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SATURDAY. JAN. SI), 1001;
Booth Georgia 1* coming to tho front.
America bow* with England in sorrow
for Victoria'* illness.
Venezuela oonldn't pnt op a mnoh
poorer fight than Spain dl$.
Most of thu Northern paper* are own
ing op gracofoily on the lynohtng ques
tion.
The Atlanta Constitution has been
reading the Botoh papers, and now
epells it "Philippic.”
8¥A,
donut Bonl do GasteUano seems to
find genuine delight In being stared at
as a man who Is abto to owe millions.;
Tho apaoe writers are devoting a snr
prislugly small share of attention to the
seootvl cabinet of Provident MjKlnley.
1#
Bernhardt says "the purpose of tho
stsgo is to moralise the peoplo by oliarm
ing them.” Seems tn ns that's well
pot.
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The arrest* for drunkenness In Boston
averaged SO a day all through the poet,
year. It aupears that Boston lacks
good deal of being a temperanoe town.
4-
The estate of thejlato Marcus A. Daly
is estimated at about 190,000,000, though
Daly himself claimed to be worth
something like live times that amount.
We lnolinn to thu opinion that nfter
the fourth of March tho Hon. Theodore
.Roosevelt will make It known that he
expects to help distribute the offioea this
Utio
In the
Whr'not annex Venezuela?
absence of a pretext, one oould easily be
tuide. Just think of thu snug berths
the administration wo .Id be able to
provide for the f lithful.
It la worthy of note that the only four
Demooratic senators who voted for the
army bill are from the South -Lindsay,
Of Kentuoky; Morgan, of Alabama. Mo
Iiaorin, of 8onth Carolina, and Sullivan,
of Mississippi.
BBS,
A dark In the ofHoe of Tampa's tax
Collector is short about fl.700. He will
have a bard time it oaugbt. He didn’t
steal enough, and instead of calling him
an embexsler, he is referred to in the
newspapers merely as n thief.
England’s queen is beloved by her
anbjeets as are few sovereigns, and the
•nnoonoement of her critioal Illness
causes sadness throughout the British
Isle*- Viotorls ha. ruled so long and so
waU that her subjeots love her with true
OH.l devotion, and her death will oast
gloom over all loyal British hearts.
IWMiY—RBH-sftB
thus.
In riffle ;W nrrh~bnnii t vn>. current
l^eek we find thu lolh.nln-- ;
MiSa^iina Oatm fd’the Quitman Free
■PreH.,1... right when ehu said that Mu-
.♦eel y press nnulrl not kuep iil.Wii-f nt
t(lH I nes nil pntltlnul and other pnhll,-
ms o. like oharaofer. In its cdje
Utterances, because of t.lje.fifet
rnidltlous are undergoing'. rapid
and an editorial written Mi
u vital question n aft
Ind foreign to thu stifle of
ig on Friday whi ' ‘
It was written
t to its readeis,
country editors' iaivation ; lies'
printing oil the looal news and looking
after collections " Bat tltof-ii .are mut
ters other than merely tRfl local’ field In
whlol) the country.newspapers may ad
vanoe thoughts that will be beneficial,
not only to his own readers hut to thu
entire country.
The Quitman Free Press and thu
Worth Local, which, as will bo seen
from the foregoing, are agreed on the
general proposition that the weekly
press "oannot keep abreast of the times
on iiolilical and other poblto questions,"
are mistaken. They aru simply under
estimating themselvOa, Each of these
weekly, oountry or local newspapers—
taka your oholoe as to whioh you will
call them—has Its Influence, and It is
greater, within Its own legitimate
sphere, than that of the biggest metro,
palltan dully In the oonutrv. Each has
a constituency and enjoyB the good will
aid ooinmands the confidence of that
constituency. Euoli, therefore, exercises
a, distinct Influence "on pnlltloal and
other publlo questions of like ohar-
aotor."
There are weekly pape rs and weekly
papers in the oountry, we know, and
some of them have no influence, for the
simple reason that they haven’t the
ability and the uharaater to j&stlfy It;
bat, as a rule, the weekly newspapers
of Georgia exerolse an Infloenoe in poll
tics that is to be roekoned with, as every
man who has hud oooaslon to engage in
practical politics in the state well knows.
