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OCILLA DISPATCH.
OCILLA, GEORGIA.
IK1VIN COUNTY PUUL18HING CO.,
Proprietor*.
Thera is no native of the State of
Nobraska among its representatives
in either branch of Congress notwith¬
standing tho fact that Nebraska be¬
came a State thirty-three years ago
and was the twenty-fourth admitted
into the Union.
A Harvard professor lias made the
calculation that if men wero really as*
big as they sometimes fool, tkore
would be room in tho United States
for only two professors, three lawyers,
l wo doctors and a reporter ou a Phila¬
delphia paper. The rest would be
crowded into the sea and have to swim
for it.
There is an industrial awakening
observable at present in Ireland. The
passing of the local government act
has benefited them in many ways, and,
as a result of its operations, a syndi¬
cate is now in the course of formation
for the opening up aud working of
granite and slate quarries in certain
districts throughout the country.
** Chicago possesses a natural curiosity
in the form of a mau who has just paid
off in full his father’s outlawed liabili¬
ties, the result of business reverses
sustained several years ago, amount¬
ing to $40,000. Some of the creditors
had forgotteu all about the traaaction.
His name is Simeon B. Chapin, and
the world would be better with more
mon of this kind.
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The special committee of the British
Parliament appointed to estimate the
C03t of the proposal to pension the
aged deserving poor has made a ro-
,-port. On the assumption that the
pensionable age is fixed at sixtv-five,
. tho committee estimates that the an¬
nual charge for the United Kingdom
would, in 1001, be $52,000,000; in
1911, $33,009,000, and in 1921, $78,-
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A Massachusetts judge before whom
■% fifteen-year-old boy was convicted
of forging a check, recognizing the
unwisdom of the ordinary forms ol
punishment in a case of this kind, has
sentenced the offender to banishment
from the State for two years, and his
father has taken him to California
under tho court’s instructions. The
case is attracting some comment, and
the policy of banishing a culprit from
one community and imposing him on
another is receiving discussion.
The produce of farms in the United
States for last year was worth to the
farmers $1,600,000,000 more than in
the hard time3 six or eight years ago;
live stock is worth $700,000,000 more,
staple crop3 $400,000,000 more and
other crops $200,000,000 more. Horses
are worth one-third more than they
were four years ago, milch cows forty-
five per cent, more, and sheep were
worth more than at any time for twen¬
ty years, the total value for the coun¬
try being 140 per oent. more than in
1896.
_
British Canada is enjoying itself to
the top of its bent these days in the
glory of the imperial cause. The fly
in the ointment, however, is the
French Canadian, who is distinctly
anti-Briti 3 h in his sympathies in the
South African war and does not mind
showiug it. As a result of this the
celebrations in Montreal in honor of
the relief of Ladysmith have had a
head and window breaking accom¬
paniment. All this goes to show that
Oauada has enough problems at home
to worry over without entangling it¬
self abroad.
Of great importance to the com¬
merce of the country, and of the
highest value to its military defence,
is the Chicago Canal, which was re¬
cently opened and which makes a
navigable channel between the Mis¬
sissippi and the great lakes. It is of
twenty-two feet mean depth and one
hundred and sixty feet broad at the
bottom, and cost $33,000,000. It is
primarily a drainage canal, intended
to provide for » (low of water through
the Chicago River, which will no
longer be a mess of filth and a source
j! disease; but a channel which will
permit the passage of large Bhips
from New Orleans to Duluth is some¬
thing of enormous national utility.
Prosperity promlsts to smile be-
pijinedly upon you this year. You’ll
ttoV miss the small sum necessary for
you to become a subscriber to this
paper.
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LOST IN THE CHAPARRAL
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.
