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r politically independent; always for the best interest of the whole people 0 f the county. Purity of politics; purity of the bal let box, and clean administration of all places of public trust. Only paper In county. , r. F. TATUM, Editor. \ oLUMIi X V r f. is UP TO MOTHERS Ihrough Them Alone White Face Can Be Perpetuated 50 QUOTHS ROOSEVELT President Makes Strong and Pointed Talk at White House to Delegates • * Congress on “Wei* ‘lepuWc ana child.” rhe lon special says: The w n house was the scene Tuesday of the formal opening of the first jiifi mutional Congress on the Welfare of the Child, which is being held un (]<T tlm auspices of the National Moth ers C ui- 1 ress. The two hundred del e-at‘-s. representing all the states and tern eries, and a dozen or more of the leading countries of the world, were receiv <! at the white house during the afternoon when President Roosevelt delivered an address to them, saying, in part: “Tie- successful mother, the mother win* il ; h r part in rearing and train ing aright the boys and girls who are to h* the men and women of the next generation, is of greater use to the comma: ity and occupies, if she only won id realize it, more honorable, as well a a more important position than anj successful man in it. “Nothing in this life that is really worth having comes save at the cost of effort. No life of self-indulgence, of nr re vapid pleasure, can possibly, even in the one point of pleasure itself, yield so ample a reward as comes to the mother at the cost of self-denial, cf c ' rt, of suffering childbirth, of the Ion?, slow, patielnce-trying work of bringing up the children aright. No scheme of education, no social attitude can b" right unless it is based funda mentally upon the recognition of see ing that the girl is trained 'to under stand the supreme dignity, the su preme usefulness of motherhood. “Unless the average woman is--a good wife and good mother, unless she hears a sufficient number of children an that the race shall increase and not decrease, miles she brings .up thm - children sound in soul and mind and body—unless this is true of the average woman, no brilliancy of ge nius. no material prosperity, no tri umphs of science and industry will avail to save the race from ruin and death. The mother is the one su preme asset of national life; she i3 more important by far than the suc ce.'sful statesman or business man, artist or scientist. ' I abhor and condemn the man who is brutal, thoughtless, careless, self ish with women, and especially with the w imien of his own household. The birth pangs make all men the debtors of ail women. I'abhor and condemn the man who fails to recognize all his duty. But the woman who shirks her duty as wife and mother is just as heartily to be condemned. We despise her as we despise and condemn the s "ldi< r who flinches in battle. “because we so admire the. good wo man. the unselfish woman, the far- P! -ht< and woman, we have scant patience w ith her unworthy vister, who fears to do her duty; exactly as, for the very reason that we respect a man who doe- his duty honestly and fairly. ' 1 want to ask your assistance for two or three matters that are not im mediately connected with the life in ’-ie family itself, but that are of vital eon "aiience to the children. In the place, in the schools, see that the school work is made practical as pos -51 Uor the boys I want to see training provided that shall train them toward and not aWay from their life "ori ; that will train toward farm or hop, not away from it. With the Siil see that it is not made a matter of mirth that the girl who goes to col ' 1 comes out unprepared to do any n| * tlm ordinary duties of womanhood.” are FILIPINOS NEGROES? This Question May Result in a Lively Debate in the House. A heated debate over the race ques aay be precipitated in the house w 'h°’a the military committee reports :i 1! to allow the president to ap poi r seven Filipinos to be educated at iin i'nited States Military Academy at West Point. It is stated that the n ■ , ure will he vigorously opposed by Q ' ! iin democrats, who insist that Fil- 11 iiito3 are negroes and should not be a itted to the West Point academy * or this and other good reasons. hughes gets endorsement Of New York State Republican Commit tee for President. The republican state committee of New York Saturday put its seal of ap proval on the candidaay of Governor Hughes for the presidential nomina tion by unanimously adopting a reso lution naming him as the choice of his party in the state before the repub lican national convention at Chicago. OPENSSECOND CAMPAIGN Gov. Smith of Georgia Makes Initial Address, as Candidate for Re-Elec tion. in DeKalb County. Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia opened his second campaign for gov ernor Monday morning in an address before an audience of between 200 and 300 citizens in the DeKalb comi ty court house at Decatur. He read from the platform on which he made his first race two years ago and said he would confine himself to showing what had been done towards carrying out his pledges and what still remained to be done. The most striking subjects treated in Governor Smith’s speech were the following: The railroad commission has been increased and its powers enlarged. While the commission has no hostility to railroads, it requires them to fur nish better service. The law requiring public service corporations to secure the consent of the railroad commission before issu ing additional stock prevents the fur ther issuanse of watered stock. Passenger rates have been reduced to a point which saves the people of Georgia $1,000,000 a year. One million dollars more is saved in the reduction of freight rates. Free passes have been abolished. The last legislature passed the law disfranchising the ignorant and illit erate negro, and the people will en dorse their action at the fall elec tions. (The date for primaries should be fixed by law, and should be as late as posssible preceding the regular elections. The public school system of the state should be perfected. Laws regarding the examination of state banks should be amended so as to make the examinations more search ing and more valuable. The Western and Atlantic railroad should be ultimately extended to the sea. The prohibition question should he taken out of politics, and the present law should be allowed to stand. Such amendments as may be necessary to perfect tbe law should be made by the friends and not the enemies of the measure. The sum of $950,000 cannot well be paid to Confederate veterans in a lump sum at the beginning of eash year without a constitutional amend ment permitting the governor to bor row as much as $600,000. Reaffirms that port rates should be made effective. Declares that attempts have been formerly made by tbe combined ef forts of railroad and liquor corpora tions to secure control of legislative power. People are warned that efforts arc being made to secure the election of undesirable legislators. Milton H. Smith, president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, is declared to be the leader of “railroad control.” Referring to the removal of Hon. Jo seph M. Brown as railroad commis sion, the governor said: “I would have removed him as soon as I was inaugurated, but the law re quired that I should report my action to the legislature with my reasons for doing so and the legislature would then have been called upon to pass upon my report. There were many questions before the legislature, and it was evident that they would not have time to complete their consider ation before adjournment, and I did not wish to inject this question which would consume additional time and hazard the passage of important leg islation.” CALL FOR LABOR COUNCIL Issued by President Gompers of Amerl . can Federation. The far-reaching character of the re cent decisions of the supreme court of the United States affecting labor organizations has led President Gom pers of the American Federation of Labor to issue a call for a meeting of the executive council of the federation in Washington, March 18, “there and then to consult and take such action as the importance and merits of the subject herein dealt with may be con sidered and determined as setting forth the position and demands of labor- COAST LINE SETTLES TROUBLE. Wage Scale Satisfactory to All Parties at Interest Agreed Upon. The general committee <,f adjustment of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers on the Atlantic Coast Uno sys tem adjourned its biennial sessions m