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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
PVBUSBKP THURSDAYS.
Entered at the postoffice at States¬
boro, Ga., as second-class mail matter.
Statesboro, Ga., August 23, 1809.
The ex-queen of the Hawaiian Is¬
lands and the ex-king of the Samoan
Islands might organize an aristocracy
that would set the pace so far as gen¬
uine royalty is concerned for the west¬
ern hemisphere.
If the purpose of the giver of tlia
“America Cup” was to finally secure
the best form of vessel for sailing in
coast waters that purpose seems to
have been fulfilled in the fact that both
the American aud British vessels built
for the coming contest are substan¬
tially of the same type, wiih similar
appliances, and the contest is likely
to be decided by a mere chnuce differ¬
ence in the traveling of the vessels, or
iu the hapjiening of the wind. It is
worthy of note that both vessels are
absolute departures from the charac¬
teristics of the “America” and the
competitors from whom she wou the
trophy originally.
Probably some enterprising explor¬
er will soon attempt to reach the north
pole in an ice-crusher. We have a
fine one operating at the Mackinac
straits and doing duty as a railway
ferryboat at the same time, It sails
easily through ice two aud a half feet
thick, and lias broken down ice walls
as high as fifteen feet. But this is
left far behind by a Russian boat in
the Baltic steaming easily through ice
five feet thick, Whereat her eom
mauding officer grows sanguiue, and,
accepting Nansen’s assertion that polar
ice seldom attains twenty-five feet iu
thickness, concludes that an ice¬
breaking steamer of 20,000 horse
power would be stroug enough to
reach the pole. No doubt somebody
will try it aud spoil all the fun aud
ilauger of north pole hunting.
f Conversation is decaying and we
are degenerating into unsocial silence,
a writer iu the Philadelphia
Evening Post, This is not
a negligible danger, Man’s chief
duty—his unending duty—the proper
aim of life - is to talk. Sol die s fight,
statesmen plan, a:tists paint poets
rhyme merely that they may talk and
be talked about. Men live nobly in
order to have fine topics of conversa¬
tion. Books are written not so much
to be read as to be talked over. The
decay of conversation is a ready-made
subject for the critically minded man.
The divergence between the written
aud spoken language is growing wider
every day. We talk in a sort of tele¬
graphic slang. No sane man would
think of introducing into his conver¬
sation the phrases aud words of the
writteu lauguage. Very little of the
spoken lauguage gets into print. Iu
the end the books will beat the
tongues.
The idea that anyone who has ever
been familiar with the delight of
driving an intelligent an 1 spirited
horse will surrender that pleasure for
that of guiding a soulless machine
can only have occurred to a maa city
born aud bred, and thus deficient iu
half the knowledge and experience
which makes for the happiness and
health of the race, says the Brooklyn
Eagle. The cheapening of horses,
which will come from the general use
of automobiles, will extend the possi
bilities of driving to many persons to
whom horses have been hopeless lux¬
uries heretofore. The bicycle has
already begun that process aud mauy
people in the country now own horses
who could not have done so at the ex
alted prices which prevailed ten years
ago. The change is bound to go fur¬
ther, and although it will injure the
horse breeders it will still leave a mar¬
ket for horses of blood and breeding.
The demand which is left will be for
horses of the best quality, and the
good horse will come into move honor
for the qualities which no machines
can possess, and the poor horse will
no longer be worth his keep when the
automobile shall have been made cheap.
So long as these machines cost from
$400 to $6000 each the horse need not
fear their competition outside the
busiest of city streets?*
THE TRANSVAAL TROUBLES
Can Only Be Settled at Present Stage By a
Resort to Arms.
UNCLE KRUGER’S REPLY IS NOT AN ACCEPTANCE
Britons Who Are Posted on Affairs See No Way to
Avoid War With the Transvaal Government.
