fact alone
makes The Semi-Weekly Journal necessary to the members of the association
who intend to keep up an active interest in its affairs.
The purpose of the Southern Cotton Growers’ Protective association have
appealed to The Journal from the outset, and we have even taken pleasure in
co-operating with It In every movement looking to the advancement of the
cotton growing interests of the south. It means much to them and by concerted
effort they can make Its value and influence felt. The southern cotton grower
has long been at the mercy of both the buyer and seller, being forced to sell
his product at the price arbitrarily and often unfairly fixed by the former, and
compelled, again, to buy his supplies at the price demanded by the latter.
The Southern Cotton Growers’ Protective association can and will correct
these evils In a large measure, if the farmers but co-operate as they should.
This they are showing a most commendable disposition to do, and The Journal
believes that the association is destined to wield great power.
But they and all others recognize the need of an official paper and this need
they have supplied by selecting The Semi-Weekly Journal as their organ. Go
ing as it does twice a week into nearly 50,000 southern homes, the heads of which
are nearly all farmers, it keeps them in touch one with the other, and affords
a rare opportunity for an exchange of views that can but be helped to all con
cerned.
The Journal invites every member of this association, as well as farmers
generally, to use its columns in thia way. We will make a liberal allowance of
space for this purpose, and trust our friends, the farmers, will not hesitate to
avail themselves of it.
We realize that upon the farmers and especially upon the producers of the
south's staple crop, depends largely the future prosperity of our section. We
desire to make The Semi-Weekly Journal, which already goes to the homes of
some 50,000 farmers, the great medium for the interchange of Ideas and sug
gestions. for the benefit of all persons engaged In agriculture. We desire to be In
close touch with every member of the Southern Cotton Growers’ Protective as
sociation, so that each bf therii will read in our pages not only the practical
views and suggestions of others engaged In agriculture, but also the official
communications which will from time to time be promulgated for the good of
the organization. It is our fixed purpose to make The Semi-Weekly Journal stand
for the best Interests of the great agricultural element of the cotton growing
section, and to promote In every possible way the interests of its large con
stituency. ■
A FINE FORAGE CROP.
At this time of the year the subject of
forage crops is of great practical Impor
tance. In a letter to the Montgomery Ad
vertiser Mr. K. O. Varn, of Fort Meade,
Fla., gives some very interesting informa
tion as the result of six years’ experience
with the velvet bean as a crop. The fact
that he has raised this crop in Increasing
quantities every year and has no seed to
sell is good evidence that he values it
highly and has found It profitable. Mr.
Varn says he thought the stock pea was
the best plan for the enriching of poor
land until he tried the velvet bean. He is
now convinced that the latter is 60 per
cent more valuable for building up the
soiL
Mr. Yarn’s high estimate of the value
of the velvet bean Is in line with reports
of several experiment stations.
The Louisiana station found that an or
dinary acre of beans contained 191 pounds
of nitpogen, 243 pounds of potash and 41
pounds of phosphoric add, which, when
ploughed under, has a fertilizing value of
340 an acre. The Alabama station planted
oats on one patch, on a womout hill-side,
where the beans had been turned under,
and on another where crab grass and the
ordinary growth had peen turned under.
The yield of the first patch was 33.6 bush
els per acre, and of the second 8.4 bushels.
The straw from the bean patch weighed
five times that from the other. Two such
plots planted in corn gave like results. A
crop of beans can be made and turned un
der for 84 an acre.
Mr. Varn will plant 400 acres of velvet
beans this year. He has known the bean
to produce nine tins of hay and 76 bushels
of shelled beans on land that would not
produce 20 bushels of corn.
The velvet bean is very rich in protein
and quite equal to cotton seed meal in
feeding value.
The Florida experiment station last
year fed a grade steer for 60 days on the
beans and pods in the green stage, and
added 314 pounds to its weight in that
time. The steers are turned In when cue
beans begin to mature, and an acre fat
tens three to six head, adding 87 each to
their selling value. The stuobie is plowed
under the following spring and planted to
corn, apd the crop is increased 50 per cent.
