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Os course If this new railroad combine 1 means that we are to get a union depot that's different. We suppoee that vote on the Cuban re ciprocity bill might be termed a victory for the “Insurgents." The Washington correspondents have •elected Secretary Cortetyou for the new * portfolio of commerce. Os late our soldiers In the Philippines p seem to have distinguished themselves principally aa firebugs. - President Roosevelt's decision as to the « governorship of Hawaii had a very Dole ful sound for the natives. What a pity that those men who make a habit of killing their wives and them selves don't kfll themselves first. Peace negotiations tn South Africa have at least enabled General Kitchener's re gretter to take a well-earned rest. It to altogether probable that what Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan would really like to have said was, "The public be d d." The Filipinos have taken up progressive euchre or as George Ade would say, they have gone to pulling off euchre fights. They have rounded up another Goebel murderer. Things had been quite dull in Judge Cantrell's line for some time. Ex-Governor Hogg says the English are all right. Which may be accepted as con clusive proof that he sold them some of his ofl lands. The Greensboro Herald-Journal offers its readers this bit of advice: “Cassava is an excellent food for swine, and is easily raised. Try it," JOhn D. Rockefeller has lost his hair, eyebrows and mustache. What a picnic the hair restorer people must be having with the oil king. Mr. Carnegie says whiskey will keep any man from making a success of Ufa That depends entirely upon whether he drinks it or sells it. The seaaon to near at hand when our 1 sympathy goes out to the borne with the amputated tall, and our condemnation to the man who did it. Senator Depew ought to stick to after dinner speaking. Whenever he makes a I before-dinner speech he invariably puts his foot tn his mouth. The Kansas City Star reports a case of | Wife-beating. A Sylvan Grove. Kas. wom an in that town ran for the council against her husband and be won. Russia may yet neve to adopt the meth od of putting its youths tinker police sur veilance the moment they show a dlspo . gition to become students. But so far nobody has yet been able to pull off a harmony dinner whereat Grover * Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan could eat out of the same spoon. An exchange notes that Miss Stone had her first magazine article accepted by the Atlantic. Bhe accidently dropped It over board while on the way across. A New York corpse burst the lid off the coffin last Sunday and demanded a drink. Strange what effect these Sunday closing ■ movements have, even on a corpse. The way the politicians nursed the T. P. A. boys while In Atlanta would seem to indicate that they have an idea that every drummer carries politics as a side line. After reading the society pages of its exchanges, perhaps the Memphis Com | ' merdal-Appeai is excusable for thinking it is to be a sponsors' reunion at Dallas. England is going to try the experiment of making “the foreigner pay the tax"— on flour. But. just the same, the consum er will get fewer biscuits for his money. An exchange gives this good advice: "Be | dvll to all, serviceable to many, familiar With few. friend to every one, enemy to Bone.” Then dust your wings off and fly I . aloft . The Cubans are said to show little Inter est in the day set for their Independence day. They probably think they are not being given enough of it to get excited about. Madame Nordica is string the Southern railway for J6O.»W for throwing her out of bed in a recent accident near Rome. The Southern will naturally hope that this was Nordlca’s farewell tour. A Parts editor complains that nearly half the people of that city were born else where. But he should reflect that Paris would soon be depopulated if she had to • depend on the local supply of births. New Jersey has just enacted a law •gainst anarchy. But she will continue to foster that "anarchy of wealth" which to doing even more than the "reds" to tear down the foundations of the republic. Candidate Estill couldn't get up to the T. P. A. convention, but Editor Estill **Wdn't overlook the opportunity to hand the drummers a lovely bouquet In the K shape of a leading editorial on their many > virtues. ' • Mr. Lad eala us Johannes Zdxiebkowskl. • Russian Polander living in Litchfield, Conn., has made application to the courts to change his name. He ought also to •ue bis mo,'her and father for damages while he is about it. OUR NATIVE POPULATION. Though the fact that our foreign popu lation is increasing very fast is known to everybody, most of \is have supposed that immigration accounted mainly for this fact. A distinguished German statistician. Dr. R. R. Cucinski. however, has recently made a study of the "native race" in this country, and his investigations reveal some very remarkable conditions and ten dencies. In his search for vital statistics Dr. Cucinski took Massachusetts as a fair field for an Investigation of vital statistics relative to the population of the United States. This careful investigator has been convinced that the native born population of our country is increasing by no means