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A WRONG ror.icY.
publican aide on this question, to put
It out
The Sltff.ir SCtl refit So U ilro existing
law la a tr.nl one, because it it actiml-
B5.Uk, in favor ot <me mist iitnl ti«.iinat
aouwir.ore, 'but It Ik well ho nmuuuber
that it discriminates lost, in favor «(
tbo one and utnMnst HI hi otnt-r than the
MaKIldegr la w. '17n- la w Is open to cnt-
IciHin by Dumocrafls, iwtuo Have a rijffH
to fell itttat tho will of their party- ami
of the counltiO’ wus not obeyed vufien
till* wtlioliu' avuh formed, but Itcjtuo-
llenn* wlto ripproved the -McKinley law
cenriimy nave no cause tor coinptamt.
RUSSIA ANU KNULAAD.
The maton planner* of ff» most fer
tile disto’lrit 1n MiiwIwOppi, lit© Yahoo
Delta, nro trying to (wot the difficul
ties or the simitlon by sociirins a tten-
oral ruination «nii«- wattes of the plaut-
nf on Ira mis to */ ptr month. We nope
their «tttdillpt will flail. The wages i.f
labor In the South ore far too low n >w
for tiro good of this soot Ion. The situ
ation will not be Improved by unking
them mill lower. Tiro price of cotton
Is not rtgldly nnd Immediately
controlled by the cost or pro-
liui .ug Tiro crop; but In a general
way «nd covering long pffiods ;t is .to
controlled. If Targe profit could be se
cured one yeor by bvtmang the already
pitifully low "wages of farm labor, we
may be sure Hhnt that profit wotfd re
sult in a larger crop ttiati over tne.xroxt
year, u dLs.ip|teanince of prollt and ui&
ntvessiiy ot a further reduction ot
wages, If no oflier remedy cjuld be
fauna.
It :s just as well to sees that remedy
now. Is JiHt as cosy to mm now as
It will be itlioti. Wo do not beileve It j
will be found In concerted (lotion i,y ]
hnmn, though thnt may have some
effect, tout la Hue slow wo.-K ng of nat- |
ural O.iiws, .the pressure ot which can
not lie resisted. It la cert-ilu 75-.il men
win not go on forever pr Muctng cotton j
whlcn they rannnr soil foTwBat it cost, i
It c'.qy were willing to do so. taey |
conn not. When the avenge farm'd !
realizes mat It is nest Tor Dim to make '
hit farm ns neorly'ns poJAbie soil-sup
poring, without regard lo wnctuer ins ]
hetfODon make muon money or none I
by raising cotton, then cotton anil
again toe a pronuuho crop, wnsiever
;t* price.
Recently (hero has arisen in England
a party wlileh favors co-opcralUou with
Russia, instead of constant hostility
to .that power. U Ls euuaeiubil tHiat
there Is no natumi arihigouism of inter-
csts 111 Asia ‘WHICH compels uuwo two
groait powers to be u« enmity with
each other, dad that, tieting togetilier,
they would lie able to practically Ul-
vlibi l‘li:ii: continem ' lienwis-n tiiiem-
seives. -Now It is announced that Rus
sia will make large conewsions to
Oroa.1. until In in rhl- iprospumvo settle-
moot or one Pamir boundary question.
Posslb'y Ibis is line rivqmnse of Russia
tho future, moot of ttui country*
troubles wilt be emltd. It is true that
the primary cause ot (hem trooDVk was
nnd Is in (he faulty r^t««-e»en *-<?
statute boots; bat (be gneaHMt part of
(be harm has come from Kto fear ot
the effects of this hguikatlon mid not
from its actital operations. The enrol
cause for nppn(tension has lea n re-'
moved, It should tie rouKtunereo, ana
Chough faulty legislation rental us on
the books. It b inoo no ,«ud as to
tnroalen (too country with ovcrwnoim-
Ing disaster by nhe degradation di its
currency. Its faults 'may, ff lint cop
rooted, rettird nnd Emit the country *
prosperity, nut will apt prevent a re
vival of business if bust ness men are
not unduly tunid.
In “boom” times it Is tho common
fault to be too hopeful. It Is because
of this fault that salts at grossly exug-
gefiited prices are potw’.ble. The lien-
ally tif this fault Is always « coit.ipse—
a retiinn to mil values—that harms and
ruins men In pro|wrtlon as They have
been guilty of the fault ot being guided
liy hope Instead ot raison.
