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. ‘A ( you see It in the Herald it’s so. If you advertise in the Herald it goes. [SATURDAY, DEQ. 28, 1D01. Mitchell county li going oat ol the ispeuiary business. l'lio oold weather la driving the enkeet Southward. Strnnge that "Fighting Bob” hasn’t eu heard from on the verdict. ^Sohley Isn't treated right the peo ple'may oonolade to take np his oase. v /it will be a long time yet beforo we hear the last of the Schley controversy. The Boers don’t know when they are whlppod, and the Filipinos won’t stay whipped. A solid week ot freezing weather is something almost without preoedent in these ports. The Moultrie street fair was a failure. The Observer attributes the failure to the bud weathor. m The Augusta Chronicle observes that Benhum and Ramsay are now under fire for the ilrst time lu their lives. J The rumori;that ex-Treasurer Bpeer >111 enter the raoe against State Treas- urer Park has been^revived in Atlanta. ■ - . ' ■ 1 The newspupors are reminding those of their readers who are ootnfortably situated ot the needs of the poor during . the oold weather. -- 1 ’ 1 It is vary evldont that Qoncrol Chat- fee is dlsguBted with the Filipinos. Be characterises them as a nation ot treaoh- erous dissemblers. . Seed oats for the spring planting will be In groat demand throughout Georgia. . Many fields of young oats have been -.killed by the freeze this week. The report that Hobson is engaged is denied very emphatioally by the young lady in the case, and now the hero of - the Merrlmao can go right along kiss- / ing the girls as before. The snow predloted by the Weather Bureau for the interior of the state yes terday arrived on behedule time, but It did not get at fkr South as Albany. We see that Haoon got over two inohes of the "beauttfuL” The breaking np of the MoKinley Cabinet has oommenoed. Poetmas General Smith has led the way, and now it seems oertaln that Secretaries ■" ‘ Gage and Long are soon to follow. And now even the Georgia Cracker, at Gainesville, has gone to spelling Geor- . gia syrup with an "i.’’ Is the editor of yhe Orraoker an exotio, an Importation , from New .England, or 1b he putting on airB? "LegislaturitiB” it a hew malady in Georgia, and Speaker Little is one of $he victims. We get this from the Griffin News, and .that’ paper la. also! to constitute himself- ^essentially the authority for the: statement that Mr. court^as^Judge Brown has in ^-•«le has gone from thelbhair pf the ‘‘‘J^ 08868 " t tariff is again ooming i live issue it begins to i are still vo have two Demoorats—Protective Tariff a and Tariff for Revenue Only ’ The vote on the Philippine tariff blU yesterday demonstrated the foot that the Louisiana de'egatlon in theNatlonal House ot Representatives consists of two different kinds ot Demoorats. The con gressmen from the-northern part of the state voted against the bill, which was atrlotly a Republican paity measure, beoanse it was contrary to Democratic doctrine and principle and those from the southern portion voted for it on the ground that it would afford protection to sugar. • Noting thesplit in the Inuisiana dele gation, the New Orleans States says: Therefore our representatives in the House f apish a striking illustration of two types of Demoorats. One ortno- doxers and the other saocharinej, so to speak. This is a foot that is no *r sorely puzzling the Demooratlo newspapers of the other Southern States is their efiorts to properly olasslfy the Demooraoy of the Louisiana delegation and the more they ponder over the variegated subject the greater is their distress of mind, but after muon pairful struggling some of oar contemporaries have reoohod the conclusion that the Democracy of Lon isiana’s representative should be put down as six of one thing and a half dozen of something else. This seems to be the only solution of an exceedingly interesting political puzzle. Congressman Robinson, of Indiana, has introduced a bill in Congress pro viding that in the event a govornor of one state refuses to honor the requisi tion of another for the surrender of a fugitive from justioe that the United States marshal shall arroBt tlm criminal and return him to the authorities cf the state in wliioh the crime was committed. For several months Governor Durbin, of Indiana, has been harboring ex-Gov- ernor Taylor, of Kentucky, who is un der Indlotmont as an accomplice in the assassination ot the late Governor Goe bel, and has refused to honor sevoral de mands of thejpresent chief oxeoutlve of Kentuoky for the surrender of Taylor. Should the Robinson bill bo passed dur ing the present session of Congress Tay lor, who undoubtedly was oonnectod with tho”plot to murder Goebel, will be oompellod tojpnt nn ocean instead of a state between [himself and Kentuoky to esoape the taloiiB of the law and punish ment for the dastardly orime which he instigated. The Philadelphia Record regards it as unthinkable that the Hepburn bill, which has”been |favorably reported to the house, should beoome the law underDwhioh no Isthmian canal is to beJBIconstrnoted. The