as rapidly as the foreign element, even leaving immigration out of consideration. The number of children born to foreign parents tn the United States is propor tionately far larger than the number born to American parents. The extent to which this greater foreign birth rate is found to go in Massachusetts la truly surprising. The figures given by Dr. Cucinski cover the period from 1883 to 1897. During that time the annual birth rate among native parents was 17.03 per cent, as against 52.16 among the foreign born. The average number of children born to every foreign-born married wo man was two-thirds higher than for the native. The proportion of single persons among the adult natives is two-fifths; among the foreign born it is less than one third. While nearly one-half of the na tives of Massachusetts are single, only two-elevenths of the immigrant women born in Germany are unmarried. The aver age number of children living for every married woman la three-fifths higher among the foreign born than among the natives. "It to probable,” concludes the German statistician, "tharthe native pop ulation cannot bold its own. It seems to be dying out." The declaration that the pure native pop ulation is not holding its own is not pleas ing to contemplate, but the statistics seem to sustain it. The effect of such investiga tions as Dr. Cucinski has been making will undoubtedly increase the demand for legislation that will restrict Immigration. The Massachusetts press takes a very gloomy view of the prospects of our native population for the control of this country in the future if we continue to permit the present immense stream of immigration to pour in. A writer in The Boston Transcript who has made a study of the census statistics for 1900, goes even further than Dr. Cu cinski in the opinion that the predomi nance of “native stock” in the United States will soon be a thing of the past. He is convinced that no measure of immi gration restriction, not even complete sup pression. will suffice to preserve the dom inance in this country of the people who were its founders. "The races showing the highest birth rate," this pessimist asserts, “will so obviously possess the land that it makes little difference with the final result whether a few hundred thousand more or less of a particular strain are now ad mitted or not." If a rigid measure of ex clusion had been adopted in 1820, he adds, the country would have been kept "Eng lish in blood.and, in fact, as it is now in language." It is too late to take precau tionary measures of that kind. If the sta tisticians and the pessimists know what they are talking about, the scepter sovereignty in the United States will soon ;•«»from Anglo-Saxon hands into the hands of men of races quite distinct from that of the founders of the republic. This is surely a pessimistic view, for it is undoubtedly true that American blood and ideas affect foreigners who come here and their children who are born here far more than they are affected by these for eign ideas and associations The Anglo- Saxon race is the most aggressive in the world. It is never obliterated 1 and never falls to hold its own. The United States will remain American, whatever the statistics may show in the way of probabilities. Th a racial absorbing and conversion in this country will be done by the native race, not by the foreigners who come here. —.■ MASSACHUSETTS PULLS BACK. We have long been convinced that if the legislatures of the states could get an opportunity to vote on the proposition to amend the federal constitution so as to elect United States senators by direct vote of the people more than a sufficient num ber of them would do so. We are equally confident that no such opportunity will be given. The house of representatives has voted three times, and each time by an increas ing majority to submit an amendment to the constitution for popular senatorial elections and the senate has each time either refused to consider the resolution or rejected it by a decided majority. The "United States senate would consid er It an insult if *it were told that the people do not trust It, and yet it has shown repeatedly and In the most em phatic manner that It does not the peo ple. The senate should not forget that dis trust begets its like. The senate instead of rejecting out and out the plan of popular election of sena tors has resorted this time to the make shift of loading down the house bill with a federal election law which Insures its defeat. An excellent and. we think, a conclus ive proof that the people of all parties in all parts of the country are in favor of amending the constitution so as to have senators elected directly by the people has been given in the declaration of many legislatures in the several general sec tions in favor of that policy. Rarely has such a proposition been rejected -by any legislature to which it was submitted. The Georgia legislature by a large majority of both bouses has declared for it several times. The legislature of Massachusetts has recently shown that it is not in harmony with this prevalent popular demand. Its two senators differ as widely as the polls on several other questions of public policy, but they are as one in their oppo sition to this reform. Their legislature follows their lead and