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The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20
Mere Pension swIndIe

Atlanta. Ga. Aug 15.-Thousands OF
dollars have been secured from the
blacks of this section OF Georgia and
also of Florida by northern negro
named Mitchell, who claimed that he
had been employed by Senator Mark
Hanna to collect money to be used in
passing the Ohio senator's bill to pen
sion the ex-slayes OF the South.
The negroes. tempted by the pros
poets of pension. gave readily 10
Mitchell, some Of them turning over the
savings of years. Last week Mitchell
left. saying he was going to see Hanna.
One negro. F.. b. Wilson. who had given
$50, grew suspicious and wrote Senator
Hanna, Wilson has received letter
from the senator degouncing Mitchell
as fraud and warning the negroes not
to trust him. II is estimated that Nit
cheli secured $1,000 during his cam
paign of duplicity.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20

San Francisco. Aug. 15.--James ].
Jeffries. champion heavyweight of the
world. played with Jim Corbett for
nine rounds and n half last night. and
then Corbett's seconds motioned Ref
cree Graney to stop the fight In order
to save their man from needless pun
lshment
The end came shortly after the be-
ginning of the tenth round. when JEFF
fries planted one OF his terrific left
swings on Corbctt's stomach. The man
who conquered John l.. Sullivan then
dropped to the floor In agony, and the
memorable scene at Carson. when Bob
Fitzsimmons landed his solar piexus
blow. was almost duplicated.
This time. however. Corbett strug-
gled to his feet and again faced his gi-
gantic adversary. With hardly a mo-
ment's hesitation. Jeffries swung his
right and again landed on Corbett's
stomach.
Jim dropped to the floor. and then
II was that Tommy Ryan. seeing that
IL was all over. motioned to Referee
Graney to stop the punishment
Tho fight last night demonstrated be
yond all doubt that Jeffries stands
alone In his class. He showed remark
able improvement in both speed and
skill. Corbett, during the first part of
the fight. was almost outpointed. and
the few blows that he landed on JEFF
fries were apparently without sting.
Jeffries was never In better condi-
tion. He looked lighter than usual,
and the way he moved about on his
feet and the frequency with which he
countered on Corbett's leads astonished
everybody.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20

Victor. Colo. Aug. 15.-The follow
lug statement was sent out yesterday
afternoon by the District Union No, ].
Western Federation OF Miners, in reply
to the statement issued by the Mine
owners Association the day before:
THAT philosophical organization OF
dividend grabbers and professional
stock gamblers. commonly known as
the Mine Owners Association. has in
fiicted upon the public statement that
is based upon the corporate idea OF JUS
tice of coming dividends out OF the toll
OF the workers. regardless of the condi-
tions that surround their employment
Their statement is the usual corporate
appeal to union strikers when making
their stand for justice or fairer condi-
tions, to renounce their union, the on
ly protection the wage Garner has un-
der the present system corporation
units, and return to work under the
protection of their special deputies and
thugs and corporation vassals. 1t is
needless to say that the union man Will
stand true to his obligation and hurl
back In the face Of the would-be Drib-
ers the offer to sell his manhood for
corporation gold The statement OF the
Mine Owners Association says in part.
The fact that there are no grivances
to adjust. and no unsatisfactory con-
ditions to remedy leaves the mine OPP
orators but one alternative and that
alternative is that they have the pro-
lection Of corporation guard until the
controversy is settled. when the traitor
to his fellow man is to be cast adrift
and become an outcast ON the indus
trial field The fact nevertheless re-
mains that 1t has required an eternal
vigilance on the part OF the unions OF
the Western Federation Of Miners TO
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20
PARLIAMENT HAS
BEEN PROROGUED

