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GREAT IS KING COTTON.
Despite the alleged bumper crops and
t)ie reported threats :•» reduce the price
- ■ ■■ ■--- r—p s j of cotton to the old non-paying basis,
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING j tho great Southern stapl,
AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE " nI V to be holding: its
MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH- worId ' 8 tat--m but to
ground steadily.
INQ COMPANY. 5S3 MULBERRY
STREET, MACON. GA.
appears not
its own in the
to be gaining
statement Just
issued by the Bureau of Statistics of
the Department of Commerce and Ln-
bor shows that America's pocketbook
C. R. PENDLETON, President j was enriched by practically $500,009 000
j through Its exportations of cotton and
cotton products in 1906, constituting 24
THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
NOT “MIZZOURY,” BUT "MI8-800-
RY
In a land so fail as ours of Jaw
breaking names of Indian origin an
effort to reach uniformity of pronun
ciation Is to be expected and is per
haps desirable. It is rather surpris
ing that President Roosevelt, who
finds time for everything, has not yet
taken up the subject. It is interesting
to note that his "edicts” instructing
the Public Printer how to spell have
been followed by a joint resolution of
the Legislature of Missouri instruct-
The Telegraph can ba found on sola
ot tha Kimball Houao and the Pied
mont Hotel in Atlanta.
TME LITTLE BIRD THAT GETS
THE BOYS IN TROUBLE.
Mtboot thia time of tha year the boys
fcro out with guns, sling shots and air-
fans, chasing after a little bird in light
feoown ond gray!ah colors, swinging to
tha eugtrberry (or hackberrry) tree*
purloining the remnant of the edible
berries left by tho pigeons and the
Bora
Thta little bird Is locally known aa
tho May bird. Its habits aro very
aouoh ilka that of tho robin. It la now
making It* way northward. Our May
bird Is tha bobolink. It sweeps In a
season from Canada to the gulf, and
It changes Its plumage aa It migrates.
per cent in fact of the entire domestic ing the world how to pronounce—not
English words in general, but the In
dian name of that State. On Monday
last the Legislature of Missouri re
solved
exports of the United States. Not
withstanding this remarkable showing,
however, it i.- a peculiar if not unpre
cedented circumstance that not only
is the South not given any aid ar.d
encouragement in the production of
this great source of wealth to the coun
try at large, but she is hampered at
every step and impediments thrown in
her way by the people most especially
•who have in the past and are still ben
efiting most from its development.
Arrived at a point where the produc
tion of this article so essential and
necessary to the world cannot be ex
tended without additional labor, the
South finds her efforts to Induce Immi
gration to this section promptly op
posed and sought to be barred by New
England and her representatives, who
That the only true pronunciation
of the name of the State, in the
opinion of this body, is that It
should be pronounced in three
syllables, accented on the second
syllable.
The vowel in the first syllable is
short “I,” in the second syllable
long double “o” (o or oo); in the
third syllable short “I,” "s” in the
two syllables in which it occurs
has the sound of “s," and not "z.”
In other words, it should not be pro--
nounced "Mlzzoory” — as educated
Americans do—but “Mis-soo-ry.”
We confess that the sound of the
“z" in this word is more agreeable to
our ear than the proposed hissing “s, 1
but as a. consistent advocate of State
* “ .. , . have always fought and fattened off ri „ hts we are willine- for Missouri to
coming and going. In the spring and _ . ,. . _ . . rlgrus ’ we are wining for Missouri to
1 th * South - 11 ls 3aId of Robert | flx the pronunciation of her own
Toombs that when some one asked him ; name . And wo are inc!ined to think
. what was the most unfortunate event
link puts on a brighter plumage and I . ! that in the end Missouri will have hei
! that ever happened to America he
sings a dainty little song. Here it j
: promptly replied
chirps a little only. When It returns
to the Southern rice fields In the fall it ... .. ...
certainly was the most unfortunate
snrly summer, while sojourning In the ,
North, and raising Its young, the bobo- j
Is known as the rice bird, and It makes
a dainty toast on parched bread. In
the North it Is a song bird, aa we have
stated. In tha South a game bird.
It Is known In some sections as the
reed bird, the butter bird, and, as
strange ns it may seem, the skunk
bird. Why this latter we have not
been abl$ to iearn.
Hero in middle George, the May bird
goes in small droves—from a dozen to
fifty. On the coast, as the rice bird,
they flock by the thousands—millions—
sometimes darkening the heavens.
These interesting little creatures
may now be Been in the suburbs of
Macon about the sugarberrry trees, as
we have said, and they tempt the boys
to violate the laws against shooting
near the highways, which they ought
not to do; but a boy that cannot shoot
at something occasionally ls a very
unhappy boy. He deserves reproof
and needs restraint; but in a measure
he has a limited supply of our sympa
thy. The ancestors of our race—way
back—were hunters who roamed the
woods and lived in trees. They flung
stones and shot arrows. There is a
streak left in all of us of this ancestral
habit which asserts Itself occasionally.
We go gunning, or we want to go.
The impulse is stronger in the boy
than in the man because the boy ls
typical of the early days—the childhood
days, as it were—of our race. Every
man from Infancy to mature manhood
lives the life of his race. The boy
harks back to the time when his ances
tors followed the chase for -a. living.
He thinks of more serious things later.
These things cannot be crushed out
of a hoy. They ought not to be. If they
could be. But they can be controlled,
restrained, directed. And If so, he will
round up a man all right after awhile.
