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SATURDAY, AUG. «1. 1001.
The cotton crop is beginning to suffer
considerable damage.
President ‘Marcus A Hanna! How
doe* that strike the average southern
voter?
The big oil firo at Breo/.e City, Pa.,
ban at Inst burned itself out for laok of
fuel. It lasted for three day*.
Isn’t It about, time for Mr. Carnegie to
anuounoe the disposal of another iivo or
tou million dollar slice of hi* little pile?
Mr. Guerry says he doesn't, consider
Mr. Turner a candidate. Mr. Tame*
evidently prefers to be regarded in that
light for the presont.
The dying oil of Federal pensioners
and the pUolug of uew names on the
rolls is a sort of endless chain arrange-
went, with the chain getting longer
overy year.
\Vhilo the Soliley court of inquiry is
in Rossion, it will take at least threo
columns a day in the average dally
nowspapor to roporc the proceedings.
The railroads all over the South »re
having a great deal of trouble in conse
quence of tho incessant rains. Trains
have been delayed for many hoars, and
there has been great irregularity in tho
mail service.
Farraors are actively figuring on tho
probable price of cotton when the sea
son shall have fairly' opened. In view
of n short crop in many states, it is not.
likely that we will have any four-onut
cotton experience this yonr.
Another expert swimmer has failed in
an attempt to swim the English channel
from Dover to Calais. He was In the
water for twelve hours, aud was witliiu
loss than six miles of his intended des
tination when his attendants had to
take him from the water in an ex
hausted condition.
Ool. Estill is taking his time about
answering that Turner interview, in
which the Brooks county statesman's
version of the Quitman conference was
given. Ool. Estill probably knows as
well as anybody that public utterances
on political matters should be carefully
weighed before being turned loose.
His first bale of cotton for 1 DO 1 havingl
boon rejected by Savannah factors, Dea
Jackson, o? Albany, promptly produced
a second first hale, which sold in Now
\ ork at auction for ten cents. There
is n whole sermon in progressiveness
and perscvcM-am-.* to be learned from
this same Dual hvkson, of Albany.—
Tifton Gazette.
The Chicago Chronicle says- “The
abuses of the pension system arc note-
HACKETT AND SCHLEY.
THE HACKETT LETTER.
Aoting Secretary of the Navy Hackett
probably feels like the little boy that the
calf stepped on. The last letter of Ad
miral Schley to the department, while
couched in most courteous language,
makes it plain that the Aoting Secretary
went off half-cocked when he under
took to interpret that letteT from the
Admiral in wlich the latter sought
to prepare the way for Ad
miral Howison to either affirm or deny
that now famous interview published
in the Boston Herald. With better
judgment than he has heretofore dis
played, the Acting Secretary does not
undertake to reply to the Schley letter,
hut merely acknowledges its receipt, re
forriug it to the Judge Advocate, Oapt.
Leraly. Oapt Lcmly is saying nothing
for publication, while Rear Admiral
Howison continues to he as mum as an
oyster.
As an incident ir. the preparation for
the court, of inquiry, Francis A. Frost,
a reporter of tho Boston Herald, is out
in a sworn statement in which he de
clares that Rcur Admiral Howison gave
to him tho interview in which that offi
cer doolarod the credit for the naval vie-
tory of Santiago was due to Sampson
and not to Schley. The matter uow
seems to he “up to” Rear Admiral
Howison, oven though he may not con
sider the Boston Herald interview
as an “official statement " It Is a little
mysterious, according to our view
of the case, that Admiral Howison
should be willing to serve as u member
of the court under uny conditions, how
that his fitness to act as an impartial
judge has been questioned by the officer
who is chiefly interested in tho outcome.
If Admiral Howison is an impartial of
floor and, as Admiral Sohley himself
states, a man of high character, there
is all the more roason, it seoniH, why he
should wish to be relieved from a duty
that must necessarily prove embarrass-
• lug. Is ho holding on under pressure
* from the powers that he in tho uavy ?
