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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-12
t. P. o'Connor in NJ. A. P.

T. p. O'Connor in NJ. A. P.
We all know the Rue de la Paix in Paris.
1t is the street of the biggest jewellers
and the most expensive dressmakers in
Paris. No visitor has ever been to Paris
especially no woman-who has not passed
down it's splendid spaciousness and gazed
in wonder at the dazzling treasures in its
windows. 1t is a street that figures in ev-
cry French novel of present day manners,
and If the writer's of France be not calum-
niators. IL is a street which has been as
the Valley of Tophet to fashionable and
extravagant womanhood in Parasitic
dark abyss in which women have buried
love of husband. duty to children, honor,
affection hope. 1t is the street, likewise,
I'm which weak and infatuated men have
found their temptation and their doom;
have bought the jewels for some frail
and venal beauty, and all the other luxu-
ries which have robbed them of ancestral
homes, of broad acres, of millions Of
francs, and have finally landed them and
the great and historic names they bore
In the hell of hunger or the deeper hell of
the police court and the cell.
Behind every counter in every shop in
this street, and underneath the beaming
face and oily smile of the shopkeepers,
one can without much Imagination behold
the death's-head of ruin. dishonor, suicide,
the grave; and the softest eye there must
look hard. cruel, rapacious, If one only
remembers the parts in human lives their
big earrings and glittering jewels have
played. This Rue de la Paix. then, is the
great Apain Way of all that is luxurious,
corrupt desperate, sinister in Paris; in all
that city of scepticism, pleasure, reckless
playing in life and death-here is the very
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natal ground of hardness, cynicism, re-
lentless pursuit of gain-relentless extOr-
ton of the uttermost farthing of debt. 1t
is a street where the shopkeeper has often
had to transfer the princess or the fash
ionable cocotte from the eiderdown bed
70 the pallet of straw-from dazzling cell
ebrity to as notorious infamy.
Yet It is into this street that Nine. Hum
bert descends with nothing to back her
demands for money but the three palpable
forgeries; these fairy and fantastic tales
of imaginary millions and Invented lega-
cies, which even the veriest and tiniest
gamin of Paris might have been supposed
equal to evaporating into thin afr with one
breath of the satanic wit of Paris. look
over the list of her creditors and I find
among them M. Roulin, diamond mer-
chant-he has lent her e160,000-and M.
Dumoret who is a retired jeweler of the
Rue de la Paix-he is down for e72000.
Indeed, two other things stand out In
relief from this astounding list of credi-
tors-frst, that so many of them are Jews
the last race in the world one would ex-
pect to be taken in so easily; and second
", that the sums borrowed are Of such
gigantic proportions. This woman, what
ever else she was, was grandiose in her
ideas, she had none of the pettiness Of
the thief on a small scale; she stole,
but she stole in the grand manner. From
NJ Schotmann, for instance, of Lille-a
Jew / should think from the name-she
got ESQ, 900; from MN. Girard. of Elbeuf
she got s24s0O from NJ. -Lefevre, of
Valenciennes, 916S, 900; from NJ. Chateau.
of Rouaix, G160, 900; from M. Paul Bernard,
a banker, R120,000; from NJ. Brugnere, of
Narbonne, E1O4 900; from M. Oppenheimer
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Monetary Cost of the Boer War.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The cost OF the Boer war from finan-
cial point Of view is generally estimated
in the journals of this city and even by
those more or less in touch with bust
ness affairs, at $3.50 OOO.O 900. though why
these figures were adopted intelligent In
vestigation fails to reveal. OF course the
actual cost OF the war to Great Britain
will be nothing like the amount figured
and II Is even doubtful II 1t will reach
the more conservative total OF $3.50, 600 900
recently given by a writer In these col
umns. The probabilities are that the cost
to Great Britain will not exceed $780,
100000 and may even be less than that.
When the war began in 1899 the British
government was paying something like
500 100000 for its army-the expenditure
in 1899, in fact, was exactly that figure, or
81, 797, 1895 less than the gross estimates
for the year. The expenditures in 1900
leaped up to Sis 100000, which were al
most doubled in 1901, the figures being
S45S, $4,000, while the estimates voted for
lSO1-19O2 were Sass, 9OS, 695 The actual ex-
penditures have not yet been reported,
but as Lord Kitchener has reduced the
expenses about S5.O0O.OOO a month by his
admirable system, they win be, in all
probability, not more than $S99, 900, 600.
But this is the expenditure for the whole
army engaged In South Africa or else
where at home or abroad. Obviously a
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The Greatest Fraud of the Century.