The vines make the finest of feed for
milch cows, and are equally good for
sheep, horses and other stock. The beans
are not fit for human food. The land is
prepared for the beans as for corn, and
they are planted two to a hill, 18 to 24
Inches in the drill, and in rows 4 feet
apart. They grow at a great rate and soon
cover the ground with a mass of vines
waist deep. The vines keep green until
frost, but rot quickly and are readily
turned under. The beans hang on the
vines three months after ripening and can
be grazed on all winter. The vines make a
very nutritious hay and oan be mowed
two or three times. They withstand the
severest drought or wettest weather,
thrive anywhere and rarely make a fail
ure.
The diversification of crops Is steadily
Increasing in the south, and there are
now many crops of great value to this
section which were not known here at al)
a few years ago. ,
AN ADMIRABLE AMERICAN.
The office of secretary of state is filled
by a man who has grown upon the Amer
ican people very rapidly tn the last few
years.
John Hay was widely known long before
he went into the cabinet, but not until he
undertook the grave duties of that office
were the extent and scope of his ability
realized even by his closest friends. His
recent noble eulogy of President McKin
ley has not only added to his fame, but
has also awakened a larger interest in his
history and personality.
Mr. Hay is claimed by the west because
he was born in that section and there
won his first distinction. He is claimed
by the east because he was long closely
concerned with its business and politics.
He is claimed by the whole country be
cause he has served it with such signal
success as secretary of state.
Indiana is his native state, but he grew
to manhood in Illinois. Later he became
a citizen of Ohio and married there. A
great part of his life work has been dona
in journalism. For years he was on the
New York Tribune with Horace Greeley,
who considered him the most brilliant
man on that staff when it had several
writers on it who won high fame.
During the first administration of Pres
ident Benjamin Harrison, while Whitelaw
Reid was ambassador to France, Mr. Hay
was practically the editor of The Tribune,
and that newspaper has never been more
ably conducted since Greeley left it.
His early literary work has a distinct
western flavor, but a distinct mark of
genius also. The “Pike County Ballads'*
are among the best portrayals of life and
sentiment in the early west. He has writ
ten much in other lines and his literary
works alone would have established a
high reputation.
For several years he was one of the sec
retaries of President Lincoln and, with
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1902.
John G. Nicolay, wrote the most com
plete “Life of Lincoln.”'
Mr. Hay’s career as secretary of state
has been notably brilliant and successful.
He has done many things that prove his
excellent judgment and his rare skill in
diplomacy, but they are all subordinate
to his splendid achievement tn carrying
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty through under
very trying difficulties.
This part of his work is enough to give
John Hay an enviable place among
American statesmen. He is still in his
prime and few men hold so high a place
In the confidence and esteem of the peo
ple of the United States of all sections
and all political parties.
He is a man of very high type and wh6m
we are all proud to claim as our fellow
citizen.
THE GREAT ISSUE.
It becomes more evident every day that
the present tariff schedule cannot stand
much longer. The paramount issue of the
congressional elections this year will be
the tariff and the old lines will be changed
very decidedly.
There are many men now demanding a
reduction of duties who even two years
ago would have stubbornly opposed any
such thing. The split in the Republican
party on this question is widening rapid
ly. The Republican press is even more
divided that the Republican politicians.
Seldom has any party in this country
been so much at sea as the Republicans
are now on reciprocity. They are famous
folk for getting together, but If they can
reconcile their differences on this ques
tion they will beat their own record.
We are glad to see the Democrats in
congress and elsewhere forcing the fight
ing on the tariff. Mr. De Armond, of
Missouri, who is one of the strongest and
readiest debaters In the house, made be
fore a Democratic club in Baltimore a few
nights ago the sort of Democratic speech
that tells. It was an arraignment of the
iniquities and enormities of the tariff
based, not on abuse, but on facth, reason
and sound business principles. This is
the sort of ammunition that the Democra
cy will need when tyt goes to the country
next fall; it is the sort of argument that
appeals to the people and carries convic
tion with it.
There are .so many facts against the
present tariff system that it is a waste
of time to deal in generalities. We should
have a practical, sharp and aggressive at
tack upon the already badly battered bul
warks of protection.
GEORGIA FLOUR AND MEAL.
A census bulletin just issued shows that
the grist and flouring mill interests of
Georgia are more Important than has been
generally supposed.
Georgia is distinctly out of what is
known as the grain belt, but in 1900 the
amount of money invested in flouring and
grist mills in this state was 32,604.033 and
the value of the product 88,330,439.
Since these statistics were compiled
there has been a notable Increase of wheat
growing in Georgia and small flouring
mills have been built in many counties
Within the past two years the people of
this state have advanced decidedly in the
matter of supplying their own wheat and
flour, though they still draw the great
bulk of these supplies from the west.