London. Aug. 15.-Both houses of
Parliament assembled yesterday to
wind up the business of the session.
Regarding the complaints that the
government was showing lack OF sym
pathy with Macedonia. MIR. Balfour
pointed out that one of the deep
sources of mischief was the dlssensions
among the Christians. IL was not the
Turk alone-deep as his guilt undoubt-
edly was-who was responsible for the
miserable conditions. 1t would be folly
to forget that the Christians commit
ted atrocities on Christians. The gov
ernment was still of the opinion that
the best policy was to support the
Austro- Russian endeavors to improve
the administration.
Subsequently the House was sum
moned to the House of Lords to hear
the Kings speech. proroguing Parlia-
ment, read.
The most interesting portion OF the
speech to America deals with Ireland.
1t says;
"The warm expressions Of good will
with which was everywhere re-
ceived greatly touched me. My visit
enabled me TO realize how much was
being attempted to improve the hous-
ing accommodation for the working
population. stimulate commercial ac-
tiyity. advance the methods OF agricul-
ture. develop technical education and
provide for tho sick and infirm. Much
remains to be done. but II was with
feelings of the deepest qualification
that | noticed signs of increasing con-
cord among all classes Of Ireland. pre-
saying. as | hope, a new era OF united
efforts for the general welfare
Referring to the Irish land bill. the
speech says II offers Inducements to
the land owners to continue their resi-
dence among their eountrymen and
provides facilities for improving the
conditions OF life in the poorer dis
tricts of the West. II adds:
This reform, by removing the an
Client causes of social dissension. will. !
heartily trust, condnce to the common
benefit of my Irish subjects
After the. reading of the Kings
speech Parliament was prorogued until
November 2nd.
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schools, the running of merchants, the
collection of taxes for many years in
adyance-such, proceeds the memoran-
dunn. are the facts of the Ottoman ad-
ministration of Monastir. Uskub and
Adrianople.
The memorandum next relates in de-
vilayet. Beginning with the vilayet OF
Salonica, 1t states that in the town of
Salonica itself the Bulgarian professors
Of the university. the students and
shopkeepers, in fact, all the intelligent
Bulgarians in the city, have been cast
into prison. One hundred and twenty
soldiers entered the village of Gorna-
Ribnitea May 18th and tortured to
death five men and two women.
During the first three weeks Of July.
twenty-five villages in the district OF
Tikvesch were subjected to the depre-
dations of the Turkish soldiers and
bashi-bazouks. The villagers were beat
en- and tortured. the women violated
ana the houses plundered. while the
administrative authorities took no ac-
ton.
Then follows a long list of atrocities
OF the most terrible character.
The memorandum has made a strong
impression in diplomatic circles. The
Austrian diplomatic agent has already
called upon the premier to express his
anxiety regarding the results that may
ensue from its publication. The French
and Italian agents also expressed un-
easiness, although they took less
gloomy view.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20
GIFT OF TWO MILLION DOLLARS
TO EDUCATE JOURNALISTS

New York. Aug 16.-Joseph Pulitzer
has provided s2.00O.0o0 to establish a
school of journalism at Columbia Uni
versity, this city.
A new building for the schoolswill be
erected on Morningside Heights at a
cost of s500.0 900 for the school, which
will hold toward the university u rela-
ton similar to that of other profess
sional schools. the law school. the
school of medicine and the school of
mines. and like them, will be national
in scope.
An important feature of the organi-
ration of this school will be an advis-
ory board. nominated by the donor.
which will aid in devising a plan and
course of instruction.
Seven members of this advisory
board have already been named and.
with others to be elected. will be nom
mated by the trustees of Columbia
University at their meeting in October.
They are: Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia University, ex-
officio; Whitelaw Reid, John Hay. sec
retary of state: st. Clair McKelway.
Andrew ID. White, Victor F. Lawson of
Chicago; Charles II. Taylor of Boston.
and Charles w. Eliot. president of Har-
ward University.
In making announcement of Mr..
Pulitzer's gift, the World.says:
AT the time of the last census there
were in the United States 14i 900 law
yers and 30.90S persons classed as jour
nalists. The legal profession was pro-
vided with trained recruits by 100 law
schools, with 1,106 professors and in
structors. For fair proportion there
should have been at least twenty-six
colleges OF journalism with faculties
2e1 strong.
There was not one. Not a single
one OF the 30.90S newspaper men and
women in the country had enjoyed
what lawyer would call systematic
professional training.
President Eliot of Harvard, one of
the foremost educators. has been re-
Quested to make suggestion on this
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c. A. R. Invited to Colorado.

