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THT'RSDAY. MARCH », I*2-
The horse Is still the par—remount Issue
in the British army.
An anti-trust law seems to do very well
until it butts Into a trust.
Never mind; floods and tornadoes are
simply harbingers of spring.
The more one sees of other British gen
erals, the mor* one thinks of Bqiler.
It Is now Freddie Funston’s turn to walk
up to the white house and get his rebuke.
After all. the American mule is the most
practical sort of pro-Boer of any of them.
The Boers have given up General Meth
uen. but they kept the captured pompon.
The Griffin News and Sun calle on Col
onel Estill to give Spalding county a
write-up.
It is mighty difficult to make the father
of a family of girla laugh at the Easter
bonnet Jokes.
It would be very unkind of Kipling to
write another poem about the British
while they are down.
It is now announced that Prince Henry
to to write a book on America. And this
after all we did for him!
The Spanish cabinet has resigned. It is
unfortunate for Spain that it didn't re
sign about five years ago.
Admiral Bob Evans' silence since Prince
Henry's departure is taken to indicate
that he has gone into dry dock.
At least one thing seems certain about
that Greene-Gaynor case: Captain Carter
couldn't b* guilty all by himself.
Texas seems determined not to be out
done in anything. She has come forward
with the first cyclone of the season.
It might be well tn future fjy Lord
Kitchener to merely give the face and let
the British public do the regretting.
In revising the rules of the United States
senate. It is to be hoped some provision
will be made against hitting in the break
away. .
Somebody ha* started to throwing mud
at the new secretary of the navy already.
He la accused of being related to Henry
Cabot Lodge.
Prince Henry wasn't assassinated while
in this country, as some alarmists pre
dicted. but we came very near feeding
him to death.
A West Point instructor has whipped
three footpads single handed. He ought to
be sent over to wind up that little affair in
the Philippines.
In Siberia the remains of a mammoth
with a tongue 19 inches long have been
found in the ice. Yes. it was a female
mammoth, of course.
It does not seem sJ~strange. after all.
that General Methuen was captured when
it is known that his intended destination
was Pooirantjestfonteln.
The shirt worn by Charles I. on the
scaffold has Just been sold at auction in
London for SI,OOO. Are we to hfve another
"bloody shirt" revival in England?
Gatlin, the inventor of a gun. is said to
have invented a plow that does the work
of sixty horses. It will doubtless prove a
great boon to the one-horse farmer.
Now that the Hon. Jim Smith has sold
his cotton crop for <75.000 all that he needs
to do before entering the gubernatorial
race is to finish his spring plowing.
Every time the British capture the
Boers' last gun the latter are put to the
disagreeable necessity of going out and
taking a few more away from the British.
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The Valdosta Times thinks Colonel Es
till is the second choice of both Terrell and
Guerry. This ought to make his nomin
ation for that place practically unani
mous
We don't know who wrote that "Frank
Potts telegram." but we sincerely hope it
will not be necessary to introduce a hand
writing expert into the gubernatorial cam
paign-
Whitelaw Reid expects to pay >20.000 for
bouse rent in London for the six weeks
he will stay there to see King Edward
crowned. This is the highest price on
record for seeing a king.
. The Chicago Tribune speaks a parable
* hen it says the time spent in "defending
the truth" of the Bible miracles might be
better spent in expounding the truths in
the Sermon on the Mount.
A Maine bank teller has confessed to a
peculation of >43,000 of the money of the
depositor*, which he lost in unsuccessful
business venture*. Why is it that men
who speculate with other people's money
always lose?
The Missouri state universiay will here
after give its graduates diplomas in Eng
lish Instead of Latin. We never could
understand why college* persisted in giv
ing their graduates diplomas that they
couldn't read.
There is a strong probability that a
number of new neighborhood roads will
be built in Newton county at once, so that
Congressman Livingston may be given an
•pportunlty to have some more rural
carriers’ appointed.
Here is the most conclusive evidence
that there Is nothing in a name; or even
two names. The firm of Irish & English
conduct a furnishing business in Buffalo.
N. Y. And the worst of it is the former
is English and the latter Is Irish.
Nevertheless, it is demonstrated at
times that the British can run even faster
than the Boers. As witness*th that four
mil* chase the other day in which a por
tion of Methuen's command managed to
.escape with their lives.
Kitchener's revised report of Methuen's
defeat Bays the British sustained the
best traditions of their various regiments.
This is probably a Just report; at least
we can see no material difference in the
way they surrendered this time and for
merly. . ..
THE MURDER OF DOVES.
In Georgia and in all other civilised com
munities the defense of dumb brutes from
human cruelty is being made stronger and
more effective every day.
The man who would persecute a domes
tic animal in the streets of Atlanta today
would almost certainly be arrested and
fined heavily. If no officer happened to be
on the scene of the outrage at the time of
it* perpetration, it is probablp that some
decent citizen would interfere to pre
vent the human brute from the cowardly
and cruel exercise of his power over the
dumb brute who happened to be at his
mercy. ,
The duty of protecting animals from
cruelty has progressed nobly in Georgia
in the last few years, though it has not
yet gone by any mean* as far as it should
proceed and make itself effective.