You cannot make a man out of a boy
while he is yet a boy. The effort to do
*e will dwarf (If carried too far) the
man that is to be.
Bless the boys. Lead them. Drive
them when need be. But do not drive
them out of their nature too far afield.
By no means cast them adrift to think
and act entirely for themselves.
"Why, sir. the suc
cessful landing of the Mayflower.” It
event for the South. But if the Pil
grim Fathers had landed on Tybee Is
land or Oyster Point instead of at Ply
mouth Rock, and had thus gotten pos
session of the South’s cotton fields, we
may well wonder if the world could have
said as the American Wool and Cotton
Reporter, the Boston organ of the New
England manufacturers, practically
says, that while there is absolutely no
substitute for raw cotton yet it ls so
cheap that it cannot be made cheaper
by mixing. The Wool and Cotton Re
porter says:
To say that raw cotton is the ba
sis of all cotton manufacturing
would be stating a self-evident
fact, but no raw material of im
portance Is so complete a basis for
the manufactured article and no
raw product has had such an in
fluence for good or bad upon op
eratives as this same cotton.
There is no substitute for cot
ton. and therefore articles manu
factured from it must of necessity
he the real thing, and It is one of
few manufactured products -of the
world that cannot be made cheaper
by mixing. In addition to Its sale
basis for the production of cotton
cloth, and its good or bad influence
on operatives it is fast growing in
importance as a mixer with wool
for men’s wear and dress goods.
Mercerized, it oftentimes furnishes
a substitute, for silk, and some of
the most beautiful fabrics imagin
able are brought off the looms and
the printing machines in these
mercerized effects.
But notwithstanding the profitable
devices to which the shrewd Yankee
invention can put the staple they have
"kick” for the producers to whom
they begrudge a small margin of profit
for the raw product above the cost and
labor of cultivation. Continuing, the
Wool and Cotton Reporter says.
Yet with all its value and varied
uses and influences, the crop,
valued at more than $600,000,000
annually. Is the mo®t carelessly
prepared for market of any article
of value known to trade and com
merce. In consequence of obso
lete methods In putting the cotton
Into packages in the South there
are millions of dollars of waste and
loss each year, which would more
than pay dividends on every cot
ton manufacturing corporation in
New England.
own way, unless the President should
intervene, ordain that this momentous
Question be settled at Washington, and
announce a different pronunciation. In
that case the country, including Mis
souri itself, would have to yield
gracefully as possible.
AFTER-ELECTION SARCASM.
Disgusted by the latest triumph of
<he Republican "gang" in "corrupt and
contented" Philadelphia, the Record of
that city sarcastically observes:
There are a trifle more than 35,-
000 colored gentlemen in Philadel
phia entitled to vote. Discerning
politicians tell us that most of
them voted the Organization ticket
on Tuesday.
Our colored brethren certainly
are a power in this community on
election day. Had half of them
voted the City Party ticket all of
the majority of Mayor-elect Rcy-
burn would have been wiped out.
McNIchOi, Durham. V a re. Mar
tin, Lane and all of the other great
men cf our time have always loved
their colored brethren on or about
election day. They have never
been under greater obligation to
them than now.
Of course the Record Is not en
titled under political usage to dic
tate the policy of its successful op
ponents: but if it offers a merito
rious suggestion there is no good
reason why It should not have con
sideration. Why not a colored gen
tleman tor Director of Public
Safety?
As the Record Intimates that the
votes of the colored gentlemen were
paid for In cash, the obvious reply
ot the members of the victorious
"gang” would appear to be that they
have spent enough on their sable allies
Already and until the next election they
ought to devote their attention to re
warding the white brethren only, espe
cially aa Philadelphia would object to
a colored gentleman In an Important
office no lose vehemently than Cincin
nati.
But It ls evident from the paragraphs
following from the Reporter that the
grades of the staple which the New
i York Cotton Exchange keeps in stock
to tender purchasers who ask for the
real cotton, would not pass muster at
the New England cotton mills. The
Reporter says:
On his way over Mr. James Bryce,
England's new Ambassador to Wash
ington. perpetrated so many jokes that
one of King Edward’s subjects grew
hilarious and wanted to slap the Am
bassador on tha back. One of Mr.
Bryce’a Joke# was this: “When we
get to New York." he said, ’the press
will be teeming with accounts of revo
lutions In South America, but you will
be pleased to learn that there ls little
likelihood of any of them upsetting
tha crowned heads of Europe.”
We can follow cotton to the mills
In the different manufacturing cen
ters, and according to its grade we
can find the genera] class of opera
tives corresponding. Thu*. In New
Bedford where more high-grade
cotton is used than In anv one cen
ter In this country, we find a par
ticularly good class of help, many
of them propertv owners and valu
able citizens. Over at Fall River,
where the grade Is lower, the op
eratives are not of such a high or
der of intelligence as in New Bed
ford. as a class, and the difference
Is strikingly noticeable in the Fall
River mills running on common
prints, where a low grade of for
eign help is employed, as compared
with the fine goods mills in the
same city, where the help is of a
much better class.
The best help follows the long
staple cotton and we can even go
farther in our analysis and find in
mills using short staple cotton, but
cotton better than the average
short staple, a better class of help
than in mills using average, or
lower, short staple. In mills pro
ducing yarns from one-inch staple
and higher the help Improves, and
from one inch and below the help
grows poorer almost without ex
ception.
