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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.