But there is another duty incumbent
upon the people of this state who desire
to stamp out savagery that has been ut
terly Ignored so far as their legislation
is concerned. We refer to the slaughter of
birds.
We approve heartily the editorial in The
Augusta Chronicle from which we make
the following extract:
"Man's right over the lives of the lower
animals has been very generally conceded,
and we have not yet reached the stage of
civilisation, though we wiU some day, no
doubt, where we are prepared to deny it.
"There is one subject, however, in re
gard to which we think all true sports
men will be tn accord, and that is the cry
ing necessity that exists for doing some
thing that will forestall the extinction of
the doves. The gregarious tendencies of
these descendants of the blue rock pigeons
threaten them with speedy destruction.
One branch of the family, the wild pigeon,
that at one time swarmed in such num
ber* that they darkened the light of day
in their migratory flights, have already
vanished from the scene, and unless some
thing is done, and that speedily, to stop
the indiscriminate slaughter of the doves,
that valued game bird will also disappear.
"As long as they were hunted in the
same way as quail and snipe and others
that is to say. casually, their increase
was rapid, for they’ are naturally prolific.
But with the advent of larger and larger
droves the custom of baiting fields arose,
and then their clannish instincts rendered
them an easy prey to the fowling piece,
it is no uncommon thing for half a doxen
guns to slay in one day's sport—so called
—more than as many hundred birds, and it
was only a few years ago that a party in
Southwestern Georgia placed over 5,000
doves on the train at one time to be sent
to Macon. The bison* roamed the prairies
of the west in almost as great numbers
aa the doves that now throng our fields
and forests, but ten years, of wanton
butchery exterminated them, and if these
battues are to be continued the birds will
experience a similar fate."
The Chronicle need not confine its allu
sions to any previous year. The indiscrim
inate slaughter of doves has been going
on this year in many counties of'this state
to an extent that makes many a man who
participated in it ashamed of himself.
Let us have some practical and strin
gent legislation against this species of
cruelty, this waste of Innocent, harmless
and beautiful life. If there must be an
exercise of alm and nerve to make happy
the manhood of Georgia let us establish
a system of flying targets, but for pity's
sake give the doves a chance.
The dove baiting in Georgia has already
become a reproach and disgrace to the
state.
THE ROOT OF THE MATTER.
The Galveston News talks like a states
man when it says:
"The decision of the supreme court of
the United States declaring unconstitu
tional the Illinois anti-trust law empha
sises the fact that the only method by
which the people of th* United States can
protect themselves against trusts is to de
stroy ’protection.' The protection of the
people of this country must be accom
plished by destroying the 'protection' by
which they have been deceived and op
pressed. Freedom of commerce and trade
is the only remedy. It Is the only means
by which the full benefits of competition
may be secured here or elsewhere."
As long as the present system of pro
tection is maintained no preventive of the
trust evil can be devised that will not
be evaded in some way.
The fact that the trusts are becoming
fully recognised as legitimate children of
the protective tariff is strengthening im
mensely the demand for tariff reform.
Some of the wisest of the Republican
leaders, are advising their party to take
the lead in thia matter because they fear
and believe that if the present policy of
tariff taxation is persisted in will
inevitably result a revolt that will go to
extremes that may be prevented by sub
stantial concessions.
The Babcock bill for the removal of du
ties on articles made in this country that
are sold abroad cheaper than at home is
an expression of the views of these
alarmed Republican statesmen. The en
actment of such law would deal a body
blow to many of the largest and most ar
rogant of the trusts that are now en
abled by protective duties to defy com
petition both at home and abroad.
The irrepressible issue of reciprocity is
adding powerfullly to the complications
with which the Republican party is now
struggling.
There is already such a wrangle in that
camp as it has never known before and
it is becoming angrier every day. Keep it
up. gentlemen. The country will prob
ably reap great benefits from your fam
ily fight.
The house of protectionism is gloriously
divided against itself.
THE NEW CURRENCY BILL.
The republican members of the house
committee on banking and currency have
agreed upon a pleasure of currency re-
Yorm which they will Introduce as a com
mittee bill.
It was prepared after /consultation with
a number of republican leaders and. it is
said, will have a practically united party
support. The object of the bill Is to re
organise the present monetary system tn
the following general way:
By national banks assuming to redeem
currently >130,000,000 of United States
notes.
By permitting national banks to issue
under proper safeguards and during a
term of seven years asset currency pro
portioned to their capital.
By limiting issues of silver certificates
to five dollars or less. .
By increasing the coinage of subsidiary
coin.
By providing for the exchange of gold
for silver.
By permitting national bank* to have
places of business in any part of thhe
United States, colonies and foreign coun
tries.
By requiring national banks to pay in
terest at the rate of 1 per cent, per annum
on all deposits of public money.
One of the most important features of
the bill provides for a board of control
which is to consist of three members who
will have general charge of the national
banks of the country and about the same
authority over them as is now held by the
comptroller of the currency.
All the details of the issue and redemp
tion of currency, the redemption of the
notes of failed banks and the carrying in-
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to effect of the several changes in the
mesetary system provided for by the pro
posed law will be left to the commission.
