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Newspaper Page Text4 The Semi-Weekly Journal Entered at th* Atlanta Postoffire as Mall Mat ter ot the Second Claaa. The Sa«il-W«ekly Journal la publish ed nn Mondays and Thursdays, and ■Bailed In time tor all the twtee-a week etar route mails. It contains the Nevi from all parts tt the world Wm<M over a Special leased wire into The Journal office It has a staff of OUaauleha- 1 contributors, with strong Agri— ltaral. Veterinary. Juvenile. Homa Book and other departments of special rains to the homo and farm. Agents wanted tn every community tn the South Remittances may be made by poot offlce money order express money or der. registered letter or check Persons who send postage stamps In paymeat tor subecripttons are regueet ed to send thoob of the 1-cent denomi nation. Amounts larger than 50 cents postofSce order, express order, check or registered maiL Subscribers who wish their papers Changed should give both the old and the new poetofltoe address. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC- The only traveling representatives of The Journal are C J. O'Farrell and J. A. Bryan. Any other who represents him self as connecetd with The Journal as a trav»Bng agent la a fraud, and we will bo responsible only for money paid to the above named representatives. THURSDAY. JUNE 5. I*2. win It be Dr. Clemens or Dr. Mark Twain? • Now let the Boers share up. and get in the game. But the Boers were not whipped—simply overpowered. Mr. Kruger was at least right about one thing—the cost., A Savannah election to just like a race riot—only more so. The Prussian government ought to take something for its diet. It begins to look like they can't even settle a coal strike without Morgan. Now that the Boer war to ended horses may again become cheap enough to eat. Another way to solve all this trouble would be to elect an anti-trust congress. Maybe Candidate Guerry to one of those men who had rather be right than gov ernor. Ohio, at least, still appears to think there to nothing at all the mattey with Haans. Volcanoes are like mules in one respect —you can't always tell when they are really asleep. We are not going to feel entirely safe until Web Davis underwrites that Boer peace treaty. The idea that we needed a farmer gov ernor seems to have been effectually lost tn the shuffle. That was just like New York to ring in a German band for the musical part of her French celebration. Just as we suspected, a map showing Georgia’s volcanoes locates one about a mile north of Macon. What probably aggravates Lewis Nixon most to the fact that the "smile is still on the face of the Tiger.” So it was a newspaper man. and no scientific liar, who was the first to reach the crater of Mont Peiee. President Palma’s salary as president of Cuba is 336.000 a year. And It’s cheap enough for that sort of work. James Burns, for 16 years a New York ward detective, has just died leaving an estate of *>00,600. James Bums. Governor Jeff Davis, of Arksnsas, is not the first man who has found out that politics and religion wont mix. Americans have introduced the pianola into Germany. And was it for this that Kaiser Bill sent us Prince Henry*? Disquieting rumors continue to reach us from Macon to the effect that Montg Joe Hall is about to consume himself. There is at least one consolation about the present price of beef; it Increases one’s confidence in the "all pork sausage.” If things keep on going this way we ■nay yet have to adopt beef and Panama hats as our double standard of value. Western bakers are forming a combine. to fight the biscuit trust. That’s right; we don't need a biscuit trust, anyway. Evidently the coal trust is unwilling to arbitrate until it has disposed of its sur plus taock at the present advanced prices. It there are any anti-Hanna Republi cans they are evidently wise to the theory that discretion to the better part of valor. It may be all right for the young king of Spain to substitute horse races for bull fights so long as he doesn’t try to play them. It to enough to make the Union dead turn over in their graves when a political stump speech is substituted for a Me morial day address. No doubt Candidate Guerry feels that there are preachers in Georgia who are guilty of pernicious inactivity In the pres ent gubernatorial race. Nevertheless, there are times when we are forced to look with favor upon the di vorce court. There’s Mrs. Lea.ee and Mrs. Nation, for instance. The United States, a governnJent found ed on the “consent of the governed” theo ry. Is now the only nation on earth en gaged in a war of conquest. Minister Wu says he accepted it as the highest sort of compliment when some one mistook him for a girl. But we wonder how the girl took it. We are gryitly relieved to learn that the University of Missouri proposes to make Mark Twain a doctor of laws in stead of a doctor of divinity. However, it should be borne in mind that the Filipinos won’t let us be cour teous and humane while subjugating them—even if we wanted to. After listening to what the various can didates say of each other one can't help I wondering why it to the worst men In Georgia always run for governor. M. Conquelin, the French comedian, was destined originally to follow the trade of p baker. But he took to the stage, prob because he needed more dough. ■*>* of Fprepaugh’s big elephants killed • man the other day for poking an empty beer glass st him. Don’t blame the ele phant at all. It was a gratuitous insult. Correspondent Curtis, who is exploring the Holy Land, has also succeeded in making the important discovery that the river Jordan has not changed