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4 Tlic Scmi-Weckly Journal Entered M Um Atlanta Ptwtoffle* as Matl Mat us of Um Second Class. ■me •emi-Weekly Journal to pnbUah ed <m Monday* and Tknradays. and mailed In ttane far all Um twlce-a veek star route malle. It contains the news frvrr. all parts of the world brought over a special leased wire into The Journal efflce. It has a staff of distinguished contributor*. wltfe strong Agricultural. VaWHnanr. Juvenile. Home. Book and other derartwents of special rains to th* botn* and farm Agmtp wanted in every community tn the South. Remittance* may be made by post *Mc* money order, eapraas money or der registered letter or eheck. Persons who send postace stamps tn payment far subscriptions am request ed to send those of the Kcant denomi nation. Amounts larger than M cents post-free order, express order, check or isgilstared mail Subscribers who wish their papers • changed should give both the old and the new rostoffic* address. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.-Th* only traveling representatives of The Journal are C. J. O’Farrell and X A. Bryan. Any other who represents him self as connecetd with The Journal as a traveling agent is s fraud, and we wtu be responsible only for money paid to the above named representatives. MONDAY. JULY g. INU. The prohibition speeches of that Mr. Tagir, of Ohio, ought not to be dry. Another star has been struck out. The author of “Casey at the Bat" is dead. Probably McLaurin thinks President Roosevelt has something better up his sleeve. California ts a rich country. A chicken thief wearing diamonds was caught In Lost Angeles. General Bragg tn Cuba Is an enlarged reproduction of the watermelon seed in the appendix. Maybe the administration changed the army uniform to green tn order to cinfh the Irish vote. Hellroaring Jake Smith might spend his vacation on Harry Tracy's trail just to keep his hand in. Vermont cannot be a cool resort this summer with an election on the liquor question in full blast. In the natural order of things the next subject for a mysterious disappearance story is Oom Paul Kruger. Couldn't they get a more appropriate name for the Bay, at least while the Rosevelt family Is there? Cubas standing as a nation has now been thoroughly established. Guatemala has officially recognised her. In the new Maine we seem to have a battleship that can either fight or get away, as occasion may require. Maybe that Chicago man who married at the age of 77 figured out that he would not have to endure it very long. Turn about is fair play. Schley should sit in the courtmartial that tries Crownin shield for wrecking the Illinois. The success of IJang Chen Tung as a diplomat is assured now. It has been discovered that be is a good dancer. A Paris woman has found a new use for the parasol. She concealed a horsewhip tn the folds untn she met the victim. There is a growing impression that President Roosevelt is inclined to over work the General Leonard Wood busi- ness Several cases of perityphlitis have been reported among the New York anglomani acs since King Edward's trouble was diag nosed. X* I was below the belt to print the fact that the Swedish army officer who fiukqd on that fight trained with Shafter at Santiago. South America has a farm containing 71000 acres. It would have been a tolera bly good stsed plantation in the south before the war. -■«- ... - Consul Genebal Bragg must expect to be bounced for that "pigtail whistle" break. He has already made a number of lecture dates. Whether Miss Cerf jumped In or fell in she got a hug from Hobson and what's even more to the main point those other girls saw her get it. • The Wisconsin Republicans put some good Democratic doetriqe in their plat form. This shows that they see how the drift is in that state. A Boston German left his wife and set out to cross the ocean alone in a dory. He has clinched several weeks of peace and quiet, at any rate. _ Jacob Spalth. Esq., will land at San Francisco soon and we may expect a new brand of roaring when he gets acquaint ed with current events. Senator Frye, of Maine, sports a Pana ma hat for which he paid WOO. It looks just like one that was $lO and has been marked down to 0 cents. Texas has a good many needs, but probably the most urgent of them is more women. The men outnumber the women in that state by 100,000. When the doctor asked Russell Sage If he was hurt in that fall from the trolley car he said no - emphatically but we haven't heard his answer to the road's claim agent. If the report is true that Hanna will oppose Leonard Wood's appointment to the head of the canal commission, the little general bad just as well be looking for another job. —w Jim Griggs has jolted the enemy on the jaw by charging that Americans are made to pay under the Republican rule 40 per cent more for home made goods than foreigners pay. The latest London cable says "the king is on his feet." There will doubtless be some apprehension among Whitelaw Reid’s friends until we are told the un happy gentleman's name. The senatorial campaign in South Caro lina is becoming horribly tame. It has been nearly a week since a candidate has called one of his competitors a liar and _ asked him to step outside. The great majority of the people of this country don't care a snap whether Jef fries or Fitzsimmons wins, but a still larger majority is thoroughly glad that the fight will soon be over. The highest officer in the land will have as guests at Oyster Bay this week Low and Partridge. If they could inluce Wel lington of Maryland to come they might count