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^WJ^w By Professor Felix Jidler.
popular i nr - ‘ r;.ncllion: hare ar
<» _ f o IT, that thc-v t' od tilings. I tel: you that you
O' ♦ < .n r v..-. at paying a price you don't
. to. There is a tollgate on
a;. . t.te U<-*-;ier makes demands
Here l,< ■ grunt. There may be exceptions,
...g that the great fortunes are
-:it-\ous sin, without oppression or
unfair advani. : • of! red mt Id . alth to com¬
!i,; ' m»ir' , '-r. if. :u;,raiccod- ing w.-r - possible—against discov
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cry, wettid you be ready to pay
Satan took ,J< ,-sus to the i op of a mountain and showed Him the wealth
of the world if He would fall !own and wor-’iip. Stop and think. Argue it
out, and you will find that th 1 - ■ ii. -a of millions haven’t arrived, but only have
fieeuifid to, that for all th they have paid the price,
Take the frame of mi the- America:; wealth getter. Iiis constant cry
I s ‘More. ' He has a mu: • money, and no 1- isure in which to enjoy that
which he has. Avarice ■ the grave. Its jaws are always open. The
nobler faculties are atrop) The habit, of mind developed by the pursuit of
rl. lirs it: the calculating habit Morality ami uns dfishness are cast aside. The
sciences and arts are dependent upon aintenenc on the part, of its ex
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ponents, of a disinterested at tude, and thus the higher life is barred to the
wealth getter.
The wealth-gutter may and does support sc:
granted him; but h e cannot enjoy it. The humbh
he founds ha (he advantage of him in this r-sp:
f.a!k-ri'-s, and the lowliest visitor m„y l.avc- more j
<’• ' inon-y bice water in public b'-nr-i.e
i 1 : yet
1 ' -‘ hce ■ .er abs mt, and ti real j ivl
D “‘' with a certain recognition. Ho is fu.tt- ; d an
an- laid for more of his money, and he fails when
will of the public. It is love that is want- 1, and
l is bouse cmt.aiiis for love and still be laughed a
himself in humble service, gets more love than
could buy.
f bere is a distinction, though, between vc ;
jc.ili> not wealth, but it. token. There is no stlgge
but the.,, is m wealth. Wealth is th. means to lb,
lb'!' 1 is no objection to wealth, provided we at
those ends. Some of the worthiest effort in tiie
i be pit:suit of wealth. It is when money is made
that it becomes a curse.
I he only euro I can see is a change of the ii
the litean and sordid. The tender ends of life at
cone ;, to us in exce.-:; of our needs, then there a
we can devote it.
Ties change is bound to come. We may not It
something cheaper than we are. Those who arc 1
goitig in remain silent. There will come a countei
V s/ M I more than 550,000 declined to vote. There were forty-seven af
fl towns in which not one woman s ballot was cast in the
flnnativt .
I think twenty states which refuse to women all other
suffrage privileges permit them to vote for school officers, either without re¬
striction or under certain conditions. It is alleged, however, that the number
who avail themselves of this privilege is commonly very small.
it IS sometimes claimed that woman suffrage would have the effect of ele¬
vating and refining politics. Noith r its short trial in four states, containing
in the aggregate a population very slightly In excess of one-third the popula¬
tion of the city of New York, nor our political experience or observation sup¬
ports this claim.
The states in which fitil female suffrage prevails are Colorado, Utah, Ida¬
ho and Wyoming. In the first two of these states the proportion of female
voters is considerably greater than in the others, and yet the voters of Utah
pave lately elected through their legislature to the United States senate a
man whose fitness is now the subject of a pending senatorial investigation,
and not long ago they elected to Congress another man whom that body re
Of the four states permitting full woman suffrage, Colorado should cer¬
tainly tie regarded as affording the best illustration of its results.
la ss than two years ago a member of the House of Representatives from
that state, holding his place by virtue of an apparent majority of the direct
votes .f the men and women of his district, resigned his seal for the reason,
ns he openly declared, that fraudulent votes had been cast for him in the
'election. An investigation of the case by a congressional committed committee devel¬
oped the fact that some of the most glaring frauds were by women.
I have sometimes wondered if the really good women who are inclined to
approve this doctrine of female suffrage are not deluding themselves with
tinr.'K Timm ntal views ot the subject. L.r.ies Home Journal.
The English Boy.
The human boy of the British sue
cies is a hard nut to crack. He is an
over-present instance of nature's re¬
version to type. We go on civilizing
and over-civilizing. All the while na¬
ture is bringing forth the natural
every inch of ground. The boy. if he
(s a healthy creature, is horn a sav¬
age.— C. B. Fry, in C. B. Fry s Maga
tine.
iNEW PRESIDENT
feed by N.<tio.iiI Assembly
laiiles to
fsMkct Loubdi.