holds up Massachusetts conspicuously as a deterrent of progress. Senators Hoar and Lodge have been en dorsed at home, but they must be aware that they are out of tune with the great majority of the American people on this very important subject. DEMOCRATIC HARMONY. The outlook for the Democratic party has brightened very much in the last few months and is growing brighter every day. On the.other hand, the Republican party was never before so badly divided as it is at present and the prospect of the con solidation of its waring factions seems to diminish steadily. ' This contrast was brought out very strikingly in the proceedings of the house of representatives last Friday. While the Republican members of that body were aftnost evenly divided on the THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1902. Cuban reciprocity bill the Democrats stood practically solid for the measure with the amendment that provides for the abolition of special favors to the sugar trust which congress has enabled to ride the people of this country for years. A very large per cent of tne Republicans joined with the Democrats to defeat the leaders who have been directing the pro gram of the party which controls congress and to overrule the chairman of the com mittee of the whole who had been put tn possession of the gavel to carry out the program agreed upon by the Republican caucus. The Democrats in congress and in the country have grown more tolerant of each other, more in the humor to lay aside their differences on questions that are settled, at least for the present. They are better united than they have been since the silver issue rent the party and caused its defeat in two presidential campaigns and several congressslonal elections. We hear nothing now of "reading out” Democrats and requiring those who differ ed with a majority of the party to take seats on the mourners’ benches. The party could never have been put into victorious form by any such proscriptive policy. For it has been substituted the good sense and honorable plan o‘s forgetting past differ ences and getting together on issues upon which all ’Democrats are practically agreed. The men who were most prominent in refusing to accept the Democratic plat form of 1896 are now recognised aa essen tial to Democratic success next November and in the presidential contest of 1904. Democratic harmony, which, only a lit tle while ago seemed a vain hope, is al ready an accomplished fact. It seems likely that history will repeat itself. Within two years after the Dem ocracy made its blunder of fusing with the Liberal Republican element it return ed to the .straight Democratic faith and captured the house of representatives and in four years elected its candidate for president and secured control of both branches of congress. "The prevalent Democratic conviction now is that the fusion with Populism in 1896 and the repetition of that act in 1900 were the blunders to which the defeats the party has sustained in recent yean must be attributed and, now that the free silver issue is dead, all the signs point to Democratic victory next November. CONTRIBUTED OPINIONS. We have all heard the remark that it takes all sorts of people to make up the world and variety is one of the prime es sentials of the modern newspaper. It is the endeavor of The Journal to en tertain its readers of all classes and with this object in view it opens its columns to a wide range of discussion of all im portant and timely topics. We print in our "Letters From the People” many opinions and suggestions whether we agree with the writers'or not. We have a large corps of regular contributors who address the public frequently through The Journal and always in a forceful manner. They sometimes take positions which we do not indorse and which are even directly antagonistic to the policy of this paper. For Instance, The Journal has given both sides of the local Insurance rate question, though it is firmly convinced that the recent, increase of the residence Insurance rates in this city was unneces sary and unjust. The Journal advocates the establishment and maintenance of an inebriate asylum by the state of Georgia, but it has pub lished many attacks upon that proposi tion. Two of our most gifted and most popu lar contributors often advocate measures which The Journal has editorially con demned and contend against some which The Journal has approved. We refer to Mrs. W. H. Felton and Rev. Sam Jones. We hold them both in very high regard and read their letters with interest even when we differ decided ly with them. To Illustrate, Mrs. Felton is opposed to the public school system of Georgia and assails it at frequent Intervals with the vigor which characterizes whatever she writes. Nevertheless, we consider her po sition on this question so entirely wrong that we should regard its adoption by the state as a very great misfortune. Brother Jones is about as heretic as Mrs. Felton on this subject and we almost des pair of converting him. Both of these able contributors hold and proclaim the opinion that a state pro hibition law would be beneficial to the cause of temperance whereas we believe that the present local option system is far more effective and more in accord with the spirit of our institutions. Brother Jones has a