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V OLXV
SECOND LETTER
OF IION. W. M. JREESE ON
tiie GREAT QUESTION
OF THE DAY.
FltOM AN EXCHANGE.
Judge Reese in » recent communi¬
cation to Thos. H. Remsen, of
Liucoltoti, says, Dear Sir; tn order,
that the readers of oho News may
fully understand <he nature of taxes
called, “duties on imports" on the
I necessaries and impoverished comforts of life farmers now
paid dy our of all kinds. I will give
and laborers
you a list of them taken from an au
tbentic source.
The tax on nails is 40 per cent,
^’he tax on screws is 80 per cent.
The tax on hinges is 40 per cent.
The tax on paint is 3cts per pound,
The Lax on common window glass is
86 percent, The tax on earlhou
ware, crockery and china is 55 per
cent Te tax on table knives and
forks 85 per cent. The tax on cot
[ton fabrics oi all kinds is 45 per
cent. The tax on flax hemp, juto
and other raw textures used fu
making bagging and sacks of all
kinds is 17 per cent. The tax on
| iron, stell nnd hardware is 87 per
cent. The tax on wclleri manufac
tures is 67 per cent,
Mr. Samuel Burnett, a gentleman
well known to you, in sonic articles
written for rite Atlanta Constitution
m 1883 and pubbshad ns editorials
in that paper, speaking of these tax¬
is snys: “lu tho United Slates the
Federal government does its work
of taxation thoroughly—every citiz-n
is literally clothed in taxation from
head to foot in taxation, i/ats and
boots are taxed, aud no garments
between them escapes whether wool
ir cctton, flax or silk. It tours
what we wear, what wo eat, and
ivhat we work with. Taxation be¬
gins hi the cradle and does not cud
pith the grave, for even tho tumb
[tones are not spared. From the
pother’s womb to the womb oi
arth taxes pursue tbe sons of men
ud pursue not in vain. The Fed
pal tax on sugar alone in the countv
pf Wilke* exceeds ihc whole county
ax, the former being about eight
thousand dolkus and tho latter six
housand. The tariff operates
Inequaliy the but largely in the durk f
tax payer knows the general
Wage of federal taxation.per capi
ft to be five times the stale and
ouuty tuxes pu t together, but the
jetails hekuoWs not. He pays the
axes when be hi is iron, When he
[ttys crockery, Wnen ho buys
lollies, blankets, sugar or salt, while
be eovenimeut gets twenty miii.on
pm the dunes the peop.'e pay the
protected Muuuuractureis of the Uui
pd billion States seven hunured aud tllty
dollars out oi their pockets,
the government gets the little euu
pi the protectee classes the big
pd | by nearly three to one.”
lu view ot these stiirti.ug mots
pu any reasonable uian in our coun¬
ty hesitate as to his position on the
peat question of tariff reform—
jliere it should begin—whether by
Iking these taxes irern whisk- y,
etc., or j 1 ’o.u the <reecostu‘ieS vi
■
it the tlil* ihteruiU revens
law, so tar as it effected tiie man
etuie and sale of WEftKly bt,ei,and
‘ v,ur meiitt.u iUe majority Oi lUe
j ot rW Unued &uuce, it coulo
en be* well claimed that t ie policy
tht- repeal si ojld prey all. 'tins
1» ever is not the case, as such a
dicy can only benefit a luinoiiiy
tiie people and a large minority
that. If all tlw jw O i tt of the
tnantsin counties are added to al!
CARNESVILLE, TUESDAV, bEBRUAKY 28 X888
the people engaged in and benefitted
by manufacturing, the result is they
would stand about one to five of
whole people.
Yours truly.
VV. M Reese.
SORGHO! SUGAR A SUCCESS
Tho manufacture of sugar from
sorgh urn is a practical success. It is
bound to open up a new industry.
Maiw brarehes of fanning tbat are
now overcrowded can go- into tho
sorghum sugar business, thus reliev¬
ing oyer-prod notion m other linos at
a profit to tho whole country. This
will retain m the c oimtry tho ono
hundred millions of dollars that is
now sent abroad to purchase our
sugar supply, v. sum that will he
doubled in '.ho next twenty years at
the present rate ot development.
