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jS[ EW SERIES YOL. XXXI.
SANDERSVILLE GEORGIA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1904.
Five Carloads
A. W. EVANS ANNOUNCES
CANDIDACY FOR SENATE
I have just received three cars of
wagons.
V:§
A. W. EVANS.
„ , „ T „„ legislation along the fame lino which
Samlersville, Ga., Jan. JO, 1904. was nagged, though, primps, of not
To (ho People of the Twentieth Sena- such fnr reaching resnlts ns the Fran-
atorial District: chise Tax Act.
5th. In attempting to provide for a
I take this method of announcing to more economiuul administration of our
the people of this district that I am a own county ati'nirs, I introduced and
candidate for Senator from this tho 20th fought to a linnl passage an act amend-
and white iran.
. And two Cars of..
Senatorial district in the next General
Assembly. Under the rotation system
now prevailing the choice of the Senator
to represent this district in the next
State Senate is left to tho voters of
Washington County.
ing onr City Court net, the effect of
which was to pnt the Solioitor of that
court on a salary of $<100.00 • year and
curtailing the costs of the other officers:
thereby saving to the county a consider
able sum of money each year. I feel in
In offering myself for this honorable my own heart, that by these stands and
position I deem it nothing but proper;these acts I have redeemed each pledge
for me to alludo to the record I have made ns fur as it lay in my power to do
made while endeavoring for tho past so, and leave them to the verdict of an
two years, to represent Washington unbiased public for approval or eeusure.
county in the lower house of the Legis- There were some other stands 1 took
lature While urging my claims upon whioh may, with propi. ty, he nllnded
tho peoplo during the campaign two to here: 1st. On the convict lease ques-
years ago, I announced ray advocacy of tion, this was, ns is well known by nil,
certain principles covering which I lmd a proposition to take all the felony con-
hopes of aiding in effecting remedial victs from tho lesses, thereby robbing
legislation. Tho principles I then ad- the school fund of a very large portion
vocatod as announced (as shown by a thereof, resulting inevitably in catting
printed platform then issued) were ns down the teachers’salaries nnd making
follows: 1st. Uniformity in text books, the terms of country schools shorter,
2nd. Libraries in country schools. 3rd. and working these convicts on the pnh-
A division of the school fnnd pro rata lie roads. I opposed this for several
which will be sold at short crop
prices.
LOUIS COHEN.
as tho races pay taxes. -1th. Economy in
public expenditures. 5th. Just taxation:
equalization of the tax burdens by re
quiring nil corporations to pay their
just share. I am happy to say that the
lirst of these is now the law of Georgia.
We now have onour statute books, in my
opinion, a very lino law governing school
books, the practical result of which will
ho that our people will save from 40 to
50 per cent annually on the cost of
school hooks, as soon as the law becomes
operative to say nothing of the very
great advantage of every county using
tho same school books, which have been
selected by a very competent board,
which can bo relied on for honesty and
efficiency and who will see that the
truth of history is taught. I voted for,
and earnestly advocated the passage of
thiB law.
2nd. I am myself author of a bill pro
viding for libraries in tho country
schools, by direct appropriation for
that purpose. Under the provisions of
this bill not one cent more of taxes need
be levied, but every school whioh wishes
it can have a nice library of reading aud
reference always at hand, which will be
of untold benefit to all the children aud
especially those whose parents cannot
provide these books for them at home.
This bill has been favorably reported by
the committee on Edueation aud is one
of the first bills to bo considered at the
next meeting of the legislature in June,
with every indication of its prompt pas
sage.
