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MOMDAT NOVEMBER St.
As ueaal King Leopold was only about
half start.
Like the Czar of Russia, all of the king
of Italy's boys are girts.
It looks like the Mississippi bears are
also hopelessly Democratic.
Rtill. we believe the Hon. Joe HUI bad
rather be right than to ride free.
It hertaT to look like this oM world
ought to take something for these volcanic
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Those knocks that Attorney General
Knox Is giving the trusts look very much
like love licks.
Being unable to spike Uncle J ®* C* n "
Ron's speakership boom, the other as
pirants are jotnfng it-
I There are exceptions to all nHes-it was
the expected that happened In the case of
that antl-free pass MIL
Those Alabama "U»y whites ' have had
a mean revenge on President Roosevelt.
They sent htm a bear by express
We are beginning to suspect that the
Mississippi bear which the president was
to hunt broke his chain and got away.
Mrs. Mol’nerx may have waited so long
merely to see if the courts were going to
save her the necessity of securing a di-
vorce.
The Washington correspondents are tak
ing advantage of President Roosevelt s
bear hunt to get his next message ready
for him.
The "truatees of Providence" should get
together and map out a pregnm. Sntne
are raising wages and some are raising
—something else
The Rerr.biicxns seem to be unanimous
for Uhde Joe Cannon for speaker of the
next house, probably because they realize
' that he can't keep it forever.
The display of clothes at this year's
New Tortt horse show Is said to be more
gorgeous than ever before. The horses
look about the same as usual.
Is there a real necessity for so much
retrenchment when it is much easier to
increase the state s revenues by a very
simple operation—taxing franchises?
The Albany Herald seems to think It is
putting human nature to a pretty severe
test when we ask a man with a free pass
In his pocket to vote to give it up.
It begins to look like the labor commit
tee of the house will have nothing to do
this session but assist the committees on
mines and mining and state of the re
public
A Massachusetts burglar blew a $1,006
safe to pieces only to find gTJ® on the In
side. It would have paid the owner of
the safe to have bung the S7.JB on the
ontaide.
A Boston preacher announces that the
millenium will eome next year Well, we
feel safe for this year—at least-since the
Georgia legislature didn't vote away Its
free passes.
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With a few more millionaires and boodle
aidermen tn t£e Missouri penitentiary, it
is believed the per capita wealth of that
institution will be greater than any in
r the country.
The sultan of Johore is also coming to
the St. Louis World's Fair. With the sul
_ tan of Belgium there, too. it looks just a
like St Louis will be bothered for
room.
President Mitchell is making those 24
lawyers that are pitted against him earn
their fees. And it is something of an
achievement to make a lawyer do that,
when you come to think of it.
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Dr. Parkhurst says Tom Platt and the
devil are very much alike The devil
must he a sort of two-faced creature,
then; for the Rev. Sam Jones says he is
a dead ringer for Ben Tillman
Last year the gentlemen who lobbied
against the child labor bill said "just don’t
pass such a law and we will go ahead and
voluntarily enforce Its provisions in our
mills." Wonder what they will say this
There is a turtle tn Maine that has re
fused food tor four years. If a newspaper
man could do this and then break himself
of the smoking habit, he might, sooner
♦or later, have money just like other
folks
It may be merely a co incidence, but it
is probably safe to say that pretty much
the same mem »rs of the legislature who
voted to retain their free passes will vote
to exempt the corporations from franchise
taxation. Think it over.
Dr. Garvin, the Democratic governor
elect of Rhode Island, is a native of
Knoxville. Tenn., having been born tn
that city fl years ago. Looks like Knox
ville has to send her Democrats awsy
from home to elect them to anything.
It begins to look like the Georgia leg
islature Is determined to do something
at this session. A greater number of im
portant measures have never been before
that body than are up for consideration
this year. And. to the great gratification
of the people, the legislature seems dis
posed to deal with them without fear or
favor.
Chairman Griggs says he has been told
so often since the election that he “made
a great fight he Is beginning to feel like
the fellow who was drowned. They pulled
the body ashore and tried to resuscitate it.
but couldn't; then somebody slapped It on
the back and remarked: “It’s all right, old
fellow, you made a great fight—you came
up four times." ,
The mH! men said this time that they
did not object to the child labor bill ex
cept for the reason that It might lead to
other and more dangerous legislation As
a matter of fact, this was about all there
was left for them to say. But can't the
men who would pass such a wholesome
measure* as this be depended upon for
proper and righteous legislation in the
future? We think so.
FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE.
The Journal has had much to say in
favor of the proposition to establish a
state sanitarium for inebriates and the
more we consider the matter the deeper
grows <nir conviction that the present leg
islature should take steps In the direction
o? this great reform.
We are glad to know that those who are
leading In the matter have received as
surances of sympathy and support In even
larger measure than they had hoped for.