Nothing will upset manufactur
ing conditions In a mill so much as
the Introduction of roorer than
standard grades of cotton for that
particular mill, and we find cases
without number where troubles
arise whenever poorer than the
regular grades are put in. the spin
ners and intermediate workers and
the weavers frequently leaving
their work until the poorer cotton
is taken out of the mills.
They use the cotton to make woolen
and silk goods of. In a measure, hut
the producers not only may not adul
terate their product but they may not
even palm low grades off on our sharp-
eyed Yankee cousins.
MR. STEPHENS’ FAMOUS RETORT.
A discussion ls on between several
correspondents in the columns of the
Louisville Courier-Journal conberning
the originality with Alexander H. Ste
phens of his famous retort when an
opponent In debate of larger physical
mould than himself declared he could
swallow the great Georgia commoner
whole. Stephens Quickly retorted that
in such case tho other would have
more brains in his stomach than he
ever had in his head. This incident
has always been popularly told as hav
ing occurred between Stephens and
Robert Toombs, notwithstanding It
was many years ago shown to have
occurred between Mr. Stephens and
another than Mr. Toombs. The Tele
graph does not certainly recall at this
writing who Mr. Stephens’ opponent
was on the occasion of the retort, but
it was probably Judge Cone, with
whom Mr. Stephens on one occasion
had a personal difficulty which created
a considerable sensation. The Courier-
Journal’s correspondents fall into the
popular mistake of naming Mr. Toombs
as Mr. Stephens’ opponent. One of the
Courier-Journal’s correspondents, Mr.
W. T. Tandy, asserts also that this
witticism was not original with Mr.
Stephens and shows that it was em
ployed by Sir Walter Scott before Ste
phens used it, a iact which has been
threshed out before in connection with
the incident. Mr. Tandy says:
Sir Walter Scott in his splendid
historical romance, “Kenilworth,”
represents the unfortunate Amy
Robsart as being conducted in dis
guise by Wayland Smith from her
country home to the festivities to
be given by her recreant husband,
the Earl of Leicester, in honor of
Queen Elizabeth, at his famous
' castle. After many difficulties on
the way, the Countess and her
guide were at last confronted at
the outer gate of the castle by a
giant porter, described by Sir
Walter as a modern Titan, who
debarred them from entrance to
the castle, and ordered them to
stand back. It was only through
the wit and Ingenuity of the little
imp "Dickie Sludge.” that entrance
was finally obtained within the
walls; whereupon the travelers
hastened on to the castle, leaving
Dickie with the giant. Afterward
meeting in the castle, the following
conversation occurs:
"Thou little hop-the-gutter, tell
me,” said Wayland, "how dids't
thou come off with yonder jolter-
hended giant, 7 whom I left thee
with? I was afraid he would have
stripped thy clothes and so swal
lowed thee, as men peel and eat
a roasted chestnut.”
"Had he done so,” replied the
dwarf, "he would have had more
brains in his stomach than ever he
had in his noddle."
gendered by the poiiiic.il passion
and hatred of th at day. He says
no man was ever more misrepre-
sl-..uu thin was Mr. Toombs. One
notable instance of this is given,
in which Stephens says that even
histories had been written in which
Toombs is represented as saying
that he would yet live to see the
day when he would call the roll of
his slaves on Bunker Hill! Mr.
Stephens assures the reader that
this was written without a particle
of proof and after Toombs had
positively denied ever having made
such a declaration.
As an orator he compared him
to Mlrabeau. Whole pages of his
history are purposely devoted to
the speeches of Toombs, because
he regarded them as reflecting
most accurately the tone and tem
per of that stormy period. In one
of these speeches Toombs is rep
resented as the chief actor In a
most dramatic incident. The
House had been stirred to such
disorder that it was little less than
an infuriated assemblage. Toombs
had the door and would not yield.
His "declamatory denunciations
combined with solid argument”
finally overpowered the tumultu
ous crowd, and Mr. Stephens cred
its Toombs with having furnished
the most wonderful exhibition of
physical and intellectual prowess
ever witnessed perhaps in the
halls of Congress.
Caught on
I the Wing j
■MM l l -H-l-H-i-H-H-M
By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
A bloody drama of more than six
teen years ago, presented in the United
States Court room in Macon, in which
were depicted a series of thrilling ac
tions. and scenes of a most terrible
character were exhibited, represented
to obtain possession of Dodge’s lands
by a system or squatting, forged titles,
l etc.. In which alleged scheme It was
I said he interested Wright Lancaster.
; especially, and Lancaster, so it was
■ claimed influenced others, and so on.
• Hall was a member of the real estate
firm of Briggs, Hall & Sleeper, at
Eastman, and it was charged they un
lawfully sold quantities of land which
George E. Dodge, a brother of Nor-
: man W. Dodge, claimed. Being a nnn-
: resident of Georgia. George E. Dodge
filed a bill In equity in the United
States Circuit Court at Macon, pray-
. ing a decree upon the validity of his
own title and asking a perpetual ln-
, ...... junction against Briggs. Hall & Sleep-
j by numerous actors, has been brought er, the purchasers of title from them,
to mind by the death of Norman W. 1 and others. On April 5. 1S86 Judge
Dodge, of New York, a few days since.
