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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Mexico Is again having one. of th os*
L . Taqui Indian times.
Why is It nobody ever alludes to him as
the sweet boy graduate?
The Mrs. Maybrick pardon rumor is
right on time for the coronation.
We doubt if Senator Morgan could even
be Induced to wear a Panama hat.
It will be observed that Neely is not
,- kicking on the way he gets his freedom.
Nevertheless, this fight over a Cuban to
bacco tariff is certain to end In smoke.
The Hou. Joe Hill Hall still has the
Macon Telegraph dangling at hi* scalp
E belt. .
Spain might solve her bull fight problem
by having a beef trust to bull the price of
bulla
Charleston is trying to make the govem
nent a present of that IUC.OOO exposition
* deficit. ,
But. after all. does Colonel Estill think
a post-mortem would bring the corpse
fc back to Ufa?
It to believed that all of the antl-Joe
Hallitee of Bibb county have come in and
| gurrendervd ,
The administration may yet have to
create a special department to look after
Gen. Len Wood.
At any rate, nobody will be able to ac
cuse M. Rostand of plagiarising hl* opinion
of Judge Kohlsaat.
The British tax payer will have a hard
time making himself feel that peace ha*
1 really been declared.
CbL Estill ought to get out an injunction
to prevent his adviser* giving him any
i more of that sort of advice.
Kansas Is experiencing her annual short
age of harvest hands. Kansas never
♦ seems able to keep her crops and her farm
labor within the proper ratio. t
■ The man who makes it a daily habit to
consult the thermometer is merely looking
for trouble this sort of weather.
Perhaps those Mexicans think they, too,
are engaged in a benevolent- work by
■taking tboee Yaquis good Indians.
Opinion seem* to be about equally divid
ed as to whether votes bring more In
Richmond or Chatham counties.
Germany had best be careful with her
battleships in Venezuelan waters lest they
collide with the Monroe doctrine.
Mark Twain’s works have been barred
sot of Russia. The Czar i* the first per
ton that ever took Mark seriously.
It begins to look like President Roose
velt will have to take his party out be
hind the woodshed. Or vice ver«a.
Another rough rider has been given a
consulship. We were under the impres
sion that they had all been provided for.
We are glad that Governor Jeff Davis
has managed to find at least one church
that Is trilling to stand for bis sort of
A
The next time those Bibb county politi
cians try to base the Hon. Joe Hill Hall
they will be careful to take him while he
is asleep. ,
The circuses in England will suspend
during the coronation exercises. King
Edward doesn’t propose to tolerate any
competition tn that sort of thing.
So far no one has attempted to ex-
Hain why it was wrong for Rathbone to
buy mall with the government’* money,
but all right for Gen. Len Wood to do it.
An lihonls court has been called on for
a legal decree defining the statu* of moth
era-in-law. Most mothers-ln-law don’t
need a court decree to establish that point.
Sunday school scholars at Pittston. Pa.
have refused to be taught by a non-union
superintendent. They would probably al
so refuse to sing without a union "scale."
The report is circulated by a Kansas
City contemporary that the farmers of
Kansas are tired of wading around in real
mud and are preparing to bore for dry
| land.
Two Italian deputies fought a due! the
other day and one of them was wounded
to the ear. In fact, it would be almost
Impossible to mis* the average Italian
deputy’s ears.
A Chicago paper asserts that Chicago
girls' feet are smaller, by actual meas
> urement. than the feet of New York girl*.
Which to saying a good deal for the feet
of New York gifts
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun says it Is
“confident that the convention can satisfy
f Col. Estii! fully, without Interfering with
the result* of the primary." Are we to
understand that Col Estill Is merely do
ing this sort of thing for bls health?
During the last three months of 1901.
pl the railway accidents to persons and
property to the United States footed up
B a total of Sil killed and 10.235 injured,
and, the property damage to |!.0T3.<>91.
The* loss of life was greater than in the
Span I* h war and approximates, in the
f number Jellied, to the total American loss
tn the Philippines. Had General Sherman
lived a few years longer he might have
been moved to remark that riding on rail
roads is also to—.
WHAT MORE DO THE RAI LROADS WANTY
It is difficult to understand why the railroads desire any more power than
to at present possessed by them.
Their southern customers have alone paid them enough to the past eight or ■
ton years to add millions on top of millions of dollars to the value of their prop
erties. The amalgamation of competing lines has made their paths straight and
smooth so far as the troublesome question of competition is concerned, and has
placed their patrons in their power to an extent that is considered alarming
by many sober-thinking people.
