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“SOMETHING GREASY.”
Albany people think they have struck oleo
margarine instead of oiL McIntosh seems de
termined to keep at It until she strike* *omo-
thing gren*y.—Way cross Herald.
How long will we have to keep tell
ing yon we already have “something
greasy ?" It may be oleomargarine, hog
tat or petroleum. Everybody, includ
ing State Geologist Yeatee, oan call it
whgt they please—“kaolin and sulphite
of iron” or whatnot—there oan be no
donbt at the faot that we have atruok
grease of some kind. And, as the Her
ald has said before—
It looks like oil;
It smells like oil;
It tastes like oil;
It bnrns like oiL
And if it isn’t oil, what is it?' State
Geologist Yeates’s idea or conclnsion,
which was evidently reached without
giving-the snbjeot careful investiga
tion, that it is kaolin and sulphite of
iron, won’t do, for yonoan’t make these
minerals born and smoko and smell like
an old korosine lamp wlok.
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MONDAY, oerr. 21. 1001.
Why not Bond Pat Crowo aftor Misb
Stone?
Work lias oommeneod on Valdosta’s
new hotel. __j
time to
It will' be Genornl Miles's
write a book next.
The Bolomeu evidently have no idea
Of bolng"paolfled.”
President Iioosevolt lias rained the
best negro in the Soatli.
Maoon is preparing to give the veter
ans a royal time next v celt.
Senator MoLaurlu is said to be almost
a daily oaller at the White Honse.
Why did Roosevelt doit?—Why did
Booker Washington let him do it?
The ootton crop grows shorter faster
than the prioo of the staple grows longer
The Savannah Press says that visitors
to the state fair need have no foar as to
accommodations.
Englaud lias agreed to consent that
America may fortify the canal after it
it built. Thanks.
Two million two-penny meals are sup
plied daily to the poor by the authorities
of the olty of London.
Heavy frosts have been reported
throughout the northern part of tho
State daring tho past week.
Yoir Unole Lon Livingston was tho
first Georgia congressman to reach the
new presidential pie counter.
Arc onr missionaries going to got us
into another war before the one in
China is fairly out of the way ?
The Washington Post says that Ad
tuiral Dewey oontlnnes to have his
"range-finder set for the facts."
The Wichita (Kansas) Eagle remarks
that Roosevelt is catting the gay-ropes
that hold down a oyolone lu the South.
As the time for the legislature to meet
approaches, the Atlanta papers aro re.
newing the agitation of the c:\rshed
question.
M. Daraonal, a member of tho acail
einy of soieuce, declares that lio can
bring book to life anyone who hns been
electrocuted.
The official census shows the popula
tiouofthe United States is TO,802,88]
of whioh (18,01)0,802 are white and 8,312,
585 are colored.
SPANISH TESTIMONY.
Oaptaln Enlate of tho VlBcaya has
made a statement whioh shows the es
timato of the effectiveness of Schley's
attack as it appeared to those upon
whom it was inflloted. He says:
Tho Brooklyn was a half mile closer
to mo than any other ship, and I deter
mined to ram it, so that the Oolon and
Oqnondo oonld gut away, and I started
for it. It made a good mark, with its
big broadside, and as I started I thought
sorely I wonld get it. Bnt It bad evi
dently seen ns and qniokly it turned
abont, and, making a short oirote, came
at onr port side, so that I thonght it
would ram ns. I|moved in toward the
shore so that I oonld avoid it, and then
saw tho Oqaendo had gone ashore
also, Its stoam pipes evidently having
boon savored by a shell. Tho maneuver
of tho Brooklyn wnB bountiful.
We opened a rapid fire at it with all
onr big gnns, bnt It returned it with
terrible effoot. The Oregon also
hit ns soveral times, bnt the Brooklyn's
broadstdo, crashing into onr superstruc
ture, simply terrorized the men. We
worked all onr gnns at it at one time
aud i don't see howfit esoaped ns. It
■imply drove'us in to shore, at one time
fighting ns at 1,100 yards. Tho Brook
lyn had prevented me from getting
away,' for I oonld have beaten tho Ore
gon out, as I had a two-mile lead. My
orders were to try to sink the Brooklyn
and I tried to oarry them ont. I did not
think that its battery oonld be so terri
ble as it was.”
TO DWARF TREES.
The following, whioh we take from
the Augusta Ohroniole, will prove inter
esting to many, and perhaps profitable
to some, of onr readers:
A perfectly formed pine tree only a
few feet high or the giant oak dwarfed
in perfeot symmetry and surviving an
hundred years in an ordinary flower pot
is an interesting curiosity. The Japa
nese make a specialty of dwarfing forest
trees and they are handed down in a
family generation after generation, the
record being carefully kept, so that it is
possible to bny a dwarf tree of well
authenticated age running into tho cen
turies.
