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OUR WEEKLY LETTER
FROM WASHINGTON;
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, Sept 5,1901.
When General Mac Arthur, com
mander-in-chief of the military
forces in the Phillippiues, came to
town the other day, he had a great
deal to say about the situation in
the archipelago. The general,
however, framed his comment with
hopefulness rather than emphasis.
Between the lines of his interviews
there was food for thought. He
stated, among other things, that
the army of forty thousand men in
the Phillippines would probably be
none too many for some time to
come. This is a bald admission
that the civil government estab
lished with such an ostentatious
flourish of trumpets is far from
able to stand on its own legs.
Largely by inference, General Mae-
Arthur attributes the armed un
easiness of the Filipinos to the
sudden transition from Spanish to
American institutions. It is diffi
cult to comprehend how the sub
stitution of the good for the bad
can engender such opposition, es
pecially among those who have
been groaning under the burdens
and injustices of the latter for cen
turies.
Unfortunately, the bill of partic
ulars showing why the Americans
and the Filipinos are not in accord
at the present time is left largely to
the imagination of the persons in-
terested in knowing. While all
must contemplate with a certain
amount of satisfaction the growth
of civilizing and reforming influ
ences in the islands, it seems that
there ought to be a way of setting
differences of opinion on questions
of public policy other than the con
tinued extermination of the weaker
disputants. A simple friendly ar
gument will often do more to open
the eyes of the benighted than a
whole battalion bent on slaughter.
For some time the lethargy in
political circles here has been pro
nounced. Senator Hanna’s ca
vorting presidential boom, how
ever, has almost managed to es
tablish normal wakefulness in
those quarters where curious struc
tures are sometimes built from po
litical straws.
The boom has become so ob
streperous that several aspirants
have felt obliged to dodge. Theie
fore, the great Ohioan, without ap
pearing on the scene, has succeeded
in getting into print an explana
tion to the effect that he is perhaps
more deeply amused by the antics
of the boom than any other man,
woman or child in the United
States.
The stprv goes, and it appears
as having leaked froiq a confiden
tial source, that Mr, Hanna's sole
in permitting his name to
Ibe lised Is lo preserve from ;Us£
the marvelously piachint
hitherto established by himself for
political purposes.
It is alleged that Senator Hanna
intends to refrain from being the
next president. There are those,
even in his own party, however,
who are not sure of the matter. It
is known that he admires the
white house, outside and inside.
He has never been ac
cused of not being ambitious.
The buzz of the presiden
tial bee is soothing and alluring.
Ev’en his opponents have admitted
that he is the logical republican
candidate. And there is ho doubt
that he intends to be the controll
ing factor in the next national con
vention of his party if he is alive
when that body is called to order.
Notwithstanding the public sen
sation of weariness, the Sampson-
Schley controversy continues to
demand that it shall be noticed.
Forecasts, denials, speculations,
reports of progress and differences
of opinion related to the dispute
are forced into prominence with
regularity of weather prediction l !
A day or two since it wasaif
nounced that Sampson would re
main in his New Hampshire re
treat by his friends in Washing
ton. It was declared that physi
cal weakness would prevent his
appearance L>el2J£ gaval ccurt
of inquiry. NOW Jit ah6nylnoUS
naval official of high standing de
clares that the father of the con
troversy insists upon facing the
tribtinal in order to substantiate
his charges against Admiral Sch
ley. While Sampson may be phy
sically unfit to stand the siege of
the Washington tribunal, there is
no doubt as to the construction the
people would place upon his ab
sence. They were already recall
ing the fact that he was somewhere
else when Schley reduced the
Spanish fleet to junk and citing as
a prospective parallel his probable
absence when the victor of Santi
ago battles for his reputation be
re his judges in the national
■hi [dial.
is able to con e to
Wa.sbiugton, he should, by all
| all means do so, for even the cham
pions of Schley would not be con
tented with a verdict in his favor
unless the accusing officer has giv
en by word of mouth all his testi
mony in support of the serious
charges against one of the heroes
of the greatest of American naval
engagements. Sampson’s absence,
unless there is incoetrovertible
proof of his invalidism, would be
universally interpreted as meaning
that he was afraid to face the fire
of cross-examiners who will do all
in their power to vindicate Schley.
While cotton may have abdica
ted as a soyereign, it continues as
a first-rate power in the industrial
world, and the report on the annu
al crop in the United States is par
ticularly gratifying. Some of the
statistics follow: Receipts at all
United States ports during the
year 7,666,452, against 6,734.364
11st year; overland to northern
mills 1,140,237 against 1,161,189;
southern consumption taken direct
from the interior of the cotton
belt, 1,576,733 against 1,540,863
making the crop of the United
I States for 1900-1901 amount to
| 10,383,422 bales against 9,436,416
last year, all 11,284,840 the year
| before. There is a continued in
i' crease in the number of mills and
lin the spindles of plants already
1 established. The value of the
cotton crop this year has reached
the remarkable total of $494,567,-
549, more than ever before obtained
for the product of a season,
RUSKIN COLONY DEAD-
Curtain Falls Upon the Last Scene
In the Drama.