A* to the regulation of their rates by the interstate commerce commission,
they are in no way hampered, for they have fought all efforts to regulate and
equalise their charges until they have secured decisions from th© Courts that
have stripped the interstate commission of practically all its powers and reduced
it to a position where it is little more than a statistical bureau.
The state railroad commissions have little authority to compel them to do any
thing they are unwilling to do, and they cannot get their prerogatives Increased.
The legislatures and congress, for the past ten years, have passed no legislation,
that is hurtful to them, while many laws have been enacted that are of great
value to them.
Their consolidation of competing lines, which was only a short while ago al
most universally regarded as being forbidden by state constitutions and state and
United States statutes, have not been seriously Interfered with, and they now
have free rein to issue a* much watered stock as they like and collect divi
dends on It from the public at large.
The pledgee and platforms of all political parties and their candidates have
been radical in their declarations against trusts, but the most biased partisan of
the roads will not claim that these pledges and platforms have been carried out to
their Injury. The great body of the people have been very considerate of them
and their interests and have shown Utile disposition to pick quarrels with them,
oven when, they have considered that severe hardships on the publly were be
ing prctleed by them.
The railroads are prosperous at this time to an extent never before known In
their history and their prospects under existing conditions were never brighter.
Why under these circumstances can they desire more power fiver their pat
rons who have done so much and permitted so much to be done for these cor
porations?
Yet strange as it may appear they are urging the passage by congress of
the Elkins bill, which expressly gives them the power to legally make agree
ments among themselves for a division of the traffic of the country to the end
that after the shortest and quickest line between any two points has hauled all
the traffic that the pooling agreement calls for the pool may,
contrary to the express terms of its bill of lading given
to a shipper binding it for a valuable consideration to carry his freight, turn it
over to the longest and most indirect route for delivery without regard to the
desire or interest of the shipper who pays its charges. This means just as long
delays in making deliveries as the interests of the roads may dictate, no mat
ter how hard it beats on their customers.
Nothing can be conceived of that would be more mischievous in Its effects
on all the agricultural, manufacturing and commercial interests of the country
than to legalise such agreements.
When money is invested in freight, anA debts are to be paid by the proceeds
of Its sale, the person sending and the person that is to receive it have the
right in all equity to as speedy deliveries as can be made by the road which
agrees to carry it and his right to select the quickest route is equally strong,
and he ought not to be subjected to the delays necessitated by its being carried
by the line that is known to be the most indirect and slowest that can be se
lected.
It Is Important to the shippers to know when their freight is to be delivered
to their customers so that they can take this into consideration in determining
what they can pay for their goods, and so that they can decide with some degree
of accuracy whether or not the goods purchased can be delivered at the point
of destination before a hurtful change In the market shall occur.
There can be no sufficient reason for the passage of the Elkins bill. If
passed it would prove more pernicious in its effects on all the merchants, farm
ers and manufacturers than all the consolidations that are talked of. Conserva
tive people who would consider a bitter struggle between the transportation
lines and the public as Altogether undesirable cannot fail to regard with wonder
the action of the roads in this respect and cannot fall to earnestly desire to the
interest of industrial and political peace that the Elkins bill, if it shall continue
to be urged for passage, shall meet with overwhelming defeat.
THE WOOD SCANDAL.
One of the liveliest public sensations
that has agitated Washington to a long
time has been caused by the charge that
General Leonard Wood, late governor of
Cuba, ha* been improperly interested in
the sugar trffst lobby at the capital.
It to due General Wood that the public
should suspend its judgment until the
matter has been thoroughly Investigated
and no member of congress should make
up his mind about it yet. We regret to
see intimations some of the Demo
cratic senators and representatives will
attempt to make partisan capital out of
this scandal which affects the honor of
the country and which all good citizens
should hope to see cleared up perfectly.
But it must be borne to mind that the
charges against General Wood are made
by reputable persons and that nothing-hut
the most searching investigation will sat
isfy the country.
If there should be on the part of the
president, who has that he has a
special admiration for General Wood, or
on the part of congress, where he has
many ardent champions, any appearance
of Intention or desire to treat these
charges lightly, the public will naturally
jump to the conclusion that there is much
truth in them.
President Roosevelt’s action in the
premises will be closely scrutinised and
rigidly judged.
It is also a proper expectation that Gen
eral Wood will demand that congress go
to the very bottom of this case. He has
been severely criticised for his methods
of advocating the passage of the Cuban
reciprocity measure. It was. of course,
his right and duty as the chief representa
tive of our government in Cuba to make
recommendations as to the policy
that congress should adopt toward that
island, but when he went to the point of
buttonholing congressmen and persistent
ly pleading with them to adopt his views,
to put it mildly, he transcended the
bounds of good taste.
