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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-20
NOT 50 CONSERVATIVE.
Bryan Declares That Word MISLEADING
and Says He is More Radical Now
That He Was in 1895.

A LOndCn special says: William j.
Bryan, having had the opportunity of
reading American newspapers, con
sen1ed Thursday to discuss some of
the questions which have been rails
ed since he has become prominent as
a presidential possibility for 1908. He
said, in part:
Il notice that l am described by
some as a conservative and in order
that there may be no misunderstand-
ing on that subject, permit me to say
that in one sense I always have been
a conservative. The democratic poll
cies are conservative in that they
embody old principles applied to new
conditions. There was nothing new in
principle in either of the platforms
on which l stood. We were accused
of attacking property when in fact
the democratic party is the defender
Of property because it endeavors to
draw the line between honest accu-
mutation by honest methods on the
one side and predatory wealth and
immoral methods on the other.
1T is to the interest of every hon
est man that dishonesty should be
exposed and punished otherwise the
deserving are apt to suffer for the
undoservjng.
eff, however, by the word conserv-
OF hoN oho cd
my position en- any public question
or moderated my opposition to cor
porate ACKNOWLEDGEMENT they have
surprise waiting for them. am
more radical than I was in 1896, and
have nothing to withdraw on econom-
ic questions which Have been under
discussion.
"The only question we discussed in
1896 upon which there has been any
apparent change is the silver question
and that has not been a change in the
advocates of bimetalism, but in con-
ditions.
eve contended for more money and
urged the free coinage of silver as
the only means then in sight for
securing it. The production of gold
has brought in part the benefit we
expected to secure from the restora-
ton of silver. The per capita vol
ume of money in the United States
is almost so per cent greater now
than it was in 1896 and the benefits
brought by this increase have not
only indicated the quantitive theory
of money but have proven the bene-
fits Of the larger amount Of money.
No advocate of the gold standard can
claim the triumph of his logic.
81 believe in bimetallism, and I be-
lieye that the restoration Of silver
would bring still further prosperity,
besides restoring par in exchange be-
tween gold and silver using coun-
tries; but I recognize, as do all other
bimetallsts Who'll have met abroad,
that the unexpected and unprecedent-
ed increase in gold production has
for the present removed the silver
question as an issue.
while the money question has
waned in Importance, other questions
have been forging to the front, end
to these questions we must applC the
SAME principles we applied to the
money question and seek to secure
the greatest good to the greatest
number by legislation which conforms
to the doctrine of equal rights for all
and special privileges for none"
Mr.. Bryan added that he would dis
cuss the trust, tariff, railroad and
labor questions, Imperialism and 9th
err issues at leDgth when he reached
Aponrico
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-20
ATTACKED BY CHINESE PIRATES.

Oo,,.,v. lake Possession OF British Steam
er, Commit @usders and Escape
Advices from Hong Kong state that
the British steamer sainam was at
tackled by Chinese pirates at a point
eftv niles from WI Chow. Rev. Mr..
MacDonald was shot and killed. Tho
captain of the steamer was badly
wounded A Chinese passenger also
was Killed Macdonald and his wife
arc stationed at wa Chow in the in
terests of the Wesleyan Missionary
Society.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-20
REsPnES OFFERED sY GOVERNOR.
Hanging of Rawlings and Negro Aft Moore
is Agsin Postponed.

Governor Terrell has respited ]. G.
Rawlings and ALI Moore, both Of
Friday last, at Valdosta, Ca, until
the Sd of August.
The respite was granted in order
that the men may be used as wit
nesses in case the supreme court
gives the three Rawlings boys new
trial. The case comes up August 16.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-20
CAPTAIN DREYfus fully WVOlCAIED.
Not Only is Stain OF Oishonor Removed But
Promotion is Planned

fOA OUa} - SAulas VI H10hOWDA hShVFNA G"@
Promotion is Planned.
At Paris, Thursday, Alfred Drey-
fus was completely acquitted of the
charges on which he was condemned
as a traitor, dismissed from the army
and imprisoned on Devils Island, and
regarding which France has been torn
for years by the most bitter political
and racial agitation His yindication
is two-fold, the supreme court first
announcing a decision establishing the
entire innocence Of the accused man
and the ministry later deciding to put
an urgent bill in parliament restor-
ing Dreyfus to the army with al
yanced rank and otherwise giving
reparation.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-20
1HAw BOUNCts MS ATTORNEYS.
I,issUreed With HEM Over Question Of
insanity Plea for Defence

