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4 The Semi-Weekly Journal. Entered at tbs Atlanta Postoffle* an Mall Mat ter of tbe Second Claw. JAMES R. GRAY. Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. rwelve mon the *lJ* Six wool ha Ttree mootUo.. The SemiWrekJy Journal la published on Taeadjj and Friday, and la mailed by tbe aoort- Hi route* tor early delivery. It contains neo a from all oeer tbe *orld. brought by special lea~d olree Into nut of Oeo. It tens a staff of Uisiinguiabed contributors, with strung Jerartmeata ot special solus to ths home and tbe fams. Ajents wanted at eeery poetoffWe. LlWel eaenmlsaMn allowed. Outfit free. Tbe caly trareiinf representatives we bo** are J. A. Bryan. B F. Belton. C. C Coyle end M H. Gilreath. W« will be responsible only fur money paid to tbe above named travel teg represents tit *• i ♦ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS* 1 )«. 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Let Peary hurry up and discover the at-nth pole. too. and be done with polar rows for all time. Trouble is reported between Count and Countess Gisycki. There must be some thing In that name. The Taft administration has done one thing. It has actually, politically, resur rected Chauncey M. Depew “Roosevelts began an 108-mile march.” What is that to the man who originated the 90-mile-a-day army officer's ride? The shirt waist strikers have returned to work, as will those men the nation over who have to button the things down the back. One railroad in Georgia reports that it didn t have a train late in a whole week. And it isn't one of the Harriman lines, either. Governor Hughes has the reputation of a statesman. Will he sustain it by stick ing to his announcement thst he will not run again ? A man in San Francisco used eleven bullets and than hanged himself, commit ting suicide. He must have been In de spair over ever seeing the Jeffries-John son fight out there. If Peary does find the south pole, he ran use all his north pole "copy" over again—that is. those parts detailing the dramatic features and tbe descrip tion of the ice. TELL ME A > PLAY TIME"’ illlpL-ML Ilk j: B —'/ THE TWO HATS. In northern Scandinavia in the valley of Espelund there stands a high moun tain, and on its summit stood a castle many years ago. Here lived the giant Raue and all his followers. Raue, like most giants of his day, possessed two magic hats. A Hald hat which made things that were invisible quite clearly seen by its wearer, and the Duld hat, which made the wearer invisible. Now the giants were in league with the Trolls, as all of us know. They were good and kind to people dwelling In the land, providing the people treated them kindly. But complaints had been coming to Raue's castle of a certain farmer and his wife who possessed con siderable wealth and yet were loath to help those who were in need. Raue called one of the Troll women to his assistance and bade her ask the farmer's wife for food, first for herself and then milk for her child. He In the meantime would put on his Duld hat and watch. The Troll woman did as she was bid. Returning to Raue she told him the farmer's wife would give her naught, claiming she had nothing herself. •'We will see.” said Raue, "if she hath told the truth, all right. If not. her punishment will be severe.” So saying, he put the Hald hat on his head Immedi ately and be could see into the farmer's house and cellar. There he saw many pans of milk and much food. •'She hath no charity in her heart and hath spoken falsely.” said Raue Forth with he put the Duld hat on his head and. being thus made Invisible, he en tered the farmer's house. He upset and spilled the milk, he made the bread sour and spoiled all their fruits. "Now truly can she say she hath nothing.” said Raue. as he left for his castle home. And after that the Trolls made It so unpleasant for the stingy farmer and his wife that they moved to another land. THE CASE OF HEYBURN. As a coyote or a jackal, the Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, <.f Idaho, would prove a howling success. But as a United States sena tor he is a snarling failure —loathsome to the body in which he sits anti a foulness to the state from which he comes. For nearly an hour last Monday Heyburn rattled his lungs in a senseless but vicious attack on the old soldiers of the Confederacy and the memory of Gen. Robert E. Lee. His conduct was that of a gutter snipe skulking through Westminster abbey trying to defile the tombs of the great warriors and statesmen buried there. A measure asking the loan of government tents for the use of the Con federate veterans at their annual reunion in Mobile next April hail been introduced. Its adoption meant a gracious reminder that the bitterness of the ’6os was gone, that the Union was a I nion »f hearts. And that was all it meant. Had Heyburn, of Idaho, conscientiously opposed such a senti ment, he could have doL3 his duty, as he saw it, and at the same time have saved his decency by registering a contrary vote. Bjt instead of this, he went back across a