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The Gainesville Eujle.
Entered at the Gainesville Postoffice as
Second-claM mail matter.
Official Organ of Hall County.
-Official Organ of White County.
Official Organ of the City of Gainesville.
W. H. CRAIG,
Editor and Business Manager.
Thursday, January 19, 1899.
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LET US NOT GO BACKWARD.
We regret to know that a fight is
being made to elect another man as
successor to Dr. E. E. Dixon as
County Commissioner. This office
will be filled by the present grand
jury and the fight will be made before
that body.
As we understand it, the fight
against Dr. Dixon is being made on
the grounds that he has, as some
ones put it, “spent too much of the
county’s money.” There is also a
fight being made by certain persons
because Dr. Dixon, in a systematic
and.painstaking way, went to work
and unearthed the Robinson short
age and recovered for the county
several thousand dollars which had
been overlooked and allowed to lie
hidden for several years for lack of
energy and nerve to tackle the mat
ter.
Yes, Dr. Dixon and the other ex
cellent Commissioners have spent
some money. How? Look at th''
free bridges, of which every en
lightened and well-meanir.g man in
the county should be proud.
As Judge Estes said in his charge
to the Grand Jury, “the county is
now in the best condition it has ever
been.” This excellent condition is
due more to Dr. Dixon than to any
other man, for he is a cool-headed
and careful business man, takes a
personal pride in the work, and gives
his whole time and attention to it.
We do not write this in the in
terest of Dr. Dixon, but in the inter
est of Hall county, which has reaped
inestimable permanent benefits from
his labors.
We should regret to know that Dr.
Dixon, to whom the whole county is
indebted for so many lasting im
provements, should be turned down
in the midst of his work.
The present grand jury is com
posed of capable, experienced, and
conscientious men, who believe in
going forward rather than backward,
and we believe they will weigh and
sift well the alleged reasons why Dr.
Dixon should not continue in his
work, and we believe that they will
vote him to be his own successor.
WILL BE RATIFIED.
The Spanish-American treaty is
being discussed with much vehem
ence in the U. S. Senate. In this
question party lines are not distinctly
drawn. For instance, Senator Hoar,
the ablest man on the Republican
side, is one of the firmest opponents
of the treaty, while Senator Morgan
is active in its favor.
Those who either fear that the
treaty will not be ratified or who
hope that it will fail may as well put
aside ad doubts on the question.
The treaty will be ratified, but not
immediately. It may be one of the
last things done before the adjourn
ment of congress. There is no dis
position on the part of the friends of
the treaty to force it unwillingly and
with undue haste over the heads of
the opposition. The senators who
have the treaty in charge feel per
fectly assured that when the final
vote is taken there will be votes to
spare. The fact that the senate in
the next congress will be more large
ly in favor of the treaty takes much
of the spirit out of the present fight
against it. If the vote to be taken
was purely on the question of expan
sion, then there would be some doubt
as to the result.
LYNCH LAW PROBLEMS.
Gov. Ellerbe, of South Carolina,
has grouped together the more fea
sible measures against the law-break
ing practice of lynching. He dis
cards altogether the provision per
mitting the heirs of a victim of lynch
law to sue the lynchers; for ex
perience elsewhere shows that ev
idence and honest juries, one or both,
are invariably wanting, and cannot
be had. He confines h’mself to prac- :
ticable measures, as follows:
1. Let punishment follow closely
the crime, thus linking in the pop
ular mind effect to cause.
2. Seizure of a prisoner in the
hands of an officer shall in all cases
and under all circumstances work a
forfeiture of the office of the respon
sible officer.
3. The county in which a lynching
occurs shall pay the heirs of the vic
tim of the lynchers $5,000.
All men convicted of lynching
shall be deprived of the right to vote
or hold office.
TOO MUCH TALK.
No man who has as much jaw as
one W. J. Bryan, who lives in Lin
coln, Neb., and once upon a time
held a commission in the volunteer
army, will never be President of the
United States. He is too small for
the place in every particular and
talks incessantly upon almost every
public question. History gives no
account of any one rising to any
thing like presidential prominence
who makes as many speeches as
Bryan and who is so anxious to give
bis advice on a slight provocation.— <
Carnesville Advance. i
THE GOOD OLD NAMES.
There may be more in a name than
is commonly supposed. As a fair
average of our great men, scan this
list of presidents of the United States,
together with the maiden names of
their mothers:
Washington—Mary Ball.