Its course. We take it for granted that the corres pondents have at least found a new dis ease for Count Tolstoi. His typhoid fever ought to have run its course by this time. It to probably safe to assume that the Thompson party of northern congressmen know more about the southern negro now than they ever did before. But will they admit it? END OF THE BOER WAR. The announcement that the Boers have at last surrendered is received with little surprise. , This result has been foreseen as inevit able ever since the war began, and for several weeks negotiations as to the con ditions of peace have been going on. The terms that were finally agreed upon are more liberal than it was generally ex pected that Great Britain would grant, much more liberal than the British cabinet is said to have announced as its ultima tum more than a year ago and again at a more recent date. It appears that the unconditional sur render, which was long so emphatically demanded by Premier Salisbury and Lord Roberts, supreme military commander of British forces in South Africa, was not in sisted upon at the last. The other point upon which the Boers made theirwnost stubborn stand was that they would never agree to the pro miscuous banishment of their South Afri can neighbors in South Africa who joined in the struggle for independence. It was not proposed by Great Britain to impose these harsh terms on the Boers or the Free Staters, but upon those Brit ish subjects who rebelled and helped the Boers. It does not seem likely that there will be many of the participants in the war ban ished, or punished tn any other way. Great Britain to anxious to have peace restored as early and as completely as possible, and will probably pursue a placatory policy. One of the most creditable concessions granted by Great Britain is the lean to the Boers of a large sum, believed to be about >50,000,000, which will enable them to rebuild their ruined homes and do much toward restocking their desolated farms. This loan to to be made on such ehsy terms that its recipients can readily comply with them. Without some such assistance a large proportion of these patriotic people would have found the problem of self-sup port very hard. ' The war which has thus ended has been one of the most remarkable in history. The prediction of President Kruger that Great Britain could subjugate the Boers only at a cost of blood and treasure that would astound humanity was verified even more fully, perhaps, than he himself ex pected. The direct expenditure of money by Great Britain on account of this con flict exceeded a billion dollars. The more terrible loss was ttjt death in battle and in hospitals of more than 25,000 British sol diers and the wounding of more than twice as many more, the majority of whom will probably be Invalided for life. The Boers never had any very great fi nancial resources to draw upon. They could not have raised more than 50,000 men to contend with the force of nearly half a million who were enlisted by Great Brit ain, first and last, for this war. The Boer loss of life was heavy, of course, but not comparable with that which they inflicted upon their enemies. We doubt if in all the annals of war so much damage was ever wrqught by a numerically small army upon an over whelmingly larger one. The two republics who lose their national existence and pass under the dominion of Great Britain as the result of this conflict extended over a territory remarkably rich in natural resources and capable of vast development. 'With a just and liberal government they will repair the ravages of war in a few years and ultimately become one of the richest regions of the CHAFFEE’S STERN PROTEBT. General Chaffee has won the admiration of the country to an even higher degree than he possessed it before by the manner in which he has treated the action of the courtmartlal which acquitted Major Wal ler and Lieutenant Day. General Chaffee calls attention to the exceptional circumstances under which the concentration order’ of General Bell was issued. It was a severe measure, It is true, but a necessary one under the circumstances. Major Wallen was undoubtedly prostrate With fever and temporarily deranged when he ordered the promiscuous shoot ing of the natives. If the fact that this was his conditio? had not been establish ed he should. General Chaffee says, have been convicted of murder and punished for that crime. While Major Waller was justly acquitted of the charge of murder, he should have been found guilty of the minor offenses in the bill of Indictment. But he comes to consider the case of Lieutenant Day General Chaffee la very emphatic. Day was acquitted be cause he obeyed the order of his superior officer. It to true that the subordinate who dis obeys an order of his superior doea so at his peril, but General Chaffee declares that Lieutenant Day should have refused to obey Major Waller's command to shoot down the natives since he was cer tainly aware of Major Waller’s physical and mental condition. "Above and beyond all personal consideration," says the gen eral. "officers must guard the name and honor of the country. Had Lieutenant Dv been actuated by such considerations, he probably would have prevented one of the most regrettable incidents in the an nals of the military service of the United States. The junior officers in the army must take these words to heart and un derstand that there are occasions when obedience to orders will be a crime.” This is one of the noblest statements ever put on record by any military com mander. "The name and honor of the country” are sacred and the subordin ate officer who follows out