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I. MINDER WRITES A
LETTER T THE PUBLIC.
THE DAWSON TAILOR SAYS HE RE
GRETS MAHONEY'S DEATH.
Declares in the Letter That He Did All
He Could for Several Months to
Avoid the Awiul Tragedy.
fsador Minder, the former jDawson
tailor who is to spend the remainder
of his natural life in the penitentiary,
has written a ietter to the public.
In this letter he says he did not want
to kill Andy Mahoney, the tailor whom
he stabbed to death about two years
ago. According to his letter, he did
all he could ;vo avoid this for many
months. He says he has walked away
from Mahoney when the latter was
abusing him, in order to avoid a diffi
culty with him. l
in the letter he also denies that he
was the originator of the movement on
the part of several .prisoners several
months ago to escape from the Bibb
county jail. He says others have been
proven guilty of this charge and he
does not wan’ to be censured for it.
MINDER'S LETTER.
“] wish to express my thanks to
Colonel Cooper ani Colonel Herman
Brasch for their kindness to me. 1
think they worked harder than any
other lawyers in this state would have
done, and the only thing that troubles
me is God knows I dont see how I,
shall ever be able to pay back to them |
what they have spent, as they spent
more than they got out of the case.
“I also thank my friends who haye
done so many favors for me, with mon
ey or good words in my behalf, espe
cially to the good Mrs. Barnett and
Mrs. Reeves, and the good ladies who
came up on Sundays and gave us pris
oners‘the word of God and hope for a
better life to come; and they bring us
good books to r2ad.
“I also thank the governor and par
doning board and the judge, solicitor
and jurymen for what they have done
for me. 1 will say a few words about
Mr. Mahoney. God is the only one
that knows the truth.
“]1 did not wish to kill him, for if I
had I had too many chances in which
1 could have done it when he was tan
talizing me. I walked away from him
many times and never said a word to
bhim when he would attack me with his
words, and as I told Judge Free-
man when I had Mr. Mahoney urrest
ed in June, 1900, that [ did not want
him to fine M.s. Mahoney, but I just
wanted him (Maboney) to let me alone.
“Julge Freeman did tine him $lO. I
am very sorry for what I have done. 1
was worked up and so worried that I
did not know what I did at that time. I
did not know whether it was right or
wrong until it was too late. I will also
say that I am very sorry about the lit
tle trouble I bad with the jailer. The
trouble was made on account of the
jail breaking on April 13,1901,
“The blame was put on me and my
friends. I was not guilty, neither were
my friends, and one little trouble
bhrought on another. The saws came
%Yo Ben Nix. He and Jackson Amons
were caught cutting the window bars!
that night by Tom Evans and they ‘
tsld Mr. Kvans that the saws did not
belong to them, and they also told Mr.
Stephen after he came the same. ]
cannot tell who they came from. |
beg pardon to Jailer Stephen for all
the trouble that | made him.
“1 have never had any fear that
they would hang me in the first place
I did not think I deserved it, in the
se-ond place I—. Now as to the place
where ] am to go I shall conduct my
self us good as apy prisoner eyer did.
“| again thank my friends and my
lawyer and pray God to bless them.
“*Very respectiuliy,
“I. MINDER."”
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The Czar's Kitchen.
In the Czar's kitchen at St. Peters
bure not only are the walls and ceil
ings of black marble coyered with val
uable ornaments, but many of the
kitchen pots and pans, which origi
nally belonged to the Empress Cathe
rine, are of solid gold.
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Cures hoarseness and bronchial
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FACTS ABOUT KOREA.
Russia and Japan Have Long Struggled to
Control Its Destinies.
One of the most important features
of the Anglo-Japanese alliance is the
effect it may have upon the long
standing rivalry between Russia and
Japan for the control of KKorea, says
the New York World. Both countries
covet the peninsula stretching out be
tween China and Japan and which only |
in the last few years has, like Japan,
awakened to progress and civilization. ‘
Russia has been gaining a stronger‘
foothold every year in the “llermitl
Kingdom,” and rumors of serious trou
ble botween Russia and Japan have
been frequent of late years. Japan re
’;:m-d.s with great alarm the growth of |
Russia’s power in Korea. A l{ussianl
“whaling company leased three ports in
Korea two years ago, Oulsan, Sung
chinpo and Chinpodo. This concession
was 700 meters in length and 350 in|
width.
