The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 21, 1904, Image 2
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BIDE YOUR TIME.
When fortune treat? you slightingly
And everything goes wrong.
Remember that you stiil are free
To labor and be strong.
To him who bravely does his part j
I Misfortune is no crime.
; Just hold your grip and keep up heart
; And learn to bide your time.
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The surest road to greatness lies
Through hard and patient work.
(The glorious name that never dies
Comes not unto the shirk.
Fame sits upon an eminence,
; A pinnacle sublime.
He who would win must seek her thence,
: Strive on and bide his time.
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The man of hope and energy.
Who keens one goal in sight,
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.tvno gws ins wiin auiMaui},
Will some time win the fight.
The man whose life a glory lends
To every age and clime
Is he whose purpose never bends,
Who works and bides his time.
Go onward, u'er the future s hills
The dawn falls cool and sweet.
Go onward. He can win who wills
And bows not to defeat.
Go onward though your path may lie
Through calumny and slime.
The way will brighten by and by.
Go on and bide your time.
And when the fight at last is o'er,
?The toil at last is done:
When standing on life's farther shore,
Beneath her setting sun;
Beyond the future's unbarred gate,
The bells of heaven chime;
And justice, love, and glory wait
For him who bides his time.
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|, THE LONG NEW CHUM
By HOWARD MAR:H.
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^OK* HE big chum wasn't long in
jf ^XV getting the hang of things.
|l. o o He was a good shot to bep";
M &,n Wjt^> ail(* kept ws fairly
||X Q9C well supplied with game
lll?!^. and kangaroo tail soup.
k|'" Jackson, our boss, hail fixed the name
?f Cropper on the newcomer, probably
because somehow it fell to his lot to
get all the "buck-junipers'' to ride.
He had been thrown so often that he
was getting saddle-shy. He couldn't
? understand wny it was iu<u im.- uimri
fellows' horses gave tliem no trouble,
while his own-were shooting him into
r space at most unexpected times.
!"You see, it's like this. Cropper," the
boss would explain to him: "the horses
know you're new, and they're just having
fun with you."
Barnes, on the other htyid, warned
him that all the horses were only half
broken in, that they needed constant
watching, and couldn't be trusted for
a minute; but he doubted that. To
convince him Barnes rode alongside of
Cropper and swung his stock whip lash
suddenly under the tail of the new
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chum's mount.
TKa hnrcn plomnorl his tflil rtnwn linon
|| it like a vise, dropped liis nose to the
ground^ doubled dp like a cat in a backfence
concert, and bucked for all it was
||v worth. Ten stone ten of New Cbum
. vrent bouncing away from him like a
|| : rubber ball, and struck the ground
1\ none too gently. Cropper picked himself
up painfully and remarked to
Barnes:
"A little of this will go a long way
with me."
It did. It went a long way toward
making it impossible for a horse ever
" again to catch him unawares.
There was one man in the party to
whom Cropper didn't cotton. That
was Johnson, the one-eyed cook. It
was a case of mutual dislike. Johnson
had begun by trying to rough Cropper,
and was promptly called down hard at
the muzzle of a gun. He weakened at
jprj once, but he got some satisfaction out
of telling the others what terrible
? , things he would do one of these fine
days. The New Chum knew he wasn't
scared by the gun, he said, and he referred
to the act as a cowardly bluff.
That gave Barnes an idea.
"Look here, Johnson, why didn't you
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can mm out;' lie asKcu. v.au miu
out. Tell him you -want to settle the
thing. There are the two Martini
rifles in your wagon, say you're willing
to meet him and fight with them. If
he weakens, you've got him. If he
agrees, we'll doctor the cartridges so
as you won't hurt one another."
The cook's one eye sparkled at the
thought.
"I'll call him out, all right." he said,
when he had digested the idea. "I'll
call him out, all right, and you needn't
doctor the cartridges, either. You'll
see. If he doesn't get frightened, why.
I'll make a sieve of him at a Hundred
yjjjds."