candidate for gov ernor and advocates his election vehe mently. The Journal is no man's organ and in both its editorial and news columns endeavors to treat all three of the can didates for governor with perfect fairness and impartiality. Brother Jones is an apologist of the trusts which The Journal considers one of the crying evils of our time and even a menace to the government itself. Brother Jones thinks that railroad con solidation is a good thing, while we re gard it as a very bad thing so far as the public is concerned. He and Mrs. Felton are so emphatic and persistent in their views on the subjects referred to and on some others that we consider it proper to declare specifically our dissent from some of their opinions which we consider especially objectiona ble. At the same time we accord to them full credit for sincerity of conviction and benevolence of purpose. The Journal does not restrict Mrs. Fel ton and Brother Jones to any particular line of subjects and, of course, would not presume to prescribe the views that they shall present to our readers, though we would refjoice to see their powerful pens enlisted on what we consider the right side of every public question. A REPUBLICAN KNOCKDOWN. By the co-operation of the almost solid Democratic vote and a large Dumber of Republican bolters in the house Fri day the Republican organization was bad ly beaten and the sugar trust which has for several years past had complete con trol of both branches of congress received a very severe blow. The Democratic caucus had decided to support the custom reciprocity bill, not because it was satisfactory, but because it gave some measure of relief to a people upon whom our present tariff provisions bear very oppressively. The reduction of 20 per cent from the Dingley tariff duties which the bill carries is far less than jus tice and considerations of national honor demand, but it is something. But for the support of the Democrats Cuba would have gotten nothing from the house of representatives and the power of the su gar trust would not have been curbed. While the large Republican element which is opposed to any reciprocity with Cuba went down before a force which had to depend absolutely upon Democratic aid for its success, the other Republican element which is absolutely subservient to the sugar trust suffered an even more notable defeat solely because the Demo crats made possible the amendment to tne bill which cuts into the illegitimate profits of the sugar trust. The scene in the house when this amendment was of fered was one of the most exciting that has been witnessed there in years. The chairman of the committee of the whole attempted to make short work of the amendment by ruling it out of order as being not germane to the subject. His ruling was appealed from and for the first time in many years a Republican chairman of the committee of the whole in a Republican house was overruled. This caused such a commotion as is sel dom seen in congress. Had a result like it been accomplished in the British house of commons the cabinet would have re signed at once and a general election would have been ordered. It was a dis tinct and emphatic vote of no confidence. Not only in this most important clash, but in every skirmish the Republicans who were arrayed to carry out the pro gram of their party caucus were routed. The Republican leaders who had hitherto had their own way were run over rough shod and the tariff reform element gained • victory all along the line. .The Republican majority was in a bad shape before Friday’s events. It is now worse divided than tt was before and it is hard to see how ttye bolters can be brought into line on gny question affect ing the government’s fiscal policy toward Cuba. The senate has yet to pass upon the matter and the hold of the sugar trust upon a majority of that body is so strong that the amendment which was placed on the reciprocity bill Friday will probab ly be taken off. The sugar trust is confi dent that when the bill reaches the sen ate that it will get the knife. But its emasculation there will arouse p degree of popular indignation and so widen the breach that already exists In the Repub lican ranks that the cause of real reform, will be greatly strengthened. MEMORIAL DAY. It is possible that the 26th of April, which comes a week from today, will be observed this year as Confederate Me morial Day for the last time. Not that there is the slightest prospect that the beautiful and patriotic custom of decorating the graves of the Confeder ate dead will ever fall into disuse. Me morial Day is observed now as generally and with quite as much enthusiasm as it was twenty years ago. But the proposition to establish one an niversary of this character for the entire south is gaining favor so fast that we shall not be surprised to see it adopted by the United Confederate Veterans’ as sociation at its meeting next week. Four different days have been adopted for this holy service. There was no con cert of action among the states which determined to set apart a day for this purpose, and hence it was natural that this diversity should have occurred. The Ladles’ Confederate Memorial as sociation of New Orleans originated a few months ago the movement to set apart June 3, the birthday of Jefferson