Denver. Aug ia formal invita-
tion to the grand encampment OF q.
a r.. in session at San Francisco, to
hold the next meeting in Denver, has
been forwarded to the Colorado dele
CATION there by the Chamber Of Com
merce- Accompanying It were COM
mnnications from the governor, tho
mayor of the city of Denver and one
each from every mayor and president
OF commercial body In other cities
and towns of the state.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20
TRAINS WRECKED
BY CLOUDBURST

Denver, Aug. ia Republican spe-
cial from Buena Vista last night says:
Twenty-nine passengers were injured
in the Rio Grande wreck at Nathrop
last night caused by the collapse of a
bridge, and two trainmen in the wreck
on the Colorado & Southern, caused by
the same washout.
Nearly all the passengers injured in
the Rio Grande wreck were able to
proceed west on their trips, and the
few who were taken to the Sallda hos
pital are recovering rapidly. None is
;eriously injured. say the physicians.
To-day the railroad company COM
pleted a temporary bridge and track
around the wreck and trains are run
ming tonight on time 1t has been rain
ing hard again to-day and in places
the storm was a waterspout, which has
caused the railroads to put extra gangs
of trackwalkers and repairers out to
avoid another disaster.
That more were not injured in the
collapse of the bridge at Nathrop seems
us Afo were OH
the train and the two coaches that
were wrecked were crowded.
Assistance was hurried to the scene,
the wrecking crew at Minturn not walt
ing for orders when 1t heard of the ac-
cident. while both from Buena Vista
and Salida doctors and nurses were
rushed off on special trains. as II was
reported that many had been killed.
The dining CAR was converted into a
hospital and the injured as soon as
cared for temporarily were placed in
Pullman berths.
In the darkness. with the flood wa
tiers of the creek rushing near the
wrecked cars, families were separated
and friends lost in the tumult, and the
wreck seemed worse than 1t afterward
proved to be.
The wreck on the Colorado & South
ern was caused by a landslide which
was started by the same cloudburst and
was only a short distance from the
scene of the Rio Grande accident. The
two trainmen were caught in the
wreckage, but will recover from their
injuries. The engine and five cars
were ditched.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20
Meteor Strikes a Bridge.

Detroit. Mich. Aug. ia special
to the Free Press from Mendon, Mich
igan, says:
large meteor which fell here
Wednesday night destroyed a portion
of the bridge over, the st. Joe river
II buried itself in the earth and
made hole nearly twenty feet deep.
It gave forth a screeching sound as
1t passed through the sky and struck
the earth with report that was heard
fora long distance.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20
Grain.

Wheat. choice milling. per 100 lbs,
sL05. Rye. Colorado. bulk per 100 lbs.
soc. Oats. bulk. Nebraska, new, white,
s1.1S; mixed. sl.15; in sack, Colorado.
white, s1.25. Corn, in bulk. 97c; corn
chop, sacked. s10l; Colorado corn and
oat chops. sacked, sl25; bran. Colo
RADIO. per 100 lbs. soc.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20
Alton Shaken by an Earthquake.

Alton, ILL.,, Aug. 16.-An earthquake
shock was felt here at 1854 this morn
ing. The majority of the residents Of
Alton were awakened. The shock
broke a quantity of plastering in the
main auditorium of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. At East Alton
bricks were shaken from several
chimneys and glass broken in several
windows
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20
Irish Land Bill Passed.

London. Aug. l5.-The House of
Lords agreed to the Irish land billri
the form finally approved by the
House of Commons. The latter house
accepted all the amendments save two
unimportant ones added to the bill by
the lords. The measure now awaits
the royal assent to become law.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-08-20
Hay.

Upland. per ton. $12.0O@l3.O0: second
bottom, choice to fancy. $9,OO0ll0. 90;
good to choice. s7.00ns.00; timothy.
$1,000; timothy and clover. Sl1-00; all
falfa. prime. $500, straw. $S.00n9.00;
South Park wire grass, $1,000.
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Butter.
Eggs.

Eggs. fresh, loss off. doz.
Eggs. fresh. case count. doz.
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Sheep.

Tho foIlowIng quotations. represent
the prices paid on this market for fat
sheep:
Wethers. grass muttons -. .s3. 256I3. so
Ewes. grass muttons ...... 20
Feeder wethers, F. p. R.. 3O0Cd3 .25
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-01-10
KILLING JOHNSON GRASS.
An Old Farmers Experiment in
Dealing; With the PerniciOus
johnson Grass.

