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GOVERNS BY EXECUTION
Count Tolstoi Declares this the
Policy of Czar’s Govevnrnisnt.
INHUMAN DEEDS ARE COMMON
Russian Author Declares That Ha Can
No Longer Endure the Crimes
Committed in Russia.
London, England.—The Daily Chron
icle prints three close columns of the
most passionate and severe indict
ment ever penned toy Count Leo*Tol
stoi, the Russian author, in which he
shows all his old vivid skill, of the
present system or “government by ex
ecution’’ in Russia, the article con
cluding with a no ole appeal to the
better nature of his countrymen.
During the course of the article, the
count writes:
•T can no longer endure it. I write
this * * * either mat tnese iuau
man deeds may be stopped or that my
connection witn them may be snappeu
and 1 be put in prison, where I may
be nearly conscious that these hor
rors are not committed on my behalf,
or still better (.so good that 1 'dare not
even dream ot such Happiness), that
they may put on me as on those twen
ty or twelve peasants, a snroud and
a cap and may push me also off a
bencn so that my own weight may
tighten the well-soaped noose around
my old throat.”
After describing wholesale execu
tions in gruesome detail, Count Tol
stoi says:
“All this is carefully arranged and
planned by the learned and enlight
ened people of the upper class. Tney
arrange to do these things secretly at
•daybreak and they so subdivide'the
responsibility of these iniquities
among those who commit them that
each may disclaim responsibility, and
not these dreadful things alone, but
all sorts of other tortures and violence
are perpetrated in the prisons, iort
resses and convict establishments.”
With regard to the government’s
contentions that there is no other way
to suppress the revolutionists, Count
Tolstoi, while admitting that the rev
olutionists’ crimes are stupid and rep
rehensible in the highest degree, ac
cuses the government of doing the
same thing for the same motive and
adds:
“All the revolutionists bombings and
murders do not come anywhere near
the criminality and stupidity of the
deeds the government commits.”
“JOCK” FLEMMING IS DEAD.
Won Fame by Taking Cruiser Talla
hassee Through Northern Fleet.
Halifax, N. S—“ Jock” Fleming, who
won renown during the United States
civil war by taking the confederate
cruiser Tallahassee out through the
eastern passage in Halifax harbor, in
1864, eluding the northern fleet that
was lying in wait, is dead at Ketch
Harbor. He was 98 years of age.
Fleming had been a pilot for over 60
years and while he figured in many
adventures his most famous exploit
was that of the Tallahassee.
The Tallahassee was trapped in Hal
ifax harbor while coaling, by a strong
northern fleet, and was given forty
eight hours by the British admiral
within which to escape or surrender
to the British flag. In the dead of
night Fleming took the southern cruis
er down the eastern passage, a shal
low' unused channel on the eastern
side of the harbor used only'by fish
ing boat, and when morning broke the
Tallahassee had vanished.
NEW COLLEGE AT MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
One of the First of Its Kind in the
County Opens September Ist.
Milledgeville, Ga. The American
Cotton College, an institution for the
education of young men, farmers,
'warehousemen, cotton buyers and oth
ers, in the science of classifying and
grading cotton, has been instituted
here by Prof. J. H. Dickinson and Mr.
R. L. Wall, the well known cotton
buyer and expert, and will begin opei
atdons on (September Ist. Suitable
quarters have been secured and a
large attendance at the first sessions
is atsured.
The new college is one of a ver>
few of the kind in the country.
Classes will be taught by correspon
.dence as well as by person and this
feature is sure to become populai.
PARDON THAT WAS USELESS.
Arrived- Seventeen Years After Ma..
Had Completed Sentence.
Columbus, Ohio. Eighteen years
after George Swanston completed ins
one-year sentence in the penitential>
here for violating the United states
pension laws, a full and complex
don arrived at the institution.
CHINESE IN BOX CAh. !
Nine Men Had Been in Closed Car
From San Francisco to Baird, Texao.
Abilene, Texas.—A deputy sheria
broke the seals off a box car at Baird,
Texas, and arrested nine Chinese,
concealed Uier, who, it i- s a, h -
were bci*j a.uggled into this coan
try Ti>e car came from San Francis
co and was consigned to Pittsburg,
Pa It was about half loaded • 1
beans in sacks and the Chinese had
about forty gallons of water in can,
a box of crackers and a couple or
leaves of bread when arrested, "
was what was left of the provisions
they started with.
