Newspaper Page Text
Tie Mens County Herald.
PtHElsHKD EVERY FRIDAY.
— BT THK—
HER.VI.D PUBLISHING CO.,
JASPKR, (JA.
It is urge! that women ought to
have the right of proposal. We have
Jjo doubt they would propose more
l race fully than men; but would not
tun - friends mob the mail who re¬
jected their advances? However there
of course, no such muu.
The extremity of Dreyfus’s misery
could not be more forcibly told than
by the statement he made the other
day that he had just laughed for the
first time in five years. We do not
often stop lo think of the meaning and
importance of laughter, but the mere
conception of the state of mind which
makes laughter impossible is horrible.
’
Oriental dislike of the trolley sys-
tom is manifested in a vigorous style.
Since the introduction of trolley cars
into Korea several children have been
run over and killed iii Seoul, A mob
of several hundred piersons burned
one car and smashed unotlier. The
Japanese and European engineers
narrowly escaped death. The ig¬
norant people attributed the drouth,
■which had continued for some time, to
the constriction of the electric rail*
ways.
From Hunnyside, a town just founded
- .............................
ously cxolndcd. The scarcity of water
from which the now town suffers is
not, »s nn lit lie supposed, the cause
of this regulation. It is due tb the
fad that the managers of the town
have not yet acquired clear titles to
all the mining ground in the vicinity,
and tlioy fear that if the minors are
allowed to bring their wives in cotn-
plications might arise through taking
up of claims by families.
. A movement has been started in
T"™* 10 br,n * “ bo,,t tha
tiou of manual training iu the curri*
culutu of the public schools in the
State. The matter is in the hands of
u Sta'e ooi" uittee of thirty-two mem¬
bers, which has planned for a thor-
ough organization iu the State, with
the declared object of interesting “all
classes and professions iu a goueral
educational reform looking to a more
practical am oommon-sense system
thuu now obtains.” V. W. Grubbs,
the Chairman of the committee, says
that “a false standard of personal ro-
sped ability is largely responsible for
present industrial conditions—a
standard which uufairly degrades
manual luhor and unduly elevates
professional and literary callings,
causing the adoption of a false edu¬
cational system based upon this un¬
just discrimination. ”
It is now possible to travel frem
New York to Boston by trolley ears
with only one short break in the en¬
tire distance, and, if present plaus do
not. miscarry, it will soon be possible
to travel in the same way from Phila¬
delphia to Harrisburg, Gettysburg and
Baltimore. Already one euu travel
all over the eastern section of New
Jersey and the western section of
Long IslftBiJ by trolley lines, aud it is
only a question of a short, time wlieu
oue cpn travel from New York to Al¬
bany, Troy and Saratoga by the same
means. For that matter, it is only a
question oi time when the more thick¬
ly settled parts of the United States
will be covered with a network of
trolley roads. Under the influence of
the trolley system, street cars have
become almost as much of a necessity
to farmers and other inhabitants of
rural districts as they have to resi¬
dents of the larger cities.
■ txf — “T T
In view of the recent newspaper
comment on some decidedly unsports¬
manlike features iu one of the inter¬
collegiate ball games played iu New
York, Mr. E. S. Martin's criticism of
the game iu Harper’s Weekly is both
timely and to the point, “Unless
most accounts err,” says Mr. Martin,
“the spirit of rowdyism is strong in
baseball nowadays, aud far too many
tricks aud unworthy machiuatious'ave
used familiarly in the game. Car-
taiuly baseball ought not to be played
by a brass band, or by any oue out¬
side of the two nines qd£i\{j^d and the
umpires. MoreoYer, the uines ought
to play it with bats and a ball, and
not so much by word of mouth. The
standard of baseball manners seems
low. Wiiv it should be low is uotap-
*
-
parent, though it . said ., to be due . to
is
the employment qf pwl^ua!
roaches. Certainly
to raise it deserves support-aud ’ ap-
, „
TH£ LADDIE WHO WAS ALV/AYS
"COINC TO DO!"
Thfre lived long ngo, In h town I once !
knew.
A laddie who always w«* "going deed to of
Home a^of great valor, some re-
Borne glorious feat that would win trim !
Fume’s crown.
HU hopes,they were many, Ms doubts wore -
hut low,
This brave little lad who was “going to
do.”
