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JEFFERSON.
Mies Susie Thompson is visiting
relatives in the country.
Mis* Mary Lee MahafTey and
her brother. Claud, left last week
on an extended visit to relatives at
Haw'kinsville, Ga.
Miss Bonnie Brock of Brockton,
visited our town last Tuesday.
Miss May Askew of Center, vis
ited the home folks last Saturday
and Sunday. She was accompa
nied by one of her pupils, Miss
Gussie Johnson.
Mrs. Cynthia Cheely of Wilner,
is the guest of Dr and Mrs. Elder.
Master Guy Crr entered school
at Martin Institute last Monday.
Mr. Tom King of Athens was in
town last Sunday.
Mrs. Nancy Wright of Winder,
visited friends and relatives in
town last week.
o Mr. J. W, Lotts was seen on our
streets last Monday.
The city court did some work
Inst, week —four convicts to send
eIY soon.
Mr, Tom Morrison carried Bud
Bacon to the sanitarium last Fri
day. and Mr. C. A. Mathews of
New Town district, was alsr car
ried down last Thursday. This is
three this year and still prosperity
needs no comments.
Mr. E. M, Thompson has about
sold out his stock of goods, and
will probably fiinn this year.
Mr. and Mrs. Quattlehaum visit
ed friends in the country last
Sunday.
Mr. F. L. Pendergrass will oc
cnpy the store room vacated by
M r. Thompson,
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Uid S.itnini• ** • himnliit tt *. 1‘ • * 'J K ('•■••tb
G. W. DeLnPerriere, Winder, Ga.
Bethlehem,
Our Lujg w’as visited by a shower of
ruin recently, also a Magic lantern
show
Mr R. S. Harris has bought the in
terest of Messrs. C. E. Suns an t A. T.
Harrison of the firm of Harrison Bros
& Sims, and has moved his excellent
family buck to Bethlehem. The style
of the firm now is R. S. Harris & to.,
and is composed of R S. Harris and W.
Popo Harrison.
Dr. J. J. Bridges bought on last Tues
day, a nice youug horse from Air E. .J.
Bedingfleld. The horse is a beauty and
was raised by Uuncle Ed who is a most
excellent horse master.
Our young people enjoyed a tacky
party nt the home of Air. and Airs W.
C, Yearwood Tuesday night,
Airs. Miuie Bed in field returned home
Monday from an extended visit to her
her parents at Statham.
Air, J. C. Breedlove, of Monroe was
in town Tuesday.
Mr. A. M. Wright and family, of
Mountain district visited relatives in
town Sunday.
Mrs. Johuie Moore will leave Thurs
day for South Georgia, where she goes
to join her husband, who recently
moved there.
Not a pound of guano in Bethlehem
yet.
Air. ami Airs. W. B. Treadwell visit
ed relatives in Alountain district Sun
day.
Air. A. T. Harrison, the clever drum
mer for Bethlehem Cider Cos, sp nt
Sunday at homo.
Airs, E. L. Thomas is on an extend'd
visit to relatives iu town. Star Ray.
Tetter, Salt-Rheum and Eczema
Ti e intense itching and smarting
incident to these diseases, is instantly
allayed by applying Chamberlain’.-
Eye and Skin Ointment. Many very
bad cases have been permanently cured
by it. It is equally efficient for itching
piles and a favorite remedy for sore
nipples, chapped hands, chilblains,
frostbites and chronic sore eyes. 25t
per box.
Dr. Cady’s Condition Powders are
just what a horse needs when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are not food but
medicine aud the best in u>e to pur a
horse iu primo condit'ou. Price
a package For sale bv H. g. Toole,
Winder, G a
One Minute Cough Cure, cures, j
That is what it was made for.
ALL WOMEN
from female troubles should
try the "Old Time” Remedy,
It has no equal. It strengthens the
delicate femaleorgans and builds a wom
an up. All suffering and Irregularities at
“monthly” periods can be avoided by Its
use. >t Is for young girls maturing, for
mothers, and for women at Change of Liie.
Shoud housed before child-birth.
Sold'by all druggists, or sent (postpaid)
on receipt of price SI.OO.
FREE: Book on Home Treatment of Fe
male Diseases. NBW SPENCtK MEDICINE CO.,
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
U. VS . DeiaPerriere, W aider, Ga,
LOW STREET CAR FARES.
lAperipnce Slums That They Heanlt
In an Inert-rise of Receipt*.
The question is often asked. Would
not a reduction in sir >t car fares great
ly increase the traffic without a corre
sponding increase of expense?
