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THURBDA /. JUNE 2b. 18!)!).
Congressman Bland died a poor
in iu.
Senator Mark Hanna ia iu Europe for
his health.
General Gordon’s homo at Kirkwood
near Atlanta was burned last week.
Most men are anxious and willing to
* serve the government in official posi
tion.
Loganville is soon to have a weekly
paper edited by Mr. Clark of Oglethorpe
county.
No bnsiuess should be exiocted to
earn divideuts only upon the capital act
ually invested.
An exchange truthfully says: "The
battle of life does not produce as many
heroes as the battle of death.’’
Dr. of Gen. Otis staff
gays it will take from 100,000 to 150,000
Soldiers to subdue the Philippines and
hold them.
Richard Coker, Tammany’s boss, will
shorten his stay iu England and como
back to New York to get the machine
in working order for the next national
campaign.
Hon. Clark Howell, of the Constitu
tion, is being boomed by himself and
friends as a candidate from the 85th
Senatorial district for Strte Senator in
the next election.
The Boston man who lost his prospec -
tive wife on acoouutof her eloping with
one of his ushers ought to feel thankful
there was another mac as big a fool
as ho to fall iu love with such a wo
man.
The Philippine war has cost the gov
ernment to date $08,000,000 in money
and 664 men, and there is no prospect iu
sight for an end of hostilities. The Phil
ippine women declare that, if all the
men are killed they, the woman, will
still keep up the light against the Amer
icans.
Some men succeed by keeping their
mouths shut while others succeed by
keeping their mouths open most of the
time. Every fellow must be his own
judge as to whuh policy he will
adopt. Asa rule, the man of shallow
brain finds it difficult to keep his mouth
shut from the fact that he invariably
thinks he is all brain. Unfortunately
he deceives himself but no one else.
Will It Ever Be?
Happy indeed should the farmer be
who is content to live with his good wife
aud children under his own vino and fig
tree, free from mortgages and debts that
harass and rob life of all its pleasures.
No life can be pictured filled with more
real happiness aud joy, where hearts are
purer and more like God intended them
than a home as above described. A home
in which every comfort that is necessary
to make it a paradise is supplied by will
ing hands, and a home that uo one can
take from you. We wish that every
family in the world had such a home aud
that universal brotherhood reigned su
preme.
Is the Church Doing This.
The Bible and the chnrohes are the
instrumentalities to which humanity
mast look for all that it needs. The
Bible gives to the church a code of laws,
a rule of action that will relieve the
very situation that now confronts us.
The church must accept this code of
laws, this rule of action and live up to it
or fail in the object for which it was
founded. Is the church doing this? If
the church upholds by its support and
influence the very agencies that are
crushing humanity instead of uplifting
it, if the church is encouraging instead
of righting wrongs, humanity suffers
and angels weep. It looks very much
like the church is pursuing this latter
course at the present time. It is com
pletely hypnotized by the moneyed in
fluences and is rapidly losing its power
for good.
Kentucky Democracy.
Kentucky democracy is having a hot old
time in its state convention this week
and the factions aro fighting each other
to the finish. The chairman of the con
vention refused Monday to recognize an
appeal from his decision and one delegate
cried ont "Hang the chairman.’’ Pistols
have been drawn freely and several riots
have taken place. This is a cleirocratic
convonaion, however, aud one could not
expect any thing better.
The trouble with the Democratic how
ler i3 that if there is a reform demanded
in the country,they use it as a battle cry
until they destroy all hope of the people
iu its being realized. If the Democratic
party would only crawl into its hole and
permit some kind friend to shovel dirt in
upon it there might be some way of bring
ing together the genuine reformers of the
nation aud accomplishing something.
As long as the old corpse is stalking about
posing as the party of the people, that
leng people will be foolish enough to be
lieve or at least hope that some day
it may keep its promise. Western
World.
Advice to the Graduate.
From the Atchison Globe.
The graduates are given an impress
ion that the duties to be met are away
off aud great and carry honor and fame
with them The duties which will face
the bunch of white-dressed girls and
trembling youug men are dishwashing
and mowing tlio lawn and bringing in
wood. No orator can grow eloquent in
talking of the glory in wiping dishes
clean and keeping the lawn mowed,
and for that reason they talk of a Paul
Revere sort of future, which is the
worst kind of silliness. History will
show that the men who have come to
their country's aid in an hour of peril
were never graduated at all and re
ceived no inspiration regarding their
duty from a mau who addressed the
graduates.
