Newspaper Page Text
OUR WEEKLY LETTER
FROM WASHINGTON.
< From Our Regular CoriesiSondeiit.)
'Washington, August 73, 1901.
’ Make way for the new Ccesar!”
'That is the sort of a shout some
rubber-lunged understrapper will
be putting up in front of Acting
Secretary Hackett, if he is left in
>ole charge of the Navy depart
ment much longer. His head gets
Digger every day and-he conies
nearer thinking himself the whole
-thing. He has made it quite plain
■jfhat he is anti-Schley. In this he
has only followed the example of
.‘Secretary Long, the difference
.being that Long has more tact and
.<courtesy than to assume autocratic
airs. It is understood that so
■anally complaints about Hackett
have been made to Mr. McKinley
that he lias given Secretary Long a
Lint by wire that it would be ad
■LisaMe for him to cut bis vacation
short and return to Washington
some time before the assembling of
the Schley Court of Inquiry, and
that Mr. Long will resume charge
of the Navy Department next week.
Tlie most important happenings
-of the week in the preparations for
the Schley inquiry are all con
nected with Rear Admiral Howi
■>on, whose sitting as a member of
>the court is now anything but cer
tain Hear Admiral Schley,
through his counsel, requested the
Navy Department to forward a
copy of an alleged interview with
Howison in which Schley was
sneered at and Sampson lauded to
that officer and request him to say
whether he was correctly reported
•or not. Caesar Hackett has made
public his letter to Schley denying
She request and defending Howi
son and giving reasons why he
should not be asked about that in
terview, which is anything but con
vincing. That is tomfoolery, of
course. Schley has the right to ab
solutely challenge Howison, if he
wishes to exercise it. Capt. Par
ker, who is assisting Schley’s
counsel in preparing the case, has
an affidavit from the reporter who
interviewed Rear Admiral Howi
son, declaring that the interview
was absolutely correct as published
and express his willingness to tes
tify before the Court of Inquiry if
his evidence was considered nec
essary. Should Howison acknow
ledge the accuracy of the interview
he would thereby disqualify him
self for sitting on the court, no
matter how anxious Ciesar Hack
ett and the anti-Schley naval
clique might be to keep him on the
court. Should he deny the cor
rectness of the published interview,
die will be confronted by the re
porter. Admiral Schley will not
believe that Howison used the lan
guage in that interview until ! e
tkher acknowledges or refuses to
deny it. Being open and abo, e
hiard m his own likes and dislikes,
he cannot understand how a bro
itier officer can be otherwise
Schley spends a good portion of
every day working and consulting
-with his lawyers in the preparation
oi his case. He smilingly declines
all invitations to talk about it for
publication, and savs, “Wait for
the Court.’’
\Theymut vmmitfe represent
ing the American Anti-Trust
fLeague and the Knights of Labor
•came out ahead in its first round
•with Attorney General Knox.
'The committee asked Mr. Knox to
furnish any information in his pos
•session concerning the formation
:of the steel trust. He replied de
aiyiug that he had any information
about the trust or that he had any
thing to do with its formation; ad
mitting that he was legal counsel
for the Carnegie Steel Cos. for
some time previous to the form
ation of the trust, and asserting
that the duty and object of the de
partment of justice was to enforce
the federal statues. The com
mittee replied to his letter' with a
public statement in which it poin
ted out the evasive nature of his
denial and issued the following
challenge to him: “Will Attorney
Oeneral Knox offer a reward for
the production of the incriminating
evidence against the trusts for
which he asked, and which he says
he does not possess? will he an
nounce that the department of jus
tice will pay a substantial reward
to any person or persons who will
produce evidence that will lead to
the arrest and conviction of
any person or corporation guil-,
ty of violating the Federal statues
against trusts? Let him do this,
and institute vigorous proceedings
against trust law-breakers, and the
people will no longer have doubts
jas to his faithfulness of his oath of
office, and he will no longer be the
target for criticism , inueudo, and
invective on the part of the press
because 1 of the fact that while the
trusts ride roughshod over the peo
ple, the attorney general, who is
the sole officer under the federal
law who is vested with authority
. prosecute them, refuses to take any
1 action.”