The state tax rate is to be raised this
year, we are assured by report from the
stato house. Last year it was 5.20 mills,
but for 11)01 it will be 5.40. Governor
Gaudier and Comptroller General
Wright will probably hold a conference
next weok for the purpose of officially
determining and announcing the rate.
This will bo the highest tax rate Geor
gia property owners have had assessed
on (heir belongings since 181)8, and is
charged to tho extravagance of the last
legislature, which made a number of
largo appropriations without provid
ing the means to furnish the money
they called for. The .raising of the
tax rate this yeur is made in the
face of an increase in the valua
tion of property in the state of fully
$20,000,000, and we are told that the
rate this year would probably have been
the lowest we have enjoyed in more
than a dooado, but for the necessity of
filling up the hole in the treasury
created by the last legislature.
The Savannah News says: “Sena
tor Tillman aud Senator Quay agree in
thoir opinions of newspapers. Tillman
thinks that all of them are owned or
subsidized by corporations, aud Quay is
certain that all of them can be bought
if they are not already owned by great
interests which want to rob the people.
Tillman expressed his opiuion in a lec
ture and Quay pnt his in the platform
of tho Repnb ican party of Pennsylva
nia. The trouble with Tillman and
Quay is that, they are out of sorts with
newspapers because they cannot control
them. Nothing would suit them bet
ter than to compel the newspapers to
follow their lend aud praise all they
said and did. The newspapers are too
honest to suit them.”
“While the rest of the country is
complaining of mosquitoes,” says the
New York Tribune, “Council Bluffs,
Iowa, has its quarrel with unis. Groat
armies of these insects began burrowing
into the sand beneath the bricks, and
removed so much of it to other and un
known quarters that the city engineer
was called in to repair the damages.
One street was made unfit for travel for
several blocks.”
Some of the gubernatorial candidates
The letter addressed by Acting Secre
tary of the Navy Hackeit to Rear Ad
miral Winfield S. Schley, in which the
latter is given to understand that the
department is not prepared to entertain
the idea that Rear Admiral Howison is
other than a fit person for service on the
Schley oourt of inquiry, Bhows clearly
the animus of the naval clique that has
espoused the cause of Rear Admiral
Sampson.
The tone of the Hackett letter
throughout is stiff and at times even
conteraptnous. While the language
used has evidently been carefully
chosen, it fails to hide fresh evidence of
the Navy Department's determination
to do as little in the interest of Rear
Admiral Schley as may be permitted.
Acting Secretary Hackett conld have
conveyed the desired information to
Admiral Schley and employed an
entirely different tone in so doing.
What he wrote is not open to
criticism so much as the manner in
which he wrote it. The letter will cer
tainly not make any friends for the
anti-Schley gang, but will rather have a
tendency to strengthen the determina
tion of the public to sec that Admiral
Schley receives fair treatment in spite
of the Loug-Sampson-Growuinshield-
Evans clique.
A WIREGRASS INDUSTRY,
From th«< Mnuon Telegraph.
The following clipping from a metro
politan exchange contains suggestions
worth tho attention of enterprising
citizens in the section often described as
••wiregrass Georgia” :
The despised wire grass of the Wis
consin marshes, which has annoyed
farmers and cattle raisers for years,
which cattle would not eat, drought
would not destroy, and cultivation could
not eradicate, is now being harvested
and made into door mats aud binding
twine. About 1,500 men find employ
ment in the factories nsing the grass,
and there is promise of a rapid growth
in the industry. The twine has been in
use for some years, gives satisfaction,
and in its cheapness is an ally of the
grain farmer against the Binding Twine
Trust. It has uow been shown that
good mats can he made from the grass,
and factories to produce snoh goods arc
being erected. They will also try to
make rags, matting, carpet lining, bag
ging, and other like goodB from the ma
terial.
Whether tho “despised wiregrass” of
tho Wisconsin marshes is exaotly the
Batnu wiregrass that is superabundant in
the long-leaf pine belt of Georgia the
Telegraph is not ready to say without
investigation, but a striking similarity
h probable aud the Georgia product
could no doubt be put to the same uses
1 lately found for the Wisconsin, with
tho possible result of a very profitable
industry.