Tho practical success of siig.tr manu¬
facture at Fort Scott, Kansas, is be«
yo i:d question. Capital is ready and
eager to go into new business. Hun¬
dreds of factories would be started if
competent nimngors could bo secur¬
ed, For lack of competent managers
many mistrkos will be made, as fai in*
or s and enpun/ists will lush in into
tbe limbless without knowing liow
it ought to be conducted. Congress
may build f actories m 'some of the
states for the purpose of educating
men to manage tins new business. I
am satisfied that satisfied that south
of 3 9 degiess of latitude sorghum
nulls will be as common as flour
mills, for they do not cost any more,
from twenty-fiye to thirty thousand
dollars will ouild a mill capable of
making from 15.000 to 20,000
pounx i fi of sugar from sorghum daily.
Th s i promising work for the cx
iorinumt stations to take hold of.
The chemistry ot sugar should bo
tn tight in all tlm colleges and sta¬
tions.-(Norman J. Coleman, oom
mi sooner of agrioultuie.
IiE WON H18 LAURELS.
President McCpsh, of Princeton,
is fairly entitled to ictirc on his
aural*, during the twenty years
ot presidency between $2,000,000
118,000,000 have been subscribed to
ihe college; tbe number of students
lias oecii increased f.toui 204 to up.
wards ot six hundred; the number of
Ji'ofessor# from 17 to 41, while the
builoiiigs, and the books and- aparatus
oi the college have been more than
doubled, tho standard ot scholarship
h is been materially raised, and n
dozen new fellowships have been
iouuded.
CITATION.
Georgia, Franklin county*
To ail whom it may concern, Mrs
Elizebeeh Edwards having in due
fdmi applied to me, to have a 12
months support set apart for hei
and he- mmdr 5 children, Wrightly
ii Euwards aud Nancy 8 Edwuids,
from lire estate of J H Edwards,
deceased, of said, county .and ap.
praiaorn aupointed tor the purpose
of setting apart fhosauyo property lmye (bade
out a schedule oi' tiie so
set apmt by then*. This is lucre lore
to cite all next of km and creditor*
ot' J H Edwards to be and appear
at my office within the aiiowed
time by law, and show cause if any
they cun why au order should not
be granted at the March terui oi
.,aid court for 18»8 allowing; tin
xbe aiiiouBtso tei Given
u nd r my haft® bn& seal Jail 28
ItksS L N Tribble, OrJ.
Bed sieads, mattresses and springs
at McConnell and Bra's.
ISSUED WEEKLY
THE CRADLE
BY II, S. KELLER.
Attcr tho mother died, Granny
took tho baby and rocked it to
sleep. *
How quiet, how white she leokod
the dond mother there in her pretty
wedding dress. It was her wish,
tl o wedding dress in place of a
sh roud. ‘‘Shrouds looks so stiff and
-death-like. When George comes
to kiss my face for tho la st time, I
want to have him to see me in ray
wedding dtess. He is young; ho
will marry again; and 3 hope he
will—but, but I hope he will marry
someone who will be good to ray
baby and rock her to deep, She
is used to ic. If—if George should
marry someone who wouldn’t rock
baby to sleep I shall come back and
rock the crib myself.” -^fid th*
flower drooped lowe:; and then
the frail stem broko and baby had
no mother.
George did marry again, but, Oh!
a different woman from his first
wife lying out there in ti e church
yard unde” the daisies.
His second wife detested children.
The cry of a baby w as like saw
to her ears and she said she never
wanted any. But someone had to
take care of the little baby whose
mother rested under the daisies.
Granny was getting old; and she
cottfcn’t care for it, no matter how
her heart went out toward her dead
ch ld’s child.
A ml so, th o baoy was brought to
the city where George ’ivod with
his handsome, young wife in fust),■
ion able quarters.
‘•I ’.rate the brat. It’s a nuisance
and a shall not bother myseU taking
cure of it.
