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Newspaper Page Text6 THE GOJiSTITUTIOfI CLARK HOWELL Editor ROBY ROBINSON Business Manager Fateredat the Atlaam PnntafTlre aa Sacand Claaa Mail Matter, Nov. 11, 1873. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. onlv $; per annum. Clubs of five. SI each; clubs of ten. $1 each and a copy to getter-up of club. bwE WANT YOU—The Constitution wants an e* agent at every postofftce in America. Agent’s outfit free and good terms If you are not In a club, we want you to act as agent at your office. Write ue. *?HAXGE OF ADDRESS - When ordeHnp al dress of your taper changed always giv*» the o’.d as well as the new address. Always give postoffice. county and state. If your paper •s not received reppilarly. notify us and we ta ill straighten the matter. [F YOU SEND US AN ORDER for new sub scribers. please allow us a week to get the names on the liet and paper started before you write a complaint, as we are very much ctowded now. DO NOT FORGET tn make your renewals in time Watch your direction <ag and see when youi subscription expire* The n< xt sty month wi»l be full of interest, and von should not miss a single copy of The <’un stitution. . end your orders at least a week in advance to make sure. It may not «ake a week in every instance, as we use the greatest diligence to get them on our xxiail wr list. The County Fair. Why has the county fair fallen into desuetude? Possibly, in evolving the correct answer to this query, we may discover why the boys and girls are so bent on leaving the farm for town and agriculture in many places is languish ing. The county fair stands for agricul tural prosperity—the spirit of prog ress in husbandry. The live, pros perous. spiritually healthy farming sections of the United States are hold ing their lime-honored county lairs today; the dead, calamitous, morbid rural communities are not. A fair is to an agricultural county what a chamber of commerce is to an ambi tious city. The town that has "hus tle" to it reflects that quality through an aggressive, compact organization ■ of its citizens whose public spirit is ■ indefatigable, and. by the same token. I the county that blossoms perennially with new farm houses, new barns. | new fences, plenty of paint and white- i wash, and whose cultivated landscape j smiles with the abundance of its I promise, reflects these evidences ol thrift in an annual exhibition of its field resources and household indus tries. Some shallow souls who pine to I leave the comparative peace and plen t.y of an indifferently worked farm for a four-bit job and a nerve-racking life in some pent-up Uti<-a may sneer at the county fair as antiquated and the legitimate target of the bucolic ( humorists of the press. Let the light | heads sneer, and when they have rid : the cheated soil of a poor plowboy by ■ taking themselves to town, by all means resurrect the old county fair. When it has been held several sue •essive falls you will realize that you have a better county. We are glad to see a revival of in terest in this matter in many parts of the south The other day Mr. M. V. Richards, the well-known land and industrial agent of the Southern rail way. was in Columbia, S. C.. and while there gave lae State a common-sense' Interview on the subject of county 'airs. After showing the pecuniary > rdvantage to the farmers to come to gether at a competitive agricultural Exposition once a year and compare , notes on all branches of their work. Mr. Richards said: To meet with the best success the far mer must become actively interested; he must take hold of the work and give it bis serious consideration; view it and handle it as a straight business proposi tion. Every farmer in South Carolina, whether little or I'ig, will promote his best interests by resolving at once that be will support the county fair move m-=nt. and act upon that resolution. Now Is the time Io prepare for the fair season 19fi3; we should not put it off The farm ers should take it up and treat It as a per ser.al matter; perfect an organization and start right in with the view of holding a fair next fall. Do not wait for yo ;r neigh bor to take the initiative -he ntay not at. let your business engagement calendar Show this memorandum: "We are going to hold a fair in this county I am to see some of the farmers and arrange for a meeting to consider plans of organization, etc." I have attended fairs in many northern states and in Canada and an seriously el vise the people of the south to patron ize their local county fair The towns people should interest themselves also, and I have no doubt will do so, if ap proached. This is sound advice. The towns people will only be too glad to do their part, but it is for the farmers to realize the value of the movement, get enthusiastic over it and take the initiative. The Constitution hopes to see. and believes it will have the pleasure of seeing, more county fairs in Georgia this fall than have been held since the war. Damage by the Mississippi Floods. After all the excitement occasioned by the Mississippi river floods this spring the actual damage wrought thereby is not believed to have been very great. The New Orleans papers, which, it must be admitted, are in a position to know, summarize the situation up to April 1 by showing that out of 1.480 ■miles of levees only a mile and a half had given way to the high water, while only between 2 per cent and 3 per cent of the cultivated land had been overflowed. The levee system is in better condition than ever before, so they say, to resist the attack of ihe river, yet in many places the