Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

IP? gtheetipei-^yeal, 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. CAUTION Beware ot Fraud, as my name and the price are stamped on the bottom of all my advertised shoes 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. 1. -H § W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE. GENTLEMEN. The only cal f 8S SF.AMT.F.SS 8hoe month to. ■lde. NO TACKS or WAX THREAD to hart the feet, easy as hand-sewed and WILL NOT RIP* W. L. DOUGLAS 84 SHOE, the origins! and only hand-sewed welt $4 shoe. Equals custom-made shoes costing from $8 to $!>. wouglas «.bo mice shoe. Rillrotd Men ml Letter Carrier. all wear them. Smooth luldo »• a Hand-Sewed Shoe. No Tack, or \\ ax Thread to hurt the feet. W. L. DOUGLAS U1.no SHOE b unexcelled for heavy wear ll. n Calf shoe for the price. W. L. DOUGLAS82.25 WOBKlMOltAjra SHOE b the best In the world for rough wear; one pair oughtio wear a man a year. vv. C. DOUGLAS 82 SHOE FOB HOTS la the hOTt School Shoe In the world. W. 1. DOUGLAS 81.75 YOUTH'S School Shoe alre* the .mall Boy. a chance to wear tba beat Shoes in the world. Cuium “ d *•*“• ua ° tuu W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. TAYLOP& FLEETWOOD, Agents, - Brunswick, G