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the Eagle I’xxblisliing- Company.
VOLUME XL.
Andoe & Co.,
Never Carryover Remnants.
The reason why is told below. This is
our REMNANT SELLING season.
In Knit Underwear we hate broken suits, Vests without Pants to
match, or Pants without Vests to* match, or an odd Suit in
small or extra size, and where such is the case we are making
prices that sell them. ""
IN HOSIERY the same offer holds good.
We have a few odd Rugs and Hassocks left which MUST BE SOLD
before our new stock arrives.
In Curtains, we are offering the odd lots at about half price; some
lots have one curtain only, others have snore. The prices
range from 39c to $5.00 per pair. Some of these lots may be
just what you want.
How about a real good pair of Blankets at YOUR PRICE, to close
them? We also have a few pairs of cheaper ones left.
These odd lot prices hold good in Clothing, Overcoats and Odd
Pants.
We also have about a dozen Capes, Jackets and Reefers to go at
just half price.
Just received a new lot
White Goods, Embroideries, Dress Goods,
And Shoes.
Come and see them, glad to show you.
R. E. ANDOE & CO..
14 Main St. Telephone £>.
Waterman, Burnett & Co.,
EXCLUSIVE
Clothiers, Tailors,
GENTS’ FURNISHINGS and SHOES,
G-JLIJSTES'VILLE, C3-JL.
SEND US ONE DOLLAR-
Cut this ad. out and send to us <*ltb(l.OO, and we will send you this —j Ml
NE>V IMPROVED ACSK qtI.ENPAKLOH OHGAN, by freight C.O. D., nkjut
to •isminitlea. You can examine it at your nearest freight depot, and WLf / X X’X
if you find it exactly as represented, equal to organs that retail at
fl 6.00 to (100.00, the greatest value you ever saw and far better than a |
organs adi ertised by others at more •»<■, pay the freight agent .ar S JSMBWSW a
• peelol 90 d»>, offer pries, (31.75, less the 11, or 130.75 aai freight ekargea. ■ SttMtffiSW £»-• -:■ L ’
$31.75 IS OUR SPECIAL 90 DAYS PRICE. vne-half the £ |l 1
, ~..- : -—— ~ • 77T7.L- price ahaxf ■
ed by others. Such an offer was never made before.
TUC AOUC niICCA! i!»oneofthe«»»t4Brablßßß4!we«UttUßUin- i
IHL Au Ml UUll.lt stru meats ever made. From the illustration WMF - ~MM|| rM*CTw*l
shown, which is engraved direct from a photograph, you can form JJHv ••
seine idea of its benutl'al appearance. Made from Solid h.»zAl':4
Quarter Sawed Oak, antique finish, handsomely
ed and ornamented, latest 1899 StylOa TMt Ads V'IWII
6 feet 5 inches bi,.-?.. 42 inches long, inches wide and weight
stops a. follows: Dlapataa.
Principal, Dulclana, Slelodis, Celesta, Crcnana, Baaa (.’•■pier.
Treble Coupler, Diapason Forte. Principal Forte, aa4 Tai Hasi
m; 2 Octave Couplers, 1 Tone Swell, 1 Grand Organ Swell, 4 Seta I&
Orchestral Toned Kescnatury Pipe Quality Keeda, 1 Setef 17 Fare sKM T.