REPRODUCE your mind grass¬ i n
/ '/l less stretch a of
country with
rrsnr- groat cracks
showing in the
82 L sun-baked earth,
with here and
there a stunted,
leafless tree, aud
upon a hillock
a little way off’
'A gaunt, gray wolf
a
' Q silhouetted
against the sky,
and yon will have some idea of the
nature of ono part of the country
through which for two years the United
States regulars marched and scouted
in the attempt to kill or capture a band
of notorious bandits.
If you should ride some hours over
this desolate waste you would come
at length to a dense woodland of chap-
arral, an almost impenetrable thorny
thicket which stretches for many
leagues along the Bio Grande Kivcr
and extends miles inland from either
bank. Since tho time soven years
ago when Uncle Sam’s cavalrymen
tinally succeeded in rounding up and
punishing the outlaws the face of that
southeasteru Texas country has
changed. Itain, which nature had
denied to the spot for nearly two
years, ha 3 again visited the region,
Verdure has again appeared and the
dried earth has drunk to its fill with
rejoicing. with Mexican
There was a man
parentage, but a citizen of the United
States, Cateriuo E. Garza by name,
who it was thought intended to en-
gage in an attempt looking to the
driving of President Diaz of Mexico
from his office and to the establishing
of himself in the presidential chair,
Garza did not have enough followers
in his first raid to cause much anxiety
lo the Mexican authorities. After a
fight on Mexican territory the leader,
with about two hundred men, re-
treated, into Texas and there for two
years hid in the dense thickets along
the river, making occasional forays
and doing a great amount of smug-
gling. Uncle Sam put a number of
regiments in the field to hunt down
tho outlaws, but owing to the nature
of the country and their familiarity
with the trails the hunt was » long
one. It was during this campaign
against the outlaws that Trooper
Thomas of D Troop of the Third Cav-
alry had the experience of which this
Captain George F. Chase, now
fighting insurgents in the Philippines,
was in command of D Troop in the
field against the bandits. The little
body of troopers was encamped at a
ranch about thirteen miles from the
edge of the chaparral, through the
lieart of which at a distance of thirty-
fivc miles lay the Bio Grande Biver.
Ope morning before the last star had
disappeared from the southern sky a
scout rode hurriedly to camp. He
threw himself from his horse at the
challenge from the 3entinel and said
he must see the commanding officer at
once. Tkeringiug toned “Who comes
there?” of the sentry as he checked
the progress of tho rider at the point
of his carbine roused Captain Chase,
and in a minute he was confronting
the scout, who reported that there
was a gathering of Garza’s men just
within the chaparral near the ranch
called St. Gertrude, something more
thrn twelve miles away. AVithin
ten minutes the commaning officer
and two-thirds of his troop were gal-
loping in the direction indicated by
tke scout. At St. Gertrude’s ranch,
whose southern boundary was the
edgo of the chaparral, the captain
dismounted his men aud threw them
into a skirmish line with an interval of
about two yards between each skir-
misker. In, this order the line went
forward into the chaparral. Just as
tho men entered the outlying edge of
the thorny them", thicket a volley was poured
into but no one was hurt. They
advanced several hundred yards into
the dense tangle of mesqnite, prickly
pear and other thorn-growing south-
ern vegetation, and finally found the
place where the enemy had camped,
The bandits, however, had disap-
peared, and pursuit through that laby-
rintk was a physical impossibility.
,On the extreme right of tho skir-
misli line was Trooper Thomas. So
thick was the undergrowth that he
could not see, save at times, the skir-
misker on his left, only twoyardsdis-
tant. Thomas lost his direction a
little and managed to get farther away
from his nearest comrade than the
order for the skirmish line formation
demanded. Suddenly there came the
clear, ringing trumpet order: “As-
semble on the centre skirmisher.”
