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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine - -Author: Various - -Release Date: July 1, 2020 [EBook #62535] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WATSON'S JEFFERSONIAN MAGAZINE *** - - - - -Produced by hekula03, Harry Lame and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was -produced from images made available by the HathiTrust -Digital Library.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="tnbox"> - -<p class="center">Please see the <a href="#TN">Transcriber’s Notes</a> at the end of this text.</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="scr"> - -<div class="figcenter w400"> - -<img src="images/coversm.jpg" alt="Cover" width="400" height="593" /> - -<div class="illotext"> - -<p class="center">$1.50 Per Year<span class="padl5 padr5 fsize110">JANUARY, 1907</span> -15 Cents Per Copy</p> - -<p class="center blankbefore75"><span class="smcap">Watson’s</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Jeffersonian</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Magazine</span></p> - -<p class="center blankbefore75">THOS. E. WATSON<br /> -EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR<br /> -ATLANTA, GEORGIA</p> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--figcenter--> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -</div><!--scr--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert01"> - -<div class="bordermeridian1"> -<div class="bordermeridian1"> -<div class="bordermeridian1"> -<div class="bordermeridian2"> - -<p class="center highline15 sstype"><b><span class="fsize110 gesp2">THE</span><br /> -<span class="fsize200">Meridian Life & Trust Co.</span><br /> -<span class="fsize110 gesp2">OF INDIANAPOLIS</span><br /> -<span class="gesp4">ARTHUR JORDAN, President</span>,</b></p> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore75 fsize110">is a mutual old line legal reserve company organized and doing business -under The Legal Reserve Compulsory Deposit Law of Indiana, -which is acknowledged by the best Insurance Authorities to be the most -complete law for the protection of the Insured ever enacted in this or -any other country.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110">Each year the Auditor of the State is required to ascertain the net -cash value of all outstanding policies with three and one-half per cent. -interest thereon, and the company MUST deposit in his office Government -and State Bonds, and first mortgages on real estate of double the -value of the mortgage, to secure the cash value.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110">Economical management as shown by the following figures has -placed this conservative company at the head of companies in Indiana, -<b>its home state</b>.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110"><b>Comparative statement showing amount of Insurance gained in the -State of Indiana, the home of THE MERIDIAN, in 1905:</b></p> - -<table class="meridian" summary="Comparison"> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr6">Meridian Life</td> -<td class="right padl6">$3,005,008</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr6">State Life, Ind.</td> -<td class="right padl6">738,358</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr6">Reserve Loan, Ind.</td> -<td class="right padl6">1,223,408</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr6">American Central, Ind.</td> -<td class="right padl6">2,285,556</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr6">Inter-State, Ind.</td> -<td class="right padl6">1,392,408</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr6">Penn Mutual, Pa.</td> -<td class="right padl6">276,249</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr6">Aetna Life, Conn.</td> -<td class="right padl6">438,706</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="center highline4"><b>A POLICY IN OUR COMPANY</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="hind02 fsize90">Will “PROTECT” your home and family.</p> - -<p class="hind02 fsize90">Will “CREATE” wealth.</p> - -<p class="hind02 fsize90">Will “SAVE” your estate.</p> - -<p class="hind02 fsize90">Will “GIVE” you a standing of credit.</p> - -<p class="hind02 fsize90">Will “PAY” off your mortgage at death.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="hind02 fsize90">Will “FURNISH” happiness and peace of mind in life.</p> - -<p class="hind02 fsize90">Will “SUPPORT” you in old age.</p> - -<p class="hind02 fsize90">Will “SOFTEN” the pangs of death.</p> - -<p class="hind02 fsize90">Will “GUARANTEE” a dividend not obtained in any other company.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110"><span class="smcap">The Meridian Life</span> offers this desirable protection to its policy holders -at a cost worth considering.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110">Let us tell you more about the opportunity we offer you for a safe investment, -and protection. Your name, address and age, is all that it will cost you.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 fsize125"><span class="gesp2"><i>SEND IT TODAY</i></span><i>.</i></p> - -<p class="center highline15 sstype"><b><span class="bb2"><span class="u">$1,000,000 WRITTEN DURING FIRST EIGHT MONTHS IN -GEORGIA.</span></span></b></p> - -<p class="center highline15 sstype"><b>LIVE, ENERGETIC REPRESENTATIVES</b></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize110">can secure a contract that will enable them to double their income, in either -Georgia or Alabama. Either all, or spare time. Write us for full particulars.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center sstype highline2"><span class="fsize125"><b>E. C. LESTER, Supt. Southeastern Agency,</b></span><br /> -<b>600 Austell Building, Atlanta, Ga.<br /> -<span class="fsize110">M. C. MORRIS, Director of Agencies, Atlanta, Ga.</span></b></p> - -</div><!--border2--> -</div><!--border1--> -</div><!--border1--> -</div><!--border1--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad01">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert02"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ridpath"> - -<p class="pubfail"><span class="mid">THE</span> -<span class="gesp2"><span class="fsize300">P</span><span class="fsize250 up">ublishers</span> -<span class="fsize300">F</span><span class="fsize250 up">ailure</span></span></p> - -<p class="center"><b>Places in our hands the remainder of Their Greatest Publication</b></p> - -<p class="center fsize250"><b>Ridpath’s History of the World</b></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize80"><span class="padl6 padr6">9 Massive Royal Octavo Volumes, 4,000 double-column pages, 2,000 superb -illustrations.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize90 gesp04"><span class="padl6 padr6">Brand New, latest edition, down to 1906, beautifully bound in half -Morocco</span></p> - -<p class="center highline15 fsize150"><b>At <span class="u">LESS</span> than even -<span class="u">DAMAGED SETS</span> were ever sold</b></p> - -<p class="bodytext">We will name our price only in <b>direct letters</b> to those sending us the <b>Coupon</b> below. <b>Tear off -the Coupon, write name and address plainly, and mail to us now before you forget it.</b></p> - -<p class="bodytext">Dr. Ridpath is dead, his work is done, but his family derive an income from his history, and <b>to print our price -broadcast</b>, for the sake of more quickly selling these few sets, would cause <b>great injury to future sales</b>.</p> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage02a.jpg" alt="Books" width="550" height="296" /> -</div> - -<p class="weight55">Weighs<br /> -<span class="padl5">55 lbs.</span></p> - -<p class="bodytext"><span class="largeridpath"><b><span class="large_r">R</span>idpath</b></span> -takes you back to the dawn of history, long before the Pyramids of Egypt were built; down -through the romantic, troubled times of Chaldea’s grandeur and Assyria’s magnificence; of Babylonia’s -wealth and luxury; of Greek and Roman splendor; of Mohammedan culture and refinement; of French elegance -and British power; to the rise of the Western world, including the complete history of the United States and -all other nations down to the close of the Russia-Japan war.</p> - -<p class="bodytext blankbefore25"><span class="largeridpath"><b><span class="large_r">R</span>idpath’s</b></span> -enviable position as an historian is due to his wonderfully beautiful style, a style no other historian -has ever equaled. He pictures the great historical events as though they were happening before -your eyes; he carries you with him to see the battles of old; to meet kings and queens and warriors; -to sit in the Roman Senate; to march against Saladin and his dark-skinned followers; to sail the southern -seas with Drake; to circumnavigate the globe with Magellan; to watch that this line of Greek spearmen -work havoc with the Persian hordes on the field of Marathon; to know Napoleon as you know -Roosevelt. He combines absorbing interest with supreme reliability, and makes the heroes of history -real living men and women, and about them he weaves the rise and fall of empires in such -a fascinating style that history becomes as absorbingly interesting as the greatest of fiction.</p> - -<p class="bodytext blankbefore25"><span class="largeridpath"><b><span class="large_r">R</span>idpath’s</b></span> -History is strongly endorsed by Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, and -McKinley, Jefferson Davis, Lew Wallace, John L. 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W. Cor. Broadway at 54th Street.</span></b></p> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage03a.jpg" alt="Hotel" width="150" height="261" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent padl1 padr1 fsize70">Ideal Location. Near Theatres, Shops, and Central Park. Fine -Cuisine. Excellent food and reasonable Prices.</p> - -<p class="center fsize70 sstype"><b>NEW, MODERN AND ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF.</b></p> - -<p class="noindent padl1 padr1 fsize70">Within one minute’s walk of 6th Ave. “L” and Subway and accessible -to all surface car lines. Transient rates $2.50 with Bath and up.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>SEND FOR BOOKLET</b>,</p> - -<p class="center fsize70">Under the Management of</p> - -<p class="noindent fsize70"><span class="padl1">HARRY P. STIMSON</span> -<span class="righttext"><span class="padr1">GEO. L. SANBORN</span></span></p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050 border1"> - -<p class="center"><b><span class="fsize150">Hotel Touraine.</span><br /> -<span class="fsize125">Buffalo, N. Y.</span></b></p> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage03b.jpg" alt="Hotel" width="225" height="263" /> -</div> - -<p class="center sstype fsize90"><i><b>Delaware Avenue at Chippewa St.</b></i><br /> -<i><b>ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF</b></i></p> - -<p class="center fsize80">250 Rooms with Bath and Long Distance Telephone.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="fsize90"><b>EUROPEAN PLAN—$1.50 PER DAY</b></span><br /> -<span class="fsize80">up with Bath connections</span></p> - -<p class="center fsize90">Excellent Music and Grill Room.<br /> -C. N. Owen, Proprietor</p> - -<p class="center fsize90 highline15"><b>SEND FOR BOOKLET</b></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="allclear"> </p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050 border1"> - -<p class="center"><b><span class="fsize90">STOP AT THE</span><br /> -<span class="fsize150">NEW PRINCESS HOTEL</span><br /> -<span class="fsize90">WHEN AT</span><br /> -<span class="fsize125">ATLANTIC CITY</span></b></p> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage03c.jpg" alt="Hotel" width="275" height="187" /> -</div> - -<p class="center fsize80"><b>South Carolina Avenue, 200 feet from Beach.</b></p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize80 padl1 padr1">The Princess Hotel is newly furnished throughout -with rare taste, and possesses all modern requisites for -convenience and comfort of the guests. Golf privileges -and privilege of the Atlantic City Yacht Club extended -to the guests. American and European Plan.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize80 padl1 padr1"><b>A BOOKLET will be gladly furnished upon -application.</b></p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize80 padl1 padr1">Rates, Running from $12.50 to $30.00 per week, -according to the location of the rooms.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize80 padl1 padr1">For any further information address</p> - -<p class="center sstype"><span class="fsize125">CROWELL & COLLIER</span><br /> -The Princess Hotel,<br /> -Atlantic City, N. J.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050 border1"> - -<p class="center"><b><span class="fsize150 sstype">HOTEL NORMANDIE</span><br /> -<span class="fsize90">BROADWAY and 38th STREET, NEW YORK<br /> -In the Heart of the City</span></b></p> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage03d.jpg" alt="Hotel" width="225" height="281" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore75 padl1 padr1 fsize80">Fireproof -<span class="righttext">European Plan</span></p> - -<p class="center"><span class="fsize80">Single Rooms with Baths and in Suites</span><br /> -<b>$1.50 per Day and Upwards</b></p> - -<p class="center fsize80"><b>Center of Amusement and Business District</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="right fsize70">Telephone in Each Room<br /> -<span class="sstype"><b>The Cuisine Unexcelled</b></span></p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="center fsize70">Restaurant and Palm Room<br /> -<span class="sstype"><b>Moderate Prices</b></span></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="center fsize90"><span class="fsize90">SEND FOR BOOKLET.</span><br /> -ELMER E. ALMY, Prop.<br /> -<span class="fsize110"><b>Also, Osburn House, Rochester, N. Y.</b></span></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad03">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert04"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="greenwatson1"> - -<div class="greenwatson2"> - -<p class="noindent fsize80 sstype">JAMES W. GREEN -<span class="righttext">J. D. WATSON</span></p> - -<p class="center highline15 blankbefore4 sstype"><span class="smcap fsize200">Green <span class="padl1 padr1">&</span> -Watson</span><br /> -<span class="fsize110">ATTORNEYS AT LAW</span><br /> -THOMSON, GA.</p> - -<p class="center highline4 sstype fsize80">Consulting Counsel THOS. E. WATSON.</p> - -<p class="center sstype fsize80">Will practice in McDuffie and surrounding counties. Loans negotiated and -Collections made on good terms.</p> - -</div><!--greenwatson2--> - -</div><!--greenwatson1--> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050 border1"> - -<p class="center fsize125"><b>WHEN IN<br /> -<span class="fsize125 gesp4">BALTIMORE</span><br /> -STOP AT THE</b></p> - -<div class="figright joyce"> -<img src="images/adpage04a.jpg" alt="Hotel Joyce" width="110" height="186" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent padl1 fsize110">130 Rooms<br /> -<span class="padl3">Elegantly</span><br /> -<span class="padl6">Furnished</span><br /> -Unexcelled<br /> -<span class="padl9">Cuisine</span><br /> -Rooms<br /> -<span class="padl2">with Bath</span><br /> -<span class="padl4">and en Suite.</span><br /> -Centrally Located.</p> - -<p class="allclear center fsize90"><b>Opposite Camden Station<br /> -Main Depot B. & O. R. R.</b></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center fsize125"><b>Rates $1.00 per Day<br /> -and Upwards</b></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center fsize70 sstype"><b>SEND FOR BOOKLET</b></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center"><b>Hotel Joyce<br /> -Baltimore, Md.</b></p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050 border1"> - -<div class="whitefang"> - -<p class="center"><span class="fsize150">A SPLENDID STORY.</span><br /> -<span class="righttext fsize90">—<i>New York Times.</i></span></p> - -<p class="noindent allclear highline2"><b><span class="fsize175"><span class="smcap">Jack London’s</span><br /> -<span class="righttext padr1"><span class="smcap">White Fang.</span></span></span></b></p> - -<p class="right fsize80 allclear"><b>Cloth, 12mo, $1.50</b></p> - -<p class="noindent"><span class="largecap">“T</span><span class="largecapfollower">ypical,</span> graphic, tense, powerful, -gripping the reader -with a power that knows no breaking -till the story ends. . . . Shows -more gentle feeling and more charm -than anything else the author has -written.” -<span class="righttext fsize80">—<i>Chicago Evening Post.</i></span></p> - -<p class="allclear noindent fsize70 padl3 padr3">Illustrated in colors from drawings by -Charles Livingstone Bull, and with -special cover design.</p> - -<p class="right fsize70"><b>Cloth, 12mo, $1.50</b></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center"><b>THE MACMILLAN COMPANY,<br /> -<span class="fsize80">PUBLISHERS,</span></b></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize70"><b>64-66 Fifth Avenue. -<span class="righttext">NEW YORK.</span></b></p> - -</div><!--whitefang--> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad04">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert05"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="border2"> - -<div class="split5545"> - -<div class="left5545"> - -<div class="padl2"> - -<p class="noindent fsize150 blankbefore75"><b><span class="u">Speaking of Economy</span></b></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize200 blankbefore05"><b><span class="u">RED SEAL SHOES</span></b></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize125 highline15">Give double service</p> - -<p class="noindent fsize125 highline15 padl2">at about the same price.</p> - -<p class="noindent fsize125 highline15 padl4">For right down hard ware try our</p> - -<p class="noindent fsize125 highline15">TUF-HIDE for the whole family and</p> - -<div class="figleft redshoes"> -<img src="images/adpage05b.jpg" alt="Trade mark" width="150" height="147" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent fsize125 highline15">you’ll save a good -slice on the shoe bill.</p> - -<p class="right fsize110 highline2"><b>Sold Everywhere.</b></p> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--padl2--> - -</div><!--left5545--> - -<div class="right5545"> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/adpage05a.jpg" alt="Boot" width="225" height="272" /> -</div> - -<p class="no36"><b>No. 36<br />$2.50</b></p> - -<table class="fsize80 dontwrap" summary="Prices"> - -<tr> -<td class="left">No.</td> -<td class="right">36,</td> -<td class="left padr10">Men’s</td> -<td class="right">$2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left">No.</td> -<td class="right">112,</td> -<td class="left">Boys</td> -<td class="right">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left">No.</td> -<td class="right">413,</td> -<td class="left">Womens</td> -<td class="right">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left">No.</td> -<td class="right">145,</td> -<td class="left">Misses</td> -<td class="right">1.75</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--right5545--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5545--> - -<div class="split8020"> - -<div class="left8020"> - -<p class="right fsize250"><b>J. K. Orr Shoe Co.,</b></p> - -</div><!--left8020--> - -<div class="right8020"> - -<p class="noindent" style="font-size: 1.1em;"><b>Georgia<br /> -Shoemakers</b></p> - -</div><!--right8020--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split8020--> - -<div class="split7030"> - -<div class="left7030"> - -<div class="split4060"> - -<div class="left4060"> - -<p class="noindent fsize70 padl3">Look for the<br /><span class="padl5">TRADE MARK</span></p> - -</div><!--left4060--> - -<div class="right4060"> - -<p class="center fsize150 padl5"><b>ATLANTA, GA.</b></p> - -</div><!--right4060--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split4060--> - -</div><!--left7030--> - -<div class="right7030"> - -<p class="right fsize70 padr4">Watson’s on a Postal<br /> -brings <span class="padl1 padr1">a</span> Catalogue.</p> - -</div><!--right7030--> - -<p class="allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split7030--> - -</div><!--border2--> - -<div class="halfprice1"> - -<div class="halfprice2"> - -<div class="figleft"> -<img src="images/adpage05c.jpg" alt="Typewriter" width="250" height="182" /> -</div> - -<p class="center sstype blankbefore4 highline2"><span class="fsize200">Typewriters</span><br /> -<span class="fsize90">———— AT ————</span><br /> -<span class="fsize200">Half Price</span></p> - -<p class="center allclear fsize110">We have a large assortment of all standard machines, which have -been slightly used, that we will sell on guarantee, viz:—</p> - -<table class="typewriters" summary="Typewriters"> - -<tr> -<td class="machine">Fay-Sho or Rem-Sho</td> -<td class="price"><span class="padr1">$25 to $40</span></td> -<td class="machine"><span class="padl1">Densmores (All Models)</span></td> -<td class="price">$15 to $40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="machine">Williams (All Models)</td> -<td class="price"><span class="padr1">$20 to $40</span></td> -<td class="machine"><span class="padl1">Smith Premiers</span></td> -<td class="price">$20 to $60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="machine">Remingtons (All Models)</td> -<td class="price"><span class="padr1">$15 to $60</span></td> -<td class="machine"><span class="padl1">Yost (All Models)</span></td> -<td class="price">$15 to $50</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="center fsize90"><i>Write for special prices on any other machine made. We have them in stock</i></p> - -<p class="center sstype blankbefore75"><b><span class="fsize175">Atlanta Typewriter Exchange</span><br /> -<span class="fsize120 gesp1">Seventy-One <span class="padl1 padr1">North</span> <span class="padl1 padr1">Pryor</span> -Street</span></b></p> - -<p class="hind04 blankbefore75"><span class="smcap">References</span>: H. M. - Ashe Co., Central Bank & Trust Corporation, -R. G. Dun & Co.</p> - -</div><!--halfprice2--> - -</div><!--halfprice1--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad05">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert06"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad06frame"> - -<p class="gunhead"><b>What Will You Do During the Xmas Holidays?</b></p> - -<p class="center fsize200 highline2"><b>You Are Not In It==Without a Gun.</b></p> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage06a.jpg" alt="Gun" width="400" height="71" /> -</div> - -<p class="center fsize150"><b>Anyone Can Afford to Own a Good Gun</b></p> - -<table class="guns" summary="Guns"> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Remington 1 Hammer Gun</td> -<td class="price br">$20.00</td> -<td class="type">Sauer, Hammerless</td> -<td class="price">$65.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Remington K Hammerless Gun</td> -<td class="price br">23.50</td> -<td class="type">Stevens No. 325, Hammerless</td> -<td class="price">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Remington KED Hammerless Gun</td> -<td class="price br">31.50</td> -<td class="type">1890 Winchester Repeater, 16 shot, 22 cal.</td> -<td class="price">10.26</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Remington 1 Automatic Gun</td> -<td class="price br">30.00</td> -<td class="type">1892 Winchester Repeater, 32, 38 or 44</td> -<td class="price">12.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Remington 2 Automatic Gun</td> -<td class="price br">37.50</td> -<td class="type">1903 Winchester Automatic, 22 cal.</td> -<td class="price">16.04</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Parker V-H Hammerless</td> -<td class="price br">37.50</td> -<td class="type">1906 Winchester Repeater, 22 short</td> -<td class="price">8.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Parker P-H Hammerless</td> -<td class="price br">48.50</td> -<td class="type">1902 Winchester Single Shot</td> -<td class="price">3.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Fox No. A, Hammerless</td> -<td class="price br">37.50</td> -<td class="type">1903 Winchester Single Shot, Thumb Trigger</td> -<td class="price">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Ithaca F, Hammerless</td> -<td class="price br">21.50</td> -<td class="type">1904 Winchester Single Shot, extra heavy</td> -<td class="price">4.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Ithaca 1, Hammerless</td> -<td class="price br">27.50</td> -<td class="type">No. 15 Hamilton</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Ithaca 2, Hammerless</td> -<td class="price br">45.00</td> -<td class="type">No. 19 Hamilton</td> -<td class="price">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Winchester Take Down</td> -<td class="price br">19.44</td> -<td class="type">Savage, Jr.</td> -<td class="price">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Winchester Solid Frame</td> -<td class="price br">18.00</td> -<td class="type">Savage 30-30</td> -<td class="price">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="type">Winchester Riot</td> -<td class="price br">18.00</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="center fsize80">In presenting this list we only attempt to partially list the large line of</p> - -<p class="center fsize150 padtop1 padbot1 gesp2"><b>Guns, <span class="padl1 padr1">Ammunition,</span> Hunting<br /> -Suits <span class="padl2 padr2">and Sporting</span> Goods,</b></p> - -<p class="center fsize80">carried in our stock. We carry all the leading lines.<br /> -We guarantee satisfaction to every customer or your money cheerfully refunded</p> - -<p class="center blankbefore75"><b><span class="fsize125">Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention.</span><br /> -<span class="fsize150">KING HARDWARE COMPANY,</span><br /> -<span class="fsize125">53 Peachtree St., ATLANTA, GA.</span></b></p> - -</div><!--ad06frame--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad06">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert07"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="sendbook"> - -<p class="gesp1">“<b><span class="sstype fsize110">Yes, do send me a book.</span></b> . . . -<span class="fsize125">Not a bargain book, bought -from a haberdasher, but a beautiful book, a book to caress—peculiar, -distinctive, individual: A book that hath first caught your eye and -then pleased your fancy, written by an author with a tender whim, -all right out of his heart. We will read it together in the gloaming, -and when the gathering dusk doth blur the page, we’ll sit with hearts -too full for speech and think it over.”</span></p> - -<p class="right fsize125"><i>Dorothy Wordsworth to Coleridge.</i><br /> -</p> - -<p class="fsize125 blankbefore75">Such a book is</p> - -<p class="center highline2 blankbefore75"><span class="fsize150 sstype"><b>“ANN BOYD” by Will N. Harbin</b></span><br /> -and<br /> -<span class="fsize150 sstype"><b>“THE LIFE OF JACKSON” by Mr. Watson</b></span></p> - -<p class="fsize125 blankbefore75">Both begin in this number of Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine -as serials.</p> - -</div><!--sendbook--> - -<div class="split5050 blankbefore"> - -<div class="left5050 border1"> - -<p class="center highline225 blankbefore75"><span class="fsize150">IF YOU ARE INTERESTED</span><br /> -<span class="fsize110">IN</span><br /> -<span class="fsize200 gesp1"><b>Texas Investments</b></span><br /> -<span class="fsize110">OF ANY KIND OR SIZE</span><br /> -Address<br /> -<span class="smcap sstype fsize175 gesp1">E. C. Robertson</span>,<br /> -Kiam Building, Houston, Texas.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="center fsize125"><b>Genuine Gold Specimens</b></p> - -<div class="figleft nomargin"> -<p class="noindent fsize200">Free</p> -</div> - -<p class="noindent fsize70">Samples of gold ore direct from the mine, sent -free. We have a limited amount of stock of an -exceptionally attractive and promising Nevada -Gold Mine. The company is operated by reliable, responsible -and honorable men, whose references are customers of -years’ standing, in all parts of the country. This stock is -not manipulated by speculators or stock jobbers. It is offered -now at a very low price, for rapid development purposes, -and will sell at par soon, we believe, going higher as the -mine develops. If you want to make money rapidly we -advise you to purchase and hold this stock for large and -regularly paid dividends. The stock of one Nevada Gold -Mine increased 50 per cent in one day; 18 Nevada stocks -during October 1906 increased in value Twenty-One Million -Dollars. If you like a square deal and to be in the best of -company, you will send us your address at once for full -particulars.</p> - -<p class="center"><b><span class="fsize110">MANHATTAN INVESTMENT CO.</span><br /> -125 EAST 23D STREET, N. Y.</b></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<div class="mellichamp"> - -<p class="center fsize250"><b>JEWELRY <span class="padl1 padr1">for</span> CHRISTMAS</b></p> - -<p class="jewels partline bt3 bb"> </p> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore75 padl4 padr4">Give presents that will be appreciated. Good -jewelry satisfies all—sweethearts, -wives, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers or friends. Examine my magnificent -brand-new stock. I help you select. Out-of-town orders carefully attended -to. Satisfaction guaranteed.</p> - -<p class="center blankbefore75 fsize150"><b>J. C. MELLICHAMP, 70 Whitehall Street</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent fsize70">“ATLANTA’S ONLY POPULAR<br /> -<span class="gesp1">PRICE <span class="padl1 padr1">JEWELRY</span> STORE”</span></p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="right fsize70">NEXT DOOR CHAMBERLAIN-<br /> -<span class="gesp1">JOHNSON-DU <span class="padl1 padr1">BOSE</span> CO.</span></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--mellichamp--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad07">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert08"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad08framea"> - -<p class="cicero"><span class="fsize110">“Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament -of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, -and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the</span> -<span class="nowrap"><span class="fsize110">country.”</span>—<i>Cicero.</i></span></p> - -<p class="center sstype blankbefore75"><span class="fsize150">THOS. E. WATSON’S “STORY OF FRANCE”</span><br /> -<span class="fsize110">In two beautiful volumes for only<br /> -eight subscriptions to<br /> -WATSON’S JEFFERSONIAN MAGAZINE.</span></p> - -<p class="center sstype blankbefore75 fsize110">Either Mr. Watson’s Life of Napoleon or Jefferson<br /> -for only five subscriptions to<br /> -WATSON’S JEFFERSONIAN MAGAZINE.</p> - -<p class="center sstype blankbefore75"><span class="fsize150">BETHANY,</span><br /> -<span class="fsize110">A true and thrilling story of the Old South and Civil War,<br /> -by Mr. Watson, for only four subscriptions.</span></p> - -</div><!--ad08framea--> - -<div class="ad08frameb"> - -<p class="walkertopin">We Save You Magazine Money.</p> - -<p class="walkertopout">Club Rates. -<span class="righttext">Combinations.</span></p> - -<p class="walker blankbefore75">Lord Bacon has said that “Reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact -man.” If you want to be full—not physically, but mentally—full of the best information, you should -read the best magazine literature. Foremost among the magazines is</p> - -<p class="center fsize110 sstype highline15">The Metropolitan Magazine.</p> - -<p class="walker">A beautifully illustrated monthly. A well appointed magazine in every department. There’s something -in it each month to interest the reader. Are you a subscriber? Why not become one?</p> - -<p class="walker">Below you will find some very attractive offers to which we direct your attention:</p> - -<table class="walker" summary="Offers"> - -<tr> -<td class="heading">The Metropolitan<br />Magazine</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="heading top">Class A.</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="heading top">Class B.</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="package">With one Class A</td> -<td class="price">$1.65</td> -<td class="package">American Magazine</td> -<td class="price">$1.00</td> -<td class="package">Automobile</td> -<td class="price">$2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="package">With two Class A</td> -<td class="price">2.30</td> -<td class="package">American Boy</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -<td class="package">Motorway</td> -<td class="price">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="package">With two Class C</td> -<td class="price">1.70</td> -<td class="package">American Inventor</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -<td class="package">Out Door News</td> -<td class="price">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="package">With one Class C</td> -<td rowspan="2" class="price bl">2.00</td> -<td class="package">American Primary Teacher</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -<td class="package">Outing</td> -<td class="price">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="package">and one Class A</td> -<td class="package">Baby</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -<td class="package">Reader</td> -<td class="price">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="package">With two Class B</td> -<td class="price">3.70</td> -<td class="package">Cosmopolitan</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -<td class="package">Review of Reviews</td> -<td class="price">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="package">With one Class A</td> -<td rowspan="2" class="price bl">3.00</td> -<td class="package">Farming</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -<td class="package">Trained Nurse</td> -<td class="price">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="package">and one Class B</td> -<td class="package">Garden</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -<td rowspan="3" class="heading">Class C.</td> -<td rowspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4" class="thinline"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="3" class="heading">Metropolitan<br /><span class="padl6">Magazine</span></td> -<td rowspan="7" class="price bl">3.00</td> -<td class="package">Good Housekeeping</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="package">Home Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -<td class="package">American Messenger</td> -<td class="price">$ .50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="package">Kindergarten Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -<td class="package">Amer. 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Address all orders to</p> - -<p class="center fsize80"><b>Walker’s Southern Magazine Agency,</b></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize70 padl8 padr8"><b>212 Leonard Building, -<span class="righttext">Augusta, Georgia.</span></b></p> - -</div><!--ad08frameb--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad08">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert09"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="toreaders"> - -<p class="center fsize150"><b>To Our Readers.</b></p> - -<hr /> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110">The advertising columns of this Magazine will carry into -your homes only the announcements of those whom we have reason -to believe do a legitimate and honorable business. Almost to -the man, our advertisers were prompted to place their contracts -with us, not with a single eye to the returns which they -hoped to get as a result of using our space, but because they -are broadminded men who believe in this Magazine as you do, -enthusiastically predicting and welcoming Mr. Watson’s -success.</p> - -<p>They with others, whose advertisements will appear in our -next issue, will continue to extend this evidence of their sincerity -and thereby guarantee <span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine</span> -a financial success if you as our clientele only patronize -them to that extent whereby they can carry their advertisement -with us without doing so at a total loss. We are careful as to -the character of the advertisements which we carry, which -necessarily restricts our revenue from this source, so in your -appreciation of this fact we ask you as our friends to so far as -possible patronize our advertising friends and in doing so, be -careful to mention this Magazine so they may know our people -and know they are appreciative.</p> - -</div><!--toreaders--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad09">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert10"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="galtbrosout"> - -<div class="galtbrosin"> - -<p class="galt"><span class="largecap">S</span><span class="largecapfollower">INCE</span> -the time of President Jefferson’s Administration, it has -been sufficient guarantee of the quality of an article to -know it was bought at <span class="nowrap">GALT’S<span class="padcolon">:</span><span class="padcolon">:</span> -<span class="padcolon">:</span><span class="padcolon">:</span><span class="padcolon">:</span><span class="padcolon">:</span> -<span class="padcolon">:</span><span class="padcolon">:</span><span class="padcolon">:</span><span class="padcolon">:</span> -<span class="padcolon">:</span></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/adpage10a.png" alt="Cat and moon" width="50" height="71" /> -</div> - -<p class="center highline15 blankbefore1 sstype"><span class="fsize200">GALT & BRO.</span><br /> -<span class="fsize70">ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY</span><br /> -<span class="fsize150">Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers</span><br /> -<span class="fsize70"><span class="gesp2">1107 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE<br /> -WASHINGTON, D. C</span>.</span></p> - -</div><!--galtbrosin--> - -</div><!--galtbrosout--> - -<div class="ad10frame"> - -<div class="maier"> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent fsize110">Christmas<br /> -Jewelry</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="satisfaction"><b>We Guarantee Satisfaction<br /> -in our<br /> -Service by Mail Department</b></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="center lowline">Give Worth-While Gifts; not necessarily expensive, but good and of permanent<br /> -value. Here’s a little bunch of suggestions;</p> - -<table class="maier" summary="Jewelry"> - -<tr> -<td class="item">BROOCHES,<br />From $1.50 up</td> -<td class="argument">Plain gold, enameled, pearl-set, jeweled, hand engraved.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="item">SIGNET RINGS,<br />Children’s $1.50 to $5<br />Women’s $5 to $10</td> -<td class="argument">Very much sought, splendid for engraved monograms.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="item">BARETTES,<br />From $1 to $25<br />Jeweled $25 to $50</td> -<td class="argument">The smartest new hair-clasps and veil-pins.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="item">SHIRT-WAIST PINS,<br />Silver $1 to $4<br />Gold $5 to $40</td> -<td class="argument">Dainty and practical fastenings, more popular than ever.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="item">GOLD-BEADS,<br />$6.50 to $20</td> -<td class="argument">Always stylish and ornaments of real beauty.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="item">COMBS,<br />$1.50 to $75</td> -<td class="argument">The smart coiffure necessitates these; we have some beauties.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="item">HAT PINS,<br />Gold $2.50 to $35<br />Silver 35c to $2.60</td> -<td class="argument">We have right now the prettiest and largest line we’ve ever carried.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="item">BRACELETS,<br />$1.50 to $800</td> -<td class="argument">Something every woman wants. All styles. Very smart.</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="noindent fsize80 lowline">Suggestions Merely. Write to-day for our Catalog W, a splendid book which will be a dependable -guide to your holiday shopping. <span class="padl2">It</span> is full of PICTURES and PRICES. -<span class="padl2">Covers</span> our entire stock of</p> - -<p class="center sstype fsize70"><b>SILVERWARE, CRYSTAL, PRECIOUS STONES, CHINA CLOCKS, WATCHES, ART WARES,<br /> -ORIENTAL BRIC-A-BRAC.</b></p> - -<p class="center fsize70"><i>A request brings you the Catalog by return post.</i></p> - -<p class="center sstype lowline"><b><i><span class="fsize90 gesp2">MAIER and BERKELE</span></i><br /> -<span class="fsize60">The South’s Leading Jewelers<br /> -<span class="padr6">ATLANTA,</span>-<span class="padl6">GEORGIA</span></span></b></p> - -</div><!--maier--> - -</div><!--ad10frame--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad10">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert11"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad11framea"> - -<div class="mberry"> - -<p class="center sstype"><span class="fsize200">BOYS’ INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL,</span><br /> -ROME, GEORGIA.<br /> -FOUNDED BY MARTHA BERRY.</p> - -<hr /> - -<p class="center sstype fsize70">THE ONLY SCHOOL IN THE SOUTH FOR BOYS FROM THE COUNTRY EXCLUSIVELY.<br /> -NO BOY FROM THE CITY WILL BE ACCEPTED.</p> - -<hr /> - -<p class="fsize90">Expenses for Board, Tuition and Plain Washing for term of sixteen weeks are $25.50—just -one-half the actual cost to the school. The balance due for the expenses of each student -is raised by the personal efforts of the founder of the school.</p> - -<p class="fsize90">There are now 125 students in attendance, representing twenty-four counties in Georgia. -Many of these boys would have no other opportunity to obtain an education.</p> - -<p class="fsize90">Here is a golden opportunity for the people of Georgia to help develop the manhood, the -citizenship, the sterling Christian Character of the most worthy boys in the State.</p> - -<p class="center fsize90">$51.00 pays the deficit on one student one year.<br /> -$25.50 pays the deficit on one student one term.</p> - -<p class="fsize90">WILL YOU NOT AID US IN THIS IMPORTANT WORK? Contributions, large or -small, gratefully received.</p> - -<hr /> - -<p class="fsize90">Address all communications to</p> - -<p class="center sstype fsize150">MISS MARTHA BERRY, Rome, Ga.</p> - -</div><!--mberry--> - -</div><!--ad11framea--> - -<div class="reynoldsout"> - -<div class="reynoldsin"> - -<p class="center sstype fsize125">1879——————1906</p> - -<p class="center sstype"><b><span class="gesp1 fsize150">GEORGIA MILITARY COLLEGE</span><br /> -A UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PREPARATORY SCHOOL<br /> -<span class="fsize110">MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.</span></b></p> - -<p class="reynolds"><span class="sstype"><b>THREE COURSES:</b></span> Classical, Scientific, Commercial; -Music and Art. Honest work done by teachers. -Exacted of Students.</p> - -<p class="reynolds"><span class="sstype"><b>GOVERNMENT:</b></span> Military, after West Point Model. U. -S. Army Officer, Commandant of Cadets and Instructor -in Military Science, French and Spanish. -Military Equipment furnished by U. S. -Government.</p> - -<p class="reynolds"><span class="sstype"><b>EXPENSES:</b></span> Total cost for year of 38 weeks, $150.00. -Includes Board and Laundry, two Uniforms. -Books from $5.00 to $10.00. This school brings -an Education within the reach of the poor boy.</p> - -<p class="reynolds"><span class="sstype"><b>OUR AIM:</b></span> The complete training of the boy.</p> - -<div class="split5050 blankbefore"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent sstype fsize90"><b>Twenty-Seventh Session.</b></p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="right sstype fsize90"><b>Opened September 4th, 1906.</b></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="allclear thinline"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="center">For New Illustrated Catalogue, Address,</p> - -<p class="address"><b>W. E. REYNOLDS, A. M., President, Milledgeville, Ga.</b></p> - -</div><!--reynoldsin--> - -</div><!--reynoldsout--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad11">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert12"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="mcduffie"> - -<p class="center sstype"><span class="fsize250"><b>The McDuffie Bank</b></span><br /> -<span class="fsize125">A STATE BANK OF LOANS AND DISCOUNTS.</span><br /> -<span class="fsize150">Thomson, Ga.</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage12a.jpg" alt="Bank President Watson (presumably)" width="400" height="436" /> -</div> - -<p class="center fsize80 blankbefore75 blankafter75"><b>J. F. WATSON. President.</b></p> - -<div class="split6733"> - -<div class="left6733"> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent fsize80">H. T. CLARY,<br /> -<span class="smcap padl6">Vice-President</span>.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="noindent fsize80">W. S. LAZENBY,<br /> -<span class="smcap padl10">Cashier</span>.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--left6733--> - -<div class="right6733"> - -<p class="right fsize80"><span class="padr6">J. GLENN STOVALL,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Attorney</span>.</p> - -</div><!--right6733--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split6733--> - -<hr /> - -<p class="center sstype fsize175">Capital Stock, $25,000.00.</p> - -<hr /> - -<p class="sstype fsize110">MODERN EQUIPMENT, -<span class="righttext">CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT,</span></p> - -<p class="allclear center sstype fsize110">COURTEOUS TREATMENT,<span class="padl1 padr1"> </span>ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.</p> - -<hr /> - -<p class="center">DIRECTORS:<br /> -<span class="fsize80 gesp1"><span class="smcap">J. F. Watson</span>, <span class="smcap">H. T. Clary</span>, -<span class="smcap">W. A. Watson</span>, <span class="smcap">O. S. Lee</span>, <span class="smcap">B. T. Bussey</span>, -<span class="smcap">Thos. E. Watson</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">J. C. Fanning</span>, <span class="smcap">W. R. Hadley</span>, <span class="smcap">J. Durham Watson</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">W. S. Lazenby</span>, <span class="smcap">J. Glenn Stovall</span>.</span></p> - -</div><!--mcduffie--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad12">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert13"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="toreaders"> - -<p class="center fsize150"><b>A Request.</b></p> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine</span> stands for all that is -best in the life of the people and the future of the republic. -It will advocate those principles for which its editor has so -long fought. It is Mr. Watson’s unselfish ambition to establish -this Magazine in the minds, hearts and thoughts of our -people; to make it a power for the right against the wrong and -to make it a factor in moulding the minds of our young manhood -and womanhood for the future.</p> - -<p class="center blankbefore75 blankafter75"><i>OUR REQUEST.</i></p> - -<p>If you believe in the principles which this Magazine represents. -If you would see it succeed, First, read it, every department. -Then talk <span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine</span> enthusiastically -with every one with whom you come in contact, make -up your mind to send at least five (5) yearly subscriptions -before our next issue is out, and send them. You will find -this an easy task if you will make it a point to call on those -whom you know to believe in justice and freedom.</p> - -<p>It is impossible to portray in words our appreciation to -the many hundreds who have more than granted this request -already. We can only predict greater results from them in -the near future, which bespeaks our absolute confidence in their -unselfish devotion to a cause which has had more than one -martyr.</p> - -</div><!--toreaders--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad13">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert14"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage14top.png" alt="Top" width="600" height="20" class="ad14top" /> -</div> - -<div class="gholstinout"> - -<div class="gholstinin"> - -<p class="center sstype fsize175 highline15"><b>The National Sanitary Felt Mattress</b></p> - -<p class="center fsize120 wordspace3"><b>Is Superior to the Best Hair Mattress. Noted for its -Elasticity, Durability and Comfort.</b></p> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage14a.jpg" alt="Mattress" width="550" height="314" /> -</div> - -<p>Is as elastic as a feather bed. Is conducive alike to health and repose. Is manufactured -from best Staple Cotton woven into layers of Felt by special designed machinery.</p> - -<p class="center fsize110 gesp1 highline15"><b>OUR GUARANTEE:</b></p> - -<p>Give this mattress a 60-day trial and if it does not fulfill all the conditions of our -guarantee, return it to the dealer (if the tick is clean) and your money will be refunded.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="center"><span class="fsize150"><b><i><span class="sstype">The</span></i> -FAMOUS “FOUR HUNDRED” SPRING</b></span><br /> -<span class="fsize110"><b>Manufactured by us Exclusively.</b></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage14b.jpg" alt="Bedsprings" width="500" height="237" /> -</div> - - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="center sstype"><span class="fsize175"><b>Gholstin-Cunningham Spring Bed Co.</b></span><br /> -<span class="fsize110"><b>Manufacturers, Atlanta, Georgia.</b></span></p> - -</div><!--gholstinin--> - -</div><!--gholstinout--> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage14bot.png" alt="Bottom" width="600" height="21" class="ad14bot" /> -</div> - -<div class="illotext w18m"> - -<p class="center">THE “400”<br /> -Contains 88 Oil Tempered Springs<br /> -Enameled Finish, Absolutely Noiseless.</p> - -<p class="center blankbefore75">GUARANTEED THE BEST<br /> -SPRING BED ON EARTH.<br /> -THE “400”</p> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad15">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert15"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="request"> - -<p class="center"><span class="fsize250 gesp1"><b>AN EARNEST REQUEST</b></span><br /> -<span class="fsize125"><b>Made to All Editors Who Believe in Fair Play.</b></span></p> - -<hr class="short" /> -<div class="requesttext"> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore75"><b>Gentlemen:</b></p> - -<p>By as foul a deal as was ever made, “Watson’s Magazine,” of -New York, has been taken out of my hands.</p> - -<p>The written Contract, upon which I relied, has been shamelessly -set aside.</p> - -<p>A man whom I selected as my personal representative, and -placed in the office at a fine salary, <b>which has always been paid</b>, -betrayed me.</p> - -<p>He and Col. Mann formed a new company, seized the Magazine -under legal forms, and are now running it for themselves.</p> - -<p><b>Col. Mann of Town Topics is Editor-in-Chief.</b></p> - -<p>C. Q. DeFrance is Associate Editor and Business Manager.</p> - -<p>They have flooded the country with <b>a lying circular letter</b>, -intended to deceive the people as to the cause of my withdrawal.</p> - -<p><b>Col. Mann’s name is not even mentioned in this circular.</b></p> - -<p>Almost every statement made about me in that circular is a -base, malicious falsehood. They are simply <b>trying to hide their -own guilt in a cloud of slanderous fabrications</b>.</p> - -<p>In the November number of “Watson’s Magazine” appeared -an article with the title of “<b>Explanatory</b>.” It should have been -labelled “<b>Defamatory</b>.”</p> - -<p>It reeks with venom and lies. <b>Col. Mann wrote part of it</b>, -and DeFrance wrote the balance.</p> - -<p>These publications of theirs do me the rankest injustice.</p> - -<p><b>I have no mailing list of the magazine which bears my name, and -never had one.</b></p> - -<p><b>Consequently, I am at present powerless to reach the subscribers -and readers of “Watson’s Magazine.” I have no way of letting -them know the real state of the case.</b></p> - -<p><b>On account of this very serious disadvantage, I make this appeal -to you:</b></p> - -<p><b>Pray, inform your readers that I am now publishing the genuine -Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine in Atlanta, Ga., of which this is the -first number.</b></p> - -<p>And that in the “Foreword” of this number is given <b>a full -history of my connection with the New York Magazine, together -with my reasons for quitting.</b></p> - -<p>In the interest of <b>Fair Play</b>, I beg that you do me this favor.</p> - -<p>It is one which, under similar circumstances <b>you would not -ask of me in vain</b>.</p> - -</div><!--requesttext--> - -<p class="right padr2">THOS. E. WATSON.</p> - -</div><!--request--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="titlepageout"> - -<div class="titlepagein"> - -<h1><span class="smcap">Watson’s<br /> -Jeffersonian Magazine.</span></h1> - -<p class="center blankbefore75 blankafter75"><b><span class="fsize125"><span class="gesp2">THOS. E. WATSON</span>,</span><br /> -Editor and Proprietor.</b></p> - -<div class="split6733 btd bbd"> - -<div class="left6733"> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent highline2 fsize125"><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> I.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="center highline2 fsize125">JANUARY, 1907</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--left6733--> - -<div class="right6733"> - -<p class="right highline2 fsize125"><span class="smcap">No.</span> 1</p> - -</div><!--right6733--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split6733--> - -<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> - -<table class="toc" summary="Contents"> - -<tr> -<td class="title">THE BODY-SNATCHERS. Frontispiece.</td> -<td class="author"><i>A. K. Taylor</i></td> -<td class="pageno"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">FOREWORD.</td> -<td class="author"><i>Thos. E. Watson</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page3">3</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title descr">Illustrated by W. Gordon Nye.</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">EDITORIALS.</td> -<td class="author"><i>Thos. E. Watson</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page29">29</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title descr">Illustrated by W. Gordon Nye and A. K. Taylor.</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title contents">The New Year—Mr. Bryan and Mr. Watson.—Socialism at War With Love of Home and -Country—National Finance Run Mad—As to Hearst—Ornamental Flag-Poles—Eastern Insurance Companies—Abraham -Lincoln’s Silly Biographers—Shoot, Luke, or Give Up the Gun—The Dismissal of those Negro Troops—The Proposed -Ship Subsidy—An Appeal to Patriotism—Love Licks—After All, It Depends Upon Who Owns the Ox.</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">YOU OLD CONFEDS. Poem.</td> -<td class="author"><i>William E. Fowler</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page50">50</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title descr">From <i>The Confederate Veteran</i>.</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">A SURVEY OF THE WORLD.</td> -<td class="author"><i>Charles J. Bayne</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page51">51</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title descr">Illustrated with Portraits and Cartoons.</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">ANN BOYD. Serial Story.</td> -<td class="author"><i>Will N. Harben</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page73">73</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title descr">Illustrated by W. Gordon Nye.</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">TWELFTH NIGHT. Poem.</td> -<td class="author"><i>Charles J. Bayne</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page89">89</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title descr">Illustrated, from Painting by Jan Steen.</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDREW JACKSON</td> -<td class="author"><i>Thos. E. Watson</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page91">91</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title descr">Illustrated by W. Gordon Nye.</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">THE BLUE CHAMBER. Short Story.</td> -<td class="author"><i>Prosper Merimee</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page105">105</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP. A Legend.</td> -<td class="author"><i>Jeannette Holly</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page114">114</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.</td> -<td class="title descr"><i>Thos. E. Watson</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page117">117</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title descr">Illustrated by W. Gordon Nye.</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">BOOK REVIEWS.</td> -<td class="author"><i>Thos. E. Watson</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page123">123</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title descr">Illustrated.</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">A PEEP INTO THE WEEKLY PAPERS.</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page125">125</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page132">132</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">RETURNING THANKS TO MY FRIENDS.</td> -<td class="author"><i>Thos. E. Watson</i></td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page141">141</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="title">WITTY FLINGS BY THE PARAGRAPHERS.</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="pageno"><a href="#Page148">148</a></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="center btd"><b><span class="fsize80">Published Monthly by</span><br /> -<span class="fsize110 wordspace3">THOS. E. WATSON</span></b></p> - -<div class="split6733"> - -<div class="left6733"> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent"><b>$1.50 Per Year.</b></p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="center"><b>Atlanta, Ga.</b></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--left6733--> - -<div class="right6733"> - -<p class="right"><b>15 Cents Per Copy</b></p> - -</div><!--right6733--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split6733--> - -<p class="center fsize60 bt"><i>Application made for entry as second class matter at Atlanta Ga. Post Office.</i></p> - -</div><!--titlepagein--> - -</div><!--titlepageout--> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page2">[2]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w440"> -<img src="images/illo002.jpg" alt="" width="439" height="600" /> -<p class="largeillo"><a href="images/illo002lg.jpg">Larger illustration</a></p> -<p class="caption">THE BODY SNATCHERS.<br /> -<span class="fsize90">THEY GET THE CORPSE BUT THE SPIRIT HAS FLOWN.</span></p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page3">[3]</span></p> - -<div class="advertpage"> - -<p class="fauxh1"><span class="smcap">Watson’s<br /> -Jeffersonian Magazine.</span></p> - -<p class="center blankbefore75 blankafter75"><b><span class="fsize125"><span class="gesp2">THOS. E. WATSON</span>,</span><br /> -Editor and Proprietor.</b></p> - -<div class="split6733 btd bbd"> - -<div class="left6733"> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent highline2 fsize125"><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> I.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class=" center highline2 fsize125">JANUARY, 1907</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--left6733--> - -<div class="right6733"> - -<p class="right highline2 fsize125"><span class="smcap">No.</span> 1</p> - -</div><!--right6733--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split6733--> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<h2>Foreword.</h2> - -<p class="dropcapp"><img src="images/dropcapb.jpg" alt="B" width="87" height="100" class="dropcapi" /><span class="noshow">B</span>efore -me lies a Thing, bearing on its cover the legend,</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> -<p>“<span class="smcap">Watson’s Magazine</span>.”</p> -</div> - -<p>The familiar emblem, the Liberty Bell, is in the -center of the space, and below is the address of</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> -<p>“Watson’s Magazine Company,”<br /> -<span class="padl6">121 West 42nd Street, New York.</span></p> -</div> - -<p>Opening this Thing and scanning the Table of Contents, I note the -absence of the name of Mr. Watson, former Editor-in-Chief.</p> - -<p>He’s out.</p> - -<p>Nor do I see the name of the former Managing Editor, Mr. Duffy.</p> - -<p>He’s out, also.</p> - -<p>C. Q. DeFrance is still on deck, however, and Ted Flaacke is still -Advertising Manager—with no advertisements to manage.</p> - -<p>Then comes a statement of the Contents of the November number. -First the old familiar word, “<span class="smcap">Editorials</span>,” meets my eyes. But the name -of the writer is not given.</p> - -<p>It used to be Mr. Watson. <span class="smcap">Who is it now?</span></p> - -<p>The Table of Contents does not state.</p> - -<p>The Editor is a Man of Mystery. Was he ashamed of his Editorials, -or were the Editorials ashamed of <i>him</i>? Deponent sayeth not—because -he doesn’t know.</p> - -<p>Everybody else’s name is given, save that of the only man whose -name there was any special reason for giving—to wit, <span class="smcap">The Editor</span>.</p> - -<p>Is <span class="smcapall">THIS</span> the way they send you into the world, <span class="smcapall">MY CHILD</span>? Offspring -of my hand, my heart and my soul—Benjamin of my old age! Is <span class="smcapall">THIS</span> -the orphanage upon which you have fallen?</p> - -<p>Glancing down the list of writers who have contributed to this -November number, I am startled to find the name of Thos. E. Watson.</p> - -<p>Who is <i>he</i>, anyhow? Isn’t he the man whom Colonel Mann and -DeFrance have been slandering through the newspapers? Why put <i>his</i> -name into <i>this</i> pot?</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page4">[4]</span></p> - -<p>Curious to see what Mr. Watson may have written for the Thing, -I follow the page reference (103) and find the familiar headline “<span class="smcap">Educational -Department</span>.” This department was my own creation, primarily -intended for the instruction of the younger members of the family. Under -the headline of “Educational Department,” the Thing puts a list of -books.</p> - -<p>Some boy wrote to me last winter asking me to name one hundred -books which would be useful to the general reader. I made out the list, -last February, and mailed it to New York.</p> - -<p>In their quandary of dismissing Watson, the man, and holding -on to Watson, the Reputation, <i>they fished that list of books out of the -waste-basket</i> and published it. <i>They</i> signed my name to it.</p> - -<p>That’s the only item in the Thing’s “Educational Department.”</p> - -<p>Pitiful!</p> - -<p>At the very time when they are slandering me in the newspapers, -and denying to me any share in the Magazine which my unpaid labor -built up, Mann and DeFrance have the cynical indecency to continue to -use my name as a writer for <i>their</i> magazine.</p> - -<p>Turning to “<span class="smcap">Letters From the People</span>,” a Department which owes -its creation to me, I find letters praising “Watson’s Magazine.”</p> - -<p>The dates are not given. These would have disclosed the fact that -the letters were written before the severance of my connection with the -Magazine. The writers were <i>my friends</i>, and by their letters <i>they had -meant to encourage me in my work</i>.</p> - -<p>The cover of the Magazine bears the name</p> - -<p class="center highline4">“<span class="smcap">Watson’s Magazine Company</span>.”</p> - -<p>The two individuals who compose this “Company” are Col. W. D. -Mann and C. Q. DeFrance—a very precious “Company.”</p> - -<p>Of my Magazine, Mann took half, and DeFrance took half.</p> - -<p>By what right?</p> - -<p>Concede that Col. Mann was entitled to grab half of the Magazine -because of the money which he had lost through the stupid mismanagement -of the Business Department—where did DeFrance get <i>his</i> right to -<i>the other half</i>? <span class="smcap">He has never done a lick of work for the Magazine -that wasn’t paid for at full price.</span></p> - -<p>Where, then, was <span class="smcapall">HIS</span> right to seize, under legal form, one half of the -Magazine?</p> - -<p>I called him from a very modest position in Nebraska, and put him -in the office as my personal and political representative. Starting him -at $40 per week, I soon advanced him to $60 per week—a higher salary -than he had ever been paid, by far. I trusted him, implicitly. To the -last moment, I relied upon him, absolutely.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page5">[5]</span></p> - -<p><i>And he betrayed me.</i> Often have I, like other men, experienced -ingratitude; sometimes perfidy—but never have I been stung by such -venomous and unexpected treachery as that of DeFrance.</p> - -<p>Let it pass.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>There is another deceptive inscription upon the cover of the November -number of the spurious “Watson’s Magazine.” It is the address,</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">121 West 42 Street.</span></p> - -<p>That is <span class="smcapall">NOT</span> the true address which should be used now. Colonel -Mann has taken the spurious “Watson’s” into the quarters of his <span class="smcap">Town -Topics and Smart Set</span>. You have perhaps heard of <span class="smcap">Town Topics</span>. Also -of <span class="smcap">Smart Set</span>. And a <i>mighty</i> smart set it is, too.</p> - -<p>Hereafter, you might as well address all communications intended -for the <i>spurious</i> “Watson’s” <span class="smcap">in care of Col. Mann’s Town Topics</span>.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/illo005.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="600" height="529" /> -<p class="caption">THE FAKIR AND THE MANIKIN. COL. MANN AND DEFRANCE VENTRILOQUISING THE BOGUS -“WATSON’S MAGAZINE,” NEW YORK.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page6">[6]</span></p> - -<p>Or, if you prefer, <span class="smcap">in care of Col. Mann’s Smart Set</span>.</p> - -<p>Last March the blustering old scamp who rolls around beneath the -name of Colonel W. D. Mann, wanted to remove the genuine “Watson’s -Magazine” from 42nd Street over to the Smart Set den.</p> - -<p>I declined to let him do it. At that time, DeFrance was still true -to me, and he took the same view of the matter. So anxious was he not -to get mired up in Town Topics mud that he telegraphed me to stand -out against Col. Mann and <i>not</i> allow him to make the removal.</p> - -<p>Tray, <i>the faithful</i>, wanted to keep out of bad company. Tray, the -unfaithful, has now, of his own free will, got into the bad company which -he <i>then</i> avoided.</p> - -<p>Watch out, Tray.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>The first article in the November number of the spurious “Watson’s” -is entitled “<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>.” Most of it had already appeared in Colonel -Mann’s <span class="smcap">Town Topics</span>. The rest of it bears the earmark of DeFrance.</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” was prepared by <span class="smcap">the present Editors</span> of the New -York “Watson’s Magazine”—<span class="smcap">Col. Mann and DeFrance</span>. Well aware -of the fact that the Public would not patronize <i>a Reform magazine</i> edited -by such a creature as himself, Col. Mann has rushed into the newspapers -with a declaration <i>that he never saw or heard of</i> “<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” <i>until -after its appearance in the November “Watson’s.”</i></p> - -<p>What a shameless falsehood!</p> - -<p>Col. Mann and DeFrance fixed up that “<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” mess, and -<i>Mr. Gordon Nye, the artist, was commissioned to take the “Proofs” to -Col. Mann for correction</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mr. Nye</span>, who is now living with me, <span class="smcap">assures me that he carried -these “Proofs” to Col. Mann’s house on 72nd Street, that Col. -Mann read and corrected the “Proofs,” and that he made certain -alterations in the article</span>.</p> - -<p>Then Mr. Nye took the Proofs of “<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” <i>back to DeFrance</i>, -and delivered to that person <i>the orders of</i> <span class="smcap">the real Editor-in-Chief</span> of -the New York “Watson’s Magazine.”</p> - -<p>For <span class="smcap">the real Editor-in-Chief</span> of the bogus “Watson’s Magazine” -<span class="smcap">is Col. Mann, Editor of Town Topics and Smart Set</span>.</p> - -<p>Nice Editor-in-Chief <i>for a reform magazine</i>, isn’t he?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>I am going to give, once for all, a simple statement of the whole -transaction, and then I will try to forget it, in higher, nobler work. -Nothing is a more thankless task than the narration of the events leading -to such a climax as this.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>After the national election of 1904, I went to New York to hold a -conference with our National Chairman, Mr. Ferriss, and with other men<span class="pagenum" id="Page7">[7]</span> -who had been prominently identified with our side of the campaign. The -conference was held at the office of Mr. Palliser who had been acting -manager of the campaign in New York. I also wished to confer with -Mr. Brisbane, who had long been urging me to join him in editing the -Hearst papers. He had repeatedly written and telegraphed. A definite -offer of $10,000 to edit Mr. Hearst’s morning paper, the American, had -been made. If I had been ready to accept a thousand dollars per month, -there is no doubt that it would have been paid. But while I was powerfully -inclined to cooperate with Brisbane, I did not like to be swallowed -up in Hearst. Besides, to edit a daily paper necessitated my residence in -New York, whereas my interests, as well as local attachments, were too -great to make the removal one to which I could readily gain my own -consent.</p> - -<p>While in this uncertain state of mind, Colonel Mann burst in upon -me, at my hotel, in all the glory and pomposity of white whiskers, white -hair, wine-colored face, spotted waistcoat, gold-headed cane, baywindow -belly, eyes that looked like hard boiled eggs, and a voice thick with high-living -and constant use.</p> - -<p>As I may have remarked before, he looked just like a picture taken -out of a child’s colored picture book.</p> - -<p>While he talked to me, I sat there trying to make up my mind as -to which he resembled most, an idealized portrayal of Santa Claus, or of -John Bull, or of John Barlycorn. I finally decided that he would do for -a composite photograph of all three.</p> - -<p>This funny looking old chap I had never heard of before. His Town -Topics I had never seen—didn’t know of its existence.</p> - -<p>He introduced the purpose of his visit by saying that he had heard -of Mr. Hearst’s proposition to me. If I had committed myself to Mr. -Hearst, he had no more to say; otherwise he had a proposition to submit. -Told that I was free, he outlined his project.</p> - -<p>He would finance a great national magazine, if I would edit the same.</p> - -<p>Casually and lightly, he mentioned $100,000 as the amount he would -risk on the venture.</p> - -<p>With that amount he had made <i>Smart Set</i> “go,” and he did not -doubt that a like amount would make another magazine “go.”</p> - -<p>Everything must be in my name—corporation, magazine, signboard, -tail-piece and all. Not being particularly ashamed of my name, I had -no objection to this.</p> - -<p>Inasmuch as I belonged to a political party which had just demonstrated -to its own satisfaction that it was the most unpopular political -conglomeration on the face of the earth, I imagined that such a fine -looking old personage as Col. Mann—calling himself a Democrat—was -afraid he would deface his own reputation by associating with a political<span class="pagenum" id="Page8">[8]</span> -outcast, like me, and that, therefore, while willing to pocket all the money -the magazine might earn, he didn’t want his name to appear.</p> - -<p>Considerate old buck, he wouldn’t hurt my feelings by using the -plebeian word “salary.” The word “compensation” was likewise too -vulgar to be applied to my monthly and yearly stipend. With a rich -roll in his deep bass voice, he mentioned the “<i>honorarium</i>” which I was -to receive for my work. My “<i>honorarium</i>” was to be $500 per month. -Besides, my traveling expenses to and from New York were to be paid.</p> - -<p>He emphasized the fact that, under his proposition, I would not have -to live in New York. A monthly visit was contemplated, but never made -compulsory, save upon the summons of the Board of Directors.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/illo008.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="600" height="513" /> -<p class="caption">EVEN IF THEY COULD BEND THE BOW, THEY HAVE NOT THE ARROWS.</p> -</div> - -<p>For several reasons, Col. Mann’s proposition impressed me favorably. -First, it preserved my identity. Second, it left me free to say just what -I pleased. Third, it did not take me away from my home—to which I am -tenderly attached. My ancestors helped to clear the primeval forest off<span class="pagenum" id="Page9">[9]</span> -these old red hills of Georgia, and I love them, as I could love no other -land under the sun.</p> - -<p>For these several reasons, I practically decided, then and there, to -accept Col. Mann’s proposition. He saw this—being a shrewd old fellow—and -did his utmost to get me to his office, in order that the contract -might be drawn up and signed before I left New York.</p> - -<p>But I was not <i>quite</i> so much of a greenhorn as all that. I refused to -close the deal, then, but asked him to send his proposition, in writing, -to me in Georgia.