John Adams—Susanna Boylston.
Jefferson—Jane Randolph.
Madison—Nellie Conway.
Monroe—Eliza Jones.
J. Q. Adams—Abigail Smith.
Andrew J ackson Elisabeth
Hutchinson.
Van Buren—Mane Hoes.
W. 11. Harrison—Elizabeth Bas
sett.
Tyler—Mary Armistead.
Polk—Jane Knox-
Taylor—Sarah Strother.
Fillmore—Phoebe Millard.
Pierce—Anna Kendrick.
Buchanan—E.izabeth Speer.
Lincoln—Nancy Hanks.
Johnson—Mary McDonough.
Grant—Hannah Simpson.
Hayes—Sophia Birchard.
Garfield—Eliza Ballou.
Arthur—Malvina Stone.
Cleveland—Ann Neal.
Benjamin Harrison Elizabeth
Irwin.
McKinley—Nancy Campbell Alli
son.
This list of sweet, old fashioned
names furnishes a dignified rebuke
to modern frivolity in the matter of
names. The names on the list are
old fashioned ones. Among the
names of the notable women whose
sons have honored them by being
elected to the highest office in the
gift of the American people, there
are no Mollies, Bessies, Nannies, Jen
nies, Kitties, Birdies, Sallies, etc.
There is something solid and sub
stantial about the plain, old-fashioned
names which have belonged to the
mothers of our presidents. The
name may not have anything to do
with the character of its owner, yet
here we find a complete absence of
frivolous kittenish names, from Me
Kinley back to Washington. Fond
parents, in naming their daughters,
would do well to remember this fact.
In the last eight or ten years, it
has become the fashion to give girls
dainty, poetic names. Many young
ladies with plain, old-time names
have changed them, to be in style.
This practice has become so gen
eral that comparatively few of the
old-fashioned names are given the lit
tle girls of today. However, for the
past year or so there has been some
reform, and the movement would be
helped along considerably if every
mother would scan the list of names
of the mothers of the presidents of
the United States which we quote
above.
Mrs. Cleveland showed her rare
good sense and good taste when
she named her first two girls Ruth
and Esther. The Eagle tried to pre
vail on her and Grover to name the
third one Mary, and they did con
sider it for some time, but finally
compromised by calling her Marion.
DEWEY IS A REPUBLICAN.
Is Rear Admiral George Dewey,
the hero of Manila and of the Span
ish war, a Republican in American
politics? There has been a wide
spread impression throughout the
country that Dewey is of the Dem
ocratic tendency. A report comes
from Vermont that Dewey is a Re
publican, although he has not voted
since 1854. If such is the case it
may have an important bearing on
the next presidential campaign. There
has been a great deal of talk of Dew
ey as a probable candidate for Pres
ident on the Democratic ticket.
He has been nominated for that
place by some leading Democrats,
including Henry Watterson, of Ken
tucky.
The New York World says in a
special dispatch from Monpelier,
Vermont, that Dewey’s family and
Dewey have been affiliated with the
Republican party since its founda
tion. The brothers and relatives of
Dewey are quoted as authority for
the statement.
EDMUNDS ON THE PHILIPPINES.
Ex-Senator Edmunds of Vermont
has written a letter in which he takes
strong ground against the colonial
policy mapped out by the republican
parly. He is one of the leading
, members of that party as well as one
of the leading men of the nation.
He thinks we should deal with the
Filipinos as we propose dealing with
the Cubans, and that they should
have their own government.
He is not so much concerned about
the Filipinos as he is about this
country. He is satisfied that they
can take care of themselves as well
as the people of the South American
states do. We should not undertake
to interfere in the affairs of the Philip
pines further than to assist the people
there in establishing an intelligent
and stable government.
Mr. Edmunds points out that un
der the constitution we cannot hold
the Philippines as colonies. As sobn
as we accept the treaty in which
islands are ceded to us the inhabi
tants of them become citizens of this
country, having all the rights which
our citizens now have. They must
be dealt with just as the people of
our territories are. Governors and
judges must be provided for them,
and they will be entitled to delegates
in congress. And if tens of thous
ands of them want to settle in this
country there will be no possible way
to prevent them.
SENATOR BACON’S IDEAS.