The London Chronicle explains the
significance of the bloody hand on the
Royal Ulster Yacht Club flag, which
the Shamrock flies. “The tradition,”
says the Chronicle, “is a weird one.
Two Irish chieftains 'sailod with sails’
on the soa in a contest for the crown.
Whoever first touched the shore should
he king. O'Neill, Reeing his competitor
just ahead, took the rule literally, aud,
cutting off his hand, flnng it on land.
Thus he conquered and thus he ruled.
Sir Thomas Lipton takes the legend to
heart in the true spirit of it. which he
reads as a lesson that the competition
should be a keen one, demanding every
sacrifice aud straining every nerve.”
Farmers still look longingly but in
vain for signs of fair weather. The
wind is still from the east, aud abun-
mint moisture from the Atlantic is
brought over the mainland to be
precipitated iii hard rains through
out a wide expanse of country. The
weather bureau is able to promise no
relief in the near future, all signs indi
cating a continuation of the downpours.
Cotton is suffering more damage than
can he calculated in dollars and cents,
aud the crop will he rut off many thous
ands of bales unless fait* went! er comes
soon.
There will b** nrosporon-* times in the
South this fall if <*otton commands pood
or even fair prices. The farmers have
labored hard since early spring in tho
face of conditions which, almost with-
rious. They are so closely allied with
many other abuses, political and per
sonal, that probably there can be no
hope of an immediate reform. These
abuses proceed chiefly from the dema
gogy of Congress, the looseness with
which laws are drawn aud enforced
and the reckless appeals of influential
individuals.”
have stated that the number in the race
is really gratifying, etc. ; that “the more
dancers the merrier the dance,” etc.
The gentlemen should have a care.
There are favorite sons in plenty with
bees in their bonnets, and it will not re
quire a great deal of urging to bring
them out. Men with political aspira
tions are usually set ou hair triggers.
out interruption, have been unfavorable,
and it is greatly t" their credit that crops
are in their present gratifying condi
tion. As a rule, the industrious farmers
of this section are in good financial con
dition, aud under ordinary conditions
will be able to wind up the crop year
with substantial balances op the right
side of their ledgers.
OUR EVERLASTING PENSIONS.
Uncle Sam’s pensioners are still in
their prime. Although thirty-six years
have elapsed since the close of the civil
war, there are more recipients of fed* ral
aid an the pension rolls today than at
any time in the history of the republic.
Death removed during 11)00, 88,188
pensioners, and the names of 5,408 oth
ers were stricken from the rolls for
other reasons. But the alert pension at
torneys mustered a new army of 47,792
aged, maimed or disabled soldiers or fe
male pensioners, besides seeming for
many of those already enrolled increased
allowances. From these figures it is
Been that the ravages of disease were
more than made good. There are more
pensioners on the rolls today than there
were soldiers in tho Union army from
the beginning to the close of the war.
There have been no radical changes
in the pension law’s of the country with
in the last few years, aud it is altogether
reasonable to expect that a very large
percentage of those soldiers who served
in the-regular and volnteer branches of
the army during the war with Spain,
and subsequently against the insurgents
in the Philippine Islands, will ulti
mately become pensioners of their
over-generous Uncle Sam. Pension
atterneys aro just as sharp now
as they have been daring the last 2o
years, and it is not to be doubted that
they will continue to make the most of
their opportunities. The pension bur
den ten or twenty years from now will
probably be more outrageous than it is
today, unless the people rise in their
might and stop theso legalized methods
of plundering fch<- national treasury.
Some of the gentlemen who are in
the race for tho gubernatorial nomina
tion persist in sparring at long range
over matters that have grown, under
persistent manipulation, from mole hills
into monu’ains. Some bitter passages
have occurred and are still being made
between tho rival gentlemen, and
breaches too wide to be hereafter
spanned aro appearing. All this is
unfortunate aud entirely unneces
sary. The Herald has repeatedly
nrged that these personalties be
avoided, for they ure of very much
less interest to the people than the can
didates seem willing to believe. A po
litical campaign at best is a sort of neces
sary evil. When it is conducted on
a high plane the pnblic submits to the
inevitable with asgoodgrane as possible;
bat campaigns with the mud-slinging
accompaniment are a.i abomination.
