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Mfi Persons who send poetatfe stamps tn ME I payment for subecrlrtlone are Mfi I *d to sand those of the >*nt denoml- ME I aatlon Amounts lanjer than 50 cents |H I poatofnee order express order, eheck 11 er rewtetered mail ■5 Puboerlbers who wish ’heir r<P*« ■g I ebanred should lire bvth the old and ME I the new pnaenfffri address W MOTICI TO THK PUBLIC —Th* ME I «®ly traveling representatives of The MK I Journal an f J O’Farrell and J. A. MB I Bryan. Any other who represents h!m- B I aslf •• coaascstd with The Journal as Ma I a traveling agent is a fraud, and we MH I will ba rsepor.stt l-' only for money paid |W I to th* above named repressntativea. gll * 1 K THURSDAY'. JI LT M. I*l2. Wyomfrr has b*en having Its last snow gM fall of the season. H By the way. what sort of looking thing J 9* * Waterson Democrat, anyway* Rg What's thia; Uncle Mark Hanna about ■ to develop into a calamity howler? ■ [ Secretary Root celebrate,! the Fourth by B['taking another kick at General Mlles. K That Mrs. Maybrick pardon rumor will M /: have to wait until the next coronation. H. Ohio Democrats appear to have about J the wont case of harmony we have yet » • een B I’ Now. If Senator Bailey had tried to gag ■Beveridge the country might have ap- K proved. E I We hate to think it. but we very much ■ that the weather man hasn't a con | •cieace. ■ b" We are just waiting for the time when K Senator Bailey and President Roosevelt Kahall citach- ■ We seem to have a very much better K ana coetlier presidential yacht than a K; presidential mansion. E I Tammany managed to jubilate to some ■ extent on the Glorious Fourth in spite B of recent experiences. ■ . B I If this thing keeps up we are going to K consult a clairvoyant about the location K of Atlanta's union depot. | I The Hon. Joe Hill Hall still has the K courage of his suspicions. He is prepared ■ to flght another depot bill. I | And now Gov. Jeff Davis feels called up to. on to throw a few clods on the grave of LI the Hon. Jameskay Jones. I The Georgia Bar association meeting K developed considerably more discussion K than the state convention. I The old-time Fourth of July returned to to Georgia this year and we shall have Ik regular visits from it hereafter. I I The wonder is that some of our pro- K ftotolonal reformers never think of try |F Ing to reform the weather man. II * Aren't we liable to get things a little || mixed if there are two discoverers of !■ anesthesia tn the Hall of Fame? | Some of the Democratic state conven- I tions are showing a disposition to put a I de filer plank in their platforms. I r Anybody who has ever been carried If •‘snipe hunting" ought to be able to un lj Serstand how Cuba feels about now. J President Roosevelt expects to go to b Mississippi on a bear hunt just as soon I. as the natives can arrange for a bear. More than 6,000 persons were married in I this country during June. And yet some ( people still oppose the creation of a per manent census bureau. ■ Congress has quit the work of leglsla- * tton. but most of its statesmen have un >; tertaken the harder talk of being re jected. A New York lawyer committed suicide because he was dishonest. He was evl ; 4en*ly never cut out for the profession •nyway. — So it seems congress was not so bad after all. Os 22.022 bills and joint resolu tions introduced at the recent session only MM were passed . Agninaidr> is said to be displeased at that amnesty proclamation. We had no Idea Aggie was going to take kindly to paying his own board. Senator Bailey has probably learned by this time that the scene he made of him self a few days ago was not admired by any part of the country. The Evanston. 111., library directors have recently met and expungated all the Baughty books, placing the same in a de partment to themselves. Where they will be handy. Having had time to look carefully Into the matter Hon. O. B. Stevens' friends have figured It out that those three coun ties slipped through one of the meshes In the net. *At least one thing is certain; General Len Wood was guilty of throwing away money when he spent that $15,636 for the purpose of presenting Cuban reciprocity arguments. The Philadelphia Ledger remarks that "Georgia has her politics about as well systematised as Pennsylvania.” Yes, gear fellow, but on different lines and far better objects. That 10 per cent raise in the wages of its employes doesn't seem such a big thing after all when U is known that the steel trust has earned net Bb.W.’OO in three months. . A thrifty Kentucky woman placed some eggs in bed with her husband who lay ill of fever and hatched out a fine brood of chickens. Theie is one woman who will never need a man to scratch for her. Some mean, exasperating paragrapher observes how eager the administration newspapers are to accept Dewey's opin ion of Aguinaldo. and how reluctant they are to accept Dewey's opinion of Schley. Now that we in the south have begun to observe the Fourth of July like true Americans, maybe the time will soon come when we will observe Christmas like Christians —or, at least, not like sav r “•* Some of the old anti-depot Insurgents are pretending to see another depot bill looming up In the distance. It is probable that people never become entirely cured of this Infirmity, no matter how heroic the treatment. Dan Lamont after carefully sislng up the Democratic nomination for governor of New York has followed the example of tha little boy who remarked about the bis cuit on a neighbor’s side table: "It looks mighty good, but I don t want it." A STRONG PLEA FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SUPREME COURT. The unanswerable argument for the relief of the Georgia supreme court, made by Justice Cobb of that tribunal before the State Bar association deserves the thoughtful consideration, not of lawyers alone, but of the general public as