The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 21, 1905, Image 7
NOW WHITE TERROR!
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Russia Must fight Peasantry
as Well as Anarchists.
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, * PROLETARIAT IS AROUSED
Hr Empire's Poor Ready to Join Fortunes
wm With the "Reds" in Attempt to
J Throw Off Oppression's
I ' j Yoke.
t Latest advices from St Petersburg
[ state that a shudder of horror has
U convulsed Russia. The government
| claims it has given battle only to the
| "red" revolutionists, but the populace
I - generally believes that "white terror"
I has returned.
Already the leaders of the prole*
tariat. organization, who escaped capture
Saturday night at the Economic
$ Society, and even men of the iank of
Professor ^Iilukoff, are in hiding from
the police, who are hunting them
down. The government evidently anticipates
a battle royal and has made
its dispositions' accordingly. It fully
.
understands that the proletariat will
give blow for blow in answer to the '
wholesale arrests. 1
^ The workmen's council and the i
League of Leagues Saturday night
'issued a declaration of a general
Ca - strike to begin immediately.
As most of the provincial authori- 1
!. ties are reactionary officials of the
*3; old regime, the advantage they will J
take of such power to terrorize the
i'.-: populace can be easily imagined, 1
pr. they being in position to become
Tt* petty tyrants, and wage war each 1
in his own'particular fashion against 1
the revolutionists.
Sfe&f ' Martial Law Ukase Issued.
An jmrwria] nkase issued hv the
czar Sunday empowers ail governors
I v v and municipal authorities* in the event
of railway, postal cr telegraph communication
being interfered with to
(Sv * proclaim martial law. Under the i
! ukase, military commanders will au- !
tomatically become governors general'
Martial law may be ended only by order
of the ministers of the interior at
. St Petersburg. The provisions al:
" ready made to enforce compliance
with the communication remain in
1?^' force.
The government has issued a communication
stating that it considers
the demands and complaints of the
. railway employees to a largf extent
?? justified, and the minister of ways and
; communications is therefore drafting
measures for the amelioration for
these condition of the service.
" A report that Count Wlitte has re*
. signed is in circulation in St Petersburg,
bpt it is false. It may, however,
become true at any moment, as
s "General Count Alexis Ignateig, is oev
ing held ?n reserve.
A close friend of the premier tells
' *'_* - the Associated Press that Count Wltte ,
had so faith in the policy oi Minister
of the Interior Durnovo and only
x consented to it on the condition that 1
it should be confined to legal means.
It is the opinion of many liberals .
as weil as revolutionaries, that "with
t the first discharge of cannon. Count ,
Witte will go." They say it matters
Httle whether the premier is or is
not in sympathy with the policy of
$ reacts he cannot shirk responsibil- (
ity for it A prominent personage
said to the Associated Press:
"The step taken towards reaction ,
marks the beginning of the end and \
the policy which has been inaugurated (
is bound to fail. The government'3
task will not merely be the arrest of ^
a small group of leaders, but that of
the whole population. The powers
conferred on the proTincial authorities
by the imperial ukase is tantamount ^
$ to a declaration of martial law ,
throughout the country and the irre- ,
Sponsihilities of repression which the ^
officers of the old regime may commit (
when let' loose can only serve to fan ^
the fames."
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HOWARD IS MADE REGENT. I
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Two Georgians Now on Board of the I
Smithsonian Institute.
^ Hon. William M. Howard, represen
tative from the eighth Georgia district,
has been honored by Speaker ,
Cannonx with appointment as one of i
the regents of the Smithsonian Institute.
The board of regents of this great
institution has upon it three senators
and three members of the house. But
two of them are democrats?Sena
tor Bacon and Representative How
% ard.
FOR PHILIPPINE ROADS
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Bids Are Opened at Insular Bureau of
War Department.
Bids were opened at the insular buieau
of tho war department Friday
for concessionary grants by the ,
cessionary grants to be made by the
L- N Philippine government for the con 1
struction, maintenance and opera tior
of railroads in the Philippine Island*
as provided by act of congress.
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HARRIMAN AS A JOKER. |
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Railroad Magnate Enlivens Proceed- j
ings of Insurance Investigators ki J
Reply to Ryan's Testimony.
Before the legislative insurance investigating
committee at New York,
another chapter was added Friday to
the chronicles of what Thomas F.
