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WAYCROSS MEWS NOTES.
Hon. S. W. Hitch C'omeo Out for City
Court .Indgeslilp.
Waycross, Ga., May 16.—County School
Commissioner T. R. Bennett has opened
his office in the Reed building, occupying
the offices with lion. John VV. and Col. J.
Walter Bennett.
He gives notice that a genera! examina
tion for teachers’ license to teach in the
public schools of Ware, will be held on
Saturday, June 3, at the court house. It
will be necessary for those holding tem
porary license and those who contemplate
teaching to stand this examination.
Esther Rebekah Bodge No. 6 has elected
Fast Noble Grand Mrs. John W. Bennett
as representative to the Grand I>odge, 1.
O. O. F., which mets in llacon May 21-23.
Messrs. J. B. Nunez and D. A. McGee were
elected to represent the subordinate lodge,
while Mr. Fred Ficken will attend in his
official position as grand senior warden.
Several others front Waycross will attend
the Giand Bodge in Macon, and an as
sembly of Rebekalt lodges is to be formed
there.
The Democratic primary for the nomi
nation of a candidate for clerk of the Su
perior Court, to succeed H. E. McVeigh,
will he held at the various voting pre
cincts on Saturday, May 25.
There has been a great deal of talk
recently about Ware county’s poor farm.
It will be remembered that the last grand
jury recommended its abolishment, claim
ing it was an expensive experftrfsnt.
The County Commissioners at their re
cent session failed to take any action in
regard to the matter, and it is under
stood that they have no expectation of
abolishing the farm.
N. B. Bocklier of Hasty has a cabhage
growing in his garden whit'll measures
forty-six and ono-half inches across.
At a meeting of the Waycross Rifles last
night the resignation of First Bieut. J C.
Brewer and Second Bieut. J. P. Ulmer
were handed to the company and accept
ed. These two officers have been mem
bers of the Rifles for nearly ten years
*nd are two of the most popular men who
ever belonged to the company. They will
retain their present rank as retired offi
cers, which entitles them to parade with
the company at all times and to become
active members again if they should de
sire. It is rumored that Mr. Ulmer may
reconsider his resignations and go back
Into his company An election will be
held soon to fill the vacancies caused by
these resignations.
Hon. Simon W. Hitch, a leading Way
cross attorney, has announced that he is
a candidate for judge of the City Court
of Waycross. This will add life and in
terest to the contest, which is now a
three-cornered affair. The other candi
dates are Judge J. S. Williams, the pres
ent incumbent, and J. C. Reynolds, Esq.
There are only two candidates for solic
itor general, viz.: J. Bee Crawley, the
present solicitor, and Col. J. Walter Ben
irett.
The revival meeting at Trinity Church
is progressing very nicely. The meetings
are held at night, preaching at 8 o’clock,
preceded by a song service of thirty min
utes. Rev. W. C. Glenn of Bake Park
preached last night to a fairly good con
gregation. and the sermon made a good
impression.
Mr. J. M. Herron of Charlotte, N. C.,
has been employed as superintendent of
the pants factory to be established by
the Jones Manufacturing Company.
MORGAN AND HILL'S PLANS.
A Great Transportation System En
circling the Globe.
St. Paul. May 16.—The Pioneer Press to
morrow will say:
Plans for a transportation system com
pletely encircling the globe are credited
to President James J. Hill of the Great
Northern and J. Pierpont Morgan of New
York. It Is stated that but a link to
the chain is lacking, and that before Mr.
Morgan’s return from Europe, within a
week or two. it will be supplied.
The great factors in the new system
are the Great Northern, the Great North
ern Steamship Company, Mr. Hill’s trans
pacific line, soon to he in operation, and
the Beyland lines recently purchased by
Mr. Morgan. The acquisition of these
lines and the one missing link, a line be
tween Alexandria, Egypt and Hong Kong.
China, is said to have been Mr. Morgan's
special purpose in visiting Europe.
The system will be of vast benefit to
Minnesota and the entire territory trav
ersed by the Great Northern, since it will
throw the most of the Asiatic east-bound
shipments to the United States and Eu
rope- through Duluth and St. Paul gate
ways. It was said by a person conversant
with the plans that the new system will
be operative as soon as Mr. Hill's steam
ships are commissioned.
O’BRIEN ON A RAMPAGE.
i
Assails Secretary AVy ndlinni In Irish
People.
Dublin, May 16.—The Irish People,
William O'Brien’s paper, contains a nine
column attack on Mr. Wyndham, the
Irish secretary, for the recent seizure of
the paper because of its Insulting refer
ences to King Edward. The general pol
icy of Mr. Wyndam is also assailed.
Some of the sub-heads are the follow
ing:
"Fools or Assassins or Both;” "Better
Castle Lawlessness Than Castle Cant,”
and "The Meanness of the Rascals.”