/^Hundred grand mot hers!" Barnes
. said in disgust. "Do you think we're
going to waste all the ammunition in
the wagon? You'll meet at ten yards,
tfnd you can have the ammunition
faked or not, just as you please.''
The cook hesitated. "I don't want to
mangle him." he said, finally. "If we
meet at ten yards maybe?maybe you'd
better fake the bullets."
"That's settled, then," Barnes declared.
"I'll second Cropper. If he won't
come to time I will. I'll be behind
him."
"Hold on there," the cook exclaimed,
excitedly. "We haven't had any
trouble?you and me. We've got no
call to fight."
"This end of the 'we' does and will."
Barnes said, grimly, "unless this business
is settled at once. Is it to be
faked or not?"
"Why?er? faked." of course." said
the cook. "I don't know as I really
want to hurt him. A fright will do
him a bit of good, though."
Then Mr. Johnson had another
thought.
"Of course, he won't know it's to be
ft fake. There's no need to tell him
that" . ...I
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"JCo, of course not." Barnes replied,
sarcastically. "lie isn't a sure thing
man. you know. Couldn't be. He's
only white."
I The cook began to fidget ami lingered
j a cartridge nervously. "How uo I
know you won't forget to fake them?"
1 he asked.
"Oh. that's all right, Johnson," the
boss put in cheerfnliy. "I'll attend to
that for you." *
Cropper came along and dropped a
couple of wild turkeys on the ground.
"There's something hotter than salthorse.
cook," he declared. "Cook them
for supper, will you?"
"Better wait and see if you're alive
| at supper time," Barnes remarked, significantly.
"You can have my share if I am not,"
i said Crooner. "But I don't feel sick?
j haven't got heart disease or anything
I like that?and 1 am hungry?hungry
I for something better than salt-horse
and new-killed mutton. What's the
joke, anyhow?''
"There's no joke. Cookie, there, has
| challenged you to a duel with riflesten
yards' limit. I'm holding your
hoi sc. The boss is lookiug after his.
What do you say?"
"Say? Why. I say he's an ass, that's
what. I don't want to kill the fool, and
I don't propose to let him kill me."
The cook's nervousness left him sud
denly.
"Yah, he's a chicken-hearted Johnnycome-lately,"
he cried, turning to
Barnes. "I knew it all the time. He's
scared and I knew he would be. I'm
satisfied. I don't want to kill a man
that's half scared to death to start
with. Yah!" He kicked the turkeys
as he spoke.
"Oh, you don't?" Cropper snorted,
red with rage. "Well. I do. by thunder.
Kick my turkeys, will you? Take that
?and that!"
"That" and "that" were foot app.':iea
+Kof novf nf tho r*r\r\lr*c nor.
liuiid li[^vu uuu pai c vi uiv vwrt v jfv*
son which should have been covered
by his coat tails had he worn a coat
with tails to it.
Jackson ran in between them. "I'd
eat the heart of a man who did that to
me," he hissed in the cook's ear.
"Nothing but blood will wipe this cut,"
he said gravely to Cropper. "Nothing
but blood. I'm backing Cookie."
"Come on, then," said the angry new
chum. "If he must have it, he shall
take a bath in his own."
They started down to the flat. Cropper
and Barnes in the lead, Jackson
bringing up the rear with the cook.
Jackson was busy wrenching the
bullets out of a handful of cartridges
and filling their places with pulped
plug tobacco. Where the edge of the
Dot ^latva/1 Aattti +a llia "Dillrlinr?cr iV.nxr
UUt Oiupcu UV/^il IU ilit uiijj i/uu^ IUV.J
came to a halt. The stream there was
hedged off by a thick growth of wattle
bushes, six feet high. Even cittle
could not penetrate it, which was a
good thing for the cattle, because just
there the Billybung swirled over a
bed of quicksand that would have
bogged idem in short order.
Jackson placed the men ten paces
apart, the cook with his back to the
bushes, and between Cropper and the
river. Then he handed each man a
rifle.
