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CLAYTON. RABUN COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. MAY 1. 1902.
NO. 15.
FOR'GEN. GORDON
■ Elected Another Year as
Cora ltiande r-in- Chief.
.. ONLY i)B*T(i WILL RETIRE HIM
41
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is the Declaration of Old Soldiers.
1 N|y(’ 'brl>.*a - lTS Selected For the
* ►fSp^t,f > la.9«| of Meeting.
GENEROUS DONATIONS
BILL ARP’S LETTER
; 4i )r .The c-qn.feilerato veterans assembled
i’-lnir.oujUoa.at, Dallas transacted impor
tant business Wednesday with a rush.
p 'CTene'l'alg‘'Gordon, Lee and Cabell-were
” re elected and General C. I. Walker
elected to- succeed the late General
Wade .Hampton as commander of the
Ariny'of NorfhdVn Virginia. New Or-
%ft'-. ;leaYs’'waii! selected’ 83 the place for the
y* $ju • * 'ojijhti reuftldh, Genera! Gordon was glv-
i retire. A voice from
i’-i :• •• cried
* .yoirvan get away
J-’ x ' ]' ftom-tjie.office] gen,eia^ is-’by dying.”
’ “, ! ’!a^o-.fot an.o'tjjt’l-' yekr GetferaV Gordon
- ? ^ j ; w4 ^jpdnimandcr In 'chleft General
■ Stephen. IT. Lee commander of the
'V# V ' nneHsee..dei)artment and
Tlge”) Cabell
SOmmhtirftJfbC the Army of the Trans-
■ <fil}>irtntent,
••^,1’,*!;.: weUgiv*wtib titUtnlmouq by a
jv «$‘^E^st|Hmn]fc'.91tt0r. 'GkrWlhgr-tributes were
■i. eii VplfW-to' the au-
■ •' •itJjjWBj'jKMBin tears wfcqn the meeting
$§if > •”
oV’frflE JUMP.
^WSHKiff{ Jforite* Almotntcn I! iso In
VS*’£‘ ^iFt-liWWHiFi-C'qnemiy.
*?v Hdvtfcftwd-btotf aiefeijt ft-poufid tVednes-
ii vfi .:Ml^y„4ond>;bH^l\erft .notified that
a cent might,
’.X‘ -->flftj.e*Pfi<ltefl.1 ThiffaSay,’. Atlafata, as'
. .. well; as atlftr ,pTa'ce’s : ' iti i‘Iib country,'
A* - ».#■•*|fc| rt - g tfo'ra in- Jfhe 1 ttabds’’ bf the Jboef
VfrinMt *"■?«?«A '*•>
1iJWtcfcent'are .beicomlng alarmed at
.'iiH» 1 ^ra«W3,M,f!in.jtSj 1 tbf» price .tub
Off. They have
.j^fejoshgg;mgjiOT .steadily ,tor $0
*,» J . jibst three,weeks/' ” ‘ ’ i ■>■■ -
6f irlte’ shops d-hfre four
’ t , butchers'were formeirty jenvplbyed only,
„ f\-‘ ''oi^itfe'tjilkv-iteefe, showing how; marked
ujs ,- r .. faljUng off. In. trade as the result
V rt of the trust
JL' ; ,* 1 ’ft is' a Vvtfli -kifown fact that the
®"’-^t r iit :, ' c o' n lr61s , o majority of tlje cattle
#1 $*,'Vf’anOh'es and 1ms matters so arranged
the ’Individual dealers have but
opportunity to compete. Until
KPScnily • the jallroads paid the. trust
• "BJJf.'..^dpa i tas for the live stock and
meats- shipped,' but those re-
■’ ■' • r:: ‘ bate's are fcQ.'.'ilonger paid, and It Is
*t ':'.tBe«|^fct fbe trust Intends to make the
'*)■* A . ’ J " liefipl'is .|wif *foit tite^loae qf money that
, ^i once, seeufed from the railroad.