dead half-century to nose out aid hates. He consumed almost an hour of the senate s time to dander brave men and to libel the greatest general that America s greatest war produced. Fancy the Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, who never saw a battle, who could not dimly guess the thoughts or feelings of a sol dier. who hails from a state that had no part in the war, fancy him assailing the memory of Robert E. Lee and of veterans who were proving themselves heroes when Heyburn was hanging to his nurse’s apron strings. The senate heard him in bored silence and then voted bodily against him. That was an isolation which most men would have felt keenly and would have construed in its true significance. But, Hey burn. of Idaho, probably relished it. for it enabled him. like Richard the Third, to spy his shadow in the sun and descant on his own de formity. We believe, however, that the entire country, including his own constituents, has learned him for what he is—an enemy to the re united nation, a cowardly defamer of American heroes. \\ e have happily reached a time, when the men who fought in the gray and the blue are the pride of a common country, regardless of the uni form they wore. The action of the senate toward Heyburn is testi mony enough of that new and larger patriotism and sufficient rebuke to one who would destroy it. HOW TO ESCAPE THE BEEF TRUST. Some startling facts are being disclosed by the investigation of the beef trust’s methods and the cold storage system. While the housekeeper is forced to pay exorbitant prices for meat or else do without it. we learn that there is being held on ice enough meat *o give every adult person in the United States a whole cow; that one hundred and thirty million pounds of poultry are likewise stored away; that fish valued at twenty-five million dollars lie piled in seventy-eight freezing plants to be doled out in the course of'the vear. or perhaps next year; that besides all this there are immense quantities of eggs, dairy products and even vegetables w’orth close to three billion dollars hidden away from the hungry people. Such is the tyranny of the meat trust. It is cause not for indig nation alone, but for sober thought as to how such a condition of affairs may be escaped in the future. The remedy must come partly through more efficient laws and a more rigid enforcement of present laws. But it must come largdy through the people themselves. This tyranny is an admonition to the south to turn its thou sands of acres of grass lands, now for the most part lying idle, into cattle ranges; to begin a serious study and practice of cattle and dairy industries. In Georgia alone there is enough such land , i produce all the beef this state would consume. In sections much less favored by climate and natural conditions than our own, cattle raising has been proved profitable. Then, why not here ! With Georgia producing her share of the annual meat supply and with otbrv states doing likewise, it' would be impossible for the present system of monopoly to exist. In our own soil and our own energy lies a cure for a great part of the ills we now suffer. UNITING OUR COTTON INTERESTS. Farmers, merchants, manufacturers and educators have shown a keen preliminary interest in the movement to organize in Atlanta next Thursday a National Cotton Products association. It is *o be hoped that they will furthermore show a practical intetest by being present on that day. With the necessary machinery for such an organization once set in motion, we believe that the cotton ex position. an important part of the plan, will be easily accomplished and that every one of the business interests dependent upon the south’s great staple will be materially benefited. Never before has an enterprise of such an inclusive character been proposed. The growers of cotton, the manufacturers of cot ton products, the railroads that thrive on shipments of cotton, the merchants whose prosperity is gauged largely by the amount and price of the cotton crop—all these have their separate associations, working along individual lines, serving their specific needs. Bit thus far we lack anything like a strong centralization of these varied interests. A a*i. Ruch centralization is desirable for several reasons. One of the most important is that through this unity of interests the south's cotton industries and her agricultural opportunities at large would be brought conspicuously before the rest of the country and in deed before the entire commercial world. Especially true would that be of the proposed cotton and cotton products exposition, or a series of such expositions. In addition to this the various enter prises springing from cotton could work more effectually for them selves and for the whole section’s economic progress, if they were more closely informed of one another’s individual needs and aims. We believe that the further this movement advances, the more practical it will appear and the more essential. The first step to assure its success will be the convention in this city next Thursday. , A ROUND THE WOP LD WITH PROF. PARKS SINGAPORE. India.