Senator A. O. Bacon has taken
strong ground against the annexation
of the Philippines. Among other
things he says :
“Aside from the general question
of colonial expansion, it is not to our
interest to own the Philippine
islands. They are over a thousand
in number. The population can only
be estimate L This estimate by
some is as low as 8,000,000, while by
others it is as high as 12,000,000.
The proportion of whites is too small
to be stated in an ordinary fraction.
They are an Asiatic people, and must
ever so remain. It is impossible to
supplant them with the white man.
Many of them are primitive savages,
who have never determined what
kind of clothes they will wear, if at
any time in the future they should
conclude to wear any.
“Do we wish this conglomerate
Asiatic population as our fellow cit
izens, entitled with us to equal par
ticipation in the benefits and privi
leges of our governmeni? Are we
willing that they shall at Washing
ton assist in making laws which shall
be binding in Georgia? If not, do
we propose that the inhabitants of
those islands shall be the subjects of
the United States government with
no representation,, and bound to do
its unquestioned bidding? It must
be one or the other. The United
States now have no subjects. All
who owe them allegiance are citizens.
Are we prepared to enter upon so
great a revolution in the institutions
and character of our government?
Shall some be citizens and some be
subjects?”
WATCH THE DAMAGED CORN.
We would caution the farmers
against feeding damaged corn to
their stock. While we have heard
of no blind staggers in this imme
diate section, it is quite prevalent in
some sections of the State. Com
missioner of Agriculture Stevens has
looked into the matter pretty thor
oughly and says the disease arises
from feeding damaged or rotten corn,
and states that unless the owners of
stock give the matter their imme
diate attention the loss in horses and
mules to the people of Middle and
North Georgia will be enormous.
Nelson Dingley Dead.
Hon. Nelson Dingley, of Maine,
leader of the republican party on the
floor of the house of representatives
and representing the Second Con
gressional district of Maine in that
body, died last Friday of heart fail
ure, resulting from an extreme weak
ness due to double pneumonia.
He was the father of the present
tariff law which bears his name. He
was chairman of the committee of
Ways and Means, and was the Re
publican leader at the House.
Bill Goss Dead.
Mr. William J. Goss of Harmony
Grove died in New York city Tues
day afternoon of last week. He died
from injuries that he sustained
while coming down the steps in one
of the hotels in that metropolis sev
eral days ago. Mr. Goss has many
friends here, where he has often vis
ited relatives, who are pained to
know of his death.
Union’s Court House Fight.
The fight is still on over the re
moval of the Union county court
house from Blairsville to Fairview,
three miles distant. Au election
was held on Dec. 30th, and Fairview
got a majority of 17 vohey, but not
the necessary two-thirds required by
law to remove the court house. The
case is now in the supreme court and
if Judge Kimsey’s decision in the
lower court is reversed the end is a
long way off, but if he is sustained
Blairsville wins and will soon have a
$12,000 court house. The fight is
hotly contested by able lawyers on
both sides.
Death of Miss Price.
Miss Alice Graeme Price, daughter
of the late Willis F. Price of Macon,
niece of Mrs. Candler, wife of Gov.
Allen D. Candler, died last Friday
afternoon at 4:15 o’clock at the
Holmes sanitarium in
Her death resulted from typhoid
fever, with which she had been ill
for six weeks.
In Porto Rico the tax, under
American rule, will be $1.70 per cap
ita, while under the Spaniards it was
$4.10. The people in that island
should not have any fault to find
with the change.
Colonel Howard Thompson, of
Gainesville, is in the city today cir
culating among his friends. He has
hundreds of friends throughout the
state, and if rumors are correct he
will be in the center of a real live
political time in the near future.—
Atlanta Journal, 13th.
Mr. Henry N. O’neal, formerly of
Columbus, more recently proprietor
of the Arlington hotel in Gainesville,
left Atlanta for Havana last night
He will shortly enter business in Cu
ba’s capital city and is sanguine as to
the outlook.—Atlanta Journal, 13th.
Repairing the Mill.
Geo. K. Looper of Atlanta is attending
court this week and Isoking after busi
ness matters. Mr. Looper’s two sons,
George and Frank, are out at the old
Looper mill place at Brown’s bridge re
pairing the property and rebuilding the
dam, which was recently washed away.
Mr. Looper will probably move to the
property early next summer.
GEMS IN VERSE.
The Awakening.
