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Local Option in Georgia
. Savannah Nows.
The New York Press thinks local
option in Georgia a failure, and says
that the people of this State are be
coming convinced that what they
want is high license, if, indeed they
want to place any restraint upon the
sale of intoxicants.
The Press bases its opinion on two
things, viz., that local option in this
State docs not decrease the amount
of intoxicants consumed, and that it
injures trade whererer it is in opera
tion.
The Press fails to state that other
argument, if it may lie called such,
against prohibition, viz: that it in
terferes with a man’s right to drink-
Pcrhaps the Press 'appreciates the
fact that this so-called argument
•does not amount to anything. Pro
hibition docs not and cannot take
awny the right of any one to drink.
What it does is prohibit the sale of
intoxicunts within a prescribed area.
There arc several reasons why lo
cal option in Georgia is not a failure.
Under the law the prohibition for
themselves, and after it has been de
cided fairly those who voted with
the minority are very likely to ac
cept the result as gracefully as pos
sible. It does not prevent the use
of intoxicants. What is known
the jug business is carried on some
what extensively, but the amount of
intoxicants consumed after the adop
tion of prohibition is not nearly so
great as before. It reduces taxation
by reducing court expenses, and it
diminishes crime. If it docs not help
trade, certainly it does not injure il.
There are people in prohibition coun
ties who go to towns where whiskey
is sold, and who do a good dual of
their trading there, but there are
many more who, having spent, for
merly, a considerable amount on
whiskey, under prohibition spend
more for tlio necessaries of life, and
are much better paying customers
than they 1 . Prohibition benefits the'
colored people, making them better
laborers and providers. Hut one of
the strongest arguments in its favor
is that it removes temptation, in a
largo measure, from people who have
not formed drinking habits.
The longer prohibition remains in
force, the more apparent will become
its beneilts.
If the Press will send an unpreju
diced man on a tour of inspection in
every county in Georgia, it will soon
change its opinion with regard to
this matter. Local option in Geor
gia is a success.
Atlanta Constitution: We have
about sixty churches in Atlanta and
each one of these organizations aver
age from one to two, and sometimes
six entertainments or gatherings
for the benefit of these churches
each week. Wo are 'perfectly will
ing to be as liberal as our space will
permit in printing these notices—
but it is not exactly fair for church
people to ride a free horse too much.
All we ask is that these meeting
notices bo made as short as possible,
and if there is to be any elaboration
let it he paid for. Not one line goes
in the paper without costing the pro
prietors something. It is growing
and getting very heavy.
Last Friday was Arbor day in
Pennsylvania. It was very gener
ally observed. The public school
children have been taught to look
forward to this anniversary and they
plant thousands of trees every year.
The importance of Arbor day has
never been fully appreciated in Geor
gia. We are doing almost nothing
to repair the constant waste of our
forests. With very little expense
Don’t Use One Cent Stamps.
The one cent stamp is a delusion
and a snare.
A 'delusion inasmuch as persona
sending out circulars pin their faith
to it, and a snare because the receiv
ers of the same ‘ unmercifully throw
them In the waste basket untouch
ed.
This is a fact that the public does
not appreciate to the extent it Bhould.
Cheapness in this instance proves in
the long run the most expensivemeth-
od that can be pursued. The one
cent stamp repels. It presence on an
envelope is suggestive of a liver reg
ulator aud corset advertisement. Bus
iness men don’t wear the latter and
haven’t time to think whether their
organs arc in working or not. A
mass of mail matter awaits them in
the morning. A glance is suflieient.
Two cent letters are looked into; one
cent ones are swept aside. They may
contain important information, list
if the party desiring to convey it
doesn’t value it at two cents the mer
chant assuredly cannot afford to
waste his time picking it out from
the pile of chalf that comes in this
form.
The vendors of patent nostrums,
etc., are catching <m to this fact and
quite a number deem' the extra ex
penditure necessitated by the use of
2c. stamps a wise measure. They are
beginning too, to use plain envelopes.