Wilmington, N. C., Saturday, at which, incidentally, was also taken up the pro posed reduction in the wage scale. The engineers stated that the conferences with the railroad officials were entire ly satisfactory. _________ Non-Opposed Treaties Ratified. A Washington special says: The senate ratified six of the thir ten treaties negotiated at the inter national conference at The Hague. The conventions adopted are those to which no opositlon has hen made. CARY NOW SENATOR Elected by Carolina Assem bly to Succeed Latimer. THE CONTEST STRENUOUS Result Was Reached on Eighteenth Baltot, After Deadlock of Two Days—Brief Sketch of New Senator. On the eighteenth ballot, the South Carolina legislature, in extra session, at Columbia, Friday, elected Frank B. Gary of Abbeville, United States sen ator to succeed the late Senator A. C. Latimer. The deadlock continued two days, and Mr. Gary was elected on the fourth ballot Friday, receiving votes. The legislature convened in special session March 3 for the pur pose of electing Senator Latimer's successor. The claim is made that the nomina tion of Sheppard caused a break to Gary along former factional lines. The four votes Friday were as follows: First bafiot: Gary 67, Walker 23, Coker 24, Nash 14, McLeod 14, Maul din 8, Wilie Jones 4, Ira B. Jones 5. Second ballot: Gary 70, Walker 28, McLeod 11, Mauldin 7, Lever 7, Ira B. Jones 4, Wilie Jones 4, Coker 10, John C. Sheppard 15. Third ballot.: Gary 75, Walker 14, Coker 2, Sheppard 34, Mauldin 7, Le ver 10, Ira B. Jones 4, McLeod 3, Wilie Jones 1, McKeithan 1. Fourth ballot: Gary elected; secur- ed 81 votes. Frank Boyd Gary was born March 9, 1860. He is a nephew of the late Gen. Mart W. Gary. He graduated from Union college in 1881, and is a lawyer by profession. In 1890 he was elected to the house of represen tatives and served as a member of the constitutional convention in 1895. In 1896 he was elected speaker of the house, and served in that capacity for five years. He was a candidate for governor in 1902, being the first to ad vocate local option as between prohi bition and the state dispensary. Mr. Gary comes of a distinguished family, having one brother, Eugene B. Gary, on tbe supreme court bench of the state, and another, Ernest Gary, as a circuit judge. He is a nephew of the late General Mart Gary, a famous confederate general. Mr. Gary is a supporter of William J. Brjan, stating that he believed the Nebraskan would be nominated by the Denver convention. His strongest op ponent, LeGrand G. Walker, favored the candidacy of John A. Johnson of Minnesota. Mr. Gary will not stand for re-elec tion, his term expiring March 4, 1809. Senator Gary’s w'ife was formerly Miss Evans of Florence, and she is a member of one of the most promi nent families in Carolina. Ihey have only one child. Senator Gary stated Friday night that he hhd appointed Cecil Wyche, a graduate of the South Carolina Mili tary academy, as his private secre tary. Mr. Wyche rn now teaching school in Newberry county. GEORGIA POPULISTS CALLED. State Executive Committee to Assem ble in Atlanta, March 24. A call has been issued from Atlanta to the populists of Georgia by Chair man J. J. Holloway and Secretary J. E. Bodenhammer of the state populist executive committee, asking, all who believe in populist principles to meet in the chamber in Atlanta at 10 the morning on March 24, next, for the purpose of selecting delegated to the populist convention, which has been called to meet in St. Louis on April 2. Chairman Hollo way states that he e'xpects a good attendance. SLAYER OF PRIEST ON TRIAL. Giuseppe Alia is Facing a Jury at Denver, Colorado. A jury was found at Denver Monday to try Giuseppe Alia, charged with the murder of Rev. Leo Heinrichs, the priest, who was shot to death at the altar of St. Elizabeth’s Roman Cath olic church February 23. The session of the court was taken up in the examination of the thirty three talesmen before Judge Greely Whitford. MRS. EDDY DENOUNCED. Rev. Dixon Declares Head of Ch .ls tiati Scientists is “Degenerate." “She is a degenerate woman. You can read her book backward as well as forward. You can take a steno grapher in a lunatic asylum and write just as good a book." These were the most striking excerpts from Rev. A. C. Dixon’s opening sermon at the tabernacle in Atlanta Thursday night, the first service of the Bible confer ence, the sneaker referring to Mr*. Eddy, head of Christian Science. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY. TRENTON, GA.. FRIDAY. MARCH 13, 1908. JAP AND CHINK GROWL. Complications Over Seizure by China of Jap Vessel, with Contraband Arms Aboard at High Tension. Advices from Pekin, China, state that Japan’s ultimatum in the case of the Japanese steamship Tatsu, was pre sented to the head of the Chinese for eign board Friday, and Saturday the board took the matter under consider ation. The Tatsu was seized off Ma cao on February 7 by Chinese customs cruisers on the charge that her cargo of arms and ammunition was intended for Chinese revolutionists, although consigned to a merchant of that place. The steamer is now being held at Whampoa, the Canton river. The irreducible minimum of the Japanese claims is the restoration of the steamer as well as her cargo and the payment of a full indemnity. Ac tion is demanded within a “reasonable time.” In case of default or postponement, Japan, according to the terms of her ultimatum, will “take immediate ac tion.” * Japan expects a reply at once. She will not tolerate China’s offer to investigate the case; she insists upon aii apology for hauling down of the Japanese flag on the Tatsu Maru and she will not accept mediation, affirm ing that China is In error and that the facts are incontrovertible. Baron Hayashi, Japanese minister to China, in delivering the ultimatum, made reference to Japan’s sympathy with China in the matter of the contra band traffic in arms and explained that China could not expect mediation so long as she did not admit the partici pation of the Portuguese. Besides the trouble over the seizure cf the Tatsu, China’s activity to recov er full sovereignty in Manchuria has aroused the Japanese to opposition. Ja ; pan has raised the standard of her post offices, increased the effectiveness of her postal system, which Is one of the Japanese g 6; ment’s special inStruc tions of aggresttbn, and Is harassing the imperial Chinese by other means. Japan refuses China certain postal prviileges on the south Manchurian railways to which she is entitled, has broken open Chinese mail bags, secret ly confiscating one mail bag and con tents and conducts a parcels post over her railways, while refusing to carry the parcels of the Chinese post. A Tokio special says: There were no developments through Sunday or Mon day in connection with the Tatsu af fair. Meantime Japan is undoubtedly preparing for eventualities. The entire decision in the case rests with Premier Saionji and Foreign Minister Hayashi. There has been no indication of the pe riod of time that Japan will await Chi na’s reply. Some reliable figures are now to band showing the present strength of the Japanese navy as compared with its strength when war with Russia broke out. Details are appended, but the to tals may be freely stated, viz.: 157 ves sels of ail descriptions, representing a tonnage of 263,742 tens, before the war, and 204 vessels and 515,082 tons at the pres;fit day. 1 KNICKERBOCKER TO REOPEN. Marks Progressive Period in Era of Re turning Financial Confidence. Marking the advent of another pro gresive period in the era of reconstruc tion in the financial and industrial world was the order granted Saturday by Justice Clarke in the supreme coiaH Staten Island, for the reopening <® March 26 next, of the Knickerbock® Trust company, whose suspension la October, following a run, involvingJH savings of nearly 20,000 caused the suicide cf the pr?siden®fj the institution, Charles T. Barney, precipitated such an unsettlemeni^® resulted. WU TiNG FANG- OPENS UP. Wary Chinese Minister “Interviews" Newspaper Men. Minister Wu Ting Fang, who has re turned to the United States as China’s diplomatic representative after several years of absence, arrived in Washing ton Saturday night. He was escorted to the Chinese le gation, where he received the repre sentative of the press. As of old, he was the interviewer, particularly when the questions approached the subject of the present trouble his country is having with Japan over the seizure of the Tatsu Mam, on the charge of smug gling supplies into China for the sup posed benefit of revolutionists. SCHMITZ GIVES HEAVY BOND. Released from Jai! in ’Frisco on Pre senting Bail of $150,000. Eugene E. Schmitz was released from jail in San Francisco Tuesday night after presenting bond in the sum of $150,000. His bondsmen are T. H. Williams and W. J. Dingey. The charges of extortion against him, on which he had not. yet been tried, were diernUeed. PRITCHARD DEFIED By State of South Carolina Through Attorney General. WILL DISREGARD ORDER Muddle Over Dispensary Affairs Reach es Serious Climax in Appointment of Permanent Receivers by i Federal Judge Pritchard. Federal Judge Prichard at Ashe ville! C > Satur(ia y decided to ap poind permanent receivers of the South Carolina dispensary fund of $600,000, and named Judge Joseph A. McCullough, C. K. Henderson and B. F. Arthur as receivers. In. the order the receivers were di rected to take charge of all the per sonal property now in charge of the commission appointed by the state to wind up the dispensary affairs, includ ing the money in banks, and to give bond In the sum of $25,000 each. The members of the committee were di rected to turn over such property to the receivers, and all persons were restrained from bringing any suits to enforce claims or in any way to Inter were with the possession of the court’s agents. When Attorney General Lyon of South Carolina was shown the dis patch from Asheville announcing. Jos. A. McCullough’s acceptance of a re ceivership of the dispensary at the hands of Judge Pritichard, he said: “I .regret exceedingly that there is a person in the state of South Carolina who!’would accept the appointment of receiver at the hand} of Judge Pritch ard.” Then taking up the general situa tion, Mr. Lyon said, in part: “So far as Judge Pritchard’s under taking to enjoin any on-" from bring ing suits to in shy way interfere with the fund involved is concerned, I will state that I have instituted a proceed ing in the supreme court of South Car olina for the purpose of compelling the commission to disregard Judge Pritch ard’ injunction and to pay into the staU treasury for the u-e of the at torney general’s office the sum of $15,- 000 which was appropriated for tl. I purpose of certain criminal proceedings and prosecutions of persons connected with the late state dispensary. “Judge Pritchard’s order will most certainly be disregarded by me if it un dertakes to in any wise restrain or di rect me in this or any other proceed ings I may deem it advisable to insti tute. A special of Sunday from Asheville says: The attack made on Judge Pritchard by Attorney General Lyon and published by the morning papers, created a profound sensation in the city, the judge’s borne. It is stated that representatives of some of the suitors will call the attention of the court to the attorney general’s attack, and ask Judge Pritchard to attach him, the attorney general, for contempt of court. A Columbia special says: When At torney General Lyon was shown the press dispatches Sunday as threatened attempt to have {ached for c. niempt on st ’ icture? J‘lug*- I’riva u _ -jaß “It is n°t fcuprL.a* that tM| -*j pies frt Lu rin'-: t<> the l” i:| !:< HH -b.ru;. . Wi-b t ' have me "M con tarn nt.. This wail was 1"® 'Mi from any disr yard ■ j® SK , mm WT*b' j^|j WL : 1 JSs ■ ■ nr jfl Wm - . v||- i 'i 1 ; the United states circuit coift^^® contrary not.withstaiuling.” ABYSSINIAN PRINCE EXPELLED. Germany Tires cf Ludwig Menelik a Undesirable Foreigner. Prince Ludwig Menelik of Abyssinia has been expelled from Germany as an undesirable foreigner. The prince is a near relative of the king of Abys sinia and a negro. For a long, time past he has been making unsuccessful efforts to organize companies for the exploitation of mines, rubber and cot ton in the kingdom of his relative. He has been charged repeatedly with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. WHY V/ AGE REDUCTIONS? Is Question Asked of Georgia Roads by the State Commission. The Georgia railroad commission has propounded to the Western and Atlan ti crailroad in particular and other rail roads of the state in general, the ques tion as to why they have made or pro pose to make, as the case may be, re ductions in the wages paid their em ployees. Georgia Briefs Items of State Interest Culled From Random Sources. Ban Lifted from F. O. B. Road. The railroad commission has issued an order modifying its recent