How many times have we seen the
leading big dailies that alaimed every
thlug tamed down by the weekly press
and tho people? The weekly press Is
oloee to the people and has lufluenoo
with them, nnd onr friends of the Quit
man Free Press and the Worth Looal
underestimate tho Influence of the
weekly press and do themselves injustice
when tney ssy that the weekly press
"ouuuot keep abreast of the times on
pnlltloal and nthor publlo questions of
like oharaoter." The political issues of
the day are not determined in a day or
in a week, and the weekly press of the
country has Its influenoe in all these
things.
In Georgia—and we believe that Geor
gia is the leading state In tho Union in
this paitlsolar— the weekly press lg
closer to the people than any other
agency, and Is a most Important political
faotor.
"Oder wjce.the in,irkK of sincerity. On Satur-
lt>
Can Colouel Alfred E. Buok be after
something better thuu the post of min
ister to Japan? Four years ago, it will
he remembered, the Oolonel mode a
mighty effort to get the president to
send-, him to Mexico. Hon. Powell
Clayton had the longest pole, however,
and has, siuoe reoelving the appoint
ment, been raised to the rank of am-
bassador. Therefore, if Mexioo had
oharms for Colouel Buck four years ago,
the attraction must now be even
stronger. Oau he be coming home to
angle for the Mexioan plum ngatn, or
will he be osntent to go book to Japan
for another four years? These are ques
tion that Georgians are asking but that
noons answers. After all, the Colouel
mav only be oomiog home to look after
republican fences la Georgia—fences
that he keeps In better repair than any
Illy*white of past or present time.
WOOD tOll THK CADKTmT
(tie n- •f Sti oYyfi iSiUitfcA the tyeA
** ant Minnrv Arartcni ■ in voluntarily
ucnmjug.th* Geamyi^,^^
zing raises it nu mmir points in the
uadd state-
uieof. prese.-pal by a comrolttljWfcapre-
sed'qgP the four pkwaeS.vjf the Academy
to Hupertfitiqideiit Mills- la an Interest
ing communication, and bears on ils
FROM Bot rt> fi t'll.
.YflAHJA
dispatches matte-
.\rrfT.
very mad by tl
Botha’s book, entit
Boer,” and that i
had sworn to shoo
book at the first
coon-Hilton it is inter
nig' t the cadets Hold a meeting in
Grant Hall, and Ibe resolutions were
adopted The communication to Super-
ntendent Mills follows:
./westPoint,N.Y,Jan. 10. M01.—
To the Baperlntendent- ptf-l^e-United
States Military Academy: Sir T Having
beonne cognizant of the manner in
whloh the system of hazing as praotioed
at the military academy is regarded by
the people of the United States; we, the
cadets of the United State* Military
Aoademy, while maintaining that we
have pursued our Bystein from the best
motives, yet realizing that the deliberate
judgment nt tho people should, in a
country like oars, be above all other
unnslderatloiis, do reaffirm onr former
notion abolishing the exercising of
fourth c a s me: , and do fortber agree
to discontinue hazing, the requiring of
fourth class men to eat any thing against
the.tr desire, and the practice of 'calling
ont' fourth class men by olass action,
and that we will not devise other similar
practices to replace those abandoned,
Renpeottnllv submitted,
"For the first olass;
•‘•W. R. Bettlson, president, class,
1901.
"For the seoond olass:
"B. O. Muhaffey, president, olass
1903.
“For the third class:
"Quinn Gray, president, olass 1908,
"For the fourth olass:
"Joseph A. Atkins, representing olass
1904.
The cadets must have reoognized in
thia ease one of those occasions where
discretion proves the better part of
valor. At the beginning of the oon
gresalenal investigation there was an
evident disposition on the part of the
oadets to be rebellious, nnd to insist that
there was nothing ungentlemanly or
reprehensible in the hazing methods
that had, for years, been employed ut
the Aoademy, Their promptness in
recognizing and submitting to the pre
ponderance of public opinion does them
oredit, though nothing less was to have
been expected from a student body rep
resenting the very highest intelligence
nnd best typo of yonng manhood in the
Republlo.