Ryan called "strenuous" interviews
ViotTL'i^.on htmspilf nnri R TT Karri
man. j
Mr. Ryan gave his version of the j
conversations to the committee a few !
days ago, when he said that Mr. Harriman
at the time of the acquisition
of the James H. Hyde stock in the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, demanded
an equal share, and threatened
to use his political influence
against him if he did not surrender
it. Friday Mr. Karriman recited to
tne committee his version, and added
some interesting statements affecting ,
his relations with former Governor
B. B. Odell, Jr., chairman of the New
York state republican committee, and
also as to a request to watch legislation
affecting the Equitable Society
which he had made on Governor Francis
W. Hi?gins and the late 3. Fred
Nixon, speaker of the New York state
assembly.
In substance Mr. Hnrriman testified
that when Mr. Ryan bought the
Hyde stock carrying control of the i
Kjidtable Society he asked Mr. Har- |
riman to cooperate with him in savins
the property; that Mr. Harriman
agreed to do it if satisfied that Mr.
Ryan was acting from pure and unselfish
motives; that Mr. Ryan did
not satisfy him as to the purity of
liis motives, and that Mr. Harriman
notified him that he would use his
Infinonce against him.
The test, which Mr. Harriman said
he applied to determine Mr. Ryan's
purity of motives, was an offer to
take one-half of the Hyde stock and
to name t.v-o trustees of the society.
Mr. Ryan refused to agree to that.
Charles E. Hughes, counsel for the
committee, informed Mr. Harriman
that it had bean charged that he got
his political influence through his relations
with former Governor R. B.
Odell, Jr. Mr. Harriman said:
"Well, I should think Mr. Odell had
political influence because of his relations
with me."
Laughter followed the remark, inter
Mr. Harriman said to the Associated
Press that the remark was
meant in a jocular sense.
HOTEL MAN DEALS DEATH.
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Tragedy Follows Alleged Attempt to
Enter Woman's Room.
Milan Bennett, musical director of
the ".Notnmg sut i*uiie,y .
was shot and killed in Gaffney, S. C.,
Friday morning, by George Hasty,
one of the proprietors of the Piedmont
Inn, where the shooting oo
cmrred.
Abbott Davison, leading man and
partner of the same company, wa3
also shot and is perhaps seriously
wounded.
The shooting is said to have been
the result of Hsasty's attempting to enter
the room of one of the women of
the company. When Bennett remonstrated
he was shot and Davison coming
up was also shot Davison was
shot in the abdomen and Bennett
through the heart
An inquest was held and the testimony
of Verne Sheridan and May
Bishop, was to the effect that George
Hasty, after repeatedly Insulting the
jroung woman, going so far as to endeavor
to break into Miss Sheridan's
room Thursday night, was ubraided
for his conduct by Davison Friday
morning and responded by shooting
Davison in the abdomen and sending
a bullet through Bennett's heart
George Hasty Is under arrest and
has made no statement.
Many Indictments for Rebating.
Fourteen indictments were returned
by the federal grand jury at ivansas
City Friday against common carriers,
railway officials, shippers and
freight agents, charging the giving
>f rebates and conspiracy to gain rebates.
MOW UP TO NAVY DEPARTMENT.
Courtmartia! In Meriwether Case End
ed at Annapolis.
The courtmartial in the case of Mid
shipman Miner Meriwether, Jr.. ai
Annapolis, Md., who was tried on the 1
charge of mansluaghter, for causing
the death of Midshipman James R. 1
Branch, Jr.. in n fist fight... of ed
its work late Friday afternoon and 1
adjourned.
No Information was given out a*
to the findings of the court. i
The proceedings and record in thfc
case will he forwarded to the navy
department f~r review, and the verdlcl
will be announced f'
HYDE TO LEAVE AMERICA.
Ex-President of Equitable Will Make
His Home in Paris.
With ?&1 busines sties severed and
assured that there will be no further
call for him by the insurance investigation
committee, James H. Hyde
will sail from New York for France
on the 1'curaine on December 28, to
make his home in Paris. "
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A BITTER COLLOQUY
Occurs in the House Between
Williams and Lamar.
DIRTY LINEN IS WASHED
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Democratic rvi inui i?./ umu^i nwvnku
for Barring Lamar and Shackelford
from Committee
Places.
A Washington special says: The
"washing of democratic linen for tne
amusement of republicans," as Mr. !
Williams, the minority leader, put it
a few days ago, occupied the attention
of the house for more than four
hour3 Wednesday.
The result accomplished was a den
thrown at the minority leader by .Representative
Lamar of Florida and another
by Representative Shackleford
of Missouri. The complaint of both
resulted from the failure of Mr. Williams
to recommend their rea pointmexrt
as members of the committee
on interstate and foreign commerce.
