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THE - GRAPHIC. Mary Louise Huntley, Editor, R. C. Ward and L. C. Dickinson Publishers and Managers. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MOREINQ AT fl. 00 A YEAR. Advbktisinh Rates furnished on ap plication at this office. Our rates are reasonable, and it will pay you to wiite. Special Noticks—-Five cents [>er line Heading Notices by contract. LaGrange. Ga., July 17, 1900 TELEPHONE NUMBER OF EDITOR OF GRAPHIC IS 25, 3 CALIX. Thunder must be either fruit or vegetable by the way it drops its pea lings around. July seemed to lie a strong prohibitionist for the first few days, but she forsook the party last week. r rhe Philadelphia Record says: “It is estimated that S7,(MX),(XX) was expended in the United States for lire works on the Fourth of July.” We have money to burn. It is a curious fact that on -cloudy and rainy days the July fly hasn’t a word to say. It is only when the sun has invited the mercury to come up higher that the July fly lifts up his voice in protest. Mr. Bryan savs his wife is “one of the best and most level headed politicians in the coun try.” She helps him revise all' his speeches and it is even al- i leged that she could write a good one, if occasion required. And she’s a lawyer, too. And a mother. And a thorough housekeeper. And a typewriter And a woman who can make her “best” gown herself. And she’s a Democrat. And this time next year she’ll be keeping the White 1 louse in order. Mrs. Bryan is surely a multi-woman. Mr. 11. 11. Cabaniss, of the Atlanta Journal, was last week elected president of the Georgia Press Association. There could not be a better one. The follow ing is the complete list of offi cers recently elected and the Association never had a stronger set: H. H. Cabaniss, Atlanta, president; John 1 riplett, Ihom asville, first vice-president; W. A. Knowles, Rome, second vice president; Benjamin F. Perry, Canton, recording secretary; C. H. Johnson, Atlanta, corres ponding secretary; J, h. Ander son, Covington, treasurer; R. N. Grubb, of Darien, J. N. Chapman, of ashington, 1. B. Russell, of Cedartown, W. A. Hemphill, of Atlanta, and S- T. Blalock, of Fayetteville, ex ecutive committee. is too pretty a town not to have a public |>ark for the pleasure and recreation of her people and the summer visitors within her gates, A park near in, with a fountain or two, plenty of well-kept grass, shade trees, walks and drives 'and flowers and tennis [courts, eroquet lawns and a music pavilion, would be a tiling of joy and a beauty forever. Why can’t we have it? There are ideal locations in abundance and a pretty pleasure-ground like this would be a sort of but ton-hole bouquet on IjaGrange’s lajiel. LaGrange needs some other things too. Foremost among them is a new court house, and a new, handsome First Baptist 'Church. A new church would put new life into the denomina tion ami also to the North side lof the public square. Strangers visiting a town are always im pressed by its substantial, well kept and up-to-date public buildings. Where, (J where are ours? We have some, it is true, and very handsome ones they arc. The two colleges, the First Methodist Church, the big cot ton mills, the jail and the stand pipe are very creditable looking public institutions, but we need others. LaGrange isn’t finished and fenced in yet by a good deal. She has room enough to grow as big as New York, if people and push would just join hands and begin to build and expand. IjaGrange is such a fine town she ought to spread over the face of the earth. This is warm weather, when things spread easily, and if the building would just begin now, there’s no tell ing where it would stop. Ix-t us retire the old court" house and plant a new one. I>et the Baptists realize the inspira tion that a new house of wor ship could not tail to bring about, and let our town grow in modern beauty and splendor until it will be known as the perfume and color to the rose ot Georgia. Japan has put on her fight ing clothes, airayed her army in similar attire, and is dispatching fifty thousand soldiers to China. It is believed that a much smaller force would have been amply sufficient to end the Chi nese troubles, but Russia and Germany each desires to possess a new set of China, as it were, and so Japan prudently sends an extra army to let the two ambitious powers know that she means personal business. In case either power should try to help herself to China, Japan would have troops enough to hold down the celestials and jump on the Russians or Ger mans at the same time. Mocha and Java Cost’s fresh- K • ’ ’ ’ '• ly parched only 25c pound at Swain & Edmundson. GREAT BRITAIN’S LOSS. A cablegram from London, bated July 10, says: “During the week ending July 7, there were killed, wounded or cap tured 15 officers and 180 men; accidental deaths, 2 men; died of disease, 4 officers and 194 men; invalided home, 72 offi cers and 1,300 men. The total casualties as a result of the war are, 48,188 officers and men.” TO ASSASSINATE MR. McKINLEY. A plot was unearthed a few days ago to assassinate President McKinley. Cuban and Spanish conspirators had planned to put Mr. McKinley to death, but one of the band gave the plot away. The president is ls*ing closely guarded by detectives, at Can ton, while the setheme is lieing investigated by prominent New- York politicians. WEDDING OF HON. CLARK HOWELL ll<Jn. Clark Howell, Jr., edi tor of ’l’he Atlanta Constitution, was married in Savannah on July 12, to Miss Annie Comer, eldest daughter of the late Hugh M. Comer, president of the Cen tral of Georgia Railroad. Mr. Howell and his bride are now en route to the Paris Exposition and will enjoy a tour of several months in Eu rope. How Mr. Bryan Looks. Clothe a handsome figure in a black tail-coat, and under the awning of a black slouch hat p«i( a low-cut vest, with two sluds fastened through the front of a white shirt; tie a black string tie, the inevitable neck o 7 gear of the young lawyer of ten years