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Newspaper Page Text4 The Semi-Weekly Journal Beund at the Atlanta Pwtoffies MaM Matter of the Stand Clara. Th* Semi-Weekly Jatgml la publish- Sufi Trfs: s? jrsfn. ss •sirs'. J£S£sg . brought aver a special leased wire Into Ttja JournaJ otkea. It ba* a staff of dieetßirii.«!-e4 coatrtbawre, with strong hwrtnSttural- Veterinary. Juvenile, Homa. Beak and other departmaeta of value to the homo and farm. Agents wanted In every community la the South. Remittances may be made by P°*t «Msa meaoy order, eaprooo »oo«t or der. mqistirad latter or check. who send postage statnpo ta payment for ■abacrtfctiosa are laiiuam -2 to send those of the t-coM denomt narion. Amouxtfa larger than g» *■« t» pootDfflca order, exrreaa order, ehock “USKEf “ ' A gtaMod should grew both the old and &• new aaataCkca Mtw. • MOTM TO THE PUBLIC.—The < tmly ttarellng repreoentativm of The Journal are C. J. O*Farrau. J. a. Bryan and Jm. *"*_*?% Z Wk n-jSSaI as a agent ' B a fraud, and wo wffl be t***’®®*’* oty ** ** °* THURSDAY. MARCH H, MM- The administration «eema determined to jar General Miles loose. It B not that congress loves Cuba less but the beet sugar vote more. Let's see. Isn’t the Jim Smith guberna torial rumor a little late this week? General Mlles seems determined to have himself reprimanded into popularity. The American flag will be lowered In Cuba on May Ist. but the tariff will not. One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one newspaper poem make * spring. Why doesn’t President Roosevelt simply sjamboke General Miles and be done with Why worry about the microbes in 11m burger cheese? They probably deserve tbeir fate. That John Dillon affair seems to have been a base imitation of the Tillman-Mc- Laurin row. r Perhaps the British have failed to turn the right end of the American mule to ward the Boers. This weather again makes timely the old advice. ’’Stick to your flannels until they stick to you.” Another one of the signs of prosper ous times is that congressmen no longer play W cent-limit poker. Won’t tt be nice when the regular army is officered by volunteers? As seems likely to be the case before long. Secretary Hitchcock is another one whose honesty seems to be too obtrusive to sutt the powers that be. Doubtless Commissioner H. Clay Evans has discovered by this time that honesty is not the best pension poMcy. 'The Chicago Record thinks General Miles talks very much like a man who doesn't need the job anyway. Now that King Edward has revived the custom of taking snuff every snob in Christendom will begin to sneeze. They must be getting hard-up for lynch ing material in Mississippi when they take tb killing negroes for stealing chickens. President Roosevelt is said to be taking wrestling lessons. He has already been practicing the strangle hold on Genera! Miles. Those Omaha small pot convalescents who have formed a golf club are evident ly immune against only one of the dis eases. The Brooklyn is to be used as the Amer ican flagship at the coronation display, she being the only first-class war ship available. Senator Billy Mason has had his hair cut. And the Chicago papers seem dis posed to regard it as a palpable bid for the barber vote. Terry McGovern and Senator Tillman dined together the other night. There is a natural bond of sympathy between these two statesmen. Between the ship subsidy bill and the river and harbor bill, it begins to look like ail our former fears about that treasury surplus were idle. It begins to look like the only way to make one of our war heroes keep his halo on straight Is to gag .him as soon as he returns home. Gen. Botha dahns that there are 24.W> Boer troops still tn the field in South Africa. To say nothing of their allies, the American mules. General Bell has conquered the insur gents in Samar, which has led to a re vival of that joke about the inhabitants bow being "good Samaritans." Major Waller emphatically denies that be "murdered" Filipinos. He merely had them shot in the arms and legs from day to day, and they died out of spite. A Chicago lawyer has made an argu ment before a court of 300.000 words, occu pying thirty-five hours in its delivery. The wonder is that the jury didn't find him guilty. Hanna's friends claim that he already has votes enough to make him a formida ble candidate for the republican nomina tion in IJO4. And he also has the price of a few more. The difference in the southern and north ern election laws seems to be that under one some are not allowed to vote at all. while under the other some are allowed to vote too often. Ten thousand students in Russia are ■aid to be giving the college yell for lib erty. We should think a college yell in Russian would get them almost anything they might demand. However, let us not despair of the Geor gia peach crop; it has a habit of getting itself "ruined” every year—and also of panning out a million or so dollars for the growers every year. The Irish are said to be very indignant because King Edward has refused to visit them. They resent thia thing of being cheated out of an opportunity to show him how much they didn't want him. Some members of congress show a dispo sition to cut down the rivers and harbors appropriations thia year. Probably m view of the fact that Green and Gaynor have transferred their operations to Canada. Somebody has discovered that Congrea man Fleming refuses to accept free passes from the railroads, but pays his fare every time he travels. Does Mr. Fleming aspire to be the Joe Hill Hall of congress? A league has