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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ■■tered at the Atlanta I’oetofflrv a> Mall Mat ter oT the Second Cl***- JAMXB *. OKAY, Editor and General Manar er. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve ” ■lx months *£ Three month* *' The Seml-Weekly Journal la published on Tneedar and Friday, and Is mailed by the abort, eet routes for early delivery. It onetatßs news from all over the world, brwiabt hy epee!al leased wires Into oor orflce. It haa a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departanenta of special value to the home and the farm. Arents wanted at every postoffice liberal •oasmtaalon allowed. O’itfft free. Write to P. R. Randolph. Circulation Manager. The only traveling repreeentatls** we have ere J. A. Rr/an. B F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle end M. H. Gilreath. We will be reeponalble only for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. eeeeeeeseeettttt>«*** **♦♦♦ ♦ * ♦ WO TICE TO BVBICEHSES- ♦ ♦ The label used for addressing ♦ ♦ your paper shows the time your ♦ ♦ subscription expires. By renewing ♦ ♦ at least two weeks before the date ♦ ♦ on this label, you insure regular ♦ ♦ begin with back numbers. Remit- ♦ ■ ♦ taace should be sent by postal or- ♦ ♦ der. or registered mail. ♦ ♦ Address all orders and notices for ♦ ♦ this department to THE SEMI- ♦ ♦ WEEKLY JOVRNAU Atlanta, Oa. ♦ Tuesday, September 20, 1910. The booster is abroad in the land from Pensacola to Seattle. Hail to the Odd FetloWs. May their stay be long and pleasant. And the Democrats are winning with out the aid of the insurgents. If the Democrats could win the national as well as the state elections! And here's to the postmasters, too. with the hope they'll stay longer next time. Now the weather man predicts warm weather. Cant he settle down to one program ? Chanter was Cavalierl’s cavalier, if the press dispatches are not all press agent stories. • A physician says that mince pie hurts. It does; especially when taken along about midnight. We’ve known private Jackpot gangs who were much more dangerous than that Illinois crowd. If the Odd Fellows had been here while we were taking the census, what a city we would have been! Even Richard Le Galiiene has domestic troubles. A little of the artistic temper ament it a dangerous thing. An Ohio woman 80 years old has just entered college. Which shows that in Ohio one is too old to learn. James J. Hill, at 72. is still at work. That is Mr. Hill's business if with his wealth he chooses to work in old age. According to a dispatch. Richard Cro ker has money he has forgotten about. This is nothing. Great men have never been noted for the accuracy of their memories Furnished the Proof A curiously complicated love affair once arose In a western penitentiary, in that one of the convicts, who had been serv ing tn an exemplary way a very long sen tence, had fallen in love with a woman employed in the warden's household. The woman returning his affection, and some Sort of dispensation being affected, whereby the two might be wedded, the two were called before the warden to ad vise him touching certain formalities neceesary to the negotiation of the mar riage A difficulty had immediately arisen be eauM of the lack of proof of the death •f the convicts first wife. It appeared that a communication sent to the town in the east where she had lived was re turned unelaimea. "It looks to me,'' said the warden, "that this marriage can't proceed unless you can produce proof of your wife's death." The convict reflected a moment. Then. kMltatingly ho said; "Well, if you must know. I may as well tell you that the first sentence 1 •ver served was for assassinating my first wife."—Ex Lange The Bachelor Girl Bostou Herald. Net so very long to- marr.ed woutan touted down with pity uixm bee unmarried frV-nd as (be gave eetertainmenta and weat to belli and theater partie* and bad a good time geeeriLy rfblle tbe unmarried <>ne stayed st hoow. Now thing* bevv grown *n much in tbe favor of tbe aiagie woman that ber married fneed often envi»« twr liberty, ber youthful ap petranc* eaoaed by tbe absent** of bouaeboid ear** aad. above all, ber iarotae. which abe can speed »• abe wills without asking any one's perriiasloo And Indeed there are worse thing* tbau being a ba-hrtor girl nowaday a. Won>«-n are firmly eatabhahed in tbe basaen world, aad thev are begltning to he paid large salaries, whirl- would aatlcfy many a man. They can * g*» altwwt anywhere without an ewort—to tbe theater, to dinner at many of tbe restaurants and to nearly every kind of »veniug affair. Tbe proepero«i« clever bachelor girl is in as great demand as rbe bar-prior man P-r work end*, bbe fs moeb more entertaining than tbe May at borne girl, and ber br gbl ways and smart ,-oetumea make ber a dangerous rival for tbe married flirt, who has bad thing* tier own way for st long. Another Victim H» tried tv get a nomb-r. Bn; 'Ventral" anew err-, nut. O Life! Tny cars* ettcumlwr. And make o* doubly hot. Tb» world grew dark around biiu. He mopped bls brow and swore; Attends: ta came and bound him And dragged him through tbe door. Now In a cell be'* raving. A plctn-e of despair. Bls two arms wildly waving. With --rumpled clothes and hair. And erermor* be’« • "What fell's wrong with the line?" CMtlnttocsly bawling. “1 want niae-two-O nine!" PAUL COOK. Highwayman Stole a Kiss Nt. Louie Times. A general pollt-r order haa heen issued for the arrest of a "highwayman" who held nt France* Mneller. 