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ment. We are going to make
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next 10 days we will sell
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Arbuckle’s Coffee, i 7 J c
Block’s Kennesaw Coffee, 20c
Best Fancy Patent Flour,
$1.50 for 50 lbs.
Heinz’s pure Apple Vinegar,
35 C. gal. ’■
2 lb. cans Tomatoes 74c
3 “ “ Peaches,
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Kingan’s pure Leaf Lard, 55
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Kennesaw Cheese, 15c
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The Atlanta Constitution and
Journal are at least progressive.
About Jan. ist the Journal copied
an article from the Times-News
about the attempted murder of John
Bohannon and the stabbing of Mr.
Robertson at the same time by
George and Burgess Lee at Pra-
tiler’s bridge, though the article
was not credited -j to . us, , t but , lf pur-
ported to be a special from its cor¬
respondent here. The Constitu¬
tion, not to be outdone, last week
published a 'story from Augusta,
saying that news had just been re-
cei,ved from Turgugus .valley, in
Habersham county, that Sunday
the Lee brothers had shot John
Bohannon to death and stabbed Mr.
Robertson to death, while return¬
ing from church. The Journal,
not to be downed in this style, the
next day published another fake
story about the same thing, saying
both Bohannon and Robertson had
been killed by the Lees.
There is no truth in either of the
stories. Neither of the men are
dead, and the . trouble occurred last
December. As genuine, up-to-date
fakirs, the Journal and-the Consti¬
tution are hard to beat.
Mr. Redmond, the Irish member
of the British Parliament, is giving
the American people his views on
the arbitration treaty- Of course,
he is sure that England is trying to
“do” us, and that we are better
without it. The Irish party, in the
English Parliament, the American
Congress and elsewhere, does its
full share in keeping, up the sense¬
less clamor against everything Eng¬
lish, and from purely selfish motives, j
intrigues unceasingly to prevent
amity between the two nations. It
was no fault of that party that we
have not long since been embroiled
in a war with England. Of course
this is, in a sense, natural, but the
reproach lies at the doors of those
American legislators who are so
excessively gullible.
England took from us, in 1896,
100,000,000 lbs. of hams and 300,-
000,000 lbs. of bacon, paying us
therefor $34,000,000 cash; 195,-
txxi,ooo lbs. of lard, for which she
paid us $10,000,000; 200,000,000
lbs. of beef, yielding us over $17,-
000,000; 17,000,000 lbs. of tallow,
38,000,000 lbs. of canned meats,
etc. All these goods were paid for
in gold. But England is the coun
try whose trade “we can do with-
out.” Down here in Georgia,
those are not our sentiments. We
want English trade and English
capital. We are not prejudiced.
One reason why the bicycle is so
popular is, that it is an all ’round
affair.
Tf\ 1 ° (live* U,KC/1,V AwftV W*
We are going to give away,
to the lady holding the lucky
number, the beautiful mirror
which can be seen now in our
store, 18x40 in., bevel edge
beautiful oak Lame.
We will give a ticket with
every cash purchase of $1.00,
from Feb. ist to April ist,
when the sealed number will
be opened and the one holding
the number will receive the
Tailoring.
We have just received from
the Tailoring house in
The Coming of the War God.
At last, England is awakening to
a sense of her real position among
the nations of the earth. A singu-
lar apathy has heretofore marked
her temper in civil and political ac-
tion, in her attitude towards her
natural and implacable enemy, and
in her foreign diplomacy. Recently,
she has eagerly sought an alliance
with the United States ; an alliance
which many Americans look upon
with suspicion, some with dislike,
and all with interest. It is charged
that the Treaty before the United
States Senate is in effect a treaty of
“ defence and offence. 5 ? It is ail-
eged by a certain class, that Eng-
land has onl >’ a s inister purpose
cloaked under the pretext of phi 1-
anthropy, and that such a treaty is
dangerous to us’ and altogether one
sided. We will not in this article
discuss the objections raised to this
important document: we propose
merely to indulge a few observa-
t,ons wlthoul prejudice, while we
look calmly over the outlook in Eu-
rope.
