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THE AMERICAS WEEKLY TIMES-RECOtWER: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1891.
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The Athens Banner claims to be the
only paper in the South that Is open In
its denunciation of the plan to open the
World's Fair on Sunday.
Louisville Is the only city that Is not
alarmed by a water famine. Kentuck
ians can more easily do without water
than any people in the world. t
It is not always the best educator that
stands the beet examination. Questions
whose answers depend upon memory are
no test of qualification, and too many
such questions are asked in examina
tions,
A West Point man has just reoeived
letters patent on a bottle stopper. lie
ought to do a rushing business with the
Atlanta prohlUttonlsta. — Tribunc-of-
Borne. Wouldn't a cork screw man come
r filling the bill? 1
Ip tub pnbllo schools would give In
struction in type-setting, In the use of
type-setting machine*, In short-hand and
the use of type-writing machines, they
would turn ont more young men and wo-
men capable of earning their livings
than they do now.—Tlmee-Union.
The Columbus Evening Ledger, the
bright afternoon paper of onr sister city,
celebrated 1U fifth birthday on Wednes
day, November 18. Tint Times-Rxcob-
deb extends to Mr. E. T. Bylngton and
the accomplished Mrs. Bylngton con
gratulations. Their bright paper Ig, a
living
Fbom all over the Union, from New
York city down to the village, eone
complaints of the shortness of the water
supply. There is certainly as much wa
ter In the world as ever, and the popula
tion has not so wonderfully increased all
of a sodden. Does this mean that the
people are drinking more water and
washing themselves more frequently?
Hr abandoning the neighborhood of
Park Bow, Ann street and Broadway,
the New York Herald gets out .of the
newspaper swim, bnt at tho same time
ft follows the business trend of New
York—goes up town. Mr. Bennett's new
building will be on th* comer of Broad
way and Thirty-fifth street. The old
Herald building was in Its day the finest
newspaper office In the world, being of
marble and costing a million dollars.
Tub beneficial effect of the defeat of
the Berner bill is seen in the fast that
as soon as the Legislators adjourned,
the Central railroad. In which Georgia
people bold several million dollars in
vested, at onco secured a loan to retire
Its floating debt If the Berner bill had
become a law, this loan could not have
bees made, and the Central might have
thus been forced Into a receiver’s bands;
and this Is just what the wreckers
KOBE CASE NEEDED IX PACKING
COTTON
Liverpool cotton buyers have often of
late met with serious losses In oonse
quence of the bad condition of the lint
reoeived at that port from this country.
Bales that to outward appearance were
all right, have been found to contain
large quantities of poor lint. So serious
has this become thatforelgn buyers have
sought the aid of the National Depart
ment of 8tate to remove the evil. Should
it continue U will discredit American
cotton In foreign markets to an extent
that will affect the value of every year's
crop, for neither foreign nor American
mills will pay the face value for cotton
until they are sure that It is what it Is
represented to be. Hears. Alex. Sprunt,
A Son, of Wilmington, N. C., extensive
exporters of cotton, have issued a circu
lar to cotton planters and buyers in
which grave reasons are given why
everybody in the business should com
bine to restore and maintain tho reputa
tion of American cotton. After stating
that “a large part of last season's hold
ings was rendered unmercbsotable and
worthless by previous exposure to the
weather in open fields or under tho eaves
of outhouses,” and that many exporters
were deceived and made such heavy
losses from damage and falling off in
weight that they had reached a fixed de
termination to refuse all cotton that had
not been properly houaed thia season,
the circular asya:
Our purpose Is to sbosr tbs' such careless
ness react* upon Ihs planter. Many bales
which cam# to us last spring apparently dry
and In (noil condition were found, upon ex
amination bj the testlnc rod, to be utterly
rotten and valueless, lo on* Instance a bale
of apparsn' ly dry oottoo weighing 610 pounds
was opened lot examination and found to
contain ISO pounds of rotten ootton, which
was sold for about one cent a pound. Many
other similar prices 0 mid be quoted, but this
Wilt suffice to justify the warning that
planter or merchant who risks his cotton out
or doors In bad weather 1* likely to suffer
sellout ccnrcquences—In heavy allowances
for damage* or the n.ter rejection of t 0 oot
ton as unmerchantable.
Here 1* work for the educational de
partment of the Farmers’ Alliance. The
preparation of cottoo for the market
does not end at the gin and the baling
press. Until It passes from them to the
merchant It should be sheltered; after
that tho responsibility for ita condition
rests with the buyers and the transpor
tation companies. As a rnle, If It leaves
the ballug press in prime order, It will
be found in the same condition when
the bale la opened at the mill, Messrs.