13 y»ats old. and robbed her of a kisa tbe other night. Mine Mueller alighted from a car. approach, ed tbe "highwayman" ard asked him to direct ber tea Ruaaell avenue address. "I’m a stranger In tbe n- lcliborhood and I'm •frald." abe said. "Well. mtea. don't worry; I'll take you there." tbe man replied. When la front of tbe bouse the stranger step ped :n front of Mis* Moeller and commanded ber to b«ld up ber tsnds. As tbe girl obeyed be stooped over and k I seed her on the right •baek INITIATIVE. REFERENDUM AND RECALL. No more powerful political weapon has ever been devised by the economist or wielded by the people, to protect the public in terest from rule by the few, than the system of initiative, referen dum and recall, which has been of force for soiree time in Maine, Oregon, Oklahoma and South Dakota, and which has just been adopted in Arkansas and indorsed in Arizona. This principle, which was first looked on with gen eral suspicion in the United States because it was sup posed to be too • radically at variance with our plan of government by representation, has gradually made such progress as to become of vital interest, and people who have here tofore had only the obscurest idea of the meaning of the system are now seeking to inform themselves more definitely. The initiative is the right of the people of a state to propose and enact at the polls laws that they do want, if the legislature fails to carry out their recommendation, and to veto laws which they do not want, if the legislature pass any that are obnoxious or offensive or contrary to the opinion held by the majority of the voters. The referendum is the power of the people to demand that any piece of proposed legislation, or public measure, the wisdom of which is questioned by a sufficient number of qualified voters, shall be submitted or referred to the people at the polls for an ex pression of opinion. The recall is the right of the people to discharge a public of ficial before the expiration of his term of office if they judge him incompetent or unfaithful, and to nominate his successsor. The power this would give the people to combat the gross abuses of machine rule and to promote purity in politics, provided they exercised it properly’, may readily be seen. Ihe answer to the objection that the system is radically opposed to representath e government, is that it does not seek to take away the legislative functions of the body of representatives or of the duly’ elected executive officials, but simply gives the people the final voice on those occasions when the representatives or officers and the peo ple are in conflict. The sy’stenii has not been perfected. I util it is made moie perfect and thoroughly tested, the majority of the states are sus pending judgment. In the states where it is already of force, it has thus far worked satisfactorily. The history of the movement in Maine has been watched with particular interest. A constitutional amendment for the initiative and referendum was submitted in that state in 1907 and was adopted by the people in the election of 1908, the vote being 51,091 for and 23,712 against, or more than two to one favoring the system. Senator Hale, of Mqine, opposed the adoption of this “people's rule” amendment, and when the time came for the nomination of candidates to the legislature that was to select his successor, he withdrew from the contest. It is significant that the Republican state governnkent, which stood for special privi leges against equal rights, has just been overthrown in Maine by the progressive Democrats. The amendment to Maine’s constitution leaves the general assembly with practically the same law-making powers it had be fore, but the people reserve to themselves also the right to propose laws and to enact or reject the same at the polls independent of the legislature, and also reserve power at their own option to ap prove or reject at the polls any act, bill or resolution passed by the legislature. When the voters, exercising their right, propose and enact a law. the style of that piece of legislation shall be, “Be It Enacted by’ the People of the State of Maine,’’ etc. It is further provided that the veto power of the governor shall not extend to any measure approved by vote of the people. Clothed with this power, the people of Maine