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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19
THE ..EcRo IN ILLINOIS.

Those who really imagine, or pretend
to believe. that the northern and western
states are a paradise for the negro, while
the south gives him no chance to enjoy
his constitutional right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. must blind
their eyes to frequent occurrences which
show better than Republican party plat
forms and bloody shirt speeches how the
negro is really regarded and treated in
those sections where love for him is
most exurberantly professed.
They should be interested, for instance,
in the accounts given by Illinois news
papers of the recent treatment of a negro
school near Eldorado in that state.
All of these accounts agree that there
was no provocation for the cruel and
cowardly treatment which was visited
upon the teachers and pupils of this
school by white mob composed of white
Illinois citizens.
The normal and Industrial school for
negroes, upon which this outrage was
visited, is conducted on the lines of the
practical education that is given to ne
groes at Tuskegee and in other southern
schools which are dealing most success
fully with the problem of negro educa-
ton.
The Eldorado institute seems TO be
model of its kind and no complaint has
ever been lodged against il.
But 1t is a negro school and that was
enough to fire the fury of the white
citizens of Illinois in its vicinity.
On the eve of the commencement ex-
ercises they organized a mob and estab-
lished a reign of terror for the negro
teachers and pupils of this institution.
These were driven from the neighbor-
hood. the school buildings were attacked
and badly injured and the crops which
were being cultivated by the negro stu
dents were destroyed.
Nothing of this kind has ever happened
in the south. Negroes who had perpe-
trated revolving crimes in this section
have provoked mob violence, but no negro
school has ever been attacked by a mob
in any part of the south. The Chicago
Tribune, the leading Republican newspa-
per of the west denounces the Eldorado
outrage as "a disgrace to Illinois" and
calls upon Governor Yates TO go to the
limits of his power in the effort to bring
the perpetrators of the crime to justice.
The Tribune says that negroes have
sometimes received severe treatment in
the south. especially during the ku klux
days, but there has never been in this
section an instance OF breaking up Of
negro schools and the driving away OF
their teachers. or the destruction of their
crops. The Tribune adds:
THE southern people appreciate the
importance of a practical education for
the cOlored people. They have a high
opinion of the work carried on at Tuske-
gee. 1t would be impossible to raise a
mob 10 break il up or break up any school
like it. 1t is reserved for an Illinois mob
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19
PERSONAL. NOTES.

Sergeant Hoff, whom American visitors TO
Paris knew the guardian OF the Arc de
Triomphe, is dead. He occupied the post for
thirty years.
Joseph Springer has been selected as vice
CONSUL in Cuba by General Z. s. Bragg,
the Consul General. Springer has resided in
Havana for twenty years.
Dr. M z. Koonce. a missionary at Ram,
part, Alaska drove 1900 miles in dog SLED
on his way to attend the Presbyterian ami
versaries held in New York recently
The late General Charles H. T. Coils made
the beQuest in his will that his two regimental
flags be deposited in the tomb OF his old COM
rade, General Ulysses S. Grant
Miss Anna +. Willard, a missionary, has
returned to her home in Milwaukee, after
spending fifteen years in work among the
plague and famine stricken people OF India.
Charles ]. Osborn dean of the Associated
Press service, will retire July J. he was
the manager OF the telegraph office in which
Andrew Carnegie was employed as a messen-
ger boy.
The building in which Edgar Allen Poe
edited the Southern Literary Messenger
in Richmond. Va, is still standing ana II Is
proposed to place a suitable commemorative
tablet on it's walls
Prof E. s. Con. one Of the most eminent
horticulturists of the country and professor
Of the State University of Wisconsin, Is dead.
He was the author of number OF standard
works on horticulture.
Christian Smith, the oldest locomotive en-
gtneer in the country. lives near Harper
Ferry Md. He ran the first engine on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at a speed OF from
six to eight miles an hour. which was con-
sidered rapid for those days.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

TO endeavor to prevent the education of
black men in way calculated TO make
them useful to themselves and to the
community.
"If an outrage like that at Eldorado
is allowed to go unpublished 1t will be
apparent that there are some sections OF
Illinois where the negro, honestly trying
to better his condition, is exposed TO worse
treatment than IL he were domiciled in
any OF the states south of the Ohio"
This is an honest admission that there
obtains in Illinois a virulent feeling
against the negro which is not found in
the south and which the people of this
section regard with disgust and indigna-
tion.
II a school in the south which was
doing good work for the practical edu-
cation of negro youths along lines that
will help them to become useful citizens
should be attacked, terrorized and plum
dered by a mob Of white men what howl
would go up in the north! But most OF
the newspapers of the north which are
continually reading lectures to the peo-
pie of the south about their duty to the
negro have very little to say in con-
domination of the Eldorado mob and it's
despicable work.
The Chicago Tribune is an exception,
and It has the candor TO confess that
such an outrage would (be impossible in
this section.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

