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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1897)
PHILOSOPHER SAYS WE ARE “PRO RRESSISO” BACKWARD. HE TALKS OF THE OLD SOUTH. Cln»‘>K°‘ l Conditions Find Women Fast Taking tile Flares of tlie Men. ■\Ve were talking about the old south b:u 1 the new south, and some said there was no new south; that we were the same people aud have the same principles, the same religion and the same politics that our fathers had, but like-the rest of the civilized world, we have advanced in education and gen eral intelligence and in the enjoyment of the comforts of life. Well, I am no pessimist, but I am grieved to say that in many things we have advanced backward. We have more books and more newspapers and more schools, but that crime is on the iucrease is known and admitted by all who study the records of the courts. There are more idle young men than there need to be—yes, five times as many, according to population, and Ben Franklin said that idleness is the parent of vice. I can pick out a score of young men in every town who are doing nothing—young men of good families—aud they are living on the old man or the old woman and seem to be content. They haven’t been reared to -work aud they won’t hunt for it now. Fifty years ago we had no vagabonds; every young man worked at something, and it -was considered disreputable to lie around in idleness. In fact, we had a vagrant law that compelled the lazy, trifling fellows to earn a living. I reckon that law is still in the code, but it is a dead let ter. When a young mUn married a girl it was expected by both sides that he could and would support her, but nowadays about half of them are supported by their wives or by the old folks. Then we got to talking abemt tba new woman—the female doctors and lawyers and editors and preachers and teachers aud bookkeepers and sales women, and how woman was forging ahead and taking the places and occu pations of the men, and my friend, Mr. Williams, of California, surprised us by saying that there was a tribe of Indians in the northwest who were already far in advance on this line; that he had known of them ever since he moved to California, in 1849. Iu this tribe the women dominate the men in the family and the field and forest. They rule them absolutely, make them cook and wash and nurse, and actually hire them out and collect the pay. Their principal business is trapping for furs. The women do this and sell the furs and pocket the money, and many of them have a good bank account in San Francisco. The men are not known in any business trans actions. So it seems that our new wo man has a savage precedent. Have we got to come to this? Will I live to see the day when my wife will hire me out as a nurse or a cook and pocket the money? She knows that I can do both, and I never dodged it at home on an emergency, but I reckon she will let me stay at home and work in the garden and cultivate her flowers the remainder of my terrestial days. She knows that I never hid my money from her; when I got any I kept it for her, that’s all. It was hers just as much as mine, but I kept it—sorter like the old fellow who had a thousand dollars in gold and when the confederate government passed a law taxing gold 20 per cent he swore lie wouldn’t pay it, and so he got out the hag one night and put it on the middle of the table and called up his wife and four children aud divided it into five piles and gave them $200 each and said, “Now, the gold is ub yours and I can swear I haven’t got a dollar in the world; but I reckon I had better keep it for you,” and lie raked it all into the bag again and locked it, up in his trunk. E here is no greater contrast between Ehe old south snd the new south than 1H R ho\vn in the advancement and the humiliation of woman. They are now 011 the two extremes. Before the war there were no female doctors or law yers or lecturers or editors—not one— aod there were no bookkepers or type writers or shop girls or clerks. The average woman officiated as a rvife and mother, or a daughter cherished by ,ier parents and her brother. The wife was the lady of the house, be it *‘ 'ith v <u- so her humble, and slie was content ' , lot. It was even considered a-ueath her pride and dignity to teach school, and hence there was an annual importation of New England spinsters ” teach the children. I and my sis (>rs went to four of them in quick suc cc.ssion, for our widowers married them about as fast, as they came, aud they • o-iule