Recently Dr. Willis B. Parks, who has
taken a very active part tn pressing this
proposition upon the conscience and sense
of the state, addressed a communication
tn every member of the house and senate
in which appeared this statement:
''Those in a position to know, say that
an inebriate sanitarium for the state of
Georgia wouM be a saving in taxes, for
the modern plan of such an Institution
would be partly self-sustaining, beside
curing about 60 per cent of all treated,
restoring them to loved ones and making
them tax-producing citizens.”
Then follows the question:
•'As a citizen of Georgia, does such an
Institution appeal to your beet judgment?"
Dr. Parks hoped that there would be
many favorable replies to this query, but
the result has surprised his most san
guine expectations.
A majority of both houses of the legis
lature have responded to the question we
have quoted and of those that have an
swered more than two-thirds express
themselves emphatically in favor of the
establishment by the state of such an in
stitution as is suggested.
Dr. Parks presents some facts and rea
sons that cannot fall to have effect upon
the legislature and the public generally.
He shows how an institution established
and conducted on the plans proposed
would effect an actual saving in taxes by
relieving the state sanitarium at Milledge
ville of the care of inebriates who are
never sent there until they have become
confirmed ta the ftemperate use of intox
icants. by treating them in due season
and thus increasing Immensely the chanc
es of restoring them to good Ktisenship.
On a basis of IM patients he uses figures
to show how they could be kept and cur
ed at an inebriate asylum at one-half the
expense st present Involved ta keeping
them at the state sanitarium.
We cannot see how any member of the
legislature can give this matter thought
ful consideration without becoming con
vinced that the material, as well as the
moral, interests of the state would be
advanced by the establishment of a san-
Itarum for inebriates to be conducted un
der proper restrictions and on scientific
principles.
The press of the state is beginning to
give a cordial support to this measure
and we hope to see Rs influence thrown to
it to the fullest possible extent.
A better opportunity to serve the cause
of humanity is not now presented to the
newspapers of Georgia.
A $6,000,000 WAGE INCREASE.
The Pennsylvania railroad has done a
remarkable and most creditable thing ta
voluntarily increasing the wages of its
great army of employes. There have been
few such instances of unsolicited liberali
ty on the part of great corporations—nev
er one that carried such an immense
amount of money in the form of added
compensation to employes.
During the coal strike the business of
the Pennsylvania railroad increased enor
mously. The failure of the product of the
anthracite mines made the demand for
bituminous coal very heavy throughout
the east, and the Pennsylvania road se
cured most of this carrying business. The
result has been an enormous increase in
the receipts of the road, which the di
rector* have determined to share with its
laborers, mechanics and other employes.
Every one connected with the road, save
those who are receiving salaries of S2OO
per month or more, are to be beneficiaries
of the advance, and the total increase of
the pay rolls will amount to about six
millions a year.
The road has been compelled recently to
give notice that it could accept no more
freight for a week, because it already had
on hand all it could possibly handle.
Along with this notice came the announce
ment that the company's employes were
to share directly and appreciably in the
benefits of this heavy addition to the com
pany’s income.
The directors seem to have been moved
to this action solely by considerations of
equity. There was no indication of any
discontent on the part of the employes of
the road, and no trouble whatever with
the employes seems to have been appre
hended. The act was entirely voluntary,
and is the more to be commended on that
account. If it should be accepted as a pre
cedent by the other wealthy corporations
of the country, there would be less heard
of labor troubles and of the disturbances
against the peace of communities growing
out of them.
The Pennsylvania railroad has given a
splendid illustration of that broad and
liberal policy toward its employe* which,
in the long run, bring* the best result*.
The spectacle of a voluntary increase of
sragee to the extent of $6,000,000 a year will
go far toward convincing the world that
some exceptions must be made to the
maxim that corporations have no soul*.
A HOPEFUL COURT DECISION.
A decision ha* been rendered In San
Francisco by United States Circuit Judge
William W. Morrow that will attract at
tention throughout the entire country-
The case involved the question whether
the Federal Salt company was violating
the Sherman anti-trust law.
A temporary injunction had been obtain
ed against the company on the ground
that It is an Illegal combination ta re
straint of trade.
This injunction applied to several cor
porations and to numerous firms and Indi
viduals also to prevent their acting ta con
cert with the trust, and the parties con
cerned were ordered to show cause why
It should not be made permanent. This
they failed to do to the satisfaction of the
judge, who gave a broad Interpretation
to the anti-trust law and a broad con
struction of the judicial powers in the
premises.
Regarding his own authority in the mat
ter before him Judge Morrow said:
“It is within the jurisdiction of a chan
cellor to look into the entire case. He is
authorised to look behind mere contracts
and see the entire transaction, so that the
real effect is within the purview of a court
of equity. Hence the court is not restricted
to any mere technical defense as has been
claimed by counsel.”
Therefore the court had only to consider
the character of the agreement betwwgi
the parties resisting the injunction and on
this point the court reasoned as follows:
"Now. It hat, been admitted by counsel
for the defendants that the Gets contract
is void, and no other defense could well be
made. But the other contracts still belong
to the same general scheme of the Federal
THE FEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1902.
