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OCILLA DISPATCH.
OCILLA, GEORGIA.
HENDERSON k HANLON, Publishers.
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We hear much just now about va-
nous institutions being* on trial,
everything human is on trial. Every
day is a judgment day.
A New Mexico judge hr.s decided
there is no libel law in that territory
a ad recently dismissed a number oj
cases against editors, 1'istols are
good enough law iu that section it
scums.
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An Indiana judge, tired and dis¬
gusted with long newspaper accounts
of divorce proceedings, has announced
that the publication of a detailed ac¬
count of such suits would result, iu
the arrest and fining of the offender,
and his exclusion from the court.
load, copper in the ver greatest abun-
dance, quicksilver, lead—what you
will—’Mexico’s mineral treasures are
far beyond count, Says Vice-President
Mariscal iu the New York Independ-
cut.
An idea of the magnitude of the for-
sign business of the United States
i an be gained from the re ordof 1897-
98, which shows that the export of *»i-
cycles exceeded in value that of any
other manufactured article, and sur¬
passed even tha value of all agricul-
lural implements.
The John Howard Industrial Home
tor Discharged Prisoners of Massacliu-
retts has recently secured a oue linn-
•Red acre farm at Bridgewater for tho
temporary employment i , ot - d.scharged i
prisoners. Besides farm work there
will be other means of earning money
established from time to time as cir-
vumstances warrant.
The municipal 1 pawnshop just
opened , . Chicago ,,, . w.ll serve as a va.- ,
in
liable experiment. No one who has
studied the work rg >f the Mont de
Piets of Paris, or the supervised loan
systems of , Germany, can doubt , , . tha.
these institutions are a benefit to tue
needy poor. Ami no one who has
studied the working of our own pawn-
brokerage in our great cities can
doubt that wo have much to learn
from older countries in this regard.
Nothing else is so important at pres-
out for the betterment of the Indians
as the discontinuance of the ration
system. The Mohonk conference lias
said that again and again, aud now we
have the report of the conference of i
Indian w orkers, ’ missionaries, ’ agents, "
teachers , and , matrons in Oklahoma,
who have passed unanimous resolu-
lions to the effect that nothing else so
pauperizes the Indians aud that “steps
should be takeu by those in authority
totally to discontinue” it.
That the Gorman people follow with
sympathy tha struggle of the Boers
against big England is but natural;
first, because these South African
Boers are very close kin to tho Ger-
niuus themselves (so close that the
Boer dialect may be read aud under-
stood with some difficulty bv the av-
ed ° German from the north and
west of the empire); secondly, ,, , be-
cause the Germans of today hate and
fear England, and look upon the Boer
republics in South Africa as a wall of
protection erected for the special ben¬
efit of their own colonies there by a
kind Providence, a wall which they
fearthe victory-flushed English will
at- once proceed to scale after this lit-
tie unpleasantness with the Boers has
been settled by English bullets.
No subject is of more importance to
the welfare of the human race than
that of marriage. Opinion on such a
subject is too apt to be a matter of
temperament. Some men are pessi-
mists by nature. They cannot see but
that the world is going straight to
the .. , bad. . Others see only , , the .. good, *
and with a cheerful optimism ignore
the evil that is more or less prevalent,
Philosophers are few, and it is given
*» >•* ”» *»
signs of the times with accuracy.
Nevertheless a sifting of all the
deuce that is possible, a comparison
xvith (lays gone by, must lead candid
minds to admit that the world is glow-
ing better all the time; that if prog¬
ress is slow it is certain. Surely
this could not be the case if the fami-
1V, xvhicb is the cornerstone of socie¬
ty, was disintegrating, That would
be a paradox indeed.
Roberts Will Appeal to Courts.
Brigham H. Roberts reiterates in
I be papers the same statement that he
made some days ago, that he will now
arry his case to the courts and de-
.
mand his rights as a representative
from Utah.
THE NEW FEAR’S ANSWER.
&h, speed thee, happy New Yearl
Speed swiftly on thy way,
Ami tell us of the wonders
Beyond the gates of day.