However, up to last Wednesday it
had never been publicly charged or even
suggested that General Wood had any im
proper motive to so urgently besieging
congress, or any discreditable inspiration
for his seal. The worst that has been said
of him to this connection, so far as the
public knew, was that he had been indis
creet. and that is certainly true. He Is
now placed to a very different position,
and it is the duty of the administration to
do all In its power to make it perfectly
plain whether he has been slandered or
has been guilty of any misconduct.
The people will await with deep interest
all the proceedings relative to this matter.
OLEOMARGARINE RULINGS.
It behooves all wholesale and retail
dealers in oleomargarine and worked over
butter to regard carefully the rulings of
the internal revenue department at Wash
ington affecting their business.
These rulings are very distinct and fail
ure to comply with them renders all
dealers in the articles covered by the
recent oleomargarine act liable to heavy
penalties.
According to the revenue authorities at
Washington renovated butter in its man
ufacture, sale and handling stands on the
same plane as colored oleomargarine. The
provisions of the law apply to both ex
actly alike. A tax of 10 cents a pound
is imposed on colored oleomargarine and
one-fourth of 1 per cent on the uncolored
product. .
Dealers, wholesale and retail, who pay
the higher rate of special tax may sell
either colored or uncolored oleomargarine,
or both, but those who pay S2OO as whole
sale dealer* and $6 as retail dealers can
sell under such special tax stamps only
uncolored oleomargarine. Another impor
tant point la that, while the provisions
of the law cover oleomargarine and reno
vated butter alike, one special-tax does
not authorise the sale of both. The two
are kept separate and distinct for pur
poses of taxation. Wholesale and retail
taxes must be paid on each. It is also
required that manufacturers of either
oleomargarine or renovated butter must
pack their product in new packages of
not leer than ten pounds each and to
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOUKNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 19OS.
each package must be affixed the tax
paid stamp with the usual caution notice.
The absence of stamps on packages of
renovated butter that have been removed
from the factory will be considered prtma
fade evidence that the tax has not been
paid. f
It is*, therefore, dangerous to remove
oleomargarine or renovated butter from
a stamped package before it is sold and
ready for delivery.
A retail dealer is permitted to sell less
than ten pounds at a time. If he sells
as much as ten pounds at one time to
one customer he will be regarded as a
wholesaler and liable to a higher tax
It will be seen that the framers of the
oleomargarine act recently passed have
done about their best to stamp out an
Industry that was supplying the masses
of the people with a pure and wholesome
article of food at much less cost than
butter, a very large part of which is
adulterated and nearly all of which is
colored artificially.
The oleomargarine law is one of the
most arrant assertions of the principle
of class legislation ever yet made, and
shows how rich and powerful interests
may prevail upon congress for the be
stowal of special favors for themselves,
or the infliction of special penalties upon
their competitors.
THE ..EGRO IN ILLINOIS.
Those who really imagine, or pretend
to believe, that the northern and western
states are a paradise for the negro, while
the south gives him no chance to enjoy
his constitutional right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, must blind
their eyes to frequent occurrences which
show better than Republican party plat
forms and bloody shirt speeches how the
negro is really regarded and treated in
those sections where love for him is
most exurberantly professed.
They should be Interested, for instance,
in the accounts given by Illinois news
papers of the recent treatment of a negro
school near Eldorado in that state.
All of these accounts agree that there
was no provocation for the cruel and
cowardly treatment which was visited
upon the teachers and pupils of this
school by a white mob composed of white
Illinois citizens.
The normal and Industrial school for
negroes, upon which this outrage was
visited, is conducted on the lines of the
practical education that is given to ne
groes at Tuskegee and in other southern
schools which are dealing most success
fully with the problem of negro educa
tion.
The Eldorado institute seems to be a
model of its kind and no complaint has
ever been lodged against it.
But it is a negro school and that was
enough to fire the fury of the white
citizens of Illinois in its vicinity.
On the eve of the commencement ex
ercises they organized a mob and estab
lished a reign of terror for the negro
teachers and pupils of this institution.
These were driven from the neighbor
hood, the school buildings were attacked
and badly Injured and the crops which
were being cultivated by the negro stu
dents were destroyed.
Nothing of this kind has ever happened
in the south. Negroes who had perpe
trated revolting crimes in this section
have provoked mob violence, but no negro
school has ever been attacked by a mob
in any part of the south. The Chicago
Tribune, the leading Republican newspa
per of the west denounces the Eldorado
outrage as "a disgrace to Illinois” and
calls upon Governor Yates to go to the
limits of his power in the effort to bring
the perpetrators of the crime to justice.
