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SATURDAY, MARCH 0. 1901.)
; Font year* more of tho man from Can'
Indiana haa hanged and burned an
her nogro.
Bare Kane
’ Nation ?
priaone dieoouragod
De Wott has broken through the Brit-
h cordon again.
ain
Hon. Maroue AureUue Hanna is
the Croat 1 Am.
General Gomez doee not wont the
rtoan troop* withdrawn from Cuba.
The grand jury of Chatham oonnty
hoe been eooring Peneion Oommluloner
Lindsay.
I publio building bill, ne
houHos of OongreeBon
aturday, glvee Brunswlok 8150,000 for
publio buildings.
The proportion now before Oongreu
to give discharged veterans of the otril
war preference orer all other penone
for appointment* to the oirll lerrioe,
without conditions, goes a step too far.
Veterane who have been honor
ably discharged because of wound! or
eiokneee, and thnameairarablr prevented
from securing private employment, are
already so far ns practicable given statu,
tory preference. Thie is right; bnt the
able-bodied veteran ehonld stand on his
merits. The generous provision of pen.
eion laws puts the American soldier be
fore the soldiers of all other nations in
the grateful consideration of his coun
trymen. That ehonld be satisfactory.
Preferment for plaoes fn the civU ser
vice ehonld also be allowed him, other
oondlttans being equal; bat he should
not as a matter of statutory right be
preferred’before men who are fitted to
more effiolentlyserve the pnblio. The
rale of merit should bo rigidly adhered
to es the only teat applicable for positions
within the classified olvU service.—Phil-'
adelphia Record.
Outside the ranks of the olass which
would be dlreotly affooted by the pro
posed legislation, few will be found
who are not ready to oooord entire ap
proval to the sentiments expressed by
theReoord.
In the South there is an old saw
whloh maintains that "the more yon
give a freojniggor the more he expoots.’ -
Wo have about couclucftd that the
Union veteran Is very muoh like the
free nigger in this respeot. He (a never
satisfied. Baokod np by tho Grand
Army of the Repnbllo and the lesser
veteran organizations, ho is ever ory.
lng for more. The veteran who goes
into polltlos oalls npthe foot that he
fonght for tho preservation of the Union
as on argnuiout (and none will deny
that It Is an effective one) to oatoh the
votes of his constituents. That advant
age, it would seem, onght to satisfy
him, bnt it doesn’t. It only whets his
appetite.
The proposal to bestow' npon this fa
vored individual by legislation a
still |more powerful lever with
whioh to "cabbage” the publio
offioes of the oountry is ,'about the
nerviost thing the veterans have yet
undertakqn. What they will try next
nobody knows. We have only to wait,
however, to find ont. We will not be
left long In nnbertainty. .
THE BOERS MUST BOOK YIELD.
The surrender of General Louis Botha
toLotd Kitchener, at reported'in yester
day’s dispatches and now praotloally
confirmed, presages the early oollapse of
the Boer army. DeWst, Steyn, Hert-
zog and a few of the lex prominent
burgher oommandants are still In the
field, It ii true, bnt they are so seriously
crippled that It Is not to be expeoted
that they will ever be able to resume
offensive operations. DeWet, it is re
ported, has recrossed the Orange river,
leaving Oape Colony free of invaders,
while several of Lord Kltohener’a ool-
nmns are hotly panning the fleeing and
discouraged Boers.
Jnst one year ago General Oronje sur-
renderded to Lord Roberts, Slnoethat
time the fortune* of the Boen have
been on the deollne and relentless ad
versity bos panned their oanse. The
brilliant operations of General Christian
DeWet daring the last few months Lave
served to bnoy np the drooping spirits
of the bnrghen to some extent, bnt the
odds were too greet for even snoh genins
as DeWet’s to prevail. Lord Kitchener,
with a powerful and wonderfully equip
ped army, has prosecuted the war with
untiring relentlessness, and the inevita
ble oollapse of the half-hearted opposi
tion has long been apparent.
At any time, therefore, we may ex-
peot to hear that DeWot is a prisoner
and that the Boer|War 1b at an end,
Tho Inevitable oannot be muoh longer
delayed. The vlotory of Great Britaiu
will be oomplete, hat at what a prioe I
It 1b estimated that the war has oosc. to
date, the enormous sum of £180,000,000,
or 8050,000,000. Add to this what must
yet be expended and wo behold tho
fulfillment of Paul Kruger’s well re
membered propheoy.
