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News-Herald j*sß Constitution, jj 12 Ivloaatlis—sl.2s. THE GWINNETT HERALD. ) THE I.AWKKNCEv'iiIIe NEWS, i CoDSoli(l3t6(l JID. 1, 1898. Kntabllnlie(l In 1893. ) There are no better Pianos made than the CONOVER and KINGSBURY. Shorter College, Rome, Ga.. equipps itself with Conover pianos. ™9 Because they could buy • no better. Pianos were offered this College by At lanta dealers and other manufacturers at one half the price paid for the Conover. Shorter College Wanted Nothing Bnt The Best. THE HOUSE OF CABLE Stands at the Head Of the great manufacturers of high-grade Pianos and Organs. A splendid assortment of different designs in Upright Pianos on exhibition in our ware rooms. The most beautiful stock of Pianos ever exhibited in a southern city. Write for catalogues and prices. CABLE PIANO CO. % 96-98 Whitehall St. Atlanta. H. B. Moreni-s, Mgr. ffanital $2.000.000. Everett Pianos, Harvard Pianos, Bush & Gerts Pianos, Strich & Zeidler Pianos. Any of the above -/“akes bf Pianos nan be bought very close for cash or on installment p vinouts. There are 25 Everett Pianos now in use at the Gan isville Seminary, and are giving eutire satisfaction. The Harvard Pianos have the “Plectraphone” attach ment, by the use of which you can imitate the Banjo, Guitar or the Mandolin. The new Opera House, Athens, Ga., has a Harvard iu use, and is very satisfactory. Mrs. M. J. Perry, Carl, Ga., has just purchased a Har vard Piano. I also handle the “FARRAND & VOTEY” Organs, and purchase them in CAR LOAD LOTS, having already sold four car loads this year. The Farrand A \ otey is the only absolutely Rat-Props Organ on the market, notwithstanding others claim to haudle them. Prices and catalogues will be promptly mailed on applica tion. HOPE HALE, Athens, - - Georgia, EISEMAN BROS. ATLANTA The largest stock of Clothing, Hats and Furnishings in the South. I housands of styles for you to select from, and prices that are from 25 to 50 per cent, cheaper than any where elsei that’s because we are manufact urers and do not pay a profit to middlemen. Men’s Nobby Suits. - sCCiplc 2500 Boy’s Long Trouser Suits, 450 up to 500 Boy’s Knee Trouser Suits, 150 up to 10 00 We buy the best fabrics and choose the newest and handsomest patterns and coloring that are produced. • Buy here once in person or through our mail order department, and the satisfaction you’ll receive will make you a permanent cus tomer of EISEMAN BROS. ( Atlanta, 15-17 Whitehall street. Washington, Cor. Seventh and E Streets, ® 1 UnCO Baltimore, 213 YV German Street. 15-17 WHITEHALL STREET.—Our Only Store in Atlanta, THE NEWS-HERALD. % FIRST IX AT MANILA. GALLANT FIGHT OF VOLUNTEERS AGAINST SPANIARDS. UtlrrinH Incident. In the Hank, ol the Thirteenth Minnesota—Colora do Hoys l-!\chnnKeil First Blood Foi First Glory—Strunae Battle Mnsie. {Copyright. 1899. by O. L. Kilmer.] OLDN T EERB L 2&: 1 ] ae t Au gust was so’ tries and the victory so easy, that, coming soon -after the desperate strnggles at Ei Caney and San Jnan ridge, it was fooked npon as an nnfair test of the powers of the volunteer of to day. Bnt the Filipino war has snpplied the test, for the regiments conspicuous in repelling the insurgents last February and in rushing them in their jungles and strongholds since were among the captors of Manila. The Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Minne sota boys now making records with the crack regulars in charging the Filipino lines were just taking their baptism of fire when they stormed the intrench ments of the Philippine capital under Merritt, Greene and MacArthur, the memorable 18th of August, 1898. Regular officers are not given to ex aggeration in their official reports' hence it must he taken as complimen tary that General Anderson, the division dbmmander in the attack on Manila, wrote with enthusiasm of the fighting qualities of his volunteers. The Ameri can plan of battle was simple, bnt the day would have been bloody had the Spaniards had the pluck of their foes. On this point there was a story current in the American camp to the effect that the only Spanish who can fight are Irishmen. It seemed that a party of Spaniards held ont after the flag of truce had been run up, and when Colo nel Hale called upon them to surrender a voice cried out, “Divil a surrender!” The speaker was an Irish captain of the Spanish army. General Anderson tells in one place how the Twenty-third regulars and the Thirteenth Minnesota “carried the ad vance line of the enemy in the most gallant manner.” In closing the report ,lie says: “The opposition we met with was not sufficient to test the mettle of our soldiers, but all showed bravery and dash. The losses show that the leading regiments of the First brigade -—the Thirteenth Minnesota, Twenty third infantry and the Astor battery— met the most serions opposition and de serve credit for their success. The Colo rado, California