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VOL. V.
CLAYTON. RABUN COUNTY. GA., THURSDAY. MARCH VS. 1902.
NO. 8.
YAIN MISSION OF
BOER EMISSARIES
America Cannot (interfere
In Their Struggle.
ARE RECEIVER UNOFFICIALLY
President and Secretary Hay dive
Audience to Messrs. Wolma-
rans and Wesscls.
A Washington special says: Messrs.
Wolmarans and Wessels, the Boer-
representatives who came to the Uni
ted States from Europe for the purpose
of conferring with the secretary of
state, have accomplished their pur
pose. They were received by Mr. Hay
at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. It
was distinctly understood that the
Boers were to be received as private
cltlsens and not In an official capacity.
Secretary Hay talked to them freely
with this understanding.
The principal object of the delegates
was to Induce the United States to ter
minate‘the present bloody struggle In
South Africa. The secretary of state
heard them attentively and promised
to consider their representations and
to do whatever he could to ameliorate
the conditions In South Africa. But
he pointed out that the president was
the prime authority In such matters
and he recommended that the Boers
see Mr. Roosevelt and ascertain his
views.
A matter of complaint by the dele
gates w*s the shipment of horses,
mules and provisions from the United
. . . „ .. Ohio, on the pending shipping bill,
m. ti. .tua-
Africa. Secretary May went over this
subject very carefully with them, cit
ing authorities and precedents, which
he pointed out conclusively establish
ed the lack of authority on the part of
the general government to stop the
American farmer from shipping his
provisions and the stock raiser from
selling his product anywhere In the
world where he could get the best
.price. He also pointed out that the
government's attitude In this, as In
other matters connected with the
South African war, has been strictly
neiitral and that the government has
done nothing to prevent shipments of
commodities to the Boer forces.
Later In the day Messrs. Wolmarans
and Wessels, accompanied by Dr.
Frederick Mueller, of the Orange Free
State, called at the white house. They
were received by President Roosevelt
In the library and remained with him
about fifteen minutes. They called as
private citizens and not in their offi
cial capacity as Boer representatives.
Mr. Roosevelt listened attentively to
what they had to.say and. then inform*
■ed them that this government cannoj
and will not Interfere In the struggle.
<0*',* —*-> ; &
CONCESSIONS A HARD PROBLEM^
Republican* Divided on Pf,%gt§i.Q)jrtnff
Assistance to the ( u
A Washington special
^republicans are apparently
with regard the action
be taken in tfet caucus rel
ban sugar.
Individual members will tell you
that everybody 1 ! mind Is made up and
there is therefore very little use ha
further talk; but so much uncertainty
hangs over this Cuban situation that
it is fair to presume there Is still a
chance for President Rbotevelt and
those who think with hjm-to bring a
majority of the reputufcans of the
house to their way of thinking.
Speaker Henderson and Representa
tive Cannon, of Illinois, called at the
white house Wednesday and discussed
with President Roosevelt the subject
•of Cuban reciprocity and sentiment
, thereon in the Souse. v
defaulting cashier suicides.
I Lead” Best* to End
» Of the
Ins of the SUM' bank of Elkhart,
; gnacted Wodnedday afternoon,
ank W. Cottle. cashier, wl
ihortage of (32,000 caused
the bonk
t his bruins
-fim. a
IN FLAMING MINE.
Party of Men Attempt Investiga
tion and are Whelmed By
Explosion.
A special from Monongahela, Pa.,
■ays: An explosion In the Cattsburg
mine of the Monongahela River Con
solidated Coal and Coke Company
Thursday resulted in the death of
five men and serious Injury of several
others, two fatal'-.
On Monday a premature explosion
of dynamite caused gas to ignite, and
since that time the mine had been
burning. All the air channels were
closed and It was hoped that the
flames could be smothered. Thursday
morning twenty men entered the mine
to Investigate. It is not explained what
caused the explosion, but It 1b thought
that the turning on of the air, which
had been shut off by the fan, caused
the gas which had accumulated to ig-
note. A terrific explosion followed
soon after the men entered.
A relief party made an effort and
nearly succeeded in. reaching the im
prisoned men, but were overcome and
are reported in a serious condition. A
second relief party entered the mine
by another way, but a second explo
sion occurred and they were forced tq.
retreat. A third relief party also
made a futile attempt.
The work of rescue will at all haz
ards be carried on. A crowd of women
and children were gathered about the
pit.
