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Vol, X No. 88.
TO FIGHT IMPERIALISM.
THAT IS WHY COLONEL BRYAN
HAS RESIGNED.
The Hation Can Mot Endure Half Be*
public and Half Colony, Half
Free and Half Vassal.
Before Hoo. William Jenningsßryan
left Savannah for bit old home in
Lincoln, Nebraska, be was interviewed
by a reporter of the Morning News,
and thus expressed himself regarding
the policy of imperialism:
“The people of the United States,
having rescued Cuba from foreign
control, may now resume the disc«s
sion of the domestic problems whieh
confront this nation, and to the con
sideration of the new questions arising
out of the war.
“I may be in error, bu’, io my judg
ment, our nation is in greater danger
just now than Cuba Vur people de
fended Cuba, against foreign arms)
noW they must defend themselves and
their country against a foreign idea—
the colonial idea of European nations/
Heretofore greed has perverted the
government and used He instrumental
ities for private gain Abut now the
very foundation principled of our gov
ernment are assaulted.
"The imperialistic directly
■ antagonistic to the idea and ideals
which have been cherished by the
American people since the signing of
the declaration of independence. Our
nation must give up any intention of
entering upon a colonial policy (such
as is now pursued by European coun
tries), or it must abandon the doctrine
that governments derive their just
powere from the consent of the govs
srned.
"We may believe that g >vcroments
come up from the people, or we may
believe that governments come down
to the people from those who possess
the heaviest cannons and the largest
ships, but we cannot advocate bo'h
(foetr i uea.
"To borrow a Bible quotation, ‘A
house divided against itself cannot
stand paraphrasing Lincoln’s decla
ration, I may add that this nation
cannot endure half republic and half
colony—half free and half vassal
Our form of government, our tradi
tions, our present interests and our fu
ture welfare all forbid our entering
upon a career of conquest,
"Jefferson has been quoted io sup*
port of imperialism, but our oppo
nents must distinguish between irn*
fbrialism and expansion; they must
also distinguish between expansion in
the Western hemisphere and an ex
pansion that involves us in the quar
rels of-Europe and the Orient They
must still further distinguish between
expansion which secures contiguous
territory for future settlement and ex
pansion which secures us a'ien races
for future subjugation.
"Jefferson favored the annexation of
necessary contiguous territory on the
North American continent, but be
was opposed to wars of conquest, and
expressly condemned the acquiring of
remote territory.”
Bmh the Th® Kimi You Havß Always Bought
Bigoatws /\P
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City Coart Adjourns-.
City court convened at 9 o’clock yes
terday morning at the coart house,
Judge Reagan presiding in the ab
sence of Judge Hammond.
Several cases were argued and
continued, and only ore case was tried
during the day—-that of Sapbrooia
Lowe vs Gill Hood, both colored Thia
waa quite a humoious case, as Gill was
suing Saphronia for damage to hie
character, she having accused him of
stealing chickens. This case was dis»
missed.
Court adjourned for this term in
the afternoon.
How’s* Thia!
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for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
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HAVANA MAVAL STATION (
Arrangements Bor its Early Estab
hshment Are Made.
WAfHiJfGTON, Dec. 16.—The secre
tary of the navy has issued an order
for the establishment ot a United
States naval station al Havana as soon
as the government assuines contro l
there. The commandant be Com
modore R J. Cromwell, who has been
detaehed)rom the naval examining
an&netlring board in Washingtons nd
directed to proceed to Havana by the
steamer of Dec. 17 from New York.
The assignment of a flag officer to the
station makes it of cqnal rank with
the forge navy yards in the United
States ~
Other officers assigned to the sta
tion are Surgeon J, D. Gatewood, de
tached from the Museum of Hygiene,
Washington; Lieut. J. H. Glennon,
detached from the Massachusetts;
Chief Engineer C. P. Howell, de
tached from the Columbia and Min
neapolis, at League Island, and Pay
Director J. A. Smith, detached from
the League Island navy yard. All
these officers will take passage with
Commodore Cromwell on the steamer
of Dec 17.
Orders were issued today for plac
ing the auxiliary cruisers Yosemite
and Resolute in commission. They
will probably be assigned as station
ships In Cuba, subject to the orders of
Commodore Cromwell. Both vessels
have been in reserve at the League
Island navy yard.
Billions Given Away.
It is certainly gratifying to the pub
lie to know of one concern in the land
who are not afraid to be generous to
the needy and suffering. The propri
etors of Dr King’s New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have
given away over tan million trial bot
tles of this great medicine, and have
satisfaction of knowing it has absolute
ly cured thousands of hopeless cases.
Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and
all diseases of the Throat, Chest and
Lungs are surely cured by it. Call on
J. N. Harris A Son or Carlisle & Ward,
druggists, and get a trial bottle free
Regular size 50c and SIOO. Every
bottle guaranteed, or price refunded.
th e The Kind You Hew Always Bought
Not to Be Won by Taffy.