In times like these the common fault
Is to be too daspondetit. As men In
"boom” (times ore blind to all evidence
which doe* not go to show rhat die in
to 'iho movement of which we speak j turo will lie better tlkin tiro present, so
In England: but it Is likely that In re »™ 'hey are blind to all evinenco
turn for <"151 cessions In the Pamirs, whjcfflt (low not prove HAot the future
Great Britain will in tier turn have to Has nothing ot premise in W.
make oonciwhins elsnwtrore. Possibly ! Tills fault Is Just as grievous as ttie
they will be made when the Chinese- other-just ns unreasonahte-and we
Japanese,twur comes to an end and a j hoiie every reader of tbo "telegiupti
division of 'territory is taking idace. 1 will rbl himself of It. Ttie country ean-
Tlte Russia ns have always divert'd a ! not be prosperous in spite of its people,
port on The Pacllic south of Vkuhvo- » can he prosperous only wbou they
stock, which Is Closed during several to »t and help to make it so.
months or tiro year by inr. T>-r- Is , XHABLI m;N 1TO 1L yck.
■ueti a port In I'ure.i, and the tvorld ;
need not be surprised if in a few The county elections In this state.
moatsia ttusel.i is in iiiSAwfalon <>t this
port In return tor the concessions
spoken of as to (the boundary imtovcen
India and Russia’s possessions in Pen-
tral Asia. Russian Tllplamacy is the
tint results of which have been reported
in the TVItgr.tpti during the last trtvo
days, show Hunt tbo Ikuwcnlh party
is regaining tts tenner v.gor, or mat
tho Populist craze is dying out. .Many
RETURNING PRGSPKUITY.
Tithe London 'ITmots. In discussing rno
business stiuaTlon, cxpresMcH (he opin
ion am trade Id me aggregate "may
bo aild to tvauo turned tho comer In a
series of Man years. - ’ The ‘l'.incs ls
one of the most cansorv.itlve of Jour
nals and never expresses nn opinion,
especially In a inninter of Ibis kind,
wltlioiit having good ground Mr it.
The loan yieam of 'English itnide have,
been more mnnorous lihnn our own.
T'troy begun lmmeillaitely with the Rar
ing crash, iwlromas ttro effoots at that
oitustrophe were not txst in nms coun
try in (heir Mil Intensity tor some
time. A revival of trade in uroat
Britain cannot oocttr .wirhouB having
11 n ettedt In (this country. The muling
world Is one. No pant of It ran suffer
greaiily without the rtiher parts being
affected. Bo, If In the center of mule,
nisi Knglind is tbo cento*, men- is a
great, twvwnl, mere will be a twvivtu
everj-wbere e’se In time, TT not lmine-
dlately. Great BrVtnln is by long odd*
ttee best cisnamor of (he United Kates.
She buys mtirly half of all 'the good*
Wto have to well. With a revival of
trade In that country wlIT ranro an In-
e.cased demntkl for our good*, a todtter
prii»* for ittoiu, ond ttio constant dram
of m-pirnl loannl In this country, tvhlA
has been going on for two years, will
Stop.
nhrewikwt In the -world, and never Counties wore reckilmed t>y U10 IM1110-
limkescoirorasioni for wn clilt docs not emts, and they lost none iwlikti they
receive amp'c competiftaiUou. have carrbvl at cleclious during tne
last (two «r three jmirs.
THE P1U HMKj I’lll.N OF GOLD. j tyncap* nie falling off In Populist
There ls one Met In rvlaflon to the Is due to the lessons ot last
production of gold, wMth we nnd ***»>"*. «»»
stated In tho Philadelphia Uecanl, thht Rrotvrh or Populism means only the
ought to toe token into consideration by 'Humph of the Republican party. Tills
erer y who mu been impressed lK *' n Hie ««»« '" Tenm«wee aud
With 'tiro idea that the Moo coinage ot -North Ubrollna, In boih of WtBCII states
silver Is necessary iu order r.> provide «'<’ Populist party has toeeu pil^icular-
ttie world wMh a. suttleloot amotuilt of ly strong and aggressive. Fromtb..lat-
prtnxiry money. Ibis ftiot Is that in u ’ r «*'<» » Republican senator -win. in
IStlii tile world's promotion of gold was "» prolkib llt.v. tot* sent to omgrwa, to
*155522000 „„a In ISOl a larger npbotd by tils vote all 1t» setromra Ot
amount'’not yet exactly known; and '•-'saulion which hive ter melr pur-
ttxu 'the produatton of gold In the best «*">- o* <"e nwny. iaoluding
vturn following the discowwy ot the »*opuH*t f irnrom of North Caro-
precious tnutnl in 0.1:1 fort, ft unit A us- far the benefit of tho tew.
