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14 —————CHARTIER SHORTHAND / z /S- o S' 1 /? makes HIGH CLASS stenographer In • to 11 WEEKS. Why spend • ( [JJ ' 12 on out-of-date systems? bMlne 2r pupll ’ , “ ni to “ BPBOOKS e “ ctl7 " °“ 7 "• kept -- - „■ - A"—FOUR MONTHS, S2OO saved on a combined course. DORMITORIES furnish wholesome discipline and BOARD at 198 Peachtree Street. - ATLANTA, GEORGIA ACTUAL COST. A POSITION is secured for every graduate. ■ WRITE TODAY for new and attractive catalog. A PSALM OF LIFE. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. I . i ' I I I Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like mufflled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world’s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time: Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o’er Life’s solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. —Longfellow. LOWER PASSENGER RATES. (From the Atlanta Journal.) It was only natural that the general demand for a reduction in the passen ger rate on railroads, which has been going up from all over the country, and which has been placed of late on the statute books of half a dozen dif ferent states, should find an echo in the state of Georgia, where the justice of such a reduction is as great and as evident as it is in any of the other states which have taken up this mat ter. It has been known, moreover, for some time that the Farmers’ Union, which is one of the strongest organiza tions of actual tillers of the soil in the whole country, has had it in mind to present this matter to the railroad commission of the state and ask that the passenger rate be reduced. The petition, signed by President Charles S. Barrett, of the national organization, by President Duckworth, of the state organization, and other officers of the Georgia division, has now been formally presented to the state railroad commission, which, it is announced, will hold a hearing some time during the present month, at which not only the petitioners but representatives of all the railroads are invited to be present. We believe that this is a step in the right direction, and we have taken oc casion to say so on a number of oc casions. The Farmers’ Union is ever alert to the best Interests of its mem bers and of the people at large, and perhaps nothing which has engaged its attention has met with more cordial endorsement. Always bearing in mind that the one overshadowing question of railway re form in this part of the country is the reduction of freight rates, and that nothing should be allowed to divert public attention from that issue, the present undertaking cannot be too heartily commended. Cheaper passen ger fares is a movement in the right direction which has been sweeping the country from one end to the other dur ing the past few months, and as a re sult of these concerted and persist ent efforts, the desired reform has been secured. There is absolutely no good reason why Georgia should be behind in this matter. If it is shown that a reduc tion to two cents would work an act ual injury and injustice to the rail roads —which we do not believe —then let the reduction be made to two and a half or two and a quarter cents. The Democratic party of the state is on record, as expressed at the Macon convention, in favor of the re duction in passenger rates. There is no good reason w r hy the traveling men, at least, should not have the benefit of interchangeable mileage books, at the rate of S2O per thousand miles. • We are glad to know that the matter has been given a definite impetus and that cheaper passenger fares are in sight. FARMERS AND THE MILLS. (From the Columbia State.) There is another noteworthy fact in connection with our cotton mills. The wages paid in 1905 by the mills of the Carolinas and Georgia aggregated $20,- 500,000 —or an average of $205 per op erative, big and little. And the cot ton growers in the vicinity of the man ufacturing centers have profited in the increased price given by the mills for the raw material, and hundreds of markets for farm produce have been created. Os course the annual con sumption of more than two million bales of cotton by southern mills has tremendously strengthened the posi tion of southern cotton growers, and has advanced the price of the raw material to the consumer everywhere. So the factories, directly and indirect ly, have had a most important part in the remarkable prosperity of the south, and it is almost as much to the cotton grower’s interest that the fac tories should have labor as it is for him to have workers on his farm. The immigration movement is one in which every profession and industry in the south should actively participate. WHY NOT BE FREE FARMERS? (From the Washington Post.) We are educating our young men for idle gentlemen, trying to make lawyers, teachers, doctors and clerks out of material that is needed for blacksmiths, carpenters, merchants and other honest “hewers of wood and drawers of water.” It is a mistake, and a big one, to teach boys and girls to believe that labor is disgraceful and to do nothing for a living is more becoming to society. There are song and daughters who are being edu- THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. cated to play the “leading lady” and “walking gentleman” in the great dra ma of life who will light out for the poor house or the penitentiary before the final curtain is rung down on the sad act in which they have been edu cated by their parents. FARMERS AND UNION LABOR. (From Donham’s Doings.) The country editors who have labor ed more or less to make farmers be lieve that they have nothing in com mon with organized labor, should read the resolutions passed by a Farmers’ Union meeting in Texas the other day, and they will readily see that the farmers have at last awakened to the fact that their interests are identical with those of the mechanics and labor ers of the cities. The Farmers’ Union now has a membership of 750,000 and is increasing at a most wonderful rate, but the country editors have apparent ly heard nothing about it. But they will hear of it by and by. The farmers have played the pack-mule for the rest of mankind just about as long as they propose to do so. They are preparing to do their own marketing of all farm produce. At the meeting in Texas the other day, 416 delegates were in attendance, representing territory hav ing a membership of 214,000. Resolu tions were passed in praise of organiz ed labor, recommending the eight-hour work day, and indorsing the union label. Hurrah for the farmers! The time is near at hand when every man who earns his bread by honest toil will be- solidly combined against the idle drones, who will be compelled to seek new vocations or go to bed with kinks in their intestines. n Result of Root’s Speech? (From the N. Y. Tribune.) Secretary Root’s speech which start ed the discussion of the limits of fed eral and state authority was made in December; since then governors have written messages and legislatures have discussed laws showing that the states are becoming as keenly alive to the new industrial problems as is the na tional government itself. Mr. Root’s proposition was that if states did not asume new duties which lay upon the borderland between state and national authority the nation must. Nobody can complain of the lack of eagerness of some of the states to attack these new questions, and if others are slow it may confidently be expected that public opinion within their borders will not allow them to lag long be hind their more progressive neigh bors. Judge Fowler to the Old Confeds. (From the Confederate Veteran.) And when old Gabriel blows his horn, You old Confeds Will face in line on that great morn— You old Confeds. The Master then will say to you: “Just take your seat in that front pew; There’s nothing here too good for you— You old Confeds.” FOR SALE Buff P. Rock, Barred P. Rock and S. C. W. Leghorn eggs at SI.OO for 15. A few White Leghorns at SI.OO, Cockerels at SI.OO. Five years and not a single complaint as to quality. Try me. G. W. USY, Thomson, Ga. Blanchards, S. C. W. Leghorns and Jeffries B. P. Rock Eggs, 15 for SI.OO, or 100 for $4.00. My strains won First, Second and Third prizes in all shows last fall. Infertile eggs replaced. 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