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The Bulloch Herald. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. PUBLISHED THURSDAYS. Entered at the postoffice at States¬ boro, Ga., as aecond-claa# mail matter. Statesboro, Ga., April 18, 1900. Is there any warning to the United States in the declaration of Arnold White that it is the vices of “smart society” that have sapped the power of Great Britain? Superintendent of Schools Frye hat reported to Governor-General Wood that 1878 primary schools have been opened in the island of Cuba and that 100,000 children are in attendance. The opening of the schools has done much to bring about a better feeling towards the Americans throughout the island.___ One of the contributors to a recent 4 medical publication describes an in¬ teresting case which be reports, “be¬ cause it suggested a hew operation— he paticocholec ystostocholes ys tenter ostomy, or hepaticockolesystostenter ostomy.” But how they could ever get that name into an operating room is what most persona would like to know'. Certain German schools have an annex in which girls are taught house¬ keeping. They are gathered in fami¬ lies of from six to ten, under the caio of a teacher, and all the work of the house is done by the inmates. At ntated times receptions are held, to which the pupils may invite their friends, and they alone are responsi¬ ble for the entertaiumeufc provided. It is said that these “housekeeping schools” have proved remarkably suc¬ cessful among the home-loving Ger¬ mans. A writer in a French review has made a care r ul analysis of the wages of women in various countries. He says that in the United State 1 a wom¬ an will earn about half as much as a man for doing the same work, and in England rather less. In Vienna the average earnings of a woman are from $1.20 to $1.69 a week, In Italy she gets about a third as much as a man. In Germany her earnings average $1.40 a week, while in France sho is paid somewhat move than half a man’s wages. _ While the man who invented eivili zation doubtless imagined that he was conferring an uumixed blessing upon a dreary world, something happens every now and then to prove that he was badly mistaken. Generally speak¬ ing, his invention has been a pretty good thing. The cooking is decided¬ ly better than it was under tho old order; the styles of dress are distinct¬ ly improved; manners and morals are gentler and purer; social conditions are somewhat more orderly, and man kind as a whole is infinitely better off than it was before the civilizing pro cesser , opeiata. . egan o The prison-reform system of Indi¬ ana has b^en in operation only a few years, but this comparatively brief ex¬ perience “has proven its high eco¬ nomic value, as well as its great moral beneficence,” the Indianapolis Press ■ays. Some hundreds of paroled prisoners iu Indiana are leading the lives of good citizens. Under the sys¬ tem, the sentence of the criminal is iudeterminate. When, iu the opinion of the state board of pardons, he is fit to make the effort to live outside the walls, he is given his freedom on parole. When he is freed on parole— and, if he can be reformed at all, he seldom stays more than two years— he usually has more than $55 of earn iugs, and often he has a much larger sum. An agent of the state has al ready procured for him a place iu a factory or on a farm. His employer is the only one that knows his ante¬ cedents, unless he chooses to tell them himself. He and his employer / make , written ... reports . „ to the , prison monthly, and agents of the state verify these reports as to conduct. When the man has fully demonstrated hi* ability and inclination to live an up riclit life, full pardon is granted him, Tillman Asks For Mining Schools. Senator Tillman, from the commit¬ tee on mines and mining, reported a bill providing for schools of mining in the public land states. OEORGIA NEWS ITEMS Brief Summary of Interesting Happenings Culled at Random. A Splendid Showing. The report of the prison commission of Georgia from the leasing of convicts for the first quarter of the present year has been made to Comptroller General Wright by Judge J. S. Turner, chair¬ man of the commission. The amount due the state for th* hira of the convicts under the new sys¬ tem for the quarter is $50,277.40. This splendid showing is very gratifying to those who have advocated the new sys¬ tem by which the Btate cares to all its convicts and nothing is left to the lessees to do but to point out the work which is to be done by the convicts. This plan gives the state an oppor¬ tunity to care for its own prisoners, and see that the treatment, which has been complained of so often, is con¬ siderate, and that the convicts are well clothed and fed, and receive all medi¬ cal attention necessary to keep them in the best cf health. The report of the last quarter is $150 in excess of the report of the last quar¬ ter of 1899, and $600 in excess of the quarter which ended in October, 1899. On April first the plan of leasing the convicts under the care of the state closed the first year of the ex¬ periment, and during the twelve months it has been in operation it has been eminently successful. The income to the state from the convic4»~for the year has been about $200,398.13, besides $5,000 net in¬ come received from the prison farm at Milledgeville. Of this amount $150,000 was appro¬ priated for the expenses of maintain¬ ing the convicts, necessary guards and