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Newspaper Page Text4 The Semi- Weekly Journal __i— The *"gM» •d on Monday* and Thursdays, ana mailed la time tor ail the week star route malto. It c<mtains the news from all P*r?. £ £ brought wear a special leased wire • nt< ’ KTJtexnml office It haa a «a« of dtattngulahed contrlbutora, with strong Arrteulturil. Veterinary. Juvenile Boek and othw j*F*gygg> at special value to the home qad fmn Agwto wanted la every immunity la the South. Remittances may be made by P««- '• . Persona who saad postage stamps In paymsat tar sabeertptkms are requeet- JTaad those of the hoeat denomi nation. Amounts torgy than* cents pcetoffioa order, ekprsas order, eheck • «r registered mail. __ cSS’S-.’S-’Ki. ‘Ki'.ff the new poetoffice address XOTK'fTtO the PUBLIC.—The with The Journal as a travonn« ageat to a fraud, sad wo win be oely tor money paid to the Shove named repre.mtadvea THURSDAY. APRIL 17. 1902. It seems pretty certain that Ellen N. In party to a Morganatic union. yearly every newspaper In the country is giving the beef trust a roast. The Hon. Chauncey Depew shows a dis position to become a rotten “peach.” - It begins to look like the Sick Man of Europe is about to have a relapse. It beylnr to look like the Boers have also captured that South African peace rumor. Edward Everett Halo is fiO years of aye. He is avidendy Uving right up to his nafna ______ There Is now a rood opening for a man who can write plate matter sermons by the yard. One of the giraffe* tn the New York zoo has just been cured of a sore throat eight feet long. - John Wesley. Gaines is being opposed for congress by a man named Meek. VI hat a contrast! With Miles, Dewey and Schley all in the Democratic band wagon, aren't we liable to be a little crowded* The new pension commissioner has at * least one advantage; he can even-up with his critics by writing poetry. If quantity and not quality is what Cal ifornia wants. General Shafter will run that governorship in a walk. Those Bulgarian brigands made a great mistake tn not also instating upon a royalty on Miss Stone's lectures. The Massachusetts legislature threatens to place a tax on cats. Evidently the old malda can’t vote tn Massachusetts. Another tightness of money in Wall street is said to be threatened. At last there is a bond of sympathy between us. The new pension commissioner is said to be an infidel. But what s the/differ ence?—he would bw damned, anyway. The Massachusetts supreme court has decided that a man who loses money in a bucketshop ''may" recover it. But "can" he? iNow. watch our old friend, the Hon. Joe Hili Hall, take out his red bandana and try to stop that Southern railway •mer ger." A new South Carolina law proposes to make justice so swift in capital offenses Rat lynchers won’t have time to. get a rope. Mayor Carter Harrison has asked the Chicago aldermantc board to reduce his salary. He mot be getting ready to give up his lob. Nevertheless. it may yet become neces sary for the senate to adopt a “special Tillman rule” merely to insure decency and order. Recent reports from the Philippines would seem to indicate that pretty soon there won't be enough of the natives left to pacify. All of the obstacles tn the way of the Nicaraguan canal have been removed ex cept Hanna and a few other hold-up statesmen. There Is to be a revival of bicycling among women this season. Somebody must have invented a new style of bicycle stockings. z It is not strange that after trying to convert Nashville, the Rev. Sam Jones suffered an attack of indigestion and nerv ous prostration. Prof. Miller, the Detroit murderer, was also guilty of wearing celluloid collars and cuffs. And yet he is allowed to escape with a life sentence. * Every time anybody mentions the nossi bility of a deadlock in the coming guber natorial convention. Candidate Estill looks self-conscious. ■ - 4 —— Tbe clothing clerks are evidently hav ing their day tn polities as well as in trade. One of them has just been elected mayor of Hartford, Conn. We are told that a Parisian composer, after playing the piano N hours without stopping went mad. He must have been mad before he started—with somebody. Bobby Walthour has again lowered the world s record for fast riding. Which is all the more remarkable when it Is consid ered that he was once a messenger boy. Women run 60 cent slower than men. Jump 62 per cent as far and throw a base- - ball only 46 per cent as far. So man is not inferior to woman in everything, as- * ter all. The Chicago Tribune seems to think that the worst feature of this Missionary Stone matter is the fact that we are now called upon to ransom her from Major Pond, the lecture magnate. Ancient footprints eighteen inches broad have been found In a slab of Dakota sandstone Some prehistoric Chicagoan - was probably tn the habit of wading around in Dakota sandstone. Governor Candler says the state road will not be injured by the ■’merging” of all other southern lines—or. In other Words, by being completely bottled up. But saying so doesn’t make'it so. This year’s memorial address at Grant's