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6 The Semi-Weekly Journal. Entered at the Atlanta PoatcfDce •• Mail Mat tar of th* Second Clasa JAMES R. GRAY'. Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. rwer»e ■■ntha....... • • 1 -‘* •1* ■octha •Thraa ■antba.............. “* The trial Weakly Journal to P uN '** e< i Taeodaj and Friday, and to mailed by the anort aat route* for early delivery. It contain* news from aU over the ««««• brought by special leased wire* into our office, it has a etaft of dlatlmutai.eU contributor*, with strong oevawnent* of apeclal vaioa to to* Bocae and the tanu. I Agent* wanted at every poetoffice. Übarrl Mounlaataa allowed. Outfit free. The amly traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan. B. F. Bolton. C. <- voy < and M. H. G Urea th. 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I Dr. Cook probably wishes sometimes that he had stayed at the north pole. I The government will at least find Nica ragua easier to deal with than Standard OIL Now is the Um* for the pioneer citi gen to recall ocher autumns as ideal as I glahama apparently doesn’t mind acute faNMkibition. but objects to the chronic •tage. ’ Peary would redeem himself with the public by heading a relief expedition to Dr. Cook. K —— t The shirt waist strike has been settled ’The peek-a-boo outlook for next summer rarightens accordingly. >. The man who hates to give Christmas rseeents has never been known to return any that are given him. I ■The truth about Santa Claus had just as well be told. He has bought an autorno blle since last Christmas. Speaker Cannon has again denounced ■the -tosurgents. It begins to look as if I ride Joe feared something. i The person who said man finds his great est happiness in work poisoned the happi f.®ess of many an innocent millionaire. A Tammany office holder insists that his salary be cut. and yet there are people who say this is a prosaic age. p-If you slip on a banana peel don't swear. Rather bo grateful for the op portunity given you to remove a snare from another’s footsteps. I Chicago suffragette says she never has sewed on a button for her husband and never will. But It's ten to I she makes him button her up the back. BE* S A great deal of unwarranted surprise has been manifested over Uncle Joe Can non giving only a dime to the pretty St. Louis girl who ’tagged" him. The real wander is that he gave anything. A Florida paper accuses an Atlanta man of wanting to swap a cemetery lot for an automobile. This Is not so remarkable, considering how narrowly some automo bile drivers have escaped the cemetery. J' Bays Colonel Bailey, of the Houston : F»wrt. "One of the reasons why an At lanta suffragette thinks woman should : have the ballot is that an Atlanta man kicks his wife out of bed every morning. That woman doesn’t need ‘ the ballot, she wants to take a rolling pin or a bootjack to bed with her and return the morning ■•alute - Epigram Criminal Code Puck. HMfocrnatlnation is the thief of time. is the porch climber of so | Good fellowship is the firebug of so- is the sneak thief of con tsdtmer.t £ The bore is the pickpocket of patience. If The college boy is the check-kiter of L The firecracker is the pirate of peace « The welsh rabbit is the ghoul of sleep, f. Hard hick Is the shoplifter of hope. Bad cooking is the sandhaxge. of elvil »y. Japan’s Luxurious Prison Tld-Bits. F The most luxurious prison In the world l» in Japan. about lo rniPa frjm Tokyo. In the midst of gardens where .-flourish medlars and cherry trees, where "are seen ornamental popd* with water lilies, arises the palatial prison fc The cells are spacious and airy. The iightirq throughout is by electricity, and .the apartments are furnished luxurious ly. Bathrooms with marble baths, r.ot rand cold water being laid on; dressing rooms and reading rooms—nothing seems to be wanting to make the sojourn in this prison pleasant. Tn fact. It seems an ideal country resi 4ence, scarcely calculated to reduce crime. Tit for Tat Lippincott s Magazine. Z Mama: "Isn't this tnuff Aunt Sarah sent ine for Christmas a beauty?” ■ Dorothy: "It’s nice, but I want a much larger one." < Marne; "Os course you do. But this i.- pienty big enough fcr my hands ' A Practical View K-Hookworm Horace—What do youse tink of all dis money bein' given ter fight dls- JaaAe- . Pellagra Pete—A rank waste. Es dey want ter spend tt on parasites, why don't «m it to us? THE DOCS OF WAR LET LOOSE. The relations between this country and the Central American republic of Nicaragua have reached the breaking point, and the only Nicaraguan representative at Washington has been given his passports. According to diplomatic usage it is probable that the American vice consul, who has been occupying the United States legation at Managua, will, in tiirii, be given his passports today, and then there will exist as nearly a state of war as is possible without the direct declaration by congress, which convenes on Monday. The tyranny and despotism of Zelaya were long known to all student® of Central