Salt company to strangle all competition,
and it is evident that all form part of one
general combination or conspiracy. Their
only possible effect is to restrain com
merce here and in other parts of the un
ion. I think that the contracts can be
properly construed as a class of contracts
which already has been declared Illegal
by the supreme court and more recently in
the court of appeals."
There are many trusts operating in this
country under a class of contracts similar
to those of the Federal Salt company and
Judge Morrow seems to have laid down a
construction of the anti-trust law that will
reach those trusts as well as the one he
has just had in hand.
At any rate, his decision in this case is
hailed as one of the moat hopeful indica
tions that we have anti-trust laws that
may be made effective.
Ex-Senator Edmunds made a very sig
nificant and comprehensive remark not
long ago when he said: "What we need
Is not more legislation against trusts, but
more determination on the part of both
the judicial and executive departments of
the government to enforce the anti-trust
lass we have already.”
ADDICKS CAPTURES PRESIDENT.
President Roosevelt has provoked the
surprise and disgust of the better element
of his party in Delaware, that is the ele
ment that has refused to sell out to the
unspeakable Addicks, who has spent mil
lions of dollars ta corrupting the politics
of that state and caused it to stand for
the last two years without representation
in the United States senate, a fate which
was never suffered before by any other
state tis our union, except in the days of
the outrageous reconstruction regime in
the south.
Addicks has bought up enough members
of the Delaware legislature at every elec
tion for six years past to prevent the elec
tion of anybody to the senate who will not
go into a deal that will give one of the
senatorial seats to Addicks himself.
To the honor of the majority of that
body, composed of Republicans who refuse
to wear the collar of this dirty little boss
and Democrats whom he cannot bribe,
be it said that they have preferred to be
without representation in the senate rath
er than have their state disgraced by the
presence there of Addicks.
He has offered to trade with Democrats,
Republicans—anybody or any interest—to
vote any way, or make any sort of deal
for a sufficient number of votes to make a
majority with those which he has already
bought and paid for.
We have had many boodlers in Ameri
can politics, but none quite so nauseating
as Addicks, not one who has resorted to
methods of corruption quite so daring and
flagrant. It was taken for granted that
if President Roosevelt did not throw his
influence to the side of respectability in I
this Delaware deadlock, he would at least
remain neutral.
But he has actually turned the federal
patronage in that state over to Addicks,
thereby giving him great encouragement
and increasing greatly the chances of his
election.
President Roosevelt has posed as a po
litical purist and this taking of Addicks to
his bosom has been witnessed with deep
regret, not alone by the better element of
his own party, but by the country at large
without regard to partisanship. The op
ponents of Addicks in the Delaware leg
islature number thirty to his twenty-one
peons in that body and show no sign
of weakening.
The president’s patronage has not taken
off one of their men. nor seemed to weak
en their determination never to consent
to the degradation that Addicks seeks to
put upon their state.
Some of these men are Democrats and
some Republicans, but they are all for de
cency and for the honor of their state.
They should combine upon two good
men, be they Democrats or Republicans,
secure full representation for Delaware in
the senate and save her the shame with
which she is threatened.
JUDGES AND POLITICS.
, The judges of the supreme court of the
United States have recently been inter
viewed on the question of the indulgence
of the judiciary in partisan politics.
The views which they express on this
subject are highly creditable to them and
it would be well for the country if these
views were adopted as a rule of action for
all federal and state judges, high and low,
throughout the length and breadth of the
land.
The supreme court justices do not ques
•tion the right of judges to exercise the
rights common to all American citizens,
but declare that it is Inexpedient, to say
the least, for judges to act at any time In
a manner that will cause them to be re
garded as political partisans, for In do
ing so they necessarily weaken their in
fluence and impair the weight of their own
and injure the judiciary generally.
There was a unanimous agreement
among the judges of our Highest court
that no member of the judiciary can ac
tively engage in partisan politics, attend
ing conventions and political meetings,
and especially participating in public dis-'
cussions of measures and men, without
impairing the dignity and influence of the
bench and the confidence of the people In
its wisdom and impartiality.
This is arcadianlsm and will be pooh
poohed as all such professions invariably
are by the so-called ’practical” politicians.
It must be remembered that many of our
judges were formerly "practical” politi
cians in active practice.
The spots of the leopard are put on to
stay.
ANOTHER CUBAN TROUBLE.
The ownership of the Isle of Pines is
still In dispute. Cuba has de facto title to
it, but the American inhabitants have
sent a delegation to‘Washington to pro
test against the continuance of Cuban
sovereignty there.
The delegation has laid its case before
the president, which was a much more
sensible course than the threatened dec
laration of Independence of the Cuban
government would have been.
About half the property on the Isle of
Pines belongs to Americans who settled
there at the time of the adoption of the
Platt amendment, which provides that the
title to the Island shall be subject
to future adjustment by treaty. This was
general!/ understood to mean that this
country was to get the island. It would
have got It before this If the reciprocity
for which the Cubans looked had not been
blocked by an obstinate minority, of the
Republican party.