a command of a delirious and irresponsible su perior, knowing what the condition of the latter is, should be punished. CHURCH AND STAGE. The church club 1s coming to be quite a feature of social life. We expect to see the number of these institutions increase very largely. The reasons for theif existence are pat ent and these clubs have been found a Source of delight and improvement wherever they have been organised. One of the most famous organisations of this kind to The Churchman's club of Providence, Rhode Island. All the Pro testant Episcopal ministers of the com munity, many of the laymen of that church and a large number of per sons who do not belong to that church are members of this club. At every regular monthly meeting some subject of timely Interest is discussed. There are two lead ing speakers who present their views somewhat at length and then come a number of voluntary speeches of flve min utes each. These discussions are said to be remark ably bright and entertaining. At the meeting last week the subject was “The Church and the Stage.” The principal speakers were Rev. Wal ter Bently, who to secretary of the Na tional Actors* Alliance of America, and the actor, Joseph Jefferson. The much beloved veteran of the stage THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902. had a very enthusiastic reception from the large and elegant audience. He began by saying, "I have heard ■many hard things said In the pulpit about the stage. I am an actor and am proud of my profession. Therefore, I think that these strictures are unjust, not to say cruel. You men of the church have proved this evening that you are not afraid to associate with me and I want to assure you that I am not ashamed to associate with you.” Later Mr. Jefferson uttered this noble sentiment: “I do think that anything that would bring together two parties who have been antagonistic for years would be a matter for congratulation. An actor is a human bbing, and there are good and bad in the profession, as in anything else. I know of many aators w?o believe in the church and go to It, and anything that will bring the church and the stage In closer rela tion will have my hearty support.” This remark was heartily applauded by the preachers present. The Churchman s club to a liberalising influence. It is bringing good people closer together and thereby accomplishing great good. Let us have more such clubs. A~RUSBIAN outrage. The house of representatives should adopt without delay the resolution intro duced by Congressman Goldfogle, of New York, calling for an inquiry into the out rageous action of Russia in forbidding Jewish cittoens of the United States to enter the exar’s domains. The victims of this assertion of Russian tyranny resent it not as Jews, but as American cittoens. They rest their case upon article 1 of the treaty of 1832 between Russia and the United States, which reads as follows; “There shall be between the territories of the high contracting parties a reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation. The inhabitants of their respective states shall mutually have liberty to enter the ports, places and rivers of the territories of each party wherever foreign commerce is per mitted. They shall be at liberty to sojourn and reside in all parts whatsoever in said territories, in order to attend to their af fairs.” A leading Jewish citizen of New York makes the following clear and forceful statement of the justice of the demand that our government shall protect its cit toens of the Hebrew' race: "No discrimination was made against Hebrews or Baptists or agnostics. The United States couldn’t constitutionally make a treaty that provided for a dis crimination against any religious faith. Yet the Russian government, it is report ed, has lately refused to allow a distin guished American rabbi and also an Amer ican Jewess, hastening to the deathbed of her father, entrance to Russian territory. "The case seems a clear one as a basis for complaint to the czar's government. It is true that the Jews are not wanted in Russia; and it is also true, religion aside, that owing to their great superiority in trade and finance over the native Rus sians, they have been excluded for rea sons not unlike those which have con trolled the action of our own country in excluding the Chinese. But American treaty rights to domicile in Russia remain unimpaired, so that in a legal sense an official protest against Russia's discrimin ation against our Hebrew citizens could not be Successfully attacked It is worth while, however, to compare Russia's ex clusion of American Jews with the ex clusion of Chinese from this country. Up to a certain point the comparison is de cidedly embarrassing.” • We believe that our state department will manage this matter successfully. The relations between the United States and Russia have been uniformly friendly, even cordial. There has never been any clash between the two governments. We believe that the czar will realize that he cannot maintain .the position he has taken and will gracefully recede from it. SOME POSSIBLE BENEFITS. While we are unalterably opposed to trusts and combines and hope to see them broken up we hop 6 to see the south get whatever incidental benefits may be pos sible under conditions which have been imposed tfpon us by the great business combinations. • The price of steel is dictated by the trust controlling it. The head of the con cern is in New York and orders are Is sued from there. While this is wrong in policy and these great monsters will be eventually crushed, yet there are no signs of their early destruction yet ap parent. Does