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MAGAZINE SECTION.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA,] ^FRIDAY,^OCTOBER 20, 1805.
PAGES 1 TO 4.
MONET FOR POLITICS.
LEGISLATION TO PROHIBIT COR
PORATIONS MAKING CAM
PAIGN PAYMENTS.
Question of Taxinc Patent Medicines
to Be Discussed by Congress-One
Method Suggested to Meet Deficit.
There are prospects that two pieces
of legislation will be strongly advo
cated at the coming session of Con
gress, both of which, however, will be
vigorously opposed. They relate to the
EX-SENATOR W. E CHANDLER,
practice of making political contribu
tions and to the Question of taxation
upon certain patent medicines, al
though tbls latter Is but a feature of
the general subject of overcoming the
Treasury deficit.
It Is expected that the President will
refer in his annual message to the
question of campaign contributions,
and It is known that there are many
Senators and Representatives who
would favor prompt action In the en
actment of prohibitive legislation.
- Chandler’s Bill to Prohibit Con-
L. trlbutlons.
As far back as 1901, Senator Chand
ler of New Hampshire, Introduced c
bill to prohibit those national banks or
corporations which do an interstate or
foreign business from making any po
litical contributions, and to prohibit
any corporations from contributing to
campaigns involving the election of
United States Senators and Represen
tatives. The bill was almost Imme
diately favorably reported to the Sen
ate, but It was near the end of the
short session and It failed of passage.
The evident fact that It could not be
taken up and passed may account for
the entire lack of opposition to It
What strength will develop against
such a measure this winter Is problem
atical. It Is no secret that many cor
porations regularly contribute to both
political parties. Mr. Havemeyer, of
the sugar trust, has declared in plain
language that he has contributed to
the Democrats and Republicans alike.
Publishing the Donations. '
The discussion next winter Is likely
to centre largely around the Presi
dent's plan for the publication of all
campaign contributions, with a view
to framing such a law as will prevent
money from being spent for corrupt
practices. Every one recognizes that
In order to have the great political
Issues properly contested there Is a
.•ertain need of money. The publica
tion and distribution of speeches and
all classes of literature Is quite gen
erally regarded as not to be condemned,
but as of advantage in having tb>
questions of the day properly under
stood by the voters.
Leaders In Congress are but a unit
In declaring that It is only when
money is expended in order to corrupt
voters that the expenditure can be crit
Idsed. But it is generally believed that
this subject will give rise to an Im
mense amount of debate In the next
Congress. There are a score of Sena
tors and a large number of Represen
tatives who will wish to go on record
saying things about the corporations
and the practice of corporations mak
ing contributions to political cam-
REAL HEART OF THINGS.
Ita Found Not In the Great Cities ■
But In Country Homes.
“In time the great dtles may be
come dominant, but it will be many
years hence, and I would be sorry
should I live to see the day,” said
James J. Hill, President of the Great
Northern railroad. "The national wel
fare depends upon the prosperity of
the farm lands, the mining districts,
the lumber camps—not on the growth
of big cities. The agricultural Inter
ests In particular represent the great
est strength of the country, and will
for many years to come.
tuele of a metropolis. Let us take
New York, as our most striking ex
ample—where the visitor gapes at the
crowded markets, the endless traffic,
the hurrying throngs, the skyscrapers,
the roaring factories, the bustle of
commerce, all the urban reek and
riot, and heedless of what lies behind,
the hidden motor power, cries:
“Here Is the heart of things; here is
the pulse of'tbe national life; here the
life blood of the nation centers, life
blood which,flowing through the veins
of commerce, gives vigor to all the
land.” New York, the heart of the
country? Rather New York the par
asite—the blood sucker.
A Giant Exhibition.
At best. New York is but a monster
exhibit of the products of mines,
farms, cattle ranges, mills and factor
ies, and of the rural homes where gen
ius Is born, nourished and Inspired.
What more speaking symbol of these
things than the city’s skyline. In It
self that skyline of marvelous archi
tecture, save as It excites wonder, ad
miration and a sense of enterprise and
activity amounts to nothing. What It
signifies In each nsccntlon and depres
sion Is the comparative values of the
country's material resources.
