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MONDAY. JULY 14. Mtt-
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Aren’t wo having rather an oversupply
•t the hottest days of the season*
It begins to :oox Hke we are going to
have to hold Agufnaldo and give him that
amnesty.
Perhaps we ahall learn after awhile that
the river that Funston didn’t swim Is not
there, anyway.
July dividends amounted to 1125.000,CMC.
John D. Rockefeller ard a few others got
the meat of it.
Since congress has adjourned the coun
try must look to the baseball teams to
furnish the tights. •
Harry Tracey, the escaped eonvlet. 13
having a regular Major Waller of a time
out in Washington.
The present price of corn Is enough to
aet several hundred thousand of Georgia
tarmere to thinking.
It is certainly very good in council to
facilitate the Northern’s declination of
that depot proposition.
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It is at least encouraging to knew that
Bourke Cockran and Tammany have
about become harmonised. ,
Another Kansas politician Is inviting
the country to call him crasy. Senator
Burton has defied Roosevelt.
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Official stealing has been resumed tn
Cuba. It Is said, since the American pro
visional government was withdrawn.
It is almost impossible to pick un a
northern newspaper tn these days without
finding a poem to the Georgia peach in it
A farmer named Arthur Jingle, living
near Maryville. Mo., is to be married soon
to a Mtaa Bell. There will be a ring used
in the ceremony.
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New York burglars robbed a politician
the other dar and were caught in the act.
Served them rtgnt for being guilty of such
unprofessional conduct.
Many of the beet sugar congressmen are
having a time of It with their constituents.
They desene all the hard things they are
bearing about themaeivea.
General Amnesty will be more popular
tn the Philippines than Gen. Burn and
Kill Jacobus Smith and decidedly more
creditable to our government.
If some people would quit knocking At
lanta about her good old-fashioned depot
and discuss the ice trust problem they
would enjoy the summer more. •
John W. Gates, of Chicago, who is said
to have made more millions last year than
he has fingers and toes, pays tan on
gaOO.W Perhaps he spent the rest.
Princeton and Emory selected Atlanta
tren fcr presidents. We still have a few
good ones an band If Harvard and Yale
are thinking of making any changes.
Tyndall says W«C typhus germs will
thrive in the small circumference of a
pinhead or visible globule. Just think of
that and take your mind off the weather
for aw bile. ,
The king’s dinner to the poor of London
cost UW.«o but It wa* a truly royal thing
to do and well worth the money to King
Edward as well aa hl* SM.<X» subjects who
partook of ft.
About the most practical anti-trust ar
guments now being made are the indict
ments which the grand Juries of federal
courts are finding against the violators of
our anti-trust laws. t
S If Uncle Sam should have a family
reunion he would either set two tables
or share with Roosevelt the glory of
dining with the duskles. Al! the Filipinos
are not lily whites.
That New York woman who Is suing
for damages because her pet dog bit
a neighbor s child and got the chicken
pox seems to be carrying S. P. C. A.
principles rather far.
Congressman Bartlett predicts that a
man named Parker will be the Democrat
ic nominee for president next year. We
■hall take pleasure in giving all the news
concerning the Parker boom.
Captain Hobson la making a brilliant
success on the lecture platform. He seems
to succeed at everything except inducing
the navy department to give him up. Men
like Hobson cannot well be spared.
From the absence of any mors corona
tion news by the Marquis Castsllaina we
suspect the nobleman was gently advised
by the managing editor to go back to
Monts Carlo and make his living honestly.
The full bench of the Massachusetts
supreme court has decided that the or
dering of food at a hotel before the order
ing of liquor makes a person a guest with
in the meaning of the publie statute. But
to few people ever order it that way.
Much as we love her. candor compels
us to say that we cannot approve Atlan
ta’s recent weather But It will be observ
ed that it la not the sort of weather that
brings sunstrokes. Atlanta never has
that
Our fire looses for the first six months
of this year were K.iW.noo less than those
Os the same period last year, but we
cannot brag, as we are still many mill
leas ahead of any other nation on this
The sooth continues to raise monuments
to the heroic men who illustrated her In
the war between the states. The erection
of the monument to Gen. W. H. T. Waik
«ff, of Georgia, on July 33 will boa Atting
tribute to the memory of one of the most
gallant officers who led the Confederate
forces la the great battles around Atlanta.
He fell July 22. 1864. on the spot which
will in a few days be marked by a richly
deserved monument.
The Supreme Product of the Universe.
Horatio W.
The noblest product ot ths universe la the
beautiful soul, that la the manly, developed,
masterful asst, ose that ba* attained peace
throuch trial and grace through exerelee. The
supreme grace 1* the beauty ot spiritual devo
tion. the tore that denies itself, the heart and
geolus ot toe Christ.
