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VOL. XIX.
jjUCHT BUSINESS
OUTLOOK IN CUBA.
Congressman Hawley Discusses
Commercial Prospects
improvements IN PROGRESS.
Rich Land and Virgin Forests
Aw ait the Hand of Labor and
Advent of Capital.
Louis Republic.
Washington, Aug
sentative Hawley of lexas has
St returned from an extensive
rip through Cuba. In a conver
sation this afternoon he said:
“The summer in Cuba has been
delightful. While you are swel
ling here in the nineties the ther
mometer in Cuba was frequently
from 70 to 75 in the evening. The
season for agricultural products
has been normal, with sufficient
rain in most districts. The tobacco
crop was large and the growing su
-jr crop, if present conditions are
maintained will nearly double the
crop of last year.
Large areas of land are being
planted and extended improve
ments in many ways are proiected.
Under these conditions of agricult
ure labor finds employment at re
munerative prices American and
English capital is being largely in
vested in this industrial develop
ment of the island. The construct
ion of railways, under former char*,
ters; the development of mines; the
cultivation of fruits on a most ex
tended scale; the re-establishment
of sugar properties, and the estab
lishment of new estates on the
most modern and approved basis
—all tend to create a state of af
fairs that not only supplies the la
bor ol Cuba to-day with employ
ment and is full of promise for the
future not only for thousands that
are there, but for many who may
seek employment or investment
there.
“Cuba, like Porto Rico, and,
though in less degree, unlike the
Phillipines, is not a populous coun
try, There are to-day in Cuba
virgin forests that have never been
traversed by civilized man. There
is an immense area of virgin soil
as rich as the world affords, and in
a climate unsurpassed, that would
yield to labor and to capital as
large and certain returns as any
unoccupied field on the continent.
It is sometimes suggested that
more people and more capital would
immediately enter Cuba and rap
idly develop all its great possibil
ities but for the apprehension that
political difficulties may disturb
its progress. This is a lost appre
hension. The Cubans are, for the
most part, a serious minded people
and make welcome every element
of growth and enterprise that es
tablishes itself in the land. They
desire peace and a full share of
prosperity.
“Cuba, is, geographically and
commercially, very near the Uni
ted States. This Government has
guaranteed a stable Government
and absolute pacification of the
island, and I know of no country
where property rights apd every
form of right will be more secure
than in the island of Cuba.
. “The sanitary condition of the
island—of vast concern to this
country, particularly to those who
live in Southern ports —has so im
proved that it is believed possible
now to eject yellow fever. The
conduct of this important factor in
°ur intercourse is undet the di
rection of the United States Mar
u‘c Hospital sereice, which has
shown capacity and energy of the
highest order in dealing with this
problem.
The cause of education is now
'H-ll advanced and the youth of
üba will receive every advantage
iat belongs to the daily old school
1 e of the American boy or girl.
So, after a try ing and devastat
!l,ig War > every element that favor
a - effects community interests is
a work in Cuba for the mainten
ance of its health, the education of
s youth and the promotion of its
commence with the United States,
r 10 1 soon grow beyond any
* tller experiences or preconcieved
'oils of its value and extent.”
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 30,1900.
SAD DEATH Of
CAPT. CRENSHAW
Succumbs from Wound Received in
Philippines.
AT THE ATLANTA SANITARIUM.
Victim of Hard Experience and In*
human Treatment While On
His Way Home-
Among those who saw Capt.
Frank Crenshaw here on his last
visit to his father, after he had re
ceived his appointment as captain,
handsome, buoyant, and was ready
for the service which carried him
into the Phillippines, there were
none perhaps who dreamed they
would hear of his death at so early
a time as it occurred, though all
who knew him knew he was ready
to brave any sort of danger for his
country.
The death of this gallant young
officer occurred in Atlanta Tuesday
morning at 7:30 o’clock and the
story of his experiences and death
is one of rare heroism and suffer
ing.
After he landed in the Phillip
pines his command went immedi
ately to fighting and was in hot
little engagements with the Filipi
nos constantly up to the time he
received his wound which finally
proved fatal. The engagement in
which he was shot w-as particularly
hot. At the first volley from the
enemy he and his men lay down,
after which it was intended to rise
and charge a fortification. It was
while lying down Capt. Crenshaw
received his wound. The ball,
which seems to have been a flat
ended one, struck the left fore
part of the skull, ranging almost
diagonally across the skull, tearing
away a smart particle of the skin,
and producing a fracture. He was
stunned but afterwards rose and
joined his men, but fainted and
fell and had to be carried away.
