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STILL HATES WHITES.
CERONIMO, APACHE CHIEF,
LONGS FOR WARPATH.
As He Is Closely Guartle*! by United
Ststw Soldiers, However. There I*
No 1-Var of Ills Threat —Never Huh
lieeu lteconclled to Ills l ate.
Ge-ronimo, the noted Apache chief,
who is held a prisoner at Fort Sill,
Okla., by the federal government, still
draws a pension of $35 a month as a
scout, though he is not allowed to
eorry a loaded gun. He fares well,
indeed, in his confinement, for not only
do the soldiers treat him kindly, but
he is allowed to dispose of his bead
work and other fancy articles which
he turns out, and this furnishes an
additional income of $2,000 a year. The
old rascal nevertheless complains of
his treatment to visitors and expresses |
the wish that he might die. apparent- j
ly with the object of exciting their j
sympathy and perhaps opening their
purse strings.
Geronimo remains irreconcilable.
He hates the white man and his chief
desire in life is to escape and wield
the tomahawk again. Geronimo is
now probably SO years old, though he
does not know his age. He was with
Victoria when that chieftain went
against the Mexicans, and later he de
veloped into a leader himself. He is
a born leader of redskins, for the rea
son that he claims to be not only a
fighting man but also a medicine man.
and it takes a man who can talk with
unseen beings to make a really deep |
impression upon the Indian. Geronimo '
made his first raid in 1884, when he J
marched against the town of Pima, i
Ariz., and with a few warriors suc
ceeded in wiping out the whole popu
lation of 500 souls. This was followed
by other atrocities until he was cap- j
lured In 1887, having cost the United
States government nearly $1,000,000 in
giving chase to him. He and his band
of 200 fighters were taken to Fort
Pickens, Fla., but owing to the hot
climate they could not live there and
were transferred some five years ago
to Fort Sill, where they have since
remained, with the exception of a trip
to Omaha three years ago.
Geronimo is small in stature, pos
sessed of a keen face and a piercing |
eye. The blue in his eye is of that
peculiar steely color that arouses un- j
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GERONIMO AS HE IS TODAY,
pleasant sensations In the mind. His
color Is a dark red. Geronimo smokes
cigarettes these days and would drink
fire water had he the privilege. He
has six wives, but lives with none of
them. His favorite daughter, Eva,
lives with him when she is at her
home. He gives her sufficient money
to send her to an eastern school eight
months in the year.
Geronimo does no work; that is, such
as raising a crop of corn or millet. He
gets rent-free a two-room house to
live in, but he keeps his ponies there
in and resides, himself, in a tepee. All
of the Apaches who are held as war
prisoners live in tents and keep their
horses in the houses furnished for
them.
Decline of American Whiling.
In the last half century the Ameri
can whaling industry has declined tre
mendously. In 1846 there were em
ployed in the American whale fishery
680 barks and ships, thirty-four brigs
and twenty-two schooners, with a total
tonnage of 233,202. Today in this in
dustry there are only twenty-seven
ships and barks and thirteen schoon
ers, with a total tonnage of only 8,746.
The greatest tonnage sails from the
port of New Bedford, Mass., being
nearly half the entire whaling ton
nage of America today. Close behind
comes San Francisco, while the only
other whaling ports are Boston and
Provincetown. with only eight schoon
ers between them. New London, Conn.,
had a brig in the business, the Rosa
Baker, but last year she was wrecked
at Port Stanley, Falkland islands. The
reduction in American tonnage con
tinues, that for last year being 1,726
tons. All the idle vessels that had re
mained in port for two years or more
were sold.
Queer Idea of Chlralrr.
