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LL ARP’S LETTER utow Man Reverts to Fight Between Carolina Senators. DON’T BLAME THE COMBATANTS Olden Times Such Incidents Were Thought a Great Wrong, But Politics Have Changed Status of Scions. was ruminating about the fight. It common property and everybody [s L the right to talk about it. three Till did wrong in jumping over Ulis to strike McLaurin. About one L k was the limit of propriety. Three [sks gives a pan time to cool and |at makes it against the law to fight. [Tto the time and place, There that is of time no nsequence now. was a the days of Webster and Calhoun d Tom Benton and Henry Clay len the United States senate was as cred almost as a church, but now a rge majority of its members get eir places by conduct infinitely more sgraceful than fighting. Bribery and irruption have got so common that man cannot get there without using big pile of money and making a lot promises. Of course I do not include r southern senators, for they iven’t got the money. If we had ime millionaires in Georgia Clay and hcon would have to step down and lit. lillman And I am not so disgusted with for fighting in the senate lamber. lat He had reason to believe his partner had received prom ies, and I reckon he had. He certain I lot had great expectations, or he would Lns have flopped over to the republi so suddenly. Politicians have to [e tue paid for their votes. Tillman is a man, but he is not a great and food faits man. I admire him for some in his character. He can—ot be ribed o rintimidated. He ■ dares to ay what he believes and he uses his itchfork with impunity. He is im ■etuous and combative, but he is sin cere and everybody admires a sincere ■lan. Sincere is one of the strongest ■nd best words in our language. It ■terally means unsealed—without wax ■-for in the olden times letters were ■ealed with wav, but if it contained no ■ecrets it was not sealed at all, for wax cost money. Tillman is a bold, ■efiant, stubborn man, but he is not preat. A great man like Webster or Kalhoun would have said to McLaurin, ■‘Well, sir, if I am a liar I deserve the fcpithet. serve If I am not, then you de it, but I shall not stoop to give It.” I wish we were all that great. ■This thing of resenting the charge of lying sion with a blow is a strange perver of propriety. A man may gain Bus ends y cheating, swindling, over BAs ends by cheating, swindling, over dealing the truth, but you must not ■call him a liar. I He may break all the command ments, but don’t call him a liar, [though ■AH that is not in the Decalogue. fight is [that that I regret about the Spooner did not call Tillman a [liar Lame and get mauled before McLaurin whip in. I want somebody to [Spooner. He was the teaser that fraught that on the fight between and was delighted the two it occurred South Carolina senators, With his party it is no crime to shoot down ten thusand Filipinos, who refuse to give up their country, but it shocks them awfully to have a little fracas in the senate chamber. Well, there are some great men and there are many good men, but great ness and goodness are rarely combin ed. Addison says it takes both to make a man complete. Such, for ex ample, as Washington and Robert E. Lee. Job says great men are not al ways wise and he might have added most of them are mean, selfish, heart less and ambitious. Lord Bacon, for instance, who took bribes while on the bench, and Cromwell and Napoleon, Webster was a very great man and long has been my ideal of greatness. He was called the Godlike, but some times his human nature overcame him. And so with Henry Clay and Bob Toombs. The great weakness of the people is idolatry. Partisan or sec tional or religious idolatry. Every man who climbs high up where the people can see him is either a saint or a sin ner, according to our politics, our sec tion, our creed. One man idolizes the character of Lincoln, or