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AN AUDITOR
IS APPOINTED
For tfse Southern Mutual Build=
iug and Loan Concern.
AN ATLANTA MAN SS SELECTED
Status of Defunct Association Is
Changed and Final Disposi
tion of Affairs Delayed.
Tbod. A. Hammond was appointed
auditor in the Southern Mutual Build
ing and Loan Association case at At
lanta Wednesday morning by Judge
Lumpkin. The test case which was
under way collapsed and further pro
gress being impossible, owing to the
inability of the attorneys to agree on
the facts, the auditor was appointed
upon motion of one of the attorneys.
It is thought that the litigation has
been delayed a year and a half by the
change in the course of affairs.
Under the conditions which the
case was progressing, it was thought
that the court would settle the ques
tion of withdrawing members, but
when the attorneys for the plaintiff
offered an amendment to their peti
tion there was considerable objection
and this was the beginning of the
breakdown in the proceedings.
To settle the difficulty Judge Lump
kin asked if their was any objection to
an auditor. There was some discus
sion of the proposition, but no decided
opposition was offered. Many of the
attorneys present agreed that it was
the proper thing to do. Suggestions
were then made as to who should be
appointed.
Judge Spencer R. Atkinson was sug
gested. Other names were put forward
and there was a long discussion over
the selection. It was finally agreed
that Mr. Hammond should be appoint
ed by the court. Judge Lumpkin then
directed an order to be drawn to that
effect.
The entire ca,sie will be in the hands
of the auditor ar|d he will hear all the
evidence that is I to be presented, the
contentions of the parties and the ar
gument on any questions which may
arise. Every feature of the case will
be considered by him, and he is in
structed by the court to have his re
port ready to be submitted by Decem
ber Ist of the present year.
The answer of the receivers to a pe
tition asking for a reduction of ex
penses was filed with the court. In it
the receivers stated that the work
which had been; entailed on them by
virtue of the winding up of the affairs
of the association had been very great
and would continue as much so as in
the past.
It was stated while the expenses of
the association for office help during
the prosperity of the concern had ex
ceeded $2,000, since the receiver took
hold of it the office expenses had been
about $385 per month or less than one
fifth of the amount expended each year
by the association when it was in its
corporate existence.
They showed who had been employ
ed by the receivers and how they had
been conducting the affairs on a great
ly reduced scale. It was stated that
in the original order of the court re
garding the appointment of a receiver,
while the court thought it best to have
two receivers, compensation for only
one was provided.
It was stated that the work of caring
for the numerous ancillary receiver
ships in various other states than
Georgia had been very great and the
work would continue so long as the af
fairs remained open. They said that
the appointment of an auditor will
place upon them considerable more
work.
of reducing expenses
a long discussion. Judge
ifr *1 Mr. O’Brien U.th spoke
Bjl.t they had done and that
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CONFERENCE.
ROYALISTS DENOUNCE LOUBET
Exciting Scene In the French
Chamber of Deputies Over
Sunday’s Affair.
A Paris special savs: There were
violent scenes in the chamber of dep
uties Monday afternoon owing to roy
alist denunciations of President Lou
bet, and the soldiers on duty had to
expel the chief anti-Lonbet speaker,
M. Rious de Largentaye. The cham
ber of deputies met at 2 o’clock. The
public galleries w6re crowded with
people, including many ladies.
The galleries of the senators and
diplomats were also full. There was
a large and early attendance of depu
ties, who animatedly discussed the in
cidents of Sunday. Premier Dupuy
and the minister of justice, M. Lebret,
sat on the ministerial bench.
At 2:25 o’clock M. La Loge said the
hour of action had struck. This pro
voked cheers from the leftists and
murmurs from the rightists, and a
babel of cries in which M. Casagnac
and Laslies, auti-semite, participated.
M.,La Loge asked the premier if he
had been warned beforehand of Sun
day’s demonstration. He then eulo
gized President Loubet, who, he
said, undertook the presidency in a
time of stress. (Loud applause.)
