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; 1‘HE WAYCROSS HERALD. SATURDAY, AUG. 24, xM •
strikers Tamed the Tables.
A year ago the sweatshop clothing
makers of New York and its vicinity
■track against working 15 to 16 hours a
day. They had had no organisation pro-
vionsly, but now they formed one,
which they called the United Brother
hood of Garment Workers. The sym
pathy of the public was with these
downtrodden human beings,and through
that and their newly formed union they
gained their point Their hours of labor
were shortened to ten, and they had liv
ing wages. Their employers were most
ly the men who take large quantities of
clothing on contract and hire the sweat
shop workers to make it These employ
ing contractors signed an agreement that
they would abide by the ten hour ar
rangement for one year. The year drew
to a close, and the branch of coatmakers,
now thoroughly organized, united os one
man, struck again. There were 15,000
of them. They saw, or believed they
saw, that at the end of the year the con
tractors would endeavor to force them
back to the old long hours again.
The strikers had as leader Meyer
Schoenfeld, a young Hungarian Hebrew
of great intelligence, earnestness and
physical power besides. Ho opposed
strikes, but when ho saw this one com
ing he determined that it should win
and that it should count for something
when it did win. Ho hold his organiza
tion together and waited for the con
tractors to como to terms. The con
tractors’ organization, called the Cloth
ing Manufacturers’ association, asked
for a conference with the strikers’ ex
ecutive committee. It was refused. Tho
strikers were resolved that they would
not only secure the shortened hours of
labor for next year and all years, but
that they would likewise abolish at one
blow and forever the tenement house
sweatshop system. They declared offi
cially that they would have no dealings
with the contractors’ association, but
would deal with individual members of
it. They used almost the exact phrase
ology in this respect that employers
have been in the habit of nsing to strik
ing employees. The contractors were
therefore obliged to appear individually
before tho strikers’ committeo and sign
bonds for their good behavior another
year. One condition to which they
bound themselves was that they would
not havo clothing made in any building
in which people live. This does away
once for all with sweatshop business.
Henceforth suitable factories must be
provided. Small contractor, who could
not afford a factory gavo up their busi
ness and joined tho workers.
Then Meyer Schoenfeld went back to
his sewiug machine.
Tlie American tender their
deepest sympathy and condolences to
Mr. John Bull over tho conduct of his
sou, Dr. Charles K. D. Tanner, in the
house of commons. If a member of the
American congress in open session had
called another honorable member a liar,
disobeyed tho speaker and been forced
in consequence to bo assisted out of the
chamber by the sergeant-at-arms and
finally crowned tho performance by
shaking his fist in the face of all the
dignity of centuries and declaring that
ho left that “dirty house’’ with far
greater pleasure than he had ever en
tered it, how the press of Great Britain
would have rung with it, to* be sure!
How the unseemly conduct of republic
an legislative assemblies would have
been held up as an awful example! But
in the British house of commons, in the
very chamber whose sacred consequence
is guarded by a regular “cordon of
flunkies” from tho intrusion of even a
passing visitor, it is too much! We could
even weep for fallen British dignity.
FOR A SOUTHERN MAS
SUGGESTION AS TO REPUBLICAN NOM
INEE FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
rhe St Loot* Globe-Democrat Think* the
Candidate In 1890 Should Hull From
Below Mason and Dixon’* Line—The
Kind of Van Wanted.
The interest of the Republican party
demands the nomination of a southern
man for vice president in 1S96. Sec
tionalism has dropped out of politics, and
here is the readiest and most effective
way to proclaim this fact. Nearly three
times as many Republicans were chosen
to congress last November in the states
classed heretefore as the solid south
as there were Democrats elected in the
rest of the country. This is a momen
tous change in political sentiment. It
marks the disappearance of conditions
which dominated politics for a third of
a century. It ushers in a new era. The
passions and prejudices which kept the
Republican party sectional in its field
of operations now being as dead as the
issue which originally made it such, it
becomes a great national organization
and its prizes must henceforth be open
to all localities. A beginning should be
made next year in the new order of
things by taking the vice president from
the south.
