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J THURSDAY. JUNE ». i?ot.
Mr. Bryan refuse* to revlre his opinion
of Grover Cleveland except to make It
-wore*.
? Tammany’s bad luck continues. Be wk*
Cochran has decided to return to the
Wtfvam - *
•• The Otoey presidential boom M the most
ftocan; affair of the kind that has ap
peared yet.
•e Mr we have not seen the Missouri
Biul* jffven full credit for the result in
Booth Africa.
J - The lUtnois Democrats seem to be ef
fected with a multiplicity of leaders and
* scarcity of voters.
| The Department of Justice seems tn
'*> lean business in its proceedings against
the railroad poolers.
k Somebodv seems to have knocked a slat
out of that furniture trust. At any rate
it has fallen through.
ma 1 1 ■ '■»
. Senator Gorman Is gening puffs from
i Agricultural weeklies on his wheat crop.
; Sly coon, that same Gorman.
It begins to look like Governor-elect
' Terreii la going to have a school teacher's
I problem handed down to him.
At any rate it must be admitted that
»„ General Wood gave Cuba a few lessaon*
ta practical American politic*.
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That gentle reminder that the presi
dent gave Funston about the goldenneeo
of silence seems toibave stuck. .
Tbo Filipinos will get amnesty for a
Fourth of July gift from Roosevelt. Any
thing la preferable to the water cure.
Valet Jonee. after killing Millionaire
Rice and dooming Lawyer Patrick to the
f electric chair, has retired from the scene.
Augusta was always lueky. Now she
j has a rat* war between rival ice factories
to offset the beef trust's advanced prices.
Governor Jeff Davis, having been ex
, communicated from the Baptist church,
has started a vindication senatorial cam
paign.
If Governor Candler don't quit denying
fbe will get in the habit of Jt. It's a bad
habit, as Mayor Mims said when be quit
John W. Gates says that Pierpont Mor
gan has only begun his work. Pierp
seems likely to do well when he gets hie
* band tn.
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Perhaps Senator James K. Jones voted
| that way on the canal bill merely for the
novelty of getting on the winning side
I just once.
Up to the present time, the Hon. Billy
Mason's presidential boom seems to have
the undivided support of tbo senior sena
tor from Illinois
Waller says hell is a winter resort com
» pared to Santar. Doubtless the women
» and children of the province hope he will
go there next time.
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The present merry month of June is do
ing a land office matrimonial business
ri is the best evidence of real prosper
that we have seen.
Mark Hanna continues to deny his pres
t ide nt tai aspirations, but at the same time
accepts all invitations to'state conven
tions that come his way.
John McLean and Tom Johnson are each
of the opinion that the Democratic party
In Ohio would be a heap better off if it
could get rid of the other.
Tom Reed Is quoted ss saying that he
doesn’t want the Republican nomination
tor president. The reform of this old
er seems to be genuine.
E\
A Boston paper rays the recent Repub
• Bean platforms have "the right ring."
‘ Wherever th# Republican party is there
Is sure to be a ring of some sort.
Five more American soldiers boloed by
■ Filipinos But this will probably fail to
grouse the sympathy of Senator Hoar
mid the other insurgent statesmen.
The Macon Telegraph Is In favor of a
riMeken and egg campaign in Georgia.
It would certainly be worth more to the
state than any campaign for office.
* Tbo situation in Pennsylvania is accu
rately diagnosed by ono of those eute
Boston editors who declares that Republi
can control in that state Is In statu Quay.
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Talk about blowing up the ikerrimac.
Hobson never showed what the real qual
ity of hts nerve is until he refused to kiss
that strawberry-and-creamer the other
day
rales* appearances ar* very deceptive
there are a great many Republicans who
are much fonder of al! Democrats just
bow than of the other gang in their own
. camp. » :
The corporations are becoming more and
raore despotic. The Pennsylvania rail
road has Issue-! a ukase against kissing at
tailroad stations. And yet they say this is
a free country.
Tbo defenders of the water cure for bad
Filipinos have had their theory *ok»
what damaged by the fact that an Okla
- botrta boy whose playmates tried it on
him has died.
An exchange devotes a lengthy editorial
to "The Paaslng of the Mother-in-Law
Joke ” We always did think the mother
in-law joke was a more serious thing than
was ganerklly admitted.
There are a great many DetncerAta in
Georgia who think that the surest way
for the stat* convention keep down
future wrangles over the prohibition
question Is tc refuse to precipitate a light
on it in the convention itself. i
According to the adjutant general of
Illinois the mobs that have been chasing
negroes In that state, beating the life
out of them, breaking up their schools
and destroying their crops really have
the kindest sort of feelings for the col
ored brother. la fact, they love him sc
well that they just can’t keep their hands
off of him.
CAN THE COURTS ENFORCE THE LAW?
The efforts which the government, under the direction of Attorney General
Knox, is making to enforce the law that forbids railroad pooling concerns every
producer and every consumer in she whole country.
This matter has been brought home to every citizen by the persistent and sys
tematic violation on the part of the railroads of the natural laws of trade and the
statutes which congress has enacted to prevent the suppression of competition by
pools and combinations of the great traffic linea
The indictment by the grand jury of the United States district court in this
city of a number of well known railroad officials is a result that was expected
when ft became knostn that the evidence bearing upon the manner in which in
terstate railroad traffic is handled was to be laid before the proper authorities.
ft has long been notorious that the railroads In this section were in a pool
which apportions the business and divides its profits according to an agreement
of their own without regard to the wishes and directions of shippers.