</p> - -<p>Returning home, I fell sick. Overwork, mental strain, sleeplessness, -worry, etc., stretched me out. Unable to return to New York after Col. -Mann had mailed me the proposed contract, I decided to place myself -in the hands of a friend.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Dr. John H. Girdner, a native of Greenville, Tenn., had been one -of my most prominent and active supporters in New York during the -campaign of 1904. Previously he had been widely known as the political -lieutenant and confidential friend of Mr. Bryan. Previous to that, he was -well known as the family physician and political follower of Mr. -Cleveland.</p> - -<p>Having long been a resident of New York, Dr. Girdner seemed to -me the ideal man to represent me in the negotiations with Col. Mann.</p> - -<p>The Doctor accepted the trust, and finally sent me the contract for -signature. Some alterations in it had been made. One of these, and -the most important, was the creation of the office of Associate Editor, -at a salary of “<i>not exceeding</i>” $4,000 per year. This office was to be -personal to me. That is, I could make and unmake Associate Editors at -will, <i>provided</i> Col. Mann did not have to pay them <i>more</i> than $4,000 -per year.</p> - -<p>In communicating this feature of the contract to me, Dr. Girdner -signified his willingness to fill that position. It gave me great pleasure to -appoint him. Nothing was ever said by the Doctor or myself concerning -the amount that he was to receive, but he assumed, quite correctly, that it -would be proper for him to draw the full $4,000, and he began to do so.</p> - -<p>Not once did Dr. Girdner intimate to me that a business connection -with Col. Mann would disgrace me. How could I suppose that such a -connection was undesirable when Dr. Girdner himself was willing to -make it? I am sure that the Doctor did not know what all the world -now knows.</p> - -<p>It cost the Colliers $75,000 and months of hard work, to gather up -the evidence which proved what kind of a person Col. Mann is. How -could Dr. Girdner know, <span class="smcapall">IN</span> 1904, those facts which it cost Collier $75,000 -to prove <span class="smcapall">IN</span> 1905? The Doctor knew no more about it than I did—or he -would have warned me to keep out, and would have kept out himself.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page10">[10]</span></p> - -<p>When I went to New York in the mid-winter of 1904-5 to organize -the Company, Col. Mann opened another leaf in his book.</p> - -<p>He presented a paper containing stock subscriptions to his Syndicate, -and asked me to “come in.” I was fool enough to sign for $2,500.</p> - -<p>Had the old scamp not over-reached himself, he would have got me -for $2,500, <i>besides the $9,000 hereinafter mentioned</i>. But he <i>did overreach</i> -himself. He had his man, Daniels, to present <i>another paper</i> for -me to sign. It was the lease of the house we were to occupy, 121 West -42nd Street. The amount was $1,200.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Then</span>, I smelt the rat. I not only refused to sign the -lease, but, acting under a natural revulsion of feeling, I cancelled -my subscription to the Syndicate. Had Col. Mann said a single word -against my doing so, <i>I would have cancelled the whole contract</i>—for the -suspicion had then crept into my mind that he was—what I now know -him to be—<span class="smcapall">A GRAND OLD RASCAL</span>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Why, then, did I go on with the Magazine?</p> - -<p>Because I was fastened. Because I had publicly pledged my word. -Because the contract gave me complete control of the Magazine, therefore -Col. Mann could not hurt it. Me he <i>could</i> hurt; me he <i>did</i> hurt, but -the <span class="smcap">Magazine was, is now, and ever shall be, above and beyond his -reach</span>. Thank God!</p> - -<p>The soul of the Magazine was the breath of life which Jehovah -breathed into <i>me</i>; and Col. Mann can no more defile it by his touch than -he can defile me.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>I commenced working industriously for the Magazine in December -1904. Hundreds of letters were mailed from my house every month. -Hundreds of subscribers enrolled themselves and paid their money in -advance of the publication. I paid my own assistants, paid the postage, -worked for nothing. <i>It wasn’t the money that I was after.</i> Col. Mann -saw that, <i>and took every advantage of it</i>.</p> - -<p>Not a cent of the small sum that was paid me came out of <i>his</i> pocket. -I am glad to be able to say so.</p> - -<p>But while money-making was not my purpose, I could not contemplate -with any satisfaction the prospect of <i>never</i> being able to get -anything for my labor. The Magazine was bearing upon me heavily. -The contract only asked 3,000 words per month of me. After the first -few numbers, my task was never less than about 20,000 words</p> - -<p>All this work I did with my own hand. Mr. Duffy, the Managing -Editor, had a stenographer. Mr. Flaacke, Advertising Manager, had a -stenographer; Mr. DeFrance, Business Manager, had a stenographer. I -am not sure about Mr. Hoffman and the office boy, Robert, but I guess<span class="pagenum" id="Page11">[11]</span> -they had one too. <i>The Editor-in-Chief was the only member of the staff -who had to do his own work.</i></p> - -<p>Finally, the toil became so irksome—especially during the Georgia -campaign of 1906, when Everybody and his Uncle and his Aunt were -jumping on me—that <i>I begged DeFrance to allow me six dollars per week -for a stenographer</i>. He did so for several weeks and then quit. In ceasing -to help me to this pitiful extent, he gave me neither excuse nor explanation.</p> - -<p>He himself was all the while drawing his $60 per week, for dictating -to a fifteen-dollar-per-week stenographer.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” alleges that I usurped authority, and began to discharge -employes as though the Magazine were my personal property.</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” says that, unfortunately, I was allowed to have my -way in a great many business matters.</p> - -<p>The new Editors, Mann and DeFrance, give <i>no specifications</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">I will give some.</span></p> - -<p>Into <i>the very first number of the Magazine</i>, Col. Mann inserted a full -page <i>advertisement of some of his nasty</i> “<span class="smcap">Smart Set</span>” <i>books</i>. When I -saw that advertisement, which <i>had been slipped into the magazine without -my knowledge</i>, Ted Flaacke, Advertising Manager, was summoned to -my room, and <i>told that there wasn’t money enough in New York to buy -space in my Magazine for prurient literature of that sort</i>.</p> - -<p>I peremptorily demanded that the filthy thing be kept out, and <i>it -was kept out</i>. It is due Mr. Flaacke to say, that <i>he, himself, had known -nothing of the ad. until the magazine was out</i>.</p> - -<p>This was the beginning of Col. Mann’s displeasure. He realized -that he could <i>never make a tool of me</i>—as he is now making of DeFrance.</p> - -<p>The <i>Titles</i> of some of those books are as follows:</p> - -<p>“An Eclipse of Virtue,”</p> - -<p>“Margaret’s Misadventure,”</p> - -<p>“Naughty Elizabeth,”</p> - -<p>“Sweet Sin,”</p> - -<p>“The Ashes of Desire,”</p> - -<p>“An Unspeakable Siren,” etc., etc.</p> - -<p>Now, it may be that these books are not so bad as their names would -indicate—I have never read them—<i>but Col. Mann meant</i> by these titles, -<i>to cater to the diseased taste for erotic literature</i>. Hence <span class="smcapall">HE SLIPPED THE -AD. IN</span>, without notice to me or to Ted Flaacke. <span class="smcap">That ad., in our very -first number, hurt the magazine seriously.</span> I felt that Col. Mann had -no right to degrade the Magazine by making it a distributor of vile books, -hence my positive instructions to Mr. Flaacke. In justice to this gentleman, -I should say that he agreed with me fully.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page12">[12]</span></p> - -<p>Again: Col. Mann placed the Business Management in the hands -of a young coal-dealer who knew nothing whatever about Circulation -Management, nor about Business Management of that kind. He was a -most amiable young gentleman and perfectly honest. I liked him personally, -very much. But, unfortunately, he was addicted to the use of -intoxicating liquors—even during business hours—and frequently -attempted to perform the duties when too much inebriated to do so. Dr. -Girdner first called my attention to this, and then DeFrance. Our -business affairs soon suffered so much from the young man’s infirmity, -that both Dr. Girdner and DeFrance suggested that we make a change. -I took the matter up with Col. Mann, <i>who had himself began to find fault -with the young man</i>, and the result was that he was requested to resign.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/illo012.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="600" height="574" /> -<p class="caption">CROCKETT MANN AND THE SOCIETY COONS.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page13">[13]</span></p> - -<p>DeFrance had wanted the young man’s place, and he got it, <i>with -an increase of salary</i>. It was at my instance that DeFrance was thus -advanced.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Every change made by me was made in the interest of economy, and -resulted in benefit.</p> - -<p>I wanted to make other changes, for the same reason.</p> - -<p>We paid Mr. Flaacke in salary and expense account, about $5,000 -per year, and never got advertising enough to pay the bill. I wanted -to stop that nonsense, and to put Mr. Flaacke on the commission basis.</p> - -<p><i>I shouldn’t wonder if Col. Mann has, himself, now made that very -change.</i></p> - -<p>The Managing Editor was getting $50 per week for doing work -which his assistant, Mr. Hoffman, could, as I thought, do as well. I -wanted to put the work on Mr. Hoffman, and save the larger salary.</p> - -<p><i>I note with interest that Col. Mann has, himself, made that very -change.</i></p> - -<p>Thus <span class="smcapall">THEY, THEMSELVES, VINDICATE ME</span>, unintentionally, from the -accusations they make.</p> - -<p><i>Col. Mann approved every change I made while I was in charge, and -he now makes the other changes for which I contended.</i></p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>When Edgerton went out, it had been demonstrated that the Magazine -was not going to “boom” as Colonel Mann had expected, and that -<i>economy</i> would be the law of its life.</p> - -<p>Seeing that two offices could be combined, at a saving of $45 per -week, I made the change, <i>after full consultation with Col. Mann at Col. -Mann’s house</i>.</p> - -<p>As to Dr. Girdner, Col. Mann had kicked at that from the beginning.</p> - -<p>From what others told me, I know that Col. Mann vigorously objected -to Dr. Girdner as Associate Editor.</p> - -<p>I know that from time to time Col. Mann would inquire, “<i>Does -Watson still want that fellow Girdner?</i>” I myself heard Col. Mann -find fault with the Doctor for putting two signed articles in one number -of the Magazine.</p> - -<p>And <span class="smcap">I myself heard Col. Mann say</span>, to me and others, in his own -office, “<i>I don’t believe Dr. Girdner could ever write a good article.</i>”</p> - -<p>When Col. Mann asked me whether Dr. Girdner were <span class="smcapall">INDISPENSABLE -TO ME</span>, I frankly and truthfully said that he was not. <span class="smcap">The Colonel -wanted to stop that salary.</span> The Doctor was not willing to let his -“<i>honorarium</i>” accumulate on the books. Like a sensible man, he was -insisting upon drawing what was due him.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page14">[14]</span></p> - -<p>This was <span class="smcap">hurting Col. Mann</span>. Hurting him very much. Therefore, -<span class="smcap">after first ascertaining that I would remain in office</span>, he put Girdner -out, himself. As between an Editor who cashed in his “<i>honorarium</i>,” -and one that allowed <i>his</i> to accumulate on the books, who could doubt -which the Colonel would prefer?</p> - -<p>It was I who <span class="smcap">insisted that Colonel Mann pay Dr. Girdner a sum -which the Doctor naturally claimed as compensation for breach of -contract</span>.</p> - -<p>Dr. Girdner himself should know best why he quit us, and the Doctor -has written me a letter in which he says,</p> - -<div class="girdnerletter"> - -<p>“I resigned the position of associate editor because my salary had -not been paid for several months, and from the methods of the company -and the report of its treasurer I did not think it was likely to be paid -in future. -<span class="righttext"><span class="padr10">Very truly yours,</span><br /> -<span class="padl6">JOHN H. GIRDNER.”</span></span></p> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--girdnerletter--> - - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” has much to say about my son.</p> - -<p>The facts are these:</p> - -<p>My son had been under Dr. Girdner’s professional treatment. He -soon began to show a marked improvement, and I realized the helpfulness -to my boy of <i>giving him something to do</i>. He was naturally eager to -work with his father. I, therefore, went to the Business Manager and -sought work for my son, just as I would have done for a stranger.</p> - -<p>I said, both to Mr. Green and Col. Mann, “I don’t know <i>how</i> he will -do, or <i>what</i> he will be worth, but please <i>give him a trial</i>. If he makes -good, pay him what the work is worth. If he does not make good, I will -not expect you to keep him, and you can charge his salary up to me during -the time he will have been here.”</p> - -<p>That’s exactly the way it was. My son commenced work, and when -I next went to New York all of them told me—and were apparently -delighted to tell me—that he had made good.</p> - -<p>From Dr. Girdner down, they all spoke affectionately of him, and -declared that he was one of the steadiest, quietest employes at the office.</p> - -<p>As his strength returned, his usefulness increased and I advanced him -to more important and responsible duties than had at first been put upon -him.</p> - -<p>To encourage my boy, and bring out what was best in him, I <i>did</i> -advance him from time to time. <span class="smcap">Who will blame me for wanting to -make a man out of my only son?</span></p> - -<p>It was my most earnest desire to train my son in journalism, so that -he could take my place when I should have served out my time and -passed away:—to that purpose I <i>still</i> cling with a resolution that nothing -can break.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page15">[15]</span></p> - -<p>At the time DeFrance and Col. Mann kicked him out, he was doing -the “News Record” and “The Say of Other Editors.” He was doing it -well, as the Magazine will show for itself.</p> - -<p>He was being paid $40 per week. This was $10 per week <i>less</i> than -Edgerton had received for the same work.</p> - -<p>When I gave my son the place, another position which he had filled -acceptably to the Business Manager, at $15 per week, was abolished. -<i>Thus, even at the highest salary ever paid my son, he saved the Company -$25 per week.</i></p> - -<p>I am accused of having mistreated Mr. Edgerton. The facts are -these: <i>he was already working in New York</i> when he applied to me for a -job on the Magazine. I personally requested Col. Mann to take him on. -After much hesitation and seeming reluctance, Col. Mann consented. -When reductions of expenses became necessary, Mr. Edgerton’s <i>weekly -salary</i> was reduced to $40. He told me that he would hold the job <i>until -he could get another</i>. I did not think he could render us very good service -<i>in that state of mind</i>, and I therefore relieved him of duty. <i>He had -already made $1,200 out of the job</i>—probably <span class="smcapall">THE EASIEST MONEY THAT -HE HAD EVER EARNED</span>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” says that at a meeting of the Board of Directors in -November 1905, I agreed to contribute $5,000 to a fund of $25,000, and -then broke my word.</p> - -<p>The facts are these:</p> - -<p>After repeated efforts to get some satisfaction out of Col. Mann, I -was drawn to New York in November 1905 by a most positive written -promise of his to settle with me if I would come to see him.</p> - -<p>I went.</p> - -<p>At Col. Mann’s house on 72nd Street, there was a gathering -of the leading stockholders and leading employes. As each reported for -his own department the employes were excused, and they went away. -Mr. Flaacke spoke his piece and departed. Mr. Duffy, ditto. Finally -the assemblage dwindled down to just me and the Colonel.</p> - -<p>But, <i>before this</i>, Col. Mann had suggested that we raise some money, -and asked me <span class="smcapall">IF I DID NOT HAVE SOME FRIENDS THAT I COULD PREVAIL ON TO -“COME IN.”</span> The suggestion was put out of business immediately. I -was in the trap all right enough, and I <span class="smcapall">DIDN’T INTEND TO BE USED AS A -BAIT</span>. Then he asked if I would not continue to work for the Magazine -without pay to the amount of $5,000.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">I answered, “Yes.”</span></p> - -<p>In that very connection, however, he had stated, again, his intention -to pay me the amount already due, and which he had promised to pay -if I would come to New York.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page16">[16]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/illo016.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="600" height="319" /> -<p class="largeillo"><a href="images/illo016lg.jpg">Larger cartoon</a></p> -<p class="caption">THE TOWN TOPICS DEN INTO WHICH COL. MANN HAS MOVED THE BOGUS WATSON’S MAGAZINE.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page17">[17]</span></p> - -<p>But to my amazement he had stated it this way:</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">I will pay it, but not now.</span>”</p> - -<p>Every one who was present must remember these words.</p> - -<p>I said nothing at all in reply, but after all the others had retired, -<i>I remained behind and I reminded the Colonel courteously, of his pledge</i> -to pay me when I came to New York. I asked that he pay me at least -<span class="smcapall">HALF THE AMOUNT DUE</span>.</p> - -<p>He hung his head, for an instant only, and then, raising a -flushed face, told me he would see what he could do, and give me a reply -next day.</p> - -<p>He complained of the heavy expense of his recent litigation, alluding -of course to the celebrated Collier-Hapgood Libel Case and the subsequent -prosecution of himself for perjury.</p> - -<p>Next day he wrote me a long, sweet, persuasive letter begging me to -<span class="smcap">wait on him until July, 1906</span>, at which time he would most assuredly -pay. It was <i>then</i> that I did what I should have done at first—consulted -a New York lawyer.</p> - -<p>Mr. Palliser advised me to make an end of the matter <i>then</i>, and I -should have taken his advice; but I loved my work and my Magazine, and -at the last moment I yielded and let Col. Mann have his own way.</p> - -<p>From motives that he is unable to understand or appreciate, <span class="smcap">I would -have continued the unpaid slave of the Magazine, indefinitely, had -not he and DeFrance made the situation intolerable</span>. I felt my -obligations to the subscribers: my pride in the success of the Magazine -which bore my name was deeply involved. This was well known both to -Col. Mann and DeFrance, <i>and they presumed, upon it—once too often</i>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>It may be asked why I did not cut loose from <span class="smcap">the Town Topics gang</span> -<i>after</i> the exposures in the Collier-Hapgood Case. Simply because Col. -Mann had nothing on earth to do with what I regarded as the Magazine, -to wit—its policy, its purpose, its message. <i>That</i> was the life of the -Magazine. <span class="smcap">That</span>, in my eyes, <span class="smcap">was the Magazine</span>.</p> - -<p>I did not want to leave the subscribers in the lurch, nor did I want -to abandon a field of labor in which I seemed to be doing a good work.</p> - -<p>Every man who has a purpose in life and who loves his work, will -understand me.</p> - -<p>Therefore, when Clark Howell and others jumped on me for being -connected with a person who was being denounced throughout the land -as a blackmailer, I put the case on the strongest ground by saying, “<span class="smcap">I -am the Magazine.</span>” That was true. DeFrance and Mann <i>were glad -enough to have me check defection</i> from the Magazine by saying it <span class="smcapall">THEN</span>.</p> - -<p>In a very short while <i>they will</i> <span class="smcapall">WISH THAT THEY HAD ANOTHER -METHOD, EQUALLY GOOD, OF CHECKING DEFECTION</span>. The subscribers to<span class="pagenum" id="Page18">[18]</span> -the magazine that was mine are not going to endorse what Col. Mann has -done, nor remain with a magazine which <span class="smcapall">HE</span> controls—<i>never in the world</i>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>If Colonel Mann had not lost his senses, in his haste to grab the -Magazine, name and all, he would have foreseen <i>the utter folly of trying -to run the thing in my name</i> <span class="smcap">after I had gone out</span>. A <i>new</i> Magazine, -under a <i>new</i> name, he could establish at <span class="smcap">less expense than he will -incur in the vain effort to maintain a Watson’s Magazine without -Watson</span>. A child ought to be able to see that. What possible good will -<i>my name</i> be to him when he himself publishes the statement that <i>I</i> am -out?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The name without the man will be a dead weight to the Magazine</span>, -as Col. Mann has, doubtless, begun to find out.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/illo018.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="600" height="503" /> -<p class="caption">THEY HAVE A CORPSE ON THEIR HANDS; THE SPIRIT ESCAPED THEIR CLUTCH.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page19">[19]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Honesty</span>, in <span class="smcapall">THIS</span> case at least, should have been his -<span class="smcapall">POLICY</span>. It would -have paid him better in the long run.</p> - -<p>Col. Mann rushed into court, got a judgment against the Magazine -for $60,000; <i>and sold it</i>, at Sheriff’s sale, <i>to himself</i>.</p> - -<p>He actually <i>had the Sheriff to sell my name, and was ass enough to -buy it</i>.</p> - -<p>But he didn’t buy <i>me</i>, along with the name, and he didn’t buy <i>the -spirit of the Magazine</i> when he bought the desks, the iron-safe and the -trade name.</p> - -<p>The most valuable asset, he could not, and <i>cannot</i> reach.</p> - -<p>That’s the Good Will, the Reputation, the Demand!</p> - -<p>This is the <i>real asset</i>—<span class="smcapall">THE ONLY ASSET WORTH HAVING</span>.</p> - -<p>This asset, in equity and good conscience, <i>belongs to me, by the most -sacred of all titles</i>—<span class="smcapall">THE WORKMAN’S RIGHT TO THE PRODUCT OF HIS LABOR</span>.</p> - -<p>Since it is mine, I mean to have it—in spite of all that Col. Mann -may do.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” will seek in vain to convince any considerable -number of people that I quit the Magazine on a mere question of salary.</p> - -<p><i>That is the very thing that I always subordinated to other and higher -considerations.</i></p> - -<p>In some directions Col. Mann lavished money like a prince; in others, -he doled it out like a miser.</p> - -<p>Thus he squandered $12,000 in advertisements in daily newspapers, -where they were not worth a hill of beans, and <span class="smcapall">REFUSED TO FURNISH MONEY -TO PAY ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY POSTAGE</span> on sample copies.</p> - -<p>He wasted $5,000 trying to run the advertising department on a -fancy schedule, and <span class="smcap">refused to pay the Authors who supplied us with -the necessaries of life</span>. Sometimes the writers who had been so badly -treated had to threaten attachments, before they could get their money; -and upon one occasion <span class="smcap">DeFrance had to sneak out of the office to -avoid an irate Author who had come upon the scene with the Riot -Act in his hand</span>.</p> - -<p>Talk about <i>me</i> as the man who acted as if I wanted to “wreck” my -namesake? What could damage the Magazine more surely and seriously -than such management as <i>this</i>? We got a bad name among <i>writers</i>, -because we took their MSS. and then failed to pay. We got a bad name -among <i>advertisers</i>, because ads were inserted upon almost any terms. -We got a bad name among <i>subscribers</i>, because DeFrance allowed business -letters to go unanswered, and because Wm. Green, the Publisher, dribbled -the mailing of every issue through <span class="smcapall">TWO FULL WEEKS</span>.</p> - -<p>These were the difficulties with which I had to contend. The country -is full of people who wanted to patronize us and befriend us and help<span class="pagenum" id="Page20">[20]</span> -us, but who became so disgusted at not getting their magazines, and not -getting answers to their letters, that they simply quit us in despair.</p> - -<p><i>Would DeFrance like to see a list of their names?</i></p> - -<p>I can furnish him with a good long one.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>On one occasion Col. Mann was eager to have me send a cablegram, -through our State Department, to our Minister at St. Petersburg, offering -a thousand dollars to Maxim Gorky—then in prison—for an article for -the Magazine.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">That very week I had to take the money out of my pocket to -pay the girls who worked in the office.</span></p> - -<p>Upon another occasion, he ordered the sale, <span class="smcapall">AS JUNK</span>, of 60,000 copies -of the Magazine <span class="smcapall">WHICH HAD ALREADY BEEN WRAPPED AND ADDRESSED AND -MADE READY FOR MAILING AS SAMPLE COPIES</span>. They were <span class="smcapall">SOLD AS WASTE -PAPER BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO FURNISH MONEY TO PAY POSTAGE</span>.</p> - -<p>Colonel Mann’s business was the publishing of magazines. Naturally, -I assumed that <i>he was an expert at that business</i>. It never -occurred to me that I could be of any service in the business management -until his absurd mistakes forced themselves upon my attention.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The Collier trial seemed to establish the fact that his way of -making money out of his other magazines was the systematic blackmailing -of Society swells and Wall Street thieves.</span></p> - -<p>When he stands his trial for Perjury in the case now pending, the -world will doubtless learn other peculiarities which characterize his -management of magazines.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>I wanted the Magazine to be a success, and I knew that it could <i>not</i> -succeed as then managed. Hence, my offer to continue, indefinitely, to -work without compensation provided I were allowed to make those -changes which I knew to be absolutely essential to final success.</p> - -<p>To this effect I wrote to the Managing Editor, and to DeFrance. No -reply was made by the management.</p> - -<p>Then I overcame my repugnance to Col. Mann, and wrote <i>him</i>—telling -him what ailed the Magazine, how it could be put on its feet and -offering to make a success, of it—without salary in the meanwhile—if he -would let me do it.</p> - -<p>To my original conditions, however, I added another, namely, <span class="smcap">that -DeFrance must go</span>. After the way in which he had acted, and after -the two insulting letters which he had written me, it was no longer -possible for us to work together.</p> - -<p>Col. Mann did not answer my letter at all.</p> - -<p>He had <i>DeFrance</i> to telegraph me <i>a request</i> that I send the Editorials, -and <i>a promise</i> that they would treat me right.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page21">[21]</span></p> - -<p>By having DeFrance send the message, I knew that he meant to keep -DeFrance—and that let me out.</p> - -<p>DeFrance had already notified me that half of my magazine belonged -to <i>him</i>, and half to Col. Mann, and there was no arrangement that could -be made on that basis.</p> - -<p>Besides, Col. Mann, after my letter was written and before its receipt, -by him, had rushed into the New York <i>World</i> with an interview which -libelled me basely and cruelly.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Let me say, in justice to a most estimable gentleman, that I had no -quarrel with Mr. Richard Duffy. He is peculiarly well fitted to make a -first-class editor of a literary magazine. His standards are high and his -judgment sound. He was not, however, particularly suited to a political -magazine—never having devoted any special study to Political Economy -and Governmental questions. In my contemplated change in the Editorial -Staff, I was not actuated by any dislike of Mr. Duffy. My motive was -simply that of the mariner who sacrifices a portion of his cargo to save -his ship.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” makes as much as possible out of the weekly cheque -of $125, sent to me “during the busy part of the subscription season.”</p> - -<p>Yes, they sent me cheques to the amount of one thousand dollars, -at a time when <i>subscriptions were pouring in at the rate of two and three -thousand per week</i>.</p> - -<p>But “<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” does not state the fact that <span class="smcap">nine thousand -dollars represents the amount of unpaid honest, hard work done by -me on the Magazine</span> and that Col. Mann told the newspaper reporters, -brazenly, that <span class="smcapall">HE NEVER INTENDED TO PAY A RED CENT OF IT</span>.</p> - -<p><i>Perhaps</i>, the sum-total paid me during the two years <i>would cover my -actual expense-account in working for the Magazine</i>. It certainly would -not do more than that.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Explanatory</span>” dwells upon my ceasing to visit New York, once a -month.</p> - -<p>Drawing no salary, paying my own traveling expenses, and being -made more or less ill by each of these long trips, I discontinued them. -Editorials for a monthly magazine can be written down here in Georgia -just about as well as in New York, and postage stamps cost less than -railroad tickets.</p> - -<p>Everything that I was allowed to do for the Magazine could be -done just as well by mail as by personal presence.</p> - -<p>As to refusing to make a final trip to seek “an amicable adjustment,” -I wrote to DeFrance that the proposition referred to already <span class="smcapall">WAS MY<span class="pagenum" id="Page22">[22]</span> -LAST WORD</span>, and that there was no use in my coming to New York to say -it again. Col. Mann could accept or reject—I was not going there to -listen to any more of his coaxing, bluffing and lies.</p> - -<p>Besides, to tell the whole truth, I was not sorry that <span class="smcap">the time had -come when I could cut loose from this fat rascal</span>. <i>After</i> I had -worked on and on; <i>after</i> he had broken promise upon promise; <i>after</i> he -had sued the Magazine for $60,000 and got an execution against it; <i>after</i> -he had shown that he wanted me to continue indefinitely to do ten times -as much work as the contract called for, and to <i>never have any share in -the reward that might be reaped from my labors</i>; <i>after</i> he had broken -the contract by dismissing my son from a position which was my personal -appointment; <i>after</i> he had rushed into the newspapers and confirmed my -suspicion of his villainous purpose by revealing his utter and shameless -disregard for his contracts, <span class="smcapall">THEN</span> my conscience and my judgment concurred -in the decision to cut loose from the New York concern and <span class="smcapall">START -A MAGAZINE OF MY OWN</span>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Not a second thought have I given to the loss of the $9,000. But -<span class="smcapall">THAT</span> wasn’t all. Col. Mann assailed me. The odium of a catastrophe -which was the result of his own folly, faithlessness and lack of honor, -he tried to cast upon me. In his efforts to escape universal contempt, he -lied like a bulletin.</p> - -<p>Betrayed by one whom I selected as my personal representative in -the office and whom I advanced from Circulation Clerk to Business -Manager; accused of a mismanagement which I endeavored in vain to -correct; held up to public criticism for mistreatment of employes when -I had never uttered an unkind word to a single one of them, high or low, -during the whole time of my service, and when I had never made a change -in the force that was not sanctioned in advance, by Colonel Mann himself, -I now feel that burning sense of the injustice and outrage which any -other man of spirit would feel under the same circumstances.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>With an effrontery which nothing could surpass, the two men who -have seized my magazine on the half and half plan <i>are mailing out a -circular letter begging Reformers to take shares in the stock of the new -Company</i>.</p> - -<p>This circular carries Deception on its very face. It purports to hail -from “<i>2 West 40th Street</i>.”</p> - -<p>What is “2 West 40th Street”?</p> - -<p>Why, <span class="smcap">it is the side-door to the notorious Town Topics den into -which DeFrance and Col. Mann have dragged the corpse of</span> “<span class="smcap">Watson’s -Magazine</span>.”</p> - -<p>The <span class="smcapall">FRONT</span> of Col. Mann’s trap is on <span class="smcap">Fifth Avenue</span>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page23">[23]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w450"> -<img src="images/illo023.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="450" height="589" /> -<p class="caption">ARCADES AMBO!</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page24">[24]</span></p> - -<p>Now DeFrance and Mann <i>knew very well that there wasn’t a decent -man in America who would knowingly send a dollar to buy stock of Col. -Mann at the Town Topics address</i>. Hence in their efforts to lure pigeons -into the net, they use <i>the side-door address which no one who is not -familiar with the building would ever know to be the same building</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Oh, the shame of it, DeFrance!</span> And <span class="smcapall">YOU</span> were the man whom I -selected <span class="smcapall">AS MY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE OFFICE</span>, and who <span class="smcap">telegraphed -me to Fort Lauderdale last winter urging me to resist -Col. Mann’s removal of the Magazine to the Town Topics building</span>!</p> - -<p>With pathetic insistence, they are sending out this circular letter -from this Town Topics Side-Entrance addressed,</p> - -<p>“<i>Dear Friend.</i>”</p> - -<p>I wonder how many dear friends Col. Mann imagines himself to -possess.</p> - -<p><i>I wonder how many of DeFrance’s dear friends will follow him into</i> -<span class="smcap">that Mann-hole</span>.</p> - -<p>The letter makes the modest request that a few thousand ardent -admirers of DeFrance buy stock in the Side-Door concern at $10 per share.</p> - -<p>DeFrance tearfully ejaculates, “<i>I don’t ask you to donate the Money. -Far from it.</i>”</p> - -<p><i>How</i> far from it, he doesn’t say. <i>The confiding individual who bites -at that bait, and pours ten dollars into that Mann-hole will see a good -deal of ice in August before he will ever see his money again.</i></p> - -<p>Think of the impudent falsehood of the assertion made in this circular -letter:</p> - -<p>“The magazine, while not yet profitable, has nearly reached that -point.” Therefore, send your money to the Side-Door concern right -away. Yet, in the next breath, he claims that Col. Mann lost $180,000 in -less than two years on the Magazine.</p> - -<p>To cap the climax of his wrong-doing, DeFrance actually signs the -Begging Letter as <i>Secretary of the People’s Party National Committee</i>.</p> - -<p>By what right?</p> - -<p>Under whose authority does he act <i>when he thus prostitutes that -office to the service of Col. W. D. Mann</i>?</p> - -<p>What will our National Committee think of it when they <i>behold their -Secretary standing at the Side Door of the Town Topics building and -hear him calling for Populists to walk up and enter the Mann-hole, to the -tune of</i> “<span class="smcap">Ten Dollars admission fee, please</span>”?</p> - -<p>DeFrance has now stooped <i>to do the very thing that Col. Mann tried -vainly to get me to do</i>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>I wonder if those New York rascals really thought that I would -quietly sit down and twiddle my thumbs while they were making off -with “Watson’s Magazine”? I wonder if it never entered into those<span class="pagenum" id="Page25">[25]</span> -heads, which were bent together to plot and to scheme, that the consequence -of their pretty little game <span class="smcapall">MIGHT</span> be a Revolt of Watson and <span class="smcapall">HIS -FRIENDS</span>.</p> - -<p>Unless I am greatly mistaken, <i>the subscribers</i> to “Watson’s Magazine” -<i>are Mr. Watson’s friends</i>, and <span class="smcapall">THEY ARE GOING TO STAND BY HIM</span>. -We shall see.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>After all, why worry over it? Life is too short to waste many of its -precious hours upon such a theme. Looked at in one way, those who -thought to crush me have done me a service.</p> - -<p>They have put into me, once more, that intensity of energy and -purpose which, otherwise, might never have been mine again. What the -spur is to the thoroughbred, what the bugle-call is to the cavalier, the -recent attempts of my enemies to compass my ruin has been to me.</p> - -<p>By the living God! <span class="smcap">Here</span> is no thought of surrender, no weakness -of doubt or hesitation, but a resolution, fixed as hardened steel, to -<span class="smcapall">MARCH ON</span>.</p> - -<p>What! Be a quitter <span class="smcapall">NOW</span>? Falter or flicker <span class="smcapall">NOW</span>? Lower the flag -and stack arms, <span class="smcapall">NOW</span>?</p> - -<p>Rather, would I die.</p> - -<p>The ear of the world is at last inclined to us, and the heart of -mankind is at length being touched by our message.</p> - -<p>The long march of the despised Reformer is nearing its end. His -final triumph no sane observer, no watchman upon the tower, can longer -doubt.</p> - -<p>Halt <span class="smcapall">NOW</span>? Never in the world.</p> - -<p>Desert <span class="smcapall">NOW</span>? Heaven forbid!</p> - -<p>Why, for fifteen years we have walked amid the shadows of social -and political ostracism, never swerving an inch from the rocky road of -Duty—do they think we shall walk less firmly <i>now</i>, when the sunlight is -falling upon the path?</p> - -<p>Times have changed. Men have changed. The principles for -which we fought have <i>not</i> changed. <span class="smcap">They have conquered.</span></p> - -<p>The strong man and shrewd politician at the White House laid -his attentive ear to the ground, quite a while ago, and heard distant -rumblings that taught him useful lessons.</p> - -<p>The strong man and shrewd politician at Fair View, Nebraska, has -had his attentive ear to the ground and he, likewise, has learned his lesson.</p> - -<p>The next time Mr. Watson of Georgia goes to Nebraska for the -purpose of helping Mr. Bryan to carry his home State for Reform, I -venture the prediction that Mr. Bryan will not leave Nebraska to avoid -contact with Mr. Watson—as he did in 1896.</p> - -<p>The battle-flag of a great people, inspired by a resistless purpose -to assert the right of <span class="smcapall">THE INDIVIDUAL</span> to wrest the government -of the<span class="pagenum" id="Page26">[26]</span> -country out of the hands of the <span class="smcapall">MONSTER CORPORATION</span> will, beyond all -possible doubt, be inscribed with those mottoes which for fifteen years -have been our watchwords in the fight and our solace in defeat.</p> - -<p>Courage, Comrades—<span class="smcap">Courage</span>! And <span class="smcap">Forward March</span>!</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>On this mellow, radiant, opulent day of Indian Summer—when the -golden hours step quietly by, leading November into the dim realms -which we call the Past—I write these lines; and, having done so, cast -behind me that ugly dream, my New York experience.</p> - -<p>Betrayed, <i>I will trust again</i>, <span class="smcapall">AND GO ON</span>. Better ten thousand treacheries -<i>than loss of faith</i> in my fellow man. Repulsed, I will rally, re-form, -and <span class="smcapall">CHARGE AGAIN</span>. Better a hundred defeats than one capitulation.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>In March 1898, the Populists nominated me for Governor of Georgia. -In declining to make the race, my decision was controlled by the fact -that our organization had been wrecked by the Traitors who controlled -our National Committee, that I myself was exhausted—mentally, physically, -financially—and that Populism must henceforth do its work as <span class="smcapall">A -LEAVEN TO THE LOAF</span>.</p> - -<p>The fatal Fusion of 1896 had done our organization deadly damage, -and the Spanish War finished us.</p> - -<p>The blare of the bugle drowned the voice of the Reformer. With -the Cannon-boom shaking the world, men had no ear for Political economy—or -economy of any other sort.</p> - -<p>Roosevelt rushed into war paint, and leaped into fame.</p> - -<p>Bryan stuck a feather in his cap, and vowed that he, too, would -become a soldier in spite of those vile guns.</p> - -<p>Hearst, also, went as close to the enemy as McKinley would let him.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">How could I talk economics with any prospect of success at -such a time?</span></p> - -<p>Loathing the war, foreseeing many of the evil consequences that it -has brought upon us, I quit the active agitation of Populism, and shut -myself up in my library to write books. <i>But if any soldier of the Southern -Confederacy carried away from Appomattox a heavier heart than I -took with me into my enforced retirement</i>, <span class="smcap">it would have been a merciful -dispensation of Providence had the Eternal Sleep taken that -soldier into her cold, white arms</span>.</p> - -<p>What I suffered during those awful years is known to none but the -wife who shared my lot and the God who gave me strength to endure it.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>To continue a hopeless fight with a broken-down organization was -not the part of wisdom. The thing to do was to wait, educate the people,<span class="pagenum" id="Page27">[27]</span> -let events demonstrate that we had been right, and let the Spirit of -Populism enter into and inspire the leaders of other parties.</p> - -<p>I knew that <span class="smcapall">OUR PRINCIPLES</span> would finally triumph—as to <span class="smcapall">THE PARTY</span>, -that was a secondary consideration.</p> - -<p>In taking leave of my comrades in 1898, before quitting the field to -go back into the court-house to earn money to pay pressing debts, here is -what my letter said to them:</p> - -<p>“Let no man believe that I despair of your principles, for I do not. -You stand for the yearning, upward-tendency, of the middle and lower -classes. You stand where the reformer has always stood; for improvement, -for beneficial changes, for recognition of human brotherhood in its -highest sense, for equality before the law, and for an industrial system -which is not based upon the right of the strong to pillage the weak. You -stand as sworn foes of monopoly—not monopoly in the narrow sense of -the word—but monopoly of power, of place, of privilege, of wealth, of -progress.</p> - -<p>“You stand knocking at the closed door of privilege, as the reformer -has ever done, and saying to those within, ‘Open wide the doors! Let all -who are worthy, enter. Let all who deserve, enjoy. Form no conspiracy -against the unborn. Shut out no generations that are to be. God made -it all for all. Put no barrier around the good things of life, around the -high places of church or state. Make no laws which foster inequality. -Establish no Caste. Legalize no robbery under the name of taxes. Give -to no person natural or artificial sovereign powers over his fellow men. -Open, open wide the doors! Keep the avenues of honor free. Close no -entrance to the poorest, the weakest, the humblest. Say to ambition -everywhere, the field is clear, the contest fair, come and win your share -if you can!’</p> - -<p>“Such is Populism. Such is its glorious Gospel. As such, I have -loved it with boundless reverence. As its disciples, I have loved <i>you</i>, -fought for you, toiled for you, <i>never for one moment doubting that you -were right</i>, and that your creed was the same immortal creed which in all -ages has challenged wrong, and defied oppression.”</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Trample the Truth as rudely as you may, even in her death struggle -her voice is heard to say:</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">I will come again.</span>”</p> - -<p>In the darkest hours of the past, when all seemed lost and the weaklings, -the timeservers, the fickle minded and the mercenaries were fleeing -to cover, I used to say, constantly, confidently, “<i>Courage</i>, friends. Be -<i>firm</i>. <span class="smcap">Don’t lose heart.</span> It will all come right.</p> - -<p>“Populism, as a party, may seem to be dead, but the Spirit is immortal. -It cannot die. As sure as God lives,</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">It will come again.</span>”</p> - -<p>And now, after many days, in God’s own time, it <span class="smcapall">HAS</span> come again. -From the bottom of my heart and from yours, come <i>thanks to the Lord -of the Universe who spared our lives to see this day</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page28">[28]</span></p> - -<p>And the purpose to which every energy I possess shall be devoted, -henceforth, is <span class="smcap">to help those whom the people commission to bring -about Reform</span>.</p> - -<p>As to Reward, I seek none, expect none, save that of the <i>Inner -Voice</i> which says,</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Well Done.</span></p> - -<p>With this glance into the Past, necessary to <i>you</i>, as well as to <i>me</i>, let -us turn our backs to it, and face the Future—and let us <span class="smcapall">WORK</span>, as we -never worked before.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w500"> -<img src="images/illo028.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="500" height="517" /> -<p class="caption">“HE CERTAINLY WAS GOOD TO ME.”</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page29">[29]</span></p> - -<h2>Editorials.</h2> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illo029.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="500" height="474" /> -<h3 class="caption">The New Year</h3> -</div> - -<p>Lead us gently, Father Time, as you -take us to the portals of the New Year.</p> - -<p>We know not <i>what may be within</i>; -and our souls are burdened with fear -as we <i>stand here at the door</i>.</p> - -<p>Lost, forever lost, is <i>the Confidence</i> -with which we <i>used</i> to go bounding -into the New Year—as revellers hasten -to the feast.</p> - -<p>We have met the Unforeseen so -often, have mourned where we -thought to rejoice, been trampled upon -amid the horrors of panic and defeat -where we had so stoutly fought for -victory and reward, that <i>our hearts -are sadly subdued</i>, Father Time.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>We did not <span class="smcapall">SEEK</span> this awful life-woe, -Father Time.</p> - -<p><i>Thrust</i>, from some great outer darkness, -into the hurly burly called Life, -we gaze upward at the stars in helpless<span class="pagenum" id="Page30">[30]</span> -ignorance of what it all may -mean; and some Irresistable Force -pushes us, <i>pushes us</i>, swiftly, <i>inexorably</i>, -onward <i>to another outer</i> darkness -that <i>fills us with speechless awe</i>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Have mercy on us, Father Time. -We have been beaten with many -stripes, and are covered with many -wounds.</p> - -<p>God! How we have <i>suffered</i>!</p> - -<p>We knew <i>nothing</i> at the beginning, -and we know but little <i>now</i>; and, <i>for -every lesson that we have learned, we -have been made to pay in heart-aches -and scalding tears</i>.</p> - -<p><i>Always</i> struggling, often <i>down</i>, -always anxious for the Morrow, often -in torture <i>Today</i>, we have stumbled -forward, Father Time, still looking -for the smooth road and the sunny sky -and the bright Companionship of -Success and Peace.</p> - -<p>Shall we <span class="smcapall">NEVER</span> see Carcassonne, -Father Time?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>We shudder when we think of what -you did to us during the Old Year, -Father Time.</p> - -<p>Ah, but you were hard on us—<i>bitter -hard</i>. Our little ones <i>panted for a -breath of fresh air</i>, Father Time; and -they died like flies, in noisome, reeking, -crowded tenements, because there -was not, in all God’s Universe—where -there’s light and air for every -flower that flecks the field—<i>a breath -of fresh air for the little children of -the slums</i>.</p> - -<p>Ah, it was pitiful, Father Time!</p> - -<p>Our feeble ones, young and old, -<i>perished miserably of cold and hunger</i>, -in the midst of a land that worships -the Good God, and amid such an -accumulation of wealth as was never -known before since the Morning stars -looked down upon a newly-made -world.</p> - -<p>Poverty, Crime, Vice, Drunkenness, -Riot, War, Famine, Pestilence, Earthquake, -Conflagration have glutted -their awful appetites upon us during -the Old Year, Father Time. To <span class="smcapall">WHAT</span> -<i>are you leading us in the New</i>?</p> - -<p><i>Will the heart of the world grow -harder and harder, Father Time?</i></p> - -<p>Will the greed of human avarice -demand still larger <i>sacrifice of human -lives</i>?</p> - -<p>Will <i>the Selfishness of Class gorge -itself still further</i> upon ravenous conquest, -and remorseless exploitation?</p> - -<p>Shall the cry of the White Slave -<span class="smcapall">NEVER</span> reach Heaven, Father Time?</p> - -<p>Shall the song of the angels who -hung over the infant Christ, <span class="smcapall">NEVER</span> -throb, <i>a living principle</i>, in man’s -government of man?</p> - -<p>Is the Reformer <i>always</i> to be the -Martyr, Father Time?</p> - -<p>Is Wrong <span class="smcapall">NEVER</span> to be dethroned?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Oh, Father Time! We tremble as -we feel you leading us toward the -door of the New Year. Beyond that -portal we cannot see, and <i>we dread it—as -children dread the dark</i>.</p> - -<p>Deal gently with us in the New -Year, Father Time.</p> - -<p>Give us <i>strength</i> to bear the Cross—for -we know that we must bear it.</p> - -<p>Give us <i>courage</i> for the battle, for -we know that we must fight it.</p> - -<p>Give us <i>patience</i> to endure, for we -know that we shall need it.</p> - -<p>Give us <i>Charity</i> that thinks not evil -of the Just, and which will stretch -forth the helpful hand <i>to lift our -weaker Brother</i> out of the mire, rather -than the cruel scorn which passes him -by, or <i>thrusts him further down</i>.</p> - -<p>Give us <i>Faith in the Right</i> which no -defeat can disturb, no discouragement -undermine.</p> - -<p>Give us the <i>Love of Truth</i> which no -temptation can seduce and no menace -intimidate.</p> - -<p>Give us the <i>Fortitude</i> which, -through the cloud and the gloom and -the sorrow of apparent Failure, can -see the distant pinnacles upon which -the everlasting sunlight rests.</p> - -<p>Give us the <i>Pride</i> which will suffer -no contamination, no compromise of<span class="pagenum" id="Page31">[31]</span> -self-respect, no wilful desertion of -honest conviction.</p> - -<p>Give us the <i>Purpose</i> that never turns -and the <i>Hope</i> that never dies.</p> - -<p>And, Father Time, should the New -Year, into which you are taking us, -have upon its calendar <i>that day</i> in -which the few who love us shall be -bowed down in sackcloth and ashes, -let <span class="smcapall">THAT</span> day, like all the other days, -find us <span class="smcapall">ON DUTY</span>—faithful unto the -end.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Mr. Bryan and Mr. Watson.</h3> - -<p>When I was in Nebraska in 1904 -Mr. Bryan showed me every courtesy; -therefore, it was most appropriate for -me to reciprocate at the first opportunity. -When Mr. Bryan reached the -State of Georgia, during his recent -tour of the South, I wrote him a note -which he gave to the press, and which -our readers have doubtless seen.</p> - -<p>Not long afterwards the following -personal acknowledgement was received:</p> - -<div class="bryanletter"> - -<p class="right padr2">September 22nd, 1906.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Hon. Thos. E. Watson.</p> - -<p>My Dear Mr. Watson:</p> - -<p>I received your letter at Augusta -and thank you very much for your -cordial greeting.</p> - -<p>I am sorry that it was impossible -for us to stop over with you. It is -gratifying to know from what I have -learned that we are going to be able -to act together in the coming contest. -There has been a remarkable change -in public sentiment, so that things -that were formerly denounced as -radical are now regarded as not only -quite reasonable, but even necessary. -If you come our way, we shall be -glad again to see you, only hoping -that you may have more time than -when you last visited us. Mrs. Bryan -joins me in best wishes.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="padr10">Very truly yours,</span><br /> -<span class="padr4">W. J. BRYAN.</span></p> - -</div><!--bryanletter--> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Mr. Bryan says: “<i>It is gratifying -to know from what I have learned -that we are going to be able to act -together in the coming contest.</i>”</p> - -<p>Nothing would give me greater -pleasure than to see the National -Democratic party undergo a general -casting out of the unclean spirits that -have taken possession of it. If it -should become truly Democratic, if it -should return to the principles of the -fathers, if it should renounce Hamilton -and all his works, if it should -rebaptize itself in the creed of Jefferson, -if its National organization should -expel every tool of the Trusts, every -agent of Wall street, every beneficiary -of special Privilege—<i>then the Democratic -party would stand for substantially -the same things as The People’s -Party</i>.</p> - -<p>That being so, why should we not -be able “to act together?”</p> - -<p>Party <i>names</i> are nothing. <i>Principles</i> -are everything. True reformers -think more of <i>having the work done</i> -than of <i>getting the credit</i>. Many -Populists condemned me in 1905 for -advising them to support Hoke Smith -for Governor of Georgia. <i>No Populist -condemns me now.</i> <span class="smcap">Everybody -realizes that there are more Populists -in Georgia today than there -ever were before.</span></p> - -<p>Read once more the strong, manly -letter which Hoke Smith wrote for the -first issue of the Weekly Jeffersonian, -and then remember that thirteen -years ago the writer was a member -of Cleveland’s Cabinet—<i>then</i> you will -realize how immensely <i>the man has -grown</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page32">[32]</span></p> - -<p>Well, his Democratic followers have -grown with him, and we Jeffersonians -vastly outnumber the moss-backs -throughout the State of Georgia.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>As Mr. Bryan says, <i>a great change -is coming over the people</i>. Doctrines -which were scouted a few years ago -are shouted now. Radicals who were -hooted, howled down and rotten-egged -a few years ago are getting bouquets -now. <i>The Hearst editorials and -speeches read like Populist harangues -of 1892.</i> <span class="smcap">The Bryan platform of -1906 embraces what was considered -the wildest plank of the People’s -Party platform of 1891.</span></p> - -<p>“Act together,” William? Why -not—<i>if you take our principles for -your creed and reorganize your old -party to fit your new faith?</i></p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>That all true reformers may find -a way to “act together” is a consummation -devoutly to be wished. A -conference between Bryan, Hearst -and myself for that purpose was suggested -immediately after the election -of 1904, but neither Mr. Bryan nor -Mr. Hearst seemed to approve.</p> - -<p>What may happen between now and -1908 no one can foretell, but I am -<i>still hoping that some honorable plan -may be hit upon which will enable all -true-hearted reformers to</i> “<i>act</i> <span class="smcapall">TOGETHER</span>” -<i>and overthrow this fearful -system which enables the privileged -few to plunder the unprivileged many</i>.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Socialism at War with Love of Home and Country.</h3> - -<p>In a recent issue of a leading Socialist -paper the following gem of thought -is to be found:</p> - -<p>“‘<span class="smcap">Patriotism</span>’ <i>is a nickname for</i> -‘<span class="smcap">Prejudice</span>.’”</p> - -<p>Do you know why the Socialist -flouts <i>patriotism</i> and calls it <i>prejudice</i>?</p> - -<p>Think a little, and you will see. -You love your <i>country</i> because your -<i>home</i> is a part of it; and you love -your <i>home</i> because it is <i>your individual -haven of refuge from the -storms of life</i>—the individual kingdom -in which you are lord and master -and in which you enjoy, with your -wife, your children, and your friends, -whatever happiness life can give.</p> - -<p><i>The man never lived who would</i> -<span class="smcapall">NOT</span> <i>fight for his home</i>—<span class="smcapall">HOWEVER -HUMBLE</span>.</p> - -<p>The man never lived who <i>would</i> -fight for the tenement house in which -he chances to be a lodger. <span class="smcap">The home -is ever sacred</span>—the <i>hotel</i> never is. -The reason is plain enough. The -home is yours, <i>individually</i>; the hotel -is everybody’s <i>generally</i>. Now, the -Socialist strikes at <i>individualism</i>. He -doesn’t want to own your home by -any title that gives you individual -control of it. <i>He wants everybody’s -home to belong to you, and your -home to belong to everybody.</i> In -other words, the homes of the people -are to be owned collectively. If society -sees fit to say to you “<span class="smcap">Move -on</span>,” out you go. Society will substitute -<i>its</i> title for <i>your</i> title, <i>its</i> -will for <i>your</i> will, <i>its</i> control for <i>your</i> -control. The home that Socialism will -permit you to use this year may be -allotted to some one else another year.</p> - -<p><i>Under these conditions no man -would love his home any more than -he would love his room in a hotel.</i> -Under these conditions, the citizen -would have <i>no greater inducement to -make permanent improvements upon -his home, than he would have to make -improvements upon the hotel</i>.</p> - -<p>Love of home being destroyed, love -of country would also be destroyed. -Patriotism, being founded upon love<span class="pagenum" id="Page33">[33]</span> -of home, would perish under Socialism, -for the simple reason that the -foundations would be gone. <i>Under -Socialism, the most beautiful feature -of civilized life would disappear.</i> -Home life, as we know it, would be -impossible. The song of “Home, Sweet -Home,” would thrill no responsive -chords in the human heart. The -tender pathos of Burns’ “Cotter’s -Saturday Night,” would not be felt. -Socialism would answer with a universal -<span class="smcapall">YES</span>, Sir Walter Scott’s ringing -challenge,</p> - -<div class="poem left"> - -<div class="stanza nomargin"> -<span class="i0">“Lives there <span class="smcapall">A MAN WITH SOUL SO DEAD</span>,<br /></span> -<span class="i1">Who never to himself hath said,<br /></span> -<span class="i3"><span class="smcap">This is my own, my native land</span>?”<br /></span> -</div> - -</div><!--poem--> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>National Finance Run Mad.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">The Washington Post</span> is authority -for the statement that the President -will, in his next Message, <i>again</i> urge -upon Congress the necessity for Currency -Reform.</p> - -<p>The <span class="smcapall">MONEY QUESTION</span>, as you will -remember <span class="smcapall">IS SETTLED</span>; it is only <span class="smcapall">THE -CURRENCY</span> that needs <span class="smcapall">REFORM</span>.</p> - -<p>Bryan says <span class="smcapall">THE MONEY QUESTION IS -SETTLED</span>; ditto Roosevelt; ditto Secretary -Shaw; <i>ditto the big bugs of</i> -<span class="smcapall">BOTH</span> <i>the dear old political parties</i>.</p> - -<p>Yet, with equal unanimity and fervor, -they all say that <span class="smcapall">THE NEED OF CURRENCY -REFORM</span> is something fierce.</p> - -<p>Peculiar, isn’t it?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>When <i>the people</i> want financial -legislation that will <i>restore the system -of The Fathers</i>, it is <span class="smcapall">THE MONEY QUESTION</span>, -and it’s <span class="smcapall">SETTLED</span>. The old party -leaders, one and all, agree upon <span class="smcapall">THAT</span>.</p> - -<p>Politically, therefore, <span class="smcapall">THAT</span> question -is <span class="smcap">Res Adjudicata</span>, and must not be -spoken of any more.</p> - -<p>But when <i>the corporations</i> want -financial legislation <i>which will tend -still further to make our National -Treasury a huge Reservoir from which -the National Banks and their allies -can draw strength, support and profit</i>—why, -<span class="smcapall">THEN</span>, it is a matter of <span class="smcapall">CURRENCY -REFORM</span>, and if Congress -doesn’t give the Money Power everything -it demands, the Country will go -to the “demnition bow-wows.”</p> - -<p>That’s how it is, my son.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The moguls of high finance</span> -declare that what our currency system -needs is greater “<i>elasticity</i>.” The -India rubber quality is wanting, it -seems. The present system doesn’t -<i>stretch</i> readily enough. The Moguls -declare that the “<i>rigidity</i>” of the -currency system threatens us with -calamitous conditions at the prospect -of which the imagination becomes -exhausted and quits business.</p> - -<p>Those two words, “<i>elasticity</i>” and -“<i>rigidity</i>” are being featured in all -the Mogul talk, all the Mogul papers—and -are being dutifully repeated by -all the Mogul Senators and Representatives.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Yet, there isn’t a particle of -sound common sense</span> in all this cant -about <i>elasticity</i> and <i>rigidity</i>.</p> - -<p>When the currency system of the -body-politic is healthy and normal, -there can be no question of elasticity -and rigidity. Like the circulation of -the blood in the human body, the circulation -of money will take care of -itself.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Once get the system right, and -nature will do the rest.</span></p> - -<p>If the Physician tells you that <span class="smcapall">YOUR -CIRCULATION IS BAD</span>—you <span class="smcapall">KNOW</span> what -that means.</p> - -<p>Your system is out of order. The -blood goes about its business, without -any help from <span class="smcapall">YOU</span>, <span class="smcapall">PROVIDED YOUR -SYSTEM IS KEPT IN ORDER</span>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page34">[34]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">You</span> don’t have to pump blood -away from center to the extremities; -<span class="smcapall">THE BLOOD WILL GO THERE, OF ITSELF, -IF YOUR BODILY SYSTEM IS IN THE -PROPER, NORMAL, SOUND CONDITION</span>.</p> - -<p>It is just so with, the circulation of -money in the body politic; if the -system is <span class="smcapall">RIGHT</span>, <span class="smcapall">THE MONEY CIRCULATION -WILL REGULATE ITSELF BY NATURAL -LAWS</span>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Elasticity</span>—<span class="smcap">Rigidity</span>—two words -that are cunningly employed to disguise -the purpose of the Moguls of -National finance. <i>Those conspirators -mean to drive the Government still -further away from the Constitutional -system of the Fathers.</i> They mean to -push still further <i>the usurped power -of the National Banks to create and -control the supply and distribution of -the Currency</i>.</p> - -<p>“Currency Reform” means nothing -more nor less than that.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Government loans to the common -people</span>, at four per cent, or even at -two per cent, would seem to be <i>more -statesmanlike</i>, in all respects, than -<i>this eternal lending of government -money to Wall Street without any -interest at all</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Why should Uncle Sam furnish -gamblers money to speculate with?</span> -Can any good reason be given for it? -Does it seem to be fair to legitimate -business men? Is it just to the taxpayers? -Can it be <span class="smcapall">RIGHT</span>?</p> - -<p>Yet the Wall Street gamblers got -nearly ($30,000,000) thirty million -dollars from the U. S. Treasury in one -lump. Upon this huge sum of public -money, the speculators will pay no -interest at all.</p> - -<p>Is it right?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">According to the official statement</span> -for Nov. 12th, 1906, <span class="smcapall">THE GOVERNMENT</span> -has now increased <span class="smcap">its loans -to the National Banks</span> to the stupendous -<span class="smcapall">TOTAL</span> of $147,000,000.</p> - -<p>Never before has the gratuitous -loan been so large. Who can defend -such a policy? Who would not <span class="smcapall">BE -ASHAMED</span> to appear before an audience -of intelligent voters to advocate the -wisdom and the propriety of such -<span class="smcapall">GOVERNMENTAL FAVORITISM</span> as this?</p> - -<p>You laughed at the Farmers’ -Alliance when it favored government -loans to the people, on the best of -security, at two per cent interest. -Yet you say <i>nothing</i> against government -<i>loans to a few pet National -Banks</i> <span class="smcapall">FREE OF INTEREST</span>, and upon -<span class="smcapall">DOUBTFUL SECURITY</span>.</p> - -<p>Part of that <span class="smcapall">LOAN OF ONE HUNDRED -AND FORTY-SEVEN MILLIONS</span> is secured -by Chicago Municipal Bonds, called, -I believe, the Sanitary Bonds. Would -you not prefer to lend <span class="smcapall">YOUR</span> Money -upon a good farm, or <i>upon warehouse -certificates for cotton</i>?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The farmers</span> would be only too -glad to pay the Government <span class="smcapall">FOUR PER -CENT</span> for that money which <span class="smcapall">THE PET -BANKS GET FOR NOTHING</span>. Four per -cent interest upon one hundred and -forty-seven million dollars is a tidy -sum. Figure it out and you will see, -that it is about <span class="smcapall">SIX MILLION DOLLARS</span>. -That’s a neat sum to be <span class="smcapall">GIVEN AWAY -EVERY YEAR</span>, isn’t it?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Consider this also</span>: You, the Common -People, are the taxpayers who -put that money into the U. S. Treasury. -<span class="smcap">The pet National Banks pay, -practically, none of it.</span></p> - -<p>Yet <span class="smcapall">THEY</span> have the use of <span class="smcapall">YOUR</span> -money <span class="smcapall">FREE</span>. If <span class="smcapall">YOU</span> get the use of a -dollar of it, <span class="smcapall">YOU MUST GO TO THEM -FOR TERMS</span>.</p> - -<p><i>Tough</i>, isn’t it?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">No wonder the money supply is -congested.</span> So long as the Government -<span class="smcapall">TAXES IT OUT OF THE POCKETS -OF THE MANY</span>, and delivers it over <span class="smcapall">TO -THE FEW</span>, there is <i>bound</i> to be congestion.</p> - -<p>Yet, the Pet National Banks are -moving heaven and earth, <span class="smcapall">RIGHT NOW</span>, -to have <span class="smcapall">CONGRESS LEGISLATE IN FAVOR -OF GREATER CONGESTION</span>. The power -of the Few over the Many must be<span class="pagenum" id="Page35">[35]</span> -increased by additional legislation. -Otherwise, the bottom will drop out -and Perdition will have us by the -nape of the neck. When eminently -respectable cabinet officers, congressmen, -editors, etc., tell you that <span class="smcapall">THE -PRESENT SYSTEM OF RUNNING THE -FINANCES IN FAVOR OF WALL STREET -SPECULATORS AND PET BANKS</span> is safe -and sane, and that all we need is to -make it a little more so, <span class="smcapall">BELIEVE EVERY -WORD OF IT AND VOTE ACCORDINGLY</span>.</p> - -<p>On the contrary, when some discredited -crank tells you that <i>it is an -infernal shame</i> to use the law-making -machinery in that manner, <i>howl him -down</i>, at once.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Don’t lend to the taxpayer his -own money at four per cent. -That’s paternalism</span>—and it <span class="smcapall">STINKS.</span></p> - -<p>Take the taxpayers’ money and -<span class="smcapall">LEND IT TO THE PET BANKS</span> without -any interest.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">That’s statesmanship</span>—and it -<span class="smcapall">SMELLS LIKE ATTAR OF ROSES</span>.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>As to Hearst.</h3> - -<p>The case against Plutocracy gained -an advance upon the Docket by the -New York gubernatorial contest, but, -unless I am much mistaken, two -national figures came out of it with -mud on their boots.</p> - -<p>One of these is W. R. Hearst.</p> - -<p>The other is W. J. Bryan.</p> - -<p>When Max Ihmsen advised Mr. -Hearst to come to terms with Murphy, -the striped Tammany Boss, he -disgusted thousands of sincere -Hearstites, not only in New York but -throughout the Union.</p> - -<p>The deal was <i>too</i> bad.</p> - -<p>It took Hearst out of the class of -Reformers and put him into that of -self-seeking Politicians.</p> - -<p>It created in the minds of his disinterested -friends the suspicion that -he posed as a Reformer to serve the -purpose of a personal ambition.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Boss Murphy is a rich specimen of -the Boss—the man who is in politics -for Money, who cares nothing for -Principle, who has no conception of -Duty, who would not understand what -you meant if you talked to him about -Moral Obligation, who amasses wealth -by screening from adverse legislation -the rascals that rob the Public under -corporate names, who makes it possible -for invaluable public franchises -to be stolen with impunity, and who -renders it easy for the robbers that -grabbed the property to use it to -oppress and exploit the people from -whom it was stolen.</p> - -<p>I <i>know</i> that Murphy is the worst -representative of <i>that class of Bosses</i> -because the Hearst newspapers told -me so.</p> - -<p>I <i>know</i> that he has used his power, -as Tammany Chief, to protect such -robbers of the Public as Belmont, -Morgan, Rogers and Ryan, because -Mr. Hearst has told me so with -“damnable iteration” and convincing -emphasis these many years.</p> - -<p>At the breakfast table, he reminded -me of it in his morning paper, <i>The -American</i>.</p> - -<p>At the supper table, he recalled the -fact to my memory in his evening -paper, <i>The Journal</i>.</p> - -<p>In fact, he gave me no chance to -forget it.</p> - -<p>Murphy, a protector of Crime, -Murphy, a tool of the Plunderbund; -Murphy, the stuffer of ballot-boxes; -Murphy, the ally of Murderers and -thieves; Murphy, the inciter to assassination; -Murphy, who robbed New -York in the interest of Ryan and Belmont;<span class="pagenum" id="Page36">[36]</span> -Murphy, who ought to be in the -Penitentiary garbed in convict stripes—<span class="smcapall">THIS</span> -Murphy became so familiar -to me in the Hearst newspapers that I -would have felt the loss of something -habitual, and therefore necessary, had -my friend Hearst ceased to grind the -coffee-mill.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w400"> -<img src="images/illo036.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="400" height="589" /> -<p class="caption">DREAMING OF 1908.</p> -</div> - -<p>Yet Max Ihmsen deliberately -planned a coalition between denouncer<span class="pagenum" id="Page37">[37]</span> -and denounced, between the Angel of -Reform and the Devil of Plutocracy, -between the Champion of the “Common -People” and the hireling of the -Plunderbund, between the man who -cried “Stop thief” and the rogue who -was making off with the stolen goods.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">It was too bad</span>.</p> - -<p>It shocked the <i>Sense of Right</i> of -ten thousands of enthusiastic Hearstites -who had believed in him as an -<i>honest</i> leader. * * *</p> - -<p>See <i>the Consequences</i> of this foul -and fatal deal:</p> - -<p>First—the loss of that most valuable -asset, the real reformers of The -Independence League;</p> - -<p>Second—the revulsion of feeling -among disinterested Democrats and -Republicans who were supporting -Hearst <i>on principle</i>;</p> - -<p>Third—the calling back to robust -life of the almost defunct Boss, -Murphy;</p> - -<p>Fourth—the complete rehabilitation -of Tammany;</p> - -<p>Fifth—the surrender to the Plunderbund -of the State Supreme Court -<i>for fourteen years</i>;</p> - -<p>Sixth—the restoration to his place -of power and hurtfulness of Thomas -Grady, the most debauched legislative -corruptionist in America.</p> - -<p>I <i>know</i> that Grady is that kind of -man, because the Hearst papers have -assured me of it so often that no doubt -upon the subject disturbs the absolute -serenity of my fixed opinion.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>As these <i>net results</i> of the New -York election loom up clearly above -the dust and noise of the conflict, it is -natural that Mr. Hearst will be seen -to have dimmed his halo very considerably; -and <i>the fact that Murphy</i>, -after securing to himself and his gang -all the benefits of the coalition, <i>turned -upon Hearst at the last moment and -put the knife into him</i>, will cause no -tears <span class="smcapall">ANYWHERE</span>.