tomb will be delivered by United States District Judge Thomas Jones, of Mont gomery. Ala., who was among the Con federates at the Appomattox surrender. This proposed investigation of our mule trade with the British army, now that we have disposed of about 2'5 000.000 worth of_ them, is, in all probability, a sort of admission that we have no more mules to sell Prince Henry was called to account by a policeman for riding his bicycle too fast on the streets of Darmstadt the other day. Evidently Hans Imbibed too much of the American spirit of freedom while in this country. STANDS BY HIS COMRADE. The clash between President Roosevelt and General Mlles has undoubtedly had a demoralising effect upon the army. It la unquestionably true that the sympa thies of the army are almost entirely with General Miles. It Is also true that the public regards the president’s treatment of that officer as unjust and Indefensible. If the general tone of the press can be taken to indicate, anything this latter proposition must be admitted, and the former.is substantiated by the able and fearless army journals which are highly wrought up on the sub ject. A number of distinguished army officers have ipade bold to deciare that their gen eral has been wronged by the president. It requires courage to do since General Miles brought down upon himself a storm of wrath in the white bouse by simply say ing that he had no sympathy with the efforts to drag down Admiral Schley. It would seem that the officers who open ly and boldly declare that Gen. Mlles has been subjected to treatment that was ut terly undeserved and is calculated to do serious injury to the efficiency of the army are themselves in danger of being hauled up before the presidential bar. Nevertheless. General Schofield, the im mediate predecessor of General Mlles as commanding general of the army, did not hesitate to talk plainly before the senate committee on military affairs when called to testify concerning the bill to create a general staff. • The president has set his heart upon the passage of this bill and ia using his ut most endeavors to put it through. •When asked what he thought of the opinion of General Miles that the effect of this proposed legislation would be to Ger manise and Russianize the American army Generad Schofield said: “I am not afraid of that. I think we might Germanize other things a little, with advantage, possibly. "If we had at the head of the army for years the same distinguished gen eral, other things being satisfactory, that would be very well, but what is the use of a great general as the nominal bead of the army if the president will not even talk to him. except to criticise him, or if the secretary of war and he do not even see each other?" Senator Burrows—Why would not the same condition of affairs exist between the chief of staff and the president? General Scofield—Because he would re lieve him and get another. You must give the president discretion to select that man. Senator Burrows—Why cannot the com mander in chief, the lieutenant general of the army, and the president confer as it la? General Schofield—They are not on speaking terms. Senator Burrows—Not on speaking terms? *. x General Schofield—No, sir. You will have to get rid of that intolerable condition by which this man close to the president, the only man who is available to do these things, is a man whom the president does not talk to except to criticise him. The result is bad, very bad. The president feels the need of such a man, as did the whom I have known. They would say: T, cannot do these things; I must have a military man to help ma’ Then, in that situation, he perhaps sends for Col. or Major So-and-8o and finds that he is a bright young fellow and knows about these things, and in a few days it gets to be known that ’Tom 80-and So’ is commanding the army.” This ia about the liveliest raking Presi dent Roosevelt has received from an offi cer of the army, so far as the public has yet been informed, though* there have probably been in army circles some criti cisms on the same general line that would not look well in print. In the course of his testimony General Schofield paid a high compliment to the army policy of the Confederacy in saying that its system of selecting high officers was far superior to that of the north. It is evident that we have on hand' a conflict over the proper management of the army which may bring serious con sequesces. It is likely to reach proportions that will make the Sampson-Schley controvert sy seem a very small affair by compari son. THE APPELLATE COURT. It seems to be a foregone conclusion that a federal court of appeals shall be established for the circuit including the states of Georgia. Aiabatna and Florida. The reasons for the creation of such a court are controlling and quite as strong are the considerations in favor of setting up this tribunal in Atlanta. This city is by far the most important center of population, commercial and le gal business in the circuit for which the proposed court is to be established. It is readily accessible from every point in