All experience shows that an increase
of street car traffic does not bring a pro
portionate incr, ■of expense, and it
is self evident that a reduction of fares
would considerably in -r use the traffic.
Such facts as can be gathered from tho
three cities Del roit, Toronto and Glas -
gow, that have made a marked redu>
tion in street car fares, throw much lied.'
on the question.
Tin new Pi troit railway, known a
the Detroit Electric railway, which
Pingreeintroduced, h • 1 ■ n practical')
absorbed by the Detroit Citizens’ Stave.
Railway company ai 1 has too small a
traffic to be of any v.ilr:-> in this com
parison. But the •lu 5 cent fare of
the Detroit Cii Irens’ f'.rc't Railway
company was chang -1 in 1 .si)s or 1896
to si’, tickets for J 5 c :Us at all hour:-’
and eight tickets for 26 cents for over
an hour in the m aiding ai.d evening,
the average faro now being about 4,4;
cents.
Tho gross receipts in 1894 were SL
-05 , 134 and in 1897 £1.102,250. Thin
increase of 10 per cent would mean an
ii i ivn -i: in passengers from about 20,-
nbO.OOO to about 2(1.000,000, or about
30 per cent, while the increase of pas
sengers in the case of tho Chicago City
railway from 1894 to 1897 was from
81.191,987 to 95,<121,112, or about 13
per cent. In tho case of the North Chi
cago railway the incr -use of passengers
was from 49,571,473 to 56,854,147, or
about 14 per cent. The total receipts
of the West Chicago system actually
declined in that time because in part
of the elevated roads from $4,181,237
to $3,890,918.
In Toronto fares were reduced in
1892 to about the same basis as in De
troit, averaging about 4U cents, and
the traffic has increased from 10,418,-
4 4 3 passengers in 1891 to 25,271,314
in 1897, or an increase of over 50 per
cent. Tho increase in the four years
1891-5 was to 23,353,228 passengers, or
over 40 percent. Of course the trans
formation during that time from horse
car to electric traction and the increase
of mileage from 68.7 miles in 1891 to
89 miles in 1895 would account for
much of the increase, but there has
been a transformation to electricity and
some increase in mileage also in Chi
cago. Generally speaking, there has
been no such rapid increase of traffic
elsewhere on this continent as in these
two cities of Detroit and Toronto.
The 26 largest American companies
that have reported continuously for
three years to American street railway
investments reported gross receipts in
1895 of $76,741,000 and in 1897 of
$84,852,866, an increase in the three
years of only 10 per cent in receipts
and likewise in passengers carried, for
fares have remained virtually the same
on all these roads. The number of pas
seng< rs carried has scarcely increased
one-third as fast in the cities that have
not reduced fares as in the two that
have done so.
Finaily Glasgow, under municipal
ownership, without any considerable
ext i nsion of mileage or any transforma
tion to electricity, but with better ears
au i a reduction of fares of about 30 per
cent, increased the number of passen
g< rs carried from 57.104.647 during the
11 months ended May 81, 1695, a rate
of about 03,000,000 a year, to 100,344,-
48 . in the 13 mouths ended May 31,
1698. This is about 70 per cent increase.
If. then, as thorough investigation
shows, the three great Chicago street
railway systems could now pay a good
profit on the cost of duplication with a
straight 4 cent fare, it is altogether
likely that such a reduction would bring
an increase of traffic that would justify
within live years a still lower fare.
All these considerations not merely
point to the wisdom of demanding an
immediate reduction of fares, but show
the folly of attempting to fix fares 25
or 50 years in the future at such a fig
ure as present traffic might seem to war
rant. What would be a fair charge to
day is likely to become an exorbitant
one in a few years both from the growth
of traffic and the development of inven
tion. —Edward W. Beniis in Chicago
Record.
EAGAN IS ON TRIAL;
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Acknowledges Using Words
Quoted In the Charges.
BUT CLAIM JUSTIFICATION
Courtmartial Ordered Convened to
Try the Commissary General Meets
at Washington and Proceeds With
the liusfness In Hand.
Washington, Jan. iiu.—The board of
army officers designated by the secre
tary of war to sit as a courtmartial in
the case of Brigadier General Charles
P. Eagan, commissary general of sub
sistence, charged with conduct unbe
coming an officer and a gentleman and
conduct to the prejudice of good order
and military discipline, in connection
with his testimony before the war in
vestigating commission, met in the red
parlor of the Ebbitt House at 10 o’clock
this morning and almost immediately
proceeded to the business in hand.
