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THE WIND.
The wind went forth o’er land and sea.
Uoud<and free;
Foamtns wares leapt up to meet it.
Stately pines bowed down to greet it;
While tbs walllns sea
And the forest s murmured sich
Joined the cry
Os the wind that swept o’er land and sea.
The wind that blew upon the sea
Fierce and free.
t the bark upon the shore,
race It sailed the night before
FUJI ot hope and glee;
And the cry of pain and death
Was but a breath
Through the wind that roared upon the sea.
The wind was whispering on the lea
Tenderly.
But the white rose felt It pass.
And the fragile stalks of grass
Shook with fear to see
AU her trembling petals shed.
As It fled
So gunt'y by-the wind upon the lea.
Blow thou wind upon the sea
Fierce and free.
And a gentler message send.
Where frail flowers and grasses bend.
Un the sunny lea;
For thy bidding Hill is one. .
Be It done
In tandwness or wrath, on land or sea!
-ADELAIDE A PROCTOR.
The Rights of Property and Inherit*
a nee.
▲ few days ago the country was shocked
to hear that the brilliant novelist, Paul
Ford, was shot down In his own house,
sittint at his own desk, by his own
brother. Malcolm Ford.
The story goes that the father of the
two Fords was a rich man when he died
some years ago. leaving property estimat
ed at two millions of dollars. He disinher
ited Malcolm Ford, because the latter was
devoted to athletic sports, of which his
father disapproved and expostulated vain
ly against.
The children were all given their respec
tive shares, except this son. Malcolm, who
received nothing.
He disputed and disagreed with his
brother after his father’s death, to small
purpose, and the disputes and disagree
ments ended in the manner here men
tioned.
The question comes up. “Where did the
wrong-doing in this sad case commence?’’
The majority will agree that the father
handed down something besides the money
which ruined his childrens*, happiness, and
literally destroyed one child and made a
Cain of another as a result of this hand
ing down. ,
Better far there had been no money to
quarrel about!
If there is one thing above another that
parents should keep in mind, it is the do
ing of equal and exact justice to those
they have brought into a world of being,
when the children had no choice as to
their own coming, and no opportunity to
select their own parents.
• Mr. Ford. Br.. may have felt that his
I property was his own. to do with as
-•-i pleased him In Rs distribution. Results
go to prove that he had no right to so
misuse that property as to turn one child
into the slayer of another, because of his
animosity to one of these children of his
own body. His children’s happiness was
evidently of superior Importance to the
money he had accumulated to be given to
his favorites after his own death.
It strikes me that he wronged his son
Malcolm by using his money as well as his
animosity to inflict punishment on the
son. It was Ignoble to perpetuate his own
dislikes in the future conduct of his chil
dren to each other after his money had
left his forever.
I content! that he had no moral right to
sting that child as with a lash by making
and perpetuating his own dislikes after
death. His son had committed no crime.
Bo far as I can see. hts conduct was not
sinful, unless disobedience to his father’s
fads and whims made It so.
I understand, perhaps, quite as well as
anybody elr that the Bible stresses the
duty of obedience to parents with unmis
takable emphasis, and likely the boy was
a stubborn one from the start, but the
Bible also says. “Provoke not your chil
dren to wrath." etc.
Two wrongs never made a right. The
father was wrong, and the son was wrong,
but death should have ended the strife
between father and son.
It is miserable spite which is shoved
over beyond the grave to engender hate.
That boy had no opportunity to choose
hts own parents. He came Into this life
because he was forced into it, and if his
father had not made an unfair distribu
tion of his property, perhaps, the boy
would soon have repented of his disobedi
ence and turned in self-reproach to do
credit to Ms father’s memory.
But that crvel will infuriated this child.
Who was thus humiliated before the world
as well as in the presence of hts own fam
ily by his father’s bitter feelings toward
him in the hour of death.
The elder Ford made poor use of his
wealth when he signed his name to the
disinheriting will that branded, so far as
he could do so. the child he had forced
upon an unfriendly world.
The law makes a good will and a just
one. Every child inherits equally, because
the law contends that every child is equal
tn mind, matter and estate when it is bom
of the same parents, and is made to enter
life under similar conditions.
I have known people who wreaked spite
on their children by distinctions in wills.
I never knew It to work out happily. Soon
er or later the friction will make itself
felt, and then the hate is perpetuated to
other generations, with no remedy for the
wrong.
Such wills engender wounds that are
never entirely healed.
King David had a disobedient son. Ab
salem. The son conspired against his
kingdom and endangered his father's life.
Tet David cried out: “Oh. Absolem. my
son. would to God I had died for thee!”