While ,, . he dreamed, , while .... . he
„ but a , as!
fashioned with care
The wonderful castles ho buHt In the air,
Uls tasks were neglected, his lessons tin-
Life’s bSmellir duties and pleasures were
Mourned. manhood
From childhood to youth anil to
The wealth he had hoped would be his to
command, worki , , ,,,
Was gran honor's led "for to ^others, w to i " 1
The which in his fancy he
schemed, others, who dared while
Were showered on
he dreamed. passed him,
So many bright chances had
that few
Were loft for the lad who was “going to
do.”
At last he awoke from his visions so bold,
ro And himself friendless and cheerless
and old!
No mighty achievement hml blazoned Ms
name, ladder of Fame.
He never had mounted the
Not one of the wonderful dreams had
come true
That were dreamed by the lad who was
“going to do."
—Ida Goldsmith Morris
OOQOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOO
§ run BOY THAT DARED.
D By Warren McVeigh.
OOGQOOOOGOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOO
- VERY street ur-
D chin knows that
up on New
York’s great
East Side, a t
MSjfMH V T, e 0 *
_U caut Batld ] 0 t.
^ k- ■ The lot is triati-
LittY'Vft I) • g ldu *' * u shape,
IfWfejl) j| j v ’\ ? o,uinto^heEast nd one e ° d ot
$L£'- M iiiS^ (t.V River. little This of the
. nose
sand lot is called “The Beach” on the
upper East .Side,aud every afternoon jn
the summer time there gather here hun-
dre( j 8 0 f hoys, who, clothed only in
short trunks, spend hour after hour
in the water, drying themselves after
tbe 8wilu in tb e hot sun, or in front of
It was here that The Boy That Dared
wns t 0 i, e foand on a certain very hot
afternoon not so long ago. James
Jackson was his name, but January
was what they all called him; why, no¬
body—not even January—knew.
If January were to be pitied, lxecer-
taiuly did not kuow of it. His life
was comparatively comfortable. Iu
the summer he loafed aud slept in the
open air.. In the winter he did about
the same thing, only he slept in stables
andball doors. Two nightmares he had:
the police aud the Children’s Society.
Brass buttons were the emblem of
both nightmares, and January hated
brass buttons.
, January wa8 tbe i eader 0 f a “gang.”
That is the proud eminence to which
every little wharf-rat aspires. To be
a leader of a gang one has to swim
better, tight better and excel one’s fel¬
lows iu all other branches of athletics
and art, and January so excelled. And
above all things, January never “took
a dare. ” Lots of boys will tell you
they never took one, but there are
mighty few who caii say so truthfully.
January was the one boy who never
had backed out of any task set for him
by bis comrades, and so they looked
up to him aud thought him the finest
leader a gang had ever had. A gang,
it should be said, is not the horrible
thing the world makes it out to be. It
is simply a little clan of boys who
stand by each other when there’s a
snowball battle going on, aud who
treat each other when there are auy
pennies in the exohequer.
It was a hot afternoon, then, and
January and his friends were dress-
iug~themselves—or undressing them-
selves, rather for a swim. There were
about twenty boys iu the party, and a
groat overgrown mongrel cur to watch
the clothes while the boys were in
Pedro was very warm himseif, and
would have liked nothing better than
a dip iu the water, but a heavy fog lay
down over the river aud the beach,
and Pedro knew that if he but left the
clothes for one instant somebody might
creep up in tbe fog aud steal them.
So at the word command from
January, he threw himself down
tlie hot eaud aud put one great paw on
top of the little pile of old trousers
aud shirts that did duty as clothing for
his two-legged friends.
All undressed, the boys were about
to make a dash for the water, when off
iu the fog they heard the tooting of a
stoambpat, A few secouds later the
strains of a brass band came over tbe
water. The boys stopped and listened,
They could plainly hear the churning
ot the steamboat s paddle-wheels, and
the strains of the band, and the
laugher of those on board. Pedro,
who dulu t 'ike “asm, howled.
Wl^ftts dat? asked a very young
member Piomtv of ^the said party. one of his elders, and
thep whoopmg jjeaoh. and howling, they ran
Jhfc Suddeuly a piero-
ing shriek came through the fog. The
boys stopped short I again and looked
at each other: Again the shriek came
over the tvater to them.
