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Minister Wu’s VIsK to Georgia.
••Coming events cast their shadows be
fore. ”
Although congress h.is lately passed a
Chinese exclusion act forbidding any Chi
nese emigrant from coming into these
United States who works for a living, yet
the appearance of Minister Wu, who is
so fine an English linguist and so superior
in all lines of distinguished learning,
would indicate that this American country
might be more just and generous to the
China man than it has been.
Admitting as we do the very scum of
the earth from Russia and Italy free of
restrictions, it would appear that we have
been straining at gnats and swallowing
camels in this matter of immigration.
The reaC.-rs of The Semi-Weekly will
bear me witness that this pen of mine has
been clear of such injustice. Not that my
protest has amounted to anything among
the powers that be. but I feel that we
. should not turn a deaf ear to those who
are willing to come to us and do good la
bor for a living price.
Now. 1 understand that there is a strong
feeling of exclusion against many nation
alities and that feeling has existed since
the days of "know nothlngism." as it was
then called.
But I do not forget that there are not
only no restrictions against the entrance
of the African, but today s paper tells
me that the northern negrophlllsts are
rearing, pitching mad in a northern city
because a bootblack declined to shine a
negro's shoes in that city.
I do not commend the extra seviceabll
ity of our southern congressmen who as
sisted In excluding the Chinese. when
the majority of congress Is seeking by
fair means and foul to force the white
southern people to eat. sleep, ride and as
sociate generally with the African con
tingent. At least our people had an op
portunity “to point a moral and adorn a
tale" wita the south's experience since the
civil war and the only reward the south
ern congressmen have received since this
obligingness In excluding the Chinese, has
been
ity shall be forced upon the south with
the African race.
It has now been demonstrated that Chi
na has a fine system of education, for
instance. Minister \Vu.
How many of our smart folks could. have
made a commencement address in China,
in the Chinese language?
It was a feat that we can never fully
understand until you put yourself in his
place.
I am more than ever convinced 'that the
south needs Chinese labor and my faith
ts strengthened since the appearance of
io capable a person as Mr. Wu.
Does the Soil Ever Get Sick?
When the land refuses to make flourish
ing crops, seasonable rains being supplied,
it is plain there is something the matter
with it. When soil that once produced
a bale of cotton to the acre will not make
a bale to four or five acres, it shows there
is something the matter with the soil.
Now. is it sick, or is it tired? Or is it
both sick and tired?
When I married in the SOs and came to
Cass, now Bartow county, to make my
home, the land was so strong and pro
ductive that I could not touch the top of
many cotton plants, sitting on a tall rid
ing horse, as I rode through. And going
Ahrough cornfields I could not reach the
tops of cornstalks with an average riding
whip. I ean go over the same land today
and cotton stalks are not two feet high
unless the soil is stimulated with commer
cial fertilisers. I conclude the land is sick
as well as tired. I believe we have made
the land sick by overdosing it with guano
or what is called guano, and we haVe
made it tired by working it to exhaustion
without allowing it to rest in small grain
or to lie fallow.
This county was a limestone country in
those early years of my life. If there is
any lime in the soil these latter days
thfre is nothing to show for It. for the
springs which were strong with lime now
seem to be but slightly touched with It.
Has it all been washed out. leached out,
or plowed and hoed out of the soil?
This is a serious question. The patriot
desires to leave the country in as good
fix as he found it. but our present day
farmers are leaving the land very thin
and attenuated when they are carried to
the cemetery.
We had no guano to buy before the war
—never once thought of buying anything
to make crops grow. Corn, cotton and
wheat would ask no help, only to
weeds down; now we are stimulating the
land every year, even to raise grain, and
un.ess you put stimulants under cotton
early in the spring your cotton will not
open its fruit during the fall of the year.
I honestly believe the soil is sick, and
we have been giving it so much active
stimulating medicine that it is exhausted
from the doctoring. Somebody, less than
fifty years from now, will say, ">rhat
fools .hose guano farmers were I Actual
ly doctoring a good servant until it was a
helpless invalid!”