This meant that the men at the right
and left of the center should turn and
march directly toward the centre, thus
eventually bringing the command
shoulder to shoulder in close order,
Trooper Thomas turned and headed,
as he supposed, for the sound of the
trumpet. Ho heard his nearest com-
rade thrashing through the thicket
and supposed that he was following
close in his wake. He soon foufcd
that ho was getting farther and farther
away from the noise of the cracking
underbrush. Then he turned in a
new direction and floundered on. For
p 1Y0 minutes ho kept up the pace as
well as he could aud was astounded to
that he had not yet come up with
] n3 comrades. He raised his voice
and shouted. There was no answer-
ing cry. He cocked his carbine, put
it to his shoulder and pressed tho
trigger and then eagerly listened. In
less than a minute two answering
shota were heard from what seemed
to be a point afar off. The density of
the chaparral growth was in itself an
obstvelo to the transmission of sound.
Trooper Thomas turned as he sup¬
posed in the direction from whioh the
shot signals came and ouee more
fought his way through the thicket.
He struggled on for a few minutes
and then slipped another cartridge
into his Springfield and fired. Ho
listened intently for five minutes, but
no answering discharge gladdened his
ear. Ho fired three more shots in
rapid succession. Still no answer.
The cavalryman was lost in an almost
impenetrable jungle, through which
every step of progress was a toiling
pain and where there was no means
whatsoever to give him a key to direc¬
tion. He stood still for a few minutes
to think what was best' to do. He
had no compass, and wliile-.lie knew
that the northern edge of the chaparral
was within a comparatively short dis-
tauoe he had not the remotest idea
whether that edge lay before him, be-
hind him or at his right or left. For
two days thick, heavy clouds had ob-
Bcured the sky. They were full of the
promise of rain, which would not
come. Time after time the few people
living in the region had looked upon
just such lowering clouds with some
gleam of hope that they might let fall
a bnrdeu of blessed showers. There
was promise, but no fulfilment. The
heavy, murky bank, however, served,
with the aid of the matted canopy of
the chaparral, to prevent the lost
cavalryman from getting any idea,
however faint, of the position of the
sun. North, south, east aud west
were alike to him.
Trooper Thomas finally determined
to trust to luck, and taking the course
which he thought was right he worked
his way through tho thorny growth,
For two hours he toiled on, aud then
in despair he realized to a certainty
that he was hopelessly astray. When
the line had been deployed Thomas
had left his. canteen behind, and he
now began to suffer severely from
tkir.st.
Hours passed, and still neither open-
ing in the chaparral nor the glint of
water gladdened his eye. The trooper
slipped a cartridge from his belt, and
taking his knife cut the head ballet
from the brass cup. He put the mis-
sile in his mouth and it momentarily
relieved his thirst.
It was beginning to grow daskr, and
the soldier realized that he mast spend
the night in tho chaparral. Ho cut
some of the thick leaves of tho prickly
pear, and scraping off the thorns from
the green surface chewed the pulp for
the slight relief k^ that the juice afford-
ed. Then cleared a place, and ly-
ing down tried to sleep. Physically
worn out though he was, his thirst
and the horror of his situation kept
him awake. Toward morning he had
a little feverish sleep that brought no
rest. As the first streak of daylight
stole into the chaparral the trooper was
ou his feet and on his way once more,
The puckering juice of the prickly
pear leaves seemed simply to have ag-
gravated his thirst, and his suffering
was beginning to be more intense than
can be expressed in words. Painfully
making his way along, Thomas came
to an open place in the chaparral. At
the farther side of it he heard a orack-
ling, and in a moment a peccary—ono
of the little wild hogs of the Texas
jungle—broke into the clearing,
Thomas steadied himself with an ef-
tort. He raised his carbine, aimed
aud fired. The shot was a olean one,
and the little wild pig fell dead in its
tracks. To ease the pangs of his
thirst Thomas drank of tho animal’s
blood, and it gave him strength and
courage to keepon. The effect of the
drink, however, was not lasting, and
