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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. —4 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.
