The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, February 20, 1902, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE CLAYTON TRIBUNE. THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE. : > VOL. V. CLAYTON. RABUN COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1902. NO. 5. BILL ARP’S LETTER Giip Has L3t Up On Him and H3 Feals Much Better. CUES IBS EXPERIENCE AS A PATIENT ruring Trying “Ordeal” He Wa3 Cheered By Good Company and Loving Attention From the Children. This Is a bright and blessed morn ing. I feel .better—a good deal better. Think. I will write a verse or two of poetry. If a sick man has good sur- loundingg it beats medicine. Good. e.:eerfui company to call and not stay .ong—good children to sympathize and watch the clock for medicine time, •,ood grandchildren to come and kiss . ou and go to and from and talk and • nako noise; a good wife to scold you • ud tell how Imprudent you have been, - nd a good doctor to look at your .ougue and choke you with a spoon handle so ah to see away down the 1 .opflagus. But nature has the best of medicines stowed away In the bless- < d sunshine that gives life and vigor u everything animal and vegetable and revives the drooping spirits of the sick, it has been a long and hard win ter—the coldest and most disagreeable one hundred consecutive days that wo n4ve had far years. How I envied the good people of Florida while I read Tom Sawyer’s rhapsodies In the Clear Water paper over the advent of spring With Its peach trees and yellow jas mine perfuming the balmy air with and a day like this is its harbinger. If it were not for the dally catalogue of horrible things that headline the dally papers even * sick man could be calm and serene on such a day as this. An aged country friend told me that he had quit taking the dally papers, for It distressed him to read such things. “I haven't long to live,” said he, "and 1 don’t wish to cloud my mind with a daily record of human misery.” But jpost all people have to mix up with the affairs of nations and of men and keep posted about everything that hap pens. We can’t skip the bad and read the good only. There is a fascination abont horrible things that we cannot resist. They are the first things we look for. They excite our pity or our indignation or our wonder. Our child hood began that way, for we never tired of Jack the Giant Killer and Rawhead and Bloody Boned, and Rob inson Crusoe. And now the editor of the press dispatches carelessly looks oyer the little slips that are laid upon ,Als desk and rends “Another exploslo In the mines—one hundred killed;*, iilfllirther railroad wreck—thirteen kill- ‘then resumes the little anec- t he was narrating ti J|fa all growing case h| pain and grief and suffer!; same reason Unit the 6urge case harden* tienL /• •••'«*»• But ever and:; comes along that astounds the world® . .. , columns last night abqut the horrors of adulterated food lit Paris and how if-18.600 Infants died tho last year from poisoned milk. How the great Incorpo rated dairy companies In the suburban towns have to deliver 800.000 quarts every night. It Is sktmrnod before It j IS canned and then la watered 20 per cent before It Is put on the cars. On arrival at ttyelr depots It la delivered In cans to 800 milk boys.(garcons),. who get $1.40 a night and as much more aa they can make by watering -the milk from the hydrants that are children and In a b*lW thne they take cholera Infantum or diarrhoea and die. The medical faculty all testi fied that this milk caused the death of over 18,000 Infants In Paris In one year and the mortality was on the increase, and this does not Include the deaths of children over one year old. These eight hundred boys are organized Into a powerful syndicate for protection und defence. Each pays into their treasury $1 a week, making a total of $14,000 a month with which to pay lawyers' fees and fines and the wages of those In jail and to bribe the city detectives not to catch them when wa tering the milk. They water It while the wagons are on the go—pumping In behind with cans of water. The milk suspected Is turned over to the city chemist, who analyze and report, and if the boys are arrested, most of them escape punishment In some corrupt way, but none are discharged. They go back at once into the company’s service. But Paris is aroused as it never has been and declares the death- dealing business shall be broken up if it takes two thousand detectives to pursue eight hundred boys. "Our chil dren are fed on microbes from the riv er Seine,” is now on every tongue. Other cities have taken up the cry anil Bouen anil Dunkirk