M. Rious de Largentaye, conserva
tive, representing the division of
Diuan, Cotes-Du-Nord, shouted:
“Loubet is not honest; he is a Pana
maist!”
The statement called for violent pro
tests and shouts of “order;” but M.
Largentaye persisted in spite of the
uproar aud hooting, in declaring hon
est men were arrested Sunday. This
was followed with shouts of “down
with Loubet,” and a scene of wild ex
citement ensued.
After an exciting debate, M. Meline
and his supporters moved the order of
the day, approving the government’s
action. It was carried without a di
vision after the first part had been
adopted by a vote of 513 to 32 aud the
second part had been voted by 326 to
173.
The scenes at Auteuil on Sunday
and in the chamber of deputies Mon
day have only had the effect of in
creasing the popularity of President
Loubet and of strengthening the hands
of the government.
Count Boni de Castellane has writ
ten a letter to The Echo de Paris de
nying the statements of newspapers
that the countess (formerly Anna
Gould, of New York,) placed herself
at the head of the Jeunesse Royalist
at the Auteuil demonstration. The
count declares his wife does not belong
to the clubs, and that she did not leave
her seat, from which she could not
even see what was occurring.
The municipal council also discussed
the Auteuil affair Monday afternoon,
and M. Blanc, prefect of police, an
nounced that fifty of those under ar
rest would be prosecuted for insulting
the president. The council unani
mously adopted a resolution express
ing its abhorrence to the insulting
demonstration and its respectful sym
pathy with and confidence in M.
Loubet.
A REDUCED COTTON CROP.
Reports Indicate That Fall Off Will He at
Least Ten Per Cent.
The indications are that this year’s
cotton crop will bring better prices
than that of 1898.
The crop of 1899 will be smaller
than that of 1898 unless there is a
phenomenal yield. The acreage is re
duced and fewer fertilizers are used.
All estimates and authorities agree
that this is true.
The records of the Georgia depart
ment of agriculture show that the sales
of fertilizers in the state have dropped
from 421,256 tons last year to 335,016
during the season just closed.
This is a reduction of 21 per cent
on all crops, but the reduction on cot
ton is greater. The department esti
mates it at 25 to 27 per cent. Latham,
Alexander & Cos. put it at 30 per cent.
This means, other things being equal,
a reduction in the yield per acre.
The reduction in the acreage in
Georgia is estimated 13 per cent by
Latham, Alexander & Cos. The re
ports received by the state department
of agriculture show a decrease of about
15 per cent.
The reduction iu acreage for all the
cotton states is estimated at 10.4 per
cent by Latham, Alexander & Cos,
This estimate is given in a circular
letter issued by that house. It is based
on 2,577 replies to inquiries sent out. I
HE SCHEME IF MEDIATION
IS READ BEFORE THE PEACE
CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE.
FUN MEETS FULLEST APPROVAL
Any Country May Offer To Mediate—Doc
ument Consists of Light
Articles.
Advices from The Hague state that
the arbitration committee of the peace
conference held a meeting Monday
under the chairmanship of M. Leon
Bourgeois. Mr. Andrew D. White, head
of the United States delegation; Sir
Julian Pauncefote, head of the British
delegation, and M. De Staal, head of
the Russian delegation, with all the
members of the committee present.
After M. Bourgeois had made a
sympathetic reference to the death of
Miss Roth, daughter of Dr. Roth, head
of the Swiss delegation, who was killed
in a railway accident last Thursday at
Flushing, the secretary of the drafting
committee read the draft scheme of
mediation it had had under considera
tion.
Articles 1 and 2 are declaratory—to
the effect that the signatory powers,
in order to prevent a recourse to force,
have agreed to effect pacific solutions
of differences and will in excep
tional circumstances before an ap
peal to force, have ' recourse to the
mediation of one or more friendly
powers.
Article 3. Independently of a re
course to such amicable means, the
signatories deem it expedient that one
or more powers not concerned in the
conflict should offer its or their own
initiative and so far as circumstances
will permit its or their good offices of
mediation to the states at variance.
