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MI DOLE GEORGIA ARGUS
DAVID J. THAXTOX, Editor and
Business Manager.
OFFICIAL ORGAN, Butts Cos
J ack son G koiu si a. Feb 2l 1885-
The salary of the emperor of
Russia in paid to he $8,210,000. Wc
wot’ ld he satisfied with it just
for ore dnv.
Sixty nine army officers, inclu-j
fling Generals Pope, Hancock, An j
£iir, Drum and Newton, will reach
the retiring age during Mr. Cleve
land’s term office.
No man ran advocate the ap
pointment of S| ecr to office in this
State, and be a friend to Georgia,
'this applies alike to the judges of
our Supreme Court, Senators and
private citizens - Tel. A Messenger
It Is Judge Emory.
Emory Speer was confirmed
United States Judge of the South
ern district of Georgia, by tha
United States Senate Wednesday,
the vote being 20 to 2>. Ihe vote
of Senator Joseph E. Drown, o
Georgia decided the result in favor
of Speer. All the Democrats and
or.e Repub l ican voted against the
confirmation. Speer now belongs
to Joe Itrown, and Brown has heap
ed insult upon the hcr.est Demo
crats of Georgia.
COMFULSORY EDUCATION. j
-
The subject of compulsory edti- j
ration is receiving its periodical
discussion. In fact, the legisla
tures of several states are discuss
ing llie advisability of tisting the
system. Tim usual array of facts j
and figures relating to illiteracy
and crime is being produced, and
it is codfideiitlv asserted that had
tlio education ot children been com
pulsory lor the past fifty years the
country would have been saved
hundreds cf millions of dollars
which have been expended in at
tempting to enioree our criminal
laws, not to speak of the advan
tages, moral and material, that
would have sprung from the almost
universal intelligence of the peo
ple.
At least two states have compul
sory education laws —New llamp
-v 1 xrirtUyron In the for
mer each parent or guaraien is ic
quired to send his child or ward to
school 12 weeks in each year, six
ot which must he continuous, un
der penalty of a fine of from $lO to
S2O. The Michigan law is substan
tially the same. In the former
state the law has been in operation
lor a considerable time, and judg
ing from the statistics of crime, the
results have been favorable though
not as favorable, perhaps, as the
ftionJo of the t-ysiem count and < se.
In Michigan the system has not
been in operation long enough for
its effects to be very noticable. In
fact, the law in that state does not
seem to he very rigidly enforced.
There are according to the last
consus, over 5.000,000 children in
the United States who never attend
school. Avery large proportion of
these, now growing up in ienn
ranee, are destined to be electors
whose influence on the future gov
ernment of the country will be very
great. llow many thousand may
enumerated among the criminal
classes of the future may be easily
estimated irom the observations of
the past. It is useless, however, to
undertake to show the importance
of education.
The question of the advisability
and practicability of compulsory
education is a momentous one.
There is a vague sentiment that a
compulsory education hnv would
be an encroachment on the natural
rights ot a citizen. This senti
ment, however, should not over
weigh the regard of future welfare
ol many mi l ons of people. The
practicability of such a law is a lo
cal question. Compulsory educa
tion must always be preceded by a
thorough voluntary public 8' bool
system. Georgia will probably
have to wait a good many years
before it will be practicable all over
state.
The day is coming when it will
be considered no more the right of
a parent or guardian to withhold
mental pabulum from a child than
to deny it food and clothing. There
are some now living who cannot
see the right in taxing one man to
educate the children of another, hut
this class will one day be extinct.
It may bea decade before a thorough
public school system will be in op
eration in this state, but in all
probability it will not bo two de
cades before compulsory education
will be established and euforced not i
only in Georgio but in every part j
cftheccuuirv. * i
MIDDLE GEORGIA ARGUS.
Ixdiax Sprixo Department.
