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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
CONCLUDED.
The reclamation of the unsettled arid
public hinds presents a different prob
lem. Here it is not enough to regulate
the flow cf streams. The object cf tin'
government is to dispose, of the land
to settlers who will build homes upon
it. To accomplish this object water
must lie brought within their reach.
The pioneer settlers cn the arid pub-
l eps thau three hundred dollars ; lie domain chose their homes along
; streams from which they could them-
| selves divert the water to reclaim their
holdings. Such opportunities are prac
tically gone. There remain, however,
vast areas of public land which can be
made available for homestead Settle-
, meat, but only by reservoirs and main
line canals impracticable for private
; enterprise. These irrigation works
: should be built by the national govern
ment. The lands reclaimed by them
| should be reserved by the government 1
; for actual settlers, and the cost of con-
I struction should, so far as possible, be 1
; repaid by the land reclaimed. The dis-1
j tribution of the water, the division of j
tbe streams among irrigators, should i
be left to the settlers themselves in
conformity with state laws and with-1
cut interference with those laws or I
with vested rights.
The declaration is made that in the
arid states the only right to water
which should be recognized is that of
use. The president says that the doc
trine of private ownership of water
apart from land cannot prevail without
causing wrong.
Insnlar Problems.
Insular questions are next treated.
In Hawaii our aim must be to develop
the territory on tbe traditional Amer
ican lines. Porto Rico is declared to be
thriving as never before. Tbe atten
tion of congress is called to the need of
legislation concerning tbe island's pub
lic lands. In Cuba it is stated that
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We are prepared to negotiate
loans on improved c ; ty unc
Farm property in sums of uoi
at G per cent, interest, tor ten
years it desired.
Can secure an advance of 50
per cent on the value of the
property offered as securitv
Call and see us.
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Waynesboro, Ga.
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isthmian canal at any time ana wmeu
guarantees to this nation every right
that it has ever asked in connection
with the canal. It specifically pro
vides that the United States alone shall
do the work of building and assume
the responsibility of safeguarding the
canal and shall regulate its neutral use
by all nations on terms of equality
without the guarantee or interference
of any outside nation from any quarter.
The Monroe Doctrine.
The Monroe doctrine should be the
cardinal feature of the foreign policy
of all the nations of the two Americas,
as it is of the United States. The Mon
roe doctrine is a declaration that there
must bo no territorial aggrandizement
by any non-American power at tbe ex
pense cf any American power on Amer
ican soil. It is in nowise intended as
hostile to any nation in the old world.
Still less is it intended to give cover to
any aggression by one new world power
at the expense of any other. It is sim
ply a step, and a long step, toward as
suring tbe universal peace of the world
by securing the possibility of perma
nent peace on this hemisphere.
During the past century other influ
ences have established the permanence
and independence of the smaller states
of Europe. Through the Monroe doc
trine we hope to he able to safeguard
like independence and secure like per
manence for the lesser among the new
world nations.
This doctrine has nothing to do with
the commercial relations of any Amer
ican power save that it in truth allows
each of them to form such as it desires.
In other words, it is really a guarantee
of the commercial independence of the
Americas. We do not ask under this
doctrine for any exclusive commercial
dealings with any other American
state. We do not guarantee any state
against punishment if it misconducts
itself, provided that punishment does
not take the form of the acquisition of
territory by any non-American power.
Our attitude in Cuba is a sufficient
pomroce of our continuing to advocate ! the pills,working through the b’ood,
moderation in the dealings with China., soon render the system proof
The president concludes his message as j against the grip and many other
follows: diseases which,t>y inelemeutlweaih-
The death of Queen \ ictoria caused er fasten upon ’hose who are not
the people of the United States: deep , f , fiwJ in , t thpnj . If vou have
and heartfelt sorrow, to which the gov -. *
eminent gave full expression. When already suffered the ravages of the
President McKinley dic-d. our nation in grip you should ha-ten to expel the
turn received from every quarter of the lingering germs from your sys na
British empire expressions of grief and Until you do you ; i never know
sympathy no less sincere The death ! f0|Jl heH , !h Dr Pi;.k
of the Empress Dowager Frederick of:’
Germany also aroused the genuine sym-! Pllla fns f - ,e Poopio Wi.t not on.y
pa thy of the American people, and this. effect a euro in cases similar to the
sympathy was cordially reciprocated one above but, acting directly upoD
by Germany when the president was I,he blood and nerves, are an tin-
assassinated. Indeed, from every quar- filing specific for such
ter of the civilized world we received diseases a , p ar tjai paralysis, S». Vi?-
at the time of the presidents death as-1 .