Before the nation’s gate stood Peace. The fire
Os outraged Justice blazed through all the land.
Silent the goddess! Solemnly her hand
Was raised aloft to curb the quickening ire
Os those her chosen people. Hope, desire—
Aye, prayer itself -were still for peace.
“Command,”
Aloud they cried, “but while we waiting stand
Look thou lest Honor in thine arms expire!”
And he who ruled the nation's destiny
Took not his gaze from off the face benign.
Yet held in leash the gathering dogs of war.
But, hark! Wave borne comes Mercy’s smoth
ered cry,
And, 10, where stood but now that form divine.
Armored and grim, stalks Mars! The dream
is o’er.
—Paschal H. Coggins.
The Old Huntsman.
There’s a keen and grim old huntsman
On a horse as white as snow.
Sometimes he is very swift,
And sometimes he is slow,
But he never is at fault.
For he always hunts at view,
And he rides without a halt ,
After you.
The huntsman's name is Death.
His horse's name is Time.
He is coming, he is coming
As I sit and write this rhyme.
t He is coming, he is coming
L As you read the rhyme I write.
You can hear his hoofs’ low drumming
Day and night.
You can hear the distant drumming
. As the clock goes tick-a-tack,
fcv And the chiming of the hours
In the music of his pack.
You may hardly note their growling
, Underneath the noonday sun.
But at night you hear them howling
As they run.
And they never cheek or falter,
For they never miss their kill.
Seasons change, and systems alter,
But the hunt is running still.
Hark! The evening chime is playing. ,
O'er the long gray town it peals.
Don’t you hear the death hound baying
At your heels?
Where is there an earth or burrow,
Where a cover left for you?
A year, a week, perhaps tomorrow,
Brings the huntsman’s death halloo.
Day by day he gains upon us,
And the most that we can claim
Is that when the hounds are on us
We die game.
And somewhere dwells the Master,
By whom it was decreed.
He sent the savage huntsman.
He bred the snow white steed.
These hounds which run forever—
He set them on your track.
fie hears you scream, but never
Calls them back.
He does not heed our suing.
We never see his face.
He hunts to our undoing.
We thank him for the chase.
We thank him, and we flatter.
We hope because we must.
But have we cause? No matter!
Let us trust!
—A. Conan Doyle. *
“To Be Free.”
Afloat our flag is flying
On the sea. «
A haughty foe’s defying
Liberty
At the threshold of our land,
Where a small but va’iant band
Makes a bold, determined stand
To be free.
Heroic hearts are beating
On the sea,
Deflant lips repeating
“Liberty!”
Not for vengeance arm the strong,
But to succor those whom wrong
Has oppressed and scourged so long
To be free.
The tyrant’s bonds to sunder
On the sea
The cannon boom and thunder
“Liberty I”
And flaming Are shall glow,
And the blood in streams shall flow-
Men will suffer death and woe
To be free.
Freedom’s banner is unfurled
On the sea •
And proclaims to all the world
Liberty I
May our wills with thine accordl
To thy glory be it, Lord, # J
To unsheath the deadly sword
To be free.
—Alfred Lavington.
Longing.
Os all the myriad moods of mind
That through the soul come thronging
Which one was e’er so dear, so kind,
So beautiful, as longing?
The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment
Before the present, poor and bare,
Can make its sneering comment.
Still through our paltry stir aad strife
Glows down the wished ideal,
And longing molds in clay what life
Carves in the marble real.
To lot the new life hi, we know
Desire must ope the portal.
Perhaps the longing to be so
Helps make the soul immortal.
Longing is God’s fresh, heavenward will
With our poor earthward striving.
We quench it that we may be still
Content with merely living,
But weuld we learn that heart’s full scope
Which we are hourly wronging
Our lives must climb from hope to hope
And realize our longing.
Ah. let ns hope that to our praise
Good God not only reckons
The moments when we thread his ways,
But when the spirit beckons;
That some slight good is also wrought
Beyond self satisfaction
When we are simply good in thought,
Howe’er we fail in action.
—Lowell.
Misfits.
A big square peg cast longing eyes
At a small round hole in an oaken beam
And sighed and cried In great surprise
Because forbidden by fate to rise
And enter this goal of its wish supreme.
A country lad of a lowly race
Yearned for the whirl of a city life,
Abandoned a modest but model place
To find a gilded but grim disgrace
Amid our metropolitan strife.
