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P ROM P I LY,
LEASINGLY
R1NTED
By the Covington STAR.
Covington, Georgia, Tuesday, May 19, 1890.
[Written for the Covington Star.]
The Dream of Realty
The earth was filler! with fragrance sweet,
Last night as I heard a child repeat —
His evening prayers so meek and mild.
So wonderful it was for a weary child.
The little head so gently bent and still,
V\ ith blutweies so | taceful turned above,
And through my hcait the wo-ds thrill,
“God bless and till me full of love.”
Once more in recollections floating to me,
In linyeiing twilight visions dr« am,
Kneeling beside iny dear mother’s knee ;
Sweet fancies in mv memory gleam.
And I almost heard my mother’s request,
W hen on my cheeks a kiss she pressed ;
My child, she said iu accents low,
Remember your prayers in life as you go.
And then vanished forever the spell was
broke,
The vision passed with scenes gently away ;
With laughter that ripples I awoke,
But clearer, and joyful, seemed my wav.
The cheeks my mother kiss'd when a child,
Have long since lost their rosy bloom ;
The head is gray that bent so mild,
But that dear dream dispels my gloom.
Somi time has pass’d since I was in youth,
And now I look with happiness that lingers
ever,
And dream over my pleasant days of truth,
And with those memories I'll part from
never.
For sweet childhood can never return ;
So may faith, hope, and love increase ;
W hile in youthful days your sunshine earn,
And then you’ll have endless peace.
—Miss Mai d I„ Petty
D E MOCI1A TIC C A NDI DATES.
Hon. Robert U. Hardeman is a
candidate fur the Legislature from
Newton county and will cheerfully
abide the action ot the primary on
July 11th. He is one f the best
known men in Georgia and is deserv
edly popular with all classes of people,
It elected to tiie legislature he will he
a leading member of that body, He
is a true representative man,
(Highly acquainted with the needs and
wants of the people. For a long num
bei of years he has been State Treas
urer and his official and private rec
ord and character are without blur or
blemish. If elected he will be made
chairman ot the finance committee, or
chosen Speaker of the House. He
needs no eulogy or introduction at
our hands, for wherever known he is
honored and beloved Read his an
nouncement in this paper.
Banks for the People.
At a time when it is useless to
try to pass party measures because
of a lack of harmony between the
two houses of congress and the
president, the condition ought to
be especially favorable for the pas¬
sage of 11011-partisan measures of
great value to the people at large.
One such measure which ought to
receive attention at this session of
congress is that for the establish¬
ment of postal saving banks. Con¬
gress could not do a more popular
thing than to pass a law providing
safe depositories for persons of
moderate incomes. The establish
ment of postal savings banks would
have very beneficial effects 011 the
habits and the prosperity of the
people.
There are several bills on the
subject now pending in congress,
the most promising one, perhaps,
being that offered by Representa¬
tive Bowers, ofCalifornia. It makes
postal savings depositories of all
first, second and third class depos¬
itories. The bill provides that
money may be deposited by any
person over 15 years of age in sums
of not less than $5 nor more than
$200 on the same day, and limits
the total amount which , . , any person
have , to his , . credit ... to . ,r $2,000.
may '
Interest r is to lie . paid . , on deposits , ..
at the , rate of f 3 per cent, . per an
num.
The passage of some such bill as
this would be better for all eon
useless , bickerings , - 1 •
cerned , than , o\er
which there .
measures on is no
hoiie for agreement, _Chicago Re^
cord.
Cures Kidney and Bladder Troubles.
Thousands of such cases have been cured
by the use of Botanic Biood Baim (h. B. R)
[f you doubt it, call or send to the company
whose advertisement appiars in this paper,
and they will, for a one-cert stamp, send you
1 Itook of wonderful cures not only of the
above diseases, but of all manner of ailments
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arising from impure is
remedy of the age for 'he cure of all blood and
skin diseases, fi.oo per large bottle.
For saie by Druggists.
Navigation on lake Chamlain has
been opened.
A Card From Mr. Patrick Walsh.
■ To the Editor Atlanta Journal :
The enclosed correspondence
| reference to an editorial which ap
! peared in The Journal, is self-ex
; i planatory.
Yours truly,
PATRICK WALSH.
Avgusta, Ga., May 4.
