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THE MACON TELEGRAPH : SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1904.
THE MiCON TELEGRAPH r :
Commenting on the report that Ha
iti B. Hill will persist In his Intention
to retire from active politics, the Hart-
f —— ■ I ford Courant remark*: "In any other
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND p„ rt y than that misnamed the Demo-
TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON erotic It would not be necessary for
TELEGRAPH PUBLISHING GOMPANY Mr. Hill to persist In order to get out.
$6$ MULBERRY STREET, MACON, GA* He would have been out some years
—— 1 ago by virtue of his own political acts/*
C. X. PENDLETON,
President and Manager.
C. R. PENDLETON. .
LOUIS PENDLETON .
THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA
The Telegraph can be found on tale
st the Kimball Heuta and tha Pied
mont Hotel in Atlanta.
That la to say. a self-seeking politician
such as Hill I« supposed by his critics
to be, would have been promptly turned
A j out of the 1 ighteous ranks of the Re-
Editor* | publicans. Yet tha unspeakable Quay
remained tbe greatest and moat un
scrupulous of Republican bosses until
his death, and after he shuffled off this
mortal coll Mr. Roosevelt mourned for
him as hit “dear friend.”
THE WAR 18 ON.
The merry war la on between
Messrs. Osborne and Morris—of 8n-
Vannah and Marletta—and few, If any,
of the people who are not good polit
ical chcaa players know what it Is all
about. Of course there la more or
leas truth in some of the things that
both are saying, but It may be dlffl-
suit to separate the whole truth from
the half truth, tho wheat from the
chaff, and in the wtldemeaa of words,
words, words, one becomes mystified.
But this early in the stage of the
game It is not necessary for the gen
eral public to line-up behind either
champion, not yet awhile. Let us see
tha game played a little further on.
There la evidently a stake beyond the
presidency of the senate, but Its out
lines aro not clear to the ordinary eyo,
not now. ▲ governor Is to be elected
soon—at the next atate election—and
a Untied Btatea senator Is to be named
In the next atate primary. And there
are several other things to be done.
Usually the pipes are laid nforetime.
This is about the season for the work
to get well under way, If not already
far forward.
Meanwhile the average cltlsen might
as well lay low and keep a wary eye
out for the game.
Aftei* his successful but more than
questionable Panama coup Mr. Roose
velt enthusiastically announced that
he was going to “make the dirt fly” on
the isthmus nt a great rate, intimating
that the obstacles were removed and
that tho successful completion of tho
cherished project was only a matter
of a short time. But now the experts
are talking gravely of what may be
accomplished In twenty years. Evi
dently the Culebra ridge and the Cha-
gres river are unwilling to yield with
out a struggle even to Roosevcltlan
strenuosity.
The czar has positively declined to
be a democratic Hants Claus to his
people. He Is constitutionally opposed
to constitutions and to by-laws of pop
ular origin.
Dowte dots not believe In Santa
Claus, but Great Scott!—just look at
the Innumerable host of jktopje who do
believe in Sutitie and don't believe In
Dowlo.
The president will visit Richmond
and have a chance there to see the
effigies of a few great patriots whose
examples ho has forgotten In his re
cent career.
The Telegraph sends “the compli
ments of the season*' to all ita valued
contemporaries. May they live long
and prosper!
THE DEBT OF MAN TO MAN.
It Is stated by those In a position to
know that more letters sddressed to
Santa Claus than usual have this year
been dropped Into the post. It Is fur
ther stated that In moat coses the wri
ters of them are boys and girls living
In the poverty-stricken quarters of
American cities and that they contain
pathetic supplications for toys, dolls,
sleds, new clothes, and the like.
The larger supply of these touching
missives from auch sources may or
may not mean that tha pinch of want
Is keener than ever this year among
the poor.. Probably It does mean this.
