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GAZETTE.
Homer, Ga., Wepnesday, Aug. 12.
Catnpi liars have made their appear
ance near Albany.
The rice crop in this state bids fair
to be the finest for many yearn.
The city fathers of Atlanta say that
the coal dealers must have their coal
weighed at public scales. The deal
ers are kicking high against the law.
Receiver Glover of the Marietta
and North Georgia is again having
trouble with the engineers of that
ro:id. These people only demand
their rights.
Major Ed Brown, of Athens, has
received an urgent invitation from
President Polk of the National Alli
ance to stump the state of Ohio this
fall. We bid him God speed.
Rev. Dr. Ebenezcr Judkins, of
Houston, Texas, who was a hrother
iu-law of Stonewall Jackson,fell dead
on an East Tennessee train near
Lexington, Va., Saturday before bust.
Would it not be far better for the
people of the country if the public
roads were worked by taxation and
convict labor? If by taxation which
is best, poll tax or advelorcm ? This
question is agitating the minds of the
people of this oouutry and we are for
taxation anti convict labor. There
are not enough convicts to work the
public highways, then let taxation
<lo* the rest. Convict labor should
with free label any more
than could bo helped, and the work
ing of the public road is a gratis job.
It seems that The Tocooa News,
assisted by Colonel Nesbitt, our com
missioner of agriculture, is determin
ed to make Georgia a tobacco grow
ing state. Why place such an awful
curse upon the unborn generations
that we might have wealth? We are
in favor of abolishing the bureau if
our commissioner can’t, do better than
advocate and introduce the cultivation
of tobacco. We’ve got enough worn
out lands in the state already, and a
great deal more affliction caused from
ill-advised indulgence than sensible
people* as we are, ought to have.
Tlie.v I’nt Out a Ticket.
A special from Cincinnati, August
(Jlli, to l'be Atlanta Constitution says
the people's party lias nominated a
full state ticket in Ohio, and adopted
a ladical platform, which includes the
two i*er cent loan scheme and woman
suffrage.
The prohibitionists were .snubbed.
Not only did the Covention ignore a
temperance plank,’but it declares for
the nationalization of the liquor traffic.
The platform says:
We hold that labor is the basis of
all wealth, and should be protected by
law,
The instability of the municipal
government of the state lias led to
the creation of enormous municipal
debts, which are burdensome to all
the people, and we therefore demand
that the constitution of the state be
so amended that it will be impossible
to change the forms of government to
meet changing fortunes of politicians,
and no change of forms of municipal
government be permitted w ithout the
consent of the people.
It demands the forfeiture of the
charter of the Standard Oil Company;
the suppression of gambling in futures
on all agricultural and mechanical
products; favors the election of
Uhited States senators by direct vote
of the people; demands a rigid en
forcement of the laws against adul
teration or counterfeiting of food; de
mands free school Itooks and compul
sory education; the prohibition of
child labor under fourteefi years; de
mands the passage of laws prohibiting
the alien ownership o( lauds; also a
graduated income tax; also govern
ment ownership of all means of
transportation or communication; also
suffrage, irrespective of sex or color.
The following extracts are literal:
The right to make and issue money
is a sovereign power, to he maintained
by the people for the common benefit.
Hence we demand the abolition of
national hanks as hanks of issue, and
as a substitute for the national bank
notes we demand that full legal ten
der treasury notes be issued in suffi
cient volume to conduct the business
of the country on a cash basis; and
we favor government loans directly to
the people on real estate or other
ample security, at the rate of interest
not exceeding two per cent.
YVe demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
YY r e believe that the solution of the
liquor problem in abolishing the ele
ment of profit, which is a source of
constant temptation and evil, and we
therefore demand that the exclusive
importation, ekportation, manufacture
and sale of spirituous liquors shall he
conducted by the government or the
state at its cost, through agencies of
salaried officials, in such towns and
cities as shall apply for such agencies.
* * * *
The resolution referring to the
liquor traffic was recommended to the
national committee for adoption. All
the resolutions, except that referring
to the liquor question, w'ere adopted
in a lump. After considerable debate
on a motion to lay the liquor plank
on the table, the committee’s recoin
mendation to refer it to the national
committee was adopted.
No Poison.
From the Atlanta Constitution of
the 7th we clip the following article
in which Dr. Bayne, our honorable
and trustworthy state chemist declares
that there is no poison in cigarettes,
save nicotine, which is poisonous
Head the article and form your own
conclusions, and may God save our
country from the awful curse:
“Yesterday the temperance com
mittee of tho legislature met in the
capitol. To this committee had been
referred Representative Sinquefield’s
bill to prohibit the sale of cigarettes
in the state. The committee request
ed the state chemist to give them in
formation as to what was in a cigar
etteo, and for several day's lie has been
hard at work analyzing cigarettes of
all brands.