But it should be understood that no
southern Republican is desired except
one having a vital connection with the
politics of today. The regime of 1865-70
will be ruled out. No carpetbagger
need apply. It is well for both Repub
licans and Democrats of the south to
forget the politics of the dozen years
immediately succeeding the war, and
the way to make suro that this is done
is to keep the men who were conspicu
ous in that period in retirement. The
conditions of tho period were abnormal,
and tho manner in which they were
dealt with commended itself to the lead
ers at tho time. Both sides, however,
would be glad now to eraso the record
of those days. The period, happily, is
dropping out o! the popular remem
brance, and the Republican party is not
going to do anything which will revive
the recollection of it.
Tho sort of southern men needed by
the Republican party cn its national
ticket are those of the Bradley suid
Evans type. It might bo well perhaps
for the Republicans to go a little far
ther south than Kentucky for the can
didate in order to emphasize the fact
that the geographical lino in politics
has been abolished, and this considera
tion would make Evans preferable to
Bradley. The great requirement, how
ever, is a man who is thoroughly repre
sentative of his region, who stands for
something vital in the life of his com
munity. Either of the two men named
here would attract thousands of votes to
tho ticket in their section. Many such
men doubtless can be found below Ma
son and Dixon’s old line. The time has
come when the partisan attitude of a
state is no longer decisively determined
by its latitude. The terms south and
north have lost their distinctive charac
ter as partisan designations, and will
be merely geographical expressions
henceforth. This dawning of a new po
litical day in the south can be appropri
ately recognizod by the selection of the
Republican vico presidential candidate
from that locality in 1890.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
A Gentleman’* Joke.
At the time he whipped Sullivan the
outside public were particularly in
structed as' to the extreme gentleman-
hood of the Hon. James J. Corbett. He
would never stoop to 1 say or do a low
down thing, would Gentleman Jim.
His manners were Chesterfieldian; his
morals were immaculate. He could give
moral points to any respectable family
man in the tend. The devotion of the
champion to his wife was dwelt on above
all his other virtues and graces, and
pictures of the felicity of this wedded
unit were put before newspaper readers
ad nauseam.
The first rude shock the public sus
tained in the contemplation of this an
gelic picture came when his devoted
and loving wife sued him for divorce
and got it in New York state. What,
this model family man!
And now a doting and credulous pub
lic weeps to learn that the “gentleman”
has been engaged, in a low down bar
room row with Fitzsimmons. The low
est kind of a row it was. Gentleman
Jim himself explains it by saying that
he remarked toFitz “in a joking way:”
“Ob, yes, quite so. You ddh’t know
the way to write. You’d better get my
brother to write your name for you.”
Then Gentleman Jim furthered his lit
tle pleasantry by spitting in the face of
tho would bo champion. What a high
toned gentleman this Chesterfield of
prizefighters is, to be surqj^
And now his friends fear that his
conduct will give tho public a bad im
pression of prizefighters. Dear, dear,
this is quite too badt
This country could ill afford to lose
such an artist os Thomas Hovcnden, and
the universal regret is doubly deepened
by tho tragic manner of his death. En
gravings of his famous pictures, “Break
ing Homo Ties” and “Last Moments of
Joim Brown,” nre familiar on both
sides of tho water. In his later years
his mind seemed to run more to fanci
ful thought and ideal imagery, and one
of the last pictures he ever painted
was a wonderful artist dream called
“Jerusalem the Golden.” Though
Thomas Hovcnden was born in Ireland,
he was as true on American artist as
any descended from generations of an
cestors on the soil. Where is the Amer
ican artist who can take his place?
The stars themselves seem to be fight
ing for the Cuban patriots. The protest
of the Spanish reserves at home against
being sent to Cuba to fight this time of
the year is one sign. These men are
forced from their families and their
peaceful occupations and sent to Cuba
because the Tegular army of Spain lias
been found insufficient to put down
the revolution. No wonder their hearts
quail before the prospect of dying of
yellow fever at the rate of 120 a day.