Americans cannot rid themselves en
tirely of the fear that the America’s
cup is in real danger this year, and
that one of the great ambitions of
Sir Thomas Lipton's life may be
realized when Shamrock II and Con
stitution meet, for the September
races. Heretofore there has been
perfect confidence iu the hearts of
Americans that no British boat could
ontsail the best product of American
shipyards, but this confidence is not
now entirely uumixed with uneasiness.
Certain it is that Shamrock II has a bet
ter chance of lifting the cup than any
challenger that ever crossed tho pond.
Oapt. .James McQueen Forsyth, U. S.
N., has allowed himself to be inter
viewed, and expresses the opinion that
the Sampson-Schley trouble is the direct
result of the promotion of Sampson over
the heads of a number of a hiB superior
officers, Schley among the number, at
tho breaking out of the war with Spain.
Oapt. McQueen, in disobeying the Navy
Department’s order not to discuss the
Sampson-Schley controversy, is proba
bly laying up trouble for himself, with
out benefiting anybody else.
The first few bales of the new crop
cotton are now being received iu the
markets of South Georgia, aud soon
they will be rolling in by thousands.
The cotton men of the section are iu
readiness for the expected rush, and
warehousemen, commission merchants
and compress operators will soon have
all they can do. With the opening up
of the cotton season conies activity in all
lines of business, and the fail harvest of
dollars wUl soon begin.
Every time an Italian gets killed in
the United States there is talk of the
incident developing into an interna
tional one. Bnt nothing of the sort
ever happens. Unfortunately, most
of the Italians who come to this
country are a clas3 whose pursuits
after taking up their abode in the
States are such as to lead them iuto the
• more dangerous walks of life.
OUR DEATH RATE DECREASING.
The mortality statistics of the United
States for the year 1900, whioh have
just been made public by the census
bureau, make the gratifying showing
that the death rate in the country is
steadily decreasing. The falling off is
substantial, too, being nearly ten per
cent. The recapitulation gives the fol
lowing figures:
“The most important feature of the
results presented is found in the de
crease in the general death rate iu the
registration area of 1.8 per 1,000 of popu
lation, a decrease of nearly 10 per cent.,
and the decrease in the rates from
the particular diseases to which the
general decrease is due. Iu 1890
the death rate in 271 registration
cities of live thousand or more
population was 21 per 1,000; in
1900 the rate was 18.0 per 1,000
in 841 cities of 8,000 population
and upward, a reduction 2.4 per 1,000.
The average age at death in 1890 was
81.1 years; in 1900 it was 85.2 years.
The total number of deaths reported in
1000 was 1,039,094; in 1890 it was
841,419.”
The total deaths iu the southern
states for 1900 are as follows: Alabalna
25,099; Florida 0,482 ; Georgia 20,941;
Kentucky 27,091; Louisiana 20,955;
Maryland 20,422 ; Mississippi 20,252 ;
Missonri 88,048 ; North Carolina 21,008 ;
South Carolina 17,10(1; Tennessee 80,-
572; Texas 84,100; Virginia 25,252.
Portland, Oregon, with a death rate of
9 5 per thousand, shows the lowest mor
tality and Shreveport, La., with 45.6,
the highest.”
Reflections of a Bachelor.
From tho Now York Pros*.
It is the fool man who dresses for
women or thinks they dress for him.
Marriage tios are the life lines of con
tent ; of discontent, the shackles.
Children are the steps ou whioh grown
up folk climb out of the abyss of self.
A man is content to avoid betraying
his pain; it takes a woman to conceal
hers behind a joyous smile.
Show me the best woman on earth
aud I will show yoa the same one who,
whatever she thinks of a man, respects
his money-getting.
People fall into love with their eyeH
shut; they fail out with.them wide open.
Sin always dresses in its best olothes
for you till you get well acquainted
with it.
No woman can really love a man
without wanting at some time to put
his head ou her breast aud “mother”
him.
Originality is the spark that ignites
men aud women’s interest in one an
other; variety fans the flame; monotony
smothers it.