the territory over which the jurisdiction of the prospective court would extend. The federal government has more con cerns and interests in Atlanta than in any other place in the three states to be serv ed directly by this court. The facilities and conveniences for a court of this char acter are much more complete in Atlanta than in any dther city within the range it is to cover. A fair consideration A)f her claims for the location of the new court of appeals id all Atlanta asks and w» cannot doubt that the Georgia senators and congress men will see that this is accorded. If the federal authorities will look over the field fairly we cannot doubt that the court of appeals for this circuit will be established in Atlanta, and we cannot pre sume that they will do anything less than consider fully all the claims that may be presented to them. TWO SIDES TO IT. ~ We find in one of the most radical and persistent of all Republican newspapers the assertion that it is “highly creditable to our country that press and people, ir respective of partisan affiliations, disap prove of the sacrifice of a faithful and courageous public official like Pension Commissioner Evans to’ a political exi gency.” This Bounds well, but let us think if it will stand the »test. A little serious reflection will convince us that in the Evans incident we can find nothing to support the theory that faith ful. clean and courageous performance of duty is a guaranty that an official shall be protected. • The record of Commissioner Evans has never been successfully assailed by even his most vicious foe; it has not been shown in a Single instance that he has violated the law or deprived any pension seeker of his rights. And yet he has been pursued and nagged as few federal offi cials ever were. He has literally been driv en out of office by partisan clamor; he has been sacrificed to satisfy a relentless horde of demagogues and conscienceless pension attorneys. The remark which we quoted at the out set would be nearer the truth if para phrased so as to read: It is highly discred itable to our government that a conspicu lously faithful public official like Pension Commissioner Evans should be sacrificed to a political emergency? ' THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1902. WADE HAMPTON. The superb soldier, the cool and clear statesman, the immaculate man who died in Columbia Friday must be ranked among the truly great Americans of his time. . i With the single exception of John B. Gordon, Wade Hampton was the most fa mous and most beloved of the Confederate generals who have been spared unto this day. The services of this lion-hearted man to a cause in which the south had its whole heart, for which it fought with a heroism that can hardly be matched in history, wou.u alone have given him a high and permanent place in history. But his achievements in peace endeared him in still larger measure to his state and sec tion and won (lie gratitude of the whole nation. Before the civil war he led the life of a cultured gentleman, with ample means, a buoyant love of manly sports and that ardent devotion to country life which has been strong in the hearts of so many chiv alrlc and forceful meq. Though his well known abili ty and his, recognized qualities of leadership marked him for a per manent place in the organization of the Confederate forces he preferred to en ter the service of hia state as a private. It was impossible that his desire to re main in tnat humble station should be gratified and soon after the opening of hostilities he organized "Hampton’s Le gion," which became one of the most famous commands in the entire war and which he maintained through all his ele vations of rank and transfers to larger scopes of operation. Whoever went with Wade Hampton had to fight and the Le gion did as much dangerous and effective service perhaps as any body of men who wore the gray. It may be said of him without the slight est tincture of exaggeration that he never went into battle that he did not distin guish himself and few officers of the Confederate army participated in as much actual fighting as did he. From first to last, even after he had risen to the exalted rank of lieutenant general he never failed to get into the hot of every conflict In which his command was engaged. He be lieved that it was a comma'nder's duty to set an example to his men; that they would follow him better when he said "Come,” than when he urged them to “go." He never asked them to do what he was not readyto help them undertake. It is not to be wondered that they trusted him implicitly and gloried in following his knightly lead. He possessed a very rare degree of phys ical strength and activity and had few peers as a swordsman. Danger had no other effect than exhilaration upon it and he seemed to go with a glowing joy where most men dread to enter. It is a well accredited fact that in many of his bat tles men fell dead from the sweep and stroke of his saber. In the battle of Seven Pines when J. E. B. Stuart, the Sir Gallahad of the Confederacy, met his death, Hampton was close to him