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WEEKLY EDITION OF THE
Ullaycross Evening IHerald.
OFFICIAL ORGAN 0|F WAYCROSS ANT WARF COUNTY
VOLUME XXVII
WAYCROSS. GA.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. 1905-
VUMBER II
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WHAT HI. WITTE
HAS TO. SAY
Bj Telegraph to the Herald.
New Yorg, August 2.—Witte, the
Russian peace plenipotentiary, who
will land from the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosse this afternoon, does not believe
that peace will, result for the confer
ence with representatives of Japan.
When the steamer was eighty miles
east of Nantucket Island‘last night,
thetfePtoOrds flashed over the wireless
to the statioln on the island: “Witte
says: 1 am afraid the peace negotia
tions will be ended within a week.
The Japanese conditions are too intol
erable to admit of any discussion. I
am happy to visit America, which
country I am most anxious to know.
My only regret is that I cannot speak
English, ns I should like to thorough
ly appreciate the country whose pro
gress and development arc so inter
esting and instructive.' **
The Justice of Japan’s Claims.
What Russia shall pay Japun iu
roubles, In yen, or in dollars, is the
question of great popular interest
with respect to the war’s settlement.
That Japan may dictate the other
term?,' which is to say that it may
keep all of Ifljgterrltorial and strate
gic acquisition^ most people seem to
believe without giving the matter
much thought
It is barely possible that the hitch
will come over Russia’s refusal to
yield its position in the far East. Td
grant all that Japan Is likely to de
mand would mean that Russia would
be wholly shut off from the far East
ern coast and forced possibly to seek
an outlet, the difficulties and compli
cations of which are obvious, to the
Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea, If It
would have open access at all to East
ern waters. Aggrandisement, the ex
pansion which has been almost the
whole of Russian history in the past,
is at an end if Russia accedes to such
But the question mindemnity is
what now chiefly Interests public opin
ion, both in this country and abroad.
Is that the question most calculated
to appeal to the commercial spirit of
the times? Much of the comment
indicates a genera) hope that Japan
will be lenient The suggestion of a
billion is rated too high. There is
much fear that Russia will not be able
to pay it It is Interesting to consid
er the opposite view.
Why should Japan be generous?
Was the war not begun to compel Rus
sia to fulfill its own agreement with
respect to Manchuria? Was not the
war the logical consequence of Rus
sia's high-handed taking in of Port Ar
thur? Russia certainly conld not
complain of injustice if it were com
pelled fully to Indemnify the aggrieved,
party. Beyond justice, what entitles
Russia to ask for generosity?—St
Louis Republic.*
Mr. R. P. Newman has moved his
sister here from Savannah, and they
art occupying the house at 118 Lee
Avenue.
LAST CONFEDERATE
OFFICER IS DEAD
By Telegraph to The Herald.
Dallas, Texas, August 2.-r*Col. L. H.
Fitzhugh, who dropped dead in St
Louis yesterday, was the last known
surviving officer of the Confederate
Senate, having teen Sergeant at
Arms of that body during nearly its
entire existence. He also com hand
ed the first force organized at Rich
mond, his native city, for the defense
of the Confederacy’s .capitol. As door
keeper of the I&ftqijj^jtypuse of Rep
resentatives thirty jrears ago, he be
came known through tho widely pub
lished statement that he was a “big
ger man than old Grant,’’ Grant being
then President. »
A Panacea.
Last fall an Englishwoman of let
ters was staying, as the gu<« of an
elderly lady, at a country house In
Western Massachusetts. While they
5 driving one afternoon they had
tho misfortune to meet the omni-pres
ent automobile at a sharp turn of the
road. Tho horse, being spirited,
shied, dashing the carriage against a
tree and throwing Its occupants out
into the road.
The Englishwoman picked herself
up uninjured, but was horrified to sec
her aged hostess lying on tho ground
unconscious.^ Running to a near-by
farm-house, she knocked for somo
time before she succeeded in fring
ing a sunbonneted woman to tho door.
“A lady Jias been hurt—thrown from
a carriage. She is lying down there
in the road. Can you give me somo
whiskey for her?’’ cried the visitor in
breathless anxiety.
“Well, no, wo don’t ever keep whis
key,” said the native-born, after some
deliberation. “Would the lady liken
a piece o’ pie?”
Help Wanted.
From all over the gouth the cry for
help Is a continuous refrain, says the
Charlotte, N. C., Chronicle. Tho far
mer, the factory, the railways, the
merchant, the housewife, and. In other
departments of civilization, the call
is for labor for immediate employment
and at good prices. The South Is
now the Eldorado for those of other
countries or other sections of this
country who wish to better their con
dition. With cotton again at ten
cents a pound and above, there Is no
better opening In the world than in
farming in the South.
Wsycross Juniors Defeat Blackshear.
In a good game of base ball Monday
afternoon, the Waycross Juniors de
feated the Blackshear Juniors by the
score of 12 to 15. The line-up of the
Waycross team was as follows:
Catcher, Cleve Hlghsmith.