the south get any compensation from these Combinations? We think some benefit accrues in the advance of the prices of iron to some localities in this section. , * Portions of Alabama and Georgia pro duce iron ore and have iron industries and their plain duty is to get all possible benefit while the combination rules. The recent and startling advance in the price of beef, pork and mutton is quite oppres sive to consumers and we commend every effort to break the efforts of the beef com bine. But while the heads of this trust are holding high, carnival, Georgia and other southern states should get some benefit. The south is not altogether a cotton-producing country. Mahy of our farmers raise cattle. Hon. Pope Brown stated to the writer a few days ago that he had hundreds of cattle and fine pastures. He will be bene fited by being able to get the advanced price for his surplus meat. He to one of many who are devoting at tention to cattle raising. There is a great Increase in the cattle industry of the state. Our people should know that the Increase in population in the United states is greater than the increase in our pro ducing capacity. Everything in the food line to finding ready prices, and there is great encouragement for the producer. Beef, pork, mutton, chickens, eggs and butter all bring good prices and the far mer who grows a surplus of these is reaping the harvest. Truck farms are profitable, potatoes, tomatoes, melons, etc., all bNng good prices and find ready sale. The peach crop is moderately good and there is prospect of good prices. Our advice to our farmers is that they do not grumble nor complain but “get in the procession” and reap the good results which thrift and good judgment will insure to them. THE VERMONT LIQUOR QUESTION. The prohibition issue has popped up in Vermont in very lively form. It is the paramount topic in the present campaign in that state, having been made so by the proposition to substitute license for prohibition. Vermont, like Maine, has prohibited the sale of all intoxicating drinks for a long time past. And like Maine, Vermont has failed to suppress the liquor traffic. Percival W. Clement, who is running for governor of Vermont on a platform which demands the repeal of the present prohibition law has made some startling revelations concerning the extent to which the liquor traffic is being carried on in that state. Mr. Clement has already carried a number of cities and is quite positive that he wiu be the Republican nominee. A few days ago he won by a large majority the primary in Montpelier, , the capital. Brattleboro and three or four other cit ies fell into the Clement column last week. Mr. McCullough, the prohibition candi date, is a very popular man and his sup porters ridicule the idea that he is in the slightest danger of defeat. . The country districts in Vermont, as in are very strong for prohibition and still insist that it is a preferable pol icy to license. d- / Maine has had several prohibition elec-- tions in recent years all of which have been carried by heavy anti-license ma jorities. A like result may be looked for in Vermont, though the canvass is the most heated that has been known in that state for many years. GEORGIA’S OLD CAPITAL. The glory of old Milledgeville was sup posed to have passed away when the state capitol was removed to Atlanta, But not so. That brave people have con tinued to grow and prosper. A recent visit to this, one of the oldest of Georgia's cities, convinced us that it is more prosperous than it ever was in “the good old times.” Every building formerly used for state purposes is now occupied by an educational institution. Large addi tions and improvements have been made to these structures and the schools of Milledgeville are thriving wonderfully. The Military and Agricultural college and the Georgia Normal school are filled to their capacity. Hundreds of boys and girls from other portions of the state at tend these colleges and being in Milledge vlll nine to ten months every year are worth more to the city than the annual session of the legislature which lasted only fifty days. ■ These schools are not only flourishing, but business in all departments is good. The merchants and professional men of the city seem prosperous and happy. Mil ledgeville has got good out of what seemed disaster. President Reynolds, of the military col lege, and President Chappell, of the Girls' Normal college, are doing magnificent work. They are highly honored and de servedly appreciated as their institutions on the basis of the prosperity of Georgia’s old capital. PENITENTIARY REFORM. Louisiana several years ago abolished the penitentiary lease system and a very marked improvement is evident already In the condition of the cqnvlcts. During the eight previous years, under the lease system, the yearly mortality was 93.9 per thousand, or nearly 10 per cent—an excessively high rate. Under state con trol and the present improved methods of treating the convicts the death rate has been cut down nearly two-thirds, until it is now close to the normal. Last year the death rate among Louisi ana convicts was but a little more than 33 to the thousand, a remarkably low rate. The new system is admitted by every body to be a great improvement on the old in all respects. Several other southern states have insti tuted very creditable reforms in their pen itentiary systems, Mississippi among the number. The Georgia penitentiary is an other one that has. improved notably Prison reform throughout the country is advancing, the care of convicts becoming more humane and more efficient also. TWO SPEECHES. A very marked contrast