The rights to offer good offices of me
diation belongs to powers not con
cerned in the conflict, even duriug the
course of actual hostilities, aud the ex
ercises of this right can never be con
sidered by the parties at variance as
an unfriendly act.
Article 4 provides that the role of
mediator shall consist in the reconcil
iation of conflicting claims and the
allaying of bitterness Detweeu states
at variance.
Article 5, declining the limitation of
the functions of a mediator, says these
shall cease on the moment when it is
stated by one of the parties to the dis
pute or by the mediator; that the ar
rangements or the basis of a friendly
understanding proposed by him is not
accepted.
Article 6 says that the good offices
contemplated, either at the instance of
the parties at variance or on the initia
tive of uninvolved powers are exclu
sively of the character of friendly
counsel.
Article 7 asserts acceptance of medi
ation cannot have the effect except by
virtue of a convention to the contrary
of interrupting or retarding or ham
pering mobilizing or other prepara
tions for war. If mediation intervenes
after the opening of hostilities it shall
not interrupt except by virtue of a
convention to the contrary military
operations in course of execution.
Article 8. The signatures are in
accord to recommend in all circum
stances permitting it, special media
tion in the following form: In the
event of grave differences threatening
political states at variance shall choose
respectively a power to which each
shall confide the mission of entering
into deliberations with the power
chosen by the other side, in order to
prevent a rupture of friendly rela
tions. During the currency of their
mandate, which except in the event of
a stipulation to the contrary, shall not
exceed Uiiitydi^^MHi|HHßlfli
M
THE KIDNAPERS ARE HELD.
County Sheriff Refuses To Give j
Up the Abductors of
riarion Clark.
A New York dispatch says: Arthur
A. Clark, fa'her of baby Marion Clark
who was kidnaped a week ago, and
restored to her parents last Thursday,
has filed an information against James
aud Jennie Wilson and Carrie Jones
for kidnaping. The two former are in
custody at Nyaek.
When .Chief McCluskey went to
Nyaek Friday after the Wilsons Sheriff
Blauvelt refused to surrender the pris
oners, maintaining that the Rockland
county authorities had jurisdiction iu
the case. McCluskov says the sheriff’s
refusal to surrender the prisoners is
outrageous and declares he will appeal
the matter to Governor Roosevelt.
The Wilson woman is reported as
saying that Carrie Jones gave her the
baby as a sick child in need of coun
try air. She was paid for taking
charge of the baby. The man known
as Wilson is said to be George Beau
regard Barrow, a lawyer of Little
Rock, Ark.
Carrie Jones, the nurse who had
charge of little Marion Clark, was ar
rested at Summit, N. J. The girl’s
real name is Bell Auderson. Before a
notary public she made the following
confession:
“I aided in the abduction of Marion
Clark, the infant child of Author W.
Clark, of the city, county and state of
New York. In this abduction I was
prompted by Mark Beauregard and his
wife Jennie.
“I was told by them that I would
get half of any ransom paid for the
return of the child. I was poor, tired
of hard work and wanted money. I
was told that there would be absolutely
no danger.
“The Beauregards schooled "me in
the way to abduct the child. We had
determined to take the first child that
would command a ransom.
“I met Mrs. Beauregard in Central
park. I would not let her take the
child then, I so pitied its mother.
“On Sunday I met Mrs. Beauregard
in the park again and she was so per
sistent that I let her take Marion from
the baby carriage. We went to Brook
lyn by the south ferry.
“That afternoon Mrs. Beauregard
took the letter to the Clarks, she
herself had writteu and gave it to a
boy iu New York to deliver to the
Clarks. I knew Mrs. Beauregard
wrote the letter.
“On Monday, when the abdnotion
became public, the Beauregards aud
Marion and I, Mrs. Beauregard carry
ing the baby, wont to Sloatsburg; I
staid there until Friday and then went
to the Beauregards’ fiat.
