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the north peorgia citizen, ualiu«, North (Soorgia Citizen, Published every Thursday. P. T. REYNOLDS, T. R. JONES, Jr., A. J. SHOW ALTER, Editors. Terms of Subscription: One Year $1.00 Six Months 5° Three Months 26 Advertising rates consistent with the times, and will be made known on application Jgg^Entered at the Dalton, Ga., Postoffice as second-class mail matter. (^“Obituary notices over ten lines will be charged for at the rate of 5 cents a line. Telephone 18. Thursday, Feb. 17, 1898. ATKINSON VS. CANDLEB. Judge Spencer R. Atkinson has announced his candidacy for gu bernatorial honors against Hon. Allen D. Chandler. We print Col. Candler’s letter elsewhere as a matter of news. We made all the comments on it that were nec essary last week. Colonel Candler admits writing the letter. Judge Max Meyerhart, of Rome, received it and gave it to the Rome Trib une. Judge Meyerhart says there was nothing on either the envel ope or letter indicating that it was private or confidential. The Cit izen editor enjoys the acquaint anceship of both Colonel Candler and Judge Atkinson. We like both of them, but shall support Judge Atkinson. Let the public remember that Judge Spencer Atkinson is not in any way related to Governor At kinson. If Governor Atkinson has failed to make a friend of any one by any reason whatsoever, Spencer Atkinson should not be held accountable for it. CACOETHES SCKIBENDI. The bad habit of writing has recently got two more distin guished gentlemen into hot water. James G. Blain experienced this on having written the famous Mulligan letter. Lord Sackville, the British representative to this country, was requested to leave the United States in 1888 by the Secretary of State for having writ ten a letter. Senor Dupuy De Lome last week was recalled by the Ministry of Spain for having written a letter. Hon. Allen D. Candler will experience a great deal of annoyance, if not defeat, for having written a letter. Mar tin Van Buren is quoted as saying that if he “wanted to talk politics with a man he’d tunnel a moun- toin to do so rather than write a letter.” Dreyfus and Zola, in France are in a turmoil because of letter writing. Instances could be multiplied ad infinitum. When you want to write a political letter take Mark Twain’s advice to the girl—don’t. The Savannah News says: “Col. Candler still thinks that his letter scoring the men who helped Gov. Atkinson into the Gubernatorial chair has done him no harm. There are indications cropping out that he is mistaken. Let that be as it may, he is not going to have a walk-over for the nomination. He has got to hustle for it. He will find that the political fights in which he has been engaged in the past were but tame affairs com pared to the one in which he is now engaged. From the present outlook, the coming summer will be so full of politics that there will be no time to find out wheth er the weather is hot or not. These two paragraphs, follow ing one another, in the editorial column of Mrs. Myrick’s Times- Recorder are significant in^the light of recent events: “If men who control think they can scare Candler off the track they don’t know-their man.” “ ‘Never put your prejudices on paper.’ There could be no safer rule than that for any politician.” An exchange says “silk stock ings verge on the rose color now.” We hope to see more of them. It is government by Revolution in Gautemala. Minister DeLome had nothing to take back. We’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that nobody catches Hon. O. B. j Stevens, candidate for Commis- I sioner of Agriculture, writing any fool letters.—Albany-Herald. “Nous sounness quittes,” prom ises to go down into history. The Citizen is again indebted to Senator Clay for some fine gar den seed. - The hum of the cotton industry is Way Down South in Dixie— Philadelphia Times. Yes, Aramantha, dear, you can buy a ready letter-writer at the book stores, but—DON’T ! DeLome says it was a Dole-ful time in Washington when Presi dent McKinley heard of his letter. Tallyrand .was wise in his generation when he said, “ Never write a letter and never burn one.” Dalton is said to have more dimpled girls than any other town of its size in Georgia.—Rome Tribune. There is a certain propriety in the fact that when he leaves this country the ex-Minister will have to walk Spanish. When a woman skips the news paper article on “how to look pretty” she is engaged in the care of her grandchildren. The Sparta Ishmaelite says: “Commissioner Nesbitt will make a mistake to put his candidacy for re-election on the ‘ vindication’ plane.” If St. John had said, “ Oh that mine enemy might write a letter,’ some people would claim that it was an apocalyptic vision and nothing in it. If Governor Atkinson “ravished the State” and got his office through fraud, why did so good a man as Gen. Evans accept an ap pointment under him ? President Dole, of Hawaii, hob-nobbed with the grandees in Washington, saw the white ele phant and had a blamed good time generally, whether he gets his country annexed or not. Major Frank E. Callaway is a candidate for Clerk of the next house. There is not a man in Georgia who enjoys the confidence and esteem of the people more than Major Callaway. He is bril liant, capable and eminently qual ified