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The Gainesville Eagle.
Official Organ of Hall o.vunty.
Official Organ of White County.
Official Organ of the City of Gainesville.
Entered at the Gainesville Postoffi.ee as
Second-class wail matter
W. H. CRAIG,
Editor and Business Manager.
Thursday, July 7, 1898.
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OBEYING ORDERS.
All Americans must be gratified at
the punctillious precision with which I
our naval commanders obey orders. |
On April 22 Admiral Dewey was
ordered to proceed from Hong Kong
and capture or destroy the Spanish
fleet at Manila. It never once oc
curred to Dewey that he had discre
tion in case he couldn’t do it. He
proceeded to Manila and obeyed or
ders with fastidious particularity.
A few weeks afterward the Span
i.-h government pulled together an
other fleet ami pointed its ncse
toward American waters. The Sec
retary of the Navy gave Admiral
Sampson orders to find it and sink
or capture it. Sampson couldn’t
catch it, for it could outrun him. He
winded it, however, and treed it.
He barked at the hole until it came
out, and then carried out instructions.
The Spaniards have now scraped
together still another fleet of war
vessels with grandiloquent names,
and it is headed for Dewey. Dewey
is bidding it gs od speed and fair
weather. He has his same old fleet,
with several captured from Spain.
Besides he has the Charleston, which
reached him on the Ist, and those
steel fortresses the Monterey and
MonaJnock will be there before the
Spaniards.
Dewey hasn’t had a fleet for
breakfast in more than two months
and is anxious to see old man Cama
ra and his tubs.
Dewey is still the hero. Samp
son tried to even up with him, but
failed. Dewey got eleven ships and
never lost a man. Sampson only
got seven and lost one man. But it
wasn’t his fault there wasn’t more
ships, nor that the man poked his
head out of the w’indow and got hit.
It is a pretty difficult thing to
duplicate Dewey’s victory.
JOSEPH - WHEELER,HERO.
The conduct of General Wheeler
at Santiago in going into battle on
an ambulance savors of antique
glory. It reminds us of old Ahab at
Ramoth-gilead, who, sorely wounded,
fought all day propped up in his
chariot.
They started to carry Wheeler
to the field on a litter. On the way
they met the wounded coming in.
•** This" was too much for the old man.
The fire in his heart quenched the
fever in his veins. He called for his
horse. The physicians tried to hold
him, but the power has not yet been
created that can hold Fighting Joe
on the battlefield. He galloped to
the front, the incarnation of war.
There stretched upon bis bed he di
rected the charges that covered the
American arms with glory.
Then the news came that he was
dead—that the exertion had snapped
the fickle cord—and a prayer from
every American heart went up to
the god of battles that it might not
be true—and it wasn’t, for Wheeler
is getting around all right.
It would have been the sting of the
asp in the glorious bloom of victory
—like the tidings that froze the
heart of England when Trafalgar
was won.
NOT QUITE THAT WAY.
Last week we stated that Judge
Gober carried every county in the
Ninth district except Habersham.
We have since discovered that
Rabun went for Fish 4 to 1, the vote
being 96 to 24. Hall county has yet
to vote, but cannot affect the result,
as Fish has nearly 100 majority of
the delegates. Still we presume
many will want to vote for Fish on
the 15th and go on record for a clean
and incorruptible Judge for the Su
preme bench.
Announcement.
To our Hall County Friends:
In order to be able to accommodate the
public promptly and perform all the du
ties of the Clerk’s office satisfactorily, it
is absolutely necessary that there should
be at all times two persona connected
with the office, and this can best be ac
complished by having a regularly bond
ed deputy.
A number of our mutual friends have
advised us to agree that one of us shall
continue on in the race for the nomina
tion for Clerk and the other to run as
deputy.
We have, therefore, yielded to the
wishes of our friends and have agreed to
run the race from now on together, W.
D. Whelchel as candidate for the affice
of Clerk and J. T. Chamblee to be his
bonded deputy Clerk.
We thank our many friends for their
kind and encouraging support while we
were running separately, and respectfully
and earnestly ask tbeir continued sup
port now that we are running together,
and request all our friends to vote tfie
ticket with the names of W. D.
Whelchel for Clerk and J. T. Chamblee
deputy. Very respectfully,
W. D. Whelchel.
J. T. Chamblee.
Wants Good Horses.
Dick Jordan of Atlanta came up Fri
day to buy a few select saddle horses for
the war department. There are several
fine saddlers here, but he found only two
that suited him in both quality and
price. One belonged to Dr. Looper, the
other to W. A. Crow. Both were pur
chased and carried to Atlanta.
Another Spanish Final
Totally Blotted Out.
Santiago’s Intrenchments Taken by Assault and
City Summoned to Surrender.
American Loss About 1,700- Spanish Lose 6,000 in
Killed, Wounded, and Captured.
THURSDAY, June 30.
