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{ATTERSON ON THE CAMAL
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KEMUCKY EDITOR DISCUSSES PANA
MA MATTER IN VIGOROUS STYLE.
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Says “Wo Are Betwixt Hell and the Iron
works.” Mot Required to Say Amen
Whes president Opens lack-Pet.
The Louiaville Courier-Journal
pricts the tollowing editorial on vhe
Panams canal situation:
The long @nd short of the canal
business 13 that the administration,
paviog Laken the bit in its mouth, has
also the whip in its hand, and means
to buck it through, willy nilly, and
thayu those of us who want both to get
the cansl and to be honest can either
stand aside and ‘Let her go, Galla
gher,’ OF make common cause with the
uanscontinenbal railway ring in oppo
sition, and in the eyent of beating the
treaty lose the caual.
«Thus literally we find ourselves be
ywixt hell and the iron works. It is &
case of be damned if we do and be
damned if we don’t. The moral ac
countabiiities, however, rest on the
bronche buster, who can be relied up
on to keep the ten commandments
lighted in the vestibule ot the white
nouse while rifling Colombia acroes
tbe way in the back office of the state
department.
“In the face of such a dilemma what
is apoor girl to do? She might take
10 the woods. But, sooner or later,
she would have to come out for meat
and drink. The most virtuous dawmsel
must live. In the olden time, when
convents were provided for the devous
and the distressed, virtue was able to
seck ber refuge within moated grange
and gable wall; but who shall rescue
her from this terrible Teddy, who,
with honeved words and pious phrases,
casts conscience to the winds and
would debauch the very grandmother
superior even of his own beloyed order
of the Holy Zebra! |
At least, we need be in no hurry.
We are not bound to say our catechism
according to the Quay-Addicks refoim
ritual, nor to cry ‘amen’ every time
the president opens a jack-pot with
prayer. |
“As democrats we are answerahle
for none of these things. Nothing
seems more certain than that the way
before the administration will be, and
every step ot it, beset by obstacles
surmounted only by sheer force. Con
ceived in fraud, begun in brutality
and corruption, it will not only end ia
infamy, but every foot of the journey
will be attcnded bv cruel sacrifices.
The ghosts of myriads of murdered
Frenehmen haunt it. The cries of
thousands of living yictims im Freoch
homes despoiled and desolate echo
around it. The oold gleam in the eyes |
of the gray wolves of the senate—the
heartless applause of the organs of tbel
tock gamblers of Paris—may bring
assurance to the self-confident, ambi- ‘
tion-mad Napoleon broncho busters in
the White House."
A LOUISIANA INDUSTRY.
An Immense Frog Farm to Be
Started There.
New Orleans is to be the main south
ern point for the shipment of edible
frogs. The Picayune says: Nathan
lel Wetzel of Kilbourne, Wis., is one
the largest game and melon operators
in the country, and he has come here
this time for the sole purpose of mak
ing this the main station for the col
lection and shipment of frogs. For
frogs that were caught in the Texas
and Louisiana swamps last year Mr.
Wetzel paid out over $40,000. Last
vear they were shipped from Texas,
Mr. Wetzel at that time having his
southern headquarters at Beaumont,
but because frogs are more numerous
in Louisiana than in Texas and be
tause better shipping facilities are
baa herc Mr. Wetzel will make his
beadquarters in New Orleans this
Winter,
Mr. Wetzel will greatly increase the
froz business in the south. He intends
Wbring here a number of expert frog
atchers, and these men will instruct
and initiate others in the delicate art
of frog catching. The frogs are caught
and kept alive until ivis time to ship
them, when they are killed and
rimmed arg, shipped in cold storage.
$17,000,000 LOSS TO THE STEEL TRUST
Yoe of the most remarkable revers
als in buginess of a giant induscry ever
recorded wag revealed in a statement
Showing the earnings of the United
States Stee] Corporation .for the last
Quarter of 1903, =»
.\«:cm-uiug t the prelimipary annual
'eport of the gteel trust a sudden pa
ralysis of its e roing power took pl.ce
lu the fourgy (§arter of the year, as a
THE DAWSON NEWS.
POISON EATERS TAKE RECESS
Salicylic Acid Affects Them Dif
ferently.
The food experiment at the depart
ment of agriculturs, which has been
going on for several «months past at
Washington, to test the effect of sali
cylic acid on kuman health, has
brought out some gueer results. The
generrl fact is established that salicyl
ic acid injurés health, and seriously.
The whole experiment has been
abandoned for a time to save the sub
jects from a complete breakdown, and
to give them time to build up again.
One yman, however, has reasoas to
rejoice in the salicylic acid treatment.