Concisely, it represents capital, la
bor and raw material. Of these three
the city produces not one-ln apprecl-
'■ material, the
able quantity. The raw
men to handle It, the gold to buy and
sell the finished product, come out of
the ground and from the open spaces.
" New York, Chicago, Bt Louis, or
any other city, has Its Inception In the
open country, end Ita existence is and
ever will be dependent upon the latter.
None recognizes this more quickly
than the city man. He knows from
experience that the city suffers first,
last and most from any national dis
aster. To go no further back than the
coal strike of three winters ago—New
she even produce the men to handle
them. A glance at biographies will
•mow that her captains of Industry,
merchant princes, men of art, profes
sions, laborers, are country bred, from
A. T. Stewart (to go no further back)
to- the Rockefellers, Clewes, Depews,
and all the rest of the present day
leaders.
Even The People From The Country.
Dr. John H. Glrdner, an eminent
New York physician, said recently:
“Build a wall around New York city
illow no new men to enter, and In flfl
years the city will depopulate ltsell
This city makes too many demands
those who live and work In It
Thousands drop out each month. It Is
the fresh country people flocking here
day by day that furnish the brains,
sinews and pluck to enrry the metrop
olis to its destiny. Its success in the
past has been due to this out-of-town
element and will continue to be.”
“Men, men, men,” Is the constant
cry that New York sends out over the
country and the response is adequate
eager and satisfying. It is In this fact
that assurance of the city’s stIIL Klske, John C. Fisher, Frank L. Per-
a ter advance Ilea
flow-
tbe coun-
-ufacturlng town In the
Men attracted from the country
have made her financial mistress of
the western hemisphere.
Cities Not Self-Dependent.
open spacesVfor men, material and
money, but even for trade. As com
pared to tbe amount of money spent
in this city by out of town buyers, the
sum expended by Its own Inhabitants
dwindles Into Inslgnflcance. In recog
nition of this, tbe Merchants Associa
tion of New York annually arranges
with railroads for cheap transporta
tion, and with hotels for rock bottom
rates, and runs excursions to gntlier
in the out-of-town buyers.
During the month of August .over
400 buyers from the south and west
were In New York, and during Septem
ber this number largely Increased,
lteckoajpg under the average of past
years each merchant spent more than
*10,r-
10,000, and thus through tbe efforts
of the Merchants Association alone
more than *400,000,000 Is left In the
city each year. But this' Is merely a
fraction of the trade which tbe city
receives from the rest of the couutry
A conservative estimate places the
gross Income at *1,230,000,000. ,
Each American city Is a clearing
house for the rural or mining district
surrounding It, and New York the
TBE REAL HEART OF THINGS
York faced for weeks a coal ftunlne
that paralyzed her activities and al
most killed her poor. Manufacturers
could not secure enough fuel to run
their plants and women on tbe “east
slde”pald ten cents for as much coat
ds would fill a quart pail. Tbe suf
fering In this city was out of all pro
portion to that of tbe rest of the coun
try.
All food products come from the
outside. New York uses three million
Propose Tax On Medicines.
The question of the taxation of pat
ent medicines, which contain consider
able alcohol, is bound to receive serl-
i er<
ery da/, and beef arrives In
rain loads dally. Tbe city must
main clearing house for' the whole
country. AU tbe mighty spectacle of
commerce is merely the dramatic and
gorgeously staged representation of
the nation's money, material and men,
which build up tbe metropolitan mech
anism and set It in motion.
whole trn
go to the country for its building nut
terlals, for wool, cotton, everything
that Is needed to run its factories,
stores and banks.
Dependent on the Country.
clolly It the present rate of the Treas
ury deficit continues. The deficit is
running about *5,000,000 a month now,
which Is considerably less than last
year, still it la possible that It may
increase to an annoying qxtent and
necessitate some action by Congress.
