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The Gainesville Jajle.
Offlcial Organ of Hall County.
Official Organ of White County.
Official Organ of the City of Gainesville.
Entered at the Gainesville Postoffice as
Second-class mail matter.
W. H. CRAIG,
Editor and Business Manager.
Thursday, August 4, 1898.
Democratic Ticket.
For Governor,
A. I). Candder.
For Secretary of State,
Phil Cook.
For Comptroller-General,
W. A. Wright.
For Commissioner of Agriculture,
O. B. Stevens.
For State School Commissioner,
G. R. Glenn.
For Attorney-General,
J. M. Terrell.
For Prison Commissioner,
J. S. Turner.
For State Treasurer,
W. J. Speer.
For Chief Justice,
T. J. Simmons.
For Associate Justices,
W. 11. Fish,
H. T. Lewis.
For Congressman,
F. C. Tate.
For State Senator,
J. K. Thompson.
For Representatives,
A. R. Smith,
W. B. Sloan.
For Clerk,
T. M. Bell.
For Sheriff,
A. J. Mundy.
For Treasurer,
J. R. Boone.
For Tax Receiver,
W. R. Robeitson.
For Tax Collector,
M. J. Charles.
For Surveyor,
T. Moreno.
For Coroner,
A. B. C. Dorsey.
PEACE IN SIGHT.
The President has yet received no
answer from Spain to his proposed
terms of peace, although an answer
is expected hourly; and that the
terms will be accepted every one be
lieves. Then a Spanish-American
commission will be appointed to draft
details of treaty, whose labors will
last several months. In the mean
time fighting would cease, but the
army held in reserve in case of a
flicker.
Miles is still pushing into Porto
Rico.
Yellow fever is raging among
aroops at Santiago, and many are
dying.
About 12,000 troops have arrived
at Manila. Insurgents are giving us
trouble. May have to whip them.
WE MUST HAVE~SEWERS.
The city of Gainesville is squarely
up against a problem that involves
her very existence. She must have
a first-class system of sewers or quit
growing. She mnst have sewers or
cease making pretensions to a sum
mer resort.
Why do our city fathers hesitate
to take hold ? Every one of them
knows as well as he knows his own
name that sewers must come and
that the time is here.
It will cost money. Os course it
will. It costs money to live, and yet
we must all eat or die.
A city that has within 300 of
5,000 inhabitants and is rapidly
growing must have sewers or the
growth will run up against the stop
ping place.
SHALL WE HAVE A DISPENSARY.
The supreme court recently de
cided that the dispensary is consti
tutional—that is, a dispensary
established by legislative enactment
for an incorporated town without
reference to a vote of the citizens of
the county.
In an interview with Mayor
Gaston he informed us that a large
number of our leading citizens were
in favor of a dispensary for Gaines
ville. He estimates that not less
than $5,000 is sent away from the
city every year for liquor, besides
large amounts spent with blind tigers.
The result of a dispensary would
be to give the city a large revenue,
without materially increasing the
quantity of intoxicants drank.
The sale of whiskey and the drink
ing of whiskey cannot be stopped
while men are as they are. People
will drink it. They shouldn’t, but
they will. We must deal with the
matter as a fact, not as a sentiment.
This is true: when there is a man
with a thirst and ten cents there will
also be a man who will make the
venture of getting the ten cents with
two cents worth of whiskey. That
is the blind tiger problem in a nut
shell, and the blind tiger and the
citizen with the thirst we have with
us alway.
The question, then, is, shall the
city get the profits instead of the
blind tiger?
We need the money, there is no
doubt about it. We will need it more
in a short while, when the G. J.&
S. bonds fall due. '
WHAT AMERICA CAN DO.
European newspapers are said to
express surprise at the resources of
this country as indicated in the pres
ent war with Spain. They find it
hard to understand how a nation
with a regular army numbering only
25,000 men and a small navy could
within three months bring to terms a
European nation having a respecta
ble navy and several hundred thou
sand well armed troops already in
the field. The explanation of this
mystery is chiefly to be found in the
difference between what Lord
Salisbury calls living and dying
nations.