The court consist and of Major General
Wesley Merritt, U. S. A ; Major Gen
eral James F. Wade, U. S. V.; Major
General M. 0. Butler, U. S. V.; Major
General S. M. B. Young, U. S. Y ;
Brigadier General Royal T. Frank, U.
S. V.; Brigadier General George M.
Randall U. S. V.; Brigadier General
Jacob Kline, U. S. V , Brigadier Gen
eral Richard Comba, U. S. V.; Colonel
Peter 0 Haius, corps of engineers; Col
onel George L. Gillespie, corps of en
gineers; Colonel Charles li. Suter, corps
of engineers; Colonel Francis L Guen
ther, Fourth artillery; Lieutenant Col
onel George B Davis, deputy judge ad
vocate general, judge advocate of the
army.
The members of the court, who ap
pea red in fuil dress uniform, were
seated about a long table placed length
wise ot the room, General Merritt, the
president of the court, occupying the
seat at the head. At just 10 o’clock
Colonel Davis called the roll of the
court, all of the members responding to
their names. As he concluded, General
Eagan appeared with his counsel, Mr.
A. S. Worthington, formerly United
States district attorney for the District
of Columbia, and took seats near the
judge advocate at the foot of the table.
General Eagan also wmre the full dress
uniform of his rank. Almost immedi
ately Colonel Davis arose and intro
duced General Eagan and his counsel
and then proceeded to read the order
convening the court.
The judge advocate when this was
concluded turned to General Eagan and
inquired whether he objected to any of
the members of the court as designated
by the order. General Eagan replied
“I do not. ”
The members of the court then arose
and took the usual oath, which was ad
ministered by Colouel Davis. The
charges and specifications were then
read.
Arraigned on Two Charges.
The charges and specifications under
which General Eagan is being tried are
•s follows:
Charge 1. Conduct unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman.
Specification—ln that Brigadier Gen
eral Charles P. Eagan, commissary gen
eral of subsistence, U. S. A., did, whila
testifying as a witness before the com
mittee appointed by the president to in
vestigate the conduct of the war de
partment in the war with Spain, sub
mit and read as a part of his testimony
certain written statements in which he
did make use of, and thereby publish
the following disgraceful, grossly in
sulting and ungemlemanly language
with reference to Major General Nelson
A. Miles,commanding the army, namely:
“If and when General Miles charges
that it (meaning tinned fresh beef) was
furnished as ‘pretense of experiment,’
he lies in his throat, he lies in his heart,
he lies in every hair of his head and
every pore of his body, he lies wilfully,
deliberately, intentionally and mali
ciously. In denouncing General Miles
as a liar when he makes this statement,
I wish to make it as emphatic and as
course as the statement itself. I wish
to force the lie back into his throat,
covered with the contents of a camp
latrine.”
This at Washington, D. C., Jan. 12,
1899.
Charge 2. Conduct to the prejudice of
good order and military discipline.
Specification—ln that Brigadier Gen
eral Charles P. Eagan, commissary gen
eral of subsistence, IT. S. A., did, while
testifying as a witness before the com
mission appointed by the president to
investigate the conduct of the war de
partment in the war with Spain, sub
mit and read, as a part of his testimony,
u certain written statement in which lie
did make use of, and thereby publish
the following grossly abusive and un
military lauguage with reference to the
major general commanding the army,
namely:
Language That Eagan Used.
“It and when General Miles charges
that it (meaning tinned fresh beef) was
furnished as a ‘pretense of experiment,’
ho lies in his throat, he lies in'his heart,
he lies in every hair of his head and
pore of his body, he lies wilfully,
deliberately, intentionally and mali
ciously. If his statement is true that
meat was furnished under ‘pretense of
experiment’ then I should be drummed
out of the army and incarcerated in
•date prison. If this statement is false,
ns 1 assert to be, then he shonld be
drummed out of the service and incar
cerated in prison with orhr libelers.
“His statement is a scandalous libel,
reflecting upon the honor of everyone
m the department who has contracted
for or purchased this meat, and espec
ially and particularly on the commis
sary general—myself. In denouncing
General Miles as a liar, when he makes
this statement, I wish to make it as em
phatic and as coarse as the statement
itself. I wish to force the lie back into
his throar, covered with the contents of
a camp latrine.