For half a century, Russia has
been steadily advancing her out¬
posts beyond her natural and legit¬
imate autonomy. She has quietly,
and with consummate skill in diplo-
macy and statecraft encroached year
after year upon Asia and Africa,
always with one incidental pur-
pose—to protect her legitimate do-
main by surrounding it with tributa¬
ry or neutral territory, and to streng¬
then her foreign commercial rela¬
tions ; and finally to extend her do¬
minion overall Europe. The secret
policy outlined for Russia by Peter
the Great has been persistently ob¬
served in her tireless movement to-
wards the far East, her aggressive
but bloodless progress has been
marked at the end ot each decade
by important acquisitions of for-
eign territory, and Hie domination
of her power over new and as yet
unsubjugated peoples. While Ger- !
man, French and English diplom- I
acy has been acute and in minor
matters masterly, Russia’s hand |
has quietly and firmly grasped ex¬
actly what she desired and what she
had planned to acquire. The states-
manship 1 of those powers r has been
ostentatious, hers unpretending;
theirs has been the subject of lauda¬
tion and flattery; hers has been
overlooked or decried, because she
has made no pretense and put forth
no claim of diplomatic genius. Rus- j
sia has preferred tc be ever in the
background, standing in the shadow
that she might be the less observed,
but ever vigilant, ever watchful,
ever ready to plant her ponderous
foot one step forward whenever her
unwary and shifting rivals left new
space for it, and never again re¬
moving it. The autonomy of all Eu¬
rope, unchanged for nearly a third
of a century, has been preserved by
Russia’s silent dictum ; and Russia
has, mutely but certainly dictated
the movement of every pawn upon
the map of Europe. Russia is to¬
day the dominant power in the
hemispheres. No nation could to¬
day compete with her in a war wag¬
ed upon equal territorial conditions ;
nor is it certain that all the other
European Powers combined could
subjugate her. In every Russian
breast there is a deep and unhesitat¬
ing belief in her destiny; in the
the world the prettiest line of
j | samples Suits from ever $12 shown $33. in Toccoa Pants
to
j from $3 to $9.25. Give them
j a look if you want a nice suit
for spring. We guarantee
to fit and please you.
w MATS. -
We have a Flat for every-
body. Come and get yours,
from 25c. to $4. “Yeoman”
j and “Dunlap” Derbies.
j Umbrellas? Well, yes, from
135c. to $3/
Our Neckwear will catch
you if you like something nice
! and stylish. We have them
from to
minds of her rulers there is an un-
j ! swerving destiny. And purpose with to the promote passing that of
j each of her rulers and the coming
i of his successor, Russia’s spirit of
j | conquest h er advance becomes more more rapid, apparent, her de¬
: man ds and interdictions more
haughty and imperious.
j The fact is looming like a night-
I mare over Europe, that Czarism
■ threatens it, and the minds of her
j apprehension. statesmen are already Is it then stirring with
I any won-
der, if it be true, that the only En-
Sflish-speaking race in the path of
Russia should feel its isolation? or
that it should turn towards itskind-
| red in the western hemisphere for
sympathy and with the natural hope
of its aid should that be needed in
the near future to prevent her
truction ? We in America fancy our
selves securely out of the way of
involvement, no matter how many
wars may distract Europe or
rest of the world. But let us not so
deceive ourselves. We are not far
from “the crucial test,” a test
which will determine whether or
not we will consent, by inaction ’
and by an attempt at neutrality, to
witness the annihilation of a kin-
dred race, and the absolute domin-
ation over the continents of Europe
and of Asia and of Africa, of semi-
barbarous Sclavs. Could we piss-
ively endure such a spectacle ?
But, even could we quiet our con¬
science, in such an attitude, we
should be drawn into the maelstrom.
