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OPTION.
lUp to the time when the political
Goths and Vandals overran and ab
sorbed the Democratic party the na
tional platforms of that organization
uniformly declared against "sumptuary
laws, which vex the citizen.”
In the narrower field of State politics
the Democratic platform in Georgia
has for some years declared for local
option—the right of each county or
community to regulate for itself the
question of the liquor traffic. The last S*"*™ 1 P’ ablIc - wh >’ sbould tbe com '
platform as promulgated was silent on W havc 10 mortgage Its property to
BADLY MANAGED, TO SAY THE ;
LEAST.
The despatches say that the Atlantic
t and Deposit Company has been;
named as trustee to collect funds to be j
raised by the Jamestown Exposition I
Company on a call for the payment, of!
the remaining 72 per cent uncollected i
'in exposition stock. The report says I
"the trustee is empowered to receive
all notes offered in payment of stock
assessments and negotiate the same
for' the raising of cash.”
And further:
"Of the call for the remaining 72
per cent uncollected on common
stock. 12 per cent is made due Au
gust 1, and 10 per cent on the first
of each month until the whole has
been paid, the last payment being
due February 1. 1908. It is ex
pected to raise at once $130,000 for
exposition needs In this manner.
•‘A committee has been named to
. make a personal canvass for the '
collection of the additional assess
ment on the exposition stock. Up
to this time only 28 per cent of
the entire common stock sub
scription had been called for."
New Elements
In South Georgia
COMPARISONS. *
Editor of The Telegraph: As appli- ; J
cabl.- to the proposed canal across the •
Georgia hills connecting Georgia rivers j !
with the Mississippi river and all its \ •
tributaries, fifty-three in number. 1 •
| compare conditions In New York State 3
■ with those In Georgia.
| New York—Spuare miles of tern- i
I tory, 47,000; Georgia, nearly 60,000. I
j • Se ' v York weak in minerals as com- | immigration to the South, and par-
i pared with Georgia. New York rivers; .
and canals suspended for transportn- j l * c .H a . ,dy to Georgia, much has^ b.en
tlon purposes by ice five months of !f aid ‘ n to ‘ be aabject. treating
every year. Georgia water transports- j it entirely as an experiment or a por
tion all the year New York iarlher! slbl e °r even probable benefit to tae
| from the mines of the West than Gear- I «**•», Empire commonwealth of the
! gia from the great coal, iron and lime- «-°utniand. ■ ,
stone, and other mineral deposits cf i. -^ s a matter of fact, the matter of
I Tennessee and Alabama. New York immigration to Georgia has been set-
dependent entirely for coal upon other j t,ed f? r . 3 " rne > ears aad / bat ’ toa- a
| States, Georgia with large deposits, way that leaves very little room for the
Yet New York producing manufac- ! mosj skepmcal and the mostpessmi.stie
tured products from mines and quar-i‘° find fault with the results obtained.
; pies of what the right kind of immi-
‘ gration is doing for Georgia. This is I
no experiment but rather an absolute j
1 success which has been practically
proved and leaves no room for discus- j
! sion or argument. In addition to the i
ITEMS OF INTEREST
The railroads of this country are
said to use S4.000.000 ties per annum.
The giants of Tierra del Fuego. the
Commenting on this the Richmond
Times-Dispatch says: “The statement
that only 28 per cent of the entire
common stock subscriptions has been
called for comes as a surprise to the
the direct question of prohibition, but
it was afterwards claimed that a reso
lution favoring prohibition was passed
separately, and was lost in the shuffle
of the closing scenes of the convention.
The prohibitionists pretty generally
supported the candidacy of Hoke
Smith, but he did not discuss the mat
ter of State prohibition in his cam
paign speeches, so far as we are able
to learn. It was pretty generally un
derstood, however, that he favored the
local option plan, and it is known now
that he does, but that he will sign a
State prohibition bill If it comes to
him from the two houses.
“UN
SOBER THOUGHT ON THE
WRITTEN LAW.”
The "unwritten law” is not as popu
lar with reflecting editors as it Is with
emotional juries. There is sharp crit
icism, even condemnation, in the com
ments on the latest case.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch de
clares that it has no sympathy for
Judge Loving’s act and finds that "one
of the worst phases of the unwritten
law is the doctrine of irresponsibility.”
The Richmdnd News-Leader warns the
public that "with the law as it stands
life is unsafe, the law against murder
is almost nullified, and the State is in
the ignominious position of being una
ble to protect her own citizens.” The
Baltimore Sun submits that "our civ
ilization lias outgrown tire ‘unwritten
law,' ” and the Columbia State de
scribes it as "at best a stain upon our
civilization." The Charlotte Observer
says that “Judge Loving was acquitted,
as foreseen, but there are some victo
ries as bad as defeat. His daughter is
disgraced by her own testimony, tfnd
the brand of Cain is upon him. We
don’t know but what the fate of Estes
is preferable to that of either of the
survivors.”