A writer in an exchange says that a
single pine, perfect in form and foliage,
has recently sold for $1,200, It is six
feet high, and alleged to be 850 years
old. It has long been supposed
that tho prooesBby whioh Japanese gar
deners succeeded in dwarfing forest
trees was a long and costly one. It is
now said that it is a simple process and
that any one oan do the trick. The fol
lowing directions are given for produc
ing a miniature oak tree:
“Take an orange and sooop ont the
pnlp. Fill the interior with a rioh mold
and plant an aoorn in the centre of it,
leaving the hole in the rind for it to
spront throngh. Pnt it in n sunny
place and water it frequently. Boon
after the first shoots have appeared 'lie
roots begin to hrenk throngh the orange
skin. Take a sharp knife and shave
these off carefully and keep them
shared. The treo will grow about five
or six inches high and then stop. In a
year it will be a perfeot miniature oak.
When the roots oease to grqw the orange j
skin shonld bo vnrnishea over and im-
bedded in a flower pot."
Tho Japanese dwarf all kinds of trees
and make them live to a great age.
Sorao of tho dwarfs, like the Ohabo
Hibia, aro well known, and their owners
have doonmonlary evidence attesting
their great age. The older they are the
more valuable, of coarse, thoy are. In
Japan certain families follow the Bail
ing, trade, art or what yon will of grow
ing dwarf trees from generation to gen
eration, and yon oan bny a miniature
oak 500 years old from a descendant of
the man who first planted the aoorn.
Not only forest trees bnt fruit trees and
flowering shrnbs are dwarfed by these
olevor gardeners.
ROOSEVELT’S BAD BREAK.
President Roosevelt is a bold, brave
man, bnt he cannot break over tho bar
rier that haB been plaoed by God be
tween the Negro and the Oancansian, to
say nothing of the social distinction that
has been set np and maintained by the
Anglo-Saxon raoe in thm country
throngh all the ageF. In inviting
Booker Washington to dine with him
at hiB family table in tho White Honse
the President has defied the barrier to
social equality which stands between
the whlto rnou and the blaok man in
this country. That harrier will still
stand, however, aud the President will
realize, as sareiy as night follows day,
that he has made a mistake, socially as
well as politically. From social equal
ity it is bnt oue step to miscegenation,
and Prosident^Roosevelt, who |boasts of
his Southern blood, will yet realize that
tho American people, whether they be
STARTLISG FACTS ABOUT SUGAR.
As a good deal has reoently appeared
in print regarding the consumption of
sugar, and as the importanae of this ar
ticle as a food, in v hioh every individ
ual is concerned, is apparently not suffi
ciently understood, tho following facts
and figures furnished to ns by the well
known sugar statisticians, Messrs. Wil
lett aud Gray (01 Wall street, New
York), who are toe pnb'ishers of the
weekly Statistical Sugar Trade Journal,
must necessarily be of great interest to
all our readers:
RAW SCOAR.
Tons.
Total consumption, U. S-, 19ft)
(Willett unit Gray) 2,219,84»
Artel HIM jmt rent., average
annual increase in con-
sumption Inst 19 years
A Declaration at War.
2,860,585
Consumption for 1901...
Of which Tons.
Louisiana produce* . 850,000
Beet (domestic I pro
duces 150.000
Hawaii < freeiproduce* 850,000
Porto loco (free) pro
duce* •' 150,000 1.000,000
of Southern or Northern birth, are not ' , ,, . , „
Pivimt Mutr at nn average
ready to accept this, even though the
example he set by the "first family of because of
the land."
PECANS.
It will boou be time now to pat ont
pecans, and thousands of the young
trees shonld be planted in Southwest
Georgia this season.
There appears to bo nothing
promises more certain returns within a
few years than pecans, and farmers and
landowners who do not care to plant
orchard* should at least put out a few
trees. Every tree planted about tho
premises will be something in the way
of permanent improvement.
One-year-old or two-year-old trees
can be had at small cost, aud it costs
nothing to take cure of them. They
make pretty trees and are long-lived.
After a few years they begin to bear,
and the older they get tho more they
bear and tho more valuable they become.
Plant pecans. If you can’t have an
orchard, put out a few trees anyhow.
