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Newspaper Page Text4 The Semi-Weekly Journal ■M*«d M the Atlant* Pwtortw m Mall Mat ter of the Second Claea. The Setnl-Weekly Journal to publish ed on Monde? s and Thursdays. and mailed in time for all the twicea- I week a»ar route matin. It contains the J newt from all parte of the world brought over a special leaned wire Into The Journal office It han a staff of dtettnculehed contributors, with strong Agricultural. Veterinary. Juvenile. Home. Book and other departments of £ special value to the home and farm. Agents wanted in every community ■R MLS* SoatM _ . . RPmtttancee may be made by poet ofSce money order, express money or- I der. registered letter er check. Ferans who eend postage stamps tn payment tor subscriptions are request ed to send tbod» of the 5-cent denomi nation Amounts larger than W cents pcetofdee order, express order, check or registered matt Subscribers who wish their papers Changed should give both the old and the new postofffee address. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.-The only traveling representauves of The ■' Journal are C. J. O'Farrell and J. A. Bryan Any other who represents him self as eoenecetd with The Journal as Ea traveling agent ts a fraud, and we will be respohatble only for money paid to the above named representative*. M b-_ - THURSDAY. JUNE 11 IKS. Mu NOTICE. Information Wanted of Subscribers Sending Money to The Semi- Weekly Journal. We have received remittance from th* fol tewtng subscribers to The Semt-Weskly Journal who failed to furnish us their Poetofflcs ad dressee. and as we wish to communicate with them, if any of our readers know the parties they win confer a great favor upon us by letting » know the poetoffice addresses: A V STEPHENS H. F. BUNKLEY. A. W. LOWE J H. BARNES la writing or making remittance* always give your aostofflee and state and then there will be ao delay In answering your letters. TBE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. The election of judges by the people is all right so long as there is no contest. Isn’t it about time some veterinary col lege was conferring a degree upon Tod Steamt The great problem seems to be to devise a Cuban tariff that won’t benefit the sugar and tobacco trusts. • The per capita circulation of mon*v In the United States Is now S2B 54. Somebody has got CS 29 of ours. Confidentially—we propose to groom our old friend, the Hon. Joe Hill Hall, for the next gubernatorial race. Nevertheless. ft Is now generally admit ted that Colonel Estill knew more about it than anybody thought hi did. The trouble with the war department la that it seems to consider Information from the front as party secrets. In forcing the eastern cities to use soft coal the miners’ strike is proving B good thing for the soap trust. Mark Twain wept when he visited the scenes of his boyhood the other day. But then Mark also wept at the tomb of Adam. Germany has not yet recognised the tn flepender.ee of Cuba. And yet they say the Germans are rather slow to see a joke. But the young king of Spain has prob ably never stopped to think that horse racing is more expensive than hull fight- Kr The public is the innocent bystander in this coal strike, and. as usual, it is al ways the Innocent bystander that gets hurt. Are we to infer that the Hon Joe Hill Hall has a larger circulation in Bibb county than the esteemed Macon Tele graph? Kitchener seems to have cut the price for restoring peace in South Africa. Lord Roberts got $500,000, and didn't finish the job, either. Perhaps the Southern railway made a Mistake tn sending only $30,000 to Bibb •ovaty Instead of $3,000 with which to de feat the Hon. Joe Hall. The Hon. Joe Hall's threat to let his pro-Boer whiskers grow until Guerry is elected governor Is carrying vengeance against the public too far. •The Hon. Joe Hill Hall Is an antt-bar room man. but we have heard that his high-ball batting average is as good as the next one's.**—Dawaon News. No doubt John D. Rockefeller, J. Pier pont Morgan and Andrew Carnegie merely smile when they read that the per capita wealth of the United States is $38 .64. Discouraged in the effort to get pure wa ter. Chicago is clamoring for pure milk. But. asks an exchange, without pure wa ter. how can they hope to have pure milk? We are not going to bet our money on Editor Pleas Stovall for speaker of the next house until we learn whether or not he is running as "the south Georgia can didate.'' Sheriff Westcott, of Bibb county, who has just been renominated, has held the office continuously for twenty-four years. But th£y “brought the feathers'* in that last race. And now Miss Helen Gould has had a degree conferred upon her—doctor of let ters by New York university. Pretty soon the person without a college degree will be conspicuous.. In charging the leakage of war secrets to General Miles the war department is probably doing that strenuous gentleman an injustice Miles might boil over, but he would never ••leak.” Word has been received from Washing ton that the Republicans took steps to have the fifteenth amendment locked up in a strong place as soon as they learned the result in the Tenth district. Carrie Nation, since she has been re leased. says that it is the Lord's will that she went to prison. It is at least gratify ing she didn't charge that it was the Lord’s will that she was released. General Maximo Gomez refused the pension of MW a year about to be voted to him by the Cuban congress. Gomez Is evidently determined to go down in hfs tory as the of His Country. Advices by mail from London are to the effect that Andrew Carnegie did not lose his nerve at the banquet of London plumb ers. We felt all along that Uncle Andy would be at home In such plutocratic company. That plan of the administration to re duce the regular army to 10.000 men Is clearly a flank movement designed to cut off that "mens-'e of a growing standing army” plank from the next Democratic platform. Having invented an armor plate which Bo gun could penetrate. Herr Krupp has now invented a gun that will shoot through the thickest armor plate. The nations of the earth are regular ''pud din' ** for Herr Krupp. To “Anxious Inquirer"—A careful sur vey of the spot where the collision