The Nashville American does not be
lieve In Estes’ guilL Yet the dead
man’s friends were unable to introduce
any evidence to clear his name, the
judge rigidly excluding all testimony
tending to break down the story of the
only witness for the defense. One un
desirable result possibly to follow, in
the view of the Philadelphia North
American, is that “the girl who Is
found out may be led to think that a
harrowing tale, followed by a shooting,
squares all accounts.”
We may add that the assumption of
the woman’s innocence ordinarily is
justifiable, and is wholesome because it
make? for the stability of society, but
it.is dangerous as well as'unfair to go
the length of excluding testimony
tending to show the contrary. The old,
old story of Joseph and the wife of
obtain ready cash, when 72 per cent of
the subscriptions to its common stock
remains unpaid? The officers of the
company owe it to the exposition, to
the public and to the State of Virginia,
which made a conditional appropria
tion, to employ every expedient of law
to enforce the collection of all unpaid
subscriptions to its stock. The gen
eral public will be satisfied with noth
ing less.’’
We take it from this showing that
of the individual subscriptions to the
exposition made by the promoters and
those most intimately and directly con
cerned in its success only 28 per cent
has been paid in. Meantime the expo
sition has been operating chiefly on
the public appropriations made to help
out the private promoters and condi
tioned necessarily on their first per
forming their obligations, and the
company is now reduced to mortgag
ing the property to make up for the
deficiencies in payment of the private
subscriptions.
If such are the conditions that exist
the public will be forced to the con
clusion that the Jamestown Exposition
has been badly managed. Some peo
ple may be tempted even to apply a
severer term to it.
ries of $493 000.000. against SH.000 -
000 for Georgia, against $873,000,000
for Pennsylvania by far the richest in
mines and minerals of any State cf
the North.
New York, with far less ratural re
sources than Pennsylvania, by far ex
ceeding Pennsylvania in the total of
her manufactures.
Georgia, not only far richer in min
erals of all kinds than New York, but
also in agricultural resources, lumber
of all kinds, with a veritable mine of
gold in her cotton of which New York
must import every pound, yet New
York with the largest population of
any State in the Union, with a total
of manufactured products ten
greater than that of Georgia.
To what does New York owe its
phenomenal prosperity in greater de
gree than to any other cause? Thsre
is but one answer, namelv to the wise
foresight of DeWitt Clinton and* the
people of New York in the construc
tion of the Erie Canal.
The reason why this is the only an
swer is found in comparative statis
tics within the State between canal
and non-canal counties. The over
whelming majority of population and
wealth is in the 33 canal counties com
pared with the 27 non-canal counties.
Of cities, centres of industry, in ca
nai counties with 7 per cent of the
entire population of the State. 79 per
cent of its local wealth, while cities
in the non-canal counties contain but
3.3 per cent of such population but
7.9 per cent of such wealth. There are
36 counties in Georgia which would
be upon the main stem of the canal.
Inevitably a large number of other
counties will be connected witn such
canal as New York State by naviga
ble rivers and canalized rivers, ulti
mately no doubt as many as half the
counties in the State.
Cannot the people of Georgia re
alize the vast importance of this ca
nal in the future development of Geor
gia, this canal which will be in use
every day in the year against a closed
season of five months upon the Erie
Canal?
Cannot the people of the cities and
towns in the counties the canal will
traverse, in the counties with which
it will be connected, the seaport cities
upon our Georgia coast see in the
above* comparisons the ways to muni
cipal greatness?
C. P. GOODYEAR.
A DIPLOMAT’S INDISCRETION.
It is reported that certain alleged
comments made by Ambassador Bryce
the Oklahoma Constitution have
given offense to the administration.
While traveling in the West Mr. Bryce
was asked for his opinion of the in
strument named and is said to have
commended it. This was an even
greater mistake than to have criticized
it, if it is true, as alleged, that Presi
dent Roosevelt will be glad to find an
excuse for a veto so as to keep Okla
homa out of the Union until after the
election next year.
Mr. James Bryce, author of "The
American Commonwealth,” Is a recog
nized authority on our institutions and
Government and his opinion of the
Oklahoma Constitution would be inter
esting and perhaps valuable. But he
is now the British ambassador, and he
can not afford to express himself on
any subject of controversy between
our political parties and give the
weight of his opinion to the one side
or the other. His tactical error, if he
really committed it, is far less serious
than that of Lord Saekville West in
advising naturalized 'Englishmen to
vote for Cleveland, or that of Depuy
de Lome in criticizing McKinley in a
letter that got into print—both of
whom were given their passports—but
it is important enough to cause annoy-
Potiphar was not told in Holy Writ foriance at the White House.
nothing. Above the level of the "under
world” a like story is not often retold,
but that its repetition is at least a
possibility no judge or jury has a right
to forget.
SIDNEY LANIER.
A brlll.ant and interesting little pub
lication. Issued by the J. W. Burke
The matter, may be less serious than
is reported and, as is to be hoped, no
action may he taken; but Mr. Bryce
should learn a lesson. On account of
his knowledge of and interest in Amer
ican affairs he is incessantly called
upon and he travels about delivering
Bryan Organs at the South.