SEE# EIVIS 0? THE EARTH.
International Race for tae North and
South Poles.
New York City.—When Commander
Robert E. Peary boards his’ steamer
Roosevelt at Sydney, Cape Breton, and
at aits or. his expedition in search of
the North Pole, an international race
1 uttermost ends of the earth
will be on.
Peary hopes to carrv the stars and
stripes to the North Pole, while a Brit
ish Antarctic expedition, commanded
by Liept. fcrnest H. Shackleton, is
Dying to place the union jack of the
British empire 90 degrees south. Al
though the British expedition has a
year handicap in point of time, Peary
hopes to win the race. Lieut. Shack
leton and party left London on July
30, 1907, on board the Nimrod, orig
inally a Newfoundland sealing vessel
of 227 tons, but which has been refit
ted as a steam barkentine.
Shackleton is an officer of the Brit
ish navy and before leaving London,
King Edward bestowed upon him the
Victorian Order. He was a member
of the British Antarctic expedition of
1902-03 under Captain Scott, and with
his commander and another member
of the party accomplished a sledge
journey with dogs to a point 82 de
grees 17 minutes south latitude, dur
ing which they were absent from their
ship, the Discovery, ninety-three days,
and covered a distance of 960 miles.
FINDS JOBS FUR IMMIGRANTS.
Government Starts Big Employment
Bureau for Foreigners.
Washington, D. C. —Interesting
work is being done by Secretary
Straus, of the Department of . Com
merce and Labor, for the immigrants
coming to this country by the forma
tion of a gigantic free employment
bureau.
Nine hundred thousand postal cards
have been sent to all employers on
rural free-delivery routes, whether
they be farmers or artisans, asking if
help is needed in their communities.
Already more than 1,400 replies have
been received, although the cards
were sent out only a short time ago.
The immigrants after going through
the channel of immigration reach a
stage where they are suspicious of
every person. It is expected that it
will restore their contidence and ma
terially aid them when they can be
made to see that the employment .bu
reau is uhder the control of the Gov
ernment ar.d is designed for their es
pecial benefit.
That the foreigners are beginning
to appreciate the work, which in reali
ty is in its infancy, is shown by the
success in New York city. The office
in New York was opened about Feb
ruary 1. So great was the rush of
applications one day last week that
the presence of the police was neces
sary to restore order. There were
551 new applications for work during
the week. Of this number 97 immi
grants were sent to farmers in vari
ous States and secured remunerative
employment.
MRS. CLEVELAND GRATEFUL.
Ex-President's Widow Acknowledges
Condolence.
New York Cil.v. —So great has been
the number of messages of condolence
received by Mrs. Grover Cleveland
since the death of the ex-president,
that she has found it impossible to
make personal response to all of
them. Therefore, she has given to the
press the following communication in
acknowledgment of these messages:
Westland, Princeton, N. J.—ln our
great grief there have come to my
children and myself from all over our
country and from other lands expres
sions of condolence in our bereave
ment and of a participation in our
sorrow. My heart is touched by these
and by all the tributes paid to Mr.
Cleveland in word and act. I am deep
ly grateful for the comfort that God
gives in this way. I regret that the
multitude of these messages renders
it impossible for me to send a per
sonal word of thanks for each. The
press has kindly offered to bear for
'me this expression of my own and my
children’s gratitude and appreciation,
and I hope it will reach all who have
thought of him and of us.
FRANCES F. CLEVELAND.
LIABLE TO PROSECUTION.
Doctor Must Not Prescribe Denatured
Alcohol.
Washington. D. C. —That both the
physician who writes a prescription
tor denatured alcohol and the ' drug
gist who ,prepares the prescription
and sells the medicine to the patient
are liable for criminal prosecution, is
held in a decision rendered by Com
missioner of Internal Revenue Capers.
The decision is the result of the ac
tion of some druggists who prescrioed
denatured alcohol for external medic
inal purposes not knowing that to do
„o is a violation of the law.