officials to manage them. The entire amount will not be needed, however, for the expenses, and the income un¬ der the new'system will net the state about $85,000 the first year, which is expected to be the most expensive as Hie new system was largely an experi¬ ment. Under the old system the state net¬ ted between $10,000 and $12,000. Twenty Years For Bill Clark. Bill Clark, colored, tried at Irwin ville the past week for assaulting Mrs. Sarah Baker on the night of March sixth, was convicted and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. Harmony In Bt-unawick. The Good Government Club faction in Brunswick politics met at the court house last Saturday and decided to ac¬ cept the report of the special commit¬ tee appointed to confer with the ring faction and go into a white primary. This action refers to all officers, both state and county, and all Democrats will abide by the nominations. • The meeting decided to separate the white primary for state house officers for that of county offices and will leave date when county offices are to be voted on to be fixed at a later confer¬ ence between the two special commit¬ tees from the two local factions. The state house officers will be voted for in the primary of May 15th, as prescribed by the state committee. The situation has been relieved locally by the action of the Good Government Club faction. a Juror For Sale, At Atlanta, the past week, D. S. Looney and W. M. Bradley were forged with offering to fix a juror in the Mattie Adams will case, and were ordered to show cause before Judge J. H. Lumpkin why they should not be attached for contempt. Attorneys R. J. Jordan and Reuben Arnold, representing different sides in the will case, went before Judge Lump¬ kin and preferred charges against the two men. Looney was until recently a member of the city detective department, atM is now running a private detective agen¬ cy. Bradley has for a number of years been a justice court bailiff, and until a few days ago was connected with Judge Bateman’s court. Meeting of Fruit Grower*. She North Georgia Fruit Growers’ Institute, held iu Adairsville last week, has passed into history. The session was one of the most profitable that they have ever held. The at tendance was larger and the disous B * ou g® n ® ra l The P ro & ram ' °' vin g to T a «°™ reasons,-was not carried out t in full: Governor Candler, Hon. J. W. Harris, Hon. W. G. Cooper and others that were expected could not be present, much to the disappointment of the en t ‘ r pe °V. ie ’ m, The discussions . were general , and , the interest intense. The institute was declared to be one of the best ever held, and it is regretted that it was not called to bold a longer period, New Mills For Macon. Several new mills will be establish¬ ed in Macon within the next few months. There have been a number of capitalists in Macon recently search¬ ing for factory sites, and it is under¬ stood that several big concerns will locatedhere. Special inducements are being offerod by the city to manufac¬ turing industries and the outlook for Macon as an industrial city seams brighter at present than it has been in many years. Four Years For Fostofflce Robbers. In the United States court at Savan¬ nah Saturday morning Judge Emory 8peer passed sentence on Harry Bel¬ mont and Harry Nelson, who entered a plea of guilty to robbing the post office at Ocilla some months ago. He setenced them to four years in the penitentiary at Nashville. In passing sentence the judge said that professional crooks from the north make a great mistake in believ¬ ing they can come south, ply their trade with impunity and escape pun¬ ishment. The people of the south are easy to get along with when dealt with honestly, but they are quick to run down anyone who robs them. Official Form of Democratic Ballot. The official form of ballot for the Democratic primary set for May 15th has been prepared and announced by the sub-committee of the state Demo¬ cratic committee, consisting of Vice Chairman Ed Brown and Hon. Porter King, of Fulton. The form prepared for the primary conforms to the usual arrangement of Democratic primary elections, except that this year more than one office will be voted for on the ticket that were never directly voted for by the people before, including judge of the superior court and solic¬ itor. The ballot prepared by the sub-com¬ mittee gives the precedence of the of¬ fices, state and county, and on the state ticket where there is no opposi¬ tion to the single candidate for re» election, the name of the sole candi¬ date has been inserted. The ticket Bhows opposition among the statehouse officers only in one instance, that of prison commissioner for the unexpired term, the office now filled by Hon. Thomas Eason of Telfair. Commis¬ sioner Eason has announced for re election, and is being opposed by C. C. Thomas of Ware county. For the office of state treasurer there is but one candidate at present, Cap¬ tain R. E. Park, of Macon. Treasurer Speer has signified his intention of leaving politics for the present, and therefore, will not be a candidate to succeed himself. The majority of the county commit¬ tees over the state that have acted in the last two weeks have asked to be fur¬ nished the official form the ballot will take at the primary. Three counties —Fulton, Bibb and Coweta—have arrauged their own form of ballot, and the form announced by the sub-com¬ mittee conforms •ubstantially to these three. A copy of the