. ‘ , t u-’dance, set dura, neuralgia, ner-
surauces of such grief anu tegaia as ro ® *
touch the hearts of our pecvD. In the j headache, palpitation of the
midst cf our affliction we reverently heirt, pale and sallow complexions
thank the Almighty that we arc at; an I ail forms of weako -«s eiiherin
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much progress lias been made toward
Putting tlie independent government of j our own good“faithT“ We
tbe island upon a firm footing, and it is
declared that independence will be an
accomplished fact. The president
adds:
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pound of cure combined. Ask for it—
take no substitute, if your merchant
does not sell it write to us we will send
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For sale in Burke county bv all fiist-elass
Druggists, and at! leading merchants.
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Watchmaker and
Jeweler.
Waynesboro, Georgia.
High-Class work a specialty
Elsewhere I have discussed the ques
tion of reciprocity. In the case of Cu
ba, however, there are weighty reasons
of morality and of national interest
why the policy should be held to have
a peculiar application, and I most ear
nestly ask your attention to the wis
dom, indeed to the vital need, of pro
viding for a substantial reduction in
the tariff duties on Cuban imports into
the United States.
In dealing with the Philippine peo
ple we must show both patience and
strength, forbearance and steadfast res
olution. Our aim is high. We do not
desire to do for the islanders merely
what lias elsewhere been done for trop
ic peoples by .even the best foreign
governments. We hope to do for them
what lias never before been done for
any people of tbe tropics—to make
them fit for self government after tlie
fashion of the really free nations.
The only fear is lest in our overanx
iety we give them a degree of inde
pendence for which they are unfit,
thereby inviting reaction and disaster.
As fast as there is any reasonable hope
that in a given district the people can
govern themselves self government
has been given in that district. There
is not a locality fitted for self govern
ment which has not received it. But it
may well be that in certain cases it
will have to be withdrawn because the
inhabitants show themselves unfit to
exercise it; such instances have already
occurred. In other words, there is not
the slightest chance of our failing to
show a sufficiently humanitarian spirit.
The danger comes in the opposite direc
tion.
Troubles Abend Yet.
There are still troubles ahead in the
islands. The insurrection has become
an affair of local banditti aud maraud
ers, who deserve no higher regard
than the brigands of portions of the
old world. Encouragement, direct or
indirect, to these insurrectos stands on
the same footing as encouragement to
hostile Indians in the days when we
still had Indian wars.
The president declares that the time
Las come for additional legislation for
the Philippines. He says:
It is necessary that the congress
should pass laws by which the re
sources of the islands can be developed,
so that franchises (for limited terms of
years) can he granted to companies do
ing business in them and every encour
agement he given to the incoming of
business men of every kind. It is ur
gently necessary to enact suitable laws
dealing with general transportation,
mining, banking, currency, homesteads
and the use and ownership of the lands
aud timber. These laws will give free
play to industrial enterprise, aud the
commercial development which will
surely follow will afford to the people
of the islands the best proofs of the
sincerity of our desire to aid them.
Tbe Cable and the Canal.
I call your attention most earnestly
to the crying need of a cable to Hawaii
and tbe Philippines, to be continued
from the Philippines to points in Asia,
We should not defer a day longer than
necessary the construction of such a
cable. It is demanded uot merely for
commercial’but for political and mili
tary considerations. Either the con
gress should immediately provide for
the construction of a government ca
ble or else an arrangement should be
made by which like advantages to
those accruing from a government ca
ble may be secured to the government
by contract with a private cable com
pany.
No single great material work which
remaius to be undertaken on this con
tinent is of such consequence to the
American people as the building of a
canal across the isthmus connecting
North aud South America. Its impor
tance to the nation is by no means lim
ited merely to its material effects upon
our business prosperity, and yet with a
view to these effects alone it would be
to the last degree important for us im
mediately to begin it. While its bene
ficial effects would perhaps be most
marked upon tbe Pacific coast and the
gulf aud South Atlantic states, it would
also greatly benefit other sections. It
is emphatically a work which it is for
the interest of the entire country to be
gin and complete as soon as possible.
I am glad to be able to announce to
you that our negotiations on this sub
ject with Great Britain, conducted on
both sides in a spirit of friendliness and
mutual good will, have resulted in
my being able to lay before the sen
ate a treaty which, if ratified, will en
able ua to begin Drenaratioa* for an
have not the slightest desire to secure
any territory at the expense of any of
our neighbors.
The Navy.