A PROGRESS THAT HALTS NOT.
The course of events has shown that
those who contended ten years ago that
the then recent wonderful progress of the
south In the construction of cotton mills
had gone on too rapidly: that cotton man
ufacturing in thia section had been over
done. and that there would be a distinct
falling off in thia line of Investment, were
the falsest sort of prophets.
In its latest issue the Manufacturers’
Record declares and proves that the un
dertaking of new mills and enlargement
of established mills In the south "have
been more noted l, during the quarter end
ing with June "than In any other three
months since the textile Industry receiv
ed Its great Impetus more than a decade
ago.’*
The Manufacturers' Record calls atten
tion to one especially notable feature of
this recent development In the south.
It prints a table, giving the names and
location of the new southern mills, the
extent and style of their equipment, the
names of the companies that have made,
or prepared for, additions to their present
mills and the extent thereof.
Thus is made to appear the interesting
fact that "by far the greater investments
of capital In the Industry are being made
by experienced manufacturers." or com
panies which are already in the business.
This is plainly shown by the statement
that while, during the quarter, sixteen
new mills were reported, with an aggre
gate of 128,500 spindles and 3.570 looms, rep
resenting an Investment of 32,570,000. in the
same time thirty-five established compa
nies reported additions to their buildings
and an increase of 358.632 spindles, repre
senting an investment of about 87.000,000
so that the extensions and investments
of the thirty-five established companies
are fully three times those represented in
the sixteen new mills. “Many of these
mills and improvements,” it is added, “are
already under contract and a number of
them are under way.”
There can be no doubt, therefore, that
the present great advance in the estab
lishment and enlargement of cotton mills
in the south ts proceeding on a scfild
basis.
South Carolina maintains her lead of the
southern states in this great Industry.
IA new mill in the was reported for
every week of this year’s first quarter and
of these sixteen new mills for as many
weeks three (all large ones) are credited
to South Carolina. Alabama shows up
with three also. Mississippi leads the list
in numbers, but not in capacity, with four,
Georgia. Arkansas and Louisiana had one
each. Texas and North Carolina two
apiece.
For the first quarter of 1902 the tbtal
of new spindles in the new and enlarged
mils of the ten southern states on the list
is 487.132, of which South Carolina has 171.-
760. or more than a third. The total of
new looms is 13.619. of which 5,414 pertain
to this state. North Carolina holds sec
ond place, with 123.448 spindles and 4.9 M
looms, and Alabama third place with 81.920
spindles and I.fl# looms.
A very significant fact in this connec
tion is that about three-fourths of the
nearly half a million new spindles, repre
senting altogether an investment of about
310.000.000, will be installed In mills which j
have tried the business and know what
is in IL
There is no longer any doubt that the
progress of the south in cotton manufac
turing has come to stay and to Increase.
GEORGIA’S COUNTY OFFICERS.
The convention cf county rfflrers jn*t
In session has brought to Atlanta a large
number of men who have much to do with
the administration of law in this state.
It is probable that, taken as a whole,
the present county officers In this state
are as faithful and efficient as any that
Georgia has gver had. They have very
important duties, which require the ex
ercise of firm principles, good judgment,
tact and nerve and they measure well
up to a high standard of duty.
These officers have an organization that
brings them together every year.
The exchange of Ideas and experiences
thus made possible is conducive to more
efficient service and brings about social
intercourse that Is beneficial as well as
pleasant to all concerned.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE TRUSTS
President Roosevelt has made a lauda
ble resolution to devote a part of |he va
cation he expected to spend In recreation
to work of a kind that Is very much
needed.
It seems that he is determined to formu
late and press a bill for the regulation
of the trusts. He has chosen Attorney
General Knox and Congressman Little
field. of Maine, as his chief advisers in
the preparation of this measure. The lat
ter will introduce it early in the next
sesrion of congress and will have charge
of it in that body. Attorney General Knox
appears to be warming up to the neces
sity and practicability of legislation for
checking the power of the trusts.
He has undertaken to enforce the Sher
man anti-trust law against the railroad
combinations that are notoriously violat
ing the rights of shippers. We expect to
see this effort bring a large measure of
relief to all classes of producers.
But present taws do not go far enough
toward restraining the trusts and combi
nations of various kinds which are inter
fering with the natural cause of com
merce. President Rooaavelt’s intention as
we understand it. is to have prepared. In
troduced and urged aa an administration
measure a bill that, if passed, will be
more effective than any act now on the
statute books for the cure of the great
and growing evils of trusts.
The president could not engage in a
more commendable endeavor; he could
not do the country better service than to
restrain ths trusts within the limits of
justice and equity to the public.
THE NEGRO VOTE.