Lilt up the mystle curtain
That screeees from mortal view
The portals of the future,
Wbioh nono may wander through!
j Oh i, tell u«, happy New Year,
J What gifts be thou hast portion. In store?
j Will plenty our
Pressed down and running o’er?
j Win every hope rye cherish
Meet with fruition blest,
And every cup he honeyed
Which to our lips is pressed?
Y, T ill springtime bring her garlands
To wreathe the woodlands fair,
Without a single blighted hud
Among the blossoms rare?
Wdl summer send her roses,
j Her plnlts and gentian blue,
N"r drop among the posies
One single sprig of ruo?
OIi, will fnlr Ceres bless us,
in basket and in store,
And into granary and bin
Her golden treasures pour?
Will £lnd Pom >na greet us
With free-will offerings meet,
And shake from bending orchard trees
Rich trophies at our feet?
UNCLE ISAAC’S SCHEME.
BY AMY DARCY WETMORB.
| fm RTHUR LENNOX
and his friend, Mr.
Grey, sat chatting at
the cud of a family
dinner. “You know
i I am rather a con¬
10 HSw noisseur in minia¬
tures,” remarked
Mr. Lennox, “aud I
V must say that I have
t'* never seen more dei-
icate coloring, or
finer expression, than
are displayed in that
one by Peale that I saw in your draw-
^ room to-night.” looking
“Yes,” answered Mr. Grey,
across tha table at his wife, “we are
ail rather / proud of that miniature;
, ^ ^ us M Uncle i aaac - s words ,
‘j don ’ go t more store by it, even than
doe8 Mrs. Grey. » >>
“I am sure that you are eager to
tell its history, aud that you can do it
I much better when I am absent; so I
: will leave you both to your cigars and
your L narrative,” declared Mrs. Grey,
giag ftom her seat .
Her husband smiled and opened the
door for her, saying,— dear;
“We will soon join you, my
| ^ but, like the Ancient Mariner, I must
te , 0 again to soine one> eve „
jf ]l0 j 3 no t the wedding guest. Now,”
ga i d Mr. Grey, as he and Mr. Lennox
; resumed their seats and lighted their
cigars, “you say that this miniature
is particularly fine as far as the artis-
tic work goes, Does it suggest any
one to
i i It is written on the face of it,”
replied Mr. Lennox, “The likeness
to your wife is so pronounced that
even with the arrangement of hair it
would easily pass for her anywhere.”
“True, I thought you would notice
jt ” answered the host, “and for that,
( tho picture is
and other reasons, very
dear to me.
“But tell me the story to which
M rs. Grey referred just now, will you
no t.,j”
“I should like to do so, provided
that, if I become prosy, you will at
once proceed to inform me of tho
fact.”
“Trust me for that; and now—”
“And now another question before
j regalar i y begin. What do yon think
0 f Unole Isaac, our faithful body
guard?” delightful relic of the past
“A most
—a dear old time colored man of ante¬
bellum days, I should say, and near-
] y as 0 i d a3 tbe miniature.”
“I sometimes think so myself,
Well, old Isaao was the first acquaint¬
ance that I made in my wife’s family
and, indeed, were it not for him,
there is little chance that I should be
now j n my present position, living in
Baltimore, and married, if I may be
allowed to express the opinion, to tho
loveliest woman in tha world.”
Mr. Lennox smiled and bowed.
“That goes without saying.”
“My first visit to this ‘City of Monu-
meats,’ as the guide book says, was
just three years ago this very day.
Indeed, it is a double anniversary, o
triple onB j m j g bt add, for it is three
years since I was introduced to Mrs.
Grey, and one year since our wedding.
Pardon my digression, but as you
have been abroad, you may not be
posted in regard to these, to me, im¬
portant facts.”
“I am more than interested now.
please go on.”
“I came to Baltimore, then, three
years ago to-day and arrived at Cal-
vert Station about eight m the morn-
of Qn jdeal winter day decided It was
o i 0ar an(J co i d and bright, so I intended
to walk to the hotel where I
to put up for a short time. At a
SX? he d to be.
mau> old l8aac> a8 prove
<< ‘Mornin’, sah,’he said.