Even with this explanation in view,
the facts are remarkable. Within
three months this country has organ
ized, equipped and mobilized a for
midable army and waged war with
amazing success in tw’O hemispheres,
the navy especially having done
wonders and proved itself to be im
mensely more formidable than was
supposed. Thirty-five warships of
the enemy, valued at $26,400,000,
have been destroyed, eleven at Ma
nila, six at Santiago, nine at Manza
nillo, four at Port Nipe, one at Porto
Rico, three at Cardenas and one at
Mariel, to say nothing of merchant
craft. And while all this was being
done only one American vessel, the
Winslow, was even temporarily dis
abled, and only one or two lives were
lost. The whole American loss on
sea and land does not exceed 266
killed and about 1,400 wounded,
most of whom will recover. In ad
dition to the loss of their ships,
nearly 2,000 Spaniards have been
killed and 3,000 wounded, while of
prisoners Dewey took some 2,000,
Sampson 1,600 and Shafter 24,000.
Add to this the territorial prizes of
the Philippines and Porto Rico with
a protectorate over Cuba—unless the
pending peace negotiations should
fail to meet popular expectation.
Gratifying as these results are, the
present war has been no adequate
test of the real resources of this na
tion, either as to men or money. The
scores of private regiments that have
been voluntarily recruited in various
cities, but not called out because not
needed, clearly indicate that, in the
event of a great war, this country
could turn out army after army on
comparatively short notice even with
out resorting to the draft system.
And as regards financial resources,
the prompt home subscription of the
recent popular bond loan of $200,-
000,000 shows that we can depend
entirely on ourselves in that particu
lar.
And another thing : The war
just closing has been of almost in
calculable benefit to the United
States. With the Rebel Brigadier
wearing a Yankee uniform, the sec
tions baye been harmonized as noth
ing else could have done it. When
the Bluecoats of Massachusetts and
Wisconsin followed Wheeler and
Hawkins up San Juan Hill the
spanning of the bloody chasm was
consummated.
And America has established her
self as one of the great powers of the
earth. Her dictum will be all-pow
erful. Her flag and her citizens will
be respected wherever the sunshines.
She can do whatsoever she wishes,
and “without asking the consent.of
any other nation,” in the language of
the free-coinageite. She has set the
pace for all future wars, if wars
there are to be. She has put the
record mark far out of reach of all
the future. Think of two great
naval battles with seventeen of the
enemy’s ships totally destroyed,
2,000 sailors killed, 3,000 wounded,
and 3,600 prisoners taken, with a
loss to the victors of one man killed
and three wounded I Manila and
Santiago are unapproachable as naval
victories. Never will they be dupli
cated.
As to the fighting of the army at
Santiago, probably nothing like it
has ever been seen before. A Turk
ish General who witnessed the charge
up San Juan Hill says that Turkey
in her palmiest days never had such
fighters as Shafter.
Another good result of the war
will be the civilizing and sanitizing
of Cuba and the development of her
wonderful resources. Yellow fever,
which has been a menace to our
country, will be stamped out by a
general cleaning up and an applica
tion of sanitary methods by our gov
ernment, and Cuba will b : filled with
prosperous people. And in the
course of time—perhaps a hundred
years—when the Cubans shall have
become capable of maintaining a sta
ble government, then the United
States will be ready to fulfill the
pledge of stepping aside. England
took charge of Egypt several years
ago with the same understanding.
She is there yet, and in no great
hurry. The same of the French in
Tunis. The time when sockless
barbarism may become capable of
self-government is very uncertain.
So America will have Cuba, and it
will be a garden spot.
FIXING HAWAII.
Extensive and costly defences are
to be erected at once in Hawaii.
Maps and plans have been ordered,
and forts, docks, shops, barracks,
coal bins and everything else needful
are to be hurried forward to com
pletion. Meantime our own coast is
lacking in defenses, notwithstanding
Congress has for years been urged to
appropriate money for the purpose.
Uncle Sam apparently thinks more
of bis new acquisition than he does
of his old homestead.
BETTER THAN FREE SILVER.
The record of the foreign trade of
the United States for the fiscal year
which ended on June 30 last was a
most remarkable one. Not only does
the year’s record surpass that of any
previous year in the total of exporta
tions, but for the first time in the
history of the country the exports
were twice as great as the imports.
The “balance of trade” in favor of
the United States that is, the
amount which would have to be paid
to this country if it were possible or
desirable to close up the year’s bus
iness on the last day of June and pay
in cash the difference due the party
who had sold more than he had
bought aggregates the enormous
total of $615,259,024.
