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DOffAT AB GLESSNER. Erf. and Pron
The senate committee choked on
h4t Crum and epat it out.
Judge Parker is doing hie boom ,
right by letting it mkke all the noise*
while he keeps quiet.
Because Mr. Bryan has suffered
from lack of Democratic harmony
is really no reason why the parly
should continue to suffer from it.
The Birmingham News notes that
“the proposition to raise the pres
ident’s salary to 1100,000 has not
started any applause in the gal
leries."
Now that the arbitration papers
have been signed up, Germany con
descends to explain that she was
fighting all along for the Monroe ,
doctrine.
..... — .
Macon threatens to have the big-'
gest State fair ever held. Bat who
is going to beatElitor Estill's a!
I
fresco dinner to the editors at Sa
vannah's edition of the State fair?
In an article headed “how to
manage a girl" the editor of an ex
change tells how to do it. It sounds
wall, but in real life we find that it
\ is the editor who is manag’d by
the girl.
The attention of the Hon. Dupont
Guerry’s Georgian is respectfully
but earnestly called to the fact that
under the adminisjration of Gov
ernor Torrell the oapitol is being
aimed red.
A Naw York paper thinks that if
be Monroe doctrine is to receive
ontiuued recognition from the
South American republics they
might chip in and contribute a few
battleships to our navy.
The Augusta Chronicle thinks
“there would appear to be some
danger of President Roosevelt's
guests and the waiters getting ‘mx
ed’ in the confusion of a reception.”
This would certainly be one on the
waiters.
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In the celebration of Georgia Day
in the Griffin jiublio schools the
News and Sun was referred to as
one of tbe truly great newspapers of
the State. This, of course, is the
daily. The Weekly News and Sun
w the great paper of the South.
Hubbard T. Smith, who wrote
“Listen to My Tale of Woo” and
“Swinging in the Grapevine Swing, ”
is dead. He was in the United
States consular service and died at
Genoa. Let us hope that he is now
singing the last song and not the
first mentioned.
That rabid Republican, South
hating, negro-loving journal of bar
barism, Harper’s Weekly, is advis
ing the Democrats that Grover I
Cleveland is the only man whom
they can elect. “But he is hardly
man who will be nominated by
Te Democrats,’’ says the Savannah
c’ress. Hirdly.
Macon has got the State fair and
her pleasure in it is increased ten
fold by the fact that she beat At
lanta, who was her only other com
petitor, $16,000 will be given in
prem ims and SIO,OOO used to put
back ae buildings in the condition
hey -vere in when the last fair was
leld there, eight years ago.
The editor of the Albany Herald
soliloquizes thus : “If Mr. Carnegie
really wants to die poor let him
come South and bay lands and mules
and rent tin m out to negroos and
furnish th j negtms with what corn
and m * they w lut to buy while
they .’ o making a crop of cotton.”
Y e have frequently said that we
did Lot consider Mr. Clevtland any
b ggtriht a iho Democratic party,
and mi! ’iy j * >tes-tcd because be did
not ? mU. agree with us on this
point. Nuw it begins to look as if
we should have to call down Mr,
Bryan also. These little tasks are
unpleasant, but they occasionally
become necessary.
Ths great Brooklyn divine, Rev.
Newall Dwight Hillis, says: “If
twice a year we could bring the
Southerners up to New York for
two veeks we could solve the negro
problem, and if we could take the
Nor .herners three times a yew for
wo weeks in the South they would
con cease trying .to manage the
uthemera’ affairs for them,”
J A 00WABD, A BULLY ARD A CUR
-1 The strangest part of the whole
business Is that so many Southern
newspapers should have so thor
oughly misunderstood the character
of President Roosevelt as to have
ever wanted to brag on his
Southern blood, and were only fully
aroused to how little honor he was
to such blood by his action in the
Indianola affair. There are oth<r
matters that determine the man
snd gen&eman besides his stand on
the color question.
To those who had not gained an
insight into the real Roowveltian
character by bis career m New
York and bis magazine writings,
which were really calculated to
impose upon superficial purists and
poor judges of btrtnan ’nature, bis
spectacular and truculent actions
daring the Cuban war, in wbich bis
chief boast was of shooting a Span
iard in the batik, and his terrified
round-robin flight from the spectre
of disease, the only real danger on
the island, should have been suffi
cient revelation. A man eager for
power and ready to use it against
the weak, but skulking from all
danger and cowed by the threats of
opponents, is what the Terrible
Teddy has shown himself to be both
before and after becoming presi
dent.
Oje of his latest acts is most
characteristic and consequently
most thoroughly contemptible. As
every one knows, the Red Cross
Society is nn organization formed
upon the purest humanitarian
principles, and its services in the
wars of the last third of a century
have been the subject of world wide
praise. Miss Clarpu Birton has
labor* d like a hojxrin the cause of
humanity ampler name will go ring
ing down theages as a benefactcr
worthy to be classed with the
gieatest in’he history of all time
And yet the other day the presi
sident dictated a letter to the
society of which she has been the
moving spirit all these years, in
which be declares that ths name and
those of the members of his cabinet
have been used without authority
in connection with membership on
the consulting of that
organization, and very curtly de
claring that the practice must be
discontinued.
The practice of thns using
the names of the presidents of the
United States and the members of
his cabinet b’gan with the adminis
tration of President Arthur, like
Roosevelt an acoidenoy. but unlike
Roosevelt very much a gentleman,
and had been accepted by every
succeeding administration up to
now, thereby proclaiming to the
world that the officials of this
government favored missions of
mercy and were willing to minister
to the afflicted. But to Terrible
Teddy, to whom the blood of the
wounded and the death of the un
armed seem only the proper trib
utes to valor, the flying of the Red
Cross pennon was like the flaunting
of the red flag before a bull, and he
hastened to resent the reflection
that his voice was ever for anything
but war. That he should insult
one of the noblest and c tnost
honored women in the world’s his
tory by so doing was not a matter
worthy of consideration.
The present occupant of the
white house is using every means in
his power to prove himself a bhlly,
a coward and a cur, and the respect
due to his high office is the very
reason why he should be plainly
denounced in sat terms who thus
degrades it.
LINCOLN—JACKSON— JEFFERSON.
Three roasted oxen constituted a
barbecue tor the Jefferson- Jack
son-Lincoln League, which met
and. ate yesterday, February 12th,
which was the birthday of Lincoln.
The place of meeting was Colum
bus, 0., and the members of the
club number many distinguished
names in the American national life.
Tom Johnson, of was one of
the speakers, to interpret and praise
the principles of this League, as was
also Clarence S. Darrow.
The members of the cluo believe
in the doctrines enunciated by Jef
ferson, Jackson and Lincoln, and,
combining the three, they have for
mulated a political creed that
“stands for the people from first to
last," etc.
The league has for its purpose the
banding of all citizens who believe
in the rights of man, as opposed to
the greed of monopolies and trusts.
The platforin of the league, upon
which its branches are being ex
tended throughout the country, is
ua follows;
We believe will: <7> ffei son :
1. All men are created t quai
2. Government* derive their just
p iwer from the consent of the gov
erned.
3. The government should not
tike from the mourn of labcr the
br»-ad it has earned. ,
4. Oar foreign policy should be
peace, commerce and honest friend
ship with all nations ; entangling
alliances with none.
5. The cement of this Union is in
the heart blood of every American.
Cherish the Federal Union as the
only dock of onr safety.
We believe with Jackson :
1. Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty. The path of freedom is
continually beset by enemas who
assume the disguise of frieuds.
2. Onr government should be
supported by the ballot box and not
by the musket
3 Labor in peanuts the source ot
all wealth. The bleisings of the
government, like the dews of heav
en, should be dispensed alike upm
the rich and poor, the high And low.
4. You have no longer any cause
to fe«r danger from abroad ; it is
from within, among youio«lves—
from cupidity, from corruption,
frgm inordinate thirst for power—
that factions will be formed and
liberty endangered.
5 At every hazard, and every
sacrifice this Union must be pre
served.
We believe with Lincoln :
1. The government cannot en-
dure permanently half s'ave and
half free. .
2. Government of the people, by
the people and for people shall not
perish from the earth. This coun
try with its institutions belong to
the people who inhabit it.
3. Labor is prior to capital. Cap
ital is only the fruit of labor and
oonld never have existed if labor
had not first existed. Labor is the
superior of capital and deserves
much the higher consideration.
4. If destruction be our lot we
must ourselves be its author and fin
isher. As a nation of freemen we
must live through all time or die by
suicide.
5. The Union, the Constitution,
the liberties ot the people shall be
perpetuated in accordance ‘With the
original idea upon which the Revo
lution was made.
It is said that branches of this
league are forming throughout the
country. The principles of it are
pretty good, but they must sound
very much out-of-date to the pres
ent rulers of the country. <
An exchange gets off this rotten
tomato talk : “After all the mid
night study of great scientists to
discover a cure for drunkenness,
almost without success, a simple
and effective remedy which is al
most costless has been discovered.
It is simply eating tomatoss. If
any person addicted to excessive
drinking will eat all the tomatoes
he can three times a day, in one
month he cannot bear to drink any
kind of alcoholic stimulants.”
Many years observation of people
eating raw tomatoes and drinking
beer at the free lunches of Griffin
tor the who’e of the long summer
season convinces us that there is no
more in this than in most other ex
pedients to stop a man from drink
ing who doesn’t want to stop.
“A Prussian King,” says Editor
Watterson, “is to stand in marble
in the capital of the republic, but
the man who wrote the Declaration
of Independence, who incarnated the
spirit of democracy in his own age
and has been the inspiration of its
advocates ever since, is not com
memorated by so much as a tablet
in Washington.” Commenting
upon this the Charleston News and
Courier says that “If Mr. Watter
son will consider matters a little,
perhaps he will find that the con
dition he describes is not wholly
inappropriate.”
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A. D. 1886.
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SEVEN YEARS TO DIG
THE PANAMA CANAL.
30,000 Men Ought to Finish the Ditch in That
Period.
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Washington, Fab. 12. — Special
in th 1 * News and Courier : “With
good luck we ought to finish the
Panama c*nt>l in seven years,” said
a high government authority offi
cial interested in the enterprise yes
terday. “The task may require as
much as ten yews for its comple
tion. It depends largely upon the
health of the laborers employed
Au epidemic of bubonic plague or
cholera might put us back a good
deal.
“Such a misfortune is exactly
what we shall take most pains to
avoid, however. We shall control
everything on the strip which will
be in future, to all intents and pur
poses, a part of the United States ;
and our first care will be to to fix
matters as we want thtem in a san
itary way. We shall clean up things
just as we did in Cuba, establishing
proper drainage, inaurirg plentiful
supplies of pure water and making
cleanliness compulsory iu the towns
along the route of the canal. The
French company has a fine hospital
that cost over a million dollars
which will be transferred to us with
the rest of Its property.
“We shall employ about 30,000
workmen on the canal as soon as we
get things fairly started, and this
army of It borers will be drawn
mainly from Jamaica and other
West Indian islands, it nas been
urged that we might utilize a few
thousand of our Southern negroes
on the job, but snub a plan would
not be likely to work satisfactorily.
Colored folks from the cotton
States might suffer from the climate
of the tropics and they are not ac
customed to live as cheaply and
simply as the darkies of the West
Indies.
“Probably the work will be given
out to contractors who will hire the
requisite workmen at 50 or 60 cents
a aay, which is about what labor is
wprth'in that part of the world.
The oontractors will give bonds to
the island governments to care of
the negroes properly and return
them at the end of a specified time.
The laborers will be fetched to the"
port of Colon by steamers, disem
bark d and assigned in gangs under
gang bosses, to various points along
the line of the cajial. Work will
be carried on in all par ts of the
ditch simultaneously, in order to
bring the enterprise to completion
as quickly as possible.
“It should be realized that the
problem presented by the Panama
canal is altogether different from
that which would have demanded
solation in Nicaragua. If, the latter
route had been chosen the work
woald have bad to begin with the
clearing away of forests and the
grabbing of stumps—in short, the
opening of a virgin tra 3t of country,
with a multitude of difficulties to
be overcome as a preliminary to the
excavation of the ditch. At Pan
ama, on the other hand, everything
is cleaned up ; the canal is already
half dug — accurately speaking,
about 30 per cent, of the necessary,
digging has been accomplished—
and we have only to take up the
task where the French people have
left off.
“We are thus, enabled to start at
once and without the long delay
which.woi Id have been unavoida
ble in N oar az ra. Even the ma
chinery 1 nd oth r apparatus—much
of it, at ah even s—is on hand. A
THE OHIO IMPROVED HOQ.
The Walker County Messenger
furnishes this interesting agricul
tural item:
“Think of a hog weighing 1,300
pounds I It may sound unreasona
ble. but Buck Martin, who lives
near Boynton, is the proud owner
of this mammoth animal, and the
fact establishes him as the cham
pion hog raiser in all this section.
This 1,300 -pounder is of the Ohio
Improved Chester variety. Only
last fall Mr. Martin killed four
shotes eleven months old that netted
over 800 pounds each.”
We recommend the Ohio brand of
hog to our readers as a good thing.
Hanna lives in Ohio, you know, as
well as many other hoggish Repub
licans, and everything goes to shjw
that porcine qualities develop to
the highest degree up there.
Hero is one on the administration
from the Washington Post:
“Where are you going my coal-black
maid? - ’
“To get a postofllce, sir,” she said.
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yet it is impossible to say what the
machinery is worih; our experts
did not take it into account-in their
estimate of the value of the French
company’s property and all of it
will have to be overhauled and ex
amined. A great deal of it is anti
quated, undoubtedly, but much of
it is good stuff.
“There a great many locomo
tives, nearly all of them brand new
—I think not less than forty-five or
fifty—which are valuable assets
and represent a lot of money. Then
there is a great numbar of ma
chines, such as steam shovels and
dr dges for excavating and carriers
for removing earth. Thera are
ihousans of damp cars and miles on
miles of portable railway tracks,
which can be picked up from one
place and laid down off-hind in an
other.
“Xerxes once employed a million
soldiers in the making of a canal,
but those were days when digging
was done by hand with spade and
pickaxe. In these modern times
sutih work is accomplished by
machinery. Steam shovels pick up
the earth which is conveyed by
trolley carriers to care and trans
ported with the help of locomotives
to 0 -uvenient places, where it is
dumped. Where rock has to be
rem >ved blasting is done, of course;
but fortunately there is v ry little
rock to be excavated along the
Panama route.
“Necessarily a great deal of ex
pensive machinery will have to be
purchased. Much of the apparatus
now on hand must go to the scrap
heap to be replaced with the new
est and most up-to-date machines.
With American energy and un
limited funds behind the enterprise,
the digging of the canal will be car
ried forward with great rapidity.
It is even now in progress, in a
sort of fashion, about 1,500 labor
ers in the employ of the French
company being engaged on the
work.
“The estimated cost of com
pleting the ditch is $144,000,000 It
will be forty seven miles in length,
though the isthmus is only forty
miles wide, the route traversed
being far from straight. The bot
tom width of the canal will be LSO ,
feet, its width at the top varying 1
the formation. Where it passes <
through the rock, of cour e, its sides
will be steeper than ■ where the
banks are of earth. The depth of
the water will be 35 feet through
out, so as to allow for the passage of
the largest freight steamers, and
there will be five twin locks bail*of
solid masonary.
“The deepest out to be made will
not be much over 300 feet above the
sea level at the highest point. By
the help of the locks ships will be
lifted up the requisite 90 feet on one
side of the isthmus and lowered
again to the level of the ocean on
the other side. The locks will be
twins in order that, when one of
them needs repairs, navigation may
not be interrupted.
“It is estimated that about
5,000,000 tons of freight will pass
through the canal during the,, first
year after it is opened and that
there will be a steady increase in
the traffic thereafter. Tolls will be
low—not more than $1 a ton, I
should say. Uncle Sam will not be
anxious to make money out ot the
enterprise ; and it is hardly neoes
s*ary to say that everything about
this great public work will be done
on a scale of liberality. Every
modern improvement will be intro
duced—even to the lighting of the
ditoh throughout its entire length
with electricity furnished by water
power.” Bene Bache.
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Mr- Bryan is Not Wealthy.
Savannah News.
So many stories have been circu
lated, concerning Mr. Bryan’s new
residence, a few miles from Lin
coln, and his farm and his weath,
that that gentleman has deemed it
wise to take the public in his con
fidence with respect to the whole
matter. In a recent issue of his
paper, the Commoner, Mr. Bryan
prints a picture of his house, to
gather with a statement of its cost,
the size of his farm and the amount
of his fortune. The picture shows
a comfortable-looking residence, by
no means palatial from an outside
view, which Mr. Bryan says cost
him a little more than SIO,OOO. The
farm comprises thirty-five acres.
In addition to the house and the
tract of land, Mr. Bryan says he
has property that is woith]|;from
$15,000 to $20,000. He says be
draws no salary from the Com
moner, and has taken out of it
since its establishment for his own
use less than an avenge’ of $5,000
a year. Thus it will be seen that
many of the his consider
able wealth and luxurious new
l home are greatly exaggerated.
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