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OFFERMftN AND WESTERN RAILROAD
Schedule Taking Effect August 20, 1000.
Wwsr Bound! East Bound.
Head Down Kea<l Up.
STATIONS.
No. 3. | No. 1. No. 2. I No. 4.
r. M. I A. M. I*. M. I A. M.
730 (> 10 Lv Offermau, Ar. 245 715
7 50 0 40 “ Bristol “ 2 20 G 50
“ Woods “
8 15 7 05 “ Coffee “ 1 55 G 25
8 20 7 20 “ 1G Mile Post “ 1 40 G 20
8 40 7 50 “ Sallie “ 1 15 6 00
855 810 “ Alma “ 12 55 545
900 815 “ 25 Mile Post “ 12 50 540
825 “ Hurst “ 12 40 530
“ Higdon “
“ Dedge “
945 910 Ar Nicholls Lv. 12_00_ 500
Truins Nos. 1 and 2 daily except Sunday.
Trains Nos. 3 and 4 Sunday only.
Connections at Offermau with Plant System, and at Nicholls with Way
cross Air-Line. J. F. GRAY, Superintendent,
Offerinau, Ga.
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Time Table.
Tailing effect 12:01 a. m. Wednesday November Ist, 1899, Superseding Time
Table Hated Sept. 24th, 1899. Central Time Standard.
North bound. south bound.
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ex Sun ex Sun only STATIONS. ex Sun ex Sun only
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8 00am £3opm 4 30pm jLv . Waycrgss .Ar 1 10pm 10 00am 9 10am
8 10am 4 40pm jLv Jamestown Lv 1 02pm 9 02am
8 15am 2 57pm 4 45pm |Lv Waltertown Lv 12 57pm 9 20am 8 57air.
8 24am 4 54pm i Lv .Upchurch. Lv 12 48pm 8 48am
8 34am 322 pm 5 04pm Lv ...Elsie.. .Lv 12 40pm 8 54am 8 40am
(8 42am) 335 pm 5 12pm |Lv ...Bolen.. .Lv 12 31pm (8 42am) 8 31am
8 55am 4 00pm 5 25pw Lv ... Beach... Lv 12 19pm 8 28am 819 am
9 04am 5 34pm Lv . Murrays.. Lv 12 03pm 8 03am
9 15am 4 28pm 5 45pm Lv . .Sessoms.. Lv 11 53am 8 00am 7 53am
9 25am 4 38pm 5 53pm Lv .Granville.. Lv 11 49am 7 50am 7 49am
9 33am 5 18pm G 03pm Lv ..Nicholls.. Lv 11 3Gain 7 15am 7 3Gam
9 48am 5 38pm G 18pm jLv ... Bells.. .Lv 11 21am 6 50am 7 21am
10 1 Oam G 00pm G 40pm lAr ..Douglas,. Lv 1100 am G 30am 7 00am
No. 1 and No. 4 will meet, and pass at Bolen according to rules.
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... . 8 35a 8 25p 5 15a Ar Dupont Lv. 11 05p 11 59a 7 OSp
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j 8 30a Ar Jacksonville Lv.] 7 45p 8 00a!
I 8 00p llOp l.v Jacksonville Ar. 4 55p 4 30a
i 5 40a 8 lOpiAr Lakeland Lv. 9 20a !) 15p
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j. 8 80a 10 top Ar Port Tampa Lv- 7 :kal 7 25pl
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ilOOOp'Ar Hi. Petersburg Lv.j 7 15a
B p lAr Live Oak Lv.! 6 22p
i 8 40p Ar Areher Lv. 1 OOp
... ...1 110 00p Ar Tallinn Lv.i 8 00a’
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Arrive Havana 5:00 a. m. Wednesdays, Saturdays and Mondays.
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BILL ARP’S LETTER
Bartow Man Discusses the Ques
tion of Suicide Among Negroes.
THE BLACK MAN HAS NO REMORSE
Old “Uncle Lewis” Kxprc*sos His Views
Means of Be!f-Deittructloii Should
Not le So Handy.
The rapid increase of suicides in the
j south is alarming and provokes the
serious study of our thinking people.
Fifty years ago a suicide was a rare
event among the white race, and never
heard of among the negroes. When
it did occur, it was considered an evi
dence of insanity. Ido not recall but
one instance in my youth and that was
an old woman who jumped into a deep
well when no help was in reach. Bat
nowadays almost every daily paper
contains an account of one or more
self-murders, and even negroes have
j taken the infection, for they will imi
j tata every vice and frailty of the
j whites. Old Lewis, who is my wood
j chopper, asked me the other day how
1 it was that the white folks kill “der
selves so much, and de niggers
dident.”