From the New York Sun.
A certain pathos attaches to the
spectacle now presented by the Bryan
organs at the South. In some vague
way they seem to be aware that hostile
forces are at work against their idol.
In all parts of that section of the coun
try sensible men and newspapers are
beginning to propound unpleasant in
terrogatories. One wants to know why
the • Democracy should for the third
time place itself under a fatal leader
ship and ’embitter the sting of inevita
ble defeat by espousing doctrines which
the rounders of the party would have
rejected with horror and indignation
There are unmistakable evidences of a
growing anti-Bryan tendency through
out the South to take a second and
more sober thought concerning the
campaign of 1908. One hears men ask
ing whether Bryan’s lien upon the
Southern Democracy is perpetual, and
If so, upon what grounds and under
what convenant. The Bryan organs do
not altogether relish this catechism, for
they find the answers 'both difficult and
unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, their at
titude remains, and but for certain re
cent manifestations of incoherence it
would seem unchanged.
The pathos grows more and more
conspicuous, however, as the organs
one by one take up the cry of conspir
acy against Bryan,, hatched in Wall
street and wickedly exploited by
horde of subsidized emissaries. If any
one thing connected with the Bryan
obsession could be more preposterous
than another, this feature of the com
edy would receive the palm of easy ex
cellence; but it is all so comical, so
forlorn, so amusing and so piteous that
the apprehensive mind is buffeted quite
helplessly. Whether Bryan is more
absurd than his devotees: whether his
pretensions to prophetic and despotic
domination are less offensive than ludi
crous, and whether the oracle is
greater humbug than its echoes and
exponents—these are problems far be
yond the ordinary grasp.
But there can be no two opinions
as to the mournful plight of the Bry
organs, suddenly called upon to account
for the attenuation of a once robust
hysteria and finding themselves
duced to the expedients of the dime
novel and the opera bouffe. Offenbach
himself would never have imagined a
more uproarious conceit than that. He
would, for example, have paid the
tribute of his hopeless envy to the es
teemed New Orleans Times-Democrat.
which a week or so ago came stalkin
down the stage with clenched hands
and puckered-, eyebrows, hissing “Trea
son!” And all because it had over-
, . _ heard a whisper to the effect that the
addresses with a frequencj which no g ou th would consult its interest as well
former British ambassador has even j as its dignits - by throwing the Ne
Company, is "Some Reminiscences and | remotely approximated. To continue | br ®f 1 X. p ™^?^_?Yf. rb °‘: l : d _^ nd J?
this, especially as a Presidential cam
Early Letters of Sidney Lanier,” by
Professor George Herbert Clarke, with
an introduction by Mr. Harry Stillwell
Edwards. It i? neatly printed, hand
somely hound, and illustrated. It is
published under the auspices of theU 0 give
Sidney Lanier chapter of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, and can
be bought for twenty-five cents.
Professor Clarke, since his retire
ment from the chair of English at
Mercer, has been contributing some
Mercer, has been making some
magazines of the country. This little
work on Lanier is not the least, how
ever, of his achievements.
I ting the Democracy upon an even keel.
There is reason to believe that the
paign is only a year off. will he haz- 1 Bryan stupor will soon be lifted from
c _ , . . i the Southern mind. Thinking men in
ardous. Sooner or later so frequent, a that section have already begun to
speaker will either fall into a trap or I ponder the possibilities of Federal own-
make some unguarded utterance iikelv I ^ rsb *P I ?, ilr ?‘? d *|'. as advocated b J 1Ir -
Bryan In hi? Madison Square address,
offense at the White House, j and they now clearly see that the prop-
Mr. Bryce, the publicist and historian, i osition contemplates a more abhorrent
state of things than has yet been sug
gested from any other quarter. They
can imagine no more abnominabie ar-
' j rangement than that which would
j officer the railway lines with colored
Bsy. Zad H. Copp, of Washington.Men. Such a prospect may mean little
win he obliged to. forget himself in Mr.
Bryce, the ambassador.
D. C., comes forward with the an
nouncement that "hell is in the sun.”
That would make hell a more benign
influence than it Is gnerally supposed
| or nothing at the North. It is a pros
pect. however, which at the South sug
gests immeasurable calamity: and
when the Democrats of that section at
la?: realize that it is their one-time
idol who has demanded and would con
A dispatch from Charlotte, Tenn.,
states that there is not a family in all
that section with less than eight child
ren and that many househr.lders count
their offspring anywhere from twelve
to eighteen in number. This arcadian
spot will at once be cited in evidence
of the glorious results of Mr. Roose
velt's crusade. In spite of reminders
from the scoffers that ten or fifteen
children can not conveniently be pro
duced in one family in the course of
only three or four years.