New York Press,
Egotism wears awfully saueaky shoes
About the only time anybody has use for
red hair is In a fight.
There is no doubt that mosquitoes, however
fastidious their taste, lack modesty.
woman's idea of really being loved is to
have YOU tell her so a different way every
time.
The bride fails to observe her husbands
cloven hoof until after she gets a Whit of
his cioven breath.
About the time a bachelor finds he can live
alone very comfortably he discovers some
woman who can't.
The modern way of tanning shrew is to
buy her everything she wants and promise her
what she doesn't want.
The average husband is good a disciple
marian that he can train his wife to have alb
solute control over him.
The way to get solid with woman when
she has three callers in one afternoon Is TO
speak OF II as a reception.
A woman's dread Is not much becoming
a mother-in-law as reaching the very next
stage--the grandma Their.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19
ruE WOOD SCANDAL.

one of the Iveliest public sensations
that has agitated Washington in long
time has been caused by the charge that
General Leonard Wood. late governor Of
Cuba, has been improperly interested in
the sugar trdst lobby at the capital.
II Is due General Wood that the public
should suspend its judgment until the
matter has been thoroughly investigated
and no member of congress should make
Up his mind about IL yet. We regret to
see intimations that some of the Demo-
cratic senator's and representatives will
attempt TO make partisan capital out Of
this scandal which affects the honor OF
the country and which all good citizens
should hope 10 see cleared up perfectly.
But It must be borne in mind that the
charges against General Wood are made
by reputable persons and that nothins>but
the most searching investigation will sat
isfy the country.
II there should be on the part of the
president, who has shown that he has a
special admiration for General Wood. or
on the part OF congress. where he has
many ardent champions. any appearance
OF intention or desire to treat these
charges lightly, the public will naturally
Jump 20 the conclusion that there is much
truth in them.
President Roosevelt's action in the
premises viii be closely scrutinized and
rigidIy judged.
II is also a proper expectation that Gem
eral Wood will demand that congress go
to the very bottom of this case. He has
been severely criticised for his methods
of advocating the passage OF the Cuban
reciprocity measure. II was, OF course,
his right and duty as the chief representa-
tive Of our government in Cuba to make
recommendation as TO the policy
that congress should adopt toward that
island. but when ne went to the point Of
buttonholIng congressman and persistent
~ pleading with them to adopt his views.
to put It mildly, he transcribed the
bounds OF good taste.
However. up to last Wednesday 1t
had never been publicly charged OF even
suggested that General Wood had any i'm
proper motive in so urgently besieging
congress, or any discreditable inspiration
for his zeal. The worst that has been said
OF him in this connection, so far as the
public knew. was that he had been indis-
Greet, and that is certainly true. He is
now placed in a very different position,
and IT is the duty of the administration to
do all I'm its power to make it perfectly
plain whether he has been slandered or
has been guilty OF any misconduct.
The people VIII await with deep interest
all the proceedings relative to this matter.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19
FREAKS IN UNCLE SANS NEW STAMPS.

stamps are being ground out by the hun
dreds of millions. and the sheets are laid
upon the plates by hand, errors Of this
sort are inevitable.
After the actual printing has been COM
pleted, the sheets pass through many
hands before being placed in the vaults
for shipment, and each individual has
been cautioned to be on the lookout for
inverts. When the two-cent value was
discovered inverted, the order went out
to redouble vigilance, and II is believed
that after this order not a sheet of in
verts escaped from the bureau, although
many sheets were discovered and de-
stroyed.
1t appears that just prior TO the last
printings a sheet of the four-cent stamps
with inverted picture was found by an in
spector just as 1t was about to be ship
ped. The sheet had escaped the eyes OF
the various examiners. and was about to
go out to a postmaster.
The director of the bureau was advised
of the find, and after he had permitted
the various clerks to examine the sheet
he telephoned to the postof1ce department
of the discovery. The postofflce officials
requested that the sheet be sent to the de-
partment.
One Stamp Sold for $500.
The request was complied with. and a
clerk was ordered to place upon each
stamp the WORD specimen" as mentioned
at the outset. In some way four, II is
said. OF the stamps were not so stamped
specimen
The four-cent inverts were placed one
each IN an envelope and presented to Of
fcials. senators and representatives. u
timately they came into possession OF deal
ers Of stamps and collectors IN all parts
of the country, by whom they are greatly
priced.
1t is said that a way has been found to
remove the specimen" by means OF chem
icals, so that a number Of the stamps
without this word across the face are
said 10 be in existence A copy of the
stamp without the specimen" sold a few
days ago at auction for more than $500,
and copies with the Specimen" are held
at 500.
AS only 200 are in existence collectors
say the stamp is very valuable, and much
sought after. 1t is said by other collec-
tors that the stamp never having been
issued to any postmaster is not really
postage stamp in the philatelic sense and
has no philatelic value.
Since the facts became known to stamp
collectors the department has been
swamped with requests for these stamps,
but the last copy was given away some
days ago, and no more can be had.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19
The Aftermath of the Election.