"Fire at the word," he said.
"And just remember that I'll fire at
the man that fires before the word,"
Barnes put in, looking significantly at
the cook.
Mr. Johnson shut his one eye ih a
long wink, ard grinned as he directed
Barnes' attention, by the wave of the
hand, to Cropper. "You'll see," he
muttered.
The new chum's face had grown
white. His Dassion had worn itself
out.
"Say, Cookie," be called out, "what's
the use? Can't this thing be settled
some other way?"
"I told you he was chicken-hearted,"
the cook shouted to the others. "Xo,
it can't, you white-livered idiot!' ho
replied to Cropper. "I am going to
fill you full of holes."
The new chum's face grew red again.
"I'll make you crawl for that." he
said.
"Ready?" Jackson asked. "Fire!"
Both, guns were discharged at the
same moment. Cropper tried to get
out another shell, but the shortened
cartridge got jammed between the
magazine and the lift and disabled his
rifle.
The cook was having better luck,
dropped his piece slowly, worked the
lever carefully, brought the gun to his
cheek confidently, fired and repeated.
Cropper worked frantically for a moment
to clear his gun, then straightened
up and threw it aside.
The cook let out a yell of triumph.
">ow watch him run!" ne cried. iSext
instant he ghrieked in terror, threw his
own gun away and started at top
speed for the wattle patch.
"Stop him!" he yelled. "Take it
away from him! Don't let him murder
mc!"
No one but Cropper had thought of
the ivory handled six-shooter at his
hip.
The new chum drew it as he threw
away his rifle, and as it flashed in the
air the cook saw it and turned tail.
The new chum tired two shots over
the head of the fleeing cook, and then
collapsed in a lit of laughter. The
cook flew at the wattle bush, and as
he reached it he rose in the air and
sailed over it.
When they got him with a rope be
was up to his armpits in the quicksand
and begged in tearful tones to be
saved. It was Cropper who passed
him the rope.?New York News.
Had to Believe Her.
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Judge Perry of the English judiciary
tells of a feeble-looking man who was
rebuked for supporting a ridiculous
claim made by a wife. "I tell you candidly
I don't believe a word o:: your
wife's story," said Judge Parry. "Yer
may do as yer like," replied the man
mournfully, "but I've got to."
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Trading Stamp War in Charleston.
j The Merchants' Retail Association
! of Charleston have declared war on j
| the trading stamp business and are
! making an effort to discontinue the
} use of the stamps. A petition has been :
| sent in to the city council asking that \
i the license of the trading stamp ]
j houses in Charleston be made so high
I as to force them out of business. |
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Property Line Causes Shooting.
As the result of a dispute over the
line between their respective farms,
Clark ~mith was shot mortally, it is
reported, by John Davenport at Kinards,
a small station on the Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens railroad,
IS miles southeast- of Laurens. Both
men are very prominent citizens and
the affair is greatly deplored.
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Labor Candidate for Legislature.
Joseph Walsh, i printer on the force
of The News and Courier, is being
put forward by the laboring element
cf Charleston as a candidate for the
legislature. Mr. Walsh is a nephew of
the late Patrick Walsh, of Georgia,
and, no doubt, if elected, will make an
able representative of the laboring people
of his city.
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Holiness Meeting "Pulled."
Acting under order of Mayor Mahon,
Chief of Police Becknell pulled
a holiness meeting which has been
| going on at Greenville for several
j weeks. Complaint was lodged against
the exhorters by Dr. Davis Furman.
I who said that the life of one of his |
patients was endangered by the shouts |
and screams that lasted during the
I greater part of each night.
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Fears Assassination.
Solicitor Thurmond has been appealed
to by another man in Saluda county
for protection from assassination, s
The man, M. M. Morse, is described as
a hard-working farmer, who has been
shot at several times, and one load of
shot was fired into the house, narrowly
missing his wife. As a result Solicitor
Thurmond has written the governor,
asking that a reward of $150 be offered
for the party or parties who are after
Morse, and this has accordingly been
done.