L.„„ amount nro- “ 18 1" lto nmt ’' Ior <»« «
tralla wus less ttwn 'the amount pro
duced in 1SU3. Tte discovery of new
ttelds ami ocf tietitier processc* 1* con-
srantiy 1 norms'.ng the supply of grid.
Tho productlou ls now larger than at
nny time in -the worurs history, aim
there ls eveqy praspodt tha.t It will rap
idly Increase with tho OBWOpmcui ot
tho new fields In Afttoa nud elsewhere,
'ibis doe* unti prove ifflrat the Uemon'c tl-
r.Hion of silver Is not doulmhle, put it
dots show Hurt tlie fttir felt Uy some
that there will be a oonsnunt aud rapid
npprecki '.Ion of giild ls exaggerated.
TUB RGABON W11Y.
‘Mr. Charles NordholT, who was for
years the inanugliig etlltoir of the New
York Herald untl Its Washington cor-
rispoudnnt, Iras >wrlUi>«i to that paper
a letter In which he gives hi* opinion
Of the cause* WHICH Ml to tne over
whelming defeat of 11k' silver cause In
tht last national utoctlon. Tie says:
“Some of the free silver people have
DISHOXBSrr CRITICISM.
TDe AusOrtan a* welt as tho German
government (rat formally protested
ngam*t iho discriminating duty im
pos'd by our new unit law 00 suiwr
imported from countries wtoltfi pay a
lrouuty for H* producUon. Ua**vl «>n
ttrose prousts, wo see in many of our
Republican conicmporarim more or rose
angry or contemptuous cnncism ot
DemoiTOllc folly In troedlossly exciting
the antagonism of foreign nation*
whose wtidn 1* valuable to tts. Whoa
reading the criticism*. It Is a R«le oitn-
cult to twmember ttiat they sre made
by ilu? same paper* widen were prais
ing every not «* onr government id-
tended to offend or injure foreigner* ns
rue ban possible proof fitot the Repub
lican administration guilty of them was
patriotic and ’’American.” It Is a
little difficult to remember, too, that
the discriminating tax 'f widen Uer
many and Austria complain was a lea:-
ure ot the Mohmroy uv, and wu* then
regard,d by Republic*n ranvnpapers as
a pc.Neariy prapar tieaease of Anronran
protlucnm against Hie effects ot boun
ty paying aurcid. And u is may to
forget, so apparently genuine is nu?
jarot-dt of the crtUciamt against toe
dlocnmlna-Oon, next mu leature ->t .«<-
Kluleylatn War pat In tbo law only af
ter the Democrat* In congress had
'failed, toeeu use of (he deaorUon of (wo
or tart* of ft«ir menioan to too lit
er tne
country, (bait fho t'opullst party were
disappearing. It ha* no:- ln^n :n
power, but It ha* neverthefen* done
gritut harm. It 1* mainly nwponsinic
for tiro silver craze (that ha* come mar
wricking tiro country’* tl nance* and
did precipitate a panic tho effect* of
which will not disappear for many
years. "Iin ninny part* or the country It
compelled flic politicians ot both the
other pnrtio* to adopt Ihe free allver
programme as the only means ot re-
ttilnlng their hold on the office*. As a
consequence, n congtvss wnien is nom-
liully Democratic In bdfli branches
tburs HstYf without a majority ,-a cay
currency propoHlilon and dierctorc un
able to do minytiling for the roller or me
treasury and of die pvaplo whenTioth
nro In great dlstrivs. Bo faros 111 abir
Ity to dral wlih 'this most nniiormni
question is concermfl, the country, up-
panmuy, rnignt as well ne wmiout a
oongmaL
With the tllaapiirara.nce ot l‘opm:sm
been wondoiing what .truck th«m In the a fact4>r |n ellrttoM .tiu^r >UH to
recent election.. They had made no much 1
noise that they thought that they were
the people, but the shout, of colonel, nnd
the neighing of home* did not carry the tor ,llllc " «*“ "S-"" *>“ ^*««l hy tbe.r
politicians, the possibility of tuieuigent
party acilon will rvium Candidates
day. ‘W-hyy they ore axklng, and the
plain answer Is that the great mass of
the American workingmen have, und It
aeema that they know they have, a vital
Intereat In nn honest and high priced dol
lar, and that they senalbly voted for their
plain Interest
"The several millions who carry life
Insurance, and have for yean paid their
premiums with 100-cent dollars, naturally
do not desire their widows and orphan!
paid off by and by with 60-cent dollars.
The other millions who have put their
savings In 100-cent dollars Into savings
banks do not -wish to get back their de
posits in &0-oent Bland dollars."