Both of the great parties will put forth
their best evidsnees in the congressional
campaign of this year as the result is ad
mittedly in doubt. .
In spite of factions in some states, es
pecially flltnols and Ohio, the Democrats
generally are more united than they have
been at any time since 1892 and therefore
have greater confidence of success.
The Republicans, on the other hand,
are In a pretty family row and are di
vided into two factions on the administra
tion’s Cuban policy.
How far this rupture may be healed be
fore the November election cannot now be
foreseen, but it is not to be expected that
the beet sugar interest which recently
mustered such a large number of Repub
licans in both houses of congress against
the president's plan of reciprocity and
prevented its adoption will fail to exert
itself to the uttermost to hold its own in
the elections this year.
The negro vote in the doubtful states
will. It is thought, be more divided this
year than it has ever been before.
There are several states in the middle
west where this vote has long held the
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY. JULY 14. 1902.
balance of power and It may do so in
a number of the city districts of New
York state this year.
The time has passed when the negro
vote, north or south, can be considered
practically solid for Republican candi
dates. The number of negroes, who be
lieve that it Is to the interest to the men
of their race to study political issues with
out prejudice and to vote according to
their best judgment, instead of blindly fol
lowing the lead of one party Is Increasing.
Many negroes have come to the conclu
sion that the Republican party professes
a great deal more friendship for their race
than it proves and that the negro has
more rights ars of practical value to
him in that section of the country where
the Democratic party prevails than he
enjoys anywhere else.
The Democratic candidates for congress
in quite a number of northern and west
ern states will receive a good large negro
vote next November.
It is not unlikely that this vote may
determine the result in a score of dis
tricts, or more.
We shall probably see several negro
campaign speakers put on the stump by
the Democratic congressional campaign
committee.
Dr. Jerome R. Riley, of New York, a
negro, who has advocated the principles
of the Democratic party ably and con
sistently ever since the war and has made
Democratic speeches in many campaigns,
is now engaged in appealing to »ae ne
groes of his state and others to join the
ranks of the Democracy in the present
campaign. It is announced that he will
make a series of campaign speeches in the
north and west.
Other negroes of recognized- ability will
be likewise engaged and in some districts
the spectacle of a Democrat defeating a
Republican for congress by the aid of ne
gro voters is quite likely to be presented
next November.
A TERRIBLE LOSS.
Last Monday the anthracite coal strike
entered upon its ninth week, and it seems
likely to continue for many weeks to
come. .
What has the strike accomplished so
far?
It has increased the jsrice of both an
thracite and soft eoal in all parts of the
country and to all classes of people. It
has caused a loss of about J48.000.C00. of
which the mine operators bear one-half
and the miners one-fourth. The rest falls
upon business interests that are directly
interfered with by the strike.
Not an individual, a corporation or any
legitimate interest, whatsoever, has been
benefited by this clash between capital and
labor.
It Is reported that the coal companies
will attempt to begin operations in sev
eral mines very soon with men partly im
ported and j artly drawn from the ranks '
of the strikers. Such an attempt will al- j
most surely cause trouble ih tho regioA of ,
the strike. |
It appears now that the only chance to ‘
avoid that calamity is an agreement be- :
t.veen the strikers and their late em
ployers, and neither party seems t<f te In
a humor to consider fairly the differences
that separate them.
It will be a happy day for this country j
when a system of jugt and reasonable ar- I
bitrution can be agreed upon by capital :
and labor generally and faithfully adhered
to. Strikes are one of the worst forms of
waste, and the harm that comes from .
them, as a rule, is not to be measured by j
the money loss they cause, enormous aa j
it is.
There are good reasons to believe, how- 1
ever, that we are gradually approaching i
an era of arbitration that will benefit both
employers and employees and the general
public which now suffers hearily from ev
ery great strike.
A COMPLETE VICTORY.
For years past the Georgia peach has
been rcc< gnlied as the best that goes to
any market.
But for a long time after this pre-cmi
nenee had been won the Georgia pench
crop was surpassed in quantity by that of
four or five other states.
The only complaint the outside world
had to bring against Georgia peaches was
that there were not enough of them. That
is still true, but Georgia has moved to the
first place in the quantity of her peach
production as well us its quality. Ten
years ago the number of peach trees In
the four states which produced that fruit
most largely was stated officially as fol
lows;
Maryland6,loo,ooo
Delaware 4,520.000
New Jersey 4.400,000
Georgia 2,780,000
It will to seen that Georgia then stood
fourth in the list, having less than half
as many peach trees aa Maryland, nearly
two millions less than little Delaware, and
was a most aa far behind New Jersey. But
during the last ten years the peach indus
try of Georgia has grown wonderfully.
The people of this state have found that
intelligent peach growing pays, and the
northern and western demand has kept
pace fully with tha rapid growth of peach
production in this state.