Certainly It means that the children of
the poor have In many cases been re
ceiving from their unhappy parents
vague and unsatisfactory responses to
their Inquiries concerning the coming
visit of Santa Claua. So uncertain
have been these replies, we may be
sure, that the little ones have been led
to addreea themselves directly to the
good saint of Christmas, employing the
poetofflce aa the only practical meth
od of communication which suggests
Itself to their minds.
The pathos of It all should appeal to
the hardest haart and ought to tend
to lessen the tightest-drawn purse
strings. A child la a child though born
In the Impure atmosphere of the slums.
It has a tender heart, a clinging, con
fiding nature: Its capacity for Joy and
for grief la aa great aa (perhaps great
er than) that of the pampered child of
fortune. Moreover, a man (a a man
and a brother even though he be lucl*
leas and wretchedly poor. His situa
tion li less often the result of vicious
Indulgence than some of ua are apt
to balleva; nor la It always the result
of Incapacity and lack of merit.
Tha successful are wont to be Impa
tient In their attitude toward the un-
aucoaaaful. If not to regard them with
mora contempt than compassion. Yet
not a few of tha unsuccessful have
failed because they were unwilling to
do the deeds whereby not n few of the
aucceeeful have put themselves far for
ward tn the race toward wealth and
power. Aa aucceae too often covers a
multitude of sins, so tbe spectacle of
failure too often hardens our hearts
to the good that may be In our unfor
tunate neighbor. Only In the Idea! life
, of the future realm, toward which our
thoughts are turned when we think of
the true significance of Christmas. are
rewards apportioned solely according
to merit.
If we remember this, and at the asms
time ere perfectly candid with our
selves. we are likely to be more ready
to lend a helping hand at this season
end at ell seasons. If we reflect, it will
be remembered also that the debt of
man to man la not discharged by mere
perfunctory alma, that there la still due |
the gift of human sympathy and of |
that mercy which la aptly likened to
the gentle rain of heaven and which
likaeUi him that gives and him that
takas.”
A Boston man suggests that a fine be
Imposed on all who are too Uiy to go
to the polls and vote. If this plan were
In Oeorgta not a few citixena
t* color, threatened by the poll tax on
hanjl and a fine on the other,
would probably .commiserate them-
upon being unwillingly placed
lie tween the devil sad the deep *•*
far the delights of dtrfran-
Moment provided In certain other
h utin-'j: Matts. Failure to vote p
~ rarefy If ever due to lb
ot uii --.a
All Georgia was on a boom Inst
night. The Georgia Cracker and tho
giant cracker got together moat unan
imously.
The man who gives nothing to hla
needy neighbor nt this season will miss
the true Christmas feeling by forty
mllos or more.
We truat Col. Tom Lawson will no:
receive the present of a dynamite bomb
from Col. Dill Greene, of the copper
gang.
At laat CoL Billy Osborne might re
frain from disturbing the Christmas
hilarity of those alleged and awful
mercenaries.
Nan Patterson can make the Ameri
can people's Christmas Joyful by an
nouncing that aa long aa she llvea she
wiil not lecture.
Men criminals are cheap akateti these
days. It Is the female malefactor who
dtawa the lime-light glory around her
self.
It seems that Teddy wants two years
In which to make up hia mind toward
the Bouth—whether tot salve ua or
soak ua!
Fhlrhanka will hold on to the sena
torial salary until the last moment. He
doesn't need the money, but can't ahake
off the habit.
ono la at a loss to eee where “tho mu
tual confidence and understanding”
comes In. If the recent election, which
about voted the Houth out of the Union
and revealed a solid North, does not
amack of distrust of the South, and *n
absolute want of mutual confidence and
an irritating misunderstanding of the
Houth. then what does it mean?
