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2 discriminations be a satisfactory His tory of Georgia ? * * * Gn page 60, Ma j. Smith says: “1836, a Charter was obtained for the first railway in Georgia. This was to run from Macon to Savan nah.” In the Handbook of Georgia I find it stated that the Georgia Rail road was chartered Dec. 21, 1831— five years before the “first charter’ mentioned by the Major. Then examining further I find it stated in the Handbook that the Central was chartered Dec. 20, 1833—three years previous to the time stated by the Major. This is a funny wav to write “his tory.” ‘ ‘ I Jill Arp states that Gov. Troup was born at Mclntosh’s Bluff, on the Chattahoochee River, in Georgia. He was born at Mclntosh’s Bluff, on the Tombii/bi •: territor;/ thnt ioi'i- j'ormn a purl o/' Alabama. How many more mistakes we might find, if the weather was sp- ..'ially favorable for hunting mis takes, it is impossible to say. The book is full of them. And the appendix is worse than the book. And the index is worse than the appendix. I'he man who got up the index was surely disappointed in love in bis early life, and has let it sour on him. First, the appendix : Major Smith seemed to feel con- R -ious that the history had been carelessly thing together with a pitch-fork (not a good pitch-fork either), so he sets to work to prop -t up with an appendix. An appendix r a real good scheme if you build it right. 1 7.-«: I,itr.raturc o/‘ trcorfiia? is the title to one of the chapters of the Major's “appendix. " Historical writings come first. C. C. Jones i mentioned; so is Prof. Lawton B. I vans; so is “Professor Derry,” “Miss Rutherford.’' and “Miss Fields.” Xo initials given. Alexander 11. Stephens is put down as the author of * a school his tory of the war between the States,” thus jumbling his two works together in the funniest manner. One can fancy the dismay that would ensue in a school-room if the two pon derous volumei of the “War be tween tb.e states’’ should come for ward and demand the right, to turn loose on the cowering scholars. ’Twould bust up tl.e school, sure! Then the Major tells us of Col. 1. AV. Avery's History of Georgia, anil compares it to “ Maei'ubi’j’i Xot content with this whopper, Maj. Smith, who has entirely over looked that most entertaining work, “Sparks’ Memories of Fifty' Years,” deliberately inserts the name of “Professor Sandford” among the Historians of Georgia. Presuming that Professor Shelton P. Sandford is meant, we would fain impure of .Maj. Smith whether he considers the Professor's Mathe matical Works a contribution to Historical literature? In tabulating his writers of poetry' Maj. Smith forgets A. It. Watson Joel C. Harris, Mrs. Anna Blount Pardue, Mrs. Kate A. Dußose, Henry Flash, Miss Fanny Andrews, M. M. Folsom and Harry Id wards. He ignores our : wo poetical Judges, Logan E. Bleckley and James S. Hock, either of whom will at anv tim<- kill you off an enemy, with deadly rhymes, upon the slenderest provocation. In the li- t of orators no mention is made of Walter Colquitt, Hanse Wright, young George Pierce, or Tom Hardeman. A. IL Colquitt is mentioned, but Herschel V. Johnson is not. Gordon is named, but Emory Speer, who downed him on the stump, is not. Joe Brown is mentioned as an orator, but Bishop George Pierce is left out. Yet L. U. Lamar said publicly two years ago that Bi-hop Pierce was the grandest orator he ever heard Joe Brown was as much of an “ora. tor” as an ox-cart is an Epic poem. Now for the “Index ; ” The office of this part of a book is to giv. yon t ready reference to the contents of the volume. So I have been told. Now let us see bow the Major's “In dex” is built. <>n page 2, a very' int .