There baa been a number of extra ex
penses which has caused the deficit,
and there are other extra expenses
ahead, while it Is, of course, not certain
to what extent Congress will increase
or pare down appropriations. A num
ber of congressional leaders hare had
in mind,\as a partial Increase in the
revenue desired, a tax on patent medl-
Patcnt Medicine Men WiU Fight.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has been called upon for unofficial
information and an opinion on these
non-revenue producing alcoholics. Tbs
patent medicine people recognize that
a fight is ahead and they propose to
meet It. They will resist efforts to
impose special taxes upon them, claim
ing with Apparent force that tbe alco
hol used in their medicines has al
ready paid its tax.
Tbe reckless expenditures of the
city dweller are continually giving rise
to the question, “Where does tbe mon
ey come from?” From tbe country,
of course. Every wild-cat scheme
that Is hatched In New York, from
Wall Street to Madison Square, in
augurates its proceedings by send
ing 'circulars into tbe country, to
catch tbe dollars of tbe farmer.
Tbe operations of the- stock ex
change are all based on the condi
tion of the country. A short wheat
crop, a slump in the production of
grain, or the prospect of one, turns the
Exchange
floor of -the Exchange Into a pande
monium. Year by year tbe eyes of the
moneyed Interests are tuned to the
earth,' figuratively speaking, and the
t minds of the metropolis are
keenest
speculating as to what success the
The results of that speculation I
knows what happens in New Yorl
when the cotton crop folia The beef
strike lost year caused meat to van
ish from a million family dlplng
tables In New York city. In summer
eggs at Me a dozen are too expensive
as an article of diet for more than half
the city’s population.
Material and money she gats from
the outside; and rarely, indeed, does
Prehistoric Sculpture.
An Idea of the small brain capacity
of primitive man can be gathered
from a crude stone head, now on ex
hibition, which was recently found
In a field at Moricht#, Long Island.
The head, while, crude in its work
manship, Is pronounced by ethnolo
gists as doubtless true to nature-
prehistoric people who lived ages ago.
The head Is not a particularly pleas
TBEATRB TRUSF WAR.
T.HE INDOMITABLE BELASCO GIV
ING THE SHOW COMBINE A
FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE.
Threatened With Extinction, He Has
Organized an Opposition Which
Has Attracted Some of the Bright
est of the Theatrical Stars.
David Belasco for a number of
the theatrical trust He has been
assisted In years past by Minnie Mad-
dern Flake, the wife of Harrison Grey
Flske, owner and editor of the Dram
atic Mirror. This year the Shubert
Brothers broke off all business rela
tlons with Klaw and Erlanger, the
moving spirits of the theatre tru«t,and
now a combination with a capital of
*1,500,000, of Belasco, Harrison Grey
ley and the Shubert Brothers baa been
formed, acquiring about thirty thea
tres extending from Boston to StLou-
Is, in which they might produce theat
rical productions without the dictum
of the trusts.
David Belasco, ever since bis sever-
ancc of relations with the trust has
made strenuous efforts to acquire a
theatre In the nation's capital, as he
has found that the cosmopolitan na
ture of Its people assists him greatly
in determining whether new produc-
to actor and manager. The success
of this plan opened a larger vista of
profit, and tbe securing of all the thea
tres in tbe country has led to the de
struction of competition with tbe two
formidable exceptions noted. In the
other theatres the manager has be
come the “janitor,” while the syndicate
dictates prices, attractions, and other
features.
Loosing the Dogs of War.
But it is now war to the knife be
tween the two forces, trust and anti
trust, thrust and anti-thrust Wheth
er the trust will be successful and
absorb the Independents, remains to
be seen. Probably not so long as it
has to deal with men who know their
actor proteges, know tbe method of the
trust know how to produce a play
with unsurpassed taste and know that
the American people will pay admis
sion to witness an incomparable pro
duction all the more willingly because
of tbe herculean efforts made to pre
sent it to them. Belasco, In the new
combination which he has organized
seems to have gotten his knife well In
between the ribs of his antagonist and
is beginning already to twist it vigor-
ously.
ENVIRONMENT A MOULDER OF
CHARACTER.
tlons will be a success or not In Sep
tember, however, announcement wns
made that be, In conjuntlon with the
shubert Brothers, had acquired con
tml of the Lafayette Theatre In Wash-
Ington, and also bad taken up a 90-
yenr lease on the ground on which the
theatre Is built, giving them absolute
possession of the property.
