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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
NEW STATES IN 1904.

the Indian Territory is not far from the
same figures The latter is strongly Demo
cratic, and should the two be combined in
one state the electoral vote would go to
the Democratic ticket, a contingency that
is likely to be guarded against by Re
publican congress. The two territories as
one state would give seven electoral votes,
while Oklahoma alone would furnish four
votes.
New Mexico and Arizona are sure to
renew their efforts to attain the dignity
of statehood. The former has less than
100000 population and the latter about
125 900, and under statehood would be en-
titled to three electoral votes each. New
Mexico is close politically, although at
present represented in congress by Re-
publican delegate. Arizona is Democratic.
If Oklahoma and Indian Territory
should be admitted as one state, and If
New Mexico and Arizona were also taken
in before 1904, the Democrats would be
practically sure of ten new electoral votes,
with a fighting chance for the other three.
This possibility has an important relation
to the other possibility of close national
vote and for that reason it is to be be-
lieved that the Republican congress will
try to make sure of the vote of Oklahoma
proper, more especially as there is about
as much sentiment for separate as for
combined admission.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

him, I'll bet"
Bridget gave triumphant toss to her
old head.
every we'll, Bridget; continue your
work." the landlady said as she left the
room accompanied by the officer.
ST prefer to go straight TO the president
Of the college with this matter, so need
no further services from you" she added
as she entered the hall.
Putting on her hat she started straight
for the presidents residence, and soon
laid the whole case before him.
"Of course they ought to be expelled.
Don't you agree with me?"
mot expelled, but suspended for few
weeks" said the president, gravely.
''And you will see to ii at once that they
are. suspended?' she eagerly continued.
1.-The idea! They drove of every young
lady in my house, and now 1 have only
the two themselves left. But they'll pay
for it,
Yes, madam, will see to it at once. for
this is not the first offense from these
two. Good morning.
The president then dispatched a messen-
ger for Guy and Harvey, who hastily
obeyed the summons
AS to the details of that interview the
boys told a big tale of the way two very
brash students faced an indignant presi-
dent. However that may be. they prom
Used to do so no more, and were allowed
to remain.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
PROFITABLE CONVICT FARMS.

Soon after the war eIisslssIppI. like
Georgia and nearly every other southern
state. was driven to the convict lease
system as a matter OF necessity.
These states were so Impoverished by
the war that they were not able 70 adopt
any other penitentiary system
In Mississippi. as in every other state
that has tried It. the convict lease sys-
tenn was afflicted with abuses that made
II odious and provoked q very general
demand for its abolition. AS they have
become able 70 DO so most OF the states
which adopted this expedient have aban-
d0ned 1t ana adopted various substitutes
Several years ago Mississippi resorted
to 4 convict farm plan very much like
that which Georgia adopted little later
II has worked well in both states.
The results In Mississippi have been
even more satisfactory than was expect
ed.
The state he's direct control OF all its
convicts. They are placed on twelve large
farms where they raise cotton mainly. but
also enough provisions Tor their own use.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