./1 .. i companies. , ' • : ■ • <i:u-
* .GUATEH^LA.
t * -ft/ i {. ’i.ri -j.-.t
Depettblwtt AdvWed ef Gteat
, LiMHor, J.lfe pnd Properly.
jj,. „T|rji. ^blegfijiii ‘rbf^lted. at the
^Vtat.e ffepartmtait-'^edbesday tell of
- ‘ : r thirim%X : diut)g£e- wrought by the re-
. ’’ f ^elirGabihiiuiike'in Ohkteraala, which
. ■fks’hjeihlbrf^hy' dda'it with in the piesa
eg.tolite'' x
«4! j.vA bt'Ctaut^hakfcCity, 4wH ?4,—This foy-
. ,^pn)ept..xeouea|e ma to jcablo that on
18th InaUnt ah earth-
aVaf*,.-vafUilwhCQurred,.causing great destrde-
" a?i' * fmn ofvfifohhd pyo^hrty. Many elttee
hltoaiit UUtirely destroyed.
1 ..J^ossits-.jqfet unknown. Jtelief funds
... . Soldiers ordered out to.guard
* '.^Partieulars 'next mall,, -
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w6uS{]^n|ua,TM^lI •^T^0S~ConsU'
Ait’ T a^lesaltenangs. reports earth-
' llttt. 1 Trtghtfu! catastro-
^tum doashlat*
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To the Women of Georgia By the
Southern Educational
Conference.
The Southern Educational Confer
ence came to a close at Athens, Ga.,
Saturday.
• Four thousand five hundred dollars,
one-half of the balance necessary to
complete the. Winnie pavls memorial
hall,; $7,500 to provide fifty three-year
scholarships, of $50 each'year at the
Georgia State.Normal school, to dupli
cate the forty-six scholarships provid
ed by. the women of Georgia; an offer
to duplicate’for a period of three years
a(ll hew scholarships-of $50 each that
.the woflioii of. Georgia.may provide be
fore January t, 1903, to a ■number not
exceeding fifty, were the contributions
of the day of the general education
board to the women of Georgia.
Men cheered 'and wept and women
laughed and cried In the fullness of joy
when they comprehended all that the
announcement meant. Ex-Governor
W. J. Northen, who was on the plat
form when the announcement was
made In the conference, sprang to his
feet and asked the women of Georgia
in the great audience to stand up, and
then, when they had done so, asked
the whole audience to stand up, not as
people of one state or many states, but
as people of one country.
The official offer Is as follows:
“The general education board will
subscribe to.the Georgia State Normal
school at Athens for a period of three
years flft£ 6cho’apships of $50 each to
meet the forty-six scholarships now,
provided by the women of Georgia—-’
$2,300 a year-for three years. $7,500 ia.
all. In addition- to the above general
education board will duplicate for a
period of three years new scholarships
of $50 each that may he provided by
the women of Georgia before January,
1. 1903, up to a number not exceeding
fifty. .
•• I'Understanding that the women of
Georgia have raised $G,000 toward ’ a
fund of $15,000 for the erection of the
Winnie Davis memorial hall, the gen;
eral education board will subscribe
one-half the balance, or $4,500; pro
vided the remalnihg balance Is aub-.
scribed before January 1, 1903.
Signed, Wililam II, Baldwin. Jr.,
Chairman; George Foster Peabody,
treasurer; Wallace Butterlclc, secre
tary and executive- officer; ,J. L. M.
Curry, Frederick T. Calcs, Daniel ‘C.
Gilman, Morris K. Jesup, Robert C.
Ogden, Walter H. Page, Albert Shaw.
If the conditions specified in this an
nouncement ore complied with to the
full 'extent of the offer, as no doubt
they will be,- the total amount of this
contribution of the general education
hoard will be $19,500.
It was several minutes before thO
conference was sufficiently composed
to resume business.
Tries Old-Fashioned Plan to An-
nihilate Potato Bugs-
CHILDREN ARE PAID TO GATHER THEM
Nickel a Dozen is the Vrlce, and the
Little Ones Surprise Him.—Col
onel Redding’s Suggestion.