“I was struck by bis courtly mau-
and stopped to look at the old fel
, Mornin’, sah,’ he repeated.
“ ‘Good morning,’ I replied.
“ ‘T’ank you kindly, massa. Won’t
ye come in de house for a brief mo-
ment?’
“ ‘Not now,’ I answered. ‘I am in
a hurry.’ leetle minute, dear sah.
“ ‘Jes’ one
Do come in.’
“ ‘Anything special?’ I asked, with
^e wholesale suspicion of a traveler.
“ ‘Yes, sah, mighty special. Please
come in.’
“So urged, I followed him at last,
reluctantly, through a spacious hall
and into an old-fashioned drawing
room.
Will every oye bo smiling.
Ami every heart be light,
And every household happy,
And every heartli-l!ro bright?
Will grlet no longer rankle,
And care no more annoy,
Nor friendship’s gold bo lnlnplod
With falsehood’s baso alloy?
“Alas,” “Such the Now Year answered,
was not Nature’s plan;
The wonders of the future
No mortul eye cun soun:
But this let each remomher, ’
Lite cannot all he play; ■*•
And clouds must follow sunshine,
As darkness follows duyl
“For Joy would lose Its savor
IJmnlxed with grief or pain,
Ami hope would cease to cheer us
If dreams were never vain.
The cup of honeyed sweetness
Upon our taste would pall,
If with the sweet was mingled
No Bitter drop of gall.
“No lot, however tranquil.
Can be misfortune-proof,
And file for each Is weaving
A varied warp and woof.
’Twould mar Its wondrous pattern
By Nature’s hand prepared,
It hut one tiny sprig of ruo
Or blighted bud were spared!”
— Helen Whitney Clark.
“ ‘Sah,’ said he earnestly, ‘you
know we colored pussons is powerful
superstitions like, an’ de old sayin’ is
if dat on New Year’s mornin’ do fust
one wo speaks to is a stranger, an’
bo, dat stranger, wishes ns good luck,
it am mighty sure to come true. Yon,
sah, is de fust one I’se spoken to, an’
I done stall’ ou de door steps sence
seven o’clock. I see directly you
earned along dat you was fust class,
an’ a stranger as well, an’ I ses to
myself, ‘Now, Unc’ Isaac, heah’s your
chance.’
“I was amazed at his request, but
the very simplicity of his manner car¬
ried weight with it, and I answered
heartily,—-
“ ‘I do indeed wish you good luok,
Uncle Isaac.'
4 4 4 T’ank you, sah, but not me, de
poo’ ole darkey, but my own dear ole
mis’ an’ young Mis3 Ev'lyn; de Lord
know3 dey is in mighty need of good
wishes now!’ aud the poor old man
gave a heavy sigh.
“Once again I declared, and per¬
haps with a shade more fervor, for I
was pleased with his appearance,—
‘I do truly wish your old mistress
and your young mistress all kinds of
good luck; happiness, wealth, and
everything that they or you most de¬
sire.’
“I thought that he would have had
a fit in his joy. He thanked me over
over and over again for my wish, and
be called down upon me the blessings
of heaven. I confess I was much in¬
terested, not only in this faithful old
servant but iu the whole atmosphere
and appearance of tho house. It is
true that the Turkish rug was worn
into threads, that the hangings and
draperies at windows and doors were
faded, that the damask on chairs and
huge sofas was in tatters; yet the
ancient mahogany furniture, the
quaint brasses, the fine portraits,
bric-a-brac and bronzes, all bespoke a
past of departed glory. Oa a small
carved caudlestand beside the silver
waiter, snuffers and candlestick. J lay
this miniature. The pure oval faoe,
the exquisite coloring, the gentle
look, naturally called for admiration,
and while I talked to Uncle Isaac I
was staring at this beautiful picture.
“To finish my story, however. At
last the interview came to an end,
for after I had wished all luck to the
house, Uncle Isaac did not ask me to
prolong my stay, aud I hurried off to
my breakfast and a business engage¬
ment.