was presented by the address of President Roosevelt at Arlington National cemetery and that of ex-Goverfior Jones, of Alabama, at the tomb of General Grant last Friday. In the one there was much to arouse ill feel ing and resentment, much to promote sec tional prejudice; the other was entirely generous and nobly national. The spirit of the one was conducive to contention, that of the other to fraternity. / President Roosevelt displayed a narrow ness very unlike the sentiments which per meated and beautified his recent address at Charleston and some of his other pub lic utterances. He reverted to the lower plane on which he placed himself some months ago when he told the members of a Grand Army post that they fought anarchy when they battled with the Confederate soldiers. President McKinley would never have made such a speech. He endeared himself to all sections of the country by pleading for fraternity and mutual forgiveness of all pastjpectional differences. President Roosevelt’s Decoration day ad dress had a tendency to reawaken passions which it should be the endeavor of every citizen, north and south, to allay entirely and forever. Ex-Governor Jones, a Confederate vet eran, paid an eloquent tribute to the great leader of the Union armies and invoked the continuance and completion of the reign of peace and good will throughout the republic. It is not surprising that the president’s speech has called forth expressions of re gret and protest from southern men and that some of the leading northern newspa pers have criticised it severely. It has not helped his reputation as a statesman and has diminished his influ ence for good to the country. On account of his position as the head of the government and the possibility that he could do more than any other man to bring the north and the south still closer together, this assertion of sectionalism must be regarded as exceedingly deplor able. We are proud of the record which ex- Governor Jones, a representative southern man, made as a broad-minded patriot on the very day when President Roosevelt exhibited the least attractive side of his character. i As further evidence of the value of beef on the hoof, western desperadoes have ta ken to holding up cattle trains, instead of express trains. A New York woman buried her pet cat in a white satin coffin the other day. Her devotion might even have carried her to the extent of feeding the animal on beef had he lived. / A Chicago paper has started the query, “Does it Pay to be Famous?” That would seem to depend entirely upon whether you are a newspaper man or a prize fighter. No better tribute could be paid to the south than that every party of northern ers who visit it come* back with glowing reports of its prosperity, says the New York World. From this Bistance it looks as if Sa t gkiah might be able to pull off an elec-, tlw with less disorder and fewer casual ties if they would merely take the precau tion to lock up tfie police. Judge Sheffield in his charge to the grand jury of Terrell county, noting the dearth of indictments for gambling, com plained that poker seemed to be a lost art in that community. The judge forgets. Poker was ever considered more of a trade than an art in Dawson. Sen* Bacon as a Cook Saturday Evening Post. United States Senator Augustus O. Ba con, of Georgia, who has been taking a very prominent part in senate debates, is one of the most dignified members of that assemmy. He never seeks in his speech es to provoke the mirth of his colleagues. His gravity is not studied, but natural. “Even jn his social moments he rarely indulges in humor,” said Congressman John W. Maddox, of the same state, who was speaking admiringly of the senator's ability in statesmanship. “Senator Bacon is fond of hunting and Ashing,” continued Mr. Maddox, “and last year I had the pleasure of accompanying him on an out ing. The senator would listen to funny stories, but only once did he venture to tell one himself. That one, however, was so good that we haven’t got over laugh ing at it yet. “One day I caught a big yellow-bellied terrapin. The senator was delighted and stayed in camp the next day to superin tend the soup-making. The soup was de licious and we said so unreservedly. Then the senator told his story. In preparing the terrapin he had assisting him a colored man of the neighborhood whom we had employed. The man didn’t know us and never dreamed that the man in rough raiment was a United States senator. "The colored man was given a bowl of soup, and smacked his lips and' otherwise displayed his sense of bliss. ” ‘You like the soup, do you, George?’ asked the senator. p " "Deed I do,* was the reply. Then he added: “ 'Say, boss, I’d like to ax you a little question.’ “ 'What is it?’ responded the senator. ‘Go ahead.* " T’d like to know,* raid the darky between eager sips of the terrapin soup, ‘is you jes' a plain cook or is you a steward? Foh you do cert’nly know yore business.* ** IN THE PATH OF THE SCISSORS. Free Coinage of Verba. . J. H. Ander-on, Jr., of the reportorlal staff of The Chattanooga Times. Sundayed in Ring gold.—Ringgold New South. How to Get the Horae Laugh. Your horse will “laugh and grow fat” If you buy your corn, oats and hay from D. G. Blount’s cheap cash store.— Wrightsville Record. Somebody Ought to Tie Ty. Somebody said Ty Peeples engaged in a walking match Sunday afternoon. Awful warm Ty for sueh exertions—The South Georgian. But Not Yet Abla to Be Out. Bill Gilds, one of Sheriff Ritchie’s prisoners, was very sick Monday, but is Improved—Clay ton Tribune. Ye Editor Hlta the Pipe. We thought you would have paid us that small amount you owe us before now.