V CUBAN PENSIONS STAUUEIUNU.
Palma Will Have to lease Culm fn
r Order to Pby l lieni.
A special from Havana says: Gener
als Rabbi;'Lor. Salcedo and Capote
’have tried to obtain from President
elect. Palma an assurance that the Cu
ban army would be paid. Replying,
Settcjr Palma, said he was disposed to
fthvor the army, but more soldiers
would, he needed than Cuba now
has,] He..never suspected, he said,
that-'thee-list of -those to bo paid con-
talnecl 70,000 names, and the estimate
. pf the amount due the soldiers, $$0,-
000,000, frightened him.
"The payment of this enormous sum
‘Would annihilate us,” said the presi
dent. ’"I Would have-to lease Cuba to TOW and buying some Ice cream, and
* h, ‘ ’’ they agreed to take two saucers
apiece. These little gir'.s are great In
ventions, and I love to watch them and
ruminate and ponder why It was that
children, especially boys, get more self
ish and deceitful as they, grow older.
The devil seems to let them alone until
they get weaned from their mother.
The good end tho had are strangely
mixed In this worjd. New plagues and
pestilences keep on coming, both on
; animal and vegetab'e life, but a kind
r Providence has provided remedies and
given us minds to find them. But I
■ hare found au way to keep the pig-
I am trying Colonel Redding’s plan
;o exterminate the po^to bugs. He
says begin early and iwatch for the
first ones that come. M.al;e an inspec
tion every morning and kill the large
striped ones before they lay their eggs.
My crop is about six inches high. I
have six long rows in the garden and
the other morning I found tho pesky
things had come. I killed about thirty
and then told the children—the grand
children I mean—that 1 would ' pay
them a nickel for every dozen bugs
they found. That evening they killed
sixty and the next morning forty, and
this morning fifteen, and this evening
ten. So the three little girls brought
me in debt sixty cents and feel rich.
The bargain Is that they are to pay me
bad; for all I find and I have not found
but five yet, though I don’t look very
carefully. Children like to work for
money just like grown folks. I re
member well the first half dollar I
ever earned. My father was clearing
land and told me I might have the
saplings if I would trim them up and
pile the brush and I nMg]|U have the
wagon and team to heut them totowh;
and sell them., - I hadf^lM cjfSBluss;;
after school .aiaif Satia'M^'-^
and soon hqel :T iOaU’ ready un^^Slct It
to'our schooTteacher for a silver]half
dollar. T was rich, and as I drove home
I felt of It In my pocket every little
while to be sure it was there. I liko
to reward these little chapB, for It does
them so much good and makes them
love me. The iove of an innocent
child is the purest on earth except the
love of a mother. I have no greater
comfort now than the glad smile of a
little one that jumps into my arms
whenever I come. It flatters my van
ity, for though I am old and ugly the
little ones will hug me and pat my
wrinkled cheeks and turn away from
those who are young and'handsome.
The greatest Inducement for a parent)
to be a Christian Is to secure the sal
vation of their children and meet them
In heaven, for It Is said In the scrip
tures in three places, “Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved—thou aud thine house.” Se let
the good mother not despair of her
wicked son who went unrepentant to
bis death and may these words always
comfort her, "thou gnd thine house.”
For the sake of ten good people the
Lord would have saved Sodom, and for
the sake of good parents He will save
the children.
Last year my potato crop was seri
ously damaged by these bugs, and by
the parts green, too, for I used too
much of It, and so I am taking Colonel
Redding’s advice and hilling off the
big striped beetles' before they lay
their patches of yellow eggs on the un
der side of the leaves. I Instructed
tho children to look for eggs and
they found only two leaves with eggs
on them. With ft little sharpened
stick they dug around tho baso of ev
ery plant, and there found most of the
beetles, but I am already satisfied with
the experiment, and hope that I will
not have to use p&rls green at all.