Hitherto a glance at the corner was
almost sufUcient to denote the con
tents. Now it is necessary to rip the
envelope open, and, having gone that
far, the senders depend upon fortune
ami the gullibility of maukind for
the rest.—Ex.
Hot, !Y;Il if Work?
The C’liicargo Mail gives etirren
cy to a rumor that the New York
Herald proposes to adopt the French
stylo of journalism, allowing all its
writers to sign their articles.
Our contemporary thinks that ar
ticles Imvea more directtoiieoftruth
when signed, but they lack the dig
nity which attaches to the imperson
al. They will put writers upon their
mettle, for no man will care to sign a
bad production. The custom will
make a small group of writers a great
er power in the community.
The practice of signing articles
Was introduced in Franco at a time
when the press was not free
aud it was necessary that the author
ship of an objections! article should
be made easily ascertainable so ns to
give the government, as little troub
le as possible. No such conditions
prevail here, and there'is no reason
why the writer should sign his name
or keep it to himself.
The arguments for ami against
the proposed innovation are about
evenly balanced. The readers of
newspapers demand good work, and
they care very little about the work
men. This is about the size of it.
IVIl#t Some Writers Forget.
• -Tllfmlu Cun.: Ration.
Two recent magazine articles are
unusually significant from a literary
point of view. One is entitled “IIow
to Write a Story,” and the other is
headed “Novel Writing a Lost Art."
It is perhaps unnecessary to say
that the writer who attempt? to teach
the art of story telling makes a mis
erable failure, and the other mnga-
zinist who tries to prove that novel-
writing is a lost art does not go be
yond a few feeble assertions.
The main point seems to be lost
sight of—it is the fact that a man
must first have a story to tell before
he can write a novel. If he has no
message to deliver—nothing worth
telling, he will produce nothing but
trash.
The trouble is that our amateur
writers get a thousand views of life
from books where they get one glimpse
of it from nature. The result is a
weak imitation, a rehash of old plots
and ideas. It.was not so with Field
ing, Smollett, Scott, Dickens and Du
mas. They read lew novels besides
their own. They were men whose
animal spirits and thorough enjoy
ment of life kept them m'oving about
in the outside world, in the s.reels,
in the forests, among people. When
they described life it was a reproduc-
Tlio Prospect in New York.
Savannah Xevre.
i Interest in the political situation
in New York is growing more intense
every day. A careful review of the
political situation in other states
justifies the conclusion that the par
ty that wins the election must car
ry that state. Both the democrats
and the republicans are making ex
traordinary efforts to carry it. The
democrats are mnch more confidant
of success than the republicans.
They say emphatically that there is
no doubt that they will carry it.
Mr. Itanium, chairman of the na
tional democratic committee in an
interview in Boston a day or two
ago. said: “I have not the slightest
doubt that New York will remain in
the democratic column.”
The republicans are not so confi
dant. They content themselves with
saying that New York is a doubt
ful state, an 1 that the party wnich
shows the greatest skill in con
ducting the remainder of the cam
paign will carry it. It is certain
they arc leaving no incans untried to
achieve success. It is reported, on
what seems good authority, that they
have a large amount of money with
which to corrupt voters.
Whether this report is correct or
not, it is of course, impossible to say,
The habit of chewing tobacco is
said to lie decreasing. A Boston pa
per says: "It is a vice which lias few
redeeming features, and its decadence
is a matter for congratulation." Com
pared with cigarette smoking, which
is growing in popularity, tobacco
chewing is u manly and meritorious - j,.
accomplishment. There is more grit
and virility in the man who can hit
the center of a sawdust spittoon than
a hundred cigarette smoking dudes.
Our race is on the road to decay
when weak and debilitated cigarette
smokers begin to increase and the
sturdy specimens of American man
hood who solace themselves with a
quid begin to disappear.
and not a faint copy of some half for
gotten story already in print.