In India, where women have always
been drudges, the deference paid by
Englishmen to ladies is always a mat
ter of curious interest. An educated
Mahommedan gentleman was talking
to an old resident of the Punjab, who
has written on the subject. Said the
Mahommedan: “Now that the queen
is dead, will you Englishmen take off
your hats to ladies?” When told cer
tainly this would be done and asked
why he made the inquiry, he said:
“We thought you used to take off your
hats to ladies because a lady was the
mler of the country."
j AMERICA'S COMMERCIAL LEA
j I’lunnmciwl I’rogrejs Slade by
I onntry lu *5 Vimn. .1 \vn
lie would have been a bold man who
would have predicted a quarter of a
i century ago that the United States
would stand in the first place among
; the nations in the value of its exports
by tiie end of the century. In 1875 the
exports of domestic products were sl,-
087,000,000 for Great Britain and Ire
land. $747,000,000 for France, $607,000,-
000 for Germany and $197,000,000 for
the United States. In the year 1900
the account stood thus, placing the
the countries as before in the order of j
the extent of their shipments. The
United States, 1,453,000,000; Great
Britain and Ireland, $1,418,000,000;
Germany, $1,050,000,000; France, $787,-
000,000.
Thus, at tl-e end of the nineteenth
century the United States, which was
fourth on the list of exporting coun
tries twenty-five years ago, reached
i the first place, with the United
| Kingdom second, Germany third, and
France fourth. Germany made a very
handsome gain in the quarter of a
century, passing France in the race.
Germany’s increase, in fact, in the
time, was more than double that of the
United Kingdom. The gains of these
four exporting nations were 192 per
cent for the United States, 34 per cent
for the United States, 34 per cent for
the United Kingdom, 73 per cent for
Germany, and 5 per cent for France.
None of the other countries of the
world come near France in the value
of exports of merchandise.
Twenty-five years ago the United
States was in the middle of a five
years’ period of serious industrial and
commercial stagnation, beginning with
the convulsion of 1873. Yet in this
quarter of a century this country has
very nearly tripled the annual value
of its exports of merchandise. —Ex.
RUSSIA AS AN EXPANSIONIST.
If*r Development lias Ileen (ioiug on
for Centuries
The empire of Russia has an area
of 8,644,100 square miles, or about two
and one-half times tlie size of the
United States. This immense stretch
of territory across tw 7 o continents, con
trolled by the czar, is not of sudden
acquisition. Russia began her policy
of expansion about the time Columbus
set sail to discover America. The
Russians were looking beyond the
Ural mountains,. and when Raleigh
was planting colonies on this conti
nent tlib Russians were making their
first permanent settlement in Siberia.
Russia had acquired all Siberia and
had a permanent colony on the Pacific
in the middle of the seventeenth cen
tury, and had crossed the Behring
straits to establish herself in Alaska
before our colonies had united as a
nation. The landing east of the Ural
mountains was occupied in 1565, the
territory stretching from the Caspian
sea north to the Arctic ocean, includ
ing the Yenisei valley, wa3 annexed in
1590; the northeastern section of Si
beria, east of the Lena river, in 1630,
and the Amur district in 1656. Rus
sia’s expansion is therefore the oldest
that stiJl stands on the map of the
countries as they exist today. Russian
expansion has been like that of the
United States. She has annexed prac
tically unoccupied territory for devel
opment, and she is now making gi
gantic strides in that development.
Her trans-Siberian railroad is to be
the means of making Siberia the great
theater of development in this cen
tury.
Where Abraliiini Lincoln Fonxlit.
A bill is now pending in the Illinois
legislature appropriating $5,000 for the
erection of a monument to the victims
of the battle of Stillman’s Run,
against the Black Hawk Indians, in
1832. The place is situated in Ogle
county. The fight, if gauged by num
bers killed, or even engaged, was in
significant, but if measured by the ef
fect it had far-reaching influence upon
the then future of Illinois.
The battle of Stillman’s Run was the
opening event in the Black Hawk war
and was sealed with the lives of 11
white men. The whole State of Illi
nois was ablaxe within a few days, and
thousands volunteered for active ser
vice in crushing the Indians, whose
presence continually terrorized the
white settlers. It was here Abraham
Lincoln received his first lessons in
warfare. Before those volunteers dis
banded the red man was driven across
the Mississippi, and the country was
thrown open for civilized peoples. All
of northern Illinois and southern Wis
consin was profoundly affected by this
movement.