W. T. SMITH. Editor.
Rnne:nb*r E P. Newton is sell
ing the Gofiiypium Guano at In
dian Spring Depot. Also some
arge pretriunn are offered to the
one producing the best cotton with
Gnssypium. tf
Wc think some of our Anti-Pro
hibition friends needed Prohibition
very badly one day Lest week. We
saw some ladies waiting for them
to get off the streets that they
might pass without being made to
blush. But then, such is one of
our privileges, and the ladies must
; not bother. They should either
i stay at home, or shut their eyes
when we men take a “little too
; much.” *
Oh well now, gentlemen, we
made no allusion lo you, when we
alluded to Duffey's colored troops
We alluded to tlie “sure enough”
darkeys which Ed rolled up in a
solid body against us. Our friend
Dufley knew our meaning and that
the item whs penned in the best of
humor. No gentlemen, we did not
allude to any white men. We
didn’t think that “cap wmild fit ’
Our Town Beats Them All.
Several of the farmers in Monroe
county formed a club fur the pur
chase of their guano. They receiv
ed scaled bids from our town, For
syth, Milner, Barnesville and all
surrounding towns. Daughtry
Bros., of our town made the lowest
hid, and received the order for sev
enty five tons. This confirms what
this firm has always claimed :
namely, that they ar- the- leaders < f
low prices. Our citizens should ap
preciate this wide awake firm.
They always work to build up our
town aad benefit all parties con
ccrno 1. Great droves of wagons
arc hauling this guano out and
this represents seventy-five bales
ol cotton that would have went
elsewhere had it not been for the
liberal bid of D. u ;htr/ I)ros.
D sappaaring Rivera.
One of the most interesting f< a
tures in the scenery of the Terri
tory of Idaho is the occurance of
dark rocky chasms, into which
/r ol’P **'* 1 "-0.~ pliddunl y
disappear and are never more seen.
The fissures are old l..va channels
produced by the outside of mass
cooling and forming a tube, which,
when the fiery stream was exhaust
ed, has been left empty, \ h le the
rood ot tlie lava duct, having at
some point fallen in, presents there
the opening inter which the river
plunges and is lost. At one place
along thb Snake one of these rivers
o ,.oiiiu” iiom a cleft high
up ir basaltic walls, where it leaps
a cataract into a torrent below.
Where this stream has its origin,
or at what point it is swallowed uj
is absolutely unknown, although it
is believed that its source are a
long ways up in the northern coun
tries.
STARK LOCALS.
The snowflakes that fell here on
the 11th inst. were the largest ever
seen by o;r oldest citizens. Jim
Duke says they were as large us a
“saddle blanket.”
Thomas Redman, of Fort Mason
Fla., after spending several weeks
with relatives and friends at this
place returned home on last Tues
day.
Alonzo Andrews says he is very
weak physically, and should his
girl wish to put a quietus to his
existence, the quickest way to do
it, would be for her to marry seme
other man.
j Mr. 0. A. Andrews has purchas
| ed the tract of land recently owned
! by M. L. Hendrick and will erect
a nice residence on the same. This
: as a strange procedure for a young
! man, who expects to remain in
; ‘‘single blessedness.”
There was but two valentine rt
i eeived ot this Post Office. The
young people seem to have forgot
ten that the 14th of February was
St. Valentine’s dr.y.
The f ict of the sense of feeling
being the most delic ate of the five
• senses that we have, was fully es
; tablished here the other day. Na-j
i than Thomas called at the barber
| shop for the purpose of having his j
mastache dyed. The bather thought
it rather a delicate job, but remem-,
ibereJat the ssme % iim?, that th?:
; “sense of feeling” was said io be
most delicate, lie proceeded to try
the experiment and to his utter as-:
tonishment, succeeded in “Liaok- :
ing” something that felt like j
i 4swsri*i- down. 4 ' M T.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, Feb. Id. —Congress
for the past week lias been the
foot nail of obstruct! :e dilatory
and mischievous cranks. Appro
priation bills and oilier i . portent
if ra t indispensible legislation
have been delayed ard an extra
session seems c< ry probable. Well,
who cares? Let an extra session
be called A member of Congress
is paid SSOOO a year and whether
he legislates in Washington or
vegetates in his viral home, he
draws his pay all the same. We
pay Congress to make laws. It is
desperately difficult to keep them
down to their work. They are
wretched shiiks; they seldom pull
together except on a motion to ad
journ, but sirr-e tliev are paid so
much per year let their alleged
work be contiuous throughout the
year. It would be better to pay
them by the day arid only when
they are in their seats. When a
member fails to answer to his
name on roll call clock his wages.
