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SIBERIAN HOSPITALITY.
! ECHOES OF THE TIMES
• By Percy Wiggle.
On Friday, March 9, at 5:35 p.
m., the United States Senate pass
ed a bill for the admission of a new
State to be called Oklahoma, and
to be composed of the territory of
Odlahoma and Indian Territory.
The measure was carried by a vote
of 37 for and 35 against. The
capitol of the new State will be at
Guthrie.
It was generally believed by the
reading public that the war in the
Philippines was conclude 1 a year
or two ago, but it seems that a
mistake has been made somewhere
* At least, advices have reached this
t country to the effect that a recent
battle between the United States
troops and the M >ros, who seem
to be the most irreconcilable in
habitants of the Philippine Islands,
resulted in the slau. hter of about
600 Moros. Of the United States
forces,seventeen enlisted men were
killed, four commissioned officers
and thirty enlisted men were
wounded and a naval contingent
I Operating with the military sus
tained thirty-two casualties. Gen
eral Wood was in command of the
troops, and the battle occurred in
. an extinct crater of a volcano near
| Jolo.
Since our article last week in re-
, gard to the abuse of the franking
privilege was written, a measure
) has been proposed by the house
j committee on postoffices and post
I roads in Congress which in one cf
its provisions forbids the govern-
•j ment departments franking any
thing through the mails which an
individual cannot mail at regular
postage rate. It is gratifying to
the Echoer’s sense of justice and
perspicacity that this is exactly
what we said ought to be done in
last week’s notes. So it is ex
tremely probable that Uncle Sam
will find his postal load growing a
little lighter when this incubus is
removed.
Another matter for congratula
tion is the fact that the fast mail,
No. 97, will not be discontinued
for the lack of an appropriation for
> its maintenance, #167,000 of a
recent bill having been devoted to
that purpose.
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Eugene Richter,one of the most
rorr.inent men in the German
pire, and the radical leader in
e reichstag since its foundation,
'IjjjjHed last Saturday of heart failure.
He was ever the inveterate foe of
Prince Bismarck, Germany’s great
‘‘Iron Chancellor.” Bismarck felt
ao sensitively the attacks of Herr
Richter in the reichstag that he
wanted to fight a duel on one oc
casion with his tormenter, The
feeling finally became so bitter
that the chancellor always left the
poute when Richter rose to speak
°—
f 7>V ; !Warned by the agitation of gov-
IfrWilment control of rates, a num-
r of the western railroads have
jiideCI to make voluntary reduc-
I tions in transportation charges.
proposed ’eductions are to be
e in all the rates of the six
js*into which freight is divid
ed will amount, approximate-
15 per cent.
—o—
\ is probable that very few peo-
t.jyi ||n Newnan were awa-e of the
|j] that Judge Alton B. Parker,
34 the much-talked-of candi
date for President on the Demo
cratic ticket, passed through this
city one day last week. Judge
Patker w..s on his way to Pass
Christian to meet his family, who
have been spending several weeks
at that place. There is nothing
more thoroughly forgotten in the
United States than a defeated
candidate.
—0—
Judge Samuel B. Adams, of
Savannah,formerly of the Supreme
Court ot Georgia, recently assert
ed most strenuously that ladies
and children who meet at th-*
homes of a host or hostess and
play for prizes offered by the one
giving the party, are not guilty ot
gambling. The assertion grew
out of an allegation to that effect
by the pastor of the First Presby
terian Church of Savannah. Judge
Adams says: “The charge that
prominent citizens permit their
wives and daughteis to violate Un
laws of the land is a serious one
and ought not to be made unless
fully sustained by the law and the
facts. If the lady of the house
offers to her guests a prize in a
card party, a prize to the purchase
ot which these players have con
tributed nothing, they are no more
guilty of gambling than if they
were in a spelling-bee or a foot
race in which a prize was offered
to the successful contestant.” This
may be the judge's view of the
matter, but there are many thous
ands of good people in this coun
try who will differ from him.
Even if card playing for prizes is
not strictly gambling in the letter
of the law, it breeds the spirit of
gambling, which is an evil to be
resisted; an evil which, when once
fastened upon the human mind, it
is difficult successfully to combat.