Sweet Melodia Reed’, 1 Set of 17 Charmlagly Brllliaat Caleate M
Keeda, 1 Set of 24 Rich bellow Smooth Dlapaata Reels, 1 let es |>t>iuaaal MIWVi. <Wr r
2-t rieeblng Soft Relodlcus Principal Reeds. I *t"MtTsoo| /
THE APUP niIPEA! action Consist of the celebrated |o■ 6MI rW*llW|MMib WIU
IHu AuMl yULLII V"rl Reeds, which are only used iTofiartaerl IjEJy IAO BI ’WWm
inthehlKhe>t grade instruments, al o fitted with Haw- * i==g*«A MW I -'ll I'llr:
laoad Couplers and Toy Human-., also be*<t Dolce felts, lefttbersS | •-’ ’Bl i’ ].•'••
et.-,. hollows of the be-vt rubb.'. . ’.< th. 3 ply bellows st<»ck F ■ L'fj It ;!oi i '- !l i l E •!'! IliHp '
audfiva-t leather in valve-. THE ACME QUEEN!' SKIW I ’’W-T” P,
finished " ith a l?xl4 beveled p.atc i rench mirror, nicked ! jsj|l K >' i|b'• I
plated peani < va:ne> and ev« ry mode: n improvement. 741 I ■<'•’l * R ‘ L'‘ lift l ' PUBI9!fi
II RMM< M.< t c. handsome organ stool and the baetorgaji L : ' ■HBMHs&|
instruction bo, \ published. ijCllA. ,1 l/7//3Br-MMa| > IjWMIMSI
GUARANTEED2SYEARS l MMJp,
Acme Queen Organ .. e issue a v iif (on bndinj-year ; ilo' ,
k .mrantee. by the t.-nns and conditions es w hich if
p.u t gives out u v revnir it tree of charge. Try it »»eEial- -
Bl on th nr. Iwe V. ill re fur. i yov.r money it you are notfeg, ■
perti ctly satis: • I. aOC of thebe organa wll be aeld
$31.75. Orderaivr.ee. Don't delay.
OUR RELIABILITY IS ESTABLISHED ?f
not dealt with us ask your neighbor about us, write
the publisher of th < paper, or Met ropolitan National -p
Bank, National F.-luic of the Hank of Comm.re., Chicago; or German exchange Bank New York ne
any railroad or express company in Chicago, W. h... a capital .f aver MM,000.00. occupy entireToA.
e>t business bloeks in Chicago and empl y over MO people in our own building? VWSkZLOBGASS AT 00 Ind
op; Pl OOb. Jl-c.oo and up; also everything in musical instruments at lowest wholOMleiprices Write
special organ, pium and musical instrument catalogue. Address, ww™» prives. >'rite tor free
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. (Inc.), Fulton, Dotplainetand Wayman Sts., CHICAGO ILL
SEND NO MONEY innKS a. , A H r
I■ ■ ■n.Tr to US,and we will send M Mvl 150
you OUR HIGH-GRADE BURDICK SEWING MACHINE ■feOHnUl 4>| IjL
C. O. D., sebject to examination. You can examine it at yoar near- <3IBiV § ®
eat freight depot and if found perfectly satiafaetery, exactly as ■MbHV S I I ■
represented, equal to maehiaea others sell as hUrh as $60.00, MwffMl V aM 1 M
and THK GREATEST BARGAIN YOV EVER HEARD OF, pay . 1—
yonr freight age.t Our Special Offer Price sls 50
•nd freight charges. The machine weighs IX ___l—_
pounds and the freight will average 75 cents for each 500 liWI Bad
miles. CIVE IT THREE MONTHS TRIAL in MmJiM I "-<£■!ißU IPI
your own home, and we will return your (15.50 any day
iou are not satisfied. We sell different make, and gradw of
••Ing Machine, at (£.50.(10.00.111.00, (IS.OO and up, all of
which are fully described in Our Free Sewing Machine Cat
alogue, but 5i5.50 for thl. 7-DRAWEK BUKDICK f *
io the greatest value ever offered by any house- ■ ■WtrnEfiMnl
THE RURniCK every modern improvement, every** 3 *! I ■ t 1 nW Bawl
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SOLID OAK CABINET, BKNTCOVEB. Latent 1599 Skeletaa frame, piano IlJr A I
poliih, finest nickel drawer pulls, restsoni casters, ball bearing Ibß
adjustable treadle, genuine Smyth iron stand, finest large high i— m
arm head made, positive four-motion feed, self threading vibrat 'I— v->: ~ --—-! " -*- 1 A A
ing shuttle, automatic bobbin w inder, adjustable bearings, pat-; J- Oaf
ent tension liberator, improved loose w he. I. adjustable pres.-er
foot, improved shuttle carrier, patent needlebar, I »:g> f
patent dress guard. *- J K
GUARANTEED ihrlichtMt running, most dnr- r W~
•bl. and acarwt noiseless machine made. Krerr known <<*:X C ‘ -J?-'- . ' ■■'■■'
attachment Is fomi-hed and our Free Instruction - **---7 -**"
Book tells just how anyone can ruu it and do either
plain or any kind of fancy work. A 20-YEAH
GUARANTEE is sent with every machine. "-ws-^ra^ -
IT COSTS YOU NOTHING 2\ ? £ e and examine this machine, compare it with those your storekeeper sells at
—— ■ S4O. OO to SSO. 00, and then if convinced you are saving S3O-OO to $35.00,
pay your freight agent the $15.50. WK TS BETI'BN TOFU (IS.M if at aay Urn witkla three months yas say yea
are sot anti,fled. ORDER TO-DAT. DON’T DBLAT. (Scars, ar, thoroughly reliable.—Editor.)
