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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.
