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I SOUTH AND NEW LABOR LAW.
The new Immigration law which ie
to be construed by Attorney-General
Bonaparte and take effect on and after
g a tr ee It bears on the question of
toe State or of any pereon or corpora
tion Inducing and assisting Immigrants
Is as follows: Section 4 of the law
snakes It a misdemeanor "for apy per
eon, company, partnership or corpora
tion. In any manner whatsover, to
prepay the transportation or In any
way assist or encourage the Importa
tion or migration of any contract la
borers Into the TJnlted States." Sec
tion 6 provides that It shall be deemed
a violation of Section 4 "to assist or
encourage the Importation or migration
of any alien by promise of employ
ment through advertisements printed
and published in any foreign country;
and any alien coming to this county In
consequence of such an advertisement
shall be treated as coming under prom
ise or agreement." But It Is further
provided that Section 6 "shall not ap
ply to States or Territories, the Dis
trict of Columbia, or places subject
to the Jurisdiction of the United States,
advertising the Inducements they offer
for Immigration theretd. respectively.”
The economic spirit and purport of
the law Is to prevent interested parties
from bringing In cheap labor and bear
ing the labor market In unfair com
petition with the native labor. But It
Is also intended to obviate any chance
of preventing an influx of labor where
there is anything like a labor famines
and conditions can only be bettered by
the new blood. Now this la peculiarly
the condition In the south. The major
portion of our labor Is of such a nature
that no Immigration which we could
possibly Induce to come to our shores
would cheapen 1L The very labor lead
ers who have helped to bar our doors
against the newcomers In the Interest
professedly of their crafts, are sadly
at fault as to the situation. Immigra
tion Commissioner Sargent, who par
ticipated In the Immigration conference
held here recently, and who is an en
thusiastic labor unionist, did more to
enlighten the minds of those who at
tended the conference on the entire
Immigration subject than any other
one epeaker, and we say this without
being invidious to any, as all who
heard the commissioner’s address will
readily appreciate. Commissioner Sar
gent sneered, If so strong a word may
be used In connection with so amiable
and broad-minded a personality—he
sneered at the suggestion that any
element of the foreign Immigration
pouring Into this country under his
official eyes could cheapen labor con
ditions In the South. On the contrary,
he emphasized the point that no power
could hold the Immigrants here after
they came if the wages and conditions
did not level up with those of other
sections of the country. His point, to
put it tersely, was that while white
native labor might tolerate the de
pressing effect of negro competition,
employers would quickly he undeceived
If they hoped to hold the foreign white
^•bor under similar conditions. Such
Ing the situation, it is easy to see
that nothing would so tend to elevate
the conditions of labor in the South as
the very influx of white labor which
Mr. Gompers and other labor leaders
•re reported to be opposing in the in
terest of organized Southern labor.
Now, such being the situation. It Is
clear that while the letter of the new
law will hamper the Attorney-General
In a liberal and beneficial construction
in the Interest of the South, the spirit
and intent of It, on the other hand,
■would best be subserved by throwing
wide open the doors of this section to
white skilled labor. Organized labor
•ltd skilled labor are synonymous.
There Is nnd always has been a dearth
rather than a glut of skilled labor in
the South. Notwithstanding this fact
• nd notwithstanding that the contract
labor law is obviously designed to pro
mote the Interest of labor. It has been
Ingeniously amended to operate preju
dicially upon Industrial conditions In
the South In the Interest of New Eng-
THE GLORY OF SELF-EFFACE- ROOSEVELT - ROOT BOOMERANG.
MENT. I The best-devised theories of the
The New York Sun tells the rail- ' President and his Cabinet advisers "aft
roads that ' self-effacement is the price : gang agiey.” to paraphrase Burns, on
of liberty” in their case. It advises them lone aspect of the White House policies
to refrain from even the gentlest kick 'just now in the public eye. The New
I-i-l I-H-H-I"H*1-I-1--I I I » 1
against the wishes of th • President and
the public. The Sun urges them to do
everything that is a-ked and more, and
"go into bankruptcy with ail imagin
able grace and affability."
The Golden Rule for Railroading
Ju31 at present sets forth that all
wages of all classes of employes
must he advanced to such figures
as they are willing to accept and
that ail rates for transportation
must lie cut in two if possible.' If
impossible, it is even more import
ant that It be done at one--. All of
which subtly recalls the history of
the coal Industry and the demand
for the lynching of the coal bar
ons for their failure to raise wages
and for their delay In lowering the
price of coal. It will never, we
trust, be forgotten how the Inter
position of a supreme intelligence
solved that awful problem and
brought anthracite coal almost
within the reach of people of mod
erate means.
