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smiling and happy regardless of ie~
suits politically. Now is the time to
advertise.
Get your advertisement ready for
The Sunday Tribune. Come early
and secure desirable space.
What is the matter with Editor
Maria Louisia Myrick for United
States senator? —Macon News. She’s
all right.
The man who advertises and keeps
everlastingly at it is the man who
builds the biggest store and handles
the most cash.
Remember that The Sunday Trib
une is the great advertising medium
of North Georgia. A word to the
wise is sufficient.
The republicans have promised us
better times aad the Lord knows we
are ready for them today, tomorrow
and the day after.
The Columbus Enquirer Sun nomi
inates Henry G. Turner for. the senate
and the Elliiay Courier nominates
Steve Clay. Extremes meet.
Editor Hal Moore says consolingly:
“Bryan was not beaten so badly after
all.” The fact that he was beaten is
bad enough, the Lord knows.
In the Georgia legislature there are
37 democrats, 4 populists and 1 repub
liean in the senate, and 146 democrats,
55 populists and 2 republicans in the
house.
Messrs. T. J. Shepard and George
G. Folsom have assumed editorial
control of the Tatnall Journal and it
will be brighter than ever under their
management.
This country is sadly in need of
noise from its railroad shops and fac
tories. We can easily dispense with
the gush and wind of the politician
Annistoa Hot Blatt.
Schrader, “the divine healer,” has
made his appearance in New York
He can go to work on Tammany forth
with for the feelings of the tiger are
very much lacerated.
Since it is to be a-gold administra
tion, what is the matter with H<
Henry G Turner for the senate? Lie
has inure influence in Washington
than any other Georgian,
THE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.
It is very gratifying to every public
spirited man having the good of the
country at heart to note the cheerful
spirit of the press of the South in
regard to the outlook for this section.
There is no whining nor repining but
every one seems readv to accept the
situation and to bring about better
times by good, honest, intelligent
work. The famers have set the busi
ness men a good examble in this par
ticular and are now on the high road
to prosperity instead of being mort
gaged to the supply men.
Commissioner Nesbitt of the agri
cultural department of the state, in
his annual report, says that the farm
ers of Georgia are acting upon the
advice that has been given them for a
number of years to devote more time
and attention to food crops, and, as a
consequence, the amount of western
grain and provisions that comes into
the state is small in comparison with
what it used to be. The corn cribs
and smoke houses are now filled with
home products, and therefore the
farmers have not so much reason to
complain of hard times. Cotton is
the money crop, but the money
received for it does not now go to the
west for supplies with which to make
the cotton.
It is quite certain that the farmers
of the South are better off than those
of any other section. While the cot
ton crop will not be a large one, the
price which cotton is commanding is
a pretty fair one. The farmers who
grow their own supplies are therefore
able to pay their taxes aud other obli
gations and have considerable left to
meet any unexpected demands that
may be made upon them.
There is one thing, however, that
the great majority of the Georgia
farmers have not learned, and that is
the advantages of a garden. Most
farmers think that time spent in mak
ing a garden is time wasted. There
was never a greater mistake. A gar
den intelligently planted. A garden
intelligently planted and carefully
kept will supply a farmer's table with
vegetables for a large part of the year,
and vegetables are not only necessary '
to an inviting table, but are also con- 1
ducive to good health. A farmer’s
family whose diet is confined to bread
and meat is very apt to be sicklv aud 1
I
bad tempered, and where those con
ditions prevail there cannot be a great 1
deal of happiness.
There is still another thing that
farmers neglect. We refer to fruit. In
this locality peaches, pears, figs, plums
and berries of all kinds can be grown ‘
with very little trouble. It is strange '
therefore why any farmer is without '
an abundance of fruit. The agricul
tural commissioner, while advising
farmers to adopt divirsified and inteu
si ve farming, should also impress upon
them the importance of gardens and '
fruit trees.