AS-
TOE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL-
SEMBLY
The programme of the 1 Thirteenth
Annual Assembly of the Georgia Ohaa-
tanqna will be found on the fourth page
of today’s Herald. It Is probable that
a few minor changes will be made from
time to time before the date for the
opening of the session, hat the pro
gramme si it appears today gives the
reader an intelligent idea of what may
be expeoted in the way of entertainment
and enlightenment from the assembly
of 1001.
The bnllders of this year’s programme
have kept In mind the old idea whioh
has been the guiding star of the Georgia
Ghantanqna since the first assembly,
viz., that each programme shall be on
improvement over its immediate prede
cessor. The folflllment of this volum
tary obligation on the part o( the Ohau-
tanqna management has been no sine-
enre, but, be it enid to the credit of
those to whom credit is due, it is an ob
ligation that has been faithfully kept.
Many names that shed bright lustre
TUB NEORoIA FHCIT CROP.
This Is the season when the frait out
look receive- a generous share of onr at
tention. According to State Entomolo
gist Scott, the Georgia peach orop is not
yet ont of danger, though fie considers
the prospects bright.' From the present
ontlook, the crop will be in the neigh
borhood of 8,000 oars, bnt nothing can
be definitely told nntil all danger of
frost on the open blooms has passed.
During reoent years the truit indus
try in Georgia has grown to snoh pro
portions that its destruction is a far-
reaching calamity, and the state of the
weather is a matter of general pnblio oon-
oem daring the month of March. Peach,
pear and plum trees are now budding
rapidly under the influence of the pre.
vailing warm weather, and many are in
fall bloom. A freeze now would proo-
tically ruin the fruit crop in tho South
ern portion of the state, and a little
later, if the warm weather continues,
would put fatal blight on the orchards
in Middle Georgia.
All of ns aro hopeful that the weather
on the pnlpit, the lectnre platform, the will be on our side this year, and that
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It is reported thnt six hundred died
Bombay iu two days last week, and
iat of that unrnbef four hnudrod from
,e bubonic plague.
John L. Sullivan has expressed his
riutuu freely with reference to Mrs.
Nation, and he says that her aotions
have not boen lady-llke.
. Some
of the old landmaks of the
ilted States Senate were pulled down
ever when that body took its final
ijoarnment on Saturday. Some of
them will bo miBsed, some will not.
The buildings at Oamp Nor then,
Griffin, used by the state troops on the
oooatlons of their enoampments there,
1 ' ware destrovod bv fire vostordav. Thov
ware destroyed by fire yesterday. They
. were tho proporty of the state of Goor-
pia.
We have now about lost confidence In
the London report that Gen. Botha was
Anxious to surrender. If ho was really
■ desirous of surronding it is hard to uu-
giderstaud, at this distauoe, why ho has
i unable ts do so.
While the strong light of unenviable
notoriety is tamed upou Admiral Samp
son and he is being criticised amt ridi
culed from one end of the oountry to
the other, Admiral Sohloy attends
strlotly to his own business 'and finds
sailing on life's sea reasonably smooth
and pleasant. Tho Heualo has re
marked sovoral times since tho war
with Spain passod into history that, of
all the Amerlosn heroes raised np by
that oonfllot, Sohloy seemed to be
"wearing” better than any of tho oth
ers, Nor have we yet had occasion to
qualify that opinion. Admiral Sohloy's
oondnot has been a model for ofiloert of
the navy. Though raised to a position
of great promlnenoe in the eyes of his
oountrymen by his brilliant servioes
daring the brief oonfllot with Spain,
and though lionized and foted by tens
of thousands sinao that time, hiB good
oommon bouso has not permitted his
head to be turned, and tho jealous ar
rows of liia enemies have only blunted
their points when turned upon him.
Pity ’tts there are not more Sohloys in
Unole Sam’s navy.
been \
The Northern papers aro poiuting to
j’reoent retirement of Joseph Wheeler
and Fltzhagh Lee os brigadier generals
of the regular army as an evideuco that
the fraternization of the Blno and the
Gray haa been measurably advanoed.