The Atlanta Constitution further
soya: ‘The News is happy in Its anal
ogy of certain ante-bellum and post
helium influences that precipitated
chasm." The fact is the News is un
happy in ita analogy. Neither of its
propositions Is true. The News de
clares it is a trick of ours to cry out
"negro equality” »o aa to keep our peo
ple solid, and asks: “Do we not have
in this case *of the repetition of histo
ry? How was the Bouth kept “solid”
for slavery? Was It not by misrepre
senting tho North?” And this view ao
caught the Constitution that it calls It
“a happy analogy of Influences.”
Slavery never produced sectionalism
In the South. There was no "solid”
South until the oppressions of “recon
struction” and the negro policy of the
North forced the South into unity for
tho very preservation of its state gov
ernments and for white supremacy.
And It required Japanese bravery and
fighting to preserve our autonomy. Ho
terrible tho struggle that it Is known
In history us “the dark days." Slavery
was not the author of a solid South.
The old Whig party was a national
party. The Democratic party was thor
oughly national. The only sectional
party of tho country was the Republi-
«n party. It was Northern In Its
birth, and Northern only; had no or
ganization In the fifteen Southern
stales.
In face of the doings of the North,
from 1850 to 1860, when slavery was
threatened, an’ the constitution derid
ed by so many Northern societies and
conventions, the South held to the Un
ion stronger than did the North. In the
Charleston convention of I860 It wero
the Northern delegates who got con
trol and struck out the plank: “We will
abide by the decisions of the supreme
court of the United States, be its deci
sions for or against us," thus causing
the split. And what do we learn from
the vote of 1860? Lincoln received
1.857.000 votes, and 80 electors.
' Douglass, 1,300,000 and 12 electors.
Dell and Everett, 6(6,000, of which
only 130,000 came from the free states.
Breckenrldge, 867,000 popular votes,
and 72 electors. The Unionist party,
30 electoral votes and 646,000 popular
votes, only 180,000 from all the North.
Thus. It Is seen, the South even In
the contest of i860 was not sectional In
Its vote. Slavery did not make her
“solid,” although Lincoln's plntform
was an open declaration of war against
the Houth. This little peep Into the
votes of 1860 shows that the Constitu
tion Is In error when It declares that
the Indiana polls News is "happy” In Its
analogy. History has not repented It-
solf. There Is no such history as slav
ery keeping the South sectional (or
aoltd) prior to the war.
Nor la it u trick of ours now to mis
represent the North to keep the South
solid. The fifteenth amendment stands.
It Is ever a menace. The South cannot
“break nwny” into fragments while
thnt amendment la law, and while the
North is so solid. The South Is na
tional In feeling, and Is not responsi
ble for a solid and sectional North.
JAMES CALLAWAY.
source. In sug^»u n g that the two coun
tries seek the same end of freer trade
by a system of maximum and minimum
tariffs, the Globe makes an interesting
contribution to current reciprocity dis
cussion.—Springfield Republican.
Making more cotton on top of a sur
plus crop la like selling goods “below
coat” because you can sell ao many of
them that way!
Judge Crumpacker I. "htwrtat from
th» country on hi. Houih-.laehlng
■rheme -ami the country .aye "SentI"
Kurokt enn .taint for hla obltuarlc
If the Russians can stand footing them-
•elves with the rumora of hla death.
Renta Clau. alwaya brines the Ann.
lean people the lift of relief from con.
«reaa during the Christmas season.
Hearat aeema to he getting tn shape
to bolt Tammany and read the riot act
over Mayor McClellan.
Pon’t forget tha poor. The Master
called them Ilia brethren—and why
ahould not you regard them likewise.
Rvsn if you meet your mother.ln*
taw under the mistletoe—why, do the
honors bravely and like a gentleman!
“Merry Chtl.tmaa" to every reader
of The Telegraph and everybody else!
Here’e hoping Teddy may eee hi*
Christian duty and do It!
Tom nnd Jerry were both In town
yesterday to visit with tha woggle-Jug.
•■Gloria In excetals!"