Hon W. J. Nortlien, Atlanta, Ga.
j Dear Governor : My attention
■ lias been called to an editorial in
the Atlanta Journal of April 24th,
from which 1 make the
quotation :
“There were those who were un¬
kind enough to say that Governor
Northen, despite a life long friend¬
ship for the Augustan, refused to
appoint him senator until he had
made public protestation that he
was 110 longer a protectionist and
could be measured by the 16 to 1
yardstick.
“These protestations, it is un
necessary to state, Mr. Walsh
gave willingly, if not anxiously. »?
Will you be kind enough to state
what pledges, if any, you required
as conditions precedent to my ap¬
pointment to the senate ?
Your friend,
(Signed) PATRICK WALSH.
Atlanta, Ga., May 6, 1895.
Hon. Patrick Walsh, Augusta, Ga.
My Dear Senator—Your letter
asking me to state wUa) pledges,
ifanjs I required as .conditions
precedent to your appointment to
the senate, has been received.
. This inquiry, you inform me, is
j based upon the statements that
have appeared in the ptcblic prints,
to the effect that I refused to ap
point you senator “until you had
mad e public protestations that you
V vere no longer a protectionist and
could then be measured by the 16
| to 1 yardstick, and further that
these protestations, it is unneces
sary to state, Mr. \\ aWfr> gave wil
lingly, if not anxiously. > »
In reply I beg to say that you
I were in no sense applicant for
an
the position I tendered you. On
the contrary, you came personally
to my office in the interest of an¬
other man. You assured me that
while your name had been men¬
tioned in this connection that you
were not only not seeking the
place, but that you insisted that
I would not consider your name.
Before tendering to you the place,
I had no communication with you
whatever, as to your opinions upon
any subject covering the tariff, or
the currency. I gave you the ap
pointment certainly without appli¬
cation on your part and altogether
without your knowledge, and most
assuredly without asking any ex
pression from you as to your posi¬
tion upon any public question, af¬
fecting the tariff or currency.
Truly, etc.,
(Signed.) W. T. NORTHEN.
Our Army Headquarters.
4 ( The headquarters of thearmy, » t
said an army officer, “are where
General Miles is located, or at
least, where he keeps his head
quarters flag. Should he take his
flag up in a balloon the headquar
ters would be np in the air. He
seldom takes his flag with him
when he leaves the city, but should
he do so headquarters would lie
exactly where the flag is, whether
he was in the ears or at a hotel,
The 1 ‘ law has never designated * an
official , headquarters. , , When Gen- „
4
eral Sherman moved , his residence
from this . city . to
some years ago
St. Louis the headquarters flag
went with him, and the war de
partment found r it was no , longer
t
headquarters. 4 Neither was there
by which . . , the , department ,
an >’ way
could find where headquarters
were except by telegraphing for the
whereabouts of General Sherman
and his flag.’’—Washington Star.
A Chance for Hustler...
p ro babIy no other paper comes so near tilt
i ng the want of a general family newspaper as
PKNNSYLVANIA «KIT, which g.vesaway,
free, a complete story each week. Its pub
|j s ^ er5 want a hustling agent in every town in
t | le state, not already supplied. for Bright boys
and girts, who are looking a chance to
! make money, should write for terms and sam
pte copies, to grit PUBLISHING CO.-,
; Williamsport, Pa.
Subscribe for the Star.
They Will Not “Dump
The single gold standard papers
tell us that just the very minute
j j this country adopts the free coinage
of silver, all the holders of govern
ment and other American securities
will “dump" them on the market,
and try to get rid of them before
the silver deluge sets in, and the
| securities are depreciated,
j Now we can hardly believe these
writers are sincere when
wntesuch stuff. We say it is
stuff because no one is afraid of
the Depreciation of United States
bonds. T he “sharks, so to
speak, are not afraid of their de
preciation, either.
One writer says the deluge of
silver will cause the bonds to de
preciate, and thus entail a loss
of millions and millions to the hold
ers, but never a word does he say
of the loss to the masses of the
people through the blighting effect
of the single gold standard—the
shrinkage in taxable values in
Georgia during the past two years
being nearly $50,000,000!
No, there is no danger of a
* I dump’’ of United States bonds
on the market.
Those who have them don’t want
to sell.