Yesterday he finish, and the work,
and in the afternoon made his report
to the committee.
The report was undoubtedly a sur
prise. It has been stated so often
that arsenic, morphine and opium
were components of cigarettes that a
great many people, hearing no official
denial, lmd come to the conclusion
that it was true to some extent.
Everybody around the capitol
seemed interested in the matter, and
crowded around to hear the chemist’s
statement. The anti-cigarette men
listened eagerly as Dr. Payne began;
the cigarette men looked as if they
didn’t know what to expect, and
everybody looked interestingly on,
almost breathlessly awaiting the
chemist to enumerate the many and
deadly poisons inhabiting the little
articles.
The chemist stated that cigarettes
were composed of tobacco w rapped
in rice paper, and there xvas no poison
in them with the exception of nico
tine.
Then the gathering looked sur
prised, and membere of the committee
began "firing cross questions. They
were anxious to prove all about cigar
ettes, and l)r. Payne told them clear
ly and in a manner that plainly show
ed he had done his work well.
Briefly the doctor explained what
he had done, lie had taken cigarettes
of nearly every brand and carefully
analyzed them.
The contents, without the papers,
of eighty cigarettes were mixed. In
this mixture was not a trace of poison
not iu tobacco, such as is nsed for
chewing and in cigar. lie examined
for morhpine, but found none; for
opium, and found none; .for “hash
eesh,’’ oi Indian hemp, and found
none.
Then, as a surety, he mixed one
quarter of a grain of morphine with
the contents of eighty other cigarr
ettes. This he examined by the s:u..e
process as the other, and the poison
was clearly shown. This was only'
one three hundred-and-twentieth of a
grain to a cigarette, but the presence
of the morphine was easily found.
The papers of eighty were then
analyzed, and no arsenic or other
poison was found.
Besides the paper, there is in cigar
ettes : Nicotine, oil of tobacco, bitter
extractive, gum, chlorophyll, cellulose,
potash, chlorine, silica, water, sulphu
ric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid,
lime, iron, magnesia.
That’s a formidable looking list,
but it makes ud nothing but tobacco.
“Asa result,” concluded Dr. Payne,
“I will state there’s no more poison in
a cigarette than in a cigar. Nicotine
is in both, and is a deadly poison. If
a man swallows his quid of tobacco
it will kill him if he doesn’t vomit.
One drop of nicotine will kill a dog.”
It was an interesting meeting, and
furnished amusement and instruction
for a large crowd of legislators and
some others.
It now looks as if the bill will not
be recommended, although many are
in favor of it. Dr. Payne’s report had
effect.
Government Ownership of Rail'
roads.
In that Prohibition Part speech
government ownership of railways
was an idea Mr. Ingalls took occasion
to controvert, and in doing so lie re
ferred to the federal postoffice system
in a very critical strain. He declared
that the system never pays for itself,
but requires the appropriation of
millions from congress every year.
Are wo to infer that the ex senator
would therefore favor the taking of
the sj'stem out from under the gov
ernment’s control and relegating the
mails to private corporations? The
postoffiee system does not pay the
government, hut it certainly pays the
people. It was only a few years ago
that it became selfsustaining, and
straightway the postage on a half
ounce letter was reduced from three
to two cents. It did not pay the
government, but it did pay the people,
to have such a reduction made, and
they are not growling about the few
millions of deficit which has to he
paid by taxation as a result of the
change. If the system were in the
hands of private corporations, the
government would.it is true, be saved
a few millions of deficit each year, but
the probalities are that tho people
wouhUbe paying fifty or one hundred
times that amount, in excess of what
they new pay for postage. The ob
jection that -government ownsbip of
railroads w'ould increase by over
700,000 the number of offices to be
filled by the party in power is a grave
objection, until civil service reform is
on a more stable footing than it is on
at present. But even this objection
would not apply to the plan proposed
by Hudson in his “Railways and the
Republic” and embodied in a bill
presented at the last session of con
gress by Congressmen Anderson, from
Mr. Ingalls’ own State. If the rail
ways (road beds, tracks, switches, but
not rolling stock) were in possession
of the public, just as the Hudson
liver, the Erie canal and Broadway
are in its possession, the increase of
federal or even state patronage would
n(*ed little if any enlargement. The
Mississippi river is owned by the
government. The government issues
regulations m regard to navigation.