The shifting panorama of tragical
events again passes before my eyes,
■with its central vie%v of Capt. John
C. Forsyth, assassinated in his lovely
home at Xormandaie, the agonized w'fe
and weeping young daughter by the
side of the murdered loved one. And
under this sad picture I see, in letters
of blood, the mournful and last words
of the dying nian, uttered to his fond
little Nellie, as the assassin’s bullets
pierced his brain—"Tell mamma to
come.”
The great conspiracy and murder
trial, as it was called growing out
of the Dodge land ease, commenced
before Judge Emory Speer on Decem-
> Mr. Stephens -ivas as just and gener- 1 her S. 1890, and lasted for one month.
v,. _ , , There was much public interest. Each
l- opponents as he was fiery day’s court was attended by a large
and ready to fight them In support of audience of interested spectators. The
his contentions. But the victory of the followin S were the defendants: Lu
ther A. Hall. Wright Lancaster, John
K. Lancaster, Charles Clemens. Louis
Knight, James Moore, Lem Burch
Rich Lowry and Henry Lancaster. All
were arraigned in court except Lowry
Hill, when that brilliant Georgian re- and Henry Lancaster, the.se two not
sponded that he had a family to sup- ' havin « been - caught at the tlme of
ready retort and repartee was not al
ways In his favor. On one occasion,
it will be recalled, he challenged Ben
port and a soul to save, and Stephens
toad neither.
LETTERS FROM TWE
PEOPLE TO THE EDITOR
the trial, and have never been appre
hended. True bills, had been returned
by the grand jury againlt the defen
dants. charging them with having
formed a conspiracy to deprive Nor
man W. Dodge of great tracts of land
lying principally in the counties of
Dodge. Telfair. Lauren's and Montgom-
. { ery. The further charge was made that
A Word From an Immigrant. kin pursuance of the conspiracy Rich
To the Editor of The Telegraph: The Lowry murdered Capt. John C. For-
writer had the honor to attend the im- s - vlh - Mr - Eodge’s agent, and that the
migration convention at Macon on the ? thcr defendants accessories be-
in.i, fore the fact to the murder. Lem
19th inst., and listen to the splendid B'urc.h. one of the defendants made a
and instructive speeches of the various confession, and was us«-d hv the Oiv
prominent speakers on that occasion, ernment as State's evidence, and thus
Speer rendered a decree declaring the
title of George E. Dodge good and
valid and forever enjoining "Luther A.
Hall, his associates and those claiming
under him from interfering in any
manner with the said iands” Later.
George E. Dodge sold and transferred
these lands to his brother. Norman W.
Dodge. In 1889. Hall renewed his at
tempts to get possession of the Dodge
lands by the following system, so it
was represented: “He would furnisti
free to a squatter a complete but
forged chain of title to any lot. or any
number of lots he might desire, so
long as the value did not exceed two
thousand dollars to the squatter, that
being the minimum limit of the Juris
diction of the Federal Court. The
squatter would be told to erect some
cheap shantv on the propertv and go
into possession of the lots, the under
standing being if Dodge brought suit
in the State court to eject the squat
ter Hall would defend the suit as at
torney. taking half the land, if suc
cessful. as liis fee. Hail advanced the
idea that these lands still belonged to
the State of Georgia, and champion
ed the right of squatters to occupy
is So.d to have unwittingly confided to
J. L. Bohannon, of Pulaski County, the
secrets of the entire matter, and in
due time Bohannon laid the story be
fore Walter B. Hill, or too Macon law
firm Of Hill & Harris, attorneys for
Dodge. The arrests of Hail and others
soon followed Burch, who was in a
terrible physical condition, confessed
shortly after his arrest. His r'cital
coincided with the statement made by
Moore to Bohannon. Hall and Wright
Lancaster were arrested by Deputy
Marshal Charlie Moseiy. now a lieu
tenant of police in this city. I be
lieve that United States Marshal Wal
ter Corbett also ass’stc 1 in this ar
rest. Mosely formerly went to school
to Hall.
One day while Rich Lowry was in a
barber shop in Josup. returning to
Montgomery County from Darien,
where lie had be n to carry a raft of
timber, be heard some one reading an
account in The Telegraph of the ar
rest of Hal’. Wright Lancaster and
Clemens. The Scuffl r, oninn imme
diately departed, and. going across the
country to his old abode, got some of
his effects and disappeared from those
scenes. Severn! negroes who testified
In the conspiracy case stated: "That
Lowry told them, that he had heard at
.Tesup of the arrest of CPmens. and he
knew then they would be after him
next: that lie had killed seven men,
and that if he was arrested for one
crime and ho was not convicted for
that he would certainly be for some
other. He said that if they should
hear of his arrest they could make
sure that his bullet had made one
more man bite the dust: that th> mur
der of one man was but a breakfast
for him, and to kill a man was noth
ing more to him than shooting a beef.
In bidding his negro fri-nds adieu he
told them that when they heard from
him again he would either be in North
Carolina or in jail at Macon. Plunging
them at pleasure." Hall was brought i into the thicket, he disappeared, and
before Judge Speer and convicted of | that is the last authentic account
The question of populating the South
with desirable immigrants from Eu
rope was laid before the convention
and there js no doubt whatever but
what we will receive a large number
of immigrants of all trades as well as
escaped conviction and sentence. Lem
Burch ple°ded guiitv. Wrieht Lancas
ter. John K. Lancaster. Luther A Halt
Louis Knight and James Moore pleaded
not guilty, and Charles Clemens stand
ing mute a plea of not guilty was en
tered for him bv the direction of the
f ?.yiT. 0 I S and f - arm i court. United States District At tor-
laborers in the near future.