BELLS IN 46TH STUBV.
Metropolitan Building to Have Four
of Largest in the World.
New York City—Four of the largest
and costliest bells in the world are
to be placed in the forty-sixth story
of the new tower of the Metropolitan
1 ife Insurance company’s building, in
Madison Square, and from a position
about 650 feet above the pavement,
nearly twice as high as any in the
world, their deep tones will announce
eac-n quarter of an hour.
Thev will give what is known as
the Cambridge quarters, four blows
each quarter of an hour, eight blows
each half, twelve blows on the three
quarters and sixteen blows each hour,
followed by a striking of the hour.
NOMINATION ACCEPTED
Thos. Watson Formerly Notified
by Populist Farty.
MADE ELOQUENT ADDRESS
in Atlanta Defending Policies of His
Party—Six Thousand People At
tend the Meeting.
Atlanta, Ga. —Honorable Thornes If
Watson of Georgia was notified
Thursday of his nomination for the
presidency by the populist party, the
notification speech being made by
Judge Jay W. Forrest of Albany, N.
Y., and in an address which covered
national Issues in a vigorous and com
prehensive fashion accepted the nom
ination. Previous to his being noti
fied of his nomination Mr. Watson ad
dressed the Georgia state convention
of the populist party.
The notification meeting was held
at Ponce de Leon Park at Atlanta,
and the hall was crowded. About six
thousand people being in attendance.
After Mr. Watson ascended the plat
form, Dr. W. W. Landrum, pastor of
the First Baptist church, Atlanta, of
fered a fervent prayer, and when Mr.
Watson was presented to the audi
ence, the band played “Dixie,” and be
cause of the continued applause it
HON. THOS. E. WATSON.
was several minutes before the speak
er was able to begin his eloquent ad
dress, in the midst of which he he
ceived frequent applause, holding the
close attention of the entire audience.
In his speech of acceptance Mr.
Watson referred repeatedly to himself,
and his political comrades as “we Jef
fersonians,” indicating faintly the
change in title which* it is predicted
will ultimately be made in the peo
ple’s or populist party.
The change, it is said, will not be
made by any sudden act or resolution.
The name Jeffersonian, say the au
thorities, will gradually come into
general acceptance ,and will eventual
ly supersede the present name which
the party headed toy Mr. Watson
bears.
Mr. Watson’s speech was a clear
exposition of the principles of the pop
ulist or Jeffersonian aarty.
With forcible diction, Mr. Watson
advocated and condemned, upheld and
criticised. He declared himself In fa
vor of municipal ownership, in direct
reference;* tnough municipal owner
ship (with its corailary, government
ownership) is condemned by many
populists as creating a government
political machine, a gigantic oligar
chy, which it would be Impossible to
overthrow.
He condemned corporations and
capitalism in specific terms, excoriat
ing them for their greed and for the
insatiate maw which tney feed with
human life annually greater than the
losses of the civil war.
He attacked President Roosevelt as
an alleged big stick president who
stands pat with the stand-patters.
He criticised the president for not
issuing government notes and break
ing the money corner in Wall street
that caused the panic last fall.
He condemned protective tariff, be
lieving that trusts are the offspring
of monopolies and that trusts can
never be stifled until monopolies are
done away with.
He denounced the new national
currency law, the Aldrich-Vreeland bill,
saying that the national government
has surrendered its sovereign power
to individual bankers when the constl
tution expressly forbids even to states
the right to issue currency or to make
other than gold and silver their legal
tender.
He attacked the interference in
state government which federal judi
ciaries have been practicing of recent
years, arrogating to themselves a
right which does not exist. At the
conclusion of his speech Mr. Watson
was given a great ovation.
MORE COAL FOR UNITED STATES.
Army Officer Found Large Deposit in
Philippines.
Manila, P. I. —Captain Hubert L.
Wigmore, an army engineer, employ
ed to develop the government coal
flelds on the Island of Batan, who re
turned to the United States in the
; transport Buford, has uncovered im
mense deposits of coal, sufficient for
use by the government for years to
| come. Army and navy tests show
that the coal is superior in every re
spect to the Australian and Japanese
product.
Mining experts now in the United
States are purchasing machinery for
j the further development of the mines.
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