When a girl stops showing a man’s
letters to her best friend it is not be
cause of what is written iu them, but of
what is written in her heart.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
From the New York Pro**.
The only kind of chaperones girls oan
trust aro the kind their mothers can't
trust them with.
No woman was ever married too long
not to try to get. some other woman in
the same trouble.
Unless a man can tripit off his tongue
like musio that, she will always be the
most beautiful woman iu the world to
him, he’d better keep out of tho engage
ment business.
When a girl wants to put a man to
the test she leaves some of her queer
kind of clothes around where lie can’t
help seeing it and then watches to see
if he acts like he had ever seen any
thing of that kind before.
Some girls who are so innocent they
seem like butter wouldn’t melt iu their
mouths have an awful funny little
twitching around their lips when they
look at a mustache.
The only way a married man can
preserve his childish faith that there is
such a thiug in the world as truth is by
shutting his ears when his wife is tell
ing other women some of her experi
ences that he happens to know about.
Daring the last few weeks there have
been disastrous floods in nearly every
section of the country, and iu conse
quence great damage to property,
with some loss of life. Floods at this
season of the year are most unusual,
and give a better idea than could any
thing else of the tremendous rains that
have fallen during the month of August.
Hon. Dupont Guerry evidently does
i not intend to act on the suggestion thai
j the gubernatorial campaign be post
poned for several months. He is the
only candidate iu the field who is al
ready stumping the state, and in his
speech at Jackson yesterday he declared
that he hoped the campaign would last
a year.
“I am indebted to One Minute Cough
Cure for my present good health and
my life. I was treated in vain by doc
tors for lung trouble following la grippe,
I took One Minute Cough Cure and re
covered my health.” Mr. E. H. Wise,
Madison, Ga. Albany Drug Co., Sale-
* Davis Drug Co.
THE STRIKE SITUATION.
The offioial representatives both of the
steel trust and the Amalgamated Asso
ciation emphatically deny that over
tures for a settlement of the big strike
have been made or.are likly to be at an
early date, but in spite of these protesta
tions there is a strong undercurrent of
belief that powerful influences are be
ing brought to bear for the purpose of
bringing to au end a conflict that is
proving disastrous not only to the par
ties immediately concerned, but to the
industrial prosperity of the entire coun
try.
The trust lias given out a statement
claiming that many of its mills will re
sume operations within the next few
days with non-union labor iu charge,
and that at an earlier date than tho pub
lic would be willing to believe, every
plant iu the great system will bo in full
operation, Of course, the strikers will
not remain quiescent and see the mills
start up with full lorces of non-union
workers, aud the trust may expect seri
ous trouble if it attempts to carry out
its announced purpose. Past experi
ence has demonstrated that when the
tide of battle turns against him, the
striking American workingman cannot
yield with good grace, but must resort
to incendiary methods in tho hope of
turning the current of a losing fight.
And there would be genuine, bloody
war if the steel strikers should bring
violence to bear.
Fleecing Home Consumers.
Reports from England assert that the
American steel manufacturers are offer
ing wire rods delivered in Manchester
tor $29 20 a ton, says the Brooklyn Her
ald. For the same thing the price to
costoiners in this country is $89 a tou.
That is to Pay, the American protective
tariff, preventing free competition, en
ables the American manufacturer to
charge $89 to Americans for what he
sells to Englishmen for $29.30, after
freighting the goods across the Atlantic.
Either the American producer makes a
profit by selling his wire rods to the
Englishmen at $29.80 a ton or he does
not. If he does not make a profit on
foreign business, the unfortunate Amer
ican customer for wire rods, and all
things made from them, is foroed to pay
a price so ptcessive that the missionary
manufacturer can let Englishmen have
them at less than cost, whioh is nioe for
the foreigner. If he does make a profit
on his foreign sales, the case is still
worse, for the manufacturer is protected
in extorting an unnecessary aud oppres
sive profit from his fellow-oitizens. In
either case the Amerioan customer is
fleeced. The manufacturer is able to
fleece him because the Republican party
has given him a tariff law designed and
desired for that very purpose.
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