and Oregon regiments, the regulars and all the batteries of the Second brigade showed such zeal that it seems a pity that they did not meet foemen worthy of their steel.” In battles with the Filipinos the Colorado, First Nebraska, Tenth Penn sylvania and Thirteenth Minnesota have been conspicuous. These regiments were among the first in at Manila, and the result shows that the honor of the army was safe although resting chiefly upon volunteers. From the stories sent home by the Thirteenth men it appears that the sol diers were of the right stuff, and were well led. Private Lnxton of Company F, in a letter to the Minneapolis Trib une, wrote: “The Thirteenth has been under fire, and not only acquitted itself with distinction, but with honor. For three hours we were under steady fire, and for a time the shot was falling around us like rain. Bullets were whis tling above our heads, burying them selves in the trees with a spiteful snap that to ears unaccustomed to tne sound was at first somewhat startling. “Our boys behaved like veterans, not showing "the slightest indication of fear from start to finish. This was owing to a great, extent to the example of our officers. The company commanders and their lieutenants were as cool throughout the entire engagement as though on dress parade. Colonel Reeve and his staff were here, there and ev erywhere, directing the action, and with Buch success that we were compliment ed time after time by the regulars. “Friday night about we were told we were to go to the front early in the morning. It was a good omen. The next day was Aug. 13, just 13 days after we bad entered the har bor. The mystic 18 was still with us. At 5 o’clock c« Saturday morning the notes of the ongle disturbed the slum bers of the Thirteenth, and five minutes later every man was in his "company street to answer as his name was called. Every person was anxious to hear the ‘fall in’ call, and they were not kept uneasy for any great length of time, for at 0 o’clock we were on the march with 100 rounds of ammunition in our belts and rations for 24 hours. An hour later we were in the trenches, and the First and Second battalions were sent forward about a mile, where the Astor battery was located near a church. “Twice were the Spaniards driven back, and twice did they rally. It was a critical time, but the fire of the re enforcements was hot and furious, and the Spaniards retreated to the bush, leaving their dead behind. It was at this time that the fodr Minneapolis companies were marching along the road, and it was then that Archie Pat terson of Company I was killed. Some Spanish sharpshooters were in the trees by the roadside, and as the boys went The Memphis, Teun. Scimitar, of April 24th says that the Sea board Air Line and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad brought into Memphis yesterday two cars of freight which had made an actual ruuniug time of four and one half days from New York. This is the fastest time made up to date in this city by a rail and water line, and is close to the time made by the all rail lines, none of which run it in less than four days. LAWRENCEYILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 12,,1899. past they poured a fire into their ranks. Patterson staggered and was falling a* Bryson. Company F, jumped forward and caught him in his arms. The same volley that took Patterson from us wounded two of Company F—Privates Hansen and Little. Hansen continued the march until he fell from loss of blood. Little fell to the ground and as one of the boys stopped to assist him lie cried out: "Never mind me I Go oil and give them hot shot!’ “Captain Bjornstad and Captain Seebach were wounded at the same time. The former received two bullets —one in the arm and one in the breast. He was standing at the moment on ths breastworks where the hottest conflict was waged and was encouraging his men. when a volley from the Spaniards located in a house 100 yards away cut short his commands. He dropped on his knees, then fell backward, bnt be fore his men could reach him was on his feet again and continued in com mand until he was compelled to retire from sheer weakness. Captain Seebach’s injury was received in the same man ner, and his conduct was just as com mendable. ” Captain Carlton of Company F wrote in a private letter: “After the fight we were 24 hours without food and have had war enough to last a few days. The insurgents are very troublesome, be cause they are kept ont of Manila, and we may have to whip them tonight or tomorrow. They are a dirty lot of rob bers and cutthroats, if ever I saw any." The First Colorado was one of the regiments which had no chance to get at the Spaniards. However, the first blood spilled in the conquest of the Philippines came from the veins of a Colorado boy. Private W. H. Sterling of Company A was the man, and was shot through the arih on the 30th of July, when the Spaniards attacked the