The intention of the bill is to take the
government as much as possible out of
the banking business.
It is believed that the possibility of a
drain on the gold reserve will be largely
obviated by the provision of the exchahge
of gold for silver, and the limitation of
silver certificates to denominations of five
dollar* and less.
A provision of the bill that is regarded
with special favor is that which permits
the issue by national banks under certain
restrictions of currency equal to the
amount of their capital. The issue will
pay a tax of 1 1-4 per cent, up to 60 per
cent, of the amount. The amount of a
bank's circulation above 60 per cent, of its
capital will be known as emergency cir
culation, half of it to pay a tax of 3 per
cent, and the other half 5 per cent, per
annum.
The theory is that this emergency cir
culation will provide for the prompt ex
pansion and contraction of the currency
as conditions may demand. A bill of such
great importance will necessarily provoke
much discussion, and it is hardly proba
ble that it will become a law at the pres
ent session of congress, though there Is
a determination on the part of the ma
jority of the house banking and currency
committee to press the measure vigorous
ly.
FEDERAL TRUST REGULATION.
If we are assured thqt wisdom will come
out of a multitude of counsel the trust
problem will be solved very soon. Its prop
er solution is proposed almost every day
and by representatives of all classes, from
the wildest cranks to the most erudite
philosophers and the most successful prac
tical men.
An interesting contribution to the volum
inous literature of this dlcussion has come
recently from Mr. James B. Dill, a noted
corporation lawyer of New York, in an ad
dress at Harvard university on "National
Laws to govern Trusts or Great Industrial
Combinations.”
Mr. DHL makes good use of the fact that
trusts organized under the laws of one
state do business in many other states
and may operate in all of them. Some
states, like New Jersey, for instance, make
large revenues by granting charters prac
tically without conditions or limitations
to all who seek to organize trusts under
their laws.
Hardly any two states have the same
regulations or restrictions for trusts and
consequently there is a constant conflict
between state and federal laws on the sub
ject. •
The New York legislature is now consid
ering a bill to provide for chartering
trusts to operate entirely outside of that
state. This’ looks like a scheme to work
off on other states industrial combinations
that would not be tolerated within the
limits of the state giving them legal ex
istence.
Mr. Dill sees no remedy for this evil ex
cept the enactment of a federal law under
which all trust charters must be obtained
and to the requirements of which they
must be subject wherever they operate.
Mr. Dill does not believe that the people
of this country realize the power and dan
ger of these combinations and in this opin
ion he is probably correct. This knowledge
is being forced upon them more sensibly
every day and undoubtedly both sta\e
federal legislation will be applied to check
this enormous evil in the early future,,
unless the country is to be delivered en
tirely over to these combinations to control
almost every manufactured article of com
mon use.
The objection of centralism lies strong
against Mr. Dill's plan, but the inad
equacy of state legislation on the subject
has disgusted most of those who had
hoped to find in it relief from the evils of
trusts.
The federal regulation idea is growing
in favor and Mr. Dill says much to
strengthen its support.
rural delivery protected.
The house did right in defeating the
attempt to deliver over the rural mail de
livery to the contract system.
The postoffice committee went in for this
scheme strong, but it was beaten down in
a debate in the committee of the whole,
and the vote went heavily against it.
The memory of the Star route scandals
by which the government was disgraced
and robbed some years ago was invoked
as a warning against putting the rural
mail service into the hands of contract
tors. and the house very wisely decided
to keep this service directly in the hands
and under the control of the postofflee de
partment.
As far as the house can provide the ru
ral delivery system has been taken out
of the experimental stage and embodied
as a component part of the general pos
tal service. An appropriation has been
voted for it just as is done for the delivery
of the mails in the cities.
The new service so far as it has been
tried has been successful and satisfactory
beyond expectations.
In eight years the appropriation for it
has been increased from SIO,OOO to $3,750,000
and the service has been established in
all parts of the country.
The threatened transfer of this already
useful and very hopeful system to private
contractors aroused very serious appre
hensions and there is much gratification
over its decisive rejection by the house.
It is very strange that a majority of the
postoffice committee took a view of this
matter that was so much at variance with
a large majority of the house and the
overwhelming conviction of the public as
to the best policy that could be pursued
concerning it.
THE GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The latest United States census while
not intended to favor any one section of
th* country over the others has made such
n magnificent showing for the south that
it may be considered the best advertise
ment this part of the country has ever
received.
The plain facts and figures as set forth
in these official-and impartial records of
the progress of the nation have made a
deep impression upon all the public
throughout the United States and in for
eign countries.
The San Francisco Call, looking across
the continent, is deeply impressed by
them. It says: "One of the most notable
statistics for 1900 is the revelation that
the southern states have begun to in
crease in population as rapidly as the
north.”
For many years the south sent more of
her children to the north and west to find
homes and help to build up those sections
than she received in return. During the
last ten or twelve years the tendency of
migration has been reversed. The south
is now very generally regarded both in the
north and west at the most inviting part
of the whole country.