occur ed shows that it is the Hon. Joe Hill Hail that is still on the track. The Southern's wrecking crew report progress, however, in gathering up the debris. THE CANAL CONTEST. ’ The senate is in the tnldst of a debate on the isthmian dhnal question, the out come of which at the present session can not be predicted with any degree of cer tainty. The bill which provides for the construction of a ship canal across Nic aragua, the Hepburn bill, as it is called, is before the upper house, as is also the substitute offered by Senator Spooner. Between these two measures the con test is now going on. The transcontinental railroads, the chlbf enemies of all plans to connect the two great seas, have, for the time being, con centrated their energies in support of the Spooner substitute, which provides for the adoption of the Panama route by the president; if in his judgment our govern ment can procure a good title to it. The Pacific railroads had as soon have an isthmian canal constructed across Nicaragua as across Panama. They do not care a snap for the Spooner substi tute. except as a means of delaying and the creation of possible complications that will leave them to enjoy for a long time to come their present enormous trans continental traffic. They are fighting the Hepburn bill so desperately because it has already received the approval of the house and seems to have most favor in the senate. If the Panama proposition were tn the lead they would be as determined in their opposition to it. There is no danger that a majority of the senate will agree to the' Spooner sub stitute which puts into the hands of the president a responsibility that the coun try thinks should be left to congress. The advocates of this scheme do not expect to accomplish more than delay of final action on the great question, but every day of delay in this matter is worth much to the transcontinental rail ways. ( The friends of the Hepburn bill are ac tive and will make a determined effort to pass it through the senate at this session, but those who understand how easy it is fir a minority to clog the wheels of that slow-moving machine have very little o. such a happy result. The demand of the country for the con struction of an isthmian canal is too strong to be resisted, but compliance with it may be deferred by one trick and another a provoklngiy long time. The recent volcanic eruptions and earth quake shocks in the West Indies are be ing used for much more than they ar a probably worth by the lobby that is work ing against the Nicaragua canal route. An attempt is being made to show that this route runs right along a number of now silent volcanoes, some of which show signs of renewed activity, and that it would be folly to construct a great gov ernment work in such unsafe territory. Those who, for any reason are concerned! in protecting the, railroad Interests that would suffer by the construction of an isthmian canal are posing conspicuously as patriotic guardians of the government and philanthropic friends of mankind, but they are overdoing the thing. The earthquake scare has been about worked out. and we shall probably see some new device trumped up soon by the lobby that is striving to kill or stave off indefinitely action on this very im portant subject. MORE PHILLIPINE TROUBLE. It would seem that we had quite enough worry over the Philippines on other ac counts, but the question of the character of the currency that we are to let those islands have is causing sauch discussion and has put the house and senate at out* The senate Philippine bill, contrary to the recommendation of the Philippine commission, provides for the coinage in Manila of coins of the same weight and fineness as the Mexican dollar, which is In general circulation in the Philippines and along the Chinese coast. The com mission's plan was for the coinage of a silver peso to be kept by our government’s guaranty at the value of 60 cents in good American gold standard money. This would have given the Filipinos silver money, which they desire, because they are used to it. but at the same time woul<} have kept their currency stable. The senate, however, objected to our govern ment’s guaranteeing $40,000,000 or $60,000,000 worth of Philippine token money and ar gued that as unsupported silver coins are the currency of China and the Straits Settlements, and as the British coin at Bombay a dollar of the same value as the Mexican dollar, it would be best for us to adopt a similar coinage for the Phil ippines. It seems likely that the house will refuse to tske this view of the ques tion. Its committee on coinage, weights and measures has amended the senate Philip pine bill so as to give the Philippines a currency enough like Mexican money to please the tastes and prejudices of the people of those islands and their neigh bors, but with its stability of value so well guaranteed that the present rate of exchange will be greatly reduced. The fluctuations of silver affect trade with the orient very seriously and the house committee insists upon a gold standard and therefore a steady currency for our insular possessions, as well as for our people at home. There will prob ably be a stubborn conflict between the two houses on this question, but the business sentiment of our people is strong ly in favor of the contention made by the house committee. GOV. TAFT’S MISSION. Just what passed between the pope and Governor Ihft at their recent interview the public does not know’, but there is a general impression that the question of the status of the Catholic church in the Philippines will soon be settled amica bly. For a very long time prior to its loss of the Philippines Spain had main tained its hold upon those islands largely through the influence of the friars. They had complete control of public schools, the charities and other interests of the government. The religious orders con sequently became very powerful among the masses and obtained grants to a vast quantity of land. - In the course of time opposition to the friars developed to an alarming extent among the Filipinos. It is said that the two latest popular uprisings against Spanish rule were due to this feeling. A great number of the friars were ’ex pelled from their parishes