3rd. The principle to which I gave tho
most earnest consideration and my
greatest effort was for a division of the
school fund in proportion ns the taxes
are paid A bill looking to the enact
ment of this important legislation was
introduced early in the session nud I
gave it, both in the committee room nnd
on tho lloor of the house, my earnest at
tention. I had the honor to make in be
half of this legislation, two speeches on
tho floor of the house, wherein [en
deavored to show tho great need in
Georgia for a change in onr law which
gives to the negro an equal participation
in the funds appropriated for education,
when he only pays approximately three
per cent of the taxes. I contended then
and there as I have before contended,
and ns I now contend that this is an un
fair, unjust and unreasonable division,
and one that not only has resulted in no
good being effected thereby, but has
been of untold injury to our state. A
fact that the people of this part and of
lower Georgia realize only to well. The
bill received a majority vote, but ns it
contemplates n ohange in the Constitu
tion it requires a two-thirds vote, which
it failed to receive. I feel however,
that the entering wedge has been driven
and the day is near which will see this
principle enacted into law, if it is fought
for vigorously.
4th. In redeeming tho fourth plank in
my published platform, I worked for and
supported the General Franchise Tax
Act. which will bring in for tnxation ap
proximately twenty million ($10,000,000)
dollars worth of property belonging to
the railroads and street railways which
have heretofore escaped taxation. It is
needless to say that this will bo of great
advantage to the state aud every oitizen
thereof. I had opportunity, which I
took advantage of, of supporting other
reasons, chief among which were these:
1st. It would cripple tho schools, if not
absolutely stop somo. 2nd. The oity
counties would get over 3 r,ths of the
convicts aud the country counties
less than L,th, though over ten times as
many. 3rd. Becnuso it would cost Wash
ington county too much money, iu fact
much more than the good, if any, tlint
would come from it. 4th. Because I be
lieved the sum coming to school fund
from the leasing of these convicts, would
be increased, which recent developments
have proven to be the case, it being es
timated that the amount will he four
times rb much as formerly, whioh can
hut mean more schools aud better
schools. Under tho five year convict
amendment which was tacked on the
counties that were so eager to adopt,
aud cut off by doing so their pro rata
slmvo of the fund, are now dropping off
until there reniaius on the list only a
few of the large counties, for the great
est part containing cities. This fnot
alone, I take it, demonstrates the wis
dom of my stand.
Among other matters which tho legis
lature in its wisdom enacted into law
and all of which I supported nrdeutly,
were the Calvin Vagrancy law, which
put tho loafers to work: the exten
sion of the cheating and swindling law
to cover those who procure credit on
false promise to work, that is, those who
seeing a farmer in the grass sometime
iu the spring or at nt othor times, ap
proach him apd say that if the farmer
will let him have some money be will
come aud work it out, but alter obtain
ing the money, refuso to work : this is
now prohibited by law and I think will
be of great advantage to the farmers,
and in fact to all tho people. And the
Constitution limitation of tho tax rate;
by an act passed at the last session of
the legislature, tho tax rate is now limi-
to fivo mills for state tax, it can now,
therefore, if the act be ratified by the
peoplo, never go, as it has frequently in
tho past, over five mills. This is a great
protection to the owner of real estate
aud to eveery tax payer. It will tend
to make the expenditures liglitor when
it is known that the tax rate cannot ex
ceed the limit placed. Each of these
three acts above spoken spoken of, are
of great benefit to the people of Goor-
gia aud fill long felt wants.
1 appreciate the fact that my record
on these important questions is well
known to the people of this county, or
at least to those who have done me the
honor to watch my course iu the halls of
legislation, and I rejoice that such is
the case yet in making this announce
ment of my intention to seek to be ad
vanced to 'lie Senate, I desire to set
forth my stand oil these questions, in
the hope that it may meet tho approba
tion of the people I represent.
If elected to the Senate; I herein give
nssnrance that my whole attention
shall bo centered in accomplishing that
which is to be the best interest of the
people of Georgia and of the 20th Sena
torial district, aud I promise generally
to promote that best calculated to build
up the three grand old counties which
constitute it. I feel that iu the Senate I
will have a good field .to continue the
agitation of the division of the school
fund in acoordauce with the way the
taxes are paid by the races, and to urge
other remedial legislation. I believe
that from the experience I have had in
representing, iu part, my own county
I am better qualified now to be i f
s.irvioe to the people in the capacity of
Senator then representing three couut'fl
in tho upper branch of tho General As
sembly, for the Senator should briug to
the discharge of his dntien a mind
brightened by legislative experience, for
much depends on the wisdom and con
servatism of that more restricted body.