Tne Republicans of Ohio are the first
ia the field since anti-trust agitation be
came so popular with old party papers,
and they put in their platform a red Lot
anti trust plank. Now, what are the De
mocrats going to do about it—that is the
issue they have been counting on. They
mast now claim they keep promises bet
ter than the Republicans, and that might
create a laugh as big as the one raised
by the fact that Marcus A. Hanna aud
his associates are going to make
the campaign as the opponents of
trusts. —Missouri World
“Is Civilization Really
Worth While?”
Such is the title of an article in a re
cent issne of one of our exchanges. It
is merely another form of another ques
tion, ‘ls the educated man happier
than the ignorant man?” That such
questions constantly being asked is
perhaps not unnatural. Our poets have
sung of the joys of the Indian or the
pioneer with his wild, free life,- his ig
norance, his primitive customs aud
jnethods. So called great men have
asked if the upward trend of science
and education is a thing really to be
desired and a famous educator has
recently discussed the question. Does
education foster pessimism?
j After all, the question, Does civiliza
tion and education increase a man's
happiness? depends upon the man him
self. It depends upon whether the
man has or has not noble impulses, upon
whether he aspires to higher things or
is content, like the slothfnl servant with
the knowledge that his talent is in the
napkin.
'•I come not to send peace on earth,
but a swor i.” The Creator doesn’t put
a man here t<j hide aud shrink from the
great tasks of life. He puts him here
to fight Life’s battles—to find joy in
crosses, iu privations, in trials if by
these crosses and trials he is enabled to
batter fulfill his great purpose of mak
ing the world better for his having lived
iu it.
To the truly great mau—to him who
seeks to fulfill, that great mission God
intends man shall fulfill, ignorance,idle
ness lack of responsibility, cannot con
stitute happiness. By working, learning
aud bearing respocsibilit s he may have
more trials and more crosses than he who
sits in idleness but if his purposes are
high and pure these c ires and crosses are
forgotten in the greater joy ot‘the stren
uous life. ”
The doctrine emphasized by Gov.
Roosevelt in a recent address on our duty
as citizens of a great nation is also good
doctrine for us as individuals. He
mid:
“I preach to yon, then, my country
men, that our country calls not for the
life of ease, but for the life of strenuous
endeavor. Tne twentieth century looms
before us big with the fate of many nat
ions. If we stand idly by, if we seek
merely swollen slothful ease,and ignoble
peace, if we shrink from the hard contest
where mau must win at hazard of their
lives aud at the risk of all they hold dear
then the bolder aud stronger peoples will
pass us by aud will win for themselves
the domination of the world. Let us
therefore boldly face iu life and strife,
resolute to do our duty well aud manful
ly; resolute to uphold righteousness by
deed and by word; resolute to be both
honest and brave, to sorve high ideals,
yet to use practical methods. Above all,
let us shrink from no strife, moral or
phisical, within or without the nation,
provided we are certain that the strife is
justified; for it is only through strife,
through hard and dangerous endeaver,
that we shall ulti nately win the goal of
true national greatness. —The Progress
ive Farmer.
Worth Thinking Over.
*
From Missouri World.
The people of the United States are
paying directly and indirectly not less
than a thousand million dollars a year
interest. Let us suppose that this inter
est was all to be paid iu Indianapolis,
Ind., on a certaiu day iu the products of
the laud. ludianapolis has about twenty
five railroads entering it from all direct
ions. Let us suppose that one-tenth of
the iuterest is paid in corn at 30 cts. per
bushel. Counting 400 bushels to the car
it would require 833,333 cars; there would
be a solid train on each of the 25 roads
two hundred and fifty-two miles long
This is one tenth of the interest. Let us
say that these trains had reached the
city with the engine at the depot and
the ears extending out two hundred and
fifty miles. Then say another tenth of
the interest be paid in wheat at 65 cts.