The statistics for 1901 of the number of
peach trees in the four states east of Cal
ifornia that lead in the peach industry
present a striking contrast with the fig
ures ten yean ago and are as follows:
Georgia7.66o,ooo
Maryland4,ols,ooo
New Jersey 2,700,000
Delaware 2,400,000
It will be observed that Georgia had
nearly five million more peach tree* last
year than she had In 1890, while the num
ber in Maryland, Delaware and New Jer
sey has decreased. The falling off has been
very heavy in Maryland and stita more so
in Delaware. That state has tow little
more than half as many peach trees as
It had ten years ago.
Georgia's peach orchards are Increasing
constantly, and many thousands of trees
have been added to them since the figures
for 1901 were made.
The truth is that the Georgia peach is
so far superior to all competitors that it
is driving the others out of many mar
kets in which they were formerly prime
favorites. The victory of the Georgia
peach in both quality and quantity ts
complete.
DOCTORS DISAGREE.
The senate and the house of represen
tatives could not agree at the recent ses
sion of congress on a plan of govern
ment for the Philippines. Each body
passed a bill for that purpose, but there
were radical differences between them
which could not be reconciled before ad
journment.
A conference committee was appointed
and during the recess it will probably
reach some basis of agreement. There
are three main points of disagreement,
namely: The date when e lower house to
be elected by the Filipinos shall be estab
lished; the size of the land grants and
the standard ot the Philippine currency.
The senate bill vests the legislative pow
er in the commtt*lon composed as at pres-
ent of five Americans and three Filipinos,
appointed by the president, so to continue
until a census of the archipelago shall
have been taken and the commission has
certified that the time is ripe for the
establishment of a lower chamber, to be
elected by the Filipinos. The house bill
provides that the election of the lower
chamber shall take place as soon as the
commission can provide for it.
The senate bill provides for much larg
er land grants than the house would
agree to. The senate also insists upon the
silver standard for the the Philippines,
while the house seems to be equally firm
in its demand for the gold standard.
The Philippine commission sides with
the house on two of these points and with
the senate on one. The commisson be-
Meves that the establishment of a lower
house at once is advisable. In its opin
ion such a body would be a safety
.valve.
The commission is also very earnest
in its advocacy of the gold standard for
the currency of the islands and gives
strong reasons for the adoption of that
policy.
The senate’s provision for large land
grants meets the approval of Governor
Taft and the other commissioners rather
than the smaller grants proposed by the
house, though the commission does not
consider the senate plan liberal enough
to attract capital in sufficient quantities
to insure any rapid development cf the is
lands.
A stubborn contest between the two
houses is expected, but a compromise of
some sort will doubtless be effected at the
next session of congress.
GEnTfITZ LEE’S WARN ING.
Few men in the United States have
a better knowledge of the condition and
needs of Cuba and the characteristics of
the Cuban people then General Fitzhugh
Lee.
He was sent to Havana by President
Cleveland as consul general of the United
States, and filled that difficult and deli
cate position so well that President Mc-
Kinley insisted that he should retain it.
He did so until our relations with Spain
were severed.
• General Lee has been a very close ob
server of events in Cuba, and the policy
of the United States relative to the island.
His views on Cuban affairs are therefore
always received with respectful consid
eration. In a recent interview he says
that the pressing need of the island is a
decent measure of prosperity and prosper
ity is impossible to Cuba so long as ac
cess to our markets is made as difficult
as It is now.
General Lee regards our duty of ICO per
cent, on the chief product of Cuba as
fatal to the revival of business. It pre
vents the raising of sufficient revenue to
support the government. After looking
the facts- squarely In the face General
Lee Is driven to the conclusion that the
result must be anarchy cr annexation.
We demand Cuba shall maintain a sound
ard liberal government and yet we re
fuse her the means of doing so. We ex
pect that Cuba shall provide and keep
up a thorough end expenrlve system of
sanitation, an efficient police department,
well equipped and capably conducted
j üblic schools and other necesrarles of
good government, but under the conditions
that we have imposed upon her she can
not possibly carry on such a government.
General Lee advocates very earnestly
tariff concessions to the young govern
ment which must be cdhsidered our ward
and for which we haVe a large degree of
responsibility.
This policy would avert both anarchy
and annexation. The latter would involve
many troublesome problems. It is proba
ble that the Cubans would not submit to
annexation without armed resistance.
Genera! Lee gives a calm review of the
situation and points out the course which
the honor cf our government requires us
to take.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Men are children at both ends of their lives,
women al! through theirs.
It Is a wise woman that refuses to know
when her husband has been taking a drink.
The best way to get a woman to love you
more than some other man Is to get her to
lovo him less than you.
