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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-18
Charlotte Observer

To the Editor:-From the time OF Mr..
Gobers nomination for Governor of Ken
tucky I'D TO the day of his death, 1t seems
10 me and has all along seemed to me
that he was not accorded that charty
of opinion due particularly from the
Democratic press. | do not pretend TO
know rs much of the affairs which have
filled the last six months of his career
with strife as others know, but l have
read some things between the lines ana
have drawn some conclusions, whether
right or wrong, which l submit. MT.
Goebel evidently had great hight on nls
hands from the very tfrst-a fight when
was to be to the death. What was the
nature of that fight? 1t was as all con-
cede, fight within his party against the
railroads and corporations which mad
controlled it. These made common cause
with the Republicans against has election.
1t was a bitter fight, into which the ram
roads put all the venom they could conn
mand, and nobady with sense these days
doubts the power of railroads to make
particularly thorny path for those VINO
orqsose them. Through all TINS night MT.
Goebel was without the support of the IN
dependent Democratic journals outside OF
kentucky, as we'll as in it III part.
The word went out that he was ras
cal, and our own best journals admitted
it by implication at least; and yet there
is nothing to show that there was amy
foundation for it beyond the common
abuse which every able political leader
has to encounter ON the threshold of his
career. 1t was said he was an unhlmg
murderer, although a bullet hole through
his own clothes and the verdict of two
irrr-ies exonerated him from the charge
They charged him with inhdellty-a
charge which he refuted on his death
bed modestly and with that absence OF
over-statement that would characterize
a sincere, manly man.
During the campaign every possible Ell
fort was made to defeat him by what
was no doubt an unhOly combination OF
corporate greed and reckless partisanshlp.
Governor Bradley introduced the military
on the day of election, circumstance
to arouse the passions Of some and to
brighten others Tissue ballots were I'M
ouestionably and admittedly used IN the
mountain districts, the Republican strong
holds Meanwhile what did GOebel do to
deserve the charge of raScahty! Who
can point to single act of lawleSSneSS
ON his part or the part of his supporters!
The selection of the legislative commit
tee was challenged and when the sugges-
ton of the Republicans as to change
was made they Jared worse than before
Goebel contested the election. Surely that
is no crime, Let us be charitable and
suppose that owing to bayonets and tbs
sue ballots Goebel felt as sure that he
was being wronged as any other man
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am not speaking as partisan) for the
time preceding and following Mr.. Goeb-
els assassination mas no parallel in whole
sale laundering in all American history.
The whole thing betokened the acts of a
man without courage and without moral
confidence in his position and case. He
tried to adjourn the Legislature to Lon
don, lawless Republican stronghold,
implOred the help of Republican Presi-
dent and even exhibited the unconscious
humor of wanting to submit his case to
a commission selected by that famous re-
sort of 1877, the Supreme court of the
United States
1t seems to me that behind this weak
man Taylor was the strong arm of the
corporations, that, having hated Mr..
GOebel once, hated him even unto death
Mr.. Goebel was q strong man and de-
served better of the press Of the people,
doubt not, than he received. Had
he lived he would have proved born
leader. 1t is sad that his life should
have thus been cut short, but it may
have some value In showing the people
the great enemy they have ito contend
with-the corporations, which winged the
shaft that went to his brave heart.
]. A. III.
Oak Ridge. n. c., Feb 8.
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Bill Ar]p'S Letter /.
He Loves Children Their Presence is Great Comfort He
PLAYS With the Tots.