—Very near the equator Is Singapore, a beautiful and prosperous city, and one of the greatest ports in the world. Os all Asia it Is the southernmost point, being located at the extreme end of the Malay peninsular. In amount of foreign tonnage entering the port. Singapore ranks high among such cities as Ixmdon, New York, Hong Kong Hamburg, Antwerp, Liverpool. Rotterdam and Marseiles. Several years ago it ranked sixth in the list. I can not find the exact figures, though severs: people here claim that it ranks next to London. Singapore Is truly the gateway of the east. As all steamers bound for the east pass through the harbor, anyone would suppose that the number is large. Few, however, would imagine that in one year, as many as 6U.000 vessels enter and clear from the harbor. The population is about 200,000, of which the Chinese form a majority. Most of the busineM la done by the English, the Ger mans snd the Chinese. Here as in other eastern ports the Germans are slowly but surely increasing their business interests; and here, as elsewhere, whenever given an equal chance the Chinese are thrifty and successful. Singapore has a large number of banks representing many different nationalities THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY IL T9T® including English, Germans. French, Rus sians, Italian. Austrian. Swiss, Greek, American and Chinese. To the tourist Singapore appears prosper ous. There are public buildings and pal atial residences. The streets are alive with rickshaws, carriages, bullock carts, bicycles and motor cars. The rickshaws drawn by the Chinese coolies attract Im mediate attention: moving to and fro throughout the city, they are so numer ous that it would be difficult to count them. As the coolies wear no clothing except very short pants of colored cotton cloth, their backs and legs are entirely bare. But what muscles those coolies did have! In most cases their legs were large and powerful, and a physician in our party remarked that they were the best physically developed men that he had ever seen. With their heavy set and muscular legs, they were in marked Contrast to the slender Hindoos we had seen in Bombay and other cities. The streets in Singapore and in the Immediate surroundings are noteworthy. They are paved with crushed rock and are hard and level. Wherever we went the roads were smooth and aparently per fect; not a gully, not a broken place and not a defect could be seen. We had seen fine roads In Egypt, and magnificent ones all through India, but we amelj had not PROF. PARKS RETURNS FROM TOUR OF THE WORLD He Talks Interestingly of the Foreign Lands He Saw and the Countries He Visited. Tour Occupied Nearly Four Months--lnteresting Letters of Travel Published in Jour nal--He Is Glad to Get Back “Delightful, indeed, have been many of my experiences in foreign lands, but in all my journey around the world there has been no pleasure so great as the thought of getting home.” Thus spoke Prof. M. M. Parks, president of the Geor gia Normal and Industrial college, at hEB IMmK JhF I ■ X Hk 9Hi PROF. M. M. PARKS. Milledgeville, as he passed through At lanta today on his return from a voyage around the world, when seen by a Jour nal reporter. “The trip has been made with a party of 656 members, coming from all sections of the United States. Probably no per sons ever went around the world with so little discomfort. The entire voyage from New York to San Francisco was made in a great and palatial modern steamship, whieft had been chartered for the use of the party. From this vessel at the various ports, trips were made by rail and otherwise to places of Interest. We never missed a connection, nor did we fail to get around on schedule time from New York to San Francisco. No time was lost in transferring from steamer to steamer, or in waiting for vessels ,to sail, as is ordinarily the case. All tot the times was profitably used. “In all the Oriental ports much inter est was manifested in the approach of the great steamship, which was the larg est that had been seen east of Suez and great curiosity was shown in the visit of by far the largest tourist party that had ever entered their harbors. Literally millions of people greeted us. We were shown many courtesies. Some, no doubt, were considerate because they thought the Americans were all»millionaires with plenty of money to spend: some welcomed us because they w-ere proud that such a large body of people had come around the work! to see them and their Country, and otJcrs were glad of an opportunity to show their admiration for the coun try of America. “But whatever may have been the motives, whether from curiosity, or avariciousness or hospitality, the fact re mains that we were greeted by music and multitudes in many places, and were the recipients of unusual demonstrations in the far away cities of the Orient. We were given elaborate public receptions by Governor Forbes, of the Philippine Islands, by Count Okuma, of Tokyo, Ja pan, by the American consuls at Naga saki, Japan, and