show a larger death rate of Infants than Paris, and now they say no wonder, the pcpula tloti of France Is decreasing Instead of Increasing. We are poisoning three- fourths of all the children before they are a year old and half the remainder die soon after. Seine water, microbes and bicarbonate of soda! This exposure comes from late oUl- cial sources and Is no doub( the truth, or very near it. Just think of It and shuddar—18,000 Innocent, helpless babes murdered In one year in one ]■.' «*W!t all London. If he were alive In Paris now what a pitiful subject he would have for another song. What a shame" upon our sex, for It Is not women who do these things, but men and boys. The mothers sutler in giving them birth. They nurse and cherish and clasp the little things to their bosom and lore and hope and pray, but the destroyer comes and then all she can do is to grieve and weep. England slaughtering the Boers and France her innocent children. What next? A graphic Writer In The New York Press describes a different kind of hor ror that we kj^W'jaot of, but Is a liv ing, breathing^ seething thing that Is not new, but- has come to stay and growsuUf^er and more horrible as the yeariSpye on. He says: “It would bavjptMni. unnecessary for Gu3tdv Dore? till follow Dante for a text in or- compnny of wealthy and diseased para sites. Almost every one who goes there registers under an assumed name and plays Incognito during his stay. A southern Judge was recently called upon for a toast at a hotel ban quet and said: “Here’s to the name we left behind us.” But the half has not been told—some of it is too bad to tell. Every night the poker rooms are in blast and thousands won anil lost. The reader ponders anil wonders can such things be In this Christian land, and in this God’s country. Ver ily, the humble and the poor who live around us on the hills and in the val leys or down In the plney woods should be thankful for the health and morality that comes from poverty. Burns nev er wrote a truer versa than that which says: * “And I know by the smoke that so gracefully curled From among the dark elms that a cottage was near. And I said to myself, If there’s peace In this world, The Heart that Is humble mjght hope for It here/’ —Bill Arp, In Atlanta Constitution. PREJUDICE WITH ( A VENGEANCE. Indiana Farmers are Warned Not 1o Hlro Negro Hands. At Wheatland, Ind.', there is a negro, settlement. The negroes work for white farmers. All affi quiet and in offensive, but, there is a prejudice against them. The flowing notices, signed "Fire Buga,’Were found posted and have produced wpnsatlon: Noth man the 1 that any abor after nr, BRIGAND. Attempt Made to Captor* Visa Mono and Secure Kansjom Honey. Referring to tho rqported engage ments between brigands for the pos session of Miss Stone, fhe Constantino ple correspondent of-the Echo de Par is says: "The captors of Mist Stone and Mad ame Tsllka have beejllattacked by an other band of briganl^, seeking to se cure the prisoners lit order to get the rrnsom. "Twenty men on i both sides were killed during the light, but the origi nal captors of the mlfesionary were vic torious.” One of the penalties of literary fame , Js that it leaves a man at the mercy der tO-picture the horrors of hell.” The of hla biographers, government has established free baths *i -supplied from the list rfv«r In all r .’:Adat*ti~* these 1 Mesa, too, reetad. The iari lt to h». men to watch hod he now asks TWa watered milk q gain with a Seine. % filth- ' One hundred iydd to watto have detec- avfht or ar- Rt of police one hundred eight hundred boys, two thousand. :kly aoura and (red to the ro be watered at Hot SprlngB, where thousands of the miserable of all God’s creatures ,te and bathe for relief and a from their loathsome diseases. Ose wreches leave their rags upon ie -cemented floors which are an inch deep In water, then stagger or reel or crawl naked aa the flends In the cham bers of hell. From thence they crowd Into a third room, where the water and the air la up to 110, and the stench of foul odors Is horrible. In this room are two large pools like vats in a tan yard, and the victims tumble Into them like hogs Into a mud puddle. No doctor, no soap, no towels, no attend ants;, and they are soon hurried out to tpalce room for more, for seven hun dred a day la the maximum. Ten, fif teen -or twenty at a time soak their loathsome Infirmities In the nasty, filthy, hot healing waters, and then reclothe themselves with their wet rags and go somewhere to dry. All are ben efited and 10 per cent are cured. What a picture! Their lives, such as they have made them, are not