Immense Injury has been worked to the interests of trade and industry of
every character by this arbitrary abuse of the combined power of the railroads,
and the prospect that It may at last be corrected Is most welcome news to the
public.
It was found long ago that the interstate commerce commission Is practi
cally nothing more than a bureau of public information and powerless to enforce
its decrees.
The only recourse the shippers have Is an appeal for the enforcement of the
Therman anti-trust law which has been so palpably violated by the pooling
railroads, and that Is the line which Is now being pursued In the attack upon
the pool.
The United States grand jury in Memphis a few days ago found Indictments
against prominent officials of nine railroads doing business In that city.
an Investigation occupying several days and eliciting a great mass of
testimony the United States grand jury in Atlanta has returned true bills
against a number of the officials of the railroads entering this city and has In
dicted jointly railroads and individuals for violations of the anti-trust act.
It has become common for the average citizen to throw up his hands and
express his opinion that It is Impossible to do anything to check the trusts and
combines, but the plain reading of the section under which- these indictments are
brought would indicate that the law may be made effective.
At any rate we have reached a point where it will soon be ascertained whether
the anti-trust law can be enforced or not. ,•
There seems to be no difficulty ab out the law itself. t
The department of justice is moving with commendable energy to procure
evidence that the plain provisions against pooling are being violated by nearly
every railroad in the land and th* grand juries are doing their duty in brirging
Indictments against both individuals and railroads against whom pxoofs are
submitted. The course of justice so far has ryn smoothly enough and the public
has reason to expect that it will continue until the law has been fully vindicated
and proper penalties Imposed upon its violators. The railroads have received
much consideration and favors of Incalculable value from the states and the
general government. They are making a poor return for such treatment when
they combine to evade and defy a law which the government has enacted to
prerant them from infringing the rights of the citizen. •
The requirements of the anti-trust law are not unreasonable. They are based
on the principle of justice to all and they deprive no railroad of any right or
privilege to which the most Interested party can lay claim.
The people feel that the railroads have been permitted to take the law into
their own hands to an extent that should no longer be tolerated and which has
already worked great wrong to the agricultural, commercial and industrial inter
ests of the whole country, except those which are reaping the illegal profts of
this pooling scheme.
The railroads themselves may find tq the long run that they will lose more
than they can gain by the methods they have resorted to. They have built up
a very general feeling that they are not fairly considerate of the rights of the
public and that they are keen to find ways to escape the very mild measure of
control which the government has endeavored to apply to them.
A ready compliance with the requirements of the law and strict observance of
good faith with the government would be far more becoming in the railroad cor
porations than constant resistance and more or less cunning evasions. We be
lieve that such a course has also better business considerations to commend it
when the question Is considered with a view to the possible effects of that Irre
sistible force known as public opinion when it once becomes thoroughly aroused
by a sense of wrong.
THE LOBBY’S VICTORY.
Rarely has any measure passed either
house of congress which, according to the
generA belief, was more dependent upon
influences thht operate in the lobby than
Is the Panama Chnal bill.
The republican bill passed the house
early in the session by such an over
whelmingly vote that public jumped
k> the conclusion that It would have lit
tle opposition tn the senate. But the
enemies of the entire transisthmian canal
Idea were laying low and fixing their
plans shrewdly. They are opposed to the
scheme tn any form for the sufficient
reason that it would pay theffi handsome
ly to defeat it.
They concentrated their fire on the Ni
caragua bill because it took the lead and
it seemed good politics to play the Pan
ama plan against it.
The Pacific railroads are. of course,
the main forces back of this plot. The
Frcnch company that I* trying to work off
its gold brick on us has put up some of
the money with which the Hepburn bill
has been beaten in the senate, but that
company is a very puny concern in com
parison with the Pacific railroad*, which
have made a vast amount of money out
of the favors of the government and are
now using the wealth thus acquired to
beat the government back from the con
struction of an interocean ship canal in
thl* hemisphere.
Just after the Hepburn bill passed the
house a new light seemed to dawn sud
denly on the senate.
The Panama canal had for years been
considered as practically abandoned. But
ah at once it was brought forward by
men high In influence as the best possi
ble route. •
This new found zeal was displayed by a
number of senators in a manne that
could not fail to cause comment.
At length the report began to gain cur
rency that the Spooner substitute was
“showing strength.” A little later the
talk that the Spooner substitute had be
come very formidable began to go the
rounds. Finally well-posted observers
about the senate chamber discovered on a
count of noses that the bill which had
only a shadow of opposition in the pop
ular branch of congress was beaten in the
house upon which the trusts and corpo
ration depend in their hour of need or
danger. - z ’
Nobody believes that all the senators
who voted for the Srooner substitute are
tn favor of building a ship eanal across
Panama or anywhere else, under any
conditions
Some of them will be as ready to beat
off Panama aa they were to cry down
Nicaragua, if any likelihood that the ac
tual work may be done at Panama shall
ever appear. They have at least made it
certain that there will be no isthmian ca
nal construction for several years to come
and that assurance is of almost incal
culable value to the Pacific railroads. A
complication and conflict have been
brought about which may for an indefi
nite time to come leave the overland
transportation routes undisturbed.