Special prominence is given to this
balance in American favor by the
financial and commercial publications,
for the reason that never before has
the country had a balance in its fa
vor even half so large. In fact, no
previous year’s balance has ever
reached $300,000,000. The best pre
ceding record was that of the year
ending June 30, 1897, when the bal
ance in our favor was $286,225,000.
CONSIDERABLY WRONG.
Jim Gaston, Gainesville’s popular
mayor, is spoken of by the Piedmont
Republican as a probable candidate for
Congress in the Republican ticket. But
Jim is not going to run, or allow himself
to be run. He is a Tate man, and will
vote for Tate in the November election.
He realizes the hopelessness of his party
in the 9th, and, like a sensible man,
votes with the Democrats in Congres
sional and State elections. That’s the
reason he is mayor of Gainesville. —Law-
renceville News.
The News does Mayor Gaston an
injustice. When the people came
to vote for a mayor for the city of
Gainesville they did not stop to in
quire for whom Judge Gaston had
been in the habit of voting. They
did not care. Our people are bigger
than political issues when it comes
to selecting a mayor.
No, Jim Gaston was elected
mayor of Gainesville because of his
fine business head, his progressive
ideas, and the unselfish zeal and en
ergy with which he has always
worked for everything calculated to
benefit the city.
One thing can be said to the credit
of our people, and that is, they ig
nore politics when they start out to
find a good man for a non-political
office.
INTELLECTUAL VS. ATHLETIC.
The victory of Mercer University
in the Southern Oratical Contest at
Monteagle on the evening of July
26th is another evidence of the
prestige and high excellence of that
Institution. Mr. John R. Straton,
who has for two years been a
student at Mercer, and who will be a
student the coming year, represented
the Institution at the Southern
Oratorical Contest, and won the
medal. He is a young man of fine
talents, fine poise of character and of
fine promise. Mercer seems to be
solving the high and vital question
of wisely directing the enthusiasm
and energy of her students towards
high ends. As long as the President,
Faculty and students manifest the
splendid interest they now feel in
high intellectual contests, athletics
can not become abnormal.
The Institutions - represented at
Monteagle on the evening of July
26th were Tulane University of
Miss, Millsaps College of Miss.,
University of Alabama, Auburn,
Alabama, University of Georgia and
Mercer. The significance and value
of such an occasion is to develop
enthusiasm in a high cause. The
immediate outcome of the contest at
Monteagle was the organization of a
Southern Inter-collegiate Oratorical
Association. Mr. John R Straton
of Mercer University was made
President of this organization.
President Pollock of Mercer and
some of his students accompanied
Mr. Straton to Monteagle and stood
behind him with enthusiasm.
THE SMALL GUN.
The battle Yalu river and the one
in Manila bay and the battle of
Santiago are all the battles that have
been fought by modern ships ; but
these three battles seem to have es
tablished some things beyond the
range of theory. They show, for
example, that ships fighting at close
range, as ships ordinarily fight,
should be well supplied with rapid
fire guns, and with guns that throw
6 inch shells or even less.
The smaller guns in all three of
tho battles did the best work. The
Spanish officers who passed through
the Santiago battle agree in saying
that the rapid-fire guns drove theit
men from their guns and created
vast destruction in the woodwork of
the ship. It also appears that the
6-inch shells pierced the 9-inch armor
of the Spanish cruisers—vessels of a
high rank in their class.
Altogether it is plain that the les
ser guns are the more effective at
close range, and the rapid-fire guns
the most destructive of all.
BISMARCK DEAD.
Prince Bismarck, who has almost
made Germany what she is by his
vigorous policy of “blood and iron”
and who has been suffering from
chronic diseases of old age, died Sat
urday. Next to Gladstone he was
the greatest man of the century.
The Cubans promised that they
would have between 50,000 and 100,-
000 men to back up the United States
io a war with Spain. So far about
2,000 have materialized.
CONQUEST OF PORTO RICO.
American Flag Rapidly Extending
Its Folds Over the Island.
Without seeing or hearing any
thing of the enemy the~advance
guard of Gen. Henry’s division,
which landed at Guanica on Tues
day, arriyed at Port of Ponce last
Saturday, taking en route the cities
of Yauco, Tallaboa, Sabana Grande
and Poneulas. Attempts by the
Spiniards to blow up bridges and
otherwise destroy the railroad be
tween Yauco and Ponce failed, only
a few flat cars being burned. Our
troops have fired upon the locomo
tives and are now operating the
road from end to end, carrying sup
plies, messages and men.