an antiquarian dealer, E6S000; from NJ
Samuel, Of the stock exchange of Brussels,
10000. 1t will be seen then that this
splendid liar and thief did not go only
among the simple and the poor and the
confiding for her money; she descended
without the tremble Of a nerve into the
tiger pit of bankers, brokers, jewellers;
into the mighty world Of Jewish finance;
in fact, there was no man or class before
whom she trembled-from whom she was
not willing to ask huge and mountainous
sums that could not be mentioned by
the ordinary man or woman without a
slight inner shudder-without a tremor
in every limb and in every nerve.
She who did not fear the living. was
equally fearless of the dead; even OF the
dead whom she had sent to their pre-
mature and tragic doom. Time after time,
the unfortunate banker or merchant or re-
tired statesman who had been seduced by
her wondrous tongue into giving her all
his fortune, found himself face to face
with beggary; with a wife and children
beggared as well, and with brain Keeling
before the abyss, preferred death to fac
ing the terrible reality. And profound in
deed, must have been the sleep and splen-
did the nerves, and of marble impenetra-
bility the conscience of the woman who
could go through the day and night with
out waking to the shrieks Of Girard, who
put bullet in his brain; of Paul Bernard,
who asphyxiated himself with prussic
acid; of Schotmann, who was found as
'sassinated in a train; or any of these ten
victims, who saw in self-inf1icted death,
the one outlet from their ruin and their
mad confidence in this woman's word and
honor.
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reach 5000, 200. 900, the grand cost OF the
war up to July l. 1908, will have been
only 1881, $50, 600.
1t is interesting to note the direction in
which these moneys have been expended.
The greatest item outside of the actual
pay of the soldiery has been. as will prob
ably be conjectured, that of provisioning
the troops. In 1901 this cost S4s. O00,0 900,
which, with the addition of the cost Of
feeding the Boer prisoners in the recon-
centration camps, increased in 1902 to
$76 10000. The next big item is the cost
of transport service, which In 1900-1901
was $4,000, 0OO, and in the following year
something more than s76000,OO0. For war
like stores the cost In 1901 was $27 SOC, 900.
and in 1902 was s54,750,000. The pay of the
men reached $43, 600 in 1901 and increased
to SIS, 7S7, 500 in 1902. The clothing Of the
men cost something like 900. 1t may
be stated here that these figures have
been reached in each instance by deduct
ing the mean cost of Great Britain's
standing army for several years before the
war from the estimates for the army for
the years during the war. The failure
to do this in all computations Of the cost
of the war seems to be one of the chief
factors in reaching the figures Of $780,
100000. Manifestly 1t is unjust to add to
the cost of the forces in South Africa the
cost Of the regular standing army Of
Great Britain, which must be maintained
whether the country be at peace or war.
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good round sum must be deducted in or
der to give the actual expenditures upon
the forces engaged in subduing the Beers.
The total expenditures for the army In
the three years, 1900, 1901. 1902, would be
81, 075, $50, 000 which in themselves are
$3.50 OOO, 900 less than ''the cost of the war"
as usually given by the newspapers. De-
duct from this amount the usual army
expenditures for three years, taking as
a basis the figures for 1899 and amounting
to $780, 0O0, 900 In round numbers, and the
result is $715,55O,0O0, from which again
must be deducted the cost of the China
troubles, upon which s2S,3OO00O was ex-
pended. This brings the actual cost OF
the war to $6S7, 100000 up to July ]. 1902.
There remains yet to be taken into
consideration the cost of maintaining the
forces in South Africa until civil rule is
permanently established. Judging from
the spirit displayed by the Beers this
Wall not be more than one year, If that;
at any rate, the number of troops will be
rapidly diminished with the disarming OF
the colonial population and the enormous
cost of transport service will be material
ly lessened. Accepting Secretary Brod-
ricks statement of the economical genius
of Lord Kitchener as basis the cost of
the forces in South Africa for 19O2-19OS
ought not to exceed $16O, 100000; but grant
ing that, adding in the $4,000. 30 for re-
stocking Boer farms and the cost of re-
transportation of Boer prisoners, 1t will
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-12
selections From School Exercises.
The world,s Work

