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Business is improving in Brunswick.
BMloon races are the latest fad in
Paris. Balloon sleeve races might be
popularized here.
A Waycross girl-saye “If I can’t wear
bloomers I wont wear anything.” Fetch
the bloomers, quick, for heaven’s sake!
Rem son Crawford has been promoted
to the position of general advertising
agent of the Plant System with head
quarters at Savannah.
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The czar of Russia does not desire a
bomb just at this time. In that he
differs from McKinley who sports a
long procession of bumsj just at this
time. ’
It would appear that the robber
Rothchilds handle silver as well as gold,
since the steamer Etruria carried offjto
Europe, the other day, 518,000 ounces of
silver.
Weyler has issued an order prohibit
ing the exportation of tobacco from
Cuba. The great American all Havana
cheroot will now have the field to
itself.
The Atlanta Commercial dies in es
tacy, ‘ ‘Tillman is a man of the people. ”
Whereupon the Augusta Herald dra
matically adds, ‘ ‘Then God help the
people!”
The dissensions inside the democratic
party should all be healed before the June
6, and let every lover of good govern
ment go to work for the success of the
party. Therein lies our salvation.
The problem of how to conquer nut
grass is as hard to solve as that of how
to conquer the Cuban army. When
Weyler gets through with Cuba he could
get a job in Georgia at fair wages.,
The new mahatma of the Theosophists
is a Mrs. Tingley. A servant girl re
vealed her identity, and the ears of that
talkative maid have no doubt been
made to feel the tingley sensation, long
before this.
The king of Spain is just ten years
old. That was the length of the last
Cuban war. Should the same prece
dent be followed in the present revolu
tion he will be old enough to vote for
the first Cuban president.
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“Tennessee has declared for silver
and the blackberry crop is shocs.
Troubles never come singly,” sighs
Watermillionaire Triplett. He has
one consolation, the supply of red
gills in Lake lamona holds good.
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The sheriff’s ticket, headed by Mr. J.
P. McConnell, is a winner in the com
ing election. Mr. McConnell has served
a term as sheriff of Floyd county in a
most acceptable manner and the people
of Floyd county are going to show their
appreciation of his woi th and services
by re electing him by an overwhelming
majority.
TO ATTRACT GOOD PEOPLE.
Only one class of people can benefit
the South by moving their homes
among us. That is the class of people
who have at heart the upbuilding of the
community in which they propose to
make their homes. The only way to at
tract these people is by showing up our
advantages in the proper light.
The best judges as to the best means
to induce Northern and Western men to
settle in the South unquestionably are
the men who have come South in re
cent years and established their homes
and industries among us, and it is the
part of wisdom for any community
which desires such immigrants and set
tlers to heed their advice and sugges
tions.
A convention of these first comers
from all parts of the South was held at
Southern Pines, N. C., two weeks ago.
About a thousand people were present,
representing every state in the South
and ten Northern states. Twenty-five
Northern newspapers and all the chief
railway lines in the South also sent spe
cial representatives. The purpose of the
convention was to enable the Northern
and foreign born citizens of the South
ernstates to give expression to their
views of this section as a home for im
migrants, for the instruction and en
couragement of people in other sections
who want to follow them, but hesitate
about doing so, and they issued an ad
dress which was full of just praise of
the South, and which has been pub
lished in every part of the country. It
concluded with an invitation on the
part of the settlers who have already
settled, and are prospering in their new
homes, to “all men of trained ability to
join with us in building up this grand
est country that the sun shines upon,”
and it cannot fail to have the desired ef
fect on those to whom it is addressed.
On the other hand, the convention
gave some timely and good advice to the
people of the different parts of the
South who desire to induce immigration
to their respective states, and districts.
Part of the advice was contained in two
of a number of resolutions which were
unanimously adopted. They were as
follows:
“Resolved, That the Chicago and
Southern States exposition, the object
of which is to present the illimitable re
sources and natural advantages of the
South and to show the people of Chica
go and the great Northwest the wonder
ful progress of this section of our com
mon country, is of the utmost impor
tance to us and can be made of incalcu
lable benefit in the developing of our re
sources.
Resolved, That the undertaking and
our advantages therefrom now depend
on Southern action in securing repre
sentative evhibits of our resources and
achievements; that failure of the enter
prise would cast a stigma on us and
onr South; and we earnestly urge offi
cial add private organized effort in teach
Southern state for securing and sending
to Chicago typical and complete exhibits
of her products. ”
The men promulgating these resolu
tions are good, level-headed business
men and they know whereof they speak.
Some of the leading men of Georgia are
hard at work in the interest of this
great display of Southern resources.