After reciting tbe.statistic* given by
the cominkMioDur «>r labor Id his report
upon building awl loan associations,
Mr. Nonmotl says:
"This report shows that there are 6,US
building and loan associations In the
United States, name being found In al
most every state, and that 6.796 of these
association* report a total membership of
1.716,775. all shareholders, and nil tot them
vitally Interested In the beet dollar pos
sible. for they have all put In 100-cent dol-
lore, and they would be Idiots If they
should be willing to receive back half the
money In the shape of a 60-cont Bland dol-
Ian* as the free coinage men propose. As
moat of the shareholders are working
men and women, who save with difficulty
and by self-denial, reasonably they do
not like such a prospect.
BE MOKE CHEERFUL.
Hie country Is In better condition,
fttLunckidly and couunctvkWly, tunu it
was nt the opening of tost yrar. The
volume of bus!trow to larger awl tiro
1 number of failures *null,r. More im-
i (nrtain suit, there is evtdeocn on every
hand, tout partlctgtMly in Me gnat
financial centres, of renewed eonfi-
’ donee. Men ore beginning to look for-
I ward to and plan for the future, in
stead of giving uU (heir time und at
tention to dosing up business already
done.
>VttJh tbs full return of cuoudeoco in
loyalty to party principle* and plat-
lorma.
A RDXIGHTED DEADER.
iMr. John Bum*, the greut labor
leader of Gevit Britain and member of
the llritlsli parliament, who is In this
country new on a visit. s*toui*licd an
sttdlcmv la Philadelphia a few day*
ago hy a flerco demmclatlon of labor
saving machinery. He cpdie as If he
were firmly convinced that inich’ncry
deprntsnl the condition of the laboring
jronple of die'World. ‘Mr. Rums lias the
■v|Hlt.itlon of being an exltvmely In-
teTlgi'nt man. ns iwull as a line speaker,
und. his graiulue devotion to the inter
est* of laboring people has never b en
qihwtloirod. The denunciation of labor
Hiving machinery r.Us“s a d ubt as to
Whctilior he ditswra this reputation. A
huudrivl years ago, when machinery
for r-pinutng cotiton and wool was in-
tTKlweil In Englaml, molis of working-
men mot frisn mill to mill, d n.roylng
It, and it was necessary to call upon
tiro military force* to preserve order,
but since that tin*-, the demouMratton
of the fs« that lalwr savlug machinery
Improves the ondtllon of working peo
ple has irooinwl so complete that the
outbreak of a labor leader against ma
chinery Is a surprising twdutloo of the
survival of die Ideas which might to he
oil* dote.
The min who labors must be paid
from Nro prxluoc of fils hltor. If the
produot I* Rule, bis pay must be small.
If the product I* large, It is certain
that In tbo long run bis wages will be
high. Tbo caimpotbioi; for h's service*
would Insure ttbl* result, oven If lalnr
unions did not protect turn against the
competition of other laboring men.
Mr. Burns’ proposition, therefore. Is
that K would he better for laboring men
if tho pralurt of their labor were again
email. In other wonl*, he w ould have
workingmen go baclt to the condition
which dbiauid hundred* of years ago,
when, as every reader of history
knows, the condition of working people
was wretched, compared with what It
Is new. If,) otight to know that during
Hie last fifty years, during which the
application of lalior saving madblnery
has been more rapid than during nny
other period of the world’s history, the
advance iu tlio 'Wages of worklugmeu
and lu their condition, as regards com
fort and lndufiendcnce, has ..Iso been
faster than was ever known before.
If workingmen generally wore to adopt
Mr. Burns’ Ideas, their Influence might
be groat enough to seriously retard the
Industrial advance of civilization. It
U true that the Introduction of Im
proved machinery In any establishment,
for tiro time being displaced a certain
number of worklugmeu. It Is also true
that in that particular establishment,
for tiro time being, the tolul amount
|u!<l In wage* Hies* than It was before.
It follows that suoil Introduction of ma
chinery is n Iioribhlp, for tbo lime tro-
ing, lo a contain nmnlror of working
men. But us an offset 'to uhls, there Is
always an increased rate of wuges for
iho workingmen who remain, and a rc-
duetlon in theseT.ing price of Ihelr i>ro-
dnot, the result being that after a little
time the number of workers Is as great
as before, nisi Hie rate of waps higher.
Time- Is ipractlailly tu> limit to human
wants. With stitisfli'S tneu today W.U
satisfy Grom no longer th in they have
ability to buy more. It follows that
there Is no limit which can yet be per
ceived to the uses of machinery, nnd of
tin- ciiiptoyuritilt which such uses may
create for working people.
