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MONDAY. OCTOBER U. 190&
Here fa one good trust. Ths peanut
trust Is dead.
We seem to be bavin* about as much
gtrika trouble as we have prosperity.
The author of•• Nothing to Wear” left
• fortune of 28C0.00'. The lying scoun—!
The merchant who doesn’t advertise is
guilty of flying in the face of prosperity.
If you haven’t any children of your own
to have to take to the circus, borrow
gome.
On the whole. It to quite likely that
President Roosevelt prefers the trolley ac
cident.
The football game to about to crowd
the automobile out of the “necrology’
column.
If what Explorer Peary says is true.
gNO.WO looks cheap enough for a good
north pole.
King Leopold threatens to abdicate,
•aye an exchange. This is not a threat;
H’s a promise.
President Mitchell has. very properly,
declined to do the yielding for both sides
to the coal strike.
We insist that it to rather like adding
insult to injury for the coal barons to tell
us to keep cool about it.
One hundred more Moros were kilted
last week. But tt rained all the week and
the Mero hunting was bed.
That propoeea Joint debate between Tom
Johnson and Mark Hanna ought to be
worth the price of admission.
▲ Newwrk couple were fined 230 for kiss
ing to public the other day. But, then,
everything is going up in price.
What President Baer probably
like to a government of the coal trust by
the coal trust, for the coal trust.
Criminologists in session at Philadelphia
say they have a new crime cure. AU
right, let’s try tt on the coal operators.
Bird 8. Coter to only U years of age.
Which may account, in a measure, for
his readiness to accept that nomination.
Ben Tillman wants to stop the coal
strike by hanging somebody. It is hard
for a South Caroiinan to break himself of
the habit.
If <me could believe both the Repub
lican and Democratic papers of New York.
Bird 6. Coier must be a regular Jekyl
and Hyde.
Notwithstanding his recent interview,
we desfre to deny the report that Gov
ernor Candler lies awake at ntghts hating
his enemies.
Nevertheless, tt should be boras in
mind that the operators threw the first
Stone. To printer: Cap. 8. or nothing;
do you hear?
The treasurer of Hawaii has skipped out.
leaving a large shortage. Hawaii seems
to be slowly but surely imbibing the
American Idea.
More than 4,000 children under 14 years
of age are said to be working in the fac
tories of Chicago. But, then, why speak
about Chicago*
A dog trit a Chicago man by the name
of Wferxba Krawcxyk. and the police kill
ed the dog. This seems to bare been a
wise precaution.
A Frenchman proposes a law prohibiting
the sate of fiction to women. Perhaps he
thinks they have enough fiction without
having to buy it. '
It to probably a good thing St. Louis
bad her census taken before so many of
bar prominent citizens began to break in
to the penitentiary.
What a contempt Tammany officials
must have for those St. Louis boodlers.
They manage this sort of thing so much
better in Tammany.
Aa another result of the coal strike, it
to quite possible that prudent fathers will
ass to tt that their daughter's debut to
postponed for another season.
We are pleased to note that Rear Ad
miral Evans has arrived at Hankow. We
don’t know where Hankow la but it
sounds like it's a tong tray off.
Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews has refused
to allow the Nebraska university to raise
his salary. We have always thought there
was something wrong with that man.
By what process of reasoning Grand Ar
my men denounce Robert E. Lee as a
“rebel" and tender General Longstreet
an ovation to not very clear. But. after all,
it doesn’t really matter.
The Zaro women of India woo the men,
transmit property and keep the men in
idleness. But. even then, the men have
the worst of the bargain if the women
look like their pictures.
Doubtless the “trustees of Providence”
consider the effort of the manufacturers
committee to end the coal strike in order
to keep their factories going, merely an
other case of unwarranted interference.
••Georgia’s governor has been unanl
mccsly elected again." says the Brook
lyn Standard-Union. Here Is one In
stance where a "denial ’ from Georgia’s
governor would seem to be in order.
The Quitman Free Press informs us
that the Hoa. Martin Amorous is not the
only “South Georgia candidate" to be
elected this year. There’s the Hon. Fon
dren Mitchell, for instance, tt says. But.
nevertheless, the gentleman isn’t reckless
enough to make that his paramount issue.
There are 30. more divorced women
in the United States, according to the
latest official figures, than divorced men.
The statistics put it M.OOO divorced men
•nd 114.0M0 divorced women. The dis
crepancy is probably accounted for by
the fact that women know enough not to
go near the firs again.
THE ALABAMA COAL STRIKE.
There are grave apprehensions of a
scarcity of coal in this region at an early
day. based on the strike now in progress
in the Alabama coal fields and the possi
bility of its extension to other sources of
the main coal supply of the south.
There are now about 5,000 idle coal min
ers in Alabama and consequently vary
little coal is being taken out at present
in that state, which has the greatest
stores of bituminous coal.
It seems to us that the Alabama strike
has nothing like sufficient justification.
It is not baaed on a demand for better
wages, or any other reason, so far as
wa have been able to discover, that the
mine operators could be expected to con
sider.
It appears that the great majority of
tha mine workers in the Blrmtnghsm dis
trict agreed to contribute to the support
of the anthracite strikers.
