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SATURDAY, DEO. 14, 1901.
Nobody compares Agulnaldo to Wash
ington any more.
They ore .till .enrobing for diamonds
nroaud Oolambu..
England may yet be foroed to abandon
the war in South Africa.
The report, that oome from the exposi
tion at Charleston ore good.
Senator Olay has lntrodnoed a bUl for
the repeal of the bankrnptoy law.
We may see nine oenta ootton yet be
fore the uloso of the present season.
It will not do to depend entirely upon
luok. Luok seldom.favors the indolent
and tlirlftloss.
Spiritualism seems to be taking root
to the German army, and the Kaiser Is
mad about It.
Dawson hud her first street fair last
week, aud the News says It was a sno-
cose tu uvory respect
The "Infant Industrie." have become
vigorous enough to prevent any revision
of the tariff by congress.-
Agulnaldo has become a sort of whlto
elephant, and sinoo his oapture nobody
see ins to think him great.
One thing to the oredlt of the preaont
, legislators la that it has killed a lot of
class legislation and tool bills.
They seem to bo orowded for hotel
room in Springfield, Mass. At least
Booker Washington has rear on to think
so. ■
The Georgia houso of representatives
yesterday voted down the Hardwick
bill to make drunkenness in public
places a crime.
Only one more day of the present leg
islature. unless the governor calls an ex
tra session, and—well, he has probably
had enough of it.
The good roads convention at Atlanta
is largely attended. It augurs well for
the state that the people .are taking an
interest in good roads.
APPROPRIATIONS WITHOUT MOSEY
The legislature has provided no re
lief for the state from the financial em
barrassment that oonfronts it. and it is
now evident that nothing can be done
on that line at the present session, whloh
expires by limitation on Friday night of
the preseut week.
The Blalock resolution, which sought
to make enough of the public property
fnnd available to meet the Interest on
the public debt, has been killed the
seoond timo in the house, and
this means of providing some
relief has now been ont off.
If the Blalook resolution had been
passed the public property fund would
have been used to pay the interest fall
ing doe In] January and July of next
year, amounting to about $300,000, leav
ing an unexpended balance in tlio treas
ary for this fnnd of about $1 90,000, and
the money raised by.. taxation to meet
the interest on the bends, could have
been nsed to meet tho appropriations
made by the legislature. Bnt all snoh
calculations have been set aside.
With a deficit in the; treasury and
over a million dollars dne the pnblio
school teachers of tho state, and the
payment of the pensions to indigent
Confederate veterans and the indigent
widows of veterans, voted by this legis
lature, still nnprovlded for, additional
appropriations havn boon made. How
tho members of tho legislature expeet
the governor to cover the existing de-
fiotenoy in the treasury and pay these,
additional obligations and appropria
tions is hard to divine. They have left
bnt one safe and conservative conrbe for
the govornor to pnrsuo, and that Is to
vetoKall the appropriations they have
made.
The Maoon News has evidently
grown skeptical about Miss Btone. The
long drawn ont negotiations for the
missionary's release seem to have led
the News to doubt the gounlueness of
the whole affair. It* says; "Is there,
indeed, nny snob person as Miss Stone?
If there is, what proof have we that she
is in captivity? She and the mysterious
Mme. Tsllkn have figured in the dis-
patches so long that we are carious to
know abont them. They are living in
oaves; one or the other of them is dead;
they are on tho point of being, released
by the brigands; they are not to be re
leased.," All these reports swoop down on
ns in oonfosiug unmber, and it may be
hoped for the sukc of truth that somo ono
will rescue ilium bofore long. Hero is an
opportunity for somo yonng cavalier. It
would bo as honorable a death as to dio
and bleed m a duel for the fair Queen of
Holland in order that site might be
avenged ngalnst her husband. The be
sieged legates iu Pekin did not bavo so
uinoh trouble getting rescued as the two
missionary women in Bulgarin.
THE GREATEST .COUNTRY ON
EARTH.
Ainerloals easily the greatest coun
try on earth. No other oonntry in the
world has half so many natural resources
and snoh a diversity of products. And
yet the development of onr natural re
sources is In its infanoy. We have
a greater variety of minerals than any
country in the world, and a diversity of
soil andollmate that affords adaptability
to almost every agricultural and horti
cultural prodnot known to mankind.