It has been demonstrated that wheat
can be grown profitably in all parts of
northern and middle Georgia. The prizes
in two successive wheat competitions in
this state were won by farmers who pro
duced more than 49 bushels to the acre,
which would be a fine yield in the greatest
wheat states.
We look for a great increase of wheat
production in Georgia, not in the way of
large single crops, but in a multitude of
fields planted for strictly home use. Geor
gia wheat is proved by analysis to be
equal to the best. It makes as fine flour
as any that can be obtained from Minne
sota, California or the Dakotas.
Georgia flour is a delight and we are
glad to know that its quantity is increas
ing.
There is a great demand for Georgia
meal and while the supply is larger than
it formerly was, it is still not as great as
it should be.
WOMAN AND THE BALLOT.
The fact that the recent convention of
the National Suffrage association resolved
to hold its next-Mionvention in New Or
leans is taken as an evidence that the
cause of woman’s suffrage is advancing in
the south.
This is undoubtedly true, though the
extent to which that cause has gained fa
vor in this section is a matter of dispute.
One thing, however, is certain. * The
question is more freely discussed in this
section than it ever was before. The gen
eral public is readier to hear argument on
it and beyond doubt there are many more
men and women in the south ready to
concede the suffrage to women now than
could have been found five years ago.
The leading city of the south, in which
the next national convention of equal suf
fragists is to be held, has recognized the
right of women to vote where their prop
erty is directly concerned.
When the question of great bond issue
for the improvement of New Orleans was
submitted women tax-payers were allow
ed to vote, either in person or by proxy
and it is said that they arrayed them
selves overwhelmingly on the side of pro
gress. This concession seems just rather
than liberal in view of the fact that over
one-third of the property in that great
city is owned by women.
A few years ago a publication of the
tax returns in Atlanta showed that the
amount and proportion of property in
this city owned by women was far in ex
cess of what any but a few well informed
persons supposed.
The injustice of taxation without rep
resentation is being made a powerful ar
gument in favor of the extension of the
ballot to women.
The time has past when the claim of
woman to the ballot can be laughed
away.
It is a practical issue and must be met
by reasdn. The old rhetoric about “wo
man’s sphere,” etc., has lost its force and
if the opponents of woman's suffrage can
not trump up something more substan
tial they will lose ground very fast.
THEY MUST STAY OUT.
Many people in this country innocently
supposed that when, after several tempor
izing measures, congress passed the Geary
Chinese exclusion act, a problem was
finally solved which had long taxed the in
genuity and patience of American states
manship and irritated a large part of the
American people. But time moves fast
and we are once more confronted with the
Chinese question as it affects our own
domestic affairs and bears upon our own
labor problems. The Geary act will ex
pire within tha next two months.
What will be our policy toward Chinese
immigration after that?
It is safe to say that the Mongolians
will not be admitted to American citizen
ship or be even permitted to pour into
this country in unrestricted numbers..
But there is a conflict over our future
policy in this regard.
Our treaty of 1868 with China left no
restraint upon Chinese immigration.
The Chinese had begun to come to this
country in large numbers long before
that treaty. The rumors of gold discov
eries in California caused them to pour
into California heavily in the ’sos and
then the white man's anti-Chlnese preju
dice first asserted Itself on this continent.
The Chinaman was welcomed when he
first came, and he grew rapidly in favor,
because he was always a sober, indus
trious and humble laborer.
The Pacific railroad development gave
a fresh impetus to Chinese immigration,
but the panic of 1873 with its consequent
scarcity of employment and. reduction of
wages, gave rise to Bret Harte's cry “We
are ruined by Chinese cheap labor.” Then
set in the era of anti-Chlnese agitation
to be followed by a period of severe anti-
Chlnese legislation. The Burlingame
treaty was so amended in 1880 that the
United States should have the right to
exclude Chinese labor at its discretion.
Under the amended treaty several exclu
sion acts were passed until the Geary
law, the most extreme of them all, came
and that has been in operation nearly 13
years. There is no prospect that this act
will be extended. The labor element of
our country la intensely opposed to open
ing our gates to the Chinese and the
general sentiment .of the country is on
that line.
Something must be substituted for the
present law, but we may be sureXthat it
will not be any legislation that will
make possible a great Inpour of Chinese.