.Mr. Burns is wrong, and fortun ttely
the intelligence of workingmen lias
been so informed la this country by the
extensive use of machinery that his
vIowh w.l! come to (ham as from one
living In the benighted ages when work-
litgmen we.tv without consideration In
government: and their lives
wrenched, nnd therefore will be with
out. influence.
AS TO AN EXTRA SESSION.
-Vs we undersund tne situation, mere
is not a majority In congress in favor
of any plan of currency reform. AY
of the imetulham «f tii.i 1 Ixsly, no doubt,
r.roognlzo the fact that ttbe government
Is lu an cxceNliurly embarrassing po-
sltlon, from which It can be relieved
only by a change in the currency laws
and by an Increase of Its revenue* ns
compared with tts expcmdUurtw. Hut
while there t* this general recognition
of tlir? noacHsIty of doing somrdiing, the
member* nre so committed to different
theories of finance that they find action
In favor of any plan of relief difficult.
Tbl* ts a, very unfortunate situation.
The treasury Is willy In desperate
strait* Its Income Is Are million dol
lars a ‘month lo*w than Its expenditure*.
At the same time It Is under oNgatlon
to maintain the pivlty or five hundred
mii'lon dollars of promissory notes and
e.in do so only by redeeming them on
demand In gold. TTie sltnrtInn. rticre-
forc. Is almut Hits: ttMt the necessity
of doing something Is atwohite, nnd tne
congress In iWlileh the power of doing
something resides Is In papa file, boeausc
of Its divisions, of doing anything.
Under IIiitm- obviimstances, tin es.*
IV ue?e*5'tr nr the case finally com-
jrols the Democratic congress to do
someUiing during the next two months,
we sec no esnape from an extra session.
It I* entirely ihosdble that, the trow Re-
publican congress, mod" tip mainly of
new (nen, differing among thotnsdvc*
as D) the •proper remedy for the troubles
from wlileh tiro treasury suffers, may
also And Itself unoMo to act, but as
wlfh !t lies the only posver of finding a
remedy, wtn-n the jiresonk congress
has fated. It is the only power to which
the president can appeal. I /
We still hope, In spite of divisions.
In spite of the animosities which have
developed among certain Democrats to-
want* the udmlnbtxution, that the ne
cessity of o(fording the treasury roller
will compel agreement upon tho Car-
lisle plan, or something nwcnihllng It.
It is upon stroll a phn that agreement
must be roaclioil, whrtUnc by this con-
grew or the ono that succeeds it
A TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE.
A summary of reports received by the
Lnlled States igoverninent concemli.g
the prevalence during the last year of
cholera In European countries shows
that iu Itusda tlien- won* H2.IM1 cases
and 28,58t> deaths; in Galicia and Bu-
kowlua, eastern provinces of Austria,
15.271 case* and 82105 de-aths; In Tur
key, to,5(15 cases and 4.1102 deaths; lu
Belgium, 2,1211 cases and 1,260 deaths;
In Germany, 088 rases and 321 deafiis;
in I Lolland, 5.32 canes and 205 deaths;
In France, 170 devriis, tho numlier of
cases not bidng stated; m England, 5
case* and 1 iteirto; In Italy, 3 casrautid
1 death; In Spain, I case and t death.
Thla record shows tlie triim»;Ji of
sanitary science. A few years ago tho
cholera, once oppvtring in eas-ern Eu
rope, would have swept uninterrupted
to the ocean. We see.by Mi’s evoord
thn. In Russia and the Austrian prov
ince* Immnllately adjoining Its ravages
wore greot. In Germany and other
countries open Do H* ravages it gslno.l
little or no foothold. TYronsand* of
person* were paiwtng every day from
the Infected territory to densely set
tled districts of Germany, Franco and
Anfirte, but It win be seen that In
these districts the disease did not be
come nn epidemic and resulted In the
death of very few person* At this
time, it is not known that the disease
exists (n Europe at all. If it does, it
1* in Russia, Where poverty and the
backward ness of education twhieea »*v»
country to about the condition, os fur
as sanitary science Is concerned, that
all the world was iu a generation or
two ago. It cannot be doubted that If
such a visitation of tills dread disease
had occurred a few yeurs ago, the
deaths In eon Inal and western European
countries would have been In about the
proportion thait they were in Russia.
GEORGIA NEWS
AND COMMENT.
Mr. Chandler Bullion of Gordon coun
ty died on Saturday last, aged 70 years.
The LuiwretvcevHle Branch railroad
has been taken In charge by focal oar-
tlos.