been formed in New Jer sey w, erect a memorial to Aaron Burr in Newark, where he was born and when his father preached. This would seem to confirm the report that the people in the cast have more money than they know what to do with. WHAT THE BOUNTY BILL DOES. With all the amendments which the ad vocates of the ship subsidy bill accepted in the senate in order to enhance the prospects of that measure its principle re mains xMcious and the objections to it are quite strong enough to require its rejec tion by the house. , A synopsis of the main provisions of the jneasure will show how richly it de serves the death which we hope awaits it in that body. The bill carries a triple subsidy scheme. It provides first a subsidy for carrying the mails. Contracts for this bounty vary, run fif teen years and cannot be altered by sub sequent legislation. Bids for this mall service is to be con fined to American built ships, among which there Is so little competition that a pool to force the government to pay ex orbitant prices is practically certain. The exaction of the highest rate of compensation permitted by the bill may be expected. The provision in the bill for competition amounts to very little. The fraudulency of the scheme in this particularly is indicated sufliqiently by the fact that pay for mall carrying does not depend upon the quantity or weight carried, but mainly upon the ton nage of the ship and the number of miles traveled, the faster ships to get a higher rate than the slower ones. They will all draw heavily from the treasury whether they carry much mail matter or little. This section of the bill was manifestly framed with the design of bountying ship owners rather than the improvement of our mail service. t The second subsidy provided by the bill is a general one. It is a Wre-faced bounty to be paid out of the taxes upon all the people of this country. As Dogberry would say this is "the cream of the correspondence." The amount of this subsidy depends upon the tonnage of the ship and the length of her voyages. Additional pay will be received , by ships hereafter built. The third class of bounties given by the bill will be received by ships engaged in deep sea fisheries and provides for part payment of the wages of the crew. Ships of this character may lie idle three-fourths of the time and still hold good their titles to subsidies from the government. Their owners are to receive a fine gratuity from the government for attending to their own private business. The main plea for this whole ship sub sidy scheme is that the high price of American labor and the consequent great er cost of ship-building in this country make it impossible for American shipping to thrive without this artificial aid. But there is no assurance that American labor will get the full benefit of this burd en upon the American tax-payer to be laid in his name. It Is probable that he will receive com paratively a small part of it. It is an admitted fact that the great majority of the men in crews of American ships are not citizens of this country. On the ships that will receive the small er bounties it is required that not more than of the crew shall be Am ericans. The proportion is to be gradu ally increased, but at the end of five years no more than one-half of thk crew need be Americans. The price of labor where first only one fOur th, and finally no more than one-half, of those employed need be American cit isens will necessarily be fixed by the for eigner, and if the scale of wages should remain high the foreigner would have as good, or better, chance to get the bene fit as will the American. The real intent of the supporters of the bill was revealed by their rejection of a number of amendments. One by Senator Allison requiring that a ship should have a cargo equal to 60 per cent of its tarry ing capacity was voted down. K The carrying trade was thus subordin ated to consideration of profits to the ship-owners. An amendment that pro posed to apply the anti-trust law to sub sidised ships was also rejected and the supporters of the bill actually rejected an amendment to exclude Chinese from the crews of such ships. It is cheap labor and not well-paid la bor that they are after. An amendment limiting the expenditure under the b-11 to $9,000,000 was first accept ed and then knocked out. The SB.tdo.ooo a year limit applies only to matl subsidies. A provision that foreign-built ships shall not be admitted to the benefits of the sub sidy is a delus.on and a snare, as no for eign-built ship can now be admitted to American registry without a special act of congress, and any such ship can be admitted hereafter by act of congress just as it must be now. There is a very hopeful prospect that this preposterous measure may be defeat ed in the house. HORSE MEAT. For many years horse meat has been eaten quite generally in Paris and in many other European cities. It is a comparative novelty in the Uni ted States, but its consumption is increas ing rapidly in this country.' The use of horseflesh as on article of food begun in some of the Pacific coast cities a good while ago, but Chicago is now the prin cipal market for it. No less than 15,006 horses were eaten tn that city last year and the number will be much larger this year. Several of the local newspapers are giv ing sensational accounts of abuses in the horse meat trade of that city. They charge that many horses that are broken down and too feeble and diseased to walk to the slaughter Houses are haul ed there tn ambulances. The meat of these animals Is subjected to a