of Grant, an other holds both of them in contempt. I suppose that three-fourths of the northern people pay homage to the memory of old John Brown for what they call his good intentions, and ev e *y northern history and encyclopedia apologizes for him, and even so good a man as McKinley excused himself for not attending the reinterment of his bones, on the ground that the Pressure of official duties would not Permit him to leave Washington. Most northern men still denounce John C. Calhoun as the author of secession Md justify Sherman in burning Co lumbia. Here in Georgia this idolatry is already taking shape in our silly hurrahs fer our candidate for gover nor But, as usual, the loudest shout ers have axes to grind and are diligent ly engaged in setting traps to catch the people. But this is the shadowy side of politics and I won’t ruminate any further about it. If the ground was dry enough I would work some in the garden and brood over things that will soon away. I thought that spring had ceme two weeks ago, and I exclaimed, “Kail, gentle spring." But she didn’t hall—she only sleeted—and they say that old winter Is lingering In her lap — the old rascal. He ought to be ashamed of himself. My best relief and comfort is to play with the grand children. Our little girl of five has had her little feelings hurt, and Is very indignant at what her Cousin Will said. She told me about it: “Grand pa, I told Cousin Will that when he got to be a man and I got to be a young lady he must marry me, and what do you think he said?" “I don’t know. What did he say?” “Why, he said he would see about it. Wasn’t that mean? He ought to be glad to marry me. If he don’t mind I will marry my Cousin Ralph; and then 1 reckon he won’t see about it. He’s mean, ain’t he, grandpa?” Another little chap was saying his prayers the other night and prayed for God to bless grandma and grandpa and Aunt Mary and Cousin John and several others, and then he said: “That’t all, Lord. Ain’t that all, papa?” “No, you didn’t pray for your Cousin Jenny.” “No, papa, I won’t pray for her; she’s mean; I wish God would eend a cow to butt her over.” All of our little ones are going to school now, and feel their consequence. I’m taking more interest in our public school than I ever did. Our 12-year-old, who lives with us, is absorbed in her studies and loves her books and her teacher, and is proud when she gets marked per feet or away up in the nineties. Of course I help her with her sums every night, for some of them are very hard, and sorter strain my old mind, There are fifty-three pupils in her grade (the sixth), and yesterday forty six of them had the sums done cor rectly, and when the teacher asked those who had no help to hold their hands up, not a hand was held up. They all had help. That makes forty seven teachers for one grade, and I am pleased to be one of them. I wish that the school teachers of these chil dren could realize how much influence they have over their pupils. The teacher can make the school life of a pupil pleasant or miserable, and I am glad to believe that our teachers are kind and conscientious. I have sever al grandchildren there, and I take note of their progress. The days of old Isham are past. The old man was stern and a rigid disciplinarian. He wore slippers in the school room, and sometimes would slip up behind a boy who was making horses or dogs on his slate and would suddenly mash the boy’s face down on the slate and rub the pictures out with his nose, He used to have fights with the big boys, and loved to maul obedience into their rebellious souls. And there was Be man and Judge Warner and my fath er and William H. Seward, all yan kees, who had to subdue the big boys, by hard fighting, and if a teacher couldn’t whip a boy and subdue him he was turned off as incompetent. My opinion is that I got most too much whipping when I was a school boy. I still remember h,ow John Norton was a good teacher, and he had a hard time with Jim Wilson and Jim Craig and Jim Wardlaw and my brother Jim and Jim Alexander, the doctor who died last fall in Atlanta, and several other Jims, I never knew a boy named Jim who wasn’t devilish at school. Verily there is something in a name, and now Jim Smith is going to run for governor. Better not tell a lie on him; he would jump over forty desks to whip a man.