Laud plauted in pecans will, without
any other improvement, doub'oiu value
within ten.years.
tariff |8S pur ton)
Total consumption, 2,800,585
ton* (<u |8*l
Additional, people taxed an
nually find pay to provide
49 millions for revenue
To Louisiana planter* on 850,000 ton*
‘ #:{•) per ton
itoi ’ ’
To dome*tie boot planter* on 150,000
'12,00'.O00
From the Memphis Sotmltnr.
If President Roosevelt had announced
that he intended to use the army and
navy of the United States in defending
the right of the negroes tornle wherever
they happened to be ill the majority, he
wonld have aronsed great Indignation
in the Sonth, bnt the feeling would
have been far loss bitter than that
which he has oreated by his open ana
flagrant olmmpionship of social equality
of the races He wonld have been op
posed by Southern white men as Grant
was. the South would Imve stood against
him politically ns solid as a wall, bnt
the element of personal rancor wonld
have been lacking. There would have
boou left the golden, bridge by whioh
political enemies may pass to a better
understanding when the passions of the
conflict have oooled. In snoh a case
(herb are on both sides moderate men
who oppose extremes of strife, and who
finnlly succeed in bringing about a re
conciliation between the opposing foroes.
At tlie worst, politics is only wur, and
after every war comes a certain degree
of toleration, if not mutual esteem.
The days of rec, ustruotlon in the
South were bad onon ;h, heaven knows,
aud the recollection of them will linger
af.er the last actor in the events of the
time shall have passed away. Bnt when
that period was at its worst, the spirit of
it did not. pass the threshold of the
home. The tluht. was in the open. It
did not touch the family circle, nor did
tons ut Mi prr ton' .... • ... 5, jn(i.oc» the pride of it outrage the personal pride
that To Hawaii puintiTS on 050,000 tons at
W\ per ton 12,0oJ,0j0
To Porto Rico planters on 150,000 ton*
at $80 pur ton 5,400.000
The Baltimore San’s Washington cor
respondence la authority for the state
ment that, at a conservative estimate,
the court of inquiry cannot thus far
have ooat Admiral Sohley leas than
|20,000, aud that the ekpenBea to whioh
he has been put will not only “awaliow
up all the prize money whioh he haa
received from hia connection with the
destruction of the Spaniah fleet, but
much of hia private fortune beaidea ”
It is tho understanding that hia private
fortune is but meager; that he is, in
deed, a poor man, dependent upon hia
salary for a livelihood, he investiga
tion really ought not to ooat Schley a
cent. A clique in the navy hounded
him and Anally forced him to apply for
a court of inquiry in order that the
charges brought against him might uo
proven or that he be vindicated. His
vindication is already assured) and
when Oougreaa meets it should return
to him every oent that the inquiry costa
him. #
ANOTHER RAILROAD COMING.
The Atlantic, Valdosta and Western
Railway seems to bo heading for Al
bany and for a connection with the
Chattahoochee river at some point on
the western line of the state. From an
official notice published elsewhere in the
Herald it will be seen that at a meet
ing of the directors of the road held on
the 10th inst., it was unanimously re
solved to extend the line westward from
Valdosta, passing through the counties
of Lowndes, Brooks, Oolqaitt, Worth,
Mitchell, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Web
ster, Randolph, Stewart and Quitman
The company evidently means busi
ness.
Albany already has six lines of road,
and the Georgia Northern is headod
this way and is graded almost to the
east bank of Flint river. When the At
lantic, Valdosta and Western gets here
we will have oight roads and will be
more than ever the railroad center of all
Southern and Southwest Georgia.
The whole of Gape Colony is supposed
to be under martial law. That is to
say, it is nuder martial law so far ns tho
British foroes can make it.
It is to bo hoped that the next South*
ern white man who is invited by Presi
dent Roosevelt to dine at the White
House will decline with thanks.
The people along the different lines of
railroad leading oat of Albany are learn
ing that they oan get the news in the
Herald sooner than any other paper
can oarry it to them.
Booker T. Washington, tho well
known negro educator, president of tho
Tuskegee, Ala., institute, was a guest
of President and Mrs. Roosevelt at din
nor at the white honse on Wednesday
night. Washington is probably the first
American negro to dine with a presi
dent of the United States and his family,
although it was reported that President
Cleveland once entertained a negro
friend at the white house board.
A pound of meat now costa abont one
aud one-half times as much as a pound
of cotton will bring in the market. Aud
yet meat can be produced in this country
at a less cost, pound for pound, than
cotton. The more statement of these
conditions makes out a case that should
need no argument with a practical
farmer.
Convict labor|is getting to be profit
able to the states. Kansas convicts
earned $41,000 for that state last year
over and above the expenses of main
taining the penitentiary.