A Famous Theatre Site.
Lafayette Theatre is a comparative
ly modem playhouse, and occupies the
site on which formerly stood tbe Sew
ard of Lincoln's cabinet llvi
an attempt was made to assassinate
blm the same night President Lin-
coin was shot In later years the
house was occupied by Secretary
Blaine.
Last year David Belasco found all
theatres In the national capital with
closely barred doors. He was orrang-
■ng to make the Initial production ol
Adrea,” Mrs. Leslie Carter's latesl
'success, and found no building In
Washington suitable for a conversion
Into a theatre,except Convention Hall,
he largest
probably the largest auditorium south
of New York, and in years previous
used for an tbe palace, for six day bl-
atblotl
cycle races, athletic meetings, and
other Institutions requiring great
space. This had a ball some 160 feet
In length by 123 feet in width, with a
roof carried on huge semi-circular ar
ches rising to a height of nearly fifty
feet above the floor. Such a barn as
this Mr. Belasco in a few days con
ing bit of sculpture, as it calls up a
vision of men and women with small
brain development and huge repulsive
jaws but a degree above the other
Fortunes In Church Steeples.
It'ls the opinion of Rev. Dr. Forbes,
Secretary of tbe Board of Extension
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
that enough money has been expended,
or It may be said wasted, In building
steeples, to pay off all the church debts
of the country. Besides, he says,
steeples are a relic of barbarism, and
money used In their construction can
be more usefully expended. A good
many people will hardly agree with
tbe reverend doctor in bis opinlqn that
cEurch steeples an useless or serve no
good end. Qraep-aiid beauty are lent
" ds or otherwise common-
to thousands
place looking towns and dtles by tbs
spires rising ben and then from their
midst Everything cannot be strictly
utilitarian, and if a thing serves to
please tbe eyes and senses of hundreds
or thousands of people, It Is far from
By H. S. BIGELOW.
The other dny I saw a group of boys
carefully scanning u theatre poster.
The picture showed a man in the act
of plunging a dagger In the throat of
a woman. The boys did not run or
scream. Bnt tlielr eyes were big and
tbe Intensity of their faces showed
that the horror of the picture was not
lost upon them. Near by were two
younger children playing together in
tbe gutter. Their faces were smeared
with tbe mud made by the dish water
running over tbe sidewalk, and the
children were amusing themselves
floating cigar stumps In the disgusting
pool.
Inflecting upon that sad sight there
came to mind other childhood scenes.
There stood out In memory a little lake
that nestled among the hills where
sweet-breathed cattle browsed and
where tho branches of great trees were
mirrored In crystal waters. There
were the boathouse and the Bwlmmlng-
liole and the spring-board; and there
were summer nlgbts, too, when the
leaves were still nnd stars were bright
and tbe spirit of tbe child looked up in
silent wonder.
In tbe race of life, in the contest of
physical endurance, In the moral testa
that come, that child has not a fair
chqnce who has sprang out of the mad
of the streets.
To know tbe breath of lilacs and tbe
rustle of autumn leaves; to be up with
the lark, to wet one’s feet In tbe dew
of tbe pasture, to go to bed with the
song of the whip-poor-will—these mem
ories are like guardian angels.
The children whoso horizon is a
brick wall, who must play on cobble
stones and go swimming in the canal
and be chased by the police, If they do
not grow up to be Ideal citizens, shall
we, of boiler memories, sit In judg
ment upon them? Shall we not remem
ber their bonds?
MARY, MOTHER OF WASHINGTON
Handsome Monument Erected by
Patriotic Citizens.
The monument of Mary Washing
ton, tbe mother of George Washing
ton, stands on tbe western side of
Fredericksburg, Virginia, almost- und
er the shadow of Marye’s Heights,
of bloody Civil War memory. Mary
Washington died of cancer, August 23,
17S9. It was In April that year, that
Washington rode from Mount Vernon
to say farewell—a final farewell—
to his mother before starting for New
York to be Inaugurated first Presi
dent of tbe United States. In a let
ter to bis sister Betty Washington,
who lived in Fredericksburg, Wash
ington wrote, after learning of bis
mother’s death, “When I wns last In
Fredericksburg I took my final leave
of my mother, never expecting to see
her more.”