worth saving, but' they cling to them and live In hope and defy despair. One hundred and seventy-eight thousand of ihese human helngp passed through the free baths Ifist >ea r One bath room la for white men, one for white women, one tor- negro meg and one for negro women. Not Tar away la a magnificent hotel, and there is a fashionable ball going on. The rich, the gay, the elite are there. One monjent a mad la waltstn* with hla wife, the nj»t with mas% wife, the^tte* with mlstresa, and the next wb utma. ATLANTA MARKETS. -7 OOBBSCTSD WKBBI.Y. Groceries. Undated coffee, per 100 pounds, Arnuekle 810.80. Green ooffee, cliolce 10 cents; fair 8 cents; prime 6 cents. Su gar; Btanaard granulated, 5. Syrup, New Orleans open kettle a0@45'; mixed, choioe, 20 i» 28c. South Geor gia cane syrup, 3t@3C oentg. salt, dairy hboIcs *1.30 @81.40: do obis, bulk 82.60; ice cream 81.25; common C0@70. Cline-- fancy, full crenm l-‘>* @ 13 een e, IIatone*. 65« <S>56<-: 200s 81.SC@l.,„. Hodn, Arm A Hammer, (SCO. crack ers, soda cream 7#o; gingersnnps 6X«- Candy, common sties 5}^o: ianov 7<£>10-. Oysters. F. W 82.00: 1.. lY. 81.25. Fanoy bead rice, 7o; head rice, 0.-. Flour, Ore In mill Meal. Flour,Diamond, first patent, 85.25: second patent, 34.73, straight, 5-4.83. extra fnnev *4.00; lauuy, 53.85: extra tnmily, *8.80. First pa'ent spring wheat, 86.0J. Corn, choloo, while, 87c; No. 2 do, 86c; No. 2 mixed. 8i:. Oats, white 60c: mixed 52•; TdxM rustproof 75c. iCinsns 70 oents. Hay, No. 1 llmothr, large hales, 81.10; No. 1 small bales, 81; No. 2, 90c. Meal, plain ,»■ ; bolted meal 78c. Bran, small *003- *1.25. shorts *1.40. Stock -meal. 81.40 Her one hundred pounds. Cotton seed neal 81.25 per 100 r.nunrla TTmlntii’a drplt l. i). LO. pounds. Hudnnt’s grit >. 82.10 Country r*»duc4. KftC*. I8@19c. linker, fancy eholoe, 18-C220; • fancy Jet «y butter, 200 MWc; Georgia, torn r, 15@l7o. apod ■ale. Live poultry, f u«, 28#>M«e; fries, — Du«u,.> pudd'e. 2 c. 12023; ra ttfc aach, 10@l*Xo, 'mmm * Jhufy. *2.25*2 30; pjOo doaen. HENRY IS EN ROUTE. Pflnce Leaves Bremerhaven, Ger many, on His Way to the United States. A special from Bremerhaven, Ger many, says: Prince Henry sailed for New York at 3:43 p. m. Saturday. The last seen of the prince from shore was when he stood on the bridge of the Kron Prlnz Wilhelm, in an admiral’s uniform and lifted his cap In response to the cheers of the assembled crowds. Commander William H. Beehler, United States navy, the United States naval attache at Berlin, bade the prince goodby for the United States embassy. Senator Tichirschky, Prussian as sist to the Hanseatic cities, bid fare well to the prince for Emperor Wil liam, who also sent his brclher a tele gram previous to the departure of the steamer. - The Krqh. Prlnz Wilhelm arrived at Southampton Sunday morning. The voyage to' England was uneventful. Prince Henry remained on the bridge of the steamer .until the members of the German embassy at London, who went down to welcome him went on board. He then received them In his saloons. The Kron Prlnz Wilhelm sailed for Cherbough at 3 o’clock Sun day afternoon. The Kron Prlnz Wilhelm arrived In the roadstead at Cherbourg at 8:40 from Southampton. The weather wa3 splendid and there was no wind. The steamer stayed at Cherbourg but a short time time during which the band played selections from various airs. The Kron Prlnz Wilhelm resumed her journey for New.Yprk at 9 o’clock. Duncan Finally Nnccnmta 4a Wound Inflicted By His Wife. Police Officer Duncan, who was shot by his wife a week ago, died at the Grady hospital in Atlanta Monday morning at 12:06 o'clock. He began to sink rapidly Sunday afternoon, and early In the evening the physicians announced that he was dy ing. Mrs. Duncan Is ill in her room at police barracks, where she was placed Immediately after the shootlhg. Durioan was shot by his wife on Sat urday evening, February 8, In a board ing house at No. 51 North Forsyth street. On that evening he and his wife and san, a negro nurse, Mrs. Dun can’s little four-ycar-old boy and Miss Bessie Shelnutt, a visitor, were In Duncan's room. All the witnesses have stated that Duncan was drinking; that was denied by Duncan after he was shot. An altercation arose between Duncan and his son, Claude,, and the father slapped the young man. The two clinched and the eon was being pushed backward over a child’s bed, when Mrs. Duncan Interposed. She drew a pistol from the young man’s pocket and shot her husband in the face, the ball striking the bridge of the nose and entering the head. Mrs. Dun can has stated that her husband was attempting to draw his pistol, and wait making