8prunt A Son have not overrated the
Importance of care-taking on the plan
tation and by Interior buyers.—Mann
facturns’ Reoord,
The governor was placed lo a rather
humiliating position the other day when
be was forced to coulees that he had no
means of aiding the sufferers at Harris’
Neek, or of doing what was necessary to
be done to check the small-pox epidemic
there. But, as a matter of fact, he was
powerless, and bad to permit the nan
tlonal government to do what the atate
ought to have been prepared to do. Tho
national government responded prompt
ly and willingly to the request for assist
ance, and Ita aotion Is appreciated, but
this continual calling on the national
government to exerclsa the funotiona.of
state government la calculated to mag
nify In the ayes of the people the Impor
tance of the national government and
lessen thalr reapeet for and dependence
upon etate governments. The time may
come when the oentral government will
be dtepoeed to encroach upon the author*
tty of tho etata governmer ta, and it may
M found then, when too late, that th*
people are Sot at jealous of the right*
of the etate* a* their beet Internets re
quire they should be.—Savannah New*.
Colonel Livingston has shown hli
self S WniiMff AllliMfiinin Md$ wbftt It
better, a sound Democrat. Ha doea not
approve the polloy whleh seeks to fore*
tho ownership of railroad* Into the bands
of the government or to make Alllanoe
demand* more vigorous and sense!eea.
He putt Alliance men on notioe that he
la a Democrat who will go into the cau
cus In Congress and will support th*
nomine* for Speaker, whether Alliance-
men Uke It or not Whatever people
may say against Colonel Livingston, he
has shown blmself a staunch Democrat
in this instaaoe, with the nerve to stand
by his party.—Savannah Proas.
Sam Jones and Yellowstone Kit will
sooa engage In a joint debate outhels-
auca of the prohibition campaign In At
lanta. It la certain that both will take
active part* on opposite sides In the
campaign. A contest of wit between
these two famous and eeeentric charac
ters would be a drawing card In the
■•show” that Atlanta will bark on the
oomlng municipal campaign. It would
teat Sandy Cohen's ballet all hollow.
The “People’* Party Paper” of At
lanta prints a war map of Senator Puf
fer's bead, which look* Ilk* the tall of a
comet; and the New York Sun's political
poet la moved by the same hirsute phe
nomenon to Indite a seven story ode that
I* worthy of production in these col
umns, and would bo 10 reproduced, If
the editor wasn’t afraid he would be
tamed out of the alliance.
Tb* maniac* of Mr. John Quitman Lov*l’
of the navy lo Min Fannie Campbell Gordon
of Balt 1 mors I* of Interest bars, as Mr. Lov-
*U has many MenOs and eoonset loos In Sa
vannah.—Savannah News.
The Times-Beoobdem extend* con
gratulations to handsome "Jaek Lov
ell,’’ an old friend—and hi* lovely bride.
Mr Lovell la the grand-eon of General
John Quitman, and la a worthy descend
ant of a grand Southern family.
A WAX-LIMB EDITOR.
Editor Gantt seem* to have been made
specially vloious by his recent Illness,
at least he is as belligerent as a hyena
with the toothache, and is not only mak
ing It exceedingly Interesting for his
political adversaries, bnt Is firing into
those clerical gentlemen whom he desig
nates “senaatlonal preachers,’’ Jones,
Small, Wadsworth and Lee, with hit
characteristic charges of grape and can
ister.
Among other things, he says of the
two latter:
There never was a more shameful outrage
perpetrated from the pulpit Ulan Mr. Wads
worth’s attacks upon the Episcopal and Bap
tist churches; and hla bluer denoundattnn
of the ettlsena of Augusta will certainly
place a stumbling block In the way of his
successor In the pulpit he now occupies.
Mr. Wadsworth Is to the church what John
Sullivan Is to the sporting fraternity. Me Is
a sortofelerleal prise dihter, and leave*
bruised hearts and bad blood behind him
wherever he goes, Boms yean ago he In.
suited from hr* puiplt in Athena, and with,
out provoeatlon, several of the noblest
Christian ladles in that city. He bad hoo.es
divided sod left a feeling ofdlscord and dtvl*
•loo in many good families. It would have
been far toiler to ha/e left the Metboulst
pulpit In A* hens unfilled fur a year than sup
pliant with so. b a illrer up of strife as Mr.