There are great corporations and other
large. employers of labor who want to
get that commodity as cheap as possible.
Some of these are at work to induce con
gress to liberalize the Chinese immigra
tion laws,"but they will not succeed. We
have about as many Chinese here now as
we want.
AN EQUINE TRAGEDY.
The terrible loss of human life in the
Boer war has obscured from general ob
servation the fact that there has been
a fearful and, perhaps, unprecedented
destruction of horses and mules there also.
For two years past British agents have
been buying these animals far and near,
in fact, in nearly every part of the civ
ilized world.
Our country has been one of the main
sources of supply and for that reason
prices have advanced decidedly.
Last November in reply to Lord Kitch
ener’s call for more horses and mules the
secretary of war telegraphed:
“We cannot continue indefinitely to send
from 10,000 to 12,000 mounts a month to be
used up by column commanders in a few
days.”
This impatience, however, did not avail
to stop either the demand for more hordes
and mules or to cause a decrease of the
supply. On the contrary both increased
and the figures since January 1 have aver
aged about 13,000 a month.
The climate and the hard service in
South Africa have broken down these ani
mals with wonderful rapidity.
A conservative estimate places the num
ber of horses and mules that have died
in the British service during the Boer
war at 150,000.
The British are still buying horses and
mules at an unabated rate and they die
almost as fast as they are taken to South
Africa. .
The expense to the British government
on this score must have been stupenduous
under any conditions, but it has been in
creased Immensely by jobbery and the in
capacity of honest agents.
The average price paid for the horses
and mules bought for the British in this
war is said to have been at least 30 per
cent, above their real value.
In modern warfare the horse and mule
problem is one of the heaviest and most
perplexing items and the British have
made a distinct failure in their effort to
solve it.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
An admirer of Professor Haeckel has given
an order to the sculptor Harro Magnussen to
make a statue of the ‘‘German Darwin.” It
is to be chiseled from life, but not put into
place till after Haeckel’s death.
M. Santos Dumont has quite recovered from
his cold and has left Monte Carlo for Paris. He
has refused the public subscription offered for
the repair of his airship, and the money, some
81,800, has been returned to the donors.
The emperor of China, it is stated, sneered
openly when at the New Year’s audience to
the diplomatic corps in Pekin he observed sev
eral persons present taking snapshots with
hand cameras, a proceeding which the Chinese
consider most undignified.
Congress will soon be called upon to con
sider a proposition for the erection of a mon
ument, to General Lew Wallace and the troop
with which he defended Washington during the
Civil war. The suggestion has been made that
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, take charge
of the matter.
Professor Kuno Franke, of Harvard univer
sity is now abroad making collections for the
new Germanic museum at the institution.
Thither will go the elaborate works of art that
the kaiser has designated as his gifts, and
Herr Conried is also doing good work for this
department of the university.
Big game In the shape of wild boars exists
in plenty in the state forests of Hardelot
and Neufchatel .near Boulogne. The shooting
season is in full swing just now and a Sunday
rarely passes without three or four boars be
ing bagged.
Lew Dockstader's Latest
Entitled 44 Les Negroes"
• Lew Dockstader has a new story. Here
is as told In the Springfield Union:
“Last season a couple of black-face
knock-abgut comedians went over to Paris
from this country,” says Dockstader, “to
see whether the Frenchmen would stand
for a turn where one of the actors care
lessly sticks an ax into the top of his part
ner’s head and for all the other knock
about gags that are so familiar to vaude
ville audiences in the United States. They
realized that the act would probably be
a bit startling to the boulevardiers and
they had fixed themselves with return
tickets to New York in case they didn’t
make good.
“The manager of the Paris theater re
fused to sign a contract or even to prom
ise them work for any definite time until
they had gone on and the public had voted
the turn good or bad. •
“ ’But,’ one of the black-face boys said
to the manager, 'this isn’t a very business
like deal. We come over here at great ex
pense and put on a brand new act in your
house and maybe we can. stay only one
night. Is that right?’
“ ‘That’s about it,” the manager told
them.
“ 'But how are we to know whether
we are a go or not?’ the comedian asked
him.
