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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 vl j 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.