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IB BUST Official County Organ. OFFICIAL OR*A N OF WINDER. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GEORGIA. (Pending referendum vote. ) rOBUBBID KVKIiY THURSDAY KVKNINO JKFFKRSON OFFICE: With the Ordinary in the Court House P. W. Quattlebaum will represent the paper and take subscriptions. Subscription P.ates- Onk Vicar, - - - MW) All subscribers outside of Jackson county will remit through the national FAPttK CLUB, Atlanta. Ga. bee club advertisement in another column A. G. Lamar, Editor. Geo. D. Bennett, Bus. Manager. — 1 THUR3DA /. JANUARY;2H. U 899. Legal Advertising. All legal ads not settled for will be dropped after second insertion. Parties Interested will take notice. Rhode Island’s new capitol is b3ing built of Georgia marble. Most lawyers have very little re gard for the rights of witnesses. The rise in cotton always takes place after the farmers have none to sell. The senate has unanimously agreed to take a vote on the peace treaty on February 6th. Senator Bacon’s great speech in the senate last week against ex pansion is worth reading, Nathan Bay Scott, republican, was elected United States senator yesterday by the West Virginia legislature. The Macon Telegraph says that our country has become a great creditor nation. We presume the 1 elegraph does not cohsider the South a part of the country. The Czar of Russia is having new batth ships made and issuing pronunciamentOß for a general disarmanent. lie ought to stop one or the other of these things, Quay is not having smooth sailing in his ruoo for re-election to the senate from Pennsylvania. In yesterday’s ballot he lacked fourteen votes of getting a major ity. In Savannah a republican was elected member of the city council, but so soon as it was discovered a recount was ordered and the re. publican, oh! where was he?—not in it. 1 p to this time not over ten per cmt. of the amount of fertilizers have moved that had at the same time 1 ust year. This shows the tendency at present to reduce the crop. Farmers seem more determined this year to use less guano and make- more supplies than hereto fore- It is to be hoped this de termination will stick and that next fall every man will have p' nity of corn and meat to supply his farm. The prohibition question is a good moral point, but cannot be forced by politics' The only way to succeed ou this liue is by edu cating the masses. We admit that most people have much to learn, but it is really the only wuy to civilization. —Ex. OCONEE COURT. Some Things About The New Judge, the Court And the People of the County. We went down to Watkinsville Monday to mix and mingle with the clever and hospitable people of Oconee county for a few days and to see Judge Rus .ell in his first court. Most every man in Oconee county spends a few days at Watkinsville during court week, and Monday there was a large crowd as all were anxious to see the new judge of the Western circuit. He made his debut on time, and his charge to the grand jury elici ted the praise and endorsement of all present. Judge Russell soon let every one know that he could dispatch busi ness, and in a few minutes after opening court everything was moving like clock work. Judge Russell received many congratulations this week from the people that were highly com plimentary. Oconee has a set of clever and efficient officers, all of whom look closely after the inter est of the county. Watkinsville has made some substantial improvements since we were there last and indications point to more during the year. The farmers are a little blue over the hard times and scarcity of money. We met many friends we had not seen for years and enjoyed our stay of two days very much. There is no bettor county m the state than Oconeo nor one with more clever and progressive people. The Enterprise, untbr its new management, is prospering and is a live county paper and one of th > fixtures of Watkinsville. The New York papers tell us that the stock gamblers have fleeced thousands of victims dur ing this month, A few men make great fortunes by such operations, but the great hulk < f taose who bite come out losers. The specu lative craze appears to be on the increase, and men risk all they have trying to make fortunes in a few days. The Atlante Journal says Quay bases his main hope of success on Democratic aid, and adds that, if it goes to him, the Democratic party in Pennsylvania