’Twas ever thus. Men never learn
The homely adage old time has writ
Qu pages of souls with pens that burn,
la symbols of pain that writhe and turn—
Success is to stay in the spot you fit.
—H. J. Butler in Munsey’s.
A Woman’s Hand.
A woman's hand—so weak to see,
A) strong in guiding power to be,
So light, so delicately planned
That you can hardly understand
The strength in its fair symmetry!
A hand to set a nation free
Or curb a strong man’s tyranny
By simple gesture of eommand—
A woman’s hand!
O man, upon life’s troubled sea,
When tempest tossed by fate’s decree,
Though fortune hold thee contraband,
Hope on, for thou shalt win to land
If somewhere is stretched out to thee
▲ woman’s hand!
—Westminster Gazette.
Elijah and the Ravens.
M. C. Cannon, foimerly of this county,
but now of Stevensonville, Montana, sent
in a remittance a few days since of three
dollars on subscription, which sets him
up and one year ahead. Thanks, Brother.
—Dawsonville Advertiser.
YOU MUST have pure blood for
* good health. Hood’s Sarsaparilla
purifies the blood. Take Hood’s Sar
saparilla if you would BE WELL.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons having demands against the es-;
tate of T. N. Brian, deceased, late of Hall
county, are hereby notified to render in their
demands to the undersigned according to law
and all persons indebted to said estate are
required to make immediate payment.
This Jan. 9,1899.
M. B. CARTER,
G. P. PITMAN,
Adm’rs of T. N. Brian.
MONEY TO LOAN.
We now have plenty of money to loan i
on improved farm lands and Gainesville
city property. Terms and interest lib
eral. Call and see us.
DUNLAP A PICKRELL.
GEMS IN VERSE.
For Humanity.
Not for the pride of arms nor in base greed
Nor with the hope of an exalted name
Do we unsheathe the sword with blade aflame
For action. ’Tis the strongest, clearest creed
For which Columbia's valiant sons will bleed —
The love to brother man, of sacred fame.
Christ taught it while he healed the sick and
lame,
And shall woe at our portal vainly plead?
If blood be spilled that steadfast calm and
strength
May enter in where war and tumult rage,
If a new dawn illume the Cuban sky
With light of peace, from hearth and shrine at
length
A fervent land shall pray that God assuage
Her grief at death for wronged humanity.
—Abigail Taylor.
. My Schoolroom.
I have closed my books and hidden my slate
And thrown my satchel across the gate.
My school is out for a season of rest,
And now for the schoolroom I love best!
My schoolroom lies on the meadow wide.
Where under the clover the sunbeams hide,
Where the long vines cling to the mossy bars
Ana the daisies twinkle like the fallen stars,
Where clusters of buttercups gild the scene
Like showers of gold dust thrown over the
green,
And the wind’s flying footsteps are traced as
they pass
By the dance of the sorrel and dip of the grass.
My lessons are written in clouds and trees,
And no one whispers except the breeze,
Who sometimes blows from a secret place
A stray sweet blossom against my face.
My school bell rings in the rippling stream,
Which hides itself, like a schoolboy’s dream,
Under the shadow and out of sight,
But laughing still for its own delight.
My schoolmates there are the birds and bees
And the saucy squirrel, more dull than these,
For he only learns in all the weeks
How many chestnuts will fill his checks.
My teacher is patient, and never yet
A lesson of hers did I once forget,
For wonderful lore do her lips impart,
And all her lessons are learned by heart
Oh, come; oh, come, or we shall be late,
And autumn will fasten the golden gate!
—Katherine Lee Bates in American Agricul
turist.
The Bivouac of the Dead.
Below the city,.
Where the green, new soldiers come
And shock the air with sound of frequent drum
And pitch their tents upon the spring’s first
sod,
There rests another army—with its God.
Beyond the hills,
Along the slope that shades the river’s deep,
At rest in leveled graves ten thousand sleep,
And some are lm. ned, and some are marked
unknow: i.
Each has his nt oer and his year in stone.
Within the tents
The living soldier dreams of honor’s field,
Os men who fight, who die, but never yield.
He sees his face within a sculptured niche;
He dreams of title fine; he dreams that he is
rich.
An age ago
These rotting soldiers had their dreams like
this.
With eyes that gleamed and lips that loved to
kiss
They marched beneath the flag they would de
fend,
And now they lie unknown- a bitter end.
