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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1897)
m B0BOKD-, NEWJEBSEY, HAS TWO fatal fires. THE bodies burned TO ft CRISP. the Father Was riayins Cards In a While Children Were Barroom His Wife and Be j ng Cremated—Many Homeless. Hoboken N. J. was visited by' two fires between 11:30 „ a Satur- . disastrous o’clock Sunday morn day night and 3 ing. were burned to death Seven persons made home and thirty families were less. Saturday night fire started in The three-story'frame building at New the Here six lost their ark street persons Iivbb Mrs. Nellie Schroeder, They were: of Henry Schroeder, forty years age; Schroeder, eleven years of age; Maggie seven years old; Kate Schroeder, nine years old; John Sehroeder, three years of age and Willie Schroeder, three months old. The father of the family, Charles Schroeder, was in a near-by saloon playing cards while his wife and chil dren were dying. started at 2 clock The second fire o Sundav morning in the five-story double-deck tenement at 157 Four teenth street over a mile from the scene of the first. In this fire, three tenements, Nos. 155 , 157 and 159, were entirely wrecked, and No. 153 was damaged badly hv water. One child was burned to death on the fourth floor of No. 167. She was Mabel Mangles, eight years old. When the police entered the building at the first conflagration litt le save the shell remained, and they were obliged to exercise great care in climbing about the place. They finally reached the top floor and made their way into the front room. Stretched across the bed, blackened and charred, lay the moth er, and tightly clasped in her arms was the little baby, Willie. Beside the mother and baby, in the same bed, lay the charred bodies of the girls, Maggie and Kate. It is likely that they were suffocated in their sleep. On a mattress on the floor near the window lay the body of the boy, John, but the body of Henry, the oldest boy, was nowhere to be seen. Upon further search being made the boy’s body was found under a mass of debris in the hall, burned almost to a crisp. The loss to the building and its con tents will probably not exceed $15,000. The fire at 167 Fourteenth street Sunday morning started from some unknown cause in one of a row of four cheaplv built, double-deck tenements at Nos, 153, 155, 157 and 159. There were two families on each floor, aud only three vacant apartments in all the buildings. All the families were forced out in their night clothing, or with what little covering they could grab in their hurry. * The family of Ferdinand Mangles occupied the fourth floor of 157. Mrs. Mangles, with her four children, started for the street, which they reached in safety, with the exception of Mabel, who was suffocated. The body of the child is probably buried beneath a mass of debris in the cellar. The loss on the buildings Nos. 155, 157 and 159, which were completely 000. wrecked, is between $75,000 and $80, Not over a half dozen families insurance, jn the three buildings carried any and their belongings were worth about $10,000. SINK SPANISH GUNBOATS. An tt n A Key West special to a New York ine ffiorning paper says that another mar disaster to the Spaniards is re Ported. This time the naval depart Kent will not be charged with it, as one of General Weyler’s own river ex peditious was badly used up. Fifteen boats are said to have been R unk, 100 men are reported to have been killed or missing and the number of wounded is put at severfty-five. Hearing titled that the insurgents had or some heights near Baez, on he river Caunno, Santa Clara province, General NYeyler sent Colonel Serves ^ith fie place 300 men and destroy in small the boats boats. to capture MAY STRIKE IN TOLEDO. Trouble Brewing Over Redaction in Wages of Street Car Men. President W. D. Mahon, of the Na Employes,arrived tional Association of Toledo,O.,Sunday Street. Railway to at consult with the local union in the matter of the Toledo Traction compa ny 8 reduction of wages of motermen a ml conductors. There is some talk of a strike, the [ u nen claiming that they cannot make a vmg at the reduced scale. Pistols Barred in Texas. A bill has been introduced in the c.xas legislature prohibiting the man i acture or sale or pistols in the state, Providing a fine of from $100 to $1,000. TREATY GETS FAVORABLE REPORT Two Important Amendments, However, I are Added. The senate committee on foreign re lations has agreed to report favorably on the arbitration treaty, with amend ments. The committee was in session three hours Saturday, at the conclusion of which time it adjourned, ufter having agreed by an almost unanimous vote to recommend the ratification of the treaty, with amendments. All but two of these amendments are merely verbal. One of the two which are very essential strikes out the clause providing for the selection of King Oscar of Norway and Sweden as um pire, leaving it to the two powers to select an umpire when