A large, florid woman sat in a West
Side car yesterday, holding a little boy
in her lap. aaya the Cleveland Leader.
Next to her was a pleasant looking,
middle aged man, who seemed to take
a great interest in the child. He
screwed up his features for the little
fellow’s benefit, winked at him, and
made wonderful motions with his
bands. The mother knew something
was going on, but she paid no attend
tion. Finally the boy became restless,
and began to whine.
Then the man who had been
playing with him pulled a paper bag
out of hie pocket, and, lapping the
mother on the arm, said :
"Madam, may I give your little boy
a piece of candy? He is such a dear
little fellow, and reminds me of the
child I had—once.”
The florid lady looked at him sharp
ly for a moment, and replied :
* You can give him the candy if you
want to, but you needn’t think no po
litical sharper is goin’ to get me on
bis side with his taffy.”
The pleasant-looking man passed
over the piece of candy for which the
child was reaching, and then settled
back and became thoughtful.
A Clever Trick.
It certainly looks like it, bat there
is really no trick about it. Anybody
can try it who haa Lame Back and
Weak Kidneys, Malaria or nervous
troubles. We mean he can cure him
self right away by taking E.ectric Bit
ters. This medicine tones up the whole
system, acts as a stimulant to Liver
and Kidneys, is a blood purifier and
nerve tonic. It cures Constipation,
Headache, Fainting Spells, Sleepless
ness and Melancholy It is purely
vegetable, a mild laxative, and restores
the system to its natural vigor. Try
E'ectric Bitters and be convinced that
they are w miracle worker. Every
bottle guaranteed. Only 50c a bottle
at J N. Harris A Son’s, or Carlisle A
Ward’s drug store. '
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
ni KM YN Hm Alwajs Bh{M
Bears the /jjv • rf"*
Signature of
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 17, 1898.
A MILLION MILLION.
■eW Low*. Th I ale Voa.WouM ItTlkS
Yew to Cooat ItV .
Prbfewor Wagstaff, whose very name
suggests a pleasing first cousinship to
Shakespeare, has lately been amusing
himself and his audience at Gresham
college by speculations as to what might
have happened it the father of our hu
man race bad given np delving and
taken to figures. Let us suppose that
Adam had set himself to count a mil
lion million, or, in figures, 1,000,000,-
000,000. We will imagine that he could
count three in a second, which, though
not exactly rapid ciphering, will be
found ample, if taken continuously.
Now, if 6,000 years have elapsed since
the gracious amenities ot Eden farmed
the cradle of humanity, Adam would
have been working for 189,316,000,660
seconds and have reached a total of
667,648,000,000 figures. In other words,
his task of counting a million million
would still have been unaccomplished
by over four hundred thousand millions
digits.
All of which goes to prove what?
There are many possible conclusioUlL
The first is, of course, that Professor
Wagstaff is a very ingenious and by no
means melancholy mathematician, but
that hardly needed proof. A second de
duction, which we advance with all
humility, is that if Adam had only had
habitual recourse to harmless dissipa
tion of this arithmetical kind, instead
of betraying marital weakness and a.
fondness for fruit, his descendants
would have been very much better off
morally and spiritually, though not
perhaps in material comforts. And a
third conclusion, eminently gratifying
to those who refuse to behave that there
is any serious discard between religion
and science, is that Professor Wagstaff,
no doubt a man of distinction in scien
tific attainments, accepts without any
demur Bishop Useher’s chronology.
According to the divine, the world
was created in 4004 B. C., and that
added to the 1898 years which have
elapsed since the Christian era makes
in round numbers the 6,000 years on
which the whole calculation depends.
Some wayward "scientists” have dog
matically affirmed that the world has
been wagging along a good many more
centuries than Useher supposed, al
though there is a serious difference, ft
is true, in this matter between the as
tronomers and the geologists. So, after
all, perhaps if Acjam had been reason
ably industrious, he would have had
time to accomplish his task, unless his
brain had given way under the strain j»
Most of ns have such vague ideas as to
the meaning of large figures that it is
as well to be reminded by so happy an
illustration how many units go to the
making of a million. The only other
conceivable fashion in which such in
struction could be acquired is to become
a South African "boss” of mines and
diamonds, and that process, much as
we may desire it, is, fortunately or un
fortunately, not open to the majority of
us.—London Telegraph.
The Modern Mother
Has found that her little ones are improv
ed njore by the pleasant Syrup of Figs
when in need of the laxative effect of a
gentle remedy than by any other, and that
if is more acceptable .to them. Children
enjoy it and it benefits them, The true
remedy, Syrup of Figs, is manufactured by
the California Fig Syrup Company only.