The railroads will scarcely be quick
to take such advice, fearing that, after
York Evening Pest says:
If there is to be a round-up of
:he various State Geverners at the
White House, in order to impress
them with the need of calling the
Legislatures off the railroads some
Interesting conversation would en
sue. Dialogues like the following
might occur:
Governor Deneen—But, Mr. Pres
ident, we thought that Mr. Root
was speaking for you when he
called upon the States to make
their corporation laws more dras
tic.
Mr. Roosevelt—No. the point of
what Root said was that I would
find a way "by construction” to do
the duty which the States are neg
lecting.’
Governor Deneen—Then you
must be glad that we are attend
ing to it now. That lets you out.
Mr. Roosevelt;—But I don’t want
to he let out!
SECONO
THOUGHT COMING TO
HIM.
This is from the Wall Street Sum
mary and is appreciated accordingly:
going Into bankruptcy in order to bring "All who looked forward to a practical
the people "to their senses," they will ; improvement. If not a solution, in the
find that the remedy was a trifle too labor situation in the South and West,
costly.
Tho Sun's sarcastic remarks will not
have much effect or. either side to tho
controversy, but they furnish highly
entertaining reading matter.
through the approval of Secretary
Straus for ‘State-assisted’ immigration,
will learn with dissatisfaction of the
ruling of Attorney-General Bonaparte.
He contends that the action of the
It is manifest, nevertheless, to the i States in paying the traveling expenses
impartial and candid observer, that
restrictive legislation, in response to
popular outcry against corporations,
has gone too far in some instances. A
dispatch of recent date gives the fol
lowing Incident in this connection:
HOUSTON, Tex., March 9.—
Sunset Limited, of the Southern
Pacific, was annulled yesterday
because It was 50 minutes late, the
annulment being due to the recent
order of the Texas Railroad Com
mission requiring passenger trains
to run within 30 minutes of their
schedules.
There was a large number of
Northern and Eastern tourists
aboard the train, going to the Pa
cific coast, and they were com
pelled to remain here 12 hours.
A committee was formed to pro
test against the enforced delay,
and it is probable a test case will
be made.
Another State has made a law re
cently requiring every car to be pulled
not less than fifty miles a day—pre
sumably with the Intent of preventing
a freight blockade, and car congestion
at terminal points. This law enforced
would paralyze any road In existence.
The average journey of a car is thirty-
eight miles a day.
There is no doubt that in many cases
railroad managements and railroad em
ployes have sinned against the people’s
natural rights, as in cases of re
bates, unequal rates, and the Juggling
of tho stock market by certain captains
of Industry, but while such evils ought
to he corrected, and' can be corrected,
It Is simple folly and madness to plunge
the country into a populistic hysteria
and business chaos on account of the
sins in the past of some of the rail
roads. If one cashier of a bank robs
the vault there is no Justice or reason
in hanging all the cashiers on that ac
count.
Caught on J
the Wing |
H-K--1-H-1 I--1 l-I-I I i H-K-i-h-b
By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
of immigrants, and In assisting them
to procure work, Is a violation of the
Immigration law. The earlier decision I
exempted States from the contract- |
labor provision, and there seems no
great reason why this exemption
should not continue.- Nothing In the
way of legislation can be effected be
fore December next, but If there is
anything in the shape of an ‘after
thought’ coming to the Attorney-Gen
eral on the construction of our new
alien measure, we trust that it will dis
cover itself without delay.”
Today is dear to the sons and daugh
ters of Erin, and as long as their
hearts beat true to the Emerald Isle,
which will he forever, so 16ng will
the memory of Saint Patrick live fresh
and green in 'the affections of his peo
ple. And as his memory lives so will
the shamrock live perennially as the
national emblem of the Irish. It Is said
that St. Patrick, when preaching the
Trinity, used to Illustrate his subject
by reference to the shamrock: and
hence, perhaps, the Island of Saints
adopted this plant as her national
emblem. In St. Joseph’s Church In
this city, is a handsome memorial win
dow showing St. Patrick illustrating to
the King and Queen of Tara, through
the three leaves of the piece of sham
rock which he holds in his hand, the
doctrine of the Trinity, the Father, the
Son and the Holy Ghost.
In Thomas Moore's Irish'- Melodies
appears the exquisite lyric—"Oh the
Shamrock”—from which I copy the fol
lowing verses:
Thro’ Erin’s Isle.
To sport awhile
As Love and Valor wandered
With Wit, the sprite.
Whose quiver bright
A thousand arrows squandered.
Where’er they pass,
A triple grass
Shoots up, with dew-drops streaming,
As softly green
As emeralds seen
Thro’ purest crystal gleaming.
Oh the Shamrock, the green, Immortal
Shamrock!
Chosen leaf
Of Bard and Chief,
Old Erin’s native Shamrock!
tality of St. Patrick the faith Is now j
as fr.'sh in Ireland, even In ^hfs cold
twentieth century, as when it was first I
planted. ”
SENTENCE SERMONS. j The Times-Union 1 Philosopher
i From the Chicago Tribune.
There is no love without duty.