The Tribune says that negroes have
sometimes received severe treatment in
the south, especially during the ku klux
days, but there has never been in this
section an instance of breaking up of
negro schools and the driving away of
their teachers, or the destraction of their
crop*. The Tribune adds:
"The southern people appreciate the
importance of a practical education for
the colored people. They have a high
opinion of the work carried on at Tuske
gee. It would be impossible to raise a
mob to break it up or break up any school
like It. It is reserved for an Illinois mob
to endeavor to prevent the education of
black men in away calculated to make
them useful to themselves and to the
community.
"If an outrage like that at Eldorado
is allowed to go unpunished it will be
apparent that tfiere are some sections of
Illinois where the negro, honestly trying
to better his condition, is exposed to worse
treatment than if he were domiciled in
any of the states south of the Ohio.”
This is an honest admission that there
obtains in Illinois a virulent feeling
against the negro which is not found in
the south and which the people of this
section regard with disgust and indigna
tion.
If a school in the south which was
doing good work for the practical edu
cation of negro youths along lines that
will help them to become useful citizens
should be attacked, terrorized and plun
dered by a mob of white men what a howl
would go up in the north! But most of
the newspapers of the north which are
continually reading lectures to the peo
ple of the south about their duty to the
negro have very little to say in con
demnation of the Eldorado mob and its
despicable work.
The Chicago Tribune is an exception,
and it has the candor to confess that
such an outrage would A>e imoosslbla In
this section.
HATS OFF TO THIS GIRL!
We salute Miss Laura Talbott Galt, of
the eighth ward public school of Louis
ville, Ky.
If we had a great bouquet of the finest
flowers that could be gathered on Geor
gia soil we would send it to this glorious
girl with our compliment* and congratu
lations.
We have never seen her, but she has
won our enthusiastic admiration all the
same.
She did so by flatly refusing to sing
"Marching Through Georgia" the other
day, though her teacher had ordered her
to do so.
Miss Laura Talbott Galt elevated her
self still further in our regard by putting
her fingers in her ears so that she could
not even hear the thing. \
"Marching Through Georgia” should
never be turned loose in Any part of this
country unless those who sing it desire
to keep alive sectional hato and resent
ment.
The song is odious and irritating to
the people of the south generally and
those of Georgia especially.
It glories in the humiliation and suf
ferings of the people of Georgia during
an era when a destroying army of a
hundred thousand men left a wide track
of desolation from Atlanta to the sea.
There was practically nobody to oppose
the march of this mighty host through
Georgia that has been so absurdly her
alded as a heroic achievement. In its
literal record it is impossible to
And any trace or suggestion of heroism.
The burning of homes over the heads of
defenseless families, the plundering of
smokehouses and chicken roosts, the seiz
ure of private property of every kind,
even the jewelry of women and sacra
mental services of churches—these and
similar deeds stand out more conspicu
ously in the famous march through Geor
gia than any illustration of martial pow
ers or manly courage.
The people of the south despise this
song which gloats over their misery dur
ing the darkest days of their struggle
for Independence.
No self-respecting southern man who
took the part of his people in that heroic
war would have his child sing "March
ing Through Georgia.”
The great majority of the boys and
girls of the south consider it unfit for
their lips, and we hope that whenever
they are asked or ordered to sing it
they will show the spirit which
Miss Laura Talbott Galt. of Louisville,
illustrated in keeping her mouth shut
and her ears stopped while her more trac
table classmates were singing this pean
of sectionalism and plunder.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Pres*.
Egotism wears awfully squeaky shoes.
About the only time anybody has use for
red hair Is in * fight.
There is no doubt that mosquitoes, however
fastidious their taste, lack modesty.
A woman’s idea of really being loved is to
have you tell her so a different way every
time.
The bride falls to observe her husband's
cloven hoof until after she gets a whiff of
his cloven breath.
About the time a bachelor finds he can live
alone very comfortably be discovers some
woman who can’t.
The modern way of taming a shrew is to
buy her everything she wants and promise her
what she doesn’t want.
The average husband is so good a discipli
narian that he can train his wife to have ab
solute control over him.
The way to get solid with a woman when
she has three callers in one afternoon is to
speak of it as a reception.
A woman’s drerfd is not so much becoming
a mother-in-law as reaching the very next
stage—the grandmother.
APHORISMS.
Daylight and truth meet us with clear dawn.—
Milton.