A London cable dispatch says: The
colonial office in confirming the dis¬
patch from Cape Town, saying the
Transvaal government had handed its
reply to the British agent at Pretoria,
says that Mr. Alfred Milner has tele¬
graphed a message to that effect. All
that the officials of the colonial office
would say in regard to the matter
was:
“The reply is not a complete accept¬
ance of the proposal of Mr. Chamber
lain.”
There is no longer any doubt that
President Kruger has refused to sub¬
mit to the demand of Mr. Chamber
iain for the appointment of a court of
inquiry. He may have done so diplo¬
matically or liedgingly, hut that his
answer is regarded by the British gov¬
ernment as tantamount to positive re¬
fusal is now an established fact. The
colonial office is normally non-com¬
mittal, but there are other evidences
which amply justify the statement,
dhe report that President Kruger has
proposed new terras is somewhat veri
fied by the guarded comment of the
to onial officials and the irritability
displayed there.
There is not the slightest doubt that
they now believe that war is the only
way to settle the controversy.
The colonial officials would far rather
have a curt, defiant answer than the
temporizing answer which the Boer
president has sent. With the former
Great Britain would have plain
grounds for a quick commencement of
hostilities. ,
Under the circumstances which it is !
believed now exists, aggressive action :
needs considerable explanation to jus- ■
tify it in the eyes of the world and the :
English majority who still declare that |
the war would be an outrage; however, I
if Mr. Chamberlain has his way, it is
ELBERTON’S CARNIVAL OPENED.
Festivities Began Witl* a Speech From
Senator Ben Tillmau.
The Elberton, Ga., carnival was
opened Monday morning with a con
cert by Beardeu s band, of Augusta,
At noon the welcome address was
made by Mayor Adams. Hon. J. P.
Shannou then introduced Senator B.
R. Tillman, who made the opening
address. His theme was the elimina
tion of the negro from politics.
Alter referring to his boyhood days
spent in Elbert county, he launched
into his discussion with his old-time
vigor. The race question was a seri
ons problem and politics should be
freed from it. The disintegration of
tho republic was appaient when people
had to buy votes aud it cost $o,000 to
go to the legislature. It was time to
call a halt.
He explained the South Carolina
worlungs and held up a constitutional
convention as the one thing which
w’ould save the state, white primaries
would do for awhile, but would soon
be worse than now.
FOUR WERE BOUND OVER.
Whitectinpers In Soutb Carolina Will Be
Arraigned In Court.
The four men charged with whip¬
ping negroes in Greenwood, S. C.,
were arraigned before Magistrate Aus
tin for a preliminary hearing Mondav
afternoon. They waived a prelimi
nary trial and gave bond in the
sum of $1,000 each for appearance at
the circuit court. There have been no
further arrests and no more whippings.
Wage Agreement Signed.
The Western Anthracite Coal corn
pany, of Spadra, Ark., has signed the
district wage agreement with the
United Mine Workers’ and their old
men have resumed work. Other small
operators have also signified their in
tention to sign.
DEWEY FAVORS AUTONOMY?
Correspondent of a London Paper, At Xa
plea, Interview* the Admiral.
The Naples correspondent of The
London Daily News telegraphs the
substance of an interview he had with
Admiral Dewey there tinring the ad
miral's recent visit.
The admiral said in his judgment
the Filipinos were capable of self-gov
erumeut aud the way to settle the in
surrectiou and to insure prosperity
was to concede it to them. He de
dared that ho never was in favor of
violence toward the Filipinos and re
marked that after autonomy had been
conceded, annexation might be talk
ed of -
believed that President Kruger’s coun¬
ter proposals will meet with scant at¬
tention and unless the Boers complete¬
ly back down, which is not likely, the
crisis will quickly develop into war.
It has developed that the war office
has been aware of the nature of the
Transvaal government’s move for sev¬
eral days, and that it was communi¬
cated to the war office, hence it is
probable that Great Britain will delay
the denoument as little as possible.