Archie Chapman in Trouble.
Archie Chapman, colored, who has
for some time been employed by the
Central railroad to carry mail from
the trains to the postoffice, was arrest,
ed yesterday by Officers Connor and
Flynt for stealing a sample case be
longing to Mr. J. W. Bullard.
The case was stolen from the post
office Thursday night, where Mr.
Ballard carelessly left it when he
went for his mail. It was rjported to
the police and Flynt found the case
yesterday morning near the Episco
pal church, where it had been thrown
after being emptied of its contents.
The officers soon had sufficient evi
dence against Chapman to warrant
htoarrest, and in searching his room
all the missing property was found.
Chapman had bis commitment trial
before Justice Carhart, when he plead
guilty and was sent to jail to await
trial before Judge Hammond in the
City Court. „
Mr. Bullard complimented Officers
Connor and Flynt vary highly upon
the excellent manner in which they
handled the cate.
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Alum baking powders are the greatest
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In the Thick of a Bloodly Battle.
Most thrilling is the story of Maj,
William Duffield Ball, surgeon of the
Seventy-first Regiment, and a man in
the right place, I should say.
The major went on to describe the
fight on July las he saw it io bio
work among the wounded and dying.
•We advanced behind E Comyany,
which formed the rear guard, and
almost without warning, found our
selves under fire as a volley came from
the woods. This was our first taste of
action, and as the men began to drop
we pushed forward with the litters,
two men to each The two men I was
with picked up a wounded soldier shot
in the knee, and were just starting
b * ck with him when one of them
named Waters, he was in the drum
corps, was struck with a piece of shell
in the hip and went down. In a mo
ment another man of the drum corps
bad replaced him and we started back
again. Then the second man got a
bullet in the shoulder, and I took his
place carrying. So we got to the rear.
"When I had dressed the wounded
soldier's knee I started forward again
with two litter bearers, picked up an
another wounded soldier, and then,
.seeing another one staggering toward
i»'e, I went on alone to hie relief and
•fcuttne bearers back. I bad just be
gun to examine this poor fellow’s
wound when I saw a shell coming to
ward os high over head, I thought it
must surely pass beyond, but struck a
tall tree and ricocheted to the ground,
exploding at the very spot we were
standing. As I saw danger I gave the
wounded man a push forward, throw
ing him to the ground, and then cast
myself on the ground, also in a fop*
ward direction, as I know the frag
ments of a shell would be driven back
ward by the momentum. The explo*
sion ettne not ten feet from where we
were lying and both of us were buried
in the dirt hurled violently over us.
There was a hole io the ground where
the shell struck big enough to set a
barrel in, but neither the soldier nor
I got any hurt. The others, .about
i thought this quite a miracle, and
! came running tip thinking to find us
, dead. All these details I remember
, with the utmost distinctness” —Les-
lie’s Weekly.
J THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
9 to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
B known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
1 all the importance of purchasing the
f true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the California Fio Syrup Cp.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
. assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi
cal profession, -and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
4 of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
• as it acta on the kidneys, liver and
d bowels without irritating or weakeu.-
e ing them, and it docs not gripe nor
u nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
>r effects, please remember the name of
the Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
•AN FRANCMCe, Cal.
UNTISVILLC. Kr. NSW Y«*K. IL Y.
IF.Strickland&Co. |
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THIS YEAR, OF ALL YEARS, YOU WILL NEED TO GiVB USEFUL
RATHER THAN PURELY ORNAMENTAL XMAS PRESENTS. IN OUR
DRY GOODS Department
ARE MANY THINGS THAT WILL MAKE GLAD HEARTS FOR MOTHER
OR ; 13TER AND GLAD POCKETS FOR YOUj
Beautiful Dress Patterns $1.50 to $6 00.
Black Dreu Goods 20c to 75c.
72-lnch Batin Damask worth 75c, reduced to 60c.
70-inch Satin Damask worth 6?c, reduced to 48c.
72-inch Unbleached Damask worth 65c, reduced to 50c.
75 paragon frame steel rod Umbrellas at 98c, worth $1 25.
White Silk Handkerchief 25c to 50c.
Japanese Enitial Handkercbiefk 8 for 25c.
Ladles Hernsdort black Hose 10c to 85c.
Men and Boys Ties and Scarft 25c and 50c.
R and G Corsets new shapes 50c to sl.
A large variety of Cuff Buttons, Hat Pins and Beauty Pins.
White Counterpanes 11-4 75c to $2. V
A pair of our Warm Shoues would make Glad Feet and Glad Hearts fur any one
What more do you want for.Chrlatmaa?
R. F. STRICKLAND & ( 0.
Looking Backward! j
The memory of Christmas shoppers usually '
turns to bargains, and to
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THEY GO FOB
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