That the bulk of the Immigration to the
south is made up of Americans who are
seasoned to our system of government and
that we get very little of the foreign in
flux which constitutes the bulk of the im-
migration to the north and west is a most
happy thing for this section.
The industrial growth of the south im
presses the San Francisco Call as being
epecially fortunate because it is not con
fined to large cities, of which the south
happily has few, but has been most nota
ble in the smaller cities and th* towns.
An Interesting statement is that which
shows the percentage of increase of towns
of different population in the south and
the country at large, stated as follows in
the census bulletin*:
United
In places— South. States.
25,000 and over;.... 31.0 41.0
8,000 to 25,000 26.9 23.1
4,000 to 8,000 87.3 36.7
Less than 4,000 44.4 33.0
Rural 17.9 94
These figures refer only to the growth of
manufacturing industries and therefore
Indicate only very partially the growth of
the south. An element of the real in
crease of the strength and prosperity of
this section which is quite as notable,
hopeful and Important is to be found in
the agricultural development and advance
of the south, the Increased diversity of its
crops, the improved methods of tillage and
the enlarged productive capacity per acre.
The south is moving forward in manu
facturing at a wonderful rate, but no less
phenomenal and certainly no less encour
aging is its agricultural progress.
A VACCINATION CONFLICT.
The prevalence of smallpox in some
quarters of London and other parts of
England and the consequent activity in
compulsory vaccination have provoked
angry discussions on the subject not only
among scientific men, but in the house
of lords Itself.
The opposition to compulsory vaccina
tion has undoubtedly grown very much
in Great Britain in recent years. Through
out the United Kingdom vaccination was
practically compulsory up to 1898 and
smallpox had become very rare.
But there was a neglect of re-vaccina
tion and in time the disease which had
been well-nigh stamped out began to de
velop again and spread.
In 1897 the government appointed a com
mission composed of half physicians and
half laymen to examine into the entire
question and report what course should
be pursued relative to it.
Smallpox was spreading, but opposition
to vaccination was Increasing also and a
mixed problem was presented. ♦
The commission went ahead and did its
work faithfully. Its report was a sur
prise. It recommended that compulsory
vaccination be relaxed to a decided de
gree.
The doctors on the commission were the
more urgent members of the commission
in this recommendation. The report in
duced the government }o adopt its pres
ent modified plan of vaccination. It is
only quasi compulsory. It recognizes the
"conscientious objection” clause, which
reads thus:
"No parent or other person will be lia
ble to any penalty under the vaccination
act if, within four months from the birth
of a child he satisfies two justices or a
stipendiary or metropolitan police major
ity that he conscientiously believes that
vaccination would be prejudicial to the
health of the child, and within seven day*
thereafter delivers to the vaccination offi
cer for the district a certificate of such
conscientious objection from such justi
ces or magistrate.
The spread of smallpox in London
caused the recent debate in the house of
lords on the necessity of more stringent
government provision* for vaccination.
A resolution for the abolition of the
“conscientious objection” was proposed
and over it an angry debate ensued.
The resolution failed, in spite of a very
vigorous and almost ferocious support and
the vaccination law of Great Britain
stands still as It has stood‘since 1898.
That is to say anybody in Great Britain
who does not choose to be vaccinated can
save himself from that infliction by simply
declaring that he is conscientiously op
posed to it.
No wonder smallpox is spreading in
Great Britain.
THE NEGRO NORTH AND SOUTH.
Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis, one of the
eminent women in the current literature
of our country, is a native of Virginia,
but for many years has been a resident of
Philadelphia. She has observed and stud
ied the conditions and opportunities of
the negro, north and south, and in a re
cent letter to the New York Independent
has this to say on the subject:
"These sentimental objections to 'the
provincialism of the south’ fade into
nothingness in the face of the great fact
that the negro to live must find work, and
that his old masters will give him work,
and his new friends in the north will not.
The trades unions have shut him out. But
there is not a town in the south today
where a black mason or carpenter or
blacksmith cannot And work and wages.
The real difficulty there in his way is that,
as a rule, he will not work steadily. Ev
ery capitalist, w’ho has operated in th*
southern states will tell the same story of
the negroes who would work for a week,
and as soon as they were paid would 'lay
off to rest up' for a fortnight. It is this
unconquerable habit of the negro work
man that has closed factories and phos
phate w’orks from Carolina to the gulf.”
Mrs. Davis has by no means overstated
the advantages which the negro has in
the south for high class employment over
those which are within his reach in the
.north, but she underestimates the relia
bility of the best olass of skilled negro
labor in this section. It 1& true the negro
has proved a failure as a cotton mill lab
orer in the south, but it must be remem
bered that only the lower classes of ne
groes have been tried in that line of work.
The thousands of negroes in this sec
tion who are earning good wages as me
chanics do excellent work, are well skilled,
orderly and reliable. And yet not one of
them would be permitted to work at his
trade in any northern or western state.
The much professed love of the negro
in thbse sections as a rule exhausts Itself
in advocating his social equality in the
south but rules him out when he asks a
chance to earn a livelihood in those sec
tions.
The main point which Mrs. Davis
makes is undeniably well taken, but she
does not discriminate fairly and is unjust
to a very large number of efficient negro
artisans in the south.
