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4 • The Semi-Weekly Journal ■ I Entend nt the Atlanta Pjatofflee as M«ll Mat fl ter of the Second Class. I The SemlW-ekty Journxl Is ruMIA- ■ ed no Mondays end Thursdays. and I mailed In time for all the ’»’«**- ■ week star route mails. It contains the ■ nq*** from all parts of the world ■ brought ever a special leased wire Into ■ rf* The JourtMl office It has a staff of S distinguished contributors, with strong S Agricultural. Veterinary. Juvenile I Heme. Book and other departments of S i special value to the home and farm. S Agents wanted in every community K> tn the South B Remittances may be made by post- ■h.- office money'order, expresu money or- I der. registered letter or check. S Persons who e-rd postage stamps in I [ payment for eubscriptions are request- ■ Iff ed to send 'boss of the 2-cent de nomi- ■I? ’ nation Amounts larger than SO cents | SantaMHe order, express order, check ■> er registered malt I V Subscribers- who wish their papers I changed should give bhth the old and I the new poctofflce sddrees | NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.-The IS only traveling representatives of The I Journal are C. J OFarrell and J. A. 8 Bryan. Any other who represents hltn- |L self as connecetd with The Journal as I I a traveling agent is a fraud, and we If. will be reoponsible only for money paid IB * to the above named representatives. I MONDAT. AVGUST 4. 1901. I Those forty wet dog days failed to eon |t ( Beet somewhere on the fine. | By thia time Mr Harry Tracy may be | | doing the society act in Butte. Montana. | The coroner at the seashore seems to be K the only workingman in all the |E # crowd? ’ ' | A Chicago cabman has been accused of | f eating his horde s oats, but indignantly de ft t nies the charge. > I The naming of New York’s escaped pan- I ■ ther 'Tracy’’ was Inappropriate. The pan ther has been caught. The flagmen on the new Siberian rall- I way will be happy when he can call out * Irkutsk and Yakutsk. [ The coal strike has cost over sixty mil s’ ions already but the coal barons continue to ride In automobiles. If Henry Watterson don’t get to star- ’ eyeing again soon some people will begin to pity the mln/ 'bed. [ • The quick recovery cf Steel King fl Schwab ts doubtless a source of surprise I to our English cousins. With Roosevelt so near by that moun- ’ tain Hon was foolish to break out of its cage in the Bronx Zoo. Devery. of New York, has undertaken the task of turning *9.000 worth of picnic I provender into 10,000 voters. .There will doubtless be some more grounding of battleships when Moody gets all our sailors out on thd sea. v The main result of the anti-imperialists’ recent manifesto on the Philippines is the re-asrakening of Henry Cabot Lodge. The weather man ought to come down on a level with common people occasional ly just to see how hot it really is below. Ocean City. N J., has passed a law sup pressing the bathing suit costume in all parts of the city except on the beach. /That' Pennsylvania man who drowned himself because he heard his mother in law was coming, carried the joke too far. It Is reported <nat W. C. Whitney said he was out of politics and then declared the Democratic party was without a lead- £. **"’ Bishop Potter will soon be the richest preacher tn the world-that Is. just as soon as a certain charming widow cays T will” / at the altar. Anyhow, the coal barons will realise fe something on the decrease in their pay rolls if the rioting continues to furnish a casualty Het. Now. if all the rest of them would fol low the example of Mr. Robert Fitzsim mons and retire, what a relief the coun try would enjoy! If President Castro can’t make bls es cape on one of those terrible war ships, bis press agent has beer, mentioning, then he deserves captivity. The next exciting event in San Fran cisco will be pulled off when Hell-Roaring Jake Smith lands and learns of his re tirement by Roosevelt. No one will blame the sturgeon that > into a boat to see Hallie Ermine Rives, out the story would sound better had she brought the fish in. Platt has joined Roosevelt’s forces, but as yet there has been no’report of stealthy raids on the administration plum tree. Give the old man time, though. A Missouri editor is writing an elabo rate article on ’’Hell and Who Will be There.” It is not stated whether 1t will be in the nature of an autobiography. If the Joint debate idea is worked very vigorously in the mayor’s race the defeat ed candidates can probably get jobs in the trombone department of a brass band. The anxiety about King Edward has not passed away by any means. The con tinued optimism of the reports from his bedside are not consistent with his slow I * rcc^ rery * , That great noise preceding the adminis tration’s proposed onslaught on the trusts may be merely another way of telling the victims to get the evidence out of sight. The New Jersey Republicans’ depart * went of strenuoeity will have to think up •ome other novel election scheme since their negro pugilist got shot in the first round at Pensauken. x Beveridge 1s going to make stump speeches in Texas. This is a dare to Bailey that is quite as insulting as the remark which caused him to choke the little man from Indiana. Those Txiuislana gentlemen who got fat federal jobs will not be censured for de claring immediately afterwards that the state will roll up a handsome Republican , i majority at the next election. The impression that the murdered pal Os Harry Tracy was his press agent is fast gaining ground. Not a word has been printed of the strenuous movements since the dead body was found. We see It announced that the women of Michigan City are taking the lead in beau tifying that burg. There’s nothing strange about that We have yet to see a city in which the women do not lead in thia business. A Wonderful Earthquake Experience. • London Globe. '' The Inscription on a tombstone in a Ja maica cemetery shows that the Individual there commemorated had survived an .earthquake. The inscription is as follows; ’ “Lewis Galdy. Esq., who died on the J2d September. IT. aged 80- He was born at Montpelier, tn France, which place he left for bis religion and settled on, this F" island, where In the great earthquake. 