Guano merchants all get rich and the
poor soli gets poorer every year!
What Confers the Right to Vote?
The supreme court of the United States
declares It Is not citizenship which confers
the right to vote in the states of this
union, because every woman Is a citizen,
and every boy is a citizen, and the woman
cannot vote except by permission of state
legislatures, and boys cannot vote until
they are U years old. Nor does the con
stitution of the United States confer the
voting privilege on the full-grown males
of the republic.
Some years ago a case was carried up
from Kentucky, a test case, with Sirs.
Virginia Minor as the plaintiff, to estab
lish the right to vote. It was contended
that Mrs. Minor was an American citizen,
and the right of suffrage was an attribute
of citizenship, and the constitution guar
anteed to every citizen the right to vote.
Mrs. Minor’s case went to the supreme
court in 21 Wallace, and the supreme
court decided that the constitution does
not confer the right of suffrage upon any
one.
And the fifteenth amendment does not
confer the right of suffrage. It simply
declares that the right of suffrage shall
not be discriminated against on account
of race, color or previous condition of
servitude.
These points were brought forward
prominently in congress a few days ago
In an able speech delivered by Hon. A.
F. Fox. of Mississippi, where I found the
facts as stated above.
The right of conferring suffrage belongs
to the states, and each state can decide
upon the qualification of its voters, but
the fifteenth amendment of the constitu
tion declares that this right of suffrage
shall not be denied to other races, colors
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or because the citizen had been a slave
or in previous condition of servitude.
Whatever of disqualification is permlt-
VALUABLE HINTb.
How to Clean Lace.
Cream colored Spanish lace that is on
ly slightly soiled can be cleaned by rub
bing it into dry flour then shaking
throughly. Laces may be whitened by
letting them stand covered with soapsuds
in the sun, and they may be given a
creamy tint by dipping them in well
strained cold coffee. Delicate laces can
be cleaned by washing and rinsing in
alcohol, washing them in it as if it were
water. Laces will last longer and look
far daintier if they are never creased by
folding, and they are easily kept smooth
by winding over a roller. Green tea)
is a favorite wash for black lace. The
tea should be tepid and the lace should
be washed and rinsed in the tea. The
best way to dry lace is to baste it to a
cloth drawn tightly over a smooth board,
but It should be very carefully pulled in
to perfect shape, and It should be kept
damp while it is being handled. Another
way to wash and dry lace is to baste
it smoothly to a piece of muslin larger
than the lace, and wash in warm suds,
then rinse well and stretch out the cloth
upon which the lace is basted and pin
down smoothily to the bed or carpet and
allow it to remain until perfectly dry.
Cotton lace or a good quality of white
silk lace can be washed in suds made by
stirring enough pearline in warm soft
water to make a nice lather. Place them
in the suds and let them remain for half
an hour, then press between the hands
until quite elean and rinse in clear warm
water.
Battenburg lace and all lace trimmed
articles can be made beautifully white
and clean by washing in the suds and
dry them by basting down or by ironing
over a well padded Ironing board before
the pieces are quite dry.
M. H.
Put a Stop To It.
Today’s Atlanta papers tell a horrid
story of the murder of a beautiful young
woman in a c.iurch building, near that
city, shot down by a young man who
brought a concealed pistol to church to do
the miserable deed, which has not only
robbed a lovely home of its brighest jewel,
but disgraced the murderer as well as
made him an outlaw.
This'pistol toting should be stopped un
less the owner carries it on the outside of
his garments, and when a man goes to
church or any public place with his ar
senal in plain view he should either sit
like a prisoner in dock or deposit his fire
arms with some one authorized to watch
them while other people are attending to
the business they came for.
It is monstrous that this young girl's
life should have been taken in such a
way in such a place. The murderer was
another Flanagan, and the breed is get
ting to be uncomfortably common.
Os course when the murderer is caught
insanity will be tbe plea before the courts
and people are becoming heartily tired of
this convenient plea. Unless there is more
protection to human life and fewer sub
terfuges in screening the guilty lynch law
will be tae only law of Georgia in a very
few years worth a cent.