HANNA ON hHIP SUBSIDY.
Ohie Senator Makes a “Whopping”
Speech on His Pet Bill.
A notable speech was made in the
senate Thursday by Mr. Hanna, of
point of an American business man.
His arguments were carefully arrang
ed, he was always forceful and earnest
and at times became eloquent. He
commanded the undivided attention
of the senate and of the galleries, and
when he closed he received the con
gratulations of many of his colleagues.
Mr. Hanna argued for help for the
merchant marine, the necessity of hav
ing an auxiliary for our navy In the
form of a merchant marine, and plead
ed that this transportation question
should be discussed above party con
siderations.
Mr. Tillman, interrupted to ask for
information^p6f»regard to the reports
that the Morgan syndicate had bought
two or three of the European lines of
ateampra.
"You must ask somebody who
know*/' replied Mr. Hanna. “I do not
kno# anything about it.”
“It was only reported, you know,7
suggested Mr. Tillman, "and I {nought
that, the senator being in touqh with
t elks* of people, “lrttew something
mt It."
. “Why does the senator say I am In
touch with them?” Interjected, Mr.
Hanna.
Mr. Tillman: "The senator is a
man engaged in shipping, is he not?"
"On the great lakes, yes,” respond
ed Mr. Hanna, “but why does the sena
tor assume that I know what Mr. Mor
gan has done?"
"I thought the senator and Mr. Mor
gan were friends,” replied Mr. Tillman.
“I know nothing about the purchase
of the Leylgnd line by J. P. Morgan
& Co.,” said Mr. Hanna, "any more
than the senator dues. That Is simply
the Investment of American capital.
Under the provisions of this bill not a
single one of thopo, vessels will ever
come under an American register,"
TO FORESTALL ACTIOX.
President’s Strenpoosnes* Starts Rail*
. roads en the Kna.
'The abolition of ell pooling agree
ment! and the dissolution of all-asso
ciations organised for the purpose of
carrying oat pooling agreements was
voted by executive officials of western
lines in a general meeting in Chicago
Thursday.
Action upon the matter wis hasten
ed by the positive information that the
attorney feneral under Instructions
from President Roosevelt, had pre
pared a hill praying tor an injunction
restraining roads centering In Chicago
violating the interstate commerce
BILL ARP’S LETTER
Bartow Philosopher Again Re
verts to ALcient Mythology.
MARCH IS A Ml -H DESPISED MONTH
With Its Bluster and Disagreeableness
It Ha* no Friend*—How the -
Month Got It* Name.
March has no friends. It 1b a disar
greeable, uncertain, blustering month.
It was named for Mars, the god of
War, who was the son of Jupiter, and
was always hunting around for a
fight. He wa^ believed to be the
father of Romul is, the founder of the
Roman Empire, snd hence was held in
great reverence by the Romans-. March
was named fer him. Those old
greeks and Ronians had no weeks—
nor days of the v.'adk—no Sundays or
Mondays or any other day, but they
divided time by Calends and Ides. The
Calends were the first days of the
month and the Wes were the fifteenth.
All the- Intermediate days were des
ignated by thise, for instance, the
third day after the Calends of May,
of the fifth da; before the Ides of
March. The Toman senate always
began Its sessions on the Ides of tho
month, except ihat after Julius Cae
sar was murdered the anniverslty of'-
that day, the Ides Qf March, was ob-
eervdh as a sacred day. I want the
young people to know and remember
that we got our months from Roman
mythology, and the days of our weeks
from the Scandinavian mythology.
Now lls|£n to a part of this wonderful
story,..for It fa clapRkrfnd more fas
cinating Utah thBfflB|p»ian Nights.
Tjyo thousand,, ’^fiartfeTi^Jt was jbe
faith and religion of millions of peo
ple. Jupiter was the god of the Ghfheks
and the Romans, and Woden was' the
god of the Norsemen, and each had- a
son who was the go'd of war. There
was the son of Woden. Wednesday
was named for Woden, and It was
originally Woden’s day. Thursday
was named for Thor, and Friday for
his mother. Each of these mytholo
gies had a hades or infernal region
for bad people and evil spirits. Pluto
presided over the one, and a woman
named Hela over the other. That, is
where the word Hell comes from. It
seems an awful thing to put hell in
charge of a woman, but they Bald that
no man was as bad as a bad woman.