It has cured his rheumatism. The ex
periments will ;not be abandoned for
good, but will be resumed when the
men have recovered somewhat from
the effects of the past ten montha’ diet
on prepared foods invo which salicylic
acid enters as a preservative.
i A MOVING MOUNTAIN. E’
It Has Cost a Million Dollars to
) Find It Out.
A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal.,
Isays: California has a creeping mount
‘ain, and it has cost something like 81,-
000,000 to find it out. Santa Susana
‘mountain has been tunueled by the
‘Southern Pacific railway for a cut-off
line between this city and San Fran
clsco, and traffic was expected to open
January 1, but the opening is indefi
nitely postponed. As track laving
'was about to begin it was discovered
that the tunnel sides were bulging.
Heavy braces and cement were tried,
but were forced asunder by the creep
ing monster. A portion of the mount
ain is composed of shale, and it is this
that is making trouble. Careful ov
seryation shows that this portion is
slowly traveling westward, like a
mighty stone river, moving toward
the Pacific. The strata dips ocean
ward, and the movement is undoubted
ly what is known as a *‘slide,”’ caueed
by displacement somewhere in the
depths of the earth.
THE AMERICAN INDIAN.
Has the Best Time of Any Race
on the Globe.
Since Poor Le has stopped facing
the setting sun and delivering fourth
reader orations he has managed to
pick up a considerable portion of this
world’'s goods, says the Winchester
Telegram. There are about 238,000
Poor Los, and they cost the govern
went $9,000,000 every year, and of this
$3,600,000 goes for education. Still
the Indian does not improve much.
Sometimes he becomes a ball player
or football piayer, and on one occa
sion, to the sorrow of his manager, he
became a singer in opers.
The Indians are well cared for.
They have free education and & good
income from the United States. This
is increased by a little work—not tOO
much work, for the Indian does not
believe in labor. All told, he has
about the best time of any man or race
of men on the globe.
A PLUCKY MAN,
Without an Arm He Passes a
Written Examination.
At the examination of teachers at
Talladega, Alabama, last week, there
was a man by the name of Horne, who
had lost both of his arms in a dynamite
explosion. He went to Montgomery to
ascertain if there was any way by
whieh he could secure a license to
teach without standing a written ex
amination, and was intormed he could
not—that the law was explicit on that
point. Nothing daunted he rigged a
contrivance and attached it to the
stump of his arm with which he
manipulates a pen and stood a written
examination.
TEN DOLLARS A DAY.
But no Applicants Are Found for
These Jobs.
Several jobs at $lO per day for about
tbree hours’ work, in two shifts, are
going begging in New York. The jobs
are in the caissons 100 feet under the
river, and there are no takers because
geveral men haye recently died in ag
ony after ba.viné been confined in the
compressed air of the caissons for a
short time.
result of which net earnings fell from
a total of 832,302 821 in the September
quarter to $14,845,032 for the quarter
ending December 31.
The figures of the monthly earnings
show that the collapse in the iron and
steel industry took place within a pe
riod of four months. From the height
of a prosperous boom the descent was
disastrously sudden.
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Dawson, Ga., Wednesday, January 20th, 1904.
TAMMANY ENDORSED HEARST?
Significant Utterance of the Tammany Times, Official Organ of the
Wigwam, Is Attracting Widespread Attention Among
Democrats Througheut the Conntry.
Has Tammany Hall, the democratic
organization of New York city, and
now the dominant power of the demo
cratic party of New York state, declar
ed for Willam Randolph Hearst for
president?
A highly significant declaration has
been made by the Tammany Times,
the official organ of Tammany Hall,
which is under the direct influence of
Mayor George B. McClellan, Leader
Charles F. Murphy and the Tammany
organization.
- In a recent issue the Tammany
iTimes publishes an importaunt and
interesting article headed, *‘W. R.
Hearst for President,’”’ and also an ed
itorial in which it is declared that ‘‘it
is the opinion of many of those best
posted in matters political that when
the proper time comes in response to
this general demand from all parts of
the United States and as a result of
the requests from organized labor ev
erywhere the New York delegation
will be in line for this great champlon
\of the rights of the people.”
~ Following is an interesting extract
from the article in the Times:
~ Here are some facts: Four hundred
and fifty newspapers of the country
have editorially declared for him; 200
Hearst clubs have been organized
without inspiration or suggestion from
Hearst or his Immediate lieutenants.