WRITE FOR FREE CATALOGUE. SEARS, ROEBUCK A CO.. CHICAGO, ILL. |
THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
It rests with you whether you continue
nerve-killing tobacco habit. N WEWMj
removes the desire for tobacco.
out nervous distress, expels ■ ■ mMET
tine, purifies the blood, jl I L > , A*l.sw..
stores lost II uOOboxes
makes you I H | sVs*sold. 400.000
in health, nerveW U cured. Buy
andpockev^^i' jWJLy B TO-BAC from
book. as FjgPw IJP’your own druggist, who
” Mat ASSfcz*will vouch for us. Take it with
at" A>*a will, patiently, persistently. One
UfcAgi 'tt box, SI, usually cures; 3 boxes,St.W,
guaranteed to cure, or we refund money.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chleago, Montreal, New Tors.
HP K;C■_ v _
HAi.. UALSAPA
Cleansei and beautifies the hair.
Promotes a luxuriant growth.
Never Fails to Bestore Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cures Bcalp diseases & hair falling.
60c, and SI.OO at Druggists
Ohfcheßtcr'a English Diamond Brands
fENNYROYftL i-iLLS
0 Original and Only Genuine. A
4/ safe, always reliable, ladies ask
f >ru ?gi tor’Chichester 8 English
Brand in Ked and Gold
sealed with blue ribbon. Take
tW - v
| / *“ flftions and imitations. At Druggists, or send 4c.
I <•» in stamps for particulars, testimonials and
\ ’©s O Relief for Ladlem” tn letter, by return
/r MalL 10.000 Testimonials. Name Paper.
Chfeh eater Chemical Co.,Madison Square,
J old by ail Local Philodu.. Pa.
ELECTRO-
SILICON
Shines
Silverware
Surprisingly
without
Scratching.
Sample sent if you say so.
It’s unlike all others.
Box, post-paid, 15 cts. in stamps.
It’s Sold Everywhere.
The Electro-Silicon Co., go Cliff street, New York.
DYSPEPSIA
“For six years I wa» a victim ofdya
pepsia in its worst form. I could eat nothing
but milk toast, and at times my stomach would
not retain and digest even that. Last March I
began taking CASCAKETS and since then 1
have steadily improved, until I am as well as I
ever was in my life.”
David H. Mtnipnr, Newark. O
CANDY
m %, \y CATHARTIC
TRADE MARK REGISTERED
Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do
Good. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. Ibc. 25c. 50c.
... CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
Sterling Remedy Company. Chicago, Montreal, New York. 311
MA TA Din Sold and gunrnnteed Iy ai l drug-
RU a IU*DAv gists to ( < KF. Tobacco Habit.
S C. Dunlap, jr. W. V. Wall.
Dunlap & Wall,
Life and Fire Insurance,
Gainesville, Georgia.
N.C. White & Sod,
HOTOGRSPHEBS!
Gainesville, Ga.
All work executed in the highest style
of the art, at reasonable prices. Make
a specialty of copying and enlarging. Gallery
Northeast Side Sauare. 1
Cv* OTTON i i and will con
a tinue to be the money
crop of the South. The
planter who gets the most cot
ion from a given area at the
•east cost, is the one who makes
the most money. Good culti
vation, suitable rotation, and
liberal use of fertilizers con
taining at least 3% actual
Potash
jvill insure the largest yield.
We will send Free, upon application,
>amphlets that will interest every cotton
planter in the South.
GERITAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
J Cotton Coed {
j Sroe <43 £
k With The Atlanta Semi-Weekly .
Journal to every one sending one F
J dolL r for a year’s subscription.