"Villainy,” "treachery,” "hypocrisy,"
"mendacity” are frequently used with
reference to Mr. Wyndam, who, In con
clusion. is called "a liar, sneak and
backbiter.”
Nothing is said against the King.
M. CAM BON AT CHICAGO.
French Ambassador Made Much of
In Windy City.
, Chicago, May 16.—M. Jules Cambon, the
Ftench ambassador to the United States,
was the guest of Chicago to-day and
front the time of his arrival until late in
the evening, when a banquet given in
his honor at the Union League Club was
concluded, he was the central flgurp in
a series of receptions and feasts. >!.
Cambon came to the city officially to rec
ognize in behalf of the republic of France
the union of the Alliance Francals with
the University of Chicago. The purpose
cf the n'l sm s is to increase the use
and study of the French language in all
countries.
HYPNOTIC SI HJECT KILLED.
Chair Gave Wny anil Heavy Atone
Fell on His Head.
Woonsockctt, R. 1., May 16.—During an
exhibition of hynotism given by Prof.
Frank Farnsworth and wife of Fitchburg,
at the opera house to-night, one of the
subject, Thomas Bolton, also of Fitch
burg, was killed. Mr. Bolton watt ren
ting between two chairs with a 60n-pound
stone on his body. A local blacksmith,
Clifford Trask, attempted to break the
stone with a slcdhammer. The chulr
on which Bolton's head rested gave way
and the subject fell to the floor, the stone
crushing his head. He died shortly after.
Machinists Strike nt Rif-hniontl.
Richmond, Vs., May J6.—Some eight or
ten of the machinii*tn employed at the
Richmond Locomotive and Machine
Works struck to-day. About twenty-live
men engaged in making small tools had
been laid off and the strike, It Is said, is
due to that action
CONGER ON EXPANSION.
Heards Tlint Ship Subsidy Bill Did
Not Uec*onio a l-W.
New York, May 16.—Edwin H. Conger,
minister to China, was the guest of honor
to-night at the third annual banquet of
the American Asiatic Association given
at Delmonlcos.
Minister Conger spoke of the progress
made in the commercialism of this coun
try in the Orient. Recent developments
in the Philippines, he said, hid given cour
age to the merchant and the missionary
alike, both looking for increasing results,
especially in the empire of China.
“It is to be regretted,” said the speak
er, “that some sort of measure in add of
American shipping did not pass the last
Congress. In my Judgment this is not
a political, but a patriotic measure, and
is demanded in order to fairly meet the
competition of shipping, subsidized by otn.
er governments. This is being done all
over the world, and unless our people
take advantage of the conditions created
by the expansion policy of the last three
years, they will soon be pre-empted by
foreign companies and lost to us forever.”
FLORIDA'S DISPENSARY BILL.
Will Effect n Decided Change, Should
It Become n l.nw.
Tallahassee, Fla., May 16.—The dispen
sary bill now- pending in the. Florida Leg
islature provides that it shall become ef
fective Jan. 1, 1902. The Governor, At
torney General and Controller are made
a state board of control. The Governor,
by and with the consent of the Senate,
shall appoint a state commissioner, and
shall make all subsequent appointments
for carrying the act into effect, all ap
pointees to be total abstainers, and of
good moral character.
The commissioner is to reside at the
capital, be purchasing agent for state,
received $3,000 a year, and give bond for
SIO,OOO, holding the office for four years.
All liquors are to be tested by state
chemist, and only those pronounced pure
are to be sold. All money must be paid
into the state treasury, and from there
disbursed to* the state school fund, after
paying expenses of operating dispensary.
The commissioner must report quarterly.
Adequate penalties are provided for all
violations of the law. The state board
shall. appoint county boards, liquor to be
sold only in day time, and packages shall
not be opened on premises where sold.
All clubs are prohibited. Dispensers may
be appointed in cities or country for a
term of tVo years.
Ten days’ notice shall be given of pur
pose to locate a dispensary, and a major
ity vote of citizens shall determine the
matter. In dry counties one-fourth of the
citizens may petition for a dispensary,
and a majority vote shall determine the
matter.
The clerk of the Circuit Court shall be
clerk of the county board at a stated sal
ary. Only the state commissioner may
ship Into or out of the state, or from
one place to another In the state, under
penalty of confiscation and a fine of SSOO.
Liquor shall not be sod to minors or to
persons known to be addicted to the habit
of drinking to excess. For changing name
or brand or adulterating liquorf a fine of
S2OO or six months in jail is lnipbsed. Li
censed druggists may buy liquor from dis
pensary at an advance of 10 per cent., and
alcohol by the barrel at cost. Keepers of
tourist hotels may give bond, buy from
state commissioner, and serve liquor to
guests under prescribed regulation.
Makers of wine from domestic fruits
may sell their product through dispen
sary.