And George was so fasematod
with bis pietty wife, that he too
looked upon the poor baby as a
nuisance.
‘‘There, lay there! 1, shall not,
rook you to sleep,” said the wife
as she juitt the little creature in a
crib and went to the sitting loom
where George sat reading his
paper.
And the baby cried and cried. I(
was used to rocking. Its mollier
had rooked it. Granny had rocked
it. It was all alone and.it cried to
be rocked to sleep.
"Tlio 1 aby is crying, dear.”
"Let ii cry. I can’t and wont rock
it to sleep. It’s a ha 1 Habit and
should be broken.”
“I su; pose so. I don’t, lieiiefe in
,in itmyseif. Bui, its moilier—my!
how wheat has- gone up,” said
George as lie plunged inlo his pa
per.
Tho breeze mourned along the
roof tree and the /eaves echoed tlto
whispers of echoing leaves, Tho low
sad noises of the night came and died
and George read his paper, and his
wife sat th ree with his nouel—and
poor baby in the next room cried
and cried.
Xheuthe crying ceased,
George looked up from his pa
pen aby prattled,
Tbeu t jie
George's wife looked at him.
Th -n the s ound of a rocking era
die.
Then Georg.; rose and grasped his
wife’s hand.
They went to the door and look-,
ed in.
T/ro baby was pratiiuig s-i cpily-
and the cradle was rocking.
Rocked by some ini islblc hand.
Whose hand, they know. ;
And when the baby went to sleep
fhc cntdlc stopped- Over the little r
baby George reached Ms hand, and
a met iu* wife’*.
And tho little baby never went to
sleep again without trucking.
The unseen spirit of the dead
mother taught the baby’s second
mother a lesson. Detroit Free
Press.
A LARGE FAMILY
A tp'coial froin TysTy, February
29lh says: Mis Felts, now living lit
Hillsboro, can boast of having more
relative# than any other -person In
tli esc parts, she being a gr andda.igh
ter ot Mrs Sally Summers, of Jones
county, who is now ninty-two years
of age, having three hundred lmd
sixty-fivo grandoliiMion, and ono
hundred and forty-two great grand¬
children, and forty-two great great
gi andchildren. 3/i'H Felts with.
with'lier husband, has been living’
with her iMisbnnd, having oomo here,
with husband, having cimo hole
from Hike county. Mr Felts is
himself a local Methodist preacher,
A RATHER MYSTERIOUS AF¬
FAIR DOWN IN MIDDLE
GEORGIA
Messrs Herbert Reynold* mid John
Kitchen*, of done* county were in
the city yesterday and brougtn rite
.he news of a terrible affair, winch
oectirre 1 Sunday in the upper poi
tion of Jones, nearJGi'istvoldvillo
Some lime ago Charles Brown, an
En^li#hiaa)t,< and cigar malt or by
‘rude, went to wliat is known a* Bur¬
den's district and married a daughter
of Mr. Thomas ateivnrt a well known
farmer.' Mr. Brown* and wife lived
in a or.c,room house, such as are seen
on th? mu id I firms in the country.
Uu Sunday morning Mr. Brown
left home and did not return until
some time in the afternoon, when he
found bis wife lying oil the bed
co.d in death. Ho remembered that
there v. as a cat and some kittens in
the lull und that his jwifo nnd said
she intended going up there an d
get them. .He supposed that she
might have gone up there after the
kittens, and missing her footing,
fell and broke her neck. He inform¬
ed tbo neighbor* and told them
wliiilis here related
Tije neighbors, however, suspected
foul play. It she fell froin the loti
and bfoke her neck,death was ittstiVui
t iiieoi. , and she could not ti rt ve
placvd rersolf in bed. Tliero was a
blue spot on the back of her neck
that looked suspicion j, and they de¬
cided to bold an Inquest. The in¬
quest was bring held yesterday
morning when Messrs Reynolds and
Kilhens started to Macon. The rc
of the l nvestigalion could not be
lcanietl last night.--Macon Teio
graph.
