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TE ALBANY HERALD
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HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
ff. M. McIntosh,
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•Jlfcolal Organ oT Dongherty County.
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P Won of Georgia for the teoond Congrenlonal
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_ +<exception to thla rule In favor of anybody,
iV Advertising rtflHW reasonable and made
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VMrfeuV thanks, resolntlont of retpeot and
MM^unrv nutlet's, other than those which
ibe BUltor hlmst.lf may give at a matter of
nrtfwi.wlllbeohargedfor at the rate of five
^No'leosoV church and soeletyftnd all other
entertainment from which a revenue Is to
be derived, beyond a brief announcement,
will to charged for at the rate of five cents
^Okfiob up stairs, west side of Washington
frost, hetweeu Broad and Bine streets.
TOlephOM No* 00*
Th« Horalil deals with advertlxlng
. p. gent a by speolal eeutraet only, and no
adrtnlslng agent or agrnoy In anthor-
fsed to tab* contracts for advertise
ments tube Inserted In tills paper.
ft you see it in the Herald
It’s so.
It you advertise in the Herald
it goes,
SATURDAY, JUNE 211, 1901.
Great weather for
tbit.
“killing grass’
Wow asphalt liAs buou (Uncovered In
Texas'. _J:
China has hail a good losson. and'is
paying well for it.
Oantnloupos and watermelons will
crime in together this season.
Some of the Eastern manufacturers
•.re getting tlrc.i of the Dingloy tnrilV.
Thero Booms l “ lie some doubt about
' Maoon uocopliu,, Mr. Oarnegle’B library
Si<t.
Now we are liavtug warm days lu
Juno, without clones or showers, In
those parts.
•BEEF CATTLE.
.. A fnll-grown fat beef is now worth
about as mnoh in the market as a bale
of cotton, and there is certainly more
profit in him for the farmer, because it
oosts less to produce him. There is an
increasing demand for beef cattle,, too,
and the indications point to a higher
market for beef. Good beef is now a
scarce commodity, not only here in
Southwest Georgia, but all over the
country, Not all the so called '•'West
ern” boof that Is shipped here la np to
the standard. The beBt beef from the
great slaughtering honses of tie West
now goes to the large oities and Is sold
fnuoy prices.
We can produce good beef here in
Southwest Georgia and can do it as
oheanly as it can be done anywhere in
the world, for.there is no country better
adapted to stock raising. And this is
espeolally true us to cattle, for we can
not only have exoollent pasturage the
year round, but can prodneo more food
crops for fattening beef cattle than can
bo prodnoed in almost any section of
oonntry lu the world.
Many farmers lu this section have
boon making good money oat of beef
cuttle for several years last, bnt the
great, majority of them are giving no
attention to this profitable feature of
dlvorslllud farming and are letting
mnoh go to waste on their farms every
year that might bo utilized for producing
marketable beef.
THE It ACE FOR MAYOR.
Municipal politics promises to bo nin-o
than ordinarily lively in Albany dnrm
the next few mouths. Two oumliiluu
the only argument fob mobs.
After all, the only way to deal effect
ively with mobs ofjiynchers or strikers
who have resorted to vlolenoe is with
lepdeu arguments. All others are vain.
The only Georgia sheriff who has re
cently triumphed over a mob of lynchers
who really meant bnsinesa Is Sheriff
Merrill, of Carrollton. His conception
of a sheriff’s doty is not the common
one, end the mob which he dispersed by
firing into their ranks was taken alto
gether by surprise. Bnt it dispersed,
and there was no lynching in Carroll
ton that night. Yesterday a mob of
several hundred striking union miners
advanced upon a West Virginia mine
where non-nnlon men had been em
ployed in the strikers’ plaoes. The mob
did not credit the mine superintendent
with being in earnest when he threat
ened to fire unless the striker! retroated,
and when a volley from the posse de
fending the mine killed two of the mob
and wonnded another, there was sur
prise and consternation among the
strikers. But that mob promptly dis
persed, too. Arguments don't have
mnoh elTeot on the average mob, but
bullctB are more persnasive, and will
stop the Impetuous rush of strikers or
lynchers whenover properly used.