levees had not been perfected when the river began to rise. On the whole, the present levee sys tem is regarded with great satisfac tion. though considerable work will be yet required to make it what is de sired. It is pointed out that in some re spects this year's experience has been without parallel in two decades. The winter and early spring in the whole length of the Mississippi valley was the wettest on record, and the snows melted a month earlier than usual. As the upper country becomes more thickly settled, moreover, the drain age becomes more nearly perfect, and this causes high water in the river, which drains twenty-seven states and territories, more quickly than in the old days. Added t" the drainage fac tor in the deforestation of the upper country, which has done much to In- crease the amount of water carried off by the river in freshet time. With the extensions and improve ments that will be made to the levee system from year to year, it is believ ed that the Mississippi may yet be controlled to all intents and purposes. Os course, planting in the river bot toms has been seriously delayed, but it is hoped that good crops can yet. be made, so that, taking it all in all, the actual damage, as stated, is noth ing like as great as was at first feared it would be. Down to Honest Levels. It is cheering to hear .1. Pierpont Morgan express a view on conditions of general prosperity diametrically opposite to that voiced some weeks since by J. -I. Hill, the northwestern magnate. In his recent New York Times interview Mr. Morgan speaks not only hopefully, but with as much enthusiasm as he is capable of, con cerning the continuance of our good times in the United States. Among other things the great New York financier said: As for the general situation you may stat-' t-niph?i iealiy ami unequivocally that it is most promisin'.:, with the country unqualifiedly prosperous. Id th* iron and steel trade, for < xamph - the barom eter of the country’s growth, stability and business activity—th»Te rever was so great or so profit:’.ole business. Or ders on hand run f-.r ahevl and the out look is decido lly encouraging. In short, summing the situation up. not only is there prosperity everywhere but the premises are of a continuation of that prosperity for a long time to come. Mr. Morgan's testimony as to ihe ; healthful tone of the stock market may be ex parte, as he is heavily in ' teresled in the salt' of securities, but i it is none the less true that the great I interests of the sort represented by • him art* showing their faith by enlarg -1 ing their plants and improving their ' facilities at a rate well nigh unprec edented. Much of the interview in ’ question was devoted to securities ’he real worth of which has been serious ly questioned—-securities representing I a large percentage of "water." as must be inevitable in this era of trust pro motion and financial inflation. On : this head Mr. Morgan is equally opti mistic. saying: j It seems- to me that the general pes- I simistic talk indulged in not aloe.- in for- ■ *’ign. but in local circles, is in no sense I justified by Ihe f.i'ls. It may bn true, as I some of tiie ■aptious critics declare, that , | at tlie present moment there are in the 1 i market main undigested securities, but i ought not the character .if th- se securi ties to be taken into consideration in a > I br-ad or comprehensive view of the sit- • ■ \ . urit ies oui I or t*e i t’i< y unsound; do they represent value or ; do they not; for what purposes h ive they i i been issm 1 those are the questions. I To my mine and in my judgment these ; new se unties are essentially sound and. .stable, and those who hav them ar. in ' 1 nowise alarmed because of their hold i Ings. Beyond all this, they are is-ued I not to build competing lines, but largely I for the purchase of rollin'-: .-dock and mo i live power and for the extension of oth-T ’ facilities necessitated by Ihe necessary movement of the products of the coun- j You will find that, in due time this i I phase of the difficulty -growing out of i those new seeuriti- will disappear. Still, under the circumstances, the \ cautious investor may well be wary i of the class of securities called in ■ question; ami even considerable sums spent in development ami improv ment are no infallible sign of worth and stability, although they beat mere paper expansion all hollow. Io such securities much of the distrust ami i insecurity of the money market is at tributed by conservative financiers, and until they are eliminated breakers ahead are predicted on Wall street. However, it is not charged tnat these securities are without, value, or on a par with the stocks oi "salted mines, i Not at all. Many of them have sub i stantial value. The trouble is their ' value has been more or less overes , tiniared and too much exaggeration ! indulged in by promoters. It is sought in conservative quarters to fix their values at a normal, rational level in order that a safe financial re adjustment may take place. Says The New York Evening Post, ; commenting on the financial sit’-ia : tion: ■ For our part, we should say that the 1 market has 1 e*n f-.r some weeks seeking 'the most practical relief. It has been putting its stocks ; t a lower level; grot - ing. so to sp-'-ak. after that investment basis at which the general public, home ■ and foreign, can be induced to buy. in the course et this undertaking, it has i been throwing off from its shoulders, mi- I by one. the burdens heaped up by reck less adventurers of the stock exchange. After making due allowances for the evil complained of. The Philadel phia Record is disposed to share Mr. Morgan’s optimistic view. That jour nals ays: A good part of the stocks issued in the last four years does not represent im ; provements of actual property, but is a I capitalization of profits obtained at a season of exceptional prosperity, or prof its only hoped tor. Some of these stic ks leave involved the purchasers in loss, ami others will do so, sooner or later. Hut after due reeogml e-n ot tnis vice of capitalization, which has already wre. k ,d several ■ im. - rns, the bo t remains that ' the prosperity is. re;t! and shows no signs of abating. Pessimistic views of om ty: ' nation in foreign papers are not justit'ud. The railroads are ■ arning < norm.ons sum.