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The Bulloch Herald. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. H BLISHKI) THURSDAYS. Entered at the |fostoflice at States¬ boro, Ga., as second-class mail matter. Statesboro, (ia., May 25, 1809. Americans have been so confident from the beginning that affairs in Samoa would be rationally adjusted that they have had no great interest iu the means employed. A commis sion with plenipotentiary powers, sit¬ ting on the ground, is as good a way as any. Canada has preserved the famous Plains of Abraham by pav'ing the nom¬ inal rent of 8100 a year, but this ar¬ rangement is now broken, and the field has been surveyed for building lots. Hosts of Americans will join the Canadians in protesting against the transformation of the historic bat¬ tlefield into a thickly settled suburb of Quebec. The organization of a naval reserve iu Houolulu, which is about to be uu dev taken with the full approval of Secretary Long, is a thoroughly com¬ mendable movement, The organiza tion of such a body at that port aloug the lines which have been followed by the reserves iu this country will pro¬ vide au emergency force at one of the most important of all our naval out¬ posts, aud there may betimes when it will prove of almost incalculable use fulness to National interests in the Pacific ocean. The project is au un mistakabie sign that the process of Americatmiug Hawaii is making rapid headway. Rrouze monuments in London have a hard time of it, aud so have those whose duty it is to keep such bronzes in good order. Boehm’s • statue of Carlyle stands on the Chelsea Em¬ bankment, where with smoke soot, acid exhalations and dampness Car¬ lyle was soon coated with oxides. Chelsea officials did not understand the line effects of a patiue. They Bombbed Carlyle and got him clean, and next painted*him black, following Fronde’s ways. There came much fault-finding. Then the Chelesa au thorilies removed the paiut, re¬ scrubbed Carlyle over again, aud he now appears as a mottled philosopher. The Prince of Wales has orgauized a “League of Mercy,” with the imme¬ diate object of promoting the London hospital fund which bears his name, and to organize all workers iu this and similar causes. In this eonnec tiou an “Order of Mercy” has been established, which will be conferred as a reward for gratuitous personal services rendered iu the relief of sick¬ ness aud suffering. None can be ad¬ mitted to the order without the sauc tiou of the queen, and the decoration of the order may be worn on all ocea sioas, but gives no rank, It is dis tinctly stated that personal service only aud not gifts of money will re¬ ceive merit from this order. The Connecticut savings banks in¬ creased their deposits last year by $7,512,700, and of this sum $7,161,082 came ia deposits of $1000 and more. Only $.348,618, in other words, caine from deposits of less than 81000. How much of this came from deposits of over $500? The statistics uo not follow the matter down to that point. Enough is shown, however, to indi¬ cate that the savings bauks of Con neeticut are existing today largely for the accommodation of the wealthy classes. Of the total deposits of $163,482,498, only $63,544,098 stands to the account of persons whose de¬ posits are less than $1030. More than $54,000,030 is to the accouut of indi¬ vidual deposits above $2000. The Norwich Dime Savings society has one individual deposit of $54,507, and the Norwich Dime Savings bank has one deposit of $42,991. Several othei banks carry single deposits in excess of $20,000. There are not less than 271 individual deposits in the savings bauks of Connecticut above $l0,no0 : aud 15,142 between $20)0 aud $10, 009. There are as many as 33,928 in¬ dividual accounts of from $1000 tc $ 2000 . IHVEHTOB OF WIRELESS TEUSRM. j£ij " " " ' |L 1 'I"" ’ ■" 1 '"'5? w i A i y tei t V///A r % y. % MEL? II \ a 1 % w V\ I # 4 ! it Vi \ m • -1 A3 V d a ii * W Professor Gughelmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, who will visit .America next fall, is only twenty-five years old, but bis work has already won him fame and fortune. He began experiments in Italy, and the Italian Government gladly paid him a high price for the use of his invention on war¬ ships. Then he removed to England. He is admittedly the foremost in¬ ventor in his line, and has been the most successful of the numerous scientific men who are workiilg upon wireless telegraphy. His recent experiments in England, in which he sent a message without wires for a distance of thirty miles, wore perfectly successful. Marconi proposed to send a message from the French to the English coast, but the French Government at first re¬ fused. Learning, however, that the German Emperor was investigating tbe matter, the French Government agreed to permit Marconi to build his sta¬ tion ou its soil. He says the system could be operated across the Atlantic. JfUNSTON’S STIRRING - y.i Has