An apparently woll-anthontleated in
terview with Grover Olevelaud followed
President McKinley’s third term mes
sage to the peoplo, appearing in tho St.
Louis Chronicle. Mr.’ Olevelaud re.
nounces any third term ambitions, ru
mors to the effect that the ex-l’resideut
would again seek politionl honors hav-
ling become current as a consequence of
for mayor aro already squarely in tl.e 1 s rooent appearance in print as author
The oontonnlal oommonoement of the
State University Is ovor, and Athens s
feeling good ovor (t.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
Senator llnnua is so wicked a political!
that peoplo oauuot understand how lie
nan lie sink. '
Tho first, oar of Georgia, melons wns
(dripped from Pavo on Sntnrdoy. But
It ia probably safe to say that the melons
wore not ripe.
Tlio Republican party may bo in need
at a Moses, too, boforo 11104. It is al
ready pretty well encompassed abont by
a great wildernoss.
An Atlanta mnn lias been fined 100.75
in tho recorder's oourt for following,
overtaking and hugging a young indy on
the street. Cheap enough.
The Jacksonville negroes seem to be
looking for trouble. First thing they
know they will get it, and when It
starts they will gu: more thou they
want.
Tho London papers are slyly mukiug
^ fun ot J. Pierpoot Morgan. One of
.themfacetiously suggests that, his cor-
onairiofi may soon occur at Westminster
Abbey.
When a mau declines nu office I hese
days he must say that he would not no
cejit if nominated nor serve if olocted if
he wants the publio to beliove that ho
is in earnest.
r.ioo, subject to tho notion of the domo-
crutio primary, and there will bo more
entries within tho next few days, if
any confldonoe is to bo placed in oor-
tatn rumors that are ttyiug around.
One gentleman 1ms Btated to n number
of parties that he will miiko tliu race,
and hns asked for the support of many
of h 1 1 friends. A prominent Albanian
stated t v a Herald mnn this morning
that t.-ors wns strong probability that
the oandfiUay of a fourth nsplraut for
mayoralty lunorB would bo launoliod
within the next two or three days. Oar
informant wns somewhat vague in his
hints, but he gnvo the Herald mnn to
understand that tho pnrty to whom ref-
orouoo wns made would bo a formidable
Candidate In any political contest in Al
bany or Dougherty oonnty.
< New England magazine artioles on
political topics. "I am a private in the
Democratic ranks,” said Mr. Oloveland,
"with tho right of freo speech, work,
ing away among tho rank and file; and
I am going to keep on working. They
Oftn't prevent me from doing that.”
Mr. Oloveland had a mighty good
ohance to do sonio work for tho Demo
cratic party in 1800 and agaiu in 1000,
but lie didn’t do it. A word from him
in {tho Inst national campaign would
have boon worth mnoh to tho party that
twico honored him with tho presidouoy,
bnt ho was ns mum ns an oyster.
CALLS Fob investigation.
Editor of the Herald f
In the Atlanta paper there appears
the following:
"Wife of an inmute in the Soldiers’
Home desires position as housekeeper in
some family. Strong and able to do
good work. Addresi room 28, Soldiers’
Home, Atlanta.”
A flood of thought, not of the
pleasantest, sweeps across one's mind as
we read the above tonobing appeal.
1st. What physical condition at the
soldier compelled him to abandon his
home, to leave bis wife homeless, and
seek for himself alone ease an J comfort ?
2nd. What is the story of that man’s
soldier life? There were soldiers in the
Confederate army, in the Federal army,
indeed in every army, who sought and
seek self, and self alone. In times of
danger they are tho quietest men
imaginable. When the storm cloud
passes away who so brave as they!
Such men would desert and leave their
families to a life of waat and drudgery,
they living'in Inxnry and ease. ‘It is to
bo hoped that the old soldier in question
is not one of thiB class. Justice to him
should induce the old soldiers’ friend,
Captain Tip Harrison, to let the publio
know why this poor woman, homeless
and friendless, seeks work.