will be dis graced. If the Journal had also said that the Democratic party had very often disgraced itself, its editorial on “Quay’s Chances” would have been complete. ‘‘Peg Log” Williams says the ne gioes are leaving North and South Carolina and Georgia for the Mis sissippi valley and the west. This will be bud news lor the Demo cratic politicians in these states. Altrulatte Son of Heaven. The emperor recently escaped from his prison in the island at the Southern lakes, Ebo park, where he had been confined by tho empress dowager since tho coup d’etat. But when his majesty got to the park gates the imperial guard, all creatures of the empress dowager, shut the great gates in bis majesty’s face. A crowd of eunuchs, who dared not offer the imperial person any vio lence or attempt to use force in prevent ing his majesty walking to the park gates, followed him in a body, however, and upon tbo gates being closed they all knelt in front cf tho emperor, beseech ing bis majesty with tears to have mercy on them and not attempt to es cape, for it would mean the death of all of them as well as of the guardsmen at the gates wore ho to do so. The guards men also kowtowed and joined in the general prayer, while ou the other hand they sent one of their number to apprise the empress dowager at Peking of the matter. Tho emperor finally took pity on his suppliant subjects and quietly returned to his prison.—North China Herald. _ Jurors for Jackson Superi or Court, February Term, 1899. GRAND JURY, 1 Jas W Wood 2 Robert J Fleemau 3 Wilkius J Haynie 4 Robt Morris 5 Wm T Appleby 6 Richard F Elrod 7 R S D Lanier 8 Thos N Highfell 9 Jno T Espy 10 Chas F Holliday 11 Wm H Cooper 12 Linard J Vondereau 13 Sam C Potts 14 Wm M L Steed 15 Thos W Wallace 16 Henry R Howard 17 Robt Iverson 18 Lucius A House 19 Thos L Smith 20 Samuel P Higgins 21 Sam B Culbertson 22 Crawford M Porter 23 S W Sackson 24 James F Burson 25 Thos J Bennett 26 Crawford C Nunn 27 Thos W Webb 28 Francis M Bailey 29 Wm H Walton 30 Richard J Pentecost Traverse Jury—First Week 1 James M Brow a 2 Joseph F Wilhite 3 Crawford M Sells 4 Jas A McDonald 5 John W Robertson 6 Geo B Raiden 7 Jno W Creighton 8 Jno M Wilhite 9 Henry M Watkins 10 Wm W Williamson 11 Jesse M Jackson 12 Joseph J Fowler 13 Milton W Caruth 14 Milton Thompson 15 Newton F Jackson 16 Joseph R Shields, Jr 17 Wm T Harrison 18 Jno II Giles 19 Jno J Orr 20 Jno T Lord 21 Jno H Dunnahoo 22 Dilmus Potter 23 Sam A Walker 24 Walter C Davis 25 Wm S Coleman 26 ThoB Pane 27 Jas S Shelton 28 Robt It Hitchcock 29 Jas T Adair 30 Eli M Wilson 31 Milford H Wood 32 Wm E Mathews 33 Jno II II Simmons 34 Wm A Shed 35 Jas R Roberts 36 Jno M Hawkins Traverse Jury—Second Week. 1 Alexander J Ray 2 Chas D Oaks 3 Milton 0 Pittman 4 Lions M Posey 5 Joseph C Hunter 6 Edwin Barber 7 Milton A Benton 8 Wm C Hood 9 Anderson A Nowell 10 David H Parks 11 Thos C Little 12 John T House 13 Barmgton A Hill 14 Robt D Johnson 15 Madison T Massey It) Albert A Fambrough 17 James W Stewart 18 James T Holland 19 Fidridge II Shaw 20 Wm R Lvle 21 Wiley J Harvil 22 Joseph W White 23 John O Stockton 24 James C Stephens 25 W m 1' Nunn 26 Chas D Hardy 27 David O Elder 28 James B Hancock 29 Alonzo Ivey 30 \\ m J D Millsaps 31 \V m J Herrin 32 Archer E Short 33 Thos W Grav 34 Wm B Power 35 Frank E Lay 36 Marvil A Millsaps, THE POPULIST PRESS. THE LITTLE APPRECIATION SHOWN FOR THE WORK IT HAS DONE. The Starting Point gad Basil of m Great Educational Work-Hott the Fnrmer* Cane to Be In Front—Ap petite* ill City Ileernlta. In 1890 when the people’s party made its first great fight for supremacy it was composed almost entirely of farmers. The people of the towns and cities held aloof, and many of them didn’t know what was the matter. When the re turns for the gubernatorial election were coming in that year and an im mense vote for Powers was being report ed from every country district, fairly in telligent men in Omaha said, “Who in thunder is Powers? I didn't know he was running. ” They knew Jim Boyd; they had heard of the Republican can didate, but this new force that had grown up in a night they could not un derstand. They read nothing but the city papers, and the more one reads them the greater becomes his ignorance. If they had read The Independent, the Missouri World, The Silver Knight, The Nonconformist or the country newspapers they would have heard that all things were passing away and all things were becoming new. The