The situation in which the adoption of
the Spooner substitute places the Pacific
railroads Is worth many millions to them,
and a great dee! toAnme other folks.
What the people will say about It can
only be ascertained when the matter
comes up as an issue, as it surely will in
the early future.
THE NEGRO IN ILLINOIS.
Though Governor Yates has proclaimed
very volubly repeatedly that the rights
and property of neg.us shall be protected
throughout Illinois, thetr persecution con
tinues. The mobs who engage In this des
picable and outrageous work defy Gover
nor Tates.
They began a week ago to terrorize all
the negroes In and about Eldorado, where
the best negro school in the state is lo
cated, and have kept up that game pret
ty steadily ever since.
The negro baiting has extended to Har
risburg. the entire negro population of
that town having been warned to leave
the place.
Governor Tates will probably proclaim
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1902.
again, but the negroes will probably have
to go.
The Chicago Tribune has been denounc
ing these outrages In unmeasured terms,
but the public opinion seems to be back
of them in Eldorado and Harrisburg. The
same race antipathy that caused the
shooting down of negroes at Pana several
years ago because they went to work In
a coal mine has asserted itself in Illinois
again.
The Tribune of last Monday publishes a
sca.hing editorial oh these assaults In the
course of which it says:
“Some war bard of the Anglo-Saxon
race may some day put those deeds Into a
stirring stanza or two. Meanwhile In pros®
they stand thus:
"Ine Eldorado African Methodist church
has been wrecked and its congregation
dispersed.
“The Eldorado public schools for color
ed children ha* been closed and the pupils
driven out of town.
“The. Eldorado Normal and Industrial
Institute, modeled on Booker T. Washing
ton’s school at Tuskegee. Ala., has been
broken up.
"Notice nas been posted In Harrisburg,
the county seat, that all negroes must Im
mediately leav# town.
what was the cause of this ebulli
tion of valor? What was It that roused the
paladins of Saline county to so convincing
a display of their martial powers? Why,
simply the presence of the blacks. This Is
the most admirable part o* it *H- The
black had committee no crimes. They were
living inoffensively. They had done noth
ing to incite their adversaries to violence.
But thetr adversaries did not need incite
ment. They could fight without stimu
lants. Their courage blazed out epontane
ouslv. What could betoken finer fighting
qualities? Here are whites falling upon
blacks, destroying their property, and run
ning them out of town simply because
they felt a belligerent Inclination to do
so. Provocation was to them a super
fluity. »
"And yet they belong to a race which
used to know something about juries and
habeas corpus act*. They have got over
the old superstitions beautifully."
There Is a« deplorable condition of af
fairs in some parts of Illinois, and we hope
to see the negro granted due protection
of the law In that wicked state.
THt PRESIDENT’S NEW TACK.
President Roosevelt has his heart so
set upon Cuban reciprocity that he will
not give it up until he has exhausted ev
er}’ possible effort in Its behalf*.
He was undoubtedly surprised and cha
grined when he found that a sufficient
number of senators of his own party had
rebelled to make the passage of the recN
procity bill Impossible in the present con
gress, but he is a hard fighter and would
not surrender on this defeat.
The president does not care very much
what route he takes so it will lead him
to the result which he so ardently desires.
He will be happy If he can obtain by
treaty what he has failed to accomplish
through direct legislation and is said to
have high hopes of securing the ratifica
tion of a convention Cuba for a 20
per cent reciprocal reduction of duties to
be changed to 25 per cent In the early
future. It Is said that If he finds that the
ratification of such a treat}! is Impossible
at this session the president will call a
special session immediately after ad
journment and urge the matter again.
We cannot see any probability that a
sufficient number of the beet sugar sen
ators will yield to the president’s blan
dishments or importunities to enable him
to carry out this scheme, but It would
be quite characteristic of him to attempt
it and make a very determined endeavor
for It.
The president believes that the weight
of public opinion la overwhelmingly with
him In this contest and that a considera
ble number of the Republican Insurgents
will weaken before lonfr. On the first
point he Is undoubtedly correct, on the
second he Is probably wrong. His confi
dence may be rather an ebullition of the
optimism which fs very’, very strong in
Roosevelt rather than a logical deduction
from the conditions he has to contend
with. The president’s treaty would re
quire a two-thirds vote for its ratification,
whereas the reciprocity bill which would
accomplish the same result would become
a law by the vote of a bare majority of
the senate. 1
How, then, can the president reasonably
expect to rally a two-thirds vote to do
what a majority of the senate is known
to be opposed to?
The Influence of the executive is, of
course, very great, but if President Roose
velt succeeds in this struggle by the
treaty method he will score a remarkable
victory, indeed.
The most reasonable prospect is that
'he will find the opposition to hla reci
procity scheme entirely too Strong for
him in this congress, however he may en
deavor to overcome it, and that he will
have to wait for the appeal to the coun
try which may evoke an indorsement of
the wfsdoln and justice of hts Cuban reci
procity policy and a decree that it shall
be adopted.
A REAL REFORM.