We pass along
The serried ranks of white and spring’s first
green,
With room enough for kneeling place between.
The heart is full; the eyes are brimming wells;
The hero’s pay—the homage fame compels.
—Homer Bassford.
One Religion.
Yer kain’t hev one religion fer the feller thet
is poor
An another fer the feller thet hez got a goodly
store.
The Lord don’t think of money when he noti
fies a soul
Ter rise where everybody wears a golden aure
ole.
The rich man gets no credit fer his heavy bank
account
An kain’t impress the angels by a-namin his
amount,
But es, he lived a decent life an tried ter do
what’s right
He’ll hev a cozy corner in the realms of end
less light.
The poor man won’t be favored cuz he didn’t
seem ter win
The gold an silver treasures thet he longed
ter gather in,
But es he bore his poverty an tried ter serve
the Lord
He won’t hev any trouble in a-findin his re
ward.
—Rush City Post.
The Stripes and Stars.
From prairie, O plowman, speed boldly away 1
There’s seed to be sown in God’s furrows to
day.
Row landward, lone fisher! Stout woodman,
come home!
Let smith leave his anvil and weaver his loom
And hamlet and city ring loud with the cry:
“For God and our country we’ll fight till we
die!
Here’s welcome to wounding and combat and
scars
And the glory of death for the stripes and the
stars!”
Invincible banner, the flag of the free,
Oh, where treads the foot that would falter
for thee
Or the hands to be folded till triumph is won
And the eagle looks proud, as of old, to the sun?
Give tears for the parting, a murmur of
prayer,
Then forward, the fame of our standard to
share,
With welcome to wounding and combat and
scars
And the glory of death for the stripes and the
stars!
RINGWORM
ON BABY’S FACE
Mother Ashamed to Take Him Out.
Everything Failed to Cure. CUTI
CURA Cured in Three Days.
I have had my baby Bick with his face full of
ringworm, and tried everything and failed. I
was ashamed to take him out, for every one would
look at him. I was told to get Cuticura. I got
it on Wednesday, and by Saturday his face was
all dried up. Now I can take him everywhere.
If people only knew about how his face looked a
week ago, and see it to-day, they would never be
without it. Mrs. J. POTTER,
394 So. First St., Brooklyn, N. T.
Warm baths with Cuticuba Soap and gentle
anointings with Cuticuba (ointment), constitute
the purest, sweetest, and most effective humor
treatment ever compounded, and appeals with
irresistible force to mothers, nurses, and all hav
ing the care of children afflicted with skin, scalp,
and blood humors, with loss of hair.
Sold throughout the world. Potter D. awd C. Corp.,
Sole Prop.., Boston. “ How to Cure Every Humor," free.
FAGEHUMORB Cviicoba Boat.
C. H. WINBURN,
DENTIST.
CROWN and Bridge work a Specialty. A lib
eral amoun of patronage solicited.
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GEMS IN VERSE.
The Brave at Home.
The maid who binds her warrior’s sash,
With smile that well her pain dissembles,
The while beneath her drooping lash
One starry teardrop hangs and trembles,
Though heaven alone records the tear
And fame shall never know her story.
Her heart has shed a drop as dear
As e’er bedewed the field of glory.
The wife who girds her husband’s sword
Mid little ones who weep or wonder
And bravely speaks the cheering word,
What though her heart be rent asunder,
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of death around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood as.e’er
Was poured upon the field of battle.
The mother who conceals her grief
While to her breast her son she presses,
Then breathes a few brave words and brief,
Kissing the patriot brow she blesses.
With no one but her secret God
To know the pain that weighs upon her,
Sheds holy blood as e’er the soil
Received on freedom’s field of honor.
—Thomas Buchanan Read.
Ready, Steady, Se.ilormanl
When the country’s in a state of agitation
And a lot of lubbers spoiling for a fight,
With a howl about the honor of the nation—
When the clouds of war are rolling into sight,
There’s a time when gallant sailormen are
ready
To participate in any little game,
And they make no bluff about it.
But let any nation doubt it,
And they'll find that we are ready, just
the same!
—Albert Bigelow Paine in New York Herald.
LaGrippe is Contagious.
Atmosphere Impregnated with Germs.
Diaenoe Proved Beyond Question to be
Infectious.—Rapidly Conquering
the Country.