“Then the manager explained that it
was the custom of the Paris theatres to
place a playbill before the house every
day announcing in large type the show
for that night. If their names were on the
bill the morning after they first went on,
he explained, they would be all right. If
not, it was-them to the wharf. Well, they
went on and did their turn, but they
couldn’t tell whether the house liked it
or not. Some of the mob yelled approval
and the rest yelled other things, but it
was all in French, and they didn’t know
but that most of the house was requesting
them to retire to the extreme rear and be
seated.
“They had a room opposite the theatre
and the next morning they were both
afraid to raise the shade and'take a look
at the playbill in front of the theater. Fi
nally one of them got his nerve up and
raised the curtain. He took one flash at
the bill and then turned around.
“ ’lt’s all off, Bill,’ he says to his part
ner, shaking hands solemnly. ‘We did our
best, but they won’t stand for us.’
“ ‘What’s the matter?’ Bill says. ’Ain’t
our names up?’
“ ’No,’ the other fellow replied. ‘The
sign over there says: “Less negroes.” ’
“ ‘Oh, go on!’ howled Bill, who knew
a little French. ‘We’re saved! We're
saved! “Les Negroes” means us, and
we’re going on again tonight.’
“Then they fell on each other’s necks
and wept for joy."
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Talk Is cheap, but silence Is a better bar
gain.
Possession of your house is nine points of the
mother-in-law. *
Let your right hand know everything that
your left hand does.
Long tongues in men are a sign of what long
ears are in quadrupeds—donkeys.
It isn’t the man who sells rum that wants
Sunday openings; it is the man who drinks it.
The wise virgin knows that the tlmldest
man can make love with the lights turned out.
There Is no man so mean that he would not
like to be charitable at somebody else's ex
nense.
Probably the women who want to vote would
compromise on being allowed to make stump
speeches.
Romeo was glad to climb up Juliet’s bal
cony to see her, but after the honeymoon he
would have made a rumpus because there was
no elevator. ,
Men may pretend that they like to have their
wives dress for sense and comfort, but the
times when they give them an extra allowance
are when they come home and see them in
something mighty foolish but mighty pretty.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
Two cannot quarrel when one will not.
Ground rents are sometimes due to an earth
quake.
Many proverbs are the wit of one and the
wisdom of none.
Success consists of doing what you can do
and doing it well.
But few good things come to the average
man. He must go after them.
A good word in behalf of others costs you
little and is worth much.
Wise is he who knows where his knowledge
ends and his Ignorance begins.
Taking a stout girl out riding in a light bug
gy is suggestive of a spring meeting.
Great thoughts deteriorate by passing through
small minds. Even the hurricane makes but
sorry music when it attempta'to whistle through
a keyhole. •
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Phlladelpria Press.
Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston millionaire,
has sent to India a pair of thoroughbred horses
for Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy.
Dimitri Merejkowski is looke/ upon as the
logical successor to the llteraryrleadershlp held
bo long by Count Tolstoi, in the event of tha
latter's death.
Baron Adolphe de Rothschild's legacy of al
most priceless gold and sliver plate will be in
stalled in the room In the Louvre-set aside for
that purpose.
Marquis Ito, who has just returned home from
his extended’ trip, said, in response to a toast
at Kobe, that Japan must redouble her efforts
to keep abreast of the other nations.
Dr. William H. Tollman, of New York, has
been decorated with the cross of the Legion of
Honor by President Loubet, of France, for his
work in behalf of the poor of New York city.
Rev. John C. Ferguson, who went to China
fourteen years ago as a missionary of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, is the president of the
Klangnan college, founded three years ago at
Shanghai.
Bishop Doane, of Albany, celebrated his sev
entieth birthday on March 1, and about one
hundred citizens, representing many varied in
terests, called on him and presented their con
gratulations, as well as a purse containing over
31,500 In gold.
OF GENIERAL7NTEREST.
Paris has about 30,000 dram-shops—one to
every 82 inhabitants.
In Paris stringent rules are laid down for
the sterilizing of hairdressers’ materials.
The population of Australia has increased
by 19 per cent, during the last decade.
Drug-taking for insomnia has become a craze
among certain sections of London society.
The last census taken in Germany showed
that 18,173 British subjects were residing there.
The largest sum ever spent in improving one
street was $14,300,000 on the Rue de Rivoli,
Paris. New Cannon street, London, cost $2,960,-
000.
Farthing breakfasts, consisting of coffee,
bread and butter and jam. are now being pro
vided by the Salvation Army for poor children
in Newcastle, England.