LKorea was declared independent as
a result of the Chino-Japanese war. To
celebrate the event the king declared
himsel!f emperor and consequently the
equal of the rulers of China, Japan and
Russia.
Japan has bitterly opposed the grow
ing encroachiments of Russia in Korea.
Korea and Japan are intimately con
nected, their people not being unlike.
The island of Tsuchima, owned by Ja
pan, is in sight of Korea, and this is
land is only a short distance from the
mainiand of Japan.
Japan wanted Korea for obvious rea
sons, but Russia opposed Lier, because
such a~deal would bring Japan right
to the doors of Manchuria. So long as
one power could keep the other from
possessing Korea it was satisfied. It
has been a question whether Japan or
Russin was the stronger in IKorea.
Well informed men have regarded Ko
rea as the storm center of the east.
The emperor is despotic and unprogres
sive, and Russia has been described
as playing with Korea as a cat plays
with a mouse,.
Until a few years ago less was known
of Korea than of almost any nation.
Its frontiers toward Manchuria and
Siberia are defended by high mountain
ranges, and its long line of coast pre
sents scarcely any harbor of any ac
count. The whole country is very hilly
and mountainous.
DOUBLETRAGEDY AT PELHA
Harvey Nesmith Kills His Wife
and Himself.
Last Saturday night two pistol shots
in close succession were heard coming
from the house of Mr. Harvey Ne
smith, at Pelham, Ga. On investiga
tion it was found that Mr. Nesmith had
shot his wife and then himself. Mrs.
Nesmith was found lyinging near the
qreplace struggling for life with a bul
let through the left eye cutting the
optic nerve. Mr. Nesmith was lying
at her feet unconscious, with a bulleg
through the temple, while their year
old babe was asleep on the bed. The
cause of the rash act will never be
kaown. Nesmith died about 4 o'clock
Sunday morning, and his wife about 8
o'¢lock Monday moraning. Both par
ties are of good families, and the fear
ful tragedy is deplcred.
Gives the Dispensary Credit,
MR. EDITOR: We have heard it
talked by sume and seen it published
in some papers that it was the finan
cial ability of the board of county com
missioners that borought the county
out of debt and relieved the people of
county taxes last year. We can’t see
why they should be accorded this
\m-edin when they had no more todo
with reducing taxation than any one
else. The main and only causes that
brought about the reduction and non
levying of county taxes last vear was
the increase in valuation of property,
and the money arising from the sales
of the dispensary. To whom there
ought to belong the credit for the
Jarge amount of money derived from
the successful running of the dispen
sary? Surely it belongs to the former
and present managers, who exercised
their good judgment in buying and
selling all spirits from which the large
amount of revenue came and went into
the county treasury. We can’t see
any keen financial ability in relieving
the people of taxes when the reyenue
came from a source which didn’t re
quire -keen perception of financial
judgment to accomplish. Anyone of
ordinary financial caliber could have
done the same, as the money was made
and turned over to the treasurer to
be disbursed for county purposes by
the board.* Why was it thatthis finan
clal judgment was pot practiced and
exercised before the creation of the
dispensary? Let the credit be given
where it belongs. CITIZEN.
Seven Years in Bed.
“Will wonders ever cease?’’ inquire
the friendsof Mrs. L.. Pease, of Law
repce, Kan. They knew she had been
‘un:ble to leave her bed in seven years
lon account of kidney and.liver trouble,
nervous prostration and general de
! bility: but, “Three bottles of Electric
ißit.Lers enabled me to walk,” she
' writes, “‘and in three months I ‘el
glikea new person.” Women suffer
ing from heaiache, backache, ner
lvousness, sleeplessness, melancholy,
fainting and dizzy spells will find 1t a
priceless blessing. Try it. Satisfac
tion is guaranteed by Dawson Drug
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FROM PIERCE’S CHAPPEL.
Current News Notes and Person
al Mention of Interest.
From Rev. Shirah’s actions he in
tends getting a move on all of his
churches. The assesment having
' been raised on all, they will have to
moye one way at least. Services the
third Saturday and Sunday.