—Frank lin News aqd Banner. Ye Editor as a Sleuth. A man was in Amboy last week selling the merchants some medicine. We think he must have come from Tennessee, as he was driving two gray horses—Rochelle New Era. 1 Diagnosing Their Case. Mr. J. A. Wash, from the Seventh district, who is a prominent candidate for tax collector, wae down a few days since feeling the pulse of the dear people.—Ft. Gaines Sentinel. Laying for the Preachers. Mr. J. H. Adair says he has one hundred little chickens and ten dozen eggs. He is going to feed the preachers this summer.—Dallas New Era. Giving His Friends the Shake. Mr. John Kennedy, of Anniston, Ala., was shaking hands with old friends in the city Mon day.—Cartersville News and Courant. New Light For Atlanta. Mr. Ben Light is now in Atlanta, where he has accepted a position in a barber shop.— Walton News and Messenger. Travels In Summer Attire. Dr. C. P. Davis, wearing one of his fetch ing and Irresistible smiles, goes to Albany today. Os course he goes "on business.”—Amer icus Tlmes-Recorder. Cotton Regrets the Drought. The cotton in this section to very sorry be cause of the drouth.—Calhoun Times. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. z New York Press. A saint is never as white as he is painted. Big feet seem ever so much worse when they are cold. Truth was invented to make enemies for the man who tells it. Fortunate is the man who is on the long side of the collar button market. Justice may be blind, but she is able to judge people by their conversation. As a matter of convenience turning down an alley beats tearing up a street. Either a woman loves you and says she doesn’t or she doesn’t and says she does. Mavbe it is as bad to have money and no place to spend it as to have ths place but no money. < It is better never to cut your wisdom teeth than to think you know any more when you have done it. What a man doesn’t learn about women’s clothes before he is married isn’t worth while learning afterward. The man who forgets to tell a woman that her clothes look pretty forgets to make her admire his good taste. The way for a man to make a Woman obey him is to find out what she wants to do# and then make her do it. Half the men in the world don’t know enough to get ahead of other men; the other half don’t know enough not to let the other men get ahead of them. The people who talk philosophy and mental science when there is nothing the matter take to castor oil and mustard plasters just as easily as the rest of us when there is. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. . n ■ .j II ’ S Chicago News. A hobby is an idea that goes around with a crank. After a mighty lie has prevailed men call it the truth. When a man is old enough to know better he is too old to do it. This is a hard world. Its final gift to a man is a marble shaft. No man ever realizes how much trash he owns until he moves. About the only perfect people in the world are the perfect fools. Unless a man is intelligent and consistent he never changes his mind. The more some people try to explain the deep er they get in hot water.' Man has very little use for advice that doesn’t confirm his own opinion. Ix>ve may make the world go round, but mon ey helps to push it along. Unless a man Is satisfied with himself he is not in the self-made Rain falls alike upon the just and the unjust, but the latter uses it as a chaser. Those evening ties are the best that keep a married man at home after dark. Every woman knows she’s a coquette, but she doesn’t think others suspect it. What a monotonous old world this would be were it not for the delusions therein! Probably some people He to you because they think too much of you to tell the truth. The poor man lends his surplus coin to the bank and the bank loans it to some rich man. No British Banners Wave in Battle. Navy and Army. Some people may not know that the col ors are not now taken into action. Be fore a corps proceeds on service they are placed in safe custody as suits such hon orable Insignia, and "when Johnny comes marching home again” they will be all the fresher for not being carried through dus ty lands and trying rivers. The men whose duty it would have been to carry them and stand by them to the last are nowadays employed in less sentimental if more useful duties. News and Business. Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Jones (new member)—"ls your sew ing society lively?” Mrs. Brown (the secretary)—"l think so. Sometimes the ladies gossip so that I don’t get to read the minutes for three meet ,n ff’*'* . .. _ REV. SAM P. JONES DISCUSSES POLITICS GREENWOOD, S. C., May 22. I To The Atlanta Journal: are perilous times, full of disaster, destruction and death. More lives have been destroyed, more property T devastated in the past twelve months than apy year since Noah and his family floated above a drowned world. The big head lines of the dally papers call our atten tion every morning and evening to fearful disasters of all sorts and all varieties —flood and famine, vol canic eruption and mine explosion, water-spouts and whirling winds, railroad wrecks and sinking ships. What <next, gentlemen, what next? It seems that all nature and all things have taken on the restless ness and unreliability of man. There is a lesson in all these things. Happy is the man who in wisdom learns the lesson God would teach him. No man can prophesy or forecast events either in the physical,* finan cial or moral worldsabout us. The great Methodist and Presbyterian bodies are now wrangling—the one over cafeh and the other over creed. And it seems as hard for the Meth odists to settle