The best story writers of the day
are the French, and it is a well known
fact that they do very little reading.
On the other hand, our clumsiest and
most uninteresting novelists are the
Americans who have a craze for what
is called culture.
It is easy to undostand the secret
of the whole business. The man who
makes his mark as a writer must
have something worth saying and lie
must be unacquainted with the work
of his predecessors in the same field:
tiic point is that fie must use hooks
and command them, and not lie their
slave and copyist. Books are dead
weights rather than helps to the w i
ter wbcfdocs not understand their
right us'e. ’
The Darien Gazette says: It is
necessary for every Democratic in
the first District to vote for Hon.
Iiufus K. Luster on the sixtli of next I
month. Don’t say that lie will bej
elected without your vote for you
may be mistaken. If we should all
agree with you on that point why
tiie negro, Snellson, would go in by
a large majority. Don’t stay away
from the polls on tiie Gth of Novem
ber. It is the duty, and it should he
the pleasure of every Democrat to go
and vote for Rufus K. Lester on el
ection . lie deserves this much
from his many friends in the dis
trict and the Gazette hopes to see
him elected to Congress by a good
majority over Floyd Snellson. Un
less the people turn out and vote for
Cylortel Lester, his majority in the
First will not be large. Don’t for
get Democrats to go to the polls and
vote on November lith.
Levi 1’. Morton is said to have
j contributed $09,000 to the republi
can campaign. While Mr. Morton
is liberal with his money he wants
to have a voice in its expenditure,
and lain* great numbers of young 1Ie ; Jsisls Ulat a lllrge ,,. irt , vhat
trees could be planted in every
county of the state on each succeed
ing Arbor day.
The youngest chief justice in the
United States no doubt is Mr. Hen
ry D. Harlan, who was appointed to
that oflice in Maryland the other
day by the governor. He is only 110
years old. t
he has given shall be sent to North
Carolina to help purchase th
tion of their own vivid impressions, i but it is certain that the republicans
who employ large numbers of labor
ers are trying to bulldoze them into
voting the republican ticket. Circu
lars which republican manufacturers
have addressed to their employes,
urging them to vote the republican
ticket, aud threatening them with
dismissal if they refused to do so,
have found their way into print.
There arc two things which cause
the managers of the democratic cam
paign some uneasiness. One is the
fight among the democrats over the
Mayorality in the city of Now York,
and the other is the report of the
Herald correspondent, who is travel
ing through the State, that General
Harrison will conic to Harlem bridge
with 70,000 majority. Not much im
portance is attached to the Herald’s
report by the democratic campaign
managers because they <fb not be
lieve that there is anything to justi
fy it, but the great majority of the
democrats do not know the inside
facts, and lienee, are .somewhat alarm
ed by it. The campaign managers
are not sure that tills alarm will not
have a rather injurious etfect upon
the democratic voters unless it is
shown to lie groundless.
Three hundred miles an hour is
the proposed speed for the electric
postal railroad of the future. An
experimental line lias been erected at
Laurel, twenty miles from Baltimore.
A compromise between the pneumat
ie tube and the ordinary railroad
carries a minatnre train of two ears>
solely for mail and light parcels
without attendance. The road has
three rails, one above the car for
carrying the current and two below
which carry the cars. The cars are
built of sheet iron and arc 2 feet
square and 21 feet long. Speed will
be regulated and power of brakes
applied by electricity solely. If the
experiment at Laurel succeeds, it is
stated that similar roads will be
laid between Baltimore and Wash
ington and elsewhere.
biio .uiil it v.uli Her Toe.
Mrs Margaret Fox Kane says that
she originated spiritualism, and she
did it mainly with her big toe. At
the Academy of Music, in New York,
on Sunday night, she not anly told
the vast audience gathered there to
hear her expose spiritualism, how she .
made the raps, but she showed them.