National Commitieeman J. G. Johnson
of Kaunsas has declared for him; Na
tional Committeeman C. A. Walsh of
Towa has declared for him; National
Committeeman H. H. Smith of South
Dakota has declared for kim; Nationsl
Committeeman James H. Budd of Cali
fornia has declared for him; National
Committeeman James M. Head of
Tennessee has declared for him; Com
missioner of Agriculture O. 13. Stev
ens, the controlling spirit of Georgia
TERRELL MAKES STATEMENT\
He Defends the Book Commission
from an Attack.
Governor Terreil has given out an
interview answering the criticisms of
the Augusta Chronicle. o
After commenting on the magninude‘
and dfficulty of the task involyed inJ
the selections of books the governor
BaYyS:
“The history advocated +by The
Chronicle makes no mention of John B.
Gordon or John Mclntosh Kell.”
The governor says the selection ot
histories fair to the south is safe in
the hands of the book commission.
Asked if the commission discussed
the insimuation in The Chronicle that
certain members of the book:commis
sion who had opposition on the last
election and whose campaign fund was
subscribed to by certain book concerns
paid their political debts in awarding
the contract, the governor said:
“#“We did nos. That insinuation is tOO
absurd to be noticed.
The inteview does not go into figures,
but deals with matters generally, say
ing the commission selected the best
books and at the lowest price possible.
EIGHTEEN-FOOT PYTHON
Found in Heart or Louisville’s
Residence District.
The discovery of a rock python 18
feet long has terriied the negroes who
live in the viciaity of Thirteenth and
Magazine streets in Louisville, Ky.
The great snake was found under a
house almost frozen, but was alive. It
was taken to the saloon of Charles Hall
at Tenth and Magazine fstreets. Itis
supposed that the snake escaped from
a show which occupied a store room
just west of the old Masonic Temple on
Jelferson street at the time of the fire.
To have reached Magazine street it
would have had to travel through one
of the most thickly populated parts of
the city, but no other explanation of
its presence ean be made.
BLIND TOM REAPPEARS.
Many Times Reported Dead, Old
Man Is Heard in New York.
“Blind Tom,"” the musical phenom
enon who was on the concert stage
when our grandmothers were belles,
and exhibited his marvelous piano
playing and his childlike antics, ap
peared as the chief attraction at the
Circle Theatre Tuesday nigont after a
long abscence from New York. In
presenting him to the audience his
manager referred to the many reports
of his death }within the last 30 years.
He said the first story of hisd2ath was
prinsed in the New York newspapers
in 1879. ekl g d |
democracy, has declared for him;
United States Senator McLaurin of
Mississippl has declared for him--and
Senator McLaurin with Senator Mon
ey and Governor Vardaman control
Mississippi; two-thirds of the local
democratic party of Chicago has joined
the Hearst elub of that eity. Through
out Illinois and Indiana and Ohio and
Wiscongin the enthusiasm for Hearst
increases daily. 1n Pennsylvania the
first ante-convention action occurred
in the sixteenth ward of Reading,
~where President Baer of the coal trust
lives, and there the party instructed
i for Hearass.
~ Mr. Hearst’s friends declare thas he
is the logical candidate. He is forty
}one years old—young enough to be
the idol of the young men. He is a
man of great business capaeity, of un
blemished integrity, of great execu
tive ability. He is respected and es
teemed by the honest business men of
the country. He is a Jeffersonian
idemocrn, and believes Jefferson’s doc
‘trine 1f applied to modern problems
will solve them. He supported Cleye
land three times with voice and pen
and money. He supported Bryan
twice and brought all the influence of
his mighty instrumentalities in favor
of the democratic cause when traitors
had deserted the party and it stood in
sore need of valiant championship.
It is the contantion of Mr. Hearst’s
friends, and they think it is the clinch
ing argument in his favor, that he
cannot only carry New York, New
Jersey, Conpecticut and the south, but
in addition he is the only one among
all those mentioned who can get the
necessary votes in the west. They
say he can carry California, Idaho,
Nevada, South Dakota and Colorado
surely, and probably Illinois, because
of the great laboring vote in that
state. ,
COLOMBA NO SMALL AFFAIR,
Infermation About the Seuth
American Republic.
It is not generally known that the
United States of Colombia, leaying out
Panama, covers about as much spacel
as California and Texascombined. Co-‘
lombia proper has over ten times the
population of Panama. There are |
about 3,600,000 people left after Pana
ma's 300,00 bave seceded. According
to Harper’'s Weekly Bogota, its eapi
tal, has been called ‘‘the Athens of
South America.” Its population is
125,000; the §national university is lo
cated there and the city has an excel
lent library of 50,000 volumes, a picture
gallery and observatory, and a number
of learned institvtione. Twelve days
are required to get from the coass te
the capital. One lands at Barranquil
la, at the mouth of the Magdalena riv
er, goes up she river by steamer to
Honda—s 94 miles from the coast; then
by rail for 22 miles to La Dorado, by
‘mule journey for 45 miles to Factatiya,
iand from there by rail again to Bogo
ta, 24 miles.