1472. he was swallowed up. and by the wonderful providence of God by a second shock was thrown into the sea. where he continued swimming until he was taken up by a boat, and thus miraculously pre- I aerved.” The earthquake mentioned took place in Jamaica 90 years ago. A MAN MUCH TALKED OF. Judge Parker, of New York, has been suggested frequently as an available Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1904. His qualifications haye been dis cussed quite favorably not only In his own state, but In the south and west also. He has never been a politician in the common acceptation of the term, which is decidedly in his favor. He has been, however, a lifelqpg Demo crat and stands very high in the confi dence of the public. He has proved that he possesses a popular strength in New York even greater than that of his party. He was elected a justice of the state su preme court in 1885. and in 189* was the Democratic nominee for chief justice of the court of appeals. New York’s highest judicial tribunal. He was elected by a plurality of «u.SB9. a clear majority of al! the votes cast. He received In both New York city and the other parts of the state a considerably higher vote than any other Democratic candidate. This vic tory was all the more notable because on ly the year before the Republicans had carried the state by an immense majori ty and obtained a majority in New York city for Uie first time in the history of their party. This evidence of Judge Parker s great popularity attracted attention outside of New ’Korle. The inquiry as to what man ner of man he was who had polled such an immense vote extended the public knowledge to many things that were high creditable to him. He has distinguished himself still fur ther in his present exalted office. It is but natural that Judge Parker should now loom up in the talk about the next presi dency. Alton Brooks Parker is only a little past 50. He was born at Cortland, N. Y„ May 14. 1552. He received his education in the public schools, Cortland academy and Cortland Normal school. He entered the practice of law at Kingston and was sur rogate of Ulster county from 1877 to 1885. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Demo cratic national convention and in 1885 was tendered the position of first assistant postmaster genergl, which he did not ac cept. In 1885 he acted a* chairman of the Dem ocratic state executive committee and in the same year was elected to, the supreme bench of New York. Since that time he has been on the bench continuously, by appointment or by election. There are no Indications that Judge Parker is seeking the Democratic presi dential nomination, but he may, in the next year or so, become a very formida ble candidate for It. A VORACIOUS INFANT. Mr. John W. Gates, the daring specula tor who recently cornered corn aqd held up the whole for several weeks, has been the hero of other remarkable exploits. Gates was prominent in the establish ment of the barbed wire industry, which rapidly grew into the barbed wire trust, and then became a component part of the gigantic steel combine that is making *140,000,000 a year. The barbed wire busi ness at its tnclpiency was commended to congress as a very promising infant that might do well if nourished on protection pap. As the Republican party was In com mand. it promptly agreed to this proposi tion. took the baby to Its arms and sup plied the desired nutriment at the expense of the public. It worked like a charm. Gates himself said recently that hie first barbed wire factory made a profit of about 60 per cent a week. Later, however, there yas a great fall ing off in the profits of this industry, and they came down to the pitiful figure of only 400 per cent a year. The tariff had already made competition from abroad impossible, and in order to prevent it at home the barbed wire in terest was taken in hand by the biUion dollar steel trust, the bftgest and brawni est tariff baby of the lot. Such confessions as Mr. Gates has given out are not likely to convince the people that the protective tariff is a humane and patriotic device, which has for its object the Increase of American wages anu the reduction of the prices of necessaries to the people of this country. The Democratic party has its pruning knife sharpened for this abomination, and will proceed to whack off its excrescences. The farmers of the United States have about reached the conclusion that the time has come for them to cease paying boun ties st the rate of 30 per cent a week and 400 per cent a year to trusts which sell their products lo foreigners from 25 to e) per cent cheaper than we can buy them tn our home market. RELIGIOUS STRIFE IN FRANCE. The action of the French government in closing a large number of schools that have been conducted by Catholic orders and organisations has caused intense eg ( citement In France and Is likely to pro duce even more serious trouble. Already there have been incipient riots in sev eral cities where the patrons of these schools consider that an outrage has been perpetrated upon them. How much fur ther the resistance td the government will extend nobody can foretell. The closing of these schools was ordered under what is known as the associations act passed last year. M. Waldeck-Rousseau, the late pre mier. gave a very liberal interpretation of this law. He held that It did not abso lutely require the closing of schools main talned by religious communities, but was intended to go only to the extent of com pelling them to apply to the government for authorization. The new premier, M. Combes, takes a very different view and has given his con struction of the new school law as fol lows: “The associations law required any new school to apply for authorization. Yet communities had since been founded which had made no such application. This was real defiance of tbe government. Six ty-four male and 685 female communities