batteries. This regiment also planted the first flag on a captured Spanish fort and the first one in the captured suburb Malate. While helping to unfurl this flag, the regimental banner, Private Phcenlx of Company I was mortally wounded by a Manser bullet, which struck him in the neck. The fort captured was named after the regiment, and is now known as Fort Colorado. The Spanish flag was torn from the pole by Lieutenant Colo nel McCoy and Lieutenant Ralph B. Lister of Company K. During this ad vance. when a battalion of the regiment was vigorously answering the Spanish volleys from the captured trenches around the fort, occurred the famous incident of the Colorado hand playing inspiring music to cheer on the boys. Led by Chief Musician Harry T. Irvine, the bandsmen waded up to their waists in a swift stream close to the outlet into Manila bay. First the fighting line heard the strains of Dixie floating to ward them as they advanced on the fort. Reaching the middle of the stream, the air changed suddenly to “There’ll Be a Hot Time In the Old Town To night. ” The water was so deep that the bass drummer held his drum and the stick over his head, while the trom bones were partly UDder water. All the players hoisted their pieces as high as they-could stretch, and with all their strength played until they reached the lines then at the captured fort. Two rifled guns of the fort, called by the Spaniards Fort San Antonio, were giv en to the Colorado men as trophies of the day. An eyewitness of the fight with the Spaniards on July 31 gave this descrip tion of the CJtali artillery in battle at the Capuchin chapel: “Did you ever hear a cook beating up eggs on a platter with a spoon ’/ If that noise were mag nified a thousand times, it would give a suggestion cf the tattoo the bullets beat on that old chapel, and all this time there were the shells. Shells smashed through the chapel and burst inside. They burst as they struck its heavy IT WAS A HOT TIME. walls; they burst short, they struck our embankment and burst; they burst over the heads of the men; they flew high and went down the fields, bursting sometimes among onr men ; they were almost as thick as the bullets. “The Spanish were giving us a prac tical lesson of the value of smokeless powder. Every time our guns cracked a line of flame'ran along the top of our embankment. Every sheet of flame drew a freely hail of Mauser bullets. Every time a Utah gun cracked a Spanish cannon was aimed at its flash. There our boys had as good a mark as the enemy, and they did their best. It was only guessing at the range by the time between flash of gun and bursting of shell, and there wasn't a stop watch on the line to give greater accuracy. But they did good work, and they tired as coolly as if they were at target prac tice. Their work was invaluable.” For soldiers not inured to a tropical clime the volunteers at Manila have kept in good health. Their camps are ; clean and orderly and the discipline high. George: L. Kii-mkr. Cartersville is soon to have a flouring mill. The capacity of the mill will be one hundred bar rels a <lay and it will consume 260 bushels of wheat a day. It is es timated that 135,000 bushels of wheat will be used every year, which at an average of 70 cents a bushel will put into circulation among the farmers of Bartows94s, 000 a year. A lot has been pur chased and work will begin as soon as the promoters can agree on the suitable machinery. Execution of Mrs Surratt. * The recent execution of Mrs. Martha Place in New York recalls a memorable incident in our na tional history as disgraceful as it is memorable, when a woman was hanged in Washington city for al leged complicity in the assassina tian of President Lincoln. Yt lias been !I4 years since Mrs. Mary E. Surratt was put to death. Of course, there is no similarity be tween Martha Place and Mary Surratt. The crime of the former was horrible and showed a de praved and abandoned heart. Mrs. Surratt was executed by a commission organized to convict. In that mad hour following the unfortunate assassination of Pres dent Lincoln but one idea pos sessed the multitude and that was revenge. In the insane desire for retribution the innocent were made to suffer for the guilty. It will be au eternal blot upon the United States government that it found it necessary to avenge the murder of President Lincoln by an equally atrocious murder of an inuocent woman. In the trial of the so-called conspirators it was alleged that her boarding house was the secret rendezvous for those who plotted against the govern ment. Booth was a frequenter of of the place, and these charges may be true, but the testimony of those in a position to know was that Mrs. Surratt was not cogni zant of what was going on and never participated in any of their meetings. And yet a strong and victoricus government demanded the life of a forlorn and widowed woman. Some of the members of the commission who