Jackson’s African Limbless Cotten.
k grows Bto 12 feet high, and is said k
J to produce double the quantity
F ordinary cotton. It costs nothing te*F
k try it. The seed are scarce, but k
J The Semi-Weekly Journal has J
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k one sanding one dollar .for a year’s k
1 subscription 500 of these seed free. J
Tjatmage, £
{ Cpurgeon, 4
SieGcher,
j A collection of select sermons by k
F these great divines sent free to any "
k one sending one dollar for a year’s 4
0 subscription to The Semi-Weekly k
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Cam Jones'
JLetters. &
r Sam Jones writes regularly for The 4
Atlanta Journal, and his letters ap- Q
pear in the Semi-Weekly edition.
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> Cvery where. <<£ t
t A live agent wanted at every town
k and hamlet in the south. Liberal 4
. commissions to agents and extra k
F inducements in the shape of attract- v
k ive prizes to those who send large 4
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k agents who send us 100 cash sub- 4
J scribers for a year before next May k
F ist, will receive a bonus of fl<. "
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Established in 1860.
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, T£t
EX-CONFEDERATES AND PENSIONS.
President McKinley in a speech
before the Georgia Legislature in At
lanta, December 14, 1898, daring the
Peace Jubilee, expressed the opinion
that the time had come when the
United States government should
share in caring for the graves of the
Confederate dead. This expression
was favorably commented on by the
press in every part of the country.
Later an effort was made to place
the ex-Confederate soldiers on the
government pension roll. This
caused Confederate camps all over
the South to rise up and enter a
most vigorous protest against such
action on the part of any represen
tative. Such public expressions of
the sentiment of the ex-Confederate
soldiers, who are still among us, has
brought forth more favorable com
ment than did the expressions of the
President. Then, too, they have
caused the Northen press to review
the pension roll, and to discuss it,
and to bring out truths and sen
timents connected with it, which;
have heretofore been passed unmen
tioned by all partisan writers on thia]
most important subject.
For instance the New York Qut-j
look, a republican journal of recent!
date contained the following ed
itorial which, to say the least of it,
is interesting reading matter : I
“The suggestion made in somt]
quarters that ex-Confederate soldiers
should be added to the pension list is
grateful as a sign of the final passing 1
of ancient animosities and the final]
triumph of the feeling of nationalityn
but the Southern press is showing]
great wisdom in putting aside, almost!
without exception, the suggestion as!
improper. All that remains of the]
lost cause is a splendid tradition of I
heroism. The tradition is of price-1
less value to the South. It enriches!
the life of the Southern people, by 1
the sentiment and poetry which cornel
with it; and to put the Confederate]
veterans upon the pension list
would go a long way toward
ing that sentiment and blarnng the
memory of heroism which the South!
now sacredly preserves. The indis*!
criminate extension of the pension
system in the North has cost the]
country an enormous amount of mon-j
ey, but it has coat the North still
more in the sacrifice of a noble sen
timent. It has gone far to blur the
fair memory of the heroisms of thir
ty-five years ago.
“That there ought to have been a
generous provision forthose who were
in any way disabled in that—tre
mendous struggle may be taken * r
granted- -this country is never
otherwise than generous—but the
mechanical and unscrupulous way in
which the pension business has been
handled, the vast commercial element
which has entered into it, the con
dition of semipauperism which in too
many cases it has introduced, have
wounded the country at a very sen
sitive point. We may be rich enough
to pay $145,000,000 a year on the
pension account; we are not rich
enough to capitalize in money that
heroism and sacrifice which are the
expression of the spiritual life of a
people. We have done a host of
men irreparable injury, as those who
know anything about the practical
workings of the system realize, and
we have lacked the courage to deal
honestly and frankly with the whole
matter. Leading public men have
all along said privately about the
system what they have not dared to
say publicly. When Senator Hawley
declared that the pension system
would makes wars so expensive as to
end them he held out a gleam of hope
which, unhappily, has not been real
ized. The same wholesale business
methods which have degraded the
idea of the pension and have gone
far to vulgarize the position of the
pensioner will undoubtedly be
applied in the case of the men who
have served in Cuba and Manila. It
is not too early to raise a voice of
protest, and to call for a sound, wise,
honorable pension system which
shall make, by its discrimination,
every bestowal of a pension a badge
of honor.”
A two or three weeks course of Dr. M.
A. Simmons Liver Medicine will so reg
ulate the Excretory Functions that they
will operate without any aid whatever.