The WOriQ6 Work.
"Apherbility," she reads. us the state OF
being apherbile."
one subject only"
''serenade, a greenness as OF grass"
''Reverberation Is when It Is made again
into a verb"
THE equator is a menagerie Hon running
around between the North and South Pole"
They climbed Vesuvius TO see the creator
smoking"
Jesus bids u.s.
vengeance. Defn. a mean desire to pay
back. Hlus'n, Vengeance is mine; win re-
pay saith the Lord -
ingenious, a stupid person, from IN, not
and genious, a smart person
Discretion, difference OF sex between ami
mails
The early Briton wore a skin, he tied II at
the waist He wore legions on his legs He
had eyes OF blue shade which plainly showed
his semi civilization. He wore his feet
mocassions or scandals"
Grand opera The only Grand Opera know
Is Wang"
''The TIE Deum is a Grand opra."
The British museum is the principal build
ing in Paris"
aAristides was q god; he was the female
Hannibal was an early Greek explorer who
wrote book called Heroditus.''
Virgil a Vestal Vergin."
"As roamed in the deep woods saw a herd
OF greyhounds hunting for prey"
Julius Caesar was the mother OF the
Gracchi."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-12
The @Patrlclan Nose.o

From Blackwood's Magazine.
The moulding influences already alluded
to, which render the patrician nose to
some extent product of culture, seem
mainly traceable to a close association
which exists between certain muscles at
tached to the more flexible parts of the
nose and those in the immediate neighbor-
hood. Nowhere IS the lasting mark of
dominant mental habits more plainly seen
than in the muscles about the mouth.
They are continually in action when we
exercise the whether IN self-control or
in attempts to control other men or things
and every time they come into play they
give a Christening tug at our noses. Final
~, It may be said that, for the mainte-
nance of a patrician nose at its best,
well balanced mind is almost as necessary
as carefulness in outward behavior. It's
chastity of tint and outline Is endangered,
not only by high living and low thinking,
but also by the habitual and unrestrained
indulgence of emotions generally deemed
innocent and even laudable. These,
through their strange secondary influence
upon the nerves which regulate the circu-
lation and nutrition of the skin Of the
face, are quite capable Of inducing q GER
tain coarseness of expression curiously
akin to that induced by indulgence in
vicious pleasures. Herein, perhaps, may
be found some sort of crude and general
recipe for an aristocratic nose-which is
offered, in all good faith-Out with no alb
solute warranty-to every one with good
powers OF mental assimilation.
There can be no doubt that the ordinary
blebeian nose. with the somewhat low
bridge, concave profile and wide nostrtls,
is above all others, the nose which is
proper, to mankind. All other types are
developed from II. Even now the whole
human species, Of whatever race, possesses
It in early infancy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-12
IT WAS COLD
ON MAY II, 1927.

There was nothing unusual in the cold
snap line in Atlanta. last week, when the
weather record Of the year 1927 is compar-
ed to the feeble efforts of the year 1902.
This is essentially an oldest citizen"
story as the official weather bureau Of
the government has been established here
only a few years more than a couple of
decades. It is vouched for by one Of At
lanta's most substantial citizens, however.
and may therefore be regarded as re-
liable.
Every one who reads the newspapers
doubtless remembers the joint dispute that
has been running for several years re-
garding the cold weather OF 1s49. Some
oldest citizens declare that the cold wealth
er came on April 18th and others main
tain that 1t came on May 18th. The main
features they are certain about are that
the cold snap came in 1s4s. and that 1t was
a record breaker.
Now comes the story Of a cold snap that
is beyond the memory OF the oldest citi-
zen, and there can therefore be no dispute
about It.
There is also a coincidence feature about
the cold weather of May 9th. 1877. 1t
will be remembered that the cold weather
this year came on May 9th. On May q,
1927, a cold snap occurred and Is years
later on May q. 1902 another came. Incl
dentally II might be mentioned that the
cold snap of 1s49-which was a cheap imi-
tation-came on a year whose last two
figures make a product which is the result
of times z.
Capt William II. h Phelps. the we'll
known merchandise broker, in regard to
the cold weather Of 1927. makes the follow
ing statement:
I'm 1926 my father. DR.. Henry G. Phelps.
and his bride took trip from Milledge-
vile, Ca, to what was then known as the
far west, Columbus, Ga This journey
was full Of perils and trials, and occupied
several weeks. Few people who have
travelled around the world have undergone
the hardships and me perils which my
parents went through in making this trip
which can now be made IN one day.
'"They lived IN Columbus but one year.
when there occurred one Of the coolest
spells have ever heard OF for the month
OF May.
my father told me that on May q,
1897, there occurred a colo spell which
killed all vegetation. and even 70 the
leaves on the great oak trees. My father
told me that he had never known Of such
cold weather for that month OF the
year"
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ONCE OWNED MARTINIQUE.
Grandmother of Georgia Woman, For
Fear of Volcanic Eruptions, Traded
Away Greater Part of the Island.
Athens (Ga.l Banner.


