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SATURDAY. JULY 18. 1901.
Pcliglons fanaticism is about the
worst, of all the Issms.
The oonntry Is beginning to And fault
With the Weather Bureau.
Cecil Rhodea is another man who haa
acoomnlated a great fortune and loat his
health.
The financiers of Qreat Britain are
beginning to wart the Sonth Afrioan
war oloaed at any ooat.
The agitation of the Good Govern
ment League of Savannah haa reached
the boyoott atage. Tut-tut I
The Georgia Press Assodation and
tha Weekly Presa Association left At
lanta at B :1B o'olook yesterdey afternoon
for Bnltalo.
There were nearly a thousand deaths
from the excessive heat in Greater Hew
York last week. The aotnal number as
officially reported waa 989.
Hr. Carnegie seema bent on distrlb-
nUng bla fortune impartially among all
aeotiooa. His latest offer Is to give Ban
Frandaoo $760,000 for a pnbllo library.
If warm weather la all that ootton
nerds to make It grow the grower* of
the fleecy staple have had nothing to
oomplmn of during the past four or five
weeks.
Brans wlok's big hotel, the Oglethorpe,
was riroek by lightning and aet on fire
yesterday, and it waa with great dlffl-
cully ‘hat the building waa saved by
the linemen.
The Savannah Press calls Helen
Uonld the "uncrowned queen of Colum
bia " The Herald is Imperialist
enough to be willing to say “long Uve
the queen.”
John R. HoLean wins his battles in
side tlio party all right, bnt he has been
having pretty hard lnok of late yean
wlieuever he has gone np against the
Republi ans.
State Treasurer Park Is authority for
the statement that there Is a woman In
Southwest Georgia who has deposited
in a certain state bank $13,000, the pro
ceeds of her last year's ootton orop.
If Gen. Uomee continues to talk,
after his ro'urn to Onba, on the same
line'that ho talked iu New York the
other day, his visit to the United States
will uct have been In vain.
The Hot wave Btrnck Kansai hard
yesterday, and the thermometer regis
tered, at different points, from 104 to
108. Business was praotioally sus
pended in some of the town i.
The experience of this summer sug
gests that the Northerners who cutne
Booth to escape the rigors of a cold
climate in winter will have to come
Sonth to keep cool in summer.
Fire, life and accident insntanoe com
panies doing traslners in Georgia ool.
looted more than six and a half millions
pt dollars in premiums from their Geor
gia polioy hidden last year.
XrKINLEY’S LUCK.
President McKinley’s good lack seems
to be stloking to him. Recently it has
been evident that he was embarrassed
about what to do with Pension Com
missioner Evans. There is probably no
donbt of the fact that daring the last
campaign a promise was given to the
gang of government pensioners—not by
President McKinley himself, bnt by
some of his party henchmen—that In
the event of his re-election Pension
Commissioner Evans wonld be removed.
Matters took a tarn whiob made the fnl-
flllmentof the promise hard, however,
and recently the embarrassment of the
■Itnation became oente when General
Dan E. Sickles openly demanded the do-
Uveiy of the goods. Commissioner
Evans hod made each a good record that
it waa impossible to remove him for
canse, and the President dared not, for
political reasons, throw him overboard.
Bnt now it appears that President
MoKlnley’s usual good look haa turned
np. The resignation of Charles G.
Dawesas Comptroller of the Currency, to
take effect Ootober 1, famishes an easy
settlement of the pension office con
troversy. Mr. Evans, it Is said, will be
transferred to the offioe of the Com
ptroller of the Currency.
The appointment would be In the na
ture of a promotion, as the salary is
mnoh larger than that paid to the Com
missioner of Pensions, and the term of
offioe is for six ye irs. Besides, it is said,
the work ia much more pleasant and
oongenlal. The appointment, of coarse,
will not be made before Ootober. By
acoepting It, it ia claimed, Mr. Evans
will relieve the administration of all em
barrassment wlthont giving his enemies
an opportunity to gloat over his transfer.
This arrangement, so the story goes,
has been agreed on, and it is oonftdeutly
predicted thatex-Representatire Peters,
of Kansas, will be appointed Pension
Commissioner next Ootober.
Now then there will be a howl raised
In the G. A. R. camp againat Pension
Commissioner Evanv, sure enough. The
report of the commissioner of
pensions for the fiscal year jnst ended
will ahow that the commissioner
will torn book into the treasury $8,000,-
000 as an unexpended balance of the
amount appropriated to pensions. The
total appropriation mada by oongress
for pensions was $140,000,000 Mr.
Evans states that np to date there has
been filed 46,000 claims for pensions
arising from disabilities reoeived by sol
diers in the Spanlsh-Amerioan war.