American affairs. He has been aptly characterized as ar “international brigand.” and nothing else seems to describe him sc well. Matters reached a climax when he ordered the execution of two American citizens. Cannon and Groce, who were participating in the revolution now going on against the Zelaya government. The letter from the secretary of state to the Nicaraguan charge d'affaires at Washington, giving him his passports, is about the most vigorous diplomatic paper that this government, or any other, has sent out in many years. In all the navy yards of the country preparations are being made to hurry cruisers and marines to Central America, though it seems certain that public sentiment runs so strongly against Zelaya that he will be compelled to flee without putting up much of a struggle. The United States has taken its present action in the nick of time, for France had already begun to take a hand in the matter. A detachment of Zelaya's forces landed on the plantation of a celebrated firm of French chocolate makers, on Lake Nicaragua, and committed wanton depredations which brought out a strong representation to the home government from the French consul. The indications are that this is to be followed by the sending of a French war ship from Martinique to some Central American port for the purpose of demanding reparation. If hostilities had been begun by France instead of the I nited States there is no telling what might be the terms of the peace negotiations, when that time came, and if France should demand territorial concessions she would come in direct conflict with the United States. * The timely action of Secretary Knox has prevented such complications, as it is now certain that the offending government is a thing of the past and that a new order of things will soon prevail. —_ THE ALABAMA ELECTION. The indications are that the constitutional amendment, making prohibition in its strictest form a part of the organic law of the state, has been defeated by an overwhelming majority. The returns, as given out this morning, showed that only three out of the sixty-seven counties in the state had voted in favor of the amendment. . It is reported that many advocates of prohibition worked actively against the amendment, believing that it would not promote the cause of temperance. The most important question which suggests itself in connec tion with the election is whether the verdict registers the sober and dispassionate will of the people. Ihe campaign has been one of the longest and bitterest in the history of the state. At times emotional elements have been brought into the fight, and the personal equation has not been wanting. Under circumstances like these, whatever may have been the result, there would be a possibility that the verdict did not repre sent the settled and mature convictions of the great masses of the people. It is by personal investigation and deliberation that men arrive at opinions on any given subject which they feel to be definite and final. If the result of Monday’s election, as indicated so far. really represents the sound convictions of the people, the vexed question may be regarded as settled. Otherwise there will be a recurrent agitation such as has gone on for many years. The results as they stand will be read with interest all over the country and will be closely studied everywhere. A LESSON IN EXTRAVAGANT FEES. The fact that two of the most prominent members of the bar, and former judges of the court of common pleas, were disbarred in the state of Ohio because of the exorbitant fees and the wasteful manner in which a large estate was administered in the courts over which they presided will have a sobering effect upon the latter day tendency to allow compensation for services in the matter of large estates without any regard to the real value of the service rendered. ’ Judges Robert M. Campbell and Henry C. McCray, who formerly presided in the court of common pleas, were among the most prominent judges in the state of Ohio. W hile acting in that high judicial capacity the estate of the late Mary C. Freer came up for settlement before them and became the subject of a great deal of litigation. The bulk of the estate was to have been given to the Ashland County Children’s home. It is evident that when the estate made its final escape from the courts there was little of it to leave to anybody, or anything. It had been eaten up by the lawyers—with the consent of the court, of course, and by the functionaries of the court. It may well be imagined what was the indignation of those concerned when it was found that the processes of justice had devoured the substance which should have gone to the devisees. Fortunately there was one way open by which punishment could be administered and a signal example given to all who should be guilty in like manner hereafter. Those who had been unfaithful stewards while serving on the bench were prohibited from practicing their profession as members of the bar in the courts of the state of Ohio. Public