Mark Twain is something more than
a humorist He is a widower faith
ful to and reverent of the memory of
hi* dead wif^.. ~ ^**
to be—the untiring benefactor of the trlve this sinister adjustment, the only
human race, in fact. Don't slander the| < * n $£^ on w ’ tb them will be that of the
I swiftness and the violence of their re
good old sun. I pudiation. In that day. now rapidly
j approaching, how melancholy will be
. ,, ! the predicament of the Bryan organs
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan says King j ivlrlctl just now as so loud in their con-
Edward is "a very nice man, quite likej demnation of the dissenters! The ulti-
other nice men.” The British people
Will scarcely like to have their Edward
put into the common herd of
men” in such an abrupt and American
manner.
Those who die for their country on
the Fourth of July are luckless patriots
who pass from mortal view unhonored
and unsung.
mare significance of Government own
ership I» already plying far and wide
throughout the South, borne on the
nice : wings of anxious and discerning con-
1 troversy. What win the organs do to
save themselves when the whole story
shall be pat on every tongue and the
terror firmly lodged in every quickened
heart?
What is a Roosevelt Democrat?—Al
bany Herald. A John Temple Graves.
A Modern Heart.
"Do you see that lady over there?
She broke my cousin’s heart!”
“Was she so cruel?"
“No. but the day before he broke off
his engagement to her she inherited
200 000 marks.”—Translated for Trans
atlantic Tales from "Fliegende Blat
ter.” - - • ^
There are several colonies in this State
which have long proved a sure and
practical success, while the many new
comers who have been brought here
under the direction of the Georgia Im
migration Association, the steady,
hard-working, law-abiding kind of
workers who have proved their wil
lingness to help develop the natural
resources of the South, have done more
to place the immigration movement in
its true light than hundreds of columns
of description and explanation could
Of the several colonies of foreigners
who have quickly become helpful, in
dustrious and goodly citizens of Geor-
tirres j Sia, that of Piriia, located in Crisp
County, is a very fair example. The
true history of this enterprising set
tlement is made 'of one constant suc
cession of successes, and ail this done
in such a quiet, practical way and with
no fuss or feathers that very few
Georgians realize how wonderfully they
have solved this much mooted question.
And there are several other settlements
equally as prosperous as Pinia.
It is only about eight year? ago that
two brothers, A. Hiebert and D. J. Hie-
bert, came to south Georgia, looked
upon the land and believed that it was
good. The future more than realized
their highest anticipations. They pur
chased property to the amount of some
1.300 acres, paying an average price of
$6.50 an acre. Thjs was the beginning
of a settlement which began to grow
in numbers and influence from the very
first.
It was in 1904 that P. W. Enns while
visiting the World’s Fair at St. Louis,
happened upon the fine. State exhibit
of Georgia. So impressed was he at
the wonderful richness and versatility
of Georgia's natural products that he
immediately decided upon a visit to
this State. It was while making quite
an extensive trip through south Geor
gia that he visited Fitzgerald and Cor-
dele, and finally decided upon the pur
chase of a place at Pinia. Mr Enns
next brought his family to Pinia. and
from that time has been one of Geor
gia’s progressive citizens.
Not content with bringing members
of his family, he conducted a volumi
nous correspondence with friends and
relatives. ‘By means of these letter^ he
gave wide and personal publicity to the
exceptional advantages existing in ar>d
around Pinia. While some of these to
whom he wsote were sceptical, several
of them decided to make a trip and see
for themselves before settling else
where. Once they had closely exam
ined into.Pinia’s opportunities, they be
came equally enthusiastic, located as
citizens and later brought their fami
lies for the enlargement of the colony.
In speaking of the history of thi?
settlement, mention must be made of
P. F. Funk, who purchased 700 acres,
and P. H. Penner. who bought 100
acres. Both of these gentlemen played
an active part in the development of
this successful colony.
Mr. Enns then devoted his attention
to writing a number of articles for
newspapers calling attention to the op
portunities in Pinia and south Georgia,
following the same general line of de
scriptlon which he had pursued with
such good results in his personal cor
respondence.
As a result of the enthusiasm and
enterprise of these newcomers, there
are a number of German families at
this place that now own 2,155 acres of
land. Of this large tract'a goodly por
tion is under cultivation, and it is ab
solutely certain that fully $25,000 in
cold cash 'has been invested in Crisp
County land. Among the many fami
lies who now make their homes in this
settlement there are a large number
who have tried farming in foreign
countries and other sections of this
country, especially Ru?sia, Germany.
North Dakota. Minnesota. Wisconsin,
Kansas and Oklahoma, and all are ab
solutely agreed that in no other sec
tion do suefn opportunities exist or can
such exceptional natural resources, be
found as in south Georgia.
Peter Dockweiier. a scientific farmer
and one of the most prosperous and
enterprising of iPinia’s citizens, states
that he made over $500 by working only
twenty-five acres and renting out
twenty other acres. In this connection
hot says that he performed all of the
work on his own twenty-five' acres
alone and that he raised oats, rye,
eowpeas. hay, corn. Iris'll potatoes,
sweet potatoes, groundpeas. sugar cane
and many kinds of fruit. He has also
made a nice Income from the raising of
cows, chickens and hogs. He is con
stantly improving his land, and reports
that while he could secure $30 an acre
for his land, he would not seil for less
than $50 per acre.