Both made long speeches in which
Mr. Williams' leadership was assailed
from many points. Mr. Williams replied
to Mr. Lamar at some length
and briefly to Mr. Shackleford. His
defense was that last session the
democrats on this committee were di
vided and lie demed it necessary lor
the good of the party and the country
that a united minority report should
be made on the subject of railroad
rate legislation.
Speaking of the leadership of MrWilliams,
Mr. Lamar said ne would
recognize h:in as tne party leader, but
not personally "until he relieves mo
of an unjust charge on his part."
Mr. Lamar concluded with the
statement that he considered his removal
from the commerce committee
an act absolutely untenable and an as-^
persion upon his private * character.
He secured the reading of correspondence
on the matter between himself
and Mi*. Williams.
Mr. Lamar said it had gone to the
country through the press that the
minority leader would not tolerate
followers of Mr. Hearst. He admitted
he felt friendly toward Mt. Hearst
and regarded his bill a gbod one. He
then charged Mr. Williams with contributing
more in one minute to democratic
inharmony than he (Lamar)
had in a year. He admitted that on
Monday he was in the heat of anger
and glad that he had been stopped.
However, his personal friendship for
Mr. Williams had ceased.
Mr. Williams was at once recognized
to reply. "I am," he said,
"'about to perform a very unpleasant
duty and one the wisdom of which
I have serious doubt. The gentleman
takes himself too seriously. He thinks
he can make a national issue out ot
a committee assignment, but he cant
do it. He thinks he was removed,
but he was not There was no committee."
Mr. Waillams asked if he would
not have been lacking in moral courage
ana in every essential of a floor
leader if he had made up a minority
membership of the commerce committee
which would have been divided
four to two on the question of
railroad rates.
Long applause followed the statement
of Mr. Williams that he should
ignore the personalities of Mr. Lamar.
Applause again followed Mr. Williams
when he said he had not allowed personalities
to influence his transaction
of public business. And what he hau
done, he said, had been approved by
"almost the unanimous opinion of the
members of the minority side of tne
house." (Applause.) v
He referred to the committee appointments
of Mr. Hearst; labor and
irrigation of arid lands, and admitted
that he did not love Mr. Hearst
"Why should I love a millionaire
who owns many newspapers which he
seems to be devoting to tearing# me
dp wo?" he said.
MANY WORK FOR UNCLE SAM.
Cfhciai Register Shows 25,461 Employes
in Washington.
The ofGcial register of the United
States, "The Blue Book," which is
about to be issued, gives a recapitulation
of the employes in the different
departments, the government prin
ting offices and the departments or
the District of Columbia, showing a
total of 25,451 persons in the service .
in the city of Washington receiving
an aggregate compensation of $27,14!;
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MITCHELL'S SEAT TO DEMOCRAT.
Governor of Oregon Fills Unexpired
Term in United States Senate.
Governor Chamberlain of Oregon,
Wednesday, announced the appointment
of John M. Gearin of Portland,
to succeed the late John H. Mitchell,
as United States senator from Oregon.
Gearin Is a democrat, but had the
indorsement of not only the democratic
party in the state, but also that
of some of the staunchest republicans.
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HAZING TO BE STOPPED.
Recsr.t Disclosures at Naval Academy
Arouses Officials and Rigid Inquiry
is Gotten Undor Way.
.Hazing of every kind, it was announctu
in W'asuingtou muroday,wuJ
ue stamped out or tne navai acauemy,
regai dle^a of tao nu^cer Of
dismissals from tne brigaue ot midshipmen
necessary to auut
this result.
Two midshipmen will be dismissed
from the acauemy within a ie\y days
by the secretary of the navy, tne one
for hazing and tne other tor countenancing
it by failure wn.le on duty
to report its occurrence. Other dismissals
will follow as oiten as midshipmen
are found guilty of hazing,
or countenancing' it
Aroused by the condition of affairs,
which reports show to exist at the
academy, so far as the treatment of
fourth classmen are concerned, Secretaiy
Bonaparte late Thursday afternoon
telephoned to Rear Admiral J as.
H. sanas, superintendent 01 tne academy,
a request to come to Washington
as soon as possible for a conference.
It will be the initial step in a
new and vigorous campaign to be
waged at Annapolis against hazing.
Congressional investigation of the conditions
at the academy has already
been proposed in a resolution introduced
in the house Thursday afternoon
by Representative Loud of Michigan.