Amicable Relations Resumed.
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A yonng man in San Francisco
and a yonng lady in San Jose were
for a time very much in love with
each other, and during that period
each wrote the other a two-pound ■
letter every day weighted down to
the limit with kisses and expres- i
sions of love, says the San Fran
cisco post. But they quarreled a
j couple of weeks ago.
i “Send back my letters, ») she
wrote.
“Return mine first,” he replied.
“If you had been a gentleman
j you would not have waited for me
to demand their return,” she
wrote.
« < Ethics for the use of women
only don’t go,” he responded.
Then there was a pause in their
correspondence. The young man
wanted his letters very badly, for
he knew he had made a fool of
himself in every line of every let¬
ter. The young lady wanted hers,
because any one would think she
was crazy to fall in love with such
a brute.
“Send my letters on April 5, and
I’ll send yours‘the same date so
we will both get them at the same
time,” wrote he. i
All right,” she answered.
Eaeh wanted to see if the other
would really act in good faith and
send the letters, and neither reeeiv- |
ed them. !
A man who has so little regard 1
for his word,” etc., she wrote.
t t A woman who would deliber- 1
ately attempt such a confidence
game,” etc., responded he.
There was another pause in the
correspondence, during which both
tried to devise some way of effect- j
ing an exchange. The idea of a
third party occurred to both, but
was abandoned. The intermedia
ry might read the letters. Finally 1
the young man decided to go after |
them. He effected the exchange and 1
n0 w the correspondence has been j
resumed.
“You know, dear little sweet
, heart, . .. that . T I was just . . teasing . you, ,, 1
I
wrote he.
“\ou v. horrid -j l boy, to treat me i
I rt have good , notion to . i
so. a never
, love . ,, answered , she, ,
you again,
and there will soon be another
stack of two-pound letters to ex¬
change. !
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New Executive Committee
T. J. Speer, Chairman.
Town District—S. W. Hawkins.
Gum Creek—T. N. Skelton.
Wyatt—A. M. Cox. \
Brick Store—W. T. Patrick. I
Newborn—C. E. Hardeman.
Hays—S. H. Starr.
Gaither's—A. L. Gaither.
Brewer’s—A. C. Heard.
Leguin—B. Bohanan.
Rocky Plains—L. F. Stephenson.
Downs—J. W. Black.
Oxford—Capers Dickson.
Stansell’s—S. A. Brown. .
Cedar Shoals—W. J. Thompson. 1
Highest of ail in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
! ■ I j i fete! 8£B
j PURE
A Remarkable Calculator.
j
Secretary Morton says he has in
the department oi agmulture the
,
; very man Gen. Grosvenor, Frank
; Aidtich, and the other political
| mathematicians need in their busi
ness. The man’s name is Henrv
Farquhar, and he is assistant sta
j tistician of the department, a P‘
| pointed through civil service ex
animation. Forsome time rumors
1 of Mr. Farquhar’s amazing ability
in the line of mental mathematics
have been in circulation about the
department and a few days ago Sec
retary Morton put the matter to a
test.
4 4 Mr. Farquhar,” said the secre
tary, “I have heard you can mul
tiply ten figures in your head. Is
, that so ?”
I * Well,” replied the assitant sta¬
tistician modestly, “I am willing
to try.”
“Then multiply 2,689,101 by
473,” said Secretary Moiton.
Mr. Farquhar had the figures re
peated to him, and then he con
' ceutrated his mind
upon them. For
a half minute or so he looked like
a man in a trance. Then hesiezed
a pencil and a piece of paper and
hurriedly wrote down the figures,
‘1.271,944.773-”
“Now let us see if that is right,”
said Secretary Morton, and one of
t ie brightest young men of the
secretary’s office carefully and la
boriously worked out the sum.
“Mr Farquhar’s figures are
wrong, > 1 he said.
( ( I think not,” replied the .nod
ern Zerah Colburn, ‘and you had
better go over your work again. ”
The young man did so and in a
few minutes admitted he had made
an error and that Mr. Farquhar was
right.
*•
Our Duty to Cuba.