If he is tardy, require him to bring
a written excuse from his wife. If
these wholesome rules are enforced
there would be less absenteeism,
less skipping around the corner,
less solitary and informal adjourn
ment to the restaurants in the
basement of the Capitol. The fact
is, that the people are too easy and
leivent with those who, with vaunt
ing hypocracy, call themselves
public servants. These deputized
legislative employes, to speak it
mildly, are many of them bum
mers and loafers, interested chiefly
in their private ambitions and
pleasures, and utterly indifferent
to, or ignorant ot, the needs of the
great interests which they are sent
to represent. Congress is not up
with the times. It is not at all
progressive. So far as I know par
liamentory methods and procedure
are not much better now than
when Rome was a republic 2000
years ago. A plan has been devis
ed to call the roll by electricity,
and thus register instantaneously
the vote of ever} 7 member, but the
old and tedious plan of calling t lie
yeas and nays is still followed,con
sun,ing a great "portion of the ses
sion.
An extra sessions will probably
be called early in April. It is said
that the Democrats desire to avoid
an extra session on political
j, iu> , Put ajipielvoncione nre
perhaps exagerated, and it is time
legislators should rise above mere
party expediency and do their du
ty without fear. In the end this
would prove to be the broadest and
high cs t expedi enc y.
It will be remembered that eight
years ago the petty Michigan acci
cident who occupied the vice-presi
dent s scat in the Senate, assumed
‘i-~* i.~ ....ocuu proper person to
declare who was the president of
the United States. Worked by
Zach Chandler, John Sherman,
Morton, and other desperate oon
spiritors, this puppet had much to
do in making the deplorable make
shift of the electoral commission
possible. I will mention that his
name was Ferry, for perhaps the
reader has forgotten hia name, as
has the world his existence. Sen
ator Edmund the present vice
! president s recent much discussed
announcement of the “appearance”
of the returns is a political denial
of the authority claimed by all re
publicans, Mr. Edmunds among
them. Then, in 1870 Mr. Ekmunds
was mady, by any means, as he
afterwards showed, when a mem
ber of the court which made Hayes
President, to perpetuate the rule of!
his party. This man 3s a profound
and able lawyer, but he is as con
scienceltss and as cunning as Jas.
G. Blaine.
It locks now as if Mr. Thurman
will be a member of the Cabinet of
President Cleveland. He is earn
estly urged by influential Demo
crats throughout the country. Sen
ator Pendleton does not want a
Cabinet portfolio, but asks that Mr.
Thurman may be appointed. The
objection has been made ihat he is
too old. but he ij younger than
Gladstone, Biamark, or Moltke.
He is the ablest among the able.
Xo man is better equipped for the
portfolios of .State, Finance, Justice ;
or the Interior. It is no dispar
agement of others to sav that he is
the most profound lawyer that has
been in public life since the war ;
he is thoronghiv posted in home
and foreign questions. While a
member of the senate he exercised
without arrogance, and through
voluntary recogestion of his supe
riority, the functions of leader anO
counselor to the Democratic side.
