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THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE. DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF RABUN COUNTY iAND NORTH EAST GEORGIA. VOL II. CLAYTON. RABUN CO., GA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1899. NO. 40. ‘Th«y’*e a lot o’ yon. wimmin folk*,’ Hid the colored preacher, hr Ha Wllipiaw. Join. P. I., August 30th, ’99. For the convenience of kindrtd end friend* that I have not had the opportunity to write to, I will write a few lines which I hope will reach the Tribune and through it reach many of you. I lived in Rabun county two year* near Wolfcreek church, where my father was rained. Ten year* ago I left there and went to Texas where my fath er lives now. Two yean ago I thought nothing would suit me bet ter than to be a soldier, so I enlist ed in the 28rd United Stutes Infant ry, desiring to see some of the world. I was soldering at Fort Clurk, Texas, near the line of Mexico when on the fifteenth day of Feb ruary the battleship Maine wus sunk. Then there was not u sol dier that did not want to scrap with the Spaniards. So on the 17th day of April We packet! our knppsncks - and boarded the fain for New Or leans, Louisana. Arriving there we went into camp and commenced . drilling three hours a day. After two weeks of this sport two compa nies were, ordered down to the month of the Mississippi river, «a* ordered to Gal* do duty there •.heavy artillery. We did like it because we did not been at Galveston eight days, when Dewey sunk the Spanish fleet in dFManila and we then got orders to go to our regiment in New Orleans ' and all was excitement t hen us Gen eral Merritt was wanting troops f for the Philipities- Every ot.e wanted to go to Ma- niiu I Hit thought they could not go as wo were so close to Cubit. Hut on May 22nd the order came for us to proceed to Sniifrunci*c<u.^Tliere was Httle sleep in camp that night. Every one was happy. w e got rnady and started, reaching San- frenciaco May 29th. Home soldiers had already gone and several regi- menta waiting to to go. We wait- 41 ed and wondered if we would be tiie next. On Ihe 18th we got orders, ' went aboard the fourteepth and the fifteenth sailed through the Gold* <• en Gate and reached Munila July iTtb. Aug. 6th we had a little battle. The cannons roared and bullets whixsed so we thought one of M would not- be left but onlv three were killed. All was quite till February 4th when the Filipino army broke out onus. - We had another one before long. After four bonrs hard fighting we ♦ returned to Manilla. While we were fighting the boys on the north line were not idle as they | took Mata*. April 1st we went v - back to the waited city where we remained until May 2nd I will i a hrtaf aketoh of mv str ike gun boat- There was firing done for several i on tht 10th of June we thunder with them. After oould ■ Hf r tb««r deed. We Ml MotainiToIe- (By a sixteen year old girl.) A Hew Thing In Georgia- I The Prohibitionistsiof Georgia; THE BROKEN TOWEL, ‘Nothing to me,’ the lienuty have set apart a day trt be observed j Jus “Prohihiton Day” over the cn-j With a carelccss toss of her pretty *' re State. The day set apart is the |, ea( l. 5th Sunday in this month—Oct. 1 ’The mail is weak who can't re- 29*h. J fra-o j Appropriate programs are being. From the cup you say is frnu’t furnished to ull the churches, Sun- with pain.’ |day schools, Epworth Leaugcs, j . It was something to her in after Young People’s Societies, etc., of j y earR> the state, with an earnest appeal When her eyes were drenched with that temperance exercises be held burning tears : 1 « vcr V church in the State on that And she waited in lonply grief. da Y the and dread, « The Monday following Prohibi- And started to hear a staggering tion Day(Oct. 150 th) is tread. as “Prohibition Work be known •y.” Ev- ’It is nothing to me,’tne mother cry man, woman and child in said; Georgia, who is interested in the ‘1 have no fear that my boy will cause of temperance and tread would free the State The downward path of sin and, liquor traffic, is asxed toj cohtrib- shatne. And crush my heart, and darken ute the earnings of thU day t<» the my name.’ It was something to her when her only son From the path of life was ear | v . Hsud** 1 ! the fight. qow being wn^cd against the liquor, traffic in won, And madly quaffed of the floWlng bowl; Then—u ruined **’dy and shipwr'kd soul. ‘It is nothing to me.’ *he nwr- chant sai c ind ‘I’m busy foduy with tan- tret i I nave no tune to fume and fret.’ It was something *w him when over the 'wire A message came fron a funeral pyre: A drunxen-^ conductoi had wrecked the train— His wife and child were umongthe slain. ‘ It- is nothing to me.’the young man cried: In his eye was a flash of scorn and pride, ‘1 heed not- the dieadfui things you tell> I can control myself. I know full welt!’ ‘Twas something to him when in prison he luv, The victim of drink, life ebbing a way— As he thought of his wretched child and wife. And the mournful wreck of his wasted life. Is it nothing to us who idly, sleep While the cohorts of death their vigils keep, Alluring the young and thought* less in To grind in their midst a grist of sin? It is something for us, for us all, to stand * And clasp by faith our ^Saviour’s hand* Learn to labor, live, and fight On the side of God and changeless right:’ —Athena Sentinel. contri- temperance cause. Tl butions should be sent to Rev. A J. Hughes, Supt. Georgia Prohibi tion As^fStat ioh, Wn t Kip sv iS^. Gu., who the Georgia, tender the dir finance comittee: Me lion of the fs. Walter B. Hill.C. B. Willingham-and Tno. II Reynolds. * . ; *, Reynolds v Sucli a day is a - QgW; (king in Gew^pu, und shows t ^warfare they are w iendi When I think of the towel, The old-fashioned towel, That use to hang up near printing house door, I can thins of nobody In these days of shoddy Tliut could bummer out iron to wear ns it wore. The ‘devil’ who used it, The tramp who abused it, The‘comp’ who got at it when these two were gone. The maxe-up and the foreman The editoi (poor man), 'Each rubbed some, grime off, while they put a heap on. In, over and under, It was blacker than thunder, Harder than poverty , rougher than sin, On the rack suspended, It never bended^ And flapped on the wall like a banner of tin. It grew harder and rougher, And blacker, and tougher^ And daily took on a more inxier hue, Until one windy morning, Without any warning, The Editor. If you want to indentifv an edit or examine the basement of his | pants. There’s a patch there. | The editor is always the old fool j up at the corner who thinks he is' smart. It fell on the floor broken in two. -N. Y und Sun. taxi trig on the liquor traffic. A million voices ‘^ugstore, .bform. singing the praises of temperance. ! bnv,n * a * reat n,n on Chaml^r- « million hearts raised in prayer in * lttin s Co «« h remedv * Hc * e,ls fivfl behalf of the homes of Georgia. 1 bo “ ,es of ,hut mcdicine to one of two million hands at work to crush ° ,,,er kind and ,l « ,ve " the monster Rum-is a sight worth * ftti9fnc,ion . 1,1 tl,C8 ° of ,a beholding, and should sweep down ; R ri PP® thera is nrth,n « like upon ihe devil and hiscoliort. with i berli,in ’ 8 oon * h remedy, lo stop the such force M not to leave a dram co "* h . '”=al up the sore throat and shop nor a drhoire** Within the j aild S’™ within a very borders of the State.-Atbens Sen-1 4ho /‘ *' me ' The sa,ea a ^egrowing und nil wlio try it are pleased with If the editor told all he knew half the town would drop dead. 1 he editor must haye fhilh e-' nougn for the whole oommunity, The editor does not write every thing in the paper, but he could if he wanted to, The editor gets a dollar advertise tnent, which is the milk of the bus iness, and gives a ten dollar grutis notice in exchange—which is the cream. Off the proceeds he re* mains poor. The editor drinks, smokes,chews and lies, and on Sunday says: This is the holy morn, There will be a heart to heart communion this Sabbath afternoon—a helpful, up lifting meeting. Brother, do not fail to be there—but this is the ed itor’s business. The editor’s only hope of heav en is that, while the rich men are stamped.in the eye ol the needle, he may slip in on the side—unno ticed by the guardlun of the gate. aving thus escaped from the he (Mrtk* | -tala Chaaber us that change. tinel. its prompt action.—South Chicago Itlu*been demonstrted repeat-! Dai, y Camulet. Sold by all deal- edly in every state in the Uuion and er8 ‘ in many foreign countries that Chamberlain’s Cough remedy is a certain preventive and cure for croup. It hns become the univers al remedy for that disease, M. V. I Two neighbors in Milwaukee ! lived in houses separated by n com- jmon wall, one a storv higher than j the other. The one in the higher ... ... ,, , house cut a window in the common Fisher of Liberty. W. Va only re- j wa „ nbove the lower one (0 , e * the peats what has been said around ( , ight into ft room> fhe"oita be- the globe w ien he w rites. lft ' e low run up immediately a wooden used Chamberlain’s Cough remedy , creen und cufc off , he , ight . Q n ,n my family for several years and ^ ng r e m0 ns.reted with he said, always with perfect success. We . . The „ ht it mitte and m n „ igh . believe that it .snot only the best ^ can hnve nothi ^longm* cough remedy, but that n ,s a sure fo me without ing for it> . Af . cure for croup. lt has saved the fer con9U , tin with |lie law lives qfour cUildren a number of numboronc d tQ a finiM ** TUi« romnilvig Inranlo nv - 0 r , month for 20 monthA for the light times,” This remedy is for sale by all dealers, > which belonged —Ex. to his neighbor, In certain parts of Africa croco diles, toads and spiders are euton. I want to let the people who suf fer from and sciatica know that Chumberlnin’s pain balm relieved me after a 'lumber of other medi cines and ti doctor had failed. It is the best liniment I have ever known of.—J. A. Dodgen Alpharetta,Ga. Thousands huve been cured of rheu mutism by this remedy. One' ap plication relieves the pain. For sale by nil deulcrs. Subscribe tor the.Tribune. Tetter, Bait-Rheum and Eczema. The intense itc-hiug and smarting Inci dent to these diseases, is instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain't Eye and Skin Ointment. Many very bad coses have been permanently cured by it. It is equally efficient tor itching piles and a favorite remedy tor tore nipples, chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites and chronic 86re eyes. 26 cte. per box Dr. Cody’s CendlUen Powders, are just what a horse needs when In bad condition. Tonic, blood pariAer and ve.mifage. They am net . food bai medicine and the best in nee to put e horse in prime condition. Price m sente per prvkasre “A young man came into our store yesterduy suffering from a se Old Sayings. . There are more dinners spoiled by the had temper of husbands than by the poor cooking of wives. No man can lose whut he never had, Vv h#re there is shame there may ye’ be virtue. Most men like to hear of their vere attao of cramp colic,” writes' P°wer, but have an exireme dis- B, F. Hess, miller and general mer chant, Dickey’s Mountain. Pa- ; “He had tried various bom ' di<' t Ci like to be told of their dury Where gold awei!* Diogenes’s-uu .. '■——s*-* •——it was a slander. - ■ r Hi iU Uktf oi U. 'IV