~FHE dirt and smoke of the
primary battle has clear
ed away, and now comes
the triumph Of one crowd
and the disappointment and cha
grin of others. The surprises
are as great as the victories and
defeats. The laws Of compensation
work. 1 am so glad over the de-
feat of some of the little legisla-
tors that can't get mad over the
defeat of my candidate.
The howl of the press is now that
the question of prohibition has been
settled in Georgia and that local
option is permanently fixed by the
decisive vote of Georgia. There is
one Georgian who is as much of
prohibitionist now as he was June
4, 1902, and that Georgian is my
wife's husband, and his forgiven"
name is Sam Jones.
The vote in the late primary was
no test. Joe and Warner both said
they were temperance men, and
Joe said he would approve any pro-
hibition law the legislature would
enact, and they both labored to
show that Joe was a better and
more consistent liquor man than
Guerry, etc. Really Joe talked like
he was at a regular Baptist expe-
rience meeting on the subject. But
could never explain the telegram
to the satisfaction Of DR.. Len G.
Broughton. No, boys, we amt done.
We win fight you while we
live and teach our children to
fight when we are dead.
A prohibitionist who will quit
fighting because he gets licked
dwindles down to a local optionist
on the spot, and is then ready TO
march in a procession that no self
respecting Christian man can gang
with. Candidate Guerry made a
brave, heroic fight and is worthy OF
all honor. The world claps its
hands and shouts itself hoarse over
the victorious candidate, but I
honor the man who stands by his
convictions and will go down with
his convictions rather than surren-
der them that defeat may be Arrest
ed. If a fellow ties on to a ma
jority of Georgia voters and sticks
to them until he dies and he don't
go to hell, 1t will be because the
shebang burned out before he land
ed. I did what 1 could in the In
terest of Candidate Guerry and
am not sorry or ashamed that did.
1 will not again criticise Candidate
Terrell for anything he may have
done in the past, but viii stand by
his administration so long as he
lives up to his public declarations
and the principles of his platform,
and will never criticise him unjust
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19
APHoRIsMs.

Daylight and truth meet us with clear dawn
Milton.
True obedience neither procrastinates nor
questions.-Iuartes.
We get out OF nature what we carry to her
Katherine Hager.
The education of the will is the object OF our
exstence-Emerson.
The best way Of recognizing a benefit is
never to forget it.-Barthelmey.
Age without cheerfulness Is like Lapland
winter without the sun.-Colton.
Candor looks with equal fairness at both sides
OF a subiect.-Noah Webster.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise
men learn much from fools.-Lavater.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19
SHORT AND INTERESTING.

One hundred and fifty landladies have been
summoned at Vienna for taking in boarders
without the permission Of the police.
Lord kitchener reports that most of the trou-
Bile with remounts in South Africa was due
to the newly enlisted soldiers knowing moth
ing of the care of horses.
A number of Viennese woman have started
a dress reform league with the object of sup
pressing the corset and introducing new kind
Of divided skirt
Pewter making one of England's important
industries seventy years ago, has almost been
abandoned. Cheap glassware and unware nave
driven pewter from the market
The London school board has just opened a
school for cripples in Whitechapel. Dinner Is
from the school by ambulance
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