continue to let their representatives make most of the laws, holding the initiative and referendum as a safeguard rather than as an instrument to tear the reins of government from the men they have chosen as their senators and legislators. INDORSE GOOD ROADS CONVENTION. Mayor Maddox, Gov-Elect Hoke Smith,* the officials of the chamber of commerce and other leaders in Atlanta have strongly indorsed the plan to bring the 1911 National Good Roads conven tion to Atlanta. Sentiment is crystallizing to the belief that this is a gathering that Atlanta deserves to get and will succeed in getting if she goes after it in the right way. And the right way, of course, is.to ap point representative committees to go to the convention this year and assure its officers that Atlanta will accord the gathering such hospitality and such facilities for transacting its business, for housing its displays, etc., as no other city in the south and few anywhere in the country could afford. The president of the or ganization already favors coming south, and is enthusiastic over the idea of coming to Atlanta. That means that the battle is already half won. if the advantage is just properly followed up. The part Atlanta has played in the development of good roads in the south and east is known not only throughout all this terri tory but everywhere in the world where the good roads move ment if of interest, for the national highway tours inaugurated* by The Atlanta Journal and New York Herald, which have done so nMich to improve the roads and so much to arouse general public sentiment, awakened world-wide interest, and stories of the prog ress made and of the methods pursued were sent out to every’ pa t of the globe. Atlanta is the foremost good roads city* of the south, and when we recollect in addition to this that Atlanta can furnish ideal faciltifs for handling the convention, which has never been south before, there is every reason to believe it can be pre vailed upon to come—and that without much argument. The advantage to this city in bringing such a congress here is almost too apparent to comment on. Atlanta has been better ad vertised by conventions that have met here than by any other half dozen things except, perhaps, the good roads movement, which brought her name into international prominence. If the conven tion meets here it will be a national recognition of the good work Atlanta has already done and of the fact that more is to be done. It would stimulate interest in the good roads movement in Geor gia. It would enable us to show the people, as Mayor Maddox points out, how much we appreciate good roads and what we are doing to get them. "■r '■ ~—y — 1 —!- THE APPALACHIAN EXPOSITION. . Some date in the near future, to be yet announced, will be fixed as “Atlanta day’’ at the Appalachian exposition in Knox ville, and a special train will carry a large party of Atlantians, headed by Mayor Robert F. Maddox, to our sister city in Tennes see. Atlanta is peculiarly interested in this exhibition which dem onstrates as it does the wonderful resources of the south and the progress she has made in taking advantage of them during the past decade. Atlanta's prosperity and the prosperity of the south are so intimately linked that it should be the duty as well as the pleasure of all of us who can to indorse and show ’oiir interest in the movement hy attending the exposition. It has heen pointed otit that this will be a particularly happy occasion for former Ten nesseeans and former residents of Knoxville who are now Atlantians or Georgians to visit their old .owe. This is the biggest exposition that has bqen held in the south in several years. It is dedicated to the cause of forestry conserva tion, improvements of waterways, exploitation of the resources and potentialities of the wonderful Appalachian mountain empire, and the demonstration of the progress of the south in agricultural, mining, manufacturing and commercial pursuits. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, SEPT. 20, 191 fr. WOODROW WILSON. ATI ANTIAN. Honest Injun, Woodrow Wilson was once a lawyer here! It s a fact that we had forgotten about until the Democrats of New Jersey nominated him for their governor the other day, and we admit that we are proclaiming it now in that spirit of ‘ ‘sinful pride” with which our less progressive neighbors reproach us. But former Atlantians have away of bobbing up periodically in high places, and why shouldn’t we be proud of them when they do? Indeed, all Georgia ought to join with us in congratulating the distinguished president of Princeton university on beingr called to carry the Democratic banner of New Jersey, for back in the 80s he was one of the best known young lawyers in the Cracker state; he chose as his wife Miss Ellen Louise Axson. of Savannah, daughter of a distinguished Presbyterian family, and both of them have scores of relatives and friends in this section