high. low. jack and the game. Captain Oberlin M. Carter, a retired • army officer of considerable note. will come to Georgia to meet his old friends Messrs. Greene and Gaynor, when they arrive from Canada. They are expected to spend some time together. Senator Hale, of Maine. Is endeavoring in ft series of newspaper articles to im press It upon th* minds o' cities that contemplate going into the exposition line that the Federal government will proba bly not pay any more midway companies out of AN ENDLESS CONTROVERSY. The forty-first anniversary of the bat tle of Bull Run. which occurred last Mon day, has reopened to some extent the old discussion of a question upon which there will never be an agreement, namely, whether the victorious Confederate army at that first pitched battle of the civil war should have pushed on to Washing ton when the Federal forces were flying before it. A controversy on this question was car ried on with no small degree of feeling just after the fight ajid volumes have been written on it in subsequent years. President Davis and General Joseph E. Johnston, who was In command of the Confederate army at thia first great bat tle with the north, have been held re sponsible for the failure to capture Wash ington. General Ixingstgeet thinks that the victory should have been followed up and that if it had been the northern capi tal would have fallen into the hands of the Confederates, with little or no resis tance. In his memoirs he states that sev eral brigades of fresh troops were avail able for the pursuit of McDowell's de moralized and fleeing army. Orders had been received by these brigades to pur sue the enemy, the batteries were about 1o open fire, when one of General John ston's aides peremptorily ordered that the guns should not be fired. General Johnston wrote soon after the battle that “his troops were more demoralized by victory than the enemy by defeat." General Long street asserts that "the troops, in their high hopes, would have marched in ter rible earnestness against the demoral ized Federal*. Gaining confidence and vigor in their march, they could well have reached Washington with the ranks of McDowell’s men. This favorable as pect for fruitful results was sacrificed through the assumed authority of staff officers who, upon false reports, gave countermand to the orders of their chiefs.” Colonel Henderson, of the British staff college, in his iife of Stonewall Jack son, writes: “For three days Jackson im patiently vfatted the order to advance, and his men were held ready with three days’ cooked rations in their haversacks.” That Washington could not have held out against a Confederate attack is con ceded by the best northern authorities. General George B. McClellan, who had been summoned to the capital after the battle of Bull Run, made an Inspection and reported as follows: “I found no prep arations for defense, not even to the ex tent of putting the troops in military po sitions. All was chaos. The streets, ho tels and barrooms filled with drunk en men and officers, absent from their reg iments without leave —a perfect pande monium. Many had even gone to their homes, their flight from 6ull Run termi nating in New York or even New Hamp shire and Maine. There was really nothing to prevent a small cavalry force riding into the city. If the secessionists attach ed any value to the possession of Wash ington, they committed their greatest er ror in not following up the victory of Bull Run.” Mr. Stanton, secretary of war, was filled with fear; and dark forebodings The captura of Washington," he wrote, "seems now to be inevitable. During the whole of Monday and Tuesday (July 22 and 23) it might have been taken without resistance. The rout, overthrow and de moralization of ‘he whole army were com plete." Most of those who contend that the Con federate army should have pursued its flying erfemy assume that the Confeder ates were in a condition to fight as they had during the day which brought to them such a signal victory over an army that had the advantage of superior num bers and many more trained troops. The weight of opinion now seems to be in favor of the policy which Jackson and Longstreet favored, but nobody can say with any degree of certainty what would have happened if the Confederate army had hurried on to Washington and even captured that city. 1 VERY LIGHT PENALTIES. Some of the officers of the United States army who have been arraigned for cruelty in the Philippines have been severely con demned by the courts which tried them, by superior military authority and Presi dent Roosevelt. They have been scored severely, and in most instances with per fect justice, by a large part of the press of the country, and they have been de nounced in both houses of congress. But a review of the evidence presented in' these cases will, we think, convince any impartial mind that, almost without exception, these officers, when punished at all. have escaped with much lighter penalties than they could reasonably have expected. The acquittal of Major Waller and Lieu tenant Day for the slaughter and torture of. natives in Samar was based on the circumstance that Waller's mind was supposed to be upset tem porarily, and Day obeyed the command of his superior officer. General Uhaffee won the approval of the country by his refusal to approve these findings, and his very severe condemnation of Day. Colonel Jacob H. Smith,, whose order to "bum and kill" until Samar was a waste aroused the disgust and indignation of the country, has received no other pun ishment than a retirement on the regular army list about