A most interesting story was told a
Banner reporter concerning the original
possession of the Island Of Martinique.
, The story concerns Mrs. S. G. Reese, of
this city, whose grandmother once owned
a greater part of the volcanic isle.
Mrs. Reese's grandmother was Nine.
Gouvain. who was closely related in mar
riage to Count de Trobriand OF France.
She was an intimate friend OF Josephine
de Beauharnais, who afterward became
the wife of the great Napoleon, and she
left France on the night on which Napo-
leon married the Austrian princess, Marie
Louise, and came to America.
Not satisfied with her possession in the
French West Indies after her coming to
America she traded her land on the ISL
and of Martinique to Count d Estang. the
gallant French officer, to whom were
given valuable lands in America for his
services to the colonies during the revo-
luton. Most of these lands were In the
southern states, and 10000 acres were sit
uated in Georgia, some of which embraced
the present site of Athens, and others Of
which lay near Tallulah Falls.
Nine. Gouvain was advised by her agent
to sell her possessions in Martinique on
account of the volcanic condition of the
country, and time has proved the wisdom
Of her choice. She was a very wealthy
woman, and in close confidence with the
powers of the monarchy of France.
Mrs. Reese has now in her possession a
most gorgeous dress Of her grandmother,
which was worn at the marriage of Napo-
leon TO Josephine Beauharnais and which
is a priceless relic.
The story Of the division Of the Gouvain
estate. formerly belonging to D'Estang, is
one of plecemeal separation and division
until 1t became possessed by hundreds of
relatives of the noted Frenchwoman. Mrs.
Reese possesses much information in the
shape Of papers, maps, ETC., concerning
the Island of Martinique which descended
from its original owner.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-12

be thoroughly cured first. or they will
either sprout or decay. In storing, II
proper care and ventilation Is not pro-
vided there will be considerable loss from
shrinkage. decay. etc. For these reasons
II is more profitable to most growers to
dispose OF the crop when gathered. For
inexperienced growers this is certainly
the best plan. though prices are. much
better en- early spring than In the sum-
sner and fan. For successful winter stor-
Ing the bulbs must be well matured, thor
oughly cured. not bruised and In per-
fectly dormant state. The tops may be
cut about an inch above the bulb with
a pair Of sheep shears.
Specially constructed frost proof build
ings should be erected for storing the
bulbs through winter. The most popular
American grown varieties are the Dan
vers. Extra Early Red. Egyptian. Globe.
Silver Skin. and N..nersfield- The best
foreign varieties are Giant Rocca, Nam
moth Pompeii, and the New Queen.
Onions are shipped to market in boxes
or barrels, into which a thin layer OF
straw Is first placed. followed by layer
OF onions and so on until the barrel is
filled. Prices are lower in the summer
and fall than IN the winter and early
spring.
There IS. however, good, active de-
mand at all seasons for good sized market
can be found in any Of the large cities,
either I'm the south or north. The price
f1uctuates with demand. In shipping any
product from the farm to market to be
handled by commission men. II Is best 70
make a personal visit TO such markets,
get the names Of reliable dealers and
make the best terms possible. The per
cent charged for handling such products
depends largely upon the condition OF the
market and other details. I think the
usual charge IS about 10 per cent net.
The question OF freight rates must be
obtained from the roads over which the
products are 20 be shipped, and all infor-
nation can be furnished by the agent
az the shipping point. The business is a
profitable one II properly handled. The
Yield should be from 500 to 500 bushels
per acre.
HARVIE JORDAN.
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CANNOR4LTTYEN6TW ITHOUTRELIdlON2
BY BISHOP WAR; Rem a GAMBLER.