Mrs. Kane was one of several sis
ters who, many years ago, created a
profound sensation bjj claiming to
converse with spirits. The}' held
seances, and convicted thousands
that they were not frauds. The
rappings of tiie spirits, when called
upon by these sisters, were regarded
as something marvelous.
On Sunday night Mrs. Kano de
clared that spiritualism was a fraud,
and that she was heartily ashamed
of the part she had taken in deceiv
ing people, and getting their money
by fraudulent means. She is now
getting the people’s money by show
ing them how she fooled them. She
stood upon a table in front of the
great audience and, with one of her
big toes, produced rappings which
were distinctly heard in all parts of
the hall. She submitted to tests
that left no doubt that she was ac-.
ing honestly.
Other tricks of the spiritualists,
such as writing messages on a slate,
mind reading and producing oil
paintings, were explained.
11 is remarkable that so many peo
ple should have been deceived into
beliving in spiritualism, but it is'
more remarkable that anybody
should continue to believe in it in
the face of the numerous expo
sures of it that have been made.
A woman with a patent button
fastener has been doing the towns
in Washington tciritory during the
st two weeks, says the ’Seattle
l’ost Intelligencer. Walking quick
ly up to a staid old gent on the street,
she will dexterously clip a button
from his coat before lie lets loose of
the idea that she is going to ling him,
and when he expostulates she pro
duces her button fastener and instant
ly replaces the button, tight and
fast. Of course, he buys a box of
the fasteners, and the lady seeks an
other victim to practice her arts up
on. ^
An endless railway train, consist
ing of IU0 platform cars, is to be one
of the attractions at the Baris exhi
bition. The liue will be sunk sy that;
the platforms will he on a level with!
Your Nickname.
Here is something to amuse your
self with when you haven’t anything
better to do. Put down in figures
the year of vour birth, add to it your
age and the figure 4. Multiply the
result by 1,000, from which subtract
077,4211. In the answer substitute
letters for the figures, the different
letters being numbered as they run
in the alphabet, thus: A. 1; b. 2; c.
S, ete. The result will give you the
nickname you are known by.
A few years ago the Argentine
Larounu to ln*li> imiivlinsc* t-lio votes tint miriAco unci the truin will runi u • 4 • , • , .
nfthnt Hint,. Mr \! nPt( v, l ’ 1 un Republic did not raise wheat enough.
interest in North Carolina is accoim-j ? lowiy Cn0U " ll 1 for llome consumption. Last year
it exported 7,000,000 bushels,
ted for the fad that his firm holds! to 8te P ou an ‘ l off while it is in mo
$30,<H)f>.000 of bogus North Carolina tion, but for the accommodation of
bonds which Mr. Morton hopes to elderly people a stop of fifteen sce-
have paid if the state government j onds in every minute will be made,
can be turned over to the republicans. The motive power is electricity.
Im
mense pastures are being conver
ted into farm land, and the country
is becoming a great grain-growing
region.
' As Havana sends 00,000,000 cigars
annually to this country, the settle
ment of the cigarmakcv’s strike at
this season of earing for the new to
bacco crop, was very good news to
Americans who smoke fragrant Ha
vanas. Somehow or other, the gen
uine Havana cigars made in this
country are not as good or as fra
grant as those made in Havana.
A young man living in Ohio has
been sentenced to the penitentiary
for murder for a term of ninety-nine '
years. Should ho live to be 124 years
old In- "ill i••• a live man again. He
should lie very careful in hi’s habits
or he won’t live to that age.
Tiie Maeon Telegraph says: Mr.
II, I. Kimball is in tiie city for the
purpose of organizing the Macon
Automatic Refrigerator Company.
He hopes thattheoiiiei’priscwillsoon
lie an accomplish,-'., -niocoss in Ma
con, as it is wherever the system of
refrigeration has been known.
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before leaving the factory, which protect the wearers
against high prices and Inferior goods. If a dealer
offers W. L. Douglas shoes at a reduced price, or
says he has them without my name and price stamped
on the bottom, put him down us a fraud.
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