A high colonial official expressed to
a representative of the Associated
Press his disgust at what he termed
“Kruger’s cupidity and hypocrisy. ”
He said:
“The kind of game which Kruger is
playing must be clear to Americans.
The protestations of the Boers that
they wish to live quiet, agricultural
lives may be the tune of some on the
veldt, but the gang in Pretoria is
simply after money. Though Presi¬
dent Kruger says many harsh things
of the Uitlanders, he never hesitated
to make money out of them, either by
fair or foul means.
“This Transvaal question cannot be
judged by recent occurrences. You
must go back fifty years. It has been
hanging fire all that time, and the
sooner it is settled now, the better.”
Though the official did not actually
eay so, it w'as clear that he believed
war was the only mode of settlement,
It is learned that the government is
somewhat annoyed at the public's
slight interest in the Transvaal,
The official above quoted said to the
Associated Press representative:
“Dreyfus seems the only thing that
our people think about, though Eng
laud is iu the most serious crisis. This
indifference is perhaps typical.”
A special dispatch from Cape Tow n
says there is great danger of an out
break of violence on the frontier, and
that the scum of South Africa are en
listing throughout the colony aud are
sent to Pitzani and Jameson , on
the border.
COLORADO TOWN DESTROYED.
Being Built of Fine Timber, Buildings
Burned I,ike Paper.
Fire lias utterly destroyed the busi
ness portion of the city of Victor, Con¬
ratio, causing a loss estimated at $2,
000,000.
Beginning shortly after noon Mon
day, the fire raged until evening, eon
surning everything it" in its way. It had
its origin, is thought, in the Mer
chants’ cafe, adjoining the Bank of
Victor, on the corner of Third street
and Victor avenue,
A strong wind from the south fanned
the flames and in a few minutes all the
surrounding houses were afire. Help
was summoned from Cripple Creek,
but the town had been built iu the
early days of the camp and was of pine
timber for the most part and burned
like paper.
Efforts were made to stop the prog
ress of the flames by blqwing up
buildings in their path by means of
dynamite and all the afternoon the
hills roared with explosions, but the
effort was in vain.
“INTIMIDATION” CHARGED.
Federation of Hallway Employes Holds
Interesting Meeting at Atlanta, Ga.
The Atlauta Federation of Railway
Employes held an interesting aud en
..... thusiastic meeting in ... Atlanta, Ga., ^
Mom.ay afternoon at which the new
j-Y, Charles 681 ! ea Daniel, £: ■ arraigned . ^ et ^ era the ^ on federal > Mr.
cou for “their notorious unfair
ness „ to labor unions, and he de
dared many of them are dominated by
corporate influences.
He also declared that some of the
road officials iu Georgia are discrimi
nating against members of the railroad
orders aud are trying to intimidate
and prevent their employes from be
longing to the organization represent
iug their class.
WILL ROOT RESIGN!
story In Afloat That New Secretary of War
Is Already Tired of His Job.
An interesting story is going the
rouuds in Washington that Secretary
Root will resign his portfolio. In a
word it is rumored that the secretary
is already sick of his job aud that he
will be forced to abandon his post iu
humiliation if he does not protect
himself by an early resignation,
l n T iew of the “fact that the new
secretary of war has had charge of the
department but a few weeks, this is
certainly a remarkable story to find a
start anywhere. But it is going around
and comes from apparently good au
thority.
LABORI ATTENDS COURT.
Wounded Barrister Rapidly Re¬
covering—Judge of Courtmar-.
tial Reveals Partiality.
The third week of the Dreyfus trial
at Rennes, France, began without in¬
cident at 6:30 Monday morning.
M. Labori was present. He drove
to the court in a carriage and entered
the ball at 6:30. The audience greeted
him by standing up and by a general
clapping of hands.
Maitre Labori walked quite briskly,
but holding his left arm close to his
side iu order not to disturb the wound.
He met General Mercier and General
Billot in the middle of the courtroom,
stopped, chatted and smiled. Labori
looked very well. He was given a
cushioned arm chair. Madame La¬
bori, looking well, was also in court.