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Dr Tajmugo <*aid, not long since:
“The excessive reading of love
stories will'make you a fool, before
you know it.” And you may not
find it out either, until you have
made a tool of somebody else, uitd
maned two lives by a mismatched
mwi.igo.
A Fite Expositions will come of ru
Georgia, and no one w ill have an
excuse-for not seeing the richer of
Georgia’ ■
If you want a box of tobacco Mc¬
Connell and Bra’s is Hie place «o get
Gents shirts and nee!' wear at
McConnell & Bros iu the latest
gtylo ^
McConnell & B>o will save you
money on float,
ONE DOLLAR PUR ANNUM
THE MOUND BUILDERS OF OHtft.
Professor Putnam's Address on Anotont
Americans.
Professor P. W. Putnam, curator of
Peabody museum at distinguished Cainbrldfcv, Mas*.,
pin] perhaps tho most nreli*
oologist in America, lectured before tfi*
Western Reserve Historical society th*
other evening on tho mounds and mound
builders of Ohio. Professor Putnam linn
f pent two months in exploring tno great
t ■ apent mound in Adams county. ‘ *Thet%
were,” wild the speaker, "four grout
antique rncoa on this continent, or ili
versity people, if than of ono race, other show n earth. greater For di¬
any on Ohio
instance, we found in ono mound in vari¬
1,500 skeletons, mid these were of
ous sines and differed in their character¬
istics. Tho four great races can h*
resolved into two—tho long headed broad peo¬
ple and tho people ij with short and
beads. There evidence that I ho long
lriudod peoply eanio from northern continual Asiii
and, their crossing downward Behring strait, California.
way us fur ns
Then they crossed to the groat lakes,
went down the St. Lawrence, made tholif
ftii,North why along Crrollnn, the Atlantic nnd spread coast ns tbcinselve* fmv<on*h
into Ohio and Pennsylvania,, There ts
evidence that they resembled tho people
of fiorthern Asia in face nnd form.
> -The short headed people had the char*
ttcfetisties of the people of southern Asia,
and resembled tlto Malay race. Tho find
trade* of them we find in Pern and Cen¬
tral America. From there Mexico, they worked Now
toward the north into
Mexico; Arizona, find tho following gulf of the river*
which empty into Mexico,
notably tho Mississippi, they mingled at
last with t ho long headed people in Ten¬
nessee and 'Ohio, and were llriully ab¬
sorbed hv them. Th.i Indian is a demon
dnnt of those two races,” The speaker
tiicn went oh to describe tho mounds
built Ijy these people, lie told liow the
former method of digging a hole in, too'
center of tho mound, which was at ilwt
pn.diced by explorers, has been alion
dSm filer a more exhaustive method ofj
ref/iirch. Professor Putnam does nht
excavate tho mounds, lmt slices them off
motmd in perpendicular been sections unlil Inspection. the whole
has* laid o|H'n to
He ‘described at leiigth flm use of th*
mound* for lnirint. end ssiil there w*rc
many ways in which tho bodies *r«p
prepared for interment. Sometimes tlwf fail
were cremated aful sornertuios simply
in the ground; sometimes tho lieu, x rough Mrju
tomb surrounded hoi sometime**
sort of log housoAvork of timber,
‘'Besides tho burial mounds, there eU*
other mounds mounds," used said4hospeaker, rellgkhw "Tl#
is, for great explorP ct-m
merle*. I bnvo been mnb-lng I
tiona in tho Littio Miami volley, ft ml am
ghgl at this. time, to jmy » tribute to th*
work of Col. WbiMkiwiy in t 1 k> Litffc
Miami valley. To him wo owe much of
out information of tho anrfMlt the Lake
Superior mining, ns well niOof mounds
of tiie Littio Miami valley. ' Tlto mounds
in that vhllcy areenered moundn; that is,
they were for the purpose of sacrifice and
rcl'^OHBcoremohles. tin there' moUnd*
ilru were kindled and wtcrifem « iso
miulo—not humnn sacrifices, but syeit
tioM lathe fire. In one of these mounds
wo found terracotta figures. In’inilifnlly
carved in mid perfect attitude Topreaentatlons of and rff
people there a nothing perfoot to suggest rest, notion.
whs
Thira were, liesidcs, these stone of im¬
ages of firm shape. Tiicro wer;' copper
pendant* and thousands of copper bead*.