well. Justice Cobb takes The Judicial System of Georgia as his theme, but con fines himself to that part of it which relates to the supreme court. He lays down and sustains perfectly the proposition that aomethtng should be done to enable that tribunal to deal more satisfactorily with the business that is brought to its consideration. It Is impossible for it to do so under present conditions, for reasons which Justice Cobb makes perfectly clear to every rea sonable man who will read his address. He shows that in 1S» MT cases were returned to the supreme court, of which JS9 were disposed of by judgments of affirmance or reversal, and 148, or about 17 per cent., were withdrawn or dismissed. By ISM the number of cases had increased to 733, of which 626 were disposed of by affirmance or reversal, and only 97, or 13 per cent, withdrawn or dismissed. The Increase of the number of supreme court judges from three to six went Into effect tn 1897 and tn that year the number of cases Increased to 876. Judg ments in 753 were affirmed or reversed and 12L or 14 per cent, were dismissed. Thia rapid growth of the courts' business increased until In 1901 898 cases were disposed of by judgments of affirmance or reversal, and 93. or less than 10 per cent, were withdrawn or dismissed. The number of cases returned to the court for the October term of 1901 and the March term of 1902 will exceed 1,000. To show what a great mass of small ca ses the court is required to deal with Justice Cobb states that 324 of these cases Involve over SSOO ; 62 involve between $250 and SSOO ; 88 involve between SIOO and $250; $4 involve between SSO and SIOO, and 52 involve SSO or less. Twenty of the cases of this last class were brought against railroads for killing cattle. The supreme court se'ins to do a large practice in cow cases. wring the two terms of the court referred to 801 criminal cases were return ed and S 3 of them Involve offenses below the grade of felony. Before the close of the present term, whlcu has continued since March, 200 cases will have to be of, and we are now Into July. One thousand cases a year, and the number Is constantly Increasing, would require the court to hear and decide an average of more than three cases every week day, exclusive of legal holidays, what ever recesses might be taken. It Is probable that no court of appeal In any part of the country Is re quired to do such an amount of work. To say that It cannot be done with the deliberation and thoroughness that are desirable is to state an axiom. The statement of the number of cases In which opinions were filed and those tn which headnotes were written by the justices during the last nine terms of the court when there were only three of them and the number filed during the last ten terms since three more justices were added shows that the court has been wonderfully industrious, but also proves that it has been required to do mor* work than should be Imposed upon it. The court from 1897 to 1901 has been in session continuously each year from the first Monday in October until the latter part of July, and in several years no adjournment has been possible until the middle of August. The court sits regularly from six to seven hours a day, whereas four or five hours a day is considered a long session for most courts o> appeal, and many of them do not sit on an average of more than three hours a day. From Oc tober, 1898, to February, 1900, all the justices presided in every case. The un avoidable accumulation of business compelled the abandonment of this plan and the hearing of arguments in divisions. But even under this plan the court is sub jected to an unreasonable strain in the effort to keep up with its business. Justice Cobb refrains from advocating any particular plan of relief for the court. He thinks that the combined wisdom of the bar should be brought to bear in an effort to devise one that may be presented to the legislature tn a manner that will induce that body to open the way for its adoption. Th* learned justice, however, does call attention to various plans that have been proposed, among which are the following: L An increase of the number of justices and a consequent increase of the number of the court's divisions. 1 Limiting the jurisdiction of the court by providing that no case Involving less than a given amount shall be appealed to the court unless it Involves given guestions. 3. Permitting oral argument only in cases involving more than SSOO. 4. Restricting supreme court jurisdl ction to cases of certain classes. 5. Abolition of the pauper oath as a substitute for payment of supreme court costs. 6. In no case shall the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict be made the basis of an appeal where trial judge approves the verdict It is believed that out of these various plans, and others that may be pro posed. some satisfactory, welcome and beneficent plan of relieving the court of highest resort in Georgia could be evolved. HOW TO TREAT TRAMPS. What to do with tramps is one of the problems which has been a prolific source of theory and suggestion. Yhe rapid in crease of the number of tramps in this generation Is a phenomenon upon which a vast amount of study has been expend ed. Since 1870 this Increase has amounted to more than 235 per cent, or three times the rate of the increase of our population. It is manifestly Impossible to ascertain the exact number of tramps in the United States, but the last census puts it at 56.896. That census was taken In June 1900, and the army of tramps has probably increas ed by several thousand since that time. Prof. John J. McCook, an eminent stu dent of sociology, who has given the sub ject close study, estimates that tramps cost the country more than $11,000,000 a year, while they produce nothing. Up to this time no systematic effort has been made to reform persons of this class. Prof. McCook