One’s sympathy is really taxed beyond
expression to think of that sweet young
girl’s fate in the church, where of all
places in the world she had most reason to
feel assured in safety.
It speaks loudly for the patience of the
people present that the murderer walked
away unmolested. Whatever may be his
condition of mind public safety calls in
thunder tones that he should not have op
portunity to repeat his action.
Some Practical Thoughts on Reading.
Daniel Webster says: The intelligence
of the people is the security of the na
tion.”
“Knowledge is to the mind what health
is to the body; it makes more of us,”
says Sargent.
There are homes in which reading is al
most unknown, and where books and pa
pers are seldom seen. Probably all the
family can read, but do not like to do
so. What a pity they do not cultivate a
taste for reading. Then there are homes
where the parents can and do read to
themselves, while the children are sent
to bed or to play, or to a neighbor's in
stead of being gathered together to hear
father or mother read a good story or a
chapter from some good book. AU par
ents owe it as a duty to their children
to teach them to read and then cultivate
in them a taste for good literature.
One of the saddest conditions in life is
that of an aged or infirm person who has
not ability Or taste for reading. If any
one who reads this article wishes to do
some practical good in the world, by help
ing others to a better appreciation of the
many blessings of life, there is no surer
way of doing this than by inducing those
who do not read to cultivate a taste for
good literature. Give them your papers,
and if there are boys and girls who are
not provided with reading matter loan
them some of your good books and see if
you are not i epaid some future day. The
habit of reading is essential to the high
est enjoyment as well as the greatest
usefulness in life.
MRS. JEMIMA RINGGOLD.
Barber, Ga.
How the Rich Colored Man Served His
Family in His Will.
A free-born negro man from Virginia
went to Phiiidelphia a half century or
more ago, entered into business and mar
ried his employe’s daughter, presumably
white. When he died notjlong since he
left a fortune of some millions, and a will
that is unique to say the least of it. His
daughter was given S3OO per annum and
his six grandchildren SSO per annum each.
The balance of his estate was given to the
Catholic archbishop to build a school for
orphan children of both races, and the
grounds were to conta.ii an Immense
equestrian statue of himself, placed in a
prominent position.
The natural heirs will make a contest of
course, because they hau a right to pre
sume that they wou.d inherit the father's
and grandfather’s estate, and their share
is maliciously meagre in the will.
It seems that miscegenation with his
own color and the white did not raise his
wife’s children in his estimation very
myCh, according to his final wishes.
-'The archbishop who was named to re
ceive the bequest for the church he repre
sents is said to be much surprised at the
contents of the will, as he had no inti
mations to tnat effect while the testator
was alive.. Perhaps the local priest can
tell. He was a member of the Presbyter
ian church while living and this queer
will creates comment in the newspapers.
When the lawsuit is carried on the
public may learn something more of the
crotchets in his brain and why he slight
ed his white wife's mulatto children.
Destroy Chicken Mites.
Dear Mrs. Felton: As I am a reader of
The Semi-Weekly Journal, I see in the
columns of The Journal asked for a rem
edy to destroy mites among poulty. I will
send my remedy that I have been using
for three years. First, sweep and clean
your poultry house once a week. Make
strong salt water and wash the paultry
house thoroughly inside and the roost and
crevices. Use the salt water once a
month.
I have never been bothered with mites
since I have been using this remedy.
Braden, Ga. M. J J.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 19. 1902.
Treasures Constantly Lost By the Sea.
BY BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER.
ROF. WOODROW WILSON,
a southern-born man, who
kept for a time a law office
in Atlanta, I believe .has
p
been elected recently to the presi
dency of Princeton university.
Prof. Wilson became famous by
his admirable works entitled “Con
gressional Government” and “The
State.” The latter treatise is an in
teresting and scholarly study of the
constitutions of all the constitution
al governments of ancient and mod
ern times. On these and cognate
themes he is easily the best au
thority in the United States.
