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Vol IX. No. 181.
SODSOTMAGU TODAY.
Win be a Vigorous Arraignment of
Spain and Call for Intervention-
The Atlanta Journal's special Wash
ington correspondent says in yester
day's issue:
Tomorrow at nooo the president will
send bio message to congress
The accepted theory that it will be
a vigorous arraignment of Spain and
an awful indictment ol the Spanish
government has had a qiieting effect
on the members and senators, and in
spite of reported threats, congress will
wait patiently for the document.
I am told today that the message
will vend a wave of patriotism over the
country that will dwarf the indigna
tion and enthusiasm which has swept
over the states within the past few
weeks; that it will challenge also the
admiration and respect ol other nations
and add to the dignity ol bistofy
It is the charge of the judge to the
jnry> It will cover the case fully and
leave congress untrammelled to act/
It will state in nA unmistakeh terms
- that the time has come to intervene,
but will.not recommend a declaration
of independance
He will not make the Maine iuci
dent g secondary one. He has hark
ened to the voice of the people on this
= subject and will devote a pathetic pas
sage to the calamity. He will make
it the link between theory and fact
and hold it up as proof of Spain's ina
bility to protect American interests
and property on the island.
An hour after noon today the situa
tion finds congress waiting, the presi
dent firm and fearless and peace as an
impossibility unless Spain at the elev
enth hour accepts the demands of the
United Stalesand withdraws her troops
from the American continent.
The Horrors of War.
Something of the horrors nf war
which even the brute Sherman said “is
boll," may be learned”from the follow
ing picture, drawn by Dr. Russell, the
. war correspondent of the London
Times, on the battlefield of Soden r
"Let your readers fancy masses of
> colored rags glued together with blood
and brains, and pinned into strange
shapes by fragments of bones. Let
them conceive men’s bodies without
heads, legs without bodies, heaps of
human entrails attached to red and
i blue cloth, and disemboweled corpses
in uniform, bodies Ijring about in all
attitudes With skulls shattered, faces
blown off, hip smashed, bones, flesh
-and gay clothing all pounded together
as if brayed in a mortar, extending for
miles, not very thick in any one place,
but recurring perpetually for weary
hours, and then they cannot with the
most vivid imagination conic up to the
sickening reality of that btrtchery ”
~ The First Admission. ~ /
—ln a conversation among several
gentleman yesterday, a prominent
Berner man wasasked if he thought
Atkinson was very strong throughout
the state.
His reply was that Atkinson would
get just about enough votes in the
convention to prevent the nomination
of Candler, and the final result would
bo the nomination of Berner.
This statement was made by one of
the most active politicians of the state
and is a dead give away to the schemes
of the politicians, who are working to
defeat the people’s choice—Col. Allen
D. tlandler.
The Call has contended all along
that it was the field against Candler,
but the above admission from one of
the slatemakers is the first admission
to come from that clique*.
A White Tiger-
Officer Phelps and Gordon ran down
a blind tiger yesterday of a different
species from those which have hereto
fore infested the jungles of this dry
town- The one in question was of the
feminine gender, weighed about 260
pounds, and lived out in East Griffin.
She is a white woman, who claims to
hare moved to Griffin several months
since, and gave her name as Mrs.
Bbody Mosley. Yesterday afternoon
she gave bond for her appearance this
afternoon at 8 o’clock before Judge
Beck
Wdaease Yoar Bowels Wilk Casearets.
Ste werrh aureconstipaUon forever.
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An Unpopular Issue
A few ’days ago we suggested to the
f candidates who are seeking the guber
natorial nomination of the Democratic
party that they couldn’t find an issue
that would command more attention
than thia one, namely, that there
should be a state board to equalise
assessments, so that 91 of the 137
counties of the state wouldn’t, practi
cally, escape all taxation for state pur
® poeee, and, strange to say, not one of
1 the candidates has regarded it as advis
-1 able to declare that be favors the ap
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pointment of such a board. And why
* have all of them avoided this issue?
Simply because it isn’t a popular one
in more than half the counties. So
’ we have it that our candidates are shy
’ of unpopular questions, although such
questions are of vital interest to the
* people. How many, after all, of those
' who seek office, and, in doing so, tel]
* the people bow profoundly they are
’ concerned for their welfare, are really
. interested in promoting the public
1 good? It is seldom there is a public
man who has the courage* to act wholly
in accordance with bis convictions.
’ When Such a man does come to the
’ front his sincerity is at once recognized
1 and he has the support of all who want
to see right and justice prevail. He
* has, of course, against him all the
elements that have interest 1 ’ which
' demand favors the law does not per
mit, but he wins his way ultimately,
* because the right prevails in the end.
It is a great wrong that in ninety*
one counties such assessments are per
-1 milted as enable these counties to
draw more money out of the public
treasury than they pay into it, and yet
our gubernatorial candidates have
uotbißg to say about it. Judge Atkin
son prefers to talk about the free
' coinage of silver, though what be
1 would have to do with the silver ques
tion if be should be elected Governor,
even he, with all his astuteness, would
not be able to tell. Mr. Berner goes
on declaring that be is protecting the
1 constitution, though no man from one
end of the state to the other is attack
' ing it, and be has not named a solitary
soul or corporation that is violating it,
and Coir Candler continues to talk
about leaks in the treasury which be
wants the opportunity to stop, though
' lie doesn’t seem to know just where
' the leaks are, or who, if anybody, ben
' efits by them. Such an evasion of a
live question and such a fighting of
windmills never before was seen in a
' political campaign in this state,—
Savannah News.
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Sustain the Presidentl
President McKinley’s secretary, J.
