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Vol IX. No. 192.
STATUS OF AFFAIRS.
Action as Taken to Date in Both
House* of Congress.
Washington, April 18—Following
la the status of the Cuban resolution!
jn both bouses of qongreaa:
Shortly before 8 o’clock Saturday
night the aeoate passed a Cuban reso
lotion embodying the house heading,
number and enacting clause, the sen
ate preamble, resolution, the Tnrpie
amendment and a fourth paragraph
proposed by Mr. Teller. In full it
reads:
Joint resolution for the recognition
of the independence of the people and
republic of Cuba, demanding (that the
government of Spain relinquish its
authority and government in the island
of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and
naval forces from Cuba and Cuban
waters, and directing the president of
the United States to carry these reso
lutions into effect.
Whereas, the abhorrent conditions
which have existed for more than
three years in the island of Cuba, so
near our own bordors, have shocked
the moral sense of the people of the
United Slates, a disgrace to
Christian civilization, culminating as
they have in the destruction of a
United States battleship, with 266 of
i*s officers and crew, while on a friend.
|y visit in the harbor of Havana, and
cannot longer be endured, as has been
set forth by the president of the United
States in his message to congress of
Aprill 11,1898, upon which the action
of congress was invited; therefore,
Resolved, By the senate and house
of representatives of the United States
of America, io congress assembled :
First—That the people of the island
of Cuba are and of right ought to bi
free and independent, and that the
government of the United States here
by recognizes the republic of Cuba as
the line and lawful government of
that island. *
Bscond—That it is the duty of the
United States to demand, and the gov
ernment of the United States does
heryby demand, that the government
of Spain at once relinquish its author
ity and government in the island of
Cuba and withdraw its land and naval
forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Third—TlJat the president of the
United States be, and he hereby is,
eirected and empowered .to use the
entire land and naval forces of the
United States, and to call into the ac
tual service of the United States the
militia of the several states, to such
extent as may be necessary to carry
z these'resolutions into effect.
Fourth—That the United Slates
hereby disclaim any disposition or in
tention to exercise sovereignty, juris
diction or control over said island, ex
cept for the pacification thereof, and
aster tsits determination when that is
accomplished, to leave the government
and control of the islandto its people.
. In the house shortly alter noon to
day Mr Dingley made the following
.motion:
“I move to concur in the senate
amendment to the house joint resolu
tion with an amendment striking out
of the first paragraph the wordp "are
and” and also the words ’and that the
government of the Uuited States
hereby recognizes the republic of Cu
ba as the.true and lawful government
of that island,” so that the first para
graph of the senate amendment will
° read as follows :
“First, That the people of the island
of Cuba of right ought to be free and
independent."
This motion was carried—yeas, 179 ;
nays, 156. The resolution then went
to the senate The senate stood firm
for its original resolution and sent it
back to the house.
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Stores to Close-
We, the undersigned dry goods
merchants of Griffin, kgree to close
our doors at 6 time, com
mencing May 1 to Septal, 1898, except
Satuidays:
R. F. Strickland & Co., Bass Bros., A.
A. Snider, G. Cohen, T. J. White, L. L.
Heinz, H. W. Hasselkus, M. R. Brown &
Co., W. P. Horne, Miss Unie Green,
Flemister <fc Bridges, W. D. Davis & Bro.,
Edwards Bros;, M. B. Headen, J. Buck
man, L. C. Manley Mgr., A. Rogowski, J.
A. Scott, Burr’s Son, M. Friedman, Wiley
L. Smith.
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SOUTHERN SOLDIERS
, TO BE PUT IN CUBA.
Washington, April 13—The auxil
iary force of invasion will be made up
of southern troops. Secretary Alger,
at a conference with army officers to
day, so decided.
' The present plan is that the army
of invasion aud occupation shall con
” sist of the regular army, reinforced by
the from the gulf and
south Atlantic states.
Thia decision was reached inasmuch
as it is believed that the southern men
will be belter able to withstand the
j danger of the climate of Cuba.