And If this is not already the richest
oonntry in the^orld it is only a ques
tion of time when it will be. The di
versity of Amerioan production is not
only increasing the wealth of the conn-
try very rapidly, bnt it serves, in tbe
very natnre of thtnge, as a
protection against adversity. While
copper was going down in
Boston the other day, for Instance, and
piles of money were being lost by those
who bad Invested extensively in copper
mining interests, corn was going up in
Obioagoand ootton was advanoing In
New York and thronghout the Booth.
A oonntry with snoh diversity of prod-
nots and interests never loses by the
finotnatlon of prioes, for what one suc
tion or one interest loses another gains
in the see-sawing proeess.
Pnblio opinion In England is said to
be that Lord Salisbury has outlived his
usefulness. If Lord Salisbury oonld
manage to bring that South Afrioan
war to a olose pnblio opinion might
changa iu his favor.
Now and then somebody volunteers
the information that Hon. Pope Brown
is not in the gubernatorial race to ptay,
bnt whenever he has spoken for himself
on the subject, so ter as we have Been or
heard, he has not talked like he had any
idea of retiring.
Announcement is made from Atlanta
that Mr. M. B. Merritt, of Valdosta,
who was in Atlanta yesterday, will be a
candidate against Prof. G. B. Glenn for
tha office of State School Commissioner.
Mr. Merritt is superintendent of the
'pnblio school system of Valdosta and
school commissioner of she county of
Iiowndes.
iisf?;..
Prlnoe Henry, the husband of Queen
Wllhelmlna, oan’t be altogether bad,
He may have his faults, and there up
pears to be no donbt of the fact that he
has not been getting along very well
with his wife; but he seemB to be a
manly fellow after all. Anyhow, lie
has had the courage to fight two duels
with men who interfered in his domes
tic affatrB, and one of these has sinoe
died of his injuries. We are beginning
to think more of the Prince Consort
than we did, and sinoe it has been made
to appear that the yonng Qaeen is high
strong we wouldn't be at all surprised,
if an impartial investigation were made,
it would be Bhown that Henry is not as
bad as he has been painted. Give Henry
a olianoe. "
The Philadelphia Reoord declares
that another diplomatic myth has bcou
dissipated in the disproof of the widely
propagated idea that Great Britain alone
prevented an intervention of the gov
ernments ot Europe in behalf of Spain
Immediately preceding the war of tile
United States with that coautry. Ac
cording to the Record, "it appaars now
that Rassla and not Great Britain,' was
the power that mado n European demon
stration against the United States im
possible, if auy snoh demonstration were
seriously ooutemplntod." Positive and
reliable information on this snbjeot
would be very interesting to tbe Ameri
can people, and if the Record has it it
should not withhold it.
THE NAVAL BOUNTY MONEY.
The Washington Post bos been to the
records and gives the exact figures of
the bounty money paid and to be paid
for the Manila and Santiago campaigns.
The figures are interesting, and one
cannot read them without feeling that,
great injnstioe has been done Rear Ad
miral Sohley.
According to the Post's report, Rear
Admiral William T. Sampson has drawn
from the government in prize money
$05,797.44, and he expeots abont $10,000
more when the Maria Teresa case is set
tled. Rear Admiral Schley has drawn
$140.58, and has been allowed $3,834,
whtoh Is yet to be paid.
Captain F. E. Chadwick, who was
with Sampson, haB drawn $14,086 08,
and has yet coming to him $4,801.50, in
addition to what he expeots from the
Mana Teresa. Captain Cook, of the
Brooklyn, and Captain Clark, of the Ore
gon, who were in the fight thronghout,
have yet reoeived nothing, but Cook will
get$8,100 82 and Clarke $1,080 06. Com
mander Wainright, one of the real he
roes of the war, will reooive only
$435.68. Rear Admiral Watson gets
only $18.85.
Admiral Dewey for his work at Ma
nila has received in bounty $9,570, abont
one-third as mnoh as Chadwick, who
was not only not in the light at Santia
go, but who himself testified that he
sept back an expression of congratula
tion to Schley.
OUR COFFEE.
In this day of adnlteration and sub
stitution we get very little good coffee
in this oonntry. Really good coffee has
got to be a rarity.
Now that we have established some
thing like colonial relations with Porto
Rioo, we ought to be able to get more
good ooffee. Wo see It stated that oof-
fee from Porto Rioo is making its way
into* Amerioan markets, the only
obstacle being tho hlgt price whloh it
commands in foreign countries.