Austrian Public Work*.
The Austrian government has in
contemplation a series of vast public
works and will probably undertake to
carry them out at once. They include
railways to cost 483,000,000 kronen and
canals which will cost at least 500,-
000,000 kronen and will probably re
quire 700,000,000. At the lowest esti
mate the sum of 1.100,080,000 kronen,
or very nearly $250,000,000, will have
to be provided by the state and the
different provinces. These works will
give employment to tens of thousands
of workingmen in most of the prov
inces of the empire and are expected
to allay much of the unrest which has
been caused by poverty and political
and national animosities.
A Leading Line In Pari*
A certain Paris millinery firm was
established in a small way ten years
ago. The first year its profits were
$3,160. The next year they had leaped
to $19,000. and in three years had
reached $234,000. The last year’s bal
ance showed $413,000 on the right side
of the ledger.
No one is better entertained than the
devil at many church socials.
THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSVILLE. GA.
A RACE TO SAVE LIFE,
I
To the heroism and quick wit of
a hoy with a bicycle is due the fact
that a terrible accident, with probable
great loss of life, was averted recently
on the Pennsylvania railroad entering
Tyrone, Pa. The train saved from de
struction was a limited and was heav
ily laden. High water along the trucks
had caused some apprehension, but in
the neighborhood of Tyrone no dan
ger was looked for and the train was
being run at the rate of sixty miles
an hour to make up lost time. The
HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM
WIFE OF AMERICAN AMBAS
SADOR TO ROME.
The Roman World Prints Her Portrait
and Tells of Her Popularity In
Social Circles at the Italian Capital —
A Representative American Woman.
The American ambassadoress. whose
portrait is given, though but a new
comer to Rome, is already installed in
the good graces of her compatriots, not
by acquaintance, for that is yet limit
ed. but by the distinct and definite im
pression of a personality that once
wins all hearts to herself, says a writer
in the Roman World. Simple and un
ostentatious in manner, and yet bear
ing herself most regally in her new po
sition, she fulfills all that is desirable
as the first representative of American
womanhood at the court of Italy. That
she will honor it and acquit herself
with becoming grace and tact is self
evident to all who have come within
the sphere of her kindly and gentle
presence.
She was Miss Alice Appleton of Bos
ton and is descended from one of the
oldest families of the commonwealth.
Her parents both died before Alice and
her sister JJulia, who was the first wife
of Charles F. McKim, the well-known
architect of New York, had matured
into womauhood. Mrs. Meyer is an
unusually tall, well-proportioned fig
ure, blond in type, and has the happy
faculty of so dressing that she has the
reputation of being the best gowned
MRS. GEORGE VON L. MEYER,
woman in Boston. She has three chil
dren, two fair-haired girls—Alice and
Julia, named for the mother and the
aunt, and a sturdy little lad who is
George von L. Meyer, Jr.
The country place at Hamilton,
near the .Myopia kennels, is where the
family have been spending the greater
part of their years, as the children are
devoted to out-of-door life. For the
midsummer they had a cottage at New
port and for a few months in the win
ter they are at their town house on
Beacon hill, which is filled with beau
tiful paintings, tapestries and bric-a
brac. belonging to the Appleton fam
ily. She was one of the first to take
up the wheel and still rides with her
children. With ail her society claims,
she is an unusually devoted mother,
and a sensible one, too.
India'* Declining Population.
Under normal conditions as to cli
mate and natural surroundings the
population of India would undoubted
ly increase with great rapidity. The
natives of India are prolific and large
families are the rule. The prevailing
religion and the social customs of the
engine crew were busily engaged when
their attention was attracted by a boy
who rode alongside the tracks at
breakneck speed, meanwhiie frantical
ly waving his cap. The engineer, an
ticipating danger, put on the brakes
hard, with the result that, insteac of
the train being wrecked, the pilot of
the engine barely entered a mass of
dirt which had fallen from a hill above
the tracks. The boy had discovered
the landslide and risked his life by
riding alongside the onward-rushing
train to warn the engineer.
country are favorable to progress in
this direction. But famine and cholera
In recent years have made fearful in
roads in India and more than offset
the natural increase in population.