No Sueh Analogy,
To the Editor of Tbe Telegraph: The
Atlanta Constitution tn Ita Issue of the
23d reproduce* from the Indianapolis
Nows an editorial entitled. “A Plea to
the Houth." The Constitution writes
early two columns editorial In pralee
if the article front the News It epeaka
°t *1 •• "a dispassionate, generous ut
terance of a great newspaper." The
Newe completely captured the Consti
tution which shake* hands again arrow
the chasm tn this language:
“Where there was once mutual dta<
trust end misunderstanding there h
now mutual confidence and under
standing. Ours I* a common cltlsen.
ahlp with a common patriotism. XV.
should have no section.) problem.
Huch problems aa we may hare shout,
he national, to be mad* the concern of
all good American, and met la * spirit
of true Americanism."
In view of recent events and threat
and a policy that recognises Mgr
equality tn appointment at negroes ti
otUce ever whlta people tn tbe South.
tmrrmrirmtrrrmrrmiMtiiimriio
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TOPIC8 OF THE TIME8.
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QMNNKMmaKMNNWK^^
Those not bavins; cotton to hold
pmotloe on tho nllk waist.—Worn 1
Herald.
Many n pretty woman ronld hreak n
bank If some men had banks to break.—
XVnshlnaton Star.
Tbe economists In congress have .booed
Olf Benntor Latimer's Rood roads ttnntu
Claus.—Charleston Pont.
Everything nt Port Arthur seems to ho
a total wreck except Oen. Btnessel'a
nerve.—Indianapolis News.
A .form thnt keeps a church empty
rarely affect, a matinee. A queer world,
my maatera..—lllrtnlnsham Aac-tlcrald.
No people are capable of aelf-gnvern-
ment who deem It either Just or wise to
proceed hy tew to rob enoh other.—Dallas
News.
, "Why ore the rtollcemen ao popular with
servant slrl.T" nek. n eut-crlber. rtnn't
know, unless the xlrla know the pennlty
of misting an officer.—Washington Post.
Perhaps It may help the nlrl who
doesn't know what to Klve tho young
for o Christina, pre.cnt to remind Iter
quietly that this !■ leap year.—tlnstnn
Globe,
When not one .tone of a tthrary la left
upon another Mrs. Chadwick will bo
member. .I as tha woman that made Cae-
negt, famous.—Charleston New. and Cou
rier.
Mrs. Chadwick's statement that .he In
tend. to pity alt her itahmtlr. when .he
t» nut of prison only add to the present
unsettled condition In finanelnt circle,.—
fit. l-ouf. Globe Democrat.
Christmas carol—Yule b« happ. buy
and buy.--Newport New. Tlmea-Herald.
Doe. the Republican party propose to
govern the 7.000,negroe. In the Routh
without their consent?—Memphis Com-
mercial-Appesl.
The real way to offeet .ll.arm.ment of
tho nations la Indicated by the Ilrlll.h
admiralty, wbtcb has decided that rela
tion* are mi friendly between that country
and the rolled Slate* that no warships
are needed on this eoa«t.—Omaha It**.
It la said that there were never so many
unemployed to car* for In New York a.
there are this winter. In spite of two
foot.: That this la a prosperity admin
istration and the Bouth has been .utter
ing for the ta*k of tabor In It. cotton
ItoMa—Rochester Herald.
The people who are protecting at the
discrimination of the taw against women
should b* pleased by the action of tho
Vermont legislature, which has refused
ta pees a law to eava a woman'murderer
x consequently, will be hung lust the
e ae though she were a man. Equali
ty certainly can go no further than thin—
Baltimore American.
Bupt Maxwell lx preparing a report for
the New York boon! of education, which
Is announced ae the first step toward a
three-hour day for. the hugest grades.
Apparently the only serious objection
roman from those who wish to Me parent,
rellsved of the rope of the smallest chil
dren foe a longer time than I be new plan
contemplates—Hartford Times.
