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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03
DID THE PRESIDENT INSULT SENATOR TILLMAN7

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effect
that the president
recalled invita-
insult his uncle
be pure
Tnman would have
president of the United States to meet German prince at
dinner where personalities were alone considered - 49,,
selected the great number on a
THERON position
contempt of the SEN
and on the day Of the dinner not only had no official position but that his
name had been absolutely stricken from the roll OF the senate the p
anron
to the but the distinguished guest Of the evening
him
self which his presence would
the Uncomfortable facts This was done
Carolina perempoy refused to withdraw his accept
Then he president cancelled the invitation
insuted senator the fact that
requested Mr. Till
Of the Uni
ted States qualified to perform any Of the functions social or "
member OF tina
Tn1nan through mutual friend what official etiquette
o really
public embarrassment
his motive he least in line with his duty
demanded of him his official position
this section on how
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think there few gentlemen in this state or his own who would hesitate ABOUT
pc should ntnated that their presence
and disgrace the state of South
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03
PRINCE HENRYs VISIT.

The cordial and unaffected manner in
which the brother Of the German emperor,
Prince Heinrich of Prussia. has been re-
eeived by the president and by the people
of this country has apparently been sin
cerely appreciated by the sailor prince
himself and by the German emperor and
German people. judging from recent cable
dispatches from Berlin, have been pro-
foundry touched.
The prince, by his democratic ways and
lack of ostentation, has charmed those
with whom he has come in contact, and it
is already apparent that the object of his
trip-the bringing together in closer terms
of friendship the United States and Ger
many-has been accomplished.
So far as we can observe there have
been no evidences of "hunkeyism'' on the
part Of this government or its representa-
tives. and on the part of the prince there
has been no misunderstanding Of the Gu
riosity and the spontaneous enthusiasm
with which he has been greeted.
The fact that great honors have been
showered upon this prince and that great
crowds have gathered 70 greet him is
manifestation simply of the innate hospi
tality that every American possesses, and
cannot and will not be construed as any
evidence Of regard for monarchical insti-
tutions.
The sentimental. not TO say the poetic,
side of this visit Of the prince is the con-
eeption Of the emperor in selecting the
presidents young daughter TO christen his
yacht and sending across the seas his
royal brother to help oficiate. 1t was
deftly conceived and brilliantly executed
compliment to the women of America,
and should take first rank in those diplo-
matte acts Of friendship which count so
much in the relations of progressive and
aggressive nations like the United States
and Germany.
So far nothing has marred the visit Of
this prince, whose message is peace and
good will. On every hand good taste has
gone hand in hand with hospitality, and
we feel that we speak for the people of
America in saying that it is their sincerest
wish that when the prince returns he viii
carry to his royal brother a glowing &C
count OF his own welcome We feel sure
that the emperor will be. If he has not al
ready been. impressed with the greatness
and grandness of this country in its way
Of receiving a royal messenger Of peace
OF its readiness and ability to receive, If
need be. black messenger Of war.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03
FIGHTS IN The SENATE.

The unseemly fist fight, in which Sena-
tors Tillman and McLaurin of South Car
DINA. participated last Saturday after
noon, during a session of the senate is
without precedent or parallel in the more
than hundred years OF existence Of that
august assemblage known as the United
States senate. which is sometimes. called
and ought of right to be 1.-The greatest
deIiberative body in the world"
The nearest approach TO a similar scene
was the encounter on May p. 1856 between
Charles Sumner. Of Massachusetts,, a SEN
ator. and Preston Smith Brooks. a rep
resentative from South Carolina. The
latter strangely enough, like Senator Till
man. hailed from the famous Edgeheld
district Of the Palmetto State.
The senate was not in session when this
sensational incident occurred and Brooks
as before stated, was not even a member
of that bsdy.
Sumner was attacked Immediately af-
ter he had delivered a speech, entitled,
'"rhe Crime Against Kansas which
greatly incensed all Of the southern mem
bers and the members Of the South Car
Olina delegation I'm particular. Brooks is
said TO have assaulted the senator with a
cane while the latter was seated at his
desk.
The passions Of the north and south
We're greatly infiamed at this time and
an effort was made to expel the South
Carolinian from the house of representa-
tives. On the motion to expel the ayes
were III and the noes Stacking the
requisite two-thirds. Brooks afterwards
resigned but was unanimously reelected
by his constituents. Throughout the north
the conduct Of Brooks was greatly CEN
sured and he was denounced In Unmeasur-
ed terms. In the south II was generally
upheld and numerous costly canes and
other testimonials were presented 10 him.
Another dramatic scene in the senate
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03
TRANsVAAL RESOURCES.