- , and spending a good part of their earn ings m permanent improvements, and for necessary equipment, instead of bo >m heir st • its in dividends Tile iron and steel m- ■ dustrv is irntn'-nsely profitable. Most of : the industries are making liberal profits. The statistics' of failures show that losses i are few. The prosperity is genuine, and the countrv is not yet incurring th> se <OB whi< h lead to panics and d< pres- ■ sions Although these "undigested securi ties" may not seriously menace ihe health of the stock market, it were ■ best that it be relieved of such con stantly recurring touches of indiges tion. and it would seem that the prop er romely has been prescribed by those who art' more int< rested in buy ing than in selling. Silver in Mexico. In his recent message to the Mexi can congress. President. Diaz has this to say of silver as it is employed in the monetary system of Mexico: The rapid uni continuous depreciation ■ in the value of the white metal since ISfil - I threatens to ■ ar.se 'vcntu.allv. even in the ' opinion of I lie most optimistic, disturb ances outweighing al! .advantages derived I from the rise in foreign exchange. This i and the knowbdg. that other nations us- ■ ing silver as monetary has- meditated , changes in their currency system incited | the executive to sock the cooperation of the United Pt.-Pes, bring alr".ady assured ; of the aid ot t'hin.i. for the purpose of a ; ioint study of ibis important matter, and to bring about a fixed relation between gold and siiv, >■ nrr> >ng the co intries em ’ ' ploying different standards. Our - j ideas hove received a welcome In the United States. At the same time a large i ccn'mission has been anpointed here Io • 1 study th" question purely from a local i standpoint, in order to define the policy , I which would best suit Mexico .as regards I the employment of silver in her currency. I oiilte independently of -what happens in ♦b« course of things • ; From the foregoing it would not THE W EEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1903. seem that Mexico is upon the eve of abandoning the silver standard, as reported with so much unction by some of our journalistic friends who have rabies every time the white metal is mentioned. However, the strain upon the republic as the result of increasing silver demonetization abroad, is naturally heavy, and, natu rally, the Mexicans are anxious to find out when the bottom is likely to be reached. Their idea of some kind of international agreement is not a new one, but it ought not to be alto gether hopeless. The present unex ampled depression of silver is largely due to artificial causes. With proper allowances for the subsidiary nature of silver coin, there is neither logic nor justice in universal legislative proscriplion of the white metal. There will be better proportion and greater stability in the parity ot the two monetary metals just as soon as a national understanding is arrived al between a few of the great com mercial nations. In the meantime the continued pros perity of Mexico is something to mar vel at. The progressive republic across our southern border is certain ly holding her own in the commer cial world against discouraging mone tary odds. A Tuberculosis Serum. Os late years no department of med ical research has so interested the Jaiety as that devoted to the cause, na ture. progress, and, if happily thal were possible, the cure ol dread con sumption. The newspapers have kept pretty well up with the scientific pa thology of tuberculosis in response to a reading demand, and every step that gave encouragement in the contest to minimize the ravages of ihe disease has been made known to a popular audience. That there has been prog ress is undeniable, especially along ihe line of understanding ihe nature of the malady and preventing its spread; but as for a cure, the hope was continually deferred. Now the world is i! i .-'cussing the possible discovery of a scrum tor con sumption by Dr. Emil Von Behring, ot' Marburg, Germany. Not since the famous discoveries of Koch, likewise a German medical scientist, has the scientific world been so interested in a now development in the long quest for a consumption specific. Dr. \on Behring recently dcsciibcd his alleged discovery in a rather comprehensive manner to a reporter, explaining that, so far. ho has confined his experi ments io cattle, wher< therapeutic re sults were obtained. Ho has not, he says, made experiments with his se rum on human beings afflicted with tuberculosis, but thinks ii is merely a question of time when this will be done successfully. Regarding the origin of his scrum he declares it is obtained through a. pure cultivation ol tubercular bacilli obtained irom hu mans. Tiioso were dried in :'■• vacuum in order that their virulence should not be lost. Doses of four centigram;: each were injected into the animals selected lor the experiments. As