How must the veteran of the regular
army, who has served faithfully through
two wars, and yet wears nothing more,
perhaps, than a captain’s or colonel's
shoulder straps, feel when he sees such
sprigs as Freddie Funston lording it over
them as a brigadier general, because, for
sooth, he swam a river and captured a lit
tle half-breed Filipino.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding, there
are those who remember how that Macon
delegation to the senatorial convention
which held up Berner’s nomination came
back and got their friends to dig them
out of the hole in which they had placed
themselves.
British fruit growers are adopting the idea
of covering their crops with paper sheets dur
ing the cold nights. A small outlay in labor
and paper results in considerable saving in
the long run.
OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
How to Encourage Ship-Building.
Indianapolis Time*.
Take off the practical subsidy given to steel
and iron, for example, and the mercantile
marine, for which Senator Frye seems to be the
constituted guardian, will grow by leaps and
bounds. When did America ever fall to recog
nize a necessity and to meet it? Yankees
once convinced that ships of their own will
pay and ships of their own they will have; will
have them speedily and in such numbers that
the flag of progress and light will become
familiar in every locality of the seven seas.
• Doom For One or the Other.
Philadelphia Times.
The subsidy bill is doomed or the party
which stands for it is doomed. The leaders
will find it difficult to keep the republican
pledge in this year of grace in every Ameri
can ship yard and the Joke about it all is
that the men who framed the bill are now
so busv at their legitimate trades that they
are indifferent as to what finally becomes of
the bantling that they have hitherto so care
fully nursed.
No Chance Fora Reform.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Congressman Babcock is disposed to retire
from the chairmanship of the Republican con
gressional committee, because he feels that
his views on tariff reduction are not in accord
with those of the majority of his party in or
out of congress. The Interests of the Ameri
can consumer are no longer considered in con
gress and the majority there does not believe,
with Mr. McKinley, that we cannot always
go on selling without buying something.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago New*.
It is folly to kick against th* inevitable.
It takes two drunkards to make one pair of
tights.
The woman who 1* a good talker is apt to be
a poor quitter.
Some men play the races and some others
work the players.
As a woman's beauty fades her brains come
to the front.
It sometimes happens that a man’s house is
his mother-in-law’s castle.
Perhaps a pretty girl is called a "peach” be
cause she has a heart of stone.
When a woman is unable to go shopping she
calls on a neighbor and they talk shop.
Successful doctors know how to prolong the
convalescence of their wealthy patients.
No matter how positive a woman may be of
anything, she is seldom willing to bet real
money on it.
A girl’s idea of a fool is another girl who
breaks off her engagement because her folks
are opposed to it.
Solomon says the glory of a woman is In
her hair, but he doesn’t say anything about her
glory being attributed to some other woman's
hair.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Fools seek pleasure; wise men happiness.
Money comes into one pocket and goes out
of the ether.
Ambition is jealousy of others' achievements;
aspiration is covetousness.
Ridicule no man for his snub nose; you can
never tell what may turn up.
When all men are what they pretend to be
the millenlum problem will be easy.
Youth is fresh, but as it attains age it is
salted with the tears of disappointment.
Solomon's Wives were contented because they
did not have to go out in bad weather to gossip.
If a man is determined to get into trouble it
is not absolutely necessary for him to get mar
ried.
Practicing what you preach bores your friends
about as much as preaching what you don’t
practice.
1 Some people’* homes are so attractive that
they enjoy the ease and comfort of sitting In
a dentist’s chair.
At sixteen all men are welcomed into my
lady’s net; at thirty-six she seeks th* easy
prey of beardless youth.
Man is a creature of ailments; after the
measles, mumps and other afflictions of in
fancy come the moral diseases of maturity.
The average man who contends that paying
insurance premiums is an uneconomic invest
ment spends thejn in a barroom to prove it.
Some women are so unlucky about raising
children that if they kept them locked in a safe
they would be the first ones in the block to
catch the measles.
When the average young woman considers
her mission in life she begins by wondering
how many servants she will have and whether
She will enjoy a victoria or a brougham most.
Because a woman Smiles sweetly when the
dinner guest says he will have more of her
delicious pie and there isn't any more, is no
sign that when she gets into another room she
doesn't kick the door in a rage.
The man who commands the largest respect
from his wife is the one who can make her
believe the reason he doesn’t make more
money is because it is so easy for him it isn’t
worth his while to give much attention to it.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Explosions have killed 172 persons in Chi
cago in ten years.
Wedding cake is replaced in Holland by
sweets called “brindzulkers."
A motor sleigh propelled by spiked wheels
is patented in Germany.
Gasoline hand cars are giving satisfactory
service on western railways.
St. Louis has but six fast morning mall
trains, while Chicago has fourteen.
The deaths from chloroform anaethesia are
one to each 3,749 administrations.
Africa promises to rival South America and
the West Indies as a producer of cocoa.
The area of the Yellowstone Park equals
that of Delaware plus that of Rhode Island.
There is a general crisis for wine growers,
because of an overproduction in the entire
world..
The yearly Interest upon France’s debt is
equal to $4.20 for eaery man, woman and
child in France.