“My visit to Baltimore was a short
one, and knowing few persons here I
had neither the opportunity nor the
time for social doings, and so of
course spoke to no one of my morn¬
ing’s adventure. Soon after I re¬
turned to New York I was obliged to
go abroad, and that in a measure ob¬
literated my impression of my early
call. Still the faoe in tho miniature
haunted me; go where I would, I
found it always beforo me, and
mentally I compared the face of every
woman that I met wih this, which to
me was the standard of feminino
beauty.
“Another year passed, and, strange
to say, the next New Year’s, the Van
Burdens, who had come here to re¬
side, invited me on to a dinner and
to go with them afterwards to one of
the famous Monday cotillons. Hav¬
ing heard so muoh of the loveliness
of tho Baltimore women and of the
bounty of the Maryland larder, I was
only too glad to aeoept tho invita¬
tion.”
“Aud now I suppose that you have
come to the heroine of the miniature.”
said Mr. Lonnox.
“You have not been long in guess¬
ing that point of my story,” laughed
the host. “Van Burden informed mo
beforo dinner that I was to take in
Miss Beresford, who, he added pleas¬
antly, was as lovely as a dream. For
some mysterious reason the miniature
rose up beforo me, and I wondered
inwardly if the beautiful Miss Beres¬
ford would dare compoto with it, little
dreaming of the reality.
“Among the last of the guests to ar¬
rive, in fact, immediately before din¬
ner was announced, Miss Beresford
appeared, and I was at once brought
up and presented. My wits seemed
to desert me; I could only stare at
the exquisite vision chiffon before me,
gowned in white made up iu
the quaint style of the picture, with
a string of pearls about tho fair young
throat. (Bythp way she has since con¬
fided to me that she had copied the
gown from the pioture, and that the
pearls were the identical ones in the
^.uiritnre.) I mechanically offered :
my arm as we walked out to dinner
and could hardly keep up the conven¬
tional small talk of society. My eyes
oould see nothing but the realization
of my dream, and theperfeot features the
and rose-tiuted complexion of
picture were personified in the young
girl beside me.
“Finally I said:
“ ‘I have surely seen your pioture—
your miniature, have I not?’
“Miss Beresford laughed.
“ ‘Not mine,’ she answered, and
musingly added, ‘I don’t think you
could over have seen Peale’s minia¬
ture of my great grandmother Donald,'
whom I am said to resemble.’
“Suddenly the truth Hashed upon
If { Why,’ I exclaimed, ‘you are tho
young mistress, the Miss Ev’lvn of
the old-fashioned house that I wished
good luok to a year ago to-day.
“My companion started.
if 4 What do yon mean?’she asked.
‘Have you ever seen our house?’
“ ‘I know Uncle Isaac.’
;;‘Uncle Isaac! Why, who are you?’
“ Did the old man never tell you
of the stranger he invited into your
house to wish good luck for the iam-
ily last New Year's day?’
“ ‘Oh!’ said she. ‘Are yon indeed
tliat wonderful man who brought us
all kinds of good things by your wish?
Who saved our old home from a mort-
gage foreclosure, and gave my dear
grandmother new life and hope? Are
you tha hero of Uncle Isaac’s wonder-
ful story?’
“Well, it took many evenings to
ciscuss the situation thoroughly, and
I learned that, strange to relato, from
tho morning when I made my wish
every prospect cleared for the family
of tothemandtheancieathomewassaved. Beresford. Unexpected money came
New health and vigor came to Mrs.
Beresford’s worn out frame, and my
Evelyn herself threw away the cares
aud sorrows that oppressed her. I,
the romantic stranger, was a mystery
and a wonder to them; for I had been
described in such glowing terms by
Uncle Isaac that I appeared more like
an tfugel than a hungry man running
off to his breakfast.”