The idea of returning money from the
pension appropriation book into the
treasury will broak the hearts of snob
pensioner* as Gen. Dan Sioklea.
Indianapolis haa a new sensation in
the discovery of an insanity trust in
that oity, and the grand jury is in
vestigating it. It is alleged that a
oliqne of doctors and officials have
taken part for two year* in hundreds of
insanity Inquests and large fees have
been collected. Dr. W. R. Fletcher,
one of the physlolans, says that fully a
fifth of the committed insane are per
fectly sane, and ludiotmeuts are ex
pected.
We do not hear onr friends the melon
growers growling about poor returns for
their watermelons and canta.onpes, and
it Is fair to assume that they are quite
satisfied. If the retnrns were meagre,
the land wonld be ringing with bitter
lmpreoalions aimed at the nnfortnnr.te
commission merchants of the northern
and eastern markets, and the nnpro-
teating qniet of the growers may be so-
oepted as proof that they are fully sat
isfied with the state of affairs.
Pierre Lorillard was worth f.15,000,000
when he died. Besides a great fortuue,
he left the record of one of the greatest
American poker players, race track
sports and selfish pleasure Beckers, and
was a man whose wife had been nunblo
Uve with him for a number of years,
proud record, truly.
After soeiug the picture of the late
Pierre Lorillard, tlie.millionairo and in
ternational sport, as printed by a uum
her of the leading newspapers of the
oonntry yesterday, it wiU bo hard for
one to grieve for him. It he looked like
his piotures we can now readily under
stand why his wife quit him.
A citizen, through the Raleigh News
and Observer, advises people to plant
the castor oil bean aa a prevention
against mosquitoes. He says a few ol
the leaves in the house will make the
mosquito leave.
ISH CLAIM.
The Turkish government has paid to
the state depaitment, through the
American legation at Oonatantinople,
(95,000, that being the amount of car
indemnity claim against the Ottoman
Empire. Thns closes a case which,
though involving a small amount, haa
been conspicuous in American Interna
tional affairs for several years past, and
was even the inspiration at one time for
some snlphnroas war talk in the col
nmns of the jingo press.
The state department Is really en
titled to wear a fresh feather in its cap
(or the remainder of the year, for iu col
lecting a bill from Abdnl Hamid it has
accomplished what haa been regarded
by the nations as Impossible, and en
tirely upset an idea heretofore accepted
without reservation by the world's
diplomats. For Abdnl to pay a debt
without being absolntely forced to do so
waa something no one expected to sec.
When ihe state department set to work
to force the Snltan to settle the Ameri
can claim, and even sent a warship into
Smyrna harbor to point her frow-.
ing gone at tt e town, European
statesmen, smiled, and said they
wonld watch with a good deal of
Interest for the result of our brusque,
western haste in dealing with the slow
est paying monarch of modern times.
Now they have seen ; and perhaps they
wonld like to know jast how the state
department worked on Abdnl. For the
pigeon holes of Abdul’s drak are fnll of
dusty olalms bearing the official seal of
nearly every government in the Old
World.
Women who have married daughters
owe ajdebt of gratitude to Charles M.
Schwab, president of the Billion Dollar
Steel Trust. He has resoaed mothers-
in-law from opprobrium and set them
upon a pinnacle. Where the mother-in-
law was p,-o'lonely despised and re
jected, tt is to be expeoted that she will
now be ooddled and oatered to. Mr.
Sohwab has erected a splendid’ chnrch
in PittBbnrg in honor of his wife's
mother, and this, too, while she ia in the
flesh. There is said to be no precedent
for any anoh thing in this oonntry or
any other; bnt since Sohwab is an origi
nal and successful young man, it is to
be assumed that bis action will be re
garded as a precedent for others. Thus
through the steel king's Influence the
mother-in-law may become a fad and
attain to that eminence in the home
oirole whiob she haa heretofore been de
nied by short-sighted sons-in-law.—Sa
vannah New A
The Kansas City (Mo) Star says:
"Discussing the fact that American
goods are sometimes sold abroad for less
than they are sold at home, Mr. Gras-
venor declared that this was sometimes
done at a loss and for the inrpose of
subjugating foreign markets.' Now if
monopolies or qnasi-monopolies can af
ford to go into foreign lands, pay the
freight on their goods and still under
sell local competitors what is to become
of the American mannfactnrer who
trlee to check their abases through the
medium of competition—the medium
that Mr. Orosvenor declares is the ‘rnoet
sure and certain ?' "
Mr. Lawson has in his Independence
a real niee yacht for pleasure parties
bnt she isn't In the class of the Oolnm
bia and Constitution. Mr. Lawson
raised a great hullabaloo a few weeks
ago beoause the New York Yaoht Olab
was not willing to have his boat given
a ohance in the trial races for the selec
tion of this year's enp defender, and
even intimated that the discrimination
against him Was dne to the fact that his
yaoht waa known by experts to be the
fnstest sailing vessel afloat. Since the
trial races, in which the Independence
"also ran," Mr. Lawson's silence haB
been positively painfanl.