It is an established faot that the best
ooffee in tho world is grown in Porto
Rico, the Brazilian artiole being oheap
and nasty in comparison. And yet
Brazil sent to this country during the
last fiscal year more than three-fonrths
of the entire toffee importation of over
850,000.000 pounds, while the takings
from Porto Rico were bnt a beggarly
31,000 pounds.
Every great nation, it seems, is a
damping ground for one inferior prodnot
or another in international trade. ThnB
Europe takee the rofnse of onr tobacoo
orops, while we take Europe's refuse of
the world's coffee snpply, and famish
Europe with the very best ooffee to boot
Hon. Seaborn Wright, author of the
dispensary bill which was vetoed by
Governor Candler the latter part of last
week, has announced that he will not
join those Who favor passing the bill
over the governor's veto, which, accord
ing to reports that come from Atlanta,
many of the members of tho legislature
are inclined to do. Mr. Wright says
that lie is willing to let tbe responsibil
ity rest npon tho governor. "In the
next place," Mr. Wright Is quoted as
saying, "I see that the prohibitionists of
the state are divided on the matter, and
on this account, after thinking tho mat
ter over since I have been at home, I
have decided not to press it farther.
After a yeot has passed, however, and
dispensaries have been established in
nearly all the dry counties of tbe state
they will discover that I was right, and
I think you will then see a popular de
mand on their part for just such legis
lation as this.”
The Domoorats of Boston completely
overwhelmed the Republicans in the
olty oleotloii yesterday, Gen. Patrick A,
OolllUB being elected ovor Mayor Thomas
N. Hart by the largest plurality in a
quarter of a century. The DemooratB
likewise obtained control of hpth
branches of the city government, elected
thoir street commissioner, Salem D.
Obalos, and practically all their candi
dates for the school commission. As
qsnal, the eity voted strongly in favor
of license.
The new treaty with Great Biltain
oanoels the Glayton-Bnlwer treaty,
whioh waa practically dead anyhow
and allows ns to oonatraot the isthmus
oanal, which we had the right to do
already. The Oinoinnati Enquirer,
after giving sopo thought to the sub
ject, is moved to observe that "plain
people, who do not oomprehend the
marvels of diplomacy, are wondering
why we were consulting anybody abont
the matter.”
When it oomes right down to bnsinees,
the Democrats in Congress don't appear
*9 want tariff reform. Every time there
isaohance to aooomplish anything on
tariff reform lines the faot develops that
there are a lot of Democrats who want
protection for their own constituents or
some local industry. In the arrange
ment of a tariff for the Philippines, for
instance, it now develops that the
Louisiana ooc'gressmen want the pro
tective tariff on sugar applied, and the;
will stand with the Republicans on the
tariff measure under consideration.
In the committee assignments Con
gressman Griggs retains his plaoe on the
oommittee on postoffioe and post roads
and is also on the committee on ooinage
j weights and measures.
The majority of the oommittee on
ways aud moans are making a great
show of indignation over the attempt of
Senator Ledge to take the initiative by
introdnoiug Seoretary Root’s tariff bill
in the senate, instead ot deferring to tbe
constitutional right of the houso to orig
inate all snoh measures. Bnt tho Phila
delphia Rocora suggests in its matter-
of-faot way that siuoe^the house nlways
accepts the Senate's tariff bills in the
end there does not seem to be mnoh
oooasion for this display ot indignation.
Hon. J. Lindsay Johnson, representa
tive from Bartow county, who waB re
cently regarded as a probable candidate
against Hon. O. B. Stevens for the of
fice of OommisslCher of Agriculture, is
now annonnoed os an applicant for the
office of Railroad Commissioner in tho
event of the resignation of Hon. Pope
Brown.
The Angnsta Chronicle makes this
dig at Atlanta and the legislature
"Depot (defined in the light of recent
events) a gratuity bestowed by the in
habitants of a state npon a oity able to
maintain a railroad lobby and serve "re
freshments” to members of the legisla-
tmte.”
It would appear from the repeated at
tempts ot Mr. Knight, of Berrien, that
the legislature is being overran by loby-
iats, bnt the legislators seem to like the
oompany, as they have twioe refused to
pass resolutions to exclude from the
Boor of the bouse all persons not en
titled to Buoh privileges under the rules.