Transportation companies shall incur a
penalty of thrlble the invoice price if
liquor is lost or stolen in transit.. The
Governor shall have authority to appoint
state constables, a chief constable with a
salary of $3 per <!ay, and others to receive
|2 a day when on duty.
The attorney general or any state attor
ney may prosecute persons violating the
law.
The dispensary law would revolutionize
the financial machinery of the state as to
taxation and revenue.
MRS. A. J. CROVATT DEAD.
One of Rrnns wick's Mont Charming
Women Passes Away.
Brunswick, Ga.. May 17.—Brunswick
was saddened to-day by the news of the
death of one of its noblest women, Mrs.
A. J. Crovatt.
Reared in Brunswick, Miss Mary Lee
Schlatter was one of Brunswick’s most
popular and beautiful girls, reigning as
a belle, until her marriage in October,
1880, to Judge A. J. Crovatt. After her
marriage Mrs. Crovatt became and con
tinued to be until her illness, one of the
most brilliant women and most popular
and charming matrons Brunswick society
has ever known.
Mrs. Crovatt was sent by her physicians
first to Atlanta and then to the Johns
Hopkins In Baltimore, but her case was
pronounced hopeless, end she returned to
spend her last days with her husband and
her three children.
The funeral will occur to-day from St.
Mark's Episcopal Church, Rev. W. H.
Reaney officiating.
THE IIRAM H I*OSTOEKICKS.
Personal Aeeonnti Will Not Help Su
perintendents and Clerks.
Washington. May 16.—First Assistant
Postmaster General Johnson has issued
a general order announcing that superin
tends and clerks of branch stations must
understand that their revenue cannot be
increased through their personal accounts
at the expense of other branch stations
or postofllces. A disregard of these In
structions will he regarded as sufficient
for removal.
WORKING 1111 l HS REDICED.
AVrsttiighnuae 1 nmpany Tnkcs Ac*
lion of Its Own Alotlon.
nttsburg, May 16.—The Westlnghouec
Machine Company to-day. a* a voluntary
movement, posted notices announcing that
commencing to-morrow its 1.400 employes
will work but nine hours a day Instead
of ten as heretofore. The week’s work
will be 54 hours and all over time will be
paid for at the rate of time and a half.
COLORADO MINE CLOSED.
Trouble AN Hh 1 nlnn Knocks TOO
Men Out of AA ork.
Colorado Springs, Col.. May 16.—The
Portland mine, employing 700 men. was
closed Indefinitely to-day, owing to tnou.
hie between the company and the miners’
unions, over the employment of non-union
men. It is not believed the trouble will
spread to other mines In the Cripple?
Creek district.
Union Hn> Two Kinc Runners.
Boston. May 16.—Thomas A\ r . Lawson
to-day bought Draughtsman and Ronken.
komo. the steeplechasers, and will make
his debut as an owner of runners at the
Country Club meeting on May 30.
Krnnce Want* nn Jalnnil.
London. May 17.—“1t Is understood that
France Is negotiating with Ecuador," says
the Sydney correspondent of the Dally
Mall, "for the purchase of one of the
Galapagos Islands."
Strike Hints In lliisstiiii Mills.
Bt. Petersburg. May 17.—Strike riots
have occurred In the cotton mills on the
Viboy side of the Neva It la reported
that niuny have been killed.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 17, 1901.
HEADED FOR SAVANNAH f
Objectionable Parties Driven From
Beaufort Said to Be Coming: Here.
Beaufort, S. C., May 16.—Further de
velopments regaling the recent white
cap raid organized here to drive two
white government employes at the Port
Royal naval station out of this section
have leaked out. The two men have been
living with two notorious negro women in
open defiance of public opinion, and it
now appears that when the masked citi
zens repaired to the house occupied by
the objectionable persons they found the
premises deserted, whereupon they pro
cured a boat and proceeded to Paris Isl
and, wehre they located their men in a
negro dive near the government reserva
tion. Their demands for an entrance were
answered by the propretress of the Joint,
who refused to admit them, but acknowl
edged that both men were within. The
citizens did not attempt to force an en
trance, but informed the men that they
were determined to rid the community of
their presence, and gave them until the
following day to get out or suffer the
consequences.
One of them replied that they would
leave on the following morning, and the
mob. after emphasizing their demands by
several volleys from their pistols fired
into the air. retired. The next morning
the men tendered their resignations to
the commandant of the naval station and
left on the first train. The whereabouts
of the women is not known, but it is
rumored that they went to Savannah,
Ga., where the two men will rejoin them.
CAN MAINTAIN BLACK LIST.
Chicago Judge So Holds in Annie
Condon's Case.
Chicago, May 16.—1n the Superior
Court to-day Judge Baker decided that
it is legal for employers to maintain a
black list. The ruling was in the case
of Annie Condon against several stock
yard's packing firms. The plaintiff was a
labeller and can-painter and joined a
strike last year against a reduction in
wages. Since that time, she claims, she
has been unable to secure employment.