in an hour’s time he found himself
suffering as keenly as before. He
strode along, however, with occasional
rests, all through the morning and
the long afternoon. At night he was
half delirious with suffering, but the
utter exhaustion of his body forced
him into slumber. Ho slept in a
troubled way for some hours, and
then, waking, found his suffering so
intense that remaining still was im-
possible, and through the darkness of
that Southern chaparral be stumbled
on. Finally he fell from sheer ex-
haustion and lay for some time in a
half-dazed condition,
Then the morning came. Little by
little some expression of returning
sense came into the trooper’s face,
He looked straight ahead, and there,
not ten yards in front of him, he saw
that there was a break in tho thicket,
New life came to him in an instant,
aud he fairly dashed through the nn-
derbrnsh. In a moment he stood at
the chaparral’s edge. Before him lay
a great clearing, with a house in its
center. With a cry of joy the soldier
made his way to the building. It was
deserted. There was not a sign of
life anywhere, and all around, com¬
pletely inclosing the clearing, he saw
the chaparral walls. A great wooden
cistern, such as one finds in southern
countries, rose beside the house. In
the times when there had been rain
water had poured from the roof into
the cistern. There was a faucet
six inches from tho bottom of the
great tank. Thomas almost staggered
as he went to it aud turned the han-
die. Not a drop of water trickled
I j out. He was at the verge of despair,
but with that hope which is always
present even at fortune’s lowest ebb
lie thought that it was possible that a
little water might still remain in the
oistern below the point tapped by the
faucet, fie climbed upon a shed and
from thenoo to tho roof of the dwell¬
ing. The top of the cistern was cov¬
ered, save for tho small hole into
which the pipe from the eaves trough
ran. The trooper tore oft' two of the
rotting hoards and looked into tho
cistern depths, far down, below tho
entering place of tho spigot he saw
something glisten. It was water. He
cut strips from his suspenders and
from his clothing, and letting down
an old tin pot that he had found in
tho house he managed to draw up a
mouthful of water. It was stagnant
aud ill staelliug, but no draught that
man ever took seemed sweeter to him
than did that drink of green-coated
cistern water to Trooper Thomas. He
let the can down again and again, aud
drank until new life and strength
came to him. He knew that there
must be a disused trail leading some¬
where through the chaparral from the
cloaring. He made a circuit of the
jungle’s edge and Anally found the
trail. He knew, not where it would
lead, but he knew also that his only
hope lay in following it. Ho had not
gono more than a hundred yards be¬
fore he met two Mexicans, who proved
not to belong to the bandit gang.
They gave him something to eat, and
agreed to pilot him back to the camp
of his troop. It was then that
Trooper Thomas made the astounding
discovery that, although he had been
wandering for forty-eight hours, he
was not five miles from the place
where he had lost the flank of the
skirmish line. Compasslees and with
no landmarks to guide him, he had
been practically traveling in o circle
until when, in the half delirium of the
second night in the ehaporral, he had
risen, aud going blindly ahead had
managed to keep for ft while in »
straight line.—Chicago Record,
WHAT A JOURNALIST fS.
How Ho Differs From a Plain, Ordinary
New#pajier Man.
After his lecture before the journal¬
istic class at Cornwall University, a
sophomore asked Eli Perkins when he
became a journalist.
“Never,” said Eli, “but I do hope,
after twenty years’ more experience,
to become a newspaper man.”
“AVell, what is tho difference?’
asked the sophomore. said “A
“Just this, my so-n,” Eli.
callow reporter calls himself a jour¬
nalist. As George- Welslions says, ‘is
his first tadpole stage, when his head
is swelled,’ he is a journalist. If he
finally shows great brain and indus¬
try, and escapes the fool-killer, he
may become a reporter, fitter years
of study and toil, and when his brains
are stuffed with wisdom, wit and dis¬
cretion enough to kill Ilia own editor¬
ials and ‘makeup’ a sixteen-page Sun¬
day edition, then I say lie's a news¬
paper man.”
“Then this is as high in tho profes¬
as he can
“Yes; he is now at the pinnacle.