Some of them, however, refused to agree
that part of their cages should go to
this generous object. The coal compa
nies were requested by tha miners’ organ
isation to tak- out from the wages of
these objectors their proportionate part
of the proposed relief fund for the Penn
sylvania miners.
The coal companies declined to do any
such thing, for the sufficient reason that
they have no right to say what their
employes shall do with their money. This
was the provocation of the strike, and a
very insufficient one ft seems to us.
Ate do not believe that public opinion
will endorse a strike that has no better
justification than this one.
The Alabama miners have made a mis
take and they cannot afford to persist In
ths untenable position they have as
sumed.
They have demanded of their employers
something which their employers have
no right to do and which they could be
restrained by law froyi doing.
We cannot believe that a strike on
such a flimsy foundation will continue
long.
While some of the largest dealers and
consumers of coal In this part of the
country fear that we may have a coal
famine before long most of them do not
take such a gloomy view of the pros
pect.
There has been no decided advance in
the price of soft coal In this section and
the supply on hand Is quite as large as
usual.
We would, of course, all feel more com
fortable if the Alabama strikers would
go back to work. It seems that they
must soon realise that they have acted
on entirely insufficient provocation.
It would be more proper to say on no
real provocation at alt
THE NUT GROWERS.
An Industrial Interest that has already
attained large importance in Georgia!
and several other southern states and is
growing rapidly to represented by some
of Its most enterprising and successful
promoters at the Nut Growers’ conven
tton. held last week at Macon. A num
ber of practical addresses have been de
livered before this body by men who
have had experience in the cultivation of
pecans and other marketable nuts. These
addresses and tha discussions on the
points they presented are impressive as
to the Importance of nut cultivation In
the south. They will also be helpful to
amateurs tn thia business and those who
desire to devote themselves to It That
it will pay well if properly followed has
been abundantly demonstrated and it
will probably gain a fresh impetus from
this convention.
There to much territory tn the south
that to admirably suited to pecan growing
and nowhere have better regions been
found for it than can be found in Geor
gia. The growing of pecans may be car
ried on in connection with other farm
work in almost any part of Georgia with
comparatively little outlay and without
interfering with staple crops.
The possibilities of making a profitable
“side line” of pecans are attracting the
attention of many Georgia farmers, and
pecans are the source of increasing rev
enue in this state.
Like any other agricultural interest,
pecan growing requires intelligent meth
ods for the best results.
The nut growers, by organising and
holding their conventions, will do much
to extend the benefits of this business to
those who are already engaged in it or
may undertake it.
It is not necessary to give up the land
to a pecan grove as soon as the trees are
planted. It has been shown that two or
three crops of cotton can be grown where
a young grove has been set out, and the
cultivation given to the cotton will prove
beneficial to the trees. Then, when the
trees have grown to a sise making a cot
ton crop impossible, cowpeas and other
leguminous crops should follow; and live
stock may be profitably pastured in the
grove. Poultry raising and bee keeping,
it to said, are more in place on a nut
grove than on an ordinary farm, where
poultry and bees often damage crops and
fruit.
The nut growers are enthusiastic over
their work and its prospects, and it seems
that they have good reasons for being so.
THE FRIARS AND THEIR WORK.
The discussion of the Philippine friar
question and the negotiations that have
been going on between our government
and the Vatican give special interest to
an article in the current number of The
North American Review by Mr. Stephen
Bonsai, who has had much experience In
the Philippines.
Mr. Bonsai to a Catholic, but does not
directly urge that the friars be retained
tn the Philippines. He does practically the
same thing, however, by setting forth in
an impressive manner/the worthy work
they have done their and giving his views
as to the bad effects that would result
from their removal.
He insists that whatever civilisation ex
ists in the Philippines was taken there
by the friars. It is due to them that there
are six or seven millions of Christians in
the islands out of a population of less
than ten million. The friars designed the
bridges, constructed the roads, estab
lished the schools and founded the towns.
In fact they led the Filipinos as far as
they have gone on the road to civilization.
They have been the religious, commercial
and political guardians of the people.
Don Jose de la Granda, when captain gen
eral of the Philippines, said of the friars:
•The mem)>ers of the religious orders
are the most efficient and powerful instru
ments of government at the disposal of
the governor general in ordinary time and
at all times. In the day of danger and
emergency they are absolutely indispen
sable. Government would be Impossible
were it not for the friars. Their influence
is great because of the reverence which
their sacred office inspires, because their
residence is permanent, and because thev
are thoroughly acquainted with the lan
guages, the customs and the history of the
people they seek to uplift. Today it may be
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THE FEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, COTOBER 13, 1902.
said without exaggeration that the gov
ernment of the Philippines without the
friars Would be an impossibility."
loiter, Primo de Rivera, who has been
regarded as no friend of the religious, re
ported to his successor as follows:
"I do not believe the friars can be re
placed. *lt is true that among them there
are vicious men who commit abuses, but
these indirtduals are exceptional, and I
believe the evils of the system can be
remedied without going to extreme meas
ures. It is certain that the Immense ma
jority of the friars are good men, wor
thy of every consideration, reserving of
much praise.’’