The abolition of the former penitentiary
system of Georgia and the substltulon of
the present plan seem more fortunate for
the state the more we consider the mat
ter
A reform worthy of the name has been
accomplished. The very favorable report
of the operation of the present law which
General Evans, of the prison commission,
gave in a recent talk to The Journal ac
cords with what we have heard from other
well-informed and reliable sources.
The demand for the better treatment of
Georgia's convldts and the adoption of
better business methods In the manage
ment of the penitentiary was strengthened
steadily for years until it became Irre
sistible. When we consider how the leg
islature dealt with the problem* and how
the prison commission has attended to its
duties we think It must be admitted that
both have done well for the cause of
humanity and the material Interests of the
state.
In other southern states besides Geor
gia much needed j.enltentlary reforms
have been effected In the last few years.
These states had to grapple with this
difficult question when they were beset
with difficulties that cannot be affected by
those who were not then on the scene of
action.
It is Easier to criticise and condemn
what was done than to show how under
the circumstances the penitentiary sys
tems of states whose resource* had been
so nearly exhausted could have been
handled In an entirely satisfactory man
ner.
The southern states have become much
more capable of taking care of their in
terests and administering their affiatrs
than they were tn the days of reconstruc
tion when the recently abolished peniten
tiary methods were fastened upon them
and they are using their Increased
strength and enlarged experience on the
whole very creditably.
CAN TH?B BE
There has not been In the United States
senate, or anywhere else, In the last ten
years a man who was more dogmatic than
Jones of Arkansas in his demand lor a
literal construction of the Democratic
platform and more relentless In his de
nunciation of all Democrats who dared
to even question the wisdom of its slight
est word. •
Jones has been for reading out of the
party every man who did not swallow
every line and letter pf Democratic prin
ciple and policy as set down by the na
tional convention of the party.
Jones wrote the clause tn the platform
adopted at Kansas City tn 1900 irhlch
commits the Democratic specifically
to the Nicaraguan canal rodite and when
the questioq came to a vote- In the senate
this same champion of n blind, adherence
to platform resolutions ackleved the un
enviable notoriety of being the only Dem
ocrat who voted against, a pledge of hie
party of which he himself proposed and
Insisted upon.
The New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat says
that "If such a betrayal of trust did not
sometimes occur parliamentary life would
have no existence outside Eutopla.” And
it Is not a novel thing to find one who
professes greater zeal and loyalty than
his colleagues fall to come to the scratclf.
His recent overwhelming defeat In the
Arkansas Democratic primaries seems to
have swept Jones clear away from what
ever moorings he had before and sent
him off as the lone Democrat In Hanna's
Panama procession. ’ ‘
SOME POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
The best any orie ean do Is never very bad.
Tenderness comes high when handed out by
a butcher.
When a man tells a joke he seldom forgets
to laugh.
Dampnes* caused by a crying woman Is al
ways oppressive. (
It's only a matter of time till the undertaker
overtakes us all.
As girls grow older they think less of love
anl more of money.
When each player gets four of a kind it Is
certainly a great deal.
A lot of truth is wasted in trying to get
useless lies established.
Men wonder where the summer girl was
stowed away during the winter.
Some men object to dogs and some women ob
ject to men who object to dog*.
, A wise man look* Into things for the pur
’po»e of conscience or his stomach.
Many a man who lays down the law to his
wife is unable to pick it up again.
A wise man looks Into things for the purpose
of enabling him to slse up the outlook.
Nothing pleas** a man so much a* the In
ability of others to get onto hi* curve*.
What a brilliant lot we *hould be if every
man was half as smart as he thinks he is.
Any man who pay* *pot cash misses * lot
of worthless cigar* on the first of each month.
The willingness of a new office boy is often
more annoying than the unwillingness of an old
on*. '
Time may be money, but the average man
would tather give you two hour*’ talk than lend
you a quarter.
After a worthless old horse dies the owner
begins to tell of the hundred* of dollar* he re
fused for him.
It is always cowardly to speak ill of a man
behind hl* back and It is often dangerous to
say it to his face.
Man attract* attention only at hi* birth, at
his wedding and at his funeral, three Times
and out, as it were.
A man Is qlways wondering what his neigh
bor thinks of him—and his neighbor is prob
ably wondering likewise.
Many a rapid youth find* It easier to contest
hi* father’s will after the old man is dead
qhan while he is on earth.
There are several kinds of talking machines
on the market, but none of them can hold a
candle to those in evidence at an old-fashioned
sewing circle.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New Tork Pres*.
Dampness caused by a crying woman Is al
ways oppressive.
A lot of truth is wasted in trying to get
useless lies established.
Many a man w(ho lays down the law to his
wife is unable to pick it up again.
A wise man looks into thing* for the pur
pose of conscience gr hl* stomach.
Women can make a little knowledge go so
far, that It will never come back again.
What a brilliant lot we should be If every
man was half as smart a* he thinks he is.
It takes just as long to find out what you
don’t know about women as what you do know.
If they only knew it, the people who pride
themselves on employing 'no tact simply employ
bad manner*. >
A man’s ideas on reform in politics from day
to day are very much biased l»y what kind of
breakfast he had.
The time a woman usually picks out to sit on
a man’s knee and ask him how much he loves
her is just when he is having trouble to make
his favorite pipe draw.