signed the verdict of guilty accompanied it with a recommendation to the president for mercy in her case. Andrew Johnson averred that he never saw the leccommeiidation until two years after the execu tion A writer in The North American Review thinks it was doubtless true that the reccom mendation for mercy was not placed before the president with the findings of the commission at the time they were presented for his approval, but was retained by those in authority who sought the blood of this innocent woman. The writer in The North American Review well says that the scene iu that national hour of disgrace re mains in all its vividness to haunt the memory and stain the pages of our judicial history. The Cost Of A Life. Most of the states of the union have passed a statute of limita tion, providing that no more than $5,000 can be recovered for life lost in an accident. If John D. Rockefellow were killed in a railway accident his heirs could recover from the com pany his present income for about three and a half hours —no more. In England a timber yard la borer was receutly killed work and the court awarded his widow $585. At about the same time a Lon don “docker” was killed and his family got SB,OOO. A Bolton joiner lost one finger and received for its loss SOOO, or more than the timber yard man’s widow received for the loss of the mainstay of her home. A butcher who lost his finger while at work received SBS, while the loss of a dog was adjudged at SIOO. In France a 18-year-old boy was recently killed while crossing a railway track on his bicycle and the courts awarded his parents $5,000. In Brooklyn not long ago $28,- (XX) was adjudged due a boy who had been shockingly mangled by a trolley car, but escaped with his life. The whole secret of success is contained within this conpass of a few plain words, writes Rafford Pyke in the New York Commer cial Advertiser. In starting out in life, put instantly aside all im mediate thought of your own dig j nity and your own superiority, of your own exceptional gifts and of jthe brilliant possibilities which you think exists within you. You may bo just as superior as you think you are, and even more brilliant than you believe your self to be ; but no one else is going to know it until you have done something to make this evident. “Will you please insert this obit uary notice?” aXked an old gen tleman of a country editor. “I make bold to ask it because I know the deceased had a great many friends about here who would be glad to learn of his death.” —Exchange. In Porto Eico. Marriage is almost unknown among the very poor classes, and the destinction of having the writ ten word and the blessing of the priest carries with it no special badge of honor; it is suggestive only of another pcor man gone wrong and a grasping padre n few peso’s richer. It is a much easier matter for a man to select his companionable partner and set up housekeeping in a new wickiup under the banana trees without more ado. The ohildren of Puerto Rico are an ever-present and abundant fac tor in the domestic economy of the peasant’s life. It is called domestic economy, since it costs nothing to supply the air of day for lungs of these little waifs; it costs nothing for thoir clothes for they run about in the sunshine and the rain just as God made them and sleep iu odd corners without cover, for the first half dozen years of their baby lives, and when older, a single discarded tattered garment adds to their grace tin shield of decency. So they live, without expenses, and with little tenderness bestowed on them in the shape of material comforts, though the mother's kiss is often given and the father pats the little head. They soon toddle, at the command of the mother, to do small errands, to help weed the garden, to bring in the handful of wood for the fire, to dig the tubers for a meagre meal, and, lastly, to hold up their tiny hands and with pleading eyes gain a copper from a passer-bv on the roadside. They are a good in vestment to the family; the ma jority of them die at an early age. and it costs but a few strained hours to the mother’s heart, a bit of cloth for i shroud, and the en- - ergy needed to carry the tiny form to the potter’s field. Offsetting this is the usefulness of those who, by the laws of survival of the fit test, pull through with sturdy forms, to pick berries, to work in the cane and tobacco fields, and add to the common fund, until, at a varying age, they rebel against the paternal banker, and iive for themselves in poverty and in bon dage to the landed kings, just us the generation who came before them. The distance from San Francis co to New Orleans around Capo Horn, is 18,052 sea miles, but through the Nicaraguan canal it would be 4,047 miles, or a differ ence of no less than 9,005 miles. From San Fraucisoo to .New York, around Cape Horn is 14,840 miles, but by way of the canal 4,700 miles, a difference of 10,080. Every year the