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SATURDAY, AUG. 111. 1(101.
Texas still('Hincii aro
trusts
•hot after” the
Popo Brown is a "South Georgia man”
all right. If not, why not?
Lord Kitchener reports the rapture of
auother British force by the Boers.
Comment is superfluous.
Fortum Oovornor William J. Stone,
of Missouri, lms doolnrod his candidacy
to succeed Senator Vest in congress.
Florida has paid her debt to Henry M.
Flagler. Now let her repeal the dam
nable law under which he was granted
a divorce from his insane wife.
If there is anything in the geography
of the gubernatorial campaign, Uol.
Esfill in ns much a “South Georgia
man” ns Flem duBignon would have
been.
Says the Macon Nows: “Stoyu and
Dowet have assured Kitchener that they
will continue to fight and that t hey have
had no thonght of quitting. This is ex
ceedingly mortifying to the British war
oflloo.” .
Is it fate that gives the Boers a
triumph of arms immediately following
every olllnial report of General Kitohe-
uei .hat the “rebels” aro fast, losing
heart and becoming disorganized, or
words to that otTeot?
FARMERS AND THE PRICE OF COT
TON.
There was an important meeting of
prominent ootton growers in Atlanta
yesterday, officials of the Georgia Oot
ton Growers' Protective Association and
of the Southern Interstate Association
being present. The condition of the
ootron crop and the outlook for future
prices were matters up for discussion,
and were carefully gone over.
It was the consensus of opinion, as ex
pressed at the meeting, that the disas
trous effects of the long continued
dronght in Tsxas and the incessant
rains which have fallen over the cotton
belt within the last two weeks east
of the Mississippi, have greatly re
duced the anticipated yield, and that
the crop will fall short of last
year’s yield unless a decided change
for the better takes place at once.
It was also agreod, owing to the in-
creased demand for raw cotton in all
parts of the world, that the prosent price
of ootton goods and the further fact that
consumption is exceeding supply, that
the producers of the South should de
mand a minimum price of 10 cents per
pound for all middling grades placed on
the inarkot.
It is uot probable that auy action
Southern fanners have taken or may
take will influence the price of ootton
this year. In order to accomplish such
a result a more perfect organization and
n hotter understanding than now oxist
among cotton growers must he brought
about A “cotton growers’ trust” is
hardly a probability, hut tho growers
must certuinly take steps to overouiiiH
obstacles that are insuperable und. r
tho presout rogiino, before they can
hope to wield any potent influence ir
regulating tho prico of tho South's great
staple.
However, the organization of growers'
protective associations in the various
cotton stutes und conferences between
leading spirits such us was held in At
lanta yesterday are steps in the right di
rection. In the course of a few yours
the growers may, by carrying out
the plans of the Southern Interstate
Association and the subordinate organi
zations throughout the South, hope to
accomplish some of the results to which
they look forwurd ho confidently, hut
they are uot yet in position to bogiu
dictating prices to the world’s con
sumers.
TEN CENTS COTTON.
We noted yesterday the action of
prominent cotton growers, including
officials of the Georgia Ootton Growers'
Protective Association and of the South
ern Interstate Association, at a meeting
held in Atlanta on Tuesday. The con
dition of the growing crop and the out
look for future prices naturally came op
as matters of paramonnt importance
at such a meeting, and after reviewing
the situation resolutions were adopted
declaring that the Southern planters
will demand ten cents for their ootton
this year. •
We hope they will get it, and they
may got it, bat it will not be as the re
sult of any resolutions that this or any
other organization of cotton growers
may adopt. Whore such perfect organ
izatlon can he had and such thorough
discipline enforced as have character
ized some of the great manufacturing
combines known as trnsts, tho regula
tion of prices can he accomplished by
mere arbitrary resolution io that affect,
hut nothing of this kind is possible with
the cotton growers. The conditions are
different, and what may be of easy ac
complishment under tho one set of con
ditions may be entirely impracticable
under the othor.
Last year, it will he remembered, tho
price of ootton went to ten cents, and it
even ranged higher for quite a while,
but before the close of the season it sold
for less than what the natural market
lmd been while the Farmers’ Protective
A isolation was passing resolutions and
advising all fanners to hold on to what
stock they had. And so it was that
those who loyally stood by the Farm
«*rs’ Protective Association and held
i heir cotton through the natural season
were losers by the operation.