Prof.' Trlggs, of the University of Chi
cago, has added to the world's stock of
doubt by asserting in an address that the
college man goes out Into the world un
prepared for the conditions he must con
front
WHY THE SOUTH DOES NOT
, CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY
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BY F. H. RICHARDSON. t
A FEW days ago I received a letter
which ran thus: “You must
come up on the fourth and cele
brate with us. We will have the
biggest crowd yet and the best time. In
the morning there will be the reading of
the great Declaration, an appropriate ad
dress, speeches by three or four boys
and a lot of patriotic songs. Then there
will be a dinner in the grove with abund
ance for all. In the afternoon a variety
of athletic games will come off, and at
night the fireworks, as usual."
This message came from a village that
nestles and prospers In the Georgia moun
tains. It came from a man who has lived
there about a dozen years and has seen
to it that not a Fourth of July has passed
In that locality without due celebration.
The people of the town and its vicinity
took little interest in this observance at
first, but they are enthusiastic over it
every year now and there is, perhaps,
not a locality In all this great state where
the anniversary of American Independ
ence is hailed more heartily,
Tfie writer of the letter fpom which the
above quotation Is taken has done much
good In the region where he has settled.
It Is better in many ways for his having
lived and labored there and I count among
his best services to that community the
fact that he has popularized the Fourth
of July where no attention was paid to it
before he erected his altar of patriotism
and on it lighted the fire which he has
never permitted to languish.
As I read the kind invitation to pay my
MR. DOOLEY COMPARES THE LIVES v
OF SOLDIERS AND-POLICEMEN
(Copyright, 1902, by Robert Howard Russell.)
. . H* life Iv a sojer though
** I gloryotft is .hard," said Mr.
i Dooley. "Here’s me friend,
filn’ral Fred Fustian, wan iv
th’ gallantest men that has come out
iv Kansas since Stormy Jordan's day, has
been called down f’r on’ly sugglstln’ that
Slnltof Hoar an’ th’ rest Iv thlm be
hanged be th’ heels. I’m with th' gallant
gln*ral mesllf. I’m not sure but he'd like
to hang me, though as ye know, me
opinyons on th’ Ph'lippeens Is varyous
an’ I don’t give a dam ayether way.
If he runs me to earth I on’y ast iv him
as a fellow pathrite that he won’t give
me th' wather cure. Th’ very thought
iv It makes me flesh creep.
“But th’ prisldlnt called him down. Af
ther th’ publication Iv th’ fifteenth speech
whin ivry colledge proflesor In this broad
an' fair land was unther slntlnce Iv death
fr’m th' gln’ral th’ prisldlnt wrote to
him sayin’: 'Dear Fred: Me attlntlon
has been called to ye'er pathrtotlc ut
thrances In favor Iv fryin’ Edward At
kinson on his own cook shtove. I am
informed be me advisers that it can’t
be done. It won’t fry beans. So I am
compilled be th’ regulations Iv war to give
ye a good slap. How are ye, bl’ com
merade-in-arme? Ye ought to’ve seen me
on th' top iv San Joon hill. Oh, that
was th’ day! Iver, me dear Fred, re
provingly but lovingly. T. Rosenfelt, late
colonel first United Stated Volunteers Cal
v'ry. betther known as th’ Rough Riders
an’ ex-officio prisldlnt iv th’ United
States.’ That was wan f’r Fred, I wisht
th’ same cud be handed to Gln’ral Miles.
Ivry time-' he oplns «hls mouth, if ’tls
on’y to say ’ tls a fine day—which I must
say is seldom—all they do to ’him Is to
break bis back.
“ ’Tls a hard life, a sojer’s, but a glory
ous wan. I wisht me father had enthered
me f’r a martial eareer Instead Iv tachin’
me be preclpt an’ example, as Hogan
says, to be quick on me feet. In these
days whin a man gets to be a gln’ral
because he’s been a long time a doctor
or because he’s supprissed a naygur rite,
’ns me that wud go boundin’ up to th’
top Iv th’ laddher. .
“ ‘Janooary wan, I*rlvate Dooley dis
tinguished himsilf at th’ Battle Iv Ogoo
wan in th’ Island iv Samar be rushin’ out
tn a perfeck hell iv putty balls, rice, ar
rers, an’ harsh cries, an’ seizin’ th’ gln’ral
Iv th' Tamalese an’ batin’ him over th’
head with his own bean-blower.
" ’Janooary twlnty. Colonel Dooley Iv
th' hunderth an' eighth Macabebee scouts
ylsterdah admlnlsthered th’ best an’ mud
dyest part iv th’ Gingong river to Gln’ral
Alfico Bim in th’ prislnce iv a large an’
smilin’ audjeence. Th’ ribll had rayfused
to com-munlcate his plans to th’ gallant
colonel but afther he had had sufficient
Irrigation his conversation was more ex
tin ded. So was th’ gln’ral.