Wonderful as the development of the
gold deposits of the Transvaal has been
already many of the experts who have
studied the situation believe that this de-
velopment has but fairly begun.
The war in that region has, of course,
had a paralyzing effect upon its mining
industries, but this must be considered as
only temporary. The full restoration of
order will undoubtedly cause an Industrial
activity in South Africa beyond anything
that has yet been known there.
In fact this revival has already advane-
ed to degree that is nothing less than
wonderful The gold production in the
Rand district, which was only 5000 for
last November jumped to 52,S97 ounces in
the next month. 1t was even larger in jan
uary and is increasing every day,
Mining stocks in South Africa are
bounding up at an unprecedented rate and
capital for investment in such securities is
pouring into that country, though peace
has not been fully restored. The Beers
may continue their desultory warfare for
months to come, but there is no danger
that the well guarded mining districts
will be disturbed. Money is pouring into
that region and men are fiocking to it
from all parts of the world. The Transvaal
is likely to become one of the richest re-
gions IN the world in the early future
and its mines will contribute immensely to
the permanent wealth of the world.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Germany has imported as much as $40, OOO, 600
worth of apples in year and 81, 500, 600 worth
of pears.
Realty sales in the city Of London during
1901 were 95, 1853, 09S compared with 81, 1874, 100
in 1900 and Sc. 290S14 in 1899.
The Submarine cables to be commenced next
month between Vancouver and Tanning Island
5000 miles) viii be the longest unbroken line
ever laid.
1t is estimated that there are fewer than
TO- 900 wild elephants left in all the countries
the globe, and that hve OF these VIII De
killed off when one is born.
With the completion Of the Trans-Siberian
Railroad Russia makes her entry as COM
petitor in the European butter trade and Is
carrying everything before her.
waterfall discovered ten years ago liz
San Cuayaton Canyon, Durango, Mex, is said
to be at least 5000 feet high. This would
make it the highest in the world.
The white convicts employed on the break
water at Cape Town are sending a loyal ad-
dress to King Edward, praying his clemeney
The Paris Bourse was to be enlarged year
prietors of adjoining lavatories who refuse to
accept the compensation offered, the entire
work has been at a standstill for several
months Business is interfered with, and
brokers and jobbers are loud in complaining.
In order that a patent may be obtained in
France, the three following conditions are
necessary; That the invention be absolutely
necessary; that il possess an industrial charac-
ter; that IL be not contrary to public order
or security, good morals, or the laws OF the
country. An invention is mot considered new
when previous to the date Of filing Of the
in France or abroad to render it easy Of
imitation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03
THE PASSING OF ToLsToI.

The continued reports from the bedside
of Count Leo Tolstoi make it evident that
the death of this great man is not far dis
tant. That event will end one of the most
interesting as we'll as useful careers, not
only in the history of Russia, but of mod
ern times.
For the past quarter of century this
man has devoted himself assiduously and
with much sacrifice to studying the press
ing problems Of life, to remedying its
grievances and to befriending the un-
friended poor. To that end he resigned all
social standing and privileges of rank and
lived the life of those whose condition he
sought to relieve. Besides devoting the
most of his wealth to charity, he has CIV
en- the best efforts of his great heart and
brain in trying to better the masses. The
finest products of his pen have been d.
rected against the present form of gov
eminent in Russia and against some of
the doctrines of the Greek church, the
more recent and more radical of which
have led to his Punishment by one and
accommodation by the other. He is,
therefore, regarded as both political and
religious martyr. Harsh measures, how
ever, have not silenced the great truths
which he uttered or expunged the mighty
principles for which he contended.
1t is said that the fact that the car,
whom Tolstoi had considered his warm
friend sanctioned his accommodation
and Punishment depressed the great nov
elist more than the acts themselves and
caused him to become low-spirited and
feeble in health, leaving him an easy prey
to the attack of typhoid fever with which
he was recently seized and which is likely
to result in his death.
Count Leo Nikolaievitch Tolstoi was
born at Yasnaya, Poliana, in the govern
ment of Tula, on August g. 1928. He was
educated privately at Moscow and on the
family estate till 1S43-46, when he studied
at Kazan university. In 1851 he Joined the
army Of the Caucasus on the Tenek, was
attached to the staff of Prince Gortscha-
koff in Turkey in the first stage of the
Crimean war and was at the storming of
sebastopol by the allies in 1856. Count
Tolstoi then retired from the army. and,
already famous as poet and novelist,
spent short time in the most brilliant
literary and social circles of st. Peters
burg. He then Travelled in Germany and
Italy. In 1862 he married and retired to
his estates near Moscow and dwelt among
the peasantry. About 1878 he announced,
to the CONSERVATION of his friends, that
he had finally resolved to renounce the
career of poet and artist to devote himself
entirely to the work Of ameliorating the
condition of the masses.
His conception of Christ's Christianity
was summed up in six canons: Do not
war, do not judge, do not commit adul-
terry, do not swear, do not give way to
anger, do not oppose with force the evil
doer.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Chicago News.
A goat has a great head for business.
No man can be selfish while he is in love.
Your life isn't worth living unless you think
it is,
Love is one kind of praise and envy is an
other.
switehmen are paid for sidetracking other
people.
self-inspection is said to be sure cure for
self-esteem.
boys headache is always worse Just about
school time.
Some men have brains and some seem to
have wheels.
The average man deceives himself oftener
than he does others.
The way Of the transgressor is often rough
on the other fellow.
Men with narrow views are apt to be broad
in their conversation.
Woman does not enjoy funny story unless
there is a man in it.
Probably the first parasol was made from
the rib OF an umbrella.
A woman never feels comfortable unless her
shoes are uncomfortable.
The better the physician the less respect an
undertaken has for him.
If a man says only what he thinks he is not
likely to be great talker
A man is always time when he has an
appointment with pretty girl.
Any man can learn to make mistakes with
out serving an apprenticeship
There is something wrong with a pie II a
small boy refuses a second piece.
Many man grows wealthy by acting con-
trary to the advice of the majority.
Spring lamb Il one thing in the dictionary
and quite another on the bill of fare.
The man who is willing to lend you money
tomorrow always wants to borrow today.
Not infrequently the wedding ring is a cir
Gle that squares the debts of poor man.
A woman would rather other women would
talk disrepectfully about her than ignore her.
After a girl who married for money becomes
a widow she is very likely to be married for her
money.
That student who fingers around the foot of
his class may eventually become hrst-class
chiroDodst
It is not wisdom to tell everything you know.
but some people can't avoid 1t If they tell any
thing at all.
An egotist is a man who insists on telling
you the things aboG, himself that you want to
tell him about yourself.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03