had, however, applied for authorization. He insisted that the government was bound to act as it had done. Brutality had been spoken of. but on this point there was much exaggeration. Great forbear ance had really been shown, although In one case a priest lay down on the thresh old .of a convent to prevent the police from entering. These communities pre tended not to be communities, but merely men engaged at salaries. This, however, was a quibble, and the council of state, tn 1830 and 1838, pronounced’against a sim liar contention. The government was re solved, supported as it was by a majority tn both houses, to make the spirit of the revolution triumph in matters of religious policy. That majority, solid as a rock, would not allow itself to be broken up by legal quibbles, for such a disruption would entail the Irremediable bankruptcy of this republican party. It would be absurd if the government, while empowered to dis solve authorized communities, were pow erless against the unauthorized.” Premier Combes contends that the reli gious orders have become so promiscu ously active in politics that their suppres sion is necessary to the safety of the gov ernment. He charges that these organisa tions have encouraged nationalism, anti- THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY. AUGUST 4. 1902. semitlsm and other theories that tend to the overthrow of the republic. There ts a very general feeling in Paris that the government has acted so arbi trarily in this matter as to produce a reaction in flavor of the Catholic asso ciations. * • The Faris Temps,«which has more in fluence among the French conservative.* than any other newspaper, condemns the premier severely for his narrow and op pressive Interpretation of the law. It calls attention to the fact that there are not .enough lay schools to receive the chil dren, and that in Paris as many as 20,000 will be without schooling. The Temps asks what the government intends to do, and adds: “If it allows the schools to ask for au thorization and to reopen in the autumn, it was not worth while to take the trou ble to close them with such great noise.” An overwhelming majority of /the French people are Catholic in Utoir•sym pathies. if not actually connected with that church. t The prediction is freely made that if the government persists in its harsh policy toward the religious schools it will be overthrown at the next election. It is probable that material mod ifications of the order closing the Catho lic schools will be made very soon. FURNITURE FOR THE HOME. When the Confederate Soldiers’ Home was burned it was furnished neatly and comfortably. Many of the rooms had been fitted up by big-hearted individuals, and many by the organised survivors of different Confed erate commands. We remember that a few months be fore thfc home was destroyed a northern gentleman visited the institution and in quired how it had been furnished. On being informed be skid: “I want to fit up a room,” and handed *65 to one of the trustees who happened ’to be present. This amount will furnish a room nicely, though larger sums were expended In some of those in the original building. The Journal published Thursday an ad dress on this subject from Colonel W. L. Calhoun, president of the board of trus tees. % The building will be completed by Au gust 15th. and the board needs assistance in the work of furnishing it. The money realized from the insurance of the for mer home and the generous contributions that were made after the fire have not proved sufficient supply the needed furniture after paying other expenses. Hence this appeal. « It is made for an object which cannot fall to meet a response from the people of Georgia. The work of providing a home as complete and good in all re spects as the one the veterans lost will not be permitted to Call short of the standard set for it. But those who are willing to aid in this noble enterprise should act at once. When the veterans return to their home it should be quite ready for them in all respects. It should be worthy of Georgia. RESTORING THE TRANBVAAL. President Kruger predicted at the open ing of the South African war that it would entail upon Great Britain a cost that would astound the world. He might have applied a like remark to his own countrymen. The superb resistance made by the Boet4 brought upon them a distinction of their homes and farm stock which left a scene of desolation that touched the heart of the world. • ’ , These heroic farmers have laid down their arms and gone home to face condi tions that would appall any but the stoutest hearts. In one district more than 1,200 homes were destroyed by the British and nearly all the cattle were seized and used by the British commissary. In many other districts the destruction was almost, if not quite, as sweeping, i One region which was famous for its substantial homes and well-stocked farms has now little but ruins to show. It must be admitted that the terms of peace granted to the Boers were liberal, much more liberal than were offered to them before the Boer army had been frazzled by the overwhelming force of the enemy. The Boers had won the admiration of the world and much sympathy, even iq England, by their courage tend endur ance. » Great Britain was glad for many rea sons to bring the war to a close. The ris ing demand for peace impelled the British cabinet tq make concessions which it would have rejected with scorn a year before. The conduct of the Boer generals since the cessation of hostilities has been of incalculable benefit to their country. They have accepted the result in good faith and by every means tn their power have aided in the restoration of peape and good will throughout the Transvaal and the Orange Free state. The work of rebuilding the destroyed homes in this land that has suffered so severely from a war of Invasion has al ready begun but, of course, has made v%ry little progress yet. The sum of £75,000.000 that has been set apart by Great Britain to be loaned to the Boers at low rates of Interest and on long time wherewith to restore their homes and restock their farms Is said to be very inadequate and there is on foot a strong movement for Its increase. The new prime minister is said to bo heartily in favor of this policy. Building in the region of the tecent war is expensive owing to the scarcity of ma ■ terials and the difficulty of a transporta tion. The cost of the average Boer home has been estimated at |2,500, though that is probably an exaggeration. It ts un doubtedly true, however, that £75,000,000 will fail far short of restoring the Boer homes and farms to anything like the con ditions that existed before the war. The Boers are a brave and thrifty peo ple and in a few years they will surely accomplish much. 