It seems that one of our bachelors
was taken frocm the shelf and haonded
over into the realms of married happi
‘ness and bliss Sunday afternooon. Oh,
’what glorious news to those left be
‘hmd,who had just begun to take their
situation serious. But some remind
me of the much to be pitied girl when
she learned, to her dismay, she was too
old to play with toys but too young to |
‘stay with boys. |
I think everybody is recovering
from the grippe. Surely the grippe
is no respector of persons. It seizes
the poor as well as the rich, for it sure-|
iy had the writer.
The singing given at Mrs. R. U.
Fletcher’s recently was a success, and
greatly enjoyed by all present. We
haye some splendid singers in our
community.
We are looking for a sensaticn in
our midst, as we are somewhat expect
ing one of our bald headed widowers
to elope with one of our sweetest girls.
Almost eyverybody went visiting last
Sunday, the grippe and bad weather
having kept them in so long it was a
treat to get.
School is still progressing finely,
considering the grippe.
JOWER’S BIG COTTON CROP. l
Webster County Planter Puts 150 Bales
on the Market in Americus. }
Mr. W. P. Jowers, one of the most
extensive as well as successful farmers 1
in south Georgia, was ip Americus yes
terday to look after the sale of his last
year’s crop of cotton. Unlike many
other farmers, Mr. Jowers is never in
a hurry to sell his cotton and usual.y
holds in bulk until spring or summer
and then disposes of the entire lot at
once. It is not every tarmer in Geor
‘gia, unfortunately, who can do this,
and Mr. Jowers attributes his ability
in that direction to the fact that
instead of buy corn meat and other
provisions he sells more of this to
Americus merchants than is consumed
on his big plantatation, where he
raises plenty of it. He now has on
hand 150 bales of cotton which he will
sell today or tomorrow.—Americus
Times-Recorder.
Worked Cheap.
The Greenesboro Herald has this
interesting item: “Our venerable
friend, Judge Dolyin, of Siloam, says
he has been justice of the peace con
tinuously for forty-tour vears and has
marrisd 183 couples and received in
exchange for said service only one
bushel of~sweet potatoes.”” However,
he has never had the experience of
Judge Edwards of Lee county, who
muarried a couple and was presented
with a string of fish, and a year after
wards the groom said to him, ‘1 wish
ter de Lawd I'd eat dem fish!"—Frank
Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
Stops the Cough, and Works O the Cold
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets
cure 4 cold in one day. No cure, no
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Beautiful Thoughts
The sweet, pure breath of the babe is sug
gestive of innocence and health. Some chil
dren are as light and delicate as the modest
flower, some are strong and bright, scme are
fraid and sickly.
A mother’s yearning for children is insep
arable from a love of the beautiful, and it
behooves every woman to bring the sweet
est influence to bear on the subject of her
maternity.
To make easy that period when life is
born again, S
Mother’s Frienc
T ——— D
is popularly used. It is a liniment, easily
administered and for external use enly.
No®risk, no experiment, merely a pain
reliever and harmle: s
Pregnant women are earnestly entreated
to trx this remedy, it being undeniably a
friend to her during nature’s term of sus
pense, tears and anticipation.
Mother’s Frlen(f, if used diligently
throughout gestation, will soften the breasts,
thereby preventing cracked and sore nipples.
All tissues, muscles and tendons straining
with the burden will soften, relax, become
soothed, supple and elastic from its contin
ued application.
‘All fibres in the abdominal region will re
spondreadily tothe expanding cover contain
ingthe embryo if Mother’s Friend is ad
ministered externally all during pregnancy.
Ail reliable druggists sell this remedy for
$1 per bottle.
A really valuable treatise on motherhood
will be sent free, if you write us.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
FAMOUS BRITISH RELIC.
Anecdote Recalled by the Sale of
Battle Abbey.