Parental love must have within Itself
the same element of justice that glorifies
divine love. Unless It can be just it is
unworthy of the name. 4
Gen. Alexander’s Speech at West Point
It is not surprising that Georgia's Con
federate veterans feel somewhat hurt
and chagrined at the remarks made at
West Point. N. T., at its late commence
ment exercises by Gen. E." P. Alexander,
who was selected by the authorities to
speak from the Confederate standpoint.
His subject was the "Confederate Vete
ran." He spoke for the class of 1857. and
during the course of his remarks said:
"Whose vision is now so dull that he
Ay-es net recognise the blessing It is to
self and to his chi’-Jren to live in an
andirided country? Who would today
relegate his own state to the postion it
would hold in the world were it declared
a sovereign, as are the states of Central
Best Use
FJT tn tine. Bold by <jru<snt«
and South America? To »sk these ques
tions is to answer them. And the answer
is the acknowledgment that it was best
for the south that the cause was lost.
The right to secede, the stake for which
we fought so desperately, were it now
offered us as a gift, we would reject, as
we would a proposition of suicide."
It is permissible that General Alexander
should speak what he believes to be the
truth, but there are times when “silence
is golden.” If he felt what he said to be
the truth as he'saw/it, it was still poor
policy to appear and speak for a class of
our citizenship who entirely disagree with
the speaker's views on this subject, unless
they had authorised these statements and
made him their mouthpiece.
A bird that befouis her own nest Is a
poor sort of a bird, as birds are reckoned,
and while the results of the war are bear
able. it was a poor time and a poor place
to eat humble pie. and act like you were
trying to be very humble.
I doubt if the general would have made
the same speech in Savannah that he
made at West Point; but it must not be
forgotten that the general has been fa
vored with some remarkably good gov
ernment appointments, and so long as he
enjoys that sort of candy he may be ex
pected to praise It. regardless of the col
oring that the candy-makers t use in fixing
it up. The people who may be ( expectod
to praise the sweetening on all such oc
casions will like more candy when the
present supply runs low, b ut a
hard on the “old Confeds" here at home
that are not being supplied with any
government positions, and wohse stomach
sours on "humble pie" without any candy.
Besides it is a disputed question whether
the south would secede if the chance was
offered under conditions that promised
success. Os course nobody is fool enough
to crave for years of disaster and de
feat Just to live through it. but General
Alexander should be sure of the ground
he stands upon before he undertakes to
speqlk for ten states of this union on a
question of such importance as he discuss
ed at West Point.
If he feels like he deserved his whipping
and got it where it was needed, we will
not contradict his assertions, but there
are lots of people in this country who
indulge the opinion that nothing is ever
settled that is not settled right, and the
burdens that were flung upon the southern
states after the war was over go to show
that this business of spiteful revenge was
badly overdone and negro suffrage was
clearly a case of spite when we see how
vigorously it is denied to the Indian, the
Japanese and the Chinaman by the very
men who were most anxious to put "black
heels on white necks." _
General Alexander is doubtless a, fine
speaker on gala days, but somebody else
should speak for the Confederate vete
rans.
Parisian Window Gardena.
A very interesting article appears In the
New York Sun on window gardens. I
am impressed that floriculture must be
intensified to make it generally satisfac
tory to the great majority of mankind.
Although there is land in abundance
there are no flower gardens in the streets
of American cities, and the people who
long for the flowers are generally those
who have no money to buy them, and no
land on which to grow them.
The New York Sun says: "Every Paris
house of importance has its balconies,
great, small and abundant. Other resi
dences have little grilles, suggesting bal
conies. And in all these little balconies
and window railings, gardens are culti
vated through the spring and summer
time that are charming and picturesque
additions to the houses, to the streets
and to the general effect on the city. The
Paris exposition sent many Americans
home with the idea of beautifying their
windows in Parisian fashion, with theee
growing gardens. The window box of an
up-to-date style must extend clear across
the sill and must be narrow, not more
than a foot wide and about as deep. The
undersoil may be ordinary but the upper
earth must be had from the florist. Those
who live in town houses and apartments
during the summer months, miss one of
the artistic joys of life when they fail to
cultivate window gardens."
Women sometimes are fine florists. They
appear to be gifted in that way. All they
touch seems to grow and prosper. The
cuttings will root, the flowers will ex
pand and the plants will thrive for them,
while others who try very hard have no
success at all. Os course the natural flo
rist gives proper thought, time and labor
to the flower raising, while too many of
us are clumsy and inattentive to necessa
ry little things. This window garden Idea,
placed on little balconies outside the win
dow sill. Is nevertheless a helpful idea to
th- inmates of contracted quarters. It is
a diversion and recreation to the invalid
to watch .the plants grow. .
