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TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1907.
THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
■! ■!■ ! ! ■! 1 l-M-I-I-H l I'l'dr I was as a surveyor on the North and
— X South Railroad near Columbus. One of
X ; the men who worked with him told me
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| WHERE GEORGIA STANDS IN
I THE CARE OF HER DEFECTIVES
that when night came the balance of
the men would gather for games and
recreation. Young Spencer' would buy
him an extra candle and spend hit
ruler that sits.on a throne. They took
Abdul Hamid IL, being the weakest
away the cross and tower and erected
the Minaret and defaced, or tried to,
every trace that marked it a place of
Christian worship, but even now in the
Franklin’s Simplified Spelling.
From a letter by Benjamin Franklin.
A gentleman ounce received a letter
in which were these words
THREE MEN MORTALLY
WOUNDED IN RUNNING FIGHT
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t . i t t • t t i t- I evening alone working out problems in I half dome-of the Api under an ara- and. therefore, not being very intelli
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. _ NEW YORK, April 15.—Policemen
Not finding Brown at hom, I deliv- I Geo. M. Sechler. Wm. Sol leek and Cha*.
ered your messeg to his yf.” | Vincenzo, a young Sicilian, were shot
The gentleman finding it bad spelling
By Edgar J. Spratl ng, B. S.. M. D.
e student of r> litictl econ
for ea
Wh
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h child average 5755 50.
•aluation of a healthy male
in productive capacity is 5600 per ;
with
lips far.
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Among
My friend. Mr. Coklin. of Atlanta,
expectation of at least I tells" of his boyhood days in Pittsburg,
f productivity. Then sup- I in the modest home where he boarded
one-tenth of our defectives are | there was a young man who rarely
normally productive, it has taken j could be induced to engage in any so-
$753.50 to get that result and we have cial pleasures, preferring to remain in
in return thirty years of expectancy at | his room, where he was working on an
J6 f 0 a year, or a total of *18,000. Yet j invention. That invention proved to be
that is not the greatest gain—for we I the great Westinghouse air brake, that
engineering. That is what fitted him j besoue of gold may be dimly seen a ■ -rible, called his lady to help him read
to become. president of the great mosaJc of the chri ' st , vit h arms out- j
Soutnern Railway. «r«i<iiAS in an attitude nt hieasinsr i meaaiB 8t *!• but t.te _>f. which th>.y
POPES VIEWS AS TO
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take notice also of the maniac,
Idiot, the demented and the ;plie
but only when they interfere with
dally routine of the II
No thought of their owi
e protected in the meantime our-
i-es from the deteriorating and de
bating influence of contact with
defectives. And even more Im
portant, we have segregated the hope
less ones to prevent propagation of
their kind.
From an insurance standpoint that sary to maintain your own self respect,
ut them | is a good investment. I let alone that of others. To merit and
rl. but only , Jt will, of course, be disputed by ! receive the good will and regard of
the
made George Westinghouse many times
a millionaire.
Don’t let anything I have said lead
you for a moment to believe that the
accumulation of money is the only
measure of success in life.
A position of independence is neces-
ifort of the normal people whom ! those not informed that 10 per cent of
lly t<
A little higher In the scale of civili
zation the State takes note Of them ;i-
an economic measure partly, and partly
that they may be hid from view to give
the public an easy conscience In foy-
getfulne: s.
But only when a State rises above
vengeance In dealing with the criminal
and above selfishness In dealing with
the dependent has she the right to
think herself and be caissed a civilized
State.
And according to that standard what
is Georgia's measure? Does she pun
ish for vengeance or correction? Does
theta
one’s friends and neighbors is worth
more than ail the wealth of the world
without it.
Money Is Not Ail.
Yet, we must not forget that it is
possible to get a silver dollar so near
to the eye that it will shut out the
beautiful blue dome of heaven. Un
fortunately. some folks allow it to blot
defectives under 21 years of age
can be made self-supporting. /llinois
and many other States have answers
more than satisfactory to the most
skeptical. Then some other people who
live chronically in the objective case
would say, "Oh, you can’t provide for
all these defectives, for if you did,
you’d have almost every young negro a j out the \iew not only for this world
ward of the State.” No. we would not. but the next.
for we are only trying to provide for | Thare are few professions in which
those who are defective as compared text books are indispensible. If I had
with what they should have been nor- to name one in which the tenants of sue
mally. Nor do we stop at the making cess are to be found in the most con-
of this 10 per cent of abnormal child- | densed form, it would be this little hook
ren into normal men and women, for | of Proverbs. If you were still further
she shelter the dependent for her own I we have at the end of our labors 30 per j limited to one verse, I would commend
protection, or does she nourish him j cent more who are but little below the i this: “Keep thy heart with all dili-
for the sake of the loving charity she standard and who are self-supporting | genee. for out of it are issues of life.”
and under proper conditions evey pro- I Christian character is one of the best
ductive. And even further yet does the | business assets; it stands for honesty
benefaction go, for there is another 30 1 and loyalty—these have kept many a
per cent who can be taught enough of 1 man’s place when the pay roll Had ro
manual labor to earn their daily bread ‘ be thinned out. No boy ever lost a
when directed by others. If that seems chance to get a jpb by being a member
to you to be a dream, go to Scotland, of a 'Sunday school or the Y. M. C. A.