-resting quo tation is made fmm Hannah More. Yet Hannah doesn’t get into th. index at ail. Il ever again you want to find what she said, you must look it up in the book it self. On page 3 appears an extract from a Bpee< h if F Imuu l Burke of England. Burke is not indexed at all. Much is -aid in the history about religious PEOLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, DECEMBER 15, 1893. | denominations, but the Baptists are I not indexed, nor the Christians, nor the Presbyterians, nor the Episco palians. The Hebrews are mentioned in the text, but excluded from the index. ! 'l’he Catholics are indexed as Pa- I pists. Gen. Gage is mentioned in the text; not in the index. Col. Campbell, mentioned on page 3!>, is not indexed. The English officer Capt. Brown, mentioned on page 11, is not in dexed. Col. Pickens, mentioned on page 11, is not indexed forthat page. Col. Hamilton, mentioned on page 41, is not indexed for that page. Carr’s Fort is mentioned on that page; not indexed at all. Brier Creek, mentioned on that page and others is not indexed at all. Gen. Prevost, mentioned twice on that page, is not indexed at all. 'l’he City of Augusta, mentioned on that page and very many others, is indexed only for page 12. Gen. Lachlan Mclntosh, mentioned on page 41, is not indexed at all, Indeed a panic, seems to have struck the Indexer early in his task, and the further he went the more hopelessly he floundered. Let tis turn to the next, page 42. Count D’Esting is mentioned five times; but not indexed for that page at all. Gen. Prevost, mentioned, but not indexed. Capt. Maitland, mentioned ; not indexed for that page. Gen. Lincoln, mentioned ; not in dexed for that page. Gen. Clinton, is mentioned; not in dexed at all. • harleston, mentioned on this page and other,-, is not indexed at all. Augusta is mentioned again , ncq. indevd for that page. Here are two pages 41 and 42, taken merely' at random, and they are o lazily indexed that we are in clined to suspe< t that Bill Arp him self is the guilty party. | On page 61 it is mentioned in con nection with the We.-leyan Female College, that “Bi'-bop Pier- e” was its first president. In no other place in the book does the author mention him. But the index does not name him at ail. • The Baptists are again mentioned ( no index reference. Penfield mentioned; no index reference. Macon mentioned : no index ref erence; Enough has been shown to prove that the man who pulled the index together was as careless about it as the man who pushed the appendix together. And enough was shown to prove that whoever raked the appendix together was as slouchy al otft it as the individual who scraped the text together. ♦ » • The book concludes thus: “The general condition of the State is prosperous. Her population is increasing, her factories are multi plying, and her towns and cities growing. Her farmers, in common with all citizens of the State, have recovered from the results, and every kind of business diligently followed is rewarded with satisfactory returns- The whites and the negroes, as a rule, are living upon the same soil in peace and harmony, and vv eke it not i’oi: the '< i;ii’i-i.i:i> soldiers and THE WIDOWS OF THOSE WHO LOST rHEllt LIVES IN THE CoNFEDEKATE Si'KVKE. Til EKE vvoi LD BE NOTHING 10 DETRACT FROM THE FULL COS TENTMEN'I AND HAPPINESS OF THE 1-EOl’l.B.” So ends this “History of Geor gia ” with as cruel and as erroneous a statement of the condition of the country as anv chronicler ever 1 i • penned. • * *■ This work is no history. The au j thor has brought to the task