yet m arly all (he < xperiments have proved successful. The doctor declares that even the few exceptions to this ru' have shown the efficiency of his serum, inasmuch as the ani mals. alter the injection. evinced symptoms of asthma ami lever, when the crisis was passed proving im mune to the injection ot' cattle tuber culosis. the young animals shoving not. the slighest symptom after the injection. As a result of his experiments, the interviewer com lml -. Dr. Von Beh ring hopes to h*‘ able to effectually’ combat 'mankind’s I’.reat enemy, con sumption. He believes th.it eventual ly the disease can be stamped out en tirely, but only if th*' warfare against it is begun at a very early age in childhood, if possible. The body’ of a child, which .s mos* subject to the ravages of infectious disease, with stands the ill effects of protective vac cination. The German scientist’s further prog ress will be watched with intense con cern by the civiliz.ed portion of the hu man race, and God speed him! Cuban Trade Relations. Apropos of our future relations with Cuba as affected by tin- shabby treatment of the island republic by the United Slates congress, an Amer ican who is in close touch with insu lar affairs writes Irom Havana: Wlia.l cuts U< , ply into 111" pi ovorbuil Sp inisn prid" is the eonvicii m th.il tii y have been play, >1 with anil h'.uni i.itcU. and th,, i nlia.i go\"niment f""ls that it has been ladittlcd in the eyes of Hie peo ple. It is a trait oi the l.atin character P. .-ny agr-ettliie thlr.vs to stranger:-, and for that reason strang'-rs us :ai,.\ tlnnK tliev are going to a. .eunp'Ui"ir ends without ditli.-ulty. on, tiling i certain, it lhei " was an.■> indcrli.oid, d> siatl to ac celerate annexatf>ti it lias only bc"ii r<- iari!";l indefinitely by tip- bad faith and worse diplomacy shown in d'-aling wr..i the Uub.in question. The Cubans arc Spanish enough to be a high-st riiitg, sensitive people, and there can lie no doubt that they re sent deeply the scant consideration their new government was shown by the United Stati s. Ii is all very well Hie that bn i and lent are two very different things, but he is a snperfici.,l student of human na ture ami 1 ra<le who does not recognize that scntiinontiilimn plays no small part in influent:ng business, in both local and international experience. The prejudices of a community will virtually boycott an obnoxious- trades man out of business, ami racial or na tional prejudice have weight, in a country's balance of trade. No coun try is so dominant commercially' that it can afford to ignore the inculcation of political good feeling in a customer nation. However the ease may be in Cuba, it is certain that ihe Cubans are mak ing extraordinary efforts to sell their sugar and other export commodities in Europe in preference to the United States. Two steamships have lately been chartered at Havana for Liver pool and orders are on hand lor 10.000 tons additional, subject to obtaining ocean freight accommodations at. reasonable rates. There are also in quiries from Hat re, France, aggregat ing some 4.000 tons, dependent upon ihe same transportation conditions. It is stated that the sugar mills of Cuba have thus far made about 400,000 tons ami will easily make as much more before the middle of summer. The sales to date do not represent one-third of the crop and the situa tion in the United States places the, planters in a position where they must compete with the beet sugar of Eu rope or go without a market. The reciprocity treaty will not help the situation in regard to the present crop, and it. is doubtful if congress will en act the measure in time to be effec tive for the second crop. In the mean time, Cuba will find a European mar ket and get in the way of doing her trading on the other side of the At lantic. to a large extent. : 9- Silk Culture in Georgia. Perhaps no single phase of the movement for a "Greater Georgia” promises more than does the effort to awake in the ruralists of the state an interest in sericulture. It is not in every’ section of the union that the sill; worm can be propagated success fully; indeed, the area, adapted pecu liarly' to such propagation is compara tively limited, and the very cream of it lies within the bounds of Georgia. The climate, soil, rainfall and general meteorological conditions of the Pied- | mont section of this state are said to ' be well nigh ideal for raising the silk worm, corresponding very well with similar essential natural conditions in France, Japan and other sericultural regions. The mulberry will grow to perfection in the northern half of Georgia, and the silk worm, which de pends upon the foliage of this tree for sustenance, will thrive as finely as the mulberry with proper care. It would, to complete the happy' combi nation of natural advantages for this industry, bo difficult to find anywhere in the world better sites for silk mills. Like the cotton factories, the silk mills of the country are destined to be concentrated in the southeast, where the raw material lies at their door. The day is not far distant when Atlanta will be as important a silk manufacturing center as Paterson, N. J., and silk cocoons as familiar to the eye of the Piedmont Georgian as cot ton bolls. As yet, of course, the industry’ has made but a. modest start, though no one, alter familiarizing himself with the details of the silk movement, in Habersham county, can doubt, that it, is a sure star;. One silk company— that of which Mr. Z. B. Magid is pres idem and manager lias planted 3.000 acres m ar Tallulah Falls to mulberry trees, and the farmers ol" the