LETTERS FROM THE
PEOPLE TO THE EDITOR
’Twas Colquitt, Said Judge McRae.
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
Some one has observed that the ques
tion as to who It was threatened to
Conduct Is crystalized character.
He who cannot learn has ceaaed to
live.
Sow helpfulness and you reap hap
piness.
Most of our weakness comes from
worry.
Work for your fellows is worship of
wallow Alex. Stephens is exciting an j your Father.
tands and wonders; faith
straight-
interest out of proportion to its im
portance. Nothing, however, that re
lates to the personality of any of that
incomparable galaxy of statesmen, to
which Mr. Stephens ar.d his contempo
raries belonged, will fail to Interest pa
triotic Georgians.
One of the best Informed men in
Georgia of the men and times to which
Stephens. Toombs, Colquitt and others
of that group belonged, was Judge
John F. F. McRae of this county, who
died about four ears ago. He was
recognized as . authority, and there
was scarcely a man prominent in Geor
gia's public life sixty or seventy years
ago that Judge McRae did not per
sonally know. Many times have I, in
company with other young men of his
acquaintance, sal around him to eager
ly listen to his thrilling recital o#
events of the long ago. Among the
many entertaining historical scraps
with which he was wont to regal his
. hearers, was the debate between Wal-
I ter T. Colquitt and Alex. Stephens,
during which Colquitt asserted his
Credulity
starts out and works.
No Institution makes itself sacred
by labeling all others as secular.
He drakens his own way who makes
light of the troubles of others.
Life always Is a dull grind to the
man who thinks only of his own grist.
It takes the base line of two worlds
to get a correct elevation on any life.
Heaven cannot hear the prayer for j lows have a chan
the poor that has no effect on my tention from the w
From the Jacksonville Times-Union.
Plagiarism is the tribute mediocri:
and commonness pay to genius.
The world will not believe much in
man who has but little faith lit him
self.
It is funny how a political defo-
can help a man to see disaster a'aea
for his country.
. Real religion is something a
too big to be confined in the
Jacket of creed.
Anathema and abuse are the weap
ons resorted to only by a cause that is
j already defeated.
Men would bo better if they were not
so much afraid that they would miss
something by It.
The average man thinks more of an
optimist, even if he fails, than of a pes
simist who succeeds.
When the big men die the little lot
to attract some nt-
ld.
store.
The most heavenly pictures seen oh
earth are men and women doing com
mon loving kindnesses.
Health is a large part of happiness,
and happiness of health, while both are
essential to holiness.
98 becav
him fr<
FOREIGN NOTES
An exposition for everything relat
ing to paper making, printing, book
binding and engraving, to be called the
j ability to swallow his diminutive an- T . . - T
i 4 i _ J CltATiVlnna J . V> « CS I I^XJ^OSltlOD IH16TOft tl on cl I © QU Ll\ re, Wjll
! tagonist, and Stephens made his fam- | hf . in p 1ri , frnm the Tll!v ,
ous reply. I have time and again test-
I ed the accuracy and correctness -of
Judge McRae’s memory in these his-
be held in Paris from the end of July
to October 20. 1907. A special feature
will be the production of artistic ad-
j torical ’rernimscencesT'and 1 * invariably I vertlaing and post cards.
| found him correct: I am. therefore. ! The Japanese legation has sent word
j willing to accept his version of this ’ to the Brazilian minister of foreign af-
now much mooted incident. j fairs that there will shortly arrive in
Judge Mc'Rae was himself, during the I j>] 0 ,j e Janeiro a large liner, belonging
most of his long life, in the public ser- 1
vice, and h’s opportunities lior ac
Many a man has lost slice
a fleeting pleasure templec
the path that leads there.
As soon as a man realizes that he
isn't absolutely essentia! : ' ’.lie w -’ 1
he begins to be really useful.
Considering how mighty little the
world cares 'about being saved. It i:
remarkable how many want to save it.
One advantage in being very rich
is that you do not have to worry about
what the rest of the, world thinks
about it.
FACTS IN FIGURES.
Lord Strathcona. now In England
has been informed by a cable dispatch
that about 60.000 men will bo required
by contractors for railway work in
western Canada during the coming
summer.
Japan's exports of porcelain ware to
Says Valor "See
"They spring for me,
"Those leafy gems of morning:*'
Says Love. "No, no.
^For me they grow, .
"My fragrant path adorning.”
But Wit perceives
The triple leaves.
And cries. "Oh do not sever
"A type, that blends
"Three godlike friends /
“Love Valor, Wit. for ever!”
Oh the Shamrock, the green, immortal
. Shamrock!
Chosen leaf
Of B'ard and Chief.