“Because,” said I, “white folks are
more easily overcome with grief, or
remorse, or distress, than negroes.
You negroes don’t borrow trouble, nor
take it hard whea it does come. You
don’t give yourselves much anxiety
about tomorrow, or next week, or next
year. You don’t grieve long over a
death in the family; your emotional
nature is of a low grade; your marriage
relation is loose; in fact, it is on the
decline since freedom came. The mar
riage records show that your legal
marriages are 60 per cent less, accord
ing to population, than in the white
race, and the decrease gets less and
less every year. Your young men and
women don’t marry; they just take up
and quit when they please, and so the
men don’t care very much about the
welfare of their children, if they have
auy.
Besides all this, Uncle Lewis, your
race has stealing little things,
and this atoounts in a great measure
for their indifference to the laying up
of something for the future; some
thing for the winter, or the rainy
days, or for old age. If the worst
comes to the worst, they know they
can steal or beg. If your young folks,
men and women, haven’t got but a
dollar in the world they will spend it
for a watermelon, or an excursion,
and take the chances. Now, Uncle
Lewis, you remember when there
wasn’t a ebaingang in the south, nor a
heinous crime nor a brutal outrage,
committed by your people, from the
Potomac river to the Rio Grande.
Now there are in Georgia alone over
4,000 of your people in the chaingaugs,
and there would be 4,000 more if all
the little stealings were punished.”
Uncle Lewis had stopped cutting and
was leaning on his ax helve.
“Dat’s all so,” said he, “and boss I
knows it, and boss what I wauts to
know is dis: What must we poor nig
gers do about it?” There is the rub.
I couldn’t tell him, but I did say,
“Uncle Lewis, your race has got some
mighty good traits, and I like to have
yon about us; you are kind-hearted,
good-natured, easy to please and don’t
carry malice or revenge in your hearts;
you steal, but you don’t cheat any
body. The white race won’t steal, but
they will cheat, or take advantage in a
trade, and that is worse. If yon trust
a negro with anything he will not
abuse your confidence, but a white
man will embezzle and defraud, aud
even the cashiers of banks will appro
priate the bank’s money and falsify
the books for months and years.
Every race has its race traits, both
bad and good. Boras of your bad ones
were almost run out by slavery, but
they have come back again, aud all
yonr college education does not stop
it. It makes it worse. There is noth
ing that will stop it but work, con
stant work,every day, under somo good
employer. Work on the farm is yonr
best safeguard, or work as mocL„nics
under good contractors. Your peo
ple make good mechanics, and the
white people employ them and patron
ize them just as willingly as they do
white mechanics. The negro black
smiths and masons get good employ
ment here aud everywhere, and as for
cooking and washing and nnrsing,
your women have it all. The two races
would fit together nicely if it wasn’t
for politics and idleness. An idle ne
gro is a dangerous creature aud should
be taken up aud put to work. He is
much more dangerous thau au idle
white man, for he has no shame, and
fears not God nor regards man. If I
were a law-maker, I would make con
tinued idleness a crime, for, as Ben
Franklin says, “It is the parent of
vice.”
I started to write about suicides, but
got to preaching Uncle Lewis a ser
mon and got off the track. Nineteen
hundred years ago Plutarch, the Greek
historian, said that self-murder was
cowardice, for a brave mau would suf
fer rather than take the life that God
gave him. Belt-murder was a heinous
crime nuder the old English law. The
estate of the felo de se was confiscated,
and taken away from his family. His
body was buried on the highway with
out a ccffiu and a sharp stake thrust
through it to mark the accursed spot.
Suicide was under the ban of the
church, aud no prayers were said for
his soul.
In no civilized country has suicide been
justified, except in snch cases as that of
Saul, who fell on his sword because,
as he said, “Lest these nneirenmeised
Philistines thrust me through and
abuse me.” Or perhaps that other
notable case the scriptures record,that
of Judas, whose remorse was so dread
ful he preferred hell or anything that
would be a change. But generally it
is “better to --ndure the ills we
have than, fly to those ive know not
of.” Almost every day we read of
young men and young women killing
themselves because of disappointment
or dissipation, or about love or money.
They must believe there is no hereaf
ter, or all punishment ends with this
life. Surely no Christian mau or wo
man would think of self-murder.