New York, 'Belgium and Massachusetts J a man may never be great in the gen-
and wake yourself up. crally accepted sense but any one can
Now. you say. “you are surely at the j be pure in heart
end of your good talk, for you have ; We Started this ev-c.ng on a moun-
made 10 per cent normal, 30 |>er cent 1 tain climb You’ll agree. I’m sure, that
Independently self-supporting and ar. • I education and travel widen the horizon
other 30 per cent self-supporting un- j or youth.
der direction: you have nothing left for i Now. follow me, if you will, to an-
the other 30 per cent.” Oh. yes, we j other hill-top that comes to most of
have something very, very important i us in middle life, and some day must
for them. Segregation—absolute, iron- ; come to you. From it, across a valley,
clad, lock and key segregation. We ; we see a far horizon; behind us is the
have been positively unselfish with the j record made. As you have lived an
70 per cent, and now, if needs, be, let j unselfish life, as, you have helped or
us be negatively selfish with the re- j hindered others, will the world be bet-
remaining 30 per cent. Let us protect j ter or worse by your having lived at
ourselves and our children, purify our i all: your recompense will come in some
race and work for the far distant fu- j day hearing those blessed words: “Well
ture. done, thou good and faithful servant.
The most serious drawback is the in- | enter now into the joy of thy Lord.”
feels? To answer that would be Geor
gia's greatest shame. We would be
despised fer a slate of barbarians, for
our two most helpless, most hopele
♦most pitiable and almost God-forsaken
of dependents, the epileptic- and feeble
minded. are truly society’s step-child
ren unless they are so fortunate as to
become criminal or violently Insane.
Could there be a condition more pitia
ble? Could a Christian State have on
Its escutcheon a blot blacker? Her
helpless children must become crimi
nal or dangerous to gain—what? Pi(y?
No. not pity, but Just simple sheltering
-are. Had you ever thought of that?
No, for if you had It would have been
dlefferent.
What does Georgia for her convicts?
Just what vengeance and finance say
do—nothing more.
Rut she lavishes her charity on the
Insane. Yes she is very noble and
generous there, for she maintains a
magnificent, almost ideal asylum, 150
Jails and nearly ns many poorhouses.
where they can be sent when violent
or dangerous.
For the blind she does well.
Fer the orphan she does nothing.
'For the epileptic and feeble-minded
she does far less than nothing, as she
compels them to become dangerous be
fore she deigns to take note of their
presence. Could anything be worse
iltnn that? Yes, much worse Is the
damage to the normal children with
whom these defectives associate. We
are unjust to the defectives and we are
cruel to the normal child, in not sepa
rating them in school and in play, in
benefits and In responsibility. Now
let us dismiss the question of charity
and see If we could as a business ven-
t ii: • • :: ft..r. 1 t.. r.- fur th.-s.- slop-
children.
There are in Georgia about a thous
and white epilept'e children, more than
that many feeble-minded ones, liiots
and Imbeciles Included, say a total of
2.000. It would cost 52.25 per capita
a week to care properly for them, $117
a year, and the average child would,
require six and one-half years’ care, a
itial cost of the plant in which to care
for those people. The next hardest ob
stacle to overcome is the commitment
(not admittance) to the institution.
The cost of the plant would be ap
proximately $200 per capita for epilep
tics and $150 for the non-epileptics.
This would mean a direct outlay of say
$356,000 within the next twenty years.
And if we do not so care for them,
those of them who will in the mean
time drift Into the asylum or through
the criminal courts will cost the public
far more than that directly.
After the first three years of exist
ence of such an institution, or. proper
ly speaking, colony, it would be by its
farm and handicraft products' at least
one-half self-supporting—and -in time
almost entirely so.
It may be two years, or even five,
before Georgia makes a start in this
matter, but it Is one of the earmarks
of Christian rivlllzation that she can
not afford to ignore—else she degener
ntes and becomes a shame among her
sister States.
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Pi THE
Constantinople as
Seen By a Tourist
SOME INTERESTING SCENES
about Capital of tur-
KEY.
YOUNG MAN IN BUSINESS
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BY J. K. ORR.
I I I I I I : I H+WH4
Whenever I am tempted to give
young men advice I think of what the
hoy said to his father who was urging
him to become a lawyer. “Tell me."
said the hoy, “where does my money
come in?” “Why,” answered the
father “people would pay you for ad
vice." Tm afraid not.” said the boy;
“none of you take It now, when It’s
free.”
Some of you camp from the farm.
You have seen young pigs fed hot swill
In a trough: the first one scalds his
snout and squeals; that does not deter
the others, each one has to find’ out
the swill’s hot in his own way. That
was about the way with boys in my
day. and I don’t reckon they've chang
ed much.
In the parable of the sower, the les
son seems to be. then, even though
much is wasted on stony ground now
nnd then n strong se»d takes root and
brings forth an hundred fold so it is
worth whilo to keop on sowing.
I guess by this time you have begun
to wonder what has this got to do with
“the young man in business.”
At best I can do little more than
give you a few coals from the embers
of a half century's experience. If they
light in even one of you the fires of
ambition, the effort has not been in
vain.
At a subway station in New York,
dangerous, a man is stationed with a
megaphone, who all days calls “watch
your steps.” An artist made a pic
ture of this, calling the man “Exper
ience.” noting how few in tl\e crowd
heard his warning voice.
Call to Duty.
Every man has within him two
voices. On? the call of dutv. urging
him to self-sacrifice and higher aims;
the other the soothing voice of vanity,
first heard in the Garden of Eden,
drawing him In the other direction.
The successful man is the one who
ON BOARD S. S. ‘’Arabic.” March
30, 1907.—I wrote you a long letter on
Athens and her monuments of ruins
just before we reached the Holy Land.
Though I am quite tired tonight after
a week’s hard travel over the rocky
lands and mountains of Palestine, I
will next take Up Constantinople as
gathered from my notes and later give
you a letter on Jerusalem, Bethlehem,
Jericho, etc.