Old Erin’s native Shamrock!
quainting himself with the personal
history of Colquitt, Stephens and their
illustrious contemporaries, wgre of the
best. He was personally and, in many
Instances, intimately acquainted with
the ‘‘giants’’ of those days. He was in
the service of the Federal Government
at the timfe of the landing on the Gonr-
to a Japanese shipping company, which ! the United States are increasing rso
ls fitted up as a floating exhibition of I l.Ily. They were about S2.S00.000 worth
Japanese products, says the Brazilian ■ in ‘ 1906, against $1,900,000 worth in
Review. j 1905 and three and one-half as much
A scheme is on foot for creating a | as in 1902. j
Saint Patrick, the apostle and patron
saint of Ireland, was born in 373 lq
the town of Kilpatrick, on the mouth
of the river Clyde in Scotland, hp-
Japanese agricultural colony in the
heart of Alberta, says the China Tele
graph. Well-to-do Japanese farmers
are to be taken out. according to the
gia coast of the slave ship “Wanderer,” I project, and they -will turn their atten-
and only a few years ago was the re- ! tlon to the raising of wheat and the
cipient of several hundred dollars ! cultivation ugar beets and anything I per en & lne -
through an act of Congress for services , else that wilt thrive in the’climate. j The exports of Nottingham lac
A German article describes a locomo
tive equipped with feed-water heaters
which has recently been put into ser
vice on the Egyptian State railways,
and effects a saving in coal consumed
of 21.4 per cent, or over $1,000 per year
rendered the Government in connection According to a French consular re- ' H° ods continue very large—unequaled
with that historic event. „„ ‘for many years, if ever—to the United
GEORGE BRIGHT. port there ls an increasing t.emand in g tate;: The total lace exports to all
Helena, March 16.
the Canary Islands for all kinds of fur-
| niture, due to the growth of Las Pal-
I mas and to the extensive building of
The Wirz Monument.
To the Editor of The Telegraph: Ilav- j
ing read an article, headed “Dark
countries increased 20 per cent in value
during the ten months ending with Oc-i
tober. in comparison wjth the corre
sponding period of 1905. The total
value exceeded $17,000,000. The home
trade ls also very active.
Consul Harris reports from Nagasaki
that during the year 1905 there were SI
_ acres In peppermint in that district
tween Dumbarton and Glasgow He ; wouTd'afford"me'"great” pleasure' to \ new process known as the Inshaw. | £*‘ P 5I 1 i
died in Donn, Ulster. Scotland. March shake his hand. If the South had ; seamless iron and steel tutbes for
The principal business is done in light
goods supplied by Spanish manufac-
Memories of old Andersonvllle,” by turers
James Callaway I cannot refrain from j It ls announced that a Scotch com-
wrltlng a few lines on that subject, j ...
I do not know Mr. Callaway, but It I P an y is about to manufacture, by
MAYOR MoCLELLAN’S GOOD
SENSE.
There was much good sense in Mayor
George B. MicClellan’s -address at
Princeton University last Saturday.
“If some rich men are scoundrels and
some corporations are criminal," he : was found In a church of his name in t h 0 article, "Dark Memories
said, for example, "we shall not greatly Down, In 1185, and removed ffnoth- J Andersonvllle,” should be read in all strips at present used.
w er P art tb e 3anle church._ Writers t j, e public schools of the much abused
improie matters bj makin 0 a general tell us that at the age of sixteen he ; southern States. I was but a child
was carried captive to Ireland by a i W hen the war between the States be- 1 Newfoundlanders, are admitted to Brit
, , . . i„. „ S ; more men like him. how much better boilers. These tubes, it is claimed, will
dates, St. Patrick was about 120 years -•*> — .u it. _ i —u - . — .. ...
IN
DEMOCRATIC STRENGTH
UNION.
In response to the claim that the
Democrats must break down the large
normal -Republican vote in order to
win, the Philadelphia Record declares
that Mr. Roosevelt was elected because
a great many Democrats did not go to
the polls, and calls attention to the
fact that neither party got out its full
vote in either of the last two elections.
"The absentees are more on the
Democratic than on the Republican
side, but Mr. Roosevelt did not
gain over McKinley in 1900 as
much as the increase of population
should have given him. and Mc
Kinley’s vote in 1900 was a mere
trifle larger than it was in 1896.
In eight years the Republican par
ty hns fallen far short of holding
its own, in spite of the prestige of
a foreign war and the alleged pop
ularity of the President. The fact
is evident that the candidates or
the platforms or the acts of the
F.epublican party are not giving
satisfaction to the Republican
voters.
“That there has been still more
dissatisfaction among Democrats
is notorious. The party ha? been
badly divided. But the election
figures show that it has only to get
together to have every prospect of
winning.”
assault on capital. Most of the pana
ceas for the evils of the times sug
gested within a decade savor far more
of the environment of the socialistic
dreamer than of the business common
sense of the American people. Many
of us have unwittingly drifted into an
extreme of hazy radicalism In our
views upon the reiatldns which should
exist between Government and capital,
which. I£ expressed in concrete form
would place us. doubtless to our hor
ror, in the ranks of anarchy.”