Sought Adventure in Many Places and Has Never Shirked Danger. ¥. * A red-headed man with a low, voice, is making the Twentieth Kan¬ sas the most famous American ment now fighting the Filipinos. only weighs 115 pounds, but—he can fight. More than that, he will fight The story of Brigadier-General Funston, late Colonel of the Twenti¬ eth Kansas, reads more like a from the exploits of the “White Com¬ pany,” a romance of knightly times, than a matter-of-fact relation of what a nineteenth century jayhawker has done. Fuuston’s character as a soldier aud combatant is summed up in the terse expression of one of his own “bottled vitriol.” The Twentieth Kansas is not a regi¬ ment composed of handsome men. As a beauty show it would go into bank¬ ruptcy. So far as possible every man in it. was selected for his ability to en¬ dure and fight and not with a view to ✓ ii t m .'i r m !k t A if % m i •s *SS 'r I ii Wi I i: i 4 © o J m BP.IGADIER-GENERAL FREDERICK FUNSTON. good looks. The selection of the men was his largely left to Funston, aud judgment was exceptionally good is proved by the terrible deeds men are performing on the island of Luzon. The men are Kansas farmers, of tne horny-handed type, bullwhackers from the plains, blacksmiths, city laborers, descendants not only of the old Free S°il settlers, but of the early Confed * ©It , Li m rrv/*- ii, a 'I • I vug i •IF - MRS. EDNA BLANKARD FUNSTON. erate rangers-^ men who can shoot, swim, live on air, and sing a hymn. Funston fought iu C uba with the Cubau army until the destruction of the Maine brought him back to his own country. old/yet He is but thirty-three years ha has engaged in twenty-three battles in Cuba and six or more in Luzon. His left artu has been mutilated for life by a shell, his lungs pierced by a Mauser bnllet, his thigh crushed by a horae during battle, his system racked by gassA-sESS]!: pedition to Alaska he was pitclied into the Yukon River and naiTowly escaped drowning. Within the circumference of the arctic circle he was nearly frozen to death, and then fought pneumonia to the very door of death. Of practi cally no physique, but five feet four inches in height, his endurance and escape make him one of the most re¬ markable personages connected with the American army. Love-making and fighting are all one to the brave General Funston. He wooed and won bis pretty wife with the same vim he showed in battle. He met Miss Edna Blankard, of Oakland, Cal., a music teacher, while in camp in San Francisco, and married her in three weeks’ time. She is with him in the Philippines, having been smuggled on board a transport by her husband in the disguise of a soldier boy. HOME-LIFE OF AGUINALDO. HI* Mother, Sister and Wife Are Caring; For the Insurgent Wounded. The character and life of Felipe Aguinaldo, the Filipino leader and general of the insurgents who have rebelled against the authority of the United States, are somewhat familiar to the people of this country. Again aldo, however, has a wife, mother and sister, to whom very little atten tion has been directed. SAWr S * / %Ji( Wi (i §88 * / 1 KX I rv % m mm Hi I , ! I ■ II m I 7 zs 7 m /' , / MOTHER OF AGUINALDO. THE FILIPINO LEADER. The insurgent leader is now about thirty years of age. He is a mestizo —that is, of mixed Spanisu and native blood. He is of medium height and slender in appearance, these physical characteristics being common to the Filipino. Aguiaaido’s father was a planter iu the province of Cavite. His mothex* has Chinese blood coursing through her veins, being the daughter of a Chinaman and a native woman. Aguinaldo’s graudfather, on his side, was a Spaniard 'hence who married a native woman, aud the racial features of Aguinaldo are accounted for. Aguinaldo’s mother has had little to do with the career of her son, for he was sent, away at au early age. His mother and sister, however, have lived upon their small plantation, which produces enough for them to gain their livelihood. Miss Aguinaldo vJamy, the sister, is small in statue, possesses au olive complexion, and is quite active physically. 8he helps her mother, and though she has otten been woed, has not j-et been won by any of her admirers. She is domestic in her tastes, has no vanity, except that common to her sex, and is true to her friends. She is a charming Filipino damsel, aud a good type of the mestizos of the islands. Of Aguinaldo’s wife very little is known. She has been doing good work among the soldiers of her hus¬ band's army iu attending to the sick. She has organized a hospital corps, somewhat modelled alter our Red Cross Society, aud in many ways has made herself useful to the rpi There is a pretty story told of Aguiu aldo’s wooing,«btit bow much truth there is in it it is impossible to tell, During the first rebellion against Spain, when the Spanish soldiers were committing almost every outrage cou ceivable on the Filipinos, a troop of s °l di er« was sent to arrest a planter who was supposed to be aiding the rebels. Somehow Aguinaldo lieurdof the intended capture, aud, at a great risk to bimseli, weut to tbe planter’s house, informed him of his danger, and took him aud his daughter to r. place of safety.