Many earrings were found of copper cov¬
ered with native silver, and over 00,000
pearls. It seemed ns if all tho pearls of
all tho tribes had Isren east norm tlto?
altar. We have fouhd there* altar* iti
several mounds, and sometimes wo fauna
several altars; so you see many of the
great mounds were for other pui-poae*
than burial. ”
Having spoken of tho mounds, tho
speaker introduced tho subject "Tho of th*
seri-ent in Adams county. ser¬
pent." said ho, "was worshiped by th*
Mexicans and Peruvians, and It appar¬
ently served some pur pore among tho nn
cifcnt people of Ohio. We have one rep
retwr-tatioB of it in Adams county. It i*
the only Olio on earth. It is partly of
•tone, but principally of earth.” Th*
speaker ( lien desalted its si so and gav#
some facts concerning it which, ar*
familiar to all people who have road his¬
toric* of America or even of ancient
Ohio. The property enrrounding tho ser¬
pent to i ho extent of *ikty acres has been
m»rc3i*«ed for tho Peabody museum by
Boston India*, and is now in the hands ot
Professor Putnam,who has already made
some explorations into the mounds sur¬
rounding and adjacent to tlto serpent,
with very encouraging results. He lias
found to tho mounds skeletons of peo¬
ple who must have belonged to been different laid
eras, whose bodies must nave
In tho mound by people who were not
fwvaro that mounds had been used by
other people for the same purpore before.
Professor Putnam liopes to ml ako exten
sive explorations, from which he think*
btfiWefs valuable will fact* be concerning learned. fe| -T 3-?velaxid mound
•
Fm!,l.
■■.•ate
la Suit IT.iacifiCo there are tout jsir
aabi: gumrly published in Cidiiese -bar
actor;. Htese appear weekly, and have
a cii < i i alien of 2,500 copnrt. By the On
fit l ' method a good printer can prodne* ,
only 400 sheet* a day. I- ivo days work, \
tli. rtf re, fa required to print an edition
of 3,<,00 copies. Tbe journals sheets are planted white i
w ith black ink upon single of
paper, on a Chiuero_ li new red ink yrar.i
when the printing fa done wd or
rad paper.-I'rtotera' Resistor.
NO 4
GREAT WARS
.
flint tlm (Un-mans Made r\rp.i iMmii la
Advance Immediately Upon Franc*.
During last spring ther* wa* great ex¬
citement along tho Franco-German bor¬
der over the arrest of Sehnnobele,
Fiomdi com: llsslonor. It wo* thought
*t ono time tkat the irritation caused by
hw arn-st v.ould lead to actual war.
Many alarming world report* were telegraphed
over tho at that time. But the
worst sonsntionalists in all of their exag¬
gerations gnvo no picture which ap¬
proached IxmUf. to tho real situation along th*
I lmvo lonrnod sinco coming
Inlo (hi* part of the country of tho tre¬
mendous preparations made by th* Ger¬
mans at that time to enter France. II
has never been publinhed how near the
ff< man army enmo to crossing tho bor
hcr. I have learned tho story of a most
eventful night at Mots from the lip* of •
ordinary private soldier, education a Gorman and experience. of more than He
told too this story at Bonn, where ho had
gone just after he lmd finished hi* thro*
years’ hood of service. Metz all lie was through in tho tho neighbor¬ border
•roubles ot last spring. Ho*said that M
tho Hum of tho Schnaebole affair atary
man in tho German army wan given to
imdiWjtHnd that war was inevitable.
Each mail mad* his preparation* to null
•Mbit an emergency. Small trap* were
pocked up nnd letters written home a* a
preliminary to an octivo nnd desperate
campaign. It was the intention of the
German authorities to strike Franco, if a*
alb without a werd of warning, and to
tlMimby flccuro obtained nil tho advantage that
ami cftiiUi unexiicotcd lie movement by a swift, of powerful
aggretmMi
upon French territory.