per bushel. This would take 470,000
cars and dividing them equally among
the twenty-five roads, would make a
train on eaoh road one hundred and
twelve miles in length. Let us suppose
that one-tenth of the Interest is paid in
fat hogs at 4 cts. per pound. This would
require one hundred thousand cars and
dividing them equally between the twen
ty-five roads would make a train of hogs
on each of the twenty-five toads thirty
miles long. One-tenth paid in cattle—
fine fat steers would require 83,333 cars
of cattle, whioh would take a train over
six hundred and thirty miles long aud
dividing the cars up between the twen
ty-five railroad would make a train on
each road twenty-five miles long. Oue*
tenth of this annual interest paid by the.
people would require in cotton at $25
per bale, eighty thousand cars loaded
with cotton, which would make a train
sis hnndred and six miles long and di
vided equally among the twenty-five
railroad leading into Indianapolis, would
.make a train on each road twenty-four
miieslong. Oh, what a tremendous quan
tity of products, aud yet only half the
interest is paid. Now, let us suppose the
other five-tenths of the interest is paid
in merchandise and manufactured pro
ducts of all kinds—fine and common dress
goods, milliuery. clothing and every
thing that is kept in stores—boots shoes,
hardware notions, wagons, buggies,
threshing machines, farm implements,
in fact every manufactured article which
is offered for sale. Let us allow an aver
age valueof two thousond dollars per car,
and this is oertainly enough, for some
cars would run as low as SSOO while oth
ers might reach tew thousand dollars,
but there are few of that kind shipped
Two hnndred and fifty thousand rars
of merchandise would be required
which would make a train nineteen
hundred miles long, aud divided up be
tween the twenty-five roads would be
a train of merchandise on each road
seventy-six miles long. Now we have
a total of five hundred and seventeen
miles of solid train on each of the
twenty five railroads. Extending in
twenty-five directions from the city for
a distance of five hundred and seventeen
miles! Let us divide these loug trains
up into trains of fifty cars each and al
low each train four men—engineer,
fireman, conductor, and breakeman.
There would bo 38,777 trains of cars and
155,100 traiumen. Then suppose upon
the arrival of the trains, that is, as near
as they could arrive, all the 38,777 en
gine whistles were blown and a like
number of bells were rung wouldn’t
there be music! All this i3 a tribute to
Shylock Practically all this taibute is
unnecessary. Is it any wonder that
people are not as prosperous as they
deserve to be? Iu this day of invention
of labor gaviug machinery, iu this na
tion of virgin soil, every man with rea
sonable industry and frugality and this
includes at least nine out of ten where
they have any encouragement, ought to
be iu luxurious circumstances. The
above figures refer only to the interest
the people pay. They have no refer
ence whatever to the services of people;
no reference whatever to the profits of
rniddl; men; no reference to the expense
of building and running and maintaing
railroads. They refer only to the tr;b
ute unnecessarily paid to Shylock, to
the money power. If the government
had built the railroads and had received
the people’s money on deposit and
loaned it at alow rate of interest to such
as desired to borrow, none of this trib
ute would be going to the money power,
and what interest was paid would be
going to the government—the people as
a whole would lend to the people as in
dividuals and the interest would take
the place of taxes. The people built aud
paid for the railroads and would have
owned them had a proper course been
pursued. Government banks are the
safest and best. Billions of dollars
worth of the peoples property has been
transferred to a few sharpers. A billion
or more a year is yet being transferred
from the people to those who are iu no
way rendering service for it. That
which these sharpers have caunot be
restored to the people but the trsnsfer
can be stopped for the future. A gov
ernment for the people will stop this
fearful robbery. It is a terrible wrong,
there is a remedy. Reader, just put
your thinker to work and devise some
remedy if none has been offered that
meets your approval.
Commonalities.
The above name is intended to mean
about this, common thoughts in com
mon language, about common things,
1y a common man, to a common peo
ple.
People do, aud have a lot of things
in common. All have aud instlct to
eat, because nature has given them an
appetite and plaoed the means to satis
fy it at our command. Do all have a
natural iustict to lie? No.
Lying is the perversed action of a
mental faculty not atall harmonizing
with conscience. Then why do so
many blunt consciences forever and
anon by the perverted action of a facul
ty that will forever mar their happi
ness and distort their very countenance
almost to deformity? Savans will please
answer. If this perverted action did
not even asscend to our law makers we
might control the evil arising from it
with laws But alas! A man who does
not possess this perversed disposition
will never succeed to become a law
maker, lest the common people would
look and think more, and listen less to
their falsifying tongue. Look at their
false faces aud actions. Faces beaming
with false illuminations of friendship.