He is the 7 son of a Presbyterian
minister well known to many of
the people of Georgia. Had he not
become an authority on the special
lines of study chosen by him he
might now be a professor in one
of the poorly paid faculties of some
one of the southern colleges. But
■lnce he is a celebrity he is at the
head of one of the strongest and
richest- universities in the north.
He is one of many such Instances.
Georgia had the LeContes at
Athens once, but the far western
state of California, a territory, won
from Mexico bjr Georgia troops,
carried the distinguished scholars
away by more appreciative compen
sation for their services.
Columbia university carried Thos.
Price from Virginia to New York,
and the dean of the law school at
that opulent seat of Ifearnlng is Wil
liam A. Keener, a Georgia boy.
brought up in Augusta and gradu
ated from Emory college in the
class of 1874—the class immediately
before my own.
The University of Michigan car
ried Winchell from Vanderbilt, as
later the University of Wisconsin
took Charles Forster Smith from
the same institution, and the uni
versity of Chicago took Dr. Bemis.
These cases of southern colleges los
ing some of their strongest men to
northern institutions come to my
mind without effort, and others also
might be named if it were neces
sary. But I cannot recall that any
southern college has won from a
northern institution a single man
whom any such institution cared
specially to keep.
What do such facts signify? This,
at least: No southern college is
able to retain any one of its fac
ulty who becomes an authority on
any subject unless he stays from
some consideration of personal at
tachment or loyalty and at a finan
cial loss. Once a southern educator
becomes a celebrity he is lost to us
or stays with us at a heavy cost of
self-sacrifice.
By consequence the richest minds
depart from us, and the poor we
have always with us.
Can any people stand long such
a drain upon its highest and most
precious resources? We have al
ready suffered much and we must
suffer far more unless we speedily
apply the only remedy that can
avail to check the evil.
The college authorities have
sought to offset this drain by con
stantly importing young professors
from riorthern and European uni
versities. But this cannot accom
plish the result desired. The ten
dency of such a policy is to the
overestimation of the academic de
grees which a young man has se
cured and the underestimation of
the power of personality. In some
collection of men labeled with the
academic title of “doctor of phi
losophy” who make a sort of muse
um of fOssorial | incompetency.
They are bookish, but know next
to nothing of the constituencies
they serve, and make up courses
of study and adopt methods of in
struction not with a view to meet
ing the wants of the students whom
they are called to teach, but appa
rently with a view to please the in
stitutions from which they secured
their degrees. They are feeble imi
tators without originality and
without comprehension of the sit
uation about them, but they are
doctored passed all understanding.
They mean well, and they continue
where they are placed until they or
the institution employing . them
can find something better. Then
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they move on, and leave vacancies
to be filled by others like them
selves, who will repeat the same
form of collegiate inefficiency and
academic conventionalities, which
they mistake for scholarship and
professional ability.
Southern colleges cannot be built
up by such men, however amiable,
nor by such methods, however
learned they may seem. . .
We must so endow our colleges
as to be able to hold the best of our
Own men. This means money—
much money; but not more than
we are well able to supply, and
much lend than it will cost us in
men, money and influence if we
continue to allow northern insti
tutions to get from us our best and
give to us their weakest teachers.
Some men among us seem not to
understand why a college needs
any endowment at all. They im
agine it ought to make money like
a foundry and declare dividends
like a cotton factory.
But let us see the plain reason
why this cannot be the case and
why colleges must be endowed.
The average number of students
to the professor in American col
leges of first grade is approximately
thirteen. If the average number
be raised much above this the per
sonal influence and teaching power
of the instructor are diluted and
weakened below standard efficien
cy. But supposing the figure could
be safely raised to twenty and that
each of the twenty students paid
a tuition fee of S6O per annum, the
usual fee in the best southern col
leges. Then if every student paid his
S6O a year the college would realize
$1,200 annualy from the tuition fees
of every twenty students. This
leaves no margin for remitting fees
to needy young men; for failure
in collections, for insurance and
repair of buildings, for janitors’
service, fuel and lights and for
chemicals, apparatus and the like.