No one fears a degrading influence
in spelling bees and foot-races, but
the same can not be said of the
play with cards, which stirs every
evil emotion which preys upon the
human soul.
—0—
Very few of us have ever had
the privilege of listening to the
music produced by the Chinese,
but those who have heard it have
described it as a harrowing experi
ence. It is now ciaimed that our
lack of appreciation of the Celes
tial’s music is due to the fact that
our ears are too dull to perceive
the subtle harmonies that are pro
duced. It is known to every one
that has given the matter any
thought that the voice is capable
of harmony that can not be repro
duced on any known musical in
strument. The Chinese’have cer
tainly been studying music much
longer than we have; having evol
ved a complete system of harmoni
zation before the Aryan had mas
tered the intricacies of barbarian
melody. The announcement then
that modern music is becoming
very much iike that of the Chinese
is not an indication of a backward
trend, but rather that the Cauca
sian ear is becoming trained to
those subtleties of harmony that
only the Oriental can comprehend.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, the
famous advocate of woman’s rights,
after fighting for years to obtain
♦or women equal rights with man,
has entered into that state in which
all are equal—death. She passed
away Tuesday morning at 12:45
o'clock at the age of 80 years. She
lived to see many of the reforms
which she had agitated put into
practice, but she felt that her life
work was not ended when death
overtook her.
A Clinrnilnit Vlnlt, With h Somewhat
TerrlfyliiK (llinnx.
Detained at the Siberian village of
Krlvoi'hokovo, M. Jules I.ogrns re
membered that he had a letter to n
notable of the place and hastened to
present It. M. Gautier In Ills book on
Russia describes In M. Legi'iift' own
words the cordial hospitality with
which he was received and also tells
of the difficulty which concluded his
charming visit.
"They had detained me till 10 o’clock
In the evening," ho writes, “by repeat
ing. ‘Why are you in a hurry?’ and I
was on the point of making my depar
ture when 1 heard the mistress of the
house say in a low voice to her hus
band, ‘Shall 1 send for tin* carriage?’
To which lii> replied, ‘No,’ At this word
a shiver passed over me. Doubtless
this host, who had made mi' send away
the coachman, was unaware of what
his refusal meant, else lie would have
said to me, ‘Here Is a sofa: sleep hero.’
“My situation was perilous, hut what
could 1 do? At the end of a few mo
ments 1 rose to take my leave, and.
having asked If I could get a cult, was
met with tlie reply that at (Ills hour
none could lie obtained.
"Krlvoehokovo Is a village whoso
population constitutes the very flotsam
and Jetsam of Siberian civilization.
The village has neither streets nor
lights nor police. It Is considered a
cutthroat spot, where honest people
shut themselves tight at night.
"I had neither stick nor revolver, and
1 had on me a large sum of money.
Filially, I was Ignorant of the exact
position of my inn, situated over a
mile away. First of all, dogs throw
themselves upon me. 1 shook them oft
and started as host 1 could.
"The night was Inky black. Amid
the Irregular clusters of houses there
was no regular street by which to
guide myself. As I hesitated I hoard a
‘Who Is that?’ It was a watchman of
a pllo of wood who hailed me. He di
rected me, and, giving me a large
branch that would do as a stick, he
said: ’You are wrong, bitrlue, to go
about this way without a revolver.
The pluco Is not safe. May God pro
tect you!*
"As I approached another cluster of
houses a watchman sounded Ids rattle
menacingly and dogs flew at me sav
agely. When this watchman approach
ed I Induced him to accompany me.
He Informed me that the evening be
fore a traveler who was Htuylng at my
hotel, having started early to catch a
train, had been assassinated about ten
paces from there. Finally we reached
the Inn. It took a long time to make
them open the door, but I Anally got In
side nud reached my room, trembling
with fever and fatigue, and fell down
helplessly, only conscious of having
passed an hour and u half whose re-
memhrnnce will remain with me long.
As for my so amiable host, whoso hos
pitality might linvo cost me my life, he
will doubtless never know of this ad
venture.”