At Yauco the Americans were
welcomed in an address made by the
Alcalde and a public proclamation
was issued dated: “Yauco, Porto
Rico, United States of America,
July 27.” Maj. Webb Hayes of the
Sixth Ohio, son of former President
Hayes, hauled up the flag on the
palace, amid cheers from the popu
lace. The people seemed really glad
that the Americans were there, but
they fear an uprising of the natives
in the interior, who, it is asserted,
will rob, kill and destroy property in
revenge for many years of Spanish
misrule.
The sndden surrender of Ponce
was somewhat unexpected. The
Dixie, Wasp and Gloucester had en
tered the harbor when there appeared
a delegation representing the bus
iness interests of the city, the mem
bers of which begged Commander
Davis not to bombard the city.
There was no intention of shelling
the town, therefore the request of
the business men was considerable
of a surprise.
Commander Davis was quick to
take advantage of the situation, and
at once demanded the surrender of
the city. As a result he received the
Spanish colors instanter. This in
teresting event took place in the
cabin of the Dixie. The American
array had not arrived. The Ameri
can flag was hoisted at 6 p. m.
When it became known that the
town had surrendered to the Ameri
cans there was the greatest enthusi
asm-and the troops of Miles were
given a warm welcome upon their
arrival. As soon as the American
colors had been raised Lieut. Haines
took the Alcalde’s mace, sat in the
chair of justice and liberated the
political prisoners. The town and
port of Ponce are now both in the
hands of the Americans, and the
taking of San Juan, it is believed,
will be comparatively easy.
Conquerors have seldom found a
subjugated city so cordial as Ponce
has been to the Americans. Yester
day was a gala day. Every citizen
was in holiday dress and mood.
Women were smiling greetings from
carriage and balcony, and men,
when encouraged by responsive looks,
were crying “Viva Americano” and
taking the provost guard to cases to
drink in amity. The political
prisoners set at liberty are now
haranguing sympathetic gatherings,
while our flag flies over Chattel de
Infantaria, and the native scarlet
shirted bomberas are playing Sousa’s
“Stars and Stripes Forever” before
the city hall in La Plaza de Delicia.
The Mayor was in fashionable
afternoon dress, except that his shirt
front was fastened with large coins.
He said he had no regrets because
Americans were in possession. Under
American rule, his secretary sug
gested, content would return and
prosperity increase, and for that
reason the mayor rejoiced. He was
not dissatisfied over what happened,
but was gratified that his administra
tion is to be continued for the pres
ent, with Gen. Wilson as military
governor. Shops will reopen and
business will resume.
Native families drove to the port
to see the soldiers land, and went to
the harbor to look at the battleship
Massachusetts. The band on this
namesake of the old Bay State played
“Dixie” for them.
It was 4 o’clock in Casa del Rey
when the city was formally turned
over by the mayor and council to
Miles’ and Wilson’s staffs. From
the balcony the mayor spoke to the
assembled citizens, who cheered.
Miles was conspicuous in a white
duck suit and helmet, and was
saluted.
SOME INSTANCES OF MOISTURE.
Our section was visited by a great
rain and wind storm last night. To
the east of us great damage was
done. At Philadelphia yesterday
evening there was a rainfall of 5.4
inches in an hour and three-quarters.
That is close to 100 inches in 24
hours, but it doesn’t begin to com
pare with Noah’s fluod, which was
about 10,800 inches in 24 hours.
However, the whole bottom may be
said to have been out on that occa
sion.
The war loan will go into the
hands of more than 300,000 persons.
According to the final totals, the av
erage will be about SSBO to each sub
scriber. The distribution is going
on at about the rate of 3,000 bonds
distributed per day. No tabulation
has yet been made by States, but it
is understood that quite a number of
the bonds will be sent South and
West.
A Flank Movement.
The brightest farmer in Georgia
lives in Pickens county. His potato
patch had become so grassy (for
want of elbow grease) that the young
vines could hardly be seen. So
when the recent rains came he
bedded a new patch, pulled up his
“slips” out of the grassy ridge and
replanted them in the new place.
He says the grass in the old patch
was the sickest looking grass h? ever
saw when it found out what a trick
he’d played on it.—Jasper Herald.