proposes and argues strongly in favor of applying to tramps the system of enforced occupation under intelligent and helpful direction that has been tried with such marked success upon persons convicted of misdemeanors. He adduces figures to show that this remedy has proved effective in 75 per cent of the cases to which it has been applied. The chances of doing something with the younger tramps he considers very en couraging in view of the results that have been accomplished by Institutions for the reform of youthful law-breakers. The report of one institution of this character as to the effects of reformatory treatment tn tvo hundred and six cases is as follows: Twenty-four have kept straight for five years and over. Twenty-two have kept straight for four and a half to five years. Fifteen have kept straight from four to four and a half years. • Twenty-two have kept straight from three to three and a half years. Eighteen have kept straight from two and a half to three years. Twenty-six have kept straight from one and a naif to two years. • Thirty-two have kept straight from one to one an«. a half years. Professor McCook considers this a show ing that holds out strong reason for the establishment of reformatories for tramps, who should be as susceptible to reforming influences as the Inmates of the reforma tory referred to It. He says: “Here are tangible results, and It is only necessary to multiply 306 by S2OO. the as certained annual cost of these people for arrest and maintenance, to show how important they are in dollars and cents. A number of the men have found em ployment in the place and some of them have been traced by me with the follow ing result: One establishment has seven for permanent places as salesmen, por ters. clerks, etc., four of whom were what I should call downright bums, and six more for temporary jobe. ‘None have ever disappointed me.' the proprietor says, and he always sends there whenever he wants a man. Another establishment has found them part good and part bad. A third has hsd a number and none of them have gone back. On the other hand, two other employers have tried in all from eighteen to twenty-seven of them and found them thoroughly unsatisfac tory. This testimony Is, on the whole, corroborative of the modest claims of the Institution—much failure, much uncer tainty, but definite success sufficient to pay for the effort and cost.” Prof. McCook. It will be seen, is not an Eutoplan or an unreasonably optimistic -eformer. He takes the sound position that the re formatories of youthful reprobates do quite enough good to justify their exist ence and to encourage the establishment of other such institutions From the results and probabilities of re formatories of this class he reasons that *he application of their principles and methods to tramps would have at least enough promise of good results to cause the making of -xperlment. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JULY 10, 1902. THE NEW WHITE HOUSE. There is a very general feeling of regret that the white house is to be remodelled. As it stands it is a beautiful structure and it is very doubtful whether the “im provements” of it that have been provi ded for will really deserve the name. The historic associations that cluster about this home of so many of our pres idents give It a value which no construc tion ever could have bestowed upon It It is true that the white house Is only to be “enlarged, decorated and refurnish ed,” as the authors and apologlsta of this Iconoclastic enterprise, put It, but when their work has been completed we shall know the old white house no more. They are going to spend $540,000 on the job and a much better use could be found for it. It is undeniable that the president should not be left to the necessity of com bining his residence and his office. There is by no means enough room in the white house for such an arrangement and for many reasons the president's home and his workshop should be kept separate and some distance apart, a mile at least. But the present objectionable combina tion Is to be continued, though on a grand er and more permanent scale. The historical identity of th* white house Is to be destroyed and the prospect of privacy for the occupant of the presi dency and his family is to be removed for an indefinite time to come. The money to be used upon additions to the white house should have been set apart for building an executive office building. Thia plan would have left quite enough room in the white house to satisfy all reasonable requirements of any pres ident. The present white house as it stands Is part of the history of the nation’s dapltal. It should be preserved as nearly as pos sible in Its historic form. THE IRREPRESSIBLE SCALPER. The war upon the railroad ticket scalp er, which has been waged for years In congress and many state legislatures, does not seem to have made much progress, though it Is undoubtedly based on sound principles of business and justice. The scalpers have Increased In number and acquired an Influence through their far-reaching organizations that makes It hard to break up their scheme. Their real strength lies, of course, in the widely prevalent belief that they give the public opportunities to procure railroad tickets at a much less cost than would be charged at regular ticket of fices. It Is natural that the person who wants to make a railroad trip should re duce the expense of it as far as possible, and the offices of ticket scalpers in all centers of travel are visited every day by bargain seekers. The railroads have found that they cannot circumvent the scalper. He is certainly very fertile of devices to evade their provisions against the successful prosecution of his traffic. It must be admitted that the demand of the railroads for protection against scalping Is just, but the national and local law-makers do not seem to feel