one is consid ered necessary. The other important amendment is an addition to article 1 of the treaty and reads as follows: “No question which effects the for eign or domestic policy of either of the contracting parties, or the relations of either with the government of any other state or power by treaty or otherwise, shall be subject to arbitra tion under this treaty, except by spe cial agreement.” This means particularly that Great Britain or Europe are to have no oppor tunity under any pretext to have an arbitrary board pass judgment on the Monroe doctrine. ' The disclosure of the close relations existing between Norway and Sweden on the one hand and Great Britain on the other led to an almost unanimous rejection of the King Oscar proposi tion. The first amendment was agreed to by the unanimous vote of the committee. The amendment eliminating the um pire clause was agreed to by a vote of 9 to 22. The vote in opposition to striking out of the King Oscar clause is under stood to have been cast by Seat or Gray, of Delaware. GOFF TENDERED PORTFOLIO. Asked t,o Be Attorney-General But May Not Accept, It is . announced at Canton. O., that the attorney-generalship has been ten dered Judge Nathan Goff, of Vi est V lr ginia, by President-elect McKinley, 1 and that a letter has been received from Goff declining the portfolio. While the letterj has not been made public, it is announced on good au thority that Judge Goff has his eye on the senate to years hence, and largely for that reason may decline a cabinet appointment. bench in West Judge Goff is on the Virginia as district United States judge and he says that he prefers to hold his position. Goff does into In case Judge not go the cabinet the whole question of southern representation in that body will bo reopened and there will be : the another rush for Canton on par ! of delegations in the interest of mal candidates. The appointment of Russell A. - ger of Michigan to the war portfolio has touched a popular coni. e president-elect lias been deluged with telegrams from Michigan and the cen tral western states congratulating him on the appointment, PALATKA TURNED LOOSE. Confession * Alleged Train Wreckers Was Not Admitted. Sam Palatka, the Pole who was ar raigned for trial at Birmingham charged with having wrecked the Bir mingham Mineral train on the Cahaba river bridge, was discharged Saturday afternoon by Judge J. J. Banks, of the circuit court. The warrant, which was left in the governor’s office in Atlanta, was on hand, and a number of witnesses were examined. of Tlie state called J. NI« NY ilson, Eatonton, to .bow a confe».ion made by Palatka. Tanner, l’alatka s attoi ney, objected to this on the grounds that the state bad shown no corpus delicti, that the crime alleged had not been shown. Solicitor Ferguson, for the sta e, argued that there was no prolm >le cause that a crime had been commit ted, but Judge Banks sustained tie objection and discharged the de en daut. The result of the case will have some bearing on the many suits instituted against the railroads for damages accru- al ing from the Cahaba wreck, which ready amount to nearly half a million dollars, with more yet to be filed. INAUGURAL BALL TICKETS. Be Issued to Major The inaugural committee announces that the tickets for the inaugural ball at Washington are now ready for dis tribution. will be . No complimentary tickets is sued except to President-elect McKin ley and Mrs. McKinley. Opposed to Football. A bill has been introduced in the North Dakota legislative assembly de claring it a misdemeanor for any per son to engage in a game of football u $10 to $50 for ill: d providing fines of infraction of the law. SCIILEY COUNTY NEWS HU ARP’S WEEKLY LEIIER. THE BARTOW PHILOSOPHER PLAYS THE ROLE OF M USE. RUMINATES WHILE CHILDREN ROMP Left Temporarily in Charge of the House hold— IIin Feelings Were .Muchly It ii tiled. I consider myself an Injured person—wife gone to the missionary meeting, my two daughters gone visiting and here i am alone with three grandchildren—got to watch them till somebody comes. I’ve never seen one of the stock that wasn’t full of mischief and frolic. Thought 1 would take a little nap on the sofa while they played around, but it was no use. Thov got all the chairs in u row and played railroad and locomotive awhile. T hen they played soldier, and fired guns and killed one another and fell dead. Then they played horse and run round the center table, i thought the little girls would get tired after a while and settle down to their dolls and make a playhouse,but the boy didn’t like that so the racket continued. down They turned the chairs upside down and slid the backs headforemost and rolled over and turned sommersaults, and then jumped shook off the table and the lounge and the lloor and made the windows rat tle like an earthquake. Will they never get tired? thought I. No, ' and by, when wife homeshe never. But by my came settled them down and played club list and trimble toe