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WILL HAVEIO FOOLISHNESS.
Gen- Otie Instructed to Deal Firmly
With the Insurgents-
Washington, Deo. 29 —lnstructions
of * positive character that may bring
about a conflict with the Filipino
forces have been sent to Gen. Otis in
answer to bis dispatch telling of the
occupation of Iloilo by insurgents be*
for the American troops reached there.
The instructions have not been made
public, but it is understood that Gen.
Otis has been directed to inform the
insurgent commander at Iloilo that if
the city is not evaluated peaceably by
the insurgents, the Americans will
proceed to occupy it by force if neces
sary. Gen. Miller is in command of
the brigade sent to Iloilo.
There waslnme disappointment io
military circles over the failure of
Miller to arrange for the surrender of
the Spaniards before they evacuated.
Some thought the Spaniards left on
purpose to embarrass the Americans,
but this opinion is not generally shar
ed. Whatever the purpose of the
Spaniards, their action has greatly
Embarrassed the government.
No doubt is felt over the ability of
the Americans to compel the insur
gents to evacuate Iloilo by the use of
the Baltimore’s guns, but it is hoped
bombardment will not be necessary.
How to Look Good.
Good looks are really more than
skin deep, depending entirely on a
healthy condition of all the vital or
gans. If the liver is Inactive, you have
a bilious look ; if your stomach is dis
ordered, you have a dyspeptic look ; if
your kidneys are affected, you have a
pinched look. Secure good health,
and you will surely have good looks.
“Electric Bitters” is a good Alterative
and Tonic. Acts directly on the atom
ach, liver and kidneys, purifies the
blood, cures pimples, blotches and
boils, and gives a good complexion.
Every bottle guaranteed. Sold at J. N.
Harris & Son’s aqd Carlisle & Ward’s
drug stores. fifteen t a per bottle.
Quotations at the Widder’s,
“I say, £ige, I saw more then twen
ty wimmen goin’ up ter the Widder
Spriggan’s bouse yesterday. What
wuz goin’ on up tbar?”
“Hub,” answered the old man, ac
cording to the Los Angeles Times, as
be felt in his pocket for Lis tobacco,
“the widder ba* been givin’ another
party. The widder prides herself on
bein’ right up ter date. Why, hit wcz
only last month thet she read some
where thetpink teas wuz all the rage,
so she sent out invitations for a pink
tea. Wul, she tried ter buy pink tea
at all the stores, but she couldn’t find
any, so she went and colored some or
dinary tea with cochineal, an’ hit tuck
the doctor two days ter bring ’em all
around.”
“But about this yere party yester
day?” put in the storekeeper.
“Wul, hit seems hit wuz ter be a
quotation party The widder eent out
invites an’ on ’em she said everybody
must bring a quotation Wul, they
wuz all crazy to go, but nobody knew
what a quotation wuz Well, when
they wuz all thar an’ the widder asked
for the quotations, Ik Gams’ wife said
ez bow she wuz sorry, but she had et
her last quotation jest before she got
the invite, and Bob Pigans' wife said
she didn’t bring any ’cause she didn’t
know whether the widder wanted
them biled or fried. Wul, when the
widder called upon the scboolmarm
she got up and said :
“ ‘The Lord loves a cheerful giver.’
“Wul, the rest of them thought she
wuz castin’ reflections on them, an’
that made them mad, an’ they ain’t
got over talking about hit yit. Hit’s
kinder discouraged the widder givin’
any more fashionable parlies.”
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Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcere, Salt Rheum
Fever Bores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re
quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by J. N.
Karris * Son and Carliiie & Ward.
Pitts’ Carminative aids digestion, regu
lates the bowels, cures Cholera Infantum,
Cholefa Morbus, Dysentery, Pains, Grip
ng, Flatulent Colic, Unnatural Drains
from the Bowels, and all diseases incident
to teething children, For all summer com
plaints it is a specific. Perfectly harmless
and free from injurious drugs and chemi
cal
z . (uto forever.
9i‘ Sculetß Caudy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
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A DREAM THAT PAID.
How the SewingMaohine Needle
Was Invented.
We owe the invention of the sewing
machine to Elias Howe, an American
mechanic, as you all know. He had
a large family to care for, and could
give only his odd moments to the con
struction of bis machine. But while
laboring for daily bread for himself
and his family, he was constantly
thinking out hie invention.
He got on quite well until he came
to the making of a needle; then be
was at a standstill, for be could not
discover where the eye of the needle
should be placed. At first he thought
a needle fashioned after the ordi
nary needle for band-sewing might be
all right, but after much experiment
ing he found that it would not do.
He was greatly perplexed. The
needle question absorbed his thoughts
by day, and at night he dreamed
about needles. One night he dreamed
that be was in a far distant country
that was ruled over by a savage king.
The king ordered him to construct a
sewing machine, and, not daring to
disobey orders, be at once set to work.
All went well until he came to the
location of the needle’s eye; then bis
troubles began.
The king grew impatient, and final
ly gave the inventor just twenty-four
hours in which to complete the ma*
chine, and told him he must forfeit his
life if he failed to finish the task. He
worked harder than ever before, you
may be sure, but found that he could
not invent a proper needle, and had to
give it up.