Herreshoff, the blind boot builder of
Bristol, R. L, offers to construct for the
government a torpedo vessel guaranteed
to run 27 miles an hour. He will build
the hull on the model of the Defender
to get this great speed. But after the
cup race is over in the fall maybe Ur.
Herreshoff will find it is better to build
the fast torpedo boat on the hull model
of the Valkyrie. Soch a conclusion
might be possible.
; It is to be hoped we shall non have
news that the Japanese have entirely
put down the rebellious Formosan sav-
Maitl Marlon.
So glad they found a name for the
third Cleveland baby. Marion! That’s
a pretty name. Talking about Cleveland
puts me iu mind of the latest Madison
Square roof garden gag. Funny man
says to another fnnny man, “Do you
know, they are cutting down the trees
around the White House?” “No,” says
tho other fellow. “Why?" “Why, so
Grover can havo a little sun. ” What do
you think of that?—Thistle in New
York Journal.
A Wrecked Home.
The editor of The Rural New Yorker
has done not a little toward making the
country homes of this country beautiful
and the lives of those who live in them
easier and happier. These will learn
with deep regret of the disaster which
has overtaken the country homo of that
editor. He himsc-lf is a farmer and hor
ticulturist, and his grounds were beauti
ful with many growths. Several acres
have been given up to experiment
grounds, reports from which reach the
editor’s readers. What befell this beau
tiful rural homo, is best told in the
words of Mr. Carman himself:
Wo wish th.'t wo might say to our readers
that the rc’urta c-f tlia tornado that swept
over tho Itcrul Grounds were “grossly <
gerated.” No, indeed, they ara worse than
reported. Tho stricken path cf the tornado is
a wreck. Net only, as previously stated,
tho crops ruin°d, many houses and outbuild
ings totally or partially destroyed, but the
beautiful groves and woods that so added to
the attractiveness of this wild and rolling
country ore gone—no, not gone, tho wood is
all there, but .-hanged from verduro to decay.
Wo walk over to Em wood, our experiment
field, and look-about as ono in u dream. Wo
have our notebook a3 in previous seasons, but
thcro are no notes to take. They have all
been taken. Tho grove of oaks, chestnuts,
boeches, maples, birches, tulips, with an un
dergrowth of thousands of natural flowers and
over 1,005) introduced shrubs and hardy her
baceous plants, so enjoyable and restful during
tho heat of tho day, is now a mass of broken
and splintered timber, kindling wood, hugo
roots, sections of trees that could not havo
been rendered more suggestive cf havoc and
ruin had they been thrice struck by lightning.
It is 23 years since we built and laid out tho
Rural Grounds, and It is but natural that we
should feel attached to the place and the sur
rounding country by all sorts of endearing as
sociations. But the tornado has so changed
all that it seems bard to realize that it is the
same country and the same home.
From New York to Duluth by Water.
The great northwest has a scheme in
its head which is worthy even its size
<md ambition. It is nothing less than,
the creation of a ship waterway from
the western end of the great lakes to
New York city. Mr. E. V. Smalley in
The Forum shows himself the prophet
and the expositor of the deep waterways
movement.
With the competition from other parts
of the world, the wheat farmer of the
northwest will find his best hold gone
unless he can get bis one great crop
across the water to Europe more cheap
ly. Mr. Smalley says wheat must al
ways be the staple of the northwest.
The summers are too short to ripen
com, and the winters are too cold and
long for successful stock raising on the
largest scale. Therefore wheat’s the
thing.
But the farmer will have to bum his
wheat for fuel unless he can get it to
market cheaply. The only thing that
will accomplish this is a set of canals
that will let the big steel freight ships
and whalebacks loaded with wheat
steam straight down the Hudson into
New York bay without breaking bulk.
To do this there must be built, first, a
canal on the American side around Ni
agara, between Lake Erie and Lake On
tario. It must bo 20 feet in depth. The
Canadian government will no doubt en
large the St Lawrence canals sufficient
ly to let the ships through. At Lake St.