By and by, when he gets lazy aud
stiff and old and stupid, they reduce
him to the position of editor.
“An editor is a decayed newspaper
man with bunions on his brain, chil¬
blains on his heart, corns on his ears
and warts and dyspepsia on his liver.
Tho business of the editor is to sleep
uptown all day and at night he prowls
around a newspaper office, and at mid¬
night he takes a blue pencil and assas¬ idea
sinates every bright and readable
that the smart reporters have brought
in during the day. while the
“The editor is ail epithet,
reporter is all proof. The editor calls
a man a chicken thief and gets sued
for libel, white the reporter, kodak in
hand, interviews him while picking off
the feathers in his back yard, and the
next day the thief takes ft whole ad¬
vertisement to shut up the newspaper.
“No,” continued Eli, “I hope I am
a newspaper man, and I dread the
time when I shall get old and stupid
and have to kill my own bright things
whioh made the people glad, sold
newspapers and made Americans know
me.”
How to Fit a Shoe.
“People would find less difficulty in
suiting themselves with ready-made
shoes,” said an experienced shoe¬
maker,’ “if they would stand up to
have them fitted. Nine persons out
of ten require a particularly comfort¬
able chair when they are having shoes
tried on, and it is difficult to make
them stand for a few minutes even
when the shoe is fitted. Then, when
they begin to walk about, they are
surprised that the shoes are less com¬
fortable than they were when first fit¬
ted. The reason is simple.
“The foot is smaller when one sits
in a chair than it is when one te walk¬
ing about. Exercise brings a con¬
siderable quantity of blood to the feet,
which accordingly swell. The mus¬
cles also expand. These fasts must
be borne in mind when one buys one’s
shoes, or discomfort and disappoint¬
ment are sure to be the result. Peo¬
ple who are not comfortable in ready¬
made shoes should have both feet
measured. The -result will generally
be the discovery that they have feet
of different sizes, aud therefore need
specially made shoes.”—Washington
Star.
London’s First HaHway.
The last remaining relic of the first
railway in London has just disap¬
peared from public view, having fallen
wearily into tlxe waters of the AYandle.
It was in 1801, or nearly a century
ago, that an act was passed authoriz¬
ing tho construction of a railway from
"Wandsworth to Croydon, the sleepers
being of stone and horses the motivo
power. The scheme included a dock
at AVandsworth, and it is the ancient
wooden crane connected therewith
which has just committed suicide in
despair at the futility of its life.—
| London Chronicle.
SAfflFORD GETS
GOVERNORSHIP
Alabama Democrats Name
Him Unanimously.
OPPOSITION WITHDRAWN
Democrats of Stale Open Meeting In
Montgomery With Harmony Prevail¬
ing to an Unusual Degree.
A Montgomery special says: On the
third ballot Wednesday night, after
just a little sparring, tho Alabama
Democratic state convention nomi¬
nated for governor Hon. AVillinm J.
Samford, of Opelika, one of the clean¬
est, purest, best and wisest men in the
state. The honor was worthily be¬
stowed, as every man in the conven¬
tion realized and emphasized with his
applause.
It has been many years since a gnb-
ernatorial nomination in Alabama
has left as few scars, To be defeated
by Colonel Samford is no reflection on
any mau. His opponents appreciated
this fact, as well as did their friends.
He won out over three formidable op-
ponents, and did so without entering
a combination or exchanging a vote j
with any one. He won on his merits,
and on his oratory, for wherever he
spoke in the campaign he bound his
hearers to him.
Colonel Samford came to the con-
vention with 168 votes instructed for
him, as against seventy-six for Mr, i
Waller, of Hale, speaker of the house;
sixty-eight for Mr. Stallings, con-
gressman from this district, and fifty-
nine for General Charles M. Shelly, of
Birmingham,former congressman from
the fourth Alabama district. One
hundred and twenty votes of the 501
in the convention were uninstrueted.