A well known Texan, Mr. John
T. Cummins, of Austin, his been
telling tales in Washington about
j the ambitious young legislators of
his state. He said: “The legis
lature is seeking to redistrict the
I state for members of congress. The
1 ambitious young men in the leg
j lislature, who think they are quali
-1 fied to come to congress, are seek
ing to fix up the reapportionment
■ so that as many as possible of the
I present representatives shall not
be able to receive re election. Half
j the Texas delegation in congress
• are hovering around the state Cap
itol to protect their personal in
terests. but it looks as though the
legislature would be unable to do
anything,”
TO THE GULF IN CANOE-
Atlanta Man Plans to Make the
Trip, theCominjf Month,
Atlanta News
O the winds may blow and the sea, I
t.- vr,
May yawn a a green. green grave;
Rut, tshiver :ny slat, I know where I’m
at.
In the life on the ocean wave!
Mariner’s Yeodie.
H. M. Ashe is not after life on
the ocean wave, but he will sail
the turgid bosom of the Chatta
hooche from Atlanta to the gulf in
I an open, sixteen-foot canoe.
Mr. Ashe knows the canoe like
a sailor knows a belaying pin.
He spent his boyhood days in Can
ada, by Montreal, where boys eat,
sleep and go to school in canoes,
at times. When he left Montreal
to come south he sold the canoe,
not because he had tired of it, but
because the railroad officials would
not let him carry it with him on
the train.
Now he has recently bought it
back. He discovered that six
miles from Atlanta there is water
deep enough to float a canoe; yel
low water but lots of it, and it lies
flat on the earth for many miles to
the south. The old yearning for
life in a canoe returned with the
discovery, so he bought back his
boat.
It is no ordinary dug-out. It is
the genuine article,like the Indians
ride in. He has paddled it many
miles on the bosom of the St. Law
rence and the tributary streams.
All the romance and adventure in
his life has some connection with
that canoe.
It is sixteen feet long, eighteen
inches wide, one foot deep and
weighs forty-five pounds. There is
a 6xlo leg o’ mutton sail at one end
to steady the craft and reduce la
bor. It will not sink, but it turns
turtle when driven by an amateur.
The canoe is now en route from
Montreal and will arrive next
week.
FCarly in September, Mr. Ash<?
and a friend, not yet selected, will
embark at Bolton.withonlyonedays
stores, They will forage for prov
ider along the route. On reach
ing the gulf they will put back
and paddle up stream for the re
turn trip.
Self-Pity.
Self-pity is a deadly thing.
Whatever crosses our life may
hold, whatever unwelcome tasks,
uncongenial associations, griefs or
burdens are ours, let us not fall in
to the habit of self-commiseration.
It is a habit easily, almost uncon
sciously formed, and it will grow
until it crowds out courage, useful
ness, and sometimes even reason
itself. The soul brooding over its
own bitterness loses all power of
discrimination, aud sees all things
in a distorted light. Every com
mon-place happening becomes a
peculiar misfortune, and troubles,
which are indeed “the common lot
of all.” are regarded as unique and
unequaled. Face your trials hon
estly, call them by their names, but
utterly refuse to sit down on them,
as Job did with his friends, for any
long bemoaning. Suffer you must,
but you must uot brood. Give
your sympathy to others, but fight
as for your life against the luxury
of self-pity.
Don't Bea Grumbler.
Some people contrive to get hold
of the prickly side of everything,
to run against all the sharp corners
and disagreeable things. Half the
strength spent in growling would
often set things right You may
as well make up your mind, to be
gin with v that uo one finds the
world quite as he would like, but
you to take your part and bear
with it bravely. You will be sure
to have burdens laid upon you
which belong to other people, un
less you .are a shirker yourself, but
don't grumble. If the work needs
doing, and you can do it, never
mind about that other who ought
to have dbne it. and didn’t. Those
workers who fill up the gaps, and
smooth away the rough spots, and
finish up the jobs which others
have undone—they are the true
peace makers and are worth a
whole regiment of growlers. V
MORTALITY STATISTICS,
During 1 900 There Were 1,039.034
Deaths In the United States.
