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THE MORNING CALL Vol IX. No. 175. EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS. The Work of Cartier, Champlain and Oth en la the Great Lakes. w. S. Harwood writes in St. Nicho las of “The Great Lakes.” Mr. Har wood says: Jaogues Cartier, who shipped from St. Malo in 1684, explored the coast of Newfoundland and made the circuit of the gulf of St. Lawrence, and he did much else, too, for New France in open ing up negotiations with the many tribes of Indians who thronged thousands strong and friendly from all the regions in and about Quebec and Montreal and Ottawa and Kingston. Another mariner of St Malo—Francis Greve —began the colonization of the land. About 1670, in France, Samuel de Champlain was born, and when he reached the age of early manhood he, too, joined in the new world exploration in the region above the great lakes. The kings of France were much interested in the new land and did all in their power not only to explore the region, but to colo nize and develop it. Champlain, in 1615, made an expedition up the Ottawa river and penetrated as far as into Georgian bay, thus touching on the wa ters of Lake Huron. In 1618 Etienne Brule, an old inter preter, came into Champlain’s camp with the news of the discovery of Lake Superior. Lake Erie, with Ontario, was probably discovered some time earlier than this. Nicollet, in 1684, started in a canoe from the head of Georgian bay, skirted the eastern and northern shores of Huron and at last found himself at Sault Ste. Marie, or the falls of St. Mary, now shortened to “Soo”—the first white man, it is believed, to reach this key to the noble lake beyond. He went as far as Green bay, on Lake Mich igan, and so the various lakes at last came into the actual knowledge of the explorers and were no longer myths. But as these French explorers con tinued to develop new and hitherto un dreamed of possibilities of empire the English began to take deep interest in the region—an interest little less marked than that they were then taking in their schemes of colonization in Vir ginia and Massachusetts. Again and again through the years that follow the threads cross and recross, not weaving a beautiful garment of harmony, but tangling in a wretched snarl, a patch work of disputes between the nations. Entanglement followed entangle ment, wars harassed the land, until at last the English were masters of the northern lake region for all time—un less some day we shall see the stars and stripes floating from the heights of Quebec. Report of the Naval Court of Inquiry- As was to be expected, the naval court of inquiry has failed to fix on the Spanish government responsibility for the Maine disaster It has decided that the explosion was from without, caused, it is said, by a mine under the ship, but further than this it does not go. So that the matter is now left for the president and con'gress to deter*, mine. The failure of the naval court to fix responsibility for the disaster need cause no surprise or disappointment, for the simple reason that the court was not sent to Havana to determine responsibilities, which the diplomats and heads of the government will lo cate, now that facts of the explosion are laid before them. All this country wants from the court is the facts. The president and congress wilj then de termine where responsibility restsand will apply the remedy. We are still of the opinion that the Spanish government is innocent of any connection with the affair, although Spain may be held blamable for the occurrence, and, very properly, asked to pay damages. As we have all along contended, however, the Maine disas ter is not a causus belli, but a mere in cident in the stirring events leading up to the struggle which now seems inevitable. Cessation of hostilities in Cuba is the real issue, and the United States is prepared to enforce such a demand. If Spain is also prepared to oppose it, then war must come.—Macon News. This Gun Was "Loaded.” A young man by the name of Gun from Newton county was engaged to be married to Miss Jackson, of Henry county, and when he endeavored to cross South river on one of the bridges Thursday to claim his bride the quar antine officers refused to let him pass without a permit from the commis sioners. It was ten miles to town,and the time for the marriage was only two hours off, so he went down the river a short distance, pulled qff his clothes and waded over. He walked to the home of his intended, was united in marriage, secured a batteaux and brought bis bride to where be had left his buggy, and then proceeded on the way own home as happy and contented as if they had been married in a mansion and were traveling in a parlor palace car.