inde pendent papers scattered all over the United States were preaching anew gospel then and have continued to preach it ever since, and in doing so they have fought against poverty, ridi cule, discouragement and contempt, but they were not dismayed; they knew that truth was mighty and must pre vail. After the movement was fairly start ed and the new party had commenced to win victories many of the people of the cities and tow r ns cast their lot with *he reformers and gave to them their influence by voting a little and holding office a good deal. Lawyers who were silent until victory was in sight all at once became noisy patriots. Merchants and clerks waited until there was a chance for loaves and fishes, and then they came up to the help of the Lord against the mighty. The lawyers cap tured all the congressional and many of the legislative nominations, and the town boys crowded the statehouse and the reformatory and the benevolent in stitutions. All this time the reform pa pers were continuing the good work of spreading reform ideas. They were waking up the sleeping people and mak ing men think who never thought be fore. The Populist party proper never cast over 2,000,000 votes, but the Pop ulist principles have pervaded the minds of millions of the voters of the old parties, and th 9 reform press is en titled to the credit for most of this edu cational work. Now, what have the Populist papers gained by their unselfish works V Noth ing but glory and the satisfaction of an approving conscience. None of them has got rich, many of them have had a constant struggle to keep the wolf from the door, and not a single one of them is supported as it ought to be. Most of the farmers take one reform pa per, but out recruits from the cities still take old line party papers and no others. There are men in Nebraska to day that are holding good positions by virtue of the efforts of our newspapers that do not j>ay a dollar and have never paid one dollar to the reform press. If the Populists are ever to be victorious, they must quit supporting the newspapers of the enemy; they must assist the men that are assisting them. They must build up influential newspa pers. The Populist press does not need brains, but is sadly in need of money. If it has almost changed the entire thought of the nation in its present con dition, what could it do if it were finan cially independent and prosperous 1 Omit sending your money to the men that hate and despise you. Quit buying ammunition for the enemy’s guns. Send your money to your friends, to the men who have labored for you for long years in the past and expect to continue that work for long years to come. —Omaha Nonconformist. Bitter Irony. And it came to pass that while the newspapers are loudly shouting about the unexampled prosperity in the land they are cutting right and left into their working forces. A local news writer says The Plain Dealer “slid” five men, Tho Press put four men “on the hog,” and on other papers a number of men were also discharged lately. This same scribe also learned through correspond ence that in Chicago 20 competent re porters were laid off, that in New York 52 persons were “let out” by one paper alone and that in Washington “the ax is swinging everywhere.” And so it goes, v * liar with working long hours or not at all the aristocratic newsgather- ! ers may - u learn that they are “intel- ■ lectual proletaire, ” and that there is! such a thing as a labor question after all. But the bitter irony of being com pelled to puff prosperity with their Fa bers and having the gaunt, gray wolf looking on over their shoulders is a pic ture that haruionir.es thoroughly with the present humbugging and hypocrit ical capital!- io competitive system. Cote to perpetuate it, gentlemen. Quite 1 likely you couldn’t live without it.