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Newspaper Page Text|[ flRp’S WEEKLY LETIIR. BARTOW aillff AGAIN DISCUSSES PRESENT HOSTILITIES. SAYS C1YIUZSTI0N CONDEMNS IT. If I* VVas Left to tlie People We Ao :l Would Hava Peace—Think* Pol¬ ities the Cause. '•And thou serenest moon that with such holy face Looks down upon the earth asleep in night’s embrace Dost thou not know some spot some refuge for the blest Where free from toil and pain the weary soul may rest? Behind a cloud she hid her faea in woe Xnd in a sad sweet voice she whispered > ‘no.’” One great philosopher , , declared _ , .... t a war was the state of nature. Another said that peace was only a breathing tinie that gives man leisure to contrive an ability to execute military plans. Sir Edmund Burke denied this, and so did I. The great majority of mankind love peace and naturally pre fer it to war. Burke said that politics was the cause of war, and somebody else ■said that war is hell, and we see already that the two great parties are quarreling about this war and each is claiming the glory of Dewey s victory as a party triumph, but if the voices of the people the men and the wo men—could have been heard, there would have no war. The spirit of the ! Even age in duelling which tve and live single is against combat war. has j passed away under the influence of a higher Christian civilization. Boys do not fight, at school like they used to. They have netei heard of the bully j boys who thought it smart to put a chip on the hat and date anybody to knock it off. In every school I ever went to there were one or more of these bull dozing, domineering boys, and they got licked sooner or later. The coun try people do not care to fight nowa days. They are more peaceable and less aggressive. I remember when on , muster days there were a dozen fights ! in one day right around the public square. When AJs Bowls and Nick Rawlins and Jim Robinson would be stripped to the waist and walking around and strutting and crowing and bragging, “I’m the best man in Pink neyville deestnkt,” and Bowles would emphasize it with it a jump up and a ctgw. But that day has passed away. We see no maimed eyes or ears or noses now. And yet Nick Rawlins and Bowles were really good men at heart, and would have died in defense 1 of a friend, rhey fought because it | was the fashion m those days, but their victories brought no rewards and n° premiums and their children knew it. They are a better class of citizens. I met one of Nick s sons in Rome not [ long ago a moral, peaceable, Christian man whom the people all respect. Well, now, the argument is that if the sons are better morally than their fathers ; : were, then the nation is better and , less aggressive than it was 50 years ago. Andrew Jackson was a type of j diatage, and he rode into the presi- , cen c J on ki‘ s war recor( L hut lie , , t do He bill 1 dozed con ( n it now. T 81 ? 0I -^ of Honda, and would have , bulldozed England out of Canada if he had lived up that way. | But I was looking heavenward last ' night and pondering on that beautiful moon that is shining so peacefully upon us in this fav&rcd region, and I was grateful that the war nor any of its signs had reached us. We read of it in the great papers and can’t help but rejoice in our naval victories. The great dailies are crowded now with thrilling exciting It g news e & nnrl ive ' % rpnd f. ! 1 so ^eagerly that . even ™i Old Aunt A Lydia Einkham s medicine is taken for a war dispatch and is half read before we know it it, T I reckon ,, it is • good i for t fever e __ war fever—or it wouldent be dove- j Tailed so close into the war news. But nobody around here seems to be hank- I onng after a fight, and a good old veteran’s widow told me that the reason of ^ f a Q? bherman’s ecause belt wer and ® right the in population the heart hasent changed any to speak of. “We cant forget the horrors of war,” she said. “I was living in Cassville when u was burned and I don’t to ; want see any more war, and I want my children k ' l ° eep out of it. A bad peace is , better than a good war if there ever was V snch UCh o thmg tt-qv War is lfte mUd ° n - women Tli is awful. 