No plan of reorganisation that te the
outcome of political Jugglery or sectional
division or radical destruction or “paro
le* resistance" ran be effective. The
"historic place" of the Democratic party
ta tn the van of pragma. And only' hy
Itccorolng tha active party oC prognro
can the Democracy .rousts Its historic
“taro and again win the complete confl-
denro el the prop!o.-Ha»lraoro gun.
Perhaps there ta significance In tha
statement of the Toronto Globe, the lead-
!?* *£* laurtrr government In
( snsfia. tkat OtiMdmi win hair* noth-
l 11 * throng* a tr**-
,jr - H that flair ofctocUoac »r»
Taaupajokte/* U *. stronger state-
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
O
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Jit 3\\
I |ii|MliM'M'i»»ttWWHn
All of Lafoadlo Hearn's hooka arc
to be translated Into German.
Judge A. Starke, who has Just died
at San Bernardino, Cal., was the first
white child born In Sonoma county,
that state.
Governor-elect HIgfHn* of New* York
has chosen aa hl» private secretary
Frank Perley, coren»p° r *d e nt at Al
bany of the New York Herald.
The late Judge James N. Tyner of
Indiana was one of the electors In his
state who caat Its vote for Abraham
Lincoln In I860, atid his death leave*
but three survivors of the thirteen
electors then chosen.
H. H. Vroeiand never uses a pass
on hla line, but Invariably pays his
fare. Should an unlucky conductor
overlook him on his collecting tour,
as conductors frequently do with dth-
era in the rush hours, he would prob
ably hear from the prexldent’a office
the next day.
Jamex Jeffrey Roch*\ author of “The
Borrows of Sap'ed." him been ap
pointed by the preshh nt to be consul
to Genoa, nnd will pnil enrly In Janu
ary. Mr. Roche Ts an editor as well
ax author. He succeeded John Boyle
O'Reilly in the control of the Boston
Pilot. It is h*s Indention to devote
his spare time to literary work while
abroad.
Alonzo Tubbs of Oxage courtly, who
in npoken of ax n Republican candidate
for xpeaker of the MlHsouri houxe of
iixxembly, wan first elected to the leg-
fntnturc of Mlxxourl in 1888, nnd was
elected for xlx connecutlve terms,
thun serving *• longer unbroken term
In the lower house thnn any other
member since the admission of the
ntnte Into the Union. He wan twico
the caucun nominee for the speaker
ship when the Republicans were tn a
Inority.
Joseph Smith, a citizen of Hobart,
•I. T., anplres to be appointed xenven-
ger In that place. He xhowed up be
fore the appointing authority with
thexe indorxements on hin petition:
Saloon Men'x Protective longue. Law
end Order League, Young Men'x Chris
tian Axsoclatlon, Women's Chrixtlnn
Temperance Union, Antl-Prohlbllion
Society, American Protective Axsoci-
ntlon nnd Catholic Union of America.
Homo curiosity lx felt »x to Junt what
pull” he would have produced hnd he
been looking for a really good Job.
Mme. Catharine Tolstoi lx regarded
hy many ax the rnoxt beautiful young
woman now In the Brltlxh metropolis.
She wax widowed two years ugo. Her
huxhand. a captain Jn the Ruxxlan
army, died of consumption and left her
ery extensive estate. The cream
of Knglnnd's gilded youth nre said to
be at her feet, both on account of her
physical charms nnd tho fortune xho
will bring ax a bridal dowry. It Is re
ported, however, thftt she has refused
the hands of dukes and barons nnd will
soon marry a plain I/mdon barrister,
without title of shekels.
IN MEMORIAM.
By Savoyard.