The toot that Prince Henry of Pros-
t has been ordered by t he Kaiser to
t some time at Berlin in order to
t himself acquainted with variou-
i of administrative affairs is' re
I as an indication that Emperor
> has not given up the idea ol
be Atlantlo and paying a visit
If be should do-
» snoh a trip Prince Henry
to act in
The little South American repablios
are so much given to "scrapping” among
themselves that their periodical wars
seldom attract as rauoh attention as an
Amerioan prize fight or an inter-col-
legiate football game. Venezuela, dur-
ing the last few yean, has grown a wee
bit in importance and influence, the
result of whioh, in common parlanoe, is
a bad oase of the swell-head. The
papers are at present devoting some
little spaoe to the dtsonssiou of possible
trouble between Venezuela and the gov
ernment of the United States. As'the
restless little repnbho on the Oarribbean
is not mentally irresponsible and still
has a desire to continue its existence,
the war olond is not of snfficient im-
q ortance to be worthy of notice.
Hatred of Great Britain nnd every
thing BritlBh has long been ooramon in
this country. Word ooiners call it an-
glophobia, IWoently, however, our
English oousius have been showing evi
dences of a state of feeling whioh might
appropriately be termed yankeephobia.
Ignorance has been Is rgely responsible
for the prejudice against Great Britain
in thia oountry. The green eyed mon
ater has oaused yankeephobia to develop
iu the mother oountry. British states,
men are telling their oountrymen that
England’s supremacy Is threatened
that Amerloa la Igst crowding her into
unoomfortably close corners and
that the beginning of her deoadenoe is
too apparent to be Ignored. All things
considered, It is not surprising that
England finds it dltfloult to lore ni with
her whole heart.
Secretary of the Navy John B. Long
seems to be a pretty good sort of oablnet
officer, and his administration of affairs
daring the last four years does not leave
a great deal of room for adverse orlti-
olsm. He la a Republican, and for that
reason a great many Democrats oan see
no good in anything he does, bat his
steady interest in the affairs of the navy
and his honest efforts to inerease the
efflolenoy of the arm of the servioo over
whioh he presides have not been in vain.
Mr. Long is “no saint," but be makes a
good secretary of the navy.
The days of brutal hazing at West
Point are numbered. Oolonel Mills,
commandant of the Aoademy, says that
the praotioe is too long established to be
eradicated at this late day. Bnt Oolonel
Mills is mistaken. Perhaps he oan not
Infloenoe the oadets to act like gentle
men, but the public will see to it that
the secretary of war pota a man in
oharga of the institution who oan.
Minister Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese
minister, told ex-Senator David B. Hill,
several days ago, that he ought to be
heavily taxed for being a bachelor. Mr.
Wn’aidea is that single blessedness is
little short of aotnal crime.
We have found out some things about
West Point that surprised ns. Now
what of Annapolis?
•b ii.
Bo i e .in ’
thft ho*nor «>f *1
• *p rln»o •. In
• imr t - know' r-1
Bottift’l book !• » stinging arraigning]
ot Kruger’s gov«*tnm«nt, which
blames tob the »i thn Pra*
vaal. Tttere wc uni have been in*
with Boland, bo h?>s, but tor r
selfishness and greed of Krugrr auri Ji
following 1 \A v ill of romance,
claims, has hidden t he real Kruger i ml
the eyes of the world, and from tl
majority of his own people, uiid tl
real Kroger is thna described: •
know him—ao avaricious, nnBorupuloue
and hypooritical man, who sacrificed ojj
entire people to his cupidity. His one
aim and object was to enrich himself,
and be used everv means to this one
eud. He nsed the Transvaal as u milch
cow for himself and his following "
Botha declares that Kruger, not, with-
standing his immense salary, never
gave a eixpenoe to charity. Even the
pulpit, he deolares, was prostituted for
politloal purposes. "A minister of God
told me himself, with a wink, tha- he
had to preaoh at the English because
otherwise he would lose favor with
those in power.” Botha -ets real warm
when he contemplates Kruger iu the
role of a hero. “A hero," he snys,
"who was known In the Free State
thirty years ago, before he found better
means of enrlohtng himself, as a swlnd
ling dealer In oranges and tobaooo, and
one whom we strongly snspeoted of be
ing a very oute slave dealer.” The
book abonndB in similnr excoriations of
Kroger and his regime. It is not diffi
cult to understand, therefore, why De-
Wet wbb so angry when he read it.
Says the Philadelphia Record: “Sen
ator Hanna deolares that he doesn’t own
any ships and doesn't contempluto
building any that would get the benefit
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ieir islands that imit>t*trim>
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t uropeau ruitimis ui.il ?. u>b-». m m *• ;
'utVopR for eiJtfdatioil tlway^ r« rfirn r
the island* li^tnad of yioJding to
e attractions of forelgi countries.