disguising chemical process and put on sale as beef. There is a loud demand for reform in Chicago's horse meat regulations, but in spite of the exposures of the manner in which the business is carried on it grows steadily and is proving very profitable. The British soldiers in South Africa have been compelled to rely to a consid erable extent on horse meat and mule meat during the last twelve months, though they get a much better article than is usually offered in Chicago. Persons of an investigating turn of mind who have eaten horse meat just to see how it goes have given strong testi monials of its excellence, but we do not think it would take in Atlanta. TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION. The demand for more stringent immigra tion laws has been growing steadily for several years. It has found impressive expression in the Shattuc bill that has been reported favorably to the house by the committee on immigration and naturalisation. This measure is an embodiment of past legislation on* the subject, with additional provisions for the more certain exclusion of undesirable classes of immigrants. w It increases the tax on immigration from one dollar to ofie dollar and a half a bend in order to meet the necessary THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1902, expenses of examination and detention. Under the present law aliens who have obtained entrance to this country illegally, or who have become criminals or paupers, may be deported within one year after landing. The Shattuc bill extends this period of surveillance to five years and provides for frequent Inspection of reformatories, in i sane asylums and charitable Institutions with a view of discovering whether they are harboring aliens who have become charges upon the public. The bill excludes absolutely all persons who are known to be anarchists or who advocate the overthrow of government by force or violence or by the assassina tion of public officers. Persons who have had two or more at tacks of insanity are also excluded. One of the best features of the Shattuc bill is that which is designed to make more effectual the law against importing con tract labor by applying it to all who have been Induced to come to the United States by offers, solicitations, promises or agreements. It also makes it illegal for contractors to attempt to import foreign labor. The antl-forelgn labor law as it stands is practically worthless, but the proposed amendments would probably give it much force and effect. In order to keep better watch over im migration steamship companies will be required to place in their manifests spe cific information concerning each immi grant wh'». they bring into this coun try, so as to make his subsequent identi fication easier. The bill has other provisions intended to restrict immigration, .but its main points have been mentioned. There has been in recent years a marked and most unwel come change in the general character of our Immigration. The better classes of immigrants come in greatly reduced num bers, while there has been an alarming increase of. that character of immigra tion that is a burden and a menace to the country. We are receiving fewer English, Irish, Scotch, German, French and Dutch and many more Italians, Hungarians, Poles, etc. Congress has taken hold of this matter Bone too soon, and the proposed remedies and preventives of the defects and evils of the present law are none too strin gent. Yhe Shattuc bill, or something like tt, will probably pass at the present session of congress. A BENEFACTOR OF GEORGIA. The state of Georgia lost a good friend and a very helpful one when Mr. Aaron French, of Pittsburg, died at his home In that city Monday morning. He had reached the ripe old age of 79 and for several months past his health had been in such a precarious condition that the announcement of his death will cause little surprise. Aaron French made his own fortune by his strong native ability, his great energy and his excellent judgment. His experi ence in youth aroused in him an earnest Interest in young men who strive to make their way in the world. He saw in the Georgia School of Technology an agency that would accomplish Immense good for the industrial development of Georgia by educating many of her sons along prac tical and productive lines and he became the largest benefactor of this noble Insti tution. Time and time again the School of Tech nology received from Mr. French substan tial evidence of his desire to strengthen and enlarge its work. It is a better and more complete school today because Aaron French has lived. The sum of his benefactions to the in stitution is large and constitute a monu ment L° h,s memory. The example set by Mr. French in aiding the School of Tech nology, we doubt not, has moved others to help the institution and will bear more fruit of that character. OUR WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The metric system has already been le galized by congress. Anybody in the United States who chooses to use this system in tfie sale of goods or in making contracts is at liberty to do so. He may sell cloth by the meter instead of by the yard, or weigh articles by the kilogram instead of by pounds and ounces, but the fact that hardly any body among us has adopted the metric system in preference to our old standard weights and measures is conclusive evi dence that there is no general desire for the change. It is not at all likely that the effort to make the metric system the only legal one in the United States after January, 1907, will