By tbls ‘"ue,,the them. fxcur^ion The shrieks boat of was
very near to a
^man piain.iy tvU Wk. ajl ,l,cy wanted to
i
a kid,” cried Jadnary
You dassn t, exclaimed a boy near
him, aud January aud all the rest ot
the crowd looked at him.
“Don’t do it, January," said half n
of his friends, but the leader of
bo I?® 11 !? was on his mettle now.
"I dassn’t, «h?” he chuckled, and
with one leap he was in deep
goin( , with thg Bide . a troke
a youg seal in the direction of the
boat. All this had taken
secotu , am j t , xt nl0men t
half-hearted crowd on the beach
Pedro dart by them and go head*
into the water after his friend and
, for . the ., dog , , had , scented . the ,
January swam with all his strength,
P™"* be “>» d « tLa
of the water a little bundle of
bobbing around. The boy
escaped so far with its little lungs
Two or three strokes brought
to its side, and he grabbed it with
hand and turned over on his back
began to IIout. He placed the lit-
one on his breast, and looking iuto
pretty blue eyes began to pet it
ivith the few homely words his uutu-
soul suggested to him. A moment
something cold touched the side
of his face, and turning his head he
saw liis dog.
“Hello, Pedro,” he chuckled; “look
at the kid. Ain tit pretty: 1
Pedro snorted and then swam around,
ready to render any assistance that
might be needed. Then the boy heard
the dipping of oars, auAin- knew that
tne steamer bad loweredfi small boat,
so he held on to the hall? iirmty, aid
called out to the men in ym boat with
all his might. A few minutes later
the small boat came alongside of him,
and he and the child were hauled into
it.
January _ reached , , the deck , , of . the ,,
steamboat, and a woman threw herself
upon him and began to cry Ano her
woman, evidently the child s mother,
had the little baby in her arms, hug-
gmg it to her heart to warm it a lit-
tie. Men flocked about January and
of them Landed bun a dollar bill.
t4r “T n, anka, v ,, aou„,bn,.....iU.i, • i January, t „ and y he _
aaiu
Li.
i.d—" began another-
man. January scented a speech.
“What yon giving us?” he snorted,
and then he went over and patted the
baby’s wet cheek. The little one
looked up at him and smiled from ear
' ear
“So long,” cried Januarv, and be-
fore any one could stop him', he quickly
mounted the railing and plunged into
the river. When he came to the sui-
face again he was quite a distance
from the steamboat, and Pedro was
there waiting for him.
“Come on, old Pedro,” cried
and so they swam back to
beach. .•
“Well,” said January, as he pro¬
duced the dollar bill and showed it to
the admiring gang, “I dassn’t, didn’t
jy>>
Through the fog came three shrill
whistles from the steamboat. It was
saluting January, and the leader of
gang and all the rest of the gang
gave three cheers in answer. finiitad Then
January aud his friends uSiifrwent their
swim, and that uight outdS^Btous.
January’s riches at the
—Saturday Evening Post.
Kxaniplns of oiii-Fashi.ned uentistry.
HAntifttw iientistiy, likp likeotuer ntLpr u^pfpl usetei nrtq aits,uas
progressed with the times. There was
a time when aching teeth were be-
lieved to be inhabited by devils in
durance vile, and all sorts of chavms
were used to drive out the trouble-
some demons. Even to this day those
who suffer the tortures of toothache
wonder if the old theory is not cor-
rect. A certain Thomas Lupton io
1027 gave the following directions foi
tooth extracting:
“To draw out a tooth, fill an
earthen pot with emets or ants and
their eggs, and set the same pot in
but embers so long until all be burned
into ashes; ahd when any doth ake,
which you would draw forth without
pain, then take of the same powder,
anil touch the tooth therewith, and it
will fall out.”
It is tQld that Dr. Tuskmake, of
Boston, invented au instrument for
pulling teeth that lost him all his
friends. It was “a combination of the
lever, pulley, wheel aud axle, inclined
plane, wedge and screw. A child of
three years could, by a single turn of
the screw, raise stone weighing
twenty-three tons, says JoIid
Pbcemx. ’that was in tbe days when
men wore cumbersome metal plates
supporting false teeth iu their mouths.
General George Washington was noted
for a gold toothplate of this puffed sort,
which was rather large and out
his lips and cheeks noticeably.— Chi-
cago Record.
