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They do say that for the past week
you could smell the gasoline for twen
ty miles out at sea from Savannah.
The canal, to date, has cost about
$84,000,000. The New Orleans Item
says that "Rood things come In small
packages.' 1
The growing scarcity of timber suita
ble for ties, with a resultant Increase
in their cost, hiw led eleven roads to
start forests.
The Nashville Tennesseean says:
•‘Who but our marvelous president
-would have thought of settling the
labor problem by the simple process of
a white house dinner?"
The staff writer of the Atlanta Con
stitution says Savannah will look like
a deserted village after the 1,000 visit
ing Atlantans return home. Now,
how is that for the quintessence of
Atlanta spirit
The Dawson News insists that An
dersonville is the proper place for the
Wirz. monument. It holies that the
Daughters will not allow the loud talk
of some meddlesome people to deter
them from placing it there.
As the Columbus Ledger remarks,
the farmer who raised turkeys and
chickens now has a decided advantage
over his neighbor who gave all his time
to the cultivation of cotton. At big
prices, the demands for the fowls are
great, while cotton is low with <le
mands well supplied.
The Atlanta mayoralty race turns
out, after all, to be a contest between
two sports who have played poker
together, in this case, Woodward,
whom they are trying to rule out of
the game, declares that he had. not
thrown up his cards, but had merely
laid down his hand to consider whether
he should call Maddox's bluff.
The Macon News is becoming
alarmed. Itsays: “It looks as if the
Atlanta municipal campaign is about
to open up a political laundry for
soiled reputations. For the decency of
the rest of the State, gentlemen, desist.
Os course, the clothes washing could
not hurt Atlanta any, but just think of
the way Macon, Savannah and Au
gusta would be shocked by the revela
tions.”
The editor of the Thomaston Times
is properly “thankful that in the
county of Upson there is but one man
who thinks himself'holier than thou.” ’
Fortunate Upson! There may be a
few others that the editor has failed to
count, but he Is wise in leaving them
hid out and worshipping themselves
in the hushes. May their tribe de
crease everywhere, as it seems to be
even in Griffin.
The Norfolk Virginian-l’ilotdoes not
agree with the objection made to giv
ing Mr. Bryan the title of “The Moses
of Democracy.” Nothing it thinks
could ibe more appropriate. Bryan
“has led his party into sight of the
Promised Land," says the Virginian-
Pilot, “and himself has caught a dis
tant glimpse from the mountain top
of the fair fields of Canaan. But there
his mission ends. Next is the need for
a Joshua to take up the leadership, to
smite the Amelikites and the Philis
tines hip and thigh and to bring the
people of his political Israel into full
possession of their heritage.”
Significant, says an exchange, are
the consular reports from Hong Kong
to the effect that the demand for soap
is rapidly growing in the Orient. A
flying wedge of soap is the advance
agent of Occidental civilization, and
the time is near at hand when the
mystic words “Good morning, have
you—“lt floats,” and “He won t
be happy till he gets it,” will greet
the Oriental eye from every hen coop
and other distinctive features of Chi
nese scenery. According to the tales
of travelers, the Chinese peasants are
the great unwashed, their aversion to
waler l«eing even more deep-seated
than that of our own picturesque ho
boes, That they should now cry for
soap is another sign of the awakening
of china.
A LESSON IN INTEREST.
The receipt by the state depart
mental Washington of a draft from
Madrid for $599.550 concludes the
payment of a claim against the Span
ish government which has been in
process of settlement for 71 years ami
which furnishes an illustration of the
rapidity with which interc-t accu
mulates on unpaid obligations.
Under the terms of a treaty made
with Spain in 1834, certain American
citizens were awarded claims aggre
gating $599,*50, with interest at (1
per cent, pending final payment. T.
• Spanish authorities pursued their
usual policy of putting off until to-
I morrow everything that should l»e
done to-day and so |>aid the Interest
regularly until the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war in 1898. At
the conclusion of that struggle the in
terest in arrears was paid and the
annual interest has since l>een kept
' up. The final settlement shows that
Spain has paid In excess of s;j,s<)o,o<)o
in interest, or a total of more than
t, $4,200,000 in settlement of an orlgi
i nal debt of 1690,860.
I The bright feature of the incident
is that Spain has recovered sufficient
ly from its disastrous colonial experi
’ ments to be able to pay as it goes.