In nnnonneiug my enudidaoy for the
Senate I desire to set forth certain re
forms nud changes iu our law, which,
if elected, I shall endeavor to effect:
First nnd foremost as already stated, I
aui vitally interested iu the passage of
that law whioh will change the way in
w Inch our school funds are now being
paid out. I am one of those who be
lieve that tho school fund should be dis
tributed iu the same proportion as the
races pay their taxes. If tho white race
pays 97 per cent of the taxes, it should
rcoeivo 97 per cent of the school fund in
return, or iu othor words, each race
should get that which it pays and no
more. Secondly, I think onr pension
law needs revision, so tlint only indig
ent jKmsioners names should appear
there. Thirdly, I favor the election of
County Shool Commissioners by a direot
vote or tho jieople. I voted for a bill
like this before, which was defeated in
tho Sonnto last year. Fourthly, I be
lieve boys are required to pay road tax
too soon. No man should be required
to beur tho burden unless allowed toon-
joy the privileges of the state. Fifthly,
L still adhere to tho principles 1 previous
ly aunounced. Taxation should be uni
form and the corporations, ns well as in
dividuals, should bear their share. Our
state nud county affairs should bo
economically administered aud onr tax
es reduced ns much as possible.
I favor a change iu onr road working
system. As it is nowadmiustered, some
sections of our county receive more tliun
their shure, while others get littlo or
nothing.
I favor putting the road working on
what I shall call tho “unit system”,
that is, let every Militia District be a
uuit, let every dollar raised hs commu
tation road tax iu thnt district be in
turn spent that year in that same dis
trict. If elected, I propose to amend
the law reqniriug this to be done.
Should this become the law, it would
insure good roads iu every district and
not just those in certain favored locali
ties rb is now the ense. A competent
road overseer can lie found in each dis
trict, and through him this money can
be disbursed aud thnt will give each
part of the couuty equal rights without
unjust discrimination. The three Com
missioners of Roads nnd Revenne should
be elected by a direot vote of the people,
aud therefore, directly nuswernble to
the people for their official couduet.
This is the cose in the larger counties.
There are other reforms whioh I ad-
vocuto, but which spaoe forbids my dig
cussing nt length here. It is my inten
tion, however, to discuss the matters I
have ailaded to in this card, and snch
others as may come np during the cam
paign in every part of tho couuty from
the stump, aud I invite whoever opposes
me for the Senate, or any else who may
wish to do so, to meet mo iu joint de-
bute on these issnos aud at the proper
time 1 shall give to them a list of these
places nnd tho time I shull be there.
Believing the principles herein set
forth are thoso tho sovereign white
people of the county aud district desire
to see enacted into statute law, I plant
myself upon them nnd offer myself as a
candidate for the Senate aud earnestly
beg the suppoort of the people nt the
next general primary.
Respectfully yours,
A. W. Evans.
A Preacher Wanted.
Thete is u church in Utopia that
wants n preacher. They want one that
will please sister Fancy, sister Fashion
able, and sister Frolic. He must also
please Bro. llard-to-plense, Bro. Socie-
tus, and all his relations, which are
very numerous. He must be popular
with the world and tho sects; all the
’Ins” and “Outs,” the “Ifs” and the
'Buts,” of whom they are many. He
must like what they like, and hate what
they hate. He must be be a democrat,
he must be a Republican. He must be
long to some secret society, or at least
lean that way, or keep his mouth shut.
He must let the members of thechurch
do as they please. They must be allow
ed to hop, skip, and dunce at will, and
piny cards by way of variety. He must
ben young man to please the young
ladies, nil eloquent, man to pleuse the
fastidious, a grave mail to pleuse the
sober minded, and a jolly fellow lo
please the multitude. For such a
preacher the church at Utopia will
give a large sulury, and will take him
on trial till the moon changes.
Any preacher, having all these quali
fications, and no mind or will of his own
and who is willing to sell himself for a
mess of pottage, should apply at once
to
Ei.dkb-Go-Bktwken,
Utopia, Land of Nod.