Upon ope occasion of that exciting
•pring. lute at night, there came a die
patch from Bcfhn which placed the Ger¬
man army ciptlio frontier at one* on th*
qbi v.iye. Every man was turned all out, the
lioi soa of the cavalry t wo snddlld
uiompnd and men placed at their 1* rads. Fifty
hum's were saddled that aighth
waking a second dispatch from Benia,
My then military friend says and that within there wer*
ilium the border twenty
four hours reach SKiO.COO Gorman sol
dkr i. Fifty thousand cavalrymen were
ready that night for a rapid scurry hand across
the frontier. It tho tmperis 1 al
Ifia-liu ly4 ptisnad tRi Moctrical bu**on
far Uw sjsjwd, iastantiy th*** 5oThO» assn
WAwld Mwv dtodied frwwgrd lik* a keift
mt rUm auflttog cam* th* world
VMMwatol to to* gtowntng
#m.m* # a IN** «*»•*» *tof on
PiPPrrntritory. could liavo afiiy known It the then wnsationidist* the of
story
that night it history is possible would that niono the have publica¬
tion of its pro
vokfi \r-ir. Hut too German* waited-*
siiain; end ready i'll through the dark
ni^it witluHit ri*eivlng any further yard
from Berlin, Towurds morning the
hcurm i were unsaddled, accouterment*
were put away and tlto pten retired tor a
short, vert,. But the sacret of th* prepara¬
tion . foi well kept. no word of it reach¬
ing any French or foreign illustratee publication, well the
•Thiir night incident
German side know of that the tho war French question. have been Hi*
German*
preparing for fifteen year*to moke them¬
selves strong. The Gorman* hare, in
turn, this worked with greater French, diligence Their to
meet growth Is remain of the in this constant
future plan to
condition of energetic readinees, and, in
tho eraivfc of a possible conflict, to be th*
first to utriko the blow. They arc thor¬
oughly well informed concerning overy
movement of tbo French, while the latter
do not appear to have their tho same ability Th* a*
tlto G'Tinan* to keep that they secret*. Jure*
Germ ms here suy no
dilEciilty in finding out anything that the
French r.ro planning to do. The whol*
Gcrmun army favor* another war. Tbi*
is but natural. Tho officer* look to a
wr.r for promotion and distinction. But
(lie prrpfuations along tho frontier on
both Giles are now so complete in that favor thi*| of
very fact is a strong guaranty j
peace. Tho German officer* here say
that the French defenses are been by described, no mean*
as con pleto ns they have
and that they cannot for one moment
irithst sod the onward march of the Gcr
mausj if they should resolve again to In¬
vade France.
I talked with a number of German pco
pie lxjf wi) coming Iierc, and I find that tli*
business dasscs arc opposed high. to The war. In¬
Their taxi* are now very
demnity secured from France was just
alxmt enough to compensate for the
losses of the army material during (he
war. Sl!)re than this, the loss of Jito
upon tho part of tho Germans waa very
great. I was the told other by day a prominent that upward Ger¬ of
man bunker
100,000 Ormans died during the ten
years which followed the war from the
effects of exposure and hardship* of the
FrancoGerman campaign. Nineteen
thousand German* fell near Metz. Th*
French are gallant fighters when w«n
led, and whenever the two sides were
brought taco to face tho loss of life was
very grsafc—T. €. Crawford in New York
World.
Tho Ec<*ntrlcltjr ot Gonln*.
S-.v-ii- burr-e is one of tho most Tind;ctire’
Vi , d iu illA11 ;, e red fellows in literaUtoJ.
^ f p.z p.irtlu ot liio latter trait is cited an
r<rCrun . given by a lady high evening in Bouton
i^jg-lety, v. lio met tiie poet ono nl
a j :n| * 0 f n i^ndon. Ewrinlmrno thn-w
j ^ ,^-,1 on a rug before tlto br* •
,, ^ .‘ a i,j i ay there sprawled at toB
U ongh oi
mr t ixl the 'tocceutrieriy
ht ^ AlA ******