none of ‘ the application, thoroughness, accu- ■ racy, impartiality, and wise-selection ! of material, which is necessary to the 1 historian. The “Empire State’’ is entitled to ■ a , better performance than is here j offered to her acceptance. A history so full of errors of com i mission and omission ought surely not to be made a standard in our schools. We have the right to demand that the permanent historical narrative of j our State shall be written from the : li- di standpoint of conscientious dili gence, impartiality, and absolute truth. : This narrative before us is not so | ; written. Its injustice to the living I and t<> the dead, its imperfect account iof the main events of our growth and progress, are ho glaring that j they can only be explain«d upon the I idea that the author is controlled by .an easy-going carelessness which shrinks from the labor of research, and from the toil of mental compari sons and To adopt this book as a standard for our schools, and to have it taught to our children as the official record of our great State, her notable men i and their notable deeds, were a grave injustice to the Past, to the Present, and to the Future; to our ancestors, ourselves, and our posterity. Tuos. E. Watson. Carlisle and the Double Standard. New York Press. w j In his speech at the Chamber of Commerce dinner on Tuesday night, ■ the Secretary of the Treasury said : “ I have never been able to under- . stand what is meant bxja double measure of value, and I have never found any one who could tell me.” The Secretary has been most unfor tunate, both in his studies and in his acquaintances. There are few au thoritative works upon finance in which the matter is not explained, so that even a much less Comprehen sive mind than the Secretary’s could understand it. He may "discover in : J evens, for example, not only a clear , ' statement of the case for the double I standard, but a demonstration of its j practicability which he will find it I hard to overthrow. Alex ander Ham- ■ ilton explains the double standard in i his famous report upon the Mint, and . so plainly that Jefferson accepted his argument and the American people put the system into operation, main ‘ taining it for nearly one hundred years. Mr. Balfour lately said that , there is not in Europe or America an eminent economic teacher over sixty years of age w ho is not a bimetallist ---that is, an advocate of the double standard. There are wells of knowl edge, therefore, from which Mr. Car lisle may drink if he will. The trouble with him, it may be feared, is that he is not really thirsty for that kind of information. At the French Monetary Confer ence in 1869, Baron Rothschild said: “It is the general mass of the two metals (gold and silver) combined, which serves as the measure of the value of things.” He added with a : significance not then realized as it is now: “The suppression of silver I would amount to a veritable destruc tion of values without compensation.” j It must be evident that if all values i rest upon all money, the practical an nihilation of half the money will de crease values. Tn other word:-, the remaining money will have its value so much enhanced that by compara tive scarcity that a greater quantity of commodities will be required to i get-it. V W L When both metals are employed as lull legal tender, the debtor has ian option to pay in either. Now it j is true that the values of gold and silver are rarely equal. .But when silver, for example, is a little cheaper, the demand, under bimetallism, is concentrated upon it by the desire of debtors to gain the advantage. This tends to advance the value of