The South is in the position to dic
sate to her present dictators and only
a little energy and resolution is neces
sary to give us the advantage. If their
polities does not suit us we can go to
work and put our country in such a
condition that they cannot dominate
us commercially and financially and
any more than they can politically.
Let us get down to business and strive
for the upbuilding of our country.
OUR EXPORT TRADE.
If the demand for transatlantic ves
sels and the' consequent advance in
freight rates is any measure of the
prosperity which this country is now
enjoying we are in the initial stages of
the most thrifty period we have bad
for thirty years. A healthy export
trade is naturally reflected in all the
interior markets and the fact that our
exports are heavy may be judged best
by the fact that transatlantic rates
have doubled since the first of June,
says the Augusta Herald.
It is not only the demand for wheat
which has created this activity, bring
ing to our ports vessels which had not
been here here for years, and calling
into service schooners and steamers
which had long lain idle because the
freight rates were ruinously low. Rye,
flax seed and other products started
the movement in the summer.
Wheat began to crowd to the sea
board for shipment in September. In
a very little while the entire grain
capacity of the regular liners was
engaged, and it was said yesterday
ehat they would not be able until
spring to take any more grain than
they have already engaged for. Refer
e ice to Funch, Edye & Co. s list« f.
vessels chartered from week to week
shows graphically how the demand
for vessels has grown in a few weeks.
in April 7 only nine vessels were
chartered for grain in all the United
States ports. In May there were 28
iu June 18. in July 48, iu August 51,
and in September 102. Iu October,
up t/’ the 2;id. 77 had been chartered.
In August and September of 1895 only
about twenty ships wire engaged for
graiu, and iu October only sixteen.
All freight rates are bated upon the
i rate for grain, and as a result every
vessel, no matter what she is carrying
is getting the advantage of this great
THE KUMU TIiIBUNK. SATURDAY, NOVEMbEU 7, IBaC.
rise. Cotton shippers has had to meet
the grain man’s demand /or ships,
and the rate for cotton has doubled,
and sailing ve-wi uwuers are reaping
even better r-suits in away. While
rates were so lo>v as they have been
the sailing verses were left to rot in
idleness.
They couldn’t afford to carry stuff
any cheaper than steamship owners
would and shippers naturally chose
the steam vessels. Since the demand
for grain vessels began the sailing vet
sels have come intd their own trade
again, and ship brokers report as great
a scarcity of idle sailing vessels as of
steamers. These are facts which ad
mit of no controversy and prove that
we are not on the road to ruin.
SONGS AND SCENES.
A Love Dream.
Sweetheart, last night, on pinions light
My vaulting soul to heights empyrean
There joys untold the gems enfold
Os life’s ineffable criterion;
’Neath silvern bars and glittering stars
I vowed that naught our souls should sever’
Such love divine as mine and thine
Shall live furever<ind forever!
The starbeams played through each bright
braid
Os silken tresses dimly glowing,
In each fond word my spirit heard
The rythm of south winds softly blowing,
And gazing on the kindling dawn
Os love in star-bright eyes that never
Shall lose their art but in my heart
Shall shine forever and forever!
The world is ours, its fairest flowers,
Its blithest birds their hop 2 songs singing,
Its sunniest nooks aud babbling brooks.
Its bonniest airs with dream bells ringing;
To give thee joy my one employ
Sweet mission, life's supreme enbeavor
Till lost in love in heaven above.
We live forever and forever!
—Montgomery M. Folsom
Some Rom *ntic F Hhcl s.
I was reading a thrilling romance
with a blood curdling title last i ight
aud I came to a sceue where the Juno
like heroine fell into a dead faint with
a sprained ankle.
The hero, a tall and slender blonde
yotth immediately took that young wo
man np in bis arms 'and climbed a
rocky precipice and then toted her a
mile aud a half through the forest and
climbed the steps of her father’s man
sion.