in larger fields of government they would
be of little use since the evasion of the
law would be more possible. Thus educa-
ton of the people seems to me to be the
only sure and permanent mode of ac-
complishing final results. 1t appears to
me that physicians ministers, school
teachers and all other such persons as
have an opportunity of catching the pub
lie ear can most certainly bring about the
desired end. An appeal in all cases be-
ing made to the Ben Franklin side of hui
man nature
Another friend who has spent much
time and thought on the betterment of
humanity is Professor d. Q. Abbott. for
many years superintendent of the public
schools of Bibb county, Georgia, and
now filing the chair Of mathematics in
the State Normal school at Athens, Ga.
He advocates any and all methods, laws
and education that can possibly be used
to prevent diseases of all sorts, and
writes: Really, go further in my think
ing and would prevent by rigid and pro-
hibitive legislation all marriages which
had not a sound certificate of health for
it's basis. We owe it to posterity to re-
duce the percentage of the blind, the
scrofuletic, the imbecile, the morally de-
generate and the hereditary vicious. This
may may must) be done by legislation
no matter what may be the amount of
ignorance on the subject nor how I'M
popular it may be at first
"This opinion in regard to marriage
I think applies perfectly to tuberculous
subjects, and if it is possible to prevent
their marriage think it should be done.
There can be very little true happiness
in a home built on foundation of pos
sible, nay probable, tubercular disease in
the parents, or, worse YET, In the innocent
child.
Long years of anxiety and nursing
destroy all the pleasure of living and
the constant dread of the sword falling
on the head of the little ones renders life
a burden. If, however. tuberculous sub
jects will either wilfully or through igno-
rance marry, then think that the inno-
cent should be protected by not being al
lowed to be conceived. This opinion
know will be considered rank heresy, but
1 utter it only as a plea for the innocent.
Is it not better to prevent than try to
cure that which never should have been?"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
POSTAGE STAMP CURRENCY.

The habit of sending postage stamps to
pay for small purchases is very general.
Retail merchants. publishers and others
receive so many stamps through the mails
that they are put to serious inconven-
fence, as nobody wants stamps for change
and they are not readily convertible into
cash. Many merchants will not take
stamps in lieu of money, but it is often
inconvenient for those who send orders by
mail to procure postoffice postal notes and
they do not like to send coin in letters.
Assistant Postmaster Hubbard has a
plan that he thinks will be a great con-
venience to both merchants and pur-
chasers by mail.
1t provides for the issue Of postage
stamp certificates. The customer would
be allowed to buy from the local postmas-
ter at very small extra cost stamp GER
tiicate for the desired amount and send
it instead OF the stamps it represents.
The receiver Of this certificate could
convert it into stamps at its par value.
or into cash at a discount of only per
cent.
This plan is approved by many Chicago
merchants and has been endorsed by the
newspapers Of that city.
1t will be proposed to congress at its
next session.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
Kansas City Star.

Kansas City Star.
1t is practically certain that Oklahoma
will be admitted to statehood before the
adjournment of the Fifty-seventh congress
and quite certain that it will be a state
before the national election of 1904. There
is much more speculation about the man
ner than about the fact of admission. The
Fairbanks bill, introduced in the fifty
sixth congress, provided for the imme-
date admission of Oklahoma, leaving
it to the discretion of congress later to
embody the Indian Territory or to admit
the latter as a separate state. The bill
failed to secure consideration for lack of
time, but doubtless the same features will
be embodied in new measure at the
first session of the next congress, for
the Oklahomans are impatient.
Sentiment Is pretty well divided as to
the com bination of the two territories in
one state. Doubtless politics will have a
good deal to do with the solution of the
question. Oklahoma, originally was Re-
publican by small majority. The occupa-
ton of the new Indian lands has added
about 100000 population to the territory
without changing the political complexion
very much, the general belief being that
the Republican majority has been de-
creased rather than increased. The popu-
lation is now about 1900. and that of
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
OUR ENORMOUS FIRE BILL,

In no other country is the loss by FIRE
every year anything like as great as that
in the United States.
And yet we have the most perfectly
equipped. the most expert and the most
expensive fire departments in the world.
The main reasons why so much of our
property goes up in smoke every year
arc defective construction and the care
Iessncss of property owners and tenants.
Many persons who are prudent in other
things allow combustible material TO col
legt in dwellings. shops and stores and lie
ready TO catch every spark that may fall
The careless use Of matches is aceounta-
bic. perhaps, for more fires than defective
fues. incendlarlsm and all other causes
combined.
We cannot wonder that fire insurance
rates are so much higher in the United
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
WIRELESS TELEcRAPHY.