Oue of the members of the French
chamber of deputies is a full blooded
negro, from Gaudelupe. He is not
very well educated, but talks volubly
on most every subject. The negro
was elected from the island by a
coalition of whites and blacks against
the mulattoes.
Judge J. B. Estes, of Gainesvlile,
will be in the race for Judge of the
Superior Court, northeastern circuit.
Judge Estes is one of the ablest at
torneys in the State and would make
a good judge.—Dahlonega Nugget.
This is from a northern paper, the
Toledo Blade: “General Joe
Wheeler is the same brave man of a
third of a century ago. In Friday’s
battle before Santiago, although too
sick to lead his men, he was carried
to the front on a litter. Wheeler is
all right.”
The British admiralty will build
six more first class battleships. That
will give Great Britain thirty-ffvc
battleships of the first-class, besides
twenty-four of the second class.
Our builders will have to do some
extraordinary hustling if they ever
place Uncle Sam alongside of
Britannia, who rules the waves.
General Wheeler, standing in front!
of his tent watching the splash of|
bullets in a lake in front of him to
see how the enemy are getting the
range, makes a picture for an artist.
Wheeler up a tree surveying the
enemies position. Wheeler in an
ambulance sick, Wheeler five minutes
later on his horse at the front of the
fight. Wheeler is a picturesque
picture any way you take him, and
he is every inch whalebone, courage
and ceaseless activity.
Spain.
A scarred old snarling lion, with scraggy, tat
tered mane,
His claws and teeth all broken, lies the ancient
realm of Spain.
With the thirst for blood still on him and still
with hungry maw
He rends poor bleeding Cuba, prostrate there
beneath his paw.
He's a fierce and famed man eater and from
early days of yore
Has ravaged many an island, wasted many a
teeming shore,
And the victims number millions whom his
strength has overpowered,
Whom with ravening, bloody slaughter he has
mangled and devoured,
But his roar grows faint and hollow, and a
hunter from the west
Will snatch away fair Cuba, with her torn and
bleeding breast,
And send him, howling, limping, reviled of
gods and men,
Back to growl midst bonesand darkness in his
mediaeval den.
—New York Tribune.
Home.
There Is a land, of every land the pride,
Beloved by heaven o’er all the world beside,
Where brighter suns dispense serener light
And milder moons emparadise the night—
A land of beauty, virtue, val —, truth,
Time tutored age and love exalted youth.
The wandering mariner, whose eye explores
The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting
shores,
Views not a realm so bountiful and fair
Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air.
In every clime the magnet of his soul,
Touched by remembrance, trembles to that
pole,
For in this land of heaven’s peculiar grace,
The heritage of nature’s noblest race,
There is a spot on earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the reSt,
Where man, creation’s tyrant, casts aside
His sword and scepter, pageantry and pride,
While in his softened looks benignly blend
The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend.
Here woman reigns. The mother, daughter,
wife,
Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of
life.
In the clear heaven of her delightful eye
An angel guard of love and graces lie.
Around her knees domestic duties meet,
And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Where shall that land, that spot of earth, be
found ?
Art thou a man, a patriot? Look around!
Oh, thou shalt find, howe’er thy footsteps
roam,
That land thy country and that spot thy home!
The Flag Goes By.
Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky.
Hats off!
The flag is passing by 1
Blue and crimson and white it shines
Over the steel tipped, ordered lines.
Hats off!
The colors before us fly,
But more than the flag is passing by.
Sea fights and land fights, grim and great,
Fought to make and to save the state;
Weary marches and sinking ships,
Cheers of victory on dying lips,
Days of plenty and years of peace,
March of a strong land’s swift increase,
Equal justice, right and law,
Stately honor and reverend awe,
Sign of a nation great and strong,
To ward her people from foreign wrong;
Pride and glory and honor—all
Live in the colors to stand or fall.
Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles,, a ruffle of drums,
And loyal hearts are beating high.
• Hftts off!
The flag is passing by!
—H. H. Bennett in Youth's Companion.
" Released.
A little, low ceiled room—four walls
Whose blank shut out all else of life,
And crowded close within their bound
A world of pain and toil and strife—
Her world! Scarce furthermore she knew
Os God’s great globe that wondrously
Outrolls a glory of green earth
And frames it with the restless sea.
Four closer walls of common pine
And therein lying, cold and still,
The weary flesh that long hath borne
Its patient mystery of ill—
Regardless now of work to do,
No queen more careless in her state,
Hands crossed in an unbroken calm.