official form has been sent by Vice Chairman Brown to the secretary of every county commit ttein the state, in order that the bal* ’ot may be printed at the convenience of the various committees. For the first time in the history of the state the voters will cast their bal¬ lots on May 15th for both judge and solicitor of the circuit court. The people of each judicial circuit will choose their own judge and solicitor, and tho candidate for each office re¬ ceiving the largest vote in the circuit will be nominated for the office by tka Democratic convention in June. Thera will be no circuit convention for the nomination of judges and solicitors, and the returns, after being consoli¬ dated by the chairmen of the different county committees in the circuit, will be forwarded direct to the chairman of the state Democratic committee. The Feople “Throttled.'’ The Fulton county executive com¬ mittee by an overwhelming majority decided not to let the voters pass on the fee system at the May primary. * * m ■ Ex-Speaker Little Commissioned. A commission has been issued from the office of Assistant Adjutant Gen¬ eral Byrd to Hon. John D. Little, speaker of the last house of represen¬ tatives, as major of the Third Geor¬ gia regiment. Major Little is one of. the best known military men in south¬ western Georgia, aud his election to the office of major recently was agreed upou with practical unanimity. A number of commissions for officers in different parts of the state were issued by the assistant adjutant general. New Georgia Po*tma*ter*. Recent appointment of Georgia post¬ masters are as follows: Annie E. Bar¬ rett at Bab, Henry county; Sylvester B. Lee at Ewing, Clinch county; Os¬ car P. Bennett at Drew, For¬ syth county; Annie S. Frazer at Limerick, Liberty county; R. R. F. Cassels McIntosh county; James T. Rawlins at Rawlins, Dodge county; E. N. Sissum at Skeinab, Fannin county; James A. Smiley at Smiley, Liberty county, James S. Frierson at Sofkee, Decatur county. loe Men liaise Price*. With the advent of warm weather comes the announcement that the price of ice has taken a sudden jump in At¬ lanta. Last year the frozen product could be bought from any ice ice wagon on the street for 20 cents for 100 pounds. This year it will take 35 cents to buy 100 pounds from the wagons if cash is paid, aud 30 cents if the buyer bolds a ticket from the com¬ pany which controls the wagon. Last year there was lively competi¬ tion in the ice business in Atlanta,and every factory was striving for custom ers. The increase this year is the re¬ sult of an arrangement between the ice manufacturers of the city. *« Maddox Bill Pa**ea House. A Washington dispatch says: The bill dividing the northern district of Georgia, establishing a Federal court at Rome, has passed the house and gone to the senate committee. Fill Dispensers Graduated. Twenty-three young doctors, two of whom were ladies, graduated from the Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery at Atlanta the past week. The commencement exercises which took place at the Grand opera house were witnessed by a large and brilliant audience. “KILLED BY TAXES.” Swo flore Building and Loan Concerns In Atlanta Forced to Quit Business. Two more bnilding and loan associ¬ ations with home offices in Atlanta, Ga., have followed the Southern Home into the hands of a receiver. Upon the application of J. F. Bot¬ tom, of Birmingham, Ala., through his attorneys, Judge Pardee granted a receivership for the National Railway Building and Loan Association and appointed D. B. Stancliff, general sec retary and manager of the corporation, receiver. The plaintiff is the owner of seventy-five shares of stock with a par value of $100 per share. The allegations set forth in the pe¬ tition are in the main similar to those given as making advisable the liquida¬ tion of the affairs of the Southern Home, and they can be summed up in one word—overtaxation. The attitude of the supreme court, declaring un¬ constitutional the tax laws which ex¬ empted such associations from taxa¬ tion, except upon shares on which no loans had been made and the real es¬ tate which it owned, imposed a bur¬ den, it is claimed, that the National Railway could no longer stagger under. The stockholders took fright and in a very brief period of time 1,500 shares were withdrawn at a cost to the asso¬ ciation of $500,000. When the re¬ ceivership was granted it is said $40, 000 worth of withdrawals were on file. The Atlanta National Building and Loan Association is the other corpora¬ tion that will wind up its affairs under the supervision of Uncle Sam. BANK WRECKER DEAD. Lewis Redwine, Formerly of Atlanta, Ga., Dies In Louisiana. News reached Atlanta Tuesday of the death of Lewis Redwine at Bowie, La., where he was working for a lum¬ ber company. The cause of his death was not men¬ tioned, but it is known tnat he bad been a sufferer from weak lungs for many years and that not long ago he wrote to bis father in Atlanta that he had had several hemorrhages. He was at one time employed by the Gate City National Bank. Of that bank he became teller and afterwards was made assistant cashier. He was charged with wrecking the institution and served a short term in the Ohio penitentiary. DRAWDOWN FOR HEXICO. Secretary of State Pays $ 403,000 to President Diaz’s Man. Th8 president Friday sent a message to congress stating that by his direc¬ tion the secretary of state had turned over to the Mexican ambassador $403, - 030, the balances of the amount paid by Mexico in the award to La Abra Silver Mining Company. By act of congress the La Abra claims w-ere re¬ ferred to the courts, and under the decisions recently given the awards became repayable to Mexico. The presideat states that it affords him pleasure to communicate to congress this act of equity and good faith to¬ ward a friendly republic. JOURNALS LINING UP. Big Dailies of New York Showing Presidential Preferences. The New York papers are declaring themselves on the presidential contest this fall. The lines are being drawn and it is beleived that within the next fev.