Now. the question of what to do
with the agricultural population when
they arrive was not touched on by the
convention at all, neither at the morn
ing nor afternoon sessions, nor at the
"smoker” in the evening, and it is for
this reason I have decided to write to
your paper.
rev Marion Erwin said, in an inter
estingly written narrative of the fa
mous case. "It was. I think the pur
pose of Mr. Hugh V. Washington, who
had been appointed by the court to
defend Clemen®, to let a plea of not
guilty be entered for his client, in
hopes that the evidence would show
that Clemens acted under duress, to
place ,’ ev f r - v ™ cchanlc or ; such extent as would at least in-
M ,n i in the £ ty iT ‘ I duce the jury to recommend imnrison-
find a comfortable home or boarding ment for ]lfe inot ead of the death nen-
place wherever he should choose to lo- a]tv> a pnwer whlrh , s invested In the
cate, hut how about the farmer? Let : jury by the Georgia statute, fixing the
us look at this side of the question and punishment for murder, but which is
see what condition we are In to receive not invested in the court as it should
that most needed and valuable class of }, e where a plea of guilty ls entered,
immigrant. In order to reta.n that i jf that was not his purpose the course
class after they get fi e te. the land- pursued by him at least subserved that
owners of the South must be prepared i en d
to sell them small farms of. say. from j
fifty to one hundred acres, in order to | All the defendants were well-known
elei ate them above the negro because • while men of Dodge and Telfair Coun-
if you attempt to make renters of them. ! t j es . w'th the exception of Rich Lowry,
you will put them on a level with the alias Rich Herring a negro, who came
negro and they will not stay. You ; ( 0 Georgia from North Carolina as a
^must, therefore, be prepared to sell a timtifer hand. "He belonged to a pecu-
part of your land at a small price and u ar mixed race of people who have
help them all you can, and the sacrifice their principal habitat at a small town
you might make on part of your estate
will be more than compensated for in
the advance of th'e remainder of your
land.
In the second place, there is scarcely
a tenement house (at least in this sec
tion) fit to live in. and if you bring one
of the Intelligent families (we want no
others) and put them into one of these
miserable houses, they will stay here
only long enough to find some other
place to go and, not only that, but they>
will write home and tell their friends
to stay at home and not come here,
and that will put a stop to any further
or village in North Carolina known as
“Scuffietown,” from the characteristic
disorders of the ponul.ation. They are
said to be a mixed race of white. In
dian and negro blood, and are usually
designated as “Scuffletontnns ” While
Rich’s mother was a mulatto, he claim
ed to he, on -his father’s side, a nenhew
of a notorious North Carolina white
outlaw. Luther A. Hall was a prom
inent lawyer of Eastman, and had rep
resented D-dge Countv in the Legisla
ture Wright Lancaster was Sheriff
of Telfair Countv when the alleged eon-
, splracv was being enK‘»d, and also
immigrants coming for some time and . operated a saw mill. The other de-
perhaps for .all time, unless conditions I fendants were farmers, or engaged in
change. The first Impression on a the timhe- hn<=in°*a ,r—a,
stranger has a lasting effect, whether was a brother-in-law’ of Wright Lan-
it is for good or evil. I know what I caster. The attorneys of Hall. Moore
am talking about, for the very good Knight and the Lenoesters were A O
reason that I am a foreigner myself Rneon. now United States Senator- C
(a Swede), and .have had the full ben- j u. Bartlett, now a Congressman- Wnsh-
efit of wide experience. I came to j inirton Dessau, and C. C Smith then
America when 17 years of age. a sailor J of Hawkinsville. and afterwards 1ud"-e
on board of a Norwegian ship, from I of the Oconee Superior Court circuit
which I ran away to become an Ameri- I The prosepxition was represented bv
can citizen and I am glad I did run : Marion Erwin. United States D'.sfric’t
away. I have sailed on the coast., been | Attornev. and Fleming G. duBtgnnn.
in the United States navy, lived in sev- then of Savannah This was an able
eral Eastern States and came to Mil- | experienced and hriiliant srpv „f le>m»
ledgeville a year ago last December. ; talent. Bartlett for the d°fon S r, b sd
and. let me say right here that of all fnr vears hnon Solieitor-ovnern] 0 f the
the places I have lived in and of all the J Macon circuit, and duRienon, of the
people I have had the pleasure to meet, i prosecution, had occupied a similar
the people of the South are the most position in the Eastern circuit. In fact.
Eveyn Thaw says that, with one ex
ception, Stanford White was a very
grand man. This is doubtless what
Harry Thaw could not forgive in him.
The Courier-Journal’s correspondent
says “It is very evident, therefore, that
Mr. Stephens borrowed his witticism
from this incident." Scott, of course,
used the expression, but it does
not follow that Stephens had the
passage from "Kenilworth” in his mind
at the moment or that he unconscious
ly quoted the dwarfs retort which no
doubt he had read at some time. The
retort is one which is so pat in itself
and the occasion on which Mr. Ste
phens used it was sprung upon him so
suddenly that it is doubtful if he con
sulted anything but his own ready wit
in replying to his opponent, Mr. Tandy,
however, expresses the opinion that it
would not have detracted from Mr.
