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DESERTING THE SEA ISLANDS.
TV R fait OK ft ftH IFTINCJ TO Till. *l*l%-
Ltm AM) Till I ITIKft.
Kormfrij Populous Vim %I
naoat |lrp>|iilntral *fael Ihr Only
liirrpllun—Thr %In nl<*n mr nl l
liar lalmiiU by liar I'lunit ra and
Thflr I’aarrliM*** Id < apttallata ms
4iimo I’rrif-ra ra Varrllaral • liar
4 lalrl l auara uf liar V|a% rnaraat.
Fornirr laa laaal>llaanfa of *r lalnmla
>im ftrttlrd In iha- \ lllnar* \roumi
liar 4 It) nuil I lirou •*. la on i il>- 4 iitni.
Th* f*" that the eri Ulan Is of Chat
ham rdo *r ountl* along the Hrorsdn
roast *r sc d* *-rt 1 by ihr negr>e*
uno f*rm*rlv populate) thrm so thi kly,
li bear.g fomitv-nifd u j*>n by g* nth m* n
w*• are f miliar with the condiilons in
the *♦ t teianda Tim dfOri on o: t/i *••
IHa rain doe* t.>< n **•• that thr >;.r*d
j* pulailon of the county * 1 ••■nr r* 1;■ 1
any. but limply that the negroe* arc
leaving the latands and seeking th** miUn*
land, many coming to Sa\*innar>
Several reasons are for tht
r ding m p°fud*tion, ff on*?* b*
U-tc th*- attraction! of th* ty. • mNii • 1
With h* :er w.**
ond. the fa f t?mi t*.*■
been almost entirely ihut i.irH ty th*
J
for hundred* of negro* anal have been
largely U. jght up by * • Hii>ra who ar*
holding them * ime j*r- *erv. * Pipejo
is laid t> r -t; • only I* hind which hs>
not rltmtin • 1 In |; • ; ‘ior -*tnir t
the fact that th*
uated there in aon •• re*p t than In th<
other i ii l* of O < nty
Health Officer Urunnt-r, uh i* thoroug <
1) conv*r y ■ w*th t * <o n! iml water
way* of (rtatham aounty and the condl
flora* prevailing in the island?. w,i*> • k )
population was us great i* hid been r
ported.
“The i.egro r -pula'.on on the tfland* h
grew tty dimifdahed a recent >♦ irv *ai!
Ir Brunner. Go down th*- river *n#l
take the ieiat.d* up in turn on Tyb##
there ar** no negroe*. ex ept thoae em
ployed h> the white jwopi* living there
On Little Tvbe. <fir# are none u: all
On Warsaw mere are non# except the
few in th- employ of the rar*otn* family
At w.jlch wa* formerly *#il
populated, there la only one rattier left. At
Bt Catherine's there are only about n
do*en families left Bap#lo I* the only
Island which h.i* retained Its negro pop
ulation. Th* r*- ar** three settlement*
there with over 400 |pulation The reason
for this Is pr>bah|\ lx* ti*e- the iiegroen
own their lands at Hapl* the iUltlvable
land being cut up Into patches of five to
twenty acres They raic rice, corn, p*-*.
sugarcane. potato#' and little *'.i hind
cotton They raise little. if any. tru k
for the market What wuh their r up*
nod with fish and oysters, they lead a
fairly * *\ ♦ ■ • n .
“Chatham's negro population 1* not di
minishing b any mean*- ' sa.d Ir. Brun
ner. “Most uf the negroes from tn* sea
Islands have *e tbd on the main land or
In the viUig* around h** * lt. Th r 1*
n negro settlement near White Bluff of
negroes who came from the sea Is.an.ls.
and at Burroughs an.l other outlaying
points there re < onskler.i’V.e negro s*‘t
tlements Around the city there r*
Woodavllle. Dit tm*rsvil!e. H.ivannuh.
I-al’agevllle nn<i several others, containing
easily | 0 4 -.. negro**. The reneua
Is not likely to show any lerre.ise m the
negro population of the county.**
Taking the figures of the previous cen
sus for the county nd those already fur
nished for the * it\ by the present census,
Jr. Brunner * *Um *d that ne pre*. nt
total populate*!) of the ooußtf I- .t•;t
70,4100. Th*- if# t *e* -us gave the county
a population of over 57.000. The present
census shows an increase |r city itopulg
tion of over 11.000. Adding this to the
county iJOpulatton of 1* *- give* a ,* ai
nr an*l an lu ra- ,f n r |, ~^t
l.W® in the county i*opulat.on can le al
lowed for Ir Brunner estimates that
Hfttm of ido conoti outikN *r
the city Is about IS.OOv, of which abou
14.W0 are colored.
MAOK IIIIM.*. UVKIA.
Pblelda Was nt War With the World
for a l.lttle W bile.
