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A Hill.
&IA, U S. A.
most promising little
record for the past
wenterprises in oper-
emplated, prove this
at and not a hyper-
» built and put into
n a $100,000 cotton
tr started the wheels
it has put up a large iron and braes foundry,
t fertiliser factory, an immense fee and bot¬
tling works, a sash und blind factory a
thorited capital of over half amiffiondollars.
procured, and has ap-
or street railways. It
troad ninety miles long,
he greatest system in
I, has secured cennec-
it rival, the East Ten-
jOTgia. It has obtain-
sinneetion with Chat
d wili break gronn
arthroad, connecting
church
i a 610,000
rowers from nearly
. until it is now »ur-
y side by orchards
put up the largest
State. It ia the home
malringcapaeity has
has successfully in
•even years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the record of a half decade
and simply down the progress of an already
rssrrizrrrr
Griffln U the county seat oi Spalding coun-
wiH have at alow estimate between6 000 and
7,000 people, and they are allot the right
•art—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de-
rirable, settlers, who will not be any less wel
some «they bring money to help build Bp the
wn. There is about only ope thing we
sued badly Just now, and that,is a big hotel
#e have several small ones, but tceir aecom
modations Ore entirely too limited for our
“ine s, pleasure and health seekig agues*
if yon see anybody that wants a good loca;
thm for a hotel in the South, just mention
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Washington. Dec. 23.-It strikes me
as somewhat extraordinary that in this
city of great mon the little foibles of per¬
sons of note, their eccentricities and pe¬
culiarities, should bo more talked about
than their abilities as statesmen or their
eloquence as orators. Here, where fa-
hasu habit ot speaking of tho highest of
fleers of the government in a familiar
wav. The president of the United States
is “the old man.” The speaker of the
house is called “Tom” Reed.
Vice President Morton is not mention¬
ed as “Levi,” for biblical names never
fostered nicknaming, but he is irrev¬
erently referred to by the young persons
about the senate chamber as “the boas.”
In such an atmosphere as this it is only
natural that the little things about big
men should be most iu the popular mind.
There is a fad hero for underrating, for
deprecating real statesmanship. Respect
for that sort of thing is left to the prov¬
inces. The capital judges a man by his
house, his horses, his family standing in
society, his success in getting offices for
his friends, and by a sort of personal
standard that is not so much statesman
ship or ability os it is force of character,
individuality, some sort of picturesque¬
ness.
Take, for example, Chief Justice Ful¬
ler. He is better known in Washington
for his short stature, his youthful face
and pleasing manners, than for hD
ability os a jurist. Senator Stanford, of
California, the richest man in the senate
and one of the richest in the country, is
more talked about in the capital as a
plain, democratic sort of a man than as
senator or millionaire. In both of these
eases the reputation is deserved. On a
street car on thp the Capitol, Metropolitan liny,
winch runs from to the fash¬
ionable northwestern part of the city, I
saw both Stanford and Fuller one after¬
noon last week. The former was out on
the front platform, standing beside die
driver, and with that worthy carrying
On a conversation about about street street car car
horses. Senator Stanford is such a lover
of horses that he has curiosity about
them wherever he finds them, and the
street car horse, struggling along with
his load, is such an object of interest to
the millionaire that he often rides on
millionaire and a senator standing
alongside a car driver whose salary is
$12 a week, carrying on a conversation
like two equals, and with as much de¬
ference on the senator’s part as on the
other man’s, was one full of striking
contrast
As if to emphasize the idea which I
have in mind, the chief justice jumped
up from his seat at the patent office
corner and gave way to a young lady,
who neglected to offer thanks for the
courtesy, and occupied the vacant space
as if by the right of conquest or divine
superiority, as I have no doubt many
young ladies had done before. It was
white haired little man who had been so
kind, and I took keen delight, a moment
or Or two two later, iawr, in iu pointing puuniug out uut the uio duwi chief
justice to a friend of mine from New
York, and that in tones loud enough for
the young woman to overhear. The look
on her faefe, when she discovered she had
been rude to the head of the greatest
court in America, was worth watching.
The little chief justice, all unconscious of
what was going ofi inside the oar, had
taken up a standing position on the rear
platform, and was there talking about
the weather and some other things with
a number of cfrrks from the pension
office and a colored man who had chanced
to make some inquiry about the streets.
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miscellaneous crowd which usually
e» in that spot—I mention merely
•how that the capital gossipers who
in the inconsequential phases of
ter and the trivial developments of
are likely to find enough here to
their tongues. One rarely hears a
about Senator CuJlom having
the passage of the interstate
law, a law which has exercised
influence on commerce than any law
recent years, but you do hear that
senator is mo poor that he can hardly
ford tl»e pretty house he has taken
Massachusetts avenue, and that he
likely to run in debt before the winter
over in trying to keep Op an
meut suitable to his station. You
hear also that the senator luw one of
most engaging smiles m
smile that is most winning when
tongue is uttering tUo sharpest
The eloquence of Joe Blackburn is
often spoken of. but his shapely
and Ins own appreciation of the
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: jg
SENATOR STANFORD AND THE CAR
VER.
accompanied by most careful
of becoming shoes, you are likely to
of a dozen times in a week.
Blackburn is a strapping big fellow,
he has a foot which a woman might
envy. It is both small and
shaped. Senator Pierce, of Dakota, is
new man in Washington, and, of
the gossipers could not be expected
say much about him. But they do
of him that he is fond of his own
and that he takes frequent long
solitary walks. Senator McMillan’s
. ent leathers, and bis penchant
white waistcoats, are better
than the bills which he
a week or so ago, and they
important bills, too. Senator
is known as the man who wears
colored suits on the floor of the
the only man who has the moral
age to do so. President Harrison
talked of for his habit of looking at
toes and talking twiddling a bunch of
-while to callers in his
Senator Hoar also has this habit
jungling a bunch of keys in his
Speaker Reed is not very
about his attire, but he has a way
grabbing hold of his vest and yanking
down four or five times in a half hour.
Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, is as
known for his habit of putting bis
upon his desk, and for his refusal
have blacking put on his shoes, as
anything else. Ingalls is almost
much known for his red neckties
his statuesque manners as for his
mand of the English language.
all his sternness Mr. Ingalls is also
coming known as a humorist. He
rnoro cute things and more
things than any other senator.
sample of Ingalls’ dry humor
out the other day when
Coke, of Texas, was making some
marks. Coke has the deepest,
sonorous voice in the senate, and
he lets it out nobody need fail to
On this occasion the chamber was
sonably quiet, and Mr. Coke,
interested in liis argument, roared
so that the men in the far corridor
understand what he was talking about.
As the flood of Mr. Coke's
reached its high tide, Mr. Ingalls
and with a face as straight as a two
rule said: “Mr. President, it is
blo to hear the senator on this side
die chamber.” Then, having made
sarcastic point, Mr. Ingalls sat
and began talking and whispering to
neighbors, Senators Hawley and
derson, while the senate snickered at
expense of ponderous Mr. Coke. On
other occasion, while Ingalls was in
chair, a senator called up a rowlfttion
on the motion to pass being put only
senator, the mover of the
voted. After stating both sides of
proposition the chair sacrificed
mar to a gleam of humor, which
greatly appreciated in that cave
gloom, saying: “The aye have it
the resolution is adopted.” for
Senator Ingalls’ weakness
neckties continues, and he never
in the senate with a necktie of any
color .on his very high and very
collar. Senator Coke does not wear
collar at all, but precious little
this makes in Coke’s case, as he has
long, thick, patriarchal beard ,>
which a collar would be wholly lost
view. In the house Robert Hitt,
Illinois, Blakie’s warm friend, has
the place ot Mr. Maine's other
friend—Minister to Germany
the wearer of red neckties.
Payne wears the old fashioned string tie,
and was never seen with any other on.
Senator Hiscock wears a bold and flow¬
ing sailor tic. quite as picturesque as
senator's great head of shaggy hair.
All these little traits or habits of
men one may hear of in an hour’s talk
with any habituo of the Capitol. It
the little thin zs that people
,i> m,
\
are not orious as the worst cigars smoked
in the capital. Joe Cannon always puts
bis hand on the knee of the man he is
£L hae kin a i habltST ^s 1 ! saying 8 h r his best things with also
his hand put up to the side of his mouth
so that no uninvited listener may over*
hear. A wise precaution this, not to let
the pearls drop before swine, for no man
in congress says more good things than
thm same Joe Cannon. Roswell Mower,
the rioh banker of New York city, is
always laughing. He is noted as the
happiest man in congress. Literally,
they tell me, Flower laughed his way
from poverty to riches, from obscurity to
a seat in congress, and he is likely to go
on laughing and making others laugh by
the very infection of his smiles till he
has laughed himself, into the governor-
ship of the state of New York.
Tall, lank Holman, of Indiana, always
uses his eye glasses in making gestures.
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, makes gee-
tures with his head while bedding both
hands in his trousers pockets. He is
known as the only man in congress who
makes a better speech with his hands tied
than with them loose. Senator Blair has
taken to the wearing of long hair and
clerical neckties, while Representative
Cogswell, of Massachusetts, the man who
looks like ex-President Cleveland,, won’t
wear anything but a white tie, summer
or winter, morning or evening. Secre-
tary Rusk has a habit of slapping bis
knees in telling or listening to a story or
anything else in which he is much inter-
ested. Senator Ransom, who in his
younger days was quite a gallant, mid
who captured the heiress of the Roanoke
valley by winning an election to copgress
in a district which nobody thought he
could carry-, never fails to look up into
the galleries to see the ladies. John Sher-
man is in the senate a solitary and alone
individual Friends he has all about him
but the delights of social converse, of hob-
nobbing in the cloak rooms, or of whis-
perings from seat to seat have no attrac-
tkms for him. Senator, Voorhees is fond
of walking do wn the avenue and of stand-
ing on the comer talking to any chance
friend he may meet. Roger Q. Mills
spends his leisure moments tearing
of paper up into little bits. Amos Gum*
mings, like most printers, chews scraps
of paper into wads, and with difficulty
resists the temptation to fire them at his
neighbors.
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weeks. He stayed eight years, and be-
was Swell g kno»m onlhfRoyaT^
from the Rothschild banking house,
neighbor to the Mansion house and with-
in a stone's throw of the Bank of Eng¬
land. I should liave said In his offices,
for it took a larg^building to house the
EfeJnfr^desk of 1 American’^Stt^sfr
ture in a room whose most conspicuous
ornaments were portraits of Lincoln and
Grant, a United States flag, and a map
, of t*fao hemisphere In
western itzi
room sat a duke, a lord or two with his¬
toric names, editors, engineers, miners,
brokers, and various other people await¬
ing summons to the presence chamber of
the man to whom all did homage as a
king of business. Clerks, stenographers,
ing and going all tho time. He touched
a bell.
“Send in Mr.—Mr. -entered.
“Colonel,” be began, “I wish to nee if I
can Interest you in a Montana mine,”
“What kind of a mine?" “Silver.”
“Thank you very much, but nettling
would induce mo to take on any more
into tho interior so soon as ]
cable me yes or no from '
following your cable with 1
Let Mr.-know how n
you need to see you throt
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