“Scientists,” Photo K r»ph« says Lightning the Philadelphia flashes.
Record, are much interested in a fad
which W. N. Jennings, of Philadel-
phia, has been indulging in for the last
eighteen yeais, and which, they say,
has proven of much talue to them. No
thunderstorm ol any moment passes
over the city, no matter whether it is
day or night, that does not And Mr.
Jennings structqd rubber arrayed)in suit, a on specially top of con- his
b !a «“ ' 8 l «- es - pb /'-.b " e S u '' a the f '"j euthusiastic , tbe . b K htn pho- ' n S
tograpber ff first started this amuse*
nieut with his highly sensitized plates
he spoiled hundreds of them before
he could obtain any satisfactory re-
suits. Fina ly, after twe years of fu-
tile eftoit, he discovered the right
pffiu, and now his success is wonder-
ful. Ibis work is considered so lm-
portent that Kelvin, the world re-
nowned scientist, has placed himself
in eommnmeation with Mr. Jennings
m order to secure the earliest news of
any discovery which the Philadelphia
scientist may make.”
Iu Norway _------ the length of lift
average
is greater than iu any other country
on the globe.
DILL Dill Alt! ADD^C J LL I CTTCD 1 1 Lli
j 4I Pollten' Costs Nothing/* Say8
, SS
j ! rp, Ihe Ilartow P .rnilOBOpuer. p, . ,
I
THE 4RTICLE IS PAINFULLY LACKING
Conduct of Two Old K*- 8 laT.» Cited, and
Their Deportment Commended nn a
Good Example Even For the White*.
,
Politeness costs nothing and pays
ft ’ 1 B "ays ,ma “V"'*, es an agree# ” de
impression. 'I he oldtime negroes are
yet the politest people I know, but
they have nearly all passed away,
There are two that we meet or pass al-
most every day, and they are favorites
with my folks because they bow bum-
y y au ,j give the s ; deW alk with alac-
rity . 0 m of tbern goeH bent with age
uud d«f or ojit-. Hi„ body is nearly at
a right ang j e to hia , egB He is set
just right for digging a ditch or chop-
ping wooci and „ lakeB a fair living at
; t. for he is no beggar and says he
i , ves to work when be is well Some .
mues I drop a dime in his trembling
hand, and he always says “God bless
you, massa; you is a gemmen, sir.”
His gratitude aud his compliment al¬
ways reward me.
The other day I overtook him as he
was struggling along and, as suual, he
shuffled to the edge of the sidewalk to
let me pass. I didn’t have a dime, but
a half-dollar came into my hand. Out
of , niBchief j said: e Jordan ,
dident d ;. thia lnon J back
, here on the 8ide ftlkr .. N0| ’ sir; ao
InaRfla j knowe j dident( f r ble88
God T djdent have no m ' like dat .
j ^ jes hfld t nickle8> ’ sir) ! a d Ise ^ got
j was ; jes ° ine to
btanford’s, air, to buy some , bread , , for
J
,, .
® gc^i'th
* ., he , b ead i » F rr- u ld , head h.s
ben / t ! form * , bl6 1 ^onishment * ° made
’ a
P lc} " re ; - I T w on d f ve a dollar for it
! n P bo / 0- T 1 . lonk ed baeb at f nd
he hadent t moved. , He hadent. taken
itaU ’ n and “ e “? d af / aid 1 e8t it was
« trmk to get 4 him into 4 trouble u ,
lbat old nt> g r ° b a ^ k to
he da -V s of my boyhood, u when I T went
to school , with his young master, Roddy
Gre ? b(l “> ftt the Ma “ uft ' Labor sch ° o1
ln 0 d Gwinnett The Greshams were
good people, and old Jordan was happy
" ntd ^edom came. Nobody cares
for him . charity—the charity
now, save
of the old-time white folks. It has al-
way 8 seemed strange to me that ne-
g roeB were 80 indifferent to the poor
and afflicted of their race. They will
bur T tbem with great satisfaction and
-
ceremony. They will hire the finest
hearse and carriages and buy a coffin
with silver handles and have a dress
parade and weep and wail at the grave,
hut that is all.
The other negro whom we pass and
repass is a curiosity in his way. He
* 8 love crazy—as crazy and as devoted
as Shakespeare’s Orlando, who wan-
d ered about carving the name of his
love’on the bark of the beech trees.