—Bill Arp, in At lanta Constitution. DENY RESPONSIBILITY. Charleston Exposition Directors Send Greeting to Roosevelt. At the meeting of the board of direc tors of the exposition company at Charleston Friday night, Colonel J. H. Tillman’s message to President Roose velt was fully discussed and the fol lowing resolution unanimously adopt ed “Resolved, That the president be in formed that this board of directors deny any responsibility for the recent communication made by Colonel J. H. Tillman to President Roosevelt, and express their utter lack of sympathy with his action in that matter.” NEW INDICTMENT RETURNED Against Greene and Gaynors In Al leged Fraud Cases. In the United States court at Savan nah Friday morning a new indictment was returned against Captain B. D. Greene and the Gaynors in connection with the alleged Savannah harbor frauds. The new indictment covers the points on which the demurrer of the defendants was sustained by Judge Speer, The instrument is now believ ed to be perfect. CARNIVAL AT PENSACOLA. _ Street Fair Week Ushered In By a Gorgeous Flower Parade. Carnival week at Pensacola, Fla., be gan W ednesday with a gorgeous flower ^ thQ flrst ever held in the city, there wag a large num ber of beautifully decorate d carriages, ^ coronation of M iss Daisy Meyer floral queen t00 k place at the opera bouse Tuesday Tuesday night. nig Numerous tented attractions will be n full swing during the fair. Town Whelmed By Earthquake. A dispatch to a London news agency from St. Petersburg announced that the large town of Shamaka. trans-Cau casia, las been destroyed by an earth quake. WRECK ON SOUTHERN Train Plunges Through a Tres» tie Into Raging Creek. FOUR KILLED; SEVERAL INJURED A Repetition of Camp Creek Horror, With Exception that the Fatal ities Were Not so Great. The scutbbound Passenger train on the. Southern railway was wrecked Thursday night at Couche’s Mill creek, near Zeletta, Ga, and four men were kme d and several wounded. It was. a repetition of . the Camp creek horror, . onl y tb e fatality was not so great. Those killed were: Engineer Allen Methews, of Columbus; Baggage Mas ter J • L - Hill, Columbus; Mail Clerk L eo G .Murray, Atlanta; Isaac McDow ell, fireman, Columbus, The injured are: Hon. O. B. Stev en s, commissioner of agriculture of Georgia; Clifton Jones, ofllcial of the Southern railway; unknown drummer from New York, and a man and child from Neal, Ga., all of whijm were bad >y bruised, The accident occurred about 10:30 o'clock and was caused by the heavy rains which fell during the day and converted the little stream, known as Couche’s Mill creek, into a raging tor rent, nearly one hundred feet across and about thirty feet deep, It is thought the timbers supporting the bridge had been swept away, leav ing only the stringers upon which the doomed train rushed, Plunge of Cars Into Creek. The trestle was about fifty feet above the raging waters and when the track gave way the engine plunged to destruction, carrying with it the mail and baggage car and the second-class coach.. The first-class coach, in which were a number of passengers, remained on the track, but the front trucks were within a few feet of the yawning abyss and a few more revolutions of the wheels would have meant death to many souls, The engine fell in the bed of the creek and no sign of the ponderous machine was visible above the muddy waters, and it is thought the brave en gineer, who stuck to his post of duty to the death, was caught