The experience of Inst year's cotton
season was upon the whole a very satis
factory one to those farmers who sold
their crop as fast as it was gathered,
but the effort to hull prices by lv lding
back the orop was a failure.
Taking into consideration the visible
supply and the prospect for the new crop,
the outlook for ten cents cotton during
the approaching fall and wintor seems
favorable, but if it comes it will come
as it did last year—ns the rosulfc of
natural conditions and not of arbitray
resolutions passed by the growers of
the staple.
Whether Admiral Schley "merges
from tho court of inquiry with Hying
colors depends upou whether the Samp
son partisans are sufficiently powerful
to carry their point ui spite of foots and
the evidence adduced.
Albany is not the only city m Geor
gia that has been having serious trouble
with her electrio lighting system. The
Ameriqus plant has been shut down for
two weeks, and seems to meet with a
fresh mishap every time an utt »mpt to
start up is made.
Isadora Minder, n one time Albanian
and now under seutei.c of death for
murder in Bibb couufy. will he hanged
iu Macon on Friday, the 0th proximo,
uuloss his attorneys oan proonro a stay
of execution from tho United States su
preme court on the ground that im
portant witnesses outside this state
could not be brought to testify at Min
dor's trial. As a last resort, the pardon
bonrd will bo appealed to. Tho su
preme court of Georgia, in passing
upon Mlndor’s case, handed down
an unusual verdict. The opinion sus
tained tho finding of the lower tribunal,
hut stated that under the circumstances
it would have been emiuently fit and
proper for the jury to rocommond the
prisoner to mercy. With this opinion
of tlu* Georgia supreme court to present
to the pardon hoard, Minder's attorneys
hope to be able to save -their client's
neck even though the United States
supreme court refuses to grant the stay
prayed for.
Dapout Gueiry isn’t a geographical
candidate, hut ho claims, incidentally,
to ho as much a “South Georgia man”
as any of them. Sure! For, didn’t he
stub his toes us a barefoot hoy aguiust
tho pine roots of Quitman county.
It is a sad thing that at his ripe old !
ago Popo Leo XIII should have his life j
sought by nssassius. There are more |
than fourscore "years on his hcAul, and
one would naturally regard him as safe
from tho anarchist's pistol or dugg<^.
Attempts have repeatedly been made
to get Attorney General Terrell either
to make a speech, write a statement or
submit to au interview for the purpose
of declaring himself ou the gubernato
rial situation, hut all such efforts have
proved wholly ineffectual. There is an
idea abroad in the state that if any one
of tlu* candidates already in the field or
likely to he is more determined than the
others to lemain in the race till the last
county lias given h
dictate is Attoi m-v -
the Moriwethi-r s
does not !V
catches the worm—
tintorial politic.-.
Terry MoGov»rj
Henry M. Flagler gave his bride *4,
000,000 ns a wedding gift, but- aho sold
herself dirt cheap, ot that- Under sim
ilar (ireurn-dances, nuiuy an American
girl would uot have taken Miss Kouan's | “I m no John Du*
place lor all the gold in the world s
strongboxes.
!ly five-cornered and offi-
j uorut&'cd is now the status
verdiet. that can-
•ra'i Terrell. But
* •»- in evidently
f Me early bird
east uot in guber-
m< gv.; n:auU)hal race. Hon. Dnpout
. :y < * !’> b, Hon. J. H. Instil!, of
C m.i.-'on.J. Pope Browu, of
Pulaski. ...w umcIo formal aunotiuco-
nu-m ot lin.ir candidacy, while At-
toruev Geau-ai.]. M. Terrell and Hon.
Heavy G. Tuiui-r arc- still industriously
sowing wood.
» light,
says, “and
I'm going to quit the stage I ain't no
actor, but just a lighter, and that's good
enough for me." If Oorhett and .Jef
fries and Sharkey could be brought to
an appreciation of Terry's philosophy it j
would be much to the advantage of the
stage. When a pugilist attempts to
"act” outside of the pri/.o ring he is out
of his element. Some of them are quite
successful imitators of men trying to
light, while iu the ring.—Savannah
News.