Oissureed With MEM UVer QuestIOu OF
Insanity Plea for Defence
Harry Thaw has dismissed the law
firm of Black, Olcott, Gruber &
Bonynge in fit of anger, and that
firm will not defend the young Pitts
burger.
The dismissal came, it is said, as
the elimination of a number of argu-
ments Thaw has had with various
members of the law firm over tho
question of insanity as a defense.
am the boss" Thaw is said to
have declared. "And l will not stand
for the insanity plea" the prisoner
added.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-07-20
WARSAW JEWS FLtE the CITY.
Over forty thousand, Terror Stricken,
Migrate in One Day.

Migrate in One Day.
It is estimated that no less than
10000 Jews, old men. women and
children fed from Warsaw. Russian
Poland, Thursday. Most of the able
bodied male Jews remained to pro
tect their property.
The houses of the Jews are empty,
and armed guards are posted at tho
gates and patrols parade the streets.
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ship and danger Cape Race is a bleak and rugged
promontory, with no shelter for boats, and two
a ad be- tba the no e o.
leave the boats. One maintained ION either
side of the point and used the weather served ;
but often it was impossible to launch either, and the
BY whose cansters would not, perhaps, be picked up
till months later, and for whom important dispatches
were waiting in the station Even if launching
perilous task was faced in returning
Once boat was cut in two and was tossed up on
the rocks. Another time upset and nearly
drowned her men. A third occasion flung
against reef and damaged that she sank beneath
them and they had to be saved by ropes flung
by the lighthouse keepers from above. Unless in
very fine weather, the never escaped drench-
ing and in winter their clothes always froze them
and their extremities often scared with the
cold.
At the incement and during equinoctial
storms the attempt to connect with the ships was
specially hazardous Between New Year and May
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HISTORIC HALLOWEEN