^Insilarky flame is a oqok , for - one of c
our neighbors and she will not notice
b “• 1,1 ' act - she hldeB from b ’ m -
P H h f wa day ks '° , paat ng hop * he . houae n ? /°
’. '
8 et a ghmpse t of , her^ ebony face. The r
^ garden overlooks the
k J* d ° f tbl8 neighbor and there
he comes n and , stands and poses in de-
titudes. It would be ro-
1 pa e lc 1 ' veie ao 80
... dlca , ’ , {or , ^ tlirty and
^ ®. 0 , us f Iaor a g° u e g « y.’ 11 rag- e 18
a1 ,^ b "“ ble a “ d p ? ht ®’ and that
w g e a ' or and a friend even to a
vaga )or> j,
The old-time , negroes will soon be
the missing link between the slave and
bl8 master. Sbu « k foot-mats and
bor8e collars and baskets and brooms
have already gone. The new set have
neither good manners nor politeness,
Education and the ballot have alienated
Our children and tbe children
& e o is aves have no common bond
0 lnd tbem > and the animosity be-
be “., f pel l s an r broad ens as
e J®*” 11
I a > ba bo v is it to be lone
ana wno is to do it? Of course these
good old negroes will not wish to go,
®n d »t would be cruel to force them. I
remember when the Creeks and Cher-
ojeee were forced to go and how some
of the old Indians were left behind.
I remember old Sawuy on Sawny
mountain near Cumming, and how his
old wife and four of bis grandchildren
were allowed to stay with him. When
the old folks died these grandchildren
followed the tribe. But, of course,
force is not to be used with the ne-
groes, and it is not certain that any
considerable number will go. Bishop
Turner says they will; Booker Wash-
ington says they will not. One negro
paper i n Atlanta professes to be in
favqr of going. The other is opposed
to it . Their exodus is yet afar off, for
congress will not vote a dollar to it, but
if their ballot is eliminated maybe we
can get along in peace. Suppose we
try it . White primaries should be the
wa t c hword in every town aud county,
and then w0 can elect legislators and
municipal officers who are not afraid
o{ the negr0 .
As it is now, neither our law-makers
Bor on r mayors or marshals will do
their duty for fear of offending & the
negro and lo9ing his Tote . rty ,
oderiferous negro men and boys not
giving tbe sidewalk to white ladies on
one of our business street* Tt.ro
“eadfto a regular den on another street that
two churches and glr all the Z ne
and a9 many a8 po ssible stick their
f e , (t or their pos t e riors on the railing
of the piazza and spit tobacco iuice on
the sidewalk to the disgust and annoy-
ance of the ladies who have to pass
there. The ladies have complained
tiure and again, but this den oau’t be
abolished while the negro has a vote,
When the trains arrive our ladies can
hardly get on or off for the negro
brigade. There is a dozen on one of
our busiuess streets.
As The Constitution said recently in
well considered article, we
have white primaries, not partisan, but
white, to purge the towns of negro in¬
dolence, and negro insolence. They
muHt be eliminated from the polls just
as they have been in Atlanta. The
cteus must be broken up, the sidewalk*
kept clear for ladies and the passways
to and from the trains unobstructed.
Ben Franklin said that idleness was
the parent of vice and crime. The
young bucks who congregate at this
den are either living off of some hard¬
working man or some cook or washer¬
woman, or they are stealing from some¬
body. Every vagrant should be ar¬
rested and put to work or we will soon
hear of some outrage and have an-
other lynching. These are perilous
times. The old devil seems to be un-
chained and is going to and fro upon
the earth and walking up and down in
it. The daily papers are full of
crimes. White and black seem de¬
moralized, and we are getting harden¬
ed to the sinful and bloody calendar
that every day meets our eyes. When
will this thing end? ,
I started to write a little essay on
politeness. The lack of it among our
young white men is painfully observ¬
ant. Last week, when the day was
hot and the dust was deep, a young
man with his best girl dashed by two
of our ladies in a buggy and almost
stifled them with dust. They had to
stop, for they could not see. He made
no apology nor said please excuse me,
and yet he was from a neighboring
city and Polis means a city and polite¬
ness comes from Polis. Not long ago
I was coming from Atlanta and a Ma¬
rietta man who sat behind me elevated
his dirty shoes to the top of the back
of my seat and kept them there within
six inches of my head while lie gassed
away to his companion until the cars
reached his town.