Savannah, Sept. 5. —A Waycross
special to the News says:
The Ruskin colony of Ware
county, is no more. The last chap
ter in the drama started last Sat
urday, as has been stated in the
Morning News, when the Coming
Nation printing outfit was sold at
public auction to satisfy a mort
gage for S3OO, and •’finis” was
added today, when the land And
buildings were sold by the sheriff
of Ware county.
About a year ago a lady from
one of the western states came to
join the fortune*; of the colonists.
The price for a share in the com
monwealth was only SSOO. She
was granted the usual privilege of
depositing this amount and spend
ing a few months there before be
coming a member. This she did
in order to see whether she would
like it or not.
Uuring her stay at the colony a
note for SSOO became due, and the
president used Mrs. McKean’s
money to take it up, thinking that
more cash would come in soon. In
the meantime, Mrs. McKean decid
e 1 that *he would not become a
mwmbpr of the colony, and demand
ed her deposit money. The treas
ury contained but S2OO. This
amount was given to her, together
With a mortgage oti the Coming
Nation printing office for S3OO.
But Mrs. McKean desired to go
to California, and in order to en
able her to do so, Mr. J. G. Steffcs,
a member of the colony, bought
her claim. The Ruskin common
wealth was on its last legs at this
time. It was deeply in debt. Old
members were leaving and no new
ones were taking their places. The
time for canal ng the moitgage
passed, but there was no money in
the treasury am the Coming Nation
had to go at a sacrifice to meet the
claim.
This morning at the court house
door in this city, the last chapter
was ended in the story of the Rus
kin commonwealth, when Sheriff
T. J. McClellan sold the land and
buildings. The tract consists of
about 766 acres of laud,upon which
is built the town of Ruskin. There
are in Ruskin about forty nice lit
tle cottages, half a dozen smaller
houses, two large dwelling houses,
a hotel, planing mill, blacksmith
shop, cereal coffee factory, shoe
shop, suspender factory, etc. The
entire property sold for $2,050.
It was bid in by Messrs. J. G.
Steffes, Dayid B. Stanton and Jos
eph Sherwin, all members of the
colony. They will clear up a
greater part of the land, and will
conduct a modern farm. Only a
small porti<jti is iu cultivation n®w.
Next year the new owners will
plant fifty acres in sugar cane,
which they will make into syrup,
and after putting it up in quart,
half-gallon and gallon cans, ship
to the northern markets. They
will also plant ten awes in broom
| corn and manufacture brooms. Be-
I sides this they will have a large
acreage in cassava, potatoes, peas
and hay.
The colony, which two years
ago contained nearly 300 souls,
i now numbers only about twenty;
\ not counting the new owners, all
the others having departed. Tho*e
i now remaining will seek homes
, elsew here.
How Are Your Kidney* t
Dr Hobbs' Spar&gas PMUfureVll kidney ills. Sam-
YORK IS
FOUND GUILTY.
Gordon County Kidnaper Convicted
in Superior Court-
SENTENCED FOR FOUR YEARS-
He Eloped Three Months Ago With
the Daughter of His Employer.
Was Captured Soon After.
Calhoun, Ga , Sept., 3. —The
case of Russell York, charged with
kidnapiug, came up in the supe
rior court here today and attracted
wide attention. The court house
was crowded all the forenoon by
an immense throng, bent on hear
ing all the evidence in this unus
ual case.
The prisoner was found guilty
and sentenced to four years in the
penitentiary.
York is a young man of about
twenty-five years of age, and has a
wife in this county, from whom he
has been separated about one year.
For some time he had been work
ing for Joe Campbell, who runs a
saw mill near town. Campbell
has a young daughter, about fif
teen years old, to whom York had
been paying some attention, con
trary to the wish of the father.
About three months ago York
met Miss Campbell one night near
her father’s home and together
they walked to Adairsville, a dis
tance of 10 miles, and boarded the
early morning train for Carters
ville From Cartersville they went
to Emerson and out into tne coun
try a few miles to where a relative
of York lived.
Officers were soon on their trail
and when they arrived at the coun
try home found York, who was ; t
work in a field near the house.
He was placed under arrest, but
just as lie was told to get into the
buggy by the officers, he made a
break for liberty and succeeded in
gaining the woods and escaping.
I hat night he was not so suc
cessful in making an escape, and
was captured at another house
near where he was found that
morning. He was brought to Cal
houn and placed in jail, where he
remained until the ttial of today.
Russell York’s father, who lives
near town,was also tried and found
guilty today of aiding his son in
an attempt to break jail, but has
n>t been sentenced. He procured
a file and passed it to bis son in
the jail, but one of the men con
fined in the cells informed the
jailer of the fact and a search was
made of York’s cell and the file ta
ken from him.