[ see great many suggestions
about how to get rid Of johnson
grass, including Prof. Connelrs ex-
pertinent. He gives remedy that !
have tried, and it is sure remedy.
Arsenic and salt-but either will kill
the land for at least three years. and
maybe longer. and land rent is becom-
ing valuable. | think one year is long
enough to kill it out without killing
your land at all, but makes it better.
| say one year: it may take two, but
l don't think it will. That is my ex-
perience with a plot of ground about
three feet square. I was digging out
lunches over my field when l came to
a very large bunch. I thought it was
too great task for an old man to
dig that one out. l had heard of some
people killing little punches of COCO
grass by cutting the tops off every
day. l thought 1 would try the top
cutting on my large bunch of John
son grass. l cut it off smooth, some
times every week, and sometimes ev-
cry two weeks. That was last sum-
mer year ago. Last spring-the
spring Of 19o2-in breaking the land l
passed by where the plow had run
through the plot and found the roots
all rotten mass.
Nature teaches us that if We keel,
the leaves cut from the forest tree all
the season it will die.
That is what | learned from the
ants called the grazing ants. They
would attack fruit tree and in one
night cut every leaf Off, and in one
season they would cut it four or five
times and the tree would die. Now
for my mode for killing the grass.
Break the land in the winter or carly
in the spring. Don't plant any crop
on it, and get plow something SIM
liar to MIR. Ramsey's orchard pillow,
make it so it will cut four feet, and
when the grass comes up, start your
plow. a man can go over ten acres
per day, and when it comes up, go
for it again; run just deep enough to
be sure you get it all. Let that be
your business, and I believe in one
year you will be rid of johnson grass,
and I am certain two years will kill
it.-Cor. Farm and Ranch.
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for any Of the 1uxur,e. Of nie. II IL

for any Of the iuxur,es Of HE. 70 II
different now, but would not be diff
ferent If examples of better iv-
ing had not been shown. In a COM
munity we,do~not trust to a single ex-
a1nplar, however exalted, but we rath-
er. select for imitation feature here
and another there. Neighbor A in
augurates reform (Which he has OBJ
served in some other neighbor). We
observe it, pronounce it good, and inn
itate it. -Neighbor does thing we
approve, and straightway we do the
same. Here a little, there a little"
We are enabled to accumulate a fund
of rational reformation that if prop
erly utilized changes the current of
life into new channel where we find
smoother sailing than we once
thought possible. We have known
cases where single farmer has in
few years revolutionized farm econo-
my in an entire neighborhood, SO that
where toll and privation prevailed,
there has arisen an emulation that
has elevated the plane of life from
the old dead level of "let we'll enough
alone" to one wherein nothing is
"wcll enough" that can be improved.
The improvement would be far more
rapid if farmers We're a little more
ready to observe and adopt that which
their Judgment approves. Open eyes
are as necessary as receptive minds.
Farm life is not what it once was.
Following the example of people liv
ing in towns, many Of the accessories
of civilization are penetrating the
backwoods and making city suburbs
of the regions beyond. We have seen
many wonderful transformations in
recent years, but the greatest won
ders are for the future. What has
been done is merely a foretaste Of
that which we may expect. Free mail
delivery and rural telephones we now
have in many places. Rural trolley
lines and electric lighting on farms
are largely in the womb of the fu-
ture. And the time may come when
we will have good, hard country roads
everywhere-the greatest improve
ment of all-Texas Farm and Ranch.
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-01-10
THE BAND CUT ICE.
Too Cold to Make Music. and They
Wanted to BE Set to Work
at Once.

One winter when the First United States
cavalry was stationed in Montana the
bandmaster went to the commander OF the
post, Gen. Cuvlec Grover, and reported
that the members of the band had been or
dereO to help cut ice, relates the Detroit
Free Press. He said: ''Sheneral, they did
not enlist to cut ice, but to make moosic.'
The commanding officer called the adjutant
and on his approach said: Mr.. Adjutant,
Mr.. Schmidt wishes the band excused from
ice fatigue; he says they enlisted to make
music Mr.. Schmidt, bowing to the com
manding officer, said: Yes, sheneral, to
make moosic:," The commanding officer
then said: Mr.. Adjutant, the band will
be excused from ice fatigue Mr. Schmidt
bowed himself out, saying: Thank you,
sheneral: thank you, sheneral.' But
continued the commanding officer, the
door closed, Mr.. Adjutant, the band will
take post on the bluff overlooking the river
and will make music while the rest of the
command cut ice The weather was in
tensely cold, and as matter of course it
was impossible for the players to make a
sound, their breathing freezing on their
instruments. The bandmaster again hur-
ried to the commanding officer and said:
"Sheneral, it Is impossible to make
moosic; the band would rather cut ice.''
''Eecy well, Mr.. Schmidt just as you wish,"
repl,ed the commanding officer, and, call
ing the adjutant, he said Mr.. Adjutant,
the band Will cut ice.'
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-01-10
PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.
Farm Improvement Would Re More
Rapid If Farmers Would Fol-
low Good Examples.