The Oinoinnati Enquirer seems to
think that there It an open rapture be
tween Senators Hanna and Foraker and
that they are marshalling their forces
for a scrap over the organization of the
Ohio legislature and the control of the
party nutohlne in that state.
The Danish West Indian Islands,
whioh have finally been purchased from
Denmark by tho United States, are
threo in number—St. Thomas, St.
Croix and St. John. The first named is
the most important, and its harbor, at
the town of St. Thomas, is ono of the
best in tbe West Indies. It was tbe
possession of this harbor, whloh com-
mands one of the approaches to the pro
posed Isthmian oanal, that was portion-
larly desired by our government, and to
this consideration was dae tbe offer to
pnrohase the iBlauds. The area of tho
islands is only abont 100 square miles,
with a population not exceeding 40,000,
mostly negroes or mixed bloods.
The story that Booker T. Washington
was refused admission to three of the
leading hotels in Springfield, Mass , to
whioh he applied for accommodations
while on his way to make a speech at
Northampton, is explained there by
more or less vehement statements to
the effeot that there wero no vacant
rooms when the applications were made.
Some one suggests that this universal
prosperity among the hotels of the New
England town is nevertheless regarded
as remarkable.
A Natal correspondent of the London
Times advances a unique reason why
the Boers do not surrender. He sayB
they ore pledged in honor to the Cape
"rebels,” and that if they were to end
the war, the Cape "rebels” would be
Bhot or haDged by the British govern
ment ; therefore the Boers refuse to con
sider any terms of peace whioh do not
inolnde amnesty and safety for those
citizens of Cape Colony who have taken
np arms with them.
There was a great mass meetihg of
Boer sympathizers held in the Andi-
torinm theater in Chicago on Sunday
night. Bonrke- Oockoran, of New
York, was the star speaker, and resolu
tions were adopted denonnoing the Brit
ish methods in South Africa and a oom
mittee was appointed to bring the senti
ments of the meeting before the Presi
dent of the United States.
WHEN TELEGRAPHING NEWS.
Thq Herald is always glad to have
its friends make use of the telegraph for i
the purpose of oonvoying important
newB to this paper, provided it is pat on
the wires in time to reaoh ns while it is
news. We appreciate snob thoughtful
ness on tho part of onr friends and are
ulways glad to pay the tolls ou news
that ib of snffioient importance to war
rant tbe use of tho telegraph. We find,
however, that volunteer or amateur cor
respondents, when they undertake to
write a telegraphic news item for the
press, are, ns n rule,,too brief. This may
be a dangerous thing for us to say, bnt
RECIPROCITY AS A “HANDMAID,”
In his message to Congress President
Roosevelt, in discussing the tariff ques
tion, alluded to reciprocity as “tbe
handmaid-of protection.” The New
York Ohamber ot Oommeroo evidently
attoohes more importance to reoiproolty
—regards it bb something more than a
handmaid to protection. That great
body of business men is now consider
ing resolutions un the-snbjeot, reported
by one of Its committees, disapproving
the aotlon of the late reciprocity conven
tion at Washington, virtually side- track
ing tho polioy of freer trade with all the
world. The resolutions point to the
danger to Amerioan trade and com-
merco because of the opposition to any
ohanges in onr tariff polioy, and declare
it is “likely to involve hostile legislation
on the part of the other nations against
this oonntry, to the great detriment of
its commercial interests.” That is pre
cisely what is coming—what President
McKinley warned the country against
in his Bnffalo speech.
The Denver Repnblioan thinks the
ohauces are that Hill and Oroker will
combine about the time that Senator
Tillman gives Senator McLautin a lov
ing onp.
If Lawyer Terrell and Lawyer Gnerry
and Farmer Brown and Farmer Smith
aii stay in the gnbernotorial race and
fight each other to the finish, Editor
EstiU ought to stand a showing.
The government estimate of the oot
ton crop doesn’t suit tho purposes of the
boars, and they are, therefore, trying to
discredit and disoonnt it, bnt it has,
nevertheless, had its effect on the
market.