The best earthly antidote for melan-
cent children, and join in their little sports
/ have the blues sometimes and this al
ways gives relief. They make me forget
myself. / don't know now man gets
along without them.
When little troubles make me sigh,
Or feeling sad and can't tell why,
These children bring serenity.
George Francis Train is now an old
man and has seen lots of trouble. He
was an eloquent, gifted crank and made
quite a noise in the world thirty and
forty years ago, but was never a success,
and so he soured ON the world and swore
off from it. He declared that man was 2
fraud, hypocrite and woman was weak
and helpless and that little children were
the only happy and uncOntamlnated crea-
lures in this wicked world and the only
society he should mingle with as long as
he lived. 1t has now been about twenty
five years since he SWore off and from
that time his daily habit has been to
visit some park i'll New York every day
and take a basket of confectlOnS or
fruits and all his pockets full and make
headquarters on the same park bench
and gather around him a score or two of
little folks and feed them and play with
them and listen to them as they laugh
and romp and frolic. They all know him
and love him and run to him when he
comes like little chicks rum to the Old
hens call. / saw him once and drew near
with a friend to hear what he was telling
the children, but he spied us and stopped
70 1lyin n
seat and the children followed him. BE
fore the Civil War l heard him make an
outdoor speech at Rochester to a very
large audience and he advocated the
policy of the government issuing ten
thousand millions of money so that every
man could have his pockets full and
every woman her bosom full and then,
said he, we would build railroads and
canals and docks and churches and ships
and steamboats, and monuments and live
like kings and princes. The government
has the right to issue it and has the
presses to print it and why don't they do
it and give it away to the people and
make everybody happy" Just then
countryman cried out: But hold on
Train, wouldn't there be collapse after
awhile?" Train looked at HIM with con-
tempt as he replied: ''Why, of course
there would. Any fool would know that,
but the railroads and docks and canals
and churches wouldn't collapse. They
would be there, wouldn't they?' And the
crowd yelled: "Hurrah for Train" 1t
was hard to tell whether he was a fool
or a philosopher. His redeemtng trait
is his fondness for children.
These little chaps that come to my
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house are my daily annoyance and my
daily comfort. They make trains on the
floor with my books and mess up my
table and draw ponies and dogs or make
me do it. One of them turned over my
ink yesterday and seemed very sorry and
said: "Gran'pa, SO sorry; | beg my par
don. / won't do dit any more-win ~
and she put her little arms around my
neck and kissed me. She made me glad
that she had spilled the ink. Some of
them are making speeches now and will
back up against the wall and make a bow
and go through Orphan Annie" and
'Mary's Lamb and Annie Bell' like a
schoOlboy, and then | love to glance at
the mother to see the sweet, proud look
upon her face. That look seems to say:
That is my child; isn't she smart? And
then / glance at my wife, the grand
mother and her contented look seems to
say: My granddhild; if it hadn't been
for me that child wouldn't have been
here" Well. that's fact. There is
never any doubt about who is the mother
Of a child.
Blessed children; what do they care
about our world Of trou'ble-whether Goe-
bel lives on dies, or the war in Africa
or the Philippines, or now many negro
postmasters Mckinley appoints. They
don't know how grieved | am that Sena-
tor Morgan is likely to be defeated-'that
great and good man whom the nation de-
lights to honor. Yes, defeated by ma
chine politics and unclean methods.
Verify, it reminds me of what Carlyle
said: England has population of
100000 00-nostly fools" l think they
might let him stay there until he finished
his life's great work and built the Mica