As a result of a business dispute. J.
B. Finch was shot t>v John Lumon at
Qultonan. HI* inluries are serious.
The nartles wtlo robbed Mr. Claude
Chandler near Jefferson about two
weeks ago will probably be caught.
A cominlttd - of five Is mv:0tirating
ell departments of the etty govern
ment of Columbus.
The orlce of the Atlanta Commercial
has been reduced to a uernry a cony. It
is Just a* newsy anil brlgllt as It was
at double the price.
Joe Plemmons captured a fine beaver
near ElU.Uv last week. He says there
nr* niU’iiy more wtroro tln.it one came
from.
Brunswick’s system of sewerage ts al
most comnlote. and tho Italian labor
ers engaged on the work are return
ing to New York.
The report of the sakiMary commis
sioners efitnwa thait the death rate of
the city of Aiihens wus 10.71 Der liiou-
J. II. Thonms has eucoeedd EMItor
Rutland In oil i"ge of the Baxley Ban
ner. His first issue of the paper I* a
very creditable one.
The cotton receipts of Columbus up
to J.lnmkry 1 were 55,688, against 56,542
in 1893. The stock on hand la 14,500
bJlea, against 11,(00 the year before.
Monroe Mitchell waa banged mt Nash
ville for the murder of Louis Clay at
Aalel last winter. The execution was
private.
A hitman ekull has been found by la
borers making sewer excavations at
Brunswick. It had an Indentation,
ihowlng that tlie person had been
struck and killed.
Most of the 2.000 acres of land orig
inally set aside by llhe state for edu
cational purposes has been settled by
squat-tors. The land lies in the wire-
grace counties.
Lawrencevllte News: One good hog
brings more money than a bale of mid
dling cotton, and Is easier and cheaper
to raise. Cut this out and stick It on
your plow-handle so you wonft forget it.
O. 3. Phillips I* ut thn helm of the
(lirn.svllle Tribune. C. C. Miller, the
former editor, has retired. The Trib
une to one of rhe best papers In nortn-
(i cast Georgia.
Henry Archer trlrd to escape from
Jail at Bylvonda Saturday HO||. nn ra
Jail ut Sylvan'ln on Thursdy night. He
dldn'-t escape.
Unole John Deal of Gilmer Is 77
years old. He has raised twelve chil
dren and had elglity-elght grandchil
dren and thirty two-great grand chil
dren when he counted them last.
Mr. Clayton Groover, president, and
Mr. E. A. Groover, alshlcr, of the Bank
of Quitman, haw resigned, and Judge
J. O. Morion urnd Mr. Jeff Davis have
been elected as their success?!*.
Quitman Free Press: The Boutb-nat-
Ing papers of til' North are still harp
ing about the Brooks county rac? was.
Go tt, you old slanderers! We don t
rare a cuss what you say. ■
Quitman Free Press: Wo are sur
prised tliat the Coiwtltullon did not
pre?vo that President Clev*riand was
realty fit rhe baok of tho Brooks coun
ty war.
The Lowrenrevllle News Is now In
oharge of J. S. Mills. It will be all
home print, and will battle for Democ
racy <rf the good, old-fashioned kind.
It will Ih- n greater success than It
hoi* ever been.
FASHION IN PACE HAIR.
T!iere Wax a ’IVne when It Took
Courage to Wear Board or Mous-
taaho.
The beard and mouffltnahe came Inb?
faoltlnn among ilngllsfimen so recently
that middle-aged fof.'k* can easily ivc-
cllect when tt reoulred sonro courage to
lay the razor aside and still more- to
face the world during rhe Initial tltages
of the result, rays the Lrzndon Stan
dard. Thwarts the close ef last cen
tury the second Lord Rokdby endoav-
ore to restore- the pointed bean), which
went out with tiro Kurorts. But his
countrymen would not bear of sudh
an InnovHition. and recalled the hero
of the Gordon riots, who, when he turn
ed Jew. allowed his heard to grow af
ter tbl- almost sirred custom of his
(»-reHgto*i4.st». Lord Rokctov. there
fore, endured to no curtKMe ttie scoff*
of his omtemriurarie* ax what one of
them described ns "the most oonspleu-
oui trait of his person.” All 'England
either shaved, or compromised toy per-
nih'jting a skamy iaint of a whisker to
{ :M». Even "mu. ton chops,” regarded
n America until hitety as the peculiar
mark of an Engdahman. were not gvn-
oiuHy adopted by the staider Britons.