A writer in yesterday's Journal says,
“Here is a case for the Daughters of the
Confederacy.” And so it is. Tho gray
heads of the present day recollect well
how the women of ill to CB ar.d after
words unselfishly toiled for the welfare
and comfort of the absent soldior uud
for the help of the wounded and sick,
of thoBo that were hors de combat. Will
not Mra. ,T. S. Raiuo investigate and let
her sisters know ? Her comrade daugh
ters will help this deserving woman and
so will many, very many
Old Oonfeds
Dr. F. H. Kerfoot, of Atlanta, cor
responding secretary of the Homo Mis-
Egan Board of the Southern Bnptist Con
vention, died Saturday night, after a
protracted illness.
The whole country is beginning to
make wnr on mosquitoes. But the war
nliould not be confined to mosquitoes.
The house fly is just as luneli a nuisance
and perhaps spreads more disease.
The Augusta Ohroniole prints this ns
coming from a New York paper: “It
is notable that again this year of the
girls from tho public schools who have
puoad the entranoe examinations to (ho
Normal College, tho majority, as their
names indicate, are Jews. The same
fa the rule in the examinations for the
boys' free colleges; the best scholars of
the public schools, girls and boys, being
vateSy Jews.'’
BumHH
The qualities and the east of TexnB oil
i a fnol will soon be shown at tho
Lonlstnun sugar refineries, sevon of the
largest of wliioh have deoidod to discon
tinue the nseof oonl outiioly and depend
absolutely on tho Texas prodnot. The
changos in tho fnrnaccs of those refin
eries will oost about $85,000, and it is es
timated that they oan be ran by oil at a
oost ot $50,000 a year. As they have
oousnmod $150,000 worth of ooal a year,
tho olinnge will bo profitable—provided
tho oil shall moot expectations. Success
In this caso would moan, of course, a
vast extension of the nse of Texas oil as
fnel. Tho enthusiasts in the Lone Star
State fully believe that a revolution in
the matter of tool ts impending, and
that it will be virtually universal: tlmt
not only mauntactnring establishments
but steambouts and eveu locomotives
will all eventually discard ooal. Tnoy
assume that the supply of oil is inex
haustible
The Philadelphia Reoord points out
that the wool growers of the United
States, who. notwithstanding prohibit
ive tariff duties on wool, find the prioes
of their fleeces going lower and lowor,
will presently begin to understand that
thu manufacturers arc gradually going
out ot tho business of mukiug pure
woolens. Every your the use of adul
terants increases, and by so much the
demand for wool decreases. Tho art of
sophistication has been so perfected that
It requires no little technical skill to tell
tho difference botweou "all wool” and
part wool" fabrics.
If tile world is not growing worse, It
cortainly seems to be less humane and
sentimental and more cold blooded.
Wo see it reported by the newspapers
that the Colorado State Medioal Associ
ation was askod thu other day to disonss,
with a view tn memorializing the logis-
lataro, a proposition for the extermina
tion of imbeoile ohtldren. The proposi
tion, by Dr. Denison, of Denver, was
that on application of the parents, imbe
oile ohildreu be painlessly pnt to death.
Hnmunity in general would be bene-
fitted, he said. The information that
snoli an idea was to|be discussed aroused
publio attention and indignation, and the
matter was oarriod over. It is not believ
ed that a bill embodying nny snob idea
eonld bo passed through tho logislaturo,
but 1 ho mere fact that such a proposi-
tiou should bo made is enough to give
one the shudders.
Here is a timely paragraph from the
Oglethorpo Echo: "The South’s butcher
pen is now located in Chicago while we
kill ourselves tryiug to kill the grass
that would produce an abundance of
beef right nt our door at a nominal cost,
llow ready the South always is to make
other sections rich.”
A mau stepped ou a dog's tail in Birm
ingham and was killed by the owner of
the oanine, rays au exchange. Editor
Jack Powell thinks that a man who will
6tep on a dog's tail when its head is ex-
I posed ought to be killed,
The Associated Press dispatches sent
oat from Kansas City on Wednesday
and Thursday oonnooted Hon. Wm. J.
Bryan with the new third j arty organi
zation offeoted in that city this week,
and Btated that it was tacitly under
stood that the new party's policy would
bo shaped after the Nebraskan's ideas
and with the view of making him its
presidential candidnte ill 1904. The At
lauta Constitution sunt a telegram to
Mr. Bryan asking him what troth there
was in the report. Mr. Bryan replied
promptly, saying thoro was no truth in
it. Now, we will see how many of the
papers that published tho Associated
Press report will do Mr. Bryan the jus
tice to publish his denial.