or Hollandtide, as they styled it, was made of
mixture of potatoes, parsnlps, and fish, pounded
together and moistened with butter.
Nuts have been SO thoroughly associated with
this festival that has been sometimes called Nut
Crack Night, and one of the tests of the Fates,
custom universal in all old time Halloween cele-
brations, the burning of nuts which were named
and placed upon long handled shovel in the fire.
AS they burned brightly, burned black, or bursted
with loud report, prosperity misfortune, or early
death Indicated Burns says that the passion
of pryng into futurity forms striking part of the
history of human nature.
In the reign of Charles 1. of England the gentle
men of the Middle Temple" accustomed to
consider this season the beginning of Christmas,
and among the Romanists it really only the
beginning of All Saints Day November y, day
set apart for solemn services for the repose of the
dead. With other sects, it the day dedicated
to the angel presiding fruits seeds, and the
like All Saints Day was originally May 10, but
somehow somewhere, in the dim and misty past, it
was changed to November I, although reason
seems to have been assigned for it. In Germany,
Walpurgis Night, which corresponds in significance
to All Hallows Eve, is still celebrated the
of May I.
The world however, grown old and wise, has
ceased to believe in many of its supersttions.
Halloween once fine old folk festival, has waned
in popularity, and fairy solicitation has been
Swallowed by modern progress Albeit this is true,
these old time observances form a bridge which
spans wide past between us and the generations
that have gone before.
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APROPOS of Hallowe en-, did you know that
~ among the ancents in the days of the Celts
4 4 and their priests the Druids it one of
the three principal festivals of the year? These
priests maintained throughout the year immense
fires stone affairs erected upon eminences, in
honor of the god, which they worshiped, and
on the night of October 3 they assembled in white
robes to extingush these fires and rekindle
Fire, even among the Pagans emblem of
immortality, typifying the ascent of the soul to
heaven. Among those of the Catholic faith, fire was
kinded to light souls out of purgatory. In many
places in the old countries fires lighted in
every village on Halloween. When they were
sumed, the ashes carefully collected in the
form of a circle and one stone placed near the
circumference for every person in the several fam
its place injured before the next morning, the
person represented by the stone doomed to die
inside of twelve months
AS this druidic faith faded in the light of Chris
tianity, the heather festivals lost much of their
grandeur and former significance, until in the
present age all that seem to remain of the weird
ceremonies which once characterized this important
celebration few fortune telling games
Shaw, in his history of the Province of Moray,
seems to consider the festivities of this night
sort of harvest home rejoicing. He tells that a
solemnity was kept the of November
thanksgiving for the safe ingatherng of the produce
of the fields. On the Isle of Lewes sacrifice was
made to god called Shony, to invoke his
itants around the island came to the little church
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in July, 1865, when the steamer Merlin hove up
about mile from the point and the boat put off to
her. In boarding, as the ship moved ahead, Larner,
not swim, and had he not fortunately taken off
his heavy boots short time before most certainly
would have been drowned AS it was he vanished
below the surface when the boat got back to him.
Another of the him sinking and, grasp
ing oar, spear fashion, dived after him, caught
him by the hair, and the light enough
to bring them both back to the surface, whence
they were got safely into the boat again with their
comrades.
Repairing breaks in the telegraph line in the Win
ter was duty the news boats men found thick1y
beset with danger. Once reparer named Lee
moine, during blizzard in which he and others
camped, left his tent to procure firewood stacked
suggestion of a comrade to tie cord around his
waist to insure his getting back again. But he lost
his way in the binding drifts, wandered off and
found three miles from his starting place. Another
time Gosney and Larner were repairing a section,
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the liners storms delaying forcing them past, ice
preventing their approach, and in at least one in
stance by the shipwreck of splendid ocean steam
ship which ranks among the most gruesome tragedies
of Atlantic navigation
This was the loss of the Allan liner Anglo-Saxon
on April 81, 1868. She making in from sea for
Cape Race, through dense fog to deliver her des-
patches when she struck in the early morning, at
Chance Cove, two miles north of the lighthouse.
She had four hundred persons aboard of whom two
hundred and thirty persisted. The news boats
crew rescued the one hundred and thirty survivors
and sustained them till steamers came from St.
Johns with provisions and clothing, and soldiers to
bury the dead who laid in great trenches as the
sea washed them ashore. Chance Cove was then the
home of several families of fisherfolk; but they
after abandoned it, alleging that the ghosts of the
drowned haunted the and their cries of distress
made life uncomfortable 1t is notable fact that the
place has never been settled since.
More than one other liner narrowly escaped the
same fate for so intense was the rivalry between
different flags that the greatest risks taken
to connect with the news boats, and several times
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By John Wilkes