beneath the immense weight and buried deep in the mud. The baggage car was also entirely submerged, but the water began fall > n S and the top was visible by noon Friday and an opening made, through which the body of Mr. Hill was res cued. The first body recovered was that of the colored fireman, which was found nearly 100 yards below the wreck. The second-class coach fell near the bank and was only partly submerged. In it at the time of the wreck \^ere the conductor, Clifton Jones, the porter, and a negro passenger, all of whom were more or less injured, while ail suffered from being confined in the car in which the water was running in at the windows, The conductor managed to climp upon the top of the car, but his position was little better than those who were unable to secure such an elevated position. The men were kept prisoners in the car for nearly six hours before help came. When they were finally brought to the shore they were thoroughly exhausted and well nigh frozen. Up to a late hour Friday afternoon the work of Gearing away the debris ba( j scarcely begun, and it will be severa i days before trains will be run ning over the trestle. PETITION FOR DISPENSARY. Another Georgia County Will Proba bly Have an Election. A petition is being circulated call ing for an election on the dispensary question for Monroe county, Ga. A sufficient number of signatures have already been obtained and it is expect ed that an election will be held at an early date to settle the question. IRISH DENOUNCE ENGLAND. Tillman Orator at Emmett Birthday Cerebration In New York. Under the auspices of the Clan-na Gael, the one hundred and twenty fourth bithday of Robert Emmett was celebrated Sunday at the Adadcmy of Music in New York. A large crowd was in attendance. United States Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, delivered the oration. Resolutions were adopted condemn ing England’s colonial policy; depre eating entangled alliances by the Eu ropean nations; sympathizing with the Boers. FRANCHISES AT AUCTION. Property of Montgomery Terminal Railroad Company Is Sold. The real estate, tracks and fran chises of the Montgomery, Ala., Ter minal and Railway Company were sold Friday at auction under foreclosure by the bondholders, 't here were $260,000 of bonds issued, and the price realized was $68,000. The property was bought by a local syndicate. creah of news +++++++++-H-1-+T++ j * i Summary of the Moat Important Daily * Happenings Tersely Told. + 4-k-f++++++++++•!•-t-f-l-f.++++++*+ —In the telegraphers’ tournament at Atlanta Saturday night a new world’s record was established by F. M. Me Clintlc, of Dallas, Texas. The record was 517 words in ten minutes, sending at top speed. —The remains of Schrenck and Car ter, who were killed and their bodies burned near Savannah, were interred Sunday. Although rigid investigation is going on, there is no clue to the pe trator S of the crime, —Henry Jeffrey, a negro from Roan oke, Va., has appeared in Greenesboro, Ga-. and claims he owns the most val uable of land in tbat cl ty tbc same having deen deeded to his grandfather when the Iatter was a glave . —News from Marshall, N. C., is that the city is almost completely destroy ed by flood, five lives having been lost and terrible damage having been done to property. The news, brought on foot with difficulty, was forty hours late. —Prince Henry, of Prussia, made a flying visit to the south Sunday. He made a stop at Chattanooga and vis ited Lookout mountain. Citizens of Chattanooga presented him with a beautiful album. —Senator Tillman denies that re ported talk with Platt warning the president not to visit Charleston. —Floods in New York and Pennsyl vania cost loss of many lives and mil lions of dollars. —Labor riots occurred in Paris Sun day , i n the conflict between police an d rioters several persons were wounded. —The senate adopted a mild reso lution censuring