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North Carolina has a now tax law
aud it is being assailed by some of the
newspapers of that state as being too
inquisitorial. The Raleigh Post com
plains that the act, in its general appli
cation, “presumes that the taxpayer is
a liar,” Well, tax dodging has become
so common that it is unfair to the tax
payer who is uot a liar to let the one
who is a liar return his property with
out putting some direct aud searching
questions to him.
The Alabama constitutional conven
tion has adopted a section making the
governor ineligible to the United States
Senate, and also a section forbidding
the governor appointing members of
the legislature to office.
Tho Native Grasses.
From tho Atlanta Constitution.
Wo print elsowhore, from the Albany
Herald, an editorial concering tho value
of the native grasses of Georgia, to
which we would call tho spouial atten
tiou of tho people of tho state.
Journalistic courtesy, as well as the
truth of history, domands that full
credit for the greatest industrial cam
paign ever started in Georgia belongs to
Mr. Heury Mclgtosh, of tho Albany
Hkuald, who lmd the foresight to see
thovalnes being mimmlly destroyed in
the waste grasses of Georgia. He de
veloped an interest in the utilization of
these grassos and made it evident that
the agrobiological value of the lauds of
South Georgia wus greater than tho
highost prioes offered for them in the
open market. Laud that could be
bought for $2 an aore lying out in swamp
was covered with a grass growth worth
$60 upon the cutting. Two dollars
would buy the fee simple of the acre,
less than $2 would out and cure the
the crop and owner could put 126 into his
pooket. This is a practical way of show
ing what oan be done with Georgia
lands, for that which is true of the lands
around Albany is especially true of the
lands all over the state.
As we write over $50,000,000 have
been invested in irrigation-drains in the
great American desert for the purpose
ot rendering it capable of cultivation.
This calls for annual work of great cost,
and yet hundreds of thousands of peo
ple are rushing West to secure these
lands under ouch inoouveniences. Here
in Georgia, no matter in what direction
the traveler turns, he sees growing from
the bounty of nature the spontaneous
grasses, gladdening the eye and giving
evidence of the richness of our soil. Yet
such opportunities as these we are per
mitting to pass unnoticed whilst hun
dreds of thousands of peoplo are moving
ost to the and plains of the Rooky
mountain plateau.
We are freo to say that the great
profits to be achieved from tho oovoring
of our lands with factories and work
shops is hardly to be compared with the
values we might create by saving aud
promoting our agrostological resources.
The work done by Mr. McIntosh is of
supreme importance and should be token
up by enterprising men in every county
in the state.
No More Early Peaches to Be Shipped
From tho Worth County Nows.
J. K. Williams, manager of the Indi
ana Fruit Company, issued orders to
about 150 pickers aud packers last Tues
day morning that he would ship no more
peaches ; that the fruit already shipped
had rotted ou tho cars before reaching
tho market, 'and that, the returns re
ceived from them wefe not sufficient to
pay the expense of loading and shipping.
The excessive rains since the fruit be
gan ripeuing three weeks ago, has
caused it. to rot very fast. The Elbertas
will be shipped in July.
Of Course She Will.
From the Thomasvifie Times.
Albany is already booming her Hay
Day and Street Carnival which opens
on the 19th of November. And she
will make a success of the occasion.
No really good peswhes have yet made
their appearance.
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Wind! Rain I! Hail! Hi
COTTON BADIV IN THE GRASS,. AND Ui VERSA T }j
“Labor scarce and dear at any price” the ozy everywhere!
DONT YOU KNOW—*-
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Georgia Paper Shell Pecans?
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Don’t let another season pass without STARTING A PECAN GROVE, yi
If you do, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SORRY FOR IT. «
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OVER THE “PICKLE” YOU ARE IN. Address, ft
THE NEW ELECTRIC PL AW.
There is general satisfaction in Al
bany that the contracts have been
awarded by the City Council for en
gines, boilers, dynamos and other ap
paratus for the new municipal electrio
plaut. According to the specifications
signed on Saturday, tho designated ma
terial is to bo delivered in Albany with
in ton weoks’ time, and it may therefore
be reasonably expeo*ed that the new
plaut will he in running order before
the first of Ootober.