The court ruled that the various firms
had a right to take protective measures
against persons who had quit the em
ployment of other firms without valid
reasons.
THE C., It. A: S. SALE RATIFIED.
Mr. Kinibell Gets l’ar Value In Cash
for IIIn $7,000 Stock.
Rome, Ga., May 16.—The sale of the
Chattanooga. Rome and Southern Rail
way to the Central of Georgia was rati
fied here to-day. Stockholder J. B. Kim
bell withdrawing his objections.
Mr. Klmbell, who enjoined the consoli
dation yesterday, was given bond and se
curity for his $7,C00 in stock—receiving
par value in money. The Centra 1 of Geor
gia officials left at once for Chickamau
ga, Ga., where the stockholders of the
Durham Railroad are expected to trans
fer their holdings to the Central people.
THIRTY-TWO PERISHED.
Steamer Federal Went Down With
All Her Crew Off Ynstralinn Coast.
Victoria, B. C., May 16.—News has been
received by the steamer Moana of the loss
of the steamer Federal off the Australian
c'oast during the heavy gale at the end of
March. Thirty-two persons perished with
her. Six bodies were recovered with a
boat, but no other wreckage was found,
and it is believed that the vessel founder
ed near the coast. When the bodies were
found wild dogs were eating them and
were driven away with difficulty.
KING EDWARD'S BIRTHDAY’.
Will Celebrate Ilia Mother’s tiny ‘>4.
and Riot His Own.
London, May 16.—King Edward, who
was born Nov. 9, 1841, has decided that
his birthday shall be celebrated May 24
each year, thus perpetuating the holiday
hitherto observed by all the public de
partments—Queen Victoria’s birthday—
and giving an impetus to the colonial
movement to observe the date as Empire
Day.
To Reform llritlsh War Office.
London, May 16.—1 t is understood that
the commission which the government
appointed early in th© year under the
chairmanship of Clinton E. Dawkins to
consider war office reforms has reported
In favor of a scheme of reorganization
that is almost revolutionary.
Machinists Gel nn Advance.
St. Joseph, Mo., May 16.—Six hundrgd
machinists In the St. Joseph and Grand
Island Railway shops, located here, were
to-day granted an advance from 27 to 29
cents an hour with additional half pay
for all over time.
A WHITE HOUSE INDUSTRY.
Mrs. McKinley's Pleasure In One of
Her Chosen Evocations.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Washington, April 22.—A recent visitor
at the White House found the wife of the
President busy as usual knitting the
woollen toils to slipper soles. A pleasant
protest that the first lady of the land
should so steadily employ herself was well
answered. Why shouldn't she knit the
slippers? It was about alt she could do in
her state of health. Perhaps the good ac
complished was more than the caller ap
preciated.
And then the gentle lady told with un
disguised satisfaction of the sale of a pair
of her slippers at a New Kngland fair for
a good purpose. The slippers had brought
*350, which had gone for the benefit of
the cause. If there existed a desire for
the possession of a |>alr of slippers knit
ted by the -wife of the President meas
ured by such a sum. why should she not
try to meet It and thereby extend help
to worthy objects. Mrs. McKinley defend
ed her vocation admitab>y. Frequent re
quests for some handiwork of the Presi
dent's wife, to be utilized for the benefit
of charity or church, ctmw to the White
House. None Is refused so Jong us Mrs.
McKinley has the strength to fulfill them.
Relating to the leather soles of these
slippers there Is a story which enhances
their value. Mrs. McKinley told It re
cently. On one occasion, eurly In the first
term, Vice President Hobert came Into
the presence of the lady while she had
her knitting In hand. He picket* up from
a table near by a sole upon which work
had not begun.
"Where do you get these?" be asked,
when he had learned of the charitable
purpose of the Industry.
Mrs. McKlniey replied that she bought
the soles by the dozen.
"Well." ssld the Vlre President, "these
are made at my factory. J wiM see that
hereafter you are supplied with the soles
for the slippers without cost. That shall
be my contribution to the good work."
From that day, so long as he lived,
Vice President Hobart saw that the stock
of soles so often ns It run low through
Mrs. McKinley's Industry was rep.entshed.
And since the death of the Vloe President
Mrs. Hobart has kept up the contribution
from the factory.
It Is a matter of pride with the wife of
the Presklent that her rxpertness with the
needles enables her on days of average
strength to complete one slipper belweeu
sncrnlng and night
DEVOTION IN BRUTES.
<*n ATITL'DE OF ANIMALS SAVED
FROM SEA BY SANDY HOOK CLAM
MFRS.
Become MnMcotn of Honu-Catw, Dogs,
Wounded Birds and Even Rats
Adopted In Thin Way Good
Stories of the Intelligence of Some
of the Pet*.
From the New York Mail and Express.