Tillman and McLau rin for the recent fracas in the Cham bei. —Admiral Schley and Captain Hob son were the features In Charleston Thursday, the occasion being Daugh ters of the American Revolution day at the exposition. Both the naval heroes made addresses and were enthusiasti cally received. —James Porter, the motorman, who was killed in a Knoxville, Tenn., street car disaster, had a wife living in Ma rion, Va. It is claimed he was en gaged to wed two Knoxville girls, both of whom visited his body at the morgue. —Prince Henry attended the McKin ley memorial exercises in the house. Secretary Hay was the orator. After wards the prince visited the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon. —Although President Roosevelt has not yet abandoned his Charleston trip on account of the message of Lieuten ant Governor Tillman, opinion is gen eral that he will do so. —Great damage was done in Georgia and adjoining states by the heavy rain storms of Wednesday and Thursday. —Andrew Carnegie will give a dia mond medal valued at $400 for the speediest work in the telegraphers’ contest which occurs in Atlanta, Ga. —The application of the anti-dispen saryites for a permanent injunction against the' Rome dispensary was heard in Lafayette, Ga., by Judge Hen ry Wednesday and declined. The case now goes to the supreme court. —The German steamer, Drachenfelz, sailed from Savannah, Ga., Wednesday for Bremen and Hamburg with 19,332 bales of cotton, valued at $804,397. This is the largest cotton cargo ever Geared from a south Atlantic port. —Admiral Schley and Captain Hob son were the orators at the Charleston exposition Thursday, the occasion be ing Daughters of the American Revo lution day. —The steamboat T. H. Bacon, on the Tennessee river, was wrecked Tuesday by explosion of its boiler. The assistant engineer was killed, another man fatally injured and two others hurt. —Because of his treatment of Sena tor Tillman, President Roosevelt has been asked by Lieutenant Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, to with draw his acceptance of the invitation to deliver a sword to Major Jenkins at Charleston. FLORIDA CAPITOL DAMAGED. Gale Wrecks South Wall of State Building In Tallahassee. At Tallahassee, Fla., during a heavy wind and rain storm Thursday night the south wall of the extension of the state capitol, three stories high, was blown out and completely demolished, The wail was very heavy and the crash shook buildings for several blocks around. ' Negroes thought it was a violent earthquake and fell to praying. No one was in the building at the time but the night watchman, and he was un hurt. MESSAGE FROM MISS STONE. Liberated Missionary Communicated With Her Family In Massachusetts. The first message from Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary, to her family and friends was received Tuesday night by her brother, Charles a. Stone, of Chelsea, Mass. The ca blegram told of her release by the brigands and her warm welcome by Bulgarian friends in the village of Strumitza. Atlantic – Birmingham Railroad Co. TIME TABLE EFFECTIVE DEC. 1, 1901. No. 1 No. 3 No. 15 No. 17 STATIONS. Daily Sunday Daily Daily Only Ex. Sun. Ex. Sun. ............READ DOWN Waycross Union Station..... 11 00 am 5 15 pm 7 10 am 12 45 pm Jamestown................. 11 18 am 5 32 pm 7 33 am 1 24 pm Elsie...................... 11 31 am 5 45 pm 7 53 am 1 48 pm Bolen..................... 11 37 am 5 52 pm 8 03 am 2 01 pm Beach ..................... 11 46 am 6 01 pm 8 15 am 2 18 pm Murray..................... 11 54 am 6 09 pm 8 25 am 2 30 pm Sessoms................... 12 02 pm 6 17 pm 8 35 am 2 45 pm Nicholls................... 12 10 pm 6 26 pm 8 45 am 3 27 pm Saginaw................... 12 17 pm 6 33 pm 8 54 am, 3 40 pm Ohatterton................ 12 25 pm 6 42 pm 9 04 am 3 52 pm Douglas................... 12 45 pm 7 00 pm 9 27 am 4 40 pm Upton.................... 