Wheeler’s Headquarters, Near San
tiago, June 30.—The American forces
are now nearly ready for the attack
on the city of Santiago de Cuba.
Barbed wire fences, in which th<
Spaniards appear to place great reli
ance as a means of defence, guard
the entrenchments on the land side
of the city.
The American army is gradually
stretching out across the hills on the
eastern side of the doomed city.
They are now within a comparatively
short distance from the strongly de
fended hil’s which it will be neces
sary for them to capture before the
citv itself can be taken.
While Gen. Shafter is putting the
finishing touches to his plans for the
American advance, a Spanish force
of 5,000 of the flower of Spain’s army
in Cuba, under the command of Gen.
Pando, Captain - General Blanco’s
chief of staff, are moving in the di
rection of Santiago from Manzanillo,
with the intention of re-inforcing the
enemy already in the city. They are
making forced marches, but their
progress is necessarily slow, owing to
the large quantities of supplies of
ammunition and provisions they are
bringing to the relief of their imper
illed comrades.
Gen. Linares, the Spanish -com
mander, appears to think that his
barbed wire barriers will hold the
Americans in check while his guns
pour a withering fire into their ranks
and smash the lines. These fences
have been used with greater or less
effect against the half-naked Cuban
insurgents, but there is a surprise in
store for Gen. Linares when he ex
pects to see them hold back the ad
vance of the Americans.
These fences will be destroyed in a
very few minutes. The Americans
knew of the use of barbed wire by
the Spaniards, and every man in the
invading array carries a pair of good,
strong wire cutters, which will make
short work of the wire barriers.
No man who has not gone over
the road traversed by the American
forces to Santiago, no man who was
not in the terrible downpour of rain
which drenched the American army
to the skin this afternoon, can under
stand the suffering of our troops and
the heroism with which they bear it.
Cavalrymen, dismounted for the
first time in years, and infantrymen
from cool Michigan and Massachu
setts, toiled hour after hour along
these so-called roads and paths
through the jungles of cacti, poison
vir.es and high grass that cuts like a
razor, in a blistering sunlight that
makes the skylines of the distant
hills shimmer and waver before the
eyes, while from the stagnant pools
strange, gray mists float upward, and
vultures, with outstretched wings,
look greedily down from above.
The vegetation torn down and
trampled underfoot by our troops
has fermented, and a horrible sour
breath arises from the earth. Curi
ous stenches steal from hidden places
in the jungle.
Thousands of gigantic land crabs,
spotted with yellow and red, wrig
gle and twist themselves along the
sides of the roads, with leprous,
white claws clicking viciously, a
ghastly, dreadful sight to young sol
diers fresh from New York, Boston
and Detroit. Ragged Cubans slip '
noiselessly through the undergrowth I
or sprawl unaer the shade of huge!
gossamer trees watching with child
ish pleasure the steady onpush of
their American defenders.
The heat is almost intolerable. The
sun is like a great yellow furnace,
torturing everything living and turn
ing everything dead into a thousand
mysterious forms of terror.
The fierce light swims in waves
before the eyes of the exhausted sol
diers. This morning a young infan
tryman reeled and fell into the road
almost under the feet of the mule
ridden by your correspondent. When
I helped him to his feet he smiled
and said, “It’s all right. I never
struck such a place as this, but I
must get to the front before the fight
begins. I had to lie to get into the I
army, for I am only 17 years old.”
Five minutes after he was trudging
along gallantly.
Two hours later the first great
tropical rainstorm we have encoun
tered fell from the sky, not slantwise,
but straight down. It was the first
actual test of the army in a most
dreadful experience of the tropics.
For three hours a great, cold torrent
swept down from the clouds, drench
ing the soldiers to the skin, soaking
blankets, and carrying misery into I
all our vast camp, reaching out on
either side of the trail, extinguishing
camp fires, and sending rivers of
mud and red water swirling along
the narrow road, dashing over rocks
where the trail inclined downward,
and through the filthy flood the army
streamed along, splashing in the mud
and water or huddling vainly for
shelter under the trees.
An hour before the heat was so
intense that men reeled and swooned; i
but now came one of the mysterious
transformations of the tropics. The
whole army shivered, and robust
men could be seen shaking from 1
head to foot, turning gray and white. |
Millions of land crabs came clatter-1
ing and squirming from under the
poisonous undergrowth, and the sol
diers crushed them under their heels.
Every man who had quinine swal
lowed a dose. The officers, splashed
with mud to their hips, hurried here
and there, urging the men to snip
naked when the rain was over and
dry their clothes at the camp fires.
Presently- thousands of men were
standing about naked while the sun
drew up thick vapors from the earth
and vicious tropical flies stung their
white skins. The American army is
a noble body of men when it is strip
ped. Think of the tremendous strain
of heat like this in one day on men
from a northern climate, and yet
there was not one word of complaint
anywhere.