and was himself wounded. He afterwards took command of Stuart’s magnificent cavalry. At City Point he gave the Federal cav alry orje of tne severest drubbings It ever received, taking from it more than four hundred prisoners and what was far more welcome to the half-starved heroes under the southern cross, no less than 2.486 beeves which had been bought and fat tened for stomachs encased in blue but happily went to fill out the gray that hung loose over thousands of of southern hearts. Wade Hampton's career as a soldier would have given Dumas material for as thrilling a romance as he ever wrote. It was the inspiration of many a man who was called upon to endure the stress and horror of battle and it lives in unfading lustre in the annals of heroism. The people of South Carolina in the re construction period were for years in sulted, persecuted and plundered by a horde of unprincipled adventurers and recreant sons of their own state who used a mass of ignorant and deluded negroes to oppress their superiors until patience ceased to be the part of men and the manhood of the state resolved to redeem Its government and insure the protection of its homes even at the cost of life itself.. In that hour of supreme peril and sublime determination they naturally turned to Wade Hompton as their leader and the faith that under him they could not fail thrilled and nerved every patriot heart in the Palmetto state. They did not rely in vain. Hpmpton. upon their insistence, became the candidate of the Democratic party for governor or South Carolina. a Certainly no other man could have pre vailed over the combination of forces that was holding the state down at that time. Hampton not only had the confidence and love of the white people of South Carolina to an extent enjoyed by ho other man, but the negroes believed that he would be fair and liberal to them as governor because he had always been conspicuously so as a citizen. He organized his campaign as thoroughly as he ever organized a military command or planned a battle. He was ag gressive but temperate; determined but cool. He underwent a strain severer than any he endured in the most trying days of the war and not once did he fail to sustain himself. Never did his true great ness show forth so splendidly. His rule of his own spirit was as perfect as his com mand of his most devoted followers. His election was the beginning of the end of Republican misrule in the south. Georgia had restored her government to her own people, but South Carolina, Flori da, Mississippi and Louisiana were still under the domination of aliens and pan dering time-servers. Hampton's splendid victory inspired the true sons es the south everywhere to in vincible efforts to rid their country of a plague that was worse than the lice of Egypt. When an attempt was made to defy the popular will and count Hampton out of the governorship he did not threat en or rave. It <ras not in him to do either. He calmly announced to his own people and to the authorities at Washington that he had been elected and would take his office. Everybody knew he meant what he said. It was veiy hard for him to re strain the white men of South Carolina when they saw that a plot had been made to hold them in subjection even after they had won their freedom by legal and peaceful methods. troops were employed to uphold’ a government which the people had declared should not fttle them, and on more than one occasion a bloody conflict between citizens and sol diers was averted by Hampton’s pow erful personality, his unflickering nerve and his imperturbable balance. On his way to Washington to lay his case before President Hayes he was re ceived along the entire route by an up rising of the people of every state he passed through to assure him of their sympathy and their faith that he would triumph. President Hayes withdrew the troops from South Carolina and the carpet-bag government fell. Hampton as governor speedily restored order in South Carolina and white suprem acy in that state has never been threaten ed since. In 1878 Governor Hampton was elected to the United States senate, where he toerved twelve years to the honor of his state and the great benefit of the whole country. No southern man has sat in the senate since the war who was regarded by the country as better qualified to speak for the south. His defeat for re-election in 1892 was one of the most glaring Instances of popular Ingratitude on record. But the place of Wade Hampton In his tory is secure. He lived without reproach and died honored by the nation. A GOOD REPUTATION. Many states have nicknames, some of them complimentary and others rather the reverse. Minnesota has long been known Bread and Butter State,” which is a very honorable distinction. Minnesota not only produces all the wheat her people can con sume and makes it up into flour which is famous the world over and is exported to all parts of the civilized world, but Min nesota furnishes the butter for her own bread and has a vast quantity of butter for sale. Her annual butter production exceeds 50,000,000 pounds. It is of