Mr. Bonsai’s estimate of the effects
that would be insured by the retention of
the friars is radically different from that
of Governor Taft and the other officials
In the Philippines.
They declare that the people hate the
friars to an extent that will make them
a disturbing and irritating Influence as
long as they are permitted to remain in
the islands.
The settlement of the question seems to
be* no nearer at hand than it was when
our government first took It up.
IN HONOR OF OGLETHORPE.
It has often been remarked with sur
prise by Georgians and citizens of other
states that Georgia has no monument to
the memory of her noble founder.
Several times an effort for the removal
of this reproach from Georgia’s fame has
been undertaken, but for some reason has
never been carried through.
We observe with pleasure that a char
tered corporation has been formed for the
discharge of this patriotic duty.
The Incorporators are the following well
known citizens of Savannah. Brunswick
and other South Georgia localities: Chas.
S. Wylly, James L. Foster, Walter G.
Charlton, C. Downing, Wm. B. Burroughs.
D. Watson Winn.
They propose to erect an Oglethorpe
monument at Frederica and in an address
to the people of Georgia make this strong
appeal:
“In the one hundred and sixty-eight
years that have elapsed since the found
ing of the colony, we have grown from a
population of one hundred and seventy
souls to more than 2,000,000, and from a
struggling colony to a great state. In all
these years and with this great growth
not ever has there been placed even one
tablet in honor of the man to whom we
owe almost our very existence as a state.
Glynn county was his chosen place of res
idence and on St. Simons Island is situat
ed the only home he ever owned in the
new world. The association deems it a
very fit and proper thing that citizens of
the state and county should erect a stone
to the memory of one who in life furnished
the brightest example in history of those
highest of Christian virtues, charity and
self abnegation, and whose life was con
secrated to the struggling colony of Geor
fgla. We ask of the public men, women
and children, such aid as they can extend
towards the furthering of this object.
"Subscriptions will be received and ac
knowledged by any of the association."
This cause must commend itself power
fully to the pride and gratitude of the peo
ple of this state.
In the hands of such men as those who
have organized the James E. Oglethorpe
Memorial association the enterprise will
surely succeed.
WHAT A FALLING OFFI
The distrust of the Pennsylvania state
authorities on the part of President Mitch
ell and the striking coal miners generally
is not to be wondered at.
It to a logical deduction from the record
of the party and the politicians who gov
ern that state and their predecessors in
office for years past. The following char
acterization of Pennsylvania’s present
government is so severe that probably
there is not another state in the union to
which it could be justly applied, but
there are strong reasons to believe that
it fits the case of Pennsylvania.
The Chicago Chronicle says:
"Pennsylvania began its career as a
state as one of the most moral, enlight
ened, just and Democratic political so
cieties in the world. As the chief seat
of the protective tariff Moloch, the prin
cipal altar of the high priests of favor
itism, privilege, monopoly and plunder,
it has become politically, industrially and
socially the rottenest commonwealth on
earth.
"People who would understand the an
thracite coal problem and people who
would attempt to settle it must compre
hend these facts. Many years of legal
ized crime and injustice are bearing their
legitimate fruits.
■ The state of Pennsylvania should deal
with the anthracite coal dispute, but the
state of Pennsylvania is at present con
trolled by the associated iron, steel and
ccal bandits, and the state of Pennsylva
nia is therefore but another name for the
criminals who manage the coal roads
and the coal mines.
"The governor of Pennsylvania is a
wretched creature of Matthew S. Quay
and his lawless associates. The legisla
ture of Pennsylvania is an aggregation of
corruptionists representing both political
parties, who are in the pay of the preda
tory scoundrels who control the state.
Most of the courts of Pennsylvania are
corrupt or cowardly, many of them mak
ing no attempt to conceal the fact that
they get their orders from the men who
are masters of the industry and the poli
tics of the state. Elections in Pennsylva
nia are conspicuous mockeries of a free
and enlightened suffrage. Intimidation,
bribers- and false returns are habitual.
"Labor in Pennsylvania is the most
impoverished, degraded and brutalized to
be found anywhere on this hemisphere.”
In order to sustain this indictment it is
only necessary to put in evidence the un
disputed facts about the manner in which
the city of Philadelphia and the state of
Pennsylvania have plundered and dis
graced the last ten years by the men who
have been entrusted with their honor and
interests.
Fraudulent divorces.
The Episcopal church has been taking
more and more advanced ground for years
past In opposition to divorce.
One of the most effective methods it has
adopted for the discouragement of this
evil is the adoption of a rule which pro
hibits any clergyman of the Episcopal
church to officiate at the marriage of a
divorced person, unless he or she were the
innocent party to the suit and had se
cured divorce on "statutory grounds.”
Bishop Morrison, of lowa, has issued a
circular letter to the clergy and laity
of the Episcopal church in that state
which contains an intimation of the whole
sale practice of fraud in the procurement
of divorces.
Bishop Morrison is convinced that there
has been much evasion of the Episcopal
law- on this subject. It is said that in
many instances divorced persons have
imposed upon Episcopal ministers by go
ing back of the records and producing
evidence of infidelity, or other statutory
grounds, which was not offered in court.
In most such cases divorce was procured
by collusion. The parties were not willing
to give publicity to the statutory reasons
that may have existed for divorce and
agreed to base their divorce proceedings
on less odious grounds.