The writer has seen several armies
in the field, but he never saw a more
splendid exhibition of cheerful en
durance. One thought which seemed
to run like an electric current through
the army was anxiety to get to the
front. The soldiers everywhere
begged to have their regiments put
in the first line of attack. The weath
er is nothing to them, the possibility
of disease is nothing to them, expo
sure and hunger do not trouble them.
They want to fight. You can see it
in their faces; you can hear it in
their talk. The most wonderful thing
is that, in spite of the surroundings,
less than one per cent of the array is
sick. This, I believe, is the smallest
record of any army in the world.
Gen. Shafter has reached the front
and taken personal command of the
American troops investing Santiago.
Spanish deserters who have come
into the American camp from Santi
ago report that Admiral Cervera has
everything in readiness to make a
dash out of the harbor with his fleet,
his object being to try to sink at
least one of the ships of the Ameri
can squadron, and if need be go
down with his flags flying and bands
playing.
The heavy artillery has not yet ar
rived at the front, but its advance is
being pushed as rapidly as possible.
The American skirmish line is con
tinually exchanging fire with the
Spanish pickets.
The Cuban women and children
who have been hiding in the moun
tains are now coming down into the
valleys to see the American soldiers
and to beg for food. They are being
fed and cared for by the representa
tives of the Red Cross Society.
The men at the front are suffering
greatly from the heat. There is no
air stirring and the stiflng effect is
almost intolerable. The valleys and
hills here and at the front are littered
with blankets and rolls of equipment
which were thrown away by the men
in order to lighten their burdens.
Miss Clara Barton has received a
committee of Cuban generals, com
posed of Gens. Garcia, Demetrio Cas
tillo, and Carlos, on board the Red
. Cross steamer State of Texas. The
committee that 2,000 fami
lies were starving near the town of
Firmeza. She landed a- supply of
rations and sent them to the famished
people under the protection of the
Juragua Mining Company’s railroad
guard. Miss Barton also received
word from Commander McCalla that
the Cuban General Perez had re
ported that 5,000 rations were ur
gently needed by the destitute fami
lies near the city of Guantanamo.
Rations for tbeir relief will be sent
forward to-day.
The methods of the Cubans in
picketing the advance of the army is
exciting great admiration among all
the American officers and troops. In
fact, the work is of such a character
that it would have been impossible
for the Americans themselves to have
done it half as well, owing to their
ignorance of the country and their
I lack of exact knowledge of Spanish
methods. These ragged, half starved
insurgents, in the harrassing under
growth and almost impassable defiles,
have not left a single footpath or
knoll unguarded. At least three
sentries are at every point. No one
could pass without their knowledge.
They remind your correspondent of
cats watching for mice. They sit on
one knee, crouched over, with their
guns at half-cock, for hours at a time,
watching most patiently every wave
of the grass or movement of the
trees that might indicate the pres
ence of the enemy.
Five hundred of these loyal allies
came into camp yesterday to get
rations. They are becoming accus
tomed to the movements and meth
ods of the Americans and are now
working in much better harmony
with them than at first.
This afternoon the Americans sent
up balloons manned by members of
the Signal Corps. The balloons
floated over the city of Santiago and
tbeir occupants made observations.
Whether they were fired at was not
known at the time this dispatch was
sent to the telegraph station.
The balloons remained up until
dark, when they descended to their
anchorages. They were plainly seen
from lhe sea and were closely watch
ed by the men on the warships.
FRIDAY, July 1.
The attack upon Santiago was be
gun this morning and lasted all
day.
Our forces succeeded in driving
the Spanish from their outworks,
which are now occupied by Gen.
Shafter’s soldiers.
The battle began before 8 o’clock
and was sustained with remarkable
vigor throughout the entire day. It
will probably be resumed tomor
row.
Our losses in killed and wounded
are not far from 1,000.
Three hundred of our wounded
have now been brought into camp,
many of them so slightly injured that
they were ab.e to walk in. Many of
them have been placed on board the
steamer Ireoqunis,which will start to
night for Key West. Every tent on
shore has been turned over to the
wounded. The Red Cross Society
has a special hospital tent.
The Spanish loss must have been
heavy. The Spaniards opposing
General Lawton’s division lost in
killed, wounded or taken prisoners,
2,000 men and the loss on the center
and left must be double that.
The engagement opened when the
fleet lying outside the harbor entrance
began dropping shells into the lower
end of the Spanish earthworks. At
7.30 the iand engagement opened by
firing from Capron’s battery on the
extreme right on the blockhouses
and entrenchments before Caney.
This was followed by simultaneous
attacks by General Chaffee and
Colonel Ludlow, who occupied a
flanking position to the north. The
Spanish replied with great spirit and
nerve when our shells burst directly
over their trenches.
The first shot was fired from the
battery at 6.40 by Captain Caffron,
whose son, Captain Allyn K. Capron,
of the Rough Riders, was killed in
the battle at Sevilla. The shot was
directed at Caney, where ♦ the
Spaniards were in force and it fell in
the heart of the town.