Wadsworth.
"Of toe political preachers, we have here
In AUsntaa fair sample In Kev. J. W. Lee,
better known to bleenthualaitlc admirers aa
“Doctor” Lee. This minister was born and
reared In the country, but possessing more
than ordinary eloquence, he was transferred
toclty churches. With this elevatlor, "Doc
tor” Lee at once forgot his humble friends In
the country, and gave himself np, heart and
•on', to the aristocratic and wealthy elrcli
of At.ants. He saw that no advancement
could be expected from the poor farmers—hla
former ussoclaics—while to unite against
them snd tbelr cause woul 1 be to csptnr*
the applause of the rich and powerful. He
filled the partisan papers with hla appeals
for the election of Gordon. Noteontentwilh
this, he waa one of th* most conspicuous
■peaksrs at that artesian carmagnole, and
mode a most vindictive and.unwarv* ited as
sault upon the Alliance. Of .all thaemli
rlrs of ths plntocra's that the f-rrner* have
tocooteod with lo Georgia, non- are mole
bltterand vindictive than this minister of
the gospel, who has quilted his pulpit to
fights down trodden and Impoverished peo-
people,and continue tbelr en.lavcmen* to
the itch. If this be modern Christianity.
God save tho ecu.it r.!”
OANTT'i GEORGIA GEOGRAPHY.
What la Georgia?
Georgia la the Empire State of the
South
Where Is Georgia located?
In the city of Atlanta.
Where le the city of Atlanta located?
In the Journal office.
Where Is the Journal office located?
In Mr. Hoke Smith.'
Where Is Mr. Hoke Smith located?
In the eyes of the whole people.
How do you know that Mr. Sriiltb Is
located in tho eyes of the whole people?
I read It every evening In the Atlanta
Journal, and at Hoke Smith owns the
paper, of course ho know* whereof he
Noxi of the State weeklies get in any
more opportune work on the eeonomle
questions than the Cuthbert Liberal-En
terprise, from which the following Is re
produced with the endorsement of The
Time* Becobocb: “The present money
■tringenoy In the Sontl. Is not the remit
of any action of the AUianee, nor la it
the result of any organized effort to
break down the Allisnee. It I* the re
sult of the foolish policy of the people of
the South in sending all the money they
can “rake and sorape” and then strain
ing tbelr credit to bay whet should be
prodaoed at home; the silly policy of
raising more ootton than the world want*
and raising none, or very Utile, of the
things that we want. It Is |the result of
the foolish game of “beads I win, tails
yon lo**’’ that w* have been playing.
The other fellow* win and we lose, no
matter whleh way the penny falls. No
possible governmental financial system
can give relief that will be permanent
nnless'w* change our taotics'”
Under th* new apportionment the
Southern States gained several Congress
men and her total vote In the electoral
eollege will be 159. It la not likely that
that one of thewwlU bo lost to the Dem
ocratic candidates. The votes of Con
necticut 0, of New York 86, New Jersey
10 and Indiana 13, make a total of 87.
Their votes too are reasonably certain
for th* Democracy and will makes
a grand total of 226. This would elect
the ticket and give them eight majority
over the Republicans. We have at least
6 votes from Michigan,'as the last legis
lature passed a law by wbloh the vote of
the State will not be solid for either
party. In addition there la a fighting
chance for Illinois, Wlaoonaln, lows,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New
Hampshire.
Paorxssoa Uabris Chappell, Pres
ident of the Girl's Industrial Institute,
MlUedgeville, reports It In a prosperous
and first-class condition. Said he: “There
are 172 girls in attendance, representing
seventy-two counties. There are thirty-
five young ladle* there attending the
normal school who have had some expe
rience In teaching school, and from their
earnings they are paying their board.
The Institution Is progressing far beyond
my expectations.”
The condition of Blaine’* health la
again being discussed in the public press,
and statements aro being .made to the
ellect that he will retire from tbs cabi
net and go to the West Indies early in
January. The sickness of Blaine baa
become an awful chestnut, and the news
paper correspondents at Washington
would favor the eonntry If they were to
lay It aside and take np
COUNT AT THE GIN.
Mr. W. F. Gay, a farmer of Meriweth
er county, advances aa Idea that la sim
ple and practicable, and should beat
once adopted.