There were able Democrattc Sena
tora abound him thereiwere La
mar, Beck, Vest, McDonald, Pen
dlton, Vorhees, Hill, Morgan ar.d
others who might have led, had
they not, with one accord trusted
to the learning, the wisdom, the
eloquence and the patriotism of
“the grand o’ I man.*’
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
So (Jol created m m in his own
image. Oh. how sublime, how glo
rion* ihe thought that we are formed
in the image of our creator. llow
thankful, how humbla and obedient
we should be. He not only created
him m his ow n image, hut give him
dominion over the beast of the forest,
the fowl of ihe air, the fish of the sea
and even made woman to be a help
meet for him. We do think he has
a> exalted position. He has all au
thority political, religious and lound
the fireside and other things too nu
merous to mention. We would like
to notice for a few moments w hat
kind of a man that God gave this ex
alted position to After ho was
made God pronounced him good.
Here we fear they fall short of the
appellation! I will notice some of
the leading principles that it takes to
make a good man. Charity, truth,
honesty and temperance. You can’t
be -ux :tly good without these. llow
many are there if they can give a
present, but who will give it to a
rich man, in place of some poor w id
ow or orphan. Wc w ill do the lieh
man a favor and turn a deaf ear to
the erv of the needy. llow many
will tell the truth if it is to their in
terest to tell a falsehood. Let every
one judge their own heart. I will
not attempt to describe the different
classes. Honesty is a twin brother
;to truth. Home seem to think it is no
; harm to cheat, if we have the advan
tage, and the law on our side. We
; are regardless of conscience. A just
weight and measure are God’s de
light. A false balance is an abomi
; nation in his sight. When God looks
upon one of his creatures as he stag
gers out of the barroom, tottering
under his load of liquor I don’t think
he would promtnec him good, pro
faning His holy name with every
breath and ready to stab his fellow
man. Glance for a moment at his
stricken wife, the mother of his
children, and his best friend; the one
that shares his hopes and sorrows,
; the one that has trusted her future
I life in his care. Him lias promised
to honor and obey him. He has be
| trayed his trud, therefore ha is inex
cusable. Perhaps she is not as kind as
you expected. llow could she be.
You did not vow to be a sot at the
iptial altar, you did not promise
her those steeples nights and heart
aches. Ho beware, God made him
jto be a man, and what has he made
J himself to be? A I{ka >ku.
A Fable.
A Parrot and a Monkey one day
began a dispute as to which ol
them had t:e better right to be
called handsome.
“I have Limpid black eves !” ex
claimed the Monkey.
“And I have plumage like the
rainbow!” renked the parrot.
“I am tin; better Climber!”
“And 1 can Fly I”
The dispute waxed s ; hot. that
it was finally agreed to leave the
question to a sage living near by.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” he re
marked tt’W 41 —
stated, “the rose and the violet are
sweet to iook upon, but when you
want something real solid take a
cabbage head.”
mo a a i.:
II you ’pick a wife for her dim
ples ooi.’t bewail the tact that she
can t make bread.
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Opening December t,!CS4; Closing May 31,1835
tiik auspices of the
j United EteSes Govsnunen!.
$1,300,000,
Appropriated by tisc General Government.
$500,000,
Contributed l>v the Citizens r.f Xcvv Orleans.
$200,000,
Approj'ri.stvi! lv Mexico.
SIOO,OOO.
Appropriated -bv the Slate of I.ouUiana.
SIOO,OOO,
Aj>i>ropri.Jtfd hr tiie Ci‘y of \f •*
From SSOOO to $7.5.000,
A|>pti ■' I;-.--: >USc, Cities
an,; i i...:uivs.
E.e'yS’s** !“ i iw
aui r.a t e . -a.i r j t.i -o • ar.d
Coj.-: : o- * • /• o a.
The Elgoest Exhibit, the Biggest Bul.'dirg and the
Biggest Industrial Event in tne
Vto.id'i History.
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COVrii; 11 V •*=• *CK ,SH a SllKtrki; VaUIKYY
Ot than THUNK OP any
aXrdsiiTMN f.VKK HKUI.
Tlit rhranext rntesof irj'rl rvtr known it,
lb*- of r;,n>:or.u<*u (aierti ior ;t*r
pt-rme rv- rv>\ ht-rt.
pti information, addr-s*
k. a nraKE.
