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NEGROES UTTER THREATS. ItrgulMra t Lyllf I * Handle the Klithih Immune Volunteers. Atlanta, March ft Sheriff Henry of Walker county wired Governor Gaudier that ho wanted some militia to help preserve order at Lvtle. The Lighth immunes, which is composed of negroes from Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin, is being mustered out and are threatening to burn the town. The sheriff became alarmed. The governor sent Colonel O’Bear, a member of his staff, to Lvtle to investi gate the reports and ordered the four Atlanta companies of militia to be ready to move. Meanwhile, as a precaution ary measure. Governor Candler wired President McKinley regarding the trouble and asked him to send a com pany of regulars to the scene. He re ceived a reply that one company would be sent .I'rom Huntsville at once. Company K of the Sixteenth infantry arrived at Ohickuuianga at 7 o’clock Saturday night, and upon hearing this and receiving word from Colonel O’Bear thnt the situation had been greatly ex aggerated, the governor decided not to send the militia from Atlanta, although he will hold them under orders to be m readiness for two days more. * The Eighth was the only regiment at Chickauiauga and the one company of the Sixteenth will probably lie held there only a short time, as the regiment is under orders to proceed to Manila. M’KINLEY AT FITZGERALD. President to Visit III" Grand Army Colony on Ills Trip South. Fitzgerald, Ga., March 6.—Presi dent McKinley will include this place in the itinerary of his visit to Senator Hanna’s home at Thomasville. A tele gram from the president to this effect has just been received. Fitzgerald was established some years ago by union veterans, members of the Grand Army of the Republic, from Indiana and Ohio. It is now a flourishing city of approxi mately 10,000 population, with electric lights and waterworks. Many of the residents are from the president’s home county and Rervcd with him during the civil war, hence the occasion of hifc visit will part ke of something of the nature of a reunion. Immediately upon receipt of the noti fication that the president would visit Fitzgerald the three local Grand Army posts, the Confederate Veterans’ camp, the city council and citizens went to work to arrange for a rousing reception. FURNITURE WORKS BURNED. West Huntsville Factory Destroyed by un Incendiary. Huntsville, Ala., March 6. The West Huntsville furniture factory, 2 miles west of the city, has been entirely destroyed by lire. The loss is $25,000; insurance about SIO,OOO. There is no doubt that the tire was of incendiary origin, and some sensational develop ments are expected. Two weeks ago an attempt was made to burn the building, but the watchman extinguished the fire before any dam age was done. James Coons of Hunts ville is president of the West Huntsville Furniture company. The company suffered severely by an incendiary tiro two years ago, and when the factory was rebuilt, it was greatly improved, and its capacity considerably increased. The factory gave employ ment to 160 men. Graduate Tax on Theaters. Charlotte, N. 0., March (s.—Theat rical managers and the people in the larger towns are protesting against the graduate tax on theaters, which will practically close every theater in North Carolina. Tho state and county tax in towns of 10,000 and over will amount to SIOO. besides municipal tax. Circuses are taxed S2OO a performance and SSO for each side show, which will exclude them from the state. Tho bill has passed the house, and will probably pass the senate. Cyclone lilts Georgia Towns. Toccoa, Ga., March O.—A cyclone of unprecedented fierceness visited Toccoa and vicinity, damaging quite a number of houses, demolishing several and kill ing Mrs. Miller, mother of Mr. C. K. Miller, a prominent merchant of this place. Gainesville, Cartersville, Win der, Marietta, Elbortou and other Geor gia towns also suffered as a result of the storm. Gold Smelter For Atlanta. ’ Atlanta, March 6. —Mr. McCoy, a wealthy manufacturer of Colorado, who has been attending a meeting of gold miners in this city, announces that a smelter will be erected on the Southern railway, 8 miles west of Atlanta, near the Chattahoochee river. Work is to commence in 50 days. The smelter will cost about $75,000 and will have a ca pacity of 200 tons of ore a day. Charleston Factory Sold. Charleston, March 6.