Following the failnre of the Barnes-
ville Manufacturing Oompauy, the
Hanson-Otawley Oompauy aud the
..... , . , , ...... Barnesville Savings Bank, a receiver
the thing wo want to bring ont is that WM app01pted ye9terday for the New
a news item that ia only ha*f g ou th Savings Bank at Barnesville.
told is not worth telegraphing Brevity
is desired, of course, in all oases, bnt all
the important points of an oconrrenoe
should be brought out. Don't leave the
editor to guess at anything nor to sup-
ply words. Tell the story without im-
bellishment, and then sign yonr name
to it. We never publish the names of
such correspondents, bnt mu9t always
know from wh:m an item comes.
Tho Meriwether Vindicator makes
these significant statements: "Hon.
Jim Smith, convict lessoe and fanner,
is a candidate for govornor. He is said
to be worth $200,000, one-half of which
he is willing to spend to be chosen gov
ernor. Is that snm sufficient to buy a
majority of the voters of Georgia? The
mere promise of suph a purchase is suf
ficient to throw the taint of suspioion
upon all of Smith’s advocates and the
question will be asked, how much was
paid his active advocates? The time
has not yet come in Georgia when a
long purse can buy a high office. Snoh
an intimation is a reflection upon the
honeBt yoemanry of the old common
wealth.”
Sam Small says that the resolution
passed by the legislature in 1870 naming
1^. Crawford Long as a colleague of
Oglethorpe in the hall of statuary
should not be taken as conclusive.
Small says that theie is history behind
that resolution. And to this the Sa
vannah Press says: "Well, let us have
the history. The people of Georgia
have about made up their minds that
Dr. Long was the proper man to repre
sent Georgia aud it is pretty late now to
have this reversed, but let’s have the
history.” _
Former commissioner of agrioulture
R. T. Nesbitt is talking of making the
race again. Editor T. W. Revill says
of this: "Obe Stevens will beat him
/ *
worse thiB time than last, because
Stevens makes so mnoh better a com
missioner than Nesbitt did.”
Senator MoLanrln is between the
devil and the deep bine sea. The Dem
ocrats have kicked him out and the Re
publicans don’t seem to want him. A
politician without party affiliation is in
a had way indeed.
The grand jury of Snmter oonnty has
been after the Amerious sports with a
sharp atiok. Sixty-five indiotments,
principally for misdemeanor offenses,
have been fonnd, and it is said that the
work is not yet finished.
The rating prioes and the active de
mand for foodstuff., of all kinds ought
to induoe the farmers of Georgia to
raise more of them.
The Atlanta Journal has it: "Now
we know what to do to the Hon. Joe
Hill Hall, of Bibb, the next time he gets
hostile and goes off the reservation.
We shall report him to Judge Emory
Speer."
It is evident that the legislature has
not yot settled down on the idea of leav
ing the pnblio property fnnd undis
turbed.
Several bags of mail were destroyed
in the fire that followed tho wreok on
the Central railroad at Macou on Sun
day morniug.
The sehome to ont down tho repre
sentation of the South in Congress has
broken ont again. Bnt it will not
amount to anything.
Isn’t it abont time for the school
teaohers and the friends of education
generally to take a hand in state poli
ties?
3enator McLanrin still olsims to be a
Democrat, bnt ho is evidently without
standing and needs a certificate.
The Charleston exposition is pro
nonneed by those who have been there
to he all right.
The Angusta Chronicle is beginning
to believe that the oensus figures abont
Atlanta are oerreot.
It is reported that another evening
paper is to be started in Atlanta abont
the first of January.
Afternoon PaperB.
In the anniversary number of the
Now York Post, Mr. John Rankin
Towse had the following to say concern
ing the growth of evening papers: “In
the development of New York journal
ism daring the last quarter of a oentary
there Is, perhaps, no more striking faot
than the gradual substitution of the
evening for the morning paper as t£e
ohief purveyor of news, the referenoe
being not only to looal and domestio in
telligence, but to a majority of the most
important ooonrrences in all parts, of
the oivllized world. The explanation
of it, of course, is exceedingly sim
ple, being fonnd in the enormous multi
plication of facilities for the collection
and prompt transmission of every item
affecting pnblio or private interests,
and in the accident of geographical po
sition whioh, owing to difference ft
longitude, enables the afternoon paper
here to report the happenings of most
the busiest, waking hours of Europe,
So far as the eastern hemisphere is con
cerned, the New York morning paper
has a monopoly only of the not very
fraitfnl news period between 10 p. m.
and 6 a. m.”
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