Pitcher, DeWitt Deen.
First base, Lewis FendL
Second base, Jim English.
Short stop, Julius Henderson.
Third base, Marvin Martin.
Right field, Frank Miller.
Center field, Lee Parker.
Right field, Henry Thomas.
Substitute, Leo Swicord.
TO BE GIVEN A
PUBLIC FLOGGING
By Telegraph to the Herald.
Odessa, August 2.—The wholesale
flogging at Erwan of peasants accused
of Insurrectionary conduct, has been
ordered for tomorrow. Two batal-
llan« of troops have been designated
to have charge of the flogging opera
tions. Vigorous protests have been
made against this savagery, ‘buf no
attention has been paid to the public
outcry.
Negroes in Rawlings cLa,£hn fenced.
Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 1.—TOis morn
ing at half past eight o’clock court
convened to pas sentences upon Alf
Moore and Frank Turner, the sen
tence of death being passed uj>on
Moore and life Imprisonment upon
Turner. This brought to a dose tho
sensational trial which haB qpjnjumed
more than two weeks.
The end of the British coal supply
Is yet afar off, but tho matter is of
sufficient Interest to tho present gen
eration to ongage tho attention of the
Royal Commission on Coal Supplies,
which has recently Issued it^ final re
port. Tho commission finds that at
the present rato of consumption it
will be 440 years before th’o known
British supply is exhausted. As the
Liverpool Post puts It, unless the sup
ply Is increased or tho consumption
diminished, tho coal Industry in Great
Britain will be extinct in the year
2345, “and all tho great manufactures
which require cheap coal will be In a
perilous state.”
A New York City paper recently
discussing reckless automobile driv
ing called It a world problem, states
the Indianapolis News. Its conclus
ions were based on figures thus: In
and about New York City since Janu
ary 1 there have been a total of 793
casualties from automobillng which
resulted in sixty-two deaths and the
permanent crippling of from fifty to
seventy-five persons. In one week
four fatal accidents occurred in Phil
adelphia and three In Pittsburg. It
was a moral certainty that In many
cases the cause was sheer recklessness
and brutal disregard for the rights of
others by tho drivers.
The poor man has one consolation.
If he does not get money when he
needs it, be Is always sure to need it
when he gets it, says the Washington
Post
Municipal ownership of public utili
ties is gaining a firm foothold In Can
ada. Ottawa has bought out the
Electric Light Company, of that city,
and Toronto is getting estimates for
an underground electric plant.
Mr. W. 8. Wardlaw, of Atlanta, or
ganizer for the International Typo
graphical Union, spent today In the
city and gave the Herald office a pleas
ant call. Mr. Wardlaw
Brunswick tonight, where he
NEWS AND NOTES
A report from the Georgia rice crop
shows that it has been cut down 30
to 40 per cent.
Tho Thomasviilc hospital opened
yesterday.
Wind storm in Texas kills two and
injures twenty persons.
The New Grtorins Court of Appeal
has been removed to Atlanta.
A concrete chimney completed re
cently for a Tacoma smelter is 307
feet In height, and is sgid to be the
highest In tb^world of Its kind.
One case of yellow fever reported
In Montgomery, Ala.
An English writer remarks that ns
n curious fact there 1b not n single
distinguished peer's Hon with nn Amer
ican mother, whereas there are sovar-
al with colonial mothers, one of them
tho present Under Secretary of War.
another a famous cricketer, honored
In the public service at home and ns
Governor of Bombay, and so on, states
tho New York Times. Ho concludes
thnt while the colonies contribute to
British aristocracy a forco vitally
English and permanent, the United
States fall to send over any represen
tatives of old and respected American
families, and those that it does send
have In the main n cheapening effect
upon English social life, without aug
mentation of moral or political force.
The Chinese have no weather man
to take it out on. They bellcvo In
“a god with a watering pot,” and when
excessive rain threatens to spoil the
rlco crop they go to the Josshouse
and pray for Its cessation. Not long
ago, says the Hong Kdng Dally Nows,
the Viceroy ordered all tho batteries
on the city walls at Canton, tho guard
boats and floats “to shoot the sky,”
so as to scare the rain Joss. Still the
rain came and seemed likely to con
tinue. .The magistrates of Nam-Hol
and Pun-Yu and the prefect of Kwang-
chdwfu went to the Templo of Horror
to pray for the cessation of the rain;
still it had no effect, and lastly the
committee of the eight hospitals went
in procession to the same temple to
pray for the joss to stop the rain, hop
ing their prayers would be more effl-
clous.
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Everyone wants his home
to look well and be cosy.
The furniture stock of some houses
yields only the cheerless, ungrace,
ful patterns—things that are quite
as uncomfortable to use as to look at
The three great Teutonic nations—
Britain, America and Germany—aro
the natural allies of the future de
clares the t-ondon Spectator, and such j
nu alliance once realised (not on pa
per, but In tact) would be almost asj
great a gain to the peace of the world,
as a European federation.
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