two years earlier than It would have come to him in regular order, and a lecture from the president. The courtmartial that tried him refused to find him guilty of any wrong. Major Edwin F. Glenn, of the Fifth in fantry, has just been convicted of admin istering the cruel "water cure” to Fili pinos. He has been sentenced to the awful punishment of suspension from duty for a whole month and the enormous fine of SSO, about one-fifth of a month’s pay. The disposition of this and several other cases of like character will strike the country as travesties on justice and ut terly unworthy of our government. ROOSEVELT’S ANTI-TRUST BILL. President Roosevelt has signified his de termination to enter the legislative field as far as the chief executive of the gov ernment can do so. The cause in which his legislative ambition has enlisted him is so righteous that this proposed enter prise on his part is heartily approved by the public, regardless of party. The president holds that it is not only the plain duty of congress to regulate and restrict the trusts, but that it is also quite practicable to do so. In his next annual message he will urge anti-trust legislation very strenuously and a bill is now being prepared under his direction which will enibody his ideas on the subject. Mr. Littlefield, of Maine, successor of Tom Reed in congress, who has been chosen as the chief adviser of the presi dent in this most laudable effort, is one of the ablest and best equipped Republican members of the house. He ts said to cherish an ambition to lead in the direction of the repression and reg ulation of the trusts, and will have a great opportunity as the Introducer and • special champion of i-ie Roosevelt bill. Mr. Littlefield has given out to some THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1902. close friends who have allowed the public to share the confidence, his, general plan of campaign against the trusts which he is to mainly manage tn congress. According to Mr. Littlefield, the presi dential anti-trust bill will cover four prin cipal points, namely: Federal control of all corporations engaged in interstate commerce; power for the government at all times to obtain information as to the doings of such corporations; taxation of corporations having unpaid capital stock; regulation by the government of increase of capital stock. All this has a pleasant sound, but it re mains to be ascertained how much of this attack upon the trusts, and the advertise ment thereof, 1s designed for political ef fect and how much of it represents a fixed policy and purpose on the part of the pres ident and that element of the Republican party which will unfalteringly follow his lead. The Roosevelt-Littlefield plan, as out lined by those who appear to be in the confidence of its minority stockholder, would impress the country much more favorably if it contained one provision that is worth all the four it presents. The New York Times points out this fact clearly when it says: "Meanwhile it cannot too often be re peated that the worst evils of the combi-, nations of capital called trusts can only be reached by depriving them of the un just favors they enjoy through the tariff and through secret discriminations for their benefit by the transportation corpo rations. Any measure that does not aim at these results will be an empty one, and probably hypocritical." THE EXPANSION CRAZE. Within a very brief period we have an nexed Hawaii by taking the short cut of a joint resolution of congress, after it was found that the treaty route was impossi ble; we have appropriated Porto Rico as a war indemnity; we have bought the Phil ippines, a very small part of which we have yet actually possessed, and we have bargained for the Danish West Indies. It would seem that these requisitions should satisfy our territorial greed for a while, but, though our deal with Denmark ffias not yet been consummated, the state de partment has begun negotiations with that government for Greenland. It is said that expansionist statesmen have had this enterprise in view for ten years past, but it never took on the color of probability until a very short time ago. It is stated on what appears to be good authority that St. Peary, the famous arc tic explorer, has been employed to gather data and give an estimate of the value and possibilities of this extensive land, which the daring Norsemen knew centu ries before Christopher Columbus was bom. The main reason ascribed for the desire to acquire Greenland is the same as that which caused the United States to purchase Alaska —to hem in Canada and give us a still securer hold on this continent. The present and probable commercial value of Greenland is problematical. v The country undoubtedly contains very valuable mineral deposits and its fisheries are among the best in the In its southern part are cerolite mines, the entire output of which comes to the United States. Near Disco Island are large deposits of coal* which American explorers and fish ermen use. There are vast whale and hal ibut fisheries conducted entirely by Mas sachusetts fishermen. Iron and copper abound, and it is believed other mineral wealth of Greenland is large. % Denmark owns the country south of Melville bay and has done something in the way of colonizing it. But her govern ment is maintained there at a heavy an nual loss that she is hardly able to stand, and the report that she is endeavoring to unload this unprofitable territory on us is probably true. Most of the paying enter prises in Greenland are already in the hands of citizens of this country, whose rights are