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NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COST
Both big parti*s have filed sworn
: statements oi the amounts of money
expended during the late presidential
; fight. The Republican* give their
figures at a little less than two million
dollars; the Democratic figures are a
little more than a half million dol
lars. The llepubiicans spent just
about three times as much as the
Democrats, according to the sworn
statements of the two national com
mittees.
<>f course these statements cannot
include all the money spent on either
side, for thousands of dollars were
spent In local fights and by people
who never sent their money in to the
national committee.
All of which leads to the conclusion,
says the Athens Banner, that the
race for the presidency in this coun
try is coming to be an affair calling
for the expenditure of much money.
It Is no longer possible in this coun
try for a presidential race to he made
without large sums of money. A
l>arty to be successful cannot hoj>e to
get througti a campaign for less than
a million dollars. The Democratic
party might wage a successful fight
on one million dollars, but the Re
publican party would require from
three to four million dollars to win.
It takes more money to bring about
a Republican victory than it does to
win a Democratic victory, because as
a rule the Republicans use more
money in influencing voters.
Perhaps we shall never see again
the idealistic conditions that once
prevailed in this country, when
money in elections cut practically no
figure, and when men were elected
purely on their merits.
YOU CAN NOT SUE A COUNTY.
That the individual counties of the
State are sovereign in their respective
spheres and are not liable at common
law was decided by the supreme
court of Georgia in a decision handed
down the past week.
The case before the court was that
of T. J. Fleming, who sued the
county of Floyd on an account se
cured from (’. I. Harris, of Rome.
Harris made a trip to Fort Worth,
Texas, to bring back a Floyd county
fugitive, and had a bill against the
county for expenses incurred on the
trip. Another item in the account
was for a trip to Atlanta made by
Alexander Harris, who came to this
city to get requisition papers.
When suit was brought, the county
entered a demurrer and the case was
thrown out of court. An appeal was
brought, but the supreme court has
sustained the lower court. The de
cision was rendered by Justice Beck.
People will have to be more par
ticular than they have been in many
cases to elect upright and intelligent
county commissioners if it lies in
their power to say whether or not
just debts incurred shall be paid —not
saying that the above accounts were
or were not just, but referring simply
to the power held.
I
There is more catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro
nounced it a local disease and pre
scribed local remedies, and bv con
stantly failing to erne with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu
tional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's (a-/
tarrh Cure, manufactured bv I-’. J.
Cheney A Co., I’oledo. < is the
only constitutional cure on the mar
ket. 1 1 is taken internally in doses
from ID drops to a teasptMmful. It acts
directly on the nlood and mucous sur
faces of the system. I hey offer one
hundred dollars for ar,y ea>e it fails m
cure. Semi for circulars ami testimo
nials.
Address: | .1. <’ni x• v A Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold bv dru;: _• Sts,
Take Hal 1 '- f amily Tills for con-ti
pation.
More i>eople are taking Foley s Kid
ney Remedv every year. It is’ consid
ered to be the most effective remedv
for kidney and bladder troubles that
medical science can devise. Folev's
Kidney Remedy corrects irregularities,
builds tqi worn out tissues and restores
I lost vitality, it will make you feel'
■ well ami lock well. I’hos. J. Brooks.
HOG AND HOMINY. 1
“Southern Hog and Hominy and
Independence,” is the subject of an
editorial in the New Orleans Pica
yune a few days ago, and some facts
were presented that are wortny of con
sideration. The article was based on
the report that capitalists and planters
at and near Shreveport are combin
ing to establish a large plant for
packing pork and that the farmers
are going to give large attention to
raising hogs.
The Picayune says:
“There is no country where the rais
ing of swine can be done to greater
advantage. The forests are full of
acorns, pecans and other nuts, the soil
is filled with succulent and nourishing
roots, while corn, jieas, alfalfa and
other products for fattening can be
grown in abundance at the least pos
sible cost. There was a time when the
climate was not propitious for any ex
tensive slaughter and packing of an
imals for food purposes, but the uni
versal use of artificial refrigeration has
put it in the j>«wer of the South to do
anything where a cool temperature is
required. There is now every reason
wiiy the South should become as
famous in pork packing as are Chica
go, Omaha and Kansas City. All that
is necessary is to take up the business
and carry it on. We make our own
corn. Let us make our own bacon.