with them and I had peace. My folks have got an idea that it suits me to take care of the children, and the children have an idea that they are to do as they please when there’s nobody about but me, and so I suffer myself imposed on and feel like an injured person. I believe I will go to the missionary society myself next time. But after all, there is no use in posing ns a domestic martyr or a patriarchal packhorse about these things, for I do like to have the little chaps around me,especially little girls. Children are a blessing to the household. They take away our selfishness and purify our feelings. Their joy and glee and spor tive happiness carries the old peoplo back to their early life, when the days were all sun shine. It is a sad sympathy we feel when we see them so happy now and foresee tho troubles that await them. Poor Tom Hood. How sad he was when he penned those touching lines: ‘T remember. I re member The flr trees dark and high: I used to tMnk their slender tops Were elose against the sky. It was a childish Ignorance, But now "tis little Joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.” There is no happiness like a child's. If I could I wduld exchange all that I have realized since I was sixteen years old for that I had before. Those sixteen years are about one-third of the average life, and the memories of them are more precious than all the rest. If a child is blessed with lov ing, indulgent parents those years are an unbroken season of unalloyed enjoyment. Sometimes I see my wife looking sad and dreamily into the glowing embers and know she is thinking about her children or her childhood and recalling the joys of her youth when head she had a mother and could lay her upon her lap and feel the soft caresses of her gentle hand. What a weight of care and anxiety presses continually upon the heart of a mother. How often do her pray ers ascend to heaven in the dark watches of the night—prayers for their health, their welfare, their good conduct, their salvation. But with all the cares, anxieties and fore boding, children are our greatest blessing and the family the greatest bulwark of good society and good government. and It is the law of our being that man woman should mate and marry and rear children, and there is no substitute for the marriage relation. I hardly knew the value of a child until a few weeks ago a dear little grandchild got sick very sick—and for days and nights was very near the gate of heaven. 8he suffered and we watched and suffered with her. Her lit tle lips and throat were swollen and inflamed with diphtharetie sores. Her lungs rattled with pneumonia. How she pleaded with us for help—for relief—pleaded with eyes and hands, and we could do nothing but caress her and weep. I would have given a mil lion dollars—yes, ten million, if I had had it—to relieve that child and save her from suffering. Prayers or medicine or good nursing or something saved her, and we are all grateful. If What is the value of a child, what anyhow? would the mother one was give? up How at auction insignificant is property or gold or silver when compared with it. What are we all working for but children, their happiness and prosperity? Daniel Webster, the greatest man this coun try has ever produced, said: “A good father will shrink from no toil, no sacrifice to raise his children to a bettor condition than his own.” If I was a judge and a father was brought before me for stealing or even for robbing, I would seek to know the hidden motives that prompted him to the crime. Many a man steals or cheats to get some thing for the children, and the world is out raged and calls him a thief and the law sends him to the chaingang. But after all, it is tho mother who screens them, protects them and wraps them in her bosom. I thought my wife was tired and would like to rest in her old age, but the maternal instinct still possesses her, and she seems as much concerned about the grand children as she ever did about her own. In fact, she is loss exacting, nnd more indul gent. The little boy we have with us is a young cyclone and keeps the home in an uproar.' When racket I and get outraged threaten him with with his tu multuous pun ishment, my wife takes his part and says ho nothing but a baby. Yes, a four-year-old ‘athlete forty baby who times slams hour the door like an an and don’t mind anybody and I could regu late him in an hour if J had my way. My wife never allowed such liberties from her own. They wore afraid of a spanking or of being shut up in the parlor when they got too boisterous. And now she pleads for this bo and says he is nothing but a baby. But ii get him some of these days when she goes to tho missionary meeting—see if I don’t. I’ve promised him a licking every day for two months and he retreats to her and looks defiance at me But I’ll get him—see if I don’t. He is nothing but a baby, but he takes the dog to the cow lot and sets him on the cow, and when I tell him that the cow will, horn him