Stephens’ reputation for repartee if he
had quoted It merely, and he pays this
tribute to the great Georgian:
Mr. Stephens’ mind was a gTeat
storehouse filled with its gleanings
from the fields of romance and po
etry, and especially of history, both
sacred and profane. He possessed
the wonderful faculty, an art with
in itself, of drawing from that rich
store of learning and utilizing bis
material by happy applications as
the hour and occasion might re
quire.
Mr. Green is very correct when
he says that Stephens tvas a friend
of. Toombs and was never known to
reflect Upon him in any manner
whatever. On the contrary, those
of your readers who may be so for
tunate as to own Mr. Stephens’ his
torical works will find that he even
"goes out of his way” to defend his
friend from some of the common
aspersions against his name, en-
courteous. warm-hearted and hospita
ble of any part of this great and glo
rious country, and when the people, not
only of Europe, but of different sec
tions of this country as well, learn that
all of the attorneys well understood the
art and science cf prosecution and de
fense in criminal practice. Through
out the entire ease it was diamond cut
diamond. It was a tournament where
violating the injunction granted
against him. found guilty of contempt
and sentenced to five months’ impris
onment in Chatham County jail, from
where he carried on a correspondence
in connection with his land matters.
Tmmediatelv after serving his sen
tence in jail Hall returned to Eastman,
and announced his candidaev for the
Legislature at the election held on Oc
tober 1. 1S90. He argued that he had
been persecuted in the cause of the
people. He was defeated. It is . said
that Wright Lancaster championed
Hall’s cause.
' According to the story of this drama,
it was essential to the success of the
schemes -of the conspirators to have
Captain John C. Forsvth. Norman’s
resident agent, at Normandale. put
nut of the way. It was charged that
Rich Lowry, the “Scuffletonian.” and
Charlie Clemens were to he paid
three hundred dollars a niece fnr mur
dering him. It was further charred
that tho subscribers to the fund were:
Wright Lancaster, $200; Luther A.
Hall. $100; Dem Burch. $200: Louis
fSnivht. $100. I have alreadv describ
ed Rich Lowr}'. At the time of the
killing Charles Clemens was about
twenty-three years old, of respectable
parentage, his father being a well-to-
do farmer. In the year 18S8 Charles
was Indicted for robbery in the Su
perior Court of Coffee Countv. charr
ed with stealing twelve hundred dol
lars in gold. He was sentenced to the
penitentin-v for six vears. The ease
was appealed to the Supreme Court. Ho
was released on bond of $2,500, Wright
and John Lancaster being among the
sureties. The Supreme Court affirm
ed the judgment of the Superior Court.
Clemens failed to apnear. and his
bond was forfeited. Shelton Powell a
raftsman, was the principal witness
against Clemens, and Rich Lowry was
the main witness for Clemens. One
dav while Powell was standing upon a
raft guiding it down the river, some
one in hidir.g on the bank fired a rifle
at him. The bullet pierced Powell’s
hack, and he fell upon the raft. He
was not killed, but was made a
naralytic for -life. It was never
known who tried to assassinate Pow
ell. Later, so it was stated, Clemens
visited Powell and promised him one
hundred dollars “if he would give an
affidavit retracting the testimony de
livered against him in court, that he
might use it with the Governor in ob
taining a pardon. While forming plans
to murder Captain Forsyth, Lowry
and Clemens staid at the. house of
Lem Burch, so it was charged. Lowry
did not know Forsyth, and in order
that he might make no mistake and
shoot the wrong man Burch and Low-
ry went one day to Chauncy. where he
knew Forsyth would be. and pointed
Forsyth out to the “Scuffletonian.”
These and many other details were
confessed by Burch.
have of Lowry.” A reward of $1,750
was offered for the arrest of the Scuf
fletonian, but even this large sunr
failed to land him.
Hall died in the Ohio penitentiary
several years ago. while efforts were
being made to obt^jp b is pardon. It
I mistake not. Wright Lancaster was
pardoned bv the President and re
turned to Georgia. Louis Knight and
John K. Lancaster served th'ir sen
tences of ten and six years, each, re
spectively. My reeolDction is that
soon after the return of one of the
Lancasters h~ was k*ll"d. hut which .
one T do not recall. Charles Clemens
is still in the penitentiary, but h« has
been tran°ferred from the Ohio pen-
keotiary to the Federal prison in At
lanta. An unsuccessful effort was
made a year or two ago to have the
President pardon him.
It was in evidence that ort the even
ing of Oct. 7.1S90, Clemens and Lowry
left Burch’s house to go to Xormnn-
dale to kill Forsyth Clemens had a
Winchester rifle and Lowry was armed
with a double-barrel breech-loading
hotgun, charged with buckshot. The
night was dark and rainy. Clemens re
mained in a shanty near the outskirts
of the town, while Lowry proceed'd to
Forsyth's charming home. United
States Attorney Marion Erwin gives
Tho Thirteenth Juror.
New York Globe.
The* Thaw trial, the Nan Patterson
trial, and the Simpson trial—to men
tion only cases of present or recent in
terest—all serve to point out one of the
weaknesses of not defects of our jurj
systems. Whether by reason of per
sonal or family illness or other misad
venture. trials of the greatest moment
are not only apt to be halted but stand
in danger of absolute abatement—with
the attendant possibility of miscarriage
of justice—when not more than one ju
ror is affected. In justice every con
sideration should be shown to the juror
in such cases, but consideration of the
defense and the prosecution also is not
out of place—indeed, seems imperative.