“The story is thrilling,” cried the
friend, approvingly. discovered
“It is nearly told. I
that Baltimore was a place to visit
often and to stay in long; business
opportunities opened for me boge,
and I found the old mansion on
Franklin street too attractive to
keep away from. Suffice it to say
that at the end of a few months wo
were engaged, and tho sequel of the 1
tale is we were married last New
Year.”
“And this, then, is the old home?”
“Yes. Mrs. Beresford would not
hear of my taking Evelyn away, and
we compromised matters by her al-
lowing me to renovate the house, and
thus, with the old background, we
have added all modern improvements
and comforts. Isaac is still tho fac¬
totum and butler, the chief of every
domestic department, and he holds
that I am a prophet of the first water,
and he is my faithful disciple.”
“May I come in now?” oalled out a
merry voice. “Grandmamma has
come down and wants to meet Mr.
Lennox. Her head is better.” And
Mrs. Grey entered, bringing into the
dining room a gentle old lady to
whom the guest was presented in due
form. “I have told grandma that
you have been relating the story of
tho miniature,” continued Mrs. Grey.
“And I am sure it is worth telling,”
said Mrs. Beresford, smiling.
“And I am sure,” replied tho guest,
“that it is well worth hearing, and I
have enjoyed it immensely,” bowing
to the heroine of it.
Pottery In Cave A^ca Old.
A boy, while hunting on Indian
Mountain, iu the eastern part of
Dutchess,County, N. Y., a few days,
ago, made a discovery that will;
prove of considerable importance to
archeologists. of j
The boy is Robert Dakin, son
Charles Dakin, of Millerton. He:
was hunting in the wildest part of,
the mountain when he saw a hole in
the mountain side, partly overgrown struck ;
with brush. He crawled in,
a match and found himsolf in a largo
and spacious room, which extended
a considerable distance into the
mountain.
Ho lighted a dry stick and by its
light saw evidence of the cave having
been inhabited. There were piles of
broken pottery, turtle shells, teeth of
animals and the skeleton of a man.
Some of the pottery was iu an excel¬
lent state of preservation, and appa¬
rently was in the same position it bad
been left by its savage occupant indica¬ ages
ago. The pottery bears every
tion of being of ancient manufac¬
ture, but none of those who have
seen it can form any conception of its
age.
The boy, after he had made a care¬
ful examination of the place, filled
his game-bag with relies and went
home, but be was careful to mark the
spot, and will have no difficulty in
finding the place again.—New York
Press.
Sli« llad a Right to Say ** Woof.’*
Perry Hutchinson, of Marysville,
recently went out into his hog
pasture on a visit of inspection.
Down near the creek he found an old
sow with a litter of pigs, and near her
was lying the dead body of a huge
wildcat which had been killed by the
sow in a fair fight. Perry says that
while ho was looking at the strange
sight the old sow said “Woof!” where¬
upon he lit out for a fence—Kansas
City (Mo.) Journal.
A New Hanger.
Young Mother (to nurse)—“You
must not let the baby put his foot in
his mouth any more. Dr. Brown say*
he had several cases of ptomaina
poisoning recently, and wo must be
careful.”—New York Commercial Ad¬
vertiser.
MR. ROBERTS
DENIED SEAT
Investigating Committee
Report Against Him.
DECISION WAS UNANIMOUS
y Hemkrs p av()r [ ns [ a ||j n g Utal?
Man and Afterwards Expelling
Him From the House.
A Washington dispatch says: Iho
committee of tho house of representa-
fives to investigate the case of Brig-
’ Utah, reached a
Huai conclusion at Wednesday , s ses-
a
sion. On tho polygamous status of
Mr. Roberts the committee was unaui-
mens and agreed upon a formal state-
meut of facts. Ou the question of
procedure to be adopted the commit-
tee was divided.
The majority, consisting of all the
members except Littlefield of Maine,
and DeArmoud, of Missouri, favored
the exclusion at the outset. Messrs.