Washington, Aug. 21. —The cen
sus bureau today made public the
mortality statistics for the year
1900. W. A. King, chief of the
vital statistician division, says:
The most important feature of
the results presented is found in
the decrease in the general death
rate in the registration area of 1.8
per 1,000 of population, a decrease
of nearly 10 per cent, and the de
crease in the rates from the par
ticular diseases to which the gen
eral decrease is due.
In 1890 the death rate in 271
registration cities of 5,000 or more
people was 21 per cent. 1,000.
In 1900 the rate was 18.6 per
1,000; in 341 cities of 8,000 people
and upward, a reduction of 2.4 per
:,000.
The average age of death in
1890 was 31.1 years; in 1900 it was
35.2 years.
The total number of deaths re
ported in 1900 was 1,039,004; in
1890 it was 841,419. The increase
was therefore 197,675, or 25.5 per
cent. As the percentage of in
crease in the population was but
20.7 this indicates a more com
plete return of deaths than in 1900.
The total deaths in the various
states and territories for 1900 are
as follows:
Alabama 25,699; Aiizona 1,233;
Arkansas 22,518; California 22,506;
Colorado 7,428; Connecticut 15,422;
Delaware 3,075* District of Colum
bia 6,304; Florida 6,482; Georgia
26.941; Idaho 1,242; Illinois 61,-
229; Indiana 33.586; Indian Ter
ritory 5,286; lowa 19,573; Kansas
16,261; Kentucky 26,071; Louis
iana 20,955 r Maine 12,148; Mary
land 20.422; Massachusetts 69,756;
Michigan 33,575: Minnesota 17,-
005; Mississippi 20,251; Missouri
38,084; Montana 2,188; Nebraska
8,264; Nevada 438; New Hamp
shire 7,400; New Jersey 32,735;
Neiv Mexico 2,674; New York
130,268; North Carolina 21,068;
North Dakota 2,287; Ohio 53,362;
Oklahoma 3,181; Oregon 3,396;
Pennsylvania 90,199; Rhode Is
land 8,176: South Carolina 17,166;
South Dakota 3,088; Tennessee
30,172; Texas 34,164; Utah 3,079;
Vermont 5*829; Virginia 25,252;
Washington 4,910; West Virginia
9.588; Wisconsin 24,928; Wyom
ing 767.
The registration area includes
Connecticut, District of Columbia,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, Rhode Island and Vermont,
with the cities therein, and many
cities in other states.
In the ragistration area the fif
teen principal causes of death with
the rate per 100,000, was as fol
low^
Pneumonia 19.9; consumption
190.5; heart disease 134; diarrhoea
diseases 85.1; kidney diseases 87,3;
apoplexy 66.6; cancer 60; old age
54; bronchitis 48.3; cholera infan
tum 47.8; debility 45.5; inflamma
tion of brain and meningitis 61.8;
diphtheria 34.4; typhoid 33.8, and
premature birth 33.7. Death from
the principal diseases shows a de
crease since 1890, the most notable
being in consumption, which de
creased 54.9 per 100,000.
HUNDRED PERSONS DROWNED-
The Big OH Fire at Point Breeze Is
Now Under Control.
Philadelphia, Aug. 21. —By the
collapse of a burning oil tank at the
Atlantic Refining Company’s plant
at Point Breeze, where a fire has
been ragiug since Monday noon,
about 100. persons, firemen, em
ployees of the company and spec
tators, were more or less badly
burned, Most of the cases were
treated on the ground by ambu
lance surgeons, but a few of them
were considered sufficiently serious
to necessitate removal of the vic
tims to the hospitals. The fire is
under control tonight.
Jones-Tribble Marriage-
Canton Advance.
One of the happiest weddings
Solemnized here in a great while
was the one which took place at
the home of the bride's uncle, Mr.
H. D. Bryant, last Wednesday af
ternoon at 4 o’clock, the contract
ing parties being Miss Minnie
Jones, of Fairmount, and Prof.
Geo. Tribble, of Adairsville, only
the immediate relatives and a few
friends of the contracting parties
being present. The wedding march
was played by Miss Lena Awtry,
of Acworth. The marriage cere
mony was performed by Dr. Nun
nally, president of the LaGrauge
Female College, the couple being
former pupils of his. The decora
tions were cut flowers.