'CHILDREN IN COTTON MILLS. Alabama was behind Georgia and the Carolinas in catching the impulse to de velop the textile possibilities of the south. Her almost unrivaled stores of iron and coal had absorbed so much of Alabama’s attention that she was slow to progress to any remarkable extent in cotton manu factures. In the last few years, however, thereshas been much cotton mill construc tion in that state. Some of the Ala bama mills make as fine grades of goods as are turned out anywhere in the south. There is a marked tendency there to ward a still further advance in fine cot ton manufactures, and the general out look for the cotton mills of that state is very encouraging. i In Alabama as in several other south ern states, the question of child labor in cotton mills is causing much discussion. A committee which has organized a movement whose object it is to secure leg islation on this question has recently pub fished a pamphlet entitled “The Case Against Child Labor,” written by Rev Edgar Gardner Murphy, the committee’s chairman. According to his figures the number of children employed in Southern cotton mills increased 140.9 per cent dur ing the decade ending in 1880, and 1C6.3 per cent between 1880 and 1890. Between 1890 and 1900 the increase was no less than 2T0.7 per cent. Os the 45,044 textile operatives in North Carolina. 7,996 are under 14 years of age. while the average wage of the child has decreased from 32 to 29 cents per day in that state. In some places In the south the daily wage Is as low as 9 cents a day for 12 hours of work 4t is estimated that there are at least, 22,000 children In Southern cotton mills of whom between 9,000 and 10,000 are under 12 years of age. A fact*.which has provoked much com ment is (that the mills having the largest proportion of very young children at work are owned and directed by northern men who comw from states which have strict laws against the employment of child la bor In mills. They seem determined to make the most of their opportunities where no limitations upon child labor have been established. AN INTEMPERATE JUDGE. Judge Jackson of the United States dis trict court has rendered a decision that provokes much criticism and may hasten a reform that Is badly needed. Judge Jackson held that the organizers of union labor who endeavored to induce the West Virginia miners to strike are in contempt of court. Whatever may be the justice and legal soundness of this decision its tone is certainly such as does not become a judge. Judge Jackson’s allusion to the agents of the union as “vampires” is certainly not calculated either to allay the strife between the strikers and the mine own ers, or to add to the force and effect of the deexee. This irate judge contended that the advocates of a strike were en deavoring to "coerce” laborers into leav ing an employment whifch was satisfac tory to them. x It must be admitted that when force or intimidation is employed to drag em ployes into a strike an injunction is the proper remedy, but for some years pas* there has been a growing conviction that some judges are too ready to resort to thi’s extraordinary process. In the West Virginia matter the union miners declare' that they used only per suasion and in no instance have resorted to force or intimidation. They are great ly incensed by Judge Jackson’s decision which, they say, denies them the right to approach miners on the highways, or even in their own homes to talk over the mat ter with them. The demand for an act of Congress to regulate the issue of writs of injunction has become very strong outside the ranks of organized labor, as well as within them. Such decisions as that of Judge Jackson to which we have referred increases this agitation and makes its success the more certain. The people of this country feel that an injunction that Interferes with free speech and the right of peaceful as sociation and persuasion is oppression. Senator Hoar, one of the most conserva tive men in congress, said a few months ago that the use of injunctions had been carried too far in a number of instances and that legislation which shall make impossible such abuses of power by feder al Judges should be had at once. We believe that a great majority of the people of this country are of the same opinion. This question will surely be pressed for consideration by the next congress. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago Dally News. Truth may be slow, but it is sure-footed. Lots of girls get married merely to gratify their curiosity. No artist has ever been Inspired to paint a bald-headed angel. A lazy man never gets ahead unless some one puts a head on him. The average man ts charitable toward all women except his wife. ' It is often convenient to have a small boy around to blame things on. Theology Is to religion what a fashion plate Is to an old suit of clothes. 1— A pessimist has no use for a person who Is afflicted with chronic mirthfulness. The balance of a man’s wedding present ac count always ehows up en the wrong side. If old Noah had left the job of building the ark to a government contractor the chances are he would have got wet. Tbe oldest Inhabitant talks a good deal, but he doesn’t make half so much noise as the tooth-cutting youngest inhabitant. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. t Now York Press. Resignation sweetens bitter disappointment. It/takes a girl to wink her eye without do ing it. Some people are so mean they wouldn’t even spend a counterfeit bill. Some people grow big so fast that they seem to grow fat before they quit being lean. Nobody who has anything the matter with his lungs has any chance in an after-dinner ar gument. ( Some men get a vacation from worry by going away from home for a little rest at their business. A takes a good deal of pride in thinking what would becomeof her husband if she were dead. There is no triumph like the triumph of a wo man who has talked back to the cook and’ not had her give notice of leaving. Some women are such good financiers that they can afford to wear better stockings in swimming than at any other time. The thinl or fourth time a girl gets engaged she takes her own time about making things to wear with fancy frills and things. The more a woman can become engaged without getting married the more she would be willing to get married without becoming en gaged. A woman never knows how much she loves a man until she loses him; and a man never knows how much he doesn’t love a woman until he gets her. After a man has been married three months and he can’t find his favorite pair of suspen ders because they' have been used to tie up a scrap box, if he asks his wife if she knows where they are she falls to weeping and wants to know if he doesn’t love her any more. A FEW FROM MANY PLACES. A subsidized English theater is projected in Paris, with the objeett of enabling French stu dents to become familiar with the English lan guage. The mortality from accidents tn railway em ployes was reduced 35 per cent last .year by Improved coupling devices. Agents for American agricultural machines sold in Constantinople last year 370 reapers and mowers, two binders, four rakes and one thrasher. No effort ts made to sell binders, because they are considered too complicated for satisfactory use by the Turkish peasants. Recent experiences in Colchester, England, have once more demonstrated the value of an titoxin as a remedy for diphtheria. In a total of 284 patients, only 5.8 per cent of the antitoxin cases died, while of those treated by other methods 28.9 per cent succumbed. A writer in The Lancet says that children should be taught the use of nasal douche when they are taught to use the tooth brush. If the organ were daily cleansed, he says, with a slightly astringent douche, such as a weak so ilutlop of sea salt, colds and germ diseases would be much less frequent. Undiscovered Cuba. After more than four hundred years It appears that Cuba has not yet been entirely discovered. Much of it and many of Its treasures are yet unknown, according to the recent report made by Governor General Wood. He says that after the centuries of Spanish occupancy there are large portions of the island that have never even been prospected and prac tically remain undiscovered, so far as knowl edge of what they contain goes. CENTS AND NICKELS REDEEMED EACH YEAR Boston Herald. Uncle Sam is busy now counting put his pennies. He Is closing up accounts for cents and nickels redeemed during the fiscal year which ends June 30, and he finds that the monthly average has been about 500,000 pennies and 300,000 5-ccnt pieces. Out of this great number of small coins five in every hundred have gone to the melting pot at the Philadel phia mint, the balance being restored to circulation among the people. The treasury during the last year manu factured 79,611,143 cents and 23.480,213 nick els. New York state took nearly 10,000.00(1 of the pennies, Illinois about 7,0J0,C<0, Massachusetts 5,000,C00 and Pennsylvania 4,000,000. These are the great cent-using states, and stand In the same order as to consumption of nickels. Ten years ago pennies were little used in California and the south and were practically unknown in Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona, but I today they circulate everywhere. I Cents and nickels wear out pretty rap ! idly, because they are passing constantly from hand to hand, and the immense numbers of them that pour into the treas ury at Washington are carefully sorted over for the purpose of throwing out those which are too much damaged tq be fit for further use. They arrive in bags from banks all over the country, for redemption in more con venient money, and the first tiling to be done Is to count them. This process is performed by nimble-fingered persons, mostly women, who accomplish the task with a rapidity little short of marvelous. The counter takes a newly received bag of pennies, pours out a quantity of them— a double hundred, say—upon her table, and with two or three quick motions spreads them out so that they lie flat, no one of them upon another. Then with deft fingers she throws them, two at a time, from the table into her left hand, which Is held beneath the edge to re ceive them. Her eye meanwhile scans ev ery piece, and if there 13 a counterfeit in the lot it can hardly escape her notice. Usually it will betray itself by a differ ence in color, but if not thus detected, its ring as it drops into the palm with the other coins gives it away. When a counterfeit is found the counter picks up a big pair of shears and cuts the bogus coin in two, laying the halves aside in a little box with others HKe them.. Not a day passes that a good jpany bad and nickels do not turn ,np at the treas ury, most of them com leg from New York and Philadelphia, where the business of making such small coins occupied the at tention of many Itlalans and Polish Jews. The profits of the industry are small, but the pieces, being of such small value, are easy to pass. Eventually the counterfeits, cut in halves, go to the bureau of the secret ser vice, under the direction of which they are melted in a furnace, to be sold finally as old metal. The pieces that are too much worn to be of further use are thrown into a separate receptacle, and every few weeks a large consignment of them is sent to Philadel phia, where they are melted for coinage. Quite frequently foreign coppers turn up, and they, likewise, go to the melting pot. Some