The latest census returns show this.
In the central provinces alone there
has been a decrease of over 1,000,000
since 1891, when an increase of 1,500,-
000 might be expected. It is estimated
that 5,000,000 persons have died in In
dia since 1896 from causes directly due
to the famine. In western India things
are even worse. The Udaipur state re
turns show a decrease of 840,000. or 45
per cent of the population; the state
of Bhopal shows a decrease of 808,000,
the district of Banda shows a decrease
of 124,000, and so on. In Bombay city
the population has diminished by 50,-
000. $
STAGNANT AND ROTTING.
Is the Country Now Ruled by the Once
Ail-Conquering Moor*.
Morocco, a country naturally rich
and fertile, is kept poor by the greed
and power of the throne. It is a gov
ernment of the sultan, by the sultan,
and for thr sultan; nothing else
counts; the people have no rights; the
sultan is the embodied might and right
of the nation. Fields untilled, crum
bling homesteads, rich minerals left
untouched, ruin and desolation every
where—all tell the story of the Sultan’s
terrible rule. For how shall it profit
a man to lay up treasures for the mon
arch to seize? So every talent is
buried in the earth, every lignt is hid
den under a bushel.
The Moslem religion, once a spiritu
al and civilizing force in Africa, now
acts as a check to all progress; its
morality, its soul is dead; the petrified
shell alone remains, and that is a dun
geon of darkness. Within its influence
all things remain stationary or else
crumble into ruins.
It is difficult to believe that these de
generate Moors belong to that same
great race that cnce conquered Spain,
who were liberal minded and progres
sive for their time, and masters of the
fine arts. When the Moors were ex
pelled from Spain they found their
chief haven in Morocco, but a strange
change has come over the spirit of
their dreams.
The land of the Moor is stagnant,
rotting under the terrible incubus of
its government and its religion. Its
only hope lies in its conquest by some
civilized power; its gods must be ban
ished, its Idols shattered, else it must
die of its own corruption. Not from
that rocky eminence whence Boabdil
turned with tear-dimmed eyes to look
upon the lost Granada, but from Mo
rocco today as bend el ultimo suspiro
del Moro —the last sigh of the Moor.
Comint State*.
The total vote at the territorial elec
tion in Oklahoma last year was 73,000,
in Arizona it was 16,000, in New Mex
ico 30,000 and in Hawaii 9,500, a total
in these fou- territories of 127,500.
Idaho, which is _ state in which there
is equal suffrage for women as well as
men, polled 15,000 fewer votes than
Oklahoma. Wyoming, in which also
woman's suffrage prevails, polled 15,-
000 votes fewer than New Mexico, and
Nevada polled 6,000 votes fewer than
Arizona. These three states had col
lectively 88,000 votes. They have six
United States senators; the four ter
ritories have none.
England'* Model Municipality.
According to the report of the chief
constable, Birmingham last year
showed a decided improvement from a
criminal standpoint. There were few
er people convicted of drunkenness,
both in the indictable and non-indict
able classes of crime there was a grati
fying decrease. Over £28,000 worth of
property was stolen, and nearly £4,000
worth recovered by the police. Three
thousand five hundred miscellaneous
articles, ranging from an artificial eye
to a bank draft for £SOO, were restored
to the people who had lost them.
TO POISON LINCOLN.
j JAMES ALMAN OF WASHINGTON
WAS OFFERED SIOO,OOO.
iTh Story at How an Attempt Was
Made to Induce Him to Kill the
President Has Just Keen Told for the
First Tims.
The recent statement of James Al
man of Washington lends additional
interest to the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln, the saddest incident in
the history of this country. .Mr. Al
man kept the strange secret for fully
thirty-six years. It is to the effect that
about two weeks before the president
was shot, he was offered SIOO,OOO to
put poison in the milk of which Mr.