There are evidences of returning SAN
ence to what are called 'intercolleg iate
games"
The colleges in Michigan seem inclined
to move in body in the direction of refor-
nation.
A few weeks ago the presidents of some
of the most conspicuous Institutions in
New England expressed themselves de-
cidedly in opposition to these games.
The tokens thus given that the mania
is beginning to pass must be gratifying
to sensible people who care for the well
fare of the youth of the land and who
are interested also in our institutions OF
higher learning.
The main reasons given by some Of
these college presidents for abandoning
these sports that kilP' is scarcely so
gratifying however. They intimate that
it has been ascertained by experience that
success in the games does not increase
teams are victorious, the inference
clearly being that If the long-standing
claim to the contrary had proved cor
rect the games ought to be encouraged.
A more pitiable confession was never made
by serious men charged with the manage
ment of great interests.
Is it a fact that the sons Of worthy
parents have been galloped over the coun-
try, arranged in grotesque costume and
exposed to all manner of perils, when
they ought to have been at their books,
and all as an advertising scheme for the
colleges represented by them? Were re-
spectacle students used for a service not
one whit better than that rendered by
negro boy clad in the garb of a clown,
bearing a transparency and beating
gong to advertise the wares of fakir2
So it seems, and the revelation is most
humiliating indeed!
The work of colleges has been account
ed that of one of the learned professions.
The teacher has been supposed to rank
with the preacher, the lawyer and the
physician. Could a lawyer send his
clients out beating up patron
age for him by such methods and still re-
tain his standing? Could a doctor secure
patients by such methods? What contempt
would fall upon a preacher who should
thus degrade himself? Alas! that the pro-
fession of the teacher should be scandal
lied by such things. A college which re-
sorts to or winlxs at such methods to adj
vertise itself falls several. degrees below
little Tommy Tucker" who sang for
his supper"
But there has been something worse than
unworthy and unprofessional advertising
in all this craze for intercollegiate sports.
American colleges have made themselves
accessory to many homicides which have
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03
OUR GERMAN CITIZENSHIP.

The coming of Prince Henry to America
serves to call attention to the part the
German people have played in the devel-
opment Of this country. Mr.. Dooley'
facetiously remarked the other day that
the Germans never leave Germany; that
he takes it with him. A statement as
true as it is witty. But to this very fact
is due some of our highest elements of
citizenship and most wholesome customs;
for there has been transplanted from the
"Faterland" that respect for govern
ment, that love of industry and of domes-
tic pleasures, together with that prac-
teal, conservative view Of life, so char
acteristic of the race; all of which have
become happily interviewer in our COM
posite nationality.
While it is true that as individuals they
are not as readily assimilated as the Irish.
for instance, retaining, as they do, their
customs and their language to a large ex-
tent. 1t is also true that the Germans are
more law-abidinig and more thrifty than
most any other class of people transplant
ted to this country from a foreign soil.
Indeed, it is admitted, that there has been
less of the vicious in the German immi-
grafton to this country than in any other
class.
But to state these things is to state
what every citizen of this country we'll
knows. Everyone does not know, how
ever, what part, numerically, Germans
have played in the development of Ameri-
ca. According to the New York Times.
the statistics show that over 100000 Ger
man men, women and children have immi-
grated to this country within the past
IS years, or since the government began
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03
BY BISHOP WARREN A. GAMBLER