One appreciates with constantly aug
mented reverence and enthusiasm old
Rome’s successor in the sovereignty of
the world—Constantinople. Surely no
more pleasant experience could come to
thr traveler than sailing the waters of
the Mediterranean from Athens to Con
stantinople. The mind is kept con
stantly active in these waters by mem
ories they awaken. Their waves kiss
the shores of the immortal Greece:
they have the headlands of immortal
Troy: they rellect the snow-capped
cre't of Mt. Ida: they skirl the ruins
of ancient Carthage: (hey still caress
the land of the Alhambra: they glitter
on the sands of Egypt; they break in
great reverberation on the coast af
Palestine. We left dear old Athens
and her wortderful ruins and passed the
ancient city of Troy up the Dardan
elles and aldng the Hellespont. The
Turks have thorough!}' fortified the
Dardanelles, the great guns present
ing on all sides and frowning down
from lofty battlements. Then we
passed through the Sea of Marmora
and in the distance could be seen the
towers of the minarets and reminded
us that we were nearing Constantino
ple, and about 4 p. m. our noble ship
dropped anchor.
Constantinople is n city of many
centuries and marks the meeting place
of the East nnd West of Asiatic and
European civilization. After good deal
of “red tape.” a group of gorgeously
has the moral fiber to listen to the
Outside of the professions the aye- 1 voice of conscience and stand firm for dressed Turkish “officials “came”" on
nues open to a young man to gain a j too right j board to examine our passports and
livelihood follow the lines of either 1 overty while no disgrace, is Slav- I our names registered, as the Sultan is
capital or labor. Fortunately, and I fr y: for that reason, if no other,, it
use the word advisedly, few nt the be- should be overeome.
ginning are handicapped with oapi- ! There is no prescription for success.
tM Most men who rise in the world but, like the laws of nature we have a
berin" working for others. To them <>"’ bard and fast rules that cannot
- - • • be slighted with impunity.
Some Goad “Don’ts.”
Don’t smoke cigarettes, thfv’re poi
son. If you’re started, quit. Don’t
smoke at all if you haevn't started. It's
stretched in an attitude of blessing
the world. This is a grand structure, j
which took 500 men four years to build
it and cost 56.000,000. The Moham
medans are a people of one book, think
ing the Koran contains all knowledge,
and is the only book taught. The Mu-
denes are sacred teachers and are seen
in all parts of the temple teaching the
Koran. The Iman are leaders in pub
lic worship. It is only through the
Christian school that -the heart bf the
young Mohammedan la to be reached.
Robert College and the Young Wo
man's College at Scutari are demon
strating this.
We next went to the museum where
are displayed old works of Grecian art
and tombs of emperors and noblemen.
They show you what is claimed to be
the tomb of Alexander the Great. We
were not permitted to visit the treas-.
ury. where a great display of precious
jewels and relics of Turkish history
are held. Nor were we admitted to go
near the present' Sultan’s palace or in
his summer palace. He never ventures
out himself, only to his mosque near
by and then through a cordon o'f sol-
superstitious of all crowned h'eads of
today. The present Suitan has about
300 wives, adding to.his harem a new
set each year. Ife has a body of about
20.000 picked soldiers around him day
and night. Bordering the 'Bosphorus
for more than a third of a mile stands
Abdul Aziz, uncle of the present Sul
tan, who was assassinated here may
29. 1876. A few weeks later his brother,
who ascended the throne, became in
sane and since that time this palace
has been left without an inhabitant.
Through superstition, the present Sul
tan lives in another palace. When i
Sultan ascends the throne he is sup
posed to build a new palace and
mosque: hence there are now over 500
mosques and many gorgeous palaces in
Constantinople.
We next visited the old site of the
Hippodrome, where the obelisk ofGhe-
tune III., brought from Heliopolis in
3SS A. D. stands. Also the Serpent
column bearing the names of thirty-
one Greek cities that delievered the
Greeks from the power of the Persians.
This is a headless column and in the
museum is seen the head. I also saw
the build column which was once cov
ered with bronze plate. The bazaars
of the ancients are seen to the best
advantage here. The streets are wind
ing and you are apt to get lost, so keep
a close watch on your guide.
Next we visited Gaiata Tower, from
which we had an excellent view .of the
city. You can imagine the proverbial
filth and ill smelling streets when the
Sultan’s board of health and street
cleaning force consists of 30,000 mangy
looking natives..
Our ship pulled anchor at 8 a. m.
next morning for a 22-mile trip up the
picturesque Bosphorus into the Black
Sea and back. Picturesque as the Rhine-
and more beautiful, with lofty hills,
ruined castles and many palaces,
cheered by the waving of stars and
stripes in the hands, of students and
professors from the housetops and win
dows of the Robert College, an Ameri
can instution that stands a sentinel
of the cross high on the hills over
looking the Bosphorus. The weather
was very cold but the band on board
played national airs as we all stood
on deck and amid the ^heer of a fare
well salute from the ship's whistle, we
bid a God speed and farewell adieu to
the Robert College as we came down
the Bosphorus, making a sight ever to
be remembered. Yours verv trulv.
DR. A. B'. HINKLE.
could not understand. The lady pro
posed calling her chambermaid, '“be
cause Betty.” says she. “has the best
knack of reading bad spelling of any
one I know.”