It appears that the church is asked in
not a few instances to condone a fraud
and to exercise a doubtful latitude in de-
termining questions that have not been
passed upon by the courts.
Bishop Morrison reminds the clergy
men in his diocese that they cannot exer
cise judicial functions, and that they are
liable to err if they attempt to do so.
It is their duty to require proofs taken
from the court records when they are re
quested to officiate at a marriage where
either of the parties is a divorced person.
When they fail to do this they violate
the law of their chdrch and are liable to
be called to account for doing so.
A STRIKING CONTRAST.
The conduct of their respective repre
sentatives in the conference with Presi
dent Roosevelt presented a contrast that
has elevated organized labor in the respect
and regard of the people of this country.
The picture then presented is described
with truth and accuracy by the Chicago
Inter-Ocean in these words:
"Next, there was John Mitchell, the Il
linois mine boy risen from the ranks to be
the leader of hie fellow-workers, frankly
and sincerely responding to the president's
appeal, fully recognizing the responsibility
resting upon him, squarely meeting that
responsibility with an unconditionl offer to
submit the entire case of his 150,000 asso
ciates to the decision of whatever tribunal
the president might appoint and to accept
its award without question.
“Then came the six representatives of
the hard-coal monopoly, after consultation
over the telephone with their chief in New
York city, breathing little but resentment
and arrogance, profuse in accusations, vol
uble in insulting intimations.
"They actually stood up before the presi
dent of the United States, in the house
where 50,000,060 people have placed him.
told him he was asking them "to deal.wlth
a set of outlaws,” demanded that he “per
form the duties vested” in him, told him
the people could get coal "if the functions
of government were efficiently discharg
ed.” called his guest, with whom he had
asked fhem to confer, an instigator of
riot, arson and murder, and by direct intl
nwtlon referred to the government of the
United States under Theodore Roosevelt
as “a contemptible failure.”
x'he men who thus demeaned them
selves, be it remembered, are not wrecks
on life's sea, crazed by consciousness of
their own failure into impotent raving
against the universe. No; they are most
•successful’ and most Tespectable’ citizens,
full not only of their own riches and pow
er. but also the trusted agents of a man
so powerful that he had just taken a na
tional industry by the throat and by open
threats had wrung from it 110,000,000 as the
price of peace.”
And yet the men who thus defamed the
government of the United States and in
sulted its president have the unparalleled
impudence to pose as the “trustees of
Providence.”
They have done more to arouse class
feeling and to create class antipathy in the
United States in the last six weeks than
all the socialist agitators and newspapers
had done in the preceding ten years.
DESTRUCTION OF WOODLANDS.
One bad effect of the coal famine that
has already come in a great part of the
country as a result of the coal strike, and
is likely to become much worse than it
is now, is to be seen in the accelerated
destruction of woodlands.
The scarcity of coal in the great cities
has advanced the price of wood far be
yond what it was a year ago, or even a
month ago.
Forest and Stream in its latest issue
states that the price of wood has gone
in a short time from 21.75 a cord to al
most 24 a cord. This is for wood cut
and piled on the wood lots, before it has
been transported to the railroad stations
or to towns. The result of these prices
is naturally to induce the farmers to cut
as much green wood as they can to obtain
the high prices that now rule. In localities
that come within the easy reach of a mar
ket oak and pitch pine are being chopped
into cord wood as fast as hands can be
hired to do the Chopping.
Forest and Stream notes with deep re
gret that in many cases even fine shade
trees are being cut down in order to fur
nish fuel where the coal supply has failed.
The only comfort that the intelligent
citizen can take from this situation is
that it may prove a blessing in disguise
by arousing the people to the wisdom
and necessity of planting new forests and
giving better protection to the old ones.'
There is in the situation also a hint of the
possible profits that may accrue from tree
planting where conditions like those we
now endure may arise in the future.
There are more reasons for general tree
planting in all parts of the country than
ever existed before and we may expect
that they will be heeded to a very great
extent.
REFLECTIONS CF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Love is a flower that easily fades.
The early burglar catches the police.
The flavor of widows is that of sweet
pickles.
It takes two to make up a quarrel and then
they hate each other.
The man who can govern himself can be
governed by his wife.
Pldgeon-toed women aren’t as lucky as when
they are bow-legged.
The strangest passion of every mother is jeal
ousy of every other mother’s children.
The way for a man to manage his wife la
to get himself absolutely under her control.
It is the feline strain of femininity which
makes it claw what it loves and caress what
it hates.
A company who could insure a man against
poor relations would coin more money than
the government mint.
It takes a good woman to wonder how a
chorus girl at S2O a week can afford to wear
120,000 worth of jewels.
The man who likes to get up early in the
morning has an idea that the reason he isn’t
rich is because he is too
The average man who spends 1300 in fix
ing over his furnace and kitchen range to
save S3O in his coal bill thinks he is a genius.
A woman’s idea of the greatest wrong her
husband can do her is for him to hear some
scandal about a neighbor and forget to tell
her.
When women get together to plan what ac
tion they should take at a coming church con
ference they begin by asking each other what
they arc going to wear that day, and if it
wouldn't be a nice idea to have a long hour
recess so they can ‘all go somewhere for
lunch.