Davis as the general Memorial Day. The idea was taken up at once and has met with increasing favor. A number of veterans’ organizations have declared for this prop osition. It is to be formally presented to the Confederate reunion at Dallas, and to the United Daughters of the Confederacy at their next meeting. If both of these or ganizations approve it, as it seems likely that they will, all the southern states will after this year observe the blrthcfay of President Davis as the day on which to especially honor both his memory and that of the heroes of the Confederate army. THE CHINESE MOVING OUT. The senate has rejected the Chinese ex clusion bill which was submitted to it by the committee and passed the substitute which is by no means so extreme a meas ure as the original. The main difference between this bill and the present law is that it extends the Chinese exclusion to the insular possessions of the United States. The idea that our country will be overrun by Chinese immigration unless some more drastic law for their exclusion shall be enacted is not justified by a rea sonable deduction from what has hap pened in the last fifteen years. The Geary law has proved far more ef fective than it was first thought it would be and there is no good reason for car rying our policy of Chinese exclusion be yond the point to which that act goes, ex cept to appy it to the newly-acquired ter ritory of the United States. Not only has the number of Chinese in this country been prevented from in creasing, but it has actually dimin ished very materially since the Geary law was put upon the statute books twelve years ago. At that time there were 107,488 in the United States. In 1900 their number had shrunk to 89,863. California is the state to which the Chi nese problem is most important and the present exclusion act has certainly been very effective there. In 1890 the number of Chinese in California was 72,472. In stead of Increasing since that time the number has fallen off so greatly that by 1900 it had decreased to 45,753. The Chi nese population has fallen off 16 per cent for the entire country and 36 per cent for California since 1890. STILL MORE PENSIONS. A bill has been passed by congress and signed by the president which applies army retiring laws and pay to the officers of the revenue cutter service. This bill establishes the first civil pen sion list in the United States. Its passage had been urged for several years. The officers of the revenue cutter service are undoubtedly efficient and faithful but their retirement for age or physical dis qualification with three-fourths pay will constitute a preference and precedent to which other classes of government em ployes, equally worthy and faithful, may point when asking for similar generous treatment. The Marine hospital, weather bureau, railway, postal, and life-saving services t may claim public consideration on grounds no less valid and convincing than those which served to convince con gress and the executive that a civil pen sion list should be made a unique feature of the revenue cutter division of the treas ury department. We already lead all other nations in the matter of pensions, paying $150,000,000 a year for military pensions, an amount which makes our army cost more than any other, though it is much smaller than that of any other great country. The bill to which we have referred will add a large sum to the already enormous pen sion expenditures and the fact that Pen sion Commissioner Evans has just been forced from office because he insisted up on a strict construction of our pension laws and rules indicates a growing spirit of recklessness in the granting of pen sions.. x . t DAILY CHAT WITH ♦ ♦ GEORGIA EDITORS, t Macon Telegraph: A suspicion is getting abroad that “tn his imagination" Mr. Guerry now thinks that he is running not against the editor of The Savannah News, but against The Telegraph for governor. Tifton Gazette: Mr. Estill may not be elected governor of Georgia, but the open and manly canvass he is making and the conservative con duct of his paper. The Savannah Morning News, has won the applause and approbation of the entire state. Meldrim Guidon: This paper is not a sup porter of Mr. Guerry, but it does not hesitate to say that the recent attack made upon him by the Telegraph has done more to help him than anything which has occurred in the cam paign. Albany Herald: When Mr. Stevens took charge of the state agricultural department it had run down until the farmers of the state took no interest in it. and there was talk of abolishing It. We hear no such talk as that now and the department is in close touch with the farmers. Mr. Stevens' administration has been not only encouraging, but helpful to the farmers on practical lines, and they feel an in terest in the department now that no former administration has ever inspired. Brunswick News: It is persistently rumored that the great Armour Packing house is to erect a large cold storage warehouse in Bruns wick at an early date and make this city a distributing point for its Florid* and south Georgia territories. Elberton Star: Mr. Terrell has made an en viable record as attorney general. He is thor oughly informed as to the needs of the state and qualified in every way to make an ideal governor, and should