The Spanish killed and wounded
can be numbered by hundreds. The
Spanish strongholds of Caney and
El Paso have fallen and the fdrkat
Acquadores, just east of Morro
Castle on the coast has been blown
to ruins by the guns of the fleet.,
General Sumner had commanded
the center owing to Geneial
Wheeler’s illness but about 10.40
General Wheeler started on the two
miles journey to the front in an
ambulance. About half way to the
front he met a number of litters bear
ing wounded and the veteran, under
protest by the surgeons, immediately
ordered his horse, and after per
sonally assisting the wounded into
tbs ambnlance, mounted and rode
onward. The men burst into frantic
cheers which followed the gejjpral all
along the line.
The fighting continued until after
dark. The American forces had
captured all the outworks, and night
found them on the hills facing Santi
ago.
During the day there were enough
deeds of heroism to fill a volume.
Every position of the enenfy* was
taken by assault. The officers led
their men, many yards in advance,
and the percentage of officers killed
and wounded was very large. The
charge of the batteries and intrench
ments of El Pozo hill by Rooseyelt’s
Rough Riders was a second Bala
clava. This regiment is composed
of wealthy New York society wen
and Western cowboys. Roosevelt,
with drawn sword, was a hundred
feet in front. Some one started the
Rebel yell and it was caught up all
along the line. The resistless tide
swept up the hill, shooting as they
went, under a hail of shot from the
batteries. The works were carried',
and were found full of dead Span
iards. In the rush more than half
the Rough Riders were wounded and
many killed.
Then came the charge upon San
Juan Hill, in which General Haw
kins was several yards in front of
his men.
The fleet of Admiral Cervera
rendered great assistance to the land
forces, while Sampson’s fleet turned
a storm of shot and shell upon Morro
Castle and the shore batteries.
The terrific fusilade of heavy shells
from all the battleships of the United
States navy silenced the shore in
short order. One particular good
shot from the flagship New York
sent a gun on one of the eastern bat
teries flying high into the air and
enormous red clouds of earth and
debris rose all around Morro. The
smoke from the ships drifted from
east to west.
At 6.30 the firing had become
slower amd more deliberate. The
Indiana, Oregon and Massachusetts
were signaled to go right in front of
the harbor to shell the Punta Gorda
batteries inside on the eastern arm.
They steamed to within a thousand
yards of the shore. The Oregon
took a shot at Morro Castle and
down came the Spanish flag. At
sight of this splendid piece of
markmansbip the crews of the dif
ferent ships cheered enthusiastically
for several minutes.
The three battleships then kept up
an incessant fire on the Punta Gorda
batteries, doing great havoc to the
fortifications and works in course of
construction. Not a shot came from
the enemy. The other ships con
tented themselves by taking oc
casional shots at Morro Castle. Its
ancient battlements were knocked to
pieces and great holes loomed up in
its parapets.
SATURDAY, July 2.
Desultory fighting continued all
day in front of Santiago. The Span
ish commander, General Linares, se
verely wounded. General Vara del
Rey killed.
Spaniards well fortified and resist
stubbornly.
General Pando with 5,000 men
enters Santiago. General Garcia
with 4,000 Cubans had been sent to
check Pando, but took to the woods
at sight of the enemy. The Cubans
seem to be good fighters only when
the assault the provision wagon.
General Shafter is sick in his tent,
and cables War Department that he
can hold his ground, but cannot take
city without reinforcements.
News comes from Dewey. The
ships with American soldiers reached
him July 1 and proceeded to land at
Cavite. Fleet on the way out took
Ladrone islands, knocking pown the
forts, and capturing Spanish gover
nor and garrison and one gunboat.
SUNDAY, July 3.
At 9 o’clock in the morning Ad
miral Cervera’s fleet, which had been
bottled up in Santiago harbor for the
past six weeks, ran out under a full
head of steam and tried to escape to
the westward. It changed its mind
in a short while and went straight
downward. 300 Spanish sailors were
killed and drowned, 160 wounded,
1,600 captured, including Admiral
Uervera. The six Spanish warships
were burned and sunk. American
loss 1 killed, 2 wounded.
The Spanish ships were, the Viz
caya, Almirante Oquendo, Infanta
Maria Teresa, Cristobal Colon, and
tojpedo boat destroyers Furor and
Pluton. The Destroyers came first,
and the Gloucester, a converted
yacht formerly owned by J. Pierre
pont Morgan, pitched into them with
her small rapid-fire guns and had
them riddled and sunk in 30 minutes.
Meanwhile the Brooklyn (Admiral
Schley’s flagship), Texas, lowa, In
diana, and Oregon were in hot pur
suit of the big Spanish ships.
In a short time the Almirante
Oquendo put her helm up and headed
for the beach.
Almost immediately the Infanta
Maria Teresa went ashore.
Shortly afterward both were afire.
The Vizcaya ran two miles fur
ther, took fire, and ran ashore.