before our government became possessed of the country and throughout the islands the religious orders were badly broken up. The Philippine commission has declined to restore the expelled friars and the re ligious orders to their former possessions, and the question as to what policy the United States shall adopt concerning the Catholic church in the Philippines is yet to be determined. Governor Taft believes that the return of the friars and the rcassertion of the authority of the church would renew the Insurrection and make the problem of peaceful government in the Philippines THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA;. G KORGLA, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1902. more difficult than it would otherwise be. The Philippine commission favors the purchase of the church lands, but it is feared that such an extortionate price will be put upon them that it may be difficult to reach an agreement on this proposi tion. Even if the title of the church property fn the Philippines should be acquired by our government the political status of the friars would still be a knotty problem. The church view of the matter is ably presented by the American Catholic Quarterly Review, jvhich claims that for various reasons the friars and church or ders are entitled to liberal consideration by our government. It is claimed that whatever degree of civilization the Fili pinos possess is due directly to the efforts and influence of the Catholic church. It has no less than seven millions adherents in the islands, and more than seven hundred native priests. The Catholic Quarterly Review says: “The expulsion of the Spanish friars means that five millions of Filipino Cath olics must be left without priests, sacra ments, or religious instruction for at least a generation, as there are no other priests save the natives, either Ameri can or European, familiar with Filipino language or customs.” Archbishop Chappelle declares that the native to the friars is an "ar tificial propaganda of a radical minority.*’ Pope Leo has proved himself one of the wisest statesmen of his time, and there is every reason to expect that our gov ernment and the Vatican will reach some friendly agreement on the pending ques tion. THE SHATTUC BILL. Congress could hardly find a more im portant matter to consider than that pre sented in what is known as the Shattuc bill, which the house of representatives has passed ajid which it is hoped to put through the senate before adjournment. This measure goes a great deal further than our present laws in the direction of restricted immigration. To the classes already excluded the Shattuc bill adds illiterates over 15 years of age who cannot read the constitution of the United States in English or some oth er language of their selection. A large proportion of the immigration that is now coming Into this country is composed of persons whose illiteracy indi cates that they are capable of only the lowest grades of labor. There are strong reasons for believing that we have already quite as large an element of this kind, both native and Imported, as we can well carry. And it continues to pour in at a rate which causes no little alarm. The month of May which has recently passed brought more immigrants to our shores than any previous May ever brought. It is found that illiteracy is found chiefly among Poles, Huns, Italians and the other classes which already con stitute the bulk of our immigration and are becoming every year a larger propor tion of the whole. So long as the bulk of the immigrants to this country come from England, Ireland. Scotland, Germany, Holland and Scandina via the country was undoubtedly benefited greatly by such accretions to its popula tion. But the case is very different now. The desirable elements of immigration have fallen off as notably as the objectionable and dangerous elements have increased. It is time to protect the country better against this danger. What makes it the more alarming is the fact that immigration has ceased to scat ter as it once did in the thinly populated regions of the west to engage in agricul tural pursuits, but is locating mainly in the already crowded centers of the eastern and middle states. A brief retrospect will show how rapid this change of drift has been. From 1880 to 1890 fully half of our immigrants went to the western and northern central states, none of which are yet crowded, and in the ten years ended in 1900 more than 80 per cent of them stopped in the northern Atlantic states. The south has never re ceived anything more than an insignifi cant proportion of immigrants, and the average character of those who have come to the United States in recent years causes the south to rejoice that the tide has never set this way. Thfe south has received only, a mere handful of the quarter of a million immi grants who have landed on our shores since the first of last January and will probably get no larger percentage of the quarter of a million which may be ex pected.during the remainder of the year. But the interests and welfare of the na tion are at stake and we hope to see the senators from the south give thd 1 Shattuc bill their united and*hearty support. THE EXAMPLE~OF LEE. The Boers were criticized for continu ing their fight after all hope of foreign intervention was gone and it became absolutely certain‘that their further re sistance to the overwhelming power of Great Britain would be foolhardy. The conduct of their leaders was contrasted with that of General Robert E. Lee tn the last days of the Confederacy. Though his once magnificent and invincible army had been worn down to the condition of lees than 10,000 muskets and very scant supplies of all the necessaries of war, its rank and file still trusted Lee so implic itly that they were opposed to surrender and even fired at the bearers of flags of truce from their own lines on the very day before Lee and Grant agreed upon terms of peace. In discussing the situation with some of his most trusted officers General Lee said he was well aware that he could scatter his army and carry on a desultory war for a long time, but that no good could come of it and he considered it his duty to obtain the best terms of sur render that were then possible. Though