Cowards.
Mnceilonla.
Mncodouln, the land of the three
streams, Vnrdar, Striuua and Vlstrltsa,
Is hemmed In by lofty mountains, of
which the best known or the highest
are Olympus, Shardagh and Rhodope,
the last named rising to between 8,000
and 0,000 feet above the level of the
sen. It Is among the most picturesque
countries of Europe, abounding In mag
nificent forests, which climb hills,
fringe rivers and cover islands; In wild
mountain scenes, wonderful waterfalls,
Hllent, sallless Inkes—an appropriate
setting for gems of emerald Islets, deep
gorges, dizzy mountain paths, smiling
plalnH and desolate passes, which ought
to prove an irresistible uttruetlon to
♦he traveler who regards genuine dan
ger and real discomfort as tho appro
priate condiment of pleasure.
“A coward; a most devout cow
ard; religious in it.”—Shakespeare.
\\ onderful man! Wonderful
thought! Wonderful insight! The
world oi pretense couldn’t fool
Shakespeare. He knew them all,
and delineated them all.
He knew the ordinary coward
who advertises himself to the
world, better than his companions
know him today. He laughed at
his boisterous pretense; under
stood how to gauge his boasted
conquests, and knew full well how
to meastiic the vaunting hypocrite,
the bully, the coward.
Shakespeare knew deceit; knew
hypocri.M ; knew slander—that trio
which represents cowardice.
He knew the journalist and the
politician who were honey-combed
with deceit. He knew the jour
nalist and the politician who were
cloaked with hypocrisy, He knew
the journalist anil the politician
who wallowed in the pool of slan
der—and made it their religious
duty. Cowards both, he knew
them well, and delineated them
truly.
This th might from Shakespeare
hits special application in this day
ol deceit, hypocrisy anil slander
when it seems to be the puiposc
ot the latter day journalist and
politician to deceive with false pre
tense, display hypocrisy by false
assumption, and lurl slander for
false and selfish gain.
This class do infinite harm, in
that they mislead good citizenship
by deception; betray well-directed
ideals by hypocrisy, and injure
character that is beyond their
standards by slander.
When their libellous and slan
derous pens and tongues are stop
ped, by spirited denunciation, from
them who have been long aggriev
ed by their insolent perfidy, they
hide themselves behind the screen
of dignity, in a kind of outraged
superciliousness, which will not
allow them to descend to personal
resentment. Cowardly fakers.
And to think that they are for
tunate enough to secure or pro
cure the indorsement of some, who
are themselves brave, and ordinar
ily sincere! Monstrous condition!
Disreputable conduct! Poltroonish
behavior!
The old school of ethics would
spurn these creeping, cringing,
moral disreputables is things of
perdition. May the civilization of
Georgia keep removed from these
unholy agencies.—Atlanta News.
The Shttvlng Brush.
It is likely Unit the bent Hhavlng
brash ever made sheds more or less
hairs. To prevent tills take an elastic
band, neither too heavy nor too light;
cut It onco (not In two), and, holding
one end firmly on the handle, wind the
rubber around the bristles as close up
to the handle as you can, stretching
taut as you wind. When you come to
the end tie a simple flat knot (not a
granny kDot) or else lose the end. By
careful winding a very neat Job can
be done, and the bristle's can be worn
down to the socket without losing a
hair.
A Work of Art.
Miss Knox—There goes Bess Mugley.
Miss Bright—Yes, she played the purt
of the heroine In the private theatricals
at the church. Miss Knox—Gracious!
Did she have the face to play the hero
ine? Miss Bright—No, but the cos
tumer fixed one up for her.—Philadel
phia Press.
Obedient.
“Now, Tommy,” said the mother of a
small boy as she paused in the disci
plinary slipper exercise, “what made
you eat the whole of that pie?”
“ ’C-cause,” sobbed Tommy, “you
t-tohl me to n-never do t-thlngs by
h-halves.’’—Chicago News.
She tiot the Illes.lnir.
"That young groom,” said the minis
ter after the ceremony, “gave me a fif
ty dollar fee. What a blessing!”