Remove duty and the whole $44,031,-
0(10 accrue to the public. 0;i Octobers
the quotation for Cuba Centrifugal su
gar, 1)6 per oent. test, free on board Cu
ba, was 1 00 cents por pound, and the
duty oti same amounted to 1 085 cents
per pound, which is equivalent to SO per
cent, ad valorem.
(Signed) Willett & Gray,
01 Wall Street, New York.
The people of Kentucky may elect
Henry Wattorsou governor—though we
doubt their doing it, whatever his inten
tions and ambition may be—bat as a
Democratic candidate for the presidency
he is not to be seriously considered.
PLEASES OHIO REPUBLICANS*
Tho Ohio Republicans are evidently
pleased with a reo c nt incident that has
disgusted the white people of tho country
generally, North and South. They aro
disposed to make political capital of
President Roosevelt's entertainment of
Booker Washington, the Alabama negro
college president, at dinner last week.
At the big republican rally held at
Delaware, Ohio, on Saturday, Senator
Foraker was the leading speaker, and
he made on allusion to tho social
equality incident at the Whito House
whioh was received with applause. A
press dispatchj reports what Senator
Foraker said and how it was received as
follows:
“If our democratic friends hod only
waited nntil today to hold their Ohio
convention and write their platform,
they would indeed have an issue; for
day before yesterday President Roose
velt entertained at dinner Booker T.
Washington, a representative of the
colorod race, and all over the country
there are manifestations of democratio
displeasure and even a threat—we hear
it given iu their' papers that they
will resign all the offices they hold.
(Laughter and applause.) What a
calamity that would be. Not to Ohio,
for they do not hold any here (Laugh
ter.) And in all pi
will hold any here.
The Memphis Scimitar culls the act
of President Roosevelt iu entertaining
Booker Washington at his family table
a declaration of war against the South,
a id under the heading, “A Declaration
of War” that paper has published the
best editorial wo have yet seen on the
social equality incident at the White
House last week. We reproduce the
artiole elsewhere in the Herald. Read
it.
Tho Alabama papers are roasting
Booker Washington for accepting the
invitation to dine with President Roose
velt and his family at the White House.
Thoy are snying, in effect, than Was!:-
of tbe superior race.
It is because President Roosevelt has
offered this crowning affront to the
amour proura of the Southern white
people that he will never be forgiven aH
Grant was. In consideration of all the
circumstances of the caso, hia action in
dining Booker Washington at the White
Honse, presumably as the guest of
honor at a family putty, has the appear
ance of a deliberately-calculated defi
ance t.hrowu in the face of Southern
white men. There was no reason for
it that anyone can see, except that the
President wanted nti opportunity to
proclaim to the country his determina
tion to break down tho social barrier be
tween the races, so far as in his power
lies. The act was the more surprising
from the fact that the Northerners who
have been coddling tho negro ever since
the war havo recently shown that they
nre tiring of their fad, and from the
very recent announcement by the Pres
ident of his intention to make the Re
publican party in the South "respect
able.”
Therefore, the distinguished social
honor thus pnid to a negro by the Presi
dent ot the United States cannot be re-
gired as a mere incident of party poli
tics, or us a necessary matter of public
policy? It i* a declaration of war. The
gauntlet has been thrown down before
the South, uud the South will not be-
snf.v to take it up. For nearer and
have been thinking he had.
It has bem observed that Captain
Chadwick’s evidence before the court of
inquiry was highly color against Ad
miral Sohley. Oh&dwick was on the
ship that was not ut the battle of Santi
ago.
The Herald feels safe in saying that
the display of hay that will be made at
the Hay Day Carnival in Albany next
month will surpass auything of the kind
ever seen in the South.
Just remember that Albany had the
biggest and best carnival in the state
last fall, and then don’t forget that she
is going to have even a bigger and net-
ter one during tho week beginning on
Monday, November 18.
Times must be dull up about Millege-
ville. The Milledgeville News invites
all the gubernatorial candidates to ad
dress the people of Baldwin county
without stipulating that they wait until
next spring.
A spirit of unrest seems to be at work
in the political circle of the Tenth con
gressional district,and it is being broadly
hinted that Congressman Fleming will
have opposition.
One of tho most marked improvements
made in nowspaper circles this fall has
been in the Macon News. Nhe News
is now the best afternoon paper Macon
has ever had.
It is to cost $110,000,000 to run the
municipal government of New York
city next year, according to advane esti
mates In the various departments.