The president devotes considerable
space to the navy, the upbuilding of
which, he- says, should be steadily con
tinued. Tbe navy offers us, it is declar
ed, tlie only means of insisting on thc-
Monroe doc-trine, and a strong navy is
tbe best guarantee against war. He
recommends that provision be made
not only for more ships, but for more
men. Four thousand additional sea
men and 1,000 additional marines
should be provided, as well as an in
crease in officers. After indorsing the
naval militia forces the president says:
But in addition we should at once
provide for a national naval reserve,
organized and trained under the direc
tion of the navy department and sub
ject to the call of the chief executive
whenever war becomes imminent. It
should be a real auxiliary to the naval
seagoing peace establishment and offer
material to be drawn on at once for
manning our ships in time of war.
The Army.
It is not necessary to increase our
army beyond its present size at this
time, but it is necessary to keep it at
the highest point of efficiency. The in
dividual units who as officers and en
listed men compose this army are, we
have good reason to believe, at least as
efficient as those of any other army in
tbe entire world. It is our duty to see
that their trainiug is of a kind to in
sure the highest possible expression of
power to these units when acting in
combination.
A general staff should be created.
Promotions should be made solely
with regard to the good of the service.
Congress ought to provide, the presi
dent adds, for field exercises. He con
tinues:
Action should be taken In reference
to the militia and to the raising of vol
unteer forces. Our militia law is ob
solete and worthless. The organization
and armament of the national guard of
the several states, which are treated
as militia in the appropriations by the
congress, should be made identical with
those provided for the regular forces.
The obligations and duties of the guard
in time of war should be carefully de
fined and a system established by law
under which the method of procedure
of raising volunteer forces should be
prescribed in advance.
The Merit System.
The president indorses the merit sys
tem of making appointments and says:
I recommend the passage of a law
which will extend the classified serv
ice to the District of Columbia or will
peace with the nations of mankind,
and we (irmly intend that our policy
shall be such as to continue unbroken
these international relations of mutim!
respect and good will.
A SAD CHEISTMAS.
HOW GLOOM. DROVE PEACE OUT OF
A HOUSEHOLD.
at least enable the president thus to ex
tend it. In my judgment all laws pro-] ^ a< ^ none , * ie t>ad after-effects
viding for the temporary employment might also add that before I bpgan
A Misfortune Which Destroyed the Hap
piness of One Family in a Time When
All Should Haye Been Cheerful.
Christmas d-»es not bring happi
ness to everybody, Peace does not
always come and even good will is
sometimes diffi cult to entertain.
Robert Yates did not have a mer
ry Christmas, nor did his family
Prospects had been bright enough
the day before, i-nd he had left
home for the day’s work with a feel
ing of content, looking forward in
pleasure lo the gift-giving of the
morrow. But as he was on his way
back In the evening, laden vvilh his
share of the mysterious bundles
that are al ways seen on Christmas
Eve, he became suddenly weak
Fierce pains shot through his head
and body and he became so dizzy
that he was ha’dly able to make
his way home. He was con-
Sned to the bed and the happiness
of that Christmas was destroyed for
him and for bis family.
He continues the story a? follows:
‘I was sick for three months from
'hat awful Christmas Eve of 1890 I;
was an attack of the grip and abou;
as severe a one ai anybody ever
had,
“Did you ever have the grip?
Wei!, you don’t know what it i-,
then, it racks your mind and body.
It’s a combination of all the aches
and pains known to medical science
And that isn’t the worst of it—when
you are over the grip you have it-
after effects. I was restless and
sleepless, with constant pains In my
limbs. I foil away in fldsh, lost my
appetite, was tired out lor no reas
on, and became generally misera
b!e.
“Finally, when things were look
ing pretty blue for me, one day J
noticed a piece iu the paper about a
man living in Kansas who had been
cured of a somewhat similar com
plaint of twelve years’ standing, by
he use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Puls
for Pale People. So I decided to try
them I f-.lt better before I had fin
ished one box. I kept on taking
them and they cured me. Now I
am past sixty-throe years of age, I
enjoy perfect heni111 and, thanks to
Dr. William’s Pink Pdls, I can do a
good days work again. I am as hale
and hearty as many men much
younger than I, h ive splendid ap
petite and can go to sleep a few
minutes after retiring.