Reo- ord points out that the measure assumes, among [other things, that the United States have the right to con struct, and authorizes the oonstruotion pf, "defenses”jwithout permission from the governments in whose territory the oanal would|be [located and in violation of the provision ot [the Hay-Paunoefote treaty prohibiting the exeroiso of the rights of|war.in the oanal or the waters adjacent thereto. Since treaties are de clared by the[oonstitution to be the su preme law of the land, any enactment in oonfliot(wlth the convention Just rat ified would|be nugatory. Congress may alter or repeal laws passed by itself, but it cannot amend or nullify a treaty. The position of the Supreme Court on the insular cases Is (graphically and truthfully described by Sidney Web ster, the^well-known New ( England lawyer. He[says: "Elght.of the nine justioes|retired in opposite comers, four in eaob, where they remained; through out the oonsultatlons, fixed and immov able in their oonviotions. The ninth flitted to and fro, tipping the judioial balance as h!s|mlnd lnolined. The prac tical effect was muoh the same as if the court had consisted of' only one justioe. He makes mnsio wherever he goes, hut his music is law. Never before in the annals of the court has [a single justioe managed in a series of great judgments, ting officer of the house .ofidfSHta- lives to a sanatorium." ‘Mr.-Little’* i has not been good for some time There will be a good deal of moving around in -Albany -mi the first of Jan uary. 8everal new dwellings will be oooupied, and other changes will be —r~—~ : THE SCHLEY CASE. Secretary Long has finally disposed of the Bohley oase, so for as the navy de partment is oonoerned, by aotlng upon the findings and oondosions of the oonrt of inquiry. He approves the findings of fact and the opinion of the fnll court; he ap proves the majority opinion where there is a difference in the oourt; he holds that the oourt oould not have entered into a consideration ot the question of oommand at the battle of Santiago and finollr he aaoepts the recommendation that no further proceedings shall be had. The secretary also has deolined the application of Admiral Sampson's coun : sel to enter upon an inquiry into the question of oommand and has notified Admiral Schley's counsel of that fact as a reason for declining to hear them on that point. The secretary, by direction of the President, has also severely -censured General Nelson A. Miles for the latter's interview, first published in a Cincin nati paper, indorsing the D-wey opin ion and denouncing the persistent ef fort that hosbeen made by certain offi cials of the navy to traduce Admiral Sohley. By direction of the President, the Secretary of the Nuvy also asks for the resignation of "Historian” Maolay. It is evident from all that has trans pired that President Roosevelt is very anxious to put an end to the further dls oussion of the Sohley-Sampsoit con troversy, but it is safe to say that he Iiiib not done It. The oonrt ot inquiry lias been dissolved, bat the oountry is not satisfied with the summary manner in which the administration has closed the door in Admiral Schley’s faie. We havo not heard the lost of the Schley- Sampson oase, and the administration may be sioker of it than it appears to bo now before the country gets through with it. Word oomes 'from Washington thnt President RooBevelt has annonnoed his pnrpose to reappoint H. A, Ruokrr to the offioe of internal revenue collector for the northern distnot of Georgia. The Atlanta Constitution says that the statement to this effect, oomes from the national capital authoritatively and will strike consternation in the enmp of the lily white contingent whioh has contended through different ohanuels for the appointment of one of their own number. Ruoker is said to have won on his record, tho President, after look ing into the case, having announced thnt he oonld find nothing wrong with the negro. A “GROUND HOG CASE.” The esteemed Savannah Press is sur prised, not to say alarmed, over the foot that its Atlanta correspondent takes it for granted that the deoision in the Park mandamus case is a foregone conclusion and intimates the general belief that the legal aspect of the oass resembles a "mock trial.” The use of the term "mock trial" seems to shook the Press. Well, perhaps it isn’t quite so bad as that, but there is no denying the fact that thd Howell resolution contemplated k aving a test case made over the pro posed trausfer of a part of the publio property fund to the Interest fund, and It must also be admitted that the whole proceeding has been based upon the hope or supposition that the supreme court would render a decision favorable to the soheme. It is uunecossnry to cost any undue reflection upon anybody, or upon the judiciary especially, by characterizing the case as a "moex trial,” but there is perhaps no harm in saying that the supreme court probably understands that it is a "ground hog case” and what it (the court) iB ex pected to do with it. Professor W. B. Merritt, of Valdosta, has