ragua canal. Oh! the shame of it. / wish
that l was a LITTLE child and didn't know
it. l am grieved, too, because our Sena-
tor Bacon has mad a fall and broken his
ribs, for we need his presence in the SEN
ate, and now While he is down in bed
some more machine politicians are laying
plans to Dust him. l tell you, my friends.
l have no patience with machine politics.
Look at Kentucky. See how the State is
torn and disgraced and | say now that
no gentleman or patriot would have done
it. Goebel and Taylor and the whole con-
Germ should have said: "Well, | didn't
know that my candidacy was going to
get up all this bitter and dangerous fuss
and make enmities that will never be
healed, and so l will withdraw from the
contest" l assert boldly that a gentle
man and patriot would have said that
and done it. 1t is mean, contemplate
selfish ambition that has produced all
this trouble in that grand old State and
revived its ancient name of the dark and
bloody ground. l wish that l was an
other little child and didn't know it.
Hamlet said: "a politician would cir
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crmvent God" So I reckon this kind of
corruption is no new thing. 1t goes back
to the time when Brutus killed Caesar
Yes, it goes back to the time when Alb
SALON tried to circumvent his own father
and depose him from the throne and
Jacob cheated Esau out of his birthright.
Selhshness is the cardinal sin of man
llind-the trump card of the devil in Sc
ducing us to his allegiance.
There is another antidote to melanchol-
ly; it is work, and l long to go at it. The
winter has been long and hard and / am
impatient for the time to come when the
flowers shall appear on the earth and the
singing of birds shall come and the voice
of the turtle be heard in the lands.
want to straighten up things in the gar
dem and dress it off and see how many
roses have been killed. ] want to fork
up the ground and plant some more
seeds. l planted peas a month ago and
they are coming up, sweet violetS are
peeping out and | found a solitary straw
berry bloom. The elm tree buds are
swelling, the crows are caWing In the
tree tops and soon some imprudent peach
trees will be in bloom. AS the poet saith,
spring is getting ready to unlock the
flowers and paint the laughing earth"
But there is some bad With every good
thing. My wife has just called my at
tentiOn to the meighbOrs' chickens that
have taken up in our garden and the
neigh OrS' dogs that are roaming over
our lot and fighting in our back yard.
They are col0red mostly-the owners,
mean-and I'm going to declare war; see
if | don't. Thereby give warming to all
owners of gallinaceOuS and canine ami
mails to keep them at home or the race
problem will break out in these parts.
They say they passed a dog law and now
they say 1T does not go into effect until
May 1901, and never if the grand jures
won't indorse it. The lawmakers were
politicians and wanted the negro vote and
so they showed the law onto the grand
juries. l see that the grand jury of Cor
don county have already killed the law.
They like dogs and sausage-don't like
mutton.
Beware of dogs" saith the scripture.
The last Legislature was miserable
abortion. If Carlyle were here to write
its history he would say: THE last GeOr-
gia legislature had go members-mostly
fools" Again | wish that | was a little
child and didn't know anything, about
these things. We all know too much
anyhow, such as it is. Too much about
the rascality and deviln1ent that is going
on in the world. / believe | will quit
reading the daily papers and read only
the weeklies and the magazines. The
mind wants a rest. a hundred years ago
the poet said:
"Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness
Where rumor of oppression and deceit
Of successful or unsuccessful war
Might never reach me more"
Wonder what he would say now. But
there is another side to all this and I'll
feel better in the morning. for if the CHI
dren don't come to me, I'll go TO them.
BILL ARP.
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Tor Asthma use CHENEYS
EXPECTORANT.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20