When a tnan brings home eandy and flowers
to his wifo and gives her and extra allowance,
it Is a sign be has *ome other news to break
to her which she will not like so well.
What a woman likes to have you say about
her new dress the first time you see her in
it Is for you to go right up and kiss her as
if you liked It so much you couldn’t express it
any other way.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
Better eat stale bread than be ill-bred.
Professional bouncers nearly always turn qut
well.
Never put off till tomorrow the creditor who
will wait till next week.
When a sculptor makes a cast he Is either
Ashing for fame or money.
A woman has no business In politics until
she is able to throw mud straight.
The lees some men know about a given sub
ject the more they try to show off.
Appearances would Indicate that the average
man doesn't get much beauty sleep.
Even a tight rope walker may find it hard to
maintain his balance at a bank.
The average man is as awkward to love-max
iqg as he is to cutting fresh bread.
It’s up to a man to declare that appearances
are deceitful when they are against him.
It sometimes happens that the man who dubs
hie house his castle has the moat in his
eye.
Crustless Bread.
Boston Poet.
Little Annette, the sunlight of a Common
wealth avenue home, does not like to eat bread
crusts.
Her mother, realising how such a habit might
easily lead to lifelong waste, has been endeavor
ing to teach her daughter to overcome this
foolish prejudice against bread crusts. At the
same time Annette Is being taught to repeat
the Lord’s prayer. The other evening she knelt
to repeat this prayer aloud in her mother’s
presence. When Annette came to the words,
“Give us this day our dally bread.” she re
peated them very solemnly, and then added,
r ’And please, God, don’t put any crusts on the
bread.
A* It Will Be Soon.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The man of business saw that everything
was running smoothly, and then reached for
his hat. He had a groundfloor office In a big
building.
"Shafi I say you’ll be back soon If anyone
callsT’l asked the chief clerk.
"Well, I've got to have about five minutes’
conversation with Dudley," replied the man
of business, “and you know where his office
is. If 1 catch an express elevator I’ll be back
In about two hours, but if I have to take a
local it will be afternoon before you see me
again."
"Naturally,” replied the chief clerk. "He’s
on the 63th floor of this building. I believe."
Civilized Community.
New York Weekly.
Stranger—You had a good many lynchings
here in former days, I understand.
Western Citlsen—That’s all passed, long, long
ago. We’»e civilised now.
Stranger—No more mob law. eh?
Western Cltlxen—No, Indeed. When a fellow
butchers a family now, we quietly Issue a war
rant for him, arrest him if our police happen to
stumble over him, put him into an extra com
fortable <wll, send him dainties and flowers,
postpone the case until some of the witnesses
die off. grant him new trials and so on until
everybody has forgotten the crime and then
we let him go.
Memory Not Taxed.
New Yrk Weekly.
Friend—Don’t you have difficulty remember
ing the street* where passengers want to get
off?
Street Cay Conductor—Not at all. The only
ones who mention their destination are Women,
and they always select fashionable corners,
•»<t walk tho rest of the way.
SOUTHERN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
AT CHATTANOOGA-ITS AIMS AND WORK
BY G. HOLMAN GARDNER.
Perhaps the Journal readers in this
section will be interested in an account
of the recent convention at Chattanooga,
where leading educators from nearly all
the southern states were present at the
Southern Educational association.
In point of numbers the meeting was
somewhat disappointing to its friends and
promoters. Two facts largely account
for this, viz: that only geven months ago
the association was in session at Colum
bia, S. C., at which place tho time of
meeting was changed from winter to
summer, and the further fact that many
summer schools and chautabquas of va
rious kinds are going on at this time the
one at Knoxville, Tenn., having upwards
of fifteen hundred teachers.
Apart from this the meeting was very
successful, and begin the thirteenth year
cf Its existence with a much better or
ganization and is on a much more satis
factory basis than ever before. The ex
ecutive officers are Chancellor Nicholson,
of the University of Louisiana; president,
Superintendent Sheats, of Florida; vice
president, Frank M. Smith, former super
intendent of public instruction of Tennes
see, secretary, and Professor Ross, of
West Virginia, treasurer.
The membership of the association in
cludes heads of colleges and universities
in the south, superintendents, principals
and teachers. It Is unnecessary to say
that these men are deeply Interested in
the educational needs of our section and
ar putting forth earnest, intelligent ef
forts at considerable cost of time and la
bor to themselves to solve the serious
problems now facing the south. It is an
earnest of a great day In the near
future for our beloved southland when
so much disinterested effort is being
brought to bear on great questions of
the day. The association aims to study
in a practical, systematic way the school
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTERST.
Miss Constance Karslake, a young woman
only 22 years of age, stands at the head of
the craft of art bookbinding in London. She
is the directress of the students at the Ham
stead bindery.