A stranger with a Jag was looking for
trouble yesterday afternoon on Bull
street Not finding It there, he drifted
to Broughton, wnere he was more suc
cessful. ||.- found a w hole hunch of
trouble In the i*erson of Officer Ling*,
who took him In. and there a ill be a sec
ond chapter of the story this morning
when he appears before the Recorder.
F. K. Bhletda was the man oti*.l h- hail.-*
from fc Jlioch county. He had a skate of
the water Some of his perform tn- c*
were unique in the extreme, and there
was an interesting knot of spectator*
around him for twenty minute.-. n
watching his stunts and wondering where
•• policeman could be rotor ms certain
1> loaned to the popular belief that an
officer is never around when he is ne*t
ed Officer Ijinge wa* finally telephoned
for. as Shields was owning Broughton t*n*|
didn’t seem to ar? muen what he did
with it
The Screven Ifoiae bar had been vlst*
ed by Shields, and there an imp tu* wa
given hi* Jag. which was a ready of truly
wonderful proportion*- Su*!dnly he tid
ed his watch and chain, and th#M he be
came too mad to live. He wao look ng
for blood With never an id* a of wh *
had his watch, he jump'd on a coo ed
employ* of the bar. taking th* darky out
and starting up the stiee- with him, de
claring that he was going to have nlm
arrested.
Befot* the epivode of the drunk and the
darky, th*- form* r had ateerd him -if
up against a knot of m*n who stood on
the Screven House corner <4hicid* is not
a very large man In stature. *>ut look
like what ther* Is of him is all thsr*. tu*
either of two rmn who ha p-ne | to ie
In' the hunch he blew up ag.ilnst could
have eaten him up One ww* Mysterious
Billy Smith and the other was Jn k
Hanlon It must have lie n funny t
them to hear all the etlff talk Fl Ids
was getting off. but th* y to<*k p g o,|
humored!), as did all the others who siw
his performances.
It war* quite evident Bhteids hud no ca.-e
against the durkv. and a tslander broke
his hold Then Hhleide began raging It
w'as evidently a Democrat, for h wunt**!
to whip every Republican In th*- country,
from McKinley down. He made quits .
speech upon the question. Interlarding it
with som* rather choice expr* -*don fl
then look a walk up Brougnton street,
with a wake of youngsters and othets, aij
anxious to see the expected meeting be
tween his Jagiets and a |H>llcman. It
filially occurred, and Hhlelds was taken In.
A9SAILTEI) Hi A UAUBbRIt.
Mr. T. lUriuon llna Ilia Head Onahed
In by a >**xro. \. loJaoa.
Mr. T. Harmon of Tarboro, B. C.. Is in
the Savannah Hospital in a dangerous
condition from the effect of a blow on
the head dealt h.rn Monday by a n*gro
named A. Colson and sometimes called
Arnold.
Harmon tn bookkeeper In a camp of
Southern Railway employes at Tarboro
He found <*o!aon Monday gambling, on*!
ordered him to quit playing and go to
work The negro demutYed, saying that
he was **ln the hole** and wanted to win
bf.ck toms of the money that he had lost. 1
MSJ
E Piii<s E
Dizzy? Then your liver isn’t
acting well. You suffer from bilious
ness, constipation. Ayer’s Pills act
directly on the liver. For 60 years
the Standard Family Pill. Small
dotes cure. 25c. All druggists. I
AVftbl )* .r u .*’ r < ! tntAl i • l>autlfttl
• n’i■ r r ). ■ ► TU#O U
BUCKINGHAM’S DYE ttA.ittr.
- .ic-c..'-r~.
Mr Harmon Insisted that th'* negro gei
w.rk arid in 4he quarrel that follow* I
<*n struck hm w .rh a he ivy piee of
w 1 Mr Harmon wa- immediately
brotigt.' to S%\ 1 nnlh ti:.d put tn the h'w
pita!. Colson is known in Sivonnah and
thouzht ro he on hi- way here now
MBM.II \ 4.4K111 TRIM..
Theater 4*orr M ho IMI Not See “The
Miiht *f the fourth.“
It i* a pty that the n alien e that saw
Mth*-ws Bulger in “The Night of
1 Fourth .jet night a? r.ot larger.
T‘ • deserve*! a large uu*Jie^ .* for tho
erformir e was one of the funniest,
fa-test aful < lever* * of its kind taat ftas
i*eei. dot e here since last season, when
W ird nd Vokce were seen in something
similar.
T • programme W)\* the p.e e is *'*
omedy jn thre** explosions " It was wrrit
ten by George Ade, tna’ m i-ter of slang
and che author of *‘Artle" and “Fable
in Hlang It abound* In bngnt thing*,
is eno zgh iiot to giv* e./me:hlng to work
■if and the dialogue is bright ai;d
• lever all through the three acts.