The man who will invent a system
for operating railwny trains so'as to
render collisions impossible will deserve
and receive the gratitude of civilized
nations. The recent appalliug rail
way disasters in various sections
of the country lay fresh empha
sis on the safety of travel on the
high seas as compared with that by rail,
and helps the people to a frame of mind
in which they are disposed to rise in
their might and demand that stricter
precautions be taken by the railway
companies to better insure the public
safety.
Kvngor-having fled from his oonntry
with his personal wealth and belong
ings, advise* the Boers to continue the
fight "to the last ditch."
A NEW DISEASE.
Oharbon or anthrax, which is ravag
ing the plantations of the Mississippi
delta and killing the cattle, horses and
males at a fearful rate, is a new disease
to ns, as it probably is to most of onr
readers. Reports from the in'ected dis
triet say the disease is spreading, and
horseflies and mosqnitoes are credited
with being responsible for a large part
in the dissemination of the infection.
The name of the disease, anthrax, is
of Greek origin, anu Webster's deflni
tionof.it is: "A carbnncle; a malig.
nant boil, accompanied with gangreen
of the celnlar tissue.”
One authority describes the disease as
a virulent ailment among horses and
sheep, often producing death within
twelve to forty-eight hours. It seldom
makes its appearance in man. Inmost
aonte cases the animals fall ns if they
had received a severe blow, and go Into
convulsions. The pulse is quick und
the breathing rapid and labored. In
such instances death usually occurs
within a few hoars. In less aente cases
the animal loses appetite and becomes
feverish and thirsty, and snffers intes
tinal troubles. The first nttnek may
pass off, only to be succeeded by a sec
ond attack, which usually proves fatal.
The mortality from anthrax is very
high. No specific has yet been discov.
ered for the disease. Preventative inoc
ulation haB been practiced in some sec
tions with some degree of success.
A declaratory resolution having been
pasBed by the Porto Rican legislature
stating that a revenue Bystem has been
established on the island adeqnite to
snpply all the income required for the
Insular government, It will become the
duty of the { resident of the United
States, In compliance with the Foraker
law, to proclaim without unnecessary
delay the establishment of free trade
between the ports of the States and
those of our West Indian possession
The suggestion has been made by un
compromising protectionists that the
Issue of the proclamation be delayed in
order that congress may have an op
portunity to enaet another law embody
ing a breach of faith with an insular de
pendency. The Foraker ant, however,
ia mandatory, and the administration,
which only recently so emphatically de-
dared Its obligation (in the case of
Onba) to execute the commands of coil
gress, will sorely not stnltlfy itself by
seeking to evade its plain dnty toward
Porto Rico.
The MoLean-Kilbonrne element in
the democratic party in Ohio is In full
control of the state convention, and
will run things to snit itself. This is
known at the conservative element, and
is opposed by the minority, which
Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland
leads. The conservatives are working
hard to keep down friction so as to en.
able the party to present a solid front
in the November election, but the
Johnson crowd is belligerent and re
fuses to yield wlthoat a straggle. Some
lively scenes are expeoted In the conven-
tion today.
We find the following announcement
in the Griffin News: "Hpn Joseph H.
Hall, of Macon, the well-known lawyer
and legislator, has an engagement to
speak in a few days at Pelliam, Mitchell
oonnty, on the political issnes of the
day. It is believed that it will be one
of the most interesting of the addresses
yet delivered by Mr. Hall on this line,
and will be thoroughly en rapport with
the weather "
A hot wave of almost ns orest severity
as that which withered the states fur
ther east two weeks uuo prevails in the
middle west. The temperature yester
day at Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City
and other points ranged from ninety-
five to one hundred and two degrees,
and great suffering ri suited. The hu
midity was not great, however, and al
though there were many prostrations,
no deaths were reported in the dis
patches.
The Lawrenceville cotton mill is in
the hands of a receiver, having been un
able to meet its pressing financial obli
gations. The fault is doubtless that of
the management, for any cotton mill in
the South that is conducted on ap-
proved lines will pay Its operating ex
penses and a dividend to its stockhold
ers.
It doesn't amount to a row of plnB
whether that order was written by Long
or Orowninshied. Dewey was the hero
of Uanila, is yet and will he long after
men have forgotten who was secretary
of the navy in William McKinley’s
I cabinet.
FROM JULY 1st TO JULY 15th..
At Cost for Cash,
The Cook Furniture Co.