Neglected Tomb.
For a hundred years the grave of
this good woman lay unprotected, on
what had been part of the farm of her
daughter Betty Washington, but
which became a common of tbe city
of Fredericksburg. For half a cen
tury tbe grave was marked by a little
stone slab, but tbls disintegrated,
nnd disappeared. Various fruitless
efforts were made to build a monu
ment, and In 1830 a New York bank
er, Silas B. Burroughs, offered to give
an elaborate monument. The corner
stone was laid with imposing cere
monies by President Andrew Jackson,
but Burroughs met with financial re-
1
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Worse Than Tobacco Cigarettes.
London Is reported to be In the throes
of a new vice-a vice which Is not only
getting society into a turmoil, but la
also attracting tbe attention of tbe
medical fraternity. It is the tea-leaf
cigarette habit—one In which women
STe becoming the chief adepts, and
which they find great difficulty in over
coming. Once tbe taste for tbe new
“weed” is acquired, it Is said tbe sen
sation of smoking tea cigarettes Is
quite pleasant Dizziness is caused by
constant smoking and tbe victims
clutch madly for Invisible and
imaginary objects to support them
selves. They finally drop In an ex
hausted and stupefied condition, and
then follows that wild state of dream
land said to be as varied os that caused
by powerful narcotics.
MONUMENT TO MARY WASHINGTON.
verses and the work on tho .monument
was suspended. In 1889 somo patri
otic women formed the Maty Wash
ington Monument Association, and by
subscription erected the monument
after buying tbe land In which the
bones of Washington’s mother rest
A Story on Balmac.
The French alienist, Esqulrol, on
being asked by a student, la there any
sure test by which tbe sane can be
distinguished from the Insane? Invited
bis questioner to dine with him and
observe. When the student entered
the dining room two other guests were
present one an elegantly-dressed
and apparently highly educated man,
while tbe other was somewhat un
couth, n^lsy and extremely con-
tbe pupil bid bis host
good night, he remarked: “Tbe prob
lem is < ■’ “ —
very simple after all; the quiet,
well-dressed gentleman Is certainly
distinguished In some Hue, but tho
other is evidently a lunatic, and
ought to be locked up at once."
Smiling at bis pupil, Esqulrol told blm
that be was wrong. “The quiet well-
dressed man,” he said, “who talks so
rationally, ha* for years labored under
the delusion that he Is God, tho
Father, while the other Is M. Honors
ic, tbe greatest French writer
of the day.”
DAVID AND OOLIAIL
From Life.
verted Into a modern playboui
through the magic touch of gold,
which be has found to be tbe most of
fensive and defensive weapon against
the combine.
’Money Spent Like Water.
The regulations of the District of
Columbia to- protect theatre patrons
against tbe danger of fire, are ex
tremely rigorous, and It was these
that tbe
_ trust used as a weapon to
thwart Belasco in bis endeavor to
have this last production first appear
In Washington a* have other plays,
which are known as general successes.
The burden of expense for tbls work
did not fall upon tbe owners of Con
vention Hall, but upon Mr. Belasco.
who paid, in order to make this hall
Into a modern fire-proof theatre, an
amount aggregating nearly *28,000.
Tbe present theatrical combine or
“trust,” bad first conducted a legttl
mate booking syndicate, charging
the service five per centof the prof
fer
Its; an enterprise advantageous alike
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by
Ernest
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Eugjtne P. Lyle, Jr.
Published August 1st
The
Missourian
Tbe roosntie adventures of Jobs Dinwiddle Driscoll (Sfchaeaied “The Storm Ccntn
at ttM Court of lUximfllu In Ueslco, whm hie secret i
with that ot the beautiful JtcqueUec, The beet foment!
“Hoewhetee/ewo/«ectasspossess, the eleewate
by i*MtUpatn$ 0/detail. vtridniUtude, novation.'
“■* mssrlell,gist look of tpic breadth, carried tkrcuiku
eveningly. A trthiaef efory.’’-N. V. Time. Seiard
There U ae wore dramatic period in history,
etmdg.”-N.T. Globe.
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