order pro hibiting the Fitzgerald, Oeilla and Broxton railroad from running its trains at a speed greater than ten miles an hour until the track Is put in repair. * * * Candidates Favor Annual Payment of Pensions. Expressions upon the question of whether the payment of the pensions of confederate veterans should be made annually or quarterly are being made by the various nominees and can didates fer the legislature all over the state. With a remarkable unanimity they declare themselves as in favor of a return to the plan of annual pay ments. * * * Heavy Reward Offered. The executive department has offer ed a reward of $250 for the arrest with proof to convict of the unknown ne gro who murdered Pawnbroker Jacob Hirsowitz, at bis place of business, on Decatur street, in Atlanta. With the S3OO raised by the friends of the de-| ceased and SIOO offered by the city council, the total reward for the ap prehension of the slayer of Hirsowitz will be $650. # * * Baker County Gets Railroad. • The Camilla and Newton Railroad company has been granted a charter by Secretary of State Phili^^Cook. rruet a li;i ' ten miles in Camilla, where it. will eon nee® the Atlantic Coast Line, to the county seat of Baker only South Georgia county not a single mile of railroad. * * * Forty-Four Paroled by JudgCT® Forty-four persons, indicted for r3 tailin.gr/quor without first paying thS government tax, pleaded guilty in United States court at Savannah a few days ago, and were released upon parole of henor, which they signed in open court, and by the terms of which they promised to pay the government assessment and to surrender their li eens,„\lo the city of Savannah, and never again to be connected with a locker club. * * * Ryals Sentenced to Hang. Neal Ryals, the alleged assailant of Mrs. Lizzie Overstreet, last September, was found guilty in court at Baxley, and sentenced to be executed on March 31. The state proved a strong case by circumstantial evidence, upon which the jury, after consinerable de liberation, wrote'its verdict. Ryals taken to Brunswick to await the day of execution, as is a strong feeling existing in and vicinity over the affair. Officer Sent for Thornpson^HggJii An officer bas left bring back from New Jersey ®H® Thompson, the absconding treasHH of the Palmer Hardware company. IjThompson has been arrested there, and papers have been asked ®®ompson was a church leader and a ■Hr of prominence in Savannah for fcfny He has left with the. company a that he is jysHffn his accounts, and it is said J®. co to $20,000. P® f 1 Ahl ' 9 ®k o^BPPPßtgstnn, : Hi a ; Bp f^P®/ S ton bas secured tin* in lUMK of the Western and Atlantic claims in the omnibus claims ®tl. f This is the claim of the stare of Georgia against the government for the use of the state road during and just after the civil war. Restitution in the sum of $600,000 is asked. The claim will be referred to the court of claims for adjudication. When that tribunal passes upon the case the amount of their findings will be paid by congres sional appropriation. This moai]f|pjM| amount will unquestioi^^j®| f'd to * * Sheriff •lb- ’■ • b-Lb 'M m mj - <>■-.,■ I.ri.ac t® M f® . ■! ’:b •, ", J® L'"^| this duty v ■ re atth^® l.v Lucas, who <" cay*!. -9HHHH® $2--o v. .i.* nlfc: -1 for hi-' jjHHH®| Sheriff Austin c.-yujuilH w s 1 * u|ff| , ... o •j - . ./, t ‘ r ' urges the necessary® civil appropriation bill. Charter of Trolley Road AmeilSl The Atlanta and Carolina Ra® company has secured from Se|® of State Philip (’oak an anvuuaHß its charter, under which it. H| the right to construct its line counties than those named inJ original petition. Under the annndiiKMit socks, and is granted the rigl® struct into or through the c|H(j-„‘: Newton, Walton. (Vonoc. • >jfl Clarke, Wilkes, McDuffie, him bin and Ku ond. ami ; its track on certain streets uHH| which r.ro nn*.;!i m<’d in ■ aval regard!'::' whi ready b‘-(n reached flj Seed Crushers Meet President !.. A Ram- mn ® state Cotton So i mien, with lieudquarten^^H' with the ■ auriLgH 5 BH Lonisvik • m Fin - : ' U Georgia. In speaking of the lining its scope, Pivriden® said: “We are expecting a large® tion from Georgia, and a f^® s-.cn tat icn from Mac - 1 Jk ill : f, ; -c ; Sm ® m' A-ho;, jjSjfl - fl ® b- : ®kcr. Averbuch, h® ■ .y :JH ■fly *^B®| Hr - 1 ,yk/< • j|| ®</ of