WASHINGTON. June 1S.-ohcials in
ing away bits of paper during the past
two months of the commercial value of
500 each.
These bits of paper are Pan-American
postage stamps of the Accent denomination
with the central picture upside down. The
central picture represents an automobile
with the capitol in the background.
Upon the face of each stamp was print
ed by means of a rubber stamp in very
small letters the word Specimen" This
rendered the stamp unavailable for post
age.
Not for a quarter of century, if ever
before, has the stamp collecting guide
been so agitated and torn up over any
thing else in the stamp line as the series
of Pan-Americans with the line of errors
and inverts following in its wake
The Pan-American stamps aroused ex-
traordnary interest from the very start.
They were the first distinctive two-colored
set of stamps ever printed by the govern
ment.
The exquisite design and high character
of the engraving. together with the rich
combinations of coloring, at once attract
ed vast army of recruits to the army Of
stamp collectors, and many business
man fell victim 90 the subtle charms OF
philately.
Not long after the placing on sale Of the
series, just a year ago, Brooklyn man,
in purchasing a dozen stamps, discovered
that the Empire State Express was wheels
up upon each 2-cent stamp in the lot
Being utterly without a spark of philatelic
sentiment, he used four of the stamps;
gave away a couple, and within a few
hours found himself besieged by stamp
dealers who wanted the remaining six
stamps.
Sold at a Profit.
They were finally sold at a profit Of 81
900 per cent to the original purchaser
Then followed a scramble for inverts, in
which apparently half the country en-
gagged.
The news was speedily wired every
where, and every postmaster carefully
went over his stock to see if. perchance,
he could discover any inverted trains
So far as is known, not another sheet Of
the 2-cent inverts was ever found, al
though collectors or dealers did procure
the balance of the sheet sold at the Brook
lyn office. it is said. The 2-cent invert Is
now valued at $3.50, with practically none
on the market at that figure.
In the course of a few weeks a wood and
coal dealer in Syracuse. N. Y, discovered,
after he had mailed a hundred circulars.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19
Boston Man,s PrlvlIeues.

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Because a Massachusetts visitor at
Washington fell by the wayside, was ar
rested. and kicked the copper, he was sent
10 Jail for sixty days. Are the ancient
privileges of the Massachusetts man to
thus be ruthlessly ignored?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

During the last three months OF 1901.
the railway accidents 20 persons and
property in the United States footed up
q total Of SO killed and i0.E5 injured.
and the property damage to Son. osl.
The loss OF life was greater than in the
Spanish war and approximates. in the
number killed. 20 the total American loss
IN the Philippines. Had General Sherman
lived a few years longer he might have
been moved TO remark that riding on rail-
roads Is also h.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

Two Italian deputies fought a duel the
other day and one OF them was wounded
IN the ear. In fact. IL would be almost
impossible 20 miss the average Italian
deuuty's ears.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

A Chicago paper asserts that Chicago
girls feet are smaller. by actual meas
urement. than the feet OF New York girls.
Which Il saying a good deal for the feet
Of New York girls.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

Charleston Is trying 10 make the govern
nent q present OF that $4,000 exposition
deficit.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

The report Is circulated by a Kansas
City contemporary that the farmers Of
Kansas are tired OF wading around In real
mud and are preparing 20 bore for dry
land.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

Sunday school scholars at Pfttston. Pa,
have refused 20 be taught by a non-union
superintendent. They would probably al
50 refuse 20 sing without a union scale %
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

The circuses In England viii suspend
during the coronation exercises. King
Edward doesn't propose 70 tolerate any
competition in that sort Of thing.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

II Is believed that all OF the anti-Joe
HaIlites OF Bib county have come IN and
surrendered
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

It is not altogether clear whether the
Beers cheered for King Edward or for
that SIS Co., 600.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

The man who makes Il a daily habit to
consult the thermometer Is merely looking
for trouble this sort OF weather.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

Perhaps those Mexicans think they. too,
are engaged IN a benevolent work BY
making those Yaquis good Indians.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

Kansas Is experiencing her annual short
age OF harvest hands. Kansas never
seems able 20 keep her crops and her farm
labor within the proper ratio.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

II begins 70 look like President Roose-
Felt viii have TO take his party out be-
nind the woodshed- Or vice versa.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

The Columbus Enquirer-Sun SAYS Il Is
''c0nfideut that the convention can satisfy
Col. Estil fully. without interfering with
the results Of the primary" Are we 20
understand that Col Esfill IS merely do
ing this sort OF thing for his health7
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

At any rate. nobody win be able 20 ac-
cuse n. Rostand Of plagiarizing his opinion
OF Judge Kohlsaat.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

col. Estim ought 20 get out an Injunction
to prevent his advisers giving him any
more OF that sort OF advice.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

An IlIionis court has been called on for
q legal decree defining the status OF moth
ers-ln-law. Most mothers-in-law don't
need a court decree 20 establish that point
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

The next time those Bib county pOliti-
clans Try 90 haze the Hon. Joe Hin Hall
they yin be careful to take him while he
Il asleep.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

The Mrs. Maybrick pardon rumor is
rixht on tine for the coronation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

Germany had best be careful with her
battieshfps IN Venezuelan waters lest they
collide with the Monroe doctrine.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

We are glad that Governor Jefr Davis
has managed 20 find az least one church
that Is willing 20 stand for his sort OF
religion.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

Mexico Is again having one. OF those
Taqui Indian times
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-19

opinion seems 20 be about equally divid-
ed as 70 whether votes bring more IN
Richmond or Chatham counties.