Tbe Hon. Pete Hepburn of Iowa and
the Hon. Charles Grosvenor of Ohio
are no longer young men; their race
la nearly run, and I am sorry that It
la so, for they are valuable, and con
tribute to the beat thought of con
gress. They can afford to be wrong,
and that accounts for their savage as
saults on the common Intelligence of
the United States and the rest of man
kind every time the legislative, ex
ecutive and Judicial appropriation bill
is considered in congress, and the par
agraph relating to the civil service re
form commission—If that la Its name
—lx under discussion. The gentlemen
I have named halve no superiors In
congress for ability, eloquence and
character; but If they were as near
forty as they are seventy, who is there
that believes they would make the
preachments about civil service they
do? It will be obaberved that the
Hon. Charles Landis, who began that
way. Is now , become aa silent about
civil service as Balzac tells us "a
hempen wiodow Is on the subject of a
rop.”
ell'll service reform is here, and It
is here to stay. It has been killed a
dozen times in committee of the whole,
where there is no roll-call, only to be
restored in the house, where every
man can be forced to go on record.
And votes on this question in com
mittee nnd in the house go far to con
firm what John J. Ingalls said after
he ceased to be a responsible public
servant and was become an Independ
ent public man—“The chief disease of
the United States Is the pusilanlmlty
of our public men.” This voting
against civil service reform, and
speaking against It. Is a way certain
gentlemen have of exhibiting their pa
triotism—and patriotism is a malady
with which no congressman has a
moral or intellectual right to be af
flicted—and when they speak against
“civil service" they convey to their
constituents the impossible idea that
every one of them who wants an office
ought to have nn office, and would get
an office as soon &s the proper brand
nnd degree of patriotism gets in
fashion. That la all this annual out
cry against civil service reform
means. It Is harmless.
Now, Hepburn and Grosvenor, in
truth, are too big men for that sort
of thing, but there Is a demand for it
In the country, and in their districts,
nnd be assured that whenever there is
n demand for any sort of heresy, polit
ical or economic, of what not, con
gress will furnish It. Thnt la what Is
the mntter with (he country, and thnt
Is whnt has put the Democratic party
out of the political business.
Some years ngo there was a demand
In Kentucky for Goebellsm. the very
worst nnd most damnable political Ism
ou country has yet known, and Ken
tucky got Goebellsm to her gorge.
There Is. right now. a demand for Ad-
dlckslsm in Delewnre, and Deleware
enn get n heap of thnt sort of stuff and
always cries for more.
I am now one of the oldest citizens of
Macon, If a Vinevllltan is a citizen. 1
has been over forty-five years since
came a young preacher to the city. In
In which cxy father was married,
and In which my great grandmother waa
burled, I have seen almost a whole city
go by me to the grave. \
Macon was not ao large when I came to :
It first, that those who were In business I
were strangers to me. They are now ail
gone. Every lawyer then In the city,
every physician except Dr. Mettauer, who j
was then a young man. every druggist,
every grocer, every banker, every mer
chant; some of them were men so worthy
of remembrance that some day from my
retirement I will try and send The Tele
graph, which was here then, with Farmer
Clisby (as his friends called him) as ed
itor, some recollections of those old Ma-
conians; but I come now to place a sprig
of cypress on tho gri.e «»f one I
tenderly loved. He was a brlght-fpced.
& c raU. h £fi thforaU Tr American and European Plan
astounded by seeing tho notico of his
death. Poor Bob Saulsbury. how I loved
. ^ r - g, where Bay
ards and Saulxbury* gave honor to the
little state, the father of
Fprang.
a sma... i> . / ,
after died, leaving a dependent and help-
— family. Eu. was the oldest. He
the respect of all by his sunshiny
ways and his Industry and capability.
He early became pious, was prosperous
and popular, marrkd into a distinguished
Florida family, and when I first know
him had a family of three children. Bob
Vvna his only son. Everything a fond
father could do for a boy he did for him.
He was graduated from Emory, then from
the University of Virginia, and then en
tered into business in Macon, married,
lost his wife early, lost his hearing, bu
ried father, mother and sisters, and now
hag gone beyond, a little past fifty.