</p> - -<p>That’s just what Hearst ought to -have known would happen—for he -had said things about Murphy which -<i>no man</i>, born of woman, <i>could possibly -forgive</i>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>But Bryan put a shadow upon <i>his</i> -radiance, also.</p> - -<p>He swallowed the Hearst programme -all the way through—from -soup and fish to cheese and coffee. -<i>His stomach balked at nothing.</i> The -ousting of Democratic delegations -which had been elected to the Buffalo -Convention; the packing of that Convention -with delegations which had -not been elected; the throw down of -The Independence League; the guillotining -of the Independent candidates; -the repudiation of the honest labor-champion, -Thomas Rock, and the -endorsement of the Plunderbund corruptionist, -Thomas Grady; the fix-up -of the Judiciary ticket in which three -Judges were allotted to Hearst while -Murphy calmly pocketed seven—Bryan’s -gorge rose at none of these -things. One and all, they slid down -his gullet like rain-water down a tin -valley.</p> - -<p>Just think if it!</p> - -<p>In 1904, Bryan was making 60 -speeches a day for Parker—Judge -Alton B. Parker—whom he described -as “the Moses of Democracy.”</p> - -<p>In 1906, he was writing, telegraphing, -telephoning and so forth for W. -R. Hearst, <i>the exact</i> <span class="smcapall">CONTRAST</span> <i>to -Parker</i>.</p> - -<p>Heavens, what a leap!</p> - -<p>From Parker to Hearst—from -Greenland’s icy mountains to India’s -coral strand.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Never</span> saw such a jump before in -my life.</p> - -<p>And Bryan is going to find that it -will require considerable dexterity to -fit his crown on straight, after <i>that</i> -trouser-splitting leap.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hearst</span> has not changed <i>in principle</i>; -<span class="smcap">Parker</span> has not changed <i>in -principle</i>; yet within two short years -<span class="smcap">Mr. Bryan</span> <i>has advocated</i> <span class="smcapall">EACH OF -THEM</span> <i>with equal fervor</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page38">[38]</span></p> - -<p>Quit playing Politician, William, -or you will do yourself irreparable -injury.</p> - -<p><i>Fly your flag</i> <span class="smcap">as Reformer</span> and -hold your sword <i>straight before you</i>.</p> - -<p>Don’t again call such a man as -Parker “the Moses of Democracy.”</p> - -<p>Don’t endorse Hearst, <i>when he is</i> -<span class="smcapall">WRONG</span>!</p> - -<p><i>Condemn the wrong</i>, and thus encourage -Hearst to mend his ways, to -retire Max Ihmsen, and <span class="smcapall">THUS MAKE</span> -his powerful newspapers, <span class="smcap">more useful, -more effective in the grand -cause of Reform</span>.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Ornamental Flag Poles—Eastern Insurance Companies.</h3> - -<p>The Pennsylvania politicians decided -that the state needed a new -Capitol. The people were told that -unless a better state house were erected -Pennsylvania would be pointed -at with scorn, viewed with alarm, and -otherwise treated in a disrespectful -and uncomfortable manner.</p> - -<p>So, the politicians, contractors, material -men, jobbers, lobbyists, dead-beats, -plain thieves and so forth, went -forward and in due time a new capitol -for Pennsylvania was evolved.</p> - -<p>Costing how much?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thirteen million dollars, my son.</span></p> - -<p>The house, itself, cost only $4,000,000.</p> - -<p>But, then, you see, it had to be furnished.</p> - -<p>The “furnishings” of the new state -house cost the tax payers of Pennsylvania -$9,000,000.</p> - -<p>As a sample of said furnishings, -consider the one item of flag staff.</p> - -<p>What would such a magnificent -new capitol be without a flag flying -above it?</p> - -<p><i>Of course</i>, the state house must be -surmounted by the flag.</p> - -<p>And how can the flag do itself -credit, away up there in the heavens, -without a pole to fly from?</p> - -<p><i>Of course</i>, there must be a flag pole.</p> - -<p>So, the pole was put in place, and -the flag was braced to the pole.</p> - -<p>At what cost, please?</p> - -<p>Why, the flag pole cost $850. Not -$8.50, but $850.</p> - -<p>So, at least, it appears upon the -expense-account.</p> - -<p>What was the flag pole made of?</p> - -<p>Why, <i>it was just the round body of -a large pine tree</i>.</p> - -<p>Nothing else, my son.</p> - -<p>The probability is that any sawmill -in the country would have furnished -such a tree for $25.</p> - -<p>The labor of preparing the tree for -use as a flag pole might have cost -another $25.</p> - -<p>Fifty dollars ought to have covered -the entire cost.</p> - -<p>But then, you see, the gang that -was bossing the job needed money; -therefore, the State of Pennsylvania -was supplied with a fifty-dollar flag -pole for the moderate sum of $850.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>But the country is adorned with -numerous <i>other flag poles of the same -variety</i>.</p> - -<p>One of them is <span class="smcap">Paul Morton</span>, -President of <span class="smcap">The Equitable Assurance -Society</span>.</p> - -<p>No institution in this land of the -free has a flag pole that is more -expensive.</p> - -<p>Paul Morton costs the policy holders -of the Equitable $80,000 per year. -Not $8,000—which would be a fair -price—but $80,000—which is a gouge.</p> - -<p>Just how many men, equally capable, -could be found to fill his place at -$10,000 per year, it would be impossible -to say; but there is no doubt -whatever that Paul himself would<span class="pagenum" id="Page39">[39]</span> -have served the Society just as well -upon a salary of $25,000.</p> - -<p>But then, you see, he wanted more. -So he took it.</p> - -<p>Flag poles come high—under certain -circumstances.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Life Insurance, properly done, is of -vast benefit to the Insured. Life -Insurance, improperly done, is of vast -benefit,—to the Insurer. Those Eastern -Companies got too gay. Their -higher officers became corrupt. Under -various flimsy pretexts, they began -to plunder the Insured. <i>Local agents, -who did the hard work, got small pay.</i> -State agents and National officers -drew princely salaries,—and did little -to show for it.</p> - -<p>Some of those Eastern Companies -have been building Insurance Business -on the same principle that gave an -exhibition of itself in the building of -the new State House of Pennsylvania.</p> - -<p>Everybody knows that the taxpayers -of Pennsylvania have been robbed. -Everybody knows, equally well, that -the Policy-holders of those Eastern -Companies have been plundered.</p> - -<p>From the standpoint of such rascals -as the McCurdy gang, the Policy-holder -resembled an Irish potato, in -that <i>he had eyes yet saw not</i>.</p> - -<p>The blind Policy-holder, <i>who could -never see that he was being robbed</i>, -became a jest among the thieves who -spent his money in riotous living.</p> - -<p>Life Insurance is all right—<i>when -the Insurer is</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Before</span> you allow the Insurance -Company to examine <span class="smcapall">YOU</span>, <i>examine the -Insurance Company</i>.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Abraham Lincoln’s Silly Biographers.</h3> - -<p>The process of making a saint out of -Abraham Lincoln goes bravely on. -His latest biographer, Mr. Hill, clears -him of the charge of “telling stories -just to amuse people.” Mr. Hill—a -sober and worthy man, no doubt—produces -a witness by the name of -Ewing, who being duly sworn, deposes -and says:</p> - -<p>“I never heard Mr. Lincoln tell a -story for its own sake or simply to -raise a laugh. He used stories to -illustrate a point, but the idea that -he sat around and matched yarns like -a commercial traveller is utterly -false.”</p> - -<p>Why should the Lincoln biographers -strive and strain to establish the -fact that <span class="smcapall">HE NEVER “SAT AROUND AND -MATCHED YARNS LIKE A COMMERCIAL -TRAVELLER?”</span></p> - -<p>Is it any disgrace to sit around, -occasionally, and swap yarns, “like a -commercial traveller?”</p> - -<p>If so, the men who are <span class="smcapall">TRULY RESPECTABLE</span> -are the dull fellows who can -neither tell a joke, nor enjoy one. -Some of the best and brightest men -that ever lived have prided themselves -upon their gifts in that very line. To -be a good story-teller is to possess the -golden key that unlocks almost every -social door.</p> - -<p>Daniel Webster revelled in a good -story; so did Clay; so did Tom Corwin; -so did Robert Toombs, and Alexander -H. Stephens.</p> - -<p>As a mental relaxation and recreation, -there are, in fact, few things -that serve better than “to sit around -and match yarns like a commercial -traveller.”</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The truth about Lincoln</span> is that -he was a man, and <i>a great man, but -no saint</i>.</p> - -<p>The last time I was in New York -(November, 1905), my friend, Hon. -T. H. Tibbles, of Nebraska, was there,<span class="pagenum" id="Page40">[40]</span> -also, and we talked of Lincoln, whom -Mr. Tibbles had known.</p> - -<p>And <i>one of the very things which -Mr. Tibbles had seen and heard Mr. -Lincoln do was “to sit around and -match yarns like a commercial traveller.”</i></p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mr. Tibbles told me</span> how, being at -a certain place, his attention was -attracted by repeated bursts of loud -laughter, coming from a certain room. -His youthful curiosity being excited, -he followed the sound to the room -from which it came. The sight that -met his eyes was this: Abraham -Lincoln was sitting in a chair, with -his big feet upon a table in front of -him; around him were grouped a -number of men, to whom Mr. Lincoln -was telling side-splitting yarns.</p> - -<p>Tibbles joined the audience and got -his share of the fun.</p> - -<p>What of it?</p> - -<p>Does that lower Lincoln in any sensible -man’s eyes?</p> - -<p>No. Let the Miss Nancy brigade -go off to one side and talk about the -nebular hypothesis, or some other -nice, well-bred subject. For my part, -I would prefer, <i>occasionally</i>, “to sit -around and match yarns like a commercial -traveller.”</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>I asked Mr. Tibbles whether the -stories that he heard Mr. Lincoln telling -were smutty.</p> - -<p>At some future time, when I find, -after a careful field-glass scrutiny of -the horizon, that I have no other row -on hand, and am feeling the need of -one <i>very</i> badly, <i>I am going to tell you -Tibbles’ answer</i>.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Shoot, Luke, or Give Up the Gun.</h3> - -<p>Most men are presumed to have -sense enough to know when the sun is -up, and when it is down.</p> - -<p>To no mortal on this earth is it a -matter of vital importance to know -the exact moment it rises and sets.</p> - -<p>Even if any inquisitive lunatic -wanted to know, he couldn’t find out, -for the simple reason that the hour -of sunrise and sunset varies with -every mile of the earth’s surface, and -is earlier to the man at the foot of -the mountain than to the man on top.</p> - -<p>In the military establishments of the -world, however, it is considered to be -a matter of life and death to know -just when the sun rises and just when -he sets. So extremely indispensable is -this piece of daily information that a -gun, a cannon we mean, <i>must</i> be fired -to proclaim the tidings.</p> - -<p>“Boom!”—the sun is up.</p> - -<p>“Boom!”—he’s down.</p> - -<p>Whereupon, your true soldier can -sleep with a conscience childlike in its -freedom from care.</p> - -<p>Otherwise not.</p> - -<p>If that gun (mind you, a <i>cannon</i>) -was <i>not</i> fired, solemnly and formally -fired, every time the sun rose and -every time he set, the military breast -would be racked with rude alarms, -and the military mind would be tossed -to and fro with dread forebodings.</p> - -<p>To fire off a musket wouldn’t do; -wouldn’t <i>begin</i> to do.</p> - -<p>It would be unconstitutional, if not -actually anarchistic and revolutionary.</p> - -<p>To start the day without firing a -cannon—why the military establishment -could no more perform its traditionary -functions without a cannon -salute to the coming and going of the -sun than one of the old parties could -exist without stuffed ballot boxes.</p> - -<p>Therefore, the custom is fixed—rooted, -as it were, in the soil of our<span class="pagenum" id="Page41">[41]</span> -civilization. It is one of the greatest -advantages we have over our untutored -ancestors.</p> - -<p>However much <i>they</i> may have -yearned to shoot the sun up and shoot -it down, they couldn’t do it. They -had nothing to shoot with. They were -so completely engulfed in the currents -of stupidity and barbarism that they -just had to trust to their eyes to know -when the sun was up, or was down.</p> - -<p>You might ask how the soldiers do -<i>on cloudy days</i>. You might ask, with -unseasonable levity, if the army -doesn’t have to go by the clock <i>when -the sun is not to be seen</i>. And you -might, out of your desire to be smart -and show yourself off, ask whether -the army couldn’t go by the clock as -well on fair days as on foul ones.</p> - -<p>But such questions as these will do -you no good, and they would cause -you to lose friends. They are irrelevant -impertinences.</p> - -<p>For, you see, when anything has -been done a long time, the presumption -is that there is sense in doing it -that way.</p> - -<p>Therefore, all nice and respectable -people put salt in the fire when the -screech owl twitters, and make a cross -mark and spit in it, whenever they -turn back in their tracks. We all do -this because the custom has age and -good sense on its side.</p> - -<p>If you think you can prance through -the world smashing steady old customs -which have been handed down -to us from time immemorial, you are -in a fair way to get yourself into -trouble.</p> - -<p>Consequently, if you don’t like the -way the armies of the world spend the -people’s money shooting for the sun, -you had just as well make up your -mind to the wisdom of laying low, -and paying your share of the expenses.</p> - -<p>Every two years, your chosen representatives -in Congress approve the -item in the Military Appropriation -Bill which gives $20,600 to the army -to shoot the sun-shoots with.</p> - -<p>Now, if you don’t like it what are -you going to do about it?</p> - -<p>The soldiers are not going to go by -clocks or by eyes—they are going to -shoot those cannon, at all the military -posts, every time the sun rises and -every time he sets.</p> - -<p>And you will continue to pay the -expenses, as formerly.</p> - -<p>What else are you here for?</p> - -<p>“Boom!”—the sun’s up.</p> - -<p>“Boom!”—he’s down.</p> - -<p>And it only costs $20,600.</p> - -<p>See how great a thing it is to be -civilized.</p> - -<p>We shouldn’t be surprised if the -sun had lots of amusement watching -us fools down here.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Boom!!!</span></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>The Dismissal of Those Negro Troops.</h3> - -<p>What else could the President have -done?</p> - -<p>He is Commander-in-Chief of the -Army: certain members of a certain -battalion “shoot up” a certain town -destroying property, terrorizing a -peaceful community and committing -murder.</p> - -<p>The Commander-in-Chief endeavors -to discover the identity of the guilty -parties. He fails. He then <i>appeals -to the honor of the battalion</i>, asking -that the innocent point out the guilty. -By no other method can the red-handed -rioters and murderers be -identified and brought to Justice.</p> - -<p><i>The battalion is deaf to the appeal.</i></p> - -<p>The innocent refuse to point out -the guilty.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page42">[42]</span></p> - -<p><i>The innocent elect to make a common -cause with the guilty.</i></p> - -<p>Therefore, <span class="smcapall">THEY, THEMSELVES, BECOME -GUILTY</span> of the highest crimes, as -<span class="smcap">Accessories after the Fact</span>.</p> - -<p>In law and morals, there is <i>not an -innocent man left in that battalion</i>, -whose every member deliberately conceals -the murderers, aids and abets -them after full knowledge of the -crime.</p> - -<p>Considering them all as guilty, the -President ordered their dishonorable -discharge.</p> - -<p><i>Why not?</i></p> - -<p>They had committed crimes involving -turpitude, degrading the uniform.</p> - -<p>They had sullenly defied the President’s -appeal to their honor, and hence -his notice to disband them.</p> - -<p>The innocent had elected to share -the guilt of the guilty, and thus <i>the -whole battalion was guilty</i>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Fanatical friends of the blacks say -that the President <i>should not have -punished the innocent</i>.</p> - -<p>Nor did he.</p> - -<p>He who conceals a murderer giving -him aid and comfort, is himself a -party to the crime.</p> - -<p>What legal principle is older and -sounder than that?</p> - -<p>The fanatics overlook it.</p> - -<p>The President did not.</p> - -<p>Nor will those who consider the -facts without passion and seek to -judge the case without prejudice.</p> - -<p>Apparently, the fanatics intend to -convulse the Congress and the country -over this matter of the Negro Troops.</p> - -<p>Let it not be forgotten that <i>even -now the fanatics do not propose that -the originally innocent negroes shall -be required to point out those originally -guilty</i>.</p> - -<p>The fanatics demand that the -President back down, and that the -order for the dismissal of the negroes -be countermanded.</p> - -<p>Thus, the originally guilty will be -forever screened, and the crimes they -committed will forever go unwhipt of -Justice.</p> - -<p>The President has been right and -should be sustained.</p> - -<p>To allow these fanatics and these -negroes to triumph over the President, -<span class="smcap">would be to exalt the criminal -and to degrade the Just Judge</span>.</p> - -<p>If that had been a battalion of -white men, nothing would have been -said about it.</p> - -<p>But it was a lot of negroes—consequently -the fanatics got busy.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>The Proposed Ship Subsidy</h3> - -<p>A <span class="smcapall">FAT MAN</span> who was talking loud -enough to disturb his fellow-passengers -on the train, said:</p> - -<p>“What we need now is the Ship -Subsidy, and the Panama Canal and”—the -rest was of the same sort. He -had read something like this in a newspaper, -and had <span class="smcapall">SEEN IT THERE SO -OFTEN</span> that he had come to the conclusion -it must necessarily be true.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">In this way some men get what -they call their opinions.</span></p> - -<p>Not <span class="smcapall">YOU</span>, of course. You get yours -<span class="smcapall">BY THINKING FOR YOURSELF</span>. <span class="smcap">I know</span> -that this is so, because <span class="smcapall">YOU TOLD ME -SO YOURSELF</span>.</p> - -<p>“We need a Ship Subsidy,” declared -the fat man, with emphasis and -decision. So “<span class="smcapall">WE</span>” do—but who are -the “<span class="smcapall">WE</span>?”</p> - -<p>The <span class="smcapall">WE</span> who need a Ship Subsidy -are the Privileged, the beneficiaries -of Class Legislation, the Trusts which -gorge themselves upon unjust advantages.</p> - -<p>In order that we may enable the<span class="pagenum" id="Page43">[43]</span> -Manufacturing Class <i>to enjoy a Monopoly -at home while they undersell -the foreign Manufacturer in the foreign -market</i>, we have put a fictitious, -<span class="smcapall">UNNATURAL VALUE TO THE MATERIALS -OUT OF WHICH SHIPS ARE BUILT</span>.</p> - -<p>Consequently it costs <span class="smcapall">MORE</span> to build -a ship in the United States than anywhere -else in the world.</p> - -<p>Now, our Navigation laws will not -allow the national flag to protect an -American vessel <span class="smcapall">UNLESS THAT VESSEL -IS BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES</span>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Result</span>:</p> - -<p>The foreigner has come <span class="smcapall">WITH HIS -CHEAPER VESSEL</span> and borne off our -carrying trade.</p> - -<p>Our infernal Tariff and Navigation -laws have driven our flag from the -seas, by making it <span class="smcapall">IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE -AMERICAN MERCHANT TO BUY HIS SHIP -ABROAD, OR TO BUILD ONE AT HOME ON -SUCH TERMS AS WILL ENABLE HIM TO -COMPETE WITH THE FOREIGN-BUILT -SHIP</span>.</p> - -<p>Isn’t that plain enough, <span class="smcapall">WHEN YOU -STOP TO THINK IT OVER</span>?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">But the fat man</span> declared that -what <span class="smcapall">WE</span> need is the Ship Subsidy Bill.</p> - -<p>What <span class="smcapall">IS</span> the Ship Subsidy Bill?</p> - -<p>Why, it is a proposition that the -Government shall, in effect, take -money out of the National Treasury -<span class="smcapall">TO MAKE GOOD TO THE SEA MERCHANT -THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FOREIGN -AND HOME PRICE OF THE SHIP</span>.</p> - -<p>That’s the <span class="smcapall">GIST</span> of it, my son.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">At your expense</span>, the government -has created the Trust which makes it -<i>impossible for an American to build -a ship that can compete for ocean-going -freight</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">At your expense</span>, that impossibility -is to be abolished. <span class="smcap">The difference -in price</span> between the cheap -foreign-built ship and the dear home-built -ship <span class="smcapall">IS TO BE MADE UP OUT OF -YOUR MONEY</span>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">At your expense</span>, the Trust will -therefore be <span class="smcapall">ABLE TO COMPETE</span> for the -ocean business.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">At your expense</span>, the Trusts themselves -will scoop the Carriers’ profit -upon the transportation of the Trust-made -goods which <span class="smcapall">ARE SOLD ABROAD -CHEAPER THAN THEY ARE SOLD AT -HOME</span>.</p> - -<p>You catch it all around, don’t you, -son?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Yes, the fat man</span> was right.</p> - -<p>We <span class="smcapall">DO</span> need a Ship Subsidy—we -Trusts.</p> - -<p>We want to maintain our monopoly -at home, and we will do it. We want -to continue to undersell the foreigner -in the market and we will do -it. We want, furthermore, to rake into -our own coffers the profits now reaped -by the foreigner who controls ocean -transportation.</p> - -<p>We <span class="smcapall">COULD</span> do this <i>by lowering the -Tariff</i>, but that would derange our -entire Class-law fabric. <span class="smcap">That would -endanger our monopoly of the -home market.</span></p> - -<p>Consequently, the only way for us -to get what <span class="smcapall">WE</span> want, is to have the -Government grant us a Subsidy which -will make good to us <span class="smcapall">THAT DIFFERENCE -IN PRICE</span> between home-made and foreign-made -vessels <span class="smcapall">WHICH OUR TRUST-CREATING -TARIFF HAS CAUSED</span>.</p> - -<p>Thus we, the Privileged, will unload -upon the Unprivileged <span class="smcapall">BOTH LOADS</span>,—that -of the Trust, and that of <span class="smcapall">OUR</span> -escape from <span class="smcapall">THE ONE CONSEQUENCE</span> of -the trust <span class="smcapall">WHICH HURTS US</span>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">There is only one</span> incident to the -Protective system which is a drawback -to the Trusts.</p> - -<p>That is <span class="smcapall">THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CONTROLLING -OCEAN TRANSPORTATION</span>.</p> - -<p>Every <span class="smcapall">OTHER</span> incident to the Protective -System <span class="smcapall">HELPS THE TRUSTS AND -HURTS THE PEOPLE</span>.</p> - -<p>The one incident which <span class="smcapall">HURTS THE -TRUSTS AND HELPS THE PEOPLE</span> must -be dealt with.</p> - -<p>We must so manage that ocean -transportation shall likewise belong to -the Trusts.</p> - -<p>How?</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page44">[44]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/illo044.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="600" height="420" /> -<p class="caption">NOW YOU SEE WHY YOU DON’T GET THE PARCELS POST.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page45">[45]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">By giving to the merchant marine -a sum of money out of the -public treasury, over and above the -freight which is earned.</span></p> - -<p>Then, indeed, every incident of the -Protective System will present a harmonious -color-scheme, for <span class="smcapall">THE TRUSTS -WILL HAVE HOGGED THE WHOLE BUSINESS</span>.</p> - -<p>And that donation out of your tax -money, which is intended to save the -Trusts from the injurious burden of -their own damnable Tariff System is -the Ship Subsidy which the fat man -said we need.</p> - -<p>So long as the Protective System -hurts the Common People it is a national -blessing and must be gratefully -sustained: <i>but the moment the same</i> -system pinches the Protected Interests, -they must <i>rob you</i> under the -form of Ship Subsidy to get back -what they lose by their own tariff.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>An Appeal to Patriotism.</h3> - -<p>Signs are plentiful that tens of -thousands of honest Democrats and -Republicans are profoundly dissatisfied -with the trend of recent events.</p> - -<p>We look to the State, and no beacon -light gives us confidence.</p> - -<p>The time was when our rulers loved -the people, trusted the people, worked -for the people. Those were the times -when there was light on the hearth, -plenty on the board, and hope in the -hearts of the people.</p> - -<p>Those were the times when our rulers -<i>remembered that our forefathers came -here to build a temple, a government</i>, -<span class="smcap">differing in all vital respects -from the hateful systems of the -Old World</span>.</p> - -<p>For this very purpose—that of -establishing a system entirely different -from that of Europe—our forefathers -braved the perils of the deep; fought -hunger and faced death; battled with -the wilderness and the savages it held; -determined to die free, rather than -live slaves.</p> - -<p>In Europe they were fettered by -class laws, class privileges, class tyrannies.</p> - -<p>They were crowded out from a fair -competition for a share of nature’s -bounties by monopolies, chartered -wrongs, statutory abuses, legalized -spoliations.</p> - -<p>Braver than we, their degenerate -sons, they counted life worth nothing -unless freedom went with it, and -<span class="smcap">their coming here was a sublime -protest against the Old World system -of Class-law and special privilege</span>.</p> - -<p>What have we, today, <i>as the result -of all their heroism, and suffering and -success</i>?</p> - -<p>We have our rulers aping everything -Europe does, and fitting upon -us, forever, the abominable system our -forefathers fled to escape.</p> - -<p><i>Where are class laws more insolently -dominant than here?</i></p> - -<p>Where is Special Privilege more -tyranically exacting than here?</p> - -<p>Where are monopolies more contemptuous -of law and public welfare -than here?</p> - -<p>What people are greater slaves to -misgovernment than you whose low-priced -products must bear the strain -of untaxed bonds, useless offices, and -a steady growth of ever increasing -salaries?</p> - -<p>Who pay <i>nine-tenths of all the -taxes</i>?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The many who toil.</span></p> - -<p>Who gets <i>the lion’s share of all the -wealth produced</i>?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The few who do not toil.</span></p> - -<p>In what country do the laborers, in<span class="pagenum" id="Page46">[46]</span> -shop and mine and mill and field, -produce more of the good things of -life than ours?</p> - -<p>It cannot be named.</p> - -<p>In what country has nature opened -her royal hands with a more regal -bounty?</p> - -<p>It cannot be named.</p> - -<p>Has there been any failure of harvest?</p> - -<p>No.</p> - -<p>Has there been pestilence, invasion, -or civil strife?</p> - -<p>No.</p> - -<p>Then why is it that the signal guns -of distress sound all along the commercial -seas, telling of brave ships -going down?</p> - -<p>Why is it that the feet of the homeless -and the unemployed beat the -pavements of our great cities with a -never-ending march?</p> - -<p>Oh, brothers! why are so many -hearths chill and dark, so many hungry -mouths unfed, so many despairing -souls weighed down with the -nameless dread of the unknown -future?</p> - -<p>We have left the beaten track of -our fathers. We have let the old landmarks -be forgotten. We have gone -after strange gods.</p> - -<p>We have foresworn the faith upon -which our republic was founded, and -are being led back to the system our -ancestors came here to shun. Why -can’t we all see it? Why can’t we all -act together? Why can’t we lay down -prejudice, pride and passion, and -devote our noblest efforts to the salvation -of our country?</p> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/illo046.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="600" height="535" /> -<p class="caption">AN ABSURD PROPOSITION.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page47">[47]</span></p> - -<p>How can the Republican party cut -loose from its Morgan-isms, its McKinley-isms, -its Carnegie-isms, its -John Sherman-isms, its Standard Oil-isms, -its Steel Trust-isms.</p> - -<p>How can the Democratic party cut -loose from its Cleveland-isms, its -Carlisle-isms, its Wall Street-isms, its -Whiskey Trust-isms, its Sugar Trust-isms?</p> - -<p>Neither will ever cut loose.</p> - -<p>In the coils of the serpents of the -sea, Laocoon may struggle, but will -nevertheless be powerless to escape.</p> - -<p>Why cannot <span class="smcapall">WE</span> cut loose from these -corrupt and class ruled organizations, -as Jefferson cut loose from Federalism, -as Jackson cut loose from National -Republicanism?</p> - -<p>While we dispute as to names and -organizations, the State suffers. -While we quibble over technicalities -of political practice, liberty asks in -vain for help.</p> - -<p>Would it were not so!</p> - -<p>Would that we could agree where -we differ, unite where we divide, and -love where we hate.</p> - -<p>Would that some divine touch of -duty could lift us all to the summits -of patriotism where the only rivalry -would be that of service—the only -purpose that of redeeming the land -from those who despoil it.</p> - -<p>Call the party what you please—names -are nothing—but let us have -a Union of all patriots who believe in -equal and exact justice to all men, -without special privilege to any. Let -us have a democracy ruled by the people, -instead of this greedy, corrupt, -heartless plutocracy ruled by corporate -money.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Love Licks.</h3> - -<p><i>The Saturday Evening Post</i> says -that “Max Ihmsen, Hearst’s chief -political adviser, was once a theatrical -advance agent.”</p> - -<p>Was <i>once</i>?</p> - -<p>When did he quit?</p> - -<p>Judging from the way he managed -Hearst’s New York campaign, he’s -as much of what he <i>once was</i> as he -<i>ever</i> was—if not more.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>That brightest and best of newspapers, -the <i>Washington Post</i>, suggests -that some Frenchman snuff out the -wretched little cad, libertine, and -aristocratic brute, Boni Castellane.</p> - -<p>Granting that the snuffing out suggestion -is a good one, why should a -<i>Frenchman</i> be asked to shoot the contemptible -and loathsome creature?</p> - -<p>The American lady whose money he -squandered, whose jaws he slapped, -and whose life he wrecked, has <i>three -able-bodied brothers</i>—why should the -Gould brothers <i>wait for a Frenchman</i> -to take hold of the snuffing out job?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Joseph H. Choate, being asked to -define the difference between Cleveland -and Roosevelt, answered, “Mr. -Cleveland is too lazy to hunt and Mr. -Roosevelt is too restless to fish.”</p> - -<p>But see what a happy middle-course -Mr. Bryan takes. When too restless -to fish, he hunts; and when too lazy -to hunt, he catches fish. In other -words, you <i>never can put your eye -on him when he isn’t after it</i>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>The Moguls of High Finance have -about worked out their plans for an -elastic currency.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page48">[48]</span></p> - -<p>Their own notes are to be used as -money, and the only thing back of -the notes will be “the general credit -of the Banks.”</p> - -<p>How pleasant it is to witness the -process by which national finance -simplifies itself and acquires that suppleness -of joint which the Moguls call -“elasticity.”</p> - -<p>A Money system which rests upon -a bottle of ink, a quire of paper, and a -printing press is <i>so</i> simple that even -a wayfaring fool may comprehend it.</p> - -<p>And when it comes to pass that -<i>any</i> Mogul of Finance can turn himself, -in the twinkle of an eye, into a -Paper-money Mill, our currency will -be “elastic” to beat the band.</p> - -<p>Go it, Moguls!</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>The brilliant paragrapher of the -<i>Atlanta Journal</i> writes:</p> - -<p>“The only thing lacking about the -dismissal of those negro troops was -that they should have been disbanded -in Boston.”</p> - -<p>Inasmuch as nearly all of “those -negro troops” will be given permission -to re-enlist, it isn’t clear to my -mind that Boston couldn’t have -enjoyed the episode quite as much as -any other city—Atlanta, for instance.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>The same paragrapher who <i>is</i> really -one of the brightest of the bunch, -remarks:</p> - -<p>“Stonewall Jackson once declared -that ‘nothing justifies profanity.’ -But then he never tried being Speaker -of the House.”</p> - -<p>While we are at it, let’s put the case -stronger than <i>that</i>.</p> - -<p>What’s being Speaker of the House -to living in a town like Thomson, -whose name the outside world spells -in seven different ways?</p> - -<p>What’s being Speaker of the House -to having a fat knave and a lean sneak -doing business <i>under your name</i> in -such a den as Town Topics?</p> - -<p>What’s being Speaker of the House -to having the fat knave and the lean -sneak virtually tell the world, <i>in a -magazine bearing your name</i>, that you -are wealthy and <i>therefore</i> could -afford to work <i>for them</i> for nothing?</p> - -<p>What’s being Speaker of the House -to having your own friends invited, -<i>by the Secretary of your National -Committee</i>, to come round to the <span class="smcapall">SIDE -DOOR</span> of the Town Topics den, and -drop ten dollars, each, into the Mann-hole?</p> - -<p>Dear me! When it comes to claiming -credit for <i>not</i> cussing, I could -name several things that dwarf the -proportions of the Speakership of the -House.</p> - -<p>Mr. Roosevelt went down to Panama -to take a look at that big ditch which -nobody seems to be digging very fast. -Thus far the trench appears to be just -large enough to hold the millions of -dollars that the taxpayers are pouring -into it.</p> - -<p>While he was down there it is to be -hoped that Mr. Roosevelt gave close -scrutiny to the place where the administration -of Jules Grevy, President of -the Republic of France, slid into that -same ditch. By marking the place, -carefully, Mr. Roosevelt may possibly -prevent his own administration from -tumbling into the same hole.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>They are raising a rumpus in Government -circles because the liquor -dealers are bottling whiskey in bottles—bearing -the official stamp—that do -not contain full measure.</p> - -<p>It doesn’t much matter. The less -whiskey the bottle holds the better for -the man who holds the bottle.</p> - -<p><i>Don’t</i> shoot!</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page49">[49]</span></p> - -<h3>After All It Depends Upon Who Owns the Ox</h3> - -<p>On the Pacific Coast there is an -intense hostility to the yellow man.</p> - -<p>The whites are at daggers’ point -with Chinamen and Japanese.</p> - -<p>Race hatred, you see.</p> - -<p>Recently, the authorities of San -Francisco have separated the two -races in the schools.</p> - -<p>Jap. children are not allowed in the -white schools. Yellow must not mix -with white. Contact is contaminating. -Separate class-rooms, separate -play-grounds, separate everything—so -runs the educational order of the -day.</p> - -<p>Yet those white people of the -Pacific Coast pretend that they cannot -understand the attitude of the Southern -whites to the negro.</p> - -<p>It is all right for <span class="smcapall">THEM</span> to cultivate -race-hatred of the <i>yellow</i> man, but -all wrong for <span class="smcapall">US</span> to indulge race-hatred -of the <i>black</i> man.</p> - -<p>Queer kettle of fish, isn’t it?</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/illo049.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="600" height="339" /> -<p class="caption">NO MATTER WHICH ONE DOES THE CLIPPING, THE WOOL HEAP GETS IT JUST THE SAME.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page50">[50]</span></p> - -<h2>You Old Confeds.</h2> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="author">BY WILLIAM E. FOWLER, Excelsior Springs, Mo.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<div class="splitveterans"> - -<div class="leftveterans"> - -<div class="poemcenter"> - -<div class="poem"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">You boys are getting kind o’ gray,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old Confeds;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You surely ain’t got long to stay,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old Confeds;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Old Father Time is after you;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He’s worse than were the boys in blue;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He’ll get you all ’fore he gets through—<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old Confeds.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">With old “Pap” Price and brave Stonewall,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old Confeds;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With Robert Lee (you fought with all),<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old ex-Rebs—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Half starved, you faced the boys in blue,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When clothed in rags and tatters, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And braver soldiers no one knew<br /></span> -<span class="i8">Than you Confeds.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">No North, no South, to you they say,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">To you ex-Rebs—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">No more you see the boys in gray,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">No old Confeds.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Sweet peace is here, you gladly tell;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You’re satisfied that all is well;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But when you think of those who fell,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And hear once more the musket’s hell,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You’d like to give one Rebel yell—<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old Confeds.<br /></span> -</div> - -</div><!--poem--> - -</div><!--poemcenter--> - -</div><!--leftveterans--> - -<div class="rightveterans"> - -<div class="poemcenter"> - -<div class="poem"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And don’t forget the boys in gray,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">The brave Confeds,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Who can’t be here with you today—<br /></span> -<span class="i8">The dead Confeds.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Amidst the screaming shot and shell,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Amidst the thunderbolts of hell,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They bravely fought and, fighting, fell—<br /></span> -<span class="i8">The soldiers dead.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">A silent toast to them now drink,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">To each Confed;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To comrades dead let glasses clink,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">To your brave dead.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You drink to soldiers that you knew,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To your dear comrades brave and true,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Who sleep beneath the Southern dew<br /></span> -<span class="i8">Their restful sleep.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">You love your country and its flag,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old Confeds;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In its defense you’d never lag,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old Confeds;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But long as heart beats in each breast<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You’ll think of those who sweetly rest<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Neath flowers by south wind soft caressed<br /></span> -<span class="i8">In Southern lands.<br /></span> -</div> - -</div><!--poem--> - -</div><!--poemcenter--> - -</div><!--rightveterans--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--splitveterans--> - -<div class="poemcenter"> - -<div class="poem"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And when old Gabriel blows his horn,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old Confeds<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will fall in line on that great morn—<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old Confeds.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The Master then will say to you:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Just take your seats in that front pew;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">There’s nothing here too good for you—<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You old Confeds.”<br /></span> -</div> - -<p class="padl6">—From the <i>Confederate Veteran</i>.</p> - -</div><!--poem--> - -</div><!--poemcenter--> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page51">[51]</span></p> - -<h2>A Survey of the World.</h2> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="author">BY CHARLES J. BAYNE.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p>The close of the old year and the -beginning of the new finds the civilized -world in a state of parliamentary -deliberation, with the establishment -of additional parliaments in various -dependencies as one of the leading -subjects of deliberation. The -lawmakers of practically every nation -in the two hemispheres are now in -session, so the discussion of budgets -and the agitation of reforms furnish -ever-changing subjects of public -interest.</p> - -<p>The American mind has been moving -forward from its varied and conflicting -analyses of the recent elections -to the concrete measures which -will be introduced in Congress, and -still it is unable to fix its attention -definitely on serious subjects while the -holiday spirit is in the air. Members -of Congress themselves feel that they -are merely in Washington for a few -days to outline a program for a later -date.</p> - -<div class="figright nomargin w300"> -<img src="images/illo051.jpg" alt="Roosevelt" width="300" height="385" /> -<p class="caption"><span class="fsize90">New York <i>Globe</i></span><br /> -“NOW TO BUSINESS.”</p> -</div> - -<h3 class="survey">The President’s Message.</h3> - -<p>Congress convened on the first -Monday in December, and on the following -day the President’s message -was transmitted to that body. It is -generally agreed that Mr. Roosevelt’s -communications to the federal law-makers -are increasingly partaking of -the nature of open letters to the -American people rather than being -definite suggestions to the House and -Senate of the measures which should -be enacted at the current session into -law. The present document is no -exception to that rule. It is largely -made up of homilies which recall -the waggish comment of Tom Reed -about “Roosevelt’s delightful enthusiasm -over his discovery of the Ten -Commandments.” Such is practically -the view of The Washington -<i>Herald</i>, for instance, which says that -“Congress will regard the counsels -of the President as the obiter dicta -of a distinguished publicist, awakening -the public conscience, but without -special bearing on the work of the -present session.”</p> - -<p>The forces of reform were delighted -to find him advocating a law -prohibiting corporations from contributing<span class="pagenum" id="Page52">[52]</span> -to campaign funds, the failure -to pass which during the first -session of the present Congress, when -reform was in the air, was the subject -of considerable criticism. It is -pointed out that he does not now go so -far as to advise that all contributions -shall be made public. He is quoted, -since the transmission of his message, -as favoring a return to the large insurance -companies of the funds they contributed -to the last Republican campaign, -and this has brought forth the -question from his critics: Why disgorge -only the contributions of the -insurance companies, when the funds -belonging to stock-holders, as well as -to policy-holders, have been used by -various corporations to influence -elections?</p> - -<h3 class="survey">The Race Question.</h3> - -<p>One of those homilies to which -reference has been made is the President’s -discussion of lynching and the -race question. No one will take issue -with him on what he says on the subject—unless -it be on the statement -that two thirds of the lynchings are -for crimes other than rape. He quotes -Ex-Gov. Candler as saying that he -had, within one month, saved a dozen -innocent negroes from lynching. -After still further discussion of the -question, the President advocates the -infliction of the death penalty for -rape and urges that assault with -intent to commit this crime be made -a capital offense, “at least in the discretion -of the court.”</p> - -<p>All this is, of course, a matter with -which the states alone can deal, except -in the territories under the exclusive -jurisdiction of the federal government. -On the general subject of -lynching, The Brooklyn <i>Eagle</i> says -that “the President is right in his -preachment, but would be tempted to -ignore it if he were in private life, -and a citizen of a Southern state.”</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Labor Legislation.</h3> - -<p>The relations of labor and capital -come in for considerable discussion, -and the cause of labor is well sustained. -The President advocates a -rigid enforcement of the eight-hour -law, where practicable, a conservative -use of injunctions, and an investigation -of the conditions of the labor of -children and women.</p> - -<p>Senator Beveridge is already -primed with a bill which will reach -the child labor question, through the -elastic Interstate Commerce Commission, -by prohibiting the interstate -transportation of commodities on -which child labor has been employed.</p> - -<p>The President favors the enlargement -of the Employers’ Liability bill, -passed at the last session of Congress, -so as to place the “entire risk of the -trade” upon the employer, and he -favors federal investigation of controversies -between labor and capital.</p> - -<p>He advocates an enlargement of -the meat inspection bill, so as to provide -for placing the date of inspection -on the label and throwing the cost -of inspection on the packers.</p> - -<p>He urges the more complete control -of corporations in general, “by a national -license law, or in other fashion,” -which is one of the utterances anticipated -with the keenest interest.</p> - -<div class="figleft nomargin w380"> -<img src="images/illo052.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="380" height="374" /> -<p class="caption"><span class="fsize90">Washington <i>Post</i></span><br /> -TEDDY’S ONLY TARIFF REFORM.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page53">[53]</span></p> - -<p>He comes out for an inheritance -tax, an income tax, and mildly urges -a ship subsidy and currency reform.</p> - -<p>A bill providing for free trade -with the Philippines passed the -House in the last session, but it met -its death in the Senate at the hands -of members who feared that it would -seriously affect the beet sugar industry. -The President again recommends -the adoption of this measure, or at -least a reduction in the Philippine -tariff; and, as one result of his visit -to Porto Rico, he asks that the inhabitants -be granted United States citizenship. -A special message on this -subject, it is said, will go to Congress -later.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">The Japanese Question.</h3> - -<p>His utterances on the Japanese -question are perhaps the most sensational -in the entire document. At -least they have proven so, from two -points of view. After paying a -splendid tribute to the “little brown -men” of the Orient, and advocating -the adoption of naturalization laws in -their behalf, he makes an attack upon -the principle of state rights which has -attracted more than ordinary attention. -The exclusion of Japanese -children from the public schools of -San Francisco, which is discussed -more at length elsewhere, has occupied -a foremost place in the public -mind for some time, and it is generally -conceded to have largely -resolved itself into a question of -state rights, and the power of the -federal government to force an observance -of international treaties on the -individual states, particularly where -state laws alone are involved. The -President demands that the civil and -criminal laws of the federal government -be so amended as to “enable the -President to enforce the rights of -aliens under treaties.”</p> - -<p>Further along he made some nebulous -threats about employing all the -force of the army and navy in behalf -of the Japanese, if necessary, and at -once the California representatives -were, themselves, up in arms. The -President hastened to explain that he -had been misunderstood—that he only -meant to say that he would protect -the Japanese from mob violence, by -aid of the army and navy, if necessary, -so the members from the Pacific -slope are satisfied.</p> - -<p>In the meantime the President has -instructed the department of justice -in California to make a test case of -the state law segregating “the children -of Mongolian parentage” from -the whites in public schools, and it is -believed that the matter will thus be -settled.</p> - -<p>The remainder of the message is -devoted to the Rio conference, the -situation in Cuba, Central America -and Alaska, the maintenance of the -navy at its present efficiency, and the -approaching session of the second -peace conference at the Hague.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Mr. Watson’s Views.</h3> - -<p>While various public men have -selected a variety of sentences from -the Presidential Message as being particularly -striking, our readers may -have a natural curiosity to know what -sentence in the message of the President -most impressed our Editor-in-Chief. -His section of the Magazine -had been closed before the President’s -message was made public, but -in a private letter to me, Mr. Watson -remarks that the finest sentence to be -found in Mr. Roosevelt’s recent message -to Congress, is this:</p> - -<p>“<i>Neither a nation, nor an individual, -can surrender conscience to -another’s keeping. A just war is far -better for the soul of a nation than -the most prosperous peace obtained -by acquiescence to any wrong or injustice.</i>”</p> - -<p>Mr. Watson thinks that the manner -in which the President emphasizes the -fact that a nation, like an individual,<span class="pagenum" id="Page54">[54]</span> -<i>should not consent to live</i> under dishonorable -conditions, was very fine.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>In addition to the editorial expressions -which have been incidentally -quoted in the foregoing summary of -the message, The New York <i>World</i> -says that “if Roosevelt would advocate -tariff reform and if Mr. Bryan -would stop advocating government -ownership of railroads, they would be -substantially in accord.” The New -York <i>Tribune</i> says “the message is -characterized throughout by that -courage with which the President -habitually faces public questions.” -The New York <i>Press</i> thinks the reading -of it must have given the trust-owners -“a night of restless slumbers.” -The New York <i>American</i> -calls it “the most ambitious state -paper of his career.” The New York -<i>Times</i> thinks the wisest counsel the -President gives Congress is to “obviate -the evil of prohibiting all combinations -of capital, whether good or -bad.” The New York <i>Sun</i> devotes its -criticisms chiefly to those matters -affecting the judiciary.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Cabinet Changes.</h3> - -<p>The echoes of the Presidential -message had scarcely died away, when -the President communicated to the -Senate a long list of nominations -which included many changes in his -Cabinet. Root, Taft and Wilson will -remain where they are. Charles -Jerome Bonaparte, will become Attorney -General; Secretary Victor H. -Metcalf, Secretary of the Navy; -Oscar S. Straus, of New York, Secretary -of Commerce and Labor; George -B. Cortelyou, Secretary of the Treasury, -in place of Leslie M. Shaw, who -is to resign, and Mr. Cortelyou -will be succeeded in the Post Office by -Mr. George V. L. Meyer; James R. -Garfield, Secretary of the Interior.</p> - -<p>The appointment of Attorney General -Moody to a position on the -Supreme Court Bench has brought -forth considerable criticism. Before -him, in that capacity, must come for -review much of the litigation in which -he, as prosecuting attorney for the -government, has been interested. -Nearly forty million dollars in various -suits are being held up for a hearing -before a full bench. According to -established precedent, Mr. Moody -should not pass upon them, after having -been identified with them in the -Department of Justice. No definite -opposition to his confirmation is -manifested, however.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">The General Elections.</h3> - -<p>The general elections are receding -farther and farther into the past, and -public interest in the matter is abating. -The returns in the state of New -York, showing the election of the -entire Democratic ticket with the -exception of the head, have been -interpreted according to the personal -views of the interpreters, but the -truth seems to be that there was a general -uprising in favor of reform, -brought largely to the forefront by -Hearst, but that the personality of -Hearst himself, coupled with his adhesion -to Boss Murphy, was something -that the people would not stand for, -and hence his defeat. Representative -Jas. W. Wadsworth paid the penalty -of his opposition to the meat inspection -bill, and will not be in the Sixtieth -Congress.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> - -<div class="illotext w20m"> -<p class="center fsize90">WHEN THE SIXTIETH CONGRESS CONVENES</p> -</div> - -<img src="images/illo054.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="350" height="305" /> - -<p class="caption fsize90">Washington <i>Herald</i></p> - -</div><!--figure--> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page55">[55]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w380"> -<img src="images/illo055a.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="375" height="360" /> -<p class="caption"><span class="fsize90">Brooklyn <i>Eagle</i></span><br /> -“DON’T DISTRACT HIS ATTENTION.”</p> -</div> - -<p>A survey of the elections as a whole -shows that the Republican majority -in the Sixtieth Congress will drop -from 112 to 58. The Republicans carried -every Northern state by reduced -majorities, and the Democrats carried -every Southern state, in many instances -by increased majorities, at the -same time redeeming Missouri from -the Republican ranks into which she -passed for the first time with the -Roosevelt tidal wave. In the lower -house of the Sixtieth Congress there -will be an even hundred new members.</p> - -<p>The Republicans of the Senate, will -probably make a gain of four members. -The terms of thirty senators -will expire on March 4, 1907, fifteen -of them being Democrats and fifteen -Republicans. Patterson, of Colorado, -Guerin, of Oregon—appointed to succeed -the late Senator Mitchell, who -died in disgrace—Dubois, of Idaho, -and Clark, of Montana, are the four -Democrats who will probably be succeeded -by Republicans. Then the -Republicans in the Senate will have -more than a two-thirds majority.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w300"> -<img src="images/illo055b.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="299" /> -<p class="caption">SENATOR JOHN F. DRYDEN.</p> -</div> - -<p>Senator Dryden, the life insurance -president of New Jersey, doesn’t know -whether the legislature in January is -going to re-elect him or not—and no -one else seems to know any more than -he does. The Republican majority is -very close, and there is considerable -defection in the ranks. He may be -opposed by Gov. Edward S. Stokes.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w360"> -<img src="images/illo055c.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="360" height="447" /> -<p class="caption"><span class="fsize90">Chicago <i>Inter-Ocean</i></span><br /> -“HUGHES WILL PUT IT OUT.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Pennsylvania went Republican all -right, but it was not exactly as -“Maine went for Governor Kent.” -Edwin S. Stuart—the first bachelor -in a generation, by the way, to occupy -the Keystone White House—is conceded -to be “a very nice man,” so -the Republicans elected him over the -fusion candidate, Emery. It is -charged in some quarters that his -election indicates that Pennsylvania -has recovered from her spasm of<span class="pagenum" id="Page56">[56]</span> -righteousness and reform, but the fact -remains that Boss Penrose is now -asking that things be done instead of -demanding them, as he formerly did, -after the manner of the Quay school -in which he was educated.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> -<img src="images/illo056a.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="350" height="344" /> -<p class="caption"><span class="fsize90">New York <i>Mail</i></span><br /> -THE MAN THAT BEAT HEARST.</p> -</div> - -<p>New Hampshire has a peculiar -election system. If no candidate -receives a majority over all, the election -is thrown into the legislature. -Hon. Charles M. Floyd, Republican, -received a plurality, but not a -majority. His election by the legislature -is assured, however.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> - -<img src="images/illo056b.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="350" height="436" /> - -<div class="illotext"> -<p class="center"><span class="sstype fsize80"><b>MR. BRYAN—“ALAS, POOR HEARST! I KNEW HIM WELL!”</b></span></p> -</div> - -<p class="right fsize60">—Chicago Tribune.</p> - -</div><!--illustration--> - -<p>The election of James O. Davidson -as governor of Wisconsin was hailed -as a victory for the anti-Follette -forces, since they had opposed his -nomination, but the junior senator -made his influence felt in no uncertain -way elsewhere, notably in the defeat -of Representative Babcock, who has -served seven terms in the house, and -for a long period was the official fat-fryer -of the Republican Congressional -Campaign Committee.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> -<img src="images/illo056c.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="350" height="280" /> -<p class="caption"><span class="fsize90">Spokane <i>Spokesman</i></span><br /> -“SHOVED OUT.”</p> -</div> - -<p>The new state of Oklahoma selected -Democratic members of the constitutional -convention and will stand by -Jeffersonian principles. Some effort -is being made to embody white -supremacy provisions in the organic -law which is being framed, and this -has started a discussion as to whether -the President, under those circumstances, -would issue the proclamation -admitting the new state to the Union. -It is recalled that under somewhat -similar circumstances the statehood of -Missouri was held up for fifteen -months.</p> - -<p>Such is a running review of the -results of the elections, but, as previously -indicated, the measures to -which Congress will devote its attention -after the Christmas holidays are -the center of interest.</p> - -<p>A concerted effort is being made to -force the administration to take up -the subject of tariff reform, notwithstanding -the fact that the President -ignored the subject in his message.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page57">[57]</span></p> - -<h3 class="survey">The Divorce Congress.</h3> - -<p>One of the notable conventions of -the year was that of the National -Divorce Congress which assembled in -Philadelphia on Nov. 19 and 20 for -the purpose of formulating a uniform -divorce law which, it is hoped, would -be enacted by all the states of the -Union. It was the legislature of -Pennsylvania which took the initiative -in this matter, not only by codifying -and examining its own laws, but -by arranging a conference, through -Governor Pennypacker, to discuss the -matter of uniform divorce laws. This -conference was held in Washington -last February and a committee was -appointed to draw up a model bill to -present to all the states. Thirty states -and territories were represented at the -Congress in Philadelphia and the -grounds for absolute divorce, as presented -by the committee and adopted -by the Congress were:</p> - -<p>1. Adultery.</p> - -<p>2. Bigamy, at the suit of the innocent -and injured party to the first -marriage.</p> - -<p>3. Conviction and sentence for -crime, followed by continuous imprisonment -for at least two years, or -under indeterminate sentence for at -least one year.</p> - -<p>4. Extreme cruelty, endangering -life or health.</p> - -<p>5. Wilful desertion for two years.</p> - -<p>6. Habitual drunkenness for two -years.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">The Situation in ’Frisco.</h3> - -<p>About the least pacific section of -our united country just at present is -the Pacific slope. The action of the -Board of Education of San Francisco -in excluding Japanese children -from the regular public schools of -the city, and requiring that they be -segregated in schools set aside exclusively -for them, has aroused the deepest -interest all over the country, and -its echoes are reverberating on the -shores of the Chrysanthemum kingdom. -It is becoming increasingly -evident that the matter of excluding -the Japanese from the public schools -is not the crux of the matter. It is -but a symptom of a very general condition -of dislike and distrust. The -people of California frankly declare -that the more they see of the Japanese -the less they like them and that -since the Russo-Japanese war, as one -resident of the state puts it, “the -Japs are getting too blamed cockey.” -The Californians assert that they -have the sympathy and support of the -entire Pacific slope in their determination -to hold the Japanese in check. -They point to the fact that the little -brown men practically dominate the -labor situation in Hawaii, and that -they are making that territory merely -a half-way house to California, which -they will likewise over-run. The -labor unions, which are particularly -strong on the slope are strong in their -antagonism to the Japanese.</p> - -<p>It is boldly declared by many representative -citizens of California that -they will not stop short of introducing -a bill in this or the Sixtieth Congress -excluding the Japanese from -the United States on practically the -same terms as are now applied to the -Chinese, who are held in some quarters -to be more desirable.</p> - -<p>Many interesting questions of national -and international law are involved -in the present situation.</p> - -<p>Those who advocate a federal law -excluding the Japanese are reminded -that the existing treaty, which was -negotiated by Mr. Gresham in Mr. -Cleveland’s second administration, -provides that “this treaty shall go -into operation on the 17th day of -July, 1899 and shall remain in force -for a period of twelve years from that -date.” Twelve months’ notice, from -the time of expiration, must also be -given by either party, if such party -desires to terminate the agreement. -Notice of termination cannot be given,<span class="pagenum" id="Page58">[58]</span> -therefore, until July 19, 1911, and -until July 1912, it must continue as -the supreme law of the land. Consequently -the adoption of a Japanese -exclusion law cannot become effective -for five years and a half. The -President’s advocacy of naturalization -for the Japanese is not received -kindly on the slope. In addition to all -this Mayor Schmitz and Abe Ruef, -the political “boss,” have been -indicted for extortion.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> - -<img src="images/illo058a.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="350" height="364" /> - -<div class="illotext w4m"> -<p class="center sstype fsize90"><i>TREED!</i></p> -</div> - -<p class="caption"><span class="fsize90">Philadelphia <i>North American</i></span></p> - -</div><!--illustration--> - -<h3 class="survey">The Increase in Wages.</h3> - -<p>The month of November was -marked by the announcement of the -most general increase in the wages of -employes ever recorded in this country -during so short a period. This -increase was made, for the most part, -by the railroads and other large corporate -interests and chiefly affects -employes whose salaries are less than -$200 a month. In many instances the -advance began with the first of December, -while in others it becomes effective -with the new year.</p> - -<p>It would be a difficult matter to -make anything like an approximate -estimate of this golden harvest which -is to go into the pockets of the laboring -men. It is said by those who are -in a position to know, that the advance -in wages announced by the railroads -during the month of November -would alone amount to $20,000,000 -annually, affecting 200,000 employes. -Even so conservative an authority as -The Chicago <i>Evening Post</i> thinks it -entirely probable that the advance in -the wages of railroad employes -becoming effective on the first of -the year will reach something like -$100,000,000 a year, while others place -it still higher. The Steel Trust and -the street railroads have also -advanced wages.</p> - -<div class="figright nomargin w300"> -<img src="images/illo058b.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="336" /> -<p class="caption">EDWARD H. HARRIMAN.</p> -</div> - -<p>It is only fair to say, in dwelling -upon this general advance in the -wages of labor in so many departments -of industry, that, according to the -mercantile agencies, the cost of living -is higher now than it has been at any -time in twenty years, and the continuance -of agitation and discontent -in certain quarters is held to be -justifiable for the reason that the purchasing -power of a dollar is so much -less than formerly that it is no more -than off-set by an increase of ten per -cent in wages.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">The Harriman-Fish Embroglio.</h3> - -<p>The final triumph of Edward H. -Harriman over President Stuyvesant -Fish, of the Illinois Central, after a -long and bitter feud extending over<span class="pagenum" id="Page59">[59]</span> -many years, is still a topic of absorbing -interest in the railroad world and -to the public in general. At a special -meeting of the directors of the road -held in New York early in November -Mr. Fish was defeated for re-election -by a vote of eight to four, the thirteenth -director, Vice-President Welling, -being confined to his bed from an -illness of which he died a few days -later. The formal complaint made -against President Fish was that he -had not observed the “harmony” -agreement of last July, when it was -at one time proposed that a special -committee should solicit proxies, and -not Mr. Fish personally. He was -charged with arrogating to himself -alone “the duty and function resting -upon the entire board,” and not being -able to “distinguish between the -powers and duties of the president -and those of the directors of the corporation.” -The purpose of the board -was known before-hand and it was no -surprise when James T. Harahan, one -of the vice-presidents, was chosen to -succeed Mr. Fish.</p> - -<p>The nomination was seconded by -Charles A. Peabody, President of the -Mutual Life Insurance Company, -which was one of the many reasons -sustaining the belief on the part of -Mr. Fish’s friends that his refusal to -take part in the “white-washing” of -the Mutual officials was really responsible -for his overthrow. It is recalled -that Harriman made threats at the -time that he would make reprisal on -Fish for his refusal to knuckle under.</p> - -<div class="figleft nomargin w300"> -<img src="images/illo059.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="299" /> -<p class="caption">STUYVESANT FISH.</p> -</div> - -<p>In the meantime Mr. Fish announced -his intention of carrying the -matter into the courts. The constitution -of the state of Illinois provides -that “no railroad corporation shall -consolidate its stock, property or franchises -with any other railroad corporation -owning a parallel or competing -line. A majority of the directors of -any railroad corporation now incorporated, -or hereafter to be incorporated -by the laws of this state, shall -be citizens and residents of this -state.” Of the directors of the -Illinois Central only three, at the -time of the recent election, were residents -of the state of Illinois. They -were Gov. Deneen, who is an ex-officio -director by reason of his office as governor, -James T. Harahan, the new -president, and John C. Welling, who -has since died. It is not denied that -for thirteen years a majority of the -directors have not been “citizens and -residents of Illinois,” and the scope -of the immediate issue is enlarged by -the fact that if the courts hold the -present board to be illegal, so also will -be the work of every board for the -past thirteen years, including issues -of stocks, bonds, etc.</p> - -<p>Harriman’s control of so vast a -system of railroads is naturally -regarded as a menace. The Union -Pacific and the Southern Pacific, of -which he is absolute master, aggregate -15,000 miles, with an outstanding -capitalization of $1,031,000,000. The -Chicago & Alton and the Illinois -Central, which he practically controls, -have a mileage of 6,668, with a capitalization -of over $380,728,223. He is -largely in control of the Baltimore & -Ohio, the Reading and the Central of -New Jersey railroads, with a mileage -of 7,255 and a capitalization of practically -$770,000,000. He is a stockholder -and director in Erie, which<span class="pagenum" id="Page60">[60]</span> -has a mileage of 2,553 and a capitalization -of $382,900,000. Thus he -is a moving spirit and to a large -extent the dominant figure in 31,000 -miles of railroad, with a capitalization -of more than two billions and a half -of dollars. It is not surprising that -an investigation on the part of the -Interstate Commerce Commission is -now announced.</p> - -<div class="figright nomargin w300"> -<img src="images/illo060.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="393" /> -<p class="caption">THOMAS F. RYAN.</p> -</div> - -<h3 class="survey">Ryan’s Vast Interests.</h3> - -<p>One of the recent surprises in Wall -street was the resignation of Thomas -F. Ryan as a director from more than -twenty railroads and industrial corporations, -including the leading trusts -of the country. Coincident with his -retirement came the announcement -that he was one of a number of American -capitalists who had secured from -King Leopold of Belgium certain -rights in 8,400,000 acres of land in -the Congo Free State, for the purpose -of developing the rubber and mineral -resources, building railroads and -otherwise exploiting that vast territory.</p> - -<p>An effort is being made in Congress -to have this government join in an -investigation of conditions in the -Congo and several of Leopold’s lobbyists -are in hot water.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">The Lesson of Spencer’s Death.</h3> - -<p>No event in recent years has -created a more profound sensation -than the tragic death of President -Samuel Spencer, of the Southern railroad, -who was killed in a rear-end collision -on his own road on the morning -of Thanksgiving day. Mr. Spencer -was a native Georgian, and worked -his way through all the grades of his -calling to the presidency he held at -the time of his death. Many personal -tributes have been paid to Mr. Spencer, -but the fact that he was a victim -to the inefficiency of his own railroad -system has been commented upon with -decided emphasis. Readers of <span class="smcap">The -Jeffersonian Magazine</span> will recall -the heated controversy last summer -between Mr. Watson and the editor of -The Macon <i>Telegraph</i>. The latter -criticised Mr. Watson for making the -point that Mr. Spencer, as a railroad -manager, squeezed too much money -out of the South into the pockets of -Wall street millionaires, allowing his -road to become dangerous, allowing -employes to be overworked, allowing -bridges to become decayed, refusing -to double-track where double tracking -was needed and refusing to employ a -sufficient number of men to do the -amount of work necessary in the -proper operation of the property. The -text from which Mr. Watson preached -was the official commendation of Mr. -Spencer by the voting trustees of the -Southern Railway Holding Company. -They praised him because he had, during -the last thirteen years, doubled -their property, trebled the gross earnings, -and increased the net earnings, -over and above all operating expenses, -more than 525 per cent. He took this -report and proved that instead of -being something for Mr. Spencer to be -proud of, it was something to make -him ashamed, since it proved conclusively -that the road was being run -simply from the standpoint of those -who wanted dividends and who did -not care how unsatisfactory was the -service, nor how many lives were lost -because of the failure to adopt safety -appliances, double tracks, and by failure -to abolish the deadly grade crossings. -Mr. Watson feels that the fate -which has overtaken Mr. Spencer is -the most appalling proof that could be -furnished that he was right in his contentions.