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Friday, February 11,1910.
The meat problem needs something
Stronger than a mere solution.
Perhaps, after all. Mr. Fairbanks over
in Italy started that cold wave.
It was natural, at least, that Mr. Fair
banks should have received a cool recep
tion in Rome.
Even staid old New Orleans is enthus
iastic over aviation, and during the
Mardi Gras, too.
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.
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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
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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
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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
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thirsts for liquor. * !
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:
