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[HE Him TE1EGMPH 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