"The demagogues have seen their
opportunity and made the most of
.. . . T „ . , | off we would be. He Is a brave writ- n ot corrode. It is said that they will
old when^ he paSBed away.^HIsbod} ter. and i admire his bravery. I think be placed on the market at £ ($34.07)
of Old p e r ton. or less than the price of iron
$800. and 9,792 pounds of liquici pep
permint, distilled from dried mint,
valued at $2,050. were produced, and
that the oil and liquid, together witli’a
large quantity of dried mint for dis
tillation. were shipped to Osaka, where
the menthol crystal crop of the Em-
Foreign-bullt vessels, purchased by | plre is produced.
Consul-General Guenther writes
it. The results of playing to the
gallery are so apparent and so im
mediate that the temptation ' to
strive after theatrical effect is al
most irresistible.
"Despite their traditions, despite
their records of honorable achieve
ment. our two parties have turned
from the gods of their fathers to
worship at the shrine of oppor
tunity, bidding against each other
in its cult. The curse of the day is
opportunism.
"During the last few years Con
gress has been but little more than
a register of the Presidential
wishes. It has only been necessary
for the Executive to express his de
sires, to have Congress immediately
carry- them into effect. The major
ity of both houses has been loath
to inaugurate any policy whatso
ever without Presidential permis
sion. Tho minority, on the other
hand, with an opportunity such as
has seldom been presented to act
as a great restraining and con
servative force, to build up a
healthy public opinion in favor of
the maintenance of the law, has
oscillated Between a policy of
senseless, unreasonable opposition,
when it thought that opposition
would be popular, and a feverish
haste to outdo the majority in sup
porting the Executive: in other
words, in trying to get on the band
wagon when it thought that pop
ularity was on the box seat.
"Strict constructionist has joined
with loose constructionist. Demo
crat with Republican, in trying to
apply the Interstate commerce
clause of the Constitution in a way
to make the fathers turn in their
graves.”
land manufacturers and in defeat of Its
true purpose. It remains to he seen
-whether Attorney-General Bonaparte
-will construe the law In accordance
with the spirit or the letter.
“Bleeding” Kansas declines to send
John Brown’s statue to represent her
in Statuary Hall at the National Cap
ital. Perhaps Kansas la getting fas
tidious in these latter days.
Those "bargain hunters” In Wall
street Friday doubtless picked up
etocka discarded in the panic almost as
freely as tha Confederates gathered up
Yankee guns after the first Bull Run.
Wall street dropped nearly $1,000,-
000,000 in five hours Thursday. Some
body must have beer. fca.I'v e-’i-od
but all the operators are still In tha
ring.
It ls pointed out -that the total Pres
idential vote in 1896 was a little less
than 14,000,009. "If,” argues_ the Rec
ord, “the voters are increasing 8 per
cent every four years, which is about
the growth of population, then the
possible Presidential vote next year
will exceed 17.500,000. But at the last
election it was only a trifle more than
13.300,000. A year from next November
there will be in the country 4,000.000
voters who have not voted before, or
who have not been voting at the recent
national elections, but will vote then,
if they care about the candidates and
the platforms ar.d the records of their
respective parties. The greater part
of the four million are Democratic in
habit and associations.”
Undoubtedly the Americans inclined
toward Democratic principles are in
the majority, as the popular votes for
Presidents have so often shown. Even
under the electoral college system there
is always a good chance of success
when the Democracy is thoroughly-
united. But there's the rub.
The Wall Street Summary says it
would be interesting to know if Presi
dent Roosevelt remembers the remark
made to him a few weeks ago by a
friendly adviser, viz.. “Mr. President,
it ts much easier to start & fire than
it iS tO £Ut It ouL”
Mayoy McClellan’s address Is very
much the sort of thing that the Demo
crat of the old school likes to read and
regards as sound. But the astute Dem- 1 '
ocrat of the old type Is well aware that
it is easier for a man of Mr. McClel
lan’s type to talk sense than for him
or any one to induce a majority of
either the Democratic or Republican
party, In these days, to listen ar.d re
flect
“With 60 out of 116 samples of city
served milk watered, skimmed, drugged
or below standard, with 76 out of 88
samples of sausage loaded with perni
cious drugs, and with only three pure
out of 39 samples of maple syrup, the
’Land of Steady Habits’ seems to be in
urgent need of dietetic reform,” says
the New York Tribune.
band of marauders, where he was - Ran and ended, but what I can recol- Ish registry in Newfoundland duty free, | that in the year 1906 there departed
obliged to keep cattle on the mountains : lect of aH our hardships and priva- while a Canadian purchasing a foreign : from the Port of Hamburg 173,493 c ml-
f—•’~' 1 : tlons is stamped Indelibly on my j vessel and seeking British registry in eran$e ,Af,wln,r
memory'. I was born in Russell Coun- ; the Dominion pays a registration fee of
ty, Alabama, just one mile from Co- ' per cent 0 f t he ship’s value, rays
lumbus, Ga. I was an eye witness to shipping Illustrated. He can secure
the Federal army when it invaded and p.'ritish in Newfoundland bv paying a
destroyed Columbus. Then the spirit f ee of only 5 per cent. This is the rea-
of antagonism was planted deep down ; son given why so many foreign vessels
in my heart. Forty years have passed purchased by Canadians seek British
away, but that feeling still remains. ; registry in Newfoundland.
and In the forests, in hunger and
nakedness amidst snows, rain and ice.