vicin ity are following its example. The colony of Italian sericulturists in Georgia have thu:: far planted 25.000 mulberry trees, and this winter will plain many more. Other colonies are to settle in the mountain counties of the state and it. is said silk will be manufactured on an extensive scale in Georgia in a very short time. Students of Georgia history will re call that when Oglethorpe founded his colony on the cast coast ho discovered ihe mulberry tree growing luxuriantly' on the banks of the Savannah river and started ihe now settlors Io raising silk. Such efforts as have boon made in that mrection have been reward ed, and it. needs only technical knowl edge, a little experience and no little ! patience to firmly establish the silk ! industry in the old commonwealth and make of it a source of groat prosper ity. The growing of the silk worm is essentially’ woman’:; work, for women have the care and patience to succeed where a man would tail. Tjie nnmbor of Georgia women who are already experimenting in this fascinating oc- I < upation is eonsiderabh. and rapidly 1 increasing. Once mastered, the re- ' numeration is most satisfactory. WISE AND OTHERWISE. A New Insurance Swindle. Judge: (frizzly I'et" Did you hear ".uoiit Bronco Bill tryin’ ter defraud th' life insurancf' i I ini i<an«’ ID<L Nopt , what did he do? Grizzlv j’.-i.- Cot heavily insured an’ | then t ailed Alkaii Ike a liar. Defined. Life; Now that ye are one of thim, toll me wh it ;i politician is.’’ “A politician js h feller that promises -omo’.him; that h« c.in’t do to git elect ed, and d<»es something he promised not to do to hole] his job.” Time and Experience. New York World: At a Boston wed ding th*? oth'-r day the bride and bride gr >om wen- frion Is of thirty years and had been previously married-—he twice, .- a three time- All the probationary con dition.- preliminary to a happy nuptial ;irrang<”n* , nt seem to have been met in this case. Only Wry Out of It. Cleveland Plain Pealer: “George, the cook doesn't ’ike baby.” “What are we to do about it?” ‘1 don't know. She is such a good ■ And ho is such a bad baby. This seems to .• it 1 * it. Butter giv*’ him a week's notice at once.” “George, you're horrid ” A Natural Conclusion. 'V:>shi!>gton Sin. "Who originated the remark, 'll 1- always the unexpected that "i don't know." siid the metancholv g* >x ci 11 ii • ■ 111 at.tiH'he. ' imt I suspect he worked in the weather bureau." John W's Claim to Fame. Pliil.i ! ■lpbi.i Inquin r: The corridors of tiixi" are writni" to re."ix'n a brass < .itiie . ' John \\ Cat," The man who I . Oiild <i>> Mr. Morgen o il of Jk.IjOO.OOO is e.ititiod io be romi rnberej. Working Below the Scale. I ion," Bost: Th- Missouri lawmakers :,r. .shoelo.d ■ one of their number sold hia vote for a. paltry SI,OOO. ■ Claiming All the Celebrities. Chi igo J iurnal: The New Jersey' min- j i i, ;• who is tr.x ii>_; to prove that St. Pat- , rich was :t Baptist is doubth ss a believer i in the water cure for "snakes.” Hardly So End as That. Philadelphia L> ice;': Sonic people are i inclined to place no more faith in the ; czar's proclamation than in a platform J adopted by one of our national conven- : lions. National influence. L> sir 's Weekly . "What you’ doin' now, ' Cleanin' out a bank." "President, cashier, bookkeeper or jan itor':'" As Fresh as the Eggs. Kansas City Journal: Fair Shopper— Aren’t these eggs dear? Urbanr Clerk Certainly they are eggs. C,ood. fi'i slt ones. too. "I said 'dear.' " • I know you did, but don't say it so loud. Some of the others might h ar you." I Inclined To Be Cautious. Cliiaago Reeoi d Herald: "Ah. Grack, I dear," she said to the duke, "why don’t .-oil go to papa today? Delays are dan gerous, you know. "Yes. I roaliz" that." he replied, "but I've only known you three days, and tlvse get-rich-quick s,’hemes always seem to be so risky.' Appropriate Name. Philadelphia I’ress: "He has patented ] a tiexv fountain pen.” "Is that so?" "Yes; calls it ihe 'lndependent.' " I i"Ah. very appropriate; it doesn't care I whether it works or not." | Weekly Constitutions jC, Stanton, April Weather. This hero’s April weather—the jaybirds in a row— Wranglin’ in the blossoms that are weightin’ every bough! Done forgot the winter: for the bright time’s with us now,— Honey, it’s April in the mornin’! This here’s Anri! weather: There s a whisper in the pines. The liumrnin’ bird is huntin’ for tho mornin’glory vines, An’ th<* green leaves are a-huntin’ of the hi< 1 den m 11sea d : ncs, — Honey, it’s April in the mornin I This here’s April weather: boughs me bondin’ down An’ the green comes to the meadow that was sad in grav an’ brown. An’ I’m glad as all creation I’m a miie or two from town,— Honey, it’s April in the mornin’! *** * • The Dream. This is the dream: Let skies bo. black or blue, — Through till the world to you! Though starved in deserts where no flower drinks dew,— Still through the world to you! Though barriers black rise in the wrecked one’s view, — O'er starless seas to you! Welcome the storm! . . . God rules it —strong anil true— And God hath dreamed of you! Nuggets from Georgia. If you toil those old sinners that the devil’s in the weather, they'll soon be under the impression that hell's getting too cool for him. What is the use In living In the dark when yon can get on the bright side when the world turns round? The man who keeps in the middle ot tho road may got dust on him, but there won't be much danger of tile wagon turn ing over. *♦♦ • * Coming Consolation. When we're melting down in Georgia 'twill be cheering to the soul To know that folks arc freezing where Hie Arctic billows roll; That the dim sun will be glancing over glaciers ghostly white. Where the Polar hear is prancing o'er the snow-fields, with delight! Then w'o’ll bear the heat and burden ot tho sizzing - whizzing day. In the thought, that folks are freezing on the ice-floes far away! For even if the summer sends the sun shine through your soul. There’ll bo still this consolation:—tVeTl be 'way ahead on coal! Out in the Sunshine. Get. out in the sunshine—seek the country’ ra neh I Be a barefoot hoy again, wadin' in the branch! I.et the city’s thunder for a. season Let a storm of blossoms pelt you into Peace! Get. out irt the sunshine, where tho world is fair- - rosy fingers to rumple up your hair! Friends with every meadow—brother to the breeze, Sippin' sweeter honey' than is gathered by the bees! Get out in the sunshine!