people of Lon don drink 175,000,000 gallons of water and 153,000,000 gallons of ale. It has been estimated that if this latter beverage wore placed in four and a-half gallon casks, and the casks placed end to end, the line would be long enough to extend more than a third of the way around the earth at the equa tor. The largest printing press in the world is one recently built and set up by them in the press room of the New York World. It stands thirtoeu feet, eight inches by eleven feet, eight. It will turn out, printed, and folded and counted in an hour 9(5,000 four, six or eight page papers, 72,000 ten-page papers, 00,000 twelve page papers, or 48,000 sixteen page papers.' It is said the chances are fifty to one that Atlanta will not have a new union passenger station. The indications are that the car shed will be repaired, possibly re inodled, and that the roads will continue to use it for several years longer. An effort is being made to put the responsibility on the roads. Their reply is; “We are willing to build a handsome, com modious union station on the pres ent site, but the City Council has imposed conditions upon us with which we cannot comply. ” Lieut. Col. Spence of the Third Georgia Regiment, recently jnus tored out at Augusta, wants a reg iment of his own, and it is under stood that he has made an appli cation at the war department for permission to raise one for service in the Philippine Islands. A number of the Third Georgia men were speaking of the matter when they returned here, and it is learned that fully 500 of them told the colonel that they would er.list with him if he was success ful iu getting the desired permis sion. The Ancient Mexicans. Some very interesting matters have been recently discovered in the City of Mexico, resulting from a visit, which was made by the poet, Senor Carnavante, a native of Tepic, on the Pacific side. He is a very learned man, having been educated in Calcutta by the most illustrious llindostans, and is mastor of five of the principle languages of India, nut counting the European languages. This ac complished scholar, who has made a profound study of the origin of the Mexican people, says that many centuries ago a company of Persians emigrated to the west coast of Mexico and established colonies. Those colonies were successful and flourished rapidly until there came an invasion of Chinese which obliterated nearly all vestiges of Persian influences. But even now there are many Per sian words in use among the tribes on the west coast, and there are tribes in that section who are able to converse with Chinamen in their own tongue. This last state ment of Senor Carvante is corro borated bv many civil engineers of the Mexican government. An engineer friend of mine has a band of Chinese laborers under his command on the Isthmus of Tehauntepec and he was greatly surprised one day when he found them talking intimately with some Indians of the Oaxaca tribe. This is of great ethnological in terest, and should be investigated by American savants. Senor Caravante says further that in India teachers instruct their youth from mugnificent maps of Mexico, which were made over a thousand years ago, and these maps show exact pictures of the characteristics cacti, etc. The wise men of India say that in au ciont timeß Mexico was known by the name of Pusan, and these maps, which are of undoubted an tiquity, are exceedingly well made and acurate. A Play On Words. That humorous play on words which describes the visit of the frog, the duck, tne lamb, and the skunk to the animal show has be come a familiar witticism, says the Cleveland PI Ain Dealor; in fact, the man who spoke it is us ually warned by the smiles of his hearers that he is going over threshed ground. Yet there may be a few readers left who haven’t heard it. Foi their sake it is here with repeated, and a little post script is tacked on, which is quite as amusing as the original story. It appears that one idle day the frog, the duck, the lamb and the skunk started forth together tc visit the show. Just what sort of show it was the chronicler doesn’t state. Anyway, it was something that queerly assorted quartet was anxious to attend, and they hop ped and waddled, and gamboled, and trotted towards the big can vas inclosure with delightful throbs of anticipation. Finally, they reached the door tender, the frog leading the line. Well, the frog hud a greenback and passed right in. The duck had a bill and follow ed the frog. The lamb had four quarters and followed thd frog and the duck. But the unfortunate skunk wbb left on the outside. He had only a scent. Naturally, ho turned away fool ing pretty blue. As he was slowly going back ov er tlfo hill he met a hoop snake rolhug along at a lively rate to wards the show. The skunk greet ed him, but the snake did not stop., “Don’t inteirupt me,” he cried, over his shoulder. “I have to do a turn and I’m a little late.” And he rolled