the Boer leaders persisted long in a pol icy which very different from that which General Lee pursued. General De Wet, their ablest commander, in his farewell address to his comrades followed the ex ample of the great Confederate chieftain when he urged the burghers to accept the terms of surrender in good faith and do their utmost to show good colonists they could be. - General Lee told the heroes who laid down their arms at Appomattox that their honor required them to stand by the government to which he, as their com mander, had surrendered and to which they wers to acknowledge allegiance. In his address to the students of Washing ton university when he took the presiden cy of that institution. General Lee said to the sons of the south assembled there that they must give their best efforts as men to the promotion of the interests and the defense of the honor of the Uni ted States. He. was even greater in the day of defeat than he had been in his most splendid hour of victory. General De Wet has won the admiration of the world as much by his conduct and counsel to his comrades since the Boer surrender as he did by his wonderful skill end sublime courage in the war. REBUKING ROOSEVELT. We have read in northern newspapers and from many prominent northern men severe criticisms of President Roosevelt’s display of narrow sectionalism in his Dec oration day speech. There are many per sons in the north who love the union and glory in the valor of the men who fought for it, but are not willing to be judged by the president's standard of patriotism in this day and generation. We have seen no better rebuke of the president for his unfortunate utterances at Arlington than we find in a leading edi torial of the Portland Oregonian, one of the most notable newspapers on the Pa cific coast. From it we quote these noble words: “The time is past with thoughtful men when on Memorial day we think only of the Union dead in the restricted sense which refers only to those who fell in de fense of the staß and stripes. In the en larged field of historical vision that has at last come into our possession, we cannot help thinking of the dead of both sides; the illustrious obscure who by thousands on both sides fought with equal tenacity and equal valor. Thoughtful men have learned long ago to abstain from bitter, undiscriminating denunciation of the great civic and military leaders of the Southern Confederacy. We today that noth ing but the news of peace prevented New England from secession in 1814. We know that Lee and Longstreet and Joe Johnston bore arms against the Union not because they were secessionists, but because blood was thicker than water. They could not fire upon their domestic altars, upon their neighbor's cornfields and their kinsmen. We know that Lee as strongly disapproved of slavery as did Washington; we know that the north was equally responsible with the south for the planting of slavery within the constitution and its national protection. We know that the south, it capacity for unstinting sacrifice of its best blood and treasure and endurance of ex treme hardship be the test of earnest pa triotism, was as patriotic at least as the north. “Many of the Confederate soldiers who fell In the last assault upon Lee's lines before Petersburg had nothing but ’goob ers’ (peanuts) in their haversacks. Nothing could excel the valor with which the tat tered remnant of Lee’s famished army fought up to the hour of surrender. When we remember all these things today, it is impossible not to think of the Confederate deau as well as the Union dead with equal respect if not equal gratitude.” How far are these sentiments from the plane upon which President Roosevelt stood as he waved the bloody shirt on the heights of Arlington! For the first time since the civil war, and when the echo of its last shot has been dead more than thirty-six years, we have a president of the United States speak ing in away that ,is likely to revive sec tional bitterness. It is creditable to the country that it did not admire the spectacle. DOCTORS CLEMENS AND HARRIS. Last week two of the famous writers of the United States reveived honorary college degrees. / Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, by decree of the University of Missouri, became a doc tor of laws and a few days later the trustees of Emory college decided to con fer the degree of doctor of literature upon Mr. Joel Chandler Harris. Everybody will agree that Mark Twain and Unqje Remus have been worthily honored. The degrees that have been so fitly be stowed upon these two genial and rarely gifted men have been abused so often that it is refreshing to see them used with due regard to their dignity and meaning. Mr. Clemens and Mr.' Harris are so modest that they will probably shrink when addressed by title of doctor, but-we will all insist that they shall wear the blushing honors they have so fairly won. We congratulate the institutions which have conferred these distinctions as heart ily as we do the recipients of them. Samuel L. Clemens, L.L. D., and Joel Chandler Harris, D. L„ sound well. We hope to see all our colleges when they go into the business of making honorary doctors act with the discretion which has characterized the University of Missouri and Emory College. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. (Chicago News.) Audacity is th* stepfather of success. Some men are known by th* friend* they fall to make. Sympathy is the only charitable gift of some people. Men who are long on words are apt to be short on deed*. Many a plausible tongue i« operated by a deceptive brain. A fool says many wise thtigs, but he isn’t aware of the fact. Girl*, remember that a husband worth hav ing is worth taking care of. A philosopher 1* a man who c*n see how oth ers make such big mistakes. Many a rich man's reputation for wisdom vanishes with the loss of his wealth. AH men may be made of dust, but some men have a lot more of the dust than others. REFLECTION OF A BACHELOR. (New York Press.) The man for the average woman is the man she can get. The woman who doesn't care for babies Is as normal as the man who doesn’t care for women. A great many moralists can stand heavy doses of wickedness If It is not mixed with coarse