An for moustache* only mlUtary men
wore? them. and. indeed, calvary of
ficers had slnttint a monopoly of this
warlike appendage. Tlie infantry sel
dom adopted It. and many officers of
high rank, like Wellington, never wore
tt at any period of their career. Even
Napokun remained throughout life
smooth-faced, anil generally plied the
razer himself. "One born to be a
king." Talleyrand explained to Rogee*.
"has some one to shave Mm. but they
aho acquire kingdoms shave thnrn-
■vlves.” Naval officers, many of whom
are. In common with <Vitek- men.
henreled like Ihe pared—though even
th»-y are subleot to certain rule* in
this respect—usd to be stIM more
strictly tied down. A moustache, far
loss a beard, was never seen afloat.
The moMShufflics of foreign sattor*
never fall--I to excite tiro amusement
and contempt of our bluejackets. lu*t
as the bearded lies of a visitor at
once stamped him a* not of She to kind
horn—he was piwbafcly a "Ftoenohy."
a German waiter, a singer, or a cir
cus rider. Dickens elves expression to
this nxsilar ipretudtce In "Marlin cfflilf-
riewit." when ne endows Montagu
Tlgg with a moustache and Ihe semi-
mfiitary frocgnl coat then to favor
with study asmUemen who Ciked to be
nddresied as "cwotmln.” ’’Htror’ wax
Mark Tartey’s cneringnious observa
tion; "I could see tilra a lUtle better
If he’d Shave himself and get his hair
out. I wouldn’t have any such Peter
the Wild Boy tr. nrr house, nog If I
was paid race week prices for U. He's
enough to turn the very beer sour."
Yet Dickens himself wore a beard In
bis Utter years.
OF GENERAL INTER!
A new novel by Professor OeortJ
er* has Just appeared In Germinv ]
scene la laid la Nuremberg. ’
Emperor William has contr(l: ,,, J
to tho Carlyle Memorial Jhind. i,T
partly In appreciation of the r„.T
Carlyle was the biographer of Kt.
the Oreat.
Three hundred thoueand francs i
been raised by the women of Fraj
a memorial to M. Carnot. Jim,
wishes the money to be used teT
the wldowe of workingmen with f.,.. J
f the
Ther« has been temporarily oml
at Princeton College the Civil 8er\i<>1
form and Anti-Spoils League. The I
Ject of It la to start a movement a -
the students for the purification of t
tics.
.Dott*
i ..t 8 -'
m*M
The Queen afGreece trod the dlstlncl
ot being the only woman admiral la l
rope. She was made admiral of the )]
elan fleet by the late esar. She wa«l
ways a lover of the era, being a daueS
of a grand admiral.
A tablet has been erected by the rJ
burgh Hume Club near the baec of
ton HUI, Edinburgh, as a memorial!
Wllaon, Templeton and David Kn
the famous Scottish atngern.
Signorina Roslna Penco, the great nj
er, for whom Verdi wrote "II Trovator
died at Poretta, a bathing place near
logna, Italy, a few days ago. 8h,-
bom In Genoa and was 71 years old.
dliv-’m"
, a tote
e wtri'.h
19-n
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Lw ° r
Lsider- 1 '
| file o' c
Ifllt'B «'
t irho u
"r^ u:
rill b
»art*
Platinum has been drawn Into
wire so fine that It could not be dlYiJ
gulshed by the naked eye, even i
stretched across a piece of white
board.
tm*
Senator Joe Drown of Oeorgla.
died a short time ago, left an estate .
tlmuted all the way from $1,500,000 to I’d
000,000, all of which, by the terms of hi
will, Is to bo divided equally between hi
widow and children.
. anv
il Isa E. V. Askew of Tampa. Pla., |
a stenographer and typewriter with r
uni to oe proud of. In’k document of 1
pages of legal cap sent up to the
preme court of tho atate there was no|
one erasure, omission or mistake W
tuatlon.
(lUr.aiii
LhiDI'.o-G
the v*
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Travelers In France must be car»fij
about their silver change; not only
the foreign coins, which were forni r^
current, no longer accepted, but
French 2 franc and 1 franc pieces l»i
I&M* 1
| I’S Ul
before 1864 have been called In, and
now worth only their weight in silver]
less than half their face value.
The colors of pure ocean water and the!
varying shade* observed where lmpurl-1
ties are met with are still further dlv«r*fl
allied by the coloring effect* of the on-.r-r
mous multitudes of various forms of or-l
gahlzed life, which sometimes mas* the!
natural color of the surface of the «**ir
and tinge extensive areas with remark.v|
ble colors.
ulc c
to a
nu«i<
A writer In “La Medicine Modern”
sorts that sedentary occupations rred!i-|
pose to tuberculosis more than any oth-r
era. Italian and English statistics show!
he says, that there a*re 459 deaths perl
1,000 from the disease among students.!
seminarians and young clergymen. whll«|
farmers, boatmen and mountaineers on
Joy almost complete Immunity from It.