he be elected (and The Star thinks he will), Georgia will have a governor of whom she may justly be proud. Dahlonega Nugget: Some of our correspon dents have been getting the candidates in the wrong pew religiously speaking. Mr. Estill be longs to the Presbyterian church, Mr. Guerry is a Methodist and Mr. Terrell is a Baptist. Macon News: It is highly probable that Hon. L. J. Kilburn, of Macon, will be the next president of the State Feneration of Labor. He is now the president of the Macon federation, but his popularity extends throughout the state and he is being prominently mentioned for the head of the order in the state. Savannah Morning News: The child labor question is being discussed in all its phases by various interested parties, but how about the child idleness question? “Child labor.” says a contemporary, “is not as bad as child idleness.” It has reference to the children who are permitted to run at will in the streets, to loaf around corners at night, to gather in gangs in vacant lots and smoke cigarettes, shoot craps and become initiated into the various vices. Child idleness Is no doubt responsible for a far greater number of ills and evils than can be traced to child labor, as undesirable as that is. Ocilla Dispatch: Private Estill was faithful to his country in war, and ha has been faith ful in peace. He is a sound business man and his record has no flaws in it. Private John H. Estill would make one of the best governors Georgia has ever had and he's south Georgia’s candidate. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. The man may kiss and tell, but the girl never will. The male’s first love at six is the cook and his last at sixty. Women can do more for men by amusing them than praying for them. Faith cure is the best remedy to get rid of something you haven’t got. It isn't what people don’t say, but what they do say, that is always the mistake. One way to get a girl to love you is to make her think some other girl does. There are very few people in this world smart enough to know how not to be too smart. Whether an evening gown is fashionable de pends on how much neck and sleeves it hasn't got. It is queer that nobody ever learns to for give the sins of others by committing them himself. All a man has to do to make a woman love him Is to make her happier than any other man can. To judge by a widow’s expression of in nocence you would think she had never seen * man before. Blessed is the peacemaker, but more blessed the woman who keeps the peace by holding her tongue. The girl with black eyes and brown hair can be accounted for; it is the girl with black hair and blonde eyes that puzzles one. It's a good deal harder to break an old bachelor to the matrimonial harness, but when he is broken he is the tamest of them all. The only thing in the world more horrible than an old fat woman fondling a small, sickly dog is the same old woman fondling a young husband. When there is no hesitation about calling what carries a man his legs why should there be any in calling what carries a woman the same thing? No woman can ever be made to understand why her husband snorts so savagely when she wakes him up two hours after midnight to ask him if he thinks it will do any harm to the baby to sleep so soundly. A woman’s idea of being economical about clothes is to buy a dress for SIOO and when she finds she doesn't like it sell it for SSO and buy another for $l5O. To save your life you can’t make her see that the second one, count ing what she got for the other one, cost her any more than the first. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago News. Vanity is the daughter of selfishness. Hypocrites pray cream and live skim milk. Some men are so stingy they won’t even give advice. A woman’s idea of refinement is to be tall and thin. Politeness is the zero mark of love’s ther mometer. Unrequited love soon acquire a job lot of wrinkles. It’s always advisable for a poor liar to tell the truth. The new woman always departs when the new baby arrives. Every woman would live long, but no woman would grow old. . Laziness too often succeeds in getting a stran gle hold on ability. Even in cash transactions the pocketbook is taken out in trade. Prophets are often without honor, but seldom without competition. No mother is ever satisfied with the second prize at a baby show. Some men are known by the company they are unable to get into. A man imagines his bride an angel until she asks him for money. The farmer can give you spades—even if he has no cards to hand out. It matters not what your ancestors were—it is what you are that counts. Woman's idea of worldly wisdom is to know the fallings of her neighbors. When one man meets another that he is said to look like he usually swears. A lot of time is wasted by clocks that run too fast and by fast young men. The uses of adversity may be sweet, but it is apt to sour a man's disposition. At the age of sixteen a girl begins to make * specialty of discovering affinities. Some wives are so averse to mending that they won't even try to patch up a quarrel. The good business man and the business man who is good are not necessarily synonymous. If silence is golden the woman who is deaf and dumb must be twenty-four carats fine. Many a would-be jolly good fellow might be really so if he would only stop telling jokes. The more money a man has the harder it is for him to convince the world that he is a fool. • The patience of the average man doesn't get a chance to rest until after he has acquired a monument. It sometimes happens that a domestic ex plosion is the result of a lot of theories getting into man's head. Before being taught how to shoot it might be well for the young idea to learn to know when it is loaded. Gov. Candler, of Georgia, in speaking of a possible Southern railway merger, says that while railroad combinations are very powerful, they cannot cope with the state of Georgia. In view of what has been accomplished heretofore by lobby lobsters and legislative agents, Gov. Cand ler is certainly a courageous optimist.