Francis a canal can be built which will
let tho wheat ships into Lake Cham
plain. Thence through the enlarged
Whitehall canal they can steam into
Hudson river and down to New York.
Seventy-five million dollars will con
struct the canals, and the northwest asks
the United States government to appro
priate tho money and construct them.
The Rifles at Alban;.
The Way cross Rifles arrived here at
1.10 this a. m. and began shooting at
9.00. Although they were in a bad con
dition, for shooting, and did not come up
to their expections. They are by no
means in the rear, have only shot at 200
and 300 yd ranges, and are close behind
the Savannah Cadets and Gov
ernor’s Horse Guards, which have made
the bost score so far. The Rifles squad
are shooting at a great disadvantige but
have made a score which surpasses any
of their expectations, with Seargt Joseph
C. Brewer, in charge of the squad, and
Private P. S. Archibald as coacher, they
will no doubt make a score at the 500
and 600 yard range tomorrow which
will not throw them far behind the best
score.
NOTES ABOUT THE SHOOT.
Sergeant Brewer has made the best
score in the Rifles’ team so far.
The guns are tested before every shoot
at each range and must pull seven pounds,
but all our gens have been all right so
far.
The range is something over two milr-
from town but the squads are taken out
in carriages when their time comes to
shoot.
A large dray was chartered this after
noon by the squad from the Columbus
Guards, Mucou Hucssrs and tlie Way-
cross Rifles and they were driven all
er the city.
Have We Any Crack Cruiser*?
One would not wish to be troublesome,
not by any means, but ouo would just
like to know why some peopo made a
great fuss over the “sliced” of tho Unit
ed States cruiser Columbia. The short
est time between Southampton and
Sandy Hook was made last summer by
the steamer New York, and she did the
distance in 0 days 7 hours and 14 min
utes. The Columbia, specially cleaned
and speeded, lacked just 11 minutes
of being seven days covering the same
distance. How long it would take
her to overtake and destroy a mer
chant ship liko the New York oi
any of tho leading passenger steamers
now on the Atlantic may bo computed
by supposing these ships to go around
the world all the way and catch up
with the Columbia and stand still for
her to shoot at them. This, then, is tho
much vaunted “commerce destroyer.”
What there is to be proud of iu this re
cord we fail to perceive by tho unini
tiated and unprofessional understand
ing. Tho Colombia, moreover, is called
the “fastest cruiser in the world.’
she is the fastest, what must the rest
be? Furthermore, what are any of them
good for as cruisers? Perhaps, though,
our crack cruiser and the crack cruisers
of other nations might, under forced
draft, overtake a cattleship.
[i’.U
fl familiar lib* an iriendly
Lord Ll< -ss ye, yes, it focma Jest like they’s
•ex-akin oat ter me,
A-glvln up the kindest words ’at’s not fer mo
An I get ter feel in restless, it seems so long
ter wait
mes er-whistlin as
Then thei
i-hurryin In fei
Most on ’em ain’t spoctin, but they like ter
■ stan on wait.
Jest ter see tber ones ’at’s lucky get er letter
oncet er week.
Maybe watch ’em tear it open an tber bolder
Widder Tomkins stan’* er-lookin till they drop
Like *«he has ter my lies’ knowledge for tber
past five years an gone;
When she soys at last, so wistful, “Is thet
anythin from Ned?”
Bleat if I kin get er word ont, bo cn’y shake
my head.
Yer see, her Nod was recklcssiiko on rue
erway tor sea.
Wuz jeet ther likeliest lad in town an hand
some ex could be.
That’s five years back, an every night tlur
widder, without fail.
Comes erlong ex patientlike. with t-Tcry cven-
X somehow think like she does ’at her letter’s
sure ter come,
But’s ben so long time on ther way my faith
is dwindlln some.
Polly Perkins “Jest drops in” when all thox
test her went.
Then blnshes to herself an me, -jrteadin she
Since the days of * ‘ Uncle Tom’s Cabin ’ ’
no book has had such a run as “Trilby.”