^weeks all the big papers will have taken one side or the other in the fight. The New York Journal has declared unequivocally for Bryau. The World has not yet lined up but shows signs of getting on the Bryau side later. The Herald is the latest to take a stand. It declares for Dewey and McKinley. Reichmann Led Boers. The Berlin correspondent of The London Daily News asserts that the Reichmann who is credited with hav¬ ing led the Boers at Kornspruit is certainly the American military at¬ tache, Captain Carl Reichmann. Cramps Deny a Report. That negotiations are pending look¬ ing to a combination of the gigantic Carnegie-Frick interests and the Cramp ship building concern is denied by officials of the latter company. OS AMERICAS SOIL OARROTE IS USED Old Spanish Custom Still In Force on Island of Porto Eico. MURDERERS STRANGLED Business In Ponce Suspended and Crowds Witness Affair. According to advices from Porto Rico, the five men, Simeon Rodriguez, Carlos Pacheco, Hermogenes Pacheco, Eugenio Rodriguez and Rosalio San¬ tiago, convicted of the murder in Oc¬ tober, 1898, of Prudencio Mendoza, at Yuaco, after criminally assaulting the wife and daughters of their victim, who were compelled to dance about the corpse, were executed Saturday by the garrote during the forenoon of Satur¬ day at a spot about a mile from the jail. The great publicity of the garroting exhibition, with the black-robed con¬ demned men in open carts, the slow procession, the entreaties of the priests and the braggadocio manners of the executioners,with the later exhi¬ bition of the corpses to the assembled thonsands, made a horrible spectacle. Business was suspended and large but orderly crowds lined the streets and surrounded the elevated platform upon which the execution took place. The policing was perfect. A company of infantry was held ready in the vicini¬ ty, but its services were not needed. The executioner’s cart led the pro¬ cession. The condemned men were manacled hands and feet and wore black caps and robes which were ad¬ justed about them by the chief execu¬ tioner, who told the men to be brave. Eugene Rodriguez resisted the execu¬ tioner and in the scuffle his clothing was torn. Before he was subdued, five officers were required to over¬ power him. He addressed the crowds on his way to the platform, declaring his innocence and blaspheming and cursing everyone in spite of the efforts of th* priests* Some of the condemned men walked np, but others had to be carried to the platform, where they were seated and bound with their backs to the posts. As the executioner tightened the screws rapidly the bodies twitched for two or three minutes and then all was over. The la‘t body slipped from its fast¬ ening and fell to the floor an hour «f ter the execution. The other bodies remained in position on the platform for four hours. Thousands of people, unmoved, viewed the spectacle and heard the speeches of three of the con¬ demned men from the platform, but - they refused to hear the speech of the executioner, who coolly paced the plat¬ form. The Pacheco brothers kissed each other farewell just before the ex¬ ecution. The citizens of Ponce censure the authorities for permitting the Spanish mode of execution, although they favored the death penalty being inflicted. The prominent Americans, however, think that the actual killing of the men was sure and quick and not in¬ ferior to hanging. The method of ad¬ justing the garrote and the employ¬ ment of human agency to complete the execution they consider bad. - ROBERTS REPORTS CASUALTIES. Reddersburg Affair /lore Serious Than Was at First Thought. A London special says: Lord Rob¬ erts reported to the war office as fol¬ lows: Bloemfontein, Friday, April 6.— The casualties at Reddersburg were: Officers killed, Captain F. G. Cassou and Lieutenant C. R. Barclay, both of the Northumberlands. Wounded, two; captured, 8. Non-commissioned officers and men killed, eight. Wounded, 33. The rest were cap¬ tured. Our strength was 167 mounted in¬ fantry and 420 infantry. The enemy was said to be 3,200 strong, with five guns. Paid Tributes To Bland. The house session Saturday after 1 o clock was devoted to paving tribute to the memory of the late" Richard P. Bland, of Missouri. HOWARD WILL SURRENDER. Alleged Goebel Assassin Says He Awaits a Warrant. • A Frankfort special says: The re¬ port that it would take. 1,000 men to arrest Jim Howard of Clay county, who is said to have fired the shot that killed Governor Goebel, is denie O* b v Dr. H. B. Philips, it*' s of Clay a prominent © zen county. Dr. Philips arrived in Frankfort Mouday morning and announced that he had seen Howard and bad a fobg talk with him. Howard, he says, Mtld him that whenever a warrant w«9 Is¬ sued for his arrest he would glad y 8° with the officer having it, and void'* not attempt to dodge or resist the laF in any way.