I shall continue my bargain’ with the
children, even if It is expensive. I
overheard them plotting this evening
about going to the drug store tomor
eons from preying on my young peas
as they peep from the ground. They
utterly destroyed my first planting
and have begun on the second. We
have had a flock for many yeijrs, and I
never knew them to trouble the garden
before. 1 say. Colonel Redding, what
must I do about it? My wife says cov
er them with brush, and I will If l
can find the brush. The English spar
rows do leave us most of the crop, but
the pigeons don’t leave us anything.
Reckon I will have to-turn the boys
loose on them. The beans, ortions and
early corn arc all right yet, and the
strawberries seem to have no enemies.
They make a beautiful show, and give
us great comfort.
In a week or two we will have ripe’
fruit in abundance, and shall send
some to the preachers. Brother Yar
brough says he does not think it any
harm to send good things to a preach
er even on Sunday. Strawberry cul
ture is spreading rapidly In our town
and some of the neighbors are trying it
as a. business for profit. Dr. Fc-lton,
Jr., has put out thirty thousand plants
the last Ecason. It was Isaac Walton,
the great fisherman, who wrote in Ills
book on angling, “Dr: Butler says that
‘doubtless God could have made a bet
ter berry than the strawberry, but
doubtless God never did,’ and so I say
that God never made a more calm,
quirt, innocent recreation than ang
ling." My friends, Dr. Benham and
Coloner Murphy heartily endorse Wal
ton on fishing, and will sk in a boat
half a day In a .cummer's sun and
watch the corks- aud ruminate and
not catch enough fish for supper. If
1-Wae as fond cf It as they are I think
X Would - move to Florida and stay
%ferc. ! have caught more fish there
ih one day than i?i all piy life up here
pjpMRvr.pl or, • ...
^ ^.not’go ty Thfe]long spell
of grippe left’ ~ mffd.o ffftafiTfflletf’ to
travel that far and give up my home
habits and comforts, but I read all
about the great reunion with keen sat
isfaction. There Is life In the old land
yet and love for the “Lost cause” In
the hearts of the people, the confeder
ates and their children and children's
children. May It never be extinguish
ed.—Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
TO FALLEN COMRADES
raise this- amount.”
FIERCE RIOTS IN RUSSIA.
Tv-—-—— . ; : t
Feaeaat* in Two i'rovlncei are Seek
ing- Felate* of the Kick.
,A 8t. Peterebtrrg special sayp: The
peasants ln the Poltava and Kbarkoff
provinces, where -18,009 are reported to
"tcl(^rUng in rlyfc*. have i already
iked eighty estate*, where they de-
,4y could carry
la terrorised,
tewards are flee-
Lovlng Tribute is Fald In Memorial
Services Held By Veterans.
A solemn memorial service by those
who still live for their comrades who
fell In the cause of the Confederacy
was held at Wednesday’s meeting of
the United Confederate Veterans at
Dallas, Texas.
The service was not only In honor of
the soldiers who gave their lives for
the Confederacy, but of the late Miss
Winnie Davis, the “Daughter of - the
Confederacy."
At noon all business was stopped
short, and the great audltorluifi hush
ed. Chaplain General William Jones
arose and prayed while the old veter
ans sat with bared heads. The ven
erable chaplain thanked the Almighty
for the leader that had been given the
Confederacy; he gave thanks for “the
noble women uf our southland who
were, ministering angels in the dark
daysNof war” and for the comrades
who had died gloriously.
“Varlna Anne Davis,” more favora
bly known as Winnie, the “Daughter
of the Confederacy,” the crowned
queen of our affection—was my per
sonal friend whom I so admired, non-
oi ed and loved.” the chaplain said,
"that It Is really difficult for me to
speak of her except In terms that
might to others seem extravagant.”
In glowing words the speaker refer
red" to Jefferson Davis, “who adorned
every subject that he touched;” to Al
bert Sydney Johnston, who "fell In
the hour of victory at Shiloh;’ to Rob
ert E. fA “the peerless soldier and
stanch gentleman;” to Beauregard,
Kirby Smith, “the heroically daring”
Hood, “Stonewall” Jackson “the
tc.underholt of war.”