Betty came, and was surprised tha
ROME Ajril 15.—In his allocution
at tomorrow's consistory Pope Tins
will devote an important passage to
veen France and the
and mortally wounded by Salvatore
Gavornale in a running fight which be
gan in Washington square and ended
in a tenement in West Tihrd stnvL
Sechler died soon after-he was shot. I fh „
In Washington Square Gavornale and i
his brother. John, were accidentally ' ' atican. It will be in protest against
jostled by Vincenzo and his friend Vor- ; the conditions the new law has made
tano, and the four men began a fist ; for the church and the methods the
Betty came, and was surprised that I Gavornale. suddenly whipping out a i throiTedi ^fhe' -Entreeor'?'- and 'with
neither sir nor madam could tell what : revolver, started shooting, firing three through the controversy, and with re
“yf was. I shots. One of the bullets struck Vin- | gard to the seizure of thodocum ' ~
“Whv.” says she “yf spells wife; j cenzo and he fell. Gavornale then
what e’lse can it spell?" dashed through Washington square
And, indeed, it is a much better, as I w ^th a mob at his heels. The two po-
■well' as shorter method of spelling wife j licemen joined in the pursuit and
than doublevou, 1, ef. e. which in realitv j caught up with their man in the hail-
' • way of a tenement. The Sicilian wait
ed until the policeman was almost upon
him and fired. Selleek fell, shot below
the heart. iSechler leaping across the
prostrated body of his companion,
grappled with the murderer, tattling
for the revolver that Gavornale held.
The Sicilian wrenched his hand free
and fired the remaining bullet into
Sechler’s stomach.
spell doubleyouifey.
'Legislature and Prayers.
The Jewislr Outlook, in an article
advocating the abolition of prayer in
legislative bodies, says: “These cere
monies do not belong to a republic, in
, which for longer than a century state
.and church have been kept aprt. Out
side of England there is not a country
in Europe, not even Roman Catholic
Spain, Austria and Portugal, where the
opening of legislative bodies with
prayer is indulged in. Not even the
Russian duma was opened with
prayer.”
Millions a Year on Tips.
A statistician whose calculations may
be taken to be as trustworthy as sta
tistics usually are, estimates that the
money given away yearly in tips in
France amounts to nearly 15,000,000
pounds, over 4,000,000 pounds beinfe be
stowed in Paris alone. His calculations
are based on the assumption that' each
inhabitant in Paris spends seven
twelfths of a penny, and each inhabi
tant of the provinces one farthing a
day in tips. With an income tax in
prospect, Frenchmen are no doubt look
ing out for different ways of econo
mizing; therefore the statistics of tips
would furnish a valuable sugestlon.
PRESIDENT’S SONS
“UNLUCKY” THIRTEEN CLUB
AT NATIONAL CAPITAL
WASHINGTON. April 14—The first,
out of town dinner of the XIII Club
of New York in this city was given to
night. The club, in defiance of the
common superstition in accordance
with its established rule, arranged its
entire program on a basis of thirteen:
There were 413 in the party which left
for Jersey City today at 12:13 over the
Baltimore and Ohio in a special train
or thirteen Pullmans and arrived here
at 6:13. Awaiting them were thirteen
specially chartered cars ;n which they
proceeded to the White House under
the escort of thirteen policemen, and
were shown through the various rooms.
Strictly speaking, only , twenty-one
Presidents' sons, concerning whom there
are available records, have grown to man
hood. says the Ohio Magazine.
Six President—Washington. Madison,
Jackson. Polk. Buchanan (a bachelor) and
McKinley—left no children.
Two — Jefferson and Monroe'— left
daughters only. President Johnson had
two sons, but both died before he was
President, and do not count.
The sons of thirteen President—John
Adams. John Quincy Adams. Van Buren,
W 'liam Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor,
Fillmore. Lincoln. Grant, Hayes, Garfield,
Arthur and Benjamin Harrison—have
lived to man's estate. The sons of Cleve
land and Roosevelt are still boys.
Of the twenty-one Presidents' sons
who have reached manhood nine have
bulked large in the public eye on their
own account, and all but one or two have
been solid, substantia! citizens.
The prominent nine are John Quincy
Adams. President, diplomatist and Ret-
resentative: Charles Francis Adams, pub
licist and statesman; Robert Tyler, reg
ister of the Confederate Treasury: Rich
ard Taylor, who served with distinguish
ed gallantry on the Confederate side of
the Civil War; John Van Buren. promi
nent in State politics and just entering
national politics when he died: Robert
Todd Lincoln cabinet minister, diplo
matist and president of a world-famous
corporation; Frederick Dent Grant, diplo
matist and general in the army; Henrv A.
Garfield. lawyer, banker and professor of
polities in a great university, and .Tames
R. Garfield. State Senator nnd United
States Civil Service Commissioner and
Commissioner of Corporations in the De
partment of Commerce and Labor, now
in the Cabinet.
Besides the nine who have climbed so
high, there is John Scott Harrison, who
had the uniaue distinction of being the
snne of one President and the father of
another. He was a man of force and of
great influence in his own State, though
he was not a prominent figure in a na
tional sense. Counting him- in. and he
surely “made good.” as the sai-lng is
ten. or only one less than half the Presi
dents’ sons who have r»ieher manhood,
are entitled to be named on the roll of
honor.
Practically all of the Presidents’ sons
who have' grown to man's estate have
been good citizens; their lives have been
clean, wholesome and a credit alike to
their parentage and their country, while
ten of the twenty-one have won unusual
distinction. Tt would be hard to find any
other class of prominent Americans whose
sons h0\-o done as well as those of the
Presidents. /
Thomas.
One on S
From the Reader.
Tt requ'res a vast deal of courage
nd charity to be philanthropic.” Sir
Thomas Lipton was saying the other
President- Roosevelt was not at hasie j day. apropose of one of Andrew Car-
when the visitors arrived. He had an negie’s Book-E'ounties. “I remember
engaement to receive them earlier in ! when I was just starting in business,
the day, but they were delayed. The j I was very poor and making every sac-
dinner was composed of thirteen rifice to enlarge my little shop". My
courses, which began at S:13 o'clock.