By order of the Church,
Soi, Upstart, Clerk,
1’. 8.—We want a man who can tell us
nil uliout Cain’s wife, and where the
negroes came from.
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY.
RAINING CATS AND DOGS.
Drawn for March Term Washington
Superior Court, ipO-4.
W E Doolittle, Jus P Webster,
Macon Warthen, Sr,AV r G Bailey,
Singleton Hood, D It Thomus,
A L Armstrong,
O C Fields,
E N Ennis,
L II S Strange,
T J Orr,
A S Mitchell,
Jno S Welch,
L II Holt,
J FJackson,
J F Sessions,
A S Brown,
G O Sinquefield
TRAVERSE JURORS.
Thos II Hodges, J G Finne
C B Kessler,
W T Williams,
B F Hart,
R B Cox,
W A Walker,
X B Salter,
Newman Wood,
Mack G. Smith,
E A Harris.
Mack Duggan,
ET May,
J W Hicklin,
Jno Y Bryant,
Clem E Brown,
J B (tiles,
A J Webster,
Ohas E Smith,
Macon Warthen Jr.
Tlios Warthen,
R M Layton,
8 Van Brackle,
Green W Duggan.
Wiley Harris,
N J Renfroe,
8 T McAfee, Jr.,
Thos EMay,
J M Armstrong,
T J Brooks, Sr.
L L Lord,
w.
W W Walker,
C 8 Tanner,
X T Brantley,
W I Hood,
QC Jones,
J M Neal,
Thos E Paradico
It W Tanner,
C S Mathis,
N F Hood,
W P McKinney,
B H Brantley, 91st
I) C Harrison.
A I Burnett,
W S Wnmmock,
W A Woods,
Sherod A Boon*.
Various Explanations of (he Origin _ . _ .
of This Expression. Th * G ! C “‘ P “' a ‘" *«*>•*•« M *9
... tears of Self Sacrllce.
Turner could not bear to sell • fav*r>
Many explanations have been given
of the origin of the expression ‘’raining
cats and dogs.” One Is that It is a per
version of the French “entadoupa," a
waterfall—"it is raining a entndoupcs,”
or entarnetn. Another explanation Is
thnt the male blossoms of the willow
tree, which are used on Palm Sunday
to represent the branches of palm,
were called "cats and dogs" In some
parts of England, where they Increase
rapidly ufter a few warm April show
ers, and the belief prevailed that the
rain brought them.
Others trace the saying to northern
mythology. In which tho cat is said to
have great influence on the weather,
and sailors still have a saying, "The
cat has a gale of wind in her tail,” |"""" 1
when she Is unusually frisky. Witches
thnt rode upon the storms were said to
nssumc the form of eats, and the
stormy northwest wind Is called “the
cat's nose" In the Harz mountains
even nt tho present day. Then the dog
is a symbol of wind, which In old Ger
man pictures is figured ns the bead of
u dog or wolf from which blasts Issue.
The cat therefore symbolizes a down
pour of rnlii: the dog, strong gusts of
wind, which uceompany it. nnd so a
rnlii “of eats nnd dogs” Is a heavy rain
with wind.
Evolution of tile Ilnjoliel.
The sweynes-feutUer (hog's bristle),
which scents to have been the original
prototype of the bayonet, was a long
rapier blude, fixed In a handle and car
ried In n sheath, which was given to a
musketeer for defense after he had dis
charged his piece. Stuck by its handle
In the muzzle of bis gun. It constituted
a very efficient weapon for acting
igninst pike..'. -:). To diminish his In-
nimbrance the swpynes-fenther nnd
musket rest were combined, tho latter
forming a sheath for the former, In the
reign of James 1.
Toward the latter purt of the civil war
the use of the musket rest was aban
doned, nnd It became the prnetico to
stick the dagger by Its handle Into the
muzzle of the piece nfter discharging It.