A while ago I paid a tribute In a pub
lic address to his father, whom he so
loved, and he wrote me tho letter that
I send. I had little Idea that Ills day waa
far spent. If I were in the pulpit ns
am row In the newspapers, I would
say 'that all flesh Is as grass, and as
the flower of the grass it fodeth away,”
and 'only the Word of the I*ord nbtdoth
forever." That there Is no life, however
fair its morning, will not know the clouds
er © (he sun goes down. Not only does age
with its Infirmities and poverty with its
limitations need the consolation of Faith
In God. and hope of Heaven; but one who
has all that earth can give may lose all
before the end comes. This letter of his
Jw ch ». r J 08 . e "e th Jf* * glance which
few had into his gentle, tender heart.
If prayers could follow those who pass
rrom our sight, mine would go after dear
Bob Saulsbury. This Is the letter:
rk*. Macon, Ga.. March 17. 1902.
r Brother George.’ —me thank
you for your kind tribute to the memory
or my dear father. If was doubly appre
ciated by me. for I know so well how
much he thought of you and how much he
valued your Friendship. You can testify
as to his usefulness and devotion to hin
Tn law, whnt plea so tainted nnd corrupt,
But. being season'd with a gracious voice
Obscures the show of evil? In religion.
ft ft
ITEM8 OF INTEREST.
A weary traveler on an English rnllwnv
left Inscribed on the side of one of tho
cars: “Paiwengors requested not to pick
flowers while tho train Is In motion.”
A Birmingham tin-worker attempted to
•ommlt suicide tho other day by drinking
some hydrochloric acid. A policeman con
cocted an emetlo hy scraping some whi
tening from tho ceiling uud mixing It witli
water. It saved the man's life.
The Nysm-Nyams of tho upper Nile
vnliey used to be a very harmless, nmlnble
people, whoso amusements were to smoke
and hold nightly concert*. But rifle* and
rum ehangeiMhtfin. ami now u HrltUh ex
pedition Is marching to punish them for
shooting ut British “patrols.*’ though
what British patrols wero doing In tho
Nyatn-Nyiint country Is not explained.
Arrangements nre being made for tho
establishment of n colony on tho !><^vlu
plan at Hines Spur. IDItraml county,
Minn., where it tract of over 3,000 acres
lmg Itcctt purchased. A man named Juko
Hines has charge of the enterprise, and
under hts direction building operations
have been begun. He refuses to give any
specific Information, hut It Is thought
the colony Is Intended to be an Independ
ent one, having no direct connection with
tho Chkwko “prophtt."
A lamdon Jeweler hsa made a collection
of ancient forks used in England, which
show soma IBI** known facts nbout tho
table manners of a few centurtaa ago.
The forks, which are of solid silver, date
from the sixteenth century. In many
cases tho designs In ail this time have
scarcely varied In npy detail nnd tho
forks look like those which might bo
bought today. The old forks were a great
luxxtry In their time nnd were only used
hy the aristocracy.
Mexico Is credited with being at the
head of the I.vtln-Amertcan countries In
the matter of letters. Besides possessing
the oldest organs of Bpaniah-Amcrtrun
Journalism. It Is sold to have In active
existence the first library established In
America, which Is now at least 300 years
old. In Chile. Argentina and lYru there
are papers that have been published for
fifty yeara and more. One Is the El Co-
merclo. of !4ma, which haa had a career
of atxty yearn of uninterrupted dally Is
sue.
President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton
University lectured In New York tha
other day on “The Vnlvcndty and the
Nation." He made some remarks that
throw light on modem college education.
He wild: “You don't send a boy to college
to find an education—It's to find himself,
to orient himself, to find hla relation to
the life that Is around, and to become of
value to th» nation. The class-room is
not vital, because one man dominates—
ana mind lx master. I believe that tha
only way to learn Is by trying your mind
alongside of some other mlad and drawing
onctuatons The thing la to get In the
la aa-room the point of view. Nothing
gtvoa a youngster catholicity of view like
rubbing against the man of various parts
of hla own country.”
