The Atlanta constitution., 1900-11-19
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

| would attempt to cut down the congress
/ Sional representation of those southern
states which have disfranchised the ne
| gro. The congressman expressed no
| opinion as to the probability of the sue
cess of such an attempt. but said if such
a scheme were carried out that the in
fluence of the south in congress would be
practically destroyed. for this section
would lose about one-third of her present
representation. She would also lose pro-
! poruonately in the electoral college. MIR.
Livingston is satisfied that such scheme
Is being considered by republican leaders
and there is nothing to prevent its execu-
tion, save such manifestation of public
Indignation killed the force bill, mas
much the republicans control the
house, the senate and the executive.
The congressman did not have much 20
| say about the result of the recent cleo
! tion.
We got beat, of course" said Mr.. Liv-
| ingston, but we made some astonishing
gains. Take New Jersey which | stump
ed for Mr.. Bryan. -Four years ago Nc
l<inley carried that state by nearly 100000.
| This year he carried it by only about
$4,000. SO you see Bryan gained 5OoG0
votes in New Jersey. That is a large
number of votes to change in one cam
paign and | consider it very encourag-
| ing
II see that Captain John G. Hart is
dead" said a Florida man at the Aragon
| Thursday. His death recalls the story
of the Cuban revolution, and ii those
Cubans have any gratitude they viii
erect a monument to the memory of Hart.
For II was Hart who supplied them with
arms and ammunition when they were
fighting Spain and had not friend
among the natiors.
"Filibustering was rather dangerous i'm
those days. for the Cuban coast was lined
with Spanish gunboats and the United
states revenue vessels were on the qui
vive, but Captain Hart took the risk and
got arms to the insurgents
Hart was a Philadelphian and con-
trolled three steamers the Horsa. Lau-
rada and Bermuda. which We're engaged
/ in the West Indian and Central American
fruit trade. But when the revolution got
under way he used mis- steamers for fill
clustering purposes. lie had an able lieu
tenant i'm Captain James O'Brien-'Dyua-
mite Jimmy they called him. because
his temper was liable To explode and then
things happened.
Hart and O'Brien played it mighty
fine on the United States government Of
licials ] remember once they sent the
bermuda up the St Johns river to jack
sonvilic. where the revenue cutter
Dolphin was In little while the Ber-
muda went down the river and the
Dolphin followed The Bermuda crossed
the bar and went down the coast under
full steam. the Dolphin in hot pursuit.
AN tins time the Laurada was con-
cealed in a snug cove and when Hart
thought the Bermuda had tolled the
Dolphin far enough. away he steamed up
To the Clyde line wnarves at Jacksonville,
took on an immense cargo OF arms ami
was off to cuba before the Dolphins com
mander realized that he had been made
a fool Of The Laurada took on that car
so about 10 o'clock at night. but the news
spread that a hlibuster was loading and
in a short while there were hundreds ~
people on the river front. who cheered
the little steamer as she dropped down
the river.
Il don't know what became of the LaU-
rada. but the Bermuda was lost iu jan
uary. 1897, off the east coast of Florida.
Hart was in command ana had taken ola
"a cargo of arms al Feruandina ! think
A United States government boat got ar
ter him and steamed down the coast g
fur speed a storm came up, the boilers
got out of repair. a leak was sprung anu
soon the vessel went down, several mem
beers of the expedition being lost
stephen Crane. the young American
novelist who died recently, was ON the
bermuda getting up material Tor hli-
bustering story. Crane got into Jackson
vile the day after the Bermuda Went
down in rather bad shape. lie was not
strong and the hardshlps incident 10 snip-
wreck had almost prostrated him But
ne pulled himself together a bit and wlti
the aid of jacksonville newspaper man
gave an the leading papers of tine United
81 4F ua
Bermuda.
9TH. loss Of the Bermuda marked the
turn of Hart's luck. Everything seemed
to go against him after that. lie was m
dicted by the United States court lor i!i-
buSteriug tried and given two years ll
priSon hut was finally pardoned- As /
have said, Cubans ought 10 build a mohu-
ment To him, for but Tor ms darlhs SPAN
would have made snort "oIh % 'ii0
bellion.'
4 Georgia veteran who was at Gettys-
hura told an interesting story al the KIM
ban Friday of the loss of thumb ana
finger at that battle. He was out On tne
skirmish line in the first days fight anu
tha Yankees We're sending in the bullets
pretty thick The Georgian was lying
down by a boulder that partially sheltered
his body. lie noticed that one of the
Yankee sharpshooters sheltered behind q
tree. was paying particular attention 70
the boulder The yankee kept sending
bullets that struck the boulder and made
the Georgian feel exceedingly uncomtort-
abe. Finally he decided To try to put
the yankee. tie raised his gun. rested il
on the rock and took careful aim at a
portion of tho yankees body not shelter
"a by the tree. Just as he Was pulling
the trigger the Georgian felt something
like a sting about mis- right hand and
dropped the gun. lie looked and foui,d