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page61">[61]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w480"> -<img src="images/illo061.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="480" height="601" /> -<p class="caption">“HE WAS DEAF TO ALL WARNINGS, AND AT LENGTH HIS OWN TURN CAME.”</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page62">[62]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> - -<img src="images/illo062.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="350" height="497" /> - -<div class="illotext"> -<p class="caption"><span class="sstype fsize90"><b>TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT<br /> -The hand of the law will get old John D. himself -yet.</b></span></p> -</div> - -<p class="right fsize60">—Minneapolis Journal.</p> - -</div><!--illustration--> - -<p>The press of this country and England -view the matter in the same light. -The Brooklyn <i>Eagle</i>, in discussing the -matter, says, “We can only deplore -this very able man’s loss. We can -only hope that his sacrifice may result -in no further disregard of the precautions -that would have averted it, -had those precautions been observed. -Until that time,” continues the <i>Eagle</i>, -“we may expect preventable ‘accidents’ -which wear every quality of -murder except its intent.” <i>The Pall -Mall Gazette</i>, of London, founded by -W. T. Stead, expresses the hope that -Mr. Spencer’s death “will arouse -those responsible for the management -of American railroads to a feeling -that it is desirable to make them -safer.” The statistics of accidental -deaths in America, says <i>The Gazette</i>, -“are appalling to the English mind, -but seem to have little effect in -America. But the inclusion of directors -among the victims is almost proverbial -as the surest route to reform.”</p> - -<p>In spite of these solemn warnings -another fatal rear-end collision occurred -on the Southern within ten -days, a short distance from the scene -of the former accident.</p> - -<p>Mr. Spencer has been succeeded, as -President of the Southern, by Mr. -W. W. Finley, formerly second vice-president -of the road.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Standard Oil Before the Bar.</h3> - -<p>The most definite and concrete -form which the agitation against -trusts and combines has ever assumed -in this country, and the most interesting -legal step the government has -taken in a generation, was the filing -of a bill in equity, by United States -Attorney General Moody, on Nov. 15, -in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, in St. -Louis, Mo., against the Standard Oil -Company, of New Jersey, and seventy -of its subsidiary corporations and -limited partnerships, as well as against -seven of the leading officers and directors -of the big trust, to have the combination -dissolved under the Sherman -Anti-Trust law, as being in restraint -of trade and commerce. The government, -for nearly two years, has been -gathering information on which to -base some such action. But last June -the attorney general appointed two -assistants, Messrs. F. B. Kellogg and -C. B. Morrison, to act with Assistant -Attorney General Purdy in gathering -information as to the transgressions -of the Oil Trust in the business of -refining, transporting, distributing -and selling oil throughout the United -States.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/illo063.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="600" height="556" /> -<p class="caption">THE STRIPES MAY GO ON YET, IF YOU DON’T WATCH OUT.</p> -</div> - -<p>Their report was such as to justify -legal action on the part of the Department -of Justice, and after the information -had been carefully examined<span class="pagenum" id="Page63">[63]</span> -by the President and the Cabinet, the -bill in equity was filed. The recital of -alleged facts in this petition, is virtually -a history of the Standard Oil -Company from its infancy to the present -time. It sets forth that the Standard -Oil Company, of New Jersey, with -its seventy allied corporations and -limited partnerships, produces, transports -and sells about 90 per cent of -the refined oil products used in this -country and about the same proportion -of the refined oil exported from -the United States; that this practical -monopoly has been procured by a -course of action which, beginning in -1870, has continued, in the main, -under the same persons down to the -present time; that these persons now -surviving are John D. Rockefeller. -William Rockefeller, Henry H. -Rogers, Henry M. Flagler, John A. -Archbold, Oliver H. Payne and Chas. -M. Pratt; that their design throughout -has been the suppression of competition -in the production, transportation -and sale of refined oil and to -obtain a monopoly therein; that between -1870 and 1882 the purpose was -effected by agreements between many -persons and corporations engaged in -this business; that in the latter year -the business was made certain by vesting -in nine trustees, including five of<span class="pagenum" id="Page64">[64]</span> -the persons named above, sufficient -stock in the thirty-nine corporations -then concerned to suppress competition -among themselves; that this plan -was acted upon until it was declared -illegal by the Supreme Court of Ohio, -in an action against the Standard Oil -Company of Ohio, one of said corporations, -in 1892; that during the seven -years following, the same individual -defendants, as a majority of the liquidating -trustees, were pretending to -liquidate the trust, but as a matter of -fact were managing all the corporations -in the same old way and were -exercising the same control over them; -that in 1899 the individual defendants -increased the capital stock of the -Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, -from $10,000,000 to $110,000,000; -that the company was then a producing -and selling corporation, and that -they added to its functions the power -of purchasing stock in other companies, -and practically all the powers -exercised by the trustees under the -unlawful agreement of 1882; that the -Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, -then taking the place of the -trustees, acquired all the stock of the -corporations theretofore held and controlled -by the trusts, paying therefor -by the issue of its own shares in -exchange; that the President of the -Board of Trustees became the president -of the Standard Oil Company, -of New Jersey, that the trust assumed -the direction of the business of the -Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, -and has continued it ever since.</p> - -<p>After this summary of Standard -Oil history, the petition goes on to -say that the purpose and effect of the -corporation as a holding company was -precisely the same as the purpose and -effect of the appointment of the trustees -previously referred to, namely: -to suppress competition between the -corporations and limited partnerships, -whose stock was first held by the -trusts and then by the Standard Oil -Company, of New Jersey; that by the -foregoing methods, and by securing -railroad rates which discriminated in -favor of the corporations whose stock -was held by the holding company, the -latter was enabled to secure a monopoly -in large sections of the country, -with the result that prices to consumers -are much higher in those sections -than in sections where competition, to -some extent, prevails.</p> - -<p>The bill further sets forth that -from 1882 to 1895 the Standard paid -dividends amounting to $512,000,000 -on a professed valuation of a trifle -less than $70,000,000, besides accumulating -a surplus “of unknown magnitude,” -and that for the last nine years -the dividends have run from 33 to -48 per cent.</p> - -<p>Almost on the very day that this -bill was filed the Standard declared -a quarterly dividend which aggregated -$10,000,000.</p> - -<p>In filing this bill Attorney General -Moody said that the question of criminal -prosecution would be left “for -future consideration.”</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Criminal Prosecution.</h3> - -<p>Whatever may be the disposition of -the Attorney General of the United -States in regard to the criminal prosecution -of Standard Oil officers and -directors, there seems to be no doubt -as to the attitude of Prosecutor David, -of the state of Ohio. The grand jury -of Hancock county has returned an -indictment against the Standard Oil -Company, of Ohio, and against John -D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard -Oil Company, of New Jersey, as -well as three directors of the subsidiary -corporation in the Buckeye state. -Previous proceedings against the same -defendants, taken on an information -brought before the Probate Court of -that state, are now being held up, -pending the decision of the higher -court as to the jurisdiction of the -court below. The present indictments -by the grand jury are based on the -evidence adduced in the previous trial.<span class="pagenum" id="Page65">[65]</span> -Conviction would subject the defendant -company to a maximum fine of -five thousand dollars, which, however, -it is believed, may be imposed for -ever day covered in the indictments. -Mr. Rockefeller and the directors of -the subsidiary company would be subject -to the same fine and to imprisonment -for a period of from six months -to one year. More recently Prosecutor -David is quoted as expressing the -belief that he has sufficient evidence -to bring not only Mr. Rockefeller, but -all the highest officials of the controlling -company before the Ohio courts.</p> - -<p>In the meantime he has taken steps -to secure an alternative writ of mandamus -against the Buckeye Pipe Line -Company, said to be owned by the -Standard Oil Company and operated -in such a manner as to stifle competition, -requiring that the defendant -provide for the public equal and just -facilities and demanding that they fix -a schedule of rates.</p> - -<p>In St. Louis the Federal grand jury -has brought in two indictments, with -a total of seventy-two counts, against -the Waters-Pierce Oil Company for -violation of the Elkins Anti-Rebate -law. If convicted on all the counts -the maximum penalties would exceed -a million and a half dollars.</p> - -<p>The proceedings taken by the attorney -general of Texas to oust the same -company from that state have developed -a collateral sensation of great -size. Attorney General Davidson -demands of the defendant company -certain vouchers which, it is alleged, -will show that Senator Joseph W. -Bailey was paid various sums of -money by the Waters-Pierce Company -to secure its readmission to the state, -and gives out that if this evidence is -not forthcoming, secondary evidence -will be offered to establish the alleged -fact. Senator Bailey indignantly -denies that he received any such sums, -and announces that he will prosecute -for perjury anyone who swears to the -existence of such evidence. Senator -Bailey has already been nominated by -primary, but his re-election will come -before the legislature which convenes -in January.</p> - -<p>In the meantime the New York -Central Railroad and the Sugar Trust -have been fined heavily for, respectively, -giving and receiving rebates.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">The Insurance Situation.</h3> - -<p>One of the results of the investigation -conducted by the Armstrong -committee into the affairs of the New -York and the Mutual Life insurance -companies was the enactment of legislation -providing that the affairs of -the two companies should be taken out -of the hands of the existing boards of -trustees, that all outstanding proxies -should be invalidated and that the -policy holders should be given an -opportunity to choose the men who -should thereafter manage the affairs -of the two companies. In pursuance -of this law the policy holders began -voting on Nov. 18 and continued to -cast their ballots for or against the -administration tickets until Dec. 18. -In the New York Life the administration -ticket consisted of “the best -of the old trustees,” together with -some new blood, while an opposition -ticket was presented by the International -Policy-Holders Committee, of -which the Hon. Richard Olney was -chairman. In the Mutual contest -there were three tickets: an administration -ticket, the United Committee’s -ticket and a fusion ticket. The second -of these was so called because it was -the product of the united efforts of the -Mutual Policy Holders’ committee and -the International Policy Holders’ committee -of which Mr. Samuel Untermyer -was the chief organizer and -sponsor. The fusion ticket was made -up of candidates from the administration -and the Mutual Policy -Holders’ respective rosters. At the -time we go to press the result of the -elections is not known.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page66">[66]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> -<img src="images/illo066.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="460" /> -<p class="caption">ROBERT E. PEARY.</p> -</div> - -<h3 class="survey">Farthest North.</h3> - -<p>Commander Robert E. Peary has -returned from his expedition to reach -the north pole. After suffering innumerable -hardships he reached a -latitude of 87 degrees and 6 minutes. -This was within 203 miles of the coveted -goal and thirty-four miles farther -than the point reached by the -Duke of Abruzzi expedition, which -had hitherto held the record.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Canadian Affairs.</h3> - -<p>Up in Canada they are still telling -the story of the <i>habitant</i> who, when -told that the Queen was dead, asked, -“Who is Queen now?” He was told -that there was no Queen, but a King -had ascended the throne, whereupon -the admiring peasant exclaimed, “My, -what a pull he must have with -Laurier!”</p> - -<p>The Canadian parliament assembled -at Ottawa on Nov. 22—four months -earlier than usual—with its Liberal -majority practically unimpaired, and -the Premier continues to hold the pre-eminence -in Canadian affairs indicated -by the artless tribute of the -<i>habitant</i>.</p> - -<p>The Dominion has not escaped the -muck-rakers, and the Conservatives -are bringing wholesale charges of corruption -at the polls.</p> - -<p>On Nov. 29 Minister of Finance -Fielding introduced his long anticipated -tariff bill. Briefly stated, this -measure provides for an intermediate -tariff, the rates of which shall be -between the preferential rates conceded -to the mother country and the -general tariff which applies to other -countries. This intermediate tariff -may be held out as a basis of reciprocity -negotiations with such -countries as show a disposition to meet -the Canadian government half way.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Cuba and South America.</h3> - -<p>The situation in Central and South -America is unusually quiet. As a -result of the President’s visit, the -working forces on the Panama Canal -have been completely reorganized. It -has been definitely decided not to -appoint a governor of the Canal Zone -to succeed Magoon, and an order has -been promulgated to give Chairman -Shonts more complete control over the -administration portion of canal construction, -while Chief Engineer -Stevens is placed in absolute control -over Panama. Bids for the contract -to complete the canal will be opened -Jan. 12.</p> - -<p>Cipriano Castro, the fire-eating -President of Venezuela, may not be -dead, but he will soon work himself -to death denying the charge unless he -does something definite before long. -It is evident that he is in a very low -state of health, and the end may come -at any time.</p> - -<p>Alfonso Penna was inaugurated -President of Brazil on Nov. 16. He is -in thorough accord with the efforts to -establish closer trade relations between -his country and the United States.</p> - -<p>Argentina holds her own as the most -prosperous and progressive of South<span class="pagenum" id="Page67">[67]</span> -American states, and Chili is rapidly -recovering from the disastrous earthquake -which visited her last fall.</p> - -<p>The youth of the land, and even the -children of larger growth, will be glad -to know that according to recent investigations -the Island of Juan Fernandez, -so dear to the hearts of every boy -who has grown up on Robinson Crusoe, -was not sunk into the sea by the -disaster, as at first announced, but -remains intact.</p> - -<p>Gov. Magoon has declared vacant -the seats of the senators and representatives -elected to the Cuban Congress -in 1905, and another election -will be held. The rivalry of Moderates -and Liberals continues, while the -Liberals, particularly, are divided -among themselves. It is evident that -American occupation of the island -must continue for some time.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Separation of Church and State.</h3> - -<p>That order of history which is -“philosophy teaching by example” -has been moving steadily and persistently -over the face of Europe toward -a policy which the fathers of our own -republic foresaw and adopted a -hundred and twenty years ago. Perhaps -the most pronounced feature of -Liberalism in the Old World today is -the conviction that the separation of -church and state must become an -accomplished fact. A movement so -vast could not be carried forward -without being complicated in some -measure with bigotry and fanaticism, -but on the whole it may be said that -it is inspired and sustained by the -highest motives of state policy.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> -<img src="images/illo067.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="600" /> -<p class="caption"><i>From a Drawing by “Spy.”</i><br /> -THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.</p> -</div> - -<p>The present Liberal ministry in -England, which succeeded the Balfour -government, appealed to the country -on the issue of free trade and was -overwhelmingly sustained. But since -that time it is safe to say that the -Education bill, introduced by Augustine -Birrell, President of the Board of -Education—and whimsically called -the “Birreligious bill”—has been the -measure most discussed by the British -people and the world at large. Briefly -stated, this bill provides that, beginning -with January of next year, only -such schools as are provided by the -local educational authorities throughout -England shall be recognized as -public schools, and after that date no -public funds can legally be spent on -any other schools. In other words, if -the present denominational voluntary -schools wish to receive government -support they must become public -schools, and as such must be content -with the same undenominational -teaching that is given in other public -schools. The bill provides, further, -that attendance shall not be compulsory, -and that there shall be no religious -test for teachers chosen by the -local authorities. In those schools -which are taken over by the educational<span class="pagenum" id="Page68">[68]</span> -authorities from the religious -organizations—by the consent of the -latter, of course—religious instruction -may be given two mornings a -week, but not by the regular staff of -teachers, and not at the public -expense. The bill further provides -that $5,000,000 shall be appropriated -for educational purposes by the government.</p> - -<p>This measure, which has set all -England in a ferment, was passed by -the House of Commons, but in the -House of Lords it met vigorous opposition, -particularly from the spiritual -peers, headed by the Archbishop of -Canterbury. On Dec. 6 it passed the -upper house, so mutilated as to be -unacceptable to the Commons. The -agitation in favor of mending or ending -the chamber of peers has been coming -prominently forward. No basis -of compromise between the upper and -lower house has yet been found. Since -the Education bill is sent back to the -House of Commons with its most vital -features stricken out, the Liberal Government -will probably go on to other -legislation, equally unacceptable to -the peers, and thus force them to -reject a number of measures which -are demanded by the people. They -will then appeal to the country, and -the ending of a system of hereditary -legislators may be involved in the -popular mandate.</p> - -<div class="figleft nomargin w300"> -<img src="images/illo068.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="424" /> -<p class="caption">PREMIER GEORGES CLEMENCEAU.</p> -</div> - -<p>On the Liberal program is a bill -abolishing plural voting. Under the -present system of property qualification -a large landowner may not only -vote where he resides but in every -other place where he has property, -and as the elections do not occur in -England, as they do in this country, -on one and the same day, it is entirely -practicable for such a landowner actually -to vote for half a dozen parliamentary -candidates. Of course the -peers will oppose any reform of the -present system of plural voting, and -thereby will come in collision with popular -sentiment again. The land -tenure bill, by which a tenant may -secure greater permanency in his lease -or compensation for improvements in -case he is dispossessed, and the trades -unions bill, exempting the funds of -labor unions from damage suits -against members of such unions who -may commit a tort, are also in the -Liberal program, and both will be -resisted by the upper house, thereby -contributing to its own undoing.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Disestablishment in France.</h3> - -<p>While in England there are issues -which dispute the first place with the -Education bill, there can be no doubt -as to the pre-eminence, just at this -time, of the administration of the law -providing for separation of Church -and State in France. It was early -in December, 1905, that the French -Senate adopted a measure which -abrogated the Concordat, signed in -1801 by the First Napoleon and Pope -Pius VII. This measure had already -passed the Chamber of Deputies in -July. In France the churches are -owned by the state and the clergy<span class="pagenum" id="Page69">[69]</span>, -regardless of denomination, are supported -by the government, a member -of the cabinet known as the Minister -of Public Worship, having supervision -of ecclesiastical affairs. According -to the terms of the new bill, no -newly made clergyman of any denomination -is to receive support from the -government of the republic. Those -now getting it from the state will continue -to do so, but the appropriations -are to be decreased as the pensions and -salaries of the clergyman now in office -expire or are withdrawn. The -churches and other places of religious -worship will continue to belong to the -state, but they are to be leased to congregations -of the churches or denominations -now worshipping in them. -The Vatican is bitterly opposing the -separation act, and there has been considerable -delay in forming the associations -to take over the church -property under the terms of the law. -Originally it was provided that the -period during which these associations -should be formed would expire on -December 11, 1906, but there is no -intention on the part of the Clemenceau -ministry, which came into power -late in October, to persecute the -church. M. Briand, Minister of Public -Worship and the author of the -bill, announced in the Chamber of -Deputies on Nov. 10, that church -property not claimed by the “cultural -associations” by Dec. 11 would pass -under control of the state and finally -go to the communes at the end of the -ensuing year, but that in the meantime -the churches will remain at the -disposition of the clergy. The way -is thus left open to the Vatican by the -admission of the possibility that -church property can be granted by -state decree to associations formed -before December 11, 1907.</p> - -<p>The government’s inventories of -church property were completed without -arousing as much hostility as they -did in the beginning but as we go to -press great excitement prevails.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">To Abolish Capital Punishment.</h3> - -<p>Not only is the French government -pursuing a peaceful policy toward the -church, as far as possible, but a -humane measure is now pending which -is well worthy of an era of civilization -and enlightenment. A parliamentary -commission, to which the matter -was referred, has, by a vote of -eight to two, reported in favor of -abolishing the death penalty, and substituting -life imprisonment. In -extreme cases, solitary confinement is -recommended. It is not generally -known, perhaps, that many of the -leading countries of Europe have long -since abolished the death penalty, -except in trials by court martial. It -seems a mockery that Russia should -be no exception to this rule, but in -point of fact it was the Empress -Catherine the Great who took the -initiative in abolishing capital punishment. -That the law is apparently -disregarded is due to the fact that the -greater part of Russia is subjected to -what is known as “the minor state of -siege,” which admits of the application -of military law to the trial of -political prisoners. Capital punishment -was abolished in Greece forty -odd years ago, and since that time -Roumania, Portugal, and the Netherlands -in the order named, have followed -suit. It has been in comparatively -recent years that Italy, Switzerland -and Norway adopted the same -measure of clemency, on the other side -of the water, and Brazil and Venezuela -in the southern part of our own -hemisphere. So the civilized countries -which still retain capital punishment -are the United States, Great -Britain, Germany, Sweden, Austria -and Spain.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Liberalism in Spain.</h3> - -<p>The leaven of Liberalism has been -working mightily in the direction of -the severance of church and state in -the land of the Inquisition.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page70">[70]</span></p> - -<p>The weak and capricious youngster -who occupies the throne of Spain -sent assurances to the Pope, late in -October, of his filial attachment, and -all that sort of thing. Six days later -he signed the Associations bill, which -had just passed the Chamber of -Deputies, restricting the power and -influence of the church in a degree -but slightly less than in France. Then -he made a little speech. There is an -old Spanish custom that the premier -should give a banquet at the end of -each year that he and his colleagues -in the ministry have been continuously -in office. In view of the fact, -as the young king recalled, that one -hundred and twelve ministers had -taken the oath before him during the -four years and a half since his coronation, -there had been no banquets at -the expense of an incumbent premier. -Alfonso, in signing the Associations -bill, expressed the hope that Gen. -Lopez Dominguez, who was then at the -head of the Liberal ministry, with a -large Liberal majority behind him in -the Cortes, “would be able to reintroduce -so pleasant a custom.”</p> - -<p>And the premier said he hoped so, -too.</p> - -<p>Having passed the lower house and -received the signature of the king, -the reform measure which is agitating -all Spain went back to the Senate. It -must pass that body, and again -receive the signature of the king, to -become the law of the land.</p> - -<p>Since 1876, when the Roman -Catholic Church was reestablished -as the state religion of Spain, after a -period of seven years of freedom of -thought, of education, of burial, etc., -the Liberals have been slowly regaining -the liberties secured by the revolution -of 1868. The church has made -strenuous resistance and has pursued -a reactionary policy which has finally -aroused all the liberal and progressive -forces. The state already provided -that marriages between Roman -Catholics must be recorded in the -civil register in order to have legal -validity, but the church contends that -civil unions are valid only when they -are performed according to canon -law. The church has also arrayed -itself against the municipal control of -cemeteries, and demands that the custom -of setting apart certain sections -of such cemeteries for the burial of -foreigners and non-Catholic Spaniards -shall be discontinued. Now the -Liberals, who are in power, have -taken the bit in their teeth, so to -speak. It is proposed to emancipate -the schools from monastic teaching, -and to require a state registration of -all the monastic orders in Spain, of -which there is a large and increasing -number since the agitation began in -France. In short the state will insist -upon the absolute control of civil -marriages, the municipal control of -the cemeteries, and a strict regulation -of the monastic orders.</p> - -<p>In the meantime Gen. Dominguez -will not give that dinner. One faction -in the Cortes thought that some -time should be devoted to a consideration -of the budget, as well as to the -separation act, and he was forced to -resign. A new cabinet was formed -which lasted just three days—including -a Sunday—and resigned. The -Marquis de Armijo has succeeded in -forming another cabinet, with old -Gen. Weyler, by the way, as minister -of war, and he is endeavoring to go -on—with what success remains to be -seen.</p> - -<h3 class="survey">Germany’s Isolation.</h3> - -<p>It is becoming very evident that -the Triple Alliance, consisting of -Italy, Germany and Austria, is becoming -weaker every year. The -feebleness with which Italy supported -Germany’s pretentions in the -Algeciras conference aroused the -resentment of the Kaiser, who made -it a point to telegraph his thanks to -Austria for the part she took on that<span class="pagenum" id="Page71">[71]</span> -same occasion, thereby administering -a silent rebuke to the kingdom beyond -the Alps. This luke-warmness on the -part of Italy is but one of many elements -which go to establish the isolation -of Germany among European -powers. Prince von Buelow, the -German chancellor, in an address at -the opening of the Reichstag, did the -best he could to convince the world -that his imperial master had no -sinister designs against anybody, but -the powers still look upon the Kaiser -with suspicion, and it is very apparent -that he feels it keenly.</p> - -<p>In the meantime France and England -are drawing closer and closer -together. The Anglo-Russian “understanding” -is said to be very satisfactory -at present. The rumor went that -the basis of this understanding between -the Czar and King Edward -was that both governments should -keep out of Tibet, that lower Persia -should be given over to England as -her sphere of influence, while Russia -confined herself to the northern part, -and finally that England should consent -to the opening of the Dardanelles -to the Russian Black Sea fleet. -The last item discredits the whole -program.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>The rumor runs that the Shah of -Persia is practically dying and his son -has been called to assume the regency. -The Shah, before he was taken ill, -granted a national parliament to his -people, of which, however, little has -been heard of late. What the policy -of his son would be if he should succeed -permanently to the throne is -problematical, but behind the occupant -of the Persian throne and the -policy he may adopt, there is always -the shadow of what is called, by -acknowledged pre-eminence, “the -Eastern question,” which will continue -to exist until Russia can get -some satisfactory port where her fleets -will not be frozen up in winter and -she may be free to sail the seas with -her men-of-war and her merchant-men.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>The elections for the Russian duma -have not yet been held, but the assembly -is expected to convene by March -1. The government is improving the -time disfranchising everybody who is -likely to be hostile to the divine right -of kings, is executing or exiling -political prisoners, while the peasants -are being systematically robbed of the -relief sent to prevent them from starving -during the prevailing famine.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>The lower house of the Austrian -parliament, after a stormy agitation -of more than a year, has passed a bill -granting the franchise to every male -Austrian over twenty-four years of -age who is able to read and write, and -has been a resident for at least a year -in the place where an election is held. -The upper house is not inclined to -accept the bill, demanding two votes -for married men over 35 years of age, -but it is hoped that a compromise may -be effected.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>In the Far East, China is becoming -more and more suspicious of Japan’s -intentions in Manchuria, and is discouraging -the attendance of Chinese -students upon Japanese schools and -colleges. Strong measures have been -taken to suppress the use of opium -within ten years.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Australia is still gasping at the -decision of Western Australia to withdraw -from the commonwealth and set -up a government of its own.</p> - -<p>In this movement, the Western section -probably has the entire sympathy -of Ex-Governor Bill Stone, of Pennsylvania, -who is busy just now advocating -the separation of the Western -half of his own state from the Eastern -half, so contaminated by wicked -Philadelphia!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page72">[72]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w430"> -<img src="images/illo072.jpg" alt="Two women" width="430" height="594" /> -<p class="caption">“I RECKON YOU’VE GOT SOMETHING TO TELL ME.”</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page73">[73]</span></p> - -<h2>Ann Boyd.</h2> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="author">By Will N. Harben.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="annboyd"><span class="smcap">Chapter I.</span></h3> - -<p class="dropcapp"><img src="images/dropcapa.jpg" alt="A" width="88" height="100" class="dropcapi" /><span class="noshow">A</span>nn -Boyd stood at the -open door of her corn-house, -a square, one-storied -hut made of the -trunks of young pine-trees, -the bark of -which, being worm-eaten, -was crumbling from the smooth -hard-wood. She had a tin pail on her -arm, and was selecting “nubbins” for -her cow from the great heap of -husked corn which, like a mound of -golden nuggets, lay within. The -strong-jawed animal could crunch the -dwarfed ears, grain and corn together, -when they were stirred into a mush -made of wheat-bran and dish-water.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Boyd, although past fifty, -showed certain signs of having been a -good-looking woman. Her features -were regular, but her once slight and -erect figure was now heavy, and bent -as if from toil. Her hair, which in -her youth had been a luxuriant golden -brown, was now thinner and liberally -streaked with gray. From her eyes -deep wrinkles diverged, and the corners -of her firm mouth were drawn -downward. Her face, even in repose, -wore an almost constant frown, and -this habit had deeply gashed her forehead -with lines that deepened when -she was angry.</p> - -<p>With her pail on her arm, she was -turning back towards her cottage, -which stood about a hundred yards to -the right, beneath the shade of two -giant oaks, when she heard her name -called from the main-travelled road, -which led past her farm, on to Darley, -ten miles away.</p> - -<p>“Oh, it’s you, Mrs. Waycroft!” she -exclaimed, without change of countenance, -as the head and shoulders of a -neighbor appeared above the rail-fence. -“I couldn’t imagine who it -was calling me.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, it was me,” the woman said, -as Mrs. Boyd reached the fence and -rested her pail on the top rail. “I -hain’t seed you since I seed you at -church, Sunday. I tried to get over -yesterday, but was too busy with one -thing and another.”</p> - -<p>“I reckon you have had your hands -full planting cotton,” said Mrs. Boyd. -“I didn’t expect you; besides, I’ve -had all I could do in my own field.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, my boys have been hard at -it,” said Mrs. Waycroft. “I don’t go -to the field myself, like you do. I -reckon I ain’t hardy enough, but keeping -things for them to eat and the -house in order takes all my time.”</p> - -<p>“I reckon,” said Mrs. Boyd, studying -the woman’s face closely under the -faded black poke-bonnet—“I reckon -you’ve got something to tell me. You -generally have. I wish I could not -care a snap of the finger what folks -say, but I’m only a natural woman. I -want to hear things sometimes when I -know they will make me so mad that I -won’t eat a bite for days.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page74">[74]</span></p> - -<p>Mrs. Waycroft looked down at the -ground. “Well,” she began, “I -reckon you know thar would be considerable -talk after what happened at -meeting Sunday. You know a thing -like that naturally <i>would</i> stir up a -quiet community like this.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, when I think of it I can see -there would be enough said, but I’m -used to being the chief subject of idle -talk. I’ve had twenty odd years of it, -Mary Waycroft, though this public -row was rather unexpected. I didn’t -look for abuse from the very pulpit in -God’s house, if it <i>is</i> His. I didn’t -know you were there. I didn’t know a -friendly soul was nigh.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, I was there clean through -from the opening hymn. A bolt -from heaven on a sunny day couldn’t -have astonished me more than I was -when you come in and walked straight -up the middle aisle, and sat down just -as if you’d been coming there regular -for all them years. I reckon you had -your own private reasons for making -the break.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, I did.” The wrinkled mouth -of the speaker twitched nervously. -“I’d been thinking it out, Mrs. Waycroft, -for a long time and trying to -pray over it, and at last I come to the -conclusion that if I didn’t go to -church like the rest, it was an open -admission that I acknowledged myself -worse than others, and so I determined -to go—I determined to go if it -killed me.”</p> - -<p>“And to think you was rewarded -that way!” answered Mrs. Waycroft; -“it’s a shame! Ann Boyd, it’s a dirty -shame!”</p> - -<p>“It will be a long time before I -darken a church door again,” said -Mrs. Boyd. “If I’m ever seen there -it will be after I’m dead and they take -me there feet foremost to preach over -my body. I didn’t look around, but I -knew they were all whispering about -me.”</p> - -<p>“You never saw the like in your life, -Ann,” the visitor said. “Heads were -bumping together to the damagement -of new spring hats, and everybody -was asking what it meant. Some said -that, after meeting, you was going up -and give your hand to Brother Bazemore -and ask him to take you back, as -a member, but he evidently didn’t -think you had a purpose like that, or -he wouldn’t have opened up on you -as he did. Of course, everybody thar -knowed he was hitting at you.”</p> - -<p>“Oh yes, they all knew, and he had -no reason for thinking I wanted to -ask any favor, for he knows too well -what I think of him. He hates the -ground I walk on. He has been -openly against me ever since he come -to my house and asked me to let the -Sunday-school picnic at my spring -and in my grove. I reckon I gave it -to him pretty heavy that day, for all -I’d been hearing about what he had to -say of me had made me mad. I let -him get out his proposal as politely as -such a sneaking man could, and then I -showed him where I stood. Here -Mrs. Waycroft, I’ve been treated like -a dog and an outcast by every member -of his church for the last twenty -years, called the vilest names a -woman ever bore by his so-called -Christian gang, and then, when they -want something I’ve got—something -that nobody else can furnish quite as -suitable for their purpose—why he -saunters over to my house holding the -skirts of his long coat as if afraid of -contamination, and calmly demands -the use of my property—property -that I’ve slaved in the hot sun and -sleet and rain to pay for with hard -work. Oh, I was mad! You see, that -was too much, and I reckon he never -in all his life got such a tongue-lashing. -When I came in last Sunday -and sat down, I saw his eyes flash, -and knew if he got half an excuse he -would let out on me. I was sorry I’d -come then, but there was no backing -out after I’d got there.”</p> - -<p>“When he took his text I knew he -meant it for you,” said the other -woman. “I have never seen a madder -man in the pulpit, never in my<span class="pagenum" id="Page75">[75]</span> -life. While he was talking, he never -once looked at you, though he knew -everybody else was doing nothing else. -Then I seed you rise to your feet. He -stopped to take a drink from his goblet, -and you could ’a’ heard a pin fall, -it was so still. I reckon the rest -thought like I did, that you was going -right up to him and pull his hair or -slap his jaws. You looked like you -hardly knowed what you was doing, -and, for one, I tuck a free breath -when you walked straight out of the -house. What you did was exactly -right, as most fair-minded folks will -admit, though I’m here to tell you, -my friend, that you won’t find fair-minded -folks very plentiful hereabouts. -The fair-minded ones are over -there in that graveyard.”</p> - -<p>Mrs. Boyd stroked her quivering -lips with her hard, brown hand, and -said, softly: “I wasn’t going to sit -there and listen to any more of it. -I’d thrown aside pride and principle -and gone to do my duty to my religion, -as I saw it, and thought maybe -some of them—one or two, at least—would -meet me part of the way, but I -couldn’t listen to a two hours’ tirade -about me and my—my misfortune. -If I’d stayed any longer, I’d have -spoken back to him, and that would -have been exactly what he and some -of the rest would have wanted, for -then they could have made a case -against me in court for disturbing -public worship, and imposed a heavy -fine. They can’t bear to think that, -in spite of all their persecution, I’ve -gone ahead and paid my debts and -prospered in a way that they never -could do with all their sanctimony.”</p> - -<p>There was silence for a moment. A -gentle breeze stirred the leaves of the -trees and the blades of long grass -beside the road. There was a far-away -tinkling of cow and sheep bells -in the lush-green pastures which -stretched out towards the frowning -mountain against which the setting -sun was levelling its rays.</p> - -<p>“You say you haven’t seen anybody -since Sunday,” remarked the -loitering woman, in restrained, tentative -tones.</p> - -<p>“No, I’ve been right here. Why -did you ask me that?”</p> - -<p>“Well, you see, Ann,” was the slow -answer, “talking at the rate Bazemore -was to your face, don’t you -think it would be natural for him to—to -sort o’ rub it on even heavier -behind your back, after you got up -that way and went out so sudden.”</p> - -<p>“I never thought of it, but I can -see now that it would be just like -him.” Mrs. Boyd took a deep breath -and lowered her pail to the ground. -“Yes,” she went on, reflectively, as -she drew herself up again and leaned -on the fence, “I reckon he got good -and mad when I got up and left.”</p> - -<p>“Huh!” The other woman smiled. -“He was so mad he could hardly -speak. He fairly gulped, his eyes -flashed, and he was as white as a bunch -of cotton. He poured out another -goblet of water that he had no idea of -drinking, and his hand shook so much -that the glass tinkled like a bell -against the mouth of the pitcher. -You must have got as far as the hitching-rack -before his fury busted out. I -reckon what he said was the most -unbecoming thing that a stout, able-bodied -man ever hurled at a defenseless -woman’s back.”</p> - -<p>There was another pause. Mrs. -Boyd’s expectant face was as hard as -stone; her dark-gray eyes were two -burning fires in their shadowy orbits.</p> - -<p>“What did he say?” she asked. -“You might as well tell me.”</p> - -<p>Mrs. Waycroft avoided her companion’s -fierce stare. “He looked -down at the place where you sat, Ann. -right steady for a minute, then he -said: ‘I’m glad that woman had the -common decency to sit on a seat by -herself while she was here; but I hope -when meeting is over that some of you -brethren will take the bench out in -the woods and burn it. I’ll pay for a -new one out of my own pocket.<span class="pagenum" id="Page76">[76]</span>’”</p> - -<p>“Oh!” The exclamation seemed -wrung from her when off her guard, -and Mrs. Boyd clutched the rail of -the fence so tightly that her strong -nails sunk into the soft wood. “He -said <i>that</i>! He said that <i>about me</i>!”</p> - -<p>“Yes, and he ought to have been -ashamed of himself,” said Mrs. Waycroft; -“and if he had been anything -else than a preacher, surely some of -the men there—men you have -befriended—would not have set still -and let it pass.”</p> - -<p>“But they <i>did</i> let it pass,” said -Mrs. Boyd, bitterly; “they did let it -pass, one and all.”</p> - -<p>“Oh yes, nobody would dare, in -this section, to criticise a preacher,” -said the other. “What any little, -spindle-legged parson says goes the -same as the word of God out here in -the backwoods. I’d have left the -church myself, but I knowed you’d -want to hear what was said; besides, -they all know I’m your friend.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, they all know you are the -only white woman that ever comes -near me. But what else did he say?”</p> - -<p>“Oh, he had lots to say. He said -he hadn’t mentioned no names, but it -was always the hit dog that yelped, -and that you had made yourself a -target by leaving as you did. He -went on to say that, in his opinion, all -that was proved at court against you -away back there was just. He said -some folks misunderstood Scripture -when it come to deal with your sort -and stripe. He said some argued that a -church door ought always to be wide -open to any sinner whatsoever, but -that in your daily conduct of holding -every coin so tight that the eagle on it -squeals, and in giving nothing to send -the Bible to the heathens, and being -eternally at strife with your neighbors, -you had showed, he said, that no -good influence could be brought to -bear on you, and that people who was -really trying to live upright lives -ought to shun you like they would a -catching disease. He ’lowed you’d -had the same Christian chance in -your bringing-up, and a better education -than most gals, and had deliberately -throwed it all up and gone your -headstrong way. In his opinion, it -would be wrong to condone your past, -and tell folks you stood an equal -chance with the rising generation -fetched up under the rod and Biblical -injunction by parents who knowed -what lasting scars the fires of sin -could burn in a living soul. He said -the community had treated you right, -in sloughing away from you, ever -since you was found out, because you -had never showed a minutes’ open -repentance. You’d helt your head, -he thought, if possible, higher than -ever, and in not receiving the social -sanction of your neighbors, it looked -like you was determined to become the -richest woman in the state for no -other reason than to prove that wrong -prospered.”</p> - -<p>The speaker paused in her recital. -The listener, her face set and dark -with fury, glanced towards the cottage. -“Come in,” she said, huskily; -“people might pass along and know -what we are talking about, and, somehow, -I don’t want to give them that -satisfaction.”</p> - -<p>“That’s a fact,” said Mrs. Waycroft; -“they say I fetch you every bit -of gossip, anyway. A few have quit -speaking to me. Bazemore would himself, -if he didn’t look to me once a -month for my contribution. I hope -what I’ve told you won’t upset you, -Ann, but you always say you want to -know what’s going on. It struck me -that the whole congregation was about -the most heartless body of human -beings I ever saw packed together in -one bunch.”</p> - -<p>“I want you to tell me one other -thing,” said Mrs. Boyd, tensely, as -they were entering the front doorway -of the cottage—“was Jane Hemingway -there?”</p> - -<p>“Oh yes, by a large majority. I -forgot to tell you about her. I had -my eyes on her, too, for I knowed it -would tickle her nigh to death, and it<span class="pagenum" id="Page77">[77]</span> -did. When you left she actually giggled -out loud and turned back an’ -whispered to the Mayfield girls. Her -old, yellow face fairly shone, she was -that glad, and when Bazemore went -on talking about you and burning -that bench, she fairly doubled up, -with her handkerchief clapped over -her mouth.”</p> - -<p>Mrs. Boyd drew a stiff-backed chair -from beneath the dining-table and -pushed it towards her guest. “There -is not in hell itself, Mary Waycroft, a -hatred stronger than I feel right now -for that woman. She is a fiend in -human shape. That miserable creature -has hounded me every minute -since we were girls together. As God -is my judge, I believe I could kill her -and not suffer remorse. There was a -time when my disposition was as sweet -and gentle as any girl’s, but she -changed it. She has made me what I -am. She is responsible for it all. I -might have gone on—after my—my -misfortune, and lived in some sort of -harmony with my kind if it hadn’t -been for her.”</p> - -<p>“I know that,” said the other -woman, as she sat down and folded -her cloth bonnet in her thin hands. -“I really believe you’d have been a -different woman, as you say, after—after -your trouble if she had let you -alone.”</p> - -<p>Mrs. Boyd seated herself in another -chair near the open door, and looked -out at a flock of chickens and ducks -which had gathered at the step and -were noisily clamoring for food.</p> - -<p>“I saw two things that made my -blood boil as I was leaving the -church,” said she. “I saw Abe Longley, -who has been using my pasture -for his cattle free of charge for the -last ten years. I caught sight of his -face, and it made me mad to think -he’d sit there and never say a word in -defence of the woman he’d been using -all that time; and then I saw George -Wilson, just as indifferent, near the -door, when I’ve been favoring him -and his shabby store with all my trade -when I could have done better by -going on to Darley. I reckon neither -of those two men said the slightest -thing when Bazemore advised the—burning -of the bench I’d sat on.”</p> - -<p>“Oh no, of course not!” said Mrs. -Waycroft, “nobody said a word. -They wouldn’t have dared, Ann.”</p> - -<p>“Well, they will both hear from -me,” said Mrs. Boyd, “and in a way -that they won’t forget soon. I tell -you, Mary Waycroft, this thing has -reached a climax. That burning -bench is going to be my war-torch. -They say I’ve been at strife with my -neighbors all along; well, they’ll see -now. I struggled and struggled with -pride to get up to the point of going -to church again, and that’s the reception -I got.”</p> - -<p>“It’s a pity to entertain hard feelings, -but I don’t blame you a single -bit,” said Mrs. Waycroft, sympathetically. -“As I look at it, you have -done all you can to live in harmony, -and they simply won’t have it. They -might be different if it wasn’t for -that meddlesome old Jane Hemingway. -She keeps them stirred up. She -and her daughter is half starving to -death, while you—” Mrs. Waycroft -glanced round the room at the warm -rag carpet of many colors, at the neat -fire-screen made of newspaper pictures -pasted on a crude frame of -wood, and, higher, to the mantel-piece, -whose sole ornament was a Seth -Thomas clock, with the Tower of London -in glaring colors on the glass -door—“while you don’t ask anybody -any odds. Instead of starving, gold -dollars seem to roll up to your door of -their own accord and fall in a heap. -They tell me even that cotton factory -which you invested in, and which Mrs. -Hemingway said had busted and gone -up the spout, is really doing well.”</p> - -<p>“The stock has doubled in value,” -said Mrs. Boyd, simply. “I don’t -know how to account for my making -money. I reckon it’s simply good -judgment and a habit of throwing -nothing away. The factory got to a<span class="pagenum" id="Page78">[78]</span> -pretty low ebb, and the people lost -faith in it, and were offering their -stock at half price. My judgment -told me it would pull through as soon -as times improved, and I bought an -interest in it at a low figure. I was -right; it proved to be a fine investment.”</p> - -<p>“I was sorter sorry for Virginia -Hemingway, Sunday,” said Mrs. -Waycroft. “When her mother was -making such an exhibition of herself -in gloating over the way you was -treated, the poor girl looked like she -was ashamed, and pulled Jane’s -apron like she was trying to keep her -quiet. I reckon you hain’t got nothing -against the girl, Ann?”</p> - -<p>“Nothing except that she is that -devilish woman’s offspring,” said Mrs. -Boyd. “It’s hard to dislike her; -she’s pretty—by all odds the prettiest -and sweetest-looking young woman in -this county. Her mother in her prime -never saw the day she was anything -like her. They say Virginia isn’t -much of a hand to gossip and abuse -folks. I reckon her mother’s ways -have disgusted her.”</p> - -<p>“I reckon that’s it,” said the other -woman, as she rose to go. “I know I -love to look at her; she does my old -eyes good. At meeting I sometimes -gaze steady at her for several minutes -on a stretch. Sitting beside that -hard, crabbed old thing, the girl certainly -does look out of place. She -deserves a better fate than to be tied -to such a woman. I reckon she’ll be -picked up pretty soon by some of these -young men—that is, if Jane will give -her any sort of showing. Jane is so -suspicious of folks that she hardly lets -Virginia out of her sight. Well, I -must be going. Since my husband’s -death I’ve had my hands full on the -farm; he did a lots to help out, even -about the kitchen. Good-bye. I can -see what I’ve said has made a change -in you, Ann. I never saw you look -quite so different.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, the whole thing has kind o’ -jerked me round,” replied Mrs. Boyd. -“I’ve taken entirely too much off of -these people—let them run over me -dry-shod; but I’ll show them a thing -or two. They won’t let me live in -peace, and now they can try the other -thing.” And Ann Boyd stood in the -doorway and watched the visitor -trudge slowly away.</p> - -<p>“Yes,” she mused, as she looked -out into the falling dusk, “they are -trying to drive me to the wall with -their sneers and lashing tongues. But -I’ll show then that a worm can turn.”</p> - -<h3 class="annboyd"><span class="smcap">Chapter II.</span></h3> - -<p>The next morning, after a frugal -breakfast of milk and cornmeal -pancake, prepared over an open -fireplace on live coals, which reddened -her cheeks and bare arms, -Mrs. Boyd pinned up her skirts -till their edges hung on a level -with the tops of her coarse, calf-skin -shoes. She then climbed over the -brier-grown rail-fence with the agility -of a hunter and waded through the -high, dew-soaked weeds and grass in -the direction of the rising sun. The -meadow was like a rolling green sea -settling down to calmness after a -storm. Here and there a tuft of dewy -broom-sedge held up to her vision a -sheaf of green hung with sparkling -diamonds, emeralds, and rubies, and -far ahead ran a crystal creek in and -out among gracefully drooping willows -and erect young reeds.</p> - -<p>“That’s his brindle heifer now,” -the trudging woman said, harshly. -“And over beyond the hay-stack and -cotton-shed is his muley cow and calf. -Huh, I reckon I’ll make them strike a -lively trot! It will be some time -before they get grass as rich as mine -inside of them to furnish milk and -butter for Abe Longley and his sanctimonious -lay-out.”</p> - -<p>Slowly walking around the animals, -she finally got them together and -drove them from her pasture to the -small road which ran along the foot of -the mountain towards their owne<span class="pagenum" id="Page79">[79]</span>r’s -farm-house, the gray roof of which -rose above the leafy trees in the distance. -To drive the animals out, she -had found it necessary to lower a -panel of her fence, and she was replacing -the rails laboriously, one by one, when -she heard a voice from the woodland -on the mountain-side, a tract of -unproductive land owned by the man -whose cows she was ejecting. It was -Abe Longley himself, and in some surprise -he hurried down the rugged -steep, a woodman’s axe on his -shoulder. He was a gaunt, slender -man, gray and grizzled, past sixty -years of age, with a tuft of stiff beard -on his chin, which gave his otherwise -smooth-shaven face a forbidding -expression.</p> - -<p>“Hold on thar, Sister Boyd!” he -called out, cheerily, though he seemed -evidently to be trying to keep from -betraying the impatience he evidently -felt. “You must be getting nigh-sighted -in yore old age. As shore as -you are a foot high them’s my cattle, -an’ not yourn. Why, I knowed my -brindle from clean up at my woodpile, -a full quarter from here. I seed -yore mistake an’ hollered then, but I -reckon you are gettin’ deef as well as -blind. I driv’ ’em in not twenty minutes -ago, as I come on to do my cuttin’.”</p> - -<p>“I know you did, Abe Longley,” -and Mrs. Boyd stooped to grasp and -raise the last rail and carefully put it -in place; “I know they are yours. My -eyesight’s good enough. I know good -and well they are yours, and that is -the very reason I made them hump -themselves to get off my property.”</p> - -<p>“But—but,” and the farmer, thoroughly -puzzled, lowered his glittering -axe and stared wonderingly—“but -you know, Sister Boyd, that you told -me with your own mouth that, being -as I’d traded off my own pasture-land -to Dixon for my strip o’ wheat in the -bottom, that I was at liberty to use -yourn how and when I liked, and, now—why, -I’ll be dad-blamed if I understand -you one bit.”</p> - -<p>“Well, I understand what I’m -about, Abe Longley, if you don’t!” -retorted the owner of the land. “I -<i>did</i> say you could pasture on it, but I -didn’t say you could for all time and -eternity; and I now give you due -notice if I ever see any four-footed -animal of yours inside of my fences -I’ll run them out with an ounce of -buckshot in their hides.”</p> - -<p>“Well, well, well!” Longley cried, -at the end of his resources, as he leaned -on his smooth axe-handle with one -hand and clutched his beard with the -other. “I don’t know what to make -of yore conduct. I can’t do without -the use of your land. There hain’t a -bit that I could rent or buy for love -or money on either side of me for -miles around. When folks find a -man’s in need of land, they stick the -price up clean out of sight. I was -tellin’ Sue the other day that we was -in luck havin’ sech a neighbor—one -that would do so much to help a body -in a plight.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, I’m very good and kind,” -sneered Mrs. Boyd, her sharp eyes -ablaze with indignation, “and last -Sunday in meeting you and a lot of -other able-bodied men sat still and -let that foul-mouthed Bazemore say -that even the wooden bench I sat on -ought to be taken out and burned for -the public good. You sat there and -listened to <i>that</i>, and when he was -through you got up and sung the -doxology and bowed your head while -that makeshift of a preacher called -down God’s benediction on you. If -you think I’m going to keep a pasture -for such a man as you to fatten your -stock on, you need a guardian to look -after you.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, I see,” Longley exclaimed, a -crestfallen look on him. “You are -goin’ to blame us all for what he -said, and you are mad at everybody -that heard it. But you are dead -wrong, Ann Boyd—dead wrong. You -can’t make over public opinion, and -you’d ’a’ been better off years ago if -you hadn’t been so busy trying to do<span class="pagenum" id="Page80">[80]</span> -it, whether or no. Folks would let -you alone if you’d ’a’ showed a more -repentant sperit, and not held your -head so high and been so spiteful. -I reckon the most o’ your trouble—that -is, the reason it’s lasted so long, -is due to the women-folks more than -the men of the community, anyhow. -You see, it sorter rubs women’s wool -the wrong way to see about the only -prosperity a body can see in the entire -county falling at the feet of the one—well, -the one least expected to have -sech things—the one, I mought say, -who hadn’t lived exactly up to the -<i>best</i> precepts.”</p> - -<p>“I don’t go to men like you for my -precepts,” the woman hurled at him, -“and I haven’t got any time for -palavering. All I want to do is to -give you due notice not to trespass on -my land, and I’ve done that plain -enough, I reckon.”</p> - -<p>Abe Longley’s thin face showed -anger that was even stronger than -his avarice; he stepped nearer to her, -his eyes flashing, his wide upper-lip -twitching nervously. “Do you know,” -he said, “that it’s purty foolhardy of -you to take up a fight like that agin -a whole community. You know you -hain’t agoin’ to make a softer bed to -lie on. You know, if you find fault -with me for not denouncin’ Bazemore, -you may as well find fault with every -living soul that was under reach o’ -his voice, fer nobody budged or said a -word in yore defence.”</p> - -<p>“I’m taking up a fight with no -one,” the woman said, firmly. “They -can listen to what they want to listen -to. The only thing I’m going to do -in future is to see that no person uses -me for profit and then willingly sees -me spat upon. That’s all I’ve got to -say to you.” And, turning, she -walked away, leaving him standing as -if rooted among his trees on the -brown mountain-side.</p> - -<p>“He’ll go home and tell his wife, -and she’ll gad about and fire the -whole community against me,” Mrs. -Boyd mused; “but I don’t care. I’ll -have my rights if I die for it.”</p> - -<p>An hour later, in another dress and -a freshly washed and ironed gingham -bonnet, she fed her chickens from a -pan of wet cornmeal dough, locked up -her house carefully, fastened down -the window-sashes on the inside by -placing sticks above the movable -ones, and trudged down the road to -George Wilson’s country-store at the -crossing of the roads which led respectively -to Springtown, hard-by on -one side, and Darley, farther away on -the other.</p> - -<p>The store was a long, frame building -which had once been whitewashed, -but was now only a fuzzy, weather-beaten -gray. As was usual in such -structures, the front walls of planks -rose higher than the pointed roof, and -held large and elaborate lettering -which might be read quite a distance -away. Thereon the young storekeeper -made the questionable statement -that a better price for produce -was given at his establishment than -at Darley, where high rent, taxes, -and clerk-hire had to be paid, and, -moreover, that his goods were sold -cheaper because, unlike the town -dealers, he lived on the products from -his own farm and employed no help. -In front of the store, convenient alike -to both roads, stood a rustic hitching-rack -made of unbarked oaken poles -into which railway spikes had been -driven, and on which horseshoes had -been nailed to hold the reins of any -customer’s mount. On the ample -porch of the store stood a new machine -for the hulling of peas, several -ploughs, and a red-painted device for -the dropping and covering of seed-corn. -On the walls within hung various -pieces of tinware and harnesses -and saddles, and the two rows of -shelving held a good assortment of -general merchandise.</p> - -<p>As Mrs. Boyd entered the store, -Wilson, a blond young man with -an ample mustache, stood behind the -counter talking to an Atlanta drummer<span class="pagenum" id="Page81">[81]</span> -who had driven out from Darley -to sell the storekeeper some dry-goods -and notions, and he did not come to -her at once, but delayed to see the -drummer make an entry in his order-book; -then he advanced to her.</p> - -<p>“Excuse me, Mrs. Boyd,” he smiled, -“I am ordering some new prints for -you ladies, and I wanted to see that -he got the number of bolts down right. -This is early for you to be out, isn’t -it? It’s been many a day since I’ve -seen you pass this way before dinner. -I took a sort of liberty with you yesterday, -knowing how good-natured -you are. Dave Prixon was going your -way with his empty wagon, and, as I -was about to run low on your favorite -brand of flour, I sent you a barrel -and put it on your account at the old -price. I thought you’d keep it. You -may have some yet on hand, but this -will come handy when you get out.”</p> - -<p>“But I don’t intend to keep it,” -replied the woman, under her bonnet, -and her voice sounded harsh and -crisp. “I haven’t touched it. It’s -out in the yard where Prixon dumped -it. If it was to rain on it I reckon it -would mildew. It wouldn’t be my -loss. I didn’t order it put there.”</p> - -<p>“Why, Mrs. Boyd!” and Wilson’s -tone and surprised glance at the -drummer caused that dapper young -man to prick up his ears and move -nearer; “why, it’s the best brand I -handle, and you said the last gave you -particular satisfaction, so I naturally—”</p> - -<p>“Well, I don’t want it; I didn’t -order it, and I don’t intend to have -you nor no one else unloading stuff in -my front yard whenever you take a -notion and want to make money by -the transaction. Deduct that from -my bill, and tell me what I owe you. -I want to settle in full.”</p> - -<p>“But—but—” Wilson had never -seemed to the commercial traveller to -be so much disturbed; he was actually -pale, and his long hands, which rested -on the smooth surface of the counter, -were trembling—“but I don’t understand,” -he floundered. “It’s only the -middle of the month, Mrs. Boyd, and -I never run up accounts till the end. -You are not going <i>off</i>, are you?”</p> - -<p>“Oh no,” and the woman pushed -back her bonnet and eyed him almost -fiercely, “you needn’t any of you -think that. I’m going to stay right -on here; but I’ll tell you what I am -going to do, George Wilson—I’m -going to buy my supplies in the future -at Darley. You see, since this talk of -burning the very bench I sit on in -the house of God, which you and your -ilk set and listen to, why—”</p> - -<p>“Oh, Mrs. Boyd,” he broke in, -“now don’t go and blame me for what -Brother Bazemore said when he -was—”</p> - -<p>“<i>Brother</i> Bazemore!” The woman -flared up and brought her clinched -hand down on the counter. “I’ll -never as long as I live let another dollar -of my money pass into the hands -of a man who calls that man brother. -You sat still and raised no protest -against what he said, and that ends -business between us for all time. -There is no use talking about it. -Make out my account, and don’t keep -me standing here to be stared at like -I was a curiosity in a side-show.”</p> - -<p>“All right, Mrs. Boyd; I’m sorry,” -faltered Wilson, with a glance at the -drummer, who, feeling that he had -been alluded to, moved discreetly -across the room and leaned against the -opposite counter. “I’ll go back to the -desk and make it out.”</p> - -<p>She stood motionless where he had -left her till he came back with her -account in his hand, then from a -leather bag she counted out the money -and paid it to him. The further faint, -half-fearful apologies which Wilson -ventured on making seemed to fall on -closed ears, and, with the receipted -bill in her bag, she strode from the -house. He followed her to the door -and stood looking after her as she -angrily trudged back towards her -farm.</p> - -<p>“Well, well,” he sighed, as the<span class="pagenum" id="Page82">[82]</span> -drummer came to his elbow and stared -at him wonderingly, “there goes the -best and most profitable customer I’ve -had since I began selling goods. It’s -made me sick at heart, Masters. I -don’t see how I can do without her, -and yet I don’t blame her one bit—not -a bit, so help me God.”</p> - -<h3 class="annboyd"><span class="smcap">Chapter III.</span></h3> - -<p>Wilson turned, and with a frown -went moodily back to his desk and sat -down on the high stool gloomily eyeing -the page in a ledger which he had -just consulted.</p> - -<p>“By George, that woman’s a corker,” -said the drummer, sociably, as he -came back and stood near the long -wood-stove. “Of course, I don’t know -what it’s all about, but she’s her own -boss, I’ll stake good money on that.”</p> - -<p>“She’s about the sharpest and in -many ways the strongest woman in -the state,” said the storekeeper, with -a sigh. “Good Lord, Masters, she’s -been my main-stay ever since I opened -this shack, and now to think because -that loud-mouthed Bazemore, who -expects me to pay a good part of his -salary, takes a notion to rip her up -the back in meeting, why—”</p> - -<p>“Oh, I see!” cried the drummer—“I -understand it now. I heard about -that at Darley. So <i>she’s</i> the woman! -Well, I’m glad I got a good look at -her. I see a lot of queer things in -going about over the country, but I -don’t think I ever ran across just her -sort.”</p> - -<p>“She’s had a devil of a life, Masters, -from the time she was a blooming, -pretty young girl till now that -she is at war with everybody within -miles of her. She’s always been a -study to me. She’s treated me more -like a son than anything else—doing -everything in her power to help me -along, buying, by George, things -sometimes that I knew she didn’t need -because it would help me out, and -now, because I didn’t get up in meeting -last Sunday and call that man -down she holds me accountable. I -don’t know but what she’s right. Why -should I take her hard-earned money -and sit still and allow her to be -abused? She’s simply got pride, and, -lots of it, and it’s bad hurt.”</p> - -<p>“But what was it all about?” the -drummer inquired.</p> - -<p>“The start of it was away back -when she was a girl, as I said,” began -the storekeeper. “You’ve heard of -Colonel Preston Chester, our biggest -planter, who lives a mile from here—old-time -chap, fighter of duels, officer -in the army, and all that?”</p> - -<p>“Oh yes, I’ve seen him; in fact, I -was at college at the State University -with his son Langdon. He was a -terrible fellow—very wild and reckless, -full half the time, and playing -poker every night. He was never -known to pay a debt, even to his best -friends.”</p> - -<p>“Langdon is a chip off of the old -block,” said Wilson. “His father -was just like him when he was a young -man. Between you and me, the -Colonel never had a conscience; old as -he now is, he will sit and laugh about -his pranks right in the presence of -his son. It’s no wonder the boy turned -out like he did. Well, away back -when this Mrs. Boyd was a young -and pretty girl, the daughter of honest, -hard-working people, who owned -a little farm back of his place, he took -an idle fancy to her. I’m telling you -now what has gradually leaked out -in one way and another since. He -evidently won her entire confidence, -made her believe he was going to -marry her, and, as he was a dashing -young fellow, she must have fallen in -love with him. Nobody knows how -that was, but one thing is sure, and -that is that he was seen about with -her almost constantly for a whole -year, and then he stopped off suddenly. -The report went out that he’d -made up his mind to get married to a -young woman in Alabama who had a -lot of money, and he did go off and -bring home the present Mrs. Chester, -Langdon’s mother. Well, old-timers<span class="pagenum" id="Page83">[83]</span> -say young Ann Boyd took it hard, -stayed close in at home and wasn’t -seen out for a couple of years. Then -she came out again, and they say she -was better-looking than ever and a -great deal more serious and sensible. -Joe Boyd was a young farmer -those days, and a sort of dandy, -and he fell in love with her and -hung about her day and night, -never seeming willing to let her out -of his sight. Several other fellows, -they say, was after her, but she seemed -to like Joe the best, but nothing -he’d do or say would make her accept -him. I can see through it now, -looking back on what has since leaked -out, but nobody understood it then, -for she had evidently got over her -attachment for Colonel Chester, and -Joe was a promising fellow, strong, -good-looking, and a great beau and -flirt among women, half a dozen being -in love with him, but Ann simply -wouldn’t take him, and it was the talk -of the whole county. He was simply -desperate, folks say, going about boring -everybody he met with his love -affair. Finally her mother and father -and all her friends got after her to -marry Joe, and she gave in. And then -folks wondered more than ever why -she’d delayed for she was more in love -with her husband than anybody had -any reason to expect. They were happy, -too. A child was born, a little girl, -and that seemed to make them happier. -Then Mrs. Boyd’s mother and father -died, and she came into the farm, and -the Boyds were comfortable in every -way. Then what do you think happened?”</p> - -<p>“I’ve been wondering all along,” -the drummer laughed. “I can see -you’re holding something up your -sleeve.”</p> - -<p>“Well, this happened. Colonel -Chester’s wife was, even then, a -homely woman, about as old as he -was, and not at all attractive aside -from her money, and marrying hadn’t -made him any the less devilish. They -say he saw Mrs. Boyd at meeting one -day and hardly took his eyes off of -her during preaching. She had developed -into about the most stunning-looking -woman anywhere about, and -knew how to dress, which was something -Mrs. Chester, with all her -chances, had never seemed to get onto. -Well, that was the start of it, and -from that day on Chester seemed to -have nothing on his mind but the good -looks of his old sweetheart. Folks saw -him on his horse riding about where he -could get to meet her, and then it got -reported that he was actually forcing -himself on her to such an extent that -Joe Boyd was worked up over it, aided -by the eternal gab of all the women in -the section.”</p> - -<p>“Did Colonel Chester’s wife get -onto it?” the drummer wanted to -know.</p> - -<p>“It don’t seem like she did,” -answered Wilson. “She was away -visiting her folks in the South most -of the time, with Langdon, who was -a baby then, and it may be that she -didn’t care. Some folks thought she -was weak-minded; she never seemed -to have any will of her own, but left -the Colonel to manage her affairs without -a word.”