Mr. Enns. who owns the farm of 255
acres, renorts that eighty-six acres of
this cultivated land brought $450 an
acre, making a rental of $5.25 per acre.
Mr. Enns also invested in land in Ok
lahoma. 100 acres of which brought
only $233. or $2.33 per acre. By figur
ing the land at both acres at the same
price of $30 an acre, the investment in
Georgia land paid 17 per cent, while
the investment in Oklahoma brought
but little better than 7 per cent.
Mr. Enns’ experiments along fruit
lines are also certain to be profitably
interesting. Devoting half an acre of
his Pinia land to grapes these last
years brought him a yield of 3.000
pounds of delicious fruit, acknowledged
by experts to be almost equal to the
California or Crimean grape. At an
average price of 4 cents a pound, this
half acre brought $120. Made into
wine, this same crop would have paid
from $200 to $300, or at an average rate
of from $400 to $600 per acre. Mr.
Enns and many of his neighbors are
authority for this statement that
money is easier made than from the
cultivation of grapes. In addition to
his vineyard Mr. Enns has sixty-four
peach trees (coming three years old)
which two years ago brought him 120
bushels of the very finest variety,
which he readily sold at $1.20 per
bushel.
The report of Mr. Funk is in keeping
with that of his other prosperous
neighbors. From forty-five acres he
netted $350. giving It out on halves.
He insists that this never could havt?
been accomplished in the West, where
land now sells at from $50 to $75 per
acre. Incidentally, he says he knows
whereof he speaks from experience.
Mr. Penner, one of the latest arrivals
in the colony, is now working his sec
ond crop in the South. Last year the
heavy rains and many other setbacks
had a tendency to rather discourage
him. but when his crop was finally
athered and he found himself $400
ahead he believed that for an off-year
his returns were far better than from
any other sections, and he has wide ex
perience. THis year Mr. Penner is
working fifty-five acres by himself. He
does all the plowing and only hires*
extra help for the chopping. He runs
a two-horse- cultivator and a feeder,
and with these tools he is able to keep
the grass out of his fields and realize
handsomely on his Investment.
Theft are only a v
prosperity of the'individual citizens of Ona Indians, are stunted in intellect.
: Pinia this entire section of the State | The transparent glass ruler, an inno-
has enhanced tremendously in value i vation, is of great assistance to drafts-
and is now recognized as one of the | men in their work.
Lucknow. India, boasts the largest
room in the world without columns.
It Is built of concrete.
New York city pays $75 a year for
the rats and mice that the reptiles of
Bronx Zoological Park eat.
At Fushima, Japan, there is a gold-
lined well, affording abundant water
supply to a garrisoned castle.
Engineers say Victoria Falls could
supply enough water power for all the
needs of Rhodesia and the Transvaal.
An equal division of the water used
daily in New York city gives each in
habitant forty-nine times his own
weight.
The Fifth Avenue Baptist Church,
Mr. Rockefeller’s church, in New York
city, is not nearly large enough to hold
the people who desire to hear the new
English pastor, the Rev. Dr. C. F.
Aked.
According to the Coroner’s records,
asphyxiation is the favorite mode of
suicide in New York city, there being
an average of one suicide each three
days, while there is about one in four
days from shooting.
With the recent discussion regarding I best In south Georgia.
As for the social conditions which
exist in this settlement, it would' hard
ly be possible to improve them. All of
these adopted Georgians are earnest,
hard-working, law-abiding citizens and
are universally respected by their
neighbors. The family life is ideal.
The children are in school and all of
the citizens attend their own churches
regularly. They are not only temper
ate, but do not touch Hquor in any
form. Besides this, in addition to being
industrious, they are both progressive
and enterprising. Already they have
accomplished much in a practical way
through the raising of diversified crops
and the breeding of high class stock.
Altogether it would be very difficult to
recognize in the Pinia of this present
day that same tract of land which was
first purchased by the Hiebert brothers
some eight years ago.
A careful study of what has been
done and the conditions which’ now ex
ist in Pinia and other Georgia colonies
is certain to convince the most scep
tical and prejudiced of those who are
opposed to the right kind of immigra
tion. What has been accomplished
also absolutely and directly disproves
any reports to the effect that white im
migrants do not receive the right kind
of treatment jn Georgia and the South.
In fact, these stories of mistreatment
were long ago traced to the unscrupu-
lou? reports and stories told by immi
gration agents who were employed by
Western land companies or State com
missions who were endeavoring to at
tract settlers to other sections of the
country.
Both President Gunby Jordan, of
the Georgia Immigration Association,
and ' Chairman John .A. Betjeman, - of
the State executive committee, state
that in the direction of Georgia immi
gration only the very best of settlers
and home seekers will be permitted to
come inta this State.