Littlefield, Republican, aud DeAr-
mond, Democrat, will make a minority
report favorable to seating Roberts on
his prima facie rights and then expell-
ing him. The majority were Tayler,
Frear, Morris and McPherson, Repub-
Leans; Lanham and Mi era, Demo-
crats. The statement of facts found
by the committee is as follows:
“We find that B. H. Roberts was
elected a representative to the fifty-
sixth congress from the state of Utah
and was at tlio date of his election
above the age of twenty-five years;
that he has been for more than seven
years a naturalized citizen of tho
United States and was an inhabitant
0 f the state of Utah,
“We further find that about 1878 he
married Louisa Smith, his first and
lawful wife, with whom he has ever
cilice lived as such and who, since
their marriage, has borne him six
children.
“That since 1885 ho married as his
p j,, Ya i w u e Celia Dibble, with whom
bas ever since lived as such who,
s j no o such mavriage, has borne him
s ; x children, of whom the last were
twins, born August 11, 1897.
“That some years after his said
marriage to Celia Dibble he contracted
another plural marriage with Margaret
(y c; Gpp. with whom he has ever since
lived in )lie habit an d repute of mar-
r j a ge. Your committee is unable to fix
jj le eX actdate of this marriage. It does
not appear that he held her out as his
wife before January, 1897, or that be¬
fore that date she held him out as her
husband, or that before that date they
were reputed to be husband and wife.
“That these facts were generally
known in Utah, publicly charged
against him during his campaign for
election anil, were not denied by him.
“That the testimony bearing on
these facts was taken in the presence
of Mr. Roberts and that he fully cross
examined the witnesses, but declined
to place himself on the witness stand.”
FOR BIG SYSTEM.
Great Progress Made Toward the
Extension of Seaboard Air
Line Interest.-.
Gveat progress was made at Raleigh,
N. C., Wednesday toward the consum¬
mation of the plans of tho greater
Seaboard Air-Line system. *
Meetings were held of the directors
and stockholders of the Raleigh and
Gaston railroad, and resolutions were
adopted providing for the immediate
merging xvith the Raleigh and Gaston
Railroad Company of the Raleigh and
Augusta Air-Line, of the Durham and
Northern railroad, the Carolina Cen¬
tral railroad, the Georgia, Carolina
and Northern railway, the Palmetto
railroad and the Chesterfield and Ker¬
shaw railroad.
Arrangements were also made for
the issuance of $5,000,000 first mort¬
gage bonds upon the Raleigh and Gas¬
ton railroad properties, including its
ownership in other lines.
Under the plan adopted all the phys¬
ical properties of the above mentioned
railroad companies will be forthwith
acquired, by the Raleigh and Gaston.
USED TISSUE BALLOTS.
A Horde of Witnesses Testify In Ken¬
tucky Contest Cases.
Twenty-one witnesses were examined
by tbe gubernatorial boards of contest
at Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, all of
them being introduced by the Demo¬
crats. Twenty of the witnesses testi¬
fied in the relation to the so-called
tissue ballots, all of them saying that
the ballots used at the polls in Pike,
Martin, Johnson and Magotlin coun¬
ties were of a transparent nature, that
the marks made by tho voters upon
them could be seen.
QATES OF CANAL RAISED.
Sewerage of Chicago Now Percolates
Waters of Mississippi.
At 10:50 a. m. Wednesday Governor
Tanner, of Illinois, signed the formal
permit which allowed the drainage
trustees to lift the gates at Lockport
and turn the water into tho Illinois
and Mississippi river canal. lowered
The bear trap dam was at
11:16 a. m. allowing the water from
the. Chicago drainage canal to flow into
the Des Plaines river.
COURT WILL DECIDE
Whether Admiral Sampson Really ,1
Took Part In the Santiago
Naval Battle.
“And tho attorney general avers that
all the herein above named vessels of
the king of Spain were sunk or de¬
stroyed on or about July 3, 1898, by
the libellant (Bear Admiral W. T.
Sampson), and tho vessel* under his
command.”
This is an extract from the answer
jnst filed by Attorney General Griggs
to the libel filed in the supreme court
of the District of Columbia by Rear
Admiral Sampson, in his own oehalf
and also in behalf of the officers and
enlisted force of tho North Atlantic
station who took part in the Santiago
naval engagement against the Iufauta
Maria Teresa aud miscellaneous sailors
and supplies captured upon her
other Spanish war vessels.