The en'lre c**mpa iy wa- good and there
w s not a p,rt that dd not receive good
are Hurry Bulger *n*i J Hherrle
M fhews were new names to most Hx
vannahlon*. hut they* will not he bere
• fter They nre l.xh good comedians
nd bright pe liii r Then there were
Waiter Jnnfs. Bhlllp Rylcy. Tony Hart.
Ii- Wiseman A. J Bod*. I* Andrada
nl L. J Hall beside* pretty Norma
W ballsy, tsautlful uni talented Joeie
md bevy of bright girl*
As migh* be supposed specialties
make up a large j*ort!on of the
performance* Mea*rs Math* ws. Bid
der and Jrme* snng anew song
“Walk. You Rucker*. Walk," that e#m
•d to please lmm*> sely Mis* WhaHey
aid Mr Hyley sang “Haven't Krown Me
Knough f r That"—another n. w
thing and -pi* n lldly *lone Wa t'-r Jone*
made a plei*lng imr*re-sl n with his
specialty (Hunt*.
But Xflhs J**j#ic I•* Wit* ws- ihe bright
i*arti übir st-ir of th# (#i>#clalists and h#*r*
was .* hit of magnltud* Hh# will t*# r*-
nsmberetl l*y Sa\annahl in# who visited
N#w York lost mimrn ,t.-* th# >ourg wo
rn n who ‘•.mg an*l pkiyed I # \lotn hi
th** Vlctorlji an*l other r*f gardens an 1
who.## “Fidd • n*l I ws ** | oj*ula-
Ml*- D# Witt sang s#v#rnl songs and
pUy#*d. hut h#*r hong. M-o-n-#*-y Bp#ll*
Mon#v. wi*h 4h# #nllr#* compiny In
horns, wsa th# l*c*-t F< ur tlm#* ?h* was
mad# to respond to the outburst* of ap
plause.
Hud th# th#Jt#r-go#r“ known what they
were missing, th# house would hive been
pok'd U#t night.
Bijko A* Holland's Big Minstrel Fcstl
\a! will he h *n to-morrow night. Of th**
prim i|*al funmakers are Billy Kersanda,
who r**c#lved ih* hlgi##t salary ever i*ul
* colored com**tii. John Rucker, th# >r
lulnal • onifdtan known as th# “Alih.irna
l.iossom.' Happy Ilcauregard." the
"bone Hiar Goon *’ Fo*ey and Bowem the
B#al (’(tons ’ 'l'h# pettiery this ison >*
h startling feature. Every act ha* its owu
(qreclal *c#-nery an*! *U*ctrlc #ri“ct*. th#
iiM*t #lalorat being ?h# grand first part,
setting "The orient.l Terrace," And the
big ensemble, “Down Am >ng th** Cy
press ‘ The street parad** takes place at
1* .id oTlork. Stats Are *n The hjl
on> Is reserved for colored patrons.
“Runert of Henttau." which will b#
M*#n Saturday afiernoon and night. *
lramaiised by Its- author. Anthony Hope,
is* a story complete in itself, but to thost
who have read “The Prisoner of Z#nda."
or have seen the drama fixation of that re
man tic tnl# of love, hatred and intrigue,
the presentation of the sequel upon the
s.g** will have an especial charm. In
•Rupert of Hentxau" the same chief char
ii'Urn appear, n.d th# unfinished otory
•f /. ndi* is carried to a conclusion, while
the play is full of th# a’mosphere and ac
tion that made the earlier romance Ihe
hi#f of recent dramatic successes.
The story concern# the theft of a letter
which Qu'#n Faivia has written to
Rudolf Hasssndyll. and which has been
by agents of Count Rupert of
Hentxau. who Is th# only one of Rudolf#
• nemles In the secret of his wonderful re
>#mblancc to King Rudolf of Kurttania,
md who purpose# to ns# the letter to his
•wn material advantage with the king, as
a ll the destruction of Rassendyll and
♦he dishonor of the queen. Rassendyll
ome* from England In wearcti of Hentxau
and th# l#tl*r. and th# exciting events
which follow furnish the action of th#
iday. Probably no cm# hut Mr. Hope
<ul#l have crowded such a series of In
cident* from the rt.rry into the brief
(terlod of a play. But Mr. Hope did the
trick, and the result ha* been an un
doubted dramatic sucres*.
m , 0
COL. HOIIimTHOV* rARKM.
Vrw Aflintnnf •■riirrnl of Amir
Troop, lino n Mnrh *rrv lrc.
Poi J. W Kohortpon. roomily i>polnr-
I MjiKant Amoral of Ihr Malt, hap ha>l
on .-ximaivp fnllltory exporlmre, rximd.
iiiK over nrarlv h'.f a century He *n
Bra<luatc<l from thr douth Carolina M!l*
Itarv Academy In IKO. and at Phort perl,
•do ever lt> e h is had more or Irre to do
with the conduct of troops am] tha dla
charße of staff duties.
