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SEMINOLE WAR SURVIVORS.
(The Washington Herald.)
How many veterans of the Seminole
war are alive? That Indian uprising
was put down seventy years ago, and
two or three communities are now
claiming the distinction of having cit
izens who participated in it. Away
out at Watrous, N. Mex., there is a
venerable and worthy patriarch nam
ed Madison Horn, whose neighbors
boast that he is the sole survivor
of the Florida war. He is eighty
eight, and as spry as a cricket. At
West Palm Beach, Fla., there is a cer
tain Judge Andrew Jackson Lewis—
born in South Carolina, by the way—
who bears honorable scars as the re
sult of wounds received while he was
fighting as a private in the ranks of
a South Carolina regiment against
the Seminoles. Judge Lewis is eighty
nine, and although he fought four
years in the Confederate army, he
looks strong and active enough to
shoulder his gun again and keep step
to the drum’s tap. One unidentified
veteran is being presented by Indiana,
but, as the Hoosiers have not yet pub
lished his name or shown by the rec
ords that he is drawing a pension,
their claim is being flouted by Flori
da and New Mexico. If there is a Sem
inole war survivor in this city, he will
please come forward with the proof.
Kansas is expected soon to enter the
list.
CYNICAL VIEWS.
Dr. Emil Reich, the famous lecturer
and historian, was once discussing
marriage at a dinner in New York.
‘That was a wise saying of the old
Greek philosopher,” murmured an
electrician: “ ‘Whether you marry her
or not you will regret it.’ ” “I knew
an old maid in my native Eperjes,”
said Dr. Reich, “who once got off a
saying almost as good as the immor
tal Greek one. ‘Auntie.’ said her lit
tle niece to her, ‘what would you do if
you had your life to live over again?’
The lonely spinster with a sour smile
answered: ‘Get married before I had
sense enough to decide to be an old
maid.’ ”
THE PLOT AGAINST OKLAHOMA.
(The Springfield Republican.)
The plot to hold up the Oklahoma
constitution and prevent the admis
sion of the state before the next pres
idential election is clearly in process
of being carried out, and the plant
which is engineering it is located in
Washington rather than in Oklahoma.
The ostensible reason is that the con
stitution has gerrymandered the state
in favor of the Democrats, which is,
of course, very shocking to Republi
can ideas of propriety, such a thing
as a Republican gerrymander never
having been known. But the real rea
son is that the new state would prob
ably fall into Democratic possession
and add seven votes of that political
color to the electoral college a year
from next fall. If it had been supposed
that Oklahoma would prove to be so
strongly Democratic, the last congress
would have withheld its enabling ordi
nance at least until after the next
presidential election. New states are
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desirable only as they are Republican
in politics.
TREE PLANTING IN NORWAY.
Writing from Christiania, Norway,
Michael Alger, the United States vice
consul, says that forest planting has
attracted much attention in recent
years. There were 6,800,000 trees
planted and 748 pounds of seed sown
in 1905. School children planted 1,-
487,400 trees and sowed 176 pounds
of seed. Forest planting is gradually
being introduced as a subject in the
public schools. Especially on the
west coast the school children have
taken much interest in the matter. In
a single parish 100,000 trees have
been planted by the pupils in the last
three or four years.
THE BEST OR NONE.
(The Danville Register.)
Tillman says the Democratic pres
idential ticket ought to be Bryan and
Daniel, that it is not expedient to
nominate a southern man to head
the ticket because of sectional feel
ing in the north. The same sectional
feeling which takes cognizance of a
southerner at the head would take
cognizance of a southerner at the foot
of a presidential ticket. The south
ought to wait for the best the party
has to offer when anything can be
accepted with safety to the party. The
south ought not to be content with
the vice presidency.
IT WILL BE ATTENDED TO.
(The Nashville Herald.)
As a matter of information the
honest body of Georgians would like
to know what the railroad commission
ers are going to do about reduced
rates. Somehow the idea is abroad
that the people have been fooled and
that at the proper time the railroads
and the commissioners will get to
gether and arrange things to suit
the railroads. —Waycross Journal.
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The legislature meets in June. They
will go to Atlanta backed by the ex
pressed will of the people of Georgia.
Something will be done then or the
people will be fooled sure enough.
Hoke Smith meant something the
other day when he said: “We, the
people, will run the affairs of Geor
gia.”
SOMETHING WRONG.
(The Union News.)
There seems to be something wrong
with some of our Georgia papers. A
few months ago they were standing by
“Tom” Watson, but now when Mr.
Watson warns them against some cor
rupt men in Georgia, these self same
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papers come out and advocate the
man Mr. Watson said wouldn’t do.
Mr. Watson is standing by the Far
mers’ Union, and this has caused some
of the subsidized papers to fall out
with him.
The members should notice and see
what papers are standing by the Un
ion. It may be your duty to help the
fellow that helps you.
The papers that are standing by
Wall street and its “Southern Annex,”
should not be encouraged by the pat
ronage of the farmers.
We warn the members of the union
to be careful how they take the ad
vice of papers or persons who have a
connecting link with Wall street and
the cotton spinner.
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