TO BUILD INDUSTRIAL
HOME FOR NEGRO YOUTHS
DAYTON. O.. April 13.—The secre
taries of the various bureaus of the
Women's Home Missionary Society of
the Methodist Episcopal Church are
in session at Grace Church in this
city. The board at its first session ap
proved plans for building in Atlanta.
Ga. a $20,000 industrial home for
only assistant was a boy of 14. faith
ful and willing and honest. On? day
I heard him complaining, and with
justice, that his clothes were so shab
by that he was ashamed to go to
chapel.
“'There’s no chance of my getting
a new suit this year.’ he told me. Dad’s
out of work, and it takes all of my
wages to pay the rent.’
“I thought the matter over, and then
took a sovereign from my carefully
hoarded -savings and bought the hoy a
Insane Patient Fired Hospital.
NORRISTOWN. April 1 5—At the
State Hospital for the Insane an Inves
tigation by John L. West, steward, has
developed that Monday night’s fire was
tlie work of a patient who meddled
with the gas appliance used in the
thermal baths of the scientist section
11. This is borne out by the fact that
flames were discovered in the bathroom
just after the patients had vacated it
for the night. The fire losses hav
been adjusted to the satisfaction of the
trustees, who say that the insurance
company paid the full amount of the
claims. As a consequence, work of re
'building will begin at once, as many of
the walls can be utilized. A force of
patients was engaged all day in re
moving the debris.
Nearest Heaven.
Another eastern visitor who is com
ing to these shores this spring is the
King of Siam. When- his majesty
visited Windsor some years ago he
was given a magnificent suite of rooms
on the first floor, but from the first it
was easy to see that lie was not sat
isfied. Then the truth leaked out. It
is customary in Siam for the monarch
to sleep at the top of the house “near
est heaven.” and that others should oc
cupy the exalted rooms which he con
sidered should be his upset his ma
jesty, till the chamberlain provided
him" with loftier apartments.—Black
and White.
The Tillman Lineage.
I am spoken of in the papers as
descendant of the crackers of South
Carolina. I have taken the troubl-
to ask my mother who and what she
and my father were.
She said my ancestors on both sides
came from Virginia and Maryland, and
got there before the Revolutionary
war, and fought on the right side
She said the women were virtuous and
the men were not cowards; and I tel!
you I have as good a pedigree as any
man who was ever born on the face
of this earth. I don't care where he
comes from.—Senator Tillman's Rich
mond speech.
CLAIM THEY HAVE NO
CONNECTION WITH LOTTERY
NEW YORK. April 15.—A Hennen
Morris and Dave H. Morris, of this
city, who were among the men indict
ed by the Federal grand jury at Mo
bile yesterday on charges of conspire
cy and violation of the law against lot
teries. declared today they have no in
terest in any lottery prize.
Doumer’s Fight In Hotel.
PITTSBURG. April 15.—Chad in a suit
of underwear, Paul Doumcr, former
Finance Minister of France, had a des
perate battle with .a telephone lineman
whom he mistook for a burglar in Hotel
Schenley last evening.
M. Doumcr was dressing for dinner
when he heard some one moving about
in an adjoining room. Creeping into the
room he pounced on the rough-looking in
truder. and for a few minutes there was
a rough-and-tumble.
Hotel attaches responded to M. Doura-
er's cries a^.d finally succeeded in prying
the astonished an angry lineman away
from .him. Exnlanations were mac by
the hotel manager The lineman had been
sent to the room to repair the telephone.
St. Luke offers a very helpful verse,
which it will pay you to remember:
"If you have not been faithful in that
which Is another man’s, who. will give
vou that which is your own?" That is
the key to quick promotion. You often I no criminal offense, but wait till you
hear a young man say: "The world . are 25.
owes me a living." That's ;rtio. but j Never say, ”1 don’t care.” “Don’t
there’s another axiom in business ; care’’ is a sure loser in any game,
equnliy true: "If you don't look out ; Don’t ever sell your seed corn. Char-
after your collections the collector will | acter is seed corn: as long as you keep
soon he looking after you." j that unspotted, you’re sure of a crop.
Necessity Is Tonic. Never tell business lies. Truth is the
For a voting man. necessity is the | ^ rn ; 1 : stone of all success Remem-
best business tonic. For as Industry! ^ ‘ h Ti a . t Politeness pays tte biggest
is health, so idleness is disease. T!lP rnhfv natuPes free ca P ital —
great battles of the world have been | : J tc !t '
won bv famous generals yet now of Don t get discouraged and quit be-
these would have adorned the pages i «““*■ things don t .come your way —
of history without tho faithfulness r.nd
heroism of thousands of privates
whose names arc not rerorded. In the
InfT 1 fought^everv * dav! ‘^Thc^private^f J J fte s« c k€at track does not make
ve^tertlav i^the captain of tomorrow: the time; that's frequently lost
if he lias been faithful and diligt nt motJ °n. ^en the matorman sands his
in the serv!> e of another, who will
keep him out of that which is hi-s
own?
A few days ago the Suprcm
of Mississippi decided upon the right
af a hnv climb a tree. I'd go furth-
cause things don't .come
the start. The boat that wins the "race
Is often the one that cap make the
best time against the wind; it knows
i how to tack.
The slickest track does not
track.
; TYhe
i perv ;
j time \
Don'
almos:
lip-
the
n you find your feet in a
•ath. just remember that’s
ou need more sand,
t waste time. In principle it is
as bad to steal your employer's
er. the
right o
ngr
mb is
'rican
the
;hert
uld
t i zen.
i.«e of mind
Hottentot, or the
easily beat us !n
l that brains are
er stilts to look to to raise
, above the crowd.