perfectly protected by Den mark. They are said to be indifferent about the alleged purchase scheme, but the element in this country that has gone daft on the subject of expansion is en thusiastic over it and may have its way. THE NEW FERTILIZER LAW. The act for the protection of the pub lic against fraudulent fertilizers which the legislature passed at its last session will go into effect August Ist. This measure was earnestly supported by the rural members of the legislature, and there seems to have been quite a general demand for it among the farmers. There has been frequent complaint made in this state and others that some of the fertilizers that have had quite a general sale were of little benefit to the purchasers. The design of the new law is to prevent the sale of fertilizers practically worth less and of those that are represented as better than they are. The law already has strict provisions for the protection of farmers from imposition in this mat ter, but it was insisted that others should be established. The new law goes very much further than the one it repeals. It attaches a heavy penalty for even placing upon the market a fertilizer which does not come up to-the analysis that goes with it. If a crop on which com mercial fertilizer has beep used should fail the fertilizer need not be paid for, if it can be shown that it did not contain the ingredients and proportions that were claimed for it. But the prices of fertilizers vary very much, and the purchaser cannot ex pect to get a high-grade fertilizer at the price of a cheap article. It is probable that many of the com plaints that have been brought against fertilizer companies have been made in cases where the fault lay in lax cultiva tion rather than in the poor quality of the fertilizer. It is quite as probable that in spite of safeguards, quantities of fertilizer have been sold that were almost worthless. But whether the new law will prove as just and work as well as its advocates have predicted is a matter of doubt. Now that it is oh the statute books, it should be given a fair and thorough trial, and we hope that it will be found to be an equitable and useful enactment. A VERY USEFUL REFORM. When the prices of meat of all kinds were raised enormously by the packers' combine some months ago The Journal predicted that the public might, after all, gain more than it lost by this assertion of organized greed. When this arbitrary and utterly un justifiable increase of the cost of meat to the consumer was made spring was at hand. During spring and summer it is easier than at any other time to reduce the quantity of meat that we have been eating, or to give up meat entirely. Those who make their diet mainly of meat are rarely as healthy as they who depend largely or wholly upon a vegetable diet. When meat became very high a great many persons began to eat more vegeta bles than they had ever eaten before. A large proportion of them found the change so agreeable and beneficial that they will never return to their former habit of heavy meat eating. Necessity, or econo my, Impelled them to adopt a policy which wisdom dictated and experienced has en dorsed. The meat combine may prove a blessing in disguise to the public and de feat its own object. It will surely do so if it serves to in crease the consumption of vegetables by our people and a consequent falling off in the per capita consumption of meat.’ Those who live jnalnly on vegetable food in the summer and partake of nothing heavier than eggs and fish naturally and necessarily are heartier than those who eat much beef or pork, and their living expenses are much less. It anybody doubts this a trial of the two plans, even for a day or two, will soon convince him of the truth of the proposition. The people of this country cat on the average more meat than those in any other temperate climate. All the authorities agree that we eat too much meat and trace the prevalence of many diseases to this over-indulgence. Undoubtedly vegetable eating is increas ing in the United States. This is one of the best reforms now in progress and we expect to see it grow very much. Mr. Louis B. Jennings, who has recently returned from Bolivia, tells a New York newspaper that the women of that coun try are “the healthiest and sturdiest in the world." They subsist almost entirely upon vegetables. It is said that the pack carriers of southern Mexico have almost unequalled powers of endurance. They will carry a load of from 100 to 150 pounds, over the worst roads, for a distance of 20 to 25 miles a day. These people never eat meat. Their chief food is boiled maize, ground and mixed with sugar. They have other vege table diets, but religiously avoid all kinds of meat at all seasons of the year. We may learn a very valuable lesson from these semi-savages. PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE A year or two ago almost every part of the country suffered from an infliction of small pox of a virulent character. In some, sections there was great and not unreasonable alarm on the subject and the total number of deaths from that dis ease in this country was the largest that had been known for years. During the past winter small pox was widespread, but had suffi a mild type that it caused no considerable excitement ex cept in few states. There is danger of a too great sense of security and consequent neglect of plain duty as a result of this experience. The New York Medical Journal, a pub lication of high character, gives this time ly warning. “Let us not be too sure that there is .the ordinary short-lived safety in lapsing for