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Accidentally Shot by Brother.
Thomas Beckmau, a young white
man, has been accidentally shot by his
brother, James Jbeeitman, near juaucaster,
and the wounded man being in
a critical condition and very little
hope entertained for his recovery.
The Beckman brothers were working
with the pistol, which they found,when
suddenly it was discharged, the ball
striking a silver dollar in the pocket
j of Thomas Beckman, glancing, the ball
J entered his body, severing two intestines.
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Alleged Counterfeiter.
As a result of the investigations of
the police in a counterfeit money case
at Columbia. Henry Stafis, a white
man, has been arrested, charged specifically
with passing a raised onedollar
bill on a negro woman. The
bill was raised to five and white paint
was used to mark over the figures, I
! the work being exceedingly well done.
The man will be given a hearing before
United States; Commissioner Verner,
and, in the meantime, several
other bills that have been placed w*ll
be traced.
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Power Company Chartered.
The secretary of state tfhs chartered
the Eelton Power Company, with
$100,000 capital. The concern will do a
general mill business, and sell and
deliver water power. The company
I will develop from 4.50Q, to 5,uou-norse
power on the Saluda river, and transmit
it by electricity for operating the
Belton mills, the Williamston mills,
at Williamston, and other industrial
enterprises, besides furnishing electric I
lighting and water to the town of
Belton.
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Spimers Meet at Spartanburg.
A meeting of spinners representing
1,671,000 spindles was held in Spartanburg
the past week at the Spartanburg
Mill office. President J<.mes
L. Orr, of Piedmont mills, presided,
and committees were appointed to
report at the meeting to be held in
Greenville, July 26. Meanwhile, it j
was agreed that pending that meet- j
ing no goods are to be sold on basis
of less than 3 1-8 cents for sixty-lour
square seven yard print cloths, twenty-eight
inches wide. Mills of neighj
boring states are expected to be rep|
resented at the Greenville meeting.
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Planning Time Curtailment.
The cotton mill> men who are to
meet in Greenville July 2G fo consider
the curtailment of production, have
appointed several committees, consistj
ing of two members from' each of the
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| four leading states of the south, who
will ascertain the extent to which indi
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vidual curtailment has been carried
on for the past two months, and one
of the committees will aiso endeavor
to obtain the consent of at least 80
per cent of the Southern gray goods
men to a plan of organized curtailment,
if in his opinion at the next
meeting such a plan appears advisable.
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Aquatic Trouble in Greenville.
After a stormy meeting of the Greerville
city council over the differences
between the city of Greenville and the
Paris Mountain Water Company, Mayor
Mahon announced that he considered
it his duty to remove Alderman
Perkins from the chairmanship of the
water committee, and thereby declared
the office vacant. In taking such a
step Mayor Mjahon said he was actuated
solely by what he considered
to be his duty to the city and its
people. Alderman Perkins had opened
a Correspondence with the president
of the Water Company without the
advice or consent of other members
of his company or of city council, and
such a course was an insult to council
to the committee and to the chief executive
of the municipality, who had
placed Alderman Perkins at the head
of the committee.
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Cashier Under Serious Charges.
S. P. Harvey, cashier of the freight
department of the Atlantic Coast Line,
was arrested on a warrant sworn out
by Chief Auditor Haralsen at Charlesion
and gave bond in the sum of
{>5,000 to appear at the next term of
the circuit court. 'i*he warrant alleges
that Harvey, who has been cashier
for several years, has between
July 1, 1902, and July 1, 1904, appropriated
to his own use funds of the
company to the amount of $5,000 and
upward with fraudulent intent.
The affair creates a stir, as Harvey
is a member of a well known family
of Charleston, and was held in high
esteem in the community.
Oconee County Bonds Sold.
A short time ago Oconee county closed
a contract with the Robinson-Humphrey
Company, of Atlanta. Ga., for
$45,000 of 5 per cent ten, twenty and
thirty year refunding bonds. The
bonds have now been properly issued,
and have been delivered to the purchasers
and paid for in full by them.