call ed upon to take part in the flght. The business organizations are beginning to take up the cause of the railroads In this matter, however, and their opposition will tell upon the scalpers. But the latter have just scored a victory over the combined business organizations of New Orleans over which they are highly elated. The people of that city found, as those of every city where ticket scalping thrives will inevitably find, that It prevents them from obtaining as low rates for special occasions as they would get if the rail roads could be sure that the reduced rate round-trip tickets would be used both ways by their purchasers. Consequently scalping. Instead of help ing the business of New Orleans, actually damages it. Such will be the result wherever the practice prevails. The New Orleans business organisations, therefore, prepared a bill and had It In troduced in the legislature which pro hibited railroad ticket scalping through out Louisiana. The aforesaid organlxa tions urged the passage of this measure, but It was defeated. Strange to say, the scalpers appeared to have more influence with the representa tives of New Orleans In the legislature than did the great majority Os the busi ness men of their own city, for these statesmen stood by the scalpers. We do not believe, however, that ticket scalping will be permitted to continue much longer as it is now carried on, and It certainly should not be. A LAW AS TO COWHIDING. The Richmond Times contends that a special statute should be enacted and severer penalties provided for the offense of cowhiding. There are strong reasons In favor of such legislation. Cowhiding In most states is now pun ishable only as ordinary assault and bat tery. It should be made a graver offense under the law. More humiliating punishment can hard ly be visited upon a man than to cow hide him in public. The person who re sorts to that method of degrading his fel low-citizen takes a risk which has cost many a man his life. Instances of cowhiding are now very rare. Public sentiment has set against this method of attack and revenge as It has crystalized against the barbarity of dueling. The laws against dueling, against even the sending, carrying, or In stigating a challenge to mortal combat, and against debouncing one who has re fused to flght a duel have been made very severe. Public opinion endorses this re form and hai made these statutes effec tive. Our lawmakers should now giv* their attention to the "gentlemen” who are Inclined to Indulge In the exercise of cowhiding and cause them to understand that our civilization has reached a stage where sport of that character will cost very dearly. We very rarely hear of a case of cow hiding in these days and If It should be understood that very severe and certain punishment will be Inflicted for this odious offense it would become even more un usual than it is POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago News. Education is mitigated Ignorance. * The golden rule measures exactly twelvt Inches to the foot. Tastes differ; otherwise self-love would be a drug on the market. All the world lovee a lover—except sometimes the girl the lover lovee. Don't waste your time telling a small boy how very good you were at his age. REFLECT.ONB OF~a”bACHELOR. Unless sweet sixteen gets married it turns sour just like milk. A girl who likes to wear a bathing suit can always show her reason for It. Very few men understand women well enough not to try to understand them. Some parents are so heedless about the future of their children as to have red hair In the family. Nothing makes a woman so suspicious of what her husband is doing away from it as to have him quit finding fault at home. fore ign notes of INTE rest. Basel has the only zoological garden in Switzerland. England has just experienced the coldest May for sixty years. Great Britain Is now running a weather bureau on American lines. i ■ Only good swimmers are acceptable as re cruits in the German army. The English Salvation Army raised 1250,000 during the recent self-denial week. In merldlnal Russia people gain a remuner ative living by fishing for leeches. Harvard's exhibit to the Paris exhibition was recognized by a grand prix bronze medal and a diploma. It haz been suggested that all English the aters givs one matinee a year in aid of the atrical charities. An official report gives the estimated addi tional cost necessary to complets Siberian rail roads as $36,050,000. The number of cremations in London in 1901 was 273. as against 301 in 1900, according to the Cremation Society. In the British army 129 officers are quali fied as Interpreters in French, 104 In Russian, 81 in German, but only 1 in Dutch. WITH THE STATE PRESS. Greensboro Herald-Journal: Congressman Howard has returned to his home at Lexing ton. "Our Bill" is one of the strongest of the Georgia delegation. Cedartown Advance-CoUrler: Many good peo ple think that we are afflicted with too many elections— they come too close together. We agree in this almost universally expressed opinion. Every county officer, except the or dinary, Is elected for a term at two years -the ordinary for four. Why not so change the law that representatives and senators end all coun ty officers should be elected for four instead of two years? Moultrie Observer: The conservative clement in the state Democracy seems to be In the as cendency again. It will not be good if the pendalum swings back too far. Columbus Enquirer-Sun: The platform adopt ed by the democrats of Georgia is strictly and distinctly a Democratic document all the way through. There is not a sentence In s he en tire platform to which a patriotic citizen could take exception. It is based upon the funda mental principles of our great government ar d is in every respect worthy of the hearty and cordial support of every citizen cf Georgia. Oglethorpe Echo: The railroad map of