LaGrippe is a contagious disease. Its
specific germ has been positively identi
fied, and it is transmitted from person to
person either by direct contact or by in
haling the germs while they float in the
air. It is a dangerous disease, lowering
the vitality and wasting the resistive
power so that pneumonia, heart disease,
nervous prostration and insanity find
easy victims. No specific is known tbwt
will kill the Grip germ, but it may be
driven out and its effects overcome by
the prompt use of Dr. Miles’ Restorative
Nervine.
“LaGrippe left my nervous system so
racked and shattered that I could not
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days after I commenced taking Dr. Miles’
Restorative Nervine I began to improve,
and in a month’s time I was entirely
cured. It is the greatest health restorer
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D. W. Hilton, Louisville, Ky.
All druggists are authorized to sell Dr.
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bottle benefits or money refunded. Be
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let on heart and nerves sent free. Ad
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Executor’s Sale.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
By virtue of authority given me under and
by the terms of the last will and testament of
John Merck, late of said county, deceased, I
will sell at public outcry, before the courthouse
uoor, in the city of Gainesville, in the county
of Hall and State of Georgia, within the legal
hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in February,
1899, the following described real estate, to wit:
1. The vacant lot in the city of Gainesville,
and said county and State, fronting one hun
dred and twenty-one (121) feet on Green street
and running back at right angles to said Green
street and along Church street one hundred
and sixty-five (165) feet to the Methodist church
lot.
2. A tract of land in the 9th district of the
county of Hall and State of Georgia, contain
ing one hundred and twenty-five acres, more
or less, and is the south and east part of lot No.
131, and is bounded on the south-east by the
original lot line, on the north-east by the origi
nal lot line, and on the west and north by the
Clark’s Bridge road, and is better known as the
John Merck Gold Mine place. All this tract is
in the woods, and on which is located three
rich gold veins, and which is situated two and
one-half miles north-east of Gainesville.
3. One tract of land lying and being in the
9th district of the county of Hall and State of
Georgia, and is part of lot of land No. 131, and
is situated in the forks of tfje Clark’s Bridge
and the New Bridge roads, and containing
thirty acres, more or less, and is bounded on
the south-east by the Clark’s Bridge road, on
the west and north by the New Bridge road,
and on the east by the lands of Win. B. Moore.
All to be sold as the property of the estate of
John Merck, deceased.
The titles are perfect.
The fiist lot is in the heart of the city of
Gainesville and is splendidly located for resi
dences.
The third tract of land has on it a well devel
oped gold mine, and has long been considered
one of the richest goldmines in North Georgia
The plats and titles of the property can be
seen by applying to the undersigned.
Terms cash. THOMAS M. MERCK,
Jan. 5,1899. Executor John Merck, dec’d.
A BARGAIN!
Here it is, and it is the
Best Opening you’ll
Ever Strike.
100 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, bsl-l
ance in fine timber. Two branches,
run through the place, and there isi
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 run through the place.
All is good, strong, rich land.
There is an orchard of 100 well-
■ selected fruit trees —apples, peaches,
and pears—in their seventh year.
This place can be bought
for SI,OOO
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.
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Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
Ordinary’s Office, Dec. 19, 1898. Notice to all
concerned: Adler Hulsey, administrator of the
estate of James Hulsey, deceased, represents
in his petition duly filed in office that he has
fully and justly administered the estate of said
deceased, and prays to be discharged from said
administration. This application will be con
sidered and passed upon on the first Monday in
April, 1899.
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
Ordinary’s Office, Dec. 1, 1898. Notice to all
concerned: J. D. Garner and G. G. Thompson,
administrators of the estate of W. R. Thompson
deceased, represent in their petition duly filed
in office, that theyhave fully and justly admin
istered the estate of said deceased, and pray to
be discharged from said administration. This
application will be considered and passed upon
on the first Monday in March, 1899.
‘A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA, Hall County.—Ordinary’.- Office,
November 3, 1898. Notice to all concerned: L
L. Strickland and W. R. Reed, administrators
of the estate of Ervin Strickland, deceased,
represent in their petition duly filed in office
that they have fully and justly administered
the estate of said deceased, and pray to be dis
charged from said administration. This appli
cation will be considered and passed upon on
the first Monday in February, 1899.