g;:od wives aud good stepmoth ! ‘ s ’ an d were the most economical \' >ers in the world. They <!e raised that way and neither the < nor the little niggers got more St 1 than any ’ they could eat. But now the new woman is either With her brams r;z ami her ambition and wrestles boldly with the men as editor, writer lecturer, professor in schools aiKl colleges,and even as office seeker, am undertakes; generally succeeds in what she or else she takes au hum bler place behind the counter or in the pressrooms, or perhaps in the facto i ies, for a pittance just enough to keep soul and body together, and every year grows paler and sadder from her work. Most of them are working to maintain ^ somebody who is near and deal to them, but their wages are rarely raised, for they are Women. ^ can almost weep for some I Know. r I hey keep their sorrows to themselves and let concealment like a worm in the bud feed on their damask cheeks.” Ah, woman! how great is thy peril! how hard is thy lot! Not long ago I received a tearful, pitiful letter from over the border. It was from a wife and mother who was an exile from her state and country, and had not heard from her parents in three long years, nor did they know where she was. Sho did not dare to let them know, for fear a letter might betray her and the sleuth-hounds would get on the track of her husband for the reward that was offered, aud so she ventured to write to me and to in close a letter to her father, which I must address in my own handwriting and mail from Cartersville. “I saw you once,” she wrote, “when I was a happy child and you took tea at my father’s house, and I know that I cau trust you. I have kept my secret from them as long as I can bear aud it seems to me that I will die if I do not hear from them, for they love me, and my heart is almost breaking.” They are happier now—the child and 8 the parents—for they communicate through me. I know of other cases where the wife has followed her unfortunate husband into voluntary exile and left behind her all her kindred and the endearing scenes of her childhood. Wlio knows the silent grief of woman—of wives and mothers—wives whose husbands have broken their marriage vows and gone to the bad; mothers whose sons are afar off in prison for some crime, or at home a drunkard. Oh, the pity of to it, the pity of it! Is there no way rtrfc^«> this world and make it bet ter? If I w**, a young woman and longed for a mate -voung man, some ideal of my thoughts ana i reams, one who would love me and cheiv.r, me and protect me all my life—I woiw hesitate and ponder long before I took the leap. A misfit, a mistake is misery. Matrimony is environed with perils, even when the husband and wife are mated as well as married, for the chil dren may bring grief and sorrow. St. Paul enumerated aud boasted of his trials and tribulations, but lie was an old bachelor and knew nothing of the perils of woman. But this is the dark side—the shadow —and I only ruminate over it now and then .vhensome pitiful case is recorded in the daily papers. There is a brighter side, a sunshine that illuminates and warms the heart, for marriage is the natural state of man and woman, and there is nothing more beautiful upon earth than the marriage altar, where the bride is good and pure aud the groom is manly, devoted and honora ble. Love is the best thing upon this sin-cursed earth. In fact, it is the only thing worth living for. The love of wife and husband, parents and children. I heard an aged mother say the other day that her son—her baby boy, as slie called him—was away out west somewhere and she had not had a letter from him for three long years. There were tears in her eyes and some came into mine. Oh, you boys, young men , mercantile travelers, don’t forget your mothers.— Bill Abp, in Atlanta Constitution. COURTMARTIAL FOR CARTER. He Will He Tried In Savannah on the 5th of January. A "Washington special says: The secretary of war Thursday ordered a courtmartial for the trial of Captain O. M. Carter, corps of engineers, on charges of unofficer-like conduct in the disbursement of government funds for the improvement of Savannah river and harbor. The court will meet at Savannah Wednesday, January 5. In order to avoid possible criticism, it was ar ranged that the court should be equal ly divided between graduates of the military academy and officers appoint ed from civil life. Subscribe for this paper and keep posted «u affairs in general. TARHEEL DEMOCRATS Reaffirm tlie Chicago and State Platform of Last Year. A special from Raleigh, N. C., states that the democratic state committee there Friday and issued , was in session an address to the voters of the state declaring that the democratic party is the party of the people, reaffirming the Chicago and state platforms of last year, declaring that W illiam J. Bryan is the great leader of the party, denouncing republican misrule and in viting all populists to unite with the democrats iu regainiug control of the state. dCHLE V COUNT Y N K W a. HOUSE AXl) SENATE ORGANIZES WITH USUAL FORMALITIES. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE IS READ. Speaker Heed is Presented With nn Elab orate and Handsome Cavel From Tennessee Kepubiieans. At noon Monday the first regular session of the fifty-fifth congress was begun at Washington. Simultaneous ly at both ends of the capitol, Speaker lteed in the house, aud Vice President Hobart in the senate, dropped their gavels and called to order the respect ive bodies over which they preside. The senate chamber was a veritable conservatory. The floral display was unusually beautiful, aud the odor, of flowers was heavy in the hall. The republican members were particularly well remembered with floral presents. Half an hour before the senate con vened the public and executives’ re served galleries were tilled with spec tators to witness the opening of the session. The handsome costumes of the ladies added much to the bright ness of the scene. Precisely at 12 o’clock the gavel of Vice-President Hobart fell and the senate was called to order. Tlie invo cation was delivered by Rev. W. H. Milburn, the blind chaplain, He made a beautiful and touching refer ence to “Our dear beloved president,” who awaited news from the bedside of the mother to whom he is devoted,and prayed that she might have a peaceful passage to the celestial shore. Seventy senators responded to their names on the roll call. The venerable Mr. Morrill of Ver mont was first recognized by the vice president. He offered a resolution, which was passed in the usual form, that the secretary inform the house that the senate wau in session and ready to proceed to business. Committees were appointed to in form the president that congress was in session and prepared to receive any communication which he might desire to make to it. ***. resolution the time of daily ™ ee ni “" of the senate was fixed at 12 o clock noon. l/l ""notion a recess was taken until 1 o’clock. At the afternoon session the mes sage was read. In tlie House. The hall of the house representatives presented an animated appearance long before the hour of noon arrived. The surrounding corridors were filled with jostling, moving crowds and be fore 11 o’clock the encircling galleries which overlooked the floor were black with people. floor At 15 minutes before noon the was cleared of all persons except mem bers and officers. Promptly at 12 o’clock Speaker Reed ascended the rostrum and rapped for order. The invocation was made by Rev. Charles A.Berry, an eminent divine of Wolver hampton, England. The speaker then directed the clerk to call the roll, and this consumed a half hour. The gavel with which the speaker called the house to order was present ed to him by the sheriff of Knox county, Tenn , who sent it in the name of the “stalwart republicans of East Tennessee.” It was formally presented to the speaker through H. Clay Evans, the commissioner of pen sions. On motion the clerk was directed to notify the senate that the house was ready for. business. A resolution was adopted for the appointment of a com mittee of tliree to join the committee of tlie senate to wait on the president and inform him that congress was ready to receive any communication he desired to make. The rule at the extra session for three-dav adjournments was vacated, and daily sessions to begin at noon each day were ordered. There being nothing to do but await the reception of the president’s message, the house then recessed until 1.20 p. m. As in the senate, the afternoon ses sion was consumed in reading the message. It was listened to with marked attention. A GIGANTIC POOL THIS. Wire, Wire Nail. an«l Steel Rod Men liar*. Formed a Combination. It is reported that the proposed im mense combination of wire, wire nail aud steel rod manufacturers in Cleve land, O., overshadowing anything of the kind ever before planned, has ad vanced to the point where the concerns interested have decided to go in, and all that remains to be done is to reach an agreemeut on