succeed. As our people so manifestly prefer to 'stick to the present system it would be an imposition upon them to decree that they shall abandon it. We are so used to pounds, feet and gal lons that it would be a long time before we could become accustomed to the terms of the metric system and there is no reason why we should be required to do so. We are glad to see that a committee of the American Society of Mechanical En gineers has put itself In opposition to the bill now before the ways and means com mittee that provides for the abolition of the present system and the substitution therefor of the metric system. This com mittee takes the position that such an en actment would cause inconvenience and hindrance to trade merely to please the whims of some persons who are not en gaged to any great extent in commerce or manufacturing, but who doggedly in sist that the metric system Is badly needed by the country. Just what great advan tage this system has over the one that has been so long in use in America and the other parts of the English-speaking world we have never seen demonstrated. There is certainly no reason apparent to the Average citizen why a campaign of education that will require years should be undertaken in order to accustom our people to a new nomenclature and method of determining and declaring weights and measures. The metric bill now before the ways and means committee is arcadian, impracti cal and utterly useless. A GREAT PUBLIC CONVENIENCE. A very practical measure and one that will conduce greatly to the convenience of the public is the bill that has been in troduced in both houses of congress to provide for a postal currency. A great many persons have occasion frequently to send small sums of money through the mails. They can now find no more convenient or less expensive method of transmitting these small amounts than is afforded by money or ders. To send money in this way requires a trip to the postoffice or some sub-station. Stamps are an inconvenient medium of exchange and are not accepted by every body. It is risky to send coin or bills in letters. The postal currency bill gives to every body an easy and inexpensive method of sending smalt amounts through the malls. It provides that hereafter ail one, two and five dollar bills shall be pointed with blank spaces on their face. Such bills pass as ordinary currency, but when it is desired to pay a bill or make a purchase by mall with one of them all that is nec essary is to fill out the blanks with the name of the payee and his place of busi ness or residence, attach a two-cent stamp to be cancelled with the sender's initials, sign the sender’s name in the place indi cated for that purpose and send the money in an ordinary envelope. The bill thus becomes a check on the government. The person to whom it is sent endorses and has it cashed at a postofflee or bank. The paid check is then sent to the treasury and a new bill is is sued in its place. The bill goes further and provides for the issue of 175,000,000 in fractional currency of like style, the fee for the transmission of which will be only one cent. The passage of this bill is being urged by business organizations and business houses. The proposed postal currency would un doubtedly prove very popular and would enedurage trade. It should be passed without delay. A WEAKENING RESOLUTION. The Demoprats in congress are doing ex actly right in preparing to fight the Crum packer resolution at every step and by every possible means, but it does not ap pear that the measure has any enthusias tic or determined support. Two Republi can caucuses refused to endorse it and it u as approved in a perfunctory sort of way by the third. The resolution provides only for an in vestigation of the extent to which the ne gro vote has been disfranchised in the south and there is a very general belief in Washington that even that will not be done. Mr. John M. Carson, Washington corres pondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, one of the best Informed and most reliable press representatives at the capital, in a recent dispatch to his paper, says': "It is said that the Republican leaders have no serious intention of allowing the Crumpacker resolution to be adopted, or even come up for consideration. They are as much averse to a sectional issue at this time as the Democrats, and would go to considerable lengths to avoid precipitating such a misfortune upon themselves just in advance of a national campaign. The question arises, if this latter statement is true, why the Crumpacker idea has been permitted to gain any headway whatever. The explanation given of this by those who are no doubt in a position to know is that in the exigencies of the situation produced by the differences within the Re publican party in the house over the tariff on Cuban sugar, it has been necessary to hold Mr. Crumpacker and a number of his friends from taking a stand with the beet sugar contingent, and the means to ac complish this has been to give the Crum packer resolution plenty of rope. This has been done gradually, and with a nice regard for the progress of the contest over sugar. The resolution is now in the con trol cf the committee cm rules, where in all probability it will remain for the pres ent." The Republican party has found its every attempt at force bill legislation a losing business, and its ablest leaders in congress almost without exception are either holding aloof from the Crumpacker scheme or actively endeavoring to call a halt on it. It does not seem probable that anything