Just as the king’s warrior’s were
about to take him away to execute
him, be noticed that the spears they
carried were pierced near the head.
Like an inspiration the solution of the
needle problem came to him, and,
while imploring the savage king for a
little more time, he awoke.
Although it was but 4 o’clock in
the morning, Mr. Howe arose at once,
and went to his workshop and by 8
o’clock he had modeled a needle for
his sewing machine with an eye at the
point. Thus was the perplexing prob*
lem solved.
The Molt Neglected Homes
“It is an indisputable fact that there
are scores of American women today
connected with charitable, club or or
ganization work for which they have
no actual taste and only a forced in*
terest,” writes Edward Bok in the
January Ladies’ Home Journal.
“But the insufficiency of the home
as a place for women to develop their
fullest talents bag been go incegsantly
talked Uiout that these women have
felt that, to be in touch with progress
ive ideas, they must take on some
outside work, even at the cost of leav
ing something undone in ths home
machinery. Some women do not stop
to discern an incontestable fact; that
those of their sex who are forever cry
ing about the narrowness of the home
for women are those who have either
never had homes of their own or are
unhappy homes wich they have.
No happy wife nor true mother ever
has a word to say in complaint of the
narrowness of her home or its insuf
ficiency for her highest development.
She knows all too well that a home is
never narrow : that it can be made as
broadgas a womang wills it. Where a
home is narrow, depend upon it there
is always somtbing wrong: something
is amiss. The most barren homes in
this country generally belong to one
class of women : those who, on the
platform and with pen, are always
hysterically and frantically demand
ing an expansion of woman’s oppor
tunities. It is a very fortunate thing
for some of these exclaimers that
those whom they address cannot look
into their homes and see the true rea
son for their restlessness and dissatis
fation. If they could their platform
careers would soon come to an end.”
An Enterprising Eraggiit .
There are few men more wide awake
and enterprising than J, N. Harris &
Son and Carlisle & Ward, who spare
no pains to secure the best of every
thing in their line for their many cus
tomers They now have the valuable
agency for Dr King’s New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds.
This is the wonderful remedy that is
producing such a furor all over the
country by its many startling cures.
It absolutely cures Asthma, Bronchi
tie, Hoarseness and all affections of the
Throat, Chest and Lungs Call at the
above drug stores and get a trial bot
tle free, or a regular size for 50 cents
and SIOO Guaranteed to cure or price
refunded.
Wai Invented.
WHEN NAPOLEON WALKED.
Am fnwMeat ®f th* M-
treat From Mdbcew.
It was on Nov. 25, at about 7 o’clock
in the morning, when we nw the head
of the column. The first we saw were
generals, a few of whom were on horse
back, but the majority on foot The
latter painfully dragged themselves
along, almost all having their feet fro
zen and bound up in rags and pieces of
sheepskin and dying of hunger. We
then raw what was left of the cavalry
of the guard. The emperor came next
on foot, with a stick in his hand. He
wa s muffled up in a large capote lined
with fur and wore on his head an
amaranthine velvet oap edged with
black foxskin. On his right marched,
also on foot, King Murat; on his left,
Prince Eugene, viceroy of Italy; then
Marshals Berthier, prince of Neufchatel;
Ney, Mortier, Lefebvre and other mar
shals and generals, whose corps had
been partly destroyed.
They were followed by 700 to 800
officers and snbofflcers, marching in or
der and bearing in the greatest silence
the eagles of the regiments to which
they had belonged and that had so often
led them to victory. They were the
remnant of over 60,000 men. My poor
Picart, who had not seen the army for
a month, gased on silebtly, but his con
vulsive movements showed only too
well what he felt. 1 saw big tears roil
down the cheeks and fall on his mus
tache, from which icicles were hang
ing. Then, turning to me, “Really,
compatriot, I do not know whether I
am asleep or awake; I weep because I
have seen our emperor marching on
foot, a stlok in his hand, he that was so
great and who made us so proudl’’
“Memoires of Sergent Bourgogne.”
Cotton and Commerce-
Cotton manufacturing is too firmly
established in the South to be destroy
ed by New England competition, says
the New York Commercial Advertiser,
in a veur interesting editorial. Even
shooJdlabor conditions at the South
be the same as in the North, cotton
manufacturers there will still enjoy
the advantage of nearness to the cot
ton fields. This might be offset to
some extent by greater cheapness of
capital at the North, but nothing
more. In any event, rivalry between
Northern and Southern manufacturers
would inevitably result again in over
production, the very thing from which
New England cotton industry is now
suffering.
The main hope of the cotton indues
try, South as well as North, is in pos
session of new and growing market*
and at no time in the history of the
country have conditions been so favor
able to possession of such markets as
now. „
In Cuba and Porto Rico American
cotton manufacturers ought to have a
practical monopoly in the trade in
cotton fabrics. In addition to the
thorough organization of the Ameri
can cotton industry, these islands lie
at our very door, and A merican man
ufacturers enjoy just so much advan
tage over British, German and French
competitors. This is particularly true
of Southern cotton manufacturer#.