—Let the great world roll, With the light of heaven shinin' on your soul! Time to take a day off under skies of blue; The daisy's in the the meadow, an’ the daisy's there for you! Rolling Nearer. The world is rolling nearer To tlie beauty of the day; And human love is dearer For the thorns that throng the way. R>-warded—the endeavor; The seed springs from the sod. And love is love forever Beneath the smile of God. The Whippoorwill. Oh. don't you hear him calling from the valley and the hill— " Whip-poor-will!" When the twilight shadows gather and the world is hushed and still, And the stars are just like torches on the tip-top o' the hill— Whippoorwill, o’ the meadows! Don't you know what he is saying in the rosy twilight still, With his "Whippoorwill?” It's all about the little boy who wouldn't go to mill— He beard it in the sunshine, from the ripnle of a rill— And they whipped poor Will o' the meadows! Weary Waiting. Oh. de good time cornin' Lak a rigimint a-drummin’, Hit's fur in de breakin' er de day; Hit still keep a-sayln' Dat >!ey ain't no delayin’, But weary is de waitin' by de way! Oh. de good time cornin', Iztk <ie honeybees a-'hummin’, Hit's sotn'ers in de harvest en de hay; Singin' en a-sayin' Dey won't he no delayin'. But weary is de waitin' by’ de way’! O!t. de good time cornin'— We weary er de drummin’ We wants ter see de blossoms er de May; We tired er de singin' Er de glory-bells a-ringin'— We weary er de waitin' by de way! A Little World-Song. The world's as we make it an' take it,— A motto as ancient as sin; But for all of its Sorrow- Today and tomorrow. The best that we ever were in! Lose or win. Sorrow 7 or sin. The best and the worst that we ever were in! And we're not in a hurry to shake it— The round of the next to begin; Single or double— In joy or in trouble. It's tho best that we ever were in! Lose or win. Sorrow or sin— The best and the worst world we ever were in! Shine Out! Shine out. Mister Summer Sun- Tired er yo’ funnin’! Lend us whar de melon grow En tie blacksnake's runnin ! Shine out. Mister Summer Sun— Melon patches stunnin'! Lead us whar de white man's gun Keeps de nigger runnin' I A GOOD LADY, a neighbor and friend, bought one of my books and expressed her pleasure at its perusal, Lut found one fault that did not harmon ize with her Hebrew feelings, for she is a Jewess. In two places she found a sportive anecdote that reflected tipon some of her people, but they were too good to be suppressed, and would have been told on Gentiles as well. My respect for the Jews has been too often expressed in my loiters to-be questioned. Jt is not mere respect, but it is wonder and ad miration. 1 rejoice with them that the ages of persecution have passed, and that they can now worship God a cord ing to their conscience and the faith of their fathers. Their ancestors appeared at the very dawn of creation. They have been broken up and scattered time and again, but have preserved their sacred literature and customs and re ligion. and have outlived every nation that oppressed them. They have had no king nor ruler nor political head, ana have been scattered among ail climes and peoples, but have never lost' their nationalit . nor mixed their blood with any otner people. They 7 have for cen turies struggled against the Egyptians, Syrians and Romans, and survived them all. They were in later centuries pro scribed by the Catholics of Spain, the Protestants of Norway, while their per secutors sang tho songs of the Psalmist-, and taught the wisdom of their prophets. We rejoice that their deliverance from persecution came along with tiiat of our own when wo proclaimed religions liberty and civil equality to all who made Amer ica their home. I have long admired that people, who have excelled in do mestic virtue, in obedience to law, whose children honor and obey their parents. Rarely among them are found convicts or criminals, or drunkards or st'ieides, or divorced men or women Their names seldun appear cn the -lockets of the courts. And yet they are patriots when patriots are wanted. Kosciusko had no braver troops than the Polish Jews wh > followed his banner, and I’’ I bad to name the most faithful soldier I ever saw 7 in our civil war I would name Jonas, of our town of Rome, a Jew who nevi r shirked a duty or avoided a battle ar loitoreil on a march. We hav*- not for gotten how he came to tint" after a long day's march from the Chlcahominy to Rapidan, and when tlie colonel said. "Mr. Jonas, where is your cpntpary?” th.: tired soldi'r < ante to a salute and said. "I isli dvr Konp'ny " That. Jonas was an uncle to Israel Jonas, who all Atlanta knows, and who is now prominent in New York commercial circles. With great reverence do 1 recall our own Judah 1 Benjamin, our secretary of war. and on whom