and that she gives him milk, he says he don’t want any more milk. He lets the chickens out of the coop, but he is nothing but a baby. But I'll get %im before the year is out—see if I don't. I’ll do like Dick Johnson., who was trying to bad raise his boy day on love. But the boy got so that one Dick picked up a lath and walloped him good. It was a desperate and remedy Dick and had a line temporary effect, walked the piazza with a triumphant stride, ‘‘T tol you I was going to whip you, sir. For ll\ long years I have promised you a of whlppir; Belial, and now you have got it, biowed you son And Dick puffed and like he lm< fought a great battle and whipped th<; fight week, ri * 1 Jut \ t 'didn’t 1 do tlm'b^nSy i.JWii. good. Tho whipping came just live year too late. I never lid take much stock ii bad little home’ boys. They are a nuisance, no only at bid abroad. Boys rhyme wit' noise, and the little rusoals want a gun o. some lire crackers or a drum or a tin horn It always seemed strange to me that moth ers love their boys better than their girls,bu win T reckon it is right. I have known boys laid no other friend. A father loves hi boys according to their conduct, out a moth er loves them anyhow. tho fam A sweet little girl is a treasure in ily. She Is very close kin to the angels Her value cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. If she is seriously siek the olarn paralyzes everything about the house. \V» whisper our anxieties in sad voices. Wi walk lightly and close the door gently am breathe our prayers silently. If she diet there is an acliiu j void the world can neve: fill. What is the value of a child? When tin railroad train kills a man the lawyers sm for his value. It may be a thousand or tei thousand or fifty thousand according to hi: consequence, but that is nothing when coir pared with the value of a little child. Hoi rich these mothers aro—rich in their chil dren! How utterly poor when they ,'o« them!—B ill Aur in Atlanta Constitution. A FEW HEALTH HINTS. If you do not wish to add to your flesh or want to get rid of some of that you have, take care that you do not Include in your daily food any potatoes, beets, pork, corn stareli, rice, tapioca, pastries, puddings, no milk but skim milk, sugars and fats; no bread but that which is stale, This sounds as though there was not much left to eat, but there still remain all moats but pork, eggs, lish, oysters, vegetables and all fruits. If one has a sluggish i’ver or is in clined to be bilious, having a dark, muddy slcin and dull headaches, do not oat meat or pastry ami but very little sweets. Eat tisli. fruits, milk and vegetables. In addition take plenty of outdoor exercise. If one lias a delicate stomach he should oat sparingly and more fre quently than as though he ate much. Milk and raw eggs are extremely nour ishing. Never eat the skin of any fruit or the tough white part of or anges. lemons or grape fruit, for it is entirely indigestible and contains no nourishment. If one's digestion is not strong bananas are good things to lot alone. Milk is the only food with the excep tion of eggs, that contains all tho ele ments necessary to nourish the body. Milk is spokeu of as a liquid diet, but when it enters the stomach it is con verted into a solid mass and for that reason should lie sipped slowly. When it is solidified the gastric secretions be gin their work on it the same as they do on any solid food. I epsin or lime water added to milk aid its digestion if the stomach is over-acid. Milk and acids do not agree and should not be taken within an hour of each other. If for any reason you are obliged to miss a meal and can lake a couple of glasses of milk you will get on very well, and if to the milk you can add a raw egg you are all right—New York Telegram. Inventive Insane Patients. Persons confined in insane asylum* td’ten display an inventive turn of mind. An English patient who be lieves himself shut up iu the Fleet prison for the national debt, lias invent ed a simple automatic contrivance for the head of a lawn tennis racket, to pick up the balls and abolish stooping. It acts perfectly well, and the asylum authorities have advised his friends to secure a patent for him in case lie be comes cured. His other invention is a really efficacious preventive of sea sickness. But not all insane inventors are so successful. One who had in vented a Hying machine, had a unique method of suspending it in mid-air “Atmospheric pressure being lifted: pounds to the square inch,” lie said. “I have simply to exhaust all the aii from above my air ship by an enor mous air pump fixed over the whole deck, and the air pressure underneath will hold the ship up.” He declared lie once made a model which worked splendidly. He said: “It flew about in tin' room like a bird. Unfortunately the window happened to be open at the top, and it fiew' out, and so I lost it.” Another madman had a plan for laying a cable around the world in two days. His idea was to send up a powerful bal loon to the highest possible altitude, with a cable attached. By the revolu tion of the earth on its axis, the cable, he declared, would be laid completely "ouud the earth In twenty-four hour* -Argonaut. A Novel Wagon. A novel vf’agon passed through El bei'ton recently. The entire body, with the cover, was formed of the body of one tree. The tree was cut the right length for rhe body and the heart of it was hewn out so that (lie driver cm:! 