It is hardly to be doubted that'the
new plant will be up-to-date foralMts
appointments, and capable of furnishing
the city of Albany with a service- such
as she deserves and has long desired.
Let us rejoice, then, that the annoy
ing accidents which have marked the
history of the old plant during the last
few years, and kept the average Alba
nian’s temper constantly ruftSed, are
soon to cease, aud that we will! live long
to blesB the day that we voted beads for
a new electric lighting plant.
The Wilmington* O'., Star says;
“Col. Hemphill, of the Atlanta Consti
tution, told the Northerners who were
in-that Southern,.industrial Convention,
at Philadelphia, that tilore is .Georgia
land which has prodhoed* Ilf* bushels of
shelled corn to tlio aore,. 800 bushels of
sweet potatoes, and three 1 and five bales
of cotton. They might not have be
lieved him if they didn.’fi know he is a
reputable newspaper man.” The only
suspicions feature that we can see about
Col. Hemphill’s story is. the statement
that the corn comes- shelled.
Apropos of the advantages enjioyed by
the Pan-American Exposition by reason
of its proximity to Niagara Falls the
Boston Herald says; “Perhaps in an
other century there will be enough resi
dents in the West to make it practicable
for au exhibition to be held in the neigh
borhood of the Yellowstone Park, with
its geysers. The most sublime spoctaole
of all is in the Yoseroite Valley, wbicti,
it is to be hoped, will be long shut out
from easy access. Its seclusion is an
important feature of its charm. It may
be, "however, tlio canon of the Colorado
surpasses this, but it has thus far been
so dilUoult of reaching that it has been a
sealed region to all but the more hardy
travelers. ’ ’
The New Orleans States concludes
that enemies of mankind in the form of
germs and other horrible things are de
veloping in such vast numbers and with
such startling rapidity that a great
many people are beginning.to feel that
there is very little sense in trying to
live, aud abont the best that they can do
is to fold their hands becomingly aud go
in search of a heavenly harp.
Having looked tup .over $500,000 in the
State treasury by the supreme court de
cision sustaining hie- now famous “law
p’lnt,” Treasurer*- ffank » reported by
the Savannah papers- as being in that
city for the purpose-of conferring with
the bankers there with ref erence to bor
rowing money to.meet? tbe “casual de
ficiency.” Viewed* in a common-sense •
business light,. Tteaeorer Park has-
played the misohiefi”* with the State’s-
finances. It’s a« good price the State iB-
paying for its- new treasurer’s “law.-
p’int.”
In view of the* backwardness of the-
season and the- freakishness of the*
weather all over the-country, the report
that Texas has-broken the reoord today
by getting the tfirsb bale of new cotton,
into market earlier thi\n ever befcne,.is.
a little suspicious.
The trusts will' bring the republican
party to grief yet. It is already begin
ning to totter under the load, and the
burden is getting bigger aud heavier ail
the time. There will be a collapse as
sure aB tho world stands.
Senator Hanna may regard the da
of the Ohio Republican state o-onventic
next week as too early for a resolutic
indorsing him for President, bnt tl
Cincinnati Enquirer says, he can have
if he wants it.
The conviction of Thomas G. Barker
for shooting Rev. John Keller by a Jer
sey City jury seems to have been a
righteous verdict. This thing of one
man shooting down another in cold
blood and then hiding behind a faithless
wife or some other indiscreet female
member of the family is getting to he
too common.
Tot Ciuikos Nij;)»ii iDarin.
“One night my brother’s baby was
taken with Croup,” writes Mrs. J. O.
Snider, of Crittenden, Ky., “it seemed
it would strangle before we eonld get a
doctor, so we gave it Dr. King’s New
Discovery, which gave quick relief and
permanently oared it. We always keep
it in the house to protect our children
from Croup and Whooping .Cough. It
cured me of a ohronio bronchial trouble
that no other remedy would relieve.
Infallible for Goughs, Colds, Throat and
Lung troubled. 60c and $1 00. Trial
bottles free at Albany Drug Co. and
Sale-Davia Drug Co.
The year 1901 seems determined to es
tablish a reoord for fires In Albany.