B The military from the northern and
g western states will be scattered along
j the coast and used to arm the forts
I and coasts defenses
f The above special to the Atlanta
. Journal of yesterday caused more oom
tnent in our city than any report sent
■ out during the present strained rela
' lions between this country and Spain,
j There are but few who place any
, credence in the report, for our people
) cannot believe Secretary Alger to be a
s fool, and surely only a fool would for
‘ a moment think of pursuing such a
f
course.
I If this country should become en«
! gaged in a war with Spain the South,
I if treated with proper consideration,
f would do her full duty and send to the
1 defense of the stars • and stripes her
noblest sons.
>
, Bat the South does not propose to
send her sons into the hot bed of yel-
I low fever, or to be made the , targets
‘ for Spanish bullets while the North’s
! soldiers are placed along our coasts to
( desport themselves in the waves as
' they dash upon the beach at Tybee,
or Cumberland, and to bo soothed to
1 slumber by the zephyrs fragrant with
' theoder-ef the orange and the mag
nolia.
No, a thousand times no!
! If we are to have war the North
i must take her stand by the side of the
South, and do her full share of the
fighting.
There must be no discriminating!
LETTER LIST.
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Listof letters remaining in the Griffin,
Ga., postoffice, week ending Arp. 16,1898.
Persons calling will pleae say “advertised"
and give date. One cent must be paid on
each advertised letter.
MALE LIST.
Jon Agav, Charlie Baker, Fellow Driv
er, Marlon Hillman, Willie Hand, Simp
son B. Johnson, George Mors, J. W.
i Mays, B. A. McDonald, Tom Roberts,
William Foster.
FEMALE LIST.
Miss Mary Dickinson, Miss Annie L.
Freeman, Miss Minnie Inglctt, Mrs.-R. B,
Jeffers, Mrs. Alibe Me , Mrs. Lula
Nenson,Mrs. Roberbebur, Mrs. Hienry
Bchinson, Mrs. Kindness Snow, Mrs. Ro
sa Thersey (colored), Bertha Marks, Mrs.
Martha Tebison, Mrs. Georgia Williams.
David J. Bailbt, Jb.,P. M.
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FOR SALE.
- acres of land, lying in a body adja.
; cent to the village of Orchard Hilf, Ga.,
and fronting Central Railroad of Georgia
’ over one mile. About one-half in a high
i state of cultivation, with tenant and out
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, pie orchard, and is nearly enclosed with
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Apply to or address,
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1898.
LIFE AND DEATH. I
BY W. E. H. SEARCY.
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> AU life as far as we are acquainted
t is embodied, that is, is invested with a
body. Vegatable life, which is the
lowest form of life, has a clear and
> distinct embodiment. Here is an
. oak, there is a pine, there is a hickory
r ehere a cedar, here is a violet, thereois
| a filly—everywhere, on every hand we
have the embodiment of vegetable
, life in thousands upon thousands of
t beautiful ferme. All different and
i distinct from each other, individua
lized, and in the animal kingdom we
havq a higher life, but it is invested
with bodies also clearly distinct from
, each other. Here is a lion, there is a
horse, here is a cow, there is a chick
en, here is a bird. Ob how wonderful
, animal life i<embodied! Large books
, have been written on birds alone, and
the artist’s skill is tested tn the utmost
to. paint even the plumage that
adorns them. Large books have been
written on the fishes, and on domestic
fowls, and domestic animals, and wild
, animals. The general classifications
of animal life in our werks on Z jolo-
«?
gy can.only be made in hundreds of
printed pages. The life of man is al
so beautifully embodied. A discourse
might be spoken on the hand alone.
The eye is a thing of wonder and ad
miration. The brain passes all under
standing. The beautiful figure of the
maiden, the strong frame of the man)
the diversity in color, size, and form
al! make mankind a wonderful race of
individual existences.
Natural death is simply the passage
of life out of these embodiments Wa
see the dead tree, the dead animal and
the dead man, and the only difference
we are able to find, is that the life
principle is gone.
We must lee therefore, that all em
bodiment is simply a clothing of the'
life principles. It is a house in which
they live, (see 2rd Cor V). When
they go out of the bouse, and cease to
• care for it It fails to pieces. The pow
erful oak, gradually decaying, with its
long limbs and branches denuded of
foliage, which we see constantly in
passing along the highways, is an il
lustration of the perishing embodi
ments of nature wbteh once possessed
life, but from which the life went
forth and left it “dead.”