today. The country at large is going to watch with interest, in case Dr. Wilson is elected, the outcome of the experiment of putting an academic leader in practical politics. Dr. Wilson knows more about the theories of political economy and government than per haps any other man in. America. He is a student to his finger tips, though a man of action, too. Being a political economist, he is strong for the control of the corporations, which sounds some thing like a joke in New Jersey, and has announced a solid busi nesslike platform—economy in administration and equalization of taxation are prominent. * * Here’s hoping he will make as good a governor as he has a college president. WE SHOULD ALL HEAR ROOSEVELT Tickets will be put on sale this week for an address to be delivered by Theodore Roosevelt on the evening of October 8, at the Atlanta auditorium-armory, under the auspices of the Uncle Remus Memorial association, for the benefit of the fund that or ganization is raising to purchase the home of the late Joe| Chandler Harris as a lasting memorial to that great Georgia author’s fame. This is an enterprise to which every Atlantian and every Georgian who can do so should lend his or .her support. The money raised from the Roosevelt lecture will go to no private in dividual, to no private organization. It will be used to perpetuate a public memorial in which we all will take the keenest pride. The prices of admission have been fixed in a sufficiently wide range to suit the pocketbooks of all. The ladies of the memorial association have succeeded in interesting in their patriotic work the greatest living American citizen, Theodore Roosevelt, and already the mu nicipality, the chamber of commerce and the people are preparing to entertain him royally—but the most adequate way within our power of showing appreciation of his coming is to fill the audito rium-armory to overflowing on the night of his address. We must all help do that. DESTROYING CHRISTIANITY =—= AGAIN Once or twice in a century a man, or a group of men, solemnly informs the world that Christianity Is just about to expire. Such persons generally lay claim to the distinction of having wrought the overthrow of the religion of Christ, and that boast of their lives becomes the shame of their history after they have died. Voltaire, for example, boasted that while it required twelve men to preach Christianity up in the first century, he would prove that one man could write it down, and that he would be the man to do it. He was scarcely in his grave before the printing press, on which at Ferney his virulent attacks upon revealed religion were printed, was used at Gen eva for printing the Bible. Hume also prophesied the early extir pation of Christianity, predicting that by tlie beginning of the nineteenth century his philosophy would triumph over the “superstition.” He died in 1776, and the opening of the nineteenth century, twen ty-five years after his death, was char acterixed by the most wonderful develop ment and expansion of Christianity since the days of the Apostles. It was about then that the great Bible Societies and the great Missionary Societies, which have achieved so much in all lands dur ing the last one hundred years, were organized. The nineteenth century re corded the most marvelous victories of Christianity since the resurrection of Christ. Meantime the philosophy ot Hume has become a by-word among even sceptical philosophers. But now comes another band, under the lead of Prof. Ernest Haeckel, proposing the overthrow of Christianity, and pro claiming in advance its early fall. A dispatch from London tells us that a world-wide war upon revealed religion is about to begin. A convention was held in the latter part of August to launch this anti-Christian movement. It is giv en out that a literature in furtherance of the movement is to be created which can be sold at a very low price, and that in all Its departments this anti-religious propaganda is to be carried forward on a scale never before attempted. These gentlemen are preparing to take their places of shame alongside Voltaire and Hume and many more like them in all the centuries. They can not destroy Christianity, but they are moving to wards their own dishonor. The religious principle in men can not die, and noth ing has ever so enthralled and invigorat ed that principle as the religion of Jesus Ch p lst. It is here we find the reason for the perpetuity of Christianity and the deathlessness of the Bible. Matthew Arnold once said, "To the Bible men will return; and why? Be cause they can not do without it. Be cause happiness is our being’s end and aim, and happiness belongs to righteous ness, and righteousness is revealed In the Bible. For this simple reason, men will return to the Bible, just as a man who tried to give up food, thinking It was a vain thing, and he could do with out it, would return to food; a man who tried to give up