It is not at all improbable that many
of the dogs and cats and even rats which
have been denied a residence in this
city, and have been consigned to sup
posed watery graves in the lower bay
by way of some coal barge or schooner,
are to-day pacing the decks of the clam
diggers’ fleet, “masters of all they sur
vey.” The obliging persons who assume
the role of self-appointed executioners
art* fncM always particular how j their
condemned prisoners reach the water,
and very often these animals, after a
much-needed bath, are rescued by the
kind-hearted clammers, and at once in
stalled as mascots of their craft. Only
the strange things which are raked up
from the bottom of the bay can rival in
appearance the animals which the clam
mers find, in all stages of abject misery,
either on the wave or along some un
frequented shore.
As there is almost no limit to the
number of mascots which one boat can
carry, a person can often see an em
bryonic menagerie surrounding the mas
ter of one of these small crafts, unless,
perchance, mascot “No. 1” proves him
self exceptionally vicious and kills off
his rivals as fast as they come aboard.
Dogs of every conceivable breed are
prominent memibers of the clammer's
ships company. Year in and year out,
they pace the quarterdeck, and now and
then take a nap in the lee of the deck
house. They are good sailors, too. No
one can take a trick at the “dog watch”
better then they; and this often means
a great deal to the master when “clam
pirates” are about.
% Newfoundland'* Devotion.
it hi in the last two years no less than
ten dogs, fhe 'writer’s knowledge,
have been picked up off Sandy Hook,
either swimming bravely for shore or
eNe clinging to some wreckage, crying
piteoqsly. Very recently a large New
foundland dog was picked up in this
w'ay. His case is n rather remarkable
one, and shows the attachment of these
animals for their old masters. This dog
jumped from a vessel into the bay find
swam a quarter of a mile to his mas
ter’s boat, from which he had become
separated the day before at the West-
Tenth street market. The dog had been
stolen in this city by another boat’s
crew, and held in captivity until the
open waters of the bay were reached,
when all danger of an escape were sup
posed to be over.
The master was overjoyed when he
heard a scratching on the side of his
boat and saw that it was the lost dog
returned. He says that he orignally
found tne dog floating nt see In a large
box, evidently having fallen from some
vessel.
“The dog has always seemed to ap
preciate his rescue.” the captain addded.
"On one occasion he plunged overboard
after me when I accidentally fell over
the side of my boat.”
The elammer has great faith In the
theory that the cat has nine lives. It is
only necessary for one to take a run
down the bay and see the cats and kit
tens creeping stealthily about the decks
of the clam fleet t<s be convinced that
the elammer Is probably right, and that
the majority of the recent "feline drown
ing excursions” to the river front were
cases of the cat coming baefc—to the
surface, at least. Their rescuers say that
pussy Is often pretty far gone when
found on a drifting plank or In the re
cesses of some old hulk, but alive never
theless.
One elammer down the bay has a cat
which finds its own meat, and requires
absolutely no attention. The old man
only wishes that It was not quite so
easy for his “mate” to make a living,
for the "critter" thrives on the rate
which are honeycombing the dilapidated
craft and causing Capt. Tom many wake
ful nights as they gambol about the
deck or take observations from the mast
head and the “ratlines.” Rats, bedbugs
and roaches are brands of the mascot
that the elammer does not seek, yet
seems unable to get along without; for
they will. In the majority of cases, take
possession of the ship sooner or later.
Three Accomplished lints.
Capt. Tom has a friend, however, who
really loves rats, at least, the three par
eleuliar rats he owns. They were picked
up by him In a little wooden cage, which
was Inside a box found about a mile
west of Sandy Hook last summer. To
day they have full run of his fifty-foot
sloop, and seem almost to understand
his bidding.
These rats are very methodical In
their habits, the captain says. Every'
morning before breakfast they take a
constitutional up and down the main
mast. followed by a promenade out on
the anchor cable. The rest of the day
they spend curled up on some extra
canvas In the sail locker, or sniffing
abotltl fhe newlyj-caught clams. The
captain asserts that ever since he picked
up these “three men In a boat,” they
have been affectionate to him, and al
ways either creep into his pockets when
he starts to go ashore, or else stand on
the rail three in a row and squeak fare
well.
There arc many crippled birds, too. on
the elammers' boats. These are often the
victims of the sportsman's rifle, which
ha\e either fluttered to the decks and
received the ministration of the tender
hearted skipper or have been picked up
by him from some floating driftwood,
or rescued while floundering helplessly
In the wnter. These ducks, crows, fish
hawks and sometimes snipe make the
best of sailors, and soon becoming ac
customed to their surroundings, seldom
leaving them. In fair weather they perch
In the shrouds, and when the storm
rages they seek the warmth and shelter
of the cabin.