He was borne on a rude bamboo
litter. At Manila he was put on a
fine hospital ship for treatment and
did well until the ship was ordered
to China and he had to be removed
to a transport where he found lack
of attention and poor accommoda
tions. This transport sailed for
America and the young officei from
a state room was rudely taken
down into the hold of the ship near
the hot engine, and where insane
men were confined. He got some
better attention by bribing a hos
pital steward with $25. At San
Francisco with 200 others wounded
he was carried to an inadequate
hospital, and could get no treat
ment. He had been 22 days on the
water suffering. Then came his
trip homeward, accompanied by
his uncle, who had gone to meet
him, and the alkali sands of the
California desert from San Fran
cisco to Los Angeles aggravated
still more his unattended wound.
When he reached Atlanta a knot
on his head as large as a fist al
most showed the effect of neglect.
Proud flesh had formed, and it was
found also an abscess.
His father lost no time in getting
him to the Elkins-CooptJr sanitar
ium. There an operation was per
formed. The young man lingered
but a short while. His death was
peaceful.
Capt. Frank F. Crenshaw was
the son of Col. Tom C. Crenshaw,
of this city, chairman of the Geor
gia railroad commission. He was
28 years of age. His first service
as a soldier was in Ray’s Immunes
and he was atGuatanamoand Bara
coa, Cuba. After the Spanish war
he was assigned to Company A.
Twenty-Eighth U. S. Volunteers.
He was commissioned captain of
tnis company, one of the bravest in
the Philippines. It reached the
islands in November last. He
married Miss Eppinger of Pike
county, in 1890. They had four
children. The wife and children
survive him. The body was carri
ed to LaGrange for burial.
Private School.
Miss Minnie Young will open a
school, at her home, on Market
street September 3d. She will
teach English, Latin, French and
higher mathematics. She has ex
perience. normal training and fine
testimonials from schools she has
taught. Each pupil will receive
careful and individual instruction.
Patronage of friends appreciated.
WINTER BASE
MARE READY,
15,000 American Soldiers Remain
in China-
THE wqmfn REACH TIEN TSIN,
Rescued Women the Gurate Of the Coig*ri*
Were Brought Into Tien Tsin
Ulmer Guard.
Tien Tsin, August, 25. via Taku
August 27. —Fifty Americans, in
cluding the Misses Condin-Smith
Woodward and Paine, have arrived
here from Pekin, which city they
have left fivedavs agoby boat. The
commissary department is prepar
ing to establish an extensive win
ter base at Tong Ku.
Lieutenant Waldron, of the Nin
th United States infantry, received
a serious sniping wound while pa
troling Hoshiro (?) (Hoo Se Woo)
The Russians, Germans and Jap
anese are consiantly pushing troops
on to Pekin.
Officers who have arrived here
from Pekin report that General
Chaffee, commanding the American
forces in China, is making all the
necessary preparations to maintain
15,000 men through the winter.
Fifteen of the American wound
ed. including the marines wounded
during the siege of the legations
have arrived here by boat from Pe
kih.
Myers (?) (possibly Captain
Myers), of the United States mar
ine corps, is suffering from typhoid
fever and cannot be moved. A
large batch of refugees is due here
tomorrow.
The American signal service
corps, co-operating with that of the
British, has completed the telegraph
line from Pekin to Taku.
The Miss Woodward referred to
in the dispatch from Tien Tsin is
undoubtedly the daughter of Mrs.
Woodward, wife of M. S. Wood
ward. assistant manager of the
Western Adjustment Company.
They w’ere guests of Minister Con
ger at Pekin. Mr. and Miss Wood
ward left Evanston in February to
make a tour of Japan and China.
They were accompanied by Mrs.
Conger, wife of the minister.
Miss Mary Condin Smith has
also has been a guest of Minister
Conger at Pekin. One of this Miss
Smith’s sisters is the wife of G .*r.
Leonaad S Wood, the governor
general of Cuba.
national farmer congress.
Address by Secretary Romero—
Recommendations Submitted.
Colorado Springs, Colo., August
22. —The Farmer’s Congress was
addressed to-day by Seuor Jose
Romero, second secretary to the
Mexican legation at Washington.
He spoke of “General Agriculture, ’
but with particular reference to the
industry in his own county. He
showed that no country in the
world has made more rapid pro
gress. He heartily approved of
the interest being taken in the de
velopment of the vast resources of
his country by citizens of the Uni
ted States, and gave an extremely
bright picture of what the results
of the next few years in "Mexico
may be.. The congress passed a
resolution thanking the speaker
and also his government for send
ing him here.
The committee on resolutions re
ported. Resolutions were adopted
favoring liberal appropriations for
rivers and harbors; lavoring the
early construction of an inter-oce
anic canal between the Atlantic
and the Pacific; favoring the bill
now pending at Washington, mak
ing imitation subject to the laws of
any state where taken, and in
creasing the taxation on limitation
of yellow butter, adding, however,
no additional burden on oleomarg
erine, which is of such distinct col
or as to apprise the consumer of
its nature; commending Secretary
Wilson in his efforts for the col
lection and distribution of seeds,
but recommending that the distri
bution be through United States
experimental stations, and not
through members of Congress; fav
oring rural mail delivery; protest
ing against leasing of public do
mains; favoring investigation of ir
rigated agriculture by United States
experimental stations, and favor
ing liberal appropriations for the
same.