ago, Minder a lay-down col lar; modify the chill atmosphere of the bar by the breezy amia bility of a St. Louis shoe drum mer, repressed, while he sells a Methodist deacon a bill of goods and the gentle reader may have a fair idea of how Bryan looks, acts moves and has his being when be is not before an audi ence. —William Allen White in McClure’s. Merciful Methods. The following from the Boston Transcript, is both Christians and opportune: “The jealous watch on each other of the powers to prevent the ostensible punishment of China being converted into the confiscation of the Chinese em pire for the benfit of one of their number, is the only hope that statesmanship may be able to stem the rising howl through Europe for a slaughter that would be as unchristian and as senseless as China's own, and yet Chris tian countries are apparently ex pected to gloat over some such bloody international reprisal. “Through all the shocking outrages which accompany the anti-foreign rising in China and all the shocking appeals to blind rage and fury in revenge which we hear from crowned heads of Christian nations and even from I missionaries, there is a conscious ness ou the part of the western world that, horrible, misled and misdirected as may be its slrug; gle, it is tee •ft >rt of a great people to ass rt its national in dependence. China stems at last to have cme-to some nation al self-consciousness The pres ent rising is no sjwiradic out-* breiK of the ha’red of foreigners for which China has in illfame. | though such hates are mistaken i for pEtiiotii-m in other countries; it is rather the deliberate attempt ] of an a wakening people to en-, force its right to independent: existence. The first act of every I people, when.the moment of self-' consciousness dawns, is to throw off the yoke of foreign domina tion. The birth of the great na lions of modern Europe has been I marked by aggressive resistance \ to outside dictations. Tbi pres- . ent movement in China, wild and barbarous us are its min'festation no doubt represents a normal; and inevitable stage in the evolu- ( tion of the Chinese people—u-pon ; some such lines as J tpan has | cently shown the elder Asiastic civil'z ton she must follow. The' Chinese are slow, clumsy and ( heavy handed compared with the Japanese, “the Greeks of Asia,” but there are those who know both intimately who put the Chinese racial character above that of the Japanese ’’ If we are to make good in the eyes of the bar bar'an and pagan the superiorly of our civilization and religion, it must be done by merci!ul methods and the rever sal of revenge.’’ The Democratic Platform. The National Democratic party in session in St. Louis last week, adopted the following platform, being condensed: We demounce the doctrine that, connot derive powers from con-! stitotion and connot exercise law- i ful power beyond it. Tyranic&l . government will lead eventually j to tyrany at home. We assert that no nation can long endure one-half republic and one half empire. The war ended two years age i and peace was restored. The Republican party holds domina tion over Cuba and allows carpet baggers toplunderaround at. will Wo demand honest fulfillment of the promises to Cuba. The republican party seeks to control. The war crime aggres- I sions against the Philippines has already cost more than the profit in year yet to come. The repub lican party imposes on Porto Rico. Taxation without repre sentation when extended at the price of liberty is too high. 1 1 We are opposed to the acquisi- 1 tion of entside territory for citi zens. The citizens cannot be governed outside of the country. Imperialism is the paramount is sue of this campaign. Military is what millions of our people have fought over. This country is no place for vast mil itary estates. Trusts are fostered by republi can law and protected by republi can contributions in return for campaign contributions. We demand the restoration of National bank notes, amd as soon as government notes and silver can be substituted for them.. To reform bank laws are schemes fostered upon the people* We re-affirm the principles of the democratic national platform adopted in Chicago in 1896. We demand the immediate res tor a* tion of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. We favor construction and con tinuance of Nicaraugua canal by HD o e s I] this illus- 11 trate your A experi- f e n c e ? 11 And are fl you wor- || u A in Tied for II Hnm fear you i’ fl are soon to be bald? E Then cease worry- t J ing, for help is at ’I ► 1 hand. You needn 11 something that will o I a put new life into the Q t \ hair bulbs. fl 7 he Y e°d|Ayi>r< I] ’ hajr AJVIw -a Hair vigor i\ It brings health tG i fl the hair, and the fall- I J] ing ceases. [ 14 it always restores! If color to gray hair. I \\ You need not look at 1 £ 1 thirty as if you were 1 *2 fifty* f° r y° ur gray i .3 hair may have again 1 it all the dark, rich color T 5 J of youth. fl [5 SEOOa bettlc. All drugfftots. 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To, Rieiive Georgia’s share of the mili tary appropriation from the fed eral government was apportion ed on July Ist and is between $28,000 and S3O; Oft)© or more than twice as much as was ever be fore received in one year. The a J jutant-general of the State has notified the war depart ment that the Georgia militia in cludes l.uyß men. This is under stood; fio be the best showing made by any state in the south below Virgina. With the increased federal ap propriation, Governor Candler will complete the work of supply ingthe troops with new uniforms; forty men to a company having already been provided with uni forms by the state. —Butler Herald. If you want something fine to smoke try Ellengers Resagas. J. C. Roper. | Don’t Stop | I taking Scott’s Emulsion be- 1 ■ .cause it’s warm weather. V Il Keep taking it until you are ft w cured. ■ It will heal your lungs and I L you rich blood in sum- ■ ■ met as in winter. It’s cod ■ ? liver oil made easy. ■ 50c. ud SI. Alldmai»t». I