At the electric congress just held in Moscow
an electric motor plow was exhibited which
turned a furrow twelve inches deep.
On the strength of a small appropriation
by the St. Louis Board of Education, 500
shade trees will be planted on the city school
grounds this spring.
Before the Siberian railway was available
a trip from London to Shanghai cost from $325
to $475. Now it can be made for from $65, third
class, to $l6O, first class.
“Allowing for breaks and scratches,” says
a statlscign, "the lead pencil will write fifty
five columns of solid matter, or an eight-page
paper of seven columns to the page."
English is more and more taking the place
of French a* the language or Russian court
circles. The Czarina speaks English con
stantly, and the Czar, too, likes to express
hlmseif in the same tongue.
The toothbrush plant grows in Jamaica. By
cutting a piece of the stem and fraying the
ends, the natives make a toothbrush, and a
dentifrice to use with it is produced by dry
ing and pulverizing the dead stems.
In an average year San Francisco exports
wine to the value of SBOO,OOO to the various
parts of the Union and to foreign ports to the
value of $1,120,000, much of the latter export
going to Hawaii, China, Japan and Central
America.
An automobile truck is now employed for
moving iron safes. It has two propelling
motors and a third elevates the safe to its
place in the building. It requires three men
and six and a half minutes to place a safe on
a seventh floor. Formerly it required eight
men two and a half hours.
The average life of a dog is about ten years.
Manv live fifteen, and there are well-authen
ticated ca,ses of from twenty to twenty-three
years. *
The railway up Mount Pilatus in Switzer
land was used last summer by 21,273 persons
England contributed 30.4 per cent, Germany
22.8, France 10.4.
Berlin’s black book, the criminal record kept
by the police, now consists of thirty-seven vol
umes containing 21,000 photographs of criminal*
of all classes.
The worst mosquito-infested neighborhood in
the world is the coast of Borneo. The streams
of that region are at certain seasons, unnaviga
ble because of the clouds of mosquitoes.
House cleaning at the Vatican is something
of a task. The Vatican had not been thoroughly
cleaned for a century, and so the authorities
thought to do a good job. They accordingly
kept 5.000 people and 700 overseers busy at it
for six months. This force used 1,000 loaves of
bread a day to clean wall paper.
A Russian nobleman of wealth has hit upon
a curious method of ceiling decoration. Every
celling in his mansion contains a fresco deal
ing with an episode in the career of his
ancestors, and the whole forms what is per
haps a unique example of inner-roof ornamen
tation. Nearly half a million has been expend
ed upon this extraordinary work.
Secret of American Success.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Mr. Stead’s saying that "the English work
man fights rqaehtnes; the American workman
Improves them,” explains a great deal of
American prosperity with which tariffs hat*
had nothing to do.
On July 8 last General Kitchener repot t
ed in an official dispatch that the number
of Boers remaining under arms was 13,500.
Since then has placed the Boer cas
ualties and surrenders at 13,873. Kitchen
er seems to be as badly off in his arithme
tic as he is in his tactics.
Whenever the sultan is in doubt he or
ders another brother-in-law beheaded.
Rev. Sam Jones Writes of His Travels.
CARTERSVILLE, Ga„ March 14.
To The Atlanta Jornal:
HAVE JUST returned home from a
tour of lowa, Missouri, Indian
1 Territory and Texas. While we
I
have had severer winters, this seems
to me to have been the worst winter
on poor white folks and niggers and
old cows I have ever seen in America.
Texas and the territories have scarce
ly had a ground-soaking rain in two
years, they tell me. and their ground
is too dry to plow, and all east of the
Mississippi the country flooded with
rain so that the plows cannot run on
this side of the river. I think the
farmers generally in the west and
south enter into the fields this year
under the most disadvantageous cir
cumstances that they have for many
years. Many of the farmers are dis
couraged and many of the mules start
in poor. Corn at a dollar a bushel and
labor scarce and high, causes the far
mer to feel like if cotton should be
less than 10 cents a pound next fall
he will come out loser. Wheat looks
worse than I have ever seen it at this
time of the year. The fall oat crop has
been killed or badly damaged through
out the country. But still there Is a
good deal of buoyancy and hopefulness
in the land.
For the first time In five year* I
hear the drummers talking with each
other about the dullest trade they
have had in years, and all in ail,
things do not look roaeate in the south
west and south, but I keep on saying
it, that we will live till we. die and
that's as long as Methuselah lived.
I regretted very much not being able
to attend the Bible conference in At
lanta. The reports from that meeting
are all favorable. Morgan and Dixon
are both grand expounder* of the Scrip
ture and they are men full of faith.anu
power, and I have no doubt all who
attended the Bible conference meeting
were uplifted and inspired towards a
better life. The crowds In attendance
demonstrated that the people are hun
gry. they are hungry for something.
A horse can’t live on wind, much lfess»
a man. Pat said, bigora as soon as
he got his horse so he could live on
nothing he died.
I incidentally fell In on a preachers'
conference the other morning. The
subject for discussion was. “ What
Amusements the Church Should Of
fer to the Young Feopie?" it was a
very interesting discussion, and the
verdict rendered after the discussion
was that the church could not go into
the amusement business, that any sort
of a 10-cent show could beat them
at that.
I was called upon to make a talk at
the meeting. I told them that it was
well enough for the ministry to begin
to survey the field, and that If any of
them had any trick up their sleeve ft
was about time they were shaking It
out: that the pulpit still had a grip
upon the old folks and children, but
that the young bucks and buckesses
had about taken to the wood*. I main
tained there, as I would maintain any
where, that the ol<|-fashioned gospel
preaching in its practical application
to the hearts and consciences of men
was the most attractive influence ever
brought to bear upon the human race.
The only way to preach, I said, is to
find out what holes the people are in
and shoot in there on them. I said the
gang will come out of the holes *-
humplng, full of shot, and swear they
were not in there, but they could not
explain how their hides got punctured
with the shot. I said the ministry of
these days don’t preach at the con
sciences of men, that they were either
Ignorant as to the holes the gangs
were in or else they were afraid to
shoot In there; that if they didn't
know where the people were they were
too Ignorant to preach;. If they did
know, and were afraid to shoot into
the holes, then they were too cow
ardly to preach. One of the preachers
present spoke up and said that he
didn’t think the ministers of God were
cowardly; that they were men who
had forsaken all and laid sacrifices for
the cause that angels knew not of. and
not only that, they had brought their
families with them Into the hardship*
of the ministry. I said, yes. but there’s
different kinds of courage. Many a sol
dier has kissed wife or mother goodby
and bade home and comfort* goodby
and donned the warrior’s clothes.
STRAY THOUGHTS CAUGHT
AT CLARK LECTURES
The presence of Mr. S. H. Clark, of the
University of Chicago, in the city during
the past week has stimulated those fortu
nate enough to hear him to a study of
good literature, heretofore “undreamed of
In their philosophy.” His lectures as a
whole were a plea, an inspiration for the
best of literature, and for an expurgation
of the worst. His able exposition of the
Incalculable hkrm of frivolous, aimless
reading mowed down the preconceived
tastes of the average novel reader like fire
in a field of broom-straw. Those who went
to hear him not only read the great trag
edies about which he lectured beforehand,
but after hearing him, went home and re
read them, finding new meaning and an al
together new and undreampt of beauty in
them.
Mr. Clark prefaced his/hottest lecture,
"Antigone,” with a very Instructiv® talk
on the uses ana abuses of literature; spe
cifically, how to cultivate a taste for the
best. His talk was directed towards his
young hearers, but many gray heads were
benefited thereby.
"The only way to determine whether you
love great literature,” he said, “Is to de
termine whether you are willing to make
a sacrifice for it. Silver and gold, dia
monds and other jewels of great price are
precious because of the work it takes to
get them. So, with literature, you must
dig to get the best results.
"Great literature attracts, holds and
keeps us when we have once developed
that side of the spirit that is intoxicated
by beautiful thoyght. It develops a sensi
tiveness that lasts always.
"Whenever you feel like reading, read
something good. The time win soon come
when we will get our pleasure from our
labors. Ruskin says 'That art Is greatest
that stimulates the highest faculties.'
Take up occasionally some of Matthew
Arnold's essays, something by George El
liott, Balzac, Shakespeare or some of th*
Greek tragedies. You may not like them
at first; your spirit may revolt, but per
sist and soon they have you enthralled.
Read criticisms of books, that you may
get the workings of the critic’s mind and
then study them for yourself. Above all,
never substitute criticism for the real
thing. Read for yourself.
"And you have a literary reward In
this study. Soon you will begin tp trace
resemblances between this character and
that—a fascinating study.
"Thoreau says a man can have what
he wants in this world if he is willing to
pay for it. The question is, is he willing
to pay? That is the true test.”
“Great art hever yields Its secrets to the
mere passerby.
"Man does not like to look things in
the face and great art has the peculiar
insistency of compelling one to see things
as they are.
“Any man who is true to truth can never
fall as an artist: he is never wrong.
"He only is immoral who brings out an
end untrue to the beginning.
"Tragedy teaches us where to lay the
stress in life.
“Tragedy teaches that law is inevitable;
that law Is God, and God is law; laws
are the expression of His will. a
“Death is not the worst thing in th*
shouldered, his gun and marched
through mud and blood and slept In
cold and rain and suffered hunger and
privation. He did all this as a brave
soldier; but when he got into the midst
of th* fUbt, with cannon booming and
musket* rattling, he dropped his gun.
That soldier had the sacrificing cour
age, the joining courage, the march
ing courage, the starving courage, but
he didn’t have the grit that would
stand up in the face of shell and
death. So, I said, with many in the
ministry. They will tell worldly gain
and comforts goodby and take their
wife and children by the hand and join
the ranks of the ministry, and suffer
privation and want, but when it comes
to shooting in the holes their deacon*
and elders are in, like the soldier, they
say, "I will throw my gun awpy and
take to my heels before I will shoot in
there.” There’s all sorts of courage,
gentlemen, but the courage that will
wake thl* country up and run the devil
out of this land is not joining cour
age, nor marching courage, nor starv
ing courage, but it is fighting cour
age. Men of the ministry have all sort*
of courage except the sort we most
need now.