sleep, thinking it was a vain thing, and he could do with out it, would return to sleep." This philosopher of “light and sweetness" can scarcely be classed with the pro foundest thinkers, but he hit upon truth In the words quoted. The world will return to Christianity because mankind can not help it: the religious nature cries for food, and nothing better than Christianity has ever been found to sat isfy that hunger of the soul. Even if our holy religion were open to more reasonable objection than the .criticism of all Its foes, mankind will cling to it until something better is found. Herein is the fault and utler failure of every sort of scepticism: It is nega tive. and not positive; it seeks to pull down but it can not build up; it is de structive rather than constructive. Nor does it appear that the case could be otherwise. What sceptic, however intel lectual and learned, can conceive a bet ter religion than Christianity? All its truths are final. There can be no higher thought than the Father-hood of God. nor wider thought than the brotherhood of man. nor deeper thought than holi ness of heart, nor brighter hope than “the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting after death.” These are some of the fundamental truths of Christianity, and on their face it Is evi dent that they are such as the world can never outgrow whatever the progress of the future may be. “Christ no after age shall e’er outgrow.” The futile folly of men who «*>ek to overthrow Christianity is as manifest as their motive is past understanding. What good end do they hope to serve by such efforts? Wherein would the world he better, brighter, or happier if the purest faith known to man were de stroyed? We can understand the missionary who forsakes home and friends and native land to carry Christianity to the be nighted and broken-hearted who have it not in heathen lands. He believes the Gospel is true and that it is the cure for sin and the solace for sorrow. But surely the Humes and Voltaires and Haeckels have never dared to imagine that a bad world could be made better, or a sad world be made more glad, by the destruction of all faith. At best their efforts can end in nothing - better than a negation. If Christianity were a false light, proving it to be such would not relieve the surrounding darkness. What then can such men hope to accomplish by making themselves apostles of dark ness and preachers of despair? What can they expect as the reward for all their tolls? Or what can they hope will be the fruit of their efforts to extirpate faith and sow the seeds of universal doubt? Benjamin Franklin was far from be ing a saint, but he put to Tom Paine some probing questions*after the latter had completed his vicious work en titled, “Tne Age of Reason.” The vener able statesman and diplomat wrote with reference to the publication of that doubt-laden composition, “If men are so bad with religion, what would they be without it? And may you not yourself be indebted originally to your religious education for the virtues upon which you so Justly pride yourself? Therefore my advice to you Is, to burn this piece before it is seen by any other person; for among us it is not necessary, as among the Hottentots, for a youth to be raised to the company of men, to prove his manhood by beating his own mother.” Haeckel and his Iconoclastic associ ates, flying at the throat of Christi anity to choke the lite out of it, should stop long enou'gh to inquire where would all their boasted science be with out Christianity? It is clear to even the least informed that there is no sciency worthy of the name outside of Christendom, and that in Christian lands science is most vigorous and most richly endowed where Christianity is most fervently believed and most earn estly obeyed. Would . the darkness which these enemies of Christianity desire be more favorable than heathen ism to intellectual culture and scientific efforts? If Christianity were over thrown, and the motives of benevolence which. It calls into being were to wither away, would we h’ave schools, colleges and universities so munificently endow ed as now? How many scientific insti tutions has agnosticism founded? What schools of science has atheism estab lished and equipped? “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Another thing is worthy of remark with reference to these propagandists of infidelity: Promi nence in science and literature does not guarantee the soundness of a man’s conclusions nor the saneness of his proposals. This delusion of the infalli bility of the famous deceives many, especially young men of moderate cul ture. GreaX names make a ce p tain type of mind shudder with fear. Ernest Haeckel has exerted such an influence over many. In some lines of study he is entitled to respect, but in all matters concerning Christianity he is shameful ly shallow and pitiably unreliable. In his book. "The fiddle of the