the metal, while, the demand being taken from gold, that metal necessarily de > clines m price. The total result is ; to produce an equilibrium. This , theory appears to be sound, ami the practice of the world for centuries j has proved it to be so. Fnderthis i system gold and silver have kept : close together when the excess pro - duction of one or the other was far , j greater than it is at the present time. ’ Doubtless, as Jevons remarks, with 1 the double standard either gold or silver is the standard at some given i | moment; but doubtless, also, both j together insure such stability for both , ' and for the values of ail other com modities as cannot be had by use of one metal alone. The production of 1 the precious metals is not susceptible ■ of regulation like tiie production of t potatoes. It is largely dependent : upon chance. But the chances of a sufficient supply for human needs are at least doubled by using both metals ’ rather than one, and the chances that values of commodities will have fixed- I ness are thus also inert ised. Mr. C arlisle thinks it is enough for the purpose of commerce that silver shall be used for money as we now use it. But we have the single gold standard, under which even the value of silver is measured 1-y gold; and with this arrangement silver stands with paper money, dependent upon ! gold; xvith the result that all prices, ■ including that of silver, fall as gold advances. If this extraordinary movement, which never appeared until the civilized world adopted the j single gobi standard, can be explain ed m any other manner, mankind will welcome the attempt. I’he facts are ! indisputable and we believe that no . other explanation of them is possible. Nor will there be any cessation of the operation of the destructive force 1 until there shall be general return to that use of the double standard which was employed by the most highly civilized nations until late in modern times. ORANGES FOR SALE I Any one wishing to buy Granges for I Hit ir own use or for sale can buy of me I for $1.25 per box, F. O. B. ears. Quality i and condition guaranteed to be first-class. I Money can be sent to me, or deposited n DeSoto County Bank at Arcadia, Fla., I subject to my order, when certificate I of freight or express ageu i is presented showing that sufficient fruit has been shipped to cover the order Address D, I). CliEWs, Jii > Crews; file, i'la. References given on appl cation, ROLL OF HONOR. T. T. Alexander, Marietta, Ga. Oscar Parker, Atlanta, Ga. E. A. Wilson, Thomson, Ga. A. IL Sturgis, Thomson, Ga. Peter Richards, Thomson, ' la. Jno. T. Wilcox, Shell Bluff, Ga. R. L. Durham, Elder, Ga. Geo. -R. Doolittle, Sandersville, Ga J. J. Poston, Davisboro, Ga. Stanley Kittrell, Davisboro, Ga. K. C. Smith, Reidsville, Ga. J. M.iTowery. Gainesville, Ga. Maj. C. E. McGregor, Warrenton, Ga. J. T. Lingo. Commissioner, Ga. J. I. Lewis & Co., Commissioner, Ga. J. D. Dobbs, Canton, Ga. Darby McGregor, Warrnton, Ga. Dr. A. L. Nance. Gainesville, Ga. AV. F. Smith, Flovilla, Ga. T. T. Cheeley, Tennille, Ga. Frank Burkitt, Okolona, Ga. J. F. Durrett, Temple, Ga. J. S. Floyd. Hornes N Roads, Ga. J. D. Bozeman, Q litman, Ga. A. W. Newsome, Wrightsville, Ga. J. J. Whigham, Louisville, Ga. S. 11. Rhodes, Crawfordville, Ga. Mab DeGeer, Medicine Lodge, Kans. C. S. Meadows, Wrightsville, Ga. J.' <). Sharp, Temple, Ga. A. J. Hall, Hughes Springs, Tex. S. A. Walker, Thomson, Ga. T. C. Hayes, Carnesville, Ga. J. W. Wilson, Hamilton, Ga. Jno. Pearson, Altamaha, Ga. H. C. Fulcher, Cusseta, Tex. Paul L. Smith, Crawfordville, Ga IV. T. Askew, AV arthen, Ga. E. E. Munn, Prescott, Ark. H. AV. Reed, AVaycross, Ga. Liberty