The College Problem.
go up a high mountain your
: extended: half way up you
-.er than the man at the foot.
l-. t -r ycui climb the wider is
iZ'-n The mountain is e.iuca-
m.ounic.in war.'; com-' to you:
! time as his me
Have positive likes and dislikes.
Nothing so develops the intellect.
Don't be on the fence. Have an opin
ion of your own, even if you are some
times wrong.
If I had to boil down to one sentence
a rule that's a "dead shot” to get rich,
n would harfllv be the one credited to
Mark Twain: “Never buy from a
stranger what you
friend.” Here’s one you can all re
member: Live on half you make. If
very suspicious and demands to
know whv and on jwhat errand we
came in his dominion. They must he
especially sure that we have no designs
on his majesty’s Government. Finally
they were satisfied and we were allow
ed to land. As it was then late and
cold, I did not go over until after sup
per. where myself and about thirty
other Masons on board were royally
entertained by the Oriental Lodge of
Free and Accepted Masons No. S69. We
did not get back to the ship until “the
wee small hours.” This meeting and
the banquet with our Oriental friends
will long be remembered and they will
always hold a warm place in our
hearts. The next day we were up
bright nnd early and began landing in
Constantinople from a large tender
about $ o’clock, where carriages were
in waiting and we were driven an en
tire day over the city. What a place
is this Constantinople! Every shape
of man and dog that the broad empire
could furnish. Take a stand on the
Gaiato bridge which spans the Golden
Horn and connect' Gaiato and Pera
with Staml.au] and. Scutari and notice
the conglomeration of human beings
and their fantastic dress. There are
Turks. Greeks. Jews. Armenians. Arabs
and many other nationalities. The toil
of this bridge averages daily about
$3,000. The Population of Constanti
nople is 1.135.000. It was first settled
by the Athenians 2.200 years ago. Six
ceuturies later Constantine made it his
Capital and laid out the city tinder the
name of New Rome, but it took its
name from its founder. He designed
and built the Santa Sephia as a Christ
ian Temple and dedicated it to Jesus
Christ. His intention was tot build
the greatest temple in the -world, and
to.'k from the temples of Jupiter, Ve
nus. Diana. Baal. Astorte. Iris and
Osiris, throughout all the region of the
negro youths.
The board also approved a plan for stout, warm suit of blue cloth. He was
the sale of the Boylan Industrial Home so grateful that I felt repaid for my
in Jacksonville. Fla., and the erection sacrifice. But the next day he didn’t
of a new home with the proceeds.
Death of Mr. Nei Wright.
GRIFFIN. Ga., April 13.—Mr. Nel
Wright, brother of C. S. and A. A.
Wright, of this city, died at the home
of the former on Broadway at 12:30
o'clock today at the advanced age of
seventy-four years. Mr. Wright had
been in feeble condition since a stroke
of paralysis sustained thirty-three
years ago and for the past few days
come to work. I met his mother in the
street and asked her the reason.
“Why. Mr. Linton.” she said courte-
ing. ‘Jimmy looks so respectable,
thanks to you. sir, that I thought I
would send him round town today to
see if he couldn't get a better job.’ ”
Society Wue’en Who Sell Secrets.
A type of woman.of which happily there
are hot many specimens exists in this
metropolis, as perhaps in all others—the
society woman who sells the secrets of
her friends to sensational "society”
sheets. She is not to be confounded with
the society reporter, who is in a legiti
mate occupation and gets her information
by above-board methods. The society
woman in the pay of scurrilous weeklies
would shudder to be known as a seller of
“news,” yet, if the scandals in which
she deals can be dignified by that name,
she is nothing else. She is without even
the excuse, as a rule, that she needs the
money. Once in a while she has that
feeble explanation, but as a rule she re
tails her questionable tidbits of still more
questionable “fact” simply to get more
money for frocks or bridge than her hus
band or father allows. She is the natural
enemy of the real reporter, for the legit
imate sisterhood is blamed for most of
her revelations. It is safe to say that if
the women reporters responsible for so
ciety news were permitted to promulgate
decrees of bahishment at will, the first
exile they would make would be the wom
an who entertains here friends one day
and sells their most sacred secrets the
next.
the papal nunciature' and their publi
cation. Thd Vatican denies th.it it in
tends to publish a White book in an
swer to the publication of the docu
ments of Mgr. Montagnini.
The congregation of the propaganda
has decided to grant the claim^ of
the Ruthenian Catholics in the United
States for the appointment of a bishop
and has named Stephen Setero Erty-
nsky, who is a member of the Ruthen
ian order of Basiiians, as titular bish
op of Daulis (Greece) with the mission
to assist the Ruthenian Catholics
throughout the United States. His
nomination will bo announced at to
morrow’s consistory.
It is expected this concession will
-revive the claims of the Poles in
Amenica, who for years have desired
their own bishop, but whose requests
have been denied.
Pope Pius having named Mgr. Lual-
di, who will be made a cardinal tomor
row. as titular archbishop of the
church (if St. Gregory, which has al
ways been reserved for an English
cardinal, it is believed that the Itt. Rev.
Francis Bourne, archbishop of West
minster. is not likely soon to be given
the red hat. .
Cleveland's Tribute to Eckels.