The petitioners in this case are in a con
dition that must appeal to the president.
They are heavily taxed and not one dol
lar of the taxes they pay is .spent on the
little island they inhabit. There are no
schools, po courts, no police on the Island,
which is nominally part of the province
of Ptnar del Rio, forty miles across the
sea. It is an island practically without a
government and seems to be an inviting
field for anarchists and desperadoes.
Though it is a mere strip of land the
Isle of Pines is of very great importance
to the United States.
If Cuba is not annexed the control of the
gulf will be very greatly facilitated, by
the possession of the Isle of Pines:
It is only about twenty-five miles square
and Iles directly south of Havana about
forty miles from Cuba’s southern coast,
directly overlooking the steamship route
to the isthmus. It is evident that the
value of Porto Rico to the United States
will be doubled by the possession of the
Isle of Pines, and that in the event of
war, if the island were Cuban, the bay
of Slguanea on its west shore would af
ford a perfect neutral base for any hos
tile fleet threatening the American com
merce in the gulf.
It is very important that the dispute
over this bit of land be settled as soon
as possible and settled in our favor.
DUMMY RAILROAD COMMISSIONS.
The Alabama railroad commission finds
itself in a position similar to that which
the interstate commerce commission oc
cupies. It possesses nothing more than
advisory powers. It may make rates but,
however just or badly needed they be, the
commission has no power to enforce
them. The Alabama railroad commis
sion, like the interstate commerce com
mission, is tired of being thus subjected
to the scorn, defiance and ridicule of the
corporations which need actual regula
tion more and more the longer they are
permitted to disregard the rights of the
public and snap their fingers at laws,
state and federal, which were enacted
with the intention of restraining their
power within just and reasonable bounds.
The Alabama commission in its recent
report calls attention to its present help
less condition and asks for power to in
stitute suits and enforce its orders by
mandamus and Injunctions.
This appeal should not be made In
vain.
Unless the railroads have captured Ala
bama, lock, stock and barrel, it will not
be made In vain.
It will be interesting to see whether
the people of Alabama desire the railroads
of that state to have absolute power, or
to be held within reasonable bounds.
At present they seem to be about as un
bridled as the most grasping monopolist
could wish to be, and they are naturally
enjoying the situation. The people of
Georgia would never submit to such a
condition, and we are badly mistaken In
the people of Alabama if they allow them
selves to much longer be ridden as they
are now by railroad corporations.
Chairman Jim Griggs has returned to
Georgia, wearing his same old sunny
smile. And he is being justly congratu
lated on the splendid fight he made for the
national Democracy In cutting down the
Republican majority in congress in the
face of conditions that made a Republican
landslide seem inevitable. No man ever
displayed greater zeal and ability as the
head of the national congressional com
mittee, and the chances are his colleagues
in congress will show their appreciation
of Chairman Griggs’ efforts by keeping
him at the head of the. national commit
tee, and also by adopting his suggestion
to continue the committee in active ser
vice during the next two years.
The vote on the Hall free pass bill in
the house yesterday was a surprise. Not
that very many people expected It to be
come a law, but It was generally under
stood that the house was going to pass it
along to the senate:’’But the senate, it
seems, has grown tl,red of that sort of
thing, so it let It get put that if the Hall
bill got through the house, the senate
would vote unanimously to pass It. This,
it seems, had the desired effect, and it is
said the senate will not be made the
dumping ground, for embarrassing legisla
tion nearly so often in future.
Congressman William G. Brantley, of
Brunswick, who is here for a few days
mixing with the Georgia solons, is be
ing talked of as the most promising guber
natorial timber (we liked to have said in
“south Georgia”) in the state. Georgia has
produced few men of Congressman Brant
ley’s ability and sterling qualities, and
whenever he gets ready to leave the na
tional house, he will prove a very consid
erable quantity in the gubernatorial, sen
atorial or any other rice that he may see
fit to enter.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Klslsng Isn’t what It is smacked up to be.
There is no middle road for virtue to travel.
Men betray their laughter with sighs; women
conceal their sighs with laughter.
When a wicked married man dies he gets
out of the frying pan into the fire.
Marriage Is an expensive necessity, and
children a still more expensive luxury.
It almost restores a woman’s faith in her hus
band to hear that he has gone into politics.
A girl with nice, long, wavy hair can fix it
up so that It will fall down at the first possi
ble chance. a
The girl who marries for love may be dis
appointed, but the girl who marries for free
dom gets it.
Let a woman spend all the money she wants
and If she has any other troubles they will
not worry her.
The more a woman knows her husband is a
fool the madder It makes her to have some
other woman find It out.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago Dally News.
A neglected opportunity never calls again.
Often a shoemaker’s first resort is his last.
Love may be blind, but the average mother
in-law Isn’t.
Dealer* who sell bible* say there are great
prophet* In them.