The Csar of Russia is by no means the
only royal personage who wears a ring to
which tallsntanlc power Is attributed by sup
erstition. Tb<- German Kaiser's hand Is al
ways adorned with a queer old ring said to
be a Hohenbollern talisman. A fantastically
quaint German legend says the ring was
brought by a .toad to the wife of Elector
John of Brandenburg.
Another distinguished foreigner who is here
to examine American conditions Is Baron
Max Oppenheim, imperial German counselor
of legation at Cairo, who has been sent by
Emperor William to Colorado to study tne
methods which have developed unsettled ter
ritory In the United States.
I’r-tably the oldest mayor ir tbo -wintry
Is ex-Attorney General Williams, Just alected
to the mayoralty of Portland. Ore.
Lord Brassey, the English nobleman who
has been giving opinions on questions of In
ternational commerce, wants to Lave t!>«
Canard line of steamers subsidized In order
to keep the ships under British control.
President Loubot, tn a recent speech at a
cooking txhiblffon tn Pan?, deflated that
one oY the reasons why foreigners like to
visit that gay city la that they are sure to
get better cooking there than anywhere Slso
in the world.
A number of Viennese women have started
a dress reform league, with the object ot sup
pressing the corse, and introducing a new
kind ot divided skirt.
NOTES OF NOTABLES.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Harrison Randolph, of Virginia, has been
chosen as president of the University of Ar
kansas.
Professor Charles S. Palmer, profeesor of
chemistry of the University of Colorado, has
been elected president of the Colorado Mining
school
Charles Reed, who for a number of years has
been In charge of the Menashe H"s.) postofflee.
Is the only deaf mute postma. .-r in the world.
Commander Wainwright has asked to be re
lieved as superintendent of the Naval academy
and desires sea duty. It Is possible he will be
given a battleship.
Prof. Francke, of Harvard, who has been
working on the big Germanic art collection, has
written a poem which has greatly taken 4he
public fancy of the German people.
Prof. Bolton Colt Brown, ot Indianapolis,
owns the second largest collection of rare Jap
anese prints In America. The greatest Is on ex
hibition In the Boston Art Museum.
“Prophet” Dowle has been bearded in his
own den of Zion, 111., by one of its oldest res
idents, one Clark G. Coarser, aged 85. Rather
than stop smoking at the "prophet’s” request
he Is willing to submit to arrest, though he has
not yet been molested.
Colonel J. T. Marsh, late of the Royal engin
eers. has rix sons holding commissions In tha
English army, all of whom have seen serious
fighting. By one or other of its members this
remarkable family seems to have had at least
one representative in all recent campaigns.
William T. Smiley, of Cowgill, Mo., was'mar
rled after a three months’ acquaintance to. Miss
Carrie Bolson, who was one of the printers on
The Cowgill Enquirer when he, bought it. The
groom has leased the Kidder Dfepatch. He will
manage the paper and his bride wlllj have
charge of the Enquirer.
The Drummer’s Advice.
New York Weekly.
First Passenger ton railroad)—Traveling man,
eh? Familiar with Boom City, I presume?
Drummer—Xesslree. Take It in on every
trip.
"Glad to hear it. I have never been there.
What hotel would you advise me to stop at?”
"The Boom ton House."
“Do you always go there?”
"No; I have never stopped at that hotel, but
I have been to all the rest.”
Quite Amicable.
The Indianapolis News.
“Why did you quit your job? Did you have a
disagreement with the boss?”
“Oh. no; not at all. I told him I would have
to have more money or I would quit, and he
said it was mutually satisfactory.”
POEMS WORTH READING
THE BELLS OF SHANDON.
BY FRANCIS MAHONY.
Francis Sylvester Mahony, better known as Father Prout, was born in
Cork in 1804 Though he was a Jesuit priest, he was more of a literatus
than a man of God. He is the author of the famous “Rellques of Father
Prout ” which he wrote for Fraser’s Magazine. Later he was the Rome
correspondent for the Dally News and the Paris con-espondent of the
Globe He died in Paris in 1866. Among his poems the following is the
only one worth mention:
With deep affection and recollection
I often think of those Shandon bells.
Whose sounds so wild would in the days of childhood
Fling round my cradle their magic spells.
On this I ponder, where’er I wander.
And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee;
. With thy bells of Shandon,
That sound so grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Lee.
I have heard bells chijning full many a clime in,
Tolling sublime in cathedral shrine; *
While at a glib rate brass tongues would vibrate, •
But all their music spoke naught like thine;
For memory dwelling on each proud swellling
Os thy belfry knelling its bold notes free,
Made the bells of Shandon
Sound far more grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Lee.
I have heard bells tolling “eld Adrain’s note mole” in.