The French people are fine agricultur
ists. horticulturists and flori-culturtsts.
They are the best of farmers, for their
savings come from small economies and
small crops. When the Franco-German
war ended, and an enormous war indem
nity was demanded by the victorious Ger
mans, it was the small farmers of France
who met the obligation. A loan was au
thorised and the rate of interest to
French people was made reasonable.
Bo these small farmers brought up mil
lions of money, that they had collected
In thin way, and when the old stockings
were emptied into the Franch treasury
there was money and to spare, furnished
by the French to sustain their govern
ment. We can learn many lessons from
theee thrifty French farmers and florists.
American-Born Women at the Corona
tion.
America is going to be well represented
when King Edward puts on his gilded
coronation robe and England’s royal
crown, and the American born ladies who
have married English dukes, counts and
barons are to be well to the forefront as
royal personages in the great parade.
Eight or ten of these Anglo-American
dtichesses and peeresses will simply out
shine the whole covey with gay plumage,
on that occasion, with jewels and wealth.
Our countrywomen know how to push In
and take the front seats; they will be
there beyond a doubt. We will be disap
pointed if they fail.
In nine cases out of tep, when great
fortunes are made in America, and the
rich nabobs have been satiated with fine
houses, fine horses, fine jewels and fine
yachts, the next move is to find some man
with .a title who is scarce of money, and
then exchange a daughter for a title. We
are packing down immense lots of money
across the Atlantic—a clear barter and
sale, so much money and so much title.
King Edward was said to lean heavily on
some rich American friends when he was
Prince of Wales, so turn about is fair
play, and he will fix up a great gathering
where all the rich people can rival each
other in dress and the American girls can
spread their robes in the great pageant.
Has anybody called this performance a
second Vanity Fair?
Stuffed Prunes.
Take a pound of fine, large prunes,
wash carefully and soak over night; re
move the stone by making an opening on
each side of the prune and Insert a table
spoonful of finely chopped English wal
nuts and almonds.—People's Home Jour
nal.
Simple Remedy For Asthma.
Extract the juice of eight lemons and
mix carefully with one ounce of
and one ounce of cod liver oil. Take a
tablespoonful of the mixture when the
cough comes on.—Good Literature.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1902.
Would a Good God Allow Such
A Disaster As Mt. Pelee’s Eruption?
BY BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER.
CATASTROPHES arising from
superhuman causes always
set a certain type of minds
to theorising theologically.
Such minds seem to be Impelled on
occasions of great natural disas
ters to dwell upon the causes back
of the phenomena presented in such
events and to inquire if the horrors
brought to pass were the outcome
of heartless fate or the doing of a
wise and loving Father.
In the days of Jesus the falling
tower of Siloam killed eighteen per
sons, and forthwith certain Inquir
ers proceeded to ask of the divine
Master if the eighteen victims were
sihners above all that dwelt at Je
rusalem, and if they were therefore
overtaken by a judgment from
heaven. The theory proposed was
that exceptional suffering pointed
to exceptional sinfulness, but they
who proposed - it never dreamed of
charging cruelty or injustice on the
God of providence who imposed the
suffering.
In these later and more sceptical
times there are minds which go to
the opposite extreme in accounting
for suffering among men. They are
far more inclined to find fault with
God for human pain than to hold
men responsible for their own deeds.
On the occasion of a great disaster
these minds proceed at once to read
God out of the world, preferring to
believe the absurdity that all that
happens comes by the impersonal
force of chance than to accept the
idea that a good God. would permit
men to suffer extraordinary pain.
A case in point is that of the
atheistic editor of the organ of
free-thinkers published in New
York. In a recent issue of that
profane periodical the editors com
ments upon the calamity which
lately befell St. Pierre as follows:
"It was the Lisbon earthquake
which shook Voltaire’s faith in a
God who governs, who pervades all
places and ages, and who has estab
lished a direct relation between
himself and mankind. He was com
pelled to ask. What was my God
doing? Why did the universal
Father crush* to shapelessness thou
sands of his poor children, even
at,the moment when they were up
on their knees returning thanks to
him? The tragedy of St. Pierre
ought to drive a sincere theist in
sane.