"Whilst he lived in this suffering con
dition. God had pity on his soul, and
quickened him to a sense of his duty
by the impulse of a strong interior
grace. The young man had recourse
to Him with his whole heart in fer
vent prayer acd fasting; and from
that time faith and the love of God
acquired continually new strength in
his tender soul.” An account says that
after six months spent in slavery. St.
Patrick was admonished by God in a
dream to escape and go to his own
country, Scotland, and Informed that a
„ . exceeding tho number leaving
from that port in the preceding year
by about 30.000. The following coun
tries were the chief contributors to the
exoflus In 1906: Austria (Bohemlft).
35.647: Hungary. 28:283; Russia, 7i.-
221: Germany, 20.057. Of the total.
152,134 went to the United States. 9,041
to Argentina nnd 4.875 to Great Britain.
and will until I am laid away in Rose
Hill cemetery. I have three sons and
I have instilled into them as much of
this feeling as I possibly could to
despise the actions of the Federal Gov
ernment In those days.
I have known very little of the
A common attendant of prosperous
times is now evident in Great Britain. |
in a state of unrest among trades union
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
ship was then ready to sail thither. He t prison life in the Yankee lands, ev-
went at once to the sea coast, though ! cep t of that of Johnson’s Island. Ohio,
at a great distance, and found the i My information about that place
vessel: but could not obtain passage, j comes from letters written and state-
probably for want of money. St. Pat- ! ments made bv my husband's uncle,
rick returned towards his hut, pray- j Lieut. W. H. Hicks, and conversa-
ing as he went, but the sailors, though i tions with the late Capt. Harry L.
pagans, called him back, and took him | Rockwell, who were prisoners of war
on board. After three days’ sail they j at that death hole, Johnson’s Island,
made land, but wandered twenty-seven There hunger was so great that a
days through deserts, and were a long number of them killed and eat an old
while distressed for want of provis- ca t with a litter of kittens, while the
ions, finding nothing to eat. Patrick Federal officers and guards lived in
had often spoken to the company on luxury, with tables spread with all
the Infinite power, of God, they there- the delicacies of the season, where
fore asked him why he did not pray - these poor hungry fellows could smell
for relief. Animated by a strong-faith. . the aroma, and see these captains par-
he assured them that if they would ad- | take of the luxuries of life,
dress themselves with their whole j There these two brave and noble
hearts to the true God, He would hear souls contracted bowel troubles from
classes. Advanced wages or shorter
hours are demanded in many trades—
in some cases with success, in others
without. Tho refusals have been fol
lowed by actual or threatened strikes,
as in shipyards and several mining dis
tricts. "Workmen are emboldened by
the unsual demand for labor during this
season of prosperity, to demand far
more than they received in the preced
ing dull years; and it is feared that
strikes disastrous to trade generally
will result.
From the Chicago News.
Go slow—and the other fellow may
beat you to it.
A man’s greatest success in life is
usually unexpected.
Some men would have more if their
friends would pay up.
Excessive politeness seldom has any
thing in common with the truth.
A man thinks he has forgotten his
troubles when he is having a good
time.
About the second time you meet a
Shrinkage in Values. woman -she begins to tell you her
From the Washington Post. ! troubles.
It is computed that the shrinkage in jt sometimes happens that a wise
value of the railroad securities dealt in ! man has occasion to marvel at his
in Wall street within the last twelve i ignorance.
months amounted to the gigantic sum
of $2,500,000,000. and this in a period
of universal and unprecedented mate
rial prosperity in every line of busi
ness, commercial, manufacturing, ag-
and succor them. They did so, and on 1 -which thev were never able to recover.
the same ay met with a herd of swine, i Lieut. Hicks being told that his was j ricu]tura l and miscellaneou.. Various
From that time provisions never failed | /ncurable so reduced him in strength cauaas . are aS3l sned f-?r this startling
them, and finally they reached a cul- | and health that he sought relief by condition,
tivated and inhabited country. | death at his own hands. Capt. Rock
well’s condition, not being so severe.
Some years later he was carried off a he was enabled to endure life of great
second time, but escaped after two suffering.
months of captivity. He resolved to
become a missionary to the Irish, was
ordained in Scotland, and after a long
preparation was consecrated bishop.