</p> - -<p>“Well, go on with your story,” -urged the drummer.</p> - -<p>“There isn’t much more to tell -about the poor woman,” continued -Wilson. “As I said, Chester got to -forcing himself on her, and I reckon -she didn’t want to tell her husband -what she was trying to forget for fear -of a shooting scrape, in which Joe -would get the worst of it; but this -happened: Joe was off at court in Darley -and sent word home to his wife -that he was to be held all night on a -jury. The man that took the message -rode home alongside of Chester and -told him about it. Well, I reckon, all -hell broke out in Chester that night. -He was a drinking man, and he tanked -up, and, as his wife was away, he had -plenty of liberty. Well, he simply went -over to Joe Boyd’s house and went in. -It was about ten o’clock. My honest<span class="pagenum" id="Page84">[84]</span> -conviction is, no matter what others -think, that she tried her level best to -make him leave without rousing the -neighborhood, but he wouldn’t go, but -sat there in the dark with his coat off, -telling her he loved her more than her -husband did, and that he never had -loved his wife and that he was crazy -for her, and the like. How long this -went on with her imploring and praying -to him to go, I don’t know; but, at -any rate, they both heard the gate-latch -click and Joe Boyd come right up -the gravel-walk. I reckon the poor -woman was scared clean out of her -senses, for she made no outcry, and -Chester went to a window, his coat on -his arm, and was climbing out when -Joe, who couldn’t get in at the front -door was making for the one in the -rear, met him face to face.”</p> - -<p>“Great goodness!” ejaculated the -commercial traveller.</p> - -<p>“Well, you bet, the devil was to -pay,” went on the storekeeper grimly. -“Chester was mad and reckless, and, -being hot with liquor, and regarding -Boyd as far beneath him socially, -instead of making satisfactory explanations, -they say he simply swore at -Boyd and stalked away. Dumfounded, -Boyd went inside to his miserable -wife and demanded an explanation. -She has since learned how to use her -wits with the best in the land, but -she was young then, and so, by her -silence, she made matters worse for -herself. He forced her to explain, -and, seeing no other way out of the -affair, she decided to throw herself on -his mercy and make a clean breast of -things she and her family had kept -back all the time. Well, sir, she confessed -to what had happened away -back before Chester had deserted her, -no doubt telling a straight story of her -absolute purity and faithfulness to -Boyd after marriage. Poor old Joe! -He wasn’t a fighting man, and, instead -of following Chester and demanding -satisfaction, he stayed at home that -night, no doubt suffering the agony of -the damned and trying to make up -his mind to believe in his wife and to -stand by her. As it looks now, he -evidently decided to make the best of -it, and might have succeeded, but -somehow it got out about Chester -being caught there, and that started -gossip so hot that her life and his -became almost unbearable. It might -have died a natural death in time, but -Mrs. Boyd had an enemy, Mrs. Jane -Hemingway, who had been one of the -girls who was in love with Joe Boyd. -It seems that she had never got over -Joe’s marrying another woman, and -when she heard this scandal she -nagged and teased Joe about his babyishness -in being willing to believe his -wife, and told him so many lies that -Boyd finally quit staying at home, -sulking about in the mountains, and -making trips away till he finally -applied for a divorce. Ignorant and -inexperienced as she was, and proud, -Mrs. Boyd made no defence, and the -whole thing went his way with very -little publicity. But the hardest part -for her to bear was when, having the -court’s decree to take charge of his -child, Boyd came and took it away.”</p> - -<p>“Good gracious! that was tough, -wasn’t it?” exclaimed the drummer.</p> - -<p>“That’s what it was, and they say -it fairly upset her mind. They expected -her to fight like a tiger for her -young, but at the time they came for -it she only seemed stupefied. The -little girl was only three years old, but -they say Ann came in the room and -said she was going to ask the child if -it was willing to leave her, and they -say she calmly put the question, and -the baby, not knowing what she -meant, said, ‘Yes.’ Then they say -Ann talked to it as if it were a grown -person, and told her to go, that she’d -never give her a thought in the future, -and never wanted to lay eyes on her -again.”</p> - -<p>“That was pitiful, wasn’t it?” -said Masters. “By George, we don’t -dream of what is going on in the -hearts of men and women we meet -face to face every day. And tha<span class="pagenum" id="Page85">[85]</span>t’s -what started her in the life she’s since -led.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, she lived in her house like a -hermit, never going out unless she -absolutely had to. She had an old-fashioned -loom in a shed-room adjoining -her house, and night and day -people passing along the road could -hear her thumping away on it. She -kept a lot of fine sheep, feeding and -shearing them herself, and out of the -wool she wove a certain kind of jean -cloth which she sold at a fancy figure. -I’ve seen wagon loads of it pass -along the road billed to a big house in -Atlanta. This went on for several -years, and then it was noticed that -she was accumulating money. She -was buying all the land she could -around her house, as if to force folks -as far from her as possible, and she -turned the soil to good purpose, for -she knew how to work it. She hired -negroes for cash, when others were -paying in old clothes and scraps, and, -as she went to the field with them -and worked in the sun and rain like a -man, she got more out of her planting -than the average farmer.”</p> - -<p>“So she’s really well off?” said the -drummer.</p> - -<p>“Got more than almost anybody -else in the county,” said Wilson. -“She’s got stocks in all sorts of things, -and owns houses on the main street in -Darley, which she keeps well rented. -It seems like, not having anything else -to amuse her, she turned her big brain -to economy and money-making, and -I’ve always thought she did it to hit -back at the community. You see, the -more she makes, the more her less fortunate -neighbors dislike her, and she -loves to get even as far as possible.”</p> - -<p>“And has she had no associates at -all?” Masters wanted to know.</p> - -<p>“Well, yes, there is one woman, a -Mrs. Waycroft, who has always been -intimate with her. She is the only—I -started to say she was the only one, -but there was a poor mountain fellow, -Luke King, a barefoot boy who -had a fine character, a big brain on -him, and no education. His parents -were poor, and did little for him. -They say Mrs. Boyd sort of took pity -on him and used to buy books and -papers for him, and that she really -taught him to read and write. She -sent him off to school, and got him on -his feet till he was able to find work -in a newspaper office over at Canton, -where he became a boss typesetter. -I’ve always thought that her misfortune -had never quite killed her natural -impulses, for she certainly got fond -of that fellow. I had an exhibition -of both his regard and hers right here -at the store. He’d come in to buy -something or other, and was waiting -about the stove one cold winter day, -when a big mountain chap made a -light remark about Mrs. Boyd. He -was a head taller than Luke King -was, but the boy sprang at him like a -panther and knocked the fellow down. -They had the bloodiest fight I ever -saw, and it was several minutes before -they could be separated. Luke had -damaged the chap pretty badly, but -he was able to stand, while the boy -keeled over in a dead faint on the -floor, bruised inside some way. The -big fellow, fearing arrest, mounted -his horse and went away, and several -of us were doing what we could with -cold water and whiskey to bring the -boy around when who should come in -but Ann herself. She was passing -the store, and some one told her about -it. People who think she has no heart -and is as cold as stone ought to have -seen her that day. In all my life I -never saw such a terrible face on a -human being. I was actually afraid -of her. She was all fury and all tenderness -combined. She looked down at -him in all his blood and bruises and -white face, and got down on her knees -by him. I saw a great big sob rise -up in her, although her back was to -me, and shake her from head to foot, -and then she was still, simply stroking -back his damp, tangled hair. ‘My -poor boy,’ I heard her say, ‘you can’t -fight my battles. God Himself has<span class="pagenum" id="Page86">[86]</span> -failed to do that, but I won’t forget -this—never—never!’”</p> - -<p>“Lord, that was strong!” said Masters. -“She must be wonderful!”</p> - -<p>“She is more wonderful than her -narrow-minded enemies dream of,” returned -the storekeeper. “You see, its -her pride that keeps her from showing -her fine feelings, and it’s her secluded -life that makes them misunderstand -her. Well, she brought her wagon -and took the boy away. That was -another queer thing,” Wilson added. -“She evidently had started to take -him to her house, for she drove as far -as the gate and then stopped there to -study a moment, and finally turned -round and drove him to the poor -cabin his folks lived in. You see, she -was afraid that even that would cause -talk, and it would. Old Jane Hemingway -would have fed on that morsel for -months, as unreasonable as it would -have been. Ann sent a doctor, though, -and every delicacy the market afforded, -and the boy was soon out. It -wasn’t long afterward that Luke King -went to college at Knoxville, and now -he’s away in the West somewhere. -His mother, after his father’s death, -married a trifling fellow, Mark Bruce, -and that brought on some dispute -between her and her son, who had -tried to keep her from marrying such -a man. They say Luke told her if -she did marry Bruce he’d go away -and never even write home, and so far, -they say, he has kept his word. Nobody -knows where he is or what he’s -doing unless it is Mrs. Boyd, and -she never talks. I can’t keep from -thinking he’s done well, though, for -he had a big head on him and a lot of -determination.”</p> - -<p>“And this Mrs. Hemingway, her -enemy,” said the drummer tentatively, -“you say she was evidently the -woman’s rival at one time. But it -seems she married some one else.”</p> - -<p>“Oh yes, she suddenly accepted -Tom Hemingway, an old bachelor, -who had been trying to marry her for -a long time. Most people thought she -did it to hide her feelings when Joe -Boyd got married. She treated Tom -like a dog, making him do everything -she wanted, and he was daft about -her till he died, just a couple of weeks -after his child was born, who, by-the-way, -has grown up to be the prettiest -girl in all the country, and that’s -another feature in the story,” the -storekeeper smiled. “You see, Mrs. -Boyd looks upon old Jane as the prime -cause of her losing her <i>own</i> child, and -I understand she hates the girl as -much as she does her mother.”</p> - -<p>A man had come into the store and -stood leaning against a show-case on -the side devoted to groceries.</p> - -<p>“There’s a customer,” said the -drummer; “don’t let me keep you, -old man; you know you’ve got to look -at my samples some time to-day.”</p> - -<p>“Well, I’ll go see what he wants,” -said Wilson, “and then I’ll look -through your line, though I don’t feel -a bit like it, after losing the best regular -customer I have.”</p> - -<p>The drummer had opened his sample-case -on the desk when Wilson came -back.</p> - -<p>“You say the woman’s husband -took the child away,” remarked the -drummer; “did he go far?”</p> - -<p>“They first settled away out in Texas,” -replied Wilson, “but Joe Boyd, -not having his wife’s wonderful head -to guide him, failed at farming there, -and only about three years ago he -came back to this country and bought -a little piece of land over in Gilmer—the -county that joins this one.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, so near as that! Then perhaps -she has seen her daughter -and—”</p> - -<p>“Oh no, they’ve never met,” said -Wilson, as he took a sample pair of -men’s suspenders from the case and -tested the elastic by stretching it -between his hands. “I know that for -certain. She was in here one morning -waiting for one of her teams to -pass to take her to Darley, when a -peddler opened his pack of tin-ware -and tried to sell her some pieces I<span class="pagenum" id="Page87">[87]</span> -was out of. He heard me call her by -name, and, to be agreeable, he asked -her if she was any kin to Joe Boyd -and his daughter, over in Gilmer. I -could have choked the fool for his -stupidity. I tried to catch his eye -to warn him, but he was intent on selling -her a bill, and took no notice of -anything else. I saw her stare at him -steady for a second or two, then she -seemed to swallow something, and -said, ‘No, they are no kin of mine.’ -And then what did the skunk do -but try to make capital out of that. -‘Well, you may be glad,’ he said, -‘that they are no kin, for they -are as near the ragged edge as any -folks I ever ran across.’ He went on -to say he stayed overnight at Boyd’s -cabin and that they had hardly anything -but streak-o’-lean-streak-o’-fat -meat and corn-bread to offer him, -and that the girl had the worst temper -he’d ever seen. Mrs. Boyd, I -reckon to hide her face, was looking at -some of the fellow’s pans, and he -seemed to think he was on the right -line, and so he kept talking. Old Joe, -he said, had struck him as a good-natured, -lazy sort of come-easy-go-easy -mountaineer, but the girl looked -stuck up, like she thought she was -some better than appearances would -indicate. He said she was a tall, gawky -sort of girl, with no good looks to -brag of, and he couldn’t for the life -of him see what she had to make her -so proud.</p> - -<p>“I wondered what Mrs. Boyd was -going to do, but she was equal to that -emergency, as she always has been in -everything. She held one of his pans -up in the light and tilted her bonnet -back on her head, I thought, to let me -see she wasn’t hiding anything, and -said, as unconcerned as if he’d never -mentioned a delicate subject. ‘Look -here,’ she said, thumping the bottom -of the pan with her finger, ‘if you -expect to do any business with <i>me</i>, -you’ll have to bring copper-bottom -ware to me. I don’t buy shoddy stuff -from any one. These pans will rust -through in two months. I’ll take half -a dozen, but I’m only doing it to pay -you for the time spent on me. It is a -bad investment for any one to buy -cheap, stamped ware.’”</p> - -<p class="center">(To be Continued.)</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illo087.jpg" alt="Ornamental flowers" width="450" height="154" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page88">[88]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> - -<img src="images/illo088.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="458" /> - -<p class="caption">TWELFTH NIGHT.</p> - -<p class="jansteen"><i>From Painting by Jan Steen.</i></p> - -</div><!--illustration--> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page89">[89]</span></p> - -<h2>Twelfth Night.</h2> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="author">BY CHARLES J. BAYNE.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<div class="splitnight12"> - -<div class="leftnight12"> - -<div class="poemcenter"> - -<div class="poem"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Last of the wassail nights,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Wholesomely merry,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Still on the mistletoe<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Clings the white berry;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Still are the apples red,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Brown is the ale;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Feast of our Saxon sires,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Hail and all hail!<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Bring forth the boar’s head,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Bring forth the Rhenish;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Tankards that melt away<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Haste to replenish;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Lift on the stoutest log;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Loud be the laughter,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Until the sound of mirth<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Shake wall and rafter.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Call back the sturdy days<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When hearts of oak<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Beat to the lilting strains<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We now invoke;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Call back the hearty days<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When squire and yeoman<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Feasted the home-returned<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Pikeman and bowman.<br /></span> -</div> - -</div><!--poem--> - -</div><!--poemcenter--> - -</div><!--leftnight12--> - -<div class="rightnight12"> - -<div class="poemcenter"> - -<div class="poem"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Masques in the Temple hall,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Staged for the benchers,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Wait while the turning-spit<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Heaps up the trenchers—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Wait while the venison,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Basted with spices,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Smokes as the richest<br /></span> -<span class="i1">Of Yule’s sacrifices.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now Merry Andrew comes,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Fresh from the morris;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Now rustic Corydon<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Trips it with Chloris;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Let the soft virginals<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Answer the tabor;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">After this wassail night<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Come days of labor.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Such were the old delights<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Rounding the Yule;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where sleeps His Majesty,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Lord of Misrule?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Still are the apples red,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Brown is the ale;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Feast of our Saxon sires,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Hail and all hail!<br /></span> -</div> - -</div><!--poem--> - -</div><!--poemcenter--> - -</div><!--rightnight12--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--splitnight12--> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illo089.jpg" alt="Ornament" width="350" height="181" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page90">[90]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w420"> -<img src="images/illo090.jpg" alt="" width="420" height="597" /> -<p class="caption">“THE BODY HAD ROLLED OFF THE SLED.”</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page91">[91]</span></p> - -<h2>Life and Times of Andrew Jackson.</h2> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="author">BY THOS. E WATSON.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="dropcapp"><img src="images/dropcapa.jpg" alt="A" width="88" height="100" class="dropcapi" /><span class="noshow">A</span>ndrew -Jackson was born on March 15, -1767.</p> - -<p>There has been a hot dispute over the place of -his birth, but the weight of the legal evidence -favors South Carolina.</p> - -<p>His parents were immigrants from the northern -part of Ireland, where the people are mainly -Presbyterians in religion, and where there is an inter-mixture of -Scotch blood; but there seems to be no positive proof that the -Jacksons belonged to the over-worked family of Scotch-Irish.</p> - -<p>They were poor people, living at Carrickfergus, linen weavers -by trade, and, if any one of them had ever been prominent in any -way, the story is lost. The most painstaking researches made by -enthusiastic hero-worshipers have failed to trace the Jackson -lineage to a single cattle-lifting lord, or to any other member of -that upper world into which the biographical snob is so eager to -cast his anchor.</p> - -<p>The Jacksons were plain, common, industrious, honest folks, -who held a respectable, independent place in their own community, -but who were not so prosperous as to resist the temptation -to try their fortunes in the New World.</p> - -<p>Hugh Jackson, brother to Andrew’s father, had been a soldier -in a British regiment, and had served in America. He was -present at Braddock’s defeat, and may have known Fausett, the -Virginia scout, who is said to have given the rash British general -the wound of which he died. (<i>See note.</i>)</p> - -<div class="jacksonnote"> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Note</i>:</p> - -<p>“The Virginia provincials, under Washington, by their knowledge of border warfare, -and cool courage, alone saved the day.</p> - -<p>“Braddock was himself mortally wounded by a provincial named Fausett. A brother of -the latter had disobeyed the silly orders of the General, that the troops should not take position -behind the trees, when Braddock rode up and struck him down. Fausett who saw -the whole transaction, immediately drew up his rifle and shot him through the lungs.”</p> - -<p class="right"><i>“The Great West,” Howe.</i></p> - -</div><!--jacksonnote--> - -<p>Apparently, Hugh Jackson became interested in the efforts of -the Catawba Land Company to colonize its holdings in the Carolinas, -for upon his return to Ireland he began to get together a -band of kinspeople, neighbors and friends, for the purpose of -emigrating to America.</p> - -<p>Among those whom Hugh Jackson persuaded was his brother,<span class="pagenum" id="Page92">[92]</span> -Andrew. But, before everything could be got ready for the voyage, -Hugh Jackson fell in love with the daughter of well-to-do -parents, and married her; and the wife of Hugh was so satisfactory -in herself and her surroundings that the happy husband -decided to remain in the old country—his wife having vetoed his -emigration scheme.</p> - -<p>His brother Andrew, however, had probably already made his -arrangements to go to America, and, having got unsettled, found -it not so easy to sink back into his former life; therefore, after -some hesitation, he and the three Crawfords, one of whom was the -husband of his wife’s sister, took ship for Charleston.</p> - -<p>Upon his coming to North Carolina, it seems that Andrew -Jackson was too poor to buy land. Instead, therefore, of locating -in the Waxhaws Settlement, where most of the immigrants from -Carrickfergus had bought homes, he went to Twelve-mile Creek, -a branch of the Catawba.</p> - -<p>Here he was seven miles distant from the Waxhaws Settlement, -and was face to face with the gigantic task of carving out -a farm from the wilderness.</p> - -<p>The historian, the orator, the painter, have been eager in the -duty of blazoning the deeds of our pioneer missionaries, law-makers -and soldiers. The names of these heroes live, and deserve -to live, in letters of light upon the records of our country. But, -to our pioneer farmers, justice has never been done. Theirs was -a combat calling for every soldierly trait of John Smith and -Miles Standish. The patient courage which swung the axe, in -the depths of primeval woods, was no less heroic than the -bravery which made the musket conquer. The toil of the warrior’s -march was slight by comparison with the homely, but exhausting, -work of preparing the soil for the sowing of seed. The -arrows of the red men were not more deadly to the soldier than -were the fevers which rose from the swamps and pulled down -the settler as he struggled to open out his farm.</p> - -<p>In the South, in the East, in the West, the story of the pioneer -plowman of America is one of dauntless courage, of quiet heroism. -He found the New World a wilderness and he has well-nigh -made it a garden. His axe, his spade, his hoe, his plow, his -muscle, his brain, his very heart and soul have all been enlisted -in the work; and never once have his lips uttered the craven’s -plea for “Protection.” Never once has he gone to the doors of -legislation begging special favors. Never once has he lied to -government and people for the purpose of securing a selfish advantage -at the expense of his fellowman.</p> - -<p>No. He has not only not demanded of the government either -Protection or Privilege, but he has submitted—yes, for one -hundred years he has submitted!—to be robbed of a portion of -his annual produce in order that our Infant Industry Capitalists -should be able to build up the corporate power which now, in -the form of Trusts, dominates the Republic and secures the lion’s -share of all the wealth created in every field of industry.</p> - -<p>Like many another pioneer of the American wilderness, Andrew -Jackson found the task too hard. He died under the strain. -The impression which his famous son had as to the immediate<span class="pagenum" id="Page93">[93]</span> -cause of his death was that he ruptured a blood vessel in the -handling of a heavy log.</p> - -<p>The body of the hero who had fallen in the fight for his wife -and little ones—the fight to make a home for them in the wilderness—was -buried in the graveyard of the Waxhaw Settlement -church. In after years, when efforts were made to identify the -spot it could not be done.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>According to local tradition, there was held at the cabin-home -of the dead man the grewsome “wake” which was customary -among the Irish in the Old Country. Relatives from the -Waxhaw settlement came out to Jackson’s “clearing,” when -they learned that he was no more; and, after preparing the body -for burial, their grief gradually wore itself out, and the whiskey-jug -became the ruling factor of the occasion. As lamentation -gave place to revelry, it is said that “the corpse came in for his -share of the refreshments.” What this may mean, each reader -shall judge for himself.</p> - -<p>The same tradition claims that the body was hauled from the -cabin to the graveyard upon a rough wooden frame or sled, and -that such was the disorder of the journey that the corpse was -jolted off the sled and “tumbled on its face in a little bottom,” -on the banks of Waxhaw Creek, near the crossing.</p> - -<p>The man who was riding the horse, which was hitched to the -sled, had not known that he had lost his load until one of the -funeral party in advance, happening to look back, saw “the sled -bouncing up and down, in a very light way.”</p> - -<p>They had to go back miles before they came to the spot where -the body had rolled off the sled.</p> - -<p>The numerous biographers of Andrew Jackson have shunned -this local tradition as something entirely too horrible to put in -print; yet books are only valuable to the extent that they tell the -truth. The story is useful as an illustration of the extreme -roughness of frontier conditions at that time; the poverty of the -Jacksons, and the rude simplicity of border funerals.</p> - -<p>The immigrant had gone into the unbroken wilderness to build -his log cabin; and apparently there was no wagon road from his -“clearing” to the Waxhaw Settlement.</p> - -<p>The use of the wooden frame or sled to carry the body on, -would indicate more strongly the lack of a road than the lack of -a wagon, for, even though the Jacksons had no such vehicle, the -Waxhaw relatives would have brought one if there had been a -passable road. The corpse, tumbling off the sled and being left -behind on its face in the little bottom, is uncanny, but to the dead -the uncanny is not the uncommon.</p> - -<p>The brilliant soldier—son of the Emperor Charles V—Don -John of Austria, who broke the sea-power of the Turks in the -battle of Lepanto, died dismally in the Netherlands; and his -body was carried on horse-back to Spain, in two sacks—half of -the body in one sack and half in the other.</p> - -<p>When Abraham Lincoln died, his face discolored so rapidly -that those in charge, to save the feelings of the people who would -want to gaze upon the revered features, painted out the shocking<span class="pagenum" id="Page94">[94]</span> -discoloration; and, thus artificially masked, the martyred President -was borne to his tomb.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>The widow Jackson and her two little boys did not go back to -the distant, lonely cabin on Twelve Mile Creek. From the -church-ground where the husband and father had been buried, -they went to the home of George McCamie, who had married Mrs. -Jackson’s sister. Here, within a fortnight of the funeral, a son -was born to the widow; and this son she named Andrew, after -his father.</p> - -<p>As soon as she was able to travel, the widow Jackson left the -McCamie home and went to live with James Crawford, her -brother-in-law.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Crawford was an invalid, and Mrs. Jackson took charge of -the Crawford housekeeping. Thus she and two of her boys lived -for several years, the oldest son, Hugh, remaining with George -McCamie.</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illo094.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="593" /> -<p class="caption">ANDREW JACKSON.</p> -</div> - -<p>The family name of Andrew Jackson’s mother was Hutchinson. -She had, at least, a primary English education, for it was -she who taught Andrew to read. That she was a woman of -strong, lovable traits, is proven by the sound advice she impressed -upon the mind of her great son, and by the passionate attachment -to her which he carried throughout his life.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page95">[95]</span></p> - -<p>After the battle of New Orleans, when the victor had been -crowned with laurel in the Cathedral and acclaimed like a demi-god -through the streets, it was of his mother that he spoke to the -officers whom he was about to disband—their glorious work being -done.</p> - -<p>“<i>Gentlemen, if only</i> SHE <i>could have lived to see this day!</i>”</p> - -<p>As you follow the narrative of Andrew Jackson’s career, you -will hear him say many things that you will not approve, will -see him do many things which you cannot applaud, but when you -recall that at the very top-notch of his success and his pride, his -heart stayed in the right place, and was sore because his mother -could not be there to gladden her old eyes with the glory of her -son—you will forgive him much in his life that was harsh and -cruel and utterly wrong.</p> - -<p>During each Winter, for two or three years, after he had -reached the age of seven, Andrew Jackson was sent to the old-field -school of a Mr. Branch. After this, he attended the select -school which a Presbyterian preacher, Dr. David Humphreys, -taught in the Waxhaw settlement. He appears to have been -going to this higher school in the spring of 1780, when the inroad -of Tarleton created a panic in that portion of the Carolinas. -At some later period of his youth, he is said to have attended -the old Queen College or Seminary at Charlotte a couple of terms, -but the time is not definitely known.</p> - -<p>As to education, therefore, it may be safely stated that -Andrew Jackson enjoyed much more than the ordinary advantage -of a back-woods boy of his time. At the age of ten, he -had become so good a reader that he was often chosen to read the -newspaper to the assembled neighbors; and he remembered with -pride, in after years, that he had thus had the honor of “reading -out loud” the Declaration of Independence upon its arrival in -the Waxhaws. For a lad of ten this was, indeed, something to -remember with honest pride.</p> - -<p>He also learned to write “a good hand,” which can be easily -read even to this day: he was well up in arithmetic, and was -fond of geography: grammar he detested, as most of us did. -While yet a school-boy he wrote a composition which was in the -nature of a patriotic proclamation, reminding his countrymen -that they must expect occasional defeats and that they could -hope to win only by steady effort and resolute courage.</p> - -<p>From the advent of Tarleton, in 1780, and the Buford -Massacre, until the surrender of Cornwallis, the widow Jackson -and her boys were tossed hither and thither in the whirlwind -of the Revolutionary War. The people of the Carolinas were -divided, as they were in other states, some being Tories and in -favor of remaining as subjects of Great Britain, while the -majority were Whigs, and in favor of Independence.</p> - -<p>The feud between the two local factions waxed bitter, splitting -into savage groups almost every neighborhood, and often -setting in hostile array, the one against the other, members of -the same family.</p> - -<p>The troops sent over to this country by King George committed -many atrocities, some of which historians have shrunk<span class="pagenum" id="Page96">[96]</span> -from recording, but it is also true that many a nameless horror -was perpetrated by our own people upon each other. In the later -stages of the conflict, almost no mercy was shown by Tory to -Whig, or by Whig to Tory.</p> - -<p>After Gates’ disastrous defeat at Camden, Andrew Jackson -made his home for a while at the house of Mrs. Wilson, a distant -connection of Mrs. Jackson. This lady lived a few miles from -Charlotte. During his stay with her, Andrew made himself -useful pulling fodder, going to mill, driving the cows to pasture, -gathering vegetables for the table, carrying in the wood, and -taking farm tools to the blacksmith shop to be mended.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Wilson had a son who became Andrew Jackson’s playmate -and friend; and this son, who was afterward a prominent -minister of the Gospel, used to relate that whenever young -Jackson went to the blacksmith shop he would bring back with -him some new weapon, spear, club, tomahawk, or grass blade with -which to kill the British.</p> - -<p>Dr. Wilson remembered having told his mother one day, -when speaking of Jackson, “Mother, Andy will fight his way -in the world.”</p> - -<p>A girl of the neighborhood, who became in due time Mrs. -Smart, happened to see Andrew Jackson as he passed along the -road, on his way to the home of Mrs. Wilson.</p> - -<p>She described the lad as being almost a scarecrow. He was -riding a little grass-fed pony or colt, which was so small that -the long thin legs of “the gangling fellow,” Jackson, could -almost meet under the horse’s belly. The rider wore a wide-brimmed -hat which flapped down over his face, which was yellow -and worn. His figure was covered with dust, and as this Knight -of the Sorrowful Countenance galloped along the road, he and -his shabby little horse presented the forlornest spectacle that had -ever greeted the laughing eyes of the girl who was to become -known in Jacksonian annals as Mrs. Susan Smart.</p> - -<p>Hugh Jackson, the oldest of the three boys, joined the band -of patriots which was raised and equipped, at his own expense, -by that noble leader, Colonel William R. Davie, of South Carolina. -Only sixteen years of age, Hugh Jackson left the field -hospital, where he had been suffering from fever, and joined in -the assault upon Stono Ferry. The excitement, the exertion, -the heat of the day (June 20, 1779), brought on a relapse, and -the gallant youth died.</p> - -<p>As to Andrew Jackson, he himself said,</p> - -<p>“Take it altogether, I saw and heard a good deal of war in -those days, but did nothing toward it myself worth mention.”</p> - -<p>However, he further stated that he acted for Colonel Davie as -mounted orderly, or messenger, “being a good rider and familiar -with all the roads in those regions.”</p> - -<p>He witnessed the battles of Hanging Rock and Hobkirk’s -Mill, and took part in a skirmish with the Tories at the house -of Captain Sands.</p> - -<p>Andrew and Robert Jackson were taken prisoners, and it -was while so held that the boys were ordered, Robert first and -then Andrew, to clean the boots of one of Tarleton’s lieutenants.<span class="pagenum" id="Page97">[97]</span> -Both refused, and to each was dealt a savage sabre-cut which -had much to do with Robert’s death soon afterward, and which -gave to Andrew a scar and a hatred which he bore to his grave.</p> - -<p>To the rescue of her boys, came Mother Jackson, she who was -“as gentle as a dove and as brave as a lioness.”</p> - -<p>The lads were so young, and were in such a desperate plight -with smallpox, that the British officers were perhaps glad to get -rid of such an encumbrance; at any rate they were released or -exchanged, and the forlorn group, the mother and her sick boys, -journeyed back to their home.</p> - -<p>But Robert was already so far gone that he died; and when -the smallpox left Andrew he was a mere skeleton. “It took me -all the rest of the year (1781) to recover my strength and get -flesh enough to hide my bones.”</p> - -<p>To the sacred cause of liberty, Elizabeth Jackson had already -given two of her sons. The third had barely escaped a like fate. -But the golden-hearted woman was not to be cast down, or taught -cowardly prudence. No sooner was Andrew out of danger, than -she sent him to the home of Joseph White, another brother-in-law, -and set out, herself, to carry food and medicine to the sick and -wounded patriots who were confined in the British hulks in -Charleston Harbor.</p> - -<p>Braver, it may be, than the soldier himself is the battlefield -nurse who brings water to his parched lips, bandages to his bleeding -wound, tender ministrations to his dying hours.</p> - -<p>May it yet come to pass that some time, <span class="smcapall">SOME TIME</span>, in the -unfolding of higher and better things, these angels of Mercy, -the Good Women of the Christian Nations, may be able to rush -in between the lines, as <i>once</i> happened in the days of old, and -stay the hands lifted to shed human blood!</p> - -<p>Elizabeth Jackson, in the spirit of consecration, went to what -seemed to her the post of duty, thinking nothing of the cost to -herself.</p> - -<p>They were in prison—her neighbors, friends, compatriots—and -she did visit them. She brought to the suffering prisoners -words of comfort; messages from home; the motherly sympathy -which heals like a balsam; the kind word which is sweeter than -myrrh.</p> - -<p>Then the ministering angel, the best of all created things, a -good woman, passed out of the ship, carrying with her the deadly -fever which knew no difference betwixt the good and the bad. -After a brief illness she died, and she was buried near Charleston; -but, like her husband, her dust lies in a grave that cannot be -found.</p> - -<p>After the loss of his mother (in the fall of 1781), Andrew -Jackson remained with Joseph White, a saddler by trade, helping -him in his shop, in the making and mending of saddles and -harness. At the same time, he read everything he could lay his -hands on—books, pamphlets and newspapers. His uncle’s father -was a local magistrate, possessed of a book of law forms and -rules of common practice. Most young men would lay such a -book underneath a volume of Sermons, and then spread a layer<span class="pagenum" id="Page98">[98]</span> -of dust over both; but Andrew Jackson afterward said that he -read and re-read the law book until he knew it by heart.</p> - -<p>But at this period in his growth an unfortunate thing happened. -The death of his father and his brothers had left Andrew -Jackson the heir-at-law to a considerable part of the estate of -Hugh Jackson, of Carrickfergus, his grandfather.</p> - -<p>The amount, some fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars, -was just about enough to unsettle the average young man, -jostling him out of the routine of dull, monotonous industry—saddle-mending, -for example.</p> - -<p>The legal representative of the Hugh Jackson estate, in -America, was the William Barton, of Charleston, at whose house -Elizabeth Jackson had died. Why it was that he turned over -the money to the young man before he became of age is not -explained. Perhaps Andrew wanted the money, and had made -up his mind to get it. If so, the conduct of Barton is comprehensible. -Whenever Andrew Jackson wanted a thing and made -up his mind to get it, he could become a most troublesome customer. -At all events, Mr. Barton paid over the money to the -boy, and the boy sowed wild oats with it.</p> - -<p>He bought a fine horse, and fine equipments for the horse; -he bought fine raiment for his own person, including a gold -watch; he bought a fine pair of pistols, so that he would be ready -in case it became desirable to shoot somebody. In short, he -went to going all the gaits of a fast young man, until his money -was gone.</p> - -<p>At the last, he made a bet which would have swept away even -his horse, had he lost; but luck favored him; he won; and it is a -convincing proof of his inborn good sense that he immediately -paid up his debts, and rode his fine horse away from Charleston -and its allurements.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="jackson"><span class="smcap">Chapter II.</span></h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Studying Law!</span></p> - -<p>To that stage had Andrew Jackson came, in 1785, steered -by the unseen forces which govern the world. It is doubtful -whether he himself could have explained how he happened to -drift into that profession rather than some other.</p> - -<p>In the finding of one’s life-work there is much more of feeling -around in the dark than is generally supposed. Cervantes did -not begin to write Don Quixote until he had tried success by many -routes, and had landed on the wrong side of a prison door. -Bacon’s best work was done after his disgrace as an officer of state -and after Queen Elizabeth had expressed the weighty opinion that -he didn’t know much law.</p> - -<p>Oliver Goldsmith, the neglected physician, wrote “The -Deserted Village” and “The Vicar of Wakefield” after he had -waited in vain for patients bringing fees.</p> - -<p>Had Napoleon been a success as an author, he might never -have meddled with politics.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page99">[99]</span></p> - -<p>Had General Lew Wallace been a success as a soldier, he might -never have written “Ben Hur.”</p> - -<p>Had U. S. Grant been a money-maker at the outbreak of the -Civil War, he might never have commanded on the winning side -at Appomattox.</p> - -<p>Had Sam Houston been able to wear with credit the harness -of social and political existence in Tennessee, he might never -have thrown himself amid the wilder men of the Southwest and -won fame as a builder of empire!</p> - -<p>Patrick Henry’s failure in other fields shunted him into the -legal profession; and Jefferson’s partial failure as a lawyer -became a stepping-stone into the higher calling of practical statesmanship.</p> - -<p>Happy is the man who can find out, early in life, the work -which he is best fitted to do. Among the most pitiable of the -wretched is he who grows old at a task which, too late, he learns -was not set for <i>him</i>.</p> - -<p>The gray-haired school-teacher or commonplace preacher, -who realizes that he should have been a merchant, lawyer, doctor -or civil engineer, is pathetic. To know what to try to do is the -great problem, and it may be that even the men who succeed -in their chosen calling could have rendered mankind better service -in some other field.</p> - -<p>Henry Brougham’s shrewd old mother bewailed his quitting -the House of Commons to don the robes of Lord Chancellor: Dr. -Samuel Johnson lamented the fate which never gave him a chance -to try his hand in Parliament: Edmund Burke writhed under -Goldsmith’s famous lashing of him “who to party gave up what -was meant for mankind.”</p> - -<p>What is it that draws the most ambitious men of modern -times into “the study of law”?</p> - -<p>The reward, of course. All things considered, no other profession -offers so great a return upon the investment of time, -talent and industry.</p> - -<p>While the nations are standing in arms, clothed in steel from -head to foot, the purpose is not so much to fight as to discourage -attack from without and insurrection from within. The standing -army gives the education whose watchword is “<i>Obey!</i>” It -cultivates the class-pride and prejudice upon which caste rule is -built. It interests millions of citizens in the maintenance of -“Law and Order”—the law which imposes the yoke of the ruling -caste and the order which restrains its victims from revolt.</p> - -<p>The military profession, therefore, is one which irresistibly -attracts very many aspirants to influence, to position, to power; -but even the military profession does not win over so many -ambitious young men as does “the study of the law.”</p> - -<p>In the building up of our civilization we have complicated -matters to such an extent that the lawyer is indispensable, almost -omnipotent.</p> - -<p>Does the layman know anything about his own rights as a -citizen? Very little. Upon the simplest things only is he -informed. At every turn he finds himself under the necessity -of getting help from the lawyer. Great is the corporation—the<span class="pagenum" id="Page100">[100]</span> -bank, the railroad, the trust—but the corporation dares not move -a step without a lawyer in the pilot-house.</p> - -<p>From the Justice’s Court in the rural district and the Mayor’s -Court in the village, all the way up to Presidential policies and -Governmental problems, the lawyer is the doctor who must be -called in to look at the tongue of the difficulty, and to write out -a prescription.</p> - -<p>In the business world the lawyer levies his tribute upon the -great and the small, the rich and the poor, the hayseed farmer -and the silk-hat financier.</p> - -<p>Our Wall Street Money-Kings would no more think of organizing -a rascally scheme of High Finance without the help of -lawyers than the buccaneers of old would have thought of flying -the pirate flag without guns on board.</p> - -<p>In the political world the lawyer is omnipresent, indispensable.</p> - -<p>Who organizes the Machine and steers the Boss on his cruise, -keeping him off the reefs and bars of the Criminal Code?</p> - -<p>The lawyer.</p> - -<p>Who maps out the campaign, devises a fraud upon the people -which the statute cannot quite reach, and then, after the election -has been stolen from the people, shows the Boss how to keep the -stolen goods in defiance of right and in spite of the legal proceedings?</p> - -<p>The lawyer.</p> - -<p>Who is it that the beneficiaries of class-legislation naturally -select to advance their claims, voice their demands, guard their -interests in the legislatures of states, in the Congress of the -United States, in the Cabinet of the President?</p> - -<p>The lawyer.</p> - -<p>Under our system, so complex has it become, the man who -wants to do right doesn’t know how. Except in the simplest -transactions, a lawyer must show him how. If, on the contrary, -a bad man wants to do wrong, but wants to escape punishment, -he needs, and can generally get, a lawyer to show him the way.</p> - -<p>The innocent man, accused of crime, needs a lawyer; is not -safe without one, and may be convicted, even then, if he happens -to employ a sorry one, who can be outwitted by the prosecution.</p> - -<p>The guilty man, accused of crime, needs a lawyer; is not safe -without one; and if he employs a good one, while the prosecution -is managed by a sorry one, the jury may be forced to turn him -loose, although they feel that he is “as guilty as a dog.”</p> - -<p>Thus, looked at from the standpoint of mere ambition, sordid -selfishness, the “study of law” powerfully attracts young men -who want to get on in the world.</p> - -<p>But there is another point of view—thank God!</p> - -<p>It is not every student of Blackstone or Coke who licks his -chops, by anticipation, over the sweets of mental prostitution.</p> - -<p>It is not every student of the law who means to become the -jackal to the lion, the doer of dirty work for hire, the seller of -divinely fashioned genius to the highest bidder—with the morals -of a harlot, without that excuse of dire necessity which the harlot -can often give.</p> - -<p>In most cases the boy who comes to the study of the law is<span class="pagenum" id="Page101">[101]</span> -actuated by nobler motives, a higher purpose. A generous ambition -to gain knowledge, to fit himself for a leader’s place among -men, to arm himself with the weapons which enable him to fight -the battles of the weak and to defend the right against the wrong, -find place in his mind and heart, just as they do in the beautiful -language of the oath which he must take.</p> - -<p>Almost in the very words—and quite in the identical spirit—that -ancient Chivalry solemnly swore the Knight-Errant to his -duty, pledging him to champion the cause of the weak and the -oppressed, the oath of office consecrates the young lawyer to his -work by the same holy vows. For it must be remembered that no -profession has a more glorious tradition and heritage than that -of the law.</p> - -<p>The Crusaders who have in modern times gone forth to redeem -the Holy Sepulchre of Truth from the Infidel have been -led, by whom?</p> - -<p>The lawyer.</p> - -<p>The Knight-Errant who rode forth, panoplied in burnished -steel, to break the chains, lift the yoke, batter down the prison -door of the captive, the weak, the oppressed, has been, whom?</p> - -<p>The lawyer.</p> - -<p>Great was Mirabeau, but he dreamt only of changing France -into a constitutional monarchy, leaving Divine Right on the -throne and hereditary Privilege in force.</p> - -<p>It was Danton, the lawyer, who led <i>the Revolution</i>, and -sketched the Democratic state, in which all the people should rule -for the benefit of all.</p> - -<p>It was the lawyer who led in the long, hard fight for Civil -liberty in England; the lawyer who slew the monsters of her -Criminal Code; the lawyer who armed the private citizen with -school-book and ballot.</p> - -<p>It was the lawyer who pleaded Ireland’s cause at the bar of -Public Opinion, wrung from British intolerance Religious Freedom, -compelled the recognition of the Irishman’s rights in Irish -land, and so won upon the conscience and the fear of the ruling -caste that the triumph of the Cause of Ireland has become a question -of time rather than a matter of doubt.</p> - -<p>In our own history, whose record is better than that of the -lawyer?</p> - -<p>Would our forefathers ever have gone to war with Great -Britain had they awaited the lead of Benjamin Franklin, John -Dickinson and George Washington?</p> - -<p><i>Never in the world.</i></p> - -<p>Not until Patrick Henry and Dabney Carr and Thomas Jefferson -and James Otis and John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, -<i>the hot-headed young lawyers</i>, had fired the woods, and the -flames were leaping onward with a rush which none could stop, -did those more cautious and conservative citizens, Franklin, Dickinson -and Washington, commit themselves to the movement of the -Colonies against the Mother Country.</p> - -<p>The lawyer lit the signal fires of that Revolution, the lawyer -wrote the Declaration of Independence, the lawyer framed the -Constitution, the lawyer organized the Government. The lawyer<span class="pagenum" id="Page102">[102]</span> -struck down Feudalism in America, wrote the statute for Religious -Liberty, swung wide the doors of individual opportunity, and -forged, ready for use, every weapon against tyranny which a -free people need to protect themselves from oppression.</p> - -<p>Even at that early period there was another side to the shield, -not so bright as that which I have presented, but, throughout the -Revolutionary Era, the patriotic service of the lawyer was so -splendidly conspicuous that the reverse side of the shield was as -the spot on the sun.</p> - -<p>When Andrew Jackson rode into Salisbury, N. C. (1785), and -put up at the Rowan House, the old-fashioned tavern, he was -eighteen years old, and had already gone to the school of experience, -to an extent which few of his future competitors for national -honor had equaled.</p> - -<p>His boyhood had breathed in the hot atmosphere of war. The -sound of musketry, of rifle fire, of cannon play, had been familiar -to his ear. The sight of bloodshed, scenes of carnage, the ruthless -deeds of Tory hate and Whig revenge had burnt their impressions -upon mind and heart. The dangers amid which he had lived, -the hardships which he had endured, the lust of victory and the -panic of defeat, the sudden flight from the deadly attack, the narrow -escape from awful death, the loss of his brothers and mother, -the imprisonment and maltreatment of himself, the wild disorders -and appalling cruelties of foreign invasion added to Civil -strife—all these things were factors in the molding of Andrew -Jackson.</p> - -<p>When he entered the office of Spruce McCay to read law under -that influential attorney, he had already given evidence of -the traits of character which afterward made him one of the -best loved and best hated men that ever lived.</p> - -<p>It had already been shown that he would fight at the drop of a -hat; that he was headstrong, impatient of contradiction, and -overbearing. Weaker boys who turned to him for protection got -it. He would “take up” for the small boy, and, if need were, -wage his battle. He was high-tempered, quick as powder, hard -to get along with—and the boy who laughed at him because he -had what was called “a slobber mouth” had to run or fight.</p> - -<p>He had shown that he was fond of outdoor life, outdoor sport -games, and recreations. He loved to hunt, was a good shot, an -expert horseman and rode admirably, excelled in running and -jumping. Some say that even when thrown by a stronger man -he “wouldn’t stay throwed”; others relate that John Lewis could -out-jump him and throw him down; and that when John Lewis -threw him, Andy <i>did</i> “stay throwed.” That he was believed to -have a generous nature is proven by the fact that he is said to -have been a great friend to this same John Lewis.</p> - -<p>The eighteen-year old Jackson had already shown his fondness -for gambling at cards, on chicken fights and horse races, on the -throw of a dicebox, on almost any sort of game or contest. He -was known also as a wild young fellow who would drink too much -whisky, indulge in too many coarse practical jokes, and who, -when inflamed by anger, could out-curse anybody in all the regions -round about.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page103">[103]</span></p> - -<p>During his stay of two years in Salisbury Jackson’s character -continued to unfold itself along those lines. He was not -much of a student; it is not recorded that he did any office work -for Spruce McCay; nor does any biographer explain how it was -that he paid for his board and lodging.</p> - -<p>It seems that he kept his horse, and that he was active in -horse-racing, cock-fighting, card-playing circles; but it is not -probable that he relied upon his winnings to pay his way.</p> - -<p>How, then, did he do it?</p> - -<p>Perhaps his work as school-teacher should be assigned to this -period of his life, and it is possible that some remnant of his -legacy may have tided him over.</p> - -<p>Illustrative of the rougher side of his character is the practical -joke which he played upon the eminent respectabilities of -Salisbury by sending cards of invitation to the Christmas ball to -two notorious strumpets of the town. The unclean birds came to -the ball, as per Andrew Jackson’s cards, and the uproar in the -fowl-house was considerable. But Andy was a great favorite -with the ladies—as “wild” young men have ever been—and he -succeeded in getting rid of the disturbers and at the same time -holding the admiration of the eminently respectable.</p> - -<p>Another anecdote of the period represents him engaged with -boon companions in a carousal, which lasted throughout the night -and wound up with a general smashing of all the furniture in -the room.</p> - -<p>A flood of light is poured upon his standing with the “unco’ -good and rigidly righteous” at this time by the exclamation of -the old lady of Salisbury, who, on being told, forty years later, -that Andrew Jackson was a candidate for President, cried out:</p> - -<p>“What! Jackson up for President? <i>Jackson?</i> <i>Andrew</i> -Jackson? The Jackson that used to live in Salisbury? Why, -when he was here, he was such a rake that my husband would -not bring him into the house! It is true, he <i>might</i> have taken -him out to the stable to weigh horses for a race, and might drink -a glass of whisky with him <i>there</i>. Well, if Andrew Jackson can -be President, anybody can.”</p> - -<p>From the office of Judge Spruce McCay Jackson went to that -of Colonel John Stokes, where he continued his studies until he -thought himself ready for admission to the Bar. In the spring -of 1787 he applied for and received his license to practice law.</p> - -<p>For a year after his admission to the Bar he appears to have -lived at a village in Martinsville, N. C., where two friends of his -kept a store. Tradition says that he helped them in running the -business, and that he accepted a local position as constable or -deputy-sheriff. At any rate, he realized soon that he was gaining -no foothold in North Carolina, and he made up his mind to try -his fortune in the new country beyond the mountains, where Robertson -and Donelson and Sevier were planting the beginning of -another state on the Cumberland.</p> - -<p>Before we follow Jackson into Tennessee, let us pause “to -take his picture.”</p> - -<p>He was tall and slender—standing six feet and one inch in -height. Carrying himself straight as a ramrod, and stepping<span class="pagenum" id="Page104">[104]</span> -with a quick, springing clearlift walk, he made the impression -upon the observer that he was as active as a cat—lithe, sinewy, -tough, and with not a lazy bone in his body.</p> - -<p>He had a shock of red hair, and a pair of fine blue eyes, which -rested unwinkingly upon one in conversation, and which blazed -when he was aroused. His face was sallow, freckled, long, thin, -angular, with a fighting jaw.</p> - -<p>His bearing toward men was open, frank, confident, self-assertive.</p> - -<p>Toward women he was deferential, most attentive and polite. -Surprising as it may seem, there is no room for doubt that Andrew -Jackson’s manner toward ladies was from the first, captivating -to a marked degree. By the time he reached the age of -eighteen he had developed a taste for good dressing. The same -trait which led him to want the finest-looking horse, the richest -caparison, the best pistols and guns, the best dogs and game -chickens, led him to choose for himself a style of wearing -apparel, both in the material and the make, which was far above -the average of the backwoods.</p> - -<p>Some of his lady friends went to the courthouse the day he -was examined for admission to the Bar, and one of these has left -a description of him as he then appeared.</p> - -<p>Those who recall Albert Gallatin’s statement that Jackson, -when in Congress, looked and dressed like an uncouth backwoodsman -may not be able to reconcile his testimony with that of Mrs. -Anne Rutherford, who says:</p> - -<p>“He always dressed neat and tidy, and carried himself as if he -was a rich man’s son.</p> - -<p>“The day he was licensed he had on a new suit, with a broadcloth -coat, ruffled shirt, and other garments in the best of fashion.”</p> - -<p>There is no disputing about taste; and the reader is left to -the conclusion that a style of dressing which appeared to be the -best of fashion to a country girl of North Carolina may have -seemed “irregular” to such a cosmopolitan gentleman as Gallatin.</p> - -<p>The red breeches of Thomas Jefferson had been “the best of -fashion” in Paris, but when he wore them in New York, as a -member of Washington’s Cabinet, social rumblings were heard -and social upheavals feared.</p> - -<p class="center">(To be Continued.)</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illo104.jpg" alt="Ornament" width="350" height="94" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page105">[105]</span></p> - -<h2>The Blue Chamber.</h2> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="author">BY PROSPER MERIMEE.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="dropcapp"><img src="images/dropcapa.jpg" alt="A" width="88" height="100" class="dropcapi" /><span class="noshow">A</span> -young man was -walking up and down -the waiting room of a -railway station, in an -agitated condition. He -wore blue spectacles, -and, although he had -not a cold, he used his -pocket-handkerchief incessantly. He -held a little black bag in his left hand -which, as I learned later, contained a -silk dressing-gown and a pair of Turkish -pantaloons.</p> - -<p>Every now and again he went to -the door and looked into the street, -then he drew out his watch and consulted -the station clock. The train -did not leave for an hour; but there -are people who always imagine they -will be late. This train was not for -people in a pressing hurry; there were -very few first-class carriages in it. It -was not an hour at which stock-brokers -left, after business was finished, to -go to their country homes for dinner. -When travellers began to appear, a -Parisian would have recognized from -their bearing that they were either -farmers, or small suburban tradesmen. -Nevertheless, every time anyone -came into the station, or a carriage -drew up at the door, the -heart of the young man with the blue -spectacles became inflated like a balloon, -his knees trembled, his bag -almost fell from his hands, and his -glasses off his nose, where, we may -mention in passing, they were seated -crookedly.</p> - -<p>His agitation increased when, after -a long wait, a woman appeared by a -side door, from precisely the direction -in which he had kept a constant lookout. -She was dressed in black with a -thick veil over her face, and she held -a brown morocco leather bag in her -hand, containing, as I subsequently -discovered, a wondrous morning-gown -and blue satin slippers. The woman -and the young man advanced towards -each other looking to right and left, -but never in front of them. They -came up to one another, shook hands, -and stood several minutes without -speaking a word, trembling and gasping, -a prey to one of those intense -emotions for which I would give in -exchange a hundred years of a philosopher’s -life.</p> - -<p>“Leon,” said the young woman, -when she had summoned up courage -to speak (I had forgotten to mention -that she was young and pretty)—“Leon, -what a happy thought! I -should never have recognized you with -those blue spectacles.”</p> - -<p>“What a happy thought!” said -Leon. “I should never have known -you under that black veil.”</p> - -<p>“What a happy thought!” she -repeated. “Let us be quick to take -our seats; suppose the train were to -start without us!...” (and she -squeezed his arm tightly). “No one -will suspect us. I am now with Clara -and her husband, on the way to their -country house, where, <i>tomorrow</i>, I -must say good-bye to her; ... -and,” she added, laughing and lowering -her head, “she left an hour ago;<span class="pagenum" id="Page106">[106]</span> -and tomorrow, ... after passing -<i>the last evening</i> with her, ... -(again she pressed his arm), tomorrow -in the morning, she will leave me at -the station, where I shall meet Ursula, -whom I sent on ahead to my aunt’s.... -Oh! I have arranged everything. -Let us take our tickets.... They -cannot possibly guess who we -are. Oh! suppose they ask our names -at the inn? I have forgotten them -already....”</p> - -<p>“Monsieur and Madame Duru.”</p> - -<p>“Oh no! Not Duru. There was a -shoemaker called that at the pension.”</p> - -<p>“Dumont, then?”</p> - -<p>“Daumont.”</p> - -<p>“Very well. But no one will ask -us.”</p> - -<p>The bell rang, the door of the waiting-room -opened, and the carefully -veiled young woman rushed into a -carriage with her youthful companion. -The bell rang a second time, and -the door of their compartment was -closed.</p> - -<p>“We are alone!” they exclaimed -delightedly.</p> - -<p>But, almost at the same moment, a -man of about fifty, dressed completely -in black, with a grave and bored -expression, entered the carriage and -settled himself in a corner. The -engine whistled, and the train began -to move. The two young people drew -back as far as they could from their -unwelcome neighbor and began to -whisper in English as an additional -precaution.</p> - -<p>“Monsieur,” said the other traveller, -in the same tongue, and with a -much purer British accent, “if you -have secrets to tell each other, you -had better not tell them in English -before me, for I am an Englishman. -I am extremely sorry to annoy you; -but there was only a single man in the -other compartment, and I make it a -rule never to travel alone with one -man only.... He had the face of a -Judas and this might have tempted -him.”</p> - -<p>He pointed to his travelling-bag, -which he had thrown before him on -the cushion.</p> - -<p>“But I shall read if I do not go to -sleep.”</p> - -<p>And, indeed, he did make a gallant -effort to sleep. He opened his bag, -drew out a comfortable cap, put it on -his head, and kept his eyes shut for -several minutes; then he reopened -them with a gesture of impatience, -searched in his bag for his spectacles, -then for a Greek book. At length he -settled himself to read, with an air of -deep attention. While getting his book -out of the bag he displaced many -things piled up hap-hazard. Among -others, he drew out of the depths of -the bag a large bundle of Bank of -England notes, placed it on the seat -opposite him, and, before putting it -back in the bag, he showed it to the -young man, and asked him if there -was a place in N—— where he could -change banknotes.</p> - -<p>“Probably, as it is on the route to -England.”</p> - -<p>N—— was the place to which the -young people were going. There is -quite a tidy little hotel at N——, -where people seldom stop except on -Saturday evenings. It is held out -that the rooms are good, but the host -and his helpers are far enough away -from Paris to indulge in this provincial -vice. The young man whom I -have already called by the name of -Leon, had been recommended to this -hotel some time previously, when he -was minus blue spectacles, and, upon -his recommendation, his companion -and friend had seemed desirous of -visiting it.</p> - -<p>She was, moreover, at that time in -such a condition of mind that the -walls of a prison would have seemed -delightful, if they had enclosed Leon -with her.</p> - -<p>In the meantime the train journeyed -on; the Englishman read his -Greek book, without looking towards -his companions, who conversed in that -low tone that only lovers can hear.<span class="pagenum" id="Page107">[107]</span> -Perhaps I shall not astonish my -readers when I tell them that these -two were lovers in the fullest acceptation -of the term, and what was still -more deplorable, they were not married, -because there were reasons -which placed an obstacle in the way of -their desire.</p> - -<p>They reached N——, and the Englishman -got out first. Whilst Leon -helped his friend to descend from the -carriage without showing her legs, a -man jumped on to the platform -from the next compartment. He -was pale, even sallow; his eyes -were sunken and bloodshot, and his -beard unkempt, a sign by which great -criminals are often detected. His -dress was clean, but worn almost -threadbare. His coat, once black, but -now grey at the back and by the -elbows, was buttoned up to his chin, -probably to hide a waistcoat still more -shabby. He went up to the Englishman -and put on a deferential tone.</p> - -<p>“Uncle!” he said.</p> - -<p>“Leave me alone, you wretch!” -cried the Englishman, whose grey eyes -flashed with anger; and he took a step -forward to leave the station.</p> - -<p>“Don’t drive me to despair,” replied -the other, with a piteous and -yet at the same time menacing accent.</p> - -<p>“Will you be good enough to hold -my bag for a moment?” said the old -Englishman, throwing his travelling-bag -at Leon’s feet.</p> - -<p>He then took the man who had -accosted him by the arm, and led, or -rather pushed, him into a corner, -where he hoped they would not be -overheard, and there he seemed to address -him roughly for a moment. He -then drew some papers from his -pocket, crumpled them up, and put -them in the hand of the man who had -called him uncle. The latter took the -papers without offering any thanks, -and almost immediately took himself -off and disappeared.</p> - -<p>As there is but one hotel in N—— it -was not surprising that, after a short -interval, all the characters of this -veracious story met together there. In -France every traveller who has the -good fortune to have a well-dressed -wife on his arm is certain to obtain the -best room in any hotel; so firmly is it -believed that we are the politest nation -in Europe.</p> - -<p>If the bedroom that was assigned to -Leon was the best, it would be rash -to conclude that it was perfect. It -had a great walnut bedstead, with -chintz curtains, on which was printed -in violet the magic story of Pyramis -and Thisbe. The walls were covered -with a colored paper representing a -view of Naples and a multitude of -people; unfortunately, idle and impertinent -visitors had drawn moustaches -and pipes to all the figures, -both male and female, and many silly -things had been scribbled in lead-pencil -in rhyme and prose on the sky -and ocean. Upon this background -hung several engravings: “Louis -Philippe taking the Oath of the Charter -of 1830,” “The first Interview -between Julia and Saint-Preux,” -“Waiting for Happiness,” and “Regrets,” -after M. Dubuffe. This room -was called the Blue Chamber, because -the two arm-chairs to left and right -of the fireplace were upholstered in -Utrecht velvet of that color; but for a -number of years they had been covered -with wrappers of grey glazed -calico edged with red braid.</p> - -<p>Whilst the hotel servants crowded -round the new arrival and offered -their services, Leon, who, although in -love, was not destitute of common -sense, went to order dinner. It required -all his eloquence and various -kinds of bribes to extract the promise -of a dinner by themselves alone. -Great was his dismay when he learnt -that in the principal dining-room, -which was next his room, the officers -of the 3rd Hussars, who were about -to relieve the officers of the 3rd Chasseurs -at N——, were going to join at -a farewell dinner that very day, which -would be a lively affair. The host -swore by all his gods that, except a<span class="pagenum" id="Page108">[108]</span> -certain amount of gaiety which was -natural to every French soldier, the -officers of the Hussars and Chasseurs -were known throughout the town for -their gentlemanly and discreet behavior, -and that their proximity -would not inconvenience madam in the -least; the officers were in the habit -of rising from table before midnight.</p> - -<p>As Leon went back to the Blue -Chamber but slightly reassured, he -noticed that the Englishman occupied -the other room next his. The door -was open, and the Englishman sat at -a table upon which were a glass and -a bottle. He was looking at the ceiling -with profound attention, as though he -were counting the flies walking on it.</p> - -<p>“What matter if they are so near,” -said Leon to himself. “The Englishman -will soon be tipsy, and the Hussars -will leave before midnight.”</p> - -<p>On entering the Blue Chamber his -first care was to make sure that the -communicating doors were tightly -locked, and that they had bolts to -them. There were double doors on -the Englishman’s side, and the walls -were thick. The partition was thinner -on the Hussars’ side, but the door had -a lock and a bolt. After all, this was -a more effectual barrier to curiosity -than the blinds of a carriage, and how -many people think they are hidden -from the world in a hackney carriage!</p> - -<p>Assuredly the most opulent imagination -could certainly never have pictured -a more complete state of happiness -than that of these two young -lovers, who, after waiting so long, -found themselves alone and far away -from jealous and prying eyes, preparing -to relate their past sufferings at -their ease and to taste the delights of -a perfect reunion. But the devil -always finds out a way to pour his -drop of wormwood into the cup of -happiness.</p> - -<p>Johnson was not the first who wrote—he -took it from a Greek writer—that -no man could say, “Today I shall -be happy.” This truth was recognized -at a very remote period by the -greatest philosophers, and yet is -ignored by a certain number of mortals, -and especially by most lovers.</p> - -<p>Whilst taking a poorly served dinner -in the Blue Chamber from some -dishes filched from the Hussars’ and -the Chasseurs’ banquet, Leon and his -lover were much disturbed by the -conversation in which the gentlemen -in the neighboring room were engaged. -They held forth on abstruse -subjects concerning strategy and -tactics, which I shall refrain from -repeating.</p> - -<p>There were a succession of wild -stories—nearly all of them broad and -accompanied by shrieks of laughter, -in which it was often difficult for our -lovers not to join. Leon’s friend was -no prude; but there are things one -prefers not to hear, particularly during -a tete-a-tete with the man one -loves. The situation became more and -more embarrassing, and when they -were taking in the officers’ dessert, -Leon felt he must go downstairs to -beg the host to tell the gentlemen that -he had an invalid wife in the room -adjoining theirs, and they would -deem it a matter of courtesy if a little -less noise were made.</p> - -<p>The noise was nothing out of the -way for a regimental dinner, and the -host was taken aback and did not -know what to reply. Just when Leon -gave his message for the officers, a -waiter asked for champagne for the -Hussars, and a maidservant for port -wine for the Englishman.</p> - -<p>“I told him there was none,” she -added.</p> - -<p>“You are a fool. I have every kind -of wine. I will go and find him some. -Port is it? Bring me the bottle of -ratafia, a bottle of quince and a small -decanter of brandy.”