Kor two yearp. vluimc the Sh’r, he wmp
commandant of cadet* at the Qeorsia
Military Inptltutc. at Murietla. and In the
•ana dec.idj superintendent of the milt.
• irv academy at Dalliance In the tn.
tervals he practiced with ourcepe hip |iro
feeplon of civil cnslneorin*.
Col llobertMjn paw duly, prlnclpnlly
n the Weptern army, throughout the curly
part of the war between the nates, null
ing pi many bloody conflict* and gaming
an enviable reputation for bravery und
knowledce of she art and rtrnrr of war
He fought *n the battle* nrouo.l V|< Ktmrc
and In the later battle of Haion Rouge
In his report of the operations of the
Confederate force* on ihat day. Oen.
lire kltirldse who , ammandel them,
paid "Col Thomp*on telng serlnu-lv
wounded In the . harge, the command de
volved upan Col. J. W Itohertron of the
Thirty-flfth Alabama. hope conduct
fully ]uptlfled the confidence of Mg
troop*."
Col. Rohertpon’* knowledge of engi
neering Induced hie transfer to the En
gineer Corpe of the ortm. In which corpe
e saw eervlce In three .late* At Itig
lope of the war he was In eharg of
fortification* In the elate of Forali.
H nee the war he ha lieen chief e |.
peer of a number of laPro.d* end o 1
like enterprlaes In the Stuth. but I. r ..•
past two ycara haa not eigtgd In active
i business.
THE MORNING NEWS; WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1000.
A % KHIMCT OF Ml RDKH.
Ni rnisn Jnektnn, Mho *!• Hl* %% lie
Nv. 4. Found t.ullti of That I rtuar.
A toroner Jury held an inquest U-’
night into the cause of the death of Sarah
J . kwon, also known as Harsh Williams
who wa shot Nov 4. by her **nd
Norman Ja kson. and died three days af
terward at he Georgia lnf)rmar>
But on* witness was examined, 8-tm
Fort bee. who was shot at the same time
that the woman was. but who ha* suff.
ciently recovered to be dis narged lf*m
the Infirmary li was on account of th*
relations between F era bee and the vrornar
that the thautir.g took pla e
Ferabee * • -timony was in tubs t ink
a* follows Tnat on the afternw>n of Nov
4 he was in a house in Henry s?re
.an#*, between B*rnarl and Jefferson
streets H* was siar*ling in the r* ar of
the —fryway talking to the J. k •
woman, when Je kson. whom he dul n*v
know at tli** time, came in through th*
front door and approaching t> within a
few fret of him. put his pistol t* Fera • •
side and fired -avirg at the same timr
•"Tak*- that. God damn >ou
The witness said that as soon as he had
been shot he turned around and caught
hold of Ja kson. but ♦hat even as he del
so Jackron shot th* woman. He was too
weak to hold him. he sail, but os Jack
son started toward the door, he called to
some men that were I. the entry way to
stop Mm The men didn't stop him. he
sard, and he had not wen him again un
til Monday night at the barracks where
he, K*'rabee, h*d applied for lodging
In reply to questions pul by the Jury,
th* witness, sal! that he had known th*
woman for about fifteen years, but 'hat
th** Sunday w hen th* -hooting o urr* and
was the first time that he had seen her
for four years or m**re He denied that
ther# hid been and Illicit relation* on
Nov 4 hut admitted that there had beef,
during his form*!* acquaintance.
Norman Jw-k*nn was brought before
the Jury and made substantially the fol
lowing statement:
"On fhmday. Nov 4 I ame from work
about 11 o'clock In the mornit g and af
ter stopping for a few minutes on the
sloop of the he*use. went upstairs 1 heard
my baby crying on the second floor of the
house n*-xt door. I #?a>ei upstair* about
half an hour, and as I started down the
s’eps 1 met a little girl coming up tre
step* and calling for 'Miss Hirah I told
her that she wasn't up-sialrs. and then
came on down the steps looking for h* r
I went next door to get the baby
Continuing hi* ato*y Ji k*on lvd o*
finding his wife and Perabee in a oiv
promlstng |gMiU|on. an*l *atd that he ha I
remonstrated with an*! upbraided the w.
man for her conduct. She. he said m l
no reply, but Feral*ee, with art oitn, t# 11
him to get away from there or he would
kill him. and after again cursing hdn
raised some shiny obje t In his hand.
Hearing the threat and eing whit h
l*elleve-l to he a weaton in Fe a bee’s
han*l. Jackwofi soys he shot on the groun I
at first for the purpose of scaring the
man. hut afterward rh* t him. for fear
that If he d.dn't Fera bee would h> t
him. 11“ had no Intently, he sail, of
shooting th#* wormn.