For other hands the work may wait.
Put by her implements of toll;
Put by each coarse, intrusive sign.
She made a Sabbath when she died,
And round her breathes a rest divine.
Put by at last beneath the lid
The exempted hands, the tranquil face.
Uplift her in her dreamless sleep
And bear her gently from the place.
Oft she hath gazed with wistful eyes,
Oft from that threshold, on the night.
The narrow bourn she crosseth now;
She standeth in the eternal light.
Oft she hath pressed with aching feet
Those broken steps that reach the door.
Henceforth with angels she shall tread
Heaven’s golden stair forevermqjp.
D. T. Whitney.
Bemtmb.T, O Spain!
Thy cup hast fills: I < flowing
With a prodigal h Aping of crime.
Thou shalt gather i.ie seed of thy sowing,
And now is the hi rvesting time.
for the gods have been patient and slum
bered ;
Not weakly they punish and pay,
But thy sins have been carefully numbered,
And this is their reckoning day.
Remember thy pirate Pizarro,
Remember the fate of Peru,
Remember thy edicts to harrow
The soul of the downtrodden Jew,
Remember thy Mexican pleasure
In numberless captives and slain—
The gods have all these in their measure.
Remember and tremble, O Spain!
In the face of the world we impeach thee
I Os guilt that belittles all sin.
And by the Most High we will teach thee.
Come, now is the time to begin!
—W. H. Howells.
The Land of Used to Be.
Beyond the purple, hazy trees
Os summer's utmost boundaries,
Beyond the sands, beyond the seas,
Beyond the range of eyes like thes>>
And only in the reach of the
Enraptured gaze of memory,
There lies a land long lost to ma,
The land of Used to Be!
A land enchanted, such as swung
In golden seas when sirens clung
! Along their dripping brinks and sung
To Jason in that mystic tongue
That dazed men with its melody—
Oh, such a land, with such a sea
Kissing its shores eternally,
Is the fair Used to Be—
A land where music ever girds
The air with belts of singing birds
And sows all sounds with such sweet wordfl
That even in the low of herds
A meaning lives so sweet to me
Lost laughter ripples iimpldly
From lips brimmed over with the gle«
Os rare old Used to Be—
Lost laughter and the whistled tunes
Os boyhood’s mouth of crescent runes,
That rounded through long afternoons
To serenading plenilunes,
When starlight fell so mistily
That, peering up from bended knee,
I dreamed 'twas bridal drapery
Snowed over Used to Be!
| Oh, land of love and dreamy thoughts
And shining fields and shady spots
Os coolest, greenest grassy plots,
Embossed with wild forgetmenots,
And all ye blooms that longingly
Lift your fair faces up to me
Out of the past, I kiss in ye
The lips of Used to Be!
—James Whitcomb Riley.
The Tragedies of Peace.
Peace hath her tragedies no less than war.
Grim war is but the normal state of men
In this rude world, where he who cannot fight
Must yield to him W’ho can. The elements,
The passions and the lust of victory
O'er barren fields, o’er treach’rous waves
and all
That bar man’s road to better things impel
To conflict. He who fights must lay aside
The tender luxuries of life that sap
Virility. With manhood’s strength begirt
He conquers first himself and then delights
In lesser strife that overcomes the foe.
The tragedies of war in bloody death
May end, but not in shame. The tragedies
Os peace in degradation worse than death
Find consummation. Decadence comes
When peace effeminate laps all her sons
In wantonness of wealth. So fell great Rome,
Once mistress of the world, when circuses
And boundless luxury filled every heart
And warlike spirit fled. And so hath Spain
Forgot her Cid and in her brutal fights
With harmless bulls and in her lust for gold
Become more cruel than the grave and lost
Her manhood. Not a nation of the earth
Hath sunk so far beneath contempt.
O war, we hail thy horror and thy woe
If they shall breed again the sturdy strength
Os simple manliness that made the world
In homage bow to Washington and them
Who, spite of poverty and raging kings,
To mankind gave the first true liberty!
—New York Mail and Express.
Thought.
Thought is deeper than all speech,
Feeling deeper than all thought.
Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught.
We are spirits clad in veils.
Man by man was never seen.
All our deep communing fails
To remove the shadowy screen.
Heart to heart was never known.
Mind to mind did never meet.
We are column? left alone
Os a temple once complete.