exceptionally fine quality and la, valued at nearly 111,000,000 a year. More than 18.000 families in the state are supported entirely by the dairy Interest alone. There are more people em ployed in this Industry than any other in Minnesota. Its dairy product is worth more thgn its barley and corn crops com bined, and is quite double that of the po tato crop of the state. The Minnesota dairy product Increased more than 300 per cent from 1890 to 1900 and in the five years from 1895 to 1900 it in creased no less than 125 per cent. Over 14,000,000 is invested in the cream eries of Minnesota, and supply products to* the value of >8,000,000, to say nothing of the small dairies scattered throughout the state which send an immense amount of butter to market., It is estimated that the total revenue of the Minnesota cream eries will be increased more than >1,000,000 this year. z The people of that state are remarkably thrifty and know how to make their labor and enterprise pay. TRADES UNION DECIBION3. The British courts have recently render ed several decisions which have a very serious bearing upon organized labor in that kingdom, and have provoked much political agitation. The effect of these decisions is to hold trades unions respon sible *for the acts of their 'officers and members which result in damage to those againist whom such acts are directed, and render the funds in the union treasuries subject to attachment in satisfaction of judgments recovered in damage suits. The officers and leaders of the British trades unions have resorted to various schemes In their efforts to evade the ef fect of these decisions. One of these was to send all their funds to France where they would be out of reach of the British courts. But a fatal objection to this plan was found Jp the fact that the cus todians of the funds would also be im mune from consequences and could gob ble with Immunity the money placed in their keeping, bra The French refuge plan was therefore abandoned/ ,r There is now a hHI before Parliament which would make it impossible to hold the unions responsible for any injuries they might inflict. This measure has a strong support, but it is not probable that it will pass. Should it fall the managers of the un ions will organize auxiliary companies to be registered as benevolent associa tions. To these will be paid all the funds collected from the membership of the un ions by assessment, and from them will be drawn such moneys as may be needed for sick benefits, strikes maintenance, and other union expenses, these drafts being in the nature of loans to the unions, to be repaid by dues collected. It is believed that this plan could be worked so as to make any union that might be held liable for damages secure from the necessity of paying anything. The government is pressing its plan to devise some plan that will fix upon labor unions liability for Injuries, and its lead ers in parliament are confident that they will succeed. WOMAN’S WIDENING SPHERE. The University of Chicago is establish ing a fame as the most liberal of all our higher educational Institutions in its treatment of women and the opportunities it offers them. President Harper has made a pledge that discrimination against women shall never be found there and he is living up to his promise with notable fidelity. Women made repeated attempts to gain admission to Rush Medical college, but without success so long as that Institution maintained an independent existence. The college has been adopted by Chicago University and incorporated in its general system. As a consequence Rush Medi cal college has been thrown open to wo men and large numbers of them have gone there to be trained for the medical profession. This is one of the most no table triumphs of woman's progress that has been achieved in recent years. The fitness of woman for success and usefulness in this line of effort is admit ted by all who are not either ignorant of recent educational tendencies or will fully blind to them. Women as trained nurses are now in dispenslble in hospitals and sanitariums. Women doctors are becoming more nu merous every day and are filling a large sphere. They are in Increasing demand because they have proved thsir skill and have won remarkable degrees of success. They are to be found In all the cities of the United States and In-those of all the other more advanced nations. The de mand for the woman doctor is growing at, a remarkable rate. She has already become a very important factor of our civilization and is becoming a larger one constantly. Hitherto most of the colleges that ad mitted women students had a low stand ard for them, but Rush college, which is one of the most advanced medical edu cational institutions to be found any where, takes men and) women students on exactly the same terms and affords them equal opportunities for training and for honors. It Is safe to predict that In the competi tion with men thus provided for women* will quite hold their own. They have proved their ability to do that In every department of education they have yet been permitted to enter along men, even in those studies for success in which they were until recently regarded as fatally disqualified. At least one thing is certain about Ellen N—it’s a clear case of kidnaping. Senator Vest's Tribute To Wade Hampton BY MILT SAUL. WASHINGTON, April 15.