The first ballot was as follows: Sam¬
ford 216, Stallings 102}, Walter 96},
Shelly 8*.t.
At the close of the second ballot,
which was taken about 6:30 o’clock p.
m., a motion to adjourn was made by
an opponent of Colonel Samford. This
was the test vote. The Samford men
wanted to remain and nominate their
favorite. The friends of the other
candidates desired time to figure
among themselves, When the roll
was called the vote stood in favor of
adjournment 240, opposed to adjourn-
ment 263. This was understood by
the knowing ones to mean that Sam- j
ford could get 263 votes when he had 1
to have them. !
The third ballot was proceeded with. !
Colonel Samford had received 238
votes with several counties unreport¬
ed, aud still juggling,when Hon. John
B. Knox, who knows how to do the
graceful thing, climbed on a chair,
contrived to suppress the yells for
“Samford! Samford!” and stated that,
realizing Colonel Samford was the
choice of a majority of the convention,
the friends of Mr. AValler, General
Shelly and Mr. Stallings had author¬
ized him to withdraw their names and
move to make the nomination of Col-
onel Samford unanimous.
This announcement was received
with tho wildest enthusiasm by the
convention and Colonel Samford was
nominated without a dissenting vote.
In response to the demands of the
convention he came from his hotel and
delivered one of his inimitable speech¬
es. He expressed his gratitude to the
Democracy.
Perhaps the most interesting feature
of the noon session was the introduc¬
tion, by Hon. Robert J. Lowe, of a
resolution to the effeot that it was the
seuse of the convention that the wel¬
fare of Alabama demanded a constitu¬
tional convention.
Under the rules, the resolution was
referred to the committee on platform.
After the nomination of Colonel
Samford, the convention adjourned
until 9:30 Thursday morning.
Against “Tuba” Service.
A Washington special says: The
house, Wednesday, put its heel upon
th# pneumatic mail tube Rervice now
in operation in New York, Boston and
Philadelphia, and if its action stands
the whole service will be crushed out.
THE LONE HIGHWAYMAN.
Negro Bandit Holds Up a Coach Full of
Passengers.
A southbound St. Louis, Iron Moun¬
tain and Southern passenger train was
held up by a negro bandit near Hig-
ginsou, fifty miles north of Little
Bock, Ark., at 1 o’clock Friday morn¬
ing. The negro had no visible con¬
federates and confined his operations
to one passenger coach, compelling
the panic-stricken passengers to hand
over their valuables at the jioiut of a
pistol. The bandit escaped.
ASSETS OF APPLETON CO.
Receiver at Atlanta, Ua., Files Inven¬
tory In Superior Court.
Mr. Alfred C. Webster, receiver for
the southern department of D. Apple-
ton & Co., filed in the office of the
clerk of the superior court at Atlanta
Tuesday au inventory of the assets in
bis cba’ ge.
Three thousand open accounts are
reported with a face value of $48,-
103.97, 10 per cent of which amount is
uncollectible.
Tho stock on hand is inventoried at
$53,121.95.
TOWNS IN ASHES.
Over 2,500 Buildings In Ottowa
and Hull, Ontario, Destroyed
By Raging Flames.
A special from Ottawa, Out., says:
Five square miles of territory burned
over; more than 2,500 dwellings, fac¬
tories, mills, stores and other buildings
destroyed, entailing a loss estimated to
reach $20,000,000 and between 12,000
and 15,000 men, women and children
homeless, is a summing up of the havoo
wrought by a fire which ragerl at Hull
and in Ottawa Thursday.
Most of the lumber piles in Ottawa
and Hull have disappeared and are
now mere heaps of charred wood and
ashes. Half a dozen churches and
schools, a number of mills, the Hull
waterworks, the Hull courthouse and
jail, the postoffice, the convent—al¬
most every business place, and about
1,000 dwellings and shops iu Hull have
been destroyed. Indeed, nothing prac¬
tically of Hull is left but a church and
a few houses beyond it.