—The Charles ton mill was sold at receiver’s auction this morning for SIOO,OOO. There was was only one bidder, John H. Mont gomery of Spartanburg, a well known cottou maufacturer. He will open the mill with negro labor. The mill was sold at the upset price set by the court. It covers outstanding indebtedness. No Drinks at Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala., March a— For the flyst time in mouths it was almost next to an impossibility to get a drink in this city yesterday. This is said to be an outcome of the general fight which the church people are making on the whisky business. PROOFS OF PROSPERITY. The Kind Furnished by ChloadT® Capitalistic Papers. The capitalistic newspapers of Chi cago were caught off their guard last week. Theso Republican mouthpieces of corporate greed, conscienceless brawlers for imperialism ; these shame less declaimers of prosperity and free dom, who have persistently rung the changes on McKinley’s contribution to the inflated impudence of the time that “employment is seeking labor, ” printed the following proof of the falsity of their claims the day after Christmas: “Between 11 o’clock in the morning and 9 o’clock at night 10,000 men and boys and about 100 women ate plate fuls of turkey and potatoes and drank cup after cup of steaming hot coffee in the old Waverly theater. This is what they ate and drank: Four thousand live hundred pounds of meat, chiefly turkey; 125 bushels of potatoes, 4,000 loaves of brand, 1 barrel of gravy, 2 barrels of cranberry sauce, 150 gallons of pickles. 500 gallons of milk, and 150 pounds of good coffee. “lii tlie whole crowd of 10,000 for lorn. hungry people the police failed to discover a single professional crook. After the first 700, who were mostly from cheap lodging and barrel houses, had been fed the crowd was made up chiefly of mechanics and laboring men who were hungry and out of work. ” Of the 10,000 9,5300 were mechanics and laborers who were hungry and out of work! That is quite a different story from what the same daily newspapers, in their servility to wealth and power, have been trying to have the people be lieve. They didn’t intend to give the lie to their untrue and bombastic claims. They were just caught off their guard, and may be expected to prostitute their calling more recklessly than ever to make up for it. —Social Democratic Herald. Federal Ownership of Teles rnplm. The situation in Porto Rico promises to force on this government, for a time at least, the experiment of federal own ership of telegraph and telephone lines. The war department now controls all lines in Porto Rico and in the evacuat ed sections of Cuba. The latter, how ever, is looked upon as merely transient. In both places the lines are being re paired and the government is handling commercial messages after government matter. The signal service in charge of this work says it is too soon to draw conclusions as to tho expense of the service, as the cost for maintenance and long delay*! repairs is just now more than the income from the lines. But in six months from the Ist of January the signal service expects to be able to fur nish some interesting data as to the profit in the insular wire service. The military occupation of the lines will naturally continue till the estab lishment of a civil government, and considerable interest is expressed as to how tho management of the lines will be disposed of eventually or whether it will bo permanently retained by tho government. This enforced object lesson in federal management is naturally ex pected to have considerable influence pro or con in the agitation for like con trol in this country.—Washington Post. As They I)o In Switzerland. How much better it would be for us to vote directly upon measures instead of groping in the dark. In Switzerland the people vote directly upon measures, and as a consequence it is the best gov erned country in the world. After an election there they know what it means without guessing. By means of the in itiative and referendum they have spoil ed all the petty little games of the pol iticians. Tho people there have demon strated tlieir ability to deal directly with their problems without the aid of the politicians, who, finding their occu pation gone, have gone into useful oc cupations. Why can’t we do as well as the little republic among the Alps ? We should make a beginning by working for the introduction of this system, which is called direct legislation, first in our local affairs, then in state affairs, and after thus becoming accustomed to its use we can hope to make national use of it. The one definite result of the recent elections which we can all re joice over is the adoption by direct vote of the people of South Dakota of a con stitutional amendment establishing di rect legislation in that state. Let ns all work for this system in onr respective states. The legislatures of nearly all the states meet this winter. So now is the time to strike.—Medical World. Schooner Charmer Wrecked. Raleigh, March 6.—A special from Hatteras, N. C., says: The schooner Charmer, Captain Oslen, loaded with coal, from Philadelphia to Savannah, stranded on Onancock beach, 16 miles south of here. There was a heavy fog at the time. The crew of eight were saved, but the vessel and cargo are probably a total loss. “Freemen” and “Slave*. When the working poor are paid in return for their labor only as much money as will buy them the necessaries of life, their condition is identical with that ot the slave who receives \hose first necessaries at first hand. Th*> former we call “freemen, ” the latter Islaves, ” but the difference is imaginary only.