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; -• ■ x ; > lU /■ J B ■ rWx I I I /Bu B I / I sb I B I B B i I B w W I B I B "ir BL Lw-M Bl H I y 1 B A r a jt JSI -4L ▼ r -M. W.JL Mb a M 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. ®c,2sc. ire. CCfjjl, dru,xisu ref und money. 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 » 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. I , ... ■y. .. 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. " - r ; CASTORIA Tor Infants and Children. ruas- , . Ualto fcw riaattMiX arjr i-Cf' j* 'S I VlttJ j ; st t —— 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* fin, Ga. Bilacat* Yoar lloveb With Cucarats. Candy Cathartic, care constipation forerer. r. 10c. Sc. nc.C C.faiL druggists refund money- - - . , r-T- K-i -- - - ■ V-- ■ -.-■■■ 1 ■ -J" ■———————— ■■ 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. » , i Sow’s Thisl - We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward 1 for any case of Catarrh that cannot be * cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. ’ .. v F. J- Chejot & Co., Toledo, O. 3 We, the undersigned, have known F. J. * Cheney for (he last 15 years, and believt him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carrj out any obligations made by their firm. West & Kruax, Wholesale Druggists Toledo, O. - Z " Waldihg, Kdotam & Marvik, Wholesalt > Druggists. Toledo, O. HamtCatarrh Cure is taken internally acting directly upon the blood and mucoui Isur&ces of the system. Testimonials sen free. Price 75c. per hottie. Sold by al Family Pills are the best. Koyal nudtaa the Bm4 pvra, 8 H 6akiH6 I is MYAL MKINO FOWOtR 60., MtW TOWG f I SMS" 11 "K= 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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