When the South shall produce her
own hog and hominy she will have
achieved real inde]»enaence of the
North.”
Conditions in Ixiuisiana for raising
and packing meat are no more favor
able than they are in Georgia, com
ments the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Every natural resource of that State
is possessed by this one, and capital
is losing golden opportunities by not
encouraging the raising of i>ork in
large quantities and packing it as
suggested by the New Orleans papers.
The people of the South are becom
ing more and more impressed as the
years go by with the possibilities
that are theirs and they aie beginning
to avail themselves of their opportu
nities. A purely agricultural section
of less than two decades ago has l>een
converted, in quite a large measure,
into a manufacturing and mining one.
ut there is yet much to be done be
fore Southern people will reap such
rewards as thrift and industry will
bring them.
The raising of meats in large quan
tities is only one of many things they
should do.
THEY CAN’T GET TOGETHER.
From the following from the Ma
con News it will lie seen that the
Atlanta paperscan not get together
even when they try :
“All of the Atlanta papers are
against Jim Woodward and for Bob
Maddox in the municipal contest that
is on up there just now. This is not a
matter of our business, and the Atlanta
papers have a right to either side of the
contention they desire to espouse, if
they don’t like Woodward that is
largely a matter of their business, and
if they do like Maddox, it is equally a
matter for them to decide.
“But the Atlanta papers should go
into executive session with themselves
and settle on some basis of reporting
the meetings that are being held in
support of the candidacy of Mr. Mad
dox.
“There was a Maddox meeting as
the Lyric theatre the other night. It
has been variously characterized at
‘monster, greatest in history of the
city, mammoth,’ and one or two
other things that jar the imagination
of the average citizen when he reads
about it in cold print.
“The Constitution tells how six
thousand people crowded into the
theatre.
“The Journal made it four thousand.
“The Georgian twenty-live hundred.
“Now could any one please inform
us as to just how many people were
present at the meeting ?
“As a matter of self justification the
Atlanta pajiers should get together on
this proposition. It does not matter to
us just how many or how few’ men
they put in the meetings, but they
should settle on approximately the
same number and not spring such
divergent numbers on the folks, who
are looking to the papers of Atlanta
for information about the Atlanta con
test.
“I*. S.—The News is informed that
the capacity of the Lyric theatre is
about 1,500.’’
Star Shaped Muffs Now.
Such liberties as the fashion makers
are taking with that staid article of
winter costume, the fur muff! The big
pillow effect of two years past was
bad enough, but this winter conies the
star shaped muff, which usually is
made of ermine or mink, says a writer
in the New York Press. The points of
the star are wired stiffly and end with
tiny mink bonds or ermine, with little
tails pruje ting in three ways. The
body of the muff is made of three lay
ers of the fur and sometimes of three t
different varieties of pelt. As for seal,
onlv tbose who cling to black silk for
their best gowns ever appear in it.
A Dangerous Operation
Is tile removal of the appendix by a
surgeon. No one who takes Dr. King's
New I.tie Pills is ever subject to this
frightful ordeai. They work so quiet
ly you don’t feel them. They cure con- I
stipation, headache, biliousness and
malaria. 2'ic. al All Druggists.
A Personal Appeal.
If we could talk to you personally I
a out the great merit oi’ Foley's Honey !
uid I'ar, for coughs, colds amt lung :
trouble, you never could be induced to J
experiment with unknown prepara- I
lions that may contain some harmful i
drugs. Foley's Honey and I’ar costs
you no more and has a record of forty
years of cures. Thus. J. Brooks. ‘ »
1 3-STORY BUILDING |
for McDonough
Masons There Will Erect a Handsone
Temple.
McDonongh, Ga., Nov. 29.—[Spe
cial.] —The members of Fraternal
Ixxlge No. 37, F. and A. M., on last
Saturday afternoon at their regular
meeting decided to sell their lodge
room on the northeast corner of the
public square and to buy the corner
lot from the heirs of the estate of the
late H. C. Turner on the southwest
corner of the public square.
The committee appointed at this
regular meeting made a report at the
“caiied-off” meeting of Fraternal
ijodge on Monday night and reported
that the old lodge room had been
sold and arrangements made to pur
chase the site mentioned above.
The local lodge of Masons propose
to erect a handsome temple of either
two or three stories high, the build
ing to be thoroughly modern and up
to-date in every way.