by the American consul at Batavia. Java; we were entertained by mayors, governors, barons, counts, rich seen any better roads than those in Sing apore. Being so near the equator the climate is hot the year around, and there is only a slight change in temperature day or night, winter or summer. The mean temperature is 80 and 90 degrees. The rainfall is exceedingly heavy, reaching about 100 inches, or 8 1-2 feet a year. Under such conditions one would expect to find a tropical and luxuriant vegeta tion in Singapore. The city is practically the Creator’s hot house, roofed over only by the sky, warmed by a tropical sun, and gener ously supplied from above with an abun dance of water. With such conditions, the city is like a botanical garden. The trees and flowers are luxuriant. The public botanical garden near the city is often spoken of as one of the sights of the world. With its varieties of trees and flowers, with its intensely, gi eeri lawns, with its foliage in places dense as a jungle, with its lakes and drives, the garden is indeed a “dream of loveli ness.” Singapore was founded 90 years ago by Sir Stanford Raffles, as the British de sired to establish a powerful fort on the strait of Malacca. The date of the es tablishment was 1819, the same year that Victoria was born. The city is the headquarters for the government of the Malay States; the government Is known as the Straits Settlement In each one of the several states there is a native hereditary ruler, who governs in many minor matters, but the real power behind the throne in each state is the British resident. He quietly acts in an advisory capacity to the native ruler and practi cally controls in all larger matters per taining to government and commerce. The population of these states is about 750,000, a lltle more than half being Chi nese. Forty years ago the Malay peninsular was In a state of barbarism; pirates roved the seas, and on land the natives were constantly fighting among them selves. No foreigner’s life or property was safe; there were no schools, no courts, no manufactories, but since Great Britain took a firm control in 1875 there has been marvelous development. Practically all the improvements in the straits settlements have come about through foreigners and little credit is due to the Malays themselves. The English and the Chinese have brought about the changes—the English In matters of government, education, and commerce, and the Chinese as laborers and traders. Sir Frank Swettenham, who was gov ernor general until 1904, after nearly 50 years of experience as an official, says: “The industrial development of the country is entirely due to the Chinese. They are the only people in the peninsu lar who can be depended upon. They have no interruptions in the performance of their daily labor, and save their money to make prudent Investments. Without the Chinese nothing would have been done in the Malay states; no progress would have been made, and the enormous national resources of the country would still be lying dormant.” From Singapore, our party took a hur- Parsees, by wealthy Hindoos, and by generous Japanese. PAID MANY VISITS. “We visited palaces and hovels, churches and temples. Christian mis sions and pagan shrines. We walked in the darkness of tombs and caves and climbed to the heights of monuments and mountains. The heathen opened their temples to us, and the Christian mission aries arranged more than a dozen great gatherings for us. “We traveled on steamboats, launches, tenders, tugs, sail boats, row boats, sam pans, railroads, electric cars, tram cars, horse cars, ox carts, ox sleds, man sleds, buffalo carts, ekkas, dos-a-do«, carriages, victorias, ghuerries, cabs, hacks, omni buses, horses, donkeys, camels, elephants, carabaos, in chairs on the backs of coolies, in ‘rickshaws’ drawn by Chinese, and by jinrickishas pulled by Japanese. “We saw Abbas, the khedive of Egypt: Lord Minto, the viceroy of India; the emperor of Japan, and a number of princes, counts, barons, rajas, sultans, maharajas. British residents, and Ameri can consuls. “We saw war ships of England. Ger many, Italy, Austria. Japan and the United States; of our own navy, we saw the Charleston, at Manila, the Pennsyl vania and West Virginia, at Hong Kong, the Maryland and Colorado, at Nagasaki, the Washington and Tennessee, at Yoko hama, and a couple more In the inland sea of Japan. It would not be an ex aggeration to say that probably few peo ple in so short a time, have ever visited so many countries and places, or seen so many people and so many of the varied scenes of the world. * SOME DISCOMFORTS. “However, there were discomforts. The China sea was rough and the Pacific ocean was rougher. The Red sea was hot. but Java and Borneo were hotter. At Naga saki it was raining and cold, but at Nikko it was snowing and colder. “The fruits of the tropics were a dis appointment. The food on the ship was excellent, but the regularity became mo notonous, especially as it had been neces sary to carry much of the provisions from New York In cold storage. The