-The United States senate in tears! A spectacle almost inconceivable, yet one actually witnessed last Saturday by those who sat in the galleries when Sena- , tor Vest,.of Missouri, delivered a beauti ful tribute to General Robert E. Lee and General Wade Hampton. The senator from Missouri, now paralys ed and almost unable to stand alone beside his desk, once fought In the same cause with Lee and Hampton, the cause of the Confederacy. And that inexpressible sym pathy which arises when a brave man weeps at the bier of a comrade flooded the senate chamber as the frail, white figure of Vest shook with emotion at his own tender words for these brave men de parted. Wbeh he first arose he referred to a bit ter debate of the preceding day between Senators Depew and Blackburn on a sec tional Issue, a debate which had nearly led up to the same exciting scenes of last month. Said he: “I hope, Mr. President, I may be per mitted to say a few words about the de bate on yesterday In this chamber, not by way of criticism, but because I regret ex ceedingly that there was Injected Into our proceedings, without any regard to rules of parliamentary debate, a sectional dis cussion, which elicited some most unfor tunate expressions and exhibited a bitter feeling, which I had hoped never to have witnessed again in the senate of the Unit ed States during my service. My public career will end in a few months, and I had fondly expected after the Spanish war that the men of the north and of the south, who stood together like broth ers against a foreign foe, would continue to stand like brothers In this time of peace. x "The people of the south are sincere mourners at the graves of Lincoln and Grant and McKinley, and no more honest tears were ever shed than those that dropped upon ths bier of our last presi dent from the eyes of men/who had faced in battle the soldiers of the north during four long years. “The peoplj of the north should remem ber that the south, too, has produced great and good and patriotic leaders. They should remember that Washington, Jeffer son, and Robert E. Lee, ths leader of the Confederate** armies, were slave owners, and differed widely upon that question with their brethren in the northern states. "I shall never cease to feel kindly to ward the present occupant of the white house, Colonel Roosevelt, for what he said, in the broadest spirit of statesman ship and as a historian, in his Life of Thomas H. Benton, one Os the American Statesmen Series, in regard to Robert E. Lee. He says in that most interesting production that Robert E. Lee was by far the greatest general that ever came from the English-speaking races, superior to Wellington, to Marlborough, and to his last great adversary, Ulysses 8. Gran,t. "Yesterday, when I came to the capltol, I was handed a dispatch from one of the family of another great southern leader, formerly our colleague in this chamber, that at 10 minutes before 9 o'clock he had passed over the dark river to join that great encampment upon the other shore. “Mr. President, I hope I may be par doned if I speak very briefly of Wade Hampton, who is tomorrow to be commit ted to the earth; but whose memory will live for centuries to come among the peo ple, not only of the south, but of the whole country. "I knew him well, and loved him sin cerely. He was the highest type of a Chritslan gentleman—patient, brave, hon est, and unselfish. He was not depressed by adversity, nor unduly elated by pros perity. Having lost all, except life and honor, he bowed submissively to the re sult of a great war, in which he shared the fortunes of his people. He never ut-\ tered one vindictive word; he never gave any wild advice to the people who were suffering all the horrors of reconstruc tion, and who only needed his advice to dare again the utmost that fate could do against them rather than submit to the Ills they had. "He commenced his public life, as a very young member of the legislature of South Carolina, by daring to face an over whelming public sentiment in his own state, in denunciation of the Infamous slave trade, which hot-headed men sought again to open. Afterwards he found it his duty to again oppose the will of his people upon a great financial question; bnt he did it without hesitation, and faced political death, almost certain* as he had often upon the battlefield faced death in defense of whai he believed to bb right. “I am Informed this morning by one who sat by his deathbed on yesterday that he met death as calmly and as pati ently as he had met all the adverse fort unes which had come to him in his later years. He could say—and I know honest ly—in the beautiful lines of Tennyson: " 'And though from out our bourne* of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I Have crossed the bar.’ ” There was scarcely a dry eye in the sen ate as the feeble speaker sank into his chair and burled his face in his arms on his desk. Stern men who have for years fought each other in the political arena raised trembling hands to brush away tears called forth by words that made them kindred. Not one remained untouched by the lofty sentiments ex pressed, and several there were who sob bed aloud. Senator Lodge, the very ideal of the cool, dignified, well poised statesman of the north, was one of those deeply moved. He arose after a silence of a full minute had reigned throughout the cham ber, and expressed the feeling of the sen ate in these words: “Mr. President, I trust that no consider ation for me has in any way hastened the senator from Missouri (Mr. Vest) to a conclusion. It was with the most un feigned pleasure that I was able to do him the very slight service of yielding the floor. I was glad to do it, no matter for what purpose he arose to speak, and certainly I think everyone must share with me in the feeling of deep emotion with which we have this morning listened to his eloquence, always beautiful and im pressive, but never more so than on this occasion. i "It is very hard. Mr. President, after listening to such words as those which are still sounding in our ears, to turn away to the discussion which I intend to take up here. After such feeling as the senator from Missouri has expressed for his friend—a great man gone—it is not easy to return to the dry clauses of an exclusion bill, and I trust therefore that I shall meet with Indulgence in dealing with the subject which I am now forced to discuss.” PERSONAL NOTES. Prof. A. Graebner, of the Concordia Semi nan-. of St. Louis, left this week for Aus tralia in the Interest of the Lutheran church. Congressman Moody will be tendered a re ception at his home in Haverhill. Mass, by the citizens on his return from Washington today. Major John E. Barrow, who fifty years ago was partner in the grocery business with Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the In terior, is dead. Rev. Jacob Chapman, the oldest living grad uate of Phillips Exeter, and possibly of Dart mouth, where he was graduated in 1885. was 92 years old this week. Rev. W. H. Griffith Thomas, the noted Lon don divine. Is leading a party of Bible stu dents on a seven weeks' trip to Egypt. Pales tine, Asia Minor and Greece. Robert C. Clowry. the new president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, entered the Joliet. 111., office of the company as a messenger boy at the age of 13. Rev. Dr. Edward K. Clark, who retired this week from the pastorate of the Central Con gregational Church of Boston, was presented by hts congregation with a purse containing 88.000, and hia salary will be paid until Sep tember 1. Search For the Right House and How Mrs. Jump Had Her Annual Attach BY GEO. ADE. Copyright, 1902, By Robert Howard Russell. NCE there was a Family called Jump that had sampled every \\ ard o within the Corporation Limits. The Jumps did a Caravan Specialty every time, the Frost went out of the Ground. When the Sarsaparilla A4s began to blossom, and the Peach Crop had been ruined by the late Cold Snap and the • Kids were batting up Flies in the Lot back of the Universal ist Church, and a Barrel-Organ down Street was tearing the Soul out of “Trovatore" —these were the Cues for Mrs. Jump to get her Nose into the Air and begin to champ at the Bit. Mother was a House-Hunter /from away back. SJjfe claimed to be an Invalid eleven months out of the Year and took Nerve Medicine that cost $2.00 a Bot tle. Just the same, when April hove into view and Dame Na ture began to stretch herself, then Mother put on her Short Skirt and a pair of Shoes in tended for a Man and did a tall Prance. She was good for 12 hours a Day on any kind of Pavements. With her Reticule loaded full of “To Let” Clippings, she hot- < footed from Street to Street. Every time she struck a Fresh Trail she broke into a Run. Mother was looking for a House that had twice as many Closets as Rooms and a South ern Exposure on all four sides. She had conned herself into /the Belief that some day she would run down a Queen Anne Shack that would be 0. K. in all Particulars. In the Magazine that came 'every Month sh£ had seen these Dream-Pictures of Palaces that can be put up for $1,500.00, if you steal your Materials. She had'gazed at the Bunco Illustration of the swell Struc ture with bushv Trees dotting the Lawn and a little Girl roll ing a Hoop aldng the Cement Side-Walk and she had set her Heart on that kind of a Home. Mother loved to study the Plans and. count the Batfl- Rooms and figure on Window Seats and what kind of Cur tains to put in the Guest Cham- z her. Every Spring she found the Place she had been seeking and gave a Grand Signal for the whole Outfit to begin packing up. Those were the bright ver nal Days when Mr. Jump got all that was coming to him. Mr. Jump was a Man. therefore any old kind of a Hut suited him. For eight years before starting on his continous Tour with Mother he had roomed over a Drug Store. His Apartments had been one of those delectable Man- Joints wher£ Women