— John Adams. WATSON UPHOLDS JOHN LAW In Hl* Story or France He DUcomsi the Currency Question. It is the history of France, written from the point of view and with the polemic purpose of Populism. Mr. Thomas E. Watson believes in John Law’s theories of money. He thus ironically writes of the re ception at first given to that idea; “He was an expert mathematician and an enthusiast on financial subjects, believing, as many other well meaning enthusiasts have done, that he had penetrated the mystery of the money question. His theory was that the cir culation should be increased and that the true basis of money was the credit of the nation. He formulated his plan of a bank and bored people by talking about it, becoming almost as great a nuisance as Columbus did when h® went wandering about Europe begging kings to lend him money with which to find anew world. The inventors of new things are terribly tiresome creatures. Had Napoleon been able to listen more patiently to Robert Fulton, he might have realized that the idea of the steam boat, properly applied, would have swept the wooden sailing ships of Eng land off the seas and sent the British empire to rack and ruin. “What was the famous ‘system’ of John Law? In a nutshell it was this: To increase the money supply of the nation so that circulation would be quickened, business encouraged, enter prise stimulated, labor employed, prod ucts multiplied, prices raised and debts more easily paid. “This shrewd Scotchman saw that the world was chained down by silver and gold. He saw that commerce tried in vain to spread her wings for a bolder fight. He realized that the world’s stock of the precious metal was too small to supply the needs of mankind for money Therefore he proposed that in addition to the metallic money coined the state should issue a paper currency based upon the public credit. “When this suggestion was first made, it was laughed out of court. Even now there are well meaning people the world over who have a superstitious reverence for the old orthodox doctrines about money. John Law, having a pair of eyes, dared to use them, having a mind, ventured to think for himself. ’' After very interestingly recounting the facts of Law’s stupendous specula tions Mr. Watson finds cause for blam ing him only in the fact that he permit ted himself to be somewhat diverted from his original scheme. He sees nothing unsound in the “Mississippi Bubble,’’ but on the con trary cites the present wealth of the great American states which have been since created out of Law’s grant, as showing conclusively that his enormous stock issues, based upon what was then a wilderness, were not excessive. He writes: Had not a wild craze for speculation suddenly broken out and carried all be fore it Jphn Law's company would probably have added as much to the (grandeur and riches of France as the East India company brought to Great Britain. There was nothing chimerical in hop ing that dividends could be paid upon such a sum. The more the system of Law is studied the less extravagant it will appear. His bank was organized upon precisely the same principles which bring prosperity to the banks of our own time. Mr. Watson says that while “paper money is a good thing, as rain is, it is possible to have too much paper money, just as it is possible to get a calamitous overplus of rain. ” But he declines to sluire the fears of those who believe that the plan of issuing government fiat money would lead in our day to any such excess. He says: “It may belaid that where the gov ernment exercises the power of creating money it will always create too much. This is equivalent to saying that gov ernments are not fit to govern. If the government is to be intrusted with the power to decide how many soldiers shall compose the army, how many vessels shall constitute the navy, how many harbors, forts, custom houses, postof fices, signal lighthouses and dockyards there shall be, why can it not be intrusted with the power of de ciding how much money there shall be ? Asa matter of fact John Law’s theory of credit money has been the salvation of the very nations which revile his name. ’’ Do Away With the Necessity. The New York Herald boasts that New Yorkers spent $25,000,000 in char ity during 1898. Laying aside the ques tion of why such a tremendous outlay was necessary in the midst of such boasted prosperity, we come to the ques tion, When will some great city boast that it did not find it necessary to spend a dollar for charity, its people being employed at living wages? While we are congratulating ourselves that char ity is provided in abundance let us not forget that it is our duty to strive for fiat condition when charity will not be I 'eded. Omaha World-Herald. Steel Billets Going Upward. Pittsburg, March B.