The California Legislature has an
anti-cartoon bill before it. Mean
while the cartoonists are giving their
attention to the men who are sup
porting the measure.
Consider that our anger and impa
tience often prove much more mis
chievous than the things about
which we are angry or impatient.
1 I
How much you read is of less con
sequence than how much you think
about what you have read.
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F minative too strongly. 1 mast aay, y
P I owe my baby's life tn It 6
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£ have sickly or delicate ekiMrea fast >
y to try one bottle and see what tho A
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For sale by E. B. Dixon A Co., Gainesville, Ba.
URSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1889.
Porto Rico Worth Having.
i ;• Whatever objections may be urged
■ against the Philippines, the island of
s for to Rico is certainly worth having,
i The reception given Gen. Miles and
i Our army by the people of Ponce, the
£nost populous city of the island,
1 shows that the people are heartily
tired of Spanish dominion, and will
» gladly accept annexation to the
United States, rather than con-
1 tinue to suffer from Spanish oppres
i sicn.
1 Porto Rico, in fact, is likely to
' occasion our government less trouble
1 *than either the Philippines or Cuba,
i As soon as the Spaniards depart from
- the island, the United States can set
• fep a form of government there that
1 Vill )9 in every way acceptable to
1 the inhabitants of the island. Little
■ opposition to the plans of this gov
-1 eminent is expected from the cit
-1 jzens of Porto Rico, and in the years
3.0 come it will be one our most
•yalued possessions. The population
rof the island is now about 800,000,
■bout one-third of which are negroes.
rThe island covers an area of
■,600 miles, and the soil is fertile and
*very productive. The climate is
- delightful both in winter and sum-
Jtner. The are now only about 125
piles of railway in operation on the
island, but other lines are projected,
;|ome of which are in progress of
building. There is plenty of room
rfor the investment of capital in
Railroad building on the island, and
hew lines are needed to facilitate the
fpandling of the immense crops of
j coffee and tobacco. Leslie’s Weekly
Sn the course of an article about
FPorto Rico, says:
£ “In 1897 the United States im
Sported from Porto Rico commodities
Valued at $2,181,000 and exported to
iPorto Rico commodities to the value
rof not quite $2,000,000. The total
twalue of Porto Rico’s imports was
16,000,000,and of its exports $14,-
. 00,000. The western part of the
•island produces an abundance of the
finest coffee m the world, and its
Average annual export is nearly 170,-
IyOO cwt. With the annexation of
Porto Rico we will be in possession,
therefore, of one of the best coffee
Land tobacco-growing countries in the
The finest Havana cigars are
.made from Porto Rican tobacco, of
♦which 7,000,000 pounds are annually
Porto Rico is also one of
the cheap sources of supply of cocoa
nuts and bananas, producing both of
these by the millions. Its location
makes it very available for coaling
and outfitting station for the United
States vessels, and it is the general
impression that whatever the terms
of peace with Spain may be, they
may include the cession of Porto
Rico.”
This statement will give some idea
of the value of the island to our
government. The largest cities of
Porto Rico are Ponce, with 50,000
people, San Germain, with about
32,000, and San Juan, the capital
city with about 23,000. Under the
control of the United States, this
beautiful and fertile island will blos
som like the rose, and her people will
advance to a much higher state of
civilization.
Mrs. Nancy Hitchcock, Sanfordsvile,
Ga., writes: My husband, Elder D. S.
Hitchcock used Dr. M. A. Simmons
Liver for indigestion, and think its med
ical properties far exceed Zsilin’s Reg
ulator and Black Draught.
Same Other Day.
There are wonderful things we are going
to do
Some other day;
And harbors we hope to drift into
Some other day.
With folded bands and wings that trail,
We watch and wait for a favoring gale
To fill the folds of an idle sail
Some other day.
We know we must toil if ever we win
Some other day,
But we say to ourselves there’s time to
begin
Some other day.
And so, deferring, we loiter on,
Until at last we find withdrawn
The strength of hope we leaned upon
Some other day.
And when we are old and our race is run,
Some other day,
We fret for the things that might have
been done
Some other day.
We trace the path that leads us where
The beckoning hand of grim despair
Leads us yonder out of the here,
Some other day.
Don’t wreck a life! From girlhood to
womanhood the monthly course should
be regulated with Simmons Squaw Vine
Wi»e or Tablets.