a time into neglect qf the only known prophylactic measure. Realizing the dan ger of prophesying, we nevertheless must express our fear that the coming winter will witness a recrudescence of the epi demic, and that the disease, in the event of such an occurrence, may be shorn of its recent unaccustomed mildness. Small pox epidemics that smoulder through the summer not infrequently take on a greatly augmented severity with the advent of cold weather. That may not be exempli fied this year, but we believe it prudent to be on tffe lookout for such a state of tnings.” Many a community has, to its sorrow, neglected the duty the strict performance of which is thus impressively enjoined. The able and reliable journal from which we have quoted says further in its earnest presentation of this very important mat ter:, lx "Nothing but an epidemic seems capa ble of rousing in the public mind any abid ing appreciation of the preventive value of vaccination, and, it must me added, nothing else appears to remind most phy sicians of their duty to see to it that every child in the families under their care shall be vaccinated at the proper age. Most of us do not wait until there is some definite threatening of serious disease be fore we get our lives insured; thus we show how much more we think of our pockets than our health. But, even with all that, few of us would pursue the wise course of insuring in time were it not for the persistent importunity of the in surance solicitors, whereby the men of business demonstrate with how much greater ardor they prosecute their affairs than that with which we physicians ac quit ourselves in the practice of preven tive medicine—that highest branch of our art which we all exalt in theory, but so many of us neglect in reality.” There is probably not a city in the Uni ted States to which these remarks do not apply; not one that might not-profit by heeding them. < Atlanta is famously healthful, yet it had more small pox last winter than we like to have near us. It was of a very mild type, it is true, but the possibility of its return in a worse form next winter must be considered. Common sense demands that we shall adopt and maintain a vigorous preventive policy against this disease, which breaks ou. every year in 'many of our cities in more or less virulent form. The warning uttered by The New York Medical Journal is only one of many that have, been given out from sources that command respect and deserve attention. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. The marriage race is not always to the fast. Great success Is the evolution •of little fail ures. Children are pearls in a crown that also has thorns in it. A loose tongue never told any girl the way to the altar. Good looking is good enough charity for most men when It begins at home. A man never loves with his reason and a woman never reasons with her love. There are pawn shops for honor, too, though nobody ever gets much on it. w Some women measure out affection just the way they do milk and eggs for a custard. There 1s nothing ifice getting up early in the morning to teach on* the beauty of sleeping late. A woman can love a man of the most egregious vanity on earth, but not one of meek humility. After a man has learned to be managed by his wife he is in a fairway to make a good husband. You can skim the cream off milk and have something left that is sweet and good, but skim your love and what is left is bitter gall. The time a woman begins to worry for fear her husband might get 111 is when he is ab solutely sound and well. A woman never gets so old that she will not sneer at the false teeth of another if she feels sure her own won't fall out. When mas talks to woman he may chide her and when hs talks to man he may cherish her, but when he whispers to his God he blesses her. When a woman changes her way of doing up her hair and her husband doesn’t notice it, she knows right’ away that he doesn't love her any more. The first .thing for a man to do with the wo man he marries is to force her to understand that he is going to be firm about making her have her own way. It is a smart woman who, after her husband has been fooling with the plumbing, goes and gets a plumber to fix it in secret and then brags before him about how clever he is at such things. Ambiguous. Exchange. Stella—What do you think of bath ing suitL Bella—r should judge she is a girl who doesn't care much for clothes. SAM JONES IN THE.WEST - LB WRITES OF HIS TRAVELS ' [WAS SO constantly on the go and move last week, traveling and lecturing that I did not have time to write my weekly letter to I the Journal, but I hope my work will be such for thfe balance of the summer that I can furnish my letters regular ly. In the past ten days I have travel ed through Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Ne- . braska, Kansas and Missouri. It seems to me that I have seAi enough corn growing *to feed the world, the fields look blkck, or rather blackish green. I find the wheat crop in Kansas not so good. Missouri, Illinois and Indiana have fine wheat. The floods have done much damage throughout the corn belt, on the low lands. I think I have seen tens of thousands of acres of fine corn literally covered by the high waters and ruined. They boast of the biggest potato crop ever made in the northwest. The drought of the south is discouraging to the people down there, but it's well enough to know that there will be bread for the eater and seed for the sower. I spent one day last week at Lyons, Kas., and -with some friends went down into the salt mines. Down an elevator 1,100 