But if the entire $1,200, undimin
ished by any of these fixed charges,
could be applied to the payment of
the salary of the professor required
for every twenty students, it would
not be sufficient to secure the ser
vices of a first class man. A re
cently fledged doctor of philosophy
in the absence of anything better
might accept such a salary and
stay for a brief period on it, but
he would be constantly looking out
for a more lucrative position and
would soon find It, unless he should
prove a failure, in which case he
would stay on his $1,200 till he wore
out his welcome.
It stands to reason, therefore,
that for every twenty studentts on
its roll a college ought to have en
dowment enough to raise independ
ent of tuition fees at least $1,200
—and $1,500 were a far safer fig
ure. With the present rate of in
come from safe investments that
means at least $25,000 endowment
for every chair in the college.
. Northern colleges would laugh at
that figure and call for $50,000 or
SIOO,OOO for each chair. Just the oth
er day some gentleman, under the
leadership of ex-President Cleve
land, endowed a memorial chair
at Washington and Lee universi
ty in honor of the late president
William L. Wilson, and they put
down a little more than SIOO,OOO
for it. It is safe to say that chair
will always be able to command tbe
services of a strong man.
If, therefore, I say every chair
in our colleges should have under
it an endowment of at least $25,000,
my affirmation is within the limits
of the most moderate and conserv
ative demand. But everybody
knows such endowments are not
common in southern colleges.
They must become common or
we must continue to lose our best
men to institutions willing and able
to pay them decently for their ser
vices.
There is perhaps one other reme
dy for the case, but it is of doubt
ful value. I mean that our inade
quately endowed colleges might re
reduce their faculties, might pay
well and overwork the few best
men they should keep and might
dismiss the rest. That means, how
ever, a wasteful use and the ulti
mate killing of able men in order
to allow us to withhold our money
from our institutions of learning.
I fear there are some rich men
among us willing to do this foolish
and wicked thing in order to save
their purses. I know there are
some who make a habit of decrying
collegiate education altogether in
‘ order to save their faces while in
obstinate stinginess they refuse to
do anything for the colleges of the
land. Such men are too dull to
understand these high matters and
too mean to care for. them. I have
no hope of getting out of them any
thing better than a growl in re
sponse to what is ’ here written.
But maybe some more thoughtful
and generous souls will be moved
to consider carefully the whole
subject and to do something worthy
of the great interest involved.
Perhaps some broad minded young
man who is in the way to become
wealthy may be to led to do some
thing tomorrow. I know too well
the men who are rich today to ex
pect much from most of them. The
best public service they are likely
to render is one they will put off
as long as they can, but which they
will be forced by nature to render
at last—dying. That event will dis
tribute their ungenerous hoardings.
May they have dying grace, seeing
they have had such a small amount
of living grace.
W. A. CANDLER.
p. S.—The readers of The Journal
may recall an article of mine, writ
ten on the occasion of the death of
Dr. Talmage, In the course of which
I intimated that “The Church of
the Strangers.” of which Dr. Deems
was once pastor, had gone out of
existence. This was my informa
tion, but I am glad to know it is
incorrect. The old property in
Mercpr street has been abandon
ed and the former Central Congre
gational church has been bought
and paid for, except about $40,000,
and in that edifice is now housed
the congregation. The present pas
tor is a gentleman Y»y the name of
Blackburn, and he writes me: "We
are very much alive at this present
moment—with large congregations
and larger collections than in
years.”
Miss Roosevelt Loves To Dance, _
But Sometimes She Isn’t Asked
Chicago Tribune. ,
There is not in the younger set of Wash
ington society a person to whom the pros
pect of an early cessation of the bewilder
ing whirl of social gaiety at the national
capital conveys feelings of deeper regret
than to Alice Roosevelt, the charming,
graceful and bewitchingly poised daugh
ter of the president. While others may
nave begun to waver under the strain of
months of unbroken actlivty attending one
of the liveliest seasons in the history of
Washington society. Miss Roosevelt is far
from being in this position. It is with
sincere regret that she looks forward to
the fast approaching day when there are
to be no dances of any consequence at
the capital and the round of festivities will
be broken for several weeks to come.