One old clanrmer Is very pround of n
crow with n broken wing, which he says
Is a wonderful weather prophet. The
poor bird, although continually used us
a barometer, does not object. He un
failingly warns the ship's company of a
storm by a peculiar flutter of his dis
abled “proi>eller." The captain explains
this phenomenon on the ground that the
injured wing is very sensitive /to damp
ness. The crow's nest on this vessel is
not near the masthead, but In a snug
little corner under the captain's berth.
There are two elammers in Sandy Hook
Bay credited with the distinction of hav
ing rescued two animals from the sea
one day. which were out of the question
as tnasects. hut which proved of great
value On shore.
Due to accident or design on an out
going cattle steamer, a calf, Just old
enough to look like anything else but
Its mother, went over the side. Sandy
Hook was close at hand, and the oner
getle youngster was bravely striking out
for the bench when he was Intercepted
by a clumboat. Closely follovgtng the
Incident a horse was lost overboard from
another steamer, and he, too, fell into
the hands of friends.
The proposition of getting the calf
ashore was not a difficult one. but with
the horse It was another matter. The
r*!f was hoisted aboard with a block
and fall, and the forward deck whs used
as a barnyard. The animal made two nr
three attempts to pull out the vessel's
mast, to which It was tied, and effect an
escape, but he was finally Induced to
remain, and waa triumphantly landed.
The crew- of the boat, after several vain
The Orleans-Beaumont Oil and Land Go.
OF NEW ORLEANS, L/\.
Chartered under the laws of the state of Louisiana, U. S. A.
Authorized Capital, - 31*000,000.
President —A. BRITTIN. Second Vice President —G. E. DICKINSON,
First Vice President —J. W. FAIRFAX. Third Vice President —WM. P. ENO.
Secretary and Treasurer —C. P. ELLIS.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
A. BRITTIN, New Orleans, La., of A.
Brittin & Cos., Cotton Merchants.
J. W. FAIRFAX, New Orleans, Ba., of
J. W. Fairfax & Cos., Stock Brokers.
G. E. DICKINSON, Savannah. Ga„
Cotton Broker.
WILLIAM P. ENO, New York city.
Capitalist.
C. P. ELLIS, New Orleans, La., of C.
P. Ellis & Cos., Cotton Merchants.
S. P. WALMSLEY, New Orleans, La.,
Cotton Factor, President New Orleans
Cotton Exchange.
FELIX COUTURIE, New Orleans, La„
Cotton Exporter.
This company presents to the public a business proposition, managed by business men. Its properties have been care
fully selected, surrounding the gushers from six points of the compass, and most of it in the PROVEN OIL FIELD em
bracing the following exceptionally valuable tracts:
(A) 10 acVes, due north, 1,701 yards from the flowing wells. *
(B) 10 acres, northeast, 2,000 yards from the flowing wells.
<C) 4 acres, northwest, 2,500 yards from the flowing wells.
(D) 3 acres, northwest, 2,300 yards from the flowing wells. -
(E 15 acres, southwest of the Lucus Gusher.
(F) acres, southwest of the Lucus Gusher.
(G) 1 acre, south and 800 yards from the Lucus Gusher.
Negotiations are now pending for the purchase of several outlying properties. A contract has been entered Into for on#
well with a thoroughly trustworthy driller, who has successfully brought in four of the twelve gushers in the Beaumont
field, and work will commence not later than June 1.
The company is negotiating for two other wells, and contracts will be placed so soon as practicable. Meanwhile own
ers of adjacent lands have begun boring ing ror oil and this company’s holdings arc thus being daily enhanced in value
Half of the authorized capital has been subscribed for. and while the company has a large balance now in the treas
ury. it is desired to sell SIOO,OOO of the treasury stock, the proceeds to be devoted to the acquirement of further land the
drilling of wells; the building of storage tanks, tank cars, pipe lines, etc. The shares are SI.OO par value, full paid and non
assessable. A limited amount can be had through
GUERARD & DE/WERE, 1
Brokers, 104 Bay Street, East.
The company reserves the right to withdraw the sale of stock at any time without notice.
attempts to get the terrified horse aboard,
gave up the Job, and lashed the animal,
more dead than alive, to the vessel’s side
by a compllcted system of slings and
guy lines.
It was a great team that the idle
loungers on the dock saw put on the
beach that day. Without incident, the
horse was dropped from his sling Into
shallow water, and the proud captain,
amid the cheers of his fellows, led the
animal ashore, and there and then be
came the first owner of a horse In Clam
ville.
A WALL STREET STORY.
I
How a Greenhorn Rushed in Where
It C’osls *70.000 to Tread.
From the New York Press.
The regular Wall street representatives
of the several newspares were hard
pressed last week, and appeals for assist
ance were made to the city editors.