feet, and then we got out of the elevator and explored the un derground country. Salt rock above us and beneath us and on both sides of us—purt crystallized rock gait. The vein is 280 feet thick and 50 miles wide, and 60 miles long, as they have tested it. The farmers, I am told, buy a wag on load at a dollar a ton, and in Car tersville I pay 2 cents a pound for this same salt, which would be S4O a ton— there, a dollar a ton. I was told that they mine it and get it ready for the market at 60 cents cost of produc tion. Somebody is majting a lot of njon ey on it by the time it reaches the consumer in Georgia. They ship, - was told, from ten to 16 cars a day. Some of it is shipped in large bulk, or lump; some of it ground and sacked. It look ed to me like there was salt enough there to keep the world from spoiling. Amid all the floods of the west I have been in only <one rain, and that was in western Kansas. It rained the day before I got there and the day fol lowing. The sun shines on us wherever TARIFF ISSUE DIVIDESTHE PARTY William E. Curtis Sees Pos sibilities of Split In Reoubli can Organization. Chicago Record-Herald. T IS difficult to see how a split in the Republican party is to be avoided un less somebody yields. This morning I saw two of the "Boxers” who defeated I the Cuban reciprocity bill in the senate, and both declared with unnecessary em phasis that President Roosevelt’s confi dence in the adoption of that measure at next session of congress was very much misplaced. One of them went so far as to declare that the bill would not receive as much support at the next session as it had at the last, and asserted that the only thick-and-thin supporters the president had on the Republican side in that fight were Platt of Connecticut, Lodge and Bev eridge. He says that if a vot* had been taken by a secret ballot in the Republi can caucus the president’s policy would have received the support of perhaps five men, possibly six, and no more, and, that if it had been proposed by any other man thap Roosevelt it would have received no support at all. Those are the sentirfients of an extreme sugar beet senator, and must be accepted with caution, but some of the supporters of the president think he is ever sanguine in his expectation that the senate will adopt bls recommendations next winter. He intends to make a great fight for them, and one of the objects of his speech making tour through the country this fall is to preach reciprocity, although several of the “boxers” have begged him* not to do it. When Theodore Roosevelt is advocat ing a cause he thinks is right, there isn’t much use trying to gag him, and in the states and districts which those "boxers” represent he will plead bis cause with even greater earnestness and persistence than elsewhere. He Is convinced that the people are with bln:, and he will ask them to express tneir views in a manner that may not be mistaken by their represen tatives in congress. If some of the sena tors and lepresentatives had known what he is going to talk about they would not ' POEMS WORTH READING TWO LOVERS.' BY GEORGE ELIOT. Mary Ann Evans, better known by her qpm de plume of George Eliot, born In Warwickshire, England, about the year 1820, the daughter of a poor curate, but adopted by a wealthy clergyman who gave great care to her education. Her first literary effort was a translation of Strauss' "Life of Jesus." This was followed by many novels, the most famous of which is “Middlemarch,” thought by many to be the greatest novel of the century. As a poet she published “The Spanish Gypsy,” "Agatha,” and “The Le gend of Jubal," with a number of fugitive pieces, enough to establish the poetical reputation of an unknown writer, but have scarcely added to the fame of the great novelist. She died in the year 1876. Two lovers by a moss grown spring. They leaned soft eheeks together there; Mingled the dark and sunny hair, And heard the wooing thrushes sing. O, budding time! O, love’s best prime! Two, wedded, from the portal stept; The bells made happy carolings. The air was soft as fanning wings, White petals on the pathway slept. O, pure eyed bride! O, tender pride! Two faces over a cradle bent. Two hands above the breast were locked; These pressed each other while they rocked, Then watched a life that love had sent. , O, solemn hour! O, hidden power! Two parents by the evening fire; x h The red light fell above their knees On heads that rose by slow degrees, - Like buds upon the lily spire. O, patient life! • O, tender strife! The two still sat together there;* The red light shone about their knees, But all the heads, by slow degrees. Had gone and left that lonely pair. O, voyage fast! O, vanished past! The red light shone upon the floor And made the space between them wide; They drew their chairs up side by side; The pale cheeks joined and said "once more.” O, memories! O, past that is! I am. I believe the Chautauqua assemblies are more largely attended this year than almost any former year, so far , as my observation has gone. Except in the extreme low lands of the bottom, the farmers all seem to be jumping up and down. Cattle at 8 cents on foot, hogs more than 8 cents, corn and oats higher than they have been in 20 years. The farmers of the west and northwest are surely in it now. There has been no extremely warm weather in the northwest to date. Ma ny days I have had on my overcoat, sometimes sitting J>y the fire to keep warm. I spent one day in Molene, 111. The largest plow works in the world are located there. Their manufactories cov er acres and acres of ground. They furnish the