Co. Alliance, Johston Sta. Ga- AV. J. Lawson, Fish, Ga. J. E. Tillman, Statesboro, Ga. R. Herrington, Equity, Kans. AV. IL Paulk, Cairo, Ga. H. IL Shivers, Warrenton, Ga. • B. B. Barnum, Eureka, Fla. W. M. Palmer, Atlanta, Ga. T. Hardy Brown, Thomaston, Ga. J. M. Henry, Haynesville, La, Wm. AA’alden, Grange, Ga. AV. H. Westbrook, Blount, Ga. AV. IL Brown, Covington, Ga. Joel Luper, Augusta, Ga. J. L. Durham, AVoodville, Ga. J. D. Middlebrooks, Douglasville, Ga. Dr. O. B. Sally, Augusta, Ga. J. AV. Williams, Upatoie, Ga. J. E. Harrell, Edison, Ga. AV. B, Parker, Conyers, Ga. AV. L. Peek, Conyers, Ga. T. J. Young, Broxton, Ga. B. F. Ray, Camilla, Ga. J. K. Neyman, Key, Ala. J. F. AA’illis, Thatcher, Ga. S. <Amend, Tallapoosa, Ga. H. A. Holliman, Mitchell, Ga. J. T). Hargis, Gonzales, Te.x. .1. AV f Harper, I’endarvis, Ga. J. M. Gilbert, AVashington, <fia. J. L. Cartledge, Augusta, Ga. R. Naramore, Blakely, Ga. J. B. Goodwin, ('olumbus, Ga. J. L. Buxton, Keysville, Ga. J. K. Lewis, Swainsboro, Ga. E. T.. Tucker, Como, Colo. R. F. Standfield, Lovejoy, Ga. AV. A’. Carter, Hartwell, Ga. Dr. N. C. Osborne, Dallas, Tex. J. L. Stanley, Tison, Ga. N. M. Hollingsworth, Midway, Miss. IL L. Tliurmon, Schochoch, Ky. S. D. Durham, Maxey’s, Ga. Geo. AV. Cropps, Ft. Gaines, Ga. J. J. Tally, Lovelace, Ga. B. A. Manly, LaCrosse, Kans. Dr. Abram Nell, Hardeman, Mo. Jesse AVimberly, Waynesboro, Ga. F. D. Wimberly, Cochran, Ga. S. C. Bartholemew, Little Sioux, La. J. R. Mathews, Villa Rica, Ga. P. G. Rowland, Henderson, N. C. L. C. AVylly, Patterson, Ga. M. Jackson, Fain, Ga. J. AV. Hogan, Cat Creek, Ga. C. H. Ellington, Thomson, Ga. R. D. Nash, Cadley, Ga. Fred’k Hall, Augusta, Ga. 11. B. Leverett, Bullochville, Ga. V. B. Newman, Tilden, Ky. J. R. Leard, Hartwell, Ga. Wm. Brown, Enon, Kans. T. AV. Jackson, Louisville, Miss. L. 11. Coe, Eastanollee, Ga. D. B. Gilliland, Jacksboro: Tex. J. L. AVomack, Danburg, Ga. G. H. Seig, Americus, Ga. J. K. Lewis, AVaynesboro, Ga. D. B. Wells, Draneville, Ga. A. i . Jackson, Bishop, Ga. S. J. Fountain, Gordon, Ga. A. AVardall, Huron, S. D. R. G. Maxwell, Outlaw’s Bridge, N. C. G. AV. White, Hickory Grove. Ga. Jas. T. Skellv, Jewells, Ga. AV. B. B. Cason, Jewells, Ga. AV. A. Hoss, Thomson, Ga. .1. T. Boggs, Liberty, S. C. Dr. E. E. Parsons, AVashington, Ga. -Vmos Shaw, Thomson, Ga. O. S. Jones, Prescott, -Ark. C. L. Roberts. Cat Creek, Ga. R. S. Gaines, AA T ebster Place, Ga. J. AL Perry, Rockdale, Tex. .1. AV. Carnes, Vienna, Ga. AV. F. Brown, Bowman, Ga. J. P. Sutton, Cleoe, Ga. P. L. Johnson, Alillen, Ga. D. O. McLucas, Inman, Ga. H. D. Cushman, Attica, Kans. B. 11. Brown. Oscarville, Ga. AA’. IT. AA’estbrook, Blount, Ga. D. F. Peel, Lawtonville, Ga. C. K. Goodwyn, Astoria, Tex. J. C. Killebrew, Montezuma,Ga. .1. >S. Colvard, Bowman, Ga. T. F. Butts, Aladison, Ga. J. S. Sibley, Alarietta, Ga. A. A. Martin, Powder Springs. Ga. J. A. AVash, Gilbert, Ga. J. E. Maguire, Lithonia, Ga. Thos. Guest, Locust Grove, Ga. B. T. Bramlett, Pototo, Miss. J. G. Bonner, Eatonton, Ga, J. O. Hays, Temple, Ga. J. 11. Davenport.