."How the Christians can recon
cile such an appalling calamity as
this volcanic eruption with the con
ception of a good God who cares
for his children, and without whose
watchful supervision not even a
sparrow falls to the ground, is one
of those things which astonishes
men who think. The Inhabitants
of St. Pierre were literally burned
up and buried in the white-hot mud
which came from the crater and
dropped upon the town. Such an
act occurring through personal vo
lition of any being would stamp
that being as a demon of infinite
cruelty. Nothing could equal it
except the creation of a hell in
which billions instead of thousands
are to burn lorever. There are no
words in any language which can
describe such a being.” ’
There we have a fair sample of
"free thought” concerning the prob
lem of human suffering. The editor
tells us that he had a notable pre
decessor in Voltaire who was turn
ed theologically topsy-turvy by the
Lisbon earthquake, ahd who never
thereafter recovered his balance
religiously. We are given to un
derstand that this editor is in a
state of mind himself on account,
of the eduption of Mont Pelee, and
• that he escapes insanity only by
avoiding theism. So to speak, it
appears that he is at outs with the
God of Christianity and has gone
off in a pout with Christians for
continuing to believe in such a
God. It is "just too bad” to see the
poor man "take on so.”
But perhaps he and Voltaire, and
their sort, are a trifle too easy on
trigger, and it may be that they
have gone off half cocked. Let us
Have they any proof that it would
be best for men that the earth
should never quake and that volca
noes should never become active?
It has been generally acknowledged
by scientific men that earthquakes
and volcanoes take place under the
operation of natural laws. Are we
now to understand that it would
■, be better that nature should be
lawless or that nature should have
a different sort of laws from
those now of force? Would this
gentleman repeal or revise the laws
of nature, or would he suspend them
every time a lot of foolish men felt
Inclined to disregard and defy
them? What kind of a universe
would he make by such a method
of procedure?
Again, would Voltaire have rais
ed any question about the goodness
of the God of nature if the Lisbon
earthquake had been confined to an
uninhabited area? would this New
York editor be in such a fret about
the eruption of Mont Pelee if no hu
man being had lived near enough
to it to have been hurt by it? Per
haps at bottom the quarrel of these
offended philosophers is rather with
the free agents who built their
homes at Lisbon and St. Pierre than
with the Almighty, who made the
earth subject to earthquakes and
volcanoes. If upon the whole it
should turn out after careful invest
tigation (as doubtless would be the
case)’ that such phenomena were
the result of laws of the most far
reaching benevolence, it would ap
pear that a God who would suspend
those merciful laws because a few
thousands of foolish men put them
selves in the way of the operation
of tjiem would be weak to the ex
tent* of wickedness. To sustain the
contention of these Complainants
against God and nature, it is there
fore necessary to prove that earth
quakes and volcanoes are either
lawless or malign or that they are
both malign and lawless. Can the
Complainants furnish the proof of
such a tremendous proposition?
Have they one scintilla of evidence
to offer in proof of it?
I do not set up to be a scientist,
but I am convinced that if there
were no such vents in the earth’s
crust as Mont Pelee, Mont Vesu
vius and Mont Loa there would be
more awful catastrophes than now
infrequently occur under the pres
ent order of things. In fact, I real
ly and sincerely doubt if either Vol
. talre or this hysterical editor or
both of them together could make
as good a world as that we have, or
run such a world as well as it is
now carried on if it were turned
over to them. lam not quite sure
of their good intentions even, not
to mention any misgivings about
their ability to meet the demands
of such a task. It is well known
that Voltaire’s doctrines when set
in operation in France were not
what the bbys call “a howling suc
cess,” although they produced howl
ing enough of the most diabolical
sort. And may I inquire if this
New York editor, who seeks to re
prob God for criielty in the matter
of the laws governing earthquakes
and volcanoes, has ever been able
to convince his fellow-citizens that
he wgs able to govern so much as
Manhattan island without laws
and penalties? Before he abolishes
earthquakes and volcanoes and puts
the Almighty out of sight, suppose
he takes fn hand some smaller re
formations ?
It is evident that if God would
abdicate in favor of these sapient
• souls their first act would be to ban
ish pain from the world, especially
all physical pain. They manifestly
hold that the presence of suffering
impeaches the goodness of God and
that it therefore forces them to
believe in blind and impersonal fate
or force, rather than acknowledge
the existence of an Omnipotent Be
ing ivho would permit such a thing
as human pain. Are they prepared
to prove that a program of painless
ness would be best for the universe?
Would such a program, if carried
out, result in the production of the
noblest forms of moral life? Or
would it turn out only gross speci
mens of beastly wantonness? Are
these correctors of God and revis
ers of nature’s laws ready to pro
pose as a reform measure that high
moral ends shall be sacrificed in
order to secure exemption from
physical discomfort? Will they make
physical painlessness or moral per
fection the goal of creation? Would
they have us believe that the earth
ought to be a never falling pasture
for men and women to roam and
graze in like fat cattle, with never
a thought higher than their own se
curity from suffering? Such a view
of the world may commend itself
to a certain sort of coarse minds;
but for my part I could never be
lieve in the wisdom or the goodness
of a God who would make and main
tain a world like that. It is con
ceivable that a devil of sufficient
power might devise and execute
such a program to promote selfish
ness; but certainly no benevolent
being would enact such a scheme
to produce holiness.