The charlain ascribed virtues which
bad well earned the affection and re
spect of all men. Ho paid a glowing
tribute to J. E. B. Stuart, Nathan Bed
ford Forrest, the “wizard of the sad-
'die” Sterling Price,, “whom his men
affectionately called ‘Old Pap,’" to
Dick Taylor and Wade Hamptou,
“whose recent death has carried grit?
to many homes and many hearts.”
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!Cream of News.}
■Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Day.
—Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.,
of New York, in an interview, ex
presses great faith in Georgia's manu
facturing future.
—The grand encampment of Geor
gia Odd Fellows In Atlanta during
May wiil lie attended by over G,00u
members of tho order. .
—Rev. A. R .Holderby, of Moore
Memorial church, Atlanta, in a ser
mon Sunday morning denounced the
beef trust and started a movement to
furnish free ice to the poor.
—In elections held in South Caro
lina Saturday to name delegates who
will choose those for the state conven
tion, wherever the pro and anti-Mcl.au-
rin factions came together those oppos
ing the senator won out.
—Secretary Root, back from Cuba,
was in Miami, Fla., Sunday. Ho said
all troops will be removed, except a de
tail to care for guns and ammunition
for United States naval station, after
Cuban government i3 established.
—There is a rumor that tx-Penslon
Commission H. Clay Evans will return
to Chattanooga and make the race
for congress from the third dlstvlct.
In such event Congressman Moon will
oppose him.
—Gates says the object of the syn
dicate is to form a great system of
railroads in the south equal to that of
tho Pennsylvania.
—The price of beef, says the trust,
will take a tumble In a mojith from
now, owing to grass-fed cattle coming
into market. ’*
—J. Sterling Morton, secretary of
agriculture in Cleveland's cabinet, died
in Chicago Sunday.
—Noel W. Grant, representing the
North Georgia Agricultural college, of
Dahlonega, wins intercollegiate orator
ical contest held in Atlanta Friday
night. Sidney Hatcher, of Mercer, was
second, and Sam Johnson, of Georgia,
third.
—Judge Lumpkin, of Fulton coun
ty, Ga., superior court,’refuses writ of
habeas eorphs sought by Mrs. Mollio
E. Duncan, and sho will have to go to
trial again. Her attorneys will appeal
to the supreme court.
—Genera! Greeley, who, with telflj
graphers of his department, in.-;the
wireless system, reports that
erles were made that are sup
anything Marconi has done
—The Confederate Veterans' reunlfi
at Dallas, Texas, closed Friday and all
trains leaving Friday night were
crowded with old soldiers on the way
to their homes.
’—Joplin and other Missouri towns
were swept by a destructive storm Fri
day. At Joplin three persons were
killed and six fatally injured.
—Senator Carmack, of Tennessee,
speaking on the Philippine government
hill, said that General Frederick Fun-
ston ought to he hanged.
—Senator Money, of Mississippi, ha3
been arrested in Washington on charge
of assaulting a street car conductor
with a lcnlfc.
—At Manila General “Jakie” Smith
is on trial for ordering all the natives
of Samar killed. Smith's counsel ad
mitted that the general g^ave such or
ders.
—The indications are that the Brit
ish government will fight the great
shipping combine formed by Mr. Mor
gan.
—Judge Lumpkin; of the ruprenle
court In Atlanta, Ga.. holds Judge Can
dler’s orders declaring a mistrial la
Mrs. Duncan's case cannot be ques
tioned, and t refused to hear evidence
i as to the fketa on, which they were
based.
« —Boycott on packing bouse pro
ducts Is proving effective In Atlanta.
Ga., and consumption of meat has
greatly fallen off. * ,
—Edwin H. Ewing, the colleaguo
of Daniel Webster In tho national
bouse of representatives, died Thurs
day night lb Murfreesboro. Tenn.