Os 140 epileptic patients in London whose
histories were carefully followed up, 90 proved
to be descendants of alcoholic parents—a pro
portion of 64 per cent.
It is claimed that mud in drinking water
may be more of benefit than detriment. The
mud overcomes offensive odors and destroys
many of the impurities of bad water.
Marconi’s experiments cost a good deal of
money. Masts are so troublesome that he pro
poses to build towers for permanent stations.
Kites are liable to be blown down.
The largest cemetery in the world is said to
be at Rockwood. Australia, which covers 2.000
acres. Only a plot of 200 acres has been used
thus far. in which 100.000 persons of all nation
alities have been burled.
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
Contingents of German soldiers are now ma
neuvering on ski in the forests round Pots
dam.
A movement has been started in Belfast,
Ireland for the erection of a statue of the
late Lord Dufferin.
Princess Henry, of Batenberg. will unvafl
the Queen Victoria memorial window in Here
ford cathedral on May 15th.
A Berlin editor expresses in his newspaper
the hope that nothing Interesting or important
may happen in this country in the next five
years, so that the newspapers of Germany
•hall have an opportunity to get back the
money they have paid in cablegrams to tell
about Prince Henry’s arrival and reception,
here. /
The latest census of the city of London
shows that exclusive of the outer belt of the
metropolis there are 4,556,541 inhabitants hud
dled in an area of 117 square miles. The metro
politan and city police combined contain, how
ever, 6,580.000 inhabitants, occupying an area
of 693 square miles.
An Enterprise of Great Pith and Moment.
BY BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER.
’ first importance for the in
dustrial development of Cuba
is the Cuban Central railroad,
which Sir William Van Horne,
o
president of the Canadian Pacific
railway, is now building.
This line which he is constructing
will run from Santa Clara to Santia
go, with branches to the coast on
either side. It connects at Santa
Clara with the present railway system
of Cuba, and with its completion there
will be a line of railway from one end
of the island to the other. No country
will then be better supplied with rail
way facilities than Cuba. No point on
the island will be very far removed
from some depot.
This line from Santa Clara to San
tiago will open up the two eastern
most provinces of the island—the
Puerto Principe and Santiago prov
inces. These are the largest, richest
and least developed provinces in Cuba.
There is the best region for cattle;
there are the rich mineral deposits and
the valuable hardwoods. The deepest
and best harbor Is Nipi bay, to which
the railroad will extend, and where it
will connect with a great steamship
line to the United States.
From all these statements may be
gathered the significance and far
reaching consequences which will fol
low the completion of the enterprise.
For one thing it will tend to the di
versification of Cuban industries. Now
sugar and tobacco engage the energies
of the people, almost to the exclusion
of everything else. Os course, such a
policy is always perilous. Bad seasons
or other natural or political contin
gencies may involve a whole people in
distress when they rely for a living on
only one or two products. The south,
by many chapters of unhappy expe
rience, has learned what that means,
and Cuba is learning the same
lesson. An adverse tariff on sugar and
tobacco makes all hands suffer, from
the laborer In the field to the banker
in the counting house.
With the opening of the Puerto
Principe and Santiago provinces by
Sir William Van Horne’s railway a
great stimulus will be given to the di
versification of industries.
Cattle raising will be very profitable
in much of that region. Besides this
the timber and mineral interests also
will be quickened.
Speedy transportation of garden pro
ducts from Nipi bay to New York will,
or ought to, make the growing of veg
etables a far more profitable business
in Cuba. With no frosts and with a
soil admirably adapted to such pur
poses, Cuba ought to find a great in
come from market gardening.
More important, therefore, than even
the tariff concessions is the construc
tion of this Cuban Central railway.
Not less than its commercial value
will be its political utility. Penetrating
these remote and hitherto little trav
eled provinces, it will bring the peo
ple there in contact with the outside
world as never before. They will
learn and in turn will be better un
derstood. Those regions have been the
most restless and revolutionary in the
past. The reasons for this fact are
obvious. There revolution could fo
ment with little to hinder. There revo
lutionists could find the most secure
hiding places.
All this will now be changed. This
Sectionalism in Text Books.
BY MRS. C. E. WELLS.
Many conscientious and patriotic teach
ers will welcome the project <Jf a south
ern publishing .house, inasmuch as it
would not only keep a profitable industry
at home but might be the means ot fur
nishing a class of books long needed not
only in the south but the rforth.
