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f He couranl lamerican. 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. ~ T 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.