It I* to ascertain tho aotnal cotton re
ceipts at the Initial point, the ginnery,
snd report from that point Instead of
the port*. This not only Insures abso
lute accuracy, a thing not now obtained
by the port system, but gives the figures
many days earlier than by the present
system.
Every ginnery In tbe South keepe a
record of tbe number of bales it tarns
out, and with very little trouble their
reports ean be consolidated day by day
and furnished tbe cotton exehanges.
Those ginneries that are away from
towns could send In by their patrons
who are hauling to market the dally
reports, and thus practically everything
would be covered.
As the farmers are interested in keep
ing np with this kind of news, they
would take pains to see that this service
waa prompt
It is certainly worth a trial. Mr. Gay's
idea la strongly endorsed by the Consti
tution, to whom hla suggestion Is made.
MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES.
Ever since Tub Timkb-Recordeb has
been in existence It has advocated, and
in no unmeasured terms, the establish
ment of more manufacturing Interests In
Amerieus, and ."or tbe present arttele
there are no apologies to be made, aa tbe
matter has become one of the utmost
Importance to the people and to the
town. An Inventory of the thriving cit
ies of tbe countryiwlll prove that, with
few exceptions, the manufacturing In
terests have proven the stepping stone
to prosperity, and, likewise, that those
towns wbloh enjoyed no such advantages
have remained at a complete standstill.
Tbe agricultural section with which
Americas Is anrrounded la one of pecu
liar excellence, and to this faot la owing
inneb of our city’s success; bnt no city
ever enjoyed permanent prosperity that
depended solely upon buying and selling
agricultural products.
In Europe three million armed men
are sullenly facing each other, waiting
only for the word to spring at each
other’s throat*. War baa long been
thought of as imminent, and this state
of things has come to be regarded as
normal. This anomalous condition,with
out a parallel iu history, I* vividly por
trayed in tbe November Forum by Wm.
R. Thayer, one {of oar most sente stu
dents of European polities. He has
striven to put before his readers a pict
ure of the status of each of the great
powers—their strength, tbelr feelings
toward one another, and tbelr probable
course In case of war. He conclude*
that Russia la to-day the center of the
warlike storm area, and that her oourse
endangers all Western Europe.
Evidently Governor Northen takes
no stock in a the talk of mismanagement
of the State Lunatic Asylum either by
the Trustees of the Superintendent and
hla corps, as he has reappointed every
member of the present board of Trustee*.
This I* a well deserved endorsement of a
very capable and efficient management.
The Governor made no mistake when he
took this action, In the opinion of Tint
Timks-Recobder.
barbarism IN THE 10TH CENTURY.
A human soul launched Into eternity!
and through the moat brutal methods I
Strangulation! tbe poor victim, dwelling
for days, perhaps weeks, open bis ltd-
pending fate, languishes In a prison oell
until hla time la called.
In this age of progression and im
provement It seems at if this relict of
barbarism might well be omitted from
onr category. However sinful may be
the vtetlm, and though the old Moiale
law of “an eye for an eye” should hold
good when a fellow man’s blood la wan
tonly abed, there should be some more
decent method of exeentlon adopted.
Even let n squad of riflemen stand before
tbe condemned, and at tbe word of com
mand empty their mnakets Into tbe vic
tim. Hla death is easy snd quick. Bnt
now all la uncertainty, the poor criminal
may struggle in mortal agony until the
rope breaks, and then be dragged back,
to undergo another death.
A negro will to-day be sent to bis
Maker at Mount Yernon. His crime de
serves death, and It should be meted out
to him; yet If we are to send a man out
of the world, at least let it all be done
with delicacy and good breeding.
President Polk of the National Far
mers’ .Alliance waa re-elected without
opposition. It la a mattor of regret that
Colonel Livingston did not get this
place, as he is a man of much more abil
ity than Polk. The trouble seems to
have been that Livingston was too much
of a Democrat to satisfy tbe third party
element that has control of the conven
tion. He protested against the resolu
tion Instructing AUianee Congressmen
to keep out of tbe caucusses of the two
parties. He advised the convention that
l.o had been elected to Congress aa a
Democrat, and that he proposed to set
with hla party regardless of any Instruc
tions given him by tbe Alliance. Colonel
Livingston, as a Democrat, nominated
and ole'eted by the Democrats of his
district, could not, consistently, take any
other position, nor ean any Democratic
Congressman reconcile a different course
with a decent sense of political honesty.