see the work actually going or
there has been enough said by the
Coast papers lately to attract then
attention to the matter. There is
not q week that the writer does
not have occasion to pass through
this dredging outfit and will testl-
fy that they are not complying
with the law governing the depth
of water by from eight TO ten feet.
If this practice is allowed to con-
t;nue it will only be question of
a short time when there will not
be enough oyster, on our reefs to
fill bushel-basket. There should
be law enacted by our next Le-
gislature to prohibit the use of the
dredge for three years, as it will
require that length of time for the
reefs to again recover from the
inroads that have been made on
them by these steam dredges.
There is also a law prohibiting
the taking away from the reefs the
small oysters, which if thrown
back overheard would in the
course of time develop into Il bI-
valve Of eatable size. In this case
The law is again violated, for in
dredging everything goes; every
thing is carted off to the factories
big and little; all are shoveled up
in a heap together, and that which
no profits can be derived from is
thrown out in heap to decay. By
this method alone there are thous-
ands of barrels destroyed every
year. A trip to one of these fac
tories on Saturdays after the ar
1ivaI of the fleet will verify this
statement. Enough has already
been said to have this matter in
vestigated and we Will await the
action of the dignitaries who have
the authority TO look after such
matters.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20
OYSTER DREDGING IN THE SOUND

There is no citizen more intelli-
gent. observant and truthful than
Captain G.. G.. Gray, whose boat
plies almost daily the Mississippi
sound, where the destructive work
of oyster dredging Is carried on.
Mr.. Gray, far-seelng and antici-
pating the perpetuation of an in
dustry the very backbone of the
coasts prosperity, is cognizant
of a great wrong and has made
a close investigation of what he
sees almost daily. He has written
for his paper, the Herald, the
appended editorial on the at
present all-absorbing topic:
Thousands of barrels of oysters
are being dredged from the reefs
fronting Pass Christian and Bay
St. Louis every week, commenc-
ing during the month of Septem-
Der and contlnu4 ing the middle of
May. This pradti has been car
ried on for everal years and CON
tinues up to the present time. a
few years ago there was a law
enacted setting f0rth the fact Ii
very plain language that there
should be no dredglng done in the
Mississippi Sound In less thar
fourteen feet of water, which, ot
course, if complied withSa woulc
shut down the factories, aS there
is not enough fourteen foot Apace
IN the Sound to furnish suA lient
biyalves to carry on the buk kHss
There are three steam dredgv en
gagged in this business and wsIec
and operated by the Biloxi Z CaAa
ming Factory. One of them vas
built and equipped to dredge n
from three to six feet of wateH;
the Others confine themselves M
not less thon six feet. There
no secret attached to this dreda
ing business, as it is carried on
broad daylight and directly unde1
the nose of the officials who arg
supposed to look after such mat
tiers. And even if they did not
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HANCOCK COUNTY.

84-Seventy acres Of land with clay subsoil.
good natural drainage, sixty acres or timber,
good for saw logs, piles and wood, one acre IN
cultivation. Rough box house 24X20 feet, dug
well. bearing Oiqms, nUlberrie5. pear and
peaches. One mile and a half 10 Waveland de-
and church. Title direct from government 70
present owner. Price $3.50 cash, $3.50 on time,
5l75 cash, balance one year, & per cent. interest
(59
s5.-One hundred and twenty acres, good land,
one hundred acres in timber, five acres under
cultivation, and fifteen acres in Wild grass
House 22x31 feet, rooms. kitchen l0xl2 feet,
five acres. value so. Watsred by ndvlgable
bayou, three bearing apple trees, scupernong
arbors, 1890 feet, ten pear trees Eighteen
miles to depot, Bay ST. Louis, two miles ard a
to postofdce, warranty deed. Price $50 cash
(30J
Ss-EIeven acres cleared land on Main street,
two miles and half from Bay ST. Louis, var
ranty deed. Price $50, SO cash, balance one
year, 10 per cent. interest. %
s7-One hundred and twenty acres west OF L
&c n r. R., between Wayeland and GulfTiew
Price $500 cash. (5.)
sS-Tweuty-fve acres on east side L. & n. +
R. adjoining Clermont City. Price $3.50 cash
(5.)
s9.-Three hundred and twenty feet by half mile
on Dunbar avenue, half mile from L. &. ". F. r
deuot at Bay St Louis. One thousand cord OF wood
on land good for truck. Price $50, 500 cash
SO per month. t5.)
Go.-Forty acres of land on Bayou Philip, neal
BayS {. Louis. Part OF land has been cultivated
One mile TO school, one mile and half 70 nearest
village, shanty on tract Price 500, SO cash
balance one year, 10 per cent. interest tol
9i-Tweny-two acres on Main street, one
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20
CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE NOS.
Office, So. Residence, 3-3.

Bathurst, lord high chamber
lain to Rex, the king Of the New
Orleans carnival, has received a
telegram from Congressman Mey-
er to the effect that Admiral Dew
ey would attend Mardi Gras with
his wife. The message stated
that the distinguished couple
would arrive on February "a. Ad-
miral Dewey was recently created
Duke of Manila by the Carnival
powers that be and a personal in
vitation was extended him through
Congressman Meyer to attend the
festivities. At the same time the
National Editorial Association
will be in New Orleans and it
is quite probable most of the
members of the Mississippi Leg
lature will also be present.
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WANT NO OYSTER DREDGES.