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Tbe best family cathartic is Hood’s
Pills.
TO BEEP
PLANTERS.
Second Convention of Commission
ers of Agriculture.
A CLOSE, CAREFUL ESTIMATE
Of the Cotton Crop to Be Made—A
Plan to Use County Tax Re
ceivers.
Raleigh, August 27. —The se
cond annual convention of the cot
ton states association of commis
sioners of agriculture will meet
here tomorrow noon.
The indications point to a full
representation. Many questions of
imnortance to farmers are to be
discussed.
Many movements for bettering
the cotton producer will be inaug
urated and many ideas conveyed
in a message from the state officials
to the tiller of the soil.
The project of first importance
is the perfecting of the plan out
lined at New Orleans for an esti
mate of the cotton crop a* - all
periods of the cotton season.
Should the present plan of the as
sociation be executed false esti
mates will in future be impossible.
The commissioners have about
reached the conclusion that the tax
receiver in each county is the pro
per man to estimate the crop.
One of the actions of the con
vention will be an announcement
of the estimate of the crop this
year. Every indication points that
the crop will be short compared
with last season.
Figures, unofficial, show a crop
of 9,500,000 bales will be about
what the commissioners believe is
in sight
A STREET EPISODE.
How the Deputy and His Sky Scrap
nsrßiK Startled the Denizens.
Dep.ity Sheriff Warren Tinsley
is nothing if not serene, and it
takes serenity and double-distilled
composure to handle a wiry animal
when it takes a notion to run away.
Tide deputy a tew mornings ago
sat quietly in his red-spoked bug
gy 011 the square at the north end
of the depot. The square was
clear of people, the forty-eleven
who go to the train having dis
persed to their homes, the park
and their quiet, cool corners near
the back doors of their stores. A
switch engine, one of those things
which fool people and even horses
—making them think the train is
coming —was giving giant puffs
and occasional wild shrieks on the
opposite side of the depot. The
horse didn’t like the noise and be
gan to manifest it by putting his
nostrils in the air his ears straight
up and giving his feet a restless
shuffle. These were sure prelim
inaries and in a few moments he
went bounding southward across
tbe square. First a few toad-hops,
increased to Kangaroo skips, then
to gazelle bounds and finally to
broncho bucks, and vehicle and
man up in the air until they didn’t
even hit the high places. The
capers first seen by a few, creating a
stir, soon brought many to the
streets, and breathless, everyone
expected to see the vehicle smashed
to kindling wood and the deputy
hurled to his death, But in this
they were agreeably disappointed.
The bystanders didn’t know at first
whether a cyclone or a frontier
cayalcade after untamed Comanches
was passing, and as the buzzing
spectre in a cloud of dust swept by
the Jones corner and marked an ir
regular angle into Main street,
some imagined they heard sounds
as from the crushing and snapping
of wood and that they saw a man’s
figure flying skyward. Quicker
than it can be told the speeding
combination fetched up in a dead
sudden halt in front of Stanford’s
bakery, barely missing a trash
barrel near the sidewalk. A quick
graceful turn put the deputy in the
street headed again for the rail
road. As he sat as demurely as a
girl in a flower parade, and drove
gently by the crowd flush with ex
citement someone said: “Warren,
were you killed?” and another
“what was it got broke?” He gaye
one meek joint reply: “I’m all
right; I wpl just out for a little
spin.”
HAVE YOU TRIED THAT
NEOPOLITAN ICECREAM
AT WORD’S, ITS DELIC
IOUS.
‘Roy^l.
,—bschitely
Pup* •POWb
No inferior or impure ingredients are
used in Royal for the purpose of cheapen
ing its cost; only the most highly refined
and healthful.
Royal Baking Powder imparts that
peculiar sweetness, flavor and delicacy
noticed in the finest cake, biscuit, rolls,
etc., which expert pastry cooks declare is
unobtainable by the use of any other
leavening agent.
Alum is used in making cheap baking powders, il
you want to know the effect of alum upon the
tender linings of the stomach, touch a piece to
your tongue. You can raise biscuit with alum
baking powder, but at what a cost to healthi
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM 8T„ NEW YORK.
A MIDNIGHT BURGLAR.
Enters Mr. Cry'(, House and Steals
His Wtch.
Last SatUJuay night the resid
ence of Mr. H. E, Cary, on north
Erwiu street was entered by a burg
lar who secured his watch and ri
filed his pants of some small change
which was the only money he had
in his pockets.