Ocor gis, is undergoing great chans*. It looks like it will not be long before there will be only one railway system to each distinct section of the United States. In acme respects it may be better for the country. The Madisonian: The Georgia teachers, who, for three days, have been in session on Tybee Island, are an earnest, accomplished set. Sa vannah has had no more talented visitors this year. They are people with a purpose in life. They are hard-working, studious and scholarly. They are doing a great work for the state for they are moulding the minds of the young and teaching people how to think. They are thinking themselves, and working out their theories. Great advance has been made In school teaching. It has broadened out and in cludes the cultivation of the physique, and the emotions as well as the mind. The pupil is made more symmetrical. Gainesville Eagle: The Kansas City plat form was ignored as completely as Cleveland was ignored In 1896. Thus does time have Its revenges. Augusta Herald: It was a graceful tribute by Mr. Youmans to the young men of the state who are taking an active interest in state and public affairs, and it would indeed make for the good of the party throughout the state if the young men in the ranks every where received their fair share of encourage ment from the older men who have controlled the party in times past. Cordele Sentinel: If our North Georgia farm ers only realized the quality, the cheapness and how easily cultivated are the lands In South Georgia—they would flock to this sec tion much more rapidly than they do. Cedartown Standard: Hon. O. B. Stevens, who should have had no opposition In the recent primary in his race for re-election as commissioner of agriculture, received the larg est vote of any candidate having opposition. His majority over Nesbitt, according to the consolidated returns, was 69.199, and he car ried 134 out of the 137 counties in the state. Effective Way. The Chicago Record-Herald. "They say," said the young dramatist, "that I shall have to cut my play down, but I really don't know where to begin.” “Why not start at both ends,” his candid friend asked, "and work toward the middle?” The death of an aged woman named Brid get Lawler in the city hospital at Boston reveals strange eccentricities. The woman lived In the poorest quarters and was supposed to be In deep poverty. After her death It was discovered that she left nearly 85.900 in cash, deposited tn several banks. Her sister. Ann Lawler, the lawful heir, declines to re ceive the money, which she prefers to have bestowed upon two nieces. JEPHTHAH AND HIS CRITICS. BY M. B. WHARTON, D. D. The daily press has recently taken up the subject of Jephthah and his vow, and in keeping with the majority of those who have written on the subject these writers maintain that that eminent judge of Israel really offered up his beauti ful and only daughter “the which he loved passing well.” as a burnt offering. And yet all who have maintained this view do so only on one ground, and that the words as they are recorded In King James’ version; admitting that the text Is susceptible of a different translation which would relieve the subject of all difficulty, and save the religion of the true God from a temple of stain. I propose to give this article such arguments In the negative as cannof be reasonably controverted, and will con vince the unprejudiced. There are some whose fondness for blood and murder stories are so great, whose penchant for poetry and painting so pronounced, that they will never give up the pictures drawn by the matchless pens of Byron and Tennyson; or painted by great mas ters of the middle ages, who have handed down to us tha sickening sight of a pious father imbuing his hands in his daughter's blood, just to satisfy a rash vow, I offer against this awful view, first the Incorrect rendering of the passage In which the vow appears, In Judges 11th, 30.31 we read, "If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into mine hand, then it shall be that whatsover cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon shall be the Lord's, and I will offer It up for a burnt offering.” Now there is not a reference bible In the land that does not point to the margin and say that instead of "and” may be read “or.’ and this little word “or” is certainly “gold” here, the key that unlocks the mystery. It then reads "whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me when I return In peace from the children of Ammon shall be the Lord’s, or I will offer it up for a burnt offering." That is If it be a person (which he really calculated when he made the vow doubtless) ‘it shall be dedicated to the Lord; if a proper ani mal it shall be offered as a burnt offer ing. Dr. Adam Clarke the great commenta tor says “The translation of which ac cording to the most accurate Hebrew scholars (including Gesenlus and Hales) is this: ‘I will consecrate It to the Lord, or I will offer it as a burnt offering.’ That Is, 'if it be a thing fit for a burnt offer ing It shall be made ote; If fit for the ser vice of God it shall be consecrated to Him.' He goes on to say “that conditions of this kind must have been Implied in the vow Is evident enough! to have been made without them It must have been the vow of a heathen or a madman. If a dog had met him this could not have been made a burnt offering; and If his neigh bor’s or his friend’s, wife, son, or daugh ter, etc., had been returning from a visit to hts family, his vow gave him no right over them.” Why Is It then that good men continue to reject the gold and cling to the rusted iron of this controversy? A mlsinterpre- THE PANAMA CANAL ASSURED. , BY MRS. W. H. FELTON. The Western Continent Is In a fairway now to get an Interoceanlc ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the crossing Is to take placemen the narrowest strip of land from