PRINCETON. N. J.. April 15.—
Former President Cleveland was deep
ly touched when he learned of the
death of Mr. Eckels. He said:
"I was closely related to Mr. Eckels
and his death comes to me with a pe
culiar shock. In important public
work I learned to know him intelli
gently. and industriously he devoted
himself to duty, and in the intimacy of
close friendship I learned to know and
appreciate his rare and attractiva qual
ities of heart. These incidents have
personal touch with my deceased
friend; cause me to mourn his death
as a great personal sorrow. Mr. Eckels
illustrated the traits that make tho
best American citizenship. Deeply in
terested in every question connected
with the public welfare, he studied
them with soberness in tlie end that
he might increase his usefulness. Ho
was a public spirited man who saw
death all about him and whose influ
ence was impressed on ail his sur
roundings for good. There was noth
ing frivolous about him. In every re
lation of life as a citizen, as a business
man, and as a friend he was earnest?
and whole-hearted. Neither the im
mediate community in which he dwelt
nor the country at. large can well af
ford to lose a man like James H.
Eckels.”
LEOPOLD’S ACTION MAY RESULT
IN DISSOLUTION PARLIAMENT
BRUSSELS, April 15.—King Leo
pold's unprecedented action in with
drawing by royal decree the Govern
ment bill concerning the hours of la
bor in the mines has aroused the
greatest indignation in all parts. The
situation is grave and dissolution of
Parliament appears to be inevitable.
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED
ON BALTIMORE AND OHIO ROAD.
SULLIVAN. O.. April 15.—Speeding
at the rate of 70 miles an hour around
a curve near hero a westbound passenger
train on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road wa»'wrecked today. Engineer II. M.
Dempscn was instantly killed underneath
bis engine, which turned, aver on its side.
Fireman R. E. Trail, of Chicago Junction,
was severely injured.
Three eoaobev left the track but none,
of the nassengers was- hurt. Ti e train
was a New York and Chicago fast mail:
PLANTS TREE TO
BISHOP FITZGERALD
OCEAN GROVE. N. April 15 —
At the Arbor day exercises here today
trees were planted ia Founders' Park
in memory of Bishop James M. Fitz
gerald late president of the Ocean
Grove Association .who died in H'-ng-
kong last week, and the bishop's
daughter. Miss Cornelia Fitzgerald
who died at Penang, Malaysia, on
March 3: The opening day of the supi-
mer meetings. Sunday. June 16, will he
set apart as a Fitzgerald memorial
day. Gov. Stokes has accepted ar. Irr
itation to participate in the,services.
Fire Swept Alpine, Texas.
ALPINE. Tex. April 15.—Fire today-
destroyed almost the entire business
section of the city. The total losses
ill reach 5100.000. Not a business
house on the square escaped the
flames. Some of the structures were
entirely consumed and all suffered
heavy damage.
WORDS.
Gossip About Women.
In order that sick children of Prov- _ ^
idence, R. I.. may have the benefit of b e used as a substitute for quinine
The Sunflower and Quinine.
From the New York Times.
An eminent Spanish professor has
made the discovery that the sunflower
yields a splendid febrifuge that can
fresh air and sunshine in the summer, i More than ten vears ago Moncorvo re-
was helpless. The interment took place Mrs. Anne Crawford Allen Brown, j ported to the Therapeutical Society of
at Oak Hill cemetery at 3 o’clock this widj-w of John Carter Brown, has given ! Paris, with reference to the same sub-
afternocn.
Madid El Muln Has Resigned.
'TEHERAN. April 14.—The minister
of the interior Madjd El Muin has re
signed.
an borrow from a j/M.-cliUrranean. their finest marble and
t noted columns. This temple was
you
finally during a riot butned to the
ion't believe that possible, look j gr o U nd and for 909 years the present
nur
atn.
-)U sa
tuldn't have tc
uea:ion.
have e.-li
quit s h <
acquired
th:r-i f '
i ed
ition
the
history of the Russian Jews
In this country. It is predicted in fifty-
years they will he the money power of
the United States. Their motto is
thrift and economy.
Another element of success is cheer-
fulr.-tss. Good humor covers a multi-
tuie of shortcomings. Roses are an
emblem of joy. The earth laughs in
them.
>a have ; I guess I had better be getting back
and a j to the earth and give you a few prac-
worth ticable applications. That's a good
vithotlt J word, “application."
The first work
Santo (at Sophia) has stood one of the
grandest buildings in the world and
stead a Christian temple until Ma
homed II. the greatest of all the Sul
tans (1453) captured the empire, slew
the European Constantine and dedi
cated the temple of the false prophet.
One of the columns bears what is
claimed to be the print of the conquer
or's bloody hand. This period, how
ever. marked the zenith of Islam’s po
litical glory, for from this day there
has been a steady decline until now
Turkey is looked upon as “the sick
man of the East.” The present Sultan,
GRIFFIN. Ga.. April 12.—Fire at
1:30 o’clock this morning destroyed
nearly all of the property of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railroad'in the east
end yards. The large coal chute and
Its contents of about eight car loads
of coal, a 50 000 gallon water tank, the
yard master's office and seven freight
cars, two loaded with coal, and three
empty-.
Custard Sauce.
One pint of milk nn/1 two eggs beat
en together with sugar to taste. Put
In a saucepan over a low fir? and slir
gently until it thickens a little. It
must not boil. Just before, serving add
a bit more sugar and flavor with
brandy. Grate a little nutmeg over
the top. This is excellent for the cot
tage pudding.
Oxford Breakfasts.
There is nothing in which Oxford
shows her common sense more cieariy
than in her breakfasts. There is noth
ing in which the Oxford man ap
proaches nearer to the Homeric stan
dard of valor than in the three or four
repast with which he starts the dav.
—The Isis.
Is France Degenerate?