ness. A bore Is a man who wants to talk to you about himself when you want to talk to him about yourself. It takes an ingenious trap to catch most any wild animal, but a clever girl can catch a man with a bit of ribbon and a hairpin. When a woman says unpleasant things to a man she always end* by confessing that what she told him was for his own good. BRIEF AND INTERESTING. Probably the most curious European oath is administered in Norway. The wit ness raises his thumb, his forefinger and his middle finger. These signify the trinity, while the larger of the uplifted fingers is supposed to represent the soul of the wit ness and the smaller to indicate his body. A man whom the Kansas papers de scribe as one of "Independence’s real ben efactors,” died last week. He was a bar ber named Keeley. One night several years ago he left a lamp burning in his shop. It also burned the shop and a long row of old frame buildings which have since been rebuilt in brick. One of the most costly pair of opera glasses in the world is owned by Queen Alexandra, for whom they were specially made in Vienna. The barrels are of plat inum and set with diamonds, sapphires and rubies. Various estimates have been made as to its probable worth. An expert In such matters fixes the value of the lorgnette at $25,000. A curious custom obtains among the peasantry of the Isle of Man. The Sunday following the funeral of a relative Is called “mourning Sunday,” and as many of the dead person’s relatives as are available meet together and go to church. Through out the entire services they remain seated, and do not enter at all into any outward participation in the worship. Quieted Him. Chicago Nows. “I—l think there's a hack in your razor,” faltered the stranger in the chair. “* “Well, did yer expect to find an automo bile?” roared the tough barber, as he splashed the lather on the ceiling. :: SUGGESTIONS FROM OTHERS •• GOVERNOR SHOULD APPOINT SCHOOL COMMISSIONER ATLANTA, Ga., June 9, 1902. To the Editor of The Journal: The recent election by primary ballot, which has displaced Mr. Glenn as commis sioner of education, is so great a surprise to me and to thousands of others that I am led to call in question the need for a continuance of the present method. It does not seem a wise policy for us to sub ject the incumbent to a scramble every two years in order that he may retain his office, when he is called upon to give much of his time to personal interests which must be done to the detriment of public affairs. Now tnat Mr. Glenn is no longer a candidate, it may be well to suggest that a return to the custom of making this an appointive office would be well, also that the term should be for four years. Unless this be done many cultivated, sensitive persons will refuse to enter the list after having witnessed the treatment to which the defeated candidate has been subjected, and we shall be compelled to put up with inferior material. Few men qualified to properly fill the place would care to en gage in wordy warfare to enable them to retain a place which involves so much of care and responsibility, besides the salary will ao little more than pay the cost of these frequent campaigns of election. Bearing in mind my obligation as one who has voted in the primary, I refrain from cltlcism of men or methods, praying only that from such trial I may be deliv ered. Truly, we are near the period "when the post of honor is the private station." I congratulate Dr. Glenn upon his long and useful career, and regret the neces sity which deprives the state of his valua ble services. No matter how able may be his successor, the educational work of the state has received a check from which it will not soon recover. WILLIAM RILEY BOYD. SAYS IT’S THE “KOHINOOR” OF SOUTHERN NEWSPAPERS FAYETTEVILLE, Ga„ June 6, 1901 To the Editor of The Journal: The Sunday Journal is a gem of the first water. It is the “Kohlnoor” in southern journalism. Please accept our thanks and congratulations for the first copy of the Sunday Journal. ROBERT L. JOHNSON, Editor The News. GUERRY’S VOTE WAS 384 IN TERELL COUNTY. DAWSON, Ga., June 7, 1902. To the Editor of The Journal: It is hardly fair to Guerry and his friends here to let the report of votes for him stand at 38, when it should be 384 in this county. Wherever the error may be, please correct. J. S. PACE. WI TH THE STATE PRESS. Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Mr. Terrell made an aggressive, though clean, campaign. He con ducted himself In a very dignified and gentle manly manner throughout the entire campaign, and now that it is over, his opponents have nothing in the way of reproach that can be brought against him. He caused no bitterness of feeling, his attitude toward his opponents having been most courteous and considerate at all times. Georgia will have as governor a man In whose hands her great Interests will be entirely safe. Savannah Press: Several favorites were de feated for the legislature yesterday. Mr. A. A. Murphy, of Barnesville, failed to carry Pike county. Mr. Ed L. Wight, of Albany, was de feated In Dougherty county. Mr. W. M. Toomer, of Waycross, did not carry Ware, and Mr. Ro land Ellis, of Macon, was left in the general melee in Bibb, Bryon Bower did not get to the senate In Decatur county. All of these are well-known men, members of former general assemblies, and their friends regret their de feat. Americus Timer-Recorder: Mr. Terrell is a man of splendid personality as to approach. Yet he is poised and dignified. What few ap pointments he will have to make Will be select ed from the best men In the stare and he will give wide berth to the professional office seek ers. All state reforms will be strengthened and advanced by our coming governor, and he will make an executive of whom the people of the grandest state In the union will be proud. Quitman Free Press: The election was fairly and honestly conducted and the results show, therefore, an expression of the will of the peo ple on the dispensary question. They have said by their votes that they do not want whisky sold in the county, and that ought to settle it. All good Democrats will accept the result In good faith and abide by It loyally, and The Free Press earnestly hopes that there will be no further