If it were possible to have a jury of
thirteen or fourteen, every one of
whom was made to understand that ho
participated not as a possible substi
tute but as a principal juror—the jury
to be reduced to twelve by lot after the
testimony had been heard, the attor
neys had made their arguments and
the court had given its charge—it
would seem that oftentimes the best
ends of all concerned would be serve'd.
Such legislation would involve a nice
legal question, perhaps. The Consti
tution of the United States woutid
hardly stand in the way of it, but an
amendment of the Constitution of New
York might be necessary before it
could fie done. And so long $is jurors
and their families are human, and,
therefore, not proof against human ills,
so long as we cpnnot he sure that any
jury, once selected, will prove iron or
adamant, it i« worth while in instances
like the present to reject upon the de
sirability of a change.
Congressmen Not Extravagant.
From the Boston Transcript.
The country appears to accept very
quietly the increase of salary which
Congress has given itself. The advance
will take $1,000,000 more from the tax
payers. but in these times when $10,-
000.000 is voted for one battleship the
plain man who contributes to the reve
nues of the Government has become
hardened to a sum that is relatively
small That Congressmen do not as a
class live extravagantly is evidenced
by the fact that of 90 Senators. 48 re
side in hotels or eoartment houses and
one in a club. Of 3SC. Representatives.
2C0 report their residence hs hotels or
anartment houses and two have tbe'r
Washington domicile® in clubs. Of the
the South is really anxious to have the comhatnnts were skilled fi”-hters
them come down here and settle, the
South will not be large enough to hold
them. Put before you bring in a farm
ing population, be sure to have a suit
able place to put them, and not only
that, but prepare to bring them in
small (or large) colonies. This will be
necessary in order that they may have
the social enjovmepl of their own
kind for. of course, they will not asso
ciate with the negro land -would soon
get homesick if left entirely alone. It
would therefore be well to get a num
ber of families to settle as close to
gether as practicable, and the the im
provement they will make wherever
and the stakes were human lives and
human liberty. Nor was the court an
idle spectator at the tourney. He
crossed lance® mam- times with the
contestants, and in the encounters
some wounds were made wh'eh have
net healed unto this dev-. The cla®h
i of the combat resounded through the
: State, and fnr bevond. and echoes of
j it are heard even now.
The jurymen were representative
men. and were as follows:
L. P. Askew forantan- Herman
Hertwig R. C. Kendrick. S. D. .Taek-
son, W. R. Ivey, r. XT. Barron. G.
they settle will sobn be realized by the W. Wright, r. D. Pm-son, K. .T Free-
advance Jn the surrounding farms, and man. J. C. FIvnn, W. H. Whitehead.
they will grow up with the politics,
ideas and institutions of the South and
become honored and valuable citizens—
a bulwark to your country, and the so
lution of the race problem. Yours in
gratitude and lovaltv,
JOHN A. BURTON.
Superintendent Waterworks, Milledge-
ville, Ga.
Will It Come to This?
He criticised the Show Trust, and
He could not go to shows;
The Clothing Trust disliked him, it
Would sell to him no clothes:
He found fault with the Food Trust,
which
Cut off his food supply:
And as he bucked the railroads, they
Forced him to walk or fly.
In Billingsgate he sought to air
His sad and wretched lot;
But to his sorrow Lawson had
Just cornered Tommy-rot.
The Whisky Trust had felt his taunts.
He could not buy a drink;
But as no trust had cornered brains
He still was free to think.
This man then thought unto himself;
"I’ll hang me to a limb.”
The sympathetic Burial Trust
Refused to bury him.
—Glenn Whisler in the February Bohe
mian.
Diplomatic.
From the Chlcflgo News.
"I never permit my clients to go away
thinking they have been robbed,” remark
ed the hoid-up gentleman.
"How do you manage It?” queried the
ordinary pickpocket.
"Before dismissing th«em.’’ explained the i ’ ‘7,
imnlllRnrv -T ell - Ulw.IVS WOrC A patch
0®cnr Crockett.
The case was heard for four weeks,
and it was then given to the jury, on
a Saturday afternoon and on the aft
ernoon of the following Monday the
jurv brought in the following verdict:
"We, the jury, find the defendants.
Charlie Clemens. L. A. Hall and Wright
Lancaster, guilty as charged, and we
recommend them to the mercy of the
court, imprisonment for life; and we
find the defendants. John K. Lancas
ter and Louis Knight, guilty on the
conspiracy counts only: and we find
the defendant, James Moore, not guil
ty.”
• A poll of the Jury was requested, bqt
j each juryman declared the verdict hi®.
The court sentenced the prisoners
on the next day. Luther A. Hail,
Wright Lancaster and Charles Clemen®
were sentenced to imprisonment for
life in the Ohio penitentiary: Louis
Knight to ten years, and John K. Lan
caster to six years’ confinement in the
same prison. On October 7. 1890. Capt.
John C. Forsyth was a«sassinated. as
a part of the land conspiracy aenlpst
Norman W. Dodge, so it was alleged.
Just two months from the date of ti->
murder the parries charged with the
crime were arraigned in court, and
in another month the convicted men
were on their way to the penitentiary.