Let us bear imnlnd that this ab
surd contention of Voltaire about
the Lisbon earthquake and this pa
roxysmal railing of the New York
editor against eruption of the Mar
tinique volcano He quite as much
against the laws of nature as
against the God of nature. They
cannot get rid of the fact that thou
sands perished by those disasters
whether God or nature did the
deeds. They imagine that they feel
better by believing that no person
had anything! to do with those ca
tastrophes, but that the events fell
out as the* relentless resuits of im
personal forces. The crimes of
earthquakes and volcanoes by
which multitudes lost their lives
were too palpable to, be concealed
or denied; but these men propose
to avoid the necessity of finding
God guilty of those crimes by
bringing in a verdict to the effect
that “We, the jury, find the deceas-
* ed came to their deaths by causes
entirely unknown to us, we being
persuaded thkt no person had any
thing to do with it, because we are
convinced that no person would in
flict or allow such palft.”
But where Is the evidence to sus
tain such a verdict or to justify the
assumption upon which it rests? I
make bold to affirm that the ver
dict is contrary to the facts of na
ture and that the assumption upon
which it proceeds is absolutely un
tenable. All the facts of nature
point to a person back of the laws
of nature .and they show that great
Creative Being perfecting all things
by pain. So that all the voices of
nature declare in apostellc lan
guage: “We know that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain together until now.”
If there is no person back of na
ture and above nature whence came ’
all the persons in the world, irtclud-
Ing those who lost their lives at
Lisbon and St. Pierre? Can imper
sonal forces, however long continued
in action and reaction, ever culmin
ate in personal beings? Does not
the derived existence of persons on
the earth point us unmistakably to
an underived, self-existent Person
above and before all things? And
if there be such a person, shall we
hastily conclude that He Is a malig
nant and cruel Person because we
cannot discern all the beneficent
ends He has in view by making a
world in which earthquakes and
volcanoes occur? Or, to put the
question in another form, shall we
on account of the presence of pain
on the earth conclude that there is
no God or else that the God who
exists is a bad God?
What if tn the midst of the earth’s
painful history there should appear
a majestic person bearing divine
characteristics while bending be
neath a self-imposed burden of more
than mortal . woe? What if God
should/ manifest Himself as "the
Man of Sorrows? Would we not then
conclude that He was aiming at
ends so much more precious than
mere* painlessness that to Accom
plish them He would endure
the most excruciating agonies?
Could we after such a reve
tion of Himself call pain
evil and seek to run away from
it as from a base and godless thing?
Would it not be better for us to try
to discover the ultimate object of
his agonizing and then entering into
the fellowship of his suffering seek
to pursue with Him that object, al
though the pursuit of it should lead
us through Gethsemanes of bloody
sweats and to Calvary with crowhs
of thorns? Might we not run glad
ly along a pathway so painful if
we had just reason to believe that
after pain and death had done their
worst upon us, as upon Him, to
gether we would emerge in a world
where holiness attains perfection?
Would it be too much to say such
an achievement would be worth all
the pain it could possibly cost? In
short, who shall set limits to the
value of suffering in a universe
central figure and force of which is \
a suffering Messiah?
For one, I should not know what
to make of this world of pain and
grief if the God-Man had not come
as a sufferer. But He gives the
clue to the maze. Pain is not evil
nor painlessness the highest good.
Perfection of moral agents is the
goal of creation, to reach which God
Himself will become a sufferer.
"For it became him, for whom are
all things and by whom are all
things, in bringing many sons unto
glory, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through suffer
ings." It is impossible that a God
so bent on our good should
permit in all the earth one
superfluous pang or needless ag
ony. There never was nor
can there be an unnecessary
earthquake nor a redundant volca
no. They and all other of the dark
things of earth are parts of a vast
scheme of mercy, boundless as the
limitless heavens studded with the
innumerable orbs of love and light
that beam and burn above us.
"Clouds and darkness are round
about him; but righteousness and
judgment are the habitatldn of his
throne.” Though we cannot pene
trate all the mystery of pain, the
dying Savior has set his bow fn
the clouds and at its end is a treas
ure, not like the legendary pot of
gold which beguiled and disappoint
ed our childish Imaginations, but a
treasure weighty with worth beyond
all comparison with the light afflic
tions which can torture us but for
a moment only.