“I wish to brand it as a falsehood of
whole cloth without a particle of truth
to sustain it, and unless he can prove
his statement he should be denounced
by every honest man, barred from the
clubs, barred from the society of decent
people and so ostracised that the street
bootblacks would not condescend to
speak to him, for he has fouled his own
ucst, he has aspersed the honor of a
brother officer without a particle of evi
dence or fact to sustain iu any degree
his scandalous, libelous, malicious false
hood, viz: That this beef or anything
whatever was furnished the army under
■pretense of experiment.’ ”
This at Washington, D C., Jan. 12,
1899.
Pleas of the I)-f -ndant.
During these preliminary proceedings
General Eagau exhibited no signs of
nervousness, but the expression of his
face aud his manner cleariy indicated
that he realized that the trial involved
consequences to him of the gravest char
acter. While he stood listening to tne
charges and specifications, his face
seemed somewhat paler than usual. At
the conclusion of the reading, on being
requested to plead to the specification
to the first charge, he said: “Not
guilty,” uot denying, however, that the
specifications set forth correctly a part
of the language used.
To the second charge he pleaded “not
guilty. ”
The judge advocate then arose aud
said that the case iu hand was a pecu
liar one, but presented no unusual diffi
culties. The accused had seeu fit to
add to his plea of not guiity some words
tending to qualify it, but he did not
think the plea relieved the court from
the necessity of proving the facts al
leged. Judge Worthington responded
briefly, and explained why the qualify
ing words had been used upon liis
recommendation. The specifications did
the accused a great injustice iu that it
selected particular expressions without
giving the context and iu one or more
instances the specifications quoted be
gin in the middle of a sentence.
Continuing, Air. Worthington said
that he desired to state briefly to the
court the substance of General Eagan’s
defense. Whatever, said he, the court
may think of the propriety of the lan
guage used by General Eagan before
the war investigating committee, there
was no doubt in his (Worthington’s)
mind that he was fully protected in
using that language by the laws of the
laud. In no court, civil or military, he
said, could the accused be held account
able for his language, even if it could
be shown that the speaker was actuated
by malice.
In addition to this, the president of
the United States had instructed the
war investigating committee to an
nounce publicly that witnesses before
that tribunal would be given immunity
for whatever they might testify to. This
was a solemn promise given by the pres
ident of the United States and counsel
had no doubt that the court would find
that General Eagan could not under
these circumstances be held to answer
to a military courtmartial for liis lan
guage.
Allies Had Been Shielded.
General Aides, he said, had appeared
before the committee about three weeks
before General Eagau had made his
statement and on that occasion had
made most sweeping charges against
many of his subordinates aud particu
larly against him aud the commissary
department of the army. He had
charged General Eagau with being in
competent and neglectful of his duties
and had inferentially charged him,
General Eagan, with issuing poisoned
meat to the soldiers of the army and
had averred that many had died in con
sequence. He had also implied that
General Eagan was acting corruptly in
the matter.
Immediately upon reading the testi
mony given by General Miles, General
Eagau went to the secretary of war and
asked leave to bring charges against
him. General Alger had replied that
under the president’s order of immunity
General Aliles could not be held respon
sible for his language before the com
mission. The newspapers then took it
up and goaded General Eagan almost to
desperation. He had come to believe
that the press and the country at large
had accepted the accusations made by
General Aliles as true aud the condition
of his mind in consequence grew worse
and worse until he was in a state bor
dering on distraction.
The language which General Eagan
under these circumstances used was the
natural outburst of an honest man suf
fering under an unjust accusation. In
closing Judge Worthington said that
General Eagan could not be held ac
countable for his language before any
tribunal in this country, civil or mili
tary, and particularly under the presi
dent's order of immunity.
Court Visits the President.
At 10:55 o’clock word came from the
White House that the president would
receive the members of the court be
tween 11 and 12 o’clock. Thereupon
General Alerritt announced that court
would take a recess for the purpose of
paying their respects to the president of
the United States.
Reassembling at 11:30 o’clock, a few
minutes was given a photographer in
which to take a picture of the court aud
then Alajor S. <J. Mills was called to
testify on behalf of the government. He
said he was the recorder of the war in
vestigating commission and was pres
ent and heard General Eagan’s testi
mony before the commission. The man
ner of General Eagan iu giving his tes
timony, he said, was of a man laboring
under great excitement, but trying to
control his excitement.