Their thunder rollllng from the Vatican,
And cymbals glorious, swinging uproarious.
In the gorgeous turrets of Notre Dame;
But thy sounds were sweeter than the dome of Peter
Flings o’er the Tiber, pealing solemnly.
O! the bells of Shandon 4
Sound far more grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Lee.
There’s a bell in Moscow, while on tower and kiosko
In St. Sophia the Turkmangets.
And loud in air calls men to prayer
From the tapering summits of tall minarets.
Such empty phantom I freely grant ’em;
’Tls the bells of Shandon,
That sound so grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Lee. f
problems of the south and to discuss them
freely with a view to remedying some of
the defects now existing. In a word, the
Southern Educational association is de
voted to the Intelligent emancipation of
the south and to removing the curse of
illiteracy now hanging over us.
That It has Its hands full goes with
out saying. Further, it will take years
to accomplish the purposes of the as
sociation, backed by every thoughtful
friend of education in the south. The day
has passed when we can depend on oth
ers largely for settling our great ques
tions of education. The south must work
out its own salvation, and, judging from
the great number of earnest men and
women composing the Southern Educa
tional association, I am confident wo are
nearer a solution of our problems than
ever before.
Among other subjects before the recent
meeting were the kindergarten. Industrial
and technical education, and the neds of
the attitude of the convention toward
country schools. It is auspicious to note
the subject of technical training and its
bearing on the development of the south.
President Lyman Hall, of the Georgia
School of Technology, delivered a lec
ture, illustrated by stereopticon views,
on the work of his institution. It made a
profound impression on those present.
But the greatest and most perplexing
problem now before the south for settle
ment is the rural school and Its better
ment. A very thoughtful address on this
all absorbing topic was made by President
E. C. Branson, of Athens, Ga.
Transposing the statement of a famous
statesman that God must love the com
mon people for there are so many of them.
I would say that we had better love and
cherish the country schools, for they are
not only numerous, but the hope of the
A TOUR OF THE NORTHWEAT
LEFT home a week ago today
where all was dry and hot. I
am now in Minnesota, where it
is wet and cold. I spend rrtost
I
of my time in my room by the fire
with my overcoat on. In riding
through the fields I see where the
frost of last Sunday bit the corn
until it is brown in the lower bot
toms. They have had rain, rain,
for nearly sixty days in the west
and northwest. From Louisville,
Ky., nearly to Sioux City, la.,
thence to Minneapolis. I have never
seen finer crops on the ground. The
wheat is immense. In Indiana, Il
linois, Nebraska, where they have
cut the wheat, it looks like you can
step from shock to shock over the
vast area. They have not been able
to work their corn so well as usual,
but their corn is much farther ad
vanced than Georgia corn in size
and looks In North Georgia, m
sections, wfe have not had a good
rain in over |wo months. Cotton
ts very small and corn is smaller.
But after all we have fared better
with our drouth so far than many
sections of the west and northwest
with immense floods that have not
only damaged the lands in many
places more than the worth of the
crop, but along the creeks and riv
ers greut fields of wheat have been
washed away by~the tide, and thou
sands of acres of wheat is now float
ing down the Mississippi and Mis
souri rivers. A drouth beats a flood.
I only wish we could get some of the
rain that is falling in superabund
ance here.
On this tour I am attending chau
tauquas and Woodmen’s picnics.
The western people are given to
Woodmen’s picnics along in the
summer time. They have an “old
settlers” day in each county that
brings thousands of people together,
and they have the woodmen s pic
nics. I attended their gathering at
Spencer, la., last week. In spite of
the weather there were ten thou
sand people gathered there. The vast
chautauquas and woodmen’s pic
nics and old settlers’ days and camp
meetings, etc., bring the people to
gether in great masses four or five
or six times a year. I think well
of these great gatherings. They
bring their basket dinners and min
gle and talk with each other in so
cial life and listen to the speakers,
and sometimes they have balloon
ascensions, street parades, flying
gennies, brass bands, and there
were just twelve brass bands in the
procession at Spencer last week.
I have never seen a heavier wheat
crop grow than I have seen this
year. If it can be harvested and
threshed in good shape we shall
have bread for the eater and bread
to spare. In the corn belt the corn
waa never more promising than to
day. Os course there are vlcissl-
south lies in them. Natural resources do
not of themselves make a great people.
If Georgia had all the mineral wealth of
the United States within her bounds, it
would profit her little if her sons and
daughters were illiterate.
We too often forget the fact that it
takes trained brains to invent machinery,
erect cotton mills an<f develop mines. The
mere fact that a few ignorant, uneduca
ted men in the past hstve accidentally be
come rich has been cause of a lament
able amount of pride and disgusting boor
ishness. It has often led to a depreciation
of the higher education which invariably
marks the narrow mind or the purblind
view.