And it is because of this well know-
dread of exile that General MaeArthui !
decided to deport pome of the oapruv»*d I
Filipino leaders to Gnatn. believing tin t
rjiis would bo the severest pTUitnliment
rliat coaid be imposed. ]
But people with Kuril a loy*^ for their
onntrv w ill be hard to subdne To hc
oomplish the conquer of the Islands tin ’
United States mav he compelled ro pr<*
vide for the lmnish*nenr of the people
now there, and the Cincinnati Enquirer
ndvatioo* the opinion that, “it will h*-
necefl'arp first to get an accurate oonnt
of thn islands and an approximate cen
sus of each one • Then a mathematician
who is not afraid of large figarcs can
proceed to make some estimate of the
cost to the American people in dollars
and cents, to say nothing of Mood M
,ms§,
on
atelMOiotf
fire. When a woman wants to get <
HJrom^lygsgs^ecuiiar to her sex,
fuel to the tiro
life away. She
_irthless drugs and
of harmful narcot-
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I “ they
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lea and opiates.
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simply add fuel to the tire.
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Atlanta. Ga.
The long, narrow strip of the Penin
sula State lying west of the Apalaohl-
oola river and known ns West Florida
will booonie a part of Alabama if the
wishes of a large number of tho inhabi-
tants of the seotion mentioned are re
spected by the states of Florida and
Alabama. A "West Florida Annexa
tion Association" has been formed, and
its large membersbip indicates that the
movement is formidable. Bat Florida
will cee some excitiug times before the
annexationists get theirschemethrough
By the operation of a new law nearly
of ship subsidies. He moreover threat- j 1 .(FO green grocers, butchers and poul
ens to proseoute the newspapers which
insist that his advocacy of subsidies is
influenced by motives of personal pe
cuniary advantage. It is hard to fiud
any advocate of the snbsidy bill who is
willing to admit that he is pushing it
for speculative advantage; bnt Senator
Hanna, who Is a blunt man and who is
evidently nettled by the delay of his
pet measure, should not be wrongfully
aaaused. The bill ought to be defeated,
without referenoe to the individual or
corporations that wonld gut the benefit
of anbsidles, on the high public ground
that it is not right to tax Tom, Dlcjc and
Harry for the benefit of John.”
Senator Lodge’s, doctrine of "a big
Amerioan navy" is nn in-stinnably the
popular one. We hear expressed, on
every hand, condemnation of the ad
ministration for its proposed permanent
’inoreose of the army, but heavier ap
propriations for the navy go unrebuked
by the people. We need to be powerful
on tbe high sees. Our unexampled
oommeroial triumphs In all parts of the
world are making us the .target for Eu
rope’s envy, and there’s no telling when
we will be oalled upon to defend with
tho sword what we have won with the
implements of peace. We are able to
build a great navy, and the people
wonld rather aee their money go that
way than for a big army, ship subsidies,
the pnrohsse. of undesirable islands, eto,,
etc.
try sellers in New Orleans have been
forced to close their places of business
permanently. Tile law In question pro
Mbits the establishment of a private
market within 3,300 feet of a publlo
market, and was enacted iu’tlie interest
of the publio market lessees iu order to
iucreaso the revenue of the city. It has
beeu tested and upheld in the eourts,
Thu publlo markets now have a monoply,
and a rise of from 10 to IB per oent. in
food prices In New Orleans is looked
for.
When a New York bank officer de
faulted for "only fl3,000," the news
papers treated tha matter as if it were
incredible. And, really, $13,000 was an
astonishingly small amount for a New
York cashier to steal.
The naval appropriation bill this year
oarries $77,016,685, whioh is. $11,865,718
more than the amount of last year’s bill
bnt $10,339,395 below the estimate sub
mitted by the navy department.
Mark Hanna shook, hands with Matt
Quay when the latter went into the
senate to take bis seat. Thus it ia seen
that senators, like pugilists, oan begin
their battles by crossing paltna.
Foreoasts of probable British action
with reference to the senate amend
ments to the Hay-Panncefote treaty ate
so onnflioting that it is impassible to an
ticipate it with any degree of certainty.