The bonds are payable, principal and
interest at the Morton Trust Company,
New York city. One-third of
them are made payable in ten years,
one-third in twenty years and onethird
in thirty years. There were a
number of offers received for the
bonds from various bond houses and
investors throughout the country, but
the contract was finally closed with
the Robinson Humphrey Company. The
county received a premium for the
bonds.
THREW CHILD IN WELL.
Negro Woman Gets Rid of Her Infant
in Horrible Manner.
Partney Edmondson, a negro wo
man, is in jail in LaGrange, Ga.,
charged with the killing of her baby
only three or four days old. It seems
that the woman placed th echild
alive in a kettle, put the kettle in a
sack and dropped the sack to the bottom
of a dry well about 30 or 40 feet
deep. The child had its skull crushed
by the fall, but despite this, remained
alive. It was still alive when some
parties passing the well about 2
o'clock the next day heard its cries
and fished out the sack. The infant
died shortly afterward. It was in the
well a day and a night before found.
KILLED WIFE AND DAUGHTER.
Buffalo Business Man Tcok Two Lives
and Then His Own.
One of the most shocking tragedies
that ever occurred in Buffalo, N. Y.,
came to light Friday when the dead
bodies' of Edgar T. Washburn, a member
of the grain firm of Heathflelvl &
Washburn, on the board of trade,Washburn's
wife, and his young daughter,
Gladys, 15 years old, were found in a
bed room of their home.
Washburn had shot and killed his
wife and daughter and then himself.
He had written a letter recently saying
that he was having troubles in
business. As far as is known the m?nbers
of the family had not had any
troubles among themselves.
EGAN AS STRIKE BREAKER.
Former President of Central of Geor.
gia Employed by Packing House.
A Savannah, G<i.? 'dispatch says:
John M. Egan, formerly president cf
the Central of Georgia Railway Company,
has been made president of the
Armour-Swift Company, and is to be
in charge of the fight that the packing
concerns will wage against the
butchers and meat workers' strike.
Ryan Gives to Virginia Building.
Thomas F. Ryan, of New York, has
forwarded to the governor of Virginia
his check for $2,500 for the benefit of
the Virginia state building at the St.
Louis exposition. The check was a
surprise, and came unsolicited.
Report Traced to Russian Consul.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says:
There is good reason to believe that
the report of the Japanese- disaster before
Port Arthur came from the Prussian
consul at Choefoo.
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| DEMOCRATS CONFER.
! Seizure cf Neutral Ships by Russian ^
Officials Arouses England ar.d Germany
to Emphatically protest?
Leaders of the democratic party
gathered in New York Monday to d;s- ! ^
cuss campaign plans. A long con- *
ference was held Monday night in the d
rooms of Former Senator Hill, at tne *
Hoffman house. At the close a statement
was given out to the effect that *
the chairmanship of the national com- ^
mitiee had not been discussed. Privately
it was said the judgment of all i
present was that the interests of the i
party would be best conserved by s
leaving the committee absolutely free I
to elect its chairman. Judge Parker 4
was said to favor this course. The i
conference resulted in an agreement io i
call a fneeting of the national commit- t
tee, to be held at the Hoffman house ?
July 26. The question of fixing the
time and place for the notification of f
the candidates for president and vice
president was left to tne candidates I
themselves. <
Present at the conference were the i
leaders who brought about the nomi- <
nation of Parker. There was also pres- c
ent Senator Dowling, of New York, ]
who looked after the Tammany inter- i
ests. Everyone declared that harmony 1
had been the watchword throughout, i
The conferees were Former Sena- t
tors D.'B. Hill, of New York; James i
Smith, Jr., of New Jersey; Henry G. (
Davis, of West Virginia, candidate for j
vice president; Edward Murphy, Jr., i
of New York; Senator Gorman, of
Maryland; William F. Sheehan, of New y
York; Cord Meyer, chairman of the i
New York state committee; John W. 1
Kern, of Indiana; Colonel James M. 1
Guffey, of Pennsylvania; Senator P. H. i
McCarren, of Brooklyn; James M. j
Head, of Tennessee; Norman E. Mack, <
of Buffalo; Ferry Feimoni ana auguii i
Belmont, of New York; Thomas P.