—Steel billeti took another jump upward today and sold at $24.00 a ton, the highest price since 1890. Several large sales were made at that price. “Pitts’ —- Carminative Saved My Baby’a Life." ¥¥ LAMAR & RANKIN DRUG CO.i I can not recommend Pitta* Car minative too strongly, I must say, I owe my baby’s life to it. I earnestly ask all mothers who have sickly or delicate children just to try ®ne bottle and see what the result will be. Respectfully, Mrs. LIZZIE MURRAY, Johnson's Station, Ga. ¥¥ Pitts' Carminative la sold by all Osru&glaim. PRICE, SB OEMTB. * Railroads. All railroad charters should be re pealed, and the roads valued and paid for to the now owners and then operated by the government as the rail and wa ter carrying department —the same as any other department—with a cabinet officer. Allowing the owners now to retain five-eighths of their value as an invest ment. Paying them out of the earnings 3 per cent per annum till final liquida tion and full ownership by the people. The roads to be run at cost of operat ing. That is, schedule of prices to be paid by the people for the use they require. Sufficient in amount to pay the in terest while needed. Sinking fund and running expenses.—Jesse Harper. Direct Legl*ln t ion. Direct legislation by the method known as the initiative and referendum is simply making a broad application of the same democratic principle as the New England town meeting. By the initiative and referendum a majority of the voters really ratify every law, for under it 5 per cent of the voters can bring any law to a vote of the people by petition, and if they do not do that it is equivalent to ratifying it. Under this system it would be useless to bribe legislatures, for the people could undo the mischievous work of a legislature. Yet there are men who call themselves American patriots who oppose this just and democratic principle.—Groveport (O ) Commonwealth. One of Life's Truyredies. A story was told by London Truth not long since and its correctness vouched for, which shows the folly of acting hastily and impulsively in im portant concerns in life. The son of a very wealthy man at his father’s death found himself free to in dulge every whim. He had yachts, horses, an island on which he played king at his pleasure. He was not an immoral man, but idle and foolish. One day while using a long distance telephone he was charmed by the voice of the operator at the other end of the line. He managed to discover that it was of a woman, young, single and pretty. In the course of a few days he convinced himself that the owner of the voice was the one human being who should be liis wife and that life would be empty and desolate without her. The girl was pooii and listened to his proposals. He cabled her money to buy her trousseau and to secure a chaperon to accompany her to the town where he resided. In due time she arrived. Her looks were as attractive as her voice. He married her and a few days later was found dead by his own hand in his room. He left no explunation beyond the words, “I have made a mistake," scrawled on a sheet of paper left on the table. A fl ANY peoplehave badblood. IYI That is because their Liver and Kidneys are sluggish and fail to carry off the waste matter. When this happens the blood is poisoned and disease sets in. To keep your blood pure take WMcLeaire Liver&lGWßoh a quick relief and sure cure for disorders of the Liver, Kidneys and Bladder. Thousands use it in the spring especially. Your druggist has it. Only si.oo a bottle. THE DR. J.H. MCLEAN MEDICINE CO. ST. LOUIS, MO. For salefby Winder. Drug Cos. min ffln; The Greatest Remedy In the World For Burns, Scads, Spasmodic Croup, Ervspefas, ~~ Chilblains, Poison Oak ==and== Old Sores. If your Druggist or local Dealer does not keep it, send 25 cents in P. 0. Stamps or silver for a bottle to MRS. W. H. BUSH, Winder, Ga. The World Almanac and dt Encyclopedia for 1899 —*■ AND Illustrated History of the Spanish- American War READY FOR SALE EVERYWHERE JANUARY fst, JS9*. Together with The Battle Calendar of the Republic* Compiled by EDGAR STANTON MACLAY Historian of the U. S, Navy. THE STANDARD AMERICAN ANNUAL. PRICE 25 CENTS. ___ Postpaid to any a ditm. THE WORLD, Putttwr B vWag, ' NEW YORK. A Memorial to Uiigiey. Annapolis, Jan.' 23. —The memorial tablet placed in the naval academy chapel in memory of Ensign Worth Bagley, killed on the Winslow off Car denas In the late war, was nnveiled in the presence of a large number of naval officers and others. Lieutenant John B. Bernadon, who commanded the Winslow, raised the veiling. Mrs. Bag ley, mother of Ensign Bagley, and his sisters were present. Captured After Five Years. Starke, Fla., Jan. 23.— Edward Al varez, a young white man of Bradford county, has been incarcerated in the county jail here. He was captured at Marion, S. C., by the sheriff of Leon county after being a fugitive from jus tice for about five years for killing & Mr. Hilliard. Free Rural Mall Delivery. Athens, Ga., Jan. 23.—Through the efforts of Congressman William M- Howard, a free rural mail delivery is w be started in Clarke county on Feb. 1- This will be the second rural delivery started in Georgia, the other being nsi* Quitman. One Minute Cough Cure, cures- That is what it was made for.