Notably among these is Ex-Senator
Patrick Walsh who is soon to visit Rome
and address the people on that interest
ing topic. We hope that he will be
greeted by a large audience and that he
will be meet with a ready response from
our patriotic people.
DRAW THE COLOR LINE.
The Northern colony at Fitzgerald
gave an unmistakable illustration of the
deep and abiding love they have for the
negroes, at a mass meeting Saturday.
After a series of lively and intemperate
speeches, in which the crackers were
blamed for the presence of the negroes
in Fitzgerald, and charging the South
ern people with ‘‘loving the nigger fet
ter than yankees” a resolution was
adopted declaring that no negro should
be employed in the town. There were
only a few negroes there but they must
go.
Comment is unnecessary. Facts prove
more than theories. Never has a com
munity of Southern people driven out
the colored people and refused to give
them work. Notwithstanding, all the
loud protestations of love, the officious
intermeddling of the North as to how
the South should treat the negro, the in
telligent conservative negroes have long
ago learned that the South is the place
for the negro and the Southern people
his beet friend. —Georgia Oracker.
That is all true but the acrimonious
descendants oi those cold blooded sec-
continue to abuse the South
and deplore the oppressed condition of
the poor negro until they are given some
other tommyrot to talk abcut. The slim
visioned, close-fisted, hard-hearted,
bigots will continue to burn witches till
the end of the chapter.
Their hypermetropic gaze is fixed upon
far off evils, magnified and exaggerated,
while they fail utterly to discover the
ills prevalent among the people at their
doors, and whose condition is so much
more deplorable than the happy hearted
Southern negroes. There never was a
condition of slavery more abject, in the
cotton fields of the South, than is today
THE AkOME TBIBUNE. SAIT R DAY, MAT 23, 1896.
crushing the vitality of the ill fed and
overworked employes of some of the
Northern companies.
The negro enjoys every benefit of good
government and higher civilization
which his white ueiffhbor is heir to, so
far as his means and tastes extend. If
he is industrious there is no country in
the world where he may enjoy the fruits
of his labors with greater freedom, sat
isfaction and safety than right here
among the people who understand and
appreciate him at his true value.
SONG AND SCENES.
On An Old Glove.
Half-worn and torn and cast aside
By her whose hand it covered
While all the graces in their pride
About her being hovered;
’Tis but a poor, discarded glove,
And since she will not wear it,
In token of my loyal love
I’ll in my bosom bear it.
And often to my lips I’ll press
The dainty little token
And think of many a fond caress
And thrilling thoughts unspoken,
I’ve felt when holding in my own
That hand divinely moulded,
And to my heart, with bliss nnllnown
To men, her form I folded.
Ah, many a joy and many a, grief,
And many a pleasure sordid,
Os flower and fruit and fallen leaf
To mankind is accorded;
But never a thought and never a theme
Compares to that sweet feeling.
When o’er two kindred souls the dream
Os hopeful love comes stealing.
The golden hours are speeding by,
And fast the light is fading,
Lost opportunities still sigh
And chide with vain upbraiding;
But while one star shines bright above,
For the sake of her who wore it
I’ll keep this poor, discarded glove
And reverently adore it!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
Some Fieree Fighters.
I was sitting in the smoker when a
young man came in and took a seat on
the opposite side of the aisle.
“Have you a match?” he asked pleas
antly.
‘‘l think I have, ’ ’ I replied, fumbling
in my breast pocket.
“Have a cigar,” he added, 1 ‘Here is
one I brought from Key West. I left
there a few days ago with a gripsack
full of them. They are pure Havana
and you will find them excellent,”
Os course such amiable overtures
were not to be disregarded and I asked:
“Much war talk down there?’ ’
“Nothing else but war talk. I
always have an interpreter with me
when I visit my customers there and
after I have sold them their bills, each
and every one of them want to talk
about the war and the attitude of our
government. They are Cuban to the
core and sympathize deeply with the pa
triots.
“That Cuban war is a wonderful
thing, in some respects' ” he went on.
‘‘They are fierce fighters and their si
lent approach and the swiftness of
their onslaught are simply paralyzing
to the Spaniards.
“If they had arms and ammunition
the question would soon be settled and
Cuba would be free. They have all the
men they want, all they can feed, but
they lack arms and equipments.
‘ ‘You see the island of Cuba is not as
large as the state of Georgia and,
although it is 700 miles long, in some
places it is not more than 1 20 miles
wide
“The province of Pinar del Rio,
where Gomez is operating with 10,000
men and surrounded by the Spanish
army, consisting of several hundred
thousand, is a very small space and it is
wonderful' how they manage to ma
neuver.
“But the interior is very mountain
ous and there are innumerable places of
concealment whence the patriots can
swoop down upon the Spaniards and are
off again beyond all successful pursuit.