I looked daggers at him, but it did
no good. I leaned as far away as I i
could, and felt like treating him like
did a cowboy once in Texas. The cow-
boy stuck his big boots and spurs on
the bacis of my seat and I deliberatly
got up and—went over on the other
side. I would have done this tough,
ill-mannered rough the same way, but
the seats were all full. Young mer
can show their breeding anywhere—it?
the cars or at church or at the post
office while w aiting for the mail to b«
opened. A true gentleman will fire
and fall back and while waiting for his
mail give somebody else a chance to
look into their box,but a selfish, ill-bred
man won’t. He will stand up close
and cover half a dozen boxes and peep
through the glass at the postmaster
until he gets his own. The best man-
“ eled “ an at tbe postoffice „ in . our
to . t olde8t
'^ There a 18 are Je a few - well raised . , , lads , in .
our town whom it is always a pleasure
to ™f et- T he / m ake a gent « bow
and k’P tbe . bat and , de pleasant
sm a
greeting. Ihere was a rich old bache-
lor who died in Jefferson some years
ag0 » an( ^ S10.000 to a poor
young [, ^ woman because, ’ as he said in
s ,. ghe alway8 g ave me a plea8 .
ant 8m n e when she met me.” The
Iri K h, as a race, are naturally polite.
“Pat,” said a good lady, “you passed
me on the street yesterday and never
eTer looked at me.” “Ah, me sweet
]adv> j was in a great hurry aud p
kn ^ w that if j looked at ve i couldn’t
sfl £ you” ’ My <rood father was an
old . ti e schoolmaster in the days
when manners and morals were taught
as well a8 books . The first day «f his
employment ^ down in Liberty { county J
he ade the boys and girls a alk) an
said tfae boy8 lnU8( . make a r9S p ec tfu!
bow and the girls a courtesy to him be-
f ore tkey t ook their seats iu the morn-
• A jj comp ]j ed pleasantly except
the biggest boy ’ in school, who said he
bedogond i{ b e wa8 gw j ne to make a
bow t 0 auybody. Father gave him a
talk next day but it did no good and
j. WQ 0 t ber po yg q U jt bowing. That
even j UG . a t the close of school father
told him to wait a few minutes. He
re i„ c t an tiy waited.
After t h e other scholars bad all gone
out father closed the door and told
hiln he had eitber bow or take a studied whip .
1 . * . the school He
id . <, rll b dur d if
t’h do eit h er ^ ’’ Then the row began rf ;
aud ^ j - te matched’ ft wbi)e TheV he
were pretty equally
fought all over the benches and under
them and turned over the water bucket
aud rfl j 8od a mighty commotion, but
the hickory was going all the time aud
a )l the outside scholars were peeping
through the cracks of the log school
house. Alter a long struggle the boy
gave up and bellered his way home.
That was the end of all rebellions in
that school, and my father’s reputa-
tion as a teacher was established.
“As polite as a Frenchman” has
grown into a proverb. The whole na-
tion is polite, men, women and ehil-
dreB . It is chiefly artificial, for it is
taught in the schools; but it is pleas -
ing and seems to be sincere. In Mex-
ico the politeness of the higher classes
is painful. When two persons meet
a t the hotel door one will decline to ao
in fi r8t and the other will decline In
like manner, and it takes a minute or
more for tfae 8tion of pre cedence to
be decided
In England f the courtesies of social
it forgotten- English- no
a quarrel Two
m en had a bitter auarrel present, here in our
town while I was au & each
? ddre ,, /,? ed ■, tbe other ,, a8 .. “ de , ar
1 “ - pray “T me 1 a11 . tb . f
^ SZ2 Amlrteln
style ’ of “you are an infernal liar” and
* - you are another - and then a blow or
a shooting scrape. Englishmen quar-
rel, but they never fight. Americans
tight, but raroly quarrel. With them
it is a word and u blow, or what is
worse, a ball from a pistol drawn from
the hip pocket. I have no respect for
a man who habitually carries a pistol,
______________ He is a coward .—Ji ill Arp in Atlanta
Constitution.
-
LABORI ATTENDS COURT.
Wounded. . . Barrister _ . Rapidly _ _ Re¬
covering—Judge of Courtmar-
tial Reveals Partiality.