Ryan, of Virginia; Senator J. K. P.
Hale, of Virginia, and John R. McLean,
of Ohio.
Colonel J. M. Guffey presided. The
gentlemen met primarily for the purpose
of meeting Senator Davis, of
West Virginia, candidate for vice pres-1
ident. An exchange of views followed
and the question as to when the
national committee should be called
together for organization was discussed,
and it was agreed to recommend
that the committee be called to meoi
in New York city at the Hoffman
house at 12 o'clock noon on July 26.
The question of fixing a date for the
notification of the candidates was
talked over and finally referred to the !
candidates to fix the date and place
of notification. x
There was also a general discussion ]
as to the favorable prospects of the i
party in the coming campaign. 1
There was no discussion whatever <
concerning the selection of a chairman <
of the national committee. t
Mr. Davis engaged In the discussion j
of all topics before the conference, hut 7
in no more personal vein than others <
in attendance. His most significant
statement was in relation to the unit- ]
ing of all interests. The gathering of t
so many strong men, representing fac- c
tions which had not always pulled to- 1
gether, he said, was indicative of a t
strong- campaign. j
The meeting gave a number of those t
present the first opportunity they have c
had of congratulating Mr. Davis since c
his nomination, and the reception accorded
him was hearty.
The discussion of prospects in the
coming campaign was general in char- |
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several that western democrats would
give earnest support to the ticket and
that no fear of factional opposition
need be entertained. 1
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SULLY SEEKS TO COMPROMISE. t
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Makes Formal Offer of Fifty Cents on
the Dollar to Creditors. ^
At New York, Monday, Daniel J. j
Sully & Co., and Daniel J. Sully indi- t
vidually, made formal offers of com- {
promise at a meeting of their credi- c
tors, but final action was deferred, as ^
it was not shown Ihat the bankrupts
i have funds sufficient to make good the ,
compromise offer of 40*per cent cash ^
and 10 per cent in ninety-day notes. ^
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FROM RUSSIAN SOURCES.
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Posts Recaptured from Japs at Pert r
Arthur Says Report. (
A dispatch to a London news agency
from St. Petersburg says the war of- i
fice announces the receipt of a dis- $
patch from Port Arthur confirming the j
report that the Japanese sustained considerable
losses on July 11, the exact
particulars of which have not yet been j
ascertained. ;
According to the dispatch, tie Rus- \
sians recaptured all the positions lately j
taken 07 the Japanese. z
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CAR COMPANY TO APPEAL. t
Judge Emory Speer's Ruling |s Not
Accepted as Final.
According to Judge Emory Speer, R
who decided at Mount Airy that street
car lines could not be laid in Savannah
by resolution of the counci.* *
there are many tracks down in the s
city without authority. Many of them J
have been laic with no other authority
the car company will appeal to the F
court ot appeals. *
BRYAN AND PLATFORM.
iebraskan Dissects Declaration Adopt* ' ~
ed by Democrats and Renders
Judgment.
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A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says:
V. J. Bryan Thursday made public the
ollowing statement relating to the
iemocratic platform adopted at St
^ouis:
"The plank on imperialism is p?i- ^
ive, strong and satisfactory to the enire
party and this question becomes *
he paramount issu^ of the campaign.
"The tariff piank is good, but it was
nade so on a close vote in the comnittee
and largely against the opposition
of Mr. Parser's adherents. The
>lank which was voted 'down favored
a wise, conservative and businesslike'
evision, made 'with due regard to ex* ;
sting conditions.' The committee
bought that these qualifying words /
emasculated the plank and left it so
veak as to give no hope to tariff reormers.