of Saint Mulvay, having each man his provisions
with him. Every family furnished peck of malt,
and this was brewed into ale.
One of their number selected to wade into
the sea up to his middle and, carrying cup of
ale in his hand standing still in this position, cried
out with a loud voice, "Shony, l give you this
cup of ale, hoping that you will be SO kind to
send us plenty of sea ware for enrching ground
the coming year," Thereupon he threw the ale
into the and returned to land Next, all present
proceeded to the church, where candle burned
upon the altar. Standing silent for a short time
one of them gave signal, at which the candle was
blown out and then all went to the fields drank ale
and spent the remainder of the night in dancing and
singing.
Some Strange Drinks
IN Ireland, the celebration of Halloween
always the occasion for day of great feastng, and
many strange connections were partaken of. One
called Lambs Wool" was made by bruisng apples
and mixing with ale milk, wine. That the name
is appropriate is scarcely apparent unless perchance
it has reference to the condition of ones tongue
the morning of November 1. The children of Ire
land gathered ANGRY weed" at this season to
protect themselves against the wrath of their
parents and babies born in that country October
81 supposed to be possessed of evil spirits, to
have the gift of second sight and to retain it during
all their lives.
In the Isle of Man the whole meal on Halloween,
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Cape Ray and Cape Breton finally broke, and New
foundland was cut off from telegraphic intercourse
with the world outside until the next String, as
repairing was impossible in these waters in winter
the world all agog for the laying of the
Atlantic cable, which was successfully completed
between Valentia, Ireland, and Hearts Content,
Newfoundland, July 49, 800.
Since this date unbroken intercourse between
the two hemispheres has been maintained, while
the fact that the Atlantic bed is crossed by
sixteen submarine cables renders it certain that
the world will need to revert again to
the methods employed when London and New
York were fortnight apart and the link of con-
necton was the news boat at Cape Race
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of time to save him from being killed in the collision.
The crack packets in the COS were the Cunard
boats Scotia and China, the former paddle and the
latter a steamship, both of thirty-eight hun
dred TONS carrying two hundred and ffty-seven
passengers, and making thirteen knots. The Inman
liners the Etna and Hecla, almost equal to the
Others, and the Allans had the Nova Scotian and
Anglo-Saxon, and after the latter the Hibernian,
while the Fulton and Riga piled for an American
company. All carried large contingents of mmi-
grants westward and the rush of these to the rail
to obtain news of the Civil War from the Cape
Race news boat after being week out would
often list the steamer two strokes
The news boat service was one of exceeding hard
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when a blizzard sprang up and
they retreated to a shack that had
been built for such a purpose. They
searched in vain for it, and at last
walked right over it's roof, it being
showed in, and had to get down
through the chimney to obtain
shelter.
Despite these dangers by sea and
land, the Cape Race connection
gave Europe the speediest news
ofthe battles of the American Civil
War, the changing fortunes of the
contending States, the ultimate
downfall of the Confederacy, the
death of Lincoln, and every other
public occurrence in North America
till the end of 1865, and similarly
through the same agency the mo-
mentous occurrences in England
and Europe, as well as the Lam
cashire cotton riots, the ravages
of the Alabama, and her defeat
by the Kearsarge, were soon
made known to the American
public
After connecting with the steam
er on Christmas Eve, 1865, the
short but famous cable between
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the steamships were almost among
the reefs and shoals when warned
away by the fisher boats plying
their lines on the codding grounds,
or the blast of the horns with
which at intervals they marked
their presence and guided on
corners to escape collision. One
great liner brought up on a GER
tain morning within a stones
throw of the cliffs, and another
was sighted within the Gordon of
smacks, and held up only by a
quick fusillade of gunshots. But
a miss is as good as a mile with
sea folk, and averted tragedies
count for nothing.
Collisions, too, occurred at inter-
walls, and there is reason to believe
that the mysterious disappearance
of more than one fishing schooner
on the Grand Banks in those days
should be ascribed to these hurry
ing liners. Once the Hibernian cut
down a smack within sight of Cape
Race, shearing the stern clean off
her. The shippers nine year old
boy was sleeping just where the
st eaner'S DrOw entered but his
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