We of the south cannot afford to cher
ish any prejudice against education, for
our very life, commercial and material,
depends on the betterment of the rural
schools as well as those of the cities.
The average child in the south drops out
of school on reaching the third grade,
yrhicb that only two to two and
a half Clears of schooling Is all the average
person in the south gets today. The aver
age expenditure per pupil in the states of
North Carolina, Georgia. Tennessee and
South Carolina is only 34 63 per annum,
and the average attendance about 87
days in the year. Something like four and
a half cents worth of education for the
average future cltlxen per day! Mlra
bile dlctu! Is there any wonder that our
leaders are seriously concerned about
the status of the country schools? If the
latter are not maintained by our respec
tive southern states, and made more effi
cient than JJ»ey now are, the higher insti
tutions of learning will have to close
their doors. If the Southern Educational
association does nothing more than bet
ter the country school it will have justi
fied Its existence-
tudes which make it problematical
whether It shall yet mature and be
gathered into the crib..
I was surprised to learn of the
increasing values of farming lands
away up in the northwest. The
time of emigration sets that way i
for the farmer and lands which
three years ago could have been
bought for ten dollars an acre are
now selling like hot cakes at forty
and sixty or seventy-five dollars
an acre. It is a great country
through southern Minnesota, lowa,
Nebraska, eastern Kansas and ‘
northwestern Missouri; as fine lands
as ever a “crow flew over,” and with
seasons they can make all they can
gather in a year.
One hundred and sixty acres Is
the average farm in the northwest.
It has a grove which has been set t
out anywhere from five to ten gcres,
a good farm house and a large
barn. On the one hundred and sixty
acres you perhaps will see forty
acres of wheat, twenty of oats, forty
of corn and the balance they use ag
pastures. On every farm you will
see a nice bunch of well bred cattle,
great big fine hogs and brood mares
with more or less little herds of cat
tle and coveys of colts. I saw that
meat and horses won’t stay up tn
price very long if corn is made ts
fatten them this fall. The farmer
of the northwest has struck the ,
high water mark of prosperity. I
wish we could get the tide of emi
gration of the best class of farmers
turned towards the south. With
the same frugality and industry,
the farm in -outhland would pro
duce more and yield to the farmer
a greater net Income. But Yan
kee Doodle is up to advertising
methods, and they talk their coun
try and many of them talk it up,
sell out and go further west, and
many are selling their farms and
going up into Canada to buy cheap
er lands.
I never saw the tide of travel
heavier than now. Three years ago
with all the trains full I thought
everybody would get where they
wanted to go and get back horns
again in a few weeks, but they
have been three years on the road,
going and coming, and yet it seems
the passenger trains are fuller, ho- •
tels more crowded and more freight
trains standing oh the sidetracks
as limited passengers go by, than
I have ever seen before.
I go from here to Ashland, Ky.,
thence back into Illinois, Ohio and
as far east as New York on my
tour. I will write of the things
that I think will be most interesting
to your readers.
Whatever the drouth may do in
Georgia, if the seasons hold out in- ,
•the great corn and wheat belts,
there will be bread and meat for*
sale if we have only got the money
to buy it. No starvation in this
country yet, gentlemen.
Yours truly,
SAM P. JONES.
P. S.—l see Bailey and Beveridge
had a fight. They are both young
men—they will learn better after
awhile. I used to love to fight when
I was a kid, but when I passed the
fifty mile post I found that it wss
poor business, and now I don’t pro
pose to fight, gentlemen, unless a
fellow jumps on my wife’s husband;
then I propose to keep the files oft •
him until the procession stops. Don’t
fight, gentlemen. Yours, S. P. J.
Tabloids of Summer Wisdom.
High balls don’t always make one
hilarious.
One who has never been tempted de-,
serves no credit for being good.
The deceitfulness of woman isn’t In it
with the deceitfulness of man with wom
an.
The less some people know the mora
they have to talk about.
The man who believes in letting well
enough alone has little business with the
banka.'
“Misery loves company,” is why some
people love to speak of the faults and
sins of others.
In their journey through life some go
down dry, dusty highways, while others
travel through cool, shady lanes bedecked
with flowers, while from the foliage of
the trees upon etther side come the songs
of gay plumaged birds.
Some people do not believe in ghosts,
yet the world is full of them—ghosts of
blighted love, ghosts of shattered hopes,
ghosts of heart breaking failure following
every honest, industrious effort, ghosts of
thwarted ambition, ghosts of what you
once considered friendship, ghosts of ill
treatment where you expected klndneaa,
ghosts of frowns where you looked for
smiles, ghosts of tears wwhere you 1 joked
for laughter. Ghosts! Why, th* world
la full of ghosts!