Recent experiments indicate that wire
less telegraphy will soon be of far great
er practical value than was at first
thought probable.
The theory that this method of commu-
nication Is impracticable where there are
intervening Instructions, such as walls.
seems to have been exploded.
Last Saturday messages were exchang-
ed between the steamship Umbria lying
at her pier in New York and the Lucania
more than thirty miles away at sea.
The operator of a Marconi instrument
on the former vessel asked Where are
your Very Promptly from the Lucania
came the, answer. Ion the bar"
Wireless telegraphy has been used be-
tween ships at sea much more than thirty
miles apart, but this is the first clear
demonstration that tall buildings, masts
and other intervening objects do not in
terfere with the passage of wireless mes
sages back and forth at least for thirty
miles.
Marconis wonderful invention will I'M
doubtedly be very useful and will prob
ANY soon be perfected far beyond it's
present possibilities.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

States than in Europe when we remember
the much greater risk the companies take
here.
Instead Of decreasing, as it would If the
lessons of experience were regarded, the
annual fire loss in this country is in
creasing.
For the completed nine months of this
year it reached the enormous total OF
Sill, CTS, $50 and for the like period of last
year it was sos. S6l, $3.50. or over $6,OOO,OOO
less. During the first ten days of October
the fire losses in this country aggregated
So, 7O6, OOO.s The prospect is that the total
for the year will be alarmingly large.
We boast of being the richest nation on
earth, and it seems that We literally have
money to burn"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
THE DEVELOPING SOUTH.

The Illinois Central railroad is one Of the
most prosperous and best managed rail-
way systems in the country and has done
a great work toward developing the large
region Of the south through which its
lines PASS.
Ii maintains a bureau Of information
which advertises the south in a very at
tractive way and gives publicity to the
enterprises and improvements in its ter
ritory.
Recently this bureau has sent out the
statement that during the present year
500 industries with an aggregate capital of
more than 100000 have been started
along its lines. OF these no less than pa
are in the south and they include a great
variety of enterprises.
To the Illinois Central itself belongs
large part of the credit for the establish
ment of these industries. the investment
of the large amount of the capital they
represent and the benefit to the great
number of persons to whom they have
given work.
That company has for years been aid
ing very materially the developments of
the south.
It has encouraged the inauguration of
those already established. It has given ia
vorabIe freight rates and fine transporta-
ton facilities. 1t has purchased immense
tracts Of land, cut it up into farms to
suit settlers and sold it on easy terms.
Such a railroad company is a power for
good wherever it goes. 1t benefits itself by
helping along the territory in which it
operates
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
ATLANTA. GEORGIA. MONDAY. October q. 1901.

First rate land was bought for these
farms and they are so well managed that
last ysar they paid Mississippi a net rev.
enue OF more than $4,000.
The state has recently purchased 1900
acres which viii also be cultivated by con-
victs and a large increase Of the revenue
rom its convict labor is confidently pre-
licted.
The health OF the convicts is said to
average much better than did under the
lease system; little trouble is found in
their management and there is rarely any
complaint OF cruelties.
Mississippi. from every point Of view,
made a happy exchange when she swap
ped her convict leases for convict farms
under state management.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

The Austrian Emperor. In spite OF his 7ad-
yanced age, attends personally 20 all his prt-
vate correspondence.
Sir Douglas Straight, editor of the Pan Mall
Gazette and one of the veterans of London
Journalism, is about to publish volume OF
"reminiscences.
Henry Sienkiewicz, author OF ''Quo Vadis, "
spent most Of this summer in crowded hotel
al Ragotz in Switzerland. Amid such sur
roundIngs he claims TO find both rest and
inspiration
With the recent death Of the Duke Of Leuch-
tenbrrg the senior line of the Empress Jose
phine's descendants came to end. The
duke was the grandson Of Josephines son.
Eugene de Beauharnais.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

The anti-Tammanyites are trying to
hold out the inducement that if Dick
Croker is defeated in the coming election
he will make his permanent residence in
England.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

Now that Judge Cantrill refuses to al
low Kentuckians to wear concealed weap-
ons in the court room the attendance on
the second Caleb Powers trial is likely to
be considerably reduced
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

Rhode Island. Massachusetts,. New
Hampshire. Delaware and Utah have not
had a lynching in five years. But then,
illinois, Indiana and Ohio manage to keep
up the average for the northern states.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

The late Ameer Of Afghanistan, being
asked how many wives he had, replied:
How many? God only knows" And yet
we were told that his death was sur
prise"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

We win all probably agree that matrl-
mony is a good thing If it keeps Chauncey
home at nights and prevents him from
making any more after-dinner speeches.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21
FOREIGN NC les OF INTEREST.