But some will say if these things
be true why is hell left? Will its
fires never burn down? Why does
not this God of suffering love ex
tinguish them? The plain answer
is because He cannot. Free kgents
make hell because “they would not
be redeemed.” God wished it not
I so, nor makes it so. But how mer
ciless would He be if He allowed
insurgent souls, invincible by love,
to force their way selfishly into
heaven and thus to corrupt , the
home prepared for the redeemed
spirits made perfect through the
sufferings of their Savior and
themselves. Eternal sinfulness
makes an eternal hell despite all
the pains and purposes of redeeming
love.
Volcanoes are the beneficent forces
of nature in flaming, energetic ac
tion; but neither their crests nor
bases are suitable locations for hu
man habitation, and no one is
forced to live in such perilous
places. Eternal punishment in like
manner vindicates and enforces
eternal laws of righteousnes and
mercy; but no being is constrained
to fly into the penal flame.
God and nature are holy and be
nignant, but the senseless senti
mentality that complains against
good finds no counte
nance in either the laws of nature
or the provisions of grace. Sickly
sentimentalists cannot understand
either God or nature. They scoff
at law and whine at pain. Let none
mistake their whimperings for ar
gument. They cry for a goodlsh
god or none. A good God they can
not comprehend and will not wor
ship. Nor can they hinder the on
going of the heavenly laws in nature
or grace whereby divine mercy does
its work of love.
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IRRIGATION IN IDAHO.
Efforts to Make Useful a River That
Flows Eight Miles Under
Ground.
Boise (Idoho) Statesman.
Professor Edward Mead, expert in
charge of irrigation investigation for the
department of argiculture. writes en
couraging letters to State Engineer Ross
regarding the future of irrigation work
in Idaho. Mr. Ross is a personal friend
of Professor Mead’s and the Washington
expert is kindly disposed toward Idaho
and it great future as an irrigation
state. Professor Mead has so expressed
himself in numerous letters. Professor
J. D. Stannard, one of Professor Mead’s
most accomplished assistants, is now
working under the direction of State En
gineer Ross in the Big Lost river valley.
The name of "Big Lost River Valley"
does not sound as though there would
be much water to irrigate with, but State
Engineer Ross says it is a productive
country. The river gets lost all right, and
it’ is lost several times throughout its
course. At one place, for a distance of 8
miles it disappears entirely only to re
appear again as the impervious strata
approach the surface.
The valley of the Big Lost river is long
and narrow, but thesoll is of great rich
ness. It is the object of the present
Inquiry to determine upon the cost of
building a storage reservoir that will hold
the water of Big Lost not far from its
source. The fact that the river sinks into
the sub-strata of gravel will make no
difference. The engineering problem
does not deal with the temporary disap
pearance of the water, but the holding of
it in reserve. It will be allowed to run
in its natural channel, as the loss from
percolation or absorption is only slight.
As a matter of fact, the evaporation is
reduced to a minimum while the stream
is below the surface.
These problems gre now engaging the
attention of Professor Stannard in his
work. The town of Mackay is in the
center of the Big .Lost river irrigation
district, and the peqple of that section
are wide awake to the proposed storage
reservoir enterprise. They have an ac
tive organization among the irrigators,
and have raised money to help along the
project. The people are students of the
great problem, and have encouraged
State Engineer Ross to aid them in stor
ing water.
The Beml-Weekly Journal is the offi
cial organ of the Southern Cotton
Growers* Protective Association, and
through its columns you will be ad
vised of all matters of interest pertain
ing to the crop, and you cannot afford
to be without the paper. Renew now
and get all the news.
The People and the Railroads.
, Albany Herald.
The Atlanta Journal of yesterday has a
well timed editorial on the subject of the
recent Democratic primary and the rail
roads —the significance of the result as
between the successful candidate for gov
ernor. Hon. J. M. Terrell, and Hon. Du
pont Guerry. who sought to make the sins
and shortcomings of the railroads a lead
ing issue, and received less votes than
either of the three candidates in the race.
The Journal’s editorial appears to be a
fair presentation of the case, and it should
also serve as a timely admonition to the
railroads and all others concerned.
The railroads and their practices, in
cluding the charge of lobbying, were on
trial only so far as their indictment by
Candidate Guerry in his campaign avail
ed. The people may have been convinced
that the railroads were guilty of all ‘the
sins charged up to them by Mr. Guerry,
but his efforts to connect Mr. Terrell with
the railroad interests of the state or to
make him in any way responsible for their
sins in the past or their designs upon the
people and the state in the future sig
naay lalled.