postmaster's clerk while he's going to
school 4harea-He's going to- Columbia
some time and that ambition ought to show
anybody that he's no fool. He wouldn't
talk either, but he was right here when 1
told SPAIN that I'd throw him out of this
Office, which is United States territory, all
except that part where the candy counter
ia, II he didn't get out.
HE came round here and said that my
little girl had made faces at his girl in
school. / told him to go home and sit on
an ice box to get over it. l guess he
went home and sat on one Of his beehives.
rfUr~he- came back before long and said he
was going to have me put out Of office.
p. "A little later my boy, the one who il
my clerk while he is in school and may
be the postmaster after he's been through
college, we'll he was over to Fosters pond
skating near the Spahns, and on the way
home some other boy, yelled 'Heehaw,
Maud and threw a rock at their Honey
for, sale sign Then SPAIN sent a com
plant to Washington and the first thing l
knew an inspector came up here from New
York to investigate me.
III you know any of them magazine
people ask EN- when they are going TO get
round to expose Pleasantville."
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ground, or he would not have Jared to 60
to the president with a grave accusation
against. his superior.
For this reason il is believed that Turney
took quite a large sum from the drawer
when he went out to luncheon on Thurs
day. There is reason to believe that it
was as much as $4,000 If he did take
this sum with him he gave it to some one
while he was out, for he had less than So
on him when arrested While at luncheon,
according to his confession to Detective
Conner, who arrested him, he received from
somebody half a dozen suggestive postal
cards in an envelope with a woman's hand
writing on them, and it Is this reason which
makes the bank officials think that if he
took a large sum of money out with him
he gave it to a woman.
One of the points that will probably be
settled by the examination of Turney's
books is how he managed to deceive the
National Bank examiners who passed upon
his accounts on February 5 last. 1t was
asserted at the ban yesterday that Turney
had no knowledge that the examiners were
coming, He always kept his books bal
anced, however, and the only way to dis
was to write to the correspondents of the
bank in OF Their cities and learn if their bal
ances correspondent with those of the Ban
of North America. 1t would take nearly
two weeks to get the requisite information
from a city so far away as San Francisco.
Turney apparently had a simple system
Of keeping account Of his thefts. So far
a. is known he took money for checks of
large sums of even money, usually IS 1000
or $4,000 or l $1,000. 1t was perfectly easy
in that way to keep track Of what he had
stolen by memory. He would know ex-
actly what checks to juggle on sight and
how many of them. In the early days he
apparently kept memoranda of his steal
ings, for such were found at the Twenty
second Regiment Armory, but of later
years he probably carried it all in his head.
Turney was visited in the Tombs yester-
day morning by his wife, who smiled at
him and told him of her confidence in him.
Another visitor was Major Frank Keck
Of the Seventy first Regiment, a LAWYER
at 40 Broadway, Major Heck has known
Turney since the latter was a boy. 1t was
said at Major Keck's Office that he was not
counsel for Turney, who so far as is known
has not yet secured the services of anv
lawyer. His case will come up in the Tombs
police court tomorrow.
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TRIBtTE or CANARSIE ART
For the Metropolitan Museum with an
Imitation Burglar Outnt.

While Brian G.. Hughes. whose head
usually pa ins hin as All Fools Day APP
proaches, was absent from his home late
last night Policeman Gregory of the
East Eighty-eighth street station found
a queer looking pile OF articles on the broad
steps leading up to the Metropolitan Mu-
scum Of Art and went over to investigate.
He found a dark gray overooat, in the
pocket of which were a flask of whiskey,
q hammer, a jimmy, a glass cutter, a rubber
hose loaded with lead, a candle and a bottle
of chloroform.
The cop a all the bells in the big build
ing and aroused all of the watchmen. At
the foot of the steps were found two oil
paintin gs.
Nothing was missing. in the building.
Gregory bundled up all the stuff and carried
it to the East Eighty-eighth street station.
One Of the pictures had the following in
scription on the back: "Plucking Feathers
From the Wings of Time, BY Dan F Ames.
CanaHie, 1870
The other was unla beled.
Just before midnight Andrew Fleming,
a cabman, drove to the Arsenal In Central
Park and told the sergeant he had three
oil paintings in his cab and thought some
thing was wrong.
He was enga ged by two men at I hirty-
fifth street and Sixth avenue to drive them
to the front of the Museum. Arriving there
the two got out Of the cab and went TO the
back of the building. Soon, 30 Fleming
went on to say, the two men carried the
three paintings to the cab and, putting them
inside, told him to wait until they brought
more. Fleming lsays he waited for a long
time, and then concluded to tell the police.
The police declined to get excited. They
took the three paintings indoors and ap-
praised them at 30 cents.
One was labelled st. jerome, by Murillo,'
another st. Anthony, by Fillppo Lippi,
London National Gallery On the back
of the third was written South Kensington
Museum, March 90, 1907"
Sergt. Arnett told the cabman a few
things that frightened him and he confessed
that he had really got the pictures outside
of the Hotel Marie Antoinette. He said
that two men, whose names he professed
not to know, had rehearsod him in just
drive to the police station.