Wait, wait., young man, young wo
man; wait, I say—suffer and be strong;
only cowards kill themselves. The
soul is locked up in this casket and
God only has the key. Wait and trust
Him. Bemorse for a great crime may
atone somewhat for self-murder. Miss
Morrison might have killed herself af
ter she killed her rival, and it would
have seemed heroic. When Othello
discovered his great mistake in killing
Desdemoua, his preroration was grand
as he said, “I took the circumcised
dog by the throat and smote him
thus,” and then stabbed himself and
died, for, as Shakespeare says, “He
was great of heart.” In ancient Greece
and Rome their notable warriors some
times killed themselves, rather than
suffer the stings of defeat in battle.
In Japan military officers commit
what is called harakari (ripping open
the abdomen) to avoid personal dis
grace. But in our land the pistol or
poison has superseded all other means
of suicide. It would save thousands
of lives if the pistol was abolished by
law. Not one should be allowed in
any household; they are entirely too
convenient for murder or suicide or
robbery or revenge. And the sale of
poison should be so regulated that no
one could buy it except upon the most
careful inquiry as to its intended use.
Human life is too sacred to be endan
gered by pistols aud poison, for, as St.
Paul says, “Wo are made in the image
of God.”
Well, we see that Mr. Crumpicker,
or Stnmpsucker, or somo such name,
from Indiana, has opened the ball at
Washington with his usual screech
owl howl agu.ast the south. He was
in such a malignant hurry that ho got
iu the first bill, and it is to reduce the
representation of the south in con
gress. He reminds me of Hainan,
whose stomach would not digest his
food as long as he saw Mordecai sit
ting at the king’s gate. He has begun
to build a gallows for us. Let him
beware, for it was Ilaman who was
hanged. Some of these rabid Repub
licans remind me of old Cato, the Ro
man censor, who hated the Carthege
nians so bad that he never voted on
any question in the Roman senate
without adding, “And I also vote that
Carthage be destroyed.”
But nobody cares; we will yet
have a schoolbook commission in
every southern state. The south is
moving right along in spite of north
ern insults aud northern literature. I
see that “Barbara Frietchie” is to be
played in Atlanta. I wonder if that
dramatic lie will be patronized by any
self-respecting southern man or wo
man? Many years ago a yankee troup
come to Rome with “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin,” and we egged them out of
town. That’s what we done. They
may abuse us from afar off, but they
shan’t come down here and rub it in.
—Bum Aep in Atlanta Constitution.
EXPLANATION DEfIANDED.
Case of Contractor Hay Against Gau
temalans to Be Investigated.
In the absence of apy official report
of the facts, tho state department has
taken notice of the press reports of the
arrest at Port Barrios, Guatemala, of
the Amerieau railroad contractor,
May.
An instruction has been sent by ca
ble to Mnited S ates Minister Hunter,
at Guatemala City, to make an imme
diate investigation of the ease and if
he finds that the facts are as set out in
the press reports, then he is to insist
apon the release of May.
DEWET’S FORCES RETREAT.
British Troops, Under Knox, Drive
Boers From Their Position.
The war office at London has re
ceived the following from Lord Kitch
ener, dated Bloemfontein, Deeombers:
“General Knox re-engaged DeWet
near Bethulie, on the Smithfield road,
yesterday. He drove the enemy from
all their positions before dark, when
they retreated northward. Colonel
Pilcher assisted by a turning move
ment on Knox’s left.”
Lord Kitchener reports also several
minor affairs.
STRIKE 15 STILL ON.
Telephone and Teie**-aph Companies
In Texas Re n Firm.
Vice President Pettingill, of the
Southwestern Telephone and Tele
graph company returned to Austin,
Texas, Wednesday from a tour of the
state and au examination of the strike
situation. He announced that it will
be a fight to the finish as far as his
compauy is concerned, as they have
done everything fair by the strikers
and can do no more. The situation is
getting rather strained in San Auto
nio, Houston and Dallas especially.
W ANT RIVER IMPROVED.
A Delegation From South Calls On
Committee In Washington.
A Washington special says: A large
delegation of Tennessee and Alabama
citizens appeared before the rivers
and harbors committee Friday to urge
the improvement of the Tennessee
river in Alabama and Tennessee. The
delegation was headed by General
John T. Wilder, of Knoxville, and
J. C. Harris, of Huntsville.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
New Trial For linker.