In some of the Swiss valleys the
inhabitants are all afflicted with
goitre or “thick neck.” Instead
of regarding this as a deformity
they seem to think it a natural
feature of physical development,
and tourists passing through the
valleys are sometimes jeered by
the goitrous inhabitants, because
they are without this offensive
swelling. Thus a form of disease
may become so common that it is
regarded as a natural and neces
sary condition in life. It is so, to
a large extent, with what are called
diseases of women. Every woman
suffers more or less from irregu
larity, ulceration, debilitating
drains,, or female weakness, and
this suffering is so common and so
universal that many women ac
cept it as a condition natural and
necessary to their sex. But it is a
condition as unnatural as it is un
necessary. The use of Dr. Pierce’s
Favorite Prescription strengthens
the delicate womanly organs and
regulates the womanly functions,
so that woman is practically de
livered from the pain and misery
which eat up ten years of her life
—between the ages of fifteen and
forty-five. “Favorite Prescription’’
makes women strong and sick wo
men well.
The Surest Presciption fc>r Ma
laria.
Jhills and Fever is a buttle of
drove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is
simply iron and quinine in a taete
ess form. No cure—no pay. Price
I have been cured of what I sup
posed was kidney and liver trou
bles by the use of K. K. K. Pills.
I have been so benefitted by them
that my entire vicinity is using
them. I will never be without
them.
Trilby, Ga., John L. Barnes: *
To Curefa Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it tails to cure. E. W
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A PEASH BOOM
j Extensive Orchards to be Planted
in North Georgia.
Chattanooga 'times.
A peach craze of a most healthy
! character has struck xoith Geor
i gia, and thousands upon thousands
Icf trees will be planted this fall,
i The growth industry has
j been little short of phenomenal,
j and it looks now as though in a
I few years a tier of counties com
! posed of Floyd, Chattooga, Bartow
and Walker will be a veritable
wilderness of peach orchards.
The groat demand for trees has
created a famine, and it is impos
sible for the nurseries to supply
the demand. Orders aggregating
hundreds of thousands of Elbertas
and Kmmas have been taken by
agents, which it will be impossible
to fill.
Along the line of the Western
and Atlantic, from Dalton to Car
tersville, hundreds of acres will be
planted in Elbertas, and land is
bringing big prices, Along the
Chattanooga division of the Cen
tral the same conditions prevail,
and many new men are preparing
to enter the field in this country.
Only a few fear overproduction
It is contended that the abandon
ing of the peach business in south
Georgia makes this section the nat
ural and logical peach producing
area. That the constantly grow
ing demand for Elbertas will keep
prices up and will result in the es
tablishment of many canneries.
At any rate the craze is on now,
and the number of trees planted
will reach the millions. The ex
ceptional profits realized for this
year’s crop has had muck to do
with the boom in planting orchards.
A Ministers’ Good Work.
“1 had a severe attack of bilious
colic, got a bottle of Chamber
lain's Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy, took two doses
and was entirely cured.” says Rev
A. A. Power, of Empiria, Kansas
“My neighbor across the street
was sick for over a week, had two
or three bottles of medicine from
the doctor. He used them for
three or four days without relief,
then called in another doctor who
tr ated him for some da vs and
gave h ini no re’ief, so discharged
him. I went over to see him next
morning. He said his bowels
were in a terrible fix, that they
had been running off so long that
it was almost bloodv flux. I asked
him if he had tried Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea rem
edy and he said, ‘No.’ I went
home and brought him my bottle
and gave him one dose; told him
to take anothe • dose in fifteen or
twenty min ites it he did not find
relief, but he took no more and
was entirely cured. I think it the
best medicine I have ever tried.
Forsale by Hall and Greene.
Vfcl* llfiaAtiy l( M *7 boa of lb* ftialM
Untyvc Bromo Qmtimt
TOT CAUSES NIGHT ALARM
“One night my brother's baby
was taken with Croup,” writes
Mrs. I. C. Snider, of Crittenden,
Ky,,”it seemed it would strangle
before we could get a doctor, ta
we gave it Dr. King.s New Dis
covery, which gave quick relief
and qermanently cured it. We
always ket p it in the house to
protect our children from Croup
and Whooping Cough. It cured
me of a chronic bronchial trouble
that no other remedy would re
lieve.” Infallible for Coughs,
Colds, Throat and Lung troubles
50c and SI.OO. Trial bottles free
at Young Bros. Drug store
A Sustaining I Met.
Then* ere the enervating dava, when,
as somebody has said, men drop by ihe
suasWoke as It' the Day tore' Sad
dawned. They are fraught with dan
ger to people whose systems are poorly
sustained; and this leads us to say, iii
the interest of the less robust of our
readers, that the full effect of Hood’s
Sarsaparilla is such as to suggest the
propriety ol calling this medicine some
thing besides a blood puriher and tonic,
—say, a sustaining diet. It makes it
much easier to bear the heat, assures
refreshing sleep, and will, without any
doubt, avert much sickness at this time
of year.
Fire consumes inflammible sub
stances, ashes are left. Consti
pation and torpid livers sap the
vitality, energy and strength of
human life. k. K. K Pills will
remove such troubles. 25 cents a
bottle. ___
If you have 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, Ind., 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 mote
from five to eight times a day. I
had a bottle of Chamberlain’s Co
lic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy in the house and gave hkn 4
drops in a teaspoonful of water
and he got better at once.” For
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