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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. 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