The Jury return#'*! a verdict of murder.
M.VV ADA KBT|NI>44 M HLMB.
-f|onk#*ep#*r and ll#use of 11l-
Fame Try to Ittrnet Visitors.
Pamphlet# containing the advertise
ment of a saloonkeeper of the Tenderloin
together with the names an l a*ldre.s s
of practically all of th* sp>rtlnsr h'tiaes
of that vicinity, have been circulated
about the city for the last few days and
Iwams #o numerous that Rev. J A
Smith, in a sermon la*d Sundy.
of them In this w'.y the matter r* a h*d
the attention of Mayor Myers, who yes
terday la gan an Inv* -tigatloti of tg*- in li
ter. only to find that Rev. Bmit i ha 1
been correctly Inforn.el hi *1 that th
pamphlets were b*lng distributed a out
town, principally among the visitor# t
th* city, and that the 1 • k driver* r
sail to he the active agents in this dt pft
butlon.
Mayor Myers was very much surprise#!,
and immediately orders*l th*’ btc tv* to
secure all of the circulars that <*ul<l b*
found. He also consulted City Attorney
Adam* as to whether the pc#ns# of the
’-aloon v ♦ per who figures on the pamphlet
could not be revoked It seems that this,
however. Is not po-Gb!#*. The stikion keep
er Is at present out of the city. and. the
person In charge of his place claims to
know nothing of the matter. The pam
phlet does not contain the name of the
publisher, so there is no means of rind
ing out from that sour.** who is r* >pon
slbte for It. Up to late yesterday after-
the defectives had succeeded in re
covering only a few of the offending *.-
per*.
'will, or EX HA H. KENT.
I'rnbiitpil In ronmnn I'nrm In the
Cffnrt u( Ordinary.
The will of the late Kara H Krnl wa*
fllrd and probaird In < Timm on f.irm In ihr
Couri of Ordinary yratrriiay. and letter*
[ testamentary granted to Edwin W Cul-
I liedge, ihr executor namnl In Ihr will
Thr will provide* that h widow of Mr
Krnt, beside* hli goods and
kitchen furnllurr. (hall receive thr sum of
KOO in cash All of thr rest and rraldur of
hi* estate hr direct* shall hr equally dis
tributed between Mary E Sasnett. Carrie
G. Carnon and Edwin W Cubbedge. nil
rrlatlvrn of Mr Krnl. A no inventory
wa filed with thr will. It l Impossible to
"CHILDREN AND FOOLS"
)\.dr of a Thlna Half llonr."
Thla la particularly appllcablr In cases
where |er*on* seriously troubled front
ihr affect a of coffer drinking uul who
take up I’ostum Food Coffee In It* place,
attempt to make the new beverage with a
little hot water and two or three minute*
lolling Thai eort of a “lick and n
| premier'' produce* a drink that in simply
exasperating. It I* flat and tasirlc**.
whrrra* the perron who will boll me
Pothtim full fifteen minute* after the act
ual bubbling and boiling begin* will have
a beverage that I* something.
There I* point between twelve and
fifteen minute* of boiling, when thr char
acter of Postum I* change'!, the food
value I* extracted and the dellctou* flavor
which much reeemhle* the mil ter and
r.orr ex tie naive grade* of Java coffer* Ir
produced.
A lady In Salem. Ore. *ay* "When
ever I drank coffee at night Ia I way*
passed o reatle**, wakeful night Ex
treme nervousness and a weak atomach
have followed nte ever * nee I have been
using coffee Finally I got Into ueh a
slate that my dyspepsia lock the form of
rpasm* and heart weakness
•'I suffered Intensely, and when a physi
cian was called lie Inquired, among other
things. If 1 drank coffee and Insisted that
I leave It off 1 did so and look tin tea.
which I found almost as had Finally
husband brought home a package of
I'rstum. and we tried it (strictly accord
ing to directions, for we believe In the
adage that “Children and fools Judge of a
tiling half done")
"The new coffee w* delicious and from
that day until now (which Is a year) It ha*
l.een our only drink at meal* My dyspep
sia, poems, etc., are a thing of the post
My husband bad suffered some .\cor* with
bihou* headache* and Indigent lon. hut
luring the twst year, on f’oetum Food
Coffee, he ha* 'ntlrely recovered hi*
health nnd gained muah in weight our
f-'end* frequently comment on our Im
pruved appearance. and change In com
plexlon.'' Name of writer supplied by
A’ostutn CO-, Battle Craek, Ml.h.
