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* | g || j /T T k TI T T ■ *”■ IB / I ■ ■ I I ■ I I ■ ■ / W ■ ■?• ' ■ I I ’ I w I < Jr 1 W I ■ I * T W i / .w? M m ■ M B-. j IT 1 V _x*l 1 I % » % J / > | ■ 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 rs 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! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to carry ont any obligation made by their firm. West & Traux, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot tle. Bold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall’s family Pills are the best. 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. OABTOXIIA. Bean 0,. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature fl? , 01PHALOTU8 The Infallible Headache Cure. It is unniversally conceded its equal does not exist. It is an absolute sure cun for the most obstinate case of nervous and sick headache, and will in any case give relief in fifteen minutes. Once tried you will never be without it. Price, 10c foi package of 8 powders or 8 pkgs of 9 pow ders for 25c. Don’t tail to try it. MARSH M’F’G. CO. • 588 W. Lake St, Chicago RoVal Baking Powder Mack from pure CTC3IYI of tdrtdT* Safeguards the food against alum Alum baking powders are the greatest menacers to health of the present day. novM. sMiHa rowoea oa, msw raSK. 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. | 11 (O) 1 ' . ) 1 Christmas Preparations. Cl 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 L. W. Goddard & Son 1 THEY GO FOB Rockers, Dining Boom Chairs, Onyx Tables, Lounges, ■BIJ Couches, Brass and White Enameled Beds before buying your -MMMHi CWsimas Fmiffle INSPECT THE STOCK OF L. W. GODDARD A SON. ” ~ ■— .-.-..-m I GRIFFIN 5 and 10 CENT STORE. ODD FELLOW’S BUILDING.. 7 3 ■ ' 3 (O) We have the Largest and Beet Selected Stock of CHRISTMAS Goods in Griffin. Our stock is comprised of Dolls, China Nov elties, Tin and Iron Toys, Silver Novelties, Bisque Figures, Wagons and articles too numerous to mention in the way of Holiday wants. All at prices to suit the times. Every child must be remembered. A tew cento will make the little ones happy here. So be sure to give us a look. EDWARDS BROS. Tea Cents per Week