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4 The Semi-Weekly Journal Entered al th« Atlanta Pewtoffle* a* Mall Mat ter ot tt>a SactMKl Class. TW Btont-'W’sriilr J«wi>al to F*bU*- an Mondays and Thursday®. mailed to sme tor all the tjnee-<- week etar rout* mails. It contains tha news from all tarts at the world Srtxarißn. staff ot I 6t«ttn<ul»baJ contributors, with stron* Arrlcultural. Vetertnarr Juvenile Rome. Book and other of special ratoa to tha home and farm I Ar»nt» wanted tn every community tn the So'-th Remittances may bo made by poat ofbee money order, •'■press money or der. regMorud letter or eheck Pera, na who rend pootare stamps In SSS: Batten. Amounts terror than t» cent* ■■Matteo order, osprada order, ebeck OT MB. I Subecrtbsrs who wteb their pap*™ ehan«rd should rive both ths old and the new root'fftce address. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC -The Bryan. Any other who re; resents him self aa sonaecetd with The Journal aa r« travelin* agent is a fraud, ana we will be responsible only for money paid to tbo above named i spreeantattvea , ■ MONDAY. JULY 14. Mtt- I " 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. - 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. ——— 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 It Is said, since the American pro visional government was withdrawn.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. —. 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!