1 sit in the hollow very comfortably and drive, thus forming a secure cover ns well as body.—Allan! ' ua,l. A M1SANTHK0PS. Tommy—Pop, what is a misanthrope? Tommy’s Pop—A misanthrope, my boy, is a man who thinks life isn't worth living and who kicks like a steer when he has to die. HI i.181! ORGAN OF NATIONAL FARMERS’ ALL!ANUB THINKS SO. SUSPICIONS ROUND COTTON BALES. Milken the Dcrlanttlon that Corporation* Are Hatching a Scheme to Control Ginn and tin- Price of Cotton. The Progressive Farmer, the organ of the National Farmers’ Alliance, in its latest issue, says: “We have just learned of a gigantic and diabolical combine about to be effected to control the price of cotton. “The plan is to secure charters and establish gins with compress ftttack ments at as many points as possible in the cotton states. The hales are to be round instead of square. Cottoa buyers will co-operate and force farm ers to have their cotton ginned at these new gins by refusing to pay as much for cotton put up in the ordinary way. This will compel the present owners of gins to go out of business. “The railroads will haul round bales cheaper than square hales. Tho cot ton seed oil mills will, like the new gins and compresses, be located main ly on railroad lines, and the seed men will always be on hand to get bargains, as many farmers would sell seed cheaper rather than haul them a long distance home. “To defeat this scheme it will re quire the united efforts of all the farmers in the cotton states. It is probable application will be made for charters for such enterprises to the present and all legislatures held in the near future.” PUBLIC BELT STATEMENT. Treasury Casli Decreases Nearly Thirteen Millions During January. The debt statement issued at Wash ington Monday shows a net increase in public debt less cash in the treasury during January of $15,078,735. The interest-bearing debt decreased $140, aud cash iu the treasury decreased $12,957,959. The balance of the sev eral classes of debt January 31st were: Interest-bearing debt, $847,364,750. Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,382,930. Debt bearing no interest, $374,623, 057. Total. $1,223,370,737. The certificates and treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury outstanding at the end of the month were $595,075,573, an in crease of $15,166,000. The total cash in the treasury was $858,553,010. The gold reserve was $100,000,000. Net cash balance, $115,362,430, In the month there was an increase in gold coin and bars of $7,183,139, the total at the close being $182,387,- 121 . Of silver there was increase of $4,120,764. Of the surplus there was in national hank depositories $16,573,- 729, against $16,159,153 at the end of the previous mouth. SUGGESTIVE MESSAGE Tranmnilt»<I to Tennessee Legislature By Governor Taylor. Governor Taylor has sent a message to the Tennessee legislature covering several of the more important questions before that body and pro mising a later message concerning minor points. He pledges himself to aid in every effort to redeem the pledges made. He says to preserve free government and popular liberty, the integrity of the ballot must be maintained at all hazards. He says it is alarming when political parties flood states with money to debauch the ballot box and then fill the associated press with slanders upon the people whom they have failed to corrupt, and the danger is augmented when the general assembly is invoked to reverse the result because a suffi cient amount of money was expended in the campaign by the defeated party to justify them, in the belief that they bought the state. Eckels’ Financial Views. The exchange of views between Comptroller Eckels and members of the banking and currency committee on financial questions was continued at Washington Monday. Mr. Eckels expressed the opinion that the only -way to solve the present financial con dition would be through a proper bank ing bill and a gold standard. Craighill Retired. General Craighill, chief of engineers, was retired Monday at his own request, and the president nominated Colonel John M. Wilson to succeed him, with the rank of brigadier general. Gen eral Craighill ha:: been eligible for re tirement siuee July 1st, 1893, and • would have been compulsorily retired July 1st, next. The Three Friends Case. The United States supreme court Monday granted the writ of certiorari asked by Attorney General Harmon in the case of the steamer Three Friends, and set the hearing for the third Mon day in February, the 15th.