opinion has long been growing in vigorous protest against the practice of looking upon large estates merely as food for the cankerworms of so-called justice. The demand for an economic administration of the law in the settlement of estates has been growing more definite and more emphatic. The time has come when services in connection with receiver ships or any other, form of litigation into which estates may fall shall be compensated with due regard to the actual value of the service itself, and not by the arbitrary standard of what the estate will yield to those who temporarily have it in their keeping. No form of legalized injustice is more imperatively in need of correction than this and the disbarment of the two judges in Ohio is one of the most significant signs of the times. THE HUMOROUS MR. WELLMAN. Nothing in a long time has contributed more to the gayety of nations than the deliberate criticisms which Mr. Walter Wellman has passed upon the respective claims of Cook and Peary to have discovered the pole. Mr. Wellman would have us believe that he has gone into retirement with all the Cook and Peary data before him, and in generous anticipation of the duties of the great geographical societies has weighed the evidence and pronounced judgment. He comes forth from this brooding silence with the opinion, which he gives to the world, that Peary’s statements are credible in every particular and that Cook’s version is “suspicious in what THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY ' JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1909 it does tell and in what it does not tell. . . . It is |oo precise in the wrong place.” We can imagine the Homeric laughter with which any state ment emanating from Mr. Wellman on the subject of the north pole will be greeted by the scientific world, or even by the general public. Mr. Wellman has been in the discovering business for at least twenty years and the only thing he has Ver discovered was Watling’s island, which Columbus had discovered four hundred years before. To be exact, he discovered that it was at Watling’s island that Columbus had made his landing. Mr. Wellman erected a tablet on the island, setting forth Columbus’ achievement, and his own, with his name engraved deeply in the tablet, and sailed away. Almost continuously since that time he has been discovering the north pole. With each recurring open season for hunting north poles he has equipped himself with a balloon, arranged fur a series of syndicate letters and sailed away for Tromsoe and proceeded to rig up his balloon. Months invariably elapse in this tinkering process, and seeing that time flies, which as Artemus Ward used to say is “away time has.” he would finally reach the conclusion that it was too late to make the trip that year. So he would come back, to Paris, spend a few weeks there, and then come back to explain why it was impossible for him to make his flight that year. He was up in the near north when word came to civiliza tion that Dr. Cook had discovered the pole. He had already made his annual fluke and was preparing to come home when this news reached us. He proceeded to pack his kit and come home. The records will show that he had already abandoned his voyage, but now vague rumors are afloat that he gave up the job this year because of Cook’s announcement that he had already turned the trick. True, the other explanations had become a little threadbare and this one is a relief from the monotony. But Mr. Wellman as an arbiter on the subject of arctic discovery is the finest contribution to the humor of the season. VINDICATING MRS. OLEARY'S COW. Another historic tradition has been shattered and. after years of unjust odium. Mrs. O’Leary's cow has been vindicated. “Big Jim” O’Leary, son of the woman whose cow was said to have kicked over the lamp which started that historic confla gration in Chicago, is still living and working somewhere in the stock yards district of the Windy City. He was interviewed by a reporter a few days ago and he took advantage of the opportunity to do justice to the cow. He declares that the real cause of the great Chicago fire, nearly forty years ago, was spontaneous combustion generated in a lot of . new-mown hay in the loft of the barn. It had been hauled in during the afternoon, and at an early hour in the morning the blaze broke out spontaneously. The first he knew of the cow story, he says, was when he read of it next day in the newspapers. Every effort was made to correct the canard, but it is undeniable that a lie can travel a league while truth gets its boots on. and that was the case with the story of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. » So another of our cherished traditions is exploded. The incident of William Tell and the apple has been discredited for lo! these many years. It is doubtful if there ever was such a person as King Arthur, with his round table of chivalric knights. And so. one by one. the stories which have been handed down from sire to son as truly true have