Money is king—and at the same time a very
Interesting subject
It’* a wise clerk who laughs at the pro
prietor’s fool jokes.
The head of the weather bureau is sometimes
a weather-beaten man.
All men make mistakes, but what the type
writer girl does is write.
The hardest woman to please is the one who
doesn’t know what she wants.
A bad temper 1* an awkward thing to have
and a dangerous thing to loose.
Though a man’s will may be strong in law, a
woman’s won’t is law unto Itself.
There Is almost as much realism in fiction
is there is Imagination in history.
If you would be a man of mark, let the tat
too artist get hts work in on you.
Buzz-saws are usually temperate, but occa
sionally they take two or three fingers.
If a baby could say what it thinks when peo
ple kir* it one kiss would be sufficient.
A dealer in old Iron may know nothing of
prize fights, yet he is familiar with scraps.
The average man doesn’t amount to much
when measured by his neighbor’s standard.
One of twe things always happens regarding
a habit. Ysli either master it or it masters
you. '
Policemen should be successful speculator*;
so many servant girls let them in on the ground
floor.
Avoid abbreviations in writing—otherwise
you will get into the habit of breaking your
word.
Marriage is ■ raffle instead of a lottery. One
man gets the prize while the others get tne
shake.
Probably the wor.it feature about the wisdom
that age brings us Is the short time we have
left to use It.
Many a man who objects to carrying a bun
dle home from a dry goods store goes home
from his club loaded.
After eating onions a girl should sit down
and read a ghost story that Is calculated to
take her breath away
If you are anxious to have a lot of people
mourn your death all you have to do 1* join
an assessment-insurance association.
DOES GEORGIA OPPOSE
. EDUCATION BY CHURCHES?
I DISAGREE in toto with Bishop
Candler, of the Methodist church
in Georgia, as to what is and what
is not “union of state and church.”
If non-taxation is not moral and finan
cial support, pray what Is it? What more
could one want than moral and financial
support to feel one’s self in union?
One of the fundamental principles of the
Americanism under which freedom has
flourished as under no other system
known to man is that no note whatever
shall be taken by the government of the
religion of the citizen. Be he atheist
or deist—Jew or gentile—Catholic or Pro
testant, all shall be equal before the law.
Well, then, religion and church are sure
ly synonymous terms; therefore should
by any law direct or Indirect financial aid
be extended by the state to a college dis
tinctly Methodist, to that extent would
the state be In union with the Methodist
church.
Why does Bishop Candler whip the devil
round the stump? Why does he use the
term church education? Is not this quib
bling, pure and simple?
He is not after church education—he is
after sectarian education; and at sec
tarian education, not founded with intent
to teach religion, would be nonsense, un
less civil government be an institution for
the propagation of religion, one might say
to Bishop Candler: "Glean your scattered
sapience” before rashly styling those leg
islators who disagre with you as “sappy
and sapient.”
Sectarian education can only thrive on
bigotry; and intolerance of the belief of
others indoctrinated into any educational
system must be vicious—neither do I hes
itate to assert that anyone who graduates
at one of these sectarian colleges either
has to become a convert to the creed es
poused there, or ever often probably has
none. Shall I cite cases, or call names?
Boom For Inebriate Sanitarium
For the State of Georgia
IN the first week of the present session
of the legislature, a communication
was addressed to the legislators and
senators of the state of Georgia. In
order to get a consensus of opinion pri
vately expressed, a letter with blank to
fill out , was placed on each member’s
desk, to be answered Yes or No, ta favor
of or against Georgia’s having an inebri
ate sanitarium.
We are very glad to tell those who are
interested in this movement, that of all
the house and senate that answered, two
thirds are in favor of the state’s having
such an institution for the inebriate. This
prorata is decidedly more than was count
ed on at this time, and it is certainly
greatly ensouragtng for the prospects of
the bill nsrtt session.
It is witt interest that we note some
marked characteristics of both house and
senate, obtained while getting this con
sensus of opinion tn regard to the inebri
ate sanitarium for Georgia:
Only one senator answered “No.” Each
letter was marked, In parenthesis, "strict
ly confidential,” and ta many instances
this was marked out, whether the answer
was yes or no, showing, evidently, he was
a statesman and not a politician. A num
ber answered that they had not sufficient
ly Investigated the subject, which, too,
was a mark of honesty and loyal states
manship.
We -would still be glad to hear from
those who have not answered our query;
there Is a probability that many did not
receive the letters on account of the ac
cumulation of mail, letters and papers, on
their desks. And, too, there Is a foreign
possibility that some received the letter
but thought it might not be quite politic
to answer either way. But, be it as it
may, it is conceded that the present legis
lature Is composed of more able men and
honest statesmen than any previous leg
islature In many years. And last, but not
least, those who answered "Yes” are
among the brainiest and beet men in the
state of Georgia, which is decidedly en
couraging.
The question has been asked. How can
an inebriate sanitarium be a saving in
Elected on His Promise To Wed,
Governor Says He Can’t Find Wife
New York Herald.