Although time enough has elapsed and
fuss enough has been made for every
man, woman and child in this countiy
to have read the hook, its popularity is
still unabated. At libraries all the copies
are spoken for weeks ahead. At a libra
ry in Philadelphia sometimes a3 many
GO names were on the waiting list,
although the collection held many copies
of Du Manner’s masterpiece. And yet
in this volume there is not a murder, a
horror—unless it bo the death of Sven-
gali—or any great sensation. The ele
ment of attraction in the story is un
doubtedly first of all the gentle, lova-
blo, good tempered, genuine nature of
the leading characters. This oaght to
be a lesson to novelists who strain them
selves to fill their stories with morbidi
ty and grewsome sensation.
This government ought to fit out a con
siderable number of small sized gunboats
to do service in foreign lands, particu
larly in Asia. For this purpose the Ohio
river flat bottomed stern wheel steam
boat furnishes a model that cannot be
excelled. During the civil war dozens
of little steamboats of this type were
taken and partially armored and put
into commission as gunboats among the
shallow rivers around Vicksburg and
throughout the Mississippi valley. They
did immense service too.
T«r bey war rashers tnr bacon
dox**n t-egs.
If she kctc_ * er glimpse uv«
tkea -V fairly begs.
T er half «
• letter, wh
s doin first rate.
So we’ri a-*pecttn party soon ter her him
name ther day.
JooesYille’s sort uv dull-liks, hot jar hit it oo
—Walter 8. Stranahan la Chicago EeccrJL
All men will agree that one of the at
tractions of the forthcoming Atlanta ex
position will be the calendar of portraits
of southern beauties in the Woman’s
building. Mrs. Caroline C. Lovell paint
ed the portraits originally, and the cal
endar will contain reproductions of
them. There will be portraits of beau
tiful, high spirited women all over the
south from Texas to Kentucky.
The world’s national debts amount in
the aggregate to over $25,000,000,000,
and they are increasing. When most of
the present mass of debt, national and
individual, was incurred, both silver and
gold were legal tender metals, and it
was expected that both would be avail
able for payment.
The nineteenth century will go down
in history as the one in which mankind
did businees on a credit basis. The re
sult has been disaster unparalleled in
1 the history of the world’s finances.
Bronght Him Back.
Sheriff S. F. Miller returned from Al
bany yesterday afternoon, with Alexan
der Bullard, who was under bond for sel
ling whisky in the county. He is
charged with two cases of this offense,
and seems to, have been trying to take
leg bail.
Sherill Sale.
Georgia—Ware County:
Will be sold before the Court House door,
i the first Tuesday in October next, be
tween the legal hours of sale, to the high
est bidder, for cash, the following property,
to-wit:
Lot of land, number One Hundred and
E ; ghty-one. in 7th District, Ware county*
and all improvements thereon, except one
hundred and fifty acres, more or less, lying
on west side of said lot, bounded by a cer
tain gully, running north and south, or
nearly so; starting at Peach Creek, thence
cast or near east, along a ditch connecting
with other ditch, running south or near
south, to a certain stake, thence west or nei.r
West, to a stake in first described gully;
thence up said gully to original line near
southwest corner. Property levied on un
der and by an Execution issued out of the
County Court of Ware county, in favor of
Joel Smith against Load. M. Cribb and J. A.
Cribb. Property levied on as the property
of Lond M. Cribb and J. A. Cribb. Written
notice given defendants.
This. Aug. 22,1895.
S. F. MILLER, Sheriff.
Has Stopped the Drain.
The Brunswick Call is complaining
that the building and loan companies
are taking all the money out of that city.
Albany has stopped that drain upon her
purse strings by organizing a building
and loan association of her own. It is
one of the most substantial institutions
of the kind in the country, too.—Albany
Herald.
And Waycross proposes to follow suit
in the near future.
Tobacco Specimens.
Samples of tobacco, raised by Mr. W.
N. Goodyear of Nichols, S. C., was
brought to our office this morning. It
seems to be very fine, and is of the gold
leaf variety. Mr. Goodyear has about
3.000 pounds of this tobacco and expects
to realize fifty cents per pound for all he
has. Mr. Goodyear is a brother of Mr.