Among the men sent down from a certain
office was a bright chap whose career In
journalism was but a few weeks old. He
had never been in Wall street and, like
Jim Hill, was never inside of a Stock Ex
change; but he thought he could do de
scriptive work. "All right," said the finan
cial' editor, in despair, “you just go down
to the exchange and watch the row. Pick
up all the points you can and report to
the city editor.” It was Thursday morn
ing. At half past 3 he was reporting to ,
the city editor. “I didn't think it neces
sary to remain in the exchange after the
chairman signalled the close.” he said.
“Besides, when I left the floor the ex
cltment was about over.” "The floor!"
gasped the city editor; "the floor!” “Yes;
I mean down in the enclosure among the
brokers." “Among the brokers'. You
down among the brokers?”
The financial ediotr dropped in as the
city editor sat motionless, staring into
vacancy. "On the floor! Down among
the brokers!” Looking at the new re
porter he asked what was the matter, and
at the sound of his voice his chief, return
ing from Mars, said; “This man tells me
he has been among the brokers on the
floor of the Stock Exchange.” It was the
financial editor’s turn to gaze and gasp.
For ten years he had tried to get on the
floor, hut was always stopped
before he had gone six feet. ”1
Just walked in,” explained the latest
wonder. "No one interfered with me. I
stayed In <he crowd most of the time, but
occasionally stood in front of the chair
man's desk to see the fun. I was there
when the gong sounded.” It was explain
ed to this remarkable creature that it
costs $70,000 to walk across the floor, and
that to do so without holding e member
ship might cost him his life, and certain
ly would cost him his clothes and a severe
pummellng.
When I mentioned the Incident to some
brokers at the uptown exchange (Waldorf-
Astoria) last night they were greatly
amused, but expressed no surprise. "We
were 100 excited to notice anything," one
said, "and the doorkeepers were out of
their minds. Members who had not shown
their faces on the floor for ten years
Joined the regulars in the mad whirlpool.
Some were stopped at the door and re
quired to produce their credentials, be
cause the attendants did not know them,
but after awhile, when the panic was at
its hight, anybody might have walked on
the floor without question. It was an op
portunity missed by the financial writers
of all the papers. But it’s the old adage,
’Fools rush In where angels fear to tread.’
Y’our reporter is a long way from being
a fool. What I mean is that his Ignorance
of the rules enabled him to do something
that the oldest and ablest financial writ
ers would not dare to do.”
K YNSAB, THE TENTH MUSE.
Y\ hy Vie Make* ns Much Noise ns a
"Mm,n Full of Meteors on a Tin
Iloof."
William Allen White, in the St. Louis
Mirror.
There is a foolish English tytestion or
conundrum which runs, "Why Is a mouse
when It spins?” There Is no answer to
It. It Is only a silly combination of words,
and in this same spirit and by the same
token one might ask, “Why la Carrie
Nation when she smashes?”
Why is she?
Heaven knows!
Why does all the world stop Its busi
ness and stand agape while this fat
little old woman who until weeks ago
had lived sixty eminently respectable
years goes about waving her hatchet
and talking in loud and excite|l tones?
As the world has rolled along any
number of Indies and gentlemen have
risen with nxes or adzes or clubs and
have lammed the daylights out of people
who disagree with them. Saloon smash
ing has been done, and In recent years,
by women who have been persecuted by
the mm fiend. The matter lias caused
some neighborhood comment. It has even
got Into the day's dispatches. But the
story was unimportant and trivial and
“really of no consequence."
But here comes this Kansas woman,
from Medicine 1-odge, Kan., the home
of Jerry Simpson, and also of Congress
man Chester I. Long, whose speech on
IPETER HELLWEGE, New Orleans,
Ga., of Hellwege & Cos., Cotton and Stock
Brokers.
BERTRAND BEER, New Orleans, La.,
of H. & B. Beer, Cotton Merchants.
W. F. PINCHARD, New Orleans, La.,
of Pinchard & Meyer, Cotton Merchants.
E. PERRIN, New Orleans, La., of A.
Brittin & Cos., Cotton Merchants, Presi
dent Orleans Railroad Cos.
I. E. GLENNY, New Orleans, La., of
Glenny & Cos., Cotton Merchants.
SAMUEL HYMAN, New Orleans, La.,
of H. & C. Newman, Limited, Cotton.
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THE MORNING NEWS JOB DEPARTMENT,
J. H. ESTILL, President, > Savannah, Ga.
the Porto Rican tariff was used more
than any other speech on the subject by
the Republican National Committe last
year—here comes this little old Kansas
woman and throws a rock heard around
the world.
Why does It resound?
Would It have crashed through the
glass doors of the House of Fame if
Mrs. Nation had thrown that rock at
Springfield, Mo., or Wheeling W. Va.,
or Charleston, S. C., or Walla Walla,
Wash., or Laramie, Wyo., or Ilion, N.
Y.?
“No!” as the Fourth of July orator
would say, “No, ten thousand times no!”