never butted in to hide things and give the whole Place a Soapy Smell. * The Sweepings went under the Bed, so as not to litter up the Hallway. Once a Year he had a House- Cleaning. That is to say, he employed a Colored Man to beat the Rugs, which had to be separated from the Floor by means of a Shovel. Inasmuch as Women never came in to suaig'nten up, he knew where to find everything. He knew it was somewhere in the Room and all he had to do / was to excavate until he found it. Then he hooked up with Laura so as to get a real Home and she gave him a new one evefy Year. * Mr. Jump soon discovered that although every Man is the Architect of his own Fortune, the Wife usually superintends the Construction. When Mrs. Jump made her Spring Announcement that they would move to another Houqe. he did a deal of Kick ing, but he always went into the Wood Shed to do it. He sassed her inwardly, but not so that she could hear. She was a Wonder at fram ing up Reasons for hurling the Lease back at the Landlord. One Year she quit because the Owner papered tlte Upstairs with a Jay Pattern that cost only 15 cents a Bolt. Another time the Family next door kept Chickens. Usually the Chil dren across the Alley were not fit Associates for their own lit tle Brood. . One Time she quit on ac count of a Cockroach- She saw it scoot across the Pantry and that afternoon she headed for a Renting Agency. Father suggested that in stead of vacating in favor of the Cockroach, they offer a re ward of SIOO for its capture, dead or alive, and thereby save a little Money, but she refused to listen. If the Plumbing wasn’t out of Whack, the Furnace required too ma ch Coal or else the W om an across the Street had been r divorced too many times. If they squatted in a low down Neighborhood, Mrs. Jump was ashamed to give her Address to Friends in the Con gregation. If they got into a Nest of •the New Rich, then Laura had the freeze-out worked on her, because Mr. Jump was on a Salary and she had to ride on the Trolleys. So she began looking for a Street in which- Intellect would successfully stack up against the good, old Collateral. And, of course, that meant a long Search. Therefore, every May Ist, something Red and about the size of a Caboose backed up to the Jumps’. Several husky Boys began throwing Things out of the Windows. Father did a Vanishing Act. When it came to lifting one 'corner of a Piano or hanging Pictures he was a sad Bluff and he knew it. “How about Paradise?” he asked one day. “I understand that inside of the Pearly Gates, .each' Family has Permanent Quarters. , There are no Fold ing Beds to juggle down Back Stairways, no Picture Cords to Shorten, no Curtain Poles to saw off, no Book Cases to get jammed in Stairways. I am sure there will be no Piano Movers for I have heard their Language. Do you think you can be happy in the Promised Land ?” “It will depend entirely on whether or not the Rugs fit,” she replied. “Let us hope for the Best,** said Mr. Jump. MORAL: The Queen of the May is usually a Woman. THE NIGHT WIND. * (Rtprinted by requ«at) Have you ever heard the wind <o “Yooooo?** 'Tis a pitiful sound to hear! (t aaems to chill you throuch and through With a strange and speechleaa fear. 'Tie the voice of the night that brood* outald* When folk* should be asleep, And many and many'* the time I’va cried To the darkneas brooding far and wjda Over the land and the deep: . “Whom do you want. O lonely night, That you wail the long hours through And the night would say ih ita ghostly way'. “Toooooooo! Yoooooooo! Yoooooooo!” My mother told me long ago (When I waa a little tad) That when the night went walling «A Somebody had been bad; • And then when I waa snug in bed. Whither I had been sent, With the blankata pullefl up round my head, I d think of what my mother aald, And wonder what boy ahe meant! And "Whoa been bad today?” I'd ask Os the wind that hoarsely blew. And the voice would say In Its meaningful way; "Yoooooooo! Yoooooooo! Yoooooooo!" That this was true I must allow— You'll not believe it, though! Yer, though I’m quite a model now, I was not always so. And if you doubt what things I say, Suppose you make the teat: Suppose, when you’ve been bad some day And up to bed are sent away J From mother and the rest— Suppose you ask. “Who has been bad?" And then you’ll hear what'a true; For the wind will moan in its ruefulest tone* “YooOOoooot e -J Yoooooooo! Yoooooooo!" —Eugene Field. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Greed to seize somebody else’s honors is politely called ambition. Young advices in olrf bodies are like a 11T* coal falling on a cake of ice. No woman would care whether she had money or not If her bills wgpld get lost in ths mails. The minds of men resemble the soils of old mother earth: aome are deep and rich and some are shallow and poor. The woman who at twenty haa known n» children of her own Is only half of What the Lord Intended her to be. Tne frightful thing about the woman wuo lies is that, when she does it, she actually be lieves she is telling the truth. 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