Editor Jack Powell's paper, the
sprightly Blakely Reporter, is now the
offloial organ of Early County. Jack
deserves this .bit of good fortune.
As predioted in these columns yester
day, the Leavenworth, Kansas, negro
lyohing will soon "blow over ” At first
Governor Stanley talked a good deal
and said that he wonld see to it that the
leaders of the mob were punished. Bnt
tho sober second thought came quickly.
He haB decided tl offer no reward, and
Is now quoted aB saying: "If the
gnilty pexsous wi re arrested they would
have the first trial iu Leavenworth
county, and the present publlo senti
ment there would make It useless lo at
tempt a prosecution."
The state seems to have made ont
pretty strong oase at Paterson, N. J„
against the yonng men'who are oharged
with the murder of Jennie Boesohieter
last month. It the evidenoe sustains
the charges in their entirety, no punish,
ment oould be severe enough to square
accounts with the defendants. The ottt-
oome of tfie trial is awaited, throughout
the whole oountry, with intense in
terest.
Tho ouuss of the "wilt" disease of
ootton, which has been mure or less de
structive daring the pait, two or three
seasons, is a fongus whioh attioks the
plant from the soli. It first enters the
small roots and subsequently grows into
the tap, or stem. The result Is that the
supply of food aud moisture carried up
from the roots ia greatly decreased. : W.
A. Orton, of the division of vegetable
physiology and pathology, United States
Department of Agrloultnre, says that
land onoe ^infected with this dtseaie is
never freed from it.
Port Royal is making a desperate bnt
a hopeless fight to prevent the removal
of the United States naval station to
Charleston. Their oase is hopeless
largely because of the faot that Senator
Tillman is a strong Charleston man,
and hik influenoe is about as great as
'that of ail the rest of the South Caro
lina delegation.
England learns that Gene’.al DeWet
has joined forces with the Transvaal
commandoes and now has under his im
mediate command a force of some 7,000
Boer veterans. And what England ex
pects next to hear is that tbe intrepid
DeWet has again administered a drub
bing to some luckless British force.
It has been generally believed by
those engaged In dairying that cows
oonld not be milked by any meohanieal
milker. A Glasgow, Sootland, firm
claims to have a machine whioh will do
the work, and wants to exhibit it at the
Pan-Amerioan Exposition at Bnffalo
next summer. The milking machine is
said to be oonstruoted on the pneumatic
system, with valves, section tubes, eto.
At a party in New York on New
Year’s eve, Florien Meliohar amused
himself by trying to hag every woman
present. When it came Mrs. Rosa
Long's turn to be squeezed she suatohed
up a table knife and stabbed Meliohar
in the arm. Blood poisoning developed
in oonseqnenoe of the wound aud
Meliohar died. Mrs. Long was arrested
and will probably be prosecuted. We
do not believe any jury on earth would
find her guilty. Meliohar’s punishment
was merited.
That story sent ont from Holland n
few days ago to tbe effeot ttiat President
Kroger was.a dying man and oonld
hardly last longer than a fortnight most
have been the work of some war corres
pondent who had followed the old gen
tleman all the way from South Africa.
Oom Paul's health is so good that he ex
press ee a willingness to visit the United
-States if assured that he will be received
in his official capacity by President Mc
Kinley.
Although the oadets at -West Point
haze and fight, it has developed in con
gressional investigation that a high
sense of manly honor is maintained at
the Military Aoademy. Among other
things It has been brought ont that
lying will not be tolerated. Whenever
a m.m lies be la disgraoed. Well, now,
fellow-oitizens and otvilians, we re
spectfully submit that this should be
permitted to oover a multitude of sins.
The republican senators have oanonsed
and decided that, for the present, at
least, the Nioaragua canal bill will have .
to be consigned to some convenient
pigeon-hole. The senate wants to know
what Great Britain proposes to do about
the Hay-Pannoefote treaty before it
oarries canal legislation any fuither. It
begins to look like the big ditch will
have to wait on the powers that be for
years—more years, perhaps, than
many persons now have any idea.
Lord Rosebery warns Great Britain
that her oommeroial supremacy is seri
ously threatened by Amerioa and
Germany, and that of the conhtries the
younger is the more formidable.
Judging from latest reports from
London, the War Office will not con
firm the senate amendments to
the Hay-Panncefote treaty. The mat
ter will then be “up to” Undo Bam
again. And the natural question is,
what will bejdone about it?
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