—Covington Enter prise ] Intervention is Inevitable- Notwithstanding the professions be ing made io official circles, the fact cannot be denied that intervention io Cuba is now absolutely necessary even at the price of war with Spain. Although President .McKinley favors peace, he dare not favor a temporizing policy any longer, and, though favor ing peace, he must, now choose war if war must follow our intervention in Cuban afiaira. The impres«V u is well fixed on the public mind th -t it is now our duty to interfere, and leave it to Spain to re sent our interference,with armed force, if she desires. A writer in the. April Review of Re views brings out very clearly our duty t<> Ciilm, and in the course of an edi tor al on the subject says : “Quite regardless of the reeponsibili ties for the Maine incident, it is ap parently tine that the great majority of the American people are hoping that President McKinley will prompt ly utilize tfie occasion to secure the complete pacification and independ ence of Cuba. There are a few people in the United Slates—we should not like to believe that more than one hundred could be found out of a pop ulation of seventy-five millions—who believe that the United States ought to join Spain in forcing the Cuban in surgents to lay down tbeir arms and to accept the Spanish sovereignty as a permanent condition, under the prom ise of practical home rule. It needs no argument, of course, to convince the American people that such a pro posal reaches the lowest depths of in famy. It is much worse than the proposition made by a few people in Europe last year that the victorious Turks should have the countenance and support of the great nations of Europe in making Greece a part of the Turkish empire. For the Turk had fairly conquered the Greeks; and if Europe bad kept bands off, Greece would have been reduced very quickly to the position of an Ottoman province. But in Cuba it is other wise. The insurgents, with no help outside, have held their own for more than three years, and Spain is unable to conquer them. The people of the United States do not intend to help Spain hold Cuba. On the contrary, tlrey are now ready, in one way ox an other, to help the Cubans drive Spain out of the western hemisphere. If the occasion goes past and we allow this Cuban struggle to run on indefi nitely the American people will have lost several degrees of self-respect and will certainly not have gained any thing in the opinion of mankind.” True Bills. The grand jury of Fulton county on last Su.urday rendered true bills against Judge Berry, of the city court, for assaulting Orth H. Stein, of the Looking Glass; also, Mr. Stein, for carrying concealed weapons, and Mr. Jim English, for assaulting Judge Berry, as also J. W. English, Jr., for assaulting Judge Berry and for carry ing concealed weapons. Death of Judere Bigby. Judge John S. Bigby, formerly pres ident of the Eagle and Phenix Mills,of Columbus, died at his residence in At lanta on Monday night. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Ths fw- /y Tyhee's Fortifications. Our country’s defenders are now at Tybee, Georgia’s greatest Seaside resort. One heavy battery in charge of the immense coast defense guns. One light battery; 55 trained horses. Fortifications rapidly nearing completion. Get ready to visit Tybee, to enjoy all the pleasures of this delightful resort, and see the new fortifications. Excursion tickets at low retes will be on sale during the summer. Announce ment as to rates, etc., will be made later. J. C. Haile, G. P. A., Savannah, Ga. Kdu<-»te Your Howels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever, vc, 26c. It C. C. C. fail, dru-jrists refund money. Registration Notice. The county registration books are now open at my office in Hasselkus’ Shoe Store and all qualified to do so should call and register. They will close twenty days before each election. T. R. NUTT, T. U. Seed Corn. Genuine Tennessee Seed Corn for sale. Apply to C. A. Jones, at R. F. Strickland & Co.’s. GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1898. IN NEW YORK’S EARLY DAYS. The Bowery Waa the Resort of Wealth, Beauty and Fashion. “A pleasant picture occurs to me of a summer progress of the family of Governor Stuyvesaut to and from the meeting house, for divine worship in the fort near the Battery, New York, ” writes Mrs. Burton Harrison in The Ladies’ Home Journal, describing “When Fashion Graced the Bowery.” “In a brave coach, drawn by shining horses, is ensconced the governor him self, whose long, laced coat half hides his wooden leg banded with silver. He wears a carefully curled peruke and holds his hat upou his knee, in order to court the cool sea breeze that fans his rugged visage. His lady, sitting in state beside him, is, in their staid and phleg matic community, accounted a a brilliant personage; her gowns came out from her native Paris, and her silken