The rock that Carrie Nation aimed at
the Rum Fiend’s slats rattled around
the world like a moon full of meteors
falling on a tin roof solely and only be
cause Carrie Nation threw the rock in
Kansas.
Kansas is the tenth muse—the muse
of advertising.
There have been socialists in America
for a century, but until the Kansas
Populists appeared the socialists were
without force or effect. There have been
cyclones in the world since the morning
stars sang together, but until the Kan
sas cyclone appeared the cyclone was
without distinction or influence. God
made grasshoppers before he made man,
hut until the grasshoppers became
hyphenated with Kansas he was a lowly
bug, less known than the bedbug or the
flea.
Ivansas refuses to allow her wares to
become shopworn. She advertises. It is
in the blood. When she found she had
in Ingalls the best living American
stylist, what did she do? Did she hide
him in a college, as Massachusetts would
have done? Did she start a magazine
with him, as New York would have done?
Did she send him to the court of St.
Jame's as Ohio would have done? No,
gentle reader. Kansas found the best
billboard on earth, and put old John J.
Ingalls to writing advertising on Kansas
there. Kansas sent Ingalls to the Senate.
Kansas gets advertising out of every
thing. Good fortune and calamity, riches
or adversity, famine or feast—all times
and seasons are reserved in the contract
for top-of-column-next-to- reading-matter
advertising for Kansas.
Kansas Is a wonderful State. If some
night an earthquake should drop the
whole ever blooming State into the bot
tomless pit, before morning the inclosure
would he fenced up with a billboard ten
miles high, covered with a story of the
glory of Kansas, and every night from
the crater of'the pit the same enlivening
and diverting, withal profitable, Kansas
tale would be wigwagged from the blazes
below upon the dome of the eternal
stars.
The Fall of Constantlaople. 1453.
From the Catholic World.
Ti Turks entered Constantinople one
hour after midnight. May 29, 1453. The
Greeks fled In defeat, ami spread lOnstcr
mutlon everywhere through the city. In a
moment the streets were tilled with a
crowd half-maddened with fear and
Hlnrm. According to a widespread belief,
the Turk's would be crushed by thunder
bolts from heaven If they attempted to
pass the column of the cross. An angel
would descend with a sword and would
hand this sword to an old man, saying.
"Avenge God's people." The enemy
would be then put to flight, end the
Greeks would pursue them, strewing the
road with their dead bodies, as far as
Monaderes on the Persian frontier. The
affrighted multitude hastened to St. So
phia. In a short time more than one
hundred thousand people filled the vast
edifice. Soldiers, senators, priests, vir
gins who had left their monasteries, the
women of the lower class, children, patri
cian families, all thronged into the body
W. p. RICHARDSON. New Orleans,
La., of Richardson & May, Cotton Fa. 1
tors.
LAWRENCE FABACHER, New Or.
leans. La., President Jackson Brewtr;
Company.
C. A. JOHNSTON, Columbus, Mis?,
President First State Bank.
M. N. WISDOM, New Orleans, La.,
agent Equitable Life Insurance Cos.
J. A. GAUCHE, New Orleans, La.,
Stock Broker.
T. P. THOMPSON, agent Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York, New
Orleans.
JAS, DU BUYS, New Orleans, of Du
Buys & Labouisse, Cotton Brokers.
and galleries of the church, making the
building resound with their piercing cries
and lamentations. When there was no
more room the doors were closed and fast
ened. Now a frightful state of helpless
ness and inaction succeeded to the weep
ing and crying of the people. Those who
climbed up to the Interior groundwork of
the huge dome spied the approaJh of dan
ger from the windows, while one hundred
thousand pallid faces listened attentively
for the leasit sound. The massed army of
the invaders marched through the desert,
ed streets of the city, and their objective
point was, doubtless. St. Sophia. It was
slavery, worse than death, that advanced.
The exterminating angel did not halt the
soldiers at the column of the cross. Di
vine wrath, so long staid, was falling
with certainty on Byzantium. The crowds
trembled and women fainted. In a trice
the doors of St. Sophia were battered
down by Ottoman arms. Dervishes, Jan
izaries, and timariots rushed on the
eruching masses within. Drunken with,
blood, they paused for a moment as if
dazed.
Governor Stops Boxing: Contest.
Oshkosh. Wis., May 16.—1n deference to
the mandate of Gov. LaFollette, the box
ing contest, scheduled to take place to
night between Jack Root of Chicago and
“Kid” Carter of Brooklyn, was declared
off.
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"I have taken two bottles of Graybeard.
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"Mrs. William Pollard,
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oow Respess Drug Cos.,
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—Too Late—He: "Your father ought to
know what I have to say to him. I have
been coining here so long.”
She —"I am afraid ho has given up all
hope.”—Detroit Free Pr^s.
—in Chicago—" Sir. I would like to hsve
your daughter for a wife.”
"Have you any recommendations from
your former father-in-law?’—LlfK