TOPEKA, Kan., Friday—J. W. Bailey,
governor-elect of Kansas, wants a wife
and can’t find one. In fact, It is absolute
ly necessary that Mr. Bailey should wed,
as his word is at stake.
When the politicians at Wichita nomi
nated Mr. Bailey It was with the agree
ment that he would find a Kansas girl
for a wife. It was one of the issues of
the contest, and Mr. Bailey, confirmed
bachelor though he was, promised the
voters that, if elected, he would Install
a bride in the executive mansion. Now the
governor-elect pleads that he has dili
gently sought for a wife and has been
unable to find one.
The voters declare he must keep his
pledge, and to further enable him to find
a wife he has been permitted to search
outside of the state for one.
D. J. Hanna, lieutenant governor-elect,
promised at the state convention that if
the Republicans would nominate him for
governor he would find a wife in Kansas
before the day of his inauguration. As he
ABOUT DOGS.
Exchange.
Tim, a well-known and popular “collecting
dog" of Paddington station. London. 1* dead.
About eleven years ago he arrived, a waif, by
an early morning milk train, was adopted by
an inspector and soon made himself at home
on the passenger platforms. He had a box at
tached to him In which traveler* were wont
at their will to drop coins, and Tim. though
no parasite, had a knack of looking after flrst
class passengers, to many of whom he was in
troduced. With the late Queen Victoria he was
a great favoratie and she always had a donation
to give him. which was for the most part of
gold King Edward and Queen Alexandra like
wise subscribed to the fund he collected, which
was for the benefit of widows and orphans of
persons who had worked for the Great West
ern railway. The dog collected thousand* of
dollars.
Here is a story from England: A retriever
long ago was sent into a ditch to bring out a
winged partridge. The dog picked up the scent,
rushed along the bottom of the ditch under
the bramble*, and after a little groping about
emerged on the bank with an old rusty kettle,
holding it by the .handle. Laughter greeted
this performance. “Stop a bit,” said the dog'*
master. "Here, Rover, give it to me.” And ths
dog brought the kettle to him. Taking it from
his mouth, his master put his hand into the
kettle, the lid being off. and took out tho
partridge. Chased by the flog. It hafl crept Into
th- kettle to hide, and the dog. not being abl*
to draw it out, just brought the lot.
At Browsholme hall, an old mansion in Lan
cashire, England, is shown a dog gauge, an
ancient relic of the forest laws, consisting of a
ring of a certain size through which every dog
on the estate, except those belonging to the
lord or the manor must be able to pass. This,
of course, compelled the farmers and other* to
posses* only small-sized dogs, which could not
inlure the game.
The endurance of the amateur cornet artist
would bring him fame and fortune 1* directed
In some other channel.
BY JAMES B. HEYWARD.
No, I will not do that, for it Is only nec
essary that you look around your home.
No sectarian institution, be it church
or church school, is interested in the whole
people; on the other hanu, its every pul
sation is solely for the advancement of
its one section of it—and the aversion any
one of them feels for Satan is mild, as
compared with the impious feeling of ri
valry entertained by those institutions as
to who shall teach the young "go with us,
or go to hell.”
Now, comparisons are odious, but to be
effective in reply to Bishop Candler, one
must need follow his lead —so then I ask,
is it fair for the state to help the young
mind draw conclusions on intolerance as
taught in sectarian colleges? In such in
stitutions the Roman Catholic of the six
teenth century is invariably depicted as
typifying our devout fellow Christians of
today in Georgia. Is this truthful or ben
eficent education?
As between the two bodies of Christians,
the Methodist and Romanist now in Geor
gia, the disinterested judge who knew
all the facts would have to pronounce the
Methodist as the more intolerant—and
were he to use the two respective leaders
of Atlanta as types, then reason back
wards, the judge would probably prefer
to refrain from giving his opinion as to
what sort of spiritual advisor Isabella, of
Castile, would have had in a Methodist
on the order of Bishop Candler.
To propound a few questions. Does not
Bishop Candler know that for every one
numerically strong and vigorously led re
ligious organization now in Georgia,
there are a dozen or more weaklings?
Does he not well know that whilst the
former worship of God In magnificent
buildings, richly ornamented and com
fortably cushioned, with well paid preach
ers clothed in fine linsn and fed with the
fat of the land; yet that they are in the
minority of God’s people, the majority of
whom worship Him, some in cheap build-
BY DR. WTIXT3 B, PARKS.
taxes?” We will give a few figures, and
it is said that figures do not lie. Suppose
the insane asylum should receive one hun
dred patients, insane from alcohol paresis;
that class of patients are incurable, they
live from one to five years and die, re
quiring an average of about three years to
maintain them, at a dead loss to the state.
According to Dr. Powell’s annual report.
It takes about >112.00 to maintain one in
mate per annum—for three years it would
cost a little over $336.00 for one patient, one
hundred patients would cost $33,000.00, a
dead loss to ths state, one hundred dead
men, one hundred widows, about four
hundred orphans, many of them to be
cared for by the counties tn the state, and
charity, all of which amounts to Increased
taxation.