True obedience neither procrastinates nor
questions.—luaries.
We get out of nature what we carry to her.—
Katherine Hager. *
The education of the will is the object of our
existence.—Emerson.
The best way of recognising a benefit is
never to forget it.—Barthelmey.
Age without cheerfulness Is like a Lapland
winter without the sun.—Colton.
Candor looks with equal fairness at both side*
of a subject.—Noah Webster.
Fools learn nothing from wise men. but wise
men learn much from fools.— Lavater.
SHORT AND INTERESTING.
One hundred and fifty landladies have been
summoned at Vienna for taking in boarders
without the permission of the police.
Lord Kitchener reports that most of the trou
ble with remounts in South Africa was due
to the newly enlisted soldiers knowing noth
ing of the care of horses.
A number of Viennese woman' have started
a dress reform league with the object of sup
pressing the corset and Introducing a nay kind
of divided skirt.
Pewter making, one of England’s important
industries seventy years ago. has almost been
abandoned. Cheap glasswar* and tinware have
driven pewter from the market.
The London school board has just opened a
school for cripples in Whitechapel. Dinner is
provided and the children are conveyed to and
from the school by an ambulance.
PERSONAL. NOTES.
Sergeant Hoff, whom American visitors to
Paris knew as the guardian of the Arc de
Triomphe, Is dead. He occupied the post for
thirty years.
Joseph Springer has been selected as vice
consul in Cuba by General E. S. Bragg,
the Consul General. Springer has resided in
Havana for twenty years.
Dr. M. E. Koonce, a missionary at Ram
part, Alaska, drove 1,200 miles in a dog sled
on his way to attend the Presbyterian anni
versaries held in New York recently.
The late General Charles H. T. Collis made
the bequest in his will that his two regimental
flags be deposited in the tomb of his old com
rade, General Ulysses S. Grant.
Miss Anna F. Millard, a missionary, has
returned to her home in Milwaukee, after
spending fifteen years In work among the
plague and famine stricken people of India.
Charles J. Osborn, dean of the Associated
Press service, will retire July 1. He was
the manager of the. telegraph office in which
Andrew Carnegie was employed as a messen
ger boy.
The building in which Edgar Allen Poe
edited the "Southern Literary Messenger,”
in Richmond, Va., is still standing and it is
proposed to place a suitable commemorative
tablet on its walls.
Prof. E. S. Goff, one of the most eminent
horticulturists of the country and a professor
of the State University of Wisconsin, Is dead.
He was the author of a number of standard
works on horticulture.
Christian Smith, the oldest locomotive en
gineer in the country, lives near Harper's
Ferry, Md. He ran the first engine on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at a speed of from
six to eight miles an hour, which was con
sidered rapid for those days.
FREAKS IN UNCLE SAM’S NEW STAMPS.
WASHINGTON. June 13.-Offlcials in
the postoffice department have been giv
ing away bits of paper during the past
two months of the commercial value of
1100 each.
These bits of paper are Pan-American
postage stamps of the 4-cent denomination
with the central picture upside down. The
central picture represents an automobile
with the capitol in the background.
Upon the face of each stamp was print
ed by means of a rubber stamp in very
small letters the word “Specimen.” This
rendered the stamp unavailable for post
age.
Not for a quarter of a century, if ever
before, has the stamp collecting guide
been, so agitated and torn up over any
thing else in the stamp line as the series
of Pan-Americans with the line of errors
and inverts following In its wake.
The Pan-American stamps aroused ex
traordinary interest from tile very start.
They were the first distinctive two-colored
set of stamps ever printed by the govern
ment.
The exquisite design and high character
of the engraving, together with the rich
combinations of coloring, at once attract
ed a vast army of recruits to the army of
stamp collectors, and many a business
man fell victim to the subtle charms pf
philately.
Not long after the placing on sale of the
series, just a year ago, a Brooklyn man,
in purchasing a dozen stamps, discovered
that the Empire State Express was wheels
up upon each 2-cent stamp in the lot
Being utterly without a spark of philatelic
sentiment, he used four of the stamps;
gave away a couple, and within a few
hours found himself besieged by stamp
dealers who wanted the remaining six
stamps.
Sold at a Profit.
They were finally sold at a profit of 5,-
000 per cent to the original purchaser.
Then followed a scramble for Inverts, in
which apparently half the country en
gaged.
The news was speedily wired every
where, and every postmaster carefully
went over his stock to see if. perchance,
he could discover any inverted trains.