By restricting these newcomers to
the sober, industrious, law-abiding, en
terprising and progressive white peo
ple. the Georgia Immigration Associa
tion Is now bringing, and expects to
bring, .such citizens as will develop
the wonderful natural resources of
Georgia and add to the general pros
perity of the State by furnishing com
petent and adequate labor to meet the
constantly growing demands. Such is
and has always been the mission of
the association, and that the results
will be both practical and beneficial
have already been proved both by the
Pinia and other Georgia colonies as
well as hundreds of other individual
who have sought to work out their
own salvation in the many cities and
sections of Georgia.
With the Versifiers
A SUMMER DAY.
Now glides the day reluctant to the night
Dreading his fond embrace and easel
yet to stay.
Flooding the distant hills with iridescent
light:
Threading the dreary wood with many ar
golden ray.
Lagging her step and ardent her desire:
See now the glory of her parting smile!
See how she sets the western clouds on
fire.
Sprinkling the lake with myriad gems’
the while!
Peace to thee, day! And surcease of re
gret!
Go to thy rest beyond the distant hills.
Soon shalt thou wake to greet the violet:
Soon shalt return to banish night’s
dread ills.
By Laura IV. Sheldon, in the July Metro
politan Magazine.
A LAST SPREE.
BACHELOR REFLECTIONS
From the Ne\Y York Press.
A girl hates to be kissed by a man
unless he hasn’t the right to do it.
The only sure way to cut down your
living expenses is to go to jail.
When a woman says a thing is hide
ous she means it isn’t fashionable.
Peeople don’t like champagne so
much if there is nobody to see them
drink it.
When a girl imagines she is in love
with a man it’s a sign she believes it
more than if she really were.
From the Now York Sun.
I used to say that I have came. —_
And also that I done it.
And I desire to warmly speak ..
Regarding ma’s new bunneL -,
I also mean to say it’s me.
On any old occasion.
And I will say Just what I shall
Unheeding of persuasion.
I would have went down town today.
Although I hadn't orter,
I haln't got no more to say.
Here comes the college darter.
The blissful phrases now I use
Without a single stammer.
The graduates will soon be home
To knock the old man’s grammar.
FAME.
PROVERBS AND PHRASES
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
Congressman James Burke reports
the Knox boom growing.—Wait till the
green bug hits it.—New York World.
Japan should understand that our
intentions as well as the future sta
tions of our battleships are pacific.—
New York Mail.
But after all didn’t that one cock
tail show that Charlie, in spite of all
appearances to the contrary, is a hu
man being?—New York Sun.
Mr. Riis has simply come to the con
clusion that no man can be “the
world’s most useful citizen” while ho
is a widower.—Washington Post.
Disarmament is' said to have been
the topic of a lively conversation at
Oyster Bay recently. Not of the Pres
ident, however.—Washington Herald.
There isn’t going , to be much peace
in this cquntry until Carrie Nation
buries the hatchet and the New York
World finds out what is a Democrat.—
Philadelphia Press.
Maybe the British anthropologist
who says that the human head is
diminishing in size is only trying to
perpetrate a Mark Twain joke on the
London public.—New York Tribune.
Education is a poor man’s haven.—
Latin.
By dint of going wrong all will come
right.—French.
A golden bit makes none the better
horse.—Italian.
Do good by stealth and blush to find
it fame.—Pope.
Lies and gossip have a wretched off
spring.—Danish.
It is easy to stride a tree when It Is
down.—Danish.
A wise physician is more than
armies to the public weal.—Pope.
Everything passes, everything
breaks, everything wearies.—French.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the ‘Chicago News.
Vanity makes a lot of remunerative
work for the beauty doctors.
You never , really know your friends
until they become your enemies.
Many a convincing political speaker
can’t even get a hearing at home.
It takes a brave man to tell a wo
man that her baby looks just like any
other.
A wise woman always lets herself get
the worst of an argument with an
egotist.
Some men don’t mind getting it in
the neck if their neighbors get it just
as hard.
Every man is entitled to a limited
number of faults, but most, men exceed
their limit.
From the New York Sun.
Before you strive for glory •*-
As famous to revolve.
Before you strive for laurel.
This triple riddle solve:
We hailed him as a leader.
We dubbed him sage and great,
But tell us who in thunder
Was Bryan’s running mate?
The ladies wept about him,
The papers showed his face.
But. pray, who was the hero
Of last year's murder case?
The almost central figure
And keystone of the arch.
Who was the happy bridegroom
Of last year’s wedding march?
THE OPINION OF SATAN.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
Satan come ter my house
Sweet ez honeycomb.
Holler down de chimbly:
“Neighbor, is you 'home?”
Den I up en answer,
In a trim'bly way:
“No. suh, ef you please, suh.
Long time moved away!”
Loud ez loud kin he ;
“Wen it comes ter lyin’
You wos' ez good ez me!”
Satan fell ter iaffin’
ADVICE.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE
Rev. Edward Twitchell Ware, just
elected president of Atlanta Univer
sity, is a son of the first president,
Edmund Asa Ware.
Prince Edward of Wales is, as a
cadet of the Royal Naval College, mak
ing his first cruise on the Eclipse, a
British man-of-war.