matters about that "cash” as for the dear old Presby terians to change their creed. Good men differ on the same subject with the same facts before them. The Methodists will keep the money (and why shouldn’t they keep it?) It’s theirs. Congress appropriated the >288,000 to pay them for the use and destruction of their property by the union army in the sixties. It’s a just claim that ought to have been paid long ago. The Methodist church has been trying for 35 years to get congress to pay it, and the congress never would have paid it, in my humble judgment, if the agents of the church had not placed the claims in the hands of Major Stahlman and promised him 35 per cent of the claim to get it. The only false statements that they allege were made were in reply to imperti nent questions which congress had no right to ask. The only question • congress should have considered is, Was it a just claim? I say it was impertinence on the part of con- * gress to ask how much the attorney fee was to be. The church had cheap attorneys trying to get the money so? 35 years and only a first class attorney could make them dance up. And Stahlman earned his fee. Now, mind you, I am simply stating the# facts. The Methodist church can deal with its agents and attorneys, etc., as to the alleged deception and misrepresentations, but they will keep the cash and ought to keep it. But what the Presbyterians will do with theli* creed deponent sayeth not. But I know I greatly prefer ’ the good old-fashioned Sabbath keeping family prayer of Presbyte rians of bygone days, with their old creed, by far to the new-fash ioned Presbyterians with a revised creed. Don’t you? Then, in politics, things are all agog. The Journal’s Joint ‘Debate CONGRESSMEN TELLING EXPERIENCES IN SOOTH BY MILT SAUL. WASHINGTON. May SO.—Congressmen who went with Representative Charles W. Thompson, of Alabama, on a tour through the soutti are relating to their Washington friends and colleagues many interesting stories of things they saw and heard in the sunny land of Dixie. At Chattanooga the party of northerners were entertained by the Chamber of Com merce. A part of the day’s entertainment there consisted of a trolley ride to Look out Mountain. On the car just before the mountain was reached, one of the Chatta nooga gentlemen produced a pearl handled knife, one of those all around articles conv taining every implement necessary to ex istence, including a miniature handsaw and a corkscrew. “This knife, gentlemen,” he explained to Colonel Thompson and several of hia guests who were gathered about, “was brought from France in 1873 by a young boy who was eg friend of my father. The young boy Is now the president of the United States. My father was Frank R. Goulding, the author of ‘Young Maroon era.’ ’’ Colonel Thompson took the knife and held It up so everybody In the car could see it. He explained its history and at once the Implement became the center of interest for the entire party. “My father wrote the book at Kingston, Ga.,” the owner of the knife went on to explain, "and at that time President Roosevelt’s mother was living at Roswell, Ga. Some years later my father went to New York and there met the Roosevelt family, among them the young boy, Theo dore. The two became fast friends, al though my father was 63 years old then and the boy was about ten or twelve. •Young Marooners’ proved a highly inter esting tfbok to the boy and it was through this Interest that he remembered the au thor while in France. My father was highly gratified to receive the present and he prised it so highly he would never use it or lend to any member of the family. He thought Theodore Roosevelt was a great boy. Once when I was in Washing ton the president told me he had given the ’Young Marooners’ to his boys to read* and they seemed to enjoy it quite as much as he did.” | One of the newspaper correspondents with the party spent, in 1898, six months in the house where Dr. Goulding wrote the book. H* ••ecalled the fact when the knife was on exhibition and the coincidence was declared by the others to be remarkable. The owner of the knife is W. H. Gould ing, secretary of the Chattanoooga Cham ber of Commerce. General "Wilder, who commanded a brigade of Federal cavalry in the battles around Chattanooga, went with the party to the top of Lookout Mountain and point ed out the famous battle fields which may be seen from the summit of the mountain. “Over yonder to the left,” he said, as he pointed towards Missionary Ridge, “my command engaged Pegram’s Confederate cavalry. We fought off and on for three days, an- a better fighter than John Pe gram I never met.” At this point he was interrupted by Col onel Thompson, who cried out: “Here's John Pegram’s niece!” General Wilder stopped his discourse to be introduced to the young lady. Miss Eleanor Pegram, of Memphis, Tenn., who had come with the party from Washing ton. The gray old veteran took both her hands in his and as they stood apart from the others there on the mountain they made a fine picture on which their com panions gazed with deep Interest. Far be low them the winding river ran through fields, where Wilder and Pegram clashed sabres in deadly cavalry charges nearly shows us it’s not all one way; and, by the way, The Journal is circu lated nearly as thick in South Caro lina as it is in Georgia, and I am keeping up with the fight right along. Warner and Sidney fight like bull pups. They both do well. Really, they can accomplish almost as much by awkwardness and main strength as some men can by intel lect. They are both young and strong physically. To date I am betting on Tapp. He sho’ haa