had to wither away under the fierce light of truth. Byron said: I’ve stood upon Achilles’ tomb And heard Troy doubted; time will doubt of Rome. Among the most cherished of our traditions was Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. and it is a genuine sorrow to have to lose that familiar but tragically mischievous animal. Why Don t Farmers Raise I heir Own Beef? New York Commercial. As a prerequisite to the Hating of $30,- 000.000 of 4 1-2 per cent bonds on the New York stock exchange, under the rules of that organization. Armour & Co., have issued a formal statement of income and expenses—the first bit of official pub licity ever given to the concern's inside affairs. From this report it appears that the earnings for the year ended October 23 show a surplus of $7,127,926, which is equal to 35.6 per cent on the $20,000,000 capital stock. Consumers of beef, mut ton and pork products from one end of the country to the other, who paid the ruling retail market prices for them dur ing the year in question and are paying even higher prices now, will not marvel that the leading concern In the business was enabled to pile up a profit 35.6 per cent on Its capital stock during that pe riod. The only wonder is that the farm ers of New England and the south—or in the region generally east of the Missis sippi river—do not return to their former system of supplying their own meat wants and the demands of their locai markets. In New England particularly the farm ers have very generally abandoned oxen and steers for heavy farm work, substi tuting horses for them who “eat their heads off’’ in winter time; and as a con sequence they have no fatted cattle to kill or to sell in the late fall and are obliged to pay 35 cents a pound for beef steak. The “beef trust," so called, nfever forced them into that wholly abnormal and unnatural situation. If the Armours can buy cattle and make money- on them —"big money.” at that—the New England farmers can certainly make money rais ing cattle, as they used to. It is further Interesting to learn that the Armour com pany reports a proflt-and-loss surplus of more than $70,000,000. The gross profits were $10,582,000, a decrease of $1,637,660, compared with the preceding year, which was due mainly to the smaller profits from manufacture and sales. FINE COLEGE SPIRIT PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Nov. 27.—A great J many think that the thing referred to as "college spirit” is a myth. Well. It , isn’t. And Brown college is full of it College spirit is the most broad-minded I thing you ever heard of. I One Vernon Edgar Babington is a stu dent. one who thinks thoughts. Worse than that, he writes them. He signed a “piece” for the Providence Journal, which stated that in his opinion Brown'; bad showing upon the gridiron was due to the college fraternity evil: that frater nity men were placed on the team re gardless of better material. | Well, the fellows who fraternize took him out and paddled him. and then ducked him at the college pump. This will teach Edgar to be shy and re tiring when he gets Into life'e bxoad field of battle, and always vote with the gang Instead of being an Independent. Would Do His Part Father of the Bride—Now that you’r; married, are you able to furnish a six room house ? Eloping Groom— Er—yes, if you can fur nish the six-room house. Quit Whisky. Now Cancer Has Him 11 GEORGE CROCKER. ’ i | NEW YORK. Nov. 26.—George Crocker, ' the man who made $6,000,000 by refraining from overindulgence in intoxicants for five years, is dying of cancer. His fath er, the late Charles Crocker. California pioneer and associate of Flood, Fair and Mackay—'49ers—left $60,000,000 to his chil dren when he died In 1888, but stipulated that in this his son should have no share till “for the space of five years continu ously he shall abstain from liquors to the extent that he shall not during this period have been intoxicated.” In 1891 George Crocker notified his brothers that his abstinence had begun. And he made good. Up£n a Utah ranch he worked for three years, converting a ‘ valueless ranch into a property that has I ever since paid well. Two years later he received his $6,000,000. Since then he has devoted his business life to carrying on the companies started by his father. He is a director of a score of large corporations, notably many Pa ( clfic coast improvement companies. Sunbeams : "Mr. Taft is ready for hard work.” ■ Look out, Ballinger! ' Spring house-cleaning weather! [ It is never too late to be rescued alive ! from a mine. The British uudget now has the center of the stage near the limelight. A Virginia woman killed herself rather » than move to Ohio. Os course, it's ter- I rible to have to move to Ohio. I | The Standard Oil company looks upon i Judge Sanborn’s decree as a slap on th* j wrist. IMr. Rockefeller knows how to assume , an innocence if he has it not. Summer lingering ih the lap of fall. • Are we going to have fresh broiled Zelaya on toast? The good cooks die young. Do your Thanksgiving thanking