Col. A. G. Westbrook, of Baldwin
county, wants to be railroad coiumis
slouer, in the oveut Hon. J. Pope
Brown’s resignation is forthcoming at
the promised time. Tho following ap
pears in an Atluuta special to the Maoon
Telegraph : “Hon. A. O. Westbrook of
Baldwin county was among the cullers
upon the governor this morning. He
called for tho purpose of filing with
tho governor au informal applica
tion for the office of railroad com
missioner in the event of Oolouel
Brown resigning the office. Oolouel
Westbrook is confident that Col. Brown
will be a candidate for governor and
Buys that if he is he will support him.
He thinks that Ool. Brown's chances
are equally us good as those of any other
candidate. He suys that Ool. Brown
has a strong following among the farm
ers of tho state. ” Ool. Westbrook has
au extensive acquaintanceship iu this
section of the state, and many friends
will be interested in the announcement
that he is iu race for ruilroad commis
sioner.
Sustained and soothed by an unfal
tering trust.” This is what the poet
Bryant said about something, and peo
ple are trying to apply it to that nu-
poetic peiecu, Mr. J. Pierpout Morgan.
Well, let those who haven’t the mil
lions content themselves. There are
probably hut few soothing moments foi
Mr. Morgau these times. Owing to the
steel strike he may not be able to show a
business-like increase of his enormous
fortune n year lienee That would he
heartbreaking to a man whose business
J in to pile up wealth Ir a maxim that
! money is of no account- to a person till
I lie buys something with it What ft lot
| of hiuk Morgan would accumulate if he
I should attempt to realize.—Cincinnati
j Enquirer
As a supreme test aw to which of the
gubernatorial cuudiiiatet, is entitled to
the support of all South Georgia on
strictly seeiiun.d or provincial grounds,
lot them line up and show whether nr
uot ur boys they cvu-r strung huckleber
ries like bead* on \\ j regrass for their
sweethearts. One who can show up all
right ou this test will be accepted by
even the most skeptical as one “native
and to the manner born."
OUR STATE TAXES.
The state of Georgia has been riding
on a groundaweli of prosperity for sev
eral years. Her cities have made large
gains in population, industrial progress
has been rapid in every section, trade
has grown in a manner that cannot fail
to be gratifying to all her oitizens, agri
culture has added million* to h.*r vwt'th,
and the development of all her latent
resources has gained wonderful impetus.
If Georgia property owner* have in-
dulged u hop-; that a reduction of taxes
from year to year would come nSont it
oan nor he truly said that their ";:pe , ta-
tions wore unwarranted. Certainly
were they justified in feeling safe from
an increase of the tax rare. When it
was announced a few days ago that re
turns throughout the state showed an
increase in the value of taxable property
of more than twenty million dollars,
Georgians who are proud of their state
were gratified, and pointed to the pub
lished figures as a fresh evidence of the*
material prosperity of the common
wealth.
Now comes the announcement that
the tax rate has been fixed at o 44 mills
ou the dollar, the maximum allowed bj
the last appropriation act of tho general
assembly, and that even with this rate
there will be a shortage in the state
treasury of $35(1,000.
The state is disappointed. (The sorest
disappointments nro those that touch
the pocket nerve.) The legislature* at its
next session will be expected to
tako the state’s financial dilemma
by tho horns, be less reckless
in the matter of appropriations aud
look more carefully ahead over the
course to ho followed by the ship of
state. The tax rate should not have
been increased this year, or rather, the
necessity for its increase should not
have been presented. And the fault
lies at the door of the legislature.
On Labor Day au Irish athlete Is
going to try to cover twenty-five feet in
a running broad jump iu Long Island
Oity. He has already the world’s rec
ord of 24 feet 11 \ iuohes, and will try
to eliminate the odd fraction of au inch.
Ten years ago the record was 543 feet
3% inches, showing that while the j
horses and the ships have beou cutting ,
down their time on track and ocean,
man has been adding to Ins laurels as a
jumper. Still the man is u long way
behind the achievements of some other
familiar jumpers whose feats lie can
never hope to duplicate. While the
man clears a little over four times his
length in a running broad jump, the
grasshopper from a standing start- jumps
probably fifty times its length aud the
flea several hundred times its length.
Had tho Irish athlete the power of logs
of the flea, he could easily jump half a
mile.- Savannah News.
THE SOUTH AFRICAN REBELS.