hit Warner some good Tapps. Warner seems to have rushed home from Texas to look after his waininf principal, and just run into head quarters and pulled off his coat and told Brother Render to step down and out . and give him ths stick and let him crack a few heads. But when he hits Tapp on the head he hits a head as hard as his own. 4 would not loan either of them my walking stick to use on the other’s head —sho! But don’t Guerry make the fur fly? And I confidently believe that he will be our next governor; and if he don’t get it he will lock that con vention, and then goodbye, Joseph! It’s real refreshing to see Colonel Estill’s confidence and good cheer. While he is shaking hands I fear somebody is pulling his leg; and if somebody is pulling his leg they will keep him hopeful until the end. I certainly would rejoice If he could carry 25 counties; then Guerry is o.k. and Joe has lost out. Go it. Colonel, I admire your spirit of hopefulness and good cheer, for that’s about all you will hold in pleasant remembrance after the campaign is over. Is it not strange that no leading daily of the state has espoused either candidate? It seems like they are doubtful as to the outcome and want to stand from under. The Journal and Constitution both have their preference, but, like Br'er Rab bit, they ain’t say much about it. These little country editors, like the little country preacher, sail right in and say their say, but city papers and city preachers, barring Brough ton and Bascom, don’t want to raise any rows. The old wool hat fellowk are com in from the (ields and woods, and about nine out of ten of them are for Guerry, and they are mad about that early primary, and they are coming in and vote for Guerry to even up with the gang somewhat. Colonel Estill and Guerry and their friends did not want that primary until the Ist of August, but Joe add his gang thought sooner the better, and folks in the country are' onto them now. 'Come in, boys, from the highways and' hedges, from farm and field, on June sth, and;do your duty to the crowd who thought would be a day when yOu would be too busy to come. Yours, SAM P. JONES. P. S.—l am traveling around In South and North Carolina for a week, hoping I will improve by this tour,, but I am still conscious that I am in poor fix for anything like hard work. S. P. J. forty years ago; fields that now furnlrt ed a vivid green background for the pic ture of an old warrior of the north clasp ing hands with a beautiful girl of the south, while he praised the valor of Pe gram. her uncle, and h'.s former enemy. | 1 “John Pegram was a good soldier,” Gen eral Wilder told Miss Pegram, “and I know he was a good man. A good soldier is nearly always a good man.” After that General Wilder’s narrative of the battle scenes was touched with a tender eloquence and all the visitors felt the influence of a sentiment which came with the meeting of Pegram’s fair niece and Pegram’s adversary in battle. Later on General Wilder pointed out a monu ment erected by the state of Tennessee to the memory of John Pegram. One of the interesting places shown the i northerners was Colonel Ed McKissick’* log cabin room underneath the Battery Park hotel, at Asheville. ** At Asheville the party became the guests of the board of trade. Carriages were furnished and a drive through Biltmore ' was enjoyed. Returning, the visitors were driven to points from which ail the grand scenery about the little mountain town could be observed. Still one or two wets not satisfied. < “There is something about the moun ' tains I want to see. but for the life of me I can’t recall what it is,” declared Judge Fuller, of lowa. “Out my way we 1 have few mountains, you know, and I am , I not familiar with the mountain adjuncts." Colonel McKissick came to the rescue ! and began to call over tne names of things usually associated with mountains. “Is it a bear? A cave? A trout?” he sug gested, but Judge Fuller shook his head after each name. i Colonel McKissick went on: .'-'•3 • “Is it a moonshine still—” “That’s it! That’s it!” cried the lowan. ' “I want to see a moonshine still!” “Then come with me,” replied the amia ble host, and he led the way to his log cabin under the hotel. There, hidden away in a corner and half concealed by a pile of skins such as moun taineers have in their cabin homes, stood a copper still and worm, as natural as though the visitors were revenue offlcsrs just stumbling upon It. Colonel McKissick ‘ had bought it at a public auction after a | raid by officers in the neighboring moun- I tains, and had installed it along with his ' other log cabin relics. The sight of the still seemed to satisfy the curiosity of the visitors, for they didn’t adjourn to the bar to sample the Still's product, as some of Colonel McKissick’s guests have done In former years. The northerners were completely carried away with the beauty of Asheville and the superb scenery tney looked upon along the line of the railway as they left the thriving city. An Idyll of Indolence. I wish dar was a money tree. De maple’s purty fine. But 'taint enough to satisfy k Dese pressin' needs o’ mine. A tree whose leaves was dollar bills; Whose fruit was coins of gold— I tells you what! It would be fine To watch dem buds unfold. _. I'd He aroun* dar all de June; I’d He dar in July; I’d never quit dat shady spot Till summertime went by. I’d dose an’ dream an’ take my ease, I’d loaf an’ never stop A waitin’ fob dem leaves to fall An’ foh dat fruit to drop. , —Washington Star. Content With Qbocurity. Philadelphia. Record. The one time In a man’s life when he is satisfied to take a back seat IS when he goes to church.