“Then Gomez is full of strategy. He
delights in laying ambuscades for Wey
ler’s regulars, drawing them into his
traps and cutting them to pieces.
“With Maceo it is different. He is a
daring and desperately courageous man.
He can control the turbulent spirits un
der his command much more success
fully than Gomez.
‘ ‘They want to fight find they grow
restive under the inaction and the cau
tious tactics of Gomez, while Maceo
leads them into the thickest of the fight.
“If they had just one gunboat like
the confederate ship, Alabama, they
would sweep the Spanish navy from the
western sea.
* ‘As fighting Bob Evans, commander
of the new American war vessel, Indi
ana, remarked the other day in an inter
view with Secretary Olney, ‘The
Spanish language would be prevalent
in hell for the next few months. ’
“Those patriots are fierce fighters-
Machete in hand they advance with a
rush, cut their way through all oppo
sition. and before the Spaniards recover
from the shock, the sound of the Cuban
war cry is dying away in the distance.
“If the United States government
would recognize Cuban beligerency,
the fight would be of short duration.
* ‘But unless thisjs done the war may
continue as the Spanish author
ities have money enough to push it.
Spain is well nigh bankrupt and when
the money lenders close down upon her,
then there will be more hope for the
Cubans.
“If the latter only had the arms and
equipments the Cuban flag would soon
float over Moro castle.” M. M. F.
Independentism is dead in the Sev
enth district. It will always be a clean
cut fight between the nominees of po
litical parties hereafter and voters can
just make up their minds to support the
nominess of the democratic, republican
or populist party. No man can belong to
all parties, and\ you will have to yore
the democratic ticket, or go over to the
enemy. A man must be either a ‘ ‘pig or
a puppy, ” Be a democrat, a republi
can or a populist. The country is tired of
milk-and-oider men who do not know
what they are, or what they believe.
Cedartown Standard.
The Rome Tribune will issue a
big educational number in a few days.
All the institutions of learning in Geor
gia will be represented by comprehen
sive articles. The Tribune is the life
of North Georgia journalism. Bruns
wick Times-Advertiser.
The republican society has resolved
itself into a humane society for the pro
tection of our infant industries.
The trouble is that some of
the infants are now wearing whiskers
and sitting on the front seats at the
opera. .
Hereafter no railroad train can carry
freight cars in Georgia on Sundays
without violating the law. The federal
supreme court has so decided in a test
case.
The Loyer’s Plight.
My Lady fair dotk pass adown this quiet street
of mine
Full oft each day in simple gown and mein so
soft and fine;
And when I hear my Lady’s feet, whate’er ye
time of day,
I lean me from ye casement out when she doth
pass this way.
My Lady fair doth never lift up to me her
gentle glance,
But modestly she trippeth by with steps that
grace enhance,
A white rose droopeth at her breast, killed by
the warmth therebe,
And dying sends its fragrance up through
morning air to me.
My Lady is so fair, and I do her so love, ’tis
pain
When she adown ye street doth pass from out
my sight again.
Then I return me to my task to write Ye Lov.
' er’s Lay;
Alas! ye thoughts come not; for, lo! they
follow her each day!
—Richard Stillman Powell.
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His Lip Gone.
M. M. Nicholson, Who lives at the
corner of Curran and Anderson Sts., At
lanta, Ga., had a cancer for years,
it first appeared on his lip and resem
bled a fever blLter, but spread rapidly
and soon began to destroy the flesh.
His father and uncle had died from
Cancer, and he sought the best medical
aid in different cities, but it seemed im
possible to check the disease. Several
operations were performed but the can
cer always returned. This continued
for years until the partition in his nose
and his entire up
per lip were eaten
away. All treat-
S KM ment having proved
j jjSF-wagML futile, he looked
J ’S’?upon death as the
h only relief.
‘Some one re-
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a y'SflL -t&h e says, “and
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Wffl/ encouraged I con
nWjWßpi/'* 7 tinued it, and
'()T was not l° n ß be*
tjWmSy fore the progress of
y J the disease seem-
ed checked. I persevered in its
use, and remarkable as it may seem, I
am completely cured, and feel like I
have new life. S.S.S. is the most re
markable remedy in the world, and
everyone will agree that the cure was a
wonderful one.’’
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Cancer is in the blood and it is folly
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the best, the most durab 1 e, and in
the end the cheapest. Fine dress
goods and solid, substantial busi
ness shoes for every day wea rmade
to order.
REPAIRING
Neatly and promptly done at most
reasonable piic<s. I use only the
best material. Call and see me.
Yours respectfully,
JOHN W CARROL!/,
1712 Broad St.
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