food in some fit the Oriental cities was not al ways palatable. “Pure drinking water could not always be obtained, and for weeks In India and the tropics, we were driven to the neces sity of using bottled liquids—mineral wa ters, soda waters and lemonades. “Sometimes there wen? difficulties in satisfying the quarantine regulations at different ports, and in several countries there was danger from exposure to conta gious diseases, such as cholera, bubonic plague, leprosy and fevers. During The two weeks of our stay In India, over 8,000 people died from the effects of the bubonic plague. At times our party was alarmed by rumors of disease and by false re ports of possible quarantine restrictions. “It was not at all quieting to the feel ings of some to learn that the officers o* the steamship had on board an extra supply of metallic coffins, in case there should be need for them. “In the party only a few were seri ously sick; however one man died as our steamship was crossing the beauti ful inland sea of Japan. Besides one ox the stokers died at Yokohama. At best the undertaking of getting around tn« world is a strenuous one, and the trip could not be recommended to invalids in search of repose and health. “But more trying still was the long separation from America and home. For several weeks practically all connec tion was lost with the western world. At sea, there were no papers, no letters, no news, and on land there was often only slight western news in the local papers. Frequently we were among people who had barely heard of our country. GLAD TO GET BACK. “Truly absence makes the heart grow fonder, and never have I looked forward with more joyous anticipations than I have today as I return home. Georgia looks good to me. The old state never seemed greater than she ’ does today; and America with all her political anci social defects, is surely the best lana on the globe. How fortunate we are among the people of the world; how rich In opportunities and natural resources! Comparatively free from abject poverty, free from degrading superstition, free from the darkness of Ignorance, and earth.” i Tied trip to the city of Johore, 14 miles by train from Singapore. We rode through a dense tropical forest, and then leaving the train, we were carried half a mile across a lake to Johore. Here the Chi nese form a large part of the population, do most of the work, pay most of the taxes, while the sultan and the Malays run the government—that Is. as far as England allows them to govern. The Chi naman Is thrifty but he takes no Inter est In politics. We visited the large palace of the sul tan of Johore, full of handsome furslsh- Ings of European type; there were mar ble statues, paintings, carved furniture, elegant silver such as one would find in western countries. A unique object was found in the big bedsteads. Some of these were twice as large as an ordinary double bed, being about ten by eight feet In dimensions. They seemed big enough to hold half a dozen people. Johore has a fine hotel which belongs to the sultan; and also several largo gambling houses belonging to the same owner, and from which he derives large revenues, the Chinese being the chief gamblers. Tigers abound in the jungles of Jahare and they kill and eat scores of natives each year. When travelers desire to hunt the tigers they must get special permission from “his highness.” the sul tan. The sultan always puts in a strict rule that every tiger must be given an equal chance for his life—that is. no hunter must climb a tree or take unfair protection; the hunter must shoot the tiger in the open, so that both parties to the duel have a square deal. Under the conditions, I didn’t ask for permission to shoot tigers in Jahare,' but then my friends will understand that this was due’ to lack of time. Returning to Singapore and to our steamboat, we departed for Java. The harbor was full of steamers, large and small. Our vessel, until the moment of departure was surrounded by scores of little boats, some containing boys who were diving for money, and some men who were selling baskets of shells and white and red coral. The sun was just setting in all his glory as I stood on deck and looked back at Singapore. I thought of the clean streets, the well-paved roads, the fine buildings, the busy harbor, the in dustrious Chinese, the good government, of the prosperous merchants, and lastly of the beauty of street and lawn and garden. The impressions of the city were good. COURtTaYS $1757000 GIFT TO CHILD WAS NOT A GIFT I MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 9.—That when the late Capt. J. C. Marley, a prominent attorney of Ripley. Tenn., handed his daughter, Mrs. M. H. Scott and her son $175,000 in cash and securities, he did not intend it as a gift was declared In a decision by Chancellor H. Dent Minor, terminating a friendly suit brought by the estate of Captain Morley against Mrs. Scott. The amount involved will go to the es tate to be divided among the several heirs. / V NWlgBMrW# tmely Topks.'