A Par pciai says I. Fn!litres
was ele< president of France by
the nau assembly at Versailles
l.i toe Ill'st ballet. Tiia
I Faihtres, 449 , -u. L-a
£ prcceeJed Meaddy.
■ dseu ,.ii-i.e,vr - L j
■ pr jstatuaiiian aepcs.t
HI til. Uilt, each givlup
Headers and l-Ooi.ng tan
Bes.ng groups, toe v era!
, including MM. italic,
toarraut, v,iio were id
keivej the assistance of
[*. .a mounting the trtb
ace proclaimed the end
jag and ali present ua
I the announcement "f
Son when the first fig¬
ures, I- 44d, and M. Dcu
m or given out, there was
lit enthusiasm, which
was Liter I. the corrected fig
Fallieres 44b. The
lore:
I 449; M- Bourner, 371;
Jbstained from deposit
M. FallierBreturned Mlorted to Paris from
Versailles! Mr. by a military
guard oM Ho will take over
his new > “ Hi February lit.
After a; i fifing IHdence, a brief period at
the official which he occu
Fallieros pies as paa|H|vnt \HHBto the of tire Ely see senate, palace, M.
to visit Pr^^Snt uuM:i Loubet, iiresident-elect. who warm¬
ly congt the
Tile new i “ddant of France is the
son of a t. gist ato's clerk and is the
grandson a / blacksmith.
M. Clem ut lArmand Fallieres was
born Noveniberv 0, 1841, at Mezin, et
Geronne, He jrtudled law and was
culled to t'J'Ifbar at Merac, of which
town he bei.ilme mayor, retaining that
office until J875.
in the f(Wowing year he wax elect¬
ed to thoi 'C hamber of deputies as
republican jtgid affiliated himself with
the repC^J left group i® the
chamber. H distinviiished himself
as an ora to- in
La" jT JHHpPKninister of
the IcteriC Iplragain pin re-elect¬
ed to the TSSI. Ho re¬
tired from|; .i *,trv at the time of
the .1Files Fol labinet, but returned
to power thijg ilowing year and was
made- presiibtnt' of the council and ad
interim minister of foreign affairs.
Subsequently m. Fallieres was sne
cessiveiy milnifter of public instruc¬
tion, minister, of the interior and min¬
ister of justiche. He was elected sen
| ator in 1890, .'a position which he has
held since presidency th|at time, and was elected
to the of the senate in
1899. He wafc re-elected in 1900, and
was again rl^elected January 11 of
j the present y|e»r.
M. Falltereii took an active part in
I the religious 1 question, opposing at
first the proposition for the separa
i tion of c^k'-h and state, but later
! energetktallj ajdvocated the repression
j of the clergy.
With the permission of the Russian
government an Italian company is try¬
ing to raise a British war vessel which
-ailk in Balaklava bay, Crimea, during
the war of 18o4-'56.
HCUSE PASSES
PHILIPPINE BILL
Daly Through Vote of Democrats
Was Result Accomplished.
DEBATE WAS STRENUOUS
Msasure Went Through Substantially
as it Came from ills Committee.
Its Prime pal Provisions.
A Washington special says: Only
through the help cf democratic votes
did the administration saw its Phil¬
ippines tariff bill from defeat in the
house Tuesday.
In view of the present revel*, on the
part of republicans ti’v- important fea¬
ture of the vote is that as mitny as
should have ■
fifty-nine republicans
stood out against tile bill to the end
in the face cf all the pressure that
could be brought not only by the j
white house, but by the speaker ami !
the house leaders.
There is every indication that ths
revolt against the administration dou¬
ble statehood bill is stronger than
that against this bill, and as the dem¬
ocrats are- practically a unit against
linking Arizona and New Mexico,
there is a strong probability efi the
insurgents being on ths winning, side
in that fight.
The Philippines bill was passed by
the house substantially as it crime
from the ways and means committee.
The vote was 258 to 71. On the xno-
CASH FOR BLIC BUILDINGS.
Senate Committi Makes Favorable Re*
port on Nuv jjer ol Measures.
Senator Clay ecured a unanimous
report from the senate^ committee on
public‘buildings Amd grounds Wednes¬
day in favor of the passage of his
bill appropriating $1,000,000 for a new
public building t Atlanta.
The committee also ordered favora¬
ble reports on b ’is making appropri¬
ations for new ederal buildings, a3
follows:
At Bluefield, W. Va., $100,000; Fort
Worth, Texas, I'Jlo.OOO; Anderson, S.
C„ $75,000.
A favorable report was ordered on
a hill authorizing the erection of a
building at Selma, Ala.
HAZING CF MOSI HRplAl CHARACtER.