MUNYON’S
RHEUMATISM
CURE
Mien f*rof Mur.% n hs Rheuma
tism Curw will cur. r..* umatlawn there
.•n't any guesswork al*>ut it—there ian't
n> false statement about if. It
ur#-s it d**s Just -*4 ?iv what he savs
s? will F It cures mar* quickly than
I* * pi* exrwct It *nrr* s w ithout leaving
ill effe-'t* It is i pi n lid stomach
i r*rv • torJc. a well as a positive
ur- for rh< imatDtn
Ad ih* Munyon rem*lles are Just, as re
!“ • Any #lru*:g!‘- vial GuM<
: Health Is free, so is medical advice, if
\ i writ#* to Broadway and 2*>th street,
New \ .>qk
iv jr- lit tn#-** residuary legacies and
• piesr* amount to
J idv F* rrill r lay granted letters
. u#r ! .if ship on th* p-opertv of Alethlx
r f:urr*-tigh- md •• ••* - minor to Nina
I; Burroughs
*'*' A \v 'jank administratrix of
♦ .* of John Wohanka. filed her
hna return, wa- graf t ’d extra compensa
tor for tie duties she has performed and
\ *- dismiss* and. at her own instance, from
further execution of the trust.
THE t BKIT H %*4 DF.MI.I).
.lutlgr Fr rrill Hold* Thai Thomaa
H nil'* U itlon \\ na Ilia Next of Hln.
Judge F* rrill banP and down a deoLion in
th*- tVnirt of Ordinary yesterday Irv th“
matter of the r.iveat of J J Wall to the
-tpidi*. ut*on of Mrs Klisoboth t'oghlan for
l*t|ers of j'iministratlon. de homa non on
th#* e.*ate of Thoma- Wall The cave.it
w ts overruled and th** application for a l
rnmlstration, made by Mrs. Coghlan. will
b*' grant#-*!
Judge Ferrill dev Id# that at the time
■■■ the* de-j?#- f T^orr: h W •!! h*- wi o
Margaret W.ili. and not hi brother, J.
J Wall was his of kin and -ole
distributee ur :er th prov|so;>a of tna
Georgia law* of inh#ntance. Therefore
in#* fa>*t that she did not apply the fund
tn tank. w..ich i- thi* r.oa In i*uo o
.o her own use. hut left it to the credit
* f the estate, cannot tffect its title. The
till* pi#‘M to .Mr- Wall and an a*indn
i-ir.rrix. de tarda ti. may even now
iay It over to her h* irs.
Ti e question In i*. e wis a cl se and
ln!er**s*ing **n*. Th#* hl-tory ot the a#
rv ** give-; I*. the Mornli g New- of ves
;enlii>. in a ato vof the arg ment upon
tl *• apph.vrtton :oc adminl-tf all n and the
caveat thereto before J nig* Feni.L
DM %L niltvoNAh.
Mr M I -tv ke of Tampa Is a gue*t of
th#* Pulaski.
B* \ T Beatty of Athens Is m gueet of
the Pulaski.
Mr B. J Jonea of K:ngsland Is a guest
of th# Screven.
Mr L Herxog of Jacksonville Is regis
tered at the Screven.
Mr A W Rabon of Pelham 1# regls
tered at the Pulaski
Mr \V H O’Neil of Richmond. Ga.. Is
a guest of the Pulaski.
Mr J A McDougald of Stateebom ts
. guess of the Screven.
Mr r M Craig bft via the Plant Sys
tem yesterday for New York.
Mr. Al an Rweit In# returned to the
city, after a trip to Wild ate.
Mr. and Mrs. VV. V. S ruggs have re
lume#! after a visit to Orlando.
Mr. H R. Willi ims of Excelsior regis
tered year onlay at th#* Screven
Mr L. K Waterman left via the Plant
System yeoterd.iy for New York.
Mr W F. M *Cauley bft over the
Southern yesterday for New York
Mr. James S Weeks has returned from
two-weeks* pleasure trif# to Florida
Mr J O. Evans of Lak* City. Fla .
rt-giNiercd yet#-*rd >y at the I*ulaakl.
Mr J.imes Fre* min of the Southern
Railway is in Jacksonville on it business
trip.
Mri C A Alford and W. 1.. H Al
ford of Willingham are reateiered at ihe
Pulaski.
Mr Joseph Martin of Huntsville la in
Hi.- city on a via to his brother. Mr c
C. Martin.
Mr. and Mrs W O Talley of Ohoopee
wrr.- among the arrivals at the Screven
yesterday.
Mr S !., Ijeonard *w nmorig the pas
sengers of the I’lant System yesterday
for Pensacola.
Mr, and Mrs N’athan rieWnld are now
nt home io their many friends at No. 15
Jones street, cast.
Mr T II Kills of Allen.lale, S C., Is
•P '■ Inc eve a! days with hi* son.
ileorgr 11. Kills, on Aliercorn street.