So far as is known, not another sheet of
the 2-cent inverts was ever found, al
though collectors or dealers did procure
the balance of the sheet sold at the Brook
lyn office, it is said. The 2-cent invert is
now valued at >l5O, with practically none
on the market at that figure.
In the course of a few weeks a wood and
coal dealer in Syracuse, N. Y., discovered,
after he had mailed a hundred circulars,
Lee and Jackson
In Brooklyn
(Brooklyn Standard Union.)
Who can look at the grim walls of old
Fort Hamilton, or the ruins of Fort La
fayette, and not recall many interesting
events which are inseparably associated
with those posts? General Robert E. Le®,
the commander of the Confederate army
of Northern Virginia, was in charge of
Fort Hamilton when it was being built,
and'the house is still pointed out where
he lived with his family. Not only was
General Lee stationed here, but so also
was the famous General Stonewall Jack
son, whose striking peculiarities are still
remembered by some of the old residents.
Jackson was baptized at old St. John's
church, at Fort Hamilton, and the rec
ords contain the following entry: "On
Sunday, 29th of April, 1849, I baptized
Thomas Jefferson Jackson, major in the
United States army; sponsers. Colonels
Taylor and Dimmick, also of the army.”
The baptismal font used for this ceremo
ny is still preserved.
The fact is remembered by old residents
that Jackson when at the fort was very
particular about retiring early, and if he
happened to be out in company for an
evening he would immediately go home
when his early bedtime arrived.
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
There is a deficit to the Dutch budget of
over $5,000,000.
A railroad is being built between Tam
pico and Mexico City.
Ninety per cent of the 128,000,000 people
of the Russian empire are farmers.
For a quarter of a century no new
houses have been built in the Sussex
(England) village of Slindon.
Parisian theatre managers have resolv
ed for the future not to admit dramatic
critics to dress rehearsals.
Korea, as well as China, is going to have
her army reorganized and a British officer
has already taken charge.
There is in use in many Belgium towns
a smoke consumer of new pattern. The
smoke is driven by a fan into a filter of
porous material, over which pours a con
tinuous slow—vs petroleum. The filter
yields a gas of great heating power and
the material in the filter becomes a good
fuel
Information respecting the new antisep
tic called benzeyl acetyl peroxide, discov
ered by Dr. Freer, of Michigan, has been
asked for by the British government. It
is said to be an absolute specific for chol
era and all intestinal diseases.
Boston Man’s Privileges.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Because a Massachusetts visitor at
Washington fell by the wayside, was ar
rested, and kicked the copper, he was sent
to jail for sixty days. Are the ancient
privileges of the Massachusetts man to
thus be ruthlessly ignored?
It 1s not altogether clear whether the
Boers cheered for King Edward cr for
that $15,000,000.
POEMS WORTHREADING
THE POPLAR FIELD.
By William Cowper.
William Cowper, whom Southey describes as the “most popular poet of
his generation, and best of English letter-writers.” was the son of .he
Rev. Dr. John Cowper, chaplain to George 11, and grandson of J
Snencer Cowper. He was born on the 15th of November, 1731 . His»
was allied to some of the noblest families in England, and descended by
four different lines from King Henry 111. He went to Westminster school
and at IS besran the study of law and w*as admitted to the bar In 1754. in,
1763 his mind gave way and he tried to kill himself. A deep rell^° us ’
ancholy took possession of him. and for a year and a half he rematoed an
inmate of an asylum at St. Albans. He died on the Kth of April. His
first published poems appeared in 17«2. The Task, by he 18
known, was published in 1785, but previous tc.this the comic ballad of John
Gilpin, written for the amusement of a few friends, had made all England
merry with its humor.
The poplars are felled; farewell to the shade,
And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade!
The winds play no longer and sing in the leaves,
Nor Ouse on his bosom their image receives.
Twelve years have elapsed since I first took a view
Os my favorite field, and the bank where they grew;
And now in the grass, behold, they are laid.
And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade!
The blackbird has fled to another retreat.
Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat
And the scene where his melody charmed me before
Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more.
My fugitive years are all hasting away.
And I must ere long jle as lowly as they,
With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head
Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.
'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can,
To muse on the perishing pleasures of man;
Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments, I see,
Have a being less durable even than he.
that the steamboat upon the 1-cent stamp
was inverted. This was the first discovery.
Since that time several sheets have turn
ed up in various parts of the country.
There are probably 500 copies of 1-cent in
verted In existence, and the stamp sells at
$25 a copy.
Naturally, it was expected that errors
having been made in the 1 and 2-cent val
ues, the 4,5, 8 and 10-cent stamps would
also eventually appear with the picture
upside down. The expected did not hap
pen. however.