1 « Men and ‘ : women and get the glory . children are the greatest ! suberers. When they burnt Cassville ' in our husbands and sons were were most most all an the e aiiny, and those who at were ome were taken prisoners and sent a^av. So there was nobodv left but women and f.v,;ii, children on and , no *, houses to , live in ‘ bunched up in some lit- j + tie , shanties, , but they and drove'them took our cows ff all to Cartersville and live eD t haV( of k hardly went anything Carters- to j I -rum ' us to .11 next day to beg for our cows and we drn get them back bv 7 sio-niuw gn mg lovalty 8 " m * pane-s wWk 'h* '“ , , 1 °" S , 1-ilioi ea ^onldent ,, wnose husband , was I ■ sign. She had four little children and she took them to the graveyard that night and they slept on the ground by her husband’s grave. In a day or two we got a little corn and I rode an old sore-leg mare twenty miles to the nearest mill, for they burnt all the mills’inside the belt. In a few days we got a little more corn and three of us women rigged up an old broken wheel wagon and got a lame mule and an old mare and took our corn to mill. Tt took us nearly three days to make the trip, for the wagon broke down right, in the creek and we had to wade in and get our sacks out of the water and pull the wagon out by hand, We patched it up again and went on till we got to a pretty steep hill and the team stalled and wouldn’t pull at all. You ought to have heard us clucking and holler¬ ing at them, but it was no go. We shouldered our little sacks, for they were mighty little, thank the lord, and about that time an old man came along aud he helped us all he could and wa got to tlie mill at last and dried our corn and got back home as thankful as possible. You would have died laugh ing at us if vou had seen us getting 01ir onrT1 011 f 0 f that creek.” j that every jingo could hear ^ b i s ol d veteran tell her war experi ence> jt i s both pathetic and amusing, jj ow they endured it we know not, but one thing is certain, they will keep their children and grandchildren out c | nex t one jf they can, and I ree¬ kou they can _ “Yes,” said she, “the yankees will ] ia y 0 to go outside the belt to git sol diers this time. ” Now, there is no sign of war in these parts yet. There is plenty of pa t r i 0 tism, but it is not red hot. If you throw water on a Cartersville boy don’t sizz. When Georgia is actu aI1 invaded then watch them. But there is no excitement of very deep conceru> ‘, When the old Oassville wo man wa told o£ Dewey’s great victory B ] ie never smiled, but said: “Four hundred poor fellows killed and most them had mothers or wives tvho ] oved them. I reckon a Span woman loves her children as dear]y as we love 0 urs, for a woman is a mo ther all the world over.” But bus iness goes on, and so does baseball and bi n ardSs aild I find time and in elinat i 0 n to work in my garden and kiU the potato bngB and to tie up the vines and rosebushes and frolic with the litt]e cbaps> who are so bapp y to t bere and j u w hose sunshine I am so bappy> too. Yesterday my wife, vj rs _ Arp, was sawing away on some baby garment, and remarked in her serious way that the verandah floor needed a coat of paint mighty bad. Well, j neyer said nothing. Then she re¬ marked that the paint wouldn’t cost more that fifty or seventy-five cents. Well j neve r sa id nothing again, Iu a ]ittle while she 8aid that if I would bny the paint 8be would have it painte d, and it shouldent cost me anyt hing. i So I said “very well, I reckon can a ff or d the paint.” She said that company W as coming next week> and i had bette r get the paint r jg b t awrny so that it w'ould have time to dry . This morning I got the paint an( | j heard one of the girls ask her who ghe was ing to get to paint the floor> « W1 of C 0 U rse,”she said . « Ile can do jt a8 we ll as any bod He paiute d it the last time; don>t you re member?” And that is the way j am i nve igled into trouble, Hard bard> indeed , i 8 the contest for freedom and the struggle for liberty at my i 10use> bu t we have got the pretti eg£ ro8e8 f n a n the town except where th emp i oy a gardener, and my wife flattered all the work out of me just as easy ._Bnm Abp, in Atlanta Constitu p - on ATLANTA MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. —18 Groceries. Roasted coffee $11.30 per 100 !t> cases. Green coffee choice 12; fair 10; prime 9- Sugar standard granulated 5%c; New Orleans white 5%C; do yellow 5%; Syrup, New Orleans open kettle 25@40c. m i xe d 12kf<»20c: sugar house 26t®35e. Teas, black 30@65e; green 20<®50c. lilce ^ ea f, 6 ^ C; ? ho £? 