Her father was named Lok», and she
had two brothers. One was a serpent
so big and long that it wrapped around
the world and swallowed Its own tail.
The other was' a wolf so strong that
he broke the strongest chains just like
they were cobwebs. Then Woden got
the mountain spirits to make another
chain, and they made It of six things:
Ae noise of a cat walking, the beard
of a woman, the roots of stones, the
breath Of~flSu3s; the smiles of bears
•ad the spittle of birds. When' the
chain was finished It was so small and
smooth and soft as a silken string, but
no power on earth could break It. And
so they chained him and killed him.
But listen what kind of a home Miss
Hela had. Hunger was her dining ta
ble. Starvation was her knife. De
lay was her man servant—Sloth her
maid servant. A precipice was her
doorstep. Care her bed, and Anguish
the curtains to her bed chamber. No
wonder she was cruel and always
wore a stern, unhappy and forbidding
countenance.
This Is just a sample of their myth
ology. It fills up several books. Now,
where In the world did that people get
all those wonderful stories. Away
back In the ages they must have had
poets more Imaginative than Homer.
Some of our learned men say they got
the foundation of many of them from
the Bible. For the story goes that
away back in the ages the people got
so bad that Jupiter got dregdful mad
with them and resolved to destroy
them. So he summoned all the gods
to come to him, and they came from all
parta of the heavens, traveling on the
milky way, which Is the street of the
goda, and after taklig counsel together
the determined to destroy all mankind
and atart with a new pair. So Jupiter
waa about to launc:
bolt at the earth
one of the gods
better not, for
heaven, too. So b
red hot ttun der-
t burn It up, bnt
him that he had
might burn up
ded to use
water Instead of fire, and then came
the flood which drowned every human
being except Deucalion- and hlB wife,
who were good people. They escaped
to the top of a mountain called Parnas
sus and were saved. This Is very
much like the Bible story of the flood
and of Noah and Mount Ararat. And
just so they got Hercules from Samp
son, and Vulcan and Apollo from Ju-
bal and Jubal Cain, and the Dragon
from the serpent that tempted Eve,
and the giants who tried to scale the
walls of heaven from Nimrod and his
tower. Every great heathen god had
a favorite eon just as our Christian
Qod has a Son. There is something
sublime and comforting in even be
lieving or imagining that a great and
good being is somewhere In the heav
ens overruling the earth and Its peo
ple, prospering the good and punish
ing the evil. The fact that this all
powerful being is Invisible makes His
existence the more Impressive. Ju
piter had a bountiful palace of gold
and silver at Valhalla, and It could
only be reached by walking on a rain
bow. And we pray to our God, saying:
“Oh, Thou who dwellest In the heav
ens," and not In the temples made by
hands. History gives no account of
any people who did not put their trust
in some God, and this proves our con
fession of weakness and our need of
strength from some supernatural di
vinity. The more cultured and en
lightened we become the more con
scious we are of our weakness. Chil
dren depend absolutely upon their pa
rents until afar up in their teens. They
do not need any other God, but by and
by the parents pass away or fall to
supply their increasing wants and
then comes that feeling of helplessness
and the want of a protector. Reflec
tion coiqes with age, and the more
reflective a man becomes and the more
Intelligent from study snd culture, the
more he must realise his ignorance
and dependence. Therefore, I cannot
understand how such a cultured gentle
man as Ingersoll could be so Irreverent
'so careless and prayerless about his
own existence; for he cannot tell by
what power - be raised his hand or
closes, his eyes when he wills to do
60. He says he would have planned
many things very different. He would
have given a than wings and the power
to fly. He would have made health
catching Instead of disease. He would
have made Infants colic proof, and
they should have been as lively when
born as little chicks when they come
out of the ehell, and the old’ men
should always be calm and serene.
In fact, he would have made everybody
happy during life and every death a
painless one. He ought to have gone
a little farther and abolished death
ac-d then created more worlds for the
never-dying people to live In. But
we are here and we have to submit
to things as we find them, and as Gov
ernor Oates said, “Mr. Ingersoll, what
are you going to do about it?"
And now I want this month of March
to hurry up and pass away. It Is ag
gravating my grippe, and I feel more
like writing "an ode to melancholy.”