</p> - -<p>When the host had concocted the -port in a trice, he went into the large -dining-room to execute Leon’s commission, -which at first roused a furious -storm.</p> - -<p>Then a deep voice, which dominated -all the others, asked what kind of a<span class="pagenum" id="Page109">[109]</span> -woman their neighbor was. There -was a brief silence before the host -replied—</p> - -<p>“Really, gentlemen, I do not know -how to answer you. She is very pretty -and very shy. Marie-Jeanne says she -has a wedding ring on her finger. She -is probably a bride come here on her -honeymoon, as so many others come -here.”</p> - -<p>“A bride?” exclaimed forty voices. -“She must come and clink glasses with -us! We will drink to her health and -teach the husband his conjugal -duties!”</p> - -<p>At these words there was a great -jingling of spurs, and our lovers trembled, -fearing that their room was -about to be taken by storm. All at -once a voice was raised which stopped -the manœuvre. It evidently belonged -to a commanding officer. He reproached -the officers with their want -of politeness, ordered them to sit down -again and to talk decently, without -shouting. Then he added some -words too low to be heard in the Blue -Chamber. He was listened to with -deference, but, nevertheless, not without -exciting a certain amount of -covert hilarity. From that moment -there was comparative quiet in the -officers’ room; and our lovers, blessing -the salutary reign of discipline, -began to talk together with more freedom.... -But after such confusion -it was a little time before they -regained that peace of mind which -anxiety, the worries of travelling, and, -worse than all, the loud merriment of -their neighbors, had so greatly agitated. -This was not very difficult to -accomplish, however, at their age, and -they had very soon forgotten all the -troubles of their adventurous expedition -in thinking of its more important -consequences.</p> - -<p>They thought peace was declared -with the Hussars. Alas! it was but -a truce. Just when they expected it -least, when they were a thousand -leagues away from this sublunary -world, twenty-four trumpets, supported -by several trombones, struck -up the air well known to French -soldiers, “La victoire est nous!” How -could anyone withstand such a tempest? -The poor lovers might well -complain.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>But they had not much longer to -complain, for at the end the officers -left the dining-room, filed past the -door of the Blue Chamber with a great -clattering of spurs and sabres, and -shouted one after the other—</p> - -<p>“Good night, madam bride!”</p> - -<p>Then all noise ceased. No, I am -mistaken; the Englishman came out -into the passage and cried out—</p> - -<p>“Waiter! bring me another bottle -of the same port.”</p> - -<p>Quiet was restored in the hotel of -N——. The night was fine and the -moon at the full. From time immemorial -lovers have been pleased to -gaze at our satellite. Leon and his -lover opened their window, which -looked on a small garden, and -breathed with delight the fresh air, -which was filled with the scent of a -bower of clematis.</p> - -<p>They had not looked long, however, -before a man came to walk in the -garden. His head was bowed, his -arms crossed, and he had a cigar in -his mouth, Leon thought he recognized -the nephew of the Englishman -who was fond of good port wine.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>I dislike useless details, and besides, -I do not feel called upon to tell the -reader things he can readily imagine, -nor to relate all that happened hour -by hour in the inn at N——. I will -merely say that the candle which -burned on the fireless mantle-piece of -the Blue Chamber was more than half -consumed when a strange sound issued -from the Englishman’s room, in which -there had been silence until now; it -was like the fall of a heavy body. To -this noise was added a kind of cracking, -quite as odd, followed by a -smothered cry and several inarticulate -words like an oath. The two young<span class="pagenum" id="Page110">[110]</span> -occupants of the Blue Chamber shuddered. -Perhaps they had been waked -up suddenly by it. The noise seemed -a sinister one to both of them, for -they could not explain it.</p> - -<p>“Our friend the Englishman is -dreaming,” said Leon, trying to force -a smile.</p> - -<p>But although he wanted to reassure -his companion, he shivered involuntarily. -Two or three minutes afterwards -a door in the corridor opened -cautiously, as it seemed, then closed -very quietly. They heard a slow and -unsteady footstep which appeared to -be trying to disguise its gait.</p> - -<p>“What a cursed inn!” exclaimed -Leon.</p> - -<p>“Ah, it is a paradise!” replied the -young woman, letting her head fall -on Leon’s shoulder. “I am dead -with sleep....”</p> - -<p>She sighed, and was very soon fast -asleep again.</p> - -<p>A famous moralist has said that -men are never garrulous when they -have all their heart’s desire. It is -not surprising, therefore, that Leon -made no further attempt to renew the -conversation or to discourse upon -the noises in the hotel at N——. -Nevertheless, he was preoccupied, and -his imagination pieced together many -events to which in another mood he -would have paid no attention. The -evil countenance of the Englishman’s -nephew returned to his memory. -There was hatred in the look that he -threw at his uncle even while he spoke -humbly to him, doubtless because he -was asking for money.</p> - -<p>What would be easier than for a -man, still young and vigorous, and -desperate besides, to climb from the -garden to the window of the next -room? Moreover, he was staying at -the hotel, and would walk in the garden -after dark, perhaps ... quite -possibly ... undoubtedly, he knew -that his uncle’s black bag contained -a thick bundle of bank-notes.... -And that heavy blow, like the blow -of a club on a bald head! ... that -stifled cry! ... that fearful oath! -and those steps afterwards! That -nephew looked like an assassin.... -But people do not assassinate in a -hotel full of officers. Surely the -Englishman, like a wise man, had -locked himself in, specially knowing -the rogue was about.... He -evidently mistrusted him, since he -had not wished to accost him bag -in hand.... But why allow such -hideous thoughts when one is so -happy?</p> - -<p>Thus did Leon cogitate to himself. -In the midst of his thoughts, which I -will refrain from analyzing at greater -length, and which passed in his mind -like so many confused dreams, he -fixed his eyes mechanically on the door -of communication between the Blue -Chamber and the Englishman’s room.</p> - -<p>In France, doors fit badly. Between -this one and the floor there was -a space of nearly an inch. Suddenly, -from this space, which was hardly -lighted by the reflection from the polished -floor, there appeared something -blackish and flat, like a knife blade, -for the edge which the candlelight -caught showed a thin line which shone -brightly. It moved slowly in the -direction of a little blue-satin slipper, -which had been carelessly thrown -close to this door. Was it some insect -like a centipede?... No, it was no -insect. It had no definite shape.... -Two or three brown streams, each with -its line of light on its edges, had come -through into the room. Their pace -quickened, for the floor was a sloaping -one.... They came on rapidly and -touched the little slipper. There was -no longer any doubt! It was a liquid, -and that liquid, the color of which -could now be distinctly seen by the -candlelight, was blood! While Leon, -paralyzed with horror, watched these -frightful streams, the young woman -slept on peacefully, her regular -breathing warming her lover’s neck -and shoulder.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>The care which Leon had taken in<span class="pagenum" id="Page111">[111]</span> -ordering the dinner on their arrival -at the inn of N—— adequately proved -that he had a pretty level head, a high -degree of intelligence and that he -could look ahead. He did not in this -emergency belie the character we have -already indicated. He did not stir, -and the whole strength of his mind -was strained to keep this resolve in -the presence of the frightful disaster -which threatened him.</p> - -<p>I can imagine that most of my -readers, and, above all, my lady -readers, filled with heroic sentiments, -will blame the conduct of Leon on this -occasion for remaining motionless. -They will tell me he ought to have -rushed to the Englishman’s room and -arrested the murderer, or, at least, to -have pulled his bell and rung up the -people of the hotel. To this I reply -that, in the first case, the bells in -French inns are only room ornaments, -and their cords do not correspond to -any metallic apparatus. I would add -respectfully, but decidedly, that, if -it is wrong to leave an Englishman to -die close by one, it is not praiseworthy -to sacrifice for him a woman who is -sleeping with her head on your -shoulder. What would have happened -if Leon had made an uproar and -roused the hotel? The police, the -inspector and his assistant would have -come at once. These gentlemen are -by profession so curious, that, before -asking him what he had seen or heard, -they would have questioned him as -follows:—</p> - -<p>“What is your name? Where are -your papers? And what about -Madame? What were you doing -together in the Blue Chamber? You -will have to appear at the Assizes to -explain the exact month, at what hour -in the night, you were witnesses of -this deed.”</p> - -<p>Now it was precisely this thought of -the inspector and officers of the law -which first occurred to Leon’s mind. -Everywhere throughout life there are -questions of conscience difficult to -solve. Is it better to allow an -unknown traveller to have his throat -cut, or to disgrace and lose the woman -one loves?</p> - -<p>It is unpleasant to have to propose -such a problem. I defy the cleverest -person to solve it.</p> - -<p>Leon did then what probably most -would have done in his place. He -never moved.</p> - -<p>He remained fascinated for a long -time with his eyes fixed upon the blue -slipper and the little red stream which -touched it. A cold sweat moistened -his temples, and his heart beat in his -breast as though it would burst.</p> - -<p>A host of thoughts and strange and -horrible fancies took possession of -him, and an inward voice cried out all -the time, “In an hour all will be -known, and it is your own fault!” -Nevertheless, by dint of repeating to -himself “Qu’allais-je faire dens cette -galere?” he finished up by perceiving -some few rays of hope. “If we -leave this accursed hotel,” he said to -himself at last, “before the discovery -of what has happened in the adjoining -room, perhaps they may lose trace -of us. No one knows us here. I -have only been seen in blue -spectacles, and she has only been seen -in a veil. We are only two steps -from the station, and should be far -away from it in an hour.”</p> - -<p>Then, as he had studied the time-table -at great length to make out his -journey, he recollected that the train -for Paris stopped at eight o’clock. -Very soon afterward they would be -lost in the vastness of that town, -where so many guilty persons are concealed. -Who could discover two innocent -people there? But would -they not go into the Englishman’s -room before eight o’clock? That -was the vital question.</p> - -<p>Quite convinced that there was no -other course before him, he made a -desperate effort to shake off the torpor -which had taken possession of him -for so long, but at the first movement -he made his young companion woke -up and kissed him half-consciously.<span class="pagenum" id="Page112">[112]</span> -At the touch of his icy cheek she -uttered a little cry.</p> - -<p>“What is the matter?” she said -to him anxiously. “Your forehead -is as cold as marble.”</p> - -<p>“It is nothing,” he replied in a -voice which belied his words. “I -heard a noise in the next room....”</p> - -<p>He freed himself from her arms, -then he moved the blue slipper and -put an armchair in front of the door -of communication, so as to hide the -horrid liquid from his lover’s eyes. -It had stopped flowing, and had now -collected into quite a big pool on the -floor. Then he half opened the door -which led to the passage, and listened -attentively. He even ventured to go -up to the Englishman’s door, which -was closed. There were already -stirrings in the hotel, for day had begun. -The stablemen were grooming -the horses in the yard, and an officer -came downstairs from the second -story, clinking his spurs. He was on -his way to preside at that interesting -piece of work, more agreeable to -horses than to men, which is technically -known as <i>la botte</i>.</p> - -<p>Leon re-entered the Blue Chamber, -and, with every precaution that love -could invent, with the help of much -circumlocution and many euphemisms -he revealed their situation to his -friend.</p> - -<p>It was dangerous to stay and -dangerous to leave too precipitately; -still much more dangerous to wait at -the hotel until the catastrophe in the -next room was discovered.</p> - -<p>There is no need to describe the -terror caused by this communication, -or the tears which followed it, the -senseless suggestions which were advanced, -or how many times the two -unhappy young people flung themselves -into each other’s arms, saying, -“Forgive me! forgive me!” Each -took the blame. They voiced to die -together, for the young woman did -not doubt that the law would find -them guilty of the murder of -the Englishman, and as they were not -sure that they would be allowed to -embrace each other again on the -scaffold they did it now to suffocation, -and vied with each other in watering -themselves with tears. At length, -after having talked much rubbish and -exchanged many tender and harrowing -words, they decided, in the midst -of a thousand kisses, that the plan -thought out by Leon, to leave by the -eight o’clock train, was really the only -one practicable, and the best to -follow. But there were still two -mortal hours to get through. At -each step in the corridor they trembled -in every limb. Each creak of -boots proclaimed the arrival of the inspector.</p> - -<p>Their small packing was done in a -flash. The young woman wanted to -burn the blue slipper in the fireplace; -but Leon picked it up and, after wiping -it by the bedside, he kissed it and -put it in his pocket. He was -astonished to find that it smelt of -vanilla, though his lover’s perfume -was “Bouquet de l’Imperatrice -Eugenie.”</p> - -<p>Everybody in the hotel was now -awake. They heard the laughing of -waiters, servant-girls singing at their -work, and soldiers brushing their officers’ -clothes. Seven o’clock had just -struck. Leon wanted to make his -friend drink a cup of coffee, but she -declared that her throat was so choked -up that she should die if she tried to -drink anything.</p> - -<p>Leon, armed with the blue spectacles, -went down to pay the bill. -The host begged his pardon for the -noise that had been made; he could -not at all understand it, for the officers -were always so quiet! Leon -assured him that he had heard nothing, -but had slept profoundly.</p> - -<p>“I don’t think your neighbor on -the other side would inconvenience -you,” continued the landlord; “he -did not make much noise. I bet he -is still sleeping soundly.”</p> - -<p>Leon leant hard against the desk to -keep from falling, and the young<span class="pagenum" id="Page113">[113]</span> -woman, who had followed him closely, -clutched at his arm and tightened -the veil over her face.</p> - -<p>“He is a swell,” added the pitiless -host. “He will have the best of -everything. Ah! he is a good sort. -But all the English are not like him. -There was one here who is a skinflint. -He thought everything too dear; his -room, his dinner. He wanted me to -take a five-pound Bank of England -note in settlement of his bill for one -hundred and eighty-five francs, ... -and to risk whether it was a good -one! But stop, Monsieur; perhaps -you will know, for I heard you talking -English with Madam.... Is it a -good one?”</p> - -<p>With these words he showed Leon -a five-pound bank-note. On one of -its corners there was a little spot of -red which Leon could readily explain -to himself.</p> - -<p>“I think it is quite good,” he said -in a stifled voice.</p> - -<p>“Oh, you have plenty of time,” replied -the host; “the train is not due -here till eight o’clock, and it is always -late. Will you not sit down, Madam? -You seem tired.”</p> - -<p>At this moment a fat servant-girl -came up.</p> - -<p>“Hot water, quick,” she said, “for -milord’s tea. Give me a sponge, too. -He has broken a bottle of wine and -the whole room is flooded.”</p> - -<p>At these words Leon fell into a -chair, and his companion did the same -An intense desire to laugh overtook -them both, and they had the greatest -difficulty in restraining themselves. -The young woman squeezed his hand -joyfully.</p> - -<p>“I think we will not go until the -two o’clock train,” said Leon to the -landlord. “Let us have a good meal -at midday.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illo113.png" alt="Ornament" width="500" height="164" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page114">[114]</span></p> - -<h2>The Lake of The Dismal Swamp.</h2> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="author">BY JEANNETTE HOLLY.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="dropcapp"><img src="images/dropcapa.jpg" alt="A" width="88" height="100" class="dropcapi" /><span class="noshow">A</span>t -an early day in the -history of our Nation, -there had emigrated to -the Southeastern shore -of the Old Dominion, -an English gentleman, -whose manners and -carriage bespoke aristocratic -lineage, and whose free use -of money made it evident to those -in the same locality, that he must have -been a man of parts in the country -whence he had come.</p> - -<p>He had bought up acres and acres -of the land lying contiguous to the -Dismal Swamp, but occupied a hewn -log house some miles distant from that -place of ill repute. The report gained -credence that he had left the Old -Country “for the good of his health,” -in other words, his knowledge of and -participation in the plots and counter-plots -against the government, made it -safer for both himself and some, whose -fingers had ever held the pulse of the -Nation, that he should live elsewhere; -and we find him making himself a -home across the waters, with stint of -nothing, for a vessel never made harbor, -that it did not bring a large consignment -to Theodore Stanton.</p> - -<p>In the course of time he erected for -himself and family a commodious -house, many of the necessary materials -coming from abroad, and he was ever -ready to welcome to his board any -wayfarer with whom he came in contact.</p> - -<p>It was during the time that his -house was building, and he had been -scouring the country for help for the -work, when one day, a young Indian -boy presented himself at his door asking, -“Work for me do?” He spoke -very indifferent English, but Mr. -Stanton understood he had come in -response to his inquiries for hands, -and he asked, “What can you do?”</p> - -<p>“Ride horse, shoot gun, hunt deer.”</p> - -<p>His appearance appealed to Mr. -Stanton, and he nodded his head saying, -“You can hunt deer and bear for -me, eat.”</p> - -<p>That seemed satisfactory and from -that time on, he called Mr. Stanton’s, -home, and sure enough supplied the -family with all the game they could -use.</p> - -<p>But his especial attention seemed to -be paid to Mr. Stanton’s little girl, -Alice, to whom he was devoted, and -who never seemed so happy or contented, -as when perched on Powhatan’s -shoulders and scouring the country -for flowers, nuts or berries. He -had been at his chosen home now, for -a long time, and had learned to speak -and understand our tongue very well. -He said he was descended from old -Chief Powhatan and that little Pocahontas -was his kin, but that his -father had been badly treated and -set aside and would not go with his -tribe of Indians; but if any questions -were asked, as to where his -father was, a stolid look would settle<span class="pagenum" id="Page115">[115]</span> -over his countenance, and he would -make no reply; occasionally he would -disappear, and be gone for a day or -two, but always came back, ready for -his appointed duty, to hunt the meat -for Mr. Stanton. He was as straight -as an arrow, and it required little -imagination to believe he might be -descended from a line of kings, his -bearing was so dignified and regal. -To no one was he communicative or -unbending, save little Alice, over -whom he watched with jealous care.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Stanton, Alice’s mother, had -never liked him, and often expressed -uneasiness at the feeling that seemed -to exist between her ewe lamb, and -this dusky son of the forest, and she -begged her husband to consign her -to her sister’s care, in England, in -that way breaking up the association, -and giving Alice, at the same time, -opportunities for education that she -would lack in the States.</p> - -<p>“No, wife, don’t ask me that; I have -made sacrifices enough, God knows. -I cannot stand to be parted from my -little one; send for tutors, governesses -or any other sort of SSS, that you -want, I will bear all expense, but let -me see my dear daughter every day, -that’s a dear.” Mrs. Stanton said -no more, but she watched with ever -growing sorrow; the glow of pride -that came to Powhatan’s dark countenance, -when gazing at “Laughing -Water,” as he called Alice.</p> - -<p>The gentle girl was now turning -sixteen, and had developed into great -loveliness, but seemed wholly unconscious -of her charms, and really I -believe, that was the one thing that -drew so many worshippers to her -shrine.</p> - -<p>About this time a party of gentlemen -had arrived from old England, -looking at lands for the settlement of -some emigrants who were anxious to -throw in their fate with the new -settled country, and among them were -the sons of some of Mr. Stanton’s -early and close friends.</p> - -<p>Frank Berkley, nephew of the ex-governor, -was among the number, and -soon won his way to the hearts of old -and young alike, by his kindliness -and sprightliness.</p> - -<p>Alice seemed unusually lively, when -he was regaling her with his exploits -at college or his tilts with the fair -sex at home, and her merry laugh -would ring out at his bright wit or -mirthful sallies.</p> - -<p>None seemed to observe the vengeful -scowls Powhatan would throw at -the jolly crowd, as he crossed and -recrossed the Hall, but would never -enter the parlor, nor join in any of the -sports. I said none—none save the -anxious mother, who ever had her -eye on her darling and when as a -great secret Alice confided to her, that -Frank wanted to take her across the -water with him as his bride, she -assented cheerfully, for she felt that -to be the only way to save her child -from some direful fate.</p> - -<p>The party was going farther West, -making explorations, and would return -about Christmas time, to enjoy the -festivities of that season under Mr. -Stanton’s hospitable roof, and would -then take shipping for home. Farewells -were said, and all were well -on their way, but Frank lingered. -“Stay with us, Frank,” Alice said -tearfully, “we will be so lonely when -you are gone,” and Frank felt he -would willingly tear his heart out, if -it would comfort the little girl he had -grown to love so much in two months.</p> - -<p>“But,” he said, “my darling, then I -would be accounted a laggard in duty, -for don’t you know I was put in -charge of this expedition; and will be -held strictly accountable for its failure?”</p> - -<p>“Oh!” she said, “Frank, forgive -me. I will not be such a baby. I know -you will soon be back, and I will try -to scare away the blues and bid you a -cheerful good-bye,” and he never forgot -to his dying day, how she put her -arms around his neck and kissed him -a fond farewell. The last echo -brought to him her parting words,<span class="pagenum" id="Page116">[116]</span> -“back soon.” They did not know that -an eye had watched their parting, and -the owner of that orb, had trembled -with rage when he witnessed the -caress.</p> - -<p>Powhatan tried to coax her to ride -or row, and had made and painted -pure white, a little canoe for her, but -she told him it made her tired to use -the oars. “Come and see what a -beauty your boat is, Minnehaha; you -care no more for your poor Powhatan,” -he said sadly.</p> - -<p>“Oh yes, I do,” she replied, “but I -worked so hard entertaining papa’s -friends, I must rest up, but I will see -the boat,” and taking his hand she -ran lightly to the barn, to see and -admire the little white canoe, with -places all around the top for lights to -be inserted, when the candles were lit -at night; it certainly made a beautiful -show. But his coaxing could not -induce her to go on the water in it, -and the craft was only rigged up to -show to her friends, and still remained -in Powhatan’s workshop. The mornings -were beginning to be frosty and -the air to show that the weeks had -passed along and soon now, they might -look for the return of the friends. -Wild turkeys were killed and dressed, -venison hams were baked and boiled, -and the array of cakes and pies in the -pantry, looked most tempting. On the -afternoon of the 23d of December, Mr. -Stanton was decorating the rooms, -under the supervision of his good -wife, and calling to Alice, said, -“Daughter, we do need some holly so -much, could you not take one of the -boys, and get some from the wood on -the swamp road? I must hie me to -the postoffice or would get it myself.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, yes, Pop, I will take my pony -and John and soon be back.”</p> - -<p>As she went out Powhatan met her, -and having heard what Mr. Stanton -said, begged to be allowed to accompany -her, saying, “I will take care of -you, Minnehaha.” So she could not -well refuse, and when he had saddled -her pony and old Thunder for himself, -they mounted and rode off.</p> - -<p>The father returned with the mail, -the mother dressed for the evening -meal, but Alice came not.</p> - -<p>“Oh father,” she cried, “where can -she be?” and the mother grew restless -and uneasy. Presently seeing John -approaching, Mr. Stanton called out,</p> - -<p>“John, where is Miss Alice, boy?”</p> - -<p>“Sir, I didn’t go with her; she went -long that Injun, he say he take good -care of her.” Mrs. Stanton was -almost beside herself. Wringing her -hands, she begged her husband for -“God’s sake,” to take some of the men -and seek the child, ere she was lost in -the dreadful swamps. Searching parties -scoured the country all that night, -and when the next morning, Mr. Berkeley -and his friends arrived, they, -too, joined in the hunt, which was kept -up for a whole week, but nothing was -ever discovered, save Alice’s little -pony, quietly grazing on the edge of -the swamp.</p> - -<p>A rumor came, that from the highest -point overlooking the Lake in the -Dismal Swamp, a huge black horse, -with two riders, was seen to jump -directly into the lake and never rose -again. From the same fisherman, who -dwelt on some high knoll in the swamp -the report was scattered far and wide, -that at 10 o’clock every bright night -was seen a little white canoe, lit with -firefly lamps, pushed swiftly through -the waters of the lake by a beautiful -girl with fair locks floating over her -shoulders.</p> - -<p>The story was that she crossed the -lake and then disappeared in the dark -woods beyond. But nothing was ever -seen or heard of Alice or her dusky -lover again. Mrs. Stanton took to her -bed and died of a broken heart, leaving -young Berkley to care for the -stricken old man, who was soon laid -beside her in the garden that had been -sweet Alice’s playground. Mr. Stanton -left everything he had to Frank -Berkley who mourned sincerely for his -lost love.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page117">[117]</span></p> - -<h2>Educational Department.</h2> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="author">CONDUCTED BY THOS. E. WATSON.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="question">Various Phases of the Money -Question.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, -Ga.</i>:</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>:—Your logical editorial -in your October magazine under the -caption of “The Money Changer and -the Politician” hit the bull’s eye and -went straight to the heart of the subject. -I heartily endorse the editorial. -Hon. A. S. J. S——, a very able and -conservative gentleman and also a -gold bug as we sometimes denominate -them, takes issue with you, as to some -of your assertions, and as the Doctor -is a subscriber to your magazine and -very much open to conviction I am -led, as a result of a pleasant discussion -with him to ask you some questions -on said editorial for the purpose -of drawing you out more fully on the -subject for the Doctor’s special benefit -and for general light on the money -question.</p> - -<p>The questions that I propound embody -the objections of the Doctor to -what he otherwise concedes to be an -able elaboration of the question under -discussion.</p> - -<p>You say, “Sparta rose to be a state -of the first class on a currency of -iron; Rome became Mistress of the -World on legal tender copper; coined -silver did not come into use until the -Northern barbarian beat down her -frontiers; gold held no place in the -coinage till the imperialism of the -Caesars had taken its lead in her -decline.”</p> - -<p>(1) Do you mean to say, that gold -and silver did not exist as currency, -prior to that period referred to in the -passage just quoted?</p> - -<p>The Doctor says you are all wrong -here and asks that your authority for -the declaration be given.</p> - -<p>(2) He wants you to give more -explicitly your authority for contending -that paper money is Constitutional; -he combats the idea of the -Constitutionality of a paper currency, -asserting that gold and silver is the -money of the Constitution and not -paper.</p> - -<p>(3) What is your authority for -saying that Mr. Cleveland ruled that -Governmental notes which were payable -<i>in coin</i> should be redeemed in -<i>gold only</i>? He disputes this.</p> - -<p>(4) In your glowing description of -the effects of paper currency, during -the wars referred to by you, how it -fed and clothed the soldier and kept -starvation from those the soldiers left -at home—he asserts that the gold and -silver currency in circulation during -the times you allude to could have -accomplished all you claim; independent -of a paper currency.</p> - -<p>(5) Was the paper money issued -by the Confederate Government during -the Civil War as good at any time, -during said war, as the paper money -issued by the Federal Government -during the same war? If not, why -not?</p> - -<p>Understand me, I am perfectly in -accord with you. I am asking these -questions in order that you may -have an opportunity to knock the -sophisticated props from under the<span class="pagenum" id="Page118">[118]</span> -gold bug delusions and the people -given the plain facts.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="padr10">Respectfully,</span><br /> -<span class="padr2"><span class="smcap">W. M. Hairston</span>.</span></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h4 class="answer">ANSWER.</h4> - -<p>(1) Yes. Gold and silver were -used in commerce and commodities, -even as precious metals, <i>but not as -legal tender money</i>. The legal tender -money of Sparta was of iron. Lycurgus -made it so, for a special purpose. -See Plutarch’s “Lives,” or Aristotle -on “Government.”</p> - -<p>The legal tender money of Rome -was copper during all the long and -bloody years of her relentless and -resistless march to world-power.</p> - -<p>Gold and silver were used in commerce -<i>on the basis of barter</i>—but not -on any other.</p> - -<p>Neither gold nor silver were coined -<i>into legal tender money</i>, until <i>after</i> -Rome had become Mistress of the -World.</p> - -<p>See any standard History of Rome—Mommsen’s -for instance; and see, -also, Del Mar’s “Money and Civilization.”</p> - -<p>(2) Paper money <i>is</i> Constitutional, -for the reason that the Constitution, -itself, gives to Congress the right to -coin legal tender money, and the Supreme -Court of the United States, in -a case brought to test that very question, -decided, in effect, that the word -coin, as used in the Constitution, has -the sense of “create,” and that Congress -can create legal tender money -out of paper, if it sees fit to do so.</p> - -<p>Congress <i>had</i> seen fit to do so, for -the good and sufficient reason that -the expenses of the Government had -increased to more than a million dollars -per day, and there was no specie -money in the Treasury.</p> - -<p>The Government made money out -of paper because it had nothing else -to make it out of.</p> - -<p>Ground hog case, Doctor.</p> - -<p>(3) The facts in the case. The -Contracts were payable in coin, just -as in France. The <i>option</i>, of payment -in silver or in gold, belonged to -the Government <i>under the words and -in the spirit of the contract</i>.</p> - -<p>In France, it was the same. The -creditors claimed payment in gold, -both in this country and in France.</p> - -<p>The French Government calmly -bossed the situation <i>as any real Government -should</i>, and paid the contracts -as <i>it</i> pleased <i>in either</i> “coin.” -When the French Government felt -like paying gold coin, gold was paid. -When the Government felt like paying -silver coin, silver was paid.</p> - -<p>In either case, the creditor got what -his contract entitled him to get—<span class="smcapall">COIN</span>.</p> - -<p>But Mr. Cleveland’s “Government” -was not so robust. He took it -into his head that “the bankers had -the country by the leg.” In fact, he -told Mr. Oates of Alabama that such -was the case.</p> - -<p>Absurd!</p> - -<p>No <i>real Government</i> would ever -get into that kind of blue funk.</p> - -<p>Mr. Cleveland should have shown -some of the “back bone” that we -have heard so much about. He should -have said to those Wall Street Raiders, -“I’ll give you <span class="smcapall">COIN</span>—get anything else -if you can.”</p> - -<p>When the Government had the gold, -the yellow metal should have been -handed out. When the Government -did not have the gold, it should have -handed out silver—saying to the -Raiders, “Take it, or leave it. Your -contract says <span class="smcapall">COIN</span>. There is coin. We -make you <i>the legal tender</i> of it. If -you don’t take it when so tendered, -<i>your claim against the Government is -as dead as Julius Caesar</i>.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Then</span> the Government would have -had <i>the Bankers</i> “by the leg.”</p> - -<p>But, you see, Cleveland was standing -in with the Wall Street crowd—and -that makes all the difference.</p> - -<p>Suppose our friend, the Doctor -referred to by Mr. Hairston, owed ten -different notes of ten dollars each, -every one of them containing the plain -statement that they are payable in -“<i>coin</i>.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page119">[119]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter w420"> -<img src="images/illo119.jpg" alt="Cartoon" width="420" height="595" /> -<p class="largeillo"><a href="images/illo119lg.jpg">Large illustration</a></p> -<p class="caption">“THE CONUNDRUM IS: WHAT WOULD BE LEFT TO UNCLE SAM, IN THE MATTER OF -NATIONAL FINANCE, AFTER THE BANKERS SHALL HAVE GOT -ALL THAT THEY WANT?”</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page120">[120]</span></p> - -<p>Suppose that they fall due and are -presented for payment. Suppose the -Doctor has half the money in gold -coin and the balance in silver coin. -Suppose he offers the entire $100 in -coin, in satisfaction of the debt.</p> - -<p>Suppose the holder of the notes -rejects the silver “coin,” and demands -the entire debt in gold coin.</p> - -<p>What would the Doctor do?</p> - -<p>Would he hurry and scurry about, -hunting for gold to satisfy the exacting -creditor? I’ll bet a medium sized -mouse-colored mule that he wouldn’t.</p> - -<p>The Doctor <i>knows</i> that silver coin -is legal tender, and <i>was contemplated -as one of the coins of payment at the -time the contract was made</i>.</p> - -<p>Consequently, he would tender the -silver, and if the <i>offer to pay</i> in that -“coin” were refused, the Doctor -would simply let the creditor do what -the heathen does when Christian Civilization -gets after him—<span class="smcapall">RAGE</span>.</p> - -<p>(4) Let the Doctor peruse the Life -of Chase, who was Secretary of the -Treasury under Mr. Lincoln, and he -will realize how much he is in error.</p> - -<p>Many other authorities might be -cited.</p> - -<p>Gold and silver had disappeared. -Specie payments had ceased. The -Government was about “broke.”</p> - -<p><i>The daily expense account was -approaching the two million dollar -mark.</i></p> - -<p>Spaulding, Salmon P. Chase, Thaddeus -Stevens and others realized that -unless the Government could float a -paper currency the jig was up.</p> - -<p>It was just about then that <i>Lincoln -expressed the opinion that some of the -Wall Street bankers ought to be shot</i>. -They were manifesting every disposition -to take advantage of the distress -of the Government. They were showing -that they meant to get rich off the -war. And they accomplished their -purpose.</p> - -<p>They failed to obstruct the plan to -issue paper money, but they succeeded -in having Congress virtually say that -while the Greenback was good enough -for the soldier who was shedding his -blood for his country, it was not good -enough for the Bondholder who was -sitting at ease in the financial Zion of -Wall Street.</p> - -<p>(5) My understanding is that the -first paper money issued by the Confederate -Government circulated at par -<i>when first issued</i>.</p> - -<p>The legal tender currency of any -Government must depend, in any case, -upon the strength, resources and -credit of the Government.</p> - -<p>Even the coin-currency <i>sinks to the -mere commodity-value of the coin</i>, -when the Government sinks.</p> - -<p>Even now there is an <i>artificial value -in gold coin, put there by law</i>.</p> - -<p>No pile of a million dollars in gold -coin would sell for a million dollars -<i>as metal</i>.</p> - -<p>In such a heap of gold you must -allow for “wear and tear.”</p> - -<p>The law <i>does allow</i> for that very -thing. If the gold coin is worn away -to a greater extent than ten per cent, -the Government will not receive it as -legal tender—nor will the metropolitan -banks receive it.</p> - -<p>But anything <i>less</i> than ten per cent -loss in weight, <i>the law makes good</i>, by -declaring that <i>such</i> coins are <i>legal -tender</i>.</p> - -<p>Few people stop to think of that.</p> - -<p>Therefore, every kind of money is -fiat money; that is, <span class="smcapall">THE LAW MAKES IT</span>.</p> - -<p>Now, it must be self-evident that -<i>the value which law puts into currency</i> -<span class="smcapall">SINKS, WHEN THE LAW-MAKING -POWER SINKS</span>.</p> - -<p>If one can conceive of such a thing -as the annihilation of the United -States we must know that our gold -coins would at once go into the scales -to be weighed and priced <i>as metal</i>; -our silver dollars would do precisely -the same thing, and each of them -would be worth less than 70 cents.</p> - -<p>As for our paper money, it would -be waste paper, and nothing else.</p> - -<p>United States greenbacks would<span class="pagenum" id="Page121">[121]</span> -amuse the collectors of fifty years -hence, just as Confederate bills do -those of the present day.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="question">Four Pertinent Questions -Answered.</h3> - -<p class="right padr2">Enterprise, Ala.</p> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Hon. Thomas Watson, Thomson, Ga.</i>:</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>:—1. What are the fundamental -principles of the four parties, -Populist, Socialist, Democratic -and Republican?</p> - -<p>2. Do you favor the way the -United States allows the banks to use -national currency without interest -and then charge the people 12 per -cent? If not, why not?</p> - -<p>3. Do you think there is any likelihood -of the Rural Free Delivery ever -being discontinued and if so on what -grounds?</p> - -<p>4. What does the Parcels Post Bill -advocate?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<h4 class="answer">ANSWER</h4> - -<p>(1) The Populists believe in the -Public Ownership of Public Utilities—such -as Railroads, Telegraph and -Telephone Lines, and Express Companies.</p> - -<p>They look upon the iron highway -as a Public Road that should belong -to the Public. They believe that the -tremendous power which private -ownership gives to the private corporations -now owning the railroads is too -great, <i>too ruinous when improperly -used</i>, to be exercised by those whose -sole aim is to extract the utmost possible -dollar of profit out of the franchise.</p> - -<p>The Populists believe, also, that -there should be <i>a return to the money-system -of the Constitution</i>.</p> - -<p>The National Banks have <span class="smcapall">USURPED</span> -the function of supplying the country -with a proper currency.</p> - -<p>At the present time, when the Government -has but $353,000,000 of its -own paper notes circulating as money, -the National Banks have the enormous -sum of $583,000,000 of <i>their</i> paper -notes in circulation <i>as money</i>.</p> - -<p>Populists contend that it is the prerogative -and <span class="smcapall">THE DUTY</span> of the government -to create <span class="smcapall">ALL THE MONEY -THAT CIRCULATES</span>, and to hold unto -itself the power of <i>regulating the supply</i>.</p> - -<p>Populists believe in the Tax upon -Incomes, and contend that this tax -should progressively increase as the -Income increases. They believe also -in a tax upon Inheritance.</p> - -<p>Populists lay particular stress upon -<span class="smcap">the great principle of Direct Legislation</span>. -They believe in allowing the -people to compel the law-making -power to act when they, the people, -want certain laws. They contend that -it is no more than right <i>to compel</i> the -law-makers <i>to refer proposed legislation -to those who are affected by it</i>. -This principle has worked happily -wherever given a fair trial, and is -usually called the <i>Initiative and -Referendum</i>.</p> - -<p>Populists contend, also, that all -officers should be elected by direct -vote of the people, and that the people -should have the right at any time <i>to -retire an officer who has forfeited -their confidence</i>.</p> - -<p>This principle is usually referred -to as the <i>Right of Recall</i>.</p> - -<p>In practice it proves a most excellent -method of <span class="smcapall">MAKING THE OFFICE-HOLDER -“WALK THE CHALK.”</span></p> - -<p>Populists also believe that we should -have a system of Postal Savings -Banks. These would furnish to the -people <i>convenient</i> and <i>safe</i> places of -deposit for their savings; and the -system would go far to lessen the dangerous -power of the metropolitan -banks.</p> - -<p>Populists are opposed to land monopoly, -favor the eight-hour day in -factories and similar industries, and -believe that the employment of children -of tender age in manufacturing -establishments, mines, sweatshops, -etc., should be watched with hawk-like<span class="pagenum" id="Page122">[122]</span> -vigilance <i>and regulated with a parental -care which puts the</i> <span class="smcapall">WELL-BEING -OF THE CHILD</span> <i>above every other consideration -in the case</i>.</p> - -<p>Populists believe in <span class="smcapall">UNTAXED NECESSARIES -OF LIFE</span>, and contend that whatever -tariff duties are imposed should -be laid upon luxuries.</p> - -<p>In brief, Populists strive for the -adoption of those principles which -would make this <span class="smcap">a real Republic</span>, -instead of an Aristocracy ruled by a -Class, or a Plutocracy in which Dollars -dominate.</p> - -<p>And during the whole time that the -Politicians and Sages and Powers -have been laughing at us, <span class="smcap">we have -been quietly furnishing with our -garments the wardrobes of such -eminent Politicians, Sages and -Powers as Roosevelt, Bryan and -Hearst</span>.</p> - -<p>Bryan accuses Roosevelt of stealing -the very clothes <i>that Bryan himself -stole from us</i>.</p> - -<p>As for Hearst—before he fell down -on that Murphy deal—his editorials -and speeches were nothing in the -world but the echo of James B. Weaver, -Jerry Simpson and Mary Ellen -Lease!</p> - -<p>Had he kept up the lick, and not -gone into that deal with Murphy, <span class="smcap">he -would have been elected Governor -of New York</span>. He parted with his -most valuable asset when he ceased to -be an Independent.</p> - -<p>The Socialists <i>think</i> they believe in -the collective ownership of those -things necessary to the production and -distribution of wealth, <i>but what they -are actually driving at</i> <span class="smcapall">IS THE CONFISCATION -OF PRIVATE PROPERTY</span> and a -jolly good division of the same, in -order that <span class="smcap">the Have Nots will be -upon an equal footing with the -Haves</span>.</p> - -<p>That’s the inner meaning of practical -Socialism, and that’s why it -assumes so savage a character in our -great cities.</p> - -<p>In the hearts of the rank and file -Socialists, <i>are burning the same fierce -fires as animated</i> <span class="smcap">the Goths and the -Huns when they bore down upon -opulent Rome</span>.</p> - -<p>I have heard these people talk and -I <i>know</i> what it is <i>they really mean</i>.</p> - -<p>The Democratic Party, at present, -hasn’t got any principles capable of -proof.</p> - -<p>They are waiting for the next National -Convention to hand out a new -suit of clothes.</p> - -<p>They are awful sick and tired of -that Parker platform, which is <i>almost</i> -the same as the Republican platform—as -poor old Gassaway Davis said.</p> - -<p>But they cannot “point with pride” -to any other platform until the National -Convention meets. Just what -will <i>then</i> be done, it would take an -able-bodied prophet to tell. My own -opinion is that they will adopt the -leading principles of Populism and -put Bryan to running for the Presidency -again.</p> - -<p>The Republican Party is doing just -what Alexander Hamilton thought -ought to be done—running the Government -in partnership with the rich, -for the benefit of the rich.</p> - -<p>The Republican rule is a Plutocracy, -tempered by an occasional spasm -of Rooseveltism.</p> - -<p>(2) No. Because I do not believe -in Special Privilege, nor in the confiscation -of $134,000,000 of money -that belongs to the taxpayers. To -take away the people’s money on the -pretext that the Government needs it -to pay expenses, and then <i>to deliver -it over to a few Pet Banks to be used -without interest</i>, <span class="smcap">is Confiscation</span>. -And it’s a burning <span class="smcapall">NATIONAL INJUSTICE -AND SHAME</span>!</p> - -<p>(3) No. Because Congress dare -not do it. The people would not stand -it.</p> - -<p>(4) The transportation by the -Government, through the mails, of -small packages—say one, two, three, -four, five, ten, fifteen pounds—at a -moderate cost, thus protecting the -people from the robber Express Companies.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page123">[123]</span></p> - -<h2>Book Reviews.</h2> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="author">CONDUCTED BY THOS. E. WATSON.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Ann Boyd.</span> By Will N. Harben. -Harper & Bros., New York City, -Publishers. Price $1.50.</p> - -<p>Among the lads whose parents -belonged to that great, wholesome -class which Lincoln used to call “the -plain people,” you would have found -the creator of Abner Daniel, Pole -Baker, and Ann Boyd had you gone to -the little North Georgia town of Dalton, -soon after the Civil War.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> -<img src="images/illo123.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="570" /> -<p class="caption">WILL N. HARBEN.</p> -</div> - -<p>Two years old at the time that the -deliberate treachery of William H. -Seward provoked the rash Confederates -into firing upon Fort Sumter,—the -costly folly against which Bob -Toombs protested in vain,—Mr. Harben -heard and saw much of the actual -marching and countermarching of the -ensuing four years of <span class="smcap">the most -utterly insane war recorded in -History</span>.</p> - -<p>Having been given a private education, -the young man embarked in -business enterprises, and it was not -until after 1886 that a mediocre -business man was offered up, a willing -sacrifice, to a first-class literary artist. -Harben, the business man, means -nothing to anybody, but Harben, the -literary genius, means a vast deal to -everybody—for he is, today, the most -distinctly <i>original and creative literary -genius in America</i>.</p> - -<p><i>David Harum</i> took the world by -storm because of its unique portrayal -of a typical American business-man—shrewd, -strong, persistent, humorous, -rough in most places and soft in -spots. Banker and horse-trader, -David Harum knew human nature -like a book, and was chock full of -that rare article called common sense.</p> - -<p>Abner Daniel was in all respects -the equal of David Harum, without -being an imitation; Pole Baker was -superior, in some respects, to Abner -Daniel, and Ann Boyd enters a different -class altogether.</p> - -<p>The creations of Dickens and -Thackeray offer nothing better, nothing -more human, nothing more symmetrically -natural and fascinating, -<span class="pagenum" id="Page124">[124]</span>than this heroic woman—tender-hearted, -pure, brave and true—whose -husband forsakes her, whose child is -taken away from her, whose enemies -persecute her, whose friends drop -away from her, but who, standing at -bay and battling with the whole array, -<span class="smcapall">CONQUERS</span>.</p> - -<p>It is pathetic and it is grand.</p> - -<p>How the proud woman covers her -wounds and complains not; how the -strong soul finds itself <i>sustained from -within</i>; how she brings a stupidly -narrow, prejudiced and malicious -neighborhood to confusion and utter -defeat, is a story that makes one thrill -with sympathy and admiration.</p> - -<p>This number of the <span class="smcap">Jeffersonian -Magazine</span> begins the serial publication -of Mr. Harben’s greatest book.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Read it carefully.</span></p> - -<p>Few better books have been written.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h4>Books Received.</h4> - -<p class="bookrecd"><span class="smcap">Buff.</span> A tale for the thoughtful. By -A Physiopath. Boston. Little, -Brown & Co., Publishers. Price -$1.00.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="bookrecd"><i>Gabrielle, Transgressor.</i> A novel. -By Harris Dickson. J. B. Lippincott -Company, Publishers, Philadelphia. -Price $1.50.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="bookrecd"><i>Starting in Life.</i> What each calling -offers ambitious boys and young -men. By Nath’l. C. Fowler, Jr. -With 33 illustrations by Charles -Copeland. Little, Brown & Co., -Publishers. Price $1.50 net.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="bookrecd"><span class="smcap">The Dragon Painter.</span> A novel. By -Mary McNeil Fenollosa. Illustrated -by Gertrude McDaniel. -Boston. Little, Brown & Co., Publishers. -Price $1.50.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="bookrecd"><span class="smcap">My People of the Plains.</span> By Ethelbert -Talbot. Illustrated. Harper -& Bros., Publishers, New York. -Price $1.75 net.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="bookrecd"><span class="smcap">Some Successful Marriages.</span> By -Abbey Meguire Roach. Illustrated. -Harper & Bros., Publishers, New -York. Price $1.25.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="bookrecd"><span class="smcap">Rich Men’s Children.</span> By Geraldine -Bonner. Illustrated in color by -C. M. Relyea. Bobbs-Merrill Co., -Publishers, Indianapolis, Ind. -Price $1.50.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="bookrecd"><span class="smcap">The Spirit of Democracy.</span> By Chas. -Fletcher Doles, New York. Thos. -Y. Crowell & Co., Publishers. -Price $1.50.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="bookrecd"><span class="smcap">I Am Sermons.</span> By Thos. Shelton. -Published by Christian, Denver, -Col. Price 50 cents.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="bookrecd"><span class="smcap">The Teeth and Their Care.</span> By -Thaddeus P. Hyatt, D. D. S., -Brooklyn, N. Y. King Press. -Price 50 cents.</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illo124.jpg" alt="Ornament" width="100" height="100" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page125">[125]</span></p> - -<h2>A Peep Into the Weekly Papers.</h2> - -<h3>Disgraceful Railroad Service.</h3> - -<p>Sometimes “patience ceases to be a -virtue” and this is one of the times.</p> - -<p>The <i>Record</i> has kept quiet on the -subject of the disgraceful, indifferent, -unwarranted and careless manner in -which the Southern Railway has -treated its patrons from Toccoa to -Elberton, through fear of being -classed as a chronic kicker.</p> - -<p>But the thing has become so awful -until this paper can keep still no longer.</p> - -<p>Our business men here in Royston—and -we suppose it’s the same way -in Lavonia, Bowersville, Canon and -Bowman—are losing money every -day in the week through this giant -corporation’s ill-treatment. Our cotton -buyers have hundreds of bales of -cotton stored here in every conceivable -place because they can’t get cars to -ship it away.</p> - -<p>Our merchants have goods on the -road which were shipped to them -days, weeks and almost months ago, -and are losing sales daily because they -can’t get the goods delivered on time.</p> - -<p>Sometimes there is no freight train -to arrive here for two days at a time. -Whose fault this is <i>The Record</i> doesn’t -know, but it must be the “Big Guns” -who own the road.</p> - -<p>Not a freight train has arrived here -on time in two months. Thousands -of dollars have been lost to the merchants -and farmers of this section -through the criminal neglect of those -who are at the head of this greedy -octopus, better known as the Southern -Railway, which has Georgia in its -power as strongly as ever a boa constrictor -of South Africa encircled its -victim. -</p> - -<p>How long? Oh Lord! How long, -will this thing last?</p> - -<p>Hasn’t Georgia’s Railroad Commission -some power to do something -for the people of Georgia in this matter? -If they haven’t they might as -well close up shop and go home and -try and find some calling more suitable -to their respective talents, provided -the members of that representative -(?) body have any.</p> - -<p>The depot agent at this place is as -painstaking and gentlemanly as any -railroad official in Georgia, but is -helpless. He is worked to death for -want of sufficient help. He is doing -the work of two men.</p> - -<p>From the section boss to the highest -official on the line in question—the -Elberton Air Line—that’s the road -we’re talking about—the pay is less -by one third than it should be and not -half enough help is employed in any -of the departments.</p> - -<p>If the crew on the freight train that -runs on this road were animals, we -could indict the authorities for cruelty -to animals, but as they are only human -beings there is no law to cover the -case. More’s the pity. There’s something -wrong with the law when it -allows a greedy corporation to work -its men to death.</p> - -<p>Why not put on two freight trains -per day, having them to leave Elberton -and Toccoa early in the morning -and returning in the afternoon? <i>The -Record</i> believes this would solve the -problem and stop the congestion of -freight on this line, at least.</p> - -<p>The people of this section are broad -minded and generous, and only want -what is due them from any standpoint, -but propose to get what is coming -to them if it is gettable. -<span class="pagenum" id="Page126">[126]</span></p> - -<p>As we said in the beginning, we -tried to keep still about this matter, -but our hammer has begun to knock -and we propose to keep it up until -something is done.</p> - -<p><i>The Record</i> will begin, next week, -to circulate a petition among our business -men regarding this matter and -proposes to send said petition to Vice-President -Andrews, of the Southern, -in Charlotte, N. C., to Mr. McMannus, -in Greenville, S. C., and to the great -and only Georgia Railroad Commission, -in the city of Atlanta.</p> - -<p>Will our sister cities along the -Southern, from Toccoa to Elberton, do -the same thing?</p> - -<p><i>The Record</i> will wait and see.—<i>Royston -(Ga.) Record.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Paid Dear for Their Titles.</h3> - -<p>The girls of these United States -have always borne the name of being -the most vivacious, intelligent and -common sense mortals of any other -nation, but as is the case in all other -things, there are exceptions to the -rule, and when they do depart from -the record they can make the very -worse breaks of any. Just think of -as intelligent, cultivated girls as Anna -Gould and Consuelo Vanderbilt allowing -such broken down old foreign -sports, gamblers and roues as Count -Boni de Castellane and the Duke of -Marlborough, persuading them that -they were loved, not for their riches -but themselves, and marrying such -cattle when they could have secured -good, honest, sober, loving husbands -at home. One is now suing for divorce -in Paris after her Frenchman -has spent eight millions of her money, -and the other is applying for a separation -in London. If it was foreign -titles these girls were seeking, they -have paid dear for their little toy -and really deserve no sympathy, but -if they sought the men merely for -their supposed merits, the two women -ought to have guardians appointed -over them for the remainder of their -lives, for they have no idea of how to -take care of themselves.—<i>Gainesville -(Fla.) Elevator.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Honesty and Honor.</h3> - -<p>Pope says that an honest man is the -noblest work of God and Paul says -to provide things honest in the sight -of all men.</p> - -<p>Webster says that honor is esteem -due or paid to worth. Bacon says -that some in their actions do woo, -and affect honor and reputation.</p> - -<p>In common parlance we call a man -honest, if he pays his just and true -debts. Is that true? If a person pays -debts with money secured by extorting -the widows and orphans, by pressing -the poor, by selling hell and damnation -to youths, is he to be called -honest? Certainly not. He is neither -honest nor honorable.</p> - -<p>There is another class of folk, who -think themselves honest and would -resent with their strong arms even an -insinuation of dishonesty on their -part, that fall as far short of being -honest and honorable men as thieves -do of being angels. They are an ingenious -sort of people, whose heads are -full of tricks and schemes, and their -greatest joy consists of working them -upon the public. They had rather -make money dishonestly than honestly. -To enlist them in any cause only -the whisper of the word scheme is -necessary. Yet, they pay their debts -and they seem to think that this alone -will carry them to “heaven on flowery -beds of ease.”</p> - -<p><i>The honest and honorable men in a -community are those, with characters -so well known, as to never be -approached secretly or otherwise, in -behalf of screening any evil, upholding -any wrong, fostering any unholy -scheme. They stand boldly for right -living and everybody knows it.</i></p> - -<p>The clever, popular men of a community -are not always the honorable -<span class="pagenum" id="Page127">[127]</span> -and the honest. Their popularity often -results from their closed lips and -silent hands. They are polite, generous -and liberal, but are approachable -and ready participants in any sort of -secret deal for a little cash. Money -in their eyes looks brighter than honesty -and they are neither honest nor -honorable, although very clever fellows.</p> - -<p>But there is in every community -persons, possessed of righteous consciences, -with so high ideals of the -right and so much hatred for the -wrong, as to be unable to restrain -themselves in taking brave, bold -stands in every civic and religious -reform.</p> - -<p><i>Boys, the object of this article is to -elevate manhood in Gwinnett county -and the latter are the characters for -your patterns. Be men.</i></p> - -<p>Say, what is honor? ’Tis the finest -sense</p> - -<p>Of justice which the human mind -can frame,</p> - -<p>Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,</p> - -<p>And guard the way of life from all -offense,</p> - -<p>Suffered or done.—Wordsworth. -<span class="righttext">—<i>Gwinnett, (Ga.) Journal.</i></span></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Sacred Prosperity.</h3> - -<p>Divine right is still to be discovered -in high finance, although not so usual -as a few years ago it was. A group -of minority stockholders, clamoring -for an accounting from Mr. HARRIMAN, -were consoled by his -lawyer with the assurance that -“Mr. Harriman moves in a higher -world, where stockholders may not -hope to enter.” The president of the -Union Pacific Railroad may continue -to keep stockholders beyond the battlements -of his personal paradise; but -the Interstate Commerce Commission, -by virtue of the Railroad Rate bill, -have the right to make inquisitorial -entry. The rate bill became a law on -August 28. The raising of the Union -Pacific dividend from six to ten per -cent. was effected by Mr. Harriman -on August 16. If the Interstate Commerce -Commission have been under -embarrassment about picking a -railroad which shall be compelled to -lower its freight rates, the juxtaposition -of dates should make them easy. -A road which at once pays exorbitant -dividends and charges exorbitant -rates seems to need their services. -It is not for the purpose of paying -higher wages to his conductors and -engineers that Mr. Harriman charges -high rates. His operating expenses -are but 52.51 per cent. of his gross -receipts; whereas the average of all -our railroads is 67.79 per cent. -When a shipper pays Mr. Harriman -one dollar, fifty-three cents goes to -pay the trainmen and for the other -purposes embraced under operating -expenses; about two cents goes for -taxes, and forty-five cents goes to paying -the interest on bonds and to meeting -the necessities of Mr. Harriman’s -ten per cent. requirements.—<i>Collier’s -Weekly.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Trial for Murder.</h3> - -<p>Our system of criminal jurisprudence -is better than most, and as good -as any with the possible exception of -the English. But no one denies that -it has monstrous faults. In New York -recently one man shot another over -a woman. Both men were rich and the -woman beautiful—a combination that -will instantly wreck the essential -purpose of criminal law anywhere in -the United States. Already the newspapers -abundantly foreshadow what -will happen. The material facts in -the case—so far as concerns the purpose -of the law to protect human life—were -brought out by the coroner in -about half an hour. Hereafter we -shall hear very little of them.</p> - -<p>Press reports assure us that a fine -array of legal talent on either side -<span class="pagenum" id="Page128">[128]</span> -is preparing to play a splendid game -of chess. If it can be shown that one -of the men led a life more vicious -than the other that will score ten for -the side that shows it. The sorry -muck-heap of the woman’s career -will be raked fore and aft until it has -yielded every point that will count on -one side or the other. The lawyers -will construct a great melodrama, -with the villain, heroine and hero, to -be presented to the jury. The verdict—the -very life of the accused—will -depend upon the skill with -which the game is played and the -success with which the melodrama is -“put on.”</p> - -<p>“Thou shalt not kill,” says the -commandment. One can imagine a -completely civilized state, in noble -dignity, requiring the one man to -answer whether he did kill and murder -the other, contrary to its statute. It -is merely an imagining, however. -Our famous murder trials, with their -tawdry tricks in the face of death -and their rotten plays to sentiment, -are pretty exclusively barbarous.—<i>Saturday -Evening Post.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>The Negroes.</h3> - -<p>Senator Bailey talks, as there is no -law against his utterances. “The free -negro,” he declares, in his amiable -attempt to induce in his hearers a calm -and rational mode of thought, “is a -more serious menace to the South than -the negro in slavery.” In Alabama, a -couple of weeks ago, at a Republican -convention, there was not a negro -present—one of the details indicating -a general drift of the Republicans -toward leaving the negroes out of -their politics. Meantime, the negroes -themselves are divided sharply in their -meeting of the situation. The so-called -“Niagara Movement” puts out -an address to the country which -observes: “We claim for ourselves -every single right that belongs to a -free-born American, political, civil, -and social.” The whole address is a -mass of almost bombastic rhetoric on -this theme. Meantime, another leader -speaks: “Let constructive progress -be the dominant note among us -in every section of America. An inch -of progress is worth more than a yard -of fault-finding. The races that have -grown strong and useful have not done -so by depending upon finding fault -with others, but by presenting to the -world evidences of progress in agriculture, -industrial and business life, -as well as through religious, educational, -and civic growth.” Without -failing to make it clear that he wishes -the equal protection of the law, Mr. -Washington refuses to complain, to -whine about social rights and aspirations, -and prefers to tell his fellows -the most useful things to do. He -leaves white faults to white men and -warns negroes against negro weaknesses. -Which leader will the negroes -follow, and which speaks with wisdom -and with strength?—<i>Collier’s Weekly.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>The Labor Famine.</h3> - -<p>What has become of all our laborers -is a question which no one seems able -to answer just at present, but that -they are not to be had is too well -known. In the cotton belt of Texas, -churches and Sunday schools are -organizing parties and going into the -fields to save the crop; in other of the -cotton growing states the women are -helping the men gather the staple; -immigrants are offered work almost -before they have put a foot on American -soil; out West two great rival -railroads are scouring the woods for -men; factories where child labor has -been legislated out are running short-handed, -and it would appear that if -our prosperity did not abate a bit -from other causes it would do so from -lack of labor with which to carry it on. -Meanwhile communities are learning -the gentle art of smiling, trade is -booming and not even an approaching -election can offer an opening to the -pessimist.—<i>Pensacola News.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page129">[129]</span></p> - -<h3>Cotton and the Negro.</h3> - -<p>Our Statesmen tell us in one breath -that the salvation of the South is in -the planting of less cotton and getting -more for it and, in the very next -breath, they say that immigration will -save us. They invite the yankee to -come, and the German, and the Irish, -and the Scandinavian and even the -Italian.</p> - -<p>If it be true that we are planting -enough cotton, even too much, and it -is true, wherein will the South be -benefited by having thousands of the -foreigners settle here to raise more -cotton? There is but one answer. We -don’t need any more cotton planters.</p> - -<p>But it is contended that foreign -immigration will settle the race question. -Maybe it will. Maybe it won’t. -The cotton patch negro hasn’t given -us any trouble, nor will he, and he -isn’t going to leave either. He is satisfied, -his landlord is satisfied, and a -German or a Scandinavian upon the -scene will mean two cotton patches -instead of one, one for him and one for -the negro.</p> - -<p>True, there are many of our ambitious -farmers who can’t secure -enough laborers to make enough cotton -to get rich as fast as they would, but -they’ll get rich quick enough in using -our present available labor, thereby -raising less cotton, getting more for -it, and, at the same time, either resting -their lands or sowing it in small -grain. And when these wealthy -farmers plant less cotton, they benefit -every poor fellow, standing between -the plow handles, in the entire South.</p> - -<p>And this one or two horse farmer -is the ideal citizen, anyway. The best -communities are those made up of -small farmers. The churches, schools -and social conditions in a community, -in which one man owns all the land -and runs forty plows, are not as good -as one with forty land owners. Oglethorpe -county would, no doubt, be a -better county today, if Jim Smith had -never been born, and this is not said -with the spirit of criticising a single -act of his life, either.</p> - -<p>It’s all right for immigrants to -build our cities, our railroads, our -manufacturing enterprises or to labor -in the cities, on the railroads, in the -factories or even take servants’ places, -but the South doesn’t need any more -cotton raisers.—<i>Gwinnett (Ga.) Journal.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>The Railroad Power.</h3> - -<p>The railroad magnates have divided -up the lines in this country among -nine families of plutocrats, who by -controlling transportation of passengers -and freight, can control the Government. -They are divided as follows:</p> - -<table class="railroads" summary="Railroads"> - -<tr> -<td class="family">Harriman</td> -<td class="mileage">22,276</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="family">Vanderbilt</td> -<td class="mileage">20,493</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="family">Pennsylvania</td> -<td class="mileage">20,138</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="family">Hill</td> -<td class="mileage">19,407</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="family">Morgan</td> -<td class="mileage">18,789</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="family">Gould</td> -<td class="mileage">13,789</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="family">Moore</td> -<td class="mileage">13,028</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="family">Rockefeller</td> -<td class="mileage">10,293</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="family">Santa Fe</td> -<td class="mileage">7,809</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="family"><span class="padl4">Total</span></td> -<td class="mileage"><span class="bt">146,112</span></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p>That is three-fourths of the mileage -of the country and the control of the -main lines in every state and territory. -It puts into the hands of these -men a greater power than was ever -exercised by any group of kings, lords -and dukes who ever formed a community -of interests. In all past history, -to overthrow such a power as -that, a resort to long and bloody wars -was the only recourse. It remains to -be seen whether the great peace movements -of the last few years, for which -Andrew Carnegie has built a temple -at The Hague, will produce a sentiment -strong enough to settle this -question peaceably. Would Andrew -Carnegie encourage anarchistic disorders -if he thought there was a danger -<span class="pagenum" id="Page130">[130]</span>of a reduction of the tariff on -steel? Railroad combination and -robber tariffs are only another manifestation -of what we once called the -“money power.”—<i>Omaha (Neb.,) -Investigator.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Populism Forever.</h3> - -<p>Whatever may be the future of the -People’s party, whether it is doomed -to pass away and give place to some -other party that will present its principles, -or whether it may yet rise as it -deserves to do and get control of the -Government, remains yet to be seen.</p> - -<p>One thing is certain. It has already -accomplished more in this Government -in the last fifteen years in the -way of creating public sentiment and -political conviction than both of the -old parties.</p> - -<p>Fifteen years ago the two old parties -were discussing nothing but -Tariff. The Money question, the Railroad -question and the Trust question -were entirely ignored by them. Not -because the leaders of the two old -parties did not know the magnitude -and importance of these questions; -but they got their campaign boodle -from these rich corporations and they -were willing to accept the money and -let the common people perish.</p> - -<p>When the Populists came on the -scene they began to “cry aloud and -spare not.”</p> - -<p>They showed that the same laws of -supply and demand that regulated the -prices of other commodities, also regulated -the price of money, that when -money was plentiful, prices were high, -all kinds of business prosperous and -labor fully employed and well paid. -While on the other hand when money -was scarce it was high; all industries -paralized, men out of work and their -families suffering for bread.</p> - -<p>They showed that the great railroad -corporations had secured the -public franchises and were taxing the -people without their consent and without -mercy.</p> - -<p>They showed that their great corporations, -growing enormously rich -were combining together and forming -“Trusts” and that they will eventually -control all prices, and as completely -own and control the country -as did the Barons under the Feudal -system.</p> - -<p>Their cry and their plea was invincible.</p> - -<p>Their arguments could not be answered.</p> - -<p>Ridicule and abuse might serve to -keep them down for awhile, but the -just indictment against the two old -parties was destined some day to be -sustained.</p> - -<p>Today the Populist looks on with -pleasure and sees his principles growing -in public favor every day.</p> - -<p>The Republican president and the -Democratic leader are endorsing the -very doctrines that were fifteen years -ago considered the most radical.</p> - -<p>All honor to the Populists.—<i>Nevada -County (Ark.) Picayune.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Sense.