There was a hot chase after the
Cristobal Colon, which was a fast
flier. The pursuit continued for 60
miles and until 2 o’clock. Being
constantly pounded with solid shot,
she gave up in despair, being the
only Spanish vessel that lowered her
colors. She will be repaired and
aided to American navy. The was
built two years ago and cost about
43,500,000.
The whole fleet destroyed was
worth about $14,000,000.
Admiral Ceryera, with the mem
bers of his staff, was taken on board
the Gloucester. As he stepped on
board Captain Wainwright grasped
him by the hand and placed his pri
vate cabin at his disposal. Then the
white-haired old hero sat down and
wept. Cervera and his staff were
half starved, and a bountiful repast
was served them.
When the news reached the in
trenchments around Santiago the
troops went wild and the bands
played ‘‘Theie’s a Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight.”
General Shafter immediately de
manded surrender of city, which was
promptly refused.
P’ty will be bombarded, and wo-
and children are being removed,
-jpeet may enter harbor.
*Vr MONDAY, July 4.
cables reaches Madrid that Cer
vera’s fleet has escaped and whole
city is rejoicing.
War Department will hurry more
troops to Shafter.
TUESDAY, July 5.
Santiago desires to surrender, and
has appealed to Madrid for authority.
Commodore Watson will be sent
to run down Camara.
WEDNESDAY, July 6.
General Toral at Santiago has
agreed to exchange Hobson and his
men, and it will be done im
mediately,
To the Democratic Voters of Hall
County.
I have decided to withdraw from
the race for the nomination for the
office of Tax Collector, and in so do
ing desire to state to the public my
reasons for so doing.
When I entered the race I had no
fight to make on the present in
cumbent but simply desired to pre
sent my services to the good people
of Hall county, if they desired them.
After canvassing the county to some
extent I found that I was not mis
taken in thinking that a great many
voters preferred me for the office,
and that I would receive a strong
vote on the day of the primary.
I found, however, that a number
of my best friends, and those who,
otherwise, would be my most earnest
supporters, had already pledged
themseves to vote for Mr. Charles,
and under these circumstance I felt
that I could not ask them to break
their pledge to vote for me, and that
having entered the race so late I
would be embarrassing my friends to
continue in the race, and would not,
for this reason, receive the vote that
otherwise would be cast for me.
Thanking my many friends for
their kind promises and their as
surances of their support, and trust
ing that at some time in the future I
may be able to serve them, I am
your obedient servant,
S. B. Carter.
Don’t.
Don’t get the bighead—it will cost
you too much for hats.
Don’t yawn when your employer is
telling an alleged funny story.
Don’t neglect to know a little
more than you let people think you
know.
Don’t despise little things. The
mosquito is more bother than the
elephant.
Don’t employ a physician who rec
ommends a change and then takes
all you have left.
DON’T FORGET.
Educational Day at Chautauqua.
Next Saturday.
Saturday, Juiy 9, will be a great day at
the Chautauqua.
It will be Educational Day and the
teachers and pupils are all especially
urged to de present.
A basket dinner will be served on the
lawns at the Seminary and it will be a
grand day.
The Hall county Teachers' Institue
offers a solid gold medal to the boy or
girl who makes the best speech, contest
to occur on that day, and open to any
school in the county.
Every school is expected to have at
least two repiesentatives.
Teachers will take notice and be pre
pared.
Don’t forget to bring a basket.
Bring it full.
Appreciated Kindness.
In behalf of myself and family, I desire
to return our heartfelt thanks to the peo
of Gainesville for their universal
sympathy and words of condolence in
our great affliction in the untimely death
of our son, Ernest. While overwhelmed
with grief and crushed by the awful
blow that has befallen us, the action of
the entire community is the one drop of
comfort left us.
To the order of the C. M. A., of which
Ernest was a .member, and those who
generously contributed the floral offer
ings, we desire to make special mention.
W. F. Findley.
Gainesville, Ga., July 7, 1898.
Persons troubled with diarrhea will be
interested in the experience of Mr. W.
M. Bush, clerk of Hotel Dorian e, Provi
dence, R. I. He says: “For several years
I have been almost a constant sufferer
from diarrhea, the frequent attacks com
pletely prostrating me and rendering me
unfit for my duties at this hotel. About
two years ago a traveling salesman kind
ly gave me a small bottle of Chamber
lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Rem
edy. Much to my surprise and delight
its effects were immediate. Whenever I
felt symptoms of the disease I would for
tify myself against the attack with a few
doses of this valuable remedy. The re
sult has been very satisfactory and almost
complete relief from the affliction.” For
sale by M. C. Brown & Co.
Sorrow Bringers.
1 hate them yellow telegrams. They fill me
with a dread
That somepin awful’s happened, an 1 allers
ask, “Who’s dead I 1 "
An I keteh myself all trembly like an holdin of
my breath,
Fer I never got but two of them an both con
cernin death
The first one told me of my son I’d sent away
to school.