announced that he is squarely in the race for State Sohool Oommissioner against Prof, G. R. Glenn, the present incumbent. Professor Merritt has been connected with various sohools in the state for the past twelve or fifteen years, and is at present superintendent of the public sohool] system of Valdosta and County sohool commissioner of Lowndes oounty. He says.that he concluded to make the raoe after becoming satisfied that there was widespread opposition to Professor Glenn and upon receiving as surances of supoort from many differ ent parts of the state. Germany olaims that Venezuela owes her a lot of money whioh she refuses to pay, and the affair is about to lead to war.' Germany has intimated that she oan and will oolleot the debt provided the United States will not interfere. Unole Sam would probably interpose no objection unless Germany should under take to oolleot her claim in real estate In that event there might be trouble. Vhe Moultrie News is the latest news paper enterprise ln;8outhwest Georgia, and a copy of the initial edition has reaohed the Hkbald. It is a neatly printed eight-page paper and there is an air of originality about it that is refresh ing. Mr. John E. Gibson, reoently with the Macon Telegraph, is the editor. We weloome the News to our exchange list and wish it merited success. The effort of the administration to choke off further agitation of the Sohley oase will fail. The American people love fair play, and the widespread indig nation at the unjust treatment of the real hero of Santiago will oontinue to expess itself. They murder collectors in Utah, but n Augusta, Ga., according to the Ohroniole, IV isn’t so bad. - "Here,” says the Ohroniole, "they simply work them to death making them ‘oall ..." . The Vocal Physiologist says that “more money is thrown away on the education of the human voice than on the support of government. Cf every 10,000 voices one may be listeued to without pain; of every 100,000 voioes one may be listened to with patience; of every 1,000,000 voices cne may be lis’ tenod to with satisfaction; of every 10,000,000 voices one may be listeued to with sensations of joy." Like statistics on inB'rumeutal torture woula be inter esting, but the Vocal Physiologist prob ably considers this outside of its sphere. Gen. Chaffee lias a very poor opinion of the Filipinos. He said, in reviewing one of a number of court martial cases: "History afftrds no parallel of a whole people thus practically turning war traitors, and in tho t;enias of no other people was ever found such masterfnl powers of seoreoy and dissimulation, but it iR needless to say that no powerful state was ever erected or ever oan be erected upon such immoral and unen- ^ghtenod foundations.” GEN. JOE WHEELER ON THE NEGRO. In the New York Journal of Sunday Gen. Joseph Wheeler discusses the ne gro problem, and in doing so he lays down four propositions that are, in our opinion, not only fair but, sensible. These fnnr propositions contain the meat of bis article, and they are so buo- oinotly stated ob to need no elaboration. They are— First—That it is idle to oonslder whether the presenoe ot the negro in this oountry is to its advantages. He is planted in this land and he will remain. Second—That we cannot allow a m .83 ot human being?, in this country to re main in ignoranoe. To do so leaves them the tools pf bad, designing and intriguing men, who for personal ad vantage work upon their superstitions, prejudicer and the worst elements of their nature. Third—That there is much good in the general make-up of the negro, and that efforts should be direoted to give him that kind of education which will cultivate And develop the good, and orr- rect and repress that whioh is vicious and bad. Fourth—That all efforts to enforoe or encourage social equality are detrimen tal to the negro, bit that it is incumbent unon the superior race to scrupulously proteot him in every legal right. THE DEMAND FOR COOKS. There is an increasing demand, for cooks. The country is abort on cooks, and oooks who are wortfiy to be oalled cooks and who really know how to cook are scaroe. We see now that the United States navy is in the market for cooks, and as many cooks aB oan be seoured are to be enlisted at the Brooklyn Navy Yard be fore January 1. On that date the gen eral mess system will be established uniformly througheut the navy, and one of the fundamental principles of the Boheme is that every cook in the service must be a professional. Here in the South, where we onoe had an abundant supply of the very best of oooks, the cook question is getting to be serious. The old Negro mammies who learned how to oook during slavery times are now getting too old to cook, and the younger generation doesn’t seem to take kindly to Bteady service in the kitchen. Half of those who pre tend to be cooks really know nothing about cooking, and the trouble is that but few are trying to learn how. When a weapon of any kind is pur chased in Russia a permit must bo se cured from tho local authorities. The name of the raau who makes the pur chase, with