The destruction of England would
mean the destruction of half our for-
eign commerce ; it would mean the
annihilation of a twin civilization *
it wouid mean the ultimate loss to
us Yif Alaska, and the following en¬
croachment upon our Russian front-
ier ; it would mean the paralysis of
the Protestant religion throughout
the world, except among ourselves.
In vain, too, would we struggle
to inforce neutrality laws; and our
inability to enforce them would in-
evitably involve us in the end in
the all-pervading conflict. The
alliances formed with Russia will
hasten and make more certain this
impending conflict, and more terri-
hie. . « -»-T- -Nor will •.. •*-» Russia ■ * allies 11* i be
s
spared 1,. by her, . the , event of , , her
m
triumph over England. She would
as surely make them her vassals
afterwards, in effect if not in name.
Let us fervently hope if we may ’
that the catastrophe we fear may be
averted ; but we have watched the
approach of existing complications
in Europe and Asia for a decade
past; and from the first believed
and declared that a mighty strug¬
gle between Sclav and Anglo-Sax¬
on, for the supremacy in Europe
and Asia, was inevitable; and
should it come, we may be forced to
play a part in the drama.
And now, Mr. Daniel, of Vir¬
ginia, rises in the Senate to oppose
the passage of the Nicaragua canal
bill. This is the “silver” tongued
orator, we believe, who some time
ago advocated Chinese wall build¬
ing around these United States, and
an invitation to England to take
her trade elsewhere.
Cornering the grain market is
not a game of modern origin.
Joseph got a corner on corn in
Egypt, even in Potiphar’s time.
Our line of Shirts can "i
beat—white, Persian and • all
the latest—two Collars and
pair Cuffs with each Shirt,
15c. to $1.50.
'' e have just received 150
more pairs of those Si.60
Pants, going this week at $1.
F«ew Clothing coming in [
e ' er 3 cla 3 7 - Y lve us a look it
3 011 want a suit.
SHOES.
We are having a big Shoe
trade, because the prices are
low. We can & give you any J
st 3 ^ e 3 ’ ou want, black and tan.
Drop in and give them a look.
SOME RAMBLING
BY “ NEMO.”
(Copyrighted)
[These “Thoughts” million by a layman,
read in a quarter of a homes,
tered in every State in the Union. In
county they will he found week by week
the columns of the Tim es-News only, as
have made arrangements with the
for their exclusive publication.
A subsoil plow, a harrow, a
and a cultivator are all good
in their proper place and time ;
there are soils in which the
you go the more you
your farm, and there are stages
plant growth when the use of
a roller or any other implement
agricultural suicide. Because
are facts maintainable against
argument, and because so
hundreds of thousands of my
ers are farmers, I wish to
these out-of-door truths the
point for another
Thought.”
* * *
Humanity has from time iinme-
morial been likened to a field, a
vineyard, &c., wherein laborers are
needed to plough and to harrow, to
reap and to garner. And the call
to thrust in, as the field is white
unto harvest, has always found in¬
response since the moment
when man first began to understand
that the claims of his neighbor are
urgent upon him the moment his
own absolute needs have been at-
tended to.
* * *
But enthusiasm in relation to
good work has to be combined with
common sense; it certainly must
not be ahead of it, or we shall find
ourselves embarked in another fate-
ful Childrens’ Crusade, like that of
the middle ages. Enthusiasm alone
will sink us into helplessness, just
as with the rearing and the strain¬
ing of a mired horse. To make
amply clear my meaning I will go
a little further. There is hardly a
community in which you will fail
to find men and women working
for the benefit of their race from
the purest motives at the outset.
But m almost as many communities
you will find lines of effort crossing
and re-crossing one another, So
eager becomes the straining after
s l titis 11 c1. p1 6 ciiix.idc r 1 cc" 8 o nicin i v
garments made, , so , hungry
many
fed, so many souls saved, &c.—that
the real object of the humanizing
work, the reaching of human hearts,
is almost lost to sight in the rush.