It contracts and withers my charity
for my fellow men. I don’t care a cent
for Roosevelt and Tillman, nor Spoon
er, nor the Atlanta depot. But as the
old Persian prophet said, "Even this
shall pass away.” Fifty-three j;ears
ago today my wife and I were married,
but on our account the weather was
as lovely as a Lapland night. I was
one of ten children—my wife was one
of ten, and we have ten, and they have
twenty, and no great ealamnlty or
fllctlon hath befallen us,-thanks to the
good Lord for His mercies.—BUI Arp,
III Atlanta Constitution.
xethuiiikth to meet.
In
the
Workers’ Conference Assembles
- Ohattanoogo on March 11,
The Workers Conference
Methodist Episcopal church, Mtoph,
will meet In Chattanooga Maitlr 11,
12 apd 13.
All officers of Sunday schools.ang
Epworth league boards, mlsslo;
boards, officers of same And ann
conference Epworth
tral missionary com:
Mississippi river are
conference.
Prominent mill oi
Uon men at th* Carolli
latte' Tuesday and organlstpfk Aew
fire Insurance company. The action
was caused by the recent advance in
rates.
NORFOLK STRIKERS
DEFY THE POLICE
Cars are Derailed and Con*
flicts are Frequent.
WOMAN WHIPS TWO OFFICERS
Troop* are Called Out to Supp:
Disorder—Declaration of
tial Law i« Discussed
A mob of 5,000 strike sympa
ers thronged the streets of Norfij
Va., on which the main lino of
Company runs, and the police were un
able to cope with it. From noon until
after dark the mob had things Its own
way In the city; In the county where
the car barns are the military was in
control of the situation.
Cars were repeatedly derailed, wag
on loads of rocks were piled on the
tracks and free fights between the
military guards and the crowd occur
red during the day at frequent Inter
vals. In one of these a sergeant ran
a bayonet into the arm of H. H. Har-
mansef, a barber. Mrs. Harmansef was
standing by ber husband at the time.
She ‘ knocked the sergeant to the
ground with both fists and discolored
the face of Lieutenant E. R. Gale, who
was near her, with a well-directed
blow. Several soldiers were hit by'
bricks and other missiles thrown
through the windows of the cars. A'
number of arrests have been made,
both by the police and military.
A conference was'held by Mayor
Beaman, Police Chief Veltlnes and
Colonel Higgins, commanding the Sev
enty-first Virginia regiment, eight
companies of which are In service, rel
ative to placing the city under mar
tial law. The police force of 100 men
is unable to meet the emergency.
It is possible that the four additional
companies of the regiment and a bat
tery of artillery will be called for to
take charge of the city.
There Is no settlement of the strike
in sight, both sides adhering to their
first positions.
Martial law will be declared. Four
more Infantry companies from Empo
ria, Suffolk, Smithfleld and Franklin,
making the. entire Seventy-first regi
ment, hav* been ordered out.
The strikers cut' a mile of trolley
wire In the city. The troops are now
guarding the power plant. A detach
ment of a Newport News company,
der Captain GtlkersQn, is on
At a meeting beldYuest
the Centred Labor 'tfijji
the street cars.
Common Councilman--S.' 1 !!,
also a leader of the strikers, o!
a resolution during couneil
lag to revoke the street railway
chlse for a lapse of two daysin run
ning cars. The resolution Was refer
red to a special committee.
Tuesday night six non-union mein
fsoim Knoxville were held upf The
strikers overpowered them. They bore
arms and were arrested for carrying
concealed wcaptAe. ■■ - jv
WILL OF ROUSH FILED.
Property of Dead Millionaire Roe* to
HI* T*o fchlMrei.
The will of Chdries 6roadway Rou^a
was filed for probate In tho surrogate's +
office at New Y«|Sr V-jtfftay! ’The will
was executed March tt, 1898. It made
no charitable bfiqueste. • The will left
to Mrs. Charles Broadway Rouss, now
dead^the house on Fifth avenue and
$6,000 jresrly. The building In which
hls business was conducted ugu left
1 '‘“Tip. Mrs. VirklniaLso
[cheater Rouss. \t was
£ W wie to get
sue house if hkr Mother
io vets Mr, Rttjro* Yarn
Jefferson county.' Mr.
requested that his son Peter
i«nue the business on Broadway
under the oWfesme. William Mr. iRonss,
a brother of the dead milionaire. Is
jnade Ad executor, and he and another
brdther receive $100,000 each,. The
residue of the estate is willed toPpter ,
Winchester Rouss.