The printing of the Pan-Americans ceas
ed about thp Ist of August, and up to
that time no values except the 1 and 2-
cent had been seen with inverted center.
The sale of the series was discontinued
October 30th, and a couple of months ago
the remainders, with a face value of $600,-
000, were burned. It was supposed by col
lectors that this Anally closed the Pan-
American incident.
A Philatelist’s Great Discovery.
The matter was reopened in a peculiar
manner. The young son of an official of
the postoffice department was exhibiting
his collection of postage stamps to a phi
latelist. when the latter noticed among
the labels a copy of the 4-cent Pan-
American with the picture inverted.
Devotees of the fad assert that only a
real stamp collector can begin to realize
the jolt that this vision gave the collec
tor guest of the boy. Interrogated as to
how he came into possession of the stamp,
the boy replied that it had been given to
him by his father.
Os course, there was no more peace of
mind for the philatelist until he had un
raveled the mystery of the 4-cent Invert.
Inquiry at the department disclosed the
fact that the stamp was genuine—that a
whole sheet had been printed and sent to
the department. The story of the find, as
related by a postofilce official, is as fol
lows:
The discovery of the 2-cent Pan-Ameri
can, with inverted center, was a great
disappointment to the officials of the bu
reau of engraving and printing. It had
been hoped that the entire requisition
might be filled without an error of this
so»t. *
The stamps were printed in sheets of 200,
the center being printed first. The sheets
were dampened, pressed, and then print
ed with the border in colored ink.
The Picture Was Upside Down.
If, by chance, a sheet should be laid up
on the pile after the first printing in
black, otherwise than exactly as it came
from the pile, then when the second print
ing was made, the vignette or picture
would, of course, be upside down. Where
The Aftermath of the Election.
'HE dirt and smoke of the
primary battle has clear
ed away, and now comes
. the triumph of one crowd
0
and the disappointment and cha
grin of others. The surprises
are as great as the victories and
defeats. The laws of compensation
work. ” I am so glad over the de
feat of some of the little legisla
tors that I can’t get mad over the
defeat of my candidate.
The howl of the press is now that
the question of prohibition has been
settled in Georgia and that local
option is permanently fixed by the
decisive vote of Georgia. There is
one Georgian who is as much of a
prohibitionist now as he was June
4, 1902, and that Georgian is my
wife's husband, and his "forgiven”
name is Sam Jones.
vote in the late primary wa*
no test. Joe and Warner both said
they were temperance men, and
Joe said he would approve any pro
hibition law the legislature would
enact, and they both labored to
show that Joe wa* a better and
more consistent liquor man than
Guerry, etc. Really Joe talked like
he was at a regular Baptist expe- ,
rlence meeting on the subject. But
could never explain the telegram
to the satisfaction of Dr. Len G.
Broughton. No, boys, we ain’t done.
We will fight you while we
live and teach our children to
fight when we are dead.
A prohibitionist who will quit
fighting because he gets licked
dwindles down to a local optionlst
on the spot, and is then ready to
march in a procession that no self
respecting Christian man can gang
with. Candidate Guerry made a
brave, heroic fight and is worthy of
all honor. The world claps its
hands and shouts itself hoarse over
the victorious candidate, but I
honor the man who stands by his
convictions and will go down with
his convictions rather than surren
der them that defeat may be arest
ed. If a fellow ties on to a ma
jority of Georgia voters and sticks
to them until he dies and he don’t
go to hell, it will be because the
shebang burned out before he land
ed. I did what I could in the in
terest of Candidate Guerry and I
am not sorry or ashamed that I did.
I will not again criticise Candidate
Terrell for anything he may have
done in the past, but wUI stand by
his administration so long as he
lives up to his public declarations
and the principles of his platform,
and will never criticise him unjust-
stamps being ground out by the hun
dreds of millions, and the sheets are laid
upon the plates by hand, errors of this
sort are inevitable.
After the actual printing has been com
pleted, the sheets pass through many
hands before/ being placed in the vaults
for shipment, and each individual has
been cautioned to be on the lookout for
Inverts. When the two-cent value was
discovered inverted, the order went out
to redouble vigilance, and it is believed
that after this order not a sheet of in
verts escaped from the bureau, although
many sheets were discovered and de
stroyed.
It appears that just prior to the last
printings a sheet of the four-cent stamps
with inverted picture was found by an in
spector just as it was about to be ship
ped. The sheet had escaped the eyes of
the various examiners, and was about to
go out to a postmaster.