SICK PRISONER ESCAPES.
Thought to Be an Invalid, but
Defied Locks and Walls.
Wm. J. Reid, alias L. O. Hoffman,
who is charged with swindling 32 ho
tels of about $lO,OOO from the Atlantic
to the Pacific in 1902, and is now un
der seniences aggregating ten years
for these offenses, broke jail at Spring
field. Mass., under remarkable circum
stances and is still at liberty.
To accomplish his escape he un
locked ninej doors and sawed three
chairns, visited ditferent rooms of the
county jail, passed in front of several
guards and finally climbed an 18-foot
wail. All this was done about three
o'clock in the moroing, yet he was not
missed until 7 o'clock. He was sup
posedly too weak $0 move without the
aid of a eruteh, as he ‘was practically
bed-ridden for three months, and so
far as the prison officers know had
eaten nothing but beef broth in all
that time.
THE COTTON OIL TRUST. -
Southern Farmers Have an Ele
phant of Their Own.
The southeasterners are vyelling
about the northern trusts, but we've
got an elephant of our own. Whatare
we going to do with the cotton seed
buyers’ trust? A certain clan sets the
price on cotton seed and the farmers
have to take it. Are we going to take
our own medicine and then compiain
because others take their own dose?
Where can we find a suitable remedy?
—Farm and Home.
WHAT BECOMES OF PENNIES.
12,000,000 of the Little Pieces of
Money Issued Last Year,
Twelve million copper cents were
issued in 1903 through the St. Louis
branch of the United States treasury.
Only 4,000 were returned. 8
The record was not unusual. Less
than one penny in a thousand finds its
way back to the treasury to be ex
changed for a newer one.
Dimes, quarters, halves and even
nickles come back in large quantities,
bus the copper cents for the most pars
g 0 astray.
Whas becomes of them? Treasury
officials cannot tell.
The most plausable {theory is that
the pennies are simply loss.
Americans are such wealthy people
that they have not time to keep track
of the pennies, and they find sheir
way into the ash-heaps, and into the
sewers, and thence to the greab rivers
and even the sea.
Tn China or India it would be differ
ent. There the equivalent of our cop
per cent buys a meal. A man in those
countries with a sackful of pennies
would be counted rich.
i IN ST, LOUIS JULY 12.
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'Democrats Will Nominate Candi
| date for President.
~ The democratic national committee
has selected St. Louis as the place for
holding the national convention.
The date fixed for the convention is
Wednesday, July 6, at 12 o’clock. Pre
vious to the meeting of the committee
it seemed a foregone conclusion that
Chicago would be selected as the place
of meeting, but political exigencies
entered into the situation and a major
ity of the committee voted for St.
Louis. Some hours previous to the
meeting of the committee there was
talk in the corridors and among dem
ocratic leaders that the convention in
Chicago might be subject to the influ
ence of a strong newspaper movement
in favor of some particular candidate. !
Mr. Knapp of the St. Louis Republici
hinted at this in his speech, suying‘
that the convention, if held at St.
Louis, would be welecomed by an abso-‘
lutely fair press.
The committee meeting caused con-l
siderable diseussion of politics, and
the claims of various candidates were I
advocated by their partisans, but noth
ing favoring any candidate appeared :
1n the committee proceedings. l
William J. Brvan, when the commit- |
tee had concluded its labors, appeared, ‘
but his visit was without any apparent
political significance. He did not
come to the hotel until the committee
had about concluded Its business. He
was warmly greeted by the membersi
of the committee. Mr. Bryan also vis
ited the house and senate. Practically
all of the dcmocrats and mauny of the
irepublicani met him in the lobby.
EVANS RECEIVED REMA!NS.!
Clad in Grey, He Met Body ofli
Gordan at Capitol. |
General Clement A. Fyans, clad in
confederate gray, received the body of
General John B. Gordon at the capitol
in Atlanta, and it was conveyed to the
rotunda and placed on the catafalque
A great many handsome floral offer
10gs had been received and placed in
position and the rotunda had been ap
propriately draped with flags.
When the casket was in position the
lid was removed and the veterans were
the first to pass beside the bier and
look upon the loved face of the dead
general. Many tears were shed as the
men who had followed the lost cause
saw the form of Gordon cold 1n death.
Thousards of people attended the
funeral from all over the south.
A DAY IN JAIL; $l,OOO FINE.