threats to kill both her and the young man. Claude Duncan has corroborated this statement. The wo- wan claims she fired in a moment of extreme excitement, and did not Intend to kill her husband. COTTON REPORT QUESTIONED. Statistician Hyde'sne* a New Orleans Firm For Damages. John Hyde, of Omaha, statistician cf the United States department of agriculture, has brought suit In the United States circuit court at New Or leans against Henry Beer, Bertrand Beer and Edgar H. Bright, composing the cotton firm of H. and B. Beer, for $30,000,damages direct and indirect The suit la baaed upon telegrams anil circulars issued by the firm reflect ing severely on Hyde’s cotton crop re port which Indicated a small crop. One special to Liverpool declared that the congressional Investigation of Ir regularities In Hyde's department con firms the saipleiea regarding the bu reau’s estimate. The faculty at iha University of the South made public Statement In which SHE WAS IT. Mrs. Browne—And who is the Pres ident of your club now, Mrs. Mala- prop? Mrs. Malaprop (proudly)—I am the President Incumbrance, just now.— Tile Beat Army In the World. The American army is the most effective organization in the world. The men are ivell fed uuil well paid, but these alone will not make a good soldier. Ho lnufet have steady nerves and a strong constitution. To fight disease it is also necessary to have the same requirements. If you ate weak and nervous you need Hostetter's Btomaoh Bitters at once. It will steady your norves nnd euro indigestion, heartburn, dizziness and con stipation. Try it. Paris supplies, free of cost, sulfuvcns baths to all persons engaged in handling lead. Chronic Tetter. Dr. James C. Lewis, Tip Top, Ky„ writes: ”1 have an invalid friend who has had great benefit from Tettorine in chronlo tetter. M Send a box to above address/' 50c. a box by mall from J. T. Mhuptrine,Savannah, Ga., if your druggist don’t keep itf , Lies arc always in a hurry, but the truth contentedly awaits its turn. My Hair “1 had a very severe sickness that took off all my hair. I pur chased a bottle or Ayer’s Hair Vigor and it brought ail my hair back again.” W. D. Quinn, Marseilles, It!. One thing is certain,— Ayer’s Hair Vigor makes the hair grow. This is because ) ; is a hair food. |t feeds the hair and the yjrowsithat’s all there jhpit. falling, of the hair, too, and al ways restores color to gray hair. tl.N a Mil*. All tnnUte. you, It your druggist cannot supply ■end us on* donor and wo will exp) you a bottlo. B* aura and giro tho name ot your noarest express office. Address, J. V. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. </' -• * ; - 150 Kindt for 16c. tost Uw wt ecausc of anonymous tenlug death If they did not go. thn proi a fact tl»t Salter's rnretaMe Mid •eeds Are found in more purdem and on more farina Diaii any other In America. There it rcAflon for th We own and operate over coco Arree ■eduction of our choice eerda. ... order to lndu«*e you to try them weaiAke tl>efollowing unprec- For tO Cents Postpaid : to IIwd* of nr**! Isa*loot radUhts, It MAfwUkWttt Mltlfil inrloos, 10 aarta flortwM taaaalora, th $8trlm IMIaM tarDOti, It splendid beat aorta, •I f*rf«awsl/ boftAtUnl flowvi in all 160 ktnda potttlTAl; buahels of charroii loU and lota of of THE LANIER SOUTHERN udmedd •OHM A. SAiiZER SEED CO.. La Cross*, Wls. MACAW. AA. Thorough In all appointments. Bovine** men re- ognlze our illplnma* *• a testimo nial of ability and worth. All brunches taught. Full Information cheerfully furnished. DID YOU EVER Conulfter the Insult oife-cd the IntolJtffence of thinking people wheu tho claim Is made that any one remedy will euro all dl'Canon? No, well, think »* It and aenu for our bodk telling ail ahou^^'; Special Kemedica for special dla- f'ased conditions, anil our Family Hedlrlno Casert. A postal card will aeoure the hook and a aamplc of l)r. Johnson“After D nnur 1*11.” A Agenta wanted. The Homo Remedy Co., Austell Building. Atlanta* Ga. E. J. Vawter’s Carnations are the Best /vHOICB From the famous * Vawter a | n-nDNlA t arnation t'leldr," Ocean » sir. T.Vrl/c Park, fab Hs-dv rooted ARNATjOINScutting*, ^rojwgated with- c oat *rti flclal hedt, sent ■ ■ Dost. . . of price, i Carnation Plante for U&rt 5 Prince of Wale# Vlolelofor 2 Act3 Cans* BnlbeforSivt I Cello Lily Bulb* forgi" Ordsn Oiled In rotstloe. Order oow. Address Ocesa PssB Fiobsk co./Ttno.J. oobsm Fas*. Calwvbju. Jgm RED SEAL Mf-Tlmlln twill IkMn Rssdtsl mcu.‘ni ew v?" ■"*•"“*• ■s TABASCO

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The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, February 20, 1902, Image 1