James L. Baker, the Atlanta wife
killer, who was convicted of murder
and sentenced to be hanged, has al
ready been respited a number of times,
has been given anew chance to save
his neck through a decision of the su
preme court.
Baker, it will be remembered, en
tered the dining room where his wife
was seated with other persons and
shot her to death in their presence.
He has never denied the crime, but
the plea was made in his behalf that
he was insane when it was committed.
The supreme court decrees that
Baker must have a regular jury trial
to determine whother he is or is not
insane. The decision was rendered
by Justice Lewis. Justices Lumpkin
and Fish dissented.
* * *
Governor Approves Courtmarttal Findings
Governor Candler has approved the
finding of the Savannah courtmartial
in the case of Corporal R. S. Harris,
company M. First infantry, charged
with disorderly conduct at Louisville
in May last. The court ordered Har
ris dishonorably discharged, which
verdict carries with it certain disabil
ties.
In approving the finding of the court
Governor Candler issued an order
pardoning Harris, so that his disabil
ities might be removed, and repri
mands Captain Wilson and Lieuten
ant Barthelmess for their conduct to
ward Harris. His order and repri
mand read as follows:
“I approve the findings of the court
in this case because under the evi
dence the defendant was technically
guilty. But his offense was commit
ted under great provocation aud was
more technical than real, and for these
reasons he is hereby pardoned of said
offense.”
* * *
Comptroller Ordered to Court.
A writ of maudamns has been served
upon Comptroller General Wright to
have him show cause before Judge J.
H. Lumpkin, in the Fnlton superior
court at Atlanta, why he should not
conform to the board of arbitrators ap
pointed to determine the amount of
taxable property of the Plant system
of railroads in this state.
* * *
Doraing’s Official Report.
C. W. Deming, of Brunswick, -who
attended the recent Southern Indus
trial convention at New Orleans as the
official representative of Governor
Candler, returned to Atlanta Friday
and made his report to the governor.
Concerning the part Georgia played
in the convention, Mr. Deming said:
“Georgia was kept prominently in
the foreground throughout the conven
tion by such men as CaDtain Lyman
Hallj Colonel W. A. Hemphill, Gener
al John B. Gordon and other promi
nent members of the delegation. In
their addresses on the floor and at
other times they presented statements
showing the opportunities this state
offered to investors.”
...
Union Station Promised to Savannah.
President John Skelton Williams,
o#the Seaboard Airline is quoted ns
saying a tripartite agreement has been
signed between the Seaboard, South
ern and Plant System for the building
of a $500,000 union depot at Savannah.
...
Warns Receiver Appointed.
Samuel Greeubaum, of New York,
has petitioned Judge Newman, through
his attorneys, to foreclose a mortgage
on the Union Paper Company, of
Conyers, and to appoint a receiver for
the concern. A temporary restraining
order was also requested, so as to pre
vent the company from changing, in
any manner, the present status of the
business. Judge Newman granted the
restraining order and named Saturday,
December 22d, as the date for the
hearing of the receivership petition.
The Wellhouse brothers, of Atlanta,
are connected with the paper com
pany.
* * *
Y. M. C. A. State Convention.
Active preparations for the state
convention of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association are now being made
by State Secretary Reid. The con
vention will be held at Athens, Feb
ruary 7 to 10, and the attendance this
year promises to be the largest in the
history of the association.
Delegates from the Atlanta associa
tion are now being chosen and there
will be in all more than a carload.
Other cities and towns in Georgia will
send large delegations. The program
for the cogvention is now being pre
pared and will be put in the hands of
the printers for publication in a few
days.
...
School Taxes Not Changed.
The general tax levy of two and one
tenth mills for school purposes, which
was enacted by the last general assem
bly, will not be changed for the next
two years. This was the decision of
the house of representatives when the
tax act was taken up and placed on its
passage aud when the effort to reduce
the levy to two mills had failed. The
ways and means committee, through
its chairman, £d L. Wight, strongly
recommended the reduction of the rate
on the ground that property values in
Georgia had increased over $22,000,-
000 in the last year and that with such
au increase a tax of two mills would
more than raise the SBOO,OOO appro
priated to schools.
* * *
To Adjudicate Bond Election.