Under date of August 13,- Lord Kitch-
enor tells the War Office that in Oape
Oolony “the rebels and armed bands are
hiding and avoiding our columns with
some success. ” Rather a circumscribed
admission, to be sure, though there
is probably a good deal more in it
than appears on the surface. The suc
cess with which the Boers have met the
aggressive tactics of the British, during
the early stages of the war when large
forces were fighting pitched buttles as
well as later, when skirmishing and
guerilla warfare became thejorder, de
serves more honorable recognition than
the British are disposed to accord.
In the dispatch from which we have
jnst quoted, as well as in a number of
others he has sent to the War Office,
Lord Kitchener refers to “the rebels’
with great nonchalance.JJFrom the mo
ment thejJTransvaal and Orange Free
State became, a9 the result of offloial
proclamation, component parts of the
British Empire, every raau who contin
ued to resist ^British aggression or sym
pathize with the Boer cause became a
rebel, and as a rebel he is treated. The
metamorphosis is complete, from the
British standpoint. The British-Boer
war has become, onJJthe||reoordB of the
War Office, the “Transvaal-Free State
rebellion.” The “rebels,” through such
leaders as Steyn, DewetBandJJBotha, as
sure Lord Kitchener thut his proclama
tions are a mere waste of paper, ink and
euergy; but the British commander’s
obliged to have something to occupy his
time.
Just as the Hkkald predicted yester
day, Capt. J. McQaoeu Forsyth, U. S.
N., will be called to account by the
Navy Department for having disre
garded the order that no|Joffioer of the
navy should discuss the Sampson-
Schley controversy. While Jin Kansas
Oity, Capt. Forsyth was interviewed by
an euterprisiugj ^newspaper reporter,
and spoke with great freedom of the
Sampsou-Schby affair. He stated
that the whole trouble was the
result of the promotion of Samp
son, over the heads of a number of
his superior officers, to (the command
of tho North Atlantic squadron at the
beginning of the war with”Spain, a pro
ceeding which was generally resented
by naval officers. It is stated that Oapt.
Forsyth’s conduct has excited the deep
displeasure of the Navy Department,
and that the best he can hope to receive
is a sharp reprimand. The Hkkald has
frequently commented on the seeming
inability of naval officers to keep their
mouths closed at times when silence
would be more than golden. Oapt.
Forsyth is one of many, and not the
last of his kind. We don’t know what
it is, but there is evidently something
in the atmosphere that naval officers
breathe which robs them of their judg
ment when on lund.
A negro armed with a scythe blade
successfully fought off a mob of twenty-
five men who attacked him in his home
near Decatur. Ala., Sunday night-. The
negro’s name is Enoch Henderson, and
he is a hard working farmer. He had
had u difficulty with a white neighbor
over some trivial matter, aud in an
altercation had struck the latter with u
urick, inflicting a serious wound. A
mob was organized to lynch the negro,
with the result- above stated. One of the
would-be lvnohers was perhaps fatally
wounded by Henderson, and the others
retreated. All intelligent whites will
find genuine satisfaction in such eases
as this, and indulge a fervent hope that
more negroes like Enoch Henderson
may come to the fore. There is but one
crime for which lynching in condoned
In the South, and the mobs that organ
ize for action in such cases are not
turned back by scythe blades, either, j
It was suggested that wireless telegra
pliy may be of great use in polar explo
ration and indirectly the means of solv
ing the great arctic and antarctic prob
lems. In the past, aud up to the pres
ent time, one of the obstacles, aud per
haps the most serious one, to progress
in these regions has been the impossi
bility of maintaining communication
with a base of supplies. But it is now
thought that the wireless systems will
soon he in such a condition of complete
ness as to make it possible to equip ex
ploring parties with them. Should this
prove to be the case, we may confidently
look for more important results from
circumpolar expeditions in the near fu
ture.