We will take the same one hundred men
before they reach alcohol paresis, and
plaee them in an Inebriate sanitarium,
which consists of less expensive buildings
than the state sanitarium at Milledgeville,
but more land attached, that could be
cultivated by the inmates as a support
for themselves, of course, In proportion to
the amount of land cultivated. This wdrk
or exercise is part of the treatment ta all
such institutions. It takes from one to
three years to cure dipsomaniacs, which
would make an average of about one year
and a half to maintain those one hundred
inebriates, at the same cost, we will say,
that it took in the Insane asylum. $112.00
ger annum per patient; for one year and a
half it will cost $16,300.00, or half as much
as It cost In the Insane asylum. Now, of
the one hundred inebriates treated one
year and a half, according to the Fox
borough, Mass., Inebriate asylum report,
86 per cent are cured, 36 per cent are ben
efited. 11 per cent could not be heard from
after leaving the institution, and about
2 per cent died after leaving the institu
tion. These figures are made according
to the insane asylum in Georgia and the
inebriate sanitarium in Foxborough, Maas.
It may be said that they do not have
one hundred insane patients to treat from
alcohol paresis at the insane asylum at
Milledgeville. It is true, they do not have
that number at one time, but counting
the number they do have and the number
that die from alcohol paresis in our jails.
was nominated for the second place on the
ticket, he now pleads that he Is not bound
to comply with that promise.
While the Republicans reluctantly admit
the logic of Mr. BLanna’s argument, they
are also anxious that he, too, should wed.
He is a bachelor, and a double wedding
with the two successful candidates as the
bridegrooms would make every one In the
state happy.
The session of the legislature two years
ago appropriated money for the purchase
of an executive mansion. A seventy thou
sand dollar home for the governor was
selected, and (governor Stanley, who re
tires in January, was the first executive
to occupy it. z
The politicians are exceedingly proud of
the executive mansion, and do not propose
to have It occupied as a bachelor’s hall.
Society of the state looks upon the man
sion as a place for Its annual ball and
other social functions, and matrons de
mand that the governor-elect enstall a
mistress in the house If he wishes to oc
cupy IL
Mark Twain’s Obituary.
Washington Times.
Mark Twain has expressed a desire to
"call in.” so to speak, the obituaries of
himself which are doubtless lying snugly
in newspaper offices throughout the coun
try, and edit them himself. He says:
It is my desire that such journals and
periodicals as have obituaries of me ly
ing in their pigeonholes, with a view
to sudden use some day, will not wait
longer, but will publish them now and
kindly send me a marked copy. My ad
dress Is simply New York city—l have no
other that is permanent and not transient.
I will correct them—not the facts, but
the verdicts—striking out such clauses as
could have a deleterious influence on the
other side, and replacing them with
clauses of a more judicious character. I
should, of course, expect to pay double
rates for both the omissions and the
substitutions: and I should also expect to
pay quadruple rates for all obituaries
which proved to be rightly and wisely
worded In the originals, thus requiring
no emendations at all. It is my desire
to leare these amended obituaries neatly
bound behind me as a perennial consola
tion and entertainment to my family, and
as an heirloom which shall have a mourn
ful but definite commercial value for ixy
remote posterity.
If this plan works, the correspondence
resulting therefrom is likely to be delect
able.
Sir William Gordon MacGre*or, fourth baro
net of his line, is an inmate of the work
house at Leytonstone. a London suburb. The
first baronet was Sergeant Surgeon to George
iy. The fourth Is suffering from locomotor
ataxia.
Ings and many ta log houses or under
bush arbors?
Upon his scheme would not the "well
to-do” Christians be indirectly adding
thousands in value to their professedly ?-
benevolent Institutions, whilst the indi
gent would not only never receive bene
fit of one cent, but would really be con
tributors to the demands of the influential
rich?
Has the bishop ever realized that when
one adds to this primarily wrongful condi
tion the probability that the rich some
times worship God under one creed and
the poor under another, then the state
would be taking from a Baptist to give
to a Methodist or from an Episcopalian
to give to a Romanist? Surely Bishop
Candler cannot want such, yet his views
carried into effect could result in nothing
else.
No the state like the sun should shine
on all alike, the good and the bad; and it
is strictly the province of the family or
religious organization to teach anfl up
hold morals and creed, whether in a house
of worship or a school, but such aid as Is
extended by the state should be limited to
the secular schools where no doctrine is
taught.
Civil government has always had a basis
which is quite distant from religion; and
whilst no American objects to any relig
ious order establishing schools and col
leges, every independent minded Ameri
can does object to a whining pretension
of goodness which seeks to elevate sec
tarian education above creed.
For my part I can see neither piety
nor rationality in such a tirade as that
by Bishop Candler against the legislators.