New Rebels.
The New York Sun is fait ly foam
ing at the mouth. The anti-annexa
tionists, it says, are “not only in
revolt against the party in power,
but against the c< untry itself.” Do
you hear that, Senator Hoar, you
hoary-headed rebel you!—Gasterne
(Me.) Argus.
■ « I
Mother’s Trusted Friend, Simmons
Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets, Prepare
the System for confinement, shorten
labor and make child birth easy.
We never realize how much we
are capable of enduring until the
test comas.
Last Slave Auction.
The last great slave auction held
in this country occurred just a year
and a half before the war—viz., in
October, 1859, at the race track in
Savannah. The slaves were the
property of Pierce Butler, a pic
turesque and prominent figure at that
day in Philadelphia society, who is
to-day remembered as having been
the husband of Fanny Kemble, the
actress, reader and author. His
family name was Mease, but he in
herited a fortune in lands and slaves
from his grandfather, Major Pierce
Butler of South Carolina, on condi
tion that he should take the latter’s
name. Butler’s inveterate passion
for gambling got him into financial
difficulties. It is said that he lost
$26,000 in a single hand—four deuces
against four kings held by his oppon
ent.
Finally, to meet his losses, Butler
was forced to sell hia slaves. There
were 988 of these in all. The sale
took two days, and netted $304,850.
Butler had chosen a good time to
sell. A year later his negroes would
not have been worth a dollar a head.
But the sale would have been more
profitable had it not been announced
as one of the conditions that no
division of families would be permit
ted. Hence, in order to secure a
good slave, buyers often had to take
with him infirm or aged relatives.
Out of this limitation grew a memo
rable tragedy. Tom Pate, a well
known Vicksburg trader, bought at
the sale a man, his two sisters, and
his wife, with the guarantee that they
should not be separated.
Disregarding this, Pate sold the
sisters, one to Pat Somers, a brother
trader, and the other to a resident of
St. Louis. What legal right, the
negro had in the south were well
protected. Somers was told of the
guarantee, and he sent the girl back
to Pate and demanded his money.
A quarrel was the result and Somers
was shot dead. Two days later bis
nephew killed Pate, and died from
the wounds received. The feud was
kept up until every male bearing the
name of Pate was wiped out, and
then the war liberated the sisters,
who were alive in St. Louis in 1887.
- ...
Bearing down sensations, internal heat,
and female weakness are cured by Sim
mons Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets.
Well Fixed Pensioners.
It appears from investigations
which have been made that, fully
twenty per cent, of those drawing
pension, from the state are holders
of considerable amounts of property.
Their assessments range from S9OO
to SIB,OOO. In other words, they are
much better off than the average tax
payer. No doubt all of these pension
ers were good Confederate soldiers,
but it doesn’t follow that the state
should contribute to their support.
They are well able to take care of
themselves.
But all of the pensioners who do
not appear on the books of the tax
receivers are not indigent. It is
doubtful if half of them are. There
fore it is a mistake to regard all of
those not on the tax books as indi
gent and to continue to pay them
pensions, if it is proposed to allow
pensions only to the indigent. No
doubt many of the pensioners are
either earning wages sufficient for
their support or could do so if so dis
posed. Therefore, in order to arrive
at those who should receive pensions
a method different from that
followed by Representative Brandon
should be adopted. An investiga
tion should be conducted in each
county. This should be done in jus
tice to both tax payer and the pen
sioners.
There will, of course, be a great
deal of opposition to dropping any of
the pensioners from the list. That
is to be expected. And the pension
ers are not to be blamed for object
ing to be stricken from the roll.
They have become accustomed to
the addition to their incomes, and
wdl find it rather hard to give it up.
The legislature is to blame for not
providing for the payment of pen
sions to indigent only. There is no
use, however, in wasting time in dis
cussing a mistake. The thing to do
now is to remove from the pension
roll all of the pensioners except
those to whom the state intends to
pay pensions. That can be done
only by making a thorough inquiry
into each pensioner’s ability to take
care of himself.