more thaft an investigation and a report designed for use as a campaign document will this very wobbly attempt to interfere jfith the present rep resentation of the south in congress. In fact, it is very doubtful if it will amount to even that much. DOCTORS’ RESPONSIBILITY. A remarkable case has recently been tried in London. It involved the responsibility of a physi cian for habits which had been acquired by a patient as a consequence of his treatment. The plaintiff was a Miss Forsythe, a professional nurse, who had undergone a long course of treatment by Dr. W. T. Low, a prominent London doctor. The woman suffered from an acute form of asthma, and the doctor resorted to mor phine in order to relieve her during her spasmodic attacks. Miss Forsythe at length took her case out of Dr. Low's hands and employed an other physician, who immediately stopped the use of morphine and cured the habit Miss Forsythe had acquired. She then sued Dr. Low for damages. The case was fought with great vigor on both sides, and attracted much atten tion in medical circles. A number of prominent physicians tes tified that the remedies employed by Dr. Low were proper ones, and that he had used them reasonably. The court not only ordered a verdict for the defense, but declared that the suit should never have been brought, holding that the doctor could not be held responsi ble for the excessive and habitual use of morphine by his patient. One of the most Interesting points brought out by the experts for the de fense was as to the difficulty of curing the morphine habit. Most of them testi fied their belief that it is impossible to exercise control over victims of the mor phine habit when they are left where they can obtain that drug. The evidence also brought out a con sensus of opinion that this habit is in creasing at a terrible rate. Very few of the witnesses expressed any hope that It will be checked. The number and variety of drugs used to ease pain or induce a gratifying sen sation was shown to have Increased greatly In recent years. The most popu lar are morphine, strychnine, atropine, chloral, bromides, opium, laudanum and ether. There Is a strong demand In England for closer legal restrictions of the sale of these dangerous drugs, but it is admitted that the subject presents difficulties that will be very difficult to overcome to any considerable extent. In this country the drug habit Is grow ing rapidly and makes hosts of victims every year. A SONNET. Written Upon the Bank of the Hudson. The sun in crimson splendor sinks to rest. One moment does he pause in grand descent. With rays as from eternal fires are lent He touches into gold the mountain’s crest— A crown upon this work of nature blest. But calm in majesty and coldly gray, The Hudson glides along his kingly way. And girds the mountains in their wintry silence drest. A solemn, silent mystery fills the air And from the lowly ridge where mount meets stream, A tiny, feathery cloud of smoke doth seem To rise and spreading slowly disappear. So doth the greatest work of mortal hand Before the work of the Creator stand. —GRACE H. NORCROSS. Vassar College. In settling up his estate it has developed that the late C. P. Huntington lent $3,000,- 000 to friends in need who will never be able to pay up. • The Washington Post thinks, however, that Mr. Huntington didn't know it at the time. The question of sex never appears so gigan tic to a man as when he starts out in search of a servant girl. * DAILY CHAT WITH t t GEORGIA EDITORS. J Tifton Gazette: The country editors are lin ing up for their share of loaves this year. Editors Brinson, of Bainbridge. Rainey, of Dawson; and Bell, of Swainsboro, are candi dates for the legislature, and Editor Allen, of Worth, doubtless for the novelty of an editor handling money, offers for county treasurer. May they all succeed. . Hogansville Headlight: Hon. C. L. Moses Is being urged by hundreds of his friends to make the race in Coweta for representative. We have known him for years as a warm hearted friend of the people. If we voted in Coweta he would have one more to elect him. Blackshear Times: Judge Joseph Tillman, of Quitman, is a strong Estill man, on the grounds that Col. Estill is a fine business man. just what the state needs, and not a politician. Abbeville Chronicle: Col. Estill makes a splendid impression wherever he goes, and day by day his prospects as a candidate for the chief magistracy of the state is brighten ing. All that seems necessary to his triumph In the coming contest is the hearty support of South Georgia, which section he so nobly rep resents. * Oconee Enterprise: Hon. Emerson H. George, of Morgan is the logical candidate for the next speaker of the house of representa tives. He is an able lawyer, a matchless legislator, a superb platform orator, and a Chesterfield in demeanor. As speaker of the house of representatives he will be a graceful presiding officer and peerless parliamentarian of whom all Georgia will be justly proud. Albany Herald: About the only claim Sena tor McLaurin, of South Carolina, now has to the name of Democrat lies tn the fact that he halls from a Democratic state. That he should vote for the ship subsidy bill was expected, but it seems a pity that he should continue to represent South Carolina when it is well known that on every important issue bo will be found flocking with the Republicans. Jonesboro Enterprise: If the gallant Demo crat and able lawyer who is at present hand ling the affairs of the attorney general’s office should decide to ask the people of Georgia for