He did all this without once stopping
to spit in his hands or to scratch the
back of his neck or to take a much
needed rest with his burden. Now, I
know she must have weighed at least
145 pounds.
And with her skirts dragging and her
head wobbliug about, I fail to figure out
how iu tne name of all that is veracious,
that blonde youth could have perform
ed such a prodigious feat of strength.
It may be so, but it sounds to me like
a he! I know a number of tall blonde
youths who could scarcely put a sack
of corn across the back of a mule, and
while a medium sized woman may be
light enough on your knee, they are ae
heavy as the mischief when they get on
the scales.
And then that long tramp through'
the woods with the sweat streaming
down his face, for it was a sultry sum
mer afternoon, that is too much. I
doubt the story.
Every now and then I come a ro s
some wonderful tale of a man picking
up a live woman aud bearing her off in
his strong arms without any trouble at
all.
The romancists will be compelled to
look for new material. I never have
believed any of those tales about a man
and woman wandering for days in a
clammy cave without anything to eat or
to drink. I know human nature en
tirely too well.
When a woman faints she doubles h< r
weight aud it would take two men and
a stretcher to tote her a mile and a half
over a good road and then they would
use language unbecoming au officer and
a gemlemau.
Then all this *‘Ha villain” basinets.
That is too thin. They generally ex
claim, •'yes, here you come again, you
measly wretch! I’ll break your head
with tha broom if you do not get out of
this house in two minutes!”
There are a heap of words and expres
sions put into the mouths of the heroes
and heroines for which they are not re
sponsible. People generally ta) k very
plainly when they get mud aud espe
cially women folks.
The fellows ' who used to go about
muttering “Methinks I heard a voice”
have all passed away. And the “Abs”
and the ••Has” have all passed away
with them. They are irretrievably de
funct.
*
1 had a good laugh over the idea of
the tall blonde hero and his long climb
and weary tran p ihiougn the voids.
1 could imagine Uo.v he might have car
ried her if she bad heeu able to have ) ot
on his back aud clasped her arins around
his neck. Then it would have been a
big jib. As it was the story was sim
. ply unreasonable, incredible and alto
gether preposterous. It didn't occur.
i
I have had to carry a turn of light
, wood knots frimtln woods up to the
;' bt ck yark gate anl I know how heavy
they got to be. And there is a differ
ence between a limp aud lumpy woman
and a turn of lightwood knots. I for
get who the author of the story was but
if I ever come across him I propose to
give him some lessons in the logical
realities of things material.
M.M. F.
Mr. Samuel Spencer, who has made
such a splendid success as president
of the Southern Railway company,
has been elected president of the
Georgia Southern and F.orfda. This
ineaus much for the prosperity of
Southern Georgia
It seems that a number of people
with money to bet had lots of confl
deuce iu rhe way the election would
go. It is to be hoped that they will
now try to impart some of that confi
dence to the business community. —
Savannah News.
During the inouih of September,
this year, 1.264,100 bales of cotton
were exported, against 632,000 for the
same month last year. The exports
of wheat and other grain are also said
to be greater than last season.
New York is to have an office build
ing thirty stories high. Th >y might
have followed the example of some of
the literay weeklies and made it one
story divided into thirty chapters.
The Burial Os Moms
“And he buried him in a valley in the ’and of
Moab, oTtr against Beth-peor; but no man
knoweth of his sehu chre unto this day.”—
Deut. xxxiv 6.
By Nebo’s lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan’s wave.
In a vale in the land of Moab,
There lies a lonely grave;
But no man dug that sepulchre.
And no man saw it e’er,
For the angels of God upturned the sod,
And laid the dead man there.
That was the grandest funeral
’1 hat ever passed on earth;
But no man heard the tramping,
Or saw the train go forth;
Noiseless’y as the daylight
Comes when the night is dons,
And the crimson streak on ocean’s cheek
Grows into the great sun—
Noiselessly as the springtime
Har crown of verdure weaves.