In 1G89 two rings were added by
which the bayonet was placed on the
muzzle without interfering with tho
firing. This Improvement, the inven
tlon of General Mnckny, nn English
officer, was Introduced Into the French
army by Vnubnn In 1703. By the Eng
lish themselves it was not adopted un
til after the battle of Fontenoy (1745),
where the advantages Its use conferred
on the French were only too painfully
manifest, tho Duke of Cumberland's
army being defeated with the loss of
15,000 men.—Pearson's Weekly.
II lx Own MnnuNcrlpt.
George Adc, In the early days of bis
career, before the “Fnliles In Slang”
had brought him fame, called one
morning in Chicago upon a Sunday edi
tor on a mission from u theatrical man
ager.
“I have brought you tills manu
script”— he began, but the editor, look
ing up nt the tall, timid youth, inter
rupted:
‘‘Just throw the manuscript in the
wastebasket, plcnso,” he said. "I’m
very busy Just now nnd haven’t time
to do It myself."
Mr. Ade obeyed calmly. Ilu resumed:
"I have come from 'the theater,
nnd the manuscript 1 have Just thrown
in tho wnstebnsket Is your comic farce
of ‘The Erring Son,’ which the man
ager nsks mo to return to you with
thanks. Ho suggests thnt you sell It to
nn undertaker, to be read nt funerals."
Then Mr. Ade smiled gently and
withdrew.
lte painting. He was always m«iM>
choly after such a transaction. "1 toot
one of my children this week," he would
sadly exclaim. At a meeting at Som
erset House it was derided to purchase
h!s two great pictures, the "IUse" and
the "Full of Curtlmge," for the Na
tional gallery. A Mr. Griffiths was
cumuiipsloncd to offer $5,000 for them.
•A noble offer," said the painter, "»
noble offer; but, no, I cannot part with
them. Impossible." Mr. Griffiths,
greatly disappointed, took his leave.
Turner ran after him. "Tell thoso gen-
tlcmen," he said, “that the nation will
most likely have the pictures ufter all."
Long before this Turner hud matured
Jose which continued to be bis
dominant Idea while life lasted. This
was to bequeath to his country n Tur
ner gallery of pictures and to amass
find,(Kit) to build and endow no asylum
for decayed artists. It was for this
great object that he jlenlod himself all
pleasures that cost money, all luxuries.
Ills resolve, once made, could not he
shaken. On one occasion he was of
fered XI00,(11)0 for the urt treasures
locked up In the "den.” "Give me the
key or the house, Mr. Turner," said u
Liverpool merchant, "nud here Is the
money." “No, thank you,” replied
Turner. "I have refused a better of
fer." And that was true. By tils will lie
bequeathed £140,000 to found au asy
lum for poor artists born in England
and a magnificent art collection In Ills
country. This latter bequest was, how
ever, coupled with the condition that his
“ltl?e" and "Full of Carthage" should
be hung In the National gallery be
tween Claude’s "Seaport” and "Mlll."-
Golden Penny.
The WUmlnutiiii Giant.
The “Long Man of Wilmington,” pop
ularly known as the “Wilmington Gi
ant," is a rude, gigantic figure of a man
240 feet In length, with arms extended
upward and la ench hand holding a
long staff in a position parallel with tbo
body. The distance between these
staves is 110 feet. The figure Is well
proportioned and reclines with both
legs outstretched. It lies carved on a
bold bluff of the downs facing the
weald nnd forms a conspicuous land
mark for miles round, especially when
the light falls on it at a particular an
gle. There Is n similar figure nt Come
Abbas, In Dorsetshire, nnd, ns both are
near religious houses, It is supposed
that they may have been the work of
the Inmates. The slope to the south
of the priory, on which the figure la
cut, bends downward nt nn angle of
fifty degrees, and the giant wns orig
inally marked out by removing the turf
and exposing the glaring white chalk
beneath. In course of time the outlines
became grass grown and could only be
seen nt certain seasons, so In 1873 a
movement wns set on foot for re-inark-
Ing the whole figure. This wns succcse-
fully accomplished, tliu outline being
plainly marked out by wldto brick*.—
London News.
“CappInB” Trows.