Miss Jose E. fkirselt left via the Cen
tral last night for Augusta, where she
ttoes to lie present nt the Confederate
Reunion. ,
Captain James Dachlison of Darien, was
in the cly yesterday. He was en route
for Alien ta to attend the Confederate
Veterans' Reunion.
Mr J N Cornatxer. southeastern pis
-1 agent df Ihe Mobile and Ohio rea I
with head<|uarters at Montgomery, Is a
visitor to Havannah.
Mr J M Wiener, manager of Fair
wn'> Dan.l, left last nlgnt for New
lork. where he goes to make arrange
ments for concert* by the organisation
he represents.
CITY It It I-IVI Til'll.
A meeting will he held at the Chatham
Academy t-.H aft.-moon f.* the purpose
of organizing a society for the preven
tion of cruelty to animals.
The ex.>lu of Ihe fakirs continue.,
much to the tellef of the dete ilve. and
the entire police force. Yesterday and
ihe day before beta-.. n Ihlrty-tlve and
forty left via the Seaboard Air Idne for
Augusta, a* many as thirty going In one
bunch. t
J.-hn A Wilder tiled a petition for to
tal dlvor-e from hi wife. Mary F. Wild
er. In the Hup rlor I'oiitt yesierday. The
applloition Is based mam the wife’s deser
tion of the husband, alleged to have tieen
unprovoked uni causeless and to have
continued beyond the statutory period.
A meeting of Uk Fourth District Re>.
if I.ls Club will lie held to-mglit at th
hall. t Bryan and A her corn streets. A
full attendance of the membership Is ex-
Pected, as importMit matters relating to
Justice Reynolds’ candidacy at the up
prouchlng magistrates election will be
•
I 'w iMia aoi.ii> toi xtry not ay.'.
torsi I'alneas llnllt la l,net nod the
Art Treasures They Hold.
From the Rprriaior.
Bast week one of Ihe finest houses In
England and one which holds a unique
plate In the sentiment of the population
ol the Midlands narrowly escaped des
truction by fire. Welbeck Abbey divides
with Warwick Caetle and Chatsworth the
admiration naturally felt for a splendid
house, full of treasures of art. and set
In the llnest of gardens and parks, by a
population shut up. for the moat part. In
large manufacturing towns. In the words
of one of the local histories. We beck "la
not a show place, but only a private
palgce."
million after visiting Farts ar.d Ver
sailles. concludes] that the "splendor of
the French nobles was confined to their
town residences “ “That of the English.'*
he remarks "is more us. fu l v distribut and
In their country seats anl we should
he sstonPhed at our own riches if th#
labors of architecture an#! the spalls *f
Ital) and Gree • w hich are now sc ti
tered from Inverary to Wilton, were ac
cumulated in a few otreets between Mary*
lebon and Westminster If tme In four
of thes* great houses flood on the a r,, -
which tlibhon suggeats. Indon would
not only *e a city of laluccs but of
palat'es not is magnificent and m re
richly stortd with the triumihs of the
bru-h and th# his*! than those of It a
towns of modern Italy If al the paint
ings In Pari* ai I F.*#r* <•• were destroyed
there would a til. be enough in the English
country houses to present a full and
hr.; Ila n t sequent* of the triumph of Con
tinental art The best work of the English
school the ever-increasing money value
of which is a rough test of its worth. E*
found nowhere eta# Nine-tenth* of the
painting.- of Gal - trough. Romney, an 4
s§ir Joshua U*'n*d-.. Grom# ar.d Turner
are on th* wall- A mere -anr le of their
store of Eng l.**a |*aintings shown at Pan
this year astAi.Ph#*! Continental visitor#
w hos** .icqualr.tan • with thi> . iaof
paintings Is limited i m.#st to n few
rooms in the National Galb'ry. But on*
collection in a town, such as that at
Hertford House, mokes more stir than r*M
• altered In .is many park-set country
hou*e*. Just as abroad the collection- In
one of two Dutch orlvatc houses at The
Hague or Amsterdam are better known
than the contents of the K- urlal among
Its granite hill
\\ 1m t ts least appreciated about the
great country home- is the quality of th*
houses themselves Their significance as
storehouse!; of an ha- b** n acknowl
edged, not fully realise I But they have
never had due honor work* of the
architect an#l balder Whatever the
change* In t.ist# und style, the builder
have never fallen short of the highest
standard of material and work It Is no
Inju-tt e to the onstructlon of the Elisa
b* than era to say that there has been
steady improvement in thi# respect in the
structural excellence of the country
lalaces “f the first and second magnltu#!**
since the days w h**n the ow ners of Hat
field and Aud.ey Et.d looked through the
plans submitted to them Th# frank adop
tion of the Tudor Renaissance, demanded
and received a solidity and
which ihe early buildings di 1 not ne* and.