We all see exactly what becomes of
the natural embodiments of life—they
all turn back to their original ele
ments, but we do not see what be
comes of the life principle that once
inhabited them.
We do not say that .the life princi
ple of the vegetable continues to live
in the spirit realm and makes the
beautiful flowers of the spirit land.
We do not say that the life of the ani
mal continues to exist in that fairest
of lands, and are to reside with us in
a rejuvinated earth. No! we do not
know God’s plans about animal and
vegetable life.
Revelation teaches us, however, that
the life of the man is immortal; that
it never dies, but that the alliances
growing out of our embodiments are
absorbed into a higher and nobler re
lationship. Not that the relationship is
destroyed, but that it is taken into
higher and nobler purposes.
Christ teaches us this in His answer
to the Saducees, who questioned Him
as to the woman who had seven bus-
* bands. The Saducees wished to puz
zle Him by asking whose wife will she
be in the resurrection?
Christ answered that io the resur
rection they neither nor are
given in marriage, but are as the an
gels of heaven—that is, they were not
natural beings, not clothed with the
sex nature which belongs to the body,
but were spiritual beings, like the an
gels of heaven.
Then the Master makes a revelation
which opens the door of future life
wider than ever opened before. He
says: “But, as touching the resurrec
tion, have ye not read that which was
spoken unto you by God, saying, I am
’ the God ol Abraham, and the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is
not the God of the dead, but of the
living."—- Matthew 22.
What did the Master design to teach
but that we need not be troubling
about who shall claim this one or that
as his wife in the resurrection; neither
shall we be thinking of the dead, for
there arq no dead; “what we call death
is only a transition.”
Our friends are all alive. Their lives
have simply passed from natural em*
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hodiment to spiritual embodiment.
The wile is there, not to be the spirit
wife of either of the seven brothers,but
an angel companion to all, in a pure
realm Where there is no marriage.
But Revelation is clearer still. On
the day of the transfiguration there
Stood Moses and Elias with Christ—
the supposed dead were living. Moses
bad been buried by the angels on
Nebo’s lonely mountain, but there
stood Moses, not dead, but living.
Living in a spiritual embodiment in
a higher life, be could not have had
the natural embodiment, because the
resurrection bad not yet taken place.
If then, there was any embodiment at
alldt must have been a spiritual one.
Bt. Paul tells us (2nd Cor. 4 and 5)
“our outward man is decaying, yet
our inward man is renewed day by
day.” look not at the things
which gre lean; but at the things
which are not seen ; for the things
which are seen are temporal,” that is,
pertaining Id this life. “For we know
that if the earthly house of this taber
nacle (bodily frame—Revisers) be dis
solved, pulled dowd and demolished,as
an old bouse (Bishop Kenrick) we have
a building from God. Instead of flesh
and blood, which cannot enter heaven,
the rising body will be clothed, or
covered with what is analogous there
to, but incorrupt able and immortal—
Jofen Wesley.
“For indeed we which are in this
tabernacle (bodily frame—Revisers)
do groan, being burdened: not for
that we would be unclothed (runem
bodiad) but Ifrat we would be clothed
upon (with the glorious, immortal
incorruptable spiritual body—John
Wesley) that what is mortal may be
swallowed up (absorbed) of life.”
So the whole plan of nature and
Revelation coincides in the thought
we express, that the natural embodi
ments, whether they are absorbed or
swallowed up, or are dissolved, give
place to the spiritual embodiments;
“for God giveth it a body as it
pleases him.”
Life is wonderful and its embodi
ment are wonderfully wrought by the
great divine spirit. Death is the re
sult of transition from one form to
another. The embrionic form of our
own lives perished at our physical
birth Paul tells us truly the grain is
not quioked except it die. Our new
embodiment in spirit life is unfolded
in the death of the natural one.
“In death’s unrobing room we strip from
round us .
The garments of mortality and earth;
And breaking from the embroy state that
bound us
Our day of dying is our day of birth."
<MTO BNJOYS
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 the Kidneys/
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared onl v froip the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept any
substitute.
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