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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 crovpa’ siffraf uip is nn par-h hnr 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 000 Drops — -A •• ■- ’ A **+ *: “* CASTOR^ Pre pattftio’ri for As the Food andßcgtila- J tingthebftiQactrsandßowcdsof , 1 NfAN IS/1 H I L I) K t. N Promotes Digestion, Cheerful- ! ness ad Besl.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. hoi Nakc otk . Avr *(Hd fr.suti nmaan Smd' , aarti- j Ammlmdr V 1 A perfect Remedy forConstipa lion, Sour Slotniadh. Diarrhoea Worms,Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. a 1 *• <>< 1 i h ..1,1 j ] D.l s1 > sis EXACT copy or WRAPPER. WIA v ' •N- ' i v .-fa NaslmlMiiiiip&StLoiiisl omootbt movn *a omomatr rtmt ST. LOUIS AMD.THE WEST. PULLMAN SLEEPERS ATLANTA TO ST. LOf IS WITHOUT CHANGE. CHICAGO 000 mo HOHTMWEST. PULLMAN SLEEPERS ATLANTA TO CHICAGO WITHOUT CHANGE. 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