Governor Oandler is rather vigorous
his danlal of tho story whioh relates
•t he would oppose Senator Olay
the latter offers for re-election,
lehow, the Governor seems to be a
ig mark for the political gossips.
ivhen
he President seems to be worried
r whether or not to frame his call
r an extra session of Congress so os'to
lit or exolnde the ship subsidy bill.
i will probably relieve himself of the
r by allowing.Mr. Hanna to settle
• question for him os usual.—Atlanta
Tho Domooratio members of the Sen
ate are at outs with Hon, James K.
Jones, of Arkansas, on account of Ills
having surrendered to tho Republicans
on the Cuban and Philippine resolutions,
and his deposition as leader of the
minority iu the upper house seoms prob
able, In snoh an event, there is little
doubt that the reins would pass into the
hands of Sonator Bacon, of Georgia,
who has long been the actual leader of
the Demoorats on the floor of the Sen
ate. Ho is deolared to be the logical
man for the place, and none can doubt
that he would fill it to the entire satis-
faction of his party colleagues and the
Democratic party at large.
We have teen the statement made in
several of the state papers that Governor
Oandler, when he shall fill by appoint
ment the oifloe made vacant by the
death of Solioitor General Hope Polhill,
will not bestow the favor upon one of
the polltiool opponents of the doad Ma-
oontto. It appears that the unfortunate
solioitor, whose sad death \ras ohronl-
oled lu these aolnmns on Saturday, had
opposed to him In Bibb county one of ’tag ow
The New York Journal of Commerce
says: “We have an interest in the sap-
pressloh of yellow fever greater than in
the removal of Spaulsh government, and
we hare a right to Insist that onr right
to see thnt wo are proteoted from the
post and monaoe of Cuba is recognized
by the Onbnn government from the,
outset. The possession of a oonlii.g sta
tion and poBsibly the occupation of the
Isle of-Pines, whioh oannot bo endenred
to Cuba by its penal associations, are
very moderate demands for tho United
States to make in view of its services to
Jjaba and its Interest in the West Indies,
J
„Jubn may have its own government and
the moBt noted polltioal rings or clique;!
in Georgia In the lato general election
ho had triumphed over the opposing
ring, but had incurred their nnoompro-
mlslng omnlty. From what we have
heard and read of Polhill’s sad case, ho
was the viotim of tho organized perso-
outiou of his polltioal opponents. It
seems to us, therefore, that Governor
Oandlor’s determination not to appoint
es tile dead solicitor’s' sucoessor one of
his late persecutors is eminently propor.
We only’ hope the report is based on
fact.
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Theresia evidence that the representa
tives of the Christian world at Pekin
have had a surfeit of blood; and the
proposals of the more vindictive mem
bers of the Oounoil of Ministers to exaot
from China tho visitation of capital pun
ishment on local and provincial officials
after assuranoe of the exeoution of the
doomed metropolitan dignitaries shall
have beon reoeived are likely to meet
with determined opposition on tho part
of Russia, Sapan, Great Britain, Spain
and the United States. It 1b noteworthy
that a majority of the greater Powers
are inclined to a oonoiliatory course,
.Germany and Frnnoe being enabled
only by the votes of the representatives
of minor sovereignties to keep their san
guinary policies in the forefront.—Phil
adelphia Record.
Baltimore Sun sayB: "The
onize many established in-
They are sure to be attaoked
riod of business depression
not before. Already one
ten struck at by a
ms to place
tljeir
The Tifton Gazette is waging a de
termined fight for a new oonnty down
in its corner of the wiregrass region. In
the event of the proposed new oonnty
beooming a reality, Tifton would he the
logiool oonnty site. Georgia already
has more oountiea than any state in the
Union exoept Texas, and some of them
are entirely too small. As a general
proposition we are opposed to the crea
tion of any new oountles. but the argu-
tonight to bear In support of
'g claim are not without merit. ,
The Savannah News has at last bowed
its head to the greatness of William Mo-
Kinley’s diplomaoy. It soys: “What
a olover diplomat Major MoKinley is, to
be Bnrel He 1ms brought the Grand
Army of the Republio into line for his
inauguration parade, he 1ms accepted
the invitation of Memphis to visit her,
and has made it known that he cannot
attend the Confederate reunion in that
oity. Thus there is nothing anywhere
that anybody can ^ake offense at, even
if one were looking for the opportu
nity.”
There is a rumor in North Georgia to
the effect that Judge R. B. Rnssell t will
oppose Congressman Carter Tate when
the latter offers himself for re-election
to oongrees from the Ninth district.