Luther A. Hr'l was well known in
Macon, who-n he visited. Ue
was a man of intelligence and had in
fluence In Ills home eommunftv. Hail
was nuite a large man. In his child
hood his face was hodlv hurned and
one eye in consequence, and
this description: "Captain Forsyth, in j rest, probablv one-half dwell in honrd-
his dining room, was seated at the j in7 houses. ’ Bv the unwritten law of
supper table, around which were gnth- | t!ie Capital, a Senator or Representa-
compulsory relief agent. "I call theif at- I ’“ways wore a over the disflg-
tention to the fact that they have merelv moment. Hall vns charged with be-
made concessions in the interests ■»' ! in c the inspiration, the origin, and the
peace-” \ring leader of the alleged conspiracy
ered the members of his family. Aft°r
telling his wife that court matters
would require that he leave for Macon
on the early morning train he arose
from the table and sought the com
forts of his library. Taking up his
[paper, lighting a cigar, he s r ated him
self In his easy chair with his back
toward the piazza window. Little did
he think that he had spoken for the
last time with those he loved, that for
the last time in this world for him the
curtains of the night had shut off the
setting sun. The sash being down and
the shutter open, at that very instant
with catlike tread, the assassin was
stealing toward the eastment; the
next instant with leering gaze the
Scuffletonian glared through the op n n
window at his victim, the snake-like
eyes of • the savage glanced along the
gleaming barrtis of his breech-loader,
his finger touched the trigger, a loud
report, a crash of glass, the murder is
dohe apd the murderer is gone.
“Tell mamma to come.” They jpere
the last words that fell from the lips
of the dying man. Shot through the
back of the head, the murderous
charge of buckshot had penetrated the
brain and done its deadly work. When,
horrified by the loud report, a moment
later his wife reached his side, she
found her husband speechless and re
clining as If asleep in his chair. One
look of recognition, the pressure of
the hand he loved so well, and he fell
back unconscious. In a few short
hours, like the expiring flicker of a
candle, the light of his life went out.
Leaving her heart-broken mother to
care for her dying father, with heroic
presence of mind that would have re
flected credit upon a woman, the echo
of the fatal shot had scarcely died
away before Miss Nellie Forsyth, brav
ing alone the rain and darkness and
the certain proximity of the assassins,
sped to the nearest physician for as
sistance, but, alas, her father was be
yond the reach of help. The people
were aroused, bloodhounds obtained
Bnd chase given to the murderers.
Thev were not caught. They had re
moved their shoes, and, saturating
their feet with turpentine, threw the
dogs off the scent. Later the trail
tive who dwells in a hotel or bo-p-’ing
house is exempt from "entertaining” in
the social sense of the term.
Electrifying Railroads.
From the Baltimore Sun.
In a paper road at the January -noMinc
of the American Institute of Kloetrieal
Engineer.® it was maintained that to “o’oe-
triiy" all the railways in the United Sfate s
would redone the annual en=r of nnprntfn n
SI ,)nn non non in 1905—hy 5250 000.009. In
the ye^r named the average grn <: earn
ings of railways were 80.595 a mile: av
erage operating expenses. $0 400. E’ee-
tWeffy auhotito-od for steam would rednee
pv-eji'io to $5 °05. a saving of $1,144 a
mile of line. The saving, it was argned.r-
would more than take care of interest anj
depredation of cower plant, construction,
etc. But a good many engineers at the
meeting considered the topic of general
electrification of railways ”in the air.”
Where, they asked. Is the $2 500.000.000
ft would enst to make the change to come
from? The change, if made generally,
will take dace bnt slowlv and in some
parts of the country, would probably not
be made for many years.
Total Gifts of Rich Americans.
Andrew Carnegie, libraries,
etc $115,000,000
John D. Rockefeller, education
al funds 90,238,001
Mrs. Leland Stanford, univer
sity, etc 33,000.00-
P. A B. Widener. home for
crippled children 9,000.000
Stephen Girard Girard College 8,000.000
Wm. Marsh Rice. Rice 1 Insti
tute 6,000.000
Marshall Field. Field Colum
bian Museum 5,000,000
George Peabody, educational
benefactions 7,000,000
D. B. Fayerweather, various
colleges 4,000,000 ■
A. J. Drexel, to Drexel Insti
tute 3,000,000
Josephine L. Nnwcombe, to
Tulane University «.. 3,000.000
Samuel S. Cupples, to Wash
ington University, St. Louis. 2,500.000
David Rankin, gift to indus
trial school 2,000,000
was taken up and it was followed to ^naraof*
Handing the "Lemon.”
From the Baltimore News.
The story runs that a susceptible youth
in New York was introduced to a young
woman, and forthwith invited iter to sup
per at a restaurant. On being asked
what she would have to eat. she. with.
within about one mile of Burch’s
house. Clemens and Lowry reached
Burch’s home and told him of the mur
der, and then retired to b“d, but later
Burch made them leave the house for
fear of detection, and they spent the
remainder of the night in an old i
shanty. On the next day Burch was ]
stricken with paralysis. James Moore,
nstic
self-abnegntlon.
a brother-in-law oX .Wright Lancaster, I expectations.
that she “wasn’t a bit hungry.”
youth, who. it seems, was not bless*r-d
with an overabundance of perspicacity,
took her reply literally. He ordered oys
ters .at them himself and complacenriy
h.anded his truest tho lemon for h«'r
ff’ass of water. Since that time it has
become customnry co say “he handed her
a lemon” whenever the entertainment
a man afforded a £irl did not meet her