It forecasts the purpose of the de-
pnrtment of justice to support the
contention that the armored cruiser
New York actually participated in the
battle with Cervera's fleet, and that
her addition to the force made it supe¬
rior to the Spanish squadron. It is
expected that the court of claims and
the district supreme court will deter¬
mine the question of whether the
New York took part in the battle, and
by its decision an end will be put to
the controversy which has "been agi¬
tating the navy and the country since
the battle occurred.
BERRY CHALLENGES BEVERIDGE
Indiana Senator Is Called To Task For
Various Allegations.
In the senate, Monday, Mr. Berry,
of Arkansas, had read the resolution
offered by Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, "and
also of Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana.
Those who desired to discuss the
Philippine question, he said, were met
by the objection that they were aiding
those who were in arms against the
United States and were responsible
for the loss of life among our soldiers.
He regarded this position as absolute¬
ly unwarranted, and declared that no
man who was a man would bo deter¬
red from speaking by charges that
were absolutely unfounded by facts.
Mr. Berry believed that the two res-
olutions which he had had jread from
the desk fairly represented the views
of the two great parties iu this conn-
try. He was certian that the resolu■
tion of Mr. Beveridge reflected the
sentiment and feeling of the advninis-
tration because it bad been favorably
commented upon by tbe admiuistra-
tion speaker and newspapers through-
out the country.
The resolution had been endorsed
he said, by the administration leaders,
yet it conferred an authority power
upon this country as absolute as was
possessed by the czar of Russia.
“What is imperialism,” Mr. Berry
asked, “if it be not tbe assertion of
such a power as is asserted by the res-
olution of Mr. Beveridge?” He de¬
clared his unalterable opposition to
such a declaration, and believed the
people of the United States would not
approve so plain a violation of the
constitution.
Mr. Berry referred to that part of
Mr. Beveridge’s spieech in which the
Indiana senator had asserted that God
had selected the American people as
His trustees, whose appointed work
was to extend to.the Philippines and
the Filipinos the civilization and lib¬
erty with which the American people
as His chosen children were to en¬
lighten the world. Mr. Berry did not
admit that the American people were
the trustees of the Lord in the Philip¬
pine matter. He said that when men
asserted that they were tho trustees of
tho Lord he wanted some more sub-
stautial proof of the assertion than
their own word.
SESSION OF HOUSE.
New Kentucky Congressman A®
In-'District Matters Considei*
Juno W. Gale of Kentucky, j
was elected to succeed the late
15. Settle, appeared at tho bar ofV
house Mr. Monday Cannon, and of Illinois, was sworn froJB iinjfj
committee tho urgent ou deficiency appropriations, appropriates rejioS^
bill and gave consideration notice that Tuesday. be would ca^H
it up for com-®
Mr. Babcock, chairman of the
mittee on District of Columbia, claimed®
the day for consideration cf Distriet *
of Columbia business. i
HUNTER HOMEWARD BOUND.
Allcged Embezzler Leaves Morocco | j
In Charge of Officer.
Thomas K. Hunter, the former audi- ,
tor of the Atlanta and West Point rail- '
road, Morooco, who is was aboard recently steamer arrested which in is J
a f
plowing the Atlantic, and which.is due
to arrive in New York on Jnnuary 25th.
Unless there is unforeseen delay
Hunter will arrive in Atlanta on the
27th, embezzlement. and will be tried ou a charge dH .tf/M
is Ou the beard agedt the of the steamer United with States Huni^B
eminent, who was appointed by Psfl
dent McKinley to bring the fugilH
back to this oountry.
NEXT MEETING IN RALE!
Agricultural Commissioners W'M
seirsble Again Next Augustj
It was announced at New Or]
Monday morning that the data fo:
next annual convention of the <1
missioners of Agriculture, whidsl
been in session in the Crescent!
ior several days, would be An
21st, and that tho meeting wouS
held in Raleigh. j