This will add greatly to the ap
pearance of the town and will not
only do credit to the Masonic frater
nity but it will be a credit to Me.
Donongh and Henry county to have
a magnificent building on the public
square as is proposed to be erected by
Fraternal Lodge.
The first floor will have two large
store rooms, the second floor eleven
or twelve elegant office rooms and
the top floor will be for the lodge
room.
It Was Four Millions That Time.
Augusta Chronicle.
It is easy to juggle figures, but it is
nst easy to see how the next State ad
ministration is going to pay out over
£BOO,OOO more money than it receives.
It will not do for Gov ernor Smith to
merely say that so and so is the case
with the State’s finances, unless the
figures in the comptroller’s and treas
urer's offices bear it out. And we have
yet to find a man who can figure it
just as he does. Indeed, he seems to be
almost as badly out in his calculations
as he was when he figured to save the
people of the State a million or so dol
lars annually in freight rates—witbout
bankrupting the railroads.
Philosophy vs. Gastronomy.
Augusta Herald.
In Columbus they buy turkeys when
the physiological moment arrives. The
Ledger says so. And they probably
eat them when philosophically in
clined.
HITCHCOCK NAMED
POSTMASTER GENERAL
Taft's Manager First Man Named for
Cabinet Place.
New York, Nov. 27.—The Associated
Press is authorized to announce that
Frank H. Hitchcock has been ottered
and has accepted the position of post
master general in Mr. Taft’s cabinet.
This is the first cabinet position filled.
WHAT DAVE BISHOP
SAYS GOES WITH ALL
WHO KNOW HIM, AND HE 13 WELL
KNOWN.
He Recommends Ison’s Dysentery
Remedy as Infallible Cure.
O. H. Ison, manufacturer of the cele
brated remedies bearing his name, has
adhered to the rule of publishing tes
timonials only from people residing
here, whom anybody could reach; but
he feels that it is hardly violating this
rule to print the following from D. N.
Bishop, so long a resident here, but
now located at 425 Hiawassee Avenue,
Athens, Ga., and who will be pleased
to answer all inquiries addressed to
him:
Griffin, Ga , Aug. 25, 1905.
Mr. <). H. Ison:
Dear Sir—After personally testing
your great Dysentery Remedy, 1 feel
that I could not do humanity more
good than to recommend this cure to (
all who are similarly affected. The j
work is thorough and permanent, and ;
I have no hesitancy in making a per- i
sonal appeal to the public generally to
give this great remedy a trial when in :
need of a medicine for dysentery or '
similar ailments. I have also bought !
it for a number of hands under my I
supervision at the weave department '
of the Griffin Cotton Mill. It has in :
every case given almost instant re
lief. D. N. Bishop,
Foreman of Weave Dept. Griffin Got
ten Mill.
Like all the rest of Mr. Ison’s
other remedies, this one is sold un
der guarantee that if it does not
give satisfaction in every case, he will
refund all money paid for it and live
per cent, additional on the amount
paid.
[ Also manufacturer of Dysentery and
Bloody Flux Remedies, in use here for
40years, and Dandruff, Falling Hair
or Tetter Remedv, in use for 2o years,
Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup
stops the cough drives the cold from
the system. Children like it. Sold
by Carlisle & Ward. '
i H CAN YOU AFFORD NOT TO ? |
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!i Once more we are forced to appeal to our read
' • ers to remember us in the distribution of the money £
;; they are getting in hand from their crops and ot + ,
' I er sources usual in the fall. And, as before, wi ♦
;; have to say that we need every dollar that is due
:: us. Do not think that because yours is only one J
I dollar we will not miss it if you delay paying j
;• a little longer. There is where the trouble has J
I! been all along, and we have been forced to I
” carry over two thousand dollars on subscriptions * V
;; alone. And we have suffered for the need of this |
amount while our friends could have easily sent &
• • or brought us in the small sum of one dollar ea< h. *
;; Now, that seems rather hard, doesn’t it? +
I We are in dead earnest, and will have to say
that ous subscribers simply must pay us what they *
owe, so we can pay what our creditors have kind
ly allowed us to owe them. You can do it and not X
miss it, while we would reap the harvest of a suf- I
ficient sum total that would place us easy. Let ?
each reader whose subscription is in arrears send J
1 us the amount due, let it be only 50 cents or |
♦ more, and thus return the kindness we have ex- ?
t tended in continuing his subscription. t
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