“A couple years after the illness I
referred to 1 felt the symptoms
again. I immediately began
takiDg the pills and not
only was the attack not nearly so
severe but I quickly recovered and
I
m !e or female Dr. Williams’ Pink
P-lis for P if« Penpie are sold by all
dealers, nr will b> sent pt-dpaid on
receipt of price, fifty renti a box < r
six boxes for two dollars am J fifty
cents, by ad lres-iog Dr. Williams
Medicine Company. Schenectady,
N. Y. 1 hey are never sold in btPk
o by the hundred.
Dirt In Dainty Carpets.
For housewives who pride them
selves upoD the spotless floor coverings
The Druggists’ Circular gives the fol
lowing recipe for removing spots of
dirt from carpets:
Make a suds with a good white soap
and hot water and add fuller’s earth
to this until the consistency of thin
cream. Have plenty of clean drying
cloths, a small scrubbing brush, a large
sponge and a pail of fresh water. Put
some of the cleaning mixture in a bowl
and dip the brush in it. Brush a small
piece of the carpet with this; then
wash with the sponge and cold water.
Dry as much as possible with the
sponge and finally rub with dry cloths.
Continue this till you are sure that all
the carpet is elean; then let it dry.
Joseph Jekyll’s Repartee.
An attorney named Else, rather di
minutive in his stature and not particu
larly respectable in his character, once
met Jekyll. “Sir,” said he, “I hear you
have called me a pettifogging scoun
drel. Have you done so. sir?”
“Sir,” said Jekyll, with a look of con
tempt, “I never said you were a pet
tifogger or a scoundrel, but I said you
were ‘little Else.’ ”
The following epigram was written
on Dr. Letsom, then a well known doc
tor:
When folks arc sick and send for me,
I purges, bleeds and sweats ’em;
If after that they choose to die.
What’s that to me? 1 Letsom.
—Gentleman’s Magazine.
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ratlLr.
WAYNESEOHO GEO
rner
I have opened ? Livery. Sale aud Feed Stables,
My rick and Barron streets, and solicit the patronage of
tbe public. Well equipped turnouts, and good, stylish
horses for hire at reasonable rates. Shall keep first-u.i SS
stock for sale. Those in need of Horses and Mules snould
see me before buying.
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<§• or net
X-.. EXSI3STS02ST,
If ynck and Barron Sts., Waynesboro Georr:a.
y j - As :t is too late in life for me to learn to keep books nov . noth-
1 ’ - ■ . irg charged nor tickets made. All is cash Don't ask .vedit.
Machinery of all Kinds.
Sandersvilie, Ga.
Siartled the Natives.
Herrara, the Spanish historian, says
that Pizarro, when he landed in South
America, owed his life and those of his
companions to the fact that one of the
party fell off his horse by accident..'
The natives had succeeded in cutting
off the retreat of the Spaniards to their
ships, when one of the riders was
thrown. The Indians were so aston
ished at the dissolution of partnership
that they took (light at once. They
had supposed horse and man to be one
animal.
THRESHING
MACHINES, &e
Gin Repairing, a Specialty,
Orders from Burke county given special attention.
On all work sent in bv 1st of June next, I v.iR pav
FREIGHT ONE WAY!
All work Guaranteed.
Work.
Work in every hour, paid or unpaid.
See only that thou workest, and thou
caust uot escape the reward. Whether
thy work be flue or coarse, planting
corn or writing epics, so only it be lion
est work, done in thine own approba
tion, it shall earn a reward to thy
senses as well as to the thought. No
matter how often defeated, you are
born to victory. The reward of a thing
well done is to have done it.—Emer
son.
of clerks should hereafter contain
provision that they be selected under
the civil service law.
It is important to have this system
obtain at Lome, but it is even more im
portant to have it applied rigidly in our
insular possessions. The importance
of improving the consular service by
the passage of new laws is emphasized.
The president then turns to the In
dian question, ne says:
We should now break up the tribal
funds, doing for them what allot
ment does for the tribal .lands — that
is, they should be divided into individ
ual holdings. There will be a transi
tion period during which the funds
will in many eases have to be held in
trust. This is the ease also with the
lands. A stop should be put upon the
indiscriminate permission to Indians to
lease their allotments. The effort
should be steadily to make the Indian
work like any other man on his own
ground. The marriage laws of the In
dians should be made the same as those
of the whites. In the schools the edu
cation should be elementary and large
ly industrial.
Cordial support from congress and
people is asked for the St. Louis expo
sition. The Charleston exposition is
commended to the good will of the
people. The work of the Pan-American
exposition is praised.
It is recommended that the census
office as now constituted should be
made a permanent government bureau.
The Postal Service.