The grand duke of Saxe-Weimar is
25 years old. and is said to be the richest
\toachelor in Europe.
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Educational Field i*
Conducted By Hon. M. B. Bennis
, .".in".--i ■ i ’ ■, ’-i'
GEORGIA’S UNWARRANTED
TREATMENT OF TEACHERS
For the scholartstic year 1902 the great
body of laboring, waiting teachers have’
so far been paid for about one and one
seals month’s work. In the dim. uncer
tain future, rendered doubly obscure and
indefinite by the calculating reluctance
on the part of the governor to borrow
$160,000 because of’the high rate of inter
est. there flickers A faint, sickly hope of
another half month's pay. If this luckily
be secured, it will figure out for the teach
ers about two month’s pay for the work
done this year.
In some counties the term Just closed
began last September, in some, in Octo
ber, and in some in November. In others
the term began in January. In any event
the work contracted for has been per
formed and reported to the proper author
ities. For the remainder of the pay the
teachers must wait until next winter, or
borrow.
Board bills are due and the landlords
and landladies who fed and sheltered the
army of pedagogues demand their money.
Laundry bills are due, and. maybe, past
due, and the washwomen all up and down
the state must have their pay regularly,
or this important industry will cease.
Clothing bills, millinery bills, stationery
bills, book bills, medical bills, shoe bills,
livery bills, bills for nicknacks, and bills
innumerabe, both mentionable and un
mentionable, whirti, on account of the dis
tressing needs of the teachers occasioned
by a serious lack of inadequate legisla
tive provisions, the kind-hearted profes
sional and business people were willing to
carry for a while, must all be paid now
because vacation is on and the teachers
are scattering to their homes.
So to the banks and money lenders they
are compelled to go, and pay anywhere
from seven to twelve per cent discount.
The governor is to be commended for his
effort to secure the $150,000 loan as cheap
ly as possible, but if he finally refuses to
borrow the money even at 4 per cent in
terest, he will force the poor teachers
Co pay for the same money, seven to ten
per cent. By refusing to borrow he ■will
save the state from $2,000 to $3,000 in in
terest, but will force the teachers to pay
out of their hard earned wages fully
SB,OOO.
There is another phase to this interest
ing subject which might furnish to the
next body of lawmakers to assemble in
Atlanta the approaching fall valuable
food for thought. It is this: The legis
lature might save the dear old state sev
eral thousand dollars if it would relieve
the teachers of this unwarrantable bur-
Sam Jones Among Orange Blossoms.
To The Atlanta Journal:
SINCE my last letter to The
Journal I have been on the
wing for a few days in Flori
da, taking in Jacksonville,
Madison, Live. Oak, Lake City, etc.
"I had not been to Jacksonville until
this trip since their monumental
fire of a year ago. I walked and
rode around over the city with
friends. It seems to me that I never
saw in twelve months’ time such
a building up of a city. Twenty-two
hundred houses were burned in
the fire of last May a year year ago,
and in twelve months' time they
have built about twenty-three hun
dred houses, and many of them
most magnificent office, bank and
■tore buildings, with many fine res
idences; and all in all, Jacksonville
is now a magnificently built-up city,
and the only evidence that there
has been a fire is occasionally a
vacant lot with the charred trees
still standing.
The live people of Jacksonville
take an interest In a visitor, and
love to take him up on their ten
story office buildings and show him
the line of demarcation. Three hun
dred and. sixty acres of solid city
burned out, and in twelve months’
time magnificently built up. Jack
sonville is a coming city. I found
life and push everywhere there. The
great freeze that killed the orange
trees of Florida was as much a ben
ediction to the population of that
state as was the freeing of the ne
gro in the southern states forty
years ago. Florida could never have
forged to the front with a large part
of her population sitting under the
shade of orange trees waiting for
oranges to get ripe, but they are
out hustling now. Florida’s phos
phate beds, vegetable gardens and
magnificent farms are all in full
blast. I was amazed at the farm
ing lands and the magnificent crops
of corn and cotton I saw growing
around Live Oak, Madison, Lake
City, etc., and no kindlier people
have I ever known than the native
Floridians.