“It is an easy matter to detect the or
thodox southern Republican these
day9,” remarks the Washington Post,”
"by the length of his countenance.”
With gold and other valuable minerals
in neatly every county iu North Geor
gia. phosphate rock In Carroll and oil Id
Dougherty, what’s the matter with
Goorgia ?
The republicans of Ohio opened the
ter.) And in all probability the> never jcampaign on Saturday and had a
great rally at Delaware, with Foraker
It is said that President Roosevelt is and Hanna as the chief attractions,
"much amused” at the indiguatiou ex
pressed in the Sonth about his open at-
Admiral Schley could well afford to
rest his case where it is, without farther
tempt to break down the social barrier testimony, and call upon the court of
dividing white people from negroes. It; inquiry for irs verdict,
is also said that iu order to show his con
tempt for such criticism he will invite
Booker Washington to be his guest at
another family ‘party at the White
House, and will make a point of visiting
Washington at his home in Tuskegee,
Ala. If the accidental Joccupaut of the
White House carries out his threat the
doors of respectable white people in the
South will be closed against him. Fact
is, he has already done enough to de
serve social ostracism at the hands of
the white people of the South.
Senator Hanna made a speech at the
big rally of Ohio republicans, at Dela
ware, on Saturday, and took occasion to
tell the boys that he had no intention of
retiring from public life nor of resign
ing the chairmanship of the national
repoblioan committee.
The electlonlof Judge Spencer R. At
kinson to the chairmanship of the Geor
gia Railroad Commission is furnishing
occasion for thejnewspapers of the state
to say some nice things about that gen
tleman.
Some Sid Lewisisins.
From tho Sparta I*hmnolito.
Tne legislature will soon meet, aud
devise measures for increasing taxation.
Dark horses, so called, are not always
horses. There are animals and animals.
The state wasn’t jarred at all by the
retirement of Thomas O. Crenshaw from
office.
The cotton crop and the price of it
will both be short. But both will be
longer than the wit of the tanner who
neglects his provision crops.
It wouldn’t hurt either the army or
the navy service if Corbin and Crown*
inshielu were sewed up iu the same bag
aud dropped into the Potomac.
Before the Schley court of inquiry
Capt. Chadwick, of the New York, suc
cessfully endeavored to show’ that he is
a more contemptible fellow than Samp
son.
It is said that Atlanta intends to an
nex the rest of Fulton county. The
contiguous counties will await their turn
with becoming patience and resignation,
The pension and the free school sys
tems should both be put on the indigent
basis. Government should never do for
• any man what he can do for hiunelf.
than even life itself is the assurance of
his superiority to the race that has been
the slave of slaves from the beginning
of history and which served him and
his father in the most menial capacities.
His pride of race is the keystone in the
arch of his self-respect. In his estima
tion the white man who does not hold
himself the racial and social superior of
the negro is lower than the uegro. This
is not a matter of belief with him; it is
an absolute assurance, born in him and
surviving all else in the event of a wreck
of his faculties. The Southern white
man who has lost his reason may need
a Ptraight jacket, but he will never need
any reminder of tho distance between
himself and his black attendant. It is
not “color prejudice,” but instinct that
draws the line. It is not that the negro
is black, but that he is inherently infe
rior and has been subject to all other
races in all times. In their hearts the
professed negrophiles of tho North know
this as well as we of the South. It is
not a question for debate, but res adju-
dicata, the decision having been handed
down by tho conrt of the ages.
Of course, the President is at liberty
to ohoose associates for himself and
family. If he electa to take Mrs. Roose
velt with him ou his approaching visit
to Booker Washington at Tuskeegee, or
send his eldest daughter to Wellesley
College and let her room with Wash
ington’s daughter, there will bo none to
say him nay. Doubtless there will be
many to applaud his "liberality” and
commend his freedom from “prejudice”
to the country. But he must under
stand that he has alienated from him
some millious'of his fellow countrymen
who were disposed to think woll of him
aud to rejoice at any success that he
might achieve as Chief Magistrate of
the nation.
Perhaps he will care nothing for this,
nor be disturbed by the consciousness of
having undone so far as he could what
his lamented predecessor had done to
stimulate national feeling in the South
and obliterate the memories of civil war
and reconstruction—of the time when
there were "black heels on white
necks.” Perhaps he will care even less
for the harm that his declaration of ra
cial equality will do to the negroes in
the South by irritating the whites and
silencing, to some extent, at least, the
Southerners who have tried to uplift the
blacks.
Bat so it will be, and the President
will find that the men he has mortally
offended with seemingly deliberate in
tent, can be as "strenuous” and persist-
•cut as himself.