Greenland to Cape Horn, where North and South America come together In a point 11- most. It should be made a plain, open, sea-level canal, where great ships can go in as they do at the Suez canal and pass out unobstructed, to distant points or harbors. It will cost so much money that a few more or less millions will not matter at all, when the job is completed, so it should be a big ditch from sea to sea, and unincumbered with locks and obstructions, from one ocean to the other. With plenty of compressed air, a chan nel can be drilled through any sort of rocks, or soil, and the United States will have a well equipped railroad to run alongside and carry men and supplies to excavate the ditch. That Panama railroad was an expen sive affair when built, in loss of human life and expenditure of money. It was projected at the time when the gold fever raged in California, and the only two ways to reach this modern Eldorado, were by an overland journey across the western plains and over the Rocky moun tains in wagons, or by vessels that* sailed from New York city and doubled Cape Horn. It was a trip of months in either way, to reach California. This Panama railroad made the trip much shorter and easier after its com pletion. Ships and steamers would run to Panama on the Pacific side and un load their cargoes of passengers and freight, transport them over the railroad and embark again at Aspinwall on the Atlantic shore, reversing the route when going out from New York city. And this Is the same railroad that this govern ment will buy. (with the right of way) across the Isthmus, for forty millions of dollars. To one’s mind at this distance, the railroad is the summum bonum of the Panama purchase. Being already built, the transportation of men to dig and the convenience of supplies for the working force are of prime benefit, as we can clearly see. By the Nicaraguan route, it means to begin at the beginning. At Panama the railroad constitutes half the start, and simplifies the entire situation, by reason of accessibility and utility, and a valua ble equipment made ready. • Unless a hitch intervenes, the inter oceanic canal will be well started as soon as the title to the property Is turned over to the United States by the present own ers. The climate of Panama is hot and unhealthy Lying in the torrid zone, it has malaria, and all the diseases that pertain to such a climate, but when the big ditch is well opened and a clear waterway Is maintained from ocean to MARRIED MEN’S MUSINGS. Pittsburg Dispatch. Hardships are the kind that sail on the sea of matrimony. It Is not good for man to be alone, but some times it’s much pleasanter. It is not proper to judge a man by his wife, either. Perhaps he couldn't help it. Women love bargains so much that they de light in making men feel cheap. Never judge a man by the clothes he wears. Look at those he has to buy for his wife. No woman ever feels as though she could trust another who wears a last year’s hat. Woman’s Influence is, on the whole, elevating. She generally holds a fellow up on payday. While all men are liars there are exceptions to the rule, and a girl Is generally willing to take an exception. Anyway, Eve was unable to threaten to go home to her mother when Adam wouldn’t put up the screen doors. Almost every wife wants her husband to make her an allowance, while she refuses to make any allowance for him. After a girl has employed all her arts in land ing a husband it gratifies her to read that she was "led to the altar." My wife says a good many people who are ex pecting to be snatched up in a fiery chariot like Elijah, would look better In a patrol wagon. The man who wrote "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder” never returned at 2 a. m. and found his wife waiting for him at the head of the stairs. A girl Isn't an old maid until she begins to worry for fear she will never get married; a man isn’t an old bachelor until he begins to worry for fear he will. tation should not fasten this stain upon Jephthah forever, though embalmed In song and glowing colors. Men do not now believe that David when he con quered these same Ammonites burnt them in brick kilns, sawed them to pieces, mangled theflr bodies with harrows, or cut them into fragments with axes, and yet that Is what King James’ version says he did In second Samuel, 12th, 31; but they believe that David put them to work making brick, cutting atid sawing wood, and harrowing ground, in order to civil ize and humanize them as the margin teaches. If we take the corrected trans lation then why not take it here, and be lieve that Jephthah Instead of burning his uatighter, devoted her to celibacy in the tabernacle services. I urge next the consideration that Jeph thah’s act was sanctioned by God, who had forbidden human sacrifices In the strongest terms. Laws were enacted in Israel against such an act, and Jephthah was a judge, an administrator of the law. could he have thus violated his own law, under the sanction of God. It is said “The spirit of the Lord came upon Jeph thah which shows God approved what he did. Besides. If Jephthah had rashly made a vow to sacrifice his daughter he ha i the undeniable right of redemption, and could have saved her for thirty shekels of silver. Lang, one of the ablest advocates of the extreme view, says: “In some cases commutation was allowed— persons, horses, cattle, possessions dedi cated under some Impulse to the sanctu ary according to estimations that were fixed might be redeemed (Lev. 27, 2-25) Can we Imagine that such a horrible deed would have been done when there was an impressive and honorable way to escape? The common practice of taking women Into the sanctuary devoted to celebacy, Hke the nuns of today. Is admitted. Deane, author of the “Life of Samuel,” says: "There were women, too, who had regular duties to perform In connection with the tabernacle, and