FAC. 4 AND FIGURES.
The Caspian sea has only eleven pounds of
salt to the ton of water; the English channel
has seventy-two pounds and the Dead sea 187
pounds.
Prempeh’s mother, now a prisoner with the
deposed king of Ashantee at Elmira, has had
fifty husbands, all of whom, with one excep
tion. were put to death by her orders.
Some 13,000 horses are slaughtered annually
tn a private establishment in Berlin and the
meat is sold chiefly to the poorer classes, who
are unable to pay the very high price now de
manded in Berlin for ordinary butcher’s meat,
which is 5d per pound. Horse fiesh is also com
ing up in the world as a dainty. There are
250 butchers in Faris who sport the gilded
horse's head on the shop front, Indicative of
the wares within; 30,<*X) noble steeds annually
end their career in the stewpot of some poor
kitchen.
Began Long Ago.
Philadelphia Press.
Mr. Borem—l suppose you're beginning to
think I’m staying pretty late.
Miss Pavshentz (desperately)—Beginning to
think—O! Mr. Borem, you must consider me
awfully slow’.
General Andre, the French minister of war.
is seeking to improve the headgear of the
French army. The present headwear is consid
ered to have contributed in no small degree to
many of sunstroke.
DOES BRILLIANT STATESMANSHIP
LIE WITHIN INQUISITIVENESS?
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON.
IT is generally, perhaps universally
conceded that the two persons who
have attracted greater world-interest
as individuals during the last two
years have been the German emperor and
Prince Wu, who affixed Ting Fang to his
official name when he was Chinese plen
ipotentiary and minister to these United
States.
Whenever Prince Wu went anywhere
he deluged everybody with his questions.
Nothing deterred his inquisitiveness. And
it must not be forgotten that Li Hung
Chang was equally gifted when he made
his notable trip to the United States in
question asking business. It may be in
herent in C—nese nobility.
It used to be considered bad form to
Inquire about anything in polite company.
Children were told to be seen and not
heard, and St. Paul tells the women “to
inquire of their husbands at home.” It
I) as always had its comical side to my
rftind, this asking of husbands at home,
I mean, because the answers have been
so comical occasionally, when St. Paul’s
advice was literally followed.
But tt was set down as particular bad
manners to be asking questions tn com
pany when I was being tutored how to
behave rngsclf as a child in my early
days, and no matter how little I knew
about the various dishes on the company
table, I was expected to taste if I could
not eat with a relish, meanwhile keeping
a silent tongue until I reached home on
such matters.
I never shall forget, however, a coun
tryman who went to Macon with a friend
Americans Aroused Grand Duke Boris;
Says Newspapers Misrepresented His Actsl
A PARIS dispatch to the New York
Herald says:
Grand Duke Boris, who
reached Havre on the Lorraine
yesterday morning, arrived in
Paris in the evening, and took up his res
idence at the Hotel Continental.
Here his imperial highness was inter
viewed by a reporter of the Matin. He
did not in any way beat about the bush,
but plunged at once in medias res.
"And what do people say about all that
here?” was his first question.
“All that” was the stories recounted in
America. The reporter explained that the
French papers had simply reproduced ac
counts published in American journals.
“It was stated,” continued the reporter,’
"that you brusquely quitted the table of
a lady because her butler served her be
fore you, and that you were absolutely
adamant in regard to etiquette.”
The grand duke, on hearing this, burst
into a hearty fit of laughter.
"Oh, it is enough to make one die of
laughing,” he said. “In all that there is
not a single word of truth. The lady in
question, who belongs to the highest so
ciety in America, is a charming woman.
I received a most cordial welcome from
her, and I assure you that neither during
nor after the dinner was there even the
shadow of an incident of any kind."
“An error on the part of our American
confreres?” suggested the reporter of the
Matin.
Zola’s Rise From Extreme Poverty;
His Early Life Was One of ; Hardships
Emile edouard Charles zo-
LA, usually called Emile Zola,
was born on April 2, 1840, in Paris,
of an Italian father, Francesco Zola,
and a Provencal mower. He was only
seven when his father died, virtually a
bankrupt. At the college to which (after
receiving a primary education), he was
sent, at Aix, in Provence, he did not par
ticularly distinguish himself, except in
composition. Nor, when later on. he con
tinued his studies at the Lycee Louis
le-Grand, in Parts, did he give marked
evidence of extraordinary talents. In
deed, he failed to win a degree as bach
elor.
On leaving college to earn a living
for himself, like Alphonse Daudet, who
was his close friend through a great part
of his career, he had to endure great
hardships. Often, with his mother, he
came near starvation, and at one time
he accounted himself fortunate if he
could pay for a four room in a disrepu
table little hotel meuble In the Latin
quarter and a crust of bread with an
occasional slice of meat as an accom
paniment. For a short time he subsisted
on a trifling clerkship. His literary as
pirations were, however, from the outset
of his career, foremost among his pre
occupations. After composing a poem,
which he entitled "L'Amoureux Come
die,” he was engaged, virtually as a
hack, by Hachettes, the great firm of
Paris publishers. Some time after he took
to journalism, contributing to "Le Petit
Journal” which, thirty or forty years
later, he was to prosecute, and "La Vie
Parisienne.”