When the citizens of Bay St.
Louis met at the courthouse last
Friday evening, pursuant to a
call issued by Mayor Toulme, to
take the initiative in protesting
against certain changes anent our
State oyster laws, it became the
general sense of that meeting to
oppose any amendment to the
existing provisions whereby 1t
is proposed to have the different
county boards of supervisors em-
powered with authority to lease
or sell the oyster reefs in their
entirety, whereby a monopoly or
trust, shutting out the individual
oysterman, would be created; and
it being currently reported the
steam dredgeS were openly violat-
ing the law regulating the limit
condning their operation, and that
they were dlsastrously exhausting
the oyster supply, it became also
tfie sense of the meeting to seek
total abolition of the destructive
dredge. After Il thorough dis
cussion of the subject had been
entertained, a committee was ap-
pointed to draft resolutions, and
the sub Joined, as that committee 5
product, was afterwards adopted.
Copy of the resolutions:
At a mass meeting Of citizens
held at the Court House in the
City of Bay St. Louis. on the 18th
day of January, 1900, the follow
ing resolutions were unanimously
adopted.
Whereas it is currently report
ed that the law prohibiting the
dredging or dragging for oysters
in water of less than fourteen feet
in depth is openly violated; and
that owing to the inability of the
oyster fisherman to locate the
County lines, it is very difficult to
secure a conviction, and that the
dredging of oysters is rapidly des-
troying the natural oyster reefs;
now therefore be it.
Resolved CD That as the said
natural reefs give employment to
several thousand people on our
coast; and their perpetuatlon be-
ing so vital to the prosperity OF
our people we, the citizens of Bay
St. Louis, earnestly request the
Legislature to enact law forbic-
ding the dredging or dragging OF
oysters in the waters Of Mlssls-
Slppl OOund.
% Be it further resolved, That
we urge our Senator and Repre-
sentative to oppose any legislation
that might create a monopoly or
give control of the oyster indus
try to any person or corporation
AUGUST KELLER,
JOHN V. ToULME,
j. A. BREATH.
2. LUTZZI.
CHAs. G.. MOREAU.
Committee on Resolutions.
Copies were forwarded to Re-
preventative Bowers and Senator
Evans.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20

State at Large--J. Hunter Sharp, Lowndes;
Geo. c. Myers Marshall; ]. W Cutrer Coahoma
S. n. Roane, Clay; c: c; Miller Lauderdale; j.
H. Price, Pike; S. D. McNair, Jefferson.
First District-E. 0. Sykes, Jr., Monroe; J. NJ.
Boom. Alcorn.
Second District-T. r. Maxwell, De Soto; c.
L. Sively. Lafayette.
Third District--Walter Sillers, Bolivar; ]. T.
Lowe, Tunica.
Fourth District-W B. Crawford, Chickasaw;
L. NJ. SouthWorth, Carroll
Fifth Districts. NJ. Smith, Holmes; John L.
Buckley, Clarke.
Sixth District-L P. Conner Adams; w. A
White Harrison.
Seventh District-R. L. Bradley, Kinds; C. A
Gordon Claiborne.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20

Commodore Vanderbilt was not
so aristocratic in his tastes as some
of his relations. On one occasion
he was sitting on the crowded
piazza of fashionable hotel
when q lady approached. The
Commodore rose and talked affa-
bly, with her, while his wife and
daughter ragged. "Father,' said
the daughter, "don't you remem-
ber that vulgar woman as the one
who used to sell poultry to us?''
"Certainly my DEAR" responded
the old man heartily. "and | re-
member your mother when she
sold root beer while | peddled
oysters up in Jersey" The ladies
made no further cOmments-San
Francisco Wave.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20

Prices of type and paper have
gone up, but the country weekly
braves the situation as boldly as
ever, while delinquents prolong
their coming.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20

Prof. Naumann, most eminent
authority on chemical and medi-
cal questions, says that cod liver
oil is almost an ideal ready-made
food. He says it is easy to digest,
easily makes fat, and Is also a med
icine. Scott S Emulsion contains
this oil so prepared that it is not
at all imp leasant.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20

l want TO let the yeople who suffer from
rheumatism and scIatica know that Cham
berlain's Pain Balm relieved me after a
number of her medicines aud doctor
had failed. 1t is the best liniment have
ever know of. A. Dodgen, .Alpharctta,
Ga. Thousands have been cured OF
rhumatism by this remedy. One apPli-
catiun relieves the pain. For sale by all
Druggists.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20

Yesterday the Mississippi Sen
ate passed the Noel amendment
which provides for an elective jul
dietary. The measure 1t is very
probable Will pass the House.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-20

Over S9,O00,000 have already
been given away by Andrew Can
negie in maintaining and establish
ing public libraries.