occurred in the games-no inconsiderable
number every year. Our civilized and
Christian sensibilities are shocked when
We read of the sin of King Solomon, who
first introduced into Israel the worship
of Moloch and the sacrifice of children to
that bloody god. But as matter of fact
American colleges have sacrificed more
young lives on the altar of athletieism dur
ing the last ten years than were ever sac
rificed to Moloch in all SOlOmOn's reign.
IT is. beastly record that has been
made!
But the evil did not stop with the bodily
wounds inflicted and the bodily deaths
brought to pass, Collegiate ideals have
been corrupted and degraded by raising
physical competitions to the place which
should be filled by moral and intellectual
contests alone. The muscular bully, with
his quilted breaches, muZzled phiz and I'M
shorn locks has been made the hero of
the campus to the depreciation of the
modest and dilligent student. This shift
ing of the center of gravity in college
life from an intellectual to a physical
ideal, from lofty to a low conception Of
manhood, has made a distinct inclination
in some institutions toward a bold, brave
paganism. Witness the proposal to revive
the Olympian games at Chicago and their
actual revival at Paris.
Well intelligent people at. least know
the collegians who propose it know
enough of history to understand what
they propose, or if they do understand it,
they may have reached point of mental
and moral decay at which they really de-
sire what they seem to wish. May the
words of Kipling in a recent poem, so
like the strong protest of an ancient poet
of Greece against the athleticism of his
times, have the effect to open the eyes of
some at least to the final fruitage of the
athleticism of our timesl 1t ministers not
to manly strength and courage, but to I'M
manly folly and brutal coarseness.
OF course. 1 am familiar with all the
cant about "a sane mind in sound body"
and body building" as these phrases are
invoked to give serious defense to an evil
for which no serious defense, which is also
sincere. can be justly made. Inter-colleg-
late games. confined as they are to only
a fraction of the student body, in the very
nature of the case can do next to nothing
for the physical development Inter-col-
legiate games are not and never were de-
signed to develop. but to display, strength.
Moreover, If it were susceptible of proof
that the games used in intercollegiate con-
tests, were we'll adapted to making sound
bodies for sane minds to dwell in. 1t does
not follow that the intercollegiate" fea-
ture must be retained in order to secure
benefits The patronage of a college has
surely run very low when it has not stu
dents enough to get UP game Of ball
among themselves.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-03

occurred IN 1850. six years previous to the
assault upon Sumner by Brooks.
The participants in this row, which mar
rowly missed ending in a bloody tragedy
were Senator Benton. of Missouri, and
Senator Foote, of Mississippi.
Benton. according to the story of the
affair, charged Foote with having ap-
proved and revised a newspaper article
which seriously reflected upon him. In
the midst Of Benton's remarks Foote,
with an angry retort, interrupted the for
mer and Benton started towards him.
The Missouri senator is described as be-
ing leonine in appearance, with massive
head and frame, much larger physically
than Foote. The latter upon the APP
proach of Benton is said to have retreated
for short distance, and then turning
pulled five-chambered revolver from his
pocket, which he deliberately cooked and
aimed at the approaching Missourian.
Benton is said to have been unarmed
and at first did not see the weapon which
Foote had levelled at him. Senator Dodge
Of Wisconsin, caught hold Of Benton as
he rushed towards Foote. pointed out the
drawn pistol and begged him for God S
sake to do nothing which would COM
promise him with the senate. He broke
away from Dodge and rushed up to within
few feet of Foote, threw back his arms
and cried dramatically:
IT am unarmed!
'I have no pistol!
81 disdain to carry firearms!
Let him fire!
"stand out of the way and let the as
sassin fret
The excitement in the staid old senate
can better be imagined than pictured.
There stood the determined Foote in front
of the presidents desk with his pistol
pointed at Benton's heart, while the gi-
gantic Benton was towering above him in
a rage that would have made the gods
proud.
But Foote would not shoot his unarmed
antagonist. He wilted at so fine a sight
and sank in his chair. and while Senator
Dickinson. Of New York, was taking his
pistol other senators gathered about Ben
ton and took him back to his seat.
A senate committee investigated the af-
fair. Neither of the belligerents was re-
quired to apologize.
The report said: 1.-THE senators proba-
bly, felt badly enough and an apology was
not necessary" 1t urgently recommend
ed, however. that the practice of carry
ing concealed weapons in the chamber be
dispensed with.
Before and since that time there have
been acrimonious debates, and sensation
al incidents, but IT remained for Messrs.
Tillman and McLaurin to be the first to en-
gage in actual hostitlities. where blows
were given and taken and blood flowed.