Even as they did not like to re-
tain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to a reprobate mind,
10 40 InoSs Infngs which are not
convenient being nlled with all un-
righteousness. fornication, wicked
ness. covetousness, righteousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit,
malignity; whisperers. backbiters,
haters of God. despiteful, proud
boosters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without un-
derstanding. covenant breakers,
without natural affection, implaca-
BILE and unmerciful.
This is the moral anarchy which
arises from separating morality and
religion; this is the outcome of an
effort to preserve social order after
men have determined that they will
not retain God in their knowl-
edge"
Against such a Blasting upheaval
If religion were renowned in our
day the dainty talk of our academic
lectures would be as powerless as
was the graceful periods Of Cicero
ineffective to stay Roman corrup-
tion-and more so.
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, 70 congress- President Madison urged that
the academy be made, scientific and
military school worthy the term. Gradu-
ally the system Of training was strength
amounted to almost nothing were made
sitter and where no age limit had been
placed Jpon cadets, some of them being
as young as Ia years and others as old
as 80 the rule has been modified until now
a cadet must be over II years old and
under g.
Until 1917 no class ranks were establish
ed among the cadets at the academy, no
register of classes was published and in
the assignment to positions In the army,
cadets demanded the right to select such
corps as seemed to them most salts
factory.
When Major Sylvanus Thayer was ap-
pointed Superintendent of the academy in
July, 1917, tho institution was at low ebb,
but he set heroically about tnaugurating
those changes which have made West
Point Military Academy rank high among
the military schools of all nations, and
caused him to be known as the father Of
the school. With the beginning Of Major
Thayer's administration the success of the
academy was assured.
Rules approved by President Monroe
went into effect in 1918 and the general
plan of administration inaugurated at that
time has been carried out ever since The
rules provide that the assignment Of ca
diets to the different army corps and their
relative rank must depend upon their mer-
it, to be determined by a competent board
of examiners, and that no cadet shall be
promoted until after he has received his
diploma.
The gray uniform of the West Point
cadets has become so well known and
sucn a mark of honor that it is interesting
to note how 1t came into use. While in
Buffalo In 1914 General Scott made a re-
quest of the quartermaster of the army for
new clothing for the regular soldiers. He
received answer that the blue cloth such
as had been used previously for uniforms
could not be obtained, because of a block
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-12
WEST POINT
ITS ONE
Syracuse Post-standard.l


Tomorrow will be an important day
in the history of the United States Military
Academy at West Point. for on that day
will be celebrated the centennial anniver-
sary Of the establishment of the institu-
ton. The president is expected to be
present as well as other prominent Fed
eral officials, both civil and military.
While the anniversary will be celebrated
on June 1th, the actual anniversary has
passed. 1t was on March 16. 1872 after sew
eral unsuccessful attempts had been made
to provide a military academy, that con-
gress passed a bill authorizing the presi-
dent to establish a corps of engineers to
consist Of major, two first lieutenants,
two second lieutenants and ten cadets,
with the pay of SIC per month.
The school was opened with this stan:
Jonathan Williams, major of engineers
and superintendent; William A. Barron.
captain of engineers, and teacher of nat
ural and experimental philosophy; James
Wilson and Alexander Macomb, first
lieutenants of engineers; Joseph @. Swift
and Simon Levy, second lieutenants of
engineers. The last two persons were stu
dents.
In one Of the early reports Major Will
liams said that 1.-THE military academy as
/ IT now stands is like a founding, barely
existing among the mountains, and al
most unknown TO its legitimate parents"
The quarters of the cadets were in a long
wooden building located where the super
intendent's quarters now stand, and the
academy building proper was an old two
story structure.
For board the cadets were sent to neigh
boring farmhouses and it is related that
at times they were none too well fed. AS
no fuel had been provided for winter use
and as the surrounding country had been
well cleared OF timber, foragtng for wood
was not an idle or occasional pastime.
In this manner the academy struggled
along until the war Of 1912 forcibly d.
rected the attention of the government to
he Il ,fN he s,,gF T.,