Hitherto nearly all text books have been
written and published at the north. The
reasons for this are obvious. The public
school system had its incipiency with the
states in this section; it is the oldest and
best established of its institutions. In
some states the school funds are almost
unlimited, and with ample means at their
disposal the teachers have long been able
to avail themselves of the best educa
tional methods. From such conditions
naturally has arisen the successful writer
of text books. (
Many of these books, excellent In all
other respects, are tinged with an unin
tentional sectionalism.
Unconsciously the writers have incor
porated in them the traditions of their
own environment. They have appealed to
only part of the people In our common
country.
It is not the histories alone which are
unacceptable. The readers, too, need re
vision, and many a series, otherwise com
mendable from an educational point of
view, would be Improved by the elimina
tion of sundry fragments of political
speeches or bits of abolitionist poetry.
It, is equally obvious that the qputh, with
her pubHc school system yet in its in
fancy and struggling against many con
tingencies which have never confronted
northern states, should have produced but
few text books writers.
But these conditions will not long apply
and with our rapidly increasing educa
tional facilities there is no reason why
text books, sound in educational principle
and beyond question as to literary merit,
should not be written and published in
the south.
But that we should write and foster
books partisan in principle would be a de
plorable-fact, and may this never be said
to the shame of the south.
No books should be published or placed
in the hands of any child in the United
States which could not be fitly studied by
every other child residing therein. That
this has been far from true in the past
goes without saying. The children of Bos
ton and Atlanta, New York and New Or
leans are equal factors in the life of a
great nation and are equally entitled to
the truth of history.
They should study the same books and
it is a blot upon our civilization as a na
tion that, through sectional hatred and
jealousy, we have permitted two manner
of text books to be used in our schools.
“Os making many books there is no
end,” yet it remains true that as yet this
generation has produced no history which
merits universal adoption throughout the
country.
Pick up a history, no matter where pub
lished, and read its imposing "preface.”
The invariable assurance will always be
found that the author has sought to avoid
all sectional and partisan statements.
Yet it takes but a few moments’ scanning
of the pages to tell on which side of Ma
son and Dixon’s line said author lived.
What » a sectional history? In the
south it is one biased in favor of the north,
in the north it is one which states too
sympathetically the position of the south.
According to the above, nearly all exist
ing texts must be relegated to the class
of sectional histories.
That a history perfectly just "to all sec
tions of our land and truthfully depicting
conditions there cannot be written we are
not ready to concede. Surely some one
will appear with untiring genius, the true
historic instinct and a soul so great that
he can write the history of our common
country in the light of philosophical in
quiry as to cause and effect, placing his
work above all petty strife and sectional
ism.
Just as a man has arisen to meet every
crisis of the world’s history, so one will
come to minister to this vital need. And
even as “the pen is mightier than the
sword,” so he who places the same his
tory in the hands of every American child,
will merit more lasting honor and unfad-
road will promote tranquility as well
as prosperity.
ft is a great enterprise in every re
spect.
Its builder, Sir William Van Horne,
by the way, is a native of the state of
Illinois. His title was won by great
deeds and he is not yet by many years,
it is to be hoped, near the end of his
career. His work in Canada is an
enterprise of continental magnitude
and of world wide influence. There
his line binds together the ends of tha
earth in an easterly and westerly di
rection. Here in Cuba he is moiing
from north to south with plans which
will bring the tropics and the north
temperate zone closer together.
Speaking of this great enterprise
brings to mind tnat moet conspicuous
fact of our times—the fact that all
lands and all peopes are as never be
fore near neighbors. Closer and closer
they come together every day. Improv
ed methods of communication and
transportation shorten distances and
abbreviate time. The tendency is to
wards the practical setting aside of all
difficulties which arise from either time
or space.
Such things must result in the more
perfect unification of the race. We
hasten towards the confederation of
the nations.
That means more peace and less war,
and that in turn means more people
and richer people. The earth is filling
with property and population.
With the unification of the race there
must be a universal religion. Tnere
is not room enough on the small plan
et called earth' for more than one re
ligion, and there is no religion In it
that is fit to be universal but the
Christian religion. Our holy religion
can not divide the world with any
other faith whatsoever. The voice of
our Lord cries to all mankind, “Ye
shall have no other gods before me.”
He will have all of a human heart or
none of it, and his kingdom proposes
the conquest of ail the earth.