Cadet Appointed by Champ Clark is Haled
Before Investigating Committee.
Hazing of a brutal nature was re¬
vealed during the trial of Midship¬
man Chester Bloebaum at Annapolis
Thursday more plainly than in any
of the previous proceedings. Three
Lourth-classmen testified that they
had been hazed by Bloebaum until
they were utterly exhausted. Bloebaum
is an appointee of Congressman
Champ -Clark, who said recently on
the tioor of the hoi-.■ of representa¬
tives that he would arm a youth he
sent to Annapolis with a bowie knife
i and hatchet.
JOBS FOR DECADENTS
Is Chief Evil Practiced in American
Consular Service, Says
Secretary Root.
A Washington special says: Secre¬
tary Root, while appearing before the
lioas:_ appropriations committee in re¬
lation to the expenses of the state de¬
partment, spoke frankly concerning
lira shortcomings of the American con¬
sular service.
The- statements of Hr. Root, which
have just been made public, show
that in response to questions by Rep¬
resentative Livingston, the secretary
said:
“There are a great many consulates
that have been in- that condition and
there are some that are still in that
condition, and the fact arises from
several causes. One cause is that
consulates are: used anti regarded here
not as places in which active and ef¬
ficient work is to be done, but are
used as places in which to shelve es
t'imabie and elderly g<ents whose
friends find it necessary t’er take care
sf them in some- way.
"Now, I have get old enough to be
able to say that sort of thing without
anybody being offended. I don’t think
that when a man has lived out the
activity of his life and passed be
vorid his ambition and his energy aa<l
his desire to make a career for- liim
seif, I. do not think that then is the
time to start him out in a-new place
where he has got to learn a new
business, and push the- commerce- of
the country.”
The following statements were then
made by Mr. Root in reply to- ques¬
tions of members of the- committee:
Mr. Baimdige: "I quite agree with,
you, Mr.. Secretary, as to that, but on
whom rests tile blame for that c;n
ditlon?”
Secretary Root: “It rests* on a long
standing custom, whereby the execu¬
tive is expected to appoint to import
ant consulates important men from,
the different states.”
Mr. Graff: “But you have a system,
j of examination?”
“Yes, so- far as the young fellows
go. You. can put the screws on them
and make them come up for examina¬
tion, but when an eminent citizen—”
Mr. Livingston: “An eminent ex¬
senator or member of congress ?”
Secretary Root (contln.xc.ng): “Yes;
when .an eminent citizen coim s around
you cannot wramne him in g eography
and rieiimeU He resents it aud*v
there is the dickens to pay all along.
(Laughter.) It is a custom that has
grown up—just like this deficiency
; custom. When you step in to change
a custom you cannot change it by
| piecemeal,, you have to jar something.”
WBiGrtT AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN.
Present Governor General of the Philip—
sines is Given a New Post.
Lukes K. Wright, governor of. the
Philippines, has been named by the
president as the first American am¬
bassador to Japan.
In accepting the new appointment.
Governor Wright sacrifices $3,000 a
year in compensation. It is believed,
that (congress will accept the recom¬
mendation of Secretary Root that in.
connection with the elevation of. the
American legation at Tokio to the*
rank of an embassy, the compensa¬
tion of the incumbent be raised from.
Ohio Town Neerlv W ped Out.
Convoy, Ohio, a town of 1,800 in¬
habitants, was almost wiped out by
firely early Tuesday. The losses will
aggregate $75,000.
$12,000 to $17,500, but as Governor
Wright's present salary is $20,500, be
will still be suffering a considerable*
financial loss.
THREE KILLED IN COLLISION.
freight and Switch Engines Crash Together
on Seaboard Air Line.
A head-on collision occurred be¬
tween a through freight train and a
switch engine on the Seaboard Air
Line railroad at Mina, seven miles
from Atlanta, Friday evening at 5:33
o'clock, an dthree men were killed
and two injured. An engineer and
fireman saved their Jives by jumping.
The dead are: Walter S. Taylor, en¬
gineer cf switch engine; leaves wife
and two children. E. B. Rock, tele¬
graph operator; leaves wife and five
children. Thomas J. Eden, fireman
on the switch engine.
AN ILLEGAL or.AL IS ALLEGED.
lien. Jehn Temple Graves Avers That Rail¬
roads Control Policy o! His Pf.per.
Charging that Charles Daniel, back¬
ed by the Southern and Central of
Georgia railroads, is seeling to gain
absolute control of the Atlanta News
in violation of law and contracts aro
made by John Temple Graves, editor
in-chief cf that paper, in a bill in
equity filled in Atlanta Thursday.
The allegations cf the bill are sen¬
sational. The defendants in the suit
are Mr. Daniel, James W. English,
Jr., Mills B. Lana of Savannah and
the two railroads above mentioned.