5M@ 6 c ; Salt, dai - do bbls. 2.25; ry 4 sacks $1.2o; Cheese, full ice cream < ,. oommon C5c. cream 10}4<h>11Kc. 2.75.' Matches, 65s 50c;200s 1.30@1.75; 300s Soda, boxes 6c. Crackers, soda uion stick 6 c; fancy 12@ 13.. ’ovstTr^iTw Oysters, V. W. 1.65; L. W. 1.15. Country Produce. Eggs 10(®llc. Butter, western cream¬ ery, 20(®25c; fancy Tennessee 14® 15c; choice 123-^c; Georgia 12>£@15c; demand light with market glutted. Live poultry, turkeys 9®10c; hens 25@27>£c: spring chickens, large 18@22>^e; 25®30a; small 15®25o; ducks, puddle, Peking 25@27Xc. Dressed poultry, turkeys, 14® 15c: hens 10@llC; chickens ll®»12c; geese 8<®10c; ducks 1234 c; Irish potatoes, 95CE$1.00 per bushel. Sweet potatoes, 85@$1.00 per bu. Honey, 7®3c? dull, stratned 6@7c: m the comb Onions, new crop, $1.60@*1.75 per bu.;$3.75@4.00perbbl. Flour, Grain and Meal. Flour, all wheat first patent, #6.50; second patent, $5.75: straight, J5.00; fancy, $4.00; e * tra Oats, fami ‘y’ white ?4 ’ 45c; 50 ’ Cor mixed . n > 42c; ^ Texas le; rust ‘ 85c. Hay No. l tim pro 0 f__. Ry. s , Georgia small bales 80c: No. 2 othy largo bales 85c; Meal, plain 50c; timothy small bales 75c. ^ bolted 44c. TV beat bran, large sacks 8ic, a u 3a eks 70c. Shorts $1.09. Stock meal so- Cotton seed meal 95c ner 100 Tbs: hull; $6.50 per ton. Peas stock G0®6oc per bushels common white 85@90o; Lady $1.15@1.2o; Gritsf2 ' G °' Provision*. C i ear ribs boxed sides 6Me; clear sides 5Ke; ice-cured California belli.es 8c. 73^c Su ^’ breakfast ar ' c "J® < I hams ba?on 11®12^C: 10.®lli? Lard, best quality ; C^c; sec » 7 ;»llt 7 6. fl coopou»4SX e . Cotton. Market closed quiet; middling MANILA FIGHT IS DESCRIBED. How the Battle Line of Each Fleet Was Formed. SPANIARDS SLAUGHTERED. Dispatohes Sent to Madrid Con¬ firming Heavy Losses. The New York Journal’s cable from Hong Knog says: Commodore Dew¬ ey’s victory is the most remarkable achievement in naval warfare. The American fleet destroyed the defenses at Manila and all the shore batteries there and at Cavite were silenced. The American flag floats over Manila. No Americans were killed and only six were injured slightly. The Span¬ ish. loss is 300 killed and 400 wounded. Details of the Battle. Saturday night the American ships crept inside the bay without being seen until the McCulloch’s funnel emitted a spark. Then a few shots were exchanged with Coregidor island, but the fleet never stopped or slowed down opposite the city until dawn, when the fight began. The order of battle assumed by the Spanish fleet at the beginning of the engagement was with all the small craft inside Cavite harbor, which is protected by stone and timber break¬ waters, and the larger ships maneuver¬ ing off Cavite and Manila. The American battle line was led by the flagship Olympia and the cruiser Raleigh. The Boston, Baltimore, Con¬ cord and Petrel and the revenue cutter McCulloch followed. The American fleet, in easy speed, approached the Spanish ships, which were drawn out in two lines, the Reina Maria Chris¬ tina, the flagship, in the center. After the dawn broke and the posi¬ tion of the American squadron was discovered, the Spanish fleet immedi¬ ately opened lire, supported by the Cavite forts. The Spaniards fired the first shot. The challenge was given by the Reina Maria Christina. The Olympia replied and at once the entire American fleet was in action. The Spanish flagship soon caught fire, and Montejo transferred the flag to the Isle de Cuba. The cruiser Cas¬ tilla also burst in flames. Besides engaging the ships, Dewey directed a hot lire against the batter¬ ies. This surpised Montejo, who thought himself secure under the guns of Manila and Cavite. Montejo’s ships caught fire one alter another and either sank or were run ashore. Dewey continued lighting until the eleventh Spanish vessel was destroyed, by which time the shore batteries were also reduced. Spaniards Admit Heavy Doss. An official dispatch from General Augusti, governof general of the Phil¬ ippines, sent to Madrid by way of La Buan, says: “The enemy seized Cavite and the arsenal owing to the destruction of the Spanish squadron, and established a close blockade. It is said that at the request of of the consuls, the enemy will not bombard Manila for the pres¬ ent, provided I do not open fire upon the enemy’s squadron, which is out of range of our guns. 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