The fact that men, like MONKEYS,
are imitators, does not prove that
they are descended from cltarrhines
Or Simiadae. Perhaps it proees, mere
ly, that they readily learn from OBJ
servation and example, and really this
is much to the credit Of the more in
telligent animal-man. Animals may
initiate man, but it is an unreasoning
process from which they learn moth
ing. Here is where the man has an
advantage over the monkey, and in
consequence of which scientists have
added to the generic name the specific
one of ''Sapiens." When man initiates
man, he does it for purpose, and
can give reasons for SO doing. If it
were not for this reasoning and imi-
tative faculty there would be but lit
tie progress in human affairs. It is
true that men are prone to initiate
bad as well as good examples, but this
is not the side of the question we
wish to discuss. Precept is feeble
compared with example. It is what
men do, rather than what they say,
that works for woe or veal. But when
precept and example coincide, then
the power of the combination is
great. The greatest power on earth
for the good of the race is that of
good example. It applies to men in
every walk of life. For want of ex-
amples of better things farmers lived
crude and irksome life, content with
enough plain food to- sustain the
physical powers required by the daily
labor, and raiment and habitation suf-
fcient to protect against rain and
frost. with rarely > thought or hope
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-01-10

hcuu now the dan.
ger can be averted:
CASE NO. 15,741.-Rev. Jacob D.
Van Doren, of 81 Sixth Street, Fond
du Lac, Wis.,, Presbyterian clergy
man, says: "a man or woman who
has never had kidney complaint or
any of the little ills consequent upon
irritated or inactive kidneys knows
very little about what prolonged suf-
fering is. I had attacks which kept
me in the house for days at time,
unable to do anything, and to ex-
press what I suffered can hardly be
adequately done in ordinary Anglo
Saxon. AS time passed, complica-
tions set in, the particulars of which
l will be pleased to give in personal
interview to any one who requires
information. I used plenty of rem
edies, and, ever on the outlook for
something that might check or BEN
eft my condition, I began taking
Doan's Kidney Pills. This I can con-
scientiously say, Doan's Kidney Pills
caused a general improvement in my
health. They brought great relief
by 1essening the pain and correcting
the action of the kidney secretions."
A FREE TRIAL Of this great kid
ney medicine which cured the Rev.
Jacob Van Doren will be mailed on
application to any part of the United
States. Address Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, n. y. For sale by all drug
gists, price SO cents per box
Il * - E
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THE WOEFUL WHEEL.
George Thought He Was Doing HtS
Duty, But 1t Was Labor
Lost.

A young man in cricket shirt and stray
kat was wheeling baby carriage backward
and forward along the pavement in front
OF a small house III W Nestgate-on-Sea.
The hot afternoon sun poured pitllessly
down upon him, and ne was angry any
man in the neig nborhood, relates the
Manches+e, Guardian.
My DEAR came a voice from the up
per window of the house.
LET me alone, can't you?' he shrieked
back, and went on wheeling and mopping
his face.
An hour later the same voice came from
the window in earnest, pleading tones:
George, dear!'
well, what on earth do you want:'
he shouted. Have the water pipes
burst?"
NO, George, DEAR walled the voice,
"the water pipes are all right, but you've
been wheeling Amy doll all the afternoon.
Hadn,t you better let baby have turn
now?'
The Grenada sentinel., 1903-01-10

Indigestion, congested liver, impure bl ood,
constipation, these are what atflict thou.
sands of people who do not know what is the
matter with them. They drag along mis-
cradle existence; they apply to the local
doctors occasionally, and sometimes obtain
little temporary relief, but the old, tired,
worn-out, all-gone, distressed feeling always
comes back again worse than ever, until
in time they become tired of living, won
der why they were ever born, and why they
are alive unless to endure constant suffer
ing. To such sufferers there is haven of
Drops, which is wonderful medicine. One
trial will convince the most sceptical that
any or all of these difficulties may be re-
moved, and perfect cure effected, by TAX
ing DR.. August Koenig's Hamburg Drops.
Get bottle at once, before it is too late.