Th# Jok#> mad- at Vanbrugh s expens**
were, perhaps- Justified by th** ponderous
look of hi* work But there are * me thr#
hundred Ital.an fAlac#*. stone without
rind stone and marble within, which would
stand, even if rootle**, for n thousand
year* as evident * f th# thoroughness of
the work put into th*m.
Hulklltgs like Houghton, or Stowe, or
Woburn, or Went w orth-Wodehoure ar
like vast stone durrlr* Cost has never
h, en considered. The parapets colonnades
roof, pillars and pediments were cut ait i
Joined to last for all time. There Is som
thing rather admirable in the qualities
of mind which won I permit nothing nn
sound, no e.-amptrig of work or shirking
of cost In any one twin or detail of their
habitation Disraelis joke h,>ut the Duk
who was always afraid of *u nderbulldlng
tog There Is and always has been, among
his position ' has another side tol'.anuan
thc leading English owners a very strong
sense that the house I* a reflection of
the man Tas’e might differ in design
Hut there were no two ways of Isikltvs
at the ex.-eutlon That, they always Insist
ed. should be as gno.l as it could be M tny
of these houses give the Impression that
they could never need repairs.
Eire Is the only thtng which destroys
them ami their Irrepla cable art treasures.
Hut they generally rise now. even more
splendid than of oW All through this
reign stars of the first, second and third
magnitude have constantly been added to
the country-houses firmament. Tnos--
built early In Ihe " *os" and " '.'Os ' were
more remarkable for slxe and a weak
and unintelligent endeavor to reproduce
"Oothlc” architecture, of which the de
signers understood neither the principle
nor Its place In domestic architecture. It
ts not yet abandoned, perhaps be’aUS*
Pugin and others mastered Its meaning
and use and made It live again. Hut
thoungh Eaton Hall, h house of toe tlrit
magnitude, represents the vitality of this
Style, the greater number of the more
modern English palaces are either purely
R. nalssanee or very much Influenced hy
the Italian feeling Here and there we
And a huge French chateau like Wad
desdon. or a Ptantagenet fortress r.pro
duced. like Dord Pcrrhyn’s castle of
Hangor. or a mixture of ecclesiastical
styles, like the spires and the Bridgwater
Canal. Hut In the vast majority of cases
the very wealthy English, whether landed
proprietor# or magnates of commerce or
trad*-, have been Arm and faithful to the
lessons brought fr.m beyond the Alps.
Our country gentlemen looked, tn truth,
rot to the men. hut to the style, or to
what had lieen done glsewherw, and Irust
<<l to the style and d# model# to keep the
men up to the mark. The result Is tht
the country Is covered with these Italian
or Itallan'glng palaces, nenrly all good
and Imposing and full of true proportion
and often most beautiful. Between the
elegance of Dord Kbury's white palace
at Moor Park and the gray freestone
porticos of Hrodsworth. the Thellusson *
Yorkshire house or the colonnades of
Blenheim or Castle Howard, or the towers
of Mentmore, there Is an Infinite variety.
Hut though all do nnt rise to the flrst
rank of design, very few- fall below whit
In an Internationa! competition would b
oonsldt red a very sufficient standard of
merit. Bl*e. one of the postulates of
architectural success, they all have, and
the structural excellence, ns we have
said before. Is beyond cavil.
The maxim that house# were built to
live In. not to look at. suggests falsely
that a building which Is Impcelng wbhout
i* uncomfortable within There coul I he
no greater error Judged by th* Kng'lsh
country p.ilaee# The Interiors are hetutl
ful. habitable and. unlike the pnlares of
any other country, are furnished. Km a
like Henry VIII. and Queen# Ilk- Elisa
beth were not above being proud of their
furniture their tap-stry and even their
beds, and had all thas.- things duly en
tered In their records. There Is • much
possible art In IVr-lan carpet# nod hang
ings as In glass or mosaics: but though
these things do make a groat difference
io the Interiors of house . and a high
standard Is valuable evidence cf the
national last*. It la not greatly more n
fvldenc* In the .palaces of England than
In Ihe general average of emal er hou*e.
Hut the slxe of Ihe room- and the gen.
<ral scale of the Interior do preserve one
branch of domestic architecture which
would olherw IYe diotppear. The p-rminent
decoration of Ihe r<m-> and galleries Is
different from that used tn a '’hou-e.”
It Is far more brilliant In color Pure
colors, sobered by gold, ran I e used, and
are used, with mn-t admirable effc t fo
can sculpture end reliefs it Is only In
these house* that Ihe more magnificent
style of #cofittlon Is fours! When com
bined. as It often Is. with the efr* t of
the canvases of the driest roiorlMW, cover- !
Ing wall after wall and hanging In gallery, I
after gallery. It glv<s a union cf the art* i
of architecture and painting, with sen
uary added also In Its right aurroundlngs.
which nothing elec In this country docs
give.
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