the next term, it would not be an easy matter to defeat him. Boykin Wright is one of the ablest and most deserving public men ih the state and he has hosts of friends in every sec tion of Georgia. Elberton Tribune: Mrs. Myrick’s rush to the rescue of Hon. Bob Berner in regard to that famous Frank Potts telegram Is one of the incidents of the present gubernatorial cam paign that deserves to go down in history... Athens Banner: Henry Clay Evans is to retire from the office of commissioner of pen sions. He belongs in the Democratic party by rights, for he is too honest In the execution of the law for the Grand Army of the Re public. LaGrange Reporter: The next legislature, it is currently rumored, win have about twenty editors among its members. We hope this is so, for if the boys do get a chance at making laws they ought to have sense enough to make only good ones. Besides, a little gray matter mixed up with the average legislature will be a condition very much desired. Gibson Record: Georgia has two able sen ators in the personages of Gus Bacon and Steve Clay. They are to be heard from every time an issue comes up for argument. We can get no better men. Sparta Ishmaelite: Mr. Stevens will be re elected Commissioner of Agriculture if he can keep the railroads from killing him. Danielsville Monitor: How is this for can didates for one county? Cobb county has five candidates, from solicitor-general to Un ited States senates. Hon. Mark Hardin is a candidate for clerk of the house; Hon. Newt. A. Morris, a candidate for speaker of the house: Hon. R. T. Nesbitt is out for com missioner of agriculture against O. B. Stev ens; the soltcltor-general is a candidate for re election. This. It seems to us. Is doing pretty well for candidates for political plums from one county. If she don't mind she will overdo the thing. x POINTED PARAGRAPHB. Chicago Newa Gossip uncovers a multitude of sins. All kinds of useful employment are equally honorable. A fussy man gets In his own way when he is in a hurry. The first stfcp toward doing good is the in clination to do it. One cent's worth of mirth Is worth a dollar’s worth of anger. Many a man who thinks he is a martyr is only a chump. When doctors cannot otherwise agree they call it heart failure. A bainful silence Is unknown to man-rbut it's different with women. Wings of riches may enable a man to fly from hts poor relations. There are two sides to every story—and a lot of them should be turned. Judge a man by the depth of his knowledge rather than by his waist measure. It sometimes happens that education unfits a man for earning an honest living. A small boy doesn’t care for a book that Is in structlve as well as amusing. The average man show's up all right on the surface, but few can stand probing. Wise is the candidate that can convince the voters that the office is seeking him. Nothing pleases some girls so much as the chance to resist an attempt to kiss them. The average man wastes lots of time telling other people things they don’t care to hear. A society woman's ideal musician is one who plays good accompaniments for conversation. He who pokes his nose into everything will occasionally poke it between a thumb and forefinger. An old bachelor says it is evidently * greater pleasure to die for some women than it la to live with them. People often wonder why a girl marries the most undesirable man of her acquaintance. If they knew he was the only one to propose they would no longer wonder. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. An heiress would be as sweet by any other name. The most necessary thing in a flirtation is to be a good liar. It is better for a woman to be a good cook than to be president. If a statesman is a dead politician a saint is a sinner in his grave. Nobody can expect to have his own way all the time —unless it is a woman. It’s a lucky thing for men that rosebud mouths haven't any thorns on them. The difference between a man who Iles and a woman who lies is that he knows he Is lying. Any hard-working man who spends very lit tle on himself can make himself very useful to his wife. • One trouble with the man who Is fond of his joke is that he expects everybody else to be fond of it. Truth was formerly proclaimed from the housetops—but that was before the advent of the sky-scraper. , Man is better for a good woman than a bad woman; he is better for a bid woman than no woman at all. Only their conceit keeps men from discover ing that their qualities about which women most care are their usefulness to them. What every woman would like to do with every man who asks her to marry him would be to accept him without having to marry him. A woman with nice, long, wavy hair can no more help getting caught by men with it down her back than she can help looking surprised when she gets caught. Some men plan so carefully about their pleasures that they swear off drinking just for the fun of being able to swear on again. A woman's way of saving money is to get a shop to take back something she has bought so she can buy something else again with the returned money right on the spot. The man who speaks of "my lawyer” Is gen erally the one who asks him a question casual ly when they are riding down town in a street car In the hope of getting legal advice without having to pay for it. The other night a picture of President Roosevelt displayed in Berlin's greatest theater was greeted with chilling silence. Is that what we get for shouting ourselves hoarse over Prince Henry? And after all that beer we poured into Prince Henry, too. It is