Think how he will grasp your hand
with a death like grip, shooting forth
his rays of perverted friendship in all
directions regardless of name, age or
color, which you should know is false.
*lt is not natural for any one to be
stow "amazing pitty, grace unknown
and love beyond degrees” upon any
entire stranger without the stranger is iu
sore distress aud the “good Samaritan”
has nothing else to do.
Let us illustrate the “stickability” of
some of the law makers with the fol
lowing:
Here is a very large barn filled with
planks, boards and platforms of all the
political parties; we will call these
planks etc. '‘horses.” Soon we see two
youug political geniuses advancing cau
tiously toward the barn, one of whom
we will call A, the other B. Ais a tail
lean poker nose son of an
of the peace, he has studied
three months, medicine about si// 051
religious trys the clergy, now an
seeker. Bi3 some what fleshy, t l °®' )
of an M. D. of the old ‘‘sort,’’
made a hasty trip through the ,jjlr 1
college, but now has his "shingle" h"*
out as a guide-post for all who a^ 111
want of legal advice. ' :a
They enter the barn, each i u Sea
of a horse to ride to congress, g
wanting oue whose looks will
the people regardless of his
A selects a very large one of a b
whitish color, his name is "Free Sily •!
B gets oue that will pull alright too,,
town of "Necessity,” but will balk **
the city of laxury, his name is •
tive Tariff. ” They mount their reap*,
tive steeds and ride furiously ov er
country, each declaring his horse h*
no equal
When tne fiaal race is ended, “j.
Silver” carries A through safety. ?
returns him to the great barn with this
message to the keeper: "Here is f f „ e
Silver,’ he is an excellent horse, f te( j
nim well, paumper him up, I maj
need him again when this term is out
but 1 will certainly not need him here’’
Such perversed action will continue
.till all getiu the same common road|
"Think” and our steps will all be consec.
utive and directed oue way. Each after
its predecessor and before its successor
all traveling on the firm road of "thiuk”'
that leads to the palace of prosperity
that all may partake in common of the
good things of this world, and inherit
the reward that awaits the faithful in
the world to come. Yours truly,
Carl M. Hucaixs.
A Card.
Editor Economist.—
I desire to express
through your paper thanks to my many
friends for their .kindness through the
past forty-five days of smallpox scare,
We have been reported time and again
as being broken out and some persons
determined we should have it whether
or not. These experts gave me twenty
one days to become a victim to thi
scourge, then went up to thirty and
forty and a few row have run up to
ninety days. It has now been over
forty-five days since it was claimed I
was exposed and am as well as I was
the first day and have never lost a day
from my work. We never felt any
fears in the matter but people naturally
become excited on these things and all
kind of reports are circulated to keep
the public nervous.
We will always have people who know
more than others and people who will
talk The unemployed have to talk if
they do any thing—and what a serpent
is the tongue. It seems that if they could
be made to see their conditions in regard
to their souls preparation to meet God
and get as alarmed over it as they get
over the spread of smallpox.it would
takobuta little while to convert the
world from sin. This scare has kept
persons from preaching and Sunday
school and we hardly know who are the
preachers in charge today. Oar sympa
thies are great for those who have been
afflicted with the disease in this coun
ty and we hope all will soon be out of
danger and restored to health. Now no
one need have any fears from me or my
family and we would be glad to see our
friends. We are glad to know the few
cases in the county about Hoschtoa aro
all getting well and with proper precau
tion we do not believe there will be any
more of it. mr "
Respectfully,
Jas. L. M. Gunnis.
Jurors, July Term,
1899, City Court.
1 John H. Lott.
2 Robert L. Phillios.
3 Crawford C. Nunn.
4 Andrew J. Eberhart.
5 Warren Jones.
6 Starling C. Cooper.
7 Crawford M. Porter.
8 Daniel J. Hoopaugh,
9 Cicero C. Bailey.
10 Samuel F. Graham.
11 John C. Sims.
12 John D. Barnett.
13 Williams. Sisk.
14 William B. Burn*
15 George W. Wallace.
16 William D. Thompson.
17 Henry TANARUS, Strange.
18 Thomas H. Blackstock.
19 Jasper L. Wood.
20 Rufus C. Swaugin.
21 Thomas C. Wilks.
22 Isaac R. Hix.
23 Eddie C. Colquit,
, 24 Robert B. Burns.