A clever game which Is worked at Nlsg.
ar% during the winter months hy shrewd
merchants described tn an entertaining
arttela hy Broughton Brandenburg on
“The Carnival cr I,* *, Niagara." In the
current Harpers Weekly. Shan tie* are
built an the lc* about half-way to tha
■J*® 1 * * h ’ ••set boundary-line between
tha Lnlted States and Canada, and occa-
F**® traders As they have neither
rent. United States doty, nor Canadian
Iteenss. to pay, they are enabled to offer
Is for sols at greatly reduced
1,e •'fficer* of neither country
•m. Weause they wculd first be
to prove Jurisdiction. This
ild ha lmpoeaibv. tor by tha time tha
rtsgnt around to it. It would be spring.
I both the ic% and tbs ahanties would
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Hiding the grossness with fnir ornament?
A return to the spoils system, ns It
was practiced In the times of Jackson
and of Lincoln, would be both Immoral
nnd criminal. A dally lottery nnd
dozen wide-open gambling hells In the
District of Columbia would be less de
moralizing to the body politic thnn the
reincarnation of the bruta!. ruthless,
the ferocious spoils system ns U was
fifty years ngo. And oh, whnt a lot
of congressional scalps It would take
biennially! Not even a Hepburn nor
a Grosvenor would be Immune, for the
appetite, nnd one of those things Solo
mon would have added to the things
that would not be filled, if Solomon hnd
lived In n representative republic. In
deed. every congress would be so bar
ren of members of experience that the
repayments would have to write the
appropriation hill for the committee on
appropriations, nnd they are too much
given to that sort of thing ns it Is.
There Is a mighty demnnd for sham
In our political establishment
I have no doubt that there Is an In
finite deal of shnm In this civil service
business, nnd 1 used to point out to
my excellent nnd luinented friend, John
Procter, some of It. but alt tha sham
of It la Infinitely better than the bru
tality of the old spoils system, which
would turn the United States back to
the civil service of Spain as we see it
pictured so graphically and so bril
liantly In tho great mnater-plece of Le
Sage.
In discussing the matter with him I
one day, In • spirit of fun, tried to tell
John Proctor wherein his rules were
wrong, nnd I nm half convinced thnt
my Idea wna right—at least I think It
ought* to be given a fair trial. Here
Is what I would do: Instead of select
ing for preferment the applicants who
undergo nnd withstand the best ‘ex
aminations, take the fellow* who
make the poorest showing. A man who
can make the adequate percentage can
probably make a living nt something
else, which is alwaya preferable, for
why should a man feed at the publlo
trough If he can get his fill at a
trough constructed by himself and
filled by himself? The fellows who
frill in examination will have to be
taken care of anyhow, and In mere
routine clerical work they will answer
as well, or better, thnn the brilliant
automaton who gets 106 per cent in
competitive examination.
You see. government Is not an exact
science, and thus the fool In congress
Is about as liable to be right as the
wise man. Nor Is government a pri
vate enterprise to make money—Its
business la to spend money—and why
should It, a consumer, take into Its
service men who would become the
best producers?
However, this 1* speculative. This Is
a great government of ours. It costs
I80fi.000.000 a year in time of peace,
and it Is co«t!r simply because we do
not yet know how to govern ourselves.
We are going to pay more than that
after awhile. The two-bUlkm congress
Is nearly here, and will be entirely
here before the new rentary fulfill* its
third lustrum. And what a sham
most of it Is! Yet a necessary and
an Indispensable sham, and we would
be undone did we not pm up with It
Do you remember the splendid and
glorious figure of Victor Hugo—that
where he dreams of the universal
brotherhood « mankind; where he
cites a weapon offense as a curios
ity far posterity to wonder about, and
when our descendant* shall strive as
hard to avoid harming their fellows
as we now strive to prevent our fel
lows from harming ua?
That will be ctvUUatioo,
Cures Grip and
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