surprising how long it sometimes take; a fad to become well established. There's ping pong, fast becoming the 4 rage all over the United States, which, it seems, was played in Japan over a hun dred years ago. For once we are rather late in "catching on.” There are 60 000 southerners in New York city and there are 200,000 who were either born in the south or New York of southern parents. Vaccination, under a new law, is com pulsory in France within the first year of a child's life, with revaccination at the ages of 11 and 21. The Frugal Son and How He Opened . The Book At the Wrong Place BY GEO. ADE. Copyright, 1902, By Robert Howard Russell. BOY who had been fed on Home Influences for ' 20 Years finally had to A get out and finance his own Meal Ticket. Therefore he de cided to tear for the Tall Buildings where all the large Fortunes are made. When it came time for him to take the Train, his Father handed him a little Book us Hunches. * “In this Book you will find the most valuable Tips that have been doped out by the 32- Candle Power Intellects,” said his Governor. “If you read this Book you can’t go wrong. In fact I think you will Bat better than 300 right from the Start.” So the Young Fellow packed the Book in his Telescope with the Military Brushes and the Sachet Bag and made hia first ' long Jump. Having arrived in the City he began to answer the “Help Wanted” Ads. He found some very Fancy Openings for a Man with a little Capital which he was willing to let somebody else Hold for him. But the Busi ness World was not exactly clamoring for a Guitar-Player who had nothing to show ex cept some Scarf-Pins and Mili tary Brushes, not forgetting the Sachet Bag. After he had drilled up and down the principal Streets without having a Lucrative Position forced on him, he con sulted the Book and was told to “Take up the Work nearest at Hand,” so he got a Job shovel ing Snow, with the Result that he froze his Ears and was land ed by Pneumonia. After he got out at the Hos pital he consulted the Book and learned that “All Things comes to him who waits.” So he sat around Hotel Offices, reading the Advertising Blot ters and waiting for a Bene factor to discover him. No body except the House Police man seemed to pay any Atten tion to him. Finally he took another Peek at the Book of Wisdom and read as follows: “See a Pin and pick it up All that Day you’ll have Good Luck.” He went out looking for a Pin rfnd finally located one at a Crossing. He stooped over to pick it up, when a Trolley came around Dead Man’s Curve and caught him amidships. They separated him from the Fender and he got his name in the Paper, showing that even an obscure Youth from the Country may now and then at tract Attention in the bustling Metrolopis. The Company compromised with him for S2OO, and now he had begun to earn a little Money he felt a renewed Confi dence in the Guide-Book. Ha opened it and read: “Boldness in Business is the first, second and third Thing.” So he walked into the Office of a great Corporation and asked: “Do you need a good Vice-Pres ident?”* “Don’t wait for the Elevat or,” was the Reply. “Fall down the Shaft.” “Hold on!” said the Youth. “Perhaps I selected the wrong Hunch.” , He took another look at his trusty Volume and read: “Be Modest.” Also, “Humble Be ginnings piake great Endings.” ‘‘Come to think of it,” he said, “I should be Tickled to get anything to do.” They put him to licking La bels and answering the Phone at 6 Pesos per Week. The Book told him to plant something every Pay-Day, no matter how thin his Envelope might be, so he lived on Eclairs and Tea and wore Celluloid Collars. He grew Paler day by day and had about as much Gimp as a City Employee. The Book told him that “A Penny saved is a Penny Earn ed,” so he was a Tight Wad and very unpojAilar around the Shop. Acting on the Advice found in the Book he rode on the High Seat of the Sprinkling Cart, but one day he read that “All Work and no Play makes Jack a Dull Boy;” likewise, “Eat, Drink and be Merry, for' tomorrow we Die.” Next day he dropped his Whip. He alighted to pick it up and when he turned around, the Water Wagon was a Mile away. He did not catch up with it for a Week. When he was offered a better Job with another HouseJ his little Manual told him that a Rolling Stone garnered ijo Moss and that Contentment was a Jewel. So he stuck to the Star vation Pay for he read it right in the Book that True Merit always come in for a Reward. He knew that as soon as he was worth more Money, the Com pany would come around and put it in his Pocket. Once he got to Fussing Around with a Young Lafiy who looked Fine tn him and he * decided to Tag her, if possible. His old Stand-By warned him against J*rocrastination and told him that Faint Heart never grabbed off Fair Lady, so he tackled her on a Corner after he had known her for two Weeks and made a Flat Propo sition, with the Result that he v got the Harpoon in three dif ferent Places. After four Years he had saved up a small Roll of the Needful. A True Friend gave him a Tip on the Stock Market. It was one of those Tips that come in a round-about Way from J. Pierpont Morgan. It was a Wireless Special. The True Friend took him up an Alley and whispered it to .him for fear that a Newsboy might hear them and get his Money down first. Our Hero was Leery but the Book said: “Nothing venture, nothing Gain,” so he margined 100 Shares of Amalgamated Bronze and told them to close it out as soon as it touched 180. Im a few Days he received a Business Letter reading as fol lows : “You Lose.” Once more his Visible Assets consisted of the Military Brushes and the Sachet Bag. He headed for Home and as he walked in he said: “Folks, I’ve come hack to Eat.” “Have you got it in Large Bills or do you carry a New York Draft ?” asked his Father. “That was a bummy Chart you gave me,” replied the Boy. “It had me steering in all Di rections. I wish you’d take back your Proverbs and give me a Recipe for cooking up a few Practical Schemes.” MORAL: Not matter what the Play, there id an old-time Proverb to back it.up. oVr. Dooley in Foreign Tarts. ' Through the chambers of my braln-btjlat _ slippers walk ever arm-in-arm Sit John Falstaff and Mr. Samuel Pickwick.