early. Senator Aldrich found the west very Fairbansky. “Distressed” has been the aggressor in M quarrel between bls sweetheart nnrf himself, and he wants to “kiss and make up.” The sweet heart refuses to recognize him and he doesn’t know what to do. The 'only thing to do If you really love her Is to eat humble pie. Go to her and tell her that It was all your fault, and that you are sorry. "Faint heart won fair lady,” you know. ♦ SI,OOO FIRST-PRIZE CHECK t WILL BE KEPT AS SOUVENIR • ♦ The county authorities of Guilford county, North Carolina * ♦ are so elated over winning the first prize of SI,OOO for the ♦ *■ best roads south of Roanoke, Va., on the national high- * ♦ way that was officially opened by The Journal-Herald tour ♦ ■* that they have requested The Journal to have their check * ■* returned to them after it has been paid and canceled, so * ♦ they can frame it and hang it in the Guilford county court ♦ ♦ house as a precious relic. , * ♦ Following is the letter acknowledging receipt of the ♦ ♦ cheek: ■* “Greensboro, N. C., Nov. 29, 1909. ♦ ♦ “The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga. * ♦ “Gehtjemen: We beg to acknowledge with sincere thanks * ♦. .the receipt of your check for SI,OOO, awarded as first prize * ■* for the best roads south of Roanoke. ♦ ♦ “We are so much pleased with your handsome award ♦ *■ that we would like to have the check returned to us, after ♦ ♦ payment, in order to have the same framed, with comments, ♦ ♦ and placed on exhibition in our court house as a souvenir. * *■ “Yours very truly, * ♦ (Signed) “J. LESLIE ABBOTT, ♦ County Auditor. ♦ Machinery and System Are Keynotes of Census Taking WASHINGTON, D. C.—Machinery will< play a considerable part in next year’s stupendous task of counting the people of the United States. But the keynote of the job is system. An army of 70,009 men and women, fully equipped with a com mander-ln-chief. majors, colonels and sub officers, will work out a well laid cam paign plan, for in no otner way count the undertaking ever be finished. Rene Bache, writing in the St. Louis Globe- Democrat, thus describes some pictur esque features of the campaign! If one were to put side by side the fig ures of the census of 1790 and 1910 (as the latter will present themselves when as sembled) the most striking single fact shown by the comparison would be the cTsappearance of the children. A cen tury ago one-half the population of the United States consisted of boys and girls under 16 years of age. Today the propor tion is only one-third. The reason for this fact is that people bring fewer children into the world now adays. If the average family in this country todpy were as prolific as in 1800 there woulube 16,000,000 more children in the United States than are actually liv ing! In 1790 there were In this country 780 persons over 20 years of age for every 1,000 girls and boys under 16. Today there are 1,600 such adults for every 1,000 cnil dren. Thus it appears that, whereas in the early days of the republic there was a very large proportion of young persons, at present the percentage of children in the population Is comparatively small. In view of which facts it is easy to un derstand the statement of the late Carroll D. Wright that the artificial limiting of families was the cause of a greater loss of population than war, pestilence and all other agencies combined. BABY BORN EVERY TWELVE SEC ' ONDS. Nevertheless,a baby is born every 12 sec onds. and thanks to this fact, about 2.500.- 000 fresh citizens will be added to our pop ulation in the census year 1910. The pass ing bell will toll every 23 seconds, usher ing 1,350,000 Americans out of the world during the 12 months. Every 24 seconds a marriage will take place, giving expec tation of filled cradles, and five of these latter will be supplied with occupants ev ery minute during the year. So huge has the population grown that the taking of the census of 1910 would be a job nothing short of appalling were it not for the recent introduction of ma chinery into the business. It is reckoned that the mere tabulation of the sex, age. nativity and occupations of the people if made by hand would consume for those four items alone the entire time of 100 clerks for 8 years. But most of the work is done by machines which may almost be said to think and which when the facts are once gathered by the enumera tors attend to the task of putting them together. The census bureau id buying a large number of machines of entirely new pat tern, which are a great improvement on any apparatus of the kind hitherto known. They are run by electricity, and so perfect is their operation that if the clerk makes a mistake the contrivance stops automatically. The tabulating ma chine will handle as many as 415 cards a minute, but the average speed in actual work is about 350. This is an average of 80.000 or 90.000 cards in a working day of 7 hours, including stoppages for reading dials, etc. As the census returns come in from the enumerators all over the country, in the shape of filied-in