Then, here and there some extra
enthusiastic one, instead of trying,
or pretending to try, to water where
others have planted, starts his un*
swerving plow or his drastic har-
row right over the growing crops
and standing sheaves of others, ex¬
cusing himself by asserting that
their methods have been wrong.
Thus he not only undoes the work
of others, but he wastes his own
strength by doing at an improper
time a thing essentially proper in
its own time and place.
* * *
So while our voices should un¬
doubtedly be raised in strength these
closing years of the century for
freedom for all to work as they will,
Wisdom being justified of her chil¬
dren, there is equal need for secur¬
ing a certain unity of effort, so as
to economize the moral strength of
a neighborhood. Eagerness to work
is not alone sufficient, else we would
praise the child that pulls up corn
Fine Dress Goods
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Percales, Plaids, Linen,
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2 5 ^ounterpanes, pieces Silk to go at 50c yd
4 ^ 60c to $1
I2 5 Corsets, 25c. to $1.25
300 Ladies Hd kts, 5c. to 25c
2 5? A few ? ents , ? of k * those 5c. Herms- to 25c
more
to see it grow, or that tears open a
drum to see where the sound comes
from. The human race, looking
backward can truly say, “when I
was a child * * I thought as a
child,” but it is not yet able to say j
t ( when I became a man, I put away
childish things.” If it could, we
should see less pettiness, indirect-
ness and stupidity among those who
claim to be children of Light, and
yet grope in the selfish, narrow
stages of human development.
* * *
What, then, shall be said to your
heart this week ? You need in deep
humility to acknowledge to yourself
that the stone age has passed, when
every man’s enemy was the very
next man he happened to meet;
that the iron age is passing, when
men learn the power of combina-
tion, but use it for oppression ; that
the Golden Age is coming,
the co-operation of those who love,
tor the benefit of those who suffer,
must be the rule. If it be true
that as a man thinks in his htart so
is he, then you will promptly be
found ready to sink individual gain
and tame, ready to forego the praise
ot c men, ready , to seek , the , greatest
good j lor ,, the greatest number, .
even
• r ..
it your own personality , becomes
merged in the common effort.
% *
Would it not be of advantage to
form in your town—what shall I
name it?— a "Get-Together" soci-
ety? Its membership to be made
up of those who in divers ways are
working for the uplift of the race ;
its functions to be a sort of clearing
e>
house of ideas, where those who
work give to others the benefits of
their experience, thus economizing
the strength that is now wasted and
the damage that is done by those
who laboriously work out plans for
themselves that others have already
effectually learned. You will say,
perhaps, that this is not feasible,
because each worker will be on the
watch against giving advantage to
any one else. You may J be right ’
'
, but it voicing . . the
you are, you are
deepest protest that - fallen humanity
can raise against the workers for
giod. The poor object of their
solicitous attention is pulled one
way and then the other until he
cries out, “I would rather go one
way wrong than travel twenty dif-
ferent ways to be right.” If the
abiiity to combine, which has been
such a notable discovery among
men a discovery that has led them
upward r from caves in the earth to
our present highly , organized civil- ^
ization—if, I say, this ability is to
stop short when it comes to moral
effort, it were almost better that it
had remained undiscovered.
But I am persuaded better things.
It is not for nothing that we are
passing through our little day on
earth. All nature is vocal of the
value of combination and of growth
by combination ; all history pro¬
claims it; and all heights of moral
power and accomplishment are pos¬
sible by means of it. The conti¬
nuity of life in nature assures us in
no uncertain way of the continuity
of effort—ours— yours. Then, hu¬
man fellow, begin to think and to
prepare for the generations yet to
come, who will look for blessings
from your hands just as rightfully
as you enjoy the blessings that come
from those before you whom you
cannot even name.
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Ladies’ and gents’ Belts,
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200 yd good spool Cotton,
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,S! watched
our infancy helpless
® and
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i first totter.
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v I Up The of
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thehourwheiisheexperieiicesthe
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