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. Were the genial Autocrat living today, would he not add Mr. Dooley? Who con tributes more to the fund of current hu mor than the droll philosopher whose sayings are upon every tongue? Who has an audience so large and appreciative as his? Who is so persistently quoted by the great fun-loving public? Whose opinions are awaited with such a relish of antic ipation as those of the Sage of Archey Road? ' Mr. Dooley's innumerable friends will be glad to learn that he has just sailed for Europe in company with Mr. F. P. Dunne, > who first Introduced him to the public. It is confidently expected that Mr. Doo ley's observations and experiences in for eign parts, which will be printed in the Atlanta Journal, will contribute much to, the gayety of nations and wUI do more ; than the last Peace Congress to promote an era of universal good feeling. POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. Dimitri Merejkowskl is looked upon as the logical successor'to the literary leadership held so long by Count Tolstoi, in the event of the latter's death. Baron Adolphe de Rothschild’s legacy of almost priceless gold and silver plate has been Installed In the room In the Louvre set aside for that purpose. Hannis Taylor, minister to Spain under Prea ident Cleveland and a writer of constitutional law, has accepted the degree of L.L. D. offered by the University of Dublin. Marquis Ito, who has just returned home from his extended trip, said, in response to Si toast at Kobe, that Japan must redouble her/ efforts to keep abreast of the other nations. In return for the monument of Goethe which Emperor William has presented to Rome the City Council at a recent meeting proposed to Ksent to the City of Berlin a monument to nts. Mrs. Dewey still continues indisposed, al though the temperature of Palm Beach, Fla., has worked improvement in the throat trouble which caused her to leave Washington for the winter. Queen Alexandra of England ‘ has ordered from the Countess of Limerick a consignment of shamrock for St. Patrick’s Day. She will send a bunch of the shamrock to each soldier of the Irish Guards. General Eugene Griffin has in his possession the American flag made by the sailors in i 'Lieutenant Gilmore’s party out of patches of their clothing after their rescue from the in surgents in the wildest part of Luzon. Prince George, of Prussia, seventy-six years old. is the oldest member of the house of Ho henzollern, and is known as the ’Hohenzol- ! lem Poet.” He has written under the pseudo nym of "George Conrad." a number of trag edies, notably "Phaedra.” x Captain William Driver, a Salem. Mass., skipper, is credited with the bestowal of the name "Old Glory" to the stars and stripes. It was in 1851 and the flag to which he gave the name was carried by the brig Charles Dog gett all around the world and is now on ex hibition at the Essex Institute, Salem. Leon Lewis, of Winstead, Conn., a writer of some considerable repute on scientific subjects, says a glacier at the south pole, 3,000 miles in diameter and correspondingly thick will some day break and melt, deluging the earth, begin ning at South Africa. Just at present, how ever, the glacier is growing and strengthening. Frank Bemis, of Columbus, 0., cannot keep . warm, though he wears 5 suits of underclothing the year round and sleeps in an ulster and woolen cap. He usually carries about forty pounds of clothing, besides $30,000 life in surance, and says he can pass a better medical examination than most men. Physicians do net know what is the matter with him. Solomon J. Solomon, A. R. A., has painted some of his most successful pictures by gas light. Indeed, he affirms that he can obtain better results in this way than if he painted by daylight. According to Mr. Solomon, every artist should accustom himself to artificial light, especially if he lives in England, whera sometimes for days together the sun falls to make Its appearance. Philip Pienaar, a Boer who has written a book entitled "With Steyn and DeWet,” says that the latter general is uncouth in manner and careless to a degree in matters of dress. Lack of tact and abruptness In manner add to his unattractiveness, but he has an abun dance of shrewdness and it is not without dignity. Besides, it is chiefly owing to DeWet and Steyn that the war did not end with tha fall of Pretoria. Miss Marie Corelli, speaking recently at Glasgow on the “Signs of the Times.” said that the English passionate love for the Ger mans had manifested itself in such ways as clothing Tommy Atkins in a copy of a Teutonic garb and accepting a German design for new English po f _zl? stamps, with the result that there had been proluced an excellent tnougn somewhat flattering likeness to Leopold, king of the Belgians. The sadness of a man who has loved and lost is frequently exceeded by that of the poor un fortunate who loved and failed to lose.