-' ’= After Death--Then! No sane or sensible person refuses to give some time or thought to the condi tion of those who die, after the breath leaves the body. We see the living pass away, their bodies become cold, and if they remain unburied for any length of time, then decay and putrlfication comes on apace. Therefore the living hurry to the cem etery with the corpse. No matter how agonizing the parting has been, the dead must be put away out of sight, because the remains would soon become putrid and dangerous to the well-being of the survivors. The breath of God which entered Into the body, and which has kept the per son alive and active, has departed somewhere. It vacated the body and left only a corpse, a dead putrifying mass, that even a tender mother cannot look upon after a few hours or days, within the house, after the breath leaves. “The living know they shall die,” says Ecclesiastes. 9th chapter, sth and 6th verses: “the dead know not anything, their love, their hatred, their envy Is now perished—neither have they any more, a portion, forever, in anything that is done under the sun.” How emphatic Is this declaration! How positive the statement! ‘No more portion, forever,” would seem to explain that the dead have nothing more to do with earthly things, happen ings, pleasures, knowledge—they can love no more, hate no more, envy no more, forever, as to earthly lives or living. If Adam and Eve had not disobeyed the Almighty in the Garden of Eden, we may reasonably suppose there would have been a difference. In the result, as to the established condition or state of living or dying. But this is a mystery- that the angels might be anxious to look into, but mortal knowledge goes to the grave only and no farther. God does not hold man responsible for this breath of living for its coming or go ing. which was His own gift, but He does hold him. responsible for the soul, the part that understandeth, that chooseth, that can be preserved in righteousness or debased in filth, and while the body per isheth (is consumed by worms), and the spirit leaves (and goes to God, the giver, somewhere), the Good Book says, “Tbe soul that sineth, it shall die.” Hear Genesis. 2:7: “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became (after he re ceived the breath of life) a living soul.” Hear Romans, 6:23: “The wages of sin is death, but he gift of God is eternal life, thrdugh Jesus Christ our Lord.” There Is a large and growing number of what we call orthodox Christians, who believe that the soul which rejects “Jesus Christ our Lord’* will perish as the stub ble dies and disappears forever, that eter nal death means eternal obliteration after this sinning soul has been made to un derstand that the rejection of everything that God’s love had offered and God’s glory had manifested and God's mercy had begged them to accept, must culmi nate In eternal death, a blotting out for ever. The creature in despising its Crea tor had lowered Its Immortal part} to th', level of the brute that dies and ruts out of sight forever. Where the immortal part rests or remains until the resurrection day, neither you or I can tell, but we do know that there is a promise that the dead in Christ shall rise and the good people shall also inherit eternal life. Cotton Futures . Those who defend cotton future deals are heard to say that such deals are necessary to keep up the price of cotton for the producer, but I can recollect when there was no gambling on cotton, wheat, etc., In these United States, and we lived, got along and were reasonably sure of getting a wholesome return for the cultivated crops at market time. But it now seems to me that there should be some curb put upon this gam bling In futures. It is like automobile speeding—it de stroys too many people, and if It did not ruin so many cotton speculators It Is dangerous because It demoralizes the peo ple who are engaged in it, and they are lesion. They are trying to get something for nothing—they are desperate gamblers, and when they get pinched they are ir retrievably ruined, because they* have be come victims of a dreadful habit, and they are Inoculated with a fatal disease that forever preys on their morals. There are hundreds of men who have defaulted, betrayed the trust and confi dence of friends and business associates, , because they “speculate;” that is “gam ble” in futures. It is an appetite that is forever un satisfied, a thirst never to be quenched. If they once get something for nothing it seems to undermine the moral force of honesty in their natures, and if they fail, after they have speculated, they can never rest until they try at It again, be cause they are at the mercy of this un healthy craving, and will risk their very souls to continue in speculation, just as the Inebriate will sell his shirt on his Zk ZHAU2t\ 7\ / .Jr \. \ /—« DON’T SEND ME ONE CENT * \ ! when you answer this announcement, as I am going to distribute at least > B one-hundred-thousand sets of the Dr. Haux famous "Perfect Vision” 1 t Spectacles to genuine, bona-fide spectacle-wearers, in the next few ■ I t weeks—on one easy, simple condition. ■ - I want you to thoroughly try them on your own eyes, no ■ I matter how weak they may be; read the finest print in your bible with I B them on, thread the smallest eyed needle you can get hold of and put ■ B them to any test you like in your own home as long as you please. 