’ Addison Porter, probably knows as
> nearly as any one at Washington the
innermost thoughts, hopes and fears
i of bis chief. Mr. Porter has thus out*
i lined the Cuban situation in a signed
dispatch to his paper, the Hartford
Courant:
“A majority of senators and repre*
I sentativea seem bent on forcing war.
i They claim this is what the country
> wants and expects. Conservative peo*
. pie should be beard from immediately
and emphatically, or the wise policy
I of the Presidant may be negatived.”
) This has the unmistakable 'ring of
i truth In it. Secretary Porter’s appeal
I comes as a voice direct from the seat
of executive power. Let every good
f citizen, every lover of truth, justice
( and national honor, wait upon and
Sustain the president, and turn a deaf
1 ear to sensational sbriekers for devas
-1 tation and bloody war, whether in or
i out of congress!—Philadelphia Re
cord. " -
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; CASTORIA
Tor Infants and Children.
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Partnership Dissolution Notice,
r The partnership heretofore existing be
, tween D. T. Hood and J. M. Gossett, nn
. der the firm name of HOOD & GOSSETT,
f Meat Market business, is dissolved, by mn
. tual consent. All accounts due to said
. firm belong to and will be collected by J.
M. Gossett. AU debts due by said firm
8 will be paid by D. T. Hood. This disso
i, lution is made by the avowal. of arbitra
tors selected by the members of the firm to
1 settle the differences between the partners,
s J. M. GOSSETT.
B April 6th, 1898.
Dugan House For Sale or Rent
My bouse and lot on Poplar street.
Apply to myself, Mrs. E. W.'Dugan,
Williamson, Ga., or H. P. Eady, Grif*
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Bilacat* Yoar lloveb With Cucarats.
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eBIFFIN, BEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1898.
An Indignant Wonsan,
» “Hi (beret” called a somewhat ex-
- cited Fourth avenue woman to the
a postman, who was passing on hie
b morning round, says the Detroit Free
i Press. “Where’s that letter I sent
b three weeks ago to my shier io Bnffa
b lot She never got it, and has written
1 to know whether I’m mad at her or
» some of us are siek.”
‘I don’t know nothing about it,
f madam.”
- “Os course you don’t. I suppose ti e
* postmasler-General would say the
r same thing. My own private opinion
? is that thia government is running at
i mighty loose ends. I put a stamp on
* that letter to pay for having it sent.
f It was directed as plain as print It
i is lost or stolen and my own sister is
i blaming me for neglecting her. It’s
> all politics, that’s wbat it is, pulling
I io a lot of raw hands every four years,
i and I don’t propose to stand it. I’m
going to find out Whether you mail
i men can defraud your customers and
make family trouble just because yon
don’t know enough to look after your
. business.”
“But I never saw jour letter, my
good woman.”
“I don’t care anything about that.
Neither did my sister over sea it. I’ll
not sleep till I write the president and
give him a piece of my mind. The
idea of paying an army of mon to lose
letters. It’s ridiculous. It won’t bo
long before some of you are looking
for other jobs, or I miss my guess.”
During this conversation the wo
men’s husband dove frantically into
his pockets, ran hatlese through the
back gate, put that letter into a mail
box, and made a fine show of temper
while helping his wife abuse the gov
ernment.
Mind as a Disease Producer.
When a man is in the excited stage
of alcoholism, that io, has bad a quan
tity of alcohol sufficient, not to make
him drunk, but to stimulate the pro
cesses of thought, we find him talking
rapidly and vividly, and, if we are our
selves the man, we find ourselves
thinking in pictures with very great
rapidity; that is, each thought or
mental picture leads instantly to an*
other. But we know this to be njor
bid, and Iha/eoult of alcohol poison
ing. And we know it to be disastrous
to the brain to repeat this process of
ten. We know further that the same
thing may occur without the alcoholic
poison.
In persons of a certain tempera
ment, called sensitive or emotional,
any little disturbance in circumstance
( or chance word will in the sama way
| set the mind off, rattling it; it may
happen even without any marked
cause at all. Such a one will, in body,
compose himself to sleep, in bed, but
that is not wbai his mind is proposing.
It passes from thought to thought,
from memory to memory, from picture
to picture, and at last the very possi
bility of sleep departs. By morning
the wearied brain is unable either to
think of anything or not to think of
everything, and two more such nights
would mean insanity or apoplexy.
This form of wear and tear of brain,
like the alcoholic, is morbid. No one
would deny that. Yet that is wbat we
all do, in lesser degree. It is an ex
, ample of an extreme degree of that ut
ter unconlrol and unconcentration of
thought of which every one of us is in
’ lesser degree guilty,and as in this form
the brain may be destroyed unless help
comes in a few days, so in the coarse
of 'fears we perhaps all destroy our
brains and die prematurely from use
less wear and tear, due to unconcen
trated, wandering weakness of thought.
—National Review.
Motice.
The members of the executive com
mittee of the Mt. Zion Sunday School
Association are requested to meet at
. Vaughn on Saturday, April 16th, at 3
- p. m. 0. L. Elder, Ch’mn.
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I Points for Parents
» Christ i, on trial in your home as
1 much he was before Pilate
I Don’t poison your home life with
I Worry and fret whenever things go
• wrong.
t Many a fibbing mother has been
puzzled to make out bow her children
’ learned to lie.
Wbat folly (or a father to warn hie
' boys against tobacco, if he does it with
1 a breath that smells of smoke.
I How foolish for a mother *o talk to
> her children about religion, unless she
* can show them what It is.
» If the parental example is a sowing
! of bad seed, bow absurd to look for a
good fruitage in the lives oh the chil.
dren.
1 If you claim in church that the Lord
| is your rest and peace, let the children
see that you told the truth about it
When you get home.
Think of a father talking religion to
his son en Sunday, and going to- the
Store to do business with a short yard
stick on Monday.—Ram’s Horn.
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