It licenses skilled pilots who must,
conform to those regulations. Uut
the government does not run a single
line of steamers on the river. Instead,
this great waterway is open to the
competition of all lines, and free to
all individuals that take care to con
form to the regulations. Why can
not the public, in the same way, own
the railroads, keep them in repair,
make strict regulations for the run
ning of all trains, issue licenses to
skilled engineers, charge reasonable
toll, and then throw the roads open to
the competition of all companies or
individuals that wanted to run a car
or a train on the road? If the Mis
sissippi river were awarded to some
one corporation, which had thereby
sole right to run ships of any kind on
it, and could charge whatever they
thought traffic could stand, we should
then have an analogy to our present
railroad system, and should doubtless
hear just as forcible arguiuenrs why
no change should be made And the
cost of purchase for the mere road
beds and tracks, on a fair valuation,
would be but a small part of the ten
or twelve billions which Senator Car
lisle and Mr. Ingalls have assumed the
railroads of the country to be worth.
Besides, there are two railroads, the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific,
which can be obtained in a few years
without the cost of a ccut simply by
the foreclosure of the nation’s mort
gage. It would lie a good place and
a good time to inaugurate the attempt.
—The Voice.
Baby Lula’s Mission.
She was a sweet, winsome baby,
fragile and delicate as a lilly-bud.
The k;rge blue eyes had a far-away
dreamy expression, as if some fair
pictures of the home beyond were
even then presented to her baby vis
ion.
The mother had been a gay fash
ionable society girl, whose highest
ambition had been to shine a brill
iant butterfly of the fashionable
world. The petted child of wealth,
with an independent fun-loving na
ture, she had been alike the favorite
at home and at school. Life seemed
but a sunny dream of happiness.
The young mother was so proud of
her bright-eyed curly-haired boy
The future seemed so full of hope
and promise, and already she saw the
laurel wreath of fame crown his brow,
and listening senates spellbound by
the power of his eloquence. A few
months passed and she was called to
pass through the crucible of suffer
ing—long month on a sick bed, and
there came a revelation to the young
girl wife and mother. How vain and
empty seemed that old life with its
frivolous pleasures and vanities.
Baby Lula came to gladdden the
home. She was shy and sensitive,
the broad white blue-veined forehead
expressed rare intelligence, and the
whole face expressed a winning
sweetnes that won even strangers.
Life seemed so real and earnest to
the mother now. How sac red seemed
the trust of immortal souls and the
deep responsibilities of motherhood.
She prayed so earnestly that her
baby girl might be always good and
pure. All the old ambitious dreams,
when the mother had asked every
fairy gift of wealth, beauty, and in
tellect for her children had vanished,
and her one wish and prayer now
was that they might grow up good
Christians.
When the fragile human flower
was blooming in its sweet fragrance,
suddenly the-lilly bud was plucked
and transplanted in the heavenly
garden, and the hearts that had loved
her dearly were left crushed and des
olate. But before she left she had
accomplished a sweet mission. In
the home circle was a fair young girl,
an aunt to baby Lula. Laura was
sweet gentle and lovable, the idol of
the household, from the first there
had been a strange attachment be
tween the young girl and the winsome
baby neice. Laura’s first thought on
returning from school was Lula, whom
she found with her nurse always
waiting to greet her on the threshold
with sweet smiles and loving caresses,
and when the death messenger came
for the little one Laura’s grief seemed
far greater than that of parents or
grand-parents. How could she live
without her little pet whose very ex
istence seemed so blended with her
own.
Front that day Laura seemed to
have a presentment that they would
not belong separated, and the an
guish she suffered at the thought that
she would not meet her loved one in
heaven. It seemed strange that one
so pure and gentle could have such a
deep conviction of sin as Lula’s death
had awakened. A revival of religion
and Laura found the pearl of great
price, and now her one wish seemed
to be to go to join her wee darling.
She went with a friend one day to
carry a boquet of flowers for the
little one’s grave and she told of her
longings to soon meet her sweet baby
neice in the beautiful home above.
The flowers had not withered on
Lula’s grave when with breaking
hearts and crushed hopes we laid
.Laura in her fresh blooming girlhood
beside her “Lovely and pleasant in
their lives,” death had only severed
them a few short weeks. And the
mother knew her prayers were an
swered. hi this cold world so full of
sin and sorrow Lula never could have
been as good and pure as the mother
had And the Savior took
the little lamb into the fold ere her
baby feet had trod life’s rough and
stony pathway. And yet before he
claimed her, she had accomplished
her mission. Through the death of
the little one* Laura was led to Christ.
And some time the mother hopes that
together they will greet her “at the
beautiful gate,” and on Lula’s baby
brow there wiU be a crown with on I
radiant gem—oue young soul won
How Is Your Appetite.