agitation on this line. Albany Herald: Mr. Guerry is probably sat isfied that the people of Georgia have no desire to give state prohibition a trial. And Colonel Nesbitt has doubtless decided that he was badly mistaken In so confidently assuming that the public had become dissatisfied with Hon. O. B. Stevens’ administration of the office of com missioner »f agriculture. Athens Banner: The nomination of Hon. T. W. Hardwick for congress In the Tenth dis trict was a great surprise to many people throughout the state, and perhaps a bigger sur prise to Mr. Fleming, his opponent, than to anybody else. Mr. Hardwick is a young man of rare ability and will faithfully represent the people of his district in congress. He will de liver the literary address at Lucy Cobb college in this city next Tuesday and will be greeted there by a large audience. Brunswick News: Col. J. H. Estill deserves to be congratulated on the splendid fight he made In Brunswick and Glynn county, and it Is to be hoped that the result of placing this county tn his column will forever set at rest the old Idea that Brunswick is opposed to anything in Savannah and vice versa. Georgia s two great seaports are and of right should be good friends. POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. The late Senator John Sherman’s grave, on the Sherman lot, in the Mansfield, Ohio, ceme tery. will be marked by a massß-e sarcophagus. It will be of Rhode Island gralte 18x8 feet at the base. an<j will weigh 30 tons. Two artificers in the government arsenal at Budapest have perfected an arrangement for obtaining the recoil of a rifle when It is fired. The contrivance consists of springs placed in the butt of the weapon, which are acted upon by compressed air. Mrs. Emma E. Forsythe, whose father was an American an<| whose mother was the daughter of a Sdmoan chief, is the richest woman in the South Pacific Islands. She lives on the Island of Neu Pommern, where she has a plantation of 120,000 acres. Governor Crane of Massachusetts has signed the bill awarding a medal to every man from his state who went out in response to President Lincoln's first tall for troops. The pen with which he signed the bill has been presented to President Pierce of the “minute men of ’81." A process for keeping milk pure and sweet for nine months has been Invented by mem bers of the Pasteur Institute. Paris. After It is cooled it is treated with oxygen, and the microbes are so paralysed that they can not multiply. Then the milk Is heated and cooled for use. Preparations are being made at Monaco for an earlv trial of a new steerable balloon in vented bv an Italian engineer. The "aerial wagon.” as It is called, will be rectangular In form, and will have an eight-horse power motor. It Is to be fitted with three screws, two for ascending purposes and one for driv ing the balloon through the air. A German chemist has prepared a fluid that has the power, when Injected into the tissues of a plant, near Its roots, of anes thizlng the plant. As a result of this injec tion the plant does not die. but stops grow ing, maintaining It* fresh, green appearance, though Its vitality Is apparently suspended. Changes In temperature seem in no wise to af fect the foliage, for the plant blooms in the open Zs well as in the most carefully con structed hothouse. FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST. Two alternative routes are being surveyed in Kent for the purpose of a double line electric railway between London and Dover. One route is via Maidstone and the other via Chatham. Military spectators present at the review of the Argentine army arc reported to have stated that the evolutions and appearance of the troops were worthy of the best organized armies of Europe. » The progress of the world Is shown by the fact that the first consignment of ping-pong outfits has Just reached Iceland. Now, cro quet began its maddening career about 1860, and did not reach Iceland until 1880, Just twenty years later. No man on earth can love his neighbor as himself if he garden and the aforesaid neighbor keeps chickens. Earthquake Lasting Many Months Swept the South in 1811 BY JAMSb ft. HALL. HE RECENT disasters on the islands of Martinique and St. Vincent recall the great shakeup of the Mississippi valley in 1811, and it may be interesting now T to glance back at what occurred nearly a century ago in our own country, and, in some degree, at our own homes. As the mysterious forces of the under world do not seem to be affected by the changes of governments or of the degree of civ ilization or no civilization of the people who walk the thin crust of earth, none can tell when such another disturbance will occur. The Mississippi valley was in 1811 a primitive wilderness with only a few small trading posts scattered at wide intervals along the streams. Today it teems with a busy population and is dot ted with thrifty towns and stirring cities. In the thinly settled wilderness the loss of life in 1811 was slight, but the same disturbance today would produce an ap palling harvest of death. The center of the great disturbances which began on the night of the 15th of December and continued for nearly three months seems to have been in the south east corner of Missouri, and the vibrat ing shocks followed the courses of the many streams of the great river system, passed the Alleghanles and died along the shores of the Atlantic. North Geor gia, then an Indian country, was shaken violently, and in Gordon county and oth er parts of the mountainous sections are still to be seen fissures said to have been made in the earth's surface at that time. GEORGIA SUFFERED TOO. Owing to the conditions of the time only fragmentary accounts of the disturbance are obtainable, but these are sufficient to show that this was one of the most vio lent and extended disturbances of the earth's crust of which we have any knowledge. One of the most interesting of these accounts is furnished by Captain Roosevelt, an ancestor of the president, who was on his w’ay from Pittsburg to Natchez with the first steamboat ever run on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Says Captain Roosevelt: “While we were taking on coal five miles below Yellow Banks, w’hich is on the Indiana side, we