Ex-Congressman Driggs Given a
Sentence in New York.
Ex-Congressman Edward H. Driges
of Brooklyn has been sentenced to im
prisonment for one day in the Ray
mond street jail and to pay a fiae of
$l.OOO.
Driggs was convicted of accepting
money while a congressman-elect for
securing a government contract for
the purchase of automatic cashiers
from the Brandt-Dent Company for
the postoffice department. j
VIRTUAL BLOCK OF ROOSEVELT BOOM
A Washington dispatch says Presi
dent Roosevelt’s friends regard with
growing suspicion the delay of Senator
Hanna and Perry Heath, as chairman
and secretary respectively, in issuing
the call for the national convention,
and are growing firmer in the belief
previously expressed that Senator
Hanna intends to try to defeat Mr.
Roosevelt's nomination.
Number Eighteen.
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COTTON BRINGS THE GOLD.
WALL STREET JOURNAL TALKS OF
THE SOUTH’S GREAT PRODUCT.
This Crep of Cotton Worth More Than the
Gold Productien of the Country for
the Past Ten Years.
At the prevailing high price of cot
ton the entire cotton crop of the south
would be worth upwards of $650,000,-
000, which is more than the production
of goid in the United States in the
past ten years, says the Wall Street
Journal. Even at ten cents a pound the
value of the total crop would be $500,-
000,000, or equal to the production of
gold since 1897. This fact brings out
very clearly the enormous value of the
cotton crop of this country, especially
as 80 large a portion of it is exported,
thus creating a balance of trade in
our tavor. KEyery ten points of cotton
is equal to a dollar of gold, or, as a
matter of fact, as the exportiag of cot
ton causes an importation of gold it
might be said in one sense that the
planters of the south were not merely
growing cotton, but mining gold. A
certian proportion of the high price
for cotton will go to the planters, aud
there is no doubt that it is best for the
country that the agriculturists should
get a larger proportion of the market
value of their product.
Mr. Sims, in his recent spech in
congress, claimed that the last cotton
report of the government, which esti
mated a low vield of the crop, and
thus advanced the price, has saved for
the farmers of the south many mil
lions of dollars. He declares that us
ually the price of cotton is kept down
during the harvesting and ginning
geason until the European acd domes
tic spinners purchase their supplies,
after which speclators take hold of the
remnant, run the prices up and make
fortunes for themselves, But, thanks
to the agricultural department, the
farmers of the south this year are get
ting the benpefit of the information as
to the actual size of the crop.
PRAYED NINETEEN HOURS.
Religious Frenzy Strikes People
of West Virginia.
Religious frenzy, the greatest the
state has ever known, has struck the
worshipers of Mount Vernon, W. Va.
Rev. E. Richardson, who has been
conducting revivals there she past
two weeks, arose to deliver his sermon
Monday evening at 7 o’clock. Before
he bad half finished the congregation
were on their knees in prayer, while
the others ran about the church giv
ing vent to their religious excite
ment. 3
~ Hours passed, and men, women and
children acted iike wild. Midnight
‘came and the wonderful demoustration
lcom.iuued, and repeatedly did the par
|eson attempt to adjourn the congrega
' tion without avail.
| Daylight dawned on Mount Vernon
with fthe meeting still in progress.
Not until 2 o’clock in the afterpoon
did the meeting adjourn, none of the
audience having taken food or drink
in the nineteen hours that the demon
!snration continued.
‘ Some of the women present had to
be carried from the church owing to.
weakness, and are yet at the homes of
people near the church. Nothing like
it was ever before knowa in the histo
ry of the state, and it is feared some
]uf the worshipers will lose their rea
son.
| AN ODD EXPERIMENT.
Come to Preaching and Get a
Gum Drop.
A preacher in Indiana has resorted
to an odd expedient to get people to
20 to his church. He makes a canvass
of all houses in which there are chil
dren, carrying pockets full of candy.
The candy he distributes to the little
folks, promising them more if they
will bring their parents to church the
lnext. Sunday. Queerly enough this
‘‘come rto preaching ard get a gum
drop’’ campaign is said to have proved
a big success. Proobably after a while
‘we shal! have some preacher running
a scheme based on **Accept salvation
and get a chromo, or a year’s sub
scription to your favorite magazine.”
In consequence the tension between
the Hanna and Roosevelt camps is get~
ting tighter. The questicn is no long
er asked in presidential circles, **Will
Hanpa run Roosevelt's campaign?'’ It
is now:
‘““Will Hanna declare himself a can
didate, since he is apparentiy deter
mined that he shall be regarded as an
anti-Roosevelt man>”’ ‘