along. At the top of the hill the skunk noticed another old friend ap proaching. It was the sardine. “Hullo!" cried the sardine; “what’s the matter?” So the skunk told him. “I can guess how you feel about it,” said the sardine, sympathetic ally. “I belong to the smelt familv myself. But, say, old fel low, you come right baclj and go iu with me—l’ve got a box.” So the skunk and the sardine went back together. Telfair county is to have a hanging on May 19. This victim for the gallows is Will Williams, a negro convicted at the recent term of Telfair Superior Court of the murder of Mr. L. Peacock, near Lumber City, last October. The crime was a most heuious one and the jury was out only about fifteen minutes. j - ■ • --11“ awa [HaoiaciMGiHJQnwsniEaa News-herald P r ' Journal, wSU Only $1.25. iTrOGfTOC.fttI.v— VOL. VI.-NO 29 Center Shots At Imperialism. Hod. Joe W. Bailey, of Texas, made a notable speech at Houston Texas, the other day on expan sion. And he voiced the views of millions. Among other things, as reported iu the Houston Daily Post, he said: "Our example is £o-day the one that inspires the savage islander, against whom we train our guns to spill his blood because of his efforts to be freo. We inspired those men with a love of liberty, and it has grown so strong even in theso heathens that it cannot >e destroyed by force of arms. “Before you go into a foreign country and at the bayonet’s point and the canuon’s mouth, force this government over au ali en and unwilling people I demand of you that you shall tell me if you uo longer believe in the de claration of independence. If it be true that all governments de rive their just powers from the consent of the governed, theu what right have we to force a gov ernment over the savage inhabit ants of the Philippines Islands. “Who will meet that tremen dous expense? One man says make the Philippines pay it. Very well, hut how? Lay taxes on them. Are you going to lay taxes without allowing them rep resentation in congress? If you do you give them the same right of revolution against Great Brit ain. Our fathers asserted before the world that no government had the right to tax any people with out allowing them representation in the body that laid tho taxes, “You cannot destroy the Filip pinos witout destroying the great and vitul principles of human freedom,that every people have a right to choofie their own govern ment for themselves, or without destroying the basis of this repub lic. It were better, although ij. may seem a cruel aud heartless thing to say, but I believe it were better, in the end, and the sum of human happiness would be better off, if the souls of all those on nearly 2,000 islands were swept in to the boßom of the sea than that the great principles upon which this republic was founded should be violated - ” Production of Odd. The output of gold in the Unit ed Statos in 1898 was more than twice that of 1890. and the pro duction of gold in the world in 1898, atth'fe lcwest estimate, was much more than twice the estima ted production iu 1890. In the decade just prior to the California gold discoveries, in 1848,, the av erage annual production in ths world is estimated to have been less than $18,500,000. In the previous decade it was less than $10,000,000. Assuming these fig ures of Dr. Adolph Soebeer (which are accepted by the nations of the world, and incorporated in many official documents) to be approxi mately correct, it appears that the estimated prodtctiou of gold in the world in the first third of the present century was but little more than the production in the single year 18981 It is, indeed, difficult to comprehend the full significance of these figures at a glance; the production of gold in the past five years has amounted to more than $1,(XX),000,000: and if production should increase dur ing the next five years in any thing like the ratio of the past five years, it may be that a new economic problem may present itself for solution. Tough on th« Hog, “Men are just like hogs, however distasteful that may souDd to hogs,” says a writer in exchange. “When a hog gets an ear of corn, every hog will trot along behind him and squeal and whine for a bite, but just let the front hog get caught with his head fast in a crack and every sou of a sow will jump on him and tear him to pieces; just so with men. As long as a man is prosperous aud has mouey he can’t keep frieuds off with a base ball bat. The mo ment he is unfortunate and his wealth is gone he is not only snubbed by former alleged friends, but they ot once begin to do him all the harm possible. When a man starts down grade the world just steps aside and greases the track.” ' Madison county was visited by a terrific hailstorm Monday night. In the vicinity of Mason’s mill, a few miles beyond Danielsviile, the hail was heaviest. Several par ties there measured the hail after the storm had passed aud in a number of places it was six inches deep.