The third week of the Dreyfus trial
at Rennes, France, begau without in¬
cident at 0:30 Monday morning.
M. Labori w - as present. He drove
to the court jn a carriage and entered
the ball at 0:30. The audience greeted
him by s anding up and by a general
clapping of hands.
Maitre Labori walked quite , briskly,
bnt holding his left arm close to his
side in order not to disturb the wound,
He met General Mereier and General
Billot in the middle of the courtroom,
stopped, chatted and smiled. Labori
looked very well. He was given a
cushioned arm chair. M«datas*>'La-
bori, looking wgll, was also in court.
Labori was warmly congratulated by
his friends. Captain Dreyfus, on en-
tering, smilingly shook hands with
Labori.
It is said the court will get through
with the ninety odd witnesses by the
beginning of September, and it is
probable that the verdict will be de¬
livered about September 7th.
All of the witnesses examined dur¬
ing the day were hostile to Dreyfus,
but as none of the evidence w'as fresh
but mostly a reiteration of the old
statements, the audience followed the
depositions with comparatively little
interest.
The session wound up with a scene,
on account of extraordinary conduct
of Colonel Jouaust, president of the
court, who permitted himself to make
an unwarrantable display of partiality.
M. Bertullus had been confronted
with the last witness, Captain Junck,
and General Gonz had defended the
latter when Colonel Picquart was asked
to be allowed to refute some of Junck’s
remarks, Colonel Jouaust made a
gesture of impatience and shouted:
“V hat, again?”
An outburst of loud hissing came
from the audience at such a display of
unfairness from the president. Judges
and gendarmes quickly suppressed the
noise, but Colonel Jouaust understood
tbe well-merited rebuke administered
him, turned red and adjourned the
court ten minutes later.
KAISER’S CABINET TO RESIGN.
Members Hold a Meeting and Reach That
Decision-—Emperor William Absent.
A special cablegram from Berlin,
Germany, states that Monday after¬
noon a cabinet nfeeting was held at
the residence of Prince Hohenlohe,
the imperial chancellor, and the whole
cabinet agreed to resign.
The acceptance of the minister’s m- '
ignation is uncertain.
Emperor William will return to Ber¬
lin on Wednesday, when, it is reported,
he will preside at the cabinet council
and decide what steps are to be taken.
All kinds of rumors are afloat. One
paper asserts that the kaiser has ac¬
cepted the resignation of the whole
cabinet. Others are of the opinion
that the fall of Dr. Von Miquel will
ential the fall of Prince Vou Hohen¬
lohe also, but nothing will be defi¬
nitely known until the emperor ar¬
rives.
The newspapers are still actively
commenting upon the difficulties of
the situation.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
I-iit of New Industries Established the
Past Week.
The more important of the new in-
dustries reported during the past week
include brick works in Texas; coal
mines in Kentucky; cooperage works
Arkansas; three cottou mills in
Georgia, one in Mississippi, two in
South Carolina and Tennessee; cotton
seed oil mills in Mississippi and Texas;
two electric light plants in Tennessee;
flouring mills in North Carolina and
Virginia; a foundry and machine shop
in Alabama; a furniture factory in
North Carolina; a grain elevator in
Arkansas; iron ore mines in Alabama;
a knitting mill in South Carolina;
limestone quarries in Alabama; lumber
mills in Louisiana, North Carolina,
SonthCarolinaandTennesseejapa-
per mill in South Carolina; a tele¬
phone supply factory in-North,Car-,
olina; a telephone company in West
Virginia; tobacco companies in the
Carolines; a water and power company
in Florida; a woodworking plant in
North Carolina.—Tradesman * (Cliatta-
nooo-a, Tenn.)
Z„ep abreast of these stirring times
l </subscribing little, for your home paper.
The prior is and you c«n»of
aford to be without it.
GUERIN’ ANTICIPATED ATTACK.
Paris Outlaw Was In Keadiness To De¬
stroy His House By Fire.
A dispatch from Paris says: Antic¬
ipating an attack from the gendarmes
occupying an adjacent house, M.
Gueriu, president of the anti-Semite
league, and his companions, who are
barricaded in the headquarters of the
league, poured petroleum in a room
near the point from which the attack
“ pected * p - paratOTy ^ »*«ng
ll fire ’..
- The anticipated , the part of
move on
tbe officers did not materialize.