The total number OF persons now being pro-
vided for by the Indian famine relief funds Is
422 O00
The Belgian government has offered Al an
nual prize Of 5 900 francs for the best work in
the province OF medical research.
Sugar growers now predict that within
twenty-five years the Australian province OF
Queensland will become the greatest cane
growing district in the world
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

We may now have to have another court
Of inquiry to FIND out who really did make
that loop.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

The heart OF an Indiana man is said to
be slowly turning to stone. If this keeps
up he may be able some day to qualify as
the manager of some charity bureau.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

Quite an innovation has been introduced
in Kentucky. Spectators in attendance on
the Caleb Powers trial will be required
TO leave their weapons at the door
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

1t might be possible to solve the Carrie
Nation problem by sending her over to
do a little missionary work in Bulgaria.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-21

In view Of some recent happenings IN
Chatham The Augusta Herald very prop
erIy resents the fact that The Savannah
Press should ever have presumed to lee
ture Augusta on the purity Of the bal
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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-06-06
A Well Improved Town.

Milford is one of the best paved
towns in all this part of Ohio. AL
though at last census it had but a
population of l ,l42 bonds were issued
and paving covering two miles of
streets, built at once of cement. The
bonds ran ten years and are within
two years of extinguishment. DIR.
Con Catch, resident of this place,
informs us that while there was much
objections to the enterprise at the
beginning the citizens of the place
would not have the old order of things
for many times what the pavements
cost them.-Georgetown News-Demo-
crat,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-06-06

when the news of the formal accept
ance of the Platt amendment by the
Cuban Constitutional reached WASH
ington. He has from the first said 1t
was only question of time when the
would be accepted. The
will not cause anything
to be done by this government at
present. II is only the first step on
the part of the Cubans toward estab-
fishing government of their own.
There is nothing more for this gov
ernment to do until that government
is provided for and elected by the
Cubans.
The soldier organizations conduct
ed interesting Memorial Day exercis-
es at all the soldier cemeteries in the
vicinity of Washington.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-06-06
Lincoln's Population Prophecy.

''During the Cival War President
Lincoln discussed the impracticabili-
ty of maintaining a discovered coun-
try" says Professor Lewis M. Haupt,
in June "New" Lippincott, "and SUBJ
mitted some proposed amendments
to the Constitution looking to the
elimination of slavery, without which
he said the Rebellion never could
have existed His plan was to pur-
chase emancipation in period of
thirty-seven years, and he entered in
to an elaborate argument to show that
this would be more prudent and more
economical than to continue the war.
This led him to forecast the probab BILE
increase in population, which he be-
lieved would continue at its moral
rate of growth. He said:
"'At the same ratio of increase
which we have maintained on an av-
erage from our first national census
in 1870, until that of 1850, we should
in 1900 have a population of 1O3, ,2Os,-
4l5, and why may we not continue
that ratio far beyond that period ?
We have 2,963, 900 square miles. Eu-
rope has 8, S00,0 900 with a population
averaging 1871 persons to the square
mile. Why may not our country at
some time average as many9 Sever
al of our States are alIeady above the
average, and yet they have increased
in as rapid ratio since passing that
point as before"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-06-06

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the charm would be broken, and it
would be necessary to start all over
again. the truth of this claim
cannot be put to a test until the end
OF about five and half years the
authorities are puzzled what course
to take.
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