were accosted by some squatters in great alarm, who ask ed us if we had not heard strange noises in the woods and along the river, and noticed that the banks trembled. Next day we continued our voyage down stream. The weather was still and hot The air seemed misty, dull and heavy and the sun, which gleamed like a ball of copper, shed but a faint twilight on the surface of the river. It was every where still as death. There was no breath of air moving, but now and then we notic ed a shudder among the trees. As the afternoon advanced we noticed large por tions of the shore being torn off and falling into the water. Next day the at mosphere presented the same peculiar appearance. Althbugh it was early win ter the air was hot and suffocating. Our pilot found the channel of the river every where changed and it was with the great est difficulty that -we picked our way among the numerous trees and new islands which had just been pushed up from the river’s bottom. All through the deep woods we could see the trees danc ing and nodding about and many being split in twain from the roots upward. We saw many flat boats and other craft along the shore, from which the owners had fled, and as the high banks were constantly sliding into the river many of these vessels were overwhelmed. It was our custom to bring to at night under shore, but as no safe place could be found our pilot advised that we proceed to a large island in midstream. When we reached the spot we found the island gone, but further down we found an other and smaller one, to which we at tached our boat and spent the night, keeping watch on deck. All night the water of the river would rise and fall and we could hear the constant crash of Here's the True Story of Noah. ERE is a true story about Noah and his ark. Authorities agree that it was the first ship to sail , the mighty deep. Noah’s ocean was no little Atlantic millpond H affair, but a vast universal sea, covering the highest mountains of the world. Whether it covered the entire globe is what geologists and antiquary experts are still discussing. Some believe that the Bible deluge was confined to the old world, particularly to the Asiatic conti nent. The Bible says it was forty days before Noah sent out his dove in search of dry land. Babylonian records say it was sev en days before a couple of swallows were let out of the ark, followed by a raven. The swallows returned, but the raven has not been heard of to this day. Legends of all nations and races of the world declare there was a deluge, and but one family survived. The object of the deluge was to destroy the human race, which had become de praved. practicing all kinds of wickedness now becoming popular in New York, Lon don’and other ambitious towns. Noah, being a good man, was told to pot his family and a pair of animals of each kind in the ark and prepare for heavy rain. The eloquent picture of the ark which appears at the head of this narrative must be considered as more or less au thentic, for it appears in the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, first part published 1768 (before the war of the American revolution), complete three vol umes quarto, 2,670 pages, 169 copper plates, published 1771. Noah Called “Second Adam.” It is an interesting fact, noted in histori cal works on the deluge, that the destruc tion of life was so absolute that the resto ration following the great flood war call ed the "Secnd Creation.” The Arabs, a temperate race, with long memories, call Noah the second Adam. After the flood, when the ark came to anchor on the little plateau of earth in the lap of the twin peaks of Mount Ara rat (you can see the place today—Profes sor Bryce refers to it in his book of trav els in that region), there were only the few animals and Noah's family on the whole earth. When Neah walked out of the big ship with his family, the animals following him, he was indeed the father of the world. He was indeed the Adam of the new race. Regarding the voyage, and especially the ark, the Encyclopedia Britannica, above quoted, says: “It must be observed that besides the places requisite for the beasts and birds and their provisions, there was room Re quired for Noah to lock up household utensils, the instruments of husbandry, grains and seeds to sew earth with after the deluge. For this purpose, it is thought that he might spare room in the third story for six and thirty cabins, besides a kitchen, a hall, four chambers and a space about eight and forty cubits in lengths to walk in.” Noah’s Menage a Problem. It must be admitted that some serious problems perplexed Noah at every turn. It is explained by some writers that he did not shelter mates of every beast and fowl. But he had the seed, as it. were, the typical animal of each species. Out of which all the mulions have since devel oped. As to just how the animals behaved during the voyage no one knows, as Noah’s log was probably destroyed when the Mohammedans overran Europe and Asia and bursed the great libraries of an cient manuscripts. It has been said that the animals were so pleased to be “in” out of the flood that they were glad to keep the peace, especially as Noah and his sons had a corner on all the provisions in the world. The little canary birds were overjoyed to get their daily allowance of seeds and the elephants did not grumble the trees aa great landslides plunge* into the river." NEW MADRID WRECKED. "About noon the day following Captain Roosevelt's boat reached tbe little town of New Madrid on the west banks of the Mississippi. This town, which bad been founded by tne Spanish, contained 3.000 population, made up of Spanish, French and Americans. It was a total wreck and its people were terror stricken. Great fis sures ran through the town and into these many of the log houses had tum bled with their occupants. The villages of New Madrid and Little Prairie were the only bodies of population near the center of disturbance, and both were practically wiped out. The grave yard at New Madrid was plunged into the bed of the river. Large lakes of many miles in extent were made in an hour and other lake bottoms pushed up into mounds and ridges. The whole country from the mouth of the Ohio to the St. Francis was so convulsed that