blanks, the facts they contain will be transferred to cards, each card representing one person. The facts | in question are copied on the cards by < punching holes, and the position of each hole indicates its significance, so that no I writing is required. Thus, for example, a few holes will tell that the individual represented by a card is white, of male sex. 45 years old, married, a teacher by profession, able to read, write and speak i English—with the additional information that he was born in England, that he has been In the United States ten years, that he is a naturalized citizen and that he re sides in the Eighth ward, Albany, N. Y. | It will be understood, Chen, that ail the people in the United States In the year 1910 will be represented in the census bu reau by ninety odd millions of cards—one card for each man. woman and child. The biggest job. however, is to put to gether the facts on the cards so as to THE ARTLESS ANSWER (what's THE QBSECtI ( TO ROCK «T I IN CRADLING / iTO SLEEP] ~ . wheatO / e- r / 7 /f ®KZv/. i j JI " LJ J \y w 7 •'' i<l<i '! | ’ <*make tables of figures, telling how many persons there are of each age, how many are white, black or of mixed blood; how many carpenters, undertakers and trained nurses there are; how many can read and write, and so on, even to the tabulation of these and hundreds of other matters In every township and city. QUICKLY, AUTOMATK/ALLY. To do all this by hand would be a vast ly expensive and almost. ’ interminable job. But the machines attend to it auto matically. and with an expedition that is nothing short of marvellous. All that Is required is to feed the cards Into them, and they do the rest, working out the problems and giving the results without possibility of error. With the help of one of these contrivances a capable clerk can tabulate from 80,000 to 90.000 cards, as al ready stated. In a working day. all the facts they contain being duly assembled and classified. Some of the new tabulators have adding machines attached to them to prepare statistics of agriculture and certain other arrangements of figures Informational. Another novel device is an automatlo sorter, which separates the cards into classes, electro-magnets controlling their passing through a series of chutes. In deed, all of the mechanism from begin ning to end depends upon electricity, the current being made and broken by little metal rods which pass through the holes in the cards. The enumerators employed to gather the facts for the census of 1910 from all parts of the country will number 65,000, and ail of them will be men, save perhaps a few who for some special and particular rea son will be of the gentler sex. Some wo men did this kind of work for the last census very efficiently, but ordinarily it is too rough, not Infrequently Involving quite a little hardship of one kind or an other. The business of putting the facts together, however, after they have beea collected will be intrusted mainly to wo men, the great majority of them being young. Experience has shown that women are more clever than men at such work, though they are not easy to manage. A census bureau official said the other day. "I once knew a man who had 20 girls under his control. He would introduce any one of his friends to 15 of them, aa> - Ing that he reserved the other five for himself. Now, during the last census I had 700 young women under me, and any body might have been welcome to them all. I say without reserve that a . man who can manage that number of gir:s : can do anything. The greatest difficulty is to curtail their chatter. Yet In the long run they make better clerks than the men.” The census bureau is now a permanent establishment in Washington. It is kept running, with a. comparatively small force of clerks, all the time, whereas it used to go out of existence after each enumeration of the population was ac complished, springing up anew and sud denly every ten years, like a gigantic mushroom. As things are at present ar ranged, however, the plant Is always in existence on a small scale. There is a skeleton organization, so to speak, and i this is readily expanded, when the occa sion arrives, into a huge and effective , machine for the gathering of facts. Such an expansion is now beginning to take place, and within a short time the ma i chine will be in full operation for tire taking of the 13th census of the! United States.—Exchange. AJi the Same | “Ml dear, suppose we take the chi dren | to the zoo today?” "Why, John, you promised to take them 1 to mother's!” "All right, if it's all the same to the children.”— Browning's Magazine. i ' Football ~</■ He n-srte a ran arouud the »r 4. Was tackled from ttie rear. Tlie right guard eat npoß his ix-k; The fullback ou hta ear. • ■ /' •' ?.--r The center sat upon his legs. Two ends sat on his chest., The quarter and the halfhack tliea Sat down on him to re»f. The left guard sat upon his Heart, A tackle ’on his face. The corner was next calkd in To sit open bis case. » —Edgar A. Guest, In Detroit Free Press.