Director Genera!. TV. I. X C. C. E.,
X E.v- O*;.*ass. La.
“Can vou give me two fives for a
ten?” asked a millionaire, to whom
a, charity committee had applied
for a contribution.
“Certainly, ■ ir,” eagerly replied
the spokesman, handing out two
fivedollar bills.
“What's this?” inquired the
money king.
“Why. two fives for a ten ! Isn’t
that what you said?”
i “Possibly I did. Possibly I did.”
Ihe said reflectively, “but 1 meant
ten cents.” —Merchant Traveler.
Movies.
I have this day, December lot.
1884. sold my interest to J. W.
Turk. All liabilities and resourc
es pertainirgto the business will
be assumed by Mr. Turk alone.
W. L. Cakmicjiael.
Jan. 13th It.
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Our office is opposite the U. S. Paten
Office, we can obtain Patents in less
time than those remote from WASH
INGTON.
Send MODEL OK DRAWING. We
advise as to patentability free of charge
and we make no CHARGE UNLESS
PATENT IS SECURED.
We refer, here, to the Postmaster, the
Sunt, of Money Order Div., and to the
officials of the U. S. Patent Office. For
circular, advice, terms and references to
actual clients in your own State orcoun
y, write to C. A. Sncv & Cos.,
Cpfotile I'at. ( lice. 'Washington D. C
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any affection of the throat and Lungs,
can find a certain cure in Dr. King’s
Mew Discovery for Consumption. Thou
sands of permanent cures verify the
I truth rf this statement No medicine
| can show such a reecrd of wonderful
; cures. Thousands of emee hopel cs- suff
; erers now greatly proclaim they owe
| their lives to this New Discovery. It
j will cost you nothing to give it a tr’al.
! Free trial bottles at LI. F. Frocks Drug
! Store. Large size $ l .00
TAPE WORM.
In one of the tropic"! provinces o
Germany there lias been found a root
the extract form of which has proved an
absolute specific for Tape Worm.
it is pleasant to take and is not debil
fating or disagreeable in its effects on
he ] atieut, but is peculiarly sickening
and stupefying to the Tape Worm,
which looses its hold of its victim and
passes away m a natural and easy man
tv r, entirely whole, with head* and
while still alive.
One physician has used this remedy
n over 4JJ e isos, without a single fail
ure to pass worm whole with head.
Absolute renoval with head guaran
teed. No pay until so removed, Send
stamp for circular and terms.
HEY WOOD A CO.,
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m Trtatii Free
DR.il. 11. GREEN,
' ir ‘ I, * vc * \v v:\ri:. ATLANTA, G A
A SPECIALIST LOR LLlivea
YEARS PAST-
Hus treated Dropsy and its eomplica
-1 tions v.i'h the most, wonderful ness;
j uses vegetable remedies, entirely harm
! iess. Removes all symptoms of d,opsy
| in eight l ) twenty days.
| Cures patients' pronounced hopeless
j by the best of physicians.
I From the first does the symptoms dis-
I appear and in ten days at’ least two
j thirds of all sym pt ms are removed.
Some may erv humbrg w ithout know*
i ing anything about if. Remember it
| does r.ot cost you anything to realize the
; merit* of my treatment for yourself. In
| ten and; ys the difficulty of breathing is
I relieved, the pulse made regular, the
urinaiv egaus made to discharge
their full duty, sleep is
restored, the swelling allor
nearly 11 gone, the stren goli imreised
and appetite made good. I am <on-
I stautly curing cases of long standing,
cases hat have been tapped a number
of times and the patient declared unable
to live a week.
Fend for ten days treatment; direc
tions and terms free. Give full history
of case Name sex, age, how long
afflicted, how ■■■ dly swollen and where,
is bow els f-osti e, have legs bursted and
dripped whe \ K end for free pamphlet
containing e imonials, questions, etc.
Ten day- tva'.ment furnished free by
mail.
Epilcps\ fi s positively cured.
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5o Jones Ave. Atlanta, Ga.
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