It was most undignified to say the least,
and certainly not the way for a brainy
man to help shape legislation. One could
imagine him lecturing a class of incorrig
ible junior students, for his last clause
is about what Milton would style "a sev
en-fold chorus of hallelujahs.'*
police stations, and on the streets, If
would soon count up to the hundred.
But even if it cost the state twice as
much to treat Inebriates in an inebriate
sanitarium, and 36 per cent could be cur
ed and 36 per cent benefited, with all those
lives saved, with all those wives saved
from being widows, and saved from, mak
ing four hundred orphans in one year and
a half, yes, if it cost in money fifty or
even a hundred times as much to save all
this, the state is under sovereign, to say
nothing of moral obligations, to its sub
jects. for she has a law on her statutes
that not only permits but protects the sale
of a product that directly causes all this
loss of life, and making of widows and or
phans by the wholesale.
Yet, it Is said, in the face of these facts,
that it will require several years to work
up a sentiment In our law-makers to get
an appropriation In money to establish
an Inebriate sanitarium for Georgia.
It has even been said that an Inebriate
sanitarium would encourage idleness, and
care for those who commit crime, etc.,
all for the want of proper information.
From the criminal view of alcoholism. It
Is well known that those who drink to
commit crime, never become inebriates
while engaged In different criminal acts,
for the reason, they only drink enough to
strengthen their daring courage to enable
them to be bold or audacious enough to
proceed with their Intent, and accomplish
It, for he well knows if he should drink
to intoxication, the crime could not be so
well executed.
This class who drinks whiskey will
never be applicants for treatment In an
inebriate sanitarium. While it Is quite
true that occasionally a murder is com
mitted In a drunken frenzy, as a rule It
was not premedicated, and there Is anoth- *
er obligation on the state of cause and
effect.
How can we, as a civilised people, as a
Christian people, allow this momentous
question to be rated as a moneyed propo
sition, with all the astounding facts of
the crying orphans, the weeping widows
and the dying wails of our noble fellow
man muffled against the walls of a padded
cell in an insane asylum?
Atlanta, Ga.
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES.
Chicago Dally News.
“Gwaclous!" exclaimed small Dorothy as th#
cow kicked the milk pail over, "just look at sq *
old cow waggin' her behind leg!”
•■Johnny,” said the teacher, addressing a
small pupil, “what are the five senses?”
“Nickels,” promptly replied Johnny, with an
air of superior knowledge.
Stranger—“ Why, little girt, what are you
crying for?”
Little Girl—" ’Cause papa’s lost me. and I’m
afraid he’ll get an awful scolding if he goes
home without me.”
"Why Is it the good are not always happy T’
asked the Sunday school teacher, addressing
the juvenile class.
"Because,” replied a small boy, "they're
thinkin’ of the fun they ain’t havin’."
Mamma—“You mustn't read in the twilight,
Edith, dear. You’ll ruin your eyes.”
Little Edith—" All right, mamma, I’ll quit aa
soon as I finish this piece.”
Mamma—"What is it about T*
Little Edith—" The care of the eyes.”
WITH THE STATE~PRESS,
Thomasville Tlmes-Enterprire: The legislature
lopped off one item of expense, that U.OOO salary
for a special attorney of the state road. Good.
Columbus Enquirer-Sunt Georgia should by
all means have a creditable exhibit at the St.
Louis exposition. Such an exhibit would be one
of the best investments in the way of an adver
tisement of the state’s resources and advantages
that could be made.
Waycross Journal: Every town In Georgia is
boasting of a colonel now—that is, every tow*
except Bragansa.
Griffin Dally News: Hon. Hewlett# Hall, if
Coweta, who introduced the bill under which
the penitentiary system was reorganised, is
mentioned as & possible successor to Chairman
Turner, of the prison commission, two yearn
hence. Mr. Hall would be a very fit man for
the place and would make a good race in thia
section of the state.
Marion County Patriot: It has been ascertain
ed that even- member of the Gecrgla state sen
ate belongs to some church. This speaks well
for the members and shows that Georgia is an
enlightened Christian state.
LaGrange Reporter: The Reporter regrets that
the bill introduced in the legislature by Mr,
Candler, of DeKalb county, to exempt church
ar.d educational property from taxation did not
meet with the approval of the majority of ths
members of the legislature. And we regret that
the representatives of Troup county voted
against the measure, especially when it is con
sidered that here in LaGrange, we have two
colleges that would be greatly favored by such
extemptlon.
Campbell News: One of the greatest time
killers the Georgia legislature has to contend
with is that of local legislation. Very few. if
any. of the 137 counties in Georgia but what
have two or more purely local bills for the leg
islature to pass upon. Ard v.my eften these bills
arc similar In nearly every particular except
the locality to which they apply. Again, one
crunty wants to adopt cne thing 'and another
county which has tried it wants to get rid of
that very thing—and both call on the legisla
ture tc take up its c«tly time at the expense
of the state at large to give these counties their
respective wants.
Theye is one great branch of the government
service where woman has yet to enter. That is
the railway mail service. There are about
26,000 employes in this branch of Um fMMi
department.