’Bout how my boy was drownded in a tarnal
swimmin pool;
Remember readin it as well as though twas
jest today
Down yonder in the medder with the men
a-cuttin hay.
The next was ’bout my daughter who had
moved away out west
An was comin home fer Christmas at the_old
paternal nest,
How while thcS train was runmn at a mile a
minute rate .
A broken rail or somepin else had £ent her to
her fate.
An since that time 1 never see a telegram but 1
Kin sort of shet my eyes an see a funeral goin
by.
They never was no news so bad but what it
made it worse
To send it in a telegram. It’s sadder than a
hearse
An so. my friends, if you to me a sorrow
must convey,
You put it in a letter an jest let it find its
way
An in your own handwritin—that will do me
good to see—
But don’t you never dare to send no telegram
to me.
—Nixon Waterman in L. A W. Bulletin.
Petition of the Plodder.
Lord, let me not be too content
With life in trifling service spent.
Make me aspire.
When days with petty cares are filled,
Let me with fleeting thoughts be thrilled
Os something higher.
Help me to long for mental grace
To struggle with the commonplace
I daily find.
May little deeds not bring to fruit
A crop of little thoughts to suit
A shriveled mind.
I do not ask for place among
Great thinkers who have taught and sung
And scorned to bend
Under the trifles of the hour.
I only would not lose the power
To comurehend.
•< WSBOME persons say ►©
X it is natural for tj
•; J them to lose flesh
a . Baal during summer. -•
But losing flesh is losing ;•
•; ground. Can you afford to
to approach another win- •
•j ter in this weakened con- i a
•; dition? •
•< Coughs and colds,weak io
throats and lungs, come
•; quickest to those who are
•' thin in flesh, to those eas- •
2i ily chilled, to those who «
•; have poor circulation and ;•
•' feeble digestion. -S
| Scott’s !
! Emulsion 1
•; of cod lever oil ‘with hypo-
X phosphites does just as
J: much good in summer as
in winter. It makes flesh •
X in August as well as April. '•
J; You certainly need as
•; strong nerves in July as in •
•' January. And your weak
J; throat and lungs should
•• be healed and strength-
• ened without delay.
• ' * AU Druggiets, 50c. and Jl.
•’ SCOTT h BOW.NE, Chemusis, New York
n| and Whipkey Habits
cured at home with
out pain. Book of par
I ticularssent FREE.
| B.M. WOOLLEY, M.D.
Office 104 N. Pryor at.
Hall Sheriff Sales.
GEORGIA- -HALL COUNTY:
Will be sold before the court house door, in
the city of Gainesville, Hall County, Ga., within
the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in
August, 1898, the following described prop
erty, to wit:
One tract of land lying in said county, bound
ed as follows: On the north by lands of W. S.
Moore and John Duncan, on the east by C.
Powers and A. W. Brock, on the south by
other lands of A. J. Stow, and on the west by
lands of the Miranda Merck estate, containing
one hundred acres, more or less. Said laud
levied on as the property of A. J. Stow to sat
isfy a justice court fi fa issued from the 411th
district G. M. in favor of B. B. Brcck vs A. J.
Stow. Levy made and returned to me by J. T,
R. McDonald, L. C.
A. J. MUNDY. Sheriff.
%mi B OTX
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
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CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
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LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. N.Y.
Autumn Leaves.
Crimson and scarlet and yellow.
Emerald turning to gold,
Shimmering there in the sunbeams,
Shivering there in the eold,
Waving farewells as the tempest
Ruthlessly tears them apart,
Fluttering, dancing and rustling
As hither and thither they dart,
Recklessly sailing the rapids,
Lazily swimming the pools.
Playing “1 spy!” with eabh other
Under the puffy toadstools.
Wreaths for the walls of her dwelling
Each neat little housekeeper weaves,
And there amid delicate fern sprays
Nestle the bright autumn leaves.
—E. L. Benedict.
A Boy az Iz a Boy.
I like a boy az iz a boy, not one of them air
kind
So dressylike an delliket, so cultured an re
fined,
With Fauntleroy hats an suitsan stringy yaller
curls
An general get up Like az if they wuz only
girls.
I like a boy thet’s hearty an not like a great
big toy.
I like a boy thet’s humanlike, a boy az iz a
boy
I like a boy az iz a boy, who plays leapfrog an
tag,
Whose hank’chief sometimes resembles—well
a discolored rag;
A boy thet splashes in th' pools when summer
rains come down;
A boy thet likes ter toiler a perseshun round
th' town.
I like a boy az iz a boy, one who sometimes
glories
In tales of bloody piruts an thrillin Indian
stories
I like a boy az iz a boy. one thet ye can't mis
take,
A boy thet will occasionally some command
ments break.
I like a boy who’s apt sometimes ter dirty shirts
an collars.
Who’s got an appetite, too, thet’s worth ten
thousand dollars.
sometimes he'sa nuisance, he'll finally
prove a joy
I like a boy thet fights, by gosh, a boy az iz a
boy.