the value of the dif ferent mills. The statement is made by Cleveland iron men who are interested that the control of the big company will rest in the hands of J. Fierpont Morgan and his associates, they having arrang ed to obtain that control by purchase. ENGLISH PRESS COMMENT On President McKinley's Message and 8»v It 1* Unsatisfactory. The London Daily Telegraph, com menting editorially on President Mc Kinley’s message Monday morning, says: “It has been America’s proud boast that she had no foreign policy. Judg ing from the president’s message, the new world is no more free from the burdens of diplomatic negotiations than the old. “In a document of pretentious length, mostly intended for Spanish consumption, President McKinley de vised a spacious pretext for gaining time. The Daily Mail says it is “very sat isfactory that President McKinley comes out so strong against the jiu goes.” The Daily Chronicle describes the message as “weak and colorless.” It says: “The president’s comments on the currency issue are positively child like iu their simplicity. It is safe to prophesy that his treatment of the Cuban question will be received with a storm. The annexation of Cuba would be a deplorable mistake, but the reasons for refraining from that course are not the milk and water ones Mr. McKinley advances.” The Times says: “Its tone of pat ronizing tolerance will make the mes sage not wholly agreeable to Spain. Probably the president calculates that if be can satisfy the jingoes for a time with eloquent denunciations and warn ings, he will find it easier to pursue a moderate policy. The Standard says: “If Mr. McKin ley represents anything so far it is the new tariff, which is confessedly a pal pable failure. The whole currency plan hangs upon the condition of an exchequer surplus; but when will that happy day arrive?” The Daily News says the message is characterized by a desire to displease nobody. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Many Now Industrie* Reported as Estab lished tlie Past Week. Among the most important new in dustries reported for the past week are the following: The Southern Bridge and Construction Co., capital $25,000, Houston, Tex.; electric light plants at Thomastoif, Ga , Donaldsonville, La., and Marion, Vn.; large flouring mills at Sweet Home, N. C., Clover, S. C., and Lebanon and Roxana, Tenn.; the Carolina Ice Co., capital, $10,000, Wil mington, N. C., and the Dallas Ice Factory,Light and Power Co., capital, $199,000, at Dallas, Texas. The Chat tanooga Roofing and Paving Co. will he -La Mi?.. $12,000 ’; plant * at Alania, tal, $15,000, will build an oil min —V, olum bi», S. C., and W. F. Thompson aiiow..,, j) e . vine, Texas. The Southern Sugar Refining Co., capital, $1,000,000, has been chartered at Richmond, Va., and the Southeastern Extension Cotton Mill Co., capital, $10,000, at Ports mouth. Va. Two extensive cotton mill plants will be put in near Thomaston, Ga., and a $10,000 tobacco manufact uring company lias been organized at Lynchburg, Va. A $20,000 box and package factory will be built at Mem phis, Tenn., a $5,000 furniture factory at Winston-Salem, N. C., and other woodworking plants will be establish ed at Hartselle and Woodstock, Ala., Liberty, Ky., Dillton, Tenn., Corsi cana, Texas, and Big Stone Gap, Va. —Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) SECRETARY GAGE’S REPORT. His Estimate of Appropriations Needed For Next Fiscal Year. Secretary Gage transmitted to con gress Monday the estimates of appro priations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, as furnished by the several executive departments. The total amount called for by the estimates is $462,647,885, which is about $32,000,000 in excess of the ap propriations for 1898, including defi ciencies and miscellaneous, aud about $41,000,000 more than the estimates for 1898. The recapitulation by titles is as follows, cents omitted: Estimates for 1899—Legislative es tablishments $4,465,532, executive es tablishment $20,025,484, judicial es tablishment $687,620, foreign inter course $1,850,428, military establish ment $24,620,043, naval establishment $29,929,539, Indian affairs $7,375,617, pensions $141,257,750, public works $73,364,134, postal service $6,048,112, miscellaneous $35,187,402, permanent annual appropriations $117,836,220. Grand total $462,647,885. BOHEMIAN RIOTS CONTINUE. More Boys are Now Carrying on the Work of Mol). Tlie Vienna correspondent of The London Daily Telegraph says: “The disturbance in Bohemia