After receiving the hearty con •
gratulations of their many friends,
Mr. and Mrs. Tribble left on the
afternoon train for Atlanta, and
from there they will go to the
coast and thence to* Adair.-vilie,
their future home.
Mr. Tribble is a voufig ir.au of
exceptional character. He is prqs
idtnt of the Adaiisville Baptist
College and enjoys the respect,
confi e ce and esteem of all who
ku. w h in. His bride was one of
Fairmount’s most lovable and ac
complished young women, having
graduated with honors both at
Fairmount and LaGrange Female
College. She is a daughter of Mr
J. H. Jones, one of Gordon coun
ty’s leading citizens.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. S. Hasson
entertained the bridal party at din
ner last Wednesday. We extend
hearty congratulations.
FORCE OF BOERS-
Is Now About 11,000 Men. ButThey
Can Maintain Stout Resistance.
London, Aug. 20.—1n a dis
patch dated August 18th, and de
tailing the condition of affairs at
the front at that time, Lord Kitch
ener says:
"There are no more than 13,000
Boers now under arms, and al
though they are not aole longer to
undertake extensive operations,
they apparently have inexhaus
tible supplies of food, which en
able them to maintain an obstinate
resistance, without retaining any
thing or defending the smallest
portion of this vast country.
“The wearing down process is
necessarily slow, rendering the
employment of a large number of
troops still necessary. Great pa
tience is still required to see the
inevitable end ot an insensate re
sistance, which, while it cannot
affect the result, has become un
justifiable in prolonging the war
and the suffeiings of women and
children.”
Since this dispatch was written
the losses of the Boers have
brought their forces down to about
11,000.
The Social Oyster-
K. Meade Bache, in September “New”
Lippincott.
Oysters are widely distributed
throughout the world. Their chief
habitats are in the United States
and in France, with scattering
colonies in F.ngland, Holland, and
other places. But the whole num
ber in other paits of the world is
inconsiderable as compared with
that in the United States. Mary
land alone produces twice as many
oysters as all the rest of the world
put together. Ctysters and poverty,
Dickens says, go together, but it is
not so in this country. Baltimore
cans an immense number for both
foreign and domestic consumption,
the revenue from which is enor
mous. The Indians of the coast,
before the discovery of America,
used them in great quantities'.
Near the mouth of St. John’s River,
Florida, there is a forest-clad 1
mound of over fifty feet in height,
extending over many acres of
ground, consisting entirely of old
oyster-shells.
IT DAZZLES THE WORLD.
No Discovery in medicine has
ever created one quarter of the ex
citement that has been caused by
Dr. King's New Discovery, for
Consumption. It’s severest tests
have been on hopless victims of
Consumption, Pneumonia. Hem
orrhage, Pleurisy and Bronchetis,
thousands of whom it has restored
to perfect health. For Coughs,
Colds, Asthma, Croup, Hay Fe
ver, Hoarseness and Whooping
Cough it is the quickest, surest
cure in the world. It is sold by
Young Bros.’ who guarantee satis
faction or refund money. Large
bottles 50c. and SI.OO. Trial bot
tles free
If you hav a baby in the house
you will wish to know the best way
to check, any unusual looseness of
the bowels, or diarrhoea so com
mon to small children. O, P. M.
Holliday, of Deming, lad., who
has an eleven months’ old child,
says: “Through the months of
June and July our baby was teeth
ing and took a running off of the
bowels and sickness of the stom
ach. His bowels would move
from five to eight times a day. I
had a bottle of Chamberlain's Co
lic, Cho’era and Diarrhoea Rem
edy in the house and gave him 4
drops in a teaspoonfal of water
and he got better at once.” For
sale by Hall and Greene
A Sustaining: Diet.
Tbesp arc the enervating days, when,
as somebody has -aid. men nrijp by he
sunstroke as if tlie Hay of rite* had
dawned. They are fraught with dan
ger to people whtv>t svstt ms are 1 poorly
sustained; and this leads ns to Say, iii
the interest of the hss robust of out
readers, that the f ull effect of Hood’s
I Sarsaparilla is -tieh as to suggest the
j propriety of calling thismodk-me some
-1 tiling betides n.biocd purifier and bi.ie,
- sac, a sustaining diet. It makes it
much easier to bear the heat, assures
refreshing sleep, and \vill. Without any
d.* nI t. avert much sickness at tms time
of year
To 1 lire ts Cold in One Day.