In 1864 he produced a series of delicate
stories, published as "Contes a Ninon,"
and in 1866 he completed his "Confession
de Claude.” At the invitation of M. de
Vlllemessant, then rising into notoriety
as an editor, he became a book reviewer
and reporter on L’Evenement, with a
salary of 500 francs (2100) a month. His
subsequent articles on the Paris Salon
caused considerable excitement, owing
to the unconventionality of the realistic
views which they expressed. When M.
de Villemessant assumed the editorship
of the Figaro, Zola contributed for a
time to that paper, leaving it, however,
ere long for the more congenial paths of
literature proper, (or, as some thought
it, literature Improper), In turn he pub
lished "Therese Raqulb” (afterward
dramatized and played in English by
Mrs. Potter and Mr. Kyrle Bellew), “Les
Mysteres de Marseille” and "Madeleine
Ferat.”
It was in 1871 that he began the pub
lication of the immense work to which
he devoted the best years of his literary
activity, the series of studies known col
lectively as the “Rougon-Macquart”
stories. The first of these, entitled “La
Fortune des Rougon,” at once attracted
general attention to the young author.
The other stories in the series dealt
more or less fatalistically and pessimis
tically with social conditions and char
acters during the corrupt period of the
second empire.
On the termination of the "Rougon-
Macquart” books, on which rests his best
claim to fame, Zola wrote three stories,
collected under the title of "Les Trols
Villes,” and treating of religious ques
tions In Lourdes, Rome and Paris. In
"Rome” he published a remarkable study
of Pope Leo XIII. The freedom and
anti-CathoHclsm of his views led to their
condemnation by the Congregation of tne
Index. Casting about for new themes,
he next began a series which he was
not destined to complete, entitled "Les
Quatre Evanggiles,” and Including "Fe
condite,” "Travail,” “Verlte” (the last
of which Is now being Issued in Paris
as a serial).
Besides writing his novels, or studies,
and his critical essays, Zola occasionally
experimented—not over-successfully—as a
dramatist. His “Therese Raquln,” a
of mine away back in the fifties, when
a bill of fare was a new arrangement and
not always understood by those who oc
casionally quartered at hotejs In those
days. My friend watched our good neigh
bor as he called for every dish on the bill
of fare until he heard him say: “Bless
God, I can get what I want now I reck
on.”
As the order was "raislnS" (which the
good farmer called "reasons”), my friend
inquired: "Why didn’t you get them soon
er?” "Why, I didn’t think I could get
’em until I eat down to em.”
A question in such an emergency might
have saved something to the man's diges
tion as well as the hotel’s expense and
perhaps the world Is now growing wiser,
and it is considered good form to ask all
sorts of questions and genius has wider
play when the questioner to known to be
a great man in fchurch or state like the
German emperor. An exchange tells us
of a visit* made to the German emperor
some weeks ago by a brilliant French
man, which visit the London Punch news
paper satirizes in a clever way. The em
peror is a wide-awake man, but not as
universally beloved in England as either
his father or mother, the latter having
been Queen Victoria’s oldest daughter.
He is so keen and smart that a compari
son makes other people appear dull and
uninteresting, but Englishmen are severe
critics despite the royal kinship with Em
peror William. The account is as fol
lows:
"Not long ago, a Frenchman, M. Menier,
had some talk with the emperor. “He
engaged,” said the Frenchman, "in a
long conversation on a thousand things."
The grand duke rectified the expression
at once. "No, no; not an error—fancy,
pure fancy. They are extraordinary, the
American journalists. I did not receive
them. AH right! Next morning I read in
some journal an extraordinary and side
splitting interview.
"Then I decided to accord a short inter
view to them, and in endless series of
columns I was represented as making
long speeches and indulging in remarks
which greatly astonished me."
His imperial highness continued: "Ah,
American Journalists are not easily em
barrassed. They know how to write a
story. It is very simple. Whether you
see them or not, whether you speak to
them or not, journalists affirm in their
papers that they met you, that they ques
tioned you, and that naturally you had
made most sensational declarations to
them. They sell many copies of their pa
pers, and everybody is content."
"You take the affair gayly." observed
the reporter.
“Why, if I had tried to rectify things,
all my aids-de-camp would not have suf
ficed for the task. Look at this!”
The grand duke held out an Illustrated
paper, in which he was represented with
a crown on his head drinking champagne
out of a boot.
"That's how’ it was. A number of jour
nals declared that at Chicago I only
drank champagne out of the shoes of sou
brettes. It is funny, is it not? I do not
get annoyed about it, since it amuses
grim, powerful drama, to perhaps the
most noteworthy of his plays. His com
edy, "Le Bouton de Rose," was pro
duced at the Palais Royal, where it fail
ed.
Os late years Zola was known through
out the civilized world by his gallant
and unselfish advocacy of the cause of
the "Martyr of Devil’s Island," the un
happy Dreyfus. With M. Labor!, M.