A. RUDOLPH, Ordinary.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA—White County.
To all whom it may concern: Susan C. Thur
mond having in proper form applied to me for
Permanent Letters of Administration with the
will annexed, on the estate of Elisha J. Thur
mond, late of said county, deceased, this is to
cite all and singular the* creditors and next
of kin of said Elisha J. Thurmond, to be and
appear at my office within the time allowed
by law, and show cause, if any they can.
why permanent administration, with the will
annexed, should not be granted to Susan C.
Thurmond on Elisha J. Thurmond’s estate.
Witness my hand and official signature, this
4th day of January, 1899.
J H. FREEMAN, O: di. ary.
Twelve Months Support.
GEORGIA—White County:
Ordinary’s Office, Jan. 2, 1899. Notice to all
concerned: The appraisers appointed to ap
praise and set apart a twelve months support
to Mrs. Sarah M. Robinson, widow of J. L. Rob
inson, dec’d, 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 oi
before the first Monday in February, 1899, the
same will then be approved and made the judg
ment of the court.
J. H. FREEMAN, Ordinary.
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Hall Sheriff Sales.
GEORGIA—HaII County.
Will be sold before the court house door in
the city of Gainesville, Hall County. Ga., within
the legal hours of sale, at public outcry, to the
highest bidder, on the first Tuesday in Febru
ary, 1899, the following described property, to
wit:
One house, and the lot on which it is located,
on the north side of North street, in the ciiy of
Gainesville, said county and State on
said North street and running back iA>' <lower
street; adjoining the property of G. H. I’rior,
Rives, and others, and being the place known
as the R. V. Cobb house and lot. Levied on as
the property of Mary E. Cobb to satisfy a State
and county tax fi fa for the year 1897. Levy
made and returned to me by J. L. Bryant, L. C.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
the following described real estate situated and
being in Wilsons District G. Al., Hall County,
Ga., and bounded on the north by lands of
McKinney, on the east by lands of W. B. Mc-
Connell, on the south by lands of W.B. McCon
nell, and on the west by the Chattahoochee
River, the same known as the Looper Mill
place, and containing acres. Levied on as
the property of Geo. K. Looper to satisfy a
State and county tax fi fa for the year 1897.
Levy made and returned to me by J. L. Bryant ,
L. C.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
all that tract or parcel of land situated in t lie
city of Gainesville, Hall county, Ga., fronting
ou tlie south side of Broad street, and bounded
on the east by land of Mrs. Emily Stringer, on
the south by land of Jack Morgan, and on the
west by land of J. J. Gregg. Levied on as the
property of John Martin to satisfy a State and
county tax fi fa for the year 1897. Levy made
and returned to me by J. L. Bryant, L. C.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
one lot of land containing three-tenths of an
acre, more or less situated in Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga.. and bounded on the north by land
of the estate of Mrs. H. E. Chambers, on the
west by land of H. H. Dean,on the south by
land of’ T. I’. Hudson, and on the east by land
of T. I’. Hudson and Mrs. I‘. a. E. Smith, exec
utrix, etc.; with the privilege ami free use of a
12-foot alley by the side of T. P. Hudson’s line,
running from said described lot to Oak street.
Levied on as the property of Mrs. W. F. Smith,
executrix, etc., to satisfy a State and county
tax fi fa for the year 1897. Levy made and re
turned to me by J. L. Bryant, L. C.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
one house, and -the lot upon which tne same is
located, to wit, all that tract or parcel of land
lying and being on the west side of Sycamore
street, in the city of Gainesville, Hall County,
Ga., the same bounded on the north by the
lands belonging to the estate of W. S.Will
iams, deceased; on the south and west by the.
lands of Mrs. McAlister, and on the east by
Sycamore street. Levied on as the property of
A . I’. Cochran to satisfy a State and county tax
fi fa for the year 1897. Levy made and returned
to me by J. L. Bryant, L. C.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
all that tract or parcel of land lying and being
in the State of Georgia and comity of Hall, ana
bounded on the north by the land of Mrs. Kate
B. Holland, on the east by lands of B. J. Hul
sey, on the south by lands of Brown, and on the
west by lands of unknown parties, the same
containing twenty-five (26) acres. Levied on as
the property of Mrs. Kate B. Holland, trustee,
etc,, to satisfy a State and county tax ft fa for
the year 1897. Lew made and returned to me
by J. L. Bryant, L, C.
A. J. MUNDY,
Sheriff Hall County.