Salaries of United States army
officers are as follows:
Generalsl3,ooo
Lieutenant general 11,000
Major general 7,500
Brigadier General 5,000
Colonel 3,500
Lieutenant colonel 3,000
Major 2,500
Captain, mounted 2,500
Captain, not mounted 1,800
Regimental adjutant 1,800
Regimental quartermaster 1,800
First lieutenant 1,600
Second lieutenant ... 1,400
Chaplain 1,500
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but on good authority; nor report
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Hl .OO For Annum in Advance.
Gathmann's Gun.
Louis Gathmann is the name of a
Chicago man who claims to have in
vented a torpedo gun which is capa
ble of vast destruction. Gathmann’s
gun has been accepted by the War
Department over the adverse recom
mendation of the Ordnance Board,
and we shall soon know by practical
tests more of its power for destruc
tiveness.
It is a huge gun, being forty five
feet in length, weighing fifty tone,
with a bore eighteen inches in diara
eter. The shells, or torpedoes, which
it fires, weigh 2,000 pounds, and it
has a range of ten miles.
This is the very thing that explos
ive-dealing inventors have been ro >t
ing around for these many years,
observes the Atlanta Journal, and if
Gathmann has really invented a gun
that will carry a 2,000 pound pro
jectile of a high explosive litre gun
cotton or emmensite ten miles, his
fortune is made and we are measura
bly nearer the millenium, for it will
help make war impossible.
The claims which Gathmann makes
for his gun are not of a mean order,
lie says that the destructive force of
the projectile which his gun fires is
equal to that of. all the 12-inch guns
in the United States, at a range
under 3,000 yards, while, if the range
be more than 5,000 yards, the de
structive force of his 18-inch gun is
equivalent to that of the entire num
ber of Uncle Sam’s 10-inch, 12-inch
and 13 inch guns put together. If a
shell containing one ton of gun-cotton
be fired at a city three miles distant
and exploded on alighting, the result
must inevitably be only a hole and a
heap of ruins. But the possibility of
firing a ton of gun-cotton that dis
tance needs yet to be demonstrated.
The government has risked $50,-
000 on Gathmann and his gun.
Battleship Maine.
Philadelphia, Feb. 16.—The anni
versary of the blowing up of the bat
tleship Maine in Havana harbor was
marked here with the beginning of
work on the powerful man-of-war
which will bear the name of the his
toric battleship, the destruction of
which did much to precipitate the
war with Spain.
The new Maine will be built by
the Cramp Shipbuilding Company,
and at the company’s yards at 11
o’clock yesterday the first pier of the
keel was laid.
The Maine will be a sister ship to
the Ohio and Missouri. She is to
have a speed of eighteen knots, with
a length on load water line of 388
feet and a beam of 72 feet 212
inches. She will have a normal dis
placement of 12,500 tons and a
draught of twenty-three feet six
inches. Her bunkers will be large
enoagh to carry 2,000 tons of coal
and her complement of officers, sea
men and marines will be about 600
men.
The Maine’s armament will consist
of four 12-inch breech loading rifles,
sixteen 6-pounder and four 3pounder
guns and a few smaller pieces. The
12-inch guns will be of 40 caliber,
and of the new high power type de
signed to use smokeless powder, with
a muzzle velocity of 3,000 feet per
second and firing an 850 pound shell.
Each gun will have an energy of 48,-
000 foot tons, equal to the penetra
tion of four feet es solid iron at the
muzzle.
The builders will endeavor to have
the new battleship ready for launch
ing on February 15th next year, and
to haye her ready for st rvice on the
third anniversary of the sinking of
the Maine in Havana harbor.
A Bullet in His Heart 37 Years.
Morganton, W. Va., Feb. 18.—
William B. Smallridge, who died a
few days ago at Glenville, in Gilmer
county, carried a bullet in bis heart
for thirty-seven years. He was a
member of Co. E, First West Virginia
Infantry in the civil war, and in
September, 1861, while marching
through Gilmer county, was shot by
some one in ambush, the bullet en
tering Smallridge’s chest at the
lower point of the scapula, on the
left side, passing thence directly
through the left lung into the left
ventricle of the heart. The force of
the bullet was so broken that it did
not penetrate the inner wall, but the
regimental surgeon pronounced the
wound fatal and left Smallridge to
die. He did not die, however, but
was sent back up the Little Kanawha
River in a skiff to his home in Glen
ville, where be recovered and has
since lived. A few weeks ago while
on his deathbed, he asked Dr. G. O.