still continues. Boys under fifteen years of age, who are exempt from the operation of the standrecht, are now carrying on the former criminal work of the mob. < ( The German theaters in Prague are under military protection. Sev eral express trains have been stoned on reaching the city. Among the persons arrested there is an actress at tached to the Czech National theater, who from the balcony of the theater incited the rioters with encouraging cries.” REPORT THAT NEW JERSEY GOV ERNOR SUCCEEDS M'KENN’A. POSITION TENDERED AND ACCEPTED Selection of Jersey Man Said to Have lieen Urged Upon MeKiniey by Vice President Hobart. A Washington special says: From sources, the authority of which should not be doubted, it is learned that the position of attorney general, to suc ceed Mr. McKenna, who will be nomi nated To the supreme bench to suc ceed Justice Field, lias been offered to Governor Griggs, of New Jersey, and that he has consented to accept. It is understood his appointment was urged by Vice President Hobart. Owing to the absence of the presi dent, who was in Canton Friday, it was impossible to confirm this state ment absolutely. A special from Patterson,N.J., says: Governor John W. Griggs arrived home Friday night from Washington. He was seen soon after he reached his residence, but refused to talk about the report that he was to be the next attorney general. He would not say that the office has been offered to him, neither would he deny it. Close friends of the governor aud of Hobart, who were seen later, expressed the belief that the cabinet position has been tendered the governor,and added that he would probably accept it. THORN RECEIVES SENTENCE. Will Bo Electrocuted In tlie Week Begin ning January lOtli Next. A New York dispatch says: Martin Thorn, or Torcezwisky, convicted of the murder of William Guldemsuppe, was sententeneed Friday to be electro cuted in the week beginning January 10, 1898. When Thorn was brought into court in Long Island City he preserved the same calm, imperturbable expression of countenance that he has worn at every crisis in the working out of his fate during the trial, and when, as a pre liminary to the passing of sentence of death, Justice Maddox put the cus tomary [jl’UUlpiJi------ questions to him lie responded 1 - of emotion. . ward evidence “My name,” said the murderer, “is Torcezwisky. I was born in Germany and am 35 years old. I am a barber; liaro uever been in prison before. I was brought up in tlie religious belief of the Roman Catholic church. I can read and write. My father is living. I am not married.” In passing sentence, Judge Maddox said: “The judgment of the court is that you shall be taken hence to the state prison at Sing-Sing within a reasona ble time, and that you shall be exe cuted iu the form prescribed by law in the week beginning January 10, 1898.” Thorn listened without moving a muscle, and when the judge had fin ished he inclined his head slightly forward, as if bowing to the court. The prisoner’s lawyers then handed up an affidavit applying for an appeal. Justice Maddox took the affidavit and will pass on it later, Thorn was then led to the jail below. LEFT HIS DUMMY. A Condemned Murderer Plays a Sharp Trick on Jailer. John Morgan,who was to be hanged December 16th, playod a sharp trick on the jailer at Ripley, W. Ya., Friday night by walking out of jail and taking tc the woods. A short time ago he sold a confession for $25. With the money he bought a new suit of clothes to wear on the gallows. Thursday night he made a dummy of his old suit and put it to bed in his cell. Donning his new suit he climbed on top of the cell and lay there till it was locked for the night. Then he escaped and was not missed till morning. A reward of $500 is offered for his ar rest. His crime, tlie murder of Mrs. Green, her son and daughter, was committed November 3d, just a month ago, near Grass Lick county. TOBACCO EXPORTERS ANXIOUS. A Barge Delegation Calls on Special Com missioner Sonor Canalejas. A delegation from the city of Pinar del Rio, consisting of the mayor of that place and 200 merchants, planters and agriculturists of all parties, called upon Senor Jose Canalejas, the special commissioner of Spain, Thursday and represented to him the necessity for the exportation of leaf tobacco, of which, they addqd, there were 60,000 bales in warehouse. The delegation requested the com missioner to use his influence with , Captain General Blanco. benor Canalejas promised he would make proper representations.