The writers of his life say that after
his second capture he traveled Into
Gaul and Italy, and saw St. Martin. SL
Germanus of Auxerre and Pope Celes-
tine, and that he received his mission
and the apostolical benediction from
this Pope. SL Patrick .preached the
gospel with such extraordinary effect
that he has always received the credit
of Ireland’s general conversion. He
traveled over the whole country, pene
trating Into the remotest corners, bap
tized an infinite number of people, or
dained clergymen, induced women to
live in holy widowhood and continence,
consecrated virgins to Christ and In
stituted monks. He baptized the Kings
of Dbblin and Munster, and the seven
sons of the King of ConnaughL with
the greater part of their subjects, and
before his death had converted almost
the whole island to the faith. He fixed
his metropolitan see at Armagh, and
appointed several bishops with whom
he held councils to settle the discipline
of the church.
The Savannah Press thinks possibly
the late flurry In Wall street “is a little
blood-letting in the spring from a
plethoric condition." and “the liquida
tion may bring things down to a
healthier basis.”
“Actresses always have such beau
tiful hair,” remarks a magazine writer.
It doubtless pays in their business to
get the best.
Sometimes the President’s boom
erang policies redounded so quickly
that the country ceases to stare only
to laugh.
The higher the finance the farther
£he tumble.
The saint labored hard for the sup
pression of slavery, which was one of
the causes of so many marauding expe
ditions in his time. He founded a mon
astery at Armagh; another called Pat
rick’s church; also a third, named Sag-
hal-Padraig, "afid filled the country
with churches and schools of piety and
learning, the reputation of which, for
the succeeding centuries, drew many
foreigner® into Ireland.” Catholic and
Irish writers love to speak of Ireland
as the nursery whence St. Patrick sent
forth his missionaries and teachers.
They say w-ith pride that Glastonbury
and Lindinsfarne. Ripon and Malmes
bury, bear testimony to the labors of
Irish priests and bishops for the con
version of England. They emphasize
the further statement, as showing the
fruits ot^St. Patrick’s work, that Iona
Is to this day the most venerated spot
in Scotland, and with equal zeal they
assert that Columban. Fiacre, Gall and
many others evangelized the “rough
places” of France and Switzerland.
Panegyrists of St. Patrick love to dwell
especially upon his great charity, and
tell how he devoted the lands bestowed
on him to the foundation of churces, of
cloisters for both sexes, and of numerous
monastic schools. Invariably he gave
back the little presents which some
laid on the altar, choosing, they say.
rather to mortify the fervent than to
scandalize the weak or the infidei9. In
beautiful language they picture how he
gave freely of his own. both to Pagans
and Christians, distributed large alms
to the poor In the provinces where he
passed, made presents to the Kings,
Judging that necessary for the progress
of the gospel, and maintained and edu
cated many children, whom he trained
up to serve at the altar. A high Cath-
jolic authority says: “By the instrumen-
I am a member of the Daughters of
the Confederacy and I look with pride
at my certificate that adorns the wall
of my country home by the side of tho
Some of the blame is laid
to the rate bill of fehe Fifty-ninth
J Congress: some to the more recent ad-
i verse legislation of the States, such as
. 2-cent fares; some -to the loss of confi-
! dence in American business methods
on the part of foreign investors: some
! to the inability of the railroads to
speedily carry the traffic offered them:
Every hatchet-faced gossip is in her
glory when it comes to wielding a
hammer.
After choosing his own boss many a
man is dissatisfied—so it’s him for ^he
divorce court.
Oyster stews served in some restau
rants prove that the proprietors belong
to a society for the prevention of cru
elty to bivalves.
PROVERBS AND PHRASES
|
in reference 'to the monument to be ^ * hc roads mast have make necessary
erected at Andersonvllle by the improvements: some to the high wage
Daughters of the Confederacy. I would ! of labor required to complete such im
state that it would seem mors proper
to remove the remains of so great and
noble man as Capt. YVirz to a more
sacred spot, and y to place of greater
importance and more dear to the
lovers of Southern chivalry, and there
erect a monument, and not where it
would be scorned annually by un
friendly visitors and negro rioters. I
provements.
Doubtless all these causes helped to
bring about the present situation, and
there is small winder that Mr. J. Pier-
pont Morgan has appealed to the Pres
ident of the United States to confer
with certain presidents of important
railroad systems in order to devise
some plan to avert the dire disaster
am In hopes that the Daughters of the J that threatens. We do not see that Mr.
Confederacy will abandon the idea of I Roosevelt has any elective other than
erecting a monument at Andersonville,
for with the present feeling existing
in the ranks of the G. A. R. it would
provoke -bitter resentments.
MRS. EDWARD S. SMITH.
Bibb County. Georgia.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
The Norwegians have whaling estab
lishments in Iceland, Scotland, South
America, Japan and elsewhere.
For five months in the year Cairo.