Dancing is one of Alice Roosevelt's |
greatest accomplishments. She does a
great many things and does them vastly
better than any of her conscientious imi
tators, but nowhere does she excel so
markedly as on the polished floor of the
ballroom. With the president’s daughter
dancing is not a mere pastime, popular
because of the opportunities it affords to
show fine gowns and enjoy the society of
men. She loves to dance for the joy of
it, and in the ballroom conducts herself
with the same delightful vim and fasci
nating abandon that she displays on
horseback.
LIKES MEN WHO DANCE WELL.
Miss Roosevelt is at the dancing age—
that time of life when every girl’s heart
beats to the tune of a waltz. Os all the i
diversions of the last season, her first in '
society, she has enjoyed dancing most.
The men with whom she has danced do
not matter so much, because her idea of
a partner is a man who can dance well. .
Beyond this fact she has never on a sin- ,
gle occasion expressed any preference.
Her dances have been divided chiefly be
tween military men and college men. Os
the two she confesses with that frankness
which is one of her most striking charac
teristics that she prefers the latter. Soph
omores are to her more interesting than
blase society men. College flags and flag
pins hold as honored a place with her as
with other young women of all classes and
conditions. Yet she has the same weak
ness for brass buttons that distinguishes
every normal girl. So far, however, the
flags and buttons, not their owners, ap
pear to possess the intrinsic interest in
her eyes. Altogether she has held her
self in hand as firmly and as skillfully
as she would a pair of spirited horses and
has driven her social chariot down the
line with the coolness, the dash and the
unaffected grace of a mistress of the
Ideals of Japanese Teacher.
Washington 'Times.
Especially in the swift movement along
educational lines, it is evident that the
present prospect for the Japanese woman
is one of great opportunity and increas
ing power, says the "New York Tribune.’
A Japanese student newly arrved in this
country writes a charming, comprehen
sive description of “a teacher” from her
own standpoint of experience in the far
east. The English at her command Is
the result, of two years’ study in her
native land. She says:
Is a teacher’s work simply to trans
mit knowledge to the pupils? No, it means
more than that. A teacher must be a
builder of good character of tbe pupils,
developing their good traits and checking
their bad.
Such being the function of a teacher,
there are many requirements for being
a good teacher. First, of course, she must
have a full knowledge of what she teaches
and how to teach. The latter is a very
important thing, because, however deep
a scholar she may be, if she does not
know the proper way to impart her
knowledge to the pupils, it is not of much
worth. It is necessary to have the pupils
understand and digest what they are
taught and make it their own.
What is the next requirement? It is her
own good deportment. If any one ever
realizes how much influence she has over
the pupils, especially over the little chil
dren, she will be very careful of every
thing she does. TO the pupils a teacher
is something superior, a higher being to
themselves. They look up to her and be
lieve her. Every look and every move
ment of their teacher unconsciously af
fects them. If she is sober, they are too;
if she is careless, they are to. And it is
wonderful to notice that a teacher’s be
havior has more power over them than
her words.
Now what are the important charac
teristics as a teacher? They are patience,
sympathy, and love more than anything
else The pupils are all young, and can
not see and feel things as the teacher
does. They think, they act, proper to their
age. So, if a teacher who already has
passed that period of life only recollects
her own past and tries to feel like them,
that will be the secret fduntaln of sym
pathy and patience for them. The last
and greatest thing is her love for the
pupils. She ought to teach, not because
it is her profession, but because she loves
the work and loves the pupils. If a teach
er only has a true love for the pupils, a
little defect in her character, a little lack
of knowledge, will not concern much, for
love conquers all things.
These are the requirements of a good
teacher. But to get such a teacher is very
hard. She has her own defects and ec
centricities. as others. She cannot be al
ways cheerful and sympathetic. The pu
pils are not angels. Some of them are very
trying. If she shows her sympathy, they
get willful, and if she be severe, they
don’t like her. They do not study as much
as she wants, and the work does not go
smoothly. Then disappointment comes.