"Tho anti-trust plank is a good one.
t demands the enforcement of the
jriminal law against the trusts; it da- ' *?3
nands the abolition of rebates asd discriminations
and it demands the with* ?
Irawal of the interstate commerce
privileges from trusts when once con*
acted. The plank is infinitely supe ior
to the republican plank, and, with K i
president who desired to -destroy
rusts, would be a sufficient plank, but
is this trust- plank was also eubstitut,J
v? *,,11 .AmmUiaa fhorA ifl rPJt
:u uy .uc tun ^.uuiuivkbv, ??v.v ? ,,
>on to fear that it may not be in keep*
ng with the ideas of the candidate.
'The labor plank is all that could be
iesired. It declares against govern* > ^
nent by injunction; it favors arbitra:ion
and the eight-hour day and delounces
the methods that have been
esorted to in the Colorado strike, but v
is these planks were added in the full ?.
lommittee, some uncertainty exists as
:o the candidate's position.
The platform declares in favor of ' Is
lie reduction of the army. Upon this
:he committee was unanimous. The
sub-committee reported a plank in faror
of an increase of the navy, but
ihis was stricken out in the full com*
nittee. '
"The platform declares in favor of
:he enlargement of the scope of the |
nterstate commerce commission and
n favor of irrigation.
"The general clauses of the plat*
'orm excite no dispute, and the appeal
igainst the introduction of a race issue
ought to have weight with the sojer,
thinking Americans.
"On the whole,' the platform is good.
Prom a western standpoint, Its great* _ ;
?st defect is that it makes no men- .*-?
'? - * MtiAeHon An ot*
,!On UL mt; muiicj quciiuuu. ttu ?
:empt was made to secure a plank op-. ^
Dosing the melting of the silver dolar,
opposing the asset currency and
jranch banks, and expressing a preference
for the United States note (orlinarily
known aa greenbacks), over >
he bank note, but having refused to
)ut in a gold plank, the committee
vas not wiling to have any phase of
;he money question alluded to.
"While the motion to reaffirm the ,
Kansas City platform was voted down, #
here was a consideraoie vote m iavur
)f its reaffirmation, and the Western
nembe.-s of the committee, together f
vith a few from the south, stood to- v ,
;ether and secured enough changes In
he platform to make it a presentable
locument and worthy of the support
>f the party." ? y|||j
INVESTIGATORS GIVEN ROAST.
" ^
-ively Time at Meeting of Appropriations
Committee of Georgia House.
There was a lively time before the y
house committee on appropriations *
Thursday afternou, when the trustees
>f the state sanitarium appeared to
irge the committee not to cut the
ippropriation of $325,000 which has
ieen given it for the last two years.
The committee had at a former meetng
cut the appropriation to the saniarium
to $300,000, but had reconsidered
this action, and left the matter
4
>pen until the trustees could be beard
rom.
Judge Thomas E. Lawson, of Eat* '
>nton, vice chairman of the board of
rustees, was first heard and he hanlled
without gloves the report of the
egislative investigating committee of
vhich Joe Hall, of Bibb, was chairman,
tnd which severely criticised the
nethods and system employed in the
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During Judge Lawson's address Mr. '
-Tali made reply to some statements of
he speaker and Judge Law son said
le did not want to be interrupted.
"It is folly for any man to say that ?-*
in institution of his magnitude, with
ts ten trustees, has been conducted f
or a period of fifty years, without an
ntelligent system of bookkeeping."
fudge Lawson said: "It's not true, no
natter if one member of the commitee
said it, no matter if forty members v
paid it."
' ' '
WAGE CUT AT FALL RIVER.
A ill Officials Post Notices of 12 1-2
Per Cent Reduction. *
A committee, representing the Fall
liver Manufacturers' Association, i*
ued official notice Thursday that the
rages of the cotton mill operatives In
^all River would be reduced 12 1-2
ier cent on Monday, July 25. The cat
fleets SO mills, employing about 25,00
hands. ^ ^