' The sale of the noted Battle abbey in
England to Sir Augustus Webster re
calls an amusing anecdote of the late
venerable Duchess of Cleveland, whe
was chatelaine for many years both of
Battle abbey and Raby castle, says the
New York Herald. She was one of the
wittiest women of her generation. Her
"grace was present at a certain party
given by a famous American newspa
per owner and millionaire by way of
housewarming his new palatial offices
on the Thames embankment. The host
was pointing out to his distinguished
guests the various beauties of the es
tablishment, enlarging especially on
thes splendor and cost of the grand
staircase of alabaster and onyx. |
“Very fine, indeed, Mr. A.” at last
said the old duchess, a little wearied
by these encomiums. “Extremely fine,
so much finer than my staircases at
Raby and Battle. But those, you know,
have been sadly damaged by the mail
ed heels of crusaders tramping up and
down them.”
Battle abbey is situated near Battle,
Hastings, Sussex. The town received |
its name from being the spot on which !
the Saxons, under Harold, were de—l
feated by William, duke of Normandy, |
at the battle of Hastings in 1066. Aft- ‘
er the battle William the Conquerer |
founded a magnificent abbey to com- |
memorate his victory. The high altar !
in the church is said to have stood on ‘
the very spot where the body of the |
Saxon king was found. ’
The property just sold belonged to |
the Duchess of Cleveland, widow o£|
the fourth and last Duke of Cleveland. ‘
She died May 18 of the present year.
She was the mother of Lord Rosebery '
and married as her second husbandt
the Duke of Cleveland in 1854. Cap-'
tain lorester, who inherited the prop- !
erty, could not afford to keep it up. }
Find the red spot in THE NEWS.
BUYING UP LAND.
Americans Taking Advantage of
Cuba’s Weak Condition.
A rumor is going around that Amer
ican syndicates are taking advantage
of Cuba’s industrial straits by making
large purchases of Cuban plantations
at panic prices. The bankers at
Havana who have been sustaining the
planters with credit are said to have
been disheartened by delay in legisla
tion at Washington and to have lost
faith in the purpose of Congress to af
ford any relief to insular industries;
accordingly the financially w=aker
holders of sugar and tobacco lands are
being forced to sell out. To bankrupt
the nation which we went to war to
liberate and hand over its possession
to greedy exploiters from the United
States would be to crown the infamy
of our Cuban policy. Congress may
not have intended to bring about this
result by its: subservient dillydallying
at the behest of the beet sugar lobby;
nevertheless should the crime be con
summated congress would be a respon
sible participant.—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
International Stock Food at Fulton’s
Cures Rheumatism and Catarrh After all
Else Fails. Cost Nothing to Try.
To cure the most desperate rheuma
tism or catarrh take Botanic Blood
Balm (B. B. B.) the wonder of the age.
Cures when all else fails. It kills the
poison in the blood and gives a pure,
bhealthy blood supply, stopping all
gnawing, shooting achesand pains in
the bones, joints, back and reduces all
swellings. Hawking, spitting, drop
ping in the throat. offensive breath
and catarrh, irritations of the mucous
membranes quickly disappear, thus
making a perfect, permanent cure of
the worst rheumatism or deep-seated
catarrh. B. B. B. especially advised
for old, obstinate cases. Druggists,
$l. Trial treatment free and prevaid
by writing Dr. Giliman, 213 Mitehell
street, Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble
and free medical adyice given.
Was Over a Hundred Years Old.
Rev. Godfrey White, colored, died
at his home on the McCorkle planta
tion, five miles southwest of Albany,
a few nights ago after a short iliness,
The deceased was well koown in
this section, and had many friends
among the white people in Albany, he
having been in years past a frequent
visit to the city. Before the war he
belonged to the Tarver family, and
subsequently to ex-Governor A. H.
Colquitt. He attained an advanced
age, and though there is no record of
the exact date of his birth it is pretuy
well established that he was over a
hundred years old He is survived by
eleven children.—Albany Herald.
Americans in Oriental Fields.
A San Francisco girl has won a prize
at a Tokyo art exhibition for work done
in the Japanese manner. The versatil
%y of American genius, says the Balti
nore Herald, scores another triumph,
Surgeon’s Knife Not Needed.
Surgery is no longer necessary to
cure piles. DeWitt’s Witech Hazel
Salve cures such cases at once, remov
ing the pecessity for dangerous, pain
ful and expensive operations. For
scalds, cuts, burrs, bruises, wounds,
sores and skin discases it is unequal
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Phone 104. Two Doors--Third Ave
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