The intentions of Miss Louise H. Le-
c-Ierc in leaving large sums for the pur
pose of "raising France from her pres
ent low moral state.” are praiseworthy,
but when has she seen that Franee Is in
this state? On the contrary, all for
eign travelers who have • studied the
French people seriously and impartial
ly have admired its upright and in
dustrious habits, its thrift, its respect
for woman, and its cult of
—-Le Figaro.
to the Rhode Island Hospital her coun- ject. Accordingly the sunflower should
try home at Quidnesset. The property i not only by its growing expert great
Consists of a fine brick house and about ! fever dispelling effects but also yield
100 acres of land. The value of the . a product which is used advantageous-
gift is estimated at $40,000. j ly in all fevers.
The only- Engl-'shwoman admitted by- The common sunflower is an Am-
royal decree in recent years to any of i erican plant. Its original home is stated
the ancient orders of chivalry is Queen ' bv eminent botanists to be Peru and
Alexandra, who is a Lady of the Gar- J Mexico.
ter. As such her majesty wears the The Russian peasantry seem to he
broad ribbon of the Garter over the convinced that the plant possesses
left shoulder on state occasions, the ; properties against fever, and fever pa-
star upon the left shoulder, and when 1 tients sleep upon a bed made of sun-
the Garter is worn at all it is clasped j flower leaves and also cover themselves
upon the left arm. j with them. This use has recently in-
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani is still trying ! dueed a Russian physician to experi-
to get payment from the United States j ment with a coloring matter prepared
for the crown lands taken from her at i from sunflower leaves, and it Is stated
the time of the revolution in Hawa'i. t that he had good results with the color-
Miss Katherine E. Conway, editor of ; ing matter and with alcoholic extracts
the B'oston Pilot, has been awarded the : from the flower and leaves. With 100
Laetare medal given once a year by ; children from one month to twelve
Notre Dame University- to the man or | years old he has. in the majority of
woman selected for notable work along cases effected as speedy a cure as
the lines of art. science, philosophy, otherwise with quinine,
public work and religion. Miss Con
way is the fourth woman in the United
States to receive this honor.
Achilieion. the beautiful palace built
for the late Empress Elizabeth of Aus
tria at Corfu, at a cast of $5,000,000,
has been purchased by a Swiss-Ger
man syndicate, -which will convert it
into a hotel and sanitarium.
COLD SNAP DID DAMAGE
IN SEVERAL STATES
the family.
In Dreamy Samoa.
In a letter from Samoa to the Chi
cago Daily News R. C. Givins says that
the natives toil little and spin only
when their clothes are worn out, for
the wonderful trees produce all the
food they require. Breadfruit, cocoa-
-nuts, pineapples and numerous berries
together with an unlimited supply of
good fish, make it possible for them to
exist without much labor. They
trouble themselves very little about
politic.
MEMPHIS. April 15.—Reports re
ceived tonight from points in Shelby
County and from various sections of
the States of Mississippi, Tennessee
and Arkansas, announce damage from
the frost and that many varieties .of
vegetables had been injured. Fruit in
some sections was totally destroyed
and tomatoes, potatoes and other veg
etables suffered severely.
CONTINUOUS RAINS FLOOD
MACEDONIA AND ASIA MINOR
CONSTANTINOPLE. April 15.—
Continuous rains have caused the riv
ers to overflow, seriously flooding
Macedonia and Asia Minor. The
and thus America’s new-found i plains of Brusa. Adabazar. Kutahia.
Persia’s ruler, says tho Chicago Nows
the Shah, which word entered the
English language long ago by way of
the Arabic and old French arriving in
the form of “check.” "Chess” is really
“checks,” kings, and the cry of “cho. k"
means one’s king is in danger. Hence
the verb and substantive “check'' in vil
their English meanings; “chi k,” or
"cheque.” which was originally the
counterfoil of a bill that served to
“check” fraud; “checkered” from the
aspect of the chessboard, and “exche
quer,” from the checkered pattern of
the tablecloth on which x the king's ac
counts were kept with counters.
“Miss” is an abbreviation of “mis
tress.” which as an English lawdlc-
tionary explains, is the proper style of
the wife of an esquire or a gentleman.
By Doctor Johnson’s time it had be
come “the term of honor to a young
girl.” In the earlier part of th? Mth
century, however, it was Used respec
tively of girls below the age of 10 alone.
After that age. “miss" was rude, im
plying giddiness of behavior. In Smol
lett’s writings an unmarried woman of
mature years and her maid are both
“Mrs.” It is curious that “miss” has
grown older, so to speak, while “mas
ter" has become confined to boys.
"Zephyr" and "cipher” and "zero”
arc words that come to the English
from the Arabic “sifr.” which meant
literally “empty," and so “nothing.” and
the figure that represents nothing. In
mediaeval Latin this figure was nailed
both “cipra" and also “zephyrum,” the
latter probably from association with
“zephyrus,” or something even lighter
than air. Hence, through the Italltn
“zefiro” there Is the word “zero" as a
doublet with “cipher.”
red skinned citizens dream their lazy
lives away under the shades of the
old palms without the slightest worry
I about frenzied finance.
Aidin and almost ail the villages are
submerged and there has been Heavy
loss of life and destruction of cattle
i and property.
Honor the Old Time School.
From the Western School Journal.
Never speak or write of old time
schools in derision. We are In advance
of them in many ways, it is true, and
for that we are thankful, but our
thankfulness should be largely mixed
with humility. Those were the schools
of our fathers and grandfathers, and
really it must be admitted that they
were and are as a body entitled to our
respect. They did their best in the
light of that tallow candle. Are we
^loing as well in the brilliant blaze
shed upon our path by electricity?
Thev were slow in reaching an ob
jective tioint ill their' ancient lumber
ing vehicles. Do we accomplish as •
much when we reach our journey’s
end by the limited? These arc qeust-
ions which the youth and middle-aged
of our day should ponder. ..