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There are cotton future gamblers who combine to hoist prices, but there are as many who combine to pull them down, and it is, in the last analysis, a war between unscrupulous gamblers, with nothing to speculate upon but the ficti tious price placed on cotton next week or next month, as the case may be. There are no cotton bales in cotton future gambling. The real stuff is called “spot cotton,” but these gamblejs in "futures” , actually pull up or push defwn real prices, just as vile jockeys maigi a fine race horse to help another race horse win the money. j If congress was all composed of hon est or capable legislators we would see these futiA-e gamblers curbed just as a “foul" race disgraces all who shared in the villiany, but there is said to be gam bling in nearly everything exposed In Wall street exchanges—stocks, mining deals, sugar deals and railroad stocks. “Tips” are given to corrupt legislators, instead of checks, for the bribery and it is perfect folly to expect a thief to catch a thief in these gambling operations. The “In-Laws” and Marital Duties I have a letter from a dear little wo man who is worn out with “in-laws.” She asks. “Do you think It is my duty to be obliged to wait on my husband’s peo ple so much when I have so much to do for my own family? They stay when they come a long time—never think of turning a hand to do a blessed thing # while they put up at our house and some have stayed six months at a time. “His wife’s people must stay away, be cause there would be no room for them, if they came, and we are all the time strained because it takes so much to feed the overgrown family.” This is a very serious business. I don’t case how you look at It. This little wo man has grown weAry and maybe a little sour over the situation, and it is pretty well understood that one house Is never large enough to hold pleasantly more than one family In reasonable comfort. But there are times when a man must 4 take care of a sick or aged parent, and then the house should be large enough to give such parents a shelter from cold * or from poverty. A sensible man or wo man can understand such necessities and will try to bear the burden in a proper spirit, although It may be a burden and sometimes a heavy one to be encumbered with disagreeable people. But there should be proper respect shown to both husband and wife and proper consideration for the sacrifice they are each making to perform this duty to their parents. There can be no sense or reason in having able-bodied klnspeople come in and stay six months at a time when there is a living to make and a family to support, especially when they are deadheads or non-helpers. I hope the poor little wife may ses u them safely depart and give her mind and body a surcease of fretting and an noyance. J I am asked also by a correspondent to t say what I think about a husband’s failure to give presents to his wife, as soon as he marries her, after he has been profuse In gifts during courting time. Os course he should remember the good little soul who gave him herself—to make sure she gave him all she had to give, and I really think husbands are too often careless on this very point— sometimes from the feeling that he has given himself the most important thing in life that he had to give her, and that presents are not necessary after mar riage, etc. If I had to write out a code of mari tal etiquette at any time of life, I would say first: “Be most polite In your at tentions to your wife or your husband, and If either are pleased or expect pres ents on anlversary or holiday occasions, strain a point If you must, and remem- » ber them with pleasant little reminders.” I think I am fairly well acquainted with what a wife and mother appreciates most highly, in husband and children, and it lies nearest to showing her appreciation and sympathy no matter how the work 13 done. If It requires a present to show your wife how valuable she is to yo,u, be sure to get the present. If you sell something to buy it with, but she only wants an evidence of your appreciation and sympathy, and you will, If you try, soon learn what will best please her, and the quickest and easiest way is to make her feel eery day In the week > • | that she is too near to your heart to wound her feelings or impose unneces sary burdens upon her. What I say to husbands in this connection its equally . good for wlvest The whole secret of wedded happiness lies in mutual confi dence and respect for each other. Little misunderstandings will come up s° long as human nature is what it Is, but if they love each other even as good friends they can so explain themselves as to clear away doubts and difficulties. A friend sends me a bit of verse, that comes in well just here:
