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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. — o 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.” State of Ohio ,Ciky of Toltdo, ) Lucas County. j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney Co., doing business in the City of To ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said llrtn will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to befora mo and subscribed in my presence, this day of December, A. D. 1886. - A. W. GLEASON. J seal • Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and muc ous surfaces of the system. Send for tes,- timonlals, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., s Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 750. Hail’s Family Pills are the best. TOCXJRE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All druggists refund the money if It fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature on SEVEN YEARS TO DIG THE PANAMA CANAL. 30,000 Men Ought to Finish the Ditch in That Period. - r •■-st tar ■. 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. TO CUBE A COLD IN* OSE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tables All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature son each box, 25 cents. 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. t 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. 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