" ‘Feb’ry eighth: Gln’ral Dooley, ,th’
hayro iv th’ Ph’lippeens who is at home
with a large spleen which he got Into
him in our beautiful Island posslsslons
made a speech befure th' Locoed club
las’ night. He said we shud niver give
up th' Ph’lippeens which had been wath
ered be some iv th’ best blood In our land,
he might say all. He didn’t know much
about th’ constlchoochion but fr’m what
he heerd about it fr’m a man In his rlg’-
mint who cud spell. It wasn’t intlnded
f’r use out iv coort. He thought no we.n
shud be llicted to congress undher th’
rank Iv major. There was rqUch talk iv
pro-gress In lithrachoor an’ science which
he was in favor Iv hangin*. All th’ army
needed was rope enough an’ all wud be
well. Th' Supreme Coort was all right
but If ye wanted justice hot out Iv th'
oven, ye shud see it admlnlsthered be
three or four laughin’ sub-alturna on th’
stumps iv threes, jus’ afther lunch.
“ ‘March eighth: Prisldlnt Dooley, chaf
in’ at th’ delay in th’ Slnlt requirin’ all
clvilyans to submit their opinyons on th’
tariff to th’ neighborin’ raycruitln’ ser
geant, wanst a week, wint over to th'
Capitol this mornin’ with a file Iv sojers
an’ arristed th' anti-admlnisthraUon
foorces who are now locked up in th’
barn back iv th’ White House. Th’
prisldlnt was severely lacerated be Slnltor
Tillman durin’ th’ encounther.’
"Yes, sir, I’d like to be a sojer. I want
to be a military man. An' yet I niver
wanted to be a polisman. ’Tls sthrange,
too, f*r If ye think It over they ain’t th’
lot iv dlff'rence between th’ mos’ ordhln
ry, flat-footed elbow that iver pulled wan
leg afther another to mornin’ roll-call an'
th’ gr-greatest gln’ral that Iver wint
through a war behind a band on a horse.
They both belong to th’ race iv round
headed men. Whin ye lenthen th’ head
Iv man or dog, ye rayjooce his courage.
That’s thrue Iv all but th’ bul-tarryer an'
th’ Turk. Both iv thim fight like th’ dlv
vle. Th’ jootles is much th’ same, but th’
polisman's is harder. Th’ polisman has to
tight night an’ day, but th’ sojer on’y
wanst a month. A man’s got to be five
foot nine to get on th' foorce. He can be
five eight an’ get into th’ army through
West Pint or three foot two an’ get
through th’ war department. Didn’t Mike
Gilligan take more chances whin he wint
up to th’ patch where Red Starkey was
holdin’ th' fort with a Krupp gun an’
took him be th’ hand an’ pivoted with him
out Is a window, thin ine friend Fearleci
Freddy whin he assumed false whiskers,
pretinded to be a naygur an' stole little
Aggynaldoo out Iv his flat? Ye wudden’t
explct a pathrolman to be promoted to
be sergeant f’r kidnapin’ an organ-grind
er, wud ye? An’ Gilligan didn’t ask f’r
lave iv absence an’ go down town to th’
Union Lague Club an’ tell th’ assembled
mannyfactherers Iv axle-grease what
ought to be done with th’ water taxes.
No. sir: What happened to Gilligan'was
at roll-call th’ nex’ mornin’ when Loot
says: ‘Officer Gilligan, in capturin’ Star
key ye reflicted gr-reat credit on this pre
cinct an’ ye’er own bringln’ up. But I
want ye to know, officer, that this im-
i
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devotion at that shrine I could not help
thinking that it would be a good thing,
nay a glorious thing, if on the Fourth of
July just ahead of us and on every sub
sequent Fourth of July for all time to
come every city, town, and even every
crossroads settlement, throughout the
length and breadth of this land would
fairly fill and overflow with the enthusi
asm that ought to spring spontaneous
from every true American hehrt on that
anniversary. When it ceases to have for
us a meaning all its own. when we permit
it to lapse into the common run of days,
when we. never Miow that it has arrived
portant arrlst is no excuse f’r ye goln’
out an’ loadin’ ye’ersilf to th’ joo-pint with
Hinnlgan’s paint. Th’ nex’ time ye miss
pullin’ ye’er box. I’ll have ye up befure th'
thrile boord. Put that In ye'er pipe an’
smoke It, Mike Gilligan.’ An’ ‘Glllllgan
blushed. I *
“No, sir. between th’ t,wo, th’ polisman’s
life th’ hard wan. He can’t rethreat f’r
reinfoorcemints or surrender with all th’
honors iv war. If he surrlnders. he’s kilt
an’ if he rethreats his button comes off.
He gets no soord fr’m congress whin he
brings in Starkey be th’ burnin’ hair iv
his head! It he’s promoted to sergeant,
he’s sure to be bounced be th’ first ray
form adminithration. He takes his or
dhers, carries his stick iv timber up hill
an’ down dale undher th’ gleamin' stars,
has nawthln’ to say but 'Move on there,
now,’ an’ if his foot slips another round
headed man pushes him into a cell’ an’ a
impartyal jury iv men that’s had throuble
with th’ polls befure convicts him with
three cheers. »
“Now, suppose Gilligan's father, whin
ho was young had looked him over an’
said: ’Agathy, Michael’s heai Is per-fict
ly round. It’s like a baseball. ’Tls so pe
cooiyar. An’ he has a fightin’ face. 'Tls
no good thryin’ to tache him a thrade.