Hon. G. R. Glenn, Georgia’s efficient
sahool commissioner, was yesterday
elected president of the National Educa
tional Convention, in session at Chicago.
There ts a war oloud hovering over
Brazil and Portugal.. But it is not a
min cloud. .
forum and the field of masio appear on
the programme of the next assembly.
The two Taylors, Bob and Alf, Rev.
John Henry Barrows, D. D., Rev.
Homer T. Wilson, D. D., Governor
Allen D, Candler, Hon. J. M. Terrell,
Attorney General of Georgia, Congress
man James M. Griggs, Rev. W. W. De
Hart and others form a galaxy of entcr-
tainers’and educators difficult to matoh
and not to Be excelled.
, and he in full control bf its
'own destinies, in the oourse of a few
mouths, if it will lay aside suspicious
that refloat upon it far more than they
do on tiro United States, and will give
us the very moderate guarantees we ask
for. No nation ever did, and no nation
ever wifi, or ought to, do what Cuba
seems to expect the United States to do
for her."
the State Entomologist speaks as a true
prophet when he foroasta a record break-
ing orop. Not only do Georgia peaches,
pears and plamB bring ns many thoas-
auds of dollars in good orop years, bat
they bring joy to the heart of the Geor
gia housewife and unparalleled delight
to the Georgia epioure.
THE. WORST ONE ESCAPES.
The powers, in demanding the heads
of those who are supposed to have
caused most of the troables in the Ce
lestial Kingdom, have, it seems, let the
worst and most dangerous one of all the
offenders esoape. To ns there appears
to be something not only oruel, bnt un
christian in the demands that have
been made for the heads of these peo
ple, bnt, since it hod to be done, or
while it was being done, it is strange
that the old Empress Dowager should
have escaped. She ought to have been
the first one oondemned. She is really
behind all the trouble in China, and
there will be trouble in China so long as
she lives. She is the real power behind
the throne, and has exercised a more
powerful influence than any other in
dividual in that empire Binoe the begin
ning of the anti-foreign orusade. She is
without the graoe or vtrture whioh
should be possessed by a woman in her
position, and has kept China under an
inonbuB of despotism for years.
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The Ohioago Post Says that aocording
to Rear Admiral Sampson a gunner may
hit the bnll’s-eye every time bat not be
qualified for higher rank unless he can
lead a cotillion.
BUT IT WILL COME.
Ex-Mayor Woodward, of Atlanta, for
governor I Does the Georgia capital
Beek to outolass Kansas as a freak pro
ducer?
The Illinois legislature is about to
The Albany Hkhal.n'lim worked hard but
ineffectually, so far, to Rot a pork packing es
tablishment In Its little city. It Is strange that
Southern men should be so slow about engag
ing in enterprises which would contribute to
tile wealth and independence of their soctions.
—Sparta Ishmaelito.
pass a bill imposing a penalty for hazing
in any of the schools or colleges of the
state.
Yes, it does seem strange that this
much needed enterprise, one that would
not only be profitable to its owners, but
of inestimable benefit to this entire sec
tion, has not been established long ago.
Bat we have not dispaired. We believe
that a pork packing establishment will
yet came to Albany. It may be that
outside capital will come in and do it
and reap the lion’s share of the benefits,
but we believe it will como.
Admiral Sampson's objection will re
sult in making Gunner Morgan an en
sign, says *the Savannah News, lu con
nection with the affair, it is recalled by
several correspondents that Admiral
O’Neill, Sampson’s sucoessor as chief of
ordnance, served beforo the mast and
rose by sheer merit. Oapt. N. M. Dyer,
who commanded tho Baltimore in the
battle of Manila Bay, rose from the
merchant service through the army and
into the navy, and was retired last week
as a rear admiral. Admiral Hiohborn,
ohief constructor of the navy, was a ship
carpenter until the middle of the war
between the states, and he once sailed
around the Horn as an able seaman.
Admiral Melville also rose from the
ranks by merit to his high position,
without the advantages of early social
connections. Meanwhile Admiral
Sampson is quoted by an interviewer as
saying that he meant what he said in
his recommendation to tho Secretary of
the Navy, aud that Ifie lias nothing to
add or to take back.