hood is worn over frizzled and powdered hair; her embroidered hose and high heeled shoes, her rings, bracelets and lockets, with the gorgeously bound book of de votions supended by a golden chain to her waistband, may be depended upon as models of the very latest modes. Mrs. Bayard, the widowed sister of the governor, occupies a seat in the coach facing them. ■ * . < “After service in the bare colonial church —where the dominie’s sermon, however eloquent, was always brought to an end by three raps from the clerk’s stick at the moment when the sands of the hourglass had announced that the preacher’s limit of time had been reach ed—the Stuyvesant party passes ont be tween rows of respectful gazers. ” Sala’a Last Article. In The Windsor Magazine Mrs. Sala relates an incident about the last maga zine article ever written by the late George Augustus Sala. “A s I re-entered his study that afternoon, ” she writes, “he gave me over the three slips of a closely written MS. on flimsy foreign note paper and said: ‘Take them, dear est lam so tired I don’t think I shall ever write another magazine article. Put the sheets in your dispatch box and finish them for me. When lam dead, you will perhaps want bread, and then you can sell “Bedrooms on Wheels.” ’ Sure enough, it was just as he so sadly prophesied, for often since cruel death came between us I have wanted for ths common necessaries of life during many weeks and months of weariness and ill health. ” A Bright Bird. The cuckoo is as likely to steal its nest as to make it, but this fact does not take from the point of the follow ing pun, quoted from Short Stories: A young Englishman being asked at dinner whether he would have some bird’s nest pudding, said, turning to his hostess, “Ah, yes, bird’s nest pud ding, and what kind of a bird may have made it?” “Oh, it was the cook who made it,” was her prompt reply. The Value of Cuba. The soil of Cuba is very productive. Her chief products, sugar and tobacco, have yielded a large revenue to Spain, besides sustaining the greater portion of her population and making large fortunes for her planters. It is doubtful, however, if Cuba will ever again be as rich a country as she has been. The production of beet su gar has been greatly reduce 1. There isfl’t the profit in sugar planting in Cuba there once was. While it is true that cane sugar can be produced there at less cost than in this country, our tariff gives our sugar planters such an advantage that they can do better at sugar planting than the Cuban plant ers. It is now Being demonstrated that the world is not absolutely dependent upon Cuba for good cigars. If it had not been for the insurrection in Cuba it might have been a good while yet before it was discovered that tobacco could be grown in Florida that was just about as good as the Cuban tobac •). The area in Florida devoted to the growing of Cuban tobacco, while still small, is increasing with extraordinary rapidity. In the course of a few years that state will be able to supply pretty nearly all the fine grade of tobacco needed in this country for cigars. With strong competition in her two great staple products, Cuba’s recovery from her present unhappy condition, even if war should cease at once,wonld be very slow. The United States,with their increasing sugar output from beets and their increasing production of tobacco suitable for fine cigais, will become less and less dependent upon Cuba for the foregoing articles. And Cuba will find that her sugar is not in such demand in European markets as H once was In considering p'ans for bringing Cuba’s troubles to an end, therefore, the fact that she hasn’t the earning capacity she once bad should be taken intoChoneideration.—Savan nah News. castohla.. s Str J, „ 11 ** sicMtaMZ " JSS. < fiaCcMt ’ T * w * » • Royal aakes the food pore, O. Hil SakiNS POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKIHO POWDER CO., HEW YORK. It appears from the cable dispatches —and the information is said to be de rived in part from the family—that Mr. Gladstone, the Grand Old Man of England, is sinking to his last rest. Hieavitality, it is reported, is being sapped by a cancerous growth back ©f the nasal passages. If he were a younger man, a surgical operation might be resorted to with some hope of success, but his great age and hi« weakness make it impossible to help him through surgery. About all that can be done is to relieve his suffering as much as possible, and render his few remaining hours as comfortable as circumstances will permit*. The end, when it comes, will be from fail ure of heart action, according to the doctors. Oim ENJOYS Both the method ana results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on th&Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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