“Yesterday Mr. Beauregard came to
see me, gave me $lO and told me to
leave the city. I then went to my
aunt’s home at White Oak Ridge. I
don’t know why I did this, except I
was ill aud needed money.”
BIG BIMETALLIST BANQUET.
Bryan and Belmont Kntertain Ohio Valley
Democrats at Louiaville.
Seven hundred and sixty-nine bi
metallists from all parts of the United
States broke bread Friday night with
William Jennings Bryan at the dollar
banquet at Fountain - erry park, Louis
ville, Ky. It was given by the execu
tive committee having charge of the
convention of the Ohio Valley League
of Bimetallic Clubs. The supply of
tickets, which were open to all, were
early exhausted, and Fountain Ferry
park, the largest pleasure resort in the
city, was thronged with those anxious
to obtain admission. The principal
features of the occasion were speeches
from Hon. W. J. Bryan and O. H. P.
Belmont.
It was strictly a dry baftquet, ice
water and coffee beiDg all that was
handed down.
LITTLE ROCK KNOWS BARROW.
Kidnaper of Marion Clark In Son of a
Prominent Ark annas Lawyer.
mu ips hi rat;
A HOT ROAST TOR GERMAN PRO
FESSOR HAASKARL.
WILLIAM REFUTES AN OLD THEORY
Professor Claims That Negroes Have No
Soul and the Bartow Han Is Aroused
At the Assertion.
Professor Haaskarl, Dr. Haaskarl,
Rev. Mr. Haaskarl, of the Lutheran
church of Chambersburg, Pa., is said
to be a learned man—a scientist, an
authority on ethnology, but like all
German philosophers his investiga
tions lack breadth. German education
is generally limited to a certain line of
study and thought and every other
line is ignored or sidetracked. The
parent chooses his sou’s calling or
profession in the boy’s early youth
and his education is strictly on that
line. If it is music he pursues that
calling diligently and devotes from
twelve to fifteen hours a day to it. I
knew a young German who studied
nothing but bugs and another who
made a specialty of snakes. Before
the civil war we had au accomplished
civil engineer in Borne who thought
that cotton grew on cottonwood trees
and had to be picked by climbing lad
ders. He dident have the knowledge
of a ten-year-old boy about anything
except engineering and he didn’t care
for anything else. One German doc
tor will study tuberculosis and the
germ theory and nothing else, while
another will devote his life to the eye
or the ear. These onelineners are of
great benefit to science and to man
kind, for they probe to the bottom and
never give up, but their very earnest
ness in one direction prevents their
acquiring very broad views of life as
it is.
Now, Dr. Haaskarl has suddenly
discovered that the negro is the miss
ing link—the link that Darwin sought
for, but never found—the link that
completes the chain that begins with
the monkey, then the babboon, then
the ourangotang, then the gorilla,then
the negro, and last the white man.
Therefore he says that the negro has
no soul to save and it is folly to preach
Christianity to him. I reckon that
the learned doctor is a young man or
not passed middle age, or he would
have known that this theory of his is
no new thing—-no discovery, for some
thirty years ago a scientist in Tennes
see asserted the same thing and wrote
a book on it and called it “Ariel.” The
press says that this theory of the
learned doctor has been boldly and
publicly announced and has created
great excitement and indignation
among the northern negroes. The
missing link has raised a howl around
the doctor and he had better not cir
culate too loosely among them. If
they are not human beings then, of
course, they are beasts and must be
looked ufter by the society for the pre
vention of cruelty to animals. This i
will very much enlarge the business of 1
that society and we may look for a
northern wing of it to come down here |
to stop this lynching business. But i
if the negro is a beast and has no soul
to be saved, his premature death would j
seem to be of less consequence. So I
let the Pennsylvania row go on. I am I
glad that we are not in it.