The following account is given In
Country I.lfo of the way In which pil
fering crows arc dealt with by Italian
agriculturists: A hole of n certain depth
Is dug In the ground, nt the bottom of
which Is placed somo decayed meat.
A funnel sliuped wedge of paper Is
then Inserted Into the hole, the upper
edge of the pnpor being conted with
birdlime. “Mnitre Corbenu" sees the
food, descends to grasp it, and when
he 1ms firm hold of it he rises up again.
Ills head Is, however, swathed with
the pnper cap, and in Ills mad endeavor
to rid himself of It he circles up to ex
traordinary heights In the air. revolv
ing constantly nud nt so rapid n pace
that, soon overcome with giddiness, lie
fulls to the earth dead.
The Cashew Nat.
The cnsliow nut serves a unique pur
pose ns a cosmetic In the West Indies,
where women desiring to remove ex
cessive tan anoint the skin with an oil
from the outer surface of the rtrw nut.
For two weeks the patient must retire
from society, for the face aud hands so
treated turn black. At the end of a
fortnight's seclusion, however, the wo
man who has undergone the cashew
treatment emerges, observers state,
“with skin and complexion us fair ns a
babe’s.”
Fartunc'a Favor Sufficient.
“Wlint do we want with gold and
precious stones':" said the proud young
mother, gazing fondly upon the baby.
“This is fortune enough for us.”
“Huh!” grunted the father, who had
been walking the lloor nearly all night
“I'm glad fortune didn’t knock twice at
our door.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
Sympathy.
He—I got a note from Dunne today
saying that he absolutely must have
the money I owe him by tomorrow
morning.
She—Oh, the poor fellow!—Life.
Napoleon I., who was a grent ad
mirer of femnle talent (when its owner
did not, like Mine, de Stncl. direct It
against himself), used to say, "There
are women who have only one fault—
viz, that they are not men.”
Bin N’oaea la Favor.
In Japan the nose Is the only feature
which attracts attention. The nose de
termines tho beauty or ugliness of the
face, according ns it Is big or small.
This Is probably due to the fact that
difference In noses constitutes about
tho only distinction between one Japa
nese face and another. Tho eyes are
Invariably black, the cheek bones high
nnd the chin receding. In Japan ti
lady who has a huge proboscis Is al
ways a grent beauty and a reigning
belle. There uro a few largo noses
among the natives, and lucky is he or
she upon whom nature lavishes one.
In all Jnpi.nese pictures representing
tho supposedly beautiful woman the
artist invariably lin|<roves on uaturo
by depleting this feature us abnormally
developed.
"Spite” Tower.
Every one is familiar with various
Bplte fences or houses, but it is safe to
say .that quite the most costly nnd
elaborate enterprise of this kind In the
world is Ute famous Wuinhouse tower,
In Yorkwire, England. Its builder,
John Edward Wuinhouse, was the
owner of a dyeworks In that valley.
Next to his estate lay that of an Eng
lish lord. The two quarreled, and
Wuinhouse built the tower so that hs
could always overlook his neighbor’s
grounds, although they lay much high
er than his own. The tower Is nearly
300 feet high and cost $50,000 to build.
Peed Iu It.
Jonah wus giving the details of th#
episode.
"But,” they said, “did your wif#
believe you when you said you had
been three days In the whale?"
"Yes," lie returned. “She said I bad
given her much moro improbable ex
cuses before.”
With a happy smile he went down
town to buy her a handsome present.—
Hurper’s Bazar.
Just s Gina.
"I saw you out walking with y#ur
wife yesterday.”
“I didn’t know you knew my wife.**
“I don’t.”
“Then what makes you think It was
she that you saw me with?”
"You didn’t appear to be saying any
thing to her.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
A Family of laflaenea.
“He seems to be quite an Important
personage now.”
“Why, he always was, and so were
the other members of his family.'*
“Nonsense,”
"Not nt all. He started ns Janitor In
a flat, his brother Is n policeman, and
his sister is u cook lady.”—Exchange.
Politeness is like an air cushion—
there’s nothing In It. but it en*p tbs
Joints wonderfully.—Gannett,