Clemenceau, Colo, Picquart and others
he clamored bravely for a revision of
the iniquitous sentence which had de
graded Dreyfus and sent him to a living
death. His article, beginning with the
memorable words "J’accuse” made a
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
Even the pessimist thinks he's an optimist
Patience is a virtue found chiefly in lazy
people.
A little learning often saves a man from
Jury duty.
Consistency is a Jewel that is often swapped
for success.
Kissing may be unhealthy, but nothing risked
nothing gained.
Some girls are engaged once too often and
some once too seldom.
Girls are illogical because they are too fond
of begging the question.
Fewer marriages would be failures if love
were only blind in one eye.
Any man who boasts of having small feet
also has a diminutive brain.
Laugh and the world laughs with you—unless
you laugh at your own Jokes.
A good many inventors plainly show that
they are related to necessity.
It matter if a woman Isn’t pretty, if
she doesn’t know she is ugly.
Some girls go abroad to complete their educa
tion and some marry at home.
A yellow dog counts that day lost when no
body condescends to kick him.
What a pity it is that a law preventing the
birth of fools is impracticable.
Any woman who admits that her shoes are too
tight is Inclined to be masculine.
To the ills that flesh is heir to the average
woman adds the ills she never has.
It must be an awful strain on the red-noeed
man who tries to look intellectual.
A woman can forgive a man’s self love If he
also loves another—and she Is the other.
Beauty may be only skin deep, but the im
pression it makes extends much deeper.
A man usually has to go after things several
times before they begin to come his way.
If a man is in love his Intentions are as
serious as his attentions are ridiculous.
Nothing is more distressing than young men
trying to act old or old men trying to act
young.
Money that a man doesn’t save by remaining
a bachelor would probably support a wife and
ten children.
When fortune begins to smile on some men
they think it is up to them to sit down and
bask in the smile.
Nothing pleases a spinster when she has oc
casionally to stop at a hotel like being as
signed to “suite 18.”
Many an octogenarian can attribute his
longevity to the fact that he never called an
other man a liar.
After blowing in his substance the foolish
youth visits the pawnshop for the purpose
of raising the wind.
Excellent Mail Order Medium.
The Mail Order Journal.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Journal recently published
a map of the state of Georgia shewing the
different counties. In each county was printed
the number of Journals that were taken. This
map shows the Setnl-Weekly Journal has a
healthy circulation throughout the state. At a
rate of only 10c a line this weekly is an excel
lent mall order medium to secure southern
trade.
It Never Wears Out.
You may break, you may shatter
Man’s heart if you will;
But it always is good for
Another break still.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
The Way to Oblivion.
“He thinks of having his poems published in
book form.” “Well, that's the best way of put
ting them where they won’t bother anybody.”—
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
London Punch took a poetic text fron*
th|s and said:
He talked about the Balkan States,
Os Rhodes’s influence on Greats,
Os pictures, photographs and busts.
The Czar of Russia and the Trusts—
The plays of Marlowe and of Greeny
The future of the submarine.
Os women’s rights, of motor fans.
Os bicycles and Hooligans,
Os graduated income tax,
And horizontal parallax.
My brain will treasure till it rots
His theory of solar spots;
Nor shall I easily forget
His ode in Turkish to De Wet,
His singing of ‘The "Minstrel Boy,"
His water-color sketch of Troy,
His knowledge of the tribes of Gaul,
His criticisms on St. Paul.
His sympathy with Cuba’s wrongs,
His passion for Provincial songs—
All these, and more, I trust I may
Remember to my dying day.
We do not forget that he invited our
billionaire, Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, to I
eat dinner or supper with him. Most
likely he has become an expert on finance;
since the memorable feast. He has had
some of our American military to visit
him, and he is therefore now well In-!
formed as to our ways of fighting on sen
and land. He questions ad libitum.
As the world moves so fast now-a-daya,
we may be obliged to ask questions to,
get an understanding of the panorama
that is reeling off its sights and scenes
before us, and these really great men at
the world have likely reached the heights
of notoriety mainly through their inqute-'
ittvAnM*.
them.
"But now that I am in France, where
the press is serious, I take the opportuni-;
ty of declartng that all that the American I
papers said about me is pure invention, al
fake of the most extraordinary kind." I
The grand duke was silent an Instant
and then he resumed: “I have not the
same opinion in regard to the American
people., The progress they make is ter-1
rifying. It is all activity, fever of work
and uninterrupted production. There are
no useless people over there. Everybody
works, everybody is occupied—millionaires
and sons of millionaires like the rest.
They have their bureaus, their workshops
and their factories, where one finds them
from morning to evening.
"For instance, Mr. Vanderbilt, Corne
lius Vanderbilt, son of the rich American,
is an engineer. He is well known as an
inventor, .and his inventions are in use
in many places. I could cite you a hun
dred other names.”
"Did you meet Mr. Roosevelt, monsig-‘
neur?” asked the reporter.
“Yes; the day after his accident. Our’
interview was most cordial. He is a man
of great energy.