Mr. Davis leaned for counsel more than upon any member of his cabinet. He was a very gr> it man, or he caui.l not have, gone to Eng land and worked his wax. unaided, to the very top of the English bar. and within eight veers hr- appointed qm "it a eottns"! ovc-r the most learned members of tire profession. I have not frtrgotlen Ihe perfect loveliness of the J- w’ess R< - bevea in Scott's story of Ivanhoe. on may find broken vows and separations and elopements in fact and in fiction, but! not among the Jews. They are n, every 7 town and city and are mere of an example than a menace to our people and our institutions. Their names are found responding to every charity, and I noticed that the university fund was materially aided by their liberally, at-.d I could not help wondering how much our Christian people would have given to aid s >me great Jewish school or charity. I would like to write more about these Hebrews, for. as St. Paul said to th Romans, "with them was committed the oracles of God" But 1 am not well to day, and must defer to a more pr- 1 itious season. In my last letter I made a mistake that must be corrected I said that there were but ten months until Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar put i” two mor' and named them July and .August Some how 1 have had that impression all my mature life, and, strange to .-ay. 1 was corrected a few days ago by my gvt friend Gassett, a mulatto merchant of our town, who is well educated and a student of ancient history. He wrote me a respectful letter and said that Numa, a Roman emperor, who riigned two hun dred and fifty years before the Caesars, put in January and February for the two months, and the Caesars only changed the names of Quintiles and Sextiles (the tilth and sixth) to July and August. So I make the correction with pleasure and give the credit to friend Gassett. BILL ARP. ■ II ■ —- • ' The Feller Called ‘'Exchange.” (S. \Y. Gillilan in The Baltimore Amer ican.) I read most all the funny stuff these hu morist fellers writes. And laughin' at their foolishness is one of my delights. Sometimes the’re sure too deep for me an' 1 cain't ketch th’ nub,. But I laugh at 'em anyway, t' show I hain’t no scrub. But of 'em all for writin' stuff that's funny, quaint and strange The best is that there, chap that signs his jokes an' things "Exchange.' Wnen I go hikin' down th' page a-readin all th' fun I always find a lot of his —a dozen if they's one. An’ seems t' me they s none th rest gits quite th' sort o' twist This feller likes tn give things; so in makin' out the list O' things to make 'em holler when it's my night at th' grange 1 memmerize a lot o' things writ by that man "Exchange.” Er mebby he's a woman; ’cause he’s talkin' all th' time. A-gittin' off some foolishness or reelin’ off some rhyme. I'd like t' know what paper he’s a-writin' stlddy fer. An' I'd sus-seribe an' git his jokes as fast as they occur. An' tother day 1 read a piece, "To Cure a Dog of Mange." An' when 1 reached th' end I found 'twas writ by that "Exchange.' He must be 'bout th' brighest ehap they is; he's 'bout a mile Ahead of this hyer Kiplin' that they says so vers.it.vie; They ain't no subject goin' that this feller can't -=et down An' tell ye all about it. fer he's got th' facts (lone brown. Th' more 1 study on it’ w'y, th' more the thing seems strange Triat any feller knows as much as that man called "Exchange." Didn't Hold Out. "These fellers what knows more about farmin' than I knows." said the old farm er. “don't practice what they preaches. I collared ‘one o' them t'other day. an’ plowed him. an' hoed him fer ten short hours, an' he cussed out the whole plan tation an' made a bee-line fer the city, whar I reckon he's now a-writin' a book on the pleasures of life on a G-eorgy farm! Sarge IPtunkett. The work of Atlanta in securing th< university fund should be a tip to other towns, other counties and other states to go and profit by that city’s example. It is good for people to think their town the best town, their state the best state, their church the best church and their home the best home. Atlanta does not get narrow on this idea, and intimate wrangle among her people and block movements to the city's advantage and H< re is where she is different to many other towns and sections—-when a move ment for Atlanta's good is suggested no personal spites or ambitions are allowed to enter, but all work together in harmony to accomplish the aim. This eliminates any seeming bad taste in the place "blow ing its own horn." as it does blow and should suggest to others to go and do likewise. In this connection 1 would be glad to do my mite in keeping before the world the opportunities that lie in our county of DeKalb. There is t-> be a convention at Albany on the 28th instant in further ance of the "Greater Georgia." movement. Every county in Georgia, should be there, and I especially desire that DeKalb coun ty should be represented there. We who are hero know that if it is water-power that is needed, we have it here; if it is transportation facilities that is needed, wo have that here; if it is timber that is needed, we have that—timber in abund ance of almost every species used in man ufacture and timber to burn if our water power was not sufficient to convert that timber into useful merchandise. This, 1 repeat, wo al! know who are here, but the world might be a thousand years in finding it out if our people make no effort to that end. That is where Atlanta's greatness lies she lets herself be known. How much Atlanta and Georgia and the south are to the newspapers of that city is beyond computing, and