It seems to me perfectly clear that at
no distant day, as meq reckon centur
ies, the whole earth must be all Fagan
or all Christian. As I see, therefore,
these immense commercial enterprises
compassing sea and land, I perceive in
them the imperative demands made by
the times for increased missionary ac
tivity upon the part of the church. I
fear to see commerce grow so rapidly;
by strides so long and strong, while
Christian missions move at a pace so
slow and steps so feeble. Millions are
poured out on the altars of Mammon
while only mites are laid upon the al
tars of faith. This is not safe for com
merce. even. Trade itself can not sur
vive in a paganized world. What can
savages do to create or maintain com
merce?
Our business men must take a broad
er view of things. They must read
more clearly the signs of the times.
They are now too near-sighted. They
look too much on the things visible
ana fail to consider sufficiently the
things invisible. The world can not live
by bread alone, and the world which
tries by bread alone to live. In defiance
or neglect of God’s word and God's
kingdom, can not in the end get even
bread enough to preserve the poor ani
mals life which it prizes too dearly
and pampers too fondly.
Habana, Cuba, March 1, 1902.
Ing laurels than were ever yet bestowed
on general or admiral for great military
feats on sea or land.
Pending the advent of such a book, the
truly unbiased teacher can glean from all
historic sources, and though the whole
of American history is embodied in no
one text, he can yet lead his pupils into
true and unprejudiced views of the lead
ing questions which have agitated the
country.
One of the first things a pupil must be
led to see is how geographical environ
ment not only affects the ways, customs
and manners of men. but their hearts and
consciences also. Geographical environ
ment made slavery unprofitable In the
north, but profitable in the south.
Being unprofitable in the north, it finally
was done away with. Being done away
with, it—in time—became wrong. On the
other hand, slavery brought such immense
profits to the south that it was easy to
believe that the relation between the slave
and his master was a natural one.
Again, geographical environment was re
sponsible for the tariff disputes. Could
the people of South Carolina and the
New England states have exchanged
places in 1832, their minds and consciences
would have undergone a similar change
In regard to the tariff. The “put yourself
In his place” principle Is ever a safe one
to suggest in the school room.
All other questions, however, are of
minor Importance compared to that which
deals with the nature of the Union. Every
child, north or south, should know exact
ly what is meant by “sovereign” states;
how the Confederation was merely a
friendly league of such states, and how
the constitution was ratified by men hold
ing all shades of belief on the subject. Nor
should he be kept in Ignorance of the doc
trine of centralisation and the tenets
held by the men who believed the Union
indestructible. Every step in the develop
ment of these beliefs should be carefully
traced until the doctrine of state’s rights,
like slavery, had worked Its way largely
to the south.
The northern pupil will look at nullifi
cation and secession in a new light, if
the various feints toward the litter, made
by the New England states, in the early
history of our country, and the attempts
of some state to evade the fugitive slavo
law, be not omitted from the history.
In justice to the southern advocates of
secession, our histories should chronicle
the fact that some of the abolitionists
cared nothing for the sanctity of the
union, even terming the constitution "a
Compact with hell and a covenant with
death.”
In a history designed for use in the pub
lic schools, but little space should, be de
voted to the “irrepressible conflict” itself.
Reminiscences of the battlefield may be
Interesting to the old veterans of the blue
and gray, who gave the strength and glo
ry of their young manhood to the cause
they deemed just, but they should not be
set for the stildy of young pupils. There
is nothing in the bloody passes of Shiloh
or Gettysburg that will uplift any child’s
life.
The general plan of the war with the
merest details of the most important en
gagements should suffice. Enough should
be given for every child to know that
whether his ancestors wore the blue or
the gray, they conducted themselves with
unequaled bravery and heroism, and that
the fall of the Confederacy was due to the
lack of material resources, and that
alone.
Not battles, but biography should be tl»e
predominant theme in our schools. From
the life of Robert E. Lee alone a scora
of very profitable recitations can ne made.
His inherent gentlemanly qualities, his
truth, bravery and lofty character, are
topics which can be used to the everlast
ing betterment of the pupil.
And what more inspiring story can be
placed before the boy, struggling through
poverty and ignorance into the light,
than the life of Abraham Lincoln? Ad
truly
‘‘Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.” •
Not in strife or in sectionalism, party or
politics, but in these burning words, is the'
message of history to the youth of our
land.