The director of the bureau was advised
of the find, and after he had permitted
the various clerks to examine the sheet
he telephoned to the postoffice department
of the discovery. The postoffice officials
requested that the sheet be sent to the de
partment.
One Stamp Sold for S3OO.
The request was complied With, and a
clerk was ordered to place upon each
stamp the word "specimen," as mentioned
at the outset. In some way four, it is
said, of the stamps were not so stamped
"specimen.”
The four-cent Inverts were placed one
each to an envelope and presented to of
ficials, senators and representatives. Ul
timately they came into possession of deal
ers of stamps and collectors in all parts
of the country, by whom they are greatly
prized.
It is said that away has been found to
remove the "specimen” by means of chem
icals, so that a number of the stamps
without this word across the face are
said to be in existence. A copy of the
stamp without the "specimen” sold a few
days ago at auction for more than S3OO,
and copies with the "specimen" are held
at SIOO.
As only 200 are in existence collectors
say the stamp is very valuable, and much
sought after. It Is said by other collec
tors that the stamp never having been
issued to any postmaster is not really a
postage stamp in the philatelic sense and
has no philatelic value.
Since the facts became known to stamp
collectors the department has been
swamped with requests for those stamps,
but the last copy was given away soma
days ago, and no more ean be had.
ly for anything he may do. But
I am not shoutlngly happy over the
nomination.
I say again that I will never be
a local optlonlst so long as the
scenes enacted In Bibb county dur
ing the local option fight there Is
possible. If the question of the sale
of liquor or no sale can be left to
the white primary, just as the
Democrats have every other less
Important matter, then I will join
the local optK>n ranks ,but so jor.g
as the Irresponsible negro voter/fs
rallied by the liquor gang and
driven like sheep to the polls sing
ing ribald songs in the ears of our
God faring, praying women, who
are working around the polls to
save their homes and boys; so long
I will fight for state prohibition.
Eliminate the vicious. Illiterate
ballot and then let every county •
settle the question for Itself, and
then give the dry counties some
protection from the jug trade of the
wet counties. Give the dry coun
ty a revenue of one dollar per
gallon on all liquor shipped within
their borders, then we can police
the stuff on the,revenue It pays.
The prohibition sentiment will
never die so long as the liquor bus
iness lives, and ought not to die,
and woe be unto America If It
should die! When men cease to
agitate the question and point out
its evils, then whisky will flow
ankle deep with a dipper hang
ing on every limb. So with every
good citizen of Georgia, I abide thfe
will of the majority and will be
loyal to the administration In all
things not wrong.
Glad our faithful agricultural
commissioner had such a walk
over. Glad Comptroller Wright had
no opposition. Glad Steve Clay re- \
mains In the senate. I am glad
of so many good men In office, and
sorry that a bad one ever got In.
With many others, I am sur
prised at Colonel Estill's vote. It
looks now like If he had had two
months longer in the canvas he
would have been the successful
candidate. I never said or heard
anything against the personal
character of either Mr. Terrell or
Colonel Estill.
I notice The Journal had notice
of our Wilkesboro, N. C., meetings.
That was the most wonderful meet
ing I’ve seen in ten years. Some
thing like 500 gave their hands for
church membership. I think almost
every prominent man In the coun
ty joined the church. Among them
were distillers, liquor sellers, law
yers, doctors, politicians, “Publi
cans and sinners.” I never preach
ed to a more attentive and respect
able audience. The great tent was
full day and night for the eight
days. The old mountain covered
wagons were there, by the hundred.
People camped and slept In their
wagons and stayed by the meet
ings. I never saw a drunken man
during my stay or a particle of
misbehavior. They were a hos
pitable and liberal people, and theJS
have a dozen virtues to a single
vice. z
There Is an immense tannery In
Wilkesboro, using six thousand
ton* of tan bark annually. They
pay the natives $6 per cord. This
furnishes employment to the farm
ers, in the hills between crops. They
also manufacture telegraph and
telephone pins by the million of
locust wood.
The lumber Interest Is also large,
and Wilkes county is fast forging
to the front.
The Blue Ridge range is In full
view of the town. The summer cli
mate and water are fine.
In spite of constant work, I Im
proved daily; in fact, I am get
ting on deck again, and it looks
now like I shall be able to do the
large amount of Chautauqua work
which the southern lyceum bureau
has laid out for me, beginning
June 20 and ending August 28. I
go from here to Jacksonville, Madi
son. Live Oak, Lake City and
White Springs, Fla.
I note with interest the leaps and
bounds The Journal is making.
The Journal is a “hummer.”
Yours truly,
SAM P. JONES.
Eastman, Ga., June 12, 1902,
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