The floods and winds and wash
outs drove me from the state before
I was through with my work. Just
think of it! South Georgia flooded
and north Georgia as dry as ai\old
bum who has spent ten days out
at Judge Broyles’ stockade. It has
been —some one counting up today—
eleven weeks since we had a soak
ing rain in this section of north
Georgia ,and yet the corn and cot
ton Is forging ahead. David said:
"I have been young, and now I am
old, yet have, I never seen the
righteous forsaken or his seed beg
ging bread.” But it does look like
now if it don’t rain around here in
the next three weeks you will see
both saint and sinner begging bread
this coming fall. •
I read Guerry’s pronunclo and
manifesto in the papers of a day
or two ago. I was charmed with
his spirit, for he is a noble spirited
fellow, and got more brains than
any fellow I have seen running for
office in Georgia in years. Guerry
has got brains, he has got convic
tions. he has got Integrity, he has
got backbone, but if a fellow has
too many good things about him
and in him he is considered a crank,
unsafe .not conservative and what
ever else you may say about him
that discounts him. Mr. Guerry is
right when he says, if the present
crowd doesn’t straighten up things
there will be another candidate in
the fall of 1904 setting up with them
again.
Colonel Estill seems to be like
James K. Jones, national Democrat
ic chairman, slow to give up the
fight. But. colonel, you had Just as
well give it up, the gang has got it
in their hands and they are going
to run it for the next two years,
and if you say much it will do up
your chances two years from now.
It won't do to sass that gang if you
hope ever to need them. God knows
if I ever expected to run for office
in Georgia I would write and talk
quite differently to what I do, but
den by borrowing in its own name the
full amount which the teachers must do
to keep up credit and respectability, and
deducting the difference saved in con
sequence of a lower rate of interest from
the annual tex as-esa-ie**- H re
quire a constitutional amendment, but
the end will justify Ota meena.
Let’s figure a uttu byway of fllu*-
t rat ion. The teachers are paid during tne
spring months usually about $600,000. For
the balance, $900,000, they must wait, if
they do not borrow. The great bulk of
them borrow—they have to. Allow that
only thrAe-fourths of this amount is act
ually borrowed by the teachers, that on
ly 7 per cent, interest is paid (this is
considerably below the average), and that
the average length of time these loans
run is six months, ( a very conservative
estimate), it will be discovered that the
teachers are paying out annually for in
terest more than $25,000. The state can
easily make this loan at a cost of SB,OOO.
thus saving the burdened tax payers $15,-
000 to $17,000. Yes, this can be done and
still pay the teachers the same net sala
ries.
What, go to Chicago, to Nashville, to
any of the numerous chautauquas, sum
mer schools, or even to the State Teach
ers’ association at Tybee, or anywhere
else? They cannot. They want to go.
They have a burning desire to do some
thing to better prepare them for efficient
service, but impossible. So they must re
tire to some secluded, quiet place where
custom requires no display in dress and
habits, where conditions are more in har
mony with their empty pockets and ex
hausted enrgles, and where they can
calmly ruminate on the past and specu
late on the future. We are talking about
rural school teachers, not town and city.
While we cannot take an affidavit to the
fact we are willing to venture the as
sertion that In the party of teachers that
recently left the state for Chicago to take
special summer courses were none from
the rural schools proper. No, No! Coun
try school teachers cannot afford such
trips as a rule. Too much of their money
has gone for interest and discounts. They
must be content to stay at home and re
flect on what "might have been,” and on
what might be were they receiving their
just dues. They can, however, and they
do, heartily rejoice in the good fortune
of those who are able to avail themselves
of these opportunities.
In all seriousness, this flagrant injustice
to the teachers of Georgia relating to the
shabby manner in which they are paid off
each year has continued as long as should
be tolerated. A people whose constitution
is founded on justice should hasten to cor
rect this evil. . i -wBR
they will never get a chance to de
feat your Uncle Jones, because I
am not going to run, but I am going
to have a good deal to say while
other folks are running, and I am
not going to say anything but the
truth, and then I am willing for
them to call me all sorts of names
and tell all sorts of lies on me.
Times seem to be getting a lit
tle dull in Georgia since the pri
mary. The newspapers are putting
mighty big head lines on the an
nouncement of mighty little events,
but such la life. I am glad we
don’t have it dull all the time, and
I would be sorry to see the thing
too lively all the time, but every
issue of The Journal is Interesting.
I keep saying it, The Journal is not
only growing in its news columns,
but she is growing in her cirula
tton marvelously. I was astonished
to see how many copies were taken
by friends in Jacksonville, Lake
City, Live Oak and around gener
ally wherever I go throughout the
Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and
Alabama, The Journal is not hard
to find.
I begin shortly my tour of Chau
tauqua work. I hope to be equal to
the task. I shall give The Journal
readers letters from various sec
tions of the country, and whatever
events or happenings or sights that
I think will interest them.
I am yours, still improving some,
SAM P. JONES.
Cartersville, Ga., June 17, 1902.
Pirates have appeared oft the coast of
Cuba, but the inhabitants are not in the
least alarmed since their experience with
some United States officials.
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