Briefly, these are the developments
in the movement.against hazing at
ihe naval academy. When Secretary
Bonaparte reached navy department
Thursday he received an official
report from Admiral Sands, announcing
the svspension of Midshipman
Trenmor Coffin, Jr., third classman,
for hazing Midshipman Jerdone P.
Kimbrough, fourth classman, by forcing
him to stand on his head until
he became unconscious, and of Midshipman
Warren A. Vandever, second
classman, because while on duty
he observed the occurrence and failed
to report it The superintendent
called attention to the fact that Midshipman
Coffin and "Vandever were
guiity of violating a well known rule
of the academy, and recommended
their summary dismissal, in accordance
with an act of congress approved
Marcn s, isua.
THIS BfLL AIMED AT SOUTH.
Measure Introduced in House to Cut
v Down Representation. '
In the house Thursday Representative
Bennett of New York introduced
a bill to cut down the representation
of southern states in congress because
of the disfranchisement ofttso
negro Vote. The bill reduces the entire
number of representatives. from
38 to 351. ;<
The several states would have their
delegatipns reduced as fellows: Alabama
from nine to five; Arkansas
from seven to five; Florida from three
to two; Georgia from eleven to six;
Louisiana from seven to four; Mississippi
from eight to three; North
Carolina from seven to three;. Tennessee
from ten to eight; Texas from
ten to eight; Virginia from ten to
seven.
ROOSEVELT FOR WHIPPING POST
Heartily In Favor of Congress Passing
Such a Measure.
A whipping post for the District
of Columbia will be established *1
congress should enact a measure
which Representative Adams of Pennsylvania
has introduced. Mr. Adams
talked to the president about the bill
?.nd at the conclusion of his interview
quoted the president as being
heartily In favor of the measure.
HOCH ROASTS STANDARD OIL.
Kansas Governor Says State is Robbed
of $60,000 Every Day.
Governor Koch, speaking at Ottawa,
Kas., Tuesday night at a mefeting
of republicans, said:
"At this time the Kansas oil held
is yielding 60,000 barrels a day, and
for this oil the Standard Oil company,
which sets the price, is paying
less than cne-third what it paid a
year ago. I believe it 'could pay $1
per barrel for this oil more than it
is paying, and still make a large profit.
In other words, it is robbing this
people of $60,000 a day, or $20,000,000
a year.* , ? 7
"We sit supinely down while we are
being robbed of enough money every
6ay by -this corporation to build a
hundred homes for the homeless, or to
rear a great educational institution or
pay all the expenses of the state tor
6ve years."
EACH CITIZEN ASKED TO AID.
Every Mar in Atlanta Expected to j
Donate Cash for Exposition.
A subscription of one week's income
each year for four years from
every man in Atlanta and from every
statiou of life, is tbe plan adopted
by the committee of twenty five for
rhe securing of $500,000 in cash lor
th# 1010 exposition.
This is the plan reported by the
sub-committee of fire and adopted.
THE TOOTH OF BUDDHA.
A Relic Sacred to All Who Follow
the Religion He Founded.
CERTAIN tooth is to the
? -rr-Jfc Buddhists what the Holy
? Z\ O Sepulchre at Jerusalem is
% to the Christians, and what
the birthplace at Mecca of
the greatest of Arabian
prophets is to the Mahometans. This
tooth is believed by the pilgrims to
its shrine to have come from the sacred
mouth of Gautama Buddha, the found
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tjr Ol. lllfil lUllii. aul- ou.i i iu, krui^footed
priests who watch over the relic,
say that it was taken from tlie ashes
of his funeral p;-ro five centuries before
Christ was born. As a matter of fact,
this profoundly venerated object looks
suspiciously like the tooth of a wild
boar or a monkey.
The "holy tooth" is enshriied in
Kandy, a mountain town on tie island
of Ceylon, and thither it Iraws
pilgrims from about one-third tie entire
population of the world. Vherever
Ihiddhism has spread, the nine
of this bit of bone has gone, so th t it
is regarded as sacred by more tan
four hundred and fifty million liuaau
beings. In the streets of Kandy me
may meet votaries from a hundred afferent
countries and provinces, frin
nearby Siam and faraway Sibem.