to their care doubtless the boy was entrusted. What exactly was the service which these women rendered is nowhere stated. It seems plain they had been originally appointed by Moses, as we read of the women who did service at the tabernacle offering their mirrors for the material of the great laver (Ex. xxxvlii.B), and the Institution continued till the de struction of the temple. In Numbers xxxl, 40, we read that in the division of the spoils of the first Mldlanl tish war of the whole number of captive virgins "the Lord’s portion was 32 per sons." The reply of Jephthah's daughter when her father told her of his vow shows that she regarded It devotement to celibacy; she said: “Let this be done for me; let me alone two months that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.” There could have been nothing more absurd than such a request If she had been doomed to death; she would have wanted all the time at her disposal to care for her soul. But nothing was more natural, as she was going to sacrifice her virginity to go forth and be wail it, and tradition says that she want ed to bewail, too, the fate of her lover whom she was going to give up forever. ocean, the drainage will be better and sanitation Improved necessarily. The French nation has spent untold money on an Incomplete canal along this route, all of which will come to us as a bargain thrown out on a bargain counter. Unless earthquakes shake down the stone work of the canal, the incomplete French diggings will be extremely valuable. But we may set it down that there will be fat contracts and Immense profits, juet as the Pacific railroads across the western continent coined money Into bonanza fortunes. Some people are doubt less in the swim already. It is a project that will entice the shrewd speculator and schemer. It will show many fingers that have been greased, without a miracle, but when ILL FORTUNE FOLLOWS KANSAS SENATORSHIP Philadelphia North American. Joseph Ralph Burton, junior United States senator from Kansas, who, on ac count of his violent speech in the republi can conference on the reciprocity ques tion, is persona non grata at the white house. Is fulfilling the fate of a long line of unfortunate senators of the succession to which he belongs. The first senators from Kansas were James H. Lane and Samuel C. Pomeroy, and Burton Is the lineal successor of Lane, who began his career with bad luck by drawing the short term. The succession from the time of that drawing for terms has been marked by tragic deaths, broken terms and terms filled by men to lose the confidence of their constituents and be ostracised by their parties. Senator Pomeroy drew the slx-year term and has had three successors. He held his office from 1861 to 1873. when the bril liant John James Ingalls succeeded him. Ingalls held the office eighteen years, un til 1891, when, through the medium of a Populist legislature, the gentle and harm less William Alfred Peffer came on. Then in 1897 came William A. Harris, the ex- Confederate and aristocrat of the succes sion, who is now before the people for re election by the legislature of 1902. It is a natural line of succession, the several sen ators holding their full terms of six years without a death or a break. Much different has been the fate of the senators of the line that began with Lane. Their fates have earned for their line the term of “the fatal succession," and Sen ator Ingalls, who first used the expres sion, once refused to run for a place tn the line. Senator Lane served four yeqrs, and in 1865 was re-elected. When it was up to him to make a choice between Andrew Johnson and the Republican party, he “Johnsonlzed.” and the rebuke from his constituents here in Kansas was so sav age and relentless that he became morbid and despondent. One day, eighteen months after his re-election, he, silently and without warning of his intention, left the side of a friend in a buggy and killed himself with a pistol. Then the governor of the state gave the appointment to Edmund G. Ross, a' printer and editor cf ordinary ability, who cast the vote that saved Andrew Johnson from conviction on the impeachment charges, and In return for which his party In his home ostracized him. Sore and disappointed. Ross took refuge In the Democratic party. He hung around Kan sas for several years, and in 1878 was the Democratic candidate for governor. The election of Cleveland gave him his chance to again enter public life, and he war appointed governor of New Mexico; but when the Republicans returned to power he dropped to his level, and is now set ting type on a little country paper in the territory he governed. In 1871 the legislature sent to the sen ate Alexander Caldwell, a rich resident of Leavenworth, who bought his election for cash so boldly and unblushlngiy that the legislature asked him to resign, and he did so to avoid scandalous litigation. Robert Crozier, also of Leavenworth, was appointed by the governor to suc ceed Caldwell, and he managed to fill out the unexpired term and survive to be come a district judge a few years later. The manner in which the vow was paid seems to settle its character. Dr. Long says: "Those who would soften the harsh ness of the vow generally taken suggest some Ingenious explanations of the vow. It is to be feared that these explanations are more ingenious than Ingenuous. That Is a very serious charge, but what of his Ingenuousness? In speaking of the last act of the supposed tragedy, he exclaims: "A curtain is drawn, as it were, between the mind and the awfulness of the catas trophe.” She returned unto her father who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed—that Is all.” But that was not all. He left out the last and most Im portant clause, vis: “And she knew no man.” That fe, remained a virgin all her life. I have not said that he was disingen uous. I have proven him to be so. Dr. Adam