Rev. S. Baring-Gould. author of
‘Onward, Christian Soldier,” is 73
years of age, but straight and strong
and a tree chopper for diversion.
John Kendrick Bangs, the author,
has forsaken New York and will here
after make his home in Boston. He
will spend his summers at Ogunquit,
Me.
The King of Siam has become Eu
ropeanized in most respects, but he
still maintains a large harem in a
special “town.” to which no man but
himself is ever admitted.
F. Oliver, Minister of the Interior of
Canada, accompanied by Mrs. Oliver
and their two daughters, is in Wash
ington spending a few days sight-see
ing before going to the Jamestown
Exposition.
The Duke of Orleans, who has al
ready explored hitherto unknown ter
ritory at the extreme north of Green
land,' has just left Christiania for
fresh voyage to the polar seas on his
stout little yacht, the Belgica.
Victor Herbert, who has been com
missioned by Oscar Hammerstein to
write a grand opera with an American
theme, is now at work on this theme,
which will be founded on an Indian
legend, at Lake Placid, N. Y.
THE HUMORIST^
Bad Advice: “He complains that
his wife refuses to listen to him.” “H
should cultivate the habit of talking in
his sleep.”—Houston Post.
“The devil take these motors! If
they go slowly I can’t run them in, and
if they go fast I can’t see what their
numbers are.”—Fliegende Blatter.
Tourist: “And are there any ab
sentee landlords in these parts of Ire
land?” Car Driver: “Shure, yer anner,
the country’s full o’ thim!”—Illustra
ted Bits.
Waiter: “The fish that the gentle
man on the terrace has ordered smells
a bit.” Proprietor: “Well, serve it to
him when a motor car goes by.”—
Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Biobbs: “No. I never have any
financial dealings with Bjones."
Slobbs: "Always wants to borrow
money, eh?” Biobbs: “Urn, no, not
exactly: but he never has any t‘
lend.”—Philadelphia Record.
“What was the most thrilling mo
ment of your life?” “It occurred last
night. I walked the floor with the
baby for two hours, and, just as he
had finally dropped off to sleep. I trod
on a squeaky board.”—Cleveland
Leader.
Sir!” exclaimed the icy co-ed, after
the kiss had been stolen, “how dare
you! No man has ever kissed me be
fore.” "Oh! that’s all right,” replied
the nervy student. “Somebody had to
break the ice.”—Wisconsin Sphinx.
Sabbath School Teacher: “Where
have you been lately, Sadie? I haven’t
seen you at Sunday school for some
time.” Sadie Smith: “Oh, please,
miss, I’m learning French and music
now, so mother doesn’t wish me to
take region just yet.”-rSket£b.
Some Tenures of Office.
From the Washington Post.
The public career of an American
statesman is much shorter than that of
the European. No American has yet
served in Mvhat Is called the national
councils—the Senate, the House and the
cabinet—as long as 50 years. Few have
gave 40 years to such labor. Indeed, it is
an unusual distinction for a public man
to have given 20 years to Congress.
John T. Morgan was one of the four
men who were six. times chosen to rep
resent States in the Federal Senate. John
Sherman, Justin S. Morrill and William
R. Allison were the other three. George
F. Edmunds entered the Senate in 1S6G,
and had he elected to continue in that
body he would be a member of it today.
William E- Gladstore served in the Eng
lish Commons more than 60 years; but he
several times shifted lii.? constituency, be
ginning with a “rotten borough.”
Of all American statemen perhaps Ben
Hill and Edward W. Carmack made most
reputation when we take into account tile
brevity of their Congressional careers.
The weakness of our system lies in the
fact that the public whim affords envy
such opportunity to aim at shining marks.
There are but three men in the present
Senate who were members of tha body
when Morgan entered it—Allison. Teller
and Whyte. He became a Senator simul
taneously with Garland. Beck. Hoar and
Eustis. Voorliees came in a few months
later. Morgan’s colleague in 1877 was a
carpet-bagger. Conkling was the most
conspicuous man in the body and the
leader of the majority. Thurman led the
minority. In-ails was just fairly launched
on his brilliant career. Morton was just
leaving the stage on which he played so
great a part. Sherman resigned to go
into the cabinet the day Morgan entered
the Senate. Two Democrats were Sena
tors from Connecticut. Vest and Vance
came in two years later. Hale and Frye
came in four years later. Blaine preceded
Morgan a few months. William A. Wal
lace. the rival of Samuel J. Randall, was
a Democratic Senator from Pennsylva
nia.
Though John T. Morgan was S3 years
of age when he first entered the Senate,
he lived to witness a change in the entire
personnel of that body save as to one in
dividual—Mr. Allison. Teller left the Sen
ate in 1882 to enter the cabinet, and
there were many years between the nres-
ent service of Whyte and his former.
We do not believe that such .eomnara-
tlveiy short tenures of political life in the
two Houses of Congress are wholesome.
Experience is the handmaid of talent, and
genius itself makes profit out of it. The
New England States and Towa appear to
Baltimore News.