If it is not good
you need a tonic.
Hunger is a sauce
that gives your food
a flesh-making and
strengthening pow
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mous for its health
giving and building
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for Christ while she spent her brief
life on earth. This has been a sweet
thought to cheer the mother’s deso
late heart all th dreary years since
the sweet young sister and darling
little daughter left her. One of the
children given her by the loving
Father is at least safe forever. And
the sweet ties that here are riven will
be united there.
Mbs. Lou A. Dorough.
OUR KINO.
**Od > v on a time" there was a king,
A n<l p\ ’rj inch a king wan lie,
Wlm> Uifth* ax could boldly swing.
But loved right well gootl tumat relay.
Thin king of Hoc hearted fame
W;w brave ns ever brave could lie;
His blue c> e* sparkled with a flame
That *i*oke n lofty soul and free.
!<ong since gone by, those days of old.
But proudly still the king doth reign.
He wears, as then, a crow n of gold;
Ills rru-rrj glance doth banish pain.
lib r*>ynl eyes art* largo and blan;
111- myal bands are very small;
But vaas als fond may coax and suo.
Imperious doth his sccitcr fall.
His heart Is tender, strong and true.
Despite its moods of cloud and *:un;
With nerve to dure and will to do.
He loves; he bat*s; but li<v to iio.'my.
Mock, willing slaves his nod obey;
They smile with him, and vriih him weep.
With him they dance, they sing, they play.
And vigils hold, while be doth sleep.
Each moment, at his beck and call.
They to his feet glad homage bring;
But hv our prince, is worth it all -
(od save o ir darting boy! our king-
He bears that other monarchS name.
Who**© spirit flashes in hi.-* <•)•;
He has his soul, if not his fame—
Oh, can you now his name surmise?
-flood Housekeeping.
A Drummer** Sdionic to Cict Credit.
"I have struck a snap which 1 think
should lx* patented." said a St. Louis
drummer the other day. "For several
years 1 have lwd no end of trouble with
luy tailor and other creditors, who for
some unaccountable reason seem to
prefer cold cash to gilt edged promises.
"I wanted a couple of new suits, but
I didn't have the ready cash with which
to get them, and I know that I would
experience difficulty In buying tlicm
from my tailor and paying for them
with good intentions. Still that is ex
;u:tly what 1 did.
"1 found an old bank book that 1
had list'd years before when I had had
a small bank account, and now did a
little bogus bookkeeping on the side.
I deposited a few hundred dollars one
clay, and against placed several hun
dred chocks the next day, bringing the
account up to dute. As the result of
my handiwork the book showed a
slight balance of about $30,000 in my
favor. The book itself I placed in the
inside pocket of one of my coats which
I sent to my tailor to be repaired.
“A week later I called for the coat.
Whew, what a change was notieeabft
in my tailor! He was all smiles and
obsequious! less.
“ ‘By the way. Mr. Blank,’ he said,
don’t you want a suit or two? I have
an elegant line of goods in stock, and I
am sure I can please you.’
“ ’Oh, no; I guess not.,’ 1 replied,
with n yawn. 'l’d like the suits well
enough, but I guess I’m tot) poor to get
them just now.'
"Well, why should I waste words to
finish this story ? I got the suit eight
months ago, and the hill for them
hasn’t been presented yet."—Chicago
Mail.
A Story by Secretary Footer.
I rehiember once here in Washington
(it was during my congressional life)
having participated in a little dinner.
There were six of us. and I may men
tion General (iarfield as one of the
party After discussing the business
that brought us together, we Ix'gan to
discuss ourselves a little. 11 so happen
ed that three of us were what is known
in this country as “self made men.”
The other three were bom of rich par
ents. The self made man is always
liable to lx) egotistical. The man who
has been successful in business will per
haps bell you that he began life on a
shilling. One of the self made men
stated that he had never been to school
wore than six weeks in his life, and had
boon governor and state senator.
A gentleman wbo was quite wealthy,
and came from a rich family, inter
nip ted the self made man by saying:
“I/X)k here, I’m sick and tired of yon
self made men. You had to labor for
a living, while I was reared in elegance
and ease, my college bills paid and, a
house given me after I had married.
You, confound you, were compelled to
work to do that which makes men,
and 1 am here, your peer, not with
standing my disadvantages.” — Boston
Herald.
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The Hollingsworth
HIGH SCHOOL-
Will begin on the 13th day of Jid v,
* 1891.
W. H. SHELTON - - Principal
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TUITION:
One Dollar per month for all grades.
This school is located in one of
the best sections of the country, with
pure air and water. Board can be
had on reasonable terms.