Clarke, commenting on this expres sion: “She knew no man,” says: “This Is the statute in Israel, viz, that persons thus dedicated or consecrated To God should live in a state of unchangeable celibacy.” , As to the lamenting of Jephthah'* daughter, Kitto says, “People lament the dead, not the living.” The lament for the living Is often worse than for the dead, "A living trouble is often worse than a dead trouble." But the best schol ars say the word “lament" is a mistrans lation, and ought to be “celibate.” and that is what the Jewish women did, celt bate the sacrifice which the young lady made, in giving up the hope of marriage, and through that the hope of becoming a mother in Israel, and the possible mother of the coming Messiah. Dr. Clarke says “this verse also gives evidence that ths daughter of Jephthah was not sac rificed, nor does It appear that the cus tom continued after the death of Jeph thah's daughter.” The last argument I present Is th* thorough endorsement of Jephthah's character by the word of God, not only is it said “that the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah,” but In the 11th chapter of Hebrews styled "the roll call of Faith” Jephthah is put down side by side with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Gideon, etc., of “whom the world was not worthy.” Putting all these arguments together the misinterpretation of scripture; the condi tions attendant upon vows; the sanction of God to the act; the privilege of re demption of vows; the laws against hu man sacrifice; the tabernacle services for celibate women: the request of the maiden to bewail her virginity; the exclusion of man henceforth from her society; the eel ibation of the event of Jewish women; th* high character given to Jephthah in th* word of God, and you have a chain of testimony strong and unbreakable, a chain which like the huge cable that holds the mighty ship to its moorings in this fierce gale, blds defiance to all the storms of criticism, all the waves of fancy, and all the billows of injustice to wrench its firm set links asunder! And Jephthah stands in history now. On heights beyond Moriah’s brow. For Abraham’s trembling hand was stayed, While Jephthah’s holy vow was paid! the canal is open and the ships pass through wtihout unloading, it will be one of the greatest days thia country ever saw, for the isles of the sea will become near neighbors, and China, with Japan, will be our best market for southern pro ducts. Without the Suez canal, the late war with China would have been a long and tedious affair, but the quick passage of ships simply obliterated all the de lays and journeyings around the Cape of Good Hope, and the tedious voyages of olden time were left off as superfluous undertakings. When our big ditch is ready to open, it will atract greater crowds than a Lou don coronation. May it come soon enough, that you and I may see the great oceans come together! As it with earlier senators In the succession, Crozier could not control his own party, and they waited with impa tience for him to complete his term so he could be succeeded by- a bigger man. James M. Harvey, a stupid man, lasted until 1877, a full term of six years, in this succession. His enemies were stronger in his party than his own following. He tried to build up a machine, but his work was bungllngly done and the effort was in vain. When he was defeated for re election he retired to private life, broken-hearted, and soon died. Preston B. Plumb, of Emporia, was the strongest man of the line. He served with Ingalls, and so well did they manage that they absolutely controlled their party in Kansas. Plumb ran into a third term, and then, in the fifteenth year of his ser vice, died at Washington a tragic death, and thus left behind another broken term to be quarreled over. Bishop W. Perkins, of Oswego, who had been a congressman and whose light was put out by the Farmers’ Alliance in 1890, succeeded Plumb by appointment. The People’s Party, the offspring of the alli ance, controlled the legislature In 1893, and retired Perkins, who died within a short time. Next In the hne came John Martin, who was elected to fill out the unexpired term of Plumb tn 1893. He served out the term, but retired a poor, broken, neglected man, and now walks the streets of Topeka with out a law practice, without political friends, a ghost and a shadow of a one* glorious and honorable career. Then came Lucien Baker, another Leav enworth man, who served six years—Lu cien Baker, the impossible, the imprac ticable and the ingrate. It was six years of betrayal of his friends, six years of broken promises, six years of weary wait ing in Kansas for a change. The change came, and the state now has Burton, the mediocre. All Kansas and those who know the story of her "fatal succession" are now watching the course of the junior senator from this state and wondering if his ca reer will be as disastrous to himself, his party and his friends as were those of his predecessors. He’s All RlghL New York Weekly. First Congressman—You have voted against everv measure that was for the best interests , of the nation. What will you say to your con stituents when you get home? Second Congressman—Say ? I’ll tell ’em I’ve got an appropriation tor Mud creek. Whoop! The Adjournment of Congress. Back to the farm and the village. Where the field and the sidewalks blend! Back to the state Where the fences wait For someone to come and mend! Thev are coming like bees from the honey, For each with undaunted will Has done what he could To come out to the good On the 'propriatlon bill. And it isn’t his splendid speeches That will bring him to town again. Nor the mighty plan For the good of man He evolved from his massive brain. So much as his bland persistence And his most superior skill In getting a share Os the good things there In the ’propriatlon bill. —Washington Star.