</h3> - -<p>Can there be such a thing as a -radical conservative? John Temple -Graves thinks Col. Pleasant Stovall, -of the <i>Savannah Press</i>, fits that kind -of a job. We believe that a trimmer—if -that is what Col. Graves means -to call Col. Stovall—is the most decent -citizen that afflicts human society. He -stops rushing things when a sense of -the proprieties tells him that a thing -has been rushed far enough to make it -coarse or common (use which word -you prefer), and the result is that his -hair does not grow too long, nor his -ears too puritanically short.</p> - -<p>Yes, sir, the medium grade takes -the cake. Except in an occasional -storm, the radicals may overrun all -opposition; but it don’t last, and the -fellow that wins on an extravagant -moral issue may be found in the ditch -<span class="pagenum" id="Page131">[131]</span>dead drunk as soon as public sentiment -gets normal and resorts for a -season to common sense arrangements -of its ethics and politics.</p> - -<p>Yes, the men who make an over-display -of honesty for the season -always get left as soon as the folks get -back to their normal qualities. Common -sense controls when the excitement -has passed.—<i>Cordele Rambler.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>A Lesson in Fusion.</h3> - -<p>Hearst got beat for Governor of -New York while the balance of the -State ticket he was on got elected. A -few of the successful candidates are -Independence League men, but most -of them are straight Democrats. Thus -Hearst’s reform work was turned to -the benefit of corrupt and foul Tammany. -We hope this lesson in fusion -will be enough for the League. Hearst -was defeated by about 60,000, while -the other State candidates on the -League-Democratic fusion ticket were -elected by small pluralities. Tammany -scratched Hearst. The Wall -Street element of the Democratic -party either scratched him or voted -the Republican ticket. We are inclined -to think well of Hearst because -of those who scratched him. Hearst -says the fight for the rights of the -people is still on. With his great -daily papers he can do a vast work -toward overthrowing the rule of the -money power, if he gets into the middle -of the road and stays there. But -if he endeavors to work within the old -party he will do more to prevent the -success of the people than forty Clevelands -could do. Maybe the thing -wasn’t hardly ripe and he had to back -out, which he did by fusing with the -Democrats after the League had nominated -a straight ticket. We are guessing -that Hearst will be in the middle -of the road supporting Tom Watson -for President in 1908.—<i>Missouri -World.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>A Significant Vote.</h3> - -<p>Whatever may be said of W. R. -Hearst’s individual sincerity and integrity -of purpose, the vote which -almost landed him in the governor’s -chair of New York State—a position -which is next to the presidency—is -the vote which is dissatisfied with corporation -conditions. It is a significant -vote. And the strong anti-Hearst -sentiment among the “upper ten” all -over the South is also significant. -Everywhere men are, consciously or -unconsciously, taking their positions -along lines of economics.—<i>Farmers’ -Journal, Abilene, Texas.</i></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3>Where He Belongs.</h3> - -<p>Tom Watson is back in Georgia, -where he belongs. He is too warm, -too impulsive, too frank and too honest -for New York—cold, calculating, deceitful, -hateful New York.—<i>Farmers’ -Journal, Abilene, Tex.</i></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/illo131.png" alt="Ornament" width="100" height="103" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page132">[132]</span></p> - -<h2>Letters From the People.</h2> - -<h3 class="letters" id="Ref01">Half Jackal and Half Hyena.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Lucian L. Knight, Los Angeles, Cal.</i></p> - -<p>I cannot silence without gratifying -the impulse which prompts me to -write you at once after reading what -you have to say about that superlative -scoundrel, Mann. As a friend who -holds you in loyal and affectionate -admiration, I resent with all my -heart the treatment which you have -received at the hands of one who is -man in name only and who in nature -is half jackal and half hyena. I am -aware how true it is that the most -insignificant of insects may vex even -the noble lion. Mann may be a millionaire, -but I warrant his shillings -are dirty. How miserably poor the -wretch is when the only assets he has -in the world are the millions which -lie in the bank!</p> - -<p>I know how little things have -annoyed me at times and I know how -much I have appreciated an impulsive -word of sympathy, even from -“the least of these.”</p> - -<p>I am sorry I could not get the -extracts you were to send me in time -for Vol. I of the Reminiscences which -will be ready for publication within -the next few weeks; but I hope to -get them in time for Vol. II. The -work will require two volumes. I -have met with so much encouragement -that I am warranted in beginning at -once upon Vol. II. Disappointed -in other cherished plans and prospects, -I am now putting my life’s -ambition into this work which I trust -to be able to make of literary and -historic value to Georgia. -</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">An Anonymous Slander Rebuked.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>W. H. Eddy, Los Angeles, Cal.</i></p> - -<p>Can you explain what quality there -is in human nature, that prompts some -specimens of the race to the doing of -things which are admirably adapted -to the hindrance of all that they profess -to be in earnest support of? -Now, for instance: in <i>The Appeal to -Reason</i> of October 27th, is an -unsigned article headed, “Populism -and the Pap.” Being unsigned would -indicate that it came from the pen of -J. A. Wayland, or that of F. D. Warren, -the present Managing Editor. -Now, both of these men have been -earnest workers for several years, or -at least for what they conceive to be -the cause of socialism. It would seem -as though, when two men are associated -in a work which each of them -has advocated and written signed -articles in favor of, lauding it as a -movement opposed to dishonesty, deceit -and all the baser tendencies of the -depraved mind, that when he takes a -notion to stultify himself, descend to -the lowest practices of the gutter -blackguard, he would have consideration -enough for his associate to sign -his name, so that decent people who -may be so unfortunate as to peruse -it, and such of the patrons of the -paper as have both decency and -brains enough to resent it, might not -blame the innocent party inadvertently.</p> - -<p>If socialism is anything, or is to be -anything in human history which is -to make for the betterment of -humanity, then it must rest upon the -fundamental principles of honesty, -<span class="pagenum" id="Page133">[133]</span>justice and truth. All those who -would not be cursed by its adoption -to-morrow, by reason of their lack of -development and their consequent -lack of capacity to appreciate its -meaning and the obligations inherent -in it, assert that brotherly love, the -golden rule, and the Sermon on the -Mount, are also corner-stones in the -foundation of its most noble structure.</p> - -<p>But let us leave the latter out of -consideration for the present. It is -not conceivable that there can be dug -up in the office of the <i>Appeal</i> one -individual so low in the scale of -human development as not to concede -honor, truth and justice as being the -beginning, the very A B C of socialism. -What must we think, then, of -the estimate that the one who penned -the abominable article referred to, -places upon the intelligence of his -readers, to say nothing of the hundreds -who have drawn from the little -stock of their earnings which are -really needed for the comfort of themselves -and family, to assist this poor -degenerate in distributing his venom -and flaunting his idiocy in the faces -of a nation of intelligent people, to -the disheartenment of thousands of -advocates of socialism, and the great -glee of those who aver that the animus -of socialism and of all socialists -is such as “Breathes the hot breath of -brutal hate, and riots as it runs” -through the two columns of the “Appeal?” -To those who have not been -unfortunate enough to read it, suffice -it to say that it is a wholly uncalled -for, unsocialistic, and, from every -point of view, rascally, assault upon -Hon. Thomas E. Watson, and to make -it, if possible, more pusillanimous, it -is given publicity just at a time when, -on account of Mr. Watson’s having -been grievously misused by his former -business associates in the <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i> enterprise, Mr. Watson is -deserving of the sympathy of every -person who possesses a spark of decency. -It is cowardly in the extreme -to strike a person when he is down or -crippled.</p> - -<p>Mr. Watson’s life history is now an -open book to anyone, not an absolute -ignoramus, in this broad country. He -has his prejudices. He has his own -political ideas, which, at the test of -the ballot box, have been shown to be -largely in the minority, but, to his -honor be it said, the fact that they -were not the winning card, has never -caused him for one moment to falter -in devoting time, money and energy -in their advocacy, a fact which of -itself would give the lie to the baseless, -senseless and hypocritical charge -of treachery and double dealing, -which, by their own statements, finds -250,000 duplications in this issue of -the Appeal.</p> - -<p>It is doing too much honor to quote -from it, but the readers of progress -will excuse the presentation of some -short samples. “Tom appears to -have a grudge against whatever tends -toward progress.” Think of that in -reference to the father of the rural -free delivery postal system which -carries tens of thousands of copies of -this very diatribe of lies to the farmers -of the country, in whose interest -Watson succeeded in having this -system established, as the <i>Congressional -Record</i> will bear witness. -Again, “But he has been repudiated -by the respectable democratic press -of his state—as witness the merciless -exposure of his methods by the <i>Atlanta -Constitution</i> and the <i>Macon -Telegraph</i>!” Respectable! The <i>Atlanta -Constitution</i> and the <i>Macon -Telegraph</i>! Socialists of intelligence, -what have you to say of the -creature so lost to decency as to, in -the columns of the leading socialist -weekly paper of America, if not of the -world, so far as circulation goes, laud -the <i>Atlanta Constitution</i> and the -<i>Macon Telegraph</i>, notoriously the -most mercenary and most thoroughly -corporation-serving papers of the -entire South, and for no other reason—for -he can plead no other—than because -<span class="pagenum" id="Page134">[134]</span>they are fighting Tom Watson, -who happens to be under the ban of -his displeasure?</p> - -<p>And why are the ultra corporation -journals fighting Tom Watson? Because -honest Tom Watson is sacrificing -his private interests in a determined -effort to defeat the -machinations of the Walter Parkers, -the Herrins and the Abe Ruefs of his -beloved state.</p> - -<p>Again: “That Watson received -the price for his perfidy is not for a -moment to be doubted.” Whoever -penned those lines either knew that -he was penning a most villainous lie -or he is too ignorant to be worthy of -the contempt of a chimpanzee. There -isn’t a person with intelligence -enough to write connectedly on truth, -or any part of the scurrilous rot this -creature did, but knows perfectly -well that if Tom Watson had been -corruptible, he could have received -ten times more to have sold himself to -the very forces this creature is supposed -to be fighting, than it has ever -been claimed he did get. That is just -as true of Tom Watson as it is of -’Gene V. Debs. Everyone, including -the writer of that malicious screed, -<i>knows</i> that they both could be rolling -luxuriously in wealth if they had but -followed the course of these very papers -which he is pleased to declare -“respectable.”</p> - -<p>But the last quotation is manly as -compared with this one: “It is said -that he has been up for sale before, -and was knocked down to the highest -bidder,” etc., “It is said!” The -language of the conscienceless gossip, -the method of the footpad, with the -sand-bag, or the gas-pipe who strikes -you out of the dark. Again: “John -M. Barnes, a man for whose veracity -many stand ready to vouch, etc.” -Very good, Mr. No-name. Mr. -Barnes is good enough authority to -use in an effort to injure your brother -man, Mr. Thos. Watson. Would you -accept Mr. John M. Barnes’ statement -as to the offices you, your associates -and the <i>Appeal to Reason</i> are performing -in America, and would you -abide by and endorse them in your -own case? Never! And that very -fact impeaches your honesty in quoting, -as against Tom Watson, the -slanders of corporation hirelings -and political hacks, whom you know -are fighting him for what there is in -it. No! no! When you go straining -a point, you always <i>prove too -much</i>.</p> - -<p>Be something like a man, and bid -him God speed in his task of awakening -the people to their dangers, even -if he does leave them short of being -full-fledged socialists.</p> - -<p>Tom Watson’s opinions are not in -all respects mine. In fact, there are -many points on which we do not -agree. But if I have outgrown the -tenets of Populism, and he has not, or -if he sees so many falling away from -the mere party organization of populism -as to be heart-sore and discouraged, -and chooses to advocate <i>the same -principles</i> under the name of Jeffersonian -Democracy, he is still entitled -to the respect of friend and foe alike, -until he sacrifices principle to greed -or puerile hatred.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Wants to Follow Watson’s Pen.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>L. A. Benson, Clay Center, Kan.</i></p> - -<p>I write to inquire as to the truth -or falsity of the rumor that you have -severed your connection with the -Magazine which bears your name. I -have been a voting Prohibitionist -since 1885. I bought the first issue -of “<i>Tom Watson’s</i>” and read it, and -have hungered for its appearance -ever since. I have read every line of -Editorial and other matter which -came from your pen. I was beginning -to think myself so much of a -Populist that I could “keep step.” -From 1894 until 1901 I lived in -Philadelphia, Pa., and judging the -Populists from the caricatures appearing -in Eastern papers I felt surprised -<span class="pagenum" id="Page135">[135]</span>to find that I have all along possessed -just such views as constitute the -essence of Populism. I find myself -unwilling to give up the opportunity -to follow your pen. I will regard it as -a matter of genuine kindness to me if -you will put me in connection with -the Magazine which takes your copy -and spreads it among your many disciples -and admirers. I regard the -work which you are doing as <i>fundamental</i>, -and I am aware that you, like -all leaders in reforms which touch the -money-king, will suffer. If it be in -the power of “Old Plute” to crucify -you, he will not be too tender. He will -not be lacking in heartless cruelty. -But while you are bidding high for the -hate and vengeance of “Old Plute” -you are winning the glorious title of -“friend” and “brother” to those -who are crushed ’neath the heel of -this heartless, greedy foe. To <i>oppose</i> -him and to <i>stand the loving helper</i> of -men, is to trace the footsteps of the -Man of Galilee, up a modern Calvary. -In plain language, it is the essence -of pure and undefiled religion. -Here’s my hand, brother, and may -God bless and prosper you.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Hedging on Human Life.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>N. B. McDowell, Ronceverte, W. Va.</i></p> - -<p>In reply to your question in <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i> of August: “Is it -true that railroad corporations insure -the lives of the railroad mail clerks?” -I cannot speak for the railroad corporations, -but it was developed in -court here that the St. Lawrence -Broom & Manufacturing Co., the -largest corporation in this section, -has the lives of its employes insured -for its benefit. This company employs -a large number of men and boys and -has never made any provisions for -their protection against the inclemency -of the weather, or the many dangers -of machinery that might be -averted.</p> - -<p>I was an employe of this company -for fifteen years and have seen a -number of men and boys mangled and -maimed for life, but it was not known -until quite recently that the corporation -received insurance for every -employe that got crippled. A boy -got his hand cut off and sued the -company for damages and it was -clearly proven that the employes -were insured for the benefit of the -company.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Must Have the “Jeffersonian.”</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>D. H. Chamberlain, Harriston, Miss.</i></p> - -<p>A few days ago I saw in the Memphis -<i>Commercial-Appeal</i> that you had -severed your connection with <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i>. I am a subscriber -and have taken the Magazine solely -on account of your Editorials, which I -regard as the finest and most forceful -I ever read in any Magazine. My subscription -is about run out and if you -are no longer connected with the publication -I do not care to renew. This -is my reason for making this inquiry, -and I will be glad to hear the report is -untrue. If it is correct let me know -if it will be your purpose to edit a -similar periodical. In that event you -can count on me as a subscriber, even -if the subscription price should be -increased to $5.00 per annum.</p> - -<p>I think you are doing a great and -necessary work in your attempts to -arouse the people to the dangers that -now menace the liberties of this unhappy -land, “to hastening ills a -prey.”</p> - -<p>There is one point on which I am -constrained to criticise you and that -is your ill-advised attacks on W. J. -Bryan, which is something I am -utterly unable to understand.</p> - -<p>Why do you do this when you -both stand for the same things? It -seems to me unfortunate, to say the -least, that soldiers of the hosts of -Reform should turn their artillery -upon each other when so much ammunition -is needed to fight the cohorts of -<span class="pagenum" id="Page136">[136]</span>Plutocracy, and in this connection -nothing will ever be accomplished in -the way of bringing this Government -again into the possession of the people -if any such suicidal policy is pursued. -The reformers must get together -if this Republic is to be preserved, -if it is not even now too late -to save it. Of this I am certain: we -have no time left us for internal dissensions, -and I hope that so splendid -a soldier of the common good as -yourself, will, in the future, refrain -from stirring up discord in the ranks -of Reform, and reserve your ammunition -entirely for our enemies.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">As to Gins.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>R. W. Barkley, New York City.</i> -<span class="righttext padr2">November 12, 1906.</span></p> - -<p>I note that you are proposed as -President of the Cotton Association. -I have read your Magazine from the -first number until Mann got it, and I -know your desire to benefit the -South. I control the patent rights on -a cotton gin which works on a new -principle and which leaves the cotton -in natural lengths, thereby enhancing -the price to the planter by one to five -cents per pound. The gin can be run -by hand, or by power, and a few -farmers can own one in common and -thereby earn money by ginning their -own cotton. The gin consists of -“mechanism for gradually opening -and loosening the cotton fibres while -still attached to the seeds, with means -for thereafter removing the seeds.” -Just take a little cotton and gradually -pull the fibres apart, without, however, -separating them from the seed, -until you have a large puff ball -and then see how easily they come -off at the seed. Well, that is what -this machine does. No “gin cut” -cotton in it. Seed practically unhurt, -also. Am looking for money -wherewith to build a large machine, -(the inventor made the working model -by hand himself); it does the work -fairly well, but it is getting to be -ram-shackle for demonstration purposes, -and then for capital wherewith -to work the gin commercially. Such -a gin ought to interest you and also -the Cotton Association.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Editor’s Note.</span>—Having just been -run through one new and improved -gin—known as <i>Town Topics</i>—and -having been badly “gin cut” myself, -have but slight inclination for new inventions -of the gin variety.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Getting Used to It.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>S. R. Sikes, Ocilla, Georgia.</i></p> - -<p>I have your card of November 10th, -advising me of your withdrawal from -<i>Watson’s Magazine</i>, and of your -intention of publishing in the near -future <span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian</span>. I -desire to express my sympathy for you -in your recent trouble with the New -York publication, and to assure you -of my friendship and best wishes for -you in your new enterprise, “<span class="smcap">The -Jeffersonian.</span>”</p> - -<p>I feel sure that you have been treated -very unfairly by those New York -people, and I feel a spirit of resentment -for you, and I am to-day writing -them to discontinue mailing -<i>Watson’s Magazine</i> to me, and to -erase my name from their list of subscribers. -(Copy of letter enclosed.)</p> - -<p>I would feel worse for you over this -transaction than I do if it were not -for the fact you have been unfairly -treated and falsely accused so many -times during the last ten or fifteen -years, until I suppose you have to -some extent become toughened so that -you can stand such treatment better -than the average man, and I see very -plainly now, and have seen for quite -a while past, that the current of public -sentiment is rapidly drifting your -way. I desire to offer you all the -encouragement I possibly can in the -noble work you are doing—educating -the common people of the country on -<span class="pagenum" id="Page137">[137]</span>the public issues that are now facing -the American people, and in this connection -I will state to you that I have -been with you, so far as my ability -extends, in this battle, and on some -occasions have been severely criticised -for taking your part and standing by -the principles of original democracy -in the days when the Democratic -Party was seeking to destroy the -principles upon which our government -was founded. Of course I will -subscribe for the <span class="smcap">Jeffersonian</span>. I -want the first copy that is printed -and each succeeding issue. Mail me -a few sample copies, and I think I can -induce some others to subscribe.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center highline15">(Copy.)</p> - -<p class="right padr2">November 14, 1906.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Editor Watson’s Magazine, New -York.</p> - -<p>Dear Sir:—After reading and -carefully considering the recent -differences between you and the Honorable -Thos. E. Watson, I wish to say -to you that I think Mr. Watson has -been treated very unfairly. I am a -great admirer of Mr. Watson and his -writings, and this led me to subscribe -to the Magazine in its beginning. I -have been highly pleased with it, -and especially so with Mr. Watson’s -editorials, but as he has been forced -to sever his connection with the -Magazine, and as his writings were -the principle things which induced -me to subscribe to the Magazine, I -write to request that you erase my -name from your list of subscribers. -If I remember correctly, my subscription -is paid up to March 1st, -1907, but under the circumstances I -do not wish another copy mailed to -my address.</p> - -<p class="right padr4"><span class="padr6">Very respectfully,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">S. R. Sikes</span>.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Watson Was Its Strength.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>V. L. Anthony, Jr., Hurtsboro, Ala.</i></p> - -<p>I subscribed for <i>Watson’s Magazine</i> -on account of your connection -with it. Now, as you are no longer -with it, I wish your new Magazine -when you start it.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">“The Gang” Insults the Readers.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>D. J. Henderson, Sr., Ocilla, Ga.</i></p> - -<p>When the stockholders of the -<i>Watson’s Magazine</i> attempted to -restrict you as Editor and Manager, -causing you to sever your connection -with it, they struck, what I call, a -death blow to the Magazine. All of -its readers who believe in pure Jeffersonian -Democracy felt the insult as -keenly as you. I enclose you copy -of a letter I sent last week to DeFrance, -ordering mine discontinued. -I am a subscriber to the Weekly <i>Jeffersonian</i> -and will be to the Magazine -you contemplate starting in Atlanta -as soon as the first issue is out.</p> - -<p>The editor of the <i>Ocilla Star</i>, whom -I asked you some time back to exchange -your Magazine with, has, -since that time, “passed over the -River to rest in the shade.” The -paper will be continued by his two -young sons, who, I know, if not doing -so, will be pleased to exchange with -<i>The Jeffersonian</i>.</p> - -<p>May the blessings of Heaven be -upon you and yours.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center highline15">(Copy.)</p> - -<p class="right padr2">Ocilla, Ga., Oct. 24, 1906.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Mr. C. Q. DeFrance, New York City.</p> - -<p>Dear Sir:—Please strike my name -from the list of subscribers to the -<i>Watson Magazine</i>. I learn the stockholders -endeavored to place restrictions -on Mr. Watson as Editor and -Manager, and he, for that reason, -severed his connection with it. Thank -God for that. I am glad to know -he had so much manhood about him. -Tom Watson is one among the greatest -statesmen the United States has. -It is a source of satisfaction to know -that he will neither speak nor write -with a corporation muzzle on. When -<span class="pagenum" id="Page138">[138]</span>the stockholders attempted to restrict -Mr. Watson in his Editorials for the -Magazine, they didn’t only insult him, -but they insulted every reader of it -who believes in the pure Jeffersonian -principles which Mr. Watson so ably -advocates and defends. I would be -proud of Tom Watson were he from -any other section of the Union. He -being a Southern man and a Georgian -at that, I am exceedingly proud of -him. I fear somebody has been taken -upon the Mount and shown the glorious -things the railroads will do if -they will only fall down and worship -them. If <i>no Watson</i> is with the Magazine -then <i>no Magazine for me</i>.</p> - -<p class="right padr2"><span class="padr6">Respectfully,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">D. J. Henderson, Sr.</span></p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">“It Would Be a Noble Charity.”</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Chas. D. Hunt, Gueydan, La.</i></p> - -<p>Reading with interest your valuable -editorials in the October number -and the most striking and interesting -subject, “It Would be a Noble -Charity”—here you have treated a -subject in a light that any person -could not help from shielding with -an honest heart, with a strong desire -in mind to spread the cause of -charity, but you have almost been selfish -with your subject. What of the -territory bordering along the Gulf of -Mexico? That is, the extreme portion.</p> - -<p>Here we have settlers of almost -ancient times. They are not altogether -uncivilized, but are not able to -meet the demands of our educated -requirements. Hence are we to still -keep them back or are we to give them -a helping hand? These people know -nothing of education and its help in -life, but toil with an earnest heart to -maintain <i>merely</i> a <i>scant living</i> and to -bring the younger class up in their -own path.</p> - -<p>I think if the Humane Society -would stop and think deeply in regard -to the young boys and girls that -spend their school days in hard labor -out of school there would be something -done to protect them and give -them a chance for a better future -than is now before them.</p> - -<p>It would be surprising to anyone -who has had the advantages of education -and <i>really</i> felt its <i>real value</i> in -life to stroll along the prairies and -see just how many bright young boys -and girls are out of touch with the -educated world. Why? Their parents -are not able to aid them to secure -an education, but are more than willing.</p> - -<p>Do you not think much could be -done in both mountain and prairie -territories?</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Wants Only the Real Thing.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Burton H. Jeffers, Rose, N. Y.</i></p> - -<p>Having read in the <i>Missouri -World</i> that you had ceased writing -for <i>Watson’s Magazine</i>, I was -greatly surprised. I had supposed -that you owned the Magazine, and -had taken great pleasure in securing -subscriptions for it in this vicinity. -Some of those subscriptions have just -expired, and the subscribers say they -don’t want it again if you are not -going to write for it. That would -seem to sound the death knell of the -now so-called <i>Watson’s Magazine</i>.</p> - -<p>When you start your new magazine -send me a sample copy, and I will -endeavor to give your subscription -list a little boost. I would also like -a few sample copies of your weekly -paper.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">You Shall Hear Again.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>J. J. Hunt, El Paso, Tex.</i></p> - -<p>Looking forward and hoping to get -the November number of your Magazine, -I hear, verbally, that you have -severed your connection with that -periodical, and I don’t care now -whether it ever appears again, for -what I read in it was what you wrote, -little else. I know you quit your -association there for good cause and -that your work will not end, and -<span class="pagenum" id="Page139">[139]</span>believe I shall hear from you again. I -dare say two thirds of the readers of -<i>Watson’s Magazine</i>, like myself, will -care little for it now.</p> - -<p>While I’m traveling, please know -that I’m still a citizen of good old -Georgia, living at 257 South Pryor -Street, Atlanta.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Samples of the Replies DeFrance May -Expect to Get to Begging Letters.</h3> - -<p class="center highline15">(Copy.)</p> - -<p class="right padr2">Boaz, Ala., Nov. 16, 1906.</p> - -<p class="noindent">C. Q. DeFrance.</p> - -<p>Dear Sir:—In this paragraph you -say too much to get my help; you say -that Mr. Watson’s backers cared -nothing for Mr. Watson’s “ideas.” -But the money which you hoped to get -out of those who do care for Mr. -Watson and his “ideas” was the -object in view. Had it not been for -Mr. Watson and the principles he -advocated I would not have been a -subscriber. This and the fact that -Mr. Watson was forced to resign because -of non-payment of his salary -and what you say in the fourth paragraph -forever settles it with me. -When Mr. Watson betrays the people’s -cause or trust for any cause I -am done, for I would never confide -in another man as I have in him, but -he will never forsake the people.</p> - -<p class="right padr2"><span class="padr6">Yours truly,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">T. B. Mosley</span>.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center highline15">(Copy.)</p> - -<p class="noindent">Mr. C. Q. DeFrance, Business Manager, -New York City, N. Y.</p> - -<p>Dear Sir:—I received the November -number of the <i>Watson’s Magazine</i> -a few days ago, and your circular -letter and subscription blanks -today, and in reply would say that -I am one of those who much prefer -the play of Hamlet with the Prince of -Denmark left in.</p> - -<p>Further comments are unnecessary. -My subscription expires February, -1907. Please discontinue same with -the November number received.</p> - -<p class="right padr2"><span class="padr6">Yours very truly,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">A. A. DeLong</span>.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center highline15">(Copy.)</p> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Watson’s Magazine, 121 W. 42nd -Street, New York, N. Y.</i></p> - -<p>Gentlemen:—You will please discontinue -my subscription to <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i>.</p> - -<p>I subscribed to this periodical in -order to read Mr. Watson’s editorials; -and, inasmuch as he is no longer -identified with this publication, it is -useless to send it to me any longer.</p> - -<p class="right padr2"><span class="padr8">Very truly,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Burgess Smith</span>.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Wants the Jeffersonian.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Chas. E. Harris, Alton, Ill.</i></p> - -<p>I was very much surprised on buying -<i>Watson’s Magazine</i> for November -to find that you were no longer connected -with it as editor. Of course -I will have no further use for the -Magazine as I only bought it in the -first place for your writings.</p> - -<p>I saw in one of the St. Louis papers -that you intended to start another -Magazine and call it <span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian</span>. -Please advise me if this -is true and when it will be ready for -publication, as I want you to put me -down on your subscription list.</p> - -<p>I hope to cast my first vote for you -and Bryan in 1908.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">No Sham for Him.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Benjamin H. Hill, West Point, Ga.</i></p> - -<p>Some time ago I subscribed for your -splendid Magazine solely and only to -get to read your articles therein and -I notice to-day’s number, with one -exception, contains nothing from your -able pen. Without your articles I -would not give ten cents a year for -it, in fact don’t want it at any price. -<span class="pagenum" id="Page140">[140]</span>I desire to read after you, but don’t -want this other trash.</p> - -<p>I regret your trouble and hope it -will yet prove for your benefit and -help.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">The Jeffersonian is the Answer.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Chas. Buttlar, Oakland, Cal.</i></p> - -<p>I have been a regular purchaser of -your Magazine from its beginning, -and it is with the deepest regret that -I learn that you have withdrawn from -the Magazine. I presume that the -enemies of truth have destroyed its -publication as they have done heretofore -with others.</p> - -<p>Will you kindly inform me, also, -whether you will start a new Magazine -or paper by which we may enjoy -the education that you have given us? -I wish you success and strength to -overcome all opposition.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Hamlet Without the Dane.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>H. G. Sumner, Passaic, N. J.</i></p> - -<p><i>Watson’s Magazine</i> without Watson -is of course no longer <i>Watson’s Magazine</i>. -I haven’t seen the November -number, but it must be like “Hamlet” -with Hamlet left out.</p> - -<p>I am proud of having been one of -the faithful in 1904, when I heard -you speak at Jersey City and again in -that matchless “old fashioned stump -speech” at the Grand Central Palace -in New York, where I managed to jam -myself through the crowd on the platform -and get hold of your hand for a -second.</p> - -<p>The monthly visits of your Magazine -were like those of a dear friend -dropping in for an evening to discuss -matters which should be of the gravest -concern to every true American. -I have the numbers all bound in volumes, -but now my set is complete -much sooner than I had anticipated. -</p> - -<p>A few minutes ago I took up a copy -of <i>The Public</i>, in which I saw a paragraph -to the effect that you would -soon start a new Magazine. I hope -this may be true, and I want to be one -of the first subscribers, for I am anxious -for the continuation of the “Life -of Jackson” and for more of your -Editorials.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">From a Constant Reader.</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Jas. E. Dillon, Otwell, Ind.</i></p> - -<p>Too late I learned the sad story of -<i>Watson’s Magazine</i>. I have been a -subscriber to it from the first number, -and I did not want to miss a number.</p> - -<p>I sent a long list of names to it a -few days before I found it out, for -sample copies. But it has lost its -attraction to me and I hope such men -as DeFrance and Mann will soon be -relegated.</p> - -<p>I have enclosed a few names that -might subscribe to the new <span class="smcap">Jeffersonian -Magazine</span>.</p> - -<p>I hope you will have success in -spreading the truth and nothing but -the truth.</p> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Wants a “Watson’s” With a Watson in It</h3> - -<p class="noindent"><i>H. C. Britt, Sparta, Ga.</i></p> - -<p>I have been informed that you -would send to the present subscribers -to <i>Watson’s Magazine</i>, if they so -desired, your new publication, free of -cost, for the time for which they had -paid their subscriptions to the Magazine. -I am a subscriber to the Magazine, -and have been from the date of -its very first issue, and my subscription -is paid to the corresponding date -in 1907.</p> - -<p>I took the Magazine because of -your connection with it. I would -appreciate the opportunity of getting -acquainted with your new Magazine.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page141">[141]</span></p> - -<h2>Returning Thanks to My Friends</h2> - -<p>Shouldering the responsibilities and -the financial burden of a new magazine, -is a serious matter. As nearly -everybody will understand, it involves -tens of thousands of dollars in the -way of necessary expense, and -whether you will ever see that money -again depends entirely upon circumstances -over which you yourself -have nothing like <i>absolute</i> control. -There are already so many brilliant -and beautiful magazines circulating -throughout the Union, that establishing -another is a venture that borders -upon temerity.</p> - -<p>But in my case there was no alternative. -<i>It had to be done.</i> Flesh and -blood could not bear the infamous -treatment which was being handed -out to me by that fat rascal, Col. W. -D. Mann, and that lean sneak, C. Q. -DeFrance. <i>Out of consideration for -the subscribers</i>, as well as in justice -to myself, it was absolutely necessary -that I should establish a magazine of -my own, which should extend to the -subscribers of the New York Magazine -the privilege of securing the -remainder of their terms from a magazine -which was, <i>in fact</i>, what the -<i>name</i> of the New York Magazine had -led subscribers <i>to believe it to be</i>.</p> - -<p>To have Mann and DeFrance publishing, -in New York, a <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i>, and securing money from -thousands of innocent people, <i>who -would subscribe upon the faith of my -name, and would then be told falsehoods -as to why I was no longer writing -for it</i>, <span class="smcapall">WOULD HAVE BEEN AN -INTOLERABLE SITUATION</span>.</p> - -<p>To remain silent and acquiescent -under those circumstances, would -have been to make myself a party to -the fraud. I understand that Col. -Mann and C. Q. DeFrance are using, -for themselves, the money sent to -the <i>Watson’s Magazine</i> by those who -are not aware of the fact that there is -no Watson connected with <span class="smcapall">THAT</span> -Magazine. <i>If they do not extend to -the subscriber the option of getting -his money back, or of having it sent -to the genuine Watson’s Magazine</i>, -they will be cheats and swindlers; and -they ought to be made to plead on the -criminal side of the Court, <i>where the -appearance of Col. Mann would not -be considered extraordinary</i>.</p> - -<p>Not wanting to be a party to a -fraud by making no effort to defeat -it, and not having a disposition to lie -down quietly while those two rascals -trampled upon me, I announced the -purpose of establishing <span class="smcap">Watson’s -Jeffersonian Magazine</span>. Of course -it was hoped that my friends would -stand by me. It was hoped that those -subscribers who had gone to the -Magazine in New York would follow -my Magazine in Atlanta.</p> - -<p>Did the subscribers of the New -York Magazine want a <i>real</i> Watsonian -Magazine, or was it <i>just any old -magazine</i> that they were after? Were -those subscribers men and women who -had faith in me, and who were -attached to myself, my work and my -message? <i>Would they have sufficient -interest in the matter to sympathize -with me, and follow me?</i> These were -the questions. They could not be -answered until the opportunity was -offered <i>for the subscribers themselves -to act</i>. -<span class="pagenum" id="Page142">[142]</span></p> - -<p>With grateful heart, I hereby -return profound thanks to those steadfast -and earnest comrades who have -already enrolled themselves with -<span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine</span>.</p> - -<p>These friends did not wait for a -sample copy; they did not wait for -the day of publication. <i>They had -faith.</i> They knew in advance what -my Magazine would be. <span class="smcap">They had -confidence.</span> They knew perfectly -well that their money would be safe in -my hands. Therefore, from California -to North Carolina and from -Florida to Michigan, they have -poured in upon me their letters of -sympathy and encouragement. And -together with these letters they sent -remittances to cover their subscriptions -in advance.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>From so great a number it is difficult, -and perhaps not quite fair, to -single out individuals, but as it is my -intention to carry in the Magazine -from month to month, a Department -in which those who are most active in -their support of the Magazine will be -mentioned by name, a few will be -mentioned now. Others will be mentioned -later.</p> - -<p>I want every one of my friends who -have written me, to feel that their -encouragement and support is profoundly -appreciated.</p> - -<p>You naturally inquire, <i>who was the -very first subscriber to</i> <span class="smcap">Watson’s -Jeffersonian Magazine</span>?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dr. Cicero Gibson, Thomson, Ga.</span></p> - -<p>Following closely after Dr. Gibson, -came a good many others who arrived -so nearly together that it would perhaps -be unjust to some to say which -was literally the first-comer, yet I cannot -refrain from selecting a few for -special mention.</p> - -<p>There was my gallant and loyal -friend of LaGrange, Ga., Dr. Frank -Ridley, whose letter I am going to -print in full:</p> - -<p>“Please know that I am in thorough -sympathy with you in the matter of -the Magazine contention, and all -other matters.</p> - -<p>“I have written to the New York -office of the <i>Watson’s Magazine</i>, -instructing them to discontinue sending -me their paper. I am enclosing -check for $1.50 for <span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian -Magazine</span>. With sentiments -of my continued warm regard and -friendship.</p> - -<p>“P. S. Please see that my subscription -begins with the first issue.”</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Then there was the very warm-hearted -H. J. Mullins, Franklin, -Tenn.; there was J. J. Gordy of -Richland, Ga., who had rendered such -faithful service for the New York -Magazine, and who transferred his -zeal and influence immediately to the -<span class="smcap">Jeffersonian</span>; there was whole-souled -Frank Burkett, of Okolona, Miss.; and -there was that gray-haired but warm-hearted -veteran, Thos. H. Tibbles, of -Nebraska.</p> - -<p>From the Empire State, Texas, -came the cheering response of sturdy -Milton Park. From Salem, Va., W. -H. Tinsley spoke words of encouragement. -And my good old friend, Allison -W. Smith, of North Georgia, went -to work as earnestly and as promptly -for the new Magazine as he had done -for the old.</p> - -<p>And how can I fail to mention -Paul Dixon of Chilicothe, Mo? <i>A -truer man does not live.</i> Of the many -who have stood by me at this juncture -and shown a willingness to co-operate, -none has been more emphatic than -Dixon & Lankford, who enjoy the distinction -of publishing one of the three -Mid-Road Populist papers which -stood the storm, and did not go down -in consequence of the awful mistake -and of Fusion.</p> - -<p>From Los Angeles, Cal., came a -heart-warming letter from Lucian L. -Knight, which you will find <a href="#Ref01">elsewhere</a> -in this number of the Magazine. From -Athens, Ga., came a most welcome -letter from A. D. Cheney; and his -<span class="pagenum" id="Page143">[143]</span>bright boy, Jean Cheney, took up the -work of canvassing his community, -with results so extremely helpful to -me that I mention his name in grateful -recognition of his service.</p> - -<p>From A. G. Thurman Zabel, of -Petersburg, Mich., comes the following:</p> - -<p>“I saw a notice in the <i>Missouri -World</i>, that you were about to publish -a new Magazine. Enclosed find -remittance for which send me your -Magazine as long as that pays for, -and then let me know, and I will remit -for it for a longer term. I am glad -to learn that you will continue your -good work.”</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p>From Kentucky comes a cordial -word from that veteran editor and -gifted gentleman, Hon. Henry Watterson, -who, on the eve of his departure -for Europe, drops a line to the -Atlanta management of the Magazine -to say:</p> - -<p>“Mr. Watson has few greater -admirers or better friends than I am -and whenever the <i>Courier-Journal</i> can -do anything to advance his personal -interests, it is always at his hands.”</p> - -<p>Judge John J. Hunt, one of those -level-headed Democratic leaders who -did his best to prevent the awful mistake -that was made by the Men in -Control, in 1896, was swift with his -assurances of hearty co-operation and -support. And my old college friend. -Alex. Keese, of Atlanta, <i>was not -behind anybody</i> in the warmth and -vigor of his protestations against the -wrong which had been done me by -those knaves in New York.</p> - -<p>Nor should I forget stanch W. S. -Morgan, of Hardy, Ark., nor J. M. -Mallett of Cleburne, Tex., both of -whom were emphatic in their denunciation -of the New York outrage:—Nor -yet sturdy Jo. A. Parker.</p> - -<p>From far-off Seattle, State of -Washington, the voice of <i>The Patriarch</i>, -was heard in scathing condemnation -of what had been done by Col. -Mann and DeFrance; and from New -Jersey, Dr. Geo. H. Cromie was -equally emphatic.</p> - -<p>My good friend, C. E. Parker, of -Bainbridge, not only enlisted under -my banner, turning his back upon -those New York knaves, but he -<i>remitted the largest individual check -that was sent</i>—$13.80—and the largest -number of subscribers received in -any one remittance.</p> - -<p><i>From the Hawaiian Islands</i>, came a -cordial hand-shake from that veteran -of the Reform Wars, <span class="smcap">John M. Horner</span>. -From Paris, France, spoke the -sympathetic voice of <span class="smcap">John Adams -Thayer</span>—the brainy, nervy man who -achieved such a wonderful success for -<i>Everybody’s Magazine</i>.</p> - -<p>Nor must I omit from the Roll of -Honor the name of <span class="smcap">Prof. M. W. -Parks</span>, President of the Georgia Normal -and Industrial School, and President -also of the Georgia Educational -Association. His letter was a noble -tribute which I highly value.</p> - -<p>Taylor J. Shields, of Vineland, Ala., -has my sincere thanks for his generous -words.</p> - -<p>Bay City, Michigan, is the home of -an ardent, personally unknown friend -whose hand I hope some day to shake—his -name is Francis F. McGinniss.</p> - -<p>And I must find room to mention -my untiring friend, Col. W. A. Huff, -of Macon; R. E. Thompson, of Toomsuber, -Miss.; J. S. Ward, Jr., of -Thomasville; Ben Hill, of West Point, -Ga., and Clarence Cunningham, of -Waterloo, S. C.; Rev. R. L. Benson, -Clay Center, Kan.; H. G. Sumner, -Passaic, N. J.; Chas. Butler, Oakland, -Cal.; Theron Fisk, Sioux Falls, S. D.; -and Prof. Z. I. Fitzpatrick, of Madison, -Ga.</p> - -<p>And then there is W. F. Smith, of -Flovilla, Ga., who has never flickered -in his loyal comradeship any more -than has that noble old Roman, Gen. -William Phillips, of Marietta.</p> - -<p>Here is a specimen of the way they -<span class="pagenum" id="Page144">[144]</span>are writing to me and below it a -sample of how they are writing to the -bogus <i>Watson’s Magazine</i>:</p> - -<p class="right padr2">Dixie, Ga., Nov. 23, 1906.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Hon. T. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.</p> - -<p>Dear Sir:—I am writing the New -York office today cancelling my subscription -to the counterfeit <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i>. Old man Mann, and DeFrance -are a set of fools, if for one -moment they entertained the thought -that they could detain the followers of -the <i>real</i> Tom Watson on their subscription -list. The thing can’t be -done. When the readers of the New -York <i>Watson’s Magazine</i> find out the -truth about the manner in which they -treated the genuine Tom Watson, you -will see them leaving like rats leaving -a sinking ship. The idea of <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i> with Watson left out! -Might as well try to run a locomotive -steam engine without steam. Tom -Watson was the steam—the electricity—the -spirit—yes, the very life of -the Magazine, and without him its -name is Dennis. It is a burning -shame, the way they have treated you.</p> - -<p>I am sending my check for $1.50 for -your <span class="smcap">Jeffersonian Magazine</span>, and -wish for it the success that you so -justly deserve. I hope to be able to -get others interested in the new publication. -You have thousands and -thousands of true and tried friends -in old Georgia, and in fact, in every -State in the United States, and the -numbers are growing all the time, -and every effort of the enemies of -truth to put you in the background -only brings you more prominently -before the masses as the friend of -Good Government.</p> - -<p>May God abundantly bless and prosper -you and yours, is the sincere -prayer of your friend and brother,</p> - -<p class="right padr2">(Signed) <span class="smcap">G. B. Crane</span>.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center highline15">(Copy.)</p> - -<p class="right padr2">Dixie, Ga., Nov. 23, 1906.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Watson’s Magazine, 2 West 40th St., -New York City.</p> - -<p>Gentlemen:—I hereby cancel my -subscription to <i>Watson’s Magazine</i>, -and ask you to refund balance that -you are due me on same. I do not -care to read your slanderous vaporing -about Tom Watson. You will -soon find out that, bad as you try to -make him out to be, he was really the -Magazine, and without him it will sink -in the cesspool of public contempt—as -it should do.</p> - -<p class="right padr2"><span class="padr8">Yours very truly,</span><br /> -(Signed) <span class="smcap">G. B. Crane</span>.</p> - -<p>Here are others, clean, clear-cut and -business-like:</p> - -<p class="center highline15">(Copy.)</p> - -<p class="right padr2">Honaker, Va., Nov. 14, 1906.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Watson’s Magazine Co., New York.</p> - -<p>Gentlemen:—The November number -of <i>Watson’s Magazine</i> is at hand. -As Mr. Watson is no longer <i>the Magazine</i>, -will you please discontinue my -subscription and return to me the -three month’s unexpired subscription -price, and oblige,</p> - -<p class="right padr2"><span class="padr6">Yours truly,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">J. L. Kibler</span>.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="right padr2">Dearing, Ga., Nov. 14, 1906.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Hon. Thos. E. Watson.</p> - -<p>I received a card from you yesterday -concerning the Magazine. I -noticed your proposition to make -good the subscription to the <i>Watson -Magazine</i>. I think mine will be out -in June, but I got it at club rates -and <i>don’t want to be a burden to you</i>, -but I don’t want a <i>Watson’s</i> without -a Watson in it, so you send me the -<span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine</span>, -and I’ll see you and pay for six -months at least, as I have great confidence -in you as a reform leader and -want to help what little I can.</p> - -<p class="right padr2"><span class="padr10">Yours truly,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">J. J. Pennington</span>.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p>G. M. Stembridge, of Milledgeville, -is good enough to say, in subscribing, -“you are doing more for the Reform -cause than any other man in the -United States.” “If ever anybody -wants to whip you,” writes friend M. -<span class="pagenum" id="Page145">[145]</span>S. Chiles, of Macon, in remitting his -subscription, “I will be pleased to -push you aside and say, ‘Whip me -first.’” “I would not carry the New -York publication from the postoffice,” -says W. W. Shamhart, of Newton, Ill. -Dr. R. R. Smith, of Burtons, Miss., -doesn’t “like the jingle of the editorials” -of the bogus <i>Watson’s Magazine</i> -for November and would like to -see any response that I may make. -Verily, he shall see it. J. K. Sears, of -McCoy, Oregon, wants a Magazine -“published at Atlanta by Tom Watson -and not by Col. Mann at New -York.” “Please enter my name from -now till doomsday,” writes Prof. J. -H. Camp, of Chicago, who at the same -time cancels his subscription to what -he calls “the New York dummy.” -Dr. J. D. Allen, of Milledgeville, -enrolls himself and says, “send me -the first copy.” “I shall always be -a subscriber,” writes W. W. Bennett, -Esq., of Baxley. “The reason I subscribed -to the other Magazine,” says -W. W. Arendell, of Gause, Tex., “was -that you were the editor,” so of course -he wants the genuine <span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian</span>. -B. L. Milling, of Neal, -Ga., was a subscriber to <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i> of New York from the first -issue, “and would continue to be, had -it not been that ‘the gang’ tried to -impose upon you,” he writes. Likewise -C. W. King, of Rome, Ga., “only -subscribed to the New York publication -on account of your colors flying -at the mast-head, so”—he writes—“of -course I wish to enter my name -as a subscriber to your new venture.” -H. Gillabaugh, of Missoula, Montana, -thinks the bogus <i>Watson’s Magazine</i> -as at present conducted, is “like a -church with the devil as pastor.” -“No more of C. Q. DeFrance for -me,” writes J. T. Melbone, of Huntingdon, -Tenn. A cordial message -greets me from Captain Jack Crawford, -the poet-scout. A. Benoit, of -Shreveport, La., sends $10, with the -request that $1.50 be credited to him -for subscription, and the balance be -used “for the cause.” From the -little city of Flippen, Ga., a list of 25 -subscribers to the bogus <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i> goes forward to DeFrance. -A copy of the letter is sent me with -the request that they be enrolled on -the <span class="smcap">Jeffersonian</span>.</p> - -<p>And so they go.</p> - -<p>It is something to have lived and -worked in such a way as to have won -true hearts in every part of the Union.</p> - -<p>God knows how much I appreciate -these stanch friends, many of whom -I have never seen and will never personally -know.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>My lady friends—God bless them!—have -been just as prompt and just -as earnest in taking my side in this -struggle against a rascally New York -millionaire and a treacherous sneak -who are trying to make off with -<i>Watson’s Magazine</i>.</p> - -<p>Shall I ever forget the warm-hearted -letter of <span class="smcap">Miss Sallie T. Parrish</span>, -of Adel, Ga?</p> - -<p>Or that of <span class="smcap">Miss Mattie V. Mitchell</span>, -of St. Louis, Mo?</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Various subscription agencies, as -well as newspapers and magazines, -had made clubbing rates with <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i> while I was with it. -Of course Col. Mann and DeFrance -would like to have these clubbing -rates stand, and would like to have -the revenue coming from those who -are still subscribing to <i>Watson’s -Magazine in ignorance of the fact that -it now has no Watson connected with -it</i>. The managers of these subscription -agencies, and the managers of -those newspapers are necessarily compelled, -<i>as men of honor</i>, to hold up all -subscription money coming from -those who wish a <i>Watson’s Magazine</i>, -until the managers of the clubbing -rates shall have notified the subscriber -that Mr. Watson is no longer with the -<span class="pagenum" id="Page146">[146]</span>New York Magazine that bears his -name, but is now publishing in -Atlanta, the <span class="smcap">Jeffersonian Magazine</span>. -In other words, as a matter of common -honesty, the subscribers should -be put on notice that the New York -Magazine which bears my name, has -been taken away from me by Col. -Mann and DeFrance, and the subscriber -should therefore have the -option of sending his money directly -to the <span class="smcap">Jeffersonian Magazine</span>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The Union Library Association</span>, -of New York, promptly assured me -that this would be its attitude in the -matter. They will hold the money -until the subscriber shall have elected -which of the two magazines he really -wanted. This was very honorable in -the Union Library Association of New -York, and the promptness with which -the manager took that position, is -highly appreciated by me. I give Mr. -Bowman’s letter in full:</p> - -<p class="right padr2">New York, Nov. 26, 1906.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.</p> - -<p>Dear Sir:—Yours of the 23rd inst. -is at hand. You evidently did not -receive our letter, although we have -an acknowledgment of receipt of same -from your manager.</p> - -<p>We wrote you voluntarily that we -would be glad to do just what you -now ask us to do. That is, endeavor -to switch subscriptions for <i>Watson’s -Magazine</i> to <span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian -Magazine</span>.</p> - -<p>It seems to us that if anyone wants -your Magazine they will not be satisfied -with Colonel Mann’s continuation -of the original. It is a rather -unfortunate state of affairs, but no -doubt in time it will get straightened -out and everyone know the true facts -in the case.</p> - -<p>We can assure you of our interest -in the matter, and will be glad to do -what we can to throw business your -way.</p> - -<p class="right padr2"><span class="padr8">Yours very truly,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Chas. L. Bowman</span>.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The Atlanta Journal</span> has notified -our Circulation Manager, Mr. Clement, -that its position would be the -same. In fact, I cannot see how the -managers of those various clubbing -arrangements, which are now standing -in the name of <i>Watson’s Magazine</i>, -can, as a matter of common justice to -me, <i>as well as to the subscriber</i>, turn -over the money to Col. Mann and -DeFrance, <i>until the subscriber himself -says that the money</i> should go to that -precious pair.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Thanks are due and are hereby -extended to the editors of the leading -periodicals devoted to literature and -current events. Special acknowledgements -are due the New York <i>American</i> -for the use of striking cartoons -reproduced on <a href="#Page12">pages 12</a>, <a href="#Page16">16</a> and <a href="#Page28">28</a>—inadvertently -not credited. The -friendship and courtesy of such publications -as <i>Collier’s Weekly</i>, <i>The Saturday -Evening Post</i>, The New York -<i>Times Saturday Review of Books</i>, <i>The -Literary Digest</i>, <i>The Commoner</i>, and -other notable weeklies is gratefully -acknowledged, and similar sentiments -are hereby expressed towards such -leading monthlies as <i>The Century</i>, -<i>The Reader</i>, <i>The Review of Reviews</i>, -<i>The North American Review</i>, <i>Success</i>, -<i>Appleton’s Magazine</i>, and <i>The -World’s Events</i>, to such splendid -dailies as The <i>Tribune</i>, <i>The American</i>, -and <i>The Globe</i>, of New York, -<i>The Public Ledger</i>, of Philadelphia, -that lively bantling, The Washington -<i>Herald</i>,—which is fairly glittering -under Scott Bone’s touch,—The New -Orleans <i>Picayune</i>, The Tampa <i>Tribune</i>, -The Jacksonville <i>Times-Union</i>, -and Claude L’Engle’s brilliant <i>Sun</i>, -of the same place, The Charlotte -<i>Observer</i>, <i>The News</i> and <i>Age-Herald</i>, -of Birmingham, <i>The Forum</i>, from -far-away Fargo, where the blizzards -come from and the <i>Post-Intelligencer</i> -from farther-away Seattle, where the -salmon come from, The Toronto -<i>Globe</i>, dauntless champion of good -morals and tariff reform, <i>The Tribune</i>, -<span class="pagenum" id="Page147">[147]</span>of Salt Lake, The Columbia -<i>State</i>, The Nashville <i>Banner</i>, The -Griffin <i>News</i>, and scores of standard -weekly papers scattered throughout -God’s country down here and in the -West.</p> - -<p>Editor Walter Hodges, of <i>The -Central Texan</i>, who is a native -Georgian, “with some of the spirit -of the old South,” is cordial in his -offer to co-operate with the <span class="smcap">Jeffersonian</span>; -The Opelika, Ala., <i>Post</i> hopes -that “Mr. Watson may succeed in -his greatest battle of modern times -for the people’s rights,” and will -lend a hand; the <i>Pretorian Guard</i>, of -Dallas, Texas, thinks that “with a -leader of Mr. Watson’s originality at -the helm, success is certain;” Editor -J. P. Sarraman of The Charlotte -<i>People’s Paper</i>, is “for Watson first, -last and all the time,” and doesn’t -want any “imitation;” Editor Fletcher -Davis, of the Hondo, Texas, -<i>Anvil-Herald</i> assures the new Magazine -that he will put in some good -licks for the enterprise, and W. M. -Ellis, proprietor of the Rusk, Texas, -<i>Press-Journal</i>, breaks an established -rule to accept our clubbing proposition.</p> - -<p>To one and all our distinguished -regards and twice over to any whom -we have accidentally omitted.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p>Shall I ever forget how generously -there came to me the ready, cordial, -soulful devotion of <span class="smcap">Will N. Harben</span>?</p> - -<p>And how could I ever fail in -appreciation of the disinterested and -noble impulse which moved my -friends, <span class="smcap">H. Clement</span>, <span class="smcap">A. K. Taylor</span>, -and <span class="smcap">Chas. J. Bayne</span>, to cast in their -lot with mine, for salaries less than -they had been getting elsewhere.</p> - -<p>In the same class, stands my brilliant -young friend, <span class="smcap">Gordon Nye</span>, who -left the bogus New York concern to -come and live with me, and work with -me. -</p> - -<p>With these young men, Clement, -Taylor, Bayne, and Nye working <i>with</i> -me instead of <i>for</i> me, I go forward -without the slightest fear of failure.</p> - -<p>Nor would it be fair to fail to give -due credit to my friend, <span class="smcap">Mr. Chas. P. -Byrd</span>, who, when he realized that my -object in publishing this Magazine -was, not so much to make money as -to exert a healthy influence over public -opinion and to be of service in the -largest educational sense to young -men, came to me with a generous concession -on the cost of doing the -mechanical work of the Magazine, and -thus enabled me to publish it in my -home State.</p> - -<p>Had it not been for this magnanimous -spirit in Mr. Byrd, the prices -which were quoted to me in Atlanta -for the mechanical work would have -driven me out of my native State and -forced me to give the contract to the -Columbian Printing Co., of Nashville, -Tenn., whose offer was much better -than any that had been made to me, -until Mr. Byrd generously came to -my relief.</p> - -<p class="center highline15">*<span class="padl4 padr4">*</span>*</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">“We boys” are going to win.</span></p> - -<p>We are going to <i>down</i> that brace -of rascals in New York.</p> - -<p>Friends!—don’t you think that -knavery of that sort <span class="smcapall">OUGHT</span> to be -downed?</p> - -<p>Don’t <i>you</i> want to see us down -those New York fellows?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Then, help us do it.</span></p> - -<p>“We boys” are going to give you -just about the livest Magazine that -ever you saw—and you must aid us -in extending its circulation and therefore -its usefulness.</p> - -<p>I want no office under the sun, but -there is one thing that I <i>do</i> want and -mean to have:</p> - -<p><i>Influence with that imperial sovereign -before whose irresistible power -the haughtiest of heads must bend</i>—<span class="smcap">Public -Opinion</span>.</p> - -<p class="right padr2">THOS. E. WATSON.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page148">[148]</span></p> - -<h2>Witty Flings by the Paragraphers.</h2> - -<h3 class="letters">Always in Trouble.</h3> - -<p>What’s the matter with Kansas? -This time it is the ears of corn are too -long to go into the shellers.—<i>New -York Tribune.</i></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="letters">A Morocco Slipper Needed.</h3> - -<p>The time seems to be drawing near -for the powers once more to lay -Morocco across their collective knee.—<i>Chicago -Evening Post.</i></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Society in Court.</h3> - -<p>Pittsburg Managing Editor: -“Where’s the society reporter?”</p> - -<p>City Editor: “Covering the police -court.”—<i>New York American.</i></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Will Draw Cards Next Time.</h3> - -<p>A sporting friend, after reading -the election returns, ventured the -assertion that in the next inning the -“standpatters” will draw cards.—<i>The -Commoner.</i></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Another Trial for Crapsey.</h3> - -<p>Now it is boldly asserted that Dr. -Crapsey bears a striking resemblance -to Richard Harding Davis. This is -another severe trial for the doctor.—<i>Washington -Herald.</i></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Getting Their Money’s Worth.</h3> - -<p>All the satisfaction the Standard -Oil Company can get out of it at present -is furnished by the fact that its -array of legal talent is earning its -money.—<i>Washington Post.</i> -</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="letters">A Bond of Sympathy.</h3> - -<p>The people of Canada are reported -to be opposed to some of the magazines -published in this country. Is -this another bond of sympathy -between Canadians and Americans?—<i>Birmingham -News.</i></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Knows How it Is.</h3> - -<p>Having been shelved temporarily on -Cuban annexation, Senator Beveridge -bobs up with a startling idea for -a national child labor law. He went -to work in the senate too young himself.—<i>Atlanta -Journal.</i></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Loose Change Not Counted.</h3> - -<p>After figuring over the matter for -some months the persons engaged in -the task have been able to discover -that Mr. Sage left a fortune of -between $60,000,000 and $100,000,000. -There is a little difference of only -some $40,000,000 between these two -estimates. Probably they have not -yet been able to count up the loose -change.—<i>Columbia State.</i></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<h3 class="letters">Bosses, Bumble Bees and Billy Goats.</h3> - -<p>And now Governor Beckham draws -the line on Dr. Powell (who demands -Sunday law enforcement). The trouble -with the Governor is that whenever -some one antagonizes him that -some one must be saddled with an -unworthy motive. This mode of dealing -with critics and criticism is common -to bosses, bumble bees and billy -goats.—<i>Louisville Courier-Journal.</i> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert16"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="bainbridgeout"> - -<div class="bainbridgeout"> - -<div class="bainbridgein"> - -<p class="center"><b><span class="fsize300">BAINBRIDGE, GA.,</span><br /> -<span class="fsize175">CITY LOTS FOR SALE</span></b><br /> -<span class="wordspace3 fsize125">Gilt Edge Values in Real Estate Affords Tangible Opportunity -for Investors and Home Seekers.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore05"><span class="largecap">B</span><span class="bbline"><span class="largecapfollower">ainbridge</span> -is right on the crest of a wave of prosperity and advancement -now sweeping over this section. It has good river connection, and is reached -by two railroads; while three more are in the course of construction; which -goes to show that the present development and future prospect of the city affords -a rare opportunity for investments in real estate.</span></p> - -<p class="center fsize80 blankbefore05"><b>One 65-foot lot on Shotwell street sold -thirty days ago for $1,500, will now bring over $2,000.</b></p> - -<p class="ind3m blankbefore05">Some of the greatest fortunes in the South were made by prompt, discriminating -investors in this line; and we feel certain that the investor has never been -afforded an opportunity more golden in prospect than is afforded in this sale of -choice building lots. We are offering on easy monthly payments</p> - -<p class="center fsize80 blankbefore05"><b>300 Choice Building Lots at $50.00 each.</b></p> - -<p class="ind3m blankbefore05">These lots are conveniently located in the eastern section of the city, on -Planters, Water, Broughton and Shotwell streets; and within a short distance from -Circle Drive, Bainbridge’s most popular driveway. An ideal place for a home.</p> - -<p class="center fsize80 blankbefore05"><b>Some Facts About Bainbridge.</b></p> - -<p class="ind2m blankbefore05">Bainbridge is located on Flint river, deep water short channel to port on Gulf, -and enjoys the same freight advantages as Columbus, and is entitled to Port rates, -for which Atlanta has striven in vain. As a commercial center, Bainbridge enjoys -marked success. Within the past five years have been added such industries -as a large Oil Mill, two Barrel Factories, Sash, Door and Blind Factory, Ice Factory, -Hardwood Plant, Corn Mill, Foundry and Machine Works, Canning Factory, -two Brick Factories, Syrup Refinery, Machine Shops and Car Works—representing -an invested capital of nearly half a million dollars. All these industries -came to Bainbridge because of its natural advantages, and not because of money -inducement by Bainbridge people.</p> - -<p class="ind2m blankbefore05">Its location on the river, railroad facilities, new roads, rich farming section, -etc., are bound to make Bainbridge the largest town in South Georgia. It is surrounded -by the richest farming lands in Georgia—the foundation of the wealth of -any town—a fine cotton country; and the home of the famous Georgia Cane Syrup -and Sumatra tobacco. The climate is mild and healthy, and truck crops mature -early enough for fancy prices ahead of the main crop.</p> - -<p class="center fsize80 blankbefore05"><b>It is the Only Spot in the United States Which Successfully Grows Sumatra Tobacco.</b></p> - -<p class="ind2m blankbefore05">Farmers obtain $500 per acre for their tobacco crops. One New York firm, A. -Cohn & Co., has a million dollars invested in their plant to grow and handle this -product. Less than one-third of this land is now cultivated. There is room for -10 times the present population, and these great opportunities are certain to attract -farmers to this section.</p> - -<div class="heardletter"> - -<p class="right">Waiman Hotel, Bainbridge, Ga., Nov. 26, ’06.</p> - -<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Mr. F. R. Graham</span>, City.</p> - -<p>Dear Sir:—Before leaving town on the early A. M. train, I wish to request that you reserve ten lots -adjoining those I bought of you today, as I think I can place them with some of my friends in New -York who are looking for a “dead sure thing” as an investment. My personal inspection of the property -today and that adjoining it, which you showed me, leads me to believe that your section is ideally -located and that it has a brilliant future. I have covered this southern territory for six years and -have seen many sections grow rapidly, but I can honestly say that I regard Bainbridge as the best part -of South Georgia, both as a natural business center and residential section, saying nothing of its agricultural -qualifications; and I see no reason why you should not soon have a greater Bainbridge, as we -have a greater New York. Thanking you again for that delightful ride, I am,</p> - -<p class="signed"><span class="padr16">Yours very truly,</span><br /> -<span class="padr10">(Signed)</span><span class="padr4">THOS. H. HEARD,</span><br /> -New York.</p> - -</div><!--heardletter--> - -<p class="center fsize80 blankbefore05"><b>For Further Information, Address</b></p> - -<p class="center fsize150 highline15"><b>F. R. GRAHAM, Dept. A., Bainbridge, Ga.</b></p> - -</div><!--bainbridgein--> - -</div><!--bainbridgeout--> - -</div><!--bainbridgeout--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad15">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert17"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad17frame"> - -<div class="blueribbon"> - -<p class="center fsize200"><b>The Proper Foundation</b></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize90">for a comfortable bed is as necessary as a good foundation for a building. No -matter what kind of mattress you are using, it will be uncomfortable without the -right spring bed.</p> - -<p class="fsize90">The cone shape all-wire is the logical construction for the highest comfort. -When made of a high class wire, properly tempered, it retains its resiliency and -lasting qualities; and combined with the superior construction it conforms to the -body, aiding a good mattress to produce perfect repose.