Judge Henry, of the Floyd county
superior court, has set Monday, De
cember l/tn, as the
argument npon the vt
cent bond election in . - ■
A recent law requir
tions to go before a juV T
rior court and ia ty f
validity of the vote A
can be issued by
sioners. a V
Will Be Hi#
Congressman \
notified by AttorcQH
in Washington, thats'lok-,;£'
the Atlanta federal ftrrnint °
der the civil service^p'^L 1 ®
chaplain, physician JOOQS.
ent. 4' can
The system in use \ \l
prison will be put in
lanta institution. All
places will be required to pass fit- A
aminatiou for fitness. The
tion will be conducted in Atlanta Wr
April. M
Colonel Livingston has said that hp
has received about 1,000 applications
for places but says he can do nothing
yet in the matter of appointments.
The superintendent of the prison
will receive a salary of $3,500 a year.
Mr. Griggs is quoted as saying the su
perintendent may not be taken from
the south, as the department desires
to put an experienced government
service man in charge.
Colonel Livingston is opposing this
plan and wants a Georgian selected.
He is trying to have all the employes
and officials selected from the fifth
congressional district.
Colonel Livingston says he has not
made any recommendations for places,
and can do nothing until Attorney
General Griggs makes out the list,
and now that the civil service rule has
been decided upon, applicants will
have to take their chances on exami
nation.
...
Georala Revenue Receipts.
The annual report of the commis
sioner of internal revenue has been
issued by the revenue department and
contains much valuable information.
The report deals with the work of the
different revenue agents throughout
the union, and shows the different
sources from which the government
derives millions of dollars.
The report, as relates to Georgia, is
very interesting. Among other things,
it shows that this state holds the rec
ord, in reference to illicit stills, or, -J
other words, the profession of j
shining.” North Carolina, 'however,
is a close second. y
The number of sifills reported de
stroyed iu Georgia is 673, the number
removed 99, and tho record of arrests
is 245. The amount of money expend
ed in accomplishing the above result
was $10,069.48. David A. Gates is
the agent in charge of the district em
bracing Georgia.
Of the amount of material used in
the production of distilled spirits, the*
report shows that in Georgia 11,33i
bushels of malt and 65,442 bushels '
corn were utilized, making a totals
7G,772 bushels. t. f
The report shows that seventy-ufoe
cigar factories in Georgia manufac
tured 4,144,266 cigars during the year.
SYNDICATE AFTER PLANT.
According to Rumor, Englishmen
Desire to Buy Out the Cramps.
According to a report that reached
Wall street, New York, Wednesday-
Vickers Sons & Maxim, of Euglan
have instituted negotiations for '
purchase of the Midvale Steel Wr
and the Cramp f Ship Building (y
pany, of Philadelphia. It is be',
to be the purpose of the English'ey
pany to secure a share of ..' ■
States government contracts 'or war
ships, armor plates and ordr /ice.
Schooner is Wrecked; Foiu/'rowued.
A special from Portsmc/tb, N. H.,
says:—The small schoolin’ Mary A.
Brown, of Gloucester, war wrecked on
Hampton beach early Wednesday and
all on board were lost. It is thought
the erew numbered at feast four men.
J-
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
King Oscar of Sweden is steadily
imwoving iu heahh.
Queen Victoria, it is understood, will
go to Cirniez in the spring.
Theodore Koosevelt is going to Col
orado this winter for a hunting trip.
The German Crown Prince promises
to become one of the finest shots in
Europe.
Senator Hanna says positively that
he will never again be a-candidate for
a public office.
Dr. D. K. Pearsons, the philanthrop
ist of Chicago, will give $50,000 to
Colorado College.
Although Dr. Nansen is perfectly at
case when lecturing, he is shy and dif
fident in general society and talks lit
tle.
William Richardson, the successor to
General Wheeler in Congress, was
once sentenced to hang as a Confeder
ate spy. ' " gal?
Chief Porter, who rules the Creek
Indians of Indian Territory, is a rich
man and well educated. He is a full
blooded Creek, but few would guess
him to be an Indian to see him on the
streets.
William A. Procter, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, has supplemented his many#gifts
to the Cincinnati University by- the
presentation of an extensive chemical
laboratory.
Governor Sayers, of Texas, is said
to have contributed to the Galveston
relief fund more money in proportion
to his private means than any other
person interested, but what he gave
was very quietly given and not pub
licly acknowledged.
Count Tolstoi divides his time each
day in exactly the same manner. He
writes until two o'clock in the after
pocn. the hour of dinner, after which
he takes a short rest, followed by a
walk and conversation with any visi
tors. Supper is served at nine p. in.,
and the Count does not retire to rest
until rather a late hour.