Brown to make an examination of
the wound after his death. This Dr.
Brown did and found the bullet im
bedded in the heart. Surgeons pro
nounce it the most extraordinary
case on record.
There is this difference between
happiness and wisdom: He that
thinks himself the happiest man,
really is so; hut he who thinks him
self the wisest man is generally the
greatest fool. >
NUMBER 8.
Millions for Navy.
Washington, Feb. 19.—The naval
appropriation bill is practically com
pleted save in minor details, and all
its essential features were made
known today. It appropriates a total
of $44,158,605, divided under the
following heads : General establish
ment, $13,236,440; bureau of naviga
tion, $505,125; bureau of ordinance,
$3,143,124; bureau of equipment, $2,-
615,455; public works, yards and
docks, $454,442; bureau of medicines
and surgery, $192,500; bureau of sup
plies and accounts, $3,220,432; bureau
of construction and repair, $3,273,-
407; bureau of steam engineering,
$1,207,900; Naval Academy, $217,-
120; marine corps, $1,366,971; in
crease of navy, $11,192,402.
The item of “increase of the navy”
covers the amount given for the first
year on the three new battleships,
three armored cruisers and six small
cruisers authorized by the bill. Al
though the ships have been decided
upon, the text of this provision has
not yet been agreed on.
It will follow’the recommendations
of the secretary of the navy with the
total cost recommended by him,
viz, $3,500,000 each for the battle
ships, $4,000,000 for the armored
cruisers and $1,141,800 for the small
er cruisers, these amounts exclusive
of armor and armament.
The $11,192,402 carried for jthe
ships in the bill is divided as follows:
Construction and machinery, $5,102,-
402; armor and armament, $4,000,-
000; equipment, $2,000,000.
The Norfolk navy yard receives an
appropriation of $645,697, the naval
station at Key West $112,520, naval
station at Port Royal $145,000.
Patents.
The Keystone has this to say about
patents : The applications for pat
ents during the year 1897 outran the
record of any previous year. Inven
tion is certainly not on the decline,
and the man with an idea and a
model is in stronger evidence than
ever. In no time in the history of
the Patent Office has there been any
sign of a marked relapse in inventive
ingenuity—here and there perhaps
a parenthesis, as in times of panic
and trade stagnation; but as a rule
each year as it came along added Ire
cruits to the army that never halts
in the march of progress. The fol
lowing table marks the line of in
crease for each decade since 1840:
For the ten years beginning 1840
the average is 1,186.9; for the |,en
years beginning 1850 the average is
3,884.2; for the ten years beginning
1160 the average is 11,724.5 ; for the
ten years beginning 1870 the average
is 20,259.5; for the ten years begin
ning 1880 the average is 33,443i9;
for the eight years beginning 1890
the average is 41,479.0.
From the character and number of
the patents granted in 1897, it; is
evident that the fertile mind of the
inventor is fructifying in every field
of endeavor. Ingenuity is not ex
clusive. It isolates nothing. It
covers every imaginable form of de
vice, and has its improving hand jon
every type of tool, machine,
ment, or apparatus helpful to indus
try or contributory to the comfort
and convenience of human kind.
To be Unveiled in May.
The Georgia monument in Chicka
mauga National Park will be dedi
cated between the Ist and the 10th
of next May.
The Kentucky monument will he
dedicated on the same day as the
Georgia.
General 11. V. Boynton, the chair
man of the National Park commis
sion, was in Atlanta Tuesday.
The object of his visit was to ar
range to have the dedication of the
Georgia and Kentucky monuments
in the Chickamauga Park to take
place on the same day.
After a brief conference between
General Boynton and Captain W. S.
Everett, chairman of the Georgia
memorial committee, the two gentle
men called on Governor Allen D.
Candler to consult him in regard to
the dedication.
Governor Candler stated that it
would be agreeable to him to have
the dedication of the Georgia monu
ment take place between the Ist and
10th of next May, and General Boyn
ton wat requested to ascertain what
day between those dates it will be
convenient to have the Kentucky
monument dedicated.
The legislative act raising the
Georgia memorial and making an
appropriation tor the erection of the
Georgia monument at Chickamauga
park was passed about three years
ago.
The sum of $25,000 was appro
priated to erect the Georgia monu
ment and the markers of the lines of
battle at Chickamauga park.
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