Lincoln was sure to partake.
At the time Mr. Alman conducted a
dairy where the bureau of printing
and engraving is now located, and fur
nished the president with milk. Mr.
Alman says:
“In the early spring Mr. Lincoln
had a habit of walking over to Sec
retary Stanton’s in the early morning,
between 5 and 6 o’clock, to take a
cup of coffee with him and talk over
the important matters of the day. I
had received instructions from the
secretary to be sure to get around in
the mornings with my cream in time
for the president. One morning in the
early part of April—not two weeks be
fore the president was shot —I was
driving along in my wagon, when two
men stopped me, and one of them
asked:
“ ‘Do you want to make SIOO,OOO easy
and quick?’
“ ‘ ’Deed, and I do,’ says L
" 'Well, here’s SIOO,OOO in good hard
cash. Now, if you will take this lit
tle box of powder and put it in ihe
cream you deliver to the presiaent this
morning the money is yours. Pour
out the milk now, and here's the
money.’ And he showed me a big roll
of money, but if it had been as large
as the Treasury building it would not
have tempted me.
“The men tried to argue the mat
ter with me, but I drove off, while
they called me all kinds of hard
names. They cursed me blue and
black, but it is not true that they as
saulted me, either then or afterwards
I did not much believe that the men
were in earnest and I kept the trans
action to myself, but must confess
that it worried me a little. I didn’t
know what the outcome might be as
to myself, and I hadn’t the least idea
JAMES ALMAN.
at the time that every effort was be
ing made to kidnap the president.
“As I say, I thought it was an effort
to play an early morning joke on me,
but after the great and good man was
assassinated I was satisfied that the
men who had made me the offer meant
every word they said, and were in the
plot to kill or kidnap the president.
“I was a poor man, and thought it
best to keep my mouth shut and go
about my business. I am sorry this
old thing is being talked about now.”
Mr. Alman is a well-known citizen
of Washington and held in high re
spect. He lives at the corner of Fif
teenth and C streets, S. E., and is now
possessed of considerable wealth. He
is a cattle dealer and the owner of
valuable real estate.
Hiuldhlsui Reviving.
The belief current in some parts of
Christendom that Buddhism is already
far advanced in a state of decadence
is not borne out by the facts. Accord
ing to the most reliable authority the
followers of Buddha still number no
less than 147.000, and while Christian
missionaries have undoubtedly made
very notable conversions among them,
the number thus actually withdrawn
from the more ancient faith has been
so small as to hardly affect the total.
In Japan and other parts of the far
east a concerted effort has been made
during the past year to revive and
strengthen Buddhism by adopting
some of the methods of propagandism
followed by the Christian sects. These
include the organization of Sunday
schools and Sunday lecture courses,
the free distribution of religious tracts
and the sending out of corps of mis
sionary teachers and preachers. In Ja
pan an enormous fund is being raised
by a Buddhist temple to establish
orphanages and other benevolent insti
tutions after the manner of those con
ducted by the Christian churches.
No Stre*, No Frogreg*.
Porto Rico is going through the
stress which all backward countries
meet when they feel the advance.
When Spain held the island its inhab
itants were satisfied with poor fare
and went barefoot. Taxes were light
on property and heavy on occupations.
The poor man had no chance and ac
cepted his fate in docile calm. Wages
have risen, wants have come and the
whole population stirs with desire to
improve. Immigration follows, it has
its suffering. So does every advance;
but the advance must come, none the
less.—Philadelphia Press.
CUBANS ARE WARY.
The Conservatives In Convention
Knock Out Proposed Election
Law By Close Vote.
A Havana special says: The Cuban
constitutional convention Tuesday af
ternoon rejected the commission’s pro
ject for me electoral iaw by a vote of
13 to 12.