Don’t say you’ve read tho page six
months or so.
Cut it out.
Don’t say you fear wastebasket’s hungry
glow,
Cut it out.
If the best that you can do
Can’t withstand wastebasket’s view.
Then the next best thing to do.
Cut it out.
V
It you have to make excuses, . ,
Cut it out. I
If you have to heap abuses, I I ’ »
Cut it out. . ' ‘ »
If vou want to write a letter
And can’t think of nothing better,
And if writing is a fetter.
Cut it out.
Don’t phone numbers and page friends
galore.
Cut it out.
Don’t build air castles on newspaper
shore.
Cut it out.
If you’ve nothing you might say
Give the space you’d use away.
Do not trifle or get gay.
Cut it out.
If you have a word or two that’s any
'good.
Send it in.
If a thing you know is really a brain
food.
Send it in.
If you have a little gem.
Or some thing as good as them.
That the tide of thought might stem.
Send it in.
Just write a little verse or bit of prose.
Send it in.
If it’s worth the room is takes, in It_goes.
Send it in.
Do the very best you can.
Write a little like a man.
Something that can stand a seal.,
Send it in.
So get together something that will pass.
Send it in.
And count yourself a member of the
class—
Come right in.
Get together something quick.
Something lively—something slick—
In the page it’s sure to stick— — ,
Send it in.
FRANCIS JOSEPH
NOT AUTOCRATIC
Marouise de Fontenoy in Washington
Post.
Emperor Francis Joseph has been
subjected to a good deal of misrepre
sentation in the foreign press in con
nection with his sensational departure
from Pestli last week, in the midst of
the official celebration of the fortieth
anniversary of his coronation as King
of Hungary. The cable dispatches are
right in ascribing his angry return to
be ahour’aii^he^States'ieft’that'se'e'the j Vienna to a quarrel with the Magyar
advantage there is in long tenure for j cabinet
national public servants. i . . ,
Perhans Mor-an owed his six terms in | unjust, in
the Senate to his practice of leaving se
verely alone local politic? in Alabama. He
never asked a vote for himself and never
electioneered for another. Merit, pure
merit, was his only capital.
The first time you kissed her?
Cap. You Remember?
Men, think this over: Can you re
member the first time you wore
trousers?
The first time you tried to smoke?
The first girl you were in love with?
The first pair of long pants you
wore?
The first dress suit you had on?
The first dollar you earned?
The first stiff hat you cfonned?
The first time you proposed to a
girl?
The first time you were sent for
milk and drank some on the way-
home?
The last time your daddy tanned
your hide?”—North American Review.
Grape Fruit.
The popularity of grape fruit is a
sign of the times that Invites consid
eration, says the Boston Transcript.
Three times a day in some households
does it appear at table, so completely
is its vogue. And no one is ever heard
to say he is weary of it. Grape fruit
holds its own, now that it has really
come into its own, as not all fruits
can. For besides the fine flavor of it
it has certain properties, it is said,
that make it healthful, and that is a
combination always desirable. So it Is
good to be told, having reached this
stage in contemplating its place with
us, that down in Florida the grape
fruit orchards Increase yearly in size
and number, and that nowadays for
every orange tree set out four grape
fruit trees are planted. For this news
assures us that future demands for thi
fruit win be as fully met as are those,
_ _ at jthe prsepnt ^ • > • -y ' ,
but are not only wrong, but
describing the dispute as
due refusal to give his consent to cer
tain constitutional guarantees demand
ed of him by Parliament. The impres
sion conveyed thereby is that the Em
peror is seeking to defend the cause of
absolutism against the people.
Quite the contrary is the case. Tho
measures to which the ministers at
Pesth have been seeking in vain tho
sanction of Francis Joseph have for
their object to perpetuate the power
and predominance of the Magyar mi
nority at the expense of the over
whelming Croatian majority. The Em-
j peror is thoroughly aware of the in-
' tolerable oppression to which the
Croatians have been subjected until
now by the Hungarians, and has de
clared that he would not sanction any'
measures calculated to perpetuate it,
until they had been demanded of him
by a big majority, in a new Parlia
ment, elected, not according to the old
franchise, but on the basis of univer
sal suffrage. He is introducing the
latter in the face of Magyar opposi
tion in Hungary, and it will have tho
effect of giving for the first time to>
the Croatians a voice in the control of
their destinies. In one word, if
Francis Joseph is at odds with his
Hungarian ministers, it is because he'
is championing, not the cause of abso
lutism, as the cable dispatches would'
appear to convey, but the cause of de-»
mocracy, and of universal suffrage.
The heir apparent, who is more or
les3 of a political enigma, apparently'
shares the views of his uncle. Less
patient than the latter, he was so en-'
raegd by the attitude of the Hungarian
ministers toward the venerable sover
eign that he left Pesth with eclat even
twenty-four hours before the Emperor,
driving straight from the Church of’
St. Matthias to the railroad station,
and declining to take part in any of'
fUEtftfit fceremoiuya. _ ^ N