Universe,” he has set down for history certain charges against the religion of Christ which should expose a schoolboy to the penalty of a sound flogging for uttering as the truth. let this 'famous man sets them forth as unquestionable and unquestioned history. It would be laughable, if It were not so mischievous. But his confident and positive-talking ignorance deceives thousands to their great injury. Many of the class who are ready to believe any thing a scien tist says, provided it is not found in the Bible, have read the dispatch about this ants-Christian movement, and they will be ready to say, ”Wefl, it is all over with Chrlsllanity now." Let all such know that the movement will have no more effect to overthrow Christianity than a passing breeze ha* to disturb the fixed stars in their lofty places in the firmament. The greatest triumphs of Christianity ever known are being wrought dally at this time, and tomorrow they will be greater. In Germany, the land ot Haeckel, not to mention what is coming to pass in other lands, there has sprung up recently a great evangelical move ment, not unlike the Wesleyan move ment in England during the eighteenth century, and it is having a most pro digious effect upon tne German people, although the movement is of very SOUTHERN GIRL SELLS CIGARS WHILE GETTING USED TO RICHES Special Correspondence. MUSKOGEE, Okla.—A $75,000 plantation willed to Miss Cordelia Wallace, a pretty clerk in a Muskogee cigar stand, by ber great aunt? lies unclaimed at Monroe, La., while she shakes the box and hands out smokes as she did when she had to earn T.er living. And she beams even more brightly on her customers. “I think I will just-keep on selling cig are here for a while, until I get used to being rich, and then I’ll go to look over the estate,” she said. Miss Wallace didn’t expect her fortune. She’s a namesake of her aunt, but she hadn’t visited her since she romped bare footed on the big plantation, of which she will now be mistress. She was shaking the dice box with customers when an at torney from Monroe walked in and broke the news to her. Miss Wallace received 20 offers of mar riage the first two days after she received notification of her legacy, and they’re still coming. But she laughs at them all. Her waste basket is full of love letters. TMElyTopics.'-' A Going to Drive a Team of Mules Down Pennsylvania Avenue I have just read of the election in Maine, cn yentedray, and It now looks as if the Demo crats have a fighting chance to get the majority in the next congress. If so, and if Hon. Champ Clark wins the speaker’s place (and these two "Ifs" mean a great deal more than most of ns realize), then the Missourian has given notice that he will drive a spanking team of mules down Pennsylvania avenue to celebrate his vic- what will the mules represent to the country on that occasion I should like to know? Unless It should be done as a protest against Republican extravaganve in using auto mobiles. what will the mule team mean? That will do to talk about, but mules come high, and a spanking team, a four in-band, will cost nearly or quite as much as an auto, so what’s tbe use. and where’s the difference. Missouri Is emphatically a mule country, and It inav be that the speaker who expects- to-be aims to advertise the mule industry, and there will always be something doing on that line, I guess, in the south and southwest. Put the north and west arc not extravagantly fond of mules, and they need an Introduction to the good qualities of the mule. That reminds me of a lady teacher who came from New York to teach In a Bartow county family, as a governess, before tbe war. She had seen pictures of the Jackass in va rious books, but she bad never seen one in the flesh. The head of the Bartow county house hold occasionally drove a mule to Cartersville, in those free and easy times, when style was made more obedient to comfort than in these later days. . So the lady teacher stepped from the railroad train to step into a buggy with a mule In har ness. When she wrote home that evening she said: "Picture me. If you can! riding ont from Cartersville with a veritable jackass in the buggy." Unless Hon. Champ Clark labels his team and explains the value of the mule to his Washing tonian on lookers they may say "Picture the country, if you can, being driven through Wash ington’ by a team of jackasses!” If he should' take me along as a spieler for that show I’d tell them that tbe mule Is the most tireless worker on the farm, and eats less and does more work than a horse. He is as giHMI for the money as a bale of cotton or a check in bank. . .. He does not venture onto dangerous bridges without a protest, and he is rarely or never sick bnt one time, and then be dies. He Is always good looking for a mule, so long as he gets plenty to eat. and he could teach old maids the secret" of beauty, because he does not show bis age. and nobody eares very much how