M. L. Gcolvear, of this city, and was in
our midst some weeks ago.
The Green Grass At Owld Ireland.
The green grass av owld Ireland!
Whilst I be far away,
All fresh an clean nn Jewel green.
It’s grov.-in there today.
Oh. it’s cleaner, greener growin—
All the grassy worrl-i around.
It’s givvn r yet nor any grass
That grows on top o’ ground.
Tho green g
Indade. at
To eyes liko
As salty a
i-ilm
owld Ireland,
t ’u'd be
that drip wid brine
The glory av tho gre
stoppin here,
n grass av owld Ire-
a paid my airnins—
s on tho shelf,
ro widout a queen
But I’m goin back first class,
Patrolin av tho foremost dock
For first sigi.t av the grass. .
God bless yez, free Amerikyl
I love yez, dock an 6hore!
I kem to yez in poverty
That’s worsfm me no more.
But r.ioni IVj lovin Erin yet,
Wi.l all iiu? graves, d’ ye see.
By reason av i'ao green grass a
a Whitcomb Bilcy in Century.
Pnzzle For Future Generations.
If the now woman really comes inj
bloomers, it will be a smart boy indeed j
who will know his own father.—Chi-'
cago Times-Herald.
When a new invention that threatens
to do away with existing methods is
discovered, it happens sometimes that
all the interests involved in the old
clumsy methods unite to war on the
new one and drive it out of the market.
The old interests can make no greater
mistake. They are cutting off their
noses. Real improvements are
bound to win every time sooner or later,
and the old corporations will advance
their own prosperity by welcoming the
improvement and making themselves
masters of it. Unless they do, it is
bound to become the master of them
and destroy them. The people are tlie
ones who settle theso things, and in tho
long run the people will always have the
best. .
Forty years ago Japan had no ships
larger than those carrying 70 tons and
having one mast. It was the policy of
the government to keep the people at
home. Now Japan is teaching all the
world lessons in naval warfare. The
wonderful little brown men have pro
gressed just that rapidly in 40 years.
Japan is going to spend a large portion
of the Chinese indemnity in improving
her navy and increasing it. When the
projected changes have been made, Ja
pan will be really one of the most for
midable naval powers in the world.
Some cf her new cruisers will probably
be built in America.
PEBBLE GOAT SHOES
Wear lenger and are more protection to
the feet than any other kind. Our $1.50.
every day shoe for ladies would cost you
you $2.00 now if we
had not placed our
order before shoes
WENT <JP.
MORE
STYLE
And more good shoe
for the money in
this our brag $1,50 ladies shoe lhan
any other shoe ever shown in Waycross
We have and sell lots of other good shoes
bot*- for ladies and gentlemen, as well as
children.
BRAD WATSON,
The Leading Dry Goods House.
The most deadly weapon of modern
warfare is the new Maxim rifle. A sin
gle soldier can carry it, and it weighs
40 pounds. In one minute it will send
600 bullets through 40 inches of oak.
When the armies of the world are
equipped with this gun, war will be
quick work, unless the contractors who
furnish army supplies can manage to
lengthen it out
The people will appreciate the discus
sion of heavy political questions better
if the diecussors wait until the summer
picnic and travel season is over.
Word comes that Japan does not know
what to do with that Chinese indemnity.
She should apply it toward paying her
national debt
The most interesting feature of the
race track of 1895 thus far is the de
velopment of the pacer. This is a pacing
year.
INVENTORY SALE NOW ON
^ and will last TILL SEPTEMBER FIRST.
Remember first comes gets first pick.
You can’t afford to miss it. MONEY SAVED.
PRICES BUTCHERED.
Nothing But First Class GOODS.
Some of our prices cut in- half, others one
third off, and others one fourth off.
Cheapest And Best Negligee SHIRTS
rice,#
Dictators of Fashions and
Controllers of Prices.
Waycross, Ga.
i E. LEVI,liii¥