The conservatives claimed that the
law as proposed was too radical, inas
much as it provides that there shorn*
be uo interference with the elections
by the central government, and be
cause the last elections showed it to be.
impossible to conduct elections hon
estly without some restraining powers
They pointed out that the provinces
and municipalities were as yet unable
to govern themselves, and contended
that a free hand regarding elections
would result in calamity to the coui>
try. In the opinion of the conserva
tives, the first elections under the ex
isting law and leave to the public the
task of drawing up a suitable law later.
Another objection was that party
lines had not been clearly defined as
yet, and that the law provides for po
litical representation on the election
boards, which, under existing condi
tions, would be a farce.
Anew commission will be appointed
at once. The conservatives claim a
majority iu favor of the plural vote,
based on the Belgian law.
GEORGIA EDITORS ON JAUNT.
Combination of Two Associations Visit
Buffalo Exposition.
The Georgia Press Association ami
the Weekly Press Association left At
lanta Wednesday afternoon at 5:15
o'clock for Buffalo.
The party went in a body on three
special Pullman oars. They will keep
together, taking in the exposition, Nia
gara Falls and other points until the
15th, when individual members will
probably return separately.
The fact that the Georgia and the
weekly editors combineu this year
makes the excursion an unusually
large one.
The program for the trip is as fol
lows :
Leave Atlanta 5:15 p. m.. July 10m,
via Southern railway.
Arrive Chattanooga 9 p. m., supper.
Arrive Cincinnati 8:30 a. m. Thurs
day, breakfast.
Arrive Cleveland 1:55 p. m. Thurs
day.
Arrive Buffalo 8 p. e. Thursday.
Friday will be spent in visiting the
exposition.
Saturday, July 13th, will be Georgia
Day and appropriate exercises will be
held.
Sunday will be spent as the mem
bers may wisa. Many will go during
the afternoon for a visit to Niagara
Falls.
On Monday, July 15th, the members
will visit the exposition or leave for
New York or for Atlanta.
EX I* K ESS CO M I'AM ( H A RTE HKD.
Incorporators Interested In New
Brunswick and Birmingham Hoad.
Georgia is to have anew express
company. A charter was issued at
Atlanta Tuesday by Secretary of State
Phil Cook to the Brunswica and Bir
mingham Express Company, with
headquarters at Brunswick, Ga.
The incorporators of the new com
pany are those interested principally
in the new Brunswick and Birmingham
railroad, and it is presumed the new
express company will begin its busi
ness on that line. The railroad is not
yet completed, but work on it is pro
gressing rapidly, and it is expected it
will be finished within a few months.
But that the incorporators do not
intend to confine the new express com
pany to that road alone is clearly evi
dent from the petition " ,v ciiarter. It
asks for the right, to (lo business in all
of the states and territories of the
United States, in Canada, Cuba, Porto
Rico and all of the West Indies, in
Mexico and Central America, and in
all the states and countries both of
North and Soutn America. It may be
a long time before the company
spreads out to cover all of. tnis terri
tory, but it has been given that privi
lege in its charter.
The company begins with a compar
atively small capital stock of SIO,BOO.
but is given the right, to increase the
amount to $250,000 at any time the di
rectors sec fit to take such a step.
BY EASTERN CAPITAL
Chattahoochee Falls Properly Will’
Soon Be Developed.
A rumor is current that the properly
of 'the Chattahoochee Falls Company,
two miles north of Columbus. Ga., is to
be developed by eastern capital in the
near future. Those contemplating
work are the New England people who
recently became interested in the Co
lumbus Railroad Company.
Record Broken at Kansas City.
Tuesday was the hottest day Kan
sas City has had since the weather bu
reau was established, the official ther
mometer recording 103.4 degrees.
Corn Buined In Nebraska.
Tuesday was a day of intense heat
all over the eastern half of Nebraska.
The average temperature was 101. 'ltiu
maximum in Lincoln was 103. A hot
wind is cooking the corn.
Our Trade With Germany.
German exports, including Dresden,
to the United States during the fiscal
year ending March 31st amounted to
$99,88f,013. This is an increase over
the last fiscal year of $1,074,854.