Egype. is a dead city, no one staying
to endure the heat who can get away.
to enforce the law of Congress: but he
is the most influential individual in the
country, and a statement from him to
the public might serve to partially re- | _
store confidence at home and abroad. - roscs - German.
If Europe should get in a panic, send
our securities home, and market them
for what they will fetch In gold, as was
done In 1893. it would be followed by
widespread disaster. In 1893 Europe
concluded that the Sherman silver law
had put our finances on the silver ba
sis, and our securities came home by
the shipload to be exchanged for gold
at whatever sacrifice. If Europe has
Long is not forever.—German.
Good right needs no help—Dutch.
From little things men go on lb
great.—Dutch.
Truth, faith and love are all that
make life.—Beranger.
He lives in fame who dies in virtue’s
cause.—Shakespeare.
If two men ride a horse one must
ride behind.—Shakespeare.
Love, a cough, smoke and money
cannot long be hid.—-French.
If you have no troubles, you will have
nothing to growl abouL—Humboldt.
He is truly rich who desires nothing
and he is truly poor who covets all.—
Solon.
One’s own thistle field is dearer to
him than his neighbor's garden of
Your enemies are your best friends.
If you had no enemies, what need you
for friends?—Homer. <
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE
Frederick A. Woodson, a resident of
Denver, is the sole surivor of a trio
who organized the famous Scroll and
Key Society, which is now one of tho
now concluded that our railroad stocks , i argest college fraternities in the world.
There are almost as many winter as \ are on a non-dividend-paying basis, or
summer visitors at St. Moritz, Switz
erland. Nearly all of them are Eng
lish.
The number of students at all of the
German universities this winter is 45,-
136. This is equal to an increase of
159 per cent since 1876-77.
In the leper hospital at Constantino
ple good results have been obtained by
the use of bacterium which goes by the
name of streptotrix leproldes.
In Russia there are agricultural or
ganizations of zemstvos, through which
large quantities of farming supplies
and machinery are purchased.
The Japanese are increasing their
canning factories. The consumption of
foreign canned goods is limited to the
foreign population, and a small per
centage of natives.
At Santa Cruz. Cal., In the St. George
Hotel, is a tank containing fifty trout
so fame that they take meat offered to
them from a man's hand and rub their
sides against the hand of the one that
feeds them.
Sixty years ago a Pennsylvania
farmer cut down a chestnut tree on a
neighbor's property. Last Saturday
the heirs of the two farmers paid the
costs upon final decision of the suit.
The total expenses have been $30,000.
The adage which advises people who
live in glass houses not to throw stones
will have to be revised. The glass that
Is. now used in making houses i
breakable
approaching it, we may be sure her
bankers and Investors will force liqlud-
atton. and general liquidation always
means financial disaster, and can mean,
nothing else.
BACHELOR REFLECTIONS
From the New York Press.
Any man can stand abuse if it’s be
cause he ls rich.
A nice thing about' gambling is your
wife won’t be mad with you if you win.
A good way to make the furnace
bum well is to have a warm spell of
weather.
The best way for a woman to pre
serve her Ideals about a man is not to
marry him.
People are awful rich when they
aren’t afraid to go to a wedding in a
street car.
A man thinks he deserves a lot of
credit for having some relatives who
becomes famous.
Money ia a very useful thing not to
have in your pocket when anybody tries
to borrow from you.
When a man says people have enter
tained him delightfully he means they
let him do all the talking.
It takes a good deal of beauty for a
girl not to need to be told she has it if
you want to be popular with her.
A woman would rather have her hus-
Maj. Gordon W. Little, otherwise
known as “Pawnee Bill,” refused to
fulfill a contract to deliver seven buil
bisons to a Mexican senor when he
i learned that they were to be used in
; the arena.
It is said that Governor Hoch, of
' Kansas, does not intend tot serve out
his term. He has accepted a number
| of assignments from a lecture bureau
for this summer. He Is to receive, so
it 13 said, $150 a night, ar.d will be able
to make from $10,000 to $13,000 a year.
Regis Henri Post, who is to be Gov
ernor of Porto P„ico, has been Secretary
of the Insular Government since 1904.
He is a Harvard graduate of the law
department of the University of New
York. He belongs to an old Long Is
land family, being descended from the
Posts who settled in Southampton in
1640.
out of
Chinese Differences.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
His compass points South.
In saluting you he puts on his hat.
Walking with you, he keep?
step.
He shakes his own hand instead of
yours.
He says east-south instead of south
east. .
To be polite, he asks your age and
income.
He throws away the flesh of tha
melon and eats its seeds.
material.
^ His women often wear trousers
it**1 ooks"liice "white marble | band Tie’ about how he likes to go to j while he often wears a gown,
in the same way as that church and not do It 'than to so and J He presents coffins to his frienda
\*dmlt the truth, %*s you present cigars or books.
INDISTINCT PRINT