^ While iu retreat Aguinaldo s kinuness to them, in many ways saving them from capture, softened the heart of the planter’s fair daughter, and Aguinaldo made love to ljer ® fter fashion of the Filipino whlc b does not djffer materi «* ] y fro “ tbe fashion toe wide world Iu the course of time they were rr,eii - *__________ Iron furnaces with a capachv 1 of tons a vear are idle be we I are out of date. , ADVICE TO POPULISTS Address Is Formulated At Kansas City Meeting. FUSION PLAN DISAPPROVED The Document Urges a Thorough Organization All Over the Country. At the joint meeting of the populist national organization committee and National Reform Press association at Kansas City the past week, an address to populists of the United States was formulated and issued. The address urges a thorough or¬ ganization of the middle-of-the-road era in every section of the country, with the understanding that they shall national . with enter the next campaign the present populist organization, but that wherever fusion shall gam the day, whether in county, state or na¬ tional convention, the middle-of-the roaders shall bolt and begin an active campaign to carry out their princi¬ ples. The alleged fusionist tendencies of Marion Butler, chairman of the popu¬ list national committee, are provided against iu a clause which authorizes the national organization committee to call a convention if they shall be convinced that the national chairman or the national committee is playing into the hands of the fusionists. The address of the committee, in substance, is as follows: “That the voters of the nation may feel assured that the people’s party shall not again be betrayed in nation¬ al convention or its working forces passed into the hands of the enemy, and to inspire confidence among the masses in the integrity of our acts and sincerity of onr demands for inde¬ pendent action as a party, we respect¬ fully submit to the populists of the nation the following plan of action: "1. That the national organization committee hereby instructs its chair¬ man to proceed with the formation of people’s party precinct clubs in all the states on the plan recommended by the Cincinnati convention of Septem¬ ber, 1898, or some relative plan, and to appoint in each state not having members already selected three men bers of the national organization com¬ mittee, and with the assistance and advice of these committeemen to select a state organization committee of the same number of members as the then existing state committee, and through these cominitteemeu to organize as far as possible organization committees in congressional districts, counties and voting precincts. Wherever it is posi¬ tively known that those members of national, state and other committees now existing are unqualifiedly opposed to fusion with either of the old parties and for independent, straightforward aetion by the people’s party, they are to he selected as members of the sev eral organization committees. 2. It shall be the duty of the sev¬ eral committees to use all honorable means to secure the selection of dele¬ gates to the various conventions, lead ing up to the nomination of the presi¬ dential convention ia 1900, who are opposed to fusion and, failing in this, to provide for and send contesting delegates to the several conventions. 1 hat is to say, if those who ure -oppos ed to fusion are unfairly or dishonor¬ ably treated in »l ie county convention they shall seud a delegation to con¬ test the seats of the fusion delegation in the state convention. “If the state convention is controll¬ ed in the interest of the fusion and against an honorable and straightfor¬ ward people’s party policy, as soon as this is determined the middle-of-the road delegations shall leave the tention and send con¬ ,OD ff ?“ ,f fafe a contesting delega V to national COQ mention yention. be Should the national con populists, controlled bv straight Xu all delegates seat under plan shall fee! themselves in honor bound to nominate those candidates f° r president and vice-president bv referendum vote, provided *i judgment of the national organization committee there shall have been cient organization to make such vote both practicable and a the will of the rarlv. representative of 1900 “Should the 'national th? onu tl °* °! t be controlled in ‘fusion,’ tile straight T’* 'tT 8 ^ said convention fl in delegations seJt find ^ 1 thl ! a straight U>n an ,^ carry out the -will ' f the o popul of the nation «- ,* ^ * ‘ ‘fusion’ convention regftv< to “In “In this this case (he national committee committee and aud the the and and oountrv nr«' organized under this L“',‘ i e recognised as the oulv affa?r« * ll,l ‘borPv in the affairs of # n the ‘ party.