for the place. Mr. William H. Black, one of Atlanta’s brightest young men, said at the convention Thursday : “That if the people would spin fewer yarns and more Cotton and dam more rivers and fewer capi talists, the country would l>e far better off.” Persistent Coughs A cough which seems to hang on in spite of all the remedies which you have applied certainly needs energetic ana sensible treatment. For twenty-five years that stand ard preparation of cod-liver oil, SCOTT'S EMULSION has proved its effectiveness in cur ing the trying affections of the throat and lungs, and this is the reason why: the cod-liver oil, par tially digested, strengthens and vitalizes the whole sys tem; the hypophosphites act as a tonic to the mind and nerves, and the glycerine soothes and heals the irritation* Can you think of any combi nation so effective as this? Be sure you get SCOTT’S Emulsion. Sac that th* man and fish are on the wrapper. 50c. and $ 1.00, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemists. New York. Every day since the Candler letter was published a great many Daltonians have sought The Cit- zen’s copy of the Macou Tele graph to read the fair minded ed itorials on the subject. Sometime since The Citizen stated that Hon. S. G. McLendon, of Thomasville, was a statesman of whom his section might be proud. His speech in Atlanta at the Bohemian Smoker added greatly to The Citizen’s opinion. Mrs. Kingsberry, of* Atlanta, is still telling how the Atlanta girls are prone to kissing and being kissed. Mrs. Kingsberry should have learned long ago that the only harm in it is the telling. The Atlanta girls, with the exception of Dalton, are the most kissable girls in the world. It is a well known fact that General Gordon, when canvassing the State for guberna torial honors, made it a practice to kiss all the pretty girls, and if so distinguished a man as the gov ernor sets the pace, can you blame the balance of the boys ? Asiatic Trade and Coinage of Silver “for F.xport.” From “Gold Bondage and the Interna tional Nobility,” by Ben. E. Green. Exactly, to a fraction of a cent, (£, expressed by the preposition “about,”) Secretary (Hoke) Smith gave the measure of the “greater value” of the standard silver dol lar of 412£ grains in 1873. * , If he had been speaking of its “greater value” in Europe, his fig ures would have been correct, sub ject only to occasional slight va riations caused by an emergency in the Asiatic trade or some demand in the Arts to meet the caprices of wealth and fashion. But as he was speaking of its value in the United States, his figures were not correct, because he took no account of ‘•The Obstacles to Transportation.” He gave no explanation of the cause and significance of this “greater value.” But any ' farm or factory hand who can do a litr tie cyphering in multiplication, subtraction and fractions, can fig- urg out the problem for himself and explain it to his fellow work men and neighbors as follows: 16 multiplied by 6 gives 96c 15 £ multiplied by 6 gives 93c Subtracting, tbe difference is. 3c But 96c are 4 less than 100c Each 16c represents a difference of..... ? £c 4 is i of 16, and ± of ± is ic which is the exact arithmetical equivalent of the Secretary’s “about.” The ratio of value of silver to gold being 16 to 1 in the United States and only 15^ to 1 in Eu rope, the silver dollar contained 3£ cents more of silver than a cor responding European coin. ' As the mint valuation, as fixed by coinage laws, regulates the nor mal relative value of gold and sil ver in the respective countries subject to those laws, the silver dollar was worth in Europe 34 cents more than the gold dollar. So, the Asiatic ratio being only 15 to 1, the silver dollar was worth in Asia 6f cents more than a gold dollar. Men of great learning, ability and good faith, regard these facts as a conclusive argument—not for discarding silver as money, nor for increasing the weight of silver in a dollar—but for reducing it to conform to the European, if not to the Asiatic, ratio. The Secretary’s own figures— this greater value in Europe, caused by and exactly correspond ing to the difference of ratio es tablished by United States and European coinage laws—prove all that bimetalists claim. In the broad light of the experience of the last quarter century, they prove conclusively the potency of legislation to maintain the value of the two me fails at par, when im partial; to double the value of either when protective; or reduce the value of either when hostile. If European coinage laws could thus make the U. S. silver dollar worth 3| cents more than a gold dollar; if Asiatic coinage laws could make the U. S. silver dollar worth in Asia 6| cents more than a gold dollar, why cannot the United States, by proper and impartial legislation, be as potent now that they have grown big enough to leave off knee breeches and begin to wear long pants ? lhe Act of February 12, 1873, protecting British gold and hostile to Amer ican silver, doubled the value and purchasing power of the former and reduced the value of the latter by one-half. An impartial ad justment of our coinage laws would speedily reduce the one and raise the other to equality of val ue. When the Secretary was con tending that before 1873 the standard silver dollar could be sold in the United States “for export” when melted for “about 3 cents more than its coined value as money,” and “was only coined for export,” he must have been think ing of the “Trade ’ dollar. The coinage law of January i8, 1837, gave to the people of the United States a full legal tender silver dollar of 412£ grains, worth in Europe 34 cents and in Asia 6f cents more than the gold dollar. The coinage law of February 1873, took from the people .of the United States this “organ of in dustry;” substituted for it the “Trade” dollar of 420 grains, worth in Europe 5 cents and in A sia 8 3-16 cents more than a gold dollar; and limited the purchasing and debt paying power of this “Trade ” dollar to sums not ex ceeding five dollars in any one payment in the United States. Why this increase of weight and value and decrease of pur chasing and debt paying power ? In the European demand for cheap silver for the Asiatic trade we have a key to this one of the several purposes of the Act of February 12, 1873, which ought to have been entitled “An Act for the protection of British gold and to increase its value; to decrease the value of American silver; and make it more easy for the International Nobility to regulate the volume and value of all the metallic coin and paper currency of the United States.” If there is repetition here, these are truths that cannot be repeated too often. From the earliest dawn of his- AVege fable Preparation for As - similating tbeToodandReg da ting the Stomachs and Bowels ol I \ fan xs /Children PromotesTHgeshon,Cheerful ness and Rest.Cofltains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. Not Narcotic. Keape of OUWrSAMUELPITCHER Pumpkin Seed- ~ Mx. Senna * PoeAiUe Salts - /Ini. re Seed * Peppermint - Si Oe/iunattSoda- * fiim Seed - Chnfwet Sugar ■ MinSeyroen Flavor. A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions ,Feverish- ness and LOSS OF SLEEP- Fac Simile Signature of NEW "YORK. The Kind Yon Ha* Always Bought, Bears the Fac-siioii t | Signature -0F- 0N THE WRAPPER OF EVEEI BOTTLE. THE KIP Y00 HAVE ALWAYS BOUGH. THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. tory the trade of Asia has enriched every people who have in turn controlled it, or a share of it, eith er by the sword, like Alexander in his day and England in ours; or by peaceful commerce, like the Phoenician cities of Tyre andSidon in primitive times and Venice in the middle ages, when “tlie exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems iD sparkling showers: In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook and deemed their dignity increased.” The Mountain and Pacific states of this Union were the chief source of silver supply. The Eu ropean branch of the International Nobility w*ited cheap silver for the Asiatic trade. Congress legis lated to give them what they wanted. How this emphasizes all that Hamilton said about the weak side of Republics and their liabili ty to foreign influence and cor ruption ! THINK ABOUT YOUR HEALTH. CITY Ladies Who Suffer From any coroplaiQt peculiar to their sex—such as Profuse, Pain ful, Suppressed or Irregular Men struation, are -soon restored to health by Bradfielcfs Female Regulator. It is a combination of remedial agents which have been used with the greatest success for ri)ore than 25 years, and known to act speci fically With and on the organs of Menstruation, and recomrnended for such complaints only* It never fails to give relief and restore the health of the suffering woman. It should be taken by the girl just budding into womanhood when #lenstrua- tion is Scant, Sup pressed, Irregular or Painful, and all delicate wornen should use it, as its tonic properties have a won derful influence in toning up and strengthening the systen) by driv ing through the proper channels all impurities. “A daughter of one of my customers missed menstruation from exposure and cold, and on arriving at puberty her health was completely wrecked, until she was twenty-four years of age, when upon my recommendation, she used one bottle of Bradfleld’s Female Regulator, com pletely restoring her to health.” J. W. Hellums, Water Valley,Miss. The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. ■OLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AT SI PER BOTTLE. This is the Time to Give Attention to Your Physical Condition. The warmer weather which will come with the approaching sprii g months should find you strong and in robust health, your blood pure and your appetite good. 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Pliiiiibinir and Gaslilti LOVE IS BEST Three travelers met at the Brandon pass, By the bubbling Brandon Spring, They shared their cake and venison, And talked of many a thing; Of books and songs and foreign lands, Of strange and wandering lives; And by and by, in softer tones, They spoke of their homes and wives. “I married the lady of Logan Brae,” Said one with a lofty air; “And there isn’t in all the north country A house with a better share Of gold and gear and hill and loch, Of houses and farms to rent; There’s many a man has envied me. And I’m more than well content.” “Dream of a woman as bright as day,” The second traveler said. “Dream of a form of perfect grace, Of a noble face and head: Of eyes that are of heavens own blue. 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