The fire originated through a fire in
n sooty chimney and the high wind
caused the flames to spread rapidly in
the direction of the lumber piles and
mills on both the Hull and Ottawa
shores of the Ottawa river and Claud-
iere falls. The total loss is estimated
at $15,000,000 aud insurance at
$2,500,000.
ALABAfHANS FAVOR BRYAN.
State Democratic Convention Finishes
Its Work At Montgomery.
The Alabama Democratic state eon-
Tentlon . adjourned sine die Thursday .
after nominating the next governor
and his cabinet, indorsing Mr. Bryan
and the Chicago platform, indorsing
Senator Morgan aud his Nicaraguan
canal plan, selecting a new state exec-
utive committee and electing delegates
and electors to the national convention
at Kansas City. It will go down in
history as perhaps the most harmoni-
ous state convention ever held in Ala-
bama. There was less trading and
trafficking in votes and influence than
iu any of the conventions held in re¬
cent years.
There were no combinations to de¬
feat the strongest man, notwithstand¬
ing there was an average of four or
five candidates for each office. The
favorites all won, and it was the evi¬
dent policy of the assembly, repre¬
senting the Democrats of the state, to
give the nomination to the man who
came to the convention with more
votes than any of his opponents. The
following is the state ticket in full:
Governor—William J. Sanford.
Secretary of State—Robert P. Mc-
David.
Treasurer—J. Craig Smith,
Auditor—W. H. Mathews,
attorney General—Charles G.Brown.
Superintendent of Education—John
'W. Abercrombie.
Commissioner of Agriculture—R.
pj. Poole.
“WITHDRAW FROG CUBA.”
The Import of a Resolution Presented
By Mr. Mason.
In the senate, Thursday, Mr. Mason
of Illinois introduced a joint resolu¬
tion ' requiring the president to with¬
draw the forces of the United States
from Cuba so as to turn the govern¬
ment of the island over to the Cubans
by the 4th day of next July. The reso¬
lution was as follows:
“That the president of the United
States is hereby requested to withdraw
the forces of the United States as rap¬
idly as may be done with convenience
and safety, and that on the fourth day
of July, 1900, all civil and military
power of the United States be turned
over aud surrended to the people of
the island of Cuba.”
Senator Mason argued that the Cu¬
bans must be turned loose sooner or
later to govern themselves, and that
the shortest way for them to learn
self-government is to begin the prac¬
tice at as early date as possible.
MORE CLAIMS COniNG.
Sultan of Turkey Promised a Busy
Time In Squaring Accounts.
Advices from Constantinople state
that in view of the steps taken by the
United States government arising out
of the Armenian massacres, the em¬
bassies of Great Britain, France Aus¬
tria and Germany have asked their
governments for instructions as to their
similar claims.
CAROLINA PROHIBITIONISTS
Promise to Make It Warm In Palmet¬
to State This Summer.
A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says:
The prohibitionists are preparing for
a determined state campaign this sum¬
mer. A call lias been issued for a
state convention to meet May 23d, for
the purpose of suggesting candidates
for governor and other state offices.
C. C. Featherstone, the prohibition
candidate for governor, in the last
Democratic primary was defeated by
Governor Ellerbe, the dispensary can¬
didate, by only 2,000 votes, The dis-
pensary will be represented by Gov¬
ernor McSweeuey.
RIVERA RESIGNS POST.
Quits Cuban Cabinet and Becomes Can¬
didate For Mayor of Havana.
A special from Havana says: Gen¬
eral Buis Rivera has resigned the post
of secretary of agriculture, industry
and commerce in the governor gen¬
eral’s cabinet. He has also announced
to the citizens of Havana that he is a
candidate for the mayoralty. His let¬
ter of resignation was sent to General
Wood.