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The P.-D. should not be too exacting; it evidently fails to take into consideration the fact that the governor felt that he really ought to say something. The new pension commissioner has an nounced his policy in the following lan guage: “I believe that the man who is en titled to a pension ought to have it.” Now let $e pension sharks sit down and think it oter for awhile. THE LONG RANGE BOVER, THE LOLLYPALOOZER \ AND THE LINE OF TALK x. BY GEORGE ADE. (Copyright, 1902, by Robert Howard Russell.) NE evening while at as Dram atic Entertain ment consisting of 22 o Coon Songs, a Rising Young Lawyer looked across the Par quette and nearly blinded him self. He thought he had seen some 24-caret Tizums when he attended College and hung around the Fem Sem, but the Girl that he now beheld was in a class by herself. She made • Cleopatra look like Martha the Sewing Girl. And Venus aris ing from the Sea was a squizzly old Soap Advertisement in three elementary Colors. The fair Unknown had a pair of Incandescent Headlights that beat the Anna Held Litho graphs; a Complexion like the Sunset Blush on a Snow-Bank, - and enough Hair rising above her to fit out two Girls of her size. She was somewhat attired in a Whipped-Cream delicates sen Delirium with mauve-col ored Galluses. When she fanned herself it could be seen that she had put some Jeweler out of the Business. It is very seldom that one sees anything of that kind ex cept in the back part of a Maga zine. Os course, she did not know that the Opera Glasses were be ing pointed at her, even by those who sat two Rows in front. If she had known that it would have annoyed her a lot. It always annoys a Young Woman who has put on $1,200 worth of Hurrah Clothes to have a lot of Strange Men do the Waldorf-Astoria Inspec tion. The only thing that an noyi her more than that is to have these same Goodyear Spe cialists overlook her entirely. When some 47 would-be Lady-Stealers are giving a Cir cus Maiden the Qrand Stand Eye, she has to be in fine Con dition if she can sit through it and not let on. The Unknown was still a Bud and yet she was thoroughly up in the Part. She was unconscious of her own Hit, and she was determined to keep on being unconscious. Among the other Things she wore that Evening was a feath erweight Escort who had Percy written all over him. The Men were wondering why any Peach erette with a Kentucky Shape, who could take her Pick of all Mankind, should want to carry such a sad Specimen of Excess Baggage. He was one of these 90-pound Wrap-Holders who showed his Teeth when he was pleased. He belonged out at Mother’s Place in the Country, feeding the White Rabbits. Every Man who saw him snug gling up to the Unknown hoped that he would fall down and break his Leg. The Rising Young Attorney caromed on both sides of the Aisle when he went out for he was still looking at the Dream. He hid behind a Bill-Board and saw her come out with the Hu man Weasel. In her Opera Cloak she certainly was very easy to look at. On his way to the Boarding House he walked two Blocks past the Place. The Unknown had him trancified. He imag ined himself riding with her in a Golden Automobile through a Grove of Violets. There was a Music Box Attachment under the Seat and she was fighting to hold his Hand. He came to just in time to save himself from walking into the River. This Attorney was an emo tionable Proposition. He had a high John C. Calhoun Fore head and the yearning Look of a Genius who would like to trade a College Education for a Meal-Ticket. From the Mo ment when the Goddess flashed across his Pathway, he was Stung in eight different Places. All during Business Hours he looked off into Space without seeing anything in Particular and he was thinking of Her. Xo Clients came stamping in to pull him out of his Rev erie and slip him a few Retain ers. He was a good Union Lov er and put in his full 8 hours per, working up Day-Dreams. He called her a good many Names that would have been New ones on her. • One Day he saw her on the Other side of the Street. It made him google-eyed and he walked off the Curb. Another time she zipped past him on a Trolley. Every time he spotted her, she looked at least 40 per cent, better than the time be fore. “I’m for her,” he told him self. Once he saw her coming out of a Department Store and she made the others look like the odds and ends of a Rummage Sale. He heard her Rippling Laugh and there was enough Music in it to carry a whole Season of Grand Opera. A