it might, appear in bad taste for me to state how much credit I give to these papers, but. somehow, a general "pull together" of citizens there seems 7 to pertain as it per tains nowhere eise. Even in politics citi zens compromise their petty grievances an>l wisdom has its sway. Just at this time Atlanta seems to ho especially blessed in the wisdom and character of tho men who stand at her helm. Tho outside world is impressed that i stubborn flrmn'ss on the side of virtue and prosperity, tempered with a wisdom higher than demagoguery, is present in tho administration of tho city’s affairs. Tlie value of tills impression is beyond estimate. One of these values might be stated in the soothing effect, it is having upon the rank a»id file ot those great hordes >f p< >pl< whom tha demagogues have ascii to the injury of our whole southern section. Ldng before the war between the states old England across the water and New England over here had mingled with their population a set of men whose business seemed to be to teach that the situation here in the south st/ioil as a. menace to the investment ot capii il hen- in manufaettt• lies and against (lie in rest of tho work ers in manufactories everywhere. As an argument in tin- conn- tion the negro was used then as ho is now to stir up prejudice against ou; section. To hide the true inwardness of the spirit a great Kiwi was raised against the institution of slavery till that howl absorbed all other questions and culminated at iaat in the building up of a great abolition party which w-nt into power and brought on the war, the prejudices of which have retarded a progress that the spirit in Atlanta seems now about to overcome. If there had been as much effort in those days to have the south and south ern people known as they really were, instead of getting mad and stirring preju dice, the south would have then been a. greater south, and a movement for a greater Ge irgia would have long ago been acomplished The masses were fooled then because they did not know— our progress is retarded now from the same cause. The truth is that all that war-between the stat-s could have been averted if the spirit manifest now in At lanta could have pertained among the masses, and instead of a bitterness which has worked injury to our common ciTQn try and estranged those who should have went hand in hand, not only a greater Georgia, hut a greater United States and a closer brotherly love with all the world would have been the re sult. The south then, as it is now. was the natural place for at least the cotton manufactories, but the absence of the Atlanta spirit and the world's ignorance of our true condition prevented us from profiting by what nature had so abun dantly fitted us for There is no use for us to wrangle with old England or New England or with the world. They are taking care of themselves just as the people of Atlanta take care of them selves. and for which that city receives all our praise for every success she scores. The old sections have their wealth invested in these manufactories, and. besides, it is right for them to stand by their homes. their towns, their church-cs and their states, just as the example of Atlanta indicates that we all should do. This meeting that is mentioned to take place at Albany on the 28th may fall x ery short of accomplishing the great things, as such results are accomplished in Atlanta movements, but it is a start. No doubt there will he elements lacking in that meeting which seem to possess Atlanta, imt the spirit can be cultivated in a confidence which has grown upon us all through the results reaped by that city. Georgia, has thousands of dark corners today that should have long ago been ablaze with manufactories and bristling with prosperity. In a multitude of counsel there ought to develop a wis dom that is needed. The thing to do is to find what, will make us "greater," and then sink individual ambition to this wis dom. In two miles of where I live we have an object lesson in the Scottdale cot ton factory. I knew the ground before the factory was put there. Jt was rugged, grown up in bushes and briars and was washing away. Today it is a place of hustling activity, a village of beauty and four or five thousand people make a living there. I do not know just how much tax money has been added to our county by tho building of this factory, but 1 do know that the county has not raised the assessment on a single man because of this development. If tho place had remained in gullies and briars and bushes it would have been no profit to anyone and would have been an eyesore to look upon. So it might have been in thousands of unsightly spots in Georgia and all over the south if a movement had been accomplished years ago to have ourselves known as wo are and to have found what it was that we really needed to bring money and good people stripped of all suspicion that danger lurked in all things southern. To return to the principle that it is right for us al! to be tor homo allow me to magnifv the opportunities that lie in DeKalb. No county in Georgia has more o r better opportunities, but it is a hard county to stir to action. We lack the spirit that has made Atlanta what it is. and. at least, there should bo no failure in being represented at the Albany convention. The granite supply of our county, if nothing else, should put us to the front in tho movement to-,- a Greater Georgia. Thousands upon thou sands of this granite yet remains in toe hands of our citizens, but the Atlanta spirit would never retard us even if it were all in the hands of syndicates. SARGE PLUNKETT.