12 53 pm 7 10 pm 9 36 am 4 50 pm Ambrose................... 1 14 pm 7 30 pm 10 01 am 5 35 pm Wray..................... 1 23 pm 7 39 pm 10 11 am G 05 pm Tracy ..................... 1 36 pm 7 50 pm 10 24 am 6 27 pm Fitzgerald................ 2 00 pm 8 12 pm 11 00 am 7 00 pm (Jarbutt Junction........... 11 30 am........ No. 2 | No. 4 No. 16 No. 18 STATIONS. Daily Sunday Daily Daily Only Ex. Sun. Ex. Sun. READ UP Garbutt J unction....... 11 50 am Fitzgerald............. 6 00 pm 7 00 am 6 00 am 1 00 pm Tracy................. 6 27 pm 7 25 am 6 27 am 1 36 pm Wray........... ...... 6 38 pin 7 34 am 6 44 am 1 51 pm Ambrose............... 6 47 pm 7 45 am 6 54 am 2 05 pm Uptou ............ 7 10 pm 8 10 am 7 26 am 2 33 pm .... Douglas.............. 7 18 pm 8 19 am 7 36 am 2 46 pm Chatterton............ 7 38 pm 8 32 am 7 59 am 3 16 pm Saginaw............... 7 46 pm 8 38 am 8 09 am 3 40 pm Nicholls............... 7 54 pm 8 45 am 8 18 am 3 55 pm Sessoms............... 8 01 pm 8 31 am 8 35 am 4 22 pm Murray............... 8 08 pm 8 58 am 8 55 am 4 39 pm Beach................. 8 15 pm 9 04 am 9 05 am 4 52 pm Bolen................. 8 26 pm 9 12 am 9 19 am 5 10 pm Elsie................. 8 31 pm 9 19 am 9 29 am 5 24 pm Jamestown............ 8 43 pm 9 29 am 9 48 am 5 50 pm Waycross Union Station 9 00 pm 9 45 am 10 15 am 6 20 pm All trains carry possengers. George Dole Wadley, H. C. McFaddek, Vice Pres, and Gen. Mgr. Gen. Freight and Pass. Agent. Ai-ex. Bonnyman, Superintendent, Waycross, G«. iiawkinsville and Florida Southern Railway. PINE BELT ROUTE. Local Time Table No. 4. In Effect January 6th, 1902. —Northbound— —Southbound— lst-class 2nd-class. IsuTlass 2nd-ciass. Daily. Daily ex. Sun. Daily. Daily ex. Sun. Train No. 1. Train No. 3. Stations. Train No. 2. Train No. 4. 7:40 a.m. 3:30 p.m. Lv........Worth........Ar. 6:30 p.m. 2:25 p.m. 7:42 a.n 3:32 p.m. Lv. Domer Ar. 6:27 p.m. 2:20 p.m. 7:50 a.m. 3:45 p.m. Lv.......Shinglers Ar. 6:17 p.m. 2:15 p.m. 8:05 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Lv....... Amboy......Ar. 6:05 p.m. 2:05 p.m. 8:15 a.m. 4:15 p.m. Lv. ...1 Davisville...... Ar. 5:57 p.m. 1:55 p.m. 8:30 a.m 4:30 p.m. Lv........ Bush.......Ar. 5:45 p.m. 1:40 p.m. 8:37 a.m. 4:40 p.m. Lv. .. Allapaha River .... Ar. 5:40 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 8:40 a.m. 4:43 p.m. Lv....... Steele......Ar. 5:37 p.m. 1:20 p.m. 8:42 a.m. 4:45 p.m. Ar.........Pitts........Lv. 5:35 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 9:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Lv....... Pitts Ar. 5:25 p.m. 12:45 p.m. 9:07 a.m. 5:40 p.m. Lv.......Ausley........Ar. 5:20 p.m. 12:35 p.m. 9:20 a.m. 5:55 p.m. Lv. ... Rocky Point .... Ar. 5:05 p.m. 12:20 p.m. 9:26 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Lv.....Pope City Ar. 4:55 p.m 12:10 p.m. 9:32 a.m. 6:10 p.m. Lv....... Barton........Ar. 4:45 p.m. 12:00 m. 9:35 a.m. 6:25 p.m. Lv.......Pitts ville ...... Ar. 4:40 p.m. 11:55 a.m 9:42 a.m. 6:40 p.m. Lv.....Finleyson......Ar. 4:35 p.m. 11:45 a.m. 9:56 a.m 6:55 p.m. Lv....... Wallace Ar. 4:20 p.m. 11:25 a.m. 10:05 a.m. 7:00 p.m. Lv..... Chancy ....... Ar. 4:15 p.m. 11:15 a.m. 10:20 a.m. 7:15 p.m. Ar.....Hawkinsville .... Lv. 4:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. FITZGERALD BRANCH. Train No. 5. Train No. 6. 7:30 a.m Lv, Isaacs Ar. 6:45 p.m. 7:50 a.m Lv. Luke Ar. 6:20 p.m. 8:15 a.m. Ar. Davisville Lv. 6:00 p.m. Trains Nos. 1 and 2 have absolute right of track. Connections: Hawkinsville—With Southern Railway and Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad. Pitts—With Seaboard Air Line Railway. Worth—With Georgia, Southern and Florida Railway. Trains Nos. 5 and 6, on Fitzgerald Branch, will only run on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. P. J. DOMER, Superintendent, H. H. STEELE, Worth, Ga. General Freight and Passenger Agt., Hawkinsville, Ga. 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