tho number of the weapon, is recorded, if tho purchaser ever wants to dispose of the weapon ho must uotiiy the authorities and cause the transfer to be recordei on the books of the firm whioh sold it. It that weapon is ever used in an attempted assassination, or in any demonstration against the law, the man reoorded as laBt having it in his possession is held responsible. William H. Crane, the aotor, dined at the Houbo of Commons with some of the Irish members not long ago, and as a preliminary a round of drinks was or- dered Crane took "the same,” which proved to be a half-pint of IriBb whisky in a tall tumbler. His friends added soda to their whisky and gulped it down without a wink. He followed suit, whereupon another round was ordered and another half-pint was plaoed before each man. "Say," he queried, turning to his neighbor, "when you ohaps take a drink do you always take one of that size?" "We do,” was the reply. "Well, all I’ve got to remark, then,” said Crane, "is that I am not surprised that the Boer war continues.” John Allen, formerly the wit of the House, entered the hall of the House last Tuesday. He was dressed in the tip-top of fashion Together with Mar- ous Aurelius Smith, delegate from Ari- zona, Allen surveyed the assembled con gressmen. "Rather a mixed lot,” was Smith's comment. "Yes,” assented Allen. “And to think,” he added, re flectively, "that for many years I asso ciated with these people on terms of equality l”_ , The majority of the Oourt of Inqnlry does not oonoede that Admiral Sohley was in command of the fleet when the viotory of Santiago was aohieved,- but the Philadelphia record suggests that it takes care at the same time to hold him to all the responsibilities of supreme oommand. By order of President Roosevelt, Maolay, the "historian," is to go. He has, .in foot, been kicked out of the navy. Very good. But what ofOrown- ingshiold, Sampson and the rest of the ootarie who not only read the proof- sheets of Maolay's alleged history, but passed np as good his libelous charges . 1 L. . », 1 ’' I'.r. - . ■ - j against A&mirai8chley? Mr. Burke, the editor cf the Galena (Kansas) Times, having gone to Wash ington as Congressman Jnokson's pri vate seoretary, h9s appointed H. L. Howe to run the paper in Ills acsenoe. Mr. Howe publishes the following salutatory: "Our agreement with Mr. Burke is to tho effect that we Bliall con tinue to publish the Times as a daily only so long as it is self-Bupporting. We are to economize aB muoh as possi ble—doourown typesetting, read proofs, Bolioit advertising, run errands, clean our own iipittoous and take in washing at night, but wo ore not to forge the boss' name to any ohcoks nor pawn any of the oflioo furniture to meet expenses. In cose we are unable to make the daily pay, we ore to discontinue its publica tion anu print a weekly; if the weekly refuses to earn its liviug we are to paok the stuff, store it in the back room, notify our ot editors and—flit. With this brief prelude we assume the awful responsibility of printing a daily news paper in Ga'oiia. ‘The Wonderful City That Jack Built,’ n hundred miles from home and with just six bits in the treasury.” For Croup use CHE NEY’S EXPECTORANT. Moultrie’s new hotel, whioh, accord ing to the Observer, is a handsome, modern affair costing (23,600, will be 9 open February 1. The now hotel has not yet been naened, and the company, as we learn from the Observer, is open to suggestions. . What’s tho matter with the Wiregrass Inn for a nau ef We usually get what snow comes to us In the coarse of a winter during Jan uary or February, though many per sons have been expeotiug it to come with every heavy cloud. So far, how ever, we have had neither snow nor sleet, and not a great deal of rain. Some Sid Leninisms. All From tho Spnrta Ishmnollto. Atlanta managed to squeeze the legis lative lemon ary. Scab Wright would, no doubt, feel better if Sam Jones would quit slobber ing on him. The next governor of Georgia will not be a ohaingang boss, whoever he may be. The office may not be as elevated as it onoe was, but it hasn't fallen that low, as yet. The fruits of the lest session of the legislature show conclusively the ueaes- ity for the anti-lobby plank in Guerry’s platform. It ought to oommend his can- dldaoy to the people. Well, Joe Hall, ol Bibb, made a good reoord. He tried to, protect the treas ury and the interests of the people, but the Atlanta lobby was too strong for him. He ought to be attorney general. You Cannot Find In any Furniture store In Southwest Georgia a greater variety of useful and ornamental ar ticles for Christmas offerings. [Our stock offers inducements to the well-to- do and the humble purchaser alike, and the patronage of one is as much desired as the other. Our store is often complimented for its cheer ful and pleasant appearance, and we feel sure that at this moment you will find it interesting by reason of the Xmas welcome that awaits every visitor. Give us a call. The Cook Furniture Co.,;: "MAKERS OF HAPPY HOMES. 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