I like a boy az iz a boy—a boy who’s not a fool,
Who’d rether go a-fishin eny day than go ter
school
I like a boy thet climbs up trees, goes gunnin,
too, fer rats—
A boy who stones all strayin dogs an pelts th'
neighbors’ cats.
Though this seems cruellike, it’s only boyish
glee, by gum,
Which th’ sorrers of th after years will knock
ter kingdom come.
I like a boy az iz a boy, whose hands ain’t al
ways clean;
A boy thet’s rough, but generous; a boy thet
isn’t mean;
A boy who’s sometimes sassy, but loves his dad
an mother;
A boy who’d alius fight fer his comrade er his
brother.
I like a boy like this ter love an sometimes
too, ler swat him.
I like a boy az iz a boy, an, thank God, 1 hov
got him!
—W. S Hillyer in Up to Date.
Registration Notice.
I will be at the following places on the
dates mentioned below, for the purpose
of registering the qualified voters of Hall
County for the year 1898:
Fork, Tuesday, July 26 —forenoon.
Bark Camp, Tuesday, July 26 —after-
noon.
Big Hickory, Wednesday, July 27
forenoon.
Quillians, Wednesday, July 27 —after-
noon.
Polksville, Thursday, July 28—fore
noon.
Bellton, Thursday, July 28 —afternoon.
Glade, Friday, July 29—forenoon.
Gillsville Court Ground, Friday, July
29—afternoon.
Gillsville, Friday, July 29—night.
Tadmore, Saturday, July 30—forenoon.
Candler, Saturday, July 30 —afternoon.
Flowery Branch. Monday, August 1—
forenoon.
Wilsons, Monday, August I—after
noon.
Gainesville, Tuesday, August 2 —all
day.
Whelchels, Wednesday, August 3
forenoon.
Roberts, Thursday, August 4—fore
noon.
Friendship, Thursday, August 4
afternoon.
Clincbem, Friday, August s—forenoon.
Morgans, Friday, August s—afternoon.
Will leave all places, visited in the
morning, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.
Registration Book will open at the
Court House on August 16th.
M. J. CHARLES, T. C.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
To Cincinnatus Gilmer:
I notify you that I will apply to the Superior
Court of Hall County at the next term, begin
ning on the third .Monday in July next, for the
appointment of partitioners to'partition the
land known as the William Gilmer tract of
land, situated on Oconee River, in said county,
being same land conveyed by Benj. Bryan, ad
ministrator of William Gilmer, deceased, to J.
D. Gilmer, William Gilmer, Elizabeth Gilmer,
and .Mary Gilmer, dated Sept. 15, 1832, recorded
in Clerk’s office, Hall County, Book F, pages
331,332,333. SARAH J. GILMER.
"cTh? winburnT
DENTIST.
CROWN and Bridge work a Specialty. A lib
eral amoun of patronage solicited.
Office, boom 3. Gordon block, up staiks.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS.
All persons indebted to Rigs
by & Son, by note or account,
are requested to call at their
store and settle the same.
B. H. WHELCHEL, Assignee.
June 30, IB9S.
A BARGAIN!
Here it is, and it is the
Best Opening you’ll
Ever Strike.
10U acres of land for sale, on the
Gainesville and Clarksville road, 3
miles from Longview.
This is all splendid land. 35
acres fresh land in cultivation, bal
ance in fine timber. Two branches
run through the place, and there is
considerable bottom land.
There are three houses on the
place. One is a nice new frame
house with three rooms and an 8-foot
hall, nicely built and ceiled and
painted, with lightning rods on
same. There are 'a good well and
spring at this house, and a pasture of
3 acres sown in grass near the house,
with wire fence around it.
There is a good box house with 2
rooms in yard, and a good box house
with 2 rooms on farm.
Two roads ’•tin through the place,
All is good, strong, rich land.
There is an orchard of 150 well
selected fruit trees—apples, peaches,
and pears—in their seventh year.
This place can be bought
FOLI #I,OOO
S2OO cash, and wil' give bond for
titles. Balance on easy terms.
The fruit on this place will pay for
it in three years.
For particulaas write or call at this
office.
Letters ot Administration.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
To all whom it may concern: R. Smith having
in proper form applied to me for Permanent
Letters of Administration, de bonis non, on the
estate of B. G. McClesky, late of said county,
this is to cite all and singular the creditors
and next of kin of B. G. McClesky to be and
appear at my office on the first Monday in
August, 1898, and show cause, if any they can,
why permanent administration should not be
granted to R. Smith on B. G. McClesky’s estate.
Witness my hand and official signature, this
29th day of June, 1898.
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA-Ha 11 County.