old he is. because he is good for what he pretends to be all the time. He may be skcery at the start, bnt he soon learns to take the world easy, and he will change masters—ln a swap—easy, when bls hotse chum will make no friends. Somebody has said he never has any F>ve af fairs to bother about, so he puts in the time without let or hinderance. The mule is the south - * standby sn dthe new speaker should tell it straight. The Tipping Trust It Is considered extremely necessary to carry along enough money with yon when you go abroad to pay extra for the attentions which hotel servants give you. No matter If yon pay the hotel managers anywhere from four to ten dollars a day for your food and lodging you must give an extra amount to secure attention from the r«rvants. This is known as "tips.” and It Is said that you will seriously lack proper attention tn even the highest priced ho tels if you fail to tip the waiters, the mesaen gers. the porters, etc. These people who receive the tips do not always keep the change, by no means. I have been told that the coatroom privileges of a fashionable hotel rented for more than $5,000 per annum, and yet those who dusted coats and hats, and bowed over the quarters and dimes that obliging guests handed over to them as n bonns, still made as much more out of the opportunity of getting tips. If thut is not graft, what do you call It? That Is not all. When a vehicle Is ordered to the floor, for a guest, you must not only pay the Lire but pay the waiter who carries down your suit case, and the cabman also when he opens the door to let von out at your destination. The head waiter In the dining room reaps a harvest. When the nnderwaietrs serve a vlst tor and the visitor drops a quarter on tbe tray after he settles his check the smaller fellow car ries that tip to the head waiter and the head waiter pays for his opportunity to the head manager of the hotel. The porters In a hotel are making fortunes. The head porter employes the underporters, and thev get the profit ont of the extra*. Ails Is a system of graft that afflicts every traveller, extending all over Europe and Ameri ca. It is one of the greatest impositions and abominations pervading onr civilization and has grown into a notorious abuse in all populous sec tions of the two hemispheres. Our rich American nabobs who cross the At lantic to gaze on royalty (and perhaps buy a needy count or a princelet for their daughter, as they go along), are the chief promoters In this business of giving extra prices for tipping attentions to underlings. They make their money in this country by grinding down labor to the least possible "pay. and then go over the water to be gazed upon, strewing their wealth all about, to show off in fashionable hotels and watering places as extravagant patrons. It la done for notoriety and ba« made our pudse-proud money barons noted from oeean to ocean for their spendthrift ways when they go abroad to compete with royal display. It is also hinted around that the sane and sensible people who live tn other countries find <?onslderable amnsement in watching our nonveen ricte in their assumptions and extrava gancies; bnt so long as our own people find pleasuse in "spreading abroad their phylac teries" and evidence their senseless folly by wasteful extravagance, perhaps these people who are "tipped" might as wfll enjoy this waste of their money. This whole tipping scheme has swelled Into mammoth proportions, and founded on a recent origin. Os this movement I shall write in my next article. It is having a far more extensive and intensive in fluence than the propaganda ot poor n,rnest Haeckel. If we could believe the foes of Chris tianity, it has been destroyed a great many times during the last 18 centuries. But somehow Christianity will not stay dead after they kill tt. But its enemies die. and once dead they are very deac, and every day they get deader. By Bishop W. A. Candler MISS CORDELIA WALLACE. false basis. It will drop down in course of time but at present It is simply abomniable graft— getting something for nothing. Must Be Rich to Get an Office Nowadays It has been fully demonstrated that only rich I men can obtain tbe principal political office* ’ In this country. They must begin to pay, at* •oon as their ambitions are announced to tbe public, and the late primary election In Geor gia Las been thus figured up in regard to the expense to tbe various candidate*. The ccnvic tion 1* irresistable that no man need run for governor, congressman or railroad commissioner In Georgia unless he has a stiff bank account to make the trip. I feel sorry for those who were foretd to make good, when they had nothing left but lan empty pocket, because the defeat itself make* a sore place and the loss of the money I makes it sorer, of course. It is evident now that a great many men '■ In Georgia while they are qualified to bald ctffige. cannot enter the race because of