plows for the middle and northwestern states largely. I have made it a business to inquire in different sections how farm lands are selling, and they range from S3O to SIOO an acre. In any of the produc tive belts of the west and northwest farms that are at all improved sell for from $65 to SIOO an acre. There never wa§ a day in the history of America when farmers were more independent and manifested more independence than they do today. It has been a source of regret to no tice the weather reports from the. southern states. Unless rain shall come soon to the parched earth in the south, we shall certainly come up wanting this fall. Never in my experience have I known April. May, June and July to be so dry In the south. A dry May is usually our best crop year, but this year it has been dry April, May, June and July, with the heat Intense. I noticed the corn in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri tasseling and silking, while in the south many corn fields, if it doesn't rain soon, will never tassel at all. I predict; with favorable sea sons from now on, 50 cent corn for the south this winter, and wheat will scarcely go higher than 75 or 80 cents, in my judgment, with potatoes lower, perhaps, than they have been seen in years. In any event, I keep saying it, we will live till we die. I am glad that the news from home concerning Bill Arp, or Major Smith, is more favorable. May he live to be have been so urgent in pressing him to visit their constituents. The president is already getting togeth er facts and figures to use in his speeches, and they will be the efforts of his life. He intends to force the fighting and to stand or fall upon the reciprocity plat form. As an avowed candidate for re nomination he is taking a gieat many chances, but no one can help admiring his candor and courage and the strength of his convictions, although some think that his plan proves him to be a very poor poli tician. We will wait and see. There are other people in the Republican party who are quite as positive in their convictions and quite as determined in their purpose to defeat.the Cuban bill and prevent the adoption of the reciprocity principle in our tariff legislation as he is to secure it and they have an organization of force and influence composed of many of the wealthiest and most influential Republicans in the country. It is largely due to their efforts that the existing rates of duty were embodied in the Ding ley law, and they do not propose to have them disturbed, no matter what method is proposed or what reason is advanced. The fact that nearly all of them are personally and peculiarly interested in maintaining the present duties only makes them the more active and determined. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago pally News. A wooden leg is an amendment to the con stitution. In the game of life the one-armed man play* a lone hand. A man never know* whether a woman’s hat Is on straight or crooked. A man may be able to fool himself as to his importance, but it is difficult to fool his neigh bors. That man who says he never makes a mis take probably doesn’t, know one when he sees it. The average wife imagines her husband would hkve remained a bachelor if he had not been fortunate enough to meet her. When some men get into the public«eye they afford the public about as much pleasure as a cinder would in a similar position. Some men sow selfishness and reap success. On the programme of human events women are the consolation race. Rainbows never I surrender, but always go down with their colors flying. No, Cordelia, women who gamble are not the only tiger lilies in the bouquet. Art may be long, but it isn’t always long enough to make both ends meet. A New Jersey artist painted a portrait so natural that a mosquito bored holes tn it. If your garden seeds fail t* come up it is not the fault of your neighbor's chickens. A billboard may help to sw*ll the actor’s head, but a board bill is quite another story. Sofite people are bo«n ppor, some achieve poverty and some thrust poverty upon other people.' When his wife inform* him that dinner is ready, even a lazy man manages to get a move on himself. It isn’t a man’s worth but rather what he is worth that interests the fair female who has an ingrowing desire to change her name. a hundred years old. He is a philos opher and a gentleman. We shall not see his like again. He is known around the world, and esteemed most highly everywhere by reason of the philosoph ical letters he has given to the world. His letters are but the expression of himself, for he is genial, pleasant, sensible, kindly, in all his ways. I do not see so much of sister Fel ton lately. She is one of our most sprightly writers. May she live to wield that trenchant pen for years to come. I note the state convention has nom inated the candidates, and of coura* |n due time they will be elected and Inaugurated. A good many of them belong to my crowd—l like them. I like a good stand better than a bad run. I don't care who runs for gov ernor of Georgia, if he ain’t of my po litical, prohibition principles, I am not for him. with all my might. lam • for prohibition first, and then other things along as they may come; I no tice the convention touched that local option business very lightly. I no tify the politicians that they are mon keying with dynamite along in there, and the last state primary was no mor® a settlement of the local option or pro- ; hibitlon question in Georgia, than it was a settlement of the friars question now agitating this country and th* Pope in the Philippines. Th* politi cians had as well make up their mind* to this fact, that there is a whole some. first-class, decent, respectable minority in Georgia that are for pro hibition, and some of these days they may grow to be a majority, and how the present majority behaves itself will determine the growth cr shrinking up of the prohibition party in the state. My work in the next two weeks car ries me through Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, New York, Pennsylva nia, etc. Whatever may be of interest along the way, I will make a note of. The great strikes in Pennsylvania and the freight handlers' strike tn Chica go are growing to immense proportion* I fear. A full grown strike is the next thing to war, and war is the next thing to perdition. Yours truly, ' SAM P. JfeNES. Cincinnati, July 16, 1902. INVESTORS ARE LOOKING SOUTH . w Memphis Commercial Appeal. SSTSTANT GENERAL PASSEN GER AGENT J. F. MERRY, of the Illinois Central railroad, is authority for the statement that at the present time there is th* A most active demand for farm fends ever known in this country. ‘At no time in the history of the United States,” said he, “has there been such a phenomenal advance in prices as during the past three years. "Unimproved hardwood timber lands of i the best quality are yet on the market at points In Mississippi, between Mem phis and Vicksburg, from $7 to $lO per acre. The cost of clearing and fencing these lands Is not to exceed $lO per acre, ajid, when cleared, they will grow a bale of cotton worth from S4O to SSO per bale, or CO bushels of corn worth from 60 cents to $1 per bushel, to the acre. Every real estate agent who has studied the agri cultural conditions of this country un derstands how, with the rapid increase in population, making a constantly in creasing demand for everything eatable, it is utterly Impossible for fertile lands to remain at present values in any sec tion of our country either north or south. "Southern farm lands are too low, as compared with the market value of south ern farm products. To Illustrate: In lowa lands selling in the market for S6O to $75 per acre are rented for only $3 per acre. In Mississippi, and especially In the great cotton belt, the Mississippi valley. Improved plantations can be bought at from S3O to $35 per acre, cash, or, what is better at the present high price of cotton, for 100 pounds of lint cotton per acre; and upon which the taxes are not more than half what, they are in Illinois and lowa. "All Indications point to an Increased demand and increased local market for all kinds of southern farm products. The development of southern oil fields fur nishing cheap fuel is attracting the at* tention of manufacturers. ’ “The construction of an Interoceanio canal, whether at Panama or Nicaragua, will make New Orleans the gateway to important new markets that use largely the mining, manufacturing and agricul tural products of the south. It will be the means of calling the attention of thousands of tourists and capitalists to the fertile lands of the Mississippi valley. It will result in large investments of northern capital, which is invariably fol lowed by immigration and a rapid ad vance in the price of farm lands. “In Illinois the advance has been from $9) to $l5O per acre; in lowa from $35 to $75 and even higher; in Minnesota from sls to SSO, and in South Dakota from $2.50 to S3O. Real estate prophets and others have each year predicted tho top had been reached and that prices must de-, cline. Such, however, has not been the case. On the contrary, not only practi cal farmers, but bankers, mechanics, merchants and manufacturers, with idle money have shown their confidence In the future of cultivable lands by making liberal land investments and the prices have continued to go higher and higher. “The question now agitating the minds of all real estate agents, through whom 90 per cent of all the farm lands ara, sold, is, where can we find low priced real estate, and where will be the next great advance in lands? I advise all real es tate agents and others who heandle farm lands that every indication new points to the south as the center of the next great boom.” This succinct array of facts with many others Is being set ‘forth in real pamph let form and circulated by Mr. Merry throughout the country, for which the south, and especially Mississippi, is un der a debt of gratitude to him. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES. Chicago Daily Newi. Tommy—“l s’pose it’s as hard for me to be patient as it is for you. mamma.” Harry—“ What is meant by a mathematical Impossibility?” Willie—“l guess it must be a sum that tha teacher can’t do.” “Poor little horse!” exclaimed 4-year-old Ma bel the first time she saw the sebra at Lincoln park. “He’s been leaning up against some body’s painted fence.” A bright little fellow who had only been asleep five minutes hal a dream that covered a period of nearly a week. On being tola how short a time he had slept he exclaimed: “My goodness, but it takes an awful long time to sleep five minutes’” One on the Janitor. Detroit Free Press. . “There’s the best joke on the janitor,” said Twynn to Triplett. “Go on.” “He tried to stop an old chap from going up stairs. Told him that no agents or beggars were allowed. Seedy-looklng old fellow said he was sorry, but he’d have to go up. Said he was tha yweer of the building. Janitor was strajß dumb.” “That was a joke on him. wasn’t It? he’d never seen the owner.” “Oh. that wasn’t the joke. Man wasn t the jwr.er at all. Got upstairs and sold soap wy the sample to nearly every tenant /in ths shs ban*"