numerous lakes and islands were formed and in places the course of the mighty Mississippi was changed.” A man who lived at New Madrid wrote of the catastrophe as follows: "The undulations of the earth were like terrible waves, increasing in elevation as they advanced, and when they attain ed a certain fearful height the earth would burst and vast volumes of water, sand and pit coal twiuld be discharged far above the tops of the trees. The shocks were clearly distinguished into two classes—those in which the motion waa horizontal and those in which it was per pendicular. The latter were attended with explosions and a terrible mixture of noises. Then the houses crumbled, the trees moved together, the ground sunk, while ever and anon vivid flashes of lightning, gleaming through the troubled clouds of night, rendered the darkness doubly horrible. After the severest shocks a dense black cloud of vapor over shadowed the land. The sulphurated gases that were discharged during the shocks tainted the air with their noxious effluvia and so impregnated the water of the river for one hundred and fifty miles as to render it unfit for use. Birds lost all power to fly and sought the compan ionship of man, and likewise did the cat tle and horses. They came bellowing in from the range as if to demand to be conducted to safety. Most of the cattle and many human beings perished. Some sank into the yawning rents in the earth, some in boats were overwhelmed by the caving banks of the river and buried in the bottom of the stream. The rending of the earth just below town arrested the great river and caused it to rise several feet in a few moments. Many boats were carried far inland and left high and dry when a few moments later the river forced itself over the barrier. At another point the opening of a new lake of some eighty miles’ extent and into which the waters of the river were turned caused the stream to reverse its current and flow swiftly up stream till the lake was filled." LIVED LIKE INDIANS. After tbe earthquake subsided the eddy at the mouth of the bayou below New Madrid became filled with wreckage from up the river, and it is sail} the surviving people of tne town found among this wreckage an ample supply of stores to supply them during the winter, having been brought down from the numeroua wrecks up stream. The terrified settlers did not dare live in houses after their towns were destroy ed, but spent the remainder of the winter in bark huts built after the manner of the Indians, and which were so light that no injury could be done if they were thrown down. The shocks continued with lessening severity for several months, and in the spring the survivors nearly all moved away. The land, formerly a rich alluvium, was, in many places, so com pletely covered with sand, which was ejected from below the surface, as to ren der large districts uninhabitable. because the hay from the Euphrates val ley was now and then a little mildewed. Our present big*steamships, the pride of the world, are wonders indeed, but they haven’t yet sailed over Mount Ararat, nor had all the people in the world on board at one time as passengers. Sceptical readers have little faith in the ark story, yet it is a fact that in the mines under the great plains and deserts of Montana, Wyoming and Mexico they are digging out the skeletons of animals a hundred feet long and pine knots with chunks of rosin as big as a man’s fist; and up on the Rocky mountains, above timber line, ten or twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea. there are beds of saddle rock oyster shells and the re mains of alligators that oi>ce were frisky and smiling in the youth of the world. Meanwhile Noah continues to have his name printed in dictionaries and encyclo pedias and holds the record as first sailor to navigate unknown seas. / CHINESE WILL BE GREATEST. ROFESSOR Frederick Starr, the noted and eccentric anthropolo gla of the university of Chicago, thinks that In the not distant fu ture China, Russia and Germany p will be the nation* dominating the world. "That was a very ridiculous statement made by a friend of Dr. Carus,” Profes sor Starr said, "that one thousand years hence the Chinese, Jews and Saxons would rule the world. Dr. Carus quoted It from a frteua in our roiKlore Association meet ing. The statement was not made on scientific investigation or thought, but on a basis or prejudice—Anglo-Saxon prej udice. “One thousand years hence! Why, no one can talk about what will be the con ditions one thousand years from now. Why, one thousand years ago there was no British empire. The United States is only two hundred years old. But If you want me to make some prediction about the more Immediate future possibly I can accommodate you. “Then it Is absurd to put Jews in the same category with Chines® and Anglo- Saxons. They are wordsfof different cate gory. The Jews are not a race. They are a people who have one religion, Judaism. Most of the Jews, you know, are Ger mans, Russians or Poles. They are not Hebrews. There are Irishmen who are Jews. Why, right here In Chicago I know Irishmen who are Jews. “In the future, and not far distant fu ture, Russia and China are nations which will occupy the leading portions In the world; and"if you want a third, Germany. • They are on the threshold now. I do not mean that the world Is going to be Chinaized as we talk of its being Angli cized. But the English language has spread as far as It is going. "The Chinese will be the greatest peo ple, the Russians the greatest white ooHt- Ical power, and the Germans the greaes** commercial power. “The other’nations, including the Unit ed States, will have secondary positions, and their great cities will occupy posi tions accordingly. Presumably the great cities will be the great cities of the na tions which are to lead. “The era 6f our commercial expansion is coming to an end.” Epigram of Women. Notes and Queries. Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they’re shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they’re rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness Are as nothing to their goodness when they’re good. Cupid believes In homeopathy—at lAst he heals with another arrow the wound made by one of his darts.