- Douglasville, Ga. IN A FEW DAYS D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO. Will Take Stock. FOR TWO WEEKS THEY WILL SELL ANYTHING IN THEIR STOCK FOR LESS MONEY THAN TIIE SAME GOODS CAN BE BOUGHT ANYAVHERE. THEIR STOCK IS MUCH TOO LARGE TO ATTEMPT AN IN VENTORY UNTIL A LARGE BULK OF IT IS LOLD. GUTS. DON’T SPEND YOUR MONEY FOR TRASH. BUT COME TG OUR CHRISTMAS SALE, AND GET SOMETHING OF VALUE THAT WILL GIVE COMFORT AND PLEASURE, SO THAT THE RECEIVER AVILL LONG RE-MEMBER THE DONOR. We Guarantee That you can buy NICE, NEW, FRESH GOODS from us for less than yon can buy auction and bankrupt odds and ends. We xvill sell everything as leaders. Silks, woolen dress goods, black goods, cloaks, capes, jackets,-blankets, comforts, Eiderdown quilts, white spreads, lace curtains, draperies, un derwear, shirts collars, cuffs, tics, hosiery, hankerchiefs, gloves, mittens fancy goods, notions,, laces, embroideries, dress trimmings, jewelry, soaps, knit caps, table linens, towels nap kins, stamped linens, shawls, domestics, ginghams, pants goods, flannels, etc. SHORT LENGTHS IN SILK VELVETS AND WOOL DRESS GOODS. You can own any of these short lengths for less than hall original value. Many of these short lengths are quite enough for a dress. We don’t deny the fact that we are doing the biggest glow hosiery, handkerchief and underwear trade in the city Prices always talk. Don’t let your neighbor get the best of you, Come early. D. H. Dougherty & Co., 46, 48 and SO Whitehall street Atanta, Ga. A WORD TO j THE AFFLICTED. • Save, oh, save yourselves from those “blowing” young doctors who claim to i cure everything and have no experience ■ m practice. If you are diseased, and sen- j sible, you will seek a doctor of experi- j cnee. 1 have been practicing medicine thirty-six years, and can cure all curable I diseases-in quick time. AVill treat all I cases at my office or by mail. I keep on hand my guaranteed Electro-Hagnetic Emenegogue Pills, for removing all menstrual obstiuctions,: at $2 00 per box ; Uterine Capsules, fori $2.00 per box : Pile Cure, 50 cents, etc. Female complaints a specialty. Correspondence solicitude. Advice l free. Address AV. C. SMITH, M. D. 6 1-2 N. Broad street, Atlanta. Ga Cleveland’s Message. , The President’s message is quite lengthy, I but it failed to tell Congress the most ini- j portant of all things in giving relief, ff he had told each congressman to use one i bottle of FEED’S BILE DRIVER, get their systems thoroughly eleansod, anil get their friend to take P. B. D. also, it | would have been a big hit for Grover. Price, SI.OO per Ixntle ; sl> 00 pr-r dozen. I Feed's Bile Driver stimulates the liver, ; and is good for any disease caused from i the liver being ost of order Save a doc tor bill by oruei zxg a sample lot o( six I bottles, sent for $4.50 C. O- D. by express. : See advertisement in another column. Order from. J. O. Waters, Butler, Ga. i ’ Something 3Tew! ' T HAVE A RECEIPT FOR THE CURE 11 of the Opium and Morphine Habit. ■ This prescription cured a man who took j one bottle (60 grains) of morphine per day. All who are afflicted with this dreadful disease should procure this remedy with j out delay, and be cured with the least pos i sible cost and without pain or hindrance • j from business. For additional informa/ tion, address G.W.SHEaRES. M. D, Rayle Wilkes Couny, Ga ' Myerlaybefree i Gold and Greenbacks may be abundant} ; but none will succeed in growing rich 1 except those who practice Economy, i Economy is Essential to Success, j A good lesson in Economy can be learnect Iby buying from us. AA'e sell the BEST i goods at the BEST prices and on the ; BEST terms. Groceries, Hardware and Plantation Supplies. ' Our stock is comglete and all good ! kept are first-class. AVe study the inter- I ests of the Farmers, and keep on hand i such Goods as are best adapted to their ' needs. AVe buy close and sell close and will make it to your interest to give us : your business. SMITE BROTHERS, j TENNIUJE, ga. ISAYE moneys shoes jßy Bonding $2 25 to DUGGAN AV AT I KINS. Sandersville, Ga., for one of their complete outfits for repairing and mend- ’’ ing Shoes. Every family should have an i outfit.