"I passed Elx weeks in America. I vis
ited San Francisco, Chicago, the falls of
Niagara and New York, and I took up myi
residence at Newport. It is an extraor-l
dinary place. One walks on gold. There*
is nothing but sumptuous palaces, dis
playing the fabulous wealth of a collec
tion of millionaires."
sensation, and, perhaps more than any« !
thing, caused the tremendous upheaval
of conscience which compelled the French
authorities to order a new trial of the
much persecuted officer. For his heroic
exertions on behalf of Captain Dreyfus;
he was rewarded by being for a time
exiled and hold to public ignominy by
the anti-Semitic fanatics. His life was
at one moment probably imperiled through
his courage. On the closing of the “as- (
fair" and the moral condemnation
the antl-Drcyfus party he returned toi
France, where until his death at his home 1
in the Due de Brussclles, he hod been
engaged in literature.
Killing Frosts In the
State of Georgia
Macon Telegraph.
Following arAthe dates of first killlag
frost or temperature of freezing In au
tumn, from records of the United States
department of agriculture, weather bu-'
reau. Months indicated by number:
Northern Section.
I 18971 1898 1899 1990 1901 Avg
Adairsvillell- 3 10-25 11- 4 11- 9 10-19 10-31
Atlantall- 3110-27 11- 3 11- 9 10-19 11- 4
Claytonll- 4|lo-lJ 10- 1 11- 3 11- 110-21
Dahlonega 11-18,10-19 11- 4111- 9 11-17 11- 7
Diamondll-4 10-19 10- lill- 7 10-19 10-tJ
Elberton 11-20 11-27 11- 4 11- 9 11-19 11- 9
Gainesville 11-19 10-27 11- 5 11- 9 11- I 11- T
Gillsvillell-18 10-23 11- 4 11- 9 11- 6 11- (
Greenbush 11- 4 10-15 10- 3 11-10 11- 9 19-24
Pt. Peterll-17 10-24 11- 9 11- 8 11- 4 11- 6
Ramseyll- 4 10-23 19- 1 11- 9 10-19 10-23
Rome 11-13 10-27 11- 4 11-19 11- 4 11- 8
Tallapoosall-12 10-22 10- 1 11- 8 11- 3
Toccoaol-18 11-3 11-9 U-5
Average for district, Nov. 3.
Middle Section.
I 1897 18981 1899 1900 1901 Avg
Allentownl2-6 10-23 11- 3 11- 9 11- 7 11- 9
Augusta>ll-19 10-27 11- 5 11- 9 11-14 11- •.
Covington 11-20 10-27 11- 5 11- 8 14-17 11- f!
' Hephzibah 11-30 10-23 11- 5 11- 9 11- 0 11- 8
LaGrange 11-18 10-27 11- 9 11- 4
Marshallville .... 11-30 10-23 11- 4 11- 9 11- 4 11- S
Newnan 11-30 11-27 11- 3 11-10 11- 7 11- 0
Talbottonl2-6 10-27 11- 3 11- 9 11-14 11-13
Average for district, Nov. 9.
I
Southern Section.
I 18971 18981 1899 19001 1901|Avg
Allapaha 12- 7(10-27' ' [ll- 9 H-17[ll-15
Americusl2-6 10-27 11- 4 11- 9 11-16:11-13
Blakely 11-30 10-22 11- 4 11- 9 11-16 11-14 1
Crescent ..12-7 11-27 11- 6 11-10
Flemingl2-7 10-27 11- 6 11- 9 11- 7 11-11
Ft. Gaines 10-23 11- 5 11- 9 11-16 11- 6
Hawkinsvillell-4 10-24 11- 4 11-10 11-17 11- 6
Jesupl2- 7 11- 7 U- 4 11-10 11-17 11- 6
Lumpkinl2-16 10-27 11- 4 11- 9 11-16 11-14
Morganl2-7 W-21 11- 3 11- 9 U-14 11-19
Poulan 12-6 10-27 11- 4 11-10 11-16 11-12
Quitmanl2-6 10-27 11- 4 11-10 11-16 11-121 •
Thomasvillel2-6 11-4 11-13 11-14 11-W {
Average for district, Nov. 12.
SINGULARITIES.
Exchange. . i
A well-known English naturalist ons day start
ed on a railway journey. When the train drew •
up the onlv second-class smoking compartment
was already full. He summoned the guard
end ordered him to Inspect the passengers'
tickets, as he was sure that some one in the
carriage had only a third-class ticket.
awed by his manner, the guard meekly obeyed,
and, sure enough, one passenger was found
in the suggested plight and was promptly eject
ed. His rest was taken by the "harbitrary
gent,” who remarked genially to the rest of
the carriage as the train tseamed out of the
station: "I was very sorry to turn that gen
tleman out. especially as I have only ■ third
class ticket myself.”
They have queer hens in Australia. Near
Goulburn. on August 9th. King Edward’s coro- ,
nation day, the bens belonging to a farmer |
showed their appreciation of the importance
of the times by laying purple eggs. From
Australia also comes the report that a New
South Wales farmer has a hen which lays
480 eggs a year.
In a rural justice court in Georgia recently
an old negro, whose testimony had been ques
tioned by a lawyer, said in his own defense:
“Jedge. I'm a good man. I been a-livin' roun
heah ten years. I ain’t never been lynched;
en de only boss I ever staled t>”®wed ma
en broke my two legs!”
The Canadian Pacific railway will shortly
place the enormous amount of 23.040,090 acres
of land on the market tor settlers.