Friend who was with him said that her name was Clarice. So he told his Friend: “Any time that you read about Clarice be ing engaged, start in to drag the River.” • , - When he heard that she had gone to a Summer Hotel, he trailed her and continued his long-distance Worship. He was afraid to get too near for fear that he would curl up and have a Spasm. Who was he, a Legal Worm, that he should dare to crave a Word from those Rosebud Lips or hope for a melting Glance from those star-lit Lamps ? As for executing a Clutch and swinging into the Slow and Dreamy, that seemed only a vague and far-away Hope of Paradise, and it was a Sin to waste time on it. ’ The best he could hope for was to send her a Box of long stemmed Roses and then go and let a Train run over him and maybe she would condescend to attend the Funeral. That, or else he could save her life in a Runaway and die with his Head in her Lap. All he wanted was a Romantic Finish that would leave a Sad, sweet Memory be hind. He wanted a Guarantee that she would think of him a couple of times and he would be satisfied to play Village Dog and die any kind of a Death. While in this desperate Frame of Mind, he met Mr. Buzzer, the moving Grapho phone and He-Vampire, some times known as the Burned Edge of the Crust of Society. When the unspeakable Buzzer said that he knew Clarice and stood Aces and Eights, the soulful "Attorney wanted to throttle him for he could not believe that a real Diana would trifle with a blue Cat-Fish. However, he accepted the Opportunity to hold Converse with the Star of his Soul. Buz zer led him around the long Veranda and at last he stood in that radiant Presence. “Sis, I want you to know a Friend of mine,” said the well known Safe Blower and Social Outcast known as Buzzer. He stood enthralled for at least one-twentieth of a Second. Then Clarice got under way. “Oh Crickets! I seen you at the The-ayter one Night,” she said. “I was there with Ollie Pozozzle of Minneapolis. Me and him came out just behind you. Say, wuzn’t that a Grand Show? I’m just crazy about that ‘Mamie, Slamie, Aint it a shamie?’ When did you land here? Huh? Oh sure! This •is a small Joint all right, but they stick you for everything. Gee! but I’m glad Mr. Buzzer come out. He’s awful good Company. I’m going out ridin* tonight with He and a Friend of his. Come along! I’ll stake you to a Girl.” When they found the Senti mental Attorney in the Woods an hour later, he was barking like a Sea-Lion and butting his Head against the Trees. MORAL: Don’t go round Cutting In and then you won’t know any different. POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. Olga Nothersole !» again in Paris at th« Ely fee Palace hotel. She is on her way to Rome. The rumor comes from the Vatican that the pope thinks of obtaining an automobile for use next year. Mr. Darcy, an Australian millionaire, has ob tained a concession for the working of the oil belt in the south and southwest of Persia. Senator Tillman is the only senator who has recorded in his autobiographical sketch in the congressional directory that he was a "farmer” before coming to the senate. Germany's oldest army veteran has just celebrated’ his 100th birthday at his home near Osnabruck. He is a master builder named Wellmayer. and joined the Thirteenth (West phalian) infantry regiment in 1822. While climbing in search of gulls’ nests on the cliffs between Portreath and Porthtowan, Cornwall, recently Rex Paley, a young mining student residing at Redduth, England, fell from a height of some 300 feet and was killed on the rocks below. The shah of Persia has had built for him the smallest genuine graphophone in the world. It is on exhibition in Baltimore. The company has now under construction for his imperial majesty what will be the largest gramaphone is the world, which will require over month in the building. •It is reported that the ameer of Afghanistan, having appointed a council to assist him in the administration of the country. Bib! Hallma, Umar Khan's mother, because she was not consulted, requested him to dismiss it. This the ameer refused to do with the result that ths plotting and counterplotting have increased more than ever. Lord Strathcona, the High Commissioner of Cana, announces that specially conducted par ties (in charge of representatives of the Cana dian government) will start from Liverpool and Glasgow during this month. Those who form these parties will receive personal attention from the government agents, whose duty it will be to see that the passengers are well looked after on the voyage, and, on their arrival la Canada, to assist In any way they property can. A Tribute to Major Grandy. Charlotte News and Observer. The death of Major Luther B. Grandy in the Philippines will be learned with deep regret in North Carolina. He was a native of Oxford, graduated with honor at the university, and . had won a high position in his profession in Atlanta. He was a high-minded, courteous, scholarly gentleman of the best North Car olina type. His professional skill had brought comfort and ease to many suffering soldiers In the Philippines. He never spared himself, but gave his life in a far off land to the treatment of American troops. There is deep pathos in the sacrifice of his promising life la its youag manhood.