Will offer their entire stock of Furniture. Crockery, Stoves. Lamps,
Mattings. Rugs, Wiudow Shades, eto., at actual coBt prices. The object
of this sale is not to humbug the people, bnt to make room for new
goods soon to be coming in. : : : ill::
t0F"Get ready for it trr it is going to be a great opportunity
lor Judicious investment. Remember that everything will be at aotnal
cost. A genuine Cl,BALANCE SALE with all profits lopped off. : i
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ALBANY, - (BEGReiA.
TO RE MOKE TROUBFE IN CHINA.
There is a prospect of farther out
breaks in China that may oall for a re
turn of the troops. Mr. George Lvuch,
a war correspondent of the London
Chronicle who was in Ohtna during the
uprising and the invasion of the empire
by the armies of the "Ohristian Na
tions,” believes the situation in China
is no leBS dangerous now than it was a
year ago. In an artiole in the Chroni
cle be predicts a renewal of hostile de
monstrations against foreigners as soon
as the foreign troops are withdrawn
Mr. Lynch states that circulars have
been sent to all parts of the empire as
serting that the withdrawal of Euro
pean troops is due to the demands of the
Imperial government, which gave "the
foreign devils one month to leave or to
be sweat into the sea." Mr. Lynoh
maintains that, whatever Europe may
think to tile contrary, the Boxers are a
patriotic people who have the welfare
of their country at heart, and are de
termined lo free it of foreign domina
tion. An organization has grown up to
resist the collection of taxes for indem
nity to native converts to Christianity.
The flrst Boston ferryboat began to
ply over the line that is now followed by
the Chelsea ferry two hnndred and
sixty years ago. Since that time, in
fair weather and fool, through ice and
fogs and storms, the boats have regu
larly continued to cross the hnrbor.
None of them has ever met with a se
rious disaster, such as happens not in
frequently in New York harbor.
The Constitution is going to send
Joseph Oh! around the world, and we
are promised some interesting and in
structive letters from many countries.
Especial attention will be paid by Mr.
Ohl to conditions in China, Japan and
Corea, and the prospective tride rela
tions between those countries and the
Sonth.
There is a great deal to be lost and not
much to be gained l y this country m a
tariff war with Russia. Both countries
are rather too big and strong to be hurt
mnoh by Buch a war, but an international
friendship of long standing will be un
necessarily strained.
Helen Gould is credited with saying:
"The dark side of wealth is its near
ness to misery.”
THE COTTON GROWERS’ ASSOCIA
TION AND POLITICS.
The New York San of Monday prints
a dispatch under a Macon date line that
deals with Georgia politics in a way tha t
is both interesting and amnsing. We
reproduce it here beoanse it makes good
reading. Many a Georgia farmer and
some of the politicians of the state who
read it will smile over it. It follows:
"Macon, Ga., July 7.—The meeting of
the ootton growers’ convention in this
oity dnring the ooming week possesses
more-of political than agrionltnral in
terest. The favorite method of trotting
out candidates in Georgia i* by becom
ing attached to some agricnltnral move
ment throngh which the lead, r. abasing
property holders as enemies of the com
monwealth, can ride Into power. The
present effort is to give gubernatorial
standing to J. Pope Brown, who for six
years has been the head of the state
Agricultural society. Hoke Smith, who
aspires to a seat in the United States
senate, Is the foster-father to the cotton
growers’ association, which he em
ployed Harvey Jordan to organize. The
latter is not wlthont ambition of his
own to reach a desirable office
“The regular machine politicians of
the state are committed for governor
to Fleming G. duBignon, who is attor
ney for the Plant system of railways.
Those appealing to the farmers' vote
will make use of this fact to decry Mr.
duBignon as unfit to be governor of a
state, which hns » war of rates to prose
cute against the railroads. Anticipat
ing this, Mr. duBignon has made an ap
peal for white union against the negro.
" ‘We can have no division,’ says he,
'until the race danger has been re
moved.’
"Altogether, there promises to be a
big split in Georgia politics. It will be
felt in the Democratic primaries, whioh
will be condnoted under the leadership
of Mr. duBignon, as chairman of the
state central committee. That the op
position will be dissatisfied with it is a
foregone conelnsion, and then the con
test will force itself Defore the whole
people in the regular state election.
The newspapers of the state are already
fighting with one another as though
they belonged to rival parties. All
these things entering into it, the cotton
growers' convention will talk agricul
ture, but will whisper politics.”
After visiting and inspecting 180 state
banks, in his official capacity, State
Treasurer Park says that the farmers
of Georgia own abont 76 per cent of the
deposits This is especially true, he
says, in the southern part of the state.
There is an epidemic of suicides dnr
ing the hot weather.