foreign copper coins are about the same size as our cents, and will pass for the latter pretty well, for lack of scrutiny —a fact which, on one occasion, induced an ingenious person to Irriport several bush els of Austrian pfennigs for circulation in this country. They circulated fairly well, but the author of the scheme soon found himself in prison. Ninety-five per cent of the pennies and nickels are in Sufficiently good condition to go out again into circulation, and for this purpose they are put up in paper envelopes and cloth bags. Bags that con tain *SO or more are sewn up, tied and tagged, with a wax seal over the string for additional security, the initials of the countfer and a note of the weight of tbe sack gives a guarantee of correctness. Some of the money is packed in paper rouleaux, called cartridges, one woman being kept busy all the time in rolling on a round stick for the purpose little sheets of paper, each of them printed with the amount represented by the contents. If a bank cashier anywhere hands you a cartridge marked “Five Dois; dimes; treasury, U. 8.,” you may know that it is not necessary to reckon the contents. The counters are so expert that it is considered no great feat for a woman to reckon and do up in bags or cartriges 50,- 000 pieces in six hours, incidentally re jecting every counterfeit, foreign or muti lated coin. There are, however, very few mutilated coins in circulation nowadays, simply because people will not accept them. For this reason it has ceased to be a popular pastime to drive nails through pieces of money or put them on railroad tracks. When a 20-cent piece turns up, it goes to the melting pot, because Uncle Sam is no longer minting or circulating that kind of money; and the same remark applies to the nickel with a big V., which was found dangerous because when gilded it could be passed for a *5 gold piece. Old fashioned copper cents that come in are used for minting new bronze cents, with the addition of some tin and zinc to make the requisite alloy, and the same thing is done with the old-time copper half-cent. Cents are subject to more accidents than any other coins. Being of such small value, very little care Ist taken of them, and that is why the treasury has to go on turning out new ones at the rate of 60,000,- 000 to 90,000,000 per annum. Slot machines have greatly Increased the demand for these small bronze coins, and so also have the penny newspapers and the odd prices made popular in dry goods shops. At the treasury they say that the cent Is a barometer of business conditions. A heavy storm or a sudden coming of cold weather—anything, in short, that keeps the penny-spending* part of the popula tion at home—is accurately reflected in the falling off of the cents coming to the sub-treasuries for exchange. During pe riods of dullness cents accumulate at sub treasuries, but when trade revives they begin to circulate rapidly again. The stream of coppers flows out con- I POEMS WORTH READING | f . FROM “IN MEMORIAM.” + J BY ALFRED TENNYSON. { Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire -in 1809. He studied at 4» Trinity college, where he first met h!s friend Arthur Hallam, to whom the 4» following poem was written. In 1850 Tennyson married and settled at Twickenham; later he lived at Aidworth, and finally at Farringford on the + Isle of Wight. He succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate in 1850, and was «f« made a baron in 1884. He is buried in the Poets’ Corner at Westminster + 4» Abbey. “Maud,” “The Princess,” “Enoch Arden,” and “Idylls of ’the *+ 4» King” are his longer poems. \ 4, ♦ ' ♦ •!• O, yet we trust that somehow good Derives it not from what we have ♦ Will be the final goal of ill, The likest God within the soul? 4> To pangs of nature, sins of will, 4. 4» Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; Are God and Nature then at strife, 4» ’ - That Nature lends such evil dreams <f> That nothing walks with aimless So careful of the tpye she seems. 4> + ' feet; > So careful of the type she seems, That not one life shall be destroyed, 4. 4» Or cast as rubbish to the volfi. That I, considering everywhere 4> •P When God hath made the pile com- Her secret meaning in her deeds, <• 4> plete; And finding that of fifty seeds 4. She often brings but one to bear. That not a worm Is cloven In vain, 1 4, >j> That not a moth with vain desire - 4> Is shriveled In a fruitless fire, I falter where I firmly trod. •P Or but subserves another’s gain. And falling with my weight of «P + , 4. + . . . . . Upon the great world's altar stairs 4* <P So runs my dream: But what am I? That slope thro’ darkness up to God. >P 4> An infant crying in the night; 41 <P An infant crying for the light; I stretch lame hands of faith, and 4> 4« And with no language but a cry. grope, 4. 4. t , And gather dust and chaff, and call 4> 4> -The wish that of the living To what I feel is Lord of all, 4> 4> whole And faintly trust the larger hope. >P 4» No life may fail beyond the grave, 41 tinually from the Philadelphia mint, where all of them are made, but Its his tory is like that of many rivers in the western deserts, which are lost finally in the sand. Anybody who wants cents may get them by sending a check to the su perintendent of the mint, who will ship them at the expense of the government. Up to date Uncle Sam has coined L 100.000.