There is estimated to be not less than
$400,000,000 of water in the proposed
$1,100,000,000 capitalization of the great
steel combination. This is the feature
of the stupendous financial transaction
which is looked upon with the gravest
conoern. There is no doubt that the
economics iu cost of transportation, raw
material, production and management
will result iu a vast saving; but paying
dividends on water must sensibly dim
inish the advantage whioh consumers
have a right to expect, aud at the same
time increase the chances of successful
counter-combination. The power which
the Dingley tariff rates give producers
to fleece the home market ought not to
remain one day longer after the combi
nation shall have got into the saddle
begun operations.—Philadelphia
Judge J. H. Lumpkin has given the
Atlanta depot another black eye. In a
deoisiou reddored yesterday he held
that the Atlanta board of health had a
perfect right under tho law to take any
reasonable steps to protect the life and
health of the publio, and did not over
step its authority when it attempted to
destroy that portion of the old car shed
whioh was deemed unsanitary. The de
cision has tiokled Atlanta in the short
ribs, for it is believed that the suprome
oourt will fully sustain Judge Lumpkin.
We are reminded, however, that the
railroads havo wiggled out Qf some
mighty tight corners iu the course of
the fight' with the publio over the she
bang, and Atlanta’s crowing in the pres
ent instance may prove, after all, to
have been premature. -
Report says that President Kruger is
going back to his country and people,
He ought never to have left them. Evi
dence of the fact that he went to Europe
more-for the purpose of transferring his
private fortune to a place of safety than
with any intention or hope of procuring
intervention by any of tho European
powers, is not lacking
It is estimated that Munich restaur
ants cheat the public out of $200,000 an
nually by selling foam in place of beer.
The penalties for not filling a glass to
the limit are a fine of $125 aud two
weeks imprisonment, but complaint is
seldom made bv those who are robbed.
Atlanta makes mountains out of many
mole hills, but we don’t blame her
whit for persevering in her efforts to
get a new depot. She has been kicking
to the same old tune for years, and we
hope she will keep it np nntil the de
sired end is attained.
and
Record.
The 3 Middle Georgia political gossips
have not had Hon. Joe Hall, of Bibb,
running for anything new in serveral
weeks.
California visitors to the Buffalo Ex
position next summer will register in
the largest book ever bound. It' has
just been completed in Los Angeles.
The book is 29 inches long, 28 inches
wide and 18 inohes thiok r has 4,000
pages, and weighs 400 pounds.
The South needs nothing—not even
cotton mills—more than it does good
roads. With the latter secured other
blessings will follow fast.
If Ohas. M. Schwab gets that $800,000
a year job he might banter some of the
sovereigns of Europe for a swap with
some show of success.
Admiral Sampson’s sister says her
brother’s trouble is mental. Unques
tionably.
The Congress of the United States is
getting to be more violently demonstra
tive than the French Parliament.
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The Savannah Nows oalls attention
to the fact that “party leadership is not
a yested right with Senator Jones.”
Rear Admiral Sampson palled a honse
down on his head when he wrote that
letter to Seoretary Long.
Every woman in the country
ought to fi now about
latter's Friend
Those who do know about it
wonder how they ever got along
without iU It has robbed child
birth of its terrors for many a
young wife. It has preserved her
girlish figure and saved her much
suffering. It is an external lini
ment aud parries with it therefore,
absolutely no danger of upsetting
the system as drugs taken intern
ally are apt to do. It is to be
rubbed into the abdomen to soften'
and strengthen the muscles which
are to bear the strain. This mean®
much less pain.. It also prevents'
morning sickness and all of the
other discomforts of pregnancy.
A druggist of Macon, Ga., says:
“ I have sold a large quantity of
Mother’s Friend ana nave never
known an instance where it has
failed to produce the good results
’ foi
claimed for it.’
A prominent lady of Lam-
berton, Ark., writes: “ With my
first six children 1 was in labor
from 24 to 30 hours. After using
Mother’s Friend, my seventh was
born in 4 hours.”
Got Mother’ll Friend nfc the drnx
store, ftl.00 por bottle.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.
ATLANTA, GA.
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SPECIAL NOTICE
FARMERS.
Having jnst contracted for. exolnsive
agency for the- oelebrated Charleston
“Edisto”
v »
-AND-
“Patapsco”
FERTILIZERS
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we are now ready to mafic onr friends '
prices on above goods, for cashor, fall
payment.; also oh “Charleston” Aoid,
with or without potash; also on "Ger
man Kainit."
A. C. PLONSKY.