And all the trees on all the hills
Open their thousand leaves—
So, without sound of music,-
Or voice of them that wept,
Silently down from the mountain crown
The great procession swept.
Perchance the bald old eagle
On gray Beth-peor’s height,
Out of his rocky eyrie
Looked on the wondrous sight
Perchance the lion, stalking.
Still shuns the hallowed spot;
For beastand bird have seen and heard
That which man knoweth not.
Lo! when the warrior dieth,
His c imrades in the war
With arms reversed and muffled drum
Follow the funeral car,
They show the banners taken.
They tell his battles won,
And after him lead his masterless steed,
While peals the minute gun.
/ ’ the noblest of the land
M n lay the sage to rest,
xx..u give the bard an honored place,
With costly marble dressed.
In the great minster-transept.
Where lights like glories fall,
And the choir sings and the organ rings
▲long the emblazoned wall.
This was the bravest warrior
That ever buckled sword;
the most gffted poet
That ever breathed a word;
A nd never earth’s philosopher
Traced with his golden pen.
On the death’ess page, truths half so sage
As he wrote down f jr men.
And had he not high honor’.
The hillside for his pall;
To lie in state while angels wait.
With stars for taper.R tall;
And the dark rock pines, like tossing p’umes
Over his bier to wave;
And God’s own hand, in that lonely land,
To lay him in the grave-
in that deap grave without a name,
Whence his uncofflned clay
. Shall break again—O wondrous thought!—
Before the judgment day;
And stand, with glory wrapp’d around.
On rhe hiUs he never trod.
And speak of the strife that won our life
With the incarnate Son of God .
O lonely tomb in Moab’s laud!
O dark Beth-poen’s hill!
Speak to these curious hearts of ours
» And teach them to be still.
God hath His mysteries of grace
Ways that we cannot tell;
He hides them deep like the secret sleep
Os him He loved so well.
—Cecil Frances Alexander.
Gold Medal. Highest Award.
Diploma of Honor
AWARDED TO
A. K. HAWKES.
BY THE
Cotton States and
International Exposition
For superior lens, grinding and excellency
in the manufacture of
Spectacles and
Eyeglasses.
D. W. CURRY, Druggist,
Has a full assortment of these .(anyogs
Glasses.
Iff HARD DRIVING j
At the cost of production, we have been
enabled to reduce prices to a point where
tiie purchaser of lumber and general
building woodwork has many advantage*
which he certainly never had before—
advantages which he probably does not
realize—special advantages which we are
offering and would like to tell him about.
The Prices Are Reduced
But there is no reduction in the quality
of our goods, uor in the alert service
which vve grant as an attractive feature
of our busings <.
O'Neill Nlanutaciuiing Company
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P. H. HARDIN Vice President.
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WE can furnish you with ANY QUANTITY.
WE have TWO YARDS centrally located.
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Otfice 11 Broad Street. H. G SMITH. Manager..
a . i ——
New Jewelry House,
NO. 218 BROAD STREET.
I have just opened up a New Jewelry Establishment at the
above location, and while making a specialty of
Watches, Clocks and Diamonds,
SILVERWARE AND JEWELRY.
A Beautiful Line of Cut Glass.
and Eye Classes filled to the Eye.e«-
I carry a laige and well selected stock of all kinds of goods that are
usually kept man < stabli-hment of tins kind. In fact, 1 carry a slock
that will coinpaie favorably .with the stocks usually kept in inucu
iarner cities.
WEDDING PREESNTS in Sterling Silver, and fancy goods of all
kinds. I also make a specialty or It, pmin p\\ atebes, Clocks and Jew
elry of all kinds, and guarantee <il work. J aho do all kinds of Engrav
ing on goods that I sell without ex-ska chaige
I invite you to call and eximine mv » o<-k whether you buy or not.
Polite attention. Very retj ecu ulij r
-A.. O. STEtPSECNS.'