The burglar entered the house
through a window in the sitting
room which opened into Mr. Cary’s
room. Mrs. Cary heard a noise in
the room and waked Mr. Cary who
immediately got up and made a
light. He tound that his watch,
which was on the bureau, was gone
and his pants were lying in the
middle of the floor. He soon found
where the burglar had entered the
house through the window by cut
ting a slat in the blinds. Mr. Cary
lost no time in reporting the mat
ter to the marshal and also tele
phoned the marshal at Kingston to
look out for tramps on a freight
train which passed Cartersville just
after the burglary.
On Sunuay morning he received
a message from Mr John Burrough,
the marshal at Kingston, that he
had his watch, but the burglar had
gotten away.
The burglar was a negro and
was found in a box caron the train
that pissed Cartersville just after
the burglary, and had the watch
in his possession. Mr. Cary re
ceived his watch by the Thursday
morning train.
OLD FOLKS* SERMON.
Special Service at the Baptist
church Sunday mornlr.gr.
Next Sunday morning there will
be a special service for the old
folks of Bartow county at the Bap
tist church. Rev. Alex W. Bealer
the pastor will preach a special ser
mon to the “gray headed children
of the King.” His subject will be
“Tne old man’s guide.”
There will be a special music
rendered by a chcir composed of
some of the gray headed children
of the king who will icad the wor
shippers in singing some of the
old fashioned songs of Zion.
In speaking of the service Mr.
Bealer said “There is a tendency
to-day to lay a man on the shelf
when he has passed the “dead line”
of middle life and to treat him with
pity because his hair is not as dark
as it used to be, his eye not as
elastic. This is all contrary to the
teachings of the bible for its most
blessed promises are for the chil
dren and the aged.
In the evening the subject of the
sermon, as it is the first Sunday of
the autumn, will be “The outlook,
for a harvest.”
The public and especially stran
gers in the city are cordially in
vited to attend these services.
The New York Racket
Store opens today. Go and
see the new stock and
splendid bargains.
fn placid rest lies my v i
'I in- pride and |>v o*' •> ie,
She was everything to us;
'I ii<* ii,„r slit did ■. .• . ust.
She was get tie, kind, hiving, Irno,
As each one who knew tier knew.
She's ssdl.v missed morn ano night;
Be't God’s will it U all right.
Empty chair at table sit—
None else could it ever tit.
Her sweet beautiful life
Asa dear, faithful wife,
As we count her good deeds o’er.
Will shine bright forevermore,
But than this will go lui uutr
Her devotion as a mother,
She was precious to her home;
Never leaving it alone
Now she leaves it sad and drear,
Fr >m when we left hei'hresouoauhoer
Nevermore will she return,
O! to f<r 11 r what sad concern.
She was lovely!. 0>1 how r-n
Too> n<f mankind others k <>w—.
She was loved by humankind,
For 1 er character wo divine.
She sleeps lo u; ah! .-he sleeps sweet, *
Kneeling upon Jesus’ feet.
As we leave tier 011 the hid,
Returning to our bitter pill,
Hearts are bursting front our grief—
God alone can give relief.
J. K. B,
PEACH-GROWING SECTION.
Great Profits to Growers In Geor
gia Peach Region.
Chattanooga Times.
It is stated by fruit growers
that had it not been for unfavora
ble weather this year Georgia
would have shipped 3,000 carloads
of fruit north during the season,
principally peaches. The peach
business it is stated, is just getting
, well established and in a few years
it will grow to vast proportions.
The Georgia pe ch has a most en
viable reputation away from home,
'it is claimed, and in flavor it is
without a peer.
“A grower of Ada : rsville, Ga.,”
said a fruit man yesterday, “had
1.300 trees on eight acres of land
and gathered 4,700 crates of
peaches off of them, and sold them
right on the ground at $1.20 pier
crate, thus receiving $5,640.”
The same gentleman stated that
fair peach land could be purchased
at $lO per acre and 160 trees
planted to an acre. These young
trees can be purchased at 2 cents
per tree. The gentleman further
stated:
“Wherever iron abounds peach
trees will thrive. Georgia abounds
in such mineral, which gives her
fruit such a rich flavor. A man
can make a good living for him
self and family on twenty acres
of peach land and at a cost of very
little labor. It is the best place in
the Lnited States for immigrants.”
The railroad men claim the
freight on peaches is only one
fourth of that on first-class freight.
Protracted Services.
Beginning this week, there will
be services at the Methodist church
every day this week, except Satur
day. Rev. A. L. Harris, Rev. Lee
Allgood and C. A. Dunaway will
assist in the meeting from Sunday.
All Christian people and the pub
lic at lar?e are cordially invited to
attend these meetings.
NO. 49.