England is said to be gloomy over the
status of affairs in South Africa The
Boers will not quit lighting, aud are
not at all anxious to make terms with
the invaders. They have repeatedly
assured Lord Kitchener that they are in
the light to stay, and that such a thing
as surrendering is never considered at
the Boer councils. The war has already
cost England-between five and six hun
dred millions of dollars, aud it i9 the
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun ventures
the opinion that the test of strength be
tween gubernatorial candidates will be
between Terrell, Guerry, and either
Estill or Turner. That is an insinua
tion that at least two of the five gentle- <
men now supposed to be on the carpet | prospect of no early diminution of ex-
will prove quitters before tue race j pendituros ou this account that is
reaches the home stretch, aud is proba- responsible more than anything else for
the gloom that Britishers feel,
bly resented in some quarters as an j
unwarranted presumption on the part j Congressman Littlefield of Maine,
of Editor Groover. j Republican, Is a thorn in the side of the
Republican party. He is continually
kicking over the party traces. At the
, meeting of the American Bar Associa-
some power with a hi* army and navy. , Hou in Deuver lhe oiher (lay> he 6aid in
Tbu terrible Tur* is terrible :n n -o | his address that tho recent decision of
when pitted against an adversary like j the Supreme Court in the Porto Rirau
Greece, but. he dares uot come to blows j cases was such a contradiction of views
with one of the stronger powers. Vet. j and opinions that au ordinarily intelli-
tho Turk has proved that he i-- one of I gent person could not make head or tail
the best soldiers the world ever saw. I of it. Evidently Mr. Hanna will have
No nation knows this better . than Hus-j to take Mr. Littlefield in hand aud dis-
1 cipline him. - Savannah News.
Turkey isn't strong enough to play a
itubborn part when she is opposed by
HON. .1. POPE BROWN IN THE RACE.
Hon. J. Pope Brown, of Pulaski, has
announced his oandidaoy for governor.
In this jnorning’s Macon Telegraph he
places himself squarely in the race, and
will begin an active oampaign at a time
which ho may deem proper.
Mr. Brown is a farmer, and not the
first tiller of the soil to aspire to gnher-
natorial honors. It most be said of him
that he is a good farmer, as well iis a
good politician and a good man ; aud if
elected he will make Georgia a good
governor.
Mr. Brown states m his announce
ment that he retired from the presi-
deuoy of the State Agricultural Society
because he did not wish to mix politics
with that organization. He gives no-
tice that when in hiB judgment the
proper time arrive for entering upou
au aotive personal canvass for the nom
ination he will at once tender to the
governor his resignation as a member
of the Railroad Commission. He prom
ises to go into the ruce as the candidate
of no clique or comDiuation, und on the
prohibition question declares for looal
option.
RESPECTFULLY REFERRED.
One of tho most gratifying nighs of tho timos
i* that tho pooplo of this Ruction havo censed to
talk about the introduction of foreign capital
and havo gone to work thuniHelve*.
Harmony Grove is but a small place, with no
pull on New York bankers. Through the en
terprise of her own citizens ahe has erOctod
two cotton mills, giving work to sevornl hun
dred people, besides declaring handsome divi
dends. Ho well satisfied aro these pooplo with
tho result of mills "lmilt at homo” that they
havo now resolved upon another, which will
mean the employment of more people aud tho
declaring of a larger sum total in dividends.
"Tlic best part of it all is," says the nows story,
"that it is all home capital, too, not a dollar
being held by outsiders."
Congratulations to Harmony Grove! She
plays at once for mill, president, directors and
dividends. That is the way to go to work. It
is also the best way in which to attract distant
capital.—Atlanta Constitution.
The above is rospeotf ally aud earn
estly submitted for the consideration of
the business men of Albany, who arb
supposed to be more uuxious for a cot
ton mill than for any other form of
community enterprise. The Herald
knows of no way that is better, or even
half so good, for getting cotton mills or
other manufacturing enterprises than
to build them. The Harmony Grove
example is hold up for Albany’s scrutiny.
The effect is doubtful. Bat wo hope there
is not as muoh doubt about the eventual
building of the mill as some of us are
beginning to fear exists.
To Loan
ON CITY PROPERTY AND FARM
PROPERTY IN SOUTH
WEST GEORGIA
We Buy and Sell all'Kinds of
Real Estate on Commission.
We offer the Johnson property, im
mediately north of Chautauqua lot,
either as a whole or in small lots, to
suit purchaser. SMALL cash payment,
balance on easy terras.
Titles examiued and conveyancing a
specialty. Call on
Sam W. Smith,
At ConTt House,
Or. write to Jones & Smith, Attorneys,
Albany, Ga.
As Tiiis Occur Every Cay,
and yonr tarn may be next. Protect
your home aud oniperty by insuring
with us.
This office has been established for
more than twenty years, does exclus
ively au insurance business and is bum
pered by no side lines.
Careful aud prompt attention given,
to all business entrusted to us.
ED. L. WIGHT l GO.