— I Cleveland Citizen. I TURNING THE ARGUMENT. Jail Look With Topullat tkt Republican Claim*. Plutocratic papers, when prating of prosperity, tell us that there is now $880,000,000 in gold in this country and that the increase in circulation since 1896 is $291,000,000. If this statement is true, then we have about one-fifth of all the gold on earth. I a that not going to make gold exceeding ly scarce in the other nations of the world, and isn’t there likely to be a great scramble for the precious metal gome of these days accompanied with an appreciation of the standard metal and falling prices for everything else’ When all the world is contending for the little pile of gold that is in exist ence, we are likely to see such times as even the wisest men never dreamed of. The same plutocratic papers also tell ua that the balance of trade last year in our favor was $600,000,000, and that therefore we should have received that much gold from somebody, but in fact we only received $105,000,000, but they account for this by saying that we are now a creditor nation, and that some body owes us half a billion dollars for our excess of exports, which will some time be paid in gold. They also say that our large exporta tions will continue. Now, suppose they do and every year Europe, Asia, Africa and the islands of the sea are either sending us their gold or becoming in debted to us in the sum of $600,000,- 000. Is it not clear that in five year* all the gold in the world will be long to us and the rest of the nation* will not have a cent ? Of course their premises are all wrong, and their con clusions are all false, but if they were true then the above is exactly the way things would end. So much for the bal ance of trade argument. But her' ' i another dead give away in the claim* of plutocracy. Their present arguments force them to admit one of the strongest conten tions of the free silver men. They claim there is the greatest prosperity ever known in the country and at the same time admit that there is an increase in the circulating medium of $291,000,- 000. That gives away their whole case. What prosperity there is results from the immense increase of money. We told them in 1896 that prosperity could only come with an increase of money. They said we were lunatics and fool* for saying so, but all the same such prosperity as we have is founded on the fact that money is 20 per cent more plentiful than two years ago, and it doesn’t hurt the argument any even if the money is all borrowed and we and our children are bonded to pay it. An increase of circulation does increase our prosperity, and the goldbugs are estop ped from denying it any longer.— Omaha Nonconformist. fit-auTy UTilii Deep. The London correspondent of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph states that a well known society beauty has just had the “outer skin of her face removed with a view of renewing her complex ion.” The operation is not only “pain ful, but tedious, because it is done by pin prick, as one may say. The whole of the outer skin is removed in this way, and if the operation is successful the patient emerges with a face of be witching brilliance. That is the result of the present case. Few people know, but any one can see, that her complex ion has been remade.” We must con gratulate the editor of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph upon possessing a cor respondent who exhibits such enter prise. The story is as pretty as the new face.—London Lancet. Government by IMutoeraey. It is no exaggeration to say that nine tenths of the laws are made nowadays by the judges, and that they are made in the interests of the rich and powerful and to destroy the poor, and the sooner the laboring man understands this the better for his liberty and his life, for his life is really at stake. The judge is the most powerful offi cial in the machinery of modern civili zation, for he can override statutes and even the constitution whenever neces sary. Legislatures are notoriously cor rupt and work in the interest and pay of corporations. When they do pass any laws in the interest of the poorer classes, the judges are at hand to declare them unconstitutional.—Clarence S. Darrow. They Will Own the Earth. All the gas, heating and lighting com panies of Pittsburg have been consoli dated. The capital invested exceed.! £26,000,000. The new company will r the future control the gas, light and heating supply of Pittsburg and Alle ghany and will have absolute power to make, raise or lower the price to all consumers. It is stated that the tru: operates under the omnibus charter c the Philadelphia company, one of the leading concerns forming the new con: biue, and will retain that name. Tli:.; charter embraces nearly every conces sion within the scope of human ingenu ity and is, in fact, carte blanche. KotliscUilds, Farmers. The Rothschilds are negotiating to purchase about 45,000 acres of land in the Mariposa grant in California for £1,000,000. It is thought they will operate bonanza farms through their agents.