Labori was warmly congratulated by
his friends. Captain Dreyfus, on en¬
tering, smilingly shook hands with
Labori.
It is said the court will get through
with the ninety odd witnesses by the
beginning of September, and it is
probable that the verdict wiil be de¬
livered about September 7th.
All of the witnesses examined dur¬
ing the day were hostile to Dreyfus,
but as none of the evidence was fresh
but mostly a reiteration of the old
statements, the audience followed the
depositions with comparatively little
interest.
The session wound up with a scene,
on account of extraordinary conduct
of Colonel Jouaust, president of the
court, who permitted himself to make
an unwarrantable display of partiality.
M. Bertullns bad been confronted
w ith the last witness, Captain Junck,
and General Gonz had defended the
latter w hen Colonel Picquart was asked
to be allowed to refute some of Juuck’s
remarks. Colonel Jouaust made a
gesture of impatience and shouted:
“What, again? ’
An outburst of loud hissing came
from the audience at such a display of
unfairness from the president. Judges
aud gendarmes quickly suppressed the
noise, but Colonel Jouaust understood
the well-merited rebuke administered
him, turned red and adjourned the
court ten minutes later.
KAISER’S CABINET TO RESIGN.
Members Hold a Meeting and ICeach That
Decision—Emperor William Absent.
A special cablegram from Beilin,
Germany, states that Monday after¬
noon a cabinet meeting was held at
the residence of Prince Hohenlohe,
the imperial chancellor, aud the whole
cabinet agreed to resign.
The acceptance of the minister’s res¬
ignation is uncertain.
Emperor William will return to Ber¬
lin on Wednesday, when, it is reported,
he will preside at the cabinet council
aud decide what steps are to be taken.
All kinds of rumors are afloat, One
paper asserts that the kaiser has ac¬
cepted the resignation of the whole
cabinet. Others are of the opinion
that the fall of Dr. Yon Miquel will
ential the fall of Prince Von Hohen¬
lohe also, but nothing will be defi¬
nitely known until the emperor ar¬
rives.
The newspapers are still actively
commenting upon the difficulties of
the situation.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
T.ist of New Industries Established the
Fast Week.
The more important of the new in¬
dustries reported during the past week
include brick works in Texas; coal
mines iu Kentucky; cooperage works
in Arkansas; three cotton mills in
Georgia, one in Mississippi, two in
South Carolina and Tennessee; cotton
seed oil mills in Mississippi and Texas;
two electric light plants in Tennessee;
flouring mills in North Carolina and
Virginia; a foundry and machine shop
in Alabama; a furniture factory in
North Carolina; a grain elevator in
ArkauFas; iron ore mines in Alabama;
a knitting mill in South Carolina;
limestone quarries in Alabama; lumber
mills in Louisiana, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee; a pa¬
per mill in Sonth Carolina; a tele¬
phone supply factory iu North Car¬
olina; a telephone company in West
Virginia; tobacco companies in the
Carolinas; a water and power company
in Florida; a woodworking plant iu
North Carolina.—Tradesman (Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn.)
FILIBUSTERS ARE ACTIVE.
American Vessels Are Vigilantly Guarding
the Cuban Coast.
News from Santiago de Cuba is to
the effect that the Dominican agents
are rapidly recruiting expeditions
that part of the island, particularly on
the north coast.
All trading schooners are closely
watched. The tug Adonis was armed
and sent to Guantanamo to patrol the
coast.
It is certain that several expeditions
have been able able to get away with¬
out auy interference, but General
Leonard Wood, the military governor,
is determined to do all iu his power to
enforce neutrality.
FIVE MEN INDICTED
For the Murder of Si Smith In
Hall County, Ga., Jail,
THE CHARGE MADE IS MURDER
Indictments Brought About By Confession
of Hamilton Taylor Before the Grand
Jury—Sheriff Contradicts Confession.