from Nepal, Tibet, China, Korea ad
Japan. Indeed, many an aged native
+/\ KA fiorr? -fhnrn I
vi ^ippuii is IU utf sr;ii?iulil, m. 1u,
gone to pray that his son will not b
slain by the Russians. A few pilgrim
gHpBfiy Ji ill
THE ALLEGED TO
Sacred relic enshrined at Kandy, Ceyl
of de
journey to Kandy even from Lapland,
and all come to worship an .enshrined
tocrth. i
Although even the most intelligent
priests of Buddhism assert solemnly
that the tooth they guard was once a
part of the body of the founder of
their religion, in their heart they must
know that if Buddha ever carried this
tooth in his head ;and the rest of his
teeth were of proportionate size his
mouth must have been as large and
ferocious as that of a gorilla. On the
other hand, if this tooth was an excep|
tion to the rest it must have protruded
from his lips like the tusk of a wild
boar. According to the priests the sacred
relic is an eye tooth from the left
side of Buddha's mouth. The eye
teeth of an adult man are about three
quarters of ail inch long. The "holy
tooth" is more than two inches long.
The early records of Buddhism tell
of a tooth of a great teacher which
figured in the state ceremonies of
many Eastern potentates. For a time
it remained in India, the native country
of the prophet, and traveled in state
from one court to another. It was
the marriage dower of many princesses
' of the royal blood, and its possession
was believed to insure happiness both
in this and after existences. As a
matter of fact it was the cause of endless
dissensions and not a few murders.
With the wane of Buddhism In
India?for India turned .away from
its greatest native teircher, even as
Palestine did from Christ?the "holy
tooth" was removed to the adjoining
island of Ceylon, that there it might
abide in a secure shrine. But it found
no rest. It was captured by one conqueror,
to be wrested away from him
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Home-Mxdn Coats of Tan.
"It is a new idea," said the perfumer.
"I began it by way of a joke.
It is selling like hot cakes."
He rubbed a little of the odd cream
on the back of his hand and his white,
soft hand became brown as a sailor's.
"We have become such an out-ofdoor
people," he said, "that a fine
gold-brown sunburn is more highly
prized by us than the most delicate
rose and lily bloom. With this idea
in mind, I experimented -till I found a
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by another. At one time the Malabar*
had it, at another the Portuguese, and
in the sixteenth century, according to
the most authentic records, it was publicly
destroyed. In the presence of the
Viceroy of India and his suite it was
burned in 1560 by the Catholic Archbishop
of Goa, who thus hoped tt> end
forever "a most abominable idolatry,'"
as he called it.
Although the "holy tooth" was thus
reduced to ashes and thrown to the /
winds, it did not cease to exist in the
minds of the faithful. Six years later
the tooth was wanted toeonclude an international
marriage, and in order that
the ceremony should be conducted with
all due solemnity the tooth was produced
In some way. A short time af?.
terward this piece of bone was taken
to Ivandy, a town in the centre of
Ceylon, situated on the top of a hill,
and a magnificent temple, called the
Dalada Malagawa, was built over It
It is not exhibited save on rare occasions,
when a few high peonages
are permitted in secret to see it. When
the Duke and Duchess of York visited
Kandy they were allowed to gaze for /M
a moment on the ^holy tooth." A X
replica of the relic and its setting are I
on exhibition at the Museum of Colombo,
the capital of Ceylon.?New York ''+*
Tribune.
Ated Iuhabltant*.' ,
Hubbardtown, Mass., with a population
of a little over 1200, has twenty*
five people that are eighty/years old 01 .'rlM
over. The average age of these peopli
ts Aiirhtv-fivA VA?rs.
OTH OF BUDDL
on; an object of Oration to millions
FKEH5H WVby TRAIHIN6.
Cavalry Gaining the French army .
is a very thorcfo business, the. ^ -ffijS
school -work being a most practical
a^/vk Tbn Pq - OaVi/w\1 A n_ ' -i -
ciiaittvici. owuwi v/k *xir ' -T'tiyiM
plication at Saumur^ plenty of
The horses used ? generally of aVi^oSg
C AVAL BY HO BSE TBAHTBlT J BEAB.
high class, and some of \ them are :M
trained to rear or to buck ii order tlialf
the students may acquire >racticc in
the roughest kind of ridir.fi ihe accompanying
illustration, ^produced
from Harper's Weekly, givessomo idea . ta
of the daily routine in this sdool.
harmless cream that would give the
effect perfectly of a gold-brcsvn sunburn
and would disappear gadually
in a week or two."?New Yoit Press.
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A New Underground.
The Strand Theatre, Londai, has
been bought by the Great Northern,
Piccadilly & Brompton Railroad Company,
which intends- to use the lite as
a "tube" station. In London tie underground
railroads have to buy their
station and entrance and exit aites.
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