- 600 cents, 340,000,000 nickels, 100.000,000 dimes, 2C0.C00.0C0 quarters and 150,000.000 half-dol lars. The silver coins that come Into the treasury are treated in exactly the same wav as nickels and cents. All worn out pieces are melted for recoinage, and on evt>ry *I,OOO thus reminted the govern ment loses nearly *3O. The “life” or a dime is only four or five years, because it changes hands ten times for once that a half-dollar is moved from one person's podket to another's. Take ten silver dimes as you happen to get them in change, pile them up. with an equal number of brand-new dimes alongside of them in another stack, and you will find that the pile of old ones is hardly more than two-thirds the height of the 'new pile—so much do the pieces lose in thickness after a short time. Many years ago the government issued 4,500.000 bronze two-cent pieces, and of these over 3,000,000 are still outstanding. But nearly all of them are certainly lost, inasmuch as it is very rarely that they come in for redemption. The same is true of the nickel three-cent pieces, of which nearly 2,000,000 are unaccounted for. Somewhere in the world are 119.000,000 big copper pennies. But it would be hard to find any of them, barring a few in the hands of collectors. What has be come of them is a mystery; and the same may be said of the old half-cents, corre sponding in value to the English farth ings. Os these latter 800,000 were minted, and none has been returned for recoinage or is held by the treasury. Save for a few In the possession of curio hunters, they have vanished from the earth. KITCHENERREMINDS ONE OF GEN. GRANT Army and Navy Journal. RITISH sentiment, which long; ago proclaimed General Kitchener as the fighting genius of the South African war, has celebrated his return to Ldndon with a demon- B stration of gratitude which gives him se cure status as a national hero! He has been welcomed home even more Joyously than was Lord Roberts, whom he succeed ed In command, and whose return was hailed as marking the end of the war, whereas the hardest part of it had only begun. General Kitchener’s demeanor in the presence of the magnificent reception which greeted him in the British capital was admirable and characteristic. He was modest and self-contained, and, while by no means indifferent to the tribute of a nation’s praise, never allowed it even for a moment to disturb tho calm poise of his manner. Through this serene self-con trol of General Kitchener in the hour of his supreme triumph there is clearly re vealed the quality which served him un failingly in South Africa. He knows and is master of himself. He doesn’t lose his head. He is a silent man, preferring that results shall speak for themselves, and throughout his recent campaign he per formed his work with a degree of direct ness, patience and a singleness of pur pose which distinguish him aa a really great commander. In this respect he bears a striking resemblance to Grant, who, when he understood the work to be done, went ahead, and did it without frills or feathers, without talking about it, with out complaint as to the difficulties in the Why, and with a full realization that the more promptly it was completed the bet ter. To say that Kitchener’s manned and method pre like those of Grant is the highest praise that Americans can bestow upon the unpretentious man who has made peace in South Africa, but we may add to the testimonial th? statement that, like Grant, he has also’been magnanimous to the vanquished and quick in his generous recognition of their valor arid manhood. Loftier tribute than this no man can pay. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Pittsburg Dispatch. Over 19,000 Londoners live jn the building erected by the Peabody trust. The London county council dwellings accommodate 15.052 persons. Four millions sterling was paid last year in dues by 3,699 vessels which used the Suez canal. Os the total number of ships 2,075 were British. Casts of the heads of some of the notorious criminals executed in Newgate have been added to the collection of criminal records at New Scotland yard. Dumfries has just revived the ancient system of shooting for the "Siller gun," presented to the trades of the town by King James VI of Scotland. It is proposed to establish a Japanese Monte Carlo on an island in Toklo bay. At present, however, the laws of Japan dlscourpge gam bling in any form. . . Between 7,000 and 8,000 packages of home grown tigs are now being dispatched every week from Worthing, which is the center of the English flg-growing industry. Millet and maize constitute the staple dietary of the South African native. When he has plowed his land, sown hia seed and scofiled he / rests until the harvest. The biggest balloon ever made was -by a German named Ganswendt, about twenty years ago. Its capacity was 20,000 cubic yards. It weighcd2l34 tons and would raise 3% tons into the air. In its upper reaches the River Rhone has risen a yard in one day. In the Vaud Canton the snakes which have bee nousted from their holes by the floods are so numerous as to constitute a plague. During the progress of the present restora tion of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, the remarkable discovery was made that under neath 'the plaster of the time of William and Mary, real and beautiful 13th century stone work had lain hidden for generations. Besides the gift of the new organ. Lora Iveagh has caused it to be moved from the north transept to a fine organ chamber, reached by a beautjfui spiral staircase of stone, copied from one’ in Mayence cathedral. TWICKENHAM FERRY. "A-hoy! and O-ho! and Ifb who’s for the ferry?” (The briar’s in bud and the sun’s gone down) “And I’ll row ye so quick and I’ll row ye so steady. And ’tis but a penny to Twickenham Town. The ferryman’s slim and tbe ferryman's young. With just a soft tang In the turn of his tongue; \ And he’s fresh as a pippin and brown as a berry. And ’tis but a penny to Twickenham Town. ( “A-hoy! and O-ho! and it’s I’rti for the ferry,” (The briar’s in bud and the sun’s going down) "And it’s late as It is, and I haven’t a penny Oh! how can I get me to Twickenham Town?” She'd a rose in her bonnet and oh! she looked As the little pink flower that grows In the wheat. With her cheeks like a rose and her lips Ilka a cherry— "lt’s sure but you’re welcome tn Twicken ham Town.” "A-hoy! and O-ho!” You're too late for the ferry. (The briar’s In bud and the aun’s going down) And he’s not rowing quick and he's not rowing steady; _ It seems quite a journey to Twickenham Town. "A-h by! and O-ho!” you may call as you will; The young moon Is rising o’er Petersham Hill; And, wit lu Love like a rose In the stern of tbe wheiry. There’s danger in crossing to Twickenham Town. < —Theophlle Marzlals. ROOSEVELT'S CHOICE FOR ’ SPEAKER. * Philadelphia North American. HE strength of Representattarfl Littlefield, of Maine, as a proba ble candidate against Speaker Henderson for the speakership T of the next house is Impressing every one in Washington. The assertion is made that the president will favor Mr. Little field's election, although it is not probable that he will try to Interfere in any way with the organization of the lower branch of congress. Littlefield’s strength cornea from his own ability and from the weak ness of the present house leadership. The members of the house have little or no regard for the speaker, while the lieu tenants upon whom he relies, Messrs. Payne and Dalzell, have been thoroughly discredited. The feeling was general be fore congress adjourned that any very important bit of legislation entrusted to the care of these men would be likely to fab- _ The speaker himself, m has been told in The North American, has attempted a weak imitation of Reed, but the men he has tried to bulldoze have not recognized his authority and have resented his ef forts. Littlefield was the natural selec tion of those who opposed the house lead ership. < Before the adjournment -they looked upon him as tne strongest man in their faction. Since he has been selected by the president to represent his anti trust views in congress every one rec ognizes Littlefield’s leadership qualities, and there is no one else talked of as the prooable successor of Henderson. Littlefield is a good parliamentarian. He was the speaker of the Maine legislature and his study of parliamentary law since g he came to congress has made him aS w proficient in that direction as any man in the house. His appeal from the ruling of the speaker In the reciprocity bill con« test, and the argument he advanced in support of the germanenees of the amend* ment to the measure striking the differen* tial duty upon refined sugar from the tariff law. displayed a knowledge df par liamentary usages and precedents which attracted the attention of President Roosevelt and laid the foundation for the feeling of high esteem which the presi dent has for the Maine man. Henderson will not be re-elected if a majority of the present members of the house Is returned. In that case Little field is unquestionably tbe strongest man who can be offered as a speakership can didate. The effort will be made to defeat him on account of his geographicar lo cation, but this effort was made against botn Blaine and Reed, the two greatest speakers the house has had, and with lit tle or no effdbt. WHY DO RICH MEN AVOID PAYING TAXES! . New York World. HY is it that so many of our very rich men devote so much time and Ingenuity to avoid paying taxes? w Here is the great "Bonanza King” John W. Mackay, just dead in London. His for tune is estimated all the way from $50.- 000 000 to $80,000,000. with only his widow and a son to inherit it. Yet except for ‘he real estate, which could not be hidden, he has vast property—built up, valuatea and protected by government, national, state and municipal—has practically paid no taxes. And now it Is said that the bulk of his real property was deeded to his heirs some time ago in order to avoid the succession and inheritance taxes. Mr. Mackay Is said to have given away a large amount In private charities and he had admirable traits of character, but the ruling passion of tax dodging that gov erns so many t .illlonalres appears to navs been strongly developed in him. Without wishing to be invidious, the case of John/D. Rockefeller is equally illustrative. Unlike Mr. Mackay, the Standard Oil magnate has given very large sums for educational and religious purposes, but wherever he Jias lived he has been at war with the assessors. To the average citizen It seems unaccount a* ble that—public spirit and public duty aside—a man burdened with enormoua cares, with a fortune estimated at $200,- 000,000, should permit himself to be wor ried oy taxes that wouldn’t absorb his in- • come for half a day. So too, of the long list of summer col onists who establish a legal residence out of town mainly to escape taxes in the city thati yields them their Income and safe guards their lives uad their property. Worse still Is the passion for tax dodging In our rich residents who do not scruple to swear off their just assessments or to employ other questionable means of eva sion. It Is an interesting question why so many men who are mean in nothing else shirk their just share in the support of the government. BRIEF ODDITIES. Chicago Daily News. In the Philippines beef is 60 cents * mutton 45. pork 60, veal 60, halibut 60. blue cod 55. salmon 60, pigeons $2 ap tongues $2.50, geese $3.50 ap.ece, wild ducks $1.75 and tame ducks $2.25 apiece The n lf “ are all Australian frozen. Butter is $1 • pound and milk is $4.50 a gallon. An effort is being made in Sweden to use electricity in agriculture. A seed field Is cov ered by a network of wire and a •* ron « current 4s turned on during nights and chilly davs, but cut off during sunny and warm weather. The system was Invented by Prof. , Lemstrom of Helsingfors, Finland. The fifty years of service which Admiral Farragut had seen when the civil war began had- matured his powers without Impairing bls mental or physical vigor. "The sured me,” writes Gen. James Grant Wilson, "that up to the year 186$* he made a practice of taking a standing jump over the back of a chair on every birthday. I never felt old, he added, 'until my G2d birthday came round, and I did not feel quite equal to the jump, z Homer Complimented. , Brooklyn Eagle. Here is a compliment to Homer which per haps, promises something for the popularity of "Ulysses." when that play Is put upon our stage next winter. A small boy, just in the Henty stage of literary development, has an older sister with aspirations. She undertook to mold her young brother’s taste and selected for that purpose Church's “Stories from Homer. She evidently made her selections with judg ment. for, after half an hour the little listener exclaimed: Golly,/Mary! Homer Is most as good as Henty!”