To all whom it may concern: B. F. Simmons
having in proper form applied to me for per
manent letters of administration, de bonis
non, with the will annexed, on the estate of
Lavinie Simmons, late of said coumy, this is
to cite all and singular the creditors and next
oQkin of said Lavinie Simmons to be and ap
pear at my office on the first Monday in Aug
ust, 1898, and show cause, if any they can, why
permanent administration should not be
granted to said B. F. Simmoi.s on Lavinie
Simmons’s estate. Witness my hand ami offi
cial signature this 27th day of June, 1898.
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
Notice to all concerned: The Southern Build
ing and Loan Association, as a creditor,
through its attorneys, Foster & Butler, have
tiled an application for administration on the
estate of Mrs. Ida Bell Smith, late of Hall coun
ty, deceased. This application will be consid
ered and passed upon on the first Monday in
August, 1898, and unless some valid objection
be made known A. R. Smith, county adminis
trator, or some other tit and proper person, will
then be appointed to administer the estate of
said Mrs. Ida Bell Smith, deceased.
Witness my hand and official signature this
29th dav of June, 1898.
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
Twelve Months Support.
GEORGIA—HaII County:
Ordinary’s Office, July 6, 1898. Notice to all
concerned: The appraisers appointed to ap
praise and set apart a twelve months support
to Mary Rosey Smith, widow of W G. Smith,
deceased, and her one minor child, and to four
minor children of said deceased by former
wives, out of the estate of said deceased, have
tiled their report in this office, and unless some
valid objection be made to the Court on or be
fore the first Monday in August, 1898, the same
will then be approved and made the judgment
of the court.
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
Twelve Months’ Support.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
Ordinary’s Office, July 6, 1898. Notice to all
concerned: The appraisers appointed to ap
praise and set apart a twelve months’ support
to Mrs. A. B. Fraser, widow of L. C. Fraser, de
ceased, and her six minor children, out of the
estate of said deceased, have filed their report
in this office, and unless some valid objection
be made to the Court on or before the first
Monday in August, 1898, the same will then be
approved and made the judgment of the Court.
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA—'White County.
To all whom it may concern: A F. I nderwood
having in proper form applied to me for per
manent letters of administration on the estate
of W. A. Merritt, late of said county, this is to
cite all and singular the creditors and next of
kin of said W. A. Merritt to be and appear at
my office within the time allowed by law. and
show cause, if any they can, why letters of ad
ministration should not be granted to said A.
F. Underwood on W. A. Merritt’s estate.
Witness my official signature this 4th day of
July, 1898.
J. H. FREEMAN, Ordinary.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
Pursuant to an order of the Court of Ordinary
of said county, granted March 2,1896, will be
sold before the court house door in said county
on the first Tuesday in August, 1898, within the
legal hours of sale, for cash, the following
property, to wit:
One undivided half interest in the two one
story brick stores situated on the south-east
corner of Bradford and Spring streets, in
Gainesville, Ga.
One lot and two-story building, known as the
Williams home place,' situated on the south
west corner of Broad and Sycamore streets, in
Gainesville, Ga.
One undivided one-fifth interest in one tract
<*f land known as “Old Fair Grounds,” bounded
on the west by Prior street, on the north by
Spring street, on south by College avenue, and
on south-west by Summit street, in Gainesville,
Ga.
One lot of land north-east corner Church and
Spring streets, in Gainesville, Ga.
Part of lot of land No. 51 in 10th district
of Hall county, bounded as follows: North by
Woodall place, east by land of J. E. Redwine
and W. A. Smith, south by W. A. Smith’s land,
and west by Dunagan, containing one hundred
and twenty-four acres, more or less.
Sold as property of W. S. Williams, deceased,
for distribution and payment of debts.
E. P. CHAMBERS, Administrator.
July 1, 1898,
White Sheriff Sales.
GEORGIA—White County.
Will be sold before the court house door in
the town of Cleveland, in said county, on the
first Tuesday in August, 1898, within the legal
hours of sale, for cash, the following described
property, to wit:
Parts of lots of land Nos. 12 and 13 in the 6th
district of said county, containing fifty acres,
more or less, and known as the John Gibbs oid
home place, oonnded as follows: On the east by
lands of V. L. York, on the north by lands of
said York, N. S. Cantrell, and Annie" Cantrell,
on the south by W. V. York et al., and on the
west by public road. Levied on and to be sold
as the property of John Gibbs by virtue of and
to satisfy a justice court fi fa in favor of J. A.
Richardson vs said John Gibbs, issued from
the justice court of the 427th district G. M. of
said county. Levy made by A. N. Vandiver, L.
C., and returned to me.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
one bay mare, about 7 years old, known as the
Wilson mare, and one yoke of oxen, one red,
about 8 or 9 years old,' and one red-and-white
spotted, about 8 or 9 years old, medium size,
and known as the Charley Simmons steers.
Levied on and to be sold as the property of W.
V. York to satisfy a fi fa issued from the supe
rior court of said county in favor of W. Y. At
kinson, governor, for 'the use of officers of
court vs W. V. York, Emma York, and Anna
York.
July 5, 1898.
R. H. BARRETT.
Sheriff Whit* County