Like the stars that gem the sky,
Far apart, though seeming near,
In our light we scattered lie.
All is thus but starlight here.
What is social company
But a babbling summer stream ?
What opr wise philosophy
But the glancing of a dream?
Only when the sun of love
Melts the scattered stars of thought.
Only when we live above
What the dim eyed world hath taught,
Only when our souls are fed
By the font that gave them birth
And by Inspiration led
Which they never drew from earth,
We, like parted drops of rain,
Swelling till they meet and run,
Shall be all absorbed again,
Melting, flowing, into one.
Does Baby
Thrive?
If your baby is delicate
and sickly and its food does
not nourish it, put fifteen
or twenty drops ol Scott’s
Emulsion in its bottle three
or four times a day and you
will see a marked change.
We have had abundant
proof that they will thrive
on this emulsion when other
food iails to nourish them.
It is the same with larger
children that are delicate.
Scott’s Emulsion seems to be
the element lacking in their
food. Do not fail to try it if
your children do not thrive.
It is as useful for them in
summer as in winter.
Ask your doctor if this is not true.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York
Notice of Land to Rent.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
As guardian of Berry Elliott, lunatic, I will
rent at public outcry, before the court house
door, in the city of Gainesville, Ga., on the first
Tuesday in September, 1898, within the legal
hours of sale, all the lands of said Berry Elliott,
in said county, for the year 1899.
One farm of about seventy-five acres of tilla
ble land, including about forty acres of bottom;
two farms of twenty-five acres each of tillable
land.
Terms: Note, with good security, due No
vember 1, 1899. ORVILLE C. KEITH,
Guardian of Berry Elliott.
Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
Notice to all concerned: R. Smith, adminis
trator, de bonis non, on the estate of Benj. G.
McCleskey, deceased, has in due form of law
filed his application for leave to sell the lands
belonging to the estate of said deceased. This
application will be considered and passed upon
on the first Monday in September, 1898.
A. RUDOIPH. Ordinary.
Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA— HaII County.
Ordinary’s Office, Aug. 4, 1898. Notice to ail
concerned: L. L. Strickland and W. R. Reed,
administrators, de bonis non, on the estate of
Ervin Strickland, deceased, have in due form
of law filed their application for leave to sell
the lands belonging to said estate. The same
being the dower land until the death of the
widow. This application will be considered
and passed upon on the first Monday in Sen
tflmber, 1898. F
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
The Red Cross.
There’s a call for heroes sounding on each
breeze that sw’eeps the earth.
Men of thought and men of action, men o!
sterling breed and worth.
Such a call, the soul once heeding, greatness
springs to instant birth.
For God is marching on 1
Hear ye, then, O men and women, ’tls to you
the summons comes,
Clear and strong as in the battle sounds the
throbbing of the drums,
In behalf of truth and honor in our lives and
marts and homes,
For time Is marching on!
List ye in the noble army, pledge yourselves
to aid the right,
Fling to heaven’s breeze the banner, blood red
cross in field of white—
By thia sacred sign we conquer every foe to
peace and light
As we go marching on!
—Chicago Advance.
Love.
Love is a wild steed, hating a fetter.
Held with a loose rein, love drives the better.
Light should his harness be, checks not too
many.
Ah, but beware of him,
Ah, but take care of him
When he scorns any!
Love has a fleet foot. Love Is a rover.
Chasms and barriers love will leap over.
Wise is the law that leads back to the manger.
Not till he loves the check
Flung lightly o’er his neck
Is love free from danger.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Each helpful word, each loving gift, that oth
ers give to you
Remember with a grateful mind and thanks
both warm and true,
But if you do a kindness to others as you go
The sooner you forget it the sweeter it will
grow.
Leave others to remember it, press onward as
you ought,
And love your best and give your best with
out a backward thought.
Suffered 20 Years.
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Notice of Land to Rent.
GEORGIA —Hall County.
I, as guardian of George W. Garner, imbecile,
will rent at public outcry, liefore the court
house door, in Gainesville, Ga., on the first
Tuesday in September, 1898, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder, for the
year 1899, the farm in Big Hickory district, in
said county, known as the Geo. W. Garner
farm, seventy- acres in cultivation, forty acres
bottom land, balance good upland; dwelling
and three tenant houses on the place.
Terms of renting: Note, with good security,
due November 1, 1899.
A. J. BENNETT,
Guardian of Geo. W. Garner.