This is a world of comparative
progress, and freedom from Spain
would be to Cuba a long step in
advance on the high road of ad¬
vancing civilization. The inter
ests of humanity are the eontroll
ing reasons which demand theben
ifieent interposition of the United
States to bring to an end this sav
age war and give to the island
peace and independence, No great
nation can escape its responsibili
ties. \\ e freely charge England
with responsibility for the hideous
atroeities in Armenia. But it is
the merest cant to do this if we
shirk our own duty, We have a
responsibility with regard to Cuba.
We cannot evade it, and, if we
seek to do so, sooner or later u ' e
shall pay the penalty, But the
American people, whose sympathy
is strongly with the Cubans fight
ing for their liberties, will no long
er suffer this indifference toward
them to continue, If one admin
istration declines to meet our 11a
tional responsibilities as they should
lie met, there will be put in power
another administration which will
neither . . neglect , nor shun , its . plain 1 , .
duty to the , TT l nited , States and to
the , cause of rr freedom and ,. humanity. .
'
—Senator „ H. C. _ , Lodge, ,
in the May J
Forum.
— — ——
The Piedmont Virginian is re
sponsible for the statement that a
nugget of gold has been taken out
tlie Keid mine ’ near Concord -
North Carolina, which weighed
22 pounds and 2 ounces. This !
makes exclaim in the language ‘
us
of the poet: “What a whopper!’’
•—the nugget, we mean. But we j
i
do not believe the wildest goldbug
ill all the land would believe that j
story—unless he saw the nugget.
Now it . . said . , the , .. New York .
IS
Times is about to go into the hands
of a receiver. Thus the gold stand¬
ard is working out its mission.
The Times was a devout worship
per of the “golden calf.’’ One by
one the roses fall.
A Story of Bayard.
“if i kn0 w Bavard, the ambas
Overheard sa dor,” a Washington Post writer
a man hl a slreet ear say
f tbe other day, “he’s going to re
■' i sign. He’s one of the most sensi¬
tive men that ever lived. He was
I when he was secretary of the state
1
: here. For instance, he used to go
every day to a famous old saloon
on the avenue to drink a milk
! punch. It was the custom at that
; saloon, owing to the tremendous
i rush of customers, to* serve no
: In ; xed drinks on holidays, Mr.
Bayard went in there one morning
when the town was fairly jammed
lor some reason or other, and or¬
dered a milk punch..
“ ‘Very scriy, sir,’ said the bar¬
keeper, ‘but it’s against orders to
serve mixed drinks to day.’ -
“ ‘I am Mr. Bayard,’ put in the
secretary mildly.
“Can’t help it, sir ; orders were
to sell no mixed drinks to day.
“Mr. Bayard buttoned his over
I coat ' t ,, rlie H „„ his heel ne'vercross- and from
thal day to this he has
ed the threshold of that saloon.
He's a sensitive man, he is.”
His Maiden Speech.
The rising young politician had
prej ared an elaborate speech for
the occasion, says the Chicago Tri
bune. He rose to his feet in re
| sponse to loud calls for him and
felt in his inside pocket foi the
manuscript. It was gone. It had
slipped through a hole in the bot
tom.
j The situation was a terrible one,
but the self-possession of the rising
young politician did not forsake
him. Letting his hand remain in
the breast pocket of his coat he
looked fearlessly out over the as
; sembly.
“My fellow citizens,” he said,
“I have no—no words in which to
express my thanks for the hon< r
you have done me in selecting me
as one of your standard bearers in
this campaign, and I will simply
ask you to join me > »
He was interrupted by deafen
ing cheers, in which the other ora
tors on the platform heartily join
ed.
The situation was still more ter
rible. He had intended merely to
propose three cheers for the ticket,
but the audience had jumped hasti
ly to the conclusion that he was
intending an invitation of another
kind.
Still lie did not lose his head.
. “I see, fellow-citizens, t y he re
I sunied with a smile, as soon as he
I could make himself heard again,
! “you understand me. Come on!”
He siezed his hat and the ineet
j ng adjourned at once to the saloon
0 n the floor below, He had made
the hit of the evening.
Miss Annie Scott, a student at
Central Normal college, Kansas,
has been appointed clerk of the
enezuelan , . . She „. .
.. \ commission. is a
niece . of Justice T .. „ Brewer of f the su
preme court, . chairman , • of f the com
. .
mission,
The shah of Persia was recently
assassinated by a fanatic.
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