As a result of the confession of Taylor
Hamilton, the Hall county, Ga., grand
has returned six true bills for
murder against men whom Hamilton
implicates iu the lynching of Si Smith
in the jail at Gainesville. The men
indicted are:
Taylor Hamilton, of Maysville.
Oliver Bell, traveling salesman for
Gresbon Bros. & Itosenfeld, of At
l&nta.
Mark Bell, a prominent farmer of
Cleveland, White county, Ga.
Tom Bryson, a harness-maker of
Gainesville.
Charles Tanner, an employe of the
G., J. and S. R. R. Gainesville.
Henry Towry, a tinner, Gainesville.
Tom Bryson, Charles Tanner and
Taylor Hamilton are under arrest, but
the two Bell boys and Henry Toivry
have left the country and no trace of
them has been discovered in the ener¬
getic search that has been instituted
for them for the past week.
The grand jury recommended that
Tanner and Bryson, who have been
confined in the Gainsville jail, be re¬
moved to Atlanta for safe keeping.
Judge Estes, of the Hall superior
court, issued an order to Sheriff Mon¬
day to take the prisoners to Atlanta.
The order was at once complied with.
The recommendation of the grand
jury and the consequent order of
Judge Estes regarding the prisoners
added to the already tremendous sen¬
sation, as it has been openly asserted
that Sheriff Monday has known of the
entire affair of the lynching from the
beginning to the end, and that he was
in sympathy with the alleged lynchers.
Taylor Hamilton, in his confession,
vows that the sheriff knew of it, and
many witnesses before the grand jury
gave testimony pointing that way.
On the other hand, Sheriff Monday
states emphatically that the men under
arrest were not in the mob on the
night of the lynching. On this testi¬
mony the fate of the prisoners de¬
pends.
There is undoubtedly a feeling of
great sympathy in the county for the
Bells 1 . The shocking murder of the
aged head of the family aroused the
indignation of the whole section and
when Si Smith, the murderer, was
captured, everybody felt that lie should
receive the full extent of the law for
his crime.
Smith was captured on the 12th of
last May and confined in the Hall
county jail. On the night of the 14tb
of July he was shot to death in his
cell by a mob. The killing of Smith
caused the greatest surprise in the
community, for those interested in his
capture and crime had brought him
many miles through a mountainous
country to the jail without molesta¬
tion.
Governor Candler had offered a re
ward of 8500 for the capture of Smith
with evidence to convict. The cap
tors made application for the reward,
but the governor refused to pay until
the prisoner had been convicted. It is
said in Gainesville that the doubts ex¬
pressed by the governor as to the evi¬
dence against Smith hastened the
lynching.
A striking feature of the whole affair
is the fact that every man against
whom the grand jury returned true
bills figured prominently in the six
weeks chase and capture of Smith.
The best people of Gainesville and
the vicinity believe that the right par¬
ties have been discovered.
Many of the state house officials in
Atlanta, including Governor Candler,
place implicit confidence in the confes
s.on of Hamilton, and since the crime
of lynching iu the state has become so
pievalent, a confession from one of
the perpetrators could not fail to have
fascinating powers for those who are
determined to put a stop to the mob
violence. The governor is especially
interested iu bringing to justice the
men who are responsible for the inhu¬
man death of Si Smith and the eonse
quent blot on the morals of Hall coun
ty, the governor’s home.
CANAL BILLS DEFEATED.
Emperor William's Fet Measure Is Lost
In Prussian Diet.
The lower house of tho Prussian
diet Thursday by a vote of 212 to 200
rejected the second reading of the bill
relating to the Dortmund-Ithine canal
and the completion of the Dortmund
Ems canal. The lower house also de¬
feated the central canal bill bv 1 a a rote voie
of 228 to 126. j
Strikers Kelnse Offer.
at , Middlesboro, Ky., striking coal miner*
they decided Thursdav after
noon, not to accept the
offer of the operators which was a 10
per cent raise. They demand