But all life Is full of ups and downs,
so if she thinks how much a teacher can
do for the world she must be satisfied in
spite of many difficulties.
A teacher’s work is to educate the next
generation. However little her work may
be, it may become the means of bringing
up some inventors, reformers and great
men, who In their turn will do great
$ Because Folks Said So* |
Z (Written for The Journal by Frank Strickland, the blind poet, author +
J and musician, who, though blind, prepares all his literary work upon an ♦
+ ordinary typewriter). _ J
S A man there was who could have been— ♦
-« T I really don’t know what; ♦
But, as it was, what e’er he could +
J Have been, he just was not. ♦
4, When folks would say: "Old man, you can't,” ♦
a He’d heave a heavy 81g h, +
a And say: "Well, then, j guess I can’t, +
4. So what’s the use to try?" +
a “I’ll write a book,” he said. Foljrs said: +
"You couldn’t in anagej” +
4, “I guess that’s right,” 9 aid he, and quit ♦
Before he’d done a Page. ♦
* He fell in love. Folks s a id: “Now here! ♦
a She never will say yes!” ♦
a Said he: “Why, what a fool I was! *
a I’ll give it up, I guess.” ' +
+ *
<|> Then he got sick. The doctor said: ♦
.t. “He’ll not live through the night.” ♦
4. “Well then,” he said, “I guess I won't,” +
4, And so he took his flight. • +
X And so, to imitate this man +
4. Os whom I've written you, +
4* If you decide these lines are trash, ♦
4> Why, I’ll decide so, too. ♦
A —FRANK STRICKLAND. 4>
reIII FEAR TO ASK HER TO DANCE.
An amusing incident, ilustratlng her
modesty and the apparent awe
her would-be partners regard her, is told
by a young newspaper man of Washing
ton who met. Miss Roosevelt at the hop
at the naval academy in Annapolis. With
a modesty not generally supposed char
acteristic of the newspaper reporter this
young man wavered for half an hour be
fore the dance began between the impulse
to ask the girl from the white house for a
dance and a lurking fear of refusal. At
last, however, the natural enterprise of
his profession came to his aid. and, screw
ing his courage to the sticking point, he
preferred his request. ~
"Why, certainly you may have one,
readily replied the president** daughter
with a gracious smile.
The newspaper man took her program,
and lo! there were five empty spaces upon
it. Every other girl in the room had her
program filled, the dance had begun, yet
the girl from the white house had five
unengaged dances. The reporter took one
—ail he dared—then rushed out to tell the
others of the situation, and the young
lady’s program was soon filled by those
who had been too bashful to seek the
privilege.
AFRAID SHE’D LACK A PARTNER.
At another time Miss Roosevelt was
asked by an aspiring but not wholly de
sirable party to lead a prospective ger
man. She accepted at once and without
hesitation.
"Why on earth did you accept,” asked
a girl friend, “when you might have had
any dancing man in Washington?”
“I was afraid I might not get another
invitation,” she answered simply.
Miss Roosevelt's dancing gowns are all
dainty, pretty, and rich, but not striking
nor showy. She invariably looks well,
but she would never be singled out from
the crowd on a ballroom floor. She loves
pretty things, and last winter was more
desperately in love with her first velvet
visiting gown than with any other one
person or thing in Washington. White is
her favorite color, and she has a variety
of white gowns; a snowy crisp taffeta, a
soft crepe de chine, a silk, and a simple
mull. At the lawn parties this season
she has so far worn pink, however, a del
icate clinging salmon gown, topped by a
huge picture hdt laden with pink roses.
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taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It clears out
the system, gives it tone and renewed vig
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Shocked Him Into It.
Boston Transcript.
Kitty—So you have managed to get Fred
to propose at last? How did you bring it
about?
Bertha—l borrowed Mamie’s engagement
ring and had it on the third finger of my
left hand when Fred called last evening.
Kitty—And what did he say?
Bertha—He saw it the moment he got In
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Mamie’s, you know.
Kitty—And then?
Bertha—Then he gasped, and I thought
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