With adoption of reciprocity treatise
still other markets will be open tajrtt
ton goods in Central and Soutlj ffEner
ica. Most of the cotton fabrics con
sumed by the latter are produced in
Europe, and this too, in the absence of
trade treaties. All that is needed to
supplant them with American goods,
especially with adoption of reciprocal
trade arrangements, is a display of en
terprise and push on the part of the
American manufacturers.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the /Tx £"*
Signature of
The war department received a let
ter from a fond mother a short time
ago requesting that her son’s regiment
should not be ordered away until after
Christmas, as she wanted to send him
a box of good things which she feared
would not stand transportation to
Cuba.
How’s This?
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
out any obligation made by their firm.
Wert & 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. Sold by all druggist!. Testimonial!
free.
Hall’s family Pills are the best.
Baking Powder
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Made from pure
own Os UtfUL
Safeguards the food
against alum
Alum baking powders are the greatest
menacen to ncaltb of the present day. I
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The South’! Position.
The New York Herald takes to ta#k
a nor .hern contemporaiy which insin
nates that there io still in the south a
general feeling of hatred of the union,
and justly criticises the unjust insinu
ation in the following able and truth
fol manner: X
“The democratic solidity of the
south is not based on ‘unanimity at
conviction upon national political is
sues,’ but is cbiefiy due to the fact that
the negroes always vote in a compact
mass, and white supremacy demands
a counter combination. «
“The idea that there ever was a time
when a ‘solid south’ was hostile to the
union is based upon false premises.
The statement of Gen. Wheeler In a
recent speech that one half the white
people of the sooth were bitterly op
posed to secession in 1861 is histori
cally correct. Since then the old whig
element has never been democratic
from choice, but from a conviction
that self preservation demanded that
all white citizens should stand togeth
er on election day.
“The war with Spain revealed in a
pleasing manner the loyalty of the
•onth to the onion, but the loyalty
was there long before the war was ever
tbpught of. Such a thing at 'south
era animosity’ has not existed for ■
quarter of a century, except in the
imagination of the uninformed.
“The recent visit of the president to
the south, the remarkable character
of his reception everywhere, and the
spontaneous manifestations of patriot
ism by the southern people should
have the effect of dissipating whatever
remnants of ignorance may still be
extant upon the subject of ‘southern
loyalty.’ The devotion to the union
is quite as well assured in the south
as in New England.
“Indeed, no such purely national
feeling ever before prevailed through
out every section of the United States
as is now manifest—North, South,
East and West.”
FUNERAL NOTICE.
The friends and of
Mrs. 8. B. Milligan and family are in
vited to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Effie Warman, from their residence at
10:30 o’clock this morning.
THE EieaiENCE OF SYtDP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the Cauvobhia Fig Sr hup
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cau
fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given Ho millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acta on the kidneys, liver and
bowela without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it does ncLgripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company—
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
sax ntAXOisce. c«l
LOVISVIU& Kr. NKW YOKK. X. T.
R_ F. Strickland & Co.
Christmas Preparations.
THIS YEAR, OF ALL YEARS, YOU WILL NEED TO GIVE USEFULv'X
RATHER THAN PURELY ORNAMENTAL XMAS PRESENTS. IM OUR \ /
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DRY GOODS Department
ARE MANY THINGS THAT WILL MAKE GLAD HEARTS FOR MOTHER
OR ; IBTER AND GLAD POCKETS FOR YOU,
Beantiful Dress Patterns |1.60 to |6 00.
Black Dress Goods 20c to
72- Batin Damask worth 75c, reduced to 60c.
J TQriach Satin Damask worth 00c, reduced to 48c.
73- Unbleached Damask worth 65c, reduced to 50c.
75 paragon frame steel rod Umbrellas at 98c, worth |196.
White Silk Handkerchiefs 25c to 50c.
Japanese Enitial Handkercbieft 8 for 25c.
Ladies Hernsdort black Hom 10c to 85c.
Men and Boys Ties and Scarft 25c and 60c.
R and G Corsets new shapes 50c to fl.
A large variety of Cuff Buttons, Hat Pins and Beauty Pins.
White Counterpanes 114 75c to $2.
A pair of our Warm Shoues would make Glad Feet and Glad Hearts for any one,
more do you want for Christmas?
R. F. STRICKLAND & CO.
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Looking Backward!
The memory of Christmas shoppers usually
turns to bargains, and to
L. W. Goddard & Son
— theygopor —
Rockers,
Dinin S Room
• Onyx Tables,
Lounges,
Couches,
o JgviiKTjfr Brass and White
Enameled Beds
BEFORE BUYING YOUR
WLSEm tanas Fnnro
INSPECT THE STOCK OF
L. W. GODDARD ft SON.
Gif IFFIN 5 and
10 CENT STORE.
ODD FELLOW’S BUILDING..
We have the Largest and Best 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 ’iu the way of
Holiday wants. All at prices to suit the times. Every
child must be remembered. A lew cents will make the little
jf
ones happy here. So be sure to give us a look.
EDWARDS BROS.
Ten Gents per Week