financial reasons, better known to themnefrs* than to anybody else. This Is a fact that stands out. with no Meed of explanartion. It is a self-evident ! proposition. It is also discernible that many i who do run for ofice get money help from I their friend* and relatives, as the pub.lMed i itemized list of expenses portray. i Now, I may be set down as a croaker, a ■ pessimlnst. or having a grouch, because I dop ; recate this use of money in popular elec- : tions; but all readers of history, ancient or modern, will look with ausplcion. If not with disfavor on the use of money to control elec tions. No matter how rich the applicant can didates may be, or how many rich relatives the peer candidate may count: It Is the effect of the money Itself that works the evil—and inflicts tbe damage. | It is plainly evident that money counts and whenever Mammon turns the scale there Is danger to a free government, anywhere. I bad some experience with congressional campaigns, a third of a century ago. A can l didate at that time, was expected to pay for i bls ticket*, poster* and bis telegrggms, if he ■ ran as an independent, but the organized Dem i ocrats, printed and paid for tbe ticket* that were used by the nominee at the general elec , tion in November. It was only the independents I who had personally to foot bill* of that sort. It bore hardly on the independents, Wfco al jso paid railroad fare (while the oragnlzed I traveled on free passes), but It was nevertheless 1 a saf* way. You knew what yon had to do. If you antagonized a party nomination, - or ran for office in Georgia. I am an old lady wbo weara specs to be able to read or write, but even a blind man could see well enough to know and be convinced there Is going to be serious trouble, when out siders can chip in and furnish campaign funds for their favorite candldte and If this rule Is adopted In politics then outsiders can chip In to pay for court trials and pay for office* handed ont by the “powers that be." Then office* will he virtually bought. Tbe most dangerous graft In the world U now carried on by outside money used to elect legislature members and congressmen to control legislation It Is notorious that very rich men get Into the United States senate by a large majority, because they can pay the expense of costly elections, and it ts charged and tn many Instances corroborated by evidence direct, and circumstantial, that “great Interests” an>l the owners of “predatory wealth.” advance large amounts of money to secure men who will do their bidding, tn law making bodies. When It becomes a habit to raise campaign funds from outsiders In Georgia elections, we will be apt to find that the longest pole al ways knocks down the persimmon. A man In public office Is today obliged to get money before be starts the campaign. He must have enough of his own to pay the heavy expenses or his friends and advocates must ante up with the amount. It will soon be like traveling In an endless circle and the money will make the mare go; and tbe poor candidate had better stay at horn* and hoe his potatoes for his soul’s sake. This money exhibit makes an old lady like myself uneasy. I cannot see the end to a thing like this which means so much financial obligation. It speaks poorly for a republic, when a man must have money before he can speak ont or vote for his constituents who are not blessed with much cash. When Pa Is Late James T. Sullivan, in the Columbian. When pa fs late there’s nothing right! The house turns upside down; Ma wonders why he’s been detained: Her smile becomes a frown; And mirth gives way to worriment; The youngsters cease their play; And time then drags most heavily When pa remains away. The dishes have an empty look; The dining room seems bare; Ma thinks the food will surely spoil That she had cooked with care. Beside a window patiently She watches for his smile— Until he comes her loxnng heart Is aching all the while. But when her vigil is repaid There comes a sudden change; Pa waves his hand—ma disappears. And from the kitchen range She deftly takes things steaming hot; The youngsters yell once more. And care is banished by the kiss Pa gives her at the door. Search Ever for Good Alice Baker. In the National Monthly. Search for the good in every heart, ’Twill help you better to do your part; That each in harmony may grow With the universe in which we sow. Chill not the love of some child’s heart For want of sunshine on your part; ’ But let him learn of love's great powei And be able to see it in every flower. Pluck not the daisies wet with dew. Though meaningless they seem to you But help them to withstand the cold That they may other blooms unfold. There t* no change in the design of wsl«t.« They continue to be in the peasant blouse style and seamless. One-piece cut girdles are placed high or low. according to the fancy of the < wearer. Sleeves are invariably short. Cd larloss effect* still prevaiL