Take* Laxative Broiuo Qtiinino
I Tablets. AM druggists refund the
1 money i< it tails fo t*ure. R. W
! c; oves’signature is oh each box
jjjj
AYegetable Pre paralionfor As
-- Jj
ting the Stomachs and Bowels of rf
j Promotes Digestion. Cheerfu- if
ness and Rest. Contains neither Jf
Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. 11|
Not TM Ait c otic .
af Old Jk SAMUEL PITC/Olfl
Pumpkin Sad' . ft
Mx.Smna * J
RoJu.IUS.Ut- I
Anise Sued * I
f SOSA*. )
hints Seed- I M
amfedStiMP
ivmtrrprveti Flavor. /
A perfect Remedy for Constipa- fill
Ron, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea
Worms .Convulsions Feverish- |‘|fl
ness and Loss OF SLEEP. ||
Facsimile Signature of IX'
XEWYORK. j|jt
EXACT copy OF WRAPPER. ■
Wt A
V ' v t T fc H N N, QaT4.At V I cw R
—AMO ——
Nasiiyille, Challanooia & St. Louis Ej.
SHORTEST ROUTE amo QUICKEST TIME
ST. LOUIS AMO. THE WEST.
PULLMAN SLEEPERS ATLANTA TO ST. LOUIS
WITHOUT CHANGE.
GHIGAQO mo too NORTHWEST.
PULLMAN SLEEPERS ATLANTA TO CHICAGO
WITHOUT CHANGE. |
NEW TRAIN te LOUISVILLE CINCINNATI
PULLMAN SLEEPERS ATLANTA TO LOUISVILLE ANI
CINCINNATI WITHOUT CHANGE.
Cheap Rates ta Arkansas and Texas
ALL-RAIL AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO
NEW YORK AND THE EABT.
TOURIST RATES TO ALL RESORTS.
For Schedules, Rates, Maps or any Railroad information, call upon or write to
J. W. TNCSAS, Jr„ N. F. SffilTH, CHAS. E. RAREAK, 3
StMrtl Wnf>r, Traffic Manager, General Pass. Afent,
NMfcvUie, Taaa. Raahviß*. Tenn. Atlanta, Ga.
ONLY ONE NIGHT OUT
New Orleans to
BUFFALO AND NIAGARA FALLS
Double Daily Train Service
Low Rates and Through Pullman Sleepers ftefgU
via the
1 Queeh&Crescent
jflgL'i AND coNri::cT!NG unes - Ijj 10
Through Sleeper daily without change leavWNew
BSgElbvi Orleans 7.30 pm.
! T ' va NEW ORLEANS. 9 10am 7 30pm
IS'i'RSRxIIvW Lv BIRMINGHAM. 6 50tm 3 Asam
if I Sfev.j; ,‘3 Its CHATTANOOGA, 10 4Cpm 10 00am
1 'life/- ■*Vib Arriving BUFFALO (Bit- 4
i -BgSlp' (V Route and Lake Shore}
il fjip’ ;■' „ | neat day at . , 7 30pm 10 30am
DOUBLE DAY train service New’
J V i i'b | ' ATy Orleans, Birmingham, MacorTV|Chatta
nooga and other points South to'Cincin
nati. Close connection at Cincinnati with
aU lines to Buffalp and oth<* points North.
i-J > i Full as to Schedules, Hotel*. Rate*,
w £r f . -v
fitrtSgHK ;v. -• -1 Ninth St. (lvead HouseJJlook). Cbananoof*. S*
r*
w. J. murphy, w. 0. rinearsOn,
JftSjrT*'-** Wt. vviAQtn, ow'l pads'oe
, '-'"rZrr&iSsZ' “ CINCINNATI.
Forlnfants
The Kind You Have
j Always Bough;
Bears the / ■
| Signature / jfl#
Use
For Over
Thirty Years
CASTOiIII
THE CtNWUB COMPANY, KEMT VONK CfTY.