</p> - -<p class="fsize90">In the <b>BLUE RIBBON</b> Spring we are using the finest pattern known to the -scientific world. The construction is so superior that it has been adopted by the -U. S. Government as a basis for all of its fine upholstered work, in chairs, -couches, and steamer fittings.</p> - -<p class="fsize90">The <b>BLUE RIBBON</b> Spring is made of an especially prepared steel wire of -the highest quality, depending for its strength like the Damascus Blade, upon -the fineness of its temper.</p> - -<p class="fsize90">It is not too light for the heaviest person, and not too heavy for the lightest -person, conforming absolutely to the shape. The Spirals are so joined and -constructed that they act independently, supporting the body at every point. -This independent action of each spiral makes it the only practical construction -where two persons of different weights occupy the same bed. It entirely eliminates -the tendency to roll towards the center of the bed. Each person achieves -the maximum of comfort to be derived from individual beds.</p> - -<p class="fsize80">As a test of its flexibility and the independent action of each cone, lie on your back on the bare -spring, stretching at full length, and you cannot slip your hands between the small of the back and -the spring, neither will any part of the spring be affected except the cones in direct contact with the -body, so perfect is its construction.</p> - -<p class="fsize80">The BLUE RIBBON Spring has a smooth and even surface supporting the mattress at all points. -It is bedbug proof, and has no cracks or crevices in which vermin can collect.</p> - -<p class="fsize80">We guarantee the BLUE RIBBON absolutely. On each spring is attached a two-color tin tag -guaranteeing the spring against sagging or breaking for</p> - -<p class="center highline15 fsize125"><b>FIVE YEARS.</b></p> - -<p class="fsize80">We also give a thirty night trial as to general comfort.</p> - -<p class="fsize80">The spring represented below is designed for wood beds or for iron beds when wood slats are used.</p> - -<p class="fsize80">We also manufacture the same spring with heavy iron slats—a slat under each row of springs, for -use on iron or brass beds.</p> - -<p class="fsize80">For additional smoothness and beauty a woven wire top can be stretched over the top of spring.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 fsize125"><b>PRICES:</b></p> - -<table class="beds" summary="Prices"> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr5">No. 2 Blue Ribbon Springs, as illustrated</td> -<td class="right padl5">$5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr5">No. 2 Blue Ribbon Springs, with woven wire top</td> -<td class="right padl5">6.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr5">No. 5 Blue Ribbon Springs, for iron or brass beds</td> -<td class="right padl5">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="left padr5">No. 5 Blue Ribbon Springs, woven wire top</td> -<td class="right padl5">8.50</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="fsize80">Regular size for wood bed is 4 ft. 4 in. x 6 ft. 0 in. For iron bed, 4 ft. 6 in. x 6 ft. 1 in.</p> - -<p class="fsize80">Prices quoted for special sizes on application.</p> - -<p class="fsize80">If your dealer does not handle the BLUE RIBBON write to us.</p> - -<div class="springbed"> - -<p><span class="fsize200">Southern<br /> -Spring Bed Co.</span><br /> -ATLANTA, GA.</p> - -</div><!--springbed--> - -</div><!--blueribbon--> - -</div><!--ad17frame--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad17">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert18"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad18top"> -<img src="images/adpage18top.png" alt="Frame" width="600" height="61" /> -</div> - -<div class="redcross"> - -<p class="rightmattress"><b><span class="fsize250 gesp1">The Right Mattress</span><br /> -<span class="fsize125 wordspace3">Is Rarely Found by Accident.</span></b></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize90"><span class="largecap">K</span><span class="largecapfollower">nowledge</span> -of the methods of mattress making, of the integrity of the manufacturer, -and the sincerity of the salesmen are essential to correct buying. As -a clean coat sometimes hides a dirty shirt so often does a nice tick hide an inferior -filling, dirty and unsanitary.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">In the RED CROSS SANITARY FELT MATTRESS we have achieved the acme -of mattress making. Money cannot buy its superior. It is far more comfortable -and enduring than a hair mattress costing you fifty dollars or more.</p> - -<p class="center sstype fsize150"><b>THE RED CROSS MATTRESS<br /> -IS BUILT TO STAND.</b></p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">The RED CROSS is built of eight great layers of hand selected sheets of Pure -Staple Cotton. It is soft and elastic. It is non-absorbent and vermin proof, and will -outwear any mattress made, giving thorough satisfaction and comfort. An occasional -sun bath makes it everlasting. It has a smooth even surface conforming to -the body’s form, insuring comfortable rest. The workmanship is skilled and thorough. -Over a thousand stitches around a six-inch border guarantees it against -stretching or losing shape.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">Every RED CROSS SANITARY FELT MATTRESS is guaranteed. Give it a -thorough test at our expense. Sleep on it sixty nights and if you are not satisfied -in every particular it may be returned to your dealer who will refund your money.</p> - -<div class="figright redcrosslogo"> -<img src="images/adpage18a.png" alt="Red Cross" width="257" height="188" /> -</div> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">As all successful articles have imitations so is -the RED CROSS imitated. Our label is your protection. -Be sure and see that it is sewed on the side of -the mattress. Every genuine RED CROSS bears the -label as shown in cut.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">If your dealer cannot show you a RED CROSS -SANITARY FELT, write to us, and we will tell the -name of the nearest RED CROSS agent.</p> - -<p class="center allclear fsize110 gesp1 sstype"><b>PRICES:</b></p> - -<table class="mattresses" summary="Prices"> - -<tr> -<td class="size">2 ft. 6 in.—25 lbs.</td> -<td class="price padr2">$10.00</td> -<td class="size padl2">4 ft. 0 in.—40 lbs.</td> -<td class="price">13.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="size">3 ft. 0 in.—30 lbs.</td> -<td class="price padr2">11.25</td> -<td class="size padl2">4 ft. 6 in.—45 lbs.</td> -<td class="price">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="size">3 ft. 6 in.—35 lbs.</td> -<td class="price padr2">12.50</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="fsize90 blankbefore75">All mattresses made 6 ft. × 4 in. long.<br /> -In two parts, 50 cents extra.<br /> -Prices for special sizes quoted on application.</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<div class="ad18bot"> - -<p class="noindent"><b><span class="fsize250">Southern<br /> -Spring Bed Co.</span><br /> -<span class="fsize150">ATLANTA,<br /> -GA.</span></b></p> - -</div><!--ad18bot--> - -</div><!--redcross--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad18">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert19"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad19top"> -<img src="images/adpage19top.png" alt="Border" width="600" height="30" /> -</div> - -<div class="arenaout"> - -<div class="arenain"> - -<p class="center sstype"><b><span class="fsize250">Absolutely FREE</span></b></p> - -<p class="doubleline20m"> </p> - -<p class="center sstype"><span class="fsize125 wordspace2"><b>To Readers of Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine.</b></span></p> - -<p class="doubleline30m"> </p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">In order to introduce The Arena, now that it is again under the complete editorial -management of its founder, <span class="smcap">Mr. B. O. Flower</span>, to the many readers who -enjoyed this great review in the early nineties when under <span class="smcap">Mr. Flower’s</span> management -it was the first leading magazine to take up and aggressively carry forward the -question of fundamental Democracy, Social Justice and Civic Righteousness, <i>we -will send absolutely free a copy of a recent issue of The Arena to any reader of</i> <span class="smcap">Watson’s -Jeffersonian Magazine</span> who sends his name and address, together with that -of some thoughtful friend who might also be interested in seeing the Magazine.</p> - -<p class="center highline2"><span class="sstype fsize200"><b>THE ARENA FOR 1907</b></span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The Arena</span> for 1907 will contain in addition to papers from the strongest, ablest -and most thoughtful fundamental thinkers who stand for free institutions, just government -and civic righteousness, a number of highly important contributions, prepared -especially for its pages by the greatest living authors of foreign lands.</p> - -<p>Among the early papers of these series, will be contributions by <span class="smcap">Alfred Russel -Wallace, D. 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It will -be followed by a paper from <span class="smcap">Mr. Tregear</span> on “New Zealand’s Progressive Attitude.” -<span class="smcap">Mr. Henniker Heaton’s</span> first paper will deal with the Telegraph Cables of the -world and how they should be made of service to the millions instead of merely the -convenience of the millionaire.</p> - -<p class="fsize90">Other papers from equally important and authoritative writers will be a marked -feature of the Arena for 1907, and will help to make this Magazine the one absolutely -indispensable review of opinion for all thoughtful men and women interested -in vital discussions of the larger problems of the day from the view-point of progressive -democracy and social justice.</p> - -<p class="center fsize125 sstype blankbefore75"><b>SUBSCRIPTION PRICE OF THE ARENA IS $2.50<br /> -SINGLE COPY, 25 CENTS.</b></p> - -<p class="center fsize145 sstype"><b>Published by ALBERT BRANDT, Trenton, N. 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Largely -through its activity the good work of our great organization -has been spread into the remotest sections, not only -Georgia but throughout the south.</p> - -<p class="duckworth">We have crossed the 11 cent line of cotton and in -this the union has won its great victory of the year. -Throughout the contest, the Constitution has been a -tower of strength in giving us the support of their strong -right arm.</p> - -<p class="duckworth">Your editorials in behalf of the Income Tax and the -Inheritance Tax, with your splendid fight for the R. F. -D. Service, and the observance of railroad schedules to -enable the farmers to get their mails on time, and to be -deprived 24 hours by bad railroad connections, is eliciting -the universal approval of our people.</p> - -<p class="duckworth">We glory in your good work and we are with you.</p> - -<p class="right padr1">R. F. DUCKWORTH,</p> - -<p class="duckworth">President Georgia Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative -Union.</p> - -<p class="duckworth">Atlanta, Ga., November 26, 1906.</p> - -<hr class="short allclear" /> - -<p class="duckworth">At the National Farmers’ Union, in session at Topeka, Kansas, The Constitution was so -heartily endorsed that the report says, “resolutions were offered from two sides of the hall at -the same time, one by Ben L. Griffin, of Conway, Arkansas, and the other by Campbell Russell, -of Russell, I. 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Hence, no -one, whether a follower or an opponent of Bryan’s doctrines, can fail to be -interested in the columns of this famous paper.</p> - -<p class="center highline15"><span class="sstype gesp1 fsize80">ADDRESS</span><br /> -<span class="fsize175 wordspace2">WATSON’S JEFFERSONIAN MAGAZINE,</span><br /> -<span class="sstype fsize110">ATLANTA, GA.</span></p> - -</div><!--halfpage--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad24">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert25"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="border3"> - -<div class="jeffweekly"> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/adpage25top.png" alt="Border" width="500" height="61" /> -</div> - -<p class="center highline3 sstype"><span class="fsize200">The</span><br /> -<span class="fsize300"><b>Weekly Jeffersonian</b></span><br /> -<span class="fsize200">Published in Augusta, Ga.</span></p> - -<p class="center sstype fsize125 blankbefore75">PRICE $1.00 PER YEAR.</p> - -<p class="doubleline15m"> </p> - -<p class="center sstype fsize125">IN CLUBS OF THREE OR MORE, 75c.</p> - -<p class="doubleline22m"> </p> - -<p class="center highline2 fsize125 wordspace3">A Weekly Newspaper Advocating Jeffersonian Principles.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<table class="jeffweek" summary="Staff"> - -<tr> -<td class="function">Editor-in-Chief</td> -<td class="name">THOS. E. WATSON</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="function">Associate Editor</td> -<td class="name">J. D. WATSON</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="function">Managing Editor</td> -<td class="name">W. J. HENNING</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="function">Business Manager</td> -<td class="name">C. E. McGREGOR</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110 padl2 padr2">Mr. Watson spares no pains or labor to make his Weekly -Paper one of the best.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110 padl2 padr2">He devotes his personal attention to it.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110 padl2 padr2">He writes most of the editorials.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110 padl2 padr2">Being a Weekly it carries a vast deal of original matter -which you would never find in his Magazine.</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/adpage25bot.png" alt="Border" width="500" height="68" /> -</div> - -</div><!--jeffweekly--> - -</div><!--border3--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad25">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert26"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="border3"> - -<div class="jeffweekly"> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/adpage25top.png" alt="Border" width="500" height="61" /> -</div> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110 padl2 padr2">If you sympathise with Mr. Watson and want to keep up -with his work you simply cannot afford to be without the Weekly -Jeffersonian.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110 padl2 padr2">In the Weekly, Mr. Watson can keep in closer touch with -events as they occur than is possible in a magazine, consequently -the Weekly fills a want which the magazine cannot supply.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110 padl2 padr2">To these two periodicals Mr. Watson will devote himself -exclusively during the remaining years of his life.</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize110 padl2 padr2">He wants no office, but he <i>does</i> have an ambition to make -his two publications a power for good throughout the land.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center highline3 sstype"><span class="fsize200">The</span><br /> -<span class="fsize300"><b>Weekly Jeffersonian</b></span><br /> -<span class="fsize110">AND</span><br /> -<span class="fsize200">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine</span><br /> -<span class="fsize150">Twelve Months for</span><br /> -<span class="fsize300">$2.00</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/adpage25bot.png" alt="Border" width="500" height="68" /> -</div> - -</div><!--jeffweekly--> - -</div><!--border3--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad26">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert27"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<div class="ad27a"> - -<p class="text1"><b>BEST<br /> -VALUES<br /> -EVER OFFERED YOU</b></p> - -<p class="text2">If you want to buy a buggy, saddle -or harness, and want a reliable -high-grade article at actual manu- facturer’s -prices, less the profit of -both jobber and dealer, it will be -greatly to your interest to deal -directly with us.</p> - -<p class="text3">BUGGIES, $32.60 and up<br /> -<span class="padl3">HARNESS, $6.88 and up</span><br /> -<span class="padl6">SADDLES, $2.50 and up</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="text4">Don’t buy until you see us<br /> -or write for Catalogue No. <span class="sstype fsize110"><b>21</b></span>.</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="text5"><span class="whiteonblack">JOHN FOSTER CO-</span></p> - -<p class="text6">265-267 DECATUR ST., Cor. 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Why buy advertising space as you <i>must</i> -choose a salesman, why trust to intuition or snap judgment, when you can work with figures?</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">Simply be sure of the answers to these questions and you’ll never buy space in the -wrong medium:</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">(1) What is a publication’s circulation? How is it distributed? Who are the people -that buy it? How enthusiastically do they read it? How long do they treasure it? To what -degree do they believe in and are they influenced by it?</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">(2) What is the cost per page per thousand of space in this publication?</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">(3) What does it cost you to reach these enthusiastic readers in other ways?</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">(4) What would it cost you to reach our vast audience with one cent post cards?</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">(5) How do these facts and figures (seemingly conclusive) really work out? What results -does the publication quote to make it impossible that these figures lie?</p> - -<p class="ind2m fsize90">If you do not already know the answer to all these questions concerning <span class="smcap">Watson’s -Jeffersonian Magazine</span>, that it goes into the homes and is read by 100,000; that its readers -are of the 35 cent magazine sort in point of quality; <i>that they are the most enthusiastic body of -men and women reached by any publication</i>; that they believe in <span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian -Magazine</span>, and its editor, and know that our advertisers are trustworthy; that every copy of -<span class="smcap">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine</span> is read and re-read; that the advertising rate is the -lowest quoted by any high-grade publication—about sixty cents per page per thousand readers, -then write us and let us tell you more about it.</p> - -<div class="coupon"> - -<p class="center fsize80"><b>THIS COUPON SAVES YOU 10%</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent fsize70">ADVERTISING<span class="padl2 padr2"> </span>DEPARTMENT<br /> -<b>Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine</b></p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="right fsize70"><b>SEND COPY BEFORE JANUARY 1st.<br /> -<span class="padr3">FOR THE FEBRUARY NUMBER</span></b></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="center fsize80 highline4">ATLANTA, GA.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="right fsize80 highline4"><span class="bbdot padl12 padr12"> </span>190<span class="bbdot padl2 padr2"> </span></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="highline2 fsize80">Kindly enter my order for <span class="padl8 padr8 bbdot"> </span> -lines, six times, in the classified columns of -Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine. Enclosed please find <span class="padl10 padr10 bbdot"> </span> (40c -per line) in full payment for first insertion—copy attached.</p> - -<p class="smalltext">Upon receipt of memo, bill on the 25th of next and each succeeding month (six-time discount to be -credited on bill for sixth insertion) I will remit promptly and advise whether to repeat or to run new copy.</p> - -<div class="split4060"> - -<div class="left4060"> - -<div class="couponbox"> - -<p>¶ Allow about eight words to the -line—most of last line for name -and address. 5 lines, 6 times, -$10.80. 40c per line additional.</p> - -</div><!--couponbox--> - -</div><!--left4060--> - -<div class="right4060"> - -<p class="fsize80 blankbefore75">Very truly yours,</p> - -<p class="fsize80 highline15"><span class="padl10 padr12 bbdot"><span class="padl10 padr10"> </span></span></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize80 highline15">Address<span class="padl10 padr10 bbdot"><span class="padl9 padr8"> </span></span></p> - -</div><!--right4060--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split4060--> - -</div><!--coupon--> - -</div><!--advertisers--> - -</div><!--ad31frame--> - -<div class="ad31bot"> -<img src="images/adpage31bot.png" alt="Border" width="600" height="18" /> -</div> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad31">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert32"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad35"> - -<p class="center sstype highline2"><span class="fsize175">CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING</span><br /> -IN<br /> -<span class="fsize175">WATSON’S JEFFERSONIAN MAGAZINE</span></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center sstype fsize125">Whether You Wish to Buy or Sell Make Your Wants Known Here.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center highline2 fsize125"><b>REAL ESTATE.</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="center fsize110"><b>California.</b></p> - -<p class="classad">FOR SALE.—FINE HOME IN PINES NEAR OCEAN beach; -summer the year round. Rents for $100 per month. Send -for photos and price. R. H. Stevens, Carmel, California.</p> - -<p class="center highline22 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">MONROVIA.—BEAUTIFUL FOOTHILL suburb of Los -Angeles. Electric car service. Refined moral community. -Send 2 cent stamp for descriptive matter. C. E. Slosson, -Monrovia, Cal.</p> - -<p class="center highline22 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">A BEAUTY.—RANCH 120 acres behind Stanford University. -Fine improvements and stock, all for $900! Great -boom coming! Greater San Francisco Corporation, Mayfield, -Cal. Information!</p> - -<p class="center highline22 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.—The most progressive city -on the Pacific Coast. Southern California is the ideal summer -and winter resort of the world. Information for 5 cents -postage. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.</p> - -<p class="center highline22 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">REAL ESTATE BUSINESS SELF-TAUGHT. I teach California -methods. Best in world. Sure money-makers. My -course shows how. Particulars and map Los Angeles free. -Write today. W. A. Carney, Stimson block, Los Angeles.</p> - -<p class="center highline22 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">A BEAUTY HOME of 2 acres. Finest climate. Near -Frisco and University, only $500. Secure it till you can -investigate by deposit of $25, returnable. Easy payments. -Commissions executed. Greater San Francisco Corporation, -Mayfield, Cal.</p> - -<p class="center highline22 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">BARGAIN.—520 acres in Butte County, Cal. Olives, olive -oil, figs, peaches, and mineral springs. No earthquakes. -Price, $65,000. After first payment crops will soon pay for -property. May I send you prospectus giving full details? -C. C. Spotswood, Suite 507-239 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.</p> - -<p class="center highline22 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">CALIFORNIA IRRIGATED land is best for home and investment. -5,000 acres just secured in richest section. Ten -acres ample. Long time—ample water. Level and clear. -Perpetual water right. Extra inducements to those who -improve. $30 to $50 per acre. W. H. Wise, 218 T. W. -Hellman Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.</p> - -<p class="center highline22 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">CALIFORNIA LAND $1.00 ACRE.—Balance entire purchase -$1.00 week for each 5 acres. No taxes. No interest. 5 -acre tracts. Level, clear, rich. Ready to plow. Under -irrigation. Perpetual water right. Immediate possession -given. Particulars, maps, photographs for 2 cent stamp. -Stevinson, Colony, 703 W. Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco.</p> - -<p class="center highline22 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FARMS.—60 minutes from Los -Angeles. Beautiful farms with all modern rural improvements; -only $75 to $150 per acre; easy terms; inexhaustible -water supply; three transcontinental railroads. Ten acres -will make you independent. Fruits, vegetables and alfalfa -grow every day in the year; no cold or frost; perpetual -summer; the land of sunshine and health; beautiful towns of -Pomona and Ontario adjoin our lands; write today for maps -and complete literature describing the famous Chino Ranch. -Chino Land and Water Co., Dept. A, 516 Wilcox Bldg., Los -Angeles, Cal.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="center fsize110"><b>Florida.</b></p> - -<p class="classad">ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.—For information and literature -of value to the homeseeker, invalid, or investor, address -Board of Trade. Most popular Florida resort.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">SUMATRA TOBACCO LAND in the blue grass section of -Florida. Will produce $1,000.00 worth every year on each -acre. Write quick as boom has started. T. A. Ausley, -Tallahassee, Fla.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">PROPERTY ON ORMOND PENINSULA on Halifax R. -Best location in state for all year or long winter season. -Good house, paying groves, price $5,000. Address E. A. -Lapp, Bulow, Fla.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">FLORIDA ORANGE AND GRAPE-FRUIT groves and -pineries, are paying big returns. We have some bargains. -Write for our descriptive booklet. Tidd, “The Real Estate -Man,” Jacksonville, Fla.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">ORANGE GROVE.—250 bearing trees twenty years old, -including grape fruit and tangerines. In fine condition. One -mile from railroad station. High land, near large lake. -J. E. Davison, Pawtucket, R. I.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="center fsize110"><b>Miscellaneous.</b></p> - -<p class="classad">FOR SALE.—81,000 acre ranch, 15 miles from Santa Fe, -N. M. 3,000 irrigated. Gold and coal on ranch. Price -$4.25 per acre, or $2.12<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> for half interest. U. S. Renee, -Smithland, Ia.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">BIG BARGAINS IN LAND for investment or homeseeker in -Missouri, Kansas, Sunny Texas and Mississippi. Large and -small tracts. The Investors Realty Co., 696 W. Hall Bldg., -Kansas City, Mo.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">IOWA FARMS FOR SALE AND EXCHANGE.—We have -some of the best bargains in improved farms in Iowa. Send -for our new illustrated list. Northern Iowa Land Co., -Independence, Iowa. Box T. W.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">$10.00 down and $10.00 for nine consecutive months buys -a lot in Arcadia, Fla., the booming county seat of the greatest -“Florida” orange and cattle region in the state. Remit -at once to get in this offer. Address, R. C. Selvidge, -Brandon, Miss.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">$300 PER ACRE PROFIT IS THE RECORD for our farmers -near Kingsville on the Gulf Coast line, Texas, the winter -vegetable garden of America and the finest cotton land in -Texas. Send for literature. The National Land Co., 92 -LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill. Mox W.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">INVESTORS—HOMESEEKERS—take notice. We have for -sale 150,000 acres of the richest improved and unimproved -land in Indian Territory and the Southwest. Fertile soil—ideal -climate—has no competitor for the raising of stock and -the growing of the various fruits and grains. Devore-Birkeland -& Co., T. W., 131 LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">FARMING ALONG GULF IN TEXAS PAYS $500 an acre. -Will deed that land for $15 an acre on payments. Artesian -water; fine climate; below frost line; have large body ready -for colonization, which will treble in value within 18 months. -Immigration Agts. Rock Island R. R. Excursion $25.00. -Oklahoma Texas Land Co., 511 W. Reaper Block, Chicago.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--ad35--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert33"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad35"> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="classad">BUY A FARM IN PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, OR -DELAWARE. The best states for profitable farming; soil -adapted to a great variety of crops; near markets that pay -best prices for your products; farm lands in these three -states my specialty—sold and bought; write for particulars. -Raymond C. Frick, 1102 T. Real Estate Trust Building, -Philadelphia, Pa.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad wordspace3">NEW ORLEANS BUSINESS PROPERTY.—I have for sale -nearly half a square fronting on three streets, near Canal -street and the new Frisco Terminal Station. Now covered -with numerous small business houses and one palatial residence. -The finest location in the city for commercial purposes. -Can be bought for $180,000.00. Owner desires to</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="classad noindent">leave this country permanently. Buy now and double your -money within five years. J. M. Lane, Real Estate Broker, -718 Macheca Building, New Orleans, La.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">TWO MILES from Meridian, Miss., on A. G. S. R. R., 506 -acres. 200 acres bottom land, balance nice upland, well -suited for fruit, vegetables, cotton, corn, etc. Plenty -timber—pine, white-oak, hickory, etc. Finest stock farm -imaginable. Reed winter pasture. Springs and wells, purest -free stone water. Mineral spring not analyzed. Great -demand for dairy and products. 250 acres cultivated, balance -woodland, $50.00 per acre. J. C. & L. Williams, Bonita, -Miss.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="center highline2 fsize125"><b>FOR THE HOME.</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="classad">WATERPROOF APRONS LAST A LIFETIME.—Artistic in -design, white or colors. Sold by the makers only. 50 cents -each, delivered. The Walters, Austen Co., 5th floor, 11th -& Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">FOR CHRISTMAS.—Send $1 up for self or friend. We -send handsome clock bank with deposit credited in passbook. -4% interest. Safety Banking and Trust Co., 2921 Kensington -Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Organized 1900.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">ANY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY will appreciate the -Imperial Trousers or Skirt Hanger, holds four garments. -50 cents at the furnishers, or 70 cents by mail. Write for -booklet, Pynchon & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">BUILD MISSION FURNITURE.—For pleasure and profit. -We teach how by the Houck Easy System. We furnish -plans showing exact size and shape of every piece, give complete -directions how to make from start to finish, tell what -tools required, etc. So simple anybody can make. Boys and -young men acquiring lots of money by making furniture from -our designs and selling it. Particulars for stamp. Houck -Furniture Pattern Co., Dayton, Ohio, Dept. E. M.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="classad">THE BEST PUMP FOR COUNTRY WELLS.—No rusty -water on wash day. No plumbers’ bills for repairs. The -Blatchley Wood Pump (lift or lift and force) the standard -for 38 years. Address C. G. Blatchley, 1052 Drexel Bldg., -Philadelphia, Pa.</p> - -<p class="center highline3 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">BEST 200 RECIPES FREE! THE ENTERPRISING HOUSEKEEPER.—A -famous book of tested, economical recipes and -illustrated kitchen helps, published to sell at 25 cents. We -will send it free. Just send your name and address. The -Enterprise Mfg. Co. of Pa., 2225 N. Third St., Phila., U. S. -A. Makers of the famous Enterprise Meat and Food Choppers.</p> - -<p class="center highline3 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">PRIZE CLOTHES WRINGER, WORLD’S PRIZE winner -over all competitors; distinctly different from all others; -strictly high-grade; automatic clamps fasten on any kind of -tub; easiest to operate; guaranteed white rubber rolls; ours -is one of the three wringer factories in the U. S., est. 1890. -Selling direct saves you at least 50%; satisfaction guaranteed -or money refunded. Write us. Reference, Dun’s Agency, -Deshler National Bank, here. U. S. Wringer Mfg. Co. (E), -Columbus, Ohio.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="center highline2 fsize125"><b>INVESTMENTS.</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="classad">I HANDLE NOTHING BUT DIVIDEND PAYING securities, -and invite your correspondence regarding any you may -desire to buy, sell or exchange. List on application. H. L. -McCauley, 1524 W. Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">LOS ANGELES, CAL., first mortgages, 6 and 7% net, title -guaranteed, papers all complete, delivered through your own -bank. Investments, reports, and appraisals free. Bank -references. 25 years’ experience. L. C. Crossmin, W. Chamber -of Commerce Building.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="classad">GUARANTEED MORTGAGE investments. Interest at 5<sup>4</sup>⁄<sub>10</sub>% -and 6% from $1,200 up. Gilt-edged properties. Mortgages -insured. My reference is Hamilton Trust Co., Philadelphia. -Charles H. Buckley, W. 38 South Fortieth Street, -Philadelphia.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">FOR SALE.—5% first mortgage gold bonds to net 5<sup>3</sup>⁄<sub>4</sub>%, -principal and semi-annual interest payable in New York—issued -by a water and light company with liberal city franchise -in one of the best towns in the South. Jas. Thompson, -Walhalla, S. C.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="center highline2 fsize125"><b>BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="classad">THERE IS BIG MONEY IN ASPARAGUS.—Greater profits -from its culture than any other product. Write for free -booklet. Napa Improvement Co., San Francisco, Cal.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">I WILL BUY AND PAY SPOT CASH for your store and -fixtures, entire contents, no matter where located. Newell -D. Atwood, 27 School St., Boston, Mass. Tel. 1322 Main.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">TEN VALUABLE MONEY-MAKING formulas sent for one -dollar. Preparations that you can sell. That will pay big -profits. W. Formulae Co., 832 Greenmount Ave., Baltimore, -Md.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">WANTED.—Patented specialties of merit. We have branch -offices in the principal cities of Europe and agencies all over -the world. Our correspondence is in eight languages. Power -Specialty Co., T. W. Detroit, Mich.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">THERE ARE GOOD OPPORTUNITIES on the lecture and -reading platform. Test your talent in a recital for criticism -in your locality. Write for plan. Edward Amherst Ott, -252 W. Sixty-first Street, Chicago, Ill.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">COMING TO CALIFORNIA?—$25,000 will buy control of a -factory in San Francisco to produce horse collars by a patent -process. Profits 40%. Demand steady. Trade established. -Principals only address J. C. Hooper, 528 22nd St., Oakland, -Cal.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="classad">HOME COMPANION TOOL SET.—No. 710.—Special offer. -41 individual tools in hardwood case, sent on receipt of -$5 00. Every tool needed by the home carpenter. W. -Goodell-Pratt Company, Greenfield, Mass.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">A FEW DOLLARS will start a prosperous mail order business; -we furnish catalogues and every thing necessary; by -our easy method failure impossible. Send for particulars. -Milburn-Hicks, 741 Pontiac Building, Chicago.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">WE CAN SELL OR EXCHANGE YOUR BUSINESS or real -estate no matter where located, or find any kind of business -or real estate for you anywhere in U. S. and Canada. Write -Fidelity Company, C. Bee Bldg., Omaha, Neb.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">CASH for your farm, business, home, or property of any -kind, no matter where located. If you desire a quick sale -send us description and price. Northwestern Business -Agency, 331 Bank of Commerce Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">LONG ESTABLISHED MAIL ORDER and installment house -furnishing business for sale. Grand Rapids furniture is celebrated -the world over, and big money can be made selling -from here. Address C. H. Leonard, Grand Rapids, Mich.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">MEN TO HANDLE high-grade map proposition. Territory -in every state. Experience no qualification. Liberal terms. -Must be men of good address and ability. Get our proposition. -It’s profitable. Scarborough Co., 114 Essex St., -Boston, Mass.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--ad35--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert34"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad35"> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="classad">PATCHES OF TIMBER turned into big profits by our -portable beltless combined sawmill and engine. Small -capital required; easy terms. Glean your county for bargains -in timber. Lumber prices rising. Wm. Bartley & -Sons, W. Bartley, N. J.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">52 CARLOADS OF PURE GOLD does not equal the fortune -amassed by a former Missouri County school teacher. The -little book, “Missourians Shown,” tells of an equal present-day -opportunity. Sent free. Write Jerry Culbertson, 695 -Hall Bldg., Kansas City, U. S. A.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">CUBA.—Tropical fruit plantation. Oranges, grape fruit, -cocoanuts, coffee. On ten years’ time. Profits enormous. -Best investment of kind. By reliable, experienced men; seven -years’ experience in Cuban fruit growing. Agents wanted, -either sex. Address, Buena Vista Fruit Co., 105 W. Tremont -St., Boston, Mass.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">WANTED. A PARTNER WITH $25,000 to $50,000. We -have an established and growing business, but lack capital to -push it. An investment of thousands will net millions. The -investor must be a business man and a worker. Write for -particulars, and state fully amount you would invest, previous -business experience, etc. Purifico Mfg. Co., B. Ashville, -N. Y.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="classad">6% ON YOUR MONEY by local Building and Loan Association. -14 years in business. Never had a loss, or failed -to meet an obligation. Stock in force $750,000. Write for -free literature. Jefferson County B. & L. Association, -Birmingham, Ala.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">MONTGOMERY, ALA., offers the homeseeker, investor, and -manufacturer wonderful opportunities. Capital of Alabama. -Has 50,000 enterprising people and is growing. In rich -agricultural section. Has seven great railroads and water -transportation on Alabama river to Gulf. Coal, iron and -timber close at hand and very cheap. Labor plentiful and -high grade. Climate ideal. Schools, churches, public improvements -matters of civic pride. Dixie revels in prosperity. -Montgomery is Dixie’s heart. For booklet and information, -address the business men’s organization, The Commercial -Club, Dept. C, Montgomery, Ala.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">DOES YOUR PRESENT INCOME SATISFY YOU? You can -double it by taking the SHELDON SHORT CUTS in SELLING -and MANAGEMENT. One salesman says: “You added -$5,000 to my salary last year.” Another states: “A single -deal closed by your method netted 50 times original cost.” -8,000 others and nearly 1,000 firms are using it to increase -sales and earnings. All instruction by correspondence. You -owe it to yourself to investigate. Write for more facts and -proof. SHELDON (1750) the Republic, CHICAGO.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="center highline2 fsize125"><b>HELP WANTED—MALE AND FEMALE.</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="classad">PORTRAIT AGENTS.—16×20 crayons 25 cents. Water color -30 cents. Samples and catalog free. Berlin Artists Association, -152-O Lake St., Chicago.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">SALESMEN WANTED.—Men or women, whole or part -time to sell advertising calendars, fans and other advertising -novelties, for an old reliable house. Box 160, Meridian, -Conn.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">$25 PER WEEK AND TRAVELLING EXPENSES paid salesmen -to sell goods to grocery stores, drug and general stores. -No canvassing. A rapid selling line. Experience unnecessary. -Purity D. E. Co., Chicago.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">AGENTS.—HERE’S THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME. -Stoll’s shoes for flat irons, something entirely new, sell in -every home. For full particulars address Dexter Supply Co., -334 Dearborn St., Chicago.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">WE WANT HELP.—Anyone desiring pleasant and profitable -business should write us at once. Our positive -guarantee inspires confidence and makes sales easy. W. T. -Allen Medicine Co., Greenfield, Ind.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">MORE MONEY, LESS TALKING, steadier work, bigger -field, handling our new inventions, than any other line. -Needed in every home. Agents, you can’t beat this. Selwell -Co., 105 W. Jackson B., Chicago, Ill.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">BENTON HOLLADAY & CO. Man cleared $1,182, lady -$720 last six months selling Celluloid Waterproof Shoe Dressing. -Why not you? Demonstrated samples free. Benton -Holladay & Co., 260 Clark St., Chicago, Ill.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">AGENTS WANTED to handle our line of high grade novelties. -Great sellers for cigar stores and newsdealers. Large -profits. Catalogue of 300 and wholesale prices free. Write -today. National Mfg. Co., Box T. W., Norfolk, Va.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">AGENTS WANTED in every gas town on salary or commission -to demonstrate superheated inverted gas light. -Latest light out. Nothing to sell. Sample free. Perfection -Light Co., Dept. A, 53 River St., Chicago.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">WE WANT A HUSTLING AGENT in your town for the -only automatic shears, the Sheer-Cut Shears. Best shears, -best terms. Credit given. Orders filled same day received. -Novelty Shear Co., 184 LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">THE HEARWELL TELEPHONE ATTACHMENT makes you -hear better and shuts off outside noises. An agency is open -for you whether you have a store or are employed. Big -opportunity, Hearwell Co., W. 1300 Arch St., Philadelphia, -Pa.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="classad">WANTED.—TWELVE EXPERIENCED LECTURERS, subject, -industrial activities. Also musicians for male quartettes. -Give full particulars and references with first letter. -Edward Amherst Ott, 250 East 61st Street, Chicago.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">SALESMEN TO SELL the largest line of souvenir post -cards in the country. Also large line of advertising fans. -Excellent side line. Good commission and prompt settlement. -Alfred Holzman, Publisher, 340 Dearborn St., Chicago.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">AGENTS, OUR NEW GOLD window sign letters beat anything -on the market. Big profits. Agents make $10.00 to -$20.00 daily. Complete sample outfit 25 cents. Particulars -free. Sullivan Co., 406 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, Ill.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">“FIRE CHIEF.”—Latest, most effective extinguisher. Acts -instantly without damage to surroundings. Handsome, light, -inexpensive. Demand universal. $40 per week to high class -competent agents. Write today for terms and territory. -W. F. A. Company. The Spitzer, Toledo, O.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">WANTED.—AGENTS IN EVERY SHOP IN THE world to -sell Vanco hand soap. Send 10 cents for full size can and -particulars. Some agents make $40.00 per month in addition -to regular work. Address the J. T. Robertson Co., Manchester, -Conn. (Dept. E).</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">SAFETY DOOR LOCK can be used without tools on any -door without scratching. Proof against burglars, sneak -thieves, and pass keys. Pocket size, 25 cents. Exclusive -territory to good agents. Large profits. Send for samples -and terms. Safety Door Lock Co., Seattle, Wash. Dept. T. W.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">HUSTLERS WANTED TO SELL BEST SPECIALTY of -recent years. Aggressive workers make $10.00 per day (no -exaggeration). Those who mean business write for full particulars. -Special—To those wishing to lose no time we will -send samples for 10 cents. W. P. Chase & Co., Wilcox Bldg., -Los Angeles, Calif.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE WANTED.—Experience unnecessary -if honest, ambitious and willing to learn the business -thoroughly by mail. Splendid income assured. Write at -once for full particulars. Address either office. National -Co-operative Realty Co., 298 Athenaeum Bldg., Chicago, Ill., -or 298 Maryland Bldg., Washington, D. C.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">YOU CAN SELL PORCELA to every bathtub owner in the -U. S.—and there are millions of them. Easy to sell; liberal -profits to bright agents. Porcela is the only cleansing preparation -that preserves the lustre of the porcelain enamel while -cleaning it. Porcela cleans everything from kitchen to -bathroom. Write for information today. Porcela Company, -Sales Dept. T. W., Pittsburgh, Pa.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--ad35--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert35"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad35"> - -<p class="center highline2 fsize125"><b>MISCELLANEOUS.</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="classad">MOTION PICTURE MACHINES, film views, magic lanterns, -slides and similar wonders for sale. Catalogue free. We also -buy magic picture machines, films, slides, etc. R. Harbach, -809 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">SONG WRITING PAYS BIG.—Your poems may be worth -thousands. We write music to your words, pay royalty, -publish and popularize. Send for booklet. Brown Music Co., -393 Temple Court, New York City.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">THE ANGLE LAMP.—Best, cheapest, most satisfactory -of all lighting methods. Burns common kerosene oil. Convenient -as gas. Tell us what room you wish to light. Angle -Mfg. Co., 78 Murray St., New York.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">SONG WRITERS.—Your poems may be worth THOUSANDS -OF DOLLARS. Send them to us for the music. Accept no -offer before reading Music, Song and Money. It is free. -Hayes Music Co., 223 Star Bldg., Chicago.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">HOME STUDY.—Every reader of WATSON’S JEFFERSONIAN -MAGAZINE who is interested in home study and correspondence -teaching is invited to send for free copy of our -80-page catalogue and full information in regard to our home -study course. The Home Correspondence School, Springfield, -Mass.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="classad">HOLIDAY GIFTS.—Beautiful holiday novelties in silver. -Something special for souvenir collectors. Galt & Bro., -Washington, D. C.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">MUSIC LESSONS FREE.—Send for our free booklet. It -tells how to learn to play any instrument. Piano, organ, -violin, guitar, mandolin, etc. Write National School of -Music, 34 P. O. Block, Montclair, New Jersey.</p> - -<p class="center highline2 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">STOOPING SHOULDERS.—A habit cured without harness -or binding braces. The Vitality Suspender scientifically -constructed to make large, strong muscles of back carry -weight of trousers—through the unconscious law of equipoise—the -chest is thrown out with abdomen back—insuring free -heart circulation—good lung action—deep breathing—natural -digestion. A suspender, not a harness. Sent by mail, postpaid, -one dollar. The Perfection Mfg. Co., W. Box. 90, -Girard, Ohio.</p> - -<p class="center highline15 wordspace3">* * * * * *</p> - -<p class="classad">OUR PLANT is specially equipped to handle commercial -work, enabling us to do it more economically than others. -We have envelopes, bill heads, cards and statements, $1.30 -per thousand up. Samples of these and better grades -promptly mailed to business men. We also have special price -list which includes delivery to far-away points at low rates. -Orders promptly shipped; get our figures for other work. -L. Fink & Sons, Printers, 5th and Chestnut, T. W. Philadelphia, -Pa.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="center fsize175"><b><span class="whiteonblack"> AGENTS WANTED </span></b></p> - -<p class="fsize70">We want agents to sell our made-to-order suits and pants. -Suits from $10.00 up. Pants, $3.00 up. We will give liberal -commission to the right men. If you are interested, write -at once for sample outfit, particulars and territory. -Warrington Woolen & Worsted Mills, Dept. 41, Chicago, -Ills.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<div class="split5545"> - -<div class="left5545"> - -<p class="center fsize225 sstype"><b>VIRGINIA</b></p> - -</div><!--left5545--> - -<div class="right5545"> - -<p class="center gesp1"><b>HISTORIC<br /> -HOMES</b></p> - -</div><!--right5545--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5545--> - -<p class="noindent fsize90 lowline">on the rivers and Bay. Select country homes in -the noted <b>Piedmont region</b> and <b>Valley of Virginia</b>. -Choice hunting preserves. Free list.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">H. W. Hilleary & Co.</span>, Charlottesville, Va.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="center sstype fsize125">THE<br /> -<span class="gesp2">Atlanta Dental College</span>,</p> - -<p class="center blankbefore05"><b><span class="fsize150 gesp1">A School of Dentistry</span><br /> -<span class="fsize110 gesp1">BY DENTISTS FOR DENTISTS</span></b></p> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore05 sstype fsize125">Largest School in the State,</p> - -<p class="right sstype fsize125">Leading School of the South.</p> - -<p class="center blankbefore05 sstype fsize110">FEATURES:</p> - -<p class="noindent padl6 padr6">Large New College Building. -Complete New Library. New -Practical Porcelain Department. -Heavy Operatory -Clinic, Exclusively White -Patients. Monthly Examinations -and Daily Recitations. -Central Location. Experienced -Demonstrators.</p> - -<p class="noindent padl6 padr6 blankbefore05 btd">Write for Souvenir Catalogue and -Further Particulars to<span class="wordspace7"> . . . .</span></p> - -<div class="split7030 padl2 padr2"> - -<div class="left7030"> - -<p class="crenshaw blankbefore05"><b>WILLIAM CRENSHAW,</b></p> - -</div><!--left7030--> - -<div class="right7030"> - -<p class="center fsize70 blankbefore05"><span class="gesp1">D. D. S.,</span><br /> -<span class="gesp2">DEAN.</span></p> - -</div><!--right7030--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split7030--> - -<div class="split4060"> - -<div class="left4060"> - -<p class="noindent sstype blankbefore05"><b>Box 401.</b></p> - -</div><!--left4060--> - -<div class="right4060"> - -<p class="right sstype blankbefore05"><b>ATLANTA, GEORGIA.</b></p> - -</div><!--right4060--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split4060--> - -<p class="center fsize90">Mention this Magazine when writing.</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<div class="butler"> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage35a.jpg" alt="Typewriter" width="190" height="200" /> -</div> - -<p class="center fsize175 gesp1"><b>TYPEWRITERS</b></p> - -<p class="center sstype fsize125"><i><b>AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE.</b></i></p> - -<p class="noindent padl3 padr3 fsize80">500 machines of all standard make, REMODELED, -REBUILT or SLIGHTLY USED, at -less than HALF PRICE. Shipped to any part -of the United States on approval.</p> - -<p class="center fsize80 sstype highline2"><b>WE REBUILD all makes of Writing Machines.</b></p> - -<p class="center highline2 fsize80"><span class="smcap">Write Us Today.</span></p> - -<p class="center fsize110 wordspace3"><b>BUTLER TYPEWRITER CO.</b></p> - -<p class="center fsize80 blankbefore05"><b>717-18-19 Fourth National Bank Bldg.<br /> -ATLANTA, GA.</b></p> - -<p class="center fsize80">Manufacturers of the “BUTLER’S BEST” Typewriter -Ribbons and Carbons.</p> - -</div><!--butler--> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--ad35--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad35">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert36"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<p class="center fsize200 highline2"><b>MAGAZINE BARGAINS.</b></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center fsize90 blankbefore75 blankafter75"><b>In placing your order for Magazines this year, do not forget to include -<span class="fsize110">WATSON’S JEFFERSONIAN MAGAZINE.</span></b></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center fsize90 blankbefore75 blankafter75"><b>Subscriptions may go to one -or different addresses. If you do not find just what you want, -send your list to us for prices.</b></p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="split6733"> - -<div class="left6733"> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<table class="column1" summary="Magazines"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="magazineclass">Class A.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<th colspan="2" class="right fsize60"><span class="padl1 padr1">Price</span><br />Per Year</th> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">American Agriculturist</td> -<td class="price">$1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">American Boy</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">American Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Brann’s Iconoclast</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Business Philosopher</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Camera Craft</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Commoner</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Cosmopolitan Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Farming</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Garden Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Good Housekeeping</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Harper’s Bazar</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Kindergarten Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Kindergarten Review</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Little Folks. Salem</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">National Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Pacific Monthly</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Philistine</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Photo Era</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Physical Culture</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Pictorial Review</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Pilgrim</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Suburban Life</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Success</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Times Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Travel Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Woman’s Home Companion</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">World To-Day</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Youth</td> -<td class="price">1.00</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="column2 blankbefore75">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any Class A, $2.00.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any two of Class A,<br />$2.65.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any three of Class A,<br />$3.30.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any two of Class A, with any Class B, $4.00.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any Class A, with any Class C, $3.00.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any Class A, with any Class D, $3.15.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any Class A, with either Class E, $4.00.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any Class A, with Class IX, $4.25.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any Class B, $2.70.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any two of Class B, $4.05.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any Class D, with any Class A, $3.50.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and either Class E, $3.35.</p> - -<p class="column2">Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine and any Class D, $2.85.</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--left6733--> - -<div class="right6733"> - -<table class="column3" summary="Magazines"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="magazineclass">Class B.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Automobile</td> -<td class="price">$2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Independent</td> -<td class="price">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Outdoor News</td> -<td class="price">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Outing</td> -<td class="price">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Reader Magazine</td> -<td class="price">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Review of Reviews</td> -<td class="price">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Short Stories</td> -<td class="price">1.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Yachting</td> -<td class="price">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="magazineclass">Class C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Appleton’s Magazine</td> -<td class="price">$1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Country Gentleman</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Etude</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Keith’s Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Motor Age</td> -<td class="price">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Overland Monthly</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Pearson’s Magazine</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Ram’s Horn</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Recreation</td> -<td class="price">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="magazineclass">Class D.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Ainslee’s Magazine</td> -<td class="price">$1.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">House Beautiful</td> -<td class="price">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Lippincott’s Magazine</td> -<td class="price">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Toilettes</td> -<td class="price">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="magazineclass">Class E.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Burr McIntosh</td> -<td class="price">$3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="magazine">Smart Set</td> -<td class="price">2.50</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--right6733--> - -</div><!--split6733--> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="center wordspace3 fsize200"><b>Compendium Subscription Agency,</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent fsize110"><b>No. 12 Howell St.,</b></p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="right fsize110"><b>BATH, N. Y.</b></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert37"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="ad37"> - -<div class="typewritten"> - -<p class="date">December, 15, 1906.</p> - -<div class="body"> - -<p class="noindent">Mr. Business Manager:—</p> - -<p class="line1">Is your business increasing? Is your office -system adequate to the demands? Do not wear yourself out with old -methods. Take the short cuts to success by having your office -machinery in full revolution. Office system minimizes worry, capacitates -the brain, concentrates power, broadens the field, increases -business and reduces expense.</p> - -<p>There is no office large or small that does not need -our goods. We do not confine our trade to Atlanta. Our travelling -men and mail order system is at your command, and your orders or -inquiries will receive our careful attention.</p> - -<p>If you are in need of anything special in office appliances, -write us fully on the subject. If interested in any of the articles -below named, please check the item, cut out the page and mail to us -for prices.</p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent padl4">ADDING MACHINES.<br /> -Addressographs<br /> -Architects Supplies<br /> -Book Cases<br /> -Bank Furniture<br /> -Bank Safes & Vaults<br /> -Blank Books<br /> -Blue Print Paper<br /> -Court House Furniture<br /> -Card Index Systems<br /> -Check Files<br /> -Check Protectors<br /> -Chairs & Tables<br /> -Church Pews & Seating<br /> -Desks<br /> -Drawing Material<br /> -Filing Cabinets<br /> -Gunn’s Sectional Bookcases<br /> -Inks, Mucilage & Paste<br /> -Indexes & Transfer Cases<br /> -Loose Leaf Ledgers & Books<br /> -Mimeographs & Supplies<br /> -Miscellaneous Stationery</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="noindent">Metal Furniture<br /> -OLIVER TYPEWRITERS<br /> -Opera Chairs & Seating<br /> -Paper & Twines<br /> -Pencils & Pens<br /> -Pocket Books & Wallets<br /> -Pigeon Hole Cases<br /> -Ribbons & Carbon<br /> -Roll & Flat Top Desks<br /> -Roller Copiers<br /> -Routing Systems<br /> -Sectional Bookcases<br /> -Sectional Filing Cabinets<br /> -School Furniture<br /> -STANDARD ADDING MACHINES<br /> -Typewriters & Supplies<br /> -Typewriters Repaired<br /> -Waterman Fountain Pens<br /> -Wire Goods<br /> -Vertical Filing Systems<br /> -YARMAN & ERBE FILING SYSTEMS<br /> -YORK SAFES & VAULTS<br /> -ANYTHING FOR THE OFFICE</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="signed">Yours very truly,<br /> -<span class="padl4">FIELDER & ALLEN CO.</span></p> - -</div><!--body--> - -</div><!--typewritten--> - -</div><!--ad37--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad37">Image</a> of page</p> - -<div class="illotext"> - -<p class="noindent sstype fsize80"><i><span class="smcap">J W Fielder</span>, Pres.</i> -<span class="righttext"><i><span class="smcap">Ivan E Allen</span>, Secy & Tre</i></span></p> - -<p class="center fsize80">“ANYTHING FOR ANY OFFICE”</p> - -<p class="center blankbefore75"><i>Fielder & Allen Co.</i><br /> -<span class="smcap">“The Office Outfitters”</span><br /> -<span class="fsize90">OFFICE FURNITURE,<br /> -TYPEWRITERS,<br /> -<span class="sstype fsize90">SAFES & VAULTS</span> STATIONERY,<br /> -BLANK BOOKS.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent fsize90 sstype blankbefore75"><i>OFFICE & SALESROOMS</i><br /> -61 PEACHTREE STREET<br /> -<i>MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS.</i></p> - -<p class="center blankbefore75 sstype fsize90">LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE 262<br /> -CABLE ADDRESS FIALCO<br /> -P O BOX 454<br /> -NEW YORK 101, 103 DUANE ST<br /> -CHICAGO COR WABASH & MONROE STS<br /> -<i>FACTORY</i><br /> -150 152 154 156 158 160 EDGEWOOD<br /> -<i>TELEPHONE 3800</i></p> - -<p class="right sstype fsize90 blankbefore75">FILING CABINETS</p> - -<p class="center"><b><i>Atlanta, Ga.</i></b></p> - -<p class="noindent sstype fsize90">SAFES & VAULTS</p> - -<p class="noindent sstype fsize90 blankbefore75">The OLIVER STANDARD VISIBLE WRITER</p> - -<p class="noindent sstype fsize90 blankbefore75"><i>Standard</i> ADDING & LISTING MACHINE</p> - -<p class="noindent sstype fsize90 blankbefore75">EDISON’S MIMEOGRAPH</p> - -<p class="noindent sstype fsize90 blankbefore75">SECRETARIAL BOOK CASES</p> - -<p class="noindent sstype fsize90 blankbefore75"><i>BANK & OFFICE FIXTURES.</i></p> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert38"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="lcsmithout"> - -<div class="lcsmithin"> - -<div class="splitsmith"> - -<div class="leftsmith"> - -<p>L. C.<br /> -SMITH</p> - -</div><!--leftsmith--> - -<div class="rightsmith"> - -<p>Visible<br /> -Typewriter</p> - -</div><!--rightsmith--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--splitsmith--> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="noindent sstype fsize150 blankbefore15 highline15">Writing in Sight<br /> -Is in Line of Progress<br /> -<span class="wordspace3">See Our 1907 Models</span></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<div class="figcenter tripleline"> -<img src="images/adpage38b.png" alt="Line" width="400" height="12" /> -</div> - -<p class="center sstype"><span class="fsize300 wordspace3">H. M. ASHE CO.</span><br /> -<span class="fsize120 gesp1">GROUND FLOOR Y. M. C. A. BUILDING</span></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent highline2 sstype padl4">Bell Phones 1541 & 1896<br /> -Standard Phone 296</p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="right highline2 sstype padr4">ATLANTA,<br /> -GEORGIA</p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<div class="figcenter tripleline"> -<img src="images/adpage38b.png" alt="Line" width="400" height="12" /> -</div> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="noindent sstype fsize110"><span class="wordspace55">We have $8,000 worth of our competitors’</span><br /> -<span class="wordspace3">standard machines which we will sell at less</span><br /> -<span class="wordspace5">than half price.</span> <span class="wordspace18">:: :: :: :: :: ::</span></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--lcsmithin--> - -</div><!--lcsmithout--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad38">Image</a> of page</p> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<div class="advertpage" id="Advert39"> - -<div class="adpageborder"> - -<div class="samjones"> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage39a.jpg" alt="Title" width="528" height="239" /> -</div> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center fsize120 wordspace3 blankbefore75 blankafter75"><b>Why Sam Jones Appealed to the Masses With Whom He<br /> -Came in Contact.</b></p> - -<div class="split7030"> - -<div class="left7030"> - -<div class="split4555"> - -<div class="left4555"> - -<p class="jonesleft">1. He hated the sin, but -he helped the sinner.</p> - -<p class="jonesleft">2. He thought an ounce -of mirth was worth a pound -of sighs in any market place.</p> - -<p class="jonesleft">3. He had no mercy for -the Pecksniffs of this world, -and punctured sham and -hypocrisy with his keen wit.</p> - -<p class="jonesleft">4. He was himself a living -exemplar of the truths -he preached. From a member -of the “Down-and-Out -Club” he raised himself to a -prophet of light.</p> - -<p class="jonesleft">5. He preached and -proved the optimistic lesson -that life is livable; for he -foresaw the day when Death, -the slayer, shall himself lie -slain.</p> - -</div><!--left4555--> - -<div class="right4555"> - -<div class="figcenter nomargin"> -<img src="images/adpage39b.jpg" alt="Jones" width="200" height="266" /> -</div> - -</div><!--right4555--> - -</div><!--split4555--> - -</div><!--left7030--> - -<div class="right7030"> - -<p class="jonesright">6. He never forgot that -Christianity was a religion -of joy and laughter, not one -of tears and sorrow; a living -help for this earth, now and -here, and not a bundle of -dried and moldy dogmas.</p> - -<p class="jonesright">7. He was a man of and -for the people.</p> - -<p class="jonesright">8. He was a humanitarian -in every sense that the -word implies.</p> - -<p class="jonesright">9. With all his firmness -and steadfastness of purpose -and conviction he was gentle, -tender and kind in the -truest sense.</p> - -<p class="jonesright">10. Above all, he was a -man.</p> - -</div><!--right7030--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split7030--> - -<p class="center highline2 fsize120"><b>Only Authorized Edition.</b></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<div class="split4555"> - -<div class="left4555"> - -<p class="noindent fsize120">AGENTS COIN MONEY.</p> - -</div><!--left4555--> - -<div class="right4555"> - -<p class="right fsize120">HANDSOME OUTFIT, 50 CENTS.</p> - -</div><!--right4555--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split4555--> - -<p class="center fsize120">CIRCULARS FREE.</p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center fsize120 wordspace2">Big Book, 9<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub>x7, Over 400 Pages; Half Morocco, $3.50,<br /> -Cloth, $2.50; Postpaid. Order Today.</p> - -<p class="center fsize225 blankbefore05 wordspace4"><b>J. L. NICHOLS & COMPANY</b></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<p class="noindent fsize175"><b>930 Austell Building,</b></p> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<p class="right fsize175"><b>Atlanta, Georgia</b></p> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--samjones--> - -</div><!--adpageborder--> - -<p class="ilload"><a href="#Ad39">Image</a> of back cover</p> - -<div class="illotext"> - -<p class="center sstype"><b><span class="smcap">The Life and Sayings</span><br /> -OF<br /> -SAM P. JONES</b><br /> -By <span class="smcap">Mrs.</span> JONES.</p> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--advertpage--> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>ADVERTISING SECTION</h2> - -<div class="figcenter w400" id="Ad01"> -<img src="images/adpage01.png" alt="Advert" width="400" height="585" /> -<p class="ilload">Return to <a href="#Advert01">advertisement</a></p> -</div> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<div class="figcenter w400" id="Ad02"> -<img src="images/adpage02.jpg" alt="Advert" width="400" height="579" /> -<p class="ilload">Return to <a href="#Advert02">advertisement</a></p> -</div> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<div class="figcenter w400" id="Ad03"> -<img src="images/adpage03.jpg" alt="Advert" width="400" height="581" class="border1" /> -<p class="ilload">Return to <a href="#Advert03">advertisement</a></p> -</div> - -<hr class="sec" /> - -<div class="figcenter w400" id="Ad04"> -<img src="images/adpage04.jpg" alt="Advert" width="400" height="571" class="border1" /> -<p class="ilload">Return to <a href="#Advert04">advertisement</a></p> -</div> - 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-<p>Inconsistent, archaic and unusual spelling and hyphenation have not been corrected or standardised, -unless listed below. (The spelling of) non-English names, words and phrases have not been corrected, -unless mentioned below.</p> - -<p>Text <span class="illotext">inside a dotted box</span> has been transcribed for the sake -of clarity from the illustration underneath which it is presented. Where the quality of the scans allows, -and where there is a lack of detail in the small illustrations of this e-text, hyperlinks to larger -illustrations have been provided (not available in all formats).</p> - -<p>At the end of the text, the advertisements (other than the text-only ones) have been inserted as -images. The lay-out of the advertisements in the text has been simplified somewhat.</p> - -<p>Depending on the hard- and software used and their settings, not all elements (in particular in the advertising sections) -may display as intended.</p> - -<p>Front advertisement section: Red Seal Shoes advertisement: hard ware and Boys, Womens, Misses: as printed in the source document.</p> - -<p>Pages 1 and 105, Prosper Merimee: as printed in the source document, actually Prosper Mérimée.</p> - -<p>Page 8/9: the primeval forest off these old red hills: as printed in the source document.</p> - -<p>Page 37, ... leader. * * *: as printed in the source document; possibly -intended to be a thought break similar to others on this and other pages.</p> - -<p>Page 65, ... may be imposed for ever day ...: probably an error for ... may be imposed for -every day ...</p> - -<p>Page 91, Life and Times of Andrew Jackson: there is no (heading for) Chapter I.</p> - -<p>Page 109, La victoire est nous!: more commonly La victoire est à nous!</p> - -<p>Page 111, Qu’allais-je faire dens cette galere? As printed in the source document (should be ... dans cette galère).</p> - -<p>Rear advertisement section: -Bainbridge advertisement: the Waiman Hotel was actually called the Wainman Hotel; -Fielder & Allen advertisement: tre is probably (an abbreviation for) treasurer (the -remainder of the word as printed has disappeared in the book’s gutter).</p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Changes</p> - -<p>Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.</p> - -<p>Some ditto symbols have been replaced with the dittoed text.</p> - -<p>Front advertisement section: laware Avenue changed to Delaware Avenue; -To Our Readers: clientile changed to clientele.</p> - -<p>Page 4: <i>my fri</i>ends changed to <i>my friends</i>.</p> - -<p>Page 47: Sugar Trust-ims changed to Sugar Trust-isms; aristocritic brute changed to aristocratic brute.</p> - -<p>Page 54: George B. Cartelyou changed to George B. Cortelyou.</p> - -<p>Page 57: to present all the states changed to to present to all the states.</p> - -<p>Page 83: she same changed to she came.</p> - -<p>Page 91, Note: moved to directly under the paragraph in which it is referenced.</p> - -<p>Page 106: moveover changed to moreover.</p> - -<p>Page 107: cried he Englishman changed to cried the Englishman; without offering any thinks changed to without offering any thanks.</p> - -<p>Page 117: fronties changed to frontiers.</p> - -<p>Page 121: Pertinent Question changed to Pertinent Questions.</p> - -<p>Page 127: Wordworth changed to Wordsworth.</p> - -<p>Page 133: is this issue changed to in this issue.</p> - -<p>Rear advertisement section: Buena Bista Fruit Co. changed to Buena Vista Fruit Co.; -T. W. Philahelphia changed to T. W. 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