Let’s make a sojer Iv him.’ An’ he wint
into th’ army. If he’d done there what
he’s done in th' patch, ’tls Gln’ral Gilli
gan he’d be this time —Gln’ral Gilligan
stormin' th’ heights iv San Joon hill; Gin’-
ral Mike Gilligan suspindln’ th’ haveas
corpus In th’ Ph’lippeens ah’ th’ antl-im
peeryallsts at home; Gln’ral Mike Gilligan
capturin’ Aggynaldoo, an’ he’d do It with
bare hands an’ without th ’aid Iv a mus
tache; Gln’ral Mike Gilligan abolishin* th’
third reader; Gln’ral Mike Gilligan ■ dls
coorsln’ to th’ public on ’Books I have
niver read: Series wan. th’ Hlsth’ry Iv
th’ United States.’ If his foot slips an' he
grows a little cross with a pris’ner iv war
on th’ way to th’ station an’ dhrops his
soord or his club on th‘ top iv him. is he
up befure th’ judge an’ thiHed boa jury iv
Anti-Oleomargerine Law Will
Cause " Price of Butter to Soar
Washingtori Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.
It seems that some people are going to
make a lot of money out of the rise In
the cost of butter which will undoubt
edly follow the enfotcement of the anti
oleomaYgarlne act on July 1. That law
puts a tax of 10 cents a poqnd on artifi
cially colored oleomargarine and the price
of the genuine cow product Is already be
ginning to soar In anticipation of the In
creased tax on the Imitation article. But
ter retailed in Washington is now about
fcqir cents a pound higher than it was
two months ago, and In another month
the advance Is expected to amount to
four or five cents more. It Is apparent,
however, that the pure butter men are not
the only ones who are making money out
of the new legislation. The tax on oleo
margarine does not go into effect until
July’ 1 and all oleo that Is manufactured
in the meantime and gotten out of the
factories goes at the old rate of two cents
a pound. The manufacturers are making
hay while the sun shifted and ever* since
it was certain that Congress was'going
to pass the hostile law the factories have
been working Hight and day. Tremen
dous quantities, of oleomargarine have
been turned out and packed away in cold
storage. It is estimated that enough sur
plus stock to supply the country for six
months will have been on hand by July
1.
The Treasury Department statistics
show that the factories are being worked
to their utmost, for there has been a great
run on Commissioner Yerkes for oleo
stamps. For instance, the receipts from
the sale of two cent Internal revenue oleo
margarine stamps during the month of
April were $101,269 more than they were
LITTLE THINGS WORTH KNOWING
There is a town of 600 inhabitants on the
top of the Mount of Olives.
In the United States newspapers appear in
twenty-four different languages.
Women are to be employed to work the sig
nals on the Southern railway in Austria.
In 1890 there were 144.000 Mormons tn this
country. In 1900 there were more than 300,000.
An abcess on the liver caused by a cherry
stone was responsible for the death of a
Londoner recently.
There are over 40,000 total abstainers In the
British army, but no moral lessons are being
drawn from the fact.
Settlement of the estate of James G. Fair,
of San Francisco, involved lawyers' fees
amounting to nearly 82.000,000.
The Limerick fishermen who netted a nine
foot royal sturgeon sent It to King Edward.
This is not the local Limerick.
In China grand banquets last twelve hours
or even longer, and the menu Includes such
delicacies as pickled birds' nests.
Visitors to Stratford-on-Avon complain that
small boys run after them calling "all about
Shakespeare for a ha'penny.”
A giant crab which spread eleven and one
half feet, has been presented by Eugene G.
Blackford to the Brooklyn Institute museum.
as Admission Tickets.
Fro—. ’*•— t -?an Francisco Chronicle.
The residents of Ephraim, Utah, the agricul
tural center of San Pete county, where the
crops last year were completely ruined by
grasshoppers, have adopted a novel method of
exterminating the pest, which is again threat
ening the crops. A series of entertainments has
been arranged the admission to which is one
half bushel of grasshoppers.
The first entertainment—a dance—was held
the other night and seventy-five bushels of
grasshoppers were presented at the door. After
the dance the "hoppers'* furnished fuel for a
bonfire to properly top off the occasion.
Everything possible is being done to catch the
young insects before they begin to fly. and
the citizens around Ephraim have banded to
gether in one army to fight them. A standing
bounty of 81 a bushel has been offered by tba
city officials for the young "hoppers.”
unless we happen to notice that a bank
Is closed, or a cheap excursion goes yell
ing by. we will have fallen below the
high estate of the men whose names il
lumine and emblazon with their undying
luster the pathway along which the na
tion has marened. such observances, if
we regard them aright, have a deep and
sacred significance. We cannot neglect
them without losing something of what
they betoken, and none of it we can afford
to give up.
Whenever as a people we get down to
a matter-of-fact patriotism the quality
oi American manhood will no longer be
found up to what the fathers would have
called par. A distinguishing character
istic of our people ifi the earlier days
of the republic was not that they were
merely loyal and true to our national
Ideals, tradition*, and institutions, but
that they were proudly and exultingly so.
They loved to tell over the inspiring story;
they made it more enchanting than ro
mance to their children. Under it* spell
their boys so burned to do something for
their country that they felt that some
thing requiring sacrifice and suffering
would be most welcome because it would
be so sweet; their wives and daughters
envied the mothers and maids of the revo
lution who made the flags that lighted
the way to liberty, looped their sashes
in.the sword hilts of heroes whose like
all the lists of knighthood could not
show, and seized the powder horn in
the trenches to load one rifle while an
other was blazing at a redcoat. Are we
of this later and riper time too dignified.
his peers? Officer Mike, yes; Gln’ral Mike,
no. Gln’ral Mike has no peers. He ray
celves a letther notlfyin’ him that he ha*
broken a hupian skull divine an’ th’ reg'-
lations iv th’ army an’ must be thried.