“Yes.” said his wife, with her hand
out, “It is more blessed to give than to
recel ve."—Excha uge.
Stranger..
Mrs. de Fashion (at a children’s par
ty)—Marie! Nurseglrl — Yes, ma’am.
Mrs. de Fashion—It’s time for us to go
home. Which of these children Is mine?
—Home Chat.
Nature Is an reolian harp, a musical
instrument whose tones are the re
echo of higher strings within us.—
Novalls.
In Memory of Hugh McKoy.
On Thursday morning, Eeb. 15,
Hugh McKoy, one of our mem
bers, fell asleep.
Thus early in life, in the fresh
ness of youth, he wus called to
meet his pilot face to face. Though
his life on earth was short, he had
rejoiced in doing good. Ever did
he show kindness to others with
unselfish disposition. It was his
delight to plan for the pleasure of
others; the smaller children look
ed to him for protection and knew
that in him they had a friend. In
the home circle he added greatly
to the comfort of the members
with his cheeiful disposition and
willing service.
From a small child Hugh at
tended Sunday school and was al
ways prepared to answer the ques
tions given by his teacher. He
took much interest in the work,
even as a little child. When quite
young, at the age of twelve, he
united with Providence Baptist
church.
In view of our loss we offer the
following resolutions:
Resolvtd, 1st: That in the death
of Hugh the Sunday school has
lost a faithful member; one who
was always regular in attendance
and eager in the study of the
Word.
Resolved, 2nd: That we as a
Sunday school offer our sincere
sympathy to the sorrowing family.
Resolved, 3rd: That though we
are bereaved, we grieve not as one
without hope; for now we see
through a glass darkly; still we
can trust the wise providence of
God, because we know whom we
have believed and know that he is
SPRING OPEN
ING SALE
Our groat big oponing sale of
Spring and Summer
Merchandise
will begin on
SATURDAY, MAR. 17
*1 list keep the sale and the date in
view and come to this store at
that time.
NEW YORK BAR
GAIN STORE
NEWNAN, GA.
•n.*
Aetna Lite Insurance Co.
There are many kinds of lift* insurance companies.
Some are cheap, both in fact and in the protection they
afford. The very best protection is a policy in the Aet
na Life Insurance Company. Jts policy holders ure
never ashamed to acknowledge their connection with
the Company Rich and poor find it the best kind of an
investment. Here is what, a prominent Atlantan says
about his connection with the Company:
Atlanta, fia., June 9th, 1905.
}Ir. W. E. Hawkins, Manager,
/Etna Life Insurance <’o.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Hir:—
About three years ago, after careful investigation of
tho plans of several companies, I insured for #10,000 with the
/Etna Life Insurance Company. I was induced to take this de
cision largely from my personal acquaintance with the officers
of the Company, who are known to me to lie men of the highest
business integrity, as has been fully displayed in their conserv
ative management for the Jast quarter of a century.
Yours very truly,
FRANK HAWKINS.
See F. M. IJryant, District Manager Aetna Life Insur
ance Company, for obis kind of insurance.
| able to keep that which we have
committed unto Him.
Resolved, 4th: That these reso
lutions be published and a copy
1 sent to the family.
Mrs. I. T. Mattox,
Miss Strong,
Miss Colquitt,
Committee.
The Only Guaranteed Kidney Cure
is Smith's Hur<; Kidney Coro. Your
druggist will refund your money if uf-
i ter taking one bottle you are not satis-
, fled with results. 60 cents at Holt &
! Gates'.
Furnished Rooms for rent to
men only. Apply to Box 49,
City. 4t
Do You Sufferfrom Kidney Trouble?
We guarantee one bottle of Smith’s
Sure Kidney Cure to benefit or cure, or
your druggist will refund your money.
Prioe 60 cents at Holt & Gatos’.
Warning!
All parties are hereby warned
against hiring or harboring Legg
Bye, a white man of middle age, as
the raid Bye is under contract with
me for the year 1909.
2t J.T. Mattox.
I am still in business and will
be glad to see my friends and cus
tomers when they need anything
in the millinery line.
49 Mrs. E. A. B. Lee.