Aluminum has the property, when used I
as a pencil, of leaving an lndelllble mark I
or. glass or any other aubatanca having
a siliceous baae. A deposition of the I
metal takes place, and while this may be
removed by a suitable acid wash, the
mark Itself cannot be removed by rub. |
blng or washing. This property Js
ceptlble of a- variety of practical applica
tions In decorating glass.
The poet William Morris Is about to
publish a new prose romance of hls own
called “Child Christopher.” He has also
on hla Kelmscott Press an edition of "Syr J
Perceval." nn ancient metrical romance,
reprinted from a manuscript In the libra
ry of Lincoln Cathedral, nnd the second
and third volumes of hls «#!ltlon of Shel-
ley’s poems. The Kelmscott Chaucer to
now out of print, the whole edition of
425 copies having been subscribed for.
PUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE LAND.
Oeorgla, Jones County.—Whereas, On
the first day of January. 1KH>, Joseph L.
Ethridge executed and delivered to thu
Scottish American Mortgage Company
(limited) hla deed, under sections No.
1969. 1970, 1971 of the Code of Georgia, 1M2,
to the lands hereinafter described for the
purpose of securing a debt reerred to la
said deed, which deed Is recorded In tho
cleric’s office of Jones superior court In
book W of deeds, page 257.
Now, therefore, by virtue of the power
vested In the undersigned, which Is more
accurately shown by reference to sxld
deed of Josnph L. Ethridge, the -«i#ler-
Hlgoed will sell at public outcry to the
highest bidder, for cash, on the first
Tuesday In February, 1W5, during the le
gal hours of sale, before the Jones coun
ty court house door at Clinton. Ga., the
lands described in the aforesaid deed of
Joseph I*. Ethridge, to-wit:
One farm lying In the sixth ((6th) dis
trict of Jones county. Oeorgki, consisting
of parts of lots Nos. one hundred and
twelve (112), one hundred and thirteen
(113), one hundred and fourteen (111),
nlnety-flye (X), nlnety-slx (96). said farm
containing live hundred and twenty-nine
rSM* acre* more or less, and bounded
north by lands of E. Denning, W. H. J.
Wood and I. Ethridge, east by lands of
I. Ethridge and R. T. Olbson and Reedy
branch, south by lands of J. Nixon, south
west by lands of Ethridge and Oakey
branch and west by lands of E. Eth
ridge. t
The said de*d first above mentioned w«»
executed and dell/ered to secure the pay
ment of a certain promissory note for
the sum of $1.600—four of $600 each—and
the Interest coupons attached thereto,
all of said notes dated January 1, 1K)0,
and the principal note bearing Intereat at
the rate of seven and one-half per cent,
per annum and obligating the said Eth
ridge to pay ten per cent, aa attorney
fees r,hould said note be placed In attor
ney’* hand for collection.
Raid principal note, together with the
Intereat coupons attached, are now past
due by the term* thereof. The total
amount of principal. Interest and attor
ney fees that will be due on said notes
on the first Tuesday In February, lttfi. Is
$2,115.74. Fee simple titles will be made
to the purchaser at said aale and the
proceed* of ouch aale will be applied,
first, to the payment of said del* with
Interest and attorney fee* and expenses
of this proceeding, and the remainder. If
any, will be paid over to Joseph L. Eth
ridge or his legal representative.
Dated this 5th day of January, 1806.
THE SCOTTISH AMERICAN MORT
GAGE CO., LIMITED.
ANDERSON * ANDERSON.
Attorneys.
JONES COUNTY PHERIFPS SALES.
Will be sold before the court house
door In Clinton, Jones county, Georgia,
on the first Tuesday In February next,
during the legal hours of sale, the fol
lowing described property:
All that tract of land lying In Ether
idge’s district of Jones county. Go., con
sisting of threa hundred and twenty-six
(2)6) acres, and bounded north by lands
of Joseph 8. Meeks and Mrs. Williamson,
east by lands of J. F Dumas and Home
place, south by lands of E. Dumas and
J. F. Duicu and west by lands of estate
of C. Masteraon and estate of J. Glaw-
son and J. W. Barron. Bald property Is
levied on snd will be sold as property of
Mary E. Duma* to satisfy a fl. fo. Is
sued from the city court of Mscon in
favor of Mary Louise Richards against
Mary E. Dumas.
SL N. ETHERIDGE, Sheriff.