‘Who Will me brave frind have go through
with this here austere but hail-fellow in
quiry?’ ‘Oh, annywan will do. Anny iv
th’ gallant lift’nants iv me brigade will
do,’ says Gln’ral Mike. So th’ gln’ral is
put on thrile an’ a frind iv his addhresses
th’ court. ‘Glntlemen,’ says he. th' ques
tion befure th’ court is not so much did
gallant leader hammer th’ coon as wether
our flag wanst stuck up where we have
wathered so many precious citizens shall
iver come down. (Th’ coort: ‘No, no!’)
That’s th’ pint. What do' th’ people at
home who know nawthln’ about this here
war, excipt what we tell thim. what do
they mane be subjictin’ this here hayro,
gray an’ bent with infirmities, but pretty
spry at that, to this innominy? He has
fought f’r thim an’ what have they done
f’r him? In more thin wan year he has
on’y risen fr’m th’ rank iv captain to
brigadier gln’ral an* his pay ia less thin
twinty times what it was. (Here th’ coort
weeps.) I ast ye, I ast ye. ye fine little
boys, is it mete an’ proper, nay, is it meat
an’ dhrink f’r us, to punish him?’
“An’ th' coort puts th’ verdict iv ac
quittal in th’ shape iv th’ pop'lar song
‘F’r he’s a jolly good fellow’ an’ adds
a rlcommindation that Harvard colledge is
gettin’ too gay anyhow.
’That's th’ dlff'rence between sojer an’
polisman. Why is it that th' fair sex,
as Hogan says, wudden’t be seen talkin’
to a polisman. but if ye say ’Sojer’ to thim
thy’re all out iv th’ window but th’ feet. I
want to knoar."
*'l can’t tell,” said Mr. Hennessy.
heerd a frind iv Willum J. Bryan say we
was in danger iv havin’ thim run th’
countrhy like thy do in—in Germany, d’ye
mind.”
“Niver fear,” said Mr. Dooley. "There's
too many Gilligans not in th’ ar-rmy f’r
that.”
for the same month of last year. The
gain in the receipts for the month of April
represented about 50 per cent, of the to
tal increase for the ten months of tha
fiscal year. The figures for May are not
yet ready, but many of the collectors ran
out of stamps and had to make additional
requisitions. Now then comes the ques
tion, at what rate will the oleomargarine
men put their surplus stock on market?
Will they sell It fio as to realize the usu
al profit, or will they boost It ten cents
a pound. In accordance with the increased
tax? The department officials are inclin
ed to think that the dealers will adopt the
former course, for by doing so they can
control the butter trade for the next six
months or so. Some people think that
oleo will go up ten cents a pound after
July 1, In which event the manufacturers
who are now so busy will get an addition
al profit of eight cents a pound on thetr
product. The net profits from the sale
of this stock would be very large, and
would feather the neats of the olqo men
while they make their fight to prevent
the complete extermination of imitation
butter.
It is understood at the Treasury De
partment that it is the intention to edu
cate the public to eat uncolored oleo,
which resembles white butter. Experts
in butter say that there is no difference
whatever in the taste of the dead white
oleo and the product that has. the rich
color of pure butter. It the people will
eat white oleo as they do the colored pro-'
duct, the price will be even lower than it
was before talk of the Increased tax was
agitated, for the internal revenue tax on
the uncolored stuff is only one-fourth of
one cent a pound.
HOT WEATHER RULES.
There's a difference of opinion as to whether
We should do this thing or that In summer
heat.
And you'll hardly find two men that think to
gether
As to what we ought to wear or ought to
There's 1 the man, for Instance, who declares
your diet
Should exclude all meats until the early fa#—
But you've hardly taken up his plan to try It,
Till the crank on meats says you should eat
'em all!
As to what you ought to wear, they also differ—
One man says your shirts should all be neg
ligee;
Says the next: "If anything, they should bo
Stiffer-
Stiff shirtSwkeep the heat, as well as cold,
away.”
You should wear your collar low, or wear it
standing—
You should have your hair cut short, or leave
it long.
And with forty-seven brands of countermand
ing.
You discover, when you're right, you're al
ways wrong!
■ So it goeA—you listen to yolr friends' advices,*
And you have a different layout every meal,
And you alter your sartorial devices
Till your cerebellum's in a frightful reel;
And at last, as winter frowns, you're realising
i uie silly summer season's on the wane,
i Ss4 tne fruit of al! your loyal friends' devis
ing
I Will be out of style when summer conjee
again!
ABOUT WELL KNOWN PEOPLE.
______ *
Clarence Hale, a brother of Senator
Hale, has been appointed United States
district judge in Maine by President
! Roosevelt. g * ; aA
?\Vlce President Hobart's statue, which
: Paterson (N. J.) is to erect in front of its
, city hall, will soon be unveiled. Preai
-1 dent Roosevelt, his cabinet and congreaa
will be invited to attend the ceremonies.