Senator Puoii of Alabama publishes
a letter in which be opposes the renomi-
nation of Cleveland In 1802 for tbe Presl ■
dcncy on the Democratic ticket. He
asserts that the single Isaac of the tariff
upon wbloh Cleveland fought his cam
paign against Harrison is no stronger
now than it waa then. The tariff, he as
serts la not paramount to all other Issues
and he declares that Campbell lost the
fight in Ohio by running away from the
silver qneatlon, Tbe free ‘silver tune,
he contends, It as Important aa the tariff
Issue, and be says that tbe new Cleveland
cry has been ratted by those who wish
to dispose of silver. Mr. Pngb asya Har
rison has been strengthened with hla
party tlnce hla election, while Cleveland
baa made no progress in that direction.
He adds that if the Democrats with to in
vite defeat they will nominate Cleve
land.
The trouble with the Brasilian Bepub-
lie It that about 75 per cent of the In
habitants don’t know the meaning of
tbe word, and the government doesn’t
j supply them with dictionaries.
iord LYTTOX dead.
Bt. Hon. Edward Robert Bulwer-Lyt-
ton, earl of Lytton, British ambassador
to France, died suddenly from heart dis
ease In Paris on Tuesday.
The death of Lord Lytton is n lost to
the dviUxation of tbe times. It Is unex
pected, and will shock and grieve the
world of scholar* and lovers of the pure
literature of the age.
It la as Owen Meredith that Lord Lyt
ton Is beat known to the world; It la as
Owen Meredith that every school girl
and boy in Anglo-Saxon lands love* him
who sleep* the last sleep In the capital
of Franoe.
To the many who believe in the purer
and more honest literature, the death of
Lord Lytton come* as a personal loss.
In the world of diplomacy It la an event
of unntnal importance. Lord Lytton
was the British ambassador to France,
moat desirable position in all the range
of diplomacy.
The South produces a great amount of
cotton annually, and the farmers are, as
aelass mortgaged beyond redemption;
but one thing ean be truly said, and that
Is that as brave and uncomplaining bear
ers of trouble and adversity the civilized
world has never seen their equal. In
debt, and with little hope of extricating
themselves, they constitute the best
strata of modern progresslveness and
morality; what eommunltlea so qnlok to
resent depravity and sinfulness as onr
ratal settlements? and although they
sometimes adopt premature methods for
Its suppression, there is, proportionate
ly, vastly leas of vice outside of the cit
ies than In'them, where tbe maohtnery
ef law and Order la carried to its high
est perfection.
When Editor Howell geta to bo gov
ernor, will not we editors have a fat
time filling all the office# at his diapcaal?
Tbe mlllenlnm will never come until a
truly good editor geta hold of the reins
of government and puts all the balance
of tbe good editors In office; and there
is no better time to start this movement
than right now, and here In Georgia.
The Times-Rxcobdeb will support Edl-
itor Howell, provided the editor of The
Tiues-Recordeb la made Chief Justice
of|the Supreme gonrt, or some other
soft snap, with big salary and no work.
Now, if Editor Howell really wants to
be governor, and Is not merely coquet
ting, let him speak out, or forever here
after hold bls.peaee.
Traveler* may learn a lesson from Mr.
C. D. Cone, n prominent attorney of
Parker, Dakota, who aays: “I never
leave home wfthant taking a hotUe ef
Chamberlain's Collo, Cholera and Diar
rhea Remedy with me, and on many oc
casions have run with It to the relief of
some sufierer and nave never known it
to fall.” For sale by W. a Russell,
Amerieus, Ga.
South Carolina will probably devote
$100,000 to an exhibit at the world’s
fair. The Governor of tbe State, It it
■aid, has expressed himself In favor of
tbe expenditure of snob a sum. Any ob
servation the Governor of North Caro
lina may now see fit to make on the sub
ject will bo listened to with respeetfnl
attention.—Chicago Tribune.
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The Official Government Reports:
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Dep.,p. 599J
The Canadian Official Tests, recently made, show
the Royal Baking Powder highest of all in leavening
strength. * (Bulletin 10, p, 16, Inland Rev, Dep.)
In practical use, therefore, the Royal Baking Powder
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any other.
Government Chemists Certify:
“The Royal Baking Powder is composed of pure and whole
some ingredients. It does not contain either alum or phosphate*, or
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reliable baking powder offered to the public.
“Hsnry A. Mott, M.D, Ph.D.”
“The* Royal Baking Powder is purest in quality and highest in
strength of any baking powder of which I have knowledge.
- - > “ Wm. McMuRTRit, Pa. D.”