\\ itness had charge of the typewrit
ten testimony given by General Eagan
and bad delivered the same to General
dl L’s hotel, Subsequently, the
witness bad returned the paper to Gen
eral Eagan with a letter from the com
mission declining to receive it in its pres
ent condition. He recalled some of the
words used by General Eagan in his
testimony, which agreed substantially
with the phraseology used in the speci
fications, and identified the language
quoted, and had not the original state
ment been destroyed after the objec
tionable words had been expunged, he
he would willingly produce it here.
Major General McCook, retired, a
member of the war investigating com
mission, was the next witness. He was
present and heard a part of General
Eagan’s testimony before the commis
sion.
“The impression I had,” he said,
“was that General Eagan must be la
boring under great nervous excite
ment.” He recalled some of the lan
guage used and it agreed substantially
with the te-timouy as published.
< liildren Rousted to Death.
Mount Olive, Ills., Jan. 25.— Peter
Novak and A. Croat, his wife aud three
children have been burned by a coal ex
plosion. A boy 6 years and a baby of
4 months were roasted to death. The
third child and the mother were fatally
binned, while the father’s injuries are
serious.
EXAMINING BOARD NAMED.
Set of Rules Issued For Admission to
the Georgia Bar.
Atlanta, Jan. 23. —Pursuant to an
enactment of the late session of the
general assembly, the supreme court has
issued a set of rules for admission of ap
plicants to the bar of Georgia for the
practice of law. The board of examin
ers is named and consists of Washing
ton Dessau of Bibb county, John R. La
mar of Augusta and Joseph A. Cronk of
Chatham.
The rules give specific instructions to
the board of examiners and to the
judges of the superior courts, who will
receive the applications of persons seek
ing admission and give out the neces
sary forms for the applications.
This information has been printed in
pamphlet form. The little book also
contains the act of the general assembly
making it necessary for all persons seek
ing admission to be examined by the
board.
Heretofore, and since the establish
ment of the state government, it has
been the law for the judges of the supe
rior court to conduct the examination
of applicants for admission. The method
became more or less useless, as the ap
plicants were as a rule improperly ex
amined, and the adoption of anew
method of admission to the bar became
necessary to keep the standard of the
bar of tho state as high as it should be.
CAPTURED A SPANISH FLAG.
Eaton, Captain of the Cruiser Reso
lute, Resented an Insult.
Havana, Jan. 23.—Captain Eaton cf
the auxiliary cruiser Resolute, captured
a 20-foot Spanish flag iu the harbor aud
incidentally taught 30 Spaniards a les
son in manners. A Spanish schooner
of about 70 tons sailed alongside the
Resolute, where it hove to, and with a
cheer of defiance from the men aboard
an immense Spanish flag was run up to
the masthead with the Cuban flag be
neath it.
Captain Eaton was forced to recog
nize the insult and ordered Naval Ca
det Tarrant and Marine Officer Thorpe,
with a file of marines, into a steam
launch, which speedily overtook the
Spaniards. The captain refused to
obey the order to lower the flag, where
upon the marines went aboard and took
forcible possession of the Spanish, leav
ing the Cuban flag flying at the mast
head.
The occupants of the schooner were
then compelled to give three cheers for
the Cuban and American flags, after
which the vessel was allowed to pro
ceed. The captured flag will be held as
a prize.
FAST MAIL APPROPRIATION.
The Semite M;.y Restore a Provision
Stricken Out by tile I! use.
Washington, Jan. 23 —Friends of the
special appropriation for fast mail facil
ities over the southern railroads are
looking to the senate to restore the pro
vision stricken out of the post office bill
by the house Thursday. This appro
pria.ii n was for $171,238.
For many years past there has been a
fight in the house to keep out of the bill
the special provision for fast mail facili
ties between Boston and Florida. The
senate has invariably put it back in the
bill and kept it there in spite of the pro
test of the house.
The senate has always been able to
justify its course in granting special fa
cilities to the Southern roads in this
particular. The new conditions in Cuba
render necessary the most expeditious
transfer of the mails to Florida aud
other points in the south.
A SOUTHERN BALL LEAGUE.
Organization Effected by Delegates
at New Orleans.
New'Orleans, Jan. 23—The South
ern Baseball league has been organized
here with New Orleans, Mobile, Birm
ingham aud Shreveport as the four
cities. Montgomery was given a fran
chise provided a sixth club is obtained,
aud the league will ask Atlanta or Co
lumbus, Ga., to take the place.
Henry Powers of New Orleans was
elected president, with D. P. Burns of
Mobile vice president. Umpires will
receive $125 per month. National pro
tection will be asked.
Each club will put up SSOO guarantee,
and the season will begin April G and
last four mouths.