I affirm it, that if a fellow has some
thing to say he can get a hearing, and
the fact that any minister does not
get a hearing may be traced to the
other fact that he does not say much
to those who do hear him. They all
preach truth, but they must preach
THE truth that finds the heart and
conscience if they would arouse the
conscience of men and win their hearts
to a better life. It Is no trouble to
get soldiers of the cross to deny them
selves and take up their crosses and
drill and march with the army, but
whenever friction and opposition sets
in and cannons boom and muskets rat
tle, then comes the tug of war. If
the ministry are not scared at times
they are monstrous uneasy.
I know they will not thank me for
talking this way, and they will say I
abuse the ministry. I am willing to be
misjudged, and what I say I am willing
that It be misconstrued. The God who
shall judge us all at last knows, f?r
He knows all things, that I have but
the kindliest feelings towards every
minister alive. I have taken up the
walking circuit preacher and put him
astride a good horse and sent him on
his way rejoicing. I have paid for
homes for the wives and children of
ministers who had died and left them
homeless. I never turned away empty
one of them who came to me for help
or succor. If I am not a friend to the
minister of the gospel of Christ, then
I am a friend of nobody and ask no
body to be a friend of mine.
But, however fine your rhetoric, and
however polished your scholarship,
and however faultless your theology >
may be, gentlemen, after all It is the
plain truth of God, baptized with a
superhuman power that moves men
from sin and moves men towards holi
ness and heaven. A sermon that
don't move men upward or downward
or backward or forward had better not
been preached at all. There’s too much
preaching, so called, and too little ex
horting. You have to hit a fellow to
hurt him. I have been trying to find the
rule for thirty year? by which I could
hit a rascal hard enough to knock him
over away from where he Is over into
the territory where he ought to* be
and still hit him easy enough not to
hurt him. That thing can’t be done,
gentlemen. The preacher who is moving
men is the preacher who not only
flashes the light upon great Gospel
truths, but he has a sledge hammer
with which to drive them home. Take
the Illustration hi Atlanta: when Dr.
Broughton announces that he is going
to preach about something or agin
something. Ms is packed
and Jammed with more than three
thousand pepole. The Average pul
piteer is a preacher, Broughton is a
hitter.
I fear some preachers are like the
fellow in Texas the other day. A fel
low asked him could he read ritin, and
he said, "No, he couldn’t read read
ln’.” I heard one nice little preacher
preach one day, and when the service
was over I got up and went home
feeling just like a baby had slobbered
In my ear,. I knew something had gon*
on, but I couldn’t tell what It was. It
may have been the noise of many
waters. Yours truly.
SAM P. JONES.
universe. Macbeth is dead at the end of
the drama, but he was spiritually dead
long before.
“Since we must fall, tragedy teaches
us how to fall; that there is an elasticity
of spirit that raises up again.
"The poets are the true philosophers and
all the serious-minded philosophers have
chosen the drama as a medium for the
expression of their ideas.
“Tragedy Is the soul struggling against
the eternal laws.
“The purpose of tragedy *.s to uplift, en
noble us, as Aristotle said ‘to chasten us
through pain and terror.'
“The only redemption of a weak deed
is another deed.
"It is not the tragedy, but what one
does with the tragedy that is one's trag
edy.
“We are never going to have what wo
want in the realm of the practical.
FORE?GN NOTES OF INTEREST.
Nice and Its neighborhood hold the record
for holiday traffic. The average is 1,800,000 ar
rivals in the course of a year.
An International exhibition of motor boats
ana motor equipment for sailing vessels Is to
be held on Lake Wannsee, near Berlin, in
June. t
It Is said that the British government Is
considering the desirability of establishing a
royal body guard of native Indian cavalry, to
be quartered In London.
Twenty persons have taken out Insurance
policies on the life of a pauper inmate of
Wolverhampton (England) workhouse, who
charges half a crown for the privilege.
Sixty-two miles an hour is to be the aver
age speed maintained by a new train to run
on the English sendee between Paris and
Calais. The Journey will only occupy three .
hours.
The Belgian railway authorities are desirous
of minimizing the effect which the ear-splitting
screech of the locomotive produces upon the
nervous svstem of passengers. The engines are
to be furnished with whistles producing two
tones and softer in effect than formerly.
For $1.40 we will send The Semi-
Weekly one year and the Five Vaseline
Toilet Articles and any one of the
premium papers offered with The
Semi-Weekly at SI.OO. This is the
greatest offer ever made and you
should take advantage of it without
delay.
MORGAN AND DODD
ARE NOT INDICTED
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. March 17.—Th*
United States grand jury has adjourned
and “no bills” were returned in the cases
against George W. Morgan, president of
the Continental Security Redemption, and
W. L. Dodd, former secretary and treas
urer of the Birmingham Debenture com
pany. both of whom were charged with
using the mails for fraudulent purposes.
This finally disposes of all of the cases
against these men and the numerous sen
sational allegations which were made
against them when the affairs of the de
funct debenture , companies were first
aired.