But I would like to get our darkey, j
Bob Smith, after that German.' Bob !
is a smart negro and has a big mouth j
full of pearly teeth that he shows on i
all occasions, for he loves fun and is
always ready for a joke. His I>osr
took great delight in teasing Bob and
one day said to him, “Bob, what are
you niggers going to meeting so much
for? You will lose your crop running
up to the cross roads every day to that
nigger meeting. Don’t yon know that
a nigger hasent got any soul, so what,
good is going to meeting to do to
you?”
And Bob said, “Look here, boss,
a nigger hasent got no.
n ;
of a soul did each one have? And
here are 4}>e Chinamen, who have not
mixed and are all of a color, but are
not white. Have they got souls? And
there arc the Japanese, and last of all
the Jews, who are darker skin than the
Anglo-Saxon.
If Adam and Eve were Jews then
have we the pure whites got souls? For
it is sai 1 that Adam was a red man.
Where will the professor draw the
color line? Livingston says that there
is just as touch difference between a
Congo and a Dahomey negro in
color and race traits as there is be
tween an American Indian and a white
man and that the different tribes v ry
in customs and language and laws and
superstition as much as do the differ
ent tribes of our Indians. If a black
negro has no soul, has a red Indian
got one? If the civilized Cherokee or
Creek has a soul how about the savage
Comanche?
Dr. Haaskarl says that the negro
went into the ark as a beast and is a
bea3t yet. Some are, I reckon. My
friend Maxwell, of Arlington, proves
that Sam Hose was, and there are oth
ers of different colors who are worse
than any boasts we know of and whom
we hope have no souls to be tormented
in the fires of hell and therefore
should be burned in this world. Solo
mon says that the spirit of man goeth
upward and the spirit of a beast goeth
downward into the earth.
; But this theory of the doctor will
uot bear a serious thought. If he had
confined it to physical structure of
the imported African, whom New Eng
land rum paid for and brought over
here, it might have some force, but he
can’t investigate the soul or where it
came from or whither it is going,
i That is a mystery past our ken. There
j is an aged woman here whom everybody
j knows as Old Mamma Heyward who
! is old enough to have come from Af
rica and looks as much like a baboon
; as possible, but if there is a true Chris
tian inCartersville we all believe she is
one. Though ninety years of age, she
takes a back soat in the white folks’
| church every Sabbath and rejoices in
the service. She has faithfully served
[ lour generations and is serving yet.
j If she has no soul now perhaps it is
I possible for the Creator to give her
j one when she dies so that she may eu
' ter that rest that remaineth for the
people of God. And we know many
negroes who give as much evidence of
having souls as do the Christians who
are white, but most of this black gen
eration are headed for the chaingang.
That same merry-hearted Bob was sent
to the chaingang for killing another
negro, which he dident mean to do,
for it was a willing fight and he says
now that “Dar is some as mean nig
gers in the de chaingang ns dar is out
en dar.”
And there is the faithful Tip who
was born ours and who loves us all
yet. The slave who grew up with our
older children and cared for them and
they cared for him—the trusted friend
who watched me long and tenderly
while I was down with fever in the
Virginia army. Wlint about Tip hav
ing no soul? But Tip is a gingereake;
he is not a black man. Tip and his
parents are of that peculiar color that
Livingston ranks so high among the
native tribes. The Guinea negro is
more like the missing link and they were
the h st servants in the world except
their desire to pick up little things
that wouldn’t be missed. An original
Guinea negro whose blood has not
been crossed is as docile as a shepherd
dog. Now this startling deliverance
of Dr. Haaskarl shows that he knows
nothing practically about the negro
and is imbued with the prevailing
northern prejudice against him. He
should come down here and attend
one of their shouting meetings and
see the women carried out in a swoon.
—Bill Aup in Atlanta, Constitution.
WILL NOT SEEK PLACE.
Wheeler Will Make No Move to Spcnre
Gubernatorial Honor.
In an interview with a prominent at
torney of Gecatur, Ala,, who has stood
close to /General Wheeler for years,
who hf/i managed his campaigns, and
can bet presumed to speak authorita
tively,'he said, in substance:
have had no direct com-