A tribute is paid to the postaAerviee,
and the extension of free rural delivery
is commended. The postoffiee depart
ment should he sustained, the president
says, in its efforts to remove the abuses
in connection with second class mail
matter.
Much attention is paid to the situa
tion in China, and the progress toward
the establishment of peace there is re
capitulated. Stress is laid on the im-
taking Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills I
had suffered for about seventeen
years with rheumatism but I have
not felt any of it since. They are a
wonderful medicine and I have no
doubt but what they saved my life.”
Mr. Robert G. Yates lives at No.
55 Clark street, Dubuque, Iowa, and
for the past fifteen years has been
in the employ of the Klauer Manu
facturing Co., in the capacity of a
tinner. He has worked on almost
every buiidtng of consequence in
that city ana is very well known as
a thoroughly honest and reliable
aiau. In order to leave no room
for doubt he swore to his above
statement before H. M. Ham, a no
tary public, on Sept 24, 1901.
M^-.ny people softer as Mr. Yates
did aud thousands have taken the
same remedy with as good results.
With each recurring epidemic of
the grip it is more evident that the
disease leaves in its wake a train of
stubborn ailments thatotfen baffle
the skill of physicians. Loss of flesh
thin blood, nervousness, shortness
of breath, exhaustion after slight
exertion—so that it is often difficult
to walk up stairs—these are a few
of the symptoms of aftereffects of
the grip. More serious results often
follow the grip has come to be re
garded as the highroad to pneumo
nia, bronchitis and eveD consump
tion.
Dr. William-)’ Pink Pills for Pale
People are recognized everywhere
as the great specibc for the grip
and its after effects. Taken in tbe | eor ° a
tonic dose (one pill after each meal)
That Fit eight, ^
That WearKight.
^ That Are RIGHT.
I can make
a coat that don’t
bunch up and
baug like a rag
in front; a coat
that fits to the
back ofthe neck;
a coat that fits
under the shoul
ders ; the sleeve
seams are direct
ly under the
arm—not twist
ed half to the
front.
And as to the
pants—cut s o
they don’t sag;
fit under tbe
hips; don’t draw 7
bacK oi the knee,
and fit smooth
over the instep.
f yon care to look:
THE TAILOR.
W ay n esboro, G a.
Just received a very large shipment of ||
Beaver, Plush and Mohair
u
Carriage and Buggy Robes, a vory U
: Beautiful Line, :
Also a full line of Horse Blankets.
Sole Agents for the famous
Babcock Carriages and Buggies, jjj
and Jno. W. Masurv & Son’s House
Paints, which are unexcelled.
733 and 735 Broad St., Augusta, Gra. i!
HEEDSS
Just arrived this week—
mp. Ruta Baga Turnip,
bite Flat Dutch Turnip.
Red or Purple Top Turnip.
Southern 7 Top Turnip.
Yellow Aberdeen Turnip.
Golden Ball Turnip. Long Cow Horn Turnip
trapped Leaf Flat Dutch Turnip,
and other varieties.
Also—A Fresh Line of PURE DRUG, for sale by
H. B. McMASTER, Druggist and Seedist,
WAYNESBORO, GEORGIA.
NOTICE.
"Vi'OTlCE is hereby given
_lN apply to tlie Honorable
that I will
N. L Brin
son. Jndee <>f the Augusta Circuit,
on the 16th'day of December, IHOt, it Waynes
boro Ha., for .eave to sell at private sale the
following described property, !>e!onging to
Catherine D Sanders, (minor,; viz: All that
lot and tract of land, situate, lying and bring
in the county of Burke, stateof Georgia, con
taining two hundred and eighty-seven acres,
ji ore or less, bounded on the North by lands
of M.. Brown and P U i orker, East by lands
of P. I. Corker, Ctesur Williams and others.
South by lands of Dozier Hill and James
Whitehead and thickhead creek, and ou the
West by lands of M. Brown, for Ihe purpose
of reinvesting in lauds in Screven c,.unty.
It gives us pleasure to extend to onr pat
rons and friends our thanks and appreciation
for our patronage during the year.
Qur stock of Clothing, this*’" "'*1